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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back out Number three News Radio eight forty whas
just leg Jack Fux said, we were brought to you
by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Busy show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Today we talked about this new federal spending bill that
contains THC restrictions could cost three hundred thousand American jobs,
and in Kentucky it's kind of a big deal. These
drinks are allowed up two point four milligrams of THC
per container. You find them in those monster not monster drinks,
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but those type drinks you find at the you know,
at the grocery store or the gas station. It's got
a little THC in it, got a little energy drink
in it. But there was a loophole in the twenty
eighteen Farm Bill that allowed this to happen because universities
could not get you know, hemp that people want to
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do more with hemp. So they were like, we've got
to really roll back this hemp restriction. When they did that,
this opened the door to this and created billions of
dollars of revenue, you in taxes. It could cost the
states like Kentucky one point five billion dollars in tax revenue.
And that's what's happened. Rand Paul altered the amendment with
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some language for the Senate bill, but was tabled. The
rest of the Senate said, hey, we'll talk about it later.
The folks that wanted this said it was overdue. They've
been using this loophole. Well, it created You let the
genie out of the bottle man, You created a humongous industry.
So and with marijuana being legal everywhere, it's kind of crazy,
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all right. Anonymous donor gives five million dollars to transform
Louisville's historic Chickasaw Park. They are known as the West
End Tennis Club the West Louisville Tennis Club. Mary Grissom
of the Oldstead Parks Conservancy Conservancy share the news this weekend.
It's a lot of money. But if you, I don't know,
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you haven't shopped schools for young Daisy yet. But let
me tell you these these playgrounds. Yeah, these playgrounds now
are about a half a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Wow, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I mean, well, the one they built it the Jay
was it was over a half a million dollars. Because
they helped them with their fundraiser. They wanted a park
that was accessible to the special needs kids. Okay, so
you can Yeah, you can get so they have that.
A kid in a wheelchair can get on swing stuff
like that and play on it. Uh, but for a
normal playground, it's just it's it's like a half a
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million bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean I can I can see that though, like
some of out in my neck of the woods in
Mount Washington, they put up one of those splash parks.
I know, it's not the exact same thing. Those things
are so huge and extravagant. The amount of and again
it's not necessarily about the water bill. The amount of
water that gets pumped into those things every all summer,
and how large the slides are that and it's not
even a water parker's just like you know, everything's is
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kind of yeah, it's a regular park with little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's one giant I can't see sprinkler.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, and if it's anything like that that, you know,
those places are popping up all over the all over
the you know, Mount Washington and you know Louisville especially.
I mean I could see why i'd be a little
more expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And good for homestead parks. Getting this to again, the
anonymous donor we don't know who gave five million dollars
Chicken Saul Park.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But they need to help.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The fences are falling down and stuff like that. And
of course the they only clay courts in Louisville are
down there, so that will help. But this is when
we asked the question of where do they spend all
this money in revenue. Well, nineteen seventy five, you put
wood chips down, you had swings. You had that little
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thing that one kid gets on one side and there's
a spring in the middle, right with like some design
in the middle, and the other kids on the other
one and you just go back and forth. Yeah, you
rock on this spring.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I can't even think of those are called. They're like
little rocking horses.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But yeah, horse right, and the sea horse, the sea
sea saw, that's right. And the sea all was basically
a ten x twelve with the little link.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's all it was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So the cause for a playground was probably less than
a couple of thousand dollars. Now they're close to a
half a million dollars. That is a business because the
ground now is that soft, you know, not plastic but rubber.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, it's kind of like astro turf but really.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, and they're fancy designs. I don't get the
twisty thing, do they there's like a slide. Yeah, it's
a weird No, it's not a slide. It's just like
the pipe has bent into a little twisty thing. I
was like, what do the kids wills do there?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Hurt themselves?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, hello, that's the whole point of a playground.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They still got monkey bars, you know, where you climb
across that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And the little cage looking thing where you would climb
over top of it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know if they have that anymore. I don't
know what that was called, but it's kind of like
a monkey bar. But again, they used to have.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They used to put these things together with cheap aluminum,
and then uh, they had the you know, they would
not cut the bolts off. So you know, there's a
million kids in America that are now in their fifties
and sixties now with a.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Scar over their left eye. Burn yourself, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I know, your your eye would catch on that bolt.
And then of course the bright aluminum slides that in
the middle of the summer when you're using it the most,
it's a thousand degrees hell's tongues.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
They call it what they call maybe we can.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sounds like a whitewater rafting tour. If Dwight was here,
he would have an answer for that. But I'm not
going to mention what popped in my head. But yeah,
that's so, this is where the money goes. Five million bucks.
We all think, well, that's great, but it's not going
to go very far. I could promise you that U
Chickasaw Park needs it for sure, and that's good for them.
