All right, alive on the road with USA Cares. But his time again
Thursday, a little after ten am to talk about cops from Dave Jenny.
Two easiest things I do all week are finding tools and cops that rock.
It's true. On Tuesday, off duty, Metropolis, Illinois police Chief Harry
Massey saved a man's life by performing CPR while at a local pool hall.
The man, who'd undergone heart surgery, collapsed during a pool game. Massy
called on the training that he received through the police department enacted immediately, performing
CPR until paramedics arrived. According to Massey, the man was taken to the
nearest hospital before being transferred to another healthcare facility. The chief now stressing the
importance of learning CPR well. They later found out that the guy faked it
because he was losing a pool competition or three hundred dollars. He faked a
choking thing and got out of pain. Let's go to Florida. Earlier this
week, sheriff's deputies responded to a call from a woman who accidentally locked her
one year old daughter in her car at a Palm Coast walmart. The father
explained that he'd placed the child in the vehicle, but when he tried to
get in on the other side, he found the doors were locked with the
keys still in the car. Flagler County Sheriff's Deputy Harrison arrived at the scene
and learned from the parents that the child had been in the car for about
ten minutes. He noted the kid was sweating and in distress and decided to
break the window to rescue her. After breaking the window with a small spiked
metal ball, Harrison used his baton to clear the remaining glass and unlock the
car and retrieved the crying but unharmed child. Oh, yes, break the
window. Break you can get it the glass window. You can get an
on the window, because if the kid stays in there too long that he
gets up and then that's what happened to you. So you were a toddler.
No, they loosed your brain a little bit, right, Well,
that's doctors recommended it. Yeah, we at the time, remember that we
had on yesterday with the Anchorage Fire Department in Middletown. He and I did
an experiment to show exactly what you did this and we did we did this
with State Trooper Halls as well. And boy, let me tell you.
How long did you last in there? It was not long. Yeah.
I think we stuck it out for about five minutes. We were dressing to
sweat. But here's a scary thing. We were so hot it was.
It was a hot August day. Hot and how human it is. When
we got out of a car, it felt freezing cold. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Those those poor babies, they have no chance. All right.
It's not just cops that rock firemen. Two earlier this week, two
people were rescued after their car plunged three hundred feet off a cliff in Arizona.
Superstition firefighter that's right, Superstition Arizona offered, no question. I got
questions when they rescue somebody in building from a fire and they got the ladder
up, do any of them have the balls to walk under the I doubt
it. They offered details of the rescue in a social media post, writing
that one person managed to escape the vehicle, while the other was trapped in
the overturned car at the bottom of the canyon until a helicopter arrived. The
fire department describes how their crew members were able to extract both men, provide
medical care, and prepare them for transport. They were then taken to a
local hospital and are reported to be in stable condition. Authority said these roads
are dangerous. It's a beautiful place, easily distracted. Be careful. There's
a gauge in De Soto Rescue. All right, it's cop rocks. Stave
Jenny, One quick, one more. Yea. The police officer that responded
to my fender bender the other day when above and beyond I had a tow
truck on the way, he saw that the car was still drivable, got
the bumper off. Saved me some money by going above and beyond. Thank
you, officer. Wow. Yeah, who's this guy that I have a
badge number? I don't have a Yeah, don't have a name. Robo
cop that ripped you? Are fine now, citizen, I am the all
hang on I got before we get to mister bratcher. Here, I'm looking
at your rolling stones tennis shoes. Okay, these are like the special rolling
stone yea, for special leather. Look at them, they're for special people.
There's it's signs, signature stitching the rolling stones in the mouth and all
that. You have not taken care of them at all. What are you
loading coal with these shoes? I walk around. You have to take care
of them, dude, because see this is my hang around or wear everyday
shoes. And I got a backup pair the oh you bought two d of
course you do. Just like yeah, I'm like Noah, sneakers head would
look at your shoes now and just lose their minds. Okay, listen,
I want to bring in a friend of mine. Uh. And he's also
a boy. He's served, He's served the commonwealth Kentucky, got decades and
now hopefully he's going to be one of our common sense metro council people.
