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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy humped day. It is Kentucky. This morning news here
at News Radio eight forty whas coffee and company with you,
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to a rough start. When it comes to traffic, it's
been a wet Wednesday. It was seemingly raining all night.
It was it was raining on my commute, and I'm
no expert when it comes to weather, but it certainly
seemed like the kind of rain that was going to linger,
(00:20):
and it has done that, and it has also caused
some real issues. Is right now we have I two
sixty four east at I seventy one, all lanes blocked
due to a two vehicle crash that happened at about
six fifteen this morning. So it's unclear at this point
as far as injuries and when the roadway is going
to reopen, but again we will keep you updated as
best we can and hopefully they get that situation cleared
(00:44):
up sooner rather than later. I'm looking at the coverage
of this from the traffic cams that we have access to,
and of course the coverage from our partners are over
at WKY. We oftentimes just throw it out there, more
so as like a saying, well, it was a parking lot. Well,
I think, actually, if you look now, this is truly
what it looks like when an interstate is a parking
(01:04):
lot because all lanes shut down, no one is moving,
and a real nightmare. But again, out of your control.
That doesn't make you feel any better, right. In fact,
that's probably why you're so frustrated if you're sitting in
traffic right now. But hopefully they get this thing cleaned
up sooner rather than later. I will, and maybe this
is just an invitation for it to happen. But I
think of many of the many examples of me being
(01:27):
very blessed in my life, and I say that being
one thousand percent sincere. One of them that I rarely
ever think about is I've never really dealt with a
crazy traffic situation ever, at least not since I've been driving.
Maybe when I was a kid and my parents were
hauling me around. But what I'm looking at right now,
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I mean, if this accident did take place at six
point fifteen, we're coming up on an hour of this
being an issue and really only getting worse as more
people hit the road. I've never experienced anything like this,
so I'm I'm I'm fortunate. I don't say that to
brag and dunk on those of you that are sitting
there just waiting for it to uh to get to
(02:09):
get cleared up, but I'm I'm very claustrophobic and not
moving and not being able to move no matter what
it would, it would put fear and anxiety into me
at an alarming rate. So I'm fortunate not only that
I haven't experienced it, but I don't know what I
would do. I mean, I'm sure many of you are
sitting there thinking this guy is soft. This is every morning, brother,
(02:31):
this is and I'm sure it's not every morning, but
I'm sure for some of you you've been in that
situation many times. And I'll just call it luck because
i mean, John, what's the worst experience you've had in
traffic as a driver?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Gosh, I think I think I'm similar to you. I've
never had to sit in traffic for I mean, there's
maybe one instance that comes to mind. One time we
were visiting somebody in the hospital out of Etown and
my wife and I coming home there was stop traffic.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think it might have been, you know, similar to this.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
All lanes but I don't think we were there were
aren't there for more than an hour, which is a
long time. But I remember that we passed. We passed
the time by playing this like kind of some weird
goofy game on like that you can only do like
in the car, very something stupid like that, but that's
all you can do. Yeah, it's it's very It almost
to back to the stone age when it comes to
entertaining yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And look, it's not a common thing, but it certainly
happened and it and it's a visual that does stand
out as a real rarity. But you have sometimes traffic
issues that lead to people just taking over an interstate
as a tailgate. I mean, maybe a party, I don't know,
but everybody just knowing we're not going anywhere for a
long time. I'm going to turn my car off and
get out of my vehicle. And you know, I don't
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know if you're probably not advised to do that, but
when you sit for a certain amount of time, it
makes it makes total sense.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I always wonder people in those situations, how many of
those cars that are stuck in traffic are close to
running out of gas? And then what if you tell
them out of gas in that situation.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh, there's a variety of dangers when it comes to
sitting for a long, long period of time, and hopefully
this is not a super look. Any inconvenience is going
to be a pain in the rear that you're probably
bothered by, because nobody wants to be delayed and late
to work or late wherever it is you're going because
of traffic, especially if you had no you know, ninety
(04:14):
nine percent of people who deal with traffic because of
an accident, they weren't at fault, right, But you deal
with it. It's part of it. And then there's some
traffic that isn't even caused by an accident. That's why
I think we are really lucky when it comes to
just traffic around here. And I'm sure I say that
people are thinking this guy is an idiot. We sit
in traffic every morning, yes, but it's nothing like other cities.
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Even Lexington is a lot smaller than Louisville, they have
way worse traffic as far as I mean, it's one
of the worst cities you'll find as far as the
traffic issues they have based off the population. So when
we have real big issues with traffic, it's usually because
of a bad accident or construction going on. There are
some places where you could have no accident at all,
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and you're just to have a really long commute because
of the rush hour traffic in certain cities. So all
in all, I think we're pretty we're pretty fortunate. But again,
it's easy for me to say whenever I start my
morning at four am and there's very few people out
on the roadways. You've been roughly in this position for
a year now, John, where you've been in have you
(05:21):
dealt with any.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, I I don't think there's been one time where
where I've had to deal with traffic leaving at four
o'clock in the morning. Now, there were, interestingly enough to
go back. I think it was back in January there
was an accident at one in the morning on the
other side of the interstate that I did see on
my way in. But I've never experienced sitting in traffic.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, early, I've I mean, so far, so good for me.
I'd say it's a real rarity just because there's not
as many vehicles out and about. But all it takes
is one accident that could really cause all kinds of
different issues, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that that
continues to be. Something I can say is that I've
yet to deal with anything like that. But again, we'll
keep you updated as best we can. Tough situation for
folks trying to get to wherever they're trying to get to.
(05:59):
But right now you've got all lanes of I sixty
four East at I seventy one shut down because of
an accident. So again, updates coming throughout the morning. Also
coming up at about seven thirty five, are going to
bring in mister Alex White of ZUD Distractor driver dot Com.
