Speaker 1: It's at five here at News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: it is Kentucky Anda's morning news, and as John Shannon said,
Speaker 1: my name is Nick Coffee. First day on the job,
Speaker 1: not in radio, that would be wild right. Yeah, you're hired.
Speaker 1: You've never done this before, Go ahead and take the
Speaker 1: seat that only four have had in what one hundred
Speaker 1: plus years, seemingly. So I'm grateful to be here. Three
Speaker 1: hours have gone by, what my really really fast, and
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. Hopefully you guys have as well.
Speaker 1: I'm well aware that Tony Cruz was somebody that you
Speaker 1: you get. I mean, I can't speak highly about Tony
Speaker 1: more than I already have, but like he became a
Speaker 1: part of your day, felt like he was your He
Speaker 1: was somebody that was included in your morning routine for many,
Speaker 1: many years. So it is sad that he's retired. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be myself and not be Tony, because we
Speaker 1: would all be Tony Cruz if we could, but we can.
Speaker 1: It's it's not realistic. So I'm gonna try my best
Speaker 1: to give you guys what you can, what you have
Speaker 1: continued to get for decades generations. That's news traffic weather,
Speaker 1: conversations with people that you've heard, influential people of course,
Speaker 1: that you know have an impact on our community. Those
Speaker 1: kind of things are still going to be here, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to put my own flavor on it and
Speaker 1: have some fun. But as I've mentioned throughout the morning,
Speaker 1: and I've certainly said this more so when we start
Speaker 1: each hour, that I just I'm so happy that this
Speaker 1: has worked out and that I'm joining such a great team.
Speaker 1: And I think you always have in radio if it's
Speaker 1: something that you're interested in, even maybe not even working
Speaker 1: in it, like like we do. I mean, you know
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Speaker 1: It's been around for so long. There's such great history
Speaker 1: and in working even in this market for our heart media.
Speaker 1: I was well aware of what eight forty Whas is,
Speaker 1: but now that this has come together in the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, it really has set in just kind of
Speaker 1: what this opportunity is. So I'm appreciative of it. I'm
Speaker 1: going to make the most of it. I know there's
Speaker 1: many that are still here and many that have worked
Speaker 1: here long before I was around. Maybe they've retired, maybe
Speaker 1: they've moved on doing something else, whatever it may be
Speaker 1: a lot of people I've worked with that no longer
Speaker 1: are here, but everybody that has been a part of
Speaker 1: making this what it is, I'm going to try my
Speaker 1: best to not screw that up, and I mean that sincerely.
Speaker 1: Because there's a brand, there's a standard with news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas that's just different than anything, and to
Speaker 1: be able to be a part of it is something
Speaker 1: I'm really appreciative of. And I'm joining a great team
Speaker 1: as it is here in the morning with Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: John Olden and John Shannon, and of course are our
Speaker 1: lineup people that you know, you're well aware of. You
Speaker 1: may be listening, who the hell's this guy? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you know who Tony Bennetti is, and you know
Speaker 1: who Dwight Whitten, you know who that is. You know
Speaker 1: Terry Miners is. So I'm really happy to be here
Speaker 1: and just can't can't thank everybody enough who's reached out
Speaker 1: to share that they're happy for me. And even if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that's like, yeah, I don't know, man, and
Speaker 1: nobody's been mean or anything, but I just want to
Speaker 1: let people know I'm aware that this is going to
Speaker 1: be a different thing than what we've had here in
Speaker 1: the mornings for more than twenty years. And that may
Speaker 1: take a little bit of a little bit of time
Speaker 1: for people to get to get used to it. I
Speaker 1: said this earlier, and it's just a poor attempted humor
Speaker 1: on my part. But give it a chance. If you
Speaker 1: don't like it, come back tomorrow. We'll try again. And
Speaker 1: if you give it a few weeks and you still
Speaker 1: don't like it, it's probably a you thing, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: is that the good way to look at it?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 1: I mean, you nailed it, Nick.
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at a city and a community
Speaker 3: that has enjoyed I think the boss through the statatus
Speaker 3: three morning show hosts in the last fifty five years.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty outstanding number. And you look at that
Speaker 3: and look at the shoes that you've stepped into. It's
Speaker 3: just fine, man. I mean, you're no stranger of this business.
