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Speaker 2: The Monday after Derby weekend is always always a little
Speaker 2: rough for some folks who really do it big.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: If I can say that I do it big, but busy.
Speaker 4: Saturday was a busy day for us.
Speaker 2: But it was also one of those days where, like
Speaker 2: I think I can say this knowing I'm telling the
Speaker 2: truth and not fibbing. But I now have somebody here
Speaker 2: who was there with me that can reinforce this. Like
Speaker 2: it's a it's a good gig to have, but like
Speaker 2: it's a day of work, like we it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: there's some perks that come with it. Clearly, Austin you
Speaker 2: would agree, But I mean I was pooped on Saturday
Speaker 2: evening because of just walking around. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: a non stop day and it's a lot of fun. Again,
Speaker 2: it's hard for me to think about it being worked
Speaker 2: when I'm there, but a lot of work goes into it.
Speaker 2: But Derby is is the best and uh, I'm still
Speaker 2: kind of tired.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But noon today is when I really felt Okay, here
Speaker 2: we go, let's get ready to do the show. I've
Speaker 2: now recharged the batteries enough. But did you have a
Speaker 2: late night Saturday's you call it early?
Speaker 5: Would you?
Speaker 2: Would you would you end up doing after the Derby?
Speaker 6: I I just went I just went home. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: I think I laid down for like a minute, and
Speaker 6: then it.
Speaker 3: Was I was just pushed out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was something in me that still kind of
Speaker 6: wanted to go out and parted because I'm the kind
Speaker 6: of guy I don't I don't want the night to end.
Speaker 2: Well, so that's I mean, when the night ends, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: it's for a lot of people on any given night, right,
Speaker 2: you're calling it a day, but the Derby is such
Speaker 2: a special day every year that we get. But when
Speaker 2: you call it a night, that means, you know, the
Speaker 2: Derby's the Derby experience is over. So I totally can relate.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people, I'm sure that you know
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, when they wake up, they kind of have Okay,
Speaker 2: now I'm awake and I realize it's Sunday.
Speaker 4: I guess that does it. I guess it's over.
Speaker 2: But for me, you know, once I ended up leaving,
Speaker 2: getting to a derby party for just a little while,
Speaker 2: and then heading home. And I don't really I think
Speaker 2: we maybe we had some half assed plans, if you will,
Speaker 2: meaning like we we kind of threw it out there,
Speaker 2: like we might go home and freshen up and then
Speaker 2: go out and see some friends at their house and
Speaker 2: and you know, kind of join in on another derby party,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe have some beverages, enjoy the company of friends.
Speaker 2: But I think as my wife and I were making
Speaker 2: our way back home, I think we kind of deep
Speaker 2: down knew that we weren't gonna like it wasn't gona happen,
Speaker 2: Like we were so wiped out that it was just
Speaker 2: gonna probably be one of those nights. And I had
Speaker 2: a phenomenal derby day. But I am I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not embarrassed to tell you I was in bed
Speaker 2: before ten o'clock. Wasn't intentional, but I got I got
Speaker 2: on the recliner, and all of a sudden, it was it.
Speaker 3: Was getting it was night night. What did what did
Speaker 3: what did the Moose think of the Derby?
Speaker 2: He screamed like crazy during the race. Good, he was
Speaker 2: into it, and uh, he knew that his horse didn't win,
Speaker 2: but he took it in stride. You know, he didn't
Speaker 2: last year. I think he cried because, you know, he
Speaker 2: was just so upset and sad. But now, you know,
Speaker 2: he knows that you're not going to win them all.
Speaker 3: That's horse racing.
Speaker 2: And whenever we were out at the track working, my
Speaker 2: wife she'd already been at this derby party with the
Speaker 2: kids for a little while. And when I showed up,
Speaker 2: Moose had already won a couple of races, maya won one.
Speaker 2: So they did well even though we didn't have any
Speaker 2: winners in the many different types of bets that we
Speaker 2: made for for the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 3: Moose, I'm convinced was a jockey in a previous life.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He he asked me in front of others, uh, because
Speaker 2: they were showing me. He the the He's been into
Speaker 2: horse racing since he can probably remember as far as
Speaker 2: just watching it on you know, going to the track
Speaker 2: and watching it whenever we can go. And then obviously
Speaker 2: he watches the you know, the Derby on TV and
Speaker 2: hell hill, if if we're at not even kidding, if
Speaker 2: we're at a restaurant and there's you know, twenty TVs
Speaker 2: at a sports bar and one of them happens to
Speaker 2: be on horse racing, that's anywhere in the world on
Speaker 2: one of those tvg FanDuel channels. He'll watch that, like
Speaker 2: he'll just sit and watch like he had how much
Speaker 2: he likes it. But the lead up to the derby
Speaker 2: is it's about to run when they show the entire
Speaker 2: you know, the jockeys getting ready to get set. So
Speaker 2: he was really interested in that. And then you know,
Speaker 2: he asked a question that was just a you know,
Speaker 2: a genuine question from a four year old, but you know,
Speaker 2: made me a little insecure about my height.
Speaker 4: Because he said, Daddy, can you be a jockey?
Speaker 2: Like well son? Technically no, off, Yeah, too tough to
Speaker 2: be a jockey. I think what I told him, and
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure if this is true, but I said,
Speaker 2: that may be the only job in the world that
Speaker 2: I that I am not qualified for because I'm too tall.
Speaker 3: Oh nice, And he was like.
Speaker 2: Too tall and I was like, yeah, you know, jockeys
Speaker 2: are usually pretty short. And then a couple of people
Speaker 2: they got, they got some laughs in at my expense.
Speaker 4: But it's okay.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not a big tall guy, but you
Speaker 2: need to show him, well, he's not much shorter than me.
Speaker 2: It seems like these days you need.
Speaker 6: To show him the Secretariat run at the Belmont where
Speaker 6: he clears everybody by what thirty one links I think
Speaker 6: is what he ended up winning by. And I was
Speaker 6: ever since a Derby, my whole TikTok feed has been
Speaker 6: filled with horse racing, and that just happened to come up.
Speaker 6: And my goodness, how impressive that was A machine, A
Speaker 6: fine machine, is what the is what the announcer said,
Speaker 6: as this guy's pulling away as secretariats pulling away at
Speaker 6: the Bellmont to win the Triple Crown, and you just
Speaker 6: it's literally him running down that final final furlong and
Speaker 6: they'll see everybody else.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 6: Just kind of like it's it's just amazing, and there's
Speaker 6: there's some fun stuff as I dive into the comments
Speaker 6: that the that the jockey Ron Turcott, right, if I
Speaker 6: if I remember correctly, was he didn't even have to
Speaker 6: tell Secretary to go, He just did it. And it
Speaker 6: said it took him almost another half lap to slow
Speaker 6: him down because he wanted to keep on going.
