WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.200 All right in this radio eight forty w h as Tony VENETI, Dwight Whitten, 2 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:11.919 Dave Jennings rolling on through. That's someone we're gonna be talking about here 3 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:17.039 in just a second. I want to talk about a wonderful organization. Over 4 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:21.239 the past four weeks, I've lost two very influential men in my life and 5 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.800 I've had a friend overdose. This is all happened in the past four weeks. 6 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.960 So I know about grief and it's no joke. I want to bring 7 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:35.079 in a very very kind woman and talk about an organization called First Hour Grief 8 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:40.159 Response. Hey Lisa, Hey Towai, thanks for having me on today. 9 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:44.359 Well, of course, and great timing. Is the events of my life 10 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.399 for unfolding, see not very well because she could have been with you last 11 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:54.960 week. Oh no, I find it's interesting, So there you go, 12 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.920 right, So it's uh, I find it interesting. But it is the 13 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.920 name of the place, and what you do is just describe what you do. 14 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.040 We do. We are there for people in the very first hours. 15 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.680 Sometimes that means that it's right after the loss, or it could be two 16 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:17.760 or three weeks later when everybody goes back to their normal lives. So we 17 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.920 help people primarily with sudden loss. That's our niche. If you will, 18 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.640 you know, not that we don't turn people away that have long term illnesses, 19 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.519 but primarily sudden loss, so suicides, overdoses, car crashes, just 20 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:37.120 anything that happens suddenly to people. And then tomorrow we heard Granger Smith country 21 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:41.560 music singer Granger Smith on the way in. You can actually see him as 22 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:48.079 a special guest tomorrow at a lunch and talk about tomorrow's events and how people 23 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:53.000 get in contact with you all to attend. Yes, So tomorrow is our 24 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.920 third annual luncheon. We're going to have that at the Waterfront Botanical Gardens. 25 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.879 That's from a eleven thirty to one o'clock and Granger Smith is our guest speaker. 26 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.120 And unfortunately he has a story of loss. In twenty nineteen, he 27 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.759 lost a son named River in a drowning accident, and so he wrote a 28 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.960 book about that called Like a River. And this book details the story of 29 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:24.080 what he and his family went through after losing River and how he actually ended 30 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:29.479 up laying down his music career to go into full time ministry. And so 31 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.039 I highly recommend the book. The book is great for anyone that has any 32 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.560 type of grief in their life. It's not only just about child loss. 33 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.520 He also has a new book out that came out April second that's called Up 34 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.199 Towards the Light, and that is about it's a book for children who are 35 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.319 grieving. So that's also a nice option for children, because we know a 36 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:55.680 lot of children don't have a lot of resources to get help. Is there 37 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.960 anything, Look, people deal with this stuff in different ways. You know, 38 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:04.240 some people laugh and these not laugh. But you know, if people 39 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.120 get nervous or they whatever, they laugh. But some people don't cry, 40 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.080 some people cry. What is there anything that we all have in common in 41 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.879 these hours right after a sudden death. Yes, a couple of things. 42 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.000 First of all, we're typically exhausted. So if Dwight is very tired these 43 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.599 days, it's because he's carrying around that grief and it feels like two great, 44 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:29.479 big, giant bricks that he's carrying around. And so we highly recommend 45 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.960 that you try to get a good night's sleep and take naps as possible. 46 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.800 The other thing I would say is that you need to stay hydrated. And 47 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.560 because you're mourning and you need to cry and you need to be sad, 48 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.319 you need to also realize that your brain is not working as well as it 49 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.759 normally does, and so grief brain, as we call it, is a 50 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.120 very real thing. And so be sure and write down information that you need 51 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.759 to take care of or pay attention to, and recommend putting dates in your 52 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.599 phone and appointments. So those are two things that are definitely common with everyone. 53 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.240 And allow people to help you by the way, you know, people 54 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:14.240 want to do something and not a lot of times we are always saying no, 55 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.920 I don't need anything, but people really do want to help, and 56 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.519 so say yes, let people help you. Greece is also very isolating, 57 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.480 so sometimes we just want to stay home and not be around other people. 