6.17: Tom Jurich to Be Honored by UofL, Crash Detection, a Warning from Kings Island, and a Crystal-Covered Chair

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
That drum is appropriate for today. We had breaking news
on news radio eight forty WHAS on the Coffee and
Company Morning Show on news Radio eight forty WJAS. Welcome, man,
It's the Tony and Dwight Show with John Alden, brought
you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Nick Coffee joins us.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Now, just a couple of minutes ago, the mayor called
you to break some news on U of L.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes, what was it it? It's big news for Louisville fans,
at least I would assume they would view it as
big news. But the university is going to in the city,
with partnership of the city in the Mayor's office, They're
going to name a street on campus after Tom Jurch.
I did just get confirmation that that is still the plan,
and it's going to be right there in the heart
of campus on Floyd Street. So this this I wasn't

(00:48):
expecting it, but I guess it's certainly deserved. But the
question I have for you guys, do you feel like
this should have this? Should this have been done sooner?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, there's two parties there. I mean, I'm surprised. Look,
I know Jurich very well. He's a guy that doesn't
back down very easily, and he felt like he was
let go and he shouldn't have so, and I'm surprised
that they both came to terms on this. I'm glad because,
as Tony Stark says on the Avengers, resentment is corrosive.

(01:23):
So sometimes you just got to put things down and
just honor people that need to be honored.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And he does. I mean, no matter what happened at
the end.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Look, he did a lot of great things for UL
and U of l Athletics, and.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
To tell you the truth, he needs a statue, not
a street. Yes, he really does.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So June twenty eight to ten am on campus is
when they're going to and they're going to invite people
out to come and Tom will be there of course,
and that's it's gonna be a special day. But with Tom,
as you mentioned, he's I mean, I don't know what
Louisville Athletics would look like at all, or even how
it would exist without the sports outside of basketball becoming

(02:01):
not only successful, but like really successful. You've got a
team in Omaha right now. Volleyball has now emerged as
a big time player. Obviously, women's basketball with the Jeff
Walls higher, but with Tom, I feel like because of
a lot of the outside of men's basketball. You guys
can correct me if I'm wrong, because you guys are
a lot older than me, But before Louisville basketball, when

(02:22):
you think of U ofl Athletics, it's nothing. It was
nothing then like it is now. And so Tom had
such a role in building that. I think just how
he's wired and with what he built, it was almost
impossible for him to not take anything personal that was
that was you know, in regards to what he built
that was so special to him. I mean, yes, he

(02:42):
had his way of being a leader, and clearly he
did a great job of building the athletics department, but
I just think it was it was his baby, and
he got canned and he felt like he shouldn't have
been effectively fired. And there's clearly been some real resentment there.
But at least to see that he is he's you know,
he's open to this and he's going to be a
part of it, that's a that's a sign that they're

(03:02):
taking steps in the direction of of you know, repairing
the relationship between Jurich, the Jurch family and the University
of Louisville and of course the city of level you mentioned.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Uh, we're a lot older than you. I remember when
there was a time there was a mandate if you
want to buy UFL basketball tickets, you gotta buy season
tickets for the football team as.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Four, four or six.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised and so but you're looking
now at all the different programs including baseball. Susan, my
wife's nephew, went on to a major league career with
the Will Smith Yeah, with the Dodgers right now. So,
I mean there's been.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
He's the greatest athletic director hiring coaches ever. There's like
he's in a category all his own, and at least
that's my opinion, I would agree.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
And I think there was I'm trying to think of
the right way to describe this because I never had
that close up relationship with him. I know, you you
got to know him a lot more than I did.
But he coaches loved working for him for the most part.
I mean, you may find some that maybe didn't have
a great experience, but there are still coaches, some of

(04:08):
them on Floyd Street today, that still have a great
amount of loyalty to Tom. Not that they don't love
Josh hurt and not that they're not you still happy
to be here even though Tom is gone. But he
hired not only really good coaches that were able to
have all the resources needed to help turn these athletic
programs into something special like basketball, baseball, football. I mean

(04:28):
those sports specifically skyrocketed during George's time and really became
something that wasn't even recognizable to what it was previously.
So I'm with you, he's one of the best athletic
directors ever when it comes to hiring. But the timing
of some of these hires, hires where if you get
it wrong, if Charlie Strong wasn't the higher after Steve
Kragthorpe and you didn't have an instant bounce back, and

(04:50):
then two years where you're relevant nationally with guys like
Teddy Bridgewater and whatnot, I mean, does that if you're
not in that position at that time when the ACC
has an opening, do you get in. So now there's
no doubt he paid them well and let them let
them go. He didn't, you know, he didn't put a
thumb on him. You know, hire good people. This is
for any business. Hire good people and go let them work.

