WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.640 All right, good morning, and welcome in Kentucky in his 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:06.320 morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas Nick 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:08.519 coffee with you day two, they let me come back 4 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:10.160 for a second day. I'm going to keep doing this 5 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.240 until they no longer allow me in the building. But 6 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:17.079 welcome in again. Happy Tuesday to you. Going to be 7 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:19.640 a really really hot day today, temperatures getting up to 8 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:22.800 close to ninety, might get to ninety. But we got 9 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:25.359 a lot on the docket, and we'll of course get 10 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:27.920 you your first update on traffic and weather coming up 11 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.679 here in about four minutes. As always, I'm joined by 12 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.719 the crew here. We've got Scotty Fitzgerald, We've got John 13 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.119 Olden and John Shannon will give you your first news 14 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.560 update coming up around five thirty, and we will continue 15 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.079 to discuss a big story from yesterday, certainly, and not 16 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.240 a surprise that with the attention that it got that 17 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:51.920 we heard from Mayor Craig Greenberg in regards to the 18 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.640 situation on Bargetown Road over the weekend, I guess back 19 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.280 to back weekends. As the Mayor has said, no solution 20 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.960 is off the table when it comes to getting this 21 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.799 getting this figured out. We'll let you hear some of 22 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.439 the some of the clips from Mayor Greenberg yesterday, and 23 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.599 I'm sure it'll be covered within the news as well. 24 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.560 But I I've got a thought on just the reaction 25 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.519 of this this situation that I don't I don't really 26 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.560 hear others discussing. Doesn't mean they don't they don't see 27 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.519 it from my point of view, But we'll certainly get 28 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:24.359 into that. Also, a new area code potentially coming to 29 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.000 the area, five oh two could be no more. I mean, 30 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:29.599 if you still have an area code that is five 31 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:30.959 oh two, I think you're you're you know, you're in 32 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.840 good shape. But they're running out of different phone numbers 33 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.959 they can they can provide because of how many they've 34 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.959 already gone with five oh two, And that just sounds 35 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.879 sounds crazy to get a new phone number here in Louisville, 36 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.079 Kentucky and it not be five oh two, But it 37 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.280 sounds like that that could be happening. But also, I mean, 38 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.280 the area code is is often when you put somebody's 39 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.400 number in your phone, do you even remember what area 40 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:55.959 code it is? 41 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.879 Like, Scott, you're with me right? Area codes? 42 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.519 Like again, I think you need to know what when 43 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.799 you take the number but outside of that, I mean. 44 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.760 Dude, I'm like, if I remember somebody's number, it's like 45 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.480 I couldn't tell you my son's phone number right now. 46 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.479 I've had the same cell phone for probably same cell 47 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:16.919 phone number for probably about sixteen seventeen years, and around 48 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.599 that time, I mean, I remember, like my best friend's number. 49 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.520 I remember my mom's work number when I was a 50 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.280 kid and i'd have to call her when I was home. 51 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:26.319 But other than that, if I put your number in 52 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.599 my phone in the last decade, there's a good chance 53 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.000 I don't remember it at all. I couldn't. You could 54 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.840 give me a lineup, I would probably I would just 55 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:34.719 have to guess. 56 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.599 Right right, I mean, I remember our first efferent phone 57 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.319 number to your point, but when I call my son now, 58 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:40.360 I'm just voicing it. 59 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:42.319 Like your home number. Yeah, of course number. 60 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.240 I never forget that you remember those because at the 61 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.199 time you didn't have your you didn't have a smartphone. 62 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.560 You just go to the contact and hit call. You 63 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:50.639 had to dial. This is yeah, I dialed it. I 64 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:51.840 actually set up and dial. 65 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.919 But at the same token, you know, if I call 66 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.199 my son or my daughter or my wife, that's even 67 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.919 if I call anymore. I'm most of the time in texting. 