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April 24, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have had some really nice days for baseball in
Louisville late and I think I'm a knock on wood.
I think it's in early summer. Yeah, I think the
weather is going to stay summer like.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I think so too. I think we're done with all
the stupid weather.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, as we bring in our presidente from the bats
bats baseball, Baby, let's talk about it. Because often I'll
go to a baseball game. I think, you know what,
it's perfect night. I've got an ice code number one
to kila, the bats are on the field, my wife's
next to me. Damn it, I wish I had my dog. Well,
tonight's to night right in exactly.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Right, Yeah, baby, I like it.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
And we try to make sure we do our dog nights.
We either do them early in the season or late
in the season. I don't want to bring the dogs
out if I can avoid it in the heat of
the summer, right and weatherwise, Tonight's going to be a
great night to do so. And tonight also is thrifty Thursday,
so you can get a hot dog at four dollars.
You can get two dollars popcorn too, our pepsis and
seeing a lot of our four legged friends at the

(01:02):
ballpark tonight. And the Bats are playing well right now.
We went again yesterday and a walk off victory and
in the bottom of the eleventh inning, so we're four
games above five hundred and where.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
We are wrecked now? Of hot dogs? Are they all beef?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
All right? The best?

Speaker 4 (01:18):
And we have brought back the slugger dog this year
long slugger chili on a buddy of mine, cheese and onions.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
A buddy of mine posted, he sent, sent, and then
posted a picture Tuesday night he was there, which I wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
To go, What can I get on it?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Chili, chili, cheese, onions, whatever you want, bame it. We
do have a directory of gastrol doctors that we can
provide you after.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
You eat it.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Did you bring one next time?

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Greg?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I want I want to reiterate tonight is bring your
dog night at Bats.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
But you do have the little mini pools set up right.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Actually the cool thing is the dog's at mission price.
Those proceeds go back at the Kentucky Humane Society.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
And I also want to say this sponsored by friends
of mine feed or pet supply and.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
They'll be giving away what tonight. It's it's what dog bandanas.
Oh yes, the Feeble Bats dog bandanas tonight, get the rich.
I want to mention feed pets and dog owners. It's
because Feeder's Pet Supply. It's not just a pet store.
They actually care and they're knowledgeable. They've helped me and
Lemmy dog out. So I just wanted to shout out
the Feeders Pet Supply.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
How does that work? Is there a certain entrance I
have to go through if.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
You come over in the right next to our kids
playground in right field, yes, where it is where the
picnic area is, or you come in over on the
Witherspoon Plaza and left field okay, because we limit the
seating by the dog owners and the.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Dogs to the outfield areas.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Okay, and uh that's why I always love spending dog
nights out in the outfield because I'm a huge dog
person and it's just so cool to watch them taken
in the game.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
And then Tony, Uh, I've actually scheduled you to show
up tonight and you can be dressed as a fire hydrant.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
You're gonna love this here, love this gig man.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I've had I've hit my job around here. Sometimes is
following Dwight and cleaning up after his pood. So I've
got one of those in our off when I was thinking, Yeah,
that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Let's get to it though, baby.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Friday night, that's when it's Margarita Madness is also pickle
