8.28: Slow Ride - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But this woman was found shot in her car. Yeah,
I was on the side of I sixty five southbound.
So Louisville Police were responding to a call of a
vehicle collision on Ice sixty five near Great Lane at
about three forty five this morning. However, when officers arrived,
they located the vehicle and they found a woman who
had been shot. This led to all lanes being being
shut down in that area. So clearly not a good

(00:22):
start to a Thursday morning here, and we'll keep you
updated on all the traffic throughout the morning. Bobby Ellis
will be back with another update coming your way in
about three and a half minutes here. All right, So
this when you think traffic, I mean nobody. I mean
traffic sometimes is because of situations like that or just
an accident or construction. And there's a big time construction

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project that is coming next year that I kind of
feel like this will be something that if in fact,
you commute on Ice sixty five every day, I kind
of feel like, many years down the line, this will
probably be something you remember because it'll just be a
very noticeable and probably a big pain in the rear

(01:05):
end because they're going to shut down all of I
sixty five at some point next year. So again, all
lanes of I sixty five between downtown Louisll and the
waters An Expressway will temporarily close as part of a
multi year bridge replacement project. So this again is not
expected to happen until till next year. But and just

(01:25):
envisioning the impact here really just the amount of people
that will need to find different routes and probably add
some time to their travel. But yeah, this is this
is going to be a big, big thing in the
summer of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
So the long term.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Gain is is that there's going to I mean, again,
these things don't just happen for random reasons. Clearly there's
a benefit in doing it, and I'm sure they can
explain why it's for the good and why it needs
to happen. But when you're sitting in traffic or maybe
whenever you're you know, needing to add thirty to forty
minutes to your commute just because of the inconvenience, you
probably won't really care. You'll probably think to yourself, whatever

(02:06):
the whatever, the whatever the reason is right, whatever the
whatever the need is, they just you know, they're not
gonna they're not gonna want to hear it, and I
totally get it. But again, one hundred and twenty five
thousand vehicles per day could be detoured to I two
sixty four and I sixty four. So limited reopening is

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expected in August of twenty six, with this whole thing,
the whole project itself being completed mid twenty twenty seven,
and this new the new bridges that are apparently gonna
last seventy five years according to KYTC. So there's gonna
be three overpass bridges. I'm sorry there were. There are
three overpassed bridges that were built in the fifties that
have been I guess reviewed as poor. And that's what's

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gonna be replaced. So Kentucky and Brook Streets, Hill Street,
rail Line, Burnett Avenue that area, Bradley Avenue near the
expos Center. So again, June and July of next summer
full closure on I six between I sixty four and
Jefferson Street.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So be prepared. I mean none you can do. Yeah,
I mean it's uh an.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Again, those who are involved in not only the decision
making process here as far as timeline scheduling, as far
as the repairs what you're going to do for those
as far as re routing, detours, whatever it may be.
They put a lot into it, right, They're not just

(03:29):
flying by the seat of their pants. But still, you
just never know how any of this is going to
actually work out.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, It's like when you build a house.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
You know you have a timeline for when your house
is going to be complete, but it's never done on time.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
So, yep, this has the potential to be real.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I mean that is a listening to you talk about that,
I'm just envisioning. I mean, I see the people that
drive through that every day, and that is going to
be a real headache for a lot of folks.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Eventually, people will settle into where they need to be.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
However, look at the routine you take on the way in,
Nick does, and I do myself. I remember when they
shut down sixty four for a while. There was there
were a couple of parts of sixty four and you
had to go just by virtue of having to go
either sixty five or seventy one around that.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
That throws people's routines off. They like their routines in.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
The morning, no doubt, and clearly this is going to
be something that I mean, this has to happen. This
is not something they can just you know, avoid. It
has to happen, and it's going to be for the
greater good. But in real time next summer, I'm sure
people won't won't be thinking about that. It is six
seventeen here at News Radio eight forty whas Coffee and
company with you. Thanks for hanging out with us. So

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we will be joined coming up at seven five. We've
got a guest joining us today here at seven oh
five to discuss, of course, the big the big story,
and that is the shooting that took place yesterday in Minnesota.
And the guest that's going to be joining us is
Brad Garrett of ABC News. And I think there are