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I was glad I saw that announced. This one came
up through science and food. Study shows that cows, the
cells that they have can become Do you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Have your pump, pump, pump? I do have it?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Study shows that cow cells can become immortal. Scientists have
made a big discovery that could make lab grown beef
much cheaper and easier to produce. That's not what I
was thinking. I was like, immortal means is there a
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way you could put that to humans? For the first time,
researchers found that cow cells can naturally become immortal, meaning
they keep dividing forever without needing any genetic changes.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hello, if something ever, If something ever, I'm sure it
does exist for humans. They don't want people to know
that because they that would create overpopulation. You know that
the big I guess big government wouldn't want to have
over population is well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, the third world country is the only places having children. England, America, Italy,
South Korea. No one's having children. Everybody's got one point
seven kids.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now I have one point zero kids.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're gonna have number two though, right, yeah, eventually, yeah, yeah,
you got to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Give him a partner. No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That was the biggest thing the eighties and nineties were
movies about. Even in the two thousands, it was all
about overpopulation. Well, that's not an issue, not with the
civilized world. Everywhere else, third world countries, they're having eight
nine babies.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We're not having Heck, there's a lot of Americans that
are deciding we're not having kids at all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wasn't there in a I don't think this ever came
to pass, But there was a thing that Trump came
up with. They were trying to offer if you have
a kid, you'd get like a five thousand dollars stipend
or something. I've done that through history.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, that's not the first time child credit and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Definitely you got to give him some incentive. It's so
expensive to raise kids now, it is crazy. I had
three siblings, so that's four of us, much cheaper than
what I raised my two four, you know, twenty thirty
years later by a wide margin. And let me tell
you it shifted. We paid almost nothing to the hospital
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when John was born, but when Maggie was born just
two years later, it was four or five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh my gosh, it was a big difference. Was it
the exact same like experience in the hospital?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Was there?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Not that I need you to detail it, but no.
Would there have been a reason for it to cost more? Iguess.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Maggie was a lot easier. John was upside down. We
called him sunny side up, so he got a bruised nose.
He looked like Rocky when he came out, but he
but Jackie did eighteen hours of labor, Holy crash. She
didn't want to see section, so she kept saying, no,
We're going to figure this out, and finally the doctor said,
we can't do this any longer.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We got to go in. My wife didn't have an
option for a sea set or she had to do
sea section. She couldn't do natural because of the preemie
type stuff. Sure, but now she was so afraid of it.
After going through, she said she wouldn't do it the
regular way. She said, she does sea section every time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, Jackie didn't want that, so we let me tell you.
They strapped her to that board. It looks very medieval, medieval.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It almost looks like the way that they went they
put them on the table, it almost looks like they're
Jesus pose.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Jack correct. Jackie was literally in your wife. Literally it
was a wooden board. It was two wooden boards. She
was her arms are strapped like that. She couldn't move,
and I said, I'm up here. And they built like
a sort of a tent so I couldn't see them
slice open the stomach, pull her and her digestion whatever
her intestines out. Yeah, lay it on the table, and
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get the baby out. It was actually that was pretty moving.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's very It's something. Yeah, it was the same thing
with us with the little curtain thing. You walk in.
It looks like you're hide and behind like backstage, just
some sort of hospital movie or something like that. Yeah,
phrase anatomy, and then all of a sudden there's the baby.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, yeah, that was crazy eighteen hours. I didn't stay
for two days because she had yelled at me that
I better If you're gonna have fun with your friends,
you better do it now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So I did. Played poker till like six in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I remember shutting the garage door as the sun was
coming up. Went to work in the hotline rings in
the Fox studio. Hey sweetie, Yeah, oh, I can't wait
to get home. I've got that Do you have that?
We have that fan in the bedroom? Yeah, put it
right on me. I'm just gonna I can't. I was
thinking of how cold the pillow was gonna be when
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I got home, and she said, well, you might want
to come to Baptiste's.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
First.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, what, here comes Johnny. So this is
I know right When I read the story, I went, well,
what are we looking at this for human? So basically
they said this cow cell naturally become immortal, meaning they
keep dividing forever without needing any genetic changes to them.
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That's what I thought, How are you not applying this
to human cells? Because that's the reason you age. Your
cells start to age and they stop to recreating, you
stop creating new cells. Basically, that's how you age. Inflammation
is what they call it. Your cells just get old.
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With these natural immortal cells, scientistsics they can now produce
lab grown beef at prices similar to regular beef. I
don't know which one is better. They'll tell you that
you shouldn't need beef, right, red meat and all that,
But then I see the list of chemicals in the
fake beef, and I'm like, well, which one's better?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
When you say lab grown beef, are you talking about
the like the plant based stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, you know right? Have you seen the list of
ingredients on that?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, I wouldn't want to try it on.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's a couple of paragraphs long and you can't pronounce
most of it. So I'm like, that's healthier for me
than a half pound of ground beef and a burger.
I don't know, man, but that's what I thought. How
did How is this story not dovetailing or connecting to
humans immortal? I don't want to be immortal.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I just I don't. What if being immortal meant you
stopped aging? Though? Like you because you're in your mind
you're thinking, Okay, I can't die, but I still age.
And it's miserable once you get your late eighties and nineties,
if you stopped aging at your perfect age, whatever it
might have been, that's different, right, It depends how much
money or maybe you just hate because at that point
you it's gotta be eternity. We don't need to get
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into all this right now. But eternity is a weird concept.
Knowing that you could be somewhere forever and I wanna
say nothing changes, but you don't end. Everything just continues
on forever.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, if we kept moving forward as a human race,
I would I would like to be immortal.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I guess yeah, but we're not.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Just because we come up with new science gadgets, we
are going backwards when it comes to if anybody that's
lived two or three hundred years, you'd go, we do
the same things over and over and over and over again.
Empires are cyclical. It's all the same stuff. I mean,
if you think that we're a lot different than what
the when the Roman Empire went down, look all those
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they had a senate, right, I mean they nothing changes.
We look Iraq was Vietnam. We continue to make the
same mistakes. So if the human race was getting smarter
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and more about peace and love then yes, but to
go through and say and be able to predict things.