Speaker 4: Just showing what he's all about.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6: I think that the next best horse to probably come
Speaker 6: to Secretary, it's probably American Pharaoh because he was blowing
Speaker 6: dudes out too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's those two as far as just you know,
Speaker 2: things we thought we'd never see again and then sure
Speaker 2: enough we got was it justify?
Speaker 3: Yes? Two years?
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: I always keep I always always forget the name of
Speaker 2: the of the second triple crown winner that we had
Speaker 2: in a relatively short amount of time. And not to
Speaker 2: say that it wasn't as you know, I mean impressive.
Speaker 2: If you get that done, you're doing something special. That's uh,
Speaker 2: that's fair.
Speaker 6: Pharaoh ended up doing the whole uh what do they
Speaker 6: what do they call it the Grand Slam because he
Speaker 6: ended up winning the uh, the the Breeders Cup right
Speaker 6: after that, something that uh Secretariat and every day, But
Speaker 6: the Breeders Cup wasn't around when Secretary was during his run. So, uh,
Speaker 6: those two probably stand above them all.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: And we'll see what what shakes out here with sovereignty.
Speaker 2: But obviously I've been, I've been. I think it's the
Speaker 2: best way to describe it. I've mentioned this a couple
Speaker 2: of times throughout the show today that it was clearly
Speaker 2: a horse that you heard about. It was one of
Speaker 2: the top horses as far as odds. It just didn't
Speaker 2: seem to me to get the love that you saw
Speaker 2: Sandman Journalist mostly journalism. Honestly, Sadman became the real buzz
Speaker 2: pick day of I mean, I'm not kidding you, not
Speaker 2: just because it was your horse, and I became a
Speaker 2: big you know, a big supporter, and that was what
Speaker 2: I was riding with once once we got there Saturday.
Speaker 4: But anybody I talked.
Speaker 2: To mentioned mentioned Sandman. So uh didn't have a great race,
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, I.
Speaker 6: Got me one of those happy lessons that said, I'm
Speaker 6: I'm betting on sam Man as the first time I
Speaker 6: ever got a button, a nice n I had to
Speaker 6: I had. I wanted to call my shot so bad.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you weren't. You weren't the only one,
Speaker 2: trust me. There was many people that felt confident in
Speaker 2: UH in that one. But obviously sovereignty got it done.
Speaker 2: And we'll see what happens with the rest of the Uh.
Speaker 2: The two legs of the triple crown and obviously the
Speaker 2: the win is huge, uh for for for Mott, right,
Speaker 2: I don't want to keep blaking on his name, yes,
Speaker 2: Bell Mohot. But yeah, so the story we talked about
Speaker 2: a little bit earlier, I just I happened to think
Speaker 2: this is really interesting and it's when when when look,
Speaker 2: we rely on marketing dollars to you know, be able
Speaker 2: to feed our family. That's how radio works, right, and
Speaker 2: it's a you know, it's it's it's a good investment, right,
Speaker 2: but when you can when you can end up just
Speaker 2: buy luck or minor creativity, really get some big time
Speaker 2: exposure that you didn't really have to pay anything for.
Speaker 2: I just think that's cool. And obviously Bill Mott's family
Speaker 2: at some point has become they became fans of Joe's
Speaker 2: older than Dirt the bar here in London, and I
Speaker 2: just think to see pictures of the winning trainer, Bill
Speaker 2: de Mott at your establishment right after he wins Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby one fifty one, like and you know you didn't
Speaker 2: have it's not a paid appearance by him. He just
Speaker 2: you know, he knew he won the derby and that's
Speaker 2: where he wanted to go and it became a story
Speaker 2: in itself because you know, he just won the derby,
Speaker 2: He's the man of the hour. I just love when
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff works out. So little interesting things
Speaker 2: like that are really what I like to kind of
Speaker 2: focus on after the derby, because again, as you as
Speaker 2: you all likely know, I'm not somebody that is, you know,
Speaker 2: super well versed in the sport of horse racing, but
Speaker 2: being there on Saturday, and I'm gonna kind of reset
Speaker 2: a little bit here for those just now joining.
Speaker 4: Us, you know, the experience that is being.
Speaker 2: At the Kentucky Derby, Like it just seemed to be
Speaker 2: something I was more in the in the moment with that,
Speaker 2: I don't mean just for me, but just everybody else, right,
Speaker 2: because you know, the the generic questions I would ask
Speaker 2: some of the some of the fans there that that
Speaker 2: that I talked to to have on our our broadcast
Speaker 2: for eight forty w BHAs you know the typical Hey,
Speaker 2: you know where you're from, how many derbies you've been to?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: That's really the icebreaker and you know, nobody at all
Speaker 2: I think even I mean, you don't want nasty, sloppy weather,
Speaker 2: but I think you know, one of the one of
Speaker 2: the no brainers that I guess really I had never
Speaker 2: considered until you know, Saturday, when it was awful weather.
Speaker 2: I mean again, it wasn't as if it it really
Speaker 2: didn't seem to rain a whole lot, but it had
Speaker 2: rained enough right before you know, the gates opened, and
Speaker 2: it really the sun never came out, and then there
Speaker 2: was some time where there was there showers. It was
Speaker 2: just a sloppy, nasty, nasty day. But if you're going
Speaker 2: to the Kentucky Derby, you're not making the decision to
Speaker 2: be there and go there based off weather. I mean again,
Speaker 2: you want good weather, but it's such an event that
Speaker 2: you know, hey, look we're gonna go and we're just
Speaker 2: gonna be at the mercy of whatever whatever weather we
Speaker 2: end up getting. So for it to be kind of
Speaker 2: as sloppy as it was, it did not seem to
Speaker 2: impact anyone's and I mean anyone's I don't want to
Speaker 2: I don't want to say interest, but like just their morale.
Speaker 2: Like it was, you could just tell the people there
Speaker 2: like they knew they were at a really special place.
Speaker 2: And as I've mentioned before, as someone who's been in
Speaker 2: Louis of my whole life, when I'm at Churchill Downs anytime,
Speaker 2: and I guess initially derby before I got to realizing
Speaker 2: that there's so many people there. In fact, the majority
Speaker 2: of the people there are not from anywhere around here.
Speaker 2: Like it's just cool to to you know, like I
Speaker 2: now will look forward every year. Not that I don't
Speaker 2: look forward to it every year, but like I'll now
Speaker 2: you know, I guess have a more appreciation for just
Speaker 2: acknowledge you just just seeing that there's so many people
Speaker 2: that make this such a big event. And that doesn't
Speaker 2: do anything for me, right, I mean, I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't benefit from having so many people across the world
Speaker 2: decided to come to Louisville, Kentucky for a horse race
Speaker 2: that takes place once a year.
Speaker 4: But you know, this is where I'm from.
