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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Dwight's still not out of the country. He is back,
but he is in his decompression day. I need to
have an extra day after vacation. I was sitting on
the beach having fun for eight days and now I
need an extra day. So he'll be back tomorrow. I'll
be back Monday because I'm leaving Thursday. Friday situation. So
(00:25):
you're struck with me today and John Alden, John, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Lovely day out there today. Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A lot of rain, a lot of wind, more winter
weather coming in the next couple of days. I've seen.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a little irritating rain. The little tiny specks and
oh yeah, old and they're smacking you in the face.
It's just kind of like, okay, all right, I get it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, if you're somebody who has to walk downtown, commute
in any way, shape or form, today is not a
fun day for you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And again it is when you're it's it's garbage day.
So we don't have one. We have two of those
gigantic green recyclable the ones that I've made an argument
to my family because my daughter and my wife are
obsessed with it and I'm like, you understand, ninety percent
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of what goes in these cans, they don't get recycled.
We don't care well. They fill it and then they
fill a third one, one of those aluminum cans, which
the guys out there hate, the garbage guys hate. They
look at me and I go, I know, I'm sorry, man,
I'm sorry because they look at me and they're like, dude,
you're filling two now, and you're telling me you're gonna
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add the aluminum guy. I said, I know, man, they're crazy.
They don't get recycled. The story has been done over
and over again. It's to make you feel better. Yes,
I'm recycling. This cup. Is gonna be a park bench someday. No,
it's not. It's gonna end up in a landfill in
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the Caribbean. Okay, So yes, dragging all that stuff down
in the rain was a lot of fun today. But
be careful out there because it's gonna it's gonna last
for and it's gonna be mainly from US North. My
wife flew to Pittsburgh instead of drove. She she called
an audible last night because she was like, I'm not
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driving back in this in a couple of days, so
just be careful out there as we go forward. All right,
one dad, one critical condition. It is not what we
thought it was when you first hear university shooting. Oh boy,
here we go. But it seems to be none of that, right,
active aggressor. It ended up being some dudes that got
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into a fight. Somebody pulled the gun and shot the
other guy. So that's what it looks like. Looks like
an argument. And there's video, now, John, have you seen
that video?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I have not seen the video.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Some dude in his dorm kind of did the whip
with the blinds. Oh god, I kind of got a
lot of the video. It wasn't inside, it was outside,
people throwing punches and then guess what, somebody pulls a gun.
That's pretty much what happened. So thank god. But it
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led the national news last night because it's it's a
great headline, shooting at university, right, so.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Everyone immediately thinks it's mass casualty, right.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Exactly exactly. But it led the news as much as
news we had last night nationally. It led NBC at least,
that was the one I was on at six point
thirty led with that, so lots of other stories to
get through. Here's what I did not realize Stranger Things,
which I have said, I didn't realize how good this
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season five would be until I watched it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They dropped four episodes of the last season. You have
watched it, correct, I've not seen a single episode of
Stranger Things, and it's one of the those things. Now
that it's going to be completed, I know you're ashamed.
I do want to eventually watch the entire thing now
that it's going to be complete.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, I'm not ashamed. No, it's a weird show. I
think you got to be into that kind of weird
sci fi thing. They have a great formula. The two
guys that write this thing have a great formula. They
suck in guys like me and Dwight because or maybe
not Dwight, I'm not sure if he watches it or not,
but they suck up our age because it's set in
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the mid nineteen eighties. That's when we were in high school.
So we're watching it going damn. They are nailing all
their clothes and the music and this is crazy. And
then it sucks in the young kids because it's a
bunch of young kids battling battling the Underworld is crazy.
But they are dropping Netflix. Did they shut down the
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night that they dropped the four on Thanksgiving Eve? It's
shut down Netflix just like Mike Tyson Fight thing.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Really, there are that many people trying to watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So a Christmas Eve at midnight they're dropping three episodes
that are almost two hours apiece. It's gonna shut down
Netflix again because everyone's gonna be home and somebody's gonna
go we got to do stranger things. It's gonna shut
it down again.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Netflix.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The Netflix has got to figure out what they're doing well.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And don't forget. You've also got another set of Christmas
Day NFL games coming this year.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Those went off without a hitch last last last Christmas,
so maybe those will be fine, but it'll be interesting
to see if they have any issues as well.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The ratings on the Thanksgiving games, it was crazy. No
one wants to talk to their family. People want to
be distracted with football, and they're not stupid. They put
the brands up Kansas City in Dallas. I know Dallas
(06:01):
hasn't done anything in the playoffs in forever, not in
your lifetime, John, but it doesn't matter. They're a brand.
Kansas City is the brand right now. So you put
those two teams playing each other, it had like a
fifty million people watch that game. That's half the amount
of people that watch a Super Bowl. That's a little crazy. Again,
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we go over time and time again. Football is the
only thing people are watching live on television. It's just
it's huge and everyone is vine. We're gonna call these
the streaming Wars of the two thousands, because we didn't
even get this week to the Netflix trying to buy
Warner Brothers, and then Paramount is now rolling in and
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trying to buy you a Hostle takeover and snatch it
from them because they know content it's already been created,
like the Harry Potter movies will never go away. We're
always gonna want to, well, I won't want to get
the service that has the Harry Potter movies. They know that,
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so they're they're fighting for it and whatever they pay
for it today will be worth it in ten years
you'll be thinking, wow, they got that for a steal.
I mean even when it happened when Disney bought Star
Wars from Lucas, they paid him four billion dollars, and
of course some other stuff in the contract. But we
all went, wow, that's a lot of money, and I'm like, no,
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it's not. I'm like, no, it's not four billion for
that franchise, the rights to that franchise. No way, he
should have got more. All right, So, uh, Kentucky won. Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I would say they won. They won by a lot.
