Speaker 1: And this is where the rubber reads the road, or
Speaker 1: the road meets the rubber on the road to the
Speaker 1: final four. Oh, you got and I'm sorry I got
Speaker 1: dan O sitting where Dano seasoning. Listen, you want to
Speaker 1: cook with ease? Use Dano seasoning. I talked the guy
Speaker 1: everything he knows about seasoning. Hey, dan Ol, good morning.
Speaker 1: How you doing man, It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Look George's with us too. Oh, by the way, we
Speaker 2: were at Baronos. Blamed you five oh two.
Speaker 3: Come on by. Doors are at ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: We have a special presentation from the Mayor to Scotty
Speaker 2: Davenport here in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: It's awkward because.
Speaker 1: I have my pizza dealer and my seasoning I know
Speaker 1: right next to me.
Speaker 2: I know, well, the mayor is going to be here.
Speaker 2: We hope that the dog sniffer does not go through
Speaker 2: your bags.
Speaker 1: Listen, no, listen, the l NPD drug dog is positively
Speaker 1: smitten with me. When a dog knows a dog person
Speaker 1: they know.
Speaker 3: But listen, my seasoning dealer and my.
Speaker 1: Pizza dealer is here, and both worlds collided. We now
Speaker 1: have a dan O's option Baronos.
Speaker 4: Right well, that's right, that's what we're here doing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: So you can get any pizza in sub a cow
Speaker 5: zone salad. All you gotta say is you want it
Speaker 5: dan O's way, you Dano's style. Whoa, We're gonna put
Speaker 5: some red pepper cheese on top of it.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: Okay, Who's whose trunk? Idea?
Speaker 6: Was this?
Speaker 3: How many beers before? Man? We should have a dan
Speaker 3: Old's picture?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 3: What happens?
Speaker 1: You all get around and you start, you're having fun,
Speaker 1: having a couple of drakes. You go, you know what,
Speaker 1: instead of a seasoning, let's make it cheesiting. For example,
Speaker 1: the last seafood one came out, it was seasoning.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's the fun, or anything that swims anything
Speaker 5: from the sea.
Speaker 1: Listen, no kidding. I'm proud of you man, because you start,
Speaker 1: you went on your own. My passion is cooking. Your
Speaker 1: passion is cooking as well and seasoning, and you parlayed
Speaker 1: that into a career and you and you did it.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody says overnight sensation, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of work that goes into that. Man, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pain, there's a lot of sacrifice. Talk about dat
Speaker 1: little food talk about the road to Danos and by
Speaker 1: the way, the city's proud of you.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you. I appreciate it. And it has been
Speaker 5: a long road. I mean, I was a bartender in
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen and I remember bringing this chicken in that
Speaker 5: I always used to make, and a guy took one
Speaker 5: bite and say, it's the best chicken I ever had.
Speaker 5: Why aren't you selling this? And I was like, Dano's
Speaker 5: don't sell the chicken, sell the seasoning. And so, you know,
Speaker 5: I didn't come from a background of a business degree
Speaker 5: or anything like that, and so I just knew I
Speaker 5: had to package this product, and so I did, and
Speaker 5: I put it out there, and it took me about
Speaker 5: two years to do that, and then I realized people
Speaker 5: really loved this product, but I needed to like make
Speaker 5: it just right for grocery stores, like write packaging, right
Speaker 5: size and call out the you know, not a bunch
Speaker 5: of salt, no sugar, seasoning, the way it should be made.
Speaker 5: And like you said, it's not easy, right, So it
Speaker 5: was five years of grinding, doing flea markets and doing
Speaker 5: the state fairs, and it was grinding, and then TikTok
Speaker 5: came along and then uh TikTok. I just started making
Speaker 5: TikTok because I couldn't do the flea markets anymore. And
Speaker 5: I had this explosion of growth and all everybody started
Speaker 5: following me and saying Dan good and Dan all might
Speaker 5: you don't know t Dan o. You know, It's just
Speaker 5: it's a fun brand and really caught on. And I
Speaker 5: love doing it. I love making food for people. That's
Speaker 5: my love language is making people happy with food. And
Speaker 5: so I get to do that for millions of people,
Speaker 5: and people love it. And we just keep coming out
Speaker 5: with new flavors and keep growing.
