Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR Pre Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Billy Rutlidge and today Thursday, April tenth, We've got
Speaker 1: a very special guest in studio. We'll get to that
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Speaker 1: this week. It's a week of special guests with Shannon
Speaker 1: the Dude down at the beach with our Powell Ryan LeMond.
Speaker 1: Today's gonna be a little bit of a different show.
Speaker 1: We're not going to talk about UK basketball recruiting. We
Speaker 1: may not get into the nitty gritty of sports today
Speaker 1: because I have a very good friend in studio today.
Speaker 1: He is a former police detective, he is a helicopter
Speaker 1: flight instructor and he is a radio host. On ninety
Speaker 1: eight won the Bowl. It is Officer Don in studio,
Speaker 1: live and in color. Good morning, officer Dog.
Speaker 2: Good mor man.
Speaker 3: This is big time you got, you got producers and stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm not used to this.
Speaker 2: You know. They just put me in a studio and
Speaker 2: say answer your phones. Do this. Shut up? You know
Speaker 2: you only got two minutes to talk.
Speaker 1: No, That's what I told you before the show started.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a little different.
Speaker 3: For it, is man. Well, I mean I don't even
Speaker 3: records to play. I mean I can't lean on that
Speaker 3: you know I got?
Speaker 2: Is me?
Speaker 1: Well, I have to apologize to start the show for
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One is the gambling picks I've
Speaker 1: given you over.
Speaker 3: The last two let me tell you something. I am
Speaker 3: not a gambler. So I'm trying to big time somebody,
Speaker 3: right because and I'll be honest, I don't know any
Speaker 3: about sports either, right, so so I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got a line. I
Speaker 3: can find out exactly who's going to win this game.
Speaker 3: Who did you have you bet on?
Speaker 1: I had you bet on Louisville? Oh yeah, Carvel Switch.
Speaker 2: Which is a conscience issue.
Speaker 3: It's like I never thought if I was going to
Speaker 3: be giving him on a tip that I would say, yeah,
Speaker 3: bet Louisville. I mean, I'm like, but I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: there was another team to what was the other one?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have to look two.
Speaker 2: So I lay this down.
Speaker 3: I'm like, one hundred percent sure it's going to happen
Speaker 3: because I've got the line, and.
Speaker 1: Boom, oh I went. You see San Diego, Michigan one
Speaker 1: of those neither of them hit and you call me
Speaker 1: from the DraftKings sports book in Nashville, I think it was,
Speaker 1: And You're like, you bleeping bleep.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's okay, you know what. I was trying
Speaker 3: to big time so big. I told him the tip
Speaker 3: came from Matt Jones. I'm in the clear. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: didn't throw it off. I want to make it look
Speaker 3: like I knew Matt Jones. That's a great movie. Yes,
Speaker 3: so but anyway, the other thing I need.
Speaker 1: To apologize for is your dip in ratings at nine am. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, because the pre show has become the number
Speaker 1: one show I think at nine am in the city,
Speaker 1: and it's at your expense. So I do apologize for.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that is a fluke.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I'm saying I think your girlfriend got a book or something.
Speaker 2: You know, that's.
Speaker 1: Probably what happened. It's all the cow drop. Everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to tune into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't.
Speaker 3: We can say that word until Monday, I think, because
Speaker 3: then then we're actually in that situation.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Donnie, you do a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: and I say Donnie as a term of endearment. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people call you that.
Speaker 3: It is funny because normally the only people that call
Speaker 3: me Donnie old girlfriends from high school. So I don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on here. First time he popped off
Speaker 3: the Donnie, I'm like, hold on a second, man, I'm
Speaker 3: not like that.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't. We don't have that type of relationship.
Speaker 1: But you know, Officer don and I had some great
Speaker 1: times back in the day.
Speaker 2: Well, I used to argue a lot.
Speaker 1: We did during twenty twenty. We were the only two
Speaker 1: people in the building and we still are for the
Speaker 1: most point. But we would have drag out, knock him down,
Speaker 1: you know, political arguments in the studio.
Speaker 2: They would.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's sort of like you know, hanging
Speaker 3: with this only hiding my daughter, you know, occasionally just
Speaker 3: stays he says stuff to make me mad. Right, it's
Speaker 3: a generational thing. And I try to like, I'm not
Speaker 3: even gonna engage, but you're hard not to engage. You're
Speaker 3: hard not to engage.
Speaker 2: Well as you keep pushing and he pushing, he pushed.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't even think that you even agree with yourself.
Speaker 3: You're just trying to figure out what's gonna piss me off.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, and people that listen to this show probably
Speaker 1: pick some of that up too.
Speaker 3: And when I fall into like, let's what what the
Speaker 3: guy does for a living, he's controversial.
Speaker 1: Well, Donna's it's safe to say you're quite the big
Speaker 1: deal in this city. I mean, if you're not in
Speaker 1: the helicopter giving traffic reports or a police detective back
Speaker 1: in the day, you are on our biggest station in
Speaker 1: a state that loves country music. And how long have
Speaker 1: you been doing this?
Speaker 3: Now? You know, I've been doing Like the Bull for
Speaker 3: sixteen years, along time with Dianne, Yeah, crazy Danna the
Speaker 3: sixteen years. Yeah, and before that though I started radio
Speaker 3: like thirteen. I was a kid because I was raised
Speaker 3: on a farm and I'm very lazy and I'm scared
Speaker 3: of farm animals.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 3: So my dad's like, you gotta do something, boy, you know,
Speaker 3: and the radio station. I had a nice air conditioned studio.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to strip tobacco. So I walked in
Speaker 3: and said, hey, man, if you let me do this
Speaker 3: for six months, take out the trash, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: I think I can do this because I can read.
Speaker 3: And he put me on the air like thirteen, So
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 1: Into So what year is this? Is this like nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty's eighty three?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: Okay, eighty thirty.
Speaker 3: Which is like the worst decade to get into the
Speaker 3: music playing music.
Speaker 1: Reel and reel and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Records, Yeah, I remember, I remember, like Prince when Dove's
Speaker 3: Cry came out, I'm like, this is awful. I'm never
Speaker 3: gonna play this. I got that wrong. So I'm not
Speaker 3: a good music director.
Speaker 1: So it's changed a lot since Speck when the thirteen
Speaker 1: year old officer Don was in the radio.
Speaker 2: B Oh, yeah, it's it's not nearly as fun as
Speaker 2: see it's not.
Speaker 1: I've heard the same thing.
Speaker 3: But don't everybody say that though about their business. It's
Speaker 3: just not what it used to be, the good old days,
Speaker 3: you know, No matter what you asked, yes, cops the
Speaker 3: same thing, you know, Yeah, this jockey's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Everybody's like, you know, like you were saying, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't you can't drink a beer in the studio anymore.
Speaker 2: They don't want you to do that.
Speaker 1: Well, kind of like my dad hating my music. It's
Speaker 1: it's a generational thing, right, and it's always better back.
Speaker 3: In the time, I think so, But was it really
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think I was making like two
Speaker 3: ten an hour back then, so maybe it wasn't so good.
