Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome out to you a Friday show
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 2: We were supposed to be here last week.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry we punted because we were all sick with
Speaker 1: the flu, pneumonia.
Speaker 2: Lunger over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doc, Holiday still sounds like pretty good.
Speaker 2: Are you taking your medicine, dude?
Speaker 3: No, great medicine is for SAPs, okay, guys, for suckers.
Speaker 1: I got you so Southern Comfort hot tub on Preston Highway.
Speaker 1: They got sales, all these huge red tags car on everything,
Speaker 1: and I say, that can't be the price of that.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: We're talking hot tubs up to fifty percent off, folks.
Speaker 4: It's the tax time. So think you can't afford a
Speaker 4: hot tub. I want you think again.
Speaker 3: Hot tubs as low as sixty five dollars a month.
Speaker 4: Susan and I we were in our.
Speaker 3: Hot tub last night before I saw Before we got
Speaker 3: a couple of tequilas and went down and watched USA Canada.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm a little tired this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to the Canada USA Canada first.
Speaker 1: I want to start with it. American story Yeah, America
Speaker 1: story time.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: I'm ready sitting around the fire. Huh, and this is
Speaker 1: a why America is great?
Speaker 3: Well, you're not going to do the thing that you
Speaker 3: did last time and pull out a hand with a
Speaker 3: hook on it and freak me out, are you no?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Sure wasn't it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You went and some say he's still here and he
Speaker 3: showed me that hook. Yeah, and I peed my pants.
Speaker 3: You tinkled a little bit. Oh, he was embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I used to work out at the l
Speaker 1: a C.
Speaker 2: Little Athletic Club and we used to.
Speaker 1: Do shows out there, Dave, You and I you do
Speaker 1: did shows up all the time. Remember the muscle Monkey grill.
Speaker 3: Yes, where you got to Yeah, I used to show Dave.
Speaker 3: I used to show up see the muscle Monkeys where
Speaker 3: you get this protein shake?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has some banana fudge peanut butter.
Speaker 3: It was like the greatest tasty protein shake ever. I
Speaker 3: would just show up and buy one of those. I
Speaker 3: didn't have a membership. I would just sit there and
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I know you didn't.
Speaker 1: So when I first started working out there, there was
Speaker 1: a lady that worked out there that she I'm gonna
Speaker 1: end with the story, is he's gonna be She's self
Speaker 1: that sounds good. I have a lot of money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he sounds terrible. I'm about to send him home. He's like, yes, please.
Speaker 2: She used to work out at LAC and she didn't
Speaker 2: have a lot of money.
Speaker 1: And the guy that that used to run the Muscle Monkey,
Speaker 1: Steve Mazzoni, he used to give her protein chase because
Speaker 1: she was still sort of struggling with this YouTube fitness
Speaker 1: video stuff. So she takes off those videos take off,
Speaker 1: and she starts to make a little money. So then
Speaker 1: she she invested in her own weights, like you could
Speaker 1: buy her brand of weights, and that took off, right,
Speaker 1: She made money with that. So this girl is very
Speaker 1: pretty and very smart. I'm gonna show you a picture
Speaker 1: here and you're gonna go what.
Speaker 4: That lady's name was Jillian Michaels.
Speaker 1: So she gets married, she's got a couple of kids now,
Speaker 1: and they invested in two thousand and eighteen, they started
Speaker 1: she thought that there was a need for a women's.
Speaker 2: Brand energy drink.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yes, So her and her husband in bark
Speaker 1: on that journey. In twenty eighteen, we'll flash forward to yesterday.
Speaker 1: They sold said company, oh oh, to Celsius Drinks. Give
Speaker 1: it one point eight billion, one point eight billion.
Speaker 2: Katie Hearns Schneider.
Speaker 1: Her name was Katie Hearns when she was at LAC
Speaker 1: and now she was a girl working out at La C.
Speaker 4: She can carry a bunch of keys on the side
Speaker 4: of her what Schneider.
Speaker 1: No, I believe that's the name of her, her husband.
Speaker 1: But to hern, her husband created this brand and sold
Speaker 1: it yesterday for one point eight billion dollars with a
Speaker 1: B with a b uh so America, America.
