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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we will play Wednesday's here a little bit
later in the show. We got a couple of heroes
in the studio. All right, now, our friends from Ben's
Bright Horizons. We talked about this last year in their
inaugural year of doing this golf scramble, and we need
to hear Ben's story again because it all ties into
(00:22):
what we're about to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
First, I want to hear, first of all, welcome Tom,
Thank you very much. Welcome, Welcome Neil.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Guys. Want to hear Neil say a couple of things, right.
I want him to do my incoming message on my
Yeah bunned James.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Dwight's South End redneck loves the British accent.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll do your answer machine and you do mine, all right,
don't you know what to do? Here's all I want
from you. I want a recording of you saying, Hi,
this is Dwight Witten. I need reservations for tonight. Yeah,
because you sound respectable and I could just play.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Let's get to the story and stop talking about Dwight.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So hey, do you notice that a boot here? Because
I tore my.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, I did hear that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We have a golf scramble coming up we do, and
some several events and or several things up for auction,
items that are pretty cool. We'll tell you about that,
but let's talk about your family and your son.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, so quick recap. Two years ago Father's Day twenty
twenty three. Got a phone call at four in the
morning that Benard jumps off seven story building at UK.
You know, he battled for years with depression and anxiety
and made some good progress. Part of that progress, which
(01:46):
is why we're here today, is that we found a
place in Ohio called the Linda CenTra Hope. It's an
impatient program, no insurance coverage, eight thousand a week, the
proper tall healthcare. So we're in a position where we
were able to afford. You know, we put him in
there for seven weeks and he came out a much
(02:07):
better person. It was nine months before he passed away,
but he felt like he knew who he was right
and was able to better. You know, if you're going
to pass away, it's better to know why you're passing away,
I think sometimes than not having a clue. So he
was probably the best nine months he'd had in a
long time. So it is eulogy. You know, we had
Saint Al's in he you know, it was a North student.
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But we had it at saying Now's where my youngest
son was at the time, and eulogy in front of
you know, six hunder people. Tom was there. Place was full.
I blurred it out in a moment of semi madness.
I think that I was not going to let his
death be in vain and that you know, if there's
something I could do to prevent another family going through it,
I was going to do it. And I knew in
the back of my mind that meant we had to
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raise money and we had to find a way to
offset the costs that come with the extraordinary expense that
mental health has. And you know, when we're on last
time we talked about this, you know, there are more
s and Louisville from suicide then there are homicide. The
crazy thing is homicides make.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The news.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Go through that first forty eight hours of the conversation
between you and your wife and your daughter. Right, she
much she was at UK.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She was she was a senior at North.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, got you all right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, I pick upon she was she was a freshman,
she was.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
A freshman, she was right, now did she have a
from her dorm room, she could see where he correct.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So she lived in the hub. So she moved for
sophomore year into the hub and it was eye level
to the exact spot he jumped off.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh boy, did she stay there? Ye? Yeah, that first
forty eight hours you just thinking what didn't we do?
What happened? You do a lot of blame game, or
you're trying to look back at the last couple of
weeks and say what.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Before we were in Vegas for his twenty firth, him
and I we went what's the night play in the
regional conference finals? It was it was awesome, had a
great three days. I think that's where I went first.
I was kind of grateful I had that those three days.
I moved so quickly into Okay, I've got to get
organized here. We've got to come up with a plan.
(04:10):
We've got to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We decided to get him cremated before the service because
I didn't feel it was fair to have all these
kids looking at a coffin. So we got a soccer
boy he played soccer at North put his ashes in
there and it flowers around it and sort of dumb
me down the great idea, dum me down the pain
a little bit for everybody else. I mean, it made
no difference to me, but and it was important. And
(04:32):
I think you know, to see that many kids in
the first few rows was was troubling. Actually, I mean
that was the hard part.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So you turn your scars into stars by well by
creating Ben's bright horizon. I want to go back pre suicide,
and I've talked about this on the air. I've disclosed
many things on the air that I suffered from severe
depression as well. And you had mentioned the place that
worked was eight thousand dollars a week and does not
(05:03):
accept insurance.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I know firsthand how expensive mental health and therapy can
be without the help of insurance. Is there a lobbyist
group on your OSS behalf out there, because for whatever reason,
it seems to me like mental health should be one
of the most important things covered.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I think you know. The bigger issue is that
for a long time, and I think, right you'll appreciate this,
it was just not talked about. No, absolutely, it lived
under the carpet. I hit my yeah, and I think
most people do. And I think there's a stigma attached
to it. I do feel, I mean, I don't the
lobbyist thing. I don't know if we've got there yet.
But one thing I do know is that people are
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starting to talk about it a little bit more good.