Speaker 1: And well, you say millions of people we're talking about
Speaker 1: you start out as a bartender twenty fifteen. Millions of
Speaker 1: people is accurate, because you go from a bartender ten
Speaker 1: years later twenty over twenty thousand locations for Dano's.
Speaker 4: Man, that's insane, it really is.
Speaker 5: It's not Dano's locations but grocery stores, right, yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean all the grocery stores. I mean, we're in Kroger's, Walmart, Target,
Speaker 5: now we're going into Targets and the Meers, I mean,
Speaker 5: you name it.
Speaker 4: Probably there to talk about.
Speaker 1: The collaboration that had to happen to Louisville grades Baby
Speaker 1: two louis but heavyweights.
Speaker 6: Well, we've been wanting to do it for years. We
Speaker 6: had a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Uh uh, I'm sorry, he's got it up down. We
Speaker 3: got it all.
Speaker 1: Test difficult talk, take ten seconds to go ahead.
Speaker 2: You for you just let me take it off your
Speaker 2: head and then yeah, headphones on back.
Speaker 6: So you had to have a Trinity guy help with
Speaker 6: saying that's exactly but no uh my uh manager down
Speaker 6: by the by the bridge and now on Market Street, Katie.
Speaker 6: I used to work across the street with Dano and
Speaker 6: he'd come by the bar or Girstals late at night
Speaker 6: and give him you know, sees any and stuff. So
Speaker 6: I knew about him from him. I knew about him
Speaker 6: from other friends. And then finally, uh, you know, we
Speaker 6: got connected three or four weeks ago, and then we've
Speaker 6: been happening. We've been doing testing. And I'm a I'm
Speaker 6: a weird guy. I'm a cheese pizza. I like cheese
Speaker 6: pizza and I have it several times a week at
Speaker 6: the Baronos and man I added the Dano's seasoning to
Speaker 6: it right before you cook the pizza, and it was cheesy, cheesy.
Speaker 6: The red pepper, the red pepper cheese ining. I did
Speaker 6: it the Dano's way, and it was it was unbelievable.
Speaker 6: It's the best pizza I've ever had. I mean, I
Speaker 6: love it. It's great as if you could make baronos better.
Speaker 6: Adding Danos, you can actually make your baronos a little
Speaker 6: bit better, a lot better.
Speaker 2: You are both successful, obvious on different on crazy levels.
Speaker 2: But I think the thing that connects you both is
Speaker 2: that you love your community, and you love where you
Speaker 2: live right and you love.
Speaker 6: The people that are going to come here today.
Speaker 3: Like today, you guys are combined.
Speaker 2: It's a great announcement, but today means something cool because
Speaker 2: you guys are so danger you're in this community.
Speaker 3: Today's pretty cool day.
Speaker 5: It is absolutely I mean born and raised right here
Speaker 5: in Louisville, and so to be able to partner with
Speaker 5: bear No's and bring the red pepper cheese neam to
Speaker 5: people and be able to try it for free.
Speaker 4: It doesn't cost you a dime.
Speaker 5: Come get a pizza, to get whatever you want, have
Speaker 5: it the Dano's style, and we're gonna put the red
Speaker 5: pepper cheese in on it.
Speaker 1: As soon as you walked in this morning, I say, hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: when' you just go just sell the brand and buy
Speaker 1: an island, go retire. You see, you love what you do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do love it. We're not there yet, We're
Speaker 4: not done.
Speaker 5: Even when I do, even when that day comes, I'll
Speaker 5: still probably be turning on the video and make making
Speaker 5: food for So as.
Speaker 1: You start out bartender, you make your own seasons for
Speaker 1: your chicken. Then you wind up turn it into this
Speaker 1: over twenty thousand locations. Have you always loved to cook
Speaker 1: and how did you come up with that unique seasoning?
Speaker 1: Is that something that you came up on your own
Speaker 1: or is that something that you know, your grandmother or
Speaker 1: somebody you inspired their taste and you learned how to
Speaker 1: do it. Was it on your own or was there
Speaker 1: something it was?
