6.23: Horsing Around - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are getting these seven o'clock hours started here in
much better shape than we were twenty four hours ago,
because yesterday we had a lot of rain coming down
and some tornadoes that actually had come down overnight, and
that led to just a mess, many accidents on the roadways,
a lot of delays. But this morning we're smooth sailing.
Looks like we've got no major incidents just yet, And

(00:23):
as of right now, the only traffic issue I can
see is there is a disabled vehicle on I sixty
five South near outer Loop, but as of right now,
it's just the right shoulder that's blocked, so no real issues.
So again let's hope that that stays the same, but regardless,
we'll have it all for you right here. Traffic and

(00:43):
weather updates coming up in just a few minutes, and
I thank you for joining us as we now again
get the seven o'clock hours started. It is seven oh
six here on a Tuesday morning, and we've got beautiful
weather expected today. Currently sixty four with clear sky is
going to get up to about eighty four, so that
is on the warm side, but still relatively oh considering
the fact that we are now here in the summer season.

(01:03):
And I mean, can we say late June, John Alden,
it's now the twenty third, I mean that's late ish, Ohsue, right, yeah,
so hey eighty four in late June. I'll I'll take
it all right. So yesterday, what a visual if you
were somebody that was out on the waters And Expressway
and you saw something you probably never expected to see.

(01:23):
A horse that looked like it was needed to be
loaded up to take off at Churchill Downs, but instead
it was just right next to you, were right in
front of you on the waters and Expressway. So I
wouldn't believe this if I didn't see it, but I've
seen it. Because of course, nowadays, when you see things
like this, people are going to get out their phones.
They're going to video it. And there's a woman who

(01:44):
got video of it that shared on social media. It's
gone viral. And it's very fitting that in Louisville, Kentucky,
where of course we are home to Churchill Downs and
the Kentucky Derby, there's a thoroughbred that gets loose on
the interstate and it's a scary situation to say the least.
But here's what happened. A semi truck rear ended a
trailer that was carrying five horses and the trailer was

(02:06):
leaving from Churchill Downs to go to Keenland. So there
were two horses of the five that got loose during
that collision. One horse was was caught right away, the
other was was was on the loose, didn't make it far.
There was bystanders and of course those that were traveling
with the horse that were able to to pretty much

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corner the horse and keep it from running off. As
you could tell just from the the video from the
woman in the car and even the videos that are
from afar from those that were watching either from you know,
a building in the area, watching from a high rise.
We actually had a listener that shared that experience. We'll

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let you hear that coming up in a moment. But
could have been really really bad all things considered, but
all horses are safe. The only issue is there was
one filly that had minor scratches caused by the accident
and the drag a unharmed, a little shaken up. But
yet this happened a little after two thirty and yet
the scene was completely cleared by four pm. So all
in all, very fortunate situation. Kenny McPeak, the trainer, which

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I'm sure you guys are familiar with, mister McPeak. He
called the outcome fortunate, saying that it could have been
much worse because you know, he knows firsthand what it
would be like as far as the scary situation for
those horses, because you can tell in any video or
image you see that horse looks as if it's terrified,
and I get it. I'm sure that'll be the first

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and last time a thoroughbread is out on the Waterson Expressway.
And also we talked about it to start the show.
Probably not a surprise, but all three myself, John Alden
and Scott Fitzgerald, who were discussing this to begin the show,
we instantly assumed it was probably ai. I mean, there's
probably going to be people that see that that aren't
in Kentucky, that are and who knows where, and they'll

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just oh, in Louisville. Yeah, it's probably some joke, because
you know they're known for horse racing. It's not a joke.
It's a real horse that got loose and certainly not
something you see very often. And glad to know that
it wasn't wasn't much more serious, all right, here is
one of our listeners who happened to see this capture
as the horse got loose, and of course they were

(04:18):
able to safely get it back in the trailer and
get it to safety.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I actually work in one of the buildings right there,
and I'm just looking down at all of this unfolding,
and I just I couldn't stop watching those grooms with
that horse and the look on their faces. I mean,
they were scared, not scared of the horse, but scared
for it, like how you'd be scared for your own child.
And I just in the middle of all that chaos,
that was actually really sweet to see, really sweet.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So if you're a groom as they call it, or
just somebody that, whatever your position is, you work closely
with these horses every single day, I am sure it's
hard to not get very close and feel like they're
like your children. So I'm sure that person that was
with the horses has a close relationship and was probably
just as scared as the horse, to be honest with you.