I'm on the needs of my heart. Pray he gets in there. We
need some help here. I want to bring in now state former state representativey
now you're running for a metro council Thank god. Kevin Bratcher, Kevin,
how you doing man? Good? Great? Before we start talking Turkey,
I gotta say, wow, you drop some pounds man, You look a
great. Yeah. Yeah, I've lost over thirty three pounds since first week
of April. Whoa, And I followed a lot of what you used to
tell me. I've been on two years asking you how you lost so much.
I remember you back in the day, right, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, And you just you said it's a lot with your nutrition.
Yeah, it's ninety percent nutritions you put in your gullet. But you
feel better. I'm particular about what I'm putting my body. Oh that's okay.
So so anyway, Kevin Bratcher, you are not just You didn't just
serve for how long did you serve in the house. I'm still a state
rap until December thirty first years, almost three decades of years. So here
he is. He served, he serves comonwell, Kentucky for nearly three decades.
First served in the Navy. That's where I was going. But first
you served in the navy. How much of your hearts is this great organization
USA Cares? How much of your heart does it have? It? It's
wonderful. You know, I had a Navy friend that committed suicide a couple
of months ago while we're in session, and uh, I remember that.
I know USA Cares does a does a lot to try to prevent that,
among many other things they do. USA Cares is amazing. And I know
I know that they don't score all the money away. They put the money
right into the veterans. No, they absolutely do. And By the way,
if you look on charity navigator, who who they kind of look over
all these charities, they are a four out of four. They scored one.
Uh. And if you're looking looking for a charity adopt, I'm on
the knees of my heart to ask you to please take a look at USA
Cares. Uh. Basically, they take care of our veterans that took care
of us. And like Kevin said, there's twenty two veterans suicides every single
day. Uh. Here's where USA Cares. Just a couple of things they
do. They step in when there's gonna be a foreclosure, if there's food
scarcity, LG. And he's getting ready cut him off. It goes on
and on and on and on. And the best way you could serve those
that served us is to donate. How did you get involved with USA Cares,
Kevin, Well, I've known Trace Chester and the CEO pretty much my
whole life. Yeah, we've been friends forever. And he has such great
integrity. You know, he he won't tell anybody, but he was a
he was a hero in the first Iraq War. Now he no, hang
on, hang on, he downplays this. And we don't want to get
him pissed off for as they but we'll talk about it. Say what you
say, because I know he doesn't he doesn't want any accolades for it.
But the guy is a hero, right he is. He's he's a great
guy. And I know that if he's at the Helm, it's a good
organization. And he's been there for a while. And you know we in
this last budget he worked. It was last year and this year there was
some money from the budget that went to USA Cares and as she represents,
Susan Whitten, who I think you know, and I'm not just saying that
because she's your wife. She worked her rear end off time, no money.
Yeah, yeah, And I saw that because you know, you get
after she got elected office. I get a peek behind the curtain of what
you and men and women do in Frankfurt. And it's not just while you're
in session. I see the long, grueling hours. I see the papers
that have to be read. I see the phone calls and everything that goes
in to try to get funding for well deserved charities like USA Cares. And
it's no joke. What did it mean to you as a veteran when you
finally saw Frankfurt, go, you know what, we need to take care
of our veterans and we need to help out USA. Well, it means
a lot because there's some veterans out there that are struggling. Yeah, a
lot. And and uh, you know there were there's been in my lifetime,
there's been two major wars, and there are there are folks my age
or younger that are struggling with those PTSD and and whatever. However you diagnose
their situations and it's it's uh, they need a helping hand. And the
USA cares. Yeah, well we want to be we want to make sure
Kentucky's at the forefront of USA cares because let's look at Fort Campbell and Fort
Knox. If you want to talk about the bourbon industry and what they bring
to Kentucky. Okay, it's cute horse racing, that's cute, But what
Fort Campbell and for Knox bring in are like, it's it's twelve fourteen billion
dollars a year. It's important we have we are they are generating a lot
of money for the state. We should get back to the veterans, and
especially the ones that are active duty. Now they can't pay for food when
they're out deployed, their families back home. Can they're on food stamps.
