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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We have brought you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Brought to you by the Kentucky I just said that
I'm trying to hit this video that I had pulled
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You selling Dwight doing the Gustavos.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, he says, brought to you by after I've already
said it, brought.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
To you by.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm trying to find the damn song that he opened
up at the play last night, and now I lost it.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Will Stein was introduced as the coach yesterday afternoon. You
knew he would kill the press conference. Everybody loves him.
It's now the honeymoon is on for will Stein at
the University of Kentucky. Having insane fans is great, That's
why you have success. But having insane fans sucks. So
they are going to scrutinize every little bit that they do.
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Mitch Barnhardt did not have a good press conference yesterday.
I saw a little bit of that where he finally
was just had it had enough about anil money talk.
I don't know if you saw that, John, but he
basically said enough, like I'm not answering.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
These questions anymore. Oh that's not.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, he said, I'm not answering these questions. We have
enough money. We're putting the money where they're supposed to be.
We've got good players and good coaches and trying to
do the right thing. Enough, don't stop asking, and it's like,
that's not going away.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If you don't, you can all that can be true,
but you can't. You have to embrace the nile stuff.
You can't act like you have a problem with any
of them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, am I crazy?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I thought he.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I thought he had already said his retirement. I thought
this was his last year.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Am I wrong by that?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I feel like there may have been talk of him, Okay,
I don't know if there was anything official put out.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, I think here there's sometimes you just someplace too
long and it's nobody's fault, but there's just time. It's
like a divorce where you're like, yeah, you know, nobody
cheated on each other. It's just, uh, it doesn't work
for me anymore. And I think that's Tubby. Tubby was
like that with Kentucky. There was no reason really for
Tubby to leave except for yeah, it was it was
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just time. Cards basketball lost to Caliperry again. I mean
back when he was at Memphis, he would he'd beat
Rick and Denny or I don't know if Denny was
in when cali Perry was there was still there. Yeah,
I think they lapped over. But cal Perry's just just
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as Louisville's number, no matter who the coach is. And
I'm glad I missed the game, to tell you the truth,
because last night I went to Actors Theater. I have
not been there in forever. I can't even tell you
the T shirt. I went with Dwight because the girl
that worked on our show wrote a play with someone else,
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and you know, it was down at the round at
Actors Theater, and we went down to watch it. And
when I get out of the car downtown, Dwight comes
around the corner of this T shirt. I can't even
tell you what it said because I'd get fired. I said,
you can't wear this down here, and he was like, yep,
wearing it?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Did he get looks? From people?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'll tell you in the break
what it's. I know what it says yesterday, I told
you yesterday. So Actors Theater, let's get to it. Christmas
Carol is a classic duh. It's been around since the
mid It was written in the mid eighteen hundred, so
it's a mid nineteenth century British story.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We all know it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And for decades, Actors Theater did it every single year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
For years.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Family used it as a tradition to you know, it
was one of the things the families did. They went
downtown on a Saturday afternoon Friday night and went to
see Christmas Carol or six years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We all know what we.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Were going through six years ago, and a lot of
things were getting canceled. They were canceling songs, they were
canceling movies, they were canceling TV shows. If there was
anything that bothered anybody, you could cancel. Well, Actors Theater
had a certain group that was running Actress Theater at
that time, and they said a Christmas Carol. Because I
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called to get tickets and they said we're not doing
Christmas Carol and I was like, oh no, why, And
he's in the person and it was on the phone.
This is their quote, not mine. He said it's not
diverse enough. We're sorry. So for six years it didn't run.
Last night they brought it back, and they brought it
back right it is the traditional.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It is is as close to the text as you
can get, and it's really good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm always amazed how they could do the special effects
and how they use the smoke and the lights, and
they did a really good job. All the actors were great.
They start with a song, darn it, it's the ring.
It's ring ding dan ending ding danding to kind of
get you in the mood. So all the actors come
out of the stands like behind us, and they're singing
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that song and it gets you right in the mood.
Plus there were times that they have that fake snow
that comes down from the ceiling and it's not just
on the stage, it's over every buddy in the crowd too,
So it's like it gets you in the mood. It's
a great play. They did it right. They did a
great job. I don't think anybody there disliked it. It
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was awesome. We had a great time. I took my
mom and my wife Thank you to Actress Theater. They
did sort of a media This was the last dress rehearsal,
so they were still working things out, but we didn't
notice they were doing They did a great job. All
the actors were great. The song there was only two
or three songs that was it. It's as close to
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the story as you can get as you remember it.
That's what I think everyone wants to know. I posted
a picture on Facebook and people were asking that very question.
Is it the Christmas Carol or is it something else?
It's a Christmas Carol, So go see it at Actors Theater.
You won't be disappointed. It's really good. When's the last
time you were at actorss Theater?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Man, I don't know, but my family goes to Derby
Dinner every year for their Christmas stuff. They got no fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, we went last year to a wonderful It's a
wonderful life. And I was blown away how well they did,
because you think, uh, you know dinner Derby Dinner plan
is good. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And the and the and the play was great. It
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Uh, but it is Actors Theater is just obviously world Warnow.
The human humanity used to sponsor, uh, the script writers.
So the playwriters would come here and it was millions
of dollars every single year. So they only had they
only needed one sponsor. And I think there's three. Is
there two or three theaters in Actors Theater, There's the
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Round and I think there's two other. It's beautiful, by
the way, It's just it used to be a bank
when banks were bank banks, you know, with the with
the the dome and the marble and the columns and
and you kind of go, oh, yeah, it kind of
does look like a bank from eighty one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They converted it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know what year, but I were remember in
the eighties when I was in high school that they
were people that were, you know, reported, there were big
stars like movie stars that love to do a stage
also would be in town just kind of hanging out
and You're like, why is he here? It's like Actors Theater.
The plays are going on. So if anyone, if you
were wondering, is a Christmas Carol from Actors Theater this year?
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Actually a Christmas Carol? It is and it's good, so go. Definitely,
I was trying to find I had Ron ray Coniff.
Do you know who that is? The Ray Conniff singers?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, I don't, Yeah, it's the song is the ring
Ring the bells thing?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Then?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Ain't thing?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Ain't dinging?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Ain't, Danny, No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you have it? No, I don't. Oh you wanted
me to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I thought I thought you you were. You were playing
on your computer like you were pulling it up. What John,
It's called Carol of the Bells, Carrol of the bells. Oh,
I found Ray Conniff in our system. But they don't
have for Carrol of the Bells. They don't have Carol
the bells.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We've got here, we come a Carrol.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm of them.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Are anything with a bell in it, a ring, anything
with a ring or a bell.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, before the sprinkle ding, there's your Carol of
the Bells for the day.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No, I'm always amazed. I have to be honest with you.
