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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning, Everybody News Radio eight forty ways Tony and Dwight Show.
DWIGHTE is out this week. We are brought to you
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So watch out. Put some distance between you and that car.
What an enjoyable last hour of the Tony Cruz Show
with Oscar Combs, the originator of sports magazines and local
sports magazines and recruiting. More than that, he dove into
who was going? Who knew that that would be a
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thing that people would care, who was coming the next year,
or who was in the who was you know, in
the role to go? And it was just it was crazy.
It was crazy how popular it was. And he was
the first. Now, as a young guy, I sit in
here and love the stories because it's just all my
you know. He was way back to the sixties and
seventies obviously with rub but when you get into the
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seventies and eighties, that's my era. Does that any of
that land with you? I know you're an Indiana fan,
but that stuff is neat or is it hearing about?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It is neat because it's stuff that I didn't grow
up hearing much about at all, not just because I'm
an Indiana fan, but just because of the eras so
far between me and when that took place. So it
was very interesting to hear. Really how I guess revolutionary
he was and then maybe a corny thing to say,
but he really sounded like he was.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, and just a sweet guy, you know, And he
wasn't that passionate dude that just hated U of L
and whatever. Maybe he did at one time, but that's
not the impression I got from him. And you know,
he is the keeper of what was going on behind
the scenes than what Jobee Hall was going through when
he replaced Rupp and what Rupp was going to through
when he went and left, and you know when he
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goes that those stories will go also unless they've recorded
them all. But it was a great hour. I was
glad Tony allowed me to sit in and ask a
question or two. It was really cool, all right. So
the big story is yesterday, more questions than answers about
the diagnosis to former President Joe Biden. He has cancer,
prostate cancer, and it's spread into his bones. Obviously, thoughts
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and prayers for his family and Jill and for a
speedy recovery. We all know at eighty two years old,
it's going to be a tough time to come through
all that and how fast it has grown. But we
have to answer, and people are asking for when they
knew that, And again I said it yesterday. I was
when I read the story and it popped on my
phone on Sunday that said, you know, diagnosis. I thought
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Parkinson's would follow that. I was surprised to see cancer.
I don't know what they're going to uncover, but I
don't care what side of the aisle you are on.
If the president doesn't know where he is and what
room he's in and making decisions, and you're saying he
is and other people that are not elected are doing
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those decisions, then then I think we've got questions. The
president of the United States got to be and you've
got to let the public know of their health. And
I think they're going to dive into it and it's
going to be interesting. Nothing will come of it. Understand
that it'll just be a lot of hot air. But
it's important to find out when his faculties went and
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how many people were in on it, and that's just
that's the bottom line. But again, nothing will come out
of it because he's you know, he's gone. It's over
and that's what they do. They don't they don't really,
they don't really do that. So it'll call if it
does come out, we'll we'll figure it all out. But
just uh, that is an interesting thing with this diagnosis,
and questions are asked because there is a there is
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an audio piece of him supposedly misspeaking three years ago
and said, uh, you know cancer and you know so
many people in cancer, including me, but a dah. Now,
at the time, the White House had said, oh it
was a misspeak. You know, he doesn't have cancer. But
now you're thinking, is did he know at that time?
So I would I doubt it though, because that's a
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long time ago and they would have tackled that prostate cancer.
But here's another one. It is the only good thing
that can come out of this is people will check
their prostates and you know, you get the PSA that is.
You don't have to worry about this John now. But
once you get a little older, you'll be looking at
that PSA number. All right, so mine?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Did they lower the age? And once you start getting
prostate exams?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I was four in my forties. Okay, so I've got
a ways to go. Yeah, yeah, and uh. And that's
just a simple exam. That's the fun one for guys.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Is there a nickname for that violation?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, that's what it is. It all depends on I'm
not going to get gross, but it's take the exit ram.
Take the exit ramp because it can get down that.
Because I used to argue with my doctor. I was like,
come on, man, you did this last year. I said,
I'm in my forties. Didn't this a fifties thing? I
used to argue, and he goes, you think it's fun
for me too, that's what he said. I said, Okay, man, uh, yesterday.
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It's a story covered by witch is right here. The
first installation of the Louisville Metro Historical Marker Program had
its first inductee, a trailblazer who fought, you're not going
to believe this, young man. But there was a time
that women couldn't drink at a bar. Women couldn't go
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in and get a drink at the bar. Dixie du
Muth defied a centuries old law by hiring a female
bartender and serving a drink to a woman seated at
the bar Dixie's Elbow Room in the nineteen sixties. I
was born in the sixties, by the way, so this
is close to my time I was born my lifetime. Dixie,
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of course got her license pulled because that's what you
did back then. I'm sure the ABC said, Nope, you
can't do that. They won their legal battle. The marker
is placed where her bar was at five point twenty
five South fifth Street, if you want to go look
at it. Dixie d Muth died not too long ago
twenty twenty at the age of one hundred and two.
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So women and again, when we used to do bar
gigs in the in the in the nineteen nineties, every
bar had a philosophy. Do you want to know what
that philosophy was? Young kill?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What was that philosophy? Mister Venetti.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
If you get the girls to come, the boys will follow.
It's a good philosophy. So so many bars in the
nineteen nineties the drink specials were for the girls. The
girls got dollar long next boys paid three okay, because
the concept was boys are going to follow where the
girls are, which by the way, is true. So I
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think it's funny that bars would not allow women into
the pot. Whoever came up with the idea, like, you
know what, maybe we should finally.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let some women in here.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's crazy. That person's probably the most well listen rich
men in alcohol sales. It's misogyny at the highest level,
got it, but it is. But at the time, you
have to you have to transport yourself to the time. Right.
