July 14, 2025 • 42 mins
Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are joined by Jacob Tamme for a segment. Also, a recap of Ryan's Donut-Eating Challenge and everything else from the weekend.
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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work and we have a fun day, a fun event
planned for us. We're out the Swings for Swings for
Soldiers golf event I hear at the University Club. We're
gonna get to that in just a minute, but we
have to start with the the tragedy that hit Lexington yesterday.
(01:18):
The tragic events in Lexington. It was a sad day
for our city when a man got pulled over by
Kentucky State trooper. The trooper got shot. Thankfully, he's okay.
But then the man drove all the way out Old
Richmond Road, shot four people. Two women passed away, two
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men are severely injured. And then police officers came to
the church and took him out, took the shooter out.
So in total, three people died, three people were injured
in a matter of thirty minutes. I mean, it was
it was a weird feeling to be in Lexington yesterday
when that was going down. Who you were ended up
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kind of right in the middle of it out there
at the airport, was at the airport. Yeah, it just
it was just sad and shocking that watch this unfold yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, very sad, you know, thinking and praying for the
lives lost their their families. Uh, LExEN was on high
al earth there for a few hours. It turns out
Harold Leader has done some great reporting. The shooter knew everyone.
Doesn't make it any less tragic, and for them to
be at a church and that to happen just makes
it truly sad. But just from my experience, I had
wasn't at the airport when it happened, but wasn't too
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far behind. I'm picking up my sister and she's in
the air texting they're not letting us land. There police
cars with lights everywhere at the airport, a helicopter above.
I mean, we had a slight inconvenience, but there was
just kind of like what is going on at that point?
Lex l e x eighteen and some of the local
news had put out that had happened, but there was
a lot of uncertainty there. And then as you mentioned
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all the details, just a sad afternoon and Sunday afternoon
and lection, especially in just involving a church. I mean
that I mean, there's no good place to die, but
there shouldn't be a safer place than at church.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's exactly right. That's where I it hit hits home.
I think that it happened at a church, and you know,
like you said, a lot of the details are coming out.
He was supposed to be in court I think today
for like a violation of his parole. He was just
released in January from jail on a on parole that
evaluated the pros post had to court date today. I
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think he knew the people, the victims. It's just it's
just it's just so sad and shocking. But then you
hear all the great stories that have come out of it,
like some civilians at the airport stopped and gave CPR
to that state trooper. Yeah, yeah, that's that. Those stories are.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Coming out, and thank god he's okay. I mean it
said Beverly Gun and Christina Combs are the two people
that passed. But you know, it could have been worse.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It sounds like could have been a lot worse. So
I think the quick response by the Kentucky State Police
and the Lexton City Police also prevented this from getting worse.
They need to be commended, you know, first responders, all
these people that put their lives in danger for that.
So just we needed to show our sympathy and condolences
to the fan before we switch gears and talk to
Jacob Tammy here in a minute and the swing for soldiers,
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but just our thoughts some prayers to everybody involved yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah. Absolutely, we're gonna have a fun day. I'm excited
to be out here. But that was some tragic news
to come through Lexitton on a Sunday, So we're thinking
of everyone involved.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, on that old Frankfurt, Old Richmond Road, that's
where firefighter Brenda Collen got shot and killed, you know,
twenty five years ago. So that one road out there
has been the sight of two tragic events for our city.
It just kind of maybe brings all that back a
little bit, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It does. And at first when they said Richmond Road,
you think kind of in the city, this is this
is pretty far out there, right, I mean, that's still awful,
But you know, at the time, as I said, we
don't know details. We just know there are police cars everywhere.
We've heard of the state troopers been shot and now
there's a shooter in Lexington. It was very scary there
for a while until we kind of figured out what's
going on. Great job on all the reporting too to
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right about that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, So our thoughts and prayers with the family
and those people involved with that, and with that, we
love a job to do. We have to do a show, yep.
So we're going take our break, an early break, Shannon,
and come back. We have Jacob Tammy on talk about
Swings for Soldiers and tell us that this great event
that's going on out here at the University Club. We'll
be right back, all right, Welcome back, Ryan Drew and
Shann here Kentucky Sports Radio doing kind of a little
of a reset now because we are live on location
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today at University Club golf course out on Leeestown Road
for the annual Swings for Soldiers event. Fifteenth year they
put this event on and the man behind it all
is former UK star, former Boyle County rebel. That's how
I know him, Jacob Tammy. Jacob, this is a wonderful,
wonderful event you've done. I can't believe it's been fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah. Me neither, Ryan, Me neither.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Now, we were discussing a moment ago about how that
ages both of us. Going back to talking about the
Boyle County days too, when I first met you a long, long,
long time ago. But yeah, fifteen years really just an
amazing journey with this event.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
My wife Allison and.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I kind of drew it up at the kitchen table
when we were living in Indianapolis, and I did some
research across a lot of military charities. We knew we
had a heart for our vets and and wanted to
support them in some way, and did a lot of research,
looked at a lot of different groups, decided not to
do our own foundation, decided to partner with somebody, and yeah,
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I called the founder of Homes for our Troops, a
group based out of Taunton, Massachusetts, right outside of Boston,
and I said, Hey, my name is Jacob Tammy. I
played for the Colts. I want to do an event
for you. And he was like what, and so it
was uh and from that from that point on, it's
been fifteen years and uh. Since then, many people that
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are actually famous, some like me, have jumped on board.
Phil Michelson has become a big supporter of the cause.
Jake Tapper, you know, the news guy. There's a lot
of folks that have really jumped on the Home Star
Troops train over the years. So yeah, we can homes
for our troops. In my estimation is there's a lot
of different groups that build houses for vets. There's there's
several different ones. Homes for Our Troops is the best one.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
They just do a phenomenal job. We're super glad and
thankful that we chose to partner with them. And yeah,
here we are fifteen years later, still running this event.
And Tom, who I believe might come on with you
guys later. Tom Landamire, the President's CEO of Homes for
Our Troops here today. He comes and joins us every year.
He told us last night that we are the longest
running event. Wow, in Homes for Our Troops history.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, I've played in this few times. I was telling
Ryan during the break, I'm lucky to play a lot
of golf scrambles. You all do it right here, good gifts,
you're friendly, you greet people on the road as they're
pulling in, shake everyone's hand at the entrance to U club.
But most importantly, it's literally the Homes for the troops
talk about kind of what it's like because you know,
veterans do get a home out of this. When you
actually get to hand those keys over and see the
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true impact it has other than the you know day
of golf you get to do out here every year,
well it is pretty incredible. So you know, the mission
is about in homes for our troops, kind of tagline
building homes, rebuilding lives, and so you know when a
guy goes out there and fights on our behalf and
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gives so much of himself and in every case, I
believe with all of these guys, they're all double amputees
or worse. So we have veterans we've supported here in
our family. We called our Swings for Soldiers' Family, So
if I refer to that, that's what I mean. So
our family here, we've got paralysis, we've got double amputees,
we've got some the arms elbow down, just all kinds
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of different things, and each home is specially adapted for
that person and what they need. In fact, this year's
honoree is Will Thomas. He currently lives in Houston. His
home is going to be built Murphy's Broo, Tennessee, where
he's from, and he actually got a home where he's
at in Houston now from a different group. Somehow he
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got connected with some folks that were trying to help
him and he was telling them, shared with us last
night at dinner sort of the issues he's having with it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And the cool thing is.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
We're gonna be able to give him a brand new
home with all the technology that he needs, the space
to operate, where he can cook eggs for his kids,
where he doesn't have to rely on someone else to
help him shower, where he can be independent again and
not have those issues that he's dealing with now. So
that's just an incredible thing to get to help homes
for our troops go do for will I like.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It, but a lot of them will play out here.
But those who aren't able. You've got that big mega
golf cart I call it. I don't know what that is,
but you drop around. They still get to be a
part of the day too. It's a fun day for
a lot of the guys involved. It is.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, So we've got several of our vets that actually
like can play and enjoy golf, and that's so much
fun to see them go out there and do that,
and then some other guys that aren't physically able right
around with me. They hate that. Every year, we have
so much fun riding around and you know, they give
me a hard time with my driving, et cetera. The
golf cart, not the golf ball. But it's really been
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an awesome journey. In fact, you know, talking about the
guys playing. Chase Matthews was our first honore e back
in year one. Okay, and actually his daughter was seven
years old. She got married last week. Oh wow, talking
about an event, we are old, right, So yeah, But
it's a cool kind of thing about how this event
is just kind of you know, you get down fifteen years,
that sort of stuff happens. It's amazing to think about.
But Chase rode around with me that day, and I
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hadn't met him until the day of the event. By
the time we were finished, he's kind of a quiet
guy anyway, and I wondered if he had had a
good time. We were leaving and I thought, we probably
can never do this again. I was walking to my
car and I thought, this has been an incredible day.
But it was just you know, starting an event. And
you know, that year we I made every phone call.
We just drummed up the support and we went and
did it. And I remember being so exhausted and just like,
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you know, that was incredible.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I don't know if we can do it ever again.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Well, as we're walking to the car where the last
people leaving the course, it was my wife Alison and
I and then Chase and his wife Jennifer. And as
that thought was in my head, Chase looked at me
and said, hey, man, that was fun. Next year, I'm
gonna play golf. And I sat down in the car.
I told Alis and I said, well, I guess we're
doing it next year. Got too, next year and so
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and so Chase did come and he did play, and
he's been here every year and he's played everything since.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah, and so we you know, really I share that
story a lot. I shared at the event a lot,
you know, because it's not the power of words. First
of all, right, I mean he doesn't say that to me.