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folks out there like myself. I don't know how many,
but I'm sure I'm not a that when you know
that there were fingerprints essentially on the Internet, a digital
trace of how this individual was living. And again it's
tough to know just from social media videos, YouTube stuff,
but I mean, look, let's be honest. The trace that

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you leave on the Internet is that time's very telling
about about who you are in what you're about, and
what I guess I'll just admit ignorance. I just hadn't
really thought about it. When that stuff gets pulled from
the Internet, meaning a YouTube channel, social media account taken down, Like,
what is that process? And I'm sure there's a lot

(05:43):
to it, and I'm sure there's protocol for like the
FBI to get in and rip down stuff, and I'm
sure they have reasoning behind that, but they'll never be
a scenario where these things happen and the human element,
the human element doesn't kick in for people to just
want to know everything about this deranged person. And what
I've had a tough time, I guess just realizing here

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is that there's never going to be anything we find
out that's going to give any of their actions any
type of validation at all. But it's just I guess
because you just so much, you so much so can't
relate and can't fathom what would bring someone to take
this kind of action, You're just desperate to kind of
know as much as you can. But again, it's not

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because we're expecting to make any to make any sense
of it. But again, two children ages eight and ten
killed yesterday, fourteen children ages six to fifteen, and three
elderly individuals also injured, and all those that were injured
that did that did not die are expected to survive
and recover. So what we know about the suspect, Robert

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Robin Westman used a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol
before taking taking their own life, and the firearms were
purchased legally because this person had no criminal record. But
as far as red flags, I mean, one of the
many questions.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I have.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Is did the people around this individual know that he
was purchasing these weapons? I guess what I want to
believe is that there's no way, right because when you
have any level of of of knowledge of this person,
I mean, let's just say, I mean, let's be real.
Let's just say you saw what was online. You didn't

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even know this individual at all, You just somehow stumbled
upon what was on YouTube or just whatever they were
posting on the internet, and then you realized that they
were purchasing these weapons. I mean, that's that's the That's
a red flag if you've ever seen one, right, and again,
it doesn't change anything after the fact. But this this
person's lifestyle, if you will, being born a man male

(07:51):
and wanting to be a woman and changing their name legally,
and then of course that taking place. Whenever that did,
then you've got, uh the online footprints that that that
clearly showed a deranged and and troubled individual if if
anybody that knew that they had these weapons. Again, like,

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I don't know how you can be totally stunned here.
So again, we'll we'll talk more about it throughout the
morning here and we'll try to lighten the mood a
little bit with some other stuff. Good news for YouTube
TV subscribers, you don't have to worry about missing out
on the college football games on Fox this weekend because
they've at least agreed to kick it down the line
and continue to discuss without disrupting service.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
So that, uh, that is good news.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Also, the Powerball, we're getting close to a billion, and
again as this happens, the less likelihood you have of winning,
but more and more people see that number and they
buy more tickets, and uh, it's got me doing It's
got me one to do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
To be honest with you, bro.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yep, I mean why, I mean again, somebody's gonna win,
might as well be you no better fitting and just correct,
I mean, like that that that's saying alone is incentive
I think for anybody to be like, yeah, I guess
that's a point, like why not why not throw a
couple bucks down or whatever it may be.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So we got an a bit of trafficking weather coming
your way.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Also, Scott's back put another sports update here on news
radioa forty whas.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Thank you very much, John Shannon.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
It is consecutive's morning news with you here on news
radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company, six thirty five.
And it's already been a pretty pretty busy morning thus far.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
But good news.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
You really never know whenever all lanes of an interstate
are shut down because of a crime scene, an investigation
after someone was found shot in their vehicle. Wouldn't have
shocked me if it led to hours of all lanes
being closed. But fortunately they've got it reopened. So if
you're just waking up, just get your day started. Maybe
you're maybe you've got us on in the shower. Yes,
we'll shower with you every morning if you want that.

