10.9: - Harvest Homecoming and Dolly Parton's current health status

10:9 - Harvest Homecoming  and Dolly Parton's current health status

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Everybody does Radio eight forty wh is just like my
friend Jack Fox said, we are brought you by the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. Another gorgeous day. Yesterday was perfect.
It was five stars out of five stars. Ricky were
off yesterday. You were my producer today.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Ye boy, Did you enjoy the day?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Did you go walk in the park, walk in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did you hold hands with your wife as you walked
through the neighborhood?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
No, she petered out so far as going out the walk,
So it was it was a solo effort yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Sometimes that happens. Man, my wife and I.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's like, you want to go walk, Yeah, have fun.
I don't want to sit here and watch a rerun.
Harvests Homecoming starts today. Matter of fact, right at the
end of our show at noon, they kick up. I
don't think people realize how big Harvest Homecoming has become.
Even though we had their tragedy last year with the
triple shooting over by the rides, which by the way,

(00:58):
are gone. Harvestone Coming will look a little different this
year than it has in the past. They basically narrowed
down that all the trouble was happening around those rides.
The problem is those rides really kind of separate you
from a lot of different festivals. The rides are just fun,
you know. They're basically the rides that you would find

(01:19):
at the midway at the State Fair.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
But the kids love it.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
We got rid of them at our Holy Trinity summer
parish years ago and it was a big fight, like
everybody complained, and it's just a different feel. It is
not the same, not the same picnic that we have.
Still a great picnic, but it's just not the same.
The kids aren't involved as it is. They run over
to the football field, run around and throw rocks and
do whatever. But Harveston Coming starts today. I think someone

(01:46):
told me seven hundred thousand people or something crazy will
roll through Harveston Coming for the next couple of days,
and they couldn't have a better weekend for it.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's going to be gorgeous and I'm going to go
over there.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I think I'm going to head on over there and
they will have a bigger police presence.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I believe they used to hide the cops, like hide.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Them in the crowd and all that, but they discovered
I learned this from LMPD.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That people want to see.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Them, you know, they want to see the police, They
want to see that there's a presence there. So and
sometimes that doesn't matter when when gunfire comes around, it's
it's kind of crazy, but it is the one year
anniversary of that young man losing his life over something
completely stupid, you know, just a fight around a rides

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at Harvest's home coming. It's just too sad and I
pray for that family that has to relive that this weekend.
So we should all be thinking about that as we
move forward. But Harvests Holme Comty again starts today. If
you're going to head on over there, tonlbany, it is
a wonderful, wonderful event.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
So get on over there.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
We're going to be there tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh you're gonna go okay?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's traditional. She my wife makes me stand
in the donut line. You know. Well, I think it's
the Quantas Club.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, the donut people. Yes, everyone talks about the donut people.
And then there's another thing. It's not sweet potatoes. It's
a they have another meal that is famous for the
Harvest homecoming. Somebody needs to apples or something. Oh maybe
it is it's the apple dings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
donuts of the apple dumplings are the big thing for

(03:23):
Harvests home Coming. Yummy. Plus it gets you just in
that fall fall mood. Like we have the Wine on
the River a week from Saturday down on the Belvidere.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
That'll get you in that.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Fall fall mood. Right, Wine Bourbon got a band. Matter
of fact, it's two for one tickets right now if
you want to get there, we'll give away some more
tickets before the event happens. Harvests home Coming again on
the Belvidere next Saturday. Dolly Parton takes to social media.
Dolly Parton, she said, I ain't dead yet. She she

(03:57):
certainly isn't. She has reinvented herself so many times. She's
like the Madonna without the salaciousness of country music. Right.
She has a residency in Las Vegas, which is so
smart for all these artists. They make a ton of
money and they get to stay in one spot, do
a show or two a day, or show or two
a week or whatever it is. But she has said

(04:19):
the rumors were circulating around that she was unhealthy because
she had she had skipped one of those residency spots,
but she says, Nope, God's not ready for me yet,
I guess. And she's going to continue to do what
she does. The book thing that the kids children's books
that she has done over the last couple of years
has been an amazing thing. Decades ago, she started those.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Parks that she owns pigeons for.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
A Yeah, she's a smart lady and she's been around forever.
I remember my mother being so impressed because she went down.
She was in a parade or something in Louisville and
she Dolly and Dolly looked at her. And back then,
you know, celebrities were so much bigger than they were
they are today, and she was just so much She