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So again, not something you see every day, but certainly
something that will go viral this day and age. All Right,
what I'd like to get to coming up here in
about five minutes after we get a check on traffic
and weather. Is Joe Biden attempting to block the release
of audio recordings from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen where

(05:26):
he spoke with his ghostwriter while working on a book
that he wrote. And I'm not at all surprised that
there's some attempts to keep this from being released, but
to know that the reason why they're trying to keep
this from being released could expose that for a decade now,
this guy might not have known what planet he was on,
all while being the president for four years and attempting

(05:50):
to get another four years. I mean, talk about what's
already a really bad look looking even worse, or maybe
I should say, sounding even worse if those audio recordings
are in fact released. So Joe Biden is trying to
block the release of audio recordings from twenty sixteen twenty
seventeen when he spoke with his ghostwriter while working on

(06:12):
the book promised me Dad. The Justice Department now plans
to release about two hours of those tapes to the
Republican led House Judiciary Committee within the next few weeks
unless the court does stop it, which is what I say,
Biden it's probably Jill or his lawyers. I'm not sure.
I mean, if you brought up twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen

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to Biden, he might think you're talking about twenty years
from now. He might not know that that was a
decade ago. But the recordings reportedly shoe Biden struggling with memory,
speaking slowly and again. All that does is raise more
questions about his mental state, both before and after he

(06:55):
became the president, Which I mean, do you think he
really knows what it was that he said back then?
I doubt it. I mean, there are times where you
don't really know if he's aware of what planet he's on.
And I don't mean to pile on, but like it
was almost unbelievable in real time, and it's even more

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unbelievable going back that this guy was trotted out there
as the president wanting to get your vote for a
second term with things like this.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
He may have a game plan, he just hasn't shared
it with me. But I tell you what, I don't
know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I tell you what I don't know about you, but
I'm going to go to bed.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
The best way to get something done. If he holds
near and dear to you that you.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Like to be able to.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Anyway, he might be ai Like sometimes you know when
you tell I got to do something and just doesn't
make any sense and you don't know why, and then
you run another generation of it and it works. That
might have been what happened there.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
From from uh uh Charlotte, assume me from Charlotte one
another line going from in Florida down to Tampa.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Of Pudin's kloptoker. Yeah, Los Angeles and uh and uh
uh what am I doing here?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
What am I doing here? We don't know, Joe, I
don't know. Go to bed one one more time. I
don't know, but I guess I'm going.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
You may have a game plan, he just hasn't shared
it with me. But I tell you what, I don't
know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So think if somebody texts that to you, you would
think that like their talk to text got caught up
to where they were speaking and then their phone picked
up audio of like what was in the background on
TV or something that makes structurally that makes no sense
at all, that's not that's not coherent sentences. I mean
at all.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Have a game plan. He just hasn't shared it with me.
But I tell you what, I don't know about you,
but I'm going to go to bed.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
He may have a game plan, but he hasn't shared
it with me. I don't know about you, but I'm
going to bed. So that was many years after the
at least some years after the twenty sixteen and twenty
seventeen recordings took place when he was working on a book.
So look, here's the reality. The Democratic leadership lost. I

(09:25):
think a lot of trust from Americans who wanted to
trust them whenever it was. It was insulting to act
like that wasn't a thing. And here we are, many
years later, and you still have his wife acting like
she doesn't know what happened during the debate when he
was clearly not well sad. Actually is what it was,

(09:48):
and she wants people to believe I never saw anything
like that before and haven't seen anything since. Yeah, okay,
who in the right mind would believe that? Who wo
would believe that? Like there are people who would want
to believe that but simply can't because they're just they
know that that's nonsense. So we'll see. I know there's
already been enough damage when it comes to just what

(10:10):
appears to be some type of a cover up, right,
I don't think that's a stretch to say that they
might have been misleading and tried to keep it under wraps,
that this guy was not mentally where you'd need to
be to be running a country. And look, you could
make the case at times that maybe Trump's not with

