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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is eight oh six here on a Friday morning
on news radio eight forty whas it is coffee and
company with you Kentucky and his morning news, and we
are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who joins
us via phone. Good morning, Mayor Greenberg. How we doing
on a Friday morning?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Doing really well? Nick? Getting ready for a big Cards
football game tonight last weekend was great. Excited about that
and love hearing the good news that you guys are
sharing with your listeners and that news update. You see
the great work of Louisville firefighters. You see the great
work of our infrastructure task Force that is cracking down
on copper wire thieves. We got a lot of great
I've got a great colleagues at Louisville Metro Government on
(00:35):
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Proud of no doubt about it, and glad that we
can certainly share those stories.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And one of the things that I will admit.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I talked a little bit earlier this week, I did
not realize just quite how big and this was from
last weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The world Fest is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, I knew that it had been taking place
here in Louisville for some years I didn't realize it's
twenty years plus that it's been going on, and it
seems as if this this year's event was really successful
and there's already a lot of excitement for next year.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, this is one of our biggest events of the year,
and we've in the last couple of years since I've
been there, we've really worked to improved the quality of
the event, make sure it's safe and clean and fun,
and that the quality of the entertainment is better, that
the food is wonderful, And we just hit a home
run this year. I mean, we had record breaking crowds,
record breaking sales for all the local vendors, which is wonderful.
(01:23):
You know, it was a great event that brings together
people from all across our community, really all across the world,
and it really is great entertainment and food. I'll give
you this is the best statick you'll lie. I know
you'll like this one. I think you've enjoyed a beer
or two in your life. Maybe Normally, normally at a
world Fest weekend they go through about forty five to
sixty kegs of beer. This year they went through ninety
(01:44):
kegs of beer. I think that's a good sign that
there were a lot of people there, they were able
to enjoy themselves. Some of the vendors said they did
as much sales in one day as they typically do
in a whole weekend. So it was a wonderful event.
And we're gonna keep We're going to create, keep expanding
this event.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That much beer being sold meets people were having a
good time, I can confirm. And I'm not sure the
weather could have been much better either, right, I mean
that's you never really know what you're gonna get when
it comes to mother nature.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But yeah, it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I went out for the first time, perfect days And
to tell you what, it really just is a nice
reminder of all the different cultures that do exist in
this city. And I just think it's one of those things.
It's hard to really to know that, but this event,
of course, really is a nice I mean, and having
kids be able to see that, I mean, I just
think it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I will admit it's touch.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This decision you're going to have when you go is
which place do you eat at? Because there are so
many good.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Options exactly exactly, no doubt about that, all right, So
talk to me a little bit about this big news
earlier this week where there is a two million dollars
South End loan and Incentive fund where business owners can apply,
obviously trying to get some new restaurants local businesses in
the Dixie Highway area. Tell us a little about that.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's right. You know, over twenty years ago, Jefferson County
and Louisville City government merged and that's what Metro government is.
And for a long time, folks that live in the
South End have understandably felt like the city government wasn't
paying attention to them. And I've been working incredibly hard
every day to try to change that with lots of
attention on the South End to help support the unique
(03:14):
needs that they have in their neighborhoods, whether it's improving
the parks along the river, improving Jefferson Memorial Forest, but
also bringing business businesses to the South End. And so
in the last budget, I put in three million dollars
that is dedicated just for economic development in the South End.
And so the first two million dollars that we're doing,
(03:34):
we're going to be providing incentives to bring new businesses
along the Dixie Highway corridor. I've heard time and time
again from friends in the South that you know, they
want more restaurants, they want more retail. So typically we
have a lot of incentives to bring manufacturing companies and
to bring lots of other industries. There aren't many state
and local incentives though, to bring restaurants in retail. We
(03:56):
created a new program just for this to help our
friends in the South and Louisville to help them revitalize
their neighborhoods. Also, I want everyone in Louisville to feel
part of our city.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I tell you what, the South End one of the
many things I love about the South End. In fact,
South End people, this is the best compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I can give you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You absolutely love and embrace that you are from the
South End. I know a lot of people in Louisville
are proud of the pockets of this city that they
come from. But as someone who didn't really get out
to that area a whole lot growing up, I know
a lot of people and you know, they're proud to
be from there, and I'm sure they're appreciative of this.