Ball Appreciation Night. Tell me more about pickleball appreciation.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
We have a special ticket package you can purchase Tomorrow night,
our salute to Pickleball Night, and that ticket package will
get you only a great seat, but also an official
Louisville Bats logoed ready for use pickleball paddle.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
What? Yeah? Oh, it's getting crazy.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Really cool to see this in play tomorrow night. And
you mentioned Tomorrow night. Of course Margarita Madness with Number
one tequila, but also it's the iHeartMedia game Day Happy Hour.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Come never heard of them? Are never heard of?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Its like, we're like Tomorrow night starting as soon as
the gates open at six o'clock up until last call
in the middle of the eighth And of course every
Friday night is also college night, so we're anticipating a
big crowd Tomorrow night and then Saturday night we come
back at seven point fifteen gates open at six Saturday night.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
And an award night.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, that's our big nights each and every year. We'll
have over twenty Star Wars characters in costume, and these
are movie quality costumes. They'll roam the ballpark, they'll take
photos with you.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Didn't want to? Did you show up outfit once?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
We actually we were doing a pre game photo of
all our characters prior to the first pitch, and somebody
showed up in a Wookie costume. I mean it was
movie quality as a label costume. And when it got
done and they walked up the tunnel behind home plate
and he took his head off.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
It was actually one of our relief pitchers and he
has this costume and he takes it with him during
the off season and goes to the various comic cons
and does appearances in this costume.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, that's what I was going to say.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like these Stormtroopers, they have like little battalions or word
where they joined, like the Kentucky Stormtroopers we.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Have as part of that is the group we have
oh wow, the five oh one Garrison and and they're
unbelievable to work with.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
If you have the money, you could put that outfit together,
Disney sells it. There's a two hundred dollars lightsaber.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I believe it.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's a What's cool is.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
There's a gentleman living up in southern Indiana who comes
a lot of these years for Star Wars Night. He
has built his own fully functional R two D two
robot in his garage. No, it talks, it rolls, it
does the whole thing way. He would think. It's right
off the movie lot. Oh, and we're keeping our fingers crossed.
Maybe it'll make an appearance again this.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Sha heay, Well listen, okay, I put in how much
is an authentic storm Trooper outfit?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh? This is I would say a thousand bucks. It's
a thousand thousand bucks.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's like fifteen hundred. I thought more than that.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
For some reason, these are unbelievable. They could they when
they show up at the ballpark before they put them on,
they bring them these giant cases they roll in with,
and like I said, it's movie quality.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So and they're everywhere. My sister's in Japan, they have
they got our worst thing going on in Japan exactly.
It's crazy, all right, So how are we all these
events happening that's Saturday. That's the Star Wars Forday.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Bats will be playing in their Jenga fet Star Wars
Team Jerseys Nice Saturday Night, which will then go up
for auction online five days after the completion of the game,
and you can actually bid on these and win one
of these, and I see people wearing them all the
time to the ballpark and the pro the proceeds this
year are going to be going over to the Friends
of V the local V Foundation. So that's on Saturday