I'm always amazed with the schools in this town and
the plays they put on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They are unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Grade schools and high schools put on these elaborate plays
every year, and their departments, there are departments, uh Is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Every time I go, I always go, I can't believe
this is a grade school play. The costumes and the
sets and all that. It's awesome. My daughter did it
through all through from I don't second grade on but
they're they're just awesome. So if a chance, go out
and see that. In about twenty minutes, we'll have Jody
Myman come on from Metro Safe. He's going to talk
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about ups around ups because I know that there is
a talking point.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I saw something on WDRB ninety businesses are still closed
ninety to the public and struggling here around the airport,
So we'll talk about that and how they get how
they get the thing open there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So you hear this and then the actors are singing
this as they're walking down and it gets you into
the because this really doesn't have anything to do with
a Christmas carol, but it sets the mood. So whoever
directed this play, great job, because right away you go, okay,
it was awesome. And the channel that I listened to
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on iHeart is a classic Chris It's a blue Snowflake.
So just if you find that, click on that and
these kind of songs Ray Koniff Singers and all that
Bing Crosby, those are the ones that come up the
traditional stuff us old guys like I'm going to talk
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about vacancies in downtown Louisville Louisville Business First had an
article yesterday what John Shanny, you got to guess? And
then John Alden usually right now, nationwide urban centers.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With available.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Office space, office space is about twenty five percent. Where
is Louisville, John number one? First, go forty five percent,
John Alden, let's say fifty five? Well, it's it's you
all are crazy, but it's forty point two percent. Right now,
forty percent of the office space in downtown.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Louisville is open.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I have no I have no answers for that. And
I feel like it's so many people working from home
that the certain businesses just figured out it was a
smarter idea to save some money and not pay the
rent on whatever part of the building or office building
they were in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, you also have a lot of really cool office
buildings on Hurstbourne Lane out at Old Henry. All these
are areas and neighborhoods where the offices are located.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
But let's talk about the reality too. It's been going
downhill since twenty twenty. It's been the open office space
has been going up since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And that's nationwide. No, No, that's exactly right. That's not
just a Louisville problem, but forty percent up from about
thirty five percent just last year. So now you're looking
at one point eight million square feet of vacant space
in downtown. Just the towers, just the towers. And I
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know we've had some good announcements. I think the Army
Corps of Engineers is coming down there in the LG
and E building.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
The Mayor's looking at ways to get the Humano Building
filled again.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And then the young is putting five hundred employees in
the PNC. Right, Yes, so there is some good news there,
five hundred and fifty matter of fact, employees moving down there.
But that's a lot of space, and I have no
I have no answers.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I think it's a mix of two things. People.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, when you have the riots. This thing happened
after the nineteen sixties, right and all the riots, Detroit, Chicago,
LA Was burning and people left downtowns. The same thing
happened in twenty twenty with the riots. Plus we sent
people home and then these businesses went, wow, I can
keep about half these folks at home. That's half the
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electric bill, water bill, YadA, YadA. I don't know what
the answer is there and they're trying like heck to
get some businesses here. But the biggest challenge and later
in this article they talk about businesses coming to Louisville.
We're doing really well in every avenue except for one.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I'll let the other John guess this one first.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
What are we guessing? What's your wife do?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Just to education?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Educational opportunities in Louisville lag behind similar size cities.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Hello, wow.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
And what's been the big topic of discussion lately JCPS?
Oh j CPS and they're closing schools now, Oh my gosh.
The more you learn about JCPS, the more you start
to act like Dwight.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The bottom.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Do you had many he might be right about something.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, he's been right. He just takes it over to
the top. Louisville home values have gone up forty three
percent since twenty nineteen. So what is tied to home values?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Your school district?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Me, they've been getting more money every year, so they
have a budget. They operate the schools on a budget,
and then we give them about one hundred million dollars more. Wow,
they operate for twelve months.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
That's not and that's not counting either what they go
to fright, and.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Get so they so they operate for that year, we
give them another extra one hundred million dollars, they operate
that year, we give them another on top of that
one hundred million. So now we're three hundred million more
than three years ago. Do the math here the last
five six years, seven years, it's it's it's a it's insane. Well,
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how did you operate last year before we gave you
one hundred million dollars for this year? Like, wait a minute,
didn't you operate on this number last year? And now
we're giving you one hundred million dollars more? I can't
wait to see the number for twenty twenty five. Cannot wait.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I bet it's above the two point two that was
the two point two billion that was.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, there's no way, there's no way. Absolutely, you think
it's above. Yeah, I would be above if the whole
goal right now is.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Be assessing homes. They keep reassessing homes. For example, in
four h two O seven that's my zip code, homes
are up thirty three point six percent in value. Okay,
since twenty nineteen, think about that, dude, that's insane. Some
of them are almost fifty percent prospect because everyone's trying
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to get out of circle. They're up forty seven percent
in home values and reading from a Louisville business first,
it's all ties into the office space and everything. But
that's that's where all this is going. But I don't
think people understand that we give them on average another
one hundred million dollars every year. We give you a
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raise by one hundred million dollars every single year, and
they still cry. And again, I don't mind people trying
ideas as long as we don't start with an agenda.
That's my that's that's my caveat to everything. If we
all get in a room when we do this and
we have ideas, great, But if if half the room
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has an agenda in their mind, then.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That's where I have a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Right, makes sense, And JCPS certainly has agendas, and their
agenda is let's cut from the budget, but let's just
hurt the kids. Yeah, let's not cut where we could
cut other places like themselves.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Right and inside the Van Hoos building.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And absolutely fire the lobbyist yesterday. His office is almost
a million bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He makes over one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars
a year and they spent six hundred thousand dollars lobbying Frankfurt.
They don't need that. You don't need that. You don't
need that. So that's one right there. Bingo and Nick's
Nick Nick Coffee is right. He said they're going to
move all these schools. They're closing these schools and they're
gonna save a whopping four millillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well that means that means then instead of being in
one hundred and eighty eight million dollar budget, hold, they're
in one hundred and eighty four million dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's like your East End housewife looking at you when
the budgets out of control and going sweetye, I stopped
going to Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That could that could give you a little nice little incis.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Oh thanks, honey, that's not going to help us, but okay,
that's a good effort.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
If you see those drink prices at Starbucks, well that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't get to day delivery anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Sweetye.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We don't go to Dongers Bpel like Dwite does.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
All right, we're gonna take you a short break. We'll
come back. We've got a lot to do today and
it's gonna be fun. I'm on the road with USA
Cares tomorrow down in the New lou area to come
down and see US.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Edland and Edland.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We just talked about home prices four h two O
seven is up thirty three percent, prospect up forty seven percent.
