11.11: UL/UK Game, Todd Murphy from USA Cares - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, welcome in, funks and happy Veterans' Day. Big
basketball game going on tonight, almost sold out. If you
want to pay a lot of money, you can go
to these secondary sites. It's all those secondary sites have
the Hey, if you want to see it's four million
dollars UK and U of L will play basketball tonight.
It's the weirdest time of year that this game has

(00:22):
gone on November eleventh. I can't remember ever.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
What cost this and great questions.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's actually a great question I do.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We'll let you know a heavy Veterans Day at the
bomb the hour, we'll be talking to Todd Murphy from
USA Cares, And you do not want to miss the
opportunity they have for you to help veterans but possibly
win some really big big prizes.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
You can, you know, I want to stay humble. But
until USA Cares started to work with our show, they
did not. You know, we tripled quadru pulled their budget.
Just to say, I don't know if maybe that was
part of what we were doing.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We did it twenty times.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Is that twenty times? The budget might have been thirty
But we're to stay humble. You know what if I
were humble? Yeah, nope, nope, nope, I'm sure was I'm
sure there was other people involved. Uk UL is a favorite,
by the way. About two points.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh okay, so two questions on this.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's went up the four actual, has it really right?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
It opened at too now it's at four. I think
that's what Nick Coffee said earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, but you know the old saying, any Tuesday night
at seven fifty six.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
O'clock, eight o'clock on November Day.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
On November. So okay, two questions. Number one, what caused
it to move to November instead of December? Number two?
Am I remembering this wrong? I used to think and
maybe got fouled up during COVID or something, but I
used to think that if uk hosted the basketball game,

(01:54):
then uf L would host the football game.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
COVID screw that up.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, So but COVID screwed that up. You have a
host basketball and foot correct?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, the COVID screwed that up because there
was games we skipped and we went back and then
actually they didn't play for a year. I don't know.
It was weird, it was really weird doing that. I
tried not to remember anything from the covid era.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, it was so awful for coming to my house.
That was great everything. Oh yeah, coming to my house. Yeah,
Kujo was waiting for me. Oh my god, jeez.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
And you know he's the worst dog parrot because he's
like inny cute, inny cute, in'ty cute?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, he's not cute, Hey, Tony, you might just want
to let him finish there.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
He's a killer, all right. Kentucky has won ten on
the last twelve matchups. If you're a Louisville fan, you're
just like, I'm sitting here, going, okay, great, we win
super But Louisville's got to start winning a couple of
these things in a row.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'll be watching the Golden Girls go to Bermuda the
two hour TV.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Where will you be? Lawmaker wife? UK crazy UK fan.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Be oh at the day she's actually oh boy, she
asked me last week. She said, uh, she said, you
won't go to UK game? I said basketball or football?
She said basketball? I went, do I have to? And
she said no.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Is Susan allowed to have a rooting interest or does
she have to stay neutral?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Uh? She will probably be Sweatzerland tonight, as I believe
she might be in a sweet.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
She's never Switzerland. I stop it?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I mean, what would it be best for me to be?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Who you is? Who you is?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Was that Abraham Lincoln? This is confusis right?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
That sounded like a Snoop Dogg quote?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Can you get that embroidered on a pillow? For us?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Who you is?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Who you is?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right? Maybe?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I don't think people in Kentucky care.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
They was Shakespearean.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you're no, one's not going to vote for you
because you're a Kentucky a litell fan.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I don't, No, I mean, I don't know, are you
kidd me? If there were any place, if there were
any place that a fan would make an argument not
to vote for somebody over a team, it would be Louisville,
Kentucky or electing to Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I kind of agree with.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That, only if what only if you're a Louisville fan. No,
because if you're Kentucky fan, Louisville fans don't care enough.
I don't think they care.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
They do. I think both fan bases.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Louisville fans cannot compare to UK fans. That's not even I.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Think both fan bases are quite fanatical.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh no, correct, they are.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
U O UK game arguments.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
There's fanatical and then there's Kentucky fans bro there they're
there are nothing like the big blue madness.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Spoken the big blue like a true UFL fan.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
The big blue mist. It seems to get in everybody's
eyes and hair. It's like, oh, UK fans are here.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Great?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Is that? Is that a new blue mist?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
No, that's always been a blue gets you in. I like.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
When they say, hey, we're driving down to Catlanta. Hey,
we're driving down to Katsville. Well, I mean Nashville, the
Blue Orleans, the like that one. I like that one.
Why can't you guys come up with stuff like that,
like you know, rh like Cardinal Oh yeah, good? For example,

