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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, five oh five here at New's Radio eight
forty w h A S. Coffee and Company with you,
and we are fueled by Thornton's and we've got the
full crew here today, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
and John Shannon who is with us. And I'm sure
many of you in your professional career has stumbled into
to work like any other day and and someone there
(00:22):
has made a drastic change to their appearance.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's uh, it's happened. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
If not, it'll it'll catch off guard. We all walked
in this morning and realized that John Shannon, who really
since I've known him, certainly since I've worked with him,
he's had a mullet. I mean that's that's I mean,
that's that's the right way to describe the haircut, right, Okay.
He wears it with he wears it with honor. He yeah, enjoyed. Well, well,
some people there's like new ways to do it now, right,
(00:46):
Like there's like the odd shaved on the side, but
then you've got a lot going on in the back.
So I think that's called a Kentucky waterfall. Okay, So
he wasn't going Kentucky waterfall. He was going old school
mullet and now he's back to I mean, his haircut
is similar to mine. And if you don't know what
I look like, you're not missing much. But I have
very little hair and it is by choice, right, It's
(01:07):
not because I'm you know, balding. Although I do know
that if I ever tried to grow my hair out,
I probably would one not have a thick, lushes head
of hair like I envisioned I would, but also probably
have some gray too. But yeah, he's with us this morning.
He's gonna give you a news update, and he's he's
a brand new man with a brand new haircut.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I say, I tol him. I walked out, Dude, I
hadn't seen that haircut since I was on the ship.
I mean, that's that's straight up military grade stuff right there.
It really does.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now, fellas, have you, guys, ever made any real drastic
change to your appearance? I guess really, for guys, what
all you can really do is just make a drastic
hair change to your haircut. Or maybe you've always had
a beard and you went away with it. I cut
my hair like this like you see it right now.
In two thousand and six twenty years ago when I
first went away to college, and it's been that way
(01:55):
really ever since. I've had this same you know, it's
pretty simple, and you got.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The Mark Pope thing going on it. That's what you got,
Thank you. I guess people say like Mark Pope, Mick Cronan.
I mean, you got that going on, dude.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'll take Mark Pope's height over over Mick Cronin and
probably being the exact same height, which is which is
not good. But I remember I used to have long,
weird hair. I mean I didn't have like long hair early. No,
it was just like a shaggy mop essentially. That was
sort of and I don't know if I can say this,
because I felt like it was the style for kids
(02:30):
my age, like teenagers whenever I was when I was
at that at that age, but I don't, you know,
other people had it. But looking back, knowing what it
looked like and having PTSD thinking about pictures resurfacing of
what it looked like, it's hard for me to say
that it was the style. I mean, it might have been,
but it was it was awful. And I remember when
I went away to school for basketball, I was the
only person on my team that had, you know, hair
(02:51):
like that, and I just thought, you know what, I
stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Blonde hair. Uh, it's just it's all over the place.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And I decided, you know what, let's let's go with
something different. So one of my teammates decided to fade
me up, as they say, and that that's all she wrote.
And I remember I went back home first or second weekend.
I was there and my wife at the time, my
girlfriend at the time now my wife. She was a
senior in high school. She's the grade behind me, and
she had she'd never dated me without the long, awful hair,
(03:19):
but apparently she liked it. And I remember I didn't
tell her I cut my hair off. I didn't showed up,
and she was distraught. Really, oh yeah, I still give
her a crap about it, because I mean I thought
she was kind of joking and I was like, it's
not you know, I was like, it's it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She hit me with the well, you don't have to
look at it.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And then then I realized, oh, I might have I
might have made a mistake here. And eventually she got
over it and she ended up marrying me. We have
two children together. We are going to be married fifteen
years coming up in about two months. So it didn't
it didn't ruin things for me. But every now and then,
if I want to remind her how mean she was
(03:58):
that one time, I'll remind her that's.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Pretty cold, not it is, that's cold. Well, I said
when I lost all my weight.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My wife turned to me and she goes, you looked
a little emaciated. I'm like, I appreciate the support, thank you,
but you look good with that haircut.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That fits you well.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You have you have not necessarily snapped your fingers and
made a big transformation. But we are talking to somebody
who's lost one hundred pounds, and you know how much
time over you know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Dude, I even forget now, but you know, what was.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The time frame as far as when, like, you know,
from one from from the moment you started to where it,
you know, because clearly you made quick progress, but you've
probably been relatively the same weight now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
For a while, right, Yeah, it stayed consistent. And that's
a great question. I got to go back and look
at that because people ask me all the time, what
did you do?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I forget now, it's been a lot because this
is started on a good Friday, right, and you started
a good Friday. That's right, that's right, John. And so
it was before I think it was before. I can't remember,
and I just looked back at pictures now. But to
your point about the hair, I one time I grew
out a go tea. In fact, we just had this
conversation a couple weeks ago. Wellfe goes, why don't you
grow that back out? I said it was uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It was it just I.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Didn't think she get itches and she goes, Oh I
liked it. I go, that's good. But it wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can think of any time I've ever seen you
with facial hair, now that I think.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
About it, Oh, it was awful.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, so Scott has been with this this morning show
in some capacity for a long long time. So I
went from seeing Scott every morning, you know, for for
about I guess two years roughly, maybe longer than that.
