Speaker 1: Oh, go gon it winning my coffee. Oh, Sammy Hagar,
Speaker 1: it's trying to put He's trying to put my headphones
Speaker 1: on and one of them went right in my coffee.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, but I know you
Speaker 2: probably know some stupid story of why this song is
Speaker 2: called I can't Drive fifty five? Can you say it?
Speaker 2: In like twenty seconds?
Speaker 1: And he had multiple speeding tickets. That's it, that's it,
Speaker 1: and that's the whole story, the very last one he got.
Speaker 1: He wrote this song. I forgot how fast he was going.
Speaker 1: But he recently started looking for the cop that actually
Speaker 1: wrote him that ticket that inspired this song. Because you
Speaker 1: want to take care of him.
Speaker 2: We got to figure out how you make money being
Speaker 2: a doppelganger of Sammy Hagar. I gotta tell you it's
Speaker 2: until the point, did he sues you?
Speaker 1: Well, No, the guy that runs his place wobble. As
Speaker 1: soon as I walk out, he walks up and greets me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we've stocked as soon as I get off the
Speaker 1: plane in Mexico. So I look like a seventy something here.
Speaker 2: Old man Gus Allen never has a break and that's
Speaker 2: why he's working with us today. Gus how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good, you are?
Speaker 2: Mario joins Mario?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 4: Mario?
Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? How y'all doing doing good? I want
Speaker 1: to hit the podcast? What's the podcast?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, you have a podcast?
Speaker 1: What's next? Podcast?
Speaker 2: What's next?
Speaker 1: What's next? Podcast?
Speaker 5: That's what it's called to have, like I basically the interview,
Speaker 5: you know, successful people within their craft.
Speaker 1: Well we will, we asked, you said, successful, you can
Speaker 1: set it up.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're right. I guess we're out, all right. How
Speaker 2: what kind of car do you drive?
Speaker 1: I drive a Toyota Corolla?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Uh, you've ad used or new new new how long ago?
Speaker 1: Years ago?
Speaker 2: Okay, so they'll run forever. So okay, new new Corolla.
Speaker 2: Let's say three years ago it was twenty five ish.
Speaker 1: I've got higher than that, yes, twenty five ish, twenty five? Really?
Speaker 2: Okay, Mario, smart guy. What is the average price of
Speaker 2: a new car? February twentieth, twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Average price? I'm gonna say twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Okay. I went in on, I went, I went, I
Speaker 1: went in eight, I went on.
Speaker 2: This Marios twenty seven, twenty eight, dwight.
Speaker 1: I'm going thirty five, going thirty five. You want a
Speaker 1: piece of this?
Speaker 2: Want a piece of that?
Speaker 3: Thirty one?
Speaker 1: Okay, everybody five bucks, and everybody buck up five bucks.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Now, just make it interesting.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Let me count it out here.
Speaker 3: That's not a real dollar.
Speaker 2: Give me the real dollar.
Speaker 1: Extual money off me.
Speaker 2: But if you printed fake dollars, it's like a felony.
Speaker 1: But I said, I'm good for it when on Friday,
Speaker 1: when we get paid tomorrow, when we're Southern cover hot time. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm in.
Speaker 2: All of you are wrong. The average price of a
Speaker 2: new car, not even in a truck or an suv.
Speaker 2: The average price of a new car is forty seven
Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: All right, but prices right rules. I got closest without
Speaker 1: going over, So I win.
Speaker 6: Were you?
Speaker 2: Were you? What?
Speaker 1: No? I was closest with it? I said, thirty five?
Speaker 2: So what did you see?
Speaker 5: Guys?
Speaker 3: I said thirty one? Okay, give me their five dollars. Okay,
Speaker 3: so let's wrap our brains around. Oh, let's wrap our
Speaker 3: brains around what this number signifies. Right, So if it's
Speaker 3: the average price is forty seven thousand dollars, that means
Speaker 3: there's equal amount of numbers above it as there is
Speaker 3: below it. So we are at fifty thousand dollars for
Speaker 3: a new car on an average price.
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: My channel?
Speaker 2: Ford?
Speaker 1: That my house? I paid fifty nine to nine for it?
Speaker 2: Your first house, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's not hundred square feet, but still is a house
Speaker 1: with a basement.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, I don't think I purchased a new car. It's
Speaker 2: it's just I don't nineteen ninety three. I bought it
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three, remember my Mitchellbishi Eclipse.
Speaker 1: Yes I do.
Speaker 2: Why do you say it like that?
Speaker 1: Why did you?
Speaker 2: Why did you say it like that?
Speaker 1: A stupid looking car for a stupid looking person.
