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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. We're going to take a time out from
our phone calls. It's been two hours of people venting
on our radio show, including the originator of hay Day,
which was Adam Neff calling from Columbus.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It was good to catch up with him.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are going to take a time out because our
very or maybe our most important partner for the last
fifteen years has been the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety,
and every summer we do a summer Safe Driving series
just to sort of double down on the reminders of
the implications of making bad decisions when it comes to
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driving your car, driving a boat. Doesn't matter if you
have a vehicle or whatever. You're doing to do the
right thing. And it's easy to do the right thing
with just good decisions.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And we want to bring in Melissa because August third
through the ninth is national stop on Red Week and
unfortunately she's been affected by this while pregnant. First of all,
good morning, are you are you don Melissa?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Good morning, Good morning today.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We're doing good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We're doing good. And listen, we're grateful for you to
spend some time with us this morning, and we're even
more grateful that you're willing to tell your story about
your tragic loss because this is something that you see daily, unfortunately,
and it needs to be walked back. Can you share
your personal story of losing your husband, Mark, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And thank you so much, because that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We all need to mindfully drive, and we were all
road users and we can do obey all traffic laws
all the time if we want to.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We've got that power, So thank you so much. So yes.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
In two thousand and three, my husband and I were
nine months pregnant with our daughter when he simply left,
he and my brother to go get a quick little
bite to eat and on their way when he was
I decided not to go because of the pregnancy. I
did not feel good. And he said, but I love you, mlss,
and I'm going to miss you. And I said, and
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I'll miss you too, silly, But we've got the rest
of our lives together. And we've only been married a
year and five days, nine months pregnant, and I got
that call that nobody wants to call get and you
remember it twenty one years later, I stand here and
I see myself at that intersection. I got that phone
call that I was needed a mile down the road
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at the intersection and my husband and my brother.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
My brother was the driver, my husband was the passenger.
They were stopped at a red light.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
My brother proceeded through the intersection on a green light
when a driver traveling more than forty eight to fifty
two miles an hour ran the light, t boned my
brother's car, unfortunately instantly killing my husband and seriously injuring
my brother. And he's fifty one years old and he
is debilitated emotionally and physically today from that crash. And
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I have a twenty one year old that never knew
her dad. So my m flight my advocacy in such
a beautiful way, not a hateful way, and a loving
way is I don't want other people to walk in
my shoes that they don't have to. So it was
necessary for me to pick up the pieces right away
and try to find a way to get people to
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understand and mindfully drive, walk.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Bike all road users.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It's so important because this can happen to anybody at
any moment.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It hits home for me because my son was born
in two thousand and three and I'm thinking of he's
twenty one now and I can't imagine doing this journey
without Jackie or her without me. So I'm a little
emotional at this point listening to the words. And what
hit me originally was when you said, because it's weird
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that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
People know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Why would he say, hey, i'll miss you and you say, okay, silly,
I'll miss you too, in that exchange back and forth,
like there was something you know, It's just it's it's
just it's amazing how our brains and our and our
souls work. What kind of guy? What kind of yeah,
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what kind of guy was Mark?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He was beautiful, He was a financial advisor. He was
an athlete. He actually went to University of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, yes he did. He played rugby for a little bit. Yes,
very tough, very tough.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
He this is what I'm gonna I'm gonna sum it
up into. And this is what's the hardest part of
all is that he wanted to be a dad more
than I wanted to be a mom.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And that's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
He knew in high school that he wanted to be
a dad, and he wanted to name his daughter Madison.
And he was that kind of guy that wouldn't hurt
a flee, But if he saw somebody beating up a
dog or a person, he'd have a you'd have a real.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Big problem with him. So very very loving, very kind.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The only person in my life I ever needed, truly
the love of my life, and I was his, and
I knew that in it. We did the hard work
before we got married, and so we were excited about
our future, and in one second, all of that just
got wiped They got wiped out in less than a
second because of somebody else's decision to run a light.
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And the last defense a year prior was running a
red light and.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Being ticketed for it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
This time, then I only take a ticket that they
take a life, and you know it's it's He did
not deserve to die at that intersection that night. And
my brother doesn't deserve to be debilitated, and my daughter
certainly does not deserve not to have a dad in
this life. They need Our kids need all the love
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and help that they can get.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They need two parents.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know that, and listen, Melissa. First, I want to
thank you again for telling your story about a couple
of things that jump out to me. Number one is
you lost your husband. He was in grade shape, very
tough guy. I know rugby players. Man, that's not for
the faint of heart. All these guys are tough. But
on top of that, it wasn't really excessive speed. It
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was forty eight to fifty miles an hour. That's all
it took to basically take two lives on one on
one day. So if you're listening out there, it's a plea.
Every driver needs to be part of this solution because
seconds can just change your life forever.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
In less than a second. Everybody that's listening right now,
blink your eyes. That's exactly that's what it is. You
blink your eyes, and your life, the trajectory of your
life changes. My daughter was not even born yet, two
and a half weeks from being born, and her future
changed in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And you look at that, and those are the decisions
that we're making out there on our roadways.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We live in a society of anxiousness. We live in
a society where people forget that they're in their cars,
or that they're walking in a crosswalk, or that they're biking,
or that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
They're on a motorcycle.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Everybody is selfish on our roadways. Excuse me, and that
is what is taking our lives and good people, good
people are making bad choices and unintentionally altering the lives
of others and altering the lives of themselves as well,
because when you seriously injure or kill somebody, it's your
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life completely changes as well for the rest of your life.
