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Welcome back. It's tied a little after ten o'clock on a Tuesday. That

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means it's Tuesday's tool and Dave Jennings the floor. My friend is yours?

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What do I love? What makes my job easy? Who makes my job

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easy? When looking for tools? Right servers? This isn't one of those.

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Okay, Okay, let's Marcy is the offended person here. Mary.

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Marcy's thirty two. We're gonna talk about Travis, who's thirty three. Okay.

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I was engaged to marry Travis, but a couple of weeks before the

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wedding, he said he didn't want to get married. I asked him if

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he was cheating. He said no. He told me that most of his

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friends were already marrying or starting family, so he thought it was time to

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settle down, but realized he just didn't want to do it. Suffice it

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to say, the wedding was canceled and that was the end of Marcy and

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Travis. Okay, it's been about a year since that happened. Things haven't

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been great for me, but I've managed well. Some days ago, I

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received an invite to the wedding of my cousin, Taylor, who's twenty six.

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Okay, imagine my surprise when I read it and saw that my ex

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fiance was the groom. No way. I had only seen them barely interact

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during family things. I hadn't noticed any clue that pointed to them being more

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than just you know, acquaintance. You don't know that's true. Okay,

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some info about my cousin. She's what some people would call a free spirit.

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Oh, she doesn't have a conventional job. She's an artist. She's

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like flower on ghosts. Yes, just not in a well. She dyes

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her hair weird colors, dresses weirdly. Once she wore a white robe,

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another time a black leather jacket and spiked boots. She says she doesn't like

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following society's rules, and she only follows her own code. I'm not into

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the hive mentality. Yes, So I called my parents. I asked them

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if they'd known something about Taylor and Travis to summarize, Yeah, they did.

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They hadn't intended on telling me because they figured out there'd be no positive

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outcome, But they also made it clear they expect me to come to the

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wedding to support my cousin. At this point, I lost it. And

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shouted said, you guys are delusional if you believe that I would go to

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the wedding of my cheating liar ex and like this his manic pixie dream girl.

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They said that I can't keep holding on to my hatred and resentment forever

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and I need to let it go. I hung up on him. My

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extended family has been blowing up my phone since then, saying I'm a bad

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person if I don't go right now, I feel confused, betrayed, and

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disappointed. I'm no longer sure if I'm being irrational or not. Am I

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the tool? No, you're not a tool. It's no. One understands

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that you don't want to go to the wedding of your cousin is wet is

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marrying your ex fiance, and they know you're probably not handling it that well.

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Still, whether that's right or wrong, it's your deal. And they

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didn't want to tell you because they were afraid of the reaction. But now they expect you to go to the wedding. No, my gosh, no,

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baby, you are not the tool. Everyone else is right. And

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look, they didn't define whether he was cheating with her while they were together.

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It doesn't sound like that. Then he said no, maybe he met

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her through their family get together. He probably did, okay, but he

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likes white robes. This isn't boyfriend girlfriend, this is fiance. They were

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getting married. She's still really crushed by it a year later because she believes

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in marriage and I thought this was the guy and she wanted to get married.

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He said he did too, but then nah, and then a year

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later, Oh sure, now he wants to get married? Is it me?

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He is my boyfriend girlfriend? In Louisville. You couldn't go to any

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wedding. Yeah, yeah, bull dating is like three degrees from everyone,

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so you couldn't go to any wedding. What are you doing? There's a

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madding lee in there somewhere, So babe, it's not you, and you

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don't guess what? Don't go and who cares? And you're better off without

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Travis. I'm so sick of people. Who what do you mean? You're not going to the wedding? How dare you? How dare you? You

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know? Weddings are bs right well, and they're full of people. You're

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not even gonna notice. If your cousin's there, no one cares. And

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again you the cousin needs to if she really wants her to go, because

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I didn't hear the cousin in there saying that she wanted her to go.