Speaker 2: It's America. This is only in America.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, let me show you the picture. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go, uh what Yeah, that's her.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And she's rich and she has one point eight billion
Speaker 2: believe them. Yeah. So uh the story of you can
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Yes you can, and if you and women in business,
Speaker 1: of course you can one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: And from starting from just a couple of good ideas
Speaker 1: and it kept folding and believing in yourself to be able.
Speaker 1: And that's the key to take that money. Don't stop here,
Speaker 1: let's fold it into another idea here. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's a great question.
Speaker 4: Hey, if you live here, I got some ideas. I
Speaker 4: want to pitch you that you might well don't.
Speaker 2: I'm sure her phone is blowing up today.
Speaker 1: But Alani, do you know the drink brand Alani something
Speaker 1: that's the It's one of my.
Speaker 4: Favorite drinks for girls. I don't see gender.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're right, thank.
Speaker 3: You, Dave.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back, by the way, we missed you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh okay, So let's talk about the hackey.
Speaker 2: Yes, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Watched a full hockey match, and I know I can't,
Speaker 1: I tell you, but I watched every minute game.
Speaker 2: Is it a game? It's a game. Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you're.
Speaker 2: One of those. You're one, Thank you, soccer guy. But
Speaker 2: it's hockey. Hey, let's let's listen. Let's listen to young younger.
Speaker 2: You're alive, Yeah, man, it's is.
Speaker 3: That's when you know you're towards the end, when it
Speaker 3: gets good and loose like that.
Speaker 2: You hear that you can what.
Speaker 4: I may be doc holiday.
Speaker 1: Uh so you are because you have the sunglasses still on.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, please put them back, please.
Speaker 2: Put them back off.
Speaker 3: Yes, man, you look dead. Look how red these are?
Speaker 3: Look at my eyes and.
Speaker 1: You can tell in their voice that little milky sludge
Speaker 1: in the back of your throat.
Speaker 4: I smoked a lot less. Look at my eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you look terrible. I'm not for forming CPR on you. You understand.
Speaker 4: Well, that's fine, so you're are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I've been going bye bye, just going to the light.
Speaker 4: I've been praying for the release of death.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, like sometimes in the middle of the night, Susan
Speaker 3: will get up and you'll turn the bathroom light onto
Speaker 3: the bathroom like, oh yeah, finally, I'm like, oh no, no,
Speaker 3: it's not the bright light.
Speaker 2: It's no goat.
Speaker 1: Please if you're going, I'm not doing CPR. And now
Speaker 1: I will encourage you.
Speaker 4: Go to the light.
Speaker 1: Go to the light, because I don't need you haunting
Speaker 1: Southern Comfort Hotel.
Speaker 2: Can you sit the rest of your life?
Speaker 4: Can you sit it on my uh autopsy?
Speaker 3: Because the only thing that I'm scared of is the
Speaker 3: corner making fun of my wiener.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could you do that?
Speaker 4: Man? Like, even if I'm dead, it's going to be embarrassing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think you're okay though, no, I think you'll survive it.
Speaker 5: Imagine the female med students in the room too.
Speaker 2: I mean, geez, oh.
Speaker 4: Come on, Dave, now I'm even why would you do that? Dude?
Speaker 1: Okay, So that the opening bit on the four letter networks.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they get it right. So they added the intense music,
Speaker 1: and they added, of course the speech from Miracle.
Speaker 4: Oh did they? Because I joined, they send it.
Speaker 2: To you where he ends it with now go out
Speaker 2: and ticket. You didn't see that part.
Speaker 4: You didn't send it.
Speaker 1: So the whole opening video is frames of the fights
Speaker 1: in the last game and bits of him doing his speech.
Speaker 4: Did they do the whole two minute Kurt Russell? Did
Speaker 4: they do?
Speaker 2: Tonight? You're the greatest hockey team to ever play.
Speaker 3: If we play him ten times, might lose nine nine times,
Speaker 3: they might beat us, but not tonight tonight.
Speaker 1: And they ended so the freebird music, free Bird, and
Speaker 1: then he goes, now go.
Speaker 2: Out and ticket.
Speaker 1: I was I was yelling and streaming.
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the beginning because we were we were
Speaker 3: in the hot chills right now, so we didn't get
Speaker 3: to join the game because we were in the hot tub.
Speaker 3: We thought, well, we'll just join light, so we joined
Speaker 3: with nine minutes in the first.
Speaker 2: Left Oh okay, uh, there there was.