Speaker 3: You know what you're doing, and you're right.
Speaker 1: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Important in life that we all run our own race.
Speaker 3: You know, like you said, if we were all the same,
Speaker 3: where would the growth be in life? And you know,
Speaker 3: people and events happen in our lives for a reason
Speaker 3: and bring us together with people we never saw coming.
Speaker 3: This doesn't just apply to hear, but it applies to
Speaker 3: life in general. There's people going to work today, They're
Speaker 3: going to meet new people at work this week, the
Speaker 3: next two weeks, next month that will have an impact
Speaker 3: on their lives. And just like Nick, it brought you,
Speaker 3: John and I together through a worse of series events.
Speaker 3: You at seven ninety John working his way in me
Speaker 3: doing my thing. It happens, and Vinetti will tell you
Speaker 3: he and Dwight didn't exactly know each other when they
Speaker 3: got together, but courses throughout life brought them together and
Speaker 3: now they're enjoying success in the mid days here as Terry,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the same thing happened with him. And
Speaker 3: as we learned last week that all the people who
Speaker 3: came in to say goodbye to Tony all had a
Speaker 3: connectivity with him in one way or another. So this
Speaker 3: happens in life in general. And what you bring to
Speaker 3: the table is great. We love I mean it's We've
Speaker 3: heard from folks that Kentucky Truck Pett loves you. This
Speaker 3: morning they're out listening to you. We've heard from folks
Speaker 3: that love what you do.
Speaker 1: And you, guys will you guys will learn. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not against compliments. I mean, I know I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not an anti compliment guy.
Speaker 3: So as long as you released the video again your
Speaker 3: vibe check. You did it Louder than Life this year.
Speaker 1: I was worried about love it. I was kind of
Speaker 1: worried that if they saw, but then maybe they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have put me in this position. I mean, it was fun,
Speaker 1: but you know it was it was something.
Speaker 3: Did you ever get scared doing that?
Speaker 1: No, John can tell you. We were only there like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and it was early in the days too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for those who don't know, I used to do
Speaker 1: a social media video series called Bob Check, where I
Speaker 1: would go to mostly sporting events, but then we started
Speaker 1: doing some other other you know, at the State Fair
Speaker 1: and at the Louder than Life music festival, and the
Speaker 1: one that got the most attention just because of what
Speaker 1: it was was the Louder than Life and the doors
Speaker 1: had just opened. It was the first day of the event.
Speaker 1: It really wasn't that crowded compared to what it became
Speaker 1: later on that day and of course the next two
Speaker 1: days to come. But it was also there were people
Speaker 1: you know, dressed up in cosplay. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: a lot to see there and if you haven't checked
Speaker 1: it out, I'll retweet it if you want to follow
Speaker 1: me on x at the card Connect. But I mean
Speaker 1: it was the easiest day of getting content. It took
Speaker 1: the least amount of time because everybody was just like
Speaker 1: you know, when you dress up and cosplay to come
Speaker 1: to an event, you might expect somebody to say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you talk to me about I mean, it's almost
Speaker 1: like you you're wanting to kind of, you know, express
Speaker 1: yourself in a way. But yes, it's good. The vib
Speaker 1: check was a lot of fun. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was something. It's good. Thank you, Thank you for
Speaker 1: the convert Scot. I really to appreciate it. All Right,
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Speaker 1: Monday morning on News Radio eight forty whas. It is
Speaker 1: eight sixteen here at Kentucky and it's morning News News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you. In a
Speaker 1: couple of stories that you've heard this morning from John Shannon.
Speaker 1: One is the recent ban of selling THHC beverages and
Speaker 1: I was aware that these were a thing, but I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought much about those being ordered at restaurants and bars.
