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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yes, Dwight on his anniversary trip to Cabo is on
his way. He is in Houston. If you follow him
on Facebook, you have seen the follies that have gone.
Some of the posts were a little too much, so
I texted my friend and said take those down now,
which he did.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I learned a lot about Dwight yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, he was texting you and I specifically on a
text chain, and we can't repeat most of it what
was on there. Basically, he was on the tarmac yesterday
for two hours, and then when it was their turn
to take off, they figured out they burned too much
fuel while they were waiting, so they had to go
back to unload, fill up the plane, and get back on.
(00:40):
So it was three or four hours before they took
off from here, got to Houston, obviously missed their connection,
had to stay in Houston, and then the uber to
the hotel got into a traffic jam with a semi truck,
so they just got out and walked with their luggage
down the middle of the road. My wife does a
(01:01):
lot of business in Houston, and she looked at the
video and said, they don't need to be doing that
in Houston. It's too dangerous. What are you doing? So
they are on their way now. So all is good
today little Zona getting zen today for Dwight, all right,
so lots to get to today. How did NTI go yesterday?
(01:24):
Probably not well. Plenty of Facebook posts and that's not
an indication of whether in general ninety thousand students had
a good experience yesterday on NTI. But I said, at first,
yesterday at nine o'clock, nine o three, you did this
first thing I said, I said, just have the day off.
NTI is not good for the kids that really want
to do it, they'll be there. But for the most part,
(01:46):
and what else happened? They had an outage from the
cable company Internet, so a bunch of kids didn't have it.
And now kids like me that had Internet but didn't
get online can say, well, I didn't have it. It
was out of my house. Mister mcgillich, Hoddy, I swear,
so again, just call the day off. NTI is not
(02:10):
really school. It's just not the same. Send an email
with what the kids need to do and then call
it a day.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And my wife yesterday as a teacher for the Bullock
County Public School System elementary school teacher I'll say, not
only was she trying to do in TI, but also
take care of a seven month old.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. Call the day off. Okay.
I just talked to Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage
for he's gonna come on with us on Friday as
he drives up. We're gonna do it earlier, like at
nine thirty five, I think on Friday, because he is
driving up to Indianapolis. He's got tickets to the biggest
game of the year Indiana number two, Ohio state number
(02:53):
one for the Big Ten championship and the number one
scene in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I bet you he's pulling the double because they also
play Louisville. Indianapolis basketball does the same day in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, Yeah, we've got some good games for college basketball.
Usually this time of year is you know, is reduced
down to the College of Charleston, which is a good program,
but you get these smaller schools to pay the bills
on these home games. Now they've sort of created some
of these games. Last night Kentucky in North Carolina, Louisville
and Arkansas tonight. Those are big matchups in college basketball.
(03:28):
Good job, good job college basketball, so figuring that out
it hasn't worked out well for Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, they've lost all their big games this year so far.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They are on a three game losing streak.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They've got Gonzaga later this week that won't be any easier.
I've also got Indiana coming to town next weekend. I
believe a rop arena. That'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, again, Pope in his second year. You normally would say, dude,
it's the second year. He got to the second you know,
at least the second round of the NCLAV Tournament last year.
But here's the problem. When you can pay players and
you spend twenty two million dollars on a basketball team,
that's what you spend on a football team that has
eighty five scholarship players. You spend twenty two million dollars
(04:11):
reported on basketball players and you can't win a game.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kentucky is the only major college program spending that kind
of money on.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Of course they are, of course they are, because they're
so tweaked they haven't figured out. Hey, college football is
king college basketball is a back seat. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'll be interested to see when will Stein. I mean
I know he's there now, but when will Stein really
gets gets set up in Lexington, if he'll be concerned
about the NIL levels for football versus basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't think he looks like a guy that likes
to take a back seat to any No, not at all. Okay,
I think he's probably gonna have an aggressive behavior when
it comes to the conversation with the athletic director Capaludo
on whether how much money do I get? And it
had probably part of the conversation before he took the job.
That announcement, by the way, will be later this afternoon
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right here on news radio eight forty whas we are
the Tony and Dwight Show, brought to you by the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. So we'll have that press
conference live right here on the station. I think it
pops right in the middle of Terry Miner's show, so
tune in for that. It'll be interesting. He's gonna he's
gonna give good press conference. Right. He'll win today. He'll
(05:32):
win today. He says the right things. He sounds like
an old school football guy, and yet he's the youngest
head coach in the SEC. Now his life, like I
don't I don't know if his family, his immediate family
and again his mother and I know Blakey Nutt from
(05:53):
a long for a long time, the nut family, and
they own cissy cakes, and that now they're sold out.
They can't make the cissy cakes fast enough because it's
now connected to him. But it is like, that's just
the first clue how your life is going to change.
Plus when you go from making whatever he was making. Again,
if you're the Oregon offensive coordinator, you're probably into seven figures.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, you all the Nike money up there, sure.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
But when you jump to that five, it's like, and
how much is five million dollars? And I don't know
what his contract says. I'm making that number up, so
I don't know how much is five million dollars a
year worth in Lexington. This is in Manhattan, bro, I
mean it's Lexington. Same thing in Louisville. Five million dollars
a year in Louisville is insane money. It's it's insane.
(06:40):
So good for him. I think he's going to do well.
We have no idea. He's got to go out and
get the coaching staff too. That's going to be very
very important. These head coaches can only do so much.
It is about the support staff. It is about because
a lot of these players, yes, money is driving them,
but they people don't realize. People think they went to
play for Nick Saban. Yeah, but they also in Alabama.
(07:04):
But most schools, they go to play for the position coach.
They love the running backs coach, they love the linebackers coach.
The linebackers coach is the one that initially goes and
gets these guys, and then the head coach steps in
and closes the deal. So who his staff is is
going to be very important. I don't know. Nick asked
me in the break. He wasn't being serious, but he was,
(07:27):
but he was like, when do they turn on Pope? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If they lose all these big games again, I mentioned
Gonzaga and Indiana over the next week and a half,
I mean they've got to get I mean, Kentucky fans
will say they need to win to both, and that's
probably true, but if they lose both of them, they're
in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
This year. Who they got this.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Weekend Gonzaga a couple of days, oh no, And then
next Saturday or Sunday it's Indiana rupp Arena.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh no. And the SEC is no joke anymore. They
can play basketball. So it's they could do this stuff
years ago and then roll through the SEC and go whatever,
twelve and three in the SEC or fourteen and one
in the SEC and get back into a top seed.
