Oh boy, my favorite version of that song. This only Ray Charles can do it. Eighty years ago today, the Nazis said, come get some, and we said okay. In America said you want a piece of this? All right, all right, we're coming yep, and we're gonna do it. And don't get mad about what we're about to do to you. Yes, oh, come get some. Oh okay, well, okay, we're gonna do that. You want some? Yes, yes, today, eighty years ago the longest day of the Allied invasion of Europe, Operation Overlord.
Now, let's not the men and women. Yes, there were women there too, involved in this, including the resistance in Europe, the French, French, we're helping all this. Yes, so they did their part. We did our part. But understand, Operation Overlord was not a huge longest success. The first day. Yes, we did the pinprick and we got it and we opened the door to France. But it was in some
operations a disaster for where these guys were dropped. So the the overcoming adversity of landing and then hooking up with other companies and other other you got you got army rangers dropped behind an enemy lines. I mean right, and they're just hooking up some If you watch Bandon Brothers, Lieutenant what's his name? Oh my god, Tenant Winters lost his rifle on their jomp, so he has no rifle to start the engagement. So again as much as it was
because it's just too big, right. So twelve hundred planes, yeah, one of which my grandfather was on. Five oh my god, five thousand vessels. Five thousand. Now if you see five hundred boats out on shore, you're like, what is going on? Can you imagine those guys on the beach going what what is five? They appear right as the sun is coming up, and five thousand ships are there with planes going over top. That's back when you could sneak five thousand ships up on people. Right,
Yes, right, they used that. There was still some bad weather going on on on June six, not as bad as two days or two days prior when they originally canceled it when it was supposed to go, and they canceled it to wait for the weather, but they kind of used the cloud cover overnight to slide all those ships in, and they had all these inflatable planes and tanks trying to say it's coming from over here. Don't don't worry about Normandy, it's up here. That was, That was what Eisenhower.
That was what Eisenhower used patent for. Patten was kind of in trouble. He was, and he had gotten in trouble for slapping the soldiers. So Eisenhower said, I want to put you on the on the bench for a minute. But by the way, I need you to do this. Established a fake army group, the first U S Army group, and put it right across from Klais, which was the shortest point between England and France and
their inflatable tanks. Rommel kept. Rommel kept like half of the force that could have been used at Normandy in the north because the Germans were terrified of Patent, right, Well, yeah, that's right, and that's why they used him as the Red Harry. Yes. So on June sixth, one hundred and sixty thousand troops across the English Channel. Now too, just how much longer by the end of August. So just by the end of June sixth, end of August, two million Allied troops were in France. We
got that toe hold, which is what we needed to do. That was that was the you know, the big win that we needed. We got that toe hold. We talk about some of the miscues. Everybody knows about the airborne guys getting dropped in the wrong places. There are armored tanks sitting at the bottom of the English Channel that were that were supposed to swim and to provide armor support that got pushed away from the rough seas and getting at
the bottom of the channel. Right, And we talk about those gliders. Yeah, oh, they're not a good idea, like in theory, yes, but they get Like you and I were talking before we be on the air the glider had okay in theory, and then they started adding things to the glider mission cre like, well we need to put a jeep on there for Brigadier General guy. Okay, well you can't put a jeep on a
glider. What are you doing the guy? The men on the on the on the plane are going to be enough, so they tow them until they get close to their drop and then they just cut them loose. Well, some of them are so heavy they just dropped out of the sky. Everyone on the plane died, Yeah, including the general who had had his armor plate correct. Yeah. Right, So not everything went right today eighty years
ago. But what went right was getting the toe hold and getting getting in Europe and basically fooling the Germans that we were going to go because again everyone was like, yes, of course, you do the shortest trip. You do the ninety miles from the the cliff of Dovers right there, right across. And they didn't soften up the defenses on the beaches as much as they
