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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven oh five here Kentucky and this morning News on
News Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee with you. Thank
you so much for hanging out with us. We've got
Mayor Greenberg set to join us coming up here at
eight forty five. He'll be sharing some special news with us.
And it's news that if you're a Louisville Cardinal fan,
you can take it however you want. I can't predict
(00:21):
how anybody's gonna feel. I assume that it's going to
be some news that you're excited about. But maybe I'm wrong,
But either way, I think you'll want to hear it.
So again, at eight forty five, Mayor Greenberg going to
join us. He's currently in Omaha. He was set to
be in studio to discuss this when we had talked
about it a few weeks back. But obviously the trip
to Omaha that has been a long well, you don't
really know if you ever gonna get to Omaha. And
(00:42):
they're there, and now they're you know, now that they've
got a chance to win and keep this thing going.
They play at two o'clock Eastern. It'll be one o'clock
Central today. So again may Greenberg going to join us
about about eight forty five, if you are just now
getting your day started. We did lead with what is
a continued situation, and that is what we're learning about
(01:03):
the shooter in the the murder that took place on Saturday,
early early morning in Minnesota. Vance Bolter is the suspect,
but he's now facing federal charges as well. Here and
we'll talk with Riy O'Neil coming up a little bit
later on get the latest on that. Also. This is
certainly a big piece of news that I imagine, and
I don't think this was something that that developed over night,
(01:26):
so you probably were aware, but we'll find out more today.
As far as Donald Trump his plans when it comes
to dealing with the the I mean, let's just be real.
The Iran, the Iran Israel situation is only getting worse.
And he left early from a a he was where
was he he was in? He was in Canada somewhere
(01:47):
was it Alberta? Yeah, So he left the second day
of the G seven summit in Alberta, and it's it's
due to the ongoing situation. And we'll we'll get we'll
get he We'll keep you up to date as best
we can when it comes to that again. Roy O'Neil
going to join us coming up here at about about
eight thirty, so we'll get you updated on that. Something
(02:09):
else we talked about earlier as the crash that took
place on Friday, right after we wrapped up the show,
where the semi was on fire and somehow, some way,
this driver he was able to get out of the
cab before it completely went up in flames and became
just a sight to see, but not for good reason,
a very scary situation almost doesn't seem real. Again, I
(02:31):
said this yesterday, I'll say it again. I can continue
to see pictures and videos that surface of those that
were near this accident as everything unfolded, and it is
just it is it is wild to see. That's putting
it lightly. But now we know who it was that
was in the vehicle and he did survive, which is
a miracle. But he's not well. This gentleman is going
(02:52):
to have a long road to recovery the injuries that
he currently has. He's got a broken ankle, broken leg
and foot, so no life threatening injuries. But when you
jump twenty feet from the cab, obviously you can have
those type of injuries, so hoping he has a speedy recovery. Currently,
the cause of this crash is still an investigation, but
(03:13):
with it being the third semi incident in the area
in a month, obviously safety concerns. That's been a big
talking point and something that Scott brought up yesterday when
we were talking about this is it's not an accusation.
It's just thinking, Okay, maybe there is a real demand
here for truck drivers and maybe they're not going through
the same type of training they once did just because
(03:36):
they're being rushed through it. And on our talkback feature,
which again if you guys listen to the show on
the Aheart Radio app, just you should know that you
can interact with us and share your thoughts on certain
things by just clicking that microphone button on the app
and then you'll be able to I think it's thirty seconds.
It gives you to share whatever you want. But we
had a truck driver that heard that conversation we were
(03:56):
having yesterday and wanted to share this.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a truck driver here. I went to CDL school
in twenty fifteen and instructors told us we're not here
to teach you how to drive. We're here to teach
you how to pass the test. And I think the
real problem lies with these trucking companies that hire new drivers.
They only spend a week or two behind the wheel
with a trainer, and they turn them loose. I think
(04:21):
companies need to spend more time with new drivers to
get them ready to be on the road on their own. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just love that talkback feature because our audience are
some of the best people, the most qualified to answer
some of these questions, and instead of waiting to try
to call the station, now we get listeners like this
that respond yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And I don't know if this is I don't know
if are there's data that shows that this is an
issue everywhere as far as newer truck drivers not getting
the proper training and there being more accidents with semis
because of that. I don't know if that data exists,
but certainly, when you have as many accidents around here
as we've had with semis, especially in that area, I
(04:59):
think more than anything. And again, I don't know this
for certain, but I just think it's just a crazy coincidence.
But you can't just run with that and just assume, yeah,
you know, nothing to see here, just a random coincidence. Obviously,
they're going to look into whatever they can to make
it sure everybody, to make sure everybody is safe, especially
those big eighteen wheelers making their way in those areas
where there's just been more collisions than you would expect.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I've seen I've seen, you know, driving along the highway.