But Mark Pope was still angry. All right, he should be, Yes,
he's still The only thing I saw was him benching
a player for the last eight or nine minutes of
the game, and he did it to where everyone can
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see he's doing it. He walked onto the floor, looked
at him and said, get your blank on the on
the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He said, I don't want to see you bleeping play
anymore tonight, or something like that. Oh, I think there
was an F bomb in there.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The players need to hear it. They need a coach.
These these players need a coach. And Bob Knight said
it originally, when you sit somebody down on the bench,
it sends a signal from the butt to the brain.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's very smart, and the brain.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Says, I want to try harder. Uh. I like Pope.
I hope he turns it around. Louis have already beat
him by double digits, so I don't care. H Plus,
if you're a Litill fan, you want them to really
do well in the SEC because you want them that
to be something. Uh you know you don't want this.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You want for you later on in the season.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want them. You want the pundits
to be talking about the numbers and saying, well that
that Kentucky wins a big deal, or man, that doesn't
look so good now, all right, so let's talk about
the two AI. Well, let's talk about the two for
moving to Louisville. I don't know if you saw this
or not. Fox Con is coming to Louisville. This is
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their first venture into North America as far as I understand.
Maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe Kentucky. Uh these Foxcott Do
you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
John?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I see it's a technology group.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They make seventy percent of all iPhones.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, I would have never guessed that, right.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Neither did I until I looked it up this morning.
They're going to open up. There is an empty looks
like distribution center type warehouse off Dixie Highway. They're taking it.
They're gonna put one hundred and seventy three million dollars
into this thing and bring one hundred and eighty jobs
for an average of I think it was forty dollars
an hour, thirty eight dollars and sixty one cents on
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average per hour. Those jobs are coming to Louisville or
Dixie Highway. It is an AI driven plant expected to open.
I'm already starting to go twenty to twenty six, so
quarter three of twenty twenty six. So I think this
is this is huge news, and I think more companies
(10:23):
are headed this way. But this company makes seventy percent
of all iPhones, Dude, Fox con So this is big,
big time news, especially for Dixie Highway. I love it
for them. The other one was V Simple. Have you
heard of those?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I've not heard of V Simple.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I thought it was gotta be honest with you. I
first saw it online, so I thought it was like
a woman's product situation. That's a good guess, the Simple, right.
I was just like, boy, that makes sense. It is
not V Simple open to Louisville head coat orders with
a five point one million dollar investment. You tell me
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what this means, because I even asked AI what it means,
and it really didn't. It couldn't tell me. This company
is an AI it helps you with your AI workflow platform,
and it promises to create one hundred and ninety four jobs.
But what is a AI workflow workflow platform?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I would assume, based on what you're telling me, that
a AI workflow platform is something that was trying to
help businesses utilize AI in a more in a way
that helps them just work more efficiently. I would imagine
maybe I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wrong about Yeah, that sounds like replacing.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, it sounds like job replacement.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Right, so workflow platform. Okay, So what we do in radio.
Kerry McNatt is one of our sales executives. So you
would call you, you'd try to find Carrie McNatt, you know,
you find the phone number, call her. You'd say, I
really like that. Tony Vannetti got you know, can he
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write a commercial for me? YadA YadA? She you know,
she gets hold of me, and that's this is the flow, right,
the workflow, This is the workflow that I'm describing, and
it goes to me, It goes right, goes to production,
Production sends me in order I do the commercial at home.
I send it back to her. She plays it for
the client, the client says that's great, and then plays
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it on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's the workflow.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So I'm assuming they're they're this company is going to
help companies like iHeart say, how do we streamline?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
How do we cut out the middleman? That's what it
sounds like, right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm hoping they don't want AI for either carry McNatt
or myself. Right. No, I hope not the salesperson or me. Right.
And by the way, I have something in the works.
I told you I wanted to. We Dwight and I
over the years have had several We always need a
female voice to make us the toxic masculinity on our
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show a little bit less. So I'm working on it
now to have an.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
AI co host.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
How are you now?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, and I'm thinking I might like part of the
instructions would be be mean to John.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That would be very interesting. So it's just it's just
enough fake woman who's here to badger me the entire show?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Have you given this AI woman a name?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, not yet, But it's just this is in the uh.
We just started talking about it, Okay, So I got
to call the guy. He's in Florida sneak and Deacon
is the one that set me up with this. So
I got to call this guy and sort of set
all this up. But I want to see how this
thing works because I think it's gonna freak everybody out.
(14:02):
Tell you the truth, all right. Willie Caley Stein he
irritated me as a Louisville fan, but he was one
of my favorite basketball players in the UK. I just
liked I liked him. I liked Willie. He had some
advice on a podcast or whatever platform he was on
(14:24):
about today's players. I will tell you what that is
and why I think that's not a bad idea when
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With Willie's advice on news radio eight forty whs B.
All right, it is Wednesday, Beryland towards Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody.
I still want to encourage people to go to Actors
Theater and see a Christmas Carol. Got my family in
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the mood for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
My family when saw Elf at Derby Dinner this past weekend,
Oh cool, it was really good. Derby Dinner is amazing,
Oh my gosh. And the food is always awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Food's pretty good. I normally won't do buffet stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They do a good job. It's a very clean buffet.
It's not yours.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Think no, I get it. I'm just saying my preference
is usually not fair enough. Use the handles and all
that of fifty different people just went through. So Derbuty
Dinner is great. But go see a Christmas Carol. It
really did. And it was snowing that night when we
went downtown, so it was snowing, it was cold, it
was really busy downtown and it really got us into
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the Christmas spirit. So if you're thinking about it, head
on down there. There's still some tickets available for that,
all right, and it is going to be a crappy day.
It's a great day to build a fire at home
and just kind of chill out. Willie cally Stein used
to kill Louisville. I mean, it's just one of the
scenes that I've seen him. I remember was when Louisville
beat them. When they went to the n I T
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and Louisville won the national title, Louisville still could only
squeak out a couple of point wins at the Young Center,
and Willie cally Stein just like dunked on somebody. I
think it was Gorgie Jang or somebody, and they just
kind of like gave that face. While he was running
back up the court, like what you trying to do?