Speaker 2: This is where I will probably always live, and to
Speaker 2: have such a big time event, you know, have so
Speaker 2: many people that want to be here for it, I
Speaker 2: mean that's something I'll I think I now have a
Speaker 2: better appreciation for it. Even if you can't be here,
Speaker 2: you're clearly still going to try to watch it because viewership,
Speaker 2: I mean, seventeen point seven million was the average viewership
Speaker 2: for the race itself. The peak was twenty one point
Speaker 2: eight million, And I mean that, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: by throwing those numbers out there, I think people realize
Speaker 2: that's pretty impressive. But maybe we can do a little
Speaker 2: bit of a quick look and see what you kind
Speaker 2: of compare that to, because the Derby is one of
Speaker 2: the biggest events of the year in sports, and I
Speaker 2: mean those type of events. I mean, there's no decline
Speaker 2: in like interest level of sports, and I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody ever really assumed that there was. But it was
Speaker 2: a gradual thing to kind of get back after the pandemic,
Speaker 2: right if you remember, we went without sports for a while,
Speaker 2: and then you know, we weren't really able to do
Speaker 2: anything because we had restrictions. So when sports came back,
Speaker 2: you know, you just assume that what else is anybody
Speaker 2: gonna do? They're gonna watch sports because we're kind of
Speaker 2: all still not back to when we're not we're not
Speaker 2: back to normal life yet.
Speaker 4: And yet the numbers weren't great.
Speaker 2: I think more than anything, it was because a variety
Speaker 2: of things, but mostly like the people who were casuals,
Speaker 2: if they knew it was, you know, an empty arena
Speaker 2: and games canceled here and there because of weird test results,
Speaker 2: like it just that's the people that those people weren't
Speaker 2: gonna watch. But big events like the Derby, I mean
Speaker 2: it seems as if they've never been more popular as
Speaker 2: far as getting viewership. So yeah, great Derby weekend, you know,
Speaker 2: despite the weather. And I now I'm gonna make it
Speaker 2: a point and not even bring that up next year.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we will track it and hope for
Speaker 2: a great sunny and beautiful day. But when I was leaving,
Speaker 2: it just started to rain a little bit harder when
Speaker 2: I was getting off the shuttle and walking back to
Speaker 2: my car, And it never really like got bad, but
Speaker 2: you know, I started to pick up my pace a
Speaker 2: little bit of my walk because I didn't want to
Speaker 2: get as wet. And I'm just thinking, you know what, like,
Speaker 2: despite all this, I didn't think I didn't see a
Speaker 2: single person that you know, looked as if they were
Speaker 2: regretting coming because you know, of the weather. And one
Speaker 2: of the one of the voices that you heard on
Speaker 2: our interviews that we had was kirkirk Street. Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 2: got a good interview with Kirk Kirk Street and get
Speaker 2: and you hear that in the uh, you hear that
Speaker 2: in the montage, which if you missed that, we will
Speaker 2: reset that in its entirety coming up here before too long.
Speaker 2: But I saw herb Street earlier at you know, I
Speaker 2: can't I can't think of what section it was, but
Speaker 2: it's like right when you get off the elevator in
Speaker 2: that like main area where you've got like the sports
Speaker 2: book and whatnot. Yes, I can get anywhere I need
Speaker 2: to get at Churchill, I just can't think of I'm
Speaker 2: not great at describing the locations precisely. But you know,
Speaker 2: he was around some of his boys. I think his son,
Speaker 2: who I believe at Tens, Michigan, of all places, I
Speaker 2: think he was with him at the time. I don't
Speaker 2: think he was when Scott got the interview, but he
Speaker 2: really blended in, and you know, he's a he's a
Speaker 2: handsome celebrity. And I kind of remember thinking, like, man,
Speaker 2: not many people realize that's Kirk IRV Street and I
Speaker 2: feel like I should have realized it ahead of time.
Speaker 2: But then I'm like, you know what famous celebrities they
Speaker 2: really If there's ever a place for them to blend in,
Speaker 2: it's at Churchill Down's un Derby day Because nearly everybody
Speaker 2: there seemingly is beautiful, and they, you know, I would
Speaker 2: believe you who told me that they're famous and they're
Speaker 2: this and that as far as accomplishments and success, because yeah,
Speaker 2: they got the look that makes me believe you can
Speaker 2: tell me whatever, and yeah, no, no doubt. I bet
Speaker 2: that person is a movie star. I just didn't recognize them.
Speaker 2: I bet that person is, you know, a professional golfer
Speaker 2: that is phenomenal, But I just you know, he's blended
Speaker 2: in because everybody's got their nice suits on and everybody's
Speaker 2: just beautiful. So it's a and if you are able
Speaker 2: to successfully bring in people who you know, really want
Speaker 2: to be seen at a place like that. They wanted
Speaker 2: to be clear on their social media is that they're
Speaker 2: there and that's something that they attend because they're you know,
Speaker 2: they want to show off. Like I don't know, this year,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it would be nice every year if my
Speaker 2: experience of helping with our coverage at the Derby, I'm
Speaker 2: able to take something away that like I maybe didn't
Speaker 2: really pay much attention to prior. For me this year,
Speaker 2: it was fashion and it was one of the interviews
Speaker 2: I got with the guy that. I mean, I had
Speaker 2: to stop him. He was just he was looking at
Speaker 2: his program and he's probably in his in his sixties,
Speaker 2: but he had on seemingly every color that exists from
Speaker 2: head to toe, with a nice, nice pair of shoes,
Speaker 2: a suit, tie hat. I mean, he was he was
Speaker 2: looking like a million bucks and he had all those
Speaker 2: colors together, but somehow they were all working together as one.
Speaker 2: Like he just looked phenomenal. And I asked him, you know,
Speaker 2: what is it. What is it about the Derby that
Speaker 2: you just, you know, you got to be here every
Speaker 2: year and he just fashion and I'm you know, he
Speaker 2: started telling me, you know, he's you know, everybody here,
Speaker 2: there's attension to.
Speaker 4: Detail with every little outfit.
Speaker 2: Uh and I and again, someone who doesn't have style
Speaker 2: and fashion at least not to that level by any means.
Speaker 2: I never really thought about that, but from then on
Speaker 2: I started to pay attention. I'm thinking, you know what,
Speaker 2: like that person, they probably are considered to be super
Speaker 2: stylish and fashionable. And this may be like if they're
Speaker 2: bringing out the best, the best outfit they have, you know,
Speaker 2: for the year, it might be on this day because
Speaker 2: you know, it's Derby Day. So let's see the announced
Speaker 2: wagering from all sources of the entire day of races
Speaker 2: on Saturday, three hundred and forty nine million dollars, which
Speaker 2: breaks the previous record of three hundred and twenty million
Speaker 2: dollars which was set just last year. So yeah, they're
Speaker 2: they're doing well over there when it comes to to money.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't think Churchill Dollars was a part of that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is a lot of money, no doubt.
