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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Welcome in. It is a Tuesday show barreling
towards Christmas as Santa will be here in a couple
of days. I think John and I are both on
the good list. I'm not sure after Dwight's post about
his travel that he is not on the naughty list,
but we'll find out in a couple of days. Welcome in.
I am Tony Venetti. We were brought to you by the
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Kentucky OFFICEI of Highway Safety, John Alden. You were not
here yesterday, That's right. And it's hard to describe how
much I've talked about IU football to people that we
were at the Saint Matthews, the City of Saint Matthew's
Christmas party, Okay, and there's three or four people standing around,
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and two of them profess that they are IU grads
and they this is the most excitement they've ever had
in their lives. I've never had that conversation in any
sports conversation with you know what I'm saying here. This
is for this. It is so amazing. And the one
thing that we all come away with those conversations with
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is I can't believe how good they are.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
No, and I can't believe how good they are either.
I think they've had so many different milestones this year.
You started with the Oregon win, and you had you
had Penn State, you know, the big touchdown catch that
was known as the kind of the cats kilmar.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Cooper, Yeah, the cat.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then you beat Ohio State in the Big Ten
Championship for the first time in thirty years at least
beating Ohio State first title game in sixties or since
the nineteen sixty seven year. And so all these different
things happening at once. I mean, there are multiple generations
that have never seen Indiana football be this good. That's
why I think you see so such a crazy reaction
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to all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No one's been alive, no one that's alive, right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean, my grandpa is, he's in his seventies. He
would he would have seen the Rose Bowl in nineteen
sixty seven. But that's that's all that you can hang
your hat on for with Indiana football.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And at some point we have to stop listening to
these pundits in the pregame. They don't know what that
hell they're talking about. I love all those guys from
the former coaches, the former running backs for Alabama. The
and I don't know understand why the anchor he didn't
play any sports at all. Why we all care which
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team they pick, and they and they all go through
and get it completely wrong. Every single one of them
said Indiana can't handle Ohio State in the trenches. The
defensive and offensive lines will tell the story. They just
can't compete with the big boys. When they's talking about
Ohio State and they're gonna win, and every seven there
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were seven people on the pre game. There's a lot
on the field. They had that stupid, big old desk,
stupid anchor desk on the football field, and they all
go through and pick the buck guys for those reasons.
And what happened five sacks, six sacks Indiana's defense line
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and corners that look the defense coordinator called an unbelievable
game Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I don't get why he had not been mentioned for
more of these big head coaching positions for the last
you know, several weeks when all these openings were still available,
because he had great games against Oregon anytime where the
defensive line has been able to get to the quarterback,
and you're not expecting him to against elite guys like
Dante more than Julian, say, and with Ohio State, like,
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that's not normal to be able to best an offensive
line against those elite level teams.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Because the brand doesn't match what you're watching, the IU
thing on the side of the helmet, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And then what that's scene All most of the guys,
like on the defensive line are from James Madison or
Western Kentucky. There's these guys were not originally playing at
the Power four level of football.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And the graft that I saw was talent wise, if
you go by these stars system one, two, three, four,
and five stars, they're the seventy sixth ranked team in
the country when it comes to talent, Like we all
know those stars are just junk. You get an extra
star if you're from Louisiana, you take a star away
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if you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, that's just that's the bottom line. So but
still that's a stark difference from being the number one
team in America and then pushing Ohio State around. And
they did it in a fact, in a way that
was old school football. We're gonna run the ball, and
they they went, they kept going even though Ohio State
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would stuff them, they kept going back after it between
the tackles. It was crazy. So you weren't here yesterday,
and I knew that you were going to freak out.
And Marty Book, of course, our from Earl Books Carriage Forward,
was there for three total days.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm curious what his night was like on Saturday. I'm
sure he was there. I'm sure he had a good
time at Saint Elmo's before the game.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's exactly where he was. He was sending videos Friday night.
He sent some pictures and I just I'll show you
a picture and you're gonna go, oh my lord.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They had a ball. They had a ball.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Of course he went to the basketball game too, and
UOL won that pretty easily. But who cared because you
get the football game and you just walk. That's why
Indianapolis is great. You walk from that stadium arena straight
down and it's nothing but bars and restaurants all on
either side, all the way to the football stadium. They
designed it well. It's a great town to party in.
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It's a great town to have a basketball and a
football game at the same time. Look when they pulled
Super Bowl off a couple of years ago. We're all like,
the super Bowl was in Indie and everyone was like, no, no,
it was great. He's actually did well, all right, So
people like signetti sounds like venetti. This is how you get.
So let's go over will Stein. Five point five million
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dollars is the base salary basically, with incentives to include
up to about two point one million. More so if
he gets to GPA of three point zero or higher,
which is easy to do now because none of these
athletes actually take a class physically. They're all online. Magically.
GPAs jumped a point and a half when the internet
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came in and they didn't have to go to actual class.
It was right after the Charlie Strong era, because I
remember Charlie Strong used to go to class and see
if the players were there. Now none of them go,
especially basketball, but in football three points you know, three
point or higher. He gets to like one hundred thousand
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and fifty thousand dollars, you know, he gets all these
little special bonuses. But five point five million dollars and
never been a head coach before. It's what we said
last week. I was like, the Stein family has no idea.
What's coming their way. Yes, he was making whatever two
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million dollars at Oregon, but when you jumped to you're
looking at five point five and that's not you know,
endorsements or anything else that comes that way, right, five
and a half million dollars for coaching a football team.
I'm fifty six years old. I do remember the old
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football coaches. The coaches when I was in high school.
The college coaches would make like seventy five thousand dollars
a year. Wow, head football coach, if he made three
hundred thousand dollars a year, you were like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What was what changed? What was the deciding factory contract? Okay,
it was TV, That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yep. Cable came in. Cable figure fgured out, hey, we
need to start putting some of these games on TV.
Because there was only the three networks, and they chose
who was going to be on national television. That's why
the Notre Dame became who they were, because they were
guaranteed to be on every Saturday, like they got a
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deal because whatever it was ABC or I think it
was ABC.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We have the Dolphins always on back in the day too.
