Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is seven oh five here Kentuckyana's
Speaker 1: morning news on news Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee
Speaker 1: with you, Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden and John Shannon. The
Speaker 1: crew is fully as symbol here as we get another
Speaker 1: week started. Hopefully you had yourselves a good weekend. I
Speaker 1: know it was a good weekend for Louisville fans. As
Speaker 1: the baseball program back in Olmahall, well, they're not there yet,
Speaker 1: but they've made They've made the College World Series for
Speaker 1: the sixth time in nineteen seasons for Dan McDonald and
Speaker 1: when you go on a little bit of a drought,
Speaker 1: it had been a while since they'd been there. But again,
Speaker 1: there are programs that have never been And just to
Speaker 1: say it out loud, six appearances to the College World
Speaker 1: Series in nineteen years for Dan McDonald, knowing that the
Speaker 1: program had never won an NCAA postseason game prior to
Speaker 1: Dan McDonald being hired. I mean that tells you what
Speaker 1: this guy's done as far as turning the program into
Speaker 1: what it is today. And I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: sharing those facts specifically should make folks realize, yeah, we
Speaker 1: shouldn't take that guy for granted.
Speaker 2: Not at all, Nick, And when you what I noticed
Speaker 2: what stood out on TV to me not only was
Speaker 2: the conversation about what Louisville did, because in the way
Speaker 2: that they have the All Americans lined up on the outfield,
Speaker 2: ball out there, which gets constant play on TV, you
Speaker 2: really get an appreciation and the fans that turned out
Speaker 2: in mass to see that burm packed and to watch
Speaker 2: the fans involved in cheering on and that went out
Speaker 2: between national TV audience, and that really put Louisville on
Speaker 2: the map. They're already on the map obviously for basketball
Speaker 2: and football. That makes sense. And of course we have
Speaker 2: the Derby. And what I love most is some of
Speaker 2: the camera shots the networks were doing. Not only did
Speaker 2: you have Jim Patterson Stadium, but then you had Churchill
Speaker 2: downs in the background, and then that they'd shoot the
Speaker 2: other way, you'd see the football stadium. It showed Louisville
Speaker 2: in just such a great light made us look good.
Speaker 2: It did make us look good, and the baseball team
Speaker 2: did too, So kudos to UL Baseball. And then of
Speaker 2: course we'll talk about Murray State as we move on
Speaker 2: through the morning.
Speaker 1: But they've got a big one today.
Speaker 2: They do. They've got a huge one, and then all
Speaker 2: the high school teams that are participating as well, and
Speaker 2: it's just nice to see, you know, we don't turn
Speaker 2: into the sleepy hollow here in Louisville once basketball season
Speaker 2: in the Derby leaves. And of course a lot of
Speaker 2: the talk during the Belmont on Saturday during Fox's coverage
Speaker 2: was about Louisville and the Kentucky Derby and what happened there.
Speaker 2: So you know, even my wife said, at dinner last night,
Speaker 2: we were talking about some of the richer horse races
Speaker 2: and I said, you know, the richest one of courses
Speaker 2: is Dubai World Cup. It doesn't even compare to the
Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby. She's like, I thought the Derby was.
Speaker 1: I said, no, most people probably think that, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, right, And.
Speaker 2: That's why we were talking about in the Derby, you
Speaker 2: win the Derby for prestige, which I think is amazing
Speaker 2: and yet another compliment to our city on full display.
Speaker 2: So we had all that going on. We had a
Speaker 2: great crusade for children. It is just a really cool
Speaker 2: time to be here in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. We will talk coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit later on with Rory O'Neal of NBC News
Speaker 1: and get the latest on the ice protest going on
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, also going on a little bit in
Speaker 1: San Francisco as well. It's the first time since nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five that the National Guard has been federalized without
Speaker 1: a governor's consent. Obviously, the two sides not aligned, those
Speaker 1: that are in leadership positions in state of California, and
Speaker 1: of course Donald Trump and his administration. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Rory on that and keep you updated on the
Speaker 1: latest is that it is still going on as we speak.
