12.17: Dropship - Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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before I got to the next story, I want to
make sure have my numbers right here. So twenty eight
years now, the Louisville Police LMPD they have delivered toys
to kids at Norton's Children's Hospital and I also got
distracted a little bit watching this story that our partners
at WKY had just about. It's just something, you know,
it's sweet to see, right kids in the hospital. Of
course that's not what you want to see. That's sad,

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but to see the joy that they get when officers
show up and give them Christmas present. So yeah, the
details here. So over two hundred toys were delivered to
patients at Norton's Children's Hospital earlier this week, and they've
been doing this for a twenty eight year tradition, and
it is led by local Fraternal Order of Police groups,
so it's not just an LMPD thing, but every child

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in the hospital received at least one Christmas present. So
the program is funded entirely by donations and Louisville Metro
Police officers, both active and retired. So this is certainly
awesome to see, there's no doubt about that. But what
it reminds me of, and that's why I got a
little bit distracted, is that when you're and I know
this because I'm seeing it for the first time with

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my son. He's five years old, and I've not really
tried to influence him in any way as far as
you know, who he thinks hero are and who he
thinks are you know, just the coolest people on the planet.
Now I've influencedone when it comes to sports and who
he roots for that kind of stuff, But like he
thinks that police officers and firefighters, like he just thinks

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those are the biggest badasses out there, and he's like
in awe when he sees one out in public, and
I think that's really cool to see. It also makes
me proud that he realizes that those people are heroes
and they do in fact sacrifice their lives. But I
can't take any credit for it as far as, like,
you know, making him well aware of it and instilling
that in him. But I just think if you really

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think of it at that level, the innocence of a
child is going to know what it is those people
do and they think that that's, you know, that's heroic,
because again it is. So I bring all this up
to say, like, if if you maybe there are and
I'm not here to act like everybody that's ever been
a CoP's been great. Clearly we know that's not the case.
That's not reality. But the stigma that is out there

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when it comes to law enforcement and it's not everybody,
but obviously there's some that just it's especially around here,
Like we know LMPD had a rough, a rough decade
or so, right, I mean some real big black eyes
as far as just the overall department. And but some
of it's been you know, some of it's been exaggerated,

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some of it's been unfair, There's no doubt about that.
But like, if in fact, we did appreciate law enforcement
a little bit more, and I'm not saying that, you know,
they're all great again, they still need to be held accountable.
There's still gonna be news stories that come out daily
across the country of an officer doing something that they
shouldn't do. Like that's that's never not going to be
the case. But if I think we appreciated it more

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and it was something that was viewed in a way that,
you know, for what it really is, people who do
sacrifice and obviously they're here to protect and to serve,
then then there would be more people that would want
to do it, and then it would be more of
a competitive thing to get in set industry to where
it would improve every every aspect of society. Right, if

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you know, if you if you weren't desperate to try
to find people to join the force, and it was
a super competitive thing. You could be you could be
picky about who you let in as far as who
you who you deemed qualified for the job. So anyways,
I'm sure many of you who have kids now that
are young, or maybe you had kids long ago that
were at that age. There's just something that is I

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guess pure about that. And it reminds me, like you know,
some of these as you get older, like what made
you change your mind? Right? Is it just the negative
news stuff you hear? Is maybe you know you had
a parent that influenced you and wanted you to believe,
you know, that all cops are bad, that kind of stuff,
I don't know, But anyways, really cool to see and
again one of the many things we should be appreciative

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of when it comes to uh to law enforcement. But
again you can't say that without some just what about
this that happened or that that happened? Again, like both
things can be true. We do we should appreciate law enforcement,
and I think the vast majority want to do a
good job and do a good job. But obviously that's
there's going to be as they say bad apples, And unfortunately,

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there are certain industries where even if you have one
two bad apples among billions, maybe like those are going
to get a lot. You can't really mean it's going
to happen, but it's, you know, it's it's a certain
type of job and career that if you've got somebody
not doing it the right way, it's going to be
it's going to be a big deal. All right, let's

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get to a quick time out trafficking weather updates on
the way. We've got an update as far as the
most popular, I guess more so the most downloaded apps
of twenty twenty five. I'm sure many of you have
a lot of these apps. We'll talk about that as
we move along. Don't go anywhere. It's coffee and company
feel abut Thorton's right here at news Radio eight forty
whas So, Apple has released the annual year in wrap up,

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revealing the most downloaded free apps and games for both
iPhones and iPads. So keep in mind this is this
is just Apple's data. But I would imagine that unless
there is an app that is specifically for the Android
platform that is not available on the Apple platform. Vice versa.
A lot of these apps are are available on both
and very popular on both. But Number one, any guests

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john the most chat GPT. It is so not a
not a surprise where we where we are right now,
with AI being a rapidly exploding world that never ceases
to amaze me as far as just how quickly things
evolve and how every day I mean, if you really
wanted to and maybe you don't want to, I don't know,
maybe you do do what you want with your time.

