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Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

Life Circles Back: High School Baseball Teammate Built KC's Best Cover Band and Nobody Knew He Played

Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

Kevin Kietzman

News:sports News, News, Sports News, Politics

4.2804 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is the crazy story of some very typical, ornery high school baseball players in the '80's that found crazy success playing ball.  And we had a teammate, Curt Whitaker that could sing and play guitar and we never knew it.  When he decided, "why not?," he started KC's best cover band.  The www.m80skc.com have played with Chicago, Train and others at Starlight and almost everyone that played at Knuckleheads as the totally fun 80's band.  They dress the part and it's always a fun night out.    Curt was a very talented pitcher that played in college and independent pro ball until his shoulder gave out.  He worked, like the rest of us, and one day in his thirties he had an idea.  This is a great convo about why the hell not pursue your American Dream.

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0:00.0

Sports, politics, life. Tickets for Less presents Kevin Keatsman has issues.

0:10.0

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0:15.7

Well, we start today with a little shop cleaning, if you will, at KKHI, a little inside baseball as to how this stuff all works. We've got a great podcast ahead with a wonderful guy that I went to high school with. You won't believe this story. And what he's doing now as the founder of the band that everybody in Kansas City knows, the M80s. We'll get to that in the moment, but we're putting this up early. The chief schedule's

0:38.2

coming out, depending on when you listen to this, whatever. I'll get something up on Friday or

0:42.3

this weekend regarding the chief schedule. I had hoped to talk with Stan Weber at some point

0:46.8

and connect with him and do something on the chief schedule, but you're just absolutely not going to

0:52.5

believe this. You're going to love it. Stan is on the first, with his wife, the first vacation they've ever taken that didn't involve a family event, like a wedding or a K-State sports event. I've always teased Stan. You ever going to take vacation? He goes, why would I take vacation? I love work, everything we do. It's, you know, a family event of some sort or a K-State event, and it's great, and they've been to all

1:14.7

kinds of places doing both, and it's awesome. I thought, I had lined Stan, I said, Stan, hey, when May comes around and the chief schedule comes out, you'll come on and we'll do the chief schedule thing, right? I'm not sure that's going to happen. I don't know when he's coming back.

1:28.4

And I'm not going to tell you anything, but it's just personal and private vacation. I'm not sure that's going to happen. I don't know when he's coming back.

1:28.4

And I'm not going to tell you anything, but it's just personal and private vacation. I'm not going

1:31.2

to get into, you know, where he is, what he's doing or anything like that. So that's going to be up to stand to tell. I'm sure he'll tell when he comes back. At some point, we'll talk football and Chief's schedule with Stan Weber, but I'll do my own

1:41.7

I'll do my own Chief's schedule thing as it's coming out here on Thursday night

1:46.9

and we'll get something up either on Friday, schedule with Stan Weber, but I'll do my own, I'll do my own chief schedule thing as it's coming

1:45.6

out here on Thursday night and we'll get something up either on Friday or Saturday, maybe a

1:49.1

weekend podcast. It's not that big of a deal, but I know so many people in the listening audience

1:53.7

want to get thoughts and reaction to a chief schedule, so we will work on that. But today's

1:59.3

podcast is something that I just love doing

2:01.9

with Kevin Keatsman has issues. And when we do this, it's normally we save them for a Friday.

2:07.3

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with a man named Kurt Whitaker. He's the founder of the cover

2:12.0

band in Kansas City, six-time voted best band in Kansas City, the M80s. They're an awesome band. They play all kinds of great

2:20.0

music from the 80s. You've likely seen them if you were out at a restaurant sometime or doing

2:25.5

something. They've traveled all over the Midwest. They used to do well over 100 shows a year.

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