You guys okay in there, Yeah, we're good. Let's just gotta figure out a volume button here real quick. It's day one. Everybody in the new building. Are you there? Hold on, we're still trying to figure this out. We'll get a little more easy beats in then. Okay, I like the easy beats and from down on dah. Yeah, now that's a guitar. You're good? Now? Does this do it? Odd? You're on? Okay, Monday, it's on Friday. I guys want to start over again? Yeah? Can we please rewind? Oh it's Friday,
baby, we made it. Got Friday on my mind. I thought it would never get here. News Radio eight forty whas. I'm Dwight witting right, there's Dave, Jenny and Dwight is so giddy today because at eleven forty Bill Benford, stop it, Bill on the show? Still love Bill Benford of Benford to stop it. It's been by and damn it. If you get in my head, I've been wondering, Wait, he is not the owner of tool Time. I'm so confused. He inherited it, but his name's on it, Bill Binford. Do I need to do the show by
myself? Because if you jackasses get in my head. And if I'll call Biff Byford Bill like I did yesterday because of Dave Jennings NonStop and listen, I'm gonna be with Nibs, Carter Knives, Johnson and Nigel Glockner and the whole lot of them this Sunday, and I want you to be there too. It's Saxon and Riyah Heap this Sunday night. Don't miss this show. But yes, God, Bill, let's let's listen to that from yesterday, shall we? No, David, come on, did you record that?
Delete that? Stop? Stop dude? Will you please delete that and the audio of me at a concert? That'd be a hard No, Okay, damn it. Oh. By the way, I know you said the other day that that was not you at the concert. I sent a copy of the audio across the street to Metro Safe and the forensic guys verified at your
voice. No, it's me. And the worst part about it is I am stone code sober because when I go to a concert that I really love, often I stay sober because I sense I don't want to have to go to the restroom and pee and miss songs, and I want to remember every single thing about the show vividly. I used to not do that. You could miss Princess of the Night if you drink exactly the song about a train that delivers the mail. How more rock and roller is that? That's so
heavy metal? Now, that's so heavy metal? Man? You know so I used to drink way too much. It shows and there's show. There's great shows that I went to, and I barely remember a thing. What also helps is that a double tequila is like thirty dollars now, oh yeah, not when you not when you know your own name. Some high school habits never die. Listen, man, I can keeyster a fifth, no
problem. Uh, listen on the show where we'll be talking poker at the bottom of the hour, of course, like uh uh, Dave just said. Beff Byford from Saxon joins the show. We have this week in Music and its Derby Week next week. We're kicking off this Sunday with merby Eve jam So, Louisville's bourbon export expert, actually national expert, Jeremy Schell is coming in studio talk bourbon for a little bit. And by the way,
I want to thank everybody that came out last night. Uh to get a bottle signed and say hi to a great American hero, Bob Pennington from the Horse Soldiers Horse Fadier Bourbon. You have one last opportunity to meet Bob and get this one of the once in a lifetime bottle signed and the price points on its very inexpensive. Uh, it's tonight you can you can meet Bob Pennington today this afternoon from four pm to six pm. It's gonna be an
Evergreen in Prospect. So there you go, right down the street from me, so maybe we'll pop there you there you go. All right, So, uh, let's go to New York and seeman Johnny. You can let me just call you Johnny on this story. Oh okay, well, I just call you Johnny on this story. H Harvey Weinstein's conviction, Uh is you know it's overturned now right, Yeah. It went to the to the New York Court of Appeals, which is which is well, which is which
which? In New York that's their supreme court. It's the highest court in the state. And it was overturned because the justices determined that in the trial, the judge allowed testimony in of sexual of instances of sexual assault by the witnesses that weren't part of the charges that Weinstein was facing. It's gonna be odd to see how two different trials play out. And yeah, we got Donald Trump with an expired misdemeanor right, not letting him talk, right,
a five year expired misdemeanor up against overwhelming evidence. Right now, the sexual predator. The New York prosecutors are saying they're going to go to try to retry him. He was doing good for you. Now he's being he's being transferred from prison to New York to prison in California because he was also found guilty out there in a separate trial on almost the same type charges, and
