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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk, coming
to you from the Clarks Pumpin' Shop studio here in
Lexington where it's Sonny. In spite of the recent hur
or hurricane, recent earthquake that we just sayd see, I'm
not used to hurricanes and earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's not word we're supposed to use.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So but anyway, so thank you for joining back with us,
and now happy to be joined by Andrea Flores, a
young lady from California, went to school at the East Coast,
now is in Lexington and working on a unique kind
of magazine project. So Andrea, thank you for joining us
this morning here on Sunday Morning Sports Talk.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Good morning, Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, well, tell us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A little bit about your journey from the East Coast
to Lexington and then the kind of magazine project that
you're involved with right now.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Right, So, I went to Fairleigh Dickinson University to pursue
my football career. I'm originally from southern California, so it
was definitely a big move for me. Unfortunately, my junior
year I found out that I had a very serious
knee injury, but I was ahead academically, so despite me
having to retire from the sport, I played my whole life.
I was able to graduate a semester early, so that
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kind of made the decision a lot easier to come
down here and support Aley in Lexington. And yeah, that's
kind of how I ended up here. And you know,
going onto the magazine, I am a communications major and
I specialized in content writing, so it was kind of
an easy thing when Tim Warren, he is a local veteran,
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reached out to me needed someone to help him with
his magazine. He's not too familiar in that department, and
I was more than happy to help him connect to
the community. So yeah, that's kind of how I got
into it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the project that you're working on now that you
would like help from folks with tell him a little
bit about that.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I just want to find a way to honor
all the graduates within the county. But I want to
reach the right graduates and hopefully have families who really
want to support and just congratulate their family members on
such success, because I think it's really amazing no matter
what grades you're in, whether it's elementary school, middle school,
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high school, and even college. We just want to use
this platform to show our graduates that we're proud and
honored to be a part of their next step.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And the name of the magazine and how folks could
reach out to you to get information to you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
So the magazine is called North Lexington Living. If you
don't really live in North Lexington, you probably won't see it.
But I've noticed a lot of places will happen on
their like coffee tables and stuff when Angeley and I
go into certain establishments, So that's really cool. And you
can just reach me at my email or even on Twitter.
But my email is Andrea Flora at best Version Media
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dot com. And yeah, I really would just love to
honor a bunch of graduates. So if you find me
on Instagram or any type of social media to message me,
that would be great too.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm gonna kind of tell folks I think you're pretty
easy to talk to and communicate with because our producer
Bo Robinson said he actually met you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
At a little while back. Tell her about that. Both.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Yeah, she and I apologized, Andrea, I didn't have time
to explain everything when I called you on the phone
a few minutes ago. But do you remember two shady
looking characters at Paul Miller Ford. They had blue hats on,
blue sunglasses, blue jackets. Oh yes, yeah, I know them
very well.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
That was me.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, that was me.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
It was so great. And I'm gonna tell you something,
if you get a chance to meet Andrea and Annsley
saw the earth, great great people to get to know,
and we could not stop talking to them at Paul
miller Ford. Like I really thought Paul Miller was going
to send us out in a vehicle.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We stayed.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
They're so long, but definitely reach you out to them
because they are great, great people to know. And I
love this project that you are doing too. What really
inspired you to do this?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think I think the main thing that inspired me
was just the fact that I didn't really get to
experience my senior year with all of my classmates. Fully,
I am walking next week in graduation, but it just
doesn't feel the same when I haven't been there and
I haven't got to really enjoy that last year of college.
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So I think just having that and knowing that there
are people out there and just show that there's so
much to be grateful for. I think it's just a
way to give back but also show gratitude to the
position that I'm in that even though I didn't get
to experience my last year, I feel like it's still
an accomplishment and people deserve to be honored. No matter
what you're going into. It's not even you know, if
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you're not going to college, that's okay too, it's just like,
just honor you for your success.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Kudos to you, Thank you for tackling this project. And
how long have you been in Lexington?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh? I moved to Lexington in early May, so we've
been here since right before summer session. We after my
football season ended, we kind of took a few weeks
and actually me and my best friend drove to Lexington
with all of our stuff from New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So my point is for you picking up coming from
New Jersey all the way down here and being here
for a year and then tackling this project, I think
it's wonderful. So best of luck with this and now
hope you get a great response.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm sure she will. Anthony.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We didn't mean to cut you off. Earlier when you
want to jump in here, so go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh yeah, I was talking miss Flora.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Is we I worked with Faya County Public Schools and
it's just I worked with the alternative schools, so as
an alternative to going to a one school. Uh, what
is the turnaround for a project? Because I'm just now
finding out about this. Larry Vaught as a very busy man,
or could have told me about this a couple of
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months ago, a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, it was a couple of weeks ago. Because we
are we are month by month, so we you know,
we've been talking about it, and my publisher has been
kind of giving me some names and stuff to use.
So it's a quick turnaround, which is why I you know,
completely understand if we don't get the response that I
hope for. We do have a few people already. You know,
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I have contacted some principles at public schools as well.
But yeah, I mean really just all I need is
a name, the year they're graduating, if they're if they're
in high school, if they're at elementary school, and what
they plan to do their next steps, so and just
kind of equick.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Congrats Andre when you talk, go ahead anything.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
No, I would say, I will definitely get your contact
information because I think that you and I have an
avenue that I think you will really appreciate. It will
be gratifying for you. Again I said, I said alternative schools.
So it's not like you know, the popular graduate is
the people who don't get enough attention or have the
support to get what they want to get. So I
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would like to, you know, to connect with you and
work with you maybe, but graduation for us is the
twenty fifth or sixth. So when we have about two weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Max, okay, well if that I can even just do
a page dedicated to your graduates only we don't have
to do any names. You're right, I'm definitely an advocate
for getting people out there who don't get as much
respect and notice as they deserve. We actually just did
a little segment on Aaron's Hope for friends. It's actually
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at a club in local Lexington for children with autism
who you know don't have plans on Saturday night, and
that is they go and they go with their group
of friends and hang out, play video games and all that.
So that's Steff. This is definitely something that I'm very
passionate about so even if we don't get any grads,
we can just do a whole page on them and
definitely get the word out.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Speaking of graduates, Andrea Ansley went through graduation this weekend,
and I don't think I've seen anybody with a bigger
smile at the University Kentucky as a graduate that Angeley
ammanor I know, So did it surprise you how much
he seemed to enjoy all that or was that the
reaction you were expecting from him?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, it's definitely something he takes a lot of
pride in it, and it's a great accomplishment. Although basketball
is really the center of everything, school comes first, so
I think just having to be able to play such
a high level of basketball will also get a very
amazing degree. That was not easy at all because he
was in the finance and kind of coming here he
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was in business management, so it's a little you know,
they tie into each other and that's not easy. So
I think they're just a lot, a lot to be
proud of for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, the only regret is that I've got that we
only had Ansley for a year, because I don't think
I've seen a guy that enjoyed being at Kentucky as
much as him in a long long time. So what
was it like, Because you were obviously with Ansley off
the court some things we didn't see. What was Ansley
like off the court during his year here at Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
He was definitely just very grateful, very motivated. You know,
what you saw in the court and kind of you
know in the press was really who he is as
a human being, so just always motivated to get better,
make the team better, whatever his role was going to be.
Never complained, not even to me, And you know, I'm guilty.
I complained to him about my stuff, so you know,
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I understand sometimes you need an outlet. But he never
complained once and was just so grateful for the opportunity
and took his role and made it the best he could.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
He made a comment at the end of the season
where it was to the effect of I went from
fairly dick since to the University of Kentucky, and that
really just as a big time Kentucky fan, you know this,
that really just put a smile on my face to
hear that, and just how grateful he was being here
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and seeing how the fans tuck to him. Has this
been overwhelming to you and Annsley or has it just
been rolling with the punches and just so laid back,
because that's the way you all come up to me.