Whenever I was doing sports on seven ninety and he
and Tony were working together, well then we and this
was before he'd started his journey to lose weight.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I saw Scott in the.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Same way every every day, and then the pandemic happened. Yeah,
and then I switched shifts to being on in the afternoon,
and then by the time I started seeing you consistently,
you were you lost half of yourself.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You're right, it was it was during the pandemic, because
I remember Cruz came back and Cruse walked in and
literally his jaw like a cartoon.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Dropped to the floor. He was speechless. It was it
was over COVID.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I saw you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I believe I saw you in one of the derbies
we worked together, because honestly, it was rare that we
ever would see each other, just because you would leave
here after you finish up your day and my show
wouldn't start till three o'clock and then for gosh, and
by the way, not to get sidetracked here, but I
was talking to one of our sales members last week
and we were referencing just that era of COVID. I
don't think I realized how long and again you guys
(06:25):
had to come in, But I don't think I realized
how long we had to work from home. Yeah, it
was a long and I tried not to think back
on that, because I absolutely hated.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That you got a nice little studio set up.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, but I just I learned a lot of like
a lot of people, I think in America, I learned
a lot about myself that I'm not built to be isolated,
and you know, I can try to be a self starter.
I did not like working at home every day, but
I mean, hey, I kept my job and a lot
of people didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I learned, hey, if I'm going to ever do
something else or whatever it is I'm doing, I need
to make sure I don't have a stay at home
job where I'm there, you know, all day every day.
Because it was it was a lot interesting. But yeah,
I ran into you well and running you. We were
working derby together and I hadn't probably seen you, and
it was weird. When we would all get back together,
we'd realize, oh, wow, like we haven't seen some of
these people. And we communicate because you know, we work
(07:14):
together in some capacity on the air. But yeah, anyways,
John Shannon cut all his hair off and you guys
are missing. Now, this is a wow.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We got to get that up on. This is an
audio medium and you're not gonna be able to see it.
Maybe he looks good.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, maybe he'll post something on his social media, because
if you've seen him before and you see him now,
he looks like a he looks like a brand new man.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And I know he came back off the eighties cruise
and he was gonna cut it off. And you know,
bring up a good point, Nick, And I think we
all kind of been there. People kind of try to
shake things up sometimes around New Year's but even on
a whim, just like the weight loss, it just was
one of those things that just hit me.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It was like I just got to do this.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And sometimes that's nice to shake things up, like move
your furniture around at home, you know, do different routines
in the morning.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I mean, if you're trying to spark a big change,
maybe something like that can really get it going. I mean,
for you, you made a lifestyle change and stuck with it,
and a lot of people don't. It's the hardest thing
to do is to understand, hey, it's not some quick
fat diet, it's not just counting calories that you really
want to make a drastic change like you did, you
have to change your lifestyle and that's a lot easier
(08:18):
said than done, so right, it props to you, and
props to John for getting rid of his mullet.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wow, I'm sure it was hard.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Sure it was hard to give up. There's a lot
of work, a lot of time that goes into developing that.