You're back home? That is crazy if you're not. If you're an officers
get paid on a different level. But some of these guys that are boots
on the ground in the army, they can't pay for food. We got
to change that. Yeah, it's something in USA Cares and other organizations come
in and fill those holes, and they were't grateful for them. Now,
we were talking earlier Bill Robie, he was the former chairman of USA Cares,
talking about how many calls they get. They get it around one hundred
and fifty two hundred calls for assistance from veterans. That's weekly weekly. So
there is a financial need maybe if you're a business owner, or maybe you're
in a CFO CEO situation, any like that. We have a lot of
big companies that are corporate citizens here in Louisville and the state of Kentucky.
You're hearing this. A partnership with USA Cares is something you won't regret.
I promise. They have a four out of four star rating on Charity Navigator.
They have one hundred score with Charity Navigator, and they look into these
charities with a fine tooth calm. All of the money goes to help your
veterans. If you want to donate, please do so. Go to USA
Cares dot org or you can they have an office. Oh, I can't
remember the road. It's off of Plant Side Drive. You can google your
address. So you're going from Frankfort to hopefully Metro Council. Yeah, you
go from being part of the majority over there to get into a knife fight
at Louisville Metro Council. Now when is the Frankfurt has passed it? So
there's no no DNRS anymore? Right, So you're just running? Right?
Is that for this election or the next one? This election in November will
be the last time that the Metro Louisville Metro mayor and City Council run as
a artisan, meaning an R or a D or an independent or something behind
their name. Okay, starting next the following twenty twenty five, that all
goes away, That all goes away. Okay, I gotta say, let's
start with State Representative Kevin Bratch or hopefully soon to be Councilman Bratch or after
November at least, I hope you got a heart of a servant, don't
you, Because not just with USA Cares, but your your career. You've
been serving the public and you're looking to serve more. But I've seen you
out with people and you're just a genuine servant. What puts that in your
personality? What do you think makes it makes you want to serve others so
much? Because it's I could tell when we're out and I see you do
something that most people won't do, like know, it's genuine. What makes
you like that? Man? Well, you know, let me start with
this first. You've heard how and I can't think of one now, but
how rock stars or movie like they like to say, well, what what
what is your motivation motivation behind this movie or this song this part, and
they say it's something that I would like to see I would like to hear.
So as I was growing up, you know, there were situations where,
uh, you know, government needed to help us. Now you know,
I'm a I'm a conservative Republican. I don't think believe in the nanny
state, right, but there are times when the government needs to step in.
So many times I say, whether it's the state rep role or hopefully
Metro Council, I'll say, what would if I was that ten year old
kid and needed something from the government, What would I want my counselman or
state rep to do? And I you know a lot of that comes from
that. Well, let me tell you it shows. It shows how I
don't want to apologize to you, probably for one of the most busiest days
of your life. So I grew up. One of my best friends growing
up, God Rest. His soul was Kevin Bratcher, not this Kevin brad
but another Kevin Bratcher. And when he died, I gave him a farewell,
a tearful for where Oh yes, not knowing, not knowing that I
should preference. Yes, everyone's like Kevin. People are posting God rest the
soul of State represented Ken? What was he? What was like some people
saying good? What was What was it like to find out you were dead
on that day? Were the first voice smell I got? I just like,
gosh, this guy's crazy. And then after about the tenth and twelfth
I started thinking something's going on here. And it didn't take me long to
figure out that Kevin Bratcher And there's like four four or five in this general
yea, that's funny. Well, the thing is before Facebook and and social
media. I didn't think there was another Kevin Bratcher in the United States,
did we we growing up? But now I put it in the Facebook and
they'll be well listen Kevin bratch Er aka Last. But it's really good to
see you, my friend, and best of luck in November because this the
city and these representation like you give us. God love it. Kevin Bratcher.