(05:21):
if you play North Carolina, Colm North Cardinal Lina, Yeah
you know, I like that.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Hey, well the game was such a rival. Again, when
Rick and cow were going at it, it was it
was huge. And when Denny and Rick we used to
go out of it, it was huge.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
When I flew out to Los Angeles, Cardinal Fournia, I
was on the plane with the guy and he was saying,
it's exact same thing.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Again, we don't name cities after our team there's a
big difference.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Because you can't. No, we can't because you're not smart enough.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, because we know we're better than that.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
See me. Know we're arguing right now. And I'm not
even a sports.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Ball fans, well little fans just better.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
But I do like getting under your skin. It doesn't
work well, it's because it's too wrinkly in it.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I saw I was speaking of rank Mark Harmon. Yes,
he's doing another episode of the n Is it ncis
so the other one it's ncis okay, And he has
been off the show for a long time. So they
showed this really old man on TV and I couldn't
hear it, so I turned it up. It was Mark Harmon,

(06:32):
are you serious? And he was like and he was
really cool. I've always really liked him. I've always really
liked him. He did a movie in nineteen eighty seven
called Summer School, which I got to like him in
that he was like the gym teacher and he got
talked into teaching summer school to guys like you and
I and it was like, poor dude.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
And it was like a low budget films like The Star,
like Bill Murray's.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Nephew correct or something like that crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well Bill Murray was in town. When was a last
night or he.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Did a stand up thing?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I didn't even know he did stand up?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
No, it's music?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh was it?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Really?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I ha him his friends playing music. I'm just saying
I didn't see any pictures on social media and I
thought I would.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know, It's like it's like Springsteen coming and doing
a stand up bat What is he not gonna sing
thunder Road?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So a couple of upsters from Jersey welcome to board?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is he not going to sing Nebraska?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Is he not? Eh? Well, Barnie, you say I singing
that we're going to see Blue Murray?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Hey on, it's not it's not a
comedy show. What it's a It's a music show. Barbara, Okay, Barbara.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Streisan does magic? Watch me make this volkswagon disappear?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay? So Louisville hasn't won since twenty twenty, and they've
lost ten in the last twelve matchups. Louisville needs a
win tonight. They're both good teams. It's really good. Who's
making I know this sounds stupid, but who's making their shots?
Whoever is making their three pointers? Who's making their shots.
He's going to win this game.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Are you telling me that you believe whichever team gets
the ball in the basket more times?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah than this.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, I know it's simple.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's a hell of a strategy.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I know it's simple to take. And usually there's one
player that goes off for Kentucky that it isn't like
last year they had a guy who went ten for
ten thirty points. Butler didn't miss from the free throw on.
It was just like he was perfect for the game.
And it's like that has to happen for a for
something to pull away. Ninety three eighty five was the
game last year in RUP.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do both teams have all of their good players?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Okay, so hes got a few wins, Yeah, they got
a few teams.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
But part of the problem was they like this was
the first matchup last year and the picture afterwards because
Poe played center in the NBA and in college, and
we know how small Kelsey is, so it looks like,
you know, the whole thing was the little brother. So
everybody was doing the memes of it. Just the contrast
did not work for us.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, let's keep it on sports ball and University of
louis fighting Cardinals.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh you saw Daniel Hell with the Brom family. So
some dude, this is what happens with the gaming is
in every country or every stage. Yeah, maybe Stivers was right.
Maybe Robert Stivers was right. Maybe we shouldn't have gaming
to Kentucky. Uh so somebody in Texas was threatening it

(09:36):
was it was after the game. It wasn't before the game,
because that's what I thought. I thought, old boy, did
he try to get to Miller and throw the game?
That's a story. But they were like, no, it was
post he lost a bunch of money, and he blamed
the Broms, Brian Brom, Jeff Brohm and Miller because he's quarterback.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Did he get he said?

