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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, Joe. It is six o four here Kentucky.
This Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight
forty WHAS take us with you wherever you go this morning.
Listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at
WHAS dot com. I do want to remind folks this
started last week, but we are now into phase two
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of the routine inspections on the Clark Memorial Bridge, and
with Phase two starting today, this is actually when traffic
is more so expected to be an issue. So if
you're somebody that commutes across that bridge, Clark Clark Memorial
expects some delays and look, if I'm wrong and the
delays weren't there, then good. But it was something that
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they wanted to point out that when Phase two starts,
which again today June sixteenth, that's when apparently the inspectors
are going to be climbing the bridge's steel trust to
examine the upper steel beams, and apparently that will cause
more of a delay because of what goes into that.
So just be prepared and if you have, you know
your you've got a way. And I remember last week,
whenever we talked about this, I was acting as if
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there's all kinds of different routes you can take, and no,
there's actually not, because there's only a few bridges when
it comes to getting to Kentucky and Louisville. So just
keep that in mind, folks. You've also, as you could expect,
talked a lot about the assassination that took place on
Friday and a near one that took place as well
not long after it, and just just an absolutely tragic situation.
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And we did talk with Rio and Nei a little
bit earlier. And I shouldn't feel this way, but there's
nothing this suspect could say that would in any way
make anything. I mean, it's part of me says no.
I don't want to hear anything. There's nothing he could
say that that would justify what he did by killing
two people and attempting to kill two others. But I
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am intrigued to kind of hear, you know what, what
led to somebody being just this awful and insane. I
think we have some ideas as far as what the
motive is. But if you ever found yourself being interested
in true crime to you know, my daughter loves those
and I've never felt bad about it, and I don't overall.
But you know, there's there's part of me that at
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times like, well, maybe we're giving this awful person what
they want. They get this level of attention and notoriety,
obviously for terrible reason, but I don't think they really
care when it comes to, you know, some of the
things that that that that they end up doing. But
if he talks, we'll we'll we'll get I guess what
led to him going to that, going to that? I
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heard that extreme.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I heard some reports yesterday coming out that this guy
was sort of talking to his neighbors and there were
some red flags that were put up at that point.
But you don't know what makes people ticket. It's a
classic example, you don't know what goes out. I was
thinking about that was out cutting the grass Saturday. We'll
get around my neighborhood. You just don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, who you never know, And then the minute you no,
you know what's going on in somebody's head, you never know.
I mean, you just never know. Yeah, And you mentioned
red flags. I mean, I would imagine it's probably one
of those things that it's a tough spot to be
in if you feel like the red flag was there
but you didn't realize it was a red flag until
it's way too late.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm sure that happens all the time, right every time. Yeah,
you know what, that was kind of odd. That person
was behaving really weird. I didn't think much of it,
you know, thought about it for a few seconds, and
then I just never thought about it again. And then
you have something. And it's not to say that those
people feel any way responsible, but if they do feel
as if well, I don't know, maybe I should have
said something that would be that'd be tough. But I
think some things that are red flags, it's almost impossible
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to know in real time one what somebody's actually going
to do, but also that that would actually be the
red flag. It's just it's wild.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We've seen some of our neighbors some different behavior that
comes about, and sometimes they're just different, that's who they are.
But it harkens back to the day as I was
listening to some of the accounts yesterday. If you see something,
say something, Yeah, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter anymore,
just go in and speak up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also, something else we touched on earlier, the protest that
took place all across the country. Louisville had one of
those as well, the No Kings protest. And I'm sure
we have many listening that are on one complete side
and others that are on the exact opposite side as
far as what they think about these protests. But what
I ask is, can't we all agree that despite around
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four thousand people showing up in downtown Louisville, different places
throughout you even had some smaller protests that took place
in the Highlands near Barchtown Road by mid City Mall,
yet some just across the river in New Albany Jeffersonville
as well. So I can't speak for the Southern Indiana
aspect of it. But when it comes to the downtown
presence again, they estimated around four thousand, and it looks
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like it took place from about noon to four pm,
and once four pm hit it concluded and throughout the
entirety of it there were no arrests. That's about all.
I mean, that's best case scenario, given the fact that
regardless of what you think of these protests, people were
still going to be able, people were still going to
do it like it wasn't like we were going It
wasn't like it was going to be prevent it from
happening at all, and they have the right to do
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it peacefully. And you know, I'm sure if you were
there on site, you may have your money, you may
have your opinion on what's peaceful and what's not. But
law enforcement was clearly there a lot of presents from
LMPD and they didn't see anything that was an arrestable offense.
So again, I feel like that's best case scenario, to
be honest with you, especially when you look around the
country elsewhere. That's not the case in a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Places, absolutely, And you know, I just like, like we
heard with the pool in the way, the city's on
top of this now and I just think, there's this
and I tiped my head to the mayor. You can
say what you want about the mayor. I'm political atheist.
