12.15: Disrespectful - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is certainly cold outside right now. Let me see
how much we've warmed up since when I walked outside
the door in the four o'clock hour this morning, we
were sitting at seven degrees. Looks like it's at eight
right now, so it is still very cold. That has
led to JCPS being on NTI this morning. Also, there's
some other schools in the in the region that have

(00:21):
gone virtual learning or INTI, but you can get a
list of that at our partners.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Over there at WLKY.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
But yeah, going to be warmer, not only later today,
you're going to get up to about thirty two thirty
two thirty two to thirty three degrees. But if you
were somebody looking for a break from this cold, cold, freezing,
I gain. I mean it got warmer here and there,
but never I mean, it feels like it's been forever
since we've been near fifty and that may not be
the case. But yeah, from now until I guess right

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around Christmas, we're looking at averages being probably in the
upper forties. So again, not warm by any means, but
certainly much better than what we've had in the last
really the last twenty four to forty eight hours because yesterday.
It was it was something I think earlier it was
disrespectful when you walk outside and you just get hit
in the face with those cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Temperatures and that wind. So be prepared.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
But for the most part, I feel like the snow
that came in on Sunday, I guess Saturday evening into
early Sunday morning pretty mild. I think the most the
region probably got was an inch or so, and I'd
say that was more probably towards northern north north of Louisll,
maybe in southern Indiana, but where I'm at Bullet County,
we didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We didn't give much. Did you get much in Mount Washington, John, No,
it wasn't a whole lot. Maybe an inch or two
at the most. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So again, I'm gonna warm up as we get closer
to Christmas. And I know that makes makes a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Of folks happy.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
But with the the NTI decision that JCPS made yesterday,
I need to I need to take my own advice
and just you know, realize that no matter what, like
you're gonna find people that they're just looking to complain
no matter what. But like last night, they decided to
go in TI and they did give you at least
some notice. It wasn't as if the decision was made

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in the morning when you got up. So again it's
still is going to be inconvenient for a lot of folks.
But again, as I'm trying to think, like, hey, least
you know they gave you heads up and at least
you know they don't want your kids out standing at
the bus stop when it's you know, in the single digits.
But like, no matter what I mean when I say
I need to just keep this in mind, is I
try to be the one to remind people of this.
Maybe I need to remind myself no matter what they

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do as far as the decision that is made regarding
school because of whether issues or whatever, it may be
like there's going to be people that just unload on
the school district and how how could they do this?
This is stupid, you know, and that's such a thankless position.
And I often try to remind folks that, like, if

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you are upset because you had to find arrangements for
your kids, somebody to watch them, maybe you had to
take off work to help them get through INTI or
I mean, again, there's a lot of ways you could
be inconvenience by your kid not having school and excuse
me having NTI virtual learning. But I'd say the majority
of parents that are frustrated, the vast majority of them,

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like whoever they do communicate with, if anybody within like
their school, where their kid goes and all that, Like,
those people aren't the ones made that decision. So you know,
don't take it. Don't take it out on them. But
you know, there is something to be said about cold
weather now being I guess a factor in why you
might delay school or just do it remotely.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
That wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I mean as soon as I walked in this morning,
John Shannon, you know, he indicated to me that that
was not a thing back in his day, that where
you would just get out of school because the weather's cold.
And he's right, I mean, it wasn't a thing. But
I guess now because you have the ability to still
what is you know, it's still used as a school day, right,
I mean, it's not really school. And I have a
hard time thinking that anybody is actually I just it's

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it's And I always try to to pump the brakes
a little bit here because I don't want to assume
that like because trust me, I'm not I have no
experience in in in the school system at all. But
even if you have what is considered like the best
day you can as a teacher with your students via
remote learning or ntil whatever you want to call it,
I just don't see how it could be chalked up

