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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. Dwight Whitten, John Alden, Tony Venetti. Brought
to you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. Please
buckle up, put the phone down, and no rubbernecking.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh my gosh, man, I'm just now walking into the studio.
Sixty four screwed up, seventy one was screwed up. And today,
as you know, is drive like a freaking moron day.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Oh I saw that morn the morning as well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
For me, cinnamon donut day and drive like a moro,
drive like a more on day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So congratulations to the city of Louisville. Well, a lot
of participation this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I think a lot of people believe they don't drive
like a moron, but everyone else drives like a more on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'll tell you what I don't do.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I don't ride up on somebody's tail end and put
my brights on and follow them for a mile two
miles on I sixty five in the wee hours of
the morning. I don't know what that was about, but
somebody was doing that today. That's my way in That
is somebody trying to harvest your kidneys.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's exactly what that is.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I've seen that movie before. You had one headlight
out and you blinked it. Yeah, and the killer was like,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's my all right, Former or the Ford Motor Company.
Yesterday we had this story. The EVS is what they're
going to do. They're basically retooling the entire line to
reduce parts and make it faster to make these cars.
And basically the chassis will be the same chassis for
three or four different cars or trucks, and they just
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put different cars or trucks on top of the chassis.
It is twenty two hundred employees. Hell, or that's if
you dive into the numbers, that's one thousand less employees
than the plan had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I'm trying to figure out we're getting closed to retirement,
so I'm trying to figure out where to move most
of my money. I'm either thinking electric vehicles or Blockbuster Video.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
It's up in the air between the two. Yeah, boy,
it's close.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Ford look and Ford invented at all, vented weekends,
eight hour workday, f one fifty. They've been pretty good
at that. The Mustang. Just not sure if the evs
have you know, obviously caught on yet. What the infrastructure
is just not there?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What is wrong with hybrids?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I mean, I don't know forty the hybrid is. I
would buy a hybrid today.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
On the next the next car I get will be
a hybrid because uh it just my wife has one.
Is forty miles to the gallon. Ma Harley is like
forty miles to the gallon.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, I even with my big old F one fifty.
I bought a carriage Ford. Go to Carriageford dot com.
I get I get seven hundred miles per tank. It's
got that eco boost on it. I mean that's a
lot for a tank. Right, pretty good, That's pretty good?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yesterday was dominated by the Langford saga, and this was
a bright spot that I saw on Wave three. I
want you to meet Dolores. Oh, Delores, Hello, Dolores. This
is the story. You're going to love Delores. She looks
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like she's and I hate to because you don't want
to guess a woman's age.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I'm to say she's twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think she's in her sixties. She's got a lovely
hat on with a flower pearls. She's dressed to the nines.
Here's what she did when Langford tried to rob her
at an atm oh.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Since Dolores' zell has come to this atm I.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Don't come to this one. Matter fact, I go to
the bank. I go. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
She stopped around three point thirty in broad daylight to
get some cash. That's when armand Langford came from behind
her car to grab her bank card.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And he grabbed my arm and he was grabbing it.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
He pulled her arm back through the window. She fought back.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've been down on his arm. I don't even get
the car. But he reached in and got.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Them The hundred dollars dollar or something that was coming
out of the andy ran.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
She watched where he went and gunned it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I took my car, zoom in and I knocked
him straight up by the fans back back there. It's
a fans backer, it's a church love, and I hit him.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I love her, and my.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Attention wils the back up and run back home him again.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I haven't love I love you, Dolores.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Deloresself. She and my attention was to back up and
run him over again.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Delores I absolutely love you.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
After she bid him, Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
After after she It's like a scene out of a
media movie.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What a wallman.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's exactly what it is, John Alden. That is it's
so crazy, man, She's so cute. It's ridiculous, and she
wasn't having it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But let's but let's put things in perspective. This piece
of trash is mugging an elderly or older woman at least.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, Oh yeah, no, no, no yet, I was trying to
make some lie. I enjoyed Dolores, thanks for bringing the
room down.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I enjoyed her too. But I'm just I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Had she backed over, then I promise you these judges
would have prosecute and the county attorney would have prosecuted
the driver to the fullest extent.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Delores, we love you. Yes, Dolores is in the world
for sure. That was awesome. We don't recommend that most
of the time. You don't want to get hurt, just
give the money up and let the scumbag run off.
But you don't want to lose your life over one
hundred bucks or so.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The other lead story here was this whistleblower from the
Kentucky Driver's License office is incredible. You sent me one
you sent me and I had to raise you on
your story.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I sent you that they had to cancel all of
the driver's license appointments yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I imagine that statewide.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It sets when I still can't believe it's such a
pain that he asked, is just to get your driver's
license renewed. We had better. We had minimal technology in
the seventies and eighties. They were just typewriters. And then
you had to see. While I got laminated, it's still
still way way faster. You have to make appointments weeks
in advance. You do this and then they said, hmm,
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closing all the offices today. So I set you that story,
and of course mister one upper.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, I had to one up bed. Melissa Mormon claims
the scheme happened. This is what happened. Former clerk says
illegal immigrants paid two hundred dollars under the table for
Kentucky driver's license. In an article by Gil Corsi on WDRB,
Melissa Mormon claims the scheme happened four or five times
a day WOW for at least two years at multiple
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branches across the state. According to the whistleblower lawsuit, when
Mormon alerted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to the scam, she
was fired. The employees were being paid under the table,
and she immediately let her supervisor know.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And she gets fired for it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah. Well, this is what she's claiming that she was
fired for that reason. So that there are thousands of
illegal immigrants that have licenses that were done this way.
So what they did was the two hundred dollars got
you the non the home land security search and are
look up.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So think about those two words bypassing homeland security. Yeah,
and now they're saying everyone who was issued one of
these licenses, they're expected to return it or there might
be consequences.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
What Yeah, lock their ass up.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, will you talking might be okay, you
have a grace period to return these licenses.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, it really is, all right, So and then you'd
cover the other story. All Monday driver's license appointments I did.
I made two appointments. I missed one because they canceled
it because the computers are round just like this, but
it was one office. And then I made another one.
And you can understand it's like six weeks in advance.
Like the first appointment that was open was like six weeks.
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I ended up having to drive to Bartstown to get
mine because that was the earliest one I could get,
and it wasn't too bad. I was only there for
about an hour and I got my license. But this, man,
this has just been a disaster from the beginning. The
real IDs have been a disaster, and it really is.