Speaker 4: It was when I attempted to go to college.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember one night I had this frozen bone in
Speaker 5: skin on chicken. It was like the only thing in
Speaker 5: the fridge of the freezer, and it was like two
Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning, and my buddy's like, get that out,
Speaker 5: let's throw it out with her alcohol involved her. No, No,
Speaker 5: we were just up at two it right, So we
Speaker 5: thow this chicken out. I remember my buddy just started
Speaker 5: throwing off, grabbing all these spices, and he just coated
Speaker 5: this chicken you couldn't even tell it was chicken and
Speaker 5: baked it in the oven and it came out and
Speaker 5: it was phenomenal. So that gave me the idea. I'm like, huh,
Speaker 5: so I just started playing around with spices and I
Speaker 5: really just like figured it out, Like all right, I
Speaker 5: love rosemary, like that was always the main base, and
Speaker 5: I would grab like the Lowry's garlic salt, throw the
Speaker 5: rosemary in a little human, a little bit of this, this, this,
Speaker 5: and like grind it up in a little mortal and
Speaker 5: pestle and coat the chicken. After I did it a
Speaker 5: couple of times, I like, I'm like, this is my recipe.
Speaker 5: Never thought to call it Dano's. I went by Danny,
Speaker 5: But for the first thirty two years of my life,
Speaker 5: when the all haul moment happened and I'm like Dano's,
Speaker 5: I was like, all right, I gotta change my name
Speaker 5: Dan's damn from now on.
Speaker 4: But uh, that's where it came from.
Speaker 5: So for fifteen years, anytime I went to a party
Speaker 5: a family get together, like like I said, my love
Speaker 5: language was cooking for people. So I would whip up
Speaker 5: this recipe just grabbing. I knew what to grab off
Speaker 5: the shelf. I put it in a bag and I'd
Speaker 5: show up and I'd show up with bone and skin
Speaker 5: on chick in. I'd season it up thought in the oven,
Speaker 5: and then everybody loved it.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a difference between phenomenal at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 4: It's phenomenal at five o'clock.
Speaker 2: All right, So big day to day, great day for
Speaker 2: both of you guys on this one, it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of awesome. But basketball wise, both you guys, I know
Speaker 2: you're a you're headed to Lexington, George.
Speaker 6: Oh real, yes, we got a I guess grateful dead
Speaker 6: people call it a prayer. I don't know what Cardinal
Speaker 6: fans call it. When somebody, oh.
Speaker 4: You don't have tickets, we do have?
Speaker 3: Oh good, good?
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, we got a prayer.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Somebody helped us out. So I'm excited to go to
Speaker 6: the game. But you know, you got to think about
Speaker 6: our business. Our pizza business is driven in the month
Speaker 6: of March by how UK and U L truly know
Speaker 6: the fact that we've had a couple of years without
Speaker 6: U L. Even being in the tournament. Now they're back,
Speaker 6: it's just phenomenal for for business. And uh, we're looking
Speaker 6: forward to, you know, great days, all thirteen locations and
Speaker 6: and selling a lot of pizza and putting a lot
Speaker 6: of Dano's, making it the Dano's way all day.
Speaker 1: Tony and I worked with beers for years and years
Speaker 1: and years, and we know the importance and we know
Speaker 1: the devastation that comes.
Speaker 3: Well, they're not doing well, just one.
Speaker 1: Team not even making the tournament, let alone the final four.
Speaker 1: Because we were at these bars with the beers for
Speaker 1: the for for the games, and that had to be devastating,
Speaker 1: not just on you, but downtown.
Speaker 3: As well well.
Speaker 6: And and then you people, what they always don't realize
Speaker 6: is what the outcome of the game. Yeah, will dramatically
Speaker 6: and yeah the evening. I can't tell you how many times,
Speaker 6: like if they lose the game, and then you may
Speaker 6: as well shut down the Oh my god, that's everybody.
Speaker 6: But we're so excited. Cards today at noon, the Cats
Speaker 6: tomorrow at seven o'clock. Uh, you know it's gonna be
Speaker 6: a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Uh, Scotty dan Port just showed ups. Got it, got it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have an all star line up here in
Speaker 3: the next hour and a half.
Speaker 2: And of course the doors open up at ten o'clock
Speaker 2: here at Barono's five o two.
Speaker 3: It's in plain view.
Speaker 2: Come on by, uh and seeing us in in Dan,
Speaker 2: Uh and George, you guys again, so part of the community,
Speaker 2: and you started here and you all are keeping it
Speaker 2: here and it's awesome. We couldn't be happier with all that.
Speaker 2: So we are you are? You got good seats? That
Speaker 2: are You're You're gonna watch the game here with us, right, Dan, I'll.
Speaker 4: Be watching, Okay, Right?
Speaker 3: But go cards? You got a prediction anybody?