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we are back here at partisan Ye. Before we get into the reeling in
the years of Courtney Donahoe, we'll pull her in to talk about when she
gets there. Dave, lots of pasta. We send Courtney a basket and
by the way, they can now ship frozen things at lots of pasta.
They couldn't when we hooked up Courtney, but now you can send the meatballs
to you. Yep, so I try. I talked about the Michaels of
Brooklyn. They have their gravy, which few normal people would call spaghetti sauce.
Yeah, but it is. We tried it last night. Oh my
gosh, dude. Yes, the pasta's imported from Italy and it's a little
more expensive. But as Dave has always said, we ate it last night
and I did not feel bloated. I could sleep an hour later. It
was fantastic. So the Michaels of Brooklyn checked that out. It's in the
back towards the right, and they have fetuccini sauces, the gravy and all
of that. So check that out. I love the Micaels, but my
two favorite are the Lots of Pasta brand sausa is made right here in Kentucky,
the regular and the spicy Marenera. They have sausa just to throw on
the grill. Tony, you can grill. It's not just saying Italian at
Lots of Pasta Mexican on raised two. Uh. And then they have the
artists and waters. I don't know if you saw that one. I did
a twenty four dollars bottle of water. If you are one of those people
I like, I like to take that and make tea with it. So
how much did you love? Lots of pasta? Courtney? The spicy sauce
is delicious. You guys have to send me more, send me more?
What are you? Well? Well, well hang on that cordet now you
can earn more. All right, we are now what are we? U?
Thirty? We are thirteen? Thirteen and oh there were twelve and oh
no, so today's well, you're right twelve. Oh we're twelve, and
oh there's thirteen. There's no way we can lose now. Yeah. Well,
the good thing is it's because I'm back. That's the reason you're doing
so well. You're terrible until I showed down. Yeah that's the ticket.
All right, What decade, Dave Jenny's what decade? All of these songs
were in the top twenty somewhere in the seventies, okay, song sung Blue
Neil Diamond speaking of New York song song You Were the Sun and the Moon
of Nothing, it's early seventies. I got like seventy four on this one.
I have no idea. Let's hear another one. Okay, song song
Blue, that's go to the Carpenters. Karen Carpenter did not like lots of
pasta. One are the few seventy four that's still You can't get over that
too soon. You know that was like forty five years ago. It's gonna
take some time. But the voice of a name, awesome voice. It
really does the opposite of me. When my wife sings, she sounds exactly
like Karen Carpenter. She got a voicebox. Ah, Okay, seventy three,
seventy four, I'm thinking seventy two. Now I'm earlier seventies, maybe
seventy one. Hot Rodley Commander Cody and his Lost Planet air Man seventy one.
What it's about Lincoln again? If you don't start driving that hot rod
Lincoln at the end? Ah, dude, it sounds like something that should
be at the end of a Burt Reynolds movie, right. Cannon Ball Run
four exactly? Okay, And I'm on early seventy I like seventy two.
R it's doctor Hook Sylvia as his mother's I turned to my wife and look
at her. She's she's the number one. Oh somebody got a Lawrence Taylor
Jersey. Thanks for being distracted your focus. It's elsy okay, seventy two
or seventy three. Sylvia is very apparently Yeah this song Sylvie gets around each
car, the doorknob, the one guy in the one guy in doctor Hook
got a BB gun for Christmas. Dude that that is the funniest looking band
in the band. And you know they're all on coke. They're all on
drugs, and you get every gig none of them are straight. And if
you interview them, they say it. They're like, we were just a
garage band. We had no idea we'd have hit songs. The kids know
him as Yusef Islim. It's Cat Stevens to the adults. Morning. Oh
can I tell you this is I have a quick story about this. This
was the first song my mother heard when I was born. Wow, No,
no way, Morning the first song. So my mom always talks about
this. After Courtney was born, my mom, my mom, that's when
I was born. My mom said, water has broke. That's what you
beat me to it. That's not true. He's got some think seventy two,
but now I want to go to seventy one. Really? Yeah?
