Speaker 1: Your microphone's on, Rachel, you're alive on the radio. Good
Speaker 1: morning everybody in news radio eight forty w h as
Speaker 1: the Tony and Dwight Show with Dave Jennings without Dave
Speaker 1: Jennings right now and.
Speaker 2: Got caught in sick I know it right.
Speaker 1: I got the right mic over there and Rachel's mic on,
Speaker 1: not the mayor.
Speaker 2: Rachel Greenberg and that other guy are in the studio.
Speaker 1: Yes, we missed you Friday.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, dudeines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was yes, And we're gonna ask some questions
Speaker 1: to see how well you know each other right here
Speaker 1: in a moment.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Uh, we asked the same questions to you and a.
Speaker 1: Couple, a couple.
Speaker 2: Absolutely no problem, Absolutely no problem. Let's talk about what's
Speaker 2: coming in right now in what city of Louisville's doing
Speaker 2: because snowstorm coming? Man, I thought we were through all
Speaker 2: this business. But iran to be the mayor of Louisville,
Speaker 2: not Buffalo. What about it?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: This winter has been battering us.
Speaker 4: Uh so this weekend, as you all know, we had
Speaker 4: flash flooding on Saturday night. Our team did a great
Speaker 4: job that most of those waters have receded.
Speaker 2: Now, no injuries.
Speaker 4: We got everyone safely where they needed to be, and
Speaker 4: we have some of our rescue crews are now helping
Speaker 4: out in eastern and western Kentucky with the rest of
Speaker 4: the state where they're suffering a lot of stuff going on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so right now we've got two issues we're dealing with.
Speaker 4: One is the snow. Everyone knows it's snowing. I guess
Speaker 4: it's stopped right now, but there's gonna be more tonight,
Speaker 4: about one to three inches tonight.
Speaker 2: Our crews are on the road right now.
Speaker 4: They've added chloride calcium chloride to the salt so that
Speaker 4: it works at lower temperatures. We're going to continue working
Speaker 4: twenty four hours knowing we're getting snow overnight and to tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And then also the Ohio River is coming up also.
Speaker 4: So right now it's about twenty five feet. We have
Speaker 4: but another four feet until we think of crests on Friday.
Speaker 4: If you're coming downtown, third Street is closed, The Third
Speaker 4: Street exit ramp is closed. Some of the River Road
Speaker 4: has closed. EVA, Bamwin and Cox's Park are closed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cavia's Quarter is not getting the sandwich.
Speaker 2: Look at Bill out of the Science.
Speaker 5: Where did that come?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Elect issues.
Speaker 4: When I was in high school, I made it to
Speaker 4: the International Science Fair, a little.
Speaker 2: Knowne for I do know, I do know the should
Speaker 2: I say I do know? The calcium chloride. If you
Speaker 2: put that into a water a jug, munk jug with water,
Speaker 2: it becomes explosive.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's nice, right, Okay, But no power outages.
Speaker 2: We're not dealing with that, fortunately, not at this time.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Okay, when do people start crying and moaning about potholes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right, Oh that's been going on for weeks, Tony. That
Speaker 4: never stops. And they're huge right now.
Speaker 2: This time of year, it's really tough.
Speaker 4: We have our pothole Blitz coming up in a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks to get through the bulk of this nose season,
Speaker 4: and that's when we'll start the pothole blitz. But if
Speaker 4: you have to see potholes, now call three to one one,
Speaker 4: give us the location and we'll get to it right
Speaker 4: when we start doing potholes in a few weeks.
Speaker 2: I emailed you weeks ago about my adopt a pothole. Yeah, idea, and.
Speaker 1: You never got anywhere where.
Speaker 2: Just fill in the night.
Speaker 1: But if somebody wrecks their car because of a hot hole,
Speaker 1: that there's no just for litigation wise, that's not U.
Speaker 1: That's on you. That's on damn not you.
Speaker 4: Carefully whether it's no, Yeah, I got other issues. Just
Speaker 4: please drive carefully. You don't need to speed up.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's get to the most subordinate task. Hey, Rachel,
Speaker 2: how are you? Rachel Greenberg?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 2: What did?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: What? What's the mayor get the first lady for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's such a black empty stare Mayor Greenberg?
