9.4: Wet Start - Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is six oh five here at Kentucky As Morning News,
Coffee and Company with you on News Radio eight forty
whas thanks for hanging out with us on this wet
Thursday morning making progress.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
There were three accidents.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
That we were monitoring as we got started around five
o'clock this morning, and now it looks like there's just
one and that is a disabled vehicle that is on
the I sixty four West ramp from South Hurstbourne Parkway,
so the right shoulder block. But other than that, despite
some wet roadways, we were looking pretty good all things considered,
and it looks like the biggest delay as far as

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just congestion a traffic jam essentially is due to some
roadwork being done near the Bullet County Jefferson County line
at I sixty five north. So but it's nothing substantial,
just a a little bit of a I guess a
slower commute as they've got some roadwork going on. All right,
So we are about to get what I believe is

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probably the biggest month of the year out side side
of May, potentially as far as just tourism surging in
the city of Louisville, and maybe because of just the
multiple events. Maybe in fact, I could be wrong. I
just think the Kentucky Derby is going to bring way
more people than anything we do, which it does, I believe. However,
it's just for one week. We've got the Bourbon and

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Beyond Music Festival, a lot of Than Life that of
course are going to be taking place here this month,
and it's going to bring a lot of people here
and hopefully a lot of money. That's typically what you
hope for, right These big events bring a lot of
people that give our local businesses money. And Bourbonna Beyond
a lot of than Life they've been around for some

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years now and I know a lot of people here
locally that go and enjoy it and they really make
it an annual thing.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But it's sometimes is.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
You really need to get out there and be there
to realize how many people from sometimes across the world
come and take in these music festivals that I feel
like and again, what do I know. I'm not an
expert on the industry that is music festivals, but they
seem to even when you have one year where the
lineup's really loaded, the next year it's not quite as loaded,
but still strong. It still feels like overall these events

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are growing in popularity. So those two specifically are expected
to draw nearly four hundred thousand people and generate over
forty two million dollars in economic impact. So they've expanded
the footprints at the Kentucky Exposition Center with with just
this is going to be more space for the overall
events because again they're continuing to grow attendance, and they're

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predicting a record breaking attendance this year, which maybe that
ends up happening, but I don't know. I feel like
last year's last year's Bourbon and Beyond lineup, it just
felt like not only did they have such a star
studded lineup, they got certain artists like Zach Bryan that
I feel like might have been when he was really
at his peak, when his popularity was at an all
time high. So when it comes to hotel occupancy, we're

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expected to hit ninety percent capacity on on peak days,
which again that really tells you how many people are
in town to take in these festivals when ninety percent
of the hotel rooms here are expected to be to
be occupied. But it's not just those two music events.
You've also got other conferences going on that'll bring a
lot of people here. So and then I don't know

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just how much you see as far as the crowd
coming from outside of the Kentuckian area. But if you
consider the Saint James Art show that's in a big
annual event, even have Harvest Home coming across the river
New Albany, that I wouldn't be able to tell you
just how big it is as far as just the crowd.
But you know, there could be people that come and
stay in the Louisville side whenever they're coming for that event,

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or maybe they you know. Again, also I would imagine
New Albany as the city benefits from an economic standpoint
as well whenever they have events like that. So whenever
it's it's you know, I'm just used to it at
this point, but when I see these numbers in the
overall amount of people expected to be here, it really
does make me appreciate that we have these events.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
And again, what do I know.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'll lean on our music festival correspondent, the company man,
John Alden. Are we a music festival city? I mean,
I feel like I would be really just talking at
my reran to say that, but these two are are huge.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, I'd say we're definitely in that realm of being
one of the bigger music festival cities, especially for being Louisville.
A lot of the big ones like Lallapaloo's up in Chicago,
we don't really match that type of intensity. Then you
got Coachella out in the West Coast as well, something
like that. But for being Louisville and having two of
the more popular growing music festivals like Louder than Life

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in Bourbon and beyond, I would say we're definitely. I
don't know how long these things go on for, like
the what the legs are for, Like if these goes,
if these types of things go ten twenty years down
the road question, But these could be something that you know,
people just know nationally as being like a big deal
this time of year.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
You never know, well, because it's it seems like it'd
be really hard to sustain for a long stretch where
you can keep the momentum where it's at, and if
it's part of your brand, if you're a promoter, and
obviously I know the folks who put this on the
this isn't the only event they do. These two aren't
the only events they do. I should say, maybe you
just okay, you know, you realize, okay, it's run its course.
Let's shift gear and refocus and try to do something

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a little bit different. But hey, if it's working, I
would keep doing it if it's going to continue to work.
And so far, that's exactly what's happened Forecastle that went away.
What in twenty twenty three, I think it was.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, I think that kind of coincided with the rise
of Bourbon and beyond and Danny Wimmer kind of really
having a foothold on what he's been able to do
with that with Louisville and having both that and Louder
than Life at the Expot Center, whereas Forecastle is always
to the waterfront. I guess when you have things at
the waterfront, you kind of limit yourself with the amount
of space that's down there. And when Danny Wimmer started off,

