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Speaker 1: Seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: It's Arnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. The

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Speaker 2: best news of last night's Pro Football Hall of Fame

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Speaker 2: announcement The doors opening for a local product, Luke Keikley

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Speaker 2: class of two thousand and nine, Saint X, one of

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Speaker 2: five that got the call for more on that. Let's

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Speaker 2: go to his high school coach. We love talking with him.

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Speaker 2: The coach of the Bombers, that would be Steve Speck.

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Speaker 2: How are your lance? I'm doing great?

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 1: Unreal? How? What? When? And how did you find out?

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Speaker 4: The same way just about everybody else in the country.

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Speaker 4: They'd watching the uh, watching the show, and it was

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Speaker 4: so surreal.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, you go through so many emotions when you

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Speaker 4: see you know, he's he's a grown fan now, but

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Speaker 4: I still see him as a high school kid, and

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Speaker 4: you go through so many emotions. And then I thought

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Speaker 4: to myself, you know, we've had what three He's the

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Speaker 4: third Cincinnati high school football player to get into the

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Speaker 4: NFL Hall of.

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Speaker 3: Fame, to get a gold jacket. That is unbelievable because

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Speaker 3: think of all the great players the city has produced,

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Speaker 3: and to have one of three is just it's just

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Speaker 3: so surreal.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, I'm sure that the first time you

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Speaker 2: were around him and you saw him, you didn't think

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame automatically, but I imagine early on you

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Speaker 2: realized you had something special in Luke Keigley.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a meeting. I had a recruiting meeting

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Speaker 4: with his parents when he was a junior, and I

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Speaker 4: was talking about the levels of level of college schools

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Speaker 4: that Luke could play at, and his mom was saying,

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Speaker 4: he really, you really think he can do that? And

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Speaker 4: I made a comment, I said, I think he can

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Speaker 4: play on Sundays.

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Speaker 3: It was but you never know. You never expect your kids.

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Speaker 4: I just compared Luke a lot to Rocky Boyman, and

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Speaker 4: I'm always comparing kids to try to see hey, maybe

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Speaker 4: maybe not, but you never expec back this. I mean,

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Speaker 4: my gosh, what a what a stellar career. I thought

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Speaker 4: the NFL was a year late on it. But I'm biased, Steve.

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Speaker 4: This is the this is the end result. But it

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Speaker 4: is fair to say that this was never his goal

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Speaker 4: or reason for playing to be a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, No, Luke loved the game of football. He

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Speaker 3: played the game because it was fun. He loved it.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I mean to comment earlier, the game

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Speaker 4: loved him back everything you're seeing that the Hall of

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Speaker 4: Fame and the accolades, and he could care less about

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Speaker 4: any of that, but it's because of how much he

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Speaker 4: loved that game and what he poured into it. And

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Speaker 4: that's what we try to teach kids is if you

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Speaker 4: love something, you're gonna give everything you have to it,

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Speaker 4: and good things are gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not the Hall of Fame, but good things are

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Speaker 3: gonna happen if you do that. And it happened for him.

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Speaker 4: And I couldn't be more proud of Luke and his

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Speaker 4: family and his parents and his brothers.

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Speaker 3: And it's just for the community of Saint Jager.

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Speaker 4: I suppoed a community since Lance. The fact that you're

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Speaker 4: talking about this tonight, it means it's it's special.

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Speaker 2: He is, uh, he is so much more than, as

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Speaker 2: you've eloquently stated, so much more than a football player,

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Speaker 2: a person who's a good dude. The Art Rooney Award

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Speaker 2: winner in twenty seventeen. And you've mentioned his parents a

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Speaker 2: couple of times. Obviously that all ties back to and

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Speaker 2: ties in with the way he was raised by those parents.

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Speaker 3: Well, no question. I've said it a lot.

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Speaker 4: Parent I've got my parental hall of fame, and Tom

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Speaker 4: and Eileen Keighley are right at the top of it

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Speaker 4: because they never cared about how much he played.

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Speaker 3: They didn't care if he played. His brother John played

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Speaker 3: for us too, and they said, hey, we just want

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Speaker 3: him to learn and grow and have a great experience.

