WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:08.759 It's time for Coffee and Company, Fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.359 Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think when we are get 3 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:16.320 off our show, idiots. The kids are crying or trail off and your 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.920 countries are screwing it off. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play 5 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 Inner Murals. They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 6 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.519 Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me? 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:35.560 Now? Here's Nick coffee? Well it's not exactly Nick Coffee. Happy Oaks 8 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.039 day. Everybody's got fitstir with you. Uh my man, Nick getting some 9 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:44.359 well deserved time off. We are live in the grandstand here at Churchill Downs, 10 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.920 section three twenty two. What a beautiful day. The rain it fell, 11 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.920 but boy it's not ready now and the crowd is starting to swell, 12 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:56.240 not Galadia. It's sticky out here. It's humid, but the party is 13 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.920 on. There is so much pink. The fascinators look beautiful, the hats 14 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.439 they are beautiful. The gentlemen are dressed to the nine and we're up here 15 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.040 looking over it. We're getting ready to come up on the sixty seventh running 16 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.480 of the modesty that is a grade three for four hundred thousand dollars that will 17 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.519 be occurring at a mile and an eighth on the turf. I am liking 18 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.200 heavenly Sunday here. Look for Surprisingly and pat Leo to show up in this 19 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.799 pat Leo the Irish bread as well. All these European horses run well on 20 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.120 the turf. So it is such a beautiful day up here. I can't 21 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:30.920 tell you how privileged I am to be able to do this job. And 22 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.599 of course we welcome in back at the studio when mister John Alden John, 23 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.920 Good afternoon to you, buddy. Good to talk to you, Scott. 24 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.680 I'm jealous of where you're at right now. Oh man, dude, I'm 25 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.599 telling you first, it started with Thunder, right. I got to work 26 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.480 Thunder. I got to sit atop the Allie Center and watch the sunset. 27 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:51.120 I was at the NFL Draft last weekend, and here I am up in 28 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:55.120 section three twenty two where we will be not only just today but tomorrow. 29 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.879 You can smell the cigar smoke, you can smell the food. The people 30 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:06.280 look absolutely wonderful. Dude, you can't. There's not a better place to 31 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:07.919 be on this planet right now than right here at Churchill Downs. Yeah, 32 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:10.240 I can't imagine. Know you mentioned the humidity. This has to be, 33 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.719 in my opinion so far, one of the most humid days so far of 34 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.919 the calendar era. I feel like it's definitely sticky, like you mentioned it 35 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.599 is. In fact, when I look across the track at the grand stands, 36 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.000 I can see people, you know, waving the fans over there, 37 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.199 trying to cool off because it's a muggy one. And again we are awaiting 38 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.599 the start of race eight. John's gonna flip to the race. They're still 39 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.719 yet to load into the gate that coming around the back turn. Very easy 40 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.080 to get here today, Big kudos to Churchill Downs. I parked over at 41 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.639 the Fairnex Post center. Brother parked my car nearest to the sixty five, 42 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.879 so I remember where I was, and I walked over, didn't have to 43 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:52.879 wait, jumped right on a luxury motor coach, came over here, walked 44 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.479 right in in. The security personnel here at Churchill Downs couldn't have been more 45 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:00.240 friendlier. I mean, greated you with a smile. Welcome to church Chill 46 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.439 Down's Happy Oaks day and this place is impressive. Bro. I'm looking down 47 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.560 off to my right now down to turn one in the new area down there, 48 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:13.560 the new seating area just decked out in pink, and it looks beautiful. 49 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.680 You can tell John, this place is built for one thing and one 50 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.319 thing only, and that's these two days, absolutely, you know, and 51 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.439 Churchill down Much like I said about the NFL draft last weekend. You don't 52 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.080 notice it on TV, but when you come out and experience it this place, 53 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.439 you feel the entertainment. You get the sense that these people know what 54 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.000 they're doing. Not a whole I mean, the bourbon lines and the food 55 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.479 lines great, not a whole lot of complaints there. And for us quote 56 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.759 unquote health conscious people, they got some chocolate covered strawberries and bananas out there 57 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.560 too, man. So I mean now now they getting ready to love these 58 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.680 horses into the gate again. This is the sixty seventh running of the Modesty, 59 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:58.120 the Grade three, four hundred thousand dollars. I'm taking the four here 60 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.879 Heavenly Sunday last year here in the Grade two Edgewood Steaks, and then I'm 61 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:05.879 gonna throw in pap Leo, the Irish bread running well on the turf as 62 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.599 many European horses do We've got a lot of races coming up for you, 63 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:13.599 of course, all working up to the one hundred and fiftieth running of the 64 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.920 Kentucky Oaks have had a chance to mill around the crowd and dance around the 65 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.240 crowd. Looks like John, they're getting there. Got one more horse to 66 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.680 go here, okay, and I'll let you flip over to the race turfact 67 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.439 as we wait for them. Last horse going in now and they're in the 68 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.279 gate. Well, there you go in. They're rough, pretty even, 69 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.560 starch and Heavenly Sunday breaks out. Okay, join the dance with some speed. 70 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:41.560 Moofy is there, Papilio from the outside, ind tighten behind. We're 71 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:45.800 both forever after all. Aspen Grove was squeezed back towards the back of the 72 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.920 pack, so they moved by us for the first time. And it's Heavenly 73 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.000 Sunday out there, showing the way. Uncontested on the front end, leads 74 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:57.120 by a length, joined the dance, prompting second fastest fight tucked away inside 75 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.920 third Caroline Street, three wide. Fourth, Moofy in to nurses racing. 