(05:07):
looked at me.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think Dolly looked at me.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
And that was like nineteen seventy something. Right, She's been
around for a long time, and she has had that
sort of crazy look that not not her look, but
the hair is insane, like she she kept that nineteen
seventies big huge hair thing going and I'm sure that's

(05:29):
a wig, right, that's not there's no way that's.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Her real hair.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
And of course her other endowments that people have made
sort of made jokes about over her career. But she's
she goes to social media and says, nope, everything is good.
So I'm on Louisville Business first. Yesterday I paid to
get behind the wall there because it's a great website
and it's got a lot of They got a lot

(05:55):
of great stories on Louisville businesses, Kentucky businesses. It's an
national platform, but they have individual, you know, outfits like
Louisville does. I didn't realize how much money. Look, we're
we're the capital of Bourbon. That is what we have become.
I told you the other day when I watched the
U of L football game, I think it was the

(06:16):
one on a Friday night, the announcer kept saying welcome
to Bourbon City instead of Derby City, like and he
said it every break when he came back, Hey, welcome
back to beautiful Bourbon City, Louisville, Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
And I didn't. I didn't dismiss that.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I was like, well, that's that's a change because we
were always the Derby City, right, I mean, everybody was
like the Derby City. That's what we were known for.
And now it is Bourbon. The Bourbon Trail has been
the single biggest initiative in the Commonwealth in forever. I mean,
that was a great idea. I didn't really get it

(06:54):
when they were pitching it twenty years ago, fifteen years ago.
I was in a lot of meetings and I was like,
we're gonna what So they just got to go to
each bourbon place and see how they make it, But
don't they make it the same pretty much?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I didn't get it. I was totally wrong. I didn't
get it that.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I was like the wine tours, like I, you know,
you go to wine country and spend three days out
there drinking wine and going to different you know, wineries.
It's the same exact thing, and it's it's killing it.
Now Kentucky distillers are paying seventy five million dollars on
the taxes on the aging bourbon. So they haven't sold

(07:30):
it yet, so they have to pay taxes on what
they have in the barrel okay, which is a thirty
percent increase from twenty twenty four and one hundred and
sixty three percent tax increase from the last five from
five years ago, which I did not know. I was thinking,

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that's a great business. You make the barrel, you know,
make the bourbon. You got to wait eight years or
whatever it is before you can crack that thing open.
But Kentucky, he had seventy five million dollars on just
the bourbon that's sitting in the barrels in the in
the state. Now, Kentucky is and remains the only place
in the world that taxes aging bourbons of barrels of spirits,

(08:16):
which is a little crazy but typical of Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And it's probably pretty smart.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
If they can afford it and still keep their doors
open and make a lot of money, then there you go.
Barrel taxes are based on the assessed value of the
aging barrels, which surged to ten billion dollars this year.
So we have ten billion dollars of bourbon aging in
barrels in Kentucky. I make a joke that everyone either

(08:48):
has their own bourbon or a podcast or both.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay, that makes sense, right.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'm like everyone needs, you know, because it seems like
everybody has started their own bourbon and it's more difficult
than you believe. And I think that's the biggest problem
for the big brand names is you got guys and
gals chip it away at that. It's like music also,
like music industry, the revenue is down, but the consumption

(09:15):
of music is way up. People are more people are
listening to music today than they've ever listened to music ever,
but the revenue for artists is down. So that's the
story with bourbon. There's more consumption than ever before, but
revenue is down. It's the same story. In addition to

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the sixteen million barrels of bourbon. That's how when we
have sixteen million barrels of bourbon are in the Commonwealth
and million barrels of other spirits are aging for a
total of seventeen million barrels. So we have eight We
have sixteen million bars of bourbon and seventeen million barrels
of other stuff. We are the alcoholics state. We got