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as the same as a school day, which you know,
maybe they're not trying to convince you that it is.
That's why they don't do remote learning every day three
hundred and sixty five days. It's just something that you
have to that you that you opt to when you
have situations quite like this. So yeah, and again, if
you're if you're a student, and I doubt we have
many of them listening right now, you probably love this

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because you know you you don't. You're not putting in
the same amount of work as you probably do. If
you go and you don't have to get out in
the cold, you can stay and stay cozy inside whenever
you know it's it's freezing out there. All right, we've
got Jill Schlessinger se you're gonna talk some money with us.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's what she does.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
She joins us every Monday and then we'll talk with
her here on the other side of the first let's
get an update of the traffic and get an update
on the forecast today right here at news.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Radio eight forty whas.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's news Radio eight forty whas Coffee and company with you,
and we are fueled by Thornton's And we're also joined
now by Jill Slessinger, CBS News business analyst and the
host of Jill on Money. Jill, with October's job data
basically wiped off the board, how much confidence should we
have in this November report that's coming out here tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh, I don't know. Let's be ambitious and say yes,
let's be supportive, and yes, it's great data and everything's fine.
I don't know. I think we just take it for
what it is, which is a month late of data.
And also we're missing October and we'll never know what
happened on October. I guess it's okay because generally speaking,
that October number probably would have been a negative number anyway,

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because of all the federal workers who had chosen to
retire early. They took that deal, you know, back in
you know, February March April, when they were all say, hey,
you know, if you want to be getting early retire
I mean, you got to sign up and that happens
by the end of October or November, so we'll get that.
But I think generally speaking, we know what's happening in
the labor market is cooled down in the second half

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of this year, and that's what we know is actually occurring.
And there's no kind of sugarcoating that. It doesn't mean
that it's falling off a cliff, but it does mean
that a cool down is a cool down, right, it's
we are not running as hot as we once were.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
When you hear people blame AI for things when it
comes to the job force out there is there data
that shows how that is impacting things.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
You know, I think that it is obviously an issue,
but it is not widespread yet, and I think the
yet is important.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
There are a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Of studies of you know, what's going on in the
labor market, and you know, I do think that there
is some notion that companies will start to say, what
are the jobs that can be enhanced or replaced by AI? Right?
Those are That's definitely happening, but it doesn't explain a
lot of the trends that have been happening. For example,
we know that young college graduates who are twenty two

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to twenty seven years old are having a hard time
finding a job. Now that's been going on for decades,
like literally for like the last two and a half decades,
where we've seen the people who come out of college,
they used to have like this smooth sailing, just moved
into the labor market very seamlessly. Little by little, the

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advantage conferred by a college degree has not been has
shrunk a little bit. So if you just say, hey,
I had like a one step advantage to everyone else
who didn't go to college, maybe that is like a
half a step. Now I still have an advantage, it's
not as good as an advantage as it used to be.
That we are definitely seeing and I think that right now,

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it's not like your employment advantage disappears. It's just again
it's gotten a little bit less beneficial to have the
college degree. Please don't hear that, don't go to college.
I mean, if you want to go to colle go,
don't spend too much for it. But so you do
have an advantage, it's a hard to get the job
right now.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, And we actually talked last week about some data
that is not so surprising that there's a big difference
now and even ten years ago as far as how
people view the value from a financial standpoint, the financial
investment it takes to go to college for four years
and get a degree, of course, if you have to
pay for it and you're not able to obtain scholarships
and that kind of stuff, And those numbers did not
surprise me really at all. When it comes to the

(08:29):
young college grads. I mean, is at least I guess
now there's more awareness that, hey, this won't be easy
right out of the gate. I just I'm curious what.
I guess it depends on what you're going to school for.
But there needs to be a plan in place to
just know that, hey, I'm going to have to have
this little this gap here where I've got to just
make ends meet and figure out how I can use
my degree.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know. I think that it's important that people go
in with a wide eyd meaning that I think you're
right that more people understand going into debt to get
a college degree. It's a terrible idea, you know, or
you know, some debt not like crazy if you come
out of college with a ten or fifteen grand in
school loans. It's not going to hurt you. You're going
to be okay. But also I would be very careful