Speaker 2: You hated it because chicks dug it?
Speaker 1: No they didn't. They dug the free concert tickets you
Speaker 1: could get them.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Hey, ask you question. How would you like to go
Speaker 1: see the pearl Jams? I work at qm F.
Speaker 2: Thank you bad. Don't even Netty Gus, you drive old
Speaker 2: old cars. VE paid for old cars, that's right, Jennings Gus.
Speaker 2: And he's got some weird man.
Speaker 3: He's still got the one, the same one he's had
Speaker 3: for three.
Speaker 1: Hundred thousand miles. Dam Jennings is the king of old cars.
Speaker 1: Three hundred grand he's got on that ford Mario.
Speaker 2: This is the advice I give you you're starting out
Speaker 2: in life, take a hang out with people that that
Speaker 2: they're they they're like Dave Jennings, I have a car
Speaker 2: with three hundred thousand miles on. If you look at
Speaker 2: the if you're standing over because you're gonna meet a
Speaker 2: neighborhood at some point, you're canna be standing over a lawnmoar,
Speaker 2: and the guy's gonna go sixteen years right here, still tickets,
Speaker 2: still going. That's the guys you want to hang out with.
Speaker 2: You don't want to hang out with families that are
Speaker 2: trying to keep up with the Jones. Now there are
Speaker 2: some new cars that you can get. Superaru, by the way, Subarus, eh,
Speaker 2: superrooth We all know Superoo drivers. Of course they're Democrats,
Speaker 2: they're liberals.
Speaker 1: They're women. The women doesn't they don't shave their armpits.
Speaker 2: No, that's true. I think they might be a little stinky.
Speaker 1: No, because I had a friend. I had a friend
Speaker 1: that worked in a Superaroo dealership and he said when
Speaker 1: a lady would come in, they would make them this
Speaker 1: requirement raise your arms if they shaved their arm pits,
Speaker 1: they're no deal, lady. We don't want you representing our product.
Speaker 2: But doesn't the Superaru commercials make you feel bad that
Speaker 2: you're not doing enough in your life? THEO is always
Speaker 2: going through this mountainous tree place and they're having coffee
Speaker 2: in the back of it.
Speaker 3: They have dogs.
Speaker 2: They have dogs too there, they have dogs.
Speaker 1: They got a campfire and they got like the old
Speaker 1: timey coffee pot on there, and the city is I
Speaker 1: see them like, I bet that coffee tastes like does
Speaker 1: the Coexist?
Speaker 2: Does the co Exist bumper sticker come with the supertandard?
Speaker 1: No, that's a good one. It is standard standard, it's standard.
Speaker 1: It's standard.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, So that is twenty five thousand dollars. The
Speaker 2: Sumeru Legacy is twenty five grand. That's not bad. That's
Speaker 2: a great price for a new car. Now, I didn't know,
Speaker 2: call me crazy crazy. Buick is still making cars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then like top of the line, really like
Speaker 5: top of the line right in terms of performance the
Speaker 5: top are you serious?
Speaker 2: Buick and Vista a Buick and Vista, which I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess that's their lower level. It's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: It looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: There was a time where I look at for like
Speaker 1: at two decades, For like two decades, I thought Buicks
Speaker 1: went away. Did they go away for a while and
Speaker 1: then come back? And all they've always been around is
Speaker 1: that GM. Yes, Buick Regal first my first cars nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the super Bowl, in the Super Bowl halftime show,
Speaker 3: that was a Buwick Grand Name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a grand nameewn Stones they really yeah,
Speaker 1: but those sought after car, yeah, but those things are
Speaker 1: worth are like one hundred grand man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they had a Grand National gn X that
Speaker 1: had two turbos.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking at a Buick Envision Vision Sport Touring
Speaker 2: four wool drive. It looks like a Mercedes. It's bad ass.
Speaker 2: It's badass. It looks badass. Okay, So Buick and Vista
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand, a Kia Soul twenty two thousand, Sols
Speaker 2: twenty two thousand. By the way, we started screaming and
Speaker 2: yelling with Dave's number, how many miles you have on
Speaker 2: your You have some weird cars too? Do you not
Speaker 2: have some?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 3: What's the most I got? Well, I don't have anything
Speaker 3: with a lot of mileage on it. Now, the Civic
Speaker 3: has one hundred and sixty, one hundred and sixty, one
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy. Now I had a Civic with three
Speaker 3: hundred and ten before some guy came across my yard
Speaker 3: and destroyed it.