I see more ads from attorneys looking for cases involving
semis too. So there's there's and.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
They see that. I see that as a big payday.
Yeah they do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But yeah, I think to your point, and again, if
you use the talk back feature, you know, truckers that
are out there are best resource for this because they know,
like this gentleman seemed well verse, seemed to know exactly
what he was talking about. So it's it's a shame.
Maybe this changes things. I'd be interested to see how
other communities are dealing with this as.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, or if they're dealing with it at all. You
just don't know. Yeah, all right, let's get an update
on traffic and weather right here on news radio eight
forty whas. It is seven seventeen here Kentucky, and it's
Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty
whas I know that many of you listening have. In fact,
(06:10):
I find it impossible to think that there's anybody listening
that hasn't gone to a grocery store, a convenience store,
a retail store, purchased something online, or paid the bill
at a fast food restaurant and thought to yourself, Wow,
when did this get so expensive? Well, it's a real thing.
(06:30):
And we've got a study that tells us of all
the fast food places that of course increase prices like
everybody else, which one is the cheapest fast food chain
in America. This is a study according to Cashiano. I
don't know if I'm saying that correctly, but they've got
I guess a portion of their outlet is eat this
(06:52):
not that it studies fast food trends and whatnot, and
they analyze fifty four menu items across six categories from
nine major US as fast food chains to find the
best value and the the restaurant that takes the crown
as far as far as being the cheapest overall with
the most affordable items. Is a surprise to me. Maybe
(07:15):
it's not to you guys, but it's Taco Bell.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Makes sense, Okay, I can see that it's not who
I would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
See, I just think it all comes down to what
you get, Yeah, because you can. You can go to
Taco Bell and get enough food to where when you
look at the price, I mean, it's probably not what
you paid years ago, because again, prices go up everywhere,
but you end up probably getting more for your buck
than elsewhere. Like just I can go to Taco Bell
(07:41):
and just get a few tacos and it's not as
cheap as it once was. But that's actually a lot
of food. So therefore, you know, I get it from
that aspect. But I when I go to Taco Bell,
I get a Chicken Quesadia, I get a you know,
if they have it, I get the Kee so rito.
If it's on the it's on the menu at the time.
And now those are items that you know, two of
those together, I'm looking at just easily over ten bucks,
(08:01):
and that doesn't feel like it's cheap at all to me.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You remember the five dollars value meals they had, and
I think that kind of said the gold standard, and
I guess that's what I kind of I've eaten fast
food in a while, but that's kind of where my
mind defaults to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, let me tell you this is an say I
can tell you this gut is as somebody who does
not eat much fast food, like yourself, they still call
it a value meal. It ain't much of a value
in most places. It's like you think this call anything
a sale and say that it's a sale, and they
can they can doctor it whatever way they want to
let you, to try to manipulate you that you're saving
(08:34):
big money because you know, Wendy's is a close second,
and I haven't had Wendy's in a long time and
have Guess's being second, right, Burger King rounds out the
top three, and then uh Popeyes is the winner when
it comes to just chicken places. So uh yeah, I don't.
To me right now, the only place that I can
think of that I just know is going to be
(08:55):
expensive because this was this was always the case, even
long before we had prices skyrocketing like they have in
recent years. But Arby's, to me, it's just always been,
you know, I need to finance my meal for my
family because it's you know, can get can I get
you know interest here if I pay you back in
a week. Arby's, your roast beef is good, But man,
it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Remember the twenty nine cent Hamburg's at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Long before my time. Can we go back to that time, Scot, Right,
let's do that. That's that's good stuff there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So fast food is convenient, but it's to me and
everybody's perception of what is affordable and what is not
as different depending upon your situation. But for me, I
don't think you can really save a whole. I mean
I think you can. Actually, I think you can pay.
I don't know. Everybody's different, but I'll just say this,
I don't think it's that cheap in the grand scheme
of things. Anymore convenient, but not cheap. All right, We've
(09:43):
got another update of traffick and weather coming your way,
and another update in sports with Scott FitzGeralds. So stick around.
It's Kentucky and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John. It is
seven thirty five here at Kentucky and as morning News.
Thank you for hanging out with us, helping you start
your day. Maybe you're ending your day just wrapped up
third shift, whatever it is. However you're listening, we appreciate you.
(10:07):
Nick Coffee that's me, Scott Fitzgerald, alongside John Alden and
as well John Shannon. You just heard there. So this
is something that is good news. There's really no way
to debate it. And I like to be able to
share good news with our listeners here at Kentucky and
is morning news. And it's good news for the state
of Kentucky and the city of Louisville. So the Kentucky
(10:27):
tourism has Kentucky tourism generated thirteen point eight billion here recently. Wow,
And that, of course is I mean, that's I believe
that's a record. Let me check. Yeah, it's a record
year in tourism last year in the state of Kentucky.
