Speaker 1: Another birthday boy right here.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I have my headphones on. Hang on, hang on, Rochester,
Speaker 2: Rod Stewart. I was listening to uh Rod Stewart last night.
Speaker 3: Rod Stewart's the best concert, one of the best CONTs
Speaker 3: I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's seventy seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Seventy nine and I believe his uh Cyinara tours this year. Right,
Speaker 2: he's saying goodbye.
Speaker 3: Well, he looks like someone's aunt, he do. He looks
Speaker 3: like someone's aunt now because he won't get a haircut
Speaker 3: and he wears like the coat like a scarf.
Speaker 2: I gotta start doing the colt and scarf thing.
Speaker 3: That's my thing, that is your thing? Right with the
Speaker 3: Rolling Stones?
Speaker 2: Yeah, rolling Stones theme? All right, News Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas Tony and Dwight. It's twenty five degrees and.
Speaker 3: We are expecting us a storm event. So snowstorm three
Speaker 3: to five inches normally would scare the crap out of everybody,
Speaker 3: but everybody since last week is like, ah, three to five,
Speaker 3: three to five inches.
Speaker 2: If you want to have your driveway shovel for free,
Speaker 2: just visit you r L And who do we have?
Speaker 3: This is Cassie. Cassie Cassie.
Speaker 2: You're not going to introduce Emily.
Speaker 3: Emily is her daughter.
Speaker 2: You walk into studio, you gotta talk on the mic,
Speaker 2: Lady one more year, baby, one night.
Speaker 3: Where do you go to school? By the way, are
Speaker 3: you out? I'm Colorado State University, Colorado State. That's kind
Speaker 3: of hard to get into. Colorado State. That's a good school.
Speaker 2: You like it.
Speaker 3: The view's not bad? Yeah, Colorado's good. What are you
Speaker 3: learning to?
Speaker 2: What do you want to be?
Speaker 4: Costume design?
Speaker 2: So what would that be like movies?
Speaker 3: You're a theater girl, Do you wear all black all
Speaker 3: the time?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Okay, all right, I got you. If you
Speaker 2: go to a dance, do you stand on the wall
Speaker 2: look at your shoes? Because that's what I did when
Speaker 2: I was in theater at Dawson.
Speaker 3: No, my daughter did a theater forever and she was
Speaker 3: back of the house, so they all wore black all
Speaker 3: the time, so no one sees you.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I haven't done that yet.
Speaker 2: Okay. My first year I would. I would wear Flora
Speaker 2: sent yellow just to make sure that everybody saw me.
Speaker 3: But that means she's gonna move to Boston or New
Speaker 3: York that's where all the theaters are and Boston's pretty.
Speaker 3: That's good stuff. Well, good luck, Emily. We're going to
Speaker 3: talk to your mom now, okay, right, Cathy, Hi, what's
Speaker 3: your story Cassie?
Speaker 4: Which part?
Speaker 2: Well? First, you're in Iraq veteran? How about that? I am.
Speaker 5: I served in the invasion of Iraq in two thousand
Speaker 5: and three at the young age of twenty one.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Do you remember a little older than her?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: What outfit were you in?
Speaker 2: It was like a camel time pumps.
Speaker 5: I was in air defense artillery. I worked with Patriot missiles.
Speaker 2: Whoa wow? Remember Desert storm?
Speaker 4: I was a kid, but I do remember during.
Speaker 2: Desert Storm I was rotcal. I ran off to Canada.
Speaker 3: Thank you? Uh so, Cassie. After that, what did you do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I came back from service and what did you do?
Speaker 5: I did lots of things. I went to Puerto Rico first.
Speaker 5: I got my undergraduate degree there. Uh served or actually
Speaker 5: I played college volleyball, basketball, softball, everything. I got recruited
Speaker 5: and played professional basketball there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, get hero out of the studio. I've
Speaker 2: never felt as inferior as I do right now. Can
Speaker 2: you just plug whatever you got?
Speaker 1: A plug?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really, I am really just numb to it, Cassie.
Speaker 5: I lived in prior to that, I lived in Germany
Speaker 5: while I was in the military. That's where she was born,
Speaker 5: in Germany, and I played Army year at basketball there.
Speaker 3: Wow, you played the two or the three? You were
Speaker 3: in a point guard?
Speaker 2: Were you? No?
Speaker 4: I was a three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I like.
Speaker 3: To run the baseline and rebound a little bit, a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: Make any German because that's such a beautiful language.
Speaker 5: I speak very little German. I am fluent in Spanish.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, So Cassie, that's your story. And now
Speaker 3: you still want to stay active. So what is the
Speaker 3: sport that you play. It's very interesting. Dan Mitton a
Speaker 3: very good closer all the people in this room. Yes,
Speaker 3: Dan Mitton former l MPD. He served in Vietnam. He
Speaker 3: runs that Shakespeare program that you actually were part of.
Speaker 5: Yes, he is a member and likes to joke about
Speaker 5: being the director of the Shakespeare program.
Speaker 3: He's not run but he yeah. He I went to
Speaker 3: see him act. It was great him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've seen Dan Mitton act every time. I try
Speaker 2: to borrow money on it. Ye. Great actor.