We'll talk about his big event coming up this weekend,
really looking forward to the rad revival. And also I've
(06:20):
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a personal injury attorney. There's probably countless people that don't
even realize that they are. They need to be, They
deserve to be made whole by an accident that was
caused by somebody, and where you get that recovery essentially
is from the entrance company. So we'll pick his brain
on a lot of that stuff. I find myself more
(06:40):
interested in that whole world. So a lot more to
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it is seven thirty five here on a Wednesday morning,
(09:56):
Happy hump Day two, a wet start to our Wednesday,
and there's been a lot traffic due to that, So
stick around. We've got traffic updates coming your way shortly,
and it's out of your control. So I know there's
a few benefits to starting my morning as early as
we do. But I don't usually hit traffic, so I
guess that's one of the things I should be thankful for.
All Right, we've got Alex White with us here in
(10:16):
studio from Sudistractor Driver dot Com. Alex Or White PLLC.
Did you hit traffic on your way in? Was it
a nightmare like I've heard it's been for a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It was pretty bad. It was pretty bad when it
rains and it's dark at the same time. I don't know,
it's it's a special city and people seem to forget
to know what to do on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes, sometimes there's probably accidents that take place, maybe with
people being a little too cautious. I don't know. Maybe
there's data that backs that up. But whenever you've got
all lanes shut down, of a major interstate that of
course in primetime when people are getting to work, that's
a disaster. But before we get to the big of
it coming up this weekend rad Revival, which I'm getting
more excited about and I'm curious to get more thoughts
(10:56):
on just what I should expect. Is I'm going for
the first time when it comes two distracted drivers, they
they could completely ruin someone's life at any moment. And
I'm sure when most people are out driving, they don't
usually think about that, but it can happen. And you know,
I'm sure there's many listening that have that have been
victims of it, and uh, they've they've they've dealt with it.
(11:17):
But when it comes to clients, maybe potential clients that
reach out to your team, are there many that just
really have no clue that they have the ability to
be made whole and go after insurance companies Because obviously,
you guys emphasize a lot that you will fight for
these clients and help them, that's what you're there for.
But if you've never been in that situation before, I'm
(11:38):
sure there's many that don't understand the process at all.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, So I always like to start the morning talking
about horribly depressing things like.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Correcks and injuries. It's a great way to get people
fired up to get their day started.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah so, uh but yeah, so we take we take
a variety of client calls and you know how they
got to us in a right of ways. But a
theme is someone's getting the run around from the insurance company.
And I told you a few weeks ago, I said,
you know, my dad talked to the insurance company when
(12:09):
I got in that car wreck. And I never asked
him about that, but maybe I will, so I did.
I asked him about it the other day. I said, hey, Dad,
remember when I got in that car wreck, you know,
twenty five years ago whenever it was, and the insurance
adjuster was, you know, doing stuff. And my dad is
he's seventy eight years old. He's he's very humble, quiet guy.
(12:29):
He was still mad. He blurted out, like, yeah, that
guy when he made that offer. I asked him, I
said where are you? And like I'm like, where are you?
Like I'm going to drive Cincinnati over piece.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Of my mind?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, And uh course I don't know, And you know
he was he was still upset decades later. Uh, just
because of the run around and how unfair it was.
So I would say a very like top common theme
of why we get a call is because someone has
tried to do it on their own first and they're
either getting nowhere or they're they're getting the run around,
(13:03):
and that, you know, that is something that kind of
leads people to say, Okay, well maybe I need help,
and you know, call it any time. Obviously, like we
want to We want to help anybody that we can,
but sometimes people can do some damage to their own
case prior to us getting involved.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So you know, and that that's something that I'm sure
many people would never even think about, but is probably
something you guys deal with all the time. It's people
trying to do things on their own, not realizing that
they're they're they're making mistakes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So you know, yesterday I was, uh, you know, meeting
with a team of attorneys talking about a case we're
working on, and you know, one of the big hurdles is,
you know, before we got involved, how do we get
rid of this issue that was caused by somebody that
was just doing a normal thing, trying to to to
be normal and talk to an insurance company. But uh,
(13:51):
you know, unrepresented, you say the wrong thing, they can
twist the words, et cetera, et cetera. Can you get
you Yeah, so you know, you know, back to your question, Yes,
it's a variety of reasons why they call. A common
one is they've got to run around and we hope
that they call us before they maybe accidentally damage their
case in some way innocently.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I would imagine that, among many things, people just don't
know until they're in that situation. They don't realize that
they could do damage to a case that they may
never even realize that they have. I mean, I could
see myself doing that, and I'm not even a lot
of ways. I was chatting with Hennessy just before you
came in, and I got my first accident around eighteen,
and I got hit by somebody who ran a red light.
(14:33):
Didn't cause any injury to me at all, but it
totaled my car, more so just because of the car
being older. But I remember not even thinking that this
person who hit me would lie to the police and
say that I ran the red light. I just assume, well,
adults are going to do the right thing, because that's
just what people do. And I just thinking about our
conversation from last time. I mean, again, I wasn't injured,
(14:54):
but had I mean, I'm sure my parents did most
of the legwork as far as just what you do
in that process, despite me being a brand new adult.
But not only are people going to lie and claim,
you know, if there's no cameras, there's no proof, there's
no evidence, they'll just say whatever and know that it
can't they can't be proven wrong. But man insurance companies,
(15:14):
they're trained to just try to make your life as
difficult as possible to be made whole. I mean, it's
kind of an awful thing to think about. But again,
that's why it looks like you guys exist to hold
those people accountable. It is an adverse process. And you know,
one mistake that I see a lot, and like you said, well,
you think adults will do the same thing, you know,
do the right thing. Adults can do their thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You know I thought that too, Yeah, but then you
know now as adults, you're like, wow, every news story
I watch about something stupid happened was an adult not
doing the right thing. So plenty of evidence that you know,
people are gonna do people's stuff. But what I what
I see a lot that is, like, you know, kind
of hurts your case. Prior to calling an attorney, is
(15:58):
your situation, I have a green light and the other
person had the red light. Okay, and you know that happened.
