5.13: St. Matthews' 75th Birthday, the Dean Carter Critter Fry, Newspapers Aren't What They Used to Be, and a Cliffhanger

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Somebody's got a birthday coming up, Dwight Wdden. Do you
know who that is? Trevor? Oh, it's not Trevor's birthday, John, No,
I've been talking about. No God, carolinaing up?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
No Carolina.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Saint Matthews turned seventy five.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, you who else does Saint Matthews? They
turned seventy five? And bring in my buddy, Trevor Craven.
Nobody celebrates. You do everything, man, You got the tailspin outfens,
you go out for Bowmanfield, you build all these Now
we're doing something for Saint Matthew.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I like to stay busy.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, boyd is boy do you ever how many events
do you think you do a year?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm gonna guess like thirty.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh my god, disgusting.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
My wife would know.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yes, yes, yes, thirty is the answer. So the same
Matthew City council got together and they got really smart.
So they started looking around and going, we got to
do party for the seventy fifth birthday. What should we do?
Let's go hire the guy that puts on a perfect event.
That's Trevor and it's coming up soon. Trevor, what do
we come up with?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
So Saint Matthew's seventy fifth anniversary is June seventh. We've
got a ton of activities going on out there. We
got with with with John Grant, who curates all the
music for Waterfront Wednesday, I view does all kinds of
music around put together a phenomenal music lineup.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Johnny Grants is funnily he's actually older than Public Radio.
That's when I heard.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm sorry, he's in Greece. So I love Johnny Grant.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So we've got a ton of stuff including Dwight got
excited with the band list.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I got excited because if you ask me, this
is kind of like a concert that never was, like
all headliners on one and all like Van Morrison cover
or tribute.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Tribute bands like yeah, yes, so that's that's Pat Garvey,
who's a Trinity grad. Yeah, coming out of Charlotte, has
never played a show in Louisville.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And this is Van Morrison, Van Morrison Tribute band the
Heart of rock and Roll coming out of Nashville.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Here's the question, though, how authentic is the Huey Lewis guy,
Because Huey Lewis had like this little butt thing going
on as GM did what Oh he had yeah do
his latest hanger have a gin? But like Huie Or.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
We're well, we're making him one.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh that's nice. Trevor doesn't mess around.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
We're authentic.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Van Morrison Hue was yea from Louisville.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
But did the did the Tina Turner tribute the Palace
a couple of years?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Uh so that's so we got it's kind of through
the ages.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
You got sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, you got a beat
nothing past two thousand beats doing the Beatles cover and
then this, that and the other is starting us off.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Great band around forever.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, born and raised, yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So it's a Brown park, great choice on that. That's
where they do the Halloween you know thing, and then
of course the Christmas lights. So that's where it will
be on the seventh, and then the bands will start
sometime around noon. Right is that they started?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
They start at noon. We kick off at ten am.
We're gonna do some goat yoga in the park.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Okay, stop, hang on, I might have to do this.
Is this the the baby goats to get on your backs?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
All I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I've seen this on social media so many times. I've
got to try goat yoga. I'm about as limber as
a board a two by four. Yes, but if I
get a baby goat.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
To stand on and imagine it's beginner.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
You know, it's okay, it's not complicated. Y Hey, you
want to ask me? You know first, you back and
I've been asked to do goat yoga five times. You
know what I said? Every time? Nah?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh dude, why do you why do you want embarrass
me in front of my friends. I'm just so bad.
Put two dollars in the bad joke jar two two dollars. Okay,
I'm sorry, Trevor. I'm sorry, man.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I just mind my own business.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Besides the bands, why you know I did?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I did. I will tell you this though. When I
was little, I did goat yoga. You know how? I
did it with my nanny.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
No, don't a nanny goat?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'm I'm so sorry. All right, I'm sorry, Trevor. I apologize, Trevor.
So we do the bands, We've got the goat yoga.
What else do we got? Uh?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean there is a huge kids area all day,
there's food trucks out there. We're gonna have a beer garden.
But all the all the family activities going on. Uh
Circluse coming out. They're doing an aerial show for us.
They're going walking circuits throughout the day. Right, We've got
some local artists coming out. There's zip line for the kids,
climbing wall, balloon animals, face past like. It's a family

