Speaker 1: It is eight oh five here Kentucky and his morning news,
Speaker 1: coffee and company with you here on news radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas And we now have a special guest joining
Speaker 1: us here in studio. It is Adam from Jefferson Animal Hospital.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Adam, how we doing.
Speaker 2: Naked morning? What a morning? So much going on? Thank
Speaker 2: you for having us.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to have you here. And first of all,
Speaker 1: I'll start off by saying congratulations on the big expansion
Speaker 1: among other things. I know you guys have now been
Speaker 1: in business for quite some time, but it was earlier
Speaker 1: this summer, not that long ago actually where you guys
Speaker 1: had the big announcement with the seven thousand square foot
Speaker 1: new office in medical space. How how did that all
Speaker 1: come together and so far? How how has that great
Speaker 1: news been received by the community.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been received very very well from the community
Speaker 2: and support from the very beginning. It came together a
Speaker 2: number of years ago. We needed space. We were you know,
Speaker 2: to the gills as they say, and just had so
Speaker 2: many patients and needed space. So, you know, how do
Speaker 2: you expand on outer loop? You know that's where we
Speaker 2: are forty five or four outer loop, So we were
Speaker 2: very lucky to be able to acquire the property next
Speaker 2: to us.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to that space over there, what
Speaker 1: what was what space did you acquire previously that was
Speaker 1: next to it? Because I'm drawing a blank, But you're
Speaker 1: right next door, correct the where you were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're right next to and so we're basically across
Speaker 2: from Kroger over there. Yeah, yeah, on outer loop right there,
Speaker 2: and there was an office building right next to us,
Speaker 2: and you know, that was really our only option and
Speaker 2: I didn't think that was ever going to happen as
Speaker 2: far as being available, were being available, good timing, right,
Speaker 2: good time went well. One day we got a phone
Speaker 2: call and we got into a conversation about, you know,
Speaker 2: purchasing it, and we were able to We were able
Speaker 2: to get it in twenty nineteen. So this is really
Speaker 2: a six year project. And from then we had to
Speaker 2: change the zoning. Uh it was war one to see one.
Speaker 2: We had to combine the site, and then we had
Speaker 2: to submit a plan to the city.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot that goes into that that
Speaker 1: most people like myself would never even think about.
Speaker 2: And I was really lucky that the city was very supportive.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd never built anything I watched, you know,
Speaker 2: my family build a couple of things, but the city
Speaker 2: was so supportive. They really they mapped it out. They said,
Speaker 2: this is what you need to do in different terms
Speaker 2: of different requirements. It's really like a little mini campus.
Speaker 1: Now, nice, you mentioned your family. How did your family
Speaker 1: get into sort of this industry, if you will. Where
Speaker 1: clearly it's it's very much important, very needed, and for
Speaker 1: a long long time it's been the only the only
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven animal hospital, which of course means
Speaker 1: that there are people who are in emergency situations and
Speaker 1: when they need somewhere to go, they go see you guys.
Speaker 2: They do, and it's been we see cases around the
Speaker 2: clock every single day, every single night, Nick, It's really incredible.
Speaker 2: They come from all over the state. They come from Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: we see a lot of cases from Etown four. We've
Speaker 2: seen cases over the years in every single zip code
Speaker 2: and it really started as a need for we have
Speaker 2: twenty four hour companies in the city. We have you know,
Speaker 2: Ford et cetera, et cetera, and you know, growing up there,
Speaker 2: you can make an appointment twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 2: There you can make an appointment at any time and
Speaker 2: we'd see people come in off their second shift, third
Speaker 2: shift Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean it's you know, you don't plan
Speaker 1: for that. Emergencies aren't something you planned for, and you
Speaker 1: guys have been able to provide a resources that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure maybe people didn't even realize it was there at
Speaker 1: the time because they'd never been in that situation, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure they remember it for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1: One because of panic fear, what am I going to
Speaker 1: do it's three o'clock in the morning. To oh wow,
Speaker 1: I'm glad Try's Animal Hospital is here to help us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we get so much support from the community,
Speaker 2: so much thanks. It's really about our staff. Our staff
Speaker 2: are incredible there there. I mean you're talking about people
Speaker 2: who are solving emergencies in real time. I mean that's
Speaker 2: pretty hardcore, right and absolutely at all times. And so
Speaker 2: we have we have seventy five full time staff. We
Speaker 2: were ranked these tenth largest women owned business by Business
Speaker 2: First last year.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Of that seventy five staff, we've got you know, fifteen
Speaker 2: to twenty part time. And then we've also got twelve doctors, right,
Speaker 2: that's you know, who are in there solving emergencies. So
Speaker 2: we're very lucky. It really is all about our staff.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Speaks to a good culture for sure. But
Speaker 1: Adam of Justnam the hospital is with us here in studio.
