Nobody's Safe with Brady Laber
52 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Brady Laber has worked in a bevy of different positions in sports media, and he's bringing you stories and personalities that he and his guests have come across throughout the years. Nobody is safe.
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Episode 45: Episode 45: Thomas More Football preview Fall 2021
September 10, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview of the 2021 Thomas More Saints football team… We also use this opportunity to release the pregame interview that will air on the Saints Sports Network’s “Soon to be Awarding Winning” Pregame Show ahead of it’s home opening game against the Faulkner Eagles. Our guest is the head coach of the Saints Trevor Stellman and we talk about the program as a whole leading into the new fall season. We ...
Episode 04: GLSCL Podcast: Episode 4 - Max McLeary
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBOur the fourth episode of Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Podcast we remember GLSCL Hall of Famer and former Cincinnati Steam General Manager Max McLeary. Brady, who succeeded Max as the GM of the Steam is joined by the current Steam General Manager Tony Brumfield to reminisce and tell Max stories. You can follow the Cincinnati Steam on their website at cincinnatisteam.com (http://cincinnatisteam.com/view/cincinnatisteam) on its Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiSteam) page, o...
Episode 03: GLSCL Podcast: Episode 3 - Bill Montgomery
July 06, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBOur guest on the third episode of Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Podcast is the President of the Grand Lake Mariners Bill Montgomery. Bill helped bring the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League to Celina, Ohio in 1989. You can follow the Grand Lake Mariners on their website at grandlakemariners.com (http://www.grandlakemariners.com) or on Twitter @GLMariners (https://twitter.com/GLMariners) or on Instagram @grandlakemariners (https://www.instagram.com/grandlakemariners/) You can follow t...
Episode 02: GLSCL Podcast: Episode 2 - Tom Usher
June 24, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes - 18.8 MBOur guest on the second episode of Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Podcast is Tom Usher from the Lima News. Tom has been around the Lima Locos franchise since its formation in 1987. You can follow Tom and his coverage of the Lima News on their website at https://www.limaohio.com/sports and Tom’s Twitter account @LimaUsher (https://twitter.com/Lima_Usher). You can follow the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GLSCLBaseball) and Instagram (https://w...
Episode 01: GLSCL Podcast: Episode 1 - Gary Henschen
June 17, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBOur guest on the first episode of Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Podcast is founded and the first commissioner of the GLSCL Gary Henschen. You can follow the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GLSCLBaseball) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/glsclbaseball/) its @GLSCLbaseball and on Twitter it’s simply @GLSCL (https://twitter.com/GLSCL)… Also check out our website at greatlakesleague.org (http://greatlakesleague.org/view/greatlakesleague) Y...
Episode 44: Episode 44: Todd Asalon
June 10, 2021 10:00 - 2 hours - 58.3 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the recently retired head baseball coach at Northern Kentucky University Todd Asalon. This is super sized two-hour long episode where we cover it all. We talk first about Todd growing up on the Westside of Cincinnati as a good young catholic boy that transferred to Oak Hills becoming a three-sport star for the Highlanders. Todd played baseball at Northern Kentucky University from 1980-83 under the legendary head coach Bill Aker. We ta...
Episode 43: Episode 43: Byron Larkin
May 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Byron Larkin who is all-time leading scorer at Xavier University and since 1998 has been the radio analyst for the Musketeers. Byron is part of a famous family from Cincinnati, Ohio that includes four boys that all achieved athletic success. We first talk about Mr. and Mrs. Larkin (Robert and Shirley) and how they had just three rules for their sons when it came to playing sports. We talk about each one of his siblings including the e...
Episode 42: Episode 42: Richard Skinner
May 20, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Richard Skinner who is Digital Sports Editor for Local-12 WKRC and the host of the Skinny Podcast. Skinny was born in Cincinnati and his parents worked for American Airlines. He spent his early years being relocated to New York and Oklahoma before returning to Northern Kentucky permanently when he was in middle school. He credits playing sports and his dad’s love for the Reds, Bengals and UK Wildcats for developing his passion. Skinny...
Episode 41: Episode 41: Trevor Stellman
May 13, 2021 14:15 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Trevor Stellman the head football coach at Thomas More University. Trevor was a multi-sport athlete who’s first love was soccer. He would eventually add baseball, basketball and of course football to his arsenal. We look back at Trevor’s early days growing up around his father the legendary head football coach Conner High School (https://twitter.com/ConnerCougars). Trevor goes into some of his dad’s background that predates his time ...