And as you could expect, Louisville played a big part
(10:49):
of that. But yes, thirteen point eight billion in in
economic impact. That's supporting ninety five one hundred and twenty
six jobs and contributing to two point nine billion in wages.
Visitor spending was a big factor, as you could expect.
Visitors spent nine point seven billion across sectors like lodging, food, beverage, transportation,
(11:10):
retail and recreation. Louisville of course, salt. I mean, I
don't know this for certain, But clearly Louisville being the
biggest city within this state, you would imagine that they
are usually the biggest producers when it comes to tourism
revenue that is there. But nineteen million visitors in Louisville
last year, they contributed four point two billion and economic
(11:32):
impact with two point eight billion from direct visitor spending.
So the city's hospitality sectors supported over twenty six thousand
jobs and one billion dollars in wages. So that's good news, right,
people come into Kentucky and Louisville or you know, clearly,
if you're in louisvill you're in Kentucky. But there's also
other areas within this state that I'm sure they've got
(11:54):
tourism dollars that have been coming their way. But what
I love to see, and I've kind of found myself
nerding out on this where when we have a big event,
whether it be Derby that's the biggest event we have
every year here, or a convention or that a lot
of people would even know is going on, I like
to peruse social media to see people who are hashtagging Louisville.
(12:16):
Rather it be Instagram, TikTok and I enjoy seeing people
who are here, maybe for the first time, and they're
sharing their experience and they're talking about how cool it is. Yeah,
because I feel like it comes people around here. Not
to say that we live in the best place in
the world. I mean I believe that I would. I
would never want to live anywhere else. This has been
my home forever and I don't plan on changing that.
So I don't like we've got no problems, were the
(12:37):
best ever. But I do think at times, and this
probably isn't unique to Louisville. I'm sure others are the
same way. That you don't realize that you should enjoy
and not take and not take for granted some aspects
of where you live that others think is really cool.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well, that's how I've been trying to tell my wife
and daughter, who a big bourbon of ficionados, and well,
you live in Louisville. Let me take you down to
Heaven Hill, let me take you to Loretto, and let
me take you within the Commonwealth. And I'm sure there's
people in other parts of the states say hey, let's
I think Louisville sometimes gets a bad rap statewide. I've
talked with.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Folks who you think. I would say it's a fact,
but again, I can't prove that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I just yeah, but you see when you leave here
on Saturdays, you know, I can see it. People walking around.
You know they're in from out of town because they
have the coffee cup in hand, and they're walking around.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
With no predetermined judgment. They're just enjoying what this city
has to offer. And I love seeing that, and I wish,
you know, I don't think the noise is as loud
as it once was, but that downtown Louisville is some
boarded up war zone. It's not that there's a lot
of I mean again, yes, can you get potentially harmed
by a criminal, Yeah you can. That can happen to
you anywhere exactly. Mean, even in places that you would
(13:43):
assume you're the most safe in this city, it can happen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I've been to parts of the Natty where you're like, oh, okay, no,
we stumbled into the wrong part of town. I mean,
that happens. That's any metropolitan area. Or when you look
long term, you look down here. We have new Brazilian
steakhouse that's downstairs. We have a couple of new restaurants,
that are down there, not Brazil in Stakes. There's another
new restaurant down here. There's plans for other restaurants going in.
We've got over here by the Derby Gaming.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Not just downtown, but I mean newlu is is a
phenomenal areas. I mean, there are a lot of great
places in Louisville that that I just think people should,
you know, do what you want with your time and
your money and all that. But I think we have
more to offer as as a city when it comes
to just not not necessarily just like nightlife, but just
we've got a lot of stuff to do and there's
(14:29):
a lot of I mean, I'm a nerd for downtown Louisville.
I walked to meet my mom for lunch last week,
and I mean there there's I feel like there's areas
of downtown that have businesses that I never knew about.
Anytime I go on a walk downtown, I'm like, I
didn't know that was there. That's pretty cool. And I'm
sure a lot of the visitors that give these these
businesses money are travelers, right, People that are tourists, And
(14:52):
that's that's that's what you want. You want people coming
to your city and spending money and impacting the economy.
But also I just I'll never shy away from telling people, hey,
like you should maybe spend a little time looking at
what all we have to do around here. I think
you may be surprised that you know, this city's pretty awesome.
And again to said, we don't have our own problems.
We do just like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, and that's why I love to your point TikTok,
because I interview the guys. Gucci Man reviews is what
he does on TikTok, and he goes and footy reviews
are real popular right now in TikTok. There's a lot
of people doing them, which I'm okay with because the
more the better. And he goes into places, you know,
Big Nita's cheesecake factory, you know where Big Nita does that.
(15:33):
I didn't know about that place at all. And through
these I drive to different parts of the town just
to see, you know what I can see it. Recently,
I was over at Catholic and Richmond Center over in
the West End. There's good stuff happening in the West End.