And I mean, look, we've already got a lot of
great restaurants in this city. If we can add some
more out there, it'd be even better for everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's right. That's what working on. And Rachel and I
have made so many great friends in the South End
and just wonderful neighborhoods, wonderful people. It's a great part
of our city and we want to support it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
All Right, So we've got another update here as far
as a significant reduction in crime that we're seeing here
in Louisville in twenty twenty five. And obviously these numbers
don't don't point to hey, everything's okay. Obviously it's a
continued process to try to make this city safer, and
you've made it quite clear that's been a big emphasis
for you as the mayor here of Louisville. But these numbers,
I mean, it's encouraging. It's not something that personally I
(05:04):
think should be just ignored. It's a sign that we
are making progress here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's exactly what I said. It's definitely a great sign
of progress. So, yeah, homicides and other shootings are down
over thirty percent this year. Carjackings are down, really, all
violent crimes are down significantly this year, and that's thanks
to the incredibly hard work of a lot of people.
Of course, Chief Humphrey and the entire team at LMPD
are doing wonderful work. We've got our Office of Violence
(05:29):
Prevention that's out in the streets doing violence prevention work
to stop it from happening in the first place. You know.
Another really good sign is our LMPD recruiting classes are
up for the first time in years. There was a
long time that people didn't want to join LMPD. Now,
thanks to our new leadership and thanks to some other
things that we've done to strength to provide more paid
(05:50):
to our officers, really all first responders. We've also given
historic raises to our firefighters and our paramedics, but we're
paying them better, we're supporting them, we're providing good training,
and so our recruiting classes are really high, and we
need that because we need several hundred more LMPD officers
to be out on the street working to prevent crime
before it even happens. So we're going to keep doubling
(06:10):
down on the things that are working. We're going to
work on adding new things. Just earlier this week, the
Chief and I and some members of our team, along
with the Office of Violence Prevention We're out walking door
to door in the Russell neighborhood around where that horrible
school bus stop shooting happened a couple weeks ago, just
to let people know we're there, that we're focused on
their neighborhood, hear what they had to say if there
(06:31):
were other things we could do to help make their
community even safer. And so we're going to keep doing
things everything we can think of.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Last question for you, I know we've got Bourbon and
Beyond coming up next week, and Bourbon and Beyond Lave
of Life continue to just become I mean, it's one
of those one of the many events we have here
in Louisville every year that brings so many people from
across the country and really across the world. I know,
you know Danny Wimmerwell, and we are certainly glad that
he brings those two festivals here. There are a lot
of fun and certainly does so much for this city.
(06:57):
But I'm curious, have you been able to meet some
of the acts that of course are here taken in
the event, And I would just love to know and
maybe maybe maybe it's something you could.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Do for us this year.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I would love to hear people who come and perform
in Louisville what they think of Louisville. Right, I'm always
happy to hear folks who come in they don't really
have an expectation, or maybe their expectation is not great,
and they realize, hey, this city, this city's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, so everyone is blown away. I mean, well, you know,
some of the acts, they're traveling a lot and so
they don't really get to experience a ton of Louisville,
and others do spend a significant amount of time here
and they get to, you know, they really have some
time to enjoy the city. So I think it just depends.
Different people have different experiences. But the ones I've talked
to have absolutely loved it here. They love the Bourbon
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experiences that they just love the hospitality that they've gotten
from people. And that's what Louisville is all about. We
are a wonderful hospitality town. We get to practice every year.
With the Derby and now Bourbon and Beyond and Louder
than Life have made September as big as a tourism
month for Louisville as May is. With the Derby and
Derby Festival, it is huge. I mean, the impact on
(08:01):
our city cannot be understated. What Bourbon and Beyond and
Louder Than Life. Do you know there's a new location now.