Speaker 2: What did your kid? Would you buy your kid for
Speaker 2: his first car?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: The Civic?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: You know for the insurance because the insurance would have
Speaker 3: been cheap. Oh yeah, yeah, my mom and I had
Speaker 3: nothing but troubles with it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, my mom's Vet has like two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty on it. What my mom's Vet?
Speaker 2: Corvette?
Speaker 1: No chavette Oh, chavette. Yeah, it was a good one.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Toyota Corolla twenty two thousand. That's a hell of
Speaker 2: a buy for a Corolla. That's a great deal. So
Speaker 2: but I think the shocking thing here is because I
Speaker 2: was looking at f one fifties because Marty and I
Speaker 2: were friends and Harris Ford seventy five thousand dollars. I
Speaker 2: was seeing a lot of the fort f one fifties
Speaker 2: and I was like seventy five and that wasn't even
Speaker 2: the that's like the middle of the road.
Speaker 1: Guy, But that does come with air conditioning. I heard
Speaker 1: that all cars.
Speaker 2: I heard that they didn't.
Speaker 1: Usually they had like the little window flaps like a triangle,
Speaker 1: and you would point that towards you.
Speaker 2: Okay, we haven't been on dates in a while, right,
Speaker 2: speak for yourself. Okay, but I bet Mario he's probably
Speaker 2: been dating for a while. But he's the youngest in
Speaker 2: the group.
Speaker 1: I am the youngest.
Speaker 2: Gus, when's the last time you're on a date? What year?
Speaker 1: Yes? What year that was? Boy?
Speaker 3: When I was.
Speaker 2: Was it this century? Was it this century?
Speaker 3: You're talking about?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, yeah? Your last date?
Speaker 1: What's your pickup line? Mario? You got a pickup line?
Speaker 1: I don't have a Okay, let me give you one.
Speaker 2: He's really good looking.
Speaker 1: You need to do. First thing, and especially if they're
Speaker 1: super hot, is make them hit their self esteem. For example,
Speaker 1: you say, hey, you're pretty attractive for a chubby girl.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: What do you say? What you say?
Speaker 2: Don't stop talking. These are tiny little signs on your
Speaker 2: date that they're into you. Okay, all right, So I
Speaker 2: heard this from a cia age at once, and this
Speaker 2: is true. They will mirror your body language. So if
Speaker 2: you kind of rub your ear or grab your ear
Speaker 2: a couple of times, or touch your nose a couple
Speaker 2: of times, or you'd shift in your chair a couple
Speaker 2: of times. They'll do the same if they're into you.
Speaker 2: So the CIA agent told me once, he said, if
Speaker 2: I'm in someplace that I want to know who's following me,
Speaker 2: I'll sit, he goes, and I'll look at my watch
Speaker 2: twice in a row, he goes, because almost instinctively, the
Speaker 2: person following you will check their watch too, if they're
Speaker 2: watching you.
Speaker 1: Dad used to talk about. Dad used to talk about that,
Speaker 1: and he also talked about yawning, yawning. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: you scan the crowd?
Speaker 2: Did He never shared any of these I had special Forces.
Speaker 1: That's no idea. We special Force wasn't around it. He
Speaker 1: was intelligence.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it was before special forces. Your dad was
Speaker 2: special force. It was intelligence, right, correct? And then went
Speaker 2: into CIA. How did you have?
Speaker 1: I you imagine the disappointment.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't disappointment. Seriously.
Speaker 1: Uh, My dad used to dare me to do stuff. Hey,
Speaker 1: but you can't jump off that building? What else? Tony? Uh?
Speaker 2: They blush a little bit, they blush a little bit,
Speaker 2: so they they they uh, their palms are a little sweaty.
Speaker 2: They're nervous. You know, when you make somebody nervous, they
Speaker 2: like you, right, I guess, Yeah, you've never experienced this
Speaker 2: because everyone you've dated has been drunk.
Speaker 1: Right. Let's hope my wife never sobers up.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: This one is weird that their pupils dilate.
Speaker 1: Well, that's from the weed. That's from what I put.
Speaker 1: That's from what I put in their drink.
Speaker 3: You get up close to their eyes and go, hey.
Speaker 1: That's why I put the drink, and I checked their eyes.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, she's just about ready.
Speaker 2: If they reach over. There's another one. They make physical
Speaker 2: contacts if they touch your.
Speaker 1: Hand and touch you.
Speaker 2: Yes, if they touch you.
Speaker 1: Right, every time I talk to your wife, she's like
Speaker 1: grabbing my shoulder and doing stuff like this. Yeah every time.
Speaker 2: Yes. The other one is for girls is the hair flip.
Speaker 2: If they do the little If they do the little
Speaker 2: hair flip thing, they're into you.
