6.18: Are We Going to War? - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, John. It is six oh five here Kentucky
and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
eight forty WHA. We'll have another update of traffic and
weather coming your way in about four minutes time. So
are we going to war? That's a question I'm sure
many are asking. I guess maybe more so, are we
getting involved in a war that is currently ongoing? And

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that's an answer I don't have, and I'm sure most
of you, in fact, I would imagine all of you
don't have because we don't have any real say so
in that. But that is certainly something that a lot
of us are going to continue to monitor because it's
a scary, scary situation and also two separate things, really,
but the current situation going on with Israel and Iran,

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that is something that has been on the radar as
far as what we're monitoring, and I don't mean we
meeting us on the show, I mean America, but also
the ice raids as far as the real enforcement of
getting illegal immigrants out of the country. That has led
to protests going on, and obviously we had our own
protests here in Louisville in the last week or so.

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But what I think is just a bad look. Look,
I'm not here to share political opinions in a strong way.
I really don't have many of them, to be honest
with you, and if I did, that wouldn't be what
they want me to do here. But I just think
when you are in a position of leadership and there
is a quick reversal and it's a pretty big decision,
I just think it's a poor look on leadership because

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as a leader, I think you need to be consistent
and you need to stand by sort of what you're enforcing.
And to have the change on Friday, I believe it
was to where there were there were they were no
longer going to be targeting. When I say they, I
mean ice. They were no longer going to be going
after those that are in workplaces like farms, hotels, restaurants.

(01:52):
That that made sense, But again I think that was
also somewhat of a bad look because I don't think
we needed to see all these raids taking place to
then have the realization, oh, yeah, we in America, we
depend heavily upon migrant workers, and if we just get
rid of everybody, no questions asked, that is here illegally,
that's going to impact the economy, and then now within

(02:13):
three four days whatever it was, there's been a quick reversal.
So they are now going to start targeting illegal immigrants
at those types of workplaces. So just the inconsistency here
without really anything seemingly changing it just don't think it's
a great look. But I can't necessarily say that I'm
that I'm totally surprised, So uh yeah, this is this

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is if you are someone that has someone in your life,
maybe it's somebody that works for you, maybe it's somebody
that you just know for whatever reason, and you know
that they are here illegally, and you you know that
they're they're productive members of society as best they can, right.
I guess there's a level as far as what you can.

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I mean, if you're not here legally, there are certain
things you can't do as far as being you know,
as far as being an American, right, you know, taxes,
that kind of stuff. So anyhow, I get it, like
it's hard for me to in fact, it would be
impossible to just think of all the endless different scenarios
where you could be somebody here in America born and
raised and you have someone in your life that is

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that is not here legally, and it'd be a scary,
scary time right now, just knowing that at any moment
there could be a raid that takes place, and then
who knows what happens from there.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think in Cincinnati there was the young man who
was deported. He was I want to say, he was
eighteen or nineteen, and it was it made the headlines
in the Cincy Enquirer and Ice rounded up and they
said he wasn't going to get deported. He wasn't going
to be but he ended up getting deported. And then
now you're dividing families up in this respect. Now, I
also understand the argument from folks there. We have the

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immigration office right here, across the hall from it, or across.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
The street, live just feed away from us, right and
it used.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
To be their ceremonies were down here every other Friday
or so every Friday they were down here, and there
were people that were entering this country legally. I totally
respect that argument. I see that one hundred percent. I
also see the families that are here. And as we
mentioned before, Dale Romans when he held court over on
the backside of Churchill Downs that week saying these are
the people we need here and they're good people and.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Then do good things.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
And it is a very very interesting debate. To your point,
I don't know, there's a gray area there that we
need to work out as society and figure out. Maybe
we need to look at sort of the requirements on
why people are staying here and better to find them.
I don't know the answer, but it's clear that we're
at least I like to say that emotion creates motion,

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and I think that's where we're heading out least, we're
having the conversation.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
And I don't have a clue as far as what
to expect at Churchill Downs. I mean, you mentioned what
Dale Romans had said, but they did there was an
ice rate at the Louisiana Track that just happened recently.
That is just you know, that story being out there
has to put potentially some people who may be here
illegally that are a part of the Churchill Downs sit

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that work there. I mean, that's a scary situation and
it's people that are right here in Louisville, no doubt. So. Yeah,
as far as the Iran Israel situation, when it comes
to President Trump, no surprise here, But when meeting with
his top advisors in the White House yesterday, he did
say that the next twenty four to forty eight hours
are going to be critical. So again, it's a situation