So yeah, shout out to shout out.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
To get hard to get used to. I mean, it's
just gonna get odd to look at as you come
around the corner. It was like, you know, you're.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Losing a tooth.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's just it doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So anyway, Yeah, we've got a busy morning this morning,
and we're gonna get to a quick update of trafficking
and weather in just a moment. But obviously some tough
news yesterday. We now know a twenty six year old
Army soldier was a Kentucky native who most recently passed away.
He's from Glendale, Kentucky. We'll tell you a little bit
more about Benjamin Pennington. A lot of a lot of
praise coming in for those who knew him. He went
(08:58):
to Central hard And High School and again just a
young twenty six years old, but he is the latest
to lose his life in Operation Epic Fury, So we'll
give you some details on that, and also we'll give
you the latest from the White House. President Trump not
acknowledging not expecting this to end anytime super soon as
far as the war that we're in, but still maintaining
(09:20):
that it's not going to be a long lasting situation.
We shall see. Only time will tell. But we'll give
you the latest as far as what's coming from Trump himself.
And we've got a lot more to get into this morning,
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So we now have some more information as far as
what led to the nts B member that was fired.
We now know that he has been accused of inappropriate
behavior and it ties to allegations of drinking drinking on
(10:48):
the job. So we talked about this yesterday just because
although this is more of a national story, there is
a local connection to an extent, and that is that
you've now got I mean this, I think this is
if you were too and I'm not sure how many
people like watched these press conferences from the NTSB whenever
the plane crash happened. I mean, I'm sure many people did,
(11:12):
but maybe you wouldn't remember a face. But todd Endman
he is the he's he's the guy that was the
first person, not of of local leadership here in Louisville.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
We heard around the clock, seemingly from our local leaders
that's what you do when something like that happens. And
I remember thinking that, man, these these folks are doing
a great job. You never know when these situations are
going to happen. And it did feel like collectively the
leadership at the time was working together to try to
make the most of a tragic situation.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
But after that, we.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Had folks coming in from from the NTSB, and todd
Enman was the was the guy giving us daily updates
and providing information on the NTSBA investigation. Well, now moving forward,
it won't be him because he was fired and the
allegations are that he was drinking on the job, harassing staff,
and misusing government resources. So that trio of allegations that'll
(11:58):
that'll get you, that'll get you fired from a lot
of positions. Now he is planning to fight it and
claims that that's not in fact the case, and that's
not true. So we shall see. But initially the story
became I think a bigger story because this is somebody
that was fired and he kept saying he has no
clue why. Well, now at least we're figuring out the
allegations that led to him him being let go. All right,
(12:20):
So just a tragic situation all the way around with
any of the Americans that have lost their lives yet
in Operation Epic Theory, But now we know that one
of them was a Kentucky night of twenty six year
old US Army soldier from Glendale, Kentucky, Benjamin Pennington, that
is his name, and again he died March eighth from
his injuries. He suffered an attack on the American troops
(12:42):
in the Middle East. According to Army officials, he was
seriously wounded on March first during an attack on US
Forest's station at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
and that attack was part of the Iranian regime's initial
wave of strikes across that area, and he lost his
life just twenty six years old. So a lot of
(13:02):
folks from the Glendale area speaking very highly of him.
He was a graduate of Central hard And High School
in twenty seventeen, and he was part of the Automotive
Technology Pathway at the Hardin County School's Early College and
Career Center before he decided to enter the military. So again,
a hero, somebody who lost their life. And I'll go
back to what I said last week, I think it
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becomes more real. I think it's just the human element
that we all have that when you hear somebody that
died in this war that we don't really know what
the overall we don't we'll never know. I guess it
all just come down to matter of opinion as far
as was this needed, was it necessary to get involved
right now? And you know that's that's only again you're
(13:43):
entitled to your opinion. But I think your opinion may
change whenever it ends up in somebody, you know, losing
their life. But here is the pastor of Michael Bells
from when he was from his church in the Glendale area.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you didn't have.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
To wonder about him. He was He's a good person.
I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but that
means a lot. He was a good, real genuine person.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Very sad, very sad. All right, let's get to a
quick update on the roadways. Bobby Ellis will tell us
how traffics looking. Susan Horgan has the details on today's forecast.
Roy o'nil's going to join us, come up, coming up
on the other side, we'll get the latest on Iran,
what's going on over there in the Middle East, and
we'll talk some spring break travel all that next right
here at news Radiate forty whas. It's News Radiate forty whas.
