Joe Sonka

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

Sports

2.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Matt Jones Podcast welcomes on Joe Sonka, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Courier-Journal, to break down the recent protests in Louisville and this week's Senate race.Highlights: Recent criticism of Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer coming from both sides of the aisle The latest in the Breonna Taylor case Will the officers involved be charged? If not, will another run of protests and/or riots come to fruition? Andy Beshear's response to COVID-19 and public support Breaking down the candidates of Kentucky's Senate race Charles Booker's quick rise in support Does Matt regret not running? Who will win on Tuesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I was gambling in Havana.
0:17.0	I took a little risk.
0:25.0	Said lawyers, guns and money. Get me out of this.
0:27.0	Welcome everybody to episode 80 of the Matt Jones podcast here on a Monday. We're taping this just so you know
0:36.2	Monday about 3 o'clock. I'll say that because a lot of this information we're
0:40.8	going to give you is about the election which is tomorrow on Tuesday.
0:44.0	So some of you listen to this over the course of two or three days,
0:46.0	and if anything we say sounds stupid,
0:49.0	you can just blame it on the fact that it was Monday
0:51.0	at about 3 o'clock.
0:52.0	But I'm joined by Joe Sonka, who is a writer for
0:56.2	the Courier Journal, and also a Pulitzer Prize winner, which is a new thing.
1:02.6	And Joe, let me start by congratulating you.
1:05.7	You know, for people in your field,
1:07.7	there is no bigger honor than winning the Pulitzer Prize.
1:10.8	What did that mean to you when you had it got it?
1:14.8	Still hasn't really sunk in on me that that actually happened but I'm and
1:20.2	maybe a couple years from now it'll little sink in on me, but it was it was pretty mind-blowing.
1:26.0	Well, I mean, listen, it was for the Matt Bevin pardon stuff, right?
1:30.0	Yes, which was all the more interesting based on what he told me about winning a Pulitzer.
1:37.0	Well, no, tell that story. That's a great story. So initially the story comes out.
1:41.2	Matt Bevin has given pardons and some of them have gone to people who are
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Jones, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Matt Jones and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.