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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Wednesday's Hero. Today's hero is Dwayne Dewey, Corporal,
US Marine Corps. Name of the story is Body of Steel.
When nineteen year old Dwayne Dewey joined the Marine soon
after North Korean forces rolled into the South, it was
an indefinite enlistment that means the duration of the war
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plus six months. Dewey was part of the first Marine Division,
which was near Pemun John in the spring of nineteen
fifty two. The command had established a series of outposts
beyond the main American force. This is the most forward position.
Corporal Dewey was the leader of a machine gun squad
in a reinforced platoon dug in on one of these
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positions when it was attacked by a battalion sized Chinese
force around midnight in April sixteenth. The American outpost was
quickly overrun. Carrying their machine guns, Dewey and his men
fell back out of their foxholes and fighting on exposed ground,
they tried to stabilize their position. Dewey worked his gun
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firing so much that he feared that the barrel might melt,
and the bodies of the Chinese soldiers piled up on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
One another like ricks of wood in front of him.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Seeing that he only had three cans of ammunition left,
he ran to another machine gun for more. As he
was returning, a grenade exploded at his feet, knocking him down,
bleeding heavily from his thigh and growing. He laid on
the ground bleeding when the medic appeared, and as he
knelt over Dewey to remove his blood silk pants, another
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grenade hit the ground beside them. Dewey grabbed it for
a second and considered throwing it back, but he decided
he didn't have the time or strength, so he tucked
it underneath him, pulling the medic down with his other hand,
yelling hit the dirt doc, lifting Dewey several inches off
the ground and tearing through his hip.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The medic was unharmed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dewey was taken back to the aid station For an hour,
he lay outside waiting for treatment, not sure that he'd
make it. Then he was given a shot at morphine
and taken to a trench where the other wounded Americans were.
He spent the rest of the night wondering which side
would win the battle, raging outside unreal Shortly after dawn,
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when American troops believed his company he was evacuated. Doctors
treating him in the field hospital found that, in addition
to the gaping shrapnel wounds throughout his lower part of
his body, he was also taking a bullet in the stomach.
He was hospitalized in Japan for a month, then flown
to the States, where he would spend the next three
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months convalescing. On the way home, the planes stopped over
briefly in Hawaii, where an officer visited him in the
hospital presented him with the purple Heart. When Dewey casually
mentioned that he had heard his captain was going to
recommend him for the Medal of Honor, the officers shot
back a look that made him resolve that he would
never mention it again. Dewey was back in home in
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South Haven, Michigan, when he received a telegram informing him
they had been indeed awarded the Medal of Honor. On
March twelfth, nineteen fifty three, President Dwight Eisenhower presented it
to him in the White House. Quote you must have
a body of steel, the President said to him after
reviewing his citation. Dewey and his wife returned home after
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a week in Washington to a great surprise. To honor him,
the townspeople had built a three bedroom pre fab house
for them, completely furnished with fully stocked cupboards and refrigerator.
Dwayne Dewey born November sixteenth, nineteen thirty one in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where,
in fact him and his family still live. Dwayne Dewey, Corporal,
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US Marine Corps. Name the story Body of Steel. Oh
that's a good one, man, that's a good one. From
our Wednesday's Hero to our Louisville Hero. Oh yes, it's
what your wife said to call you the Louisville Hero.
Matt Sanders from LMPD, Good morning, Good morning, How are
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you doing do? Does this song get you going a
little bit? You know?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Man, I used to watch this show when I was
a kid. He was great, sounds awesome, but it's like
the equipment that they had was like how'd they do
the job? They didn't even have radios, you know, back
in the day, way back in the day, used to
get like a dime and you'd have to go to
a call box on the hour and call in to
headquarters and be like, I'm still alive. Now we have
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GPS on our body, cameras, Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Joby Hall would tell those stories because his dad was
the sheriff of Cynthiana and he would deputize him as
a teenager. Before they went out on something, they'd get
a call because you didn't call there was no nine
one one. They would literally call Job's house.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Hey, man, come on over, he said.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Us people parking in now, Yeah, it's crazy, And then
they would have a discussion whether he was going to
take his pistol or not, because the most time he didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Different time, yeah, wait, different way, different times. Okay, let's
let's jump into this thing right now. Before we get
to the let's do the Broadway first. So okay, uh Broadway.
You and I jinks? Did you're talking about Derby Night
Derby Oaks?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah? So you and I? Yeah, all the air perfect?
Did I really? Did I say? It's quaet? It's been
quiet on Broadway on Oaks night? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
How's that going? And You're like, yeah, it has been Yeah,
it has been that night.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
What happened? Yeah, well we had a double murder So
and the Kroger parking lot at twenty seven to ten
West Broadway. Yeah. Really sad, honestly for the city of Louisville.
You know, we are the center of attention for a
little bit. You know, the was phenomenal. You know, there's
all these great stories popping up, even within the apartment.
You know, Sandman's trainer is a is the father of
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a LMPD lieutenant. We talked about that. You interviewed him
at the track. I think. You know, we just had
this spotlight on us, and we did and for the
most part it went really well, and then it didn't.
And then we just had a couple of knuckleheads, you know,
ruin this this this great image of us, and you know,
it's it's disheartening.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay. What's even more disturbing, besides the two people that
were murdered and a third one was shot.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, is that you all there was a.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Here's a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Where were the cops standing right there?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We were there. I mean, we have a Broadway detail
every year. We talked about this last right right before Derby,
and we want to prevent the traffic build up and
the gridlock on Broadway from cruising and stuff. And for
the most part, that's fine. But then everybody started gathering
at twenty seven to ten West Broadway in the Kroger
parking lot and so our detail all moved up that
way and by the time we got up there, there
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was a thousand people in the parking Oh my gosh,
and you know, it was it was time for us
to shut that down. And we were in the process
of waving through the crowd, telling everybody it's time to go.
It's it's time to go, and then that's when the
shooting happened. We were literally, you know, feet away from this.
In fact, we were LMPD was in the we were
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in the parking lot when the shooting happened. People thought
we did it, and it wasn't us, all right, because
they see the cops, and they saw the cops, they
hear the shots, and then people start running. It was chaos,
and then they thought it was us, and we're like, no,
it was somebody with complete, utter disregard for the value
of human life that did this with officers standing nearby,
and as soon as the shots rang out, it was
complete chaos. Everybody was running. We couldn't figure out who
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did what and some of that that investigation is still
under it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I don't know if you can answer this. So
the two people that did so they killed each other.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, I'm not going to get in the specifics of
the homicide. I'll tell you this like we got some
we got some good intel from that. But this is
what's frustrating to me is that there was a thousand
people there. There was you know, people on Snapchat, people
on Instagram, there's all kinds of stuff. And we would
like to see some more tips on this for sure.
