3.12: Marching On - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is seven oh six here at News Radio eight
forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me the company man, John
all on alongside. You just heard from John Shannon with
a news update Scott Fitzgerald. He'll be back with sports
in about twenty minutes. So we've got the full crew
assembled here as we get you set for a Thursday.
A colder start today than what we had yesterday. In fact,
I'm not exaggerating as of right now because we're still

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sitting at thirty four degrees, although windshield makes it feel
like thirty four. We are thirty degrees off from yesterday
at this time to today. So bundle up. If you
put away your winter coat, you might want to get
it back out because the cold weather is at least
here right now, going to be a little warmer later
in the day, a high of fifty two. But yeah,
it was nice while it lasted, and again it'll be

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back soon. This is the ultimate time of the year
where you really just don't know what to expect as
far as as far as weather.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's called a false spring by the way.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Fall spring, false spring, false spring.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You think it's spring, but it's really not.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, and spring is you is what you're most at
least most people are wanting, right you're seeking it out,
So it's it's a tease. When you get to the fall,
it's the tease of like winter is winter here, and
then you get warm weather again. It's like you and
most people at that point are wanting to hold on
to fall and not get to the colder winter weather.
So yeah, fall and spring. Typically when we get close

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to both those seasons, that's when it's the ultimate coin flip.
But when you get that taste of the warm weather,
you want it to stick around, and it did for
a while. So I guess we should consider ourselves lucky
because we really have had in the last two weeks
pretty pretty warm late into the winter season here. But
again now it's now it's back to winter type weather

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at least right now again thirty nine degrees as we've
got party partly cloudy skies on a Thursday morning. All right,
keep keep in mind Thornton's has got you covered for breakfast, folks.
They've got a lot of breakfast options out there, so
make sure if you haven't had breakfast, you stop in
and see them today.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
They'll be happy to see you.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They've they've changed the stigma when it comes to gas
station convenience store type of food. Right, it's not just
something that you eat because it's the only option. You're
getting off an exit and there's nothing else open. See,
you just grab whatever they've got and you hope for
the best, meaning you hope you don't have to pull
over at an off an exit ten miles ahead because

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you realize you may have made a wrong decision as
far as what you chose to eat. That's what gas
station convenience store food used to be for a lot
of people. And Thornton's they've made some real changes in
recent years to where they've now got a dedicated team
within the Thornton's family that is there to come up
with different concepts, different food items. And it's not just
Thornton's clearly. I mean it's a competitive industry when it

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comes to the gas station convenience stores out there, to
where now they know, hey, others are offering high quality,
fresh food that's not just been sitting under a heat
lamp for twenty four hours, so they're having to ramp
up their game. And I think competition it helps everybody, right,
But really, when it comes to Thornton's. There's no competition
because they are the best. And they've also got a

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great program where you can save money at the pump.
You'll save up to twenty cents off per gallon once
per week as a member of the Thornton's Refreshman Awards program.
So I am fueled by Thorntons, and you should be too.
If you're not, I mean, I don't know what to
tell you. I'll pray for you. It's best I can do,
best I can do. All right, So basketball another day
here where we've got college hoops all day, and that

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was going to be the case regardless if the local
teams were playing. But both Louisville and Kentucky they have
moved on. And there's just something magical about this time
of year, and it's really next week whenever. It's just
a different level of what this is. However, the losses
in the postseason in college basketball, I mean a loss
yesterday for both teams wouldn't have changed the fate of

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their tournament. Bert they're going to get in now obviously
would have been a difference maker potentially for seeding. But
as I'm watching Louisville, seemingly it looks as if they're
going to lose that game the way they've lost other
games this year. I mean, I just I was depressed,
and that's probably I mean, that's probably shouldn't use that
word lightly, because people do literally suffer from suffer from depression.