Speaker 2: All Right, So let's see. This story is one that
Speaker 2: I I it's not really time sensitive, but it's so
Speaker 2: wild that like we need to talk about it now
Speaker 2: because and I'm sure by now you may have heard
Speaker 2: of it, but there was a couple that ended up
Speaker 2: winning the was it the power ball? Yeah, the Kentucky
Speaker 2: the couple from well, I'm sorry. It was a mother
Speaker 2: and son that won the power ball in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So the story, the initial story is actually about a
Speaker 2: week old, and that was because not this past weekend,
Speaker 2: with the weekend before, there was a man and his
Speaker 2: mother who I guess collectively you know, shared that they
Speaker 2: have the winning two dollars power ball ticket that won
Speaker 2: them one hundred and sixty seven point three million dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh my gos so.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, one day.
Speaker 2: After these these two people mother, in fact, there were
Speaker 2: three people, mother and son and then son's girlfriend. They
Speaker 2: were posing with that giant check you know that that
Speaker 2: gets taken at the Kentucky Lottery showing off the winnings.
Speaker 2: And again I think the son, who's fifty, he's technically
Speaker 2: the winner, but obviously I think his mother either gave
Speaker 2: him money for the ticket or he bought it for
Speaker 2: I don't really know, but there was some sort of like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, Mother's Day is gonna be great this year,
Speaker 2: and basically saying, you know, with one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: seven point three million, his mother's not going to go without,
Speaker 2: you know, with her I'm left here, however old she is.
Speaker 2: But he also had a girlfriend that was with him
Speaker 2: in the photo as well, which was kind of you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's usual. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's normal or not to have you know, people involved
Speaker 2: that aren't really like technically she's not married, she's just
Speaker 2: a girlfriend. They're really close, but I guess technically she
Speaker 2: would have no like legal right to any of the money,
Speaker 2: you know, if they were married to be different stories. Anyways,
Speaker 2: this is kind of like I mean, I remember Vinetti
Speaker 2: said it on Vnetti said it on Monday or Tuesday
Speaker 2: of last week, when this became a story that they'd won,
Speaker 2: that these are the kind of people that you want
Speaker 2: to win the lottery, right, not somebody who's already rich
Speaker 2: or you know, but these are just you know, your
Speaker 2: average Kentucky folks. And there was a gentleman who's fifty
Speaker 2: who you know, him and his mom. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they lived together, what it is, but they won,
Speaker 2: and you know, you thought kind of the story was
Speaker 2: going to be over. Not so much because a day
Speaker 2: after they posted they posed for that that you know,
Speaker 2: that fancy picture that everybody you know sees that one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty seven point three million dollar check. They
Speaker 2: had a legal situation on their hands, so they quickly
Speaker 2: made their way out of Kentucky and ended up in
Speaker 2: Pinellas County, Florida, and they've since been arrested. And like,
Speaker 2: this is something that I'm going to follow. I'm going
Speaker 2: to follow in a major way just because it's like, again,
Speaker 2: it's something you can't make up. It's something you see,
Speaker 2: like in a movie. So let me see if I
Speaker 2: can pull up the original story that has like all
Speaker 2: the actual details here. But I mean, these two end
Speaker 2: up getting arrested in Florida, meaning the guy who won
Speaker 2: it and his girlfriend who he brought to you know,
Speaker 2: take the picture.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it wasn't the mom.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the mom, and it was a I mean,
Speaker 2: we're talking felony charges. It was apparently a bar brawl.
Speaker 2: One of the I mean one of the charges stems
Speaker 2: from I believe the girlfriend kicking a cop in the face.
Speaker 2: So what's happened here is like, you know, I guess
Speaker 2: the funny, the funny, you know, like it maybe funny
Speaker 2: is not the right way to to really describe it,
Speaker 2: but you know, somebody who won one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: seven million is already partying and already letting that money
Speaker 2: get him in trouble because they're getting drunk and you know,
Speaker 2: get arrested. But this man who won the lottery and
Speaker 2: then the next days in Florida partying, who gets arrested.
Speaker 2: He was out on parole, so like his charges, I
Speaker 2: don't know again, if there's been an update since this
Speaker 2: happened late last week, I think it was on Friday,
Speaker 2: because it's one of those things you like, wait a second,
Speaker 2: that can't be free. That's something you can't make up.
Speaker 2: Like he might have won one hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 2: point three million dollars and then within within a day
Speaker 2: he's partying and celebrating, gets himself in legal trouble to
Speaker 2: where he'll never be able to like, you know, I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say never, but like he might go back to prison.
Speaker 2: Imagine thinking you just won one hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 2: million dollars and then all of a sudden you realize
Speaker 2: you got to go back to you know, you got
Speaker 2: to go back to the pen.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, this is the this is the story I
Speaker 4: was looking for. Apologizes. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't find the actual link that I originally saw this,
Speaker 2: but yeah, this is from Yahoo News. The Kentucky man
Speaker 2: is facing battery charges after police say struck an officer
Speaker 2: a day after cashing out as one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: seven point three million powered a million dollar Powerwall prize.
Speaker 2: The incident happened at the popular Trade Winds resort in
Speaker 2: Panelas County, Florida, on Tuesday, evening the arrest Abidavid states
Speaker 2: that James Farthing was in a fight with another guest
Speaker 2: when officers arrived. As a deputy stepped in to break
Speaker 2: it up. The Abbidavid states that Farthing kicked him in
Speaker 2: the face and tried to run. He now bases charges
Speaker 2: of battery on a law enforcement officer in resisting arrest.
Speaker 2: His girlfriend, Jacqueline fight Master what a Name, was also
Speaker 2: arrested for disorderly intoxication. WKY interviewed Farthing about his powerball
Speaker 2: winnings just the day before the incident. The fifty year
Speaker 2: old said he'd been splitting he'd be splitting the prize
Speaker 2: with his mother Linda, and yeah, now, yeah, it looks
Speaker 2: like I can't this this story. He didn't didn't include it,
Speaker 2: but there was one that the initial one that actually
Speaker 2: I think came from a Florida news station that covered
Speaker 2: it because they realized, wait a second, this arrest reported
Speaker 2: these the people that just won a bunch of money,
Speaker 2: And sure enough it was so. I mean, even if
Speaker 2: he does go back on like a parole violation or
Speaker 2: whatever it is, like probably wouldn't be like a crazy
Speaker 2: amount of time. But I mean, again, you can't make
Speaker 2: this up. Win the lottery, go to Florida the next day,
Speaker 2: get arrested, go back to prison. Like you know, he
Speaker 2: was clearly on the up and well I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: on the up and up, but like he was out
Speaker 2: and seemingly, you know, he wasn't in jail. He was
Speaker 2: free to go play the lottery, won it, and then
Speaker 2: you know, Night's in troubles. So crazy stuff. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, We'll come back on the other side, probably
Speaker 2: a quick segment here on the other side, because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make sure we have enough time to get you
Speaker 2: the full, the full version of all of our you know,
Speaker 2: the highlights essentially of our coverage on Saturday at Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby one fifty one.
