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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky and is morning news,
coffee and company with you here on News Radio eight
forty whas we are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
Happy Friday, mister Greenberg.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How we doing doing really well this morning. It's been
a good week and it should be a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No doubt about it. I wanted to start with the
news yesterday. Obviously, a big decision to a point for
the second second term Ed Harness as the Louisville Inspector General. Obviously,
I think, folks, and we've talked about it quite a
bit the last couple of days as far as what
this role is and sort of what the purpose of
it is. But your decision to nominate for a second
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term here tell us a little bit about that, and
I guess just overall how you view this position.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, the role of this position, it was created so
that if individual, if people in Louisville have a complaint
against LMPD, there's an independent office to go to to
file those complaints and to get those complaints heard and investigated.
And that's what the Office of Inspector General does. They
respond to civilian complaints that might be about LMPD, and
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so I think that accountability is very important. Chief Humphrey
and I are working incredibly hard to make improvements every
day with LMPD, with all of Louisville Metro government. We're
making great progress and doing that all at the same
time reducing violent crime, and we all want to be
held accountable. We think that's an important part of rebuilding trust.
And so I reappointed mister Harness to continue in that
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role with sort of that independent oversight response mechanism that
he has, And in the meantime, Chief Humphrey is going
to keep leading LMPD, keep making reforms and improvements every day.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Mary Greenberger is our guest joining us here on News
Radio eight forty Whas I know, there was an announcement
at the Community Care campus this week, and for those
who have not been caught up on that, tell us
a little bit about what the announcement is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Sure, So, you know, when I first became mayor,
even before as mayor, we all knew we had a
very significant challenge in our community with too many people
who were homeless, and many people are homeless on the
streets because they're also struggling from addiction. They're also struggling
with mental health illness, and they don't have a place
to call home. All of those are related and combined,
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and so I have this concept to create the Community
Care Campus. We partnered with Volunteers of America, which is
a wonderful organization that does great work in this community
for many years, and together with our cities funding and
support and their leadership, this is going to be a
place that provides housing and healthcare for individuals who are
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homeless or experiencing homeless. Right now, we have a temporary
family shelter that's up there and so fifteen families right
now are living there with services were helpful. Where that's
going to become permanent. We're going to also in partnership
with the YMCA that we announced this week, we're going
to be able to help teenagers that are homeless. They
might get out of the foster care system and have
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nowhere to go, and so we can help them get
a new path on life. And also something called medical respite,
which means if you're homeless and you end up in
the hospital and then you're released because you don't need
to be the homeless in the hospital anymore. This is
a way for you to gain your strength, fact help
you get back on the right path so you don't
end up back on the streets after you've been in
the hospital. So it's a really comprehensive approach, it's innovative.
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I think it's going to be a national model for
one of the many things that we're doing to reduce
the number of homeless people who are living in our community.
And I think you've seen great progress on that over
the last three years since I've been mayor. We've got
a lot more to do, and this is one of
the big things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Another thing we've seen progress in is just crime reduction.
Violent crime reduction and getting guns off the street. That's
a big factor in reducing violent crime. When guns aren't
involved again, it obviously is going to help. And I
know we've had this. I've brought this up a few
times when we've talked, and I know you never want
to make it seem as if you know that there's
still not going to be issues. There's always going to
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be issues regardless, because that's just life. But I think
I really appreciate Chief Humphrey is as far as how
he laid it out a couple of weeks ago that
there really is no finish line, but also we should
acknowledge that there is improvements being made and probably being
felt by those in the community, and that's what we want.
Right Obviously, there's never going to be a situation where
it's perfect, but I think we should always acknowledge whenever
there's progress made here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I totally agree. I mean, we're making great progress. You know,
homicides and shootings are down over twenty five percent this
year alone. That is great progress. But we still have
a lot more work to do, and that's why Chief
Humphrey continues to lead LMPD in the right direction. We
have a new recruiting class that's starting in a couple
of weeks that I'm really excited about with the numbers
that we've been able to get of new recruits back
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to LMPD after many years of people not wanting to
be a member of that police department. Now they're coming
back in droves and we're restocking and you know where
we're adding to the number of police officers. We were
looking to hire two hundred more officers to work on
preventing crime from happening in the first place. We're also
using new technology. I don't know if you've seen Nick
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about these new drones that we're using. You can get
to the scene for crime or a fire before the
first responder. Those are going to be incredibly helpful. We've
used them successfully already a little bit in a couple
of pilot projects, and we're excited to just continue to
roll that out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So the last time we talked, we did not have
a UFL team just yet. Now we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm so excited about this. It's just just just to
see a pro football team here. I mean, but I'm
a huge sportsman. I know a lot of people in
this community are. But it's just cool for the city
to have something like this to where this is where
this club wanted to come. Was what was your involvement?
How much selling did you have to do or did
they just say, hey, we want to be in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, we worked with Low City and the soccer team
and a little bit in their efforts to recruit the
team here. As you heard though, Mikeropole, you know he's
a decision maker and he saw the stadium when he
was in town for the Kentucky Derby. He loves Louisville.