It's just really laid back, take it all in and
enjoying every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, we're definitely just chill, trying to embrace everything, not
really you know, try to live in the moment not
think about the future. So I think I don't think
it was really overwhelming. It kind of just like everything
was so positive. I feel like if it would would
have been the other way around, I can't speak to that,
I would have been a different story. But you know,
everyone was so positive and really embraced us as a
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couple and you know his career as well. So I
just think, you know, they just made it so easy
to feel comfortable here. So it definitely wasn't overwhelming at all.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So what kind of lies a hand for you all? Now?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So right now, actually Tuesday, we're both leaving Kentucky Sadley
Andley is going to go meet up with his new
agent to pursue training hopefully before the draft and all that.
Get some workouts in and I am going to be
going to SCU to walkome my graduation, and then I'll
be back in like intend to drive back to California
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and we'll we'll meet again when he finds where he's
going to go permanently.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Miss Fleur is, I got a question, and I always
I don't have I'm not a journal I don't have
a journalist background, and asking all these questions I asked
the questions as an athlete that I like to answer
because it's not sports related at all. Will you ever
watch Pop the Balloon to Final Loves? Everybody's watched it
this point right, No? Yeah, yeah, well with her and
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I have, So you guys haven't been quiet? Okay, this
is my question, and this is I've been willing to
ask this the whole time you've been on, but I
had to wait till we get through all the.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Meet and grits. You were five too, he's six seven.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
All those people always say, well you are too tall,
the girls that are like five foot under under five six. Obways,
you're too tak What was the meeting like between you?
Did you approach him? If you approach a six seven guy,
that tells me something about you. But if he approached you,
then I understand just because he's a six seven athlete,
but who approached to.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It was kind of mutual. We had six am list
at the same time, and so, you know, we were
both tired and sluggish, and then we kind of started
texting on social media and all of that. And then
actually the first time we ever talked in person, we
were both well. I was walking into our athletic building.
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He was walking out and he I was like, I
said hi to him, and he had his headphones on,
so he didn't hear me. He kept walking, so I
was like, oh, so you're not going to say hi
to me. Then he takes it off. He's like, oh,
why didn't. Yeah, so that's how that happened. And then
I actually do interviewing. So I had him on for
an interview for our athletic department and stuff, and that
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video was actually still up, so I'll have to send
it to you guys later so you can see it.
But yeah, that's you know, he initiated texting, but that
was the first time we ever like talked in person.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, it seems like it worked very very well. Again,
tell folks how they can get in touch with you.
They'd like to help be part of your magazine project
like Anthony White's going to be. Remind folks one more
time how they can get in touch with you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Andrea, Yeah, definitely. Social media is a big one. My
Instagram is Andrea Renee. It's in Angley's bio, so you
know you can always DM me. I will answer. My
Twitter is Andrea Flores twenty one. I'm very active on there,
so please dm me whenever. I will always get back
to you and my email which is Andrea Flores at
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best Version Media dot com. But really, anyway you could
find me, I will respond to you and hopefully we
can connect and honor some of your graduates.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well hopefully, So to thank you very much for being
with us morning. All you've got to get in to
go to church, so we appreciate that. Say a little
prayer for all of us when you're there, if you will.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Absolutely, you guys are amazing. Thank you so much, and
thank you for treating Angley and I with the utmost
kindness and embracing us and making us family really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, yes, yes, ma'am, no problem at all there, So
stay with us here. We'll be back on Stockyards Bank,
Sunday morning sports talk because we take a break here
on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Now I know this song and like this song. Bo,
You've done a good job with the Mother's songs this morning.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Considering what I've been through earlier this morning. Nobody should
can play about the music.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, no, they won't, that's for sure at all, and
appreciate it. Andrea Flores joining us there for a lo
bit and glad Anthony. I sent you some contact information
for her, so hopefully that'll work out with you, that
you could help her with their magazine project there a
little bit. But just sorry we didn't get a chance
to get to know her a little bit earlier this season,
because she would have been a good guest have had
on a few times during the season with us.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Oh yeah, she's great, man. I like her content, I
like her harden.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
And I left out a little bit and it kind
of reminds me of when she was talking about Annsley
coming here and her company as an attachment, like nobody
really has to like you or whatever, when I brought
up before and I say this, a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I was raised up a big tag kid, and I.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Brought up the Ray Door was the reason I wound
up coming to Kentucky because of his recruitment tactics, my
mother and the way that the Big Blue Nation treated
me and my mother.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
And that's why my mother loves it. Now.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
She want the only reason my mom wants to come
back to Kentucky and so that people can treat I'm.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Like, Mom, I've been out of college.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
For twenty five years, by nobody cared she you know,
do you know Anthony White And a lot of people
tell her no.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Now I'm like, oh my god, you know Tim Coucher.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
But the point is when she when she brought up
it kind of reminds me of you know, she's an
extension of Annsley. That they appreciated her, and I'm sure
that made her extremely more comfortable being here because you
move it. He's from the he's from the East Coast,
she's from the West Coast. Just that difference in general,
and they both met in the middle. So uh so,
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like I said, it was really neat talking to her,
But I did like that part of the story where
she she appreciates Big Blue Nation, so big Blue Nation.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Keep doing what you're.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Doing, absolutely and also and hopefully some folks will maybe
reach out to her or some information for a magazine
story there and all little give her a chance to
kind of spread spread some good news about a lot
of folks right there.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah, it's kind of unique to it because you know, well,
you were born in the what you were born with
the eighties, seventies, eighties, I was born in I was
born in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I was born in the seventies as well.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
There you have one or two publications of people you
have to go through, but you know, for her to
do it, and you know, I like, as I.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Stated to her, I work in the.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I turned to school realm, So it's not like you're
dealing with twelve hundred and sixteen hundred two thousand kids.
It's one hundred two hundred kids and there are that
way because or the numbers.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Are that low, because they need a unique support. So
I just feel like.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
It I think they would they would appreciate a whole
lot more, I think than a two thousand student school would.
And then that's why I said, if I would have
known earlier, because I am involved in some of those projects,
I thought that it could have been more, Luci, we
could have been And then that's why I ast her
to turnaround. She says, it's quick, she's getting her feet
on the ground. You know, starting off with a smaller
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project may may help her a lot more. I just want,
you know, my kids to be happy and if we
can help her, and they know it's connected the UK
Athletics and basketball.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
At the end of the day, shoot man, yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You dropped the ball, Larry, You dropped Santa Claus on
Mother's Day. You doing nothing but miracles on Mother's Day. Yo, yo, yo,
My mom is gonna be proud of you, Larry. But
I tell you that I'm proud of you. She'll be
proud of all the stuff you've accomplished already this morning
by eleven thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And again I didn't find out about this till about
a week ago with Andrea, And again I wish I'd
have known more. Maybe come do a little bit more
to try to help her too. But you do remember
that last year, right after about this time a year ago,
right after Ansley committed to Kentucky and I reached out
to him, just asked him, hey, would you like to
be on radio with us on Sunday morning and boom.
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He got back with me like boom immediately, and we
had him on like three days after he committed. He
jumped down here with us, which, as you know, is
kind of a rare to get somebody, especially on the
basketball side, to do something like that that quick. But
remember just how excited he was just to be coming,
and just want to tell everybody about that.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
How can you not pull for people like that excited
to be thrown into this pressure cooker of Kentucky basketball.