Speaker 1: A lots changed in that department for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm three ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's similar to me. But you know, some one
Speaker 1: of the coolest moments I've had on the air, it
Speaker 1: was not cool for Shannon the dude. I think he
Speaker 1: hated every second of it. Was the helicopter drops that
Speaker 1: I've done over the years. I don't know how the started,
Speaker 1: but I came to Officer Don one day and said,
Speaker 1: can I do a show up in a helicopter with you?
Speaker 1: And can I throw pigs from the sky? It was
Speaker 1: Ham coupons. It was one of my greatest bits. But
Speaker 1: it was a spoof of the what if turkeys could fly?
Speaker 1: In Ohio? The radio station there. I really enjoyed doing
Speaker 1: that with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun, but I mean you learned pigs
Speaker 2: can't fly.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean donuts. But we did and it did freaks.
Speaker 3: We should have told the people at the parks department
Speaker 3: we were doing, because remember didn't they They're like, what.
Speaker 2: Are you doing?
Speaker 1: It wasn't the park department, it was our it was
Speaker 1: Iheart's legal liability. They came to me afterwards, like, you
Speaker 1: threw pigs out.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we threw hams. Hams. You threw hams out
Speaker 2: of the sky and somebody get the rock put out?
Speaker 1: And who did you ask that was okay to do?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I've he asked for forgiveness,
Speaker 1: not permission, and they didn't like that one.
Speaker 2: Now I'm executive producer. I asked the producer and he
Speaker 2: said it was okay.
Speaker 3: I asked you and you were like, yeah, I threw
Speaker 3: all No, I Billy told me that. Bob Bittman said
Speaker 3: we could do it. That's what I said, Did you
Speaker 3: throw me that after? I've went for the big guy?
Speaker 1: Well, so that was a lot of fun. You said
Speaker 1: you started your radio journey at thirteen, but then you
Speaker 1: became a police detective. What made the what was the
Speaker 1: career change? Why did you do that?
Speaker 3: Well, I just want to do fun stuff. There's a
Speaker 3: pattern here, you know. I mean I never wanted to
Speaker 3: work for a living. I told you that I was
Speaker 3: scared of peacocks on the farm. I had a bad
Speaker 3: experience of that. So I'm like, and the DJ thing
Speaker 3: was fun at peacocks, But I wanted a government job.
Speaker 3: I wanted insurance benefits, you know, because you know, just
Speaker 3: in radio they're like everything's trade, you know here, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll give you a fifty dollars gift certificate to Pigley
Speaker 3: wig Lead to pay for your food. Well, we'll make
Speaker 3: it a deal with Spectrum for your for a cable
Speaker 3: and we're going to pay a two ten an hour.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I probably need a good, steady government job. Actually,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to be a cop. It was it
Speaker 3: was what I want. I've wanted to do since I
Speaker 3: was like a kid. It's always been my thing. So
Speaker 3: no matter what, I was going to be a cop
Speaker 3: at twenty one. So I did radio until I could
Speaker 3: get into the into the police academy deal, and then
Speaker 3: I came to Lection to.
Speaker 1: Do that, and then you found yourself back in radio. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I never left because it is fun. So, like,
Speaker 1: for six months during the academy, we were banned from
Speaker 1: doing secondary jobs. So I had to sneak to Louisville
Speaker 1: and change my name to Chased Annuals and do it really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did that for a while because I didn't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't want them to know, because they's like, no, look,
Speaker 1: you got to focus on this.
Speaker 3: You can have a second job wating a police acaint.
Speaker 3: They're very anal, you know, in the police.
Speaker 2: Kid.
Speaker 3: Sure, so I did that. So I've really been doing
Speaker 3: it since I was thirteen. I'm fifty eight now, so
Speaker 3: it's been a long time. Well we've not very.
Speaker 1: Good at it, but well that's up to interpretation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it depends on who's listening. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: your radio job changing a lot over the years. The
Speaker 1: police officer position has changed a lot over the years.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like an impossible job nowadays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has changed. You know, it's and look, they're
Speaker 3: getting too deep. I mean, you police according to what
Speaker 3: the community wants. I mean, that's the reality of it.
Speaker 3: The first thing you learned in police school Look, you
Speaker 3: do what your community wants you to do because you're
Speaker 3: serving them. That's truth, right, And when we know the
Speaker 3: community's needs have changed and how they perceive things, so
Speaker 3: that has changed.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of cops will tell you maybe
Speaker 3: it's not as fun as it used to be in
Speaker 3: some ways, but they have a you know, but in
Speaker 3: this town, they love their job. You know that we've
Speaker 3: got good support and election is different. That's one of
Speaker 3: the reasons we don't have rampant crime in a city
Speaker 3: like we do. A lot of police get a lot
Speaker 3: of support.
Speaker 2: In this town.
Speaker 3: So you know, I don't everybody wants to complain a
Speaker 3: little bit here and there, but for the most part,
Speaker 3: our cops are good. I think the community's got a
Speaker 3: good perception of it. It's not too bad.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I get a little scared when my fiance watches shows
Speaker 1: like How to Get Away with Murder and Law and
Speaker 1: Order SUV. It's like, this is her escape. It's just
Speaker 1: like notes, well not notes, but it's all in her
Speaker 1: brain now, she's she's worked out every scenario. Sure, sure,
Speaker 1: so I think it is a little concerning, but you know,
Speaker 1: I was fascinated to learn more about you over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, and you were lead detective on
Speaker 1: a lot of different cases, including one that included the
Speaker 1: death of a Kentucky football player. I mean, you've done
Speaker 1: a lot when it comes to this city. And you
Speaker 1: say you're not a sports fan, but you've been ingrained
Speaker 1: in the culture of the University of Kentucky for a
Speaker 1: while now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I see not a sports fan. I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm just not a sports nerd. I mean, my deal is,
Speaker 3: I'm a fair weather fan. I always want the Cats
Speaker 3: to win. Yeah, but only I really get into it
Speaker 3: at tournament time. A lot of people are like that,
Speaker 3: all right, because it's the time thing. But come tournament time,
Speaker 3: yeah I want to see a win, which has not
Speaker 3: been that fun the past few years. But yeah, so
Speaker 3: so I want to correct that. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I did get involved in the homicide side of things
Speaker 3: and was doing that for I guess I did that
Speaker 3: for about ten or twelve years here in Lexington, and
Speaker 3: you know, so it's that's a different different view on
Speaker 3: the world, and it's and it's and it's it's funny
Speaker 3: because I remember when I got on the police department,
Speaker 3: they always try to they try to put you where
Speaker 3: you're going to be based on your personality or whatever.
Speaker 3: At one point they'd ask, what are the two things
Speaker 3: you don't think you're going to like most about being
Speaker 3: a cop? And I said, paperwork and I'm scared of
Speaker 3: dead bodies. You know, it's true, I don't want to
Speaker 3: be around that stuff. And I wind up on homicide,
Speaker 3: which is all paperwork, and then you certainly have to
Speaker 3: deal with the other aspect of that too. So sometimes
Speaker 3: you just sort of, you know, wind up where they
Speaker 3: want to put you.