58 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.959 And that's understandable. And buye people into your life that will support you and 59 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.759 just be okay with sitting there with you and not trying to fix something. 60 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:39.879 If you're a friend or a family member of someone that experiences sudden lass, 61 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:45.879 are there things you shouldn't do. Yes, you shouldn't say things like oh, 62 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.759 he's in a better place, or God has a plan and this was 63 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.439 just part of the plan. People just aren't ready to hear those things, 64 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.839 even though men with you, even though those things. Yeah, even those 65 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.199 things, those could be true. They're just people are not ready to say 66 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.839 that. Also, don't say things. Hey, listen, just give me 67 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:08.120 a call if you need anything, because we don't know what we need. 68 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.199 You know, I lost a child in twenty eleven and I didn't know at 69 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.040 that time would I needed. I had no idea. So just show up 70 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.839 for your people, and you know, do the yard work, bold the 71 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.600 laundry, help them with their appointments, even help them pick out an outfit 72 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:26.879 if they are facing the funerals anytime soon. Those are things that you can 73 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.079 do. Just show up for them, don't ask them what they need. 74 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:32.120 Talk with Lisa. The name of the organization is First Hour Grief Response. 75 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:36.839 It's based out of loul was nonprofit, by the way, and it's crazy. 76 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.639 Everything you describe was you. Tony and I were looking at each other 77 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.000 and her I you were talking and I was like, from the past month, 78 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.199 I've not that I'm wall for crime cot. I yelled at you to 79 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:54.480 get your sleep every day, get sleep. Haven't there with sleep. I'll 80 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.639 search for words while I'm on the air. It's saus I've been miserable and 81 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:04.680 this going on for the past month. Unbelievable. But how can people help 82 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.040 support your organization? I want you to hit the lunch and tomorrow with Grangersmith, 83 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.800 but also hit the website for First Hour Grief Response if you could lead. 84 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.319 Yeah, where's this lunch tomorrow? The lunch iss at the Waterfront Botanical 85 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.800 Gardens and it starts at eleven thirty will be done by one o'clock. We 86 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.560 have about thirty seats still available, so we would love for you to join 87 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:32.759 us for that. And then our website at First Hourgrief dot org that has 88 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.079 the event right banner link on there, so that's how you can get to 89 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.480 the tickets. We also have a lot of information on our websites. It 90 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:44.240 can be really helpful to people who are suffering from grief. And then there's 91 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.360 the contact ust form if you are grieving and you need help. Talk therapy 92 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.560 is one of the best things that you can do, and the first session 93 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.639 is free with First Hour Grief. Nice nice, yeah, yeah, come 94 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.480 in and try it. We give you ninety minutes, which if you've ever 95 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.920 been through therapy you only get about fifty minutes, so we are we'll spend 96 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.800 ninety minutes with you and we pair you up with somebody who typically has a 97 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.160 similar loss. And that's the other thing. All of the people that work 98 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.120 for us have lost stories, and so they get it. It's not going 99 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.879 to be the same as yours, obviously, but they know a little bit 100 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:21.639 about what you're feeling, Lisa Man. So interesting, it really is, 101 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.279 because I know so many people like you're telling me that your body is going 102 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.199 to force you to be grieving. But how many times do we know people 103 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.079 that we would say, hey, you're not dealing with this, no, 104 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.240 and that you need to deal with this. And that's me, by the 105 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:41.480 way, because the Wintons, the cure is to suppress everything. I don't 106 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.959 know if you've ever seen the terminator as a cybor org emotionless killer. That's 107 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.120 that's the that's the Wintons. But my point is sometimes you have to con 108 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.240 family members, have to confront other family members and say, look, you're 109 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.399 not dealing with this. Yeah, that's so true. And a lot of 110 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.720 times we'll try to im ount with drug your alcohol, which is not the 111 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:07.639 answer. That's what I've been Will you stopped describing? Wait? Please? 