9.2.25: WELCOME BACK - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The project on I sixty five next summer's but it's
really going to be a pain in your rear end. However,
there's already some things going on that that starting tomorrow
are are gonna are gonna impact some folks. So we'll
start with so again, it's next summer where there's going
to be probably about a month or two months, yeah,
two month total closure of I sixty five between Jefferson

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Street and the Waters and Expressway. That's next summer. But
starting tomorrow, you've got intersections at South Brook, Kentucky Streets,
Hill Street, Burnett Avenue. Those will close tomorrow Wednesday, September
the third, and they'll be closed until the spring of
twenty twenty seven. So detours are going to be in
place for local traffic through Old Louisville, So just be
prepared for that. That's maybe the first sign. And I

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don't know, maybe they maybe they've had some maybe they've
been doing some things here recently, and we just didn't
realize that it all ties to this big project that
of course, it's probably gonna be something that even if
it goes smoothly and everything they're telling us goes according
to plan one, that's the best you could ask for,
but that it still doesn't mean it won't be a
really noticeable thing. And I just feel like when you
have this kind of a project, especially knowing that the

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work that they're doing, they believe is going to make
it to where they shouldn't have to do any work.
As far as major work for seventy five years, I
believe it is. But it'll be something we remember for
a long time, just because when you aren't on you know,
for two months time such a busy area. Again, we're
talking about I sixty five between Jefferson Street and the
Waters and Expressway, I mean, two months of that just
completely being closed is going to be so unusual and

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we'll eventually get used to it. But I'm sure those yeah,
just thinking about it, I'm just thinking of those who
are looking. Everybody's situation is different. But you know, if
you now are taking a different path to get where
you're going, maybe it's not that big of a difference,
or maybe it adds, like, you know, thirty forty minutes

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to your commute, which in the end of the world,
but of course not ideal. Now, also, there's gonna be
some other construction going on as River Road is set
to close. So River Road fully reopened earlier this month,
while the Louisville Water Company, I guess, took a break
from the work they were doing. But today, Tuesday, September second,
they're going to start construction once again on a new

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water line. So crews are going to begin work near
glen View Avenue and Lime Kiln Lane and there's going
to be detour signs in place. That section is expected
to be finished in early November, so the water company
hopes to finish all the work along River Road by
next summer. But of course, right now, starting today, those
areas there again glen glen View Avenue and Lime Kiln

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Lane is where they're going to start their work today.
So I mean, I feel like, if you really wanted to,
you could drive around Louisville look rending. And that's because
that's just the way it is. But I feel like
we're going to notice a lot more of it lately,
And again, I guess if people aren't so surprised and
they at least know, okay, well they're doing work, that's
why I'm delayed. I mean, again, I'm trying to find

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a scenario where people won't be complaining quite as much,
But I don't know if that. I'm not sure if
that scenario actually exists.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you find yourself nick when you get ready to
leave it in the morning or in your morning routine
where it'd be for this job or just moving the
kids around? If you leave let's say three or four
minutes if you think you're gonna leave three or four
minutes later, does that throw you off? Do you micro
manage your morning? Are you pretty cool if you know,
as long as you're not leaving crazy late?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
If I'm leaving so here's here's here's I don't The
thought of not being out the door at a certain
time makes me anxious. Worry that Okay, not only and
I don't really usually worry about getting here on time.
I worry about am I gonna get there and be
ready to go? Am I gonna feel rushed? But once
if I have that fear and then I end up,

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I mean, it's it's a way for me, Scott to
start off the morning with a victory, because if I'm
worried I'm not going to be there on time, and
then I do get there on time, or I get
there and I'm ready to roll, then it's like, okay,
well you know so, yeah, that's just how I manipulate
my mind to you know, not try not to overworry,
because I I've learned that about myself, especially in my
adult years. I tend to overthink everything, right, I think