They just moved to a different part of the fairgrounds.
They're going to be in the parking lot in front
of Freedom Hall. There, Kentucky Kingdom is going to be
opened during Louder than Life so you can be able
to ride a roller coaster and listen. It's truly Danny
is reinventing and improving those festivals every year. These are
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going to be amazing unlike ever before, and next year
he'll continue to grow and find ways to continue to
make them better. So I can't wait for the entire
community to enjoy those next weekend and the following weekend.
And we also have a new race. I've got my
mayors on race series to get people out and enjoy
the community through really some fun race and walk at
(08:45):
five k events. And we have a Bourbon and Beyond
five k where you can actually be able to run
through Kentucky Kingdom, run through the festival grounds, run right
in front of the stage with some music so that
that's Saturday morning of Bourbon and Beyond. I hope people
join us at at the Fairgrounds for that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Craig Greenberg joining us here. Thank you so much for
your time. Enjoy the weekend, Craig, and we'll talk soon,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thanks Nick, have a great weekend everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
All right, that's Louisville may Or Craig Greenberg. I tell
you what, Bourbon and Beyond has led to so many
people having a reason to come to Louisville that may
not have had a reason before. And that's good for
the city to bring people in and obviously they're going
to support our businesses. It's just good for the economy.
But you know, maybe this is just the world I
live in, but I like to think that they realize, hey,
(09:28):
this place is pretty awesome. I'm going to come back
next year for Bourbon and be On, or maybe I
should come back whenever I've got more time to take
in the Louisville Slugger Museum or the Muhammad Ali Center.
So getting events that bring people who would never come
here for any other reason is only a chance to
make an impression and you know, make your city look
good and potentially grow the city. So yeah, I can
(09:48):
tell you firsthand. In recent years, specifically these two festivals
have just become such a big, big thing, not just
here locally, but I mean it's you know again, there's
people that come from across the world, and that's good
for us here in the city of Louisville out all.
I appreciate Mae Greenberg's time. Let's get to a quick
update of traffick in weather and we'll keep this thing
rolling along. It's a Friday, we're feeling good and we're
getting you set for the weekend right here our news
radio weight forty whas. What a busy morning we have
(10:13):
had here on news Radio Weight forty whas. I mean,
started out with L ANDPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell. Then we
had the voice of the Wildcats, Tom Leech. Mayor Greenberg
just joined us. And now the main event Tony Vanetti headliner. Yeah,
it's right, headliner of that group. Hell's Greenberg good? Yeah,
oh yeah, he's he's happy everywhere. That WorldFest was the success.
(10:36):
And of course we've got Bourbon and Beyond coming up
next week, which you know, you're you have really done
everything in radio, rock radio, sports, radio, news talk radio.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Does bourbonon Beyond Louder than Life? Do they do anything
for you.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Uh if you, uh, if you put heavy chains around
me and got a pickup truck, you couldn't drag me
to go to Bourbon.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And yeah, that's what I was kind of as I
was thinking about you. And I just can't see it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No offense to anybody goes. I have friends that are
my age that go all four days. I get it.
I did that for a long time, and I can't
I can't know I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I hope I never aged the same way as Tony Vannetti.
I don't ever not want to go.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah, no, no, I get it. But you haven't walked
in these shoes, old mister. I watched the last twenty
minutes of movies, and I don't put condiments on anything.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're a serial killer.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm a normal person.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
John, John, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
John william Alden.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The third amen to that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So I think it's wild that John is a big
music I mean not that I look at people say
I wonder if they'd be a big music festival guy
or not. But you you love a lot of than life,
more than Bourbon to beyond, because yeah, you're you're a
metal rock guy, and that one.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
This is where.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Actually you could help me with this, Tony, because you
the metal rock is not like it's not modern like
these bands. Yeah, or they're a bigger ticket because they're
just not music made like that anymore. Bourbon Round is
going to feature new people, different flavor, whereas sometimes the
lineup for Loter than Life draws people from across the
planet because it's there's not as many opportunities to take
(12:13):
that kind of event in.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
The Louder in Life is the black T shirt, stare
at your shoes crowd. Bourbon and Beyond is a bunch
of old dudes like Dwight.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I would say, so you need to go to Louder
Than Life and just just stand because just.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He can't stand for that long any I'm not kidding
you take this back, take away.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The music, if you just take in the I did
a I did a Man on the Street interview and
I did the vibe check. Yeah, it's Louder than Life.