So you know, if your listeners know anything about that,
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we're encouraging you to call five seven four LPD. You
can remain anonymous, drop us a tip on that. We're
reviewing surveillance footage. Our homicide unit do an excellent job
this year, has some leads on this case. We hope
to bring some closure.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Matt Sanders, LMPD. Here's to me the most frustrating because
I want to I want to guess that it's over
something stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It always is. Nobody deserves to be murdered. Nobody deserves
to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, and it's it's over the littlest disagreement. Disrespect. Yeah,
you know, I can understand drug deal gone wrong, whatever,
you took my money, but over a disrespect on a
party night when you're supposed to be celebrating Louisville as Derby.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And just it's you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Look, I'm again I'm putting the thoughts into these people's heads.
But I just have a guess it's probably something stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, it generally is. And you know, the value of
human life just seems to be diminished. It seems like
back in the day, like if you had a disagreement
with somebody you met at the playground, you had duked
it out, and you may help the person up off
the ground if you whooped his butt. And now it's
like I'm getting my buddies afterwards. Yeah, I gotta go
get a gun and I gotta win my egos on
the line here. You know, we're at forty one criminal
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homicides as a Monday this year.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But that's down.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, that's down, But that's not where we want it
to be. I mean, yeah, we were at sixty three
this time last year. A lot of people. Yeah that's different.
I mean it's still it's forty one lives that were
senselessly lost for what reason?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
To go win when you can't. So let's talk about
being a cop. Right now, you're recruiting and I'm hearing
rumors that this might be the biggest class we've had
in want.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm here to confirm those rumors. So oh, we're
excited to announce that we're going to start a recruit
class next month in June, and we just selected it.
It's a long process to get higher. You go through
a polygraph, you go through you know, medical you talk
to doctors, you do a physical background check. It's extensive, honestly,
and it takes six months to you put an application
in today. It takes six months to work your way
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through the entire process. We're trying to speed that up,
but it's there's a lot of we need to know
a lot about you before we trust you with this job.
You know, you're you're responsible for protecting the constitutional rights
of the public, and that is a big responsibility. We
need to make sure we're selecting the right people. Sometimes
we'll have two three hundred people put in for a class,
but we may only select seven or right right, and
that's unfortunate that number is so low. But this chief's
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not going to just pick anybody. It's a character thing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
This isn't something you wake up and decide to do
one day. We're looking right wrong last time right. I mean,
we're people signed up. We just don't want to fill
a cold seat with the warm body and Dwight well,
I don't know I date Dwight. I don't know where
we put him. We put him in Canine's under We're
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gonna so in Max sixty three Metro Academy Class sixty
three starts in June. Proud to announce we're gonna have
thirty five applicates, thirty five five five recruits. That's the
highest recruit class we've pumped out since June of twenty
twenty two, So we feel like we're rebounding. We just tested.
We had an open invitation for everybody to come to
our wellness unit and take some initial testing for those
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interested in becoming a police officer for an October class,
and we had like sixty people show up. We put
some images on that our on our social media pages.
So what we're seeing is a lot of interest coming
back to the job. It's very exciting, it's very rewarding.
You get a chance to make a difference. We're seeing
the numbers go up, Applications are up seven to ten percent.
We're just we're super stoked right now, we're trending in
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the right direction.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Sometimes it's as simple as you know you're gonna get
support from the mayor and the chief. That is that
that can be a big difference. There's money obviously as good,
but when you know you got somebody has your back,
it's even better. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think when you're twenty one, twenty three, twenty four,
you don't know about the chief and the mayor supporting
the department. I didn't when I applied. I cared more
about serving the community because I was in the military
for a while. I want to continue to serve. And
then I was obviously looking at benefits for a career,
for a family and stuff. So when you're young, you
focus on that stuff. We have all that stuff now.
We provide you all the equipment. We've got the great
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health insurance. We have a world class wellness unit that
you can go to free of charge. We have all
this stuff in place. That's what's attracting the young pups.
What we're seeing now is we're getting ready to have
a lateral class, which is the first time we've had.
I mean so like officers from other agencies are latering
over to it used to be people left and went
to Jaytown and Saint Matthews from us. Right now, we're
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bringing everybody. The grass is now greener.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I have heard that it's been around.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So we're gonna start having a lateral class, first one
we've had in a couple of years. It's going to
add our numbers twelve thirteen more bodies. Yes, great, Yes,
so we're super excited. A good cops.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's what we need and I can't wait for this
class to get through and get on the streets. Now
the headquarters is that finished?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It is. I'll show you some pictures when we go
to commercial, but we're getting there. I think we're going
to be in Oh. I hate to do this because
it's government. The wheels turned slowly, but I'm thinking into
July is like, is a good spot for us to
move in there? So the chief Executive Command staff, legal,
some some human resource, like we're moving this in in phases,
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So the chiefs people are going to move into the
fourth floor first, that's phase one, and then they're gonna
build out the third floor, the second floor and then
start out. So not everybody's going same day, correct same day,
but the fourth floor, the main floor where the chiefs.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And where have you been?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
In the meantime, we're over at Edison, So we're at
Ormsby seventh and Ormsby and that building the third floor there.
So yeah, we're best case scenario July August. It is
probably a little bit more realistic. So that's that's what
we're shooting for. Super excited.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I saw I guess you knew that that the ride
to the wall. Did you see all those bikes today?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Were we talking about though? There was one thousand people
on a motorcycle that. I guess it was other police department. Oh,
for the memorial for the ride to the Wall. I
mean it was a thousand. I was driving to I
was coming up seventy one and I go, what is this?
And they just kept coming.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I love that thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They just kept coming. It was a thousand bikes at least.
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And it's not just the bikes. It's the overpasses. Yeah,
it's the fire departments. It's the public with the signs
and stuff like that. Yeah, the right of the walls
all way?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, personal, you were just showing me pictures you went.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You went glamping? Yeah, glamping? You ever heard of this?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah? Yeah, so it's camping but with nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I guess ye had glamorous camping. Yeah. So wife and
I just celebrated twelve years marriage and oh congratulations.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I got to get out of here for a little bit.
