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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started. Welcome in the Monday
Speaker 2: after Derby Week. I say Derby Week because I feel
Speaker 2: like it's not just Saturday's Kentucky Derby that people are
Speaker 2: maybe still recovering from. It's everything that comes with Derby Week.
Speaker 2: It's a big week, and it was a great week.
Speaker 2: Mother nature did not cooperate with us really on Saturday,
Speaker 2: but being there for a good stretch of really nearly
Speaker 2: the entire day, it didn't seem as if anybody cared,
Speaker 2: and that I think became infectious to where you know,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? It's the Derby. You probably
Speaker 2: spent a lot of money. It's not an event you
Speaker 2: plan to go to based off of weather. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you're gonna make the trip, make
Speaker 2: the arrangements, you know, you just accept whatever mother nature
Speaker 2: decides to do. And again she wasn't great, but it
Speaker 2: didn't seem to matter to those that were there, and
Speaker 2: it was a good Derby. Sovereignty is your winner. A
Speaker 2: name that did get talked about and was always, from
Speaker 2: what I can tell view to be a real contender
Speaker 2: in the one hundred and fifty first running of the
Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby, but it just never seemed to generate quite
Speaker 2: the buzz that a Sandman or a journalism got. But
Speaker 2: no doubt it was sovereignty. And I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is. I feel like every time I say it,
Speaker 2: I'm saying it wrong. You know, sometimes just saying it
Speaker 2: with confidence may it may distract people from the fact
Speaker 2: that you might have ever so slightly mispronounced it. But
Speaker 2: let's say together, Austin sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty. Y think we're on
Speaker 2: the same page there, Yes, so like a sovereignation. Congrats
Speaker 2: to sovereignty. Course, there you go. It is Coffee and
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Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with us. Yesterday
Speaker 2: was a day to recover, but I'm sure there's many
Speaker 2: that needed more than just you know, one day. I
Speaker 2: was very glad to see that we got the email
Speaker 2: either last night or this morning from our boss Gus,
Speaker 2: who is not here today. He's taken the day off,
Speaker 2: which of course is good. He needs a month off.
Speaker 2: I mean, we wouldn't survive without him, at least not
Speaker 2: for that long. At least I don't think we would.
Speaker 2: But glad to see he's enjoying himself and good. This
Speaker 2: was probably the most that I've been a part of
Speaker 2: of our coverage because I did my typical interviews with
Speaker 2: just different fans and spectators there, and then I did
Speaker 2: about an hour and a half of kind of anchoring
Speaker 2: our coverage, which was which was a cool experience and
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. But you were there, and I
Speaker 2: know you've worked Derby more than one year, but you
Speaker 2: were you know, you were a big part of our
Speaker 2: of our coverage. Yeah, for sure, Yeah, I could sense that,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know just it. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but it felt like it was probably more just because
Speaker 2: I was more around and therefore I'm noticing things that
Speaker 2: I typically didn't notice. But you know, it's a collective
Speaker 2: effort from everybody involved, and you know, I enjoyed more
Speaker 2: than I have in a long time, actually, you know,
Speaker 2: talking to people and some of them never even made
Speaker 2: the airwaves. As far as these interviews that we did,
Speaker 2: we had a good group out there talking to different
Speaker 2: folks to where by the time we were still many
Speaker 2: hours from the actual Derby race, we got the notification
Speaker 2: that hey, we're full. Basically, there's enough interviews here to
Speaker 2: play throughout the our coverage. So you guys are good,
Speaker 2: sit back and enjoy yourself. And uh, oh yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what we did. But you know, of the people I
Speaker 2: talked to, I don't even know if this one ended
Speaker 2: up in the entirety of our coverage, but you know,
Speaker 2: there was a guy who who has gone had been
Speaker 2: to forty or forty seven, I think Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard that it was on the montage.
Speaker 2: That's right, Okay, yeah, that's right. That's where I knew
Speaker 2: there was some I knew I'd heard reference of that
Speaker 2: at some point. I listened to that early this morning
Speaker 2: when I got up and I was thinking, Okay, when
Speaker 2: would I have heard it. I wouldn't have heard it live,
Speaker 2: but that's when I heard it. Sty sand Mine made
Speaker 2: the montage. Yeah, So, which, by the way, we do
Speaker 2: we do every year we have a montage about fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes of just our day right here, well not right here,
Speaker 2: but you know, across the hall within our family here
Speaker 2: at ihare on news Radio eight forty WHS and Jim
Speaker 2: Bin will put together a nice little fifteen sixteen minute,
Speaker 2: you know, montage of everything and we'll let you guys
Speaker 2: hear that a few times throughout the show today, probably
Speaker 2: going to plan for it towards the end of this hour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's it's just kind of a good quick I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not super quick, especially considering the type of audio
Speaker 2: we typically play on the show. However, I mean it
Speaker 2: has everything that really it basically packs in our derby
Speaker 2: day start to finish our coverage and of course the
Speaker 2: race itself into about a fifteen minute clip. So we
Speaker 2: can relive that and look forward to doing that. But
Speaker 2: I know what we talked about last week. But back
Speaker 2: to the guy that I interviewed that was included in
Speaker 2: the montage, I mean he came to u of L
Speaker 2: as a student many many years ago, and that's when
Speaker 2: he came to his first derby, and he's basically been
Speaker 2: to about everyone since then.