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Nope, as her parents and other family, would you, cousin, would

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the cousin want the hotter version, more stable version at her wedding? If

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the cousin was cool, she'd say, look it, I know people are

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giving you a crap about this, but I understand you're still hurt. I

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get it. You don't have to come. It's okay. And with women

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again, it's not about the dude. It's about the competition. So you're

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telling me the competition is going to be at my wedding. No, I don't think so. Now, if the cousin is kind of like, I

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want to show her that look who landed Trevis and it wasn't you, Travis.

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So we found out everyone else's fine, she's fine, You're okay,

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do go to the wedding. No beach vacation and goes suckers and eighty percent

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of the people there don't want to be there either, have meaningless sex with

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someone you don't know in a beach vacation. That's oddly specific. Did I

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say that alone? Yeah, apparently. Okay, uh, every single year

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they tell us that it's going to be a bad cicada year, and I

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go, wait, I thought we were supposed to have like the third seventeen

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year things or whatever. I said, that's I thought it was supposed to

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be every seventeen years. Well, they're a different is that cicadas cicada.

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Cicadas are bad. Cicada's gonna be bad. And then they had to step

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it up because people stopped paying attention of the cicadas. Whatever. Dude,

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Now they're saying, have you seen this? They're saying, one trillion cicadas

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are coming out of the ground and Louisville is in ground zero. No.

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Yes, I saw a map and we weren't on it. No, we're

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on it. We're we're in the path of totality. No from the cicadas,

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the cicada totality path. Oh no, Scott, Louisville in it.

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I saw people last time out. They were literally shovel cicadas out of their

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yard. Yeah, that was in like North Carolina thick it was. It

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was gross, like you couldn't walk and it was on cronch crush. Yeah,

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it felt like an Indiana Jones movie. Did you ever see the crabs?

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It's the island. I forget where that is. All these red crabs

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just literally cover the island. Yes, we're not to talk about the crabs.

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After spring break, we're talking about the crabs. Is that tied to

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your last example? No? Uh so you're right. The crabs come out

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and they take over whole town. I mean, they're in schools, in

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the hallways, they're on golf courses. You can't you can't have a ball

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land without hitting a crab. One trillion cicadas coming up from the ground.

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What the hell? What is their purpose? I don't know. Man,

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to feed birds and stuff, I guess, But the birds eat, uh

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for seventeen years, just fine without them. I don't know, man, I don't know. Creepy, I don't know. I am okay. In

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two thousand and eight was remember the oh my gosh, the market crashed.

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Middle class families are living at the motels. Everything crashed at the same time,

7:03

savings and loans and the auto industry, right, and everybody's like,

7:08

what is going on? I'm sorry. Real estate, saving and loans and

7:15

auto industry all crashed in two thousand and eight. But at that same time,

7:19

airlines did what they started charging for your bags. Oh boy, people

7:26

don't even like kids. Don't even remember when you just got onto your plane

7:30

and you didn't pay per bag, didn't they? Airline industry look at ticket

7:33

Master and say, no, people don't like these added fees. Why don't

7:36

you just put it in the price of the ticket. So I don't know

7:40

about it, but right, correct, why are you doing this? Okay,

7:45

well, because they can say, well, it's only one hundred and twenty dollars to fly in to Fort Lauderdale, and by the time you pay

7:50

everything, it's two hundred and seventy four dollars. Oh you wanted a seat,

7:55

okay, well it's gonna cost you. There's no one that didn't think

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it was a a cash grab, and it was. These guys made billions

8:03

of dollars on bag fees. Now the rule is generally if the bag weighs

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more than fifty pounds, you have to pay an oversized bag fee. We

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did Frontier once where they weighed the bag and measure it. So I went

8:18

on Amazon and got a bag right up to the limit so Beck and I

8:22

could pack all of our stuff and it was about five pounds underweight. According

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to a passenger on United, they self to tag their own bag, do

8:30

it all the time, and put it on the scale where it weighed forty

8:35

seven pounds. But then the number started climbing. So they questioned the employee

8:43

about it, and they said, oh, don't worry about it, and

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put their hand up like a high five, and then pointed to the tip

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jar and said you can always tip us. So they left you five bucks.