(14:37):
S I am Nick Coffee. Thank you so much for
hanging out with us here on a Tuesday morning. Also
thanks to Rory O'Neil of NBC News who joins us. Rory,
I'll start where you probably expected. What is the latest
on Iran in the Middle East here on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yeah, another night of intense bombing in Teyran. That continues.
We did hear from President Trump last night speaking in
South Florida after a few days there weekend, but saying
that he thinks that things are going ahead of schedule.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
He's pleased to see.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
How effective the US and Israeli militaries have been working
together taking out these threats and these targets, but at
the same time he seems to suggest it's the end
of the beginning, the beginning of the end in there somewhere,
sort of giving these mixed messages about where we are
in this conflict in terms of the timeline.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So what can you tell us?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
As far as his response when asked about his call
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Well.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
The President's had a call yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
There was some questions about whether or not Russia has
been providing intel for Iran to help them target different
things across the Middle East area where they've been firing
their missiles and drones, and that may have been part
of the conversation. The President did talk a bit about
his frustration that the war between Russia and Ukraine still
(15:56):
hasn't been resolved completely. But yeah, I'm guessing that was
a pretty far reaching call that a lot of us
would have loved to have heard.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it would have been nice to be a fly
on the wall there and hear both sides of that
of that conversation, for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Orio and Nels our guest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He joins us here at news Radio eight forty whas
so as the DHS shut down drags on. You got
TSA checkpoints that are just completely slammed during the travel
period that's coming up, which is spring break travel. I
know a lot of our listeners are big travelers for
spring break. A lot of people are what kind of
I guess nightmare could we be in for given the
current situation.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Well, it's really tough to predict, right.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
A lot of this all goes back to the fact
that we are in a partial government shut down. TSA
workers are not getting paid, some of them are not
showing up at work, some are calling in sick as
it were.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Some airports are.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Organizing these sick outs to cause mass disruption, to draw
attention to this.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
And look, God bless them.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
We're all talking about this war and no one's talking
about the fact that these TSA workers have just gone
another week without getting paid and there's really no end
in sight.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
So it's a real challenge for them.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Think of the last government shutdown that went nearly forty
five days. There were TSA workers who essentially went two
months without a paycheck, and that's a real hardship. Yes,
they got their money in full, but you know, that's
a little consolation for folks who either got evicted, lost
their car, or had their car repode. So a lot
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of them, you know, morale is down. They're all looking
for other jobs rather than stick with this. So the
advice is get to the airport as early as possible.
Most airports are saying at least three hours, even for
domestic flights. You should get there three hours in advance.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean, not only is did these guys go through
guys and girls, I should say, go through the longest
government shut down ever? Well, now here they are not
that not that much of a break between this new
government shut down. I mean, this is a situation that
you know, you could work a long career in that
industry with those positions and maybe never experience anything like
what they did first time. Now here they are again.
(18:01):
And to your point, the war is, if I was
somebody just hoping this thing ends, I would assume the
war is going to become such a distraction where you
could only make this thing drag out longer.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Well, right, and you know there have been calls for
Democrats to come to the table.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
And that negotiating good faith.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You know, it's the Democrats and the Senate in particular,
who are holding up this funding for Homeland Security. Right,
they are the ones saying, look, we're not going to
pass a DHS budget until we get assurances about ICE
officers who are deployed in the field, that they wear cameras,
that they get judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants, that
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they don't go to churches and schools and hospitals, and
there's a whole laundulust of things. But there has been
no update really in terms of those negotiations. Again, with
this operation Epic theory, it's something that Washington isn't focused on.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, I can imagine morale getting worse by the day
given that that unfortunate situation, and again, nobody wants to
be at war, but when you realize it could actually
impact your already bad situation even worse. Again, I think
morale being down is probably the expectation. But Rory is
always appreciate your time, my friend, and enjoy your day.