68 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.599 Oh yeah, and that was the hardest thing for my 69 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.000 wife to get used to. My wife's not a text her. 70 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.120 She'd rather call. She likes to hear the voice, she 71 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.159 likes to talk. I text because I'm so busy. 72 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.080 Yeah, I mean, I think most people probably prefer to me. 73 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.199 It's really what you're talking about. I mean, if it's 74 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:15.560 just a quick thing, it could be a text. And 75 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.439 there's certain things where like I know that if I 76 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.639 text this, there's a chance it may be taking out 77 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.520 of context, it may lead to a lot of questions, 78 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.159 which ends up in a lot of back and forth texting. Therefore, 79 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.479 I'm just going to call you and just give you 80 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:29.439 the specific so we don't spend a bunch of time 81 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.479 going back and forth via text. Be a text, I mean, 82 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.599 I can't imagine the life of up the text message. 83 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.479 Oh, it's a game changer, right, we do. 84 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.360 Yeah, It's definitely something that we probably take for granted 85 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.039 because once it became a thing, it became like it's 86 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.520 how most people communicate. So in fact, I remember when 87 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.120 I was in high school it became a big deal 88 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.599 and used to have to pay per text message on 89 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.240 your data plan and my mom got a phone bill 90 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.360 one time and it was not good for me at home. 91 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.080 So where is this new area code supposedly happening? Where 92 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.800 are we talking about the men? 93 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.560 Yeah, no, so it's it's we'll get into the specifics 94 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:05.599 of it a little bit later on, because you know, 95 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:06.960 there's I think the. 96 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:08.120 Two seven zero is safe. 97 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.199 Yeah, but yeah, if there's a plan as far as 98 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.039 what they're going to do if in fact we end 99 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.800 up getting you know, if you know, if they make 100 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:16.120 this change, which we'll get to that a little bit 101 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.759 later on. Also, coming up about five to forty five, 102 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.519 we'll talk to Rory O'Neill. The terror attack that took 103 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.519 place in Boulder over the weekend. Obviously that's been a 104 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.519 big story in the last couple of days. And then 105 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.959 I know, when it comes to sports, Scott's going to 106 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.120 get us updated on the college baseball postseason. 107 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.399 How about Louisville baseball? That awesome. 108 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.959 They were cold as could be heading into the postseason 109 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.759 and now here they are two wins away from Omaha 110 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.000 and they're going to be hosting a Super regional here 111 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.160 at Jim Patterson Stadium for the first time since twenty nineteen, 112 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.720 which that is crazy to say out loud, but it 113 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.800 speaks to one the draft they've been on as far 114 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.839 as big postseason success, and also how spoiled we were 115 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.079 because I felt like they hosted a super regional like 116 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.600 every year for about a decade, but they've certainly been 117 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:56.879 due for one of these big runs. 118 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.160 So it was I was getting a little too used 119 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:00.839 to that, to be honest with you, Nick. It was 120 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.079 like every time you turned around and the crowds started 121 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.000 to show, there were some super regionals moving out to 122 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.279 and there were fans there, but it wasn't packed. 123 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:08.800 Until the end rounds. 124 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.519 I think they were playing Illinois State when my son 125 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.800 that win. So yeah, I'm glad you're bringing that up 126 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.519 because that's a valid point. Now it's been taken away 127 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:17.240 from the fans, we'll see how they respond. 