It only works for you at the airport well, for
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no other reason to have it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Forget about real ID for a second. Let's just talk
about regular driver's license. I need to get my driver's license. Yeah,
it's unbelievable, the hoops just making an appointment to get
your driver's license and it's three or four weeks in advance.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, it's the stupidest they ever heard of. I think.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, we talk about the issue of immigration in
people that defend the immigration and why so many people
I think it's seventy eighty percent of America like we
can't have this. It's because it's not because we don't
want to be a welcoming country. It's because our systems
are overrun. Our systems weren't built for this amount of
immigrants to be put into the system. If you go
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to the driver's license appointment or you go get your
driver's license, it is there are it looks like seventy
eighty percent or immigrants. In the same way with school,
I just saw this yesterday from JCPS. Twenty one thousand
multi language students are in the district. There's only ninety
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something thousand students overall, so twenty one thousand multi language students. Now,
if they separated all of the multi language students the
immigration kids, right, they would be the third biggest district
in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So we talk about grades and everything else with these schools,
and it's just like this is a something that they
didn't have to deal with seven to ten years ago.
They were at an elementary school yesterday and the students
just seven to ten years ago they had seven immigration kids.
Now forty percent of the school are made up of
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these kids and they speak twenty two different languages. How
can you teach in an environment like that? It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
There used to be like several offices you could go
to to get your driver's license. Dude, you know what
I mean? No, Yeah, And for whatever reason, they took
it away from the county clerks, like, who does this?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yah, it was it wasn't a good move.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
If it's not working and it's not go ahead and
put it back in the county clerk's office. Get people
more options. Well, and I hear people, I.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Mean, were you one of them?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I know somebody that drove three hours to Paduca for
a freaking because that's the the soonest they could get
a real idea appointment.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, Well again, this came up around the turn
of the century and they've admitted since then they were like, yeah,
this was a mistake. This was the knee jerk that
we had after the Cravin and we probably shouldn't have
done this because it really only is good at the airport.
And here's the thing. They told us, you won't be
able to fly. That was a lie. If you have
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just a regular license, you are subject to further search,
but you can get on the plane.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Well I can't even get a regular license.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, they don't like to put you on a plane anyway,
that's true. I mean the security people love you.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well if you admit it, if you admit that it's
a problem, they just correct it. It's like me starting
a fire instead of the fireplace, and West started in
the living room this time, honey, and the house is
burning down, like, oh, this is a bad move, but
well already started it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Politics and CEOs of companies are the same way. Even
if something the initiative was a complete failure, they'll roll
out the celebration of whatever initiative it was of a
huge success, and all the employees are sitting there going
I thought this was a galactic failure. They stopped doing
all right. We touched on this yesterday, but the Texas
Roadhouse are doubling. They're doubling down. Thank you Texas Roadhouse
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for believing in Louisville. You started here. It's awesome. He's
the original owner, which has now passed away Center Grad
Kentucky guy Through and Through they invested, are investing twenty
five million dollars to purchase that building off Dutchman's Lane.
Everyone sees it off through Wahston express Way.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I said it yesterday, I'll say it again. I believe
Texas Roadhouse to be one of the best corporate citizens
we have. I mean, they constantly give back to this
city in a big way. We hear about stuff like
the Texas Roadhouse concert series. Yeah, yeah, I know some
of the stuff they do behind the scenes that never
gets out.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
These folks are incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, I've never met an employee they didn't say they
loved working at Texas Roadhouse, which is which is really
awesome if you can get that kind of culture at
a company that's that big. They purchased the building that
means one hundred and thirty three thousand square feet. They
are taking the lead and I love it. A Kentucky
State Fair opens Thursday. The mayor has promised he'll get
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a picture of him milking a cow. I think that
is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's not a cow, mister Mayor. I will say that
David Beck will be joining us. Awesome. He's the CEO
today of Kentucky Venues. At nine thirty, he'll be on
the way in.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, there's two big stories.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
They're breaking a cow. I don't think so well, I
requested it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know if they can fit through
the door. You barely fit through the door.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Hey, Kentucky State Fair opens Thursday. And the other subject
will hit with him will be the decision to really
give the entire fair grounds over to the Bourbon and
Beyond in louder Life, which was the smartest decision they
could ever make. Absolutely, And the new setup will change
the entire feel of the concerts.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It seems to me, at least in the front part
part of the fair and ext position center, that's gonna
be the only thing going on.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh no, I mean it'll take over the whole place,
and it's awesome.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The south wing is huge, and you'll have all merchandising
and food and all that stuff in there too, which
is air conditioned, and you can sit down helen for
old people that are going to And I know a
lot of people our age that spend four days there
and ten hours a day, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're looking at one, it's crazy and happy to do it.
And then I do it the very next weekend. Yeah,
I go Bourbon and Beyond four days. Lout of the
life for k.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I think I can remember. I have my walking buddy,
my Jewish walking buddy, Maury Maray. Maury is my buddy.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh usually I go see him today Tuesdays? What usually
go see him today?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You don't know, Maury, he's my friend.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
I go visit him every Tuesday, me and Maury.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
He's my walking buddy at the Jewish Community Center and
they have a windoor walking track and he goes, got
a joke for you. Usually I'm like, okay, here we.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Go tuesdays with Maury.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
This one was pretty good. I think I could remember
it correctly.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, let me get it, okaying.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
All right, joke of the day back for one day
from Maury at the gym.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
There's a couple that goes to the doctor's office and
the uh, and the husband goes outside and in the
waiting room and the and the wife goes back inside
to talk to the doctor and says, well, is my
my husband going to live?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Oh my gosh, this is serious.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And the doctor says, uh. She says, yes, if you
do this. When he gets up in the morning, make
him a great breakfast, right, make him a good, healthy breakfast.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Heart smart.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
When he goes to work, I need you to make
a lunch, and I need you to take it to him,
and so you know he's eating properly, and make sure
these are on the list.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Extra love in that sandwich.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Then when he gets home, I need you to get
him in his barca lounger, get his slippers on him
and feed him again. Another great, great dinner doctor, And
and you're gonna have to I think having sex five
days a week is mandatory.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You need this doctor's name.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So the wife leaves and the couple gets in the
car and the husband says, what did the doctor say?
The wife said, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Die for Rodney leven Injunction.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All right, yeah, thank you Maury from the Jay.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Thank you Mary. And I always visit him on Tuesdays.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't get it.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Tuesday's with Maury.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
No, I don't know what you're saying.