Simpsonville up forty two percent in housing prices in the
last couple of years. You're gonna get the most for
your house ever. And Eedland and Edlan will sell it
for one percent commission rate five nine eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's the cell phone to the owner.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Five nine twenty eight hundred, one percent commission rate with
Edland and Edland. Back after this on news Radio eight
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It's Tony and Dwight Show minus Dwight's It's brought to
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Please buckle up, slow down.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And definitely slow down during the while you're going through
the construction construction zones. All right, we're bringing in Metro
safe in here. Jody, how are you, sir? Good?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Here are you buddy?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, brought your buddy to that's mister Derrett High School.
That's how far back he goes. What was the last
year Durret High School? Nineteen eighty one eighty one, and
you're part of class in nineteen sixty two. No, Jody
and I talk all the time, and I know that
there is a discussion on what's you know, this story
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is not over. No, the plane crash was just a
couple of weeks ago, and and people ask questions like
I just asked, which was you know, what's taking so long?
What's the deal? And then you sort of you explained
it to me the last five minutes. It makes complete
sense now, but common sense are normal people are like, dude, okay,
you all know why. They know why the plane crash?
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Why is it taking so long? So let's inform everybody.
You've just showed me some pictures that are incredible. Well,
let's go through the site here and why people and
people are frustrated because businesses need to get back there
and get back open. You have third shifts open, right,
tell people what's going on back there?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yeah, so you know, from the beginning, we've we've experienced challenges.
And you know, keep in mind when I say this
that you know everybody. That's the people that have responded
to these type of incidents throughout you know history. The
NTSP and some others have said that this is one
of the more challenging scenes that they've seen, and.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
You know, and it's still present challenges.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Even little things like the snow yesterday delayed some of
the you know, some of the pickup.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It didn't delay some other things.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
They were able to you know, to shift and go
to some other types of cleanup. But uh, you know,
it's it's uh, it's a large area. You know, it
was a half mile area of fire. Crazy, you know,
the the environmental clean up you know it Uh, it
involved a waste aile facility. You know, you have several
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thousand gallons of jet fuel, you have hundreds of thousands
of gallons of water that was put on the fire,
you know, and that's got to be contained. And then
you've got to you know, you've got an aircraft that's
out there that's got to be picked up. And because
that's still considered evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
What's the largest piece of the plane?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Well intact, you know, I mean there's there's a you know,
a piece of the wing, you know, one of the wings.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Uh, the answer is not much, right, not much, Okay,
not much. So you have to have trained people back
there looking because you like, if you know, you and
I are going through it, I don't know the difference
between a car that got smashed and a piece came off.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is that part of the plane or is that a car?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Right? And they're using rakes, I mean they're going through it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It is, they're raking the dirt.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, methodical search, and they're picking up the smallest piece
of aircraft and they're.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Categorizing like they're archaeologists.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Wow, Okay, So they want to find every single piece
of the plane, correct.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And what was in it potentially what was in it
as well? Wow? So you know mail? You know, we've
got the postmaster back there.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
It was fully loaded with past There could be personal
information that's out there, so it's got to be all protected.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm telling you, you're talking and I'm thinking, this isn't
going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
A quick job here.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
But you would be surprised if I showed you a
picture from day one, an aerial photo of day one,
versus an aerial photo of today. The phenomenal work of
all the contractors. There's no egos. We meet once. You know,
we were in seven day operational periods, so every week
we meet and discussed the success of the objectives from
the previous seven days, and we set objectives for the
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next seven days. And then you know, we have meetings
throughout as well because challenges, you know, present themselves. But
you know, if you if you think about it, LG
and E's had to replace the entire gas infrastructure back then, yeah,
the electric you know, and they've done a phenomenal job.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
We've we've broke it down into three phases.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
First phases from Don Hudson Boulevard on Grade Lane South
that's open to the public for so customers can it's
not open to the public, it's open for customers to
come to those businesses and employees and business owners. Phase
two is Grade Lane from Don Hudson to Criten and Drive.
That's an area where they've got gas to the area.
They've been able to successfully hook gas up to several businesses.
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But those businesses and employees are able to come and
go and work as they need to, just customers can't
come into the area. And then Phase three is the
other streets Melton Abele Hawkins Knop Avenue. Those are areas
that are on you know that involve actually going through
the crash site itself. The good thing about that, and
you know, Kelly and I, you know, we we've all
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between Kelly and I and L and PD that's been
on site, and you know, it was a great ideal
from one of our L ANDPD majors to come up with, Hey,
what's what about a third shift option where the contract
there's not as many contractors on site. So if companies
have gas, have electric, have generators. That was one of
the things that presented to me and Kelly was one
of the you know, one of the business owners said,
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I've got a generator. I don't need gas for electric.
So we started to say, hey, what what about an option?
You know, and that that ideal came out there and
we worked through it. We got all approval from all
the contractors to you know where, but business owners and
employees can come and go from eleven at night till
seven in the morning, okay, and then they're out of
the area for when the contractors come back in to
do the cleanup.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
How do you keep that secure? Are there?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
LMPD there twenty four hours a day. Have you found
anybody trying to wander in there?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
They you know, unfortunately they have. But there's a lot
of security on site, both hired by ups. You know,
we've got sworn police officers that are on site as
well as LMPD that's that's in and out throughout the
entire twenty four hour period. Who's in charge, it's still
a unified command. You know, we've still got oakalh on
a fire on site. We're still on site. You've got
the leads of the contractors. MSD ocalone is still on site. Okay,
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we're still you know, there's because we don't want something
to happen and not be available.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You know, they've got an.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Ambulance and a fire apparatus that's on site, that's been
on site twenty four hours a day since the start.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Who says don't do that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Really the individual contractors, because I don't like, I don't
know if something is you know, if they're doing something.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
So I mean, they've got safety office.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Every every contractor has their own safety officer and they're
out watching people to the extent of safety glasses. You know,
we're and say I got busted for not having safety
glasses on in an area, so you know, well you're.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Half lined anyway, so it's not gonna do much damage.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah, but no, I mean it's like I said, I
can't say enough about the people that are working there.