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But if you if you look at just daily trends
in the AI world, every day there's something new that
I can I mean that I'm seeing that you can
utilize AI for and it's it's awesome but scary, that's
the way I look at it. But yeah, chat gpt
the most downloaded free iPhone app of the year. Not Instagram,
not YouTube, no TikTok. It's a chatbot. But that's that's

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where we are. So number two really surprised me. I
had to remind myself what this was. So Threads is
Instagram's version of I guess Twitter. They wanted to whenever
there was thoughts that Twitter would not exist anymore, they
wanted to launch or maybe no, I'm sorry it was
TikTok No, I don't know what it was.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, there was threats that Twitter was gonna be shut down.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, when Elon Musk got involved. Yeah, and uh so
they wanted to I guess say, hey, because Facebook and
Instagram are all under the same under face. So basically
give so, Facebook, Instagram and Threads are all really the same,
They're from the same They're underneath the same umbrella as
far as just the social media world. And I guess
this was their way of taking some because Instagram is

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really popular. Of course Facebook is as well, so I
guess they wanted to maybe have a trio. But I don't.
I don't use Threads. I have it on my phone.
It's connected to my Instagram, but like, I don't, I
don't use it, but clearly a lot of people do.
But I'm also curious, so, whenever you were fearful of
of Twitter shutting down, did you download this because you
were encouraged to? And uh you know, you were just

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looking a land where others were going to be if
Twitter didn't exist anymore. But yeah, because I bet I'm
not alone as far as somebody that downloaded it. But
doesn't use it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, that was the same way. But I can't believe
it's number two.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, because again, but I think the downloads it's I
would love to see user data compared to just downloads
because but.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
That was still two or three years ago when I
first got launched.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, well, maybe it's picking up steam again. I do
see like Instagram, because they're connected. It'll tell me, hey,
there's this on Threads, but I haven't opened that app,
and since I downloaded, I don't think and I do
think anything i'll post on ig does go there directly
just because they're SYNCD, but I don't. I don't, I
don't check it. But yeah, so Threads was number two.
Google just the simple Google app was number three, TikTok

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number four, What's App Messenger is number five. I'm familiar
with that, but I don't have it. Instagram number six,
YouTube seven, Google Maps eight, Gmail is number nine, and
then Google Gemini is number ten. I have every one
of those apps other than What's App. Have any of
those job, I mean you've got You've got most of those, right.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, WhatsApp that's like the is it like a FaceTime?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I think it's like it's it's it's a messenger app
that you can basically where you send text messages, but
it's all based off of like service. It's not a number.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay. So there was something like that called cake when
I was in high school.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Okay, so I think what's app is? I remember somebody
asked me I was having to communicate with somebody internationally
one time, and they asked me if I used that,
and I didn't. I didn't didn't know what it was.
So anyway, it's pretty popular. I guess, all right, let's
get to a quick time out. We'll get a check
of traffick in whether there wasn't is. It looks like
they're clearing it up. But an accident near New Cut
Road that was causing some delays. But we'll get the

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latest on that and more with Bobby Ellis and a
sports but it's coming up as well right here at
news Radio eight forty whas. It's not the first and
it certainly won't be the last when it comes to
a teacher doing something inappropriate with a with a student.
And I don't say that, you know, like it's a
good thing. Clearly it's awful, but it happens, and UH

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are a lot worse than others when it comes to allegations.
And thankfully, with this arrest yesterday of a fifth grade
teacher in JCPS, I mean, thankfully she was caught before
it turned into something that you know, would have led
to actual harm, physical harm to to a child. I mean,
clearly there's already harm done when it comes to just
the nature of this. But again it's, uh, it's if

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you if if you can feel me spinning my wheels here,
it's just because it's just it's unspeakable as far as
what would and I really can't process how anybody would
one ever ever think to do it. But also just
like how brazen it was. It's scary that that that
that if you're this, if you were this, I guess,
just brazen and and and delusional to think that like

