Oh, and it's not a it's not a normal Monday. As we broadcast live from the Monday Marathon, brought to you by Carriage Ford, Marty Book is on his way out here to handicap some basketball for you this hour. By the way, we're broadcasting at Martin's Barbecue on Westport Road, and make sure you get out here in the eleven o'clock hour. Your chance to win Marty Brook, yes, or a bumper sticker, whichever it's your right.
Yeah, a lot of people are leaning towards you a bumper stick right, or you could win Marty Book. That's a good idea, I guess. The first question on both of our minds right now is how does Dave Jennings bracket? Your bracket look like? It looks empty, he said, Oh fairness. One minute ago he says, do not ask me about my bracket. I haven't filled it out. So what do we do? The firstst question question is right there, say that the very first hour of our broadcast
is brought to you by work a Holics. How do you spell holics? H A U L like haul x i X Workaholics Storage and Storage and Hauling company. And we have MMA tickets to give away from the expos Center on March twenty ninth. And then we have railbird tickets to give away, sorcers stuff to give away, and don't forget. We will give away Bourbonda and Beyond tickets at lunch today at Martin's. Barbara Q. All right, Shannon Shannon, not Shannon the dude, but there we have too many Shannon Shannon
newsroom. Yes, in the news. How are you serving sizes basketball? What's the lead this morning? Well, let's see we've got There was an overnight there was a speed and blowing a red light led to a traffic fatality yesterday afternoon. The National Weather Service extended the path of that e F two tornado the other day to confirm that it did touchdown in Carroll County, Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Louisville is being sued because of one of their teachers creating
child pornography. And then it's vote day for will he stay or will he go? For council member Anthony Argentini. Okay, that's an interesting one there with Argentini. They don't have the votes, right, Dwight Witch, They don't have the votes, right, No, they don't. They need eighteen they need yeah, right, yeah, they need eighteen of the twenty six members and there's only sixteen Democrats and one independent on there. Yeah. All right, So we're gonna talk basketball for a lot of the day, and
there's so many people that are coming out here. Scott Fitzgerald's going to make his way out here, Terry Miners. Billy Ruttledge used to go on our show all the time. He discovered Billy Rutty we did, okay, he was under a rock out yes, freak yeah, your footing hit it right, I said, Tony, what the hell is this thing? Yeah, it's ugly, but it knows a lot about sports. Yep. Billy Rutlich is his name, you know. So he's gonna come out. Remember last
year Billy's girl way out of Oh there's no question. Oh yeah, Kisch that coverage a long time ago. He'll be twelve to one. And then Dave's gonna come out and join me, right, mister Jennings from Yeating to Little Underdogs Reunion. Okay, Uh so come on out for that. We'll do our best to try to pick some of these games, uh for you. But uh there in Kentucky, got a dream draw. Yeah, and if you're curious about your bracket and you you want to know, hey,
do I have the best odds of winning my office pool? Come by and I will help you with your don't do that charge. Look, but you have a you have just as uh good a chances anyone. Look, it's in this thing. There's always you know, all the guys that watch sportball every single weekend and they know what's going on. Guess who wins Betty from accounting his third grade nephew every year. No, that's true. No, we've had at iHeart, We've had a six year old challenge. It's like,
what what just happened? All right, somebody turns white up. I'm seeing that on our on our on our text sounds a little distant compared to you. Well, I have a little distant that's true. That's true. He's hard to connect with. Okay, so, uh, Shannon, what is your pick for the national champion? We'll just do that. Oh my, my bracket is as empty as Dave's. Right now. I agree,
though, Kentucky does have a really good path to get there. I was starting out, I was starting out looking trying to figure out which one's gonna be the bracketbuster, you know, that one that won upset in one of those divisions that's gonna mess up everybody's path to winning. Yeah, well, I will say this. So NC State is the team that won five games in five days. They beat Louisville the first day and then rolled through the ACC. And people are now heard a show earlier they said you can't do
that. They're gonna be whooped. I saw him, dude, a couple of years ago. It's like a Kentucky Derby. They're like a gelding can't win the derby, and then that year a gelding wins the derby. It's just like, our team can't do that and then win the title. H
Well, then we watch teams do that. So I've say, remember you did that a couple of years ago, maybe a decade ago in the ACC where they ran or the Big East, can't remember which one, and we're in, but ran the table for five games in five days and then won won all six games in the tournament. So it can be done. I could very easily see. I can very easily see NC State. I could very easily see NC State upsetting Texas Tech in that first round matchup. Well,