You know, you got to get yourself beyond the headlines
and start reading what's happening and get out and look.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, or just go see for yourself, and I
think you'll realize, oh yeah, it's it's not again. It
sounds extreme, but I'm sure there are people that would
would just say, O, yeah, downtown Louisville, I'm never going there.
It's again a boarded up warzone. Like I've heard people
say that, and it stuck out to me because that's ridiculous.
It's not that at all, really never was, but clearly
(16:11):
what was going on in twenty twenty. I mean, I
think we've recovered from that, at least in my opinion,
as far as you know what downtown is and can be.
I just want more people that live here to get
out and enjoy it and experience it. And hopefully, hopefully
you guys will do that. Yep, I'm telling you to,
so please do it. Get out all right. We've got
another update of traffick and weather coming your way right
here on news Radio eight forty whas. It is seven
(16:35):
forty seven here at Kentucky, and it's morning news on
news Radio eight forty whas. Don't forget. Coming up at
eight forty five. Will be joined by Mayor Greenberg as
he is set to share some special news. I think
if you're a Louisville fan, you'll want to stick around
and hear that news and again at about eight forty five,
so roughly an hour away. So make sure you keep
that in mind. And if you are in your vehicle
(16:56):
and you're going to be getting out of your vehicle,
you can take us with You can listen live on
the Aheart Radio Apple also listen live at WHAS dot com.
So we've got sports coming your way here in about
eight minutes with Scott Fitzgerald. But one thing that I
think college sports fans need to be aware of that
you may see big increases when it comes to what
these universities are asking of you. You may see small increases,
(17:20):
but in a lot of different areas because they're making
a lot of money as far as the big time
college athletic programs. And what I mean is if you're
getting that annual check from the TV deal that the
Big ten has and the SEC has, and even the
ACC and the Big twelve for that matter, those are
the those are the Big four. I mean, it's called
(17:41):
the Power four now no longer the Power five because
the PAC twelve is dead. So they're not hurting for
money like the smaller schools are. They've got a budget.
They've got the ability to pay their coaches an insane
amount of money and even pay multiple coaches at one
time because they've had to get rid of a coach.
So they've been able to exist with I would say
(18:02):
a budget that is that is doable. And what's happening
this year starting this upcoming against the next when the
next school year essentially starts the fall semester, it's a
different world as far as as far as money. Players
have been getting ANIL money for a while now, that's
that's that's not new. But now these universities are they're
(18:25):
not being forced to share twenty point five million annually
in revenue with athletes. But if you want to compete,
good luck getting players to come and play for you.
If you're going to say, yeah, we're not sharing that
much money, so those of the power for are going
to have to pay the twenty point five million. Again,
you're now paying athletes directly. It's called revenue sharing. Basically,
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what it's going to be, I feel like, is a stipend.
So the reason I bring this up is because that's
not a little amount of money. So almost anybody, maybe
the Texas A and M's, the Texas Techs, the the
Ohio States, maybe the Georgia's. Maybe they have enough funding
coming in from from from outside the university and the
athletic department to where bills are going to be paid
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and it's not going to be such a drastic change.
But you have programs in the power levels that bring
in a lot of money annually that are having to
make some adjustments because again, twenty point five million dollars
that is now there every year that you have to
pay and it's only going to grow. That that's something
that that's not just the drop in the bucket. That
(19:31):
that's substantial. So I don't know exactly what we should
expect around here when it comes to ways in which
they're going to try to to bring in revenue to
where it's not I mean, again, we're talking about twenty
point five million dollars. So as far as plans for
the University of Louisville, I'd say their strategy is still
unfolding and and and we'll see. But when it comes
(19:53):
to you know, programs like Michigan, I mean, Scott, you know,
Michigan they're not. They're not hurting for money least less
least I've checked, right, ye, and they've cut ten percent
of their athletic staff because there's a big shortfall. Yeah,
And it's all part of this new day and age.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And that's what we said. And I think folks are
starting to kind of get used to it now to
some degree. I don't think we ever fully will, but
this is the new day and age of college athletics.
It is really it's gone almost beyond semi pro ball.
And that was some of the numbers you're throwing out. Sure, yeah,
it's become pro ball.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah. And UK last week it was in the news
that they had a big, big shortfall. So what they're
doing to help with that is they're actually going to
invest a bunch of money. I think they're going to
ask for it from the university because they're going to
invest in things that give them revenue streams to help
bring in more money. I mean, you're going to see
a lot of creativity with college athletic departments administration that
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just realized, hey, if there's something we can do, you know,
everything helps yep. And certainly it's now a big money business.
It always has been, but now they got to share
some of that revenue and that changes a lot of things.
All right, let's get an update on traffic and weather.