His team did a lot of research and saw what
a great market we are for sports in so many
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different ways, whether it's going to events directly, whether it's viewership. UH.
He knew what what a great city we were, and
so we were able to sell it because of who
we are, UH and and what we do. So I'm
incredibly excited for the Louisville Kings. It's gonna be a
great UH season next season. I think Lynn's Family Stadium
will be full of people that are enjoying football next
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March through June and and and so it's it's gonna
be really fun. I'm glad it gives us something else
to cheer for, and we're gonna we're working right now
to bring either more teams or more international sporting events
to the city. Louisville loves it, Louisville shines. We're great
at welcoming the world, and so we're all in in
this area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I'd tell you what the we need. I mean,
we do a lot of things well when it comes
to hosting big events, but on the sports side, there's
no doubt we've we've we've excelled there for for many,
many years, and I when when this announcement happened, I
thought to myself, you know, it was kind of a surprise.
We haven't been in this situation. Not that every day
there's there's a professional team looking to find a home.
But I'm happy to know that that Ropol and his
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team looked at Louisville. It's the perfect fit in the stadium.
I mean, I think if you've yet to go to
Lynn Family Stadium because you just are not a big
soccer fan, or maybe you just haven't been able to.
I don't know if people who who've never been, they
don't realize how beautiful it is, not only from I
mean clearly looks beautiful from the interstate, but inside, I
mean it is such a phenomenal facility. Obviously many soccer
games hosted there throughout the year, but to add football,
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it's just going to get more people out to see
what a great jewel we have in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, it's an amazing stadium. Whether you're watching Low City
or Racing, both are great teams. The postseasons coming up,
I would encourage people to go out there and check
it out, whether you've been before and just want to
go back or whether you've never been before, because it's
a really unique experience. It's a very intimate feeling. You're
there's not a single bad seat in the entire stadium.
It's really exciting, and you know, it's it's a wonderful
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family friendly event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So the two fan bases, and again, I know there's
people in the city that are that are that are
fans of other programs, but obviously a lot of Lowell
Cardinal fans here in Louisville, and certainly a lot of
Kentucky Wildcat fans as well. I'm hopeful that this could
be maybe the first thing that we come we come
together collectively together and cherwell for one team, because the
power we would have if we came together to support
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one team. Obviously that'll never happen with the Cards and
the Cats, but we've got a lot of passionate fans
of sports, specially football around here, and that's my hope
is that we really show the UFL that we were
the perfect city for them. You know, about than anybody,
there's a lot of Kentucky fans and Louisville fans here.
We coexist together. That's what makes the rivalry so special.
Specifically here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's right. We can all put on the green for
the Louisville Kings and it'll be wonderful events. I mean,
speaking of which, big big night tonight with the Cardinals.
A lot I know a lot of folks went down
to Miami for that game. I know we're an underdog,
but coach Brohms got the team ready. I'm excited about that.
And this week was the tip off luncheon for the
u of L women's and men's basketball teams, and so
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I mean, it's gonna be great, great fall for all
of us sports fans here in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No doubt. A lot of great energy surrounding UL athletics
right now, and I think a lot of that starts
with the great work that Josh Hurd has done. Just
really again, the energy and the vibes are at a
level I haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Josh is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's done a great job. So yeah, tonight a tall task.
I'll leave you with this stat that I'm sure you're
aware of because I know you're big louisvill fan, But
Jeff Brum has one of the most impressive and really
just crazy stats. Ever, in this spot where he is
unranked as a head coach, his team's unranked, and he's
playing a top three team, he's three and oher, which
again going to be a tough task tonight to keep
that going. But isn't that one of the craziest stats
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you've ever heard. It speaks to him having these guys
ready to play.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Think I did not know that stat. But here's the
four Oh yeah, let's go card.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Absolutely, Thank you as always, Mary Greenberg, We appreciate your time,
enjoy your day and have a good weeknd my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thanks, thank you too.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Thank that's little.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Mayor Craig Greenberg joining us here on News Radio eight
forty whas. All right, quick tom out, we'll see how
the roadways are looking here. Also, we've got another update
of the weather. We'll get that with Matt Melosa bitch
a woky So stick around right here. It's News RADI
forty whas. It is eight thirty six. Here there's ready
to wait forty whas. Happy Friday, everybody. Friday vibes are
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in full effect here in the has studios, which is
the way it should be on a Friday. But Scott,
before you get out, of here. I'll start with how
hungry are you right now?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'm I'm so starved. I'm starved. I want a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh yeah, you can't even have coffee, no.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because it throws off your cholesterol epids.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So Scott's got a check up coming up here soon,
and it's soon so you will be able to eat.