(09:09):
not to try to game the system, be like, oh,
what is the college degree that's the most valuable over time?
That was, you know, just five years ago. I remember
having conversations people are like, well, I'm going to make
my kid go be a software engineer. Had that work
out for you? Not so great? I don't think, because
right now that is actually not a good plan for
many people. So the economy changes and you change. So

(09:33):
what you should be encouraging your kids to do is
learn how to think, get a degree, be adaptable, and
when you come out, don't take it for granted that
you're automatically going to get a job work during the
school year. Don't just take a job that's like, oh,
this looks good on my resume, Like get a job
where you actually think it's going to help you get
your first real foot in the door.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Just lessons is our guests joining us here at news
Radio eight forty whs. From the employer's side, are they
still hiring? Is it just more cautiously to me? I
hear a lot of folks reference, well, the entry level
jobs are just disappearing. How much truth do you think
there is to that.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I think what we have is what's called a low higher,
low fire kind of labor market. So I think there
are fewer It's hard for a company to say I'm
going out and hiring a whole new class of new
employees if you're uncertain about where the economy is going.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
So I think we've had this air of uncertainty since
the tariffs that a lot of companies have been feeling like, well,
I'm not so sure, right, I'm not so sure what's
going to happen next. So that uncertainty put the brakes
on hiring come like basically starting in the summer.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Now, I think there are more industries that feel confident
about they understand where the tariffs are going to hit them,
how they're going to hit them, And for the technology companies,
they're much more understanding of what are the jobs they
need to fulfill. Like if you are somebody who has
experience in AI, of course you're going to get hired
by Amazon. If you're just up plane old software engine
near you may not get a job in Amazon, and

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there are certain industries that are consolidating like ours. I mean,
if you have a young person who wants to be
in the news business, good luck, because there are going
to be fewer employers. Well said, It's sorry, gang, this
is from the old star out there. It doesn't mean
you shouldn't get a job. And by the way, we
at CBS News we're still hiring. There are still jobs,
so we just you know, someone just got hired. Like

(11:23):
it's just that you don't get that wholesale hiring feel
like the wins at are sales things. We're an expanding industry.
When you're in a consolidating industry, it's hard to find
a job. You will if you really look hard and
you really want it, and you'll take anything, you'll probably
get something.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Jill, as always, we appreciate your time. We'll do it
again next week.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Take care, man, Take care. That is Juel just Lessinger.
Again she's right when it comes to just the college
grads and the value is there. Like again, I'm glad,
she pointed out, you know you go into college. These
numbers shouldn't make you think, O way, hey, I shouldn't
go because if you I mean, I'm jealous of people
that have put them sells through school to get a

(12:01):
bunch of degrees, and because honestly, that's an accomplishment and
it's something that is worth having. But the financial hole
you can put yourself in when it comes to student loans,
is it a wise investment?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean that that's that's to me more so the conversation.
It's not about, hey, does it have any value? I
think it'll you'll always be You'll always have value when
you get when you get an education and you're and
you're educated to that level. But when it comes to
just making sense from a numbers perspective, it's never not
made since quite like it. It doesn't make sense now
when it comes to just like, yeah, I'm going to
be in this much debt even if I have a

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good career the rest of the way and make a
you know, pretty good salary, Like this is just debt
that I'm going to have a hard time living with
and living comfortably. So anyways, don't want ever make it
sound like I'm telling people that that's stupid to go
to college, because you know, my opinion, it's not. I'm
sure others have that their opinion. That's different than mine,
but whatever, let's get to a quick break trafficking weather

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Speaker 2 (12:57):
Also another sports update.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
We haven't talked much above basketball, but how about that
rivalry tour for Louisville playing all the old rivals and
of course the big rival this year and four and
oh and things are rolling right now for pack Kelsey
and his squad.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
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Speaker 1 (13:11):
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here on news Radio eight forty whas. So I on
Friday updated to the latest version of Apple's iOS for
my iPhone, and I didn't feel as if I was

