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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back our number three. I am Tony Venetti.
(00:04):
It's why to be back tomorrow. John Alden with us.
It's gonna be a little confusing on the way out,
you know how it is. You have no idea who's
going to be at the office for the next couple
of weeks. Some businesses slow down, some businesses gett ot
Craig Cray, this one we'll be here for you. Don't
worry like today with the weather, it is just irritating
(00:26):
and nasty and cold and windy, and you got to
be careful when you're driving around town.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you think we're in for another brutal winter like
last year? Last year was kind of the first bad
winter we'd had in a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, I think so. I think we are. I think
this is gonna be one of those winters.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll see if we I don't know if we'll top
that eight inches in January whatever it was, But if
we get anything like that, then it'll be it'll be
interesting for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All Right, I teased the story. I don't know if
people have seen this video. It finally made some of
the AP news or national news sources, but I found
this video of this influencer that happened to be in
a grocery store and happened to just ask what somebody's
(01:18):
story was. This guy's eighty eight years old, he's an
army veteran, and he's still working. So that was the
obvious question that this person, Samuel Wiedenhoffer, he's a content creator.
He asked this guy, well, why are you still working?
(01:40):
You're eighty eight years old. You just want to work?
And he said no, and he started to cry, and
he said his wife got sick and they had to
sell the house that was paid off to pay for
their bills, and then she passed away. Anyway, he's on
his own and so he has no retirement basically because
he also worked for General Motors and his retirement planned.
(02:04):
I mean, you think about it. General Motors GM went
bankruptcy in two thousand and nine and the pensions he
lost his pension, John, Can you imagine working for one
of the biggest corporations that you think there's no way
General Motors, I mean they are a monolith of American achievement,
(02:30):
and you're thinking, you work for them for four decades
and you think, oh, I'm fine, I have my pension.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, that's one of those to have anything like that
taken away from you, especially when you've invested that much
time and you have no idea that something tragic might
come down the line like that, Like that's it's literally
the worst luck you could possibly have. I feel like,
for whenever you're thinking about saving for retirement and you know,
making sure you're all good and dandy in your final
(02:58):
years of life, like that's one of the worst situations
you can be in.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I feel like I think I would be one of
those idiots, not idiots, I would be one of those guys.
My wife would bug me and say, we need to
have a backup planet. I'd be like, no, I work
for GM, honey, We're gonna be taken care of.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The house is paid off.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I got a pension with GM, got Social Security, we're golden.
And then GM files for bankruptcy and leaves all these
people in the lurch that gave forty years of their lives.
So he's eighty eight years old, his pension's gone, his
wife died, had to sell the house to pay for
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the medical bills, which, by the way, were the only
country in the world that does that well, the only
country in the world that will take your house to
pay your medical bills America.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And they say the healthcare system is fine. I know
they don't really say that, but it needs something.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No one's ever said that ever. If I was in
the studio, I might come in and just smack you
right in the face for saying it. So he runs
into this guy, Samuel Whedenhoffer, and he tells the story
and this guy's crying on video, and he was just like,
you know, I never planned to be here. I had
all this stuff to do, and I, you know, know,
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any plans for this, right, So this guy posts a
video unbeknownst to the eighty eight year old veteran right
ed bombbas ed bombass Ed has no idea. He's not online,
he's eighty eight, he's not on social media.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So, but his kids are his kids are in their
sixties and the kids compact, you know, contact is Samuel guy,
this creator, this content creator. Well they started gofund me
and it gets up to what is it, two million dollars,
two million dollars one point seven I apologize one point
(05:06):
seven million dollars. So they the kids invited ed their
dad to this event. He comes walking in again. He's
eighty eight, works at a grocery store. He doesn't know
anything going on. You just know he did a video
a couple of weeks ago with some guy. That's it.
That's about it. He comes walking in and he sees
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the guy who's like, hey, what what are you doing here?
Hey man, we posted the video and just want to
let you know. And if you watch the video, this
is exactly what he says. He says, Look, I just
want to let you know. This is the largest private
GoFundMe we've ever done. One point seven million dollars is
going to you to get out of debt and retire
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the way you dreamed of. Dude is bawling again. This
is what good? You know, the social media could be good, right,
mostly it's bad. Mostly social media is bad. This is good.
Can you imagine going from I gotta work at a
grocery store at eighty eight, So now you're gonna probably
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buy a pretty good house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, one point seven million and you you're by yourself
at this point. I don't know how much he has
to pay off of everything that he he's trying to
take care of, but yeah, he's gonna be hopefully getting
to however much life he has left, hopefully's getting to
live in a pretty good way.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
See again, this leads me back to when you get
on me about when I'm like, I don't know, Mandy,
you want to be eighty eight? You know, because everyone
you know or grew up with is dead. Your parents
are certainly dead. Uh, your your spouse might be dead.
Your buddies are gone.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Come on, but none of your What about your kids,
your grandkids, even even your great grand kids they're.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
In their sixties complaining about their curent cholesterol levels. Sometimes
maybe maybe when maybe when your kids are in their sixties.