(08:11):
But those days are over. Everyone else in the SEC
and they started started spreading some of that insane football
money around. Kentucky needs to figure it out. Football is king.
Basketball just isn't the same anymore. It's not the priority.
There's too much to gain in football. There is no
there's nothing to gain by being great in college basketball.
(08:33):
I'm sorry. I know I sound like a broken record.
I've been saying it for fifteen years. No one listens
to me. And I said, look, the game is slow,
there's too many timeouts, there's too many fouls. There's no
stars on the bench anymore. There's no stars in general
of college basketball. And the big name coaches are gone,
and the really good coaches retired because they said, I'm
(08:55):
not dealing with this. Villanova, Virginia, North Carolina all lost
their all time great coaches because they're not dealing with
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Zewski can't forget about him.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Put your money in football.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, I know everybody has who's your fatigue by now.
But look what I mean, look at look what they've done.
Indiana had one really really good season in their history
back in nineteen sixty seven. They went to the Rose
Bowl playing against USC and the guy in the white bronco,
I can't think of his name right now, O J.
Simpson's USC team. That's the last time Indiana was super competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Crazy ball, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And you invest a little bit of money, you find
the right guy, and look what they're doing this upcoming.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Scene and here's the thing. It's like, well, what's that
got to do with the school? It's tied together because
do you know how many kids go to Alabama because
of a ton There is a big connection between Louisville
School Louisville High schools in Alabama. I mean in these
sec I don't know how many friends of I that
(09:58):
I have that have children they go to Old Miss?
Like when did that become a thing? They go to
Old Miss. They see the video of those tailgate with
the with the with the you know, the college kids
and the sundresses and the and the.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, let's be honest, I mean, outside of college football,
what are we gonna do in Mississippi?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the point, Like, if that's the attraction in the South,
is college football?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay? You spent twenty two million dollars reported on the
basketball program. If you threw half that, you shouldn't spend
that anyway. There's only twelve players on the team. There's
only twelve players on the team, and you spent twenty
two What are you talking about? If you threw twelve
million bucks at the football program, Mark Stoops might not
be fired today. Maybe that was the plan. I don't know. Well,
(10:48):
what did twenty two million dollars get you a fired coach?
Or I'm sorry not Pope's not fart. I mixed the
two programs there, all right? So uh they lost again
last night. Stein will be announced again today? Is that
four or five o'clock? I think it's four.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't have the time in front of you, but
you're right. It is during the Terry Miners show.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah yeah, lock it in with Terry like you always do,
and listen to news radio eight forty whas I saw
and again Kirk Signette. This is where fans go crazy
because they see the Texas A and M fire their coach,
pay their old coach seventy eight million dollars, and then
now they're in the discussion. They were undefeated till last weekend.
(11:29):
They're still in the playoffs. And then Indiana gets this
old dude from James Madison and they are, you know,
the best team or you know, close to the best
team in the country two years in a row. So
fans see that and go, yeah, that could be us too.
It's almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's gonna be a very short window for Indiana though.
He's like in his mid sixties, mid to late sixties.
I don't know when he's gonna want to retire, yeap.
Hopefully they get a good eight to ten years out
of him before he hangs it up.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yep, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
He doesn't look that old though he doesn't nack that old.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
He does not. He does not. I like I said,
I think you found your Bob Knight of He.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Actually said that a long time ago when people, of course,
Signette wasn't a name until he made himself a name
of Indiana. But people thought that was nonsense, comparing anybody
to Bob Knight.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Signetti sounds like Venetti.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It does, uh?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Facebook Marketplace, have you ever purchased anything from Facebook? Marketplace.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I haven't, but my wife's the big shopper, of course,
and she she does the t move, she does all
that stuff, the TikTok shop, Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
She in that's how you pronounced it. It's not sheen,
my sister in law corrected me. She goes it's a
she enn. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, I've used
it a couple of times. My daughter uses it all
the time. And I went and got some barstools. I
wanted some outdoor barstools, but I didn't want to spend
a lot of money, so I went on Facebook Marketplace
(12:53):
and I found four barstools. They just wanted to get
rid of them, so I think I paid twenty five
dollars a piece and there were a big, heavy wood,
really nice bar stools. They lasted about a year or
two and that's all I needed. So I had a
good experience, drove out to the South End and picked
them up, threw him in the back of my explore.
But I watched an LMPD representative talk to the Metro
(13:15):
Council the other night and he said that it's lmpd's
biggest problem. Is Facebook Marketplace not their biggest problem, but
when you're talking about stolen merchandise that he threw the
number out. It's obviously not this number, but he said
he thought ninety five percent of the things on Facebook
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Marketplace were stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What that's a very high.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Niel and Jackie alect each other and say that can't
be right number, But he threw it out there. You
know how people like you know, they're just like, look,
I think you know ninety five percent of the stuff
on Facebook Marketplace are stolen. Maybe it is close that close.
I don't know. He's with LMPD. He would know sites
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And then in Craigslist used to be a thing that
was always just very sketchy. A Craigslist killer, wasn't there.
Yeah right, well, yes, correct. And I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Jack and I freak out because Maggie's away at college
and she and I'm like, where are you getting this?
You know, because she has an addiction to purchasing things.
She has four million knick knacks in her in a
room and won't get rid of any of it, and
she continues to go buy more. And we always go,
where are you going? Someone's going with you? Right, Like
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some of these places are in the middle of nowhere
and you're going to someone's house and you've already paid them,
and you're well, I'm just picking them up there on
the front porch, and I'm like what No.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Waiteecially, we find out you're a college female. Very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now, when she would watch John's wrestling practices, the wrestling
coach would pull her out to practice, so she knows
how to throw a headlock. And she's a Venetti female
and they we don't raise pansies. No, no, you're in
for a fight. But it's scary when you're thinking about
it going out to you know, pick something up with
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Facebook marketplace. But now I'm starting to think, I'm starting
to scroll through, you know, I'm thinking how much of
this stuff is stolen? Or if you have something stolen,
go to Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Right, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And set up your own sting. Don't do that, don't
get you killed, don't do that. Don't do that. All right,
We've got a lot to get to today. It's going
to be a busy next couple of days. I'm going
to Actors Theater tonight for the first time in about.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Say Christmas years.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah. Well, they had to get new management.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because they stopped doing it for a while, didn't They.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Old management had lost their minds, and they canceled a
Christmas Carol because, in their words, not mine, it wasn't
diverse enough. The early nineteenth century English story about Christmas
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wasn't diverse enough, so they canceled it. And apparently I
read through a Business First article on the numbers for
Actors theater and no, you know, I used to think
that people were stupid when they said, you know, go
go wo go broke, But that's exactly what happened. They
lost money for the first time in actors theater like
I don't know decades, and they finally said, okay, we
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can't do this anymore. So they have new management. And
I'm going to go tonight to see you Christmas Carol
with my mom and my wife, and I think it's
gonna be fun. I love actress theaters. It's a world
famous theater. That's not not making that up. It is.