Speaker 1: But again, it doesn't necessarily surprise me, but the decision
Speaker 1: to no longer allow those to be sold has been
Speaker 1: one that obviously those who are in that industry are
Speaker 1: not real happy with, and I understand that certainly, But
Speaker 1: what I you know, when you think of a product
Speaker 1: that you're it's still it's new, right, It's not something
Speaker 1: that you typically would think about, Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to the bar and instead of ordering a pitcher
Speaker 1: of beer for me and the fellas or maybe you know,
Speaker 1: around a round of cocktails, I'm gonna get a a
Speaker 1: THHC beverage. I mean, it's just new, so so out
Speaker 1: of sight, kind of out of mind thing. But I
Speaker 1: will say the music festivals, like, I can see those
Speaker 1: being really popular there and apparently that there's folks that
Speaker 1: that really they enjoy those kind of drinks where they
Speaker 1: can purchase them at a place, But it's not when
Speaker 1: they go and sit down at dinner, right, It's not
Speaker 1: when they're you know, they're not replacing three beers with
Speaker 1: three THHC beverages, which again as I talked about earlier.
Speaker 1: You really don't know how you would how you would
Speaker 1: would It's a different intoxican, right, like drinking a few
Speaker 1: beers and drinking if you drink those drinks, is if
Speaker 1: you're drinking a standard alcoholic beverage that you know your limit,
Speaker 1: you know what it does to you. I mean, it
Speaker 1: would be a little bit alarming. So I certainly see
Speaker 1: both sides of it. But this past weekend was essentially
Speaker 1: the last call for a lot of those places that
Speaker 1: had probably seen a real surge. More than anything, just
Speaker 1: because it's new, people are giving it a shot, like, hey,
Speaker 1: these are let's see what let's let's see if we
Speaker 1: like these And it seems as if clearly they were.
Speaker 1: They were pretty pretty popular, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: And from my talking with folks in the bourbon industry,
Speaker 3: they had addressed concerns. They haven't publicly gone on the record,
Speaker 3: but I can tell you from those that I've talked
Speaker 3: to that they just simply wanted fair regulation when it
Speaker 3: came to the THHC industry and the taxation, et cetera.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if this had something to do with
Speaker 3: it as well, because they clearly saw something with the
Speaker 3: THHC folks, You're not gonna worry about it unless you
Speaker 3: I want to say they I don't want to say
Speaker 3: they saw it as a threat, but they certainly had
Speaker 3: it on their radar and wanted the playing field levels
Speaker 3: at very least.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's competitive, just like any industry that's very boot
Speaker 1: I mean, it's competitive as can be, so make it
Speaker 1: makes total sense. Another another story that's been discussed this
Speaker 1: morning is what took place in the Highlands on Bargtown
Speaker 1: Road over the weekend. I suppose this is now back
Speaker 1: to back weekends where you've had that type of situation,
Speaker 1: people in the street, jumping on cars, holding up traffic.
Speaker 1: And the coverage has had comments from some folks that
Speaker 1: are in the community, whether they're just maybe they're they're councilmen,
Speaker 1: or maybe they're just neighbors that live there and are
Speaker 1: commenting on sort of what what has happened. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to act as if one of the people
Speaker 1: that lives near the area where this took place speaks
Speaker 1: for anybody but themselves. But I don't know if people
Speaker 1: realize that in Louisville, bars stay open a lot later
Speaker 1: here than I want to say, a lot of places,
Speaker 1: but that would be me, I would be I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the case. I just know that there's
Speaker 1: certain cities that are Nashville, for example, unless it's changed.
Speaker 1: I mean, Nashville nightlife is one of the most popular
Speaker 1: things in the world right now. I mean it's huge.
Speaker 1: Broadway is not now what it was even five six
Speaker 1: years ago. And I remember when we would go to
Speaker 1: Nashville back when I was much younger, in my twenties,
Speaker 1: and we mentioned we were from Louisville, they would act
Speaker 1: as if they were envious that we had the ability
Speaker 1: to stay out really, really late. And I guess every
Speaker 1: situation is different. But if you have an extended hours life,
Speaker 1: you can stay open until four am and serve drinks,
Speaker 1: and you know, at other cities it's one o'clock or
Speaker 1: two thirty. And I'm sure that does lead to needing
Speaker 1: to be more prepared for people being out that late.
Speaker 1: And if they're out that late, there's a good chance
Speaker 1: they've probably had a few drinks or maybe a lot
Speaker 1: more than that. So yeah, but the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: I know, not something that you typically see in the Highlands.