We always make these decisions to say, all these people
in history are the worst ever. All right, come on,
let's let's go back in time. Let's get into the
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phone booth and go back in time. Let's get into
Delorey and go back in time. They were moms. Look,
women were moms. They didn't there were no There were
so few employed women because they were Their job basically
in America was to graduate from high school, get married,
have kids, and raise their kids, be the housewife. That
was the job. So the thinking was, you don't need
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moms in a bar. They're mothers, they're supposed to be
at home. Now, look, people are gonna scream and yell
by hearing what I'm saying. But that was the reality
of America in the nineteen sixties. And you can hate
it all you want, but that was the system and
that's what America was. So the thinking was you didn't
want mom in a bar, so and apparently there wasn't
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a lot of people complaining about it until Dixie came
along and said, no, no, no, we need women. And
by the way, again, flash forward just sixty just flash
forward just thirty years. And that was the concept for
bars in louisvill Kentucky, was bring to girls, the boys
will follow. So Dixie, Dixie the Muse, good for you.
And she knew she was gonna lose her license. It'll
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be a long legal battle, and she apparently had enough
money to fight it as long as she did, and
she did it and she won, which is good for her.
All right. Again, that marker is at five point twenty
five South fifth Street if you want to take a
look at it. All right, we have we passed over
the JCPS initiative of no cell phones in school for
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next year, and people are already losing their minds. I
don't know if they're going to be able to pull
this off. I do know that without resource officers in
the school, this is going to be a problem. If
you think students putting their hands on teachers was bad
the last couple of years, this is going to be crazy.
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And I don't know if it'll be a craziness for
a couple of weeks and then people will settle down,
or if it's just going to be issue after issue.
One of the things that I was told from Jefferson
County Public Schools was the difference between your age and
them was that the kid, let's say he gets in
a scuffle, he texts or calls his mom or dad
and tells their side of the story before the parent
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gets to the school. So they come in hot with
the side of the kid's story, right, So that's part
of the phone issue. Also, they have their phones in college.
And again, I'm not a teacher and I don't have
to run the classroom, so it's easy for me to
sit here and say this should you know, maybe they
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should have their phones, But I don't know. I do
I know that they I know that there was classes
that my kids took that they used their phone like
they that was part of the.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Test, like a kind of an open note test. Yeah,
you could look up, so you can use your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know how this
is going to pan out. I will tell you. I've
I've been invited to speak at high schools before it
all really slowed down after COVID. I used to do
it almost all the time, and then or they would
bring the class to me. And one of the things
I noticed was I would say this to some of
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the classes. I would open with no one cares about you,
and I would see who would look up from their
phones because they all had their phones and they were
all looking down and hear some dude from radio talking right,
and I rarely talk about radio, would talk about life
and here where A you're gonna go from here? You know,
Q and a stuff, But they would. I would I'd
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pick the five people that would look up. I go one, two, three, four, five.
Rest of you can go down back to your phones,
and I would concentrate on those five, right, because I'm
not going to get the other ones anyway. Yeah, So
I would just literally talk to those five and those
five would turn their phones over and I would talk
to them. If you don't want to listen, that's fine,
But I do have that experience, so I can I
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guess I can say. Teachers have said, we've had enough.
We can't keep these kids off the phone. And by
the way, they can't keep us off our phone. I mean,
I don't know how many times I turned my phone
over during the show while doing a break, while talking
on the radio, looking down at my phone, especially if
it buzzes. It's an addiction. So the teachers obviously feel
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strongly enough about it and they want the phones that
that is going to be an interesting thing to watch
when the fall gets here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I and again this is just my small mind prediction.
I bet they're going to end up doing and I
think somebody had mentioned this previously, instead of doing no
cell phones. If this ends up being an issue in
the early going, I could see them veering into where
they do those kind of I don't know what they're called,
lock boxes, but you could attach them to the desk
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where you put them in there and you put like
I don't know, like a code or something on it
for the for whoever's specific phone. It may be you
can't use it during whatever class you're taking at the time,
but in between classes you take it with you just
so you have that in case you have a disaster
or something like that take place at the school. That's
where this is going to be a.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Passage where I've seen the online top comments have gone.
I've said, you know, my kid goes to a downtown school.
What if there's a problem, YadA, YadA. I'm not comfortable
about this. I want him or her to have a phone.
I want to be able to contact my kid, which is.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I guess we don't have any Number one argument, you
have to keep the phones with the kids.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, Well, part of what reason they're doing it is
they've got to comply with Kentucky locks. Kentucky passed the
law this last legislative and outlawing cell phones in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, JCS, it's gonna happen. Notorious for skating around the
rules of of Frankfurt. So we'll see if they they
could pull it off. We'll see how it goes. And
it'll be school to school too. I don't know, Uh,
we will see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I don't think apparently it's going you know the word if.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You're telling me there's a basket at the front of
the class. Is that what you're saying, and you put
your phone in the basket?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's until the cool way of doing it. But it's
more like what they do use like with the certain
concerts whenever you put it in like a little bow
and you can't access it until the concert is over
and you have it with you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
To cut people down from live streaming.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, so you don't film the concert that's going on, right, don't.
I'm What I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Surprised is is where this actually went over and got approved,
got a lot of this started was the Los Angeles
Unified School District in California.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
They pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
They pulled it off, they're they're doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That was and that was the last place I would
have expected something like a cell phone ban to happen.
But they were one of the first ones in the
country to start implementing it. And it's in place now.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, who's gonna film all the fights?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There may be world stars.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That is one of the things that I hate most
about this generation. Instead of breaking up a fight or helping,
they're just standing around and encouraging and videoing the.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Getting car jack on daylight and what they're doing their videotape.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Really gets on my nerves there. All right, we got
a lot to get to today. Again, the Oscar cos
already is amazing. That was just so cool. And you know,
he gets up. He doesn't come to Louisville a lot. Man,
he's still out there talking. Yeah, oh he will, and
he wants us all to go to Lexington and we're
going to do that. We'll get the crew Van Vance
and Paul Rodgers and everybody, and we'll head out to
Lexington to have lunch with him because that would be
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really really cool. All right, it is joke of the
day and it's your job all week, mister John Channing
from the news. And by the way, be careful out there.