76 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.680 Fifth Papilio is now sixth forever after all, covered up down inside, running 77 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:10.480 along in seventh, Queen's Command on the outside moves up into eighth. Surprisingly, 78 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:14.720 toward the inside is ninth, Sparko Blues in tenth by two and Aspen 79 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:19.680 Groves the trailer to the backstretch run. Heavenly Sundays opening quarter mile was twenty 80 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:25.279 four in two fifth seconds and moves down the backstretch, walking through the half 81 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:30.680 in fifty seconds flat. Heavenly Sunday cruising along up top unopposed on the front 82 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.879 end, joined the dance in no hurry to go by so far fastest flight 83 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:40.480 continues on with a covered up and ground saving trip. Caroline Street sets up 84 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.920 three wide for the run of the far turn. Moofy is right there in 85 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.319 the thick of things down inside, only two and a half lengths off the 86 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.000 lead. As they hit the fire turn run, Queen's Command is also right 87 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:53.560 there, three wide on that turn. Forever after all continues on. Buried 88 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.519 Papilio starting to pick it up from the back, surprisingly is at the back 89 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.439 of the pack. It is still eight lengths behind and needs to find a 90 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.079 way through tons of traffic before her. They're off to turn. Heavenly Sunday, 91 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.800 still the one to catch, kicks away by two. Fastest fight is 92 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.759 coming on. Moofi is there down the center, Sparkle Blue farther out to 93 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.079 Aspen Grove, surprisingly still far behind. Heavenly Sunday is getting desperate. Here's 94 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:21.759 fastest flight surging to the front, fastest flight to the front, and the 95 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:29.040 winner and no one upset. And just like that, there is my Derby 96 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:33.879 week all summed up there. He doesn't matter every time. Every time John, 97 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.000 I find a horse, I like they'll lead the whole way. And 98 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:43.000 as you saw their fastest, fastest flight coming through in the race twenty to 99 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.600 one, he goes off at I really thought Heavenly Sunday would have him. 100 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:47.519 He had him most of the race, and then right at the end as 101 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.720 he came around, he faded fast. And I hope that's not a sign 102 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.680 of things to come, brother, Otherwise I'm gonna have to find a new 103 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.800 way to pay my kids toition. It's just but boy, you know, 104 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.920 I don't think John, anything can beat the roar of the crowd when those 105 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.639 horses come around that final turn, and it's something you just have to experience 106 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:10.399 in person. Yeah, I've gotta say in my young life, I'm only 107 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.800 twenty six years old, Scott. My favorite derby call of all time is 108 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:18.240 rich Strike, and it's not a popular derby horse obviously, with somebody who 109 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.759 had eighty to one odds. He came into the field after a scratch, 110 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:28.560 I believe, but that being one of the most intense upsets in Kentucky derby 111 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.439 history, and the reaction that happened as the race was going on and heading 112 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.399 down the stretch, he wasn't in the front the entire time. He made 113 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:42.160 a late surge to the front to beat epistenter I believe, in the final 114 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.959 stretch of the race, But the reaction at the end of that and post 115 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:51.600 race is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. And also I remember 116 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.600 too specifically with the horse he was and this is just kind of a silly 117 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:00.240 little tidbit. He was biting his I don't even know what you called. 118 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.279 But the horse that's there to calm them down after the race is over, 119 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.759 Rich Strike was there trying to like It's like he was trying to just take 120 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.439 everyone out of the field in front of even though the race was already over. 121 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.959 He was still into it right exactly. And I will tell you, 122 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.240 John, when you talk about Rich Strike, story on that one is Will 123 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.920 Clark, who used to work with us at right. If there's if there's 124 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:26.959 a place that he can get into in this Churchill Downs that he's not supposed 125 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.519 to be, he'll find it. And he said to me we were sitting 126 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.399 up here about the same spot where and now he says, come on, 127 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.639 you're going with me? I go, where are we going? And he 128 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.399 goes, just go with me. So he said, we're gonna watch the 129 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.240 race on the track. He starts walking on the track on the dirt part. 130 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.440 We're not down on the rail, we're on the dirt part. He 131 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.039 goes, here, sit out, We're gonna watch the race start. I 132 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.519 said, dude, we're on the track. He goes, no, you 133 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.159 can watch it here, watch it right here. And that was rich Strike. 134 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.639 And I will never forget just being mystified, the fact that I was 135 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.600 on the Churchill Downs track as though, you know, just to watch a 136 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.440 race. But then I just I couldn't see anything. I mean I couldn't 137 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.360 even see the big board. There were so many people in front of me. 138 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:09.919 So what happened was all I saw was rich Strike's handler just jumping up 139 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.679 and down, going crazy. And then little I know the horse was coming 140 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.000 down, so perhaps the I was on the track for the biggest upset, 141 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.240 one of the biggest upsets in Derby history. And I didn't really see anything 142 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.559 but his trainer jumping up and down. So that's it's one of those things 143 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.559 that happened. But it's every You know what I love when you tell a 144 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.320 story like that, John, is that is everybody has a Derby story. 145 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.200 Every everybody has an Oak story. Everybody has a Derby story. In fact, 146 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.279 sitting here in in this grand stand, I you're all, you're all. 147 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.799 You're just mystified by how many stories are held within this part of Churchill 148 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.799 downs, within these walls, and you look at the the individual columns that 149 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.559 stand up, you look at the roof, and and Willie's taking me in 150 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.399 parts of the Twin Spires that I normally wouldn't get to see. And you 151 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:03.639 know, it's the old adage, if walls could talk, just an incredible 152 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.240 place to be. And John, now you grew up here in Louisville, 153 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.200 if I'm not mistaken, right, right? Yeah, So whenever I was 154 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.120 really young, a we lad as they say, I lived in Jeffersonville, 155 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.480 so basically right across the river, and that I've lived in the Kentuckyana area 156 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.679 pretty much my entire life. Now live in Bullet County, so I've grown 157 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.159 up around the Derby and the oaks. And when you're younger, at least 158 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.000 for a while, you don't realize how big of a deal it actually is 159 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.240 to everybody outside of this region, right, because I mean people travel far 160 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.919 and wide across the pond. Obviously, the Queen of England came here years 161 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:37.879 ago. Yeah, and it's one of those things that when you as you 162 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:43.279 get older, you start to fully understand how big of an impact these two 163 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.399 days really have on really the rest of the country. You're right, You 164 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.000 are absolutely right, John, This just now, let's see. My first 165 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.000 Derby I think was nineteen ninety eight, because I'll never forget it. My 166 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.120 mother in law had she always had great Derby parties at her house and the 167 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.320 family got together and they always did the thing where you cut out the little 168 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.440 silks out of the Courier journal and oh yeah, you throw him in a 169 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.159 hat and everybody draws, you know, everybody puts in five ten bucks and 170 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.240 then everybody draws, and so you your Derby horse is totally at random. 