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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lounger with j ACPs.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I believe he's with he's with Ivy Tech Community College
in southern Indiana. But he denies any deception and says
that nothing was altered, only the tone and presentation were
adjusted for optimism. He insists that he never directed any
staff to mislead the board. Now, Brian Yearwood is the
new JCPS superintendent. He was hired in May, and he
did say that the financial situation is quote definitely worse
(00:22):
than previously described. He has tasked Months again the JCPS
CFO to cut I think it is cut one hundred
and eighty eight million dollars over two years. And he's
also tasking him with being more transparent and of course
giving him some more direct responsibility of the budget, as
Month says that the district often would make big expenses
(00:44):
or big spending decisions, I should say, without any input
from him.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And he believed the board members.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Had every reason to be surprised by the recent budget presentation,
because again, this is somebody that's within the whole operation,
and I would imagine not going to speak for anybody,
but he probably knew eventually this was going to get
out publicly and to the board members of course just
how bad it was, and he probably knew.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They were going to be surprised.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So he claims that the JCPS use of the pandemic
relief dollars to expand recurring expenses, things like summer learning programs,
internal police, nursing services. I suppose it looks like that
was part of it as well. So those costs are
exactly that, they're costly, and the district cannot sustain those
(01:30):
things without federal aid, and the federal aid that they
got from the pandemic wasn't going to last forever. So again,
forty seven million dollars was the deficit in twenty twenty two,
and two hundred and ninety five million is the deficit. Now, again,
that almost can't be real, but I believe that it is.
(01:51):
But again I'm reading this. This is from the Courier
Journal from Christa Johnson, and trust me, I'm not questioning
her reporting or anything. It's just those numbers just are
quite literally almost unbelievable for the for the for the
district to be in this situation.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When I when I think of financial situations like this
where a family or a company or a school system,
even like this you are. You are the one looking
at that bank account every day. You are the one
that is that is certainly trying to manage it. But
you even though you can't snap your fingers and create money,
you can't even at times make the decisions that would
(02:31):
potentially benefit the company or the organization, whatever it is,
the family even and I guess you could have fits
your family, but maybe I don't know, maybe you've got
somebody controlling it. But my point is, I mean, I
would imagine if Muns here is probably for he's probably
had anxiety for a long time, knowing eventually people are
going to be in disbelief by just how bad the
(02:54):
deficit has has become.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
How much do you think he knew how bad this was?
I mean he signed on Oh you mean.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The the the the new superintendent. Yeah, yeah, I mean
his his words directly were that it was. I mean,
so when you hear a Year would say that this
is a quote from the CJ from doctor Brian Year,
who again it's the new JCPS superintendent in his first year,
the financial situation is quote definitely worse than previously described.
I would imagine the description of the financial situation was
(03:21):
probably not described to him differently than it was to
a lot of people. So he's probably learning of this,
uh And I don't know that for certain, but it
wouldn't shock me considering everybody seemed to be in the
dark other than a few people, I would I would
imagine this this individual, Brian Yarwood probably didn't know the specifics.
And look, you wouldn't tell somebody that until they're here
for the job, because that's information that if you don't
(03:42):
hire them, that you know, I guess you could have
an NDA and and that could be that could be
you know, kept private.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a mess.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And I looked cutting one hundred and eighty eight million
dollars over two years good luck.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean that's I don't even know when you hear of.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That type of of of of us slash, I mean,
what is the existence at that point even of JCPS.
I mean that they closed out schools, right, I just
it's it is a mess. And I don't envy anybody
who's going to be a part of having to clean
this up. But yes, as of now, it's a it's
a finger pointing right. Polio says there was never but
(04:18):
anybody misled or anything like that. And the guy who's
still sitting in the mess, the CFO, mister Munds, is saying,
uh yeah, I mean the people who are acting surprised
and in disbelief. He understands why they're acting that way,
which again not a great look for the previous administration.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No doubt. All right, quick update of traffic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And weather's on the way, the rain on the way
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the United States and China over TikTok's future here in America,
and at the heart of the deal is the control
of the insanely powerful algorithm that TikTok has. Algorithms fuel
(06:09):
every social media platform at this point, and it's not
only a well I guess there's two ways to look
at it. You you should be able to use the platform.
