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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, Bernie Lovers. We look forward to that every single year.
Bernie Lovers, Twelve Days of Louisville Christmas News Radio eight
forty w h A. S. Dwight Winning, John Auden and
also Nick Coffee. Hello coffee man, like to drink. I
asked you to stay over because I want to talk
to you about our friend Austin Montgomery's a wedding, this
(00:21):
big day, big day, and boy did he do it right.
But before we do that, it dawned. I mean, guys
driving in We're two days away from Christmas Eve, so
I think all three of us need to practice are
Oh my gosh, it's just what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Faces. That's a good idea, you think so, because I
mean especially for you two.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You got kids, right, Oh yeah, oh man, you gonna
get crappy gifts.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, your kid's too young.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't think eight month old days he's gonna get
me anything this year.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
But oh yeah, you got a nine year old and
a five year old to where they're gonna they're a
prime every they're paying attention to every little details.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh you've been getting crapped for a while though.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, you've made a horrible Yes, Okay, let me see
your let me see your oh my gosh, just what
I wanted face.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And so for me, let me see yours. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
See, John Alden, that's how you do it. Man, That's
that's a face.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Did you notice that? To me, it's all about the eyes.
The eyes have to pop as if like you're you
can't believe what you're seeing as you unwrap this gift
that they.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, you know what you look like?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Just then you know when Indiana Jones opens up the
and all the white wow.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man. Okay, John Auden, let's let's take a look at yours.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Okay, yeah, okay, we got to work on that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, dude, you got work.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's a good thing I do.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I do have time to work on it, because there's
nothing I should be embarrassed of getting this year from
a child.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, they'll be in a diaper. It be the only
thing that she gives you this Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So it's something to be prepared for when you get there. John.
There's something called Secret Sannah at or the Santa Shop
that's at school. Oh, it's just a way for you know,
some big corporation to take parents money. So we gave
our kids some money to go and get some Christmas gifts,
and uh he he got us two things that I
don't know what it is yet, but I do see
(02:06):
that he also bought himself a lot of gifts as well.
So yeah, so you'll you'll be there at some point, John.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, So tomorrow we're gonna practice looking at the card
after you saw how much money was in it and
pretending to read oh, because that's difficult because you got
to time it out. You gotta think, well, they wrote
X amount of words, how many sentences should be This
pro tip.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Let the cash fall to the ground as if you
didn't even realize there was any in there, because you're
just so captivated by the message. Oh my gosh, there
was money too.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's closes.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I guess I'll pick this up. But really the gift
is what you wrote about me. It was so sentimental.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh my gosh, that's class right there.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So here's what you're telling me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Let the cash fall all the way to the floor,
and my wife or somebody will go, oh honey, there's
cash too.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Then I'll be like, you keep the cash.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
This card's that's all you can think about is money.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I'm sorry for whysan, let's talk about the naptials of
one Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Cantina Katina?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is the sounds right to Mantina? I got, I mean
it's something close to that. I think it's.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I've got Mexico and drinking on my mind, mate.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I think a lot of people were saying Cantina once
we hit the bar at.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So here's what I think that is. Uh, much like
much like I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
To do the joke going, he's bailing on the joke.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He has to he has to get off of the
exit ramped quite a bit totally.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna assume it's for just you
know it was it was.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Going to be a joke about the length of the
wedding and the length of the honeymoon night.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, but anyway, it's two minutes, right, is that what
it was?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It was quick? Uh? And uh, the actual ceremony itself,
I mean, they executed they they I mean, I applaud them.
I wish I wish more weddings that I've gone to
would have been the exact same. And really the thing
that took the longest was his entrance down the aisle
that I don't follow wrestling quite like he does. Of
course he's a wrestling guy, but he mimicked the entrance
(04:10):
of Roman Reigns the wrestler. His entire groomsman party did
it as well. And again I didn't know what. I
didn't know what to reference, but apparently it was exactly
as if Roman Reigns enters the wrestling ring. That's how
Austin Montgomery made the walk down the aisle to say,
I do it's something you certainly don't see very often.
And he did mention throughout the reception that, you know,
(04:32):
thank you to his wife for a lot of things,
but also letting him do that because she knows it
was far from traditional.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, no, I listened, That's what That's why I wanted
to know how long the actual ceremony took play.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's just a few minutes, but.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Five minutes, I mean five or six minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Maybe I saw the intro you and Venette.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's both on both your pages, Tony Venetti, and also
on Nick Coffee's page followed Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
By the way, social media hilarious, thank you, but it was.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It was scripted down to the point where the music
when he raised that BELLI there's a crescendo of the
whole bit, and they they all walked down slowly.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
There were enough people that knew I guess he was
doing that, and we're familiar with it that they were.