He had a good suggestion. He was like, Okay, all right,
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you're paying these guys, but why don't you do this.
Imagine if you gave the bonuses out for hustle plays.
Is this crazy John so blocks, steals, rebounds and assists,
and if you play for Rick Patino deflections.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, that's a great idea. That's a great yeah, because
I mean, yeah, players are going to play hard. At
least you hope they do no matter what. But if
there's an extra incentive to you know, especially if things
like if the game isn't going a certain way or
maybe you're blowing a team out by thirty, you still
want to run up that stat sheet to give yourself
a couple bonuses.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I mean, seriously, you could get you can get an
initiative going now, just you could go public with it.
You don't even have to keep it quiet. If you
get five or more rebounds, it's ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, that's uh gas money for those guys.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
If you get five or more rebounds in a game,
you know, ten thousand dollars depending on the position. If
you're a if you're a two guard and you get
four rebounds, that's worth ten thousand dollars. You're rebounding from
that position, You're you're winning.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What a life where you can just go get five
rebounds and then there's ten k in your bank account?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Blocks steals assists, Right, you're looking for the extra pass.
If you get more than three, it's three thousand dollars.
I'm all in for this. You should do it anyway
that should be because that's how you're gonna get drafted anyway.
I think part of these guys now, at some point,
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if you want to hustle it and you're on this
Kentucky team, you're like, I'm lumped in with these people.
I'm lumped in with these guys. Now my reputation is
this team quits. That's not good because this is a
job for them. This isn't school, This isn't I'm gonna
get my degree and after basketball, I'm gonna use it.
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This is a job to go to the G League
and or the NBA or overseas, which is what most
end up doing and making a lot of money. There's
a good life to be led overseas making some good money.
But I think this is a great idea. Willie Coley Stein,
good on you. If I was pope, I would implement
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that now, and Kentucky fans would pay out the nose
for it. The initiative for whatever GoFundMe would be huge
day one. They could get a million bucks in a
day and that would pay for so and so got
fifteen rebounds, that's twelve thousand dollars. Just set the number
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and say you got to reach it. You got to
get over five rebounds. You got to get over three
assists and you get your money. It's not a bad idea.
All right, short break, we'll come back. It is again Wednesday,
barreling through. I'm out Thursday, Friday. Dwight will be back
in tomorrow. Please slow down out there. We are sponsored
by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. News is next
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on News Radio eight forty. Whas I mentioned yesterday that
I keep running into folks that are like, oh no,
I graduated from IU like they say it. Now there's
a new pride in the area for IU football that
has never existed before. And we're going to talk to
(20:24):
Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage Forward. It's atop the hour.
I encourage you to listen to it because he went
there three days early. Because Indy is his thing. He has,
you know, two things he does every year, which is
goes to the track all week for Derby Week, and
(20:45):
then for the Big Ten Championships, he goes to Indie
and spends days. And this year obviously it was special,
including the basketball game which he didn't lose or they
did lose earlier that day. We'll hear him tell the
story and then just the pure joy in his voice
as IU fans continue to celebrate and really in disbelief.
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As you travel around the city in Louisville, southern Indiana,
you see more IU scarves.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hats, jackets, Are you jackets?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I was thinking about this shooting last night at Kentucky
State and it ended up not being what we thought
it was. You know the headline, it really gets more
of the juice going than anything else. Another shooting in
a university wasn't that. It was sort of it was
from what we understand allegedly, it looks like an argument
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between people and someone pulled a gun. It wasn't what
you think it is, which is someone had a plan
to got to campus and started shooting a place up randomly.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That's not what it was.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
But on that note, I really started to think about
how much we give, how much we've given up in
the last couple of years because of this and not
thought anything about it. I used to go to church
with my kids at their school because it's Catholic school,
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so every Wednesday they have masks, So you just used
to just show up and you just went and sat
with your kid. We had two, so I would rotate it.
I had to go sit with genre and sit with
Maggie and sit with their classmates and didn't think anything
about it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And it was great.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And a lot of times you see the same parents there.
You didn't kind of look over and go whatever. But
it was great because I think the kids really enjoyed
it too, especially when they were young. When they got older,
maybe not so much. But you just showed up, You
wandered in, and you stood there at the front of
church until their class came through, and then you just
kind of jumped in with them. And now there was
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a whole day of obligation this week, and Jackie had
she goes, I'm going over to church, and she had
to sign in, get the name tag thing, the tag
that you put around your neck, wait in a certain
room till all the kids got in, and then she
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had to sit in the chairs outside of the church.
And we just accepted that. Like it sucks, I get it.
There were a lot of people that complained when that
thing was implemented a couple of years ago, but we
just gave it up. We just didn't even think twice
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of how much ground we give up and how much freedom,
how many memories are we not going to have?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You can't sit with your kid anymore. You can't just
show up say hi to the teacher. They weren't rolling through.
That's those days are gone, and I'm pretty sad about that.
But I'm also a little pissed. John Alden, you have
any thoughts on this of and you're about to go
into this thing. Your wife works for a school after
stand security. But we've given up some memories you're never
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going to have that we used to have.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, I haven't thought a ton of specific examples of
maybe things that I experienced when I was younger that
maybe won't be available whenever Daisy gets older. I did
go to Catholic school from sixth to eighth grade, so
I am aware of, like you know, going to Mass
on Wednesdays, that sort of thing. My parents never came
to that. And also I don't remember I don't remember
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anybody's parents coming back. Again, This is I don't know
if my if me, my generation is the is around
the exact same as as your kids.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But at St. Anthonasius, wherever I went, I don't remember
parents coming. So that doesn't hit home with me specifically.
But I'm sure there's something that each family has that
maybe isn't there or won't be there as years go on.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, we just give it up something, you know. And
I think this was in response. I think of oh,
I can't remember what church shooting it was, but that
one shooting affected the entire archdiocese, not just Louisville, but
across the nation. So hey, here's the new rules. And
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I just think it happens so quickly and we overreact.