Also another update on sports Scott right here on news
radio forty WHA s
Seven oh five here Kentucky and this morning News on
News Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee with you. Thank
you so much for hanging out with us. We've got
Mayor Greenberg set to join us coming up here at
eight forty five. He'll be sharing some special news with us.
And it's news that if you're a Louisville Cardinal fan,
you can take it however you want. I can't predict
(00:21):
how anybody's gonna feel. I assume that it's going to
be some news that you're excited about. But maybe I'm wrong,
But either way, I think you'll want to hear it.
So again, at eight forty five, Mayor Greenberg going to
join us. He's currently in Omaha. He was set to
be in studio to discuss this when we had talked
about it a few weeks back. But obviously the trip
to Omaha that has been a long well, you don't
really know if you ever gonna get to Omaha. And
(00:42):
they're there, and now they're you know, now that they've
got a chance to win and keep this thing going.
They play at two o'clock Eastern. It'll be one o'clock
Central today. So again may Greenberg going to join us
about about eight forty five, if you are just now
getting your day started. We did lead with what is
a continued situation, and that is what we're learning about
(01:03):
the shooter in the the murder that took place on Saturday,
early early morning in Minnesota. Vance Bolter is the suspect,
but he's now facing federal charges as well. Here and
we'll talk with Riy O'Neil coming up a little bit
later on get the latest on that. Also. This is
certainly a big piece of news that I imagine, and
I don't think this was something that that developed over night,
(01:26):
so you probably were aware, but we'll find out more today.
As far as Donald Trump his plans when it comes
to dealing with the the I mean, let's just be real.
The Iran, the Iran Israel situation is only getting worse.
And he left early from a a he was where
was he he was in? He was in Canada somewhere
(01:47):
was it Alberta? Yeah, So he left the second day
of the G seven summit in Alberta, and it's it's
due to the ongoing situation. And we'll we'll get we'll
get he We'll keep you up to date as best
we can when it comes to that again. Roy O'Neil
going to join us coming up here at about about
eight thirty, so we'll get you updated on that. Something
(02:09):
else we talked about earlier as the crash that took
place on Friday, right after we wrapped up the show,
where the semi was on fire and somehow, some way,
this driver he was able to get out of the
cab before it completely went up in flames and became
just a sight to see, but not for good reason,
a very scary situation almost doesn't seem real. Again, I
(02:31):
said this yesterday, I'll say it again. I can continue
to see pictures and videos that surface of those that
were near this accident as everything unfolded, and it is
just it is it is wild to see. That's putting
it lightly. But now we know who it was that
was in the vehicle and he did survive, which is
a miracle. But he's not well. This gentleman is going
(02:52):
to have a long road to recovery the injuries that
he currently has. He's got a broken ankle, broken leg
and foot, so no life threatening injuries. But when you
jump twenty feet from the cab, obviously you can have
those type of injuries, so hoping he has a speedy recovery. Currently,
the cause of this crash is still an investigation, but
(03:13):
with it being the third semi incident in the area
in a month, obviously safety concerns. That's been a big
talking point and something that Scott brought up yesterday when
we were talking about this is it's not an accusation.
It's just thinking, Okay, maybe there is a real demand
here for truck drivers and maybe they're not going through
the same type of training they once did just because
(03:36):
they're being rushed through it. And on our talkback feature,
which again if you guys listen to the show on
the Aheart Radio app, just you should know that you
can interact with us and share your thoughts on certain
things by just clicking that microphone button on the app
and then you'll be able to I think it's thirty seconds.
It gives you to share whatever you want. But we
had a truck driver that heard that conversation we were
(03:56):
having yesterday and wanted to share this.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a truck driver here. I went to CDL school
in twenty fifteen and instructors told us we're not here
to teach you how to drive. We're here to teach
you how to pass the test. And I think the
real problem lies with these trucking companies that hire new drivers.
They only spend a week or two behind the wheel
with a trainer, and they turn them loose. I think
(04:21):
companies need to spend more time with new drivers to
get them ready to be on the road on their own. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just love that talkback feature because our audience are
some of the best people, the most qualified to answer
some of these questions, and instead of waiting to try
to call the station, now we get listeners like this
that respond yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And I don't know if this is I don't know
if are there's data that shows that this is an
issue everywhere as far as newer truck drivers not getting
the proper training and there being more accidents with semis
because of that. I don't know if that data exists,
but certainly, when you have as many accidents around here
as we've had with semis, especially in that area, I
(04:59):
think more than anything. And again, I don't know this
for certain, but I just think it's just a crazy coincidence.
But you can't just run with that and just assume, yeah,
you know, nothing to see here, just a random coincidence. Obviously,
they're going to look into whatever they can to make
it sure everybody, to make sure everybody is safe, especially
those big eighteen wheelers making their way in those areas
where there's just been more collisions than you would expect.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I've seen I've seen, you know, driving along the highway.