Speaker 1 (09:55):
And family. So it's a Jeff Brian and family. So
I don't know this pacifis.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
So okay, let me get this straight. So the guy
made a bet and he probably bet University of Louisville
and they didn't.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Cover, right, didn't win the game? Oh okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Probably could cover because they were like a twenty point favorite.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
If they were twenty point.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Favorites nineteen and a half, really I would have made
it twenty and what they.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Lose by it was overtime. They lost an overtime down, Yeah,
they lost an overtime. But so that that story, I
don't know if that story has legs because we're hearing
those stories a lot these days of people threatening college kids. Wow. Uh,
and we need to keep an eye on it. And
there has been no discussion on how to protect these kids,

(10:42):
which is very interesting that people don't care about these athletes.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Not worse, but which which motive do you think would
be more attractive to a college student? Hey, you might
want to miss fifty shots, or something could happen to
this knee, or hey, man, how'd you like an extra
two hundred and thirty five thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand.

(11:05):
You know, do you think paying them off would be?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh? If you ever watched an episode of Sopranos or
good Fellows, they get them jammed up. Yeah, so they hey,
gamble with us, So now they get them in debt. Right,
they get the kid in debt ten times. My wife
got me to marry her, right exactly, all right, extortion.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
She said, you won't come over and play shoes in
the ladders? I said, shit, do I next thing, you know,
you're in debt over there, and she starts breaking out
the candy and the slides, and she goes, let's make
this interesting. You know interesting, you say, next thing at all?
I'm chained to.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
The problem was no jury would believe it. So that's
how they do it. So they get the kid jammed up.
And let me tell you, for a college kid, if
you're twenty years old, you don't have to be jammed
up by much much to freak out. You almost ten thousand,
like to somebody else, maybe ten thousand mouth budget. If
you're twenty and you're in college, you owe oh no, no,
two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Trust me. At fifty seven. Ten thousand would ring my bell.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, oh so you would throw this show?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Do you not remember that's what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Do you not remember that's what.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Maybe this is why we've been in a lot of
meetings in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Do you not remember the joke of the day, how
horrible I was on it? That's right, there was a line.
There was a line on the Austin. That's right. I'm
coming clean.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
By the way, our producer, we send our love to
John William Alder than the third and his daughter Daisy.
She still says wife and the wife got it. That's
what I texted him last night.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Name is your producer's wife's name is wife?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Wife? Job?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
My bad the wife.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think it's Gladys or Bernice. I think I think
it's Gladys Bernice.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's John and Bernice, John Bernice. Yeah, that was on
the wedding invitation that we did not see. It's not true.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
We're talking about is the name we were trying to
come up with yesterday.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Do you like better Bernice or Bernephew. That's what I
bring to the table. Baby. Thank you Rodney from a
junk Lebanon junction.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
I don't know what you did to get in on
the mafia, but it's certainly showing that you're throwing the show.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Throwing the show, baby, there's no question about it. Bernice
or Bernephew.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And you're trying to protect your family.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Listen, man, I get it.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
They hunged White up by his feet at the top
of four Street Live.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
They didn't even have to do that. They just took
his cheesecake from him, saying from.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
The m and ms falling out of my pockets and
Clark bars.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
They hit the picture of Lemmy through the uh through
the living room window.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
If you ever really want to know what Dwight was like,
just watch Goonies and Chunk Chunk.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Is you know I'm gonna watch it this weekend. Do
you think it's gonna hold? Because I've never seen it?
You're first the Goonies first all, you're a liar. No,
I swear you're a liar. I know you said I'll
hang on. You said i'll watch it this weekend. You're
a liar and you won't watch it. That might be
a lie.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, but I intend to have family movie night with
the Goonies unless it starts to suck.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Can I come over?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, you and Jackie come over. We'll hit the hot tub.
I'll cook something. Why is the hot Put some sexy
music on where I'll tell you to break.

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Speaker 1 (16:54):
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
Twenty twelve was my moment of of reality. I was
on the You've heard this story many times. I was
on the bathroom floor holding my stomach because I was
sick of what was going to happen that day. I
knew Kentucky was going to win. They had that super
team and my wife because she's so sweet. Oh, she

(17:41):
was so sweet and caring.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
She's like a florist Nightingale.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Absolutely absolutely so. I'm on the floor of the bathroom
and i have stomach pains, literally so bad. I'm on
the floor because I know what's going to happen later
that day. And she opens the door. What what what?
And basically is Jackie Venetti, you're a bum, you're a father,
and you're a husband. Get your ant off the bathroom floor,

(18:07):
and then kicked me sissy blank and then she called
me the sisty but used a different word, uh, and
kicked me you know I can't and then shut the door,
and I said, but that was my moment. That's when
I realized I've invested too much in this game.