Speaker 2: That's how I got there.
Speaker 1: When I first started at iHeart, there was maybe like
Speaker 1: a two month period where I did news for eight
Speaker 1: forty his I actually read the news, and after that
Speaker 1: two months hurt. I was so rained out. I was
Speaker 1: so done with your newss in negativeivity? How did you
Speaker 1: deal with that for ten to twelve years of homicides
Speaker 1: and constant negativity?
Speaker 3: Well, every day, listen, just you try to turn it
Speaker 3: off when you're not working, but it's hard, especially when
Speaker 3: you're doing something like homicide cases, because those don't go away.
Speaker 3: You know, when you're on patrol, when you get done
Speaker 3: with your shift, you get to be done with it.
Speaker 3: So that's an advantage. But when you're working at those
Speaker 3: kind of cases and you have the victims that are
Speaker 3: looking to you to find out who hurt their loved one,
Speaker 3: that that's a lot of pressure. It really is. And
Speaker 3: but you just have to look at where you can
Speaker 3: do the most good. It's like nurses or doctors or
Speaker 3: anyone that's in that kind of business that's depressing. You
Speaker 3: just try to go for the winds and focus on them,
Speaker 3: you know, otherwise you'll go crazy.
Speaker 1: So I did I think we're doing the news?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I had trouble. I used to do
Speaker 3: the news too, but I sort of got fired from
Speaker 3: that because I remember I was reading once about the
Speaker 3: weather in des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2: I called it Desmonez. I did. Course.
Speaker 3: I was only fourteen. He's like, that's not Desmond, as
Speaker 3: you know. So the big words, how did you deal
Speaker 3: with the big words when you read it? Well, the
Speaker 3: big words change them. It wasn't that the words weren't
Speaker 3: the issues. It was the counties.
Speaker 1: So like I just pronounced so many Kentucky counties yes,
Speaker 1: And you know, I got so many phone calls. The
Speaker 1: news department was like, that's not how you say.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Louisville versus Louisville for a lot of Peoplecause
Speaker 3: I remember when I was working Louislle, it was eighty four
Speaker 3: w h s Louisville because I was like Louisville, like
Speaker 3: no Louisville, Louisville side. It's like the doub You know,
Speaker 3: we used to say w and I remember the mister
Speaker 3: Wooley saying it's double you doub h I c.
Speaker 1: The worst one I did was I called Versales Versailles.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that happens all and you would have thought
Speaker 1: I came into the town and insulted every single one
Speaker 1: of them. But you know what I understand. People are
Speaker 1: passionate about where they're from.
Speaker 2: Is it for sales versus which is it's Versailles.
Speaker 1: But they've turned it into.
Speaker 2: Verse in Louisville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Louisville for King Louis. But the locals they're
Speaker 1: a little late to call it Louisville.
Speaker 3: Well o, their size is to French. I mean we
Speaker 3: forgot we did like the French at one.
Speaker 1: Time, right when they war.
Speaker 3: Something went wrong somewhere right now French is not not
Speaker 3: as cool to the country.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't tell the weather on the air very
Speaker 1: often anymore. But you do give traffic reports every day.
Speaker 1: I know this because I have to fill in for
Speaker 1: you all the time. You're like Shannon the dude with
Speaker 1: your vacation day.
Speaker 2: Are you beating on your chest like you're in the helicopter?
Speaker 1: Like that's no, no, But I want to ask you
Speaker 1: how like percentage amount of times you're in the helicopter
Speaker 1: when you're giving those reports. I don't want to expose
Speaker 1: you here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a top secret. It's not as much anymore,
Speaker 3: you know, because we have used to every morning.
Speaker 2: I flew. That's how I got into this.
Speaker 3: I flew every morning because I was a commercial pilot
Speaker 3: before I even became a cop. Because between graduating from
Speaker 3: high school and turning twenty one, they're like, you got
Speaker 3: to do something with your life, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't want to go to college. That's just
Speaker 2: just it just makes me with their life, which makes
Speaker 2: me itch.
Speaker 3: So it took all my college money and got all
Speaker 3: my pilot ratings before I became a cop, sort of
Speaker 3: pickled it. Did a little bit of commercial work, but
Speaker 3: then became a police officer. So it just came back
Speaker 3: around when I started flying around and doing the traffic reports.
Speaker 3: So when I first started, I flew actually for a competition.
Speaker 3: Then it was be okay, you know that was the
Speaker 3: company that did the traffic. Yeah, so I flew around
Speaker 3: to traffic for them four hours a day, and then
Speaker 3: I flew for hours in the afternoon and then came
Speaker 3: over here and did the same thing. So it was
Speaker 3: one hundred percent of the time. Now I just fly
Speaker 3: as needed kind of thing. Got so many cameras and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I got my traffic snitches on the on the
Speaker 3: right way, autographed autoglass, traffics flying, thank you, right my
Speaker 3: autoglass by the way, it's for two two eight seven.
Speaker 2: So I've got help.
Speaker 3: But if something major is going on or I want
Speaker 3: a big time in case, y'all get in the helicopter.
Speaker 1: So you've asked the worst person in the company to
Speaker 1: be the backup traffic reporter because I can't get anywhere
Speaker 1: without my GP. You know, I like to you know,
Speaker 1: I like to hold my head up high and say
Speaker 1: I'm the youngest of money you can be and I'm
Speaker 1: not like these zoomers and TikTokers, But I mean, Donnie,
Speaker 1: I can't get anywhere without my phone.
Speaker 2: I mean I can't.
Speaker 1: I mean I if it.
Speaker 2: Told me to drive off a bridge, I probably will.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Dwhite in the office, I might drive
Speaker 1: into the lake if it told me to. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean I remember printing off map quests back in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're old, You're I'm old enough for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't ask me to take out a map
Speaker 1: or ask for directions on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: I'll just forget. So you know, you're asking the wrong
Speaker 1: person to fill in with.
Speaker 3: Well, try being a cop, because that was the biggest
Speaker 3: stresser about becoming a cop in nineteen ninety and being
Speaker 3: from Breckenridge County, Kentucky, you know, with we had no
Speaker 3: red lights, right sure, and so the biggest thing was
Speaker 3: we had this big book that this cross directory thing.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 3: You get a call to back up your fellow officer
Speaker 3: and it's someplace that you've never heard of in the city.
Speaker 3: You got to know where it's, you got to find it,
Speaker 3: and you've got pressure to find it quick, especially if
Speaker 3: it's something like that. That was honestly the most stress
Speaker 3: of the police academy being not from here and having
Speaker 3: to learn the streets because they would nail you.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, find this street.
Speaker 3: Now your partner's down, get your ass there, and you're
Speaker 3: getting out your book and trying to figure out how
Speaker 3: to get there and how.
Speaker 2: So that was.
Speaker 3: But now I see all of them, you know, they're
Speaker 3: all using their phones. So they got it made there
Speaker 3: we all do. Yeah, and you go, you go.