I see more ads from attorneys looking for cases involving
semis too. So there's there's and.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
They see that. I see that as a big payday.
Yeah they do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But yeah, I think to your point, and again, if
you use the talk back feature, you know, truckers that
are out there are best resource for this because they know,
like this gentleman seemed well verse, seemed to know exactly
what he was talking about. So it's it's a shame.
Maybe this changes things. I'd be interested to see how
other communities are dealing with this as.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, or if they're dealing with it at all. You
just don't know. Yeah, all right, let's get an update
on traffic and weather right here on news radio eight
forty whas. It is seven seventeen here Kentucky, and it's
Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty
whas I know that many of you listening have. In fact,
(06:10):
I find it impossible to think that there's anybody listening
that hasn't gone to a grocery store, a convenience store,
a retail store, purchased something online, or paid the bill
at a fast food restaurant and thought to yourself, Wow,
when did this get so expensive? Well, it's a real thing.
(06:30):
And we've got a study that tells us of all
the fast food places that of course increase prices like
everybody else, which one is the cheapest fast food chain
in America. This is a study according to Cashiano. I
don't know if I'm saying that correctly, but they've got
I guess a portion of their outlet is eat this
(06:52):
not that it studies fast food trends and whatnot, and
they analyze fifty four menu items across six categories from
nine major US as fast food chains to find the
best value and the the restaurant that takes the crown
as far as far as being the cheapest overall with
the most affordable items. Is a surprise to me. Maybe
(07:15):
it's not to you guys, but it's Taco Bell.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Makes sense, Okay, I can see that it's not who
I would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
See, I just think it all comes down to what
you get, Yeah, because you can. You can go to
Taco Bell and get enough food to where when you
look at the price, I mean, it's probably not what
you paid years ago, because again, prices go up everywhere,
but you end up probably getting more for your buck
than elsewhere. Like just I can go to Taco Bell
(07:41):
and just get a few tacos and it's not as
cheap as it once was. But that's actually a lot
of food. So therefore, you know, I get it from
that aspect. But I when I go to Taco Bell,
I get a Chicken Quesadia, I get a you know,
if they have it, I get the Kee so rito.
If it's on the it's on the menu at the time.
And now those are items that you know, two of
those together, I'm looking at just easily over ten bucks,
(08:01):
and that doesn't feel like it's cheap at all to me.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You remember the five dollars value meals they had, and
I think that kind of said the gold standard, and
I guess that's what I kind of I've eaten fast
food in a while, but that's kind of where my
mind defaults to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, let me tell you this is an say I
can tell you this gut is as somebody who does
not eat much fast food, like yourself, they still call
it a value meal. It ain't much of a value
in most places. It's like you think this call anything
a sale and say that it's a sale, and they
can they can doctor it whatever way they want to
let you, to try to manipulate you that you're saving
(08:34):
big money because you know, Wendy's is a close second,
and I haven't had Wendy's in a long time and
have Guess's being second, right, Burger King rounds out the
top three, and then uh Popeyes is the winner when
it comes to just chicken places. So uh yeah, I don't.
To me right now, the only place that I can
think of that I just know is going to be
(08:55):
expensive because this was this was always the case, even
long before we had prices skyrocketing like they have in
recent years. But Arby's, to me, it's just always been,
you know, I need to finance my meal for my
family because it's you know, can get can I get
you know interest here if I pay you back in
a week. Arby's, your roast beef is good, But man,
it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Remember the twenty nine cent Hamburg's at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Long before my time. Can we go back to that time, Scot, Right,
let's do that. That's that's good stuff there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So fast food is convenient, but it's to me and
everybody's perception of what is affordable and what is not
as different depending upon your situation. But for me, I
don't think you can really save a whole. I mean
I think you can. Actually, I think you can pay.
I don't know. Everybody's different, but I'll just say this,
I don't think it's that cheap in the grand scheme
of things. Anymore convenient, but not cheap. All right, We've
(09:43):
got another update of traffick and weather coming your way,
and another update in sports with Scott FitzGeralds. So stick around.
It's Kentucky and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John. It is
seven thirty five here at Kentucky and as morning News.
Thank you for hanging out with us, helping you start
your day. Maybe you're ending your day just wrapped up
third shift, whatever it is. However you're listening, we appreciate you.
(10:07):
Nick Coffee that's me, Scott Fitzgerald, alongside John Alden and
as well John Shannon. You just heard there. So this
is something that is good news. There's really no way
to debate it. And I like to be able to
share good news with our listeners here at Kentucky and
is morning news. And it's good news for the state
of Kentucky and the city of Louisville. So the Kentucky
(10:27):
tourism has Kentucky tourism generated thirteen point eight billion here recently. Wow,
And that, of course is I mean, that's I believe
that's a record. Let me check. Yeah, it's a record
year in tourism last year in the state of Kentucky.