(05:01):
friendly you know, just come. You don't have to live
in Saint Matthew's, just come hanging out for the day.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
We got plenty of parking across the street at the
Medical Plaza and it'll go from twelve to ten is
the official event time, even though the goat yoga is
at ten am.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Do you really have goat yoga?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
All right, So if you have a goat, if you
have a heart attack here walking distance from a hospital, Yeah, yeah,
it is really Baptist He's right there. Brown Park is
perfect first set up with that and then they have
the bridge and all that. Where is the stage going
to be in Brown Park?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
So we're building a stage right down by the creek.
So if you're familiar with Brown Park, the hill and
you've got kind of a natural amphitheater. So the beer
garden will be at the top of the hill. The
stage will be down at the bottom by the creek,
so you have kind of a natural amphitheater. All the
kids stuff is going on back of the parking lot,
so we'll take up you know, roughly half the park.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Cooking demonstrations going on as well from some of the
Saint Matthew's restaurants.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, will be there.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh Ri Fox is joint flavor Queen.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Flavor Queen's doing some stuff there as well.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
So they gonna show, I mean, they like show how
to cook signature dishes or.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Something, their signature dishes, and they'll be on site selling
stuff as well as some food trucks.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's a little different from your Dixie Highway for I
don't know what you tell me Redneck Olympics something like that.
Throwing like you're out there throwing toilettops. What do you
what are you all cooking? What are you all cooking?
Heart attack in a bag.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I used to have a critter fry. There's got fry there.
You go when I wanted to, when I want to
h Saint Andrew's Pub, there was an older gentleman by
the name of Dean Carter, and once a year he
would host something called a crew or fry, and everybody
would just you don't know if you're eating raccoon pot
some squirrel. You had no idea. And I'm dead serious,
you had no idea because it was all fried. Everybody

(07:09):
brought a critter.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm making this up. We're not making it up.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Ask Lance every single year Dean Carter's critic for Trevor.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Any chance to get a creator fry, Any chance that?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I mean, it's it's not too late.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hey, hey, come on, say Matthews. We're having a good
old same Matthews critic fry.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Uh the Lulu's the what is it? The short ripped sandwich?
Is that the It's the best sandwich I've ever eate
in my life.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Theod am balls are ridiculous. I've actually called Jared and said, look,
this is the best thing.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, that's right. Uh so we got Jared choices.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think Jared Fox is a culinary genius man.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Maybe he's got some good stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
He's got some really good stuff. It's good stuff for sure.
All right, So June seventh, we're all we're all in
all day long food entertainment and then the drone show.
You got a drone show.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
So the same company that does Thunder over Louisville, say
what White Lakes drone show? Drone company is coming down
to do uh a smaller scale. We don't have thunder money. Yes,
coming down to do a drone show. That'll be the finale.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
So it'll spell out stuff for what what we'll do.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
No, that's that's uh, that's a well kept secret. Oh sorry,
theme is some suggestions.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
There have been something just bothered me that you said.
You said that you all don't have thunder money. I
happen to know that Tony Venet's wife, Jackie, is on
the city council at Saint Matthew's not taking no for
an answer.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Here's her credit card.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah, okay here wait wait thank you?

Speaker 1 (08:55):
No no no no, no, no no no, spare no expense, yes, spare,
We're we're good.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Then then the eye when I say this, Trevor, right
here in the spare no expense, that's a.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's a prepaid visa cards.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's a car and a dollar fifty on it. Uh,
it's a card. Nice. June seventh, I'll tell you. Let
me ask you this, Trevor, what is your I know
they're like kids, but what is your favorite what's the
favorite event? I know that recently you just did the
we talked about Goach. You just did the Bockfest, which
has gotten bigger every single year and that thing has grown.

(09:30):
And what's your favorite you said thirty events? What's your
favorite event?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Tail Spinest, that's.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Our baby because that was the beginning sort of.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
That's where we started. Yeah, and that's always been a
great event. Bockfest has grown to be one of my
favorite events. This year with the the addition of the
micro Marathon, was one of the funnest things right we've
done as an event company. So we hosted a race
that was five hundred five two feet. That's perfect race

(10:01):
from Nanny to Billy Goods.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I sell the video things that.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
We saw during that race, where just think, this is
what real life is better than fiction.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, this is when you watch something like that happen,
you're like, you can't make that.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I've been I've been carving up for years. So that
might be the race I need to.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
If you do yeh three weeks, Yeah, you need to
train first five hundred feet.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, there's no, but I've been carving up. Should be good.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'll bring a wheelbarrow in case you collapsed and we'll
get you finished up.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thank you? All right?