Speaker 3: But so that's how we got hooked up. But you
Speaker 3: you play, uh.
Speaker 4: Disc golf. I played disc now.
Speaker 2: And oh is that like some is it frisbee golf?
Speaker 4: Frisbee golf?
Speaker 2: Okay, but now it's disc golf.
Speaker 5: I guess they call it the golf now. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: still like to call it frisbee.
Speaker 3: Golf, probably trademark.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: Actually, the person that started the game of disc golf,
Speaker 5: he is the one that created the frisbee back in
Speaker 5: n Yes.
Speaker 2: He worked for a sham it was Frank Frisbee okay
Speaker 2: in eighteen twelve.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, true, like they did.
Speaker 2: But well, I don't know, I'm mining. So the guy
Speaker 2: that invented the frisbee invented frisbee golf, no kidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he worked at Whammo. Who is the one that
Speaker 5: made the frisbee. It was patented in like nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 5: I think something like that. And then from there he
Speaker 5: actually left and went and started the PDGA, I believe
Speaker 5: around in nineteen seventy five, p DGA PDG.
Speaker 3: They tell us all the time, life is simpler back
Speaker 3: then it was, and for our generation, it was a toy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plastic round brown.
Speaker 3: I throw it, it floats through the air and there's
Speaker 3: somebody over there and they catch it. Well, I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to hit that today, Well, you were supposed to catch it.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, it hits me in the nose every time.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he would get he would drink four beers
Speaker 3: and then he would try to play as the dog
Speaker 3: and he'd tried to catch it in his mouth and
Speaker 3: he would hit him in the forehead and everyone laugh.
Speaker 3: That would be that's worth it. But so where do
Speaker 3: you play this disc golf?
Speaker 5: Well, I actually I got into it just a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago and started playing really consistently in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty three. But then there weren't a lot of women
Speaker 5: that were playing, that was playing here in Louisville, okay,
Speaker 5: And I moved up to New Hampshire actually for a
Speaker 5: circus program because both my daughter and I we also
Speaker 5: have performed in the circus here in town.
Speaker 2: And then my friends the New Hearts have a great
Speaker 2: swear to god, you were like the most interesting person
Speaker 2: playing right now. It was after that I didn't mention it.
Speaker 3: You're either really full of it or the most interesting
Speaker 3: person in Louisville that they both okay.
Speaker 2: It was it was at that time that NASA called
Speaker 2: and said.
Speaker 3: Hey, no problem, and then we did a thing in
Speaker 3: the circus.
Speaker 2: No, you don't have anything to do. Did you do it? Stop?
Speaker 4: I did not not? Okay, they head towards NASA.
Speaker 3: Now what the hell did you do in the circus?
Speaker 3: And Emily, how did you get dragged along?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we yeah, she was first we started together.
Speaker 5: She went to the Waldorf School several years ago when
Speaker 5: we got involved in Turner's Circus and then performed like
Speaker 5: eight years, seven years for them, and then SIRC Louis.
Speaker 2: My friend Jessica carr Uh performs in the circus Turner
Speaker 2: Circus and they came in here. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 2: And she does like the high silks and all this stuff.
Speaker 5: Yes, and both her and I did did stuff like that,
Speaker 5: and we moved up to New Hampshire for a circus
Speaker 5: program for her senior year so that she could do
Speaker 5: the costume design stuff prior to heading to CSU.
Speaker 2: Do you have a do you have a line that
Speaker 2: one of us could put the head in? Okay? So
Speaker 2: is that still the thing? That circus?
Speaker 3: So when you go on a date, does a guy
Speaker 3: ever talk like I'm not saying that, I'm saying like,
Speaker 3: all she's got to do is go tell me about you.
Speaker 3: And then the next thing, you know, I was circus
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, Germany Patriots.
Speaker 2: You can't say any of that on your first day,
Speaker 2: you know that, right because I'm intimidated right.
Speaker 3: Now, Noice, no this thank you for telling something. I
Speaker 3: already look.
Speaker 2: I walk around feeling inadequate every single day. But you
Speaker 2: opened your mouth and I just shrunk up like a snail.
Speaker 3: A smart boy would go, I'll sign up for that.
Speaker 3: I'll take definitely that. Okay, we'll get off the dating
Speaker 3: scene unless you want to stay on that disc golf?
Speaker 3: Where do we play that?
Speaker 2: Lovell?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: So, so how I got to the we moved up
Speaker 5: to Northeast. There was a huge woman's community up there,
Speaker 5: and they really I kind of dabbled in it around here.
Speaker 5: I started with the kids at the Waldorf School and
Speaker 5: just throwing with them in the yard and playing object golf.
Speaker 5: We did tree identification through frisbee golf, and I would
Speaker 5: have the kids like, pick, you know, an oak tree
Speaker 5: and make a par three to.
Speaker 4: That and that sort of thing. And that was kind
Speaker 4: of my intro to it.