But obviously, when you get lad work done, that kind
of stuff, you're not supposed to eat for a certain
amount of time. And it just reminded me of the
version of you I see every day now that I
used to see every morning when we were across the
hall from each other, that I really wouldn't recognize if
that vision walked in. And you did something that most
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would love to be able to do. But it's hard,
it's not easy. You've completely transform your I mean, you
lost how many how much overall of you? Over one pounds,
over one hundred pounds, you wall and you did what
I mean. The route in doing that is absolutely being
able to completely change your lifestyle, which is way more difficult,
difficult than anybody would ever know if you've never tried it.
(11:10):
But first of all, props to you for doing that.
What would you say to those that have for years
put off making substantial changes in their life to be
happier and healthier, because you are the living example of it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Don't ever quit. Do not ever quit.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was a smoker while I was in the military
and I was dating the girls. She told me, it's
a cigarettes or me and had I remember I was
coaching baseball. I was doing a Walder mathout thing. I
left the pack of cigarettes up on the dugout May
twenty second, nineteen ninety five, and I put them down
and never looked back.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Really cold turkey, dude. And it wasn't easy.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
But the thing is, you got to have motivation and
you've got to find what drives you. And so many
people have asked me since I lost the weight, how
did you do it?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I said, I can tell you, but you're not me,
and our bodies are so different that you need to one.
Get yourself a fantastic doctor, like I'm getting ready to
go see now over you about health. He's amazing and
he's helped me through this and he wasn't preaching to
me at all, and he basically taught me the basics
of what todayidance. Yeah, and yeah, and just said this
is the way. But I'm not saying it was easy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'll sell you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
The toughest two times for me was when when you
first start the weight loss journey you have to put
the alcohol down and the fight night was on it.
I'm I'm an admitted beer snob. I love my beer
and I like the good stuff. Watching that fight as
I was stirring my jello was painful. And that's that
was about the point where I almost said, I'm done.
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But I'm not doing this.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But it has to become because I think every human
to an extent so much more than others, are fueled
by competition, competing, the element of competition, and sometimes the
biggest competitions you have are with yourself, and that's and
that's so there's got to be some fuel there to
where you're in a battle and you're you know, you're trying,
because it's it's it's a long term play. It's not
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like you know, it's not a fad, it's not a
six weeks thing. You legitimately have to live your life differently, seemingly,
not every day, but ninety eight percent of the time
compared to how you've lived your life maybe for thirty
forty years, depending on how old you are. And that's
why I think you know, you see people that do
make progress, but like you have to just completely be
a different version of yourself.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I will tell you, and it sounds cliche, but you
have to find the days. I can tell you the
number of times I was at the gym and I said,
this is not happening today.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I just I'm overgard Yeah, I'm going home.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I can, but I had to dig and find that
deep part of myself and go do it. And it
sounds cliche, but once you do it, you will feel
better and you get to that magical point. I was
telling you off the year I take my daily walks
in Shelby Park and I get my steps in. It
was a lady and I applaud her one hundred percent
for getting out there and trying to make a change.
I've seen a lot of these people, especially with the
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weather nice to get out and she was running. She'd
run and then she'd stop and then she'd run. And
she was a heavier lady. And I wanted to say, ma'am,
just find yourself. A nutrition is find yourself somewhere and
because your body's not built to sustain to run like
this right now, you'll get there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And if you want to run, that's great.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I tried the running thing for a while and I
found out that I got the same results from walking
and walking outdoors. I will never go back to another gym.
When we had that bout of that two days of rain.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh yeah, you better believe.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I was out in Shelby Park walk and get my
steps in with my umbrella and I got a pair
of frog dogs.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But you did. What I'm trying to say is you
got to find what.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Works for you everything in life that certain things are
gonna work't compare others.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Don't compare me with you. You gotta find more. And
if this works for that, lady, run a little bit.
Stopping by all.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Means do it in the day. And again I'm not
shaming anybody who's doing whatever they can to find ways
to live happier and healthier. But you know, you kind
of like cold Turkey, just completely forgetting about cigarettes and
and that's difficult to do for a lot of people.
You didn't have some crazy new diet that was the craze.
You're you're not on any kind of supplements that are
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going to completely just have you start shredding fat. You
just over time, you know, made those changes, put the
work in, and you got the results, and that's got
to be a different level of of the reward that
comes with it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I also, yeah, to your point.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I also found out it reminded me of the days
when we were having my daughter, our first child. I
got advice from everybody and their brother, and I eventually
settled in on what worked with me. It was a
lot of trial and there, a lot of frustrating days
of being really really hungry and getting on the scale
week later and realizing that the scale actually went up,
and I'm like, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I had to do a lot of homework, a lot
of homework, and then you realize how your body works.
But it was how my body worked?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
What what? Because when did this all start?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
When when did you first?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was? This?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
The first step is Friday. I did on Good Friday.
I started on Good Friday year. What was it too?