And I don't know John was was He ran the
camera for me though. Okay, we were there maybe thirty minutes,
that's all you know now, And we.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Were able to and it was when the doors opened
on the first day, the first.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Day thirty minutes, you had all the all the tape
you needed. I mean, it was just it was the
weird and I'm all, if you're into that, that's fine.
But the original question was would you go to that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Not I would and again I did that for fifteen years,
maybe even longer, but it was I'm not doing that anymore.
I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
What about you, Shannon? Are you a are you a
music festival guy?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'll go, but I'll target the days like certain bands,
like I'll try to go the day of a certain bull,
Like I want to try.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
To go see the Goo Goo Dolls.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I like them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
My wife's a big fan of Google Dolls. I want
to try to go that day and go see them.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The concept all three days, the concept just gets me.
Just there's not anything I really want to do that's
going to take that much of my time because I
would quickly just get burned out and be like, yeah,
I've seen enough, I'll go home now. But that you know,
you can't really take that in because you're wasting money.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
No, I'm happy for everybody that has a good time there,
but for me standing somewhere for ten hours and waiting
in line to go to the bathroom and twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Dollars for a beer, and especially the people who can't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm not I can't do it, bro. I'll drop you off,
pick you up. And we appreciate those the life.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I appreciate those that come to the city and of
course you know my wife's.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Going so but thank you for your tourism dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's right, we were out of time here. We're gonna
hand it off to Tony and Dwight.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Have a good weekend. Everybody will see on Monday.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He
It is eight oh six here on a Friday morning
on news radio eight forty whas it is coffee and
company with you Kentucky and his morning news, and we
are now joined by Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who joins
us via phone. Good morning, Mayor Greenberg. How we doing
on a Friday morning?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Doing really well? Nick? Getting ready for a big Cards
football game tonight last weekend was great. Excited about that
and love hearing the good news that you guys are
sharing with your listeners and that news update. You see
the great work of Louisville firefighters. You see the great
work of our infrastructure task Force that is cracking down
on copper wire thieves. We got a lot of great
I've got a great colleagues at Louisville Metro Government on
(00:35):
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Proud of no doubt about it, and glad that we
can certainly share those stories.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And one of the things that I will admit.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I talked a little bit earlier this week, I did
not realize just quite how big and this was from
last weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The world Fest is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I mean, I knew that it had been taking place
here in Louisville for some years I didn't realize it's
twenty years plus that it's been going on, and it
seems as if this this year's event was really successful
and there's already a lot of excitement for next year.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, this is one of our biggest events of the year,
and we've in the last couple of years since I've
been there, we've really worked to improved the quality of
the event, make sure it's safe and clean and fun,
and that the quality of the entertainment is better, that
the food is wonderful, And we just hit a home
run this year. I mean, we had record breaking crowds,
record breaking sales for all the local vendors, which is wonderful.
(01:23):
You know, it was a great event that brings together
people from all across our community, really all across the world,
and it really is great entertainment and food. I'll give
you this is the best statick you'll lie. I know
you'll like this one. I think you've enjoyed a beer
or two in your life. Maybe Normally, normally at a
world Fest weekend they go through about forty five to
sixty kegs of beer. This year they went through ninety
(01:44):
kegs of beer. I think that's a good sign that
there were a lot of people there, they were able
to enjoy themselves. Some of the vendors said they did
as much sales in one day as they typically do
in a whole weekend. So it was a wonderful event.