112 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.160 Why are you just going to say? And then often they love Barone's Pizza 113 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:18.439 and Number one to Quela. Uh, you know sometimes Barone's pizza number one 114 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.000 to Quila sitting their souther covered hot you're describing me to a t. You 115 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.120 really are. Maybe you should go tomorrow, right, let's be honor to 116 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.480 help you. Dwight. Maybe you should knock off early and go to this 117 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:37.240 meeting to Wirow eleven thirty. It's right down the street, garden. Yeah, 118 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.759 we got a seat for we have a seat. Yeah, listen, 119 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:45.320 God bless everybody down. The First Hour Grief Response Incorporated as based out Louislle, 120 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.000 Kentucky, is a nonprofit. Uh. I'm anxious to meet you, 121 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.720 guys and gals, and I can't thank you enough for all you're doing for 122 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.919 so many Okay, yeah, thanks for having us on to share the message 123 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:58.039 today. I really appreciate you. My best of luck to you. Keep 124 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.759 in touch with me, sir, you got my number? Sure, thank 125 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.559 you to you. Well, here we go. In today's divided world, 126 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.759 you can you can bet that we can all agree on one or two things 127 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.679 together. I hope, so I'll think of that I all agree on this 128 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.279 one. As a hang on, let me take a value before I say 129 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:24.799 their name. Ticketmaster Live reportedly, uh, they're responsible for ninety percent of 130 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:30.440 all the tickets to Concrete. You want that again, say what what percentage? 131 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:35.639 Ninety percent? Wow? So can you imagine having a dollar for ninety 132 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.480 percent of every concert, every comedy show, every you know, truck Asaurus, 133 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:45.320 every Disney on IYCE. Why is this not a monopoly that the government 134 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.120 is concerned? No? No, no, no, you're right. I 135 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.440 think if you teach a class, a business class, you would use this 136 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:58.399 as an example of a monopoly. Well, the source on this is barstool 137 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.279 Sports. By the way, evident in the United States Justice Department is now 138 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:07.759 planning to sue Ticketmaster slash Live Nation for running an illegal monopoly over the ticketing 139 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:15.159 industry with an anti trust lawsuit. It's expected to be in a matter of 140 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.080 weeks when they hit them with this, and I cannot wait because I was 141 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.559 talking to somebody just a couple of days ago. Hey girl, Oh sorry, 142 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.080 I was talking to somebody just a couple of days ago, and we 143 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.799 were talking about how insane it is that you want one ticket to a concert. 144 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.039 I used the Sammy Hagar example. I want to see him at Cincinnati. 145 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.600 I put two decent seats at one hundred and forty five each in my 146 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.480 basket when I go to my basket, now they're eight hundred and fifty a 147 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.720 piece. Okay, you realize that Ticketmaster and Live Nation are one company? 148 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:46.799 No, they are? Okay, good, Okay, No, I think 149 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.440 I don't want to confuse people out in the audience that are saying that don't 150 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.120 understand when we say Ticketmaster and Live Nation, that's not two companies. That's 151 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.759 one company, right, controlling ninety percent of the ticket. If there was 152 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.080 competition, legitimate competition, your tickets would not be eight hundred dollars. No, 153 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.159 they would not. They would not. And listen, people freak out 154 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.519 like I don't know, certain horse tracks freak out when competition was in town. 155 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.360 Uh, listen, Competition is what this nation is built upon, darn 156 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.639 tutin. If I've got zero competition, let's say, let's say I'm a 157 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:26.000 coach and I'm given a lifetime contract that could have found not having a competition 158 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.559 a threat of losing my job. I might not be that motivator. Speaking 159 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.759 of that, I do want to make one caveat okay that if any of 160 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.080 our presidents or vice presidents are listening, yes, we totally support Live Nation 161 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:43.679 in everything that they do in any way that this show can help sell those 162 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.360 said tickets for an exhortited price, then we are there for you, sir, 163 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:52.759 No man, might I suggest raises for those of us supporting jarn Tuton. 164 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.759 We don't even need raises. We believe in Live Nation. End of 165 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.480 quote. But if you look at it, part of the part, if 166 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.799 you look at the laundry list, it looks like a a ticker tape of 167 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.639 all when you get the charges for the tickets, all of the fees on 168 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.559 there. One of the fees is service chargers. What exactly is the service 169 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.879 Because I'm no longer getting a paper ticket, there's no longer employee there. 170 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.720 I'm buying it digitally from a program. This is when the Feds can do 171 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.399 something good. We'll see. This is when the no, they're gonna have 172 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:28.320 to break up. There's no possible way that can allow one company to sell 173 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.720 all the tickets in the United States for concerts that that can't that camp State 174 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.559 Concerts, comedy shows, Uh Truck Asaurus, Monster Truck Sunder, Harlem, 175 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.799 Globe Rodders, Disney on Eyes. It's all that crap, not the Louisville 176 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:52.159 Bends. I I'm so glad it's back. Who we have I was? 177 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.720 I said, you ever wear axe body spray? Tony? Oh no I 178 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.600 didn't. But if you look at the commercial, apparently if you pray acts 179 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.360 body spray on your body, then women come running from all sorts of places. 