Speaker 1: Man. Every woman I have a conversation with exhibits this behavior.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all I know.
Speaker 2: Fight or flight, I think your situation. But guse you
Speaker 2: didn't make you didn't answer the question when was the
Speaker 2: last time you were on a date that isn't your wife?
Speaker 3: That would have been twenty plus years ago. Yeah, so no,
Speaker 3: twenty three maybe.
Speaker 1: What's out to me like your do twenty three years? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about time.
Speaker 3: Hey, honey, guess what tonight?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: Hey do you think that that? Do you think that
Speaker 2: girl says he was the one that got away?
Speaker 3: Of course she does. It's my boy, it's my boy
Speaker 3: hearing it right now?
Speaker 2: Go on, I love it.
Speaker 1: There you go go, I love it. I love it all.
Speaker 3: As mister big plays or something.
Speaker 2: You know. Oh my gosh, last thing, Mario before we
Speaker 2: let you go. You live in Lexington, So you what
Speaker 2: do you like? You've been visiting Louisville. How much time
Speaker 2: do you spend in louis What do you like the
Speaker 2: difference between Louisville and Lexington? What do you what do
Speaker 2: you think is the difference? Because you're not from Kentucky,
Speaker 2: so I think this is.
Speaker 5: Louisville's a lot more diverse and a lot bigger than Lexington.
Speaker 5: Area is a lot bigger, a lot more to do
Speaker 5: in Louisville compared to Lexington.
Speaker 1: And I would say.
Speaker 5: There's not just one of like, like, it's not just
Speaker 5: like Lexington you got to Walmarts.
Speaker 1: You got two targets, right, you know, Louisville. It's like
Speaker 1: you have so many different options. We got huge.
Speaker 2: No, he's right, I mean it's it's Middletown is huge,
Speaker 2: Jay Town is huge, Fern Creek is huge. I mean it,
Speaker 2: and we forget the numbers that we're dealing with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bigger, better though.
Speaker 2: Do you think you can No one's listening over at
Speaker 2: the other station.
Speaker 1: Put me on the spot. My mom listens, and that's
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: You're from Long Island, New York. Do you think that
Speaker 2: obsession with Kentucky basketball is healthy or unhealthy? Sometimes for
Speaker 2: people that live in Lexing healthy?
Speaker 5: Healthy, healthy, It wouldn't be Kentucky without the uside, right right.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, good answer, he answered quick too. He
Speaker 2: did not him in hall. No, No, healthy, healthy, hell healthy,
Speaker 2: he answered quickly, and confidently. We weren't gonna tell me
Speaker 2: a lot of confidence there. Uh Mario again, your podcast is.
Speaker 1: Yes, What's next podcast?
Speaker 2: It's thatt on iHeart, It's.
Speaker 1: On iHeart, It's on everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Apple, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Speaker 1: You do one episode a week? What do you have what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What's what's your frequency on that?
Speaker 5: Technically we used to do one a week, but we
Speaker 5: were kind of slowing it down a little bit.
Speaker 1: We're like two a month right now. Is it still
Speaker 1: fun or is it? Because sometimes stuff like that starts
Speaker 1: out it's fun, it gets a little bit of a
Speaker 1: burden just the time.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to balance the time with doing you know,
Speaker 5: I heart stuff and then having to do that my
Speaker 5: stuff on the side.
Speaker 2: Well, we enjoy you.
Speaker 1: With us, man, what do we will look forward to?
Speaker 2: What do you got for me?
Speaker 1: Gus?
Speaker 2: What was it I forgot? Elan and Eland? Uh five
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Give them a call if you
Speaker 2: want to sell your house for one percent commission rate.
Speaker 2: There's no haggling, there's no negotiation. It's already one percent.
Speaker 2: It's set, all right. My neighbor just put his house
Speaker 2: for sale, Eatling and England signed in the art. It's
Speaker 2: right on the corner there. Go buy that house because
Speaker 2: it's steal. I'm telling you keep the equity in your home.
Speaker 2: You earned it and you're gonna need it if you're
Speaker 2: going someplace else. All right, So one percent commission rate,
Speaker 2: that's the deal. They've been doing it for six seven
Speaker 2: years and they're the best half of all the one
Speaker 2: percent deals broken last year in Louisville were with Etland
Speaker 2: and Eland. There's specially their specialty is that keep the
Speaker 2: money in your pocket. Go with Edland and Edland five
Speaker 2: nine hundred.