I forget now?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Was it post pandemic?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, it was post pandemic, But I thought Good Friday
is as good as time as because I remember I
remember going Okay, Derby's coming up. I want to get
this started because I do want to allow myself some
gravity to move about. And I found out and now
to your point, Nick, once I've done all this, I
still enjoy my beer. I still indulge Saturdays my day
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of Gluttney. I just I eat good foods, but I
eat clean too. So it's a never ending battle. You
have to not only find out what you need to
eat and what you have to eat.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And it's not all.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You don't have to go out and eat grass and
leaves and trees to do this, but then you have
to realize what works for you physically and just people
think I'm going to get out and just work my
cardio and get my my beats permitted up to eighty two,
eighty three, eighty five.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
If that works for you, that's fine. I didn't need
to do that.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Initially I did to bring the weight down, sure, but
now I'm in maintenance.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Now you're you know you're You've just changed your lifestyle
the way you can maintain where you are because the
things that Yeah, no last question for you. Could talk
about this all day, because I just know that there's
there's people out there that can take something from hearing
this your your wife, obviously, that's I know why there
are certain people who claim, hey, you know, if my
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husband or my wife, if they if they if they
pitch in and try to also be mindful of what
I'm doing, or maybe they try to lose weight as well.
Like that can go a long way because you share
life with this person. Therefore, if you're making these big
sacrifices and changes, it could impact them as well. And
I just think the support that you have from your
significant other can can be a big factor in this
working for people.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Well, that's true, and I'm glad you brought that up
because she actually lost a lot of weight and that
kind of led me to go, Okay, let me do
this because she said, the kids are getting ready to
leave the house. I want you and I to be
able to travel, so let's work this out. But I
will say this, when you do lose as much weight
as I lost.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And do what f one hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
By the way, Dwight Waiting will attest to this too,
he went to a major weight loss. There are people
out there. I have people tell me do you have cancer?
I've had people talk behind my back. I've had people
come up to me and say, I talked to so
and so, and then they passive aggressively approach you and go,
I'm just saying so and so thinks that something's wrong
with you, and I just kind of smile and I go,
there's nothing wrong with the gang. I'm just living better
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and I feel beat and I don't. I don't snore
it not anymore, much to my wife's delight.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Maybe that's her biggest win in the whole thing, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
What she's happy by. She used to complain all the
time about my snoring. But long story short, before we
get out of here, just youve got to find your
own motivation and if it's not there one hundred percent today,
pick it back up when you feel it. There's no
timetable for this. Follow your lead, Follow your lead, do you,
as I like.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
To say, Good stuff, man, Congratulations to you. You're you're
living a happier and healthier life and it's a beautiful
thing to see. Yeah, go see your doctor and then
feed yourself. All right, bo, take care a great weekend,
neck you too, all right, quick time out. We'll come
back here on the other side and we'll hand it
off here soon sooner rather than later to the one
and only Tony B. Benetti and Dwhite Whitne, who was
ready to wait forty whas there's no better song to
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end the show on a Friday than this one. I'm
gonna put you guys on the spot, and I may
I may have already told you. Do you all know
what the song's from?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It sounds like a nineteen eighties Goofy movie.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Any any clue, no clue? So I don't even know
if this this is back whenever they would actually just
put together musicians artist bands to specifically work together, not
as a touring group putting out an album, but to
create a soundtrack for a movie. Oh yeah, this isn't
like a big name guy. In fact, John, does it
show you who it is? On there? I don't know
if you can hear or not, but anyways, it's from
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the movie basketball Team when they're when they're partying at
like the dance, this song comes on and teen Wolfe's
my favorite movie of all time and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Stop it wolves out during a game.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
But the song's great now that you're saying it's coming
back to me from watching the movie, You're.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Great, by the way. I mean so a lot of
people say he had other good hits. Team Wolf is
Michael Michael J. Fowk's best work. I say that sarcastically,
but listen. It was the only vhs that my grandmother
had at her house when I would go over and
I walked, and I love basketball, And you know it
became a thing. Don't you remember whenever, whenever you couldn't
rely on the Internet to find any music you wanted
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for a soundtrack, you had to actually create soundtracks for movies.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Look at do I waiting right now? Isn't after he
gets famous for being the teen Wolf?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Is he not dressed exactly like the teen Wolf was
when he's surfing the he's surfing on the top.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of that band, the van on the jacket, The jacket
is absolutely with the pop callar. Yes, that's important.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And the sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, what you're saying, No, no a howl? No
he give us headphones? Honey, kind here, give us the howl?
Would you have a wolf howl? John yoldled earlier. I mean,
there we go.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, who knew that you had a very good
wolf and you was greatly I don't believe that you
didn't know you had that in your bag. I think
you were just waiting for the opportunity to let us
know that you can yodle like nobody else. Yes, all right,
we're out of time. I got to ask you, what's
your favorite soundtrack from a movie like? Can you think
of a great music? But of course, obviously the music
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was a big part of by the movie was good,
Oh God, Jesus Christ Superstar.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well, thank you, I'll answer later.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There's too many I can't do it hands down, purple rain.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Okay, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Bad.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'll come up with Tony and Dwater coming your way next.
Right here on news radio eight forty w h A. S.