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Speaker 5 (18:29):
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Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh boy, he's ruining you play something from this century?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Uh oh is this sixty years old?
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Now?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, it's not in the years from this century?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, it's Radio eight forty. W h as Tony Venetti.
I'm Dwight witting right, there's John Alden and set to
my left. I normally I envy this guy. It's David Back,
CEO of Kentucky Venues. You know, Playboy super had some
live on the razor's edge, laugh in the face of
death guy.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Usually I envy him.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Not this week, baby, because the State Fair starts and
you work like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A date starting Thursday.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He did you do well?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's already starting for you, but basically starts.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Thursday five, and you say, I'll see you in two weeks.
David Back? How you doing?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Maybe you see brother?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We appreciate you carving time for out for us.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Absolutely busy week for you, but we asked and you
came on Thursday?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Very little preparation time left? But if I know you,
the crew is ready to go. What we're looking like
for Thursday?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Ik, Well, man, I'm proud of our team. They're working
day and night. Last night while I left there still
putting the final touches on it, making it happen. It's
pretty exciting. You know, we're already playing next year's there
this one years. That's how far in advance you work on.
Our teams worked so hard. This is one hundred and
twenty first Kentucky State Fair, Crazy fourteenth Thursday. That is
pretty exciting to see that tradition continue.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I want to talk about the acts that we have.
I think it's fantastic. The job that David Snoden does
with Try and Go Talent. I only get to see
him once a year, and that's backstage at these concerts,
and we always talk because he's a quite busy guy,
and he also takes care of other concerts, but he
doesn't really He's given a budget. It's not a very
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very big budget, but yet he pulls off all these
great acts that we have coming to town.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
He does. You know, Dave's a guy I've known him
back when FFA days. That's how we are. Well, the
great guy he cares about. He's passionate about you know,
I think you would do it for free basically. But
his company does well. As you mentioned Tommy and the group.
They do several state fairs around the country. And what
I've impressed with they understand our clientele.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Oh, absolutely know.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
What we want to hear and see. And then also
he has those on the cutting edge, like with some
of the gospel groups just you don't don't really know
about you. We'll get them in August and then January
they're sitting records, so our people get to see him first.
I appreciate that he puts a lot of thought into
the planning, and I'm excited about our concerts service in Texas.
Road House Man, they're great. They're one of our partners.
They give us some dollars to help make some of
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that work, and as you said earlier, they're great corporate citizens.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Yeah, absolute Travison.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Group whore just really partners. So we've got a lot
of city.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Tak Travis everything he knows. By the way, I'll see
him Saturday.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But there's been some improvements. I love the main gate
improvements with the video board and the easier way to
get into the fair. Uh, because while you're waiting in line,
if there's a line, there's a lot of information that
I can get and it's easier to get through there,
which is nice and it makes a place look a
lot better.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Well, thank you, Tony and acknowledging that were we still
got a couple more gates of finish, so we're doing
all our gates. That way finding is important. Various ones
must include myself and our mastion team. We worked the gate.
Just see how it works right and understand, oh that's smart,
how the customer feels about it. And I've stood there
and I watched them come in, And in fact, I
encourage people to go online, go ahead and get their tickets.
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If you get your ticket online, you save the parking fee.
You can save some money and zoom through the line
a whole lot quicker. So I or people to do.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That when I I'm sorry, Yeah, when I statefair dot org,
when I was there for the Hammer's dog adoption thing,
he had picked up the tab for everyone's parking fee.
But you had Bellerman out there, and you had the
archery state championship out there, which was tens of thousands
of people. For those two other events, and then you
had something else. There was four events out there. But
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the lady did ask me when I pulled up, she said,
are you here for the dog adoption adoption thing? And
I said, oh, yeah, I am. She goes your page,
So went went through the fact that she was asking
everybody that walked through tells you a lot of the
difference of the employee there now and the employee there
was there a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
So good job, Well, thank you, thanks for knowledge, and
that's for the training process. Good morning, We're welcome you
being here today. Can we hip you the directions? Which
are you going to? What show you want to do?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh that's miracle.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I'll just say. Some people frustration.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Big time from doing the loop a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
David Beck is our guest CEO of Kentucky Venues and
it is Yucky State Fair Week. Okay, let's talk Kentucky
State Fair food and favorites. I want to get yours
because mine, mine's quite simple. You can go with the
Luther Vandrols, Krispy Kreme Burger. Yeah, all that business is
all great, but mine's quite simple. You can get it
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at the store. I always get the Italian sausage, extra peppers,
extra onions, and then you douse it into Basco sauce.
That's my goal to the state.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It just tastes different because it's different.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Smell what's your what's your favorite fair food?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You can smell the salt and the onions away, so
resist it's great. I tell you, I'll gained a few pounds,
even though I walk quite a bit in the fair
team of around. But I'm a Ribbi guy. I love
the Ribbi sandwich or the Kettleman. I'm a corn doll guy.
Gotta have a corn dog, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The foot long corn dog and the kettleman do a
major The pork chops sandwich, Wow, they keep every single
one juicy. Every single one I've ever ordered tastes exactly
the same.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Well, we need to do this lunch. I'll bring something.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
So Kentucky pork producers still got the.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
H We've got to also do the ice cream. I
gotta try all the ice cream amen out there. Yeah,
all of that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And then you like to get on the Himalaya and
by the wall. The Himalaya is run on screen power.
If you want to go faster.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Pork butt on a stick is one of my favorite
because you just have it on it and you just
chew on it like an animal. I love it.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
We have.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I told the mayory yesterday that I wanted video of
him milking a cow. So I think you need to
make that happen.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
To bring a cow not out there? What's the cow's name?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Then?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Uh, you're being utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Let me tell you too. I say, that's a state fair. Seriously.
It's the largest classroom in Colinweth, Kentucky. It is. It
is very educational. I love to see the young people,
the kids from all the counties come in and compete. Uh,
it's good for adults. We're partnering this year with some
of the other state fairs and our nation's capital and
celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth year of our nation
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is coming out.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Man.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
We've got a lot of history in Kentucky as a
part of our nation. So we have the Wilderness Road.
We'll have a lot of things about Kentucky history that'll
be there for people to see. Besides all the other
well thirty thousand different exhibits, over one hundred activities each day.
If they can pick from entertainment besides the concerts at
eight o'clock every night, they're free. Once you're on the property.