I have no allegiance anywhere. The mayor and the LMPD
and in the city as a whole are collectively working
together to kind of keep this stuff contained. Let's home
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it stays that way, but they're taking action, and I
think that's what the citizens of Louisville and the city
have demanded for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I feel like Louisville leadership, at least right now given
and I'm talking about what's taking place really in the
last few weeks specifically. I mean, I think they're doing
a good job of balancing for everyone involved, those who
completely you know, for both sides, and I hate to
say that it's this side that side, but let's be real,
it is. We've never been more divided than we are
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right now. It seems so all right, what I want
to get to coming up here in just a few
minutes after we get our next update on traffic and weather.
The Kroger here in Louisville that was that was shut
down is expected to reopen today. But never a good
thing whenever you get shut down by Louisville Metro Department
of Public Health for rodent infestation. So we'll talk about that,
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and Morgan, your next update of traffic and weather's right
now right here on New's Radio eight forty whas six fifteen.
Hereuckyains Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
forty whas. So this was in one of the earlier newscasts,
and I'm sure if you're somebody that frequents this store,
then you're well aware of what's going on. But the
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Kroger location on Gauss Avenue, I guess near the Schnitzelberg
Germantown area was closed down. Actually is that it's Goss's Avenue?
Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Someone I go to. I go to this one during
the week.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So they were closed down over the week and expected
to reopen today. And it was because they had multiple
failed health inspections by the Louisville Metro Department of Public
Health and Wellness. They were flagged for pest control and
sanitation issues, rodent infestation. Apparently there were rodents. I mean,
just it sounds like they've done what's needed to be
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able to get the green light to reopen, which is
certainly good. But I'd be a liar if I said
this wouldn't impact my future trips to this location. Scott,
you go to this location? Are you? Are you still
going to die?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was there Friday, and because usually Friday I go
stock up on my lunch stuff for the week, and
I'm good, and I walked in. I noticed they had
an aisle that I frequent was closed down and they
had curtains around it, and I thought maybe this was
just something that that they they do a cleaning for
you know, they pull sections aside and they do cleanings.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I can get home. It's on the news. Mark goes,
don't you go there?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And I said, yeah, I was just there today, and
she goes, you didn't see this, and I said, yeah,
I didn't know what it was for. And the store
was still packed on Friday. It wasn't keeping people away.
I guess that the city comes in and says it's okay,
I'll get because the stuff I buy, like, let's be honest,
if anything looks tampered with, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Can I tell you where the road and infestation was
found and we'll see if it's something you buy. Because
there were three aisles closed Friday, there was.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
One that I wanted to go down then.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And then they ended up shutting the whole place down
before they get they're going to reopen this morning. But
the three aisles at the Gulf Avenue Kroger were closed
Friday after they found evidence of rodent infestation and these
The statement from the Health Department said that they discovered
evidence of a rodent infestation in three aisles that included
bread and pasta products. So was that what you were no, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, I go down the condiment aisle because I love
my hot sauce. Okay, and so, but that is right
next to the bread ale because luckily, I'm I'm a
pretty low carb kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I don't need a lot of bread.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is uh wow, kroger Is. I mean there's kroger
Is all over the place. I mean, they're a very
very successful business, so I doubt this is going to
be some huge issue for them moving forward. No, but
it is a black eye when it comes to you
having to shut down for this specific reason. And I
don't I have no clue what others are going to do.
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And I'm certainly not telling you what to do. You
can do whatever you want. I'm not even the most
like put it this way to give you a level
of sort of where I am as far as trusting
if things are clean and not tampered with and that
kind of stuff, like if something is lightly expired, I'll
probably eat it and not and not think about it
for a second. If that makes me a disgusting human being,
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I'm sorry, just being honest with you. But when I
hear that there's just these two words rodent infestation, even
if you do everything you can to prove you could break,
you could tear the place down and rebuild it. I
think road infestation is going to always be in my
mind when I think of that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Dude, you it makes you wonder how many more of
these are in places that haven't been.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So you don't want to know? I know, right well,
think about this, you know, how do you know how
many businesses similar meaning maybe not maybe not just grocery
store types of places, but just like there's businesses that
are sweating because they're like, uh oh, yeah, we know
we've got some roadent issues going on, and we're doing
our best to bandage it and not let it get
to this level. But I just think those two words
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road and infestation is going to turn a lot of
people off. Also when it gets to the point that
you you had to be shut down by the Louisville
Metro Public Health and Safety because of how bad it was.
It's just it's tough, it really is. John. Would you
would you would this if this was a store that
you frequented, would you no longer frequent?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I would at the very least stay away from it
for a little while to make sure that no other
similar stories arise over the next probably month is probably
at least the amount of time I would give it.
I know my wife wouldn't want me shopping there for
at least some amount of times. So, and there's plenty
of other places I could shop at, so I definitely
wouldn't be going to it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
There's a lot of different types of rodents. But I mean,
it's got to be rats, right, I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I shouldn't say it sounds like, Okay, I don't know that, so.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Don't you know? But when you when you consider the
animals that are in the like in that in that world,
I mean, the only one I could think of that
would be there would be rats. And I'm and not
only are those disgusting animals in my opinion, they scare me,
like they freaked me out right where I go. That
place is opening up at nine o'clock. If I went
in there today, I would be like walking on my
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tiptoes looking around thinking I'm gonna stay. Just that's more
so just me being a weirdo about how gross rats are.