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But what I'm getting at is like it was another
reflection John where I thought to myself, what am I doing?
Like I don't even I don't play for the team,
I don't have it. This will not impact my life
in any way as far as my life being better
or worse. I stand to gain nothing or lose nothing
if they win or lose. But yet it would have

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completely ruined the rest of my evening. I would have
been sulking, and that's no way to live. But I
know I'm not alone. I'm sure some of you are
sitting and thinking, yeah, this guy needs help, Like I'm
sure he's having some fun to you even.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Invested time and interest for so many years. I think
it's just one of those things when you've done it
for so long and it's just been a part of
your just the way that you live your life, Like
you can't just you can't just let it go, even
even if it's something that you you came to enjoy
as a younger human being. I think it's it's something
that sticks with you for I mean for the rest
of your life. You see people in there as a

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fan into their you know, seventies, eighties till they die.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Of course, it's a big part of our culture. And
to your point, like, I don't think I could turn
it off if I tried, you know what I mean.
And it's not that I'm trying to, but I have
had as I get older, and of course I've detached
myself from sports as far as my job in a
big way, just because it's a different world now what
I do in the last eight months or so six
seven months compared to what I did for more than

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ten years. So that's that's another part of it. But
you know, to know that it isn't something that I
have to because I used to. I guess that's what
I used to tell myself, is well, hey, you know
it's tough to have to, you know, go through the
Kinney Payne era and go through you know, the bad
football seasons and whatnot, and and you know, I'd be
bummed like any fan when things weren't going well, just
like I would be today. But because there was a

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level of it that was work, it was my job.
I think I that helped me kind of, you know,
balance it better as far as just not being as
bummed about it. But you know, it was my job.
It was what I had to do, and I wouldn't
want to do anything else at that time. But now
that it's not, you know, like I still need to
keep myself informed as far as talking about sports with

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this platform, but this is not a sports show, and
we have a sports anchor that handles sort of keeping
up with certain things. I'm going to keep up with
regardless because it's just something I'm interested in. But I
think that's been a bigger surprise to me more than anything,
is that now that I can't give myself the excuse
that it's work and think about Okay, well, now instead
of sulking about my team losing, I got to get
working on how I'm going to talk about it on

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the air, how I'm going to frame it to listeners,
and how I'm gonna you know, what we're going to
do to you know, do the job of reacting and
doing postgame shows and a daily show all that kind
of stuff that's now no longer something I do. So
I don't have that ability to just like, well, hey no, no,
you know, no need to get down, you got to
go to work, because honestly, I mean this sincerely, it
was therapeutic for me as a fan like I after

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doing postgame shows if I was if I was bummed
about a loss or you know, it was a season
ending loss, I would end up finishing a postgame show
or maybe finishing to show the next day, and I'd
still maybe be bummed about it, like I wouldn't be happy,
but I was over it right, like I'd moved on
because I got through it, like I use. I think
I've realized my days in sports radio, where we did

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talk about a lot of things, including oftentimes talking about Louisville,
a team I grew up worshiping and still do to
this day, as far as just being a super fan.
And I still can't believe I was able to turn
it into something I did for a long time and
tell me to living still didn't seem real. But I
think I realized in those moments when I'm specifically talking about,
you know, my team, it was to give you a visual.

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It was like I was laying on that long couch
at the therapist office just and I.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Didn't realize sitting there taking it all in.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, like I didn't know that that's what I what,
what what what I was doing, But I think that's
what I was doing, so, you know, and it also
kind of makes me. It kind of makes me sad
that I that I don't that I don't miss it,
if that makes sense, because I thought I would, but
i've you know, well.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Let me ask you this. If you if you were
in the position you're in now, or even if you
just weren't doing radio in general, just go the two
seasons with Kenny Payne, do you think you would have
been able to just not watch it because it was
that bad? So you feel like you had to watch it?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, I mean I did because I had to talk
about it after every game. So but again, you could
not watch it and still do the same show, and
it would like nobody would.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I guess you're right.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Nobody would have known if we didn't watch it, because
it was the same, It was the same show, it
was a rerun, it was the same show every every
game essentially. But had I been and and I really
can't answer that question because it's all I've ever known,
like in my not all of my adult life, but
a big chunk of my adult life in some form
or fashion. That's that's what I did. So I probably