(09:46):
Don't worry because unless there's other accidents that take place,
they've got it. They've got it cleared up. So that's
good news. And we need some good news around here
when you consider just uh, just the vibe in America.
And I know, and I get why people sometimes just
live in their own bubble, living their own world.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
They don't think about.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
The tragic situations that take place across the country, across
the world, because I mean, that would just be a
really sad way to live, right, So I get it,
But I do feel like we have hit a level
of it just being such a non surprise and a
common thing. Dare I say that we have mass shootings
in this country, and of course some of those mass

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shootings take place at schools where children are supposed to
be protected. And you should never feel as if you
need to worry about your kids' safety when they're at school,
and if you are, it shouldn't be to the level
of because some lunatic, some unhinged psychopath shows up and

(10:45):
does what a psychopath did yesterday in Minnesota. So I mean,
I find myself my wife and I have in a
conversation last night after dinner, and and you just can't
help but as a parent, think about that that can
opponent and it's a helpless feeling in a way.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
And I feel like at times now I'm thinking, well,
am I? Am I doing enough? Am I? But what
can I do?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I mean, I know some people are thinking, well, you know,
I'm sure some when I say that, I'm sure some
had answers that they were thinking. Maybe they're yelling at
the radio something I could do. But I mean outside
of I guess what some of you have in mind
as far as you know, like maybe standing on guard
at my kid's school.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean like, and I'm sure there's some people that
like they say, yeah, that's what I would do. I can't.
You can't risk it.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
So I just feel like, right now we are at
a point that this is just the current cycle of
you know, thoughts and prayers and being sad for the victims.
I mean again, and you're you're human. If if that's
your first reaction, that's my first reaction. And it's not
not to say that we shouldn't turn to faith whenever

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these things happen and a higher power, because man and
who else you're going to turn to is something just
unfathomable like this. So it's not like, well, hey, that's
not working, let's stop doing that. I want to still
be human. I still want to believe in a higher power,
But there's currently a cycle that has proven that this is,
this is, this is not going to change, right, I mean,

(12:18):
I guess it could. Maybe one day everything will be
okay and people won't.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Be in this position.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And look, each individual is different, right, I mean, obviously
there's some level of trends when it comes to what
brings people to take out this kind of action. But still,
I mean, what we currently have in place has led
to this being seemingly more consistent than ever. And any
individual occurrence of a school shooting where children are dead,

(12:46):
it could have it could have happened once in our
lifetime and it would still be a very horrific thing.
But it's not happening just once so rarely. It's happening
seemingly more frequently. And that's a scary, scary situation when
you think about it.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
I think the one thing to remember to Nick, and
you're absolutely on point, And I appreciate your thoughts this morning.
And you know, we were talking off the era this show.
We've had a good vibe all week and been rolling
and then you get news like this and I think
you summed it all up and you can say thoughts
and prayers till you're blue in the face. And the
important thing to remember is we can only control what
we can control. And speaking individually, you know, I'm the

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same way. I'm the daughter of my daughter. Of course,
she teaches in a Catholic school, and well, violence can
happen anywhere.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It certainly brings it.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Home a little bit when you hear the news initially
because your first reaction. And they do an amazing job
with my daughter, you know, teaching how what to do,
the protocols to follow. My daughter's very honed in on that,
she's very up to date on that. I have complete
confidence in her and her you know, leading her kids
through something like this. But you know, you can only
control what you can control. And it's obvious that this

(13:55):
can happen anywhere anywhere. It's got nothing to do with
your ex economic background, it's got nothing to do with
your neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
It can happen anywhere.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
And the thing is you just have to you have
to continue to price on, you have to understand it,
and again, just control what you can control.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
And I think we have seen and I'm sure there's
examples of it across the country, but certainly here in Louisville,
that it's happened enough mass shootings at random places that
people people now are at least aware to where if
they hear somebody say gunshots, somebody's got a gun, you're
not as shocked as you might have been twenty five

(14:32):
years ago because you know that that takes place and
you probably have that. And again, that's a traumatic experience
for somebody. Even if they survive and they're unharmed physically,
you're a victim of gun violence because you had that
level of panic and fear because you're thinking, and I
don't know what you're thinking. Everybody's different, but you're prefer
maybe even a millisecond, am I going to be one
of the next victims that just was going about my

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life and somebody decided to show up and the shoot
up the place.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, when we saw people just.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Run for cover last Friday at a high school football
game in Kentucky, again at a public school, and then
the event that took place at the exposition center of
the basketball tournament that there was it was all of
false alarm, but still like you could see that the
level of panic, and I guess, if anything, it's I
guess people are more aware. But yeah, some of the