And I think one of the commitments I made and
I get not grief for it, but people bring up
to me, you know, you're very open about this, and
I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do if
I'm going to if I'm promoting or helping to promote
a problem, I can't hide behind the fact that I
have to tell the story. I have to tell how
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it happened, why it happened, where it happened, when it happened,
and and hopefully people it resonates. And over the last
two years, with the you know, the funds we've been
able to raise, there is no question and Tom will
attest to this to it it hits enough.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And I think part of the problem is I think
some of the universities hide the numbers. My son was
at Purdue and he just called and said, Dad, there's
no possible way they because you don't hear about it.
He said, we don't hear about it. And I know
he had he started the year two years ago and
two sisters held hands and walked off the parking gross
and together and he was like, it was nowhere, and
(06:40):
it was it was. They moved quickly, university moved quickly
to get everything. I'm not trying to indice Purdue, but
it's for for the university space to say they they're
not they're certainly not advertising it, especially those kids that
go up to the Ivy League. I got a buddy
that graduated from Cornell and he said, dude, there's a
there's a lake that they all day long, all the time,
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and you don't never hear about it. The numbers are there,
and your stark number of more more suicides and homicides.
That's what jumped out at me just now. That is
an issue. So what do you hope to accomplish?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So the goal of foundation is very simple. We're a
fundraising machine. We take all of the money that we
and we've created We've partnered with a company in Saint Louis,
which is a nonprofit called Anthropedia, and from that we
are running weekly cohorts for ten to twelve young adults
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that we pay for. Now, if the parents can afford
to do it. They're part of it too, But if
you're if you're a position where you cannot afford to go,
we will help. That's huge and we've had am I right, Tom,
We've had two so far, so we've had twenty five
kids go through it, some from Louisville, some from Saint Louis.
You know my long some plan. I mean, you know,
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we move on from from from me, but the goal
is to have a building in Louisville within three to
four years and be able to offer this service.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How did you jump in on all this?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, I was a friend of Neil's and when this happened,
I tried to be the best friend I could be.
Didn't have any magic words. I just simply sat down
with him and said, how can I help you and
how can I journey with you through this process? And
at the time, we hadn't really talked about a mission
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or any specifics of this foundation.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was really just.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
A friend saying to another friend, I'm in your boat,
I'm in your camp, lean on me through this entire
healing process. And then the idea of the foundation, and
that really struck me because, unlike other fundraising efforts, it's
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really really enjoyable to that we are breaking down the
financial barrier for families who have a need, who have
a child that is in need, but otherwise wouldn't be
able to provide that need. We're allowing families to move
forward and get the services and the care that their
children need. And I think that's what really is most
(09:21):
exciting about this for me, is that yes, we're you know,
we're raising the bar on awareness and hopefully raising the
bar on prevention through really enabling families to find the
help and get the help that they need for their children.
And I think that, you know, we're able to do that.
We've partnered with some real high level of folks and
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you know, having already almost two dozen participants this year
is really really exciting and it's very very rewarding to
think that we're changing the lives and literally changing the
trajectory of the young people. Obviously it wouldn't happen without
the support of the community.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And did it get worse after COVID or was it
just the numbers? Were people are talking about it?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah? I think people are talking about it. There was
nothing else to talk about. I mean, UGHS was scanned.
Everything was medically based, right, it was a medical issue.
So all of a sudden everything Now there's no question
that it impacted Ben because his first year at UK
he was in his dorm room.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, there's still question. Yeah, there's no death. Why is
this place better? Why is the place in Ohio better than?
What did they do? What do they do that is
better than the other facility?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You get seven or eight doctors who were in various nutritionists, psychologists, psychiatrists,
well being experts who are basically on your site. So
there's a very small group that are with you every day,
talking to.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You, talking with Neil and Tom of course with Ben's
bride horizons. Neil lost his unfortunately suicide and his death
is not in vain helping others with that. Let's talk
about how you can contribute to this cause and help
quite frankly, save lives from suicide and and and get
some mental health help. Let's talk about how much fun
(11:12):
we can have for this cause, because it's coming up,
talk talk, talk about who wants to grab.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
This radio voice?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Is well.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I got to be honest with my fresh haircut.
