Speaker 1: Oh, watch out now, look out now, all right, John,
Speaker 1: I want you watch me dance. Okay, I want you
Speaker 1: to mimic. All right, right now we're just doing one
Speaker 1: of these things, kind of going side decide. See what
Speaker 1: I'm doing here, fist like that. Now here's why I
Speaker 1: really kick it in. Watch this here we go. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, now you try little harder than it looks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not doing so good. News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: I'm Dwight whitting Right, there's John Alden. Tony Vinetti is
Speaker 1: on his way in. Welcome to Inauguration Day. Some people
Speaker 1: are celebrating, some people are mad, but I just hope
Speaker 1: the nation comes back as one. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the inauguration today and the dangers of it and
Speaker 1: a secret service aspect. I want to bring on my
Speaker 1: dear friend Greg gets your aka The Sneaking Deacon. He
Speaker 1: has a book. Boy, he what a life he's lived. Man.
Speaker 1: He was a Jefferson County police and then he went
Speaker 1: into secret service for decades, leads the leaves the Secret Service,
Speaker 1: comes out of that and goes into sacred service. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, he has a book, The Sneaking
Speaker 1: Deacon from Secret Service to Sacred Service. If you buy
Speaker 1: that book, and I recommend you do. I've read it.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant and very entertaining. All the proceeds go to
Speaker 1: Kids Cancer Coalition, which he also used to sit on
Speaker 1: the board for that. Greg gets your how you doing,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: Hey Dwight, good morning. How's it go.
Speaker 1: It's cold, by the way, it's five degrees out. So
Speaker 1: if you don't have to leave, if you don't have
Speaker 1: to leave your basement, Greg, don't do it.
Speaker 2: It's a great idea. I appreciate you sharing.
Speaker 1: That with Okay, Look, so you worked a secret service
Speaker 1: for decades, a sitting president dance all kinds of If
Speaker 1: you read your book From Secret Service to Sacred Service,
Speaker 1: you tell these stories. But this is a non inauguration question. First,
Speaker 1: at what point does the former president leave the White
Speaker 1: House and the sitting president actually move in? When does
Speaker 1: that process start? Because you actually work for Reagan's and
Speaker 1: some sitting presidents, when does the moving out and the
Speaker 1: moving in process start? Surely not today? Right? Has it
Speaker 1: been going on.
Speaker 3: For a while or what?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it started, but you know, as the new president
Speaker 2: gets sworn in today and then they'll have a farewell
Speaker 2: to the old president and they'll show them leaving Andrews
Speaker 2: Air Force Bace, you know. So, yeah, it does transition
Speaker 2: today officially, but I'm sure they've been doing moving in
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks and stuff. Some interesting stories
Speaker 2: always occur about things left behind or not left behind too,
Speaker 2: so that'd be interesting in the next few days. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's officially today.
Speaker 1: So okay, in your opinion, over the summer, there were
Speaker 1: a couple of assassination attempts, and boy, we witnessed I
Speaker 1: can only explain it's almost like a Keystone cop type
Speaker 1: Secret Service that we witnessed over the summer. Do you
Speaker 1: think an upgrade has been taken place since then? Do
Speaker 1: you think that we're going to see more qualified Secret
Speaker 1: Service agents today than we did over the summer or
Speaker 1: has that change been made yet? Do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, that's a loaded question. You know, this is an
Speaker 2: organization that I love, I'm very proud of. I stayed
Speaker 2: with the group of about half dozen of us that
Speaker 2: stay in touch that have all retired, well we've been retired,
Speaker 2: but we stay in touch and we keep up with it,
Speaker 2: and I just think there's been a lot of problems
Speaker 2: number one is you know, the the big issue with
Speaker 2: the Secret Service now is do they keep all the
Speaker 2: investigations because that up a lot of manpower and a
Speaker 2: lot of people are pushing and watching DC for them
Speaker 2: to be a protection agency always. So that's like the
Speaker 2: million dollar question for us. But because the manpower is
Speaker 2: short right now, they don't always have enough people. You
Speaker 2: saw what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, in Florida. You had
Speaker 2: people with a lot less experience, you know, in charge
Speaker 2: of those things, and that never were have happened when
Speaker 2: we did it. And I just think, you know, they
Speaker 2: got to fix the manpower situation and they got to
Speaker 2: decide if they want to be just a full time
Speaker 2: protection agency or also do investigations, which we spent a
Speaker 2: lot of time doing investigations. Yeah, was on the job.
Speaker 1: Because counterfeit goes faster. Secret Service doesn't counterfeit bills.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but yeah, I mean we fought that counterfeit,
Speaker 2: the supernote, the one hundred dollars bill. My friend Jim
Speaker 2: Dason just wrote a book about it's coming out. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean we're all over the world in coutries trying
Speaker 2: to suppress the perfect hundred dollar counterfeit. That's why our
Speaker 2: money has all of colors safety features on it now.
