(KMN) 11.18: The Whole Hog - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is eight oh five at news Radio eight forty.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Whas good Tuesday morning to you, coffee and company with you,
and we are fueled by Thornton's appreciate you hanging out
with us. And speaking of appreciation, this is uh, this
is one of those things that I feel like we
should all talk about more, and that is people who
give away big gifts, make big donations, and it's all

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one thousand percent anonymous. So there is a historic West
End gym that is getting a five million dollar revival.
So Chickasaw Park, a place with more than a century
of history, deep cultural roots, and generational significance for Louisville's
black community. It's about to get a big time upgrade,
in fact, the biggest upgrade ever. And it's all thanks

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to somebody who made a surprise five million dollar anonymous donation.
So look, anybody who donates anything is doing a good deed. Now,
I think at times I have well, I'll speak for
myself only. I think there are some that make donations

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do nice things for people, and part of the incentive
for them is that they want to help out, they
want to do good. But I also kind of think
that part of the being of the incentive for them
is to make sure everybody knows that they're so nice
and so great. Now, at the end of the day,
if the good deed is still happening, that's all it
really matters, right, So if the ability to get out

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your phone and have somebody video you giving somebody a gift,
making a big donation to where you look great, if
that has resulted in more people being charitable, then that's good.
I just think it's sometimes it's just I don't know,
a little cringe when I see people that are out
here doing it and I just can't help but think
that they wouldn't be doing it if they couldn't show
off that they're doing it. If that makes sense, maybe

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that's just how I'm wired, But just being real with you,
But the people who do it and they don't want
anybody to know at all, is there a better example
of somebody just being a great person. I mean, nobody
on this planet is perfect. But five million dollars given
to somebody are donated to this, you know, to this

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park here in Louisville, and and you don't even want
any credit, You don't even want any acknowledgment. You want
it to be a secret. What's that say about somebody?
I mean, that's that's amazing. So don't know who you are,
but great for you. I hope to one day be
able to give anything of that value five million dollars

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and to do it without any acknowledgment at all. And
I know some of you right now are sitting here thinking, well,
of course, I mean, that's why you should do it.
But let's let's live in reality like most people I
think would want. And it's also human nature to to
to at least be thanked and acknowledged if you do
something nice. That doesn't mean that you're doing it for attention. Again,

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I think that's the human element that all of us have.
But five million dollars and you making sure it's it's secret.
I mean, John, can you think I mean, I can't
think of any examples of things that that that that
would highlight what a great human being somebody is if
they do that.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I think when anybody does a good deed and it's
done anonymously, that's I think you've pretty much laid it
out in the best way possible. It's you don't want
to take the credit for it. I think there's also
an element too, like those people maybe don't want the
attention that comes with doing that sort of thing either.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, and again, good for them, I mean if they
don't want it or they just feel like it would
be I mean, because that's that's my I guess you
you might have just hit.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
The nail on the head for me.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you don't want it, it could to me like
if you just want to make sure nobody knows that
that it's it's almost like you want to keep it
a secret.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
But why right?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I guess more than anything, it's just because you
don't you don't want to, you don't want any praise.
You're just giving back because you can, and you want
it to just be.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Be over with. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I guess there's a lot of reasons as to why
maybe you would maybe something like there's also a scenario
that if you donated some some amount of money, then
others would maybe think, well, why do you donate to this?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Cause? Why you know?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
So?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Because that's that's that's a part of it.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because I'm literally racking my brain here to try to
think of what would be your benefit in it being
a secret and you being anonymous, and I guess that.
That's one that comes to mind, is that then others
would want to hit you up and expect you to
be able to do it, and maybe they guilt you
in and not helping out another cause or making a
similar donation elsewhere. But other than that, it's just because
you don't need any praise. You just want to do

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something good for somebody, and you don't care if anybody
knows that you did it, and if that's you, then
good on you. So yeah, five million dollar gift is.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Going to be. It's going to be gifted to the
chickasawt Park. Good stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
All right, Let's let's get to a quick time out.
We'll check on the traffic out there, see how the
roadways are looking. Bobby Ellis will get us updated. Also,
Matt Melosavitch will tell us how this tuesday's looking a
cold and wet start and looks like that's going to
be the day ahead. But again Matt has the details
for us. Also, we've got Roy O'Neal set to join
us a little bit later on. He'll tell us about
the latest with the Epstein files, a never ending thing