For the NFL, it's Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, yeah, right, so in u of L and basketball
was the same way. That's why Louisville did not go
into the Big East when they had a chance in
the eighties because Louisville was independent and Louisville was always
on national television in basketball because we were Louisville and
we had a high flying, fast paced press and run
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up and down the floor style. The network scheduled is
six or seven weeks. I remember reading an article that
said it's a new record. Louisville is on national television
seven times this year, and each one of those games
came with like a million bucks, which back then was everything.
When the entire athletic department was fifteen million dollars twenty
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million dollars for the entire athletic budget, and now Denny's
bringing in seven. He was like, I'm not joining a
conference and have to split this money with people. So
we didn't go into the Big East. But now the
numbers are insane. So will Stein never been ahead football
coach before five point five million dollars and we all
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know we live in a very poor state. We don't
have a lot of money here, so five and a
half million dollars a year in Kentucky. You're like bezos.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Dude, he's the richest man in the state and he
hasn't done anything yet.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It had not anything yet here, I should say it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And of course all the other stuff, like he gets
accessed like part of his contract to make it easier
for him to go back and forth during these playoffs
with Oregon. He has a private jet. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's gotta suck. Though you're flying all the way back
from Eugene Lexington, that's the jet. You probably get used
to the jet lag you have to for the next
few weeks. But that's gotta suck.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how he's gonna
handle that. And he owes it to the Oregon kids
to make a run because they do have a chance
to win the national title.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, they're gonna play James Madison in their first round.
They win, they'll face off with Texas Tech. There's a
lot I think any of the top five teams in
this playoff can win the entire thing. Oh agreed, Well,
look Notre what Notre Dame did last year away from
the Yeah, and was in the National Championship Game. And
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they were getting They had injuries in every single game.
The Notre Dame story is fascinating. Now. They're just angry,
little irish.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
On on so many levels. It's the afflic thing. It's
the you won't join a conference thing, It's the who
do you think you are? A thing. And here's the
thing that pisses people off the most. Yeah they do
have that clout. Yeah they do. Yeah, they do in
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any conference. Right now we go, you want to join us?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, But I'll say this. I don't know if this
will ever happen, but if Notre Dame severs their relationship
that they have with the ACC right now, the Big
Ten now the only other conference that has media tied
with NBC, which is who Notre Dame's affiliated with, if
you can pull Notre Dame in, maybe not officially join,
like have them join as a full member, but maybe
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begin some sort of relationship there. I don't know if
that would benefit them or.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Why would they With no true leadership at the top
of any of these, Like the nc doable A is
non existent. They don't run anything. They let the conferences
do what they want. There's no leader at the NCAA
to say, hey, Notre Dame. We got to figure this out.
That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But if they keep getting left out of these play
I don't know. They weren't left out last year, but
this was the first time that they've been snubbed. If
it happens again and they keep going back to well,
you're not playing in a conference. You also lost the
head to head to Miami. That was a big deal
this year. That's something that is going to If it
bites them in the butt more than one time, then
they'll need to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, they have that caveat they signed last year that
if they were in the Power rankings, ranked in the
top twelve, they have to be invited.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What a silly what a silly thing down?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Do you understand what I just said to you and
then what I said before that, which is they do
have the cloud. That's what pisses people off, Yeah, is
that they are Notre Dame. They know it, and they
can push people around and not do stuff and not
do what you say for them to do. And then
they get mad and go, Okay, well they won't do it.
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You want and need the brand.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What's gonna last thing I'll say on Notre Dame is
that there's teams that they normally schedule games with that
are canceling their scheduling contracts with them because they don't
have to play these hard non conference games anymore. Whatever.
All these leagues are going to nine games, and if
Notre Dame doesn't have enough good teams to play, they're
gonna have to do something.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They'll figure it out. Schools are gonna schedule Notre Dame
stop because even when they're down, you beat Notre Dame,
people celebrate. They rush the field because you beat Notre Dame.
They're five and five. I don't care we beat Notre Dame.
It happened. Louisville beat them at their place ten years
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ago or so, and they were and Notre Dame was down.
Reggie Bonifon was the quarterback, and I remember everybody celebrating
like we won a national title. It's still a brand
and they still know it, and it still makes people
pissed because they know, damn it, they can do what
they want. This sucks, all right, So five and a
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half million dollars. When I grew up with football coaches,
they had bike shorts, those tight polyester shorts, tube socks cleats,
super tight polo and a giant tobacco dip in their
lip when they screamed at you. Tobacco would kind of
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fly on you at practice. And then you had the twirlers.
They had the whistle and they would do There was
always one coach that would go and he would he
take his two fingers and twirl this whistle around his
finger while watching practice, which was not annoying at all.
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And now to think all those old school uh sweaty
sweat socks coaches are making five and a half million
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
There is a great picture I found Center College. It's
the best university academic wise in the state. I think
Transie's number two. I'm trying to think who's number three,
but TRANSI and Center that I don't think it's negotiable,
It's non negotiable. Those are the two top academic schools
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in the state. And Center has played football for like
one hundred and fifty years. It's crazy. There's a picture
of the nineteen fifties and this quarterback he's got a
flat top, he's got his helmet off and he's leaning
on it on the ground and the head coach is
in that old school trench coat and he's down and
he's got a bottle cap a stick, and they are
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drawing plays on the side on the side, and the
stands are still the exact same, the concrete stands in
this picture and the ones they have now are exactly
the same. And they are drawing up a play in
the dirt with some sticks and a bottle cap. And
I was like, I love this picture. Center College. They
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actually have some old school they used to play Harvard
and the Ivy schools when the Ivy schools used to
be good. But I love that picture. It's just we
went from that to a new head coach at UK.
That's really it's never been a head coach, been a
coach for a while, but relatively young. He's thirty six
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five and a half million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's like having Nick Coffee out there coaching. He's close
to thirty six.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Think about that man. Good for him. He was destined
to do it. Stein just you always knew there was
something about him.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He just kept pulling things off that were crazy. Walked
on at u of l oh he's too small, he
can't play here. He started he got a starting position
and then kept Teddy Bridgewater on the bench. That's crazy.