What's number one? All right? The number one song? May the thirtieth,
nineteen seventy something, Oh girl, it's the Highlights. Girl, I
like seventy one or seventy two. Now, I'll be in trouble if you
left. Now I'm kind of out on this. I don't I couldn't tell
you forty I'll like seventy one or seventy two. What do you want to
go with? What do you want to go with? I think I'm I
think I'll go with seventy two because more of you have been saying I don't
know half of these songs, but okay, all right, say I go
with seventy two. No, go with your gut as you said, seventy
two, all right, Dave Jennings. According to Courtney Donaho and the record
to be thirteen and oh is nineteen seventy two, the Shylights, Oh girl,
seventy one, but quiet it was number one, May the thirtieth,
Yes, yes, May the thirtieth, Yeah, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yeah, yes, yes yes. We are officially the seventy
two Dolphins. We are, yes, seventy two Dophins. We got more
day to go. Wow, I thought we were isolate that sound. David
said it to me. I'm gonna need a party. Were way late.
Please give us the numbers for the stock market's definitely under pressure for a second
day. Taking a look at the Dow right now, which I'm trying to
bring up again, don't isolate that sound either. Uh. It's down three
hundred and ninety points, the S and P five hundred, falling four tenths
percent. Not that bad. There are concerns and interest rates will remain higher
for longer as inflationary pressure's way on Americans With the news radio eight forty W
h Ayes Bloomberg Money Report, I'm Courtney Donahoe. Please be the clean version
I know. All right, welcome back. We are live at Hearty's on
Dixie Highway. Dwight's coming home home to the highway for today maybe uh.
And we're with USA Cares, a organization and its close to our hearts.
It's a nonprofit UH that dedicates to providing financial and their advocates for active duty
military personnel, veterans and their families. I do want to say this before
come by, By the way, donate from at least a little as a
dollar to whatever you want to donate, especially you want to come by and
have lunch. But the news department was asking us because we have our connections
with LMPD. Yeah, so that they're like, hey, dude, there's
a large police presidence from the courthouse. What's going on. So we go,
okay, well we'll ask about it. And you never know these days
with the dismissal the charges yesterday Brianna Taylor riot anniversary was the other day.
Listen, you don't know, listen with with with Michael O'Connell and his little
look at me press conference, I thought for sure they were going to lock
him up, all kinds of golfers, We're going to protest and tear up
Louisville. So they started, they started to board up buildings. Yes,
that's not the case. No, so our guys said, well wait,
let me check. So our guy said, oh no, that is the
Special Olympics torch run and a lot of their candidates are are running with the
Special Olympians. So that's why there's a big police president. Hey, look,
finally a good large president. Hey, folks, let me never know
in Louisville, Kentucky anymore. Hey, folks, men and women out there,
if you're hanging out with us right now. I got to tell you
if you don't have a charity that yet you've adopted to get to. I
can't say enough good things about USA Cares. Go to USA Cares dot o
rg Uh. Here's just one thing about them. Charity Navigator. It's it's
a it's a organization that looks into charities with a fine tooth called with a
microscope. They're rated four out of four. Did you hear that? Four
out of four on Charity Navigator they scored one hundred and all they do is
help out the men and women that served and helped us out. And we're
talking in a big way. If there's a foreclosure, they help them make
the know why it's getting returned off there, stepping in food scarcity, you
name it. It goes on and on and on and on. I'm on
the knees of my heart begging you check out USA Cares. As I bring
in the national spokesperson, Brian Anderson. First of all, good morning,
Brian, it's good to it's good to see you man. Good morning.