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We have all the other stations, so there's entertainment throughout
the day and we can encourage people to come and
just to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, they're right, because you get you get on the
midway or the you know the midway and all that,
and then you get really super hot. You go in
the south south wing excuse me, and they are you know,
they'll have like a cooking show and there's plenty of
chairs to sit down for a minute with your bags
and sit down and cool off, enjoy the cooking show.
And then you go inside the South wing and because
that's usually out in the lobby, and then you go
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inside and they'll have like a kid's town ballent show,
which would be fun to see the kids performing. You
sit down for another twenty minutes and cool off. It's
just a it's a great family event for ten days.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I'll share this with you too, Tony and I I
grew up going to the fair. I come from one
of the smallest counties to Kentucky farm Board. I want
people around Kentucky to have the same experience. I did,
and I think that's valuable to learning about Kentucky and
what we do. And it's free, educational and every year
we'll expect well over six hundred thousand people to attend.
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But the thing I look for is every county. And
for the last five years we've had representatives exhibits or from.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Every county every single.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Twenty counties twenty so I want to see that continue.
In fact, we had a group of superintendents public school
superintendents from eleven counties from Pike County West that came
down to have a meeting to see the fair and
actually shot video to take back for their kids in
East Kentucky. To see the fair, I thought it amazing.
It's pretty cool to see people in education and care
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that about the children and their growth opportunities, to get
to Louisville and to see that that's educational itself. A
lot of good things happen behind the scenes, and from
my standpoint, I enjoy seeing that people take ownership of
it and care about it all right.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, the big event besides the fair is the changes
to Bourbon and Beyond and Louder than Life are fantastic.
I made it the lead story of the morning that
it came out, because it really will make this an
entirely new experience. Kentucky Kingdom is involved. Now tell us
exactly where the stages will be.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Well, we're still working through some of the fine tuning
the details of the Rangelers and Danny and his crew,
which are great to work with. When you look at
the south winging stages would be up on the east
side of that facing to the west. Kentucky Kingdom, Okay,
and so that would be the major change. You know,
we're regulated by attend us both indoor and outdoor crowd
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control a lot more.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Yeah, so that way, you have only so many people
you can put in an acre supposedly, so that allows
you growth and opportunity. And when you have events like that,
that says so much about our community. I think it
causes people to invest here, to locate their businesses here.
I think it helps us recruit employees. I think it
helps employee retention. You know, last year we had over
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one hundred and ten countries that came through our doors.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
That is crazy, that's amazing. One hundred and ten countries.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Dwyke can only mention, he can only come up with
five countries.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Twenty twenty five of those were calls of the festivals
themselves and.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The inclusion of Kentucky Kingdom. How hard was that to
get the Kentucky Kingdom folks to say, yeah, we'll be
part of it.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Well, I want to tell you that the Hirsham family
with Kentucky Kingdom based out of Atlanta, they're wonderful people.
It's a family organization company. They've been great partners with us,
not only working with Danny Weimer and and the festivals,
but also everything else we do. They're great people. You know,
they made a major investment of their property. We have
the same minor policy to take it make it's safe
for families to come to be over their children and
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look at the investments they've made. They really have changed
Kentucky Keenom for the best going forward.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It's a win win for UH, for Danny Wimmer and
Kentucky Kingdom. I think it is because a lot of
people would have avoided that weekend to going to Kentucky Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Because of what's going on. Now they have all the concessions.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
They've got a packed because let's face it, some bands
you want to see some you don't.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
It gives you an option, it does.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
You know, you do a buyout so you've got the facility,
so you have access to you utilize it. That's been
talked about and Danny's put that together this time with
Kentucky Kingdom. Make that work. You know. That's the thing
that Uh, it's okay to do things tomorrow differently did yesterday.
We got still do them for the same reason. Yeah,
I tell our stuff that staff that often your vision,
your purpose, who you're trying to serve. You You got
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to take care of your facilities. You got to take
care of your staff, or you can't take care of
your customer, your guests talk while we're trying to That's
what we're trying to do. Uh, you got it. We
got a great team, staff team. I'm proud of them.
You know, the General Assembly has been so support as
of making an investment in that property. Well, you've got
that many hotel rooms in this city, depending on the
successful's programs out there, seven point two million people last
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year now one hundred thirty thousands over here at a
convention center six point three million out of XFO. That
makes a difference in a livelihood of many people that
work here in our community.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Absolutely, I want to touch back on the minor situation.
Did I see this right that the if they were
if a parent has to be with their minor and there,
did I read this right arm's length or something like that?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
You have what we have to do if you're under
eighteen after six pm, okay, Monday through Thursday, then the
week Friday, Saturday and Sunday is all day long. If
you're under eighteen, you must be have an adult chafrone
with you. And so that's the policy we put into
a few years ago. Unfortunately, we've seen some instance in
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our community that were not very favorable. Just like back
to the Derby Festival back in the spring, if you
minute what happened there. So in fact they mirrored our policy,
very same policy there locally. So you have to put
some things in place. I want the families to feel
comple coming and being there. So that's and we do
check IDs and that's required.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What's the over under on the ham purchase this year?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But wait, last year was it formuli?
Speaker 6 (31:17):
You can't remember?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It was crazy? And that is Thursday morning a week
from this Thursday, oh week from this, So it's okay,
I got you a week from Thursday.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
All right, we have the only ceremonies at ten fifteen
this Thursday, all COMAITI breakfast for a Commission of Agriculture,
all the ad groups at morning at seven there in
the South area, right in front of Freedom Hall. So
it's exciting fair. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And then they can get tickets early. Are they cheaper online?
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Yes they are. That includes your parking, so save some
money and expenditures process going through the gates it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Make sure you check out this Texas Roadhouse concert series.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Baby.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
They started eight o'clock every night.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh I love it. I love it man, Thank you
for everything, brother, Yeah, yeah, good job man. We appreciated
the new auditions for the fair and again the the
totally changing the experience for Urban and Beyond and Louder
than Life is going to be a huge hit.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's great. Hey. I want to tell you too, yesterday
we placed order for new seats and Freedom Hall.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, you bury the lead all new seats
at Freedom Hall.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh my gosh. That is huge because I know some
of them are starting to get a little worn out.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I told you. We're committed to get this filthy where
it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You probably can't get into death right here, and we're
out of time anyway, but sure would love to have
some concerts at Freedom Hall. That seriously is there's no
bad seat in Freedom sec. Three thirty three all the
way to the top. You can still see the stage.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Great.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, the sweet sixteen steal that from Ropperina would be nice.