would have liked. No, they did not. And the response by the Germans obviously was slowed because no one wanted to wake up Hitler, right and one of them and then he laughed, yeah, I just watched another documentary on this and they said Hill like bad dad, Bob he was. He was so cocky, they were. He was like, I'm not worried about this. Raml was off shopping for his wife when the invasion happened. It had to get called and told, hey, get to the beach, get
your command posts. We've got trouble. And one of the one of the heroes of Normandy, believe it or not, was the son of Teddy Roosevelt no Way. Roosevelt Junior was a brigadier general and assistant division commander for fourth ID. He went ashore, even though he was in bad health. He went ashore, saw some of the disorganization, I want to say, on Omaha Beach and got it organized and got the troops moving forward. He got
the Medal of Honor for that. I remember seeing an interview with an old German soldier and he was talking about once Japan woke us up in nineteen forty one and got us involved in everything. He said, we just lost the war. Yeah because the industrial complex. Yeah, sleeping for America and even I always say, I think one of the best movies this past decade was Ford Versus Ferrari and Ford's son, which was in charge of the time in the nineteen sixties. He was talking to Shelby and says, come here,
let me show you that little building out there. Two out of three bombers came out of that building, right, he was Did Ike beat the Germans? No, Ford did so It's very interesting. The entire story. To me, World War two is the single greatest human achievement in human history. I can't think of another where so many people were involved and not so many
people gave their lives. Yes, it's incredible. I told you, we just watched a series about a small island off France and all the people that were tortured on that island and for years by the Nazis, and all those
people that fought the Nazis and were part of the resistance. And you think we don't even talk about that island, But the thousands of people lived on the island that fought the four years against the Nazis in the resistance, and it was just world wide engagements of fighting tyranny and the Nazis and the Japanese and everything else. It's crazy and it's stupid. Italians. You mentioned, you mentioned bombers, So we made about ten thousand Billy Mitchell be twenty five
bombers. One of those is going to be at bowman Field today today. Yes, taking up World War Two veterans, seventeen eighteen of them something like that between ninety seven and one hundred and one years of age. And you're welcome to go out and watch eleven thirty, one thirty and three thirty are the takeoff time, So welcome them home again. Yes, so we are now. The advent of the Internet has made us all we're all desensitized to
all. Really, it really has to be something in incredible to effect you. And I say this because if people say Hollywood is terrible and they don't do anything good, well saving Private Ryan that first opening scene the people that landed in Normandy will tell you that is as close yes as he gets. It bugged me for I wouldn't saw it in the theater. It bugged me for an entire I thought about it for three days. Ye, it rattled
me for a week. I thought about it for three days. I mean you're gripping the side of the of the movie theater chair and it's the first twenty minutes are is I mean the ram comes down on the landing craft and guys foreheads are riddled with things the side the first three rows were gone. Ye rams hit yeah, Yeah, And I don't know how they swam with that stuff on a lot of them drowned, yeah, but a lot of them what they did And you see that in the movie that opening scene,
they just jettisoned everything except for their rifle. They jettisoned all of their web gear that they were wearing, that they were loaded down with. You know, they'ree hundred pounds of stuff they were supposed to hit the beach with. When they got off those boats early because they saw what the German pill boxes were doing. They just dumped the stuff and went over the side so they
didn't drown. Wow. It's just an incredible story. Some great movies out of it, too, not just saving Private Ryan, which stopped there and then they you know, they went off to look for Ryan. The one I'm going to watch today is the Longest Day. Yes, yeah, and it is the longest movie. A Bridge too Far is good, but it is a bridge too long. It's a bridge too long. You know. You're just like, Okay, I know, I get it. Everybody that was a star in that at the mid nineteen seventies was in this movie.