Speaker 3: And I mean, if.
Speaker 2: That it didn't live here either, by way, he lives
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, but again he I guess got familiar with
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs and horse racing whenever he was a student
Speaker 2: at u of L, long before U of L is
Speaker 2: even close to kind of you know what it is now,
Speaker 2: And it just it was another reminder that it's kind
Speaker 2: of cool that, like, this is such a special event
Speaker 2: to so many people across the world, and it's right
Speaker 2: here in our hometown. And it's not like I've never
Speaker 2: knew this before. But I don't know, maybe it's just
Speaker 2: me getting more older and mature and wise and realizing, hey,
Speaker 2: this is a pretty cool thing that we have this yere,
Speaker 2: all eyes are on us for longer than two minutes,
Speaker 2: but of course it's a two minute race, which really
Speaker 2: I think that's telling. It's such a big sporting event
Speaker 2: and it's such a big deal, so much attention surrounding it. People,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the most successful, influential people in
Speaker 2: the world want to be a part of it at
Speaker 2: some point because it's just you know, the pageantry, everything
Speaker 2: that comes with it, But it's just a two minute thing,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like if you come to
Speaker 2: the derby, it's longer than two minutes, and you have
Speaker 2: the whole day, but like the real big spotlight is
Speaker 2: for that two minutes, and not many cities can say
Speaker 2: they have that, you know what I mean? Like a
Speaker 2: have an event where really everything seems to kind of stop.
Speaker 2: Maybe I am exaggerating it slightly, but you know, it
Speaker 2: kind of seems that way. And then you see the
Speaker 2: amount of people who in fact do watch it who
Speaker 2: aren't there. It kind of makes me feel even more
Speaker 2: as if you know, damn, this thing is even bigger
Speaker 2: and more special than I thought. Of all the people
Speaker 2: you talked to, is there one that stood out more
Speaker 2: than the others.
Speaker 4: I got to talk to a guy and his love
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that was his wife in the Paddock area,
Speaker 4: and he was a he was how do you say?
Speaker 3: He was an auctioneer?
Speaker 4: Okay, he was like the guy he got twenty overhaf
Speaker 4: video here and he got to do one of his
Speaker 4: little he got the going character for a minute, and
Speaker 4: they were from bowling green and he said the last couple,
Speaker 4: he said, the last time we came was one rich
Speaker 4: strike one and it was they like eighty to one.
Speaker 4: So he said, I'm going all out on the on
Speaker 4: the longest shot, and finally actually got to mingle my
Speaker 4: way over to the infield. I've never into the infield before, really,
Speaker 4: and it's a long walk ye from the grand stand.
Speaker 3: That tunnel is no joke.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, the infield from where
Speaker 2: we were to get there, is it? I mean, I
Speaker 2: know the tunnel, but like it it. I think I
Speaker 2: walked past it thinking, Okay, I'm pretty sure that's how
Speaker 2: you used to get to the infield, But there's no
Speaker 2: way that can be how you get there now because
Speaker 2: they kind of have it roped off as if it's
Speaker 2: like super special exclusive access.
Speaker 4: Yes, but if you can easily like get turned around
Speaker 4: thinking that that's not it.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess they do try to separate it as
Speaker 2: best they can because there's part of the infield. I
Speaker 2: guess a lot of the infield that's not the all inclusive,
Speaker 2: so they do try to keep it pretty, you know,
Speaker 2: pretty clearly divided. But yeah, I hadn't been back to
Speaker 2: the infield in a couple of years now, I'm dying
Speaker 2: to know was it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was energetic out there.
Speaker 4: I got there, I did everything out there early before
Speaker 4: it got too so I didn't see any what do
Speaker 4: you call in the porter potty surfy. I didn't see
Speaker 4: it was I thought it was just gonna be this
Speaker 4: giant mud heap.
Speaker 2: So I'm curious if that stuff still takes place like
Speaker 2: the because it uses still. I saw some video like
Speaker 2: okay this past year. That makes me happy though, because
Speaker 2: you know, the debauchery and just the you know, the
Speaker 2: overall you know, rowdiness that the infield it was. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are stories that a lot of you
Speaker 2: have heard or maybe you're a part of these stories
Speaker 2: that people share over the years, that you know, really
Speaker 2: describe it as like something unbelievable. I've never even got
Speaker 2: to experience that, because that was like long before, you know,
Speaker 2: we're talking like probably in the nineties and even before that.