Speaker 2: What the hell is the matter with you? I can't
Speaker 2: believe because it's that's not true. A wonderful gift?
Speaker 1: What did you get?
Speaker 2: You get? She let me guess. It was a city
Speaker 2: of Louisville key chains.
Speaker 1: She's himming in Holland for some reason.
Speaker 2: It was a dove dark chocolate I forgot. Look look
Speaker 2: what I gave?
Speaker 3: Do you call?
Speaker 2: Did you cook?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, we went to the bar.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh? Nice?
Speaker 5: You get the reservation in December?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is it tough when you and the mayor go out
Speaker 2: and all you want to do is have like a nice, quiet,
Speaker 2: romantic dinner, but you can't ride people coming over going.
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't think so They probably leave you a little,
Speaker 1: do they. It's Louisville.
Speaker 2: Is it because Mayor Craig Greenberg so unapproachable? Or is
Speaker 2: it those signs on my back?
Speaker 5: Everybody was just into the You know, it's like a
Speaker 5: couple's night.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah. And what did you get him?
Speaker 2: That would be nothing?
Speaker 1: See how we never turned that around? You know what
Speaker 1: did you get?
Speaker 5: That's true?
Speaker 4: Rachel is always incredibly generous. I got a wonderful gift
Speaker 4: over the holidays, and so we just decided with that woll.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa who stop? Back it up right there? What's
Speaker 2: the wonderful gifts? You just can't throw it out there
Speaker 2: to personal It.
Speaker 4: Was so great running gear and I needed new running
Speaker 4: gear for the season. I'm going on the Triple Crown,
Speaker 4: gonna run the Mini Marathon. I gotta look good when
Speaker 4: I'm running.
Speaker 2: When you run the minute care of when you wear
Speaker 2: the when you run the Triple Crown and all this business.
Speaker 2: Do you actually try for like a great time or
Speaker 2: you just go out and finish fun?
Speaker 5: Oh he tries for a time?
Speaker 4: Does he?
Speaker 2: Is he too competitive?
Speaker 4: Does he? The problem is this thing called age that
Speaker 4: makes it no kid run difficult?
Speaker 2: Every year. Well no, okay, but also see I ran
Speaker 2: I ran five mini marathons, so I know about the training. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's been years ago.
Speaker 1: And he was way fatter than he was.
Speaker 2: Right, it's true. Don't say stuff like that when Rachel
Speaker 2: try and impress Rachel Greenberg, say crap like that. But
Speaker 2: here's one thing I do know is the time it took.
Speaker 2: It took a lot of time. On the on the
Speaker 2: long training days, you're running ten eleven hours. I know
Speaker 2: your schedule, and your schedule is crazy. How do you
Speaker 2: fit it in?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: I wake up during the week most days at five thirty.
Speaker 2: That sucks, you do?
Speaker 1: Okay, So real quick, what's run through some of these
Speaker 1: projects that are on the on the cusp of happening
Speaker 1: and all that, And then we're going to get to
Speaker 1: some quizzes for each either one of you to find
Speaker 1: out how well you know each other. I'm going to
Speaker 1: say you all aced the tests here, I'm going to
Speaker 1: say you aced, but we'll find out. So I just
Speaker 1: right down the street is Stuart's this this building here?
Speaker 1: What's going on with that?
Speaker 2: I heard a Starks building?
Speaker 1: This Starks I'm sorry, Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: They're working, They've got plans to turn it into housing,
Speaker 4: and there's there's still a road ahead of them right now.
Speaker 4: They're having some challenges, but I'd love for nothing more
Speaker 4: than that project to be read.
Speaker 1: Give me a percentage of well you think that will
Speaker 1: happen fifty percent?
Speaker 2: You know, I just don't know at this point.
Speaker 4: But what I will tell you is we have a
Speaker 4: new downtown Building Conversion Fund where we're using some funds
Speaker 4: that the General Assembly gave us to invest in downtown Louisville,
Speaker 4: part of one hundred million dollars. And we got a
Speaker 4: lot of applications for that fund. So there are going
Speaker 4: to be buildings like the Starks Building. Those are others
Speaker 4: that can use this money that are now vacant and
Speaker 4: soon going to be people living in it, whether it's
Speaker 4: going to be hotel, entertainment, something. But thanks to the
Speaker 4: State of Kentucky, they're helping us invest in downtown.
