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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are just a couple of days away from Thanksgiving,
and I'm starting to feel as if, you know, we're
in the holiday season here, looking forward to eating, that's
for sure. But we talked about this a little bit
earlier for those just now joining us, the trend when
it comes to takeout on Thanksgiving. So sixty percent of
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people say they plan to spend less on Thanksgiving dinner
as far as what they're purchasing in order to prepare
the meal. And now more than half on this survey,
they've said that they're going to actually outsource the meal
and get food from a restaurant or I guess, go
to a restaurant that that is open. And here is
some here's some more info. As far as why the
shift is taking place, Sixty three percent say they just
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want to celebrate instead of stress in the kitchen. Forty
percent think ordering out costs the same or less than
buying ingredients, thirty five percent say they they don't want
the cooking hassle, twenty six percent say they want a
professionally cooked meal, and then nineteen percent say they're just
too busy to make anything. So everybody's got thro own reasons.
But you know, even if you are not making the
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same meal you used to make, you're cutting back a
little bit. It should be you know, food is of
course a big part of it, but hey, if you're
spending time with people that you are thankful for, then
you're probably gonna have yourself so good Thanksgiving all right,
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Radio eight forty. Whas all right, so JCPS, they're already
walking back something that was proposed that was starting school
twenty minutes earlier for everybody that was out there is
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something they were going to potentially vote on and it
didn't last too long. So what they wanted to do is, yeah,
have start times twenty minutes earlier for everybody, But there
was some pushback from a lot of parents understandably so.
And I would assume that when you're putting this on
hold and not even gonna have it up for vote
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right now, in just a couple of days after it
became you know, it was on the radar that they
were considering doing it. My guess is it's I guess
more of a guest than an assumption, is that there's
gonna be some things that you have to do that
are really out of your control because of the nightmare
situation you have with the budget right now. You've got
one hundred and thirty two million dollars that you have
to get rid of. So you're gonna be making some
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changes that are going to impact a lot of folks,
and there's gonna be a lot of people upset. We
know that, But you really can't control it. You gotta
do what you got to do. That's the situation. Really,
the mess that you're in, this is something you can control.
So if you can choose not to do something that
is going to seemingly make parents even more upset, yeah
you might as well do that. So again, that's that's
the way I see it. But they now are revealing
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sort of what goes into the decisions they're making when
it comes to schools being closed or being concid all
the dated or being relocated. And what it really comes
down to is the investment. And I'll read for you
what doctor brown eyearwould had to say the new JCPS superintendent.
They look at the return on investment into their facilities.
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So with that it comes down to the building condition,
operating cost, and enrollment. So those three factors are being
used as far as criteria to determine which schools are
going to have to shut down. And we've already had
a round of schools that they announced they're going to
be either closing or reconsolate or consolidating or being relocated.
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But there's gonna be more waves of that, I would assume,
just because they would have to. I mean, look at
the numbers here. I mean what they did last week.
If you were wondering what real impact was going to
be made by those decisions to shut down a couple
of schools and again move one and combine two more,
it only shrimmed four million dollars. So I just don't
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see a scenario where there's not more schools they get
closed again. What it comes down to is what it
costs to operate the building, the amount of students that
are there, and of course the building condition. All right,
So the cameras in the construction zones here in Kentucky,
the work zones, they're new and we're now finding out
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if you're getting a ticket, what you're paying. So I
think it's almost all the interstates in Kentucky now they've
got I mean there's I feel like you can't get
you can't go anywhere in Louisville, the area here without
construction going on. Even in my neck of the woods
down in Bullock County, there's way too much construction going on.
That's just a pain in the rear end. So it's everywhere.
And now when you are driving through those areas where
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they've got all the orange cones, because clearly there are
people working, or at least just it's a construction zone
work zone, they're gonna have cameras set up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Not every construction spot work zone has these cameras just yet,
but some of them do.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They were rolled out earlier in the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And this speeding of right, if you end up getting
caught on these cameras for speeding, you can get a
ticket up to five hundred dollars. So that's a pretty
expensive ticket if you ask me. So Kentucky aighways, So
it's I sixty four I seventy five are now full
of active work or now yeah, they're active work areas.
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And now most of those in that area again sixty
four and seventy five, they've got the automated speed tracking systems,
so a trooper can activate the systems, lights, flash, cameras,
track your speed through the entire zone, camera to camera
in real time.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So they they've got it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Seemingly set up to where they're going to be able
to catch you if you're speeding pretty effectively. And then
after that, once they do catch you, there's an instant
alert that the troopers get, So if you're speeding beyond
the threshold, the camera sends the trooper a photo of
your car, your speed, and your license plate, and that's
how they get you. So the purpose of this, of
course is safety, not revenue. That's what ksp's claiming, and
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it makes sense. So I've yet to talk to anybody
that has, uh that's got that has gotten a ticket,
but I'm sure when I know somebody who does, they'll
they'll be sure to let everybody know because they'll say, hey,
be careful, I had to pay five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean, tickets are never are never good, But that's
that's the type of ticket that will make you remember
to be to be mindful of your speed when you're
going through a work zone. All right, quick time out trafficking,
weather updates on the way, so don't go anywhere. Keep
it locked right here. It's Coffee and Company Field. But
Thorton's at news Radio eight forty w h as. Maybe
I'm just not looking in the right place, and in fact,
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I'm not looking at all. But I do feel like,
as we are just a few days away from Black Friday,
I've not heard as much as I typically here as
far as to just being in your face and really unavoidable,
as far as just every every every advertisement about hey,
come take advantage of these of these Black Friday deals.