Speaker 1 (10:30):
So what this is where I'm picking in his brain? Now?
Chris Driver does all these events. So Louisvillions like their habits,
like if you know what is there anything about the
Louisville partygoer that you can share with us? Like you know,
I in my experience of doing events for thirty five
years or going to events for three if it's if

(10:51):
if it's iffy with the rain, sometimes Louisvillias will say.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
My tickets until.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
There it is till they're walking up exactly right. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, As an event planner, it drives you crazy. Yes,
just know that they'll be there, Yes, as long as
the weather is good.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
So when you look for an event, it's a certain demographic.
If it's older, do you start the event earlier because
let's face it, the earlier you get, the earlier you want.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
To go to bed.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Well that myself right, this company ten years ago, right now,
I want earlier events.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Everything we have ends it by ten.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Perfect, that's perfect.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Dude, is the guy the city needs to hire him
for sure. Just take over every damn event.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
If I could go to an event and still catch murder,
she wrote, yeah, I'm in there like Swims, right.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's exactly right. But you do great job on all
these things, man, you knock it out of the park.
And I love I love those the ones that have
grown so much with you over the last And I
can't believe how long for the Tailspins as ten years
you say.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, we had our this will be our twelfth year accounts.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh my god, that is crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Twenty fourteen, that is crazy, thirteen years. We have so
many greater I love tailspind Bowman Fest, which you guys
have been in with the aviation and military event. Yes,
that's also one of my favorite.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
It is pretty cool. Having those helicopters and all that
there is pretty cool. And the kids can call through them. Yeah,
it's pretty cool, all right. So June seventh, Saint Matthew's
turned seventy five. Dwhite, You're gonna have to come out
and I know, No, they don't have the critter fry
whatever that is.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Wall, Trevor said, the doors open on them. There's still
time so they could there could be a south end invasion.
You just give us like a little part of the
park and whoever critter for you.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Know what, throw that by the city council.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
See if they like on the other side of the creek.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's fine, actually in the creek. Hey, you know what, Hey,
we'll bring fireworks. I'm in Hey, that's one thing about
the South Enders. Bring your own fire fly, cherry bobs.
We'll have a few sparklers and snakes. We want to
light our snakes off one of those brand new Saint

(13:09):
Matthew's driveways.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
And no tickets.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Is free events burying the lead.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
So free event except for beer and stuff like that.
All right, Caroline, you're going to be there. Oh I
can't wait. Okay, she can't wait. Let's get to Browns
Park June seventh. Man, it's all day long. Go to
where are we going?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Saint Matthew's the it's their city website, Matthews on their
website or their Facebook page.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Trevor, you the best. We appreciate what you do.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Thank you guys.

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Thank you for the folks coming in talking about Saint
Matthew's seventy fifth birthday party at Brown Park on seven.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm trying to listen to this. Jeremy get a lot
of interest in the Dean Carter critter. Fry god rest
is so Dean Carter. We lost him years ago.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, from Wagner High School says plenty of critters to
Fry at Wagner.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
There you go, there you go. You know what, I think,
we just bring back a Dean Carter memorial critter Fry.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
We gotta do it. I will say this though, squirrel
is very high in cholesterol, so if you're attending, make
sure you take your statins first.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
There's not a lot. They're greasy. They're very greasy. Yeah, squirrels.
There's not a lot of meat there. No, but have
you watched Naked alone or not naked alone?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
They're just alone?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh naked?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, but the other one is just called alone and
they drop you off. There's ten people in relatively the
same area, but they always drop them on an area
to where it's really hard to find food. Yeah, and
these people will basically almost start to death. So every
couple of days they do go and check their blood,
you know, typing all that stuff. And then it's just
like because at some point these people will die because

(16:10):
they don't eat for weeks.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I saw another thing and they would count on.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
A rabbit, but it's like they would eat every part
of the rabbit, like the liver and the heart whatever,
because there's no real meat to a rabbit.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Is this where you had to build your own shelter
and all this? Okay, So we watched this one time
and this guy, this guy is incredible. He builds this
log cabin halfway underground and it was the unbelievable. It
was unbelievable. And he even had a place for a
fire that was vented out. I thought, oh my gosh,