Speaker 2: Back to that. I don't know how in the world
Speaker 2: I drove to Florida. Well, Florida said, it's pretty easy,
Speaker 2: just southbound.
Speaker 3: But I don't know how in the world you got
Speaker 3: anywhere before before we had our GPS, and it's it's
Speaker 3: it's changed things significant, it's changed. We did it, but
Speaker 3: I don't remember how.
Speaker 1: Now you've got a whole laptop in your police vehicle,
Speaker 1: it looks like it looks like it's all set up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they they do have those distracting laptops and
Speaker 3: in their vehicle.
Speaker 1: But he is DC. He is a retired police officer,
Speaker 1: so he is still a little out of uh yeah, practice.
Speaker 2: I still fly for him. I fly the police helicopter.
Speaker 3: I trained, uh the police officers that that are going
Speaker 3: to come on board to fly, So I still I
Speaker 3: still get to be part of it in that way
Speaker 3: not not the homicide stuff so much anymore. So, Uh,
Speaker 3: now I get to get to do just the fun part.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep diving into Officer Don's story. I've got
Speaker 1: some random topics like we always do on the ks
Speaker 1: OUR pre Show. I'd love to get his opinions on
Speaker 1: as well, and if you'd like to join the show
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Speaker 1: six five six. It is a Thursday edition of the
Speaker 1: KSR pre Show with Officer Don from ninety eight one,
Speaker 1: The Bull, and we will be right back. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: It is the KSR pre Show Billy Rutledge and Officer
Speaker 1: Don from ninety eight one. The Bull is joining us
Speaker 1: reminiscing a little bit because Lex TV and Radio just
Speaker 1: tweeted out a video of Officer Don doing some traffic reports.
Speaker 1: There's a stormtrooper in this video as well. Yeah you
Speaker 1: remember this.
Speaker 2: I do remember that.
Speaker 3: That was it to LA X eighteen, all right, and
Speaker 3: uh that's when Lee Cruise was on there and we
Speaker 3: were I was doing traffic. We'd always mess around. I
Speaker 3: can't remember where the stormtrooper came from. That wasn't me
Speaker 3: in the Stormtrooper out there.
Speaker 1: So you weren't in the Stormtrooper doing no but I
Speaker 1: was doing.
Speaker 3: Traffic the Stormtroopers there, maybe on Lee's show or something.
Speaker 3: And then we just had him stand in and I
Speaker 3: just voiced it over like I was standing there with
Speaker 3: that does in fact Terry Minor sent that to me
Speaker 3: not too really, Yeah, that's that pops up on occasion
Speaker 3: one of my shining moments, and it was actually I
Speaker 3: had my stunt double Stormtrooper.
Speaker 2: What even me, I felt like a star. That's what
Speaker 2: they do, right, have stunt stunt doubles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Terry, there's another radio legend. We were talking about
Speaker 1: beaver bits, stuff that could not air on Today's.
Speaker 3: And even what he put what you played me online
Speaker 3: was not what he used to play on the air,
Speaker 3: you know, because I was telling you how great that
Speaker 3: stuff was and then he says this is it. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 3: that's a little vanilla. So Terry had a show called
Speaker 3: The Show with No Name with Ron Clay, which was
Speaker 3: one of the original shock jocks. That's back when Louisville
Speaker 3: was introduced to the shock jocks. A Q and F
Speaker 3: and a funny thing. Our bus driver got in trouble
Speaker 3: because mister Dean Bus fifty had this stereo system on
Speaker 3: the bus and he would let us listen to the
Speaker 3: show of the name, and you got kids on.
Speaker 2: There and they're like, west are beaver bits today? And
Speaker 2: you know what is okay?
Speaker 3: So so he got actually in trouble because he was
Speaker 3: he was playing, so he wound up having to play
Speaker 3: like the instrumental or gospel station to make up for it.
Speaker 2: We were all like what what.
Speaker 3: Eventually we got back to rock, but we couldn't. We
Speaker 3: couldn't play the show with No Name anymore. It's too dirty.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how much radio's changed. And Terry miners still
Speaker 1: doing his thing on eight forty wha.
Speaker 3: And he's not dirty anymore, not as dirty. Where's a tie?
Speaker 3: You know, he's got that going now. He's sort of
Speaker 3: more like you know because Terry wants told me, and
Speaker 3: this is funny, he said, you know, you can talk
Speaker 3: about you know, those risky things, but you want to
Speaker 3: talk about him in a way that the soccer mom
Speaker 3: in the van knows exactly what you're talking about, but
Speaker 3: our kids don't. He said, if you do that, he says,
Speaker 3: if you do that, you can still have a little personality,
Speaker 3: have a little edge to you, and still be clean
Speaker 3: enough where you know the people that aren't looking for
Speaker 3: that will listen, because you know everybody's got you dirty thoughts.
Speaker 3: You just want to make sure that you read the
Speaker 3: room when you're throwing it.
Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of an art to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Terry taught me that. He said, just be careful.
Speaker 3: Just make sure that the kids aren't asking mom what
Speaker 3: did he mean by that? You know, and let's let
Speaker 3: mom chuckle a little bit. So that's Terry.
Speaker 1: How's your relationship with Dan? Do you guys get into
Speaker 1: risky topics?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Or is it just here's the next country?
Speaker 3: So no, you know, my big thing with Dan Stevens,
Speaker 3: The reason I can handle Dan Stevens is because of
Speaker 3: my experience in a homicide, you know, because I used
Speaker 3: to set across the table and then interrogate you know,
Speaker 3: Sarah killers and people like that. So it helped me
Speaker 3: understand Ian's mind, you know, if it wasn't that experience
Speaker 3: is what made our partnership so good.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They used to have a little it was a little
Speaker 3: promo when we first started. It was the big voice
Speaker 3: guy would come on and go. One carries a gun
Speaker 3: and the other carries a can of hair spray, and
Speaker 3: you're there to go and Dean to go, deonn give
Speaker 3: me back my gun. I to find it was funny,
Speaker 3: but it's it's a cool relationship. You know, it's all
Speaker 3: very real with us. But people used to think we
Speaker 3: were married. Really, Oh yeah, I would get that all
Speaker 3: the time. I would I would sit in is it
Speaker 3: Red Robin or something, Nicholas. I'm hearing the person behind
Speaker 3: me talk about how we are married, and they think
Speaker 3: we're gonna split up because they heard something on the
Speaker 3: radio like we're a fighting I'm like married. So for
Speaker 3: the longest time, we're like, well, okay, whatever that mean.
Speaker 2: It happen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't have a female co host.
Speaker 3: I'm like, so I say, look, I wanted to say, listen,
Speaker 3: it's like a marriage without any of the loving. That's
Speaker 3: basically what my relationship with Dan Stevens is. You know,
Speaker 3: That's that's what we got going.
Speaker 1: A loveless marriage. I'm in with Shannon dude right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the same.