Speaker 6: I think they? I think the crowd, the the invasion,
Speaker 6: the cardinal invasion into Lexington. Uh will bring the cards through.
Speaker 4: That's a great practice.
Speaker 7: Care.
Speaker 5: I like Eric Woods, my buddy, and he always says,
Speaker 5: Bill's bay billion. Yeah, we'll go with cards bat billion. Okay,
Speaker 5: And you are probably uh. You don't pick sides, guys,
Speaker 5: A small business owner.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 4: Louisville and Kentucky. Yeah. I love both of them, I
Speaker 4: really do.
Speaker 5: I was raised the UK fan, became a U of
Speaker 5: L fan the UK then UAIL the same way.
Speaker 4: I go for both.
Speaker 6: I grew up a UK fans. One thing advice, everybody
Speaker 6: be nice to the Blue usher guys and the one
Speaker 6: on one club, the little UK guys, they get so
Speaker 6: upset they get harassed by Louisville fans because they got
Speaker 6: the blue jackets on.
Speaker 4: One of my dad's.
Speaker 6: Friends, David, their retirees. Yeah, they're the nicest man.
Speaker 3: My dad.
Speaker 6: He's been there sixty five years and he's terrified when
Speaker 6: U of L fans come to town because they give
Speaker 6: him a hard time about his blue.
Speaker 4: Yes, the blue jacket.
Speaker 2: Well these yeah, these I know several of them too.
Speaker 2: They're old retire guys and they love it.
Speaker 6: They do it for free, I think, Yeah, they just
Speaker 6: do it and they're they're like boosters, you know. Adolph
Speaker 6: Rupp started this back in the early sixties and it
Speaker 6: was like a booster club. One on one club would
Speaker 6: be nice those guys to go.
Speaker 3: Car They'll be nice. Stop it.
Speaker 2: We're not Tennessee fans, but it's exciting. So we're going
Speaker 2: to be here the rest of the day. The staff
Speaker 2: is going to be showing up. The game again starts
Speaker 2: twelve fifteen. It's gonna be an awesome game creating. Obviously,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of people on TV saying Creighton's
Speaker 2: gonna win the game.
Speaker 3: I disagree, but it is.
Speaker 2: It's a it's an unusual opponent for a team that
Speaker 2: had so much success on this season. But it's all
Speaker 2: about this city and getting getting together today and.
Speaker 6: Bear know's five oh two, Hirst Warren. There's not a
Speaker 6: better place to watch a game. There are TVs everywhere,
Speaker 6: there's a huge screen TV.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 6: You can't find a better place.
Speaker 2: And Dan, part of the you know, the part of
Speaker 2: the problem with America and the issues they have with
Speaker 2: health is eating clean. You can actually with creating what
Speaker 2: you are when cooking at home with good food. You're
Speaker 2: taking preservatives, you're taking those chemicals, all that stuff out
Speaker 2: of that situation and you're in a way feeding people
Speaker 2: with your but you're making them America healthier.
Speaker 5: There you go, right, I mean that's kind of like
Speaker 5: when I started the brand, it was all about the
Speaker 5: flavor of the recipe. Yeah, and once I got like
Speaker 5: two years in, I'm like, wow, this can actually change
Speaker 5: people's lives.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: It's not factful assault. There's no sugar and no chemicals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like one of them and this is no joke.
Speaker 1: And I was telling Susan last night. It's easy when
Speaker 1: you have the tools, the food. And I lost seventy
Speaker 1: pounds five years ago and I've kept it off and
Speaker 1: that's just from cooking melon chicken.
Speaker 4: Huh, most of it.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, you did a great job. To do a
Speaker 3: great job.
Speaker 4: You look good.
Speaker 3: You think I like where its banks? Dude?
Speaker 1: No, okay, some of them might have come back, but
Speaker 1: not seventy of it.
Speaker 3: But I know.
Speaker 1: But seriously that it takes seasonings and different flavors. If
Speaker 1: you eat chicken every single day, you can do it
Speaker 1: if you have.
Speaker 3: Enough different flavors. And Danio's has a ton of flavors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting ready thirteen.
Speaker 3: Oh, that music will get you going.
Speaker 2: It's been a long road for you to Restyr. Louisville
Speaker 2: Fat Cardinal fans in the game today, six years waiting,
Speaker 2: Bear knows has been waiting.
Speaker 3: Yes, bearer has been cold for six years, and we're finally.