You'll never be able to if you're any person, you'll
never be able to get through that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeahs and look in the facts are most red lights
are sixty seconds. So you're saving sixty seconds because you're
baring through the red light because you can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
People do it all the time. They're in a hurry
because this You're exactly right, this this form of society
with email and our phones and text message, everyone needs
an answer. Now I have to be to this place now. No,
you don't, No, you don't guess what happens. Life goes
on if you're not there. You know in the time
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that you want to. I've learned, Melissa, that I used
to rush on the expressway. You know, we drive on
the expressway. We'd have trips to Indianapolis or wherever. And
I have that I have that weighs app and I
learned that driving eighty five miles an hour or seventy
five miles an hour gets me to Indianapolis at the
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exact same time.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Or how that works, but it's that is the bottom line.
I stop speeding on the expressway because it doesn't give
me any extra time. Somehow it all works out that
you get there at the exact same time that you
would have if you're driving at seventy five. Slow down,
stop at the red light, take a breath, and guess
what the world will go on because you're not there
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sixty seconds earlier than you were supposed to.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Melissen, Absolutely absolutely, And at the end of the day,
you don't you know when we do that, we drive
down insatiable heartache on our roadways. We all want to
be a part of the solution. One of the quick
things that I'll say is that when this all this happened,
I did pass a bill in the state of Florida,
the Markwanda Traffic Safety Apps that allows for red light
safety cameras, and I learned so much from them. And
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the thing is, it's a we are breaking safety laws
by running those red lights every day, those red light
cameras are a safety net to help protect us.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's an extra layer.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And some people are still running that light. So I
just ask people to look at their most precious loved ones.
You could run that light and you could kill a stranger,
or you could kill your own loved one. And we
have to be mindful of.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Tony mentioned using ways. I use ways as well. But
here's one thing I do is, uh, I sent my
GPS way before I even pull out of the driveway.
First thing I do. Even when I come to work,
I go the same route, but I just hit the
work address and I see what traffic is like. If
you're going to use GPS, just do it the second
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that you get in the car. Don't wait till your driving.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's preventable.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Do the GPS.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's prevental.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All of this is preventable.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, and Melissa, that's what's frustrated about your story is
like you get cancer, you get cancer, but this one
is you can't prevent that. But but this is something
you prevent. And you know what, you are a fantastic spokesperson.
And I'm so glad that you got bid, that you
got some legislation done. It's a miracle we get any
legislation done these.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Days and a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I can't guarantee it. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm spitting in my face. But where when it's all good?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You know, Because at the end of the day, it's
about the people that you want to say.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Then it's about not letting other people walk in your
shoes for what you know, you know, you truly want
to be.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
That's what resilience is. You want to be a part
of the solution. You don't want to be a part
of the problem. And I didn't want to be a
broken mommy. My love with my husband deserves so much
more than just you know, falling and giving away to
that crash that night. And I really do not want
other people going through that. And that's not just a saying.
That's the truth because it's twenty one plus years later
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and I my life is moving every day, but it
is hard. I still wake up every day just wondering
what our lives would have been.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Like, well, you're saving lives.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're saving lives and how many And you can't qualify it,
but you've saved lives because people are stopping because of
the legislation you pass and for our listenership, you're going
to think of Melissa and Mark and her daughter every
time that you're thinking about running a red light.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You're not gonna do it. Melissa. We love you and
thank you for your message.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Thank you, thank you. We'll keep doing great things. Keep
doing great things, and have a love day, not just
to hate day.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The problem is no one calls on love day.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's crack.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Tell me I will get people to college.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Okay, okay, we listen. Thank you so much. There you go,
have a good day, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You too. What a fantastic human being.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, we're gonna take a short break because we got
to do reeling in the years because obviously people are upset.
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We don't have it, John, do you have that ready
to go?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
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Okay?
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
We'll take more phone calls next. Plus, Marty Book's gonna
call in. I did a thing yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We'll talk about it. News Radio eight forty. You h as.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Obviously Nirvana what's the song I Hate myself and want
to die?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh my gosh, it's hate day.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That was basically every grunge lead singer.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Sous I'd like to play that on picnics.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You have no idea working in radio and seeing the
shift of hair bands whereas just let's have fun and
drink a whole dish and wreck a hotel. Let's have fun,
and then the shift to grunge. That was they literally
would come in and slouch in their chairms like I
hate myself.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Well, there's a reason that Kurt Cobain, Lane Stay, Chris
Cornell are all dead right.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, it's funny because you would you would have legendary
rock stars come in, you know, and I'm sorry just
for the listener out there, iconic. You would have legendary
rock stars come in and they were nice, they were cardial.
You say, hey, could we get an acoustic song?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Sure? Then this new grunge they started coming in and
they would be just why would you ask us? Why
would why would why would we want to talk about
our new record? Geez, I don't know why are you
even here?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You take.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It was the worst, here's the worst. So you know,
the band Bush everything then early nineties. So we were
the first person.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
People to play their song.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We and to have them in concert in the United
States of America. It was ah it was called what
was it called? It was the Q two something that
whatever it was. We bring them in to play. It
was their first appearance in the United States. I had
to pick them up the airport. I get a fifteen
passer van, I pick them up. These guys are great.
Go out to eat with us. Da da Da Da
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da da. They're really really good guys, great guys. Well,
on the Sunday of the show, they said, we're not
going to play because we don't think then they're the headliner.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
What you go, High Fight playing on this high.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Fight five system, And they said, uh, we're not gonna play.
So I go back to our program director.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I said, hey, stop, I'm gonna stop you, all right,
because the real lead story here is the fact that
they were so new at being a star. They had
never flown overseas before, and they had the they had
to flush their marijuana down the toilet at the airport.