171 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.480 Well, my first Derby I was ever here. I drew real quiet and 172 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.399 at the time I was producing on this station, mind you, a horse 173 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.039 racing show. I think it was EJ. Clark was on there at the 174 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.720 time. And he goes, you're gonna call a couple of guys for me 175 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.559 and get him on the line. We're gonna talk to him there out in 176 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:31.320 California. I go, Okay, who are Then he goes, it's Mike 177 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:35.840 Pigrim and Bob Baffort, so not you know, not being aficionado, not 178 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.639 knowing. I'm like, okay, fine, So he goes, here's Bob 179 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:41.679 Baffort's number, and here's and I swear to god, Mike Ingram sounding like 180 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.519 he just rolled out of the rack and he was cooking up eggs while we 181 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.279 were talking to him, and they had real quiet, and we were talking 182 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.879 about that, and that was prior to the Derby, and so we were 183 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.960 just talking and and little lo and behold did I know that all of a 184 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.000 sudden, here I would be sitting in the grand stand in Churchill Downs anchoring 185 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:07.159 Derby coverage tomorrow, but Oaks coverage today on seven ninety And I want to 186 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.840 thank Nick for giving me the opportunity to kind of sit in here and really 187 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.600 just be a part of this because there's nothing like it. And again the 188 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.679 crowds are just continuing to grow out here. We've got a five point fifty 189 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.200 one post time coming up for the Oaks. But right now, the next 190 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.960 race on tap is the sixty ninth running of the Eight Bells. That is 191 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.320 a Grade two, six hundred thousand dollars run that's presented by Cisco, and 192 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.360 I think in the Eight Bells here, John, I'm gonna go with denim 193 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:39.879 and pearls. She just blew by all the competition at the Grade to Beaumont. 194 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.480 And if you want to throw in a couple there, you can throw 195 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:48.080 in Impel and the number twelve are Harper Rose. Shean will have to over 196 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.000 or he'll have to overcome the outside post position to do it. And if 197 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:56.039 you're looking for a long shot, Helena's forte, that would be the number 198 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.919 nine if you want to go there. This is short race, however, 199 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.919 this is just seven furlong's coming up, and we got appropimate post time of 200 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.759 around four to oh four. Now your Race eight results, if you came 201 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.879 across and you want it, you got four sixty four forty six on a 202 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:15.360 two dollars exacted with the one in ten the fifty cent tri effecta not bad. 203 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.039 With the one ten and two got you nine oh five ninety seven. 204 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.159 Your one dollar double got you fifty two to seventy five. And if you 205 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:28.000 played the superfecta of the one, ten, two and four, that got 206 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.799 you eight thousand, one hundred and six dollars and ninety nine cents, So 207 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.960 not bad if you decide to play the super fecta. We're gonna hear from 208 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.440 somebody, maybe later on the broadcast, I know, definitely tomorrow we're gonna 209 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.320 hear from my buddy, Todd Furman. He is a uh. He's lived 210 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:48.399 in Vegas all his life. He's a good friend of mine. If there's 211 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.039 anyone that knows betting, it's Todd. And his take is, listen, 212 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.440 everybody's running with a favorite fierceness in the derby. But this derby, this 213 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.600 year's edition, has a great shot for you to make some money with some 214 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.480 twenty to one long shots. And he'll unveil who his picks are as well. 215 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.799 Uh. And if we get to it later on today, maybe we'll 216 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.759 talk a little Bourbon had a chance to sit down and talk with Eric Gregory 217 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.039 with the Kentucky Distillers Association. John, are you a big bourbon officionado dealer? 218 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.159 No, So alcohol in general is not really my specialty. I'll dabble 219 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.519 here and there, but I've heard that you're the man when it comes to 220 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.440 all the unique stuff, and especially with bourbon as well. Well. Bourbon 221 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.679 I can I you know, Bourbon, I can take it lead. Now, 222 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:31.360 beer that's a different story. And I like all the craft beers or 223 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.000 something, don't you, dude. I love being a beer sw I talked 224 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.399 to my buddy Michael Mohler with the Louisville A l Trail He he and I 225 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:46.799 had a conversation Louisville's Louisville's beer scene is growing and growing tenfold, and it's 226 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:52.320 growing exponentially in places like Germantown over in newlu and they're trying to expand it 227 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.639 into the South End and those a couple of places over in Hike's Point. 228 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.200 But uh, it was just five oh two Beer Day this past week, 229 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.399 and I want a chance talk about it, but Tony was so busy on 230 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:05.559 the backside, so we didn't get a chance to talk about it. There 231 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.159 but so many good beers, so many beer festivals after everybody leaves town that 232 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.440 we can enjoy. So we'll talk a little bit more about that as we 233 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:16.440 move on through the day today again continuing to visit with you. We are 234 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.879 high top of the grand stand here at Churchill Downs. Now there is a 235 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.320 nice breeze that is coming up here. I'm starting to feel that now and 236 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.399 it's really cool. Things off, we're up here with Paul Miles is with 237 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.960 us. He's of course doing coverage on news radio eight forty WHS with Terry 238 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.600 Miners. Both of us have removed our jackets. Oh yeah, it's definitely 239 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.360 one of those days. Yeah, a little warm up here. And what's 240 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.000 telling when you walk up You come up here in the middle of media row, 241 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.240 