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these vessels were at Champions Park yea, which is kind
of close to the waterfront. It kind of is a
waterfront area. But he's been able to expand and this
is the second time, as you mentioned earlier, that they've
kind of made these festivals larger. With the amount of
space that they're going to have, They're incorporating Kentucky Kingdom
this year, so oh really, Yeah, it's gonna be interesting
to see how that works. That they even have one
of the stages inside of the theme park somehow, I

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don't know how it's gonna work, but we'll see that.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean, that'll just give you. I mean, I
think the space that they have, I would have never
envisioned it working out the way that it did because
I'm just thinking that seems like an odd place to
put it. But all things considered, it's been. It's been
pretty smooth. But yeah, adding more space and utilizing that
area over there near Kentucky Kingdom, it's only going to
get people more room. And I guess maybe we'll give
you a chance to have it more spread out, which

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which is pretty pretty typical music festivals. But yeah, Forecastle,
I mean no offense. I'm not sure specifically who's involved
in that event, and it certainly had a great run,
but I feel like they've been on pause since twenty
twenty three. I think if they brought it back, it'd
be really tough to compete. Now, again, it wouldn't take
place at the same time, and I'm sure they'd be
able to have some success, but these things too, these

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two specifically, I guess, really in the last six years
or so, Burba Beyond and a lot of Than Life
have really become huge for this city. And I know
there's many people listening right now that can't wait to
get there for one of them, or maybe both of them.
So good stuff. All right, let's get to an update
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Speaker 2 (07:24):
It is Coffee and Company.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So it sounds as if they were unable to determine
the cause of death and the infant who really just
a tragic situation all the way around as a Kentucky
University of Kentucky student, a twenty one year old by
the name of Lake and Snellen. She was pregnant, I guess,
And we're finding more out about sort of her life

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via social media. That's what happens. These stories. Of course,
they get national attention and if you're I mean, many people,
especially people around her age of twenty one years old.
They're pretty active on social media social media, so there
are many that are trying to, uh to figure out
I guess, I mean, again, the curiosity in these kind
of situations. I guess it's just human nature because you

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want to you want to try to understand how, why
what you were pregnant and you didn't tell anybody, you
hit it, somehow you were successful seemingly in hiding it,
and then you gave birth and then somehow killed the
baby and again somehow because I say that because we
don't we don't know exactly what caused it, because the
coroner in Faye County says that the preliminary autopsy findings

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are inconclusive, so they're gonna need some microscopic analysis, uh
to determine the actual cause of death. And when we
get that, I don't, I don't know for sure. But
the baby was wrapped in a towel inside a black
trash bag at this this young woman's home, which is
near the UK campus. And again she admitted to giving

(08:51):
birth and concealing the baby. That's according to the court documents.
And she's of course been charged with concealing the birth
of the birth of an infant, tampering with evidence, and abuse.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Of a corpse.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
So she's pleaded not guilty. That was Tuesday, after posting
one hundred thousand dollars bond on Monday. And again I
try to try to think of if that's somebody that
I if there's somebody that I know, somebody in my life, acquaintance, friend, coworker,
family member, whatever, if this was, I mean, I just

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can't imagine how you would how you would be able
to begin to process all the questions you would have.
How did I not know? Why did they feel like
they needed to do this? And there's no answer you're
gonna get that's going to make you feel any differently
than you probably feel about it. So yeah, just just awful.

(09:44):
And some of the things that you that you see
out there in regards to this, to this young woman
is just.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
That she me.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
She she was living her life seemingly on social media
like any other any other college kid, honestly, I mean,
and it's tough to know how how often her social
media was updated as far as like her bios and whatnot,
but she she did list motherhood as one of her
life goals, apparently at some at some point on her

(10:12):
it was in a TikTok.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I believe it was.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
So yeah, just just an awful, awful situation all the
way around. And uh, I can't begin to imagine what
like her parents are are are thinking. And of course
you know the the victim itself, the the infant who
you know is now dead. So this story getting a
lot of national attention, and these type of things do

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just when you consider the nature of what went on.
All right, we've got another trapping a weather update on
the way. We'll kitch you caught up on how the
roadways are looking fingers crossed despite some some early showers
this morning, and looks like we're going to have that
throughout the morning. So far, so good. Right, let's let's
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Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's us.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Every now and then there'll be a documentary on Netflix
or one of the other streaming platforms that everybody seems
to be talking about. And the latest is High School
cat The High School Catfish. It's Netflix's latest true crime
special that really just almost seems unbelievable. But the wife

(11:30):
and I watched it last night and it is. It's
something I will tell you. I'm going to give some
spoilers out, so I don't know the documentaries. I feel
like it really depends on the subject of the documentary
for you to really need to be worried about spoiling
it for others, because there's certain things that we I mean,

(11:51):
it'd be hard. Like the reason you want to watch
the documentary is because you knew the story and were
interested in it as far as what happened, and you
just want to see it put together by somebody who
is great at documenting things and of course creating documentaries.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
So this story is wild.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
But again, maybe ear muffs for a moment here if
you don't know anything about it, but I think you
could know. I also think with documentaries it's different. You
can know everything and be told ahead and still want
to watch and I can tell you what I'm about
what I'm about to share with you in just a
couple of minutes of time, meaning I'm not going to
get into it extensively. It's not going to make it
do where you wouldn't. Still, I think find it very

(12:28):
interesting to watch. But again it's called Netflix's Unknown Number,
the High School Catfish, and the reason why everybody is
going to social media to say, wait, they have a
lot of questions and they're just in disbelief. It's because
of the nature of what happened in twenty twenty when
there was a cyber bullying case in Beal City, Michigan.