And people don't want to be adversarial. Generally, people want
to avoid saying something to get someone in trouble, or
saying that somebody did something wrong. So just to be polite,
a person not filtered by an attorney may say, yeah,
(16:19):
you know, I'm pretty sure I had the green light,
just to soften the blow, knowing one hundred percent that
they did, but want to say it in a polite way.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's human nature for a lot of people to do
that because of the wanting to avoid any type of confrontation. Yes,
so they'll being a good person can can work against you. Yeah,
they'll they'll pat it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You know, they'll they'll pat it with I think or
I'm pretty sure, and things like that, believe or not
can be pretty hectic in a case, especially when the
adults on the other side is like, I know that
I had the green light, so you've got pretty sure
versus I know now we're not even, so you're just
little teeny tiny things like that that normal people would
people wouldn't think about. I've just seen those style. I'm
(16:58):
gonna call them mistakes, even though it's you know, and
it's it's only this mistake because we're dealing with insurance gummies,
but you know those things, I've seen them wreck havoc
on cases.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm I'm turning into your dad, going back in time
many years ago and getting more worked up because I
remember the I was driving a Ford Escort z X two,
which it wasn't worth a lot of money, but it
was my first car, and uh, I loved it and
it was total but I knew it wasn't a nice vehicle.
It was you'll probably have hope so but but the
(17:28):
car that hit me was Alexis RX four hundred and
SUV and I remember for a moment thinking, oh gosh,
her car looks pretty pretty damage too. I hope it's
not so bad, and then once things played out, I'm like,
the hell with this lady, she's the worst. So yeah,
it was an eye opening experience for me, and I
just I mean, it's it's it's really a different conversation
(17:48):
as far as just how insurance companies will use use
that against you as far as just you know, it
didn't really mean a whole lot, You're just being a human.
As far as just, hey, both of us are in
an accident. Regardless of who's at fault, we're both inconvenienced
by this. And more often than not, accidents aren't intentional,
but they do happen, and there's usually one person that
is at fault. When it comes to those that are
(18:09):
just driving distracted, I maybe asking a question where the
answer is super obvious, but phones, is that the most
common thing that you know? Sometimes I guess it's hard
to prove, but that has to be a huge issue
with people just getting distracted and potentially taking somebody's life,
taking their own life.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, I think that phones are the number one and
you see it every day. Especially I notice it the
most whenever I'm a passenger in someone's car because instead
of just looking at the road, I'm you know, observing,
And I mean it is just so common to be
on any highway and you see the phone out and
the problem is that conversation or that Facebook stroll or
whatever they're doing. If you get sucked into that, suddenly
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eight seconds has gone by and you haven't looked up.
And if that traffic pattern is different than what you're
used to, let's say, because construction or something else, you know,
then boom, disaster can strike. But distraction could be anything.
I mean, distraction can be you know, dealing with kids
in the back or something falling in the car. Today,
(19:09):
I was getting a piece of gum, uh and my
whole gum thing like fell off on the floor, and
you just you ignore it. You just if something's down
to where your eyes have to come off the road,
you know, I try to train yourself to ignore it.
But distraction could even be like very high stress, someone's
going through some stuff and their mind is somewhere else
(19:30):
are on the road. Yeah, and then if you've seen
art Sue commercial when she's in the corvette, I mean,
distraction can be eating Ramen noodles while you're driving, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So there's endless ways to be distracted. Comes in many forms. Yeah,
we do you have any advice for me as far
as my kids, because they don't seem to care that
I'm driving a vehicle on the interstate. They dropped anything
and they want Dad to get it, and I can't
quite get through to them. But they'll they'll learn eventually
they get there's a reason I've got to keep my
at tension on the road. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Get one of those for them, you know, like the
little arm extender that you know people may have to
reach stuff off the top shelf.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
For they're smarter than me. That's a great idea and
they would have liked having that anyway. Yeah, I harass
you with it. Yeah, oh yeah, no, at least one
problem would be solved. I could see my son really
having fun with one of those things, all right. So
Alex White is with us here in studio suit Distraction
driver dot Com, one of the one of it's the
sponsor for the rad Revival event coming up this weekend
at Paristown. And I think eighties nineties were going back
in time to the two best decades ever. The nostalgia.
(20:28):
I've not experienced it just yet, but I can already
I can already anticipate how awesome it's going to be.
So my first question is when it comes to the costumes,
can you give me one in the previous events that
you would just say was so well done? Nobody would
have thought of it, but man, it just it. It
was maybe a winner, maybe it maybe one of the
better competitors as far as the costume contest.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Do you remember that spoof Star Wars movie space Balls. Yes,
the main character he was unlike I can't remember his name,
but from like Honey, I shrunk the kids, that guy
there is yeah, ye, all right, so someone.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Such a nineties figure with those movies. Yeah, yeah, so
my buddy dressed little giants. There's also the oh he
was like nineties oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he was
like he kind of raised us, did he not? He
was a dad in every movie we grew up with him. Yeah,
sorry to my dad. He did a good job. But
you know, Rick moranis was also a factor.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So someone came as you know, the helmet or whatever
that guy's character was, but not but not the like
the black one, the black costume and the black helmet.
It was the like, uh one that looked like maybe
he was on an African safari or in like a
bee keeper one like it was all tan. So not
just like niche hey, this is from that one movie,
(21:41):
but like a specific scene Rick Moranis in space Balls.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So that was like, so that's the definition of nostalgia
because if you know, you know, because of just like
you know, at a time, especially if you were around
our age. I mean, we didn't have the distractions we
have now with these devices to where you remember that
kind of stuff because you know you probably watched it.
