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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a five here at news Radio eight forty whas
coffee and company with you. Thank you for hanging out
with us here on a Thursday morning. Also big thanks
to Mayor Craig Greenberg who joins us now. Mayor Greenberg,
I know you were one of many that were in
attendance for the music festivals the last couple of weeks,
Bourbon and Beyond Louder than Life. I'm sure you and
the family, you and Rachel and the kids were out
having a good time. Did you expect to hear that number?
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Four hundred and fifty thousand people roughly when it comes
to those that took in this great city, that's a
big number.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, Banny and his team at Danny Wember of his
n's work were keeping me up to date. So well,
my math isn't that great. I knew it was in
the ballpark there because they had a record setting night
for Louisville for their company on Friday night of Louder
than Life with seventy five thousand of our closest friends
watching sleep Token and other bands play that night. It
was an amazing eight days, really the best eight days
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of music in the entire country. I think when you
think about what Bourbon and Beyond and Louder Than the
Life is, particularly with the new setup out of Kentucky
Venues that they great job allowing them to reconfigure the
event to make it better and host more people, and
we're just going to keep building on it every year.
It's great for our city, it's great for local businesses,
and we're going to keep growing it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think there's a lot of things that could come
to mind for folks when they think of Louisville, maybe
if they've stopped in, or they've they've maybe they've never been.
But I don't if this thing keeps growing the way
that it has, I'm not sure that this these two
weeks won't be something that comes to mind when they
think of this city, because I mean, that's a lot
of people and again it's been in place for some
years now, and again it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, totally agree. I think it's going to grow to
be on par with what the Derby Festival in the
Derby is for our community because there's such unique events
and they're authentic to Louisville and they're only here, and
I think that's part of what makes it special. It's
not just a concert. There's so much more when you're there.
Bourbon and Beyond has so much focus on the Bourbon
itself and on culinary and on the interaction with people
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and lots of other activities and shopping and things to do.
And the same goes for Louder than Life. That culture.
There is a wonderful group of people, very welcoming and
opening to music and lots of other things, and it's
just really wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, a lot of than Life is something that I
didn't realize until recent years that if you are somebody
that that's sort of your thing. More the rock, the
rock genre. I mean it's really am I crazy to
say it's the super Bowl. I mean, that's why you
have people coming from the planet.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It absolutely is. That's why they're getting the best acts
in the business to come that want to play in
front of that crowd. And you know, one of these
groups was was I'd never heard of him before, but
Knocked Loose, which is from Oldham County. They just want
a Grammy this year or nominated for a Grammy for
Best Metal Performance. They had the crowd rocking like I've
never seen before. I got I gotta tell you, Nick,
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I saw some really interesting things, particularly at it Louder
in life. There was a lot of crowd surfing or
body surfing. I saw someone in a wheelchair that was crowdsurfing.
It was a great it was a great thing to see.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Hey, that's inclusion right there.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It is. It is. It's a it's a wonderful event.
We'll keep building and again, it's great for our local economy.
It's great for local businesses. It creates tons of jobs,
and so we're going to keep supporting it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Good stuff. Marek Kreig Greenberg joints us here on news
Radio eight forty whas. So there is a a new
I guess tool within none one one that is going
to really, I mean, it can only help I would imagine,
but nine one one call takers can now view live
video from callers with of course consent. How how new
is this technology? Where where is this being done elsewhere?
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Because again this isn't really a big shot considering how
a lot of people when they communicate they just FaceTime
they use the video component within a phone caller. It
can certainly, really, I mean, there's endless ways in which
this could this can improve the ability for those who
take those calls, with people who pick up the phone
and call now on one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's right. As you've heard me say before, Nick, improving
public safety is our number one priority and so we're
doing everything we can to do that, and one of
the ways is using technology to continue to innovate, to
continue to stay ahead, to help provide better services to
people in their times of crisis when they're calling nine
to one one. So what this is going to it's
hope we're going to keep the person safer, and also
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it's going to be able to provide information to our
first responders who are en route to wherever they're going
for the nine to one one call, so that they
know what they're getting into when they get to the scene,
whether it's a fire, whether it's a medical issue, or
whether it's a crime. Hopefully, in many situations where they
use this video it's nine to one one, that provides
the first responder with better information to provide a better,
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quicker and safer service. Again, everything we can do to
keep people safe to improve their lives, that's what we're doing.
And this is a great use of technology.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So speaking of technology, there's a new app lou ready
that is going to be offering real time alerts, family
emergency plan templates. I guess the plan here as far
as putting this thing together. Obviously it's in the same
lane essentially as public safety, right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It is, and this is more in lines of particularly
severe weather when our city is going to continue to
deal with severe weather for years to come, and this
will be a one stop shop where you can get
lots of information, lots of tips on preparation information that
you need, whether it's about road closures. My favorite feature
on the new lou Ready app is we've got a
skycam on top of one of the tall buildings downtown
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that's facing south and we can move the camera depending
on whether it's coming, but you can actually see weather
front's moving into the city. It's a very clear camera
and that's lie for anyone to see in real time
if they're curious about what's going on in our city.
But there's a lot of goods information. It's free again,
that's lou Ready and you can download it on the
any app.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Store the power of Technology. Earlier this week, LMPD officially
opened up the doors for their new headquarters. It's the
former AT and C building on Chestnut Street. I will
admit ignorance. I didn't realize that until Chief Humphrey talked
a little earlier this week that when it comes to
all those that are of course part of LMPD, there's
a lot of departments, a lot of different roles, and
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to get everybody together, it's not really doable as far
as one central location. You've run businesses before, Maya Greenberg,
I mean having everybody be able to come to work
and kind of work together. It can build camaraderie morale.