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a dinosaur that had a tough time adjusting to technology.
But I felt like an angry customer who did not
ask for something I was given. And it I mean,
I don't want to be dramatic. It's not a huge deal,
but I've had an iPhone since two thousand and nine,
probably at eight or nine, and in nearly every iOS

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update it's been almost unnoticeable or very little change to
where you notice anything at all. And this one is
is different, and uh, sometimes I'm thinking, Okay, it's just
getting used to it, and that is really it. Like
the the biggest complaint I have is the keyboard is different,
Like I can't type, typing is is it's harder to do,

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and that is something that eventually I'll just get used
to it. Same thing with like the uh, like with
the Safari. So Safari is the is the main browser
that you use on iPhone and that the update to
that is just it's going to be an adjustment. And uh,
if you've used it daily like I have, and I'm
sure millions have the update they made, it's really you

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have to google and search how to do certain things
that you used to be able to do.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
A certain way.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Now you would have no way to just figure out, Okay,
this is how you do it, this is what you do,
because it's just.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's a big, big difference.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
So again it's just getting used to At least I thought,
now I'm hearing about all these issues that you could have,
and I did have one this morning that I didn't
even think to blame it on the new update, but yeah,
this is the thing, the silent iPhone alarm.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
This is scary.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
So there was somebody over the weekend who went viral
with a video I believe on TikTok that shows somebody
missing an early flight because the iPhone alarm never made
a sound. This person woke up on their own at
six thirty am, picked up their phone and saw the
alarm had been going off for two hours, completely silent.
And this morning I woke up, I guess I'm just

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programmed to wake up at a certain time in a window,
and I looked over and my alarm was going off
and it wasn't making a sound. Now there's ways in
which you can go about fixing it, which it's nice
to know because I'm obviously going to need to do that.
But there are other people who have just filled the
comments of this TikTok referencing other things that they've dealt

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with when it comes to.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
It, so again, getting used to it's one thing.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm not happy about it, but if it still works
the same and I just got to make some adjustments,
it'll be fine. But it does seem as if this
at least stands out as one of the bigger updates
to the everyday iPhone usage, that there's more than the
normal amount of people saying, hey, I don't like this.
I mean, it's one thing for it to just look different,
but like when it doesn't work the same, like others

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have said that they're dropping service more frequently and that
their battery is being drained. I haven't experienced that, or
at least I haven't noticed it just yet. But when
you use your phone as much as we all do,
and I probably am on mine more than the average,
And I don't say that to sound as if I'm
proud of it. It's just it's an issue. I'm on
my phone more than I need to be, But I

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don't know how you're not on your phone. I mean, again,
everybody's different, so maybe I'm just looking at it from
my position specifically, but I feel like most people are
are active on smartphones daily and probably not a good
chunk of their day, but but fairly often so when

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there is a big change made, it's it's definitely noticeable.
And again, there's been countless versions of iOS upgrades in
my time as an iPhone user, and I'm telling you,
I don't remember any of them ever like standing out
as noticeable, and this one it does. But you know, I'll, uh,
I guess I'll get used to it. But yeah, the

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when the alarm doesne work and people are late to things,
you could be late to something that could you know,
change your life for for you know, for the for
the worst. So uh yeah, I'm needing to I see
different links here that I can click on and figure
it out because they say that there's something you can
do to fix it. But yeah, that's that's an issue Apple,
that you have just a software upgrade that is typically

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not caused much change or even notice and now all
of a sudden, people aren't getting aren't able to trust
the alarm clock. That's dangerous. All right, let's get to
a quick time out trafficking. Weather updates are on the way.
Porch pirates. We talked about them a couple of weeks ago,
just giving you some uh some numbers out there. But
also we now have another another thing that's worth looking at,

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and that is just to see when they're most likely
to strike. The porch pirates. And they're they're going to
be out there. They're they're, they're they're growing by the
every Christmas there's more of them, more of them out
there showing up and stealing packages all people's porches. So
again be advised. We'll talk about that more on the
other side right here at news Radio eight forty whs.
It is seven forty seven here news Radio eight forty whas.