You probably watched it over and over. I'm gonna go
ahead and spoil a costume I wanted to do, but
I'm not gonna be able to pull off I have.
I'm good to go. But Michael J. Fox teen Wolf,
(22:07):
the basketball Player, I mean yeah, and that that's you,
like you're a basketball Yeah, I mean it was. It
was probably the movie I've watched more than anything because
when I would go to my grandmother's house, it was
one of the only vhs so she had. There wasn't
an old western, so I just watched it and I
thought about, like this is you know, at one point
I realized you can't really turn into a werewolf and
play basketball, but I wanted to. And maybe maybe one
day at Red Revival, I'll be able to have that experience.
(22:29):
Because there's actually costumes that are that are awesome, but
they're not easy to get. They're they're you know, to
get to make it look legit, you gotta have like
different elements where it's not just one thing, but the
wife and I are coming dressed together, and uh, I'm
pretty confident, but I'm also curious to see just all
the different different things you could do. Like I was
just I mean, the I have one of these jerseys,
(22:50):
but somebody could dress up like as a character from
from Varsity Blues, like I mean, you know there's many,
say by the Bell, I mean those kind of characters.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Years of Options, yes, you know, nineteen eighty to nineteen
ninety nine, just boom.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
This was a little before me, but I know it's
eighties like Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah. I was talking
to somebody the other day who thought that would be
a good idea, and I'm thinking that is that is
a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
A really really good one was actually one of my paralegals,
her husband. He came as Randy Savage. Oh that's awesome,
and he already had the beard and I had just
kind of met him, you know, three years ago, prior
to Red Revival, and so you know, I knew what
he looked like. But then when I saw Randy Savage,
I did not recognize who it was. I thought it
(23:35):
was like this dude's like, literally Randy Savage.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's good. It was dead, that's it was so awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And so now when I see him seems Mike the
No matter what, every time I see him, I immediately
think Randy Savage because it was so.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Good, He's always going to be Randy Savage, the macho man.
There's been a lot of wrestlers there. I'm sure it's
a good pull and it and it it. I think
there's a lot of options and there. It's just peak
nostalgia from for mostly like late eighties, early nineties. When
I'm thinking about that, like, there's there's all kinds of
cool ways to do Hulk Hogan. That would be a
perfect one, right when he became, you know, the Hulkster
(24:08):
that that a lot of us grew up.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I think Hulk Hogan's can be very popular this year
prowd Wing. Unfortunately, you know, we lost him this year.
But from my mini feed of what's been going on
this October, I've seen a lot of Hulk Hogan's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Makes sense, all right. So for those not familiar with
the event, tell me what I'm missing. We're talking eighties
nineties when it comes to costumes. Also, the car show
only vehicles from the eighties and nineties. We've got BMX
action and it's free. It's free. I mean, I think
I hit all the key points. Anything I'm missing.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
The first five people there, there will be some good vibes.
I think we're going to get a good vibe check
there too. The first five hundred people that find kind
of my setup there to distructor driver dot com tent
sign as you see that find me. We're giving away
free t shirts too that say rad Revival and they
look awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They look awesome. They're like a drive I have the Lowial.
I'll show you there's because the low Go was awesome too.
By the way, So the first Car project going to
give away two vehicles to two children becoming adults aging
out of the foster care system. Do you know? And
I'm putting you on the spot here as far as
just how there, how that's going to be shared to
those in attendance, as far as or will it will.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
We will have an actual Sarah I thought, yeah, So
we call it a key ceremony and uh, we'll we
will present the cars, uh to the to the individuals.
We're giving away a Honda Fit and a Toyota Avalon
nice and their their sweet cars have been cleaned up
very nice, uh worked on hopefully completely sorted through at
this point to where they're ready to rock for a
while and uh we'll present the.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Keys to them.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And at our one of our previous events this summer
where we give away uh four cars, Uh, the DJ said, hey,
if you're here today, you probably drove here, but these
kids didn't, but they're driving home. It was it was
a powerful moment.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So Mike drop is what it is. It was, it was,
it was fantastic. It's powerful, and it's it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's important that we do this in front of eyeballs,
not because like, oh look what we did.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
This is great, but this costs a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Of money and we want people to see this and
want to be a part of it. And now that
we've done this several times, we have had some pretty
large donations come in because they saw the key ceremony
and you know.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That'll hit that'll that'll that'll make an impression on people.
Really what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So in addition to you know, things that we have
to pay to either maybe buy the right car or
to fix the car. Not everything's free. We do get
a lot of support, we do get a lot of
discount of rais, but there are some costs to getting
these cars ready. One thing that we can escape is
the cost of insurance for a year. So we have
to have a lot of cash to really get this
thing to continue. We want to give away ten cars
(26:46):
next year. Wow, So I mean the insurance on that
alone is going to be tens of thousands of dollars
probably I don't know, maybe fifty thousand dollars for ten
kids for that long. But we want we want eyes
there because we want to be able to show the
passion partners, you know, we want them to get some
recognition for what they've done, the shops that have helped,
(27:07):
and we want people to know that you know, this
is this is something you can participate in. You just
literally go to a website, make a small donation and
make a difference in an individual who you will see
in person.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, when you when the area moving forward, if you're there,
you know now, but to see it, I think we'll
definitely hit even stronger to know when you're donating, that's
what it's going towards. So good stuff all the way around,
looking forward to Saturday and I'll see you there. In fact,
i'll see you Friday before. But yeah, looking forward to it.
Thanks as always for stopping in. Hey, thanks King. All right,
let's get to a quick time out trafficking. Weather updates
on the way right here on news Radio eight forty
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to a rough start. When it comes to traffic, it's
been a wet Wednesday. It was seemingly raining all night.