Episode 40: Episode 40: Bill Aker
May 05, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBOn this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber we look back on the career of the first head baseball coach of the Northern Kentucky University Norse Bill Aker. I take some excerpts from past episodes and some bonus content to remember the who built the NKU baseball from the ground up. Coach Akes was a hard working coach who was a no nonsense guy that has the ability to relate with his players and get them to win for him and the program. We start with former sports information director and lon...
Episode 39: Episode 39: Rick Broering
April 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rick Broering who is the radio analyst for NKU basketball, publisher for Musketeer Report and Digital Content Producer at Local 12 in Cincinnati. Rick knew from a young age that he wanted to maximize his love of sports by eventually becoming a college basketball play-by-play broadcaster. He talks about using a tape recorder to practice calling games starting when he was 11 years old. Rick talks about growing up in Northern Kentucky an...
Episode 38: Episode 38: Jeff Hans
April 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Jeff Hans the head women’s basketball coach at Thomas More University. He has led the Saints to three NCAA D-III National Championship along with a D-III final four appearance and an NAIA National runner-up appearance while winning over 90 percent of his games as a head coach with the Saints. Coach Hans grew up in Eaton, Ohio and went to Wilmington College to study agriculture and be a member of the golf team. He would eventually try ...
Episode 37: Episode 37: Dustin Maguire
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Dustin Maguire. Dustin was the leading scorer for the NKU Norse on its 2009 GLVC Conference Tournament championship team and is now an attorney that has become the foremost authority on the Name, Image and Likeness movement for college athletes. Dustin transferred into NKU after two seasons at St. Louis University. After a coaching change he was told that his scholarship would not be renewed and he was forced transfer out of the progr...
Episode 36: Episode 36: Jim Kelch
April 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Jim Kelch who is a successful radio and television play-by-play broadcaster. Jim grew in Peoria, Illinois which is the line of demarkation that divides the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals respective fan bases. Jim grew up a Cubs fans but admits that he also enjoyed Cardinals baseball because he was such a fan of Cardinals radio play-by-play man Jack Buck. Jim grew up playing baseball but always knew that he wanted to call both ba...
Episode 35: Episode 35: Justin Ray
April 01, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Thomas More University head men’s basketball coach Justin Ray. Justin Ray is from the Westside of Cincinnati and we begin the episode going into pretty good detail about his love and experiences growing up over there. Grade school sports in that predominately Roman Catholic community is very serious and Justin looks back glowingly on his youth career. He attended Our Lady of Lourdes School and played football and basketball for the T...
Episode 34: Episode 34: Jed DeMuesy
March 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Jed DeMuesy. Jed just wrapped up his tenure as a sports anchor, reporter and producer of Local 12 WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jed grew in Massilon, Ohio where football is king. He talks about his dad having a job that allowed him to be around the Pro Football Hall of Fame in nearby Canton, Ohio. After playing high school football at Jackson High School, Jed realized he had a love of sports and wanted to continue with that path even i...
Episode 33: Episode 33: Westside vs. Eastside Pride
March 18, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber we asked a number of people from both the Westside and Eastside of Cincinnati to describe what it’s like living in a sometimes imaginary rivalry that sometimes can get real. The first person we talk to is John Asalon who’s the voice of NKU Norse baseball and the Cincinnati Steam. John sparks this whole subject by being a Westsider who actually goes against the company line to speak about some of the things that annoy him when it comes to...
Episode 32: Episode 32: Mote Hils
March 11, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutes - 71.1 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is NKU Hall of Famer Rick Meyers. Rick joins me today to talk about the first head coach of the men’s basketball team at Northern Kentucky University Mote Hils. Rick starts off with some brief background on the new college being built in Highland Heights, Kentucky and how Mote was hired to be its first head basketball coach. Mote enjoyed at ton of success as a local high school coach first at St Henry and later at Covington Catholic. He ...
Episode 31: Episode 31: Jalen Billups
March 04, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is former NKU big man Jalen Billups. Jalen played the Norse from 2011-16 scorning 1,185 points, grabbing 599 rebounds while shoting 62% from the floor. Among his accomplishments at Northern Kentucky, Jalen scored the first basket in the program’s Division-I era. He was also the first player to score 1,000 career points solely as a D-I player. He set the single season field goal percentage record and is second place all-time for career fi...
Episode 30: Episode 30: "Wildman" Walker
February 25, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 34.3 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Dennis “Wildman” Walker who started with WEBN 102.7 FM in Cincinnati back in 1983 and was a full time member of the morning show crew called the Dawn Patrol from 1985-2011. Wildman has written a book called Wild Man: The Book with co-author Gerry Schultz. He has organized a book signing tour and the initial schedule is at the bottom of this section. Wildman was first noticed by WEBN disc jockey Michael Luczak in 1983 while he was col...