The rain's gonna happen all day. And I've already seen
people losing their minds in the man drive like you
got some sense, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Hold on, wait, no, Dwight would only find that one funny.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Wait, hold on, I'd have to explain that one to Tony.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay, wait here we go, Okay, got it, got it?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, all right, hey fellas hey jo So Washington d
C on the mall National Mall Thief stuck a pistol
in the man's ribs and says, give me your money.
The gentleman, shocked by the sudden attack, said, you can't
do this to me. I'm a congressman, to which the
thief applied. Will in that case give me my money.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That is a good one. That is May twenty if
the joke of the day in twenty twenty five. Back
after this, but first, Allen Electric sixty three six help
is the phone number. I got a call or a
DM on Sundays. They want to generac generator. They are
tired of going three days straight. They live specifically in
PRP and said, we're tired of this. We want to
get a generator. You could afford it. They're really basically
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the same price as they were ten years ago, and
you can finance it with Alan Electric six three six help.
Call him and say, I want that generator of Venetti's
talking about. It powers a whole house, it runs on
natural gas, and you can finance It's great.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Back after this, News Radio eight forty whas downtown down
our discussion of the Dixie de Muse defied the law
that women could not drink in bars. Can you imagine again,
it was a different time. Dixie said, I am eighty two.
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I was working divorcee of two young kids in the
late sixties. I remember not being able to sit at
a bar in the sixties. She said, she thinks she
got her first drink or bar drink at the old
Marriotte in Indiana. So that is the discussion. And again
there was a marker now there in honor of Dixie
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at five point twenty five South fifth Street. But it's
just a different time. It was the forties, fifties and sixties,
and moms were supposed to be at home, not in
a bar. So and that's that was the guy's escape.
There there their buddies drinking, and you know, those are
guys that all fought in the Second World War. They
want to tell, you know, all the stories and do whatever.
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All right, So the Browns have signed quarterback Shaddier should
Sanders to a four year, four point six million dollar contract,
which is less money than he made in college. I
would have to imagine.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's pretty wild to think about.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Though. Yeah. Uh again he fell to the fifth round, Yes,
fell to the fifth round. So again this story is
already gone. You know, sports today and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He is one of five quarterbacks on that roster right now.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, and they're not obviously they keep three, sometimes just
two and they call up someone if they need one.
Right So, they don't keep a lot of quarterbacks. They're
not going to keep all of them.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Two of them are rookies. They drafted another quarterback before him,
a couple of rounds before that, I know, so weird.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I know, they basically took them because they're like, how
do we not at this point? And you get him
for a steal million bucks a year, so after taxes
he's taken home, you know, six hundred and fifty thousand
a year. It sounds like a lot, But for these guys,
I mean the lifetile of style he's had, and who
his dad is, and how much money he was making
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at Colorado and endorsements and all that. Trust me, when
the losses are are sometimes not even in an issue,
and they won enough games. But what they did for
Colorado in the entire college football world talking about them
for the last three years is was you can't quantify it,
you can't put a dollar on it. I used to
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be the guy on the sports show that was like,
you know, it was Nick Saban's salary and all that.
Ten years ago, I was like, this is insane. Coaches
don't deserve these, these these numbers. But now you're talking
about an almost two hundred million dollar athletic budget and
Nick Saban's worth every dime of eleven million dollars a year.
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I mean every every dime. Now you have a couple
of them that are making I think there's four or
five making ten or eleven million dollars a year. I
think one of them is Mark Stoops, and maybe I'm
wrong about that. I think Stoops is nine.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
He's very he's very much, in my opinion, overpaid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh there's no question, There's no question. But that's all
you got to do now is have two great years. Hell,
you need one great year and I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know is Signette's new contract with Indiana, but
I know he got a significant pay raise, yes his playoff.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You gotta have one year, you have one killer year,
and they're gonna rip up the contract and write you
a new one because I want you to stay. But
then what happens? I mean, the worst nightmare is Texas
A and M. I mean they're still paying it out
Louisville is still paying coaches. I mean, it's just silly.
I mean, even if I don't do well, you still
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have to pay me. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's crazy. It's the only job where you can suck
yeah and still get paid eons more than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I don't think people can even fathom how much
money that is. I mean, we break we used to
break it out. You're like, oh, he's making it was
something crazy with two hundred thousand dollars a month or
something crazy. You're just like, oh my gosh. And then
of course the stuff on the side too, endorsements and
everything else, and you know, and they can go somewhere
else make even more. All right, So the USA today,
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we've all we like our cars. In Kentucky, right, we
have the Carl Kasper Custom Model Show. We have the
NSRA Street Rod Nationals every year, and I wonder where
those lined up, Like, are we in the in the
running here? Of are we? You know? Do we do
it right? Well? Guess what? The USA today rank the
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top ten best car events, the best hotspots for hot
rods and fast cars. So two of them are on
the list. The street Rode come in at six. And
the Corvette Museum comes in at number one. I believe
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a lot of these are in the South. No, no,
I'm sorry, there's Michigan and Wisconsin in here. But you've
got Tennessee, Minnesota, Florida, Nevada is on this list, Cruising
the Coast Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Triple Crown of Rotting, Lebanon, Tennessee.
But the Street Rod Nationals that we do here, have
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you ever been out to that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I have a friend of mine who goes every year
because he's into all that sort of thing, and I've
never been, but I know it gets pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Until you go out to see it, you can't really
understand it because the vastness of it is crazy. They
take over the whole fairgrounds. A lot of times you
go out to events at the fairgrounds, they're in the
South wing, or they're in the West Wing, or they're
in Freedom Hall right, or they're in the parking lot.
But the high right Street Rod Nationals they take over
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the whole fairgrounds. There's not an inch and there's hot
rods everywhere. They have swap meets where all these guys
have parts and they'll swap you a fender for a tire.
It's crazy because it's big money. I mean, people have hobbies.
You're in your hobby, and let's just be honest. This
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is an older person's gig. They have money, they're older,
they may be retired, and they spend a lot of
money on this. I got a buddy that built a
pole barn. I was like, what are you building that for.
He's got four hot rods. Now, he's got a gto,
he's got the you know, the exact original trans am
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from smoking a bandit. He's got two others, I think
a cobra. He's just collecting them, putting them in in
his pole barn, and they are magnificent, Like he could
charge people would come in. People love their hot rods.