(05:01):
that I will I will admit I've got fatigue I
just I can't fake it that I that I care.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's not to say that I'm defending one side or
the other or I have any grand opinion on what
really happened.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I just I don't think.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I just think this is a cycle that will never
end as far as people desperately wanting to be confirmed
what they believe happened. And I just don't know if
anybody's going to get that, but we shall see. Keep
it locked right here. It's news Radio eight forty whas.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
So.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
DoorDash has confirmed they've been hacked. And when I see
this headline, I start to think, Okay, does that mean
orders not being fulfilled, somebody getting the wrong food? And
like any any hack at a level of a business
like door Dash with the database of probably millions of customers,
I would imagine that's the real issue is that your

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your information is compromised. So, yeah, they've confirmed they were hacked,
and the company insists the stolen information isn't sensitive. Therefore
the information that the hackers got is is not enough.
I suppose to have your identity stolen or your car.
You know, there's there's layers to it. Right when it
comes to somebody having just a little bit of info

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about you and then being able to really ruin your
life with uh with with that info and creating credit
cards and your name, emptying your accounts, that kind of stuff.
And I feel like this has been pretty consistent that
the one thing they need the hackers to really if
they get your social Security number, that's where you're that's
where you're really screwed.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Just keep that in mind.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Anyways, a cyber criminal got into the system of door
dash ch after an employee fell for a social engineering scam.
We have those scams here at iHeart not well, let
me back up. We we have I guess tests things
that they put out there. I guess to see if
if we're gonna be gullible. Just to just to keep
us mindful that don't click on everything you get, because

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you have to.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
You have to operate that.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
If you're somebody that deals with a lot of email
a day, and it's emails of all types, internal from
your employers or your employee, your your colleagues, external from
just whatever it is that you do business wise. Uh,
maybe you're clicking on links often because that's just the
nature of your job. But it's easy for somebody to

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send something your way and you not really having any
way to know that it's not legit unless you actually
check the the email address it came from. But they can,
you can you can use so you can use software
to really polish up an email to look legit. That's
not so Yeah, door Dash hacked, But they're wanting you
to know that it's not something that you should be

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super concerned about.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I've I feel like I've got to be in the
minority here. I've yet to ever use any of the
delivery apps when it comes to food, not even one time.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Wow, that surprises me, because you do the you know,
the grocery, Yeah, the delivery, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So it's not because I am against it. It's not
because I assume it would be a bad experience. I
think it's just lack of patience and I don't eat
I don't eat out often, so and I'm a control freak.
I actually I think I may have just realized why
I haven't ever used it because of that. It's convenient,
I'm sure, and yes it adds an expense to it,

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but for me, it's not about saving money. It's it's just, Hey,
this guy could be late, this person could eat my food.
I don't know when they're gonna be here, is it
going to be fresh? So like, I don't even I
don't even have pizza delivery.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Now, so I don't do I don't really do food
delivery in general, but carry out for pizza so much
easier in my opinion. But with the food delivery for
any any of the other regular apps, I just think
it's way too expensive.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, and it sounds like a lot of folks who
no longer do it. That's the reason is that they
they've just realized that the added cost doesn't make it
worth it. Just make a sandwich at home or something
like that, or just go kid of it yourself. Really,
I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's what it. That's what it. That's that's what I
to do.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't eat fast food often, not to say that
I'm above it and I never eat it, but I
just it's not something that's typically in rotation for me.
And when it is, it's just it's it's for convenience.
And when I think of having it delivered to me
and didn't have to be fast food, you can get
you can get sit down restaurants delivered. Obviously, you can
really get anything delivered as far as food. When it
comes to door dash, that's that's that speaks to the

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convenience of it. But it's just never even come to
mind for me. Maybe one day I'll do it and
I'll think I should have been doing this long ago.
But now I don't even want to give it a
shot because again, if I do, if I do get
hooked on it, it's it's not cheap. Now, there used
to be a lot of competitors in that space. I
don't hear about as many nowadays. I hear of door Dash.