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I'm sure many of you have already gotten started, at
least I hope you've gotten started when it comes to
uh to Christmas shopping, But procrastinators like myself, uh, I've
gotten started. But you know, I I it's not that
I'm looking to really take it to the wire, but
I know myself and I know I probably will, and
that's just you know, it's it's almost one of the

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Christmas traditions for me is scrambling. Uh oh, I didn't
get this in time and it turns to Okay, yeah,
I just know I'm going to have to add a
premium to it because I'm going to need to pay
to get it here right on time, because I didn't
give myself enough time. That That's what when I think
of the Christmas cram and as far as just trying
to get things done at the last minute because I've procrastinated,

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I just think of looking at everything online that I'm
going to purchase, and the first thing I look at,
more so than even the price, is when is the
earliest it can be delivered. So again, I'm sure I'm
not the only one that's been there, but hey, some people,
they'll steal their Christmas shopping is stealing from your porch.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's what they do.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
And you know they'll they'll steal and figure out what's
in these packages and probably gift them. I mean, I
say that sarcastically, but I'm sure that's one of the
reasons or one of the ways in which people use
the stolen things that they take from your porch. But
an estimated thirty seven million package are projected to have
been stolen at the end of this year, So porch pirates,

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of course, that's the thing, regardless of time of year.
But obviously you've got a lot more packages being delivered
this time of year because of Christmas. But there is
an update here that tells you when your porch, I
guess is most vulnerable, and of course it's this time
of the year, so these days, let's see, let me
pull up the most Yes, estimated thirty seven million packages

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will be stolen in the US when this year ends,
totally eight point two billion in stolen merchandise. Depending on
where you live, you may be more likely to get
hit by these prowlers, and a new study reveals here
where they're most likely to strike. So research research from
Bana Law looks at burglary rates nationwide to identify where
homes are most vulnerable during the holidays. So it analyzes

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FBI data for the last five years to find out
which states have had it the worst. So it turns
out Alabama leads the country and holiday increases, and the
state has seen twelve and a half percent increase in
holiday season burglaries.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
They call them.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Man again, it is burglary. But like I guess, the
burglary charge itself can be a lot of different things.
But I guess if somebody does show up, I mean,
I guess maybe you could say that's the definition of burglary.
They showed up to a place that wasn't there's they
took something that wasn't theirs. But when it comes to
where we rank as a state, I'm trying to see
where Kentucky falls. But the safest state is Vermont and.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
What are you going to steal up there? Yeah, syrup
or something.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
And then like the other states like Delaware, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Maine,
in Montana, I just feel like it's just not as
prevalent because like you have to do a lot of
like you're not just I'm sure I know there are
neighborhoods in those areas, but I just think like houses
that are kind of out there, you know, on their own.
But again, we'll see if we can get an updated
look here, because we're not in the bottom ten, we're
not in the top ten. I'm not sure where Kentucky
ranks overall. But regardless of where we do, if you've

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got a ring camera, that's where these things they come
in handy. But also like clearly people still do this
knowing that there's a ring can they just try to
disguise who they are? As best they can, and it's
you know, even if it's something worth ten bucks or
whatever and it's not that big of a deal, there
is a level of feeling violated, right like, And obviously
anybody who steals you know they're they're in the wrong,

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and let's hope that people who do that get held accountable.
But they say that you can, you can actually work
out something with some delivery services to where you and
I think it's a premium thing, but I guess it
depends on who it is. But you can give them
access to like a garage code if you trust them,
and they can put your packages in there. But I'm
sure many wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, and I get

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it all right. Traffic updates, weather updates on the way
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