We're probably not sitting here today. Yeah, and uh, just
the impact that that his encouragement to me that day
gave us. And now here we are fifteen years later.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Now you mentioned we're gonna have one of the families
come on with our show with us by the end
of the day today tell us about them.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So, uh, this year's Henrey is Will Thomas. I don't
know if we'll be able to get him on. But
Brett BonDurant is another. We had about seven or eight
of the guy's back here today. Brett I think is
going to join us. Brett's just an awesome guy. He
lives up in Indiana, is a Cats fan, so Brett
always gets a Brownie points, you know, being a Cats fan.
So we've had we've helped build homes in Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia,
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I believe, Illinois. So it's kind of all, you know,
centered around Kentucky. But of course there's not always of
that coming through the program in Kentucky. One of the
great things about homes for our troops is they're trying
to find these guys, the guys that applied to go
through the program, they get accepted, you know, they really
get to try.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
To live where they want.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You know, So we've had a lot of which is cool.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Like Will this year, he's kind of getting he's moving
back home to Tennessee. So that's that's been really cool
to see. But yeah, Brett, we were able to go
up to his key ceremony. He Brett was probably twelve
or so years ago. So but yeah, you guys really
enjoy talking to him. He's got a wonderful family's wife
London and their kids. Two of his daughters are going
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to be here today too.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So be on the scramble. Retired, now you keep it
up with our cats. I know you got the hat
on you. Are you a season ticket holder? Let's talk
a little ball you you tell Gaydon what's life like
for Jacob Tammy post football these days? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah, actually yes, yes, yes, and yes to those questions. Uh,
I am a season ticket holder. I we I am tailgating.
Uh so, I've got a sun that's gonna be a
freshman at Boyle County. So we're kind of tied up
with with high school. We'll be going through the high
school football thing on saturdays though.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, we'll be there for the home games.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
We have a little a very small, uh sort of
tailgate that no one would ever pay any attention to.
So we're just kind of hanging out over there in
the corner and uh we just we we we really
love going to the games and uh supporting the Cats
and uh, that's that's been a lot of fun actually
since since we've been.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Back home, kind of kind of doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
We love going to many baseball games, basketball games as
we can.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
My kids are in.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
That age where that's difficult. Saturday afternoons in the fall
are kind of our our easiest, you know, air quotes
thing to get to. But with Luke and his schedule
and then my daughter Lyla and Hurstky Jewel and then
Ella is now doing things. When the third child starts
doing things, it's like, yeahs, hold on, you have things too,
you know.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
So we're uh, we're in a great phase of life though.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
A small tailgate. Ryan just the all time leading tight
end ever, just t in the corner. Just a little
bit of operation there.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We you know, we all we all have a mutual
friend Jeff Klosterman and doctor K will send me pictures
of you coaching on the field, like all football season.
But you coach more than you coach football. But you
coach other sports too, don't you.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, So I helped coach boyle middle football the last
couple of years and youth before that, which has just
been a ton of fun.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I really loved it.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Middle school was awesome because they're old enough to kind
of do things, you know. And then but yeah, this year,
I think I'm gonna just kind of be a dad
with football, but I do help with baseball as well.
I love baseball as a player. When I first went
to Kentucky, I was gonna be a two sport. I
remember that I got hurt didn't end up playing baseball.
But so everyone thinks I don't live vicariously through the
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baseball teams I coach, because they're like, oh, you played
in three super Bowls. You know, it's so great that
you know you're not out here being with those guys.
It's like living vicariously to the kids. But it's totally false.
I'm leaving my baseball dream through these kids one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
But now I've had a really fun summer team that
I've coached for several years now, coached with Canes this
year with a really fun group. Uh And and I
help with Boyle Middle and may help with Boyl High
school baseball a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
So I really enjoy that. It's it's ton of fun.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I mentioned being a two sport athlete. I noticed, you know,
doing my show prep. Your UK bio says you came
to Kentucky as a defensive back and a wide receiver.
Let's go back to then and how you went from
defensive back to this great tight end that went on
to play with Peyton Manning the Music City Bowls, the
great career. But a defensive back.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
That's yeah. So I not only defensive back.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I was kind of tall, and I played corner, so
I kept thinking I was gonna get moved to safety
in high school, but never did.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It left me out there at corner. And you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
At some point teams didn't really throw it to that
side of field very much. We had another good corner
on the other side, Jeremy Brummer. You probably yes, Ryan,
So uh, you know I did. I played corner in
high school and played receiver and then right there, I
guess it was my sophomore year at Kentucky. You know,
you have weird memories throughout your career in different parts
of life. My freshman year at Kentucky, I was playing
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on the scout team as a receiver and Steve Brown,
who actually I think is going to be here today,
was a defensive coordinator at the time. I was playing
scout team. I caught a pass. I'm jogging back to
the huddle and he looked at me and said, hey, Tammy.
He said, you're going to be a really good tight.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
End one day.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I'm like, well, first of all, a little bit disrespectful,
I just caught a pass on your defense as a receiver, okay.
But second of all, okay, that's an interesting little nugget.
I just remember that moment, and it wasn't too far
or later, I guess a year later, coach Phillips, coach
Ordan Meyer, coach Brooks came to me and said, hey,
you know, we think you could be a you know,
a difference maker at tight end, a real you know,
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stud there. And I said, okay, So I put my
hand in the dirt for the first time. That week
we went down and played at Tennessee. YEP, they tried
not to get me killed by the defensive ends. They
had a couple of really good defensive ends that week.
I blocked just enough to sort of sneak in there
and then found my way out of there where they
were really trying to get me in. I think caught
a couple of touchdowns, which was like, After that, I thought, hey,
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they might be right, Maybe I can be a great time.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I was at that game that was the Jacob Tammy
coming out party at Tennessee. All of a sudden, out
of nowhere, they move you to tight end and you
come out and have this monster game, last game of
the season.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I wondered if I was just a sneak attack or
if we could keep doing it. So we were able
to keep doing it, which was cool.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You mentioned Rich Brooks. He's one of Kentucky fans all
time favorites. A lot of people call Pat Paul. He's
tweeting about his tomatoes and his golf scores these days.
You stay in touch with him at all or any
any Rich Brooks memories that will still make you laugh today.
His Twitter is gold.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
First.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Got to get rich Brooks on X Sometimes I literally
search his name just like just to go see what
he's posted lately. But yeah, you know, not so much
the last year or two, but definitely have kept in touch, yes,
and he he gets back every once in a while.
Just an amazing, amazing man. He he was just exact
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right fit for what we needed at that time. I'm
super thankful to him. I mean, the story has been
documented about about me and him, but he you know,
I was his first recruit. Without him, I wouldn't have
been able to come here. So it was just an
incredible circumstance that led to that. And when he was hired,
you know the fact that he gave me an opportunity, Uh,
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I was extremely grateful for and just uh just kind
of blown away to this day at how it all
worked out.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know, we go back, we said to our to
your Boyle County days. I gotta tell Drew best high
school game I've ever seen in my life, and see
if I'm wrong. Caught a touchdown, pass, ran a touchdown,
threw a touchdown, ran an interception back for a touchdown,
and a punt return for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Come on in the state final. It was in the
state Find this this video game ism I wrong, Drew.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I think, honestly, I think he's wrong. I don't want
to say I don't want to say he's wrong, but
I think there may be some exaggeration there.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Although you're say you forgot another touchdown. No no, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
There was at least four touchdowns, four different ways in
the state championship game that day, County Man.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
It seems exaggerated. I do think I do uh. I
think I caught one through for one had to pick
something else.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
But that was Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We had an incredible run, unbelievable four in a row,
and I guess five in a row. I was there
for four of them, you know, and I was I
was extremely blessed. Like the first year, I didn't do
anything or I was the part of the first at
a championship team as a freshman, I did nothing. The
people at Boyle in front of me and our group
like really late a foundation that was special, and so
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we were able to continue it. And then you know,
our junior and senior year and it kind of it's
funny that sort of had that transition to Kentucky. We
had a rough first couple of years, but then the
last couple of years we were really trying to like
lay a foundation for the next five years, right the
next decade, and we were able to do that to
a degree, you know, six o seven, and that was
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a really special time.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Uh. For sure.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
As a football fan, I'm a Titans fan. Not a
lot of success there don't come from a high school
like Boll County when the six seven Kentucky football you
all Woodyard, Woodson, Burton, we can name the whole squad.
I did not think life could get any better than
that run you all heading to Nashville. Stoops has now
brought in a lot of talent over his time, but
you played with one of the most talented groups ever
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UK with all those names I just named. What was
that like kind of bringing UK football to a peak
there and at.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
The end of your four years as a kid that
grew up bleeding blue in every aspect, right, I mean
basketball and football specifically at that You know in the
nineteen nineties, if you were a kid in Kentucky, you
loved the basketball Cats and you love the football Cats.
I mean, so to get to go live that out
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like it was an incredible thing for me to be
a part of that group.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You know, you mentioned Andre, Keenan.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Stevie, Dicky, Wesley, Praxon, Kelly, Trevar Linley like all these guys.
You know, you could just keep going for probably ten
more names. Like there's so many of those guys really
cared about the program. That was cool to me because
I was from here. Yeah, I you know, grew up
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dreaming at night of playing at Comwell Stadium, but not
not all those guys did. But when we were here together,
it meant just as much to them as it did
to me that we give the people of Kentucky, the
Kentucky fans pride.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
In our football program.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
So that was man, that was that was special and
we were able to do that, you know, oh seven,
Arguably we should have had an even better year. Yeah
eat to me a little bit though, right, but but no,
it was uh yeah, you know it eats at my crawl.
I think a fumbled against Misispi State only fumbled my
entire career. You know, it looked at the replay. I
hate instant replayed by the way. Anybody the falls me
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on X would know that. But at the time I
wish we had it all right, I was down, It
doesn't matter, all right, the balls out they got it,
so you know, still still well, we can't have replay
back then, Yeah, but you know the open to wound there, right,
But we had a tremendousyes. And the coolest part is
people you know, even to this day that you know
that comes up in conversation and talk about how fun
that year was and how much fun they had as
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a fan and so that that was a special thing
to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So we're at the University Club. It's Swing for Soldiers.