I mean, you've still got over one hundred and fifty
people every day that are working there. And now a
lot of these businesses, it seems like more and more
businesses are taking advantage of that third shift option every day.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Would it be unfair to ask you how long you
think this is going to take?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Uh, you know, we don't say, I mean it.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We just don't know, you know, because now they're getting
into an area that's uh, you know, the majority of
the aircraft actually fell, So it's going to slow that
contractor down a little bit. But that's been identified. And
the more they've doubled the size of their crew because
they've identified that, it's going to take them a lot
longer to get the you know, this cleaned up versus
what they've already cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We're talking to Jody and Kelly for Metro Safe. Are
they rebuilding this thing and a hangar in Louisville.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No, they're storing some of the things that are pertinent
to the investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, wow, you enlightened me today because I was just like,
what raking the ground? And of course EPA's there, right,
I mean right, so they're making sure everything gets cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
MSD State.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
EPA still has a representative on site, and like I said,
they're involved in all of our unified command and decision making.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
They have down to the gallon what oil spilt into
the ground or burnt up or they don't have that.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I think it's still an estimate. Yeah, okay, but they
dug it out. What's in the ground, hare has been
dug out. I mean they've got it, They've got it stacked.
What they're you know, what they're sucking out of the
ground or sucking out of areas they've got in these
tanks that are on and they're going to treat those
on site. You know, they're gonna treat it on site
and then be able to separate clean from dirty.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I got to tell you one of the more impressive
things that I when I had the OAKLANDA chief in
there and I and we were watching a video and
those three tanks and I said, no way, you know
what's in there? And he goes, He looks at me
and he goes, no, no, I know exactly what's in there.
And the way they did their homework, how prepared they
were for that site. It was insane. They're like, no, no, no,
I know exactly what's in The.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Fire departments are required to do preplans of facilities like that,
so they knew and they you know, they.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Broadcasted that on the radio. You know what was out
there very early in the incident.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, it's not like UPS is busy these days.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, and you've got a lot of people out there
coming and going.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Okay, and UPS is part of our unified command as well,
and they've been great to work with.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Right, that's awesome because you know what, you don't hear
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
They've been great.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
They're part of the solution, and you know, like I said,
they're part of our unified command.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't want to jinx you by saying looks like
you're gonna slow down a little bit here with I
don't want to flood or something to happen, but light
up Louisville's this weekend. Who's Kelly? Are you Santa?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Excuse me? I was would have lost too much weight
in the last year, so I got thrown out of
that game. Couldn't finally outfit to make me fast.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
It's like it's gonna be a good night. Weather looks good.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No, it's gonna work out for sure. Three to nine
and the mayor was on this week and I forgot
what the area is? Where are we going Saturday? From
three to nine? Do you know the exact footprint?
Speaker 6 (27:51):
The parade starts downtown? I mean it is up around
around Jefferson Square Park.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Jefferson Square, Okay, it ends there. Okay, So it's not
me knockdown going down Main Street, right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So okay.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
And they're coming down to Liberty or Stocking because the
signs are all out there, ye stopping Saturday.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, well it's fun and uh and we're all getting there.
So it's the end of the year. You're looking back,
both of you guys. You know you got to be proud, right.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Oh, we got a lot of good people, you know,
that's in this community that work a lot of good
people that work with Kelly and I, you know, and
that's there's no iron team.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
We've all done this together.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I mean, we've had you know, we started the year
last year with the major snowstorm and the cold, and
then we had the flood in February. Then we had
the flood in the tornadoes in April, you know, and
now we've got you know, we we've been dealing with
this so uh oh.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And then the what was the plant that blew up
in the in the highlands.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Or that was a year ago? That was in November
of last year.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, November last year.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Wow. It's it's it's amazing when you look back, because
you just go to the next thing, and then when
you try to review. I'm not a good note taker,
and I wish I did, because there's things that we do,
but you got are amazing and and just hearing that
you guys are working together on this whole thing is
is great. And I understand the frustration with the businesses
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and trying to figure out, hey, am I going to
be able to am I going to be open at
the end of this.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Just you know, there's business owners that are out there
and employees that are out there work or listening right now.
Just you know, we're doing everything we can. And like
I said, we were coming up with options daily about
how to get people back in their businesses.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That's what they want to hear for sure. All right,
so what is what's saying? I going to bring you
guys this Christmas Kelly. Now you're home, all fairness, you're
into Christmas Kelly?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah I am.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I'm hoping for a day off this year, to be
honest with this what I'm saying. Before, I could just
get a deck one day to please, to make me
very happy. But now we've got little family coming in
with one of the grand babies. Oh that's awesome, I
think to your point, I think this is one of
the years where I'm really really thankful for a lot
of things and a lot of things that have gone well.
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Someone had gone not so well in this community. But
I would encourage people to again, remember there's a lot
of victims in that plane crash, or a lot of
victims in the things we've seen in the last year.
Do something a little special for those people this year.
Remember there's a little people, a heck couple lot less
fortunate than you are. And I think that's hitting home
for me a little bit harder this year. So I'm
(30:22):
trying to be a little gentler and little kinder. I
guess but yep, the day awful suit me just fine.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, that Christmas Carol will set you straight on what's
important in life and turning it around. I know there
are so many stories, you know where that first night
when I came in here on the air and the
guy said, look, I just looked at my phone. I
was there thirteen minutes before that thing came in. So
he's got to be thinking all year long, like, man,
what did I deserve to get that break? And then
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the family that was in the car read that story.
The other day, they're picking up the dad and the husband.
It's just crazy, crazy stories. And we pray for all
of them for sure, and for a good year. Thank
you boys for coming.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
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w chance. Tonight is the last super moon of the year.
You should have told me. I would have played super
Blood wolf Moon by Pearl Jam. We still have time.
(31:39):
The moon is so close to the Earth it looks
I mean, I don't know. I've gone out a couple
of times to look at it when it's the supermoon's
This one is called the cold moon. Obviously it's December,
so it is tonight. If you want to go outside
and check out the cold moon. Dwight would have an
(32:01):
answer for that.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
What' DoD he go?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He would do something about you know, I don't know
if your generation did a lot of mooning, but that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Was a suing. That's more, Dwight.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's where the moon is just two hundred and twenty
one thousand miles from Earth tonight. So check it out.
It is peeking out tonight and it's called the cold Moon.
It's pretty impressive. So go on outside when the moon
gets up here. All right, man, we are going to
take a short break. We're gonna get news coming your way,
and there's plenty of it, and we talked about it
(32:33):
is light up Louisville this weekend. Come on downtown between
three and nine. It's going to be a lot better
weather than what we have today. I hope the sun
comes out at some point. Back after this on news
Radio eight forty whah's
Well, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We have brought you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Brought to you by the Kentucky I just said that
I'm trying to hit this video that I had pulled
up for.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
You selling Dwight doing the Gustavos.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, he says, brought to you by after I've already
said it, brought.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
To you by.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm trying to find the damn song that he opened
up at the play last night, and now I lost it.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Will Stein was introduced as the coach yesterday afternoon. You
knew he would kill the press conference. Everybody loves him.