Just a different the sixties. I gotta tell you, it's hard.
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It's hard to argue that the sixties didn't have the
best music, the best clothes, and the best cars one
two three. When you're talking about pop culture or culture.
The cars were the coolest. It's not close gto all
those badass cars. The clothes were cool Man watch mad Men.
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The clothes were cool. Everyone dressed up every day. If
you flew on a plane, you put a suit on.
You wore a suit every single day. The clothes were
cool and the music.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Come on, dude, let me ask you this, Tony, which
your generation or which decade? People who say like this
is the best decade?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Who?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Which people are the most delusional? Those who say which.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh, I believe John Shannon would is probably going to
say the eighties, and I could not disagree more. Okay,
it was the worst. The haircuts were the worst. The
clothes were the worst. I mean the clothes. I mean
he's now standing at the window. He's standing at the
windows staring at me.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You're right now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because he now has a haircut from the nineteen eighties.
He's got the waterfall.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Uh that's coming back though, which is a little That
doesn't mean it's right. Yeah, a lot of nineties trends
also coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I went to the Trinity graduation Saturday or Sunday and
there was a couple of mullets the waterfall.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I think Theovonne kind of helped repopularize that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, it started. I saw wrestlers. We watched the national
Championship in college wrestling, and they started about ten years
ago with them. Looks like every kid had a mullet.
But this it's hard to argue that the sixties weren't
the coolest for cars, clothes, and music because it was
different music in the early sixties than the late sixties.
You can tell that by the by the game we
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played at ten thirty every day. But it's hard, like what,
here's what I would encourage people. If you you disagree
with me, that's fine, it's subjective. But watched Ford versus
Ferrari and then tell me that wasn't the coolest decade,
Like the sixties were just cool everything about it. Seventies
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no one had money, you know, people forget Nixon happened.
No one had money. I remember growing up. I never
thought anyone had money. Like there were no rich people,
at least in any area I was. There were no
rich people in the nineteen seventies, so people struggled. Vietnam
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War destroyed man destroyed us. See Nixon in the Vietnam
War really took the air out of America. Even with
this seventy six we did the celebration of the of
the United States, the two hundred nineteen seventy six, which
is block parties and all that music was pretty good.
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Clothes was okay, but then we lost our minds in
the eighties because the junk bond salesman. I've always said
this and people so people worry about gen Z, and
I always say, look, man, who were the junk bond
salesman in the nineteen eighties. Those were the hippies of
the sixties. They flipped politically. The hippies in the sixties
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decided they did not want to stink and drive around
in a crappy Volkswagen, and they flipped and flipped hard.
Who's the most pro usa now, the boomers. Those were
the hippies, by the way, Those are the people that
were spitting on marines as they were coming back from Vietnam.
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Those same people flipped to the excess of the eighties.
Same people. They just said, Man, I ain't doing this,
I want money, I want to live good. I'm gonna
do this, and then flips. Trust me, gen Z will
do the same. Because here's a problem with gen Z.
The Internet, in all that culture, they've sold them a
(27:10):
bill of goods that doesn't exist. And when they figure
out when they get in the real world, all these
protests on college campuses, when these kids get in the
real world and are not on daddy and mommy's dime,
and they have to scrap for themselves. They're gonna flip hard,
and they're gonna be pissed about it, and they will
(27:32):
go to the other side. Because again the hippies no
ward on uh, free love. They became. Look at them now,
they're the ones with the biggest flagpole in the yard.
Go America. You get to change your mind and you
get to change your dreams. So I don't worry about
gen Z. They'll figure it out. Who came by a house?
(27:55):
You'll figure it out. I remember hearing a parent in
the kitchen in the nineteen eighties, early nineteen eighties. Oh,
I feel sorry for you kids. You're never gonna be
able to afford a house. You'll never be able to
afford a house. I feel sorry for you Americans broken. Yeah,
we figured it out. We bought a house. You'll figure
it out. But just be careful because they'll flip on you.
(28:16):
But again, sixties, I don't know how we got here
from street rod nationals. But cool cars man muscle cars
is what they called him, Dude muscle cars, and they
sounded cool. And a lot of these guys that came
back from Vietnam. They had a little cash in their
pocket from serving overseas and they bought those cars. Dude.
Of course they were seven thousand dollars for the whole car.
(28:40):
But they still love those Man makes them feel like
they were young again. So that's why you have all
these hot rod events, the Triple Crown of rotting living
in Tennessee. That might be cool, but if you've never been, Johnny,
we're gonna get you tickets, We're gonna get you parking passes.
We sponsor that thing every year. You got to go
to the street rod Nash, take the family out there.
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You would love to say, you never know, she might
get the bug. It's pretty cool. Uh, we still got
a lot to get to. Yes, there is a lot.
There's weather coming, so it's just going to be annoying,
mostly in Louisville. I don't think there's going to be
It's not going to be as severe as it was
the other night for us. Now. The problem is it's
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a lot of rain going straight across Kentucky and it
is going to go to London and Laurel where they
were hit the most. And I cannot believe the videos
I'm watching Lky still has people there, and I watched
it this morning and it's still hard to believe. John
Shannon from the News showed me the satellite picture where
you could see the scar in Kentucky going across Kentucky
(29:48):
where that F three went. It's like a movie and
you wouldn't believe it. You're like a tornado. Can't do
that the other night. So there, this rain is going
to be annoying and it's problem when it gets to
them is that could be flooding. So you have to
keep an eye on that. And if you're driving, slow down. Nah,
but don't drive slow in the left lane, drive slow
(30:10):
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News radio eight forty WHS
Morning, Everybody News Radio eight forty ways Tony and Dwight Show.
DWIGHTE is out this week. We are brought to you
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So watch out. Put some distance between you and that car.
What an enjoyable last hour of the Tony Cruz Show
with Oscar Combs, the originator of sports magazines and local
sports magazines and recruiting. More than that, he dove into
who was going? Who knew that that would be a
(00:42):
thing that people would care, who was coming the next year,
or who was in the who was you know, in
the role to go? And it was just it was crazy.