It's part of the Home for Troops program. People listening.
Is there a way they can help also, people listening
today right now?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
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there's different links. You can get right in there and donate.
You can support the cause. You can support our mission directly.
You can go support Homes for a Troops. We don't
really care how you do it. We just want to
help homes for our troops build, build more houses.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
We appreciate it. Man, good to see again.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
You go get out there and greet everybody.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
But thank you guys us.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
We'll take our break.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We'll come back live from the University Club where when
we can return.
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Speaker 5 (23:08):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
All right, welcome back, Ryan Drew and Shann here today
Matt is off this week, little vacation before football season starts,
so we're gonna get you through this week. We've got
Myron Metcalf actually hosting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Drew, so that'll be a lot Tuesday with Myron.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Tuesday with myrettead of a Monday with Myron. A big
thanks to Jacob Tammy who just sat in with us
to the Swing for Soldiers event going on out here
at the University Club, part of the Home for Troops, Drew,
that was awesome to hear him talk about it and
or what they've done since he started this fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, I've been out here many times. Usually I have
a team I play with every year. I can't play
this year, but I'm glad the opportunity opened for us
through the show here. We've tried to do it in
the past and schedules did in the line, but it
is a great cause. A lot of UK personalities will
be out here. I'm worried we might be a little
too early before they could start hopping on with us,
but Stoops usually plays in this, a lot of coaches,
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former players, Jacob's old teammates. If we see him one
and around, we'll drag him on. But just good to
be out here, good to get out of the studio.
It is a little event with you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So Jacob didn't invite me to play. He invited you
to play. He did invite me to play. They did
say I could come back for the Tony's dinner good
night after the round.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I got invited to golf. You got invited to dinner.
That's why we all have our things right there. But
that's another point. I said, how good this golf scramble is.
They're having Tony's at a golf scramble and like one
of the only golf scramble a lot nobody's given me Tony.
Tony is usually a pre wrapped burger. We have good
barbecue at ours, but like a Tony steak and sides
and all that. Yeah, they take good care of their golfers.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm coming, I'm coming back. So Corey Price has tweeted
a picture of Jacob looks like in the t ball days.
I need Corey though, to research the stat a state championship,
Jacob Tammy caught a touchdown pass, threw a touchdown pass,
ran for a touchdown, had an interception for a touchdown,
and a punt return for touchdown.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, I think you made that up.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Now, I'm saying at least four of those five he
did in the state championship games, so maybe Corey can
look that up.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Jacob even looked at you like you were making that up. Facts.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I tell you what else happened that game. He got hit,
turned upside down and landed on his helmet, straight down
like a rocket, to the ground on his helmet and
still play.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You're turning that state championship into a cartoon daring, but
I'm loving it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He's the former winner of the l e x A
Team Player of the Year award too. I present it
was amazing run they had.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Now. My favorite thing about Jacob Tammy is we're about
the same age and he's got the gray beard I
got going on the gray beard era. Yes it's good. Yes,
I have a little gray in your beard to pull
it off. Now.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I've looked at the a vision glass tech machine, which
is of courses myself on this week. Somebody I didn't
see it, said, you got ask him about the tight ends?
Why don't they use the tight end?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I actually had that in my notes. There's actually question
number two. Number one was what's it like playing in
a Super Bowl? Easy? Question number two was winning the
hell of troch to the tight ends? Should I go
out to the road and chase him down and back?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah? They they, like you said. They literally take him
out to the entrance to the golf course and he
greets every golfer that comes in and then rides around
during the day on a cart filled with some of
the veterans.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well, they have this binglong road in the UK club
which is closed by the way. Don't try to come
out here. But he stands at the at the uh,
there's a little gate and when you're pulling in you
have to stop. You shake Jacob's hand, He checks you in,
talk a little bit. He usually has some of the veterans.
You meet them, and then it's just a whole day.
They do like American flag golf flags.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Just a lot going on, very very very cool.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They've got a silent auction going on in the next
room right beside us. A lot of bourbon packages over
there for grads on the silent auction?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Are we allowed to bed even though we're not official participants,
we're media.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I can promise you I'm gonna be in on some story.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You're looking at these sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, Jimmy John just came in loaded up the table
with like five hundred sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
So one other thing. Jacob in his little tailgate. I
feel bad. I mean, this is like a legend, like
he should have a he should be on the wall
somewhere inside the stadium. You're telling me he's just got
a whet be grill and just a couple. But I mean,
maybe that's what he wants. Maybe he's low key, But.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I thought, well, I think he is on there to
be like a.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Throne he's sitting on and people are, you know, feeding
him grapes outside the stadium.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He's Jacob from Danvill, now Boyle County guy. He's going
to UK because he grew up a UK fan. That's
who he is now, Not former superstar Jacob Tammy. He's
dad coach Tammy coming to support the Cats.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Living through his uh little league baseball players.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, that's right. Our phone lines are open eight nine
two eight zero two too eight seven. That's eight five
nine to eight O Cats if you want to call him,
get on board today. We got a lot of things
going gonna be happening in the next couple hour and
a half. But SEC football media days start today. Drew
right down in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I was up at six am, uh mondays are my
six am days. I was watching what do they call it?
Show with Peter Burnson during this morning SEC. This morning, Well,
they were already wide awake down there at the OMNI
in Atlanta. Uh sank already talked. I guess he was
at nine something. I haven't seen any news out of
Sanki yet, but we have Adam Luckett, Nick Roush down there.
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They'll be covering it for KSR. Stoops in the in
The players from Kentucky talk on Thursday, so we won't
hear from them until Thursday, but it'll still be a bug.
Sankie probably said something newsworthy today. We'll get four coaches tomorrow,
four coaches all the way up until Stoops. But yeah, busy,
busy week as we're counting down to football. We'll get
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our preseason poll. Yeah right, preseason all SEC all that'll
be this week.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But Kentucky doesn't go until the last group on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah. I think that they're actually during our show on Thursday,
because we're gonna have Adam and Nick call in. But
They're gonna be literally with stoops while we're on there.
Alex Safari, Jordan Loved and Josh Katis also down there,
so it'll be a ton of content, But the UK
stuff will be later in the week.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
So that's just me as a fan, I would want
to hear from Calzada. He's gonna be our quarterback. He's
the leader of the offense. Why is he not down
on the SEC media days, sinsha.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I have nothing against the three picks they have. Those
are very true. Three of the most experienced guys on
the team, veterans. Alexafari has been playing YEP since he
went to UK Orientation. He's been on the field. Cats
same way, love it. But I did think they'd send someone.
I thought they might do two returners and one portal guy,
just to introduce maybe a Calzada. You've got Braun as
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a lineman getting a lot of attention, especially now he's
the highest rated gal in the video game that just
came out. But with all these new pieces, I thought
they'd send one, but they gave it to all the returners,
which there's nothing wrong with that, just I thought it
might go a different direction.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
One nothing wrong with the three guys. But just for
me again, as a fact, we're trying to introduce him.
He has yet to meet with us. You know, we
don't know really a whole lot about him. I would
get me more excited about the season if my quarterback
was up there telling me, hey man, we got this,
we got that, We're gonna do this, We're gonna do that.
That's what I needed to hear. I think I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It could be the case. With so many people wanting
some positivity from how last year ended, maybe they want
some people that are on last year's team to sit
up there and speak on how things are different. Yeah,
how the attitudes changed. But yeah, if I were in charge,
I would have had the quarterback out there just at
least go ahead and start getting mount in front the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Because the quarterback position the last couple of years has
kind of struggled little bit. Vandergriff Leary even Levis's second year.
I think for this team to be good, Calzada has
to be good this year. He's the leader in the
face of our offense.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I will say, I, oh, look at this guy, Look
who showed Oh my goodness, the the most famous band
member of Alice blue gown just showed up in our show.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Cliff is here in the house, Shannon playing golf.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
With a polo, you're popped out of nowhere. Your your
your bass guitarist is in here looking like a PGA golfer.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
He's much better at golf than I am.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I can guarantee you that I'd like to go say
he's a much better golfer than a bass player. He
didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh no he didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I didn't didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
One thing on the football stuff put a bow on that.
I got the new video game that came out last week.
I was a little late to play it, but I
played a little bit on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It kind of made me excited. It's a video game.
It was it was by nerds on a computer. It
kind of got me excited for the season. And I
know these virtual players have no impact on the actual
players what will happen. But Stillato the receiver might be
the best football player of all time. According to my
one round of playing South Carolina on I did, here's
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how accurate the game is. I'm playing South Carolina. I'm
Kentucky playing against South Carolina. We gave up fourteen points
in the final minute and a half of first half,
so we had a little stoops ball. The game's accurate there,
but I recover an onside in the end. Stillato sends
us to overtime, and in Kentucky football fashion, I fumbled
on the goal line in ot and lost to South
(31:41):
Carolina a walk off field goal. Video game talk is boring,
I know, but the point of this is to say
I had all of the emotions of Kentucky football this
past Saturday playing that dang game. It did help me
with excitement round just some of the new guys. I
know it's a video game. It sounds stupid, but it
was a lot of fun. Throw in the rock from
Calzada to Law and some of the new players from
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the portal.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Who is the star running back for Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Oh, you cannot stop dot it. Actually I went pretty deep.
I used my for deep. I like them all. Even
Patterson had a long game turn. But Dante doubt of
Daldell from Nebraska maybe the best player on the game.