Speaker 1: And one thing I learned about when we worked together
Speaker 1: last year during football season was, I guess it's just
Speaker 1: ignorance on my part. I never thought of pets donating blood,
Speaker 1: but it is certainly a thing, and it's it's something
Speaker 1: people need to be more aware of. You guys have
Speaker 1: a pet blood blood bank. It's always tough for me
Speaker 1: to say, but tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So our pet blood bank, right, it works just
Speaker 2: like a human pet blood donation. But this started. We've
Speaker 2: been doing this about eleven years out of a need
Speaker 2: or we have a lot of cases with a lot
Speaker 2: of pet blood loss, you can imagine. And we were
Speaker 2: shipping our blood in from California, right, not the most
Speaker 2: efficient thing. So we had our staff bring this to
Speaker 2: us and said we could do this in house. Right,
Speaker 2: we could supply our own blood. So with pet blood donation,
Speaker 2: there are certain requirements for pets in terms of size, right,
Speaker 2: so you know a dog must be a minimum of
Speaker 2: fifty pounds. A cat must be a minimum of ten
Speaker 2: pounds and at least one to seven years old, and
Speaker 2: they have to be healthy. But canine feline blood donations
Speaker 2: help us save lives with our procedures and our emergencies
Speaker 2: that come in. And in return, the donors, the cats
Speaker 2: and dogs, they get free wellness, free vaccines, free blood panels.
Speaker 2: We have to make sure your pet is healthy before
Speaker 2: they can donate blood. We cover all of that, so
Speaker 2: it works for both sides, and it works and it
Speaker 2: helps us save lives all the time.
Speaker 1: And if I assume most people who are pet owners
Speaker 1: love pets in general, and you having your pet donate
Speaker 1: blood can help save lives of other pets, which that's
Speaker 1: a mutually beneficial thing for everybody involved. And I know
Speaker 1: last year you guys launched the pintes per Pausing People event.
Speaker 1: You're going to bring it back this year in late September.
Speaker 1: Tell us what we need to know about that for
Speaker 1: those who maybe want to come out take part in it,
Speaker 1: or just learn more information.
Speaker 2: We're so lucky to do this. We're doing this with
Speaker 2: the American Red Cross. This is the second year that
Speaker 2: we're doing this. We're just so lucky the American Red Cross.
Speaker 2: It's September twenty seventh at forty five oh four Outer
Speaker 2: Loop that's our main hospital, and it's called Pines for
Speaker 2: Paws and People, meaning it's for blood donations for people.
Speaker 2: You can go out and you can give a blood
Speaker 2: donation yourself. You can also bring your dog, your pet
Speaker 2: and learn about pet blood donations and also sign up
Speaker 2: for pet blood donations. And we're going to have food
Speaker 2: trucks and different activities. But it's a learning event to
Speaker 2: learn them about blood donation and a giving event for
Speaker 2: people to also give blood. So we're really lucky to
Speaker 2: do this with the American Red Cross for the second year.
Speaker 1: I would imagine last year there were many people that thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: I like the sound of it, but I'm moneyasy having
Speaker 1: my pet go through the process. I'm sure this event
Speaker 1: will put them at ease and let them know that
Speaker 1: it's safe and obviously it goes a long way.
Speaker 2: It helps one hundred percent, and we can answer all
Speaker 2: your questions and our staff they have these different diagrams
Speaker 2: and visual aids and they go through the process and
Speaker 2: each donation can save up to two to four lives.
Speaker 4: That's wow.
Speaker 1: Think about that.
Speaker 2: For us. Yeah too. I mean it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: It really goes a long way. And so September twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: there we go.