It was crazy how popular it was. And he was
the first. Now, as a young guy, I sit in
here and love the stories because it's just all my
you know. He was way back to the sixties and
seventies obviously with rub but when you get into the
(01:03):
seventies and eighties, that's my era. Does that any of
that land with you? I know you're an Indiana fan,
but that stuff is neat or is it hearing about?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It is neat because it's stuff that I didn't grow
up hearing much about at all, not just because I'm
an Indiana fan, but just because of the eras so
far between me and when that took place. So it
was very interesting to hear. Really how I guess revolutionary
he was and then maybe a corny thing to say,
but he really sounded like he was.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, and just a sweet guy, you know, And he
wasn't that passionate dude that just hated U of L
and whatever. Maybe he did at one time, but that's
not the impression I got from him. And you know,
he is the keeper of what was going on behind
the scenes than what Jobee Hall was going through when
he replaced Rupp and what Rupp was going to through
when he went and left, and you know when he
(01:50):
goes that those stories will go also unless they've recorded
them all. But it was a great hour. I was
glad Tony allowed me to sit in and ask a
question or two. It was really cool, all right. So
the big story is yesterday, more questions than answers about
the diagnosis to former President Joe Biden. He has cancer,
prostate cancer, and it's spread into his bones. Obviously, thoughts
(02:12):
and prayers for his family and Jill and for a
speedy recovery. We all know at eighty two years old,
it's going to be a tough time to come through
all that and how fast it has grown. But we
have to answer, and people are asking for when they
knew that, And again I said it yesterday. I was
when I read the story and it popped on my
phone on Sunday that said, you know, diagnosis. I thought
(02:36):
Parkinson's would follow that. I was surprised to see cancer.
I don't know what they're going to uncover, but I
don't care what side of the aisle you are on.
If the president doesn't know where he is and what
room he's in and making decisions, and you're saying he
is and other people that are not elected are doing
(02:58):
those decisions, then then I think we've got questions. The
president of the United States got to be and you've
got to let the public know of their health. And
I think they're going to dive into it and it's
going to be interesting. Nothing will come of it. Understand
that it'll just be a lot of hot air. But
it's important to find out when his faculties went and
(03:23):
how many people were in on it, and that's just
that's the bottom line. But again, nothing will come out
of it because he's you know, he's gone. It's over
and that's what they do. They don't they don't really,
they don't really do that. So it'll call if it
does come out, we'll we'll figure it all out. But
just uh, that is an interesting thing with this diagnosis,
and questions are asked because there is a there is
(03:44):
an audio piece of him supposedly misspeaking three years ago
and said, uh, you know cancer and you know so
many people in cancer, including me, but a dah. Now,
at the time, the White House had said, oh it
was a misspeak. You know, he doesn't have cancer. But
now you're thinking, is did he know at that time?
So I would I doubt it though, because that's a
(04:06):
long time ago and they would have tackled that prostate cancer.
But here's another one. It is the only good thing
that can come out of this is people will check
their prostates and you know, you get the PSA that is.
You don't have to worry about this John now. But
once you get a little older, you'll be looking at
that PSA number. All right, so mine?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Did they lower the age? And once you start getting
prostate exams?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I was four in my forties. Okay, so I've got
a ways to go. Yeah, yeah, and uh. And that's
just a simple exam. That's the fun one for guys.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Is there a nickname for that violation?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, that's what it is. It all depends on I'm
not going to get gross, but it's take the exit ram.
Take the exit ramp because it can get down that.
Because I used to argue with my doctor. I was like,
come on, man, you did this last year. I said,
I'm in my forties. Didn't this a fifties thing? I
used to argue, and he goes, you think it's fun
for me too, that's what he said. I said, Okay, man, uh, yesterday.
(05:14):
It's a story covered by witch is right here. The
first installation of the Louisville Metro Historical Marker Program had
its first inductee, a trailblazer who fought, you're not going
to believe this, young man. But there was a time
that women couldn't drink at a bar. Women couldn't go
(05:40):
in and get a drink at the bar. Dixie du
Muth defied a centuries old law by hiring a female
bartender and serving a drink to a woman seated at
the bar Dixie's Elbow Room in the nineteen sixties. I
was born in the sixties, by the way, so this
is close to my time I was born my lifetime. Dixie,
(06:06):
of course got her license pulled because that's what you
did back then. I'm sure the ABC said, Nope, you
can't do that. They won their legal battle. The marker
is placed where her bar was at five point twenty
five South fifth Street, if you want to go look
at it. Dixie d Muth died not too long ago
twenty twenty at the age of one hundred and two.
(06:28):
So women and again, when we used to do bar
gigs in the in the in the nineteen nineties, every
bar had a philosophy. Do you want to know what
that philosophy was? Young kill?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What was that philosophy? Mister Venetti.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
If you get the girls to come, the boys will follow.
It's a good philosophy. So so many bars in the
nineteen nineties the drink specials were for the girls. The
girls got dollar long next boys paid three okay, because
the concept was boys are going to follow where the
girls are, which by the way, is true. So I
(07:08):
think it's funny that bars would not allow women into
the pot. Whoever came up with the idea, like, you
know what, maybe we should finally.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let some women in here.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's crazy. That person's probably the most well listen rich
men in alcohol sales. It's misogyny at the highest level,
got it, but it is. But at the time, you
have to you have to transport yourself to the time. Right.
We always make these decisions to say, all these people
in history are the worst ever. All right, come on,
let's let's go back in time. Let's get into the
(07:37):
phone booth and go back in time. Let's get into
Delorey and go back in time. They were moms. Look,
women were moms. They didn't there were no There were
so few employed women because they were Their job basically
in America was to graduate from high school, get married,
have kids, and raise their kids, be the housewife. That
was the job. So the thinking was, you don't need
(07:57):
moms in a bar. They're mothers, they're supposed to be
at home. Now, look, people are gonna scream and yell
by hearing what I'm saying. But that was the reality
of America in the nineteen sixties. And you can hate
it all you want, but that was the system and
that's what America was. So the thinking was you didn't
want mom in a bar, so and apparently there wasn't
(08:18):
a lot of people complaining about it until Dixie came
along and said, no, no, no, we need women. And
by the way, again, flash forward just sixty just flash
forward just thirty years. And that was the concept for
bars in louisvill Kentucky, was bring to girls, the boys
will follow. So Dixie, Dixie the Muse, good for you.