At least I believe you should be able to use
a platform and choose to see what you want to see,
follow who you want to follow, and when you are
(06:29):
on any level of like a timeline, you only see
what you chose to see. But I guess you don't
technically have a right to do that because it's their platform.
They can do whatever they want, and some of these
changes have made some of these platforms I think almost unusable.
I like to share things on Facebook that that that
can benefit me clearly in what we do here, but
also posting pictures of my kids. I know I've got
(06:51):
family across the country that enjoy seeing that, but Facebook
I don't. I don't do a whole lot of just
looking on the timeline because I know that more often
than not and I'm going to see something that I
will question, why is this here?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Who thought I.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Wanted to be a member of the PRP soccer Mom's
Facebook group?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Facebook doesn't know me?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And and and maybe that's a good thing, because the
more of these platforms know about us, I guess.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Maybe the more danger we're in.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But I mean, look, I'm of the opinion that there's
a lot of things you can find out about me
that wouldn't take a whole lot. So TikTok has been
so good with the algorithm that I don't want it
to change.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It knows what I want to see. I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't want I don't want anything different, but it
will be different at least as far as the control.
Now hopefully it don't they don't make any real changes.
But this is, I guess the last step. That the
control of the algorithm, meaning controlling what you put in,
how you're how you are determining what content to put
in front of somebody's device when they're scrolling through it.
(07:51):
That is now going to be controlled in America at least,
that's the that's the that's the hope here, that's the
last hurdle. But for for the beginning of TikTok to
now it has not been controlled here in the United States.
I don't know what secret sauce they have, but they've
got the secret sauce. And I think the the algorithm.
Even on Twitter, which is now x, I'll be honest
with you, it gives you both. I can go to
(08:12):
a following, there's following, and then there's for you. Following
is a legitimate real time That's why that that is
what's led to Twitter being such a toxic platform for
quite some time. And there's still a lot of people that
aren't on it. But if you are somebody that is
consuming news and you want to keep up with what's
going on currently, you can do that on Twitter. You
can't really do that anywhere else because you can just
go to following and it's only going to show you
(08:34):
things that you follow a in a timely order, meaning
when they come in, when they get posted. But when
I click the for you, it is a good way
for me to catch up on things that I've that
I've missed because I haven't been on the platform and
maybe a few hours, maybe a day or something. So
you know, Instagram also nothing but ads, and I don't
feel like they know me. But again, Facebook and Instagram
are all under meta, right, I think they are. So
(08:57):
I'm happy TikTok's going to stay. But I'll admit it,
whatever whatever made it illegal here might actually end up
being what makes me love it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Scott, I dude, I have no I'm saying with you, bro,
and you know you and I are both.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Lovers of TikTok. I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I can't get out of the rabbit hole. And when
they identify me, now they did fight. I did start
watching a couple of Louder than Live videos and then yeah,
they TikTok said, here you go, here's a ton more.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I didn't know it, but the algorithm new you might
want to see what was it called the de and
I did Danger Wall Wall of Death.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, the Wall of Death, and I did, and I
saw any more videos.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But yes, to your point, and I think that's the
goal of all marketers is let's find out what people know.
And in fact, there's one marketing company I've talked with
a couple of people who they use here locally, where
their geo fence and everything. I mean, they have this
thing drilled. It's proprietary stuff that they do. But like TikTok.
They have drilled this thing down to exactly what you want,
(09:50):
and consumers like it. Nick, you echo with the average
consumers say, and we'll get to.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
This a little bit later on, because you you, you
brought up something that I want to share, and that
is that the This is truly the user power platform,
and that's hard to find elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But yeah, if I was asked like, who knows you best?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean I would think like my wife, my parents, Sedgypt,
and then I would say, actually, no, the algorithm on
TikTok knows me better than I know myself. So yeah,
it'll be different, but hopefully not too much, because again I.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Like it the way that it is. All right, break,
we've got trafficking weather on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another sports update coming up to it is news Radio
eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John. It is
news Radio eight forty whas seven thirty five here on
a Monday morning. So yesterday at about a little bit
after eleven am, some storms came through and did lead
to organizers of the Lottterer than Life music festival to
(10:45):
evacuate fans there to Freedom Hall and also some nearby shelters.