Speaker 3: So yeah, i'd say, and that area seems to be prone.
Speaker 3: Whether we remember we had the shootings outside of Chaise
Speaker 3: there then of course you had Baxters.
Speaker 1: It's that one stretch of Bardstown.
Speaker 3: Road that seems to be prone to all the controversies.
Speaker 3: So hopefully they get that's squared away.
Speaker 1: Yep, there's no doubt about it. All right, we've got
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Speaker 1: news radio eight forty whas. It is eight thirty five
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky, and it's morning news news radio waight
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick coffee with you and look with the
Speaker 1: cat drug in it is mister Tony Venetti. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Kiss goodbye for Tony Cruz is finally over the long kiss.
Speaker 1: We love you.
Speaker 4: Tony good Way put it. It was a long kiss goodbye.
Speaker 1: I said this earlier. I don't know if you were listening.
Speaker 1: If he just peeked his head right there around the
Speaker 1: window and was right there as we speak, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked, right, No, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I you know, County Calhoun left and when I talked
Speaker 4: to him, he was like, I don't I haven't turned
Speaker 4: the radio on.
Speaker 1: I never thought about you again. No, you had to
Speaker 1: reintroduce yourself, didn't you Exactly, Yeah, it's Katie Calhoun. He
Speaker 1: meets a lot of people's so I don't want to
Speaker 1: be accused of being the guy that is trying to
Speaker 1: turn this into just a big sports choke. So don't
Speaker 1: consider this sports relative. But Scotty Scheffler, he's a very
Speaker 1: successful golfer, but he's also a family man. He's a father,
Speaker 1: and I feel like he never seemed more relatable than yesterday.
Speaker 1: His job is different than most of ours, but his
Speaker 1: job is to play golf and he's very good at it.
Speaker 1: One yesterday made a lot of money. And as soon
Speaker 1: as he gets off work, there's his wife. As soon
Speaker 1: as he clocks out, she hands him the baby bingo
Speaker 1: who had a blowout. And if you don't know what
Speaker 1: a blowout is up the back, poopy diaper, up the back,
Speaker 1: and he is onto the ones. He's celebrating like his
Speaker 1: third tournament win in the last couple of months, it seems,
Speaker 1: and and he's got you know, it made me feel
Speaker 1: like so even the successful golfers, even in that moment
Speaker 1: when they get done with work, it's time.
Speaker 4: That's tell that's an appropriate conversation. Because Father's Day is
Speaker 4: coming up, and no matter what you're doing it, when
Speaker 4: it's baby duty, you get it. And duty is the
Speaker 4: perfect word for that one, because the baby had duty.
Speaker 4: And sometimes it's not solid.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time. I remember the first times
Speaker 1: it happened to me. I was thinking, Okay, well, this
Speaker 1: is just another wet diaper, it's fine, and then I
Speaker 1: realized what a second, that's not That's not what I
Speaker 1: thought it was. And then yeah, and then the first
Speaker 1: one's a real well to get too graphic, but the
Speaker 1: first time you change a poopy diaper as a parent,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an experience. But then you realize, okay, this,
Speaker 1: this is this is now my responsibility. I helped bring
Speaker 1: this human into the world, and now you know it's
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 4: And sometimes you question, how can a fifteen or fifteen
Speaker 4: pounds baby produce so much? Yeah, I'm not producing that
Speaker 4: much healthy think somebody's like tricking you. There's no way
Speaker 4: this came from from an infant. With Scotty Scheffler, he
Speaker 4: is so likable and as mentioned, seemingly relatable. That has
Speaker 4: to people want to see this guy succeed. They like him,
Speaker 4: and he's got he's got a little bit of charmed
Speaker 4: to him to where you're like, well, who who wouldn't
Speaker 4: like this guy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, those jerks at LMPD, so like, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a while before we can live that
Speaker 1: down right. They love Scotty and they're like, who would
Speaker 1: like him? And then they just don't think about us.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, Nationally reputation wise, the vision of LMPD is
Speaker 4: not very good. And that didn't add to it for sure.
Speaker 4: But I was going to ask you in the break
Speaker 4: about whether I should see because you come from the
Speaker 4: seven ninety and you would know this because you covered him.