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we'll continue to monitor and we'll keep you updated as
best we can. Here at news Radio eight forty whas,
we've got traffic in weather coming your way, so stick around. Also,
something happened to me yesterday that made me feel very old.
I'll share that with you guys next right here on
news Radio eight forty whas all right, six sixteen here

(05:45):
at Kentucky and his morning news with Nick Coffee on
news Radio eight forty whas. Hump Day is upon us.
Happy Wednesday, everybody. I got a question for my team here,
Scott Fitzgerald and of course the one and only John Alden.
And I know the answer because I'm looking across at
Scott and I can see that he is wearing He
is wearing glasses. John, do you have contact lenses? No, sir,

(06:08):
you got good vision. I do have good vision. I
found out yesterday. I have to get glasses. Well, I
don't have to get that moment, let me back up
side here. I don't have to get glasses, but it
was encouraged that I that I get glasses for driving
at night potentially, and after I saw what it would
look like as far as my vision, if I did

(06:29):
have glasses, it improved it enough to where I can
I don't think that the doc is lying to me.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
So you you glossed over the cheater phase, you're going
straight to glasses.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, I don't plan on wearing them in public, not
because I'm embarrassed, although I did feel like I look
very old in appairing glasses. But uh, I think if
I'm working at home on the computer or even here,
you know, I think I could have maybe not a
substantial improvement of vision, but a bet like things will

(07:00):
pop a little bit better. And I've never at any
point had I mean, I've never felt like I mean,
I hadn't. The reason I wouldn't got my eyes checked
is because my wife, she she made the appointment for
the whole family because my son starts kindergarten, so he
has to get a vision check. Same thing with my
daughter who will be back in school next year. So
I think my wife's she has terrible visions, so she

(07:21):
just needed to get an update and get some more
contact lenses. The only reason I would have ever had
mine checked is because now I have a real ID
and to get it renewed. There don't I don't have
any vision check on file. So I went thinking, Okay,
it's no big deal and they're not forcing me to
get glasses. But the whole process here and I was
new to it. I've never done this before. I can't

(07:42):
I've never needed to get my eyes checked as far
as thinking, oh wow, I'm not seeing well anymore. So
I don't know how long it had been, but yeah,
they were showing me, you know, they were putting whatever
it is they put in front of me and showing
I guess what my you know, what my vision would
be if I did have glasses, and clearly it could
be better. So it doesn't make me feel like old

(08:02):
old It's just, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I remember that moment. I get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
I remember the moment where I, like most people fight
turning on the air in the summer of the heat
and the winter.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I fought and fought and fought.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm like, I'll struggle through this. Stuff was getting harder
to say, do glasses run in your family?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
So my yeah, Well, my my dad has readers, if
that makes sense. I and my mother she has U
and I hope she's not listening. She has very bad vision. Ye,
so she's always my whole life, she's had contacts and glasses.
My sister h no, no glasses, no contacts. So uh,
I guess I got it, honest, I don't know. Like
my dad, he wears them, probably more so than than

(08:43):
I will now, but I would imagine I probably fell
fell in line with him as far as just getting
to a certain point where you know you can You
can still get by without them, clearly, but you could
also benefit from having them, and especially when it comes
to driving, driving at night.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Huge, And then what happens is, like I'm sure you
did probably started out the same way.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's what I did. Like I'll just get a pair
of cheaters.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I start on the low end, and then what
happens is I wear them every now and then, and
because you see so well with the mind, you keep
wearing them. And then eventually I just now these that
I'm wearing Now, I just now got real glasses. I
mean I thought and fought it, and I was wearing
cheaters all the time and just some of great Probably
when you.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Say cheaters, what do you mean the readers? Oh, okay, I
got you, And so that makes sense. I just never
heard of heard as it does great.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
You fight it, fight it and fight it, but it
does greatly improve your quality of life. And if you're
worried about feeling old, I mean, look at me. There's
young people that wear glasses every day.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, and look there's I mean, needing glasses doesn't make
you feel old, but I feel like I looked old.
And what really got me is and this is probably
something neither of you have ever noticed, but you've never
seen me wear a hat, right, you never see me
wear sunglasses. I don't know why. There's no real reason.
I've just never been someone that has ever wanted to