So when they got here they called us, remember Dwight
ied to go pick them up. Yep, and they wanted
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us to buy them weed. What we did, I mean,
I mean, I mean so so it was we had
a person that worked for us that used to grow
his own and they had a nickname. The weed had
a nickname, and they took it to him. Well, these
guys had never smoked any Kentucky marijuana before. I mean,
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I think of the marijuana grown in England.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The nickname was danger.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I didn't want to out them, uh so they they partaked, okay,
They took them to Ditto's on Bartstown Road for a meal.
They couldn't speak because they had never smoked anything like that.
Wow Kentucky stuff. But that's the lead on that. And
they were nice guys, but they did the this is
a hi fi system.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm not playing. That is one of my hate lists.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I have a whole hate little list for today, and
one of them was I hate people that work their
entire lives to become rich and famous and then hate
the fact that they're rich and famous. Yeah, it's like,
wait a minute, didn't you work for this? Like you
you worked for all the money and the fame and
the money, and now you.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Hate that fact of your life. It's like what what?
So strange.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I feel like they like the recognition, but they don't
like people chasing them around all the time. They don't
like people. They don't like having to worry about all
that money, the financial aspect of all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well that's okay, Well that's case in point older entertainers,
they were genuine. For example, Jim Well, Jim Bullet, Jim
Bullow with W Kim who I worked with Sam Kennison
came to town and he took Sam Kennison out. He
took he took Sam Kennison out, and then at one point,
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Sam Kennison tells Jim Bullet pulling the steak and shake,
pulling the steak and shake. So Sam Kennison walks into
steak and Shake. Everybody recognizes that. He comes running out.
Everyone in the restaurant exits the restaurant and starts chasing him.
He starts going, he starts going, I'm the Beatles to
your to your point.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Stephn Tyler, even as big as they were with Aerosmith,
would come to the radio station. Ozzy Osbourne stayed with
our music director Duke Duke Meyer. He stayed with him
at his house. They they understood the value of radio
and those older rockers would bend over backwards to do
anything the radio station wanted from them. And then that
generation a grunge came in where they hated themselves for
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being successful selling more than four albums and four T shirts.
And they hated themselves by the way. They didn't bathe either.
They were very stinky. It was just it was a shift,
if you would in in in the way people acted.
These famous people acted. But I did something yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You did.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, I'm waiting for him to call it beautiful truck.
Did I send you a picture or you just salting
the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Send me a picture?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Ye, John, I did not see it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I was here before you, So I didn't tell my
wife what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm going over to do videos.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It cares for that man.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I went over there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, Marty's on the phone now, Marty, I So I
didn't tell Jackie. I said, I'm doing some videos with
Marty like I usually do. And she was like, oh okay,
And I said, and I might look at what they have.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
With the F one fifties. She goes, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
About an hour and a half I was on the
lot and I got a text about halfway three through
when you and I are hanging out and she goes,
are you buying a truck? And I said, I waited
to answer when I was two minutes from the driveway
and said, well, I'll be pulling it in the driveway
in two minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You can come out and look at it. Yesterday. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
In all fairness, she gets a new truck or a
new car every three years because of her job. She
gets a company car every three years, so she doesn't
know what it's like. This is my first new car
purchase since I was twenty three years old.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
All right, So what.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
You done? Good man? And I tell you, folks, if
you look on Facebook, look on Tony's, look on mine.
Look at this truck, guys. And it's got blackout wheels.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So cool, it's slick.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It is a brand new twenty twenty five Ford F
one fifty four by four. And I, man, I'm telling you,
I haven't owned a brand new I always buy something
that's three or four years old, and I haven't done.
I haven't done what I did yesterday since I was
twenty three. But the only reason I did it, Marty,
was because I leased it. It was no money down
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five hundred a month. I can't pass that up. I
gotta tell you, if I buy that thing, it's way
more than five hundred dollars a month, Marty.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It's about eleven hundred dollars a month. Here's the thing
pitted on the mousie drive. You know it fits for
certain people. I mean, and look, you never spend any money.
You're always in warranty. They got the maintenance program now,
so you never spend anything. I tell you, this is funny.
People ask me. You know, advertising is tough. You know,
you can't really the salesperson doesn't care when somebody walks
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in the door how they come in the door, right,
So it's hard to judge if stuff's working. I know
one time, one time, our segment on this show sold
a truck because I told everybody about the four ninety
nine a month, three year lease and everything. Soon as
we went off the air and Tony sends me a
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text and says, are you bleeping with me? And I said, no,
that's really what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I did I test it, said is that really the deal?
Or you are you with me? He said no, that's
the deal, and I said, well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
It works so for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We know for a for a fact.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
All right, advertising works.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Now if you don't want to if you don't want
the truck I got, which is just so awesome, and
you're right, he's got the blackout wheels, he's got the
it is four by four. It is the next level.
I can start the thing with my phone, you know,
like right now, if it's in the winter and I'm
in the studio, my car is in the parking lot,
I can start it up with my phone and have
it warmed up before I get there. It is just
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a badass truck.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If you want something like the smaller Bronco or or
the Escape, right, you could go to the three ninety
nine deal.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yep, three ninety nine, same deal. Nothing down to your
free maintenance, you know, four hundred bucks a month. You're
buying something that's built right here in Wouisville, Kentucky. We
need to suport the Escape. It's gonna be a short
window in the twenty twenty six. Often there's talk about,
you know, is it gonna stay or whatever. That's what
these folks do here in Louisville, Kentucky has built the Escape.
It's a it's a great vehicle. My mom's driven them
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for however, since they came out, they fit so many
people so well out there and you got four by
four or you go pro wheel drive and just it's
just a vehicle that fits people and it fits a budget. Look, guys,
there's no there's no two hundred dollars month payments anymore.
