2025-12-30- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – December 30, 2025 – Hour 1

Episode Overview

This episode of Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR), hosted from KS Bar & Grill, welcomes special guest Willie Cauley-Stein—former UK basketball star—joining hosts Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin, and regular contributor Josh Teeter. With several regular hosts on holiday break, the crew delivers a relaxed, funny, and insightful hour of banter about UK sports, personal growth, the transition from college athlete to real-world responsibilities, Lexington nostalgia, and more, all peppered with Cauley-Stein’s characteristic candor and warmth.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Willie Cauley-Stein: Updates on Family, Life, and Golf (03:14–13:00)

• Willie on Lexington and Family Life

  • Willie discusses spending more time in Lexington and his plans to move back once his daughter finishes kindergarten.
  • “I'm hoping by this summer that we get a spot out here and can really start our training program and just obviously golf.” (05:39–06:09)

• Golf Obsession and ‘Lit Tour’ Antics

  • The group teases Willie for his golf addiction, with him joking about ‘sandbagging’ his handicap to win more money.
  • “These days, I like to say I'm on the lit tour. The lit tour. Two T's.” (04:48–04:56)

• Parenthood Wisdom and Girl Dad Moments

  • Willie shares how being a father, especially to a daughter, has softened him.
  • “It makes you a little softer, a little mushier, and I'm already real soft… You just start crying…they just make you a little more in tune with your emotional side.” (07:25–07:33)

• Kids and Coaching: Basketball, Golf, and Art

  • Talks about the challenges and joys of possibly coaching his own children in sports, and how sometimes kids listen better to others.
  • Shares stories of tricking his daughter into practicing golf with chocolate-covered Oreos and how he encourages his twins to explore art and music, not just basketball.

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2. Returning to Lexington and Youth Development (08:10–13:13; 45:24–47:44)

• Training the Next Generation

  • Willie describes collaborating with Darius Miller and others on youth training academies, both in Kentucky and Indiana, focused on basketball skills and mentorship.
  • “It was the most, like, gratifying thing watching…a kid get better in 20 minutes. Seeing the dad kind of spark up…was like, oh, yeah, this is fun. I could do this for a living for sure.” (08:16–08:56)

• Personal Touch: Sponsoring a Local Kid

  • Willie shares a touching story about sponsoring a young athlete through his skills academy: buying him orange Harden shoes, a winter coat, and socks.
  • “He got emotional, I had to walk away for a little bit, like, oh, don't do that to me. But yeah… That's what it's about.” (47:31–47:44)

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3. Nostalgia and Saying Goodbye to Tally Ho (20:16–27:24)

• News: The Iconic Tally Ho is Closing

  • The hosts mourn the loss of Tally Ho, a Lexington institution since 1971, with stories of late-night food, chaotic after-parties, and brushes with fame.
  • “Some months, some I don't remember. I remember going in there. I remember leaving.” (22:04–22:15, Willie)
  • “So many fun memories of being in that place in college and even after college... If you went to UK…you've been in Tally Ho at least once and have fond memories there, Willie included, I’m sure.” (21:56–22:04, Josh)

• Crazy Fan Interactions

  • Willie recounts autograph tours, including signing a baby and seeing fans get his face tattooed on their bodies.
  • “I signed a baby, dude. I didn’t want to do it, but I had to… A girl…had my face tattooed on her…She came to the next signing…added my signature tattooed on her.” (24:56–25:19, Willie)

• NIL and Then vs. Now

  • Joking about their old 'Saturn' cars, the crew reflects on today’s NIL era and the upgraded lives of student-athletes.
  • “If you drove by the lodge right now, not a lot of Saturn’s out there… Times have changed just a little bit… You bummed about missing out on that era by a couple years?” (26:03–26:15, Josh; Willie responds)

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4. Transfer Portal Chaos, NIL, and the NCAA (29:43–39:15)

• Transfer Portal Discussion

  • North Texas’ entire starting unit entered the transfer portal; the crew debates Calipari’s stance: one free transfer, but sit out a year after.
  • Josh: “We just have utter chaos right now… NCAA…basically admitted that they're not doing anything right now.”
  • Willie is “indifferent,” sees both player and systemic perspectives.
  • “If the system’s allowing me to do that, why the hell would I not…? Like, if I was playing now, I would go six years. I’m going to, like, be a doctor.” (34:59–35:24, Willie)

• NIL's Upsides and Pitfalls

  • Losing connection as student-athletes jump from school to school.
  • Josh: “These guys that are moving school to school, there's just no connection there.” (34:30–34:49)
  • “It's not the kids, it's the system… At the end of the day, I might not go to the league…so getting the max amount of dollars…well, shoot.” (34:59–35:24, Willie)

• Financial Literacy Lessons

  • Willie gets honest about mistakes after the NBA: “I blew through everything that I’ve ever had. So now I’m…trying to do it the right way.”
  • “They should teach financial literacy…make funds for them so they could put all their money together as a team and go get investment properties and start building portfolios of like some real financial literacy.” (36:18–36:40, Willie)

• Need for Life Skills Curriculum

  • The group agrees UK and other schools need to provide real-world education for athletes beyond media training.