Speaker 4: It was already one.
Speaker 2: The entire game was the same way.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just back and forth, incredible defensive place.
Speaker 4: Because I started doing that Herb Brooks story.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I was getting on. I guarantee it.
Speaker 4: Great moments are born from great upper.
Speaker 2: Even Lenny, and even Lenny is like, oh please.
Speaker 3: That's what you have here, that's what you've earned, your boys.
Speaker 1: The other one that irritates both Jackie and Susan is
Speaker 1: Hooper drives, oh ye, over and over again. Hooper drives,
Speaker 1: Please stop. But Dave, did you get a chance for
Speaker 1: I know you're not feeling well. Did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to watch any of that hockey?
Speaker 5: We didn't watch any of it. I'm sorry that I
Speaker 5: read about it later it's like, oh, we should have
Speaker 5: watched that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty cool. It was just it was old school.
Speaker 2: It felt like the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 5: There there are a few things in sports that are
Speaker 5: more exciting than a hockey overtime because there are so
Speaker 5: many scoring opportunities, and then if you get a power
Speaker 5: play mixed in there. I mean, it's just it's do
Speaker 5: or die and it is amazing. One of the best
Speaker 5: things in sports hockey overtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt, all right, So it is a
Speaker 1: Friday and it's very cold.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Well, come on out here and let's dream about sitting
Speaker 1: in that hot tub. How cold was it last night?
Speaker 2: Not? Didn't bother dwhye?
Speaker 3: No, listen because people say that all the time when
Speaker 3: it gets to be like eight and twelve, do you
Speaker 3: really get it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we really get into it because it's actually better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we love our sea covered hot tub anytime of
Speaker 3: the year. You will too. Come on buy seventy five
Speaker 3: oh one Preston Highway. They even have code plunge tubs
Speaker 3: that turn into a hot tub. You wouldn't believe some
Speaker 3: of the stuff they have here. They have saun Us
Speaker 3: and it's the tax time sale where you can get
Speaker 3: things up to fifty percent off out here, including.
Speaker 4: Hot tubs at sixty five bucks. Check out these massage chairs.
Speaker 2: I said about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: I have never sat in one of these.
Speaker 3: And here's why why Austin from WAMZ comes out here
Speaker 3: with us, cub.
Speaker 4: He loves the store.
Speaker 3: Once he gets in that damn thing, he doesn't lead.
Speaker 3: We don't see him for it doesn't lead. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: don't see him for an hour, So I'm scared to death.
Speaker 3: To Cinamon One.
Speaker 1: I said it for about twenty minutes, and I was like,
Speaker 1: don't about to fall asleep, all right? So there are
Speaker 1: a lot of these again, the Friday shows, we try
Speaker 1: to figure out what our responsibility is for entertainment, slash
Speaker 1: news and Friday. We like to be a little bit lighthearted. Yes,
Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of show prep. We don't
Speaker 1: try hard.
Speaker 4: Ah, sure we do.
Speaker 2: I mean we do a.
Speaker 1: Lot of show prep. We try hard.
Speaker 4: They're still monitoring our show.
Speaker 2: But there's so many sad stories.
Speaker 1: The three teens that got killed across from Butler High
Speaker 1: School this week. Teenagers eighteen, eighteen and nineteen shot to death.
Speaker 1: It's awful. These babies in Israel, awful. I just don't
Speaker 1: know what we have to talk about this stuff at
Speaker 1: some point, But on a Friday at the hotel place.
Speaker 4: I got it. Okay, I gotta do one story about terrorism. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: two buses?
Speaker 2: Hang on? Hang on? Are you starting this as a joke?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, because you started out with did you hear about
Speaker 2: the two buses? It's a little comical.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, So over in.
Speaker 3: Israel, the buses that were set to explode, Yes, they
Speaker 3: switched PM and AM. No, it was supposed to be
Speaker 3: at the most packed point, yes, for you know, mass casual,
Speaker 3: and they missed it up. The terrorists set for UH
Speaker 3: instead of AM and PM.
Speaker 2: Wow, I know had to be dudes. Oh sure, because
Speaker 2: a woman would have got it right? What exactly? Okay?
Speaker 1: But so but Friday, we're gonna keep it light today,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some fun.
Speaker 2: We've got crusade for children, trivia.