and it's interesting to see all the different stations, not just nationally, 242 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.240 which which is cool to see the national media here, but the local Kentucky 243 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.360 media. John, And I think you're you're a Western guy. Yeah, 244 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.480 so I'm sure you took journalism there at Western. I'm sure you've met a 245 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.960 lot of folks from all around this great state wanting to run down meat. 246 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:02.759 Is that true? Oh? Absolutely? I mean in terms of names, 247 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.120 I couldn't give you a bunch, but they they try to. They try 248 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:08.279 to get you into I guess being familiar with those guys right right, right, 249 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.279 and and you know it's just I think for me, that's what I 250 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.679 love most about this gig is seeing the people that come in from different parts 251 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.879 of Kentucky. Throughout the week on news radio eight forty WHS, we featured 252 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:25.240 different trainers and different horsemen in different Kentucky stories that we're here. Don't get 253 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.480 me wrong, the national picture is cool. I love the national exposure. 254 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.279 Nobody does a better job than painting the picture of the Derby than in NBC. 255 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.200 I think they're just phenomenal. But our local media that we have here, 256 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.360 and you get these stations that come in from Owensboro and you know, 257 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.279 down in Hot Town and coming in from different places, and they're all here 258 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.759 and they love the thing is John, they love being here. Yeah, 259 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.440 And that's that's a big topic of conversation I've had with other members of the 260 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.799 media, is who when we come out here, we all get together and 261 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.159 butt heads and kind of yip gap and talk shop and you know, we 262 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.879 all have one There's always those few people in media that go you know what, 263 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.279 I can't believe I gotta work this weekend. I'm were like, let's 264 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:10.480 try to get this straight. You're at two of the biggest events in the 265 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.119 state's history and two of the biggest events in the sporting world, and and 266 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.680 you're here and it's not costing you anything. Mind you, you have great 267 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.880 seats, you get inside access to some of the great stories, and you 268 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.599 don't want to work on the weekends. And that's another thing, especially this 269 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:30.200 year. I'm sure you've heard about the Derby prices and how it's costing people 270 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.119 upwards of triple digits when yeah, obviously part of that is inflation, part 271 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:37.319 of that as of being Kentucky Derby one fifty. But if you do have 272 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.079 that opportunity, I could see why, you know, you take advantage of 273 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.119 it. Oh, Abs, you're spot on there, John, And And 274 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:47.599 you know that's what I noticed too, was when when everybody's going, oh, 275 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.559 twelve dollars beers at the Derby, I'm going, I think they're four. 276 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.960 I can't remember that they might be fourteen. I can't remember they were 277 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:57.720 twelve bucks at the NFL Draft. And when I talk to my buddy Todd 278 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:02.519 Furman and lives in Vegas. If he goes to a Vegas Golden Nights game, 279 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:04.799 he says, you're paying upwards of almost twenty bucks for a tall Boy 280 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.279 beer out there. So the Derby has kind of kept things. I mean 281 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.440 they're running par for the course, and and if people are gonna keep paying 282 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.279 those prices, they're gonna charge it. Yeah, and now they have the 283 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.279 all inclusive stuff too, where you can get the entire day, all the 284 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.200 food and drink you can ask for. And again you're paying a pretty penny 285 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.039 to get that access. Yeah, you are something that you could do. 286 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:26.480 You are. But you know what everybody I talked to you, John, 287 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:29.559 I was talking to a couple people down to Pattic Area about that. They 288 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.319 love it. In fact, it was it was the weirdest thing to hear. 289 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.839 The beer vendor comes by and he's like, I got free drinks. 290 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:38.799 I got free drinks. I'm like, hold up, and it takes a 291 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:42.319 minute for it to register. Oh, everything's on the house here. I 292 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:47.160 mean they pay for it, but everything's on the house. And people love 293 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.279 the fact. And I even talked to some of the some of the vendors 294 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.240 who make this stuff there and they like the fact that they don't have to 295 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.839 mess with cash, oh, cashing cards. They can just get somebody at 296 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.200 drink served up and be done with it and does it moves the line, 297 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.279 so everybody wins here. So as we get ready to go to break, 298 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.680 I am looking at it. I can't tell from here, but I do 299 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.160 see one ambulance in the infield with their lights on and the back doors open. 300 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.640 I can't tell if that's an official call or if they're just out there 301 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.400 letting people know they're there in case they need help. So the infield here 302 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.039 at Oaks filling up pretty fast. It is not your father's infield. I 303 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:23.960 can tell you that it's a lot of tents out there, John, A 304 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:26.880 lot of manufactured tents. Oh yeah, that you can see. Yeah, 305 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.480 there's no more this just going out there and sitting there. So on that 306 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.400 note, John, I think let's look at taking our first break here again. 307 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.880 We've got coming up the sixty ninth running of the eight Bells again. 308 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:42.200 That is seven furlongs, that is for six hundred thousand dollars. That is 309 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:45.759 a Grade two race. And before we go to break, I'm looking at 310 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:51.839 I like denimen pearls in this one. The seven Impel and the number twelve 311 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.319 are Harper Rose. As you hear our bugler, they're showing some promotional videos 312 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.599 on the big Jumbo Tron and we're here with you up until six o'clock. 