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5. Willie’s Entrepreneurial Passion: Golf Brand “Morty Golf” (42:51–49:17)

• Birth of the Brand

  • Inspired by his love for golf, design, and Kentucky.
  • “I'm trying to start a cult following with this…golf brand… bringing these UK colorways… take over Kentucky first.” (42:53–43:41, Willie)

• Grassroots Growth

  • “No crazy marketing…just word of mouth. I'm just trying to do a real old school gorilla style.” (44:20–44:56)
  • Sold at Kentucky Branded, Golf Headquarters, and other local stores with a post-New Year’s drop online.

• Host Approval

  • Josh: “The first time I saw one of these on Instagram, I was like, oh, those are cool. Literally jumped out at me.” (44:56–45:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Fatherhood Softening You:

  “It makes you a little softer, a little mushier, and I'm already real soft... you'll just be, like, watching the TV show, and next thing you know, you just start crying. You're like, what the hell am I crying for?”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (07:25–07:33)

• Golf 'Lit Tour':

  “These days, I like to say I'm on the lit tour. The lit tour. Two T's.”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (04:48–04:56)

• On Developing Young Players:

  "Bro, it was the most, like, gratifying thing watching a kid get better in 20 minutes... I could do this for a living for sure."
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (08:16–08:56)

• On NIL and Financial Life Lessons:

  “I blew through everything that I’ve ever had. So now I’m…trying to do it the right way…They should teach financial literacy…make funds for them so they could put all their money together as a team...”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (36:18–36:40)

• On Tally Ho Memories:

  “Some months, some I don't remember. I remember going in there. I remember leaving.”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (22:04–22:15)

  “I signed a baby, dude. I didn’t want to do it, but I had to… A girl…had my face tattooed on her…”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (24:56–25:19)

• On Life After Hoops in Kentucky:

  “There's not another place that the fans care about our well being. Like this place. And…coming back and doing what D. Mills is doing…especially for a brand standpoint…there's a support…that can be sustainable…Growing the city is what it's about.”
  – Willie Cauley-Stein (26:15–27:24)

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Important Segments and Timestamps

| Segment | Time | Description | |------------------------------|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Willie’s holiday & golf talk | 04:19–06:09 | Lexington, golf, plans to move, holiday recap | | Parenting insights | 06:46–07:54 | Being a girl dad, how parenthood “softens” you | | Youth training programs | 08:10–09:12 | Mentoring, plans for local training academy | | Tally Ho nostalgia | 20:35–23:23 | Famous Lexington restaurant closing, personal stories | | Wild fan stories | 24:03–25:35 | Signing babies, tattoos, autograph tours | | Transfer portal debate | 29:51–39:15 | Calipari’s stance, system impacts, NIL ramifications | | Financial literacy | 36:18–39:15 | Real-world challenges post-college/pro, need for athlete education | | Morty Golf hats & charity | 42:51–47:44 | Willie’s brand, grassroots sales effort, story of sponsoring a child |

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Final Thoughts

This lively episode showcases why KSR is beloved: deep Kentucky roots, real talk about sports and life, and the character of guests like Willie Cauley-Stein who remain committed to UK, the broader Lexington community, and giving back. Listeners are treated to laughs, heartfelt moments, lessons in humility and growth, and an open-door look at the modern athlete’s world.

If you missed this episode, you’ll come away with a sense not just of Kentucky sports, but of the unique community spirit that keeps the Bluegrass strong.

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[Ryan Lemond]

All right. Good morning and welcome to this Tuesday morning edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. It is Tuesday, December 30th, and we are live at KS Bar and Grill. This morning, we already got a nice crowd of people who, you know, kind of anxious to get out of the house. I'm one of them. You've been stuck with your family for a couple weeks. You got to get out and do stuff. So good crowd here. We're going to be here all day. Got a couple special guests we want to tell you about also, as always, Kentucky sports radio is sponsored by the TJ Smith law office called TJ Ann.

[Josh Teeter]

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Ryan Lemond]

We know with Matt's not here, Shannon's not here, Billy's not here, Mario's not here. We Willie Collie Stein shows up. Let's give it up for Willie Collie Stein this morning. Who got up this morning. How was your holiday, big man?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Man, 87 degrees.

[Ryan Lemond]

Where? It was 71 here.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah. I went from Dallas right after Christmas, flew here and then got two gorgeous days. Play some golf me some, meet some of my buddies, had some good food, and then in 40 degrees colder, the next day was crazy.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wait a minute.

[Josh Teeter]

John, are you shocked that Willie worked in some golf over the holiday?

[Ryan Lemond]

Did he just say he plays golf?

[Josh Teeter]

No, I just feel like my man's about to be on tour at the rate it seems he's playing these days.

[Willie Collie Stein]

You know, these. These days, I like to say I'm on the lit tour.

[Ryan Lemond]

The lit tour.

[Willie Collie Stein]

The lit tour.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Two T's.

[Ryan Lemond]

Two T's.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

What is your handicap? Have you gotten pretty good?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, the lowest I've got is like a six. And then I found that you don't win any money at Being a six handicap.

[Ryan Lemond]

There you go.

[Willie Collie Stein]

So I went on a hiatus of just trying to play golf and not keep score, and I got it up to like a 10 now, and I win. You know, I win. So I'm sitting at a really good spot, sandbagging.