Kind of hectic around here. So we went. We just
took the weekend and her mom watched the kids and
we went to Smithville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Where is that in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's just outside Knoxville, Okays. Not white like Pigeon Forge, Severeville, Gatlinburg.
It's in the mountains and nowhere, a little sleepy little
town called Smithville. And we stayed in one of these
like domes that sat on top of a deck on
a mountain that overlooked their river. It's so cool, yeah, bro,
it was.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So you showed me a picture of the dome and
then your own deck that goes out over the thing. Yeah,
and then there's a river that runs through, and then the.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hot tub there, fire pit, fire pit.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But then you had video of it raining and it's
in partial of the dome is clear, so.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You could see out obviously. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And the rain was was on top of the dome
in your room, were just hanging out with your wife.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh yeah, that's what we're gonna leave it. I'll tell
you this. You know, it was bitter. It was bittersweet
because you know, Friday night was when the storms rolled through,
and where we were in Tennessee, we caught the very
southern tip tail end of some rain, right, so we
didn't get that summrset the alert and so it was
beautiful sitting in that dome and it rain and had
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a bourbon with me. Times were great, We're listening to
Morgan Wallen. But you know, then the next day we
check our phones and we see the disasters in Kentucky
and it was just it's absolutely heartbreak.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You can see a state police video of the scar
and they just upgraded it to an F four, which
F four is. I mean, you got to be an
F five, that's the top. The F four is just devastated.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Our house is being removed from slabs. Man and I
my heart's prayers go out to all that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The firefighter that came home from his shift just in
time to to grab his wife and she you know,
he didn't make it. She did.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Are you gonna stick around for a little bit?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, I'll hang out with you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna hang out. You play Reeling in
the years with me. You won it last time you
were here, which was good. All right, all right, So
we're gonna take a short break. We will come back
for a couple of minutes in between and then do
our thing. But BK Plumbing, have ever used a bidet?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No, I'm gonna go I like that answer. No, b
K plumming.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let me tell you something. Until you get this thing,
it is, you have to They will schedule everything. This
isn't just a regular toilet. This is the top of
the line, toto. This is the seed is heated. It's
all one piece. It has a remote. They put the
remote on the wall next to you and you take
it off, and it's got all the tools and bells
and whistles on it. The water is heated. They have
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two different streams for each boy and girl. And it
has an air dryer underneath. So when you're finished and
you cleaned off, then you hit the little thingy and
the air dryer cleans the bottom of your bomb out.
So it is, I'm telling you. And then you walk
up to it at night. There's lights on the side
his senses that you walked in the room and there's
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just enough light to see before, so you don't run
in anything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And then the lid goes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then it sprints the water, and then the blue
light goes and sanitizes the toilet before you use it.
So the toto I need you to go to BK
Plumbing Supply dot Com. Of course, the name of the
owner is John selling toilets. He's still a lot more
than that. If you need plumbing supplies, go to him.
But we haven't had Dwight on this endorsement yet to
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talk about the bidet, but he it seems like he's
going to get one too. My wife was unsure about it.
She now cannot. She will not use anyone in the
house except for our toto from BK Plumbingsupply dot Com.
Back after this on NewsRadio eight forty whas so circle
back with the consent decree. They did most of it
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and it was extensive, and more importantly in my opinion,
from the dissent decree is that they've hired better cops.
That's what they needed for a long time. In the
last administration, they took so much from the police and
wouldn't back them up. And we had a police officer
in our office that was running for mayor and he said,
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I left because I've got to a fight with a
naked drug addict and they they jammed me up for it.
It was the only way you could get him and
was getting me sort of a choke hold or something
like that. I'm again, I'm not remembering it correct and
that's why I'm not mentioning in the police officer's name.
But that was the kind of stuff. So he got
jammed up for it, and it was in what happened,
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and was the good cops I him were leaving because
of that stuff, and then they were hiring whatever and
not getting the good guys and women, And that's what's changed.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's all you had to do.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Good Center Cree is a good idea, but it's a promise.
It's not a it's not a federal you know, you
can get slapped on your wrist, but it was a promise.
Hey promise to do all this stuff, and they did
ninety percent of it, so they were there. So if
you're one of those that are listening, and again a
lot of times these things go right down the line, Well,
if you like the police, you're all for this. And
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if you don't like the police, then you're gonna yell
about it today. That's fine, whatever it is. But they
still have to go out there every single day and
deal with all this every single day. So and some
some parts of talent are like to militarized zone. It is,
it is, And that's why I thought that wellness center
that they built for PTSD and all that was great
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for them because a lot of those police officers that
work in areas to where their life is in danger.
There are some parts of Louisville that it's not a
lot of issues, well, there are some that are. So
that is the news today. That's happening in about a
half an hour, the chief and the mayor will do
a press conference and mention that Minnesota is also included
in that list. So we all know why that Minnesota was.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And why Louisville.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So that was a last second Biden descent decrease situation
before he left office. And again it is all all
done right now so they can move forward. Just mentioned
one of the largest LMPD classes in a while coming
in now. I think he said thirty nine coming in there.
That's pretty good. Pay is better, situations better at the
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wellness center. All that stuff thrown in makes you want
to go wakes. You want to go be an LMPD.
If you're interested, going to get a hold of them
for sure. Let's talk about weight. You're in good shape, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Good enough shape. I've got his average of a human
when it comes.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To height, weights, all that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's funny when you have a kid and no parent
escapes it because you keep going to the pediatrician and
they keep telling you your percentiles. And usually it's more
with the son than a daughter. But with the son,
they're like, you know, he's ninety eight percent size. It's
going to be a big boy. You know, it's going
to be a big boy. You know his head is
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ninety nine percentile. My kid was because he had a
big bucket head.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They have to put the helmet on him, the many helmets.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
John would run his head into wall and giggle. I
was like, oh, no DNA test there. He was Chris
Farley to about fifth grade and then something snapped. Now
he's a rocket scientist, but so overweight and we all
know it because the food re eating is crazy. This
I'm mentioning in this for kids, because this article is
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for the report is for kids, but this plays out
to parents. I mean America. I went to Disney last
year and literally I could not believe why. I used
to walk around Disney because we're a Disney family and
my sisters worked there for thirty years, and my other
side of family's from Florida, so we're always down there.