Episode 29: Episode 29: Thomas More Football preview
February 17, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview of the 2021 Thomas More Saints football team. We talk with head coach Trevor Stellman about a number of subjects including how he and his team has filled the time during the fall while they would normally be playing its schedule. Coach Stellman acknowledges that everything is different now with playing a schedule that begins in February. This includes the decision making process of actually...
Episode 28: Episode 28: John Popovich
February 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is John Popovich. Popo worked in the sports department at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati for 40-years from 1979-2019. Popo got his start working at a high school radio station in his hometown of Struthers, Ohio. He admits that his love of sports was not going to translate into a playing career but this opportunity opened his eyes to the fact that he could still be a part of sports without playing the game. After graduating from high school, he at...
Episode 27: Episode 27: Adam Baum
February 03, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Adam Baum. Adam is the daily beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer’s (https://twitter.com/Enquirer) coverage of the Xavier University (https://twitter.com/XavierMBB) men’s basketball program. Adam grew on the Westside of Cincinnati and is very proud of his heritage and we talked extensively about what it is like to be a Westsider. He also acknowledges that there are many quirks as far as how serious people take their grade school ...
Episode 26: Episode 26: Mike "Kash" Kashirsky
January 27, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Mike Kashirsky. “Kash” is currently a batting practice pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and a college basketball official. However, I feel like this audience will be more in tune with his time coaching the Windy City Thunderbolts (https://www.wcthunderbolts.com) of the independent Frontier League (https://frontierleague.com). “Kash” played college baseball at St. Joseph College in the late 1990’s. St. Joe’s was a great D-II program b...
Episode 25: Episode 25: Chris Hook
January 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers Chris Hook. “Hooky” grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky and graduated from Lloyd Memorial High School. He played sports growing up for Dixie Knothole and Erlanger Lions Club but it was baseball that he would develop of love for and make it his passion. After a successful high school career he played in college for Bill Aker at Northern Kentucky University. Hooky was a three-year letter winner as ...
Episode 24: Episode 24: Rich Linville
January 13, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Linville who each night writes the Scoreboard Stumper question during Cincinnati Reds games at Great American Ballpark. Rich grew up a Reds fan on the Eastside of Cincinnati during the 1970s. He attributes his deep love for the Reds from the radio calls each night by the legendary team of Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall. Interestingly enough his favorite baseball player was Kansas Royals third basemen and Hall of Famer George Br...
Episode 23: Episode 23: Kennedy Berkley
January 06, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 37 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Kennedy Berkley. Kennedy was a three-sport athlete at Campbell County High School who went off to Murray State University as a track and field competitor and returned to the Lady Camels as the head volleyball coach winning back-to-back 10th Region championships. Kennedy’s first love of sports was actually gymnastics but eventually settled on volleyball, basketball and track and field. Her dad Nick and his two brothers were all quarte...
Episode 22: Episode 22: Eric Thompson
December 30, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Eric Thompson who is the JV head basketball coach at McNicholas High School and a former team manager for men’s basketball team at Xavier University. Eric has a great story about positivity and inspiration. He was diagnosed as a child with a form of muscular dystrophy called spinal muscular atrophy. He has been in a wheelchair since the age of 9 but it does not get him down or be what defines him. He grew up on the Eastside of Cincinn...
Episode 21: Episode 21: Rich Hoyt
December 23, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Hoyt, a college basketball analyst for both Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University women’s teams and a freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School. Rich grew up in Indianapolis and attended Cardinal Ritter High School. Like most Indiana natives he grew up a huge basketball fan and followed the Indiana Hoosiers led by the legendary Bobby Knight. Rich also followed the Butler Bulldogs and attended many...
Episode 20: Episode 20: Madison Temple
December 16, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the all-time leading scorer at Thomas More University Madison Temple. Madison grew up in Anderson Township which is on the Eastside of Cincinnati so I started by asking her a fun but difficult question. I asked her to compare the Eastside to the Westside since she made a lot of friends in college from the Westside. We talk about her start playing basketball being a teammate of her older sister Haley on a team that was coached by her m...
Episode 19: Episode 19: Tyler Sharpe
December 09, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 36.9 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is former NKU basketball great Tyler Sharpe. Tyler is from Mount Washington, Kentucky and was on the varsity basketball team at Bullitt East High School for five seasons. Tony Barr was the head coach of the Chargers and brought Tyler up to the varsity to lean from upperclassmen Derek Willis, Rusty Troutman, Trey Rakes and Elliott Young. Tyler was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in middle school and he describes how its effected him and hi...