(05:13):
I think it's what ended up his loyalty to coaches
is what his loyalty to Rick Patino is why he
lost his job. There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I mean that, and that is he wanted that to
make sure that coaches knew they had he had their back.
But it ended up being his downfall was his loyalty
to certain coaches.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sorry, you mentioned in the beginning by the way, we're
talking to Nick Coffee Coffee and Company in the morning.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Tom Jurors being honored at the University of Louisville with
the street you mentioned in the beginning. He said, well,
there's some resentment the University of Louisville fans had to
let go of X y Z. There's also resentment with
Tom Jurich.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh, that's what I mean mostly, Yeah, That's that's what
I mean when it comes to resentment. I think there
may be some level fans that feel a certain way.
But I mean Tom, the power dynamic he will has
all been gone. Yes, yes, And that's that goes back
to you know, Rick Patino. He still feels a certain
way about Louisville, but anybody he's mad at does not.
They're not involved in any way, you know what I mean,

(06:12):
like anybody for any the resentment that he has, maybe
it's real. I mean, he also was effectively fired out
of nowhere and felt like he was wronged. I'm not
sure if that's the case totally, but you know, with
with with Rick, and maybe this is the case with
Tom because again a lot of people believe that it
was you know, the Greg Postal, John Schnadder and David Grissom. Yeah,

(06:34):
those were those were people. I only mentioned those names
because I know that those are the ones that Patino
believe were instrumental in Matt Bevan instrumental in having a
real shift in leadership at athletics at UL which of
course led to Jurich and him being fired. Clearly, there
were some things that went on that gave them an
easy an easy uh you know play to make.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's complicated.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, it's complicated.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's very complicated, but it is. It was an incredible
run for an athletic director and it was just perfect
timing for him to step into that job when he did.
When Cardinals Stadium, so his first year was the first
year at Cardinals Stadium or the second year I apologize
and then and then that run from there. Remember the

(07:16):
gravel LODs, I mean the campus. The campus was a joke.
I mean it was and now it's it's big time.
And so yes he made great football and basketball hires,
but in reality, the smaller sport hires were incredible.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
That is absolutely what we cared about. Baseball.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, we cared about women's basketball now, I mean.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Because of that the year of the Cardinal. Again, there's
been many years since that happened, but that really was
I think the peak of which of what you got
out of the Jurich area, where you've got a national
championship in basketball, you've got your football team with I
believe their biggest win in program history, a Sugar Bowl
victory against Florida, who's ranked number three in the country
at the time. Jeff Walls gets all the way to
the championship game only to lose to I believe, Yukon,

(07:57):
and then your baseball team goes to the College World Series.
That's the kind of run you just you would never
expect that, and they were able to do it. And
it wasn't fluky. Those programs had a long standing run
and some of them still I mean, there's been some
roller coasters in between, but they still have This is
the best way to put it. The programs here have
the resources and and and they've proven that if you

(08:18):
have a good coach, you can win here.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Uh and to uh to Dwight's point, guy is not
involved in sports, right, Nut doesn't have his finger on
the polls.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Even yes he does. He'll talk about him even right here,
like people like Dwight or people that are in this
people like Dwight.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
What's he mean by that?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, people like Dwight or people that aren't in his sports. No,
Juriche's name when he was here, Like, how do you
know the athletic directors?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh, there can be athletic directors known in markets like
Jurich was around here. Also, how many times did he
end up being the guy that would do like a
segment of the TV Like he'd be in the booth
with ESPN on Thursday night games. Yeah, and he would
just be a chance for him to take advantage of
that time and and and hype up Louisville. And it
worked and and let me tell you, people like to