8:58

Okay, So this is act. Employee was doing what dave. He

9:03

was skimming. He was putting his foot, his foot on the scale,

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so that's why the number kept going up. This guy got busted, so

9:13

he was putting his foot, so the would put the bag up, but

9:16

he would put it up and then he would just do the high five,

9:18

and he goes, oh, man, I'll say it's under and and I

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just there's the tip jar. You know. Those four things behind you those are cameras. I mean. Now, most of these scales in the airport

9:30

are not calibrated right right, they are they are I'd rather I'd rather sit

9:35

on that than a doctor's scale. They are routinely foot on the scale.

9:39

They're routinely incorrect. Now the best are the ones where you got to keep

9:45

knocking the little bar across the bar. No, those are the ones that

9:48

say you're ten pounds heavery and you thought you were, Oh really yeah,

9:52

because you keep pushing it to farther and farther. Ye oh boy. And

9:56

then if you have to move the big one below, you're like, I'm a that's when I turn around to look for the doctor's foot. In Charlotte,

10:03

specifically North Carolina, officials found a half dozen scales that were miscalibrated,

10:09

so they're trying to get it fixed. But if that's a lame pageant winner,

10:13

what miscalibrated? She gave a great answer, though in Miss South Carolina

10:22

one, he gave a great answer. Yeah, I'm sure she did all

10:24

right, It all lined up. He did. This guy here, Yeah,

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twenty seven year old guy in Tunisia. Now you're probably gonna feel bad

10:33

for him, but he probably should be kind of proud of him in a

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way. So he faced emergency surgery after fracturing his bobbit in two places?

10:43

What two places? Why don't you why can you not have the bump pump

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bump ready for that? Oh? You mean his uh? In two places?

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In two places while sleeping. Oh my god, it's that A heck

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of a dream man. Wow, what was going on? I think it

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was riding a pogo. Stuff was going on? Results in an eggplant deformity.

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No, despite the severity of this, he waited thirty six hours before

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seeking out. Oh come on, Uh, you're almos supposed to wait four

11:20

hours. You call everybody, and then you go to the doctor. If

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that thing breaks, you drive directly to the hospital. Medics discovered significant swelling

11:30

when you think, and a blood clot consistent with a fractured bobbit. I

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mean, I was I don't know how many days old before I found out.

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What do you mean you could break that? I didn't know. Can

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you break that? It's sort of like ripping phone book pages. You have

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to have enough. Yeah, however accurate if you're rolling over or jumping over

11:54

when you're sleeping, Yeah, yeah, it's uh, maybe you're doing testosterone.

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It shouldn't be like a kickst It kind of keeps you from rolling over.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, well for some of us. But good on him. Two places. So, after surgeons repaired the two fractures, he

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regained full function four days later. Yes, the bobb it is technically boneless.

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The word fracture describes listen to this a tear in the Tunica Alborguinea.

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And where was this guy from Tunisia. We're on the road to Tunisia.

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Tunica Alberghinia. F name. No, wait too, you tore your Tunica

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Alberghinia. What the hell? Yeah, I can welcome the banded work.

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No, we could pronounce the name, so you gotta you gotta tear,

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He goes, Yeah, two fractures, two, yeah, all right,

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most people could barely get one. That's right, all right. Uh,

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in about twenty minutes, thirty minutes here, we're gonna find out how you

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can get the Golden Ticket, that is with the Louisville Sports Commission. They

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give it away every year, and it's basically a pair of tickets to everything.

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Now, I think you can choose between the U of L, like

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you get basketball and football, but you have to choose U of L or

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UK. Yep, you can't get both. So if you're a UK football

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fan, a U of L basketball fan, or whatever, flip it.