I gotta be honest with you guys, You too look
like you're a lot of fun. I gotta tell you,
if I'm in a force them of playing golf, I
want to be in that for them because it's going
to be a good day.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Priority. So yeah, so thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So yes, as Neil mentioned earlier, you know, our goal
is fundraising. We need, we need, we want to we
want to provide assistance financially to families. And so last
year was our inaugural event. And as everybody knows, there's
Monday golf outings throughout the year throughout the calendar. We've
tried to make ours a little unique. We have partnered
(12:05):
it with Hunting Creek Country Club, So that's the pace,
and this will take place this coming Sunday, and it
starts off with a reception Sunday evening beginning at six o'clock,
and that will entail open bar, food, a live band,
a live auction, a silent auction. This year it's a
little bigger than last year. We've got over a dozen
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live auction items and we've got somewhere near seventy or
eighty silent auction items, some really really terrific gifts. So
we would invite anybody that doesn't play golf but wants
to get involved, wants to help, come out and visit
with us on Sunday. It's a nice event. It's one
hundred and fifty three hundred couple and that gets you
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an evening of fun and an opportunity to really get
involved and help these young people. And we're going to explain,
as we did last year, exactly where the support is
going and exactly how it is benefiting these families and
these children. Then on Monday, we have our golf outing
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and that starts off at eight o'clock registration. I think
we're going to have it probably somewhere Aroun. I'm going
to try to get everybody out on the golf course
by ten and we'll have the golf outing on Monday.
And I will tell you the community support has just
been terrific good. We exceeded our expectations last year. We
have already can see the needle moving above where we
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were last year at this time.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That awesome.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And I will tell you shout out to our community.
Shout out to the folks that have helped support us.
We were here a few months ago and a listener
of yours contacted us, asked a few questions and said,
I want to support one child for.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
A week through the program stop.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Absolutely fantastic. So whoever you are, thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yes, So shout out to the people that have supported us.
And so what we're really wanting to do is, obviously
we want to bring people out and have them support
the cause, have a little bit of fun along the way,
and we really want people to see where their money
is going and see the lives that are being touched.
And so this year, you know, last year it was
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an idea. Last year we said, hey, this is what
we want to do. This year, we're going to be
able to look at these folks and say, here's what
your support has done. You know, we've had over two
dozen young lives changed because of the support thus far, right,
so very exciting. Again, it's this sad excuse me this
(14:42):
Sunday and Monday, Hunting Creek Country Club. All the information
is on our website.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Reach out to us. What is the website?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It is www dot Ben's Bright Horizons, dot org.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Ben's Bride Horizons, dot O RG. Tom Neil good to
see one second. Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Someone's driving around the car right now, or they're sitting
in their office and they're listening to this interview right now.
You know where I'm going. Sure, they're frustrated, they're worrying.
It's probably dominating every thought that they have besides trying
to work and do whatever. What advice do you have
or can they get a hold of you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, if you guys don't mind, I'm happy to give
my cell.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Phone absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, so my cell phone number is nine oh eight
six nine three one sixty five. Apologies, it's a Jersey number,
but perhaps from a life long gone by, So please
reach out. You know there is a suicide hotline you
can always reach out to as well.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Suicide hotline by the way, nine eight nine eight.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah. And the one thing I'll add to this is
that not everyone can afford to come to an event,
or everyone can afford to donate to an event. I
get all of that. So my one request is that
just talk about it. Yeah, that's free, that doesn't cost nothing. Right,
if there's something wrong, if you know there's something going on,
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's a great way to end this. We'll be back
after this on news radio eight forty whs oh yeah,
we are zeroing too for realing in the years. We'll
get after that. Here in a couple of minutes, so
much in the news, including a shooting near schools. Originally
the news broke as a woman shot near a bus stop,
(16:29):
but it's just near Central Avenue in the Monassory Middle
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Speaker 2 (17:01):
I had to walk Tom and Neil out because last
oh my.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
God, he's over there like a little kid looking for
a candy bar.
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Well, last time you got a candy bar?
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QMF is it eight forty whs? It is okay, eight
forty whs. We're We're back, even when John picked stupid
songs in.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Stupid years stupid guy, Yes is it?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That Dwight, We're doing sixties and forever.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Oh no, all right, Our thoughts and prayers go out
to the family of this woman or person. We're not
sure the age of the woman. We're not sure if
it is a teenager or who who the victim is today,
but shot at a bus stop JCPS. It is near
Central High School and the Montassori Elementary or middle school
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that they have there. It's one of the best schools
in the city is right there. Shotton killed at eight
thirty this morning. The chief of police, Chief Humphreys, was
just on and we knew it was big when we
turned around and we saw him at at the site,
I mean, alright on scene already it's ten forty three,
So we said, okay, there we go. The other story
(20:06):
is happening at GE. A lot of media.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is there.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Your lovely wife is there?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My wife, Susan Tyler witness is there as a state representative.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Greenberg's there. The sheers, their congressman, councilmen all that. I
guess that they I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know she I'm sure she told me, but I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Shocker.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Uh, she had to told me because she's mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You had the great line. Just do the line in
the break that you did. Idiot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
If I were to take a guess, I would I
would imagine they're investing in electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That was kind of that was kind of funny. I
mean a rim shot would have been better.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah. No, but he's in their texting Daisy.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He's Nick Coffee from the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Shoot. Well you know what, man, why you worry about
your show instead of nixt show?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay? Are we going to have to have a conversation
about priority?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I think we got to sending me information about the shooting.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What information did you send?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Hang on? Can we do this real quick?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, let me do this real quick. I'm getting really
sick and tired of going, hey John Alden when we
come back and you do X y Z, and then
getting this is an answer that's not how Nick does it.