180 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.039 Wait, what's this magical thing? This is called axe body spray. 181 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.360 I gotta get there. It's also going to hurt some folks out in the 182 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:16.200 state because it apparently affects sheep. Also, whoa ho stop? Are you 183 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.679 sitting up a joke? It starts in the UK and around the world. 184 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:26.360 Rams stop fighting when they're sprayed with axe body spray. It's the widespread solution 185 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.159 for calming aggressive sheep. Stop. How could you? How could they? 186 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.600 Who possibly did this study this? But you know some guy that was wearing 187 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.879 it, the sheep wouldn't say yes. The secret to acts as effectiveness is 188 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.600 the fact that the scent is confusing because there's nothing like it in nature. 189 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.519 Huh. So if you're playing the La Rams, I think you know your 190 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:56.039 whole team should spray up that Axe body spray is just a version of the 191 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.480 nineteen It's a today version of nineteen eight. These draw car yea or polo. 192 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.919 Some others still were both I swear, no, I swear, Okay, 193 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.440 my mother's eyes. When I get home, I'm gonna send you a 194 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:16.039 picture from my bathroom. No, no, I've got your car. No 195 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.759 listen, these are these are my afford to go to? All right, 196 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.279 Oh well let's go to Yeah, you listen to this. This is smart. 197 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.840 This is not much time. All here, am I going to Colognes 198 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.879 and I'll send you pictures while you're home. Draw car polo, eternity and 199 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:41.240 obsession. Oh my, I'm dead serious. Nineteen eighties billboards. No, 200 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.759 I'm not even joking. I will send you a picture today as confirmation. 201 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.159 At one time, Axe had a commercial that showed a guy in the car 202 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.919 and he's spraying down below. You can't see it, but his arm is 203 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.399 off camera. No, you never want to do that, And then the 204 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.039 phrase comes up, show her the way I want you to do like a 205 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:07.840 Zoolander of session ad for Facebook where you spray yourself obsessions. If only you 206 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.759 still had clothes from the nineties that you could wear and the promo piece, 207 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.879 well, word, luck, look at these shorts I got, right hunk. 208 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.279 The shirt you're wearing right now. The shorts that I'm wearing right now 209 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.120 I bought in nineteen ninety seven. I'm serious, I we believe you. 210 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.600 We have pictures. No, we have a picture because these are the khakis. 211 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:30.399 We have a picture of me and Tony doing a we're playing a footballball 212 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.080 the Louisville fire in two thousand and why I show them the picture goes, 213 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.919 are those the same shorts? And they were? They were exact same shorts. 214 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.200 You know what else was popular in nineteen ninety seven? What's lots of 215 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.000 pasta? Damn right? It was? Yes, I have timeless Yes. 216 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.639 What did I have for lunch today? Or what I'm gonna bite? All 217 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.600 I bite? I was biting on a little couple of minutes ago, benedictine 218 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.960 wraps. I put it a little entity of benedictine to spread it out on 219 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.039 a low carb wrap, and I rolled it up and I cut it in 220 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.399 half, put it a little sandwich bagging. That's what we're going to have 221 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:03.399 for lunch before I head out of here today at noon? What did I 222 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.679 have for breakfast? You had the ugly dip again? I had ugly dip 223 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.200 on eggs. Because that's what I'm telling you. Go into there and get 224 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.960 the ugly dip it so it's near where the benedictine is. You will. 225 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.799 It's a breakfast dip. You can eat it with chips, but I put 226 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:22.759 it on eggs. It's so delicious as fresh salsa is also right there amongst 227 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.559 the dips. They have really good hummus. Becky loves their hummus. You 228 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.559 dip, we dip. Everyone's a dip dip. Yeah, all right, 229 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.120 lots of Pausta thirty seven seventeen Lexington Road in the Heart of Saint Matthews. 