Speaker 1: Petbloodbank dot Com is the website where you can get
Speaker 1: more information. Again, it's Adam from Jefferson Animal Hospital. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you coming in and I'm sure we'll see again soon.
Speaker 2: Nick, I appreciate thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Congrats on all these success and the mini anniversaries. Again
Speaker 1: forty five years as a continuous twenty four hour service
Speaker 1: in Louisville. So congrats to you guys.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get an update on Trabbick and weather
Speaker 1: coming up right here right now on WHOS Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas. It was great to see Adam from Jefferson
Speaker 1: Animal Hospital who stopped in there. And I was just
Speaker 1: thinking during the break about the hesitancy that many pet
Speaker 1: owners would have as far as their pet going through
Speaker 1: the process of donating donating blood. And obviously it could
Speaker 1: be you could be hesitant. But that's why that event
Speaker 1: pins for Pauls and people in late September is one
Speaker 1: where you can get all your questions answered and help
Speaker 1: save the lives of pets. Again, I probably shouldn't admit
Speaker 1: to such ignorance at times about just not knowing certain things.
Speaker 1: But I was just a dumb sports guy and now I'm,
Speaker 1: I guess, just a dumb guy trying to learn how
Speaker 1: to do news talk and yes, self duprecation. It's just
Speaker 1: it's it's part of me, unfortunately. But any anyways, if
Speaker 1: you guys want more information, go to pet bloodbank dot com,
Speaker 1: because again, that's who wouldn't want to help save the
Speaker 1: lives of pets, And it's something that can easily be
Speaker 1: done by giving blood having your pets donate blood. So
Speaker 1: just just keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: We'll talk coming up here in about ten minutes with
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Speaker 1: seventy one. I cannot believe how quickly the last four
Speaker 1: hours roughly have gone. But Tom flaws when you're having fun.
Speaker 3: Right, fantastic. Yesterday's show for us flew by pretty fast too.
Speaker 3: It was pretty heated, it fun.
Speaker 1: So Mayor Greenberg joined you guys to discuss obviously the
Speaker 1: big story here locally still I believe when it comes
Speaker 1: to just the situation Friday with the kidnapping home invasion,
Speaker 1: we all know the details of it. But I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, as somebody who is an elder to me,
Speaker 1: I mean not an old man, but you're older than me,
Speaker 1: when did you know of shock probation? Like when you
Speaker 1: realize somebody can get sentenced to prison but yet not
Speaker 1: serve really any of the time.
Speaker 3: Because I remember the shot formation was exclusively I thought
Speaker 3: in my image. You asked what my image was for
Speaker 3: twenty years, was someone got a dy and they killed
Speaker 3: someone or they ran somebody off the road. They don't
Speaker 3: even remember it. They're not terrible people. It's some twenty
Speaker 3: two year old, you know, college student, and they do
Speaker 3: a year or two and then they shot probate him out.
Speaker 3: You know. That was my experience with shock probation.
Speaker 1: But it's similar here because I learned of it after
Speaker 1: a former high school teacher was sent to prison because
Speaker 1: of being involved in a sexual relationship with a girl
Speaker 1: that was I believe seventeen, so she wasn't actually I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, still it's illegal. He was sentenced, but he
Speaker 1: got shock probation, had no history criminally, and I just
Speaker 1: didn't even know that was a thing at the time,
Speaker 1: and clearly now that I'm well aware that it's a thing.
Speaker 1: But I just this scenario where this individual Langford was
Speaker 1: let out after again being pretty consistent at showing he's
Speaker 1: a violent criminal. If you want to consider the mental
Speaker 1: health issues that he suffers, whatever, fair enough I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to claim that's not real thing, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't make him less dangerous to society. That was
Speaker 1: a decision clearly made that was a wrong one. But
Speaker 1: I just I would love to have been a fly
Speaker 1: on the wall whenever there's a discussion going on, or
Speaker 1: maybe it's just that judge individually deciding, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: what's best for everybody involved, because clearly it wasn't. And
Speaker 1: now there's a family that has been left with a
Speaker 1: traumatic experience and something I can't even imagine going through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he held the machete to the daughter's neck while
Speaker 3: they were doing that and said he would kill them
Speaker 3: if he didn't get the money, ended up stabbing the mom.