(10:03):
rid of the cigarettes, right like we were the capital
of cigarettes, like all the cigarette companies based out of
Louisville and the bourbon, So we we were, you know,
for a long time, we were just you know, besides Vegas,
we were the land of sin, you know, cigarettes, bourbon,
and horse racing. I mean that that was our reputation.
That's what people knew us for. And fried chicken. That

(10:25):
was it in Louisville. Basketball you gotta love it. But
I had no idea. So, and that makes sense because
we are the only place in the world that taxes
the bourbon in the barrels that is just sitting there.
You would think that when you sold it, you would
pay the tax on it. But that's not the way.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
It is here in Kentucky. That's a lot, man.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I did that story because those numbers are crazy crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now do they pay tax just one time on it,
like you got a full barrel?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Every year? So they okay, they pay tax and then
they tap from that barrel to actually bottle the contents. Correct,
So once the contents is a bottle, they're gonna pay
tax on that again, is that right?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I would assume that when they sold it.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Right, yeah, okay, right right, But think about that. They
have ten billion dollars worth of bourbon and aging barrels
in Kentucky. Wow, that's a lot, dude, it is it
is really those numbers are crazy. Several industries. I've always
said this too. The military is bigger than that. Fort
Campbell and Fort Knox bring in about fourteen billion dollars
to the Commonwealth.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
They're number one.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
We forget that those two bases are two of the
most important bases in the Army, Fort Campbell and Fort Knox.
But if you look into it, the taxes are better
in Tennessee and Fort Campbell's right on the border. So
a lot of folks at Fort Campbell live in Tennessee

(11:58):
or they retire in tennis See because it's just better
taxes for the military in retirement and living, which is
kind of crazy, but that's that's the deal. We're lucky
to have both those facilities, those both those bases here
in Kentucky. So many and I don't have time to
dive into this yet, but I want to tease it.

(12:20):
A lot of companies have told people you got to
come back, man, you got to come back to work.
This remote working thing is not working for us, so
you've got to come back. And a lot of employees
have gotten used to sitting in their pajamas and working
it from the house, especially if you have kids, and
you know you have a better schedule at that point

(12:41):
to take care of your kids. If one of them
is sick, it's no big deal. You take care of
your pets all that. You know, you have your kitchen
instead of the kitchen here let's say you're an iart,
which is much nicer. But Ford here locally is ordered
the majority of the employees back to the office four

(13:01):
days a week in September. They said, look, you got
to come back. And that's what they're doing. They're saying
they started with three and they're moving to four and
they're going to say, look, you have to come back.
But before the new policy came in, some workers got
emails warning they may be fired if they do not
badge in more badge in obviously meaning scanning your badge

(13:24):
as you're coming into the facility, because that's the age
we work in. We all badge to get in every
workplace we have. Everything's locked. MultiMate employees said they got
the emails despite complying with remote working rules.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Look, it's an issue.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I have a friend that owns a business and he
told them a year ago, look on January one, you
have to be in the office four days a week. Well,
six of them said I'm not doing that, and he said,
you're fired. Several of them tried to come back because
they were like, wow, I can't I can't find another

(14:01):
job that's making this kind of money. But it is
an issue. COVID still is affecting all of us. COVID
accelerated a lot of things that were going to happen
in business the next fifteen years or so, but accelerated
it to now or then. And companies aren't having it,
even though I think they're silly, because you get more

(14:22):
hours out of people that are working at home.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
My wife worked out of the house for years and
she still does now. Actually she went back to that.
She didn't have an office for the last year or so.
You get more hours out of people when they're home,
Like I would get up and I would see the
light under her office on at five in the morning
and four in the morning, ten pm, at nine eleven
pm at night, answering emails and stuff. You get more
hours out of folks on a remote setting. And I

(14:47):
think that's what they liked at first, but now they
want to build an office back.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I guess Ford is on that totally.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
All right, off to a running start here, dwhy it
is still cobo. He'll be back a week from today.
He is sending pictures and videos all night long. Rick,
I can't even describe to you. I think that's called
it totally is it totally is and he's they're having
such it's his happy place.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, he told me he goes there every year.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh three times a year, three times a year. And
they made they did the deal. It's not a timeshare,
but if you commit to coming, they they it's like
seventy five percent off wherever they stay there and where
they stay is is is spectacular.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Isn't it The kind of a resort where everything's taken
care of.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, yeah, all the food, the drink,
the food and drink, everything is taken care of. And
he's told me about the condos they stay in for
like two hundred and fifty dollars a week, and wow,
I mean it's crazy now you. I mean, the average
price for a hotel I guarantee you is over two
hundred dollars a night in the United States, so down there.
But you got to commit to those, so they committed.