he's facing sixteen years out there as well. So it would be interesting because if you remember, if you remember Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein started the whole uh oh, let me put a shawl around my shoulders and walk with a can and didn't barely do all that crap towards the end. Yeah, it just must be uh Bill Cosby did that sexual That must just be sexual predator. One oh one is your turn to go, Yeah, okay, here here's a cane. Put a all over yourself, Leona, or you can barely
walk actually feeble. Maybe the jury will have sympathy. Actually, actually they're copying one of the old New York mafia bosses. I want to say it was Carlo Gambino back in the seventies. He walked around just talking to himself. Walked around in a house coat in New York City. Yeah, to avoid prosecution, to make it look like he was crazy. And did it work. Yeah, hey it could be in Uh, walked around in a house coat, slippers and one of the paper tucked under his arm and talking
to himself. Yeah, we got him out of Korea. Yeah, are you serious? I never knew that story. Wow. So anyway, Uh, it is officially overturned. Yes, they will. I know. We had some sound bites yesterday Kentucky need of Ashley Judd was one of the ones that was one of the accusers and one of the witnesses. And she's not happy about it, understandably so. But the one thing that I want to oh is she is she saying she was a victim as well? How would
that come in play? Oh, because she did acting as well. Yeah, she was in that movie where Double Jeopardy. I forgot all movies along came a Spider with she was in a Morgan free Yeah, yeah, I remember News Spider, I don't have it mortgage and then yeah, of course you know she was. Yeah, she's done some other some other movies. She was in Marilyn Monroe movie too, one of the first, like like a young Marilyn Monroe. Yeah, she's been so I can't remember. And
I think she walks around and talks to herself now. Also ironically she does her therapy. I still remember her her poetry that she was, Oh, that was lovely poetry. That's keep it in Hollywood or entertainment at least, uh where nothing new comes out of Hollywood anymore. It seems like Jennifer Aniston is producing a reboot of Friends nine to five. The movie no Boy.
The plot and the details is still being kept secret. The original nine to five it had Abney Cone, had Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Jane the American Trader, b Word, and yeah, Dabney Coleman. But it's they're keeping it this one under wraps on what the plot is going to be. But if it's going to be a remake of nine to five, it's got to be the same. These days in Hollywood, though I don't know. I mean, well, today they're working from home. They don't want to
go back to the office. Okay, how about this, there's going to be three male secretaries going after a female Jennifer Aniston boss. They've already done that. That's called horrible bosses. That's true, she was the boss. Yeah. Ah, well, I don't know. They're saying they're keeping the plot under under you know, under wraps, under wraps, but it's got to be the same freaking plot. You would think one of the women will be African American, one will be Asian, and one will be Middle Eastern
and the evil white guy villain. No one will be them they is. He's ah, there you go. I don't huh, I don't see genders. That's very admirable of you. Uh, stick it in Hollywood, Netflix. I don't know what there is about these things that I just love so much, but I do. And I'm talking about roast when they have these comedic roasts, specifically Jeff Ross. Jeff Ross is the roast master General. Dean Martin. I think I think he's really I'm sorry, I love the
Dean Martin Rose. As a matter of fact, a couple of years ago. I bought the entire DVD set of the Dean Martins. I need to borrow that. You can, But I gotta tell you. Jeffrey Ross I think he is the roast master general of them all. But Netflix is now going to be getting into the roast business. It's called Netflix is a joke fest. The streaming property is going to do a roast for the greatest of all time, or at least they say, Tom Brady's going roasters from all
around the world. Uh, this is gonna happen May fifth. Now are these R rated kind of roasts? If Jeffrey Ross's it's gotta be Jeffrey Ross is on board there, it's gonna be wow. May fifth. So that's uh, that's next. That's next Sunday. What is it, the Sunday after Derby? Yeah, okay, so it's gonna be uh. Jeff Ross is confirmed with a lot of other special guest roasters. It's gonna be hosted by comedian Kevin Hart. That should be interesting. I think it's gonna be