You know, I don't like your kids, m And then
you're running out of money because you're eighty eight. So
do you want to do we really want to fix
(07:14):
it medically? Here? Take this pill Alzheimer's. Oh we forget
we we figured that out. Take this pill. Do you
want to be eighty eight? Right? So, maybe there's eighty
eight year old person driving around going, yeah, Tony, I
want to be eighty eight. I get it. But I'm
just saying I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Sure a healthy eighty eight versus an unhealthy eighty eight,
and they're two very difficult.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No question, there's no question. There's no question. I think
there and I don't know how many states have what
do you call it when you can kill yourself?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Capsules? No manan age, euthanizing? Yes, well no, is it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
H Well, there's I think Michigan and the state of
Washington habit. I think is it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Where you can die in your sleep, like you let
the hospital put you to sleep that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, No, that's where they have a machine and then
you you consciously push the button and you go out
on your own terms.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That's like the self destruct button of life. That's crazy. Well,
maybe crazy because I'm twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, when you're twenty eight, but when you start to
think about getting older and what you're gonna do. Look,
I've had I've told this story before. I've had several
friends that were bigger than life. And the last the
thing that I can't get out of my head is
seeing them at hospice seventy two pounds And I can't
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get that video that view out of my head of
them just with their with their mouth gaping open, safe
at the sky and they're seventy two pounds and you're
just like this dude was bigger than life man, and
I don't want to, you know, so I think in
my own mind, I don't want my kids or friends
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that's the last thing they think about me or see me.
I don't know. I mean it's big talk on the radio,
but coming down to it, going, Hey, by the way,
I got stage four, so I'm gonna head to Michigan.
What for? They got the self suicide deal?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Call a Sarco pod probably okay, I was trying to
figure out what this thing was.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, you pushed the button in it takes you out.
But as I think they're these conversations, I think we're
having more often because now things have changed. People aren't
having funerals anymore. I mean they have services made, but
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I don't know how many friends that I've lost that
are my age that didn't even have a funeral. They're like, no,
we ain't doing that. We're gonna get together for drinks
on this date. And that was it. No funeral. At
least three at least three people male and female that
have died in the last five years or so, that
(10:22):
was like, no funeral. And I get that too. I
think people just the old system. Everybody get together somebody's
gonna get up there and say nice things, wearing suits
and getting dressed up and a big funeral. Then everyone
drives over to No people still do it. Don't get
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me wrong. It still happens, and it happens a lot.
I'm just saying there's I think there's going to be
a cultural shift or it already has happened. And then
we haven't had to decide, hey, do you want to
take yourself out yet, because we haven't. You know, we're
curing more diseases and blood diseases where you know, there's
a higher rate of you know, detection and figuring it out.
(11:08):
Breast cancer is awful. There's still a high number. It
needs to be lower, but they're more people are surviving
that than ever before. And then every day AI is involved.
I mean they mapped every cancer gene, two hundred thousand
different cancer genes. AI mapped it in six months, the
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protein of the cancer cell and gave it to the
world for free and said figure it out. I mean
they're gonna get there, They're going to figure it out.
So I don't know, man, I mean, that's a decision
everybody has to make. But if you have stage four
I've had friends are going through that. The last couple
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of months, you have Stage four all over. You know
it's not They're not gonna make it. You fight like
hell for a year. Decision I mean you're gonna make
and again it's hard for you because you just had
a baby and you're twenty some years old. Yeah, life
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looks different from fifty six. Bro looking back, you know,
and people get a strange from their families. You don't
want that, but that happens a lot. I never understood
that when I was your age. John Editor understood like,
what do you mean he doesn't talk to his brother.
I was like, that's crazy. What. Yeah, Now at fifty six,
I'm like, oh, I get that. I totally get that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It is tough to wrap my mind around, but I
do understand that there are certain things that happened, and
maybe you go years without communicating and then it's hard
to rekindle that relationship. Whatever it might have been that
caused you to separate us first place.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, you hope it does, but then again, no, your business.
But we used to have a deacon. He was like
six six, two hundred and seventy pounds, and he was
our deacon. At the church and his job been the
FBI was crimes against children. And I always loved when
he did the homily. But he told the homily once
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where his brother, his brother was a state trooper wherever
in Georgia or whatever, and looked and they're twins. They're
both like bookend sixty six, two hundred and seventy pounds.
When he was a state trooper, no nonsense. Guy said,
he didn't talk to his brother for like twenty years,
and he drove to go see him in Georgia and
he lived on this farm and he pulled up the
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long row with the corn roll, the you know, the
corn rose all on east side, pulled up. They sat
on the front porch and talked for a while and
then he said he got back in his car and
drove off.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I was like, this was like twenty years fifteen
years ago. He's telling the story. And I was like, man,
that's weird, your own brother. But then he passed away.
We had we had the service at church, and his
brother was there and spitting image, I mean, he looked
exactly like him, and he's and his brother was great
and he was all smiles and obvious. See they had
reconnected before any of this. But but I do get
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it now at fifty six. When I was your age, John,
twenty something, I always used to wonder like, oh that
does that happen an fifty six? Oh yeah, no, no, no,
I get it. Things happen, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm glad I have a lot to look forward to
the next thirty years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Uh, because once you start to raise your kids, man,
you get into your own world, dude, and your siblings
raising their kids over there, and it's all you know,
it's all separate and you just live different lives. Once
you live different lives for twenty years or fifteen years,
twenty years, it's hard to get, you know, reconnect because
you're not the same people.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah. I guess that's why people and families are always like, man,
we need everybody here home at least once a year
for Christmas or Thanksgiving, whatever it may be. That's why
that's such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I feel like, yeah, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We have the Vinetti family Christmas this Saturday. It's always
two weeks early. Oh yeah, it's always two weeks early.