Episode 18: Episode 18: Jeff Hetzer
December 02, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBMy guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Jeff Hetzer the Associate Athletic Director and former head baseball coach at Thomas More University. “Hetz” got his start growing up on The Westside attending Our Lady of Victory parish and graduating from Elder High School. He played on the Panthers baseball team for head coach Mark Thompson. Thompson had just begun his head coaching career at Elder while Hetzer played for him in the early 1990’s. Thompson was former great player an...
Episode 17: Episode 17: Northern Kentucky Norse Men's Basketball Season Preview
November 25, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview for the Northern Kentucky University Norse men’s basketball team. On this episode of Nobody’s Safe we have a season preview of the Northern Kentucky Norse men’s basketball program. This is the Golden Season of NKU basketball, year number 50 and although it's a shame that the pandemic will not allows Norse fans to celebrate the way that they expected. However, we will do the best we as I hav...
Episode 17: Episode 16: Northern Kentucky Norse Men's Basketball Season Preview
November 25, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview for the Northern Kentucky University Norse men’s basketball team. On this episode of Nobody’s Safe we have a season preview of the Northern Kentucky Norse men’s basketball program. This is the Golden Season of NKU basketball, year number 50 and although it's a shame that the pandemic will not allows Norse fans to celebrate the way that they expected. However, we will do the best we as I hav...
Episode 16: Episode 16: Northern Kentucky Norse Women's Basketball Season Preview
November 18, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview for the Northern Kentucky University Norse women’s basketball team. My guests are Matt Sexton (https://twitter.com/MattSextonPxP) and Rich Hoyt (https://twitter.com/CoachHoyt) the ESPN+ broadcast team for the NKU women’s basketball program. We begin the season preview with a look back to the end of last season when the Norse earned its first 20-win campaign in the Division-I era. NKU hosted...
Episode 15: Episode 15: Thomas More Women's Basketball Season Preview
November 11, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview for the Thomas More University Saints women’s basketball team. We begin the show by interviewing head coach Jeff Hans (https://twitter.com/coachjeffhans) about how last season ended, summer workouts after the quarantine ended and breaks down roster and the return of Sydney Moss (https://twitter.com/sydneym40) as an assistant coach. Thomas More began the season with a 94-71 win over the IU-E...
Episode 14: Episode 14: Thomas More Men's Basketball Season Preview
November 04, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBThis is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview for the Thomas More University Saints men’s basketball team (https://www.thomasmoresaints.com/sports/mbkb/index). We begin the show by interviewing head coach Justin Ray (https://twitter.com/JustinMRay) about how last season ended, summer workouts after the quarantine ended and breaking down the upcoming season's roster. Also, we insert his pregame interview in preparation for the season op...
Episode 13: Episode 13: Rick Meyers
October 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBRick went to school at St. Thomas High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. There was a teacher and coach there that gave Rick his first break and turned out to be a life long mentor. That man was future NKU men’s basketball coach Kenney Shields. Rick also attended high school with another future NKU coach Nancy Winstel. Nancy was a standout volleyball player and went on to be a three-sports athlete at NKU as well as a Hall of Fame coach. Rick began as a student at Northern Kentucky State College...
Episode 12: Episode 12: Don Weber
October 21, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBDon Weber is a legendary figure in Northern Kentucky for his coverage of all the local sports teams. He worked for the local cable company which provided programing in a three county radius which expanded to six counties by the late-1990s and early-2000s. This included two colleges, Northern Kentucky University and Thomas More University, and at its peak 22 high schools. Don covered high school sports in Northern Kentucky for 25 years making him synonymous with every school in the area. Not m...
Episode 11: Episode 11: Terry Connor
October 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBTerry Connor has strong ties at Thomas More University thanks to his father the legendary Jim Connor. Jim had a great career in the coaching world before he arrived at Thomas More in 1978. Jim’s greatest notoriety in the Northern Kentucky area comes from his time at Newport Catholic High School. In 1966, his Thoroughbreds team was headlined by Dave Cowens. Cowens would go on to become an All-American at Florida State and later an NBA Rookie of the Year and World Champion for the Boston Celtic...
Episode 10: Episode 10: Drew McDonald
October 07, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBDrew McDonald has a strong lineage when it comes to athletes in his family especially on his mom’s side of the family. It starts with his grandfather Tom Freppon who played basketball at Newport Catholic High School and Xavier University during the late-1950’s and early-1960’s. Tom Freppon had four children and at least four grandchildren that all played college athletics: * Son Tom Jr played basketball at Thomas More * T...