I can tell that, although it's not completely finished just yet,
they're real excited about their new two hundred thousand square
foot facility.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right before I became mayor. Because the downtown headquarters
had become really obsolete. They had all moved out into
different buildings, and so the chief was one area. Different
parts of the department were in other areas. Of course,
you have your divisions around the entire city, but in
terms of the command staff and the central office, they
were in about three four to five different buildings. We
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wanted to bring them all back together. In fact, the
US Department of Justice encouraged us in their findings report
from March of twenty three to bring the LMPD command
staff back together. It's part of our continuous reforms and
improvements that we're making of LMPD, and so that's what
we've been working on. This was the first group of
people to move in to that building, and you'll continue
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to see waves of more people moving in as more
of that building gets done. It's again it's going to
Chief Humphrey has done a great job improving our police department.
This is going to be another step we're working on
having larger and larger recruiting classes so we can add
more police officers. We're going to continue to support them
with new training and when the command staff and the
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central office is working closely together, like you said, it's
going to be a better it's going to be a
better team, a better culture, and that's going to end
up in better officers that are working the streets.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Mary Greenberger's I guess joining us here on news radio
eight forty whas since i made the shift from sports
talk to news talk, I will say I've enjoyed more
than anything the conversations, the relationships I've been able to
establish with those that are in public service. It's not
something I wasn't aware of prior. But when you get
to know people, you kind of humanize folks who do
get into public service, rather it be law enforcement or
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the variety of other roles that you can have. In
John Aubrey's somebody that for twenty seven years was dedicated
to public service and a variety of different roles. I
know we just had some of your comments there in
our latest newscast, but just wanted to get some of
your thoughts more so just on just the passing of
somebody who again for many many years, dedicated a lot
of his life to public service. People we certainly appreciate
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he did.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Indeed, he was in the armed services, served our country.
He was chief of Louisville Police Department before the city
and county merged, and then for over twenty five years
was our elected sheriff, and so really this city was
in his heart, public service was in his heart, and
it was This is definitely a loss for our community,
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and so Rachel and I send our condolences to Sheriff
Aubrey's entire family and all of his friends and his
colleagues in the Sheriff's department, and we will be mourning
with them through his funeral, and it's really a great
role model for others that are considering public service his career.
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I was honored to nominate him and then bestow on
him the National Sheriff of the Year Award earlier this year,
and I'm very pleased we were able to do that
prior to his passing. It was a very fitting award
for him.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's awesome, all right, last one for you, Craig, I've
got I'm gonna put you on the spot here. Today
is National One Hit Wonder Day. When I say one
hit Wonder, what song comes to mind.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
For you is Ice Ice Baby. I don't know why
that came into my mind. Well does that count?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I would say, Actually, he's known more than just a
one hit wonder because he's sort of just a famous figure.
But I don't I can't name another song that he
did Vanilla Ice. I think I think you're I think
you've got one there.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I did not know it was one Hit Wonder Day.
Rachel was watching a little Dancing with the Stars last
night that I caught and it was one Hit Wonder
Night on Dancing with the Stars. That must have been why.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yep, Today's National one Hit wonder day. And there are
songs from the eighties a little bit before my time
that I didn't realize were one hit wonders because I
wasn't around whenever they became, you know, big big hits,
and I wasn't here for their their marketing and pr tours.
But yeah, some of the best songs are one hit wonders.
And it may be that these these people were really talented,
but man, their song was just so big. That's all
people are ever going to know him for.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
No, that's that's definitely right. And you would just mention
in sports Nick, can I leave you with a comment?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Hell yeah from.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Your previous previous gig in the sports world. So Saturday morning,
I swung by Coach Kelsey's basketball practice and Donovan Mitchell
was in town. He was practicing with the team, and
that was excellence in action. The way coach Kelsey prepares
just for a practice and the way his players and
all of his everyone on the entire staff prepare and focus.
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That is an amazing culture. People from any walk of
life could learn from the way coach Kelsey operates his team.
And I am really excited about the upcoming Cards basketball
season after seeing that practice on Saturday morning. I don't
know what you're thinking, though I'm radio.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I think this team is loaded, and it's year two
of and we're already off to such a great start
as far as just instilling that culture and to see
a great like Donovan Mitchell, who I mean, he chooses
to come back here and just taking the city of Louisville.
He's clear, he's clearly loved here and he knows it.
But I would have loved to have been a fly on
the wall to see that workout, because just the clips
that I saw, you could tell he was energized by
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being a part of it. It's I guess, the competitor
in him. But yeah, I'm excited and really looking forward
to it. The team is I think they're gonna be
really good.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, And coach Kelsey kept saying we're going at sixty percent. Guys,
it looked like one hundred and twenty percent to me.
So if that was their sixty percent, I can't wait
to see one hundred percent out on the court.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yep, he is intense, no doubt about it. We are
certainly happy to have him here in Louisville. Maryor Greenberg
is always we appreciate your time and we will talk
to you soon. Enjoy the rest of your day, my friend.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thanks so much. NET take care.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
That is Mayor Craig Greenberg joining us here on News
Radio week forty whas. Yeah, Donovan Mitchell, we're lucky to
have that guy, not only because he was a great
player here, but when you have somebody that really goes
out of his way to when he's got some downtime,
come back and you know, spend a weekend here. I
mean he came back for a TBT game on a
random Tuesday night just to be a part of the experience.
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So yeah, he's one of those guys that, along with
Lamar Jackson, we're still benefiting from those guys were in
the Louisville uniform, that's for sure.