So we got that on Saturday night. My sister works
for Disney, so she has to work through the holidays,
so she always comes in two weeks early. I got
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some good presents. I decided I'm not doing cash this year. Okay, yeah,
tired of I'm tired of going around to the nephews
and nieces and just going U fifty years, fifty years.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's like the Uncle Scrooge gift. Almost.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I said,
I know what I could get these guys in gals,
I'm gonna get them. I went out. I've got about
half of them done. I got till Saturday, but I
got about half of them done. All right, short break?
What am I lacking here?
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Get a hold of Steve Butler. They've been doing it
(16:24):
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You can unveil the picture to the family. Back after
this a news radio eight forty whas we are back
NewsRadio eight forty whs. What is this? Well, Tim mcgrawl,
(16:46):
all right, kind of a crappy day of weather. It's
good to be right around the truck and listen to
this a little bit. Got your boots on just in
case you got, you know, go through some nasty stuff.
Because the ground's all wet and it's all bloody, and
sometimes you get it in your you know, it's it's
(17:07):
it's mushy. It's not even the ground's not even wet.
It's mushy, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So they say out in Boulz County.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And uh, and this time, I'm I'm pretty glad that
I have made my house. I've started my house to
be a shoes off at the front door. Oh yeah, situation.
There's not a pair of shoes not in a slot
in my little thing that I built or bought and
built so you can put your shoes and no one's
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used my socks. I bought a whole stack of new socks,
those little ankle it socks thingies, and I put it
on top. It's like, put some socks on if you
need something, but don't wear the shoes in the house anymore. Dog,
I'm gonna get everybody to adhere to this, all right.
So uh, Ed algeron Is was the coach at LSU.
He's been around forever. He's just bigger than life. He's
(17:59):
a big earl chested redneck from the South and he's
a football coach. And he's even got dead voice. He
is a movie character in real life. And I saw
this the other day to where he is telling stories
now with Nil and they're not going back and hammering schools.
(18:20):
He is telling the truth. He tells one about Joe
Burrow that cracks me up. When he was when he
was recruiting Joe Burrow. He wasn't the head coach at
the time, but he was. I don't think he was
a head coach, but he was recruiting him. But this
is him talking on a podcast. Do you have that sound?
Or he admits about the pain in the playeff I do?
(18:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Here we go?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Hey go what I say a coach? You know you've
been not a coaching for a while, And though, how
do you adjust at nil?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well so minor adjustment?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I said, back then, we used to walk through the
back door to cash. Now we just got to walk
through the foot door. A joke of yeatime joke. And
that's a joke, is it?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Though?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, it's not, No, it's not. They've been paying players
since athletics and colleges and universities have been playing athletics.
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's a fact.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And I think some of here's the Shaker thing because
Louisville fans used to believe that they were pure and
good and Kentucky was the only school that paid players.
We don't have to do that, we just win. Denny
wouldn't do that. Yeah, Okay, UCLA did the same thing
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and wouldn't is like the grandfather of everybody's basketball program.
They just didn't want to know about it. Look if
it got done, So are you guilty, John? If you
just say, uh, if it goes on, I want to
know about it. But you know that you know it's
going on.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, I think you're guilty. I don't know if it's
guilty by association or what it is, but if you're
letting it happen and you know it's happening, then there's
guilt of some way associated with it. I feel like, of.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Course there is. So they've been paying players. I don't
care who the coach is. The ones that were famous
for it were just tired of hiding it, like the
Tark and all that were just like, oh, y'all are
doing it. I'm just the one that gets the pr
from it. Right. But LSU, come on, especially the SEC
(20:37):
football stop. I mean, how many thirty for thirties do
you need to see about players that played in the
seventies and eighties and nineties And they are all like, well,
you know, Alabama offered me thirty thousand back then. That
was a lot of money. You know. The SMU story
is riot. That's not unusual. SMU got smacked. They got
(20:59):
the death penalty, which was so bad to the SMU
program that d NCFLA would didn't do it again because
it destroyed their foot football program. But they were giving
cars away doing all that. I'm not gonna say the player,
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but when I was in high school at Trinity, they
there were there was a player that had signed to
play at Kentucky football and he was a senior, and
next thing you know, there's a new Mustang in the
parking lot with Fayette plates. Not even hiding it. It's
(21:40):
not even like what I'm sure they they hit it
through his dad bought it through a dealer, through whatever. Right,
I don't know. I'm just saying there was a new
Mustang with Fayett plates in the parking lot our senior,
that person's senior year, and he had signed with and
he was recruited by a lot of people, and he
had signed with with Kentucky. So yes, it happened all
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the time, right, And I'm sure it was less than
on some schools and more on others. But that's the story.
And I'll I could listen to him talk all day
long Oh that dead god Southern football coach.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I love that Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
He was so damn good. I love you, Joe. Either
you come play for me or I'm will get fired
back after this on news radio eight forty. Whass man,
I gotta tell you, Uh, doing the show for my
home studio is not a bad deal.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Is a cozy car?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I have a sauna I got from Steepleton a couple
of years ago, so it's already primed and ready to
go for after the show. It gets up to one
hundred and fifty something degrees. You sit in it for
like twenty minutes and it's just like feels good. But
more importantly, I didn't have to get in the car
dry downtown in that muck from yesterday from you know,
(23:03):
it's still nasty weather out there and cold and all that.
So I but the drawback is my wife makes puppy
chow for her clients and for her employees and stuff.