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best advice I've ever been given in my life that
I've stuck with that it's stuck with me, and I
need to remind myself of it more lately. But there
is nothing of value to get caught up in things
you have zero control over.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
And go amen.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
But this level of what we have no control over
and what it could have, it what it can do,
you know, talking about mass casualties, I mean innocent victims.
That's just an uneasy and awful feeling knowing that, Yeah, well,
I guess I'll just live my life knowing that, hey,
if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. That sounds so cold,
but I keep finding myself there every now and then,

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because again, how can.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
I control this?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So all right, we'll light in the middle a little bit.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
We've come some sports coming your way here in about
twelve minutes or so, and the powerball number the cash
out right now is three hundred and eighty three point
seven million. If you just say, yeah, you don't have
to pay me in payments, just give me to cut
the check and the things you could do with that money.
We'll talk about that next right here on there's radiway
forty whs. So somebody eventually is going to win this
power ball, and if it happens here soon, the amount

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of money you will walk away with is a cool
three hundred and eighty three point seven million dollars if,
of course, you you just take the lump sum, and
if you if you wanted to ride it out and
get payments, we're talking about an estimated of eight hundred
and fifty million dollars, making it the sixth largest power
ball ever. So that leads to many people saying, hey,

(16:46):
that's a lot of money. I'd be foolish not to
at least put a few bucks down or whatever whatever
you want to do, as far as whatever your your
your spend is when you when you buy tickets or
a ticket. But just to give you some perspective, if
you got that three hundred and eighty i'm sorry, three
hundred and eighty three point seven million dollar check, here
are some things.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
That you could you could do.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
You could pay the entire payroll for an NFL team
for a season and a half. Hey, I mean, I
don't know why you'd want to do that, but that's
what you could do. You wouldn't be able to buy
a pro sports team because that's you know, you're looking
at about a you know, a couple billion when it
comes to just even the lowest valued NBA franchises.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
But a private island.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
There are multiple Caribbean private islands listed for fifty to
one hundred million dollars, So you could buy three or
four entire islands fully yours and still have about fifty
to seventy five million left to build. You know, your
luxury compounds on those those private islands. That doesn't sound
like a bad idea at all. A heck of an airbnb, yeah,
oh yeah, and that's that's an investment, right, You rent

(17:48):
that thing out, you're making money, and then you just
live a life of luxury and wealth and it's passed
down to families.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So this is a there are between.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
This is if you wanted to just donate money, you
could give Let's see, Kentucky has about, i don't know
about roughly fifteen hundred public schools, so you could you
could donate a million dollars per school, and again that
would cost you a lot more so, but the amount

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and I'm trying to do some quick math here and
I'm not very good at it, but the amount of
money you could donate to each public school in Kentucky
and still have money left over, like you could balance
it to where you're still filthy rich and you know
you've given the school system a lot of money. Not
saying anybody should feel the need to do that, I'm
just trying to give you some perspective as far as
what kind of what kind of things you could do
if you want to live lavishly or if you just
want to be charitable but also still be rich.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Right right, I mean, that's that's not a bad idea.
Give you something. I mean, you got plenty to live
on after that, I talk about giving you a good cause.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah. The more we the more we discuss sort of,
I guess, just what what is possible with that amount
of money?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
It really puts in perspective.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, and again, I'll never be able to relate, but
somebody's going to because they're gonna win it. And I'm
this is I feel like I could be totally wrong here,
but I feel like the bigger the number, the more
likely people are to take the lump sum.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
You know what's funny when you think about that, when
you put it in that context, is there's someone right now,
at this moment, at six point fifty one on August
twenty eighth, who's live is whose life is about to
change forever, and they have no idea who it is,
but they've probably already been the powers that we have
already tabbed who that person is no doubt.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
And also there's people that assume it's to them, and
they've already they're already putting together plans as far as
what they're going to spend, what kind of donations they're
going to make, right right, Like my wife, she's like, Okay,
here's the list of everybody whose house we're going to
pay off.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Anybody you want to add there.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I mean, she's she's she's thinking it through, and you know,
I say, okay, honey, sounds good to be.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
We'll see all right.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
We get trafficking weather updates on the way also at
Sports Update coming your way here as well, and Who's
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