But about an hour later they opened up the gates
and were able to proceed. So overall, weather cooperated, Mother
nature cooperated. And I'm sure it was an inconvenience yesterday
with the delay. But when you've had this event, you know,
(11:05):
lose a day or two of the four day festival
because of whether previously, I'd say you look at this
as a as an overall win, because you really are
just at the mercy of luck, right when you have
a four day music festival that brings in the amount
of people I mean you could have, you just don't know,
you have no clue.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, can you imagine the logistics and applaud Danny Wimmer
for thinking this out. You know, they have to have
a plan. You know, how are we going to get
the camping folks in if and this was just thunderstorms,
you know what if you had an event like a
tornado or a significant weather event. They had to have
the logistics to get these folks from point A to
point B. And even though we're all kind of responsible
(11:40):
for ourselves and people are capable of doing this, still
your name's on the marquee and you have to account for.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
This, no doubt, and the turnout, I mean we're talking
about more than two hundred thousand fans from across the country,
across the world, and then you throw in just a
week ago we did Bourbon and Beyond, and I love
hearing that. There have been acts artists for both festivals
that have acknowledged that they think that the fairest wheel
there in the background is awesome, because I think it's
(12:06):
such a cool. Yes, it's little things like that that
most people probably wouldn't give much thought to because I
mean they wouldn't it's not their line of work.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
They don't care to impact them. But something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Could could give you some visuals as far as drone footage,
pictures of what the crowd looks like, and then that
beautiful ferris wheel just sit in the background that could
catch attention. That might lead to who knows, another twenty
thousand people looking into the festival and thinking, hey, this
looks pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm gonna go to that, right So right, you know,
well none you get the fires. Well, they built the
big farris with the Millennial ferris Wheel in London, and
that's a big tourist draw. There's something about a ferris
wheel when you have it in the background to your point.
Have we seen any final estimates yet on the people.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, two hudred and forty thousand is the latest estimate
as far as this year.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I mean, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean that's up from last year was about one
hundred and eighty thousand estimate, and then year before that
about one hundred and seventy. So if in fact they
got to two hundred and forty thousand, that would be
a big jump. And again I could feel it. I mean,
it just seemed as if there were way more people
here than Bourbon and beyond. And that's not to say
one festival is better than the other, but really it's
just quite clear there's if this is your type of thing,
(13:15):
meaning this type of music, you don't have a whole
lot of options, and there's no better option than this.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Therefore this is your super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well you know, And it's interesting because you could tell
it's kind of when street Rods come to town, you know,
the street rod crowd when they're here, when you see them,
and as it was frequenting and hitting up you know,
the stores, the restaurants, even not just here downtown, but
in other parts of town, you knew these were louder
than life people. And I don't mean that in a
bad way. You just they had their concert shirts on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Some people were It's just like whenever you're on main
Street here in you know, Jason al Dean's in town.
You know who's there, who's going to the concert because
they were the costume essentially. I mean, I mean, I
don't mean to poke fun, but like there is a
level of costplay to it to where you kind of you,
you know, you dress to fit the event you're going to.
And that that's an understatement as far as what goes
(14:03):
on louder than life. No, you're right, and not a
lot of clothes being worn actually by many people, which
is a choice.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And did you did I hear you right? You said
earlier Denny Weimer signed up for another ten.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Years to do this.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh yeah, god, I mean it's it's great. And this
is a music festival that I don't know much about.
I just have heard of it because it's it's it's
popular Coachella.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You heard of that, Oh yeah, I like Cochell. So
this this crowd if in.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Fact they got to around two hundred and forty thousand,
which is the rough estimate, And maybe we'll get an
official number here today or I mean again, there's no no,
there's no way to know for certain, but if they're
even in that ballpark, which they probably are, they're not
far from what Coachella gets over two weekends.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So it's funny, true story. We don't I don't go
to Florida much. My family likes to go to Florida
and we were down there four.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Three four years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Three four years ago it was pre pandemic. So we
all went down and the gentleman who is our waiter
had said, where are you all from?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We told them Louisville.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
He goes, oh, I'm going to Louisville for or out
loud in life. He was coming from Bourbon and beyond.
And it was just wild that wherever you go around
the country, people will say, I'm going to Louisville for.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You know, whether it be Bourbon Beyond or whether it
be louder than the line.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And this is this may sound like an exaggeration, but
if this, if we stay the course here in the
next ten years, continue to grow, and this becomes another
ten years after that, so twenty plus years, they'll be
people who when they think of Louisville, they think of this.