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would have would have been even more distraught. And uh,
I don't know. I mean, I've never once thought about
that what life would have been like for me if
I would have experienced the Kenny Payne era. I mean,
I guess I could have maybe knowing that I didn't
have to do anything. I guess I probably that probably
would have been the ultimate time to find out. Can
I really just check out? You know what I mean? Yeah,
because there was no point in being checked in unless again,

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you just know you have to because you don't know
any other way, or you wanted to torture yourself, and
nobody wants to do that, do they. So yesterday again
when Louisville was it was coming down the stretch and
it was right before they got the big boost from
Zoo and then Conwell finally knocked the three and then
had that big bucket late and that was really all
she wrote before that happened. I'm just sitting here thinking,
you're not Nick, You need help.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Man.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
This is not normal. You shouldn't have this feeling of
just such sadness over a basketball game that you didn't
play in that you have no impact on it all.
This will not change anything for good or for worse
about my life. Why do I care so much? And
again I used to use the well I care so
much because I got to be passionate. It's my job,
it's what I do. And then I could, you know,
turn the page and get into the reaction mode. And

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it was a therapy session and it helped me. And
I think yesterday, had they lost, I wouldn't have had
the therapy session. And I don't know what. I think.
I would have just gone to play with my kids, right,
because that's something that keeps me, that keeps me reminded
of you know what, This other stuff doesn't really matter.
Let's just go be a dad, which I do that
every day regardless of what's going on in sorts. But yeah,
I'm not wired the way normal people are. But I

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do know that I'm not alone. I'm sure there's at
least some of you. Maybe please tell me, is there
one that's listening that can relate to just we care
too much? About this stuff, but it's also what makes
us different when it comes to college hoops. And as
much as it can cause a lot of heartbreak, and
it'll be heartbreaking when the season comes to an end
for Louisville fans and Kentucky fans, but it's also again,

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it makes you feel alive, and both are still alive
right now, and that's a beautiful thing, all right. Stick
around for a Travick and weather update. Also, don't forget
we've got Alex White coming in studio. He'll join us
at seven thirty five. Looking forward to catching up with him.
I know he's going to have some big presence in
that Saint Patrick's Day parade coming up this Saturday. Stick
around his news radio waight forty whas. It is seven

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thirty five here News Radio eight forty whas. Appreciate you
hanging out with us here on this cool Thursday morning.
In fact, it is thirty degrees cooler now than it
was at this time yesterday, So if you put your
winter code away, you might want to get it back
out at least for today, because I've just fifty two,
which isn't bad, but again, we were near eighty degrees
yesterday that I.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Didn't wear my coat today. I just wore my Cardinals.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Were you feeling it outside?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I was so excited about the warmth yesterday, I thought
for sure I can just rock a hoodie today, and
I regret it.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, you should have been tuning in early because I
was warning people. I could have warned you before you
walked out the door, but you were so excited to
get here you didn't have time. Right, That's what it was. Yes,
it's Alex White's with us here in studio. And before
we get into what I wanted to bring Alex on
to talk about, we need to do something more important.
Because we were talking right before we came back from break.
Alex has a UFL hoodie on as a UFL fan,

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and we were discussing how if you notice there are
the sticker decals on the back of many cars in Louisville,
as many fans in this city, Louisville or Kentucky fans
are going to make it clear which side they're on
whenever they can. A lot of the Louisville Cardinal birds
that are on the back windows of vehicles or really anywhere,
I feel like four out of five of them I

(11:58):
see Alex, they're crooked and that can't be just a
random occurrence that that many people just fat finger it
and put it on crooked. But I don't know. I mean,
you don't have the answer either, but there's got to
be some explanation for this.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'm first of all, I'm so glad that we're addressing
this because.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
This is it really matters.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's truly, it's truly an epidemic in Louisville. And I
mean I'm all for you know, displaying your team and
we need to. We need to represent the Cardinals everywhere
we can. And you should have a sticker on the
back of your car. I think you know it's a
great spot for it. But you know there's the flat
part of the cardinal head logo and everyone's doing like
a gangster line with it or something. Yeah, like that's