Speaker 3: There's there's just none of that, but there's all of
Speaker 3: the bull that goes along with it. But it's it's
Speaker 3: a cool deal. But we really we just we get
Speaker 3: whoping up the mic and talk and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: that's all we do.
Speaker 1: We got about a minute till we need to take
Speaker 1: a hard break.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: We had somebody ask a question on the text line,
Speaker 1: what high school did Officer Don go to?
Speaker 3: I went to Breckenridge County High School, home of the
Speaker 3: Tigers class of nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2: Who Butch Beard? I don't know if you.
Speaker 3: Do, you know, I know Butch. I've met Butcher Witch
Speaker 3: Beard went was was our the big star from Breckenridge County.
Speaker 3: He's from Breckenridge County.
Speaker 1: He would always come in and do the Jerry Eve
Speaker 1: Show with Jerry when I worked in Louisville back in
Speaker 1: the day. So I've got to brush shoulders with a
Speaker 1: guy like Butcher Beard. Uh. You know, I didn't know
Speaker 1: who some of the famous celebrities were when I first started.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, right, I mean you kind of pick
Speaker 1: it up, like, who's that guy? Oh, it's dan Issel.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I did that with d Wayne Lucas one year. I
Speaker 3: was supposed to grab Derby interviews and uh, the guy
Speaker 3: told me go interview. That guy can see that guyt
Speaker 3: to interview and I'm walk up, said, uh, mister Lucas,
Speaker 3: could you could you be on the ready with mister
Speaker 3: Mats And he said us, And.
Speaker 2: What do you do? Oh no, and he goes, I
Speaker 2: don't need to talk to.
Speaker 1: You, son, turn around. All right, Well, we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: it rolling here eight five nine, two eighth two two
Speaker 1: eight seven. If you'd like to call into the show,
Speaker 1: Officer Don the radio host on ninety eight one. The
Speaker 1: Bull joining us for this Thursday edition of the KSR
Speaker 1: Pre Show. Shannon the Dude will return next week, but
Speaker 1: we're having a little fun while he's gone. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some random sports topics and much more coming up
Speaker 1: here on the KSR pre Show. We'll be right there.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Billy An Officer Don here on the KSR
Speaker 1: pre Show. Officer Don the radio host on ninety eight
Speaker 1: one The Bowl also a helicopter flight instructor. But I
Speaker 1: got the invite to go on as boat this summer
Speaker 1: during the break, so you.
Speaker 2: Do have the that's a big deal too, to have
Speaker 2: you on the incognito.
Speaker 3: That's that's a big deal, all right. It's not something
Speaker 3: i'd just I just take light.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, well, thank you. I know you throw
Speaker 1: some big parties on that boat, and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. They say, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: buy a boat, you should just have a friend that
Speaker 1: owns a boat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly, that's exact, because you know, the day
Speaker 3: you buy one is your happiest day in the biggest state.
Speaker 2: Sell it's your happiest day, they say, And they do
Speaker 2: suck the money.
Speaker 3: I mean, look I got I did helicopters and airplanes,
Speaker 3: you know, in which I could never afford if other
Speaker 3: people wouldn't training in them.
Speaker 2: But the boat is just amazes me when it thank
Speaker 2: this is crazy. It's like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's never going to get worse, don't worry.
Speaker 2: But it's fun, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like a lot of things. It's expensive
Speaker 3: because it's worth it. Some people said that about divorce.
Speaker 3: I hear, but I mean, I I wouldn't recommend it,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's just expensive, but it's.
Speaker 1: Worth One person says online officer Don came into my
Speaker 1: electronics store when I was working in college. I accidentally
Speaker 1: called him a lieutenant Daan several times by mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I did? I rough him up?
Speaker 3: Actually, that's you know what. Lieutenant is an upgrade because
Speaker 3: officers just an officer. I didn't mind that at all.
Speaker 1: You didn't come in a wheelchair with one leg.
Speaker 3: No, I did not, and he made me a lieutenant
Speaker 3: no leg, so I should have changed it to lieutenant.
Speaker 3: I'll be lieutenant from now, but lieutenant don not captain.
Speaker 3: So lieutenant five O two two six fives six five six.
Speaker 3: If you'd liked to join the show at all today
Speaker 3: or text in don, I've got some crazy topics and
Speaker 3: sports I want to talk to.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know nothing about it, so this is good.
Speaker 1: The first comes from earlier this week. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen the movie Lady in the Tramp?
Speaker 2: I have? That's a cartoon, right it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first movie my mom ever took me
Speaker 3: to as a kid, and I still remember this.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm gonna ring the bell for that. Yeah, first
Speaker 1: movie you ever got?
Speaker 2: Lady Too and the Tramp.
Speaker 1: Well, earlier this week, two Chicago Cubs fans had their
Speaker 1: own Lady in the Tramp moment, and they did not
Speaker 1: know each other. According to reports, two strangers shared a
Speaker 1: hot dog at Wrigley Field, lady in the tramp style.
Speaker 1: I'm pulling up the video for you now so you
Speaker 1: can see it. Okay, what do you think about these
Speaker 1: two strangers sharing a dog? They're right behind home plate.
Speaker 1: They both attacked the dog from opposite sides. Don fhair
Speaker 1: or foul? You're doing this with a stranger at a
Speaker 1: baseball game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a beard. I couldn't do that, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's just just the Beard's the reason why hot he
Speaker 3: was gonna get in the beard And you're trying to
Speaker 3: eat this hot dog with this dude you're sitting next to.
Speaker 2: No, that's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: What crazy world are we living in where you look
Speaker 1: over at a stranger.
Speaker 2: I don't Hey, would you like to share this dog?
Speaker 3: This was a dirty word, But during COVID, did we
Speaker 3: ever think that would happen again?
Speaker 1: You're right?
Speaker 3: What the founts you say about that? To this day,
Speaker 3: he'd be all over that. Oh I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Those two would be enemy number one and they did
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Nasty.
Speaker 1: But I don't know how that conversation even starts about
Speaker 1: the hot dog and the dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'd say maybe he's got game. You know,
Speaker 2: he might have been like, hey, they'll get us something
Speaker 2: we can.
Speaker 3: Get on the jumbo tron if we do this. Okay,
Speaker 3: She's like, Okay, I'd just like to know where it went.
Speaker 3: That's the question, because that's pretty intimate, right. That's worse
Speaker 3: than sucking on each other's toes. I think, whoa, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. You're talking about eating a
Speaker 3: hot dog. Deal, that is pretty in I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: sucking toes. It's more interest than eating a hot dog together. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, at least you're not staring each other in
Speaker 3: the eyes. But you're not having with the toes, but
Speaker 3: with the a little different. Okay, all right, let's stick
Speaker 3: it in the food. Let's stay in the food world.
Speaker 1: Last month, a Chinese restaurant had to shut down because
Speaker 1: after investigation, the roasted duck was actually cooked street pigeon.
Speaker 1: Who investigated this, I don't know, the food department. I
Speaker 1: guess Okay, they closed down obviously, but done. I mean,
Speaker 1: you go in to try to get a little duck
Speaker 1: and they're cooking street pigeon in the back.