Speaker 1: Go on to social media, Allison Lobdell says, hey, now
Speaker 1: you have two listeners. I'm listening to you and listen
Speaker 1: every day. Then she goes on and says, you're way
Speaker 1: sexier than Tony. That's much better look and then she
Speaker 1: set up picture.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's not what it says. Back after
Speaker 2: this news radio eight forty, don't set it would rise.
Speaker 2: Dwight disappears sometimes go to the bathroom is prostate is huge,
Speaker 2: so it takes a while for him to go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom. Gust, did you knew you heard that I
Speaker 2: got my toilet right?
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard something spectacular about this toilet.
Speaker 2: It's the Totos something. It's the Toto Aqua four. It
Speaker 2: is the Star Trek Star Wars of toilets.
Speaker 3: Does it go with the sixteen thousands dollars?
Speaker 2: I'm not getting the sixteen thousand dollars Italian stove?
Speaker 3: What a combination. Could you pair the oven and the
Speaker 3: toilet together, that would be That would be while you
Speaker 3: said on the toilet, you're cooking on the oven.
Speaker 2: Okay, but this is a good point. The toilet is
Speaker 2: the equivalent of the sixteen thousand dollars Italian stove from
Speaker 2: Bargain Supply. This thing is like a spaceship. It has
Speaker 2: sensors on it, lights. It's so amazing. So I had
Speaker 2: it installed. It's been two days and life has changed
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful toilet. But I'm gonna come over
Speaker 1: and sit on it and run it for you. No, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Beautiful You're not allowed anywhere near my special special Did
Speaker 2: the toilet cost? It is from BK Plumbing. It's not cheap.
Speaker 3: I always say when something is expensive like that. Yes,
Speaker 3: I have a I have a saying, and boy does
Speaker 3: it apply in this one? Will it wipe your butt
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 1: It does?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely it does? And then it styles and it's
Speaker 2: so worth it. It doesn't just have heated water for
Speaker 2: a bidet. It has a hair dryer installed and also
Speaker 2: so and then comes it cleans you. You hit the
Speaker 2: other button and then a little flat goes and he
Speaker 2: goes in the bowl and it drives your butt.
Speaker 3: To go to look at your co host. Yes, go
Speaker 3: over there and put some tape on his mouth because
Speaker 3: I can see something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't see him, but I can.
Speaker 3: See you know.
Speaker 1: It comes with a tiny little hair brush and little
Speaker 1: Tony when the hair is going and goes, hey, look
Speaker 1: at me, I'm styling.
Speaker 3: By the way, what I thought was gonna come out. So,
Speaker 3: by the way, by the way.
Speaker 2: So the so the beidat water is heated, and then
Speaker 2: the hair dryer thing that drives your butt after it
Speaker 2: cleans you. That's that's heated also, and the seat gets
Speaker 2: warmer as you're sitting on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what we're talking about as NASA technology is.
Speaker 2: So when I walk in, So if you go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom at two in the morning, you walk into
Speaker 2: the bathroom, the lids its senses that you've walked in
Speaker 2: the room, and the lid comes up, and then the
Speaker 2: blue light that disinfects everything.
Speaker 1: How about that blue.
Speaker 2: Light comes on to the bowl and it sprints is
Speaker 2: a little water on the bowl just to spritz and
Speaker 2: disinfect and then when you flush, the lid goes back
Speaker 2: and you go back to your bed. Okay, what if
Speaker 2: you okay, BK plumbing dot com.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a hypothetical that has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with me. What if you're a fifty seven year
Speaker 1: old guy with a bad processate and it takes you
Speaker 1: forever to pee because you sound like you're sending morse code.
Speaker 2: Right, well, wait on me, yeah, an wait the person,
Speaker 2: It'll wait, It'll wait for you. Okay, it'll wait for you.
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Speaker 2: Jill in. We're talking gymnastics now, and this isn't just
Speaker 2: some run of the mill gymnastic event that's happening this weekend.
Speaker 2: You all in city of Louisville, southern indianaut Well, how
Speaker 2: many states does the station get you in the middle
Speaker 2: of the day, like twenty? Come on down Louisville, because
Speaker 2: at the Kentucky States has stood up. Okay, so we're
Speaker 2: talking about the convention center. She got plenty of room
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of fun downtown. Jill, how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 7: I'm doing great?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 7: I'm Jill. My name is Jill gear.
Speaker 4: I am the chief Communications and Marketing officer for USA Gymnastics.
Speaker 2: USA Gymnastics. That sounds important, and.
Speaker 1: You know what you're doing. You've been to seven Olympic Games,
Speaker 1: not all gym Are you serious?
Speaker 7: Seven?
Speaker 1: Seven?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 4: I started in the Olympic movement in track and field.