It's good. It's big responsibility, uh, national spokesperson right a little bit,
Yeah, but I started a long time ago, back when this company
was you know, an office in Radcliffe, Kentucky. And I've been able
to watch it grow, help it grow. Yeah, and it's kind of
been amazing and we're still going strong. I gotta tell you this later.
It's a wonderful organization and God bless the men and women to work there.
Like I said, scored four out of four with charity Navigator and that's no
baloney. And I want to talk more about that, but first I want
to talk about the movie star. Okay, here's a by the way,
let's Brian, what is your story. Let's hear your You are a veteran
and you are in a wheelchair. Tell us your story. Yeah. So,
you know, I joined the Army in two thousand and one and I
actually went to basic training on September eleventhought, Oh, you gotta be kidding.
I'm not joking. Your first day crazy. I mean, technically it
was one o'clock in the morning, September twelfth, now, but we got
on some buses and drove seven hours Fort Lenderwood, Missouri. I became a
military police officer. I was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. And you
know, after September eleventh, you know, we all kind of knew that
we were going to go somewhere at some point. Yeah, and we were
kind of proud of that. We were happy to be able to be the
ones to get to do something about it, right, and it made us
feel good. Two thousand and three, you know, I went in for
the invasion in Iraq. It was by the way, they probably makes Basic
a little bit more intense knowing that you're going, you know that that's happened,
right, that Basic probably was like, hey, this isn't just I'm
going to be deployed to Georgia. I know at the end of this whatever
eighteen weeks whatever it was, that you were going to go overseas, right,
Yeah. I mean I think I was so young. I was nineteen
twenty years old, so like, I knew I was going somewhere, and
I'm sure that was in the back of my mind. Yeah, And I
did tend to pay attention. I was really, you know, a pretty
good soldiery. Things just seemed to make sense to me. I didn't even
realize I had a brain in my head until I got into the military.
Awesome, that's crazy. So you found your place, you found your people,
you found your trust good. I knew I wasn't going to stay in
the whole time, but I wanted to do my part. I wanted to
help the little guy. And so what happened, You get deployed. Yeah,
So the first year was interesting and they were really scared of us,
and I had a lot of you know, interesting experiences, and there are
times in that part of the year that some of us could say we actually
had some fun. The second year to thousand and five, so we went
home for eight months, go back in two thousand and five January two thousand
and five, and they tell us strictly in Bagdad, we're helping the Iraqi
police do what they need to do, teaching them how to police their own
country and everything like that. And so we were going outside the wire every
day and we had sixty IEDs going off every day, sixty IEDs every single
day, just in a six mile radius southeast, by god. So it
kind of became like, you know, it used to be like if we
get hit, Now the question, kay, all right, when we get
hit, wow, is it gonna be one of those stories where I watched
trapmanna gole right by my face. But I didn't come out with a scratch.
Is the armor gonna hold up? Or is it gonna kill us?
All I tell you soldiers, don't think about coming back halfway. You either
think you're gonna make it or not right, And and then you know.
October twenty third, two thousand and five is the date that I got blown
up. And I didn't even realize, you know, I was hurt yet,
Like my first reaction is to looked to my right to where everybody was
in the truck. To me, I'd be like, hey, you guys
are right, you guys are right, and you know I didn't hear anything.
WHOA. Luckily they had, you know, minor wounds compared to me.
They jumped out of the truck before it even stopped moving. Meanwhile,
I'm inside, my legs in my hand like were cut off instantly. My
legs were laying on the floorboard. My hand was in the passenger seat,
and it kind of spun me sideways be where I was like laying on my
back with my head towards the door. And when I looked to the right,
I was seeing green, And I'm like, why am I seeing green?
Well? I thought I was sitting up looking to my right in the
passenger seat. Well, because I was laying in the driver's seat and I
was looking to the right. God, I was actually looking at the back
of my seat, which is street. And when I told myself, all
right, get out, and I don't know what I did to try to
get out. I just realized after a few seconds I couldn't get out,
still not realizing that I was injured. I didn't know anything. It didn't
cry out the I D It takes your legs, it takes and you still
don't know that you're injured. No, Wow, you're just in shock.