Speaker 5: And then when I moved up to the Northeast, there
Speaker 5: were a lot of women that played up there really
Speaker 5: and yeah, we were only there for a year. So
Speaker 5: when I came back, I started seeing some women and
Speaker 5: I met this really cool woman named Kristin Reeves who
Speaker 5: had started gathering the women in Louisville and kind of
Speaker 5: started playing. I mean, the guy scene here is really big,
Speaker 5: always has been.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember. I think there was an was
Speaker 3: there a national championship or something here? I think the
Speaker 3: Sports Commission had a huge disc of vet here.
Speaker 4: Yes, so Dave Greenwell probably was.
Speaker 5: He was multa multi time world champion, and he designed
Speaker 5: all the courses here, Charlie Vettner, Gerry Cooy champions he
Speaker 5: designed all of those, and there he hosted a major here,
Speaker 5: the Selenski. I can't I don't know year, but it was.
Speaker 5: It was several years ago. Disc golf Louisville used to
Speaker 5: be a really big.
Speaker 4: Scene, is there.
Speaker 2: Cooy's that was the first one, right, the first.
Speaker 5: One, first one in the state of Kentucky was actually
Speaker 5: designed by the guy that started the Frisbee?
Speaker 3: Am I thinking long run too? Is that long run
Speaker 3: out by long run shelby of a road way out?
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, okay.
Speaker 2: So it is.
Speaker 5: So the first one was Otter Creek Park and that
Speaker 5: was built in like nineteen seventy nine, I think. And
Speaker 5: then Iroquois was in eighty one and we play often
Speaker 5: at Iroquois, Charlie Vetner and Champions. And then Dave is
Speaker 5: in his seventies now and he's still playing I and
Speaker 5: really good.
Speaker 3: Probably he's still So one of the distances, is it
Speaker 3: just like golf, So it's four hundred yards or is
Speaker 3: it one hundred four hundred feet?
Speaker 4: It's more feet?
Speaker 3: Okay, do you.
Speaker 2: Use a different disc like if you have for distance?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for distance, what's the difference weight?
Speaker 4: What side the size? The weight?
Speaker 5: A little bit comes into play, but it's it's really
Speaker 5: the shape of the disc. Mostly the drivers are really
Speaker 5: thin around the edge.
Speaker 4: Cut through the air for the distance. The putters are rounded.
Speaker 3: I want to play now, I really do.
Speaker 2: I want to go into play every every sport there
Speaker 2: is baseball, football, whatever, there's basketball, tennis. They always have
Speaker 2: you know, you are these shoes you go jump higher.
Speaker 2: For example, I've got friends that look like me. The
Speaker 2: ride ten speeds and they'll put on the skins. They
Speaker 2: look like a thing of biscuits getting ready to pop
Speaker 2: because they got the skins tight stuff on. Is there
Speaker 2: a frisbee golf gear that they try to push on
Speaker 2: people like, Hey, this this shirt helps you so further
Speaker 2: because it's made out.
Speaker 3: Of you said, for sure, I thought it was a
Speaker 3: dumb question.
Speaker 5: Now, marketing is my background.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, else, I invented the pop tart.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine if the lights went out? It's probably
Speaker 2: just a seventy an fuse color to transfer.
Speaker 3: Okay, So there is gear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's absolutely gear there. I mean in terms of
Speaker 5: like cells and frisbees and sure like that. You know
Speaker 5: that this frisbee is gonna throw farther and this one's
Speaker 5: gonna do better.
Speaker 4: You know, there's that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: And then you have like your chalk bags and your
Speaker 5: very specific disc golf bags, and you know they're even
Speaker 5: coming even coming out with shoes.
Speaker 2: Now, I gotta have the best gear, all the shoes
Speaker 2: before I go to play with you. I gotta look.
Speaker 2: Is there league?
Speaker 5: Yes, there are leagues and clubs around here. We host
Speaker 5: our women's league, our ladies League.
Speaker 4: It's called Louisville Ladies Disc.
Speaker 5: Golf and Kristin Reeves and I co founded that just
Speaker 5: this year when I came back to Louisville.
Speaker 4: I really wanted to.
Speaker 5: Grow the sport for the ladies locally, and so we
Speaker 5: host events monthly.
Speaker 4: Around town.
Speaker 5: And we're doing a fundraiser to send all the ladies
Speaker 5: in Louisville and beyond to a major in June, USWD.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So is there besides the league? Is there beer?
Speaker 5: Monday nights? Monday nights, Kristin and I host the most
Speaker 5: successful putting league around and it's at ten twenty Brewing
Speaker 5: in Butchertown. Yeah, And we show up early and set
Speaker 5: up a really cool course that's nine holes throughout the
Speaker 5: brewery and that's, you know, part of our fundraiser. And
Speaker 5: there's plenty of beer, plenty of pizza, plenty of fun.
Speaker 4: We average forty people, I bet every single week.
Speaker 3: See, I'm terrible at golf. I quit golf years ago.
Speaker 3: My kids were little and I said, I can't spend
Speaker 3: six hours on a golf course. I want to spend
Speaker 3: it with them. But I quit also because I was
Speaker 3: in white nose terrible. I'm terrible golfer. Well, but this
Speaker 3: could be something where I could do and be better
Speaker 3: at it than golf.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I would definitely say it's much more accessible than golf.