That's my opinion is that we're overreacting.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I want my.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Kids to be safe. I'm just thinking, man, we're going
to give all that up because that is look John,
looking back on it, I always tell people that start
at the school over there. I say, look, get involved
as much as possible. I went kicking and screaming. My
wife signed us up for everything, and now I'm so glad.
I coached, she coached, We volunteered for everything over there.
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Cafeteria duty doesn't matter. We're over there all the time,
and trust me, it makes the experience so much better. Okay,
if you're involved with your kids school, if you're and
and all the kids, all their classmates know who you are,
they know your name, you know them. That's my advice
for anybody it's got young kids going into school. Just
get involved as much as you can. And now do
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you just feel like a criminal. Please put your thumbprint
on the button so we can identify you. You did
this on the first day, We have your blood type.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh yeah, that's so. Even when I go see my
wife at school, like back whenever, during like during the summer,
if she had to do you get some stuff set
up and whatnot, I would go up there and bring
lunch and I would go through the office. And they
still they'll make you use the uh you know, the
like not necessarily a thumb print. They'll take a picture
of you and it's kind of like a temporary idea sticker.
You'll stick it on your shirt. It's it's very strange, Yeah,
(26:50):
it is.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Look, these are the same things. Uh, Like I'm watching
forty eight Hours in nineteen eighty four or five whenever
that movie came out with Nick Nolty and Eddie Murphy
and Nick Nolty having to get into the prison to
see him did less things than us trying to get
into our kids' school. Eh.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Click, you could come in.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Gotta wait in that room until the door shuts behind you. Click.
Now go through and you're like, why how has this happened? Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It is sad, But at the same time, I think
that level of protection, like you know, buzzing into the office,
I think that's necessary. You don't want anybody just being
able to go in and potentially do something that they
shouldn't do. It at elementary or any school level, doesn't
matter IF's elementary or not. You gotta have some sort
of boundaries to get in. I feel like, but how
(27:46):
much is it over?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You know? Grandma, my grandmother used to get so she
worried about everything. Every sweet Cuban lady worried about everything. Look,
the fence is too low, Like I had a fence.
She was at my house and she was like, that's
too low. Someone could just reach over and pick your
kids up. It's like, Grandma, Mama, stop, it's gonna be fine.
(28:08):
Fence is fine.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I'm surprised some more people put barbed wire fences around
their yards nowadays than if it's that that's coming.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We're all gonna be snake listening. It's all gonna be
I mean, is that what we all barreling towards Biff's world?
I mean, is that what towns we're gonna live in again.
I'm just lamenting. I'm just sitting here remembering also those
those little joys that Jackie and I had raising our
kids at our school, our kids' school. New parents aren't
(28:39):
gonna have that because somebody shot up a school in
Minnesota or whatever. It just sucks, and you're right, it's
probably for the better.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Just in case.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right, we're gonna take a short break here. Marty's
gonna be on the other side of this thing. Marty
is a huge He's the biggest EU fan. I know
he trusts, he trumps you, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
But yeah, let's get let's be honest. Though, he has
way more funds to go to all these games than
I do. So but if I had all I had
that Marty book money, I'd be going up there to
games as much as he does.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well he said it. Remember last week he was like,
look a trip to Aruba or go to the Big
Ten Championship. It's true, it's the same price. These trips
are not cheap.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
The cheapest tickets at the Big Ten title game were
four hundred dollars last time I saw it again. You
can't see him now, but back whenever they were still
you could still buy them last week four hundred dollars
cheapest ones.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah those are a gift. Yeah you're not getting one
for four hundred bucks. But and that's just your ticket.
That's not that your buddy's ticket or your wife's ticket.
So no, I mean the prices. And that's why you've
got to think about Notre Dame fans because we have
friends that both of them that we have a couple
that were friends with and both of them graduated from
Notre Dame. They went to every game. I was like,
how are they? Like, we followed him on Facebook and
(29:57):
I was like, how are they are? Fourteen?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
This?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
This is crazy. They went to every playoff game because
they made it all the way to the National Championship.
They did, they did, they kept winning, they kept Winny.
But I guess if the euphoria of the whole thing,
it's like I tell some people don't.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Care to go into debt. They're they're so into it.
They're like, you know what, we'll just put this on
a credit card and pay for it down the line.
We're gonna have this experience. And if you're somebody who
can do that, I don't have My brain doesn't allow
me to do things like that. I'm too very I'm
fiscally conservative with everything that I've got, so I just
can't do something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
In the Denny Crumb and Rick patino eras, following them
on the NCLBA tournament was awesome, and I did plenty
of those trips for the station, either following UK or
U of L and going to those games, and even
with my wife, were going going to Birmingham or wherever
the game is because it's just a different feeling. It's
(30:58):
just that there's a different excite than a regular season obviously,
but on the road with other fans, I always ask
too if there's a site where there's seven or eight
teams in one site, I always go to the guy
that parks cars and says, okay, who's the biggest jerks
And they always tell you the obvious answer. We played
(31:22):
in Birmingham. I went right to the guy that parks
the cars and went a. He went, oh, by far Texas, Tennessee.
I was like, that makes sense. That tracks all right,
short break, We'll come back. Lots of pasta, lots of pasta.
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forty whas
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Dwight's still not out of the country. He is back,
but he is in his decompression day. I need to
have an extra day after vacation. I was sitting on
the beach having fun for eight days and now I
need an extra day. So he'll be back tomorrow. I'll
be back Monday because I'm leaving Thursday. Friday situation. So
(00:25):
you're struck with me today and John Alden, John, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Lovely day out there today. Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A lot of rain, a lot of wind, more winter
weather coming in the next couple of days. I've seen.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a little irritating rain. The little tiny specks and
oh yeah, old and they're smacking you in the face.
It's just kind of like, okay, all right, I get it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, if you're somebody who has to walk downtown, commute
in any way, shape or form, today is not a
fun day for you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And again it is when you're it's it's garbage day.