Speaker 2: It never had that in the you know, up until
Speaker 2: the nineties. So anyway to get back to the story, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we unfortunately with the left experienced agents making decisions and
Speaker 2: then you know, whatever you want to call it, they
Speaker 2: lowered the standards and physical standards for physical fitness and
Speaker 2: shooting and stuff to get more people hired. I know
Speaker 2: that opens up a whole Pandora's box, you know, but
Speaker 2: the DEI stuff, But I think when it comes to
Speaker 2: military and terse responders, you can't play DEI because when
Speaker 2: something happens, you have to be able to do your
Speaker 2: job completely, you know. And if you're not able to
Speaker 2: lift the body and carry someone out there, it could
Speaker 2: be your protectee aka president and vice president and former president,
Speaker 2: or it could be one of your colleagues and you
Speaker 2: got to pick them up and carry them out. If
Speaker 2: you're not strong enough to do that, then I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: you're on the wrong You're in the wrong job.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, absolutely. If there were ever a job higher
Speaker 1: on merit and qualifications, I think Secret Service would be
Speaker 1: at the top of the heat. By the way we're
Speaker 1: talking with Greg Getcher, the Sneak and Deacon former Secret Service.
Speaker 1: You have been, You've been Secret Service for a couple
Speaker 1: of sitting presidents and you've also you've done a couple
Speaker 1: of these inaugurations as well. Right, take us through the day.
Speaker 1: How long of a day is that on the agents
Speaker 1: or do they allow Hey, we can't let these agents
Speaker 1: get too worn out and they recycle them in. I
Speaker 1: know they're low on manpower right now. But what's a
Speaker 1: day like from start to finish on a Secret Service
Speaker 1: day for inauguration?
Speaker 2: Well, I've had the pleasure an honor to protect six
Speaker 2: presidents more several more for presidents. But I did make
Speaker 2: two inaugurations and the first one I worked was President
Speaker 2: Reagan's second inauguration with nineteen eighty four and Dwight. It
Speaker 2: was seven degrees so it's that older here right now.
Speaker 2: But uh, you talked about cold. You got remember unless
Speaker 2: we're in a special unit, we're all in suits, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know how nice it is wearing a suit on
Speaker 2: a day like this. It was the wind blowing. But
Speaker 2: that particular inauguration, we got up probably at five, got
Speaker 2: on a bus, got someplace at six to get our briefing,
Speaker 2: and then I remember it was snowing sideways and it
Speaker 2: was so cold that they canceled the parade. And I'm
Speaker 2: serious about this because they said that the instruments, the
Speaker 2: mouthpieces in the high school bands, you know, would have
Speaker 2: frozen to the lips and stuff. Wow, it was windchill
Speaker 2: was windchill was so bad. So and I understand that
Speaker 2: they're canceling today's uh parade outside inaugural parye where they
Speaker 2: you see the president get out of the car always
Speaker 2: made us very nervous, and he walked the last part
Speaker 2: of the White House that's gonna be inside today. So
Speaker 2: I'm happy for that for everyone. But yeah, there's you know,
Speaker 2: so anyway long day. Yeah, probably at fifteen to eighteen
Speaker 2: hour day.
Speaker 1: Now, look, they Reagan moved it inside because of temperatures.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump as president Trump has done the same thing.
Speaker 1: But do you think that perhaps it was also a
Speaker 1: safety measure because I can't recall I can't recall president
Speaker 1: with this much hatred from certain groups in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's you know, I think anyone paying attention,
Speaker 2: no matter of what political party you are, and I
Speaker 2: don't happen to have one never had one or in
Speaker 2: dependent but whatever party you are, you know this is
Speaker 2: going on. I just saw really interesting we were talking
Speaker 2: about it in our retired Secret Service group that I
Speaker 2: think it's a daily signal came out with the survey
Speaker 2: that like over forty percent of the current managers in
Speaker 2: Washington d C are are going to oppose Trump every
Speaker 2: way they can. So that's very interesting because you know,
Speaker 2: Trump knows he has a lot of people that hate
Speaker 2: him or you know, despise him and don't want to
Speaker 2: work with him. And a lot of these directors of
Speaker 2: our agency. Let me for a couple of examples, guys
Speaker 2: c I, a Department of Justice. You know a lot
Speaker 2: of these people know they're going to be replaced, so
Speaker 2: but they're still in the position, right, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So it does concern from a you know,
Speaker 2: threat standpoint. Hopefully everyone is doing the right thing and
Speaker 2: doing their job professionally, but there is concern that you
Speaker 2: know that there could be threats, and some of these
Speaker 2: agencies are saying, no, no, we don't see any credible threats. Well,
Speaker 2: that would seem almost impossible.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, that there's so many people in the world that
Speaker 4: not only hate America, but you know, hate President Trump.