(09:05):
white that right. Let me tell you at that time,
there was a ton of success. But they took the
the phrase work hard, play hard to the extreme, right.
I mean, it was fun to hang out with those
guys on road trips and and different events that are
happening around U of L. Jeorge made sure it was
a party for everybody, and so we were in it.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
It was.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
It was crazy. But any time you're successful, there is
I mean, any anytime you're comfortable, you're not growing, You're
not pushing it in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So I try to tell my kids that, look, if
you feel comfortable where you're at, it's not going to last.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Okay, I'm not gonna say it's too stupid.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
No, go ahead, No, it might be too stupid. No,
I think I think you should go out on a
limb and see.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm just now thinking this is just off the top
of my head. Yeah, good is the enemy of great. No,
I shouldn't have said that. I like that, is that right?
I think it's great, John Auden, can we blaze that
on a plate?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Dwight, Dwight yours was better because that that makes sense.
What Tony should have said was you gotta be comfortable
being uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Correct, correct, There was no time. I mean Dwight and
I fights on this guy. We fight after. They don't
under they don't know the fights that happen. He'll punch
me in the face. I might punch him in the face.
But that makes a successful show.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Oh yeah, it's it's a perfect, perfect arrangement. The duo
that is Tony.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
And Tom Jurich will be honored on June twenty eighth.
They have not chosen the street name yet. That's more
difficult than we would understand. On that campus or where
it's gonna.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
It'll be a street sign near Floyd Street that has
his name on it. That's I guess what we know
right now.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Is a dead end street.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
So we'll see Denny Crumb. Has Denny Crumb overpassed. I
can't think of anybody else that has a street on
U of L camp.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, there may be.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
They don't do Floyd Street. As far as athletics, I'm
not sure that's name after.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Floyd the barber.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
I wouldn't mind having that main strip from Denny Crumb
Pass to wherever Street where the campus is, and just
rename that, you know, Tom Jurrett's you know Avenue or
whatever I mean, because all that stuff is built because
he pushed all that when no one was putting money
into those programs.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, I wonder when it comes to renaming a street
like does does the Universe? Is that the university's property there?
Like would they? I mean, I'm sure you can go through.
I don't know. I don't even know what the process is.
The mayor is a fan, so I would think with
the mayor this, then you know, it sounds like you
can probably get around some things, right.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Metro town, so I don't think would have a problem
with it, right. I don't know who has to okay it,
but it's huge news because if you've been around this
town for any any length of time. I mean, he
was a force, not just at u of L, but
in the city. Oh when they built the Young Center
and him and Abram Center going at it, yelling at
each other, and he wanted you know, Tom kept saying,

(12:03):
we'll do it on campus.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Why don't need you?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
And that would have been a fun time to be
on the radio.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh boy, it was, it was.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
But the Young Center again, you don't build that thing
to make money. You build it because it makes your
town better. And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
There's so many Kentucky fans in this city. I'm a
Louisville fan, and I'm willing to acknowledge it. There's a
ton on both sides. That's why I think the rivalry
is just different here because we all co exist together.
But even Kentucky fans, if they were being honest, it
is good for the city if you have al athletics
is doing well, and they've had years where certain programs
aren't doing great. But just the fact that there've been

(12:40):
you're hosting super regionals for baseball, volleyball has been hosting,
i mean the host of the Final four, so those
are you know, it's good for the economy. Even if
you're on the blue side. Louisville is a better city,
a better place to live. It's better for everybody really,
even in down years because of the athletics department climbing
to what it did under Tom Jurch. I don't want
to give him all the credit right now. Certainly he's
been instrumental in.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, yes, okay, I do want to give you kudos
for securing that information and having his breaking news on
your show, because you went out on a limb.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
He was the mayor was in here. It was I
think mentioned and you.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Said, hey, let's do that on my show, right, So
I think I want to give you credit.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
You just started to show a couple of weeks ago
and you're already breaking news.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
They pulled me off the street, and I just came
in here and I got started to break some news.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Let me ask you about that Nick Coffee, Coffee and
Company of the Morning. So you get the call, you say, hey,
we're they tapped it, so you're gonna be our new
morning guy eight forty. Whis your excitement? But then eventually
the luster wears off and you're just looking at three
o'clock in the morning, wake up?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Why where? Why just pull the curtain back away?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
So late last week was where I finally felt like
I was adjusting. Yeah, but yeah, at three o'clock in
the morning when the alarm goes off, I think hopefully
from now until whenever they kicked me out of here,
I hope I have a long, long stay. But I
don't think it'll ever be easy to look at that
alarm clock or look at my phone at three am
and be like, yeah, let's start the day.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah, super cranking about seven or eight night.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
So yes, I have very my patience with my children
has disappeared.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'm talking about adderall uh so, a good living through chemistry.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
You've always given me great advice. I'll have to have
to find some of that anytime.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Son.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay, I'm proud of you. We're proud of you.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
I'm really blushing here. All right, So joke that you
don't have a joke, do you?