Great job, Dave. And no skinny pop today, thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:51):
We had some of I got into it for I
got here Cellar covered hot tubs. Baby, that's where I
love to eat my skinny pop everything. You're gonna love
your Southern cover hot tub. Now you're thinking I can't
afford a hot tub, Oh contrara bonjoor. Yes you can
hot tubs as low as sixty five dollars a month.
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The summer sale is still going on. You're gonna love
these Southern covered hot tubs. They've got the prices rolled
back all the way to the nineteen ninety prices. You're
gonna be amazed. Plus you get a media delivery with
Southern covered hot tub. And then I mentioned twelve months
same as cash. Go by and see Todd Gibson and
the crew. You're gonna love your Southern covert hot tub.
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Seventy five oh' one Preston Highway.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
This morning, there were three cop cars in front of
our neighbor's house. They were head the flashlights out and
looking around it. I'm pretty sick of all of it,
the break ins around. I'm not saying that house was
broken into, but they were investigating something in our neighborhood.
Used to be zero issues fifteen years ago. Today that's
not the case. And I'm my wife and I are
sick of it. So we got map Security. They're gonna
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put a system on our home. You will be watched,
and criminals get ready for the Vannetti House. You're not
getting in. This is the idea that map Security has.
Go to maps residential dot com and make your house
a Fort Knox. That's the plan Map Security, maps residential
dot Com. Back after this on NewsRadio A forty whas
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. Dwight Whitten, John Alden, Tony Venetti. Brought
to you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. Please
buckle up, put the phone down, and no rubbernecking.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh my gosh, man, I'm just now walking into the studio.
Sixty four screwed up, seventy one was screwed up. And today,
as you know, is drive like a freaking moron day.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Oh I saw that morn the morning as well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
For me, cinnamon donut day and drive like a moro,
drive like a more on day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So congratulations to the city of Louisville. Well, a lot
of participation this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I think a lot of people believe they don't drive
like a moron, but everyone else drives like a more on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'll tell you what I don't do.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I don't ride up on somebody's tail end and put
my brights on and follow them for a mile two
miles on I sixty five in the wee hours of
the morning. I don't know what that was about, but
somebody was doing that today. That's my way in That
is somebody trying to harvest your kidneys.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's exactly what that is.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I've seen that movie before. You had one headlight
out and you blinked it. Yeah, and the killer was like,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's my all right, Former or the Ford Motor Company.
Yesterday we had this story. The EVS is what they're
going to do. They're basically retooling the entire line to
reduce parts and make it faster to make these cars.
And basically the chassis will be the same chassis for
three or four different cars or trucks, and they just
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put different cars or trucks on top of the chassis.
It is twenty two hundred employees. Hell, or that's if
you dive into the numbers, that's one thousand less employees
than the plan had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I'm trying to figure out we're getting closed to retirement,
so I'm trying to figure out where to move most
of my money. I'm either thinking electric vehicles or Blockbuster Video.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
It's up in the air between the two. Yeah, boy,
it's close.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Ford look and Ford invented at all, vented weekends,
eight hour workday, f one fifty. They've been pretty good
at that. The Mustang. Just not sure if the evs
have you know, obviously caught on yet. What the infrastructure
is just not there?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What is wrong with hybrids?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I mean, I don't know forty the hybrid is. I
would buy a hybrid today.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
On the next the next car I get will be
a hybrid because uh it just my wife has one.
Is forty miles to the gallon. Ma Harley is like
forty miles to the gallon.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, I even with my big old F one fifty.
I bought a carriage Ford. Go to Carriageford dot com.
I get I get seven hundred miles per tank. It's
got that eco boost on it. I mean that's a
lot for a tank. Right, pretty good, That's pretty good?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yesterday was dominated by the Langford saga, and this was
a bright spot that I saw on Wave three. I
want you to meet Dolores. Oh, Delores, Hello, Dolores. This
is the story. You're going to love Delores. She looks
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like she's and I hate to because you don't want
to guess a woman's age.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I'm to say she's twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think she's in her sixties. She's got a lovely
hat on with a flower pearls. She's dressed to the nines.
Here's what she did when Langford tried to rob her
at an atm oh.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Since Dolores' zell has come to this atm I.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Don't come to this one. Matter fact, I go to
the bank. I go. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
She stopped around three point thirty in broad daylight to
get some cash. That's when armand Langford came from behind
her car to grab her bank card.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And he grabbed my arm and he was grabbing it.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
He pulled her arm back through the window. She fought back.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've been down on his arm. I don't even get
the car. But he reached in and got.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Them The hundred dollars dollar or something that was coming
out of the andy ran.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
She watched where he went and gunned it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I took my car, zoom in and I knocked
him straight up by the fans back back there. It's
a fans backer, it's a church love, and I hit him.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I love her, and my.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Attention wils the back up and run back home him again.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I haven't love I love you, Dolores.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Deloresself. She and my attention was to back up and
run him over again.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Delores I absolutely love you.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
After she bid him, Okay.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
After after she It's like a scene out of a
media movie.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What a wallman.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's exactly what it is, John Alden. That is it's
so crazy, man, She's so cute. It's ridiculous, and she
wasn't having it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But let's but let's put things in perspective. This piece
of trash is mugging an elderly or older woman at least.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, Oh yeah, no, no, no yet, I was trying to
make some lie. I enjoyed Dolores, thanks for bringing the
room down.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I enjoyed her too. But I'm just I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Had she backed over, then I promise you these judges
would have prosecute and the county attorney would have prosecuted
the driver to the fullest extent.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Delores, we love you. Yes, Dolores is in the world
for sure. That was awesome. We don't recommend that most
of the time. You don't want to get hurt, just
give the money up and let the scumbag run off.