Speaker 1: Last week, a big conversation was preventing a third consecutive
Speaker 1: weekend of for lack of a better word, nonsense on
Speaker 1: Barchtown Road. It does seem as if there has been
Speaker 1: a big improvement from the previous two weeks compared to
Speaker 1: this past weekend. Obviously, it's something they're going to continue
Speaker 1: to monitor, and I think the real emphasis late last
Speaker 1: week was the emphasis on not just holding those accountable
Speaker 1: who aren't following the rules that are breaking the law,
Speaker 1: but preventative things in place to where it never gets
Speaker 1: to a point where you've got to show up with
Speaker 1: the patty wagon and just start arresting everybody, because I mean,
Speaker 1: that was likely going to be the next alternative, because
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do. You have to let
Speaker 1: people know that you know, you're going to be held
Speaker 1: accountable if you if you don't follow rules and again
Speaker 1: follow the law. Something else that we have discussed this morning,
Speaker 1: that his news from over the weekend, former Louisville basketball
Speaker 1: star Russ Smith arrested for DUI and these things. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime somebody of Russ's status, a celebrity here locally, is
Speaker 1: arrested for DUI, it's not a surprise to see it
Speaker 1: become local news. But the details of the arrest I
Speaker 1: think have been the biggest talking point because he was
Speaker 1: actually arrested and charged with DUI despite blowing below the
Speaker 1: legal limit. The legal limit is zero point zero eight.
Speaker 1: He blew zero point zero seven, So a couple of
Speaker 1: things here. You can blow below the legal limit and
Speaker 1: it's the officer's discretion as far as do they think
Speaker 1: you should be charged. Russ did admit to drinking. He
Speaker 1: did cooperate, I think it's safe to say, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he volunteered to do it. But
Speaker 1: then he was asked to do it and didn't, didn't refuse.
Speaker 1: He fully cooperated with the field sobriety tests and I
Speaker 1: guess those tests were not he didn't do well in
Speaker 1: those tests according to the officer. So again it's it's
Speaker 1: the officer's discretion there as far as what they want
Speaker 1: to do. Do they want to arrest some won or
Speaker 1: do they want to tell them they can have somebody
Speaker 1: come pick up their vehicle. Again, I don't know the
Speaker 1: exact latitude that the officer has there. However, Russ does
Speaker 1: have an attorney, Steve Romans, the same attorney that I'm
Speaker 1: sure of a lot of you listening are familiar with
Speaker 1: Steve Romans, But he also represented Scotti Scheffler, and that
Speaker 1: is who now is going to arrest or who's going
Speaker 1: to represent Russ Smith in this situation. And for those
Speaker 1: that are of the belief that the same officer who
Speaker 1: then I don't And again, there are multiple officers involved
Speaker 1: in the Scotti Schefler situation, but something's been floated out
Speaker 1: there on social media the last twenty four hours that
Speaker 1: basically the officer And when I think of the Scottie
Speaker 1: Schefler situation, I think of the officer. The first one
Speaker 1: that comes to mind for me is the one who
Speaker 1: claimed he was run over and talked about the amount
Speaker 1: of money that it cost to purchase the pants that
Speaker 1: he needed to do the job they were ripped. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the first thing that comes to mind for me.
Speaker 1: So if that's not for if that's not the way
Speaker 1: you go back and think of it, then you know
Speaker 1: nothing I can do about it. But the people who
Speaker 1: think the same officer who did that is the one
Speaker 1: who arrested Russ Smith, it's not the case at all.