I don't care how Nick does it.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Okay, you may or may not confirmed this already, but
they have not arrested anyone for.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The bus stoptions.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Okay we have not. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's the part of taking a fifteen year old in custody.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh, Nick called it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Nick called it Nick?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Nick walk in here and said, I bet you it's
a it's a juvenile. It's funny to see Nick just
transform in the last two months of doing Mornings on
As to see him going, this is so messed tough,
and it's like, yes, when you're when you're a sports guy,
you just get sucked into the world of sports and
that's your entire world. And then when you start to
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do work for a news channel and you start to
look at the judges and policy matters absolutely and you
can see and charge how we got here. This isn't
by accident, and you don't want to hear bumper sticker statements,
right like, well, there's so many We're not alone. That's
a bumper sticker. We're not alone here. There's plenty of
(22:10):
other cities that have these issues. It's like, no, well,
I live here, okay, and we saw the policies as
it made it happen. You matter of fact, my friend,
you kept going after one statement on Monday, you kept saying,
I bet you they say at some point in this
situation that happened Friday that we talked about on Monday,
you said, I bet you someone will say we don't
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the judges don't have a crystal ball, and what did
I send you yesterday?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You sent me a screenshot of the comment and it said,
I'm sorry, we're judges. We don't have a crystal ball.
It's old. It's old, it's tired. And it's not just
the offenders like it's the media of the pushes it too.
I mean, look at some of these losers. They won't say,
for example, the Safer Kentucky Act. They'll say stuff like, oh,
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the so called Safer Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Actually, I don't want to push I don't want to
push lawsuits. But at this point, the family that got
abducted has an absolute case. I hope they guy does
not should not have been on the street, and it's
there's no one that disagrees with that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I hope there's a civil case against the person responsible
as well.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, well that's it is so preventable, it's ridiculous. So
that's where we'll catch you up on the very busy
morning here in Louisville. And these stories are again sometimes
it's like a broken record. Juvenile they think, possibly allegedly
killed this person at a bus stop today, which which.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Is like a broken record.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Last week, the same thing happened near where we are
right now, We're just about three blocks from where the
first shooting happened, where they some juvenile was shooting in
the air allegedly, and uh, families, parents and kids are
running for their life and screaming. The videos very It's
frustrating as a citizen and to think that all these
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people have moved outside the circle. You know, they're going
to Bullet County. Bullet County now is one of the
fastest growing counties in the state, and a lot of money,
a lot of money is going to Bullet County. You
should see the schools now. They're building these facilities at
North Bullet and Bullet County of schools that are just
unbelievable science centers and all that. Why because a ton
of money is going out there. Because people are like,
I'm done, I'm done with this. We the other night
(24:29):
in Saint Matthew's they had four cars with three people
in each car teaming together to break into houses, break
into cars, and steal cars. We woke up, I told
you the other morning. We woke up and there was
three cops running through the yard of our neighbor with flashlights.
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So we said, you know, we investigated what was going on,
and we heard from Saint Matthew's police. Yes, they were
running Saint Matthew's LMPD and Lynden Police around all night long.
And the thing is we're in a residential area. They
can't car chase in a residential area, so if they
get away, they get away. So it was four cars,
three man teams as they got out and did their business.
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And this happens every couple of weeks. This isn't every
six months or a year. This is every couple of weeks.
And when I moved in fifteen years ago, the policeman said,
I can't remember a break in on the street.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So now it's now it's every three weeks. So it's
not fear mongering, man. People are tired of it. They're
sick and tired of it.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
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All right, we will play Wednesday's here a little bit
later in the show. We got a couple of heroes
in the studio. All right, now, our friends from Ben's
Bright Horizons. We talked about this last year in their
inaugural year of doing this golf scramble, and we need
to hear Ben's story again because it all ties into
(00:22):
what we're about to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
First, I want to hear, first of all, welcome Tom,
Thank you very much. Welcome, Welcome Neil.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Guys. Want to hear Neil say a couple of things, right.