So we don't have one. We have two of those
gigantic green recyclable the ones that I've made an argument
to my family because my daughter and my wife are
obsessed with it and I'm like, you understand, ninety percent
(01:14):
of what goes in these cans, they don't get recycled.
We don't care well. They fill it and then they
fill a third one, one of those aluminum cans, which
the guys out there hate, the garbage guys hate. They
look at me and I go, I know, I'm sorry, man,
I'm sorry because they look at me and they're like, dude,
you're filling two now, and you're telling me you're gonna
(01:35):
add the aluminum guy. I said, I know, man, they're crazy.
They don't get recycled. The story has been done over
and over again. It's to make you feel better. Yes,
I'm recycling. This cup. Is gonna be a park bench someday. No,
it's not. It's gonna end up in a landfill in
(01:57):
the Caribbean. Okay, So yes, dragging all that stuff down
in the rain was a lot of fun today. But
be careful out there because it's gonna it's gonna last
for and it's gonna be mainly from US North. My
wife flew to Pittsburgh instead of drove. She she called
an audible last night because she was like, I'm not
(02:18):
driving back in this in a couple of days, so
just be careful out there as we go forward. All right,
one dad, one critical condition. It is not what we
thought it was when you first hear university shooting. Oh boy,
here we go. But it seems to be none of that, right,
active aggressor. It ended up being some dudes that got
(02:42):
into a fight. Somebody pulled the gun and shot the
other guy. So that's what it looks like. Looks like
an argument. And there's video, now, John, have you seen
that video?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I have not seen the video.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Some dude in his dorm kind of did the whip
with the blinds. Oh god, I kind of got a
lot of the video. It wasn't inside, it was outside,
people throwing punches and then guess what, somebody pulls a gun.
That's pretty much what happened. So thank god. But it
(03:15):
led the national news last night because it's it's a
great headline, shooting at university, right, so.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Everyone immediately thinks it's mass casualty, right.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Exactly exactly. But it led the news as much as
news we had last night nationally. It led NBC at least,
that was the one I was on at six point
thirty led with that, so lots of other stories to
get through. Here's what I did not realize Stranger Things,
which I have said, I didn't realize how good this
(03:50):
season five would be until I watched it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They dropped four episodes of the last season. You have
watched it, correct, I've not seen a single episode of
Stranger Things, and it's one of the those things. Now
that it's going to be completed, I know you're ashamed.
I do want to eventually watch the entire thing now
that it's going to be complete.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, I'm not ashamed. No, it's a weird show. I
think you got to be into that kind of weird
sci fi thing. They have a great formula. The two
guys that write this thing have a great formula. They
suck in guys like me and Dwight because or maybe
not Dwight, I'm not sure if he watches it or not,
but they suck up our age because it's set in
(04:30):
the mid nineteen eighties. That's when we were in high school.
So we're watching it going damn. They are nailing all
their clothes and the music and this is crazy. And
then it sucks in the young kids because it's a
bunch of young kids battling battling the Underworld is crazy.
But they are dropping Netflix. Did they shut down the
(04:51):
night that they dropped the four on Thanksgiving Eve? It's
shut down Netflix just like Mike Tyson Fight thing.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Really, there are that many people trying to watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So a Christmas Eve at midnight they're dropping three episodes
that are almost two hours apiece. It's gonna shut down
Netflix again because everyone's gonna be home and somebody's gonna
go we got to do stranger things. It's gonna shut
it down again.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Netflix.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The Netflix has got to figure out what they're doing well.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And don't forget. You've also got another set of Christmas
Day NFL games coming this year.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Those went off without a hitch last last last Christmas,
so maybe those will be fine, but it'll be interesting
to see if they have any issues as well.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The ratings on the Thanksgiving games, it was crazy. No
one wants to talk to their family. People want to
be distracted with football, and they're not stupid. They put
the brands up Kansas City in Dallas. I know Dallas
(06:01):
hasn't done anything in the playoffs in forever, not in
your lifetime, John, but it doesn't matter. They're a brand.
Kansas City is the brand right now. So you put
those two teams playing each other, it had like a
fifty million people watch that game. That's half the amount
of people that watch a Super Bowl. That's a little crazy. Again,
(06:25):
we go over time and time again. Football is the
only thing people are watching live on television. It's just
it's huge and everyone is vine. We're gonna call these
the streaming Wars of the two thousands, because we didn't
even get this week to the Netflix trying to buy
Warner Brothers, and then Paramount is now rolling in and
(06:48):
trying to buy you a Hostle takeover and snatch it
from them because they know content it's already been created,
like the Harry Potter movies will never go away. We're
always gonna want to, well, I won't want to get
the service that has the Harry Potter movies. They know that,
(07:08):
so they're they're fighting for it and whatever they pay
for it today will be worth it in ten years
you'll be thinking, wow, they got that for a steal.
I mean even when it happened when Disney bought Star
Wars from Lucas, they paid him four billion dollars, and
of course some other stuff in the contract. But we
all went, wow, that's a lot of money, and I'm like, no,
(07:29):
it's not. I'm like, no, it's not four billion for
that franchise, the rights to that franchise. No way, he
should have got more. All right, So, uh, Kentucky won. Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I would say they won. They won by a lot.
But Mark Pope was still angry. All right, he should be, Yes,
he's still The only thing I saw was him benching
a player for the last eight or nine minutes of
the game, and he did it to where everyone can
(08:02):
see he's doing it. He walked onto the floor, looked
at him and said, get your blank on the on
the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He said, I don't want to see you bleeping play
anymore tonight, or something like that. Oh, I think there
was an F bomb in there.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The players need to hear it. They need a coach.
These these players need a coach. And Bob Knight said
it originally, when you sit somebody down on the bench,
it sends a signal from the butt to the brain.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's very smart, and the brain.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Says, I want to try harder. Uh. I like Pope.