They used to have the Human series there where Humano
when they were huge in the nineteen eighties. They gave
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millions of dollars and said bring your place here, your
new plays, and we award a million dollars to the
best plays and that worked. I don't know how many
actors at that time, superstars they said, Oh yeah, I
know Louisville, been there many times. I did plays at
Actress Theater. So I'm glad that they're back. Don't know
if it's in the round they call it in the
round or the other.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They have too a few different ones there.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, so we'll do what the Downtown Commission says us
to do. We'll go to dinner downtown, right, and then
we'll walk to Actors Theater. That's the plan tonight. So
we're going to do that, all right. It's been a
while again, six years since they've had a Christmas Carol,
which is I gotta watch it every year for sure.
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Speaker 2 (18:11):
Back after this.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
On news radio eight forty whns, you stepped up your game.
I'll give you a I'll give you that good good.
I've been listening to the Nick Coffee Coffee Company in
the mornings news Radio eight forty W.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And more of an eclectic sound in the mornings with
White's Not Here.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Your into music has been good. It's been good. You
steffed up. You were getting in a rut. Dude, Hey,
it happened you were stuck in some heavy metal nightmare.
At least for me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Led Zeppelin phases.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You see it right, exactly right. Remember when my son
was I think he was twelve or thirteen. He had
his phone in his hand. He was listening to led
Zeppelin and I smacked it out of his hand. He said,
you're not ready for led Zeppelin. He thought it was funny,
all right. So, uh, Sean Diddycombs still in prison. Trump's
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not going to give him as of now a pardon.
But this Netflix documentary is the second portion of it.
And I didn't realize that fifty cent was the one
that put this documentary together. Do they have beef or
something or.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I feel like all rappers have beef with each other
in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, speaking of that, some of the biggest stories coming
out of the new episodes is the murders of Tupac
and Biggie Smalls because Sean Combs was around at that time.
Remember oh yeah, so of course Tupac and big were
the East Coast West Coast battle. They I don't know how,
I don't know what the length of time between the
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two shootings, but they were just it was gang land
shootings of two of the biggest rap stars in the
world at the time. And there's some new revelations coming
out with that, plus some singers that are coming out
that's saying new accusations about Combs and assault, and they
have new video. Plus they've interviewed the jurors that were
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on the trial, which I think is going to be
interesting because you didn't know they have to follow the law. Obviously,
it sounds like the worst, craziest Roman bad things happening
in la But a lot of times when that trial
was going on, it was like, this probably goes on
(20:25):
a lot. Not giving him a pass, but it's like,
this probably goes on a lot, but it's probably It
was probably a lot for the jurors to hear and
whether they had to follow the law, though, So I'm
interested to see this in what's going on. If you
see him now, he does look like Grady from Sanford
and Son. He has aged in prison already, and I
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think he's in one of the worst prisons in California.
So that Netflix documentary dropped yesterday. We've talked about the
Real ID and the debacle that's been for the last
twenty years. Remember after nine to eleven they got this
thing together and said we're gonna have to have better
qualifications to fly. They came up with the Real ID
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and they will tell you the Feds will tell you
within four years, three or four years, they realized they
had made a big mistake, because remember they kept picking
a date and saying, on March seventh, twenty twelve, you
have to have your real idea or you cannot fly.
And then they pushed it back, and they pushed it back,
and they pushed it back, and then this past year
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they had it. And it basically doesn't do anything. It's
just a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But it can take the place of a passport. Right,
that's kind of one thing you can get rid of.
I mean yes here, but not in the United States.
It takes the place of a pass.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I haven't flown overseas, but it doesn't take place of
a passport in Italy.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Okay, I'm not a frequent flyer, so what would I
even know. They still fix this all in one moment.
Just made the restrictions to get your drivers license, uh
more stringent, right, I mean that's or just said, hey,
you don't have to have it by this date. The
next time your license is up and you go in
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to get your license renewed, you're gonna have to get
a real ID, which is more expensive, and we're gonna
ask you to bring more documents, different documents.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
That's all. That's all they had to do, and they
couldn't do it, and they couldn't do it, so they
basically overran all of these places all over the country.
And then they said you will not fly without this
real id. And then the day after people went with
their regular driver's license and they said, well, you can
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fly with your driver's license. You're just gonna have to
You're gonna search you a little bit more. Oh okay,
because I thought we couldn't fly, And now TSA is saying, yes,
you could fly with your regular license, but we're gonna
charge you eighteen bucks. So now they're adding a fee.
So the people that held out and now are just
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going to go with their driver's license are just going
to pay their twenty bucks and move on. It's a
perfect example of government overreach and stupidity and not being
willing to say it was a good idea at the time,
we're scrapping it. And I didn't even really and even
though the Kentucky Office Byway Safety was helping us get
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the message out with this for years, I really didn't
even understand it until I couldn't renew my license online
because you can do that now, and they're like, no,
you got to get your real ID, and we can't.
You can't do that, You've got to come in. And
I was like, oh, what's going on? So I made
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an appointment in Barkstown, drove to Barkstown, which is lovely,
and then waited probably twenty minutes. But you got to
get an appointment. Appointment. No appointment is the different in
the world. Okay, appointment means you fly like I do.
I get to the airport, I get on the plane.
No appointment is dwight flying takes two days. Should just
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be warned on that. Ohio High School Athletic Association has
officially approved a bye law changing and allowing.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You want to take a guess, it's not the transgender athletes.