You have a new coach, new teammates, You're in a
new environment, and like I just said, with Andrea, just
picking up and moving here and then tackling this project
and meeting them and how nice they are, I'm pulling
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for them one hundred percent. I am a fan of
both of them, regardless of what he did on the court,
but what she is doing off the court and his personality,
I'm pulling for him. They got a fan from me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, I think that's what she did. At age seventeen
or eighteen's she's out in the Los Angeles area, picks
up and goes to Farley Dickinson to play softball. She's
there for three years, then suffers a major knees major
knee injury, then comes to Lexi with her boyfriend and
just as outgoing as she can be. So just a wonderful,
wonderful story. Stay with us here on Stockyards Bank Sunday
morning Sports Talk. When we come back, I'm gonna have
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break have Anthony break down a little more UK football
for us.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty wlap Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Another great song choice here. BO appreciate that, so Anthony.
I forgot to mention earlier that this week I had
a really fun couple of days out of champions Trace
when I went out and volunteered as a scorekeeper for
the NCAA Regional women's golf tournament. Out there watched some
incredible players, a two number one ranked amateurs in the country,
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both play for Florida State. And to watch those college golfers,
how far they could hit it, how accurate they were,
how friendly they were on the course, that when they
would talk with you, was really really a lot of fun.
So really enjoyed that. And then this Saturday or Friday
and Saturday. But on Saturday, I'm going to be volunteering
at the Run the Bluegrass. Were working at one of
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the water stops out on the course on that thirteen
mile hallacious run. I'm so glad to be handing out
water instead of participating in so but could still use
kind of a partner somebody kind of helped me on
my waterstop committee or stand on Saturday. You just reach
out and let me know we've got a spot for somebody.
But again, just some fun things to go do. And
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when you have a change, a lot of volunteer opportunities.
Here in the city of Lexington in Kentucky to Anthony.
Where's that at Larry It's at the Talent or Talot
Talent Winery and it's talent out of kind off Tates
Creek Road. I almost get lost getting there, and then
I really get lost trying to get out to my
water station. It's six am on or six thirty am
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on Saturday morning in the dark, back there on the road,
trying to find where I'm going. So but I'll get there,
but it'd be fun. It's it's nice. For so many years,
so many people when I was running events did that
kind of thing for me. And now that I'm not
quite as able to run as fast or as far
as what I did. I thought maybe it's time to
kind of be a volunteer and to give back. So
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that's what I've been doing for the last couple of years.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
When you, oh, okay, when you said I was, I
thought you were inviting me to volunteer. But I know
you invite anybody who wants, so I thought you were
kind of because you led into it with me, so
I was trying. I was trying to forget when you
said six am, Man, my back is a little sore
on my Hammi's a little tight man.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't think I can. I know, I don't know
if I'm to be able to make it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Coach, Yeah, I knew you were out at six am.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I knew that would if it's six pm, I think
I could probably count on you. But six am, I
knew that wouldn't be your strong and trust me, that's
not the strong suit for a lot of people because
that means I had to leave home but five point
fifteen that morning to get there and do it. But
it's nice to give back for all the people that
have helped helped me do it. I'm still hoping I
can do my ten miles in the Great Smoky Mountains
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in November.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
But we'll see how the body holds up.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I know you'll just you'll be just fine.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You've been doing it for years, man, As long as
you've been running and continue to run, I'm absolutely surprised.
I got to work my tail off to getting back
into shape. And I just turned forty eight.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
When I turned forty eight, just a che.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Ago, just a child, just a child at Allso but it's.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Hurting me to run it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You get up and do it on your own cognizance, like, Hey,
you know what, I'm just gonna go out and run.
You know who's not gonna just wake up one day
and say I'm just gonna go out and run. That's
gonna be all my running to my teams in my twenties, Larry, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well you're in your miles, then that's exactly right. And also,
so speaking of not just running, but do talk about receiving.
When I keep looking at this Kentucky football roster, Anthony,
you're going to kind of help me a little bit
because I think I think my math is right. When
I went through and looked at the last most up
todate roster. I could find there's forty players on the
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roster that were on the team last year, but only
fourteen of those players are offensive players. Of course, maybe
when you go four and eight only evan fourteen back
is good. But is that small number? Does that concern
you out there's only fourteen players on the offensive side
of the ball, or even on the roster last year.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
That still remains to be seen. I think it's a
good thing.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I think it's a good thing because I know some
of the coaches, and I know some of the headaches
some of the coaches went through last year. Brad White
and here and here's where you started with, Larry. I
know you're asking about offense. But Brad White has been
consistent at what he does. I can tell you at
any game why Brad whiteya what he's gonna do, why
he's doing this on any circumstance in the game, and
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the fans know how Brad White is going to It
may be conservative at some points, it may be aggressive
at the right time because he has the right personnel
for the right down the distance. Offensively, I have, and
I'm an offensive guy, Larry, I have not been able
to tell you probably for the past six years.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
What's gonna happen? You throw a bubble.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Screen on third and nine, Craig, he's staying out there.
I mean, there's certain guys you can pick up Randall
copp There's certain guys who can pick up a third
and nine on the screen, Quentin McCord. So I do
think the turnover is good for me because I thought
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I saw us losing grip of the culture big Big
Blue Nations, saw us.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Losing grip of the culture.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
And I think Mark Steups got put on the hot
seat and he wanted to regain grip of the culture.
Now can't he do it? He's in the same boat
as as Rachel Losson. He's probably had a little more
success than Rachel. But I think Rachel addressed her issues
and she went vocal about it.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Hers I don't.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I don't think Mark Stoups really realizing that the fan
base started speaking up and you know, people started being upset.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And I think he was upset at the four and
eight season.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I'm he ain't want he won less than uh well,
four games was two was his first year?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
What was the second year? Two games as well? Over
that five and seven.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I believe that was the five what I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yeah, I think you want to and tend to five
and seven. Five and seven.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Then then he started, So that would be his second
worst season since he's been here, and we accuse it,
and we assessed the first season to the previous coaching regime.
So I say all that to say all the focus
they are putting. We brought a tight end, and we
brought a receiver from MSU. We are dressing the offense
because I do think Mark Stoups and Brad White are.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
On the same page.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Bush Hampton, I think wants to do the right things.
I think he has a lot of the personnel in
place to do the right things.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I don't think it's a Mark Stukes things.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I just think it's solidifying these positions and at the
offensive line. If you have to have so much turnover,
it's fine. Now I've told you in the past. If
he can get these guys the offensive line to jail
and do what they have to do, then I think
we'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
The receiving core, I mean, you're gonna catch the ball.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You're not gonna catch the ball if the quarterback doesn't
have time to throw you the ball, he doesn't. The
running game is gonna be fine. But I'm not surprised
at the turnover on the offense because I would I
haven't been impressed with the offense. And in some years
now some some players here and there fine, but I
think it's more that Stoops and Bush and those guys
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have the players in there that are hungry to learn
and gonna listen to you, gonna carry out assignments, to
give you effort, where I think in the past we
had some entitled guys who didn't give the effort, carry
out the plans, didn't do off the field the off
field things. So I'm here for it. I don't know
if it's gonna work out in his favor, but I'm
here for it, okay.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And so like when we're talking about receivers. So there's
I think counted that canasy. I think it was thirteen receivers.