I hope he turns it around. Louis have already beat
him by double digits, so I don't care. H Plus,
if you're a Litill fan, you want them to really
do well in the SEC because you want them that
to be something. Uh you know you don't want this.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You want for you later on in the season.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want them. You want the pundits
to be talking about the numbers and saying, well that
that Kentucky wins a big deal, or man, that doesn't
look so good now, all right, so let's talk about
the two AI. Well, let's talk about the two for
moving to Louisville. I don't know if you saw this
or not. Fox Con is coming to Louisville. This is
(09:22):
their first venture into North America as far as I understand.
Maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe Kentucky. Uh these Foxcott Do
you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
John?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I see it's a technology group.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They make seventy percent of all iPhones.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, I would have never guessed that, right.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Neither did I until I looked it up this morning.
They're going to open up. There is an empty looks
like distribution center type warehouse off Dixie Highway. They're taking it.
They're gonna put one hundred and seventy three million dollars
into this thing and bring one hundred and eighty jobs
for an average of I think it was forty dollars
an hour, thirty eight dollars and sixty one cents on
(10:01):
average per hour. Those jobs are coming to Louisville or
Dixie Highway. It is an AI driven plant expected to open.
I'm already starting to go twenty to twenty six, so
quarter three of twenty twenty six. So I think this
is this is huge news, and I think more companies
(10:23):
are headed this way. But this company makes seventy percent
of all iPhones, Dude, Fox con So this is big,
big time news, especially for Dixie Highway. I love it
for them. The other one was V Simple. Have you
heard of those?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I've not heard of V Simple.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I thought it was gotta be honest with you. I
first saw it online, so I thought it was like
a woman's product situation. That's a good guess, the Simple, right.
I was just like, boy, that makes sense. It is
not V Simple open to Louisville head coat orders with
a five point one million dollar investment. You tell me
(11:04):
what this means, because I even asked AI what it means,
and it really didn't. It couldn't tell me. This company
is an AI it helps you with your AI workflow platform,
and it promises to create one hundred and ninety four jobs.
But what is a AI workflow workflow platform?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I would assume, based on what you're telling me, that
a AI workflow platform is something that was trying to
help businesses utilize AI in a more in a way
that helps them just work more efficiently. I would imagine
maybe I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wrong about Yeah, that sounds like replacing.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, it sounds like job replacement.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Right, so workflow platform. Okay, So what we do in radio.
Kerry McNatt is one of our sales executives. So you
would call you, you'd try to find Carrie McNatt, you know,
you find the phone number, call her. You'd say, I
really like that. Tony Vannetti got you know, can he
(12:10):
write a commercial for me? YadA YadA? She you know,
she gets hold of me, and that's this is the flow, right,
the workflow, This is the workflow that I'm describing, and
it goes to me, It goes right, goes to production,
Production sends me in order I do the commercial at home.
I send it back to her. She plays it for
the client, the client says that's great, and then plays
(12:30):
it on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's the workflow.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So I'm assuming they're they're this company is going to
help companies like iHeart say, how do we streamline?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
How do we cut out the middleman? That's what it
sounds like, right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm hoping they don't want AI for either carry McNatt
or myself. Right. No, I hope not the salesperson or me. Right.
And by the way, I have something in the works.
I told you I wanted to. We Dwight and I
over the years have had several We always need a
female voice to make us the toxic masculinity on our
(13:10):
show a little bit less. So I'm working on it
now to have an.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
AI co host.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
How are you now?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, and I'm thinking I might like part of the
instructions would be be mean to John.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
That would be very interesting. So it's just it's just
enough fake woman who's here to badger me the entire show?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Have you given this AI woman a name?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, not yet, But it's just this is in the uh.
We just started talking about it, Okay, So I got
to call the guy. He's in Florida sneak and Deacon
is the one that set me up with this. So
I got to call this guy and sort of set
all this up. But I want to see how this
thing works because I think it's gonna freak everybody out.
(14:02):
Tell you the truth, all right. Willie Caley Stein he
irritated me as a Louisville fan, but he was one
of my favorite basketball players in the UK. I just
liked I liked him. I liked Willie. He had some
advice on a podcast or whatever platform he was on
(14:24):
about today's players. I will tell you what that is
and why I think that's not a bad idea when
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With Willie's advice on news radio eight forty whs B.
All right, it is Wednesday, Beryland towards Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody.
I still want to encourage people to go to Actors
Theater and see a Christmas Carol. Got my family in
(15:31):
the mood for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
My family when saw Elf at Derby Dinner this past weekend,
Oh cool, it was really good. Derby Dinner is amazing,
Oh my gosh. And the food is always awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Food's pretty good. I normally won't do buffet stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They do a good job. It's a very clean buffet.
It's not yours.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Think no, I get it. I'm just saying my preference
is usually not fair enough. Use the handles and all
that of fifty different people just went through. So Derbuty
Dinner is great. But go see a Christmas Carol. It
really did. And it was snowing that night when we
went downtown, so it was snowing, it was cold, it
was really busy downtown and it really got us into
(16:12):
the Christmas spirit. So if you're thinking about it, head
on down there. There's still some tickets available for that,
all right, and it is going to be a crappy day.
It's a great day to build a fire at home
and just kind of chill out. Willie cally Stein used
to kill Louisville. I mean, it's just one of the
scenes that I've seen him. I remember was when Louisville
beat them. When they went to the n I T
(16:33):
and Louisville won the national title, Louisville still could only
squeak out a couple of point wins at the Young Center,
and Willie cally Stein just like dunked on somebody. I
think it was Gorgie Jang or somebody, and they just
kind of like gave that face. While he was running
back up the court, like what you trying to do?
He had a good suggestion. He was like, Okay, all right,
(16:55):
you're paying these guys, but why don't you do this.
Imagine if you gave the bonuses out for hustle plays.