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Speaker 4: That's all they ever wanted. And uh man, they're Hall

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Speaker 4: of Fame parents. And I've had more Hall of Fame

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Speaker 4: parents than I haven't Lance, and but the Keighley families,

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Speaker 2: Take me back to two thousand and seven State Championship

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Speaker 2: the impact he had on that team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 4: I was doing some I always go back and do

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Speaker 4: cutups of the past year, and I started. I went

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Speaker 4: film from five to six seven, just to see what

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Speaker 4: the He jumps off the screen on a Teamlince. He

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Speaker 4: wasn't even a thought going into that year because we returned,

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Speaker 4: We returned fifteen players that started on.

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Speaker 3: Defense from two thousand and six.

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Speaker 4: Luke was a sophomore and that played some tight end

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Speaker 4: and he had broken his ankle, so he didn't play

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Speaker 3: He wasn't even in the mix. And you watched the

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Speaker 3: film of all these great it was like, no, wonder

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Speaker 3: them people that are good football coach? Well, no kid,

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Speaker 1: Town I had.

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Speaker 3: He was like gonna roll the ball out and just

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Speaker 4: It was on canny how he would track the football

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Speaker 4: and you take it for granted when you coach it.

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Speaker 4: Because when I went back and I watched a film,

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Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, we had no idea at the

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Speaker 4: time how special he was. We knew he was awful good,

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Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to talk with him yet.

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Speaker 3: Not since I sent him a text.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sure his text are just getting he's getting

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Speaker 4: crushed with that and phone calls.

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Speaker 3: But we had a conversation a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: He works. He does some work with Greg Olsen. They

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Speaker 4: coach a youth football program and they.

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Speaker 3: Do some stuff with mental health.

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Speaker 4: And I called him because we're looking at partnering on

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Speaker 4: a project or trying to partner on a project, and

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Speaker 4: it was so funny as you and I are talking

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Speaker 4: about him being inducted into the Hall of Fame now

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Speaker 4: and at the time when I called him, he was

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Speaker 4: just talking about these kids, these young kids he was

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Speaker 3: And it's like that's just who he is. He's not

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Speaker 3: worried about the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Will will you be canton for the ceremonies in August.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd have to. You'd have to cut my arm

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Speaker 3: off for ever my leg. You gotta be kidding me

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Speaker 3: for something like this.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, just to be to know you played a small

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Speaker 4: role in this journey is pretty powerful and I would

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Speaker 4: never I wouldn't miss this.

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Speaker 1: For the world. Man, oh man, what a what a

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Speaker 1: cool story.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate you making time, good catching up and

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Speaker 2: great hearing the stories of uh Luke really really cool.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Lance, thanks for having me on, and thanks

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Speaker 4: thanks for all you do for high school sport in

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Speaker 4: the city of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: It means a lot, thanks to coach.

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Speaker 2: Take care, Take care right there you go, Steve Speck

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Speaker 2: to St X Bombers. You know I was talking with

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Speaker 2: Tom gamble Eer there this morning, Chief First High school

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Speaker 2: football the across our showdown the high school football event,

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Speaker 2: first player from that event to make the Pro Football

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. How about that for a little side note?

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Speaker 2: Seven Pro Bowls, led the National Football League and tackles twice,

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Speaker 2: Defensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL. The Defensive

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Speaker 2: Player of the Year in the NFL won the Buckus

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Speaker 2: Award as the top linebacker three times, twenty four tackles

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Speaker 2: in a game against the Saints, which tied an NFL record.

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Speaker 2: He surpassed one hundred tackles in all eight of his

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Speaker 2: NFL seasons. He's the fifth player since tackles were recorded

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Speaker 2: to reach that mark in eight straight years. Finished with

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Speaker 2: over eleven hundred tackles, eighteen interceptions, twelve and a half

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Speaker 2: sacks from twenty twelve to twenty nineteen. Those eighteen interceptions

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Speaker 2: led all linebackers and named the NFL's All Decade Team

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Speaker 2: of the two thousands plus. As I mentioned that Art

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Speaker 2: Rooney Award for sportsmanship back in twenty seventeen, and heck,

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Speaker 2: you go back to college and it was the Buckus

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Speaker 2: Award and the Lombardi Award. A three time first team

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Speaker 2: All American, he led the Nation in tackles as a

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Speaker 2: sophomore and did it again as a junior. He's in

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Speaker 2: the Larroses High School Sports Hall of Fame, state championship

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Speaker 2: and one of three. Think about that from Evendale. The

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Speaker 2: joining Roger Staubach and Chris carter Man. Oh Man, what

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Speaker 2: a career. Very happy for him when we come back.

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Speaker 2: I'm bummed for Willy and Kenny. Let's talk Willy, Kenny,

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Speaker 2: what transpired and what you make of it? As we

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