He's the man and I cannot wait to form all
these opinions about these guys from from something created about
gay sports and then get mad at them in the
fall when they're not as good. But I did have
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fun playing that over the weekend, starting to get the
juices flown. Media days that's out. You know, we're under
fifty days away from kickoff.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
You know, is it any disrespect that Kentucky's the last
team on the last day when most media people probably
gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I think Stoops requests that he was the last when
I went. I went last year, two years ago, whenever
I went, he was last. Then, can't be a coincidence
they kep put him last. I think most veteran guy there,
I think he says I'm going Thursday and put me
in the back.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
And they won't announce the all SEC teams until after
he's done, right.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, And from experience, when you're that Thursday, a lot
of the people have already covered. The guys are there
to cover. By Thursday. That room that's just completely filled
with reporters. It starts thinning out on that last day,
so that gets on home.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's gonna be Luckett, Ralsh and John Hale.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, everybody's got to save money on their hotel. They
leave Wednesday night, unless their coach is Thursday, so it'll
be a smaller group for stoops.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
All right, well, take our break, come back, go to
the phone line. Phone lines are open right now eight
five nine two eight h two to eight seven eight
five nine to eight. O Cats has our Clark's pumping
shop phone number. We'll take your calls. Look at some
Twitter feed and I gotta tell you about my donuts,
and we come back. You're gonna take a switch radio.
This is our whiskey Thief song of the day, Our
whiskey Thief song of the week, Little Darius Rutger Beers
and Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I like whiskey thief and sunshine.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Whiskey Thief and sunshime would be good too.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Puts me in a good mood. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Then I gotta talk.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
About pull them. I'm gonna pull the mat, pull your
mic up? Do I need to reach over and do
it like he does too?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah? Right there you go go?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Corey Price and lea Ane Clark found the box score
from the Boyle County State Championship football game again rock
Castle County.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Or was it in the was it in Canton in
two thousand and one? I was a little off, but
not far.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Off, all right, So tell me about this big game.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Jacob Tammy against rock Castle County had two touchdown catches.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Okay, all right, well he's probably done that a lot
threw a touchdown pass. Okay, I can believe that.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And he also had an interception for a touchdown no.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
A.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Rock Castle was up forty two to nothing at halftime
in the state championship game against rock Castle County. Boil
was up Boil. Yeah, so I said he ran one back,
had an interception back, a punt return back. I knew
he had an interception. I think he had a really
long punt return. Maybe he got called back. Maybe it
was a touchdown and got called back. I thought for
sure he ran for a touchdown too that day. Just
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you know, it's what legends are made of.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I told told Jacob during the commercial he should hire
you to just tell his stories his past.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But he did confirm him getting hit and coming down
on his head.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, torpedo.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
He was up like six feet in the sky and
bam like a torpedo, straight down on his head.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But the interception touchdown not not exactly an interception historically accurate,
not a touchdown okay, And the punt return touchdown, not exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I think they got called back. I think he had
one and got called back.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I could tell by his face when you were really
rattling off all these stats, and he looked very confused.
But just keep keep talking about the legend of legend.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Mctambey, the former LAX eighteen High School Sport Zone Player
of the Year. All right eight five nine to two
two eight seven, She says, we got a caller who
we got chanted Allen Alan, Go ahead, Alan.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Hey, how you guys doing long time listener, first time caller. Hey,
I just wanted to ask you, guys, do you think
with this coming team, with the Pope coming out, with
the focus on conditioning, do you think our defense is
gonna started pulling more of a full court press Ala
Fatino when he played.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Appreciate Alan, thanks for the phone call. I mean, I
think they've definitely put an emphasis on conditioning, and Pope
made no secret about it. A couple of times He's
talked to the media and said things, and you hear
some of the players talk about how it's been rough
here in the summer doing conditioning work. Whether that translate
to express I don't know. I just think after one
year in the SEC, Pope realized we gotta be in
(36:16):
better condition and we gotta be tougher. I think he
was a kind of an eye opening experience playing one
season through the SEC.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, it sounds like he's channeling the old Patino behind
the scenes in summer conditioning. You know, there was some
some rotten lemon like legend like stories of throwing up
in trash cans and how much they'd make him run.
Some stuff that's hard to believe. And we're starting to
hear that now of what guys are having to do
in these summer summer weeks. As far as pressing, I
would like to see a little bit of it. I
don't know that they'll ever do it like Patino did,
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just because the game's changed so much. Teams can beat
the press lazier. You got more ball handlers on the court.
You know, back up Tino days are be guys that
couldn't dribble on the floor. Now players are a little
able to beat it better. But I mean it would
still work a little bit. I actually wanted to try
it last season just for a throwback before they were
so beat up, but now with so many guards. Next
year and so many bodies. I wouldn't mind him throwing
(37:04):
it out there a few times, throw teams.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Off, that's the thing. He's got the bodies to do
it this.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
My only hesitation would be not a lot of depth
at point guard, and you need him on the floor
this season. Don't want him out of gas, So maybe
that would be one reason. Maybe they wouldn't press as
much because they need Low on the floor as much
as possible. But he's got five or six guards out
there that could definitely put on a press if he
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Heck, yeah, it won't be the Patino press that we
all remember from those those those years. But I hope
he'll give it a little trial. Pick him up full
court time time A.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Five nine two two to eighty seven. That's our phone
numer if you want to call and get on board.
So it was about this time Friday I was throwing
in the towel on the doughnut Challenge.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
In fact, before you go on, Cliff here, you didn't
hear this. He submitted a call during the break even
though he's.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Hear in person.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Okay, what was it?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Cliff just wanted to let you know how disappointed. He is.
You had your head headphones on as we were starting.
But he's one of many, thanks Cliff, So carry on
while you're looking at me.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
All weekend, people were giving me, you know, the sad
eye look like they were so disappointed in my efforts.
I'm telling you, guys, Shannon Drew, I knew I was
in trouble on the first donut. The very first one
was so dense and so thick, and it took me
so many chews to get one donut down. Shannon, I
knew I was in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I thought you knew you were in trouble the moment
you opened up that box and saw how big those
donuts were.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's the moment that I said, you got no chance
after seeing those donuts.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
So a guy Drew sent me a graphic said that
each Jeff's donut is equivalent to two regular glazed donuts
as far as density and weight, I can believe. So
in that case, I ate sixteen donuts.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
No no, no, you ate eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
I ate the equivalent of sixteen donuts.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I think eight and a half so a little exaggerated.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I think I probably eight.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I would say seven to eight seven points seven point.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Because I crammed out of the what was remaining into
a ball. I thought, like a cramming it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I was wondering what you were thinking there in that moment,
because the size of that donut ball that you rolled
up was biger than a softball, and there was no
way that was going in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
So what were you run out of time?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You know?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I tried to hit a game winning three pointer at
the end of the game, and then this didn't work
for me. I shay, what else I should have done?
Dipped them in water from the very beginning. That helped.
That's when I got my mojo going. Dante's yelling at
me over the fence and got to get little mojo going.
I was dipping them in the water. You should have
done that from the very start. Yeah, I think you
should have to. I agree the other thing on a technicality.
You know, you just had to have that in your mouth.
(39:28):
I don't think you could have.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I think you could have just like reached down like
a dog and just grabbed that big ball of donut
and just had it like hanging out of your mouth,
And I think that would that have counted.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I think it might have.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It would have been out of your hands at that point.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Well, but I still had a mouthful of donut from
previous right, Yeah, I couldn't get that down fast enough
to get the new ball of donut goo in my mouth.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I know you're in trouble when you were exactly on
page three minutes in. Yeah, because you weren't going to
maintain that first donut base, so you were behind the
math pretty early. You needed to get ahead of the pace.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And I couldn't. That first donut was so dry and
it was so dense and thick. I knew I was
in trouble.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I told people you almost had it, but also never
really had it. Yeah, you were close at the end,
but at no point did I ever think you were
actually gonna pull it off.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I think two more minutes, two more minutes, I think
I would have got it.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Well, yeah, two more minutes, but that wasn't the bet,
and the bet, let's not forget the bet already changed.
The bet went from ten donuts and ten minutes to
fifteen minutes, and then Matt trying to make it twenty minutes,
So you know, the bet was what it was. You
didn't win, you were closed the charity money was still donated, right.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, So let's good Blue and IL is still going
to donate five thousand dollars to the charities of my choice.
And I've talked to Stephen Horne. I've got five different charities.
We're gonna give a thousand dollars to five different charity.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Good do you already know who they are?
Speaker 5 (40:49):
CASA?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Okay, I'm always doing with cosa Christian Appalachian Project. I
do their endorsements and Matt just did their podcast. I
can't think the name the dog a blank on the
there's a dog adoption fundraiser, Yeah, adoptions. Gosh, what is
his name?
Speaker 5 (41:06):
I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And then my church, Center Point Christian Church and the
first United Methodist Church in Georgetown their preschool program. That's
where Yoga Girl works the preschoolers, so the preschoolers get
some So you're adopting like five hundred different places. Everybody
gets like two dollars, right, they get a thousand dollars apiece. Yeah, okay,
we're gonna give away and my you know, big thing
for Club Blue, and I l stepping up and doing
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that for us.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
People really want to know we all heard this on
the show. How was Ryan Lemon after the show? You
know there's been a silence since noon? What was life
like afternoon?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Fairy Tale, fairy Tale Pet Adoptions. Okay, I can tell
you guys. After you left, I went up to my
bed and laid down, and my stomach started doing crazy things.
I threw up, took a two hour nap, felt fine
after that.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Well, I got a text that night that said, you're
at Drake's. You know I have I have little spies
all over Laxton and I know where people are moving
and shaking at all times. Why were you a Drakes
at not?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I didn't eat anything after the doughnut. I didn't eat anything.
Got a little hungry.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I called you and you said you're eating lobster.
Speaker 7 (42:05):
Bisk Well you tweeted about lobster butt bought it, but
I didn't eat it.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Oh okay, we ate it the next day.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Okay, so the reception return for thanks to everybody who donated,
and big thanks to Club Blue and I L and
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work and we have a fun day, a fun event
planned for us. We're out the Swings for Swings for
Soldiers golf event I hear at the University Club. We're
gonna get to that in just a minute, but we
have to start with the the tragedy that hit Lexington yesterday.