Speaker 2: Gonna tap that keg and get it on at twelve
Speaker 2: fifteen today on CBS as Louisville ticks on Creighton and
Speaker 2: then Plument we were not expecting to have in the
Speaker 2: first round and special occasions all day the first the
Speaker 2: first segment today, we had.
Speaker 1: We had dan everybody dan O's and by the way,
Speaker 1: every single Barono's location. Two grades Dano's seasoning, Barono's.
Speaker 3: Pizza, cheesining. You can have them adds Dane's cheesining. That's right.
Speaker 3: If you put Dano's on the pizza, it's even better.
Speaker 3: I'm glad we could get you away from the bar.
Speaker 3: Mister Mary, I've been drinking tequila. Oh my lug, we're
Speaker 3: kidding the marriage. Just walk in, Scotti, Davin board No,
Speaker 3: I waited for you on the run this morning. Now
Speaker 3: I know where you are.
Speaker 8: I actually did run. I did run, but you didn't
Speaker 8: show up with me. You were I was not there
Speaker 8: with you. How long do you run, Mayor? When you
Speaker 8: go out on your run, most most more, it's usually
Speaker 8: four miles. I'm trying to build up for the mini
Speaker 8: marathon here, right.
Speaker 2: You know that's it depends on what call you got
Speaker 2: right before the run.
Speaker 1: I'm not running the mini marathon, however, I am carving
Speaker 1: up just in case I ever do run a marathon.
Speaker 3: That's a good strategy. Okay, real quick, let's start with this.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're the mayor of the city of Louisville, Scotti
Speaker 2: is a legend. That is, the impact is cannot be
Speaker 2: measured in any way, can't quantify what he's done to
Speaker 2: the city and the community. But a little while ago,
Speaker 2: a little bit more than a while ago, you guys
Speaker 2: were together at the same school. Scotty as the basketball
Speaker 2: coach of state champion Ballard and you a student at
Speaker 2: Ballard High School.
Speaker 3: Scotty, did you know, said Mayor? And was he a
Speaker 3: good student? Well, he wasn't in my class.
Speaker 7: Okay, for the record, I'm taught exceptional child education, the
Speaker 7: behavioral disorders self contained class.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it would have been, Yes, he was. It's
Speaker 3: not in my class.
Speaker 7: But I maybe one of the few who ever asked
Speaker 7: our beloved principal, mississ Sandy Island, I wanted cafeteria duty
Speaker 7: because I wanted to be able to interact with the players,
Speaker 7: all the other students, et cetera. So I will say this,
Speaker 7: he knows this. I had the senior cafeteria where all
Speaker 7: the passament ate. Right, that's a small one, that's it,
Speaker 7: and you knew everybody. And when I look back asking
Speaker 7: for cafeteria duty, which she said, nobody.
Speaker 3: Would ever ask me volunteers for more work.
Speaker 7: I can tell you this, Mark bell, our beloved point guard.
Speaker 7: There was one hundred and seventy seven school days and
Speaker 7: he asked me one hundred and seventy seven school days
Speaker 7: for fifty sister.
Speaker 3: To buy an extra juice.
Speaker 7: And I gave you fifty one hundred and seventy seven, right.
Speaker 3: I know I did. I wanted to interact.
Speaker 7: My first year at Ballard nineteen eighty seven, eighty six
Speaker 7: eighty seven as the head coach, we get to the
Speaker 7: state championship game and I'm teaching, uh, the self contained
Speaker 7: class and the students are They're going wild in the school, like,
Speaker 7: who is that guy?
Speaker 3: I've never seen that guy before. I didn't know any
Speaker 3: of the students.
Speaker 7: I never got to see the players unless it was
Speaker 7: practiced from my classroom.
Speaker 3: They came to my classroom.
Speaker 7: So then that's when I asked for I wanted to
Speaker 7: have carefateria to interact with everybody.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember that, and I you probably you might
Speaker 8: not remember. I was the nerdy student government.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 8: Davenport was winning national championships every year at that point,
Speaker 8: I mean sorry, state championships, and I had all these
Speaker 8: crazy ideas for the pep rallies and.
Speaker 3: I would come.
Speaker 8: I would come to Coach Davenport and say, can we
Speaker 8: do whatever? You remember where donkey basketball? Once I've got
Speaker 8: got coach, let us play donkey basketball. Donald brought in
Speaker 8: donkeys as a fundraiser, and Coach.