Speaker 4: So stick with us right here.
Speaker 2: Coffee and Company, Phil about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Now back to Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine.
Speaker 3: Day, Well done, Austin.
Speaker 2: You know it is sometimes it is interesting to go
Speaker 2: down a rabbit hole and look up some of the wilder,
Speaker 2: unbelievable but true stories about things that have happened to
Speaker 2: people after they won the lottery, or maybe not even after,
Speaker 2: but like where their life was what was going on
Speaker 2: when they just decided to buy the ticket that ended up,
Speaker 2: you know, changing their life, sometimes seemingly for good. But
Speaker 2: then in the again, you know.
Speaker 4: There's awful stories.
Speaker 2: And there used to be like a TV show, like
Speaker 2: early documentary reality TV.
Speaker 4: There was a show.
Speaker 2: I mean, it couldn't have been called something as generic
Speaker 2: about like how the lottery changed my life, but I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like that might have been it. But
Speaker 2: there were some stories that like it ruined their family
Speaker 2: because everybody got greedy and they.
Speaker 3: Ran out of money.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I'd like to think that if I
Speaker 2: was ever able to win the lottery one, I'd have
Speaker 2: to play to win, and I don't play, but if
Speaker 2: I did, I'd like to think that I was, that
Speaker 2: I'd be able to you know, handle that and you know,
Speaker 2: still keep the same relationships and not you know, let
Speaker 2: it change me as a human. But you never know
Speaker 2: until you're in that position, right, I mean, money is
Speaker 2: a powerful.
Speaker 3: To see one hundred MILLI in your bank account.
Speaker 2: The money is a powerful thing, that is for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, It's coffee and company. Feel abou Thornton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety appreciate you hanging out with
Speaker 2: us the Monday after Derby weekend and what a good
Speaker 2: Derby weekend it was. And let's go to the phone
Speaker 2: lines now if I was do about seven one seventy
Speaker 2: nine hundred number, if you guys would like to uh
Speaker 2: to jump in and give us a call, and you'll
Speaker 2: you put him on Austin because I've got the same
Speaker 2: thing happening that I had last week where I can't
Speaker 2: like this. This pot is now for a different thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I got me, Yes, all right, let's go
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 4: Let's go to kirk Kirk. How are we doing? Brother?
Speaker 7: Hey Nick? What's going on? My man? Happy after Derby?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 4: Same to you.
Speaker 3: You have a good Derby weekend?
Speaker 7: I did, I did it. It was a rainy one,
Speaker 7: but back god, it was a beautiful day.
Speaker 4: For a duck, that's for sure, well said.
Speaker 7: But uh yeah, my horse it's still being loaded in
Speaker 7: the loading gate. It's uh, it was owing almighty. I
Speaker 7: think he got a couple of calls, but you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's just how goes when you got nineteen horses.
Speaker 7: It's just close your eyes and roll the dice, you know.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: It's a huge field and being out there during Derby
Speaker 2: week and even the day of like, it doesn't really
Speaker 2: hit me until we get closer to the Derby than men.
Speaker 2: A lot more horses in this race than you typically
Speaker 2: seeing really any other race.
Speaker 7: Correct. Well, let me tell you was talking earlier about
Speaker 7: how all the expansions they've done out at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 7: You know, me and my late brother Kenny god rest Is,
Speaker 7: so we used to live out there during our long hair,
Speaker 7: sexy days, back when coke were two dollars and hot
Speaker 7: dogs were two dollars, and we watched it grow over
Speaker 7: the years. Now we refer it to as Emerald City
Speaker 7: because when you see it from a far distance or
Speaker 7: a close distance, I mean, it's overwhelming beautiful, you know.
Speaker 7: So that's that's pretty much you know, Emerald City over there.
Speaker 4: And now let me ask.
Speaker 2: You this, Kirk, because there's a lot of people i'm
Speaker 2: sure like yourself and your brother, who like it was
Speaker 2: just you know, when the spring meat was going on,
Speaker 2: they'd be out there as much as they could, enjoying
Speaker 2: everything that comes with it, and you know, betting on
Speaker 2: the ponies. I mean, I would imagine there's others that
Speaker 2: probably you know, they understand why Churchill's made the decision
Speaker 2: to go Emerald City, as you mentioned, but also like
Speaker 2: it doesn't really appealed to those that you know, used
Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time there and it was
Speaker 2: you know, a big I don't want to say a
Speaker 2: big part of their life, but probably something they really
Speaker 2: look forward to doing.
Speaker 3: It's just much different now.
Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely, it's very much different. But like I said,
Speaker 7: you know, blood horse racing has been in our family
Speaker 7: for years and years, and and like you said, we
Speaker 7: just made it a religion to go out there pretty
Speaker 7: much every day, and and it's just it's just a
Speaker 7: different feeling when you go. It's just sure, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean, we would go out there were ten dollars
Speaker 7: and pray we would bring home the uh bring home
Speaker 7: the wheelbarrow was full. But you know, sometimes we did,
Speaker 7: sometimes we didn't. But man, it's just this Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 7: It's we're the centerpiece of the world on Derby Day, brother.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Appreciate the call, Kirk, good to
Speaker 4: hear from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's something that you know, we all
Speaker 2: know as Louivillions that we've got it chance to shine
Speaker 2: two minutes. I mean, it's usually a lot longer than
Speaker 2: two minutes. I would imagine that those who tune in
Speaker 2: for the derby, they're not probably staying for the entire day,
Speaker 2: but you can if you like.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And obviously I think the big, big part of it
Speaker 2: is the lead up to it, like that you know
Speaker 2: when you're when you're getting closer, and there's certainly a
Speaker 2: lot of time between that race that's there before the
Speaker 2: Derby starts. But you know, maybe it's just me getting older,
Speaker 2: more mature, dare I say, getting you know more wise
Speaker 2: that I just now have a real feel for like
Speaker 2: how big of a deal it is to know that
Speaker 2: there are so many people that that I mean all
Speaker 2: over not just the country, but the world, Like all
Speaker 2: eyes are on us for this big event. And there's
Speaker 2: a lot of cities that you know, have a special
Speaker 2: event that is no that they're known for, right, Like
Speaker 2: I can't mean I'm trying to think of like this
Speaker 2: is a random one like Omaha, Nebraska, Like they're known
Speaker 2: for the College World Series. Yes, sure, and they do
Speaker 2: it big. They take a lot of pride in that.
Speaker 2: I've I've talked to just about everybody who's ever gone
Speaker 2: that I know, and they say that one. Omaha is
Speaker 2: a better city than you'd realize. It's just, you know,
Speaker 2: you really got to want to get there because it's
Speaker 2: far away and there's a lot of nothing near it.
Speaker 2: But they really take it upon. They take pride in
Speaker 2: being a place that brings in a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Obviously the Derby is a different level than that, but
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's just something when you live
Speaker 2: here your whole life.