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Every word you say is just going in one ear
out the other. I can't concentrate with your face painted
like a cardinal bird? Why did you do that?

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Do you like it? It's pretty good?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
You see my mouth looks like a beak.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I know it's big in the sell. It's distracting, man.
Can you wash it off? Just for feed me?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Feed me? Feed me?

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Will you baby bird me?

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Then?

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Speaker 2 (20:13):
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Speaker 1 (20:15):
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Speaker 2 (20:16):
I was let's just leave that.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
I was thinking on Veterans Day we should stay home. Yeah,
back after this news Radio eight forty h a is.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Just to be fair, we got to play some Joeby
Hall for the Kentucky face.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Right, God rest his soul. I loved Joe B.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Hall.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
I loved him. I didn't love him when I was
a little kid and he was the coach at Kentucky,
but when he worked here and I got to know him,
and here's what I'm gonna say, we became friends really great.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
It was very comic with just walking in and seeing
Denny Crown in the studio and Danny would have his
paper out, drinking coffee and chopping that damn gum.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah you know, because I know you love that.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
I hate well, but Danny Kramer gave it a pass.
Here's a guy I will not give a pass too, though,
Todd Murphy. I'm getting sick and tired and guys named
Todd let's talk USA cares. I'm excited about this and
I want to get some tickets to it. Bourbon raffle,
but some big names in this, Todd, right, Yes, it is.

(21:30):
It is a wonderful raffle.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
We're partnered with an organization out of Elizabethtown area, Give
to seven zero. They work with other organizations as well,
putting on raffles of all kinds, but we're doing a
bourbon raffle. It's taking place again. You can buy tickets online.
The drawing will be November of the nineteenth, so we're
down to like the last you know, eight or nine days.

(21:54):
But it's a great opportunity. I've donated quite a few
of the bottles in this set, did not donate the
three grand prizes. I don't have the type of income
that would allow for.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
That me to purchase that with Let's get into it
real quick, because one of the grand prizes is the
entire flight six bottle Pappy van Winkle whoa, whoa, whoa,
one of my wife's favorite drinks whenever we go to
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Pappy twenty fives with big red and whipped cream and

(22:26):
oh so good delicious. I just want to make all
the bourbon people square arout there for a second. Yeah,
so no, seriously though, I mean some of this stuff
it would be hard to obtain, we guess right.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Oh definitely, you know for us, we came across this opportunity.
So you have the Pappy van Winkle Vertical set, you
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
That's all I was about to say, they're only selling
their limiting and the number of tickets sold, so you
have a better chance to win this.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yes, and for us, it's you know, our organization, we
are very select about who we partner with, who we
work with in this organization. Seventy five percent of the
proceeds are going to come to us out of this riffle.
Twenty five percent are going back to them and give
toof So no, we're both nonprofits, so we're putting that
money towards veterans and then back into the community.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay, but let's talk about let's get back to this,
certainly because the list you have here is amazing. But
I want to talk about USA Cares. Because USA Cares,
Let's talk charities you can trust. Charity Navigator gives you
all a plus.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
That's that is the place that is rating place, and
these days and times.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
You can Yeah, there's so many ripoff joints out there.
You guys have an A plus rating on a Charity Navigator.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yes, we do. We take great pride in that.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Mass.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
After our CEO, we we look at functional allocation two.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
So we already Hey.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Listen, ty, why do I tell you about college words,
no college words in the studio.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Well, we'll break it down for Dwight, eighty eight point
five cents of every dollar that you donate comes straight
to our Mission's beautiful. So for us that we we
won very lean, but it's an opportunity. Wer dollar makes
a big, big difference. And with this furlough that's been happening, Yeah,
our applications for assistance have gone up and up and up.
So we're partnering with this organization to try to help

(24:39):
us during the holiday season.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Let's come back to the Bourbon Raffle, because it's one
hundred dollars ticket, which is a great chance. I mean,
because look how many prizes there are. It's so it's
too many to count. But here's my point. Let's say
if you win, you've donated one hundred dollars that will