Speaker 2: But even like in the last ten years or so,
Speaker 2: the infield it got a little bit more classy I
Speaker 2: think than it used to be. And you know, it
Speaker 2: used to I think it just used to be considered Okay,
Speaker 2: we don't care about the snobby stuff. We're here. We
Speaker 2: want to bet on the ponies, and we're gonna get drunk,
Speaker 2: and if it rains, we might just get sloppy and
Speaker 2: you know, do belly flops into the mud, because that's
Speaker 2: just we. There was a level of not really giving
Speaker 2: a day am in the infield that I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure if it's there anymore, but I mean, at least
Speaker 2: you got to experience it. My man, I'm happy that
Speaker 2: you got to see it. I mean, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: the uh, the the overall theme for me, uh, just
Speaker 2: as far as a takeaway, and it was because of
Speaker 2: one of the one of the guys I talked to
Speaker 2: early on. I mean, he didn't seem like the most
Speaker 2: engaging uh individual, and you really never know until you
Speaker 2: know you talk to somebody. But you know, he had
Speaker 2: on a suit that had, like, I mean, his entire
Speaker 2: outfit from top to bottom, hat to shoes to belt
Speaker 2: to everything. Austin it had I feel like, every single
Speaker 2: color in the rainbow, but they all he made it
Speaker 2: work like. It wasn't clashing, it was. It was quite
Speaker 2: the flex and he looked phenomenal and he knew it too,
Speaker 2: So I was like, hey, sir, you know you mind
Speaker 2: if if I get a quick little energy for you
Speaker 2: for a radio coverage of today's derby. He was like sure.
Speaker 2: So you know, I started with the hey, where you're from?
Speaker 2: And he's he was from somewhere North Carolina, but I
Speaker 2: think he said he's lived in Louisville here and there
Speaker 2: throughout his life. And I said, well, you know what
Speaker 2: what it is? What when he told me he'd been
Speaker 2: to the Derby a bunch of times, I said, what
Speaker 2: is it about the Derby that keeps you coming back
Speaker 2: that you just that you you know, you love? And
Speaker 2: he said the fashion? Uh, And you know, and I'm
Speaker 2: not someone that considers myself fashionable really at all. And
Speaker 2: this is something that that I never really thought about,
Speaker 2: but because of how dressed up a lot of people are,
Speaker 2: especially in certain sections, and just how you know, how
Speaker 2: beautiful everybody is. I mean, you could attest to this
Speaker 2: right like you know, they cover our face and what
Speaker 2: we do we work in radio like these are beautiful
Speaker 2: human beings that probably are dressed as nice and look
Speaker 2: as good as they do at any point in the year,
Speaker 2: because you know, it's the Kentucky Derby so because of that,
Speaker 2: like famous people blend in like you won't you might
Speaker 2: like everybody looks famous. Seriously, I mean I'm kidding, I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding. Like you see certain people and you're like,
Speaker 2: I don't recognize that person. But man, if you told
Speaker 2: me they were a supermodel or a famous actor or
Speaker 2: you know, somebody that's you know, very very successful, and
Speaker 2: you know and because of that they have fame, I
Speaker 2: would believe you, because it's just like it's overloads. So
Speaker 2: him saying that made it seem like, you know, it
Speaker 2: made me kind of realize, you know what, like I
Speaker 2: bet there are a lot of people here that really
Speaker 2: have way they actually may be more fashionable than I
Speaker 2: would know, because what would I know. So since from
Speaker 2: that conversation earlier in the day I ended up having,
Speaker 2: you know, I just felt like I made a little
Speaker 2: more awareness of just like how it may just be
Speaker 2: like that may be one of the bigger factors in
Speaker 2: why certain people go is because they want to they
Speaker 2: want to join in on everybody being you know, dressed
Speaker 2: to impress, which you know, they certainly certainly were a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I mean it it's a real rare
Speaker 2: thing to see somebody not extremely dressed up. I don't
Speaker 2: just mean like they got on a jacket and some slacks.
Speaker 2: I mean like they've got a lot of attention to
Speaker 2: detail in their wardrobe. And again it made me realize
Speaker 2: that I know nothing about that and probably never will.
Speaker 2: I mean, I felt pretty good about the fit that
Speaker 2: the wife threw together for me on Derby Day, and
Speaker 2: then I show up and I'm like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm probably I'm not standing out like a bum, but man,
Speaker 2: I can't compete with some of the some of the
Speaker 2: style and some of the fashion that's going on out
Speaker 2: there too. When did you change? Because when I showed up,
Speaker 2: you did not have your phenomenal suit on. Yes, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking, Okay, why did Austin wear this? Maybe
Speaker 2: it's just because you know he's going to be out
Speaker 2: in the battlefield getting wet. But no, the next time
Speaker 2: I saw you look like a million bucks.
Speaker 4: Well, I think is after I got all my interviews done,
Speaker 4: I just felt like, let me just go aheading. It
Speaker 4: was only really rainy in the start of the day,
Speaker 4: I felt like, I know it kind of it trickled
Speaker 4: down throughout the rest of the day and wherever we
Speaker 4: were sitting, we were kind of covered, so yeah, and
Speaker 4: then I just decided after that, I'm just going to
Speaker 4: walk around maybe like undercovered areas as well on interview people.