And she knew she was gonna lose her license. It'll
(08:39):
be a long legal battle, and she apparently had enough
money to fight it as long as she did, and
she did it and she won, which is good for her.
All right. Again, that marker is at five point twenty
five South fifth Street if you want to take a
look at it. All right, we have we passed over
the JCPS initiative of no cell phones in school for
(09:03):
next year, and people are already losing their minds. I
don't know if they're going to be able to pull
this off. I do know that without resource officers in
the school, this is going to be a problem. If
you think students putting their hands on teachers was bad
the last couple of years, this is going to be crazy.
(09:24):
And I don't know if it'll be a craziness for
a couple of weeks and then people will settle down,
or if it's just going to be issue after issue.
One of the things that I was told from Jefferson
County Public Schools was the difference between your age and
them was that the kid, let's say he gets in
a scuffle, he texts or calls his mom or dad
and tells their side of the story before the parent
(09:45):
gets to the school. So they come in hot with
the side of the kid's story, right, So that's part
of the phone issue. Also, they have their phones in college.
And again, I'm not a teacher and I don't have
to run the classroom, so it's easy for me to
sit here and say this should you know, maybe they
(10:07):
should have their phones, But I don't know. I do
I know that they I know that there was classes
that my kids took that they used their phone like
they that was part of the.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Test, like a kind of an open note test. Yeah,
you could look up, so you can use your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know how this
is going to pan out. I will tell you. I've
I've been invited to speak at high schools before it
all really slowed down after COVID. I used to do
it almost all the time, and then or they would
bring the class to me. And one of the things
I noticed was I would say this to some of
(10:45):
the classes. I would open with no one cares about you,
and I would see who would look up from their
phones because they all had their phones and they were
all looking down and hear some dude from radio talking right,
and I rarely talk about radio, would talk about life
and here where A you're gonna go from here? You know,
Q and a stuff, But they would. I would I'd
(11:07):
pick the five people that would look up. I go one, two, three, four, five.
Rest of you can go down back to your phones,
and I would concentrate on those five, right, because I'm
not going to get the other ones anyway. Yeah, So
I would just literally talk to those five and those
five would turn their phones over and I would talk
to them. If you don't want to listen, that's fine,
But I do have that experience, so I can I
(11:27):
guess I can say. Teachers have said, we've had enough.
We can't keep these kids off the phone. And by
the way, they can't keep us off our phone. I mean,
I don't know how many times I turned my phone
over during the show while doing a break, while talking
on the radio, looking down at my phone, especially if
it buzzes. It's an addiction. So the teachers obviously feel
(11:47):
strongly enough about it and they want the phones that
that is going to be an interesting thing to watch
when the fall gets here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I and again this is just my small mind prediction.
I bet they're going to end up doing and I
think somebody had mentioned this previously, instead of doing no
cell phones. If this ends up being an issue in
the early going, I could see them veering into where
they do those kind of I don't know what they're called,
lock boxes, but you could attach them to the desk
(12:17):
where you put them in there and you put like
I don't know, like a code or something on it
for the for whoever's specific phone. It may be you
can't use it during whatever class you're taking at the time,
but in between classes you take it with you just
so you have that in case you have a disaster
or something like that take place at the school. That's
where this is going to be a.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Passage where I've seen the online top comments have gone.
I've said, you know, my kid goes to a downtown school.
What if there's a problem, YadA, YadA. I'm not comfortable
about this. I want him or her to have a phone.
I want to be able to contact my kid, which is.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I guess we don't have any Number one argument, you
have to keep the phones with the kids.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, Well, part of what reason they're doing it is
they've got to comply with Kentucky locks. Kentucky passed the
law this last legislative and outlawing cell phones in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, JCS, it's gonna happen. Notorious for skating around the
rules of of Frankfurt. So we'll see if they they
could pull it off. We'll see how it goes. And
it'll be school to school too. I don't know, Uh,
we will see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I don't think apparently it's going you know the word if.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You're telling me there's a basket at the front of
the class. Is that what you're saying, and you put
your phone in the basket?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's until the cool way of doing it. But it's
more like what they do use like with the certain
concerts whenever you put it in like a little bow
and you can't access it until the concert is over
and you have it with you.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
To cut people down from live streaming.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, so you don't film the concert that's going on, right, don't.
I'm What I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Surprised is is where this actually went over and got approved,
got a lot of this started was the Los Angeles
Unified School District in California.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
They pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
They pulled it off, they're they're doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That was and that was the last place I would
have expected something like a cell phone ban to happen.
But they were one of the first ones in the
country to start implementing it. And it's in place now.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, who's gonna film all the fights?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There may be world stars.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That is one of the things that I hate most
about this generation. Instead of breaking up a fight or helping,
they're just standing around and encouraging and videoing the.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Getting car jack on daylight and what they're doing their videotape.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Really gets on my nerves there. All right, we got
a lot to get to today. Again, the Oscar cos
already is amazing. That was just so cool. And you know,
he gets up. He doesn't come to Louisville a lot. Man,
he's still out there talking. Yeah, oh he will, and
he wants us all to go to Lexington and we're
going to do that. We'll get the crew Van Vance
and Paul Rodgers and everybody, and we'll head out to
Lexington to have lunch with him because that would be
(14:47):
really really cool. All right, it is joke of the
day and it's your job all week, mister John Channing
from the news. And by the way, be careful out there.
