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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

And now the wife is quoting Monty Python. Quite fitting, as Pitt still feels fine and might go for a walk.

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I turned on ESPN expecting K-State. I’ll wait for this SIX OT bowl game in Detroit to wrap up. 😱

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Someone tell Ian Eagle that’s “S&T” and not “State”. #Chiefs #NFLonCBS

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Navy’s Anaconda offense did a number on the rest of the conference. Coach Farragut and his boys could easily lay claim to titles in 1862 and 1863.

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

And Missouri teams are 2-0 in D-II bowls this weekend, after Central Missouri pull off 39-37 win over UT-Permian Basin in Double Overtime in the Heritage Bowl. Now, if we can resurrect the Mineral Waters Bowl…

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Truman reclaim the Leg Lamp for the GLVC with a 29-10 win over Tiffin. Yes, the traveling trophy between the commissioners at the America’s Crossroads Bowl is a Leg Lamp a la “A Christmas Story”. ‘Dogs now 4-0 in this bowl game. (Screenshots from ISC broadcast via YouTube) @sickoscommittee.org

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

D-II goes bowling today!! Truman State goes for four wins in as many appearances in the America’s Crossroads Bowl. Bulldogs face Tiffin (OH) Central Missouri face UT-Permian Basin in the Heritage Bowl in Corsicana, TX

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Orlando can’t even fill half their seats for their top-seeded Pride. Not to worry; someone from this game is going to experience a full house next weekend at CPKC Stadium. #Current #NWSL

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

To quote the incomparable Jean-Luc Picard: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That’s just what happens when you play the Kansas City #Chiefs.” Also, this Rikerism: “Fate protects fools, little children, and quarterbacks named Patrick Mahomes.”

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NAQT @naqt.com · 24/05/2024

The 25th HSNCT is upon us! Please enjoy this infographic of “HSNCT by the Numbers” as we head into #hsnct weekend. ✏️: Kyle Hill and Joyce Sun #naqt #quizbowl 1/

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

A continuation of those thoughts. 2/2

It's been a lot to process for my erstwhile colleagues and me, along with our neighbors. It has been a sad and devastating past couple days as a new normal sets in and a content desert develops over our verdant, rolling pastures and croplands. I'm elated to have received messages of support and encouragement from friends in and out of the broadcasting community.

And yet, there is potential. A wildfire may leave a charred landscape in its path, but from the ash a green pasture and new forests can grow. It's a turning of the page. That next page, the new chapter, may still be in broadcasting, or it may be elsewhere, or it may be a stay-at-home dad to an ebullient two-year-old. But it's blank, and ready for the story to unfold.

Thank you to everyone who listened to my farm updates and Scholars Weekly programs the past decade on the old sticks. A big thank you to Brad for taking a chance on an overeager 20-something just craving a return to the good side of 36°30, for opening the platform to celebrate the region's rich and still-evolving heritage of Scholar Bowl, and for keeping me involved even when I ended up elsewhere. A major thank you to all my colleagues past and present, in a newsroom where even amid the frivolity, history was made and documented.

Additionally, a special thank you to Mike, Clay, Larry and Greg for allowing me to share my talents on your airwaves during my 11-year tenure with KRES. It would have been very difficult to remain in the profession without this unique arrangement that happened to introduce me to the whole work-from-home thing a few months before it became a necessity.

As I said, a new chapter is ahead. I may not have written the plot twist that abruptly closed the last one, but I await what the next few pages hold and beyond.

Meanwhile, the bookmark is a HyVee receipt with a large honey-do list scribbled on the back. I suppose I need to tackle that with the extra time I now have on my hands.

(Two photos follow: one of a kitchen radio affixed to the bottom of a dish cabinet, the other of an empty notebook page sitting atop a closed laptop.)

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

It's been a jarring past couple of days for a lot of my colleagues and I, but I've had some time to process and reflect. I'm good at the moment, but a lot of the state is going to be hurting for awhile. Some thoughts in a series of screenshots. (1/2)

It's taken me awhile to write this, in part because of the unique situation I've been in since moving to Sedalia nearly eight years ago. Even years after finding myself on the periphery of the Kansas City media market, and even when providing content to stations in other parts of the Midwest, Moberly remained the home set of sticks, the mothership.