They were giving him the approval as they were executing
the entrance.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I should have known there would be something like that
with Austin Montgomery. The only other time that I thought
there would be something like this is in a wedding,
is when our dear friend Charlie Steele.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Who used to work for w q MAV.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I remember Charlie.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, Charlie on the beach. Now he's like he's top
dog Merle Beach something like that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But at his wedding, you know, he's like a Star
Wars Lord of the Rings guy. So I kept on
waiting for them to refer to the ring as it
never happened. It would have been an easy move too.
It never happened. It never happened. But you said, and
here's why I think it's great you said that, Austin,
which listen, if you listen to the show, we give him.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
A lot of grief.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But everybody here, your show, our show, we all love
Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Great guy.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But you said that he was so calmed, comfortable just
addressing the crowd that it was unreal, right.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yes, so he he spoke. I think he was the
last to speak after the best man made of honor,
and then his his now father in law, and he
just did his you know, thanks to everybody for being here,
and talked a little bit about his in laws and
about his his now wife, and he was you know,
there was no Chad gpt, there was no phone for reference,
(06:26):
there were no note cards. He was just riffing and
even got off like a little joke as well about
some you know, the whole six seven thing that was
so stupid. One of the one of the somebody in
the bridal party made a reference because he'd said, we've
got people from I think six or seven states. So
then he was like, yeah, we brought some children here too.
Like it was just he was so comfortable. And I
(06:46):
know that in broadcasting, you know, you are talking to
a big audience, but we're in this room by ourself
right now. At Oh I'm not good at public speaking.
I've been asked to mc a wedding and it was
one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever done. Here
he is in front of a room for old people,
holding court, and it just reminded me that that's why
we can throw him on with Tony and Dwhite. He
can be on with me when it comes to sports.
(07:07):
He can go and and do and beyond with Terry
Miners each and every day. And he just finds a
way to fit. Never never barges in on shows. And Uh,
that's a gift. I don't think that's something that you
I mean, maybe you can develop it, but like he's
just comfortable in his own skin. I don't know many
people that don't find him likable and they have him
doing I mean if they really list it on a
(07:28):
business card. I mean we're talking promotions. Uh, he's introduced
acts at concerts, He's produced all things. He does a
weekend shift on AMZ podcast. He's got his wrestling podcast
that's part of the iHeart Network. He also has hosted
postgame shows for UL football. So anything they ask him
to do, he'll do it. Yeah, he's he's the Steve
Harvey of iHeart.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, and Steve Harvey Katina. Yes, Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So he did take the last name his name is
now hyphenated Austin Montgomery Katina or is he like to
call Cantina.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
He's got to change it to canteena.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's got a better ring, right, Yeah. I whatever makes
him happy. I just you know, if that's what he
wanted to do, then good for him. I just can't.
When I told my wife about it after the fact,
she you know, I didn't want her getting any ideas like, hey, no,
and she was like, no, I'm comfortable being a coffee
We're not mixing it up now. But how common do
you think that actually is.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think it's very common at all.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is the first instance of me knowing somebody who's
done something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, I mean, whatever works for him, But also I
feel like it's going to come up a lot like
he'll have to because it's still uncommon for most people
to have the hyphen last name. Sure, and some will say, well,
you know, did you did you have a stepdad that
you adopted his name as well? And when he tells
people that he decided to take his wife's name as
well as his, I just think he should be prepared
(08:50):
for any type of reaction. But for him being comfortable
doing it, I guess I'm not as uh, you know,
I don't know if I'm not as secure as him,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Was a reception pretty straightforward, Yes, pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It was convenient as can be because it was all
in the same venue and it's just a room over
and she just walked from one side of the other
to go from from ceremony to the reception. Of course,
they had a grate full bar, had a great DJ,
one of our former colleagues here, Kobe.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He was the DJ, did a great job.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
That's where you know, he does the leave of bats
as well. That's where he shines. He was he was
made to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He was.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
He was excellent as far as just the wedding party,
getting everybody out there for the specific dances. But they
did something I've never seen at a wedding and I
want more of it. They had pizza as the food
alo yeah, oh my. Unfortunately they did in a Baronos.
Not every night can be perfect, but they had the
craft Like I don't it's one of the local places,
but like people just walked around and hey, do you
(09:47):
want another slice of pepperoni? What about this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
The supreme type of pizza. So it was just convenience
can be. People are throwing back drinks, pizza is being
brought to you.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That is the way to go.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I told Susan for our wedding, I wanted to send
out cards and it says, you know, check you check
chicken or fish. Ours was going to be checked baron
knows or skyline.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And you know that, nosy, nobody would have complained.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
No, of course, not of course, not, of course not
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Nick. Thanks for coming around, man.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I'm prepreciate you to be here anytime you need me.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
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Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, listen this Radio eight forty whas. Welcome to the show,
John William Aldin the third, Dwight Whitten, and then Tony
Venety's out on vacation. Want to welcome in from USA.