(12:50):
There was a teenager and her boyfriend who were terrorized
for nearly two years by threatening text messages, only to
discover that the culprit was someone that they never would
have imagined in, somebody very very close.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
It was the girl's mother.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
And I mean, we're talking threatening text messages over again.
It looks like about fifteen months time, and this is
somebody that is sending hateful, vile text messages to a
young girl, a fourteen, fifteen year old because.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
I do believe she was fourteen when it started. Fifteen.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Whenever it was discovered that there was her mother and
the girlfriend's boyfriend telling her to like encouraging her to
kill herself, like saying, you know, you should just go
jump off a bridge, and it's just something you cannot
fathom as a parent. But you see the bodycam footage
of the officers letting the girl know who it is,

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and it's just I think there was a lot of
anger from people watching it to know that one that
it was the that it was the mother of all
people who did it. And again, that's just it. It's
disgusting and it's it's something you can't comprehend as a parent.
But to see that once the daughter found out, she
wasn't hit with rage. She wasn't. She wasn't I mean,
she didn't become you know, I mean you could give

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me any emotion that that that would have been the
you know whatever, anything, any any type of emotion when
you find that out isn't really off the table, right
because you can think about what we're talking about. However,
this this this young girl, she she she had tears
in her eyes, emotional as her mother, I guess was
you know, just trying to hug her and tell her sorry,

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and she just kind of sat there almost like almost just.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Lifeless in a way.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
And I think it's because when you're like it is
hard to accept certain things that you find out about
people you love, like your parents, right, Like, I mean,
if if my parents ever did something awful, and they
wouldn't they're great people. They may be listening now and
I'm proud to be their son because they don't do
it anything awful. But I'm just saying hypothetically, if they did,

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it wouldn't mean that with the snap of the fingers,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I don't love them. I don't.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
I wouldn't be able to not love my parents. Literally, couldn't.
Couldn't happen even if they did something terrible. I mean again,
I would certain things but obviously can damage a relationship,
change it forever for the worst. But I just I
don't see a scenario where I won't love my parents.
And even if they did something that didn't impact me directly,
but man, it really disappointed me because they committed a

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crime or did something you know that clearly society would
view as a very awful thing to do. I'd be disappointed,
I'd be sad, I'd.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Be a wreck.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
But I don't know if I would just all of
a sudden not love them. And I think that's why
the daughter was the way she is. And last two
things I'll say about it, And again I don't think
I've spoiled it, spoiled it too much.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
But I mean the woman, the mom who.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Was who was you know, arrested. She was charged, by
the way, two counts of stalking a minor. She was
sentenced to nineteen months, but she ended up parolling and
did very little time in jail. And she's not super
close with her daughter right now. But they do still talk,
and the young girl still wants to just I guess
kind of you know, keep her distance, but also still

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let her mom be a part of her life, which
good for her. Again, I think her mother should consider
herself herself very lucky in that situation overall. But here's
the question I have, which I'm not sure many others
with the layers here, as far as just the unbelievable
things that took place. One thing that stood out to
me that I haven't heard many people ask, is why

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would this woman agree to be in this documentary.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
She's in it.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
She talks the mom who did this, and she talks
about it, not like defending herself as if I don't
know what the big deal is, But she talks about
it so casually and it's just it's it almost doesn't
seem real. But what is she I mean, does she
think she was going to like there's something to be
said about wanting to I guess face the music and
really just you know, get get every platform possible, get

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in front of every camera'll that'll talk to you and
say I want to say I'm sorry and I apologize.
What I did was awful.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
But she didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Now.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
She also didn't deny it or act like it was okay,
but it.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Was. The lights were on, but nobody was home upstairs
as she was discussing sort of what went on. But yeah,
it's one of the many documentaries Netflix has produced over
the years that ends up where everybody's talking about it
because it's almost it's almost unbelievable, which I will say
when it comes to Netflix, I will give them credit.
I don't love a lot of their original like movies

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they've done in recent years, and I think their overall
series there's been some good ones, but I've felt that
there have been better series originals, I should say, coming
from the other streaming platforms, the competitors to Netflix, But
they do documentaries really, really well, and that one is
worth checking out. All right, quick break trafficking weather updates
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Speaker 2 (18:37):
The NBA.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
I don't really get into the NBA a whole lot anymore,
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So here we go, many many months moving forward. I'm
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also going to be betting on a lot of sports
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