Here's how this is gonna go. I mean, come on,
come on, I don't know, man. I think there's two
different worlds there, live forever or live forever, feeling young
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in halfway looking young. That's two different things. But this
is an interesting cow cells become immortal. How come we're
just figuring this out now? Cows are pretty important to
the American society.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah. Sorry, beef, dairy milk, geez beef.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, that's kind of You've just mentioned three or of
the four or five big parts of the grocery store
and one animal that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Bear knows pizza. We just say we wouldn't any of that. No,
just the bread.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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move back after this short break on these radio eight
forty whas, brace yourself, my friend, and thanks for not
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playing heavy metal today.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There's there's still tomorrow. Oh I hang on, I spoke
too soon. What the hell is this? This is soriah, soriah,
That's what it tells, what it says. I'm just trying.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm just trying to say, let's shake it up. This
was a trickery all the shows playing heavy metal.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I made you think it was it wasn't gonna be metal,
and then about twenty seconds into the song it changed
its mind. Yeah it's heavy metal. It's a female singer though, well,
good for her.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I just again, I enjoyed it for its time.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But Iron Maiden headlining the largest rock when headlining one
of the day is the largest rock concerts in North
America is embarrassing for music, not for them. Iron Maidens great.
I understand where you're coming from, but they're they're they're
there were big fifty years ago, forty years ago, and
they're headlining a tour or this thing this year. That's
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not good for music. It's great for them, it's great
for their fans.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But come on, I think Louder than Life does a
great job at having a good eclectic lineup.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Of oldie of old old bands and newer bands. I agree,
I agree, U Brace yourself. Chick fil A is testing
chicken and waffle sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Wow. I don't know if that's done, done, done, but
maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The sandwich well anything Chick fil a people lose their minds.
The sandwich consists of crispy chicken stacked between warm maple
waffles and a touch touch of smoked bacon.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Chicken and waffles can go oh with some smooth That's
right up anyone's alley. I'm in. I'm surprised they haven't
done this before. Now they got the little they got
the chicken minies, and those kind of got the little
there's some little butter on the little buns that they
put those on they're kind of like waffles, but it's
not's not the same. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I'm in, dude, smoked bacon, warm maple waffles, and crispy chicken.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So yummy, done, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
They debuted it in Boston and San Antonio and it
should be making way to your Chick fil A soon.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I'm a Chick fil a guy. I like it too,
not all the time. It's not like my kids.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
My kids were so like magging or friends were so
woke and you know everything, they wouldn't buy from this
person or hated people, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then but I was.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like, yeah, you know it's called Jesus chicken. Yeah, we
don't care. The food's too good and we.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Know ah already selling out. I love it. The Chick
fil A transcends politics, even if people try to make
it political. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Carriage Ford, I love my boys and girls a carriage Forward.
Go on over there this weekend. They still have the
deal going on, zero percent down, zero interest, no payment
for ninety days. That's on the F one fifties and
the Broncos. Most of the cars on the lot they're
getting they're moving out these lots so you can get
the twenty sixes in here it is time to buy
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a f one fifty. I have one parked in my driveway.
I love it at twenty twenty five. It's the STX
black package. The rims are black, the interior is black,
the truck's black. I mean it is bad, you know what,
So go buy carriage Ford to go to Carriageford dot com.
Take a look at him. You can't beat this zero
percent interest won't happen again. It's crazy, all right? Back
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after this news radio waight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
How's this for a change up? Just change it up?
It's all asking.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I don't want you don't have to play girl pop music.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But maybe that's all we're doing tomorrow, girly pop. I'm in.
I'm okay with that. Whatever. Some upbeat I get. I get.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I get tired of all the producers just doing what
Dwight wants, which is play the heavy metal stupid.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See, it's not about doing what Dwight wants. It the
fact that I like it too.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, that's a problem. I'm out numbered here, all right.
According to Louisville Business First, I had an article from
Leapfrog hospital safety grades were out. They gave grades to
more than three thousand hospitals across the nation. They do
it twice a year. According to this group's website, there
are two Louisville hospitals or two air sorry, two area
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hospitals evaluated receiving grades.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
As can. I guess which ones? Sure is one of them?
Norton Women and Children's is No, they got a B.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
About Baptist East Baptiste Baptist Health Floyd Center or Floyd
in Indiana got a C. Baptist Health Lagrange.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
No, I'm thinking of the one that's out there next
to is that Baptist Health.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yes, Baptist healths Louisville they got a B.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay, so that's not bad out there. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm thinking if you get a B, you're pretty good. Yeah,
because at this point you only got two hospitals in
the area. Flage A Memorial Hospital in Bardstown Bardstown both
received an A plus. Baptist Health in Lagrange got an A.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Shout out to flage A. They are a pretty small hospital, right,
I have never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Obviously. I understand flage A High School. They closed in
nineteen seventy four. That's how I know flage A.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
My mother in law went out there when she had
her appendix burst. Really yep, this is a couple of
years ago. See, Barstown's got everything bourbon. Everyone there is pretty.
You ever drove through Barstown and saw an ugly.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Person from Yeah, she went. She went to high school
out there, including her. Yeah, there's just pretty people everywhere.
Hospitals are evaluated with more than twenty measures and publicly available.
Uh to that you can find all these numbers out safety, hygiene, falls,
doctor communication, and discharge information. Pretty simple stuff right or categories? Yeah,
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Jewish Hospital, got to see Norton Hospital. Gotta be University
of Louisville got to see Norton Clark Hospital got to
see I can only tell you U of l Health
that's where I went for my heart attack. Yes, Dwight,
it was a heart attack. Two of them, Uh I get.
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I would give them an eight because they were unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And then the reason, I guess women and Children's because
with my wife's premature birth situation, they couldn't have handled
that any better for us. Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know this all dovetails into the business of hospitals
and insurance companies. I mean, it's just weird. I mean
that we we just accept the fact that there are
two different prices for the procedure I had. I had
two stints put in my widow maker, which opened it up.