Cares by the way A plus A plus rating on
charity Navigator Matt Gina. Maybe how you doing. Good morning, guys,
(12:44):
Good morning, good to see everybody. Uh So, first of all,
first things, first, I want to talk about this because
this is really cool and I want one.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And where were we Dwight?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
You remember we were at an event. I think we're
that event and Dwight comes up to me and he goes, hey,
you know what you guys need to do. You need
to come up with a license plate.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I didn't know where you were going with this.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I didn't know where you were going with this, but
I thought, you know what, that's a good job for Gina.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I see, poor Gina, Porgina.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, here's what we're talking about. You see all these
license plates going around University Kentucky and then uh, you know,
Cole power.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The whole bit.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I said, Man, USA Cares, you do so much for veterans.
And by the way, like I said, a plus rating
on Charity Navigator.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And I'll tell you why, because you know that your
donation is actually going to help veterans and veterans in
some of the darkest days of their lives. That's when
these men and women step in at USA Cares. But
so you design this USA Cares license plate and we've
got to sell five hundred of these because then USA
(13:57):
Cares can benefit Gina. First of all, talk about the process,
because I know, dealing with the government, things move quickly
and efficiently, easily, and there was probably zero red tape.
Did it take a while to find the right person
and go through this? Was it a task or not?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
It was not too bad?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh good.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Did an internet search to find kind of the whole process,
and luckily the state of Kentucky had everything online. It
was just a matter of filling out the paperwork the
way that they wanted it to be done, which you
know is not always But I designed the plate.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well yeah, so you you designed that. You designed this.
This is incredible. I gotta tell you I love it
because h and by the way, I'm gonna get a
picture of this up on my Facebook page. It's the
USA Cares. What would this be called support license plate?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, just the Veterans Support license.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Veterans Support license plate. It supports our veterans. But man,
this is a good looking It has the you know,
the red, white and blue dog tags, the USA Cares
logo on there. And we're going to talk about what
USA Care does more here in just a minute. But Gina,
this design is beautiful.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Well, thank you. I wanted something clean, something easy to read.
You can pick out right away that it's USA Cares.
And the best part of this license plate all the
money that comes to us from the state of Kentucky
that they collected. The DMV goes straight to one of
it goes to Kentucky veterans in need.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's what I'm talking about. That's what USA Care does.
And let's talk with May for just one second. Maybe
we work together on a lot of stuff as Matt
and Gin and I as well, but let's talk about
what USA Cares does for our veterans. Because this organization,
it's it's had my heart, it has my wife's heart
(15:51):
for many years. Now, give us one example of you
all stepping in at a veteran's darkest hour.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, we get quite a bit of stories that come in,
especially now with the holidays, but one specifically that we've
been talking about was a couple. They were trying to
get all their stuff together. They had gone through a
tough patch and their electricity was turned off in the
midst of that. There the wife went into labor. Oh
(16:20):
my gosh, baby was in the nick you So they
were stressed about that, obviously, but we were able to
get their power electricity on before they got back home
with the baby.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And that's just but there's all kinds of needs out
there for all kinds of different veterans, including some that
are getting ready to lose their home, some need handicap
accessible ramps or whatever it might be. There's no there's
no stock answer for every single veteran.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right, every case is different, right.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, And our case managers do a great job with
figuring out what we can do or if they need
some other help, we have other resources that we can
give to them.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And here's the thing that I love, and I've got
this wrong, please correct me on this. But for example,
if the veteran comes and says, you know what, they're
getting ready for clothes on us, We're getting ready to
lose the home, whatever it might be. And you all decide, hey,
you look at the case and say we've got to
step in on this, and you all try to do
that as much as possible. But there's a financial need.
(17:20):
It comes with that. You don't just hand the money over.
You deal with the bank or whatever entity it is.
For example, if someone's getting ready to have their electricity
cut off, you will deal with elgene on their behalf.
Don't just hand money over, right, Yeah, you deal and
you eliminate the problem.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, And there's like a you know, a process and
like how to make sure they're like vetted people that
are like the right people that we can help. But yeah,
we pay the people that need the money right away.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
USA Care joins the show.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
If you're not familiar with the USA Cares a plus
credit rating on Charity Navigator, and we're finding out that
they do just about anything they can for veterans in need.
But with that there comes a cost, right Matt, Absolutely,
And so fundraising it happens NonStop because there is a
NonStop need and it keeps growing and growing and growing.