Speaker 1: And keep that price down because that's the issue. Because
Speaker 1: Jack and I have thought, we've talked about it. We're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's do a condo downtown. It'll be
Speaker 1: fun and then we can handle the price. But then
Speaker 1: you go, the HOA is now eleven hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: then you stack it up and you go, well, who
Speaker 1: can afford to live down here?
Speaker 4: The challenges right now our construction costs have gotten so high,
Speaker 4: interest rates are high.
Speaker 2: So but we can't use that as an excuse. We
Speaker 2: gotta find ways to make it happen. Okay, See, okay,
Speaker 2: that's what we're going to say. That's that's an excuse.
Speaker 2: Here's here's a solution. You and I we get on YouTube,
Speaker 2: we figure out how to do it. We just YouTube
Speaker 2: and we.
Speaker 1: Remodeled our remodel it ourselves.
Speaker 2: Money right here, you got up at three in the morning.
Speaker 2: How about idea?
Speaker 1: Guys, this show believes that the project at the Bats
Speaker 1: at Louisville Slugger Field is the most I think, most
Speaker 1: significant thing that could happen to downtown in twenty years.
Speaker 1: We really believe that, and I think it can have
Speaker 1: the same effect that Slugger originally had twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Where are we on that. I'm hearing really good things
Speaker 1: that that is going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a real deal.
Speaker 4: We're making really good progress on that right now, and
Speaker 4: I am hoping that something happens before the end of
Speaker 4: the year. In terms of some construction stuff, but we're
Speaker 4: making great progress with the real partner there.
Speaker 2: COVID screwed a lot a lot of stuff up when
Speaker 2: it hit. One of the things I was really excited
Speaker 2: about Mark Greenberg is right before COVID, there was talk
Speaker 2: about Whiskey Alley. We've got Whiskey Row, but then there
Speaker 2: was a brain there's idea to have Whiskey Alley. There
Speaker 2: was gonna be Yeah, it could be blocked off. You
Speaker 2: can have concerts, the whole bitness right there to the
Speaker 2: Young Center. Will breath be? Will that come back to life? Yes? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 2: So really go there.
Speaker 4: Right now, there's you know there, the buildings are now
Speaker 4: more full than they've ever been, and go cards. They're
Speaker 4: doing all right this year on the court, but they're
Speaker 4: also really helping downtown Louisville. Also, both the women and
Speaker 4: the men's basketball teams are having good seasons. People having
Speaker 4: great times coming down. Thanks to some American Rescue Plan
Speaker 4: funding through Louisville Tourism, we now have Whiskey Alley signs
Speaker 4: if you go there, it's now brand that is Whiskey Alley.
Speaker 4: And there's a proposal coming to the city from the
Speaker 4: Downtown Partnership to put up lightings and do more out
Speaker 4: there so we can close it down and have lots
Speaker 4: of great outdoor parties along Whiskey allity. It's a great
Speaker 4: place right next to the Young Center. We're gonna make
Speaker 4: it happen.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, and it all looks good. I think downtown
Speaker 1: looks great when it gets warmer. I loved I love
Speaker 1: the rendering of the possible new Belvedere. I think it's
Speaker 1: cool and it's it is something striking because I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact number of cars that go past us.
Speaker 2: Twelve each hour. Just committed to quick enough the pitture,
Speaker 2: quick enough, Rachel. People believe you the science.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what else.
Speaker 2: When you're riding by the streets are safe. You know
Speaker 2: why because calcium chloris on it.
Speaker 1: So that is an amazing design. What's the odds of
Speaker 1: that happening?
Speaker 2: Very good?
Speaker 4: I got a meeting on it this afternoon where really
Speaker 4: the plans are moving forward. There's been great, great community engagement.
Speaker 4: We still need some funding there, but I think the
Speaker 4: state will continue to support us. The Feds and I'm
Speaker 4: even having conversations on some federal initiatives as well as
Speaker 4: private so we'll get there.