And we're gonna keep We're going to create, keep expanding
this event.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That much beer being sold meets people were having a
good time, I can confirm. And I'm not sure the
weather could have been much better either, right, I mean
that's you never really know what you're gonna get when
it comes to mother nature.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But yeah, it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I went out for the first time, perfect days And
to tell you what, it really just is a nice
reminder of all the different cultures that do exist in
this city. And I just think it's one of those things.
It's hard to really to know that, but this event,
of course, really is a nice I mean, and having
kids be able to see that, I mean, I just
think it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I will admit it's touch.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This decision you're going to have when you go is
which place do you eat at? Because there are so
many good.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Options exactly exactly, no doubt about that, all right, So
talk to me a little bit about this big news
earlier this week where there is a two million dollars
South End loan and Incentive fund where business owners can apply,
obviously trying to get some new restaurants local businesses in
the Dixie Highway area. Tell us a little about that.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's right. You know, over twenty years ago, Jefferson County
and Louisville City government merged and that's what Metro government is.
And for a long time, folks that live in the
South End have understandably felt like the city government wasn't
paying attention to them. And I've been working incredibly hard
every day to try to change that with lots of
attention on the South End to help support the unique
(03:14):
needs that they have in their neighborhoods, whether it's improving
the parks along the river, improving Jefferson Memorial Forest, but
also bringing business businesses to the South End. And so
in the last budget, I put in three million dollars
that is dedicated just for economic development in the South End.
And so the first two million dollars that we're doing,
(03:34):
we're going to be providing incentives to bring new businesses
along the Dixie Highway corridor. I've heard time and time
again from friends in the South that you know, they
want more restaurants, they want more retail. So typically we
have a lot of incentives to bring manufacturing companies and
to bring lots of other industries. There aren't many state
and local incentives though, to bring restaurants in retail. We
(03:56):
created a new program just for this to help our
friends in the South and Louisville to help them revitalize
their neighborhoods. Also, I want everyone in Louisville to feel
part of our city.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I tell you what, the South End one of the
many things I love about the South End. In fact,
South End people, this is the best compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I can give you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You absolutely love and embrace that you are from the
South End. I know a lot of people in Louisville
are proud of the pockets of this city that they
come from. But as someone who didn't really get out
to that area a whole lot growing up, I know
a lot of people and you know, they're proud to
be from there, and I'm sure they're appreciative of this.
And I mean, look, we've already got a lot of
great restaurants in this city. If we can add some
more out there, it'd be even better for everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's right. That's what working on. And Rachel and I
have made so many great friends in the South End
and just wonderful neighborhoods, wonderful people. It's a great part
of our city and we want to support it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
All Right, So we've got another update here as far
as a significant reduction in crime that we're seeing here
in Louisville in twenty twenty five. And obviously these numbers
don't don't point to hey, everything's okay. Obviously it's a
continued process to try to make this city safer, and
you've made it quite clear that's been a big emphasis
for you as the mayor here of Louisville. But these numbers,
I mean, it's encouraging. It's not something that personally I
(05:04):
think should be just ignored. It's a sign that we
are making progress here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's exactly what I said. It's definitely a great sign
of progress. So, yeah, homicides and other shootings are down
over thirty percent this year. Carjackings are down, really, all
violent crimes are down significantly this year, and that's thanks
to the incredibly hard work of a lot of people.
Of course, Chief Humphrey and the entire team at LMPD
are doing wonderful work. We've got our Office of Violence
(05:29):
Prevention that's out in the streets doing violence prevention work
to stop it from happening in the first place. You know.