(16:43):
if he could do that, he's fine. And like a weekend,
he starts crying, I missed my wife.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
I just can't.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'm like, you got the best shelter. As soon as
he built that, I put all my money. I said, Honey,
I'm betting on this guy. He's one of the first
ones out because he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
The one the fact I won. Yes, say so, John.
Here's the philosophy. So all these guys are all and
the girls are all clacked out, they're in shape, they're
beautiful bodies. They're all just like they're survivalists, so they're
all like they can run marathons and stuff. The one
dude that won, he started eating and he started getting fat.
He went to the competition like thirty forty pounds heavier

(17:25):
than he normally is why. Why Because he had more
fat to feed off of and would last longer than
the rest of them.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
That's smart.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
It really is now the opposite and eating competitions. And
I found this out after I technically won the Louisville
Bats hot dog.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Eating cons You want it, I want it, you want it.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Everyone up there with me was somewhat heavy set, correct,
they got about four hot dogs down.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
You were thin at that time.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was thin eye got around eleven. Yeah, and so,
but I tell you it was uncomfortable that night. But
I did research on it. Why could I eat more
than these other guys that were heaving me? And the
reason that I've found was that because I had less fat,
my stomach could expand more, but their stomachs were surrounded

(18:21):
by all this fat like pushing in.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
So that's how like Joey Chestnut, like, yeah, in bad shape,
he's able. That's why I was able to eat you know,
a million hot dogs every.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Year because with all that fat around there, getro expand uh.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
This is how Dwight and I used to gauge we
needed to lose weight when we would bend over to
tie our shoes.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Got out of breath.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
If you if you had to come up for a
second goal.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I did.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm serious And they go back down. And because it
because it all compounds. You know, if you if you're
out of breath bending over, because you get cut off.
You cut off your loan when you're bending over it
and chunky guys are driving around right now, laughing their ass.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Off, going that was me, and they know it's true.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
And that's the point when I knew I would tie
my shoes loose some weight.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Come up, you just finished working out? No, I peeled
an orange.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
And the and the more irritating one is where he
would breathe through his nose while he was eating.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And something's these people that gets the nose whistle?

Speaker 3 (19:29):
You ever heard them? Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
And I'm like, I can hear the nose whistle, so
I know you can't because you're closer to it. Want
you do something about it. What when you got a
nose whistle.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Who's got a nose whistle? I've heard John's got a
nose whistle.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
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by the way, the infrastructure in this in this country
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some point, at some point, they're all getting worked on.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
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All right.

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Speaker 2 (21:24):
I've been down before.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
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Speaker 2 (21:56):
Wasn't it great?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
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Speaker 1 (22:43):
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Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, I'll tell you another thing that just made me
think of you were talking about. There was nothing to do.
I love music and I know a little bit about music.
But I wonder if I would had we had distractions
like cell phones and iPads and all this other crap,
because I I probably wouldn't because I would just sit
there and listen to albums and read the liner notes.

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You know, any magazine I can get my hands on.

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It's a good question. I got addicted to the news
and newspapers at a young age, like I just but
that because they were written how my brain works. Okay,
most most newspapers are written on a fourth grade level, really,
so that, yes, that's sort of the rule.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I've got a second grade equivalency.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
So the only time you would get into some more
complicated language would be in editorials. But most newspapers are
written on a fourth grade level, and they're given You're
given the in a column, You're given the information bam.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's how my brain works. I want the information right,
And if it was an opinion about sports, maybe it
was a little bit more complicated in the middle, but
that was it. And then I got addicted to the news.
Several things happened. Reagan got shot and I saw that,
and I watched the news for like hours after that,
and I in my I was hooked. I was hooked.

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And I watched the national news like an old man
when I was ten, every night. So every time they
would do they would do the current events competition. I
was like rest people in my row. They wouldn't even
answer a question. I just go bam, wowunan, let's talk

(24:37):
about Okay, the newspapers. I love newspapers until they went
to crap, until they stopped. Man in the Courier Journal
was one of the top ten newspapers in the country.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Now they might be a little bit biased.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I finally, I finally called him about the digital want
signed like I just did the digital I had. I
stopped having it delivered because it was just a waste
of time. And I said, look, man, there's nothing in
your paper that's value to me. No, And they were like, no, no, no, no,
how would just charge you a dollar. We'll go down
from twenty six dollars to a dollar a month for