Speaker 4: So it was I think like at one o'clock. I
Speaker 4: got there at nine, did all my stuff. Probably at
Speaker 4: like one o'clock is when I decided to change and
Speaker 4: I went into the media bathroom and it did the
Speaker 4: whole Superman booth in there.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Nice and the weather, I mean, it didn't rain the
Speaker 2: entire day, but you know, it just was in all aspects.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying this to complain, because it was
Speaker 2: pretty It was pretty awesome to be there as long
Speaker 2: as we were. And realize one that you can absolutely
Speaker 2: stay dry there and the majority of of of you know,
Speaker 2: of the day, if you want to. But clearly nobody
Speaker 2: cared because again, the Derby's just simply not something you're
Speaker 2: making arrangements for, especially if you travel, and especially if
Speaker 2: you have got you know, if you're up in a
Speaker 2: covered area where you know they wouldn't even allow us
Speaker 2: in with the credential, like you don't mean you're never
Speaker 2: gonna get wet. You probably got somebody holding an umbrella
Speaker 2: for you. Till you get indoors and then you're just
Speaker 2: you know, you're good to go for the rest of
Speaker 2: the day. But that you know, that really stood out
Speaker 2: is that there wasn't any really get there was no
Speaker 2: givea damn about Oh man, I'm not going to enjoy
Speaker 2: myself because the weather. I mean, again, it's such a
Speaker 2: big deal to a lot of people. And I mean
Speaker 2: even if you are somebody with endless amounts of money,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's still a special thing that I would imagine,
Speaker 2: you know, it would totally ruin the experience if you
Speaker 2: just bummed about the weather. But again, the weather was
Speaker 2: not good, but it didn't matter, especially as far as
Speaker 2: just the the overall viewership. I know, people watching on
Speaker 2: TV would likely not be you know, outdoors, so weather
Speaker 2: wouldn't impact. But if you know, if there's ever any
Speaker 2: fear that maybe maybe the millions of people who tune
Speaker 2: in to watch the Derby that never watch horse racing
Speaker 2: other than Derby, if there was any fear that like,
Speaker 2: maybe they wouldn't be as interested if the if the
Speaker 2: track was sloppy, that that worry should not exist, because
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I saw seventeen point seven million
Speaker 2: viewers Yeah, that's what NBC Sports announced yesterday, marking the
Speaker 2: largest Kentucky Derby audience since nineteen eighty nine. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's it tells you, and it puts it in
Speaker 2: perspective just how I mean, how much attention is on
Speaker 2: these two minutes when we have the annual Derby race
Speaker 2: every year here and again. I tried to pay I
Speaker 2: told myself I was gonna maybe pay a little little
Speaker 2: attention to the national broadcast when the race ran, but
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about it. But you know, if you
Speaker 2: are just tuning in to just watch it because you're
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, maybe you're in Florida or
Speaker 2: New York or Texas and you know, you just know, Hey,
Speaker 2: the big sporting event today is the Derby. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm at a I'm at a bar, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: pull it up, or I'm at my house. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make sure and turn it on the TV. Whatever it
Speaker 2: is like when you just tune in for that, how
Speaker 2: much of what that brought that that experience is do
Speaker 2: they even talk about like Louisville. I think most people
Speaker 2: know Churchill Downs is in you know, Kentucky, because it's
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby, But I don't know just the amount
Speaker 2: of exposure that that that is on that that event
Speaker 2: just you know, it's there's nothing else like it, really,
Speaker 2: And what I mean is that there are different sporting
Speaker 2: events that get crazy big numbers, but this is a
Speaker 2: two minute race. Now again, maybe that makes it a
Speaker 2: little bit more appealing because they know they're not making
Speaker 2: some long commitment. But again, I found myself really last
Speaker 2: week leading up to it, and then of course the
Speaker 2: day itself, really just trying to live in the moment
Speaker 2: and and really appreciate this awesome event that we have
Speaker 2: and you know, being able to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Clearly I'm not like a part of the Derby experience
Speaker 2: anybody else, but being able to cover it for our
Speaker 2: team on has is something that you know, I shouldn't
Speaker 2: take for granted, and I'm gonna I'm gonna certainly try
Speaker 2: not to. Now, some other things we'll get into throughout
Speaker 2: the throughout the day, because I always tried to find
Speaker 2: some takeaways from you know, post Derby that that maybe
Speaker 2: aren't just about the race itself. That's kind of you know,
Speaker 2: where that's my comfort zone when it comes to talking derby.
Speaker 2: I think you certainly learned that in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. But to see the the trainer of the
Speaker 2: derby winner, you know, him and his family end up
Speaker 2: at some like and I'll get to the specific STU
Speaker 2: off it, but end up at a at a local
Speaker 2: watering hole here in the Louisville area, like imagine how
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if there's a connection, and
Speaker 2: I'll certainly look into it to see if I can
Speaker 2: figure something out. But there's one specific local bar here
Speaker 2: that you know, probably couldn't have paid for the type
Speaker 2: of like cool random exposure they got by somebody you
Speaker 2: know in their family winning the Kentucky Derby and then
Speaker 2: showing up late at night to kind of celebrate there.
Speaker 2: So that's just cool things that like, you know, I
Speaker 2: find to be interesting maybe than others. But anyways, we're
Speaker 2: we're loaded today, trust me, We're we're gonna mix it up.