Another really good sign is our LMPD recruiting classes are
up for the first time in years. There was a
long time that people didn't want to join LMPD. Now,
thanks to our new leadership and thanks to some other
things that we've done to strength to provide more paid
(05:50):
to our officers, really all first responders. We've also given
historic raises to our firefighters and our paramedics, but we're
paying them better, we're supporting them, we're providing good training,
and so our recruiting classes are really high, and we
need that because we need several hundred more LMPD officers
to be out on the street working to prevent crime
before it even happens. So we're going to keep doubling
(06:10):
down on the things that are working. We're going to
work on adding new things. Just earlier this week, the
Chief and I and some members of our team, along
with the Office of Violence Prevention We're out walking door
to door in the Russell neighborhood around where that horrible
school bus stop shooting happened a couple weeks ago, just
to let people know we're there, that we're focused on
their neighborhood, hear what they had to say if there
(06:31):
were other things we could do to help make their
community even safer. And so we're going to keep doing
things everything we can think of.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Last question for you, I know we've got Bourbon and
Beyond coming up next week, and Bourbon and Beyond Lave
of Life continue to just become I mean, it's one
of those one of the many events we have here
in Louisville every year that brings so many people from
across the country and really across the world. I know,
you know Danny Wimmerwell, and we are certainly glad that
he brings those two festivals here. There are a lot
of fun and certainly does so much for this city.
(06:57):
But I'm curious, have you been able to meet some
of the acts that of course are here taken in
the event, And I would just love to know and
maybe maybe maybe it's something you could.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Do for us this year.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I would love to hear people who come and perform
in Louisville what they think of Louisville. Right, I'm always
happy to hear folks who come in they don't really
have an expectation, or maybe their expectation is not great,
and they realize, hey, this city, this city's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, so everyone is blown away. I mean, well, you know,
some of the acts, they're traveling a lot and so
they don't really get to experience a ton of Louisville,
and others do spend a significant amount of time here
and they get to, you know, they really have some
time to enjoy the city. So I think it just depends.
Different people have different experiences. But the ones I've talked
to have absolutely loved it here. They love the Bourbon
(07:40):
experiences that they just love the hospitality that they've gotten
from people. And that's what Louisville is all about. We
are a wonderful hospitality town. We get to practice every year.
With the Derby and now Bourbon and Beyond and Louder
than Life have made September as big as a tourism
month for Louisville as May is. With the Derby and
Derby Festival, it is huge. I mean, the impact on
(08:01):
our city cannot be understated. What Bourbon and Beyond and
Louder Than Life. Do you know there's a new location now.
They just moved to a different part of the fairgrounds.
They're going to be in the parking lot in front
of Freedom Hall. There, Kentucky Kingdom is going to be
opened during Louder than Life so you can be able
to ride a roller coaster and listen. It's truly Danny
is reinventing and improving those festivals every year. These are
(08:24):
going to be amazing unlike ever before, and next year
he'll continue to grow and find ways to continue to
make them better. So I can't wait for the entire
community to enjoy those next weekend and the following weekend.
And we also have a new race. I've got my
mayors on race series to get people out and enjoy
the community through really some fun race and walk at
(08:45):
five k events. And we have a Bourbon and Beyond
five k where you can actually be able to run
through Kentucky Kingdom, run through the festival grounds, run right
in front of the stage with some music so that
that's Saturday morning of Bourbon and Beyond. I hope people
join us at at the Fairgrounds for that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Craig Greenberg joining us here. Thank you so much for
your time. Enjoy the weekend, Craig, and we'll talk soon,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Thanks Nick, have a great weekend everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
All right, that's Louisville may Or Craig Greenberg. I tell
you what, Bourbon and Beyond has led to so many
people having a reason to come to Louisville that may
not have had a reason before. And that's good for
the city to bring people in and obviously they're going
to support our businesses. It's just good for the economy.
But you know, maybe this is just the world I
live in, but I like to think that they realize, hey,
(09:28):
this place is pretty awesome. I'm going to come back
next year for Bourbon and be On, or maybe I
should come back whenever I've got more time to take
in the Louisville Slugger Museum or the Muhammad Ali Center.
So getting events that bring people who would never come
here for any other reason is only a chance to
make an impression and you know, make your city look
good and potentially grow the city. So yeah, I can
(09:48):
tell you firsthand. In recent years, specifically these two festivals
have just become such a big, big thing, not just
here locally, but I mean it's you know again, there's
people that come from across the world, and that's good
for us here in the city of Louisville out all.