There's just not no, you know. And there's there's no
nine ninecent gas. Yeah, there's just certain things when we
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was younger, they ain't happening anymore. But if you're gonna
buy certain things, you're gonna pay eight nine hundred, twelve
hundred dollars a month. If a lease program fits a year,
if you can keep under ten twelve fifteen thousand dollars
a year, you know, and it fits you, you can
make a payment work, and you can drive a hell
of a vehicle. And that's that's really what it's all met.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, and I'm overjoyed, and a lot of people are
in my boat. My kids are in their twenties now.
I did not buy a new car truck because I
couldn't afford it. I was raising my kids and I
was spending money on my kids, which is what you're
supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And I just so I drive.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I drive lesser cars because I did, but I did
my biggest My biggest joy yesterday was I traded in
my Explorer and I traded Explore in with the Purdue
two Purdue stickers on the windows. And I got so
much joy in looking at your face when you had
to accept that car with the produced to car.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Folks, you have no idea. See, he doesn't understand. I
made things happen so fast. His head was spinning.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I swear it did.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
His trading in was worth at least one thousand dollars
more until I saw those stickers. Yeah, and so you
know you can't you can't put a price on something
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So anyway, uh yes, but yeah, uh but my kids.
I sent them pictures to my kids because they have
never seen me with a new new truck like that,
and they were like, you got a new truck. They
were so happy for me. It's it's uh now Mom's
always got something new, but dad's never had it. But no,
you got this deal going on zero percent financing. If
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you want to buy the car for forty eight months,
two years maintenance plan and your payment isn't due for
ninety days, but I went the lease route. I'm telling you,
if you can keep it under ten thousand, five hundred
miles a year, this deal, and I already got the number,
I'm gonna pay for it in three years if I
want to buy it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's a that's a here's here's the price of the truck.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
If you want to buy it in three years, I
will probably I'll probably do another lease and get another
new truck, but if that option is open, I might
do that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So it's a it's a great I'm telling.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You go up. Yeah, you can go up to you can.
You can also sign up for twelve thousand, five hundred
or fifteen thousand, so it doesn't have to be ten
five minutes, right, payment a little bit, right, but you
can still keep it, you know. It just whatever adjusts
to what you do. Yeah, you know there's people. I
got people that come back in three years to think
it's got nine thousand miles. They're like, I just don't
drive right, you know that must I got a buddy
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that lives right by his work, you know that. I Mean,
it's just that there's different people that that it fits.
And so if you can make it work, and if
you can't, what the hell, come in. We'll give you
the money for free, zero percent.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Let me tell you. And you know me. You know me, dude,
you know me.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm a crusty old radio guy that don't believe anything, right,
I just you. You learn in this business of being
in news and sports, you don't let you don't. You
don't believe anything. This is the best car and truck
deal I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I didn't even I didn't blink.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I pulled in there and I said, well, I texted
first and said I'm doing that today. So before you
even drive it, I said, I'm gonna do this today.
I knew you can't pass up deals like this.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Carriage Forward, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Carriage forward dot com. It's it's real, that's what you know. Sometimes.
You know, they taught us back in the day that
you know, a sales, a state of mind or whatever.
You know. I remember this restaurant that we used to
go to that have specially today, there's like twelve ninety
nine for this. I looked on the menu. It was
freaking twelve ninety nine anyway, just but people would order it.
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It's a state of mind or whatever. Where was the
name that there was that rib places born?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, I know which way you're talking
about the best deal. And I can't believe you never
went to this one. My mother used to take my
kids every Wednesday to Oh Charlie's because it was free
pie Wednesday, and you would get a free slice of pie.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
We'd get three slices of pie for the kids in
her and they thought that was the greatest thing ever,
is getting a slice of free pie.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And they were slammed.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If you in a restaurant do free pie Wednesdays, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
All right right, I'm felling you to roll that dough man.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It works all right.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, we'll usually talk about sports and life and everything else,
but we ran out of time talking about cars and trucks.
I appreciate you and Derek and everybody over there for
taking care of me. It really is a family operation
over there. Everybody it's worked there is worked there forever.
So they all know me and I know them, and
you got a real family over there, and I appreciate
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you take care of me yesterday, Marty.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
I appreciate you taking care of us. Tony. This this friendship.
Wull go as long as I'm around, I say that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Brother, Yes, sir, all right, loveybody, talk to you soon.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Love you too. Man. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's Marty book from Earl Books, Carriage Forward. It's best
to buy a country mile. Uh, don't forget if you're
getting a new roof Christian Brother's roofing. I just got
my roof fixed with them. They sent me the the estimate.
I said okay, and I paid it online about ten
minutes ago, so it was real clean and I didn't
have to be at the house when they fixed the roof.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The Uh map security. I just talked to Stan More.
He is the owner of that.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
He runs a kitchen h feeding feeding homeless people in Jeffersonville.
It's about two hundred people a day and they've run
out of money, so they're gonna come on the air
and talk about that. But he runs maps Residential dot
Com dude, so if you need a security system, go
to maps Residential dot com.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All right, Ah, there's the play.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Brothers.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We'll do Climb Brothers tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I want to make sure they get a good climblockx
dot com back after this with the boys.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh, we're done.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We're done.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Thank you John for doing a great job today. Thanks
everybody they called for Hate Day.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thank you Austin Montgomery and Homy. I love you mom.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Maybe we try Love Day.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No no, no no no no, you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I'm stupid. News Radio Way forty w h a is
have a great day.