(18:14):
But you all keep trying to measure up and be
there for as many veterans as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Is there like a oh a donation process where people
will lock it in. It's a monthly It just comes
out without thinking. So if somebody's listening right now and
they say, you know what, For example, my wife and
I we don't give gifts to each other. We just
take whatever a lot of money there is and give
it to charities because I mean, let's face it, she
wakes up.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
With this every day. I mean, how do you top this?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I mean how do you do she gets to see
this walk nude from the shower every single morning.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's like it's like living with et.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But let's get back to be a serious for a second.
So is there like a reoccurring donation sign for like
a year month?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I mean, however that works.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah, it's it's called the Cadence Program, and the idea
is to build a rhythm with making giving to charity
not just a one time thing, but a regular, ongoing
It's part of a lifestyle, right, and so especially starting
at the beginning of the year, it's a great time
to make that monthly commitment and just set that money
(19:18):
aside and say this is the way, this is the
way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
To help, and by the way it can be. You said, well,
I can only give ten ten a month? Is great
because you get enough people given ten dollars a month. Yep,
that could you know, give it a thousand people. That's
ten thousand a month. It grows.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But there's a constant need from the veterans, is my point.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Absolutely, there is a constant need and we hit times
like the government shut down, other things that come up,
and it just balloons from there. So we absolutely have
to have you know that gives us money we can
count on we know that money is going to come
in every month. It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Let's get back to the Life's plate, Gina, well done this.
Uh it's not a vanity. Well, this is a vanity.
Blake has my money. But is the USA Cares Veterans
and Family Support System support license plate you designed this?
We need to sell at least five hundred of these
because we want USA Cares to stay on this license
(20:14):
plate revenue system. And it's an easy way to get
a great looking license plate to not only show that hey,
look at I support our veterans, but also you're supporting
them financially with this as well. When could people start
getting these?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
They start production early twenty twenty six, okay, and once
they're fully out and available to the public, we will
let everybody know on social media.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We'll make sure you come back in and let us
know here as well. Uh well, what else am I
missing anything?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
If people can run check out USA cares dot org Again.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This is a very busy time of year for us.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
We're getting a lot of requests from people who just
need a lot of help. We've been able to do
some cool things help with some families with toys and
do some other things. So we're excited to be able
to kick in so much this year, but we need
everybody on board. Yeah, your audience has been awesome. I
mean they come through for us every time.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I got to tell you the friends that hang out
with us in the morning, they're second to none.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And we've had two.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Live shows in a row where somebody has donated ten
thousand dollars. It's just amazing what our friends on the
show that hang out with us do every single morning.
But USA Cares one last thing, Matt, if people want
to volunteer, Yeah, is there a need for volunteers as well?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, absolutely So. We've got a Kentucky chapter that does
a great job. They'll do some they'll do some events,
some local like volleyball tournaments, they do some other projects
like that. But we also just try to find you know,
if somebody has a certain need and needs some help,
a lot of times they'll jump in. So joining that
chapter it's a great way to volunteer, and they can
(22:01):
reach out at info at USA Cares dot org to
ask how to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
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At USA cares over this, it must be great. If
it's not as should be, well, thank you.
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You know, there's there are people that there's a lot
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And by the way, twenty two veteran suicides a day,
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Speaker 2 (23:20):
Which blows me away.
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I mean, anytime a charity is on Santa's radar, that's huge. Yeah,
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Right, Well, we pulled the report from the els.
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Well that's what you did. You pulled the report from
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And you and Tony were both on there. But unfortunately
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the show after news News Radio eight forty whas,
Ah, Bernie Lovers. We look forward to that every single year.
Bernie Lovers, Twelve Days of Louisville Christmas News Radio eight
forty w h A. S. Dwight Winning, John Auden and
also Nick Coffee. Hello coffee man, like to drink. I
asked you to stay over because I want to talk
to you about our friend Austin Montgomery's a wedding, this
(00:21):
big day, big day, and boy did he do it right.
But before we do that, it dawned. I mean, guys
driving in We're two days away from Christmas Eve, so
I think all three of us need to practice are
Oh my gosh, it's just what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Faces. That's a good idea, you think so, because I
mean especially for you two.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You got kids, right, Oh yeah, oh man, you gonna
get crappy gifts.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, your kid's too young.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't think eight month old days he's gonna get
me anything this year.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
But oh yeah, you got a nine year old and
a five year old to where they're gonna they're a
prime every they're paying attention to every little details.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh you've been getting crapped for a while though.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, you've made a horrible Yes, Okay, let me see
your let me see your oh my gosh, just what
I wanted face.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And so for me, let me see yours. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
See, John Alden, that's how you do it. Man, That's
that's a face.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Did you notice that? To me, it's all about the eyes.