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my worst end of me sometimes.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, you're out alone there, and I think, And I
asked that question because I know you were talking about
all the changes people are going to have to make
to their schedules and especially and you know this from
having kids and taking kids. I've done it. John's done it.
You know, you take these kids and you get down
to a certain routine. You got to hit certain benchmarks
on your way. If you start getting off you get
a little anxious.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh sure.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
And because this job, this was the hardest thing to
try to tell my wife, was this job. I can't
just stroll into the office five minutes late. I mean,
there's a hard deadline when we got to be on
the air, and you you know, if you hit traffic,
or you if something slows you up, or something knocks
your schedule out of whack, you just can't come walking
in and go, oh, yeah, well I'm a little bit
behind this morning.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I do think though, with that being such a clear
thing that that makes it like, I don't you really
you can't give yourself a whole lot of flexibility because
I mean, it just doesn't exist, right, Like somebody may
be able to show up at seven oh five, seven
ten if their workshift starts at seven, and some people
may not even notice or but you know clearly with
this it's a little different. Yeah, exactly, bro, Yeah, I

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forgot to tell you this, and it's funny we're talking.
I woke up my wife. She got a kick out
of this. I woke up on Sunday morning. It was
six thirty. I jumped up, ran to the bathroom, turned
the shower on.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think I let out a few curse words, and
my wife just stood up and said, it's Sunday, right,
And I was like, but the relief I had knowing
that I didn't wake up an hour and a half
after the show started was a great feeling. And then
I just relaxed and went back. It's like it's like
a victory, right, Like I had that fear for just
a moment, and of course I woke her up, but
she wasn't happy about that. But I was so happy

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to know that I didn't. I didn't oversleeping miswork.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
You had that I had that exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm sure you've done.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh, I've had that exact moment relief.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, let's get to an update of travviicking weather
for you. Also, we'll tell you what we know as
far as the latest in this UK student athlete who
has uh apparently she did not tell anybody she was pregnant,
had the baby. The baby of course is now is
now dead and just an awful situation. But we'll tell
we'll tell you what we know about this individual on
the other side right here on his radio eight forty whas. So,

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this awful situation took place this weekend, and of course
it's become news within the state, but also getting some
tension at the national level just because of the nature
of what's happened here. But there is a University of
Kentucky student who is a member of the stunt team,
which I believe is a form of it's part of

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the it's got to be underneath the cheerleading umbrella, I
would assume. But she's twenty one years old. Her name
is Laken Snelling. Snelling, I should say, and she was
arrested Saturday morning because she had a dead infant hidden
in a home that she lived in near the University
of Kentucky's campus, and she did admit to the police

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that she gave birth to that baby, and the baby
was reportedly found wrapped in a towel inside of a
black trash bag. According to the recitation, she admitted to
giving birth, cleaning up the scene, and concealing the birth.
She allegedly placed all used cleaning supplies in the same
trash bag where the baby was found. And she is
facing charges of concealing the birth of an infant, tampering

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with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse. So she
will be appearing in court today and we've yet to
determine I guess, the cause of what actually did take
the life of this of this infant. But I mean,
what a horrific situation. And I just can't imagine being

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someone that is close to this, to this young woman
who again she's twenty one, she's a college student, she's
a student athlete at UK, and only she would be
able to answer for what could lead someone to do
what she did and really be in that situation. But
I mean, it's not common by any means. But you

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do see where women get pregnant, and it wasn't part
of their plan. It wasn't what they had in mind
happening at that time specifically, And again there's no justification
for any for any of this. But I mean, my
guess would be is that she she did not want
to tell anybody that she was pregnant. And as far

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as the reasons why, again only she would know. But
maybe it's just because she would feel judgment, she would
feel shame from her family, or maybe she knew that
it would impact a lot of her life, especially if
she's a student athlete at twenty one years old, that
she just thought it would go away and she could
eventually just you know, And and again we'll find out more.

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This will this story of course, will be We'll be
getting a lot of coverage moving forward. But do you
I mean, I would just think if I'm somebody that
has a class with this individual and we talk every day,
if I'm a member of the stunt team, if I'm family, heck,
maybe maybe a boyfriend, even like did they know? I mean,
could could you have kept this a secret up to

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this point? Where and again what we also don't know
is how I mean, how far along was she? I mean,
did she even keep up with that kind of stuff?
So still a lot unknown, but what we do know
is it's just an awful situation. And when this has happened,
I mean I know of someone who who around who's
around my age, that this this exact thing happened, and

