Very appropriate, so on for our next guess hero. Yeah, but we
first you guys, tell me update you on. We talked. We were
asking about the book vending machines that were five thousand dollars and then to maintenance
was three thousand dollars a year. And I said, please, someone explain
to me, because if there's a great reason for it, great, But
these are schools, they have libraries. Why an't the books just in the
library. Why are we spending eight thousand dollars in the first year for a
machine that has books? And people have said the kids get to keep the
books, and the kids are way more engaged to get the books out of
the machines and take them home than they normally would in the library. Got
was reached out by a friend of mine I graduated with as a principal in
the school downtown and says, it really has worked out so good as long
as it makes sense. I'm okay with that. I just sometimes when you're
spending eight thousand dollars and it's some books that were if you walk five steps
there right there in the library, you got to make it make sense to
me. And sometimes there's athletic departments in public schools that aren't getting that kind
of money, like no money for athletic departments. I think sports are important,
all right, Today's a big day. It's one year ago today the
National Bank shooting happened. Complete chaos happening all at once, including hundreds of
phone calls. That's right, hundreds of phone calls all go in to nine
one one aka Louisville Metro. Safe These men and women, they're excellent at
their job. The response time under three minutes thanks to both agencies working in
concert. I want to bring in our friend. You hear your money with
us all the time. Jody with Louisville Metro saying, hey up dude,
good morning, Jody. How are you man? What's up? Guys?
How are you all doing? Doing good? Listen? Came in well,
Jody, just like big time and next hour, I guess I could.
Oh, you're right. He is literally feet away from our front door.
But that's cool, man, Jody, it's cool. I'm not going to
run you down. Joe. I know you probably got stuff going on.
It's derby time, you know. We're out here actually a Churchill downs doing
some derby planning. Hey, listen, I do wanna I do wanna get
serious because I want to recall one year ago today, the tragic events old
National Bank shooting. I want to kind of if you could walk me through
that morning, because you know, you you men and women, you do
train, but some calls just can't train for it. And I gotta think
that that's one of them. Uh, talk about that morning, how it
started, and kind of walk us through the events, if you don't mind.
You know, those those calls came in and we you know, we've
had some uh some calls that have come in pertaining the active shooter that have
been false, but this was a morning, you know, a year ago
that uh you know, when these calls came in and then you start to
get several calls after that of the same type of thing, and it really,
you know, alerts you that hey, this isn't this isn't a fake
thing, this is real. So, you know, our call takers took
those calls and then they transferred that through the technology to the dispatchers, police,
fire and the MS and uh, you know, the dispatchers they went
to work and uh, you know, and then the responders went to work.
I mean literally, I mean it was just a you know, everybody
to such a good job. So obviously nine one one was called by several
people. But at some point, uh, is there a redundancy where you're
getting hundreds of the same calls and it might for lack we better return be
clogging up the system number one? How to handle that? Well, the
good thing about it is, you know, when we when we get several
calls, whether it's an active shooter, a fire, a motor vehicle accident
where a lot of people are calling for one instance, you know, our
call takers can see that that that that run has already been put up and
sent in and they don't have to ask all the same questions. They may
ask if something's changed or you know, if there's new information that they may
be able to pass on to the responders, but you know they can they
can eliminate the because they can say, hey, help us on the way,
you know, uh, And depending on you know, if it's a
fire, have you evacuated? You know, if it's an active shooter,
are you sheltering in place or are you run fight hiding? Are you you
know, you're doing things like that, so you know the time that they're
on the phone versus you know, after the initial couple calls come in versus
those those initial couple calls, is the times eliminated a lot. Okay,
this is obviously a very difficult sort of thing to train for because they're all
different. They seldom happened, fortunately, But since it did happen, how
has training changed after it? You know, we always look back and try
to see what we can do better. And you know, the the number
of uh, you know, the number of calls that came in, you
know, and it was transferred over and our call takers and dispatchers did such
a good job. There was one of the call takers that stayed on the
phone for a very lengthy amount of time with someone in the bank that was
actually hiding in a in the bank vault, so you know, just to
reassure that person that that that help was coming. So you know, they
were on the phone, I'm sorry, the dispatchers were on the the uh,
you know, the radio with you know, all the responders, you
know, including those first ones that went in and eliminated the threat and and
uh you know, and then the EMS and fire that took care of the
victims, you know, as the police were bringing them out of the building.
