Episode 39 - It's The News
Interrupted by Matt Jones
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Matt is joined by Drew and Billy to discuss the 9 biggest news stories of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is interrupted by Matt Jones on News Radio 840 WHAS. |
| 0:06.9 | Now here's Matt Jones. |
| 0:10.2 | It's episode 39 of the Interrupted by Matt Jones podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | We are on the heels of an election night across Kentucky and other states. |
| 0:24.7 | And, you know, it's impossible to really keep up with what all is going on in the world. |
| 0:29.3 | So that's why we do news. |
| 0:32.4 | It's the news with Billy R. Sports. |
| 0:35.1 | Drew is here. |
| 0:36.4 | Drew, you know, you have, it's been a little while. |
| 0:39.7 | So you probably don't know any news. Oh, not at all. Don't have a single clue what's going on. |
| 0:45.2 | So what's happened in the world, Billy? Yeah, there's not very few things. Okay. The good thing is |
| 0:50.2 | it's always very calm and stable in the world. But Billy, how many news items do you have? We got to nine this time. So there are nine things happening. What is it that keeps you from getting 10? Because 10 is the amount that we try to do, but you like to stop at eight or nine. Is it just, you just don't want to get to 10? I peter out. I just, I work really hard on these, and then by eight or nine, I'm just kind of... |
| 1:13.1 | We've talked a lot recently about the history of words. Where do you think I peter out comes from? Like, I mean, it threw me off when he said it. I don't hear that. I mean, I've heard that phrase. Yeah, I don't exist, but I don't hear about it. But like there's not a verb to Peter. |
| 1:27.3 | No, I think it was one of your Appalachian phrases that you talked about. |
| 1:29.7 | I know, but where do't hear about it. But like, there's not a verb to Peter. No, I think it was one of |
| 1:28.3 | your Appalachian phrases that I know, but where do you, where do you think that came from? He petered out. I don't have a clue. I don't know. I don't exist. That could have been your 10th, that could have been your 10th topic. I think we do a random 10th topic. Didn't you, you pick one randomly from Twitter last time, Matt, we got to get to 10. |
| 1:44.7 | Who wants to listen to a top nine? |
| 1:47.0 | Nobody, nobody does. random 10th topic. Maybe didn't you, you pick one randomly from Twitter last time, Matt? We got to get to 10. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah. Who wants to listen to a top 9? Nobody, nobody does top 9. But that's okay. We'll do 9 and just |
| 1:50.9 | know that people are not going to know the 10th most important thing. Let's get started. What's up first? |
| 1:56.3 | It's the news. Well, you alluded to it, Matt. A Tuesday earlier this week was primary election day in six |
| 2:02.2 | different states, including Kentucky. Some takeaways. Several Republicans who have opposed Trump |
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