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really it was almost as far as it being while
they're in college playing a sport and they I mean,
I don't want to get into the details, but I mean,
the baby was found on in the dorm, and this
happened to somebody that I was just acquaintances with. We're
talking twenty ish years ago, and it just that's what

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this reminds me of, because I mean, the thought that
nobody would have a clue potentially that this and that
that somebody could be pregnant, and I mean because I
would have I would have a feeling of well, what
if I would have noticed, and what if I would
have broke through and said, hey, look, quit lying, we
can tell I don't know, I don't know why you're
dealing with this this way, but we're here for you, like,

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you know, let's let's get this figured out and I'm
sure there are people that know this woman that hopefully
they don't feel any real responsibility because that would be
that that wouldn't be fair. But if you know, I
get a wide range of emotions for you, if you're
somebody that knows this person, because you're probably going to
think yourself, could should you have noticed? And if you did,
could you have maybe prevented it? But you know, an

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awful situation. And I think she's gonna be in court today.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think you underscored, Nick, and I'm glad you said that.
And you mentioned that if you're on your way into
work today or maybe there's somebody at work or wherever
that you your gut has told you they're just they're
a little off center.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, I bet, I bet there are many that think
I knew something was going on, I knew something reach off.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, ask the question to your point, Nick, if you
have to do it abruptly, do it abruptly, but ask
the question.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yep. And even if it's uncomfortable, you know that may
be difficult, but hey, if you're doing it because you
care about somebody, I'd like to think eventually they'll realize
that and appreciate that. All right, let's get to an
update of trafficking weather. We've also got another sports update
coming your way right here on Who's Radio eight forty
w So I'm looking up here at WKY right in
front of front of me on the monitor, and it's

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the CBS Morning Show, and they're showing Bill Belichick as
his team lost forty eight to fourteen last night and
his debut as a college coach. And I was watching
last night before he got really ugly and thinking, I
still can't believe this is real, that Bill Belichick is
coaching college football. But now that I realized it was real,
it happened. I'm not surprised that the result was forty

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eight fourteen, because you know, Bill Belichick won a lot
of Super Bowls as a legend, regardless of what happens
with this North Carolina gig. But nothing other than the
fact that he had super Bowls on his resume would
make me think that he would be a timely fit
at a place like the University of North Carolina, just

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because it's never been more important I think now as
a college coach, to be relatable, to be a player's coach,
as they say, because if you just want to be
a drill sergeant, be a dictator, and really, you know,
break them down before you build them up. As a
lot of coaches used to say, they'll just leave and
they probably shouldn't, right, they're running from adversity. They don't

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want to be challenged. But that's the name of the game.
Now they can. So if you if you go about
it in that way, you're gonna lose players and it's
gonna be tough for You've got to adjust. So Belichick,
to me, I think he seems like the most unrelatable
human ever, not just coach, right, I mean I think
he's a robot. And the thought and the thought of
him like being able to push the buttons the way

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that that college coaches now have to because again, these
guys know they've got power. When I say these guys,
I mean players. Players used to have no power at all.
They couldn't transfer without sitting out. The schools could then
say where they can and can't transfer to. I mean,
you really just had had no ability to kind of,
you know, make the situation whatever you wanted. You signed

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a letter of intent, You're locked into that school and
they will eventually let you play out. Swear, but she
you know, you'd have to sit out and whatnot. Well,
now these guys can go wherever they want, and they
now can be paid through nil and there's also rev share,
So you just have to make adjustments as a coach.
And I feel like at a time where college sports
was changing drastically, Bill Belichick to me, seemed like the

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least compatible guy to step into that role. Look, maybe
it's overreaction from one game. Maybe TCU just ends up
being really really good, But I mean, I'm not I
won't be surprised that this is a one year thing
and they're terrible.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, I looked at some of the other coaches to
your point, Nick, after you brought this up earlier, who
had success and then went on to become failures. Steve
Spurr comes to mind, and a lot of people Steve Spurr,
he was great, well, he coached at Florida, then he
struggled when he moved down to the Redskins. Nick Saban
to some degree, Mike Dickcard, Jim Tressel, even And then