(09:57):
put on, you know, accessories, a hat to keep you know,
my head, shaded sunglasses like I raw dog the sun.
And it's a really stupid thing to do. But I've
just never wore I've never wore sunglasses before. So when
I put the glasses on yesterday to pick out which
ones I'm gonna get, my kids saw me with glasses
for the first time, and they did not hold back
and letting me know that I looked very old, and

(10:18):
you remember those kind of things. Ye, John, when you
get your real ID, you're gonna need a You're gonna
need a vision check. And I want to hear the
results because you're you're the young stallion of the squad here,
and I bet you've still got really good vision. You've
never needed any glasses ever. Never look at that. Oh
we'll see he's built different. John Allen, all right, We've
got an update of travicking weather coming your way and

(10:38):
another update on sports right here at news Radio eight
forty whas.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Just watch this the other night. I will always think
of a dugout.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now when you say watch this, I have no clue
what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's fast time as at Ridgemine High.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Good to know.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I always see a dugout in southern California and it
those who've seen the movie no, it's song this goes
with it was awesome. I forgot Cameron Crowe directed that.
By the way, I think it was camera grow.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Make sure right over my head.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I know you are right over my head.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I know you when you think back to some of
the big movies that you grew up with it you'll
never ever forget that we're a big like. For me,
it was all John Hughes and it was just it
was pretty in pink Breakfast Club. I mean, what kind
of movie stands out to you?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
You are? You are bringing me somewhere that I've I've
been told not to go.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Beating? Well not yes? Actually, I just let's just talk
about it, shall we. So I have been given advice
that I think is good advice. I wouldn't have thought
of it. But I've been given advice not to say
my age anymore on this show. Oh okay, do you
know why? Why? Just because I'm a lot younger than

(11:55):
the demo that we reach.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
You're fine, dude, Well.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I mean you're you're look I'm not ashamed of I'm
not ashamed of my age. I'd much rather be my age.
I'll be there someday, but I'm enjoying my age where
I'm at now and when you get older. But but yeah,
so anyhow, I when I this is going to probably
like if people don't care about my age, then great.

(12:19):
And I don't know, I mean, I can't control it,
but I'm well aware that the majority. I shouldn't say
majority because you really never know. I don't believe in
some of these metrics numbers that they give us because
to me, it's an educated guess. There's really no way
to truly know the specifics. But I would say that

(12:40):
this answer I'm about to give you might make people
really think just it happened whenever John and I work together,
because were certainly shouldn't mention his age if there's hessitency
to mention mine because I am, I'm roughly ten years
older than you John, is that right? Nine? So he
I mean, I'll take every can get. But he sounds

(13:01):
as old, if not older than me, and he's clearly
make sure beyond his years. I'm not sure if I am.
But anyhow, this to me when I think of movies
that like I watched all the time as a kid,
Like I grew up when Adam Sandler moved on from
SNL because he was getting all the big movies like
Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, I would say the three movies

(13:23):
I watched as a kid more than even to this day,
I've still probably watched. I haven't watched these recently, but
I watched these countless times. The kid we've got actually
teen Wolf you know that movie Michael J.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Fox.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
That was actually before I was even a lot, but
that was that was just a VHS that we had,
and I loved basketball, and I just thought that was
really cool. I wanted to be a were wolf and
play basketball too, right, that sounds awesome. So I watched
Teenwolf a lot, and then it's Happy Gilmore Tommy Boy.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
And that's not making you young, dude, I watched those movies.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, but I mean I was, you know, I was
a kid, like I was, you know, young young. So
so again I I there's I grew up. I grew
up in the nineties but born in the eighties, so
like nostalgia for me is nineties and I'm an I'm
an Adam Sandler fan. He's certainly made some bad movies too,
especially in More in his later years, but like when

(14:17):
he became a movie star, not just known for being
on SNL, like that was sort of like whenever, like
anything he put in theaters, we were going to see,
uh and whatnot. So yeah, and honestly, I watched a
lot of sports movies like Mighty Ducks. That movie. Yeah,
that was how you of course you know what you

(14:37):
love hockey, have you.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Seen well like Coach Carter's one of the sports movies.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, so that was when I was in high school.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
That's a good one saying so you dude, you and
John Bolt there are.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
So you're You're You're Fast times Ridgemont High Air era. Yeah,
I'm more nineties John. I know you don't watch a
ton of movies. You say, this is the best question
you use. You use your time more wisely than most
of us, Right, you don't waste a lot of time
watching TV and movies. I think you're missing out, but hey,
you're You're probably more productive and you've been that way
your whole life and you're content, So you know, I