we'll see, we'll see with that one. In the Kentucky's will would have the winners. So that one. Riddle me this, guys, why do we talk all year long about the net rankings and then Indiana State net twenty eight Saint John's net thirty two? Don't get in? What's the point of them agendas? Russia collusion? I don't know, Russia collusion. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Uh So no, that's a very good question. Why do we follow this, uh, these certain rankings if you're not
going to use them in the NCAA tournament. Saint John's is another one. Rick Patino very disappointed, so disappointed, matter of fact, he said, I will, we will not as Saint John's agreed to play in the n I t so they're done for the year. Uh. And everyone wanted the big dude with the goggles for Indians, Okay. And there's this big, huge, goofy, chunky dude and he wears the goggles and he's amazing. He just throws the ball up and he goes in and everybody's like, what
are they call him? What's his nickname? What the what? Young joker? Oh, young joker? Okay, yes, he's hilarious. Who was the kid's name on Bad News Bears? Uh? Oh no, no, the catcher, the catcher, Yeah, I don't. I need to get the internet. Oh no, no, I got it on I got it on top of my damn head. Yeah. That was Bill Coox was his stepdad. Stop it, stop it there. Okay, here's a non basketball thing again. We're at Martin's Barbecue on Westport Road. Come fill out your
brack. Matter of fact, we have a wheel that every hour we're gonna or we're gonna spin it every couple of minutes and we're gonna fill out our bracket with just spinning of the wheel. That's what we need to do. We get all the teeth for it, so it's gonna be just stupid. We'll see how our wheel does versus everybody's picks. But over the weekend, okay, I have to look it up. It was Mike Ingelberg. Ingelberg. Ingelberg was the trash talker. Right, Ingelberg was the trash talker.
Yeah, came up there. Who was the what loopas Lupas was the blondehaired kid? Okay? Engelbert also saying lesbian seagull ironically really, Oh no, that's Ingelberg. Oh yeah, so many Engelberts, so little time I know there really really is okay, a landmark legal settlement announced. Remember we talked about this with Phil Moffett months ago, and this announcement, this settlement came
down. This is a big deal. People are predicting a lot of real estate agents are gonna get out of the game and go do something else after this. Wow. Yeah, So the landmark legal settlement announced by the National Association of Realtors on Friday will change how homes are bought and sold in Louisville. The Local Relators Group were already pushing its members to adopt one of the two new requirements called for the deal. They're paying like a four hundred million
dollar fine and it is it's gonna hurt that. Basically the settlement was over a billion dollars. They said they were artificially holding their rates too high. Wow, that to six percent three and three and that the seller had to pay for the buyer was ridiculous. So those rates are gonna go down and even you know, more difficult real estate world. That is a huge deal and a lot of real estate agents, everyone's like a real estate I mean it's just like, well, I also have my real estate license, do
you That's great? And it's like, wow, that's that's fantastic. So everyone seems to be a real estate or if they're just fed up with their job, what do they do? You see what you see them on Facebook? Hey my new job, Please give me a call. So they are, but they got into the game in a little different manner than what they
are. So the commissions are going to go down. Yeah, and what you know what a lot of people don't realize is out of that three percent that either the buyer or the cellar agent gets, there's a lot of stuff taken out of that. There might be a finder's fee, the broker gets his cut, so they're not getting a whole three percent when they get that when they get that commission. Oh, your wife is a realtor, Yes she is. She's been studying this. She's got kind of a scowl on
her face reading this settlement and what it means. Guarantee it because it's changing right now. Yeah, it definitely is. So. Of course, Elan and England has been five it's been doing one percent commission for the last five years. So they were ahead of the game. All right, Martin's Barbecue. What type of barbecue are you, Dwight fond go. I go through all kinds of different you know, the Kansas City, this is West Tennessee,
and you're an expert at home. I'm not an expert level, but I sure do love doing it. And I got to tell you, man, it smells good out here. They got a whole all going right now, come on, buy Martin's Barbecue joint. I didn't realize how huge this place is. It's amazing. But your chance to win Marty Book at eleven eight or a bumper sticker, whichever is either way T shirt. Tell me. As a matter of fact, we might give away a few of those
wha T shirts throughout the day. We can exchange for Marty Book too. We might have to buy him back. He is on his way out here just to talk basketball. He pays a lot more attention to this than we do throughout the year, so he'll have some good appa. Here's what I want to do. Then, I actually do want to fill out a bracket and go up against Marty Brook. Okay, because Marty Book is the sports
ball authority, you get correct, well you you too as well. No, not anymore, okay, But but I want to see how I do point wise against Marty Brook again. I think if you just you know, you pick your favorite colors and your team, sometimes it comes out a little bit better. I want to spin the wheel and put my bracket up against Marty Brook. The big question will be will it be a chalk? That's the biggest question people always ask, will it be chalk? Which is?