It is the checks cereal powdered sugar, melted chocolate and
(23:24):
peanut butter and then you just whatever blend it all
in and I have buckets of it. So I am
like so high right now because I've been eating this
bucket and I was like, stop, like you've consciously say
in your set head stopped, do not, do not eat
(23:45):
more of that puppy chow. If my wife came home
right now and saw how much I ate, she would
scream at me. But it's it's kind of nice. Sitting
in your own house is stealing your.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You're letting your hair down right now. You're letting your
hair down.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Exactly right, That's exactly right if I had it. Okay,
So lots of news today, and we got over some
pretty good topics. One dead, another critical condition. Shooting at
Kentucky State University campus. But it wasn't what we thought
it was, which was another shooting on college campus. We
(24:23):
all thought the worst, which was somebody went in there
with an agenda and just shot the place up and
killed random people. It was a fight. I saw a
video allegedly that's what happened. Frankfurt Police Department said officers
responded to a campus after three point thirty pm. A
fight at three point thirty in the damn afternoon, and
somebody's got to die. I have no idea what the
(24:48):
what the fight was over, but you ask LMPD and
they'll tell you a large portion of people that commit
homicides in the city Louisville or because they got disrespected,
not saying this is the situation, but it was a fight,
(25:10):
a bunch of guys just having a friendly fight on
college campuses. It happens all the time. But then one
idiot has to pull a gun. It's all it takes
is one idiot. We can't have a fight without somebody
pulling a gun. Seriously, dude, I don't mind the fight part,
dudes being dudes, but it's always that one idiot that
(25:34):
pulls a gun and changes everyone's lives. Details should be
coming out, who, what, where and when when this thing
is And I'm just glad it wasn't more people. Kentucky
got back on the winning streak last night, or they
at least have one game that's a winner they played.
Maybe it's a who did they play. It's a directional school.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It was North Carolina Central.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
There you go, the Eagle directional school. Except Central's direction Central. Huhuh.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Except Central's not direction.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It kind of is. It's central to the state against
where you guys located, and it's Central. The big news
was Fox con Fox Co n N. This is a
company that makes seventy percent of the iPhones is moving
some operations. We're not sure what part of the operation
(26:29):
they're moving to Louisville and Dixie Highway, but they're moving
one hundred and eighty jobs here. Huge news. John Channan
from the News. He makes sense. He's like, well, they
make seventy percent of the iPhones. That gorilla glass is
made in Kentucky, so that makes sense. They make the phones,
(26:52):
the gear inside the phones, and they buy the gorilla glass.
Why not have it all right here and rock it out?
Makes sense? And then The Simple, which I thought was
a women's health website, opened its own Louisville headquarters with
five point one million dollar investment. The AI workflow platform company,
(27:13):
which means I have no idea. I guess it's how
AI can help your workflow, which is I have a salesperson,
I have a producer, there's me, we have the client
that has the idea or I have an idea, whatever
the workflow. What is our workflow at iHeart? I guess
(27:33):
their company v Simple uses AI to help us do
that easier. I just to hope it doesn't replace some
of us. That's the that's the fear. Twenty thousand square
foot facility is what they're opening, and they're creating one
hundred and ninety four jobs. V simple. So this is all.
(27:54):
There's a lot of AI driven businesses that are moving
to Louisville. It's kind of crazy, to tell you the truth,
but I love it. I think it's great. I don't
if AI can help me and not. I'm towards the
end of my career though, I've got only got about
five or ten more years. I'm not gonna be Terry miners.
(28:15):
I'm not going to be one hundred and ten years
old working at HAS. I'm gonna pick a spot in out.
But John, you're gonna have to worry about this stuff, buddy, Yeah,
because you and Nick are the you guys go get
you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Are next the final Frontier. Maybe it won't be the
final Frontier. Who knows, Maybe there'll be those after us.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Okay, I don't want to leave on this story. I
mean I don't. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not
going to do the scientist smelling your own farts reduces
the risk of Alzheimer's disease. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I think you've already gone there. Now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Ah, I'm not gonna do the story.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You've got almost ninety seconds to talk about farting and
helping with Alzheimer's or something.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
The Okay, No, I'll do the forward trick to giving
great goodbye. If you're at a party and you gotta leave,
you go to hey, amazing party. That gives everybody clue
you're leaving. I like the Irish goodbye. You don't tell
a damn soul you're leaving, and kind of sneak, get
your jacket and get out of there. We used to
call it a one two three johnny when I was
growing up. Where's Vannetti one two three Johnny? Oh? Cause
(29:29):
you know, if you tell people you're leaving, they don't
let you leave. No, no, no, no, no, no, get over here,
Get over here, You're not leaving. Calm me, nothing more irritate.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
What's the what's the Italian goodbye or the Cuban Italian goodbye?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I don't know. Again, I don't tell anybody. If you
just even give a hint, you act like you're going
to the bathroom, or if you're with your wife, I'll
go I'm gonna go to the bathroom. You gotta wait
three or four minutes and then you go so we
can whoop it. Get out of here, all right, everybody,
Eatling and Eland, what you gotta do? One percent commission rate.
(30:06):
Your house is worth more than it's ever worth before
in its entire life. You're gonna sell it. You're gonna
keep that equity in your pocket. And don't painty a
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Eatling and Eland five nine one percent commission rate. John,
I have a great rest of the week. I'll see
you on Monday, Okay, yes, sir, all right man, we'll
see you later. News Radio A forty whas
All right, welcome back our number three. I am Tony Venetti.
(00:04):
It's why to be back tomorrow. John Alden with us.