Speaker 4: You get used to it.
Speaker 2: But now to see, you know, and just I guess
Speaker 2: have more awareness on my end that there are so
Speaker 2: many people here that that have may never like they
Speaker 2: may never even ever come back, or may they maybe
Speaker 2: they come here every year and they just you know,
Speaker 2: they get there on Friday and leave Sunday morning, and
Speaker 2: they don't take in a whole lot of you know,
Speaker 2: the sights and sounds of Louisville, Kentucky, the city that
Speaker 2: they're in, but you know, they're here for the Derby.
Speaker 3: So Daytona is also a good one, yes'rby Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm sure there's and I wish I had
Speaker 2: thought of that, thought of that earlier. Just comparisons as
Speaker 2: far as other places that have an event that their
Speaker 2: city's really known for in a lot of ways, and
Speaker 2: they they don't they you know, like I can't imagine
Speaker 2: if there's somebody and I'm sure there are people, and
Speaker 2: maybe there's a good reason for it, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: not liking that we have it, wish we didn't have
Speaker 2: it because it brought in traffic and it slowed stuff down.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I would, I would really question what
Speaker 2: you like to do, like what you consider fun, if
Speaker 2: that's the way you see it. But I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I think if you're an outsider and you're here, you
Speaker 2: can tell that we are happy to have you and
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully going to do whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how how I in any way could
Speaker 2: enhance people's experience who are there at Derby. But you know,
Speaker 2: you can just feel that we embrace it, and I
Speaker 2: don't think that'll that'll ever change, all right, Real quick,
Speaker 2: before we get to our last break, some news here
Speaker 2: on the TBT roster. So here is who we have
Speaker 2: currently uh in the mix for the Ville So Russ Smith,
Speaker 2: Montrez Harrel, David Johnson. I believe those were the names
Speaker 2: we had heard. In fact, maybe DJ was announced earlier today,
Speaker 2: but also two other names, David Sloan, who I'm familiar
Speaker 2: with just because I know he's from Louisville, but he
Speaker 2: played college basketball at Kansas State and East Tennessee State.
Speaker 2: And then we also are adding j scrub which is
Speaker 2: a name from the past. I love this because Jay
Speaker 2: Scrub's still playing at a high level. He's younger than
Speaker 2: you know, and we can have that conversation at some
Speaker 2: point down the line. But you know, with Russ tres Peyton,
Speaker 2: who else was it? Maybe even Nanu to an extent,
Speaker 2: like those guys aren't old, but there are time's gonna
Speaker 2: be playing against guys that are, you know, fresh out
Speaker 2: of college or you know, just just in the G League,
Speaker 2: like David Johnson's the perfect kind of age I think
Speaker 2: for you know, a guy who clearly is just outside
Speaker 2: the NBA, but he's also on the younger end of
Speaker 2: what you see typically on the rosters and the TVT.
Speaker 2: Jay Scrubb is the same situation, and I really wish
Speaker 2: he'd end up ended up here at U of L.
Speaker 2: But now we get to see him play for the
Speaker 2: Villa and the TVT, which hopefully that that event has
Speaker 2: as much fun. I mean Obviously the team winning is
Speaker 2: a big part of it. But last year was a
Speaker 2: lot of fun and I would hope that they can
Speaker 2: they can make another run again this upcoming summer. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, We'll come back and let you guys here
Speaker 2: again the Derby Manta and it's and it's in its
Speaker 2: entirety a full uh you know breakdown. I guess not
Speaker 2: a full breakdown, but it condensed, uh you know clip
Speaker 2: of our full day of coverage on h A. So
Speaker 2: stick with us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 9: To take fast night antics.
Speaker 3: I'm in through the desert on a horse of your
Speaker 3: own name.
Speaker 10: Good to be in the desert.
Speaker 3: You can't remember your name, No one to give a day.
Speaker 3: This is coach gott daf Coort.
Speaker 10: Welcome to a day of magnificent athletes, remarkable speed, and
Speaker 10: incredible upsets. This is a world renowned is filled with
Speaker 10: splendor and patogy, spotlighting every facet of the community we
Speaker 10: all call home, the city Loivil. Everything that's good in
Speaker 10: every corner of this community comes together to make everybody better.
Speaker 10: Today we write a new page in history of the
Speaker 10: longest continually held sporting event in America. This is the
Speaker 10: first Jewel of horse Racing's Triple Ground, the World Series
Speaker 10: of horse Racing. This is a Kentucky Derby one fifty
Speaker 10: one on news Radio eight forty WJS.
Speaker 9: It's Derby Day.
Speaker 11: News Radio eight forty WHAS is proud to bring you
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Speaker 11: news Radio eight forty WHAS Derby crew is standing by
Speaker 11: to keep you updated throughout the day. Now Here are
Speaker 11: your hosts for Derby Day one fifty one, Tony Cruz
Speaker 11: and Terry Miners.
Speaker 12: For the one hundred fifty first time they will run
Speaker 12: this race that has become a national tradition, not just
Speaker 12: a Kentucky tradition. Hello, I'm Tony Kruzh and he's radio
Speaker 12: eight forty whis to generally do mornings from five am
Speaker 12: to nine and now I'm at nap daytime at ten o'clock.
Speaker 12: But welcome aboard a sloppy track right here in Churchill Downs.
Speaker 3: It has been sloppy all night.
Speaker 12: Long, of course, so it was a sloppy Kentucky oaks.
Speaker 12: But it's always sunny in seventy five at Churchill Down,
Speaker 12: says our great friend at John Asher used to remind
Speaker 12: us and what a great, great day it's going to be.
Speaker 12: But this is going to be my last anchoring of
Speaker 12: Kentucky de every Now, if they asked me to serve,
Speaker 12: it'll depend on the paycheck.
Speaker 9: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 12: That guy is a familiar voice because he's Leland Conway
Speaker 12: and Leland and his back go with us, and we're
Speaker 12: really pretty Paul Miles joining us as well, newsman extraordinaire.
Speaker 9: And Paul, you so.
Speaker 12: Far have me beat on the record of longevity here
Speaker 12: we're behind miners, but you got to lead by three.
Speaker 11: Or seven months, two months, maybe two months, maybe August.
Speaker 9: You're gonna wipe me out after I try it.
Speaker 12: You're a short timer there, fell up, short time, Yeah,
Speaker 12: help right.
Speaker 10: Some I think between the two of us total, there's
Speaker 10: about well, there's more than sixty years of Kentucky Derby
Speaker 10: go yeah, correct, I got more than thirty.
Speaker 9: You have more than thirty, so sixty something.
Speaker 12: Now, let's find out what's going on with our buddy
Speaker 12: Bo Robinson.