Speaker 2: Right. See, I'm actually I'm excellent at golf except for
Speaker 2: two things, the clown's mouth and the windmill. Other than that,
Speaker 2: I'm golden on every single So are these courses free
Speaker 2: at the park?
Speaker 5: Yes, they're always free. That is a big difference between golf.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: It's just a really accessible sport for so many, for kids,
Speaker 5: for for anybody, because you know, a Frisbee is less
Speaker 5: than twenty bucks. And then all the course, most all
Speaker 5: the courses are free. They are all free at the park.
Speaker 5: There's a few private courses that are pay to play,
Speaker 5: but they're very inexpensive, usually five dollars a wrest.
Speaker 3: Surely go to Amazon and I can look up.
Speaker 7: I sent you guys a link to a starter set
Speaker 7: okay on Amazon, twenty five bucks. That's got fair away Frisbees,
Speaker 7: mid range potters.
Speaker 2: Yes, towels. I've got to go with something better. I've
Speaker 2: got to have the best.
Speaker 4: Here's what I would a thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: The better way to do that is support our local store. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's right across actually the river in New Albany. They
Speaker 5: may potentially be coming over here to Loisville, but they
Speaker 5: support all of our events.
Speaker 4: They show up to our events and vend for them.
Speaker 4: What disc golf.
Speaker 8: Mart, disc golf, I mean, that's then the name of
Speaker 8: the business is disc golf Mart.
Speaker 3: And they stay open.
Speaker 5: They are open and there that is really growing. That's
Speaker 5: just talking about the growth of Frisbee golf of disc
Speaker 5: golf in right now. There's more than I believe it's
Speaker 5: over fifteen thousand courses around the world, and that is
Speaker 5: twice as many courses as there was in twenty seventeen. Like,
Speaker 5: that's how fast that's growing. Most towns, Like there's a
Speaker 5: store in Indie. Disc golf Mart's in Indie. Here, there's
Speaker 5: like three of them. I'm sponsored by a store up
Speaker 5: in New Hampshire called Union Square disc Golf in a
Speaker 5: small town up there. So it's growing so much. There
Speaker 5: are so many stores, so many courses popping up, and
Speaker 5: I really want to get more courses. We really want
Speaker 5: to get more courses here in Louisville.
Speaker 4: I visited Iceland. I play around the world, so I
Speaker 4: played in.
Speaker 3: Iceland, of course, Iceland.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, I went to Iceland to play in May
Speaker 5: and it was a ma Their population is three hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty thousand.
Speaker 4: What is that a third of Louisville.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe they have ninety nine disc golf courses.
Speaker 4: Wow, Louisville has four.
Speaker 5: So once upon a time we were really big right
Speaker 5: in disc golf, and now we're falling behind. And I
Speaker 5: really want to make a push for that because you know,
Speaker 5: you think about the other things the parks has and
Speaker 5: how many people that serves a disc golf course can
Speaker 5: have seventy two people on it comfortably at a time,
Speaker 5: and more than five hundred people can go through a day.
Speaker 5: There's even stats on how this is great in parks
Speaker 5: for like neighborhood watch and stuff, because you always have somebody.
Speaker 3: You've sold it. You got it, Cassie, You've sold it.
Speaker 3: I'm in now, Cassie. I will tell you this. This
Speaker 3: interview has been a thousand times more interesting than I
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be because if you pitch
Speaker 3: people and go, what do you guys, what's on the
Speaker 3: show today? We're going to talk about disc golf? Okay,
Speaker 3: but this was really fascinating. I love the conversation. What
Speaker 3: is how do they get a hold of you and
Speaker 3: then how do they get a lesson and go? The
Speaker 3: gonna go buy their discs from the new Albany place, right, yes,
Speaker 3: and then how do I get out there? And you're
Speaker 3: gonna say, here's how you play, here's.
Speaker 4: How you play.
Speaker 5: You can look up on Instagram or Facebook loive of
Speaker 5: ladies disc golf and it's not for ladies. Just the
Speaker 5: ladies are running the events. But it's for everybody. And
Speaker 5: the cool thing about discolf and everybody in this room
Speaker 5: could show up. An entire family can show up to
Speaker 5: a discolf tournament and there's a division for everybody and
Speaker 5: we all play together.
Speaker 2: Bet you I get picked last? Hey Dave Jennings, Yes,
Speaker 2: what happens when you get your frisbee golf disc stuck
Speaker 2: in a tree?
Speaker 1: Jeez, I don't know what happens?
Speaker 2: Right, You got to call the branch manager.
Speaker 4: Oh stop, you could break out some of that cool gear.
Speaker 4: We have reachers that reach up in the trees.
Speaker 3: But this conversation has been way more fascinating and I'm
Speaker 3: in It's something the whole family could do, right'thing athletic
Speaker 3: level you are? You can throw a damn disc.
Speaker 5: There's so many and now we're having we're averaging more
Speaker 5: than we have more than twenty women that are in
Speaker 5: it now from like women that are too athletic to
Speaker 5: women that have never played the same for kids or
Speaker 5: men just never been into any sport or athletic and
Speaker 5: suddenly they're into disc golf and it's just it's just
Speaker 5: really a lot of fun. It's really easy to pick
Speaker 5: up on pretty quickly. So you can find us at
Speaker 5: lol Ladies disc Golf on Facebook or Instagram. We have
Speaker 5: a tournament coming up in Butchertown or not in Butchertown sorry,
Speaker 5: the course name is Butchertown. It's in Elizabethtown on January
Speaker 5: twenty fifth. We're having these out door winter tournaments and
Speaker 5: we're getting more than fifty people showing up to tournaments.