Happy Friday, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky and is morning news,
coffee and company with you here on News Radio eight
forty whas we are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
Happy Friday, mister Greenberg.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How we doing doing really well this morning. It's been
a good week and it should be a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No doubt about it. I wanted to start with the
news yesterday. Obviously, a big decision to a point for
the second second term Ed Harness as the Louisville Inspector General. Obviously,
I think, folks, and we've talked about it quite a
bit the last couple of days as far as what
this role is and sort of what the purpose of
it is. But your decision to nominate for a second
(00:36):
term here tell us a little bit about that, and
I guess just overall how you view this position.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, the role of this position, it was created so
that if individual, if people in Louisville have a complaint
against LMPD, there's an independent office to go to to
file those complaints and to get those complaints heard and investigated.
And that's what the Office of Inspector General does. They
respond to civilian complaints that might be about LMPD, and
(01:06):
so I think that accountability is very important. Chief Humphrey
and I are working incredibly hard to make improvements every
day with LMPD, with all of Louisville Metro government. We're
making great progress and doing that all at the same
time reducing violent crime, and we all want to be
held accountable. We think that's an important part of rebuilding trust.
And so I reappointed mister Harness to continue in that
(01:29):
role with sort of that independent oversight response mechanism that
he has, And in the meantime, Chief Humphrey is going
to keep leading LMPD, keep making reforms and improvements every day.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Mary Greenberger is our guest joining us here on News
Radio eight forty Whas I know, there was an announcement
at the Community Care campus this week, and for those
who have not been caught up on that, tell us
a little bit about what the announcement is.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Sure, So, you know, when I first became mayor,
even before as mayor, we all knew we had a
very significant challenge in our community with too many people
who were homeless, and many people are homeless on the
streets because they're also struggling from addiction. They're also struggling
with mental health illness, and they don't have a place
to call home. All of those are related and combined,
(02:18):
and so I have this concept to create the Community
Care Campus. We partnered with Volunteers of America, which is
a wonderful organization that does great work in this community
for many years, and together with our cities funding and
support and their leadership, this is going to be a
place that provides housing and healthcare for individuals who are
(02:39):
homeless or experiencing homeless. Right now, we have a temporary
family shelter that's up there and so fifteen families right
now are living there with services were helpful. Where that's
going to become permanent. We're going to also in partnership
with the YMCA that we announced this week, we're going
to be able to help teenagers that are homeless. They
might get out of the foster care system and have
(02:59):
nowhere to go, and so we can help them get
a new path on life. And also something called medical respite,
which means if you're homeless and you end up in
the hospital and then you're released because you don't need
to be the homeless in the hospital anymore. This is
a way for you to gain your strength, fact help
you get back on the right path so you don't
end up back on the streets after you've been in
the hospital. So it's a really comprehensive approach, it's innovative.
(03:20):
I think it's going to be a national model for
one of the many things that we're doing to reduce
the number of homeless people who are living in our community.
And I think you've seen great progress on that over
the last three years since I've been mayor. We've got
a lot more to do, and this is one of
the big things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Another thing we've seen progress in is just crime reduction.
Violent crime reduction and getting guns off the street. That's
a big factor in reducing violent crime. When guns aren't
involved again, it obviously is going to help. And I
know we've had this. I've brought this up a few
times when we've talked, and I know you never want
to make it seem as if you know that there's
still not going to be issues. There's always going to
(03:55):
be issues regardless, because that's just life. But I think
I really appreciate Chief Humphrey is as far as how
he laid it out a couple of weeks ago that
there really is no finish line, but also we should
acknowledge that there is improvements being made and probably being
felt by those in the community, and that's what we want.
Right Obviously, there's never going to be a situation where
it's perfect, but I think we should always acknowledge whenever
there's progress made here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I totally agree. I mean, we're making great progress. You know,
homicides and shootings are down over twenty five percent this
year alone. That is great progress. But we still have
a lot more work to do, and that's why Chief
Humphrey continues to lead LMPD in the right direction. We
have a new recruiting class that's starting in a couple
of weeks that I'm really excited about with the numbers
that we've been able to get of new recruits back
(04:38):
to LMPD after many years of people not wanting to
be a member of that police department. Now they're coming
back in droves and we're restocking and you know where
we're adding to the number of police officers. We were
looking to hire two hundred more officers to work on
preventing crime from happening in the first place. We're also
using new technology. I don't know if you've seen Nick
(04:59):
about these new drones that we're using. You can get
to the scene for crime or a fire before the
first responder. Those are going to be incredibly helpful. We've
used them successfully already a little bit in a couple
of pilot projects, and we're excited to just continue to
roll that out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So the last time we talked, we did not have
a UFL team just yet. Now we do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm so excited about this. It's just just just to
see a pro football team here. I mean, but I'm
a huge sportsman. I know a lot of people in
this community are. But it's just cool for the city
to have something like this to where this is where
this club wanted to come. Was what was your involvement?
How much selling did you have to do or did
they just say, hey, we want to be in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, we worked with Low City and the soccer team
and a little bit in their efforts to recruit the
team here. As you heard though, Mikeropole, you know he's
a decision maker and he saw the stadium when he
was in town for the Kentucky Derby. He loves Louisville.