I appreciate Mae Greenberg's time. Let's get to a quick
update of traffick in weather and we'll keep this thing
rolling along. It's a Friday, we're feeling good and we're
getting you set for the weekend right here our news
radio weight forty whas. What a busy morning we have
(10:13):
had here on news Radio Weight forty whas. I mean,
started out with L ANDPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell. Then we
had the voice of the Wildcats, Tom Leech. Mayor Greenberg
just joined us. And now the main event Tony Vanetti headliner. Yeah,
it's right, headliner of that group. Hell's Greenberg good? Yeah,
oh yeah, he's he's happy everywhere. That WorldFest was the success.
(10:36):
And of course we've got Bourbon and Beyond coming up
next week, which you know, you're you have really done
everything in radio, rock radio, sports, radio, news talk radio.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Does bourbonon Beyond Louder than Life? Do they do anything
for you.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Uh if you, uh, if you put heavy chains around
me and got a pickup truck, you couldn't drag me
to go to Bourbon.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And yeah, that's what I was kind of as I
was thinking about you. And I just can't see it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No offense to anybody goes. I have friends that are
my age that go all four days. I get it.
I did that for a long time, and I can't
I can't know I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I hope I never aged the same way as Tony Vannetti.
I don't ever not want to go.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah, no, no, I get it. But you haven't walked
in these shoes, old mister. I watched the last twenty
minutes of movies, and I don't put condiments on anything.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're a serial killer.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm a normal person.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
John, John, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
John william Alden.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The third amen to that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So I think it's wild that John is a big
music I mean not that I look at people say
I wonder if they'd be a big music festival guy
or not. But you you love a lot of than life,
more than Bourbon to beyond, because yeah, you're you're a
metal rock guy, and that one.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
This is where.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Actually you could help me with this, Tony, because you
the metal rock is not like it's not modern like
these bands. Yeah, or they're a bigger ticket because they're
just not music made like that anymore. Bourbon Round is
going to feature new people, different flavor, whereas sometimes the
lineup for Loter than Life draws people from across the
planet because it's there's not as many opportunities to take
(12:13):
that kind of event in.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
The Louder in Life is the black T shirt, stare
at your shoes crowd. Bourbon and Beyond is a bunch
of old dudes like Dwight.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I would say, so you need to go to Louder
Than Life and just just stand because just.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He can't stand for that long any I'm not kidding
you take this back, take away.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The music, if you just take in the I did
a I did a Man on the Street interview and
I did the vibe check. Yeah, it's Louder than Life.
And I don't know John was was He ran the
camera for me though. Okay, we were there maybe thirty minutes,
that's all you know now, And we.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Were able to and it was when the doors opened
on the first day, the first.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Day thirty minutes, you had all the all the tape
you needed. I mean, it was just it was the
weird and I'm all, if you're into that, that's fine.
But the original question was would you go to that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Not I would and again I did that for fifteen years,
maybe even longer, but it was I'm not doing that anymore.
I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
What about you, Shannon? Are you a are you a
music festival guy?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'll go, but I'll target the days like certain bands,
like I'll try to go the day of a certain bull,
Like I want to try.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
To go see the Goo Goo Dolls.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I like them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
My wife's a big fan of Google Dolls. I want
to try to go that day and go see them.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The concept all three days, the concept just gets me.
Just there's not anything I really want to do that's
going to take that much of my time because I
would quickly just get burned out and be like, yeah,
I've seen enough, I'll go home now. But that you know,
you can't really take that in because you're wasting money.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
No, I'm happy for everybody that has a good time there,
but for me standing somewhere for ten hours and waiting
in line to go to the bathroom and twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Dollars for a beer, and especially the people who can't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm not I can't do it, bro. I'll drop you off,
pick you up. And we appreciate those the life.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I appreciate those that come to the city and of
course you know my wife's.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Going so but thank you for your tourism dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's right, we were out of time here. We're gonna
hand it off to Tony and Dwight.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Have a good weekend. Everybody will see on Monday.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He
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