It was rare if you saw somebody heavy, and now
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everyone's heavy. I noticed that I was noticing skinny people
instead of heavy people. I'm not judging, I'm just saying
what I'm seeing is that the most Americans are heavy.
Go to an international beach, go to the Caribbean where
international is like Dominican Republic, that is a lot of
Eastern that's a lot of europe folks along with Americans.
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And you can absolutely tell who's from Europe and who's
from America because of the size. And then when you
go to dinner, you can see them too because they
eat portions. Their portions are smaller, They eat smaller portions,
and then several of them right, and Americans get a
plate with steak and mashed potas and vegetable and bread,
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and the salad before dessert, and the Europeans just eat
a little bit of a lot of stuff and you
could tell. So now nearly five hundred million teenagers worldwide
will be obese or overweight by the year twenty and thirty.
It's just five four and a half years late or
from now, the Landset found.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's the report.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I guess those numbers have jumped significantly since twenty fifteen,
by nearly one hundred and fifty million kids. And I'm
gonna guess the ones in developed countries are kids are
sitting on their butt, They're playing video games. I know
it sounds cliche, but that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I think another part of it is not many people
are not nearly as many families make their own dinner
as often as they used to. They rely heavily on takeout,
eating out, whatever they may be. And not that you
can't do that every once in a while, and it'd
be a good time and that sort of thing, but
when that becomes your regular source of lunch and dinner,
that can be an issue.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Dinner's unimportant, it's not important. It is why are you
carving up before you go to bed?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So we last night got some chicken breasts. We cooked
it up. I ate one chicken breast with a little
bit of like less sugar barbecue sauce, and.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was it. It's all ate.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We stopped doing that ten years ago, and it really
kind of lets you do what you can during the day.
So if you need to fuel your day, have a
bigger lunch than or breakfast. But dinner is a washout.
Just go to bed, like eat your chicken breast or whatever.
We stopped having the sides. But with kids, they're going
to Starbucks, they're going to these coffee shops where they
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get the mocha macha laca whatever cold macaalaca laca.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
You should order that specifically.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I the next time.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think I've said that before too. This sp okay,
but they're so nice, they don't say anything. And it's
like eight hundred calories in that thing liquid. And the
problem with liquid is and you talk to a fitness destructor.
That's why eating like a chicken or some beef for
protein instead of a protein shake, because you're not your
body's not working to digest it right. When you eat something,
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you're chewing and then your body has to break it down.
So you're burning more calories. But I aggress it's millions
and five hundred million teenagers will be fat and we've
got to we got to. You gotta call them because
look in the seventies, very few people were fat, but
that's what their nicknames were. You know, we had fat
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Steve and he didn't have a problem with it. The
teachers called him fat Steve. Now that's a lawsuit probably, Oh,
no question, there's no question. We run sprints and then
we were always pissed it's fat Steve because we're not
gonna stop running sprints until fat Steve wins one other
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or doesn't come in last. And if fat Steven go,
I'm sorry, but it was rare. Now it's most kids
are overweight. It's crazy, but it is the food they
consume and the high calorie and the fake stuff that's
destroying their bodies. Everybody thinks that RBK's or Robert Kennedy's crazy.
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He can be and his voice drives me up the wall,
but he's right about fifty percent of what he says
about what we're consuming. And why, I mean, the biggest
one that everybody talks about but is true. Why is
Kellogg's making a cereal for America and then making a
different one for Canada that's healthier with no dyes in it,
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less sugar, and then selling American Americas, the Americans the
crappy Kelloggs with all of the chemicals and the dyes
and the sugar that's that is man in America used
to not put up with that. There would be a
boycott against Kellogg if this happened in the seventies, like
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they're doing what like that? That would be a huge
conspiracy thing going, what do you mean they sell healthier
food in Canada than and they make a whole You
would think that would be a price thing, like it
would it costs them more to make a different fruit
loops that they have two manufacturing or the same building,
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but you make two and we think that would be
a cost to that. So what are we gonna do?
It's a worldwide it's not just America. But what are
we gonna do about that? I mean, you're just gonna
have We're they got to blow up school and reinvent it,
not blow up, reinvent reinvent school. And you've got to
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reinvent school and a lot of it has to do.
Now they've just done away with gym and and all
those activity. They got to get back to it. Suck
it up. You're gonna have to do some more of
that at school. The problem is when you get to school,
the kids eat, uh. They want the pizza and the
hot dog. They don't want the apple. You know, they
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went to that. It was so stupid. They went to
that in the vending machines, like they took all the
snickers and stuff out.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
That was when wasn't that I'm Achelle Obama thing.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I guess like it was.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And it was a miserable failure because nobody bought any
of the stuff. They put the doridles back in sold out.
I don't have the answers. I know that we got
to do something and we got to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I think you's got to take better care of your kids.
This is coming from a novice parent.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We said that too. We were like, man, we're not
gonna we won't. It won't be chicken nuggets and French
fries at our house. We're gonna serve them this, this,
and this. Guess what You're gonna serve them chicken nuggets
and French fries. The ones that are shaped like dinosaurs,
because that's what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's easy.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You pop it in a microwave and thirty seconds later
with a little ketchup on the corner.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
This goes back to what you were saying yesterday about
like how families in the seventies and eighties not everybody
was working, so you had time to make the big
meal at night. That's sort of you know, the healthier meal.
Or now both parents are in the workforce or doing things,
working late overtime, that sort of thing, and so you
don't have time to have a healthier meal at night,
at least most families probably don't.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And it was healthier food to a certain extent. But
like you go to lots of pasta, and I always
say this in the advertisement, but this isn't that the
breads have.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
If you look at the sticker on top of the.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Bread, it's four ingredients, what they made, how they made
bread a thousand years ago, it's But if you go
to the bread and other grocery stores, it's it's fifty.
It's the list is long. You don't even know or
how to pronounce this stuff, and it's bread. That's why
you could sit the bread that you buy at another
store up on the counter, and two weeks later it's
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pretty You could still eat it, but you can lots
of pasta. You've got to finish it in two days
or three days because it goes bad because it's real bread.
Thirty seven to seventeen, Lexingjin Road, not to Saint Mathey's
all right, time for another break. We're gonna do crusade
for children. Trivia coming up next. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Is gus here?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I haven't seen them?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Got her? Yeah, I'll find somebody.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
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Welcome to Wednesday's Hero. Today's hero is Dwayne Dewey, Corporal,
US Marine Corps. Name of the story is Body of Steel.