Speaker 3: We're gonna keep it light. But I got one sad story.
Speaker 3: Oh no, if you go to my Facebook page.
Speaker 2: Oh what what? What? What?
Speaker 4: There's a dog. He's ten years old. He's got the
Speaker 4: white gray face.
Speaker 2: That cute.
Speaker 3: He's as cute as can be. He's as general, he's
Speaker 3: house trained.
Speaker 4: But here's what happened. He lost his owner because his
Speaker 4: owner passed away.
Speaker 2: I see him now.
Speaker 3: So now that dog in a sweet So this dog
Speaker 3: who just lost his owner is now grieving. He's a
Speaker 3: he's in a shelter Louis Metro Animal Services. He's stressed
Speaker 3: out because number one, he's grieving the loss of his owner.
Speaker 3: But number two, he's not used to the situation. All
Speaker 3: the dog's barking. He doesn't know where he's at if
Speaker 3: if you have recently lost a pet and you don't
Speaker 3: want to adopt, this would be a great opportunity for
Speaker 3: you to heal your heart just by fostering.
Speaker 2: Fostering which means temporarily.
Speaker 3: Temporarily yes, But I gotta tell you this dog, he's
Speaker 3: the sweetest guy.
Speaker 4: He would go to my Facebook page and check him out.
Speaker 4: This way.
Speaker 2: I want to go rescue him right now.
Speaker 4: Lemme hates other animals, or I'd have.
Speaker 2: Him in a New York minute. Oh what is sweetie?
Speaker 3: I know, so go to my Facebook page. He's available
Speaker 3: at Louisville Metro Animal Services.
Speaker 1: That's the stuff we don't really think about sometimes when
Speaker 1: we talk about animal services is when people pass away.
Speaker 1: What happens to the right, especially if there's no niece
Speaker 1: or a nephew or a daughter or something. They can
Speaker 1: take the dog or cat or cats. It's just it's
Speaker 1: some stuff we don't talk about it.
Speaker 3: And to put that in human terms, imagine going your
Speaker 3: whole life and you get to your retirement years and
Speaker 3: then you have your home that you're used to just
Speaker 3: yanked away.
Speaker 4: From me, and you're putting some kind of facility.
Speaker 1: Well, we do that with you every once in a
Speaker 1: while we put you in strange places and you're just
Speaker 1: confused and you're scared, and you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: you know, where you're supposed to be and what you're doing.
Speaker 4: I'm always confused, that's true.
Speaker 1: Extra, You'm so glad you're wearing sunglasses and we're a
Speaker 1: half hour into the show.
Speaker 2: Do you have a joke of the day.
Speaker 1: Austin am he gave me a great view setting up
Speaker 1: for the show.
Speaker 3: Today's crack. Yeah, yeah, he's good at that. Hey, Austin,
Speaker 3: how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2: Heez over and you.
Speaker 6: Got coming power the power of Daniel right?
Speaker 4: Oh god?
Speaker 6: Not only ninety seven five w A m Z. But
Speaker 6: I'm on with Nick Coffee every more every day at
Speaker 6: seven nine hit the podcast. Yes, oh Babyfaces podcast. I
Speaker 6: heart radio. Who Tony's been on it. We're gonna get
Speaker 6: Dwight on it. We want to talk about those doss
Speaker 6: years smoking cigarettes, when you could be winning championships, leaving
Speaker 6: to go leaving to go.
Speaker 2: To concerts instead of sticking around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all you had to do was show up. You
Speaker 4: know the story? Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Show up, show up every coaches night mare.
Speaker 6: Hey, you're a champion right there. You see that my
Speaker 6: body my springs.
Speaker 3: Instead, give me the damn joke, all right, Hey man, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: hey hey, I gotta do me a joke that I
Speaker 3: can tell you, sisterly Hey.
Speaker 6: Fellas got put on the spot because Dwight asked me
Speaker 6: to do the joke of the day. So I looked
Speaker 6: one up earlier and I found it. So a penguin
Speaker 6: is having some car trouble, right.
Speaker 1: Odd pe, So.
Speaker 6: It takes it to the garage. Mechanics says he'll be
Speaker 6: done in about an hour. He'll find out what's wrong
Speaker 6: with it. So the penguin sees an ice cream shop
Speaker 6: across the street and sides the head over and get
Speaker 6: himself a snack while he's waiting.