I guess there could be a lot of factors there.
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It could be again, maybe I'm just, you know, avoiding
it for no reason, or maybe people just aren't. There's
not a lot of buzz because folks just can't afford
to take advantage of what actually might be a questionable
deal in general. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty
of examples of Black Friday deals to where it was
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in fact a big deal, But what's a deal now
is still expensive for a lot of people, or just
at least a price that makes it to where you
got a question if you should be buying it or not.
But yeah, there's some Black Friday scams out there that
people need to be aware of. So you've got scammers.
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They seem to have a lot of momentum right now
because every day it seems like there's a new scam
they're warning you about. And some of them, I think, Okay,
who would fall for that? Like you kind of deserve it,
I mean, that's mean. But sometimes like I just think
to myself, like yeah, like that, of course that's a scam.
But then there's somewhere I'm like, geez, these guys are brilliant.
If they use their you know, their street smarts and
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uh and and you know their their savviness for for
you know, a real career, like something productive, like they'd
be they'd be successful. But the online shopping scams, there's
fake reads, so websites that are easy to fall for
and I guess that's where it really what is real
and what's not on the Internet. I mean that that's
that's a that's a danger with with a lot of
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elements to it, if you will. But when it comes
to a website that by the visual would look completely
real but not be real, I guess that's I mean,
that's that's scary because I mean think about you know
how easy it is to just go to an AI
tool right now and create something that looks one thousand
percent real.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
A website, a graphic, a video. It's it's scary.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Also, be careful for postage and delivery scams because that
spikes a lot during the holiday season. When scammers, what
they'll do is they'll send fake misdelivery text and emails
that look like they're coming from the delivery service that
you trust and you know, but the message actually makes
you click a link to confirm your address or something
seemingly innocent, which leads to a phishing site or malware
download on on your device. And then this has been
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an issue for years now and I wouldn't be shocked
if it's an issue again this year, to where gift
cards get compromised, people buy gift cards and somehow without
anybody knowing it, these gift cards you've purchased, they have
all the data, all the info on the card needed
to where they can go drain them or spin them,
and you end up giving somebody a gift card that
you haven't even touched, but yet it's been drained of
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its value. That was a real big issue, I believe
a couple of years ago. I know some people that
had that happened to where the real nightmares that the
retailers who sell these gift cards, they some of them
are probably just you know, passing it down the line
and blaming it and telling somebody else to deal with it.
But also they don't even have any recourse as far
as you getting money back. Now you don't want to
hear that whenever you bought it from them and what
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they gave you dead work. But that's where it became
a big issue. Like you clearly can make good money
doing it, or or businesses wouldn't do it. But when
you sell a gift card, you're taking on what the
consumer assumes your responsibility to, Hey, I bought it from you,
you took my money wide new working, but you also
leave yourself in a tough spot to where you really
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unless you just want to pull money out of your
own pocket, which someone say, well, yeah, they should do that.
But again, the gift card component is tricky and there
have been many scams with those over the years, and
getting the scammers keep getting better and better. All right,
let's talk about my friends at the Jefferson Animal Hospital.
They've been around for a long long time helping you
when it comes to just keeping your pets safe.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They've got an.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Emergency center at their Outer Loop location that's been open
for forty five years twenty four to seven, three sixty five.
You never plan for an emergency, they happen, and when
they do happen, just know that Jefferson Animal Hospital Regional
Emergency and Trauma Center is there for you. But it's
not just for the emergencies. You need to keep your
pets healthy by getting them checked out, going and seeing
the doctor just to get updates. And I know many
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of you that that have taken your pack to Jefferson
the Hospital for a variety of reasons. And it's always
great to partner with folks that you know that when
you mention what it is they do and what they provide.
There's people that are eager to tell you, oh yeah,
I know them. I use them too. That's where I
take my dog, That's where I take my cat. Because
again that just speaks to what they're doing. So again,
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check them out online at Jefferson Vets dot com. Again
two locations, Outer Loop and Fern Creek, and they're always
there for you. All right, let's get to a quick
time out traff again, weather updates on the way. We've
also got a sports update coming up, so stick around.