Speaker 1: The officer who was involved in the traffic stop that
Speaker 1: arrested in charge Rust Smith at DUI is the officer
Speaker 1: who I guess read Scottie Schffler his Miranda rights and
Speaker 1: then later transported him to Metro corrections. So again, there's
Speaker 1: still there's clearly some connections here. But I think those
Speaker 1: that just assumed the same guy who a lot of
Speaker 1: folks seem to believe was in the wrong for letting
Speaker 1: the Scotti Schefler situation turn into what he turned into,
Speaker 1: it's not the same guy who pulled Rusmith over. Just
Speaker 1: to clarify, so again, we'll keep you updated on the
Speaker 1: latest when it comes to that and something I wanted
Speaker 1: to get to on the other side here before we
Speaker 1: get to another update of sports with Scott Fitzgerald. Is
Speaker 1: the big NCAA house settlement that was finally finally cleared
Speaker 1: on Friday. I'll give you the latest as far as
Speaker 1: what that means for college athletics moving forward, but first
Speaker 1: let's get another update on traffic and weather right here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas it is seven seventeen
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky hata's morning news on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick Coffee with you. And on Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: we finally got a judge to put an end to
Speaker 1: the endless, seemingly NCAA House settlement conversation. So a California
Speaker 1: judge approved the NCAA's house settlement on Friday, which will
Speaker 1: be a game changer for college sports. What this means
Speaker 1: is schools can now directly pay athletes themselves. And I
Speaker 1: guess what this has done is it has essentially put
Speaker 1: the old archaic amateurism model in the grave because it
Speaker 1: hasn't been amateur sports for a while. It's been nil
Speaker 1: and we call it that, but it really wasn't name
Speaker 1: image and likeness. It was just a way to get
Speaker 1: around buying players. So what this does is it settles
Speaker 1: three major antitrust lawsuits against NCAA. And what we now
Speaker 1: have is, starting this upcoming academic year twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: to twenty six, schools can share up to twenty point
Speaker 1: five million annually with athletes. And when I say share,
Speaker 1: they're sharing revenue. So the cap again is twenty point five.
Speaker 1: That's the most you can share. That will grow apparently
Speaker 1: by year four it could be up to twenty five million.
Speaker 1: And as you could expect, most of this money is
Speaker 1: expected to go to football and men's basketball due to
Speaker 1: their revenue dominance. I mean, those are the sports that
Speaker 1: most often will bring you revenue, so you can pay
Speaker 1: out as much as twenty point five and how you
Speaker 1: decide to do it is really just how you want.
Speaker 1: So schools can can distribute these funds directly to the athletes.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the belief is that seventy five percent
Speaker 1: of this money is going to go to football, whereas
Speaker 1: fifteen percent will go to men's basketball, five percent for
Speaker 1: women's basketball, and then just five percent to be split
Speaker 1: among other non revenue sports. Now, no federal antitrust exemption
Speaker 1: for the NCUBLEA is a real big takeaway from this
Speaker 1: coming to a close because now they're still able to
Speaker 1: be sued, they can still get they can people can
Speaker 1: still lawyer up and fight the nc DOUBLEA, and the
Speaker 1: NCUBA has not had a lot of success in a courtroom,
Speaker 1: it seems like in the last few years. So another
Speaker 1: big thing is that two point eight billion dollars is
Speaker 1: going to be paid out to former Division one athletes
Speaker 1: that played college sports from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four for their missed opportunities to cash in on name,
Speaker 1: image and likeness. Now, the biggest change here is the
Speaker 1: new is the new body that is in place called
Speaker 1: the College Sports Commission. This is run by the SEC,
Speaker 1: Big ten, Big twelve, and ACC where they're going to
Speaker 1: enforce the rules themselves. You're no longer the NSAA is
Speaker 1: basically saying, we don't have the resources, we don't have
Speaker 1: the ability to truly regulate this and hold people accountable.
Speaker 1: So you guys can can collectively work together and determine
Speaker 1: your own way of doing it. And they've done that.
Speaker 1: So nil Go Clearinghouse is going to be a third party.
Speaker 1: They're going to review all the third party in IL deals.
Speaker 1: So instead of just saying, hey, I'm going to pay
Speaker 1: I'm going to pay six hundred dollars to Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: to come play from my baseball program just because he's
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald. Now, if you are doing a NIL deal,
Speaker 1: you have to go through a process to prove that
Speaker 1: this is actually somebody being paid for their name, image
Speaker 1: and likeness and it's a legitimate deal, not just a hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give this person two million dollars and
Speaker 1: we're just going to call it in IL. So that
Speaker 1: is the big change is that you now everybody's sharing revenue,
Speaker 1: but the cherry on top is going to be who
Speaker 1: can give you the best NIL deals in order for
Speaker 1: you to decide if you want to go play there.
Speaker 1: But now you have to prove is it a legitimate
Speaker 1: INNIL deal or not.
Speaker 2: So it's important because we're continuing to evolve now, which
Speaker 2: is what we said would happen. And yes, we're going
Speaker 2: to learn how to fly as we go, and it
Speaker 2: sounds like at least we're moving so much.