313 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.079 We're gonna we'll take you right on through the Kentucky Oaks. We'll talk a 314 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.680 little bit about the Kentucky Oaks when we come back. But John, right 315 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.880 now, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and visit after that. 316 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.799 How's that. Let's do it all right back after this on Sports Talk 317 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.960 seven ninety oh and Happy Oaks Day, great choice and music there, John 318 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.119 Alden, Scott Fitzgeral with you out here at a beautiful Churchill Downs. And 319 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:26.480 for all the rain they predicted, not bad at all. I mean you 320 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.839 get a couple sprinkles here and there. We're high a top section three twenty 321 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:33.799 two overlooking Churchill Downs, a still wet track out there right now, thirty 322 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.799 six minutes until we post up to Race nine, that is the sixty ninth 323 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:44.000 running of the eight bells at Grade two for six hundred thousand dollars at seven 324 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.000 furlungs. Got a French connection going on here. I like the number seven 325 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.079 denim and pearls along with the number one Impel and the number seven denim and 326 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:57.759 pearls will be ridden by French jockey Ifflavian Pratt and then Impell. We'll be 327 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:03.160 going off with Flora, Aunt Jerreu and Belle coming in at nine to two 328 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:07.119 odds right now, and then taking a look at Flavian Pratt and Deniman Pearls 329 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.960 in the number seven. As I look at the big leaderboard, he's down 330 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:15.839 to four to five. Maybe take the seven to maybe the one if you 331 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.319 want to get lucky with that throwing the six. If you're looking for a 332 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.960 long shot, how about Helena's Forte. You can take the number nine there 333 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:27.440 if that's what you're looking for. Jose Ortiz gets the ride on that as 334 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:30.559 well. We are out here at Oaks Day, the first of two beautiful 335 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.200 days that I get to spend here at Churchill Downs. And it was so 336 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.720 funny. I was telling John off the air that I got up this morning 337 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.640 and I went to work, and I came home and I was gonna go 338 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:45.640 to the gym real quick, come home and change and come out here, 339 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.759 and my wife's sitting there. So I walked in today and she goes. 340 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.720 Can I ask you why you left the house at one thirty this morning because 341 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:57.079 it's Derby week and gets a little suspicious hunh right right, dude, And 342 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.960 I'm like, I got a lot to do, I mean, and you 343 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.839 know what, but it's it's not working. And what that is, John 344 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.680 is And you can attest to this. You work in this business long enough 345 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.799 and you know when you do something you love, it's one it's not work. 346 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:12.720 But it's hard for others to understand sort of that world you live in. 347 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.119 And you know, brother, I'm gonna walk out of here. We 348 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.279 go to network coverage. I'm gonna take our coverage up on HS until five 349 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.440 o'clock tomorrow. Uh. And when I walk out of here, I'm gonna 350 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.119 tell you I'm gonna sleep so good Saturday night. Yeah. And what's crazy? 351 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.880 Like you're you're doing this obviously three to six, then you got to 352 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.880 get up for the five am tomorrow. Yeah, I do. Yeah? 353 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.039 And you know what was telling? Because I left at one thirty this morning, 354 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.079 dude, I swear to God, because we got the PBR bars right 355 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.720 next door to us. I walked it as I was walking through our doors 356 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:48.200 at the iHeart studio. I literally heard the guy in PBR go last call, 357 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.839 last call for alcohol. I was like, oh my god, But 358 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.519 dude, it is such a labor of love, I you know, and 359 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.720 I want to do a little bragging here real quick. And our boss, 360 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:04.200 Gus l and the entire iHeartMedia staff are so supportive of what we do here. 361 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:07.000 Daniel Bli is our engineer on site here, and dude, you ought 362 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.880 to see the setup we have here. And it was just until a few 363 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.319 minutes before we went on the air. And I know when Daniel's stressed when 364 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.839 I walk up here and he blows me off. And I walked up here 365 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:21.440 and I went to say hi to Daniel, and he just he goes. 366 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:23.359 He put his hand up like hold on, hold on. But he got 367 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:26.400 us on the air. And Paul Miles is up here working hard with me. 368 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:30.759 I gotta tell you too, Paul Miles, that's my partner in crime 369 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.720 right there. I don't know another guy. We were down talking in the 370 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.720 media lunch they call it the media lunch room, but man, it's good 371 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.000 food down there too. By the way. We were down there having a 372 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:41.279 bite eat before we went on the air, and we were talking about different 373 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.960 things we had, and I just congratulated on all the work he's done. 374 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.799 He's the one that's getting us all of our jockey interviews, getting us all 375 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:55.640 of our trainer interviews. Walk in the backside. There's no more consummate professional 376 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.880 than when Paul Miles and as I look over to my left now, he's 377 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:03.160 working hard over has with of course Terry Minor, and he's the mainstay. 378 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:07.160 I mean that the news turnover the past two months. Yes, you're right, 379 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.599 You are absolutely right, John, and he is our rock and we 380 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.799 could not do this without him and just the entire staff, guys like you, 381 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.200 John, that bust your hump there, you know, and Nick Coffee 382 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:23.160 in his absence, I am constantly bragging on Nick at iHeartMedia about how lucky 383 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.160 we are to have a guy like Nick. I always appreciate people in sports 384 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.880 talk radio who I don't want to call him homers because they're not homers, 385 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:36.160 but everybody knows Nick leans red. Yes, but Nick is very honest and 386 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.200 he and you know, someone told me once in this business, they said, 387 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:41.039 ten percent of the people love you, ten percent hate you. The 388 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.519 rest of the middle just don't care. And Nick approaches us with he's got 389 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.000 some haters, he's got some lovers, and you know, Nick just gives 390 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.519 us what we want when we want, and gives us the truth. If 391 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.400 I see a post by Nick, a social media post by Nick, I 392 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:57.400 know there's there's validity to it. I know Nick's not saying something just to 393 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.720 say something. There's there's a good contingent of fans, and obviously you have 394 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.960 to have this core that's always going to be positive, that thinks if you 395 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.039 say anything negative, then you're not a true fan. And that's just not 396 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.480 the case. That's exactly right, brother, that is exactly right. So 397 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:12.839 you know, for those I just wanted to make sure I got that in 398 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:17.599 at some point during our broadcast today because I don't I want to get it 399 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:22.319 in tomorrow too. People don't get what goes into this week of Derby. 400 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.839 We work all year for this. This is kind of our super Bowl and 401 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.519 it's a time we love. And two nobody loved it more than Will Clark. 