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Dad?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
You don't have a joke. Do want you give him
the joke? Do you have a joke?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's the funny guy on.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oh no, these are not funny. Oh we call it
the joke of the day.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah, all right, hey fellas well. I finally had to
go see my doctor, you know my doctor, doctor Scott Young.
I do want to see my doctor. He says, Dwight,
what's wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Said?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, Doctor Young, my butt hurts? He said, wait, butt hurts?
Be more specific? Where does it hurt? I said, well, doctor,
it hurts right here around the entrance. That's when doctor
Young says, well, that's the exit. As long as you
refer to it as the interest that's gonna continue to.

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Speaker 4 (17:04):
All she wants to.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Do is dance and make romance in my pants.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Or she could over in France.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay, thank you, you're so well, you're a poet.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
You are so welcome.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Or she wants to do.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
All she wants to do is party, which was the
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Speaker 2 (17:23):
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Speaker 4 (17:27):
Hey, uh so I don't have this on my far
superior Android phone, John Alden, what do you have?

Speaker 5 (17:34):
And I have an Android as well?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Okay, John, and I don't have this on our far
superior Andrews an Apple.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, got it all.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah, we figured you would be just about looking.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
At phone, watch, laptop, an iPad. So far it's uh.
But anyway, I didn't realize this. There's some kind of
crash detection. Uh, a feature on an iPhone.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
What's that mean where if you take if you take
a hit, it's gonna pick up that you've been in
some kind of you know, crash.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've had that for a while.
I thought, if it comes.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
To me, maybe they do. I don't know because we
have far superior phones. Evidently iPhones or the crash detection
is supposed to sit off calls to first responders when
it feels that you've been hit following or something like that.
Please estimate that seven hundred to one thousand extra calls
happened over the past year when they realized it was

(18:29):
people in mosh pits concerts, concerts. How they run around
it is so stupid, so fun, you know what else?
John hold on, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Look that's the thing. Nick will say the same thing.
I don't look like a mosh pig guy. But when
Louder than Life comes around each and every year, that
is those are my people. I don't dress like those people,
but they're my people.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Okay, let's first of all Philo's people.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
You're talking to one, and they are those I am
one of them.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Why would you want to punch somebody? I unders say,
it's dangerous, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (19:04):
It can't be if they swing their arms around and
he people know what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Let me tell you better have a strong achilles tendon
if you want to do that. But here's here's what
annoys me. Let's look at the flip side of that.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Okay, one thing that annoys him.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, you're what twenty seven? Yes, sir, okay, you're twenty seven.
I'm fifty seven. So let's flip that coin. You're sixty three, John,
I'll tell you stuff and confidence. Do you know what
confidence means? Means you don't blur down the radio? Almost
cussed addy, So anyway that annoys that doesn't The mos
pit really doesn't annoy me. But what does is crowdsurfing?

(19:39):
Like when during the autum's really bad, during all the
Cookie Monster bands, like, I get it, you want to
CrowdSurf and do your stupid in your twenties stuff. Do it?
But when Judas Priest comes on and the fifty seven
year olds want to walk up there. We shouldn't have
to worry about some lady's butt landing on our head
and cracking our neck.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I did the CrowdSurf. That was when the twelve state
troopers to arrest me. I did exciting to riot.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
I did it too, a pro jam with the gardens
and smashing pumpkins. But it was in the nineties when
you were supposed to do it.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
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Speaker 1 (20:11):
One of the big reasons was it does it won't
download a virus.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's impossible. It won't download a virus.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
So whatever website you have, remember you would go to
some questionable websites, and of course I would leave.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
My laptop up, and that's why people will go on
there and.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Job, we got to find an Apple virus to say.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
And and uh, it doesn't download virus. It's never had
a problem since I switched to Apple. List and I
know they're the evil Empire.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
I get it, but.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Especially when they were purposely having a program that would
reduce the length of your battery, so you would go
and get it. In New Gosh, they got caught doing that,
and we said, they said, yeah, we did that.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Well, my android just updated like you can only push
it off for so long. It does it on his own,
and I don't know. All it did was switch the
locations everything every I don't know how to find anything.
And then arbitrarily, you know your iPhone, your Android, you
know how you like your phone on bright, We're just
going to arbitrarily make it dim throughout the day.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, there's a warning at King's Island. I'll tell
you what that is when we get back from the break.
That's called a radio tease, such a tea. We're gonna
do news now though.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Right here.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
On News ahead.