I was adrenaline. One of the reasons that I didn't bleed out, though,
is because of the type of IED's and e FP and you know they
top those off with copper plates and it gets so hot that copper liquifies.
That's what goes through the truck. It's not piercing the truck, it's melting
through the truck. And that's what went through me. And it cauterized everything.
Oh my god, it was crazy. That is crazy. So they
EVACU out. Yeah, so they get me under the sidewalk. Yeah,
calling the nine line. The helicopter pilot was told not to land lands an
impossible spot because he's like, if I don't land, this kid's dead.
And he just did it. Those guys are awesome, They're crazy, They're
amazing. I tell you, USA cares dot Org couldn't pick a better spokesperson.
All right, I'm getting emotionally here thinking about that guy landing on a
helicopter. All right, so your recovery time, right? How long was
that? Well? When I woke up, I was like, I just
want to go home and get better. How long do I have to be
here? They're like, well, the average stay of a soldiers eighteen to
thirty six months. I'm just like what what? Okay? So I just
put my head down and did what I needed to do and I was a
triple amputee and I made it out of there in thirteen months. All right,
live man. I was one of the really lucky ones. So I
had a really good attitude, you know, kind of like how I am
today. I've always been this way. And I got noticed in the media
a lot. And as I'm leaving Walter Reed, I came out on the
cover of Syre magazine. They did a huge spread, ten page spread on
me, and in there it said I wanted to be an actor and maybe
stunk man, And from that article I became, you know, the spokesperson
of a wheelchair company, Quantum Rehab. I was looking for a foundation to
work for. I found USA Cares. They seem to really like me too,
and so we all met up. It seemed like fate. This is
the way it's supposed to be. And I've been on board ever since.
Hey, Dave, I'm gonna take us a little bit long on this,
and I'll take the heat from the balls on it. But I got to
bring that up. You say on the article that you want to be an
actor, you want to be a st man, and you did. Here's
some of the movies you read. An American Sniper, Batman, The Dark
Night, The Week Of with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and then what I
want to talk to you about particularly is The Wrestler is a small indie film.
While it's underrated, I just told you it's underrated. Mickey Rourke as
a wrestler. So part of the scene you take your prosthetic leg off and
you give it to Mickey Rourke to beat somebody up with. Yes that scripted
or is that something you throw in there? So me, the stunt coordinator,
Darren Aronofsky, the director, Mickey Rourke, We're all standing there figuring
out, hey, what can we do? And it was like, what
if we come out of the ring and we we wrestle into him and I
roll back and fall out of the chair or something like that, Like no,
no, what could be funny? And it was actually Mickey that was
like those legs come off, and I was like, well, yes,
actually, and it's kind of funny because of the hotel. We filmed from
four pm to four am in South Philly, and the wrestler that Mickey was
wrestling in that scene was staying across the hall from me, and we both
walk up to our rooms. I turn right, he turns left. The
doors are right across the hall from each other, and it was like,
you want to out for a minute and he's like yeah, sure. And
what he told me is like, out of everything I did that day,
he had fluorescent tubes on his back, he had stable dollar bills to his
forehead, landed on barbed wire and nils and all kinds of stuff. He
said, the thing that hurt the most was getting hit by my He is
and he's the national spokesperson USA Cares dot O RG folks donate his wonderful organization
four out of four stars and Charity Navigator plus one hundred percent, scoring only
three percent of the charities can claim that God bless you and thank you so
much for all that I got to buy this guy Baronel's pizza before he leaves
town. Barono's Pizza. That baby, It's a Louisville style pizza and the
pizza that constantly gives back. Or you'll be out in about on the town
tonight. I want you to go by Baronols on Third and Market. A
dear friend of mine and the hell of a blues player, well he plays
everything. Jeremy Sharf will be performing there. Jeremy Sharf is amazing to see
live. Catch him tonight only starting at nine thirty at Baronols Third in Market.
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