Speaker 13: I'm with Kyle Zorna of Legion Bloodstock, who was responsible
Speaker 13: for bringing Kentucky Derby contender Flying Mohawk to Jason Worth
Speaker 13: and the Barry family. But first, Kyle, congratulations on yesterday's
Speaker 13: Kentucky Oaks finish, Drexel Hill finishing second place. That's definitely
Speaker 13: a huge confidence boost going into the Kentucky Derby today
Speaker 13: and maybe a second night of self for you.
Speaker 5: Oh, I hope so, but as you can tell, my
Speaker 5: voice might not allow that. So we're pretty excited. I
Speaker 5: think this weather is going to be very conducive to
Speaker 5: what we were hoping for with them. You know, care
Speaker 5: forces typically move up on a wet racetrack, and a
Speaker 5: few of his best works have been over a wet track,
Speaker 5: so we're guided. You know, obviously, first time he's gonna
Speaker 5: run on dirt.
Speaker 13: But Kyle, congratulations again on the second place finish with
Speaker 13: Drexel Hill in the Kentucky Oaks yesterday, and all the
Speaker 13: best for flying Mohawk in the Kentucky Derby. Thank you
Speaker 13: for the time and enjoyed today.
Speaker 4: Do we have some robing reporters we need to we do?
Speaker 9: Let's check in with Austin Montgomery down in the infield,
Speaker 9: shall we?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: Federal, Thanks guys, it's awestome. I made my way all
Speaker 6: the way over to the infield, and let me tell
Speaker 6: you something. It's just as hyped up as everybody says
Speaker 6: it is the first thing I see when I walk
Speaker 6: in is this ridiculously large top hat, a really bright
Speaker 6: gold vest that says this infield legend on it. The
Speaker 6: man I'm talking to right now is the man himself,
Speaker 6: Lewis Grant.
Speaker 3: Dude, you're the infield legend. How does that feel?
Speaker 12: It took a long time to get here.
Speaker 3: What oughtd it take? Hohop has stowed you the infield legend?
Speaker 6: Is it something that you did or was it like
Speaker 6: a collective effort from everyone that came out here.
Speaker 13: Well, I'm a legend, a legend in my own mind,
Speaker 13: so I thought I would tell everybody, well.
Speaker 3: That's all, that's all that matters.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you put on a gold horseshoe vest
Speaker 6: and you put it on the back, who's going to deny.
Speaker 3: That, right?
Speaker 1: But he's denying that.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you it's all.
Speaker 13: It's all out in the open. Now I've come out
Speaker 13: as the legend.
Speaker 3: This is a man after my own heart.
Speaker 6: I hope to be like you in a few years
Speaker 6: when I'm thirty five.
Speaker 3: So hopefully we could kick everything off well.
Speaker 6: Celebrating Derby one fifty one here at the infield at
Speaker 6: Historic Churchhill Downs, Austin, Montgomery, News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 6: back to you guys.
Speaker 3: N and that was fun Alsto Montgomery from w AMC.
Speaker 9: Great job on that little Do we have another field reporter.
Speaker 1: We can we do?
Speaker 9: Let's check in with our man Nick Coffee Show.
Speaker 2: All right, are we here with you? Tell me where
Speaker 2: you're from? Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. How many Dervis you've been to?
Speaker 9: Forty seven?
Speaker 2: You've been to forty seven Kentucky Derbys?
Speaker 9: Are you serious?
Speaker 14: Started coming here in nineteen seventy five when I went
Speaker 14: to school here, and I've been to everyone except two
Speaker 14: COVID years and my son's graduation.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: So University of louisvill grad Yeah? Is that where you
Speaker 4: fell in love with horse racing?
Speaker 15: I sure did.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you have a winner today? Who do you think
Speaker 4: is gonna win the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 3: I think journalism?
Speaker 2: Of all the Kentucky Derbys, is there one that is
Speaker 2: a that stands out as a bigger memory than the others.
Speaker 2: Probably the first celebrating Kentucky Derby one fifty one. It's
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee for News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 16: I think Dwight Whitten has got Mitch McConnell, or does he.
Speaker 3: Or Dusty Dwight Whitton?
Speaker 17: Out here at Churchill Down, I ran into the Senator
Speaker 17: Mitch McConnell, and your horse, I know, is chunk of gold.
Speaker 9: But you know the owner, right, I know the owner.
Speaker 15: That's unusual. Chunk of gold Kentucky verad. That's all work,
Speaker 15: the bet off.
Speaker 17: So you got your horse, and I guess being friends
Speaker 17: with the owner, you have no choice.
Speaker 9: You got a bet on you rock, no choice at all?
Speaker 17: List is Senator McConnell. I hate that it's raining out
Speaker 17: here today, but I imagine this is probably one of
Speaker 17: your proudest I don't know, Jules of Kentucky, the Kentucky Derby,
Speaker 17: would that be right?
Speaker 15: The Kentucky Derby party is going on all around the
Speaker 15: world American embassies, this is an international event.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 17: I don't want to keep you centered. I saw you
Speaker 17: and I just say, hey, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 17: ride his coke tails on his bet. So now I'm
Speaker 17: going from journalism and I'm moving my money to chunk
Speaker 17: of gold because of you.
Speaker 15: How's that good luck?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what. I had no idea.
Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell hung out in the unfield.
Speaker 9: Okay, I've been doing this thirty five years.
Speaker 3: I have no idea if that was real or not.
Speaker 9: I can't that.
Speaker 4: We've got some more for you.
Speaker 3: Let's kick to who else we got, Johnny.
Speaker 9: Let's check in with Joe Lincoln to Lincoln here.
Speaker 15: With Carolina Panthers Storre Xavier Lagette.
Speaker 9: Is this your first derby?
Speaker 10: Here?
Speaker 1: My year?
Speaker 15: Man, there's my first burg Wan.
Speaker 18: I'm enjoying the man I'm be here.
Speaker 12: Says yesterday I got to see.
Speaker 9: The whole bayside of it and then how they worked the.
Speaker 3: Whole sce early in the morning.
Speaker 7: I was like, it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: A good races today.
Speaker 3: Man, there's a whole lot of yells tonight with the merge.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be some good and what you do is
Speaker 3: today week.
Speaker 16: But we got few reporters all over Churchill downs from
Speaker 16: the infield, two Billionaires Road to the red carpet.
Speaker 3: Let's find out who we got now.
Speaker 9: Our own Scott Fitzgerald caught up with Kirk herb Street.
Speaker 9: Oh no, the betting windows.
Speaker 1: Who I run into?
Speaker 9: I'm mister kirk Herb Street. How are you, sir? I'm great.
Speaker 9: How you doing good? To be back in Louisville. Oh
Speaker 9: my god. This is the highlight of the year for us.
Speaker 14: Whereas every year I come with a bunch of family
Speaker 14: and friends, and there's probably on my twenty second year.
Speaker 14: We get here race one on Friday and the last
Speaker 14: race Saturday night.
Speaker 9: We don't miss a race the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Can you pick for the Derby?
Speaker 14: I'm an exotic guy, so I don't pick one.