But you don't want to lose your life over one
hundred bucks or so.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The other lead story here was this whistleblower from the
Kentucky Driver's License office is incredible. You sent me one
you sent me and I had to raise you on
your story.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I sent you that they had to cancel all of
the driver's license appointments yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I imagine that statewide.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It sets when I still can't believe it's such a
pain that he asked, is just to get your driver's
license renewed. We had better. We had minimal technology in
the seventies and eighties. They were just typewriters. And then
you had to see. While I got laminated, it's still
still way way faster. You have to make appointments weeks
in advance. You do this and then they said, hmm,
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closing all the offices today. So I set you that story,
and of course mister one upper.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, I had to one up bed. Melissa Mormon claims
the scheme happened. This is what happened. Former clerk says
illegal immigrants paid two hundred dollars under the table for
Kentucky driver's license. In an article by Gil Corsi on WDRB,
Melissa Mormon claims the scheme happened four or five times
a day WOW for at least two years at multiple
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branches across the state. According to the whistleblower lawsuit, when
Mormon alerted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to the scam, she
was fired. The employees were being paid under the table,
and she immediately let her supervisor know.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And she gets fired for it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah. Well, this is what she's claiming that she was
fired for that reason. So that there are thousands of
illegal immigrants that have licenses that were done this way.
So what they did was the two hundred dollars got
you the non the home land security search and are
look up.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So think about those two words bypassing homeland security. Yeah,
and now they're saying everyone who was issued one of
these licenses, they're expected to return it or there might
be consequences.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
What Yeah, lock their ass up.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, will you talking might be okay, you
have a grace period to return these licenses.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, it really is, all right, So and then you'd
cover the other story. All Monday driver's license appointments I did.
I made two appointments. I missed one because they canceled
it because the computers are round just like this, but
it was one office. And then I made another one.
And you can understand it's like six weeks in advance.
Like the first appointment that was open was like six weeks.
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I ended up having to drive to Bartstown to get
mine because that was the earliest one I could get,
and it wasn't too bad. I was only there for
about an hour and I got my license. But this, man,
this has just been a disaster from the beginning. The
real IDs have been a disaster, and it really is.
It only works for you at the airport well, for
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no other reason to have it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Forget about real ID for a second. Let's just talk
about regular driver's license. I need to get my driver's license. Yeah,
it's unbelievable, the hoops just making an appointment to get
your driver's license and it's three or four weeks in advance.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, it's the stupidest they ever heard of. I think.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know, we talk about the issue of immigration in
people that defend the immigration and why so many people
I think it's seventy eighty percent of America like we
can't have this. It's because it's not because we don't
want to be a welcoming country. It's because our systems
are overrun. Our systems weren't built for this amount of
immigrants to be put into the system. If you go
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to the driver's license appointment or you go get your
driver's license, it is there are it looks like seventy
eighty percent or immigrants. In the same way with school,
I just saw this yesterday from JCPS. Twenty one thousand
multi language students are in the district. There's only ninety
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something thousand students overall, so twenty one thousand multi language students. Now,
if they separated all of the multi language students the
immigration kids, right, they would be the third biggest district
in the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So we talk about grades and everything else with these schools,
and it's just like this is a something that they
didn't have to deal with seven to ten years ago.
They were at an elementary school yesterday and the students
just seven to ten years ago they had seven immigration kids.
Now forty percent of the school are made up of
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these kids and they speak twenty two different languages. How
can you teach in an environment like that? It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
There used to be like several offices you could go
to to get your driver's license. Dude, you know what
I mean? No, Yeah, And for whatever reason, they took
it away from the county clerks, like, who does this?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yah, it was it wasn't a good move.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
If it's not working and it's not go ahead and
put it back in the county clerk's office. Get people
more options. Well, and I hear people, I.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Mean, were you one of them?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I know somebody that drove three hours to Paduca for
a freaking because that's the the soonest they could get
a real idea appointment.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, Well again, this came up around the turn
of the century and they've admitted since then they were like, yeah,
this was a mistake. This was the knee jerk that
we had after the Cravin and we probably shouldn't have
done this because it really only is good at the airport.
And here's the thing. They told us, you won't be
able to fly. That was a lie. If you have
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just a regular license, you are subject to further search,
but you can get on the plane.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Well I can't even get a regular license.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, they don't like to put you on a plane anyway,
that's true. I mean the security people love you.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well if you admit it, if you admit that it's
a problem, they just correct it. It's like me starting
a fire instead of the fireplace, and West started in
the living room this time, honey, and the house is
burning down, like, oh, this is a bad move, but
well already started it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Politics and CEOs of companies are the same way. Even
if something the initiative was a complete failure, they'll roll
out the celebration of whatever initiative it was of a
huge success, and all the employees are sitting there going
I thought this was a galactic failure. They stopped doing
all right. We touched on this yesterday, but the Texas
Roadhouse are doubling. They're doubling down. Thank you Texas Roadhouse
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for believing in Louisville. You started here. It's awesome. He's
the original owner, which has now passed away Center Grad
Kentucky guy Through and Through they invested, are investing twenty
five million dollars to purchase that building off Dutchman's Lane.
Everyone sees it off through Wahston express Way.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I said it yesterday, I'll say it again. I believe
Texas Roadhouse to be one of the best corporate citizens
we have. I mean, they constantly give back to this
city in a big way. We hear about stuff like
the Texas Roadhouse concert series. Yeah, yeah, I know some
of the stuff they do behind the scenes that never
gets out.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
These folks are incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, I've never met an employee they didn't say they
loved working at Texas Roadhouse, which is which is really
awesome if you can get that kind of culture at
a company that's that big. They purchased the building that
means one hundred and thirty three thousand square feet. They
are taking the lead and I love it. A Kentucky
State Fair opens Thursday. The mayor has promised he'll get
(13:15):
a picture of him milking a cow. I think that
is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's not a cow, mister Mayor. I will say that
David Beck will be joining us. Awesome. He's the CEO
today of Kentucky Venues. At nine thirty, he'll be on
the way in.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, there's two big stories.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
They're breaking a cow. I don't think so well, I
requested it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know if they can fit through
the door. You barely fit through the door.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Hey, Kentucky State Fair opens Thursday. And the other subject
will hit with him will be the decision to really
give the entire fair grounds over to the Bourbon and
Beyond in louder Life, which was the smartest decision they
could ever make. Absolutely, And the new setup will change
the entire feel of the concerts.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It seems to me, at least in the front part
part of the fair and ext position center, that's gonna
be the only thing going on.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh no, I mean it'll take over the whole place,
and it's awesome.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The south wing is huge, and you'll have all merchandising
and food and all that stuff in there too, which
is air conditioned, and you can sit down helen for
old people that are going to And I know a
lot of people our age that spend four days there
and ten hours a day, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're looking at one, it's crazy and happy to do it.
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This one was pretty good. I think I could remember
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Speaker 5 (18:29):
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Speaker 2 (18:33):
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Speaker 8 (18:38):
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Speaker 2 (18:38):
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Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, it's Radio eight forty. W h as Tony Venetti.