Welcome back. We're going to take a time out from
our phone calls. It's been two hours of people venting
on our radio show, including the originator of hay Day,
which was Adam Neff calling from Columbus.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It was good to catch up with him.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are going to take a time out because our
very or maybe our most important partner for the last
fifteen years has been the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety,
and every summer we do a summer Safe Driving series
just to sort of double down on the reminders of
the implications of making bad decisions when it comes to
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driving your car, driving a boat. Doesn't matter if you
have a vehicle or whatever. You're doing to do the
right thing. And it's easy to do the right thing
with just good decisions.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And we want to bring in Melissa because August third
through the ninth is national stop on Red Week and
unfortunately she's been affected by this while pregnant. First of all,
good morning, are you are you don Melissa?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Good morning, Good morning today.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We're doing good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We're doing good. And listen, we're grateful for you to
spend some time with us this morning, and we're even
more grateful that you're willing to tell your story about
your tragic loss because this is something that you see daily, unfortunately,
and it needs to be walked back. Can you share
your personal story of losing your husband, Mark, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And thank you so much, because that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We all need to mindfully drive, and we were all
road users and we can do obey all traffic laws
all the time if we want to.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We've got that power, So thank you so much. So yes.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
In two thousand and three, my husband and I were
nine months pregnant with our daughter when he simply left,
he and my brother to go get a quick little
bite to eat and on their way when he was
I decided not to go because of the pregnancy. I
did not feel good. And he said, but I love you, mlss,
and I'm going to miss you. And I said, and
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I'll miss you too, silly, But we've got the rest
of our lives together. And we've only been married a
year and five days, nine months pregnant, and I got
that call that nobody wants to call get and you
remember it twenty one years later, I stand here and
I see myself at that intersection. I got that phone
call that I was needed a mile down the road
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at the intersection and my husband and my brother.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
My brother was the driver, my husband was the passenger.
They were stopped at a red light.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
My brother proceeded through the intersection on a green light
when a driver traveling more than forty eight to fifty
two miles an hour ran the light, t boned my
brother's car, unfortunately instantly killing my husband and seriously injuring
my brother. And he's fifty one years old and he
is debilitated emotionally and physically today from that crash. And
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I have a twenty one year old that never knew
her dad. So my m flight my advocacy in such
a beautiful way, not a hateful way, and a loving
way is I don't want other people to walk in
my shoes that they don't have to. So it was
necessary for me to pick up the pieces right away
and try to find a way to get people to
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understand and mindfully drive, walk.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Bike all road users.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It's so important because this can happen to anybody at
any moment.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It hits home for me because my son was born
in two thousand and three and I'm thinking of he's
twenty one now and I can't imagine doing this journey
without Jackie or her without me. So I'm a little
emotional at this point listening to the words. And what
hit me originally was when you said, because it's weird
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that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
People know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Why would he say, hey, i'll miss you and you say, okay, silly,
I'll miss you too, in that exchange back and forth,
like there was something you know, It's just it's it's
just it's amazing how our brains and our and our
souls work. What kind of guy? What kind of yeah,
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what kind of guy was Mark?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He was beautiful, He was a financial advisor. He was
an athlete. He actually went to University of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yes, yes he did. He played rugby for a little bit. Yes,
very tough, very tough.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
He this is what I'm gonna I'm gonna sum it
up into. And this is what's the hardest part of
all is that he wanted to be a dad more
than I wanted to be a mom.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And that's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
He knew in high school that he wanted to be
a dad, and he wanted to name his daughter Madison.
And he was that kind of guy that wouldn't hurt
a flee, But if he saw somebody beating up a
dog or a person, he'd have a you'd have a real.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Big problem with him. So very very loving, very kind.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The only person in my life I ever needed, truly
the love of my life, and I was his, and
I knew that in it. We did the hard work
before we got married, and so we were excited about
our future, and in one second, all of that just
got wiped They got wiped out in less than a
second because of somebody else's decision to run a light.
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And the last defense a year prior was running a
red light and.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Being ticketed for it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
This time, then I only take a ticket that they
take a life, and you know it's it's He did
not deserve to die at that intersection that night. And
my brother doesn't deserve to be debilitated, and my daughter
certainly does not deserve not to have a dad in
this life. They need Our kids need all the love
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and help that they can get.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They need two parents.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know that, and listen, Melissa. First, I want to
thank you again for telling your story about a couple
of things that jump out to me. Number one is
you lost your husband. He was in grade shape, very
tough guy. I know rugby players. Man, that's not for
the faint of heart. All these guys are tough. But
on top of that, it wasn't really excessive speed. It
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was forty eight to fifty miles an hour. That's all
it took to basically take two lives on one on
one day. So if you're listening out there, it's a plea.
Every driver needs to be part of this solution because
seconds can just change your life forever.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
In less than a second. Everybody that's listening right now,
blink your eyes. That's exactly that's what it is. You
blink your eyes, and your life, the trajectory of your
life changes. My daughter was not even born yet, two
and a half weeks from being born, and her future
changed in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And you look at that, and those are the decisions
that we're making out there on our roadways.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We live in a society of anxiousness. We live in
a society where people forget that they're in their cars,
or that they're walking in a crosswalk, or that they're biking,
or that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
They're on a motorcycle.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Everybody is selfish on our roadways. Excuse me, and that
is what is taking our lives and good people, good
people are making bad choices and unintentionally altering the lives
of others and altering the lives of themselves as well,
because when you seriously injure or kill somebody, it's your
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life completely changes as well for the rest of your life.