128 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.160 And you have no I mean, you don't want your 129 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.360 success to ever stop at all, but whenever it does 130 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.399 for whatever reason, and then you get back to it, 131 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.000 it feels a little bit better. I mean, Pat Kelsey 132 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.000 brought Louisville basketball back to life to where you were 133 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.079 beating teams called popcorn State, and it used to just 134 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.360 be the expectation, and this year it was it felt 135 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.199 a little better because you'd been you'd gone a while 136 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:40.600 without those kind of wins. So yeah, good stuff. We'll 137 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:42.759 get to sports coming up around five to twenty five. 138 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.680 Your first update on traffic and weather is right now. 139 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.040 It's Kentuckyta's Morning News right here on news radio eight 140 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.319 forty whas. 141 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.680 It is five sixteen here a Kentucky Ata's. 142 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.040 Morning News news radioaight forty whas Nick coffee with you. 143 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.759 Appreciate you guys waking up with us. So after a 144 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:05.959 second straight weekend of big crowds flooding Bargetown Road near 145 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.879 Grinstead Grinstead Avenue, is it Grinstead Drive? I don't know 146 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.920 whats that Avenue Grinstead Drive? Excuse me, apologies there, I 147 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.600 should know I should know that. But anyways, right, Mayor 148 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.199 Craig Breenberg did say that an administration, as you could expect, 149 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.920 is not afraid to take to take action, and it's 150 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:22.839 not at all surprised to see that. You know, this 151 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.079 was a big, big talking point yesterday here locally, and 152 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.680 obviously you hear from the mayor, you hear from the 153 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.519 police chief, and this is a little bit of what 154 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.240 was said and again I don't think many will be 155 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.959 surprised by this response from the mayor. 156 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.399 We are not afraid to take action on businesses or 157 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.720 individuals that are violating the law, that are not acting 158 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.839 properly in what should be an area for people to 159 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:49.560 have safe enjoyment. I share the frustration of the neighbors, 160 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.759 and I'm very proud of the work that we have 161 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:55.439 done over the past year or two in the area. 162 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.240 We have shut down three bars that were not complying 163 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.399 with the room with the rules in the same general vicinity. 164 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.480 So I know there will be more from more sound 165 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.920 from from Mayor Greenberg that you'll hear throughout the morning 166 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.680 in our newscast, as well as Chief Humphrey who talked 167 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.879 yesterday and did talk about it. In fact, let's this 168 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.000 is this is this is probably a big thing for 169 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.639 the for the police department as far as just keeping 170 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.000 it from getting quite to the level that it got 171 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:22.680 to on on Saturday night. 172 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.040 We'll make sure that we are responding to that ahead 173 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.759 of time so that that crowd never gets to the 174 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.199 point where it's it's blocking the street and creating a 175 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.920 dangerous situation where emergency vehicles can't get through. 176 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.720 So look, this is clearly something that they they're they're 177 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.079 gonna through whatever they can to get this fixed to 178 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.560 where this kind of stuff doesn't doesn't happen anymore. That's why, 179 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.480 you know, he's not afraid to take action. And as mentioned, 180 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.639 he says no solution is off the table, and that's 181 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:48.480 that's good. That's what you want to hear. And I'm 182 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.439 sure if you are somebody that lives in the area, 183 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.120 or you are a business owner in the area, you 184 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.560 obviously just want results, you want action. You just you know, 185 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:00.120 because this what happened this past weekend and the weekend priory, 186 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.040 and I wouldn't I wouldn't know if it had gotten 187 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.000 to that level prior. But I know that this is 188 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.720 not insanely uncommon for that that's something like that to 189 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.160 take place on a weekend evening at night when people 190 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:14.720 are out and some of the bars over there, I 191 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.639 mean there are three bars, as Craig Greenberg mentioned yesterday, 192 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:20.920 that had been shut down because of just not complying 193 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.399 with what you need to do in order to be 194 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.120 open for business. However, one thing that has really stood 195 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.319 out to me in the last day or so is, 196 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.080 despite this being an area that a lot of folks 197 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.320 in Louisville have probably frequented it at some point in 198 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:36.480 their life to have, you know, to have a good 199 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:38.360 night out right go to the bars. I mean a 200 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.360 lot of the noise, at least from people that I've 201 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.799 talked to, people that I'm friends with, is Wow, what's 202 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.919 happened to Bargetown Road? The Highlands used to be used 203 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:47.320 