It's now the honeymoon is on for will Stein at
the University of Kentucky. Having insane fans is great, That's
why you have success. But having insane fans sucks. So
they are going to scrutinize every little bit that they do.
(00:45):
Mitch Barnhardt did not have a good press conference yesterday.
I saw a little bit of that where he finally
was just had it had enough about anil money talk.
I don't know if you saw that, John, but he
basically said enough, like I'm not answering.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
These questions anymore. Oh that's not.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, he said, I'm not answering these questions. We have
enough money. We're putting the money where they're supposed to be.
We've got good players and good coaches and trying to
do the right thing. Enough, don't stop asking, and it's like,
that's not going away.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If you don't, you can all that can be true,
but you can't. You have to embrace the nile stuff.
You can't act like you have a problem with any
of them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, am I crazy?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I thought he.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I thought he had already said his retirement. I thought
this was his last year.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Am I wrong by that?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I feel like there may have been talk of him, Okay,
I don't know if there was anything official put out.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, I think here there's sometimes you just someplace too
long and it's nobody's fault, but there's just time. It's
like a divorce where you're like, yeah, you know, nobody
cheated on each other. It's just, uh, it doesn't work
for me anymore. And I think that's Tubby. Tubby was
like that with Kentucky. There was no reason really for
Tubby to leave except for yeah, it was it was
(01:50):
just time. Cards basketball lost to Caliperry again. I mean
back when he was at Memphis, he would he'd beat
Rick and Denny or I don't know if Denny was
in when cali Perry was there was still there. Yeah,
I think they lapped over. But cal Perry's just just
(02:10):
as Louisville's number, no matter who the coach is. And
I'm glad I missed the game, to tell you the truth,
because last night I went to Actors Theater. I have
not been there in forever. I can't even tell you
the T shirt. I went with Dwight because the girl
that worked on our show wrote a play with someone else,
(02:32):
and you know, it was down at the round at
Actors Theater, and we went down to watch it. And
when I get out of the car downtown, Dwight comes
around the corner of this T shirt. I can't even
tell you what it said because I'd get fired. I said,
you can't wear this down here, and he was like, yep,
wearing it?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Did he get looks? From people?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'll tell you in the break
what it's. I know what it says yesterday, I told
you yesterday. So Actors Theater, let's get to it. Christmas
Carol is a classic duh. It's been around since the
mid It was written in the mid eighteen hundred, so
it's a mid nineteenth century British story.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We all know it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And for decades, Actors Theater did it every single year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
For years.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Family used it as a tradition to you know, it
was one of the things the families did. They went
downtown on a Saturday afternoon Friday night and went to
see Christmas Carol or six years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We all know what we.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Were going through six years ago, and a lot of
things were getting canceled. They were canceling songs, they were
canceling movies, they were canceling TV shows. If there was
anything that bothered anybody, you could cancel. Well, Actors Theater
had a certain group that was running Actress Theater at
that time, and they said a Christmas Carol. Because I
(03:53):
called to get tickets and they said we're not doing
Christmas Carol and I was like, oh no, why, And
he's in the person and it was on the phone.
This is their quote, not mine. He said it's not
diverse enough. We're sorry. So for six years it didn't run.
Last night they brought it back, and they brought it
back right it is the traditional.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It is is as close to the text as you
can get, and it's really good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm always amazed how they could do the special effects
and how they use the smoke and the lights, and
they did a really good job. All the actors were great.
They start with a song, darn it, it's the ring.
It's ring ding dan ending ding danding to kind of
get you in the mood. So all the actors come
out of the stands like behind us, and they're singing
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that song and it gets you right in the mood.
Plus there were times that they have that fake snow
that comes down from the ceiling and it's not just
on the stage, it's over every buddy in the crowd too,
So it's like it gets you in the mood. It's
a great play. They did it right. They did a
great job. I don't think anybody there disliked it. It
(05:10):
was awesome. We had a great time. I took my
mom and my wife Thank you to Actress Theater. They
did sort of a media This was the last dress rehearsal,
so they were still working things out, but we didn't
notice they were doing They did a great job. All
the actors were great. The song there was only two
or three songs that was it. It's as close to
(05:32):
the story as you can get as you remember it.
That's what I think everyone wants to know. I posted
a picture on Facebook and people were asking that very question.
Is it the Christmas Carol or is it something else?
It's a Christmas Carol, So go see it at Actors Theater.
You won't be disappointed. It's really good. When's the last
time you were at actorss Theater?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Man, I don't know, but my family goes to Derby
Dinner every year for their Christmas stuff. They got no fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, we went last year to a wonderful It's a
wonderful life. And I was blown away how well they did,
because you think, uh, you know dinner Derby Dinner plan
is good. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And the and the and the play was great. It
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Uh, but it is Actors Theater is just obviously world Warnow.
The human humanity used to sponsor, uh, the script writers.
So the playwriters would come here and it was millions
of dollars every single year. So they only had they
only needed one sponsor. And I think there's three. Is
there two or three theaters in Actors Theater, There's the
(06:35):
Round and I think there's two other. It's beautiful, by
the way, It's just it used to be a bank
when banks were bank banks, you know, with the with
the the dome and the marble and the columns and
and you kind of go, oh, yeah, it kind of
does look like a bank from eighty one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They converted it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know what year, but I were remember in
the eighties when I was in high school that they
were people that were, you know, reported, there were big
stars like movie stars that love to do a stage
also would be in town just kind of hanging out
and You're like, why is he here? It's like Actors Theater.
The plays are going on. So if anyone, if you
were wondering, is a Christmas Carol from Actors Theater this year?
(07:20):
Actually a Christmas Carol? It is and it's good, so go. Definitely,
I was trying to find I had Ron ray Coniff.
Do you know who that is? The Ray Conniff singers?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, I don't, Yeah, it's the song is the ring
Ring the bells thing?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Then?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Ain't thing?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Ain't dinging?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Ain't, Danny, No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you have it? No, I don't. Oh you wanted
me to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I thought I thought you you were. You were playing
on your computer like you were pulling it up. What John,
It's called Carol of the Bells, Carrol of the bells. Oh,
I found Ray Conniff in our system. But they don't
have for Carrol of the Bells. They don't have Carol
the bells.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We've got here, we come a Carrol.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm of them.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Are anything with a bell in it, a ring, anything
with a ring or a bell.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, before the sprinkle ding, there's your Carol of
the Bells for the day.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No, I'm always amazed. I have to be honest with you.