(01:18):
The tragic events in Lexington. It was a sad day
for our city when a man got pulled over by
Kentucky State trooper. The trooper got shot. Thankfully, he's okay.
But then the man drove all the way out Old
Richmond Road, shot four people. Two women passed away, two
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men are severely injured. And then police officers came to
the church and took him out, took the shooter out.
So in total, three people died, three people were injured
in a matter of thirty minutes. I mean, it was
it was a weird feeling to be in Lexington yesterday
when that was going down. Who you were ended up
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kind of right in the middle of it out there
at the airport, was at the airport. Yeah, it just
it was just sad and shocking that watch this unfold yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, very sad, you know, thinking and praying for the
lives lost their their families. Uh, LExEN was on high
al earth there for a few hours. It turns out
Harold Leader has done some great reporting. The shooter knew everyone.
Doesn't make it any less tragic, and for them to
be at a church and that to happen just makes
it truly sad. But just from my experience, I had
wasn't at the airport when it happened, but wasn't too
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far behind. I'm picking up my sister and she's in
the air texting they're not letting us land. There police
cars with lights everywhere at the airport, a helicopter above.
I mean, we had a slight inconvenience, but there was
just kind of like what is going on at that point?
Lex l e x eighteen and some of the local
news had put out that had happened, but there was
a lot of uncertainty there. And then as you mentioned
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all the details, just a sad afternoon and Sunday afternoon
and lection, especially in just involving a church. I mean
that I mean, there's no good place to die, but
there shouldn't be a safer place than at church.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's exactly right. That's where I it hit hits home.
I think that it happened at a church, and you know,
like you said, a lot of the details are coming out.
He was supposed to be in court I think today
for like a violation of his parole. He was just
released in January from jail on a on parole that
evaluated the pros post had to court date today. I
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think he knew the people, the victims. It's just it's
just it's just so sad and shocking. But then you
hear all the great stories that have come out of it,
like some civilians at the airport stopped and gave CPR
to that state trooper. Yeah, yeah, that's that. Those stories are.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Coming out, and thank god he's okay. I mean it
said Beverly Gun and Christina Combs are the two people
that passed. But you know, it could have been worse.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It sounds like could have been a lot worse. So
I think the quick response by the Kentucky State Police
and the Lexton City Police also prevented this from getting worse.
They need to be commended, you know, first responders, all
these people that put their lives in danger for that.
So just we needed to show our sympathy and condolences
to the fan before we switch gears and talk to
Jacob Tammy here in a minute and the swing for soldiers,
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but just our thoughts some prayers to everybody involved yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah. Absolutely, we're gonna have a fun day. I'm excited
to be out here. But that was some tragic news
to come through Lexitton on a Sunday, So we're thinking
of everyone involved.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, on that old Frankfurt, Old Richmond Road, that's
where firefighter Brenda Collen got shot and killed, you know,
twenty five years ago. So that one road out there
has been the sight of two tragic events for our city.
It just kind of maybe brings all that back a
little bit, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It does. And at first when they said Richmond Road,
you think kind of in the city, this is this
is pretty far out there, right, I mean, that's still awful,
But you know, at the time, as I said, we
don't know details. We just know there are police cars everywhere.
We've heard of the state troopers been shot and now
there's a shooter in Lexington. It was very scary there
for a while until we kind of figured out what's
going on. Great job on all the reporting too to
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right about that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, So our thoughts and prayers with the family
and those people involved with that, and with that, we
love a job to do. We have to do a show, yep.
So we're going take our break, an early break, Shannon,
and come back. We have Jacob Tammy on talk about
Swings for Soldiers and tell us that this great event
that's going on out here at the University Club. We'll
be right back, all right, Welcome back, Ryan Drew and
Shann here Kentucky Sports Radio doing kind of a little
of a reset now because we are live on location
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today at University Club golf course out on Leeestown Road
for the annual Swings for Soldiers event. Fifteenth year they
put this event on and the man behind it all
is former UK star, former Boyle County rebel. That's how
I know him, Jacob Tammy. Jacob, this is a wonderful,
wonderful event you've done. I can't believe it's been fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah. Me neither, Ryan, Me neither.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Now, we were discussing a moment ago about how that
ages both of us. Going back to talking about the
Boyle County days too, when I first met you a long, long,
long time ago. But yeah, fifteen years really just an
amazing journey with this event.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
My wife Allison and.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I kind of drew it up at the kitchen table
when we were living in Indianapolis, and I did some
research across a lot of military charities. We knew we
had a heart for our vets and and wanted to
support them in some way, and did a lot of research,
looked at a lot of different groups, decided not to
do our own foundation, decided to partner with somebody, and yeah,
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I called the founder of Homes for our Troops, a
group based out of Taunton, Massachusetts, right outside of Boston,
and I said, Hey, my name is Jacob Tammy. I
played for the Colts. I want to do an event
for you. And he was like what, and so it
was uh and from that from that point on, it's
been fifteen years and uh. Since then, many people that
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are actually famous, some like me, have jumped on board.
Phil Michelson has become a big supporter of the cause.
Jake Tapper, you know, the news guy. There's a lot
of folks that have really jumped on the Home Star
Troops train over the years. So yeah, we can homes
for our troops. In my estimation is there's a lot
of different groups that build houses for vets. There's there's
several different ones. Homes for Our Troops is the best one.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
They just do a phenomenal job. We're super glad and
thankful that we chose to partner with them. And yeah,
here we are fifteen years later, still running this event.
And Tom, who I believe might come on with you
guys later. Tom Landamire, the President's CEO of Homes for
Our Troops here today. He comes and joins us every year.
He told us last night that we are the longest
running event. Wow, in Homes for Our Troops history.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, I've played in this few times. I was telling
Ryan during the break, I'm lucky to play a lot
of golf scrambles. You all do it right here, good gifts,
you're friendly, you greet people on the road as they're
pulling in, shake everyone's hand at the entrance to U club.
But most importantly, it's literally the Homes for the troops
talk about kind of what it's like because you know,
veterans do get a home out of this. When you
actually get to hand those keys over and see the
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true impact it has other than the you know day
of golf you get to do out here every year,
well it is pretty incredible. So you know, the mission
is about in homes for our troops, kind of tagline
building homes, rebuilding lives, and so you know when a
guy goes out there and fights on our behalf and
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gives so much of himself and in every case, I
believe with all of these guys, they're all double amputees
or worse. So we have veterans we've supported here in
our family. We called our Swings for Soldiers' Family, So
if I refer to that, that's what I mean. So
our family here, we've got paralysis, we've got double amputees,
we've got some the arms elbow down, just all kinds
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of different things, and each home is specially adapted for
that person and what they need. In fact, this year's
honoree is Will Thomas. He currently lives in Houston. His
home is going to be built Murphy's Broo, Tennessee, where
he's from, and he actually got a home where he's
at in Houston now from a different group. Somehow he
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got connected with some folks that were trying to help
him and he was telling them, shared with us last
night at dinner sort of the issues he's having with it.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And the cool thing is.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
We're gonna be able to give him a brand new
home with all the technology that he needs, the space
to operate, where he can cook eggs for his kids,
where he doesn't have to rely on someone else to
help him shower, where he can be independent again and
not have those issues that he's dealing with now. So
that's just an incredible thing to get to help homes
for our troops go do for will I like.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It, but a lot of them will play out here.
But those who aren't able. You've got that big mega
golf cart I call it. I don't know what that is,
but you drop around. They still get to be a
part of the day too. It's a fun day for
a lot of the guys involved. It is.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, So we've got several of our vets that actually
like can play and enjoy golf, and that's so much
fun to see them go out there and do that,
and then some other guys that aren't physically able right
around with me. They hate that. Every year, we have
so much fun riding around and you know, they give
me a hard time with my driving, et cetera. The
golf cart, not the golf ball. But it's really been
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an awesome journey. In fact, you know, talking about the
guys playing. Chase Matthews was our first honore e back
in year one. Okay, and actually his daughter was seven
years old. She got married last week. Oh wow, talking
about an event, we are old, right, So yeah, But
it's a cool kind of thing about how this event
is just kind of you know, you get down fifteen years,
that sort of stuff happens. It's amazing to think about.
But Chase rode around with me that day, and I
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hadn't met him until the day of the event. By
the time we were finished, he's kind of a quiet
guy anyway, and I wondered if he had had a
good time. We were leaving and I thought, we probably
can never do this again. I was walking to my
car and I thought, this has been an incredible day.
But it was just you know, starting an event. And
you know, that year we I made every phone call.
We just drummed up the support and we went and
did it. And I remember being so exhausted and just like,
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you know, that was incredible.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I don't know if we can do it ever again.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Well, as we're walking to the car where the last
people leaving the course, it was my wife Alison and
I and then Chase and his wife Jennifer. And as
that thought was in my head, Chase looked at me
and said, hey, man, that was fun. Next year, I'm
gonna play golf. And I sat down in the car.
I told Alis and I said, well, I guess we're
doing it next year. Got too, next year and so
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and so Chase did come and he did play, and
he's been here every year and he's played everything since.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah, and so we you know, really I share that
story a lot. I shared at the event a lot,
you know, because it's not the power of words. First
of all, right, I mean he doesn't say that to me.
We're probably not sitting here today. Yeah, and uh, just
the impact that that his encouragement to me that day
gave us. And now here we are fifteen years later.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Now you mentioned we're gonna have one of the families
come on with our show with us by the end
of the day today tell us about them.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So, uh, this year's Henrey is Will Thomas. I don't
know if we'll be able to get him on. But
Brett BonDurant is another. We had about seven or eight
of the guy's back here today. Brett I think is
going to join us. Brett's just an awesome guy. He
lives up in Indiana, is a Cats fan, so Brett
always gets a Brownie points, you know, being a Cats fan.