Isn't okay? Where is this going? Fair?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Fair enough, fair enough allowing high school student athletes to
earn compensation from their name image, and like, okay, that's
a lot better. We knew that was coming, especially in
sports crazy states. Ohio is football. They have got they
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got a lot of great players in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
There's a reason Trinity and Sex like to have some
of their games against those teams. From Ohio. Well, I
don't know if they still do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They started playing teams from out of the state because
mostly a JCPS school was like, if we're not in
your district and we don't have to play you, we
are not playing you. And I don't blame them. So
Ballard has to play Trinity and these other schools. Man,
you has to play an X and it's but the
other schools. You know, Atherton's actually really good. Now I
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was going to say Atherton, but if you're Iroquois or Seneca,
and Seneca used to have a really great football program,
really good. But why play those two schools if you
don't have to? They they don't. So Turnedy and Sane
X of the world. And now Male is added that
Male is playing Cincinnati Indianapolis teams every weekend. It's crazy.
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And they don't play regular schools from those from those states.
They play the state champion from the year before. I mean,
they played big programs. It gets them ready for the
playoffs and obviously it's championship is this weekend in Lexington.
I believe Trinity. There's Trinity cal and at did Atherton win?
Are they in? Is it three Louisville schools in the
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state championship. I don't know. I think Atherton won. They
are really good. Now Atherton is here's what I'm going
to call it. Atherton is the new mail high school. Okay,
I still follow high school football little bit, so they
are now allowing that, and this is going to be crazy.
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Now they can't transfer like college athletes can every single year.
I believe they still have bilaws in states that you
cannot transfer. You have to sit a year. Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know about Ohio. But they are now going
to pay high school students. This is I get it.
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But it is going to be a nightmare for coaches,
high school coaches, high scho administrators, high schools in general.
It will be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
KCD is the other area school that's playing for a
state title.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh I'm sorry, So it's KCD, cal Trinity correct and Atherton.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't seton.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, Atherton loss, Okay in the semis all right, but
this will be a complete nightmare. I don't know how
they're going to pull this off, to tell you the truth,
and again, it will just we knew it would trickle down.
We knew it. We knew it. We knew it, so
I always compare it when when I was in high
school in the nineteen eighties, you could be pretty good,
make the team, maybe get to play. Nowadays, these kids
(27:39):
are so good at some of the big schools. I
mean they are specialized. I mean now when you're in
sixth grade, it's like you're a wide receiver. These players
are so good. I compare it to colleges, like their
college level. When I was in the eighties, I will
say that these high school kids are so good. They
are so good if you take them back into the
(28:01):
nineteen eighties, those are college level players. We asked one
of the coaches that coached the eighty five state championship
team at Trinity, and we were talking about the twenty
eleven Trinity team and he's and one of the four
players asked the coach. He said, hey, how many of
us start on this team? And he didn't even hesitate.
(28:23):
He goes, none of you. None of you started on
this team. None of you maybe one or two. But
the game's changed a lot, and in now high school
has become paying players. It starts in Ohio. Some people
are driving around their car right now saying oh They've
been paying players for a while in high school at
(28:45):
certain schools, but that's going to be a problem, and
you're going to keep an eye on that. Ohio is
just again, how many kids are going to now transfer
from Alabama or Louisiana if your family, if you've got
a kid that is next level eighth grader. I can't
believe I'm saying this eighth grader or maybe a freshman
or sophomore, you move your family because your kid's gonna
(29:08):
get ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, whatever it is.
I don't know the numbers to go to a high school.
So some high school coach in Ohio is going to
what open recruiting up.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Well, here's the other aspect that I'm thinking about. Think
about Ohio state and how much money they already have
for their players. You bring all these other high schoolers
from the South or whatever wherever it may be, they
have a deeper pool to choose from than they did before.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's what I'm saying. So now it's just not going
to be your district that you're recruiting from. You're going
to be recruiting under the other states. You got a
quarterback coming in from Florida. His family moved to liule
Or to Ohio to be the quarterback at the high school.
(29:56):
And again you get up in Cincinnati. Those high schools,
Oh my gosh, there's a dozen Trindy and St. X's
in Cincinnati. They are so good. The Saint Ex Cincinnati
enrollment is is double. It's three thousand kids and they're
all boys. Cincinnati St X is like having Trinity and
Saint X combined in one high school. It's crazy. I've
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been up to a game. The stadium is huge and
it's it's unbelievable and every player is good. There's a
there's not a slacker in any spot. But now just
think about it, because that's what it's gonna do. And
I guess basketball would be the same. If you're molar
in Cincinnati and you're about you, you know, like, you
(30:41):
know what, we've never been good to basketball. We're gonna
be good now. And they start recruiting through the South
and having people move to Cincinnati. Great town. Hey, it's
a great town, Midwest. Come on up here, good people.
We're gonna pay your kid a couple dollars and he's
gonna play basketball. For US at Molar or whatever. I'm
throwing names out. I'm not saying Mueller is going to
do that, but I'm throwing names out.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm just picturing a head coach taking a flight down
to you know, Alabama and talking to an eighth grader
in his family. That's crazy, I think about. But it's okay.
But if you transfer state, you could play immediately. You
got a junior that's the number four dual threat quarterback
for Georgia and he's like, I'm going to play in
Ohio because they're gonna pay me fifty thousand dollars. Now,
(31:26):
the talent level at all these states that don't have
in il right now will just slowly diminish. But I'm
sure this is just the first domino to fall. I'm
surprised it's Ohio.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Honestly, Kentucky has a certain it's not this far, but
they have something like that. Okay, like we have it,
but not like this where they change the bylaws and
it's like college now. But their Ohio is securing their
spot for football. I mean, Mark Stoops made his bones
at Kentucky doing what recruiting Ohio hard. Remember that was
(32:00):
the thing everyone said Stoops is in on Ohio. In
those first couple of years when they were getting good,
they were Ohio players on defense in the offensive line.
So again it's we'll try to keep you up on it.
But it's crazy. You have to be crazy good to
play high school athletics these days. And now it's going
(32:22):
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after this, our news radio eight forty WHA s
Yes, Dwight on his anniversary trip to Cabo is on
his way. He is in Houston. If you follow him
on Facebook, you have seen the follies that have gone.
Some of the posts were a little too much, so
I texted my friend and said take those down now,
which he did.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I learned a lot about Dwight yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, he was texting you and I specifically on a
text chain, and we can't repeat most of it what
was on there. Basically, he was on the tarmac yesterday
for two hours, and then when it was their turn
to take off, they figured out they burned too much
fuel while they were waiting, so they had to go
back to unload, fill up the plane, and get back on.