So you know, it was very stressful. You know, adrenaline takes
over. It's it's the time afterwards that you really have to watch your people
and make sure that they've got you know, they get the help that they
need. And we still offer that assistance today if it's needed. But talking
about it, you know amongst your peers, with peer support teams, with
potentially licensed psychologists, you know, you know that that's what really helps and
getting them, you know, getting them back in that seat and being able
to do the same thing. And we've had some calls you know, since
then, and obviously it brings up the nightmare of a year ago today,
but they still go to work. They still do it, you know,
all of our public safety you know agencies, they still do what's supposed to
be done. Well, let's talk about the calls from inside the scene on
this particular day, would be from inside old National Bank, Uh, the
operator, call taker, first spart, whatever it might be. Do they
stay with the caller even though there's a backload of redundant calls coming in.
Do they stay on the phone with the person that's actually inside the scene and
help them through or encourage them, give them tips on how to stay avoid
the shooter. What goes on with that? Yeah, I mean, it
depends on the situation and what they're you know, what they're encountering, you
know, and all the situations are different. You know, there's medical emergencies
where we're actually giving CPR instructions over the phone to people and we're staying on
until until help arrive. So, you know, depending on the type of
call, and if someone's running out of a building or evacuating and you know,
whether they're even able to stay on the phone, you know with them.
Like I said, we stayed on the phone with one of the individuals
that was that had locked themselves in the vault. You know, Like I
said, it just depends on the situation that the person that's on the other
end of that line. What the what the situation is that they're in.
Is there a feeling of helplessness somewhat when you get these calls and you know
exactly what's going on, you're trying and encourage the victim. Or is there
a feeling of oh my god, I'm helpless, but I want to walk
them through this. What's the feeling like being on the other end of that
phone Jody, You know, I don't know. You know, it's something
that you know, in my career, I was I was able to face
the emergency and I could see it with my eyes. You know, you've
taken that, You've eliminated that, you know, the vision out of it.
So they can't see what the person that's calling can see. So they've
got to imagine what they're going through. And you know, my call,
my hats go off, you know to the call takers and dispatchers because there's
no way I could sit in there and and just listen to what's going on
and then figure out what has to you know, try to imagine what they're
seeing and what they need and try to get them, get them the help
they need. You know, when you're taking that sense of sight completely away
from them. You know, technology is coming and you know, hopefully one
day we'll be able to you know, we're getting to the technology where we
can have people send us things where we can see and send it to the
first responder. But you know, it's like I said, I couldn't.
I couldn't do what. You know what those folks do. I mean,
they're just such a such a talented group of people. How many people were
on duty that how many people were taking calls that morning. You know,
we were we were full staff that morning. You know, I'm not you
know, we had ten to twelve people in there on the floor, depending
on breaks and you know, things that were going on. But you know,
it's a situation that when when those calls come in, everybody stops what
they're doing and goes to help. You know, you've got a relief person
that's doing dispatching that kind of moves around and allows people to take breaks.
Well, she was actually one that went over behind the police dispatcher and was
helping her through what she was going through. So it's an all hands kind
of thing. It's crazy. You know, we had Matt on earlier.
It was just such it was chaos, but everyone just focused and did their
job and it's just such an amazing story. It's tragic, you know.