Will the number one and number two seeds get to the final four? How calmon is that? You used to be pretty common? It used to be very common, but after the transfer, like last year was San Diego State, it was three of the four were non blue bloods last year, and and I think that's going to continue. I really do. My wife, Susan Tyler Witten every year, like if Kentucky's having the worst season of our
life, but somehow they get in, she'll fill out two bracksts. No, I know one You've seen this every year, One where your legitimate brack and then another one where Kentucky wins it all, just because she cannot not have Kentucky win at all. The year two thousand, after they won the nasholet. I remember they went to the n I T yep. So they weren't in the dance, right, she's at the broadcast we're at and she wrote in Kentucky no on the and had them winning the national title, paid
five dollars and put that bracket in. I said, you are you're sick in the heady psychotic behavior and that same woman, yeah, married you marry me. Something's wrong in the head. Yeah, well there's clearly that is that is true. Martin's Barbecue, come on out again, Bourbon and beyond. Tickets will be given away during the lunch hour. During the lunch hour, but the nine a m. Hour, we will give tickets away to MMA Fight at the Expo Center on March twenty ninth. There's a box right
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celebrate Saint Patty's Day in the Highlands. In the Highlands, you got to have the Saint Patrick's Day weekend parade the weekend before, Yes, and I say good for them, becau because all those bars a lot of yeah, a lot of you know, money. But then the last week this past weekend, Saturday, everybody went out for Saint Patrick's Day because it was Saturday night and they blew it all out then. And then yesterday we were Southern covered hot tub. I looked over Susan, I said, I've been on
Facebook. You wouldn't believe how many people our age are out partying at bars on St Patrick's Day on a Sunday. As we sat and drank the quilas, I guess, I guess we are a bit of hypocritical. No, she does. Susan loves people me, however, Yeah, no, so you drag her down, that's good, of course I do. Sure. I tell her all the time, Hey, if you want to go out and hoop and holler, go right ahead. She goes, well, I want you to go. I'm like, well, I wanted a motorcycle as
a kid. Sneaking deacon says it's Martin's Barbecue is his go to place for lunch. Ah, but don't let that hold you back. Come on out anyway for your just kidting sneaking deca. Right, it's time for the joke of the day on the Monday Marathon again, brought to you by Carriage Forward, Best Buy a coachry Mo all right. Also, this hour is brought to you by work a Holics. As we get into mama joke Monday, Hey fellas, Hey, right, I want to talk about your stupid mama.
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giving away MMA tickets for the Expost Center on March twenty ninth. So just walk in the front door of Martin's Barbecue and sign up for those tickets and we'll give them away here in twenty minutes. It was just a couple of weeks ago that Louisville, Kentucky was the well. The eyes of the nation were upon us because we had a semi truck dangling over the Second Street bridge.
Very terrifying situation. And by the way, the Louisville Fire Department, who deserves raises and better facilities, they had a response time in under three minutes. Incredible. Then he had to rescue of the driver that was still hanging over the edge, had to repel down to savor. That's part of
the story. The other side of the story is who was there to make sure it wouldn't slip and recover the eighteen wheeler, And that, of course was when it comes to tow trucks, Louisville Legends suburban Towing and I bring in Justin Shae for Justin how are you. First of all, good morning, how you doing? Good morning, sir, how are you man? We're doing really good. Look, kudos to you all for getting to the scene so quickly and to help rescue the driver keeping the truck from slipping.
But I gotta think this is a situation that you don't train for as us the first you know, this is a first, This is a first number one, what do you think when you get on the scene? And then how do you evaluate such an ordeal because this could go tragic quickly. Absolutely. We we do a lot of cross training and training, a lot of a lot of schools that we go to for certain things, but nothing could ever prepare you for what we had to deal with at that point. It's
it was just an incredible scene. I've described it as a scene from a movie. You know. I was expected to see Tom Cruise flying through the air at some point. You know. It was just an incredible, incredible job that we had to do. You know, we we had a team of four of us guys, and we all worked extremely well under that pressure
together just just to to make an excellent too. Is how you all worked so quickly under pressure because you didn't have a lot of time to stand around and go, well, maybe what if and what if that you had to get right to a solution right there, and then who had the burden of command of making the call? Was that you or someone else? Well, the four of us gentlemen that were there, three operators and our scene safety
supervisor. The three of the four of us combined have over one hundred years of experience in this industry, and that played a phenomenal role in just everything working together. And everybody just worked under a little bit different mindset that day. It was I don't know how to explain that exactly, but it was just a more of a laser focus or a sharper focus than you know than not well, and you have to typically have yeah, I guarantee it.
So you have to assess. And again you you look up and you see that the truck is just wedged under that one piece of steel across and you're thinking, that's the only thing holding that truck in to go over. Now, I guess did did your does your tow truck way more than that truck? Was there any fear that you thought, I'm gonna hook up to this thing and if it goes over it's gonna take my truck with it in anybody that it's in its path. No, I don't think that could actually happen.
