If you haven’t listened, here are links to the last two Rusty Satellite Shows. David Jones Jr. and Smith Haynie Mark Carter and Emily Gimmel
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David Jones Jr. Takes Breakfast Crowd to School
David Jones Jr. began his talk at the Breakfast of Champions event by harkening back to his first job -- as a schoolteacher in China. From there he proceeded to inform an audience of about 60 at the University Club about the crisis that is our education system and the urgent need for change.
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Legends on Both Sides of Main Street- Honoring Haynie and Ripken
On the north side of Main, at the Frazier History Museum, it was the preview reception for “Hugh Haynie: The Art of Opinion”. Across Main, at the Slugger Museum, it was the preview exhibition for the 10th annual Auction, where Cal Ripken Jr. was receiving a Lifetime Legend award.
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More Interesting Guests for Rusty — John Nation and Steve Coomes
I was a little worried about taking a portrait of John Nation, who has only done a few thousand really professional shots of all sorts of famous people during three-plus decades as a professional photographer. Thankfully, he suggested the pose here outside the Louisville.am studios with his most recent project, 100 Fascinating Louisville Women....
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The Great Halloween Debacle of 2013; Rusty’s in Old Louisville with Mike Berry and Larry Muhammad
The date of Halloween is Oct. 31. On that date, children dress up in costumes, knock on the doors of their neighbors, yell 'Trick or Treat" and merrily collect bags of candy. Now when I was dressing up as a pirate in the South End, our biggest fear was that some sicko would insert...
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Listen Up — Eric Crawford in Studio, Tyler Allen in Transit with Rusty
If you haven't driven around downtown lately, I recommend you call up Tyler Allen and let him whip you through the bridge construction debris and listen in as he tells you about all the mistakes made along the way, how Jerry Abramson insulted him and how he really believed the city would adopt the...
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Better to Talk Bats and Bourbon
This week’s Rusty Satellite Show gave me a chance to visit the Derby Museum for a mid-afernoon bourbon tasting. Fred Minnick definitely knows his whiskey, and it got him a cool new job over there as “bourbon Authority.” The Derby Museum, attempting to capitalize on the popularity of bourbon, has created a special room...
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The Case of the Cards’ Coulda Beens
I was tailgating in the parking lot. Perfect weather, good friends, tasty food, a challenging yet thoroughly beatable opponent warming up a half-mile north. These Cards, this group of players and coaches, seemed to be the ones that were going to get us all giddy, to get the University of Louisville, of all schools,...
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Put Louisville’s Ben Rhodes on Top of NASCAR Voting
Ben is the 16-year-old racecar driver who is making a name for himself in the NASCAR K&N Series, a small step away from racing with the Sprint Cup drivers in the top of the sport. He's having a great year, racing on the biggest tracks in the country, competing with drivers who are usually...
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Paradis on Worm Poop; Bar Belle Drinks it up on Rusty 16
This week Rusty ventured into NuLu to talk local foods and farms with Steve Paradis, and had a cold one with LEO Weekly’s Sara Havens, who brought good news about the LEO Reader’s Choice Awards. And I have things to say about the U of L Lacrosse coach, the state’s handshake rules for high...
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