I counted that only three of them were on the
roster last year, and Maclin's obviously the bellcal kind of
coming back out of that group along with failure, and
then David Arshington, who played.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Very little last year. So again no no.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Big concern there that you've got out of your thirteen receivers,
five or transfers because I'm still counting Harder Gilmore as
a transfer and counting and then five true freshmen.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
If you listen to what I'm saying, if you're listening
to what I'm saying, listening, it's not a surprise to me.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, No, I'm not saying it in that in those terms.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
I'm saying, it's not a surprise to me if the
receivers are not getting the football, which I think is
a fundamental thing, like we don't have the protection in
time for the quarterback to get them the ball. And
I believe there's some toxicity in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
So when you ask me, am, I surprised that how
many people left? Five left?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Five probably left more or less more so than I
believe the quarterback's ability to get them the ball.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I think it was a toxicity in the locker room.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
And I think the toxicity in the locker room left,
So the fact that they left, I think is additioned
by some traction. But you don't have the same talent
you have, but you do have guys who are gonna
get out there and you know, do what you carry
out your assignment they're gonna block on run players, they're
gonna block on screenplays.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
They're gonna catch the ball when we need an eight
yard game.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Rather than you want to run whatever route you want
to run, you can only run certain routes. So now
the whole playbook is condensed because you can only run
a limited amount of routes. And then, like I said,
at the end of the day, for me, it all
goes back to the offensive line giving them time. So know,
all these things that are going on. They should be
worried something to somebody, But for me, they're good worries,
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because if we bring those same guys back, we may
not even go fourd eight again. It may be worse, Larry,
because they've already established a stronghold of the locker room
over how the management of the team. Now, let's get
rid of all those guys and bring a new crop. Now,
if he goes four and eight this season or anything above,
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is a plus for the for the reasons you're stating,
none of these guys were playing together. I don't think
they're the same talent level, but I do think that
they can. I do think if they listen to the
coaches and carry out their assignments. I do think we'll
have the team that we've been seeing in the past,
like hard, gritty guys who's gonna fight to the end.
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There won't be any blowouts. We shouldn't lose any games.
We shouldn't lose. But we're gonna be a little bit
more out man, because we lost some talent as to
you know, checking the portum.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, that's that's a fair analysis, I would think at Also, it'll.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Be interesting to see.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I sure hope it's going to be better than four
and eight, but again, I'm kind of like you, I
gotta wait and see. With the turnover on the roster,
I think the schedule is more difficult, even though I'm
not sure. In the sec the schedules, it's never easy,
so I guess it's just either harder harder. And again,
all these other teams have some questions too, so some
of them may be better than we think. Some of
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them may not be as good as we think either.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Anthony, No, that's where I'm at, Like.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
We were whopping up on Florida for Florida may have
turned that corner.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Shoot. I mean, it was kind of like.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Uh when Vandy, when Vandy made the when Vandy made
the turn and they were we were beating up on
South Carolina. So was the anominally that that Florida changed
up on us, that South Carolina changed up on US. Uh,
and then the ringers that we take uh, we take
Georgia to the to the to the wire and we
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lose old mess or or we beat old mens like
I don't know who this team is. Only problem is,
like you said, Larry, we don't have that same talent level.
But if I think everybody carries out their assignments, I
think we would get we would get back to those
traditional wins. We may not get to win over oll Miss,
we may not take Georgia to the final, but we'll
I think we'll get back those games were traditionally used
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to win it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well, let's let's hope you're exactly right about that. Well,
we're gonna take our final break here on stock Cards
Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk with a reminder at this hour,
Sunday Morning Sports Talk was brought to you by country
Boy Bri And when we come back, Anthony, I'm going
to let Bo explain to you why we almost didn't
have a show this morning on Mother's Day and what
a disappointment that would have been.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I've had it happen.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So stay with us here on Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning
Sports Talk on news Radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. We've
had a fun show, a lot of talk about different subjects.
Appreciate Kentucky football quarterback commit DJ Hunter of Knoxell joining us.
Also appreciate Andrea Flores. I guess folks Is called her
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Anthony Almanor's girlfriend, but joined us talk a little bit
about his time in Kentucky, but also about a very
interesting magazine project that she's working on. But more than anything,
enjoyed having Anthony White mother make her radio debut this morning.
And thank goodness she got to do that because it
was nip and tuck for.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
A little while this morning, wasn't it. Bo Robinson, our
usual mister reliable. Yeah, the old WLAP workhorse that was
in here our next morning early in early Yeah, I
got here about six am and everything was going fine.
I had some work to do, thought i'd kind of
get caught up early on the week. Things were going
(33:22):
really really good. I'm moving along. I'm happy that you're
going to be in the studio. I'm happy that Anthony
was going to find some time for us and bring
his mother on. The weather is looking really really good.
And then all of a sudden, I decided to take
my badge that I wear around my neck and put
it on the counter on the tabletop here.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
In the studio.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Ten minutes later, I decided I needed to run out
and go to the restroom. I come back from the restroom,
I come up to the door and I put my
hand down by my chest and realized my badge is
in the studio.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Anthony.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I couldn't get into the studio for about forty five
minutes this morning, and now at this point I am sweating.
I have no clue what to do other than go
talk to security here at the City Center complex. One
of the security personnel. They were nice enough to come
up here and try to let me in. That didn't work.
Now I'm really sweating. At this point, my deodorant has
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expired because it got about an hour before we come
on the air with Sunday Morning Sports Talk. The security
guy has called his supervisor. I've called my supervisor. I
called Billy Rutlichs to see if he was awaken. Just
how the kindness of his heart would he drive down
here and let me in. I'm getting no answers from
our staff. I mean, it's obvious Sunday morning, they're asleep.
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They trust me to do this work beyond time things
like that, not have things like this happen. I can
understand why they are not picking up their phone. Meanwhile,
the security personnel, they had a tag team on this,
so we've got three people on the phone at once.
They're trying to work on getting me in to the
studios here. One of the security personnel who does have access,
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he was nice enough to get out of bed, drive
down here and let me in, and we had about
ten minutes to spare before we got on the air
at nine o'clock. To the security team at City Center,
I can't thank you enough for helping me out. I
am sorry I ruined your Sunday morning. It was all
in the good name of to get Anthony's mother on
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the air this morning. Kudos to our team here because
they really helped me out. And this is not like me.
I'm not one to forget things. I'm not one to
just leave things around. You guys know this. I'm always
early and on time. This was very uncharacteristic of me
to do something like this, and I apologize and that
won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
The ironic thing is if Anthony did him coming in,
he could have got you into the studio.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Correct, That's right, So let's blame it on him.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
He could have been here.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
No, no, I mean just say, because it was ironic,
this is the morning I was going to be here.
I can't help you. That's the first time Anthony I've
ever seen kind of a panic look on Bo's face
when he came to the door to let me in today.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Yeah, yeah, because if we have digital if we have
digital issues, he don't ever panic.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
I'm paniced as hell. Like man, it's different. How am
I gonna feel three hours and we don't know when
he's gonna get you in? Jack On.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
But I that was not what I was expecting. I
was absolutely not expecting. I'm gonna give you two things both.
Someone asked me at work the other day. I was
sad I left my keys on my desk, and they said,
why do you put your keys in your desk?
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Why?
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Most people have them on their lanyard other than their
office keys. And I was like, no, because I take
my lanyard off plenty of times and I lose him
at home, I lose whatever, and it's a whole issue.
So I attached my office keys to my car keys.
I cannot leave work without my car keys, so it's
always on where my car keys are. And she said, oh,
that makes sense, and I said yeah, because I left
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my land in a lot of places when I come
into I almost did that one time, bo, but you
were there. So I always attach it to and Larry
may have noticed. You may not have noticed because you
haven't been in the studio with me often. I always
attach it to my belt buckle, so I mean, I
you know, it has to draw the draw string thing
or whatever. So I always attached it there because, as
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he said, you have the likely, so I never take
it off. I just drawed away from my body and
it goes right back to my body. Which I'm not
telling you anything. You don't know because you've had a
kid a lot longer than I did, But make that
a habit.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Attach it to your body.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well, it's usually been attached around my neck and I
never take the lanyard off. But for some reason it
was bothering me this morning, and I took the lanyard off.
And now I know I will never ever take the
lanyard off. No, anybody, I apologize.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
No, the lanyard is terrible. Everybody takes their lanyard off.
That's the whole purpose of this whole conversation. Do not
put it on the lanyard. It's on my waist, is there.