(25:01):
go to help veterans. But let's say you win just
a regular bottle of bourbon. That's still probably fifty five bucks.
So you got fifty five bucks worth the bourbon back,
but you've also helped out veterans.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
So the list underneath Dwight is a lot of those
bourbons were either donated to us or I donated them.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
And some of them you can't get right.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
So some of them are what they call single barrel selects.
So those are store picks, right. The organization or the
store has gone out and had a line of barrels
put in front of them, and they try the one
that they like best. So it truly is a unique
barrel and need opportunity, kind of a one of a kind.
So it's a great opportunity. Most of those bottles are
more than fifty dollars in retail, right, We're talking. Some

(25:45):
of those bottles are one hundred and fifty. The President's
Choice there at the top of the list. That's a
three hundred dollars retail bottle. Whoa, So that's an old
forester that comes out once a year. So there's some
great opportunities.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
But for me, I didn't want to see the obvious.
But I was like trying to do the math in
my head, and I'm going, if they actually just sold
all these bottles, it might be more than you're going
to raise on the raffle because you've limited the number
of tickets sold. Right, Because I'm sitting there going, oh
my gosh, the six bottle of Pappy van Winkle isn't

(26:18):
it or is it?

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Oh, I don't know the value of what you would
get and return is insane.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Is insane, It's insane.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
In retail for that six bottle.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Oh, it's it's it's insane.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's astron it's insane.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's insane because I have friends that broke her this stuff,
you know, Colonel Hedges and he he, he is doing
this constantly and it's unbelievable. Bottles that you would not think.
He was like, yeah, I'll sell to you for eight
hundred bucks, you know, and that's a small number for
what they that these bottles. Uh, some of these bottles
go for. It's crazy. Now, let's talk about USA Cares

(26:51):
because I don't want to run. I don't want to
run out of that.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Look.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
USA Cares started in Kentucky, it is now in every
state in the United States. It is a stop gap
between what the government helped. And we all know how
well the government runs when it takes into talks about
taking care of our veterans. Very efficient, very very efficient,
especially lately. Yeah, right, but there stop gap. So let's

(27:18):
say there's a family somebody's you know, needs help, and well,
the government's going to be ninety to six months. Ninety
days or six months, Well, guess what comes in after
thirty days? Electric bill, water bill, food bill. They got kids,
and this is helping kids and wives of or husbands
of service men and women that we have it is.

(27:41):
Can you give a reason why it's grown so fast
so quickly?

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Well, I think the difficult part is part of what
we try to assist during this fellow furlough in ways
that we can. There are times where we can't assist.
That's the frustrating part, right, you know our mission, we're
hell to the application process that we vet veterans with.
I think the reason it is it has gotten so
quickly is it's it's money. We know how hard how

(28:10):
far your money goes. We go to the grocery and
it costs X amount of dollars, right, our money doesn't
go as far. So that's the key is making sure
we have resources we are. We try to do our
best and help those that we can, but we also
do not turn away service members both active in veterans
that need assistance. We try to put them in directions
where there are organizations that can help as well.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
And so for us, this is.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
The perfect opportunity to partner with Gift two seven zero
because they're putting back into that Harden County community where
we started.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
So that's the key there.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I want you to encourage people. If you want to
feel good about America, get involved with USA Cares. Go
to the dinner that they have once a year. You
will walk out of there so proud that you're an American.
It's my wife cries through the whole.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Thing because she's just next to me. Though that's true. No,
that's true, Todd Murphy, USA Care joins us. We joke
a lot about a lot of things on the show,
but USA Cares is not one that we joke about
because it's such a good organization and it really walks
the walk right. It's a plus rating on a Charity Navigator,
and your money actually goes to help veterans. But if

(29:19):
you're I don't know, if you own a company, or
maybe you're a CEO, CFO, maybe you're just an HR,
what Todd does goes beyond finances as well. You'll actually
help veterans find an organization that fits them for work
and employment. And there's a benefit for the employer and

(29:40):
by the way, for the veterans as well.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Right, absolutely, you know, Dwight, I've been on a couple
times now in my tenure with USA Cares talking about
that program. For me, I hope, I'm three for three
now I come in with this is too good to
be true, this raffle today. But what my main job
is is I help veterans that are exiting out, either
retiring or getting out as a junior service member, and