I'm always amazed with the schools in this town and
the plays they put on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They are unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Grade schools and high schools put on these elaborate plays
every year, and their departments, there are departments, uh Is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Every time I go, I always go, I can't believe
this is a grade school play. The costumes and the
sets and all that. It's awesome. My daughter did it
through all through from I don't second grade on but
they're they're just awesome. So if a chance, go out
and see that. In about twenty minutes, we'll have Jody
Myman come on from Metro Safe. He's going to talk
(09:09):
about ups around ups because I know that there is
a talking point.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I saw something on WDRB ninety businesses are still closed
ninety to the public and struggling here around the airport,
So we'll talk about that and how they get how
they get the thing open there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So you hear this and then the actors are singing
this as they're walking down and it gets you into
the because this really doesn't have anything to do with
a Christmas carol, but it sets the mood. So whoever
directed this play, great job, because right away you go, okay,
it was awesome. And the channel that I listened to
(09:56):
on iHeart is a classic Chris It's a blue Snowflake.
So just if you find that, click on that and
these kind of songs Ray Koniff Singers and all that
Bing Crosby, those are the ones that come up the
traditional stuff us old guys like I'm going to talk
(10:18):
about vacancies in downtown Louisville Louisville Business First had an
article yesterday what John Shanny, you got to guess? And
then John Alden usually right now, nationwide urban centers.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With available.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Office space, office space is about twenty five percent. Where
is Louisville, John number one? First, go forty five percent,
John Alden, let's say fifty five? Well, it's it's you
all are crazy, but it's forty point two percent. Right now,
forty percent of the office space in downtown.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Louisville is open.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I have no I have no answers for that. And
I feel like it's so many people working from home
that the certain businesses just figured out it was a
smarter idea to save some money and not pay the
rent on whatever part of the building or office building
they were in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, you also have a lot of really cool office
buildings on Hurstbourne Lane out at Old Henry. All these
are areas and neighborhoods where the offices are located.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
But let's talk about the reality too. It's been going
downhill since twenty twenty. It's been the open office space
has been going up since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And that's nationwide. No, No, that's exactly right. That's not
just a Louisville problem, but forty percent up from about
thirty five percent just last year. So now you're looking
at one point eight million square feet of vacant space
in downtown. Just the towers, just the towers. And I
(11:53):
know we've had some good announcements. I think the Army
Corps of Engineers is coming down there in the LG
and E building.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
The Mayor's looking at ways to get the Humano Building
filled again.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And then the young is putting five hundred employees in
the PNC. Right, Yes, so there is some good news there,
five hundred and fifty matter of fact, employees moving down there.
But that's a lot of space, and I have no
I have no answers.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I think it's a mix of two things. People.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, when you have the riots. This thing happened
after the nineteen sixties, right and all the riots, Detroit, Chicago,
LA Was burning and people left downtowns. The same thing
happened in twenty twenty with the riots. Plus we sent
people home and then these businesses went, wow, I can
keep about half these folks at home. That's half the
(12:40):
electric bill, water bill, YadA, YadA. I don't know what
the answer is there and they're trying like heck to
get some businesses here. But the biggest challenge and later
in this article they talk about businesses coming to Louisville.
We're doing really well in every avenue except for one.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I'll let the other John guess this one first.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
What are we guessing? What's your wife do?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Just to education?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Educational opportunities in Louisville lag behind similar size cities.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Hello, wow.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
And what's been the big topic of discussion lately JCPS?
Oh j CPS and they're closing schools now, Oh my gosh.
The more you learn about JCPS, the more you start
to act like Dwight.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The bottom.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Do you had many he might be right about something.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, he's been right. He just takes it over to
the top. Louisville home values have gone up forty three
percent since twenty nineteen. So what is tied to home values?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Your school district?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Me, they've been getting more money every year, so they
have a budget. They operate the schools on a budget,
and then we give them about one hundred million dollars more. Wow,
they operate for twelve months.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
That's not and that's not counting either what they go
to fright, and.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Get so they so they operate for that year, we
give them another extra one hundred million dollars, they operate
that year, we give them another on top of that
one hundred million. So now we're three hundred million more
than three years ago. Do the math here the last
five six years, seven years, it's it's it's a it's insane. Well,
(14:35):
how did you operate last year before we gave you
one hundred million dollars for this year? Like, wait a minute,
didn't you operate on this number last year? And now
we're giving you one hundred million dollars more? I can't
wait to see the number for twenty twenty five. Cannot wait.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I bet it's above the two point two that was
the two point two billion that was.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, there's no way, there's no way. Absolutely, you think
it's above. Yeah, I would be above if the whole
goal right now is.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Be assessing homes. They keep reassessing homes. For example, in
four h two O seven that's my zip code, homes
are up thirty three point six percent in value. Okay,
since twenty nineteen, think about that, dude, that's insane. Some
of them are almost fifty percent prospect because everyone's trying
(15:22):
to get out of circle. They're up forty seven percent
in home values and reading from a Louisville business first,
it's all ties into the office space and everything. But
that's that's where all this is going. But I don't
think people understand that we give them on average another
one hundred million dollars every year. We give you a
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raise by one hundred million dollars every single year, and
they still cry. And again, I don't mind people trying
ideas as long as we don't start with an agenda.
That's my that's that's my caveat to everything. If we
all get in a room when we do this and
we have ideas, great, But if if half the room
(16:06):
has an agenda in their mind, then.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That's where I have a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Right, makes sense, And JCPS certainly has agendas, and their
agenda is let's cut from the budget, but let's just
hurt the kids. Yeah, let's not cut where we could
cut other places like themselves.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Right and inside the Van Hoos building.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And absolutely fire the lobbyist yesterday. His office is almost
a million bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He makes over one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars
a year and they spent six hundred thousand dollars lobbying Frankfurt.
They don't need that. You don't need that. You don't
need that. So that's one right there. Bingo and Nick's
Nick Nick Coffee is right. He said they're going to
move all these schools. They're closing these schools and they're
gonna save a whopping four millillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well that means that means then instead of being in
one hundred and eighty eight million dollar budget, hold, they're
in one hundred and eighty four million dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's like your East End housewife looking at you when
the budgets out of control and going sweetye, I stopped
going to Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That could that could give you a little nice little incis.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Oh thanks, honey, that's not going to help us, but okay,
that's a good effort.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
If you see those drink prices at Starbucks, well that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't get to day delivery anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Sweetye.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We don't go to Dongers Bpel like Dwite does.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
All right, we're gonna take you a short break. We'll
come back. We've got a lot to do today and
it's gonna be fun. I'm on the road with USA
Cares tomorrow down in the New lou area to come
down and see US.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Edland and Edland.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We just talked about home prices four h two O
seven is up thirty three percent, prospect up forty seven percent.