It's crazy. Good for him and the Stein family for sure.
All right, short break, we'll come back Carriage Ford. I
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mentioned Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage Forward. We're gonna
talk to him tomorrow. We got a lot to go
over with him. He was there for three straight days.
He's going to go play by play. He had the
most fun. I mean, he is in hog Heaven with
IU Sports right now. And you can be hog Heaven
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if you lease an F one fifty or buy it
right now, zero percent interest, zero down, and you make
the payment for you don't won't make the payment for
ninety days. You get three months before you have to
make a payment. Go check him out. That's on the
Broncos and the F one fifties, Earl Books, Carriage Ford.
It's best by a country mile back after this on
news radio a forty WHS, Welcome back News Radio eight
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forty WHS. Tony and Dwight Hill brode you by the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety JCPS a couple of weeks ago.
This is everything I talk about. Drives me crazy with them,
like am I taking crazy pills. Do you know how
me during the COVID era when they kept telling us
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to do stuff and I'm like, am I taking crazy pills?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Why does this make sense? A couple of weeks ago,
they said, we're gonna do New Star Times. Everyone's gonna
start twenty minutes early. It's gonna save us the money
a couple million dollars. Forty eight hours later, we scraped
that idea. We're gonna come up with something new.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Is that Ellie talk? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So then last week they go, oh, we're gonna have
to close schools. We're gonna have to combine schools, close
school make people miserable. We're gonna we're gonna it's gonna
cost the kids. That's what's gonna cost because you won't
give us our money. So they picked a couple of schools,
said we're gonna combo this one, this one, and this one.
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People freaked. Look, man, don't have these open forums if
you're not gonna expect to hear people freaking out. Of
course there's gonna be stories of people like that school
change my kid's life. Well, no kidding, that's what schools do.
So what did they do yet? Last night? Oh? Well,
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we're gonna reevaluate that too and put that on. Let's
put it on the back burner. It's still there, we
could possibly use it, So watch out, we're gonna put
on the back burner. This tells me this new chief,
this new superintendent, what are we doing? Dude? Huh are
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you gonna take control of this or not? Stop throwing
things at the wall. And you know what the answer is, bro,
you gotta cut people from management. You gotta fire the lobbyist.
There's places to cut it, and it doesn't have to
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come where it hurts the kids. And you know it.
So those two things again, politics and sports are a
lot like right if you cover And I tried to
tell Nick Coffee this is when he switched over. I
was like, it's the same thing. It's just political world,
sports world. If this was if he's a new coach,
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and we've already got wishy washy two things, right, You're
all like, okay, this guy, there's warning signs, red flags.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I think about Kenny Payne, the amount of times
he would just blame everybody else back when he was coaching.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, Kenny, that's exactly what's what I'm saying. There are
warning signs early. This is it the fact that they
were like, we're gonna do this. It's gonna hurt the kids,
but we don't care because we're gonna save like a
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There's zero decisiveness. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
This is if this was a coach on a team,
we'd all be like, this is not working. He's indecisive.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's reactionary too. We're just he's just reacting to everything
that the public is saying about what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's almost like they're trying to make us feel so
guilty for what they have to do that they're gonna
they want us to give them the money. It's like
the East End housewife. Well, I guess i'll cut back.
We can cancel that that trip to Aruba. I guess, hm, no,
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it's not and we'll cut it from somewhere else. Oh okay,
we're still going to Aruba. They again, this is a
warning sign. We're gonna do this then, not twenty four
hours later. Ah, we're gonna table that. Hey we're gonna
close these schools. Not forty eight hours later. Yeah, we're
gonna table that. That is wishy wash. He can't make
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a decision. Who's in charge the board of the superintendent.
I'm telling you the jury is out on whether we
know where this guy is going to be good or not.
I'm going to guess that he's going to be a
galact failure, and you'll be able to I'll be able
to pull from this list of things that go warning sign,
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warning sign, warning sign, warning sign. Frankfort has to do something.
It's like we're all sitting here looking at Frankfort. How
many Frank How many miles? Is Frankfort away?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Like a lot?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Forty? I guess a lot if you're you live here,
a lot. I'm gonna say forty. Less than forty.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Miles Frankfort is we can do. I'll do it quick.
Google maps for it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And I'm downtown at four Street Live. So I'm looking.
I'm moving my chair with the microphone to Frankfort. Which
direction is okay? This is Frankfort? Which now I'm looking
towards the Louisville Sports and Social Club. Please, Frankfort, do something.
Look at my posture. I want another bowl of porridge. Please.
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What was his name in the play.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Oliver No, Oliver Twist.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Three miles by the way, fifty three.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, oh, I wasn't close. I said forty. It's not
too far off, man, that's thirteen miles walk thirteen miles.
Bro tell me it's yeah. Well he's insane.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Does he even have a dog? Does he have a dog.
He's not married, has no kids. I think he has
a pet telling of its dog could be though. I
hope he has a dog. I hope he has something else.
He's got his pet guitar that he plays. Oh yeah,
he's in a band. Yeah, that's that can be distracting enough.
He had his own midlife crisis without a family or kids.
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What are you gonna do. I'm gonna be a lead
singer of a band.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm gonna be the next Dome triple Pilots.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Huh. All right, So again, I don't want to go crazy,
but there are warning signs already that the new superintendent
is wishy washy and letting other people make decisions. I
don't know, throwing things against the wall and go that
looks good, and then a day later going get the hose,
clean it off. Frankfurt, do something, Please, please get involved.
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They're clearly begging for help, all right, and then this
crazy story Michelle Newton. Have you seen this the forty
year old Louisville missing person's case. She's been gone for
forty years. In nineteen eighty three, her mother grabbed her
she was three years old and took off. She was
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like on the FBI's most wanted list. I don't know
if she ever made that cool TV show that they
used to have, but she finally showed up. The Jefferson
County Sheriff's office said Michelle Newton was found alive in
another state after being abducted when she was three in
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nineteen eighty three. Detectives in the custodial kidnapping investigation said
Michelle Newton called police after discovering her true identity, so
she didn't know she was missing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Gosha, imagine going your whole life and you don't know
that you're missing from me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
No. Right, It's like the story I told yesterday of
the couple or the lady that found out her grandfather
was a spy for the Japanese as a Nazi.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean, your whole life is a I mean, I
hate to say your life is a live but is it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we don't know anything about our grandparents and
their parents and their stories. I don't think we know anything.