to be a place where you would go bar hop 204 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.000 and there were so many different places that you could 205 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:51.879 hit along the way and you would just call it 206 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:53.919 a night. Everybody would get a cab and go home 207 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.720 and you wouldn't see anything like this. And although that 208 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.080 is certainly true, I don't think there's anything that I 209 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.159 just laid out there. As far as the noise you're 210 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.240 hearing from others, that is, that is incorrect. But what 211 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.559 really stands out to me the more I hear that 212 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.919 from folks, and I'm really just talking about people that 213 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.440 I know, friends of mine, and I have some friends 214 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.519 that still that still are in that area a lot, 215 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.720 some live not too far from it, and they've mentioned 216 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:19.440 just sort of what it can turn into, you know, 217 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.159 in the middle of the night on a Saturday night, 218 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:27.200 Sunday morning even, But what we saw on the new 219 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.919 in the news coverage from from wk Y as far 220 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.000 as the I guess the social media videos that they 221 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.159 obtained they ended up making a part of their newscast 222 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.879 and just you know, hearing of people jumping on cars 223 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:41.399 and trying to disarm security, that kind of stuff. I mean, yes, 224 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.679 it's it's bad for it to happen at a place 225 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.519 like Bargetown Road, the Highlands that area because it's a 226 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.440 place where people, you know, want to go and have fun. 227 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.240 But that shouldn't happen anywhere, Like there should be nowhere 228 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:52.919 where that takes place. And you were like, well, okay, 229 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.200 and I don't think anybody's advocating that it should that. 230 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.240 You know, hey, take take this, take this nonsense, Take 231 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.360 these shenanigans elsewhere. But I mean, yes, it happening in 232 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.399 the Islands, especially if you're you know, business owner and 233 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.679 you know you want customers, you want people, don't want 234 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.279 people to be afraid to come and give you business 235 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.720 because of what's going on. But I mean that happening 236 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:12.960 anywhere is something that needs to be addressed. And I'm 237 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.799 sure they know that. But yeah, uh, clearly yesterday you 238 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.279 could tell there's there's there's a plan to let it 239 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.879 be known that that will not be tolerated in any way. 240 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.960 All right, your next update of trafficing weather coming up 241 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.080 right now. Scotty Fitzgerald's got sports as well. Keep it 242 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:32.200 locked right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John. 243 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.240 It is five thirty four here at Kentucky at his 244 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.480 morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick coffee 245 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.799 with you, Scott Fitzgerald alongside as well as John Alden 246 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:42.840 as you just heard there, John Shinn, and we are 247 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.120 the crew taking you up until nine o'clock and then 248 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.320 we'll hand it off to Tony and Dwight, So stick around. 249 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.279 I also want to remind folks you can always take 250 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.519 us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the 251 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:55.440 iHeart Radio. I have also listened live at whas dot com. 252 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.000 As mentioned five, Well, it's close to five thirty five. 253 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.679 I was gonna say five thirty four again, but what 254 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:02.399 I really wanted to do was mention the date because 255 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:06.559 it's June third, which means it was nine years ago 256 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.039 that we had the Well, was it the celebration of 257 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.639 life that was nine years ago? Or was it nine 258 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.279 years ago that Muhammad Ali passed away. Let me double 259 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.720 check this because I should get this correct. Yes, his 260 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:19.720 passing was nine years ago today. It was June third, 261 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.559 twenty sixteen, and there's the I Am Ali Festival at 262 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.159 the Muhammad Ali Center that takes place. It's going to 263 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:30.039 be let's see six weeks from June third, starting today 264 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:34.000 up until July thirteenth. And I was actually reflecting on 265 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:37.000 my nine plus years doing sports just down the hall 266 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.159 on seven ninety WKRD as I was finishing up last week. 267 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.440 And I think at that time, I mean, I was 268 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.200 a lot