Speaker 3: All right, that baby man, Wow, Cassie, we might have
Speaker 3: you back.
Speaker 4: I you know, I would love to be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to hear the story about when you
Speaker 2: won the Nobel Peace Prize. We'll say that for another time.
Speaker 3: Ely, It's nice to meet you too. Good luck with theater, okay,
Speaker 3: And then can.
Speaker 5: I say, yeah, if we would love to get some sponsorships.
Speaker 5: What we're trying to do our main fundraiser right now,
Speaker 5: we're trying to raise the money to send all the
Speaker 5: women in our city to USWDGC that's happening in Wisconsin
Speaker 5: in June. It's one hundred and fifty for amateur, two
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty for pro players to attend this event,
Speaker 5: which that's quite a bit. And our goal is to
Speaker 5: raise five thousand dollars so that we can fund every
Speaker 5: single woman to go and then we're all going to
Speaker 5: take a road trip up there together. Any donations would
Speaker 5: be great sponsorships for our tournament coming up. We're partnering
Speaker 5: with Trevor Harbolt. He is a traveling pro okay and
Speaker 5: it's it's his dad's private course that we're doing this
Speaker 5: tournament on nice and any donations to Louisville Ladies disc
Speaker 5: Golf at Gmail. That's at gmail dot com. That's the PayPal.
Speaker 5: It's a whole sponsorship. You can be sponsored for a
Speaker 5: hole for twenty five dollars. You can sponsor an entire
Speaker 5: lady to go for one hundred and fifty dollars or
Speaker 5: two fifty. Every little bit really helps in a game
Speaker 5: that is just now growing and doesn't have a lot
Speaker 5: of money in it.
Speaker 3: Awesome, Cassie is thank you for coming in today. We're
Speaker 3: going to be disc golf playing now yes, and you
Speaker 3: might want to talk to the guy that's coming up next.
Speaker 3: He might have an end for you.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's the mayor.
Speaker 3: All right, we need to do three right here.
Speaker 2: Bro Okay, here we go. Shady raise, shady raise. Baby.
Speaker 2: When you're out there in the sunshine with your disc golf,
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Speaker 2: Plus if you lose them, if you break im, if
Speaker 2: you scratch them, if they're stolen, if a frisbee hits them,
Speaker 2: they'll replace some shady Rais in the Oxymoor Center or
Speaker 2: Shady Rais.
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Speaker 1: Are you guys ready?
Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I got you? Where's Tony?
Speaker 2: Don't be the sixties? I don't know where Tony's at. No,
Speaker 2: Kelly Jones was supposed to play.
Speaker 1: Too, Well, it's just you.
Speaker 2: I guess let's go. I don't need them weighing me down. Anyway.
Speaker 7: We'll get you started. These were all top twenty hits
Speaker 7: back in the day. I did your favor. I did
Speaker 7: not pull out the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: Oh good, okay?
Speaker 1: How about this.
Speaker 7: From just up the road John campcugar Melon Simour Indianna.
Speaker 7: You guys are gonna nail this year without a problem.
Speaker 2: Well, no, we're in the eighties. You can laughing, joke
Speaker 2: and make fun of your friends.
Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us, Stony sorry you Coop talked about
Speaker 7: so cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, the mayor is calling me right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll go.
Speaker 3: Is the mayor not coming in he's calling? Uh well,
Speaker 3: put us on holding. Yeah, we'll talk here for a second.
Speaker 3: Cassie was a trip, wouldn't.
Speaker 1: She close this?
Speaker 2: John Camp Cougar Melin, this is a eighty. I think
Speaker 2: it's eighty two.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, because this was not off on
Speaker 2: huh No, this might be eighty tho.
Speaker 3: This is earlier, earlier stuff. Yeah, it's eighty eighty.
Speaker 8: Eighty one, might be eighty because because uh huh was
Speaker 8: eighty two.
Speaker 2: I think it's eighty maybe eighty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get another one in here. Laura Bran again.
Speaker 2: Oh now, yeah, it sounds seventies.
Speaker 3: It's it's nineteen eighty. I think it's nineteen eighty. Remember
Speaker 3: that TV show Fame. This sounds like that era, right,
Speaker 3: Fame was a movie first and then it was a
Speaker 3: TV show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the mayor is going to call us back, coming like, oh.
Speaker 2: Wow, rock the cast eighty one.
Speaker 3: Eight eight one, Bro, I'll say eighty one because it's January.
Speaker 1: January.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what January. Thank you. Yeah, but that makes
Speaker 2: me want to say eighty two. I want to go
Speaker 2: eighty two. Now I know, Kelly, you can talk. You
Speaker 2: don't have to do hands, so you can get get
Speaker 2: here with us. Kelly Jones, I think it's eighty two.
Speaker 2: Hang on, hang on, sexual healing.