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always going to the bottom, Like the flat part is
on the bottom, and we just need to let Louisville
know that's that is not the angle of the bird head.
This hard lean and they have to know that, right.
I don't think it's on purpose.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
It can be unless there's like some secret code that
we're not in on, And then I feel bad that
we're not in on it, because we should be in.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
If yes, if someone knows if that's the case, someone
knows what that means that to lean the logo, Please
let us know so that we can we can participate.
But yeah, I mean the the actual point in which
say you mean in the center. So if you have
like a little bit of OCD, which I clearly do,
this this is just going to bother you because the
bottom of the Cardinal Head logo is not dead center

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with the logo, but that's that's what's got to go
at the bottom. So it's a it's a really hard
sticker to put on straight. But Louisville, you got to
do a better job. Yes, I mean definitely not the
flat part on the like side of the logo.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
But you've given us, I think, the best potential explanation
as to how it happens. Because and by the way,
I don't think it's an OCD thing. I think there's
many people listening right now that I'm sure have noticed
this and wondered why what's going on here? But you're right,
I think when you're just when you're putting it on,
you might just think you might need to lay that
side to the left flat, rather than just making the
point at the very bottom of the cardinal b where

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you're in the center. That would keep it on center.
So my wife, when when you and I were texting
about this yesterday, my wife has one, and I'm like,
surely hers isn't crooked too. I would have noticed then
when she got home from work yesterday, I went out
there and looked. Now, I was a proud husband. She
does not have hers on crooked. She has it on correct.
But yeah, and by the way, I'm ill, I'll dig
it up. There was a Twitter thread at one point
about people posting the pictures of him saying like, what's

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going on here?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
And either there's a secret club and it's a sign
that you're you're some kind of special fan if you've
got yours on crooked, or it's just everybody not realizing
you got to. You gotta be mindful when you're placing
it on to place it on straight.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
But let's do let's do better.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, let's do better. Let's do better. There's no doubt
about it.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
All right.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
So we've got a big Saint Patrick's Day parade coming up,
and I know every year that the parade is is awesome,
attended by a lot of people. Rain or Sean, There's
gonna be a lot of people there. You were going
to be there with your firm, Alex R. White PLLC.
Sue Distracted Driver dot com you you, I'm sure you
often have multiple vehicles in this What do you got
planned for this year? What can people look out for
if they're at the parade when they see you coming through?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
So, first of all, everyone should be in the Highlands
between three and six this Saturday, because this parade is
one of the most fun things in the city in
my opinion. When the weather's good, it is jam packed.
I've done this at fourteen degrees it's not as good,
but we've got like sixties for this Saturday and sunny,
so I'm really excited about it. Coming into Irish Triangle

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that section of the parade, you've got people that are
stacked twenty to twenty two deep, from like the barriers
to the front of the restaurants and the bars there.
There is a lot of alcohol involved with the fan
base and it is it is just it is just
great party, a great people watching experience. People are screaming
like crazy. We give away really great swag during this

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parade stain as always, and I mean sometimes I feel like,
you know, it's like we're giving away golden tickets and
people are freaking out that much. But it's just like
it's just a T shirt. But I mean, people are
going manic. People in the stuff section. The past, the
Irish Triangle, we get back down to it's mostly little kids,
and it's it's a lot more reserve, which is great,
but it is it is exciting to be around.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Free stuff and an out and a and a party
and alcohol that usually will get people excited. Uh. And
when I was younger this year it used to be
my one of my favorite days of the year. Really,
I remember, I mean, I haven't gone in a while,
but it used to be one of the days where
I I mean, I knew I was going to have
a full day. There was gonna be a lot of
a lot of partying going on. And it's always when

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college basketball postseason play is going on, which you could
hop into the different bars and catch out check out
the games. So it should be a good time. And again,
if weather cooperates, that's that's gonna make it even better.
But when it comes to all the different businesses that
are involved in having some type of presence. I mean
it's got to be somewhat competitive. Who's got the best
who's got the best float, or who's got the best