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I mean it's Uber Eat still around. Yeah, there's something
called Postmates, that's.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right, and there's grub Hub as well. That's the one
I worked for during COVID.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, that that experience was that was that?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean it was during COVID, and of course you're
you know, you're just trying to make some money, make
ins me.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
It was a good way to get out of the house.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, I bet that was probably the real
benefit there is to just actually be out doing something
and ye out lock down. What was your what was
your most memorable experience doing that as far as just
like a customer order or a delivery, because.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
That would make it fascinating.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
I had several regulars, but there was one person in
particular that I think about whenever you asked that question
and that there was a It was a person in Hillview.
They would always order Bob Evans and it was almost
every single day they'd order something called the Whole Hog
from Bob Evans.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
To me, it sounds like a big breakfast.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was big breakfast, very big breakfast.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I could see the company man John al And walking
into Bob and job here to pick up the whole
Hog every every day, right, he wanted it everything every day,
just about every day. No variety, just give them give
that person the whole hog every day. Yeah, I uh,
I need variety. I'd have to mix it up a
little bit. All right, Let's get to a quick time
out trappick in weather updates on the way, a sports
update coming up as well. Sehn Shannon is in with

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the news. Busy, busy, We'll keep this thing on schedule.
And then we also have Rory oniliving TOBC News set
to join us at about eight thirty five with the
latest on these Epstein files and the amount of international
students here in America that we that we no longer
have anymore for some obvious reasons. But again we'll get
to that with Rory coming up here shortly. I hope

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you stick with us. Why would you not hang out
right here at news Radio eight forty whas I gotta
have to wait for this now right. I don't want
to step on the you know the main part of
the song there. But we were wrapping things up our
final segment before we hand it off to mister Solo.
That is that is mister Tony Venetti, how bad do
you miss toaight?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
So today on the show, I do have ed Galeron
coming on. He was the former always a good get
he was, he was a ranger, but he also was
comment not common dot commodore, common dommodore.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
That's that's a that's a rank when you're in comand
in the Navy.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Commodore of that entire theater down there in Venezuela, panamall
for the Seals knew every and he said, basically, he's
going to explain to you how bad these people are.
They torture people, uh, they kill women and children. These
are these are not good people. Uh, and anybody that
questions whether those are drug boats or not. They have

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a lawyer. Yeah, that a military lawyer that okays every shot,
So they do their homework. He's going to go through
what's happened now and and go through what's happening with
Venezuela as we ramp up. As we have the most
advanced aircraft carrier in our in the Navy down there
in at theater.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's a that's a good get for sure.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah. I was just going to say, everybody wonders, you know,
they hearing that he's he's a former Navy seal. He's
commanded a couple Navy Seal teams, but he also has
the Army Ranger tab. And I know I've had people go,
how does that happen when you're in a special Just
to explain for the people out there people, when you're
in the special forces world, you are allowed to go
to the other schools, Yeah, and and get qualified. You
may not necessarily he may not.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
He could not.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
He couldn't wear the tab on his Navy stuff, but
it's in his file. I had some Marine friends of
mine that were forced recon that went to Ranger school
as well. So for those people that wonder, how can
we say no thing, might be thinking we're speaking error
in fact with Captain Gallerin No, he is a Navy officer,
commissioned Navy officer who was allowed because he was in
Special Forces to go to ranger school.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, it'll be a good, good conversation, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And that's coming your way next. But real quick, you
guys know what time it is. What's today?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's time? Yes, to enter the time.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Control your own damn show.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I was tap dancing for a second because I want
to make sure I had I had it correct. Because again,
when we go back in time, sometimes these are things
that either I wasn't alive for or I just was
too young, but we are this was in This was
in nineteen ninety, so we're looking at thirty five years ago.
It was when the mel Ignado trial going on, and

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so this this, this was brought up whenever we were
looking at other cases in the state that just commanded
so much attention locally and nationally because of the Crystal
Rogers situation that there's really there's nothing quite like that
one as far as just the national interest that was there.
But Melegnado I mean that it's I'm reading to you