It's gonna be a little confusing on the way out,
you know how it is. You have no idea who's
going to be at the office for the next couple
of weeks. Some businesses slow down, some businesses gett ot
Craig Cray, this one we'll be here for you. Don't
worry like today with the weather, it is just irritating
(00:26):
and nasty and cold and windy, and you got to
be careful when you're driving around town.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you think we're in for another brutal winter like
last year? Last year was kind of the first bad
winter we'd had in a long time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, I think so. I think we are. I think
this is gonna be one of those winters.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll see if we I don't know if we'll top
that eight inches in January whatever it was, But if
we get anything like that, then it'll be it'll be
interesting for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All Right, I teased the story. I don't know if
people have seen this video. It finally made some of
the AP news or national news sources, but I found
this video of this influencer that happened to be in
a grocery store and happened to just ask what somebody's
(01:18):
story was. This guy's eighty eight years old, he's an
army veteran, and he's still working. So that was the
obvious question that this person, Samuel Wiedenhoffer, he's a content creator.
He asked this guy, well, why are you still working?
(01:40):
You're eighty eight years old. You just want to work?
And he said no, and he started to cry, and
he said his wife got sick and they had to
sell the house that was paid off to pay for
their bills, and then she passed away. Anyway, he's on
his own and so he has no retirement basically because
he also worked for General Motors and his retirement planned.
(02:04):
I mean, you think about it. General Motors GM went
bankruptcy in two thousand and nine and the pensions he
lost his pension, John, Can you imagine working for one
of the biggest corporations that you think there's no way
General Motors, I mean they are a monolith of American achievement,
(02:30):
and you're thinking, you work for them for four decades
and you think, oh, I'm fine, I have my pension.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, that's one of those to have anything like that
taken away from you, especially when you've invested that much
time and you have no idea that something tragic might
come down the line like that, Like that's it's literally
the worst luck you could possibly have. I feel like,
for whenever you're thinking about saving for retirement and you know,
making sure you're all good and dandy in your final
(02:58):
years of life, like that's one of the worst situations
you can be in.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I feel like I think I would be one of
those idiots, not idiots, I would be one of those guys.
My wife would bug me and say, we need to
have a backup planet. I'd be like, no, I work
for GM, honey, We're gonna be taken care of.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The house is paid off.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I got a pension with GM, got Social Security, we're golden.
And then GM files for bankruptcy and leaves all these
people in the lurch that gave forty years of their lives.
So he's eighty eight years old, his pension's gone, his
wife died, had to sell the house to pay for
(03:38):
the medical bills, which, by the way, were the only
country in the world that does that well, the only
country in the world that will take your house to
pay your medical bills America.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And they say the healthcare system is fine. I know
they don't really say that, but it needs something.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No one's ever said that ever. If I was in
the studio, I might come in and just smack you
right in the face for saying it. So he runs
into this guy, Samuel Whedenhoffer, and he tells the story
and this guy's crying on video, and he was just like,
you know, I never planned to be here. I had
all this stuff to do, and I, you know, know,
(04:20):
any plans for this, right, So this guy posts a
video unbeknownst to the eighty eight year old veteran right
ed bombbas ed bombass Ed has no idea. He's not online,
he's eighty eight, he's not on social media.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So, but his kids are his kids are in their
sixties and the kids compact, you know, contact is Samuel guy,
this creator, this content creator. Well they started gofund me
and it gets up to what is it, two million dollars,
two million dollars one point seven I apologize one point
(05:06):
seven million dollars. So they the kids invited ed their
dad to this event. He comes walking in again. He's
eighty eight, works at a grocery store. He doesn't know
anything going on. You just know he did a video
a couple of weeks ago with some guy. That's it.
That's about it. He comes walking in and he sees
(05:26):
the guy who's like, hey, what what are you doing here?
Hey man, we posted the video and just want to
let you know. And if you watch the video, this
is exactly what he says. He says, Look, I just
want to let you know. This is the largest private
GoFundMe we've ever done. One point seven million dollars is
going to you to get out of debt and retire
(05:48):
the way you dreamed of. Dude is bawling again. This
is what good? You know, the social media could be good, right,
mostly it's bad. Mostly social media is bad. This is good.
Can you imagine going from I gotta work at a
grocery store at eighty eight, So now you're gonna probably
(06:13):
buy a pretty good house.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, one point seven million and you you're by yourself
at this point. I don't know how much he has
to pay off of everything that he he's trying to
take care of, but yeah, he's gonna be hopefully getting
to however much life he has left, hopefully's getting to
live in a pretty good way.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
See again, this leads me back to when you get
on me about when I'm like, I don't know, Mandy,
you want to be eighty eight? You know, because everyone
you know or grew up with is dead. Your parents
are certainly dead. Uh, your your spouse might be dead.
Your buddies are gone.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Come on, but none of your What about your kids,
your grandkids, even even your great grand kids they're.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
In their sixties complaining about their curent cholesterol levels. Sometimes
maybe maybe when maybe when your kids are in their sixties.
You know, I don't like your kids, m And then
you're running out of money because you're eighty eight. So
do you want to do we really want to fix
(07:14):
it medically? Here? Take this pill Alzheimer's. Oh we forget
we we figured that out. Take this pill. Do you
want to be eighty eight? Right? So, maybe there's eighty
eight year old person driving around going, yeah, Tony, I
want to be eighty eight. I get it. But I'm
just saying I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Sure a healthy eighty eight versus an unhealthy eighty eight,
and they're two very difficult.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No question, there's no question. There's no question. I think
there and I don't know how many states have what
do you call it when you can kill yourself?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Capsules? No manan age, euthanizing? Yes, well no, is it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
H Well, there's I think Michigan and the state of
Washington habit. I think is it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Where you can die in your sleep, like you let
the hospital put you to sleep that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, No, that's where they have a machine and then
you you consciously push the button and you go out
on your own terms.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That's like the self destruct button of life. That's crazy. Well,
maybe crazy because I'm twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, when you're twenty eight, but when you start to
think about getting older and what you're gonna do. Look,
I've had I've told this story before. I've had several
friends that were bigger than life. And the last the
thing that I can't get out of my head is
seeing them at hospice seventy two pounds And I can't
(08:52):
get that video that view out of my head of
them just with their with their mouth gaping open, safe
at the sky and they're seventy two pounds and you're
just like this dude was bigger than life man, and
I don't want to, you know, so I think in
my own mind, I don't want my kids or friends
(09:13):
that's the last thing they think about me or see me.