You'll never be able to if you're any person, you'll
never be able to get through that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeahs and look in the facts are most red lights
are sixty seconds. So you're saving sixty seconds because you're
baring through the red light because you can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
People do it all the time. They're in a hurry
because this You're exactly right, this this form of society
with email and our phones and text message, everyone needs
an answer. Now I have to be to this place now. No,
you don't, No, you don't guess what happens. Life goes
on if you're not there. You know in the time
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that you want to. I've learned, Melissa, that I used
to rush on the expressway. You know, we drive on
the expressway. We'd have trips to Indianapolis or wherever. And
I have that I have that weighs app and I
learned that driving eighty five miles an hour or seventy
five miles an hour gets me to Indianapolis at the
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exact same time.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Or how that works, but it's that is the bottom line.
I stop speeding on the expressway because it doesn't give
me any extra time. Somehow it all works out that
you get there at the exact same time that you
would have if you're driving at seventy five. Slow down,
stop at the red light, take a breath, and guess
what the world will go on because you're not there
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sixty seconds earlier than you were supposed to.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Melissen, Absolutely absolutely, And at the end of the day,
you don't you know when we do that, we drive
down insatiable heartache on our roadways. We all want to
be a part of the solution. One of the quick
things that I'll say is that when this all this happened,
I did pass a bill in the state of Florida,
the Markwanda Traffic Safety Apps that allows for red light
safety cameras, and I learned so much from them. And
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the thing is, it's a we are breaking safety laws
by running those red lights every day, those red light
cameras are a safety net to help protect us.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's an extra layer.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And some people are still running that light. So I
just ask people to look at their most precious loved ones.
You could run that light and you could kill a stranger,
or you could kill your own loved one. And we
have to be mindful of.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Tony mentioned using ways. I use ways as well. But
here's one thing I do is, uh, I sent my
GPS way before I even pull out of the driveway.
First thing I do. Even when I come to work,
I go the same route, but I just hit the
work address and I see what traffic is like. If
you're going to use GPS, just do it the second
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that you get in the car. Don't wait till your driving.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's preventable.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Do the GPS.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's prevental.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All of this is preventable.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, and Melissa, that's what's frustrated about your story is
like you get cancer, you get cancer, but this one
is you can't prevent that. But but this is something
you prevent. And you know what, you are a fantastic spokesperson.
And I'm so glad that you got bid, that you
got some legislation done. It's a miracle we get any
legislation done these.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Days and a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I can't guarantee it. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm spitting in my face. But where when it's all good?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You know, Because at the end of the day, it's
about the people that you want to say.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Then it's about not letting other people walk in your
shoes for what you know, you know, you truly want
to be.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
That's what resilience is. You want to be a part
of the solution. You don't want to be a part
of the problem. And I didn't want to be a
broken mommy. My love with my husband deserves so much
more than just you know, falling and giving away to
that crash that night. And I really do not want
other people going through that. And that's not just a saying.
That's the truth because it's twenty one plus years later
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and I my life is moving every day, but it
is hard. I still wake up every day just wondering
what our lives would have been.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Like, well, you're saving lives.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You're saving lives and how many And you can't qualify it,
but you've saved lives because people are stopping because of
the legislation you pass and for our listenership, you're going
to think of Melissa and Mark and her daughter every
time that you're thinking about running a red light.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You're not gonna do it. Melissa. We love you and
thank you for your message.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Thank you, thank you. We'll keep doing great things. Keep
doing great things, and have a love day, not just
to hate day.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The problem is no one calls on love day.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's crack.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Tell me I will get people to college.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Okay, okay, we listen. Thank you so much. There you go,
have a good day, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You too. What a fantastic human being.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, we're gonna take a short break because we got
to do reeling in the years because obviously people are upset.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We don't have it, John, do you have that ready
to go?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Okay?
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Right, I knew it that it can kind of explain
something though of course if I could have had brain
food like skinny pop it's good. This crap. What the
hell is pop corners?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Man, it's delicious, No, it's not.
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
We'll take more phone calls next. Plus, Marty Book's gonna
call in. I did a thing yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We'll talk about it. News Radio eight forty. You h as.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Obviously Nirvana what's the song I Hate myself and want
to die?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh my gosh, it's hate day.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That was basically every grunge lead singer.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Sous I'd like to play that on picnics.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You have no idea working in radio and seeing the
shift of hair bands whereas just let's have fun and
drink a whole dish and wreck a hotel. Let's have fun,
and then the shift to grunge. That was they literally
would come in and slouch in their chairms like I
hate myself.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Well, there's a reason that Kurt Cobain, Lane Stay, Chris
Cornell are all dead right.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, it's funny because you would you would have legendary
rock stars come in, you know, and I'm sorry just
for the listener out there, iconic. You would have legendary
rock stars come in and they were nice, they were cardial.
You say, hey, could we get an acoustic song?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Sure? Then this new grunge they started coming in and
they would be just why would you ask us? Why
would why would why would we want to talk about
our new record? Geez, I don't know why are you
even here?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You take.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It was the worst, here's the worst. So you know,
the band Bush everything then early nineties. So we were
the first person.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
People to play their song.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We and to have them in concert in the United
States of America. It was ah it was called what
was it called? It was the Q two something that
whatever it was. We bring them in to play. It
was their first appearance in the United States. I had
to pick them up the airport. I get a fifteen
passer van, I pick them up. These guys are great.
Go out to eat with us. Da da Da Da
(17:46):
da da. They're really really good guys, great guys. Well,
on the Sunday of the show, they said, we're not
going to play because we don't think then they're the headliner.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
What you go, High Fight playing on this high.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Fight five system, And they said, uh, we're not gonna play.
So I go back to our program director.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I said, hey, stop, I'm gonna stop you, all right,
because the real lead story here is the fact that
they were so new at being a star. They had
never flown overseas before, and they had the they had
to flush their marijuana down the toilet at the airport.
