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in a six day window. So you know, that's something that hopefully sooner rather than later, they're going to be able to find out who this who this individual is and get them off the streets, not only to keep the city safer with one less violent criminal out there, but also just of course to you know, bring some level of justice. I mean, that's that's that's what's needed,

of course. But yeah, just when you look at last week's events, I felt like towards the end of the week and I'm gonna I'm gonna probably not do a great job it really putting this into words the way I want to, because every thing about the week that we had in Louisville, and it's not just one week, but man, the week that you had the school bus stop shooting on the first day of school, and then the violent situation where a woman had somebody breaking, you know,

home invasion, and then kidnap her and her two daughters and then take them with him to rob a bank and stabbed her. I mean, just an awful situation. And then again you had another school bus stop shooting where somebody lost their life. And then within twenty four hours, in fact, less than twenty four hours after that happened.

we are when it comes to violent crime. Now again, I say that knowing that there has actually been some improvements that you should acknowledge because it's real. It's it's some encouragement, I suppose. But now that we're here into the next week and the story is not as fresh. I just I hope that, you know, because I feel

like the heightened awareness to it. Who knows if this is even real or what would even come of it, But I felt like there were people who, maybe more so now being aware, would be more inclined to just figure out how they can help. And we had Mayor Greenberg one on Friday, and obviously he shared some things that people can do just because they want to help.

And you know, obviously you should always report whatever you see, share any information you have with the police, but also get involved in your community, figure out ways you can maybe be a part of programs that are that are in place to help children who don't have any support system at home, don't clearly have a good structure at home with parents, and they end up finding some acceptance finding I guess where they feel welcomed and appreciated in

a life of violence with gangs. And you know, to me, that's just I think it's pretty obvious what's happened here is that, and and that's and no, not every situation is the same, but I do feel like we clearly have a violent crime issue for a variety of reasons.

But one being the jew You know, children, they they clearly don't have good structure at home, as I mentioned, and they they find acceptance with gangs, and gangs are getting more you know, I guess we're basically gangs are being given resources to continue to be you know, violent and and a real threat to the safety of our city.

And because some of these young kids aren't being taken into juvenile detention centers for long stays, they end up committing violent crime and then getting released and doing it again. And it's really kept probably gang members from having to truly get their hands involved in crime. And they're utilizing these young, impressionable children who again they they look at it as that's there, that's that's maybe probably the first thing in their life that they felt where they belong

and they feel appreciated. And it's just a cycle that I think without real action, things aren't going to change. And it does sound like there is some action that's

going to take place. And what I mean by that is, you know, we had last week some pretty strong words from our local leaders stating that you're gonna be you're gonna be treated like an adult, and they're they're trying to figure out ways in which they're going to be able to hold parents accountable because of their children committing violent crimes. And clearly that's a slippery slope, but something's

got to give. So again, I hopefully we get some kind of information sooner rather than later as far as identifying the suspect and then figuring out where they are and you know, taking them into custody again for a variety of different reasons, not just because uh, you know, of justice, but also because this is that would be one less dangerous person out there that you know is a threat to our safety in Louisville.

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at eight thirty. We'll be joined by Rorio O'Neil of NBC News to get caught up on a variety of things, and we're looking forward to that conversation with Rory, So stick with us right here on News Radio eight forty whas. I'll tell you what. Initially, I was not really all in on Week zero. I just felt like it was a tease. Don't lie to me and tell me that

college football season is here when it's not. But I've come to enjoy it because Week zero is here, and that means it is fair to say, in fact, it's the truth. We have college football games coming up this weekend that are real, They in fact do matter. They're not scrimmages, which tho doesn't really take place in the college level. But still we've got real games and that

has me very very excited. And we have one local team that's getting off getting off to a start here in week zero, there's only four games that feature FBS teams, and one of those is Western Kentucky. They're going to take on Sam Houston State on Saturday. But the other matchups, you've got Iowa State in Kansas State that'll be at noon, Fresno State and Kansas will play at six thirty, and then at seven thirty you got Stanford and Hawaii.

and Louisville tried. I mean, you know, it's what it could have should have. But Louisville did attempt to get both I think it was Ole Miss and Tennessee on the schedule this year because they wanted to play one of those non conference games and those teams didn't want to play Louisvelane. To be honest with you, I get it, like there's just when it comes to strategy, and same

thing with Indiana. I mean Indiana, it's it's it's understandable for them to realize because they have the proof they can schedule the way that they've scheduled and not challenge themselves at all of the non conference and do well enough of the Big Ten and still get a ticket to the playoff. They literally just did it last year

and they you know, they didn't have it. I mean, it was proof that hey, we can we have a nine game league schedule that is more likely than not going to be challenging regardless of how the schedule is digged out. But also it's the Big Ten. It's clearly the second best conference in college football, and there may be years where it's the best conference, just depending upon

what happens, So I understand it. I just think from a fan standpoint, when I think of the college football playoff expanding, the negative impact of that is that the regular season games clearly do not matter as much as they did whenever there was a two team championship game or even a four team playoff, and that has led to now you can schedule nothing games for a third of your schedule if you'd like, and it still won't impact you to not get in if you take care

of business in conference play. That's where I feel like, from a fan standpoint, the product of college football there's more inclusion, meaning teams like Indiana who just did it, and of course even Louisville and Kentucky in certain seasons can realistically see themselves making it not as much Kentucky. And I don't say that to do the rivalry thing. I just think with Kentucky, I mean they're in the SEC.

I mean they're clearly going to have I mean this year they could be substantially better, but it not show on the record because of how tough their schedule is.

also previously on the sports side. As far as boomer millennial gen Z, we I've never I don't know if it's just because of where we fall in the range that we're in. I've just like I don't, I don't often think about is this person a boomer, are they gen Z whatever? But and by the way, for those that don't know the age range, it may surprise you, and you are you are technically considered a gen Z, but you, to me, don't necessarily like you're the back. You're the very back end of the gen Z.

home actually reduces stress and boost focus. The outdoors is essential. Fresh air and movement aren't optional, They're necessary. Yeah, I mean these are things that more than anything for me, I never doubted the importance. Now I am older, with more life experience and have a family my own to

where yeah, they were right, but I didn't doubt. You boomers just know that It's just that I didn't have the experience to know one way or the other, and I really didn't care because I was a kid whenever these things were probably being stressed by those that are of the boomer rage range. I feel like you might be a boomer John, I might be.

anything like it is now with devices and technology. So you know, I just I think that when you didn't have access to see as much as we can see now across the world and see how other people live, and just access to information and being you know, exposing yourself to things all over the world, Yeah, there's a lot of value in that, but I think like from a societal standpoint, you didn't know what you didn't know, so you didn't have anything to encourage you to think

that you're well off or that you're poor, like you weren't, Like you weren't trying to Because people do it every day and they don't realize it what they see on social media and Facebook, Instagram, from either celebrities or even their peers. I just think so many people end up, without even realizing it, trying to either match that or

do better than that. And when you didn't have that, you just you got up and you saw who you interacted with, by who you and like physically you had to see somebody to interact with them, maybe you could call them. And I just think people were more content with life because again they didn't have the ability to see where they really stood in society because it just you know, we didn't have access to that.