Dwight and I went back and forth on having people that were, you know,
really involved, and it's like, you know, we don't want them
to relive it today, right, you know, like on the radio on
the on the first anniversary. But that's the feelings all of you guys down
there at Metro Safe went through this morning as you wake up, going,
man, it's one year ago, last year. But you know what,
you guys do this every single day. It's it's sort of chaos every single
day, you know. Unfortunately, and you know, just a couple hours
after you know, the initial Old National Bank shooting, we got, you
know, there was a dispatch of another one. Yeah, so you know,
you know, you just you never know when that call is going to
come in for any emergency. So you know, all of our public safety
responders, we've done such a good job. You know, we started active
shooter training back in twenty thirteen in the city, and you know, we've
done a lot of scenarios, a lot of tabletop exercise, and we can
always get better. There's no doubt about it. You know, you you
you know you'd be you know, you would not be very good towards your
agencies if you didn't say you couldn't get better and look at everything that you're
doing. But you know, they did pretty good. They did a good
job that day. They did have a terrific job that day. Every agency
did. And almost slipping a joke just for a second, people ask me
all the time, how do you sleep at night. For me, it's
tras it on and ambien a couple more narcotics in tequila. But a serious
question coming off that joke is, uh, there's got to be PTSD and
involved with this job as well in trouble sleeping and recalling nightmares, living through
certain situations. Like Tony just said, it's not just the old National Bank
shooting that we're calling now on the anniversary, it's every day, every minute
of the day. Is there resources for the call takers over the Louis Metro
Safe for PTSD counseling Because I got to think all the day, just a
normal day, I would need it, but after the mass shooting, I
would definitely need it, you know. They one of the one of the
big things we just try to get people to do is talk about it,
you know, talk about what you did that day, you know, and
reaffirm that they did good that day. You know. We've got a great
partnership in a contract with Seven Counties Services where we have behavioral health specialists in
our nine one one center to handle mental health calls that come in through nine
to one one. Well, that day we immediately shut that down and our
behavioral health specialists from seven County Services went to work and started helping our own
people. So that was, like I said, that was just a great
partnership that happened to be, you know, happened to be available that day.
And they've you know, they've been they've been such a good supporter of
us, you know before and even you know, daring in sense as well.
So our thunder preps right on target Derby prep all that that's right,
yes, sir, I mean it's you know, they're actually going through a
tabletop exercise today and had several meetings the air boss meeting for the air show
on Monday, and uh several meetings for all the large KDF events yesterday,
so uh, right on schedule. I mean, you know we're uh,
we're planning, you know for everything. We need to plan for emergency operations
centers that be open various locations for various events, and you know, the
Kentucky Derby Festival and you know the Churchill Down or such great partners and I
credit our emergency response in this county for anything that we have large scale to
the Derby and the and the Derby events that surround it. Because we come
together every year, we know each other We're not meeting on the hood of
a car. You know. It's you know, even when people when there's
turnover and agencies, we always get together every year. It's not like the
super Bowl's coming in ten years or you know, other events are coming,
you know, in several years out. We get together every single year and
playing. So with all the responders around here, local, state, and
federal know each other, well, I want to speak to that for one
second, because it's not just Kentucky Derby. You all work obviously Kentucky Derby.
Obviously thunder over Louisville, which is unbelievably packed, two hundred and fifty
grand something like that. You got bourburden beyond, you got louder than life.
These are hundreds and hundreds of the White Birthday, my birthday and no,
but I gotta think it's it's year long prepar and you men and women,
you do an excellent job. I just want to say thank you man.
Yeah, good job. Well, and those are events that can that
can play into an incident. So you rehearse a lot of these incidents active
shooters and fires and weather emergencies. We rehearsed these in these large special events.
So even when they happen not associated to a special event. Our people
are on top of it. I mean our you know, our our first
responders locally, they're just on top of it. By the way, Greg
gets your chimes in, says, we had a half a dozen police chaplains
respond immediately that morning. It's just everybody. Yeah, everybody, everybody got
involved. It's Chris saw Greg and spoke to him that morning, and you
know, he was a great resource. And you know, he was involved
in the Family Assistant Center that we had set up, you know, within
two hours at the at the convention Center downtown. And he's always been a
great resource to be able to tie into it. We love working with him.