(06:29):
night and Saturday night. Don't forget, We've got a big
fireworks show after the game thanks to our friends over
at Texas Roadhouse Sunday, game time one oh five. But
we're gonna open the gates early Sunday at eleven thirty
because it's our annual autograph day with the Bats players
and coaches. Oh cool, and we actually let the fans
come down on the field and from eleven forty five
to twelve twenty they can have autographs with the Bats

(06:50):
players and coaches. So this is always one of the
more popular events for our fans.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I think we're gonna hit the seniors run the basis,
Kids run the base well.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Seniors was yesterday and you didn't show up.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Kids get the base every Sunday, right.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Every Sunday, weather permitting, kids can come down the field,
take a lap around the bases, hang on a free
kids meal. On Sundays, we had the giant inflatable kids
player inside in our Hall of Fame pavilion. So Sundays
are kind of geared in our realm of the world
as our kids day.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I'm young at heart. Well, I have a my stomach
at least is that way. I love ice cream, so
I have to have a little ice cream almost every
single night. But you know, Greg, because you see me
at the gym manytimes. I work it off, right, I
work it off.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
I bring my dirty laundry to the gym so I
can just wash my clothes on your apps on.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
The ice cream option. So I'm making a list right
now so fast.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
What Philly's best is our ice cream provider and kinds
of different varieties there. They were quite busy yesterday with
the over five thousand school kids.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I saw that yesterday.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
I saw that between the ice cream and the pizza yesterday,
very busy.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
And who's the pizza.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
The pizza actually make itself.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You make your own pizza out there crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
And Greg throws the dope in there and goes, well.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Chocolate probably is going to be my favorite out there.
I guess for ice cream.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I would say, so, I want to clear something up,
he says, he works it off the gym. Isn't it
true that the last Star Wars promotion day you all had,
he took his shirt off to get some son and
kids thought he was job of the hut and start
taking itself with him.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
True, he knows.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, that's absolutely true. That's absolutely true.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
I remember we were really scared we weren't going to
have a mannequin show up for our new renovated Team store. Yeah,
but luckily we did. But if not, we're gonna have
to reach out to Tony because.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Of his apps.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Apps. Okay, let's do Team store. So the team store
has everything you were running.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
We're running out of quarters.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I want my quarters Zip. I got to get in
there again.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, you can go by.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I can probably call him and say, hold it.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You don't have to wait for a game. You can
go to the Team store right now.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, it's on the way home. Okay, I need my
quarters Zip because it's pretty sure.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Come and if you're going to sit in the on
deck club, which are the two best roses seats in
the ballpark. You've got to have your quarter zip on.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
When I sit in those seats, I just feel like
I'm better than most people at that point. Yeah, they're
pretty snatchy, they're pretty sweet.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Let's let's talk about the on deck seats because this
is probably the most incredible thing when it comes to
a sport event.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
This is the way to go. All you can eat,
all you can.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Drink because they're called on deck because.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
We take care of your parking also, so you can
almost leave your wallet at home.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's like a private thing. So it's called the on
deck because you're closer to the plate than the actual
on deck batter.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, you're closer to the batter than the picture is
to the deck. Yeah, so you can hear some interesting
comments during the course of the evening because you're.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
So close to But talk about the seats though.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
These are theater style cushioned seats. Unbelieve it was only
two rows of them. They're directly behind home plate and
you actually have access to a private lounge that we've
created up through the middle of home plate up underneath
there in the tunnel area with barstools, and we've got
a sofa up in there, in a private bar, a
buffet all you can drink beer and wine.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Restroom, restroom.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
I mean, it's a TV in there to watch the game.
So it's the way to go. If you'd like more
information on this wonderful area to sit, real simple, just
go to batspaseball dot com. There's more information on there
about that and on the really cool things we have,
including we just talked about the team store. You can
do a little shopping there and you can also buy
your tickets online and you'll basically just be bringing a

(10:31):
sheet of paper or your phone to the urnstyles and
we'll scan it and get you into the ballpark.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Some things have changed with tariffs and church Allown's made
their announcement they're going to put their project on hold.
I don't know where you all are, but I got
to tell you I'm talking more about that project with
you in bats, with the mayor, with so many people
that Mental Council people, and they're like, I don't think
people understand the significance of this project to the city

(10:57):
of Louisville. And I was like, it's not lost on me.
Are we still on?

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Actually, we have this weekend guests coming in from Ontario,
California who are part of the Diamond Baseball Holdings family,
and they're coming in to basically see what our project's
going to look like, as they'll be doing something similar
at their new ballpark they're building in Ontario, California. So
everything is moving from the pace right now. Yeah, and
you would actually, I don't know if you saw the

(11:22):
media release, but it looks like a few members of
our executive board are going to be guests of the
Mary for Derby this year.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's how big the deal is. When would they let's
say it's all go through.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
I think the first thing that's going to happen when
construction starts would be the construction of the two parking garages,
because everybody asks me, what's going to happen to parking.
You're going to build these two parking garages first, so
you can have the parking taken care of for the
fact that you're taking away the surface lot and now
you're going to have two garages are going to provide
actually more parking than you currently have with the surface lot.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
And they could do that while you're playing baseball.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's going to happen probably as soon as our season's over.
So that's how fast construction may start, is right, I'd
say octoberish, we'll start building those.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Parking Let's talk about the Let's talk about the parking
and access situation, because a lot of people have been
avoiding downtown because.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Of the flood. But that's all cleared up. It's all
cleared up.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Last home stand. During the flooding, we had water coming
basically within five yards of coming underneath the center field fence.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
We have a giant manhole right behind the center field fence.
Water was coming up out of the manhole. It forced
the manhole cover off like a movie wow, and like
a movie's flooding in and we had to go buy
an industrial pump and basically pump the water back out
onto Witherspoon to keep it from coming into the ballpark.
So we came that close to maybe not being able
to play baseball, but we got all our games in.
So tip of the cap to our grounds crew. They