(16:01):
He posted this, so I feel comfortable saying it. He
committed to thirty more weeks at two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Dollars a week.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Wow, that is.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
And the condos are they're unbelievable. They have gigantic jacuzzis
on these gigantic balconies in these suites that are humongous,
and they're all on the ocean, So it's it sounds.
He always sends the videos and pictures and says, you
and Jackie have to come down. But I know a

(16:33):
lot of people that's their thing. It's their Disney. You know,
you have Disney families that just go to Disney all
the time. There are Cabo people that just go to
Cabo all the time, and Dwight and Susan are one
of them, and people meet them down there from all
over the country every time they go down there.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Of course, they're probably cheaper than Disney.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'm going to go to Disney now. You have to
take out a bank loan.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right, are you kidding? All right? Lots of pasta, lots
of pasta.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Louisville dot Com it's my favorite place to go grocery shopping.
It is a grocery store. They got the deli there.
Deli sandwiches are the best. Why because they bake their
own breads. There twenty two different types of breads. They
bake their own meats. They import two hundred different types
of cheeses, and the sauces that you put on there.

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The spreads are unbelievable. If you're looking to do some
tailgating or you having a party, grab and go. They
have the pasta salads there in front of the deli.
You don't even have to talk to the guy at
the Delhi. You just grab and go lots of pastas
thirty seven to seventeen Lexington Road in the heart of
Saint Matthew's or go to lots of Pasta Louisville dot
com to get a tray of sandwiches for a tailgate.

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Back after this on news radio eight forty WA. Chance,
by the way, I should I knew that? Should have
known that Harvest Oome Company goes through the twelfth eight
days long. This thing goes on for this is like
the State Fair for New Albany.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Do you have some kind of parade to start it
off with?

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yes, that's what I want to assume.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
So, and I got to tell you the weather is
perfect for I don't think it's going to rain this weekend, right,
I think it's free and clear.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
They said there's no chance of rain for like the
next seven or eight days.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yep, Harvest home Coming starts today. Rose through the twelfth
one of the sponsors is Caesars. I wonder if they
do a shuttle, because once you're there, it's I think
it's twenty minutes to the boat. I still call it
the boat even though there's no there's no boat anymore.

(18:34):
But I bet you they do a shuttle. I mean,
at least I would if I'm marketing, that'd idea right, Honey,
on board, you stay here listening to the van.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm going to go gamble. Last night, you heard.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Brian Yearwood is the new JCPS superintendent, said he will
not touch local tax rates until it gets to the
massive budget deficit down to zero.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
We appreciate that you weren't going to be able to
get that passed anyway. That was not going to happen.
There is no appetite for you, and I'm I commend you,
sir for sacrificing and only spending two point two billion dollars.
Now that was the budget last time. I'm gonna guess
since house prices went up again that that hall will

(19:25):
be bigger than two point two billion. That's their budget,
which is much higher per kid than Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Nashville
and everywhere else. The audit should say the exact same
thing it said the last ten or fifteen years when
they said we're going to do it in an exhaustive
an exhaustive audit. Okay, we've done that before. It's gonna

(19:47):
say the same exact thing. You have eleven people in
the county making over one hundred thousand dollars apiece.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
You probably need two there, all right. So that was
in the news last night.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
And by the way, just real quick, I'm not going
to dive into the JCPS thing. I'm not going to
do that. But it's ninety thousand students, and one in
four of the students, so around twenty something thousand are
or bilingual kids or kids from other places. And I'm
not arguing whether they should be here or not. That's
not the topic. But until they address that out loud