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I'm pretty sure it's like an Oaks box and a Derby box, all kinds

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of things. Pretty good stuff. Every big thing coming to town, and

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a pair of tickets is yours, Yeah, is yours. So it's pretty cool. So the golden ticket, how do you get a golden ticket?

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We'll let you know. All right, we'll be back after this. Hang

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on, we're gonna play a little wheeling in the years. It's just dance

13:35

Wartsmon and me, little birthday guy here. Back when Peter Seta left Chicago,

13:41

this guy took over Jason Chef. He's not with him anymore. He's

13:50

sixty two. He didn't break his thing, did he? I don't think

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so. It's a bass player though, so guitar covers. That seems to

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be a theme today. Toes, bobbitts and broken and two fractures coming up.

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Reeling in the years. You guys are one to h I'm heading to

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a place you don't like. Oh all right, I'm with it. I'm

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ready. News Radio eight forty whs. The most famous golden ticket, of

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course, is Willy Wonka. That's true, but I think we have a

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better golden ticket happening here in Louisville. From the Louisville Sports Commission. We

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bring in Julie. Julie, how are you? You're on news Radio eight

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forty whas. Good morning everyone. I'm great, it's almost Derby time.

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It is, man, we're getting ready for our broadcast and doing all the

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thunder and derby and everything else. And we've talked about the Golden Ticket.

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David and I used to have them on the Sports show, I mean years

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ago. And the thing about the Golden Ticket is there's a limited number of

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tickets, right, Jules, correct, three and fifty. No more than

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three hundred and fifty will be sold. And what events do you get if

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you win the Golden Ticket? So the Golden Ticket package is one winner take

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all, and that winner will get two tickets to basically every sporting event in

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town for a year, kicking off with the one hundred and fiftieth running of

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the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, which is pretty pretty big, pretty

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special, bad bad. So these are season tickets for because I'm reading the

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bats racing Louisville lou CITYFC, UK or U of L football and basketball home

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games, right correct? Yep? You pick UK or U of L and

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then you get two tickets to every home football game, every home men's basketball

15:48

game. You also get two tickets to every home Louisville women's basketball game.

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You pick Racing Louisville or Loose City and get two tickets to every home match,

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and then you get two tickets to every home Bass game in the remainder

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of their season. Have you put a dollar value to this? Oh,

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let's say it's right at ten thousand, all right? The tickets are just

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one hundred dollars. And if you go to Louisville Sports dot org, is

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that correct to purchase correct? Yep? You can buy online and we have

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we do have less than one hundred tickets left right now, and the drawing

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is on Tuesday, April thirtieth. Actually we'll draw from the backside at Churchill.

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Louisville Sports Commission was created about twenty years ago and people were thought,

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well what would that be and what would they do? And it is really

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morphed into the most significant. It generates so much revenue for the city it

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pays for itself many times over. Of course, Derby is the top event,

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that sporting event that's brought to Louisville Douefter that, it's like I think

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if they I saw a Courier Journal oracle where fifteen events were listed of the

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most money that brings brings revenue to Louisville in like, you know, fifteen

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out of the fifteen it was like thirteen of them Louisville Sports Commission events.

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So kudos to you and your friends for well, thank you a pretty good

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place. What is the next big event after the you know, obviously the

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Derby and all that, But what is what's what's in the what's in the

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future here for Louisville Sports Commission for some of the events, Well, obviously

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we all know that two weeks after the Derby we will host the PGA Championship.

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So, you know, May is a pretty spectacular time to be a

17:37

sports fan, a sports fan in Louisville. This year, you know,

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we host and not many people realize this, but we host the largest youth

17:48

girls basketball tournament in the world in July, yep, and we'll have north

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of two thousand teams your teams, not not when teams team exactly, and

18:06

so that event brings obviously enormous impact economic impact into the city. But it

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also you know, at a time where it's great for young girls to see

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other young girls, you know, competing at a very very high level.