Speaker 1: Marvin Gay, God, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: Eighty one. Nope, let's make love. Dwight.
Speaker 3: I think these are eighty one, and I think it's January,
Speaker 3: so I think it is eighty two.
Speaker 2: I'll go nineteen eighty two. He's hot, just like an oven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was dead at this point. Or no, she
Speaker 7: was older than you think it's nineteen eighty two. Oh, mickey,
Speaker 7: this is Tony Basil. No, you're right, it's eighty two.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: This is eighth grade for me. It's eighty two.
Speaker 2: Was left in eighty one, it's eighty two.
Speaker 3: Tell it's eighty two.
Speaker 2: I think so well, hang on, let's hear him.
Speaker 1: She was like in her late thirties.
Speaker 7: I think when this song, Yeah, hey, Mickey.
Speaker 1: The number one song on this sty number one. Get
Speaker 1: to the mayor on time.
Speaker 2: This was number one. It's January, it's eighty two, it's
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two a minute work Yep, lock me in, Baby,
Speaker 2: get my day Final nineteen.
Speaker 3: Eighty two for a Friday w U, I'm premature, Kelly
Speaker 3: Jones confirmed premature eighty two.
Speaker 7: Baby, I'm hitting it all right, yes men at Worked
Speaker 7: down Under was number one January the tenth. Sure it
Speaker 7: started its rise up the charts in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 7: but it was number one in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: I know it got you again, stupid January.
Speaker 1: My friend or Sabato good one?
Speaker 3: All right, back on news Radio eight forty w H
Speaker 3: is all right, we are back news Radio eight forty
Speaker 3: w H as Tony Dwight Show with Dave Jenny's bought
Speaker 3: you the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. You bring in
Speaker 3: Mayor Craig gray Bird right now, Hello, Mayor, how are you?
Speaker 6: I'm doing real well. I thought, you know, there's a
Speaker 6: new Jerry Springer documentary on Netflix, and I thought with
Speaker 6: that lead in intro, I thought maybe I had my
Speaker 6: dialogue wrong. It was Jerry Springer shower.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's crazy. I can't wait to watch that.
Speaker 3: The de evolution of television. All right, so let's give
Speaker 3: you a round applause for the streets and I know
Speaker 3: you're going to pass that credit along, but we've all
Speaker 3: lived in this town, our entire lives fifty five years
Speaker 3: and it's gotten better every year. But you know what,
Speaker 3: this was a home run. The roads being cleared was
Speaker 3: a was an absolute Super Bowl win. Congratulations.
Speaker 6: Well thanks, I hope when you know, not totally in
Speaker 6: the clear yet. We've got snow that's just started to fall.
Speaker 6: I'm actually driving around the city right now and it
Speaker 6: is starting to come down. I'm hopeful that it stays
Speaker 6: like this throughout the day, so even if it keeps snowing,
Speaker 6: it doesn't impact our coades. But our teams have done
Speaker 6: a tremendous job and we're going to keep at it.
Speaker 6: And look, we're not perfect. There's still some areas we
Speaker 6: know we have to improve on. We know there are
Speaker 6: still some neighborhoods that are not on snow routes that
Speaker 6: want their plows, and we're going to look at that
Speaker 6: before the next stormst is that if we can expand
Speaker 6: the routes that we have. But I like you guys,
Speaker 6: I'm pleased with the work our crews have done and
Speaker 6: we're going to stay at it as long as we
Speaker 6: need to.
Speaker 2: I want to piggyback what Tony just said, because I
Speaker 2: think you all did a quite incredible job cleaning these roads,
Speaker 2: because I've been through a lot of snowstorms in louisvill Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and then when I came in, the roads were indeed clear.
Speaker 2: Same with Jaytown Public Works, by the way, but you
Speaker 2: also worked city Hall and Mary Craig Greenberg, you worked
Speaker 2: in concert with other companies like LG and E to
Speaker 2: make you pre get you pre worked out what's going
Speaker 2: to happen with the power outages. And if you ask me,
Speaker 2: by working in concert together, that was quite helpful too,
Speaker 2: because the power outages they weren't that long.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we that was very very helpful. I mean, part
Speaker 6: of it was mother Nature. That was the only area
Speaker 6: of cooperation she had this week. Was didn't give us
Speaker 6: as much freezing ice on Sunday and Monday as might
Speaker 6: have been projected. But LG and HE has been making
Speaker 6: a lot of upgrades to their equipment to be able
Speaker 6: to take more ice if and when that happened. So
Speaker 6: that was helpful. And just you know, they had crews
Speaker 6: ready on standby for when that happened. And so we
Speaker 6: were very fortunate. Yesterday we had in the vent out
Speaker 6: by the Waterston Expressway with a downpower line that did
Speaker 6: result in the Waterston being closed. They could get that fixed,
Speaker 6: but otherwise there were no major power issues at scale,
Speaker 6: So we are fortunate on that front.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to ask you to throw another mayor
Speaker 7: under the bus. We're not going to have wildfires here
Speaker 7: in Louisville in all likelihood.
Speaker 1: But as you watch it, I'm not.