Speaker 2: Uh, so you know that makes me very nervous for
Speaker 2: people to say, oh, no, we don't really have any threats,
Speaker 2: you know, after what happened in New Orleans, you know,
Speaker 2: and and then Texas recently with the car bombs. So
Speaker 2: that's very nerve wracking. And actually the other one wife
Speaker 2: that we should talk about is this drone situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna I was gonna ask you. Greg Getcher,
Speaker 1: by the way, is our guest, uh catches book. Greg
Speaker 1: get your the Sneaking Deacon from Secret Service to Sacred Service.
Speaker 1: I promise you you won't regret buying this book. Very
Speaker 1: entertaining and all the proceeds, by the way go to
Speaker 1: Kids Cancer Coalition. But yeah, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about that. When when this has to be the super
Speaker 1: Bowl of Secret Service? Detail the inauguration of course, but
Speaker 1: how do you all control the airspace? Is that something
Speaker 1: where you work with the military and the and there's
Speaker 1: jets on standby, because uh, it's it's just such a
Speaker 1: wide wide span of people up there celebrating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I want to correct my charity that I'm
Speaker 2: still on the board of directors of is Kids Cancer Alliance. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, because because you know, we we work
Speaker 2: really hard and raise a lot of money and we're
Speaker 2: very proud of what we do. Now to answer your question, yes,
Speaker 2: So when you have these TFRs that which stands for
Speaker 2: temporary flight restrictions, you know, no airplanes are supposed to
Speaker 2: fly like right over the White House, right or white
Speaker 2: over some events. By the way, these like this one
Speaker 2: today is called the n s SE, and you hear
Speaker 2: people refer to that as the National Special Security Events,
Speaker 2: and so very big events like the Olympics in America
Speaker 2: or the super Bowl in America, they become these n
Speaker 2: s S THEE events, and they have these TFRs that
Speaker 2: you can't fly over that, which would include drones. But
Speaker 2: you got to understand, and we most people don't understand this.
Speaker 2: Those TFRs are like four way stop signs. You know,
Speaker 2: you're supposed to not go in there. You're supposed to
Speaker 2: stop at all four stop signs. Right. But but there's both.
Speaker 2: There's not you know that's not making them do that?
Speaker 2: Is there military Air Force? Of course, I can't get.
Speaker 4: Into all the nails, and I'm so long, I don't
Speaker 4: even know all the right But remember many a night
Speaker 4: where I'm looking up in the sky and you know,
Speaker 4: after midnight and seeing these two docks flying around that
Speaker 4: looked like stars, and we knew they were our jets,
Speaker 4: you know, for air cover.
Speaker 2: And you know that happened at Reagan up a Tanta
Speaker 2: barber his ranch. I remember seeing it on President Bush,
Speaker 2: the younger President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. You know,
Speaker 2: so we do have military assets protecting us. But you know,
Speaker 2: over a city, you can imagine the challenge, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, you shoot.
Speaker 4: Down drones or other planes and they got to come
Speaker 4: down and crash, and you're in a city environment.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of challenges involved in that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's kind of a true squirrel. I was
Speaker 1: going to chase anyway, Greg is uh You mentioned that
Speaker 1: you can't you're not supposed to fly aircraft into the TFR,
Speaker 1: the restricted Airplace. You're not supposed to fly airplanes into
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center either, yet it happened. How large
Speaker 1: is that radius around d C. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: think it to be almost the entire district of Columbia
Speaker 1: because once an airplane breaks through there, like you were saying,
Speaker 1: if you shoot it down then there's even more casualties
Speaker 1: on the ground. Is it a far, far big radius
Speaker 1: or what.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know the answer to that, And if
Speaker 2: I knew, I probably couldn't say anyway, right, I got you.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer. But here's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2: A lot of these drones, like the drones that we've
Speaker 2: been using over at in you know, type terrorism overseas.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not the size of a small airplane, right,
Speaker 2: but these small drones that we see that either hold
Speaker 2: in your hands, you know, a lot of those are
Speaker 2: made by a company in China, Dji. And as I
Speaker 2: understand it, that they have a program that if you
Speaker 2: fly into a TFR with that it alerts you fly
Speaker 2: out right away. But apparently I was just an article
Speaker 2: the guys were talking about where China is taking that
Speaker 2: software feature out of their dwight Man out of their drones,
Speaker 2: so now they can fly in there without you know,
Speaker 2: it's stopping, you know. And just so you know, Dight
Speaker 2: when I was a chairman of security for the PGA
Speaker 2: last summer uh here in Louisville, we were considered, we
Speaker 2: were you know, concerned about drones as well. Although they
Speaker 2: were more concerned about the drones flying over the Valhollo
Speaker 2: golf course and interrupting the players, like the noise stuff.