I think you think you know, but I've already you know. Well,
here's the deal. You choose what to tell your kids
unless your mother the grandmother throws you under the bus
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and tells them those secrets die. Bro, So forty years
she's been missing. The most interesting is there was a video.
DRB had this video of the three, like there was
a mom and dad whatever on the and then herd
Newton on the couch, and they were just like, we're
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just so glad we have her now, like not upset,
not like we can't believe this. She needs to go
to jail. This is crazy. She was just like, well,
we're just glad she's here now, like casually, like she
missed the last couple of Christmases.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's a strange, strange, weird thing going on. The Sheriff's
office said the two vanished between nineteen eighty four and
eighty five after a final phone call from with Joseph Newton.
Michelle's bother, Deborah Newton, was once among the FBI's top
eight most wanted parental kidnapping fugitives and was at the
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center of the custodial interference indictment and FBI unlawful flight
to avoid prosecution warrant. According to the new release, it's
just a weird story. Dude, I don't even know how
to The video is so strange. They're just like they're
sitting there, the dad's there, We're just glad she's back,
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like she went over to seas for a couple of years.
It's very casual.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It makes you think, how many of these people. I mean,
I don't want to assume anything, so I guess I'll
just keep my mouth shut. But it's very very odd.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It is very odd. And again, this stuff happens all
the time, and especially there was a watershed moment when
computers police departments started to communicate with each other because
a lot of times you watch these serial killer crime
documentaries and there were serial killers like in the next town,
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but they didn't share any information because the police departments
they just had a phone. That was it. There wasn't
even fax machines, so there was no communication in between.
You had to physically go and say can I see
that file in the file and they would have to
share the file with you. So until police departments started
to connect and could connect and you can send out
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the whole whatever APV. But they communicated. The police departments
didn't communicate, and you could just disappear. In the sixties
and seventies, you could just disappear, change your name. Wasn't
too difficult to get a license. You roll in with
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a fake so security whatever, You get your license and
you were you start a new life. No one's gonna
ask you, right, how could something like the witness protection
exist nowadays?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And work with with this? With how easy does you
can find out about somebody just from their face? How
could you even do that nowadays?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
The facial the face recognition software is crazy because that's
not even top secret stuff. They've had it for twenty
years or so. But it's on our phones. And basically
there's a camera everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
There's two cameras looking at me right now in the.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Studio yet, well, there's two cameras looking at.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Me exactly like we're we can't hide.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But you could follow someone all day long if you
wanted to. I leave my house, my ring phone or
my ring camera. Right, that's right, head down the street
Saint Matthew's. They got cameras everywhere. Oh there he is,
turning on the hubbards gets down to Brownsboro. I go
bast all those businesses, you know, the Ace Hardware or
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whatever hardware store, restaurant. They're all picking my truck up.
They could follow me all the way down getting out
of his truck. There's cameras in the parking garage walking in.
Could you could follow me all day? It's pretty boring,
but you could follow me? And how easy would it
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be to tap into all these cameras and stuff? Right?
I don't care, really do you care if people could
track you and just watch them?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, we've been being tracked the advent of the smartphone.
Maybe it didn't happen in the beginnings of that, but
as everything's progressed, I think everyone's kind of slow and
maybe that's their whole plan, right, Maybe that's like get
everybody used to just you know, all this GPS signaling
on every little single device that you have, and just
make people accept it. Because that's kind of where I'm at.
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There's nothing we can do about it. Everyone big brother
knows where we're at all the time. There's several different
directions this whole thing can go in. They were wrong
twenty years ago because they thought there was going to
be a smart home, like you were gonna come home
and there's going to be the voice there, which they
have now, and it's going to turn your lights on,
adjust your HVAC and stuff. They have that, but it
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was the smart person. They didn't realize. They missed that.
They miss that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The person will be the smart phone, smart everything, glasses everything.
So I don't know which is going to be right
the next one. If they're gonna they're going to end
plant computers in your skin that is coming download information
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directly into your brain.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
This is getting very sci fi.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
No, it's really. It happens now. They can do it now,
but when they get to a point to where they're
going to do it on a wide scale, that's when
people are gonna have to make decisions. I'm want to
be an old man by then, so I'm not gonna care, right,
download whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Imagine going into a courtroom and like you have to
swear to let them just dig into your brain and
find all the information.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
That's another thing, right, are all our glasses, sunglasses, prescription
glasses going to be recording everything all the time?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Privacy is on the way out.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But if if you know, if you didn't do anything wrong,
then you're like, I'm so glad I have these glasses
on to prove my innocence.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
That's true, right, it's a silver lining.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah. If not, you're gonna be Why did you stomp
on your glasses, mister Whitten? Why did you? Why did
you immediately after this? No, I tripped and fell and
then they broke. No, we see this other camera angle
while you're stomping on your glasses, mister Whitten. I won't
tell you about the video he sent me this morning.
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It's inappropriate it, but he sent it. He's coming home now.
Should be wheels up here soon from Cabo to i
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All right, Welcome in. It is a Tuesday show barreling
towards Christmas as Santa will be here in a couple
of days. I think John and I are both on
the good list. I'm not sure after Dwight's post about
his travel that he is not on the naughty list,
but we'll find out in a couple of days. Welcome in.
I am Tony Venetti. We were brought to you by the
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Kentucky OFFICEI of Highway Safety, John Alden. You were not
here yesterday, That's right. And it's hard to describe how
much I've talked about IU football to people that we
were at the Saint Matthews, the City of Saint Matthew's
Christmas party, Okay, and there's three or four people standing around,
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and two of them profess that they are IU grads
and they this is the most excitement they've ever had
in their lives. I've never had that conversation in any
sports conversation with you know what I'm saying here. This
is for this. It is so amazing. And the one
thing that we all come away with those conversations with
(01:03):
is I can't believe how good they are.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
No, and I can't believe how good they are either.