402 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.880 I mean, if you want to know a guy who's about six seven, 403 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.640 who could fall over at any given time, that I've seen him literally 404 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.359 at Derby time sit in his chair and doze off, I'm like dude, 405 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.440 Joe, okay, and he goes and goes and goes. But you know, 406 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.079 we couldn't do it without It's a collective effort for everybody here on the 407 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:51.799 staff, So kudos to everybody, and looking forward, we're just getting started. 408 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:53.559 So I'm looking forward to the next couple of days. Again. We're 409 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:57.200 coming up on the sixty ninth running of the Eight Bells, one of the 410 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.480 gigs that I like to do. John here the Derby has worked the Red 411 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:06.559 Carpet, yes, and we're we're against some more inside Baseball. They kind 412 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.000 of changed the way they're doing credentials here and there's been a little mix up. 413 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:12.279 I've been cleared for the Red carpet. I've got my media pass says 414 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.519 I'm on the Red carpet, but I'm having a problem getting down there this 415 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:21.839 year because it's become so congested. You know, it's something different about this 416 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:23.440 Derby. And I know it's one fifty and it's kind of a big deal, 417 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:26.160 but I mean it's still the Derby. You feel like it shouldn't be 418 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:29.279 that much. Ever, you also have the new paddic and that kind of 419 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:32.240 stuff. Yeah. The one thing I have noticed throughout the week and it's 420 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.839 progressively been more and more as the week's gone on. The amount of people 421 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:41.839 in the city of Louisville and the surrounding area is the most noticeable to me 422 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.640 that it's been since I've lived here for this time of year. Yeah, 423 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.319 that's exactly what is. In fact, I made that comment right along the 424 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:51.759 lines of what you're thinking with Tony Cruz this morning, and that was yesterday. 425 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:55.720 I was coming home on the waters and I noticed it was rush hour, 426 00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.279 but schools most of the schools were, if not out, were on 427 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.440 their way out. But it was all the out of state license plates I 428 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.000 saw, oh yeah, all over the place. In fact, my daughter, 429 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:08.400 who's a teacher, she teaches second grade at one of the local Catholic 430 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.960 elementary schools here in Louisville. I asked her on Tuesday, I said, 431 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.920 are you guys still in schools? JCBs said she is, YEA. Why 432 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.519 and I said, because the water soin's kind of empty on my way home. 433 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:23.640 But that was earlier this week, and driving home yesterday it was congested. 434 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:29.920 I told Tony the gym yesterday was packed. I think everybody's trying to 435 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:34.200 get those pre oaks pree Derby workouts in before they did it, but back 436 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:38.160 to the Red Carpet and it was we're trying. In fact, we've got 437 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.119 some of the big wigs at Churchill down speaking with the credential folks right now 438 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.799 on our behalf going listen. Has has been a staple of this derby since 439 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.720 the French and Indian War, and part of that coverage has been the Red 440 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.960 Carpet. And it goes back to the days of Ron and Mel and Angie 441 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.160 Fenton, who was a big, big proponent of the Red Carpet. She's 442 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.440 covered the Red Carpet. But last year was a lot of fun and last 443 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.400 year for me and it had to be the highlight was Taylor Dane and being 444 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.839 a kid from the eighties to see her in person. I don't usually fanboy 445 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:12.880 a whole lot, but boy did I fanboy her and I couldn't believe. 446 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.960 I was so star struck. And you try out to fanboy when you're in 447 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.079 situations like this because you're there to do a job and you have to be 448 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:23.920 professional. But man, I got Taylor day and standing right in front of 449 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.640 me and look at me down in the eye, and dude, that is 450 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.599 a crazy, crazy feeling and I've got more stories from the Red Carpet from 451 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.720 last year that I'll talk about it, and even I'm getting some rumors about 452 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:38.240 some folks who are gonna be here this year, but I don't know if 453 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.559 they're gonna come down the Red Carpet. If they do, if aybody's gonna 454 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.119 be able to talk to them. One thing Nick and I have been talking 455 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:48.400 about in the same vein of what you're referring to is random celebrities you see 456 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:51.640 around Louisville and you know, the surrounding small towns and that kind of thing. 457 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.039 During Derby Week, have you ever had a run in with somebody? 458 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.359 Oh, I gottw I'm trying to think, and I will think of this 459 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:03.160 when we go to Marciall Break. I know Shaquilla Lord from w Olka, 460 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:06.200 why just ran into Tim Tebow in the gym this week? Oh wow, 461 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:08.200 Yeah, I know he was posting that on social media he ran into him. 462 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.160 I was trying to think of some of the random celebrities I will find 463 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.640 out. I gotta think real hard fact. We had a few people sending 464 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.359 Avery Johnson, the basketball commentator comes every single year. Yeah, yep, 465 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.240 yep. I've heard people say I think this is a few years ago. 466 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.720 Corey Taylor from the band the band Slip Knot, Oh, I remember that, 467 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.200 Yes, I remember that. I remember seeing that one. I'll go 468 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:32.720 back. I know. There's there's a ton of them that come in here 469 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:36.079 that you see and then and then of course you have the ones like I'll 470 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:37.599 never forget. Patrick Mahomes was in last year, of course, because he's 471 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.400 gona rids up. What was so funny? Man? His his handlers come 472 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:47.400 out about five minutes before they're like, okay, no interviews, no interviews, 473 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:48.920 no interviews. I'm like, why are you bringing them out on the 474 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.680 red CARPETRD. You know what, I don't need the interview. It's all 475 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:53.440 right with me. I don't. I don't. I'm alright with that. 476 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:57.319 But let some of the folks talk to this guy. So I have a 477 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:02.200 feeling these two that are being rumored the are are gonna be in town tomorrow, 478 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.200 aren't gonna take any interviews if they even come down the red carpet. 