(20:22):
and say we've got to figure out how to educate
those folks also that aren't speaking English, and how to
get them to speak English and get them squared away,
then they're not going to be able to I mean,
and this is a new thing. In the last five
to seven years, most elementary schools will tell you they
had maybe seven or eight kids that were bilingual and

(20:46):
now forty to fifty percent of the entire elementary school
is immigrant kids. And again not arguing whether they should
be here or not. That's another topic for another show.
But until you address that out loud and say one
in four kids, we've got to figure out how we
get test scores up with that. How many teachers do
you have that speak twenty two different languages? Which is,

(21:10):
by the way, if you go to jcps's website, the
calendar school calendar is translated into Swahili is one of
the languages twenty two different languages in the cultural melting
pot of Louisville, Kentucky. All right, I'm not going to
get on the JCPS thing. I will talk about this

(21:31):
Chinese man. He won a wilderness challenge that sounds like fun.
I watch those shows all the time, you know, the
Last One Guy Standing or whatever. They drop these people
off in the worst places on the planet and basically these.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
People starve to death.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
They have to medically test them every couple of days
because they get to a certain point, because they put
them in places that you can't get food, like hunting,
something is impossible. And the person that wins is the
person that gets like an elk or a bore or something.
They get one meal or they get one thing that
can last them and push people out fishing, you know,

(22:10):
they get the fish. Fish might work, but those wills
as shows somehow you get caught. If you watch one,
you just start watching it.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's like a survivor on steroids.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
And some of the and these guys are like experts
like these these are not like you and I right
like dropped into these places. They're like wilderness experts. And
I got to tell you the first couple of episodes
of watching them build their shelters with like doors and work,
you know, a working roof and beds and the little fire.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Area they have and they make they you know, it's amazing.
You're like, you made that from sticks?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
And they have to go out and kill their own food, right.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Uh, yeah, that's the whole idea.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
They basically they basically starve to death on these on
these shows. That's why they medically they stay very close
and they come and check on The doctor comes and
checks on them every once in a while to seat
their mental state. And then they test them and once
they get to a certain threshold, they pull them Like, dude,
you're starving. You haven't eaten anything in seven days. We

(23:19):
got to pull you, but they that show will suck
you in. This is a little bit of a different
wilderness challenge. There's been a winner declared in the seventy
Day Wilderness Challenge in China. The contest was organized by
a tourism company and a couple of outdoor clubs, and
it tested contestants' abilities to build shelters, purify water, source food.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
In addition to all that.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
They saw the temperatures drop below fifty degrees at night,
frequent rain, visits by snakes, and any player that lasted
three hundred or thirty days was awarded six thousand yen,
which is about nine hundred and forty dollars, and the
final grand prize is about fourteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
The winner of the prize was Yang Dong.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Dong and he wins nine hundred bucks for this.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yang Dong Dong eight rats and insects the entire time.
I'm you gotta be hungry. I guess after you eat
one rat, you're like, hey, won.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Already probably tastes like chicken. That's I'm gonna answer for something. Man,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Dude, No, I don't know. I've seen some big rats.
You go to New York and there's rats the size
of cats.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
You've seen those videos.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
But Yang Dong Dong, he's the winner, and he told
everybody when he got back, he ate insects and rats.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I've heard of guys that were shot down in war
and they ate bugs to survive for weeks in the jungles.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
And all that.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
But eating rats for you know, a month. How many
rats do you think he ate in a month.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't know what is too much?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yang Dong Dong, congratulations you are the Chinese Wilderness Challenge.
And by the way, how much is this? This was
done by the tourism company. How is that come to
China eat rats? It's not good. I don't think that's

(25:43):
a good marketing plan. Just saying I'm not not an expert.
I don't think this. Other thing always has surprised me.
I thought this was over. Apparently it's not. Johnson and
Johnson remember the baby powder thing, Yeah, Talcolm powder, the
baby powder which every American family is used if you
have children, right, because we used it for our children

(26:04):
and we change diapers. They get You know, you have
diaper rash like lotion and stuff, but mostly you keep
them dry with the talcum powder. Which that's why it's
scared so many of us. I had a friend, he's
no longer with us, but I have a friend that
he applied talcum powder to his undercarriage every single day.
As a matter of fact, he got into a huge

(26:26):
fight with all of us. We were on a bachelor
party and he thought someone stole his baby powder and
he was running around naked in a hotel punching people.
But that's how people get addicted to that. That that's
their thing, that's talcum powder. The baby powder was their thing.
Made him fresh, feel fresh, right, you keep it dry
down there?