Speaker 1: I think people will forget the Belvidere was cool for
Speaker 1: like a moment, like in the eighties. It was a
Speaker 1: cool place to have.
Speaker 2: The concerts happened down there, dude, James Brown played the Belvidere.
Speaker 2: Why Jo Com played the Belvidere. I saw a lot
Speaker 2: of great free shows at the Belvidere.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Oh but that's is not as crazy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this quiz here, alright, here we go.
Speaker 1: There's a pad in front of you, So here he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a question.
Speaker 2: You can use my pen.
Speaker 1: He's got a pad. We're gonna start with her asking
Speaker 1: questions and she and he's gonna write down the answer
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to answer it. Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: can you give me the dating game theme, Johnny, if
Speaker 1: you could pull that up for me. We have the mayor,
Speaker 1: of course, wife Rae Jewel in here. We're gonna ask
Speaker 1: simple questions that they might possibly know. They've been together
Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty seven years, so yeah, really.
Speaker 3: Twenty five years we were here on our twenty fifth
Speaker 3: University's right here?
Speaker 1: Is that that's not silver? What is that there's a chocolate.
Speaker 2: He called me a chocolate bar.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sweetie. You're looking for who would who would
Speaker 1: your husband say? Or what would your husband say? Is
Speaker 1: his favorite movie? Like if he was gonna sit down
Speaker 1: and watch a movie right now, what would he watch?
Speaker 1: Or his favorite movie of all time? He's gonna write
Speaker 1: it down and then you're gonna take a guess.
Speaker 5: No, this is really hard. He doesn't watch movies.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Go top gun. What did you answer? Do you know
Speaker 2: what's crazy?
Speaker 4: Is you got it right the first time that I
Speaker 4: don't have an answer doesn't.
Speaker 2: Alright? You got that right?
Speaker 1: That right? You got that right?
Speaker 2: Tipical politician? What's your favorite movie? I'm not gonna answer
Speaker 2: that right now. Let's circle back to that question. The
Speaker 2: next question.
Speaker 1: I broke the mic. I broke the mic. Here we go,
Speaker 1: all right, next question? Who is his favorite athlete? Oh?
Speaker 1: Who is the mayor's favorite athlete?
Speaker 2: That is the chess player.
Speaker 1: Then let's narrow it to basketball. You want to do
Speaker 1: basketball or you want to do a sport basketball? But
Speaker 1: his favorite basketball player al tame. She doesn't apparently know
Speaker 1: you will.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeahs I'm gonna say, if it were a cards player,
Speaker 3: it might be Sayton Siva.
Speaker 5: And if it were n b A, I'm gonna go Michael.
Speaker 2: Jordan, Oh Lebron.
Speaker 4: I might be influenced because recently on the treadmill, I
Speaker 4: watched Netflix and I started that show starting five yea,
Speaker 4: and so I've been watching about Lebron this week, and
Speaker 4: so maybe that's why he's on my mind.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to favorite singer.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. We gotta get this Greenberg Brooks.
Speaker 2: I was writing that down as wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna dive into that later.
Speaker 2: Okay, sometime when we're not on the air, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you about girth Brooks.
Speaker 1: If the mayor had a dessert, what would be his
Speaker 1: favorite desert answer? Okay, okay, I can't so you're one
Speaker 1: in one right now?
Speaker 2: Or no, no, you too? Writing down? Okay, what's it called?
Speaker 2: I know what it is, but it's okay.
Speaker 1: Kevin, You're gonna help, Okay, all right, So the question
Speaker 1: is what.
Speaker 2: That's the first words? You got the first word?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 5: God, I don't know if he's gonna say PoTA crome.
Speaker 2: He gets one?
Speaker 1: That is the dessert is the most important question.
Speaker 7: To get right. What gives you comfort? Yes, I'm sorry, Rachel, Okay.
Speaker 7: How does he take his coffee? Rachel, I'm trying to
Speaker 7: cost division. Okay, let's get.
Speaker 1: That straight, all right. How does he take his coffee?
Speaker 5: He doesn't drink it. He only has dye coke.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh easy, or maybe not, I don't know. We're not teenagers.
Speaker 1: What's his favorite color?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have one?