Speaker 2: We're not just going to talk post Derby that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. But it does really feel like when when
Speaker 2: it's Derby week and of course Derby weekend, I know
Speaker 2: that there's other things going on in sports, obviously the
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs and you know, the NFL has never not
Speaker 2: talked about. We still have a ton of players in
Speaker 2: the portal, so like there's things we'll get into, but
Speaker 2: it kind of it kind of feels like everything just
Speaker 2: stops whenever the Derby is is is upon us here.
Speaker 2: So it's not that we haven't had, you know, much
Speaker 2: to get into. It's just obviously the Derby takes up
Speaker 2: a lot of attention, as as it should and always will.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we get, you know, just caught up in our
Speaker 2: own bubble, and maybe we have things that occur here
Speaker 2: that I just assume are really rare, and maybe it's
Speaker 2: pretty common. But yesterday I was still recovering from from
Speaker 2: a long Derby week and weekend. And when I say recover,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like I was, you know, I went like,
Speaker 2: I mean, I was in bed, no joke before ten
Speaker 2: o'clock on Saturday. So it wasn't like I had some crazy,
Speaker 2: lively evening to where I just was, you know, I
Speaker 2: was hammered or anything like that. That was more I
Speaker 2: guess Friday. I mean, it wasn't anything crazy again, I'm I'm,
Speaker 2: I'm me describing like having a fun night on a
Speaker 2: Friday would probably not be anything exciting to any of you.
Speaker 2: But I was so wore out by by Saturday. I
Speaker 2: set my recliner at nine thirty, just kind of thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: gonna wind down for a little while. I was completely
Speaker 2: passed out by ten o'clock. And you know, that's just
Speaker 2: what Derby Dale do to you. But I was away
Speaker 2: from social media for a little while Sunday yesterday, and
Speaker 2: then I get out my phone to see Mayor Craig
Speaker 2: Greenberg post two photos that show something that like you
Speaker 2: almost feel like is not real. It's got to be
Speaker 2: some kind of like Hollywood special effects to make it
Speaker 2: look like right. You know a lot of the things
Speaker 2: you see in those movies like the Avengers movies and
Speaker 2: Marvel stuff like you know that's like all created in
Speaker 2: you know, by you know, professionals. It's not like it's
Speaker 2: not real. Well there's another view of U, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Another accident that took place on one of our bridges
Speaker 2: on sixty five south coming from Indiana, there was another
Speaker 2: wreck with a semi where a driver of a semi
Speaker 2: had to be rescued because they're eighteen wheeler was hanging
Speaker 2: off of the bridge. And like we had that happen
Speaker 2: about a year ago roughly maybe a little bit longer
Speaker 2: ago than that, and it seemed, I mean, it got
Speaker 2: national attention right, like it was a national story because
Speaker 2: just the optics of that of that person hanging to
Speaker 2: rescue a driver who was dangling across a bridge over
Speaker 2: the Ohio River, like it was insane. And then this one,
Speaker 2: I mean, again what I'm seeing here from the photos,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to downplay it, like all
Speaker 2: that's no big deal, you know, throw some dirt on it.
Speaker 2: You didn't even need the first responders to be hovering
Speaker 2: over the vehicle to get you out. Like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to act like this was not as bad, but
Speaker 2: like I don't know, maybe it's the bridge that it
Speaker 2: is or where it is, but I mean, that just
Speaker 2: seems really crazy to happen once and we've had it
Speaker 2: happen now twice and at least, you know, a year
Speaker 2: and a half or something like that. So shout out
Speaker 2: to the to the first responders who you know that
Speaker 2: that may not be something they think they're gonna end
Speaker 2: up getting into when they wake up and go to
Speaker 2: work every day. However, I guess you never really know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna end up getting into when you're a
Speaker 2: first responder. So yeah, again, I don't know what that
Speaker 2: says about the you know, the construction they did that
Speaker 2: you know, kind of re routed as soon as you
Speaker 2: cross over into the Kentucky side, but yeah, stay safe.
Speaker 2: I mean I cannot image being the person that is
Speaker 2: in that is in that vehicle that that you know,
Speaker 2: I guess is it called the cab of your eighteen
Speaker 2: wheeler you know, where like you sit and drive, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't I know nothing about cars. Sorry, So yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're sitting in the cab and it's just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's dangling, no joke, literally like hovering on the barricade
Speaker 2: there and if you know, any slight movement seemingly it
Speaker 2: could just you know, I mean, it's connected to the
Speaker 2: to the actual, you know, to the actual the back
Speaker 2: half of the eighteen wheeler, the cargo, I guess, and
Speaker 2: that's probably what's keeping you there. But like I would,
Speaker 2: I would be I mean, I would pass out, like
Speaker 2: I would faint just because of pure panic. But you know,
Speaker 2: shout out to everybody who you know was there to help,
Speaker 2: because that's a very very scary situation. And I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, not something you really ever see, but we've
Speaker 2: now seen it twice and I feel like a relatively
Speaker 2: short amount of time. But it's coffee and company we
Speaker 2: are feel about. Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Thanks for getting your your week started with us. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's post Derby week and maybe you're still kind of
Speaker 2: you know, maybe tomorrow's the day where you really get
Speaker 2: back into a groove. And if that's the case, I
Speaker 2: can tell you that I that I totally understand. And
Speaker 2: the weather today really gloomy earlier, and then I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's supposed to stay sloppy, but it was
Speaker 2: a pretty wet ride on my drive end. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that rains lingered, and it's just, you know, I wish
Speaker 2: you would go away. I now found myself very much
Speaker 2: more appreciative of sunshine than I ever have. And I maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, not to make everything about me, but maybe
Speaker 2: mother Nature was really sending me a message here with
Speaker 2: what she's done so far in twenty twenty five, because
Speaker 2: the conditions have not been ideal. But you know what,
Speaker 2: as mentioned earlier, they did not stop anybody from having
Speaker 2: a phenomenal, phenomenal Derby day, all right. Five O two
Speaker 2: four three eight ninety seventy three almost slipped up and
Speaker 2: said the old number, but the new Ellen and Federal
Speaker 2: Credit Union text line numbers five O two four three
Speaker 2: eight ninety seventy three. This text says, Nick, do you
Speaker 2: think that UFL coaches will start really selling Derby as
Speaker 2: an added bonus when it comes to getting players to
Speaker 2: come and play for Louisville. I mean, I would assume
Speaker 2: you've always, you know, maybe thrown that in there every
Speaker 2: now and then when it comes to like why Louisville,
Speaker 2: Why would you want to have your college experience at Louisville?