I want him to do my incoming message on my
Yeah bunned James.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Dwight's South End redneck loves the British accent.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll do your answer machine and you do mine, all right,
don't you know what to do? Here's all I want
from you. I want a recording of you saying, Hi,
this is Dwight Witten. I need reservations for tonight. Yeah,
because you sound respectable and I could just play.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Let's get to the story and stop talking about Dwight.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So hey, do you notice that a boot here? Because
I tore my.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, I did hear that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We have a golf scramble coming up we do, and
some several events and or several things up for auction,
items that are pretty cool. We'll tell you about that,
but let's talk about your family and your son.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, so quick recap. Two years ago Father's Day twenty
twenty three. Got a phone call at four in the
morning that Benard jumps off seven story building at UK.
You know, he battled for years with depression and anxiety
and made some good progress. Part of that progress, which
(01:46):
is why we're here today, is that we found a
place in Ohio called the Linda CenTra Hope. It's an
impatient program, no insurance coverage, eight thousand a week, the
proper tall healthcare. So we're in a position where we
were able to afford. You know, we put him in
there for seven weeks and he came out a much
(02:07):
better person. It was nine months before he passed away,
but he felt like he knew who he was right
and was able to better. You know, if you're going
to pass away, it's better to know why you're passing away,
I think sometimes than not having a clue. So he
was probably the best nine months he'd had in a
long time. So it is eulogy. You know, we had
Saint Al's in he you know, it was a North student.
(02:28):
But we had it at saying Now's where my youngest
son was at the time, and eulogy in front of
you know, six hunder people. Tom was there. Place was full.
I blurred it out in a moment of semi madness.
I think that I was not going to let his
death be in vain and that you know, if there's
something I could do to prevent another family going through it,
I was going to do it. And I knew in
the back of my mind that meant we had to
(02:50):
raise money and we had to find a way to
offset the costs that come with the extraordinary expense that
mental health has. And you know, when we're on last
time we talked about this, you know, there are more
s and Louisville from suicide then there are homicide. The
crazy thing is homicides make.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The news.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Go through that first forty eight hours of the conversation
between you and your wife and your daughter. Right, she
much she was at UK.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
She was she was a senior at North.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, got you all right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, I pick upon she was she was a freshman,
she was.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
A freshman, she was right, now did she have a
from her dorm room, she could see where he correct.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So she lived in the hub. So she moved for
sophomore year into the hub and it was eye level
to the exact spot he jumped off.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh boy, did she stay there? Ye? Yeah, that first
forty eight hours you just thinking what didn't we do?
What happened? You do a lot of blame game, or
you're trying to look back at the last couple of
weeks and say what.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Before we were in Vegas for his twenty firth, him
and I we went what's the night play in the
regional conference finals? It was it was awesome, had a
great three days. I think that's where I went first.
I was kind of grateful I had that those three days.
I moved so quickly into Okay, I've got to get
organized here. We've got to come up with a plan.
(04:10):
We've got to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We decided to get him cremated before the service because
I didn't feel it was fair to have all these
kids looking at a coffin. So we got a soccer
boy he played soccer at North put his ashes in
there and it flowers around it and sort of dumb
me down the great idea, dum me down the pain
a little bit for everybody else. I mean, it made
no difference to me, but and it was important. And
(04:32):
I think you know, to see that many kids in
the first few rows was was troubling. Actually, I mean
that was the hard part.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So you turn your scars into stars by well by
creating Ben's bright horizon. I want to go back pre suicide,
and I've talked about this on the air. I've disclosed
many things on the air that I suffered from severe
depression as well. And you had mentioned the place that
worked was eight thousand dollars a week and does not
(05:03):
accept insurance.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I know firsthand how expensive mental health and therapy can
be without the help of insurance. Is there a lobbyist
group on your OSS behalf out there, because for whatever reason,
it seems to me like mental health should be one
of the most important things covered.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I think you know. The bigger issue is that
for a long time, and I think, right you'll appreciate this,
it was just not talked about. No, absolutely, it lived
under the carpet. I hit my yeah, and I think
most people do. And I think there's a stigma attached
to it. I do feel, I mean, I don't the
lobbyist thing. I don't know if we've got there yet.
But one thing I do know is that people are
(05:43):
starting to talk about it a little bit more good.
And I think one of the commitments I made and
I get not grief for it, but people bring up
to me, you know, you're very open about this, and
I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do if
I'm going to if I'm promoting or helping to promote
a problem, I can't hide behind the fact that I
have to tell the story. I have to tell how
(06:03):
it happened, why it happened, where it happened, when it happened,
and and hopefully people it resonates. And over the last
two years, with the you know, the funds we've been
able to raise, there is no question and Tom will
attest to this to it it hits enough.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And I think part of the problem is I think
some of the universities hide the numbers. My son was
at Purdue and he just called and said, Dad, there's
no possible way they because you don't hear about it.