Speaker 2: And then of course the media news stations they wanted
Speaker 2: the rights, and you know, whoever was broadcasting internationally, they
Speaker 2: wanted the camera rights for their drones. So it's interesting
Speaker 2: that I did learn a little bit about drones there,
Speaker 2: and we had two ways of dealing with them. But
Speaker 2: you had to have the government declare it was a
Speaker 2: high enough level to get federal assistant And apparently they
Speaker 2: can take over a drone and make it land immediately.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, But what happens if that drone has some
Speaker 2: explosives on it? Something very so, you know, see how
Speaker 2: it gets more complicated and stuff. And then and they
Speaker 2: can also track the see who is flying that drone.
Speaker 2: It might be a kid in the neighborhood, next score line.
Speaker 2: It's just for fun, but it gets really complicated quickly.
Speaker 2: So I can't imagine what's going on in DC now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, drones would be threats from the air would
Speaker 2: be a really big deal to me.
Speaker 1: One last question, I'll let you get back to your morning.
Speaker 1: Greg Getcher, is the Secret Service? I mean, ultimately you're
Speaker 1: hired to protect the president or whatever dignitary that you're assigned.
Speaker 1: But in a situation like this, when there's I mean
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands and thousands of people in Washington wanting
Speaker 1: to see the parade, whatever it might be, do they
Speaker 1: have anything to do with protecting the crowd as well?
Speaker 1: Or as that fall to another agency? Because I know
Speaker 1: that the very second that louder than life Bourbon beyond
Speaker 1: the derby, these huge events that we have, the very
Speaker 1: second it ends, the next day little of a metro
Speaker 1: safe starts making a plan already for the following year.
Speaker 1: Does that fall into another agency or a secret service
Speaker 1: involved with protecting the crowd as well?
Speaker 2: Well, First of all, they've been planning it for a year,
Speaker 2: and all these agencies work together, you know, all the
Speaker 2: alphabet agencies, you know, FBI, everyone, everyone, AHSI, They're all
Speaker 2: they've all been planning this for a year, so they
Speaker 2: all work together and with the local police. Is very important.
Speaker 2: But I always thought it was very interesting on these drones,
Speaker 2: how you know, it was such a big issue and
Speaker 2: then the government would say, well, we don't know anything
Speaker 2: about it, which is weird. And they said, well, we
Speaker 2: know it's not the enemy, you know, enemy country, and
Speaker 2: well how do you know that if you don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, it's just kind of weird about to have
Speaker 2: the whole drone situation happened, and they blamed it on
Speaker 2: the local Well the local police have to do it.
Speaker 2: And the local police are like, we don't have anywhere
Speaker 2: you know monitoring these drones too. So but we all
Speaker 2: work together as they're like a big task force and
Speaker 2: and everyone kind of does their job. And yes we're
Speaker 2: responsible for the crowd, of course, you know, we we have.
Speaker 2: We had to go through there and take all the
Speaker 2: mailboxes out so nobody could put a bomb in them. People,
Speaker 2: we had to solder all the sewer tops, you know,
Speaker 2: we had people doing that, soldering the sewer tops in
Speaker 2: the street. Some people couldn't go in there. And you
Speaker 2: got to remember, once we make an area secure, then
Speaker 2: we have to post it with secret Service personnel to
Speaker 2: make sure no one can go back behind us and
Speaker 2: put something in there. Wow, and that's a very long
Speaker 2: cold day, you know, especially if you're wearing a suit,
Speaker 2: you know, with hopefully a decent pair of gloves and stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it could be a fifteen eighteen hour day
Speaker 2: starting from all the stuff that's going on in the morning,
Speaker 2: the church services, and then you have you know, they
Speaker 2: have a White House tea. They had the swearing in ceremony,
Speaker 2: then they do the farewell to the former president. Then
Speaker 2: they have the President's Signing Room ceremony. Then you have
Speaker 2: all the inaugural luncheons, and then the parade and the
Speaker 2: Oval Office ceremony, and then budget the balls and all
Speaker 2: gurational balls. They won't pass midnight. Why it's such a
Speaker 2: late night.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of balls, Greg, get your the sneak Deacon.
Speaker 1: Get his book. It's from Secret Service to Sacred Service.
Speaker 1: All proceeds go to the kid's Cancer Alliance. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it's a very entertaining book. Highly recommend it. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 1: get your I hope and pray that everything goes right
Speaker 1: today for everybody involved, and it's a safe transformation or
Speaker 1: transfer of power. Greg, thanks so much for the time.
Speaker 1: I appreciated me.
Speaker 2: Go all right, keep the prayers up for everybody.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'll do, we'll do, We'll do. There you go, Greg,
Speaker 1: get you the sneaking Deacon. John. Yes, sir, it is
Speaker 1: time for joke de jour and is a mama joke Monday.
Speaker 1: So this is not necessarily directed towards your mom, because
Speaker 1: I know it might get you mad. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Hey, Hey, John, Hey Dwight. Your mama
Speaker 1: is so ugly? How ugly is she? She's so ugly?