Speaker 4: To me, an important story today is a lot of
Speaker 4: people were questioning whether Dan McDonald is worth the money
Speaker 4: he has been being paid and his batting coach getting
Speaker 4: paid more than some SEC coaches. And I don't know
Speaker 4: what the total salary of the baseball team is, but
Speaker 4: I think it's well over two three million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's been that way since time was so well. I
Speaker 1: don't mean the exact number, I just mean there's been
Speaker 1: an investment as far as Dan's salary. It's his pitching
Speaker 1: coach that has been here a long time pitching this
Speaker 1: was a weird year. They were one of the coldest
Speaker 1: teams in baseball going into the postseason, and just because
Speaker 1: of how spoiled we were early, the standard that was set,
Speaker 1: they had dropped quite a bit in recent years. For
Speaker 1: them to now be two wins away from getting back
Speaker 1: to the College World Series, it's huge. Is big for
Speaker 1: da McDonald's redemption. Yes, and they needed it. Yes, you're
Speaker 1: talking about I mean really since COVID. I mean they
Speaker 1: went to the College Wood Series in nineteen and then
Speaker 1: after that they had one season that was solid, but
Speaker 1: it ended in losing in the Super Regionals. So I
Speaker 1: mean it's unheard of to see I mean, to start
Speaker 1: to his career was phenomenal and you would know better
Speaker 1: than I. Oh, there were baseball coaches here before and
Speaker 1: there was some level of success, but him in his
Speaker 1: first year making the College World Series, and that was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Il because he had his best And again it is
Speaker 4: a redemption tour. And again, sorry the sports guy and
Speaker 4: me is going to point.
Speaker 1: Towards it's a questions the question for the sports.
Speaker 4: Guy, the sports guy that says, hey, is he worth
Speaker 4: the salary? I mean, that's where that's the take that's
Speaker 4: where you go to. And I've been asking that question
Speaker 4: and has he because you're gonna have great coaches, and
Speaker 4: by the way, not all good things happen to great people.
Speaker 4: Like he's a he's like, he's a phenomenal human being.
Speaker 4: But we're talking baseball, So can he can he translate,
Speaker 4: you know, translate to the nil, which is what's probably
Speaker 4: hurt him the last three or four years because I
Speaker 4: don't know how much U of L is going to
Speaker 4: spend on baseball versus basketball and football, and we don't
Speaker 4: have that endless paycheck here would be, you know, with.
Speaker 1: Dan McDonald and I'm not speaking for him at all,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking. He has turned down jobs in the
Speaker 1: SEC before, and that's a great, great job. I mean,
Speaker 1: most of those jobs are really good jobs. It's the
Speaker 1: SEC and baseball. And he's turned him down because clearly,
Speaker 1: I think he realizes I've already got a program. That's
Speaker 1: just I mean, they've been right there in the college world,
Speaker 1: serve as many times. If you can get there consistently,
Speaker 1: you think, well, why would I need another job? But
Speaker 1: now money that places like Mississippi State and Ole miss
Speaker 1: that they have money that could help you with nil
Speaker 1: that may not be quite.
Speaker 4: As packed and they talk about you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wondered again, it wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 1: if maybe one day he thought that he didn't get
Speaker 1: out when he could not because he hated it here,
Speaker 1: but because you know, he'd done a lot. But now
Speaker 1: he's here and this was neat. Did you mentioned redemption?
Speaker 1: That's what it is. And to know that they're two
Speaker 1: wins away from getting back to Omaha after a really
Speaker 1: rough finish to the season is it's good to see.
Speaker 1: So tonight it'll be Miami and Southern Miss playing and
Speaker 1: the winner of that will move on if it's Miami,
Speaker 1: if Miami comes here. If that's the case that it's
Speaker 1: Southern Miss, then they'll be heading to Hattiesburg. Huh have
Speaker 1: you ever been there? Didn't think? So, what's there? I
Speaker 1: might have? I don't know.
Speaker 4: The nineties were kind of a blurb.