When nineteen year old Dwayne Dewey joined the Marine soon
after North Korean forces rolled into the South, it was
an indefinite enlistment that means the duration of the war
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plus six months. Dewey was part of the first Marine Division,
which was near Pemun John in the spring of nineteen
fifty two. The command had established a series of outposts
beyond the main American force. This is the most forward position.
Corporal Dewey was the leader of a machine gun squad
in a reinforced platoon dug in on one of these
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positions when it was attacked by a battalion sized Chinese
force around midnight in April sixteenth. The American outpost was
quickly overrun. Carrying their machine guns, Dewey and his men
fell back out of their foxholes and fighting on exposed ground,
they tried to stabilize their position. Dewey worked his gun
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firing so much that he feared that the barrel might melt,
and the bodies of the Chinese soldiers piled up on.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
One another like ricks of wood in front of him.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Seeing that he only had three cans of ammunition left,
he ran to another machine gun for more. As he
was returning, a grenade exploded at his feet, knocking him down,
bleeding heavily from his thigh and growing. He laid on
the ground bleeding when the medic appeared, and as he
knelt over Dewey to remove his blood silk pants, another
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grenade hit the ground beside them. Dewey grabbed it for
a second and considered throwing it back, but he decided
he didn't have the time or strength, so he tucked
it underneath him, pulling the medic down with his other hand,
yelling hit the dirt doc, lifting Dewey several inches off
the ground and tearing through his hip.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The medic was unharmed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Dewey was taken back to the aid station For an hour,
he lay outside waiting for treatment, not sure that he'd
make it. Then he was given a shot at morphine
and taken to a trench where the other wounded Americans were.
He spent the rest of the night wondering which side
would win the battle, raging outside unreal Shortly after dawn,
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when American troops believed his company he was evacuated. Doctors
treating him in the field hospital found that, in addition
to the gaping shrapnel wounds throughout his lower part of
his body, he was also taking a bullet in the stomach.
He was hospitalized in Japan for a month, then flown
to the States, where he would spend the next three
(02:50):
months convalescing. On the way home, the planes stopped over
briefly in Hawaii, where an officer visited him in the
hospital presented him with the purple Heart. When Dewey casually
mentioned that he had heard his captain was going to
recommend him for the Medal of Honor, the officers shot
back a look that made him resolve that he would
never mention it again. Dewey was back in home in
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South Haven, Michigan, when he received a telegram informing him
they had been indeed awarded the Medal of Honor. On
March twelfth, nineteen fifty three, President Dwight Eisenhower presented it
to him in the White House. Quote you must have
a body of steel, the President said to him after
reviewing his citation. Dewey and his wife returned home after
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a week in Washington to a great surprise. To honor him,
the townspeople had built a three bedroom pre fab house
for them, completely furnished with fully stocked cupboards and refrigerator.
Dwayne Dewey born November sixteenth, nineteen thirty one in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where,
in fact him and his family still live. Dwayne Dewey, Corporal,
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US Marine Corps. Name the story Body of Steel. Oh
that's a good one, man, that's a good one. From
our Wednesday's Hero to our Louisville Hero. Oh yes, it's
what your wife said to call you the Louisville Hero.
Matt Sanders from LMPD, Good morning, Good morning, How are
(04:21):
you doing do? Does this song get you going a
little bit? You know?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Man, I used to watch this show when I was
a kid. He was great, sounds awesome, but it's like
the equipment that they had was like how'd they do
the job? They didn't even have radios, you know, back
in the day, way back in the day, used to
get like a dime and you'd have to go to
a call box on the hour and call in to
headquarters and be like, I'm still alive. Now we have
(04:46):
GPS on our body, cameras, Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Joby Hall would tell those stories because his dad was
the sheriff of Cynthiana and he would deputize him as
a teenager. Before they went out on something, they'd get
a call because you didn't call there was no nine
one one. They would literally call Job's house.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Hey, man, come on over, he said.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Us people parking in now, Yeah, it's crazy, And then
they would have a discussion whether he was going to
take his pistol or not, because the most time he didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Different time, yeah, wait, different way, different times. Okay, let's
let's jump into this thing right now. Before we get
to the let's do the Broadway first. So okay, uh Broadway.
You and I jinks? Did you're talking about Derby Night
Derby Oaks?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah? So you and I? Yeah, all the air perfect?
Did I really? Did I say? It's quaet? It's been
quiet on Broadway on Oaks night? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
How's that going? And You're like, yeah, it has been Yeah,
it has been that night.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
What happened? Yeah, well we had a double murder So
and the Kroger parking lot at twenty seven to ten
West Broadway. Yeah. Really sad, honestly for the city of Louisville.
You know, we are the center of attention for a
little bit. You know, the was phenomenal. You know, there's
all these great stories popping up, even within the apartment.
You know, Sandman's trainer is a is the father of
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a LMPD lieutenant. We talked about that. You interviewed him
at the track. I think. You know, we just had
this spotlight on us, and we did and for the
most part it went really well, and then it didn't.
And then we just had a couple of knuckleheads, you know,
ruin this this this great image of us, and you know,
it's it's disheartening.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay. What's even more disturbing, besides the two people that
were murdered and a third one was shot.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, is that you all there was a.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Here's a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Where were the cops standing right there?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We were there. I mean, we have a Broadway detail
every year. We talked about this last right right before Derby,
and we want to prevent the traffic build up and
the gridlock on Broadway from cruising and stuff. And for
the most part, that's fine. But then everybody started gathering
at twenty seven to ten West Broadway in the Kroger
parking lot and so our detail all moved up that
way and by the time we got up there, there
(07:02):
was a thousand people in the parking Oh my gosh,
and you know, it was it was time for us
to shut that down. And we were in the process
of waving through the crowd, telling everybody it's time to go.
It's it's time to go, and then that's when the
shooting happened. We were literally, you know, feet away from this.
In fact, we were LMPD was in the we were
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in the parking lot when the shooting happened. People thought
we did it, and it wasn't us, all right, because
they see the cops, and they saw the cops, they
hear the shots, and then people start running. It was chaos,
and then they thought it was us, and we're like, no,
it was somebody with complete, utter disregard for the value
of human life that did this with officers standing nearby,
and as soon as the shots rang out, it was
complete chaos. Everybody was running. We couldn't figure out who
(07:47):
did what and some of that that investigation is still
under it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I don't know if you can answer this. So
the two people that did so they killed each other.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, I'm not going to get in the specifics of
the homicide. I'll tell you this like we got some
we got some good intel from that. But this is
what's frustrating to me is that there was a thousand
people there. There was you know, people on Snapchat, people
on Instagram, there's all kinds of stuff. And we would
like to see some more tips on this for sure.