It was it was raining on my commute, and I'm
no expert when it comes to weather, but it certainly
seemed like the kind of rain that was going to linger,
(00:20):
and it has done that, and it has also caused
some real issues. Is right now we have I two
sixty four east at I seventy one, all lanes blocked
due to a two vehicle crash that happened at about
six fifteen this morning. So it's unclear at this point
as far as injuries and when the roadway is going
to reopen, but again we will keep you updated as
best we can and hopefully they get that situation cleared
(00:44):
up sooner rather than later. I'm looking at the coverage
of this from the traffic cams that we have access to,
and of course the coverage from our partners are over
at WKY. We oftentimes just throw it out there, more
so as like a saying, well, it was a parking lot. Well,
I think, actually, if you look now, this is truly
what it looks like when an interstate is a parking
(01:04):
lot because all lanes shut down, no one is moving,
and a real nightmare. But again, out of your control.
That doesn't make you feel any better, right. In fact,
that's probably why you're so frustrated if you're sitting in
traffic right now. But hopefully they get this thing cleaned
up sooner rather than later. I will, and maybe this
is just an invitation for it to happen. But I
think of many of the many examples of me being
(01:27):
very blessed in my life, and I say that being
one thousand percent sincere. One of them that I rarely
ever think about is I've never really dealt with a
crazy traffic situation ever, at least not since I've been driving.
Maybe when I was a kid and my parents were
hauling me around. But what I'm looking at right now,
(01:48):
I mean, if this accident did take place at six
point fifteen, we're coming up on an hour of this
being an issue and really only getting worse as more
people hit the road. I've never experienced anything like this,
so I'm I'm I'm fortunate. I don't say that to
brag and dunk on those of you that are sitting
there just waiting for it to uh to get to
(02:09):
get cleared up, but I'm I'm very claustrophobic and not
moving and not being able to move no matter what
it would, it would put fear and anxiety into me
at an alarming rate. So I'm fortunate not only that
I haven't experienced it, but I don't know what I
would do. I mean, I'm sure many of you are
sitting there thinking this guy is soft. This is every morning, brother,
(02:31):
this is and I'm sure it's not every morning, but
I'm sure for some of you you've been in that
situation many times. And I'll just call it luck because
i mean, John, what's the worst experience you've had in
traffic as a driver?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Gosh, I think I think I'm similar to you. I've
never had to sit in traffic for I mean, there's
maybe one instance that comes to mind. One time we
were visiting somebody in the hospital out of Etown and
my wife and I coming home there was stop traffic.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think it might have been, you know, similar to this.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
All lanes but I don't think we were there were
aren't there for more than an hour, which is a
long time. But I remember that we passed. We passed
the time by playing this like kind of some weird
goofy game on like that you can only do like
in the car, very something stupid like that, but that's
all you can do. Yeah, it's it's very It almost
to back to the stone age when it comes to
entertaining yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And look, it's not a common thing, but it certainly
happened and it and it's a visual that does stand
out as a real rarity. But you have sometimes traffic
issues that lead to people just taking over an interstate
as a tailgate. I mean, maybe a party, I don't know,
but everybody just knowing we're not going anywhere for a
long time. I'm going to turn my car off and
get out of my vehicle. And you know, I don't
(03:38):
know if you're probably not advised to do that, but
when you sit for a certain amount of time, it
makes it makes total sense.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I always wonder people in those situations, how many of
those cars that are stuck in traffic are close to
running out of gas? And then what if you tell
them out of gas in that situation.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh, there's a variety of dangers when it comes to
sitting for a long, long period of time, and hopefully
this is not a super look. Any inconvenience is going
to be a pain in the rear that you're probably
bothered by, because nobody wants to be delayed and late
to work or late wherever it is you're going because
of traffic, especially if you had no you know, ninety
(04:14):
nine percent of people who deal with traffic because of
an accident, they weren't at fault, right, But you deal
with it. It's part of it. And then there's some
traffic that isn't even caused by an accident. That's why
I think we are really lucky when it comes to
just traffic around here. And I'm sure I say that
people are thinking this guy is an idiot. We sit
in traffic every morning, yes, but it's nothing like other cities.
(04:38):
Even Lexington is a lot smaller than Louisville, they have
way worse traffic as far as I mean, it's one
of the worst cities you'll find as far as the
traffic issues they have based off the population. So when
we have real big issues with traffic, it's usually because
of a bad accident or construction going on. There are
some places where you could have no accident at all,
(04:59):
and you're just to have a really long commute because
of the rush hour traffic in certain cities. So all
in all, I think we're pretty we're pretty fortunate. But again,
it's easy for me to say whenever I start my
morning at four am and there's very few people out
on the roadways. You've been roughly in this position for
a year now, John, where you've been in have you
(05:21):
dealt with any.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, I I don't think there's been one time where
where I've had to deal with traffic leaving at four
o'clock in the morning. Now, there were, interestingly enough to
go back. I think it was back in January there
was an accident at one in the morning on the
other side of the interstate that I did see on
my way in. But I've never experienced sitting in traffic.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, early, I've I mean, so far, so good for me.
I'd say it's a real rarity just because there's not
as many vehicles out and about. But all it takes
is one accident that could really cause all kinds of
different issues, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that that
continues to be. Something I can say is that I've
yet to deal with anything like that. But again, we'll
keep you updated as best we can. Tough situation for
folks trying to get to wherever they're trying to get to.
(05:59):
But right now you've got all lanes of I sixty
four East at I seventy one shut down because of
an accident. So again, updates coming throughout the morning. Also
coming up at about seven thirty five, are going to
bring in mister Alex White of ZUD Distractor driver dot Com.