Speaker 7: But as you watch what's unfolding, as a mayor, what
Speaker 7: do you think of the situation?
Speaker 6: You know, dealing with this is everyone. You might talk
Speaker 6: about this or that throughout the year, but at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, what people are looking for from
Speaker 6: their city government is for the basic service is to
Speaker 6: be delivered and delivered well, whether that's your trash pickup,
Speaker 6: whether that's filling potholes or when there are challenging times
Speaker 6: like snow to clear the roads. And so we try
Speaker 6: to stay focused on that every day. There's a lot
Speaker 6: of other huge plans we have for twenty twenty five
Speaker 6: and beyond for the city that are going to make
Speaker 6: it safer, that are going to make it stronger, that
Speaker 6: are going to make it healthier, we stay focused on that,
Speaker 6: and we got a lot of people working on that
Speaker 6: even during the snow. But we've got to deliver on
Speaker 6: the basic services like snow and so you know, that's
Speaker 6: why we spend so much time on that and leading
Speaker 6: up to When you know something like this is coming,
Speaker 6: you got to go all in. And that's why I'm
Speaker 6: so thrilled to have great deputy mayors, to have great
Speaker 6: directors of Public Works and other departments and emergency services
Speaker 6: and LMPD, and it just really helps them have a
Speaker 6: whole team of people. But I'm a hands on type
Speaker 6: of person, ask a lot of questions. I don't profess
Speaker 6: to be an expert, but I think when you ask
Speaker 6: a lot of questions, you learn a lot and you
Speaker 6: can get better results.
Speaker 3: Greenberger is on with us. We will have a snow
Speaker 3: event that will start here if it hasn't already three
Speaker 3: to five inches. And it's funny because we all after
Speaker 3: this last event normally three to five inches, we all
Speaker 3: be freaking out right now, but since it's last weekend,
Speaker 3: we're like, it's only three to five, so let's talk LMPD.
Speaker 3: The I saw coach coach, I saw Chief Humphreys. I
Speaker 3: saw Chief right, But he had a great answer for
Speaker 3: a good question, which was the new MPD cadet class
Speaker 3: graduating nine members to the force. And they said, why
Speaker 3: isn't that number higher? The normal class is forty eight,
Speaker 3: I think is a full class, and he said, because
Speaker 3: we're not just taking anybody, We're going to take the
Speaker 3: quality police officers and put them on the street. I
Speaker 3: thought that was a fantastic answer your thoughts.
Speaker 6: I totally agree with Chief Humphrey. That's actually on my
Speaker 6: way right now to be with them at their graduation
Speaker 6: here shortly. And we've got to we've got to get
Speaker 6: more police officers. But we want the right people. We
Speaker 6: want qualified people. We want people from all walks of life,
Speaker 6: from all all parts of the city, lots of different backgrounds,
Speaker 6: you know, but we have high standards. And I think
Speaker 6: that's right. I think that's what Chief I'm free wants,
Speaker 6: It's what I want, and it's what the community wants.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna keep going. We we do have more
Speaker 6: people that are applying, and so that's on an uptick.
Speaker 6: That's a positive first step, and I'm excited about the
Speaker 6: future of LMPD given the leadership that we have you know,
Speaker 6: I don't know if you saw it. You know, they
Speaker 6: continue to work. There might be ten inches of snow
Speaker 6: on the ground, but they're still responding. And whether it's them,
Speaker 6: the firefighters of the EMS, nobody slowed down this week.
Speaker 6: They kept working. There's even you know, we had a
Speaker 6: couple of really dangerous situations earlier in the week where
Speaker 6: that guy who shot an Indiana State Police officer came
Speaker 6: to Louisville, and our guys handled that situation. You know,
Speaker 6: it ended in a h in his desk after he
Speaker 6: shot at our officers. But that happened in the snow.
Speaker 6: There were some other really challenging situations, and then they're
Speaker 6: still at it, rain, snow, steed as hell.
Speaker 2: I want to bring up another organization and I've got
Speaker 2: a question for you. Mark Greg Craig Greenberg is our guest.
Speaker 2: I also want to say that, hey, some of these
Speaker 2: Metro Safe men and women, they actually spent the night
Speaker 2: at LOUISVI Metro Safe on air mattresses just so they
Speaker 2: could be there to answer the nine to one one calls.
Speaker 2: So I want to give a shout out to them.
Speaker 2: But I also want to ask you about this and
Speaker 2: if you can comment. Do if you can't comment, I
Speaker 2: will understand. Uh, there is a there was a little
Speaker 2: of a business, a food hall that got in Well,
Speaker 2: they've got a violation and a h for taking in
Speaker 2: homeless because they'd have the right permits and evidently they
Speaker 2: are going to be cited. Is there any way that
Speaker 2: that can be dropped or can you.