And as you could expect, Louisville played a big part
(10:49):
of that. But yes, thirteen point eight billion in in
economic impact. That's supporting ninety five one hundred and twenty
six jobs and contributing to two point nine billion in wages.
Visitor spending was a big factor, as you could expect.
Visitors spent nine point seven billion across sectors like lodging, food, beverage, transportation,
(11:10):
retail and recreation. Louisville of course, salt. I mean, I
don't know this for certain, But clearly Louisville being the
biggest city within this state, you would imagine that they
are usually the biggest producers when it comes to tourism
revenue that is there. But nineteen million visitors in Louisville
last year, they contributed four point two billion and economic
(11:32):
impact with two point eight billion from direct visitor spending.
So the city's hospitality sectors supported over twenty six thousand
jobs and one billion dollars in wages. So that's good news, right,
people come into Kentucky and Louisville or you know, clearly,
if you're in louisvill you're in Kentucky. But there's also
other areas within this state that I'm sure they've got
(11:54):
tourism dollars that have been coming their way. But what
I love to see, and I've kind of found myself
nerding out on this where when we have a big event,
whether it be Derby that's the biggest event we have
every year here, or a convention or that a lot
of people would even know is going on, I like
to peruse social media to see people who are hashtagging Louisville.
(12:16):
Rather it be Instagram, TikTok and I enjoy seeing people
who are here, maybe for the first time, and they're
sharing their experience and they're talking about how cool it is. Yeah,
because I feel like it comes people around here. Not
to say that we live in the best place in
the world. I mean I believe that I would. I
would never want to live anywhere else. This has been
my home forever and I don't plan on changing that.
So I don't like we've got no problems, were the
(12:37):
best ever. But I do think at times, and this
probably isn't unique to Louisville. I'm sure others are the
same way. That you don't realize that you should enjoy
and not take and not take for granted some aspects
of where you live that others think is really cool.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well, that's how I've been trying to tell my wife
and daughter, who a big bourbon of ficionados, and well,
you live in Louisville. Let me take you down to
Heaven Hill, let me take you to Loretto, and let
me take you within the Commonwealth. And I'm sure there's
people in other parts of the states say hey, let's
I think Louisville sometimes gets a bad rap statewide. I've
talked with.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Folks who you think. I would say it's a fact,
but again, I can't prove that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I just yeah, but you see when you leave here
on Saturdays, you know, I can see it. People walking around.
You know they're in from out of town because they
have the coffee cup in hand, and they're walking around.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
With no predetermined judgment. They're just enjoying what this city
has to offer. And I love seeing that, and I wish,
you know, I don't think the noise is as loud
as it once was, but that downtown Louisville is some
boarded up war zone. It's not that there's a lot
of I mean again, yes, can you get potentially harmed
by a criminal, Yeah you can. That can happen to
you anywhere exactly. Mean, even in places that you would
(13:43):
assume you're the most safe in this city, it can happen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I've been to parts of the Natty where you're like, oh, okay, no,
we stumbled into the wrong part of town. I mean,
that happens. That's any metropolitan area. Or when you look
long term, you look down here. We have new Brazilian
steakhouse that's downstairs. We have a couple of new restaurants,
that are down there, not Brazil in Stakes. There's another
new restaurant down here. There's plans for other restaurants going in.
We've got over here by the Derby Gaming.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Not just downtown, but I mean newlu is is a
phenomenal areas. I mean, there are a lot of great
places in Louisville that that I just think people should,
you know, do what you want with your time and
your money and all that. But I think we have
more to offer as as a city when it comes
to just not not necessarily just like nightlife, but just
we've got a lot of stuff to do and there's
(14:29):
a lot of I mean, I'm a nerd for downtown Louisville.
I walked to meet my mom for lunch last week,
and I mean there there's I feel like there's areas
of downtown that have businesses that I never knew about.
Anytime I go on a walk downtown, I'm like, I
didn't know that was there. That's pretty cool. And I'm
sure a lot of the visitors that give these these
businesses money are travelers, right, People that are tourists, And
(14:52):
that's that's that's what you want. You want people coming
to your city and spending money and impacting the economy.
But also I just I'll never shy away from telling people, hey,
like you should maybe spend a little time looking at
what all we have to do around here. I think
you may be surprised that you know, this city's pretty awesome.
And again to said, we don't have our own problems.
We do just like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, and that's why I love to your point TikTok,
because I interview the guys. Gucci Man reviews is what
he does on TikTok, and he goes and footy reviews
are real popular right now in TikTok. There's a lot
of people doing them, which I'm okay with because the
more the better. And he goes into places, you know,
Big Nita's cheesecake factory, you know where Big Nita does that.