So you know, if your listeners know anything about that,
(08:14):
we're encouraging you to call five seven four LPD. You
can remain anonymous, drop us a tip on that. We're
reviewing surveillance footage. Our homicide unit do an excellent job
this year, has some leads on this case. We hope
to bring some closure.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Matt Sanders, LMPD. Here's to me the most frustrating because
I want to I want to guess that it's over
something stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It always is. Nobody deserves to be murdered. Nobody deserves
to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, and it's it's over the littlest disagreement. Disrespect. Yeah,
you know, I can understand drug deal gone wrong, whatever,
you took my money, but over a disrespect on a
party night when you're supposed to be celebrating Louisville as Derby.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And just it's you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Look, I'm again I'm putting the thoughts into these people's heads.
But I just have a guess it's probably something stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, it generally is. And you know, the value of
human life just seems to be diminished. It seems like
back in the day, like if you had a disagreement
with somebody you met at the playground, you had duked
it out, and you may help the person up off
the ground if you whooped his butt. And now it's
like I'm getting my buddies afterwards. Yeah, I gotta go
get a gun and I gotta win my egos on
the line here. You know, we're at forty one criminal
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homicides as a Monday this year.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But that's down.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, that's down, But that's not where we want it
to be. I mean, yeah, we were at sixty three
this time last year. A lot of people. Yeah that's different.
I mean it's still it's forty one lives that were
senselessly lost for what reason?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
To go win when you can't. So let's talk about
being a cop. Right now, you're recruiting and I'm hearing
rumors that this might be the biggest class we've had
in want.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm here to confirm those rumors. So oh, we're
excited to announce that we're going to start a recruit
class next month in June, and we just selected it.
It's a long process to get higher. You go through
a polygraph, you go through you know, medical you talk
to doctors, you do a physical background check. It's extensive, honestly,
and it takes six months to you put an application
in today. It takes six months to work your way
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through the entire process. We're trying to speed that up,
but it's there's a lot of we need to know
a lot about you before we trust you with this job.
You know, you're you're responsible for protecting the constitutional rights
of the public, and that is a big responsibility. We
need to make sure we're selecting the right people. Sometimes
we'll have two three hundred people put in for a class,
but we may only select seven or right right, and
that's unfortunate that number is so low. But this chief's
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not going to just pick anybody. It's a character thing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
This isn't something you wake up and decide to do
one day. We're looking right wrong last time right. I mean,
we're people signed up. We just don't want to fill
a cold seat with the warm body and Dwight well,
I don't know I date Dwight. I don't know where
we put him. We put him in Canine's under We're
(10:58):
gonna so in Max sixty three Metro Academy Class sixty
three starts in June. Proud to announce we're gonna have
thirty five applicates, thirty five five five recruits. That's the
highest recruit class we've pumped out since June of twenty
twenty two, So we feel like we're rebounding. We just tested.
We had an open invitation for everybody to come to
our wellness unit and take some initial testing for those
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interested in becoming a police officer for an October class,
and we had like sixty people show up. We put
some images on that our on our social media pages.
So what we're seeing is a lot of interest coming
back to the job. It's very exciting, it's very rewarding.
You get a chance to make a difference. We're seeing
the numbers go up, Applications are up seven to ten percent.
We're just we're super stoked right now, we're trending in
(11:39):
the right direction.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Sometimes it's as simple as you know you're gonna get
support from the mayor and the chief. That is that
that can be a big difference. There's money obviously as good,
but when you know you got somebody has your back,
it's even better. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think when you're twenty one, twenty three, twenty four,
you don't know about the chief and the mayor supporting
the department. I didn't when I applied. I cared more
about serving the community because I was in the military
for a while. I want to continue to serve. And
then I was obviously looking at benefits for a career,
for a family and stuff. So when you're young, you
focus on that stuff. We have all that stuff now.
We provide you all the equipment. We've got the great
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health insurance. We have a world class wellness unit that
you can go to free of charge. We have all
this stuff in place. That's what's attracting the young pups.
What we're seeing now is we're getting ready to have
a lateral class, which is the first time we've had.
I mean so like officers from other agencies are latering
over to it used to be people left and went
to Jaytown and Saint Matthews from us. Right now, we're
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bringing everybody. The grass is now greener.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I have heard that it's been around.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So we're gonna start having a lateral class, first one
we've had in a couple of years. It's going to
add our numbers twelve thirteen more bodies. Yes, great, Yes,
so we're super excited. A good cops.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's what we need and I can't wait for this
class to get through and get on the streets. Now
the headquarters is that finished?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It is. I'll show you some pictures when we go
to commercial, but we're getting there. I think we're going
to be in Oh. I hate to do this because
it's government. The wheels turned slowly, but I'm thinking into
July is like, is a good spot for us to
move in there? So the chief Executive Command staff, legal,
some some human resource, like we're moving this in in phases,
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So the chiefs people are going to move into the
fourth floor first, that's phase one, and then they're gonna
build out the third floor, the second floor and then
start out. So not everybody's going same day, correct same day,
but the fourth floor, the main floor where the chiefs.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And where have you been?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
In the meantime, we're over at Edison, So we're at
Ormsby seventh and Ormsby and that building the third floor there.
So yeah, we're best case scenario July August. It is
probably a little bit more realistic. So that's that's what
we're shooting for. Super excited.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I saw I guess you knew that that the ride
to the wall. Did you see all those bikes today?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Were we talking about though? There was one thousand people
on a motorcycle that. I guess it was other police department. Oh,
for the memorial for the ride to the Wall. I
mean it was a thousand. I was driving to I
was coming up seventy one and I go, what is this?
And they just kept coming.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I love that thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They just kept coming. It was a thousand bikes at least.
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And it's not just the bikes. It's the overpasses. Yeah,
it's the fire departments. It's the public with the signs
and stuff like that. Yeah, the right of the walls
all way?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, personal, you were just showing me pictures you went.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You went glamping? Yeah, glamping? You ever heard of this?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah? Yeah, so it's camping but with nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I guess ye had glamorous camping. Yeah. So wife and
I just celebrated twelve years marriage and oh congratulations.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I got to get out of here for a little bit.