I'm Dwight witting right, there's John Alden and set to
my left. I normally I envy this guy. It's David Back,
CEO of Kentucky Venues. You know, Playboy super had some
live on the razor's edge, laugh in the face of
death guy.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Usually I envy him.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Not this week, baby, because the State Fair starts and
you work like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A date starting Thursday.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He did you do well?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's already starting for you, but basically starts.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Thursday five, and you say, I'll see you in two weeks.
David Back? How you doing?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Maybe you see brother?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We appreciate you carving time for out for us.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Absolutely busy week for you, but we asked and you
came on Thursday?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Very little preparation time left? But if I know you,
the crew is ready to go. What we're looking like
for Thursday?
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Ik, Well, man, I'm proud of our team. They're working
day and night. Last night while I left there still
putting the final touches on it, making it happen. It's
pretty exciting. You know, we're already playing next year's there
this one years. That's how far in advance you work on.
Our teams worked so hard. This is one hundred and
twenty first Kentucky State Fair, Crazy fourteenth Thursday. That is
pretty exciting to see that tradition continue.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I want to talk about the acts that we have.
I think it's fantastic. The job that David Snoden does
with Try and Go Talent. I only get to see
him once a year, and that's backstage at these concerts,
and we always talk because he's a quite busy guy,
and he also takes care of other concerts, but he
doesn't really He's given a budget. It's not a very
(20:18):
very big budget, but yet he pulls off all these
great acts that we have coming to town.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
He does. You know, Dave's a guy I've known him
back when FFA days. That's how we are. Well, the
great guy he cares about. He's passionate about you know,
I think you would do it for free basically. But
his company does well. As you mentioned Tommy and the group.
They do several state fairs around the country. And what
I've impressed with they understand our clientele.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Oh, absolutely know.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
What we want to hear and see. And then also
he has those on the cutting edge, like with some
of the gospel groups just you don't don't really know
about you. We'll get them in August and then January
they're sitting records, so our people get to see him first.
I appreciate that he puts a lot of thought into
the planning, and I'm excited about our concerts service in Texas.
Road House Man, they're great. They're one of our partners.
They give us some dollars to help make some of
(21:03):
that work, and as you said earlier, they're great corporate citizens.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Yeah, absolute Travison.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Group whore just really partners. So we've got a lot
of city.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Tak Travis everything he knows. By the way, I'll see
him Saturday.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But there's been some improvements. I love the main gate
improvements with the video board and the easier way to
get into the fair. Uh, because while you're waiting in line,
if there's a line, there's a lot of information that
I can get and it's easier to get through there,
which is nice and it makes a place look a
lot better.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Well, thank you, Tony and acknowledging that were we still
got a couple more gates of finish, so we're doing
all our gates. That way finding is important. Various ones
must include myself and our mastion team. We worked the gate.
Just see how it works right and understand, oh that's smart,
how the customer feels about it. And I've stood there
and I watched them come in, And in fact, I
encourage people to go online, go ahead and get their tickets.
(21:54):
If you get your ticket online, you save the parking fee.
You can save some money and zoom through the line
a whole lot quicker. So I or people to do.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That when I I'm sorry, Yeah, when I statefair dot org,
when I was there for the Hammer's dog adoption thing,
he had picked up the tab for everyone's parking fee.
But you had Bellerman out there, and you had the
archery state championship out there, which was tens of thousands
of people. For those two other events, and then you
had something else. There was four events out there. But
(22:23):
the lady did ask me when I pulled up, she said,
are you here for the dog adoption adoption thing? And
I said, oh, yeah, I am. She goes your page,
So went went through the fact that she was asking
everybody that walked through tells you a lot of the
difference of the employee there now and the employee there
was there a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
So good job, Well, thank you, thanks for knowledge, and
that's for the training process. Good morning, We're welcome you
being here today. Can we hip you the directions? Which
are you going to? What show you want to do?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh that's miracle.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I'll just say. Some people frustration.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Big time from doing the loop a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
David Beck is our guest CEO of Kentucky Venues and
it is Yucky State Fair Week. Okay, let's talk Kentucky
State Fair food and favorites. I want to get yours
because mine, mine's quite simple. You can go with the
Luther Vandrols, Krispy Kreme Burger. Yeah, all that business is
all great, but mine's quite simple. You can get it
(23:16):
at the store. I always get the Italian sausage, extra peppers,
extra onions, and then you douse it into Basco sauce.
That's my goal to the state.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It just tastes different because it's different.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Smell what's your what's your favorite fair food?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You can smell the salt and the onions away, so
resist it's great. I tell you, I'll gained a few pounds,
even though I walk quite a bit in the fair
team of around. But I'm a Ribbi guy. I love
the Ribbi sandwich or the Kettleman. I'm a corn doll guy.
Gotta have a corn dog, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The foot long corn dog and the kettleman do a
major The pork chops sandwich, Wow, they keep every single
one juicy. Every single one I've ever ordered tastes exactly
the same.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Well, we need to do this lunch. I'll bring something.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
So Kentucky pork producers still got the.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
H We've got to also do the ice cream. I
gotta try all the ice cream amen out there. Yeah,
all of that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And then you like to get on the Himalaya and
by the wall. The Himalaya is run on screen power.
If you want to go faster.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Pork butt on a stick is one of my favorite
because you just have it on it and you just
chew on it like an animal. I love it.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
We have.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I told the mayory yesterday that I wanted video of
him milking a cow. So I think you need to
make that happen.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
To bring a cow not out there? What's the cow's name?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Then?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Uh, you're being utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Let me tell you too. I say, that's a state fair. Seriously.
It's the largest classroom in Colinweth, Kentucky. It is. It
is very educational. I love to see the young people,
the kids from all the counties come in and compete. Uh,
it's good for adults. We're partnering this year with some
of the other state fairs and our nation's capital and
celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth year of our nation
(25:07):
is coming out.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Man.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
We've got a lot of history in Kentucky as a
part of our nation. So we have the Wilderness Road.
We'll have a lot of things about Kentucky history that'll
be there for people to see. Besides all the other
well thirty thousand different exhibits, over one hundred activities each day.
If they can pick from entertainment besides the concerts at
eight o'clock every night, they're free. Once you're on the property.