We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Thanks Nick, talking to you then.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That is Rory o'neald, NBC News.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right, we'll get you caught up on the forecast,
We'll get the details coming your way and what could
potentially be a record breaking warm Tuesday here in Louisville,
so we'll get the details from Susanne Horrigan of WLK
Why also has sports updates on the way. It's news
ready eight forty whas
Good morning, five oh five here at New's Radio eight
forty w h A S. Coffee and Company with you,
and we are fueled by Thornton's and we've got the
full crew here today, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
and John Shannon who is with us. And I'm sure
many of you in your professional career has stumbled into
to work like any other day and and someone there
(00:22):
has made a drastic change to their appearance.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's uh, it's happened. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
If not, it'll it'll catch off guard. We all walked
in this morning and realized that John Shannon, who really
since I've known him, certainly since I've worked with him,
he's had a mullet. I mean that's that's I mean,
that's that's the right way to describe the haircut, right, Okay.
He wears it with he wears it with honor. He yeah, enjoyed. Well, well,
some people there's like new ways to do it now, right,
(00:46):
Like there's like the odd shaved on the side, but
then you've got a lot going on in the back.
So I think that's called a Kentucky waterfall. Okay, So
he wasn't going Kentucky waterfall. He was going old school
mullet and now he's back to I mean, his haircut
is similar to mine. And if you don't know what
I look like, you're not missing much. But I have
very little hair and it is by choice, right, It's
(01:07):
not because I'm you know, balding. Although I do know
that if I ever tried to grow my hair out,
I probably would one not have a thick, lushes head
of hair like I envisioned I would, but also probably
have some gray too. But yeah, he's with us this morning.
He's gonna give you a news update, and he's he's
a brand new man with a brand new haircut.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I say, I tol him. I walked out, Dude, I
hadn't seen that haircut since I was on the ship.
I mean, that's that's straight up military grade stuff right there.
It really does.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now, fellas, have you, guys, ever made any real drastic
change to your appearance? I guess really, for guys, what
all you can really do is just make a drastic
hair change to your haircut. Or maybe you've always had
a beard and you went away with it. I cut
my hair like this like you see it right now.
In two thousand and six twenty years ago when I
first went away to college, and it's been that way
(01:55):
really ever since. I've had this same you know, it's
pretty simple, and you got.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The Mark Pope thing going on it. That's what you got,
Thank you. I guess people say like Mark Pope, Mick Cronan.
I mean, you got that going on, dude.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'll take Mark Pope's height over over Mick Cronin and
probably being the exact same height, which is which is
not good. But I remember I used to have long,
weird hair. I mean I didn't have like long hair early. No,
it was just like a shaggy mop essentially. That was
sort of and I don't know if I can say this,
because I felt like it was the style for kids
(02:30):
my age, like teenagers whenever I was when I was
at that at that age, but I don't, you know,
other people had it. But looking back, knowing what it
looked like and having PTSD thinking about pictures resurfacing of
what it looked like, it's hard for me to say
that it was the style. I mean, it might have been,
but it was it was awful. And I remember when
I went away to school for basketball, I was the
only person on my team that had, you know, hair
(02:51):
like that, and I just thought, you know what, I
stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Blonde hair. Uh, it's just it's all over the place.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And I decided, you know what, let's let's go with
something different. So one of my teammates decided to fade
me up, as they say, and that that's all she wrote.
And I remember I went back home first or second weekend.
I was there and my wife at the time, my
girlfriend at the time now my wife. She was a
senior in high school. She's the grade behind me, and
she had she'd never dated me without the long, awful hair,
(03:19):
but apparently she liked it. And I remember I didn't
tell her I cut my hair off. I didn't showed up,
and she was distraught. Really, oh yeah, I still give
her a crap about it, because I mean I thought
she was kind of joking and I was like, it's
not you know, I was like, it's it's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She hit me with the well, you don't have to
look at it.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And then then I realized, oh, I might have I
might have made a mistake here. And eventually she got
over it and she ended up marrying me. We have
two children together. We are going to be married fifteen
years coming up in about two months. So it didn't
it didn't ruin things for me. But every now and then,
if I want to remind her how mean she was
(03:58):
that one time, I'll remind her that's.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Pretty cold, not it is, that's cold. Well, I said
when I lost all my weight.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My wife turned to me and she goes, you looked
a little emaciated. I'm like, I appreciate the support, thank you,
but you look good with that haircut.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That fits you well.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You have you have not necessarily snapped your fingers and
made a big transformation. But we are talking to somebody
who's lost one hundred pounds, and you know how much
time over you know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Dude, I even forget now, but you know, what was.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The time frame as far as when, like, you know,
from one from from the moment you started to where it,
you know, because clearly you made quick progress, but you've
probably been relatively the same weight now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
For a while, right, Yeah, it stayed consistent. And that's
a great question. I got to go back and look
at that because people ask me all the time, what
did you do?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I forget now, it's been a lot because this
is started on a good Friday, right, and you started
a good Friday. That's right, that's right, John. And so
it was before I think it was before. I can't remember,
and I just looked back at pictures now. But to
your point about the hair, I one time I grew
out a go tea. In fact, we just had this
conversation a couple weeks ago. Wellfe goes, why don't you
grow that back out? I said it was uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It was it just I.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Didn't think she get itches and she goes, Oh I
liked it. I go, that's good. But it wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can think of any time I've ever seen you
with facial hair, now that I think.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
About it, Oh, it was awful.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, so Scott has been with this this morning show
in some capacity for a long long time. So I
went from seeing Scott every morning, you know, for for
about I guess two years roughly, maybe longer than that.