It's News Radio eight forty Whas. I've never traveled for Thanksgiving,
but I know many people have and many people are
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this year as we are expecting a record breaking number
of folks to travel to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, and
many of you will do it via airline, and I
again can't relate. Never thought of it, but apparently it's
the thing people try to bring left when you leave
Grandma's or wherever it is you go on Thanksgiving with leftovers.
There are people who do the same thing that travel meeting.
(12:02):
They show up to the airport trying to get back
home with food. I mean, again, never even thought about
doing that, but I guess it makes sense, but I
would just assume, Yeah, that's too difficult to do, not
going to be an easy thing. But apparently TSA says
you can. But also just know the rules. So if
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you're going to try to bring home food via airline
from Thanksgiving celebration, baked, here's what you can have in
your carry on. Baked goods like pies, cakes, brownies, desserts, meats, turkey, chicken, ham, steak.
If it's frozen, cooked, uncoke doesn't matter, So you can
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have that in your carry on.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
If you do that, you're good.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So when it comes to other foods mac and cheese,
it's got to be solid and still in the pan.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Like, how are they gonna check all this?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Like this just sounds like this TSA ridiculousness nightmare.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So in check.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Bags only you can have like there's if you want
to if there's something jarred, it's got to be in
the check bags. So liquids over three point four ounces
got to be in the check bag. Liquids three point
four ounces or less all in one in a one
court sized.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Bag in your carry on.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I mean, I never knew this was a thing, and
even if I did, I would just assume yeah, let's
just make the most of eating while we're here, and
just know that leftovers aren't going to be an option
because you know, we're getting on a plane. I would
never even think to do it. But I don't travel
a whole lot compared to others, and I'm sure if
you travel enough, you know what you can and can't do.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
If I love the types of food that we get
in Thanksgiving, I mean your typical stuff, I mean ham, turkey,
I'll take both, mashed potatoes and gravy stuffing corn, the
ass rolls. I mean, I love it all, love a
good Thanksgiving meal with the traditional foods that typically get.
But as much as I love it, I would not
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even think or try to bring it on an airplane,
whether it be in my check bag or not, because
I also would just assume that it would go bad
and you know, just would call it. I try his
best to get through any airport experience as smoothly as possible,
and if I if I'm bringing something that I know
is going to potentially challenge that to where I'm going
to have a headache, I try to avoid it. Now,
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speaking of travel, this is something that has had a
lot of reaction from folks, and that is the US
Department of Transportation urging air passengers to dress better beyond
you know, have better, I guess etiquette when it comes
to just you know, traveling. This is Sean Duffy and
his recent comments about wanting travelers to I guess not
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look like slobs. I'm paraphrasing here, but here's what he
said stability.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Some of you might have noticed that we've launched a
civility campaign. I think it's.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Important as as we travel, uh that we think about
not just ourselves, not just our families, but we think
about those.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Who are around us, and we call our better angels.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In a busy time, and again, the airports are gonna
be packed uh TSA lines maybe a little longer, and
as you're you might not be able to find a
seat as you're buy your gate because of the number
of flights that are going out or coming in.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But I think we have to think about how do
we do a better job, How do we you know, maintain.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Maybe some of that frustration we have as we travel
this Thanksgiving season, maybe we should say please.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And thank you to our pilots and to our to
our flight attendants. I think again, I call.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
This, uh, just maybe dressing with some respect. Uh, you know,
whether it's a pair of jeans and a and a
and a decent shirt. I would encourage people to maybe
dress a little better, which encourage us, encourages us to
maybe behave all a little better. Let's try not to
wear slippers in and pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I think that's positive.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So he lost me at the end there because, like all,
as far as just being civil and being kind, that's
one thing. But I think the exact words he used
was if we dress a little better, it could encourage
us to behave a little better. What why does it matter?
I mean, this is something that I'd be lying if.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I told you I care about as far as what
people wear at.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The airport, genuinely doesn't not have I once ever thought
about somebody's wardrobe. When I've been in an airport and
I've noticed some people they dress really nice. I know
some people who you know, sweat pants a hoodie and
they're bombing it and they're clearly going for comfort. I've
never you know, I've never once thought.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
About it, but.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Clearly it's something on the mind. Of Sean Duffy. So again,
two different things there, right, Like treating people with respect
and being courteous and just being civil that's one thing,
But like the I don't think the wardrobe has anything to.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Do with it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But maybe that's just me. When I go to the airport,
I'm going for comfort. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I try to never, regardless of comfort or not, I
never try to dress like a slob.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
But yeah, I don't get the whole wearing pajamas to
the airport thing unless you're a kid, like I get
it if you've got kids.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't get wearing pajamas anywhere outside of your house.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
People do it in the grocery. You go to the
grocery store after eight thirty at night, you're gonna see
a lot of pajama wearers.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I you know, I guess you're not really hurting anybody.