We'll talk about his big event coming up this weekend,
really looking forward to the rad revival. And also I've
(06:20):
got some questions as far as what he does as
a personal injury attorney. There's probably countless people that don't
even realize that they are. They need to be, They
deserve to be made whole by an accident that was
caused by somebody, and where you get that recovery essentially
is from the entrance company. So we'll pick his brain
on a lot of that stuff. I find myself more
(06:40):
interested in that whole world. So a lot more to
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it is seven thirty five here on a Wednesday morning,
(09:56):
Happy hump Day two, a wet start to our Wednesday,
and there's been a lot traffic due to that, So
stick around. We've got traffic updates coming your way shortly,
and it's out of your control. So I know there's
a few benefits to starting my morning as early as
we do. But I don't usually hit traffic, so I
guess that's one of the things I should be thankful for.
All Right, we've got Alex White with us here in
(10:16):
studio from Sudistractor Driver dot Com. Alex Or White PLLC.
Did you hit traffic on your way in? Was it
a nightmare like I've heard it's been for a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It was pretty bad. It was pretty bad when it
rains and it's dark at the same time. I don't know,
it's it's a special city and people seem to forget
to know what to do on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes, sometimes there's probably accidents that take place, maybe with
people being a little too cautious. I don't know. Maybe
there's data that backs that up. But whenever you've got
all lanes shut down, of a major interstate that of
course in primetime when people are getting to work, that's
a disaster. But before we get to the big of
it coming up this weekend rad Revival, which I'm getting
more excited about and I'm curious to get more thoughts
(10:56):
on just what I should expect. Is I'm going for
the first time when it comes two distracted drivers, they
they could completely ruin someone's life at any moment. And
I'm sure when most people are out driving, they don't
usually think about that, but it can happen. And you know,
I'm sure there's many listening that have that have been
victims of it, and uh, they've they've they've dealt with it.
(11:17):
But when it comes to clients, maybe potential clients that
reach out to your team, are there many that just
really have no clue that they have the ability to
be made whole and go after insurance companies Because obviously,
you guys emphasize a lot that you will fight for
these clients and help them, that's what you're there for.
But if you've never been in that situation before, I'm
(11:38):
sure there's many that don't understand the process at all.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, So I always like to start the morning talking
about horribly depressing things like.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Correcks and injuries. It's a great way to get people
fired up to get their day started.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah so, uh but yeah, so we take we take
a variety of client calls and you know how they
got to us in a right of ways. But a
theme is someone's getting the run around from the insurance company.
And I told you a few weeks ago, I said,
you know, my dad talked to the insurance company when
(12:09):
I got in that car wreck. And I never asked
him about that, but maybe I will, so I did.
I asked him about it the other day. I said, hey, Dad,
remember when I got in that car wreck, you know,
twenty five years ago whenever it was, and the insurance
adjuster was, you know, doing stuff. And my dad is
he's seventy eight years old. He's he's very humble, quiet guy.
(12:29):
He was still mad. He blurted out, like, yeah, that
guy when he made that offer. I asked him, I
said where are you? And like I'm like, where are you?
Like I'm going to drive Cincinnati over piece.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Of my mind?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, And uh course I don't know, And you know
he was he was still upset decades later. Uh, just
because of the run around and how unfair it was.
So I would say a very like top common theme
of why we get a call is because someone has
tried to do it on their own first and they're
either getting nowhere or they're they're getting the run around,
(13:03):
and that, you know, that is something that kind of
leads people to say, Okay, well maybe I need help,
and you know, call it any time. Obviously, like we
want to We want to help anybody that we can,
but sometimes people can do some damage to their own
case prior to us getting involved.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So you know, and that that's something that I'm sure
many people would never even think about, but is probably
something you guys deal with all the time. It's people
trying to do things on their own, not realizing that
they're they're they're making mistakes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So you know, yesterday I was, uh, you know, meeting
with a team of attorneys talking about a case we're
working on, and you know, one of the big hurdles is,
you know, before we got involved, how do we get
rid of this issue that was caused by somebody that
was just doing a normal thing, trying to to to
be normal and talk to an insurance company. But uh,
(13:51):
you know, unrepresented, you say the wrong thing, they can
twist the words, et cetera, et cetera. Can you get
you Yeah, so you know, you know, back to your question, Yes,
it's a variety of reasons why they call. A common
one is they've got to run around and we hope
that they call us before they maybe accidentally damage their
case in some way innocently.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I would imagine that, among many things, people just don't
know until they're in that situation. They don't realize that
they could do damage to a case that they may
never even realize that they have. I mean, I could
see myself doing that, and I'm not even a lot
of ways. I was chatting with Hennessy just before you
came in, and I got my first accident around eighteen,
and I got hit by somebody who ran a red light.
(14:33):
Didn't cause any injury to me at all, but it
totaled my car, more so just because of the car
being older. But I remember not even thinking that this
person who hit me would lie to the police and
say that I ran the red light. I just assume, well,
adults are going to do the right thing, because that's
just what people do. And I just thinking about our
conversation from last time. I mean, again, I wasn't injured,
(14:54):
but had I mean, I'm sure my parents did most
of the legwork as far as just what you do
in that process, despite me being a brand new adult.
But not only are people going to lie and claim,
you know, if there's no cameras, there's no proof, there's
no evidence, they'll just say whatever and know that it
can't they can't be proven wrong. But man insurance companies,
(15:14):
they're trained to just try to make your life as
difficult as possible to be made whole. I mean, it's
kind of an awful thing to think about. But again,
that's why it looks like you guys exist to hold
those people accountable. It is an adverse process. And you know,
one mistake that I see a lot, and like you said, well,
you think adults will do the same thing, you know,
do the right thing. Adults can do their thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You know I thought that too, Yeah, but then you
know now as adults, you're like, wow, every news story
I watch about something stupid happened was an adult not
doing the right thing. So plenty of evidence that you know,
people are gonna do people's stuff. But what I what
I see a lot that is, like, you know, kind
of hurts your case. Prior to calling an attorney, is
(15:58):
your situation, I have a green light and the other
person had the red light. Okay, and you know that happened.