The eyes have to pop as if like you're you
can't believe what you're seeing as you unwrap this gift
that they.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, you know what you look like?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Just then you know when Indiana Jones opens up the
and all the white wow.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man. Okay, John Auden, let's let's take a look at yours.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Okay, yeah, okay, we got to work on that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, dude, you got work.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's a good thing I do.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I do have time to work on it, because there's
nothing I should be embarrassed of getting this year from
a child.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, they'll be in a diaper. It be the only
thing that she gives you this Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So it's something to be prepared for when you get there. John.
There's something called Secret Sannah at or the Santa Shop
that's at school. Oh, it's just a way for you know,
some big corporation to take parents money. So we gave
our kids some money to go and get some Christmas gifts,
and uh he he got us two things that I
don't know what it is yet, but I do see
(02:06):
that he also bought himself a lot of gifts as well.
So yeah, so you'll you'll be there at some point, John.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, So tomorrow we're gonna practice looking at the card
after you saw how much money was in it and
pretending to read oh, because that's difficult because you got
to time it out. You gotta think, well, they wrote
X amount of words, how many sentences should be This
pro tip.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Let the cash fall to the ground as if you
didn't even realize there was any in there, because you're
just so captivated by the message. Oh my gosh, there
was money too.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's closes.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I guess I'll pick this up. But really the gift
is what you wrote about me. It was so sentimental.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh my gosh, that's class right there.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So here's what you're telling me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Let the cash fall all the way to the floor,
and my wife or somebody will go, oh honey, there's
cash too.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Then I'll be like, you keep the cash.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
This card's that's all you can think about is money.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I'm sorry for whysan, let's talk about the naptials of
one Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Cantina Katina?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is the sounds right to Mantina? I got, I mean
it's something close to that. I think it's.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I've got Mexico and drinking on my mind, mate.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I think a lot of people were saying Cantina once
we hit the bar at.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So here's what I think that is. Uh, much like
much like I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
To do the joke going, he's bailing on the joke.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He has to he has to get off of the
exit ramped quite a bit totally.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna assume it's for just you
know it was it was.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Going to be a joke about the length of the
wedding and the length of the honeymoon night.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, but anyway, it's two minutes, right, is that what
it was?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It was quick? Uh? And uh, the actual ceremony itself,
I mean, they executed they they I mean, I applaud them.
I wish I wish more weddings that I've gone to
would have been the exact same. And really the thing
that took the longest was his entrance down the aisle
that I don't follow wrestling quite like he does. Of
course he's a wrestling guy, but he mimicked the entrance
(04:10):
of Roman Reigns the wrestler. His entire groomsman party did
it as well. And again I didn't know what. I
didn't know what to reference, but apparently it was exactly
as if Roman Reigns enters the wrestling ring. That's how
Austin Montgomery made the walk down the aisle to say,
I do it's something you certainly don't see very often.
And he did mention throughout the reception that, you know,
(04:32):
thank you to his wife for a lot of things,
but also letting him do that because she knows it
was far from traditional.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, no, I listened, That's what That's why I wanted
to know how long the actual ceremony took play.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's just a few minutes, but.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Five minutes, I mean five or six minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Maybe I saw the intro you and Venette.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's both on both your pages, Tony Venetti, and also
on Nick Coffee's page followed Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
By the way, social media hilarious, thank you, but it was.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It was scripted down to the point where the music
when he raised that BELLI there's a crescendo of the
whole bit, and they they all walked down slowly.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
There were enough people that knew I guess he was
doing that, and we're familiar with it that they were.
They were giving him the approval as they were executing
the entrance.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I should have known there would be something like that
with Austin Montgomery. The only other time that I thought
there would be something like this is in a wedding,
is when our dear friend Charlie Steele.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Who used to work for w q MAV.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I remember Charlie.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, Charlie on the beach. Now he's like he's top
dog Merle Beach something like that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But at his wedding, you know, he's like a Star
Wars Lord of the Rings guy. So I kept on
waiting for them to refer to the ring as it
never happened. It would have been an easy move too.
It never happened. It never happened. But you said, and
here's why I think it's great you said that, Austin,
which listen, if you listen to the show, we give him.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
A lot of grief.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But everybody here, your show, our show, we all love
Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Great guy.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But you said that he was so calmed, comfortable just
addressing the crowd that it was unreal, right.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yes, so he he spoke. I think he was the
last to speak after the best man made of honor,
and then his his now father in law, and he
just did his you know, thanks to everybody for being here,
and talked a little bit about his in laws and
about his his now wife, and he was you know,
there was no Chad gpt, there was no phone for reference,
(06:26):
there were no note cards. He was just riffing and
even got off like a little joke as well about
some you know, the whole six seven thing that was
so stupid. One of the one of the somebody in
the bridal party made a reference because he'd said, we've
got people from I think six or seven states. So
then he was like, yeah, we brought some children here too.