(15:07):
get it, not passing any judgment, but what when you
think of watching a movie as a kid, is there
one that pops up? If not? Like again, I get
it because I've I've had this conversation with John before
about how you know he's just you know, he's I
feel like he's somebody that doesn't watch TV.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
About it.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I would come up with something, but I hate that.
I don't have a good answer for you.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I really don't.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
And oh yeah, and and for those thinking like, oh
he's he's spinning his wheels because he's been put on
the spot. No, my man just doesn't watch TV and movies.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, I will say, my wife and I do watch
a lot of TV together, but growing up I just
didn't watch a lot of TV.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let me ask you this. If she wasn't encouraging you
in mentioning shows that she wants to watch that you
watch with her and then enjoy, would you be watching
as much as you do urt No, none at all.
You're an old soul, my man. You can go without
television and movie. I feel like you can go without
social media.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
And I wish if it were not for the career
field that I chose, I would have deleted my social media.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
And what's wild is that we are in a I
mean that is rare for most people, regardless of age.
I would say, but you are. I think most your age,
they their whole life is just being on a device, yeah,
and looking at screens. And you, again, you're an old soul.
I say that as a compliment. Never never changed, my friend.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't want to change.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Don't do it? Would you dare? Or you'll have to
deal with the old guys like me and Scott? All right,
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six forty seven here at Konseuckuta's Morning News with Nick
Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas. Some really really
good energy right now within the Louisville Athletic Department, and

(16:48):
it's it's evident with what we're seeing in Omaha as
Dan McDonnell and his team have have advanced to essentially
the final four of the College World Series. They're gonna
play later today against Coastal Carolina the Shanta Clears Who.
That's not a big name brand program in really any
other sport. I think they've made some waves in football,
but in baseball they actually have a national championship they

(17:10):
won within the last decade, I think it was roughly
around that time, and they're very, very good. This is
gonna be a tough, tough game today. But this team
Dan McDonald has this year, they have shown they've got
some real resilience. But I'm really having to manufacture it
a little bit more on my end because I don't
necessarily find Coastal Carolina as a is a team that's

(17:31):
easy to dislike, but they're the enemy today because again,
I want to see Louisville win, but they feel I
guess the level of disrespect. The Associate Athletic Director tweeted
this out yesterday, Patrick Osborne's the He's the Coastal Carolina
Associate AD. He says, so far this week, we've had
official merchandise being sold with Chanta Clear's misspelled, their color misidentified,

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and then he put in parentheses it's not green. And
countless moments of shants Chanta Clear's being mispronounced, and their
coach will let you hear a little bit of what
he had to say about it, because he's he's he's
not happy. I'm not sure if he's playing the disrespect
card to try to motivate his guys. Look, we're always

(18:18):
trying to find an edge when it comes to competition,
but I feel like he's doing a little too much here.
Everybody say it with me, Shant Clears shot to Clears,
not Shant to Clear, Shanta Clears. So that was the
beginning of their their hype video as their their entering
the stadium out at Omaha. So, uh, again, it's gonna

(18:39):
be a tough game, and I think there's a level
of let me balance this because I don't want to
act as if Dan McDonald just took a bunch of
players off the street and made this run. But I
think where they were at the end of the regular
season seemingly all momentum drained from a season that was
a good bounce back, but also there was a roller

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coaster type of season where you had some good moments,
then you had some moments that really didn't make any sense,
like the loss to Bellerman, and then some series they lost,
so they kind of they were defeated, but yet they
got to the postseason, really the NAA Tournament. They lost
in the first round of the ACEC Tournament. But once
they got in postseason play, that Friday night victory over Vandy,
the number one overall seed, they they I think they've

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since been playing, Hey, we're not supposed to be here,
let's just play loose, let's just have fun. And you
have seen it. Man, College baseball in the postseason is entertaining.
It's a really good product. I believe. I know others
clearly believe it because the numbers are pretty strong for
college baseball in this moment at this time. But how
about Louisville just finding ways to give you a heart attack.
Cardiac cards is a real thing, because every one of

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these games in Omaha have been really i mean electrifying
towards the end. So we'll see what happens later.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Now today, right now, the Chanta clears plus two twenty
in Vegas now to win it. Louisville comes in at
plus eighteen hundred lsus your plus one oh five favorite.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, there's no doubt. Louisville is the team that has
a lot of appearance is in the CWS during Daan
McDonald's tenure. But this team specifically, they are they're the underdogs, yeah,
in a major way. All right, let's get an update
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