Speaker 4: Actually I started with NBC in Atlanta in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4: I am very old, so yeah. So Paris was my
Speaker 4: seventh Olympics and it was my first with gymnastics, and
Speaker 4: it was fantom.
Speaker 2: You've probably been this a million times. Which one was
Speaker 2: the best?
Speaker 7: You know, it's got to be. I think Paris.
Speaker 4: It's between London and Paris, but I think Paris took
Speaker 4: it because it really the Olympics and really the world
Speaker 4: had been really shut down for several years. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: it was like the reopening. They re enlivened the Olympics with.
Speaker 1: The Coca Cola Museum and the brave Oh.
Speaker 2: My gosh, people driving their own buses.
Speaker 7: That was nuts.
Speaker 4: I was working for NBC and like the drivers were quitting.
Speaker 4: The fans were getting in recks take everywhere.
Speaker 2: All the buses were getting to the driver's seat and
Speaker 2: driving the bus. But the highlight was Ali. Yes, and
Speaker 2: in the torch.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Actually I was.
Speaker 4: A spotter for NBC. So I was on the track
Speaker 4: during the opening ceremonies and I was sitting at the
Speaker 4: base of the torch while Muhammad Ali Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is that the world.
Speaker 7: I was wearing a headset just like this one to sweating, like, oh.
Speaker 2: How were you?
Speaker 7: I was twenty six.
Speaker 2: That watch from here it's really yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah he used that was the Olympics that had
Speaker 1: the bombing, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that poor guy that got to explain
Speaker 2: for that. It was It was not his fault.
Speaker 7: It was wild.
Speaker 4: And I was actually working as a sports writer actually
Speaker 4: at the time, for a place in Arkansas, and I
Speaker 4: got a call from my editor like in the middle
Speaker 4: of the night, like, yeah, called me up.
Speaker 7: His name is Dudley. Dustin's like hey, it's Dudley. I'm
Speaker 7: like Dadley Likedley just making sure everything's okay. I'm like everything,
Speaker 7: what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Before the internet?
Speaker 7: Yeah right, ye.
Speaker 1: So during the Olympic Games, how accessible are the athletes.
Speaker 1: I got to think they're kept under wraps like the Well, okay.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's an important question because after after
Speaker 2: certain events in before you know, after seventy two, it
Speaker 2: probably changed because of Munich, right, and then obviously after
Speaker 2: nine to eleven, uh and all that. So again, I'm
Speaker 2: sure the security is crazy.
Speaker 4: Well, it's evolved, and it's also evolved since COVID as well,
Speaker 4: so from on up. But athletes primarily stay in the
Speaker 4: Olympic village, and who can access the village is really
Speaker 4: locked down. It is members of the team delegation. I
Speaker 4: can't even get into the village without a special pass
Speaker 4: because I don't stay in the village. So it's really
Speaker 4: intended to keep the athletes focused and kind of away
Speaker 4: from the public because it can get pretty nuts, even
Speaker 4: smowing Biles like she's a superstar within the Olympic village,
Speaker 4: so she has to like get her alone time there.
Speaker 2: Well, she's an icon, so it's not outside of gymnastics,
Speaker 2: she's still the rand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but most people, most in most sports, they're adults.
Speaker 1: Gymnastics not so much. You start out young, okay, And.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. So the intensity so you're in
Speaker 2: USA Gymnastics. Okay, I'm fascinated by this because of the
Speaker 2: dedication that these families put together to get to where
Speaker 2: you're talking about this weekend at louisvill Kentucky. So just
Speaker 2: to get to Louisa, Kentucky and have this winter event, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, the journey that goes on with these families,
Speaker 2: it's intense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gymnastics is not a sport that you just kind
Speaker 4: of roll up and play on the weekend.
Speaker 7: It is definitely a dedication.
Speaker 4: And so the athletes who will be here at Winter
Speaker 4: Cup go to Wintercup dot Com.
Speaker 7: By the way, get tickets.
Speaker 2: Winter Cup dot Com. Get tickets.
Speaker 4: Yes, the elite athletes here usually start gymnastics at about
Speaker 4: the age of four or five. Wow, And they become
Speaker 4: elites anytime really between the ages of like fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 4: But what we've seen the last several years, with both
Speaker 4: women and men, is the athletes are getting older. And
Speaker 4: there's lots of reasons for that because now athletes know
Speaker 4: how to train smarter and not harder.
Speaker 7: It extends their careers.
Speaker 4: You can go to college, you can take a little break,
Speaker 4: and so it's definitely changed.
Speaker 7: It used to be. The team for the women's team
Speaker 7: were largely in their teams, right. Our team in Paris
Speaker 7: was there babies.