I don't even know it's there until I need it.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
All Right, we gotta go here, We gotta go, gotta
go play baseball right now. Yeah, I still got to
deal with that too,
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk, coming
to you from the Clarks Pumpin' Shop studio here in
Lexington where it's Sonny. In spite of the recent hur
or hurricane, recent earthquake that we just sayd see, I'm
not used to hurricanes and earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's not word we're supposed to use.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So but anyway, so thank you for joining back with us,
and now happy to be joined by Andrea Flores, a
young lady from California, went to school at the East Coast,
now is in Lexington and working on a unique kind
of magazine project. So Andrea, thank you for joining us
this morning here on Sunday Morning Sports Talk.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Good morning, Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, well, tell us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A little bit about your journey from the East Coast
to Lexington and then the kind of magazine project that
you're involved with right now.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Right, So, I went to Fairleigh Dickinson University to pursue
my football career. I'm originally from southern California, so it
was definitely a big move for me. Unfortunately, my junior
year I found out that I had a very serious
knee injury, but I was ahead academically, so despite me
having to retire from the sport, I played my whole life.
I was able to graduate a semester early, so that
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kind of made the decision a lot easier to come
down here and support Aley in Lexington. And yeah, that's
kind of how I ended up here. And you know,
going onto the magazine, I am a communications major and
I specialized in content writing, so it was kind of
an easy thing when Tim Warren, he is a local veteran,
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reached out to me needed someone to help him with
his magazine. He's not too familiar in that department, and
I was more than happy to help him connect to
the community. So yeah, that's kind of how I got
into it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the project that you're working on now that you
would like help from folks with tell him a little
bit about that.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I just want to find a way to honor
all the graduates within the county. But I want to
reach the right graduates and hopefully have families who really
want to support and just congratulate their family members on
such success, because I think it's really amazing no matter
what grades you're in, whether it's elementary school, middle school,
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high school, and even college. We just want to use
this platform to show our graduates that we're proud and
honored to be a part of their next step.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And the name of the magazine and how folks could
reach out to you to get information to you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
So the magazine is called North Lexington Living. If you
don't really live in North Lexington, you probably won't see it.
But I've noticed a lot of places will happen on
their like coffee tables and stuff when Angeley and I
go into certain establishments, So that's really cool. And you
can just reach me at my email or even on Twitter.
But my email is Andrea Flora at best Version Media
(02:52):
dot com. And yeah, I really would just love to
honor a bunch of graduates. So if you find me
on Instagram or any type of social media to message me,
that would be great too.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm gonna kind of tell folks I think you're pretty
easy to talk to and communicate with because our producer
Bo Robinson said he actually met you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
At a little while back. Tell her about that. Both.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Yeah, she and I apologized, Andrea, I didn't have time
to explain everything when I called you on the phone
a few minutes ago. But do you remember two shady
looking characters at Paul Miller Ford. They had blue hats on,
blue sunglasses, blue jackets. Oh yes, yeah, I know them
very well.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
That was me.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, that was me.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
It was so great. And I'm gonna tell you something,
if you get a chance to meet Andrea and Annsley
saw the earth, great great people to get to know,
and we could not stop talking to them at Paul
miller Ford. Like I really thought Paul Miller was going
to send us out in a vehicle.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We stayed.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
They're so long, but definitely reach you out to them
because they are great, great people to know. And I
love this project that you are doing too. What really
inspired you to do this?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think I think the main thing that inspired me
was just the fact that I didn't really get to
experience my senior year with all of my classmates. Fully,
I am walking next week in graduation, but it just
doesn't feel the same when I haven't been there and
I haven't got to really enjoy that last year of college.
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So I think just having that and knowing that there
are people out there and just show that there's so
much to be grateful for. I think it's just a
way to give back but also show gratitude to the
position that I'm in that even though I didn't get
to experience my last year, I feel like it's still
an accomplishment and people deserve to be honored. No matter
what you're going into. It's not even you know, if
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you're not going to college, that's okay too, it's just like,
just honor you for your success.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Kudos to you, Thank you for tackling this project. And
how long have you been in Lexington?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh? I moved to Lexington in early May, so we've
been here since right before summer session. We after my
football season ended, we kind of took a few weeks
and actually me and my best friend drove to Lexington
with all of our stuff from New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So my point is for you picking up coming from
New Jersey all the way down here and being here
for a year and then tackling this project, I think
it's wonderful. So best of luck with this and now
hope you get a great response.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm sure she will. Anthony.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We didn't mean to cut you off. Earlier when you
want to jump in here, so go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh yeah, I was talking miss Flora.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Is we I worked with Faya County Public Schools and
it's just I worked with the alternative schools, so as
an alternative to going to a one school. Uh, what
is the turnaround for a project? Because I'm just now
finding out about this. Larry Vaught as a very busy man,
or could have told me about this a couple of
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months ago, a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, it was a couple of weeks ago. Because we
are we are month by month, so we you know,
we've been talking about it, and my publisher has been
kind of giving me some names and stuff to use.
So it's a quick turnaround, which is why I you know,
completely understand if we don't get the response that I
hope for. We do have a few people already. You know,
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I have contacted some principles at public schools as well.
But yeah, I mean really just all I need is
a name, the year they're graduating, if they're if they're
in high school, if they're at elementary school, and what
they plan to do their next steps, so and just
kind of equick.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Congrats Andre when you talk, go ahead anything.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
No, I would say, I will definitely get your contact
information because I think that you and I have an
avenue that I think you will really appreciate. It will
be gratifying for you. Again I said, I said alternative schools.
So it's not like you know, the popular graduate is
the people who don't get enough attention or have the
support to get what they want to get. So I
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would like to, you know, to connect with you and
work with you maybe, but graduation for us is the
twenty fifth or sixth. So when we have about two weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Max, okay, well if that I can even just do
a page dedicated to your graduates only we don't have
to do any names. You're right, I'm definitely an advocate
for getting people out there who don't get as much
respect and notice as they deserve. We actually just did
a little segment on Aaron's Hope for friends. It's actually
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at a club in local Lexington for children with autism
who you know don't have plans on Saturday night, and
that is they go and they go with their group
of friends and hang out, play video games and all that.
So that's Steff. This is definitely something that I'm very
passionate about so even if we don't get any grads,
we can just do a whole page on them and
definitely get the word out.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Speaking of graduates, Andrea Ansley went through graduation this weekend,
and I don't think I've seen anybody with a bigger
smile at the University Kentucky as a graduate that Angeley
ammanor I know, So did it surprise you how much
he seemed to enjoy all that or was that the
reaction you were expecting from him?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, it's definitely something he takes a lot of
pride in it, and it's a great accomplishment. Although basketball
is really the center of everything, school comes first, so
I think just having to be able to play such
a high level of basketball will also get a very
amazing degree. That was not easy at all because he
was in the finance and kind of coming here he
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was in business management, so it's a little you know,
they tie into each other and that's not easy. So
I think they're just a lot, a lot to be
proud of for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, the only regret is that I've got that we
only had Ansley for a year, because I don't think
I've seen a guy that enjoyed being at Kentucky as
much as him in a long long time. So what
was it like, Because you were obviously with Ansley off
the court some things we didn't see. What was Ansley
like off the court during his year here at Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
He was definitely just very grateful, very motivated. You know,
what you saw in the court and kind of you
know in the press was really who he is as
a human being, so just always motivated to get better,
make the team better, whatever his role was going to be.
Never complained, not even to me, And you know, I'm guilty.
I complained to him about my stuff, so you know,
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I understand sometimes you need an outlet. But he never
complained once and was just so grateful for the opportunity
and took his role and made it the best he could.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
He made a comment at the end of the season
where it was to the effect of I went from
fairly dick since to the University of Kentucky, and that
really just as a big time Kentucky fan, you know this,
that really just put a smile on my face to
hear that, and just how grateful he was being here
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and seeing how the fans tuck to him. Has this
been overwhelming to you and Annsley or has it just
been rolling with the punches and just so laid back,
because that's the way you all come up to me.