Whenever I was doing sports on seven ninety and he
and Tony were working together, well then we and this
was before he'd started his journey to lose weight.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I saw Scott in the.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Same way every every day, and then the pandemic happened. Yeah,
and then I switched shifts to being on in the afternoon,
and then by the time I started seeing you consistently,
you were you lost half of yourself.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You're right, it was it was during the pandemic, because
I remember Cruz came back and Cruse walked in and
literally his jaw like a cartoon.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Dropped to the floor. He was speechless. It was it
was over COVID.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I saw you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I believe I saw you in one of the derbies
we worked together, because honestly, it was rare that we
ever would see each other, just because you would leave
here after you finish up your day and my show
wouldn't start till three o'clock and then for gosh, and
by the way, not to get sidetracked here, but I
was talking to one of our sales members last week
and we were referencing just that era of COVID. I
don't think I realized how long and again you guys
(06:25):
had to come in, But I don't think I realized
how long we had to work from home. Yeah, it
was a long and I tried not to think back
on that, because I absolutely hated.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That you got a nice little studio set up.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, but I just I learned a lot of like
a lot of people, I think in America, I learned
a lot about myself that I'm not built to be isolated,
and you know, I can try to be a self starter.
I did not like working at home every day, but
I mean, hey, I kept my job and a lot
of people didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I learned, hey, if I'm going to ever do
something else or whatever it is I'm doing, I need
to make sure I don't have a stay at home
job where I'm there, you know, all day every day.
Because it was it was a lot interesting. But yeah,
I ran into you well and running you. We were
working derby together and I hadn't probably seen you, and
it was weird. When we would all get back together,
we'd realize, oh, wow, like we haven't seen some of
these people. And we communicate because you know, we work
(07:14):
together in some capacity on the air. But yeah, anyways,
John Shannon cut all his hair off and you guys
are missing. Now, this is a wow.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We got to get that up on. This is an
audio medium and you're not gonna be able to see it.
Maybe he looks good.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, maybe he'll post something on his social media, because
if you've seen him before and you see him now,
he looks like a he looks like a brand new man.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And I know he came back off the eighties cruise
and he was gonna cut it off. And you know,
bring up a good point, Nick, And I think we
all kind of been there. People kind of try to
shake things up sometimes around New Year's but even on
a whim, just like the weight loss, it just was
one of those things that just hit me.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It was like I just got to do this.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And sometimes that's nice to shake things up, like move
your furniture around at home, you know, do different routines
in the morning.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I mean, if you're trying to spark a big change,
maybe something like that can really get it going. I mean,
for you, you made a lifestyle change and stuck with it,
and a lot of people don't. It's the hardest thing
to do is to understand, hey, it's not some quick
fat diet, it's not just counting calories that you really
want to make a drastic change like you did, you
have to change your lifestyle and that's a lot easier
(08:18):
said than done, so right, it props to you, and
props to John for getting rid of his mullet.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wow, I'm sure it was hard.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Sure it was hard to give up. There's a lot
of work, a lot of time that goes into developing that.