Is this crazy John so blocks, steals, rebounds and assists,
and if you play for Rick Patino deflections.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, that's a great idea. That's a great yeah, because
I mean, yeah, players are going to play hard. At
least you hope they do no matter what. But if
there's an extra incentive to you know, especially if things
like if the game isn't going a certain way or
maybe you're blowing a team out by thirty, you still
want to run up that stat sheet to give yourself
a couple bonuses.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I mean, seriously, you could get you can get an
initiative going now, just you could go public with it.
You don't even have to keep it quiet. If you
get five or more rebounds, it's ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, that's uh gas money for those guys.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
If you get five or more rebounds in a game,
you know, ten thousand dollars depending on the position. If
you're a if you're a two guard and you get
four rebounds, that's worth ten thousand dollars. You're rebounding from
that position, You're you're winning.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What a life where you can just go get five
rebounds and then there's ten k in your bank account?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Blocks steals assists, Right, you're looking for the extra pass.
If you get more than three, it's three thousand dollars.
I'm all in for this. You should do it anyway
that should be because that's how you're gonna get drafted anyway.
I think part of these guys now, at some point,
(18:35):
if you want to hustle it and you're on this
Kentucky team, you're like, I'm lumped in with these people.
I'm lumped in with these guys. Now my reputation is
this team quits. That's not good because this is a
job for them. This isn't school, This isn't I'm gonna
get my degree and after basketball, I'm gonna use it.
(18:59):
This is a job to go to the G League
and or the NBA or overseas, which is what most
end up doing and making a lot of money. There's
a good life to be led overseas making some good money.
But I think this is a great idea. Willie Coley Stein,
good on you. If I was pope, I would implement
(19:22):
that now, and Kentucky fans would pay out the nose
for it. The initiative for whatever GoFundMe would be huge
day one. They could get a million bucks in a
day and that would pay for so and so got
fifteen rebounds, that's twelve thousand dollars. Just set the number
(19:43):
and say you got to reach it. You got to
get over five rebounds. You got to get over three
assists and you get your money. It's not a bad idea.
All right, short break, we'll come back. It is again Wednesday,
barreling through. I'm out Thursday, Friday. Dwight will be back
in tomorrow. Please slow down out there. We are sponsored
by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. News is next
(20:03):
on News Radio eight forty. Whas I mentioned yesterday that
I keep running into folks that are like, oh no,
I graduated from IU like they say it. Now there's
a new pride in the area for IU football that
has never existed before. And we're going to talk to
(20:24):
Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage Forward. It's atop the hour.
I encourage you to listen to it because he went
there three days early. Because Indy is his thing. He has,
you know, two things he does every year, which is
goes to the track all week for Derby Week, and
(20:45):
then for the Big Ten Championships, he goes to Indie
and spends days. And this year obviously it was special,
including the basketball game which he didn't lose or they
did lose earlier that day. We'll hear him tell the
story and then just the pure joy in his voice
as IU fans continue to celebrate and really in disbelief.
(21:09):
As you travel around the city in Louisville, southern Indiana,
you see more IU scarves.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hats, jackets, Are you jackets?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I was thinking about this shooting last night at Kentucky
State and it ended up not being what we thought
it was. You know the headline, it really gets more
of the juice going than anything else. Another shooting in
a university wasn't that. It was sort of it was
from what we understand allegedly, it looks like an argument
(21:45):
between people and someone pulled a gun. It wasn't what
you think it is, which is someone had a plan
to got to campus and started shooting a place up randomly.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That's not what it was.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
But on that note, I really started to think about
how much we give, how much we've given up in
the last couple of years because of this and not
thought anything about it. I used to go to church
with my kids at their school because it's Catholic school,
(22:19):
so every Wednesday they have masks, So you just used
to just show up and you just went and sat
with your kid. We had two, so I would rotate it.
I had to go sit with genre and sit with
Maggie and sit with their classmates and didn't think anything
about it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And it was great.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And a lot of times you see the same parents there.
You didn't kind of look over and go whatever. But
it was great because I think the kids really enjoyed
it too, especially when they were young. When they got older,
maybe not so much. But you just showed up, You
wandered in, and you stood there at the front of
church until their class came through, and then you just
kind of jumped in with them. And now there was
(22:59):
a whole day of obligation this week, and Jackie had
she goes, I'm going over to church, and she had
to sign in, get the name tag thing, the tag
that you put around your neck, wait in a certain
room till all the kids got in, and then she
(23:20):
had to sit in the chairs outside of the church.
And we just accepted that. Like it sucks, I get it.
There were a lot of people that complained when that
thing was implemented a couple of years ago, but we
just gave it up. We just didn't even think twice
(23:40):
of how much ground we give up and how much freedom,
how many memories are we not going to have?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You can't sit with your kid anymore. You can't just
show up say hi to the teacher. They weren't rolling through.
That's those days are gone, and I'm pretty sad about that.
But I'm also a little pissed. John Alden, you have
any thoughts on this of and you're about to go
into this thing. Your wife works for a school after
stand security. But we've given up some memories you're never
(24:13):
going to have that we used to have.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, I haven't thought a ton of specific examples of
maybe things that I experienced when I was younger that
maybe won't be available whenever Daisy gets older. I did
go to Catholic school from sixth to eighth grade, so
I am aware of, like you know, going to Mass
on Wednesdays, that sort of thing. My parents never came
to that. And also I don't remember I don't remember
(24:37):
anybody's parents coming back. Again, This is I don't know
if my if me, my generation is the is around
the exact same as as your kids.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But at St. Anthonasius, wherever I went, I don't remember
parents coming. So that doesn't hit home with me specifically.
But I'm sure there's something that each family has that
maybe isn't there or won't be there as years go on.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, we just give it up something, you know. And
I think this was in response. I think of oh,
I can't remember what church shooting it was, but that
one shooting affected the entire archdiocese, not just Louisville, but
across the nation. So hey, here's the new rules. And
(25:21):
I just think it happens so quickly and we overreact.