(00:40):
So it was three or four hours before they took
off from here, got to Houston, obviously missed their connection,
had to stay in Houston, and then the uber to
the hotel got into a traffic jam with a semi truck,
so they just got out and walked with their luggage
down the middle of the road. My wife does a
(01:01):
lot of business in Houston, and she looked at the
video and said, they don't need to be doing that
in Houston. It's too dangerous. What are you doing? So
they are on their way now. So all is good
today little Zona getting zen today for Dwight, all right,
so lots to get to today. How did NTI go yesterday?
(01:24):
Probably not well. Plenty of Facebook posts and that's not
an indication of whether in general ninety thousand students had
a good experience yesterday on NTI. But I said, at first,
yesterday at nine o'clock, nine o three, you did this
first thing I said, I said, just have the day off.
NTI is not good for the kids that really want
to do it, they'll be there. But for the most part,
(01:46):
and what else happened? They had an outage from the
cable company Internet, so a bunch of kids didn't have it.
And now kids like me that had Internet but didn't
get online can say, well, I didn't have it. It
was out of my house. Mister mcgillich, Hoddy, I swear,
so again, just call the day off. NTI is not
(02:10):
really school. It's just not the same. Send an email
with what the kids need to do and then call
it a day.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And my wife yesterday as a teacher for the Bullock
County Public School System elementary school teacher I'll say, not
only was she trying to do in TI, but also
take care of a seven month old.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. Call the day off. Okay.
I just talked to Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage
for he's gonna come on with us on Friday as
he drives up. We're gonna do it earlier, like at
nine thirty five, I think on Friday, because he is
driving up to Indianapolis. He's got tickets to the biggest
game of the year Indiana number two, Ohio state number
(02:53):
one for the Big Ten championship and the number one
scene in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I bet you he's pulling the double because they also
play Louisville. Indianapolis basketball does the same day in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, Yeah, we've got some good games for college basketball.
Usually this time of year is you know, is reduced
down to the College of Charleston, which is a good program,
but you get these smaller schools to pay the bills
on these home games. Now they've sort of created some
of these games. Last night Kentucky in North Carolina, Louisville
and Arkansas tonight. Those are big matchups in college basketball.
(03:28):
Good job, good job college basketball, so figuring that out
it hasn't worked out well for Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, they've lost all their big games this year so far.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They are on a three game losing streak.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They've got Gonzaga later this week that won't be any easier.
I've also got Indiana coming to town next weekend. I
believe a rop arena. That'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, again, Pope in his second year. You normally would say, dude,
it's the second year. He got to the second you know,
at least the second round of the NCLAV Tournament last year.
But here's the problem. When you can pay players and
you spend twenty two million dollars on a basketball team,
that's what you spend on a football team that has
eighty five scholarship players. You spend twenty two million dollars
(04:11):
reported on basketball players and you can't win a game.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kentucky is the only major college program spending that kind
of money on.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Of course they are, of course they are, because they're
so tweaked they haven't figured out. Hey, college football is
king college basketball is a back seat. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'll be interested to see when will Stein. I mean
I know he's there now, but when will Stein really
gets gets set up in Lexington, if he'll be concerned
about the NIL levels for football versus basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't think he looks like a guy that likes
to take a back seat to any No, not at all. Okay,
I think he's probably gonna have an aggressive behavior when
it comes to the conversation with the athletic director Capaludo
on whether how much money do I get? And it
had probably part of the conversation before he took the job.
That announcement, by the way, will be later this afternoon
(05:09):
right here on news radio eight forty whas we are
the Tony and Dwight Show, brought to you by the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. So we'll have that press
conference live right here on the station. I think it
pops right in the middle of Terry Miner's show, so
tune in for that. It'll be interesting. He's gonna he's
gonna give good press conference. Right. He'll win today. He'll
(05:32):
win today. He says the right things. He sounds like
an old school football guy, and yet he's the youngest
head coach in the SEC. Now his life, like I
don't I don't know if his family, his immediate family
and again his mother and I know Blakey Nutt from
(05:53):
a long for a long time, the nut family, and
they own cissy cakes, and that now they're sold out.
They can't make the cissy cakes fast enough because it's
now connected to him. But it is like, that's just
the first clue how your life is going to change.
Plus when you go from making whatever he was making. Again,
if you're the Oregon offensive coordinator, you're probably into seven figures.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, you all the Nike money up there, sure.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
But when you jump to that five, it's like, and
how much is five million dollars? And I don't know
what his contract says. I'm making that number up, so
I don't know how much is five million dollars a
year worth in Lexington. This is in Manhattan, bro, I
mean it's Lexington. Same thing in Louisville. Five million dollars
a year in Louisville is insane money. It's it's insane.
(06:40):
So good for him. I think he's going to do well.
We have no idea. He's got to go out and
get the coaching staff too. That's going to be very
very important. These head coaches can only do so much.
It is about the support staff. It is about because
a lot of these players, yes, money is driving them,
but they people don't realize. People think they went to
play for Nick Saban. Yeah, but they also in Alabama.
(07:04):
But most schools, they go to play for the position coach.
They love the running backs coach, they love the linebackers coach.
The linebackers coach is the one that initially goes and
gets these guys, and then the head coach steps in
and closes the deal. So who his staff is is
going to be very important. I don't know. Nick asked
me in the break. He wasn't being serious, but he was,
(07:27):
but he was like, when do they turn on Pope? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If they lose all these big games again, I mentioned
Gonzaga and Indiana over the next week and a half,
I mean they've got to get I mean, Kentucky fans
will say they need to win to both, and that's
probably true, but if they lose both of them, they're
in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
This year. Who they got this.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Weekend Gonzaga a couple of days, oh no, And then
next Saturday or Sunday it's Indiana rupp Arena.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh no. And the SEC is no joke anymore. They
can play basketball. So it's they could do this stuff
years ago and then roll through the SEC and go whatever,
twelve and three in the SEC or fourteen and one
in the SEC and get back into a top seed.
(08:11):
But those days are over. Everyone else in the SEC
and they started started spreading some of that insane football
money around. Kentucky needs to figure it out. Football is king.
Basketball just isn't the same anymore. It's not the priority.
There's too much to gain in football. There is no
there's nothing to gain by being great in college basketball.
(08:33):
I'm sorry. I know I sound like a broken record.