He said, we don't hear about it. And I know
he had he started the year two years ago and
two sisters held hands and walked off the parking gross
and together and he was like, it was nowhere, and
(06:40):
it was it was. They moved quickly, university moved quickly
to get everything. I'm not trying to indice Purdue, but
it's for for the university space to say they they're
not they're certainly not advertising it, especially those kids that
go up to the Ivy League. I got a buddy
that graduated from Cornell and he said, dude, there's a
there's a lake that they all day long, all the time,
(07:04):
and you don't never hear about it. The numbers are there,
and your stark number of more more suicides and homicides.
That's what jumped out at me just now. That is
an issue. So what do you hope to accomplish?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So the goal of foundation is very simple. We're a
fundraising machine. We take all of the money that we
and we've created We've partnered with a company in Saint Louis,
which is a nonprofit called Anthropedia, and from that we
are running weekly cohorts for ten to twelve young adults
(07:39):
that we pay for. Now, if the parents can afford
to do it. They're part of it too, But if
you're if you're a position where you cannot afford to go,
we will help. That's huge and we've had am I right, Tom,
We've had two so far, so we've had twenty five
kids go through it, some from Louisville, some from Saint Louis.
You know my long some plan. I mean, you know,
(08:01):
we move on from from from me, but the goal
is to have a building in Louisville within three to
four years and be able to offer this service.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How did you jump in on all this?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, I was a friend of Neil's and when this happened,
I tried to be the best friend I could be.
Didn't have any magic words. I just simply sat down
with him and said, how can I help you and
how can I journey with you through this process? And
at the time, we hadn't really talked about a mission
(08:33):
or any specifics of this foundation.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was really just.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
A friend saying to another friend, I'm in your boat,
I'm in your camp, lean on me through this entire
healing process. And then the idea of the foundation, and
that really struck me because, unlike other fundraising efforts, it's
(08:57):
really really enjoyable to that we are breaking down the
financial barrier for families who have a need, who have
a child that is in need, but otherwise wouldn't be
able to provide that need. We're allowing families to move
forward and get the services and the care that their
children need. And I think that's what really is most
(09:21):
exciting about this for me, is that yes, we're you know,
we're raising the bar on awareness and hopefully raising the
bar on prevention through really enabling families to find the
help and get the help that they need for their children.
And I think that, you know, we're able to do that.
We've partnered with some real high level of folks and
(09:45):
you know, having already almost two dozen participants this year
is really really exciting and it's very very rewarding to
think that we're changing the lives and literally changing the
trajectory of the young people. Obviously it wouldn't happen without
the support of the community.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And did it get worse after COVID or was it
just the numbers? Were people are talking about it?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah? I think people are talking about it. There was
nothing else to talk about. I mean, UGHS was scanned.
Everything was medically based, right, it was a medical issue.
So all of a sudden everything Now there's no question
that it impacted Ben because his first year at UK
he was in his dorm room.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, there's still question. Yeah, there's no death. Why is
this place better? Why is the place in Ohio better than?
What did they do? What do they do that is
better than the other facility?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You get seven or eight doctors who were in various nutritionists, psychologists, psychiatrists,
well being experts who are basically on your site. So
there's a very small group that are with you every day,
talking to.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You, talking with Neil and Tom of course with Ben's
bride horizons. Neil lost his unfortunately suicide and his death
is not in vain helping others with that. Let's talk
about how you can contribute to this cause and help
quite frankly, save lives from suicide and and and get
some mental health help. Let's talk about how much fun
(11:12):
we can have for this cause, because it's coming up,
talk talk, talk about who wants to grab.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
This radio voice?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Is well.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I got to be honest with my fresh haircut.
I gotta be honest with you guys, You too look
like you're a lot of fun. I gotta tell you,
if I'm in a force them of playing golf, I
want to be in that for them because it's going
to be a good day.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Priority. So yeah, so thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So yes, as Neil mentioned earlier, you know, our goal
is fundraising. We need, we need, we want to we
want to provide assistance financially to families. And so last
year was our inaugural event. And as everybody knows, there's
Monday golf outings throughout the year throughout the calendar. We've
tried to make ours a little unique. We have partnered
(12:05):
it with Hunting Creek Country Club, So that's the pace,
and this will take place this coming Sunday, and it
starts off with a reception Sunday evening beginning at six o'clock,
and that will entail open bar, food, a live band,
a live auction, a silent auction. This year it's a
little bigger than last year. We've got over a dozen
(12:28):
live auction items and we've got somewhere near seventy or
eighty silent auction items, some really really terrific gifts. So
we would invite anybody that doesn't play golf but wants
to get involved, wants to help, come out and visit
with us on Sunday. It's a nice event. It's one
hundred and fifty three hundred couple and that gets you
(12:51):
an evening of fun and an opportunity to really get
involved and help these young people. And we're going to explain,
as we did last year, exactly where the support is
going and exactly how it is benefiting these families and
these children. Then on Monday, we have our golf outing
(13:11):
and that starts off at eight o'clock registration. I think
we're going to have it probably somewhere Aroun. I'm going
to try to get everybody out on the golf course
by ten and we'll have the golf outing on Monday.