It's just really laid back, take it all in and
enjoying every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, we're definitely just chill, trying to embrace everything, not
really you know, try to live in the moment not
think about the future. So I think I don't think
it was really overwhelming. It kind of just like everything
was so positive. I feel like if it would would
have been the other way around, I can't speak to that,
I would have been a different story. But you know,
everyone was so positive and really embraced us as a
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couple and you know his career as well. So I
just think, you know, they just made it so easy
to feel comfortable here. So it definitely wasn't overwhelming at all.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So what kind of lies a hand for you all? Now?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So right now, actually Tuesday, we're both leaving Kentucky Sadley
Andley is going to go meet up with his new
agent to pursue training hopefully before the draft and all that.
Get some workouts in and I am going to be
going to SCU to walkome my graduation, and then I'll
be back in like intend to drive back to California
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and we'll we'll meet again when he finds where he's
going to go permanently.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Miss Fleur is, I got a question, and I always
I don't have I'm not a journal I don't have
a journalist background, and asking all these questions I asked
the questions as an athlete that I like to answer
because it's not sports related at all. Will you ever
watch Pop the Balloon to Final Loves? Everybody's watched it
this point right, No? Yeah, yeah, well with her and
(11:58):
I have, So you guys haven't been quiet? Okay, this
is my question, and this is I've been willing to
ask this the whole time you've been on, but I
had to wait till we get through all the.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Meet and grits. You were five too, he's six seven.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
All those people always say, well you are too tall,
the girls that are like five foot under under five six. Obways,
you're too tak What was the meeting like between you?
Did you approach him? If you approach a six seven guy,
that tells me something about you. But if he approached you,
then I understand just because he's a six seven athlete,
but who approached to.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It was kind of mutual. We had six am list
at the same time, and so, you know, we were
both tired and sluggish, and then we kind of started
texting on social media and all of that. And then
actually the first time we ever talked in person, we
were both well. I was walking into our athletic building.
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He was walking out and he I was like, I
said hi to him, and he had his headphones on,
so he didn't hear me. He kept walking, so I
was like, oh, so you're not going to say hi
to me. Then he takes it off. He's like, oh,
why didn't. Yeah, so that's how that happened. And then
I actually do interviewing. So I had him on for
an interview for our athletic department and stuff, and that
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video was actually still up, so I'll have to send
it to you guys later so you can see it.
But yeah, that's you know, he initiated texting, but that
was the first time we ever like talked in person.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, it seems like it worked very very well. Again,
tell folks how they can get in touch with you.
They'd like to help be part of your magazine project
like Anthony White's going to be. Remind folks one more
time how they can get in touch with you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Andrea, Yeah, definitely. Social media is a big one. My
Instagram is Andrea Renee. It's in Angley's bio, so you
know you can always DM me. I will answer. My
Twitter is Andrea Flores twenty one. I'm very active on there,
so please dm me whenever. I will always get back
to you and my email which is Andrea Flores at
(14:03):
best Version Media dot com. But really, anyway you could
find me, I will respond to you and hopefully we
can connect and honor some of your graduates.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well hopefully, So to thank you very much for being
with us morning. All you've got to get in to
go to church, so we appreciate that. Say a little
prayer for all of us when you're there, if you will.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Absolutely, you guys are amazing. Thank you so much, and
thank you for treating Angley and I with the utmost
kindness and embracing us and making us family really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, yes, yes, ma'am, no problem at all there, So
stay with us here. We'll be back on Stockyards Bank,
Sunday morning sports talk because we take a break here
on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Now I know this song and like this song. Bo,
You've done a good job with the Mother's songs this morning.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Considering what I've been through earlier this morning. Nobody should
can play about the music.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, no, they won't, that's for sure at all, and
appreciate it. Andrea Flores joining us there for a lo
bit and glad Anthony. I sent you some contact information
for her, so hopefully that'll work out with you, that
you could help her with their magazine project there a
little bit. But just sorry we didn't get a chance
to get to know her a little bit earlier this season,
because she would have been a good guest have had
on a few times during the season with us.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Oh yeah, she's great, man. I like her content, I
like her harden.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
And I left out a little bit and it kind
of reminds me of when she was talking about Annsley
coming here and her company as an attachment, like nobody
really has to like you or whatever, when I brought
up before and I say this, a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I was raised up a big tag kid, and I.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Brought up the Ray Door was the reason I wound
up coming to Kentucky because of his recruitment tactics, my
mother and the way that the Big Blue Nation treated
me and my mother.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
And that's why my mother loves it. Now.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
She want the only reason my mom wants to come
back to Kentucky and so that people can treat I'm.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Like, Mom, I've been out of college.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
For twenty five years, by nobody cared she you know,
do you know Anthony White And a lot of people
tell her no.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Now I'm like, oh my god, you know Tim Coucher.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
But the point is when she when she brought up
it kind of reminds me of you know, she's an
extension of Annsley. That they appreciated her, and I'm sure
that made her extremely more comfortable being here because you
move it. He's from the he's from the East Coast,
she's from the West Coast. Just that difference in general,
and they both met in the middle. So uh so,
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like I said, it was really neat talking to her,
But I did like that part of the story where
she she appreciates Big Blue Nation, so big Blue Nation.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Keep doing what you're.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Doing, absolutely and also and hopefully some folks will maybe
reach out to her or some information for a magazine
story there and all little give her a chance to
kind of spread spread some good news about a lot
of folks right there.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah, it's kind of unique to it because you know, well,
you were born in the what you were born with
the eighties, seventies, eighties, I was born in I was
born in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I was born in the seventies as well.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
There you have one or two publications of people you
have to go through, but you know, for her to
do it, and you know, I like, as I.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Stated to her, I work in the.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
I turned to school realm, So it's not like you're
dealing with twelve hundred and sixteen hundred two thousand kids.
It's one hundred two hundred kids and there are that
way because or the numbers.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Are that low, because they need a unique support. So
I just feel like.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
It I think they would they would appreciate a whole
lot more, I think than a two thousand student school would.
And then that's why I said, if I would have
known earlier, because I am involved in some of those projects,
I thought that it could have been more, Luci, we
could have been And then that's why I ast her
to turnaround. She says, it's quick, she's getting her feet
on the ground. You know, starting off with a smaller
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project may may help her a lot more. I just want,
you know, my kids to be happy and if we
can help her, and they know it's connected the UK
Athletics and basketball.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
At the end of the day, shoot man, yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You dropped the ball, Larry, You dropped Santa Claus on
Mother's Day. You doing nothing but miracles on Mother's Day. Yo, yo, yo,
My mom is gonna be proud of you, Larry. But
I tell you that I'm proud of you. She'll be
proud of all the stuff you've accomplished already this morning
by eleven thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And again I didn't find out about this till about
a week ago with Andrea, And again I wish I'd
have known more. Maybe come do a little bit more
to try to help her too. But you do remember
that last year, right after about this time a year ago,
right after Ansley committed to Kentucky and I reached out
to him, just asked him, hey, would you like to
be on radio with us on Sunday morning and boom.
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He got back with me like boom immediately, and we
had him on like three days after he committed. He
jumped down here with us, which, as you know, is
kind of a rare to get somebody, especially on the
basketball side, to do something like that that quick. But
remember just how excited he was just to be coming,
and just want to tell everybody about that.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
How can you not pull for people like that excited
to be thrown into this pressure cooker of Kentucky basketball.