Speaker 2: He would.
Speaker 1: Green?
Speaker 2: Come on, green gets in your name, lady Greenberg gets
Speaker 2: in your name?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: If he wanted, if he was his last meal, what
Speaker 1: would his last meal be his favorite meal that he
Speaker 1: would have? What would that be to making a tough
Speaker 1: one favorite?
Speaker 5: He's now a pescatarian with the college world.
Speaker 2: What does pescatarian.
Speaker 3: Fishin I'm going to go back. Yeah, I'm I think
Speaker 3: it's going to be my salmon dish.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a really good But apparently that's not it.
Speaker 6: No, he said last meal, Yeah, it's his last meal.
Speaker 6: Well I just wrote with pizza.
Speaker 8: Don't no, no nos pizza, yeah, pizza.
Speaker 1: Okay, So uh, let's reverse this. Let's see if you
Speaker 1: guys can get this right. So pass that over. Pass
Speaker 1: that over. Mayor. Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This is you went?
Speaker 1: You went four and two. I think that's not bad.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: We're keeping her.
Speaker 1: How did she take her coffee?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 1: Not Yeah, she's writing her answer down. It is the mayor,
Speaker 1: I believe has his answer in his head.
Speaker 2: I do she's writing. Is a pretty to be behind
Speaker 2: Rachel Greenberg at the golf shop.
Speaker 4: In one of those espresso sheet machines. And then the
Speaker 4: foam is half fair Life chocolate milk and half some
Speaker 4: other kind of milk that I don't drink. He got
Speaker 4: it that she mixes.
Speaker 2: He got it, he got it.
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that is the sweetest part
Speaker 1: of that whole this whole thing is that you know
Speaker 1: exactly a complicated coffee. What makes her happy? I think
Speaker 1: those are the little things that why you stay together
Speaker 1: by what's your favorite movie? What you think is she
Speaker 1: would sit down and watch.
Speaker 4: I've got two answers. It's either Sound of Music or
Speaker 4: any rom com on Netflix.
Speaker 2: What'd you right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: I did graduate from Sound of Music to Grease?
Speaker 1: What was your answer?
Speaker 5: To give credit?
Speaker 3: Because I love a rom if ever, I don't feel well,
Speaker 3: I can turn on How to lose a guy intended.
Speaker 1: Male actor male actor for a rong com would.
Speaker 5: Be right now, It's different. It depends on the air.
Speaker 1: Ryan Goslin, maybe.
Speaker 5: I think good right now? Yeah? Or who's oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: I must not like him that much? Who's married to?
Speaker 5: Never mind.
Speaker 2: That age?
Speaker 1: Wolverine's okay? Her favorite band, music artist, singer?
Speaker 2: Her favorite favorite? Uh, the second depends on.
Speaker 1: She's running down the mayor is I'm not sure she
Speaker 1: has a favorite.
Speaker 2: You know, she gets Rachel gets really into things.
Speaker 4: So like she's already started listening to Noah Khan because
Speaker 4: he's coming from Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 1: My wife and seen him like twenty times. Okay.
Speaker 4: She she's always getting into whatever like is coming up
Speaker 4: next in our lives.
Speaker 2: She gets ready to like, can I tell you a
Speaker 2: band that Susan and I want to watch with you all? Okay,
Speaker 2: Bourbon and Beyond and they're doing three days there Yacht
Speaker 2: Lee Crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna.
Speaker 2: You're gonna you're gonna love this band.
Speaker 8: You love this nineteen seventies on yacht Like it's right, Okay,
Speaker 8: why do you see this band?
Speaker 1: Favorite band? Singer? Did we answer?
Speaker 5: Is that we just did that.
Speaker 2: You've got it wrong. Her answer was Saxon all right.
Speaker 1: Her old time favorite TV show, Give me that.
Speaker 5: Oh, hold on, hold on, I know this.
Speaker 2: She has one parent Shoots, and I know I should
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 1: Nineties, two thousands. What what you think this is like?
Speaker 2: Two thousands?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's important. It's probably something like Gray's an enemy.
Speaker 2: Friday Night Lights. Oh my god, Friday Lights. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: God likes her TV shows.