Speaker 4: That's a great way to kill the top. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, but you know, he's got flippers and so it's
Speaker 6: kind of a mess.
Speaker 4: So he's eating ice cream, gets it all over.
Speaker 6: It's all over his feet, all over his flippers, his wings.
Speaker 6: It's awkward for the poor guy. He goes back to
Speaker 6: the mechanic to find out what's wrong with the car.
Speaker 6: Mechanic goes, looks like you blew a seal. The penguin
Speaker 6: goes hot. No, it's just a little ice cream.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're in the next meeting Austin a right.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess views of Austin Montgomery don't necessarily reflect
Speaker 1: the pineage of views of iHeartMedia or the Tony and
Speaker 1: Dwight Show.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Southern Comfort Hot Tubs. The sale is
Speaker 1: on right here on Preston Highway. We've got some folks
Speaker 1: coming and hanging out with us. I don't think anyone's
Speaker 1: getting arrested yet yet, but we're gonna work on it's southside.
Speaker 4: Chuck Weaver in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1: All the hot tubs are for sale, and I can't
Speaker 1: believe some of the prices on some of these things.
Speaker 1: And they are the best. You love yours was in.
Speaker 4: The last night. You're gonna love your Southern and Comfort
Speaker 4: hot ub. Hot tubs as low as sixty five bucks
Speaker 4: a month.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Get down here and have a vacation in your own backyard.
Speaker 3: As I bring in my friend Sarah Durant used to
Speaker 3: be with the Bluegrass Institute.
Speaker 4: They did so many great things.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they did, and just exposed a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: But now you've moved on on? Who are you? Who
Speaker 4: are you with?
Speaker 2: Now? Sarah? Somebody? There you go?
Speaker 4: I got an engineer more worried about stick and kick me.
Speaker 2: Okay, sign Sarah, how are you? Oh my god, my god?
Speaker 1: On seriously, there's nothing all right, hang on, hang on, babies,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 2: Now go get it together right, Thank you, Daniel.
Speaker 4: Thanks Daniel, you get one job. Man. I want to
Speaker 4: impress Sarah. Now it's down.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get this on. Sarah. What do you do so?
Speaker 7: I work for a nonprofit, Kentucky Free the Kentucky Forum
Speaker 7: for Rights, Economics and Education. We are a center right
Speaker 7: nonprofit that focuses on advancing public policy solutions that are
Speaker 7: fiscally responsible, free market public policies.
Speaker 2: I like it now.
Speaker 3: Briefly we discussed this, but you said, you all have
Speaker 3: an idea that could save up like a billion dollars
Speaker 3: close to a billion dollars.
Speaker 8: To Kentucky's economy.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, you could add too.
Speaker 8: Yes, well, so let me let me preface this. Set
Speaker 8: this up.
Speaker 7: So we are one of the few conservative organizations that
Speaker 7: works in criminal justice, and we come at it from
Speaker 7: We evaluate policy with three key questions. Is it constitutional?
Speaker 7: Does it enhance public safety? And is it a fiscal
Speaker 7: fiscally responsible use of tax payer dollars? And if it's
Speaker 7: those things, then we usually try to get behind it.
Speaker 7: So we have a great bill. And I'll tell you
Speaker 7: kind of why this is a great bill is because
Speaker 7: it takes non violent, non sexual folks who commit crimes,
Speaker 7: who are primary caregivers to children, and instead of locking
Speaker 7: them up and putting their kids in foster care, instead
Speaker 7: it says that the court shall consider It doesn't say
Speaker 7: the court has to give them an alternative sentence, but
Speaker 7: that the court shall I consider an alternative sentence if
Speaker 7: they are not a threat to public safety, if they're
Speaker 7: not a threat to their children, if they need you know,
Speaker 7: substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, parenting classes, maybe even
Speaker 7: house arrest, that kind of thing. And so where this
Speaker 7: is really important to me, I was a kid who
Speaker 7: had social services called many, many times in my home
Speaker 7: until eventually I went to live with my with my dad.
Speaker 7: I was lucky and that I had two parents, so
Speaker 7: I had another parent who could be a primary caretaker.