230 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:38.840 Back after this, Joan Donnagher will catch us up on the lukewarm market and 231 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.399 what's going on with the Bloomberg Buddy minute a couple of seconds away on news 232 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:52.720 Radio eight forty whas all right, News Radio eight forty wahas Tony Whit Jennings 233 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:59.519 rolling up for its time. This is maybe one of the more creative videos 234 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:07.559 of old time. The cartoony people video like pencil sketch drawings to seriously for 235 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.039 its time. It was really creative. It was so you know how I 236 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.200 used to I could get back to this making videos of our interviews and posting 237 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:22.079 them. The software that I use Movie Studio platinum. It had it had 238 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:26.039 the option to do like these cartoony people like you can turn people in the 239 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.240 cartoons, Well, let's do that with us. We should do it. 240 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:33.920 We should make a we should reach shoot these people are people are driving around 241 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.920 going fellas you are cartoons. But what's the deal with the old time e 242 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:41.680 race car driver and the wrench as the bad guy? Remember? Oh? 243 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:45.960 Yeah, it was like a racer looking. Yeah, it was the eighties 244 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.599 and it was the hot girl too. If you don't do what I want, 245 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.359 I'm gonna turn your screw. And he does. He throw himself against 246 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.200 the wall again. Yeah, well they both do, and then she reaches 247 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.240 her hand up. I would have just when that hand came up. Story, 248 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:00.440 I never mind. I will finish. That's all right, Welcome back 249 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.200 News Radio forty w h A s Hey, I want to I want to 250 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:10.079 thank a couple of people. Uh, yesterday we laid my uncle to rest, 251 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.519 Russell Witten. But I want to thank a couple of organizations of people. 252 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:17.799 Number one, Hosperus, God Love the men and women of Hosperus of 253 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.519 Louisville. David Cook, doctor Sandy, Nurse Judy, the entire crew of 254 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.839 Hospers. I also want to thank cook and Reeves. When you hear us 255 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:32.319 talking about sponsors on here, we're not just saying things about him. It's 256 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.200 it's it's it's one genuine and I want to say thank you to all the 257 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:41.200 men and women of Cooking Reeves. And then finally Betsy and uh and uh 258 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.799 Lee the entire crew of rch L. Heady Funeral Home. AKAA dignity. 259 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.279 That's uh that's the Wittings go to when a Witton dies. That's where we 260 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:56.599 go arch all heady, but a couple of real quick stories because my uncle 261 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.680 had a great sense of humor and he would want us to talk about this. 262 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.279 So we're going down and Uh he had his funeral pre arranged. Okay, 263 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.039 So that means when Mitch and I got there everything he'd already take care 264 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.559 of everything. But we still had to sit down with Betsy out there and 265 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:17.839 she says, well, here here's some other things blah blah blah. And 266 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.559 we were going through different options, and I said, what other options you 267 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.200 have. I'm going to respect his wishes and we're going to stick to this, 268 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:29.599 but let's talk about other options that we could have done. And so 269 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.039 she starts going through them, and she goes, okay, here's one. 270 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.839 It's if you would want a Dove release. Yeah, and she says, 271 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:44.920 when we release doves at the funeral. I said, well, what's a 272 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.839 Dove release cost? And she said seven hundred and fifty dollars. I don't 273 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.240 think that's bad. I didn't think it was. I said, I said, 274 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.160 up, how many how much is the Dove guy? Well? I 275 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:56.200 said, is there a dumb guy? Right? I said, that's what 276 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.559 I said. I said, well, how many doves is it? And 277 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.319 she goes, well, that's three doves. I said, wow, y'all 278 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:07.039 three domes. Wait, an, you're offul proud of Patsy. But she 279 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.200 says, uh. She goes, well, no, that's the standard rate, 280 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.480 you know, nashally whatever we talk about, and she goes, she 281 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:15.880 goes, I wouldn't recommend it anyway, though, I said, why is 282 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.200 that? She said, they did one Dove release. Don't say poop, 283 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.480 no, no way, worse the hawk got him. Yeah, that's it. 284 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.440 So they do this Dove release and then how the blow of this hawk 285 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:34.039 comes down cursed the duve into a bloody bash. Kids starts screaming and crying. 286 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.839 She said, it was pantemonium and uh so, I said, okay, 287 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.759 let's go on to a couple more. We went through the moor and 288 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.759 then she said, uh, well, look at this one, and it 289 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.160 was do you want to send your loved one to outer space? Oh? 290 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:52.839 Yeah, that's the thing I didn't know. So well, they take like, 291 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.240 uh some of the ashes, right, and it's a size of lipstick 292 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:02.440 container. I didn't get in detail, but they actually you take your loved 293 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:04.640 one's ashes and they get sent into out of space. Yeah. Yeah, 294 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:11.920 all right. So I said that's interesting. What would that run? And 295 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.799 she said, uh, I think it was twelve five hundred. Oh, 296 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.160 but that's not that bad, right, I mean, because there's no coffin, 297 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.440 there's no grave site, and you and your loved ones is smart. 