But my lord, wrap it up. Okay. So today you could celebrate that by going out to see one of these B twenty five's and see some of these young men, yes and one hundred and one that fought that war, and they'll be out there for a arrive. They're doing three. So
to me, here's the thing. Seeing the plane is fine. You're like, oh wow, I went to a plane and you're seeing it watching it take off, I think would be the sound right, and know that that's the sound because especially after watching Masters of the Air is to say, the sound of that thing going down or the sound of landing would probably be the experience. I would want, you know, just to go out there, and I want to try to get out there. It's all day, right,
did Toky say it's all day? Yeah? But it's eleven thirty, one thirty three thirty, and they have they have a five to thirty flight reserved in case any there are any late comers that can't get there until late. They have one flight. There's nobody. It's not a booked one, but it's just if if anybody gets there late, because for whatever reason they have that they'll have a fifth, they'll have a fourth flight. I'm going to try to make it for the one thirty. Yeah, me too,
I'm going to try to make the one thirty. I got I kind of want to get there. I'll get my son, he's in town. And it's been estimated that we'll we'll lose the last World War two veteran in twenty thirty five. That's the estimate, So there's one hundred and nineteen. You don't have a lot of time, wait a minute to welcome these guys. I'm trying to I'm not good at math. Well, that's about eleven years from now, so you you're estimating someone's probably gonna make it to one hundred
and ten hundred and eleven something like that. Yeah, okay, and there's only one hundred and nineteen thousand left according to the World War Two music Wow, that's crazy. There's let that long ago. I just talked to my friend Maury at the Jewish Community sign on Tuesday and he's he was, uh, he they did hit that, okay, and he did the he goes, you know I did that on the twenty fifth. He goes, We
got on the ferry and rolled out. He was in the Coast Guard or something, and they went over from the Cliffs of Dover and went over to Omaha Beach on the twenty fifth anniversary. Which the guys that were fought in that were young, right, you know, they were in their forties or something, right, bigger than us. You mentioned the Coast Guard. They were the ones driving the landing boats coming off of those shits. Correct.
In fact, there was one the only Coast guardsman I believe to have won the to have been awarded the Medal of Honor was driving one of those boats on D Day. My grandfather was supposed to do that, but they they're from Key West and the orders didn't come because there was a holiday in Key West, so he didn't go. And that might be the reason why I'm here while you're here. Yeah, everything happens for a reason, right that those letters relate. And Tony, you have Tony Venetti. Hey, God's
not perfect. He does have a sense of humor, apparently, will it's perfect. I'm sorry, yeah, right, Oh my gosh, Dave Lightning your pastors listening and he was like, what was that line? Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know. All right, So the joke of the day is speaking yes, yeah, you know you have one. And it's a military theme as long as it wasn't going to be an aggie one, it's a military thing. Okay, let's got in honor of D Day? Oh boy? Okay. So there's four generals standing around on a base.
Hey fellas, Oh sorry, sorry, protocol, Hey fellas. Joy. So four generals, one from each branch of the military, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army. You're standing around. They're having a discussion about what is the definition of courage? Okay, So the Marine general says, I'll show you courage. He points at some lance corporal and says, go over there and stand in front of that landing raft and stop it.
Marine runs over there, stands in front of those those aircraft thing floating things, tries to run over there, puts his hands out, gets run over, of course. Marine general looks at the other guys that gentleman is courage. Maybe. Admiral says, ah, that's nothing, Hey, sailor, go out there to that aircraft carrier swan dive off of it into the water. Sir, yes, Sir, sailor runs over. The Admiral looks at the other guys. Gentleman, that is courage. Did he make it?
No, that is courage. The army guy says, you guys ain't got nothing. Private run over there and grab that tank and stop it from rolling. Sir, yes, Sir runs over there, splat the tank. Army general goes that gentleman is courage. The air force guy grans goes, you guys ain't got nothing. Airman run over there to the flight line and get in front of that F sixteen. Airman looks at the general says sir, No, sir, you're freaking crazy. General Puff's up says that gentleman is
courage. Yeah, that is a joke of the day. Yes it is. It's telling general. No. It is Thursday, June sixth, the eightieth anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe. We'll talk a lot about that, probably for the next couple of hours. So stick around, Johnny, keep an eye on the news. It looks like we have a giant wreck on one of the expressways. Well, it looks shut down.