Speaker 1: You've probably been a lot of places you didn't remember, right, Oh, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I missed that. ERA missed out on that. I missed
Speaker 1: out on that version of Tony Venetti. We got another
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Speaker 1: Radio eight forty US. It's a forty five this morning
Speaker 1: at Kentucky Anda's morning news news Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: got a few more minutes left with you before we
Speaker 1: hand it off to mister Tony Venetti and Dwight Whitten.
Speaker 1: He's a mister too. I'll give him a proper greeting
Speaker 1: as well. But Tony, Dwight coming your way here shortly.
Speaker 1: And I think people here locally realize how big of
Speaker 1: a story the whole Crystal Rogers murder is disappearance slash murder,
Speaker 1: and it's been such a big story around here for
Speaker 1: such a long time that maybe it just has become
Speaker 1: something you're used to. But I don't know if people
Speaker 1: realize how big this thing has been followed nationally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, true crime is the most popular genre in
Speaker 1: anything right now, podcast documentary coverage of it. And this man,
Speaker 1: this entire thing has so many layers to it, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it again. Maybe it's because it's not
Speaker 1: the actual boyfriend who has allegedly been, you know, been
Speaker 1: accused of having a huge role in the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But there was somebody that was found guilty on all
Speaker 1: charges in connection. That was Steve Lawson, and over weekend
Speaker 1: he was charged with it looks like, yeah, a conspiracy
Speaker 1: to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence. Recommended sentencing
Speaker 1: is seventeen years for that type of offense. But this
Speaker 1: is going to I mean this, we will have eyeballs
Speaker 1: on this area Bargetown, Kentucky specifically. I know the trial
Speaker 1: here took place in Warren County, but this, I feel
Speaker 1: like down the line, this will go down as one
Speaker 1: of the most one of the coverage of one of
Speaker 1: the biggest crime murders whatever you want to call it
Speaker 1: in Kentucky history. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but for ten
Speaker 1: years now this has been a national story.
Speaker 4: Especially because there's no body, and there's been like, there's
Speaker 4: no dead body dies, right, She's obviously say obviously she's dead, right,
Speaker 4: I mean there's no body though, so that adds to
Speaker 4: the what happened to her? And when you add to
Speaker 4: the what happened to her, that's the whole sort of
Speaker 4: hook for people.
Speaker 1: And it has been when everybody thinks they know what
Speaker 1: happened to her, but they But it's going to be
Speaker 1: tougher in Core because again, as you mentioned, there's no body,
Speaker 1: and and.
Speaker 4: They and look and they should follow every lead and
Speaker 4: get to the bottom of it. But it has cost
Speaker 4: a lot of money also, from the local to the
Speaker 4: state to the federal level. There's been a lot of
Speaker 4: money spent here. I'm glad that we're getting some sort
Speaker 4: of somewhere and getting some convictions and getting this cleared
Speaker 4: up of this poor girl. Again, nobody in this poor
Speaker 4: girl's family trying to get answers and they don't still
Speaker 4: have any, which is horrible to go to bed at
Speaker 4: night thinking, because a lot of times people with missing
Speaker 4: family members they just want to know what happened to
Speaker 4: them so they can just have some peace that they're
Speaker 4: not going to be walking up the driveway or whatever.
Speaker 4: But answers are good.
Speaker 1: I can't relate it all, and I would never want
Speaker 1: to have to, but I would just the not knowing
Speaker 1: would be the worst part. But Steve Lawson is the
Speaker 1: one who was he police officer, no, he was making
Speaker 1: He made a phone call with Brooks Howk by phone
Speaker 1: the night after she disappeared, and he was indicted on
Speaker 1: those charges of criminal conspiracies, commit murder and tampering physical evidence.
Speaker 1: And again he was just found he was found guilty
Speaker 1: of that. But I mean, if you if you really
Speaker 1: look mean, I think that this story is there's so
Speaker 1: many more people that will end up being charged and
Speaker 1: go through their trial, and I just think the coverage
Speaker 1: is going to be even bigger when it comes down
Speaker 1: to others because this person, I mean, that's just the
Speaker 1: name you throw out there. A lot of people probably
Speaker 1: don't even know who it is, meaning Steve loss In,
Speaker 1: the person that just got just got just put it,
Speaker 1: just was charged and it's going to be sentenced. But man,
Speaker 1: I mean, Bargtown's such a nice small town and always
Speaker 1: been viewed as like one of the best beautiful and
Speaker 1: one of the best small towns in America. And now
Speaker 1: this along with the officer who was the officer who
Speaker 1: was killed.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jonny fer News have something what you got?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The the Crystal Rogers thing is is part of
Speaker 2: a whole group of mysterious deaths.