(15:33):
I didn't know about that place at all. And through
these I drive to different parts of the town just
to see, you know what I can see it. Recently,
I was over at Catholic and Richmond Center over in
the West End. There's good stuff happening in the West End.
You know, you got to get yourself beyond the headlines
and start reading what's happening and get out and look.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, or just go see for yourself, and I
think you'll realize, oh yeah, it's it's not again. It
sounds extreme, but I'm sure there are people that would
would just say, O, yeah, downtown Louisville, I'm never going there.
It's again a boarded up warzone. Like I've heard people
say that, and it stuck out to me because that's ridiculous.
It's not that at all, really never was, but clearly
(16:11):
what was going on in twenty twenty. I mean, I
think we've recovered from that, at least in my opinion,
as far as you know what downtown is and can be.
I just want more people that live here to get
out and enjoy it and experience it. And hopefully, hopefully
you guys will do that. Yep, I'm telling you to,
so please do it. Get out all right. We've got
another update of traffick and weather coming your way right
here on news Radio eight forty whas. It is seven
(16:35):
forty seven here at Kentucky, and it's morning news on
news Radio eight forty whas. Don't forget. Coming up at
eight forty five. Will be joined by Mayor Greenberg as
he is set to share some special news. I think
if you're a Louisville fan, you'll want to stick around
and hear that news and again at about eight forty five,
so roughly an hour away. So make sure you keep
that in mind. And if you are in your vehicle
(16:56):
and you're going to be getting out of your vehicle,
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So we've got sports coming your way here in about
eight minutes with Scott Fitzgerald. But one thing that I
think college sports fans need to be aware of that
you may see big increases when it comes to what
these universities are asking of you. You may see small increases,
(17:20):
but in a lot of different areas because they're making
a lot of money as far as the big time
college athletic programs. And what I mean is if you're
getting that annual check from the TV deal that the
Big ten has and the SEC has, and even the
ACC and the Big twelve for that matter, those are
the those are the Big four. I mean, it's called
(17:41):
the Power four now no longer the Power five because
the PAC twelve is dead. So they're not hurting for
money like the smaller schools are. They've got a budget.
They've got the ability to pay their coaches an insane
amount of money and even pay multiple coaches at one
time because they've had to get rid of a coach.
So they've been able to exist with I would say
(18:02):
a budget that is that is doable. And what's happening
this year starting this upcoming against the next when the
next school year essentially starts the fall semester, it's a
different world as far as as far as money. Players
have been getting ANIL money for a while now, that's
that's that's not new. But now these universities are they're
(18:25):
not being forced to share twenty point five million annually
in revenue with athletes. But if you want to compete,
good luck getting players to come and play for you.
If you're going to say, yeah, we're not sharing that
much money, so those of the power for are going
to have to pay the twenty point five million. Again,
you're now paying athletes directly. It's called revenue sharing. Basically,
(18:48):
what it's going to be, I feel like, is a stipend.
So the reason I bring this up is because that's
not a little amount of money. So almost anybody, maybe
the Texas A and M's, the Texas Techs, the the
Ohio States, maybe the Georgia's. Maybe they have enough funding
coming in from from from outside the university and the
athletic department to where bills are going to be paid
(19:10):
and it's not going to be such a drastic change.
But you have programs in the power levels that bring
in a lot of money annually that are having to
make some adjustments because again, twenty point five million dollars
that is now there every year that you have to
pay and it's only going to grow. That that's something
that that's not just the drop in the bucket. That
(19:31):
that's substantial. So I don't know exactly what we should
expect around here when it comes to ways in which
they're going to try to to bring in revenue to
where it's not I mean, again, we're talking about twenty
point five million dollars. So as far as plans for
the University of Louisville, I'd say their strategy is still
unfolding and and and we'll see. But when it comes
(19:53):
to you know, programs like Michigan, I mean, Scott, you know,
Michigan they're not. They're not hurting for money least less
least I've checked, right, ye, and they've cut ten percent
of their athletic staff because there's a big shortfall. Yeah,
And it's all part of this new day and age.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And that's what we said. And I think folks are
starting to kind of get used to it now to
some degree. I don't think we ever fully will, but
this is the new day and age of college athletics.
It is really it's gone almost beyond semi pro ball.
And that was some of the numbers you're throwing out. Sure, yeah,
it's become pro ball.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah. And UK last week it was in the news
that they had a big, big shortfall. So what they're
doing to help with that is they're actually going to
invest a bunch of money. I think they're going to
ask for it from the university because they're going to
invest in things that give them revenue streams to help
bring in more money. I mean, you're going to see
a lot of creativity with college athletic departments administration that
(20:45):
just realized, hey, if there's something we can do, you know,
everything helps yep. And certainly it's now a big money business.
It always has been, but now they got to share
some of that revenue and that changes a lot of things.
All right, let's get an update on traffic and weather.
Also another update on sports Scott right here on news
radio forty WHA s
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