Speaker 7: Had I not, I would have ended up in the
Speaker 7: foster care system. And so where this is really, you know, helpful,
Speaker 7: is kids who end up in foster care. It's a
Speaker 7: pipeline to our prison system. I mentioned earlier to you
Speaker 7: guys that I do a lot of volunteer work in
Speaker 7: this system. If you have one parent who's incarcerated, you're
Speaker 7: forty percent more likely to end up in prison yourself.
Speaker 7: If you have both parents locked up, it's extremely more likely.
Speaker 7: We have with my volunteer work on my foster care kids,
Speaker 7: we do what's called the ACE test Adverse Childhood Experiences Test,
Speaker 7: And what this is is it's a it's a list
Speaker 7: of questions and if you've had you know, say you
Speaker 7: saw your mother be abused, say you were physically abused,
Speaker 7: you were sexually abused, you.
Speaker 8: Get a point for all of these.
Speaker 7: One of them is if your parent is incarcerated, if
Speaker 7: you're in the foster care system, if you have an
Speaker 7: ACE score of six, as a child, you are forty
Speaker 7: six hundred percent more likely to use intravenous drugs as.
Speaker 4: An adult forty six.
Speaker 7: Someone who has as someone who has a zero A score.
Speaker 2: Okay, child, So this is twofold.
Speaker 1: So foster care system costs a certain amount of money
Speaker 1: to take care of these kids, and they end up
Speaker 1: being in a situations and.
Speaker 8: They end up on Medicaid, which is another cost.
Speaker 1: Another cost, it's a high dollar plus they end up
Speaker 1: in terrible situations. And then you have a non violent,
Speaker 1: non sexual offender that's living in prison on our dime,
Speaker 1: which is, by the way, if you dive into the numbers,
Speaker 1: it's insane how much it costs for medical care, incarceration,
Speaker 1: the entire deal, the entire deal. So this seems like
Speaker 1: common sense legislation.
Speaker 2: Where are we with this?
Speaker 1: And then after this, let's say this passes, who's the
Speaker 1: watchdog that kind of does this program?
Speaker 7: Sure, so we're at now. We released a report earlier
Speaker 7: this week that shows the savings, the direct incarceration cost
Speaker 7: savings to the state is seventy four million dollars a year.
Speaker 7: That's just the cost of housing incarcerated primary caregivers. Kids
Speaker 7: who don't have anybody else to care for them who
Speaker 7: are nonviolent again you know, lower level crimes being incarcerated.
Speaker 7: But when you look at the loss wages, the fact
Speaker 7: that you know, weekens at Kentucky's workforce and our economy,
Speaker 7: they're not paying into the tax base because they're incarcerated.
Speaker 7: Of course, the foster care costs, the fact that the
Speaker 7: children of these parents have educational struggles and tend to
Speaker 7: have you know, lower lifetime earning potential and also tend
Speaker 7: to be in the system in the future. You're looking
Speaker 7: at a savings to Kentucky's economy of seven hundred and
Speaker 7: forty four million dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh my what?
Speaker 7: And that's just that's not even for all the parents
Speaker 7: who are incarcerated.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And again it's it's not a mandate that no, you
Speaker 3: can't to serve. It's an option for the court system
Speaker 3: to give when they think, well, you know what, it
Speaker 3: might fall in line with this particular case because children's involved.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're caring for parents that's involved. Where are we now?
Speaker 3: Has this made it through committee and Frankfurt or has
Speaker 3: it even made it to Frankfort yet?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 7: Okay, so we have two companion bills we have a
Speaker 7: bill sponsored in the Senate by Senator Julie Rocky Adams
Speaker 7: I know her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then there's a there's a whole will they
Speaker 3: won't they go.
Speaker 2: It's not true, it's not true.
Speaker 4: So true said.
Speaker 2: It's gone to committee.
Speaker 7: And then we have a companion bill in the House.
Speaker 7: It's sponsored by House Rep. Nick Wilson, who is out
Speaker 7: of Williamsburg, so southeastern Kentucky.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: He actually grew up with a mother who was incarcerated,
Speaker 7: so he's very passionate about this issue. It passed the
Speaker 7: House Committee thirteen to zero yesterday. Yes, going to the
Speaker 7: House floor, and then of course I don't have to
Speaker 7: pass the Senate committee and pass the Senate, but we
Speaker 7: have two really great sponsors who are you know, have
Speaker 7: really made this a priority for this session. I'm super
Speaker 7: excited that we were able to add, you know, the
Speaker 7: fiscal side of things, because oftentimes we talk a lot
Speaker 7: about and it's not that it doesn't matter. The people
Speaker 7: side of things matters very much to me, but as
Speaker 7: a conservative, I do view everything from a fiscal lens,
Speaker 7: and so having these numbers is extremely important, very rare
Speaker 7: that you can put something together that it's going to
Speaker 7: make a difference of seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: Well's I mean, how many times you can't even do
Speaker 3: that money aside? It's it's affecting lives because you know
Speaker 3: damn well and good because you've worked with it, You've
Speaker 3: been part of the system, you worked in the system.