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what you're doing is not awful and that you're clearly
gonna get caught. It's just it's it's unthinkable. But again,
it was a fifth grade teacher, it's smirt elementary, and
she was arrested for engaging in sexual conversations with one
of her students. So this took place during conversations between
teacher and student on Monday, during the NTI day and
it included explicit sexual content, and this teacher made plans

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or so she thought, to go meet up with a
student near his home. And when she arrived, she was
not met by the student, but met by law enforcement
and she was arrested. So she's been charged, pleaded not guilty,
and she's currently barred from having contact with miners. As
you could expect. But it's Sydney Graff and she's a
fifth grade teacher at Smyrna Elementary and the detectives reviewed

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the communication between the teacher and this student and say
that the included discussions were of sexual nature, references to
oral sodomy, and that's when the teacher then made plans
to go meet this student. And as I said, she
was arrested near the home of that student, as she
was not meeting him, she was meeting law enforcement. So

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just an awful situation all the way around. And unfortunately,
these these these things happen and it's it's shameful. And
I think with technology now it was a step in
the right direction when it comes to making it against
the law for teachers to communicate with any student if

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it's not through an approved school district platform right. I
don't know if they put one in place statewide around
the country, but that was a big deal because it's
something that's never been in place before. If you were
having contact with a student and it's not through an
approved platform, you're breaking the law. You can be arrested. Now.
We talked a lot about it throughout the summer. How

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what that what that does for for youth sports like
high school sports, middle school sports, because I mean, I
get why this rules in place, but it does make
it more challenging for those that are doing things the
right way that obviously benefit from having a direct line
of communication with the junior in high school that they're
coaching in softball or football, whatever it may be. So

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something that just used to be a norm now you
can't do legally. I'm sure that's that's a real adjustment
for coaches. But there's a good reason to have this
in place, just because all it can do is help
when it comes to just the access that teachers have
to students, especially outside of school. But as we learned here,
doesn't matter. I mean, either she broke the law and

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was communicating with this student through other platforms, or she
was brazen enough to do it through however you communicate
with a kid through NTI, I mean, just unbelievable, it
really is. All right, let's get an update of trafficking weather.
A relatively quiet morning. When it comes to traffic, we
did we did have an issue near Newcut Road that
was causing some problems. So it looks like they're making

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some progress there. But we'll get the latest from Bobby Ellison.
I do want to revisit the conversation about the layoff.
Sixteen hundred work got sixty days to figure out what
they're going to do and if they're maybe ever going
to have a path back to a place where they
probably thought was going to be their long term careers.
So the Blue Oval sk layoffs obviously a big hit

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to the folks down there in Hardin County. We'll talk
a little more about their reaction to this news and
how they found out about it. All right, don't go anywhere,
keep it lock right here at news Radio eight forty whas.
It's a warm forty nine degrees here at news Radio
eight forty whas feels pleasant outside after a very cold

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start to December. It's nice to get a little break
and then Friday, we're going to be cold once again.
But really it looks as if the rest of this year,
the rest of December, we're going to be on the
warmer side, which I'm sure many of you like that.
If I had the chance, if I could choose snow
and cold or no snow and warm on Christmas Day,
I'd go Christmas snow. I just think it would be

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it'd be fitting. But again, I'm sure many of you
don't like snow, and I get it. I understand. All right,
let me tell you about my friends at the Jefferson
Animal Hospital, because if you have, if you've yet to
find a place to take your pets for checkups, visits,
or just you need a place to go when something
comes up, there's no place to turn to better than

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the Jeffersonial Hospital. There's two locations in Fern Creek and
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your pets, and you never plan for those things, they
just they happen. Life happens, and it can be scary,

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and I think the first question for a lot of
people is where do I go?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
What do I do?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Especially if you've never been in that situation before. Well,
I can tell you Jefferson Animal Hospital. That's where you
can turn to Christmas, whatever day, any time of the night,
whatever happens, they're there and they'll take care of you.
But don't just think of it as okay. Yeah, I'll
keep them in mind when it comes to an emergency.
You should have your pets checked out regularly, just to
make sure that their health is in good condition. And

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obviously your pets can't communicate with you like humans can,
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pet's fine. Yeah, Well you never know, never hurts uh

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to get him checked out, especially if they haven't been
looked at it in a long time, all right, we'll
look at the roadways here coming up in just a moment,
Bobby Ellis, we'll see how we're how we're doing when
it comes to traffic this morning. And we've got our
friend mister Alex White. He's gonna stop in and see
us around seven thirty. So we got a lot more
to get into, so don't go anywhere. Hang out with us.
We'll get to sports on the other side with Scott
right here at News Radio eight forty whas