His team did a lot of research and saw what
a great market we are for sports in so many
(06:00):
different ways, whether it's going to events directly, whether it's viewership. UH.
He knew what what a great city we were, and
so we were able to sell it because of who
we are, UH and and what we do. So I'm
incredibly excited for the Louisville Kings. It's gonna be a
great UH season next season. I think Lynn's Family Stadium
will be full of people that are enjoying football next
(06:23):
March through June and and and so it's it's gonna
be really fun. I'm glad it gives us something else
to cheer for, and we're gonna we're working right now
to bring either more teams or more international sporting events
to the city. Louisville loves it, Louisville shines. We're great
at welcoming the world, and so we're all in in
this area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I'd tell you what the we need. I mean,
we do a lot of things well when it comes
to hosting big events, but on the sports side, there's
no doubt we've we've we've excelled there for for many,
many years, and I when when this announcement happened, I
thought to myself, you know, it was kind of a surprise.
We haven't been in this situation. Not that every day
there's there's a professional team looking to find a home.
But I'm happy to know that that Ropol and his
(07:02):
team looked at Louisville. It's the perfect fit in the stadium.
I mean, I think if you've yet to go to
Lynn Family Stadium because you just are not a big
soccer fan, or maybe you just haven't been able to.
I don't know if people who who've never been, they
don't realize how beautiful it is, not only from I
mean clearly looks beautiful from the interstate, but inside, I
mean it is such a phenomenal facility. Obviously many soccer
games hosted there throughout the year, but to add football,
(07:23):
it's just going to get more people out to see
what a great jewel we have in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, it's an amazing stadium. Whether you're watching Low City
or Racing, both are great teams. The postseasons coming up,
I would encourage people to go out there and check
it out, whether you've been before and just want to
go back or whether you've never been before, because it's
a really unique experience. It's a very intimate feeling. You're
there's not a single bad seat in the entire stadium.
It's really exciting, and you know, it's it's a wonderful
(07:51):
family friendly event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So the two fan bases, and again, I know there's
people in the city that are that are that are
fans of other programs, but obviously a lot of Lowell
Cardinal fans here in Louisville, and certainly a lot of
Kentucky Wildcat fans as well. I'm hopeful that this could
be maybe the first thing that we come we come
together collectively together and cherwell for one team, because the
power we would have if we came together to support
(08:14):
one team. Obviously that'll never happen with the Cards and
the Cats, but we've got a lot of passionate fans
of sports, specially football around here, and that's my hope
is that we really show the UFL that we were
the perfect city for them. You know, about than anybody,
there's a lot of Kentucky fans and Louisville fans here.
We coexist together. That's what makes the rivalry so special.
Specifically here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's right. We can all put on the green for
the Louisville Kings and it'll be wonderful events. I mean,
speaking of which, big big night tonight with the Cardinals.
A lot I know a lot of folks went down
to Miami for that game. I know we're an underdog,
but coach Brohms got the team ready. I'm excited about that.
And this week was the tip off luncheon for the
u of L women's and men's basketball teams, and so
(08:54):
I mean, it's gonna be great, great fall for all
of us sports fans here in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
No doubt. A lot of great energy surrounding UL athletics
right now, and I think a lot of that starts
with the great work that Josh Hurd has done. Just
really again, the energy and the vibes are at a
level I haven't seen in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Josh is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's done a great job. So yeah, tonight a tall task.
I'll leave you with this stat that I'm sure you're
aware of because I know you're big louisvill fan, But
Jeff Brum has one of the most impressive and really
just crazy stats. Ever, in this spot where he is
unranked as a head coach, his team's unranked, and he's
playing a top three team, he's three and oher, which
again going to be a tough task tonight to keep
that going. But isn't that one of the craziest stats
(09:31):
you've ever heard. It speaks to him having these guys
ready to play.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Think I did not know that stat. But here's the
four Oh yeah, let's go card.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Absolutely, Thank you as always, Mary Greenberg, We appreciate your time,
enjoy your day and have a good weeknd my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thanks, thank you too.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Thank that's little.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Mayor Craig Greenberg joining us here on News Radio eight
forty whas. All right, quick tom out, we'll see how
the roadways are looking here. Also, we've got another update
of the weather. We'll get that with Matt Melosa bitch
a woky So stick around right here. It's News RADI
forty whas. It is eight thirty six. Here there's ready
to wait forty whas. Happy Friday, everybody. Friday vibes are
(10:09):
in full effect here in the has studios, which is
the way it should be on a Friday. But Scott,
before you get out, of here. I'll start with how
hungry are you right now?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'm I'm so starved. I'm starved. I want a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh yeah, you can't even have coffee, no.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because it throws off your cholesterol epids.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So Scott's got a check up coming up here soon,
and it's soon so you will be able to eat.