It was on thirty two. Okay, why while we were doing that discussion, I want to interrupt the discussion we're having, just talk about traffic. So Cody Donaho with the Bloomberg Money minute. I can't express the sweet sentiments that John Tucker said about you yesterday after he told his story. I told her to check out the podcast. Yeah did you? No? You
did to go have to go listen to it. No, because I was actually called to go to school for my son because his arm was hurting, so I ended up having to run and go pick him up from school. But oh, and it's it's interesting because I yelled at him this morning. I yelled at John this morning, John Tucker after he said all that nice. Yeah, said these nice things. But no, he was he deserves
to get yelled at. He did not stay in his lane. Oh man, he does not have a filter and sometimes he oh, he inserts himself into situations where he's a he's a guy. Do you understand what we how we operate. I don't stay in your lane. No, I'm passing you. I'm I'm not staying in my lane. I told him something and he apparently talked about it at work. Oh of course it's coming back, okay, back to you. Yes, the one because everybody knows this said the
only this information would only come from me. Yes, okay, I yell him like, stay in your lane. You know the leak, you know the leak exactly, Yeah, you know the leak. Right, Okay, But he was really sweet. I mean he basically said he pulled over because he was thinking of you, like you know the what I mean, It was really sweet that you've inspired him because of what you've been through. Oh god, right, yes, that's why we're Yes, yes, I mean
it was really like Dave and I were taking aback a little bit. We're like, wait, well it's the John Tucker we know? Is this a village idiot. Yes, right, we said that, and you're saying that stuff and she calls you the village idiot. He was like, yeah, pretty much. Well, actually that wasn't That wasn't me. That actually came from a mother in one of my stations because they figured he could talk about anything. All right, So jobs report, Yes, that's tomorrow. Okay,
everybody's looking ahead to that. So far, we've got I've got a few reports recently that showing kind of a slow down in the economy, a bit of a slow down in the labor market. So this could give the Federal Reserve room to cut interest rates. All eyes so are going to be on that Job's report tomorrow. I mean, right now, most of the eyes are on congestion pricing here and how it ended up getting canceled. So a lot of people are really excited here in New York, but it's not
really showing up in the markets. The Dow is up fifteen points, c s and P five hundred, rising a tenth percent in trading with the news radio eight forty wha s Bloomberg money report on Courtney Donahoe. All right, yeah, my bass guitar just hiccuped. All right, today, about twenty minutes from now, we're gonna do Cops Rock. That's Dave Jennings Special. He'll have two stories and one of them or both of them are Louisville. One is Louisville, one is Milwaukee. Got it, Oh, Milwaukee?
Ho Chi means city, you mean Hochie Milwaukee. We're gonna have Jody come in for Metro Safe talk about their involvement a crusade for children, which wrapped up last week at five point seven million, and then we'll talk about summer Catholic picnics. Okay, all right, that's one thing we do with anybody bringing us fish, that's the idea. All right, Okay, So we have Jody doing that with Metro Safes. Because they're right across the street.
It's easy for them to walk across the street. Christy Spence is with Home a Happy Home Furniture Bank. It's the nonprofit that takes donations of furniture uh huh to fill the needs of paces people at you know, floods and I guess I don't know, we'll find out more. I think it's fascinating actually what they do because I've never heard of this charity. Ever, so I've got a list, give it to me. These are some scary moments people have had on vacation, courtesy of BuzzFeed. Oh boy, so we've all
had those vacations that didn't go exactly to plan. And by the way, I had to ask my wife cause there are and I don't know if they're TV news stories just to scare us, uh huh, but they say they can't like some of the verbos and condos that you rent that in common areas
they have videos, yes, going. And then I was like, should we ask like nanny cams because I don't want to get to uh too personal here, but we don't like to wear a lot of clothes, so I'm not on vacation when the kids aren't there, that's right, we you know, the boy when the kids aren't there, the boy, the boys are out. I'm just saying, but we're not right. So I'm like, should we ask the condo people and say you don't have cameras in the common area? No, no, we don't know, mister. Send us pictures
of you guys, then we'll answer the question. All right, sorry, go ahead. Vacations. Scary moments on our way to New Orleans Airport. Like four am. The vehicle next to us on the highway shot at us for no reason. Oh my gosh, the bullet went through their windshit and rear view mirror lodging in the roof. Shut up, what of course was it? A woman? Driver doesn't say, right, there's several options.
Now, okay, I guess, well, right, we gender exactly, so uh well, that's funny if you switch genders, do I now have to keep my turn cigal while I'm driving? So you don't know what you did, because that's why people are crazy, like they just they believe that you're in their way and you are preventing them from getting wherever they're going on the road, and they own the road, yep, right, And and there's this this person that loses their mind. These are normal people, not
normal people because they're shooting at people. But for for the most part, they that situation. They've killed someone, probably right, and they're going to prison for the rest of their lives or twenty five years because you lost your cool on the expressway. What the hell? My uncle decided to mess around on a trail in Yellowstone near some hot pools. Oh no, he was walking backward on the trail and fell off out of the crust. I bet he got burnt up by sheer luck he didn't. Oh, I was horrified.