Speaker 1: This is this is certainly a step in the right direction,
Speaker 1: but I think the days of it being completely smooth
Speaker 1: and no hiccups. I don't know if that's realistic, but anyways,
Speaker 1: we'll take another update, take a quick break in an
Speaker 1: update on traffick and weather, and another update on sports
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitzgerald right here on Who's Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whis Thank You, Thank You. John at Is seven thirty
Speaker 1: four here at Kentucky had his morning news on news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with You, Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: John Shannon, and John Alden alongside today. So teens who
Speaker 1: stay up late are more likely to have impulses negatively,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not totally surprised by that, But when
Speaker 1: I was young, when I was a teenager, I don't
Speaker 1: really remember having a bedtime per se, like my mom
Speaker 1: checking on me at this time of the evening to
Speaker 1: make sure I was actually in bed asleep. But I
Speaker 1: don't also remember staying up super late either. Did you
Speaker 1: have a bedtime as a kid.
Speaker 2: No, It was one of those things. When I turned in,
Speaker 2: I was trying to remember when I heard you mention
Speaker 2: that when I quit having a bedtime, when my parents
Speaker 2: quit telling me it was time to go to bed,
Speaker 2: And I don't know that I can remember that. But
Speaker 2: I never, like you, never stayed up late. I was
Speaker 2: either busy at school or had some good guys went
Speaker 2: to bed. My son, to some degree, he would stay
Speaker 2: up late, but it didn't make him a miscrender.
Speaker 1: All it took was a couple of mornings where I thought, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll stay up late. I had, I guess I had
Speaker 1: some freedom, probably because my mother was already in bed
Speaker 1: and I realized I've got a TV. I can just
Speaker 1: you know, watch a movie or whatever and play video
Speaker 1: games even And it probably just took a couple of
Speaker 1: mornings where I was just dragging and realized, okay, now
Speaker 1: I'm paying the price for this, so I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: sure I'm in bed by a certain time. But if
Speaker 1: you if you have that freedom, I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's kids that have the cycle to where they stay
Speaker 1: up really late. They're probably not productive at school, they're
Speaker 1: really sleepy. They get home from school, then take a
Speaker 1: long nap. Is if they you know, that's that's the
Speaker 1: that's their probably the most long maybe the longest day
Speaker 1: sleep in the twenty four hour window, and then because
Speaker 1: they just slept a bunch after school, then they stay
Speaker 1: up really late at night, and I would imagine that's
Speaker 1: a cycle that is not not great for school. But
Speaker 1: if you can pull it off, you can pull it off.
Speaker 2: Was there ever any worse feeling than when you're in school?
Speaker 2: Unlet's just say you're you're in a class, doesn't matter
Speaker 2: which one. You just could not fight dozing off. I mean,
Speaker 2: no matter how much you got teachers who tell us
Speaker 2: get up all the time.
Speaker 1: I can think of the classes that that that I
Speaker 1: was like that because it was pretty rare for me.
Speaker 1: But there were certain and it was wasn't necessarily the subject,
Speaker 1: right that you know that you know what. You were
Speaker 1: much less likely to fall asleep in Pe, obviously, but
Speaker 1: it was more so the teacher's voice, like the cadence.
Speaker 1: Just there's certain voices that are I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a compliment. It's probably not good for a sleepy student,
Speaker 1: but it'll put me to sleep because I'm just calm
Speaker 1: and relaxed.
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people going to staff meetings this morning.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no worse feeling in a staff meeting
Speaker 2: than dozing off and you're not trying to.
Speaker 1: And there's probably no no day like Monday as far
Speaker 1: as it being more likely to happen, right, because you're
Speaker 1: coming off the weekend. So yeah, I just remembered whenever
Speaker 1: I was this was probably early high school, late middle school.
Speaker 1: I'd come home after after school and I fell asleep,
Speaker 1: not really trying to. I just laid down on my
Speaker 1: bed watching TV, and I fell asleep and I was
Speaker 1: in a deep sleep. I woke up and looked over
Speaker 1: at my at my at my alarm clock and it
Speaker 1: said like six forty something, and it was it was
Speaker 1: not dark outside, but it also wasn't light, so I
Speaker 1: was I was. I was like, oh crap, it's it's
Speaker 1: time to get up and go to school. I'm running
Speaker 1: a little bit behind. So I walk out of my
Speaker 1: bedroom and in the kitchen, my mom and my sister
Speaker 1: are in there, and I didn't see them. I just
Speaker 1: could hear them moving around and talking. And I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm running. I'm running behind. So I go jump in
Speaker 1: the shower, I take a quick shower, run back to
Speaker 1: my bedroom. I end up, you know, grabbing my backpack
Speaker 1: getting everything ready for the day. I had basketball practice,
Speaker 1: I think later, so I just making sure I had everything,
Speaker 1: and here I am hustling as if I'm as if
Speaker 1: I'm about to cause the family to be late, and
Speaker 1: I walk into the kitchen and they're they're sitting there
Speaker 1: and they're not in their clothes to leave for the day.