But yeah, road infestation, that didn't it just sounds awful.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I could go because we had a we had mice
in our home, and I could go on all day.
But there were times I didn't tell all that. There
was one time I found a household snake in one
of our mice traps. Mouse traps. I did not say
a thing to my wife. Well, I talked about it
on the show somebody would go to church with.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So you later got outed.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
She said it right in front of him.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
My man had a couple of beers and decided to
disclose this in front of my wife. I'm like, appreciate you, bro,
thank you. But I'm not as creeped out by mice.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I mean was she Was she happier that you
didn't tell her?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
She was.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But because she didn't tell her for good reason. Yeah,
she's like, I knew what you do to her. You
knew that you got it taken care of. There was
no benefit from her knowing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It was creepy to see though at first. At first
I walked down.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I've got the chills right now thinking about snakes and rats.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I know you do. Yeah, now I don't mind mice.
I can do mice rat.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah. Different world, different world, those two animals right there.
All right, we got an update of traffic and weather
coming your way right here right now, and news Radio
eight forty whas thank you, Joe. It is six thirty
four here Konsecuta's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News
Radio eight forty w h A S getting your week
started here. Hopefully you enjoyed the weekend a good Father's
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Day week and it was for us around here, and
hopefully it was the same for you. Now this story
is it happened probably within an hour or so of
when we ended the show on Friday, So we're going
back a little bit, but it's certainly worth bringing up
because there was a scary and somehow miraculous ability to
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avoid a disaster when there was the wreck that took
place on Friday morning around I think around ten am
there was a semi truck on sixty five near the
Kennedy Bridge that it ended up in a fiery crash,
where an eighteen wheeler on fire dangled briefly off of
an overpass before eventually falling. And not only was it
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a wild visual to see, just think about these two
things together, a truck dangling off of an overpass near
the Kennedy Bridge also up in flames in a major way.
I mean, it looked like something you see in a movie.
But what I think is crazy, and I'm not indicating that,
like in any way there's any specific reason for this happening.
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But there's now been three incidents very similar in the
last fifteen months or maybe actually less than that, roughly
thirteen months, we've had three separate incidents involving semi trucks
getting into an accident either on a bridge or on
an overpass to where they end up dangling off of it.
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And again I'm not saying that there's like anybody specifically
as it fault. If there is any real consistency here,
it's probably people not monitoring their speed when they're in
certain spots. But think about how crazy that is. I
posted the pictures on my Facebook page if you guys
want to check it out. Nick Coffee is where you
can find it. Also on Twitter slash xit the card
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connect And these aren't my photos by any means, but
just photos up to three different incidents. And it started,
of course back in this was in This was in
March maybe of twenty twenty four. This is the one
that made national news just because of the visual of
the It was that four vehicle crash that took place
on Second Street Bridge and you had that Cisco semi
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truck just dangling and you had first responders there, fire
department that had to kind of kind of what do
you call it a repel off of the bridge and
get in there and save her. I mean, that was
that was insane to see the heroic act there and
just again it's the visual. I mean, there's a reason
why it ended up getting coverage live on CNN and
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Fox and whatnot, because you got to get a look
at this. You won't believe it's a there's a semi
truck dangling off of a major bridge. So that was
a huge story. And then there's one that happened the
day after Derby May fourth of this year. This was
on I sixty five South at the Kennedy Bridge, and
you had something similar a wreck where straight up the
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semi truck is dangling off. And then again we had
this on Friday. Again, I'm not bringing it up to
say somebody, you know, look, clearly they're gonna look into
this and figure out as best they can what they
can do to, you know, prevent this from happening. But
you know, and maybe they do find out that there's something,
there's something at fault when it comes to like the
roadway or whatnot. I'm just bringing it up because I
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think it's insanely you know, what are the chances of
those kind of things happening? Ever, we've had it happen
three times and roughly a year and a quarter.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, and it was, like you, I saw those images
and it was just they look horrific, and so I
again started again. I love social media, and I started
reading some of the truckers that we're talking. I'd be
interested talking to some of the truckers. I'm working on
a story for that for Kentucky Focus. You know, there
are some there's a strong need for truckers. Are we
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pushing them through the trucking courses too fast? Are we
allowing people to get behind rigs that maybe aren't qualified
or wouldn't have been qualified just five ten years ago
because we're trying to fill that shortage. Is this an
experience factor or because that's been there for a while. Yeah,
and it's only, like you mentioned, it's only been recently
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we've had these incidences. So are we seeing more inexperienced
drivers taking that maybe a little too fast or what
negotiate the way they should.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
When I think, well, it wouldn't be a shocker if
we found out that all of these incidents that took
place the you know, take away the fact that it's
a bridge and that it's a semi there's a lot
of different causes for an accident, right, I mean, you know,
there's probably not anything specifically tied that that is, you know,
there's probably not one specific thing that has led to
these three things happening happening separately, but it just makes
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you wonder. I think a lot of people when I
posted the photos, it was a lot of people, you know,
basically saying that you know, the cities at fault or whatnot,
and look, maybe there are I'm not here to say
one way or the other. I wouldn't know. But anytime
these things happen, you do get comments from from the mayor.