good. Yeah, But you know what I mean. Here's the thing is it is all and this is a great thing. Competition. It's what built America. Right, And when you have just chasing squirrel here, when you have legislators to give them monopoly to certain gambling entities, doesn't do any good. No. But here we have all these streaming services, and because they have competition, they're raising the bar on themselves, causing the other ones to raise the bar on themselves. If you look, we're getting a lot of
good quality programming and even movies, full production movies. Right with millions and millions of dollar budgets, they're going straight to streaming services. Right. That's why I'm against all this. Well, let's just go ahead and make the government pick winners. No, it's got to stop. The government's not supposed to pick winners and losers. It's supposed to be the free market that decides that by competition, which you know, competition breeds better products and more choice
for people. Yep. But instead I'll quit chasing squirrel. Our government seems to have when to have one gambling entity own the monopoly of it all and then yet tax them at like one percent. That's all I say about that. Okay, we're gonna have to fight a way we may give it away. Go ahead, say locally, congratulations, Louisville Police Department new contracts in place. Yes, all right, all right, thirty total of thirty three
percent raises over the next seven years. I think, Wow, they're getting a I want to say they I can't even remember my own story today it is Friday. I want to say, they're getting like an eight percent raise the first year, and then they are getting five percent raises over the next five years life of the contract. And that's great, and they deserve every single penny. But what they deserve even more is more respect out of city Hall, right, because this is a split vote. Yeah, the vote
was split. The contracts were approved. It was two separate contracts for the officers and then for lieutenants and captains. They were both approved, but it was a split vote. Yeah, it needs Look, they need recognition, and they need more respect and dignity awarded to them from city Hall and quite frankly, the citizens of louis Kentucky. Because if you remember in twenty twenty, when you know you had to isolate unless you were rioting. These men
and women didn't have a contract. L LMP didn't have a contract, and every single day they would lace up their boots, they would hit the streets of Louisville, protect and serve extra long days while people would throw urine on them, spit on them, say things about their mother, and they were told to stand down. These men and women of Louisville, the LMPD, best of the best. We know. Firefighters just got a new contract. They did a story on the eyes. They they had gone ten months.
Yeah, without a contry. They were there. They were getting hosed. Oh a new rhythm. Double slows, double slow. Did you guys ever see that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon gets to hang out with James Earl Jones. No, I've to hang out in Thesana. They're up on getting ice cream together. They're on a ferris wheel. I picture Dwight and and Bill Benford at Bear Knows Pizza having a Mama Barros there. Last night, I was coming home from the Horse Soldier gig and Uh, I drove
by the one on Preston Lane last night or Preston Highway. I tried to get my wife to stop every say now we gonna get home. We go every Friday night and we'll we're going tonight. Uh, we have an event with Ethan Almighty. Oh, I love Ethan tonight at O'shay's downtown. But so we're going for dinner to night. But I'm coming home from the horse Soldier thing man starving. I said, well, guys, pull in,
I'm gonna have a I'm gonna have a baby Friday. So I got baby Friday personal Maama Bear notes I'll be going again tonight, so love the place. Real quick note from Terry Schmidt. Uh, she says. Ashley Judd was in a Time to Kill with Matthew McConaughey. Yeah, ro Ark was Joey Strader. Are you gonna call Biff Bill? Stop that crap? Serious, stop messing with me. If you're a listener, if you're a producer, if you're a show partner, whatever you are, stop, God absolutely
hate if if I do this, I swear I'll never forgive you. Guys. Let me let me get in a joking joke. The day is brought to you by Saxon and bif Byford this Sunday at the Palace Theater. Come out and hang out with me for merby everby Sunday, all right, much like my honeymoon. It's quick one. A pal was little feeling a rough last night a little rough this morning. It's hard to talk about. Okay, got it abducted by a group of minds last night? Oh wow?