Speaker 1: Her shadow quit? There we go. I'm sorry, I like that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know it's not worthy about life. All right.
Speaker 1: Uh listen, guys, how was your weekend? Did you make whoopee?
Speaker 1: Weekends are made for whoopee? Or did you have your
Speaker 1: did your little guy? Have you sitting on the bench?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about ED.
Speaker 1: It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Let's just get the
Speaker 1: issue corrected, and let's do it with the best. Now,
Speaker 1: the best is try State Men's Health. Here's why I'm
Speaker 1: saying that they have a ninety you heard me right,
Speaker 1: ninety percent success rate when it comes to treating ED.
Speaker 1: Here's your appointment, and by the way, it's risk free.
Speaker 1: Hear me out. Your appointments ninety nine dollars. You'll walk in,
Speaker 1: they'll do lab work on you. You'll get your blood results
Speaker 1: back within thirty minutes or less. Then you're sitting down
Speaker 1: with a licensed medical professional. They're gonna explain all of
Speaker 1: your lab work, your PSA, your testosterone, all of your numbers,
Speaker 1: will go over all of it right there in front
Speaker 1: of you. Here's the risk free part. Then they're gonna
Speaker 1: give you a test dose. If the test dose it
Speaker 1: doesn't work, you're ninety nine dollars. It's refunded immediately. But
Speaker 1: chances are it will work because they have a ninety
Speaker 1: percent success rate when it comes to treating ED. When
Speaker 1: it does work, just apply that ninety nine dollars to
Speaker 1: your plan. If you choose to join I Love Try
Speaker 1: State Men's Health. I think you will too, get your
Speaker 1: love life back, get your confidence back, and do it
Speaker 1: with my friends at Try State Man's go to Try
Speaker 1: Statementshealth dot com. Stick around more on the Way, including
Speaker 1: Tony Venetti joins the show, but don't let that be
Speaker 1: a reason to tune out. Stick around anyway. It's on
Speaker 1: the Way news Radio eight forty whas. I have no
Speaker 1: idea who this is? Who is this?
Speaker 3: This is Beck the band Beck? Oh really little alt
Speaker 3: rock for you.
Speaker 1: I never really got into Beck by the Way News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas. That's John Auden right there. I'm
Speaker 1: Dwight witting Tony Vinetti, he'll be here any second.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really a big Beck fan when he broke
Speaker 1: in the nineties. I mean, the loser was okay, they
Speaker 1: had the two turntables in a microphone, but it seemed
Speaker 1: to me like was Beastie Boys light.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good Orderson.
Speaker 1: I like that. Uh, yesterday a lot of Americans woke
Speaker 1: up and they went to check their tickety talk account
Speaker 1: and it was dark. Do you have ticket? Do you
Speaker 1: have TikTok?
Speaker 3: I don't have the tickety Talk. I don't use it
Speaker 3: very often, but I did whenever I clicked on the
Speaker 3: app the other day, whenever it was supposedly gone, I
Speaker 3: got a little notification that said I couldn't connect to
Speaker 3: the app any longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was never on there because there's only so many.
Speaker 1: It's just like streaming platforms. You know, you go to
Speaker 1: watch a show and they say, okay, where is this show?
Speaker 1: And yet another streaming platform will pop up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: okay enough. Same with social media. I got on Twitter
Speaker 1: or now x. Facebook was the first platform, and I
Speaker 1: finally joined Instagram. I joined Instagram about five years ago.
Speaker 1: I still have no idea what to do there. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: You joined Instagram kind of whenever it was being taken
Speaker 3: over by TikTok at that point.
Speaker 1: Oh, Instagram, but I took over about TikTok.
Speaker 3: And when I say taken over, like Instagram kind of
Speaker 3: was like the old TikTok before TikTok was really cool,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see. That's why I don't see. I don't
Speaker 1: understand TikTok because I mean.
Speaker 3: Now, Instagram was more photo based, but TikTok is, you know,
Speaker 3: the vertical video, and you could do that on Instagram
Speaker 3: as well, but TikTok kind of took people from that
Speaker 3: Instagram market for a while.
Speaker 1: So is TikTok basically Instagram where you post videos and
Speaker 1: pictures and that's it.
Speaker 3: Because it's there's not so much like Instagram used to
Speaker 3: like be strictly photo based for the longest time. And
Speaker 3: then they started implementing all these different video things as well,
Speaker 3: where TikTok was always originally more focused on the vertical video.
Speaker 3: Now they can you can do a bunch of different
Speaker 3: things with it now. I believe I'm not super savvy
Speaker 3: with it, but they are very similar in their their
Speaker 3: app structure.