But obviously, when you get lad work done, that kind
of stuff, you're not supposed to eat for a certain
amount of time. And it just reminded me of the
version of you I see every day now that I
used to see every morning when we were across the
hall from each other, that I really wouldn't recognize if
that vision walked in. And you did something that most
(10:50):
would love to be able to do. But it's hard,
it's not easy. You've completely transform your I mean, you
lost how many how much overall of you? Over one pounds,
over one hundred pounds, you wall and you did what
I mean. The route in doing that is absolutely being
able to completely change your lifestyle, which is way more difficult,
difficult than anybody would ever know if you've never tried it.
(11:10):
But first of all, props to you for doing that.
What would you say to those that have for years
put off making substantial changes in their life to be
happier and healthier, because you are the living example of it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Don't ever quit. Do not ever quit.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was a smoker while I was in the military
and I was dating the girls. She told me, it's
a cigarettes or me and had I remember I was
coaching baseball. I was doing a Walder mathout thing. I
left the pack of cigarettes up on the dugout May
twenty second, nineteen ninety five, and I put them down
and never looked back.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Really cold turkey, dude. And it wasn't easy.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
But the thing is, you got to have motivation and
you've got to find what drives you. And so many
people have asked me since I lost the weight, how
did you do it?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I said, I can tell you, but you're not me,
and our bodies are so different that you need to one.
Get yourself a fantastic doctor, like I'm getting ready to
go see now over you about health. He's amazing and
he's helped me through this and he wasn't preaching to
me at all, and he basically taught me the basics
of what todayidance. Yeah, and yeah, and just said this
is the way. But I'm not saying it was easy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'll sell you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
The toughest two times for me was when when you
first start the weight loss journey you have to put
the alcohol down and the fight night was on it.
I'm I'm an admitted beer snob. I love my beer
and I like the good stuff. Watching that fight as
I was stirring my jello was painful. And that's that
was about the point where I almost said, I'm done.
(12:32):
But I'm not doing this.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But it has to become because I think every human
to an extent so much more than others, are fueled
by competition, competing, the element of competition, and sometimes the
biggest competitions you have are with yourself, and that's and
that's so there's got to be some fuel there to
where you're in a battle and you're you know, you're trying,
because it's it's it's a long term play. It's not
(12:54):
like you know, it's not a fad, it's not a
six weeks thing. You legitimately have to live your life differently, seemingly,
not every day, but ninety eight percent of the time
compared to how you've lived your life maybe for thirty
forty years, depending on how old you are. And that's
why I think you know, you see people that do
make progress, but like you have to just completely be
a different version of yourself.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I will tell you, and it sounds cliche, but you
have to find the days. I can tell you the
number of times I was at the gym and I said,
this is not happening today.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I just I'm overgard Yeah, I'm going home.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I can, but I had to dig and find that
deep part of myself and go do it. And it
sounds cliche, but once you do it, you will feel
better and you get to that magical point. I was
telling you off the year I take my daily walks
in Shelby Park and I get my steps in. It
was a lady and I applaud her one hundred percent
for getting out there and trying to make a change.
I've seen a lot of these people, especially with the
(13:47):
weather nice to get out and she was running. She'd
run and then she'd stop and then she'd run. And
she was a heavier lady. And I wanted to say, ma'am,
just find yourself. A nutrition is find yourself somewhere and
because your body's not built to sustain to run like
this right now, you'll get there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And if you want to run, that's great.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I tried the running thing for a while and I
found out that I got the same results from walking
and walking outdoors. I will never go back to another gym.
When we had that bout of that two days of rain.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh yeah, you better believe.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I was out in Shelby Park walk and get my
steps in with my umbrella and I got a pair
of frog dogs.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But you did. What I'm trying to say is you
got to find what.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Works for you everything in life that certain things are
gonna work't compare others.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Don't compare me with you. You gotta find more. And
if this works for that, lady, run a little bit.
Stopping by all.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Means do it in the day. And again I'm not
shaming anybody who's doing whatever they can to find ways
to live happier and healthier. But you know, you kind
of like cold Turkey, just completely forgetting about cigarettes and
and that's difficult to do for a lot of people.
You didn't have some crazy new diet that was the craze.
You're you're not on any kind of supplements that are
(14:57):
going to completely just have you start shredding fat. You
just over time, you know, made those changes, put the
work in, and you got the results, and that's got
to be a different level of of the reward that
comes with it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I also, yeah, to your point.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I also found out it reminded me of the days
when we were having my daughter, our first child. I
got advice from everybody and their brother, and I eventually
settled in on what worked with me. It was a
lot of trial and there, a lot of frustrating days
of being really really hungry and getting on the scale
week later and realizing that the scale actually went up,
and I'm like, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I had to do a lot of homework, a lot
of homework, and then you realize how your body works.
But it was how my body worked?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
What what? Because when did this all start?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
When when did you first?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was? This?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
The first step is Friday. I did on Good Friday.
I started on Good Friday year. What was it too?
