Experience the Music of Louisville, Kentucky

Chaz Rough: Welcome everyone to this edition of looking at Louisville! My name is Chaz. Stacey Yates: And I’m Stacey. Chaz Rough: You know this is the Spring Break family editions. Stacey Yates: Family—this is family. Chaz Rough: That’s right family. We’re coming to you from Lynn’s Paradise here in Louisville, and what a great way to start Spring Break with the kids for breakfast, lunch and maybe dinner. Stacey Yates: This is Louisville original restaurant. It’s more than a restaurant. Chaz Rough: People from all around the world—map over here on the wall, where it shows people had to come here from every continent had been here. Stacey Yates: Mark our spot. Well we did a little background, so we thought we’re going to start with breakfast, but we got up a little late. So we started with lunch actually. I had a grilled Portobello mushroom and it’s awesome! Chaz Rough: I had a grilled chicken sandwich and some cantaloupe and its like at home. It’s very much home cooking and what I like about it is the salt and pepper shaker—nothing matches. This is a very eclectic restaurant. Stacey Yates: I didn’t want to tease you a little bit, but what we would have had for breakfast and now we’re having for dessert and that is queens’ essential dishes here. In fact this one, in an episode of Go down with Bobby Plate, this is the French toast— Chaz Rough: And she beat him. Stacey Yates: She beat him and this is just a wonderful example of that. We also got a fairly melting Bourbon Ball Milkshake that you want to check out where you’re here. Chaz Rough: Now, we’re going to have to burn to all. So what are we going to do to burn out this food? Stacey Yates: Louisville has a lot of things that you can do over Spring Break and we’re going to refer back to some of the previous podcast that we did—things like the Kentucky Derby Museum and the some wonderful attractions. Today, we’re going to talk about—so we can walk off these calories starting at the Louisville Science Zoo. We’re going to visit a great attraction at the local zoo, 1-year old baby Scottie, the elephant that was born. We’re going to visit him, he’s going to be celebrating a birthday over at Spring Break with some people, and then I’m going to end things on Museum downtown Louisville on Main Street. It’s a local science center, it’s Kentucky’s largest. Chaz Rough: Well now if you like to be a part of this podcast it’s really easy. Send us an email at podcast@gotolouisville.com, you can ask your question—whatever you want to send us, please let us know. You can even probably send me the recipe for this. And if we use it we’ll send you a cool logo sweat, t-shirt, caps or something of that nature, with all that being said this looks really good and we’ll catch you at the Louisville Zoo. Alright, we’re here at the local zoo and I have Dave Campbell here with me and we’ve got Scottie and of course the other animal is Stacey. Now, Dave tell us a little about Scottie because he was born in captivity here at the local zoo. Dave Campbell: Yeah, he was born right at eleven months ago. He weighed in for about 1000 pounds right now. He gains right at two pounds a day. So taking some 22 to 24 years to get full grown and at which he would be give or take almost as tall as that wall about 11 feet tall, 12,000 or 14,000 pounds. He goes outside for a couple of three or four hours and then we’ll—of course we’ll come in the morning and we clean everything. We give him a bath. He mostly nurses. He’s actually starting to eat some hay and grain now. But, you know, not giving some treats and stuff. Chaz Rough: How long will he nurse? Dave Campbell: Give or take a year and a half to two years old. Chaz Rough: When people come out, how often will they see him? How close can they get to him? Dave Campbell: They’ll see him everyday, weather permitting from 10, that we open up until close. Stacey Yates: Well happy birthday baby Scottie! Come check him out at the local zoo. Okay, I left Chaz in lunch with baby Scottie and snuck away with my good friend Kara. And won’t you talk a little about this, which is great to do whatever the weather is because of the indoor environment and then tell us a little bit about the other prominent attractions that people can see when they come to the local zoo. Kara Bussabarger: You are right Stacey, the Louisville Zoo is actually open a year round. We’re only close three days a year. So even if it is cold and nippy outside or it’s raining, we have a lot of great that you can come to like the gorilla forest here. We have currently have 11 gorillas here, so you can come out and spend time here and we actually have some really cool camps going on year round. Stacey Yates: That’s the one where you can actually sleep right where we are right now. Kara Bussabarger: Yeah! If you go to our website Louisvillezoo.org, you can check out all the cool camps we have gone on and one is actually is a family night safari camp out— Stacey Yates: You can actually spend the night here with the gorilla. Kara Bussabarger: You can. You bring your sleeping bags and pull them out and sleep. Stacey Yates: I don’t know who’s on