That's my opinion is that we're overreacting.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I want my.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Kids to be safe. I'm just thinking, man, we're going
to give all that up because that is look John,
looking back on it, I always tell people that start
at the school over there. I say, look, get involved
as much as possible. I went kicking and screaming. My
wife signed us up for everything, and now I'm so glad.
I coached, she coached, We volunteered for everything over there.
(25:54):
Cafeteria duty doesn't matter. We're over there all the time,
and trust me, it makes the experience so much better. Okay,
if you're involved with your kids school, if you're and
and all the kids, all their classmates know who you are,
they know your name, you know them. That's my advice
for anybody it's got young kids going into school. Just
get involved as much as you can. And now do
(26:15):
you just feel like a criminal. Please put your thumbprint
on the button so we can identify you. You did
this on the first day, We have your blood type.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh yeah, that's so. Even when I go see my
wife at school, like back whenever, during like during the summer,
if she had to do you get some stuff set
up and whatnot, I would go up there and bring
lunch and I would go through the office. And they
still they'll make you use the uh you know, the
like not necessarily a thumb print. They'll take a picture
of you and it's kind of like a temporary idea sticker.
You'll stick it on your shirt. It's it's very strange, Yeah,
(26:50):
it is.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Look, these are the same things. Uh, Like I'm watching
forty eight Hours in nineteen eighty four or five whenever
that movie came out with Nick Nolty and Eddie Murphy
and Nick Nolty having to get into the prison to
see him did less things than us trying to get
into our kids' school. Eh.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Click, you could come in.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Gotta wait in that room until the door shuts behind you. Click.
Now go through and you're like, why how has this happened? Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It is sad, But at the same time, I think
that level of protection, like you know, buzzing into the office,
I think that's necessary. You don't want anybody just being
able to go in and potentially do something that they
shouldn't do. It at elementary or any school level, doesn't
matter IF's elementary or not. You gotta have some sort
of boundaries to get in. I feel like, but how
(27:46):
much is it over?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You know? Grandma, my grandmother used to get so she
worried about everything. Every sweet Cuban lady worried about everything. Look,
the fence is too low, Like I had a fence.
She was at my house and she was like, that's
too low. Someone could just reach over and pick your
kids up. It's like, Grandma, Mama, stop, it's gonna be fine.
(28:08):
Fence is fine.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I'm surprised some more people put barbed wire fences around
their yards nowadays than if it's that that's coming.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We're all gonna be snake listening. It's all gonna be
I mean, is that what we all barreling towards Biff's world?
I mean, is that what towns we're gonna live in again.
I'm just lamenting. I'm just sitting here remembering also those
those little joys that Jackie and I had raising our
kids at our school, our kids' school. New parents aren't
(28:39):
gonna have that because somebody shot up a school in
Minnesota or whatever. It just sucks, and you're right, it's
probably for the better.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Just in case.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right, we're gonna take a short break here. Marty's
gonna be on the other side of this thing. Marty
is a huge He's the biggest EU fan. I know
he trusts, he trumps you, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
But yeah, let's get let's be honest. Though, he has
way more funds to go to all these games than
I do. So but if I had all I had
that Marty book money, I'd be going up there to
games as much as he does.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well he said it. Remember last week he was like,
look a trip to Aruba or go to the Big
Ten Championship. It's true, it's the same price. These trips
are not cheap.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
The cheapest tickets at the Big Ten title game were
four hundred dollars last time I saw it again. You
can't see him now, but back whenever they were still
you could still buy them last week four hundred dollars
cheapest ones.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah those are a gift. Yeah you're not getting one
for four hundred bucks. But and that's just your ticket.
That's not that your buddy's ticket or your wife's ticket.
So no, I mean the prices. And that's why you've
got to think about Notre Dame fans because we have
friends that both of them that we have a couple
that were friends with and both of them graduated from
Notre Dame. They went to every game. I was like,
how are they? Like, we followed him on Facebook and
(29:57):
I was like, how are they are? Fourteen?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
This?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
This is crazy. They went to every playoff game because
they made it all the way to the National Championship.
They did, they did, they kept winning, they kept Winny.
But I guess if the euphoria of the whole thing,
it's like I tell some people don't.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Care to go into debt. They're they're so into it.
They're like, you know what, we'll just put this on
a credit card and pay for it down the line.
We're gonna have this experience. And if you're somebody who
can do that, I don't have My brain doesn't allow
me to do things like that. I'm too very I'm
fiscally conservative with everything that I've got, so I just
can't do something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
In the Denny Crumb and Rick patino eras, following them
on the NCLBA tournament was awesome, and I did plenty
of those trips for the station, either following UK or
U of L and going to those games, and even
with my wife, were going going to Birmingham or wherever
the game is because it's just a different feeling. It's
(30:58):
just that there's a different excite than a regular season obviously,
but on the road with other fans, I always ask
too if there's a site where there's seven or eight
teams in one site, I always go to the guy
that parks cars and says, okay, who's the biggest jerks
And they always tell you the obvious answer. We played
(31:22):
in Birmingham. I went right to the guy that parks
the cars and went a. He went, oh, by far Texas, Tennessee.
I was like, that makes sense. That tracks all right,
short break, We'll come back. Lots of pasta, lots of pasta.
Louisville dot Com go to the website. Look, if you're
(31:45):
getting If you're gonna have people to come over for
the holidays, you either make the meal yourself, you take
their ingredients. I like to get everybody in the kitchen.
I got a new kitchen, play in your room for everybody,
or you have them make it. The other side of
that is if you've got nobody coming over, Jackie and
now just by those we buy the big ZD and
(32:05):
the lasagna for two because it's perfect size now because
the kids aren't here, we don't want the leftovers attend
to not get eaten. At some point. Lots of Apasta
is the best stop by today. They know they're supposed
to be busy during the holidays because lots of pasta
is a tradition to a lot of families during the holidays.
It's the best. Lots of Pasta thirty seven seventeen Lexington
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Road in the Heart of Saint Matthew's or lots Ofpasta
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