The rain's gonna happen all day. And I've already seen
people losing their minds in the man drive like you
got some sense, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Hold on, wait, no, Dwight would only find that one funny.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Wait, hold on, I'd have to explain that one to Tony.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay, wait here we go, Okay, got it, got it?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, all right, hey fellas hey jo So Washington d
C on the mall National Mall Thief stuck a pistol
in the man's ribs and says, give me your money.
The gentleman, shocked by the sudden attack, said, you can't
do this to me. I'm a congressman, to which the
thief applied. Will in that case give me my money.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That is a good one. That is May twenty if
the joke of the day in twenty twenty five. Back
after this, but first, Allen Electric sixty three six help
is the phone number. I got a call or a
DM on Sundays. They want to generac generator. They are
tired of going three days straight. They live specifically in
PRP and said, we're tired of this. We want to
get a generator. You could afford it. They're really basically
(15:53):
the same price as they were ten years ago, and
you can finance it with Alan Electric six three six help.
Call him and say, I want that generator of Venetti's
talking about. It powers a whole house, it runs on
natural gas, and you can finance It's great.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Back after this, News Radio eight forty whas downtown down
our discussion of the Dixie de Muse defied the law
that women could not drink in bars. Can you imagine again,
it was a different time. Dixie said, I am eighty two.
(16:27):
I was working divorcee of two young kids in the
late sixties. I remember not being able to sit at
a bar in the sixties. She said, she thinks she
got her first drink or bar drink at the old
Marriotte in Indiana. So that is the discussion. And again
there was a marker now there in honor of Dixie
(16:50):
at five point twenty five South fifth Street. But it's
just a different time. It was the forties, fifties and sixties,
and moms were supposed to be at home, not in
a bar. So and that's that was the guy's escape.
There there their buddies drinking, and you know, those are
guys that all fought in the Second World War. They
want to tell, you know, all the stories and do whatever.
(17:12):
All right, So the Browns have signed quarterback Shaddier should
Sanders to a four year, four point six million dollar contract,
which is less money than he made in college. I
would have to imagine.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's pretty wild to think about.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Though. Yeah. Uh again he fell to the fifth round, Yes,
fell to the fifth round. So again this story is
already gone. You know, sports today and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He is one of five quarterbacks on that roster right now.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, and they're not obviously they keep three, sometimes just
two and they call up someone if they need one.
Right So, they don't keep a lot of quarterbacks. They're
not going to keep all of them.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Two of them are rookies. They drafted another quarterback before him,
a couple of rounds before that, I know, so weird.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I know, they basically took them because they're like, how
do we not at this point? And you get him
for a steal million bucks a year, so after taxes
he's taken home, you know, six hundred and fifty thousand
a year. It sounds like a lot, But for these guys,
I mean the lifetile of style he's had, and who
his dad is, and how much money he was making
(18:20):
at Colorado and endorsements and all that. Trust me, when
the losses are are sometimes not even in an issue,
and they won enough games. But what they did for
Colorado in the entire college football world talking about them
for the last three years is was you can't quantify it,
you can't put a dollar on it. I used to
(18:42):
be the guy on the sports show that was like,
you know, it was Nick Saban's salary and all that.
Ten years ago, I was like, this is insane. Coaches
don't deserve these, these these numbers. But now you're talking
about an almost two hundred million dollar athletic budget and
Nick Saban's worth every dime of eleven million dollars a year.
(19:06):
I mean every every dime. Now you have a couple
of them that are making I think there's four or
five making ten or eleven million dollars a year. I
think one of them is Mark Stoops, and maybe I'm
wrong about that. I think Stoops is nine.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
He's very he's very much, in my opinion, overpaid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh there's no question, There's no question. But that's all
you got to do now is have two great years. Hell,
you need one great year and I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know is Signette's new contract with Indiana, but
I know he got a significant pay raise, yes his playoff.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You gotta have one year, you have one killer year,
and they're gonna rip up the contract and write you
a new one because I want you to stay. But
then what happens? I mean, the worst nightmare is Texas
A and M. I mean they're still paying it out
Louisville is still paying coaches. I mean, it's just silly.
I mean, even if I don't do well, you still
(19:56):
have to pay me. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's crazy. It's the only job where you can suck
yeah and still get paid eons more than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And I don't think people can even fathom how much
money that is. I mean, we break we used to
break it out. You're like, oh, he's making it was
something crazy with two hundred thousand dollars a month or
something crazy. You're just like, oh my gosh. And then
of course the stuff on the side too, endorsements and
everything else, and you know, and they can go somewhere
else make even more. All right, So the USA today,
(20:28):
we've all we like our cars. In Kentucky, right, we
have the Carl Kasper Custom Model Show. We have the
NSRA Street Rod Nationals every year, and I wonder where
those lined up, Like, are we in the in the
running here? Of are we? You know? Do we do
it right? Well? Guess what? The USA today rank the
(20:48):
top ten best car events, the best hotspots for hot
rods and fast cars. So two of them are on
the list. The street Rode come in at six. And
the Corvette Museum comes in at number one. I believe
(21:09):
a lot of these are in the South. No, no,
I'm sorry, there's Michigan and Wisconsin in here. But you've
got Tennessee, Minnesota, Florida, Nevada is on this list, Cruising
the Coast Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Triple Crown of Rotting, Lebanon, Tennessee.
But the Street Rod Nationals that we do here, have
(21:31):
you ever been out to that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I have a friend of mine who goes every year
because he's into all that sort of thing, and I've
never been, but I know it gets pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Until you go out to see it, you can't really
understand it because the vastness of it is crazy. They
take over the whole fairgrounds. A lot of times you
go out to events at the fairgrounds, they're in the
South wing, or they're in the West Wing, or they're
in Freedom Hall right, or they're in the parking lot.
But the high right Street Rod Nationals they take over
(22:02):
the whole fairgrounds. There's not an inch and there's hot
rods everywhere. They have swap meets where all these guys
have parts and they'll swap you a fender for a tire.
It's crazy because it's big money. I mean, people have hobbies.
You're in your hobby, and let's just be honest. This
(22:24):
is an older person's gig. They have money, they're older,
they may be retired, and they spend a lot of
money on this. I got a buddy that built a
pole barn. I was like, what are you building that for.