But I mean I don't. I don't own pajamas. I own,
you know. I If I my pajamas are just you know,
a T shirt, a pair of shorts, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I will say I'm a big PJ pants guy. At
my house.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They're comfy. I think I have somebody just don't often
wear them. But if I was gonna wear them, they
would only be in my house. All right, let's get
to a quick time out. We'll check on the roadway,
see how traffic's looking this morning. Bobby Ellis has us
covered there. We'll also take a look at this forecast today.
Not going to be a real issue as far as
cold cold weather, but man, it's coming a little bit later,
going to be really cold this weekend and on Thanksgiving
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days well so, in fact, I think Thanksgiving Day is
going to be really called the weekend. I'm not totally sure.
But again, we'll get the latest from Matt Melosavitch from
wk why right here at News Radio eight forty whas
we've got a sports update coming up here in about
seven minutes or so. This is not necessarily a sports
update when it comes to any action on the field
(18:20):
of the cord, but certainly from the world of sports,
and it is a story you don't often see where
a college football player has been charged with attempted murder
after stabbing two teammates. So Daniel Minsi, who's a former
UK football player, spent just one season there before transferring
to UAB. He's a red shirt freshman there at UAB.
He was arrested in charge with the attempted murder after
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he stabbed two teammates inside the football facility just hours
I guess before they were set to have a practice.
So details are graphic. Motives seems to be unclear, but
UAB police responded to the football operations building and booked
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this young man MINSI on aggravated assault in attempted murder.
So there's two defensive linemen that were stabbed during breakfast
service in the team facility. Both hospitalized, both in stable condition,
and again both are expected to recover. But this attack
reportedly stemmed from a fight that took place at practice
on Friday. And I mean this guy brought a knife
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to the facility and his plan was to literally kill
his teammates, which is insane. There's a third player that
stepped in to stop the attack ended up with several
hand injuries after helping subdue the perpetrator here, So again
not something you often see. But not sure what could
(19:48):
have led, Not sure what could take place in a
fight that would get you to that point, But yeah,
ver very awful story, especially considering they're having a rough
year as it is. They fired their coach midseason and
aren't very good and now you've got this, so yeah, yikes.
All right, let's talk about the Louisville Men's Clinic, shall we. Well,
regardless if you want me to or not, I'm going
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to because you need to know, fellas, listen up. You
need to understand that despite you feeling like you don't
need any help from a place called the men's clinic
because you're you're manly enough. You may be manly enough
in your own mind, and really, I guess that is
more than anything a state of mind. But you may
not realize that as you get older, and I'm not
talking about getting up there in your sixties seventies, I'm
talking about just as you grow as a man, rather
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it be a younger man or an older man, you
stop producing the same level of testosterone as you once did,
and your levels are supposed to be in a certain
range depending upon your age. And there are so many
and I was one of them that didn't realize that. Yeah,
my lab work that I get done, just in my
medical checkups, it's not going to reveal anything that's alarming
(20:51):
or anything that's a real danger to me. But the
reason I was starting to see the belly flab and
boobs developing. Just not getting the same results in the
gym as I used to get was because my testosterone
levels were not where they needed to be. They declined.
So here I am still trying to put in the work,
just trying to stay active, and I wasn't in terrible
(21:12):
shape necessarily, but I just felt like I'd lost my
edge and I didn't know why. So finally I decided
to say, Okay, maybe this is what it is. Maybe
it's testosterone issues. So sure enough got my levels checked
and they were not where they needed to be. Now
they are and that has changed my life. Not an exaggeration,
not hyperbole, it's just the truth. I feel better now
for the last couple of years that I've been working
with the folks at the Louis of Men's Clinic than
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I did for the vast majority of my thirties. And
not only is it great, but it's something I didn't
even realize was there. I just accepted, well, I guess
this is just getting older. I guess it's just life. Well,
no life can be better, and it is for me
because now again I'm starting to get the benefits from
the workout and there's a lot of I mean, there's
extensive things that can impact you that are due to
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you potentially having low testosterone more so than you'd realize,
even mental fog and even just mental health. So again,
go see my friends at the louis Men's Clinic. Maybe
you don't need testosterone treatment, maybe you need ed help.
And they've got a lot of different ways they can
treat ed. And if it doesn't work, you don't pay.
They stand by what they can do for you. There's
a variety of ways in which they can treat it.
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They'll figure out which one makes the most sense for you.
And again I can't recommend them enough. It's the Little
Men's Clinic. You can check them out online at Louisvillemen's
Clinic dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Give them a call.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
FABU two four four four thousand. All right, stick around trafficking,
weather updates on the way. We've got another sports update
coming up to right here at news Radio eight forty
whas
We are just a couple of days away from Thanksgiving,
and I'm starting to feel as if, you know, we're
in the holiday season here, looking forward to eating, that's
for sure. But we talked about this a little bit
earlier for those just now joining us, the trend when
it comes to takeout on Thanksgiving. So sixty percent of
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people say they plan to spend less on Thanksgiving dinner
as far as what they're purchasing in order to prepare
the meal. And now more than half on this survey,
they've said that they're going to actually outsource the meal
and get food from a restaurant or I guess, go
to a restaurant that that is open. And here is
some here's some more info. As far as why the
shift is taking place, Sixty three percent say they just
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want to celebrate instead of stress in the kitchen. Forty
percent think ordering out costs the same or less than
buying ingredients, thirty five percent say they they don't want
the cooking hassle, twenty six percent say they want a
professionally cooked meal, and then nineteen percent say they're just
too busy to make anything. So everybody's got thro own reasons.