I think they've had so many different milestones this year.
You started with the Oregon win, and you had you
had Penn State, you know, the big touchdown catch that
was known as the kind of the cats kilmar.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Cooper, Yeah, the cat.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then you beat Ohio State in the Big Ten
Championship for the first time in thirty years at least
beating Ohio State first title game in sixties or since
the nineteen sixty seven year. And so all these different
things happening at once. I mean, there are multiple generations
that have never seen Indiana football be this good. That's
why I think you see so such a crazy reaction
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to all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No one's been alive, no one that's alive, right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean, my grandpa is, he's in his seventies. He
would he would have seen the Rose Bowl in nineteen
sixty seven. But that's that's all that you can hang
your hat on for with Indiana football.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And at some point we have to stop listening to
these pundits in the pregame. They don't know what that
hell they're talking about. I love all those guys from
the former coaches, the former running backs for Alabama. The
and I don't know understand why the anchor he didn't
play any sports at all. Why we all care which
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team they pick, and they and they all go through
and get it completely wrong. Every single one of them
said Indiana can't handle Ohio State in the trenches. The
defensive and offensive lines will tell the story. They just
can't compete with the big boys. When they's talking about
Ohio State and they're gonna win, and every seven there
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were seven people on the pre game. There's a lot
on the field. They had that stupid, big old desk,
stupid anchor desk on the football field, and they all
go through and pick the buck guys for those reasons.
And what happened five sacks, six sacks Indiana's defense line
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and corners that look the defense coordinator called an unbelievable
game Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I don't get why he had not been mentioned for
more of these big head coaching positions for the last
you know, several weeks when all these openings were still available,
because he had great games against Oregon anytime where the
defensive line has been able to get to the quarterback,
and you're not expecting him to against elite guys like
Dante more than Julian, say, and with Ohio State, like,
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that's not normal to be able to best an offensive
line against those elite level teams.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Because the brand doesn't match what you're watching, the IU
thing on the side of the helmet, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And then what that's scene All most of the guys,
like on the defensive line are from James Madison or
Western Kentucky. There's these guys were not originally playing at
the Power four level of football.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And the graft that I saw was talent wise, if
you go by these stars system one, two, three, four,
and five stars, they're the seventy sixth ranked team in
the country when it comes to talent, Like we all
know those stars are just junk. You get an extra
star if you're from Louisiana, you take a star away
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if you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, that's just that's the bottom line. So but
still that's a stark difference from being the number one
team in America and then pushing Ohio State around. And
they did it in a fact, in a way that
was old school football. We're gonna run the ball, and
they they went, they kept going even though Ohio State
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would stuff them, they kept going back after it between
the tackles. It was crazy. So you weren't here yesterday,
and I knew that you were going to freak out.
And Marty Book, of course, our from Earl Books Carriage Forward,
was there for three total days.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm curious what his night was like on Saturday. I'm
sure he was there. I'm sure he had a good
time at Saint Elmo's before the game.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's exactly where he was. He was sending videos Friday night.
He sent some pictures and I just I'll show you
a picture and you're gonna go, oh my lord.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They had a ball. They had a ball.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Of course he went to the basketball game too, and
UOL won that pretty easily. But who cared because you
get the football game and you just walk. That's why
Indianapolis is great. You walk from that stadium arena straight
down and it's nothing but bars and restaurants all on
either side, all the way to the football stadium. They
designed it well. It's a great town to party in.
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It's a great town to have a basketball and a
football game at the same time. Look when they pulled
Super Bowl off a couple of years ago. We're all like,
the super Bowl was in Indie and everyone was like, no, no,
it was great. He's actually did well, all right, So
people like signetti sounds like venetti. This is how you get.
So let's go over will Stein. Five point five million
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dollars is the base salary basically, with incentives to include
up to about two point one million. More so if
he gets to GPA of three point zero or higher,
which is easy to do now because none of these
athletes actually take a class physically. They're all online. Magically.
GPAs jumped a point and a half when the internet
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came in and they didn't have to go to actual class.
It was right after the Charlie Strong era, because I
remember Charlie Strong used to go to class and see
if the players were there. Now none of them go,
especially basketball, but in football three points you know, three
point or higher. He gets to like one hundred thousand
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and fifty thousand dollars, you know, he gets all these
little special bonuses. But five point five million dollars and
never been a head coach before. It's what we said
last week. I was like, the Stein family has no idea.
What's coming their way. Yes, he was making whatever two
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million dollars at Oregon, but when you jumped to you're
looking at five point five and that's not you know,
endorsements or anything else that comes that way, right, five
and a half million dollars for coaching a football team.
I'm fifty six years old. I do remember the old
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football coaches. The coaches when I was in high school.
The college coaches would make like seventy five thousand dollars
a year. Wow, head football coach, if he made three
hundred thousand dollars a year, you were like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What was what changed? What was the deciding factory contract? Okay,
it was TV, That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yep. Cable came in. Cable figure fgured out, hey, we
need to start putting some of these games on TV.
Because there was only the three networks, and they chose
who was going to be on national television. That's why
the Notre Dame became who they were, because they were
guaranteed to be on every Saturday, like they got a
(08:18):
deal because whatever it was ABC or I think it
was ABC.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We have the Dolphins always on back in the day too.
For the NFL, it's Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, yeah, right, so in u of L and basketball
was the same way. That's why Louisville did not go
into the Big East when they had a chance in
the eighties because Louisville was independent and Louisville was always
on national television in basketball because we were Louisville and
we had a high flying, fast paced press and run
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up and down the floor style. The network scheduled is
six or seven weeks. I remember reading an article that
said it's a new record. Louisville is on national television
seven times this year, and each one of those games
came with like a million bucks, which back then was everything.