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It smells good.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
But there has been a ruling here. Johnson and Johnson
is being ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars after
being found liable for a woman's cancer death. May More
died in twenty twenty one, and her family of cancer
claimed her death was caused by the asbestos fibers found
in Johnson and Johnson's talk baby powder. Why would there

(27:13):
be and again, apparently it was happening because they won
this lawsuit. Why how did how could asbestos fibers get
into Johnson and Johnson's baby powder.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Unless there was some kind of problem with asbestos in
the factory.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
That's the only explain explanation. But how could it get
in all of it?

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, that is crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered the company to
pay them the family sixteen million dollars in damages and
nine hundred and fifty million dollars in punitive damages. A
spokes that's a lot. That's a billion dollars. A spokespersons
from Johnson and Johnson called it. They called the verdict,
of course, egregious and unconstitutional. Everyone loves to throw unconscientstitutional around.

(28:03):
Everyone that throws on constitutional around has never read the
Constitution's right, and it's not exactly like it's an easy read.
I was going to do that for I was going
to get all the personalities in the building to read
a portion of the Constitution for fourth of July, put
it together and put it on the air so all

(28:23):
the stations can use it. A couple of years ago
and I started to read it and I was like,
this is not a fun read. This is not everybody
reads the first line or two or whatever, and it
sounds awesome, but it is not a fun read, and
we ended up scrappy the entire thing. Johnson and Johnson,
by the way, stop selling the baby powder in twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
And now it's made from corn starch. Why didn't you.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Just start making it with cornstarch?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Do you think there was anyone in any of these
me that was like, we're using asbestos?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Is that what we're doing?

Speaker 2 (29:08):
But yes, Johnson and Johnson, so many families in America
the last one hundred years have used that baby powder
over and over and over again. A lot of women
have for sure to stay dry. I mean that's their
go too, not anymore, but they have changed it up.
It's corn starts now, if anybody wants to know. But
that's a huge verdict, and I don't doubt it. I

(29:29):
mean that the nine hundred and fifty million is a
little crazy, but there it is. Read the labels is
what I want to tell you. And if you need
glasses to read the label, you got to go to
vision first. Dwight sent me a picture of his broken
readers his first day. He snapped his readers in half.
I guess he's trying to find another glass place in
glasses place in Cabo, but he has an appointment. I'm

(29:50):
dragging him to Vision First to get the car wash,
which is the examination. They have this cool machine. It
takes four seconds in each eyeball. You just put you
eyeball up there and they go, okay, do the other
one four seconds and it gives you an MRI of
your eyeball.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
All right.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's basically a three hundred and sixty degree look of
your eyeball, even the stem, even to the back of
your head.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
So you do that, you see the doctor, you want
to get the you got the prescription, and if you
want to get glasses, you walk around the corner and
there's three people standing there and they're gonna take care
of you on picking out the frames. It's got like
fifteen hundred frames sitting there and you've got to and
they'll help you. Going well, your head kind of looks
like this, I bet you these look good, and sure
enough they do. It's Vision First. Go to Vision firstiicare

(30:34):
dot com eighteen locations get the appointment. Took me an
hour to do the entire car wash, from the examination
to walking in the door to leaving the door was
an hour, so I would encourage you to do it.
If you need some glasses, whether you're six months old
or sixty years old, it doesn't matter, get on in
there and get your glasses. All right, We're gonna take
a short break hour ones just about in the books.

(30:55):
Later in the show, we're going to talk to the
folks at Masterson. They're doing the pump the pumpkin chunkin.
That's where they use the and they shoot the pumpkins
out into the Ohio River and they try to hit
a target I think or its distance one of the two.
We'll figure it out when they get on the air
in a little bit, but we'll take a short break
back after this. Tony Venatti in, Dwight Whitten out, John

(31:17):
is out, Rick is in. We'll figure it all out.
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