No, man, sticky in that box? Well, they did unspeakable things to me. There is your joke of the day for Friday. Hey, stick around. We're talking poker here just in a little bit. But it's gonna be poker that does good for the neighborhood. But right now, guys, got speaking of poker, Yeah, speaking of poker. Guys, how's your wee wee game? Are you everything that you used to be? Listen? If you got ED, I want you to drop the ego. I
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merby Eve, Jam Saxon and you Riah Heap at the Mercury Ballroom. All we bring in my friend Rodney. Rodney is with the Louisville with Louisville Poker. Uh. First of all, we're gonna talk about a great poker event, a poker league that everybody can get into. And first of all, good morning, how you doing Rodney? Good to see you. Man. There we go, Yeah, stop it. Don't play that freaking audio when Biff gets in here. Man, I'll never forgive you. I got I
got Tim Bucks. He's a gambler. He's a gambler. I wish you could see. I'm gonna post a picture of this suit he's got on. It's covered in uh kings, queens aces. I mean it's the definitive poker suit, right, yes, yes, Dwight's been covered in Queen's before Okay, stop it man, all right, listen, we're doing a series. Anyway, welcome to the show Riding. Before we talk about your event, we were talking as soon as you just walked in the studio and we started
talking. I said, yeah, you got these poker leagues. And then I find out and Gorilla Bob Ramer. I know you're listening, Bob Ramer, Why didn't you tell me that you had a car event going on? Do you know much about his car event that's going on tomorrow, because driving into work, I saw all these lowrider cars And by the way, it made me think of Bob Ramer, because he's been into this scene for as long as I can remember. What kind of event and is his event?
He started this? What's going on tomorrow with his event? Yeah, he's bringing it back. It's the Lowrider magazine event. Anybody that knows Lowriders knows Bob. And that's nationally by the way, right, not just here in Louisville. Bob is known in the national scene. Yes, right here in Louisville's also one of the best chef you're gonna meet, hands down. And we're talking. We're not talking to you know, a French food and we're talking about regular, regular guy, great food. He even has. Have
you seen his gravy baby? Oh yeah, god, so good. Yeah, we've had jars of it at the house. Okay. So Bob Raymer has put this on, yes, plug his place first, it's grilla, Bob's Gorilla. Bob's over there on Terry Road. Okay. So, uh where is his event at? It is at the convention center downtown here, Okay. And there's cars from California, Florida. I was driving in with him this morning. I'm like, is there a Cheech and Chong convention?
What's going on? Because all these cars were absolutely beautiful. Yes, he's been posting them and uh, there's some very well known builders and people with hot that. I mean. It's just it's gonna be a great, great show. And Bob, if you all don't know Bob, you're missing out. Bob next time, call me, man, text me. But let's talk poker, baby. It's Rodney with Louisville Poker. Kentucky Derby Festival has a poker tourney. It's going on. It's this Tuesday, right this Tuesday.
It's really cool the way this is set up, because it's not just going to be in a big room. It's gonna be the way poker was played way back when on the bell of Cincinnati on a steamboat. That's pretty freaking cool. Talk about what's going on when registration, how to get information
in all that business. Well, I mean the first thing you can think of is, if you ever watched the movie Maverick, this is what's going to be like it really exactly if the water's If the water's good and it's not too windy, we will go out on a cruise for about sixty to ninety minutes and you're still going to be playing poker. Why it's going down the road. We've done this for I mean, Louisville Poker's been part of this for the last seventeen years. I've been running the tournament for the last
five years. We'll have over two hundred players four excuse me, that's right, four to thirty registrations. Four to thirty registration. The cards go up in the air at six the tournament ends at midnight. Because of the of the license, you can only have a tournament for six hours. So if it gets wow, yeah, So what happens in an instant like that? Do they just say okay, I mean chip count. Is that what it is? A chip count? Chip count? Whoever got the biggest chip count
is first place. How often does it go right up to the end to get a chip count? Is that rare? Is that more times than not? Uh, it's about fifty to fifty. It really Yeah, we did it last year. We had to go to a chip count this year. I don't think it will because we're not doing rebuys. This is a rebound I mean, no rebuy tournament, guys. But we are doing two add ons, which means the first hour for fifty dollars, you can get an extra five thousand chips, So you could do that. You're starting with ten
thousand. If you do your two add ons, you double your starting stack. So that's something that we really wanted to try to do something a little different and make us a little unique from some of the other poker tournaments. And hang on Davy said unique. Well, here we go, Rodney, how do you catch a unique rabbit? Unique? Up on it? Okay, there you go, Sorry, how do you catch a tame rabbit?