And I will tell you the community support has just
been terrific good. We exceeded our expectations last year. We
have already can see the needle moving above where we
(13:35):
were last year at this time.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That awesome.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And I will tell you shout out to our community.
Shout out to the folks that have helped support us.
We were here a few months ago and a listener
of yours contacted us, asked a few questions and said,
I want to support one child for.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
A week through the program stop.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Absolutely fantastic. So whoever you are, thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yes, So shout out to the people that have supported us.
And so what we're really wanting to do is, obviously
we want to bring people out and have them support
the cause, have a little bit of fun along the way,
and we really want people to see where their money
is going and see the lives that are being touched.
And so this year, you know, last year it was
(14:22):
an idea. Last year we said, hey, this is what
we want to do. This year, we're going to be
able to look at these folks and say, here's what
your support has done. You know, we've had over two
dozen young lives changed because of the support thus far, right,
so very exciting. Again, it's this sad excuse me this
(14:42):
Sunday and Monday, Hunting Creek Country Club. All the information
is on our website.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Reach out to us. What is the website?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It is www dot Ben's Bright Horizons, dot org.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Ben's Bride Horizons, dot O RG. Tom Neil good to
see one second. Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Someone's driving around the car right now, or they're sitting
in their office and they're listening to this interview right now.
You know where I'm going. Sure, they're frustrated, they're worrying.
It's probably dominating every thought that they have besides trying
to work and do whatever. What advice do you have
or can they get a hold of you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, if you guys don't mind, I'm happy to give
my cell.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Phone absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, so my cell phone number is nine oh eight
six nine three one sixty five. Apologies, it's a Jersey number,
but perhaps from a life long gone by, So please
reach out. You know there is a suicide hotline you
can always reach out to as well.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Suicide hotline by the way, nine eight nine eight.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah. And the one thing I'll add to this is
that not everyone can afford to come to an event,
or everyone can afford to donate to an event. I
get all of that. So my one request is that
just talk about it. Yeah, that's free, that doesn't cost nothing. Right,
if there's something wrong, if you know there's something going on,
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's a great way to end this. We'll be back
after this on news radio eight forty whs oh yeah,
we are zeroing too for realing in the years. We'll
get after that. Here in a couple of minutes, so
much in the news, including a shooting near schools. Originally
the news broke as a woman shot near a bus stop,
(16:29):
but it's just near Central Avenue in the Monassory Middle
School that is there. So more news with that on
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Speaker 2 (17:01):
I had to walk Tom and Neil out because last
oh my.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
God, he's over there like a little kid looking for
a candy bar.
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Stupid years stupid guy, Yes is it?
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That Dwight, We're doing sixties and forever.
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Oh no, all right, Our thoughts and prayers go out
to the family of this woman or person. We're not
sure the age of the woman. We're not sure if
it is a teenager or who who the victim is today,
but shot at a bus stop JCPS. It is near
Central High School and the Montassori Elementary or middle school
(19:44):
that they have there. It's one of the best schools
in the city is right there. Shotton killed at eight
thirty this morning. The chief of police, Chief Humphreys, was
just on and we knew it was big when we
turned around and we saw him at at the site,
I mean, alright on scene already it's ten forty three,
So we said, okay, there we go. The other story
(20:06):
is happening at GE. A lot of media.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is there.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Your lovely wife is there?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My wife, Susan Tyler witness is there as a state representative.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Greenberg's there. The sheers, their congressman, councilmen all that. I
guess that they I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know she I'm sure she told me, but I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Shocker.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Uh, she had to told me because she's mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You had the great line. Just do the line in
the break that you did. Idiot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
If I were to take a guess, I would I
would imagine they're investing in electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That was kind of that was kind of funny. I
mean a rim shot would have been better.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah. No, but he's in their texting Daisy.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He's Nick Coffee from the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Shoot. Well you know what, man, why you worry about
your show instead of nixt show?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay? Are we going to have to have a conversation
about priority?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I think we got to sending me information about the shooting.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What information did you send?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Hang on? Can we do this real quick?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, let me do this real quick. I'm getting really
sick and tired of going, hey John Alden when we
come back and you do X y Z, and then
getting this is an answer that's not how Nick does it.