Speaker 5: Horror.
Speaker 14: You know, I'd love to see sand Man because I
Speaker 14: think he's a beautiful horse. Journalism obviously is the horse
Speaker 14: to beat, but I'm here. I always tell my buddies
Speaker 14: the horses like Journalism that ended up six to five
Speaker 14: or nine to five. I look at them as like
Speaker 14: Ohio State in Alabama. I'm here to find like Purdue
Speaker 14: or Illinois. We're looking for those ten to one, twelve
Speaker 14: to one kind of horses. So we play odds and
Speaker 14: hope for a big ticket and the fifteen to one
Speaker 14: hit earlier, which his nice. Finally we got some odds
Speaker 14: to hit. But we'll see what happens in Derby. But
Speaker 14: we're hoping for some big odds.
Speaker 15: I'm Scott Bistil is celebrating Derby one fifty one on
Speaker 15: mister kirk Harve Street here in news radio eight forty
Speaker 15: w h an.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're gonna let you hear an interview with
Speaker 2: our own Billy Rutlet's talking to jockey Brian Hernandez's gonna
Speaker 2: be the top one of the horses in late later
Speaker 2: this afternoon in the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 18: Here in the Paddock area with Brian Hernandez Junior. He
Speaker 18: is on Burnham Square, the number nine horse. Later today,
Speaker 18: of course, the raining Kentucky Derby winning jockey Brian, how
Speaker 18: are you doing it?
Speaker 9: I'm goodheading you so, I'm good?
Speaker 18: And how's the track doing right now? And what are
Speaker 18: your expectations for later today?
Speaker 3: It's a little wet right now. We've got a lot
Speaker 3: of rain over night, but the.
Speaker 8: Track man, Jamie Richardson, he's done a good job of
Speaker 8: having it seemed pretty fair and hearts of they're kind
Speaker 8: of everywhere it seems safe. So we just have to
Speaker 8: go out there later on in the day and just
Speaker 8: give our horse the best trip possible and hopefully we can.
Speaker 8: We're gonna say two time raining Kentucky Derby winner.
Speaker 9: That's right, Brian Besseluck today, All right, mister go God boss.
Speaker 16: Well, well, well we've come to almost the end of
Speaker 16: our broadcast NBC. We'll pick up here at five o'clock
Speaker 16: so we can go to the Derby at six fifty
Speaker 16: seven to night. You know, whas celebrating one hundredth year
Speaker 16: of broadcasting the Kentucky Derby, and fittingly enough, Tony Cruz
Speaker 16: is using this occasion to retire as our long standing
Speaker 16: morning host for the past twenty plus year.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Twenty one.
Speaker 16: What a fantastic career the cruise bad has had waking
Speaker 16: up Kentucky Anda for a generation. I know he's ready
Speaker 16: for a great retirement and a chance to do some
Speaker 16: traveling right now that you won't have to get up
Speaker 16: each morning, so you gonna do well, We've got some
Speaker 16: suggestions for you, Tony. You know you've always been a
Speaker 16: fan of NASCAR, right, so just another month, you know,
Speaker 16: you're gonna have the chance to drive south and admire
Speaker 16: dayte for example, you know, and perhaps you could get
Speaker 16: take one of those luxury airplane adventures where you get
Speaker 16: your own little personal cabin on the plane with the
Speaker 16: shower and all that stuff, and.
Speaker 3: They give you the robe.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I believe the name of that excursion is the Flying
Speaker 16: Mohawks or something to that effect.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 9: Oh, it's really experienced.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 16: Tony's always talking about his love for colonial times. He
Speaker 16: loves to go to Williamsburg, Virginia. I think he needs
Speaker 16: to take that luxury plane ride to the Old Country
Speaker 16: and travel down East Avenue to the classic Burnham Swear
Speaker 16: area where they had that medieval re enactment.
Speaker 4: What are they call it?
Speaker 16: Oh, it's the Coal Battle uprising that took place years ago.
Speaker 9: It's fascinating to watch. Yes, it is.
Speaker 16: Perhaps traveling the ancient Egyptian lands is bore his taste,
Speaker 16: where he can learn about the sovereignty of past tours
Speaker 16: while enjoying fine dining at a luxe or cafe we
Speaker 16: all know cruise.
Speaker 9: He has this love of music.
Speaker 16: Yes, he's always singing Abba in the hallways.
Speaker 4: So it's only.
Speaker 16: Fitting he take off to that fine Mediterranean upscale, nice
Speaker 16: sea resort by ASA and experience the yacht rock sounds
Speaker 16: of the band Rodriguez.
Speaker 9: I hear they put on an outstanding show.
Speaker 16: You know, still I think Cruise man might be more
Speaker 16: suited right here at home for the next chapter ahead
Speaker 16: of him. You know, perhaps another career in journalism awaits
Speaker 16: you as a book publisher. I hear he's working on
Speaker 16: a really insightful chronicle titled American Promise. Now he's not
Speaker 16: saying much about what's in this potential published work, but
Speaker 16: I have some ideas on what the subject might be
Speaker 16: for the book. After all, Tony has always been our
Speaker 16: charming citizen bull and he will never render judgment without
Speaker 16: solid facts. In fact, we have our own pit name
Speaker 16: for Tony around the office. That's right, Yes, uh huh.
Speaker 16: When he gets on those theology discussions, you can see
Speaker 16: the owen all mighty coming out of him, like the
Speaker 16: Lord infused him with a grande dose of fire and breadstone.
Speaker 16: He can really make this case with those biblical facts
Speaker 16: that raise the final gallant of emotions. Yes, sir, we
Speaker 16: all know Tony Cruz has the kindest, caring heart of
Speaker 16: anyone you could encounter, one of the finest people you
Speaker 16: will ever be grace to call a friend. He's really
Speaker 16: just a silky smooth sandman. That's right, man, We're gonna
Speaker 16: be sadden, not to have the Cruise Man around the
Speaker 16: office in about a month's time. But we're so very
Speaker 16: excited that he and his wonderful wife Penny can retire
Speaker 16: while their health is great and they can enjoy their
Speaker 16: grandchildren and.
Speaker 4: Other lives joyce.
Speaker 16: After all, there's nothing worse than working so long and
Speaker 16: encountering health issues requiring medications like neoquist that we advertise
Speaker 16: consistently on this radio station. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 16: you want to get free of the daily grind and
Speaker 16: spin that chunk of gold burning a hole in your pocket.
Speaker 16: Whatever the Cruise Man does and the next stage of life,
Speaker 16: we miss him the absolute best and know he'll be
Speaker 16: great at it. While we'll miss him dearly. We want
Speaker 16: to know retirement is going to be tasting heavy retirement
Speaker 16: an happy Derby. What there are in the Kentucky Derby
Speaker 16: journalism is in a little bit of traffic early on here.
Speaker 3: But he came out of the gate, Old Kay Citizen
Speaker 3: Bull and Neil W.