This when the one that took place where the first
one that got again national attention at that point, Mayor
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Greenberg noted that there's been ongoing discussions with KYTC about
safety improvements, including epoxy surface treatment and replacing some areas
that it needed to be I guess upgraded. I guess
he's talking about the road specifically there and then here recently,
the latest one that happened, this one right after Derby
on May fourth, emphasized the ongoing collaboration once again with
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KYTC to enhance safety in the area. So again, probably
information will never get and it may not even matter.
But now I'm thinking, Okay, when it comes to the
three separate incidents, what's the experience level of each truck driver?
Is that area an area they drive across frequently or
did they not know what they were getting into and
came in a little too hot. It's just and what's
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wild is that what took place on Friday. I mean
the driver was able to escape before the fire happened.
There were no explosions. You know, there was no hazardous
materials in the because when it fell to the ground.
I mean if there would have been hazardous materials in there,
I mean imagine what that and that could have easily
been the case, right, I mean, it wouldn't have been
a shocker if that fed eighteen wheeler was hauling something
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that would have been major disaster had as Matt Yeah,
crazy stuff. So it's just the visual of it is wild.
It looks like some AI movie type special effects, but no,
it was it was real. And seeing the videos and
the pictures from those that were just out and about
on the road near it, wild stuff, wild stuff, no doubt.
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It was this. I mean, if you want to do that,
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Speaker 2 (20:20):
I love corrections I and I've told this. I've said
this since day one when I got on the radio.
The audience is the best. I'm not I'm not perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You're better than me. I'm not a big fan of
the police.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't mind them at all. I'm like, bring it,
you know, because I love it. Because I love it
helps me in a lot of ways too. But you know, hopefully, Nick,
I was listening to some of those you sent prior
to and we're going to try to put those together.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
We get enough one, we're gonna try to put them together.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
At the end of the week and maybe get a
pulse because I think what it does is it provides
an accurate feed of how people think in this city.
As we were talking earlier, some of the biggest stories,
the crowgra on Goss Avenue, the truckers.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
On sixty five.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Immediately I go to social media, and I go to
our page to start with, because I like to see
what people are saying, especially our listeners, and we can
get a real feel for that. And then I'll jump
over to lky are Media partners there and I think
with the talkback feature that you mentioned, that provides a
great venue and we sort that stuff out.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You can tell.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, I know from working at the station five
in the morning, you know for a while that different
people calling it five in the morning.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, five am crowd. You really never know what
You're got people starting their day. You got people ending
their day. That's exactly right. And to be fair, I
don't mind being correct. To trust me, I've probably been
wrong about a few things within the two and a
half minutes of this segment, like trust me, I'm wrong.
Often it's not about that, it's just those that go
about it in a way of like they put you
on the radio, right, it's wrong, you do fis right?
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And you know what I love is either trolling them
at times like oh no, I think you need to
go check yourself because I think you know, even when
I know I'm wrong, if they're being nasty about it,
I'll just tell them, Oh no, I'm right, you're wrong,
and then they'll really want to This guy's squeezy. He
stinks he's still right, and I probably shouldn't do that.
That's childish of me. I suppose. Sometimes I'll give them like,
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you know, again, there's a way to go about it,
and at times when somebody's just wanted to I guess
dunk on me for being wrong. When I don't give
them the response of like challenging them, I'm like, oh
my god, thank you so much, then they feel empty.
They didn't get fulfilled by insulting me because I'm instead
of being angry and offended, I'm apologetic.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's over the ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket. And that's
what I was trying to tell mister Cruz when he
was on the air. I said, you know you don't
have to respond.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In fact, when Will Clark used to get those all
the time, because Wellie would say some stuff that would
be but everybody loves Will Clark.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
So I said, what you.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Need to do is when you get an email, read it,
learn from it, and then you move on. And when
I say move on, when you delete it, then delete
it out of your recycle bin. Because if you don't
delete it out of your recycle bin. Like when you're
missing a tooth, he keeps sticking your tongue up there,
or you miss your tooth, you'll keep going back to it.
And that's the thing I've learned is that I love
critis because I have to sort some's warranted, some admittedly not.
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But it helps me be a better person. And and
I just I learned also to move on.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And this is not obviously a caller driven show. That's
just not what this is. But I learned in my
previous world whenever I did have a show that was
more so interactive with listeners and phone calls and whatnot,
it's better radio if somebody's gonna call and disagree with
you or take you to task on something, or even
like insult you. I mean, I'm not encouraging that people
shouldn't be me to one another. Like because I said
(23:29):
your team's not as good as as you know you
think they are, doesn't mean you should call me and
tell me that I'm ugly. But that's just how some
people are wired. But you know, again, if you I don't,
I don't. I didn't want to make this conversation into
something where people should be hesitant to tell us what
they really think, So tell us what you really think again.
Talk about features there on the Ahet Radio app, and
we hope to hear from from many of you. All Right,
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Thank you, Joe. It is six o four here Kentucky.
This Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight
forty WHAS take us with you wherever you go this morning.
Listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at
WHAS dot com. I do want to remind folks this
started last week, but we are now into phase two
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of the routine inspections on the Clark Memorial Bridge, and
with Phase two starting today, this is actually when traffic
is more so expected to be an issue. So if
you're somebody that commutes across that bridge, Clark Clark Memorial
expects some delays and look, if I'm wrong and the
delays weren't there, then good. But it was something that
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they wanted to point out that when Phase two starts,
which again today June sixteenth, that's when apparently the inspectors
are going to be climbing the bridge's steel trust to
examine the upper steel beams, and apparently that will cause
more of a delay because of what goes into that.
So just be prepared and if you have, you know
your you've got a way. And I remember last week,
whenever we talked about this, I was acting as if
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there's all kinds of different routes you can take, and no,
there's actually not, because there's only a few bridges when
it comes to getting to Kentucky and Louisville. So just
keep that in mind, folks. You've also, as you could expect,
talked a lot about the assassination that took place on
Friday and a near one that took place as well
not long after it, and just just an absolutely tragic situation.
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And we did talk with Rio and Nei a little
bit earlier. And I shouldn't feel this way, but there's
nothing this suspect could say that would in any way
make anything. I mean, it's part of me says no.
I don't want to hear anything. There's nothing he could
say that that would justify what he did by killing
two people and attempting to kill two others. But I
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am intrigued to kind of hear, you know what, what
led to somebody being just this awful and insane. I
think we have some ideas as far as what the
motive is. But if you ever found yourself being interested
in true crime to you know, my daughter loves those
and I've never felt bad about it, and I don't overall.
But you know, there's there's part of me that at
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times like, well, maybe we're giving this awful person what
they want. They get this level of attention and notoriety,
obviously for terrible reason, but I don't think they really
care when it comes to, you know, some of the
things that that that that they end up doing. But
if he talks, we'll we'll we'll get I guess what
led to him going to that, going to that? I
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heard that extreme.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I heard some reports yesterday coming out that this guy
was sort of talking to his neighbors and there were
some red flags that were put up at that point.
But you don't know what makes people ticket. It's a
classic example, you don't know what goes out. I was
thinking about that was out cutting the grass Saturday. We'll
get around my neighborhood. You just don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, who you never know, And then the minute you no,
you know what's going on in somebody's head, you never know.
I mean, you just never know. Yeah, And you mentioned
red flags. I mean, I would imagine it's probably one
of those things that it's a tough spot to be
in if you feel like the red flag was there
but you didn't realize it was a red flag until
it's way too late.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm sure that happens all the time, right every time. Yeah,
you know what, that was kind of odd. That person
was behaving really weird. I didn't think much of it,
you know, thought about it for a few seconds, and
then I just never thought about it again. And then
you have something. And it's not to say that those
people feel any way responsible, but if they do feel
as if well, I don't know, maybe I should have
said something that would be that'd be tough. But I
think some things that are red flags, it's almost impossible
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to know in real time one what somebody's actually going
to do, but also that that would actually be the
red flag. It's just it's wild.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We've seen some of our neighbors some different behavior that
comes about, and sometimes they're just different, that's who they are.
But it harkens back to the day as I was
listening to some of the accounts yesterday. If you see something,
say something, Yeah, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter anymore,
just go in and speak up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Also, something else we touched on earlier, the protest that
took place all across the country. Louisville had one of
those as well, the No Kings protest. And I'm sure
we have many listening that are on one complete side
and others that are on the exact opposite side as
far as what they think about these protests. But what
I ask is, can't we all agree that despite around
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four thousand people showing up in downtown Louisville, different places
throughout you even had some smaller protests that took place
in the Highlands near Barchtown Road by mid City Mall,
yet some just across the river in New Albany Jeffersonville
as well. So I can't speak for the Southern Indiana
aspect of it. But when it comes to the downtown
presence again, they estimated around four thousand, and it looks
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like it took place from about noon to four pm,
and once four pm hit it concluded and throughout the
entirety of it there were no arrests. That's about all.
I mean, that's best case scenario, given the fact that
regardless of what you think of these protests, people were
still going to be able, people were still going to
do it like it wasn't like we were going It
wasn't like it was going to be prevent it from
happening at all, and they have the right to do
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it peacefully. And you know, I'm sure if you were
there on site, you may have your money, you may
have your opinion on what's peaceful and what's not. But
law enforcement was clearly there a lot of presents from
LMPD and they didn't see anything that was an arrestable offense.
So again, I feel like that's best case scenario, to
be honest with you, especially when you look around the
country elsewhere. That's not the case in a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Places, absolutely, And you know, I just like, like we
heard with the pool in the way, the city's on
top of this now and I just think, there's this
and I tiped my head to the mayor. You can
say what you want about the mayor. I'm political atheist.