So we've had we've helped build homes in Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia,
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I believe, Illinois. So it's kind of all, you know,
centered around Kentucky. But of course there's not always of
that coming through the program in Kentucky. One of the
great things about homes for our troops is they're trying
to find these guys, the guys that applied to go
through the program, they get accepted, you know, they really
get to try.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
To live where they want.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You know, So we've had a lot of which is cool.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Like Will this year, he's kind of getting he's moving
back home to Tennessee. So that's that's been really cool
to see. But yeah, Brett, we were able to go
up to his key ceremony. He Brett was probably twelve
or so years ago. So but yeah, you guys really
enjoy talking to him. He's got a wonderful family's wife
London and their kids. Two of his daughters are going
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to be here today too.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So be on the scramble. Retired, now you keep it
up with our cats. I know you got the hat
on you. Are you a season ticket holder? Let's talk
a little ball you you tell Gaydon what's life like
for Jacob Tammy post football these days? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah, actually yes, yes, yes, and yes to those questions. Uh,
I am a season ticket holder. I we I am tailgating.
Uh so, I've got a sun that's gonna be a
freshman at Boyle County. So we're kind of tied up
with with high school. We'll be going through the high
school football thing on saturdays though.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, we'll be there for the home games.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
We have a little a very small, uh sort of
tailgate that no one would ever pay any attention to.
So we're just kind of hanging out over there in
the corner and uh we just we we we really
love going to the games and uh supporting the Cats
and uh, that's that's been a lot of fun actually
since since we've been.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Back home, kind of kind of doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
We love going to many baseball games, basketball games as
we can.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
My kids are in.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
That age where that's difficult. Saturday afternoons in the fall
are kind of our our easiest, you know, air quotes
thing to get to. But with Luke and his schedule
and then my daughter Lyla and Hurstky Jewel and then
Ella is now doing things. When the third child starts
doing things, it's like, yeahs, hold on, you have things too,
you know.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
So we're uh, we're in a great phase of life though.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
A small tailgate. Ryan just the all time leading tight
end ever, just t in the corner. Just a little
bit of operation there.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We you know, we all we all have a mutual
friend Jeff Klosterman and doctor K will send me pictures
of you coaching on the field, like all football season.
But you coach more than you coach football. But you
coach other sports too, don't you.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, So I helped coach boyle middle football the last
couple of years and youth before that, which has just
been a ton of fun.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I really loved it.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Middle school was awesome because they're old enough to kind
of do things, you know. And then but yeah, this year,
I think I'm gonna just kind of be a dad
with football, but I do help with baseball as well.
I love baseball as a player. When I first went
to Kentucky, I was gonna be a two sport. I
remember that I got hurt didn't end up playing baseball.
But so everyone thinks I don't live vicariously through the
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baseball teams I coach, because they're like, oh, you played
in three super Bowls. You know, it's so great that
you know you're not out here being with those guys.
It's like living vicariously to the kids. But it's totally false.
I'm leaving my baseball dream through these kids one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
But now I've had a really fun summer team that
I've coached for several years now, coached with Canes this
year with a really fun group. Uh And and I
help with Boyle Middle and may help with Boyl High
school baseball a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
So I really enjoy that. It's it's ton of fun.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I mentioned being a two sport athlete. I noticed, you know,
doing my show prep. Your UK bio says you came
to Kentucky as a defensive back and a wide receiver.
Let's go back to then and how you went from
defensive back to this great tight end that went on
to play with Peyton Manning the Music City Bowls, the
great career. But a defensive back.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
That's yeah. So I not only defensive back.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
I was kind of tall, and I played corner, so
I kept thinking I was gonna get moved to safety
in high school, but never did.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It left me out there at corner. And you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
At some point teams didn't really throw it to that
side of field very much. We had another good corner
on the other side, Jeremy Brummer. You probably yes, Ryan,
So uh, you know I did. I played corner in
high school and played receiver and then right there, I
guess it was my sophomore year at Kentucky. You know,
you have weird memories throughout your career in different parts
of life. My freshman year at Kentucky, I was playing
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on the scout team as a receiver and Steve Brown,
who actually I think is going to be here today,
was a defensive coordinator at the time. I was playing
scout team. I caught a pass. I'm jogging back to
the huddle and he looked at me and said, hey, Tammy.
He said, you're going to be a really good tight.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
End one day.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I'm like, well, first of all, a little bit disrespectful,
I just caught a pass on your defense as a receiver, okay.
But second of all, okay, that's an interesting little nugget.
I just remember that moment, and it wasn't too far
or later, I guess a year later, coach Phillips, coach
Ordan Meyer, coach Brooks came to me and said, hey,
you know, we think you could be a you know,
a difference maker at tight end, a real you know,
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stud there. And I said, okay, So I put my
hand in the dirt for the first time. That week
we went down and played at Tennessee. YEP, they tried
not to get me killed by the defensive ends. They
had a couple of really good defensive ends that week.
I blocked just enough to sort of sneak in there
and then found my way out of there where they
were really trying to get me in. I think caught
a couple of touchdowns, which was like, After that, I thought, hey,
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they might be right, Maybe I can be a great time.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I was at that game that was the Jacob Tammy
coming out party at Tennessee. All of a sudden, out
of nowhere, they move you to tight end and you
come out and have this monster game, last game of
the season.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I wondered if I was just a sneak attack or
if we could keep doing it. So we were able
to keep doing it, which was cool.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You mentioned Rich Brooks. He's one of Kentucky fans all
time favorites. A lot of people call Pat Paul. He's
tweeting about his tomatoes and his golf scores these days.
You stay in touch with him at all or any
any Rich Brooks memories that will still make you laugh today.
His Twitter is gold.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
First.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Got to get rich Brooks on X Sometimes I literally
search his name just like just to go see what
he's posted lately. But yeah, you know, not so much
the last year or two, but definitely have kept in touch, yes,
and he he gets back every once in a while.
Just an amazing, amazing man. He he was just exact
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right fit for what we needed at that time. I'm
super thankful to him. I mean, the story has been
documented about about me and him, but he you know,
I was his first recruit. Without him, I wouldn't have
been able to come here. So it was just an
incredible circumstance that led to that. And when he was hired,
you know the fact that he gave me an opportunity, Uh,
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I was extremely grateful for and just uh just kind
of blown away to this day at how it all
worked out.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know, we go back, we said to our to
your Boyle County days. I gotta tell Drew best high
school game I've ever seen in my life, and see
if I'm wrong. Caught a touchdown, pass, ran a touchdown,
threw a touchdown, ran an interception back for a touchdown,
and a punt return for a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Come on in the state final. It was in the
state Find this this video game ism I wrong, Drew.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I think, honestly, I think he's wrong. I don't want
to say I don't want to say he's wrong, but
I think there may be some exaggeration there.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Although you're say you forgot another touchdown. No no, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
There was at least four touchdowns, four different ways in
the state championship game that day, County Man.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
It seems exaggerated. I do think I do uh. I
think I caught one through for one had to pick
something else.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
But that was Uh.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We had an incredible run, unbelievable four in a row,
and I guess five in a row. I was there
for four of them, you know, and I was I
was extremely blessed. Like the first year, I didn't do
anything or I was the part of the first at
a championship team as a freshman, I did nothing. The
people at Boyle in front of me and our group
like really late a foundation that was special, and so
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we were able to continue it. And then you know,
our junior and senior year and it kind of it's
funny that sort of had that transition to Kentucky. We
had a rough first couple of years, but then the
last couple of years we were really trying to like
lay a foundation for the next five years, right the
next decade, and we were able to do that to
a degree, you know, six o seven, and that was
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a really special time.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Uh. For sure.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
As a football fan, I'm a Titans fan. Not a
lot of success there don't come from a high school
like Boll County when the six seven Kentucky football you
all Woodyard, Woodson, Burton, we can name the whole squad.
I did not think life could get any better than
that run you all heading to Nashville. Stoops has now
brought in a lot of talent over his time, but
you played with one of the most talented groups ever
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UK with all those names I just named. What was
that like kind of bringing UK football to a peak
there and at.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
The end of your four years as a kid that
grew up bleeding blue in every aspect, right, I mean
basketball and football specifically at that You know in the
nineteen nineties, if you were a kid in Kentucky, you
loved the basketball Cats and you love the football Cats.
I mean, so to get to go live that out
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like it was an incredible thing for me to be
a part of that group.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
You know, you mentioned Andre, Keenan.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Stevie, Dicky, Wesley, Praxon, Kelly, Trevar Linley like all these guys.
You know, you could just keep going for probably ten
more names. Like there's so many of those guys really
cared about the program. That was cool to me because
I was from here. Yeah, I you know, grew up
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dreaming at night of playing at Comwell Stadium, but not
not all those guys did. But when we were here together,
it meant just as much to them as it did
to me that we give the people of Kentucky, the
Kentucky fans pride.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
In our football program.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
So that was man, that was that was special and
we were able to do that, you know, oh seven,
Arguably we should have had an even better year. Yeah
eat to me a little bit though, right, but but no,
it was uh yeah, you know it eats at my crawl.
I think a fumbled against Misispi State only fumbled my
entire career. You know, it looked at the replay. I
hate instant replayed by the way. Anybody the falls me
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on X would know that. But at the time I
wish we had it all right, I was down, It
doesn't matter, all right, the balls out they got it,
so you know, still still well, we can't have replay
back then, Yeah, but you know the open to wound there, right,
But we had a tremendousyes. And the coolest part is
people you know, even to this day that you know
that comes up in conversation and talk about how fun
that year was and how much fun they had as
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a fan and so that that was a special thing
to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So we're at the University Club. It's Swing for Soldiers.
It's part of the Home for Troops program. People listening.