Episode 9: Episode 9: Scott Schweitzer
September 30, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBScott Schweitzer graduated from Campbell County High School in 1998 where he was Kentucky all-state first basemen playing baseball for Hall of Fame head coach Tom Mohr. The Camels were 31-6 Schweitzer’s senior season which broke the record for most wins in a season. That year the Camels were 10th region tournament runners-up to eventual state champion Harrison County coached by Mac Whitaker and led on the field by Gary “Noochie” Varner (https://www.noochievarnerbaseball.com/page/show/4136245...
Episode 8: Episode 8: Andrew Kappes
September 23, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBLike many baseball fans growing up in Northern Kentucky, Andrew was influenced by Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall calling Cincinnati Reds games on the radio. Andrew got his start working in baseball at the tender age of 14 in the summer of 2005 when he started to cover the Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League for the OurSports Central (https://www.oursportscentral.com) website. Andrew gives credit and thanks to Freedom manager at the time Jamie Keefe along with his staff especi...
Episode 7: Episode 7: Abby Owings
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBAbby Owings grew up in Independence, Kentucky where she attended and played basketball at Simon Kenton High School. Her head coach Jeff Stowers (https://nkunorse.com/hof.aspx?hof=7) was a Hall of Fame basketball player at Northern Kentucky University. Stowers took over a struggling program that has become a perennial contender for the 8th Region title by the time Abby became the staring point guard as a freshman in 2010-11. Abby credits Simon Kenton assistant coach Loretta Olmstead with helpi...
Episode 6: Episode 6: John Asalon (Part 2)
September 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBBrady and John pick up their conversation talking about John’s time as a sports talk radio show personality. It begins innocently enough when John is catering food to the station and ends up with him getting on the air. John gives credit to Mark Amazon and Dennis “Wild Man” Walker for giving him his break. He also talks about some debauchery that takes place in the studio thanks to The Wild Man. Through his friendship with Wild Man, John was able to also fill-in as the public address announce...
Episode 5: Episode 5: John Asalon (Part 1)
September 02, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBBrady welcomes John to the podcast and John talks about his growing up in the “Westside” which sparks a lengthy conversation about the demographics and makeup of this large neighborhood on the western side of Cincinnati, Ohio. This discussion moves toward John’s high school alma mater Elder High School (https://www.ehsports.com). Elder is one of the most tradition filled programs in America let alone Cincinnati and John talks about the fierce loyalty shown by people who still life vicariously...
Episode 4: Episode 4: Randy Gore
August 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBBrady welcomes Randy Gore to the podcast and they talk about his upbringing in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Randy talks about growing up a Pirates/Steelers/Penguins fan. In fact, he was born in 1979 when the Pirates and Steelers had won world championships in during that calendar year. Randy attended and graduated from Waynesburg University (https://waynesburgsports.com) where he majored in Communications with an emphasis on Sports Broadcasting. He describes the practica...
Episode 3: Episode 3: Matt Sexton
August 19, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes - 29.8 MBMatt talks about how he was able to land the job of television play-by-play announcer for Northern Kentucky University. At first he was assigned men’s and women’s soccer and then added women’s basketball to his schedule. Matt talks about his beginnings in the media business as a reporter for the Wilmington News Journal (https://www.wnewsj.com) as a high school student under the tutelage of sports editor Mark Huber. Matt and Brady talk about the willingness to work for free in order get a foo...
Episode 2: Episode 2: Brad Redford
August 12, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes - 31.1 MBOn this edition of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber, Brady’s guest is former Xavier University “sharpshooter” and television analyst for Northern Kentucky University Brad Redford. Brad talks about his hometown of Frankenmuth, Michigan and how it’s not only the Christmas retail store capital on the world it’s also the home of his favorite family owned restaurants, Zehnder’s (https://www.zehnders.com/zehnders-dining-frankenmuth/) and the Bavarian Inn (https://bavarianinn.com/dine/). The Redford f...
Episode 1: Episode 1: Nate Metz
August 05, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBOn the debut edition of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber, Brady’s guest is Nate Metz who is the voice of the Thomas More University Saints and the founder of the Stove Leg Media Podcast Network. Nate talks about “cold calling” local small colleges in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area trying to land a spot as a play-by-play announcer after graduating from college and working a regular job. After doing some work for the Cincinnati Christian University women’s basketball team he tells ...