I mean that, yeah, it's weird because obviously the Derby,
and we'll never do that as people who live here,
and I mean it's just we know there's way more
(15:33):
to it. But this has become such a big deal
that it's it's on the calendar every year. And I'm
gonna try not to be too long winded here, but
if you're somebody that, like, you know how special it
is because you're so into what this music festival is
as far as the genre, the type of people, that
kind of stuff, and you live far away, like you
may only get to go once every five or six
(15:55):
years just because of your situation, your finances, whatever it
may be. So like you're sitting around thinking like, man,
can't wait till in a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Few years I get to go back to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Now again you're not thinking probably about us as a city,
but the event that is here and we have, we
have the Derby. Nothing will ever top that as far
as what we're known for. But I just when you
look at the explosion as far as just the growth
that both of these festivals have had and knowing that
they're not slowing down, I mean, it's it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I'm gonna tell you one of my favorites, it's on
my bucket list, is Glastonbury, which is I've talked about
on this show before. They get approximately two hundred and
ten thousand to their festival. In case you are one
of that's Glastonbury's in the UK. It's okay, it's it
has everything, it has all genres of music, but it's.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Gonna be something Irish, right well, it's basically UK. Okay,
I know your roots right right. Just to give you
an idea we'll get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Some of the top five largest music festivals by attendance
donum sell Fest.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I hope I said that right.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
That's in Vienna that gets about three million people over
three days maumoasine. I hope I pronounced that right. That's
in Morocco about two point five million people over there,
and Chwaukee has nine hundred thousand plus for summerfest. I mean,
I could easily see both these festivals getting but I
know they have capacity limits they have to subscribe to.
(17:10):
But easily you could get yourself one of these festivals
if it stays here long.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Enough, especially if that.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Genre kind of becomes I wouldn't say extinct, but like
it's just not mainstream and if you really want to
take it in, you don't have a lot of options
to really take it in and experience it, and here,
this is where you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So good stuff. All right, quick break.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
We've got traffic and weather updates on the way right
here on news Radio eight forty whas
Lounger with j ACPs.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I believe he's with he's with Ivy Tech Community College
in southern Indiana. But he denies any deception and says
that nothing was altered, only the tone and presentation were
adjusted for optimism. He insists that he never directed any
staff to mislead the board. Now, Brian Yearwood is the
new JCPS superintendent. He was hired in May, and he
did say that the financial situation is quote definitely worse
(00:22):
than previously described. He has tasked Months again the JCPS
CFO to cut I think it is cut one hundred
and eighty eight million dollars over two years. And he's
also tasking him with being more transparent and of course
giving him some more direct responsibility of the budget, as
Month says that the district often would make big expenses
(00:44):
or big spending decisions, I should say, without any input
from him.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And he believed the board members.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Had every reason to be surprised by the recent budget presentation,
because again, this is somebody that's within the whole operation,
and I would imagine not going to speak for anybody,
but he probably knew eventually this was going to get
out publicly and to the board members of course just
how bad it was, and he probably knew.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They were going to be surprised.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So he claims that the JCPS use of the pandemic
relief dollars to expand recurring expenses, things like summer learning programs,
internal police, nursing services. I suppose it looks like that
was part of it as well. So those costs are
exactly that, they're costly, and the district cannot sustain those
(01:30):
things without federal aid, and the federal aid that they
got from the pandemic wasn't going to last forever. So again,
forty seven million dollars was the deficit in twenty twenty two,
and two hundred and ninety five million is the deficit. Now, again,
that almost can't be real, but I believe that it is.
(01:51):
But again I'm reading this. This is from the Courier
Journal from Christa Johnson, and trust me, I'm not questioning
her reporting or anything. It's just those numbers just are
quite literally almost unbelievable for the for the for the
district to be in this situation.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When I when I think of financial situations like this
where a family or a company or a school system,
even like this you are. You are the one looking
at that bank account every day. You are the one
that is that is certainly trying to manage it. But
you even though you can't snap your fingers and create money,
you can't even at times make the decisions that would
(02:31):
potentially benefit the company or the organization, whatever it is,
the family even and I guess you could have fits
your family, but maybe I don't know, maybe you've got
somebody controlling it. But my point is, I mean, I
would imagine if Muns here is probably for he's probably
had anxiety for a long time, knowing eventually people are
going to be in disbelief by just how bad the
(02:54):
deficit has has become.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
How much do you think he knew how bad this was?