I have no allegiance anywhere. The mayor and the LMPD
and in the city as a whole are collectively working
together to kind of keep this stuff contained. Let's home
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it stays that way, but they're taking action, and I
think that's what the citizens of Louisville and the city
have demanded for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I feel like Louisville leadership, at least right now given
and I'm talking about what's taking place really in the
last few weeks specifically. I mean, I think they're doing
a good job of balancing for everyone involved, those who
completely you know, for both sides, and I hate to
say that it's this side that side, but let's be real,
it is. We've never been more divided than we are
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right now. It seems so all right, what I want
to get to coming up here in just a few
minutes after we get our next update on traffic and weather.
The Kroger here in Louisville that was that was shut
down is expected to reopen today. But never a good
thing whenever you get shut down by Louisville Metro Department
of Public Health for rodent infestation. So we'll talk about that,
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and Morgan, your next update of traffic and weather's right
now right here on New's Radio eight forty whas six fifteen.
Hereuckyains Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
forty whas. So this was in one of the earlier newscasts,
and I'm sure if you're somebody that frequents this store,
then you're well aware of what's going on. But the
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Kroger location on Gauss Avenue, I guess near the Schnitzelberg
Germantown area was closed down. Actually is that it's Goss's Avenue?
Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Someone I go to. I go to this one during
the week.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So they were closed down over the week and expected
to reopen today. And it was because they had multiple
failed health inspections by the Louisville Metro Department of Public
Health and Wellness. They were flagged for pest control and
sanitation issues, rodent infestation. Apparently there were rodents. I mean,
just it sounds like they've done what's needed to be
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able to get the green light to reopen, which is
certainly good. But I'd be a liar if I said
this wouldn't impact my future trips to this location. Scott,
you go to this location? Are you? Are you still
going to die?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was there Friday, and because usually Friday I go
stock up on my lunch stuff for the week, and
I'm good, and I walked in. I noticed they had
an aisle that I frequent was closed down and they
had curtains around it, and I thought maybe this was
just something that that they they do a cleaning for
you know, they pull sections aside and they do cleanings.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I can get home. It's on the news. Mark goes,
don't you go there?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And I said, yeah, I was just there today, and
she goes, you didn't see this, and I said, yeah,
I didn't know what it was for. And the store
was still packed on Friday. It wasn't keeping people away.
I guess that the city comes in and says it's okay,
I'll get because the stuff I buy, like, let's be honest,
if anything looks tampered with, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Can I tell you where the road and infestation was
found and we'll see if it's something you buy. Because
there were three aisles closed Friday, there was.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
One that I wanted to go down then.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And then they ended up shutting the whole place down
before they get they're going to reopen this morning. But
the three aisles at the Gulf Avenue Kroger were closed
Friday after they found evidence of rodent infestation and these
The statement from the Health Department said that they discovered
evidence of a rodent infestation in three aisles that included
bread and pasta products. So was that what you were no, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, I go down the condiment aisle because I love
my hot sauce. Okay, and so, but that is right
next to the bread ale because luckily, I'm I'm a
pretty low carb kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I don't need a lot of bread.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is uh wow, kroger Is. I mean there's kroger
Is all over the place. I mean, they're a very
very successful business, so I doubt this is going to
be some huge issue for them moving forward. No, but
it is a black eye when it comes to you
having to shut down for this specific reason. And I
don't I have no clue what others are going to do.
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And I'm certainly not telling you what to do. You
can do whatever you want. I'm not even the most
like put it this way to give you a level
of sort of where I am as far as trusting
if things are clean and not tampered with and that
kind of stuff, like if something is lightly expired, I'll
probably eat it and not and not think about it
for a second. If that makes me a disgusting human being,
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I'm sorry, just being honest with you. But when I
hear that there's just these two words rodent infestation, even
if you do everything you can to prove you could break,
you could tear the place down and rebuild it. I
think road infestation is going to always be in my
mind when I think of that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Dude, you it makes you wonder how many more of
these are in places that haven't been.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So you don't want to know? I know, right well,
think about this, you know, how do you know how
many businesses similar meaning maybe not maybe not just grocery
store types of places, but just like there's businesses that
are sweating because they're like, uh oh, yeah, we know
we've got some roadent issues going on, and we're doing
our best to bandage it and not let it get
to this level. But I just think those two words
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road and infestation is going to turn a lot of
people off. Also when it gets to the point that
you you had to be shut down by the Louisville
Metro Public Health and Safety because of how bad it was.
It's just it's tough, it really is. John. Would you
would you would this if this was a store that
you frequented, would you no longer frequent?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I would at the very least stay away from it
for a little while to make sure that no other
similar stories arise over the next probably month is probably
at least the amount of time I would give it.
I know my wife wouldn't want me shopping there for
at least some amount of times. So, and there's plenty
of other places I could shop at, so I definitely
wouldn't be going to it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
There's a lot of different types of rodents. But I mean,
it's got to be rats, right, I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I shouldn't say it sounds like, Okay, I don't know that, so.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Don't you know? But when you when you consider the
animals that are in the like in that in that world,
I mean, the only one I could think of that
would be there would be rats. And I'm and not
only are those disgusting animals in my opinion, they scare me,
like they freaked me out right where I go. That
place is opening up at nine o'clock. If I went
in there today, I would be like walking on my
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tiptoes looking around thinking I'm gonna stay. Just that's more
so just me being a weirdo about how gross rats are.