Like it was just he was so comfortable. And I
(06:46):
know that in broadcasting, you know, you are talking to
a big audience, but we're in this room by ourself
right now. At Oh I'm not good at public speaking.
I've been asked to mc a wedding and it was
one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever done. Here
he is in front of a room for old people,
holding court, and it just reminded me that that's why
we can throw him on with Tony and Dwhite. He
can be on with me when it comes to sports.
(07:07):
He can go and and do and beyond with Terry
Miners each and every day. And he just finds a
way to fit. Never never barges in on shows. And Uh,
that's a gift. I don't think that's something that you
I mean, maybe you can develop it, but like he's
just comfortable in his own skin. I don't know many
people that don't find him likable and they have him
doing I mean if they really list it on a
(07:28):
business card. I mean we're talking promotions. Uh, he's introduced
acts at concerts, He's produced all things. He does a
weekend shift on AMZ podcast. He's got his wrestling podcast
that's part of the iHeart Network. He also has hosted
postgame shows for UL football. So anything they ask him
to do, he'll do it. Yeah, he's he's the Steve
Harvey of iHeart.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, and Steve Harvey Katina. Yes, Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So he did take the last name his name is
now hyphenated Austin Montgomery Katina or is he like to
call Cantina.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
He's got to change it to canteena.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's got a better ring, right, Yeah. I whatever makes
him happy. I just you know, if that's what he
wanted to do, then good for him. I just can't.
When I told my wife about it after the fact,
she you know, I didn't want her getting any ideas like, hey, no,
and she was like, no, I'm comfortable being a coffee
We're not mixing it up now. But how common do
you think that actually is.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't think it's very common at all.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is the first instance of me knowing somebody who's
done something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, I mean, whatever works for him, But also I
feel like it's going to come up a lot like
he'll have to because it's still uncommon for most people
to have the hyphen last name. Sure, and some will say, well,
you know, did you did you have a stepdad that
you adopted his name as well? And when he tells
people that he decided to take his wife's name as
well as his, I just think he should be prepared
(08:50):
for any type of reaction. But for him being comfortable
doing it, I guess I'm not as uh, you know,
I don't know if I'm not as secure as him,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Was a reception pretty straightforward, Yes, pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
It was convenient as can be because it was all
in the same venue and it's just a room over
and she just walked from one side of the other
to go from from ceremony to the reception. Of course,
they had a grate full bar, had a great DJ,
one of our former colleagues here, Kobe.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He was the DJ, did a great job.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
That's where you know, he does the leave of bats
as well. That's where he shines. He was he was
made to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He was.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
He was excellent as far as just the wedding party,
getting everybody out there for the specific dances. But they
did something I've never seen at a wedding and I
want more of it. They had pizza as the food
alo yeah, oh my. Unfortunately they did in a Baronos.
Not every night can be perfect, but they had the
craft Like I don't it's one of the local places,
but like people just walked around and hey, do you
(09:47):
want another slice of pepperoni? What about this?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
The supreme type of pizza. So it was just convenience
can be. People are throwing back drinks, pizza is being
brought to you.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That is the way to go.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I told Susan for our wedding, I wanted to send
out cards and it says, you know, check you check
chicken or fish. Ours was going to be checked baron
knows or skyline.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And you know that, nosy, nobody would have complained.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
No, of course, not of course, not, of course not
Nick Coffee Coffee and Company in the morning, that's right.
And then also follow him on Facebook. I promise you
the guy's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Nick. Thanks for coming around, man.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I'm prepreciate you to be here anytime you need me.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Brother, stick around.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Lots on the show today, including Matt with USA Care
is going to join us at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, listen this Radio eight forty whas. Welcome to the show,
John William Aldin the third, Dwight Whitten, and then Tony
Venety's out on vacation. Want to welcome in from USA.
Cares by the way A plus A plus rating on
charity Navigator Matt Gina. Maybe how you doing. Good morning, guys,
(12:44):
Good morning, good to see everybody. Uh So, first of all,
first things, first, I want to talk about this because
this is really cool and I want one.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And where were we Dwight?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
You remember we were at an event. I think we're
that event and Dwight comes up to me and he goes, hey,
you know what you guys need to do. You need
to come up with a license plate.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I didn't know where you were going with this.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I didn't know where you were going with this, but
I thought, you know what, that's a good job for Gina.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I see, poor Gina, Porgina.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, here's what we're talking about. You see all these
license plates going around University Kentucky and then uh, you know,
Cole power.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The whole bit.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I said, Man, USA Cares, you do so much for veterans.