You have a new coach, new teammates, You're in a
new environment, and like I just said, with Andrea, just
picking up and moving here and then tackling this project
and meeting them and how nice they are, I'm pulling
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for them one hundred percent. I am a fan of
both of them, regardless of what he did on the court,
but what she is doing off the court and his personality,
I'm pulling for him. They got a fan from me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, I think that's what she did. At age seventeen
or eighteen's she's out in the Los Angeles area, picks
up and goes to Farley Dickinson to play softball. She's
there for three years, then suffers a major knees major
knee injury, then comes to Lexi with her boyfriend and
just as outgoing as she can be. So just a wonderful,
wonderful story. Stay with us here on Stockyards Bank Sunday
morning Sports Talk. When we come back, I'm gonna have
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break have Anthony break down a little more UK football
for us.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty wlap Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Another great song choice here. BO appreciate that, so Anthony.
I forgot to mention earlier that this week I had
a really fun couple of days out of champions Trace
when I went out and volunteered as a scorekeeper for
the NCAA Regional women's golf tournament. Out there watched some
incredible players, a two number one ranked amateurs in the country,
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both play for Florida State. And to watch those college golfers,
how far they could hit it, how accurate they were,
how friendly they were on the course, that when they
would talk with you, was really really a lot of fun.
So really enjoyed that. And then this Saturday or Friday
and Saturday. But on Saturday, I'm going to be volunteering
at the Run the Bluegrass. Were working at one of
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the water stops out on the course on that thirteen
mile hallacious run. I'm so glad to be handing out
water instead of participating in so but could still use
kind of a partner somebody kind of helped me on
my waterstop committee or stand on Saturday. You just reach
out and let me know we've got a spot for somebody.
But again, just some fun things to go do. And
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when you have a change, a lot of volunteer opportunities.
Here in the city of Lexington in Kentucky to Anthony.
Where's that at Larry It's at the Talent or Talot
Talent Winery and it's talent out of kind off Tates
Creek Road. I almost get lost getting there, and then
I really get lost trying to get out to my
water station. It's six am on or six thirty am
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on Saturday morning in the dark, back there on the road,
trying to find where I'm going. So but I'll get there,
but it'd be fun. It's it's nice. For so many years,
so many people when I was running events did that
kind of thing for me. And now that I'm not
quite as able to run as fast or as far
as what I did. I thought maybe it's time to
kind of be a volunteer and to give back. So
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that's what I've been doing for the last couple of years.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
When you, oh, okay, when you said I was, I
thought you were inviting me to volunteer. But I know
you invite anybody who wants, so I thought you were
kind of because you led into it with me, so
I was trying. I was trying to forget when you
said six am, Man, my back is a little sore
on my Hammi's a little tight man.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't think I can. I know, I don't know
if I'm to be able to make it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Coach, Yeah, I knew you were out at six am.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I knew that would if it's six pm, I think
I could probably count on you. But six am, I
knew that wouldn't be your strong and trust me, that's
not the strong suit for a lot of people because
that means I had to leave home but five point
fifteen that morning to get there and do it. But
it's nice to give back for all the people that
have helped helped me do it. I'm still hoping I
can do my ten miles in the Great Smoky Mountains
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in November.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
But we'll see how the body holds up.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I know you'll just you'll be just fine.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You've been doing it for years, man, As long as
you've been running and continue to run, I'm absolutely surprised.
I got to work my tail off to getting back
into shape. And I just turned forty eight.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
When I turned forty eight, just a che.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Ago, just a child, just a child at Allso but it's.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Hurting me to run it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You get up and do it on your own cognizance, like, Hey,
you know what, I'm just gonna go out and run.
You know who's not gonna just wake up one day
and say I'm just gonna go out and run. That's
gonna be all my running to my teams in my twenties, Larry, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well you're in your miles, then that's exactly right. And also,
so speaking of not just running, but do talk about receiving.
When I keep looking at this Kentucky football roster, Anthony,
you're going to kind of help me a little bit
because I think I think my math is right. When
I went through and looked at the last most up
todate roster. I could find there's forty players on the
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roster that were on the team last year, but only
fourteen of those players are offensive players. Of course, maybe
when you go four and eight only evan fourteen back
is good. But is that small number? Does that concern
you out there's only fourteen players on the offensive side
of the ball, or even on the roster last year.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
That still remains to be seen. I think it's a
good thing.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I think it's a good thing because I know some
of the coaches, and I know some of the headaches
some of the coaches went through last year. Brad White
and here and here's where you started with, Larry. I
know you're asking about offense. But Brad White has been
consistent at what he does. I can tell you at
any game why Brad whiteya what he's gonna do, why
he's doing this on any circumstance in the game, and
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the fans know how Brad White is going to It
may be conservative at some points, it may be aggressive
at the right time because he has the right personnel
for the right down the distance. Offensively, I have, and
I'm an offensive guy, Larry, I have not been able
to tell you probably for the past six years.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
What's gonna happen? You throw a bubble.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Screen on third and nine, Craig, he's staying out there.
I mean, there's certain guys you can pick up Randall
copp There's certain guys who can pick up a third
and nine on the screen, Quentin McCord. So I do
think the turnover is good for me because I thought
(25:05):
I saw us losing grip of the culture big Big
Blue Nations, saw us.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Losing grip of the culture.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
And I think Mark Steups got put on the hot
seat and he wanted to regain grip of the culture.
Now can't he do it? He's in the same boat
as as Rachel Losson. He's probably had a little more
success than Rachel. But I think Rachel addressed her issues
and she went vocal about it.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Hers I don't.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I don't think Mark Stoups really realizing that the fan
base started speaking up and you know, people started being upset.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And I think he was upset at the four and
eight season.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I'm he ain't want he won less than uh well,
four games was two was his first year?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
What was the second year? Two games as well? Over
that five and seven.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I believe that was the five what I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yeah, I think you want to and tend to five
and seven. Five and seven.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Then then he started, So that would be his second
worst season since he's been here, and we accuse it,
and we assessed the first season to the previous coaching regime.
So I say all that to say all the focus
they are putting. We brought a tight end, and we
brought a receiver from MSU. We are dressing the offense
because I do think Mark Stoups and Brad White are.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
On the same page.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Bush Hampton, I think wants to do the right things.
I think he has a lot of the personnel in
place to do the right things.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I don't think it's a Mark Stukes things.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I just think it's solidifying these positions and at the
offensive line. If you have to have so much turnover,
it's fine. Now I've told you in the past. If
he can get these guys the offensive line to jail
and do what they have to do, then I think
we'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
The receiving core, I mean, you're gonna catch the ball.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You're not gonna catch the ball if the quarterback doesn't
have time to throw you the ball, he doesn't. The
running game is gonna be fine. But I'm not surprised
at the turnover on the offense because I would I
haven't been impressed with the offense. And in some years
now some some players here and there fine, but I
think it's more that Stoops and Bush and those guys
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have the players in there that are hungry to learn
and gonna listen to you, gonna carry out assignments, to
give you effort, where I think in the past we
had some entitled guys who didn't give the effort, carry
out the plans, didn't do off the field the off
field things. So I'm here for it. I don't know
if it's gonna work out in his favor, but I'm
here for it, okay.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And so like when we're talking about receivers. So there's
I think counted that canasy. I think it was thirteen receivers.