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It was one hundred percent blocks. I should be dead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What they called a widow maker, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Exactly, because you don't know it and then something happens,
you know, and then the side of the the artery.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What a morbid name. I mean, I guess it's true.
Oh how many got it down?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Until you get to your forties and fifties, you don't
realize how many guys go down. My dad died at
sixty so heart attack. So the difference in the price
was whether I had insurance or not. If I had
If I didn't have insurance, I think it was like
seventeen or eighteen thousand dollars, and if I had insurance,
it was like eighty something. And I was just like this,
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this is this system is broken. We've got to figure
this out. Flage's got the a U of L Health
Shelbyville got to be Baptist Health in Lagrange. Got in
a Norton Brownsboro hospital that was very I've been that
several times. That's a really good hospital. That got to
be Norton Women's and Children b U of L Health,
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C Baptist Floyd Baptist Health Floyd C Norton Aldeman Hospital
got to be University of Louisville is the only that's
the that's the one downtown that's where they take all
the gunshots and the trauma. I think that's one of
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the top rated traumas, at least in Kentucky for sure.
But these grades are are again, I guess they grade
pretty hard because.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
These are they great? If you get lower than a sea,
did they what do they do to you? Surely they
don't not be acceptable. Nobody in this list got lower
than a seat. That's good. But there are a lot
of ce's. I mean, if sees the average as it
historically is, I mean, I guess that means you're probably
doing everything right in the basic format of things right,
with a few mistakes here and there. I would imagine
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you would you.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Would guess, you would guess. But but these are here's
the thing. The two ones that got a's are the smallest.
Really that hell, yeah, probably work a lot more efficiently
in that Baptist Help UH is the fifteenth largest, got
ninety beds, about three hundred million in net patient income.
Flage A Memorial Hospitals seventeenth largest and its only has
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forty beds, so it got it got an A, but
in only one hundred million in net patient revenue. So
the smaller ones obviously do are easier to handle.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I wonder how this is going to change. Wasn't that
this might have been a part of the big beautiful
bill or one of the bills. I could be mistaking
which one was. But where there was a chance of
shutting down hospitals in Kentucky effect.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, that was that was that was a talking political
point they had. They had already covered those rural areas
and all that That was not that was the scare
tactic of all.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
This was the small town hospitals are going to die. No,
I'm not laughing at them laughing. I know, yeah, I know.
Pardon no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
NAFTA killed the small town That's what That's what happened there. NAFTA,
to me, the worst policy in American history besides slavery.
That's number one, but not even a not even close,
but second. Naftern after killed small town America. Congratulations Bill Clinton.
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It's funny how presidents are treated when they first get
out to you get a couple of decades, and now
you're at thirty years since he's been out, twenty thirty
years since he's been out, dude, he has looked at
in a very different light than just fifteen twenty years ago.
I mean, people were comparing him as they put him
on the list of one of the best presidents in
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the twentieth century. But in reality he did a lot
of things that did not go well. I thought the
regulation of radio and television was a mistake. I also
think that NAFTA was a huge, huge It was great
for the time because everyone stocks were going through the
roof because all these companies were getting record you know,
returns as they were moving all their plants and everything
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else from towns like Huntington, West Virginia to Mexico or wherever. So, yeah,
NAFTA not a good thing. But let's circle back to
the hospitals again. To me, I think a hospital stay
for the most part, comes down to the nurse. I
think we all know when the good nurse is on
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and shift like, you're happy, right, you know the ones
that are good, they talk to you, you know, they
touch your hand, they give you comfort, they make sure
you get your meds, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And we got to be honest that they're usually the
day shift nurses the night shift ones. I mean, I
get it. No one wants to work night shift, but
there's a likely higher likelihood of getting somebody who's not
happy to be there at three in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, I would. Yeah, you're probably right. And I
don't know how they do their shift work. I will say.
When I had mine, I sent Jackie home. I was like,
you know, kids aren't in the house anymore. So I
was just like, go home, take care of the animals.
And I said, what are you gonna do? Sit here
in the chair. I was like, go on home and
I'll just come back in the morning. So she had
brought me a silk robe.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I bet you were feeling right at home.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So I had my silk robe slippers, and I had
so much energy because they had unblocked this widow maker
that was blocked one hundred percent. Right when your body
starts to get the blood in oxygen you were supposed
to be getting, and as it closes off, it slowly,
slowly takes your energy and all that and power and
everything else away. But when you get it all back
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at once, like I didn't sleep for like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So I got up and was walking around in the
silk robe of bothering the nurses. They were like, mister Venetti,
heart you had heart surgery. You need to get in
your bed. And I was like, well, I don't know.
Why did you make the bed mattress like a plastic
There are more comfortable beds in the county lock up.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Then that damn bed right there. How do you even
get sleep in that unless you're drugged up? So I
was bothering them, mister Venetti.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Your cute little man.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh yeah, I was doing it. I was working them too.
So what's your new nurse, ratchet?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What's up flirting with the nurses After a heart attack?
I was as glad I was alive at that point.
That's true. At that point when you have that level
of it's almost like adrenaline. There's probably nothing you're afraid
of at that point.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, no, so you get all So now you unblocked
a one percent widow maker, and you know you you've
dodged a bullet for death. So that's a double fold
for energy. I didn't sleep for twenty four hours. I
was so jacked up. All Right, great show today, at
least by in my opinion. Maybe some other people want
not think that. For John William Alden the Third, I
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am Tony Veannetti, Dwight of you back next week. I
will see you tomorrow morning on NewsRadio eight forty. Whas
have a great day.