Speaker 6: Come here's the here's the issue that we're that we're
Speaker 6: dealing with there. We want to support everyone who wants
Speaker 6: to help others. And if you've heard me all week,
Speaker 6: I've been encouraging neighbors to help neighbors. We have funded
Speaker 6: various warming centers, our libraries and community centers owt but
Speaker 6: neighborhood place. We've even funded other nonprofit organizations to be
Speaker 6: day shelters to be placed to help people come in
Speaker 6: from the cold. The challenge that we have is if
Speaker 6: people want to help others, just reach out to the
Speaker 6: city and let us help you. In the past, we've
Speaker 6: had some really negative experiences in the city where people
Speaker 6: brought people together and it turned into a brothel. Buyers
Speaker 6: broke out like there is the risk of dangerous situations
Speaker 6: if you're just improvising on the fly, and so we
Speaker 6: want to help neighbors. Help neighbors, just reach out and
Speaker 6: call and will help you do it the right way.
Speaker 2: Do you know if that business is going to be
Speaker 2: fined for that or.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm aware of the citation, I'm aware
Speaker 6: of the case. I don't know exactly where it is
Speaker 6: or what's going to happen. I'm going to follow up
Speaker 6: on thatch. But my request to everybody is is that's
Speaker 6: great to help other people. Reach out and let us
Speaker 6: help you do it the right way, just as we
Speaker 6: have with great nonprofit partners. We've got two great partners
Speaker 6: in the southwestern part of the city that are operating
Speaker 6: day shelters to help people come in from the coal
Speaker 6: to help provide support. That's you know, we want a
Speaker 6: fund and support and I'm guess I'm doing it the
Speaker 6: right life.
Speaker 2: And I'm guessing right now we are in a white
Speaker 2: flag situation.
Speaker 6: Right now, we are and we will stay at least
Speaker 6: through Tuesday. We'll see what the weather does then, but
Speaker 6: right now we're planning to stay at white flag operation
Speaker 6: at least through Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: With fire departments in the news, let's take a look
Speaker 7: at ours. I've seen stories about infrastructure challenges and outdated equipment.
Speaker 1: They want money. Do we have it for them? What's
Speaker 1: the status there.
Speaker 6: We're going to keep working to get it. You know,
Speaker 6: some of the challenges that we're dealing with as a
Speaker 6: city are the result of lack of decisions that were
Speaker 6: made for the last twenty years, and so it's really
Speaker 6: tough to catch up in just a couple of years.
Speaker 6: But I was thrilled this year we had a sixteen
Speaker 6: and a half million dollar budget surplus. The vast majority
Speaker 6: went of had to improve public safety, including by five
Speaker 6: or six million dollars that went to provide more fire
Speaker 6: equipment and to improve fire houses. There are a couple
Speaker 6: of firehouses that we need to totally redo. Most of
Speaker 6: them need work. If they don't need to be redone,
Speaker 6: but they need work. And so as long as I'm mayor,
Speaker 6: I'm going to continue to support capital investments in improving
Speaker 6: the quality of our fire houses and to make sure
Speaker 6: we have better fire trucks and apparatus, just like with
Speaker 6: snow trucks. You know we're behind on we need some
Speaker 6: more plows and things like that, and we're going to
Speaker 6: keep buying them all.
Speaker 3: Right, last question, and you can get to these new
Speaker 3: cadets and I can't wait to meet all these guys.
Speaker 3: And I hope you bring all of them over here
Speaker 3: like the last class. I think they came over here
Speaker 3: week and they said, look, ask the news guys questions
Speaker 3: and you know how to not step in it and
Speaker 3: all that. We'd love for that to have.
Speaker 6: All right, I love it.
Speaker 2: Let's do that, absolutely that okay, yea. And I offered
Speaker 2: to give them physicals, but that was frowned upon. So
Speaker 2: I will ask you this.
Speaker 3: So I'll ask you this, and it's give me a
Speaker 3: short answer or a long answer either way. What do
Speaker 3: you think you need to work on this year as
Speaker 3: mayor as you like. I don't talk about a department
Speaker 3: or people that work under you, is what is Craig
Speaker 3: Greenberg do need to do better than he did in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: Well, there are a few things that I've committed to
Speaker 6: myself over the holidays that I'm going to do a
Speaker 6: better job. And I think I've already started this year.
Speaker 6: Is I'm going to provide even more real time, direct
Speaker 6: feedback and communication with the folks that I work with,
Speaker 6: not going to let things risk lingering. I'm going to
Speaker 6: be very clear, and I think honest, open communication, even
Speaker 6: if it might, you know, be a challenging conversation, is
Speaker 6: important and so I've been doing that, but I'm going
Speaker 6: to commit to do even better, particularly with the people
Speaker 6: that I work with at that because I think that's
Speaker 6: that's doing a favor to the end of your colleague.
Speaker 6: It's also important to get the results that I know
Speaker 6: everyone in the city is expecting. And there there is
Speaker 6: no time to waste. I've got two years left on
Speaker 6: my first term. I'm not going to waste a day
Speaker 6: or a minute, and we have high expectations, and I
Speaker 6: have high expectations of myself and everyone that's on our team.
Speaker 2: It's look, you were handed a blank show when you
Speaker 2: took over office. But if you ask me, you're doing
Speaker 2: a damn good job and you're not going to turn
Speaker 2: it around overnight. But Greig Greenberg was our guest. Thank you, mister, Mary,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Get those guys and gals on the street, buddy, we'll
Speaker 3: see you.
Speaker 6: But maybe the time and then we'll get into the studio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe next time. You bring Rachel on.
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