I don't know. I mean it's big talk on the radio,
but coming down to it, going, Hey, by the way,
I got stage four, so I'm gonna head to Michigan.
What for? They got the self suicide deal?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Call a Sarco pod probably okay, I was trying to
figure out what this thing was.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, you pushed the button in it takes you out.
But as I think they're these conversations, I think we're
having more often because now things have changed. People aren't
having funerals anymore. I mean they have services made, but
(10:01):
I don't know how many friends that I've lost that
are my age that didn't even have a funeral. They're like, no,
we ain't doing that. We're gonna get together for drinks
on this date. And that was it. No funeral. At
least three at least three people male and female that
have died in the last five years or so, that
(10:22):
was like, no funeral. And I get that too. I
think people just the old system. Everybody get together somebody's
gonna get up there and say nice things, wearing suits
and getting dressed up and a big funeral. Then everyone
drives over to No people still do it. Don't get
(10:42):
me wrong. It still happens, and it happens a lot.
I'm just saying there's I think there's going to be
a cultural shift or it already has happened. And then
we haven't had to decide, hey, do you want to
take yourself out yet, because we haven't. You know, we're
curing more diseases and blood diseases where you know, there's
a higher rate of you know, detection and figuring it out.
(11:08):
Breast cancer is awful. There's still a high number. It
needs to be lower, but they're more people are surviving
that than ever before. And then every day AI is involved.
I mean they mapped every cancer gene, two hundred thousand
different cancer genes. AI mapped it in six months, the
(11:31):
protein of the cancer cell and gave it to the
world for free and said figure it out. I mean
they're gonna get there, They're going to figure it out.
So I don't know, man, I mean, that's a decision
everybody has to make. But if you have stage four
I've had friends are going through that. The last couple
(11:51):
of months, you have Stage four all over. You know
it's not They're not gonna make it. You fight like
hell for a year. Decision I mean you're gonna make
and again it's hard for you because you just had
a baby and you're twenty some years old. Yeah, life
(12:12):
looks different from fifty six. Bro looking back, you know,
and people get a strange from their families. You don't
want that, but that happens a lot. I never understood
that when I was your age. John Editor understood like,
what do you mean he doesn't talk to his brother.
I was like, that's crazy. What. Yeah, Now at fifty six,
I'm like, oh, I get that. I totally get that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It is tough to wrap my mind around, but I
do understand that there are certain things that happened, and
maybe you go years without communicating and then it's hard
to rekindle that relationship. Whatever it might have been that
caused you to separate us first place.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, you hope it does, but then again, no, your business.
But we used to have a deacon. He was like
six six, two hundred and seventy pounds, and he was
our deacon. At the church and his job been the
FBI was crimes against children. And I always loved when
he did the homily. But he told the homily once
(13:09):
where his brother, his brother was a state trooper wherever
in Georgia or whatever, and looked and they're twins. They're
both like bookend sixty six, two hundred and seventy pounds.
When he was a state trooper, no nonsense. Guy said,
he didn't talk to his brother for like twenty years,
and he drove to go see him in Georgia and
he lived on this farm and he pulled up the
(13:30):
long row with the corn roll, the you know, the
corn rose all on east side, pulled up. They sat
on the front porch and talked for a while and
then he said he got back in his car and
drove off.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I was like, this was like twenty years fifteen
years ago. He's telling the story. And I was like, man,
that's weird, your own brother. But then he passed away.
We had we had the service at church, and his
brother was there and spitting image, I mean, he looked
exactly like him, and he's and his brother was great
and he was all smiles and obvious. See they had
reconnected before any of this. But but I do get
(14:05):
it now at fifty six. When I was your age, John,
twenty something, I always used to wonder like, oh that
does that happen an fifty six? Oh yeah, no, no, no,
I get it. Things happen, bro.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm glad I have a lot to look forward to
the next thirty years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Uh, because once you start to raise your kids, man,
you get into your own world, dude, and your siblings
raising their kids over there, and it's all you know,
it's all separate and you just live different lives. Once
you live different lives for twenty years or fifteen years,
twenty years, it's hard to get, you know, reconnect because
you're not the same people.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah. I guess that's why people and families are always like, man,
we need everybody here home at least once a year
for Christmas or Thanksgiving, whatever it may be. That's why
that's such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I feel like, yeah, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We have the Vinetti family Christmas this Saturday. It's always
two weeks early. Oh yeah, it's always two weeks early.
So we got that on Saturday night. My sister works
for Disney, so she has to work through the holidays,
so she always comes in two weeks early. I got
(15:14):
some good presents. I decided I'm not doing cash this year. Okay, yeah,
tired of I'm tired of going around to the nephews
and nieces and just going U fifty years, fifty years.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's like the Uncle Scrooge gift. Almost.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I said,
I know what I could get these guys in gals,
I'm gonna get them. I went out. I've got about
half of them done. I got till Saturday, but I
got about half of them done. All right, short break?