I don't care how Nick does it.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Okay, you may or may not confirmed this already, but
they have not arrested anyone for.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The bus stoptions.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Okay we have not. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's the part of taking a fifteen year old in custody.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh, Nick called it.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Nick called it Nick?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Nick walk in here and said, I bet you it's
a it's a juvenile. It's funny to see Nick just
transform in the last two months of doing Mornings on
As to see him going, this is so messed tough,
and it's like, yes, when you're when you're a sports guy,
you just get sucked into the world of sports and
that's your entire world. And then when you start to
(21:48):
do work for a news channel and you start to
look at the judges and policy matters absolutely and you
can see and charge how we got here. This isn't
by accident, and you don't want to hear bumper sticker statements,
right like, well, there's so many We're not alone. That's
a bumper sticker. We're not alone here. There's plenty of
(22:10):
other cities that have these issues. It's like, no, well,
I live here, okay, and we saw the policies as
it made it happen. You matter of fact, my friend,
you kept going after one statement on Monday, you kept saying,
I bet you they say at some point in this
situation that happened Friday that we talked about on Monday,
you said, I bet you someone will say we don't
(22:31):
the judges don't have a crystal ball, and what did
I send you yesterday?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You sent me a screenshot of the comment and it said,
I'm sorry, we're judges. We don't have a crystal ball.
It's old. It's old, it's tired. And it's not just
the offenders like it's the media of the pushes it too.
I mean, look at some of these losers. They won't say,
for example, the Safer Kentucky Act. They'll say stuff like, oh,
(22:57):
the so called Safer Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Actually, I don't want to push I don't want to
push lawsuits. But at this point, the family that got
abducted has an absolute case. I hope they guy does
not should not have been on the street, and it's
there's no one that disagrees with that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I hope there's a civil case against the person responsible
as well.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, well that's it is so preventable, it's ridiculous. So
that's where we'll catch you up on the very busy
morning here in Louisville. And these stories are again sometimes
it's like a broken record. Juvenile they think, possibly allegedly
killed this person at a bus stop today, which which.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Is like a broken record.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Last week, the same thing happened near where we are
right now, We're just about three blocks from where the
first shooting happened, where they some juvenile was shooting in
the air allegedly, and uh, families, parents and kids are
running for their life and screaming. The videos very It's
frustrating as a citizen and to think that all these
(24:06):
people have moved outside the circle. You know, they're going
to Bullet County. Bullet County now is one of the
fastest growing counties in the state, and a lot of money,
a lot of money is going to Bullet County. You
should see the schools now. They're building these facilities at
North Bullet and Bullet County of schools that are just
unbelievable science centers and all that. Why because a ton
of money is going out there. Because people are like,
I'm done, I'm done with this. We the other night
(24:29):
in Saint Matthew's they had four cars with three people
in each car teaming together to break into houses, break
into cars, and steal cars. We woke up, I told
you the other morning. We woke up and there was
three cops running through the yard of our neighbor with flashlights.
(24:49):
So we said, you know, we investigated what was going on,
and we heard from Saint Matthew's police. Yes, they were
running Saint Matthew's LMPD and Lynden Police around all night long.
And the thing is we're in a residential area. They
can't car chase in a residential area, so if they
get away, they get away. So it was four cars,
three man teams as they got out and did their business.
(25:13):
And this happens every couple of weeks. This isn't every
six months or a year. This is every couple of weeks.
And when I moved in fifteen years ago, the policeman said,
I can't remember a break in on the street.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So now it's now it's every three weeks. So it's
not fear mongering, man. People are tired of it. They're
sick and tired of it.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
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Speaker 3 (25:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
They're coming next week and I'm making Venetti House a fortress.
We've got cameras, sensors. I got the sign that says
you are on it's pointing a finger right at him,
and I'm putting it right on my white picket fence
and it's going to say you are on TV. Smile
gonna make this thing. I want lights, I want the
when they trigger something, it's gonna make a loud noise,
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it's gonna get crazy and the police. It's hooked to
the police, so once the once it goes off, the
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Speaker 2 (27:01):
So let me tell you something. So yesterday I made
a post.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And I had a great joke in it, and you
missed it up because you couldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I messed up cause I couldn't see. I got home
and I read it. It already had like the showing
views yes on my page now it already had like
six thousand views, and the joke was screwed up because
I couldn't see. Would you please make me an appointment
it first? I got it said that two weeks ago.
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All right, back after this news radio forty whas all right,
at the top of the hour, we'll talk to the
folks from Trait not Towers if you are looking for
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If you're looking for lunch today, you can order early
for the sandwich or just go in there. It's a
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Back after this on news radio eight forty whas
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