(12:43):
did an absolutely bad job.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
And by the way, sixty four access to Third Street
it's now open. All the parking lots around sluggerfield open
close now long.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
It's right across the street, right across the street.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Okay, So you're downtown this weekend front of the derby
us to events on the waterfront. Come on over and
see us. We'll be there all weekend.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
And Witherspoon worked with you pretty well for that parking
lot during game days. Right, it does.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
And we got arrodge up the street with the University
of Louisville. But there's also lots of on street parking.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh no, that's where we park. Yeah. Well I always
park by the skate park. Ye down the street and
walk it up.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
We always take our limo. But it's cute. I'll talk
about parking.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, greg us, Little people Dog Night tonight, yep. What's
going on Tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Friday morn Night, Salutes, Pickle Ball Night to pick a Ball,
Got Star Wars Star Wars Night.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
On Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Sunday Sunday afternoon, Kids Day, but also pregame autograph session
of the Bats players and coaches on the road for
a week. We come back home next home stand. One
of the highlights is our U of L Alumni Night
Friday night.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Oh night.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
That's also the night of the Denny Crumb Bibblehead ticket package.
Oh yeah, you want one of these Denny Crumb bobbleheads,
which everybody's been raving about.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
You get ahead of it.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
You got to get ahead of it and buy one
of the ticket patches packages.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Excuse me.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
We will have members of the nineteen eighty and eighty
six championship team there along with Susan Sweeney Crumb.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
So it's kind of our tribute to coach because Coach
Crumb was a close friend of our franchise and did
a lot for us over the years, and it's kind
of our way saying thank you. And portions of the
proceeds of that ticket package for his bible he will
go back to his scholarship fund.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
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Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, you buy at least two of these for season tickets.
Oh and you just give it and you top them
out the clients you were a client to remember.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
And there is weight service also. Out of these seats,
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Speaker 2 (16:06):
Venus was her name?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
This?

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Uh? This question? There might be a question in Crusade
for Children trivia that involved around this area of music.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
For which one the cover or the original? And Venus
method name?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Well, I just give you all the answers and we'll
call it now, won't.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
You just do that?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
By the way, tomorrow joined us with our guests. Anthony
p Argentini is gonna be joining us.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
We've got some stuff to talk about.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
We We've we his hair. You know, he's a good
looking man.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
You know who else is joining us tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Who the guy that used to have this shift? Leland?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Conway, Leland look out the window. Conway.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, he's a he's a he likes to We always
wonder who takes the pictures for him? He's the guy
when John, you know, you're talking about these people that
take pictures of themselves and they're they're contemplating something like
and I always go you, how did you who took
the picture?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
We busted him out on that. I thought, I say,
we do right?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Or do did someone walk by and say what a
great picture that would be? Let me take that for you.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
The best one is the people on the airplanes looking
out the airplane window and they take a selfie of
themselves thinking about years gone by and miles traveled or whatever.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Now Dwight used to do that sometimes when things would
get a little heavy in the meetings. He would get up, slowly,
walk to a wall, put his hands behind his back,
like he's looking out the window and pondering decisions to
be made.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
And I would say stuff like that with my hands
behind my back as I look out this window and
we think which ac DC song we should add in rotation.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I can't help but.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Contemplate my years in rock radio, and I can't help
a contemplate how good a Barono's pizza is when you
have it.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Dan Old style, This is insane. You want to kick
up your Barono's pizza? You got it? Just say hey,
I want it dan O style.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
They're gonna sprinkle that beautiful days cheeseing on it, red
pepper cheeseing on your Baronel's pizza. Maybe you don't like
pizza we'll seek help. What are you stupid who doesn't
like pizza? But they also have different menu items pasta, salad, sandwiches, wings.
You're gonna love the extensive menu with your neighborhood. Baronel's Pizza,
dine in, carry out a delivery. Yeah, it's that good.

(18:20):
Baronel's Pizza.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Short break. We will come back. We'll talk about the derby.
We'll talk about the NFL draft tonight with Marty Book
from Rule Books, Carriage Ford. He's got certainly he's got
some opinions about Bob Afford and more so, just to
stick around for that. Back after this on News Radio
eight forty whas Hi we are back News Radio eight

(18:43):
forty whas Tony Dwitchol broked about the telly office of
Highway Saint.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Terry Liners walked in the middle of a fight.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
We weren't fighting mom, dad stuff, but I'm gonna start
hurting myself.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
The news loves it when Dwight and I are screaming
at each other. Yeah, because they get to hear it.
What are you doing? What do you got going? What
are you doing today?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Is another one of the hometown hero banners.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Can you tell? Can you tell? It's out?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Right, I'm moaning jacket. Well, what happens is they replace
it in the early morning and then people drive back.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Where is this one going?