Welcome back out Number three News Radio eight forty whas
just leg Jack Fux said, we were brought to you
by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Busy show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Today we talked about this new federal spending bill that
contains THC restrictions could cost three hundred thousand American jobs,
and in Kentucky it's kind of a big deal. These
drinks are allowed up two point four milligrams of THC
per container. You find them in those monster not monster drinks,
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but those type drinks you find at the you know,
at the grocery store or the gas station. It's got
a little THC in it, got a little energy drink
in it. But there was a loophole in the twenty
eighteen Farm Bill that allowed this to happen because universities
could not get you know, hemp that people want to
(00:50):
do more with hemp. So they were like, we've got
to really roll back this hemp restriction. When they did that,
this opened the door to this and created billions of
dollars of revenue, you in taxes. It could cost the
states like Kentucky one point five billion dollars in tax revenue.
And that's what's happened. Rand Paul altered the amendment with
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some language for the Senate bill, but was tabled. The
rest of the Senate said, hey, we'll talk about it later.
The folks that wanted this said it was overdue. They've
been using this loophole. Well, it created You let the
genie out of the bottle man, You created a humongous industry.
So and with marijuana being legal everywhere, it's kind of crazy,
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all right. Anonymous donor gives five million dollars to transform
Louisville's historic Chickasaw Park. They are known as the West
End Tennis Club the West Louisville Tennis Club. Mary Grissom
of the Oldstead Parks Conservancy Conservancy share the news this weekend.
It's a lot of money. But if you, I don't know,
(01:57):
you haven't shopped schools for young Daisy yet. But let
me tell you these these playgrounds. Yeah, these playgrounds now
are about a half a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Wow, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I mean, well, the one they built it the Jay
was it was over a half a million dollars. Because
they helped them with their fundraiser. They wanted a park
that was accessible to the special needs kids. Okay, so
you can Yeah, you can get so they have that.
A kid in a wheelchair can get on swing stuff
like that and play on it. Uh, but for a
normal playground, it's just it's it's like a half a
(02:33):
million bucks.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean I can I can see that though, like
some of out in my neck of the woods in
Mount Washington, they put up one of those splash parks.
I know, it's not the exact same thing. Those things
are so huge and extravagant. The amount of and again
it's not necessarily about the water bill. The amount of
water that gets pumped into those things every all summer,
and how large the slides are that and it's not
even a water parker's just like you know, everything's is
(02:54):
kind of yeah, it's a regular park with little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's one giant I can't see sprinkler.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, and if it's anything like that that, you know,
those places are popping up all over the all over
the you know, Mount Washington and you know Louisville especially.
I mean I could see why i'd be a little
more expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And good for homestead parks. Getting this to again, the
anonymous donor we don't know who gave five million dollars
Chicken Saul Park.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But they need to help.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The fences are falling down and stuff like that. And
of course the they only clay courts in Louisville are
down there, so that will help. But this is when
we asked the question of where do they spend all
this money in revenue. Well, nineteen seventy five, you put
wood chips down, you had swings. You had that little
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thing that one kid gets on one side and there's
a spring in the middle, right with like some design
in the middle, and the other kids on the other
one and you just go back and forth. Yeah, you
rock on this spring.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I can't even think of those are called. They're like
little rocking horses.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But yeah, horse right, and the sea horse, the sea
sea saw, that's right. And the sea all was basically
a ten x twelve with the little link.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's all it was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So the cause for a playground was probably less than
a couple of thousand dollars. Now they're close to a
half a million dollars. That is a business because the
ground now is that soft, you know, not plastic but rubber.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, it's kind of like astro turf but really.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, and they're fancy designs. I don't get the
twisty thing, do they there's like a slide. Yeah, it's
a weird No, it's not a slide. It's just like
the pipe has bent into a little twisty thing. I
was like, what do the kids wills do there?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Hurt themselves?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, hello, that's the whole point of a playground.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They still got monkey bars, you know, where you climb
across that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And the little cage looking thing where you would climb
over top of it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know if they have that anymore. I don't
know what that was called, but it's kind of like
a monkey bar. But again, they used to have.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They used to put these things together with cheap aluminum,
and then uh, they had the you know, they would
not cut the bolts off. So you know, there's a
million kids in America that are now in their fifties
and sixties now with a.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Scar over their left eye. Burn yourself, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I know, your your eye would catch on that bolt.
And then of course the bright aluminum slides that in
the middle of the summer when you're using it the most,
it's a thousand degrees hell's tongues.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
They call it what they call maybe we can.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sounds like a whitewater rafting tour. If Dwight was here,
he would have an answer for that. But I'm not
going to mention what popped in my head. But yeah,
that's so, this is where the money goes. Five million bucks.
We all think, well, that's great, but it's not going
to go very far. I could promise you that U
Chickasaw Park needs it for sure, and that's good for them.
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I was glad I saw that announced. This one came
up through science and food. Study shows that cows, the
cells that they have can become Do you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Have your pump, pump, pump? I do have it?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Study shows that cow cells can become immortal. Scientists have
made a big discovery that could make lab grown beef
much cheaper and easier to produce. That's not what I
was thinking. I was like, immortal means is there a
(06:34):
way you could put that to humans? For the first time,
researchers found that cow cells can naturally become immortal, meaning
they keep dividing forever without needing any genetic changes.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hello, if something ever, If something ever, I'm sure it
does exist for humans. They don't want people to know
that because they that would create overpopulation. You know that
the big I guess big government wouldn't want to have
over population is well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, the third world country is the only places having children. England, America, Italy,
South Korea. No one's having children. Everybody's got one point
seven kids.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now I have one point zero kids.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're gonna have number two though, right, yeah, eventually, yeah, yeah,
you got to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Give him a partner. No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That was the biggest thing the eighties and nineties were
movies about. Even in the two thousands, it was all
about overpopulation. Well, that's not an issue, not with the
civilized world. Everywhere else, third world countries, they're having eight
nine babies.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We're not having Heck, there's a lot of Americans that
are deciding we're not having kids at all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wasn't there in a I don't think this ever came
to pass, But there was a thing that Trump came
up with. They were trying to offer if you have
a kid, you'd get like a five thousand dollars stipend
or something. I've done that through history.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, that's not the first time child credit and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Definitely you got to give him some incentive. It's so
expensive to raise kids now, it is crazy. I had
three siblings, so that's four of us, much cheaper than
what I raised my two four, you know, twenty thirty
years later by a wide margin. And let me tell
you it shifted. We paid almost nothing to the hospital
(08:24):
when John was born, but when Maggie was born just
two years later, it was four or five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh my gosh, it was a big difference. Was it
the exact same like experience in the hospital?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Was there?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Not that I need you to detail it, but no.