Speaker 4: Older podcast one of the Wave three. They did like
Speaker 4: a whole podcast series and they and I mean that
Speaker 4: thing had a ton of listen.
Speaker 1: There are three different networks as far as television that
Speaker 1: have done different either an episode or they've done in
Speaker 1: their own little mini series on this, and I mean
Speaker 1: Oxygen did something, uh, I think it's the investing Discovery
Speaker 1: channel has done something. I mean, this is again true
Speaker 1: crime is such a monster when it comes to just
Speaker 1: reach an interest in this case has so many layers.
Speaker 4: So they got ambushed. Jason Ellen's not a lleged ambush.
Speaker 4: It wasn't ambus.
Speaker 2: He was ambushed on his way home from his shift
Speaker 2: as he got off on an exit. Somebody had put
Speaker 2: some branches across the road. He got out to move them,
Speaker 2: got out of his cruiser to move them, and was
Speaker 2: shot from a perch above with a shotgun. In fact,
Speaker 2: the Bargetown exit. What that happened is marked. Now then
Speaker 2: you've got the oldest trick in the book.
Speaker 1: Is that not like you? Right?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean the.
Speaker 2: Officer you were talking about that's gotten in trouble with
Speaker 2: all this too, is Brooks how Christal Rodgbrook's boyfriend, his brother.
Speaker 1: Nick, who he's the longer law enforcement right, No.
Speaker 2: He's not, in fact, friend of the show and longtime
Speaker 2: listener to all to you guys sitting in here. Rick McCubbin,
Speaker 2: the former chief of PLASE, fired him because he was
Speaker 2: interfering in the interrogation with his brother.
Speaker 1: I watched the Oxygen coverage of it, and they show
Speaker 1: the conversations that they were having with House's brother and
Speaker 1: it I mean.
Speaker 2: Their their their grandmother, Their grandmother is involved too, and
Speaker 2: their mother. Their mother was busted during grand jury hearings
Speaker 2: before it is recording.
Speaker 4: This is just a boyfriend alleged boyfriend thing. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 2: Really, she was going to leave him and take their son.
Speaker 2: They have a son together that Sherry Ballard's tried her
Speaker 2: Crystal's mother has tried to get forever custody and visitation
Speaker 2: of She was going to leave him, and it happened
Speaker 2: over Fourth of July weekend. They'd gotten an argument and
Speaker 2: then she just disappeared off the face of the earth
Speaker 2: and they found her car on the Bluegrass Parkway.
Speaker 1: Well, the wildest component that I don't think gets mentioned
Speaker 1: a whole lot, at least I haven't heard, is that
Speaker 1: her father, Christa Roger's father, Tommy Ballard, was out shooting
Speaker 1: a fifty four years old This was many years ago.
Speaker 1: This is back in twenty sixteen. He'd been hunting on
Speaker 1: his own property with his twelve year old grandson, and
Speaker 1: I mean he was he was shot and killed almost
Speaker 1: seemingly by a sniper. Yeah, and there's no shit. This
Speaker 1: is hard for people to assume that that's not related
Speaker 1: as he was really at that point. That could be wrong.
Speaker 1: He was the person who was the movie. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: they haven't made one already.
Speaker 2: He was the driving force behind looking for Her and what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard about it or not,
Speaker 2: but Nick Hawk is in trouble because he got busted
Speaker 2: selling the rifle that they have traced back till that
Speaker 2: shooting to an undercover FBI agent.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there's layers to this that I can
Speaker 1: see why when it comes to people who love true crime,
Speaker 1: they can't get enough of this thing.
Speaker 4: Oh I bet no, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: No, all sure, thank you fellas. We've got the first day,
Speaker 1: but thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: I listened all morning, every minute.
Speaker 1: Do you think I'm gonna be able to come back tomorrow?
Speaker 1: I think so. Tony and Dwight coming up next right
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