Speaker 1: They're eating dinner. And I realized, oh, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: six something pm that am. And I can't tell you
Speaker 1: the relief of knowing that I didn't have to go.
Speaker 1: It's like I got a day. It's like I got
Speaker 1: an extra day off, like I started my evening all
Speaker 1: over again. So yeah, sleep sleep schedule, sleep cycle. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's important, and I'm I'm adjusting. Today was not as
Speaker 1: bad as I thought it would be the first Monday
Speaker 1: for me after, you know, coming off of a full
Speaker 1: week of the new schedule. So yeah, if you stay
Speaker 1: up late as a kid, apparently it's well. See how
Speaker 1: something my son did that.
Speaker 2: And I used to think it was a problem at first,
Speaker 2: and as I watched him sort of go through the motions. One,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to force the kid to go to
Speaker 2: bed because he's sixteen now, yeah, whatever age it is,
Speaker 2: he's old enough to make his own decisions. But there
Speaker 2: were times where he would stay up late, and to
Speaker 2: what you just mentioned, he'd come home from school, he goes,
Speaker 2: I am so tired, and then he'd sack out. He'd
Speaker 2: be out by ten o'clock. And it's if you let
Speaker 2: them find their way with that. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that contributes to being up late.
Speaker 1: As far as the report said, well, I think if
Speaker 1: you can put if you have the if you can
Speaker 1: put off the nap, yeah, it'll work itself out to
Speaker 1: where you're gonna end up falling asleep earlier and then
Speaker 1: you're going to be more fresh the next day. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll it can it can certainly work itself out. But
Speaker 1: I do believe if I had distractions. Really we had
Speaker 1: cell phones when I was a teenager, but they weren't smartphones,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, so I couldn't really get lost
Speaker 1: and distract myself on my cell phone. If I had
Speaker 1: a cell phone like they're made now and I was teenager,
Speaker 1: I probably would I would be on that thing, not sleeping.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I could really entertain myself with
Speaker 1: on my cell phone was remember the game Snake, but
Speaker 1: they know the no Kia phones. I remember playing Snake.
Speaker 1: That was about as much fun as I could have
Speaker 1: on my cell phone. So nowadays, man, kid's got a
Speaker 1: lot of different distractions that can keep them up late,
Speaker 1: video games, the Internet, that kind of stuff. So anyways,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get a let's get an update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather. It is seven forty here in news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas. It is seven forty six here
Speaker 1: a Kentucky. And this morning news on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas, Nick coffee with you. We'll have another update
Speaker 1: of sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming up at about nine minutes.
Speaker 1: Also another news update with John Shannon at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: And I want to give a big shout out to
Speaker 1: everybody who helped in any way when it comes to
Speaker 1: the seventy second annual Whas Crusade for Children. Scott, I
Speaker 1: know you were out there yesterday helping out and so
Speaker 1: much goes into that. I mean, seventy second annual. Think
Speaker 1: about that, folks. I mean since nineteen fifty four, this
Speaker 1: has gone on to raise money for obviously a great,
Speaker 1: great reason. And the total yesterday five point eight nine
Speaker 1: million was raised. And again this raises funds for children
Speaker 1: with special needs a Kentucky and Southern Indiana. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it's me make sure I have
Speaker 1: this correct. It's recognized as as America's longest running and
Speaker 1: most successful local telethon, and when you hear nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: four being when it started, it makes total sense that
Speaker 1: that's up there right. There's not many other annual telethons
Speaker 1: that have gone on as long as this one has,
Speaker 1: but so many that volunteer their time from the local
Speaker 1: fire departments, folks like Scott and others that were a
Speaker 1: part of it and have been for many many years.