I thought we were watching my uncle die. I think the people that work at Yellowstone National Park, the rangers and all those people that work there are just sick of people because they're morons. They get out of their cars and go, I'm gonna go pet of bithen. Yeah, then you get picked it with the vinting and then next thing you know, you see the video of them flying through the air. You're just like, get back in your car. You're an idiot. And I get it if you love Yellowstone
Park and that's why you work there. People are idiots. The general public is stupid. This is some guy. Yeah, this is something that we've all been through and the feeling is indescribable. We lost my baby brother at the Seaside Heights boardwalk. My family went wild for about an hour. So that feeling of your grandson or your child's right next to you and then all of a sudden gone and you're spinning around looking looking, can't find him.
My family went crazy. He finally found him, just sitting outside a saloon surrounded by bikers and their girls. He had a bowl of popcorn and a soda. Yes, he just sitting there waiting for someone to get him. Yeah it was. His name was little Tony. Yeah, sitting there drinking, surrounded by chicks. So, uh, that happened to me. I said, we were in a condo. John was about seven or eight, Maggie was about five ors or whatever. And then I said, look,
I'm just gonna go get a PEPSI. I'm gonna walk right there, right there, get a PEPSI. I went and got the PEPSI. I came back. I said, I told John, watch your sister. Yes, your jock get out of the pool. First, get out of the pool. Watch your sister. I get back. John's in the pool like underwater, and I'm like looking for Maggie and then I have to scream loud because he's underwater. He comes up. He's like, what where's your sister?
Oh? Oh, I forgot about that. I ended up and other parents see panic parents and they're in Yeah, it's the only time stranger were like, what happened where you lost a kid? Okay, let's go, And everybody starts looking and then I have to. I kick the women's door in and I said, I'm coming in. I don't care if you naked, that's right. And I said, I roll in there, and I'm like mad And then I hear if you're really big, let me know, mad I. And then you hear the daddy. She was in there. She
couldn't get her bathing suit off to because they're toddlers. I felt so stupid too. I was like, if I lose my child and got a PEPSI I'm that parent. It wasn't even a beer. What do you mean you wouldn't get a right, I wouldn't get a soda. I was, you wouldn't got a soda. Yeah, now your daughter's gone. My daughter's gone. When I was twelve, my dad took me to the Grand Canyon. He had bad arthritis and couldn't walk very well. So I asked if he
wanted to walk down a trail. He said, now, I'll stay put, but you can go. I walked down the trail like a switchback, only a little ways. Then I turned to see if I could see him. I was trying to get his attention. I kept waving and backing up and waving and backing up and then turned my back. Heel was off the edge of the Grand Canyon. Oh my god. I was not the smartest
kid, but I didn't fall down. Oh. I mean it's you go to these places because you're you're in such controlled environments everywhere you go in your life. Mm hmm. I mean it started in the seventies when they put tags on hair dryers that said don't blow dry your hair while you're in the tub, and you're just like, really, we need this tag, so they safety everything. You go out to these parks, man, you're on your own. The cliff's right there if you want. It happens all the
time, especially with selfie takers. Happens all the time, right yep. And it's like, dude, you you've got to watch it. And the older I've gotten, obviously, I don't do heights where I used to not care, and now I'm like, I'm not going to No, I'll be over here. You guys have fun. You know how you don't die falling off a cliff. You don't go near it. Stay off the edge of the cliff, go near it. I'll be over here drinking my PEPSI that
I almost lost my daughter with scary vacation stories. We're on our honeymoon flight flying into Toronto. We're about to make a landing and connect with our other flight. This happened a couple of times, and then we heard grinding under the plane. It repeated again. The pilot calmas can be a click down the intercom and said, we seem to be having a little trouble with the landing gear. Everybody, please take your seats and buckle up. All right,
We're going to delay our approach with us. I'm going to be the one upper alright ready. So my brother in law, what was the knockoff cheap airline that crashed in the Everglades in the late nineties, Yes, I know Value Jet? Was it Value Jet? Think you? So? So he's on a Value Jet and he says, the lady comes down or one of the cap whatever, the assistant pilot person comes down the middle and he