I forget now?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Was it post pandemic?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, it was post pandemic, But I thought Good Friday
is as good as time as because I remember I
remember going Okay, Derby's coming up. I want to get
this started because I do want to allow myself some
gravity to move about. And I found out and now
to your point, Nick, once I've done all this, I
still enjoy my beer. I still indulge Saturdays my day
(16:08):
of Gluttney. I just I eat good foods, but I
eat clean too. So it's a never ending battle. You
have to not only find out what you need to
eat and what you have to eat.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And it's not all.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You don't have to go out and eat grass and
leaves and trees to do this, but then you have
to realize what works for you physically and just people
think I'm going to get out and just work my
cardio and get my my beats permitted up to eighty two,
eighty three, eighty five.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
If that works for you, that's fine. I didn't need
to do that.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Initially I did to bring the weight down, sure, but
now I'm in maintenance.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Now you're you know you're You've just changed your lifestyle
the way you can maintain where you are because the
things that Yeah, no last question for you. Could talk
about this all day, because I just know that there's
there's people out there that can take something from hearing
this your your wife, obviously, that's I know why there
are certain people who claim, hey, you know, if my
(16:58):
husband or my wife, if they if they if they
pitch in and try to also be mindful of what
I'm doing, or maybe they try to lose weight as well.
Like that can go a long way because you share
life with this person. Therefore, if you're making these big
sacrifices and changes, it could impact them as well. And
I just think the support that you have from your
significant other can can be a big factor in this
working for people.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Well, that's true, and I'm glad you brought that up
because she actually lost a lot of weight and that
kind of led me to go, Okay, let me do
this because she said, the kids are getting ready to
leave the house. I want you and I to be
able to travel, so let's work this out. But I
will say this, when you do lose as much weight
as I lost.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And do what f one hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
By the way, Dwight Waiting will attest to this too,
he went to a major weight loss. There are people
out there. I have people tell me do you have cancer?
I've had people talk behind my back. I've had people
come up to me and say, I talked to so
and so, and then they passive aggressively approach you and go,
I'm just saying so and so thinks that something's wrong
with you, and I just kind of smile and I go,
there's nothing wrong with the gang. I'm just living better
(17:58):
and I feel beat and I don't. I don't snore
it not anymore, much to my wife's delight.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Maybe that's her biggest win in the whole thing, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
What she's happy by. She used to complain all the
time about my snoring. But long story short, before we
get out of here, just youve got to find your
own motivation and if it's not there one hundred percent today,
pick it back up when you feel it. There's no
timetable for this. Follow your lead, Follow your lead, do you,
as I like.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
To say, Good stuff, man, Congratulations to you. You're you're
living a happier and healthier life and it's a beautiful
thing to see. Yeah, go see your doctor and then
feed yourself. All right, bo, take care a great weekend,
neck you too, all right, quick time out. We'll come
back here on the other side and we'll hand it
off here soon sooner rather than later to the one
and only Tony B. Benetti and Dwhite Whitne, who was
ready to wait forty whas there's no better song to
(18:44):
end the show on a Friday than this one. I'm
gonna put you guys on the spot, and I may
I may have already told you. Do you all know
what the song's from?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It sounds like a nineteen eighties Goofy movie.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Any any clue, no clue? So I don't even know
if this this is back whenever they would actually just
put together musicians artist bands to specifically work together, not
as a touring group putting out an album, but to
create a soundtrack for a movie. Oh yeah, this isn't
like a big name guy. In fact, John, does it
show you who it is? On there? I don't know
if you can hear or not, but anyways, it's from
(19:14):
the movie basketball Team when they're when they're partying at
like the dance, this song comes on and teen Wolfe's
my favorite movie of all time and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Stop it wolves out during a game.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
But the song's great now that you're saying it's coming
back to me from watching the movie, You're.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Great, by the way. I mean so a lot of
people say he had other good hits. Team Wolf is
Michael Michael J. Fowk's best work. I say that sarcastically,
but listen. It was the only vhs that my grandmother
had at her house when I would go over and
I walked, and I love basketball, And you know it
became a thing. Don't you remember whenever, whenever you couldn't
rely on the Internet to find any music you wanted
(19:56):
for a soundtrack, you had to actually create soundtracks for movies.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Look at do I waiting right now? Isn't after he
gets famous for being the teen Wolf?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Is he not dressed exactly like the teen Wolf was
when he's surfing the he's surfing on the top.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of that band, the van on the jacket, The jacket
is absolutely with the pop callar. Yes, that's important.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And the sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, what you're saying, No, no a howl? No
he give us headphones? Honey, kind here, give us the howl?
Would you have a wolf howl? John yoldled earlier. I mean,
there we go.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, who knew that you had a very good
wolf and you was greatly I don't believe that you
didn't know you had that in your bag. I think
you were just waiting for the opportunity to let us
know that you can yodle like nobody else. Yes, all right,
we're out of time. I got to ask you, what's
your favorite soundtrack from a movie like? Can you think
of a great music? But of course, obviously the music
(20:56):
was a big part of by the movie was good,
Oh God, Jesus Christ Superstar.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well, thank you, I'll answer later.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There's too many I can't do it hands down, purple rain.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Okay, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Bad.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'll come up with Tony and Dwater coming your way next.
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