Kind of hectic around here. So we went. We just
took the weekend and her mom watched the kids and
we went to Smithville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Where is that in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's just outside Knoxville, Okays. Not white like Pigeon Forge, Severeville, Gatlinburg.
It's in the mountains and nowhere, a little sleepy little
town called Smithville. And we stayed in one of these
like domes that sat on top of a deck on
a mountain that overlooked their river. It's so cool, yeah, bro,
it was.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So you showed me a picture of the dome and
then your own deck that goes out over the thing. Yeah,
and then there's a river that runs through, and then the.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hot tub there, fire pit, fire pit.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But then you had video of it raining and it's
in partial of the dome is clear, so.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You could see out obviously. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And the rain was was on top of the dome
in your room, were just hanging out with your wife.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh yeah, that's what we're gonna leave it. I'll tell
you this. You know, it was bitter. It was bittersweet
because you know, Friday night was when the storms rolled through,
and where we were in Tennessee, we caught the very
southern tip tail end of some rain, right, so we
didn't get that summrset the alert and so it was
beautiful sitting in that dome and it rain and had
(15:37):
a bourbon with me. Times were great, We're listening to
Morgan Wallen. But you know, then the next day we
check our phones and we see the disasters in Kentucky
and it was just it's absolutely heartbreak.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You can see a state police video of the scar
and they just upgraded it to an F four, which
F four is. I mean, you got to be an
F five, that's the top. The F four is just devastated.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Our house is being removed from slabs. Man and I
my heart's prayers go out to all that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The firefighter that came home from his shift just in
time to to grab his wife and she you know,
he didn't make it. She did.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Are you gonna stick around for a little bit?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, I'll hang out with you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna hang out. You play Reeling in
the years with me. You won it last time you
were here, which was good. All right, all right, So
we're gonna take a short break. We will come back
for a couple of minutes in between and then do
our thing. But BK Plumbing, have ever used a bidet?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No, I'm gonna go I like that answer. No, b
K plumming.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let me tell you something. Until you get this thing,
it is, you have to They will schedule everything. This
isn't just a regular toilet. This is the top of
the line, toto. This is the seed is heated. It's
all one piece. It has a remote. They put the
remote on the wall next to you and you take
it off, and it's got all the tools and bells
and whistles on it. The water is heated. They have
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two different streams for each boy and girl. And it
has an air dryer underneath. So when you're finished and
you cleaned off, then you hit the little thingy and
the air dryer cleans the bottom of your bomb out.
So it is, I'm telling you. And then you walk
up to it at night. There's lights on the side
his senses that you walked in the room and there's
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just enough light to see before, so you don't run
in anything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And then the lid goes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then it sprints the water, and then the blue
light goes and sanitizes the toilet before you use it.
So the toto I need you to go to BK
Plumbing Supply dot Com. Of course, the name of the
owner is John selling toilets. He's still a lot more
than that. If you need plumbing supplies, go to him.
But we haven't had Dwight on this endorsement yet to
(17:51):
talk about the bidet, but he it seems like he's
going to get one too. My wife was unsure about it.
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Back after this on NewsRadio eight forty whas so circle
back with the consent decree. They did most of it
(18:17):
and it was extensive, and more importantly in my opinion,
from the dissent decree is that they've hired better cops.
That's what they needed for a long time. In the
last administration, they took so much from the police and
wouldn't back them up. And we had a police officer
in our office that was running for mayor and he said,
(18:38):
I left because I've got to a fight with a
naked drug addict and they they jammed me up for it.
It was the only way you could get him and
was getting me sort of a choke hold or something
like that. I'm again, I'm not remembering it correct and
that's why I'm not mentioning in the police officer's name.
But that was the kind of stuff. So he got
jammed up for it, and it was in what happened,
(19:00):
and was the good cops I him were leaving because
of that stuff, and then they were hiring whatever and
not getting the good guys and women, And that's what's changed.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's all you had to do.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Good Center Cree is a good idea, but it's a promise.
It's not a it's not a federal you know, you
can get slapped on your wrist, but it was a promise.
Hey promise to do all this stuff, and they did
ninety percent of it, so they were there. So if
you're one of those that are listening, and again a
lot of times these things go right down the line, Well,
if you like the police, you're all for this. And
(19:34):
if you don't like the police, then you're gonna yell
about it today. That's fine, whatever it is. But they
still have to go out there every single day and
deal with all this every single day. So and some
some parts of talent are like to militarized zone. It is,
it is, And that's why I thought that wellness center
that they built for PTSD and all that was great
(19:57):
for them because a lot of those police officers that
work in areas to where their life is in danger.
There are some parts of Louisville that it's not a
lot of issues, well, there are some that are. So
that is the news today. That's happening in about a
half an hour, the chief and the mayor will do
a press conference and mention that Minnesota is also included
in that list. So we all know why that Minnesota was.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And why Louisville.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So that was a last second Biden descent decrease situation
before he left office. And again it is all all
done right now so they can move forward. Just mentioned
one of the largest LMPD classes in a while coming
in now. I think he said thirty nine coming in there.
That's pretty good. Pay is better, situations better at the
(20:44):
wellness center. All that stuff thrown in makes you want
to go wakes. You want to go be an LMPD.
If you're interested, going to get a hold of them
for sure. Let's talk about weight. You're in good shape, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Good enough shape. I've got his average of a human
when it comes.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To height, weights, all that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's funny when you have a kid and no parent
escapes it because you keep going to the pediatrician and
they keep telling you your percentiles. And usually it's more
with the son than a daughter. But with the son,
they're like, you know, he's ninety eight percent size. It's
going to be a big boy. You know, it's going
to be a big boy. You know his head is
(21:27):
ninety nine percentile. My kid was because he had a
big bucket head.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They have to put the helmet on him, the many helmets.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
John would run his head into wall and giggle. I
was like, oh, no DNA test there. He was Chris
Farley to about fifth grade and then something snapped. Now
he's a rocket scientist, but so overweight and we all
know it because the food re eating is crazy. This
I'm mentioning in this for kids, because this article is
(21:55):
for the report is for kids, but this plays out
to parents. I mean America. I went to Disney last
year and literally I could not believe why. I used
to walk around Disney because we're a Disney family and
my sisters worked there for thirty years, and my other
side of family's from Florida, so we're always down there.