Speaker 3: Davenport had donkeys. Where did you find it? Don't they
Speaker 3: put rubber shoes on them?
Speaker 7: That's it's a fundraising They go through you have don't
Speaker 7: I have pictures donkey basketball. He brought them during the
Speaker 7: school day. We put him in that. We put him
Speaker 7: in the courtyard which everybody passes through.
Speaker 3: And then he walks them through the halls.
Speaker 7: And then we had we had four teams, students, faculty,
Speaker 7: celebrities and I think athletes. Okay, and we had four
Speaker 7: And there's here's the catch. You wear a football helmet,
Speaker 7: you get on it, and you have to score. It
Speaker 7: doesn't count unless you're on the donkeys.
Speaker 8: No, No, I should have brought the yearbooks. But that
Speaker 8: was a lot of fun. So coach was always on one.
Speaker 7: Donkey is not very coachable and you always kind of
Speaker 7: rig it up.
Speaker 3: Who's going to get that donkey? Like you can't get
Speaker 3: on it?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 3: What did that mean for him?
Speaker 2: With Alan and Mark Bell and all those guys in
Speaker 2: the stage, And I told you the story of sitting
Speaker 2: around the radio and listening to Clay County Versus Ballard,
Speaker 2: which I think should be a documentary at some point.
Speaker 2: That what was that felt as being a student there
Speaker 2: and what it meant to the school.
Speaker 8: Oh, it was huge, just like the Cards are doing
Speaker 8: for our entire city right now. Coach Davenport, and what
Speaker 8: was going on at Ballard at the time gave everyone
Speaker 8: such immense pride to be a Ballard Brewin.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: I was just recently in Clay County visiting Senate President.
Speaker 8: Robert Styles down the next time, and in there they
Speaker 8: have a museum right there, historically no right in the
Speaker 8: middle of Clay County, and there's a whole exhibition about
Speaker 8: Ballard versus Clay County and Richie versus Allen.
Speaker 7: I went to Bobby coach Bobby Keith's funeral, Okay, And
Speaker 7: this is.
Speaker 3: Why I'm aware of this.
Speaker 2: I had to go there, and it was it was touching, Okay,
Speaker 2: So give them the numbers. Three matchups we played three
Speaker 2: We played in the state championship game March of nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven in ropp Arena.
Speaker 7: They beat us in overtime. The following January January of
Speaker 7: eighty eight, the l T semi finals broad Ben Arena.
Speaker 7: They beat us in double overtime State championship of nineteen
Speaker 7: eighty eight in Freedom.
Speaker 3: Hall in March. You all want to know what it
Speaker 3: was today? Oh it was today? What the point different?
Speaker 3: The point different? What was today? Nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 7: So we're talking thirty seven years ago. If you add
Speaker 7: up the three games, the three overtimes, there was over
Speaker 7: forty five thousand Rough Broadbent, Freedom Hall players from village
Speaker 7: West Beacher Terrace, prospect coach from the South End, Bobby
Speaker 7: Keith from Clay County, the sons of.
Speaker 3: Minors, et cetera.
Speaker 7: Everybody went out there and competed as different as can be.
Speaker 3: Two overtimes, one overtime, three.
Speaker 7: Games, scores, time time after should we get them all
Speaker 7: together and break the.
Speaker 2: Mountain guys, mountain families with urban kids and and and
Speaker 2: it and it was something special, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: really talk about.
Speaker 8: It is that everyone I meet from down there, they've
Speaker 8: got the details just like you do.
Speaker 7: Maybe that is really what athletic, especially high school sports,
Speaker 7: because everybody hit each other on the rear end and
Speaker 7: the mount of respect. I took my ballot team the
Speaker 7: next eight years to scrimmage in Clay County.
Speaker 3: They never came. We went eight straight years. That's cool.
Speaker 7: And I always said the players should be able to
Speaker 7: write a five page paper and get sociology credit because
Speaker 7: what we learned.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it was incredible. And we went eight straight years.
Speaker 3: And the amount of respect, like I said, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: The kids down there though, you know Klay County. Oh,
Speaker 3: you have no idea, I mean you know a lot
Speaker 3: for both.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mentioned you mentioned you were there to see
Speaker 7: mister Sta. My son was just in in there on
Speaker 7: work related issues, and he said, Dad, should I really.