Speaker 2: I mean, Churchill downs is certainly one of the first
Speaker 2: things that comes to mind for a lot of people
Speaker 2: when it comes to this city. Understandably so, but you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 2: Recruiting has really changed in a big way in the
Speaker 2: last you know, couple of years, because you are you know,
Speaker 2: you can sell the things you've sold forever, right, Like
Speaker 2: the city is great, you would love to live here,
Speaker 2: you can get a great education, we have great fans,
Speaker 2: and you know, I mean the things that you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure to they still obviously mentioned that when
Speaker 2: they're really trying to sell somebody to come and play
Speaker 2: for them, rather it be a transfer, portal prospect or
Speaker 2: a kid that's right out of high school. Like you're
Speaker 2: going to always mention things that are worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: really do in fact, you know, it's good, it's a
Speaker 2: good thing to You wouldn't want to not include that.
Speaker 2: But now it really comes down, especially with transfers, and
Speaker 2: those are the most impactful, Like when it comes to
Speaker 2: your roster turning over year by year. I used to
Speaker 2: only be freshmen. Now not at all. Now it's it's
Speaker 2: I mean, I shouldn't say not at all. Freshmen is
Speaker 2: still a part of that. But like when you think
Speaker 2: about what your team can do in the off season
Speaker 2: and which you hope your coach is out there you
Speaker 2: know doing it, it's going and getting players in the portal. Well,
Speaker 2: first of all, it's retaining guys that you don't want
Speaker 2: to leave that you know, if they were to hit
Speaker 2: the portal, it would you know, they'd be wanted by everybody.
Speaker 2: And then it's of course, you know, evaluating what's out
Speaker 2: there and seeing if you can go put together the
Speaker 2: best roster possible. And I would say, if you are,
Speaker 2: here's where you could you could spin it, and it's
Speaker 2: not really a spin, it's the truth. It's just different,
Speaker 2: right because when it comes to recruiting and really selling
Speaker 2: a young man or a young woman on why they
Speaker 2: would come and play for you, I mean, they would
Speaker 2: always be like eighteen year old kids that you're like
Speaker 2: selling them on wash they should start their you know,
Speaker 2: you know, their their first time in life away from home.
Speaker 2: Why they should come and play for you and live
Speaker 2: in this city and go to this school. Well, now
Speaker 2: you're selling to I guess you could still be selling
Speaker 2: to younger, young adults. But like the biggest names I
Speaker 2: feel like we talk about in the portal every year
Speaker 2: for basketball and football. I mean, it's twenty one to
Speaker 2: twenty two maybe twenty three year old grown ups.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So like case in Pryor, let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: He was at Derby celebrating, you know, and enjoying, you know,
Speaker 2: the atmosphere at Kentucky Derby. I just saw one of
Speaker 2: his Instagram posts and I'm thinking, now, you know, if
Speaker 2: you concluded like a Kentucky Derby experience as part of
Speaker 2: the NIL package, where you know, you get access to
Speaker 2: really anywhere you want to be at the Derby, you
Speaker 2: can get you know, you can Millionaire's Row or you know,
Speaker 2: maybe the mansion. I mean, I don't know how they
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know how they'd be able to
Speaker 2: do that, but it wouldn't shock me if they've got
Speaker 2: people who can help them get access to like big
Speaker 2: time athletes that you know, one of the reasons why
Speaker 2: they came here is because we told them that they'll
Speaker 2: get the best Derby experience possible because they'll be there,
Speaker 2: and they'll be in this room and this, and they'll
Speaker 2: be around all the celebrities. I mean, I mean, you
Speaker 2: can't really guarantee them anything other than hey, they can go.