Speaker 3: It is whether he is he's a scumbag, and whether
Speaker 3: he understands he knows he's a cycle path and doesn't
Speaker 3: belong on the street. The system failed both of them.
Speaker 3: They failed the criminal and they failed the family. They
Speaker 3: did fail this criminal community because he should have been
Speaker 3: kept in And the change certainly now is good, meaning
Speaker 3: that moving forward, this exact situation would not play out.
Speaker 3: But it also reminds you of there was a time
Speaker 3: before this was in place, this new bill that let
Speaker 3: a lot of violent people out in the community. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I tell you what did you see? Did you happen
Speaker 3: to see the football story with him?
Speaker 1: No, this is crazy. He played football at Western High
Speaker 1: School and he ended up going to Lindsey Wilson College
Speaker 1: in an AI school in Columbia, Kentucky and his I
Speaker 1: don't think he stayed long. But he was on their
Speaker 1: website on their roster and they have trivia questions to
Speaker 1: learn about players, and one was what do you like
Speaker 1: most about about football? And his quote was he can
Speaker 1: hurt people and it's legal. That makes me You can't
Speaker 1: make that up, right? Yeah, but is that not a
Speaker 1: I mean again mental I'm not a.
Speaker 3: Well Dick Bucket says that in sixty one it means
Speaker 3: something completely different, of course, but.
Speaker 1: But now knowing what this I mean, like, it's hard
Speaker 1: for That's something that was said when he was much
Speaker 1: that it's hard for me to ever think that, like
Speaker 1: with this hit, the life that he's lived with this
Speaker 1: point that like he's a violent criminal and knows it.
Speaker 3: John Channon, do you have the sound from Wave three
Speaker 3: from the lady that he attacked in his car in
Speaker 3: her car? Did you get that.
Speaker 5: Sound no, we did not get anythink she's in her.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say it's hard to guess women's age.
Speaker 3: She's in her sixties, elderly black lady. She had the
Speaker 3: hat on and the and she was dressed really nice.
Speaker 3: And she said, well, I was at the ATM and
Speaker 3: when my car was about to come out, he grabbed
Speaker 3: my arm. She bit him, and when the money came
Speaker 3: spitting out, he grabbed the money. Well, she said, I'm
Speaker 3: not giving up. She revs the engine and hits him
Speaker 3: with her car, runs him over, and then says, well,
Speaker 3: I was put in reversion. I was going to run
Speaker 3: him back over, and he got up and ran away.
Speaker 3: And I said that lady is my hero.
Speaker 1: So satisfying to hear, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Because she looks like she was on the way to
Speaker 3: go to a Bible study. Right, she had the hat
Speaker 3: and she looks so nice, and she was so funny.
Speaker 3: She goes, I bit him and then I ran him
Speaker 3: over at my car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever you gotta do, right.
Speaker 5: You know, whether you guys realize it or not, you both,
Speaker 5: in statements you made here just a minute ago, gave
Speaker 5: perfect reasons why Langford did not need shock probation. Tony,
Speaker 5: you said, he claims he doesn't realize what he did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, was wrong.
Speaker 5: Nick, you said, you pointed out his mental history, uh,
Speaker 5: and his violent issues in the past. Those two things, right,
Speaker 5: there should have been enough to, in my opinion, negate
Speaker 5: him from even being considered for shock probation and somebody
Speaker 5: that needed to stay locked up for the protection of
Speaker 5: the citizens of.
Speaker 1: Jeff You can do the biggest advocate for rehabilitation and
Speaker 1: still make the decision. Yes, we're not to the point
Speaker 1: where this is safe for this individual or society.
Speaker 5: Oh yes.
Speaker 3: But the Christy Miller we had on yesterday it runs
Speaker 3: Judge dot com. She she she's a watchdog for the judges.
Speaker 3: She said, this is unusually.
Speaker 1: I've seen her on TikTok.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's great, she's awesome, and she well and she
Speaker 3: went on to say, most days, you know, nine of
Speaker 3: the sixteen judges show up on average. But she she
Speaker 3: even said, this is a this is an extreme case
Speaker 3: that usually doesn't happen. But how did this happen? We
Speaker 3: need to find out.
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Speaker 1: get lucky. And we and we didn't hear this was
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