Speaker 3: Do they both taste like chicken. I mean, how do
Speaker 3: you know, right, because.
Speaker 1: I mean if it tastes like chicken, they'll never know.
Speaker 3: And isn't pigeon just a just a fat dove. I
Speaker 3: used to eat dove, I mean I would, I would
Speaker 3: dove hunt. I still know I should do that same
Speaker 3: things head off.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I've been told that it's like
Speaker 1: the the rat of birds. The rat of birds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like in New York City, like the pigeons are everywhere.
Speaker 3: I've wondered what a pigeon would taste like, honestly, because
Speaker 3: because they look like a dove, and duve meats good,
Speaker 3: and I could see where one would because it's both.
Speaker 2: Sort of dark. I'd see we get that confused with duck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I hope to never have that
Speaker 1: situation come up to me.
Speaker 3: Can you really when you're at the Chinese buffet, though?
Speaker 3: Can you really tell the difference between the chicken and
Speaker 3: the pork? I mean I can't. Probably a little bit
Speaker 3: of different with the beef maybe, And there's eleven year
Speaker 3: old's cooking in the back too, yeah, and eleven year
Speaker 3: olds scooping up the stuff and getting their slobber all
Speaker 3: over the stuff at the buffet.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well the lase fare officer done it roast a
Speaker 1: duck street pigeon. Who cares? I hold me upsoning?
Speaker 3: Not me?
Speaker 1: I'll pass. Uber released its annual Lost and Found Index.
Speaker 1: Officer done the things that are left behind and ride
Speaker 1: shared cars afterwards. And some of the things left behind
Speaker 1: would shock you. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2: Wet'll see if I'll shot. We have the homicide detective,
Speaker 2: so that's true.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're the one that would not be shocked by
Speaker 1: some of this. Some of the things include a mannequin
Speaker 1: head with human hair, a live turtle, or how about
Speaker 1: a five gallon bucket of beans? Huh? They call New
Speaker 1: York City the most forgetful city in the world depending
Speaker 1: on the amount of items left in Uber rides. But
Speaker 1: here are some more things that were left in ubers. Chainsaws,
Speaker 1: a ghostbuster's ghost.
Speaker 3: If you're an Uber driver, are you gonna pick up
Speaker 3: somebody that's got a chainsaw in their hand? Would you
Speaker 3: pick up a hiker if he's carrying a chainsaw?
Speaker 1: Put it in the trunk? I mean you don't really
Speaker 1: get in you know, why are you sitting next to
Speaker 1: me in the past.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of the old bud Light commercial, back
Speaker 3: when bud Light was cool and had really good commercials,
Speaker 3: and they had one where this guy and this girl
Speaker 3: are driving down the road. It's dark, it's night, and
Speaker 3: there's a dude standing on the side of the road
Speaker 3: and he's gotta he's got an axe and he's got
Speaker 3: a he's got an axe in one hand and a
Speaker 3: six pack of bud Light in the other. And the
Speaker 3: guy looks at the girl and says, hey, let's let's
Speaker 3: give this guy a ride, and she goes, he's got
Speaker 3: an axe. He goes and he's got a six pack
Speaker 3: of bud Light and she throws him in the back right. Well,
Speaker 3: then drive down the road again and there's a dude
Speaker 3: standing with a six pack of bud Light and.
Speaker 2: A chainsaw and.
Speaker 3: Same deal, and the guy says, hey, let's let's give
Speaker 3: this guy ride and and uh the uh he goes,
Speaker 3: he's got a six pack of bud Light and the
Speaker 3: guy with the axis, you've.
Speaker 2: Got a chainsaw too. Don't pick him up. I didn't
Speaker 2: make it sounds good, but it's funny.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm picking that up commercials aren't the same either.
Speaker 1: Talk about that ten live lobsters, a viking drinking horn,
Speaker 1: a taxidermied rabbit, and a passenger's divorce papers all included
Speaker 1: on things left in an uber? How about twenty four
Speaker 1: cans of corn, a bucket of feta cheese, one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five hamburger sliders, one hundred and eight eggs.
Speaker 1: Talk about a lot of money one hundred and eight
Speaker 1: eggs you left in.
Speaker 2: The uber, that there's a lot of money these days.
Speaker 1: And a bouquet of one hundred red roses, and also
Speaker 1: a prescription of ozempic. All things left in an uber
Speaker 1: over their.
Speaker 2: Cup in hand. You can get a lot for that.
Speaker 1: They call Bowling Green. What is it? The ozempic capital
Speaker 1: of the country?
Speaker 2: Balling really Bowling Green?
Speaker 3: I did not know Bawling Green, Kentucky was ozempic capital
Speaker 3: of the country.
Speaker 1: A big story on that. I guess they all go
Speaker 1: to Nashville, or they don't want to go to Nashville.
Speaker 3: Gaybe it's cheap, you know, It could be that it's
Speaker 3: cheaper and Bawling Green. Some people are coming in from Nashville,
Speaker 3: which is what could make Because I hear the you
Speaker 3: can get botox and stuff cheaper some some places in
Speaker 3: eastern Kentucky. There are people that go to Eastern Seriously,
Speaker 3: I've heard that.
Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, there's like I'm going, I'm going.
Speaker 3: I don't know where it is, Louisa or Hazard whatever,
Speaker 3: because there's there's someplace there where they give a.
Speaker 2: Deal on it.
Speaker 1: Oh, as long as it's cheaper. As long as it's cheaper,
Speaker 1: I guess here's a sports topic for you. Officer John J.
Speaker 1: T Toppin has decided to stay at Texas Tech. He
Speaker 1: was the Big twelve player of the year, but in
Speaker 1: the transfer portal era none. It's not that simple. And
Speaker 1: it is estimated that he's being paid four million dollars
Speaker 1: in name, image and likeness to stay at Texas Tech
Speaker 1: next year. That is more than many of the rookie
Speaker 1: contracts guys will make in the NBA.
Speaker 3: How's that working out? I haven't kept up with that.
Speaker 3: So how is all this paying them working out? What's
Speaker 3: your opinion?
Speaker 2: Billy Up?
Speaker 1: We're in the wild West. We are in a time
Speaker 1: where there are no rules. Now this week there is
Speaker 1: supposed to be a settlement where there will be much
Speaker 1: more ironclad rules in place. When it comes to caps
Speaker 1: about how many how much money each person can make
Speaker 1: the college's district uting the money instead of random businesses.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of change coming to this space, but
Speaker 1: right now it is just absolutely insane. And when you
Speaker 1: see numbers that a kid is getting four million dollars
Speaker 1: to stay out of school one it just think about that.
Speaker 1: In the eighties, Officer don these kids that can't even
Speaker 1: get a chocolate bar.
Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't give them anything.
Speaker 1: Givens I can barely eat, and he's winning national championships
Speaker 1: for the Cats. Now they get upwards of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to stay at their schools. It is incredible.
Speaker 2: What about their grains they care anymore? Is that even
Speaker 2: an issue?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that the biggest joke they had.