Speaker 3: Say if they asked me if my last name? Should
Speaker 3: I really admit I related here? Should I just pass?
Speaker 3: I said, Well, if you were to get pulled over
Speaker 3: for like a speeding ticket, just just say no, we're not.
Speaker 2: So the most important question is well did you get
Speaker 2: is did he get your vote?
Speaker 3: Though? When it came around to the election, that's what Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, I didn't know. I didn't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know today that ten.
Speaker 7: Years had vallared the the closeness of the faculty of
Speaker 7: the student.
Speaker 3: Interaction that was great. What was astound.
Speaker 8: And Sandy Allen, who you mentioned, was just such a
Speaker 8: wonderful human and principle and we all miss her.
Speaker 3: Deally passed away last August. If very private in terms
Speaker 3: of her verial et cetera. But I will say this.
Speaker 7: If I have to apologize, I apologize.
Speaker 3: She was buried a Ballard sweater with a trophy. Nice.
Speaker 3: She was incredible.
Speaker 8: She loved Ballad, she loved every student, every faculty member.
Speaker 3: Say she knew ever one, Yeah she did. I miss that.
Speaker 3: She was Oh my god, I miss that a lot.
Speaker 2: Uh, real quick, and we have a presentation here we
Speaker 2: want to do. But you know, Scotty and I have
Speaker 2: been having these conversations. His first coaching job, teacher job
Speaker 2: was at a school. We talked about segregation and you
Speaker 2: said it was segregated, but not by what you think
Speaker 2: it is. Please, real quick, Scotty, tell us your first
Speaker 2: Your first job was.
Speaker 3: At nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 7: I'm a JV coach at Aaron's High School, which there
Speaker 7: was two schools, the vocational in the high school, right,
Speaker 7: her first and Ali is now the Brown School, right.
Speaker 7: And I would not trade those two years for any position.
Speaker 7: And I ever had because it taught me so much.
Speaker 7: It was segregating nothing based on race. Economically, we had
Speaker 7: players from Clarksdale, we had players from Portland, we had
Speaker 7: players from what is now Nulu. But it wasn't like that.
Speaker 7: And then right and it was we had one parent
Speaker 7: in two years attended basketball game.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 7: I met my wife in that second year and she
Speaker 7: would go out on senior night just to so a
Speaker 7: senior had someone those years. I will never ever ever
Speaker 7: forget as long as I'm on this earth because from
Speaker 7: going from Fraser Elementary to Southern Junior High which is
Speaker 7: now Olmstedd North Iroquois to Aaron's.
Speaker 3: Now the great story is my next job. I'm at Ballard.
Speaker 3: I go, you go from to the most affluent school.
Speaker 7: Then it all happens for a reason. I coach at
Speaker 7: the University of Louisville for ten years.
Speaker 3: My last year five Star Hotels, charter jets. We go
Speaker 3: to the final four.
Speaker 7: And then two thousand and five, I'm coaching at Bellerman
Speaker 7: and we're on a bus driving eight and a half
Speaker 7: bres to Rockhurse.
Speaker 3: So it to go and do like every love.
Speaker 2: That was a huge choice for you and I remember
Speaker 2: coming to see you because I told you we're gonna
Speaker 2: do the show at your first practice. I said, coach,
Speaker 2: you were making a huge mistake. And I'm kiddy, I said,
Speaker 2: you're no he did. I said, look, we're doing because
Speaker 2: I couldn't find him. You know where he was. He
Speaker 2: was in doing the laundry. He was washing, he was
Speaker 2: washing the socks. I said, where's coach, and they're like,
Speaker 2: he's and we had to go. I had to go
Speaker 2: around a corner next day and it was a big
Speaker 2: washing machine and he's bulling socks out of the out
Speaker 2: of the thing.
Speaker 3: And I said, coaches washing. I said, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: And uh And I said, we're doing our show from
Speaker 2: the stage on your first practice.
Speaker 3: And I and we believed in him. Obviously.
Speaker 7: Well we had one saying as long as the twenty years,
Speaker 7: I said, Bellerman, you never ever, ever on or off
Speaker 7: the court say that's.
Speaker 3: Not my job. Oh my god, there's a south ending.
Speaker 1: I swear my wife and I that's all the time
Speaker 1: I ever saw that anytime somebody says that's not my job.
Speaker 7: But but the big picture to coach where I got
Speaker 7: incredibly emotional to coach forty seven years amazing and forty six.