I mean he signed on Oh you mean.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The the the the new superintendent. Yeah, yeah, I mean
his his words directly were that it was. I mean,
so when you hear a Year would say that this
is a quote from the CJ from doctor Brian Year,
who again it's the new JCPS superintendent in his first year,
the financial situation is quote definitely worse than previously described.
I would imagine the description of the financial situation was
(03:21):
probably not described to him differently than it was to
a lot of people. So he's probably learning of this,
uh And I don't know that for certain, but it
wouldn't shock me considering everybody seemed to be in the
dark other than a few people, I would I would
imagine this this individual, Brian Yarwood probably didn't know the specifics.
And look, you wouldn't tell somebody that until they're here
for the job, because that's information that if you don't
(03:42):
hire them, that you know, I guess you could have
an NDA and and that could be that could be
you know, kept private.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a mess.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And I looked cutting one hundred and eighty eight million
dollars over two years good luck.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean that's I don't even know when you hear of.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That type of of of of us slash, I mean,
what is the existence at that point even of JCPS.
I mean that they closed out schools, right, I just
it's it is a mess. And I don't envy anybody
who's going to be a part of having to clean
this up. But yes, as of now, it's a it's
a finger pointing right. Polio says there was never but
(04:18):
anybody misled or anything like that. And the guy who's
still sitting in the mess, the CFO, mister Munds, is saying,
uh yeah, I mean the people who are acting surprised
and in disbelief. He understands why they're acting that way,
which again not a great look for the previous administration.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No doubt. All right, quick update of traffic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And weather's on the way, the rain on the way
as well here in the listening area, so stick around
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them I sent you. So an agreement is emerging. Between
the United States and China over TikTok's future here in America,
and at the heart of the deal is the control
of the insanely powerful algorithm that TikTok has. Algorithms fuel
(06:09):
every social media platform at this point, and it's not
only a well I guess there's two ways to look
at it. You you should be able to use the platform.
At least I believe you should be able to use
a platform and choose to see what you want to see,
follow who you want to follow, and when you are
(06:29):
on any level of like a timeline, you only see
what you chose to see. But I guess you don't
technically have a right to do that because it's their platform.
They can do whatever they want, and some of these
changes have made some of these platforms I think almost unusable.
I like to share things on Facebook that that that
can benefit me clearly in what we do here, but
also posting pictures of my kids. I know I've got
(06:51):
family across the country that enjoy seeing that, but Facebook
I don't. I don't do a whole lot of just
looking on the timeline because I know that more often
than not and I'm going to see something that I
will question, why is this here?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Who thought I.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Wanted to be a member of the PRP soccer Mom's
Facebook group?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Facebook doesn't know me?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And and and maybe that's a good thing, because the
more of these platforms know about us, I guess.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Maybe the more danger we're in.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But I mean, look, I'm of the opinion that there's
a lot of things you can find out about me
that wouldn't take a whole lot. So TikTok has been
so good with the algorithm that I don't want it
to change.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It knows what I want to see. I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't want I don't want anything different, but it
will be different at least as far as the control.
Now hopefully it don't they don't make any real changes.
But this is, I guess the last step. That the
control of the algorithm, meaning controlling what you put in,
how you're how you are determining what content to put
in front of somebody's device when they're scrolling through it.
(07:51):
That is now going to be controlled in America at least,
that's the that's the that's the hope here, that's the
last hurdle. But for for the beginning of TikTok to
now it has not been controlled here in the United States.
I don't know what secret sauce they have, but they've
got the secret sauce. And I think the the algorithm.