(10:31):
some of his emotional moves that he makes, meaning that
he lets emotion get involved in decisions when you're not
really supposed to do that. When you're someone in a
leadership position, you're supposed to keep a cool head and
think big picture and not let the emotionally charged moments
get the best of you. But he seems very sane
compared to what that was. I mean, let's just be
real in the arrogance to roll out Biden for a

(10:56):
second term when he doesn't know what planet he's on,
and the overall pitch be well, Hey, you just can't
vote for Trump because you just can't. I mean, you
just can't look at him. He's I mean, he's just
he's orange, and he's mean. You just can't vote. You
just can't do it. You didn't tell us about your candidate.
But he didn't have to say much for times for
it to be clear that like, yeah, that was a

(11:17):
bad idea, and anybody who believes that they didn't nobody
knew how No, it was clear. And I think the
fight to keep these private it could be because maybe
you know, there's things that was said that he doesn't
want to be known. But also, let's be honest, I'm
sure there's a lot of wanting it to be private
because it might expose that for a while now, this
guy's kind of been unstable upstairs, to say the least.

(11:43):
I don't know if that's the best way to put it,
but that's how I'm gonna put it. All Right, we
got sports coming up on the other On the other side,
let's talk a little more NBA Draft, which is tonight,
and we'll get to that again coming up here in
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the former LMPD officer who shot the unarmed naked man

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a few weeks back, he pled not guilty to the
charges that are against him. And here's what it sounded
like yesterday in court.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Twenty six here one two sixty seven come of Kentucky
versus Nathan Allen Stotts and are plead not guilty in
astral pre trial FM from state Police. So by agreements
of Honibi ten thousand Folk hazor twenty thousand folk property
bond to be posted by say five pm today, Yes,
sir okay.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
So he was released yesterday after posting that bond and
pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and reckless homicide. And now
we will see sort of how this plays out when
it comes to the proceedings right, the potential trial and
what comes of that. And I don't in any way
feel like this is unfair, meaning that this is you

(13:55):
know that these charges are unwarranted. I don't know what
I would say if I was somebody that was part
of the Grand Jerry, but I will say, if you've
seen the bodycam footage, it makes sense. I also think
that this is somebody that might end up being maybe
the greatest example I can think of of truly letting
it with what's happened here, right. This situation shows you

(14:17):
just the nature of what you sign up for when
you become a cop. There's plenty of cops that have
gotten away with harming people, and they probably had intent,
but there's also many others who have to do it
because it's part of the job. This is not one
of those situations that didn't have to happen. But I
don't think that Nathan Stodds had any intent on hurting anybody.

(14:38):
But he did. He was put in a spot that
most officers aren't put in ever in their entire career,
and he made the wrong decision, made a mistake, and
with that mistake there are consequences. That's just how this works.
That's part of what you sign up for. So again,
I want to be clear, I don't look at him
as this villain. I don't think he's a victim either though.

(15:00):
I think it's just a sad situation all the way around.
And I don't believe that this has anything to do
with training. That's something that's being thought. Again, I understand
why people are claiming, well, maybe this is an example
of there should be better training. There's such a desperation
to hire officers really across the country, and certainly here
in Louisville. There's a need for more but I don't

(15:21):
think that because of that, they're like cutting corners and
training This guy, Nathan Stotts. I mean, he's who you'd want.
He's who you'd recruit at the top of your list.
Former high school football star, great reputation in the community,
went on to play college football at the small college level,
was an All American, had no discipline on his record.

(15:41):
I mean, this is a guy that you would want
to be joining law enforcement, regardless if you had a
shortage of offices or not. But he's the one who
showed up to respond to the chaotic call where the
unarm naked man was in the middle of the street,
and he didn't follow what he wanted him to do,
and he made a terrible mistake deciding to use lethal
force and shoot and kill that guy. So I feel

(16:04):
sorry for Statts. Now, with that said, I don't think
he's being treated unfairly here. I just think this is
the ultimate example of when you pursue that profession that
as being a law enforcement officer, you have to know
that at any moment, you could be in a situation
like he was in and you might think that you'll
make the right decision, but you really don't know until

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you're there. So I feel for him, and I know
that probably comes off as the wrong way to view
it with some because he killed somebody who didn't seem
in any way to be a violent threat to where
lethal force was necessary at all. I mean, it's very