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Speaker 4 (22:37):
Real quick, before we go to the news, john see
me Johnny from the newsroom Android user here, and we
have crash detection too.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Ago you tease something and I can't remember what it was,
but it was Kingslin.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah, kings Isilin And excuse me who is this, this
is the Killers?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
My wife likes the Killers. I don't know anything about them.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
This is this is kind of like the white person
anthem for millennials.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Maybe that's what about a story about a guy that's
broken up with a girl and he knows she's out
on another date and he's describing what the guy is
doing girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, I gotta.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Hear the song now, whoa wait a minute, you're just
figuring this out now about this song?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
The song?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Are you serious?

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I've never heard anything for the Killers, but now my wife,
my wife's uged Killers fan. So what's that say about
this song and her man?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Catholic charities at ten o'clock will talk about all the
great work they do with folks in Louisville. It is
a vast, vast swath of people that they take care of.
We're going to narrow it down and talk about what
they do here at ten o'clock. But right now, I
did tease the King's Island story. We all been to
King's Island? Oh yeah, I used to love that, loved going.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
To King's Island.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Uh, what did you do before cell phones? Just like, okay,
every hour or every other hour will meet you at the.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Tower clock, the tower, the Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
There's a giant clock out in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
So yeah, so that way, there's four sizes to the
Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Guys, you gotta be more specific if you're in Troop Witten.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
How many had the I Rode the Beast T shirts?

Speaker 4 (24:24):
I never had any T shirts from King's Island, but.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Too cool for it, I guess, no, even cooler if
you have a Son of Beast T shirt before that
thing shut down.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I was too broke for ity. Kim Is already twenty
five bucks to get in. But it's funny that I
couldn't imagine anything more fun in my youth than being
at King's Island.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
And we look forward to that absolutely. In the eighties
and nineties, it was a huge deal to go, and
I will tell.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
You, but now it seems like a nightmare too.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I'll tell you right well, you're fifty seven, yeah, or
sixty three, oh man and John, I will tell you this,
And I don't know if Dwight even know this. When
I first got in eighty nine to ninety ninety, King's
Island did this so they would do a soft open
before the summer summer would start, so they would send

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soft opening, so they would send passes to just the
media in Lexington, Cincinnati and Louisville.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
So we would go to King's Island. The whole station
would go to King's Island and it was nothing but
radio and TV people. So it's it's empty basically, and
they would be fully open. Every place would be open.
Every arrived and we would have the entire day to
get on and off. There was nobody there, so you
had the amusement park to yourself. And it was a
great marketing plan because everyone talked about their day at

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King's Island.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
See don't I never know what's true and what's not,
especially from the seventies and eighties. But the result. They
used to have grad Night where graduates would go up there,
just set up for graduates, right, but without it, without
fail every year out here, Oh some poor graduate fell
off the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
And I don't know, No, I don't, I don't think
so I never heard that story. It's got to be
an old wives tale, right, Okay, So King's Island is
still open, the amusing park visitors are advised to keep
their mouth closed on rides due to cicadas. I would
think the beast and any other thing going sixty seventy

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miles an hour and you catch one of those cicadas
in the forehead.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Through the woods, Oh mych god. Yeah you're okay.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Billions of red eyed brewed fort bugs have popped up
out of the ground around the park.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Billions around the park.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
They're all in the trees, filling the air with non
stop buzzing. So if you get on any of the rides,
make sure your mouth is clamped when you go to
kings That is not a good advertisement for King's Island.
What basics, don't come to the park. That's basically I mean,
think about it. Can you imagine if actually one because

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you're yelling, yeah yeah, your arms are up yeah, And.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Could you choke to death on one of those things?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
All right, yeah, of course you could.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh how irritated you try to look up? How much
longer for cicadas? How irritating is that all the park
all day? That's my house. I'm telling you, Uh, we
don't have any over in Saint Matthew's. I think they
are you serious?