younger, and I feel like in the moment, 269 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:48.559 if I go back, I would say, oh, you realized 270 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.399 just how big of a you know, how big of 271 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.039 a deal that was. But I'm not really sure I 272 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.519 was old enough, or maybe maybe it wasn't about age. 273 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.200 Maybe it was more so just not being able to 274 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.440 quite realize in the moment how many eyeballs across the 275 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.720 planet were on Louisville as that took place. Obviously is 276 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.679 passing and then the celebration of life. And I don't 277 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:10.440 know if I'll ever have a time in my lifetime 278 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.759 here in Louisville where there was more attention, and it's 279 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:16.639 mentioned more eyeballs on Louisville just because of the impact 280 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.080 that Muhammad Ali had on not only us here in Louisville, 281 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:21.399 his home, but the world. 282 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.399 Yeah, I listened to him. There's an IRIS radio host 283 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.120 that I like to listen to him mid days because 284 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.200 he's really good. I remember that day and he is 285 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:30.639 revered in Ireland. 286 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.000 He is Muhammad Ali is just a hero. 287 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.639 He's almost he's their national hero really when you put 288 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.039 it that way, you know, but he they couldn't stop gloating. 289 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.080 They kept talking about what was going on at Louisville. 290 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.039 And to your point, Nick, I think for me the 291 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.559 whole day, I was just encapsulated by the TV coverage. 292 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.360 When he stopped, they stopped the hearst in front of 293 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:53.120 the Ali Center on sixty four. That was telling the 294 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.320 idea to take the hearst throughout the city, through the 295 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.519 West End, through where he was from, and to see 296 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.200 the massive outpouring by this city, especially in a time 297 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.639 when you're talking we had our fair share of you know, decisiveness. 298 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.279 Sure, you know, but I couldn't get enough of the 299 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.720 coverage anywhere local, nationally. Just it it made me feel 300 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.039 good about being somebody from Louisville and has been here 301 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.919 my whole life. And I think every city probably has 302 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.519 some stories that get some national attention that they are 303 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.519 happy and they think, hey, it makes us look good. 304 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.679 And there's obviously the other side of that, stories that 305 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:29.360 are focused on your city that you know aren't necessarily 306 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.759 a positive look. And we've certainly had that here in Louisville. 307 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.200 And again, we're not alone, but let's be real, we've 308 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:36.200 had especially in the last you know, five six years, 309 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.240 it's been pretty rough, But that doesn't mean there's not 310 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.159 great things going on here. But I feel like in 311 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:44.000 that moment nine years ago, whenever Muhammad Ali passed away, 312 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:45.879 and obviously there was the celebration of life. He had 313 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:48.879 celebrities from across the world coming here to be a 314 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.200 part of the of the big of the celebration of life, 315 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.600 and it was just it was awesome. And again I 316 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:57.559 think back then I was well aware of how rare 317 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.000 that was and just how they'll probably never be anything 318 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.000 quite like this, especially being on the radio, having a 319 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.039 platform to kind of talk about it and be here 320 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.879 where it was all going on. So yeah, I can't 321 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.879 believe it's been nine years. Sometimes I feel like it's 322 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.279 been twenty years. Sometimes it feels like it was just 323 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:11.759 the other day. 324 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.120 I was gonna say, it feels like it's been the 325 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.879 other day. Just to see the people who come in 326 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.759 and the visitors who come in. You hear from folks 327 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:19.279 when you take them to the Ali Center. I took 328 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.039 my family down to the Ali Center and they were 329 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.200 just impressed tenfold. I mean they because it got into 330 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.759 just when I said, let's go to the Ali Center. 