What am I lacking here?
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I've known him since I was twelve years old. Thirteen
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and designers that work for him, and they will design
your pool no matter what space you have in the backyard,
they'll make it work. Cabanas, swim up bars, the led lights.
(16:02):
They have those new areas to where it's only about
seven or eight inches deep, and they have the chairs
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you want, they can do for you. And the prices
are right. Let's check it out and see what they
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Get a hold of Steve Butler. They've been doing it
(16:24):
for thirty years. They're in Middletown forever. Go go see
my boy Steve. He'll take care of you and the holidays.
You can unveil the picture to the family. Back after
this a news radio eight forty whas we are back
NewsRadio eight forty whs. What is this? Well, Tim mcgrawl,
(16:46):
all right, kind of a crappy day of weather. It's
good to be right around the truck and listen to
this a little bit. Got your boots on just in
case you got, you know, go through some nasty stuff.
Because the ground's all wet and it's all bloody, and
sometimes you get it in your you know, it's it's
(17:07):
it's mushy. It's not even the ground's not even wet.
It's mushy, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So they say out in Boulz County.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And uh, and this time, I'm I'm pretty glad that
I have made my house. I've started my house to
be a shoes off at the front door. Oh yeah, situation.
There's not a pair of shoes not in a slot
in my little thing that I built or bought and
built so you can put your shoes and no one's
(17:35):
used my socks. I bought a whole stack of new socks,
those little ankle it socks thingies, and I put it
on top. It's like, put some socks on if you
need something, but don't wear the shoes in the house anymore. Dog,
I'm gonna get everybody to adhere to this, all right.
So uh, Ed algeron Is was the coach at LSU.
He's been around forever. He's just bigger than life. He's
(17:59):
a big earl chested redneck from the South and he's
a football coach. And he's even got dead voice. He
is a movie character in real life. And I saw
this the other day to where he is telling stories
now with Nil and they're not going back and hammering schools.
(18:20):
He is telling the truth. He tells one about Joe
Burrow that cracks me up. When he was when he
was recruiting Joe Burrow. He wasn't the head coach at
the time, but he was. I don't think he was
a head coach, but he was recruiting him. But this
is him talking on a podcast. Do you have that sound?
Or he admits about the pain in the playeff I do?
(18:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Here we go?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Hey go what I say a coach? You know you've
been not a coaching for a while, And though, how
do you adjust at nil?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well so minor adjustment?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I said, back then, we used to walk through the
back door to cash. Now we just got to walk
through the foot door. A joke of yeatime joke. And
that's a joke, is it?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Though?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, it's not, No, it's not. They've been paying players
since athletics and colleges and universities have been playing athletics.
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's a fact.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And I think some of here's the Shaker thing because
Louisville fans used to believe that they were pure and
good and Kentucky was the only school that paid players.
We don't have to do that, we just win. Denny
wouldn't do that. Yeah, Okay, UCLA did the same thing
(19:48):
and wouldn't is like the grandfather of everybody's basketball program.
They just didn't want to know about it. Look if
it got done, So are you guilty, John? If you
just say, uh, if it goes on, I want to
know about it. But you know that you know it's
going on.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, I think you're guilty. I don't know if it's
guilty by association or what it is, but if you're
letting it happen and you know it's happening, then there's
guilt of some way associated with it. I feel like, of.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Course there is. So they've been paying players. I don't
care who the coach is. The ones that were famous
for it were just tired of hiding it, like the
Tark and all that were just like, oh, y'all are
doing it. I'm just the one that gets the pr
from it. Right. But LSU, come on, especially the SEC
(20:37):
football stop. I mean, how many thirty for thirties do
you need to see about players that played in the
seventies and eighties and nineties And they are all like, well,
you know, Alabama offered me thirty thousand back then. That
was a lot of money. You know. The SMU story
is riot. That's not unusual. SMU got smacked. They got
(20:59):
the death penalty, which was so bad to the SMU
program that d NCFLA would didn't do it again because
it destroyed their foot football program. But they were giving
cars away doing all that. I'm not gonna say the player,
(21:19):
but when I was in high school at Trinity, they
there were there was a player that had signed to
play at Kentucky football and he was a senior, and
next thing you know, there's a new Mustang in the
parking lot with Fayette plates. Not even hiding it. It's
(21:40):
not even like what I'm sure they they hit it
through his dad bought it through a dealer, through whatever. Right,
I don't know. I'm just saying there was a new
Mustang with Fayett plates in the parking lot our senior,
that person's senior year, and he had signed with and
he was recruited by a lot of people, and he
had signed with with Kentucky. So yes, it happened all
(22:04):
the time, right, And I'm sure it was less than
on some schools and more on others. But that's the story.
And I'll I could listen to him talk all day
long Oh that dead god Southern football coach.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I love that Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
He was so damn good. I love you, Joe. Either
you come play for me or I'm will get fired
back after this on news radio eight forty. Whass man,
I gotta tell you, Uh, doing the show for my
home studio is not a bad deal.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Is a cozy car?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I have a sauna I got from Steepleton a couple
of years ago, so it's already primed and ready to
go for after the show. It gets up to one
hundred and fifty something degrees. You sit in it for
like twenty minutes and it's just like feels good. But
more importantly, I didn't have to get in the car
dry downtown in that muck from yesterday from you know,
(23:03):
it's still nasty weather out there and cold and all that.
So I but the drawback is my wife makes puppy
chow for her clients and for her employees and stuff.