But you know, even if you are not making the
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same meal you used to make, you're cutting back a
little bit. It should be you know, food is of
course a big part of it, but hey, if you're
spending time with people that you are thankful for, then
you're probably gonna have yourself so good Thanksgiving all right,
it is coffee and Company, and we are field about Thornton's.
Before you fill up on Thanksgiving, you might need some
breakfast this morning. They've got a lot of good options
when it comes to breakfast at Thornton's, different breakfast, sandwiches,
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biscuits and gravy, a lot of doughnut options. So again,
stop in and see them today. They've likely got something
that can help you stay fueled for the day ahead.
And again we are fueled by Thornton's here at News
Radio eight forty. Whas all right, so JCPS, they're already
walking back something that was proposed that was starting school
twenty minutes earlier for everybody that was out there is
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something they were going to potentially vote on and it
didn't last too long. So what they wanted to do is, yeah,
have start times twenty minutes earlier for everybody, But there
was some pushback from a lot of parents understandably so.
And I would assume that when you're putting this on
hold and not even gonna have it up for vote
(02:11):
right now, in just a couple of days after it
became you know, it was on the radar that they
were considering doing it. My guess is it's I guess
more of a guest than an assumption, is that there's
gonna be some things that you have to do that
are really out of your control because of the nightmare
situation you have with the budget right now. You've got
one hundred and thirty two million dollars that you have
to get rid of. So you're gonna be making some
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changes that are going to impact a lot of folks,
and there's gonna be a lot of people upset. We
know that, But you really can't control it. You gotta
do what you got to do. That's the situation. Really,
the mess that you're in, this is something you can control.
So if you can choose not to do something that
is going to seemingly make parents even more upset, yeah
you might as well do that. So again, that's that's
the way I see it. But they now are revealing
(02:54):
sort of what goes into the decisions they're making when
it comes to schools being closed or being concid all
the dated or being relocated. And what it really comes
down to is the investment. And I'll read for you
what doctor brown eyearwould had to say the new JCPS superintendent.
They look at the return on investment into their facilities.
(03:15):
So with that it comes down to the building condition,
operating cost, and enrollment. So those three factors are being
used as far as criteria to determine which schools are
going to have to shut down. And we've already had
a round of schools that they announced they're going to
be either closing or reconsolate or consolidating or being relocated.
(03:37):
But there's gonna be more waves of that, I would assume,
just because they would have to. I mean, look at
the numbers here. I mean what they did last week.
If you were wondering what real impact was going to
be made by those decisions to shut down a couple
of schools and again move one and combine two more,
it only shrimmed four million dollars. So I just don't
(03:57):
see a scenario where there's not more schools they get
closed again. What it comes down to is what it
costs to operate the building, the amount of students that
are there, and of course the building condition. All right,
So the cameras in the construction zones here in Kentucky,
the work zones, they're new and we're now finding out
(04:20):
if you're getting a ticket, what you're paying. So I
think it's almost all the interstates in Kentucky now they've
got I mean there's I feel like you can't get
you can't go anywhere in Louisville, the area here without
construction going on. Even in my neck of the woods
down in Bullock County, there's way too much construction going on.
That's just a pain in the rear end. So it's everywhere.
And now when you are driving through those areas where
(04:43):
they've got all the orange cones, because clearly there are
people working, or at least just it's a construction zone
work zone, they're gonna have cameras set up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Not every construction spot work zone has these cameras just yet,
but some of them do.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They were rolled out earlier in the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And this speeding of right, if you end up getting
caught on these cameras for speeding, you can get a
ticket up to five hundred dollars. So that's a pretty
expensive ticket if you ask me. So Kentucky aighways, So
it's I sixty four I seventy five are now full
of active work or now yeah, they're active work areas.