331 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.279 They're like, my mom, she's not I'm not a big 332 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.799 boxing fan. She where do I want to go? I mean, 333 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.080 I said, Mom, it's more than that. And she came 334 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.360 down and she started looking into the lives of the 335 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.840 lives of Muhammad Ali, what happened publicly, socially, and then 336 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:42.559 my mom really got into it, and she said that 337 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.360 was impressive and she really enjoyed coming down and being 338 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:45.799 a part of that. 339 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.240 I'll tell you what, I think there's probably many that 340 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.279 really no are just I mean, they don't probably just 341 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:55.039 consider themselves fans of Muhammad Ali, but they maybe super 342 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.840 fans or maybe they and they may they may have 343 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.000 never even watched them in a boxing match, just because 344 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.000 they learned about him through you know, his fame came 345 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.080 from boxing, but obviously he was a larger than life 346 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:09.799 figure and hearing somebody who also from Louisville reached that 347 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.840 level of fame and have such an impact on the world, 348 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.480 but never at any point not make it clear he's 349 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:17.600 from Louisville and he's proud to be from Louisville. If 350 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.279 you're from Louisville, that's really cool. And you really got 351 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:23.480 reminded of just how much he embraced being from here 352 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.720 during that time. And you remember Will Smith showing up 353 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:31.159 and speaking, also Billy Crystal, and then John Ramsey, who 354 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:34.200 of course former colleague of ours here at iHeart Louisville, 355 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.000 very close to Muhammad Ali and his family, and of 356 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:40.320 all of all the people that spoke, and everybody did 357 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.320 a great job. It was such a great, great, great 358 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.720 celebration of life. But I think John Ramsey, and I 359 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:46.840 don't just say this because I know him, but I 360 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:49.519 don't know if anybody did better than him, and you 361 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:53.159 could really tell. So, yeah, nine years since since the 362 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:54.919 chant passed away and the. 363 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.840 Red bike story, Oh yeah, something I'd never heard of 364 00:15:57.879 --> 00:15:58.320 growing up. 365 00:15:58.679 --> 00:15:59.480 I got to Louisville. 366 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.919 I remember I'm glad you mentioned that, Scott, because I 367 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.639 remember thinking, Okay, you're a Louisville native, you know you 368 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.360 claim And I felt like at the time I didn't 369 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.679 know a lot about Mhammad Ali. But there when people passed, 370 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.000 you're gonna learn things you would have never known, because 371 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.440 that's what happens. Those are the conversations that take place 372 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.080 when you look back on somebody's life once they passed away. 373 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.039 So I remember thinking I should know this. 374 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.480 But when when people pass away again, there's just no 375 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.120 way to know everything about everybody. And sometimes there's things 376 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.320 that you know maybe don't come out until you know 377 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.240 long after. So anyways, nine years ago today, Muhammad Ali 378 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:33.919 passed away. All right, your next update on trafficking weather's 379 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.080 coming up right now, and we're going to be joined 380 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.159 coming up at about five forty five by Roy O'Neil 381 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.799 BBC News to talk about this terror attack that took 382 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.440 place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend. Stick around right 383 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.480 here our news Radio eight forty whas five forty five 384 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.639 Here a Kentucky Anda's morning news on news Radio eight 385 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.720 forty whas. Nick Coffee with you. We now welcome in 386 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.120 Rory O'Neil from NBC News to discuss the terror attack 387 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.000 that took place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend. 388 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:00.600 Good morning. 389 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:05.599 It sounds as if this suspect acted alone, but also 390 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:07.680 it sounds as if this was something that he had 391 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:08.960 planned for quite some time. 392 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:13.079 Now we've learned yeah, and it it appears that this suspect, 393 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:16.400 Mohammed Salabon, had actually been working on this for about 394 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:20.599 a year, searching the internet, using YouTube videos to figure 395 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.279 out how to make molotov cocktails and this improvised flame 396 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.160 thrower that he allegedly used in the attack that happened 397 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.880 on Sunday. We know that there were the hate field messages. 398 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:34.000 He was shouting things like free Palestine and trying to 399 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.599 kill Jewish people, so we know that was all there 400 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.039 at the scene as well. He's facing what sixteen counts 401 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.240