Speaker 2: But no, I mean, I think at this point it's
Speaker 2: so competitive and clearly money is going to always be
Speaker 2: a big big factor moving forward. But you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you're going to give somebody like, let's just let's just
Speaker 2: put it this way. Let's say Austin Montgomery is considering
Speaker 2: transferring to finish his college basketball career at ME. He's
Speaker 2: either going to go to the University of Louisville and
Speaker 2: play for Pat Kelsey or he's going to go to
Speaker 2: the University of Florida and play for Todd Golden and Gainesville.
Speaker 2: You know, and it's down to these two schools and
Speaker 2: both have have really sold him the same opportunity, both
Speaker 2: have the same style of play that suits his game,
Speaker 2: and both they're offering the exact same money. Well, if
Speaker 2: Louisville could then come in and say, look, we're also
Speaker 2: going to throw this on there that if you give
Speaker 2: us this commitment, you know, let's say it's March, your
Speaker 2: season just ended, you know, if you're here about if
Speaker 2: you're here by may, we've got a setup for you
Speaker 2: at Kentucky Derby that the expense of that, the cost
Speaker 2: would actually be a good chunk of what we're paying
Speaker 2: you to be here, because that's how special the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby is. That's where you can offer something that nobody
Speaker 2: else can because you know the Derby of courses, and
Speaker 2: I guess maybe you k could do it too, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, So to answer your question, I
Speaker 2: don't know if they utilize that, but why would they
Speaker 2: not try to throw something together because I mean, I
Speaker 2: imagine if you're twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and
Speaker 2: you know, you know how cool the Kentucky Derby experience is.
Speaker 2: You're going to go to a school that could maybe
Speaker 2: put you in a position to have the best experience
Speaker 2: to where you know. And also, I mean to see
Speaker 2: how many people were there Saturday, and I'm sure there's
Speaker 2: a lot that goes into their decision to go. But
Speaker 2: like I feel like a humongous part of Churchill Downs
Speaker 2: now is just to set up for people to get
Speaker 2: selfies and pictures to like show that they're there, which
Speaker 2: again that makes sense for Churchill Downs because you want
Speaker 2: millions of people doing that to where others feel left out.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, I got to get there. That looks
Speaker 2: cool as hell. I got to get a picture for
Speaker 2: the GRAM if they even call it that anymore. I
Speaker 2: felt really old corny just saying that. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think it used to be a saying. So to
Speaker 2: answer your question, I think it would be foolish not
Speaker 2: to include it. There may be some that don't care
Speaker 2: and don't even really know what it is, but you know,
Speaker 2: it can't hurt. And again, it's something that you can
Speaker 2: utilize to your advantage that you know. I know there's
Speaker 2: the Arkansas Derby, but I highly doubt that you know,
Speaker 2: it comes anything close to what we have here at
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs for the annual Kentucky Derby. All right, so
Speaker 2: Bill Mott, of course, you know he was a part
Speaker 2: of that winning crew on Saturday for Sovereignty, and I
Speaker 2: just thought this was, you know, it's a random and
Speaker 2: you know, seemingly spontaneous way to celebrate that. I just
Speaker 2: feel like this this business, this restaurant, Joel Those Joel's
Speaker 2: older than der which is like a beloved local dive bar,
Speaker 2: it closed down for a little while and then reopen.
Speaker 2: I think under different ownership. I could be wrong. I'll
Speaker 2: stand corrected if that's not the case. But I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's been a known bar slash watering
Speaker 2: hole around in the Louisville area for a long long time.
Speaker 2: And it's a really cool atmosphere too. I don't I'm
Speaker 2: not a regular by any means, but I've been a
Speaker 2: handful of times, and uh, it's it's an awesome place.
Speaker 2: But I'm dying to know if there's some kind of
Speaker 2: a connection here, because there's a picture that that that
Speaker 2: came out on I guess it was Saturday evening. It
Speaker 2: might have been Ed de Rosa who who first put
Speaker 2: it out on Twitter, because yeah, I think he grabbed
Speaker 2: it from someone's uh from someone's TikTok where it shows
Speaker 2: Bill Mott celebrating at at Joe's older than dirt.
Speaker 3: What's he really?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah so but.
Speaker 2: But but think about being Joe's older than dirt, like
Speaker 2: and maybe there's a connection here, like maybe he like
Speaker 2: maybe they knew he was gonna come there regardless off
Speaker 2: his horse won or not, because you know, he he
Speaker 2: loves that place, but like you can get some real
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're getting exposure here that you didn't
Speaker 2: have to pay a dime for, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: cause it's just it's become a story that includes your business. Right,
Speaker 2: it's not a paid ad. He didn't show up there,
Speaker 2: you know, to to you know, do the Hey, I'm
Speaker 2: Bill Maud And after winning the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs,
Speaker 2: I head right over to Joe's Older than Dirt Like yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's just spontaneous, but makes that that's an even
Speaker 2: bigger sales pitch, right, Like that's why the best way
Speaker 2: to have someone endorse your product that has a platform
Speaker 2: is if for it to be real, to be genuine, Right,
Speaker 2: it's not, it's not just something that seems like a
Speaker 2: forced advertisement or something like that. So yeah, after the
Speaker 2: victory on Saturday, the Hall of Fame Trainer traveled about
Speaker 2: twenty minutes northeast to the Louisville neighborhood of London. First
Speaker 2: celebratory libations at Joe's Little than Dirt in this unreading
Speaker 2: dis directly from horse Racingnation dot com. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean again, like the story's better if they don't know,
Speaker 2: and it's just random. They're like, wait a second, are
Speaker 2: you kidding me? You're telling me that the guy who
Speaker 2: who just won the derby is the trainer who's a
Speaker 2: Hall of famer who got his first Like you're telling
Speaker 2: me that he's celebrating with us at at our. And
Speaker 2: I hate saying dive bar because you know, makes it
Speaker 2: sound like it's it's you know, it's a whatever type
Speaker 2: of place. But you know, I think, you know what,
Speaker 2: when I say die bar, I mean respect. That's that's
Speaker 2: what I mean. Because I think a lot of places
Speaker 2: want to pop up and be a dive bar, but
Speaker 2: you gotta build it. You got to grow it. He
Speaker 2: can't just say you're a dive bar. You gotta have
Speaker 2: the history, you gotta you know, you gotta work for it.