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
They watch them. Well, they know if you want.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
We don't want to bother Trinity Hills, so they stay out.
We have a negotiation with them.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
We're gonna have to try and figure out how much
longer we have with cicadas, because.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, we used to make fun of it because every
single year they'd say this is the year of the cicadas,
and you're like, wait a minute, I thought it was
every seventeen years, but apparently this summer is really really bad.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, talking up to another stupid tourist, there's a van
events at van go oh created it was a crystal
is a priceless Swavarski crystal.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh I saw this idiot.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
It was named after Vincent van go and it was
destroyed by tourists after he sat on it. Video footage
shows the Italy. Yeah, in Italy, where are the finest
Swavorski crystal covered chairs come from? That's what they're known for.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
So you could see.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Have you seen the video? No, it's it's a it's
a husband and wife. He's dressed like darryl Isaacs. He's
got a shorts T shirt, jean shorts and like a
like a what is the Fannie pack? Yeah, so she says,
get closer, get closer, and he's going and in his defense,
there is no rope around it.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
But there's not a rope.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
No in common sense would tell you don't touch it
or God forbid. So he got real close like you
would have where you're like, you're acting like you're sitting
on it, but you're not. You're like, loosen it, no,
not on it, and he put a little weight on
it and it crumbled.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah. It says that his wife first pretends to sit
on the chair and he took her picture and then that,
and then the man actually puts his weight or some
of it on there. It promptly cracked. The artistic chair
crumbled to the floor. The couple can be seen running
from the room, and then the museum had doubts that

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it was going to be be repaired. But it can
be restored fully to its normal.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's why Europeans hate Us and drunk middle aged America.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
They still haven't found the couple.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think, well, they repaired it.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, they repaired it. The first thing I thought they
wouldn't be able to, but then they were.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, they repaired it, So I think they're just gonna
let it go. Because what are they gonna do because
it technically with no rope, and I don't know if
there's a sign that says don't touch, but it's kind
of implied if you're in a museum, don't touch stuff. Okay,
So they look like if you were trying, if you
went to AI and said, give me a middle aged

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no common sense, no self awareness couple from America. In Europe,
this picture would come up.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Was it was it? Tan overweight? Perfect Hey musical legend,
Louisville musical legend. Dave Williams chimes in on the King's
Island and he says, my sister Laura was a King's
Island with her friends in the seventies. One day happened
to be the day the Brady Budge we're filming their
episode Oh no way, she met Greg. It was probably

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around seventy three or seventy four, remember, because they get
the plans mixed up with a poster mister Brady's architectural blueprints.
Did you ever see the Brady Bunch movie.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Which one the one of the nineties, Yeah, the one
of the remake. The comedy of It's funny.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's funny because like they'll say, Raley's restaurant or quiz Nos.
We'll call on mister Brady's firm to you'll get plans
for Quizzo. Every plan he submits looks just like the
Brady Bunch house never has a side out there.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yes, all right, so busy morning already at eight forty
five this morning, Nick Coffee broke the news from the
mayor that they're going to name a street after Tom Jurich,
and he's reported he will be here on June twenty eighth,
sometime in the morning, I think ten am. They're going
to try to name a street after him on campus,

(31:26):
and it's well deserved.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I wonder if at some point during the show we
should take calls not a bad idea? What's your opinion
on the street.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
It's not a bad idea, I will say.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Also, we have coach Suzanne Whitten. She's one of them,
their successful Wittings that I'll look up to. She's the
head coach of Assumption. They just won the state championship.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I wonder what the odds of either all any of
us three could take a hit, you know, get a
hit off their top pitcher.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
No, I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
I don't think so. I could try, but I doubt it.
Suzanne used to be a picture. That's what she did.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, maybe get can get contact on it, but it's
coming at you pretty fast. And then I forgot that
they used to be slow pitch, that girls were slow
pitch softball, and I don't think they had both. I
think they just switched from slow pitch to fastball.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
When was that?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Because it's a great question a long time.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Ago, because Suzanne Witten was one of the pop ones.
You know, well, that's the noise of softball.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
And how old is she? You think, Uh, oh, that's
a question.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
You're getting smarter by the moment.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Next question, I will say, the guys, how you feeling
around one o'clock in the afternoon, starting to take a dip?
What about when you get off work? Are you getting
out hanging with the family, getting things done, or you're
going straight to the couch and watching Alice reruns. That
used to be me. I would go straight to bed
some days. It wasn't fair to me, it wasn't fair
to my wife. I had my testosterone checked and man,

(32:52):
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Actually, Susan is regretted that you went there, but she
does regret that I went there.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Back after this, top of the hour, we're going to
talk to Catholic charities and all the great work they
do in the community.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Back after this on news Radio eight forty wh