I've been saying it for fifteen years. No one listens
to me. And I said, look, the game is slow,
there's too many timeouts, there's too many fouls. There's no
stars on the bench anymore. There's no stars in general
of college basketball. And the big name coaches are gone,
and the really good coaches retired because they said, I'm
(08:55):
not dealing with this. Villanova, Virginia, North Carolina all lost
their all time great coaches because they're not dealing with
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Zewski can't forget about him.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Put your money in football.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, I know everybody has who's your fatigue by now.
But look what I mean, look at look what they've done.
Indiana had one really really good season in their history
back in nineteen sixty seven. They went to the Rose
Bowl playing against USC and the guy in the white bronco,
I can't think of his name right now, O J.
Simpson's USC team. That's the last time Indiana was super competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Crazy ball, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And you invest a little bit of money, you find
the right guy, and look what they're doing this upcoming.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Scene and here's the thing. It's like, well, what's that
got to do with the school? It's tied together because
do you know how many kids go to Alabama because
of a ton There is a big connection between Louisville
School Louisville High schools in Alabama. I mean in these
sec I don't know how many friends of I that
(09:58):
I have that have children they go to Old Miss?
Like when did that become a thing? They go to
Old Miss. They see the video of those tailgate with
the with the with the you know, the college kids
and the sundresses and the and the.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, let's be honest, I mean, outside of college football,
what are we gonna do in Mississippi?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the point, Like, if that's the attraction in the South,
is college football?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay? You spent twenty two million dollars reported on the
basketball program. If you threw half that, you shouldn't spend
that anyway. There's only twelve players on the team. There's
only twelve players on the team, and you spent twenty
two What are you talking about? If you threw twelve
million bucks at the football program, Mark Stoops might not
be fired today. Maybe that was the plan. I don't know. Well,
(10:48):
what did twenty two million dollars get you a fired coach?
Or I'm sorry not Pope's not fart. I mixed the
two programs there, all right? So uh they lost again
last night. Stein will be announced again today? Is that
four or five o'clock? I think it's four.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't have the time in front of you, but
you're right. It is during the Terry Miners show.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah yeah, lock it in with Terry like you always do,
and listen to news radio eight forty whas I saw
and again Kirk Signette. This is where fans go crazy
because they see the Texas A and M fire their coach,
pay their old coach seventy eight million dollars, and then
now they're in the discussion. They were undefeated till last weekend.
(11:29):
They're still in the playoffs. And then Indiana gets this
old dude from James Madison and they are, you know,
the best team or you know, close to the best
team in the country two years in a row. So
fans see that and go, yeah, that could be us too.
It's almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's gonna be a very short window for Indiana though.
He's like in his mid sixties, mid to late sixties.
I don't know when he's gonna want to retire, yeap.
Hopefully they get a good eight to ten years out
of him before he hangs it up.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yep, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
He doesn't look that old though he doesn't nack that old.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
He does not. He does not. I like I said,
I think you found your Bob Knight of He.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Actually said that a long time ago when people, of course,
Signette wasn't a name until he made himself a name
of Indiana. But people thought that was nonsense, comparing anybody
to Bob Knight.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Signetti sounds like Venetti.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It does, uh?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Facebook Marketplace, have you ever purchased anything from Facebook? Marketplace.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I haven't, but my wife's the big shopper, of course,
and she she does the t move, she does all
that stuff, the TikTok shop, Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
She in that's how you pronounced it. It's not sheen,
my sister in law corrected me. She goes it's a
she enn. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, I've used
it a couple of times. My daughter uses it all
the time. And I went and got some barstools. I
wanted some outdoor barstools, but I didn't want to spend
a lot of money, so I went on Facebook Marketplace
(12:53):
and I found four barstools. They just wanted to get
rid of them, so I think I paid twenty five
dollars a piece and there were a big, heavy wood,
really nice bar stools. They lasted about a year or
two and that's all I needed. So I had a
good experience, drove out to the South End and picked
them up, threw him in the back of my explore.
But I watched an LMPD representative talk to the Metro
(13:15):
Council the other night and he said that it's lmpd's
biggest problem. Is Facebook Marketplace not their biggest problem, but
when you're talking about stolen merchandise that he threw the
number out. It's obviously not this number, but he said
he thought ninety five percent of the things on Facebook
(13:38):
Marketplace were stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What that's a very high.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Niel and Jackie alect each other and say that can't
be right number, But he threw it out there. You
know how people like you know, they're just like, look,
I think you know ninety five percent of the stuff
on Facebook Marketplace are stolen. Maybe it is close that close.
I don't know. He's with LMPD. He would know sites
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And then in Craigslist used to be a thing that
was always just very sketchy. A Craigslist killer, wasn't there.
Yeah right, well, yes, correct. And I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Jack and I freak out because Maggie's away at college
and she and I'm like, where are you getting this?
You know, because she has an addiction to purchasing things.
She has four million knick knacks in her in a
room and won't get rid of any of it, and
she continues to go buy more. And we always go,
where are you going? Someone's going with you? Right, Like
(14:26):
some of these places are in the middle of nowhere
and you're going to someone's house and you've already paid them,
and you're well, I'm just picking them up there on
the front porch, and I'm like what No.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Waiteecially, we find out you're a college female. Very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now, when she would watch John's wrestling practices, the wrestling
coach would pull her out to practice, so she knows
how to throw a headlock. And she's a Venetti female
and they we don't raise pansies. No, no, you're in
for a fight. But it's scary when you're thinking about
it going out to you know, pick something up with
(15:00):
Facebook marketplace. But now I'm starting to think, I'm starting
to scroll through, you know, I'm thinking how much of
this stuff is stolen? Or if you have something stolen,
go to Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Right, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And set up your own sting. Don't do that, don't
get you killed, don't do that. Don't do that. All right,
We've got a lot to get to today. It's going
to be a busy next couple of days. I'm going
to Actors Theater tonight for the first time in about.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Say Christmas years.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah. Well, they had to get new management.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because they stopped doing it for a while, didn't They.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Old management had lost their minds, and they canceled a
Christmas Carol because, in their words, not mine, it wasn't
diverse enough. The early nineteenth century English story about Christmas
(15:58):
wasn't diverse enough, so they canceled it. And apparently I
read through a Business First article on the numbers for
Actors theater and no, you know, I used to think
that people were stupid when they said, you know, go
go wo go broke, But that's exactly what happened. They
lost money for the first time in actors theater like
I don't know decades, and they finally said, okay, we
(16:22):
can't do this anymore. So they have new management. And
I'm going to go tonight to see you Christmas Carol
with my mom and my wife, and I think it's
gonna be fun. I love actress theaters. It's a world
famous theater. That's not not making that up. It is.