Speaker 1: So you know what you all did? Great? It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Givehim around with appl Valentine's Love Test.
Speaker 5: You know, I forgot to tell you this.
Speaker 3: We were here on our anniversary and then we spent
Speaker 3: Halloween with a friend of mine, Laura Jones. We get
Speaker 3: there and she says, you know what I heard you
Speaker 3: on Dwight and Tony today.
Speaker 5: Yes, actually did. And I went to prom with.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes we did.
Speaker 5: Forgot you wanted to bring a promp. We have to
Speaker 5: get atture next time I'm here on.
Speaker 1: I'm totally in. I had a cheesy mustache and a
Speaker 1: turquoise bow tie.
Speaker 2: How would you to go to the problem It was
Speaker 2: eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Come on, she's fantastic. She's a flying instruct Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Rachel, what what did you say about me? Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: everybody loves you. All right, there you go.
Speaker 1: I love you, dearly May are doing a great job.
Speaker 1: Nothing to yell at you about so good job. Keep
Speaker 1: up the about that later, all right, back after this
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Speaker 9: to bays, to bows, to picture windows, the casement windows
Speaker 9: even and we even do sliding glass doors.
Speaker 1: Okay, so my wife and I were sitting here. We
Speaker 1: want to do one or two projects a year, right,
Speaker 1: so windows are going to come up in rotation. But
Speaker 1: right now we're looking at each other and saying, windows,
Speaker 1: we're not going to put windows in rotation. Why should
Speaker 1: they put them in rotation with you guys.
Speaker 9: Like I said, the first thing is energy efficiency. It's
Speaker 9: gonna save on your energy bill. Also, you know, research
Speaker 9: shows that when you do a vinyl replacement project, especially
Speaker 9: whole home, you can increase your property value about seventy
Speaker 9: percent on your return of investments. Guarantee ten thousand dollars
Speaker 9: on a window project, you know, you can immediately see
Speaker 9: about a seven thousand dollars increase on your property value.
Speaker 1: Guarantee it because people are gonna buy your house if
Speaker 1: it gots old windows. You know, you're looking at your
Speaker 1: wife going, well, if you buy the house, which we
Speaker 1: love the house, we should buy it. If they're old windows,
Speaker 1: You're like, you know, we're gonna have to pull the
Speaker 1: trigger on that at some point and get new windows.
Speaker 1: But right now, if it's not in the budget, but
Speaker 1: it really is in the budget, because you guys are
Speaker 1: going to help finance this thing, right, absolutely, right. So
Speaker 1: how does that work?
Speaker 9: So we have several different payment options and obviously we
Speaker 9: have a cash payment option and then we have a
Speaker 9: we have two different other programs. We have a cash
Speaker 9: toferred which is twenty four months same as cash, no interest,
Speaker 9: no payments for those first two years, and then we
Speaker 9: offer another financing plan that's just a standard monthly payment
Speaker 9: plan over over a sixty month period.
Speaker 1: Mark, tell me about you. What's your story. You're not
Speaker 1: from Kentucky, are you so?
Speaker 9: I was born in Western Kentucky, Okay, spent fifteen years
Speaker 9: in the military, and then ended up at Fort Knox
Speaker 9: at my last duty station, and my wife decided that
Speaker 9: she wanted to stay in the area. We're close enough
Speaker 9: to home that we can drive home in about four hours,
Speaker 9: but we're far enough away that someone has to call
Speaker 9: before they show up.
Speaker 1: What was your time like in the military. You enjoyed it?
Speaker 9: I absolutely loved it. I wish I would have been
Speaker 9: able to stay longer. My body wouldn't allow.
Speaker 2: Me to do that.
Speaker 1: So some of the values you have in the army
Speaker 1: you find in wind donation.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 9: Absolutely. Window Nation has been around since two thousand and six.
Speaker 9: It's a corporately owned company, but you wouldn't know it's
Speaker 9: family owned. Still since day one, the magazine Brothers up
Speaker 9: in Cleveland started the company. There's roughly thirty offices now
Speaker 9: and we continue to grow every single year. The plane
Speaker 9: is to open about four to five additional offices this
Speaker 9: year alone, So it really truly is a family environment.