Speaker 4: You still do.
Speaker 3: Some of the statistics of these children that go through
Speaker 3: the foster system, it's staggering. They barely have a chance,
Speaker 3: like seventy percent.
Speaker 4: Of them of the women comes. Yeah, what were some
Speaker 4: of the stats.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, when I was chief of staff to First Lady
Speaker 7: Glenna Bevan, her cause was improving the foster care system
Speaker 7: and preventing child abuse. And one of the numbers that
Speaker 7: was presented to us at that time was kids who
Speaker 7: age out of foster care, kids who turn eighteen and
Speaker 7: don't don't get adopted and go out into the world,
Speaker 7: seventy percent of the girls will be pregnant and ninety
Speaker 7: percent of the males will be arrested by the age
Speaker 7: of male by the agent bizmal.
Speaker 8: What we're doing that is crazy these kids.
Speaker 7: And so we started the First Lady's Youth Voice Council,
Speaker 7: where we took kids who were close teenagers who are
Speaker 7: close to aging out, and just listened to them and
Speaker 7: their stories. And whenever we would ask what is the
Speaker 7: number one thing we could have done that the state
Speaker 7: could have done to change things for you, they said,
Speaker 7: you could help my parents. Wow, hands down every time.
Speaker 2: How many states have done this at.
Speaker 8: Least at least five states.
Speaker 1: And it's worked well, and so it doesn't get rid
Speaker 1: of judicial discretion.
Speaker 7: So the judge can look at this and say, Okay,
Speaker 7: here are the facts. This person holds down a job,
Speaker 7: this person is taking care of their kids. But this
Speaker 7: person has committed this crime and has these issues. Are
Speaker 7: they a good you know, candidate for this alternative sentence?
Speaker 1: Sounds like a no brainer. But what are the people
Speaker 1: that are against it? Or is anybody? Have you talked
Speaker 1: to anybody that is against it?
Speaker 2: What is there? What's their argument?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 8: I won't name names, but we did.
Speaker 2: Have a she.
Speaker 4: I'm like you here, I won't name names.
Speaker 2: I was like you want you.
Speaker 4: Piece of paper.
Speaker 7: Did have a circuit court judge who showed up to
Speaker 7: testify against it. And now we've we had an hour
Speaker 7: and a half call two days ago with the same
Speaker 7: circuit court judge made changes to the bill. We had
Speaker 7: a committee substitute that made proper change to the bill.
Speaker 7: The number one change, which I thought was a smart
Speaker 7: one that she really wanted, was that finding that a
Speaker 7: person is a primary caretaker in this instance doesn't affect
Speaker 7: anything else. It doesn't affect your if you have a
Speaker 7: custody case or something like that, you can't go. Well,
Speaker 7: this judge said, I'm a primary caretaker and therefore doesn't
Speaker 7: affect anything else. So we made that change.
Speaker 4: Actually smart.
Speaker 8: She's worried about paperwork, a lot more paperwork.
Speaker 1: Well wow, okay, well we've got you got to take everything.
Speaker 1: She's involved. At least she's interested in this and a
Speaker 1: little bit too.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, she's not going to kill the bill.
Speaker 2: I mean she can't.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean I was waiting to see if anybody
Speaker 7: was gonna flip from our vote count and it was
Speaker 7: thirteen to zero. I mean, it really is a no
Speaker 7: brainer bill. And and I think, you know, as a
Speaker 7: conservative person, you know, we want to be I feel
Speaker 7: like I'm tough on crime, like if you are violent, correct,
Speaker 7: you know I have no tolerance for that. But we
Speaker 7: really have to start changing the way that we view
Speaker 7: these nonviolent offenders.