But yeah, road infestation, that didn't it just sounds awful.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I could go because we had a we had mice
in our home, and I could go on all day.
But there were times I didn't tell all that. There
was one time I found a household snake in one
of our mice traps. Mouse traps. I did not say
a thing to my wife. Well, I talked about it
on the show somebody would go to church with.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So you later got outed.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
She said it right in front of him.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
My man had a couple of beers and decided to
disclose this in front of my wife. I'm like, appreciate you, bro,
thank you. But I'm not as creeped out by mice.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I mean was she Was she happier that you
didn't tell her?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
She was.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But because she didn't tell her for good reason. Yeah,
she's like, I knew what you do to her. You
knew that you got it taken care of. There was
no benefit from her knowing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It was creepy to see though at first. At first
I walked down.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I've got the chills right now thinking about snakes and rats.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I know you do. Yeah, now I don't mind mice.
I can do mice rat.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah. Different world, different world, those two animals right there.
All right, we got an update of traffic and weather
coming your way right here right now, and news Radio
eight forty whas thank you, Joe. It is six thirty
four here Konsecuta's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News
Radio eight forty w h A S getting your week
started here. Hopefully you enjoyed the weekend a good Father's
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Day week and it was for us around here, and
hopefully it was the same for you. Now this story
is it happened probably within an hour or so of
when we ended the show on Friday, So we're going
back a little bit, but it's certainly worth bringing up
because there was a scary and somehow miraculous ability to
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avoid a disaster when there was the wreck that took
place on Friday morning around I think around ten am
there was a semi truck on sixty five near the
Kennedy Bridge that it ended up in a fiery crash,
where an eighteen wheeler on fire dangled briefly off of
an overpass before eventually falling. And not only was it
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a wild visual to see, just think about these two
things together, a truck dangling off of an overpass near
the Kennedy Bridge also up in flames in a major way.
I mean, it looked like something you see in a movie.
But what I think is crazy, and I'm not indicating that,
like in any way there's any specific reason for this happening.
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But there's now been three incidents very similar in the
last fifteen months or maybe actually less than that, roughly
thirteen months, we've had three separate incidents involving semi trucks
getting into an accident either on a bridge or on
an overpass to where they end up dangling off of it.
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And again I'm not saying that there's like anybody specifically
as it fault. If there is any real consistency here,
it's probably people not monitoring their speed when they're in
certain spots. But think about how crazy that is. I
posted the pictures on my Facebook page if you guys
want to check it out. Nick Coffee is where you
can find it. Also on Twitter slash xit the card
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connect And these aren't my photos by any means, but
just photos up to three different incidents. And it started,
of course back in this was in This was in
March maybe of twenty twenty four. This is the one
that made national news just because of the visual of
the It was that four vehicle crash that took place
on Second Street Bridge and you had that Cisco semi
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truck just dangling and you had first responders there, fire
department that had to kind of kind of what do
you call it a repel off of the bridge and
get in there and save her. I mean, that was
that was insane to see the heroic act there and
just again it's the visual. I mean, there's a reason
why it ended up getting coverage live on CNN and
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Fox and whatnot, because you got to get a look
at this. You won't believe it's a there's a semi
truck dangling off of a major bridge. So that was
a huge story. And then there's one that happened the
day after Derby May fourth of this year. This was
on I sixty five South at the Kennedy Bridge, and
you had something similar a wreck where straight up the
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semi truck is dangling off. And then again we had
this on Friday. Again, I'm not bringing it up to
say somebody, you know, look, clearly they're gonna look into
this and figure out as best they can what they
can do to, you know, prevent this from happening. But
you know, and maybe they do find out that there's something,
there's something at fault when it comes to like the
roadway or whatnot. I'm just bringing it up because I
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think it's insanely you know, what are the chances of
those kind of things happening? Ever, we've had it happen
three times and roughly a year and a quarter.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, and it was, like you, I saw those images
and it was just they look horrific, and so I
again started again. I love social media, and I started
reading some of the truckers that we're talking. I'd be
interested talking to some of the truckers. I'm working on
a story for that for Kentucky Focus. You know, there
are some there's a strong need for truckers. Are we
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pushing them through the trucking courses too fast? Are we
allowing people to get behind rigs that maybe aren't qualified
or wouldn't have been qualified just five ten years ago
because we're trying to fill that shortage. Is this an
experience factor or because that's been there for a while. Yeah,
and it's only, like you mentioned, it's only been recently
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we've had these incidences. So are we seeing more inexperienced
drivers taking that maybe a little too fast or what
negotiate the way they should.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
When I think, well, it wouldn't be a shocker if
we found out that all of these incidents that took
place the you know, take away the fact that it's
a bridge and that it's a semi there's a lot
of different causes for an accident, right, I mean, you know,
there's probably not anything specifically tied that that is, you know,
there's probably not one specific thing that has led to
these three things happening happening separately, but it just makes
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you wonder. I think a lot of people when I
posted the photos, it was a lot of people, you know,
basically saying that you know, the cities at fault or whatnot,
and look, maybe there are I'm not here to say
one way or the other. I wouldn't know. But anytime
these things happen, you do get comments from from the mayor.