display, you’re watching them and they’re watching your interesting family habits. Kara Bussabarger: That’s right! Stacey Yates: So that would be really cool. Kara Bussabarger: But beyond that there are a lot of cool things going on here at the Louisville Zoo. We have a lot of interactive exhibits like Lorikeet Landing where the birds will come and they’ll land right on you. And Wallabee Walk about where you can walk around in the Wallabees, so they may come right up to you. Stacey Yates: So even if you’re a family Spring Break clan sort of include the wildness of the beach, you can have a wild time here at the local zoo. Chaz Rough: Okay, we’re here now at the Louisville Science sitting down on Main Street and we’re at the IMAX Theater and I got Greg Kowalewski with me and he is the Theater Manager here and we’re here in front of this big McDaddy IMAX player—I don’t know, what do you call this? Greg Kowalewski: Projector. Chaz Rough: Projector! Greg Kowalewski: Yes. Chaz Rough: Now this thing is huge, the wall is huge and you get to show great movies in here. Now, tell us why this is a great place to come for kids and families and mom and dads for Spring Break? Greg Kowalewski: Traditionally, IMAX films are of educational entertainment based. Right now, we are running Hurricane on the Bayou—wonderful film. We are also showing Mummies, Secret of the Pharaohs which is very interesting film and about the mummification process and kind of the history of Etymology – a field in mummies, a study of mummies. In May, we’re going to be opening Dinosaurs Alive. Chaz Rough: Oh that would be great! Greg Kowalewski: Yes! Chaz Rough: Its sounds huge! I’m fanatic! Greg Kowalewski: And we’re going to have exhibit to go along with it. So it’s going to be—you can’t beat it! Stacey Yates: I’m with Scott Alvey, and he is the Director of Visitor Interaction here. And we are in front of the new Brains Exhibit which is temporary exhibit. It’s going to run through— Scott Alvey: Through the first of May. It’s one of three exhibits we get throughout the year and brain obviously has been focused a lot on the human brain. Stacey Yates: I also saw some other brains in there too. Scott Alvey: Yeah, when you—the first off in the exhibit, this one has different types of brains from dinosaur brains, the primates and dogs. Stacey Yates: Right, and I hear that’s a real favorite with the kids. Scott Alvey: Everybody loves to see the real items as possible and that’s a nice aspect of this exhibit is hands on interactive exhibit that talks to you about an item that you normally don’t get much experience with. Stacey Yates: Tell us about the hands on things. What can we expect? Buttons to push, things to feel. Scott Alvey: Things to feel, things to open—there’s a variety of different pieces here because the exhibit talks about brain disorders, talks about brain development though early childhood to adulthood. Chaz Rough: Of course, we made it in to the place that being a big kid myself I love to bring my kids—this is the kid zone here at the Louisville Science Zoo and I’m here with Robin. Now, what is it that kids get to do in the kids zoo exactly? Robin Davis: In Kids Zone, they can be a bus driver, they can fly an airplane, they can be an astronaut and be in space rocket. There’s a water exhibit they can play in it. There are puppets and costumes. There’s a lot of dramatic play—of course it’s just for little children. Chaz Rough: So there’s a lot of freedom and you basically say, yes hands on. We want you to touch everything. Robin Davis: Of course! Everything is hands on here. It’s all about the children. Stacey Yates: I’m here with Arricka Dunsford, she’s the Marketing Director for the Louisville Science Center. Arricka, thank you for having us here. Arricka Dunsford: Oh thanks for coming. This is Den Potep, she is our resident mummy and she has been with the Science Center as long as the Science Center has been around. And she was actually recently identified as a female. She is in fact now a female. Stacey Yates: Now we know, okay. Arricka Dunsford: She was a part of Saint Louis Worlds fair. That’s how Louisville actually got her here. So she is probably our most popular exhibit here even though we are a science and technology center. Chaz Rough: Well I would say, we’ve had a very fun day. You know as far as for Spring Break goes these are some great stuff. Stacey Yates: It’s really been one of my favorite podcast taping because of the behind the scene stuff that we got to do the cool things. And we are in a theater all to ourselves. We get to do that! Chaz Rough: Right, and we get to either see let’s see the living sea, the— Stacey Yates: Mummies. Chaz Rough: Mummies, Wired Wind or— Stacey Yates: Hurricane in the Bayou. Chaz Rough: Hurricane in the Bayou. Stacey Yates: Which that’s kind of my pick. Chaz Rough: Yeah your pick. Stacey Yates: I’m all about the Bayou. Chaz Rough: But you what, ladies choice today so— Stacey Yates: Alright thank you. Chaz Rough: So, thank you all very much for hanging out with us and as— Stacey Yates: Enjoy your Spring Break! Chaz Rough: That’s right! So as always— Stacey Yates: You’re looking at Louisville!