He's got four hot rods. Now, he's got a gto,
he's got the you know, the exact original trans am
(22:47):
from smoking a bandit. He's got two others, I think
a cobra. He's just collecting them, putting them in in
his pole barn, and they are magnificent, Like he could
charge people would come in. People love their hot rods.
Just a different the sixties. I gotta tell you, it's hard.
(23:09):
It's hard to argue that the sixties didn't have the
best music, the best clothes, and the best cars one
two three. When you're talking about pop culture or culture.
The cars were the coolest. It's not close gto all
those badass cars. The clothes were cool Man watch mad Men.
(23:34):
The clothes were cool. Everyone dressed up every day. If
you flew on a plane, you put a suit on.
You wore a suit every single day. The clothes were
cool and the music.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Come on, dude, let me ask you this, Tony, which
your generation or which decade? People who say like this
is the best decade?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Who?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Which people are the most delusional? Those who say which.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh, I believe John Shannon would is probably going to
say the eighties, and I could not disagree more. Okay,
it was the worst. The haircuts were the worst. The
clothes were the worst. I mean the clothes. I mean
he's now standing at the window. He's standing at the
windows staring at me.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You're right now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because he now has a haircut from the nineteen eighties.
He's got the waterfall.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Uh that's coming back though, which is a little That
doesn't mean it's right. Yeah, a lot of nineties trends
also coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I went to the Trinity graduation Saturday or Sunday and
there was a couple of mullets the waterfall.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I think Theovonne kind of helped repopularize that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, it started. I saw wrestlers. We watched the national
Championship in college wrestling, and they started about ten years
ago with them. Looks like every kid had a mullet.
But this it's hard to argue that the sixties weren't
the coolest for cars, clothes, and music because it was
different music in the early sixties than the late sixties.
You can tell that by the by the game we
(24:59):
played at ten thirty every day. But it's hard, like what,
here's what I would encourage people. If you you disagree
with me, that's fine, it's subjective. But watched Ford versus
Ferrari and then tell me that wasn't the coolest decade,
Like the sixties were just cool everything about it. Seventies
(25:20):
no one had money, you know, people forget Nixon happened.
No one had money. I remember growing up. I never
thought anyone had money. Like there were no rich people,
at least in any area I was. There were no
rich people in the nineteen seventies, so people struggled. Vietnam
(25:43):
War destroyed man destroyed us. See Nixon in the Vietnam
War really took the air out of America. Even with
this seventy six we did the celebration of the of
the United States, the two hundred nineteen seventy six, which
is block parties and all that music was pretty good.
(26:03):
Clothes was okay, but then we lost our minds in
the eighties because the junk bond salesman. I've always said
this and people so people worry about gen Z, and
I always say, look, man, who were the junk bond
salesman in the nineteen eighties. Those were the hippies of
the sixties. They flipped politically. The hippies in the sixties
(26:26):
decided they did not want to stink and drive around
in a crappy Volkswagen, and they flipped and flipped hard.
Who's the most pro usa now, the boomers. Those were
the hippies, by the way, Those are the people that
were spitting on marines as they were coming back from Vietnam.
(26:46):
Those same people flipped to the excess of the eighties.
Same people. They just said, Man, I ain't doing this,
I want money, I want to live good. I'm gonna
do this, and then flips. Trust me, gen Z will
do the same. Because here's a problem with gen Z.
The Internet, in all that culture, they've sold them a
(27:10):
bill of goods that doesn't exist. And when they figure
out when they get in the real world, all these
protests on college campuses, when these kids get in the
real world and are not on daddy and mommy's dime,
and they have to scrap for themselves. They're gonna flip hard,
and they're gonna be pissed about it, and they will
(27:32):
go to the other side. Because again the hippies no
ward on uh, free love. They became. Look at them now,
they're the ones with the biggest flagpole in the yard.
Go America. You get to change your mind and you
get to change your dreams. So I don't worry about
gen Z. They'll figure it out. Who came by a house?
(27:55):
You'll figure it out. I remember hearing a parent in
the kitchen in the nineteen eighties, early nineteen eighties. Oh,
I feel sorry for you kids. You're never gonna be
able to afford a house. You'll never be able to
afford a house. I feel sorry for you Americans broken. Yeah,
we figured it out. We bought a house. You'll figure
it out. But just be careful because they'll flip on you.
(28:16):
But again, sixties, I don't know how we got here
from street rod nationals. But cool cars man muscle cars
is what they called him, Dude muscle cars, and they
sounded cool. And a lot of these guys that came
back from Vietnam. They had a little cash in their
pocket from serving overseas and they bought those cars. Dude.
Of course they were seven thousand dollars for the whole car.
(28:40):
But they still love those Man makes them feel like
they were young again. So that's why you have all
these hot rod events, the Triple Crown of rotting living
in Tennessee. That might be cool, but if you've never been, Johnny,
we're gonna get you tickets, We're gonna get you parking passes.
We sponsor that thing every year. You got to go
to the street rod Nash, take the family out there.
(29:02):
You would love to say, you never know, she might
get the bug. It's pretty cool. Uh, we still got
a lot to get to. Yes, there is a lot.
There's weather coming, so it's just going to be annoying,
mostly in Louisville. I don't think there's going to be
It's not going to be as severe as it was
the other night for us. Now. The problem is it's
(29:24):
a lot of rain going straight across Kentucky and it
is going to go to London and Laurel where they
were hit the most. And I cannot believe the videos
I'm watching Lky still has people there, and I watched
it this morning and it's still hard to believe. John
Shannon from the News showed me the satellite picture where
you could see the scar in Kentucky going across Kentucky
(29:48):
where that F three went. It's like a movie and
you wouldn't believe it. You're like a tornado. Can't do
that the other night. So there, this rain is going
to be annoying and it's problem when it gets to
them is that could be flooding. So you have to
keep an eye on that. And if you're driving, slow down. Nah,
but don't drive slow in the left lane, drive slow
(30:10):
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was a teenager. All right back after this short break,
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