It is the checks cereal powdered sugar, melted chocolate and
(23:24):
peanut butter and then you just whatever blend it all
in and I have buckets of it. So I am
like so high right now because I've been eating this
bucket and I was like, stop, like you've consciously say
in your set head stopped, do not, do not eat
(23:45):
more of that puppy chow. If my wife came home
right now and saw how much I ate, she would
scream at me. But it's it's kind of nice. Sitting
in your own house is stealing your.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You're letting your hair down right now. You're letting your
hair down.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Exactly right, That's exactly right if I had it. Okay,
So lots of news today, and we got over some
pretty good topics. One dead, another critical condition. Shooting at
Kentucky State University campus. But it wasn't what we thought
it was, which was another shooting on college campus. We
(24:23):
all thought the worst, which was somebody went in there
with an agenda and just shot the place up and
killed random people. It was a fight. I saw a
video allegedly that's what happened. Frankfurt Police Department said officers
responded to a campus after three point thirty pm. A
fight at three point thirty in the damn afternoon, and
somebody's got to die. I have no idea what the
(24:48):
what the fight was over, but you ask LMPD and
they'll tell you a large portion of people that commit
homicides in the city Louisville or because they got disrespected,
not saying this is the situation, but it was a fight,
(25:10):
a bunch of guys just having a friendly fight on
college campuses. It happens all the time. But then one
idiot has to pull a gun. It's all it takes
is one idiot. We can't have a fight without somebody
pulling a gun. Seriously, dude, I don't mind the fight part,
dudes being dudes, but it's always that one idiot that
(25:34):
pulls a gun and changes everyone's lives. Details should be
coming out, who, what, where and when when this thing
is And I'm just glad it wasn't more people. Kentucky
got back on the winning streak last night, or they
at least have one game that's a winner they played.
Maybe it's a who did they play. It's a directional school.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It was North Carolina Central.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
There you go, the Eagle directional school. Except Central's direction Central. Huhuh.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Except Central's not direction.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It kind of is. It's central to the state against
where you guys located, and it's Central. The big news
was Fox con Fox Co n N. This is a
company that makes seventy percent of the iPhones is moving
some operations. We're not sure what part of the operation
(26:29):
they're moving to Louisville and Dixie Highway, but they're moving
one hundred and eighty jobs here. Huge news. John Channan
from the News. He makes sense. He's like, well, they
make seventy percent of the iPhones. That gorilla glass is
made in Kentucky, so that makes sense. They make the phones,
(26:52):
the gear inside the phones, and they buy the gorilla glass.
Why not have it all right here and rock it out?
Makes sense? And then The Simple, which I thought was
a women's health website, opened its own Louisville headquarters with
five point one million dollar investment. The AI workflow platform company,
(27:13):
which means I have no idea. I guess it's how
AI can help your workflow, which is I have a salesperson,
I have a producer, there's me, we have the client
that has the idea or I have an idea, whatever
the workflow. What is our workflow at iHeart? I guess
(27:33):
their company v Simple uses AI to help us do
that easier. I just to hope it doesn't replace some
of us. That's the that's the fear. Twenty thousand square
foot facility is what they're opening, and they're creating one
hundred and ninety four jobs. V simple. So this is all.
(27:54):
There's a lot of AI driven businesses that are moving
to Louisville. It's kind of crazy, to tell you the truth,
but I love it. I think it's great. I don't
if AI can help me and not. I'm towards the
end of my career though, I've got only got about
five or ten more years. I'm not gonna be Terry miners.
(28:15):
I'm not going to be one hundred and ten years
old working at HAS. I'm gonna pick a spot in out.
But John, you're gonna have to worry about this stuff, buddy, Yeah,
because you and Nick are the you guys go get
you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Are next the final Frontier. Maybe it won't be the
final Frontier. Who knows, Maybe there'll be those after us.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Okay, I don't want to leave on this story. I
mean I don't. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not
going to do the scientist smelling your own farts reduces
the risk of Alzheimer's disease. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I think you've already gone there. Now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Ah, I'm not gonna do the story.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You've got almost ninety seconds to talk about farting and
helping with Alzheimer's or something.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
The Okay, No, I'll do the forward trick to giving
great goodbye. If you're at a party and you gotta leave,
you go to hey, amazing party. That gives everybody clue
you're leaving. I like the Irish goodbye. You don't tell
a damn soul you're leaving, and kind of sneak, get
your jacket and get out of there. We used to
call it a one two three johnny when I was
growing up. Where's Vannetti one two three Johnny? Oh? Cause
(29:29):
you know, if you tell people you're leaving, they don't
let you leave. No, no, no, no, no, no, get over here,
Get over here, You're not leaving. Calm me, nothing more irritate.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
What's the what's the Italian goodbye or the Cuban Italian goodbye?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I don't know. Again, I don't tell anybody. If you
just even give a hint, you act like you're going
to the bathroom, or if you're with your wife, I'll
go I'm gonna go to the bathroom. You gotta wait
three or four minutes and then you go so we
can whoop it. Get out of here, all right, everybody,
Eatling and Eland, what you gotta do? One percent commission rate.
(30:06):
Your house is worth more than it's ever worth before
in its entire life. You're gonna sell it. You're gonna
keep that equity in your pocket. And don't painty a
little special charges back in the back end of the paperwork. No,
Eatling and Eland five nine one percent commission rate. John,
I have a great rest of the week. I'll see
you on Monday, Okay, yes, sir, all right man, we'll
see you later. News Radio A forty whas
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