[Josh Teeter]

That shows how much he knows golf. He already knows how to cook the handicap, stand back a little bit, win some tournaments.

[Willie Collie Stein]

You know, I don't know if it's salmon. My game's just not as tight as it used to be.

[Ryan Lemond]

Now, you've been spending a lot of time in Lecton. You hear a lot this summer. Are you. This a place you're going to find yourself spending more and more of your free time up here?

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Josh Teeter]

We've got a few courses around here, a couple places I would love to have you.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh, yeah, some great ones.

[Josh Teeter]

Showing how much he's got to focus on dad life these days. Ryan, did you all have a good Christmas? Did you put some toys together? And are you the one that does the family shopping?

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, boys are easy, boys. You give them a cardboard box, some tape, they're set for days.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Days. Yeah. No, they had a great Christmas. I'm sure they're already done playing with the toys that we got them, so it's always good.

[Ryan Lemond]

Now, last time you were on here, somebody did. Sent me a message. I said, ask Willie about his personal life. Does he have children? We know and married. What do you see for your future? You kind of already got in some of those answers. How many kids do you have now?

[Willie Collie Stein]

I got three. I got a. My oldest is my daughter, Kendrick. She's five, will be six in July, and twin boys, that will be three next. What? February? This February.

[Josh Teeter]

I'm joining the girl dad team in May. You got any tips for me or April, man, It's.

[Ryan Lemond]

When's the baby? Dude, you better get that right.

[Josh Teeter]

Better be ready by April.

[Willie Collie Stein]

It's a great. I don't know, man. I. It's a good feeling. Like it Makes you a little softer, a little mushier, and I'm already real soft.

[Josh Teeter]

You'll just.

[Willie Collie Stein]

You'll just be, like, watching the TV show, and next thing you know, you just start crying. You're like, what the hell am I crying for? But, yeah, man, they just make you a little more in tune with. With what's going on in your emotional side. So I would say enjoy it. Until they get about five, and then she turns, like, five to 15 real quick.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

And you're like, what just happened to my baby girl? Why are you so mean to me?

[Ryan Lemond]

So you're wanting to move up here. They'll go to school up here. All your kids will end up going to school here in Lexington.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah. Yeah, I would love that. Nah, it's the plan. I'm definitely trying to get out here in this next year.

[Ryan Lemond]

What about you said you want to get into your training? Training? Is that kind of your future? You see yourself doing that? Get a facility here?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yep. Working with D. Mills, Honestly. And, yeah, man, I had, like, a little academy, just like a starter. See what we could do. See what would be fun. Like, is this something that I really want to do every day? And, bro, it was the most, like, gratifying thing watching, like, a. A kid get better in 20 minutes. Like, couldn't hold a ball. And then after the 25 minutes, he's hitting, like, three in a row, I was like, oh, I'll sit here for an hour and a half and watch you shoot the same shot until you can hit five in a row. And seeing, like, the dad kind of spark up after. In real time, seeing his son get better was like, oh, yeah, this is fun. I could do this for. For a living, for sure.

[Josh Teeter]

We had Darius on a few weeks ago to talk about the alumni center. Kind of the same stuff, how you guys have went from, you know, being the stars to now training the next generation. Have you done a lot of work out there with some of the other, you know, former players that. It seems to be. A lot of them been back around and helping out with the. The youth around here.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

So you got twin boys. They're probably end up going playing basketball. Do you see yourself coaching them in the future or just training them?

[Willie Collie Stein]

I would. I would coach them. Yeah, I would coach them. It's so. It's so tricky when you have kids. Like, you don't necessarily want to coach or train your kids. Right? But, like, I don't know, I guess I'm in a little different spot where I wouldn't probably want anybody else to train them. But I don't know, there's this. It just depends on how they take it. You know, some kids shut down when their parents try to tell them things, and then some respect it and they understand what's going on. Like my daughter with golf, I can't tell her what to do.

[Ryan Lemond]

Get used to that.

[Willie Collie Stein]

She loves to do it. She loves to, like, go out and play. But, like, I have to trick her into, like, doing what I want her to do.

[Josh Teeter]

Said five to 15.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I'm telling you, bro, like, when we first started, she was really into these. Like, we were in Italy. And I would take her, she's probably like two or three. I would take her to go hit balls with me, and I would have to bribe her with these chocolate covered Oreos.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Smart.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Okay. If you can hit five of them in a row, I'll give you a chocolate covered Oreo.

[Ryan Lemond]

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

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And my, My sons, one of them, Jax, he's a natural. Like, he already has a. Like a good. Like, I don't. I really have to show them basketball things. Like, their mother watches basketball all day long. So I'm like, we probably know they're gonna be Hoopers. Let's like, let's like, let them not be hoopers for their first 10 years of their lives. Because it's gonna be hoops when it gets down to the gritty of it. So I'll be trying to show them all types of other stuff. Music, art. They're very artistic kids, man. They love coloring on my walls and chairs and, you know, it sounds like.

[Josh Teeter]

A young Willie that showed up on campus.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I just let him. I'm like, you know what? We'll paint over it. It'll be all right. Let's. Let's see what you got going on.

