This week’s show, with lovely guest co-host Laura Wallace, features two Bourbon City Guests of the Week, brought to you by the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau. The first one may restore your faith in America’s youth. It’s Tim Lawrence, the top exec of SkillsUSA, and student MacKenzie Oestreich, who tell me why 19,000 high-achieving champions are walking Louisville’s streets this week. If you’re listening on Thursday, you can still go to the KEC and see these brilliant students compete.
I got to visit a wonderful, unique spot downtown to talk with David Levine and Lisa Porter, who are the brains and energy behind this weekend’s vintage urban market at the Waterfront, Fleur De Flea. Their warehouse on Main Street is dark and full of “vintage” stuff, like a singing half-Elvis.
There’s also plenty of news to get to – how Gov. Bevin believes that phones are the big cause of school shootings, how Mitch McConnell’s life was made unpleasant by protestors in D.C. and a trio of sports-related stories — the groundbreaking of the soccer stadium, the West End’s $30 million track and field facility and new restaurants planned at the new TopGolf at Oxmoor.
On the agenda — the 2013 NCAA Champion Cardinals are gathering at Fourth Street Live, and Taylor Swift is in town for a big show.