(25:30):
We have all the other stations, so there's entertainment throughout
the day and we can encourage people to come and
just to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, they're right, because you get you get on the
midway or the you know the midway and all that,
and then you get really super hot. You go in
the south south wing excuse me, and they are you know,
they'll have like a cooking show and there's plenty of
chairs to sit down for a minute with your bags
and sit down and cool off, enjoy the cooking show.
And then you go inside the South wing and because
that's usually out in the lobby, and then you go
(25:58):
inside and they'll have like a kid's town ballent show,
which would be fun to see the kids performing. You
sit down for another twenty minutes and cool off. It's
just a it's a great family event for ten days.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I'll share this with you too, Tony and I I
grew up going to the fair. I come from one
of the smallest counties to Kentucky farm Board. I want
people around Kentucky to have the same experience. I did,
and I think that's valuable to learning about Kentucky and
what we do. And it's free, educational and every year
we'll expect well over six hundred thousand people to attend.
(26:28):
But the thing I look for is every county. And
for the last five years we've had representatives exhibits or from.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Every county every single.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Twenty counties twenty so I want to see that continue.
In fact, we had a group of superintendents public school
superintendents from eleven counties from Pike County West that came
down to have a meeting to see the fair and
actually shot video to take back for their kids in
East Kentucky. To see the fair, I thought it amazing.
It's pretty cool to see people in education and care
(26:59):
that about the children and their growth opportunities, to get
to Louisville and to see that that's educational itself. A
lot of good things happen behind the scenes, and from
my standpoint, I enjoy seeing that people take ownership of
it and care about it all right.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, the big event besides the fair is the changes
to Bourbon and Beyond and Louder than Life are fantastic.
I made it the lead story of the morning that
it came out, because it really will make this an
entirely new experience. Kentucky Kingdom is involved. Now tell us
exactly where the stages will be.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Well, we're still working through some of the fine tuning
the details of the Rangelers and Danny and his crew,
which are great to work with. When you look at
the south winging stages would be up on the east
side of that facing to the west. Kentucky Kingdom, Okay,
and so that would be the major change. You know,
we're regulated by attend us both indoor and outdoor crowd
(27:56):
control a lot more.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Yeah, so that way, you have only so many people
you can put in an acre supposedly, so that allows
you growth and opportunity. And when you have events like that,
that says so much about our community. I think it
causes people to invest here, to locate their businesses here.
I think it helps us recruit employees. I think it
helps employee retention. You know, last year we had over
(28:20):
one hundred and ten countries that came through our doors.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
That is crazy, that's amazing. One hundred and ten countries.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Dwyke can only mention, he can only come up with
five countries.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Twenty twenty five of those were calls of the festivals
themselves and.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The inclusion of Kentucky Kingdom. How hard was that to
get the Kentucky Kingdom folks to say, yeah, we'll be
part of it.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Well, I want to tell you that the Hirsham family
with Kentucky Kingdom based out of Atlanta, they're wonderful people.
It's a family organization company. They've been great partners with us,
not only working with Danny Weimer and and the festivals,
but also everything else we do. They're great people. You know,
they made a major investment of their property. We have
the same minor policy to take it make it's safe
for families to come to be over their children and
(29:02):
look at the investments they've made. They really have changed
Kentucky Keenom for the best going forward.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It's a win win for UH, for Danny Wimmer and
Kentucky Kingdom. I think it is because a lot of
people would have avoided that weekend to going to Kentucky Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Because of what's going on. Now they have all the concessions.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
They've got a packed because let's face it, some bands
you want to see some you don't.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
It gives you an option, it does.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
You know, you do a buyout so you've got the facility,
so you have access to you utilize it. That's been
talked about and Danny's put that together this time with
Kentucky Kingdom. Make that work. You know. That's the thing
that Uh, it's okay to do things tomorrow differently did yesterday.
We got still do them for the same reason. Yeah,
I tell our stuff that staff that often your vision,
your purpose, who you're trying to serve. You You got
(29:48):
to take care of your facilities. You got to take
care of your staff, or you can't take care of
your customer, your guests talk while we're trying to That's
what we're trying to do. Uh, you got it. We
got a great team, staff team. I'm proud of them.
You know, the General Assembly has been so support as
of making an investment in that property. Well, you've got
that many hotel rooms in this city, depending on the
successful's programs out there, seven point two million people last
(30:12):
year now one hundred thirty thousands over here at a
convention center six point three million out of XFO. That
makes a difference in a livelihood of many people that
work here in our community.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Absolutely, I want to touch back on the minor situation.
Did I see this right that the if they were
if a parent has to be with their minor and there,
did I read this right arm's length or something like that?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
You have what we have to do if you're under
eighteen after six pm, okay, Monday through Thursday, then the
week Friday, Saturday and Sunday is all day long. If
you're under eighteen, you must be have an adult chafrone
with you. And so that's the policy we put into
a few years ago. Unfortunately, we've seen some instance in
(30:54):
our community that were not very favorable. Just like back
to the Derby Festival back in the spring, if you
minute what happened there. So in fact they mirrored our policy,
very same policy there locally. So you have to put
some things in place. I want the families to feel
comple coming and being there. So that's and we do
check IDs and that's required.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What's the over under on the ham purchase this year?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But wait, last year was it formuli?
Speaker 6 (31:17):
You can't remember?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It was crazy? And that is Thursday morning a week
from this Thursday, oh week from this, So it's okay,
I got you a week from Thursday.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
All right, we have the only ceremonies at ten fifteen
this Thursday, all COMAITI breakfast for a Commission of Agriculture,
all the ad groups at morning at seven there in
the South area, right in front of Freedom Hall. So
it's exciting fair. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And then they can get tickets early. Are they cheaper online?
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Yes they are. That includes your parking, so save some
money and expenditures process going through the gates it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
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Speaker 2 (31:51):
Baby.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
They started eight o'clock every night.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh I love it. I love it man, Thank you
for everything, brother, Yeah, yeah, good job man. We appreciated
the new auditions for the fair and again the the
totally changing the experience for Urban and Beyond and Louder
than Life is going to be a huge hit.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's great. Hey. I want to tell you too, yesterday
we placed order for new seats and Freedom Hall.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, you bury the lead all new seats
at Freedom Hall.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh my gosh. That is huge because I know some
of them are starting to get a little worn out.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I told you. We're committed to get this filthy where
it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You probably can't get into death right here, and we're
out of time anyway, but sure would love to have
some concerts at Freedom Hall. That seriously is there's no
bad seat in Freedom sec. Three thirty three all the
way to the top. You can still see the stage.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!