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what it's labeled as one of the biggest black guys
in Kentucky's legal history because of just the double jeopardy, yeah,
being at play here and this guy after essentially getting
away with it. I mean, he just he just lived
in Louisville, right, Like he.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Was like, yeah, he lived in Louisville. And you're right,
none of us knew what double jeopardy meant. We're not lawyers.
It's nineteen ninety I layet right, well that and it's
spawned a movie and all that kind of stuff. Again,
it's not the same story that you were talking about,
but we all were getting educated as what do you mean?
So if he's this case, he's he gets not guilty
by the jury, that means they cannot recharge him. It

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is crazy to think of. But yes, he just stayed
in Louisville. And but his mind here's how the I
guess the human mind works, right, So he kept the
pictures and he put him in the floor board of
his house.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Kept evidence.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
He kept the evidence, which at some point you think,
wouldn't you destroy all that evidence?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
But but you know, and I'm sure the there had
to be fear on his end of Oh, but also
what are they gonna do about it? You know what
I mean, like he he he'd already been found not
guilty therefore, I mean, it's it's this makes me think
that that I'm surprised we haven't had this happen more often,
right where you end up like somebody gets somebody. I mean,
it's happened where somebody is found not guilty and they

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can't be tried again, but then you later have the
direct proof or the you know, I'm thinking O. J.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Simpson here. But but yeah, I mean this was a
judges will let people go ahead. It's true, That's very true.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
So Nato was tried for murder, kidnapping, sexual abuse, sodomy, robbery,
and ever in evidence tam tampering. It was his ex
girlfriend that was the victim here, and I mean the
trial itself again, if they if there are somebody, let
me know. Have there been documentaries about this? Has there
been a date line? Because there was a book.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Fastened by a writer for the lou Louival Time slash
Courier Journal. Not Bob White, what was his name? He
was a great will Coox, Bill Cox. No, it wasn't
Bill Cox. No, he was a great writer. He retired
years and years ago, but he wrote for the Louisville Time.
As a matter of fact, he threw a big Louisiana funeral
party when Louislle Times went out and their Courrier Journal.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Just so, what ended up happening is he was charged
by federal prosecutors with perjury for lying to the grand jury.
That's that's really the extent of what they could do
because he couldn't be retried for murder. He did confess
in that, which I guess did give them the victim's
family some closure. He did go on to say that
his victim died peacefully. He served federal time, was later

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charged in state court for more perjury. So they're just
trying to do it so long had no So yeah,
he ended up passing. He was released from prison in
two thousand and six, returned to Louisville and lived a
few miles for years, for a couple of years near
the murder scene. So just a couple of miles away
fro where it happened is where he lived. In two
thousand and eighty, died after an accidental fall in his

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apartment and.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
He he from.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
According to this, he bled to death. So and a
neighbor later said that he spent nights you know, yeah,
he spent nights crying. I mean basically he felt bad
later in life, as what one of his neighbors went
on to So you.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Feel bad because you're going to hell? Yes, it what
a weirdo that would come back to Louisville and live
close to where you You murdered this poor girl.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, at that time, that's almost like a middle finger
to everybody involved.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
He probably, you know, he probably wouldn't be able to
do that, and it will unless he unless he wanted
the attention, right because this day and age, with cell
phones and just the access we have to people, I mean,
he wouldn't well, I feel he feel like he'd want
to be far away from everybody involved. But yes, that
that that's up there as far as just the true
crime type of stories. That that that from right here

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in our area. That got a lot of attention in
this one for for obvious reasons.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
I never thought I was capable of killing someone. But
after you become a parent and you're a father, somebody
took my little girl out like that, Oh you fell
down oh okay, Well that looks like that hurts. Yeah,
and how much did the police go? Yeah, we're not
really going to investigate the rest.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Of this, he felt, looks accidentally.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm sorry man.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
The emotion and just the you know, being in a
certain spot as a parent, like you really don't.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't know what I could do, but nothing's off
the table when it comes to doing stuff for your kids.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's just how we're how we are wired. All Right,
we're out of Tom Toto.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Benetti's coming your way next right here at news Radio
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