When the entire athletic department was fifteen million dollars twenty
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million dollars for the entire athletic budget, and now Denny's
bringing in seven. He was like, I'm not joining a
conference and have to split this money with people. So
we didn't go into the Big East. But now the
numbers are insane. So will Stein never been ahead football
coach before five point five million dollars and we all
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know we live in a very poor state. We don't
have a lot of money here, so five and a
half million dollars a year in Kentucky. You're like bezos.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Dude, he's the richest man in the state and he
hasn't done anything yet.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It had not anything yet here, I should say it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And of course all the other stuff, like he gets
accessed like part of his contract to make it easier
for him to go back and forth during these playoffs
with Oregon. He has a private jet. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's gotta suck. Though you're flying all the way back
from Eugene Lexington, that's the jet. You probably get used
to the jet lag you have to for the next
few weeks. But that's gotta suck.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how he's gonna
handle that. And he owes it to the Oregon kids
to make a run because they do have a chance
to win the national title.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, they're gonna play James Madison in their first round.
They win, they'll face off with Texas Tech. There's a
lot I think any of the top five teams in
this playoff can win the entire thing. Oh agreed, Well,
look Notre what Notre Dame did last year away from
the Yeah, and was in the National Championship Game. And
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they were getting They had injuries in every single game.
The Notre Dame story is fascinating. Now. They're just angry,
little irish.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
On on so many levels. It's the afflic thing. It's
the you won't join a conference thing, It's the who
do you think you are? A thing. And here's the
thing that pisses people off the most. Yeah they do
have that clout. Yeah they do. Yeah, they do in
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any conference. Right now we go, you want to join us?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, But I'll say this. I don't know if this
will ever happen, but if Notre Dame severs their relationship
that they have with the ACC right now, the Big
Ten now the only other conference that has media tied
with NBC, which is who Notre Dame's affiliated with, if
you can pull Notre Dame in, maybe not officially join,
like have them join as a full member, but maybe
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begin some sort of relationship there. I don't know if
that would benefit them or.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Why would they With no true leadership at the top
of any of these, Like the nc doable A is
non existent. They don't run anything. They let the conferences
do what they want. There's no leader at the NCAA
to say, hey, Notre Dame. We got to figure this out.
That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But if they keep getting left out of these play
I don't know. They weren't left out last year, but
this was the first time that they've been snubbed. If
it happens again and they keep going back to well,
you're not playing in a conference. You also lost the
head to head to Miami. That was a big deal
this year. That's something that is going to If it
bites them in the butt more than one time, then
they'll need to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, they have that caveat they signed last year that
if they were in the Power rankings, ranked in the
top twelve, they have to be invited.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What a silly what a silly thing down?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Do you understand what I just said to you and
then what I said before that, which is they do
have the cloud. That's what pisses people off, Yeah, is
that they are Notre Dame. They know it, and they
can push people around and not do stuff and not
do what you say for them to do. And then
they get mad and go, Okay, well they won't do it.
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You want and need the brand.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What's gonna last thing I'll say on Notre Dame is
that there's teams that they normally schedule games with that
are canceling their scheduling contracts with them because they don't
have to play these hard non conference games anymore. Whatever.
All these leagues are going to nine games, and if
Notre Dame doesn't have enough good teams to play, they're
gonna have to do something.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They'll figure it out. Schools are gonna schedule Notre Dame
stop because even when they're down, you beat Notre Dame,
people celebrate. They rush the field because you beat Notre Dame.
They're five and five. I don't care we beat Notre Dame.
It happened. Louisville beat them at their place ten years
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ago or so, and they were and Notre Dame was down.
Reggie Bonifon was the quarterback, and I remember everybody celebrating
like we won a national title. It's still a brand
and they still know it, and it still makes people
pissed because they know, damn it, they can do what
they want. This sucks, all right, So five and a
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half million dollars. When I grew up with football coaches,
they had bike shorts, those tight polyester shorts, tube socks cleats,
super tight polo and a giant tobacco dip in their
lip when they screamed at you. Tobacco would kind of
(14:24):
fly on you at practice. And then you had the twirlers.
They had the whistle and they would do There was
always one coach that would go and he would he
take his two fingers and twirl this whistle around his
finger while watching practice, which was not annoying at all.
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And now to think all those old school uh sweaty
sweat socks coaches are making five and a half million
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
There is a great picture I found Center College. It's
the best university academic wise in the state. I think
Transie's number two. I'm trying to think who's number three,
but TRANSI and Center that I don't think it's negotiable,
It's non negotiable. Those are the two top academic schools
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in the state. And Center has played football for like
one hundred and fifty years. It's crazy. There's a picture
of the nineteen fifties and this quarterback he's got a
flat top, he's got his helmet off and he's leaning
on it on the ground and the head coach is
in that old school trench coat and he's down and
he's got a bottle cap a stick, and they are
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drawing plays on the side on the side, and the
stands are still the exact same, the concrete stands in
this picture and the ones they have now are exactly
the same. And they are drawing up a play in
the dirt with some sticks and a bottle cap. And
I was like, I love this picture. Center College. They
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actually have some old school they used to play Harvard
and the Ivy schools when the Ivy schools used to
be good. But I love that picture. It's just we
went from that to a new head coach at UK.
That's really it's never been a head coach, been a
coach for a while, but relatively young. He's thirty six
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five and a half million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's like having Nick Coffee out there coaching. He's close
to thirty six.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Think about that man. Good for him. He was destined
to do it. Stein just you always knew there was
something about him.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He just kept pulling things off that were crazy. Walked
on at u of l oh he's too small, he
can't play here. He started he got a starting position
and then kept Teddy Bridgewater on the bench. That's crazy.
It's crazy. Good for him and the Stein family for sure.
All right, short break, we'll come back Carriage Ford. I
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mentioned Marty Book from Earl Books Carriage Forward. We're gonna
talk to him tomorrow. We got a lot to go
over with him. He was there for three straight days.
He's going to go play by play. He had the
most fun. I mean, he is in hog Heaven with
IU Sports right now. And you can be hog Heaven
(17:25):
if you lease an F one fifty or buy it
right now, zero percent interest, zero down, and you make
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ninety days. You get three months before you have to
make a payment. Go check him out. That's on the
Broncos and the F one fifties, Earl Books, Carriage Ford.