So when they got here they called us, remember Dwight
ied to go pick them up. Yep, and they wanted
(18:27):
us to buy them weed. What we did, I mean,
I mean, I mean so so it was we had
a person that worked for us that used to grow
his own and they had a nickname. The weed had
a nickname, and they took it to him. Well, these
guys had never smoked any Kentucky marijuana before. I mean,
(18:47):
I think of the marijuana grown in England.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The nickname was danger.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I didn't want to out them, uh so they they partaked, okay,
They took them to Ditto's on Bartstown Road for a meal.
They couldn't speak because they had never smoked anything like that.
Wow Kentucky stuff. But that's the lead on that. And
they were nice guys, but they did the this is
a hi fi system.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I'm not playing. That is one of my hate lists.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I have a whole hate little list for today, and
one of them was I hate people that work their
entire lives to become rich and famous and then hate
the fact that they're rich and famous. Yeah, it's like,
wait a minute, didn't you work for this? Like you
you worked for all the money and the fame and
the money, and now you.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Hate that fact of your life. It's like what what?
So strange.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I feel like they like the recognition, but they don't
like people chasing them around all the time. They don't
like people. They don't like having to worry about all
that money, the financial aspect of all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well that's okay, Well that's case in point older entertainers,
they were genuine. For example, Jim Well, Jim Bullet, Jim
Bullow with W Kim who I worked with Sam Kennison
came to town and he took Sam Kennison out. He
took he took Sam Kennison out, and then at one point,
(20:10):
Sam Kennison tells Jim Bullet pulling the steak and shake,
pulling the steak and shake. So Sam Kennison walks into
steak and Shake. Everybody recognizes that. He comes running out.
Everyone in the restaurant exits the restaurant and starts chasing him.
He starts going, he starts going, I'm the Beatles to
your to your point.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Stephn Tyler, even as big as they were with Aerosmith,
would come to the radio station. Ozzy Osbourne stayed with
our music director Duke Duke Meyer. He stayed with him
at his house. They they understood the value of radio
and those older rockers would bend over backwards to do
anything the radio station wanted from them. And then that
generation a grunge came in where they hated themselves for
(20:48):
being successful selling more than four albums and four T shirts.
And they hated themselves by the way. They didn't bathe either.
They were very stinky. It was just it was a shift,
if you would in in in the way people acted.
These famous people acted. But I did something yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You did.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, I'm waiting for him to call it beautiful truck.
Did I send you a picture or you just salting
the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Send me a picture?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Ye, John, I did not see it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I was here before you, So I didn't tell my
wife what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm going over to do videos.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It cares for that man.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I went over there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, Marty's on the phone now, Marty, I So I
didn't tell Jackie. I said, I'm doing some videos with
Marty like I usually do. And she was like, oh okay,
And I said, and I might look at what they have.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
With the F one fifties. She goes, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
About an hour and a half I was on the
lot and I got a text about halfway three through
when you and I are hanging out and she goes,
are you buying a truck? And I said, I waited
to answer when I was two minutes from the driveway
and said, well, I'll be pulling it in the driveway
in two minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You can come out and look at it. Yesterday. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
In all fairness, she gets a new truck or a
new car every three years because of her job. She
gets a company car every three years, so she doesn't
know what it's like. This is my first new car
purchase since I was twenty three years old.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
All right, So what.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
You done? Good man? And I tell you, folks, if
you look on Facebook, look on Tony's, look on mine.
Look at this truck, guys. And it's got blackout wheels.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So cool, it's slick.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It is a brand new twenty twenty five Ford F
one fifty four by four. And I, man, I'm telling you,
I haven't owned a brand new I always buy something
that's three or four years old, and I haven't done.
I haven't done what I did yesterday since I was
twenty three. But the only reason I did it, Marty,
was because I leased it. It was no money down
(22:56):
five hundred a month. I can't pass that up. I
gotta tell you, if I buy that thing, it's way
more than five hundred dollars a month, Marty.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It's about eleven hundred dollars a month. Here's the thing
pitted on the mousie drive. You know it fits for
certain people. I mean, and look, you never spend any money.
You're always in warranty. They got the maintenance program now,
so you never spend anything. I tell you, this is funny.
People ask me. You know, advertising is tough. You know,
you can't really the salesperson doesn't care when somebody walks
(23:27):
in the door how they come in the door, right,
So it's hard to judge if stuff's working. I know
one time, one time, our segment on this show sold
a truck because I told everybody about the four ninety
nine a month, three year lease and everything. Soon as
we went off the air and Tony sends me a
(23:50):
text and says, are you bleeping with me? And I said, no,
that's really what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I did I test it, said is that really the deal?
Or you are you with me? He said no, that's
the deal, and I said, well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
It works so for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We know for a for a fact.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
All right, advertising works.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Now if you don't want to if you don't want
the truck I got, which is just so awesome, and
you're right, he's got the blackout wheels, he's got the
it is four by four. It is the next level.
I can start the thing with my phone, you know,
like right now, if it's in the winter and I'm
in the studio, my car is in the parking lot,
I can start it up with my phone and have
it warmed up before I get there. It is just
(24:31):
a badass truck.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If you want something like the smaller Bronco or or
the Escape, right, you could go to the three ninety
nine deal.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yep, three ninety nine, same deal. Nothing down to your
free maintenance, you know, four hundred bucks a month. You're
buying something that's built right here in Wouisville, Kentucky. We
need to suport the Escape. It's gonna be a short
window in the twenty twenty six. Often there's talk about,
you know, is it gonna stay or whatever. That's what
these folks do here in Louisville, Kentucky has built the Escape.
It's a it's a great vehicle. My mom's driven them
(25:04):
for however, since they came out, they fit so many
people so well out there and you got four by
four or you go pro wheel drive and just it's
just a vehicle that fits people and it fits a budget. Look, guys,
there's no there's no two hundred dollars month payments anymore.