And by the way, like I said, a plus rating
on Charity Navigator.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And I'll tell you why, because you know that your
donation is actually going to help veterans and veterans in
some of the darkest days of their lives. That's when
these men and women step in at USA Cares. But
so you design this USA Cares license plate and we've
got to sell five hundred of these because then USA
(13:57):
Cares can benefit Gina. First of all, talk about the process,
because I know, dealing with the government, things move quickly
and efficiently, easily, and there was probably zero red tape.
Did it take a while to find the right person
and go through this? Was it a task or not?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
It was not too bad?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh good.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Did an internet search to find kind of the whole process,
and luckily the state of Kentucky had everything online. It
was just a matter of filling out the paperwork the
way that they wanted it to be done, which you
know is not always But I designed the plate.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well yeah, so you you designed that. You designed this.
This is incredible. I gotta tell you I love it
because h and by the way, I'm gonna get a
picture of this up on my Facebook page. It's the
USA Cares. What would this be called support license plate?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, just the Veterans Support license.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Veterans Support license plate. It supports our veterans. But man,
this is a good looking It has the you know,
the red, white and blue dog tags, the USA Cares
logo on there. And we're going to talk about what
USA Care does more here in just a minute. But Gina,
this design is beautiful.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Well, thank you. I wanted something clean, something easy to read.
You can pick out right away that it's USA Cares.
And the best part of this license plate all the
money that comes to us from the state of Kentucky
that they collected. The DMV goes straight to one of
it goes to Kentucky veterans in need.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's what I'm talking about. That's what USA Care does.
And let's talk with May for just one second. Maybe
we work together on a lot of stuff as Matt
and Gin and I as well, but let's talk about
what USA Cares does for our veterans. Because this organization,
it's it's had my heart, it has my wife's heart
(15:51):
for many years. Now, give us one example of you
all stepping in at a veteran's darkest hour.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, we get quite a bit of stories that come in,
especially now with the holidays, but one specifically that we've
been talking about was a couple. They were trying to
get all their stuff together. They had gone through a
tough patch and their electricity was turned off in the
midst of that. There the wife went into labor. Oh
(16:20):
my gosh, baby was in the nick you So they
were stressed about that, obviously, but we were able to
get their power electricity on before they got back home
with the baby.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And that's just but there's all kinds of needs out
there for all kinds of different veterans, including some that
are getting ready to lose their home, some need handicap
accessible ramps or whatever it might be. There's no there's
no stock answer for every single veteran.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right, every case is different, right.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, And our case managers do a great job with
figuring out what we can do or if they need
some other help, we have other resources that we can
give to them.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And here's the thing that I love, and I've got
this wrong, please correct me on this. But for example,
if the veteran comes and says, you know what, they're
getting ready for clothes on us, We're getting ready to
lose the home, whatever it might be. And you all decide, hey,
you look at the case and say we've got to
step in on this, and you all try to do
that as much as possible. But there's a financial need.
(17:20):
It comes with that. You don't just hand the money over.
You deal with the bank or whatever entity it is.
For example, if someone's getting ready to have their electricity
cut off, you will deal with elgene on their behalf.
Don't just hand money over, right, Yeah, you deal and
you eliminate the problem.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, And there's like a you know, a process and
like how to make sure they're like vetted people that
are like the right people that we can help. But yeah,
we pay the people that need the money right away.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
USA Care joins the show.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
If you're not familiar with the USA Cares a plus
credit rating on Charity Navigator, and we're finding out that
they do just about anything they can for veterans in need.
But with that there comes a cost, right Matt, Absolutely,
And so fundraising it happens NonStop because there is a
NonStop need and it keeps growing and growing and growing.
(18:14):
But you all keep trying to measure up and be
there for as many veterans as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Is there like a oh a donation process where people
will lock it in. It's a monthly It just comes
out without thinking. So if somebody's listening right now and
they say, you know what, For example, my wife and
I we don't give gifts to each other. We just
take whatever a lot of money there is and give
it to charities because I mean, let's face it, she
wakes up.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
With this every day. I mean, how do you top this?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I mean how do you do she gets to see
this walk nude from the shower every single morning.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's like it's like living with et.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
But let's get back to be a serious for a second.
So is there like a reoccurring donation sign for like
a year month?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I mean, however that works.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah, it's it's called the Cadence Program, and the idea
is to build a rhythm with making giving to charity
not just a one time thing, but a regular, ongoing
It's part of a lifestyle, right, and so especially starting
at the beginning of the year, it's a great time
to make that monthly commitment and just set that money
(19:18):
aside and say this is the way, this is the
way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
To help, and by the way it can be. You said, well,
I can only give ten ten a month? Is great
because you get enough people given ten dollars a month. Yep,
that could you know, give it a thousand people. That's
ten thousand a month. It grows.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But there's a constant need from the veterans, is my point.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Absolutely, there is a constant need and we hit times
like the government shut down, other things that come up,
and it just balloons from there. So we absolutely have
to have you know that gives us money we can
count on we know that money is going to come
in every month. It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Let's get back to the Life's plate, Gina, well done this.