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six months.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I went, okay, so you know when I don't think
they'd do this anymore. But do you remember when you
would go to the grocery store and you would get
they would have like a deal, you get two Sunday
papers for one Yes. Do you know why they did that?
That was because in the decline of the newspaper, they

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would talk to their advertisers about how many sold in circulation.
So they were trying to they were trying to beef
up their numbers because technically, when you got two Sunday papers,
which by the way, is where all the advertisers want
to be with their coupons and whatnot. It was inflated
numbers because they were saying, here, you get two Sunday
papers for the price of one. They were doing it

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just inflate their numbers.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, that was part of what Things change, and things
that are that are core to your being just change.
And that's why I always tell you my kids, and
you don't know that you're gonna feel that way. I
thought I would never not start my day without the newspaper.
A cup of coffee and the newspaper is how I
started every single day of my life.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Since he was four years old, and since.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I was six months old.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Coffee and your baby model too.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Problem.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's what he did. He's four years old. He had
a cigar and let me tell you, he's forming a paper.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
And let me tell you something. When you got in
trouble and you were above the fold on the newspaper,
you were in trouble if you were in handcuffs and
the picture of you was above the fold, which means
obviously when they set the paper on the on the
front porch, your picture is staring back at you.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Or I'll give you one worse in the paper machines
out the machine. Yes, John Dy, do they still have
paper machines when you were growing up?

Speaker 5 (26:59):
And they did have them.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
They did, Yeah, because your face would be on the
sidewalk for everybody.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Was a big deal. It was a big deal. And
they were fair and balanced for most of my life.
And then they just started to twist into a different
direction and they were not They were not. They didn't
do there. And then I started to discover it, mostly
because I was in the business to a certain extent,
and I was like, they didn't even bother to ask

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the other side what they thought or what the facts were.
And then they've jumped the shark so much. I mean,
it's ridiculous. There's been articles. The last I think, the
last straw for me was someone wrote an article, you know,
the shot spotters. Yeah, so somebody shoots a gun. Let
me guess, somebody shoots the gun. Don't bury the lead.

(27:46):
So somebody shoots a gun and this shot spotter can
pinpoint where exactly it came from. Sounds like a good law,
so the police can go exactly where it was immediately.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Great tool.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
So this young lady writer for the Courier journal wrote
that the play of shot Spotters was racist. I wanted
to know, Joe, why there's no shot Spotters in Saint
Matthew's or in Middletown.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well, you want to go where the most violence is,
and at some point you just got to take fact
over feelings. Lady, that's what you need.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Where is the editor at this point? Where's the editor
that says, whatever her name is, the.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Editors probably who put her on that story and said,
you know what, shot spotters are racist, go after it.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Sally Johnson, whatever her name is, Sally. If you're the editor,
you say, Sally, this is this is not a good article.
What is this it normally fifteen twenty years ago, he
wouldn't have made the paper. It was right up front.
I think it might have been the front page. Shot
Spotters were racist. It's like, no, that's where the bullets
are being shot.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
The only thing that I ever really used the paper
for was after I went to a concert at Louisville
Gardens or Freedom Horror wherever I would get a paper
the next day, and my souvenir from the show was
always my concert stub. And so I've got all of
these photo albums at home with the concert stub and
then the review of the concert, and that was just

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you know, for memory's sake. Number two. I would get
it on Sundays to see basically the arts and leisure sections,
just see who's coming to concert and then look through
all like the best buy not best by, but like
Circuit City Service merchandise and all that.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
The coupons, what John, did you ever read?

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Everybody got it for coupons, those Sunday coupons.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Yeah, there was a time whenever, like if I was
going over to my grandparents' house, I would read the
paper with them, but I never like for myself, I
would never grab the paper.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Did your parents not get the paper?

Speaker 5 (29:43):
I don't think they did. Well know that or I
wasn't aware that they did.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, it was just so integral to my life, like
the newspaper was. I lived a pretty cool life.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
But I got it.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
I can't. I don't want to say. I almost say,
well Figlin on ay.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Well, A good benefit of the Sunday paper is the
funnies were actually in color. I don't know if they
put the funnies.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Out every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I saw the funny papers in the I have no idea,
and I think in the Sunday.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Paper thinks so we used to have a boss that
loved them.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
It would be Dagwood.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
He would say, our old boss John would sit in
the cafeteria and he would read the comics slowly and
then and then he would you'd hear this.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
And some of them would be like the family Circle,
and I would I was like one of them thought
it's so funny. I would go look at the family
Circle and it was like, look, kid, going, can we
have a milkshake? And the blender? And there was like nothing,
no comedy to it.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Every once in a while they would have a really
in depth article that made a lot of sense and
that was really really well written. They dove into the
career drenal. I don't know who it was, whether they
it was somebody out of town and they put it
in there. I don't know. It's Ginnet, by the way,
which owns half the newspapers. They wrote an article on
whether bussying was good or bad in the long run