Speaker 6 (19:18):
When you go down I sixty five, you're looking over
at say it right, Kentucky expos Center. Okay, Tory was there.
See we're in a rotation process. So Tory Murton, mcclear,
that McClure or that long banner that's now going to
be my morning jacket. This is on the horse Barns.
Where is this they're changing? See that's our new front
face the Expo Center.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
I keep having that explain to me over and over
again that they're going to somehow orient that side of
things so that the people on I sixty five see
it instead of seeing horse barns are going to see, oh,
welcoming porch or whatever.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
It is my morning jacket. So or the the is
the band going to be?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, a series of shows here at the Palace.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
And by the way, there's the Friday and Saturday are
sold out, but the Sundays are sold out. The Yeah, yeah,
they've added two more, so there are tickets available at
Louis Palace.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, uh yeah. And they're all cool cats.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
The Great guys been great ambassadors for us, right, and
you know, this is fun. And of course we're in
the process of upgrading some of the banners stone them obviously,
sun fade and then you you either changed them out,
but it also requires permission from buildings, permission from architectural
So that was that was.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
My follow up question of what bet did you lose?

Speaker 3 (20:36):
What did you do?

Speaker 1 (20:38):
What did you do in town that made people said,
you're now on this committee because I would think that
a lot of people want their buddies banner up.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, I do. Hear from a lot of people.
But like it's a delight to inform people that it's happening.
Like doctor Kevin Cosby when I texted him and he's like,
oh my goodness, you know they're just taking aback by.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Hey, my buddy Dean Phillips was really good at fish
and can you get him one?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
How many bass would he catch in the morning?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
You have no idea way till I get in touch
with this guy.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're up, but it is a problem, master, but it's
a process and it's probably takes a while. You've got
to get the building, the architect The cost of the
banner is probably ten to twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
But then sometimes there are entanglements like for Jennifer Lawrence.
She you know, she's busy with her career, and then
what we have to wrestle with management people in California
over getting a photo? She got one though, right, So finally, yeah,
we just asked Jennifer, she said, just send him this
one phone. Why do we have to go through nineteen other.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
People from her phone?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Is there any Is there an end date for all
these banners or you just could continue to rot.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
We're kind of reconfiguring the whole process. There's you know,
to be announced later, but there are it's going to
be kind of a restructuring of the concept because there
is limited space. There's also a pushback from people who
don't like using up wall space that they think somehow
cheapens the look of a building.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
So there are there off limits banners, like like Paul
Horning can never come down.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
His has already been replaced. Oh I'm sorry, off waters
that's where justin Thomas right now. It's the golfer That's
what happened.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
So there is no off limits list.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
But but Paul Horning's got a statue over all right,
that's true. And back when he was alive, he'd stay
all right, and I got a banner and a statue
top that.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
That was my favorite thing about being If Dwight would
cut school in the eighties and go to Churchill Downs
and there would be Paul Horning at two in the
afternoon with a drink and yelling with Dwight Whitton high
school guy.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
You didn't want to see Paul Horning after the races
because if he lost money, he was mean. I was walking.
I am not making this up. I was walking across
Central Avenue and he tried to kill me in his
town car. I thought I was in a scene in Goodfellows.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh all right, go do you think Terry? We got
Marty Book on the line right now. Marty Book was
friends with Paul Horning. Marty, what's upbody.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Are you doing there?

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Guys?