479 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:11.079 Some don't come down the red carpet. And Jack Harlow surprised me last year 480 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.039 who didn't come down the red carpet or he came down the red carpet, 481 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:18.119 but wouldn't talk to anybody. And you know he would. People would shout 482 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.000 out his name and say hey, can I get your picture, and he 483 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.519 would stop and look at him and let him take this picture. But Bett, 484 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.880 he wouldn't take any interviews. So we'll see. But either way, 485 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:29.839 listen, boss, we are coming up on twenty six minutes now to the 486 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.279 sixty ninth running of the eight Bells again. I think I'm gonna go with 487 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:38.640 Denham and Pearls here the fringe connection of Deniman Pearls with Florent Geroux on board, 488 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:44.759 as well as probably go with the number one Impel that our Flauntre's gonna 489 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.559 be on board Impel. And then I'm gonna go with Deniman and Pearls with 490 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:51.279 Flavy and Prod on board, that is the two French jockeys. We'll see 491 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.359 how that shakes out. But but that said, we got a big race 492 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.599 coming up tomorrow, that is the Kentucky Derby. Jody Demling is here. 493 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.400 We're gonna talk to him and break that down. He's coming up back to 494 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.039 yourself, but let's get one of Jody Demling's previous way, you say, 495 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:04.039 John, then we'll take a quick break. Let's do it. This one 496 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:12.160 is four Endlessly. Now look at the Kentucky Derby field one by one Endlessly. 497 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:19.480 Jeff Ruby Steak's winner Endlessly as one of the best resumes of any horse 498 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:26.440 entered in the Kentucky Derby. The bayse Sun of Oscar performance was seventh on 499 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.599 the Derby points list. He's won five of his six career races. The 500 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:37.559 only race he lost in eighth place finish in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf last 501 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:42.160 November at Santa Anita. The other five races all won by more than a 502 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:48.519 length by Endlessly, including a four length score in the Jeff Ruby Stakes on 503 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:56.319 March twenty third at Turfway Park. The one problem with Endlessly's resume He's never 504 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.920 run on the dirt. Owned by Amberman Racing. That's Jerry and Joan Amberman, 505 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:07.640 trained by Michael McCarthy. Endlessly will be written by Umberto Respoli. McCarthy 506 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:13.279 was thinking about running Endlessly in the American Turf on the Kentucky Derby undercar, 507 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:19.960 feeling this horse was more suited for the turf or the synthetic surfaces rather than 508 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.640 dirt. The first four races of his career coming on the turf, the 509 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:29.519 last two on the Toepeda surfaces, winning the Elchemino Real Derby at Golden Gate 510 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:35.039 in early February and then the jeff Ruby Stakes at Turfway. But once McCarthy 511 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:40.119 saw the last workout heading into the Kentucky Derby, he laid out some options 512 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:46.400 for his owner and Jerry Ammerman decided it was off too. The Kentucky Derby 513 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:52.000 Endlessly has over seven hundred thousand dollars in career earnings. More than likely he's 514 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:55.680 going to get the mile and a quarter distance of the Kentucky Derby. The 515 00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:01.880 only question how will he do on the dirt surface? Endlessly the Jeffryby Steaks 516 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:06.599 winner and the lead up picking Tucky Derby. Of course, it's one flight's 517 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.160 going a mile in an eighth and was running away from horses going a mile 518 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:15.319 and an eighth and then prop for the derby outside of the dirt. I'm 519 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:22.960 not sure good more class for looking at it on paper, there might be 520 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:30.759 one or two horses that have any equal resumes with the Lily Bear. Oh 521 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:35.759 and welcome back to a beautiful Churchill Towns. He'll be it a sticky Churchill 522 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:39.559 Towns I'm Scott Fitzgerald High Top here section three twenty two. We are sixteen 523 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.319 minutes now to post. That is for the ninth race of the day on 524 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:46.279 this Oaks day, the sixty ninth running of the Eight Bells a Grete two 525 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:52.400 for six hundred thousand dollars and seven furlongs. I am liking the French connection 526 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.880 here, and of course we're gonna go with the number seven denim and pearls 527 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.680 with Flavian Pratt aboard and then all so throw in impelled the number one horse 528 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:07.960 at four to one odds now that has Florent Geru riding along. And if 529 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.719 you want to throw in your long shot on this one again, looking at 530 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:15.440 the eight Bells Steaks, I'll go long shot. Why not Helena's Forte. 531 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:21.119 That's the number nine horse, and that's who you'll find, Jose Ortiz. 532 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.840 I gotta say, Scott, I am not a big horse racing better. 533 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.000 I do it for fun during the Oaks and the Derby season. But yeah, 534 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:31.599 I have a lot more success when I'm betting college basketball, college football, 535 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:35.719 the NFL, that kind of thing. I have never been good at 536 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:37.400 horse betting. Well, let me geh that well And to your point there, 537 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.440 John. In that last race, I took Heavenly Sunday, who led 538 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.719 the whole way and then at the end faded and lost. And that's kind 539 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.519 of where I'm at. I'm my wife and I went to Vegas one year, 540 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.559 and she's my gambler in the family. I don't gamble. Yeah, 541 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.079 so I could take forty bucks throw it down there. When I'm done with 542 00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:57.559 forty I walk away, and I'm good. My wife should just keep winning 543 00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:59.760 and keep in fact, I say I hang with We were at a piano 544 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:01.559 bar in New York, New York. I'll never forget we were there. 545 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:05.599 I don't think I paid for a drink all night thanks to her. She 546 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:09.519 was just playing blackjack on the video blackjack table. So I just sat there 547 00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:14.079 and the guy kept giving us comp joints because she kept winning. So I'm 548 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:15.719 right there with you, John, But how do you feel now about that? 549 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.639 How do you like this expanded gaming? I gotta say so. I 550 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.920 was not into it before it became legal. I just didn't want to deal 551 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.079 with the offshore type stuff. But Nick Nick was always into it, and 552 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:27.679 he always asked me, He's like, are you going to get into the 553 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.880 sports betting thing. Now that it's legal, I'm like, you know what, 554 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:31.840 I'm gonna dabble a little bit here and there and just kind of see 555 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.199 where I'm at. But once college football really got rolling and I was hitting 556 00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.079 a couple of parlays, I just I was like, this is really fun 557 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:43.440 to do. And I'm not a degenerate. There's a lot of people who 558 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:45.480 probably you know, shouldn't do it as much as they do. But I 559 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.960 have fun with the sports that I'm confident in, with football and basketball and 560 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:53.639 that kind of thing, and it adds to the experience for me, especially 561 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:58.360 whenever the team that you root for isn't in the action, it gives you 562 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.880 a reason to root for a different team on certain night. I will tell 563 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.559 you you're you're spot on there, John, because I really got into the 564 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.320 fantasy game over the last couple of years. Oh yeah, my favorite thing. 