It's best by a country mile back after this on
news radio a forty WHS, Welcome back News Radio eight
(17:49):
forty WHS. Tony and Dwight Hill brode you by the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety JCPS a couple of weeks ago.
This is everything I talk about. Drives me crazy with them,
like am I taking crazy pills. Do you know how
me during the COVID era when they kept telling us
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to do stuff and I'm like, am I taking crazy pills?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Why does this make sense? A couple of weeks ago,
they said, we're gonna do New Star Times. Everyone's gonna
start twenty minutes early. It's gonna save us the money
a couple million dollars. Forty eight hours later, we scraped
that idea. We're gonna come up with something new.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Is that Ellie talk? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So then last week they go, oh, we're gonna have
to close schools. We're gonna have to combine schools, close
school make people miserable. We're gonna we're gonna it's gonna
cost the kids. That's what's gonna cost because you won't
give us our money. So they picked a couple of schools,
said we're gonna combo this one, this one, and this one.
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People freaked. Look, man, don't have these open forums if
you're not gonna expect to hear people freaking out. Of
course there's gonna be stories of people like that school
change my kid's life. Well, no kidding, that's what schools do.
So what did they do yet? Last night? Oh? Well,
(19:16):
we're gonna reevaluate that too and put that on. Let's
put it on the back burner. It's still there, we
could possibly use it, So watch out, we're gonna put
on the back burner. This tells me this new chief,
this new superintendent, what are we doing? Dude? Huh are
(19:37):
you gonna take control of this or not? Stop throwing
things at the wall. And you know what the answer is, bro,
you gotta cut people from management. You gotta fire the lobbyist.
There's places to cut it, and it doesn't have to
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come where it hurts the kids. And you know it.
So those two things again, politics and sports are a
lot like right if you cover And I tried to
tell Nick Coffee this is when he switched over. I
was like, it's the same thing. It's just political world,
sports world. If this was if he's a new coach,
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and we've already got wishy washy two things, right, You're
all like, okay, this guy, there's warning signs, red flags.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I think about Kenny Payne, the amount of times
he would just blame everybody else back when he was coaching.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, Kenny, that's exactly what's what I'm saying. There are
warning signs early. This is it the fact that they
were like, we're gonna do this. It's gonna hurt the kids,
but we don't care because we're gonna save like a
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There's zero decisiveness. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
This is if this was a coach on a team,
we'd all be like, this is not working. He's indecisive.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's reactionary too. We're just he's just reacting to everything
that the public is saying about what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's almost like they're trying to make us feel so
guilty for what they have to do that they're gonna
they want us to give them the money. It's like
the East End housewife. Well, I guess i'll cut back.
We can cancel that that trip to Aruba. I guess, hm, no,
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it's not and we'll cut it from somewhere else. Oh okay,
we're still going to Aruba. They again, this is a
warning sign. We're gonna do this then, not twenty four
hours later. Ah, we're gonna table that. Hey we're gonna
close these schools. Not forty eight hours later. Yeah, we're
gonna table that. That is wishy wash. He can't make
(21:48):
a decision. Who's in charge the board of the superintendent.
I'm telling you the jury is out on whether we
know where this guy is going to be good or not.
I'm going to guess that he's going to be a
galact failure, and you'll be able to I'll be able
to pull from this list of things that go warning sign,
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warning sign, warning sign, warning sign. Frankfort has to do something.
It's like we're all sitting here looking at Frankfort. How
many Frank How many miles? Is Frankfort away?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Like a lot?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Forty? I guess a lot if you're you live here,
a lot. I'm gonna say forty. Less than forty.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Miles Frankfort is we can do. I'll do it quick.
Google maps for it.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And I'm downtown at four Street Live. So I'm looking.
I'm moving my chair with the microphone to Frankfort. Which
direction is okay? This is Frankfort? Which now I'm looking
towards the Louisville Sports and Social Club. Please, Frankfort, do something.
Look at my posture. I want another bowl of porridge. Please.
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What was his name in the play.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Oliver No, Oliver Twist.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Three miles by the way, fifty three.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, oh, I wasn't close. I said forty. It's not
too far off, man, that's thirteen miles walk thirteen miles.
Bro tell me it's yeah. Well he's insane.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Does he even have a dog? Does he have a dog.
He's not married, has no kids. I think he has
a pet telling of its dog could be though. I
hope he has a dog. I hope he has something else.
He's got his pet guitar that he plays. Oh yeah,
he's in a band. Yeah, that's that can be distracting enough.
He had his own midlife crisis without a family or kids.
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What are you gonna do. I'm gonna be a lead
singer of a band.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm gonna be the next Dome triple Pilots.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Huh. All right, So again, I don't want to go crazy,
but there are warning signs already that the new superintendent
is wishy washy and letting other people make decisions. I
don't know, throwing things against the wall and go that
looks good, and then a day later going get the hose,
clean it off. Frankfurt, do something, Please, please get involved.
(24:22):
They're clearly begging for help, all right, and then this
crazy story Michelle Newton. Have you seen this the forty
year old Louisville missing person's case. She's been gone for
forty years. In nineteen eighty three, her mother grabbed her
she was three years old and took off. She was
(24:46):
like on the FBI's most wanted list. I don't know
if she ever made that cool TV show that they
used to have, but she finally showed up. The Jefferson
County Sheriff's office said Michelle Newton was found alive in
another state after being abducted when she was three in
(25:07):
nineteen eighty three. Detectives in the custodial kidnapping investigation said
Michelle Newton called police after discovering her true identity, so
she didn't know she was missing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Gosha, imagine going your whole life and you don't know
that you're missing from me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
No. Right, It's like the story I told yesterday of
the couple or the lady that found out her grandfather
was a spy for the Japanese as a Nazi.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean, your whole life is a I mean, I
hate to say your life is a live but is it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we don't know anything about our grandparents and
their parents and their stories. I don't think we know anything.