Would there have been a reason for it to cost more? Iguess.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Maggie was a lot easier. John was upside down. We
called him sunny side up, so he got a bruised nose.
He looked like Rocky when he came out, but he
but Jackie did eighteen hours of labor, Holy crash. She
didn't want to see section, so she kept saying, no,
We're going to figure this out, and finally the doctor said,
we can't do this any longer.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We got to go in. My wife didn't have an
option for a sea set or she had to do
sea section. She couldn't do natural because of the preemie
type stuff. Sure, but now she was so afraid of it.
After going through, she said she wouldn't do it the
regular way. She said, she does sea section every time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, Jackie didn't want that, so we let me tell you.
They strapped her to that board. It looks very medieval, medieval.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It almost looks like the way that they went they
put them on the table, it almost looks like they're
Jesus pose.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Jack correct. Jackie was literally in your wife. Literally it
was a wooden board. It was two wooden boards. She
was her arms are strapped like that. She couldn't move,
and I said, I'm up here. And they built like
a sort of a tent so I couldn't see them
slice open the stomach, pull her and her digestion whatever
her intestines out. Yeah, lay it on the table, and
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get the baby out. It was actually that was pretty moving.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's very It's something. Yeah, it was the same thing
with us with the little curtain thing. You walk in.
It looks like you're hide and behind like backstage, just
some sort of hospital movie or something like that. Yeah,
phrase anatomy, and then all of a sudden there's the baby.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, yeah, that was crazy eighteen hours. I didn't stay
for two days because she had yelled at me that
I better If you're gonna have fun with your friends,
you better do it now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So I did. Played poker till like six in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I remember shutting the garage door as the sun was
coming up. Went to work in the hotline rings in
the Fox studio. Hey sweetie, Yeah, oh, I can't wait
to get home. I've got that Do you have that?
We have that fan in the bedroom? Yeah, put it
right on me. I'm just gonna I can't. I was
thinking of how cold the pillow was gonna be when
(10:40):
I got home, and she said, well, you might want
to come to Baptiste's.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
First.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, what, here comes Johnny. So this is
I know right When I read the story, I went, well,
what are we looking at this for human? So basically
they said this cow cell naturally become immortal, meaning they
keep dividing forever without needing any genetic changes to them.
(11:09):
That's what I thought, How are you not applying this
to human cells? Because that's the reason you age. Your
cells start to age and they stop to recreating, you
stop creating new cells. Basically, that's how you age. Inflammation
is what they call it. Your cells just get old.
(11:29):
With these natural immortal cells, scientistsics they can now produce
lab grown beef at prices similar to regular beef. I
don't know which one is better. They'll tell you that
you shouldn't need beef, right, red meat and all that,
But then I see the list of chemicals in the
fake beef, and I'm like, well, which one's better?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
When you say lab grown beef, are you talking about
the like the plant based stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, you know right? Have you seen the list of
ingredients on that?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, I wouldn't want to try it on.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's a couple of paragraphs long and you can't pronounce
most of it. So I'm like, that's healthier for me
than a half pound of ground beef and a burger.
I don't know, man, but that's what I thought. How
did How is this story not dovetailing or connecting to
humans immortal? I don't want to be immortal.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I just I don't. What if being immortal meant you
stopped aging? Though? Like you because you're in your mind
you're thinking, Okay, I can't die, but I still age.
And it's miserable once you get your late eighties and nineties,
if you stopped aging at your perfect age, whatever it
might have been, that's different, right, It depends how much
money or maybe you just hate because at that point
you it's gotta be eternity. We don't need to get
(12:43):
into all this right now. But eternity is a weird concept.
Knowing that you could be somewhere forever and I wanna
say nothing changes, but you don't end. Everything just continues
on forever.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, if we kept moving forward as a human race,
I would I would like to be immortal.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I guess yeah, but we're not.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Just because we come up with new science gadgets, we
are going backwards when it comes to if anybody that's
lived two or three hundred years, you'd go, we do
the same things over and over and over and over again.
Empires are cyclical. It's all the same stuff. I mean,
if you think that we're a lot different than what
the when the Roman Empire went down, look all those
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they had a senate, right, I mean they nothing changes.
We look Iraq was Vietnam. We continue to make the
same mistakes. So if the human race was getting smarter
(13:45):
and more about peace and love then yes, but to
go through and say and be able to predict things.