565 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.000 And I used to make fun of fantasy NERD mind you, so I'll 566 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.840 own this one. My big thing was is I love to get up on 567 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.800 Sunday mornings and I do daily fantasy. So I would get up on Sunday 568 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:21.880 morning, I have a coup of coffee, watch the NFL Network and put 569 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.679 together a couple. I put together two teams, just two teams. They're 570 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.840 random. In fact, on the red carpet last year, I had a 571 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.199 chance to talk to the one and only k Adams and when she was on 572 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.840 the NFL network, I don't know what she eats for breakfast, but she 573 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.559 won me so much money and I told her that. I was like, 574 00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:42.760 she goes good. Because my suitcase didn't make it, you can take me 575 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.800 out and buy me a new dress, and because their suitcase didn't make it 576 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:51.400 for Derby last year. But I love fantasy sports, and you know, 577 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:55.360 it is interesting with the expanded gaming coming about. And obviously people here have 578 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:58.880 been able to bet on horses forever, so it's not that big of a 579 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:02.320 deal. I kind of thought it was gonna slow things down maybe a little 580 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.320 bit as far as horse racing, because there's only so much money go around. 581 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:08.440 But apparently, I from looking at folks at the windows here at Churchill 582 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:10.960 Downs today, that's not the case. Well, here's the thing with Nick 583 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.800 and I have been talking about this all week two the Oaks and the Derby. 584 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.199 As much as it is a great week for the locals and that kind 585 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:22.760 of thing, this truly has become now in its current state and out of 586 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:24.920 towner's event. In my opinion, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 587 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:28.719 you are right. You are absolutely right. The people that are coming in 588 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.079 are people who are having these once in a lifetime experiences. They may be 589 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.159 celebrities, obviously, those are the more regulars when it comes to those who 590 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.079 have more kinds of money and that kind of stuff. But there are people 591 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.679 who are probably here for the first time. They've never been to Kentucky, 592 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:44.519 that they've never been to Louisville, and this is their opportunity to do some 593 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.320 some classic sports horse betting. You know thing. I love what you're talking 594 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:53.000 about, John, because I am gonna run an interview tomorrow morning that I 595 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:58.480 actually did when it before I left for the Draft in Detroit, and it's 596 00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:01.400 all about the short term rental game here in Louisville. And I talked with 597 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.719 one of the guys who's at the forefront and knows everything, not just about 598 00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:07.440 what you need to do when your short term rentals, but how you need 599 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:13.719 to design your home because to your point, people want an experience, they 600 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:15.199 want to come in here, and he says, you know, if you 601 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:20.079 want to get high top dollar for your short term rental. Give it the 602 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.639 bourbon look, give it the horse look. That's what people are coming for. 603 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.119 And he said they were upwards some of the homes. He saw the 604 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:30.679 top dollar homes that were going this weekend three thousand dollars a night with a 605 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:36.079 five night minimum. And some people may think it's cliche to make their house 606 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.239 look like their airbnb whatever they're putting together. But when you have somebody who's 607 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:43.000 coming to the area and it has never been around this kind of stuff, 608 00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:46.519 that's novelty to them, that's exactly right. And and he said it's so 609 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:50.519 easy to do now, and he gave great tips on how you can literally 610 00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:54.800 flip your home into a derby sort of Oaks home overnight, not as expensive 611 00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:58.400 as what you would think it is. And he says, you're amazed at 612 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.440 what people would buy. And and I like what you said earlier, and 613 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:07.239 that is about the experience. That's where vacations are going. On our Saturday 614 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.639 Morning Study Hall about a year ago, Joe and I did a segment on 615 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:15.440 how people are now vacationing for the experience. That is the truth, right, 616 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.079 And when we went to Detroit, whoever thought we could an airbnb in 617 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.920 Detroit. But we did, and it was as we were getting ready to 618 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.480 leave. It was really interesting. It was an old nineteen It was a 619 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:30.360 house that was built in nineteen hundred that they redid, but there was so 620 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.800 much to that. Whereas we could all my high school buddies and I, 621 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.159 we're all just kind of hanging out. We'd get back from the draft, 622 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.320 we'd sit around and have a couple of beers watching Sports Center, no wives, 623 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.760 no kids, not out carroused and not out raising. It wasn't anything 624 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.400 like the hangover, but it was just like we were in high school again, 625 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:51.840 and we all agreed that experience was worth its weight in gold, worth 626 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.079 its weight in gold. And you know, I learned quickly on this trip. 627 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.840 I'm cheat so for me to spend money, it takes a lot. 628 00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:00.119 But I also realized that if I'm going to go out and spend some money, 629 00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:02.760 I'm gonna get that experience. And that's what I got. In to 630 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:07.000 your point, John, I can see people out here right beneath us, 631 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.360 in section three twenty two that are just having an experience, having the time 632 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.280 of their lives, joking, all in groups, talking with each other. 633 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:17.039 And there's the call we got ten minutes to post here ahead again of the 634 00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:22.199 eight mel stakes for six hundred thousand dollars adds seven for long. So we're 635 00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.320 gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back and feature that race. 636 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:29.480 You're listening to our special Oak Stay coverage. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, He's John 637 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:32.159 Alden. We're back with you after this from Churchill Downs on Sports Talk seven ninety