They used to have the Human series there where Humano
when they were huge in the nineteen eighties. They gave
(16:42):
millions of dollars and said bring your place here, your
new plays, and we award a million dollars to the
best plays and that worked. I don't know how many
actors at that time, superstars they said, Oh yeah, I
know Louisville, been there many times. I did plays at
Actress Theater. So I'm glad that they're back. Don't know
if it's in the round they call it in the
round or the other.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They have too a few different ones there.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, so we'll do what the Downtown Commission says us
to do. We'll go to dinner downtown, right, and then
we'll walk to Actors Theater. That's the plan tonight. So
we're going to do that, all right. It's been a
while again, six years since they've had a Christmas Carol,
which is I gotta watch it every year for sure.
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On news radio eight forty whns, you stepped up your game.
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I've been listening to the Nick Coffee Coffee Company in
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And more of an eclectic sound in the mornings with
White's Not Here.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Your into music has been good. It's been good. You
steffed up. You were getting in a rut. Dude, Hey,
it happened you were stuck in some heavy metal nightmare.
At least for me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Led Zeppelin phases.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You see it right, exactly right. Remember when my son
was I think he was twelve or thirteen. He had
his phone in his hand. He was listening to led
Zeppelin and I smacked it out of his hand. He said,
you're not ready for led Zeppelin. He thought it was funny,
all right. So, uh, Sean Diddycombs still in prison. Trump's
(19:00):
not going to give him as of now a pardon.
But this Netflix documentary is the second portion of it.
And I didn't realize that fifty cent was the one
that put this documentary together. Do they have beef or
something or.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I feel like all rappers have beef with each other
in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, speaking of that, some of the biggest stories coming
out of the new episodes is the murders of Tupac
and Biggie Smalls because Sean Combs was around at that time.
Remember oh yeah, so of course Tupac and big were
the East Coast West Coast battle. They I don't know how,
I don't know what the length of time between the
(19:41):
two shootings, but they were just it was gang land
shootings of two of the biggest rap stars in the
world at the time. And there's some new revelations coming
out with that, plus some singers that are coming out
that's saying new accusations about Combs and assault, and they
have new video. Plus they've interviewed the jurors that were
(20:05):
on the trial, which I think is going to be
interesting because you didn't know they have to follow the law. Obviously,
it sounds like the worst, craziest Roman bad things happening
in la But a lot of times when that trial
was going on, it was like, this probably goes on
(20:25):
a lot. Not giving him a pass, but it's like,
this probably goes on a lot, but it's probably It
was probably a lot for the jurors to hear and
whether they had to follow the law, though, So I'm
interested to see this in what's going on. If you
see him now, he does look like Grady from Sanford
and Son. He has aged in prison already, and I
(20:49):
think he's in one of the worst prisons in California.
So that Netflix documentary dropped yesterday. We've talked about the
Real ID and the debacle that's been for the last
twenty years. Remember after nine to eleven they got this
thing together and said we're gonna have to have better
qualifications to fly. They came up with the Real ID
(21:12):
and they will tell you the Feds will tell you
within four years, three or four years, they realized they
had made a big mistake, because remember they kept picking
a date and saying, on March seventh, twenty twelve, you
have to have your real idea or you cannot fly.
And then they pushed it back, and they pushed it back,
and they pushed it back, and then this past year
(21:32):
they had it. And it basically doesn't do anything. It's
just a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But it can take the place of a passport. Right,
that's kind of one thing you can get rid of.
I mean yes here, but not in the United States.
It takes the place of a pass.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I haven't flown overseas, but it doesn't take place of
a passport in Italy.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Okay, I'm not a frequent flyer, so what would I
even know. They still fix this all in one moment.
Just made the restrictions to get your drivers license, uh
more stringent, right, I mean that's or just said, hey,
you don't have to have it by this date. The
next time your license is up and you go in
(22:12):
to get your license renewed, you're gonna have to get
a real ID, which is more expensive, and we're gonna
ask you to bring more documents, different documents.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
That's all. That's all they had to do, and they
couldn't do it, and they couldn't do it, so they
basically overran all of these places all over the country.
And then they said you will not fly without this
real id. And then the day after people went with
their regular driver's license and they said, well, you can
(22:44):
fly with your driver's license. You're just gonna have to
You're gonna search you a little bit more. Oh okay,
because I thought we couldn't fly, And now TSA is saying, yes,
you could fly with your regular license, but we're gonna
charge you eighteen bucks. So now they're adding a fee.
So the people that held out and now are just
(23:04):
going to go with their driver's license are just going
to pay their twenty bucks and move on. It's a
perfect example of government overreach and stupidity and not being
willing to say it was a good idea at the time,
we're scrapping it. And I didn't even really and even
though the Kentucky Office Byway Safety was helping us get
(23:25):
the message out with this for years, I really didn't
even understand it until I couldn't renew my license online
because you can do that now, and they're like, no,
you got to get your real ID, and we can't.
You can't do that, You've got to come in. And
I was like, oh, what's going on? So I made
(23:45):
an appointment in Barkstown, drove to Barkstown, which is lovely,
and then waited probably twenty minutes. But you got to
get an appointment. Appointment. No appointment is the different in
the world. Okay, appointment means you fly like I do.
I get to the airport, I get on the plane.
No appointment is dwight flying takes two days. Should just
(24:08):
be warned on that. Ohio High School Athletic Association has
officially approved a bye law changing and allowing.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You want to take a guess, it's not the transgender athletes.
Isn't okay? Where is this going? Fair?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Fair enough, fair enough allowing high school student athletes to
earn compensation from their name image, and like, okay, that's
a lot better. We knew that was coming, especially in
sports crazy states. Ohio is football. They have got they
(24:54):
got a lot of great players in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
There's a reason Trinity and Sex like to have some
of their games against those teams. From Ohio. Well, I
don't know if they still do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
They started playing teams from out of the state because
mostly a JCPS school was like, if we're not in
your district and we don't have to play you, we
are not playing you. And I don't blame them. So
Ballard has to play Trinity and these other schools. Man,
you has to play an X and it's but the
other schools. You know, Atherton's actually really good. Now I
(25:26):
was going to say Atherton, but if you're Iroquois or Seneca,
and Seneca used to have a really great football program,
really good. But why play those two schools if you
don't have to? They they don't. So Turnedy and Sane
X of the world. And now Male is added that
Male is playing Cincinnati Indianapolis teams every weekend. It's crazy.