Here's how this is gonna go. I mean, come on,
come on, I don't know, man. I think there's two
different worlds there, live forever or live forever, feeling young
(14:06):
in halfway looking young. That's two different things. But this
is an interesting cow cells become immortal. How come we're
just figuring this out now? Cows are pretty important to
the American society.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah. Sorry, beef, dairy milk, geez beef.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, that's kind of You've just mentioned three or of
the four or five big parts of the grocery store
and one animal that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Bear knows pizza. We just say we wouldn't any of that. No,
just the bread.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I guess that's right. That's crazy, all right. Element Air
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move back after this short break on these radio eight
forty whas, brace yourself, my friend, and thanks for not
(16:39):
playing heavy metal today.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There's there's still tomorrow. Oh I hang on, I spoke
too soon. What the hell is this? This is soriah, soriah,
That's what it tells, what it says. I'm just trying.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm just trying to say, let's shake it up. This
was a trickery all the shows playing heavy metal.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I made you think it was it wasn't gonna be metal,
and then about twenty seconds into the song it changed
its mind. Yeah it's heavy metal. It's a female singer though, well,
good for her.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I just again, I enjoyed it for its time.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But Iron Maiden headlining the largest rock when headlining one
of the day is the largest rock concerts in North
America is embarrassing for music, not for them. Iron Maidens great.
I understand where you're coming from, but they're they're they're
there were big fifty years ago, forty years ago, and
they're headlining a tour or this thing this year. That's
(17:38):
not good for music. It's great for them, it's great
for their fans.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But come on, I think Louder than Life does a
great job at having a good eclectic lineup.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Of oldie of old old bands and newer bands. I agree,
I agree, U Brace yourself. Chick fil A is testing
chicken and waffle sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Wow. I don't know if that's done, done, done, but
maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The sandwich well anything Chick fil a people lose their minds.
The sandwich consists of crispy chicken stacked between warm maple
waffles and a touch touch of smoked bacon.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Chicken and waffles can go oh with some smooth That's
right up anyone's alley. I'm in. I'm surprised they haven't
done this before. Now they got the little they got
the chicken minies, and those kind of got the little
there's some little butter on the little buns that they
put those on they're kind of like waffles, but it's
not's not the same. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I'm in, dude, smoked bacon, warm maple waffles, and crispy chicken.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So yummy, done, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
They debuted it in Boston and San Antonio and it
should be making way to your Chick fil A soon.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I'm a Chick fil a guy. I like it too,
not all the time. It's not like my kids.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
My kids were so like magging or friends were so
woke and you know everything, they wouldn't buy from this
person or hated people, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then but I was.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like, yeah, you know it's called Jesus chicken. Yeah, we
don't care. The food's too good and we.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Know ah already selling out. I love it. The Chick
fil A transcends politics, even if people try to make
it political. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Carriage Ford, I love my boys and girls a carriage Forward.
Go on over there this weekend. They still have the
deal going on, zero percent down, zero interest, no payment
for ninety days. That's on the F one fifties and
the Broncos. Most of the cars on the lot they're
getting they're moving out these lots so you can get
the twenty sixes in here it is time to buy
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a f one fifty. I have one parked in my driveway.
I love it at twenty twenty five. It's the STX
black package. The rims are black, the interior is black,
the truck's black. I mean it is bad, you know what,
So go buy carriage Ford to go to Carriageford dot com.
Take a look at him. You can't beat this zero
percent interest won't happen again. It's crazy, all right? Back
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after this news radio waight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
How's this for a change up? Just change it up?
It's all asking.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I don't want you don't have to play girl pop music.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But maybe that's all we're doing tomorrow, girly pop. I'm in.
I'm okay with that. Whatever. Some upbeat I get. I get.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I get tired of all the producers just doing what
Dwight wants, which is play the heavy metal stupid.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See, it's not about doing what Dwight wants. It the
fact that I like it too.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, that's a problem. I'm out numbered here, all right.
According to Louisville Business First, I had an article from
Leapfrog hospital safety grades were out. They gave grades to
more than three thousand hospitals across the nation. They do
it twice a year. According to this group's website, there
are two Louisville hospitals or two air sorry, two area
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hospitals evaluated receiving grades.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
As can. I guess which ones? Sure is one of them?
Norton Women and Children's is No, they got a B.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
About Baptist East Baptiste Baptist Health Floyd Center or Floyd
in Indiana got a C. Baptist Health Lagrange.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
No, I'm thinking of the one that's out there next
to is that Baptist Health.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yes, Baptist healths Louisville they got a B.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay, so that's not bad out there. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm thinking if you get a B, you're pretty good. Yeah,
because at this point you only got two hospitals in
the area. Flage A Memorial Hospital in Bardstown Bardstown both
received an A plus. Baptist Health in Lagrange got an A.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Shout out to flage A. They are a pretty small hospital, right,
I have never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Obviously. I understand flage A High School. They closed in
nineteen seventy four. That's how I know flage A.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
My mother in law went out there when she had
her appendix burst. Really yep, this is a couple of
years ago. See, Barstown's got everything bourbon. Everyone there is pretty.
You ever drove through Barstown and saw an ugly.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Person from Yeah, she went. She went to high school
out there, including her. Yeah, there's just pretty people everywhere.
Hospitals are evaluated with more than twenty measures and publicly available.
Uh to that you can find all these numbers out safety, hygiene, falls,
doctor communication, and discharge information. Pretty simple stuff right or categories? Yeah,
(22:34):
Jewish Hospital, got to see Norton Hospital. Gotta be University
of Louisville got to see Norton Clark Hospital got to
see I can only tell you U of l Health
that's where I went for my heart attack. Yes, Dwight,
it was a heart attack. Two of them, Uh I get.
(22:56):
I would give them an eight because they were unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And then the reason, I guess women and Children's because
with my wife's premature birth situation, they couldn't have handled
that any better for us. Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know this all dovetails into the business of hospitals
and insurance companies. I mean, it's just weird. I mean
that we we just accept the fact that there are
two different prices for the procedure I had. I had
two stints put in my widow maker, which opened it up.