Speaker 4: It was the oldest team we've had since the fifties really,
Speaker 4: so yeah, the team was all in their twenties except
Speaker 4: for Heslie Rivera.
Speaker 7: Who will be here.
Speaker 2: She'll be here this weekend.
Speaker 4: She was sixteen. She was the youngest member of the
Speaker 4: Olympic team for any sport.
Speaker 1: Gold.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's gold medalist, so she'll be here.
Speaker 1: Gymnastics it's such a beautiful sport, but it's a quite
Speaker 1: dangerous sport if you ask me, because on some of
Speaker 1: these things, scary stuff, game's off broken neck, right, Well.
Speaker 7: It is a beautiful sport. It's extremely powerful, is right.
Speaker 4: The Americans do a really strong style of gymnastics, and
Speaker 4: the reality is that.
Speaker 2: The Americans are aggressive, shocker.
Speaker 7: Right, It's what we do well.
Speaker 4: But the athletes are so well trained and certainly the
Speaker 4: sport it is very technical, and so because they've trained
Speaker 4: repetitions over and over and over again, it's as safe
Speaker 4: as it can possibly be.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: There is an an inherent danger. But that's why you
Speaker 4: have spotters, that's why you have certain standards.
Speaker 1: You know what I think I would be just a
Speaker 1: natural ad is the no dancing with the ribbon thing,
Speaker 1: you know that thing with.
Speaker 2: But it also has to be galactically frustrated. Again, big
Speaker 2: huge winner event for gymnastics here at the Convention Center
Speaker 2: downtown this weekend. Again. The website to get tickets.
Speaker 7: Is Winter Cup dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay, we follow. My son was a wrestler. Dwight was
Speaker 2: a wrestler in high schools. You know. To me, it's
Speaker 2: the fairest way. Wrestle off on Wednesdays, you know, so
Speaker 2: you you get a wrestle off. If you win, you're
Speaker 2: the starter on Saturday. Gymnastics a little different. So it
Speaker 2: is very objective or subjective whatever you want to describe
Speaker 2: how the judging has done. It's been the biggest criticism
Speaker 2: of gymnastics since day one? Correct, have they been able
Speaker 2: to improve that? For guys that are outside looking in
Speaker 2: like we are.
Speaker 4: Scoring has changed. For instance, when I grew up, you're
Speaker 4: all talking about a perfect ten. Yes, so a perfect
Speaker 4: ten no longer really exists. Because there are two components
Speaker 4: to the score. One is execution and the other is difficulty.
Speaker 4: So the difficulty score is baked in so Let's say
Speaker 4: you're going to do a your chenko double pike right,
Speaker 4: also known as the biles. Yes, that has a dscore
Speaker 4: of six point eight, so you're starting.
Speaker 2: With six point eight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 4: Your execution score, which is the more subjective part, is
Speaker 4: based on that ten point scale.
Speaker 7: But even there they are very specific pointers.
Speaker 4: Some people are even talking about getting AI judging to
Speaker 4: help make it important impartial. So the sport has done
Speaker 4: more and more to try to try to take out
Speaker 4: the subjectivity. But it is artistic. Gymnastics is actually what
Speaker 4: it's called, and so artistry will always have a subject
Speaker 4: development as well, and it's more so with the women
Speaker 4: than the men, which because the women do more dancing.
Speaker 4: And for instance, toe point is a thing. If your
Speaker 4: toe is not pointed right, you will get a deduction.
Speaker 1: It just takes it left and goes off across the
Speaker 1: other toes.
Speaker 2: She used to catch fish with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if my wife had wings, she could snatch a
Speaker 1: trout out of you know.
Speaker 2: But but gymnastics is I mean, I think is as
Speaker 2: popular it's ever been, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is amazing to come into the sport of gymnastics.
Speaker 4: I had worked in track and field for almost twenty
Speaker 4: years and the sport of gymnastics is a much smaller sport,
Speaker 4: but the reach in terms of pop culture is amazing.
Speaker 4: So when we were at team qualifying, this isn't even
Speaker 4: the finals. We're talking about the qualifying. As we're waiting
Speaker 4: for the competition to start, we had our photographer with
Speaker 4: their telephotal lens. It's like, oh, there's Tom Cruise. Oh
Speaker 4: there's you know, Ariana Grande. It was like it was
Speaker 4: like a heavyweight title bout because these celebrities were tripping
Speaker 4: over themselves to get to the event to be seen.
Speaker 4: Do you have their picture taken? So it's it's great.