This when the one that took place where the first
one that got again national attention at that point, Mayor
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Greenberg noted that there's been ongoing discussions with KYTC about
safety improvements, including epoxy surface treatment and replacing some areas
that it needed to be I guess upgraded. I guess
he's talking about the road specifically there and then here recently,
the latest one that happened, this one right after Derby
on May fourth, emphasized the ongoing collaboration once again with
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KYTC to enhance safety in the area. So again, probably
information will never get and it may not even matter.
But now I'm thinking, Okay, when it comes to the
three separate incidents, what's the experience level of each truck driver?
Is that area an area they drive across frequently or
did they not know what they were getting into and
came in a little too hot. It's just and what's
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wild is that what took place on Friday. I mean
the driver was able to escape before the fire happened.
There were no explosions. You know, there was no hazardous
materials in the because when it fell to the ground.
I mean if there would have been hazardous materials in there,
I mean imagine what that and that could have easily
been the case, right, I mean, it wouldn't have been
a shocker if that fed eighteen wheeler was hauling something
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that would have been major disaster had as Matt Yeah,
crazy stuff. So it's just the visual of it is wild.
It looks like some AI movie type special effects, but no,
it was it was real. And seeing the videos and
the pictures from those that were just out and about
on the road near it, wild stuff, wild stuff, no doubt.
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All right, we got another update of trafficking weather coming
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loud mouth. You said this, but in fact you were wrong.
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Speaker 2 (20:20):
I love corrections I and I've told this. I've said
this since day one when I got on the radio.
The audience is the best. I'm not I'm not perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You're better than me. I'm not a big fan of
the police.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't mind them at all. I'm like, bring it,
you know, because I love it. Because I love it
helps me in a lot of ways too. But you know, hopefully, Nick,
I was listening to some of those you sent prior
to and we're going to try to put those together.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
We get enough one, we're gonna try to put them together.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
At the end of the week and maybe get a
pulse because I think what it does is it provides
an accurate feed of how people think in this city.
As we were talking earlier, some of the biggest stories,
the crowgra on Goss Avenue, the truckers.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
On sixty five.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Immediately I go to social media, and I go to
our page to start with, because I like to see
what people are saying, especially our listeners, and we can
get a real feel for that. And then I'll jump
over to lky are Media partners there and I think
with the talkback feature that you mentioned, that provides a
great venue and we sort that stuff out.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You can tell.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean, I know from working at the station five
in the morning, you know for a while that different
people calling it five in the morning.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, five am crowd. You really never know what
You're got people starting their day. You got people ending
their day. That's exactly right. And to be fair, I
don't mind being correct. To trust me, I've probably been
wrong about a few things within the two and a
half minutes of this segment, like trust me, I'm wrong.
Often it's not about that, it's just those that go
about it in a way of like they put you
on the radio, right, it's wrong, you do fis right?
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And you know what I love is either trolling them
at times like oh no, I think you need to
go check yourself because I think you know, even when
I know I'm wrong, if they're being nasty about it,
I'll just tell them, Oh no, I'm right, you're wrong,
and then they'll really want to This guy's squeezy. He
stinks he's still right, and I probably shouldn't do that.
That's childish of me. I suppose. Sometimes I'll give them like,
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you know, again, there's a way to go about it,
and at times when somebody's just wanted to I guess
dunk on me for being wrong. When I don't give
them the response of like challenging them, I'm like, oh
my god, thank you so much, then they feel empty.
They didn't get fulfilled by insulting me because I'm instead
of being angry and offended, I'm apologetic.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's over the ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket. And that's
what I was trying to tell mister Cruz when he
was on the air. I said, you know you don't
have to respond.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In fact, when Will Clark used to get those all
the time, because Wellie would say some stuff that would
be but everybody loves Will Clark.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
So I said, what you.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Need to do is when you get an email, read it,
learn from it, and then you move on. And when
I say move on, when you delete it, then delete
it out of your recycle bin. Because if you don't
delete it out of your recycle bin. Like when you're
missing a tooth, he keeps sticking your tongue up there,
or you miss your tooth, you'll keep going back to it.
And that's the thing I've learned is that I love
critis because I have to sort some's warranted, some admittedly not.
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But it helps me be a better person. And and
I just I learned also to move on.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And this is not obviously a caller driven show. That's
just not what this is. But I learned in my
previous world whenever I did have a show that was
more so interactive with listeners and phone calls and whatnot,
it's better radio if somebody's gonna call and disagree with
you or take you to task on something, or even
like insult you. I mean, I'm not encouraging that people
shouldn't be me to one another. Like because I said
(23:29):
your team's not as good as as you know you
think they are, doesn't mean you should call me and
tell me that I'm ugly. But that's just how some
people are wired. But you know, again, if you I don't,
I don't. I didn't want to make this conversation into
something where people should be hesitant to tell us what
they really think, So tell us what you really think again.
Talk about features there on the Ahet Radio app, and
we hope to hear from from many of you. All Right,
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