I mean we we our trucks are about the same weight as that truck combined, was each one of them are? And we had three trucks hooked to it. The two in the front were lifting the front of the trailer straight up, and then the one in the rear was controlling the rear of the trailer and then winching it back onto the deck itself. I don't think
that you know that that could never have been an issue. But you've also got to think about the the what ifs, and you know, we we ran through every what if scenario before we even really started to mess with it, and to do that quickly. By the way, and if you don't mind, give me the waymans terms the Reader's Digest version, walk me through you guys getting on the scene. What are the what are the first steps
through the last step of rescuing this eighteen wheeler. The first step is that we we were just basically waiting to make sure that the driver got out safely. And and what a job by the Louisville Fire in the ms and and everybody else that was involved in it just just an incredible, incredible scene that that they that they did. Then at that point then police want to do
their investigation part. They have to take their pictures and their measurements and things like that, and that's that's typically what happens when we get into a serious accident. And then that gave us a good, good you know a few minutes for us to really walk around and get a good game plan. Myself and Stanley, we walked around it and we assessed it, and then Jim Knight are S seeing safety supervisor, showed up me He was like great,
like five minutes behind us. He showed up, and we you know, we just all kind of looked at it as a collective, you know, collectively, and we had had called the third truck to come in at that point, but we also had to get our rollbacks in to get the vehicles off the bridge as well, because there was like three other vehicles that were involved in the accident and that we had to get those out of the way. First, suburban we did. How long has suburban been around? I
can what forty years something crazy, probably bault longer than that. I would imagine what fifty five to be exact suburban in nineteen sixty nine, biggest fleet in Kentucky. Right, yeah, yeah, in my yeah, in my point there is you know, yes that that situation was as dangerous and crazy as possible. But every day you're alls tow truck drivers take their lives in
It's just like it's like highway patrolmen, uh that worked the expressways. It's dangerous to try to tow things off the side of the express every single day. You can't just hire anybody. They have to be pretty well trained itself, right, and you have to keep your head on a swivel because on the side of the highway, people do not give us the room that we need. They don't they do not obey the slow down move over laws that we have in place. And you can get hit in a in a really
quick one out of six of art. Every six days one driver gets hit in our industry. And that's a terrible statistic to have. Yeah, that's a staggering. People aren't paying attention. It's ridiculous. Yeah, they're on their phones or the Never Never Land or whatever the case, and it is. It is a bad deal. Wow, to get back to get back to go ahead, to get back to to get back to. Suburban Towing Urban John started it in nineteen sixty nine and him, him and his wife
Ginas still run it to this day. And they give us the proper tools. If it wasn't for them buying us and investing in the proper equipment for us to do this job, we could have never done it. Thirty years ago. This job would have been almost impossible for any towing company to do. Today, we have the large rotating tow trucks, the rotating recovery booms, and you can do this kind of work well if you asked me it. Even in twenty twenty four, with the best equipment and the best organization
like Suburban, it's still a damn near impossible task. But you all pulled it off. Justin Shaeffer and the rest of the crew of Suburban Towing, well done, Well done, sir, God bless you. Congratulations, thanks for what you do, and we appreciate the time. I just it was very interesting to me how you all pulled this off. And now he pulled it off, but pulled it out quickly and under pressure. Hey, Justin Shaeffer, thank you so much, and please say thank you to everybody's suburban
towing. All right, just real quick, it wasn't just me. It was a team effort between myself, Jeff Edwards, Stanton Stanley and Jim Knight. If it couldn't have been, if it wasn't for all four of us, the outcome would have been a lot different. Wow. Great job, man, Yeah, great job. Thanks to all the guys. Tell him God bless on our behalf. Great. That's crazy, Thank you very much. Yep. Well, you see him all the time. You see him
all time on the South of Expressway. But it really looked like I don't know if you remember the the TV show Emergency Yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah with gauge In de Soto, Yeah Squad Squad, Spider Man or spider Man or damn near any action movie. A semi truck dangling off the Kidney bridge basically held on and by the way, that fifth will what the yeah? I mean, my guys, here's the thing, you know. So she was buckled in and had her foot on the brake for forty five
minutes and basically to make things all right. You look, you're you're making things right with whoever? Right? Oh? Absolutely right, And I was joking with a friend, going I'm gonna need a lot more than forty five minutes personally. Yeah, no kidding, no kidd two hours. My list is long. The fireman would get there and Tony, So I'm not quite ready, yea, hang on, not ready yet? Can you come back in an hour? Hey, listen word Martin Martin's Barbecue joint. It is
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