Simpsonville up forty two percent in housing prices in the
last couple of years. You're gonna get the most for
your house ever. And Eedland and Edlan will sell it
for one percent commission rate five nine eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's the cell phone to the owner.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Five nine twenty eight hundred, one percent commission rate with
Edland and Edland. Back after this on news Radio eight
forty whas all right, He's got it now the language
of police officers today, News Radio eight forty whas Welcome back.
It's Tony and Dwight Show minus Dwight's It's brought to
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you by the Kentucky Offensive Highway Safety.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Please buckle up, slow down.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And definitely slow down during the while you're going through
the construction construction zones. All right, we're bringing in Metro
safe in here. Jody, how are you, sir? Good?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Here are you buddy?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, brought your buddy to that's mister Derrett High School.
That's how far back he goes. What was the last
year Durret High School? Nineteen eighty one eighty one, and
you're part of class in nineteen sixty two. No, Jody
and I talk all the time, and I know that
there is a discussion on what's you know, this story
(19:00):
is not over. No, the plane crash was just a
couple of weeks ago, and and people ask questions like
I just asked, which was you know, what's taking so long?
What's the deal? And then you sort of you explained
it to me the last five minutes. It makes complete
sense now, but common sense are normal people are like, dude, okay,
you all know why. They know why the plane crash?
(19:24):
Why is it taking so long? So let's inform everybody.
You've just showed me some pictures that are incredible. Well,
let's go through the site here and why people and
people are frustrated because businesses need to get back there
and get back open. You have third shifts open, right,
tell people what's going on back there?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yeah, so you know, from the beginning, we've we've experienced challenges.
And you know, keep in mind when I say this
that you know everybody. That's the people that have responded
to these type of incidents throughout you know history. The
NTSP and some others have said that this is one
of the more challenging scenes that they've seen, and.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
You know, and it's still present challenges.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Even little things like the snow yesterday delayed some of
the you know, some of the pickup.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It didn't delay some other things.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
They were able to you know, to shift and go
to some other types of cleanup. But uh, you know,
it's it's uh, it's a large area. You know, it
was a half mile area of fire. Crazy, you know,
the the environmental clean up you know it Uh, it
involved a waste aile facility. You know, you have several
(20:28):
thousand gallons of jet fuel, you have hundreds of thousands
of gallons of water that was put on the fire,
you know, and that's got to be contained. And then
you've got to you know, you've got an aircraft that's
out there that's got to be picked up. And because
that's still considered evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
What's the largest piece of the plane?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Well intact, you know, I mean there's there's a you know,
a piece of the wing, you know, one of the wings.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Uh, the answer is not much, right, not much, Okay,
not much. So you have to have trained people back
there looking because you like, if you know, you and
I are going through it, I don't know the difference
between a car that got smashed and a piece came off.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is that part of the plane or is that a car?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Right? And they're using rakes, I mean they're going through it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It is, they're raking the dirt.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, methodical search, and they're picking up the smallest piece
of aircraft and they're.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Categorizing like they're archaeologists.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Wow, Okay, So they want to find every single piece
of the plane, correct.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And what was in it potentially what was in it
as well? Wow? So you know mail? You know, we've
got the postmaster back there.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
It was fully loaded with past There could be personal
information that's out there, so it's got to be all protected.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm telling you, you're talking and I'm thinking, this isn't
going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
A quick job here.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
But you would be surprised if I showed you a
picture from day one, an aerial photo of day one,
versus an aerial photo of today. The phenomenal work of
all the contractors. There's no egos. We meet once. You know,
we were in seven day operational periods, so every week
we meet and discussed the success of the objectives from
the previous seven days, and we set objectives for the
(22:04):
next seven days. And then you know, we have meetings
throughout as well because challenges, you know, present themselves. But
you know, if you if you think about it, LG
and E's had to replace the entire gas infrastructure back then, yeah,
the electric you know, and they've done a phenomenal job.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
We've we've broke it down into three phases.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
First phases from Don Hudson Boulevard on Grade Lane South
that's open to the public for so customers can it's
not open to the public, it's open for customers to
come to those businesses and employees and business owners. Phase
two is Grade Lane from Don Hudson to Criten and Drive.
That's an area where they've got gas to the area.
They've been able to successfully hook gas up to several businesses.
(22:43):
But those businesses and employees are able to come and
go and work as they need to, just customers can't
come into the area. And then Phase three is the
other streets Melton Abele Hawkins Knop Avenue. Those are areas
that are on you know that involve actually going through
the crash site itself. The good thing about that, and
you know, Kelly and I, you know, we we've all
(23:04):
between Kelly and I and L and PD that's been
on site, and you know, it was a great ideal
from one of our L ANDPD majors to come up with, Hey,
what's what about a third shift option where the contract
there's not as many contractors on site. So if companies
have gas, have electric, have generators. That was one of
the things that presented to me and Kelly was one
of the you know, one of the business owners said,
(23:25):
I've got a generator. I don't need gas for electric.
So we started to say, hey, what what about an option?
You know, and that that ideal came out there and
we worked through it. We got all approval from all
the contractors to you know where, but business owners and
employees can come and go from eleven at night till
seven in the morning, okay, and then they're out of
the area for when the contractors come back in to
do the cleanup.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
How do you keep that secure? Are there?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
LMPD there twenty four hours a day. Have you found
anybody trying to wander in there?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
They you know, unfortunately they have. But there's a lot
of security on site, both hired by ups. You know,
we've got sworn police officers that are on site as
well as LMPD that's that's in and out throughout the
entire twenty four hour period. Who's in charge, it's still
a unified command. You know, we've still got oakalh on
a fire on site. We're still on site. You've got
the leads of the contractors. MSD ocalone is still on site. Okay,
(24:14):
we're still you know, there's because we don't want something
to happen and not be available.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You know, they've got an.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Ambulance and a fire apparatus that's on site, that's been
on site twenty four hours a day since the start.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Who says don't do that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Really the individual contractors, because I don't like, I don't
know if something is you know, if they're doing something.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
So I mean, they've got safety office.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Every every contractor has their own safety officer and they're
out watching people to the extent of safety glasses. You know,
we're and say I got busted for not having safety
glasses on in an area, so you know, well you're.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Half lined anyway, so it's not gonna do much damage.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah, but no, I mean it's like I said, I
can't say enough about the people that are working there.