Even on Twitter, which is now x, I'll be honest
with you, it gives you both. I can go to
(08:12):
a following, there's following, and then there's for you. Following
is a legitimate real time That's why that that is
what's led to Twitter being such a toxic platform for
quite some time. And there's still a lot of people that
aren't on it. But if you are somebody that is
consuming news and you want to keep up with what's
going on currently, you can do that on Twitter. You
can't really do that anywhere else because you can just
go to following and it's only going to show you
(08:34):
things that you follow a in a timely order, meaning
when they come in, when they get posted. But when
I click the for you, it is a good way
for me to catch up on things that I've that
I've missed because I haven't been on the platform and
maybe a few hours, maybe a day or something. So
you know, Instagram also nothing but ads, and I don't
feel like they know me. But again, Facebook and Instagram
are all under meta, right, I think they are. So
(08:57):
I'm happy TikTok's going to stay. But I'll admit it,
whatever whatever made it illegal here might actually end up
being what makes me love it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Scott, I dude, I have no I'm saying with you, bro,
and you know you and I are both.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Lovers of TikTok. I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I can't get out of the rabbit hole. And when
they identify me, now they did fight. I did start
watching a couple of Louder than Live videos and then yeah,
they TikTok said, here you go, here's a ton more.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I didn't know it, but the algorithm new you might
want to see what was it called the de and
I did Danger Wall Wall of Death.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, the Wall of Death, and I did, and I
saw any more videos.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But yes, to your point, and I think that's the
goal of all marketers is let's find out what people know.
And in fact, there's one marketing company I've talked with
a couple of people who they use here locally, where
their geo fence and everything. I mean, they have this
thing drilled. It's proprietary stuff that they do. But like TikTok.
They have drilled this thing down to exactly what you want,
(09:50):
and consumers like it. Nick, you echo with the average
consumers say, and we'll get to.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
This a little bit later on, because you you, you
brought up something that I want to share, and that
is that the This is truly the user power platform,
and that's hard to find elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But yeah, if I was asked like, who knows you best?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean I would think like my wife, my parents, Sedgypt,
and then I would say, actually, no, the algorithm on
TikTok knows me better than I know myself. So yeah,
it'll be different, but hopefully not too much, because again I.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Like it the way that it is. All right, break,
we've got trafficking weather on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another sports update coming up to it is news Radio
eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John. It is
news Radio eight forty whas seven thirty five here on
a Monday morning. So yesterday at about a little bit
after eleven am, some storms came through and did lead
to organizers of the Lottterer than Life music festival to
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evacuate fans there to Freedom Hall and also some nearby shelters.
But about an hour later they opened up the gates
and were able to proceed. So overall, weather cooperated, Mother
nature cooperated. And I'm sure it was an inconvenience yesterday
with the delay. But when you've had this event, you know,
(11:05):
lose a day or two of the four day festival
because of whether previously, I'd say you look at this
as a as an overall win, because you really are
just at the mercy of luck, right when you have
a four day music festival that brings in the amount
of people I mean you could have, you just don't know,
you have no clue.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, can you imagine the logistics and applaud Danny Wimmer
for thinking this out. You know, they have to have
a plan. You know, how are we going to get
the camping folks in if and this was just thunderstorms,
you know what if you had an event like a
tornado or a significant weather event. They had to have
the logistics to get these folks from point A to
point B. And even though we're all kind of responsible
(11:40):
for ourselves and people are capable of doing this, still
your name's on the marquee and you have to account for.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
This, no doubt, and the turnout, I mean we're talking
about more than two hundred thousand fans from across the country,
across the world, and then you throw in just a
week ago we did Bourbon and Beyond, and I love
hearing that. There have been acts artists for both festivals
that have acknowledged that they think that the fairest wheel
there in the background is awesome, because I think it's
(12:06):
such a cool. Yes, it's little things like that that
most people probably wouldn't give much thought to because I
mean they wouldn't it's not their line of work.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
They don't care to impact them. But something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Could could give you some visuals as far as drone footage,
pictures of what the crowd looks like, and then that
beautiful ferris wheel just sit in the background that could
catch attention. That might lead to who knows, another twenty
thousand people looking into the festival and thinking, hey, this
looks pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm gonna go to that, right So right, you know,
well none you get the fires. Well, they built the
big farris with the Millennial ferris Wheel in London, and
that's a big tourist draw. There's something about a ferris
wheel when you have it in the background to your point.