Speaker 1: And O Terry Miners, our colleague here, has put so
Speaker 1: much into it and is very very passionate about the
Speaker 1: crusade for children. So what I thought really hit me
Speaker 1: last week, just knowing that this is a known annual
Speaker 1: thing around here, is we were over at my wife's
Speaker 1: grandparents' house and in her neighborhood. The fire trucks were
Speaker 1: making their way around the street and they weren't going fast.
Speaker 1: So I think the kids clearly could tell that there
Speaker 1: wasn't some type of an emergency. But they you know,
Speaker 1: my son is five, and he already remembered that, oh,
Speaker 1: let's get some money. Let's get some money, because if
Speaker 1: he sees firemen out at intersections or making the rounds
Speaker 1: and neighborhoods. He now knows that they're they're there to
Speaker 1: raise money and that just that. You know, that's just
Speaker 1: one example. But you know, no matter what your lifestyle is,
Speaker 1: no matter how old you are, you're probably well aware
Speaker 1: of what the Crusade for Children is and you know
Speaker 1: what it's all about, what it does. And that's why
Speaker 1: you're able to see five point eight nine million being
Speaker 1: raised over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, and it was nice too because there were so
Speaker 2: many people that were touched so much raw emotion. We
Speaker 2: were talking to the good folks from the Anchorage of
Speaker 2: Fire Department and one of their officers was just broke
Speaker 2: down emotionally because they had helped his family. And I
Speaker 2: think speaking of Anchorage, the fun moment came when Patrick Walston,
Speaker 2: the chief at Anchorage, had a bet with some of
Speaker 2: the other fire departments if they exceeded that now ninety
Speaker 2: thousand deadline or the ninety thousand threshold, he would have
Speaker 2: to eat a cicada. Ooh on the air.
Speaker 1: I did not see that.
Speaker 2: So incomes of course terry miners who comes in with
Speaker 2: lo and behold is kada in his hand because they
Speaker 2: end up raising one hundred and twenty four thousand, So
Speaker 2: he had to eat the cicada and he ate it
Speaker 2: right on the air, and it.
Speaker 1: Was seated expectations and if it led to somebody having
Speaker 1: to eat a cicada, I'd say it's worth it.
Speaker 2: It was, and you know, just a big shout out
Speaker 2: to everybody over there, you know Philip who produces it.
Speaker 2: Don They do a great job with Crusade. It was
Speaker 2: great to reunite with Alex Detterer. Her and I have
Speaker 2: worked together the past two years on that and just
Speaker 2: to see, you know, Shay was out there with Terry
Speaker 2: and obviously this is Terry's baby and he he is
Speaker 2: the radio voice of this and to be a partner
Speaker 2: with us and to see it now not only from
Speaker 2: that standpoint, but see how the sausage is made, so
Speaker 2: to speak, and see the behind the scenes and to
Speaker 2: your point, all the hard work that people do to
Speaker 2: point this on it simply was amazing. I went home
Speaker 2: watched the conclusion of it last night and it just
Speaker 2: working something like that gives you a whole greater appreciation
Speaker 2: of exactly everything they do. And when you get to
Speaker 2: meet the different firefighters and you see the people who
Speaker 2: give and the storylines.
Speaker 1: And you hear stories from those who have shared. Because
Speaker 1: this takes place every year and so much money is raised,
Speaker 1: it has had this type of an impact on me
Speaker 1: personally in my situation, my family. I mean, those are
Speaker 1: those are obviously great stories to share. And competition is
Speaker 1: good for everybody, healthy competition, especially when you've got firefighters
Speaker 1: or fire departments I should say here locally that are
Speaker 1: competing to see you can raise the most money and
Speaker 1: they're working their tail off to try to. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a win win for everybody. Right. If you
Speaker 1: don't end up raising as much as others, it's still
Speaker 1: just energizing everybody to bring in as much as you
Speaker 1: possibly can to again make an impact.
Speaker 2: Good folks from Anderson County came in as well.
Speaker 1: They were there, so Swartzburg in the house.
Speaker 2: There we go, so it extends well beyond the water
Speaker 2: since so it was fun.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. All right, let's take a quick break. We've
Speaker 1: got an update on traffic and weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: as well as another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: Right here. Do you wait? Forty w h A S