Speaker 3: In this community.
Speaker 7: And to be educated at a Fraser A Southern Junior
Speaker 7: High and Iroquois a University of little to teach at
Speaker 7: a Ballard, to coach at a Bellerman. Somebody challenging, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna do this. I'm going to add up in the
Speaker 7: twenty years, not graduation rate because I know it. I'm
Speaker 7: going to add up how many degrees? Like last year
Speaker 7: we had two seniors they left Bellment with five degrees.
Speaker 3: That's what it means. That's what it's all about. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm going to add up the number of degrees.
Speaker 2: Okay, here it is here, it's time. I know, Mayor
Speaker 2: you're super busy. And by the way, coach, thank you.
Speaker 2: I know we were going back and forth and you
Speaker 2: couldn't make it. You were gonna make it, to make it,
Speaker 2: and you said I'm gonna be there. It's important to you.
Speaker 8: I really, I really came just for the Dano's Biereno's Special.
Speaker 2: One lass hey, and that the Donkey game is never
Speaker 2: gonna get out of my head anyway.
Speaker 3: That's never.
Speaker 2: Now he's taking off, he's taking off.
Speaker 3: No, No, you're gonna be on this side because you
Speaker 3: gotta present it to him. This is a present team. No, no,
Speaker 3: not you her the video basketball. Yeah, Donkey basketball. Guy.
Speaker 7: I text those players would say the mayor was talking
Speaker 7: about the Donkey game.
Speaker 3: They will go.
Speaker 2: And by the way, he's not including you in on
Speaker 2: that text message with when.
Speaker 8: I get home tonight, I'll text you guys a picture
Speaker 8: of the Donkey basketball.
Speaker 3: I gotta have it, so I gotta have it.
Speaker 8: Seriousness, Coach Davenport, you have meant so much over those
Speaker 8: forty six years to this community. I've had the great
Speaker 8: honor and privilege of knowing you for over thirty of
Speaker 8: those years. You made a very positive impact on my
Speaker 8: life at Ballard when we first met.
Speaker 3: You did so much for our city. As a coach
Speaker 3: at the.
Speaker 8: University of Louis what you have done from Bellerman transforming
Speaker 8: not just their their athletic program, but really the university.
Speaker 8: You have made such a positive impact on this entire city,
Speaker 8: and so I really do want to honor you with
Speaker 8: a very special proclamation honoring all of your years of service.
Speaker 8: Way too much to read on the radio today, but
Speaker 8: you really have made such an impactful difference in the
Speaker 8: lives of every person. You have coached, and so many
Speaker 8: more across this entire city. Thank you so much, Thank fantastic,
Speaker 8: great job.
Speaker 7: I will tell you the one thing Mayor at the
Speaker 7: last words of my coaching career.
Speaker 3: This was the Sunday night meeting. I said, if you
Speaker 3: look me at I more you ever have in your life.
Speaker 3: And they did.
Speaker 7: And I said, if you get to this point in
Speaker 7: your life and you can utter.
Speaker 3: These words, you will be a success. I said.
Speaker 7: But if somebody walked in this locker room right now
Speaker 7: and magically said to me, said, coach, whatever you want,
Speaker 7: you got one wish, you get it. Whatever you want,
Speaker 7: you get it. I said, if you get to this
Speaker 7: point in your life where I am and you utter
Speaker 7: the words I just want that one wish. I want
Speaker 7: to do every second of it again, then you've lived a.
Speaker 3: Heck of a life. And I said that should be
Speaker 3: your goal. Now. These are eighteen to twenty two year
Speaker 3: old young man going forward, very crying. I'm crying, Doug's crying,
Speaker 3: We're hugging. But I wish I could do it again. Wow,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. All right, give it. Wow, there
Speaker 3: you go. Thank you fantastic. Yup.
Speaker 2: That plaque is cool. That is Allison at your office.
Speaker 2: Did that plaque? It is awesome. It's customized to you.
Speaker 2: I thought when you said something, I thought it would
Speaker 2: be like, you know, the colonels were just print auto
Speaker 2: And that is really really nice. Wow, that's really nice, specialula,
Speaker 2: special person. Oh, he's thank you, he's got it all
Speaker 2: right there. You're all right there.
Speaker 3: I took it out of the box last night and
Speaker 3: almost got a little motion. It's really neat. That is congratulations,
Speaker 3: yus gradulations. Listen.
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