Speaker 1: Mark walked me through. I get on what windownation dot
Speaker 1: com or I call a number right and then you
Speaker 1: come out and you look at the house and you say, look,
Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and knock out all the
Speaker 1: windows in the house. Where do we go from there?
Speaker 9: So once you know, once they customers decided that window
Speaker 9: nations the company they want to work with, and we've
Speaker 9: settled on a project price and a timeline. So what
Speaker 9: we actually do is something that most companies don't do.
Speaker 9: We actually send a second measure tech out to remeasure
Speaker 9: those windows, usually a couple of days after your initial appointment,
Speaker 9: because we want to make sure that our windows are
Speaker 9: built custom to the to that customer's opening. So our
Speaker 9: measure techs come out, they measure that opening within an
Speaker 9: eighth of an inch, which is the highest of the
Speaker 9: industry standard, and then we send those to the manufacturer
Speaker 9: to be built custom for that specific house.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 9: Usually we're on about a four to six week turnaround, okay,
Speaker 9: But once those windows come into the to the local
Speaker 9: warehouse here here in Louisville, we schedule an insulation installation.
Speaker 9: Usually takes a day, one day, one day. Obviously, on
Speaker 9: bigger projects, if you get fifty windows in a home,
Speaker 9: it may take them more than one day, But on
Speaker 9: average we're about a day on an install.
Speaker 1: What's the feedback you get from families already? You've been
Speaker 1: in the market a while here, so what are you
Speaker 1: getting feedback from? Some families that are thankful for window Nations?
Speaker 9: Absolutely overall is a company since two thousand and six. Again,
Speaker 9: there's over fifty five thousand positive reviews for when it's crazy,
Speaker 9: we've put in over two million windows since two thousand
Speaker 9: and six with a ninety six percent customer satisfaction rate.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. Nobody has that.
Speaker 2: Nobody has that.
Speaker 9: So here in Louisville, we're we're we've been here for
Speaker 9: about six weeks. We just opened the Louisville market office.
Speaker 9: And the customers that we're already working with, they all
Speaker 9: of them have about the same amount of feedback. They
Speaker 9: love the product, they love our process, and we have
Speaker 9: great affordable.
Speaker 1: Pricing, uh mark. So they go to windownation dot com.
Speaker 1: How do they get you to do? Or do you
Speaker 1: send somebody out? How's that work?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 9: So windownation dot com or calling the one hundred number.
Speaker 9: They'll get our call center experts and they'll they'll go
Speaker 9: through a questionnaire with them, kind of learned a little
Speaker 9: bit about the house, about the windows, what kind of
Speaker 9: project timeline they're looking at, and then they send that
Speaker 9: over to us and we actually schedule in home consultation
Speaker 9: with our EDCs or our exterior design consultants will go out.
Speaker 9: Usually it takes a couple of hours. We come out,
Speaker 9: we inspect the windows, do some measurements, you know, talk
Speaker 9: about the style of what.
Speaker 2: They want to move to.
Speaker 1: Because you have choices absolutely with colors and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have.
Speaker 9: Several different colors as far as outside exterior colors, interior colors,
Speaker 9: and again we can do double hung windows or your
Speaker 9: standard type of window, the picture windows, the bay windows,
Speaker 9: the bow windows. So there's a lot of options based
Speaker 9: on what they currently have and what they want, what
Speaker 9: they wanted to look like.
Speaker 1: At the end, and you're running for specials right now.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, yep, it's off a total window project again with
Speaker 9: our with our finance and plan twenty four months, no interest,
Speaker 9: no payments.
Speaker 1: No interest, no payments. So when you say it's not
Speaker 1: your budget, yeah, it is because you've got two years. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it's fifty percent off right now Wind donation. Mark
Speaker 1: you the best. Thanks for coming in today.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, thanks for having me Hi brother back.
Speaker 1: After this short break here on news radio eight forty Whashi,
Speaker 1: welcome back. It's a crazy show today. Actually pack at
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock hour, it was in jeff Tokey showing up
Speaker 1: bringing ding dongs. This office loves these little cupcakes. Did
Speaker 1: you get one? Not yet, dude, I'll grab it on
Speaker 1: my way out. I think folks from Jefferson Anialog Hospital
Speaker 1: coming in. I missed it as I was talking to
Speaker 1: Mark from Window Nation. Did they answer were you in
Speaker 1: there for that?