Speaker 1: I would say, well, I still don't know how to
Speaker 1: use his Instagram, even though I've been on it for
Speaker 1: five years, maybe maybe even long. I bet it's been
Speaker 1: longer than five years. But uh, TikTok yesterday went dark
Speaker 1: as a promised but came back on twelve hours later
Speaker 1: because of the executive order promise by now President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump as soon to be President Donald Trump. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were pissed off about this about the band
Speaker 1: US tennis star even posted a note of remembrance on
Speaker 1: other social media platforms. R I P TikTok Usa. Now
Speaker 1: it's it's been turned back on. Evidently, did your wife
Speaker 1: have a hard time with this, because I know she
Speaker 1: uses TikTok yes She upset on this, genuinely upset.
Speaker 3: But the night before it went it went dark, she
Speaker 3: decided to get on her laptop and try to download
Speaker 3: all of the different videos that she had uploaded over
Speaker 3: there over the course of the last several years. So
Speaker 3: she didn't have a ton compared to most people, but
Speaker 3: she didn't want to. She didn't want to lose all
Speaker 3: of the content she had put on there, and so
Speaker 3: whenever she realized it.
Speaker 1: Was it was going to come back.
Speaker 3: She was super happy, but she's like, man, I kind
Speaker 3: of wasted my time doing all that last night.
Speaker 1: Now I kind of get it because I use Facebook,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, for a family photo album,
Speaker 1: like like when we go on vacation, I'll picture, I'll
Speaker 1: post pictures of us on vacation, not so much for others,
Speaker 1: as they come up in my memories one year later,
Speaker 1: and I liked seeing that. I like seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: memories and pictures and remembering things like that. So now
Speaker 1: I can understand why people would be so aggravated because
Speaker 1: I guess they're losing. I was under impression for some
Speaker 1: reason that TikTok, you put it up and it's gone
Speaker 1: after twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: That's that was Snapchat. Yeah, for a while, remember snap
Speaker 3: Do you ever your Snapchat?
Speaker 1: I know I didn't, but I knew about it, and
Speaker 1: I thought, well, if you put content up and it's
Speaker 1: gone twenty four hours later, what's the point or No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a platt. It was like a messaging
Speaker 1: like is it like a texting Snapchat? It wasn't like
Speaker 1: a snapchat.
Speaker 3: You would send photos to, you know, a different user,
Speaker 3: and it was disappear after you watch the video. You
Speaker 3: couldn't you caln re You could replay it once, but
Speaker 3: after you replayed it the only time that you're allowed to,
Speaker 3: then it would disappear into thin air.
Speaker 1: That could have saved me a lot of problems with sending.
Speaker 3: Pictures good back in the day, right to people unsolicited.
Speaker 1: You know when I was your age? You know how
Speaker 1: I can't? How do I phrase this?
Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta be careful though. Right the exit,
Speaker 3: The exit is right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the exit. I'm gonna take the exit.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you it involved a polaroid camera
Speaker 1: and a self addressed stamped envelope for the return picture.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, uh, tony, kinds your question? Kinds of your question?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: You know Mike Lennings is in its one hundred and
Speaker 1: first season. It just it just turned one hundred years old.
Speaker 1: So I might go by Mike Lennings to get a
Speaker 1: fish sandwich later. Here's my question to you. Do you
Speaker 1: have any tarty sauce?
Speaker 5: Yes? For he walks in Okay.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, you're not. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say why or anything like that. You're not. We're not
Speaker 1: here for your express all.
Speaker 5: There was a family and this baby was chilling. Hold
Speaker 5: the car over and I said, wait a minute, no,
Speaker 5: they could use my help. I did the baby Heimlich
Speaker 5: save the baby's life. Then okay, an old lady tripped
Speaker 5: and fell and she on the concrete.
Speaker 1: You get her wallet, A.
Speaker 5: Little CPR got the wallet. Actually the old person.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, hi five, All right, listen, uh tony, I
Speaker 1: placed a hat right in front of you, John, I
Speaker 1: placed a hat in front of you.
Speaker 5: Okay, you.
Speaker 1: Guys are gonna want to hold onto these Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: why TikTok influencers admit that some content they post is
Speaker 1: sometimes fake. Now it's the time you want to hold on.
Speaker 5: That hold onto your head? Is it back on?
Speaker 1: It's back on? Came on? It came on a twelve
Speaker 1: hours later. But after after it came back on, a
Speaker 1: lot of influencers started up. Some of our coffee chat
Speaker 1: videos were actually fake. And it's get an example of
Speaker 1: all these fake videos. You could tell the fake they
Speaker 1: don't on Facebook.
Speaker 5: Who knows the number of people that are on TikTok
Speaker 5: in America? Then we got that number? Google machine, Yeah,
Speaker 5: google that. Because I don't understand why this is important
Speaker 5: to the President of the United States, Like, why do
Speaker 5: you care if TikTok a Chinese company goes out of business? Now,
Speaker 5: I get it, Nick Coffee, old text being say it's
Speaker 5: important because so many businesses are run from TikTok. I went, yeah,
Speaker 5: industries go out of business all the time. Why is
Speaker 5: this social media platform, which, by the way, has done
Speaker 5: nothing but divide Americans is important to keep on the air?