Speaker 4: My neighbors, the little girls, they're like, oh, you work
Speaker 4: for gymnastics, you must be really important. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, you can come over anytime.
Speaker 1: And Tom Cruise is not only a great actor, he's
Speaker 1: also a scientist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, is there a support group for post gymnastics,
Speaker 2: like you gotta there's gotta be some physical Hey, you
Speaker 2: play football, you got problems the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you played for a long time physically,
Speaker 2: you probably are worn down. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 2: go into coaching or not coaching or you know whatever.
Speaker 2: But there is a support group for gymnastics, older gymnasts,
Speaker 2: right you would think so.
Speaker 4: They might have a de facto support I will say
Speaker 4: gymnasts are tend to be very smart. They are literally
Speaker 4: former gymnasts who are rocket scientists. Yea that I worked
Speaker 4: with someone men's gymnastics program. But some go into coaching,
Speaker 4: some go into commentary, some go into like I said,
Speaker 4: rocket science. We have doctors, lawyers, so there is definitely
Speaker 4: a bright future post gymnastics.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the reason that it produces a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are smart is because of the
Speaker 1: discipline and the dedication because you need that in gymnastics
Speaker 1: like no other sport. If you ask me, so, they
Speaker 1: apply that same discipline everything else.
Speaker 7: You nailed it.
Speaker 4: It is very well like self disciplined, highly focused, high
Speaker 4: achiever athletes.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine are they I can't imagine it being
Speaker 1: much fun though they are. They are super funk.
Speaker 4: Our men's team, Stephen, Stephen better ask the palm horse guy.
Speaker 7: I refer to the men's team as a pack of puppies.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 7: They are the strongest there. They are the story team
Speaker 7: just in the world.
Speaker 4: But man, they are just like any team, they celebrate
Speaker 4: each other, and so it's I.
Speaker 2: Don't even some of the things they do. You're just like,
Speaker 2: how do you how do you do that? How do
Speaker 2: you even do that?
Speaker 6: Let's talk this second on the difference in seeing it live.
Speaker 6: For me, there's been a couple of, you know, seminal moments.
Speaker 6: And you know, I get to go to a lot
Speaker 6: of sporting events as president of the Sports Commission and
Speaker 6: and work with a lot of great organizations, and I've
Speaker 6: been to a just terrific events, and I will tell
Speaker 6: you that there's been a couple of moments in my
Speaker 6: career that really just open your eyes.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I'll start with volleyball, because volleyball for this community is
Speaker 6: so huge, and so when you sit on the floor
Speaker 6: close to a Division one volleyball national championships and you
Speaker 6: see the athleticism of those young ladies and how hard
Speaker 6: they hit the ball, it changes your correct your view
Speaker 6: of what that sport is. I will tell you that
Speaker 6: gymnastics is just like that. So you know, the idea
Speaker 6: that people love gymnastics and they watch it and they
Speaker 6: can't wait for the Olympics to come every four years.
Speaker 6: This is an opportunity for you to come right now.
Speaker 6: You know we're we're the beginning of a new quad
Speaker 6: to the LA Games and this event you're gonna have
Speaker 6: these elite gymnasts. And I will tell you when you
Speaker 6: sit in those stands at at the convention center and
Speaker 6: you watch these young ladies on the floor exercise and
Speaker 6: you see how hiw they actually jump off of the floor.
Speaker 6: When you see them on that balance beam, it's just mind.
Speaker 2: So I walk in the convention center. Help, what's the
Speaker 2: floor set up? Just like in the normal like I
Speaker 2: say on TV. So you have the Pammel horse over here.
Speaker 2: That whatever, right, So then I'm going to have a program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very similar to the Olympic floor as it's
Speaker 4: laid out right. So men have six apparatus swim and
Speaker 4: have four Okay, So here in Louisville on Friday, the
Speaker 4: men'll be competing. So men Friday night, women on Saturday,
Speaker 4: and then men again on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Awesome, yeah, awesome, Okay, So well, thanks for coming Louisville
Speaker 2: and bringing this to Louisville. We're excited about it. You
Speaker 2: have a fascinating story. I like to have you back
Speaker 2: on just to talk about what you've seen over something years.
Speaker 7: I gotta write some books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like a lot.
Speaker 2: Of She looks like a lot of funs.
Speaker 1: You look like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: She's just smiling now he's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you're not wrong, Greg Man. Anytime you
Speaker 2: need anything, you know where to find this Louisville Sports Commission.
Speaker 2: You guys are the best.
Speaker 3: Thanks, appreciate you having Jill.
Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend? One more time? How do you
Speaker 2: get tickets.
Speaker 7: Winter Cup dot com?
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