KWIX and KRES were the epitome of small market radio, heavily investing time and talent in the communities they serve, embedding themselves in their everyday lives. And we did that with every accident report, city council and school board meeting, state capitol visit, cattle sale, town and county fair, final score, and annual church picnic. It was the one thing that I sought to capture at all of my professional radio gigs, whether it was in that red van rattling down Route 12 to Gentry, interviewing the top exhibitors outside the Benson Center, or even writing up a reader about the year's sorghum scholarship recipients.

It was destination radio, the rare signal where once you locked in the signal, you could pretty much rip the knob off. My grandma Carolyn didn't go to that length on the set in her kitchen, but she was a devoted listener. It was her dutiful listening that filled me in on potential vacancies, including the one that would lead me through the door the evening of June 16th, 2013. If she were still with us today, Grandma would have listened to all my reports from Scholar Bowl state over the weekend, one week after sending updates from Small School Nationals, where Hallsville finished third. Like countless of others, Grandma would have tuned in for the latest weather, especially that line of thunderstorms that rolled in around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was a habit built over the course of nearly 74 years for a large portion of the population in Northeast and Central Missouri, from Loose Creek to Lucerne and Wayland to Windsor.

Those almost-74 years of community involvement came to a sudden end late Tuesday morning. I along with many of my colleagues, several of whom had been there for decades, were out the door, the first of many in the state to find themselves bewildered to what had just unfolded. A near-identical situation had also occurred in Bethany and Cameron, Farmington and Festus, and Lebanon and Waynesville. A sudden silencing of dedicated, locally focused broadcasters. A stinging rip of the tapestry woven through our communities, our schools, and even our shared history as Missourians. A shattering of a template for how broadcasters can serve their communities.

A Black Tuesday for Outstate Missouri.

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

On the flip side, it'd also be hilarious if right after the parade, Travis and/or Jason made the flight to Melbourne and crashed one of Taylor's concerts with a rousing rendition of "Up There Cazaly!"

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Meanwhile, Swifties in KC are going to frown once they see this headline on the website of Australia's biggest daily. (However, it would be hilarious if someone else stepped out, carrying a note that read "BRB, partying with Trav and our Mahomies.")

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Gabriel Bell is not going to be happy…

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

(BC’s still fuming over the Cowboys falling flat against the Packers.)

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

2) Sonya Calvera is gonna be real ticked that her husband Bernardo will have to work late two weeks from tonight. He & Vin will have to work extra shifts patrolling District A with the 49ers in the big game. Gabriel Bell isn’t gonna like it if the Chiefs win.

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Las Vegas returned to the F1 calendar this past November. Who’s up for seeing Martin Brundle doing a grid walk along the sidelines of Allegiant Stadium?

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Two oddities I came up with as a result of this Super Bowl matchup between KC & San Fran: 1) both of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl wins post-merger have come in cities who have also hosted a Formula One Grand Prix race. Phoenix hosted from 1989 to 1991, while Miami’s race debuted in 2022. (more)

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

The Bills end up at Arrowhead next week if they TIE Miami. Never outside of a Chiefs game have I ever wanted to root against a tie.

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Kirksville State Teachers College 6 THE Ohio State University 3 (Oh, and the rest of #Mizzou added 8 to the winning score for good measure.) #BulldogForever #CottonBowl #TrumanState #lolBuckeyes

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

All this talk of pizza on the #Nickmas broadcast is pointless if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles don’t start naming their favorite barbecued toppings. Also, about frickin’ time we got on the board! #Chiefs

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Weird thing about #Christmas being on Monday this year is that today feels nothing like a Sunday. (Must be because the #Chiefs also play tomorrow at noon.)

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Kyle Hill @kylehill.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

It took roughly a year, but I finally got the invite to join this particular platform. Let’s see what I do with it. #NewToBluesky

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