Speaker 3: You know, they always had tutors. I knew this was
Speaker 3: like people would I'm doing the homework for the UK
Speaker 3: basketball players or whatever you whatever that happened. We know
Speaker 3: this right sure, but so but now they didn't talk
Speaker 3: about grades, right.
Speaker 1: It's still a thing. I think, you know, there there's
Speaker 1: a sense of pride when the UK Athletic Department releases
Speaker 1: the dean's lists or whatever of these cumulative GPAs of
Speaker 1: the football and basketball teams. But let's be honest. I mean,
Speaker 1: these professional sports college sports are now professional sports now,
Speaker 1: and they can make money like this and with the
Speaker 1: freedom of movement. So you know, I almost envy you
Speaker 1: to a degree, not knowing the details of adult and likeness.
Speaker 2: Don't don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: When I when I saw this going down, I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is this is going to get chaotic? You know, really,
Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense, but you know, I guess
Speaker 3: it's just the thing it is.
Speaker 2: It is weird.
Speaker 3: It's sort of like pot in a lot of places.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a day you're locking everybody up for
Speaker 3: you know pot. Yeah, now it's like, no, everybody's you know,
Speaker 3: it's okay. I guess you know so, And it's a
Speaker 3: change some such a change for these guys too. I mean,
Speaker 3: what what what what do the NCAA police do now?
Speaker 1: Nothing that they can't do much of anything right now.
Speaker 1: It is. It will change though in the next week
Speaker 1: or two. I mean it will. I mean, have this
Speaker 1: conversation a month from now, don and it's very, very different.
Speaker 1: So we're going to see a lot of change. But
Speaker 1: I see a number like four million dollars, and I'm.
Speaker 3: This is a stupid question. Is it play any factor
Speaker 3: while the SEC was so strong? Is there more of
Speaker 3: that money available in our conference than others?
Speaker 2: Well? I looked at that.
Speaker 1: I think that's there's a couple factors there. One, I
Speaker 1: think it's the commitment to the sport by the administrations. Right,
Speaker 1: there's going to be coaches more money right in there.
Speaker 1: But also the there's a lot more parody when it
Speaker 1: comes to the bigger program schools. I think the mid
Speaker 1: majors are seeing their best talented players go to middle
Speaker 1: or bottom of the road SEC teams and that makes
Speaker 1: the conference as a whole a lot better. So, wow,
Speaker 1: what a year was for the SEC though, I mean,
Speaker 1: fourteen teams in the tournament, seven in the sweet sixteen,
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 3: And then I really did wonder that as part of it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I wonder if it's if the way
Speaker 3: this is being distributed, these schools just have got the bucks,
Speaker 3: you know, to I don't know, that's just a question
Speaker 3: I had in my head why it was so strong.
Speaker 1: Well, what they're the next problem is is how these
Speaker 1: schools will distribute the money. So like we'll give thirty
Speaker 1: percent of our money to the football program, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty percent to the basketball program. Will do ten percent
Speaker 1: to women's basketball, maybe a ten to volleyball. There are
Speaker 1: going to be sports that are left out, right, and
Speaker 1: what does your university value more? And it's and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting because there's some basketball powers that don't
Speaker 1: have a football team, right, and they can put more
Speaker 1: money into and resources into that program. But does that
Speaker 1: mean we leave out some of the Olympic sports, right?
Speaker 1: I mean they're not going to get a lot of
Speaker 1: the revenue sharing. I don't think so. A lot's going
Speaker 1: to change. Officer don just like your career going from
Speaker 1: radio host to police detective and to traffic cop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta roll with the changes. That is.
Speaker 3: That is like the best life advice you can give
Speaker 3: is you know, when you realize you can't control something
Speaker 3: if you don't like it, unless it's like immoral or illegal,
Speaker 3: just roll with it.
Speaker 2: Just roll with a bunch of what is right? What
Speaker 2: are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Get a friend with a boat, you know, that's right.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mooch, mooch, that's Billy's thing.
Speaker 1: That's for a couple of gambling picks.
Speaker 3: Search is mooch, you know, but don't ask me anything
Speaker 3: about a gambling pick because it's not gonna go well
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: Eight five nine two two two eight seven. Let's take
Speaker 1: a quick call before we take our final break. Free
Speaker 1: Bird is on the line. What's up, free Bird?
Speaker 2: Hey? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 4: Hey? I was gonna say, don I was.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was working out in Breaking Ridge County last week.
Speaker 4: I please, I worked for a coming. We we did
Speaker 4: character education books for first graders and fourth graders and
Speaker 4: we uh shoot them out to the schools. So we
Speaker 4: got books there a Saint Romuel and uh I went
Speaker 4: to school with Lindsay Wilson. So I went to school
Speaker 4: with quite a few people there, man, Jerry Lucas and
Speaker 4: Ricky Caster and uh uh we do with uh uh
Speaker 4: Donny Butler at First State Bank down there.
Speaker 3: Yep, I know mister Lucas too. They are good people.
Speaker 3: And of course Saint Romuel. That was always our our competition,
Speaker 3: that was your competition.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They you want to you want to date the girls
Speaker 3: from Saint Romiel. They for some reason, they were just prettier.
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but that's sort of what we thought, right,
Speaker 3: This is just.
Speaker 4: Different thought out there. Don't quite a few people down there.
Speaker 4: But uh, a very great show today. Glad you came
Speaker 4: on board. Officer done well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, man, be safe, thank you free bird. A
Speaker 1: small world out there.
Speaker 2: It is in a small world.
Speaker 3: You know, you know who you're gonna bump into, right,
Speaker 3: I mean you remember that, Billy when you make people.
Speaker 2: Man, that's right.
Speaker 1: Don't burn bridges, right, because.
Speaker 2: Be working for me someday. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a tough problem for you, not burning bridges,
Speaker 1: because I know you like to pop off on people.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been doing that a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Like whatever, Man, Plus realize half the time I pop up,
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. So once you realize that, you start shutting
Speaker 3: your mouth.
Speaker 1: Oh not me, I'll just keep doing it.
Speaker 2: You're not there yet, you know.
Speaker 1: Just keep shouting at the world. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a break. A five nine two two two eight seven.
Speaker 1: One more segment to go with Officer don He's been
Speaker 1: very gracious with his time. We appreciate him. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back here on the KSPI.
Speaker 2: Man who picture bumper music? I like that?
Speaker 1: That's our guy Rick Ryder little Zezy Top and Rick
Speaker 1: always does a great job with the music.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: That's the voice of Officer Don from ninety eight one
Speaker 1: The Bowl. He's joined us for one final segment here
Speaker 1: on this Thursday edition of the show, and we like
Speaker 1: to say you got Corey priced when a guest comes
Speaker 1: in and our guy Corey finds old photos of our guest,
Speaker 1: and we got a senior photo of Officer Don that
Speaker 1: I've just shared on my Twitter account. But we also
Speaker 1: got a picture from nineteen eighty four of Officer Don
Speaker 1: dressing up as Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 2: Oh it's not Mickey Mouse. I got to correct. You
Speaker 2: got us in trouble.