(05:21):
And now most of those in that area again sixty
four and seventy five, they've got the automated speed tracking systems,
so a trooper can activate the systems, lights, flash, cameras,
track your speed through the entire zone, camera to camera
in real time.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So they they've got it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Seemingly set up to where they're going to be able
to catch you if you're speeding pretty effectively. And then
after that, once they do catch you, there's an instant
alert that the troopers get, So if you're speeding beyond
the threshold, the camera sends the trooper a photo of
your car, your speed, and your license plate, and that's
how they get you. So the purpose of this, of
course is safety, not revenue. That's what ksp's claiming, and
(05:59):
it makes sense. So I've yet to talk to anybody
that has, uh that's got that has gotten a ticket,
but I'm sure when I know somebody who does, they'll
they'll be sure to let everybody know because they'll say, hey,
be careful, I had to pay five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean, tickets are never are never good, But that's
that's the type of ticket that will make you remember
to be to be mindful of your speed when you're
going through a work zone. All right, quick time out trafficking,
weather updates on the way, so don't go anywhere. Keep
it locked right here. It's Coffee and Company Field. But
Thorton's at news Radio eight forty w h as. Maybe
I'm just not looking in the right place, and in fact,
(06:37):
I'm not looking at all. But I do feel like,
as we are just a few days away from Black Friday,
I've not heard as much as I typically here as
far as to just being in your face and really unavoidable,
as far as just every every every advertisement about hey,
come take advantage of these of these Black Friday deals.
I guess there could be a lot of factors there.
(06:57):
It could be again, maybe I'm just, you know, avoiding
it for no reason, or maybe people just aren't. There's
not a lot of buzz because folks just can't afford
to take advantage of what actually might be a questionable
deal in general. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty
of examples of Black Friday deals to where it was
(07:19):
in fact a big deal, But what's a deal now
is still expensive for a lot of people, or just
at least a price that makes it to where you
got a question if you should be buying it or not.
But yeah, there's some Black Friday scams out there that
people need to be aware of. So you've got scammers.
(07:39):
They seem to have a lot of momentum right now
because every day it seems like there's a new scam
they're warning you about. And some of them, I think, Okay,
who would fall for that? Like you kind of deserve it,
I mean, that's mean. But sometimes like I just think
to myself, like yeah, like that, of course that's a scam.
But then there's somewhere I'm like, geez, these guys are brilliant.
If they use their you know, their street smarts and
(08:01):
uh and and you know their their savviness for for
you know, a real career, like something productive, like they'd
be they'd be successful. But the online shopping scams, there's
fake reads, so websites that are easy to fall for
and I guess that's where it really what is real
and what's not on the Internet. I mean that that's
that's a that's a danger with with a lot of
(08:22):
elements to it, if you will. But when it comes
to a website that by the visual would look completely
real but not be real, I guess that's I mean,
that's that's scary because I mean think about you know
how easy it is to just go to an AI
tool right now and create something that looks one thousand
percent real.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
A website, a graphic, a video. It's it's scary.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Also, be careful for postage and delivery scams because that
spikes a lot during the holiday season. When scammers, what
they'll do is they'll send fake misdelivery text and emails
that look like they're coming from the delivery service that
you trust and you know, but the message actually makes
you click a link to confirm your address or something
seemingly innocent, which leads to a phishing site or malware
download on on your device. And then this has been
(09:10):
an issue for years now and I wouldn't be shocked
if it's an issue again this year, to where gift
cards get compromised, people buy gift cards and somehow without
anybody knowing it, these gift cards you've purchased, they have
all the data, all the info on the card needed
to where they can go drain them or spin them,
and you end up giving somebody a gift card that
you haven't even touched, but yet it's been drained of
(09:31):
its value. That was a real big issue, I believe
a couple of years ago. I know some people that
had that happened to where the real nightmares that the
retailers who sell these gift cards, they some of them
are probably just you know, passing it down the line
and blaming it and telling somebody else to deal with it.
But also they don't even have any recourse as far
as you getting money back. Now you don't want to
hear that whenever you bought it from them and what
(09:53):
they gave you dead work. But that's where it became
a big issue. Like you clearly can make good money
doing it, or or businesses wouldn't do it. But when
you sell a gift card, you're taking on what the
consumer assumes your responsibility to, Hey, I bought it from you,
you took my money wide new working, but you also
leave yourself in a tough spot to where you really
(10:14):
unless you just want to pull money out of your
own pocket, which someone say, well, yeah, they should do that.
But again, the gift card component is tricky and there
have been many scams with those over the years, and
getting the scammers keep getting better and better. All right,
let's talk about my friends at the Jefferson Animal Hospital.
They've been around for a long long time helping you
when it comes to just keeping your pets safe.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They've got an.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Emergency center at their Outer Loop location that's been open
for forty five years twenty four to seven, three sixty five.
You never plan for an emergency, they happen, and when
they do happen, just know that Jefferson Animal Hospital Regional
Emergency and Trauma Center is there for you. But it's
not just for the emergencies. You need to keep your
pets healthy by getting them checked out, going and seeing
the doctor just to get updates. And I know many
(10:59):
of you that that have taken your pack to Jefferson
the Hospital for a variety of reasons. And it's always
great to partner with folks that you know that when
you mention what it is they do and what they provide.
There's people that are eager to tell you, oh yeah,
I know them. I use them too. That's where I
take my dog, That's where I take my cat. Because
again that just speaks to what they're doing. So again,
(11:19):
check them out online at Jefferson Vets dot com. Again
two locations, Outer Loop and Fern Creek, and they're always
there for you. All right, let's get to a quick
time out traff again, weather updates on the way. We've
also got a sports update coming up, so stick around.