And people don't want to be adversarial. Generally, people want
to avoid saying something to get someone in trouble, or
saying that somebody did something wrong. So just to be polite,
a person not filtered by an attorney may say, yeah,
(16:19):
you know, I'm pretty sure I had the green light,
just to soften the blow, knowing one hundred percent that
they did, but want to say it in a polite way.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's human nature for a lot of people to do
that because of the wanting to avoid any type of confrontation. Yes,
so they'll being a good person can can work against you. Yeah,
they'll they'll pat it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You know, they'll they'll pat it with I think or
I'm pretty sure, and things like that, believe or not
can be pretty hectic in a case, especially when the
adults on the other side is like, I know that
I had the green light, so you've got pretty sure
versus I know now we're not even, so you're just
little teeny tiny things like that that normal people would
people wouldn't think about. I've just seen those style. I'm
(16:58):
gonna call them mistakes, even though it's you know, and
it's it's only this mistake because we're dealing with insurance gummies,
but you know those things, I've seen them wreck havoc
on cases.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm I'm turning into your dad, going back in time
many years ago and getting more worked up because I
remember the I was driving a Ford Escort z X two,
which it wasn't worth a lot of money, but it
was my first car, and uh, I loved it and
it was total but I knew it wasn't a nice vehicle.
It was you'll probably have hope so but but the
(17:28):
car that hit me was Alexis RX four hundred and
SUV and I remember for a moment thinking, oh gosh,
her car looks pretty pretty damage too. I hope it's
not so bad, and then once things played out, I'm like,
the hell with this lady, she's the worst. So yeah,
it was an eye opening experience for me, and I
just I mean, it's it's it's really a different conversation
(17:48):
as far as just how insurance companies will use use
that against you as far as just you know, it
didn't really mean a whole lot, You're just being a human.
As far as just, hey, both of us are in
an accident. Regardless of who's at fault, we're both inconvenienced
by this. And more often than not, accidents aren't intentional,
but they do happen, and there's usually one person that
is at fault. When it comes to those that are
(18:09):
just driving distracted, I maybe asking a question where the
answer is super obvious, but phones, is that the most
common thing that you know? Sometimes I guess it's hard
to prove, but that has to be a huge issue
with people just getting distracted and potentially taking somebody's life,
taking their own life.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, I think that phones are the number one and
you see it every day. Especially I notice it the
most whenever I'm a passenger in someone's car because instead
of just looking at the road, I'm you know, observing,
And I mean it is just so common to be
on any highway and you see the phone out and
the problem is that conversation or that Facebook stroll or
whatever they're doing. If you get sucked into that, suddenly
(18:49):
eight seconds has gone by and you haven't looked up.
And if that traffic pattern is different than what you're
used to, let's say, because construction or something else, you know,
then boom, disaster can strike. But distraction could be anything.
I mean, distraction can be you know, dealing with kids
in the back or something falling in the car. Today,
(19:09):
I was getting a piece of gum, uh and my
whole gum thing like fell off on the floor, and
you just you ignore it. You just if something's down
to where your eyes have to come off the road,
you know, I try to train yourself to ignore it.
But distraction could even be like very high stress, someone's
going through some stuff and their mind is somewhere else
(19:30):
are on the road. Yeah, and then if you've seen
art Sue commercial when she's in the corvette, I mean,
distraction can be eating Ramen noodles while you're driving, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So there's endless ways to be distracted. Comes in many forms. Yeah,
we do you have any advice for me as far
as my kids, because they don't seem to care that
I'm driving a vehicle on the interstate. They dropped anything
and they want Dad to get it, and I can't
quite get through to them. But they'll they'll learn eventually
they get there's a reason I've got to keep my
at tension on the road. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Get one of those for them, you know, like the
little arm extender that you know people may have to
reach stuff off the top shelf.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
For they're smarter than me. That's a great idea and
they would have liked having that anyway. Yeah, I harass
you with it. Yeah, oh yeah, no, at least one
problem would be solved. I could see my son really
having fun with one of those things, all right. So
Alex White is with us here in studio suit Distraction
driver dot Com, one of the one of it's the
sponsor for the rad Revival event coming up this weekend
at Paristown. And I think eighties nineties were going back
in time to the two best decades ever. The nostalgia.
(20:28):
I've not experienced it just yet, but I can already
I can already anticipate how awesome it's going to be.
So my first question is when it comes to the costumes,
can you give me one in the previous events that
you would just say was so well done? Nobody would
have thought of it, but man, it just it. It
was maybe a winner, maybe it maybe one of the
better competitors as far as the costume contest.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Do you remember that spoof Star Wars movie space Balls. Yes,
the main character he was unlike I can't remember his name,
but from like Honey, I shrunk the kids, that guy
there is yeah, ye, all right, so someone.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Such a nineties figure with those movies. Yeah, yeah, so
my buddy dressed little giants. There's also the oh he
was like nineties oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he was
like he kind of raised us, did he not? He
was a dad in every movie we grew up with him. Yeah,
sorry to my dad. He did a good job. But
you know, Rick moranis was also a factor.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So someone came as you know, the helmet or whatever
that guy's character was, but not but not the like
the black one, the black costume and the black helmet.
It was the like, uh one that looked like maybe
he was on an African safari or in like a
bee keeper one like it was all tan. So not
just like niche hey, this is from that one movie,
(21:41):
but like a specific scene Rick Moranis in space Balls.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So that was like, so that's the definition of nostalgia
because if you know, you know, because of just like
you know, at a time, especially if you were around
our age. I mean, we didn't have the distractions we
have now with these devices to where you remember that
kind of stuff because you know you probably watched it.