I think you think you know, but I've already you know. Well,
here's the deal. You choose what to tell your kids
unless your mother the grandmother throws you under the bus
(26:03):
and tells them those secrets die. Bro, So forty years
she's been missing. The most interesting is there was a video.
DRB had this video of the three, like there was
a mom and dad whatever on the and then herd
Newton on the couch, and they were just like, we're
(26:26):
just so glad we have her now, like not upset,
not like we can't believe this. She needs to go
to jail. This is crazy. She was just like, well,
we're just glad she's here now, like casually, like she
missed the last couple of Christmases.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's a strange, strange, weird thing going on. The Sheriff's
office said the two vanished between nineteen eighty four and
eighty five after a final phone call from with Joseph Newton.
Michelle's bother, Deborah Newton, was once among the FBI's top
eight most wanted parental kidnapping fugitives and was at the
(27:10):
center of the custodial interference indictment and FBI unlawful flight
to avoid prosecution warrant. According to the new release, it's
just a weird story. Dude, I don't even know how
to The video is so strange. They're just like they're
sitting there, the dad's there, We're just glad she's back,
(27:33):
like she went over to seas for a couple of years.
It's very casual.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It makes you think, how many of these people. I mean,
I don't want to assume anything, so I guess I'll
just keep my mouth shut. But it's very very odd.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It is very odd. And again, this stuff happens all
the time, and especially there was a watershed moment when
computers police departments started to communicate with each other because
a lot of times you watch these serial killer crime
documentaries and there were serial killers like in the next town,
(28:11):
but they didn't share any information because the police departments
they just had a phone. That was it. There wasn't
even fax machines, so there was no communication in between.
You had to physically go and say can I see
that file in the file and they would have to
share the file with you. So until police departments started
to connect and could connect and you can send out
(28:34):
the whole whatever APV. But they communicated. The police departments
didn't communicate, and you could just disappear. In the sixties
and seventies, you could just disappear, change your name. Wasn't
too difficult to get a license. You roll in with
(28:54):
a fake so security whatever, You get your license and
you were you start a new life. No one's gonna
ask you, right, how could something like the witness protection
exist nowadays?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And work with with this? With how easy does you
can find out about somebody just from their face? How
could you even do that nowadays?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
The facial the face recognition software is crazy because that's
not even top secret stuff. They've had it for twenty
years or so. But it's on our phones. And basically
there's a camera everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
There's two cameras looking at me right now in the.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Studio yet, well, there's two cameras looking at.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Me exactly like we're we can't hide.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But you could follow someone all day long if you
wanted to. I leave my house, my ring phone or
my ring camera. Right, that's right, head down the street
Saint Matthew's. They got cameras everywhere. Oh there he is,
turning on the hubbards gets down to Brownsboro. I go
bast all those businesses, you know, the Ace Hardware or
(30:03):
whatever hardware store, restaurant. They're all picking my truck up.
They could follow me all the way down getting out
of his truck. There's cameras in the parking garage walking in.
Could you could follow me all day? It's pretty boring,
but you could follow me? And how easy would it
(30:23):
be to tap into all these cameras and stuff? Right?
I don't care, really do you care if people could
track you and just watch them?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, we've been being tracked the advent of the smartphone.
Maybe it didn't happen in the beginnings of that, but
as everything's progressed, I think everyone's kind of slow and
maybe that's their whole plan, right, Maybe that's like get
everybody used to just you know, all this GPS signaling
on every little single device that you have, and just
make people accept it. Because that's kind of where I'm at.
(30:59):
There's nothing we can do about it. Everyone big brother
knows where we're at all the time. There's several different
directions this whole thing can go in. They were wrong
twenty years ago because they thought there was going to
be a smart home, like you were gonna come home
and there's going to be the voice there, which they
have now, and it's going to turn your lights on,
adjust your HVAC and stuff. They have that, but it
(31:22):
was the smart person. They didn't realize. They missed that.
They miss that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The person will be the smart phone, smart everything, glasses everything.
So I don't know which is going to be right
the next one. If they're gonna they're going to end
plant computers in your skin that is coming download information
(31:47):
directly into your brain.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
This is getting very sci fi.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
No, it's really. It happens now. They can do it now,
but when they get to a point to where they're
going to do it on a wide scale, that's when
people are gonna have to make decisions. I'm want to
be an old man by then, so I'm not gonna care, right,
download whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Imagine going into a courtroom and like you have to
swear to let them just dig into your brain and
find all the information.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
That's another thing, right, are all our glasses, sunglasses, prescription
glasses going to be recording everything all the time?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Privacy is on the way out.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But if if you know, if you didn't do anything wrong,
then you're like, I'm so glad I have these glasses
on to prove my innocence.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
That's true, right, it's a silver lining.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah. If not, you're gonna be Why did you stomp
on your glasses, mister Whitten? Why did you? Why did
you immediately after this? No, I tripped and fell and
then they broke. No, we see this other camera angle
while you're stomping on your glasses, mister Whitten. I won't
tell you about the video he sent me this morning.
(32:59):
It's inappropriate it, but he sent it. He's coming home now.
Should be wheels up here soon from Cabo to i
Thank Houston to Louisville. All right, we're gonna take a
short break. Trade No Oak Towers. What a great place
to live. And you can do it for just the winter.
They have a winter stay so you can lock up
the house. Come on down to Trade and Oak for
(33:22):
three months. See if you like it, move in. They
got one, two, three bedroom apartments and condos in this
high rise downtown. That's it's not downtown, it's uptown. It's
near Saint James Court. It's independently owned, it's nonprofit. It's
one price, it's not piecemealed out. Laundry is included every day. Hello.
(33:47):
They have four restaurants, a movie theater, a wood shop,
a great place to hang out, two bars. So there
you go, trade oak Towers. If you're sixty five or older,
take a visit. Five eight nine thirty two to eleven.
Five eight nine thirty two eleven is the number. Take
the tour. Let's get you in there for the winner,
Stay for the winner. All right, back after this, we
(34:09):
got news coming up. John Shannon, we'll do that for
you as our number one is in the books. On
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