Speaker 3: By the way, one hundred and seventy million users in
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 1: I've got the answer. It's one hundred and seventy million
Speaker 1: users in the United States.
Speaker 5: Now, how many of those are are real? How many
Speaker 5: people go to that every day?
Speaker 1: Right? Okay? So well, for example, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of weather Be Rubs. I use weather b I used
Speaker 1: I use the Weatherby garden seasoning two times a day
Speaker 1: in the morning in the evening every single day. Their CEO,
Speaker 1: Brett Weatherby, he used that to promote his weather Be
Speaker 1: Rubs and has done a lot good for him. No,
Speaker 1: I get it, Yeah, no, I get it. And there's
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people that quit their jobs
Speaker 1: to do TikTok.
Speaker 5: I don't get it. But if ABC, CBS are. I
Speaker 5: mean that's I.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: If a different industry is going out of business, then
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I don't understand. Why Wait a minute, we
Speaker 5: can't look this up and no, this this platform has
Speaker 5: done nothing but hurt Americans, not just.
Speaker 1: Is there naked stuff on TikTok? John, I don't know
Speaker 1: because we don't have accounts. Is there naked stuff on TikTok? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like Facebook, you can't see naked Is.
Speaker 3: It like red talk like red?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean X there is.
Speaker 3: Oh actually was telling us about this the other day.
Speaker 3: Apparently Twitter is a new place to watch it.
Speaker 5: It's all it's half it's it's sports, politics and porn.
Speaker 5: That's what X is turned into. Okay, he's like.
Speaker 1: Right here, Yeah, no, but TikTok? Is there a nudity
Speaker 1: on TikTok?
Speaker 3: I'm sure there is some variation of nudity. Whatever's allowed.
Speaker 3: See the real nudities for where that's that's only fans,
Speaker 3: That's what that's for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who you telling I've gotten only fans account it is.
Speaker 5: There's no difference between social media addiction and drug addiction.
Speaker 5: They're the same. We need to get d programmed from
Speaker 5: checking our phones every how. Many times a minute do
Speaker 5: they share? They share? Now, It's like Americans cannot.
Speaker 1: Six hundred times a minute.
Speaker 5: Literally, you put your phones face down, even at a
Speaker 5: lunch meeting. I've been doing something and you put it
Speaker 5: face down, but you turn it on, it vibrates, turn
Speaker 5: it over. But how many times, with no prompt you
Speaker 5: check your phone?
Speaker 1: No? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Am I checking my phone?
Speaker 1: No? Absolutely, to the point where a couple of sundays
Speaker 1: I've experimented and just turned what. I keep my phone
Speaker 1: on silent a lot because it does nothing but go
Speaker 1: off NonStop.
Speaker 5: But I've spent a couple so popular.
Speaker 1: No, that's not the point. That's not it. Or a
Speaker 1: lot of people hate you. Yeah, there you go. Now
Speaker 1: you're cooking with gas. But a couple of sundays I
Speaker 1: have just left it on the counter, on the charger,
Speaker 1: and those have been some beautiful, tranquil sundays. Man, nothing
Speaker 1: but smelling my wife's feet and my dog's breath.
Speaker 5: That is no, it was the other way around. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: dog breath. So I agree with you. I've started to
Speaker 5: do that like an entire Sunday. Yeah, I'm done, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do something else. Oh my gosh, I and it
Speaker 5: actually is. I remember watching ah, like the Today Show
Speaker 5: or whatever Sunrise Show, and they took a like twelve
Speaker 5: fourteen year old girls and said, we're gonna take your
Speaker 5: phones for two weeks. They took their phones for two weeks.
Speaker 5: They came back, did the interview with the show, and
Speaker 5: they're like, our lives are so much better. I have
Speaker 5: no anxiety. The first couple days were rough, but I
Speaker 5: got over it and I didn't really miss it. I
Speaker 5: read more this was fantastic. So they went, Okay, are
Speaker 5: you gonna take your phones back and get back on?
Speaker 5: They went, oh, yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's
Speaker 5: it's like, well, my life is so much better when
Speaker 5: I don't drink. Are you gonna quit drinking?
Speaker 3: No, it's the dopamine you get from all the little
Speaker 3: small gratifications you get from using your phone.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this A lot of times. I'll
Speaker 1: be at home and I'll romanticize about the eighties in
Speaker 1: the nineties and how much fun it was, and I'll think, well,
Speaker 1: what what variable was not around? It's my cell phone?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, you're you're going eighty nineties up till
Speaker 5: the phone really didn't invade us until twenty twelve, like
Speaker 5: twenty ten or twelve. No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I'm a trust fun kid. I had one. I had
Speaker 1: one of those big bags, like in a block of cheese.
Speaker 1: Phone social media it was seven dollars a minute.