Is there a way they can help also, people listening
today right now?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Absolutely, So you can go to Swings four Soldiers spell
it out dot org, Swings four Soldiers dot org or
h f O t USA dot org. So either one. Uh,
there's different links. You can get right in there and donate.
You can support the cause. You can support our mission directly.
You can go support Homes for a Troops. We don't
really care how you do it. We just want to
help homes for our troops build, build more houses.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
We appreciate it. Man, good to see again.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
You go get out there and greet everybody.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
But thank you guys us.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
We'll take our break.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We'll come back live from the University Club where when
we can return.
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Speaker 5 (23:08):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
All right, welcome back, Ryan Drew and Shann here today
Matt is off this week, little vacation before football season starts,
so we're gonna get you through this week. We've got
Myron Metcalf actually hosting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Drew, so that'll be a lot Tuesday with Myron.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Tuesday with myrettead of a Monday with Myron. A big
thanks to Jacob Tammy who just sat in with us
to the Swing for Soldiers event going on out here
at the University Club, part of the Home for Troops, Drew,
that was awesome to hear him talk about it and
or what they've done since he started this fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, I've been out here many times. Usually I have
a team I play with every year. I can't play
this year, but I'm glad the opportunity opened for us
through the show here. We've tried to do it in
the past and schedules did in the line, but it
is a great cause. A lot of UK personalities will
be out here. I'm worried we might be a little
too early before they could start hopping on with us,
but Stoops usually plays in this, a lot of coaches,
(23:55):
former players, Jacob's old teammates. If we see him one
and around, we'll drag him on. But just good to
be out here, good to get out of the studio.
It is a little event with you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So Jacob didn't invite me to play. He invited you
to play. He did invite me to play. They did
say I could come back for the Tony's dinner good
night after the round.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I got invited to golf. You got invited to dinner.
That's why we all have our things right there. But
that's another point. I said, how good this golf scramble is.
They're having Tony's at a golf scramble and like one
of the only golf scramble a lot nobody's given me Tony.
Tony is usually a pre wrapped burger. We have good
barbecue at ours, but like a Tony steak and sides
and all that. Yeah, they take good care of their golfers.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm coming, I'm coming back. So Corey Price has tweeted
a picture of Jacob looks like in the t ball days.
I need Corey though, to research the stat a state championship,
Jacob Tammy caught a touchdown pass, threw a touchdown pass,
ran for a touchdown, had an interception for a touchdown,
and a punt return for touchdown.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, I think you made that up.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Now, I'm saying at least four of those five he
did in the state championship games, so maybe Corey can
look that up.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Jacob even looked at you like you were making that up. Facts.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I tell you what else happened that game. He got hit,
turned upside down and landed on his helmet, straight down
like a rocket, to the ground on his helmet and
still play.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You're turning that state championship into a cartoon daring, but
I'm loving it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He's the former winner of the l e x A
Team Player of the Year award too. I present it
was amazing run they had.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Now. My favorite thing about Jacob Tammy is we're about
the same age and he's got the gray beard I
got going on the gray beard era. Yes it's good. Yes,
I have a little gray in your beard to pull
it off. Now.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I've looked at the a vision glass tech machine, which
is of courses myself on this week. Somebody I didn't
see it, said, you got ask him about the tight ends?
Why don't they use the tight end?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I actually had that in my notes. There's actually question
number two. Number one was what's it like playing in
a Super Bowl? Easy? Question number two was winning the
hell of troch to the tight ends? Should I go
out to the road and chase him down and back?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah? They they, like you said. They literally take him
out to the entrance to the golf course and he
greets every golfer that comes in and then rides around
during the day on a cart filled with some of
the veterans.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well, they have this binglong road in the UK club
which is closed by the way. Don't try to come
out here. But he stands at the at the uh,
there's a little gate and when you're pulling in you
have to stop. You shake Jacob's hand, He checks you in,
talk a little bit. He usually has some of the veterans.
You meet them, and then it's just a whole day.
They do like American flag golf flags.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Just a lot going on, very very very cool.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They've got a silent auction going on in the next
room right beside us. A lot of bourbon packages over
there for grads on the silent auction?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Are we allowed to bed even though we're not official participants,
we're media.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I can promise you I'm gonna be in on some story.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You're looking at these sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah, Jimmy John just came in loaded up the table
with like five hundred sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
So one other thing. Jacob in his little tailgate. I
feel bad. I mean, this is like a legend, like
he should have a he should be on the wall
somewhere inside the stadium. You're telling me he's just got
a whet be grill and just a couple. But I mean,
maybe that's what he wants. Maybe he's low key, But.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I thought, well, I think he is on there to
be like a.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Throne he's sitting on and people are, you know, feeding
him grapes outside the stadium.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He's Jacob from Danvill, now Boyle County guy. He's going
to UK because he grew up a UK fan. That's
who he is now, Not former superstar Jacob Tammy. He's
dad coach Tammy coming to support the Cats.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Living through his uh little league baseball players.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, that's right. Our phone lines are open eight nine
two eight zero two too eight seven. That's eight five
nine to eight O Cats if you want to call him,
get on board today. We got a lot of things
going gonna be happening in the next couple hour and
a half. But SEC football media days start today. Drew
right down in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I was up at six am, uh mondays are my
six am days. I was watching what do they call it?
Show with Peter Burnson during this morning SEC. This morning, Well,
they were already wide awake down there at the OMNI
in Atlanta. Uh sank already talked. I guess he was
at nine something. I haven't seen any news out of
Sanki yet, but we have Adam Luckett, Nick Roush down there.
(27:49):
They'll be covering it for KSR. Stoops in the in
The players from Kentucky talk on Thursday, so we won't
hear from them until Thursday, but it'll still be a bug.
Sankie probably said something newsworthy today. We'll get four coaches tomorrow,
four coaches all the way up until Stoops. But yeah, busy,
busy week as we're counting down to football. We'll get
(28:09):
our preseason poll. Yeah right, preseason all SEC all that'll
be this week.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But Kentucky doesn't go until the last group on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah. I think that they're actually during our show on Thursday,
because we're gonna have Adam and Nick call in. But
They're gonna be literally with stoops while we're on there.
Alex Safari, Jordan Loved and Josh Katis also down there,
so it'll be a ton of content, But the UK
stuff will be later in the week.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
So that's just me as a fan, I would want
to hear from Calzada. He's gonna be our quarterback. He's
the leader of the offense. Why is he not down
on the SEC media days, sinsha.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I have nothing against the three picks they have. Those
are very true. Three of the most experienced guys on
the team, veterans. Alexafari has been playing YEP since he
went to UK Orientation. He's been on the field. Cats
same way, love it. But I did think they'd send someone.
I thought they might do two returners and one portal guy,
just to introduce maybe a Calzada. You've got Braun as
(29:08):
a lineman getting a lot of attention, especially now he's
the highest rated gal in the video game that just
came out. But with all these new pieces, I thought
they'd send one, but they gave it to all the returners,
which there's nothing wrong with that, just I thought it
might go a different direction.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
One nothing wrong with the three guys. But just for
me again, as a fact, we're trying to introduce him.
He has yet to meet with us. You know, we
don't know really a whole lot about him. I would
get me more excited about the season if my quarterback
was up there telling me, hey man, we got this,
we got that, We're gonna do this, We're gonna do that.
That's what I needed to hear. I think I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It could be the case. With so many people wanting
some positivity from how last year ended, maybe they want
some people that are on last year's team to sit
up there and speak on how things are different. Yeah,
how the attitudes changed. But yeah, if I were in charge,
I would have had the quarterback out there just at
least go ahead and start getting mount in front the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Because the quarterback position the last couple of years has
kind of struggled little bit. Vandergriff Leary even Levis's second year.
I think for this team to be good, Calzada has
to be good this year. He's the leader in the
face of our offense.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I will say, I, oh, look at this guy, Look
who showed Oh my goodness, the the most famous band
member of Alice blue gown just showed up in our show.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Cliff is here in the house, Shannon playing golf.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
With a polo, you're popped out of nowhere. Your your
your bass guitarist is in here looking like a PGA golfer.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
He's much better at golf than I am.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I can guarantee you that I'd like to go say
he's a much better golfer than a bass player. He
didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh no he didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I didn't didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
One thing on the football stuff put a bow on that.
I got the new video game that came out last week.
I was a little late to play it, but I
played a little bit on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It kind of made me excited. It's a video game.
It was it was by nerds on a computer. It
kind of got me excited for the season. And I
know these virtual players have no impact on the actual
players what will happen. But Stillato the receiver might be
the best football player of all time. According to my
one round of playing South Carolina on I did, here's
(31:20):
how accurate the game is. I'm playing South Carolina. I'm
Kentucky playing against South Carolina. We gave up fourteen points
in the final minute and a half of first half,
so we had a little stoops ball. The game's accurate there,
but I recover an onside in the end. Stillato sends
us to overtime, and in Kentucky football fashion, I fumbled
on the goal line in ot and lost to South
(31:41):
Carolina a walk off field goal. Video game talk is boring,
I know, but the point of this is to say
I had all of the emotions of Kentucky football this
past Saturday playing that dang game. It did help me
with excitement round just some of the new guys. I
know it's a video game. It sounds stupid, but it
was a lot of fun. Throw in the rock from
Calzada to Law and some of the new players from
(32:03):
the portal.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Who is the star running back for Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Oh, you cannot stop dot it. Actually I went pretty deep.
I used my for deep. I like them all. Even
Patterson had a long game turn. But Dante doubt of
Daldell from Nebraska maybe the best player on the game.