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Paul Horning was a fine, fine representative Carriage Forward for
a long time. The only thing that brought the end
of Paul Horning's career at Carriage Forward was that I
do it for free.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah that you're dancing son, you're now doing that.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Right? I actually I actually did him with Paul for
about three or four years. Yeah, that is one of
the That is one of the funniest dudes ever. He
just because there's there's no self awareness of anything, no
at all. No. Yeah, he's changing shirts in the showroom
one time. We're doing a commercial and he just really

(23:49):
he don't go to an officer and he changes it
in the showroom and his pants fell off.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I can't make this up, No, Paul Horny. He used
to come on Dwight I's show back when we did
the morning show and he would tell stories. But the
best ones were the ones he didn't tell on the
air and was in between the breaks. Exactly. All right, Marty,
so we you know, I talked to Jody earlier this
week and the circus is obviously going to be around
Bob Bafford. He he's won six and if he didn't

(24:16):
have the other one taken, he would have seven. Uh
Kentucky Derby, So he returns the prodigal son returns to
Churchill Downs this week. The circus that will follow him.
He is the story for Derby. But he has two
horses now not three, and they're not the two best
horses in the race. But I I asked Jody what

(24:37):
you told me, you said, Tony, he will be the
most scrutinized watched after the two horses for this week.
It will be crazy. Uh, that will probably be part
of the story too, of this is what they're doing
and testing.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Well, you know that that's that's part of what's gonna happen.
You're you're gonna see and on a national scale, people
that have issues horse racing that don't understand it and
don't understand the thoroughbred was born to run. There's a
reason that that that that song is the truth. They're
born to run, and there's people that don't quite get that.
And you're gonna see some because of the dark eye

(25:13):
that he brought, the black eye that he brought that
you're gonna see some of that coverage like that, and
that's a shame. You know. There's so many good story
lines in this derby, and they're all gonna get covered up.
They're all there. I mean, there's just there's just a
bunch out there that's gonna get covered up. You know.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Uh, his shadow will loom over the entire event. I
agree with you, and and you're right, there will be
some stories that aren't told because he is back, but
it's gonna be interesting. And look, I mean he's got
to have I mean what it's got to be a
nice cold relationship with the folks that run Churchill Downs
because they sort of his after his suspension was done,

(25:52):
they were like, nope, extend it. I mean there was
it seemed like it's got personal there for a little
bit with Bob Bafford and Churchill Downs.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
I mean, he suited them. I mean, you don't you
don't see, you don't see many people make friends after
somebody sues you. Yeah, and now you know, and I've
had my issues with Churchill over the years. I've becoming
way too corporate and it's even more and more this year.
It's it's just it's just how the place is. But
you know what, I'm sitting there getting my haircut the

(26:21):
other day and somebody goes, yeah, we're just going out
on five O five oh Tuesday. I'm like, how did
that become a thing? How did that stick?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah? I know five oh Tuesday because you because it's
Derby Week. Everyone's drunk and they like things that rhyme.
But I'll be out there and here's the deal to
each organization. Like I'm I'll be out there with my
Catholic folks on Wednesday of that week. But you're right,
the five oh Tuesday has become bigger and bigger. It's

(26:49):
not nearly what, but now Thursday is become it's crazy.
Ok day Yeah, oks day.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
Well, I mean I've I've been, I've been. You know,
I've told you I've then this week next week in vacation, Marty.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
You act like I don't know your schedule Derby week.
I am very aware.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Anyway, I could tell you this. We would go over
on Tuesday and it would be me, my buddies, a
guy send on some beer, and a person taking ticket.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah that's it. And now that's not the case. No,
that's not the case anymore. No, that's not the case.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
And and people do it all week long, all right.
So we'll get your picks on all that next week
Derby week as you flow through, and we are going
to have to call you at the track, so you're
going to have to uh yeah, we'll go over it.
We'll go over I'll be fine, all right.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
So tonight you know me, let me know something, let
me know something at real quick. Yeah, a horse if
everybody our age is doing the gambling. There's a horse
that I like, but he's going to be way over bed.
And I asked my wife, why do you think this
is the name of this horse. The name of the
horse is sand Man.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yes, yeah, we've been talking about him all week. Yep.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
She yeah, that's what I'm saying. Everybody our age is
gonna bet on him. For wondering, she said, I kind
of like it because I like the beach. I said,
do you like Metallica? For God's sake?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, And it's great and the horse is great, so
everyone's so a third will bet because it's great, the
other one because Sandman sounds like mister Sandman the song
or sand on the beach, and then of course the
Metallica connection. So it'll it'll be bet it'll be bet
down so low it'll be stupid. It's a thirty to
forty to one horse that will go off at five
to one.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
I will say, maybe at twelve to fourteen.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And one in all right, okay, all right, So we're
on short on time here tonight. What do you what
are you looking? Uh, we'll talk about the NFL Draft
after we do that, but that is tonight. It's the
first round for the NFL Draft. I don't think anybody
local is going to go to any of our teams,
So we'll ask you more about the You know, you've
got the deal of a century going on on it