Speaker 2: I was in here? Yes?
Speaker 1: Did they answer whether, yeah, werewolves blood? But did they
Speaker 1: ask whether kat can get dog blood and blacking? And
Speaker 1: I don't think Dwight stuck to that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I wanted to know. How disappointing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I am going to race out of here
Speaker 1: because today is the day d day. That's the day
Speaker 1: I'm getting my toto aquaala for toilet. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if you call it. You can't call it a toilet.
Speaker 1: It's toilet. Yeah, with a toilet right toilet. It is
Speaker 1: the fanciest toilet you can buy. I'm getting installed today
Speaker 1: and I couldn't be happier. It's the small things in life.
Speaker 1: Has a heated seat, it's got the heated water because
Speaker 1: it's got any The bidet is included in the toilet.
Speaker 1: It's it's all one unit. It's like a hot tub
Speaker 1: for your behind exactly. And then yeah, but the hot
Speaker 1: tub doesn't come with an air dryer. Okay, it's even
Speaker 1: better than a hot tub because it has an air dryer,
Speaker 1: heated seat. That's coming today. I cannot wait. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited right now. But I also want to thank the
Speaker 1: mayor and his wife Rachel for coming in. They were fantastic.
Speaker 1: We gave him some quizzes and I think they knew
Speaker 1: the important things, Like for me, it was important that
Speaker 1: he knows how she takes her coffee, which was not simple,
Speaker 1: like he was four or five ingredients to her coffee
Speaker 1: and he knew every single one. That's important. Even though
Speaker 1: the only thing he gave her for Valentine's Day was
Speaker 1: a chocolate bar, a Dove chocolate bar, and she got
Speaker 1: him nothing. But I think that's I think it's true.
Speaker 1: I think that's that is true love. We're all busy,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do whatever, Let's get some
Speaker 1: dinner and that's about it. But they were fun. They
Speaker 1: were a lot of fun. So I'm getting my toilet.
Speaker 1: The weather is insane out there, so it's not gonna
Speaker 1: this all is going to continue through the afternoon and night,
Speaker 1: so be prepared for whatever you dealt with today. There
Speaker 1: were so many recks on the waters and everywhere else today,
Speaker 1: so keep your eyes. If you don't have to leave house,
Speaker 1: stay at the house. I mean, seriously, do not leave
Speaker 1: if you don't have to. Also want to remind you
Speaker 1: later in the week we'll have our regular events going on.
Speaker 1: But i'd also I think we have what am I
Speaker 1: talking about? I already forgot. We're talking about bargain supply. Oh,
Speaker 1: bargain supply. So we're doing the remodel, and the toilet
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the remodel. This is something separate.
Speaker 1: This is my business. So the remodel, we're going down
Speaker 1: a bargain supply and getting all new appliances. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, every appliance in my house has already bargain supply.
Speaker 1: Two of the ten appliances in my house are scratching debt.
Speaker 1: So what happens is when they're unloading the new dryer
Speaker 1: refrigerator and it gets a tiny little scratch on the side,
Speaker 1: they take off money of the price of the thing,
Speaker 1: and it's brand new and all the warranties are there
Speaker 1: and it looks brand new, and maybe there's a scratch,
Speaker 1: like the refrigerator have has a scratch on the side,
Speaker 1: but we fit the refrigerator in our cabinets so you
Speaker 1: can't even see it. I say four hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: the refrigera on that. It was huge. They have a
Speaker 1: huge warehouse of scratching debt. But they have more variety
Speaker 1: of appliances than any place else. If you go to
Speaker 1: the box stores they have two. This place has all
Speaker 1: of them. He tried to write down every brand that
Speaker 1: they carry and have on the floor. He couldn't even
Speaker 1: get through him. And he goes, oh, we also have
Speaker 1: this one Da Da Da da. From sixteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: Italian stoves to it's crazy, you know, to five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars ge Profile stoves. I mean, yeah, Barkeets supply eat
Speaker 1: Jefferson Streets in the New lou area back after this
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