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We will also this year, we'll have the Ironman brand back in Louisville for

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the first time since twenty nineteen. Oh yeah, where they it's a seventy

18:30

point three this time, so it's the half. They're only going to do

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seventy miles. When is the date on that, because that's important for the

18:40

heat. What's the date on that? Yeah, it's in August. I

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want to say August the seventeenth or eighteenth. It's on a Sunday. And

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you know they iron Man left August looks like August eighteenth, So when the

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full Ironman was here, they moved it from August. It's to October because

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of the heat. Right they're feeling is is that you know they're only doing

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seventy miles, so you know that the heat won't won't play as large as

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a part. Well, no, it's a big deal. I mean John

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Bowl almost died twice in the heat, and he kept doing it. He

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kept doing it. So look here's what I'm asking Jewels. Don't let John

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Bull run in this one. Okay, Okay, don't worry. So we're

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gonna have lots of bikes on US forty two. I'm gonna that's awesome.

19:29

I love having all the bikes out shot. But it's a great it is.

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I'm not sure if you can answer this or not, but it's no secret, Julie that our city isn't as safe as it used to be.

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Have you had any challenges keeping keeping events? We haven't. You know,

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I think what our city's going through is not that different from what a lot

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of cities are going through. You know, I don't. I don't think we're the minority necessarily, And I think people that travel for sporting events are

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prepared. They're thinking about things like that, and you know, sports is

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one thing that you trained for and you're passionate about and you're going to go

20:04

and you're going to figure it out. So we haven't had any trouble yet.

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I'm not saying that we will necessarily. But again, I think I

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think that event owners those are things they look at and I think in any

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city of a certain size, they're going to deal with certain things like that.

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Yeah, Look, world's different place. You know, That's what we

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do here At iHeart, we were event people and look after after Las Vegas.

20:27

After Las Vegas a couple of years ago, I mean that all changed,

20:33

the costs of security is different. So no, right after Boston and

20:37

right from our perspective and running races and things like that, you know,

20:44

we own a half marathon that over fifty percent of our participants come in from

20:48

out of the region. Right, Actually, we normally have representation from every

20:53

state. And you know, the increase in security and the difference in you

20:59

know what what the police call hard closures and soft closures and things like that.

21:03

But that's what you do. I mean, it's the that's the cost

21:07

and the price of doing business today. And you do it, and you

21:11

know, you move on. So yeah, you know, and so we're

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getting ready to have hundreds of thousands of people in you know, for two

21:22

weeks. So uh, you know, and Louisville continues to figure it out.

21:26

Louisville continues to over deliver when it comes to hosting major events. Hey

21:32

know, it always makes me feel good about Louisville when thunder over Louisville happens.

21:37

There's four hundred thousand people on the on either bank and and they'll say

21:41

one arrest, and it was for something to say, right, So it's

21:45

just like, oh, only one arrest out all those and you're like,

21:47

yeah, it's pretty much people pretty much govern themselves appropriately on thunder. So

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uh, it's it's great to have you. Guys do a fantastic job in

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Louisville Sports Commission. Trust me, they pay for themselves over and over again

22:00

with these great events. And we'll have you on again. But the golden

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ticket is up for sale. Go to Louisville Sports dot org to pye buy

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your tickets. Jewels. It's great to talk to you. We'll see you soon. Good to talk to you guys. Thanks a lot, Thanks Julie.

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That is an efficient government operation. There aren't many of them. When

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they came up with it. I think Abramson was still the mayor. It

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was twenty years ago. Whatever we all thought, what is this. Louisville

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Sports Commission, State of Florida has been doing it for a long time.

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It's brilliant because you work at bringing these sporting events to Louisville and they've done

22:34

fantastic job. It's amazing some of the events they bring. All right,

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all right, back after this short break, our number two is almost in

22:45

the books. You keep it where you got it on news Radio eight forty whas