It's News Radio eight forty Whas. I've never traveled for Thanksgiving,
but I know many people have and many people are
(11:41):
this year as we are expecting a record breaking number
of folks to travel to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, and
many of you will do it via airline, and I
again can't relate. Never thought of it, but apparently it's
the thing people try to bring left when you leave
Grandma's or wherever it is you go on Thanksgiving with leftovers.
There are people who do the same thing that travel meeting.
(12:02):
They show up to the airport trying to get back
home with food. I mean, again, never even thought about
doing that, but I guess it makes sense, but I
would just assume, Yeah, that's too difficult to do, not
going to be an easy thing. But apparently TSA says
you can. But also just know the rules. So if
(12:23):
you're going to try to bring home food via airline
from Thanksgiving celebration, baked, here's what you can have in
your carry on. Baked goods like pies, cakes, brownies, desserts, meats, turkey, chicken, ham, steak.
If it's frozen, cooked, uncoke doesn't matter, So you can
(12:45):
have that in your carry on.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
If you do that, you're good.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So when it comes to other foods mac and cheese,
it's got to be solid and still in the pan.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Like, how are they gonna check all this?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Like this just sounds like this TSA ridiculousness nightmare.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So in check.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Bags only you can have like there's if you want
to if there's something jarred, it's got to be in
the check bags. So liquids over three point four ounces
got to be in the check bag. Liquids three point
four ounces or less all in one in a one
court sized.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Bag in your carry on.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I mean, I never knew this was a thing, and
even if I did, I would just assume yeah, let's
just make the most of eating while we're here, and
just know that leftovers aren't going to be an option
because you know, we're getting on a plane. I would
never even think to do it. But I don't travel
a whole lot compared to others, and I'm sure if
you travel enough, you know what you can and can't do.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
If I love the types of food that we get
in Thanksgiving, I mean your typical stuff, I mean ham, turkey,
I'll take both, mashed potatoes and gravy stuffing corn, the
ass rolls. I mean, I love it all, love a
good Thanksgiving meal with the traditional foods that typically get.
But as much as I love it, I would not
(14:07):
even think or try to bring it on an airplane,
whether it be in my check bag or not, because
I also would just assume that it would go bad
and you know, just would call it. I try his
best to get through any airport experience as smoothly as possible,
and if I if I'm bringing something that I know
is going to potentially challenge that to where I'm going
to have a headache, I try to avoid it. Now,
(14:29):
speaking of travel, this is something that has had a
lot of reaction from folks, and that is the US
Department of Transportation urging air passengers to dress better beyond
you know, have better, I guess etiquette when it comes
to just you know, traveling. This is Sean Duffy and
his recent comments about wanting travelers to I guess not
(14:51):
look like slobs. I'm paraphrasing here, but here's what he
said stability.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Some of you might have noticed that we've launched a
civility campaign. I think it's.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Important as as we travel, uh that we think about
not just ourselves, not just our families, but we think
about those.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Who are around us, and we call our better angels.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In a busy time, and again, the airports are gonna
be packed uh TSA lines maybe a little longer, and
as you're you might not be able to find a
seat as you're buy your gate because of the number
of flights that are going out or coming in.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But I think we have to think about how do
we do a better job, How do we you know, maintain.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Maybe some of that frustration we have as we travel
this Thanksgiving season, maybe we should say please.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And thank you to our pilots and to our to
our flight attendants. I think again, I call.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
This, uh, just maybe dressing with some respect. Uh, you know,
whether it's a pair of jeans and a and a
and a decent shirt. I would encourage people to maybe
dress a little better, which encourage us, encourages us to
maybe behave all a little better. Let's try not to
wear slippers in and pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I think that's positive.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So he lost me at the end there because, like all,
as far as just being civil and being kind, that's
one thing. But I think the exact words he used
was if we dress a little better, it could encourage
us to behave a little better. What why does it matter?
I mean, this is something that I'd be lying if.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I told you I care about as far as what
people wear at.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The airport, genuinely doesn't not have I once ever thought
about somebody's wardrobe. When I've been in an airport and
I've noticed some people they dress really nice. I know
some people who you know, sweat pants a hoodie and
they're bombing it and they're clearly going for comfort. I've
never you know, I've never once thought.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
About it, but.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Clearly it's something on the mind. Of Sean Duffy. So again,
two different things there, right, Like treating people with respect
and being courteous and just being civil that's one thing,
But like the I don't think the wardrobe has anything to.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Do with it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But maybe that's just me. When I go to the airport,
I'm going for comfort. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I try to never, regardless of comfort or not, I
never try to dress like a slob.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
But yeah, I don't get the whole wearing pajamas to
the airport thing unless you're a kid, like I get
it if you've got kids.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't get wearing pajamas anywhere outside of your house.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
People do it in the grocery. You go to the
grocery store after eight thirty at night, you're gonna see
a lot of pajama wearers.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I you know, I guess you're not really hurting anybody.