Tame? Way? When I walk into it's the Kentucky Derby Festival Poker tournament this Tuesday, at the Waterfront more importantly on the Cincinnati Bell old school Baby Maverick style. But I want to talk about Louisville poker in general because there's a poker league. I find this fascinating. It's been going on for a while, and Grilla Bob Bob Ramer is one of the hosts. But there's you got how many it's almost close to twenty lowcases now, right, nineteen
and so somebody can play poker. There's a poker game going on seven days a week, right, And is this open? Can anybody like if I know very little about poker, all right, Oh, I know you, I try to get you to come play, right right right? I mean I know, five car studs, stuff like that, a little drinking game up and down the river, different things like that. But if you're a novice, are you welcome at these events? And if so, is there
a possibility to learn? Because here's what I wouldn't want to do. Walk in and get it at a table with pros. Everybody's wearing their glasses and here I am going, all right, I'm gonna play my lady in this heart is novice players welcome? Absolutely, everybody's welcome to play that's the best thing about our league it is we are a no buying league. Some people call it a free poker league. The only thing we asked for you all to do is like like today, Gorilla Bob's got a game at two o'clock
today. Okay, you know how funny is that that I came on there on Friday. But yes, So you go to Gorilla Bob's, you order some food, you know, a hot brown or some cheese fries or something, and you get to play poker, you know, and it's there's some serious players. Okay, you know, there's some that wear the sunglasses and everything else. And what's the buy in? Nothing? Oh? Really, Yeah, it's it's the best way to learn how to play, get your
practice. Like if you want to go to the Caesars or if you you know, if we give away a seat to the World Series of Poker main event, that's a ten thousand dollars seat. Wow. And so last year first place was twelve point one million dollars. Yeah. This year, this year they're saying it's going to be higher. It's set poker is making a very strong comeback. Now, last year the World Series set attendance record the US Poker Tour, I mean poker tournament. It just happened three weeks ago.
They were setting attendance records. You know, first place was you know seven eight hundred. Is Texas Hold Him still the hottest because for whatever reason years back, it just blew up out. I mean it was on TV multiple times at the same time, right, three poker shows now day's right. Yeah, well, there's two poker channels dedicated to Texas Hold Them right now, there's the World the World Poker Tour, and then uh Poker Go and you can watch poker all day long. What happened was in two thousand
and three, Chris Moneymaker it's it's his money Maker. Yeah, that's his real name. Is it his real name? Yes? Okay, yeah, and he took a eighty dollars satellite tournament and turned it into two and a half million dollars. Oh that's when you could play online. That's what got me going. Okay, that's how I started learning Texas Hold Them was playing. I went out. I literally watched him the three days while I was on TV, and I'm sitting there going, just don't look that hard.
I can do this, And I went and bought a computer the day after and started learning and then it took off from there. One of the funniest things I've ever seen is you see some of these players. They'll come in and they'll wear the hoodie. The hoodie will be over their head and they'll have the sunglasses on. You know what I'm talking about, right, Dave? Yeah, they look like a Jawa. Yeah, they look like the
mird Bomber almost. Yeah, they look at Jahwa. Yeah. But the funnies stay I've ever seen is one person was doing that, but there their sunglasses. They were mirrored. Oh so you could see their cards? That is there something that it? Could people really read eyes that well? Or is it? Is it just are you? Would you be self aware that, hey my tail is in my eyes? Or yes, well then get
you some shady rays. Hey, listen, a great company. By the way, how do people get into with number one Louisville Poker League if they want us? There's games going seven days a week, nineteen locations. How do people get in touch with you? All? Facebook, It's Louisville Poker Tour. Our website is playth LPT dot com and you can look us up on Google just about anything you want you just type in poker Louisville will come up either second or I mean first or second yep, real quick. On
the Kentucky Derby Festival, first place is guaranteed twenty five hundred dollars. Wow. So And by the way, he does all this and it helps out charities. He's doing good for the neighborhood. It's my buddy, Rodney Louisville Poker. More specifically this Tuesday Kentucky Derby Poker tournament at the Waterfront on Oh this is that on the Cincinnati bill registration. Oh yeah for thirty Roddy. Great to see as always, Thank you, And I'm gonna come out to
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