He's the man and I cannot wait to form all
these opinions about these guys from from something created about
gay sports and then get mad at them in the
fall when they're not as good. But I did have
(32:27):
fun playing that over the weekend, starting to get the
juices flown. Media days that's out. You know, we're under
fifty days away from kickoff.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
You know, is it any disrespect that Kentucky's the last
team on the last day when most media people probably
gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I think Stoops requests that he was the last when
I went. I went last year, two years ago, whenever
I went, he was last. Then, can't be a coincidence
they kep put him last. I think most veteran guy there,
I think he says I'm going Thursday and put me
in the back.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
And they won't announce the all SEC teams until after
he's done, right.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, And from experience, when you're that Thursday, a lot
of the people have already covered. The guys are there
to cover. By Thursday. That room that's just completely filled
with reporters. It starts thinning out on that last day,
so that gets on home.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's gonna be Luckett, Ralsh and John Hale.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, everybody's got to save money on their hotel. They
leave Wednesday night, unless their coach is Thursday, so it'll
be a smaller group for stoops.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
All right, well, take our break, come back, go to
the phone line. Phone lines are open right now eight
five nine two eight h two to eight seven eight
five nine to eight. O Cats has our Clark's pumping
shop phone number. We'll take your calls. Look at some
Twitter feed and I gotta tell you about my donuts,
and we come back. You're gonna take a switch radio.
This is our whiskey Thief song of the day, Our
whiskey Thief song of the week, Little Darius Rutger Beers
and Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I like whiskey thief and sunshine.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Whiskey Thief and sunshime would be good too.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Puts me in a good mood. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Then I gotta talk.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
About pull them. I'm gonna pull the mat, pull your
mic up? Do I need to reach over and do
it like he does too?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah? Right there you go go?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Corey Price and lea Ane Clark found the box score
from the Boyle County State Championship football game again rock
Castle County.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Or was it in the was it in Canton in
two thousand and one? I was a little off, but
not far.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Off, all right, So tell me about this big game.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Jacob Tammy against rock Castle County had two touchdown catches.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Okay, all right, well he's probably done that a lot
threw a touchdown pass. Okay, I can believe that.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And he also had an interception for a touchdown no.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
A.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Rock Castle was up forty two to nothing at halftime
in the state championship game against rock Castle County. Boil
was up Boil. Yeah, so I said he ran one back,
had an interception back, a punt return back. I knew
he had an interception. I think he had a really
long punt return. Maybe he got called back. Maybe it
was a touchdown and got called back. I thought for
sure he ran for a touchdown too that day. Just
(34:49):
you know, it's what legends are made of.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I told told Jacob during the commercial he should hire
you to just tell his stories his past.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But he did confirm him getting hit and coming down
on his head.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, torpedo.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
He was up like six feet in the sky and
bam like a torpedo, straight down on his head.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But the interception touchdown not not exactly an interception historically accurate,
not a touchdown okay, And the punt return touchdown, not exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I think they got called back. I think he had
one and got called back.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I could tell by his face when you were really
rattling off all these stats, and he looked very confused.
But just keep keep talking about the legend of legend.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Mctambey, the former LAX eighteen High School Sport Zone Player
of the Year. All right eight five nine to two
two eight seven, She says, we got a caller who
we got chanted Allen Alan, Go ahead, Alan.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Hey, how you guys doing long time listener, first time caller. Hey,
I just wanted to ask you, guys, do you think
with this coming team, with the Pope coming out, with
the focus on conditioning, do you think our defense is
gonna started pulling more of a full court press Ala
Fatino when he played.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Appreciate Alan, thanks for the phone call. I mean, I
think they've definitely put an emphasis on conditioning, and Pope
made no secret about it. A couple of times He's
talked to the media and said things, and you hear
some of the players talk about how it's been rough
here in the summer doing conditioning work. Whether that translate
to express I don't know. I just think after one
year in the SEC, Pope realized we gotta be in
(36:16):
better condition and we gotta be tougher. I think he
was a kind of an eye opening experience playing one
season through the SEC.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, it sounds like he's channeling the old Patino behind
the scenes in summer conditioning. You know, there was some
some rotten lemon like legend like stories of throwing up
in trash cans and how much they'd make him run.
Some stuff that's hard to believe. And we're starting to
hear that now of what guys are having to do
in these summer summer weeks. As far as pressing, I
would like to see a little bit of it. I
don't know that they'll ever do it like Patino did,
(36:44):
just because the game's changed so much. Teams can beat
the press lazier. You got more ball handlers on the court.
You know, back up Tino days are be guys that
couldn't dribble on the floor. Now players are a little
able to beat it better. But I mean it would
still work a little bit. I actually wanted to try
it last season just for a throwback before they were
so beat up, but now with so many guards. Next
year and so many bodies. I wouldn't mind him throwing
(37:04):
it out there a few times, throw teams.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Off, that's the thing. He's got the bodies to do
it this.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
My only hesitation would be not a lot of depth
at point guard, and you need him on the floor
this season. Don't want him out of gas, So maybe
that would be one reason. Maybe they wouldn't press as
much because they need Low on the floor as much
as possible. But he's got five or six guards out
there that could definitely put on a press if he
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Heck, yeah, it won't be the Patino press that we
all remember from those those those years. But I hope
he'll give it a little trial. Pick him up full
court time time A.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Five nine two two to eighty seven. That's our phone
numer if you want to call and get on board.
So it was about this time Friday I was throwing
in the towel on the doughnut Challenge.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
In fact, before you go on, Cliff here, you didn't
hear this. He submitted a call during the break even
though he's.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Hear in person.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Okay, what was it?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Cliff just wanted to let you know how disappointed. He is.
You had your head headphones on as we were starting.
But he's one of many, thanks Cliff, So carry on
while you're looking at me.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
All weekend, people were giving me, you know, the sad
eye look like they were so disappointed in my efforts.
I'm telling you, guys, Shannon Drew, I knew I was
in trouble on the first donut. The very first one
was so dense and so thick, and it took me
so many chews to get one donut down. Shannon, I
knew I was in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I thought you knew you were in trouble the moment
you opened up that box and saw how big those
donuts were.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's the moment that I said, you got no chance
after seeing those donuts.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
So a guy Drew sent me a graphic said that
each Jeff's donut is equivalent to two regular glazed donuts
as far as density and weight, I can believe. So
in that case, I ate sixteen donuts.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
No no, no, you ate eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
I ate the equivalent of sixteen donuts.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I think eight and a half so a little exaggerated.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I think I probably eight.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I would say seven to eight seven points seven point.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Because I crammed out of the what was remaining into
a ball. I thought, like a cramming it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I was wondering what you were thinking there in that moment,
because the size of that donut ball that you rolled
up was biger than a softball, and there was no
way that was going in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
So what were you run out of time?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You know?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I tried to hit a game winning three pointer at
the end of the game, and then this didn't work
for me. I shay, what else I should have done?
Dipped them in water from the very beginning. That helped.
That's when I got my mojo going. Dante's yelling at
me over the fence and got to get little mojo going.
I was dipping them in the water. You should have
done that from the very start. Yeah, I think you
should have to. I agree the other thing on a technicality.
You know, you just had to have that in your mouth.
(39:28):
I don't think you could have.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I think you could have just like reached down like
a dog and just grabbed that big ball of donut
and just had it like hanging out of your mouth,
And I think that would that have counted.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I think it might have.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It would have been out of your hands at that point.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Well, but I still had a mouthful of donut from
previous right, Yeah, I couldn't get that down fast enough
to get the new ball of donut goo in my mouth.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I know you're in trouble when you were exactly on
page three minutes in. Yeah, because you weren't going to
maintain that first donut base, so you were behind the
math pretty early. You needed to get ahead of the pace.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And I couldn't. That first donut was so dry and
it was so dense and thick. I knew I was
in trouble.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I told people you almost had it, but also never
really had it. Yeah, you were close at the end,
but at no point did I ever think you were
actually gonna pull it off.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I think two more minutes, two more minutes, I think
I would have got it.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Well, yeah, two more minutes, but that wasn't the bet,
and the bet, let's not forget the bet already changed.
The bet went from ten donuts and ten minutes to
fifteen minutes, and then Matt trying to make it twenty minutes,
So you know, the bet was what it was. You
didn't win, you were closed the charity money was still donated, right.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, So let's good Blue and IL is still going
to donate five thousand dollars to the charities of my choice.
And I've talked to Stephen Horne. I've got five different charities.
We're gonna give a thousand dollars to five different charity.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Good do you already know who they are?
Speaker 5 (40:49):
CASA?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Okay, I'm always doing with cosa Christian Appalachian Project. I
do their endorsements and Matt just did their podcast. I
can't think the name the dog a blank on the
there's a dog adoption fundraiser, Yeah, adoptions. Gosh, what is
his name?
Speaker 5 (41:06):
I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And then my church, Center Point Christian Church and the
first United Methodist Church in Georgetown their preschool program. That's
where Yoga Girl works the preschoolers, so the preschoolers get
some So you're adopting like five hundred different places. Everybody
gets like two dollars, right, they get a thousand dollars apiece. Yeah, okay,
we're gonna give away and my you know, big thing
for Club Blue, and I l stepping up and doing
(41:27):
that for us.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
People really want to know we all heard this on
the show. How was Ryan Lemon after the show? You
know there's been a silence since noon? What was life
like afternoon?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Fairy Tale, fairy Tale Pet Adoptions. Okay, I can tell
you guys. After you left, I went up to my
bed and laid down, and my stomach started doing crazy things.
I threw up, took a two hour nap, felt fine
after that.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Well, I got a text that night that said, you're
at Drake's. You know I have I have little spies
all over Laxton and I know where people are moving
and shaking at all times. Why were you a Drakes
at not?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
I didn't eat anything after the doughnut. I didn't eat anything.
Got a little hungry.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I called you and you said you're eating lobster.
Speaker 7 (42:05):
Bisk Well you tweeted about lobster butt bought it, but
I didn't eat it.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Oh okay, we ate it the next day.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Okay, so the reception return for thanks to everybody who donated,
and big thanks to Club Blue and I L and
fairy Tale pet Adopter.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
I couldn't remember all right, were right back? I remember two?
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