(29:00):
at Carriage Ford. It is the A plan. Tell people
what the A plan is. Right now.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
It's a privilege for people that work at the plant.
They buy for a lesser price than anybody can buy.
And right now everybody can buy at that price. And man,
it's going great.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Now.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
We still got a crap a little bit inventry. Carriageforward
dot com check it out. But this is a thing
that's going on to kind of combat all the bad news,
all the tariffs, all this and that or whatever. Right
now you can buy one actually for one hundred dollars
less than I can, because I get d planned. I
don't get a plan, but they are. This is the
same price as an employee. It's employee pricing. It's not

(29:40):
a hoax. It's not pulling anything over your eyes. Take
advantage of it. Carriageforward dot com will come to you.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I love it. Lewis and Clark Parkway, they're best by
a country mile. Martybuck with Earl Books, Carriage forward, love
you body. We'll talk to you later, Eppy Derby, have
it never all right? We'll take a short break, come
back and wrap up the show. People have been wandering
by the window with a bunch of food and they
haven't stopped in yet. They looked lost for a while, John,

(30:07):
I don't know. You can't see I could see them. Yeah,
they have these huge, uh you know, wagons of food
and the ladies are just walking back and forth, like
where the hell am I going? I think they finally
found their way back after this news radio eight forty
whash Where do you want your banner? In Shively?

Speaker 2 (30:28):
I want my batter.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I want my batterer to be right at where Bacon's
used to be when you get off two sixty four
to Dixie Highway.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
But I don't want a banner.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
I want like a mechanical Dwight goes, Welcome to the Southet.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
I know where your banner is, Offnettie. It's in Nick
Coffee's basement. Oh he does. He has one of my portraits.
That's right, because he praised to it every once in
a while.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
We got no, we have a we have a portrait
of Tony and ours it's a dartboard, but it's a portrait.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I didn't know there's no banner at Sauces of Us
because it could be. Yeah, the food is fantastic, fresh
Mexican grill Sorcertas dot com or download the app. They
have the third location in Shepherdsville and the neighborhood has
really welcomed them in the last year. They're so happy
they opened up in Shepherdsville. But you know the Middletown

(31:17):
location and Saint Matthew's. Get there to lunch. If you're
looking for somebody in Saint Matthew swear to you most days,
just go there for lunch and you'll run into them.
Salcerta's is the best. They make their gualk and all
their stuff fresh every day.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
So the two Marias, they're beautiful, they're shorts and they
make the greatest guacamoni in history.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Santa Maria.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Salcertas dot com.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Hey John Tomorrow, we have a councilor Anthony Pagentini on Okay,
so I just want to make sure you're ready for this.
Pagentini comes in as Piagentini and Venetti and they get together.
They always light like a garbage canon Fire and they
start singing around it.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
So dude, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Our hair. It's weird, it's our hair.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
You don't have to do it in the studio. Fire Laws, partner,
do wop.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Just listen up for John welcome back by and mind
you the present that I got you was wrapped. That's
minecause you're the best. Thank you, my present much.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
My present is an I owe you.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
It's the depends that you mentioned earlier.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, I'm getting you the exact same diapers I wear.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
We are very happy for you and your wife in Little.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Daisy, stylish yet absorbent.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Right, we'll see you tomorrow. The boys are coming up
next and of course Terry Miers at three o'clock. We'll
see you later for Dwight Whitning um Tony Venetti on
news Radio eight forty w h A S.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I love you, Ma,
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