It was rare if you saw somebody heavy, and now
(22:18):
everyone's heavy. I noticed that I was noticing skinny people
instead of heavy people. I'm not judging, I'm just saying
what I'm seeing is that the most Americans are heavy.
Go to an international beach, go to the Caribbean where
international is like Dominican Republic, that is a lot of
Eastern that's a lot of europe folks along with Americans.
(22:41):
And you can absolutely tell who's from Europe and who's
from America because of the size. And then when you
go to dinner, you can see them too because they
eat portions. Their portions are smaller, They eat smaller portions,
and then several of them right, and Americans get a
plate with steak and mashed potas and vegetable and bread,
(23:04):
and the salad before dessert, and the Europeans just eat
a little bit of a lot of stuff and you
could tell. So now nearly five hundred million teenagers worldwide
will be obese or overweight by the year twenty and thirty.
It's just five four and a half years late or
from now, the Landset found.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's the report.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I guess those numbers have jumped significantly since twenty fifteen,
by nearly one hundred and fifty million kids. And I'm
gonna guess the ones in developed countries are kids are
sitting on their butt, They're playing video games. I know
it sounds cliche, but that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I think another part of it is not many people
are not nearly as many families make their own dinner
as often as they used to. They rely heavily on takeout,
eating out, whatever they may be. And not that you
can't do that every once in a while, and it'd
be a good time and that sort of thing, but
when that becomes your regular source of lunch and dinner,
that can be an issue.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Dinner's unimportant, it's not important. It is why are you
carving up before you go to bed?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So we last night got some chicken breasts. We cooked
it up. I ate one chicken breast with a little
bit of like less sugar barbecue sauce, and.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was it. It's all ate.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We stopped doing that ten years ago, and it really
kind of lets you do what you can during the day.
So if you need to fuel your day, have a
bigger lunch than or breakfast. But dinner is a washout.
Just go to bed, like eat your chicken breast or whatever.
We stopped having the sides. But with kids, they're going
to Starbucks, they're going to these coffee shops where they
(24:47):
get the mocha macha laca whatever cold macaalaca laca.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
You should order that specifically.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I the next time.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think I've said that before too. This sp okay,
but they're so nice, they don't say anything. And it's
like eight hundred calories in that thing liquid. And the
problem with liquid is and you talk to a fitness destructor.
That's why eating like a chicken or some beef for
protein instead of a protein shake, because you're not your
body's not working to digest it right. When you eat something,
(25:17):
you're chewing and then your body has to break it down.
So you're burning more calories. But I aggress it's millions
and five hundred million teenagers will be fat and we've
got to we got to. You gotta call them because
look in the seventies, very few people were fat, but
that's what their nicknames were. You know, we had fat
(25:38):
Steve and he didn't have a problem with it. The
teachers called him fat Steve. Now that's a lawsuit probably, Oh,
no question, there's no question. We run sprints and then
we were always pissed it's fat Steve because we're not
gonna stop running sprints until fat Steve wins one other
(26:01):
or doesn't come in last. And if fat Steven go,
I'm sorry, but it was rare. Now it's most kids
are overweight. It's crazy, but it is the food they
consume and the high calorie and the fake stuff that's
destroying their bodies. Everybody thinks that RBK's or Robert Kennedy's crazy.
(26:25):
He can be and his voice drives me up the wall,
but he's right about fifty percent of what he says
about what we're consuming. And why, I mean, the biggest
one that everybody talks about but is true. Why is
Kellogg's making a cereal for America and then making a
different one for Canada that's healthier with no dyes in it,
(26:47):
less sugar, and then selling American Americas, the Americans the
crappy Kelloggs with all of the chemicals and the dyes
and the sugar that's that is man in America used
to not put up with that. There would be a
boycott against Kellogg if this happened in the seventies, like
(27:09):
they're doing what like that? That would be a huge
conspiracy thing going, what do you mean they sell healthier
food in Canada than and they make a whole You
would think that would be a price thing, like it
would it costs them more to make a different fruit
loops that they have two manufacturing or the same building,
(27:31):
but you make two and we think that would be
a cost to that. So what are we gonna do?
It's a worldwide it's not just America. But what are
we gonna do about that? I mean, you're just gonna
have We're they got to blow up school and reinvent it,
not blow up, reinvent reinvent school. And you've got to
(27:53):
reinvent school and a lot of it has to do.
Now they've just done away with gym and and all
those activity. They got to get back to it. Suck
it up. You're gonna have to do some more of
that at school. The problem is when you get to school,
the kids eat, uh. They want the pizza and the
hot dog. They don't want the apple. You know, they
(28:16):
went to that. It was so stupid. They went to
that in the vending machines, like they took all the
snickers and stuff out.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
That was when wasn't that I'm Achelle Obama thing.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I guess like it was.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And it was a miserable failure because nobody bought any
of the stuff. They put the doridles back in sold out.
I don't have the answers. I know that we got
to do something and we got to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I think you's got to take better care of your kids.
This is coming from a novice parent.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We said that too. We were like, man, we're not
gonna we won't. It won't be chicken nuggets and French
fries at our house. We're gonna serve them this, this,
and this. Guess what You're gonna serve them chicken nuggets
and French fries. The ones that are shaped like dinosaurs,
because that's what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's easy.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You pop it in a microwave and thirty seconds later
with a little ketchup on the corner.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
This goes back to what you were saying yesterday about
like how families in the seventies and eighties not everybody
was working, so you had time to make the big
meal at night. That's sort of you know, the healthier meal.
Or now both parents are in the workforce or doing things,
working late overtime, that sort of thing, and so you
don't have time to have a healthier meal at night,
at least most families probably don't.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And it was healthier food to a certain extent. But
like you go to lots of pasta, and I always
say this in the advertisement, but this isn't that the
breads have.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
If you look at the sticker on top of the.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Bread, it's four ingredients, what they made, how they made
bread a thousand years ago, it's But if you go
to the bread and other grocery stores, it's it's fifty.
It's the list is long. You don't even know or
how to pronounce this stuff, and it's bread. That's why
you could sit the bread that you buy at another
store up on the counter, and two weeks later it's
(29:58):
pretty You could still eat it, but you can lots
of pasta. You've got to finish it in two days
or three days because it goes bad because it's real bread.
Thirty seven to seventeen, Lexingjin Road, not to Saint Mathey's
all right, time for another break. We're gonna do crusade
for children. Trivia coming up next. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Is gus here?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I haven't seen them?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Got her? Yeah, I'll find somebody.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
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