So yeah, shout out to shout out.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
To get hard to get used to. I mean, it's
just gonna get odd to look at as you come
around the corner. It was like, you know, you're.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Losing a tooth.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's just it doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So anyway, Yeah, we've got a busy morning this morning,
and we're gonna get to a quick update of trafficking
and weather in just a moment. But obviously some tough
news yesterday. We now know a twenty six year old
Army soldier was a Kentucky native who most recently passed away.
He's from Glendale, Kentucky. We'll tell you a little bit
more about Benjamin Pennington. A lot of a lot of
praise coming in for those who knew him. He went
(08:58):
to Central hard And High School and again just a
young twenty six years old, but he is the latest
to lose his life in Operation Epic Fury, So we'll
give you some details on that, and also we'll give
you the latest from the White House. President Trump not
acknowledging not expecting this to end anytime super soon as
far as the war that we're in, but still maintaining
(09:20):
that it's not going to be a long lasting situation.
We shall see. Only time will tell. But we'll give
you the latest as far as what's coming from Trump himself.
And we've got a lot more to get into this morning,
so stick around with us. It is Coffee and Company.
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So we now have some more information as far as
what led to the nts B member that was fired.
We now know that he has been accused of inappropriate
behavior and it ties to allegations of drinking drinking on
(10:48):
the job. So we talked about this yesterday just because
although this is more of a national story, there is
a local connection to an extent, and that is that
you've now got I mean this, I think this is
if you were too and I'm not sure how many
people like watched these press conferences from the NTSB whenever
the plane crash happened. I mean, I'm sure many people did,
(11:12):
but maybe you wouldn't remember a face. But todd Endman
he is the he's he's the guy that was the
first person, not of of local leadership here in Louisville.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
We heard around the clock, seemingly from our local leaders
that's what you do when something like that happens. And
I remember thinking that, man, these these folks are doing
a great job. You never know when these situations are
going to happen. And it did feel like collectively the
leadership at the time was working together to try to
make the most of a tragic situation.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
But after that, we.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Had folks coming in from from the NTSB, and todd
Enman was the was the guy giving us daily updates
and providing information on the NTSBA investigation. Well, now moving forward,
it won't be him because he was fired and the
allegations are that he was drinking on the job, harassing staff,
and misusing government resources. So that trio of allegations that'll
(11:58):
that'll get you, that'll get you fired from a lot
of positions. Now he is planning to fight it and
claims that that's not in fact the case, and that's
not true. So we shall see. But initially the story
became I think a bigger story because this is somebody
that was fired and he kept saying he has no
clue why. Well, now at least we're figuring out the
allegations that led to him him being let go. All right,
(12:20):
So just a tragic situation all the way around with
any of the Americans that have lost their lives yet
in Operation Epic Theory, But now we know that one
of them was a Kentucky night of twenty six year
old US Army soldier from Glendale, Kentucky, Benjamin Pennington, that
is his name, and again he died March eighth from
his injuries. He suffered an attack on the American troops
(12:42):
in the Middle East. According to Army officials, he was
seriously wounded on March first during an attack on US
Forest's station at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia,
and that attack was part of the Iranian regime's initial
wave of strikes across that area, and he lost his
life just twenty six years old. So a lot of
(13:02):
folks from the Glendale area speaking very highly of him.
He was a graduate of Central hard And High School
in twenty seventeen, and he was part of the Automotive
Technology Pathway at the Hardin County School's Early College and
Career Center before he decided to enter the military. So again,
a hero, somebody who lost their life. And I'll go
back to what I said last week, I think it
(13:23):
becomes more real. I think it's just the human element
that we all have that when you hear somebody that
died in this war that we don't really know what
the overall we don't we'll never know. I guess it
all just come down to matter of opinion as far
as was this needed, was it necessary to get involved
right now? And you know that's that's only again you're
(13:43):
entitled to your opinion. But I think your opinion may
change whenever it ends up in somebody, you know, losing
their life. But here is the pastor of Michael Bells
from when he was from his church in the Glendale area.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you didn't have.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
To wonder about him. He was He's a good person.
I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but that
means a lot. He was a good, real genuine person.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Very sad, very sad. All right, let's get to a
quick update on the roadways. Bobby Ellis will tell us
how traffics looking. Susan Horgan has the details on today's forecast.
Roy o'nil's going to join us, come up, coming up
on the other side, we'll get the latest on Iran,
what's going on over there in the Middle East, and
we'll talk some spring break travel all that next right
here at news Radiate forty whas. It's News Radiate forty whas.