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when you look at college coaches, it's almost like in reverse.
Irban Meyer, for example, Yeah, great success at the college.
I went to the NFL and just couldn't get it done.
Jeane Chiswick, Charlie Weis, I forgot all about one.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Guy who does a pretty good job at that. I
don't think anybody would say wasn't successful. But in my
lifetime Pete Carroll, I've seen him be very successful in
college and in the NFL, and there are many others
that they can do that. Pete Carroll retired and then
of course came back to coach after just one year
off because Seattle just decided to go in a different direction.
But I remember thinking to myself, you know what, Jim

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Harball's leaving the Michigan program amid a scandal after winning
a national championship to go to the NFL, and on
the same day Nick Saban announces his retirement. You know
what else happened that day? Pete Carroll retired, And I
just remember thinking to myself, that is going to sow.
That's going to get swept under the rug, and he's
not going to get his flowers, as they say, because

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clearly Saban retiring was the biggest story, and then obviously
Harball the scandal there led to it getting a lot
of attension, and I just remember thinking, you know what,
like that's unfair for him because not only is he
he's a really good coach, but I can't think of
many in my life that had been able to be
successful at both NFL and college and he's done it.
And of course now he's back in the NFL with
the Raiders. But yeah, Bill Belichick, I just I mean,

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he couldn't get it done.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
He could.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Mean, let's be real, he couldn't win without Tom Brady.
And I've always felt like, and I still do that
their success in New England, that dynasty which it was,
that wasn't just one person. It was a lot of
things that worked out well. But I will say it's hard.
It's hard to look at the situation years later and
not feel like Brady was the biggest factor in that success,

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especially when you look at what Brady did after he left.
He went on to Tampa Bay, won a Super Bowl,
and with Belichick, he wasn't a very good coach prior
to Tom Brady being his quarterback, and then of course
things really fell apart for him in New England when
Brady left. Yeah, So I mean, let me just give
you something to do really quickly here. This won't take

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much of your time, but I just want you to
consider how crazy this is. Let's go back two years
ago when Belichick was still coaching in New England. Imagine
telling you at that time Bill Belichick will be linked
in dating seemingly seriously dating a twenty four year old woman,
and he will be coaching college football at the University

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of North Carolina. If I told you that on September second,
twenty twenty three, not a soul would believe me. But
here we are. I mean, it's crazy to think about
Belichick and just how much things have changed. And yeah,
I mean it maybe again, maybe maybe it's all overreaction.
Maybe we get to to later in the season and
Carolina's really turned it around. But they looked they looked

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pretty pretty dreadful last night. And I know a lot
of folks it was a reminder myself included, that when
the villain has been the villain for so long, even
if you don't really care about the teams playing last night,
there's something satisfying about seeing a villain get beat like
he did last night. Was it forty eight to fourteen? Yeah,
I mean it was it was rough.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's I think you bring up a good point in sports,
and that is we all love villains. You have to
have villain villains in sports, and no matter who that
villain might be. Yeah, you you have to have it, dude,
And you have to love watching movies.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
You hate to say, I mean you don't.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
You don't mean it vindictively obviously, but you know, for
look at Louisville and Kentucky. I mean, look at the
l's down that you see every single place, even when
they're not playing Louisville.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Look at the.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Hatred that's fueled there, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And you look at what's going on between Michigan. Look
at the Dave Portnoy thing with Michigan Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yep, I mean that runs deep.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Now that I, you know, have have grown up a
little bit. Dare I say I have matured. I don't
take it quite as serious as I used to. It's
made me be able to appreciate a great villain in sports,
like for example, John Caliperry was a phenomenal villain within
this rivalry. I didn't like that he had his way
with Louisville and beat them a lot more than they
beat him, but you know he could he could push
my buttons, especially whenever he had it rolling and that

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emotion that you get, again, it's not one that you
enjoy because you just you can't stand that guy. But
it's part of what makes sports fun. So the villains
who can be and again I'm sure Kentucky fans can said,
sing abut Patino he was a villain because he was
once their coach and then he left to coach a
Louisville And yeah, I just you're right. Villains are needed,
and I can appreciate those that play that role.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, be interesting, it'd be interesting to survey.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
But when we have more time to survey a bunch
of folks, find out who is the biggest villain in
sports overall?