I counted that only three of them were on the
roster last year, and Maclin's obviously the bellcal kind of
coming back out of that group along with failure, and
then David Arshington, who played.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Very little last year. So again no no.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Big concern there that you've got out of your thirteen receivers,
five or transfers because I'm still counting Harder Gilmore as
a transfer and counting and then five true freshmen.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
If you listen to what I'm saying, if you're listening
to what I'm saying, listening, it's not a surprise to me.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, No, I'm not saying it in that in those terms.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
I'm saying, it's not a surprise to me if the
receivers are not getting the football, which I think is
a fundamental thing, like we don't have the protection in
time for the quarterback to get them the ball. And
I believe there's some toxicity in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
So when you ask me, am, I surprised that how
many people left? Five left?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Five probably left more or less more so than I
believe the quarterback's ability to get them the ball.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I think it was a toxicity in the locker room.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
And I think the toxicity in the locker room left,
So the fact that they left, I think is additioned
by some traction. But you don't have the same talent
you have, but you do have guys who are gonna
get out there and you know, do what you carry
out your assignment they're gonna block on run players, they're
gonna block on screenplays.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
They're gonna catch the ball when we need an eight
yard game.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Rather than you want to run whatever route you want
to run, you can only run certain routes. So now
the whole playbook is condensed because you can only run
a limited amount of routes. And then, like I said,
at the end of the day, for me, it all
goes back to the offensive line giving them time. So know,
all these things that are going on. They should be
worried something to somebody, But for me, they're good worries,
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because if we bring those same guys back, we may
not even go fourd eight again. It may be worse, Larry,
because they've already established a stronghold of the locker room
over how the management of the team. Now, let's get
rid of all those guys and bring a new crop. Now,
if he goes four and eight this season or anything above,
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is a plus for the for the reasons you're stating,
none of these guys were playing together. I don't think
they're the same talent level, but I do think that
they can. I do think if they listen to the
coaches and carry out their assignments. I do think we'll
have the team that we've been seeing in the past,
like hard, gritty guys who's gonna fight to the end.
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There won't be any blowouts. We shouldn't lose any games.
We shouldn't lose. But we're gonna be a little bit
more out man, because we lost some talent as to
you know, checking the portum.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, that's that's a fair analysis, I would think at Also, it'll.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Be interesting to see.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I sure hope it's going to be better than four
and eight, but again, I'm kind of like you, I
gotta wait and see. With the turnover on the roster,
I think the schedule is more difficult, even though I'm
not sure. In the sec the schedules, it's never easy,
so I guess it's just either harder harder. And again,
all these other teams have some questions too, so some
of them may be better than we think. Some of
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them may not be as good as we think either.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Anthony, No, that's where I'm at, Like.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
We were whopping up on Florida for Florida may have
turned that corner.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Shoot. I mean, it was kind of like.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Uh when Vandy, when Vandy made the when Vandy made
the turn and they were we were beating up on
South Carolina. So was the anominally that that Florida changed
up on us, that South Carolina changed up on US. Uh,
and then the ringers that we take uh, we take
Georgia to the to the to the wire and we
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lose old mess or or we beat old mens like
I don't know who this team is. Only problem is,
like you said, Larry, we don't have that same talent level.
But if I think everybody carries out their assignments, I
think we would get we would get back to those
traditional wins. We may not get to win over oll Miss,
we may not take Georgia to the final, but we'll
I think we'll get back those games were traditionally used
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to win it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well, let's let's hope you're exactly right about that. Well,
we're gonna take our final break here on stock Cards
Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk with a reminder at this hour,
Sunday Morning Sports Talk was brought to you by country
Boy Bri And when we come back, Anthony, I'm going
to let Bo explain to you why we almost didn't
have a show this morning on Mother's Day and what
a disappointment that would have been.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I've had it happen.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So stay with us here on Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning
Sports Talk on news Radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. We've
had a fun show, a lot of talk about different subjects.
Appreciate Kentucky football quarterback commit DJ Hunter of Knoxell joining us.
Also appreciate Andrea Flores. I guess folks Is called her
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Anthony Almanor's girlfriend, but joined us talk a little bit
about his time in Kentucky, but also about a very
interesting magazine project that she's working on. But more than anything,
enjoyed having Anthony White mother make her radio debut this morning.
And thank goodness she got to do that because it
was nip and tuck for.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
A little while this morning, wasn't it. Bo Robinson, our
usual mister reliable. Yeah, the old WLAP workhorse that was
in here our next morning early in early Yeah, I
got here about six am and everything was going fine.
I had some work to do, thought i'd kind of
get caught up early on the week. Things were going
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really really good. I'm moving along. I'm happy that you're
going to be in the studio. I'm happy that Anthony
was going to find some time for us and bring
his mother on. The weather is looking really really good.
And then all of a sudden, I decided to take
my badge that I wear around my neck and put
it on the counter on the tabletop here.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
In the studio.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Ten minutes later, I decided I needed to run out
and go to the restroom. I come back from the restroom,
I come up to the door and I put my
hand down by my chest and realized my badge is
in the studio.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Anthony.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I couldn't get into the studio for about forty five
minutes this morning, and now at this point I am sweating.
I have no clue what to do other than go
talk to security here at the City Center complex. One
of the security personnel. They were nice enough to come
up here and try to let me in. That didn't work.
Now I'm really sweating. At this point, my deodorant has
(34:23):
expired because it got about an hour before we come
on the air with Sunday Morning Sports Talk. The security
guy has called his supervisor. I've called my supervisor. I
called Billy Rutlichs to see if he was awaken. Just
how the kindness of his heart would he drive down
here and let me in. I'm getting no answers from
our staff. I mean, it's obvious Sunday morning, they're asleep.
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They trust me to do this work beyond time things
like that, not have things like this happen. I can
understand why they are not picking up their phone. Meanwhile,
the security personnel, they had a tag team on this,
so we've got three people on the phone at once.
They're trying to work on getting me in to the
studios here. One of the security personnel who does have access,
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he was nice enough to get out of bed, drive
down here and let me in, and we had about
ten minutes to spare before we got on the air
at nine o'clock. To the security team at City Center,
I can't thank you enough for helping me out. I
am sorry I ruined your Sunday morning. It was all
in the good name of to get Anthony's mother on
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the air this morning. Kudos to our team here because
they really helped me out. And this is not like me.
I'm not one to forget things. I'm not one to
just leave things around. You guys know this. I'm always
early and on time. This was very uncharacteristic of me
to do something like this, and I apologize and that
won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
The ironic thing is if Anthony did him coming in,
he could have got you into the studio.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Correct, That's right, So let's blame it on him.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
He could have been here.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
No, no, I mean just say, because it was ironic,
this is the morning I was going to be here.
I can't help you. That's the first time Anthony I've
ever seen kind of a panic look on Bo's face
when he came to the door to let me in today.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Yeah, yeah, because if we have digital if we have
digital issues, he don't ever panic.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
I'm paniced as hell. Like man, it's different. How am
I gonna feel three hours and we don't know when
he's gonna get you in? Jack On.
Speaker 7 (36:19):
But I that was not what I was expecting. I
was absolutely not expecting. I'm gonna give you two things both.
Someone asked me at work the other day. I was
sad I left my keys on my desk, and they said,
why do you put your keys in your desk?
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Why?
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Most people have them on their lanyard other than their
office keys. And I was like, no, because I take
my lanyard off plenty of times and I lose him
at home, I lose whatever, and it's a whole issue.
So I attached my office keys to my car keys.
I cannot leave work without my car keys, so it's
always on where my car keys are. And she said, oh,
that makes sense, and I said yeah, because I left
(36:54):
my land in a lot of places when I come
into I almost did that one time, bo, but you
were there. So I always attach it to and Larry
may have noticed. You may not have noticed because you
haven't been in the studio with me often. I always
attach it to my belt buckle, so I mean, I
you know, it has to draw the draw string thing
or whatever. So I always attached it there because, as
(37:17):
he said, you have the likely, so I never take
it off. I just drawed away from my body and
it goes right back to my body. Which I'm not
telling you anything. You don't know because you've had a
kid a lot longer than I did, But make that
a habit.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Attach it to your body.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well, it's usually been attached around my neck and I
never take the lanyard off. But for some reason it
was bothering me this morning, and I took the lanyard off.
And now I know I will never ever take the
lanyard off. No, anybody, I apologize.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
No, the lanyard is terrible. Everybody takes their lanyard off.
That's the whole purpose of this whole conversation. Do not
put it on the lanyard. It's on my waist, is there.
I don't even know it's there until I need it.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
All Right, we gotta go here, We gotta go, gotta
go play baseball right now. Yeah, I still got to
deal with that too,
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