[Josh Teeter]

I remember writing those blog posts about an artistic freshman, Willie Collie Stein, showing up on campus on a skateboard. Yeah, something about an apple in a tree there. We kid about the golf and how you're chasing a pro career, but you really are passionate about it. Talking about taking your daughter. When did you get into that? Was it still when you were playing basketball? You mentioned a little bit in Italy there.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, no, it was probably my last. What, three. Three years in. I had. I had started it when I was here, actually, right before I left one of my best friends. Mom is. I mean, phenomenal golfer teacher, does the mental coaching. So she got me into it. She was like, hey, you should start golfing after your career. You can make a lot of money for it. And I was like, okay, yeah, whatever. I had. This is when I had the boot on. So I'm out there, like, eating balls with this boot and terrible form, but it was fun. And then I went to Sacramento, and we lived right by a driving range. And so it became, like, kind of a routine game days. We'd go there, hit balls, chill out, and kind of help me with my free throws. So then I started, like, feeling, like, this connection of tempo and, like, just being, like, in a serenity spot of, like, I don't know, nothing matters in that moment. So I just kind of kept it going. We moved. I didn't pick up my clubs again until I moved to Texas. And when I went to rehab, all we had was a putting green. So we were out there chipping around putting, and I was like, damn, this is kind of fun. And there's, like, a camaraderie about it. And when I left there, my neighbors was like, hey, man, do you golf? And I'm like, yeah, I got golf clubs. We went. Kicked my ass. And I was like, that's when the pro kicked in, right? I haven't.

[Ryan Lemond]

The competitive nature.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I haven't stopped golfing since that day. It's been, like, legit four years now. And I I probably golf more than I don't golf.

[Ryan Lemond]

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

[Willie Collie Stein]

The motion zone.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

What do you call it?

[Willie Collie Stein]

The motion zone.

[Ryan Lemond]

What does that mean?

[Willie Collie Stein]

The eye of the tiger.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Josh Teeter]

Oh, I need to know about this. Yeah, the motion.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

Okay.

[Willie Collie Stein]

It's like, I don't know, what if. If you ever felt yourself in a moment of. Here's a perfect example. You ever been driving around and you drove seven miles and you were like, how did I just drive seven miles? You're in the motion zone. Like, your body's just doing it, and then you realize that you were driving and stopping at stoplights and turning signals and like, you're like. But I don't even remember cognitively, like, driving these last 10 miles and stopping every time somebody break check. And like, that's illusion zone.

[Josh Teeter]

Oh, when I. When I forget some of my golf rounds, I thought it was the 12 transfusions I had, but I guess I was maybe just in the. I don't do that while driving around town. Just on the golf course.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Of course. Of course. Of course. You're on the Littor. That's right.

[Ryan Lemond]

But it helped you. It did. It helped your basketball.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Josh Teeter]

So we gotta get you in the motion zone, Ryan.

[Ryan Lemond]

I know, and I'm kind of fascinated by this.

[Josh Teeter]

Think of this potential we could unlock.

[Ryan Lemond]

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

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Josh Teeter]

Friend of the program, Josh Teeter, a PGA Tour golfers texting in about setting up some foursomes on the lit tour. We'll have to put Willie to the test against a PGA pro if we can set that up. Yeah, he's listening right now. Maybe he gets in the mooching zone on tour.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Let's get him in some more gear.

[Ryan Lemond]

We've got Willie Collinstein here joining us. And we've got another special guest. Wukosh is driving around here somewhere. I think he's going to join us also today, Me, you and the twin towers. The twin towers coming in two seven footers and you and me here on Kentucky sports radio. So we'll take your phone calls as well. Today's your call. If you want to call and talk to Willie, ask him a question. He's here to answer your thoughts and he'll be here till. What'd you say, about 11:30? Yeah, 11, 11:30. That's somewhere in there. Okay.

[Willie Collie Stein]

All right.

[Ryan Lemond]

859-280-2287. We'll be right back. Ryan Drew and Willie Collinstein here on Kentucky sports radio.

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Willie Collie Stein]

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[Ryan Lemond]

All right. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Willie College Stein this morning. Our phone lines are open. Got a couple lines open right now if you want to call and ask Willie a question. 859-280-2287. That's 859280. Katz Clark's Pumping Shop phone number. I don't know if you guys saw the news or not, but kind of a sad day in Lexington.

[Josh Teeter]

Oh, no, I already know what you're gonna say, Ryan. Don't bring it up.

[Ryan Lemond]

Tally Ho closing. Look, Casey's eyes lit up like what?

[Josh Teeter]

Yeah, it hurts.

[Ryan Lemond]

Closing. Tally Ho. Effective tomorrow is closing for good.

[Drew Franklin]

What?

[Ryan Lemond]

Been open since 1971. Did you have some late night? Well, of course. If you're a UK student or you've lived in Lexington and gone out late at night, somehow you ended up at Tally Ho.

[Josh Teeter]

Especially the basketball team. They didn't live too far away from the real spot.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, the OG well, they like this. They've moved around last couple years. Couldn't settle in a good spot. So finally, since. Oh, closing their doors. First time since 1971. Kind of a. Kind of a somber day in Lexington. I believe tomorrow will be Drew, when they shut their door for the last time.