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vehicles that are there. When it comes to vehicles, that's
an area of your expertise.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I think we've got some good ones this year.
So in the past, we've had, you know, various cars
in there, and one one year, we took a flatbed
trailer and I towed a crashed car, so our float
was a actual wrecked car, which I thought was really great.
I got some snars too from some people.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
But it's creative for what it is you do. For sure.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Last year we had we had my pickup truck towing
our twenty foot trailer, which is like a driving billboard,
and Santa Claus and I we're in the back of
my pickup truck throwing out holidays, spirits and free shirts
and swag.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Was that letting people know that you didn't actually have
to sue them and you guys are friends?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was it was Yeah, it was like our control.
Hey guys, we're actually friends.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
We didn't actually sue him.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
And this year we've got the ads tech. We're gonna
have the newest of the fleet. Yes, we're gonna have
four people in t recks inflatables, which is gonna.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Be exciting Jurassic Park theme yep.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
And then we're gonna have the eighty three land Rover
Defender to destructor Driver dot com mobile. Uh. And so
we're gonna have we're gonna be walking, We're gonna have
some dinosaurs.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
We're gonna be So that's that's in nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yes, it is the one I post on faces.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
So if you haven't seen, if you go to Ali
his Facebook page, he's got a he's got a picture
of this. This. I mean it also looks like something
maybe from from Jurassic Park, not with the bright, vibrant colors.
But it just it's an adventure vehicle for sure. I
know nothing about cars, especially compared to you. You could
have told me this was like a sixty nine, and
I think I would have believed you. It's got the
old look to it, but uh, yeah, it's an adventurous vehicle.

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How often, I mean, like when did it when did
the flip? When did the flip switch? For you to
where you literally just like all right, I'm gonna I'm
gonna legitimately be a big time car collector because I
learned of new cars you own every time I got to.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
So, first of all, I'm not I wish. I mean,
there's I have a couple, okay, and you know these
most people have one. Yeah, but uh, you know, the
the the Aztec and the Defender are important pieces of
our business because when we go to community events, we
needed SUVs that we can put tables in tents, uh,
swag and everything, and so we can just show up

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and then that's our display. And they're they're both attention gaters.
They're both conversation pieces. So people see the Defender, you know,
either in traffic or at an event, they want to
talk about it. Hey, oh my gosh, that's cool. So
they're very specifically designed to maybe distract, but to get attention.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
So well said Alex White. With us here in studio
it Dow's Radio eight forty whas you guys have a couple,
I say, you guys, it's the folks with the first
car project and you are of course on the board
there and for those I guess we'll reset it here
because it's been a while since we chatted about it,
but the First Car Project tell us a little bit
about this organization and what it does and the purpose
that it serves.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
So the First Car Project our goal is to give refurbished,
tuned up, cleaned up used cars to foster youth that
are aging out of care. So we're talking about eighteen, nineteen,
twenty year old kids that are making the transition from
foster youth to adulthood and they're in a stage that

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they need a hand up, specifically, they need transportation.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
They are in a point where maybe they wouldn't have
resources available to them with family because of their situation
being in the foster care system. So I mean it's
I find this to be one of those ideas that
you know, maybe others would have thought of it, but
when you hear about it, you're like, yeah, that makes
a lot of sense that this would be some there
could be people that would really benefit from this. How
has it grown since you guys launched? And I know

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you You've got an application that's out there now where
you can have people apply if they feel like they
could be in a situation to where they need the help.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
So if you go to the Firstcar Project dot com,
We just opened up applications for this julys giveaway which
will be at Cars in the Commonwealth and the website
walks them through everything they need to know. So it
is it is foster youth only. We have had some
misguided adults and other kids that have that have applied
and we wouldn't help everyone. We can, but we can't.