Have we seen any final estimates yet on the people.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, two hudred and forty thousand is the latest estimate
as far as this year.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I mean, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean that's up from last year was about one
hundred and eighty thousand estimate, and then year before that
about one hundred and seventy. So if in fact they
got to two hundred and forty thousand, that would be
a big jump. And again I could feel it. I mean,
it just seemed as if there were way more people
here than Bourbon and beyond. And that's not to say
one festival is better than the other, but really it's
just quite clear there's if this is your type of thing,
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meaning this type of music, you don't have a whole
lot of options, and there's no better option than this.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Therefore this is your super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well you know, And it's interesting because you could tell
it's kind of when street Rods come to town, you know,
the street rod crowd when they're here, when you see them,
and as it was frequenting and hitting up you know,
the stores, the restaurants, even not just here downtown, but
in other parts of town, you knew these were louder
than life people. And I don't mean that in a
bad way. You just they had their concert shirts on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Some people were It's just like whenever you're on main
Street here in you know, Jason al Dean's in town.
You know who's there, who's going to the concert because
they were the costume essentially. I mean, I mean, I
don't mean to poke fun, but like there is a
level of costplay to it to where you kind of you,
you know, you dress to fit the event you're going to.
And that that's an understatement as far as what goes
(14:03):
on louder than life. No, you're right, and not a
lot of clothes being worn actually by many people, which
is a choice.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And did you did I hear you right? You said
earlier Denny Weimer signed up for another ten.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Years to do this.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh yeah, god, I mean it's it's great. And this
is a music festival that I don't know much about.
I just have heard of it because it's it's it's
popular Coachella.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You heard of that, Oh yeah, I like Cochell. So
this this crowd if in.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Fact they got to around two hundred and forty thousand,
which is the rough estimate, And maybe we'll get an
official number here today or I mean again, there's no no,
there's no way to know for certain, but if they're
even in that ballpark, which they probably are, they're not
far from what Coachella gets over two weekends.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So it's funny, true story. We don't I don't go
to Florida much. My family likes to go to Florida
and we were down there four.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Three four years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Three four years ago it was pre pandemic. So we
all went down and the gentleman who is our waiter
had said, where are you all from?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We told them Louisville.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
He goes, oh, I'm going to Louisville for or out
loud in life. He was coming from Bourbon and beyond.
And it was just wild that wherever you go around
the country, people will say, I'm going to Louisville for.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You know, whether it be Bourbon Beyond or whether it
be louder than the line.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And this is this may sound like an exaggeration, but
if this, if we stay the course here in the
next ten years, continue to grow, and this becomes another
ten years after that, so twenty plus years, they'll be
people who when they think of Louisville, they think of this.
I mean that, yeah, it's weird because obviously the Derby,
and we'll never do that as people who live here,
and I mean it's just we know there's way more
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to it. But this has become such a big deal
that it's it's on the calendar every year. And I'm
gonna try not to be too long winded here, but
if you're somebody that, like, you know how special it
is because you're so into what this music festival is
as far as the genre, the type of people, that
kind of stuff, and you live far away, like you
may only get to go once every five or six
(15:55):
years just because of your situation, your finances, whatever it
may be. So like you're sitting around thinking like, man,
can't wait till in a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Few years I get to go back to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Now again you're not thinking probably about us as a city,
but the event that is here and we have, we
have the Derby. Nothing will ever top that as far
as what we're known for. But I just when you
look at the explosion as far as just the growth
that both of these festivals have had and knowing that
they're not slowing down, I mean, it's it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I'm gonna tell you one of my favorites, it's on
my bucket list, is Glastonbury, which is I've talked about
on this show before. They get approximately two hundred and
ten thousand to their festival. In case you are one
of that's Glastonbury's in the UK. It's okay, it's it
has everything, it has all genres of music, but it's.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Gonna be something Irish, right well, it's basically UK. Okay,
I know your roots right right. Just to give you
an idea we'll get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Some of the top five largest music festivals by attendance
donum sell Fest.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I hope I said that right.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
That's in Vienna that gets about three million people over
three days maumoasine. I hope I pronounced that right. That's
in Morocco about two point five million people over there,
and Chwaukee has nine hundred thousand plus for summerfest. I mean,
I could easily see both these festivals getting but I
know they have capacity limits they have to subscribe to.
(17:10):
But easily you could get yourself one of these festivals
if it stays here long.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Enough, especially if that.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Genre kind of becomes I wouldn't say extinct, but like
it's just not mainstream and if you really want to
take it in, you don't have a lot of options
to really take it in and experience it, and here,
this is where you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So good stuff. All right, quick break.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
We've got traffic and weather updates on the way right
here on news Radio eight forty whas
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