We're working with him with the PGA as well. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well listen, I just want to say thank you and if
you could relay our thanks to all the men and women of Louis Metural Safe
of course obviously E M. S. LMPD for everybody. God bless you.
Thank you for one year ago today and for every single day moving forward.
Thanks Jody, Thank you, Jody. You guys are always good supporters
and we appreciate you. You got it. Thank you, Thank you.
Joey, What a great day for lots of pasta. Sit in the cafe.
It's kind of a cool, rainy day. Have a cup of coffee.
I always talk about the homemade entrees family sized individuals. They have veggie
lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, Mexican chicken lasagna, egg plant parmesan for the
vegetarians. For cheese Lazania, chicken tetrazini, chicken parmesan. This is the
way to go homemade food. But you don't have to make it. It's
already been done by Lots of Pasta. The secret's been out for lots of
Pasta for a while. Matter of fact, I saw Dwight Knight's butt doctor
at Lots of Pasta last time I was there. That's right, yeah,
Easter Whitney Jones. Because you gotta eat clean if you're working. Done tutin,
but doctor tutan, yeah, better than most. That's right out,
doctor Whitney Jones. He did. We were in the bread aisle right before
the checkout, and he was like, are we doing the back to back
colin oscars? I say, your darned touting, we are, And then
doctor Whitney Jones tore off a piece of bread, and he goes, try
this bread and Tony goes, or buy my own bread. Lots of pausas
at thirty seven seventeen Lexington Road in the heart of same mathters We'll see you
there on news radio eight forty who if the next shut up, If the
next UK coach doesn't work out, UK fans will be singing this song.
By the way, Caliperry hasn't been introduced his Arkansas's coach hip, but they
have issued social media with him in the Arkansas Jacket betrayal best best version of
this song. She does a great job. Bunnie Tyler does a good job,
but the Saxton do it? Hold on, hold on, what are
you about to say, dude, I'm gonna say that the Dan band stop
it, jo get out one, I'll get out, I'll take off early.
No, shut up, No, you have a story to do.
I've got a couple of stories to dude. Let's get it. Hey,
I'm just saying I've made out a bunch of this song in the nineteen eighties
was nervy effective in the first million times second you were talking about how you've
made out of stop it. Don't laugh. They said, that's not an
emphysema. Laugh, stop it. You've heard him say it a million times.
He said, no, it gets it's older. It's been old since
nineteen ninety four, said what was the day? Dave has been doing that
joke since the early nineteen nineties. He knows it joins me crazy. The
first time he did it was nineteen ninety four in Gerstal's tavern, probably because
I was just like, that's dumb. I had Why did you just say
that accurate? It's funny today. I'm always talking about you. Just quick
on his feet if you But I don't know geometry, so that's a good
one. Okay, So what do you? Oh? Yeah, clips stories,
clips they keep the music going. Then I guess, yeah, music
going. That's right. Getting all excited now, Well, the total path
of totality day was Monday. That's whatever, totally totally. It was eclipse
Monday. Most people, most like day, just picked out a good spot,
got their glasses in some cases they're expired glasses they were, and watched
the eclipse. But several people got sucked into a thousand dollars eclipse flight.
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa what? Yeah, so sucker. Several airlines,
Uh, they did an eclipse, say Spirit Spirit Airlines. I don't
recall them. Okay, you don't know. I think a couple of them
were doing that. Yeah, several of them did it. So you fly
on the plane, look out the window, see the eclipse. Do they
only sell window seats? Okay, I'm getting to that. It's one thousand
dollars a ticket to attend the eclipse flight or a reporter. Who are these
people? You just don't understand. Uh, several people did these flights.
One of them was a reporter for the Atlanta Constitutional Journal or Constitution Journal.