There's just not no, you know. And there's there's no
nine ninecent gas. Yeah, there's just certain things when we
(25:25):
was younger, they ain't happening anymore. But if you're gonna
buy certain things, you're gonna pay eight nine hundred, twelve
hundred dollars a month. If a lease program fits a year,
if you can keep under ten twelve fifteen thousand dollars
a year, you know, and it fits you, you can
make a payment work, and you can drive a hell
of a vehicle. And that's that's really what it's all met.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, and I'm overjoyed, and a lot of people are
in my boat. My kids are in their twenties now.
I did not buy a new car truck because I
couldn't afford it. I was raising my kids and I
was spending money on my kids, which is what you're
supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And I just so I drive.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I drive lesser cars because I did, but I did
my biggest My biggest joy yesterday was I traded in
my Explorer and I traded Explore in with the Purdue
two Purdue stickers on the windows. And I got so
much joy in looking at your face when you had
to accept that car with the produced to car.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Folks, you have no idea. See, he doesn't understand. I
made things happen so fast. His head was spinning.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I swear it did.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
His trading in was worth at least one thousand dollars
more until I saw those stickers. Yeah, and so you
know you can't you can't put a price on something
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So anyway, uh yes, but yeah, uh but my kids.
I sent them pictures to my kids because they have
never seen me with a new new truck like that,
and they were like, you got a new truck. They
were so happy for me. It's it's uh now Mom's
always got something new, but dad's never had it. But no,
you got this deal going on zero percent financing. If
(26:57):
you want to buy the car for forty eight months,
two years maintenance plan and your payment isn't due for
ninety days, but I went the lease route. I'm telling you,
if you can keep it under ten thousand, five hundred
miles a year, this deal, and I already got the number,
I'm gonna pay for it in three years if I
want to buy it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's a that's a here's here's the price of the truck.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
If you want to buy it in three years, I
will probably I'll probably do another lease and get another
new truck, but if that option is open, I might
do that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So it's a it's a great I'm telling.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
You go up. Yeah, you can go up to you can.
You can also sign up for twelve thousand, five hundred
or fifteen thousand, so it doesn't have to be ten
five minutes, right, payment a little bit, right, but you
can still keep it, you know. It just whatever adjusts
to what you do. Yeah, you know there's people. I
got people that come back in three years to think
it's got nine thousand miles. They're like, I just don't
drive right, you know that must I got a buddy
(27:47):
that lives right by his work, you know that. I Mean,
it's just that there's different people that that it fits.
And so if you can make it work, and if
you can't, what the hell, come in. We'll give you
the money for free, zero percent.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Let me tell you. And you know me. You know me, dude,
you know me.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm a crusty old radio guy that don't believe anything, right,
I just you. You learn in this business of being
in news and sports, you don't let you don't. You
don't believe anything. This is the best car and truck
deal I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I didn't even I didn't blink.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I pulled in there and I said, well, I texted
first and said I'm doing that today. So before you
even drive it, I said, I'm gonna do this today.
I knew you can't pass up deals like this.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Carriage Forward, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Carriage forward dot com. It's it's real, that's what you know. Sometimes.
You know, they taught us back in the day that
you know, a sales, a state of mind or whatever.
You know. I remember this restaurant that we used to
go to that have specially today, there's like twelve ninety
nine for this. I looked on the menu. It was
freaking twelve ninety nine anyway, just but people would order it.
(28:49):
It's a state of mind or whatever. Where was the
name that there was that rib places born?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, I know which way you're talking
about the best deal. And I can't believe you never
went to this one. My mother used to take my
kids every Wednesday to Oh Charlie's because it was free
pie Wednesday, and you would get a free slice of pie.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
We'd get three slices of pie for the kids in
her and they thought that was the greatest thing ever,
is getting a slice of free pie.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And they were slammed.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If you in a restaurant do free pie Wednesdays, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
All right right, I'm felling you to roll that dough man.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It works all right.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, we'll usually talk about sports and life and everything else,
but we ran out of time talking about cars and trucks.
I appreciate you and Derek and everybody over there for
taking care of me. It really is a family operation
over there. Everybody it's worked there is worked there forever.
So they all know me and I know them, and
you got a real family over there, and I appreciate
(29:49):
you take care of me yesterday, Marty.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
I appreciate you taking care of us. Tony. This this friendship.
Wull go as long as I'm around, I say that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Brother, Yes, sir, all right, loveybody, talk to you soon.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Love you too. Man. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's Marty book from Earl Books, Carriage Forward. It's best
to buy a country mile. Uh, don't forget if you're
getting a new roof Christian Brother's roofing. I just got
my roof fixed with them. They sent me the the estimate.
I said okay, and I paid it online about ten
minutes ago, so it was real clean and I didn't
have to be at the house when they fixed the roof.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The Uh map security. I just talked to Stan More.
He is the owner of that.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
He runs a kitchen h feeding feeding homeless people in Jeffersonville.
It's about two hundred people a day and they've run
out of money, so they're gonna come on the air
and talk about that. But he runs maps Residential dot
Com dude, so if you need a security system, go
to maps Residential dot com.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All right, Ah, there's the play.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Brothers.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We'll do Climb Brothers tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I want to make sure they get a good climblockx
dot com back after this with the boys.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh, we're done.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We're done.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Thank you John for doing a great job today. Thanks
everybody they called for Hate Day.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thank you Austin Montgomery and Homy. I love you mom.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Maybe we try Love Day.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No no, no no no no, you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I'm stupid. News Radio Way forty w h a is
have a great day.
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