298 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.359 I don't care what you do. Listen, let me. I would like 299 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:30.720 a Viking funeral, but I don't really care. I told you guys this, 300 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:37.160 and I'll tell everyone hanging out with us Wittings can be a little bit 301 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:44.880 cold when it comes to huh So. The two most influential men in my 302 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.960 life were Russell Whitten, who I just lost, and his brother Ed. 303 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:52.279 Witten and Ed lived in Florida, and would visit here in the summer. 304 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.519 And the last time he left he said, well, this is the last 305 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:56.680 time you over see me again. I said, well, what do you 306 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.279 mean there'll be a funeral and he goes, no, I'm not coming back. 307 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.200 Will be no funeral. Want to be a headstone. And and that's 308 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.039 why he went and went out Russell. He wanted the same thing. There 309 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.039 was zero visitation. We had a grave site. I respect that with Greg 310 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.920 Gezer. By the way, I want to thank the sneak. Indeed did 311 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.039 the service and where was the service? The services in Bonnieville, Kentucky. 312 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:25.000 So you didn't like ask him to go down to wherever Fern Creek you had 313 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:30.119 steak and deacon had to clear his schedule and go to bonnie Castle now Bonnieville, 314 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.200 Kentuckyyville. Whatever it's it's about hour and twenty minutes. It's a it's 315 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:38.039 an hour and twenty minutes. Oh you owe him? Oh no, what 316 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:41.799 No, he's a man of God. He has to do this for me. 317 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:47.519 He has he has to do it for me. But anyway, hang 318 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:51.319 on time out before to run out of to I do want to say this 319 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.039 about Dwight. He acts like a soaball, you know, a robot and 320 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.759 unfeeling. But you spent every single day just about for the last six weeks, 321 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:07.079 Yeah, going to the home to feed your uncle, to make sure 322 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:11.119 that his bags were changed and that he was getting the care that he needed 323 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.680 from the facility, and you were there. There's not a lot of family 324 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.000 members left for this guy, he's ninety three years old. There's not a 325 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:19.759 lot of people that were stepped up. You stepped up. Yes, you 326 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:23.960 were an emotional cyborg and drive people crazy, but you stepped up for your 327 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:30.200 uncle. Every single day you would leave here and you would drive straight there 328 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.640 for him. I commend you. And when he could talk, he would 329 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.599 always say, hey, go on, get out here. And I told 330 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:44.400 Russell the story. I'm a very stupid person that has been that way even 331 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.880 since I was a child. At five years old, I was playing the 332 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.119 part of a shepherd at a play. In backstage, someone told me to 333 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:56.640 put a laundry clip onto my finger. I was too stupid to figure out 334 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.519 how to get it off, and I sat up there and toil too bad, 335 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.200 start crying. Russell gets up in the middle of the play, doesn't 336 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:08.079 care what anybody thinks, walks down the center of the aisle, gets on 337 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.200 stage, takes it off from me. I told him that story and he 338 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.400 remembered. I said, you know how you were there for me. Now 339 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.440 that's my turn to be there for you. And so it's not a way. 340 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.319 You put a clip on his fingers, So a clip on his finger 341 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.960 I said, try to get it off. Now. Look, I'm glad 342 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:27.440 you brought that up, Tony. But here's here's why I want to encourage 343 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:30.880 everybody and Dave, you can go ahead and hit the song if you want. 344 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.319 I want to leave you with this. It's a little bit unusual from 345 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:40.319 the way he normally leave the show. But if you have a loved one 346 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:42.839 and they're in a nursing home or in a special care, they're people. 347 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:47.839 They're human beings. Okay, they're in the worst part of their time of 348 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:52.839 their life, and you can believe me, they're absolutely scared and they need 349 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.960 somebody to be there with them. Please don't wear house your elderly. I 350 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.279 saw it every single night when we walk by the rooms of all of these 351 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.240 people, just stuck there by themselves, with no one even to give them 352 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.480 a simple hello. So please, I'm encouraging you to take care of your 353 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.559 old people and the elderly. Here's John Prime.