Yeah, something like that. She described her flight. Here's went down for
the thousand dollar flight firsthand. She said. The highlights, well, the
highlight for her was the goodie bag. It contained hat, socks, a
moonpie, and sun chips for one thousand dollars. Yeah get it because a
moonpie and sunship. I get it. In the sun. That's that was
the highlight for her. As far as the viewing of the eclipse, she
said, would be better off to watch on the ground because it never got
fully dark because you were so high up. For whatever reason. Along with
that, it was not just window seats, Tony, it was the middle
seat in the aisle seat as well. If you didn't have a window seat,
what you would probably see is the view of the back of someone's head,
which can be a good view every once in a while, but not
on this view. Dude, you got me? Please got me? Please?
No he didn't. No, he didn't, David, that's ten dollars
out of the bed. Oh yeah, Oh my gosh, you're a freaking
cycle paththage. So if you weren't sitting, if you weren't sitting at a
window seat, chances are you just saw the view of the back of someone's
head, or even worse, you get to watch it from their cell phone
as they were video. So tell me then, no, they didn't get
did say that? The pile that would, however, bank the plane from
Starbard to port on both sides, so each shot each side could get a
shot. It's only three minutes, bro, Hey, so I mean it's
over. Sound like my wife very generous, by the way, My wife
is a very generous lover. So am I by the way, But my
wife always looked at me after we're done, after I bestow upon her my
husbandly blessing that I can give to her too. Generous. She looks up
at me and she always says, uh, even an egg takes three minutes.
Actually the joke is two minutes. Even an egg takes two minutes.
I like my I like my eggs out dentate though, Hey, let's keep
it on the eclipse. Were your eyes damaged, Dave? Were you any
Everything seems okay, but there are plenty of dumbas says that hurt their eyes.
This was coming. Listen, all the eyes were on the eclipse Monday.
Hopefully they had the proper I wear theropa. Huh, proper proper English.
But I always say proper. He's a proper good He's a proper good
gentleman. Is David Beckham? Fabulous? Nipples okay, not familiar? Nipple
probably good? And nipples are you know? I can't watch these movies.
If it's look I'll see like I love anything British, I can't. I
won't watch it subtitles if it's not in America. I'm watching a movie about
a Russian in a Russian hotel for forty years, and everybody doesn't No one
speaks Russian. They all have English. Accident and was in a hurt come
in episode two, and I was like, why is everyone in an English
accident? They're all Russian. Years ago I came upon the because that sounds
fancy. That's how fancy proper good yo. Years ago I came across the
Netflix series Narcos. Yeah, and I really wanted it. It was Pablo
Escobar. I wanted to watch it so desperately I turned on Speak. We're
going to make it authentic. Everybody's gonna speak Spanish, like, can you
just talk English with an accent? Kids? Just talk American? Well,
even better, can you just talk American? Learn English? Amigos? Great?
This line in uh in roadhouse Amigo. No, it's one of the
many lines. Great lines. Oh and I got another story in second,
but let's just wrap it up on this one. So people they googled,
do they Is this a story where they googled my why do my eyes hurt?
No? This is I swear to you that spiked spiked. You're looking
at the sun in the middle of the day. In the middle. Let
me tell you it is permanent damage for the rest of your life. Bingo.
There you go. The American Academy of Ophthalmology reports the symptoms to look
for include blurry vision, headache, blind spot in central vision of one or
both eyes. Sounds like married person, increased slind spot, increased sensitivity to
light, distorted vision, headaches, blind spot, married changes the way you
see color. This sounds like me at I don't see color. It sounds
like me like ninety five ten o'clock at night. Man, that's after three.