says, he says, ma'am an up. She gets up. He unbuckles the seat, it flips up. He pulls up a little ratchet thing. Yeah, and he's turning it. And my brother in law was like, you what's he doing? They're like, apparently that is the manual way to put the landing gear down. Oh, because it wasn't going down, so the hydraulics weren't working. Yes, listen value jet No just fly delta, yeah, just uh So the seat belt light went on. I looked at my husband, who hates to fly. He gave me a look of pure
dread and terror, not saying a word. I knew this trip was my idea, so it was all my fault. Of course. There was more grinding and the plane tilted as we started to circle, not the good grinding. Then the pilot returned to the intercom and said flight attendants, take your seats please. Then the pilot said, we have the landing gear down and engaged. We'll be landing shortly. You know you usually get grinding and an engagement. Would you like another cookie something? Yeah? We just hey,
you know what we're gonna do. It gets a free cookie. Everybody gets a free cookie. Well, thank you for that. Yeah, landing gear is kind of important, kind of yeah, a little bit. A lot of times they'll circle and burn the fuel out and then belly land on the foam. It depending on how good the pilot is. Right exactly if you have celly you're in good shape, because these days, I'm not sure they're hiring anybody. They're like two, they're like twenty thousand pilots down or something
stupid. It's like a stupid number of how many pilots they need. Used to be Alex military who could stick fly very well. Oh yeah, now you're kind of a programmer. Yeah right right, it's just like it. Where'd you learn its tent camping in a state park and a large tree limb fell off in the middle of the night in the campsite next two hours, directly across where a tent would go if we had picked that site, which we almost did. What now, what happened? A lightning or a tree
fell down? Oh? Yeah's their second choice of camping spots. We just had this happen in the last storm. Some poor guy got hit by a tree, like one are the odds. It's crazy, but it happens all the time, all the time. A branch comes down. Conk done that poor little boy ten year old, ten years ago? Because I remember John was he's twenty one, yes, yes he was. John was the same age. And it was down the street not too far from your house.
Yes, And the tree came off at hitting was on a skateboard or something killed him. We were like, oh my god. It was like it really hits home, but it happens all the time. It's crazy the odds of that one. More. Yeah. I went vacationing in Mexico with my family when I was nine. I got lost in a marketplace in Cancun. Oh boy, and tried to tell a guy I was trying to find my family. He said, I'll find you a new one. Then my dad walked up. Oh, fun, and we'll put you to work right away.
So I'm sure. Uh wow, man, there is nothing worse. I mean, I'm not worse, but when you're a dad on vacation is your head is on a swivel. Oh, I'm sorry, we're jerks. Why are you talking to my daughter? You know, you just you gotta you just become that guy because it's your joores, because you don't want to say the words. I turned around for a second, and now you're like, you see that one over there, John? What about that one? That one at nine o'clock, John, nine o'clock. Lots of pasta?
Huh, I love lots of pasta. My wife is going there for today to pick up some stuff for a party that we're attending. She's gonna make the pimento cheese and benedictine sandwiches. Oh, she's gonna get several things. People love that stuff. Also, the tuna salad and the chicken salad. Make that at home. But you can also get a big Deli sandwich right there at Lots of Pasta. You gotta cut the crust off though homemade soup.
Oh that's true. You gotta cut the crust off, so it has to be just the white bread, right yep, yeah, and no crust on it. And I will tell her this. My sister just did this for the pretentious, obnoxious tea we did for Mother's Day. Oh boy, yeah, and she did. She put a little piece of bacon, oh, in the benedictine sandwich with the crust cut off, and they're tiny, so you crut the crust off and then cut that in four. So then she put a little piece of bacon in those, and everyone was like that,
they were gone first. Bacon makes everything better, Oh, there's no doubt. So going by there, Lots of Pasta thirty seven seventeen Lexington Road in the Heart of Saint Matthews. That's a great idea. And I bet Becky you will grab something for me, Yeah, sure, sure, and pick up stuff to throw on the grill, some brots and sausage. They have great stuff there. And the pretzel bread in the freezer. Fritz's Pretzel Bread put a broadtworst on that. My daughter cannot get enough of those,
so she loves it. She loves it all right. Back after this kind of busy next hour, so cops rock up next news radio eight forty whas