(30:03):
they're looking to go into the workforce, right, and their
skill set is sometimes hey, I've only been in the
military for eight years or I've only been in the
military my whole life.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Right, where am I going to go to next? Right?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Scary? I don't care. I'll tell if you are. It's scary.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
And it's a transition that you know we were talking
before the show started. You were taught to adapt and
survive in the military, right, And so for them it's
an opportunity to go out into this new career.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
And some of them are great.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
They say, Hey, I've been in logistics, let's go towards logistics.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
This is where I want to go. And then you
have service members like, hey, I've done logistics my whole life.
I want something new. I want a new pathway, Todd.
We're turning left now, We're not going right anymore, We're
turning left. And so that's a little bit of the
challenging part. But the military offers are basically a college
internship style fellowship coming out. Depending on your rank, it

(30:56):
can be as little as sixty days up to one
hundred and twenty days based on your rank. For US,
at USA Cares, we do four courts a year. We
do eight week courts, and we feel like when we
partner the organization with that service member, if we've done
our due diligence, that after four weeks, the organization knows
and the service member.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Knows like, hey, this is a good fit. Sometimes it's not.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
It's not a good fit and we move on to
Plan B. But for us, we have great organizations. Norton
Healthcare Sentaory Global Ge Appliances is probably one of the
bigger ones that works with us because they have logistics,
they have compliance, they have all those areas where the
service member's skill set can jump in and really kind
of hit the round, hit the ground running, so to speak.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I I'll tell you hang on real quick. The first
year I went to the dinner, they had a general
speak and he said he knew he was in a
different world when he went in, because you have to
turn in your military ID to get your now retired ID.
And he walks in. He's a brigadier general, he's a
way up guy. He's one of those guys. And he
walks in in a private is screaming at him that

(32:00):
he's not sitting in the right spot, and he's going
to the right spot and he's not in this white spot.
And he's realizing now he is transitioning to his new life,
right to where every time he walked in a room,
everyone stood right right. Now there's a private going your state.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
You're in the wrong area.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
You need to be over here screaming at me is like,
my world is about to change, Todd.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
How can companies there's a CEO or someone with HR
listening right now. How what's the best way? Just contact
USA Cares.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Contact USA Cares. You can contact me at USA Cares.
You can go to USA cares dot org and we
have information describing that that fellowship that I take part in.
But for us, it's the it's the opportunity to connect
those service members. I want to keep him in the state.
Yeah right, yeah, you're in Fort Knox. I want to

(32:48):
keep you in that area, and a lot of those
service members want to stay in there. Hey, Todd, I've
moved my whole life. We like it here, right. Our
money goes a lot further here than it does in California.
So so for us, it's a great opportunity to keep
him in state and that and that's for us.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Reach out to us.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
We can help kind of plug the website for give
to seven oh.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Of course you can. And while you're at it, going
how do we buy ticket? Hit this burwer raffle again
because this impressive.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah, so you can go to www dot give to
seven o dot org slash raffle. But if you go
to give to seven oh dot org, it'll pull up
their website and you can go the raffle tab. But
you know, for us, you have the six bottle Pappy Flight,
some of the other ones that are in there. You
have the Old Forester, President's Choice, a Russell's thirteen blant

(33:35):
and single barrel, old Ezra barrel Proof, some store picks,
some makers mark limited edition series that are up there.
Log Still there's some of those great opportunities. Some of
those are signed by the master distiller, so it's a
great opportunity to have some great bourbon and also help veterans.

(33:56):
I can't think of a better way to spend it
with you two talking about helping veterans, especially organization rooted
in this area.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Thank you Todd for everything you do, brother, Thank you.
All Right, there you go, let's get it done. USA Cares.
Just google it, you'll get to the right website and
you'll figure things out. It is a great organization that
has top notch ratings.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Southern Comfort hot Tub Baby, see you there this Friday.
Veteran cell going on all this week. By the way,
Susan and I we love our Southern covered hot tub.
We're in it just about every single night. We'll put
on the best twoes we have, whatever fits our mood
for the night, and I'll say, Honey, give me a
Pappy van Winkle twenty five with big red and whipped cream,

(34:37):
and off we go sipping that beautiful Pappy juice. Hot
tubs is low as sixty five dollars a month, let's
twelve month, same as cash makes it easy.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
I think I think the hot tub is cheaper than
the Pappy, actually the entire hotub.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Southern covered hot Tub, seventy five oh one Preston Highway
and theirs perfectly with Pappy.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Jack back after this our number two Corny Way. Parent
Johnson's going to join us. He used to play for
Rick Patino a while ago, so he's on our staff.
He's going to break down the U. L UK game
for us a little bit after ten o'clock right here
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