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This is specifically for foster youth. So if you are
in any way involved with foster care or know someone
that is, please let them know to go to the
first prom the Firstcar Project dot com like right now,
because once these are applications are received and the window closed,
these will be you know, gone through by some people

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from the state and our board and then selections will
be made for the July giveaway.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
So in July, the the event that is Cars in
the Commonwealth one of two events that you're part of
that as well as rad Revival car themed events. You
guys also have an auction that that will take place there.
And I know you've got some some fundraising efforts in
the works.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yes, So if you're listening right now, maybe you don't
have a used car that you're willing to donate, but
you have something that could be a perfect gift for
a silent auction so at So we're starting to work
on this right now. We've already had in the last
week a lot of people donate some pretty nice bourbon,
some different you know, collectibles. We've had an artist donate

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a portrait, so somebody's going to be able to bid
and get a portrait drawn painted rather so anything, I'm
hoping that someone will donate their lake house weekend or something.
But if if you've got something and you want to
be part of the first car project you can you
can help us immensely by donating an item that we're
going to be able to auction off in July at
Cars in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'm sure there's many people that hear about this and
want to help. And what I really like hearing is
that when you guys go to different places in the
automotive world, whether it be body shops or car dealerships,
and you you know, hey, here's what we're doing. Would
you like to help that You've had a lot of support,
I'm sure you could always use more. You never have
it too much, but that's got to be a reminder
that what you're doing is captivating to people and they realize, hey,

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I want to help with this too.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's such a strong need. I mean the kids that
when we are going through these applications, I mean, you
want to help every single one, we just simply cannot.
So there's we could there's just not enough that we
could do to help. That's that's how strong the need is.
And this is so important to have transportation. It simply is.
I mean, at that age, if you can't get to

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school or you can't get to work, you can fall
through the cracks really quick. So it's a key of
you know, being success as full of really just you know,
i mean pay rent, like you've got to have the
car to get to work. So it's incredibly important. And
we've just been so blessed that so many shops, detailers,
car audio, anybody that's we've had some national retailers even

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help us with costs and free parts. So it's just
been such a great thing that people in the community
have joined in and and you know, helped us, you know,
get to this point so quick. And our goal this
year is to give away ten cars, and we also
we do a full year of insurance premiums for the
recipients as well. So we have to have cash, but

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we also have to have you know, the cars and
the labor and everything that goes into making a roadworthy car.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's awesome. I mean you think, I mean getting to
getting getting somewhere is a really important thing that I'm
sure a lot of people. When you have the ability
to do it without any issue at all, you probably
take it for granted. But if you're starting that step
in becoming an adult, maybe your first full time job,
maybe you're starting school, and you don't have consistent transportation,
that that could really have a negative impact obviously at
a crucial time. So a really good cause. And I

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know something you guys are really proud of is that's
grown over the years. All right, last question before we
let you go, what's the office like this week? Is
we've got college basketball and I know you've got a
lot of college basketball fans in the office. Are you
are you letting them work and kind of keep up?
What are you all doing? Because I know a lot
of offices they can claim there it's any other day,
but I don't believe them.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, so last week I talked about delegation. Yeah it
is so yesterday I called Carrie into our office. I
think she probably thought she was getting fired. She's a
little nervous walking in. Said shut it be a nervous situation.
Shut the door, sit down, And I said, you're in
charge of our March Madness bracket. I'm putting up five
hundred dollars. You need to talk to the other attorneys
and see who can throw in. Build this pot as

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big as you can. I don't want non attorneys to
contribute as far as the pot. They everyone can play
for free, but I want I want the lawyers to
fund this so that you know, maybe somebody can win
a couple thousand bucks and make sure that you know
we've got the best March Madness atmosphere we can have.
And she's already running with it, so it.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Gets no better than that. That's the way it should be,
and I'm sure a lot of officers do something similar.
If not, they should, because again, we do college basketball
different around here. I wouldn't have it any other way.
And I know already this week with conference tournaments and
certainly next week when the actual bracket'll be there and
it'll be the big Dance, it just hits a new level.
So exciting Toms alex Is always appreciate you stopping by.
Thanks Nick, good to chat with you, my friend. Let's
get you a quick time out. We'll check on traffic

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and weather as we keep this thing rolling along. It
is news Radio eight forty whas