(23:29):
It was one hundred percent blocks. I should be dead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What they called a widow maker, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Exactly, because you don't know it and then something happens,
you know, and then the side of the the artery.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What a morbid name. I mean, I guess it's true.
Oh how many got it down?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Until you get to your forties and fifties, you don't
realize how many guys go down. My dad died at
sixty so heart attack. So the difference in the price
was whether I had insurance or not. If I had
If I didn't have insurance, I think it was like
seventeen or eighteen thousand dollars, and if I had insurance,
it was like eighty something. And I was just like this,
(24:05):
this is this system is broken. We've got to figure
this out. Flage's got the a U of L Health
Shelbyville got to be Baptist Health in Lagrange. Got in
a Norton Brownsboro hospital that was very I've been that
several times. That's a really good hospital. That got to
be Norton Women's and Children b U of L Health,
(24:30):
C Baptist Floyd Baptist Health Floyd C Norton Aldeman Hospital
got to be University of Louisville is the only that's
the that's the one downtown that's where they take all
the gunshots and the trauma. I think that's one of
(24:51):
the top rated traumas, at least in Kentucky for sure.
But these grades are are again, I guess they grade
pretty hard because.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
These are they great? If you get lower than a sea,
did they what do they do to you? Surely they
don't not be acceptable. Nobody in this list got lower
than a seat. That's good. But there are a lot
of ce's. I mean, if sees the average as it
historically is, I mean, I guess that means you're probably
doing everything right in the basic format of things right,
with a few mistakes here and there. I would imagine
(25:22):
you would you.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Would guess, you would guess. But but these are here's
the thing. The two ones that got a's are the smallest.
Really that hell, yeah, probably work a lot more efficiently
in that Baptist Help UH is the fifteenth largest, got
ninety beds, about three hundred million in net patient income.
Flage A Memorial Hospitals seventeenth largest and its only has
(25:46):
forty beds, so it got it got an A, but
in only one hundred million in net patient revenue. So
the smaller ones obviously do are easier to handle.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I wonder how this is going to change. Wasn't that
this might have been a part of the big beautiful
bill or one of the bills. I could be mistaking
which one was. But where there was a chance of
shutting down hospitals in Kentucky effect.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, that was that was that was a talking political
point they had. They had already covered those rural areas
and all that That was not that was the scare
tactic of all.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
This was the small town hospitals are going to die. No,
I'm not laughing at them laughing. I know, yeah, I know.
Pardon no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
NAFTA killed the small town That's what That's what happened there. NAFTA,
to me, the worst policy in American history besides slavery.
That's number one, but not even a not even close,
but second. Naftern after killed small town America. Congratulations Bill Clinton.
(26:54):
It's funny how presidents are treated when they first get
out to you get a couple of decades, and now
you're at thirty years since he's been out, twenty thirty
years since he's been out, dude, he has looked at
in a very different light than just fifteen twenty years ago.
I mean, people were comparing him as they put him
on the list of one of the best presidents in
(27:15):
the twentieth century. But in reality he did a lot
of things that did not go well. I thought the
regulation of radio and television was a mistake. I also
think that NAFTA was a huge, huge It was great
for the time because everyone stocks were going through the
roof because all these companies were getting record you know,
returns as they were moving all their plants and everything
(27:37):
else from towns like Huntington, West Virginia to Mexico or wherever. So, yeah,
NAFTA not a good thing. But let's circle back to
the hospitals again. To me, I think a hospital stay
for the most part, comes down to the nurse. I
think we all know when the good nurse is on
(28:00):
and shift like, you're happy, right, you know the ones
that are good, they talk to you, you know, they
touch your hand, they give you comfort, they make sure
you get your meds, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And we got to be honest that they're usually the
day shift nurses the night shift ones. I mean, I
get it. No one wants to work night shift, but
there's a likely higher likelihood of getting somebody who's not
happy to be there at three in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, I would. Yeah, you're probably right. And I
don't know how they do their shift work. I will say.
When I had mine, I sent Jackie home. I was like,
you know, kids aren't in the house anymore. So I
was just like, go home, take care of the animals.
And I said, what are you gonna do? Sit here
in the chair. I was like, go on home and
I'll just come back in the morning. So she had
brought me a silk robe.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I bet you were feeling right at home.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So I had my silk robe slippers, and I had
so much energy because they had unblocked this widow maker
that was blocked one hundred percent. Right when your body
starts to get the blood in oxygen you were supposed
to be getting, and as it closes off, it slowly,
slowly takes your energy and all that and power and
everything else away. But when you get it all back
(29:10):
at once, like I didn't sleep for like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So I got up and was walking around in the
silk robe of bothering the nurses. They were like, mister Venetti,
heart you had heart surgery. You need to get in
your bed. And I was like, well, I don't know.
Why did you make the bed mattress like a plastic
There are more comfortable beds in the county lock up.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Then that damn bed right there. How do you even
get sleep in that unless you're drugged up? So I
was bothering them, mister Venetti.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Your cute little man.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh yeah, I was doing it. I was working them too.
So what's your new nurse, ratchet?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What's up flirting with the nurses After a heart attack?
I was as glad I was alive at that point.
That's true. At that point when you have that level
of it's almost like adrenaline. There's probably nothing you're afraid
of at that point.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, no, so you get all So now you unblocked
a one percent widow maker, and you know you you've
dodged a bullet for death. So that's a double fold
for energy. I didn't sleep for twenty four hours. I
was so jacked up. All Right, great show today, at
least by in my opinion. Maybe some other people want
not think that. For John William Alden the Third, I
(30:27):
am Tony Veannetti, Dwight of you back next week. I
will see you tomorrow morning on NewsRadio eight forty. Whas
have a great day.
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