(31:02):
because it was ending. They were saying, look that, you
know they're taking that rule away, YadA YadA, what about bussing?
What was the end game? And it was pretty It
was pretty fair on who benefited and who didn't. And basically,
after like forty years of bussing, do you know who benefited?
No one? Yep, no one. It was a miserable failure.

(31:25):
And that's what the article. And they did like six parts,
like six weeks in a row, and they dove into
it and each school and and all that stuff, and
it was a great It was a great article. And
in the end they were like, it was just a
bad initiative and didn't do well for anybody.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Did well for the petroleum companies, and actually was all
that gas they wasted And actually.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
The people that hurt the worst was the West End,
which is that what they thought they were helping, and
that is not true. I missed the newspaper, do you really?
I wish it was still good. It's been decades, but
there's nothing in it.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
No, it's really not.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
There's nothing in it. And they made it smaller, by
the way, so if you're older, you can't read the
damn that I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Have you noticed how small the price kept increasing and
the size shrinking?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
It was like, what the hell are we doing?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
So now the now our newspaper basically looks like the
bargain Mart.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Remember the bargain Mart. It's teeny, it's tiny. Jason Fraakes
is a high school reporter. He does an amazing job.
He may be the best high school reporter in the country.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
But besides that, a high reporter.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I don't know who does smaller and sports. But I
only John who does the who covers U of l
r UK for career journal I don't even know.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Used to it used to be blinking on his name? Right,
what's the guy's name?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh Brown?

Speaker 5 (32:52):
No, Tim, Tim Sullivan?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Right?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
But oh no, he hasn't been Tim Sullivan in ten years.
I don't be that long, I think, so. Oh yeah,
I don't know. All right, So that's our.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
Little about the city's sinking. Then we can wrap this
thing up.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh I'm sorry, I thought we had another hour to go.
I thought we had another hour to go.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I'm glad we got John Orben. Thank you John Alden.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
All right, the cities that are shrinking, Yeah, sinking, sinking.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Shrinking, sang shrinking, sinking, saying.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
You know what, Yeah, you don't have to wait till tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Oh y, that's can it's a tease. Yeah, that's also
a Cliffhanger that you know.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
What, I find out what cities are sinking.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
And let me tell you.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
This, they'll be sank before we get here tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
And I have one hundred percent confidence that we'll forget
this story and it never gets done.

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Back after this A couple moments away from news RADIOA
forty w chasm. All right, man, welcome back news RADIOA
forty whas we will tell you what cities are sinking
around the nation, and some of them are gonna surprise you. Uh.
The one that we always talk about is New Orleans

(34:50):
because it's it was built eight feet below sea level.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Anyway, there's a song called New Orleans is Sinking.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
They spent billions of dollars after Katrina to try to
fix it. Know somebody, it's moving there now. It's cool town. Politically,
Louisiana is voted as the most corrupt local politicians in history. Shocking, right.
So tomorrow we will be live in Fern Creek at

(35:21):
a new that is used to be twenty five again.
They do facials and boato and hormone replacement and all
kinds of stuff. So there grand reopening is tomorrow, so
we will see you there for a live show. So
join us in Fern Creek. You know where you're going, right, dude?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Eight thousand and one Barstown Road.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Wow, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah? I'm not kidding it.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Are you channeling that from some What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
That's weird because I just had to text Matt from
USA Cares and say, hey, tomorrow we're broadcasting here because
he was scheduled to be on with us, so now
I'm moving him to there. I will say that Friday,
the lead singer from Wang Chung should be our guest.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
You'll be gone, I'll be gone. John's graduating from Purdue
and commissioning in the Navy, so I will be doing
all those events. So after tomorrow, so that's.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Thursday, everybody, Wang Chung with Dwight.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Have you got anything left?

Speaker 2 (36:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Thank you John, good job boy. We defeated you yet again.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
In the years, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
News Radio eight forty w h A S. Have a
great tack.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
I love you, Ma,