[Josh Teeter]

You know, I'LL admit I'm part of the problem. I haven't been in many years. Once they left limestone over there where you could just walk. Bars, I mean that became an event after the bar.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

You'd see people there at three in the morning, look up, sun's coming up, you're still at Tally Ho. So I admit I'm part of the people that didn't help keep it alive. The last couple years it's been bouncing around here on Broadway. I feel like two or three locations. But man, so many fun memories of being in that place in college and even after college. I wish I had time to get one last hoburger, but I won't be able to make it over there. But anyone that went to uk.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Josh Teeter]

Especially when it was at that limestone location for many, many years. You've been in Tally Ho at least once and have fond memories there, Willie included, I'm sure.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh, many nights. Some months, some I don't remember. I remember going in there. I remember leaving. What was your favorite? Like what's your go to?

[Josh Teeter]

I used to get, looking back at my order that I would be getting at 3:30 in the morning after drinking Red Bulls and beer all night. I can't believe I'd put it in my body. But I would get like the whole burger with cheddar tots and then that wouldn't be enough. So of course I needed a milkshake.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

And then I might look up and see a pancake and suddenly start craving breakfast. So it was the most extreme orders that I would never get at normal time of day for a normal meal. But it was, it was just give me all the calories. Also lots of scenery, the people watching. Occasionally you'd get a fight, but most times people were happy in there. But honestly, a lot of times it was like Kentucky basketball player sightings in there. Willie, I'm sure you've walked in many times and people have lost their minds because here comes the team walking in.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh yeah, no, it's, it's great. I used to get the biscuits and gravy.

[Josh Teeter]

I forgot that was my side item.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Hash browns on top. Oh yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

You go at three in the morning after the bars or when you wake up hungover from the night before, go for breakfast and brunch the next day. That's. I hate, I hate that it's that it's disappearing. But you know, like I said, it's our own fault, you know, if we don't go. Business not as good as it used to be.

[Josh Teeter]

I Hate that it had to leave live. Just the prime location there with bars around. My first year at uk, I lived right over here across the street at Royal X. And I was at Tally Ho way too late one night, probably eating biscuits and gravy. And Romel Bradley was there.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

You know, I'm new to Lexington. It's like my first time having a celebrity sighting in town. So I had Rommel sign my napkin and I took it home to my roommate who was asleep and gave it to him as a gift. Framed it. So we had a framed Tally Ho napkin in our apartment at Royal X from a Rel Bradley.

[Ryan Lemond]

What are some of your fan interaction memories from Tally Ho or being on campus? Like what? Some crazy things you signed or did or ran into somebody and remember we're on radio, so.

[Josh Teeter]

Radio.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's true.

[Willie Collie Stein]

You know, on campus, not too. Too much crate. Just a lot of pictures. Them signings get crazy, though. When we went on them autograph tours, that was probably the coolest thing that I been a part of. Just like pulling up to a random place. I've never been in Kentucky and there's thousands of people waiting out.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Wrapped around the block. I'm like, oh, this is. This is crazy. This is what it's about. And then, like, genuinely, like, caring about each person that walks through. Like, I think that was probably the coolest thing to me was like really having like that 30 second interaction with the person coming through and they want to tell you everything in that 30 seconds and you're just trying to hold it in there like, dude, I really like what you got going on. And person has me sign their baby.

[Ryan Lemond]

After you signed a baby on a baby?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Dude, I signed a baby, dude. I didn't want to do it, but I had to do it just based off the movie, right? I'm like, yeah, I'll sign the baby, but I don't feel comfortable about signing your kid right now. And I had a couple people get, like, my face tattooed on their thigh.

[Josh Teeter]

I was about to bring that. I have pictures on my phone because that guy came to our show, he had it on his thigh.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Josh Teeter]

Other than those tattoos that we remember and signing a baby, any other crazy stories?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh, man, I. There's probably a lot of them that.

[Josh Teeter]

Remember one of your teammates. Wasn't there someone like licking Devin Booker's car? That was weird.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh, there was Liquors.

[Josh Teeter]

It was liquors. Was your car okay?

[Willie Collie Stein]

I don't think they wanted to lick that Saturn, man.

[Josh Teeter]

Saturn?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah. He had a nice little like, what do you have a challenger or something? Like, yeah, you know, look at the challengers a lot. I'd rather make a challenger than a Saturn view.

[Josh Teeter]

If you drove by the lodge right now, not a lot of Saturn's out there. Times have changed just a little bit. It's a, it's a, it's a nice new parking lot with some, some fancy vehic. You bummed about missing out on that era by a couple years?

[Willie Collie Stein]

I think about it every day. I'm like, how, how can I still get it? Yeah, how can I? So that's why I started the golf brand. Like, that's why I'm like trying to like come back out here and really work. Because I mean it's just the opportunity to really like, especially for a brand standpoint, like there's not another place that the fans care about our well being. Like this place. And like they want to attach to the culture that you're bringing and you want them to be a part of your culture. So like coming back and doing what D. Mills is doing and doing what I'm doing, I hope more guys like you see Aaron's coming back more. I hope more guys like realize like the opportunity of life after basketball here, it's booming. Like you can start businesses out here and you know, you got a support like that that can be sustainable out here. And growing this culture is what it's about. Growing the city is what it's about. So that's where I've been at since I've entered my 30s. It's just like, how can I, how can I make the community better and how can I like give back to the, to the youth?