I mean, you've still got over one hundred and fifty
people every day that are working there. And now a
lot of these businesses, it seems like more and more
businesses are taking advantage of that third shift option every day.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Would it be unfair to ask you how long you
think this is going to take?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Uh, you know, we don't say, I mean it.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We just don't know, you know, because now they're getting
into an area that's uh, you know, the majority of
the aircraft actually fell, So it's going to slow that
contractor down a little bit. But that's been identified. And
the more they've doubled the size of their crew because
they've identified that, it's going to take them a lot
longer to get the you know, this cleaned up versus
what they've already cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We're talking to Jody and Kelly for Metro Safe. Are
they rebuilding this thing and a hangar in Louisville.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No, they're storing some of the things that are pertinent
to the investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, wow, you enlightened me today because I was just like,
what raking the ground? And of course EPA's there, right,
I mean right, so they're making sure everything gets cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
MSD State.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
EPA still has a representative on site, and like I said,
they're involved in all of our unified command and decision making.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
They have down to the gallon what oil spilt into
the ground or burnt up or they don't have that.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I think it's still an estimate. Yeah, okay, but they
dug it out. What's in the ground, hare has been
dug out. I mean they've got it, They've got it stacked.
What they're you know, what they're sucking out of the
ground or sucking out of areas they've got in these
tanks that are on and they're going to treat those
on site. You know, they're gonna treat it on site
and then be able to separate clean from dirty.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I got to tell you one of the more impressive
things that I when I had the OAKLANDA chief in
there and I and we were watching a video and
those three tanks and I said, no way, you know
what's in there? And he goes, He looks at me
and he goes, no, no, I know exactly what's in there.
And the way they did their homework, how prepared they
were for that site. It was insane. They're like, no, no, no,
I know exactly what's in The.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Fire departments are required to do preplans of facilities like that,
so they knew and they you know, they.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Broadcasted that on the radio. You know what was out
there very early in the incident.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, it's not like UPS is busy these days.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, and you've got a lot of people out there
coming and going.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Okay, and UPS is part of our unified command as well,
and they've been great to work with.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Right, that's awesome because you know what, you don't hear
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
They've been great.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
They're part of the solution, and you know, like I said,
they're part of our unified command.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't want to jinx you by saying looks like
you're gonna slow down a little bit here with I
don't want to flood or something to happen, but light
up Louisville's this weekend. Who's Kelly? Are you Santa?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Excuse me? I was would have lost too much weight
in the last year, so I got thrown out of
that game. Couldn't finally outfit to make me fast.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
It's like it's gonna be a good night. Weather looks good.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No, it's gonna work out for sure. Three to nine
and the mayor was on this week and I forgot
what the area is? Where are we going Saturday? From
three to nine? Do you know the exact footprint?
Speaker 6 (27:51):
The parade starts downtown? I mean it is up around
around Jefferson Square Park.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Jefferson Square, Okay, it ends there. Okay, So it's not
me knockdown going down Main Street, right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So okay.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
And they're coming down to Liberty or Stocking because the
signs are all out there, ye stopping Saturday.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, well it's fun and uh and we're all getting there.
So it's the end of the year. You're looking back,
both of you guys. You know you got to be proud, right.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Oh, we got a lot of good people, you know,
that's in this community that work a lot of good
people that work with Kelly and I, you know, and
that's there's no iron team.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
We've all done this together.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I mean, we've had you know, we started the year
last year with the major snowstorm and the cold, and
then we had the flood in February. Then we had
the flood in the tornadoes in April, you know, and
now we've got you know, we we've been dealing with
this so uh oh.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And then the what was the plant that blew up
in the in the highlands.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Or that was a year ago? That was in November
of last year.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, November last year.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Wow. It's it's it's amazing when you look back, because
you just go to the next thing, and then when
you try to review. I'm not a good note taker,
and I wish I did, because there's things that we do,
but you got are amazing and and just hearing that
you guys are working together on this whole thing is
is great. And I understand the frustration with the businesses
(29:09):
and trying to figure out, hey, am I going to
be able to am I going to be open at
the end of this.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Just you know, there's business owners that are out there
and employees that are out there work or listening right now.
Just you know, we're doing everything we can. And like
I said, we were coming up with options daily about
how to get people back in their businesses.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That's what they want to hear for sure. All right,
so what is what's saying? I going to bring you
guys this Christmas Kelly. Now you're home, all fairness, you're
into Christmas Kelly?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah I am.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I'm hoping for a day off this year, to be
honest with this what I'm saying. Before, I could just
get a deck one day to please, to make me
very happy. But now we've got little family coming in
with one of the grand babies. Oh that's awesome, I
think to your point, I think this is one of
the years where I'm really really thankful for a lot
of things and a lot of things that have gone well.
(30:00):
Someone had gone not so well in this community. But
I would encourage people to again, remember there's a lot
of victims in that plane crash, or a lot of
victims in the things we've seen in the last year.
Do something a little special for those people this year.
Remember there's a little people, a heck couple lot less
fortunate than you are. And I think that's hitting home
for me a little bit harder this year. So I'm
(30:22):
trying to be a little gentler and little kinder. I
guess but yep, the day awful suit me just fine.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, that Christmas Carol will set you straight on what's
important in life and turning it around. I know there
are so many stories, you know where that first night
when I came in here on the air and the
guy said, look, I just looked at my phone. I
was there thirteen minutes before that thing came in. So
he's got to be thinking all year long, like, man,
what did I deserve to get that break? And then
(30:48):
the family that was in the car read that story.
The other day, they're picking up the dad and the husband.
It's just crazy, crazy stories. And we pray for all
of them for sure, and for a good year. Thank
you boys for coming.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
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w chance. Tonight is the last super moon of the year.
You should have told me. I would have played super
Blood wolf Moon by Pearl Jam. We still have time.
(31:39):
The moon is so close to the Earth it looks
I mean, I don't know. I've gone out a couple
of times to look at it when it's the supermoon's
This one is called the cold moon. Obviously it's December,
so it is tonight. If you want to go outside
and check out the cold moon. Dwight would have an
(32:01):
answer for that.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
What' DoD he go?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He would do something about you know, I don't know
if your generation did a lot of mooning, but that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Was a suing. That's more, Dwight.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's where the moon is just two hundred and twenty
one thousand miles from Earth tonight. So check it out.
It is peeking out tonight and it's called the cold Moon.
It's pretty impressive. So go on outside when the moon
gets up here. All right, man, we are going to
take a short break. We're gonna get news coming your way,
and there's plenty of it, and we talked about it
(32:33):
is light up Louisville this weekend. Come on downtown between
three and nine. It's going to be a lot better
weather than what we have today. I hope the sun
comes out at some point. Back after this on news
Radio eight forty whah's
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