(25:49):
And they don't play regular schools from those from those states.
They play the state champion from the year before. I mean,
they played big programs. It gets them ready for the
playoffs and obviously it's championship is this weekend in Lexington.
I believe Trinity. There's Trinity cal and at did Atherton win?
Are they in? Is it three Louisville schools in the
(26:12):
state championship. I don't know. I think Atherton won. They
are really good. Now Atherton is here's what I'm going
to call it. Atherton is the new mail high school. Okay,
I still follow high school football little bit, so they
are now allowing that, and this is going to be crazy.
(26:34):
Now they can't transfer like college athletes can every single year.
I believe they still have bilaws in states that you
cannot transfer. You have to sit a year. Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know about Ohio. But they are now going
to pay high school students. This is I get it.
(26:54):
But it is going to be a nightmare for coaches,
high school coaches, high scho administrators, high schools in general.
It will be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
KCD is the other area school that's playing for a
state title.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh I'm sorry, So it's KCD, cal Trinity correct and Atherton.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't seton.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, Atherton loss, Okay in the semis all right, but
this will be a complete nightmare. I don't know how
they're going to pull this off, to tell you the truth,
and again, it will just we knew it would trickle down.
We knew it. We knew it. We knew it, so
I always compare it when when I was in high
school in the nineteen eighties, you could be pretty good,
make the team, maybe get to play. Nowadays, these kids
(27:39):
are so good at some of the big schools. I
mean they are specialized. I mean now when you're in
sixth grade, it's like you're a wide receiver. These players
are so good. I compare it to colleges, like their
college level. When I was in the eighties, I will
say that these high school kids are so good. They
are so good if you take them back into the
(28:01):
nineteen eighties, those are college level players. We asked one
of the coaches that coached the eighty five state championship
team at Trinity, and we were talking about the twenty
eleven Trinity team and he's and one of the four
players asked the coach. He said, hey, how many of
us start on this team? And he didn't even hesitate.
(28:23):
He goes, none of you. None of you started on
this team. None of you maybe one or two. But
the game's changed a lot, and in now high school
has become paying players. It starts in Ohio. Some people
are driving around their car right now saying oh They've
been paying players for a while in high school at
(28:45):
certain schools, but that's going to be a problem, and
you're going to keep an eye on that. Ohio is
just again, how many kids are going to now transfer
from Alabama or Louisiana if your family, if you've got
a kid that is next level eighth grader. I can't
believe I'm saying this eighth grader or maybe a freshman
or sophomore, you move your family because your kid's gonna
(29:08):
get ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, whatever it is.
I don't know the numbers to go to a high school.
So some high school coach in Ohio is going to
what open recruiting up.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Well, here's the other aspect that I'm thinking about. Think
about Ohio state and how much money they already have
for their players. You bring all these other high schoolers
from the South or whatever wherever it may be, they
have a deeper pool to choose from than they did before.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's what I'm saying. So now it's just not going
to be your district that you're recruiting from. You're going
to be recruiting under the other states. You got a
quarterback coming in from Florida. His family moved to liule
Or to Ohio to be the quarterback at the high school.
(29:56):
And again you get up in Cincinnati. Those high schools,
Oh my gosh, there's a dozen Trindy and St. X's
in Cincinnati. They are so good. The Saint Ex Cincinnati
enrollment is is double. It's three thousand kids and they're
all boys. Cincinnati St X is like having Trinity and
Saint X combined in one high school. It's crazy. I've
(30:20):
been up to a game. The stadium is huge and
it's it's unbelievable and every player is good. There's a
there's not a slacker in any spot. But now just
think about it, because that's what it's gonna do. And
I guess basketball would be the same. If you're molar
in Cincinnati and you're about you, you know, like, you
(30:41):
know what, we've never been good to basketball. We're gonna
be good now. And they start recruiting through the South
and having people move to Cincinnati. Great town. Hey, it's
a great town, Midwest. Come on up here, good people.
We're gonna pay your kid a couple dollars and he's
gonna play basketball. For US at Molar or whatever. I'm
throwing names out. I'm not saying Mueller is going to
do that, but I'm throwing names out.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm just picturing a head coach taking a flight down
to you know, Alabama and talking to an eighth grader
in his family. That's crazy, I think about. But it's okay.
But if you transfer state, you could play immediately. You
got a junior that's the number four dual threat quarterback
for Georgia and he's like, I'm going to play in
Ohio because they're gonna pay me fifty thousand dollars. Now,
(31:26):
the talent level at all these states that don't have
in il right now will just slowly diminish. But I'm
sure this is just the first domino to fall. I'm
surprised it's Ohio.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Honestly, Kentucky has a certain it's not this far, but
they have something like that. Okay, like we have it,
but not like this where they change the bylaws and
it's like college now. But their Ohio is securing their
spot for football. I mean, Mark Stoops made his bones
at Kentucky doing what recruiting Ohio hard. Remember that was
(32:00):
the thing everyone said Stoops is in on Ohio. In
those first couple of years when they were getting good,
they were Ohio players on defense in the offensive line.
So again it's we'll try to keep you up on it.
But it's crazy. You have to be crazy good to
play high school athletics these days. And now it's going
(32:22):
to be lucrative now tomorrow. Today it's a little crazy,
all right. Unlimited Landscapes. Go to their website and check
out some of the things they've done, and they can
do anything in the backyard, hence the landscape. But designing
pools is what they do. And this Christmas, you're going
to design a pool with Unlimited Landscapes. Steve Butler is
(32:43):
my buddy. I've known him themself as a teenager. He
owns the company and they have architects and designers and
they will rock you out. So you want to swim
up pool, you want the led lights, you want a cabana,
a changing room, you want an outdoor bar. Whatever you want,
they've got it for you and they'll do it for
your pool. So design it, get a picture of it,
and then unveiled for Christmas. Would be a great idea.
(33:05):
Here's what Dad's doing we'll have this this spring. Go
to Unlimited landscapes dot com. The located in Middletown. Back
after this, our news radio eight forty WHA s
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