You probably watched it over and over. I'm gonna go
ahead and spoil a costume I wanted to do, but
I'm not gonna be able to pull off I have.
I'm good to go. But Michael J. Fox teen Wolf,
(22:07):
the basketball Player, I mean yeah, and that that's you,
like you're a basketball Yeah, I mean it was. It
was probably the movie I've watched more than anything because
when I would go to my grandmother's house, it was
one of the only vhs so she had. There wasn't
an old western, so I just watched it and I
thought about, like this is you know, at one point
I realized you can't really turn into a werewolf and
play basketball, but I wanted to. And maybe maybe one
day at Red Revival, I'll be able to have that experience.
(22:29):
Because there's actually costumes that are that are awesome, but
they're not easy to get. They're they're you know, to
get to make it look legit, you gotta have like
different elements where it's not just one thing, but the
wife and I are coming dressed together, and uh, I'm
pretty confident, but I'm also curious to see just all
the different different things you could do. Like I was
just I mean, the I have one of these jerseys,
(22:50):
but somebody could dress up like as a character from
from Varsity Blues, like I mean, you know there's many,
say by the Bell, I mean those kind of characters.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Years of Options, yes, you know, nineteen eighty to nineteen
ninety nine, just boom.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
This was a little before me, but I know it's
eighties like Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah. I was talking
to somebody the other day who thought that would be
a good idea, and I'm thinking that is that is
a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
A really really good one was actually one of my paralegals,
her husband. He came as Randy Savage. Oh that's awesome,
and he already had the beard and I had just
kind of met him, you know, three years ago, prior
to Red Revival, and so you know, I knew what
he looked like. But then when I saw Randy Savage,
I did not recognize who it was. I thought it
(23:35):
was like this dude's like, literally Randy Savage.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's good. It was dead, that's it was so awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And so now when I see him seems Mike the
No matter what, every time I see him, I immediately
think Randy Savage because it was so.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Good, He's always going to be Randy Savage, the macho man.
There's been a lot of wrestlers there. I'm sure it's
a good pull and it and it it. I think
there's a lot of options and there. It's just peak
nostalgia from for mostly like late eighties, early nineties. When
I'm thinking about that, like, there's there's all kinds of
cool ways to do Hulk Hogan. That would be a
perfect one, right when he became, you know, the Hulkster
(24:08):
that that a lot of us grew up.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I think Hulk Hogan's can be very popular this year
prowd Wing. Unfortunately, you know, we lost him this year.
But from my mini feed of what's been going on
this October, I've seen a lot of Hulk Hogan's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Makes sense, all right. So for those not familiar with
the event, tell me what I'm missing. We're talking eighties
nineties when it comes to costumes. Also, the car show
only vehicles from the eighties and nineties. We've got BMX
action and it's free. It's free. I mean, I think
I hit all the key points. Anything I'm missing.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
The first five people there, there will be some good vibes.
I think we're going to get a good vibe check
there too. The first five hundred people that find kind
of my setup there to distructor driver dot com tent
sign as you see that find me. We're giving away
free t shirts too that say rad Revival and they
look awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They look awesome. They're like a drive I have the Lowial.
I'll show you there's because the low Go was awesome too.
By the way, So the first Car project going to
give away two vehicles to two children becoming adults aging
out of the foster care system. Do you know? And
I'm putting you on the spot here as far as
just how there, how that's going to be shared to
those in attendance, as far as or will it will.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
We will have an actual Sarah I thought, yeah, So
we call it a key ceremony and uh, we'll we
will present the cars, uh to the to the individuals.
We're giving away a Honda Fit and a Toyota Avalon
nice and their their sweet cars have been cleaned up
very nice, uh worked on hopefully completely sorted through at
this point to where they're ready to rock for a
while and uh we'll present the.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Keys to them.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And at our one of our previous events this summer
where we give away uh four cars, Uh, the DJ said, hey,
if you're here today, you probably drove here, but these
kids didn't, but they're driving home. It was it was
a powerful moment.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So Mike drop is what it is. It was, it was,
it was fantastic. It's powerful, and it's it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's important that we do this in front of eyeballs,
not because like, oh look what we did.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
This is great, but this costs a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Of money and we want people to see this and
want to be a part of it. And now that
we've done this several times, we have had some pretty
large donations come in because they saw the key ceremony
and you know.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That'll hit that'll that'll that'll make an impression on people.
Really what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So in addition to you know, things that we have
to pay to either maybe buy the right car or
to fix the car. Not everything's free. We do get
a lot of support, we do get a lot of
discount of rais, but there are some costs to getting
these cars ready. One thing that we can escape is
the cost of insurance for a year. So we have
to have a lot of cash to really get this
thing to continue. We want to give away ten cars
(26:46):
next year. Wow, So I mean the insurance on that
alone is going to be tens of thousands of dollars
probably I don't know, maybe fifty thousand dollars for ten
kids for that long. But we want we want eyes
there because we want to be able to show the
passion partners, you know, we want them to get some
recognition for what they've done, the shops that have helped,
(27:07):
and we want people to know that you know, this
is this is something you can participate in. You just
literally go to a website, make a small donation and
make a difference in an individual who you will see
in person.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, when you when the area moving forward, if you're there,
you know now, but to see it, I think we'll
definitely hit even stronger to know when you're donating, that's
what it's going towards. So good stuff all the way around,
looking forward to Saturday and I'll see you there. In fact,
i'll see you Friday before. But yeah, looking forward to it.
Thanks as always for stopping in. Hey, thanks King. All right,
let's get to a quick time out trafficking. Weather updates
on the way right here on news Radio eight forty
(27:38):
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