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simple to see what took place on that body cam
to see why L and PD quickly move forward with
getting out in front of this as soon as they could,
letting it be known that they're moving forward with the
process of terminating this guy. And he, of course decided
to resign before or that process could play out, which
really did everybody a favor in the process. And then
you find out that he's been indicted, there are charges

(17:06):
against him, and I understand why those charges are there.
I'm not here to say that they shouldn't be there.
I get it. I just don't think that in any
way he wanted to hurt anybody. But when you are
a cop and you show up, you have such responsibility
and what you do can go in a lot of

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different directions. And what he did was made a mistake,
made the wrong decision, and it took someone's life. And
with that there's consequences when it's not justified, and it
wasn't justified. All right, what I want to get to
coming up here in about five minutes. After we get
you caught up on traffic and weather, we'll give you
the latest as far as the potential piece with Iran.

(17:48):
It sounds like again we're back where we've been for
a while. All right, Optimism is there. You're hearing good
things from leadership jd Vance saying the right things. But
now we're going to see once again is Iran going
to actually follow through and do their part or are
they going to go back to talking trash as he
described it yesterday. We'll give you the latest coming up here.

(18:11):
On the other side, stick around all right. I might
have spoke too soon earlier. We do have an accident
that I would imagine is causing some major issues because
what I'm seeing here on our traffic cams is a
crash I seventy one North and that is in Oldham
County mile marker fifteen, which I'm not exactly sure where
that is, but it's seventy one North in Oldham County

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that has all lanes blocked, So be advised. Not an
ideal situation there. We'll give you the latest when it
becomes available. Another traffic updates coming your way here and
just a couple of minutes, all right. So it's been
an ongoing topic for months now, really because we've been
at war for that long, and it seems like in
recent weeks there's been some optimism about this thing wrapping
up coming to an end. But in order for that

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to happen, you need both sides to do the part,
and Iran it sounds like, has face to face, acted
as if they would do their part, and then to
turn around and then either lie and act like they're
just you know, they're toying with us, or maybe there's
some truth to it. Right. They claimed that they had
actually closed the strait after Trump had said it was

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it was open and things were good to go. The
United States then responded by saying, hey, that's actually not true.
So either way, I thought Jdvans did a good job
yesterday of just describing it for what it is. They're
talking trash and that's now led to a real again.
I guess we'll see if it's real or not, depending
on what both sides do. But pretty clear statement from

(19:39):
from Vance and from Trump that you know you keep
doing that, they'll they'll be they'll be a price to pay.
But here's the latest as far as where we are
when it comes to the UH, to the peace and
in getting past this this current situation that we're in.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Vice President JD. Vance traveled to San Diego after what
he calls a productive trip to Switzerland to kick off
negotiations with Iran.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I feel great about the progress that we made over
the last couple of days.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
The talks lasted more than eighteen hours.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Van said.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Mechanisms were established to ensure the street of war Moves
will stay open to shipping, but who will control it
remains a point of contention. The lead Iranian negotiator said,
the regime will manage it. President Trump sees it differently.
We have total control of the strait, the mechanisms. You know,
we have a navy that had a blockade.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Additionally, Van says the Iranians agreed to invite International Atomic
Energy Agency inspectors back into the country. Iran maintains it
hasn't yet agreed to the terms. Van says progress was
also made regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and
Hezbila militants.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, we're for their allies and the Israelis said the
golf Arabs to make sure that sticks, and we feel
very very good about where that is.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Technical talks are expected to continue between the US, Iran
and mediators in hopes of finalizing an agreement sometime in
the next two months. Bradley Blackburn's CBS News New York.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
I'm not sure where the disconnect is because even in
that you heard where there's optimism from the United States side,
then followed by Iranian leadership says they've yet to accept
the term. So why is it that we keep thinking
they've accepted it and then they're gonna go with it,
and then they just don't. I mean, this seems like
a never ending circle that we're gonna be going in

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unless something changes. All Right, it looks like that that
accident on seventy one North that I was telling you about,
it looks like that is is in Oldham County, just
past the Buckner exit that area there, so be advised.
An accident has all lanes blocked on I seventy one
North in Oldham County, right near right near Buckner all right,
Sports coming up next, A lot to get to. It's

(21:51):
NBA Draft night. The college basketball coach that just won
the national title he's leaving, and overnight one of the
best players in the NBA was traded. So certainly a
lot to get to in sports will do that coming
up here in just a few minutes.