Speaker 3: Talk about let's talk about all those Let's talk about
Speaker 3: one of those cases, because this this is few and
Speaker 3: far between, but it's it's a case. Nonetheless, somebody was
Speaker 3: getting arrested for a joint.
Speaker 4: Yes, they swallowed the joint, so then they pick up
Speaker 4: a fly right after there.
Speaker 3: It was an obstruction of justice and tampering with physical
Speaker 3: evidence charge that landed them twenty years.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 7: So well, Kentucky has a persistent felony offender law. We're
Speaker 7: one of the only states that has that.
Speaker 8: So if you get caught.
Speaker 7: With felony possession of drugs twice, the next time, you're
Speaker 7: automatically going to be get the highest sentence possible. So
Speaker 7: this gentleman had been caught with drugs in the past,
Speaker 7: so he's smoking a joint on the side of the road,
Speaker 7: and this is I heard a lawyer. A lawyer told
Speaker 7: me this story at an event where we were trying
Speaker 7: to change some of the persistent felony offender laws for
Speaker 7: people who have substance abuse issues. So he had he
Speaker 7: had a client who was standing on the side of
Speaker 7: the corner smoking a joint. A police officer starts walking up,
Speaker 7: so he swallows the joint, which to me, seems like
Speaker 7: punishment en right, right, I mean, especially considering the state
Speaker 7: has now made medical marijuana legal.
Speaker 8: So because he knew that he would be he would.
Speaker 7: Get the maximum charge for being for felony. So they
Speaker 7: got him with tampering with evidence twenty years. Twenty years
Speaker 7: because this guy was smoking a joint. You and I
Speaker 7: are paying for his clothing, food, medical care, and housing.
Speaker 7: He's not paying taxes, He's not.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, it's not contributing, contributing at all.
Speaker 7: That that really annoys me as a conservative person. I
Speaker 7: don't want to pay for that. I've got three kids.
Speaker 7: I've already got to pay for all of their all
Speaker 7: of their things. I really, if you're if you're if
Speaker 7: you're a grown man and you have the ability to work,
Speaker 7: we just have a lot of wasted human potential right sitting.
Speaker 2: In our prisons, and we take into.
Speaker 4: Account liming and you imagine, imagine that and.
Speaker 1: The dog guilty and not guilty. You own a Southern
Speaker 1: comfort hot tub?
Speaker 8: I do?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well, I was saying, I'm kind of a groupie because
Speaker 7: we have a Southern Covert hotel and it is like
Speaker 7: having a vacation.
Speaker 2: Look he's selling it is.
Speaker 7: My kids when they were younger, they played in it
Speaker 7: like it was a spotting. And I've got pictures of
Speaker 7: them when it snowed, throwing.
Speaker 8: Snowballs at each other. They're in their swim suits and
Speaker 8: I've got great pictures.
Speaker 4: I'll have to it's perfect.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 8: Also, my husband, Yes, he had the hair surgery.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, he during COVID because you know, we we
Speaker 7: thought we were all going to be stuck at home
Speaker 7: for two weeks. But he thought, well, I'm going bald.
Speaker 7: He was going bald in the way. We're like, you
Speaker 7: probably need a yamica.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was here.
Speaker 4: Looks like I had a piece of baloney.
Speaker 7: So he shaved his head and he realized he does
Speaker 7: not have the face for bald.
Speaker 3: Some that's that's one important things.
Speaker 7: And I said, well, you know, we we got a call.
Speaker 7: I called I name dropped you.
Speaker 8: I was hoping I would get it.
Speaker 1: Look at that, I.
Speaker 8: Was like, well, Dwight wouldn't, says, uh, you know, they
Speaker 8: you do great job.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, they don't ever don't ever.
Speaker 1: But he's happy as as heck he is.
Speaker 8: He's got hair.
Speaker 3: He looks good, take your shoes off and run your
Speaker 3: toes through on the second because Susan likes to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, when we got, we got, we got thirty seconds.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what else?
Speaker 2: When is this going to the floe?
Speaker 8: I'm not I don't know when it's going to the floor.
Speaker 7: But I would just encourage folks that if you, if
Speaker 7: you care about saving money and you care about making
Speaker 7: sure that we get folks to help they need and
Speaker 7: keeping families intact, keeping kids out of our foster care
Speaker 7: system and out of our future prison system.
Speaker 8: To talk to your legislator about that.
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