But I mean I don't. I don't own pajamas. I own,
you know. I If I my pajamas are just you know,
a T shirt, a pair of shorts, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I will say I'm a big PJ pants guy. At
my house.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They're comfy. I think I have somebody just don't often
wear them. But if I was gonna wear them, they
would only be in my house. All right, let's get
to a quick time out. We'll check on the roadway,
see how traffic's looking this morning. Bobby Ellis has us
covered there. We'll also take a look at this forecast today.
Not going to be a real issue as far as
cold cold weather, but man, it's coming a little bit later,
going to be really cold this weekend and on Thanksgiving
(17:59):
days well so, in fact, I think Thanksgiving Day is
going to be really called the weekend. I'm not totally sure.
But again, we'll get the latest from Matt Melosavitch from
wk why right here at News Radio eight forty whas
we've got a sports update coming up here in about
seven minutes or so. This is not necessarily a sports
update when it comes to any action on the field
(18:20):
of the cord, but certainly from the world of sports,
and it is a story you don't often see where
a college football player has been charged with attempted murder
after stabbing two teammates. So Daniel Minsi, who's a former
UK football player, spent just one season there before transferring
to UAB. He's a red shirt freshman there at UAB.
He was arrested in charge with the attempted murder after
(18:41):
he stabbed two teammates inside the football facility just hours
I guess before they were set to have a practice.
So details are graphic. Motives seems to be unclear, but
UAB police responded to the football operations building and booked
(19:03):
this young man MINSI on aggravated assault in attempted murder.
So there's two defensive linemen that were stabbed during breakfast
service in the team facility. Both hospitalized, both in stable condition,
and again both are expected to recover. But this attack
reportedly stemmed from a fight that took place at practice
on Friday. And I mean this guy brought a knife
(19:27):
to the facility and his plan was to literally kill
his teammates, which is insane. There's a third player that
stepped in to stop the attack ended up with several
hand injuries after helping subdue the perpetrator here, So again
not something you often see. But not sure what could
(19:48):
have led, Not sure what could take place in a
fight that would get you to that point, But yeah,
ver very awful story, especially considering they're having a rough
year as it is. They fired their coach midseason and
aren't very good and now you've got this, so yeah, yikes.
All right, let's talk about the Louisville Men's Clinic, shall we. Well,
regardless if you want me to or not, I'm going
(20:08):
to because you need to know, fellas, listen up. You
need to understand that despite you feeling like you don't
need any help from a place called the men's clinic
because you're you're manly enough. You may be manly enough
in your own mind, and really, I guess that is
more than anything a state of mind. But you may
not realize that as you get older, and I'm not
talking about getting up there in your sixties seventies, I'm
talking about just as you grow as a man, rather
(20:30):
it be a younger man or an older man, you
stop producing the same level of testosterone as you once did,
and your levels are supposed to be in a certain
range depending upon your age. And there are so many
and I was one of them that didn't realize that. Yeah,
my lab work that I get done, just in my
medical checkups, it's not going to reveal anything that's alarming
(20:51):
or anything that's a real danger to me. But the
reason I was starting to see the belly flab and
boobs developing. Just not getting the same results in the
gym as I used to get was because my testosterone
levels were not where they needed to be. They declined.
So here I am still trying to put in the work,
just trying to stay active, and I wasn't in terrible
(21:12):
shape necessarily, but I just felt like I'd lost my
edge and I didn't know why. So finally I decided
to say, Okay, maybe this is what it is. Maybe
it's testosterone issues. So sure enough got my levels checked
and they were not where they needed to be. Now
they are and that has changed my life. Not an exaggeration,
not hyperbole, it's just the truth. I feel better now
for the last couple of years that I've been working
with the folks at the Louis of Men's Clinic than
(21:33):
I did for the vast majority of my thirties. And
not only is it great, but it's something I didn't
even realize was there. I just accepted, well, I guess
this is just getting older. I guess it's just life. Well,
no life can be better, and it is for me
because now again I'm starting to get the benefits from
the workout and there's a lot of I mean, there's
extensive things that can impact you that are due to
(21:56):
you potentially having low testosterone more so than you'd realize,
even mental fog and even just mental health. So again,
go see my friends at the louis Men's Clinic. Maybe
you don't need testosterone treatment, maybe you need ed help.
And they've got a lot of different ways they can
treat ed. And if it doesn't work, you don't pay.
They stand by what they can do for you. There's
a variety of ways in which they can treat it.
(22:17):
They'll figure out which one makes the most sense for you.
And again I can't recommend them enough. It's the Little
Men's Clinic. You can check them out online at Louisvillemen's
Clinic dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Give them a call.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
FABU two four four four thousand. All right, stick around trafficking,
weather updates on the way. We've got another sports update
coming up to right here at news Radio eight forty
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