Now. What's weird is our friend Lisa had some glasses you got from
a hospital and one of the warnings on the side said, don't stare at
the sun even with these for more than three minutes two eclipses. I've never
heard that, but it was on those glasses. I don't know. Well,
here's the thing. You really have to be into it if you're staring
at it a long time, because after you look at it, you're like,
oh, okay, it's good, it's gonna happen. Okay, it's
about halfway about halfway Bourbon. Here's the worst news. If you suffer from
solar retino therapy, or as we like to call it, eclipped blindness,
there's no treatment for it. Experts say that your eyes that eye injuries are
rare, but it does happen if you have a smaller, a smaller amount
of this, it can recover. And I think I think if I damaged
one eye because the two interviews I saw the old guys, they're like,
I did this when I was like eight or nine and it damaged and only
damaged. When eye get an eye patch, eye patch, or you know
what, I think I get a new eyeball, like one with like a
bull's eye in it, oh yeah, or or and have different eyeballs that
I can PLoP in there. There was a bad guy on I think it
was True Lies. Yes, yeah, yeah, he had he had the
bulls eye or the no, the scope and he had like a smiley fish
change or patch. I'd be uh, what was the name of the patch
on that soap opera? No, no, you don't was it Blackie Patch
Adams? Was it Blackie? Who are the patches? Okay? Stopping you
right there, you're worsing yourself. The only person with the patch that you
should look up to is the one and the only snake Blitzkin. That's you.
That's the look you want to go for. Who's the dude in the
band, Sharon the Knight together, Captain Hook, Captain Hook, Doctor Hook,
Doctor Hook, just giving up for tickel Bell on the drums. Okay,
so I mentioned Roadhouse and and put up wet. I mentioned the movie
Roadhouse, and everybody's giving me grief. Say o, Connor McGregory's a horrible
actor. What it is? What it is? I'm at home last night
during the commercials on TV. I start flipping through social media and I get
served an ad with a trailer they're redoing and have redone Popeye the Sailor Man,
and Connor McGregor is Popeye. Okay, I couldn't. I couldn't even
watch the trailer. Okay, Oh what Days of Our Lives? Patch Adams?
No, Steve Patch Johnson. Look you remember called a cup? He
had a little bit of a scar and a patch. I never watched flowing
hair. Remember the guy you remember? Patch Johnson? Steve Pats Johnson.
Jeez, what are you unique for a guy with John? Days of Our
Lives? No, he's real on, No, he's real, dude.
Oh uh, saman Johnny Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw, he's got one. Oh
cool? Is he in a wheelchairs? And another represent that's the governor of
Texas. Okay, you're thinking of Larry Flint that's a different guy altogether.
You didn't sit at home when you were playing hooky from school and watch soap
operas. No, I eat your pocket. Always look for Channel forty one
or something like that. They would have like a Shafford Son rerun. We
used to watch General Hospital when we were little. Yeah, yeah, I'm
telling you they hold up if you I think there's one left, Robert Scorpio.
They're so bad, they're awesome. Well, we'll tell you this though.
As soon as I are we Binge watched like season will go, going
through the entire the Entar catalog, and they were like, you know what,
I bet if we watch the soap opera opera be unlimited, be five
a week for several weeks. I looked up, like I think it was
Guidingline or one of these days. Years, yeah, fifty years, or
like you know, thirteen thousand. Back then, General Hospital had an alien
and an evil family with a weather machine. Yes, okay, so let's
go we're aging ourselves now, but let's go back to the big offices when
we had cubicles. Right, remember when ladies women would have not too many
guys, but women would have those little tiny black and white TVs on their
desks, right, and they would watch the soap opera during the day their
stories because they could not miss the soap op. Avee's got to write your
stories watching their stories. Yes, give me one of them. Is there
one? Can you pull up one that I can remember? Like the opening?
Pull up the days of the week, No, which is one?
It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. These are the days, no week yet,
days of our lives, like sands to the hour glass. These are
the days, see which we have here. So fantastic, nothing more American
than the soap opera. Then we got the nighttime soaps like Dallas and Falcon
Crest. They were much more heavy. Not enough Falcon Crest, not enough
full front of nudity and yeah, there's a shoulder page in her jacket or
not big enough, tease the hair some more like Sands to the hour Glass.
I keep waiting for him to say something I wish you would and make
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