Speaker 4: I like Joe, I bet it was pretty crowded that night.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it usually is on a Saturday.
Speaker 3: Oh man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's some that are you know, built different,
Speaker 2: meaning they're able to do it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been able to do it. But like when they
Speaker 2: leave Churchill, they're none is going on home, like they're
Speaker 2: gonna go probably find a spot like Joe's older than dirt,
Speaker 2: have a few more drinks, keep the night going as
Speaker 2: best they can. And you know, if they did it
Speaker 2: on Saturday, they were they were able to be around
Speaker 2: the uh, they were able to be around Bill Mont.
Speaker 2: I don't know what time he was there, because obviously
Speaker 2: he's got obligations right after, you know, winning the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby to you know, still be at Churchill Downs all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: But even cooler if he had the horse trailer there
Speaker 4: with sovereignty. Yeah, that would be about advertisement.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing. That'd be amazing. So let's see
Speaker 2: and and I'm sorry, I guess did Bill Mont was
Speaker 2: that his first derby?
Speaker 4: Because I thought that was his first true derby He
Speaker 4: won with country House disqualify or the uh that's disqualified?
Speaker 3: I think it was.
Speaker 2: I'm reading here from from a horse Racing Nation dot com.
Speaker 2: This is a quote from Bill modesys. After we won
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen with country House, it was hard to
Speaker 2: get anywhere, so we ended up here. We had such
Speaker 2: a good time, we decided to make it a tradition
Speaker 2: and we've come back every year since.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 2: There's there's the story that I was looking. There's there's
Speaker 2: the update I was looking for. So maybe they were
Speaker 2: expecting him because they knew he'd come through and he'd
Speaker 2: been there before. But either way, congrats to everybody involved
Speaker 2: that Joe's older than dirt. Because again, I love when
Speaker 2: it comes together like that, to where you didn't have
Speaker 2: to pay a dime. You just have a cool atmosphere.
Speaker 2: It cut a cool bar that you know people like
Speaker 2: and you they'd have to pay to get you there.
Speaker 2: You'd have to pay to get them there. They're just
Speaker 2: you know, they're showing up because they like it. And
Speaker 2: then it becomes a big story because because again he
Speaker 2: just won the Derby, which of course is a pretty
Speaker 2: big deal, there's.
Speaker 3: Live music going.
Speaker 4: I can imagine just buckets of Miller Lyte at at
Speaker 4: at his table.
Speaker 3: That that's awesome.
Speaker 2: I love and I'm reading this says in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: de Wayne Lucas celebrated winning the Derby. He had charismatic
Speaker 2: he was at Old Charlie's and which you know that's
Speaker 2: I don't is there are there even any Old Charlie's left?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's sincerely, I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: there are any around here.
Speaker 4: There might be like one, I think there's still one
Speaker 4: surviving out on Dixie Highway.
Speaker 2: Then it says here that he followed it up, meaning
Speaker 2: Lucas did with a visit to Wendy's after winning in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two Kentucky Oaks with secret oaths. So
Speaker 2: I guess these guys have these guys have you know
Speaker 2: plate Mew I would imagine by now, if you're in
Speaker 2: this business, you know that where you end up after
Speaker 2: winning the Oaks for the Derby, it's going to become
Speaker 2: a story, especially with the internet being what it is now.
Speaker 2: So who knows, maybe it could be your establishment that
Speaker 2: one of these winning trainers shows up to it at
Speaker 2: some point. All right, let's do this quick break. We'll
Speaker 2: come back on the other side. Let you hear our
Speaker 2: Derby montage of all of our coverage on Saturday for
Speaker 2: the first time. Really really happy to be a part
Speaker 2: of that and really proud of all of that went
Speaker 2: into it. So, I mean a lot of our coverage.
Speaker 2: There was a big, big crew. But shout out to
Speaker 2: Jim Finn who puts this together every year and does
Speaker 2: a great job doing it. So stick around. That's coming
Speaker 2: up next, right, here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: our annual montage of all of our coverage that we
Speaker 2: have from start to finish of the Kentucky Derby. So
Speaker 2: here we go, just a taste of what we did
Speaker 2: throughout the entire day. Let's get to a quick time out.
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