Speaker 1: It's the scariest look in Mickey Mouse costume I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's like the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 2: What do you call it?
Speaker 3: Well, we wanted a mascot for the radio station, so
Speaker 3: we decided we would use Mickey Mouse. But Disney found
Speaker 3: out about it and was like, you can't just an issue.
Speaker 3: It's an issue. So we called him Dickey Mouse. So
Speaker 3: I was Dickey Mouse, and I would go to places
Speaker 3: like Hogwalla, Kentucky, and you know, I would be.
Speaker 2: Hey boys and girls Dickey.
Speaker 3: Mouse, you know, but you're right, it was half the
Speaker 3: kids were terrified of it. And there's another terrible story
Speaker 3: with that, because there was a crazy lady in our
Speaker 3: hometown that claimed that I like groped her while I
Speaker 3: was in my Dickey Mouse out. Went to the general managers, like,
Speaker 3: you know, he touched me in appropriately in this thing,
Speaker 3: and I'm like what I said, Look, I have opposing
Speaker 3: thumbs are mints.
Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm bumping into this thing. I
Speaker 2: can't see you know, have you ever been one of
Speaker 2: those things? No, you can't imagine you're trying to see them.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't have a clue. The lady's crazy.
Speaker 2: Turn out, she was crazy, you know, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: So you guys needed a mascot for the station, and
Speaker 1: we made it and you found the scariest Mickey Mouse costume.
Speaker 2: That's how That's what I did.
Speaker 1: And you go around to Kentucky town hearing the kids
Speaker 1: groping women.
Speaker 2: I know there was no groping. I'm just that's that
Speaker 2: was wow.
Speaker 3: A terrible time, but thank goodness that turned out to
Speaker 3: work out. Yeah, Dickey Mouse from Hogwallow, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: Officer Don's reaction when I showed him that photo was priceless.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've been looking for a photo of that forever,
Speaker 3: so I'm glad that he who passed it on to
Speaker 3: Corey Price.
Speaker 2: Corey, thank you, Corey Price. I don't know where you
Speaker 2: found that.
Speaker 1: He does great work, but do me a favorite.
Speaker 2: Quit looking. I don't want you to find anything.
Speaker 1: At Billy R Sports if you'd like to see that
Speaker 1: photo of Officer Don. Uh. Donnie, We just got a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes left here, and I want to say
Speaker 1: thank you for joining the show, but not only that,
Speaker 1: thank you for the conversations over the years. You've been
Speaker 1: a bit of a mentor to me over the years.
Speaker 1: I'm about to turn thirty next month. If you were
Speaker 1: to tell your thirty year old's self anything, what would you.
Speaker 3: Tell, Man, That's that's a hard one. Just I would say,
Speaker 3: keep your mouth shut. But you don't need to do that,
Speaker 3: cause it's what you do for a living.
Speaker 2: I don't any but I.
Speaker 3: Will tell you this, man, I did come to you
Speaker 3: a few years ago and I told you how much
Speaker 3: talent you have because you were like board opping then
Speaker 3: and I was like, man, you need to do this.
Speaker 3: All you got to do is get yourself out there
Speaker 3: and you're gonna do big things. You keep doing big things.
Speaker 3: And I'm not just stucking up to you. I've I've
Speaker 3: always been a fan billy. You're pretty sharp.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I really appreciated that, and we'll go
Speaker 1: we'll go back to insult. Well yeah, we'll go back
Speaker 1: to the insults in just a second. But the advice
Speaker 1: that you've given me over the years has been priceless.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that. I do, I do mean it,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. So now what are you off to do? Like,
Speaker 1: what's soft sir Don's day look like?
Speaker 2: Well, in just a minute, I have to interview Lee Bryce.
Speaker 2: You know who that is.
Speaker 3: Nope, that's a big famous country stars. I had seven
Speaker 3: number one hitsies coming elects an opera house. So I'm
Speaker 3: going to go in there and talk to Lee a
Speaker 3: little bit and then we're going to air that in
Speaker 3: the morning. That's that's a cool part about that job.
Speaker 3: You know, you get to hobnob with these folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talked to with celebrities. You know, Shannon does a
Speaker 1: lot of that phone interviews with rock stars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of cool. You know, and the country
Speaker 3: music culture is like that still. It really is sort
Speaker 3: of old school those. I can't think of anyone other, Well,
Speaker 3: there's maybe one that's a that's a jerk in that
Speaker 3: business of the people always ask me that, you know,
Speaker 3: what's Luke Brian, Like, what's Blake Shelton? Like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good people, they really are.
Speaker 3: At least they fake it really well because it's you know,
Speaker 3: they have to maybe Oh God, bless your heart, it's
Speaker 3: the culture, but they really do mean it.
Speaker 2: There's a couple every once in a while the will,
Speaker 2: you know, be sort of jerks.
Speaker 1: You still find a lot of purpose in your job?
Speaker 2: Is it disc jockey?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, oh it's purpose disc jockey. No, it's fun.
Speaker 3: The purpose the thing with my job It is fun,
Speaker 3: so and and and that's cool long as you don't
Speaker 3: take it too seriously. But yeah, it's it's I'm very, very,
Speaker 3: very fortunate, man. I've got to do fun things my
Speaker 3: whole life. Helicopter, pilot, cop, motorcycle cop. That was my
Speaker 3: favorite thing, uh, being radio, you know, so I'm I'm
Speaker 3: very fortunate.
Speaker 1: And what time does your show air? Like if listeners
Speaker 1: wanted to hear more of outser done.
Speaker 2: Well, don't listen between six and seven because.
Speaker 3: I'm or nine and really tired nine in ten, So yeah,
Speaker 3: don't listen to nine and ten because that affects billy.
Speaker 2: But how about just do seven to.
Speaker 1: Nine, seven to nine, yeah, and on the bowlder that
Speaker 1: will work.
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna all get along together that way.
Speaker 1: Were you always a country music fan or did it
Speaker 1: kind of?
Speaker 2: I like it. I like good music. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I really do. I like good music.
Speaker 3: So if it's if it's if it's good, I'm cool with.
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna have to tell me some of these
Speaker 1: stories off the air about these country music jerks.
Speaker 2: Oh there's only a couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only Luke Comb's and what he told you
Speaker 1: on the phone that one day, or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, don't throw Luke out there. Luke's a good guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's a couple out there.
Speaker 1: Okay, months all right, all right, Well, one of these
Speaker 1: days you'll be playing shann the Dude's music on your station.
Speaker 1: Not very country, but he's got his own okay as.
Speaker 3: Well, well said seven, we'll put him on the list.
Speaker 3: I can use them for bumper music. I think they'll
Speaker 3: let me do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Hey, big thank you again you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, that's going to do it for us. Drew
Speaker 1: Pulouza is next live from Chaos Bar and Girl. I
Speaker 1: believe Adam Luckett is there. I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: join as well. Big thank you to Officer Don. I'm
Speaker 1: Billy Rutlers. This has been the Chaos Are Pretty Shop