[Ryan Lemond]

He acts like he's an old man. He's in his 30s. Do you hear that? Just setting up now that I'm in my 30s.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

So. All right, we'll take a break, come back, take some phone calls. 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's Puppy Shop phone number. You want to call and ask Willie a question? If you ever saw Willie at tally ho at 3 o' clock in the morning. What? Did Willie sign for you?

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, we want to hear some of that. Yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

Some stories of I Miss that girl in there. Scream out the orders like I got a swiss burger for Steven.

[Ryan Lemond]

She's a rock star.

[Josh Teeter]

Calling names. The whole virgins. You'd ring the bell.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh yeah. Wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

Rip rip. Take our break. We'll come back Kentucky sports radio. Alright, welcome back Kentucky Sports radio. We mentioned earlier that Matt, Shannon, Billy and Mario all off this week with the holidays. So Ryan and Drew holding down the fort.

[Josh Teeter]

Unacceptable that they did that to us.

[Ryan Lemond]

But look who we got beside us though. We got Willie. Collie Stein did step in for him though. You know, we definitely had an upgrade.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I love that.

[Ryan Lemond]

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Ryan Lemond]

How about them?

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[Ryan Lemond]

I try to. I always forget. It sneaks up on me.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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[Ryan Lemond]

We're here at KS Bar and Grill where tonight we've got quiz night tonight. Yeah, right. You want to come and participate in a little quiz night tonight?

[Josh Teeter]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

Great prizes. I don't know what they are.

[Josh Teeter]

Oh, okay. Well, great prizes. Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm sure we can say they're great.

[Josh Teeter]

Yeah, it's a good reason to come out. We've all been stuck inside like today. We have a great crowd in here. We all love our families but sometimes we see too much of each other this time of year and you just.

[Ryan Lemond]

Need to get out, get out of the house a little bit and so come on out to KS Bar and Grill and we appreciate all you people coming out here this morning.

[Josh Teeter]

We got some bowl games today too.

[Ryan Lemond]

We do have a couple bowl games.

[Josh Teeter]

Tennessee.

[Ryan Lemond]

They're in our favorite bowl game in Illinois.

[Josh Teeter]

Yeah, they just played at basketball in Nashville a few weeks ago. Now they're playing football that's crazy.

[Ryan Lemond]

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

[Josh Teeter]

Well, I agree. I think everyone seems to agree. We just have utter chaos right now. And the ncaa, I don't know if you saw, gave a statement to Jeff Goodman yesterday about this NBA stuff and got. They're basically like, we can't do anything about it. Like we need help. Like they're just getting sued left and right and they've thrown their hands in there and basically admitted that they're not doing anything right now. And I don't know if you saw it, but last night your boy Cal went on a great rant. I watched it twice. I was gonna make a note to play it here, but it's like nine minutes long. It would take up a whole segment. But I agreed with everything he said. And he was cooking. It was in a press conference and he's yelling about just how out of control it's gotten. And he's talking about how he didn't call him by name. But now we have Trenton Flowers, who has played in an NBA game this year, is talking about going back to college and Cal just lost it. And I agree with everything he said. You know, he's actually, you know, for some of the flaws Cal has, I think his messaging and all this, he's been right on it. Make him the commissioner, put him in charge of this because he has the right attitude. What you said he thinks you should be able to transfer once.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Josh Teeter]

Or if you have a coach leave. That's different circumstances. Otherwise if you're transferring, sit out a year like you used To. And his big thing was, if you ever entered the draft, I don't care if you're from. Even says, I don't care if you're from Russia, wherever. If you've entered the draft, no, you cannot come back. That should just be a. An easy rule that has gotten lost and thrown out the window, and now no one is even trying to monitor or have any laws around this right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Willie, what do you think?

[Willie Collie Stein]

I'm indifferent.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, I'm indifferent.

[Ryan Lemond]

Because you see it from a different perspective. You are a player.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah. I mean, if they're gonna let you come back and there's no rules, like, why should I want to come back? You know what I mean? I got eligibility. Like, what's the stipulation on that? Like, if you were. If he's. If he's already played a game, then it doesn't matter If I played 500 games in there. It's like, if he can go back, why couldn't a guy like me go back? So that's when it gets tricky. When do you say their cutoff is for a kid to be able to go back into college and finish whatever he's got going on? But then there's a side of it, too. It's like, next man up. Like, you got young kids that are trying to get on and get in that situation that, you know, now there's no scholarships for them or there's no, you know, spots that they can get to a better, you know, situation for themselves. So it's a tricky. It's. It definitely is wild, wild West. But with Cal, he kind of started that. Like, you. You were the one that wanted us to get paid all this time. Right? Now it's happening, and I'll be seeing him. Talk about now the kind of, like, the other side of not liking that everybody's getting paid, and it's like, bro. But it was always been the thing. You always thought we should get paid. So, like, now that you're actually having to divvy up money, it feels a little different that you have to pay these. These kids. But they're professional student athletes now, so it's just hard to. Like you said, the NCAA doesn't know what the hell they're doing. So how do you. How do you navigate this? Like, even. How do you begin to even think about how you. It's a very confusing thing, bro. It's like, I don't. I don't know what you do at this point.