Speaker 1 (18:12):
And the best ones, by the way, are the ones
who embrace it. Yeah, they don't play victim. They know
it and they and they wear it.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Ray Lewis, it's.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Right, that's a good one for sure. All Right, we
got up there of trafficking weather coming your way. Also,
the city of Louisville has got something we can we
can put our chest out about, something we can brag about.
As far as some attractions here in town. We'll talk
about that next right here, And there's ready to wait
forty whs. So when it comes to the city of
Louisville being a sports lover's kind of town, this this,

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this can't hurt when it comes to wanting to I
guess grow that that that presence. I mean, I feel
like we are known for being a good sports city.
But if not. People who check out the USA Today's
list of top ten sports attractions in the country, they'll
they'll see the presence that Louisville has. For different destinations
here in Louisville have made the top ten nationally. The

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Kentucky der Wu Museum, Churchill Downs, Louisville Slugger Museum, and
the Muhammad Ali Center were all voted as must see
destination by readers. So I know that if you live here,
you've probably been to a lot of those places. Maybe
you haven't. If not, you should check it out. But
when I see this, I meant to bring this up
last week, Scott, because we were talking about know how

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it came out, but a giveaway as far as somebody
who's probably here maybe because of a work trip, maybe
they're maybe they made a plan to be in Louislle
for a few days. The giveaway is the little the
little Louisville slugger bats. When I see people walking around downtown,
the little Louisville slugger bat that I like, Here you go,
there's a sign that you're somebody that is probably, you know,

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just trying to take in whatever the city has to
offer because you stopped on a work trip, or again,
maybe you just decided to come here. But yeah, though,
if you've not been to those places, you should check
them out because people travel from probably all over the
place to come and experience those for those four St
Pacific things. So the other says, here the visitors from
Pittsburgh and New York, they told WLKY because that's okay.

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I did a story on this and just asked those
that were I guess, enjoying these four places, and of course,
no surprise, some of those people were not from here.
They're tourists. But they say they weren't shocked and praised
the city's attractions, saying Louisville offers more than most expect,
which again, I think Louisville is awesome, but I'm clearly biased,
and I really do find great I found great joy

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in knowing that people who come here and they didn't
have much of an expectation at all, or maybe maybe
their expectation was not high and they end up thinking, Okay,
this place is pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I can tell you that some of the folks I
talk to when I go to like a racing game,
or when I go to a low city game, there
were a ton of people who came in from out
of town. So one couple drove in from Nashville just
for the racing game. Their daughters played soccer. They were
soccer fans that were women's soccer fans, and they said, hey, listen,
this is kind of our last hurrah before school starts.
There's a professional women's soccer team in laws. Let's make

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the trip to Louisville. And they were staying right downtown
here at the Embassy Suites, which means that we're spending
money down here. And if they're coming into town, I'm
sure there were others that were coming into town as well.
And man, I'm just telling you, it does not surprise
me this story you're reading right here.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well, I think a lot of people don't. They don't.
I mean, Louisville is not one of the bigger, well
known cities in America, but I think if you're not
really in our region, you probably just lump Louisville in
with the state of Kentucky. And no offense to the
state of Kentucky. But it's just much different. I mean,
it's just a completely Jack Harlowe of all people, because

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he's from Louisville. Of course, he put it into words
during an interview a couple of years ago that I
thought really made a lot of sense as far as
just the culture and Louislle and the culture and the
rest of the state. As most people know, it is
much different. But if you just have no if you
have no expectation, and you don't even really know anything
about Louisville other than that it's in Kentucky, and then
you come here, I think a lot of people are surprised.
I mean, I remember when I was covering sports, you'd

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hear from recruits who had no clue of anything about
Louisville and they show up and they're like, oh, wow,
this is actually a big city. It's not just horses
and a bunch of farms. Because again, that's just what
people assume when they think of our state. But of course,
this city, as we all know, much different. Than the
rest of the state, so rounding out, so the top
ten here, the Holly Center came in at number ten.
Number nine is the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Number

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eight was the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
Number seven was the US Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs.
Number six was the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa.
And then Louisville had three in the top five. I
mean Churchill Downs is number five. Number four is the
Slugger Museum in Factory Number three is the Negro League
Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Number two is Churchill is

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the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs. And then number
one is Boise State's Blue Turf, which wasn't expecting that,
but you know, but I get it, I get it
all right. We've got trafficking weather on the way. Also
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