Speaker 5: And the access to the Internet on your phone didn't
Speaker 5: come around till twenty twelve. So my son at least
Speaker 5: he got till nine ten, eleven years old before he
Speaker 5: had to deal with all that. So he had a
Speaker 5: little bit of a his he grew up without social media.
Speaker 1: Yea, there are still the text barely.
Speaker 5: Remember you had to text, You had to spell it
Speaker 5: out on your.
Speaker 1: Because you had to figure out like if I if
Speaker 1: I had a word that started with ce, Like if
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, Courtney, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 1: I would have to hit the ABC three times to
Speaker 1: get to the sea.
Speaker 5: John Alden, I'm aware of this, John Alden. Yes, Dwight
Speaker 5: Whitten when we did the show, we did a morning show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dwight comes in. Dwight comes the Morning Move.
Speaker 5: He knows what the name of it.
Speaker 1: Stop stop make a number onean you're going number two.
Speaker 5: He came in and he goes, I think I got
Speaker 5: a topic and I went, Okay, what's the topic, dude?
Speaker 5: Should men be texting other men? And I was like, hmmm,
Speaker 5: good question, but I don't know if it's a radio topic.
Speaker 5: It was a huge radio topic for some reason. People
Speaker 5: were like, dude, guys shouldn't be touxting? Text your mam,
Speaker 5: maybe your girlfriend, or text your girlfriend? Why are you
Speaker 5: touching other dudes?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Swear to you. The second one was should you have
Speaker 5: your phone or any device in the bathroom? And people
Speaker 5: like ninety percent Clip were like, absolutely not. Why would
Speaker 5: you take that into your bathroom?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: People can't go to the bathroom listen without their device.
Speaker 1: That's why you'll never hear me do this, Hey, Tonic,
Speaker 1: I use your phone for a minute, never because I
Speaker 1: know where that phone has been when you've been sitting down.
Speaker 5: You understand that, John?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 5: Men? Should should men be texting other men?
Speaker 1: Why give you one worse than that? Remember when iPads
Speaker 1: came out, everybody in the family would have it. One iPad.
Speaker 1: There were two expenses, right, cras one damn iPad for
Speaker 1: the whole family. Guess what people did. They took it
Speaker 1: in the restroom with him. Okay, I'm good with the iPad.
Speaker 5: For I remember the first time. Remember I was up
Speaker 5: at we were doing we were covering a Louisville Bats game,
Speaker 5: and one of the writers had it in a case,
Speaker 5: you know, anyone where it would fold back and prompt
Speaker 5: up right, and the apps were on it and barely
Speaker 5: any apps on it, and he's just now look at this.
Speaker 5: And he was going and there was twenty people over
Speaker 5: his shoulder, this writer, and we were and he was
Speaker 5: going through what the iPad did. And I was like,
Speaker 5: is that the future? He was like, it's not future,
Speaker 5: it's right now. And I was like, oh, man, next
Speaker 5: thing I know. I've owned. I don't know how many
Speaker 5: iPads I've gone through.
Speaker 1: I owned one iPad, and then as soon as Samsung
Speaker 1: came up with the droid version, I jumped to that. Baby, Hey,
Speaker 1: you need to jump on down to the Southern Comfort
Speaker 1: hot Southern Comfort hot up. That's right. Listen. People say
Speaker 1: he's cool down, it's not cold when you're outside sitting in.
Speaker 5: One picture of the snow and you and Susan in
Speaker 5: the jacuzzi with steams coming up the water like you're
Speaker 5: in Japan. And I was waiting for Mystic Monkeys to
Speaker 5: be car crawled out of the trees.
Speaker 1: The mystic monkeys were in getting our tequilas from the kitchen.
Speaker 1: That's what happens if you get a Southern covered hot tub.
Speaker 1: The mystic monkeys, they just come and they want to
Speaker 1: serve you in any way they want. You're gonna love
Speaker 1: your Southern covered hot tub. What a way to end
Speaker 1: the day, just you and the one that you love
Speaker 1: getting massages in that one hundred and four hundred and three.
Speaker 1: Whatever the temperature you wanted to be water. Think you
Speaker 1: can't afford one, Think again, how about this hot tubs
Speaker 1: as low as sixty five dollars. You hurt me right,
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars a month. Susan and I were in
Speaker 1: ours just about every single night. We used twelve months,
Speaker 1: same as cash, and it was a breeze. They even
Speaker 1: have sauna's, swim spots, massaging chairs. You're gonna love your
Speaker 1: Southern covered hot tub. Seventy five O one pressing Highway.
Speaker 1: Tell Todd Gibson, the crew, we sit hi, stick around
Speaker 1: more of the show on the way. By the way,
Speaker 1: bundle up. It's about eight degrees right now on Inauguration Day,
Speaker 1: and we will be carrying it at eleven o'clock stick
Speaker 1: around news radio way forty whs,