[Josh Teeter]

Cal's big thing was, I'm not trying to take money out of anyone's pockets. He's like, I want them making money. But we've made it to where there's an incentive to go get an international guy because apparently there's no rules. Like, if you play pro overseas now, but if, you know, played in the NBA, that shouldn't be a difference. But he's like, now no one is getting high school kids, and it's taken away opportunities from that senior in high school. And then with the transfer and everywhere, he's like, sure, these guys make money in four years. But Willie, as you probably learned over the years in the NBA, you know, you see that big dollar amount, but that can go pretty quick. And these kids in the pro are in college right now. That seems like a lot of money when they leave. And they have no attachment to these schools. They're not getting a degree because they're transferring so much and they weren't good enough to go pro. They're learning the hard way.

[Ryan Lemond]

That.

[Josh Teeter]

That. That was just a quick, you know, quick paycheck while you're in college. And you have nothing for your future setup. Not a degree, not a school that appreciates you, not a town that appreciates you. Willie mentions, you know, what a good community you have where you can come back to Lexington and set stuff up, help kids. But these guys that are moving school to school, there's just no connection there.

[Willie Collie Stein]

You didn't build no loyalty.

[Josh Teeter]

Yeah, you came by for a year. So that's Cal's big message, which is just. It's, you know, he's saying he's pro, kid, make your money. But also the system is taking away opportunities.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, like Chad Baker Mazar.

[Josh Teeter]

Well, that's the thing. Most of these guys aren't good enough to truly make it in the NBA, so they're cashing in now, but they're getting that mindset that that's going to be there when they leave college. And that phone's not ringing.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

How to budget your money, taxes or anything.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Like, you don't learn that, bro. So then like when you, when you get thrown to the fire, I just, I, I mean like, it's like, I don't know, I, I, I, I get away from it. Like, I'm like, I literally have no idea what this even is. I'm looking at. I'm just gonna put it to the corner and. You put it to the corner. You put it to the corner and your next thing you know, you're like, you know, yo, 70 grand on your house or something. You're like, when did I owe that? Like, what happened there?

[Ryan Lemond]

That is a good point. You know, UK's been. They do such a good job of educating the guys about how to talk to the media, how to handle themselves, but they need to now they're making money, Teach them some financial skills to learn how to handle this big paycheck.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

These guys are making a lot of money, though. They need to learn.

[Willie Collie Stein]

No, they have to learn it. Yeah. At this point now, like, if I was making that much money in, in school, I would have hoped that they would have at least told me about putting it up in, you know, some sort of fun where it's making, you know, every year you're getting 15,000, 20,000 off that. You know, same thing. So, I mean, that's, I. That's the hard thing about it, though. It's like, how do you teach financial literacy without it being a class? Or like, you should make them take a financial literacy class. There should be some sort of. They should do it in high school. Honestly, like, I, I. It just baffles me that, like, you get here and everything's paid for and somebody tells you where to go, and you're living off an alarm clock. And then when you leave here, that's different. You know what I mean? Now you're the alarm clock. Nobody's telling you where to go. Nobody's telling you what to do, and you're, like, just totally lost. You're like, well, shit, I don't even know what to do.

[Josh Teeter]

Where's the manager to come pick up my laundry and watch this for me? That's not unique to student athlete. Not to nerd out on that, but, like, tech stuff that gets everybody. I remember the first time I had, like, what they take. How much of what you know. That's something that should be taught it not just even before college.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's true.

[Josh Teeter]

But it is a rude awakening to the athletes who get that large sum at 19. I remember the first year.

[Ryan Lemond]

Now we're getting it at 18.

[Willie Collie Stein]

18, yeah.

[Josh Teeter]

I remember the first year of nil. There were some stories going around and some players, some here, some other places where it came April and they're like, oh, what that money you gave me, I have to give some of that back now. And that money was gone. That was a rude awakening for a lot of, a lot of people. Probably still happening to kids coming in.

[Ryan Lemond]

Probably guarantee it. Yeah. All right, we'll take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines. Got a couple lines open. 859-280-2287. That's 859-280. Cats Ryan Drew and Willie, Collie Stein. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Josh Teeter]

This is where mindset comes in.

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Someone will be eliminated.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Pressure is coming down.

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[Josh Teeter]

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[Willie Collie Stein]

All right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Willie Collie Stein. Drew and I are putting on our brand new Willie Collie Stein hats.

[Josh Teeter]

I love these hats.

[Ryan Lemond]

Tell us about your little hat collection you got going on.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

You said you looked across the golf course recently and there's some young man had one of your hats on.

[Willie Collie Stein]

What? It was like the coolest feeling ever. My damn. What. What brand is that? You know, at first you're like, what is that? And you're like, oh, that's. That's my.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's your stuff.

[Josh Teeter]

Holy.

[Ryan Lemond]

So how can people order one? How can they get one?

[Willie Collie Stein]

So right now they're at Kentucky Brandon. You can go online. Kentucky branded dot com. They're on there. Type in Willie Collie Stein and it should pop up. Or you can go into their store and golf headquarters in Jefferson County, I think. Or Jefferson. Yeah. In.