Uh it's not a vanity. Well, this is a vanity.
Blake has my money. But is the USA Cares Veterans
and Family Support System support license plate you designed this?
We need to sell at least five hundred of these
because we want USA Cares to stay on this license
(20:14):
plate revenue system. And it's an easy way to get
a great looking license plate to not only show that hey,
look at I support our veterans, but also you're supporting
them financially with this as well. When could people start
getting these?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
They start production early twenty twenty six, okay, and once
they're fully out and available to the public, we will
let everybody know on social media.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We'll make sure you come back in and let us
know here as well. Uh well, what else am I
missing anything?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
If people can run check out USA cares dot org Again.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
This is a very busy time of year for us.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
We're getting a lot of requests from people who just
need a lot of help. We've been able to do
some cool things help with some families with toys and
do some other things. So we're excited to be able
to kick in so much this year, but we need
everybody on board. Yeah, your audience has been awesome. I
mean they come through for us every time.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I got to tell you the friends that hang out
with us in the morning, they're second to none.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And we've had two.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Live shows in a row where somebody has donated ten
thousand dollars. It's just amazing what our friends on the
show that hang out with us do every single morning.
But USA Cares one last thing, Matt, if people want
to volunteer, Yeah, is there a need for volunteers as well?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, absolutely So. We've got a Kentucky chapter that does
a great job. They'll do some they'll do some events,
some local like volleyball tournaments, they do some other projects
like that. But we also just try to find you know,
if somebody has a certain need and needs some help,
a lot of times they'll jump in. So joining that
chapter it's a great way to volunteer, and they can
(22:01):
reach out at info at USA Cares dot org to
ask how to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Usacres dot o RG. I just got to tell you again,
and this is this is the reason I keep repeating
this is because it's phenomenal, and they stay there a
plus rating on Charity Navigator. Talk about that for a second,
because the pride that you and men and women have
down there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
At USA cares over this, it must be great. If
it's not as should be, well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
You know, there's there are people that there's a lot
of distrust a lot of times and nonprofit and they say, well,
how do I know the money is getting where it
needs to go. So we've tried everything we can do
to make it as transparent as possible where this money
is going. So more than eighty eight percent of every
dollar that's given goes right to these programs that help
these veterans, and our books are open right and that's
(22:47):
why Charity Navigator came along gave us their highest possible
rating because there's there's absolutely nothing to hide. This is
this is easy, it's not flashy, and it is it's
keeping veterans in their homes and ultimately it's going to
eliminate factors that lead to veterans' suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And by the way, twenty two veteran suicides a day,
we can get that number down to zero. Yes, my
father was a veteran. He was a suicide statistic as
well when I was fifteen. I will want and on
one last thing with USA Cares is that Papa Noel
Santa Claus himself is really close to your organization.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Which blows me away.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I mean, anytime a charity is on Santa's radar, that's huge. Yeah,
but I say all that say this, Mab, I'm on
Santa's nice list at USA Cares because you all posted
the list.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Right, Well, we pulled the report from the els.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well that's what you did. You pulled the report from
the Elves.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
And you and Tony were both on there. But unfortunately
this year Matt was not.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That checks out.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That checks out, no that checks out. Papa Noel doesn't
get things wrong, Jack, I'm telling you listen. Odd jokes aside.
I can't say enough about this organization. If you love veterans,
you're gonna love USA Cares, Usacres, dot O RG, join
the Cadence program, have five, ten, twenty, twenty five, fifty
(24:12):
one hundred dollars taken out a month, and you know
it's gonna go help out veterans because that's what it does.
A plus charity rating on a charity navigator. Guys, thank
you so much for coming in love USA Cares. You're
gonna love them too, and you're gonna love your Shady Rays.
Talk about the perfect stocking stuff or how about this
Shady Rays. If you lose them, scratch and break them.
(24:35):
If Matt from USA Care steals them, and that's how
he got on the Nauty list. Yeah right, they replace them.
That's what they do. I love my Shady Raise. I
wear them every single day. I love the color Rush.
It's hard to explain what color rush does. You have
to go by the ox more Center trime on yourself.
You put these color Rush on and you look at
a red or blue, a green or yellow, whatever color
(24:56):
it might be, it's gonna pop. There is no better
way to see the fall color. There's no better way
just to see any colors than a color Rush lens
from Shady Rays. Golfer try to get in the green
Wolf series specifically designed for golfing. Shady Raising the Oxmoor
Center online at shadyraiys dot com. I love my Shady Rays.
You're gonna love yours to stick around. David Beck joins
(25:17):
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