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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1011 - Lon Tay on his radio career, fatherhood and the Illini

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Tay & J Show reunites! Lon Tay joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to discuss his decade-and-a-half sports radio run in Champaign-Urbana, life as a sports dad, his thoughts on Illini football and basketball and much more.


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0:00.0

All right, I wanted to play you something first, Lon.

0:03.0

I don't know if you remember this at all.

0:07.0

It's been a while. It's been a while.

0:24.8

It's been a while since I've heard that song, but I was thinking about it the other day.

0:29.3

Welcome in to the Alana Inquirer podcast.

0:32.1

It's Jeremy Warner and Alante.

0:34.0

It's basically the Tay and Jay Show here on the Alana Inquirer podcast.

0:38.2

Somebody suggested this.

0:39.2

Somebody in my mentions, sorry, I don't have the Twitter name pulled up. But I was like, you know what? Why not? Why not? And, Lon, welcome in. How are you, buddy? Good, buddy. How are you doing? It's great to see you. Great to visit with you. it's amazing, you know, with everything that just went on with Derek and the emotion

0:56.7

of all of that and it brought up the emotions of when you and I created what I still think

1:02.7

is an amazing thing.

1:03.9

And then you, of course, did your thing and rightfully so, but the emotions of you leaving

1:09.7

and, you know, it's hard when you go from

1:11.5

seeing somebody every day to just never, yeah, it's life, right? It's not like you and I,

1:16.3

not like each other just as much as we did then, but it's just life gets in the way. And you've got

1:21.3

a wonderful family that you've got going. In fact, let me just say this before we get going,

1:25.2

because I heard you a Piper. I think one of the coolest things about all of this is, God, I almost get emotional about this.

1:35.1

But just seeing you like break off, and I'm not saying I had anything to do with this, obviously,

1:40.9

but you break off with Tiff and you have a couple of children.

1:43.8

And now Pipes and Haley have a couple of kids. But you break off with Tiff and you have a couple of children, and now Pipes

1:45.1

and Haley have a couple of kids. And you guys, of course, watched my boys grow up. And it's just kind of a

1:52.0

neat little, when you think about it, man, that's a cool damn thing that it's not a coaching tree,

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