[Ryan Lemond]

In Louisville.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, they have them in their stores. 1. This is putting them in their stores.

[Ryan Lemond]

Nice.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I just got a link with Golf Exchange in Florence. They're putting them in their store. So I'm just kind of trying to plant them in different spots and. And whatnot and get. Get the just normal, like, blue collar people in them and like flood our socials with like, you know, just random people wearing it. Like, nothing. No crazy marketing, no crazy. Just word of mouth. I'm just trying to do a real old school gorilla style. I went out to SantaCon, I think, two weeks ago, and we're just out there hanging out with people in the snow, handing out hats and just really trying to build that community like I was talking about.

[Josh Teeter]

I'm not just saying this because he's here. I mean, I would lie to him if I didn't like him, but the first time I saw one of these on Instagram, I was like, oh, those are cool. Literally jumped out at me like, oh.

[Willie Collie Stein]

They do, man, they do. So we got, you know, obviously these are our first colorways that we got. We did a cream and red version in a black and red version for our very first ones, bro, they sold out so quick. So we like tripled the order. The next time was like, I think they're very cool. I think they're gonna get off very cool.

[Ryan Lemond]

Now also, I want you to talk about before you get out of here. You've done a great thing. You sponsored a young man here in town. Talk about that a little bit.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah, David, we. We had a. A mystery woman, I guess, dm. DM us when we were doing our first week of skills of our Brick house skills academy. She's like, you know, for the holidays, we want to sponsor a kid. Do you know anybody in mind? And I was like, absolutely not. I don't. I have no idea. So I reached out to another friend of mine here, which you guys probably know. K. Cuba.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Cuba, yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

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

[Ryan Lemond]

Perfect.

[Willie Collie Stein]

And I got the looking in and, bro, it's five degrees outside. I'm like, bro, do you have a winter coat? He's like, no. I'm like, let's get you a winter coat, too. So first thing, puffer, Nike puffer jacket, right when we pull up there, puts it on. I'm like, yeah, bro, that looks good. Didn't look at the price tag, by the way. I'm like, yeah, that looks good. I mean, you're being sponsored. Who cares, right?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

I'm like, well, need some socks, too. Like, everybody needs socks. So I got them. Like 24 pair of socks, white, black. But by the end of it, I spent like 600 bucks in there. And, like, I don't have 600 bucks. Right? So I'm like. I'm like at the. The checkout line and the. The bill comes up and I'm like, oh, my wife is going to kill me. Transferred the money in there. I'm like, God's going to reward me for this, man.

[Ryan Lemond]

Amen.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Got him. Yeah, amen. They feel good.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, they. They posted some video of it. You can see the. Dave got. Little Dave got emotional.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

One time, you know, cuz you stepped up and did some things for him that he would know. Never have a chance to own a pair of shoes like that. Some hardens and get a. A winter coat when it's freezing outside right now. So God bless you, man. What a great story.

[Willie Collie Stein]

It touched me too, man. When he got emotional, I had to walk away for a little bit, like, oh, don't do that to me. Yeah, don't do that to me. But yeah, it was, bro, this. That's. That's what it's about.

[Josh Teeter]

Your sticker shock will wear off quickly. That. He'll remember that forever.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What? No, you're gonna get it back tenfold. That's how I believe it, like, at the time.

[Ryan Lemond]

You've earned your wings, brother. No doubt about it. Well, we appreciate you hanging out with us. I know you got to head out where you said you got. Going up north, going up to.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Florence for a golf thing.

[Josh Teeter]

More marketing.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Right, Marketing. Getting these hats out, getting a deal there and getting hats out there and. Yeah, I mean, they got some big things planned, though, so I'm. I'm hype about going out there and seeing what they got going on. We're going to be in the golf Expo from the 5th to the 8th out there. Just networking and keep on building it.

[Ryan Lemond]

So the hats are at Kentucky branded here in town.

[Willie Collie Stein]

Yep. Golf headquarters.

[Ryan Lemond]

Golf headquarters.

[Willie Collie Stein]

There's a couple other miscellaneous places around like in trade, on the levy. Cincinnati.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

And then a couple bars there. They got them going up. Like we're just trying to plug them in everything, honestly, just so people see them. And they officially dropped. They haven't even dropped on our website. Said neither. I'm just trying to plug them in stores right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Willie Collie Stein]

But after the new Year's, we officially will drop. We have T shirts that we have with them too. Those will all officially drop on our Morty Golf website. And you can get that on my bio and stuff like that. And you'll see it when, when it's time. But as of now, you can get [e-mail] Nice.

[Ryan Lemond]

Appreciate you, man. Appreciate you. God bless you for everything you're doing, man. Good, good. Catch up with you again. Always love happy holidays to you, you and your family and we'll be looking forward to you. Then move back to Lexington here in a couple weeks.

[Josh Teeter]

I want to get on the lit tour also. Need a partner out there?

[Willie Collie Stein]

No. All right, we're gonna set that up.

[Ryan Lemond]

We're going to play musical chairs. Willie Clyde's not getting ready to get up. Wukosh orb suit. Going to sit down. We come back, pair of seven footers on today's Kentucky sports radio. So Ryan and drew right back. Phone lines are open. 859-280-2287. This is Kentucky Sports radio.

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