(14:37):
S I am Nick Coffee. Thank you so much for
hanging out with us here on a Tuesday morning. Also
thanks to Rory O'Neil of NBC News who joins us. Rory,
I'll start where you probably expected. What is the latest
on Iran in the Middle East here on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yeah, another night of intense bombing in Teyran. That continues.
We did hear from President Trump last night speaking in
South Florida after a few days there weekend, but saying
that he thinks that things are going ahead of schedule.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
He's pleased to see.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
How effective the US and Israeli militaries have been working
together taking out these threats and these targets, but at
the same time he seems to suggest it's the end
of the beginning, the beginning of the end in there somewhere,
sort of giving these mixed messages about where we are
in this conflict in terms of the timeline.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So what can you tell us?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
As far as his response when asked about his call
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Well.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
The President's had a call yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
There was some questions about whether or not Russia has
been providing intel for Iran to help them target different
things across the Middle East area where they've been firing
their missiles and drones, and that may have been part
of the conversation. The President did talk a bit about
his frustration that the war between Russia and Ukraine still
(15:56):
hasn't been resolved completely. But yeah, I'm guessing that was
a pretty far reaching call that a lot of us
would have loved to have heard.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, it would have been nice to be a fly
on the wall there and hear both sides of that
of that conversation, for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Orio and Nels our guest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He joins us here at news Radio eight forty whas
so as the DHS shut down drags on. You got
TSA checkpoints that are just completely slammed during the travel
period that's coming up, which is spring break travel. I
know a lot of our listeners are big travelers for
spring break. A lot of people are what kind of
I guess nightmare could we be in for given the
current situation.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Well, it's really tough to predict, right.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
A lot of this all goes back to the fact
that we are in a partial government shut down. TSA
workers are not getting paid, some of them are not
showing up at work, some are calling in sick as
it were.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Some airports are.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Organizing these sick outs to cause mass disruption, to draw
attention to this.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
And look, God bless them.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
We're all talking about this war and no one's talking
about the fact that these TSA workers have just gone
another week without getting paid and there's really no end
in sight.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
So it's a real challenge for them.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Think of the last government shutdown that went nearly forty
five days. There were TSA workers who essentially went two
months without a paycheck, and that's a real hardship. Yes,
they got their money in full, but you know, that's
a little consolation for folks who either got evicted, lost
their car, or had their car repode. So a lot
(17:24):
of them, you know, morale is down. They're all looking
for other jobs rather than stick with this. So the
advice is get to the airport as early as possible.
Most airports are saying at least three hours, even for
domestic flights. You should get there three hours in advance.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean, not only is did these guys go through
guys and girls, I should say, go through the longest
government shut down ever? Well, now here they are not
that not that much of a break between this new
government shut down. I mean, this is a situation that
you know, you could work a long career in that
industry with those positions and maybe never experience anything like
what they did first time. Now here they are again.
(18:01):
And to your point, the war is, if I was
somebody just hoping this thing ends, I would assume the
war is going to become such a distraction where you
could only make this thing drag out longer.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Well, right, and you know there have been calls for
Democrats to come to the table.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
And that negotiating good faith.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You know, it's the Democrats and the Senate in particular,
who are holding up this funding for Homeland Security. Right,
they are the ones saying, look, we're not going to
pass a DHS budget until we get assurances about ICE
officers who are deployed in the field, that they wear cameras,
that they get judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants, that
(18:41):
they don't go to churches and schools and hospitals, and
there's a whole laundulust of things. But there has been
no update really in terms of those negotiations. Again, with
this operation Epic theory, it's something that Washington isn't focused on.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, I can imagine morale getting worse by the day
given that that unfortunate situation, and again, nobody wants to
be at war, but when you realize it could actually
impact your already bad situation even worse. Again, I think
morale being down is probably the expectation. But Rory is
always appreciate your time, my friend, and enjoy your day.
We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Thanks Nick, talking to you then.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That is Rory o'neald, NBC News.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right, we'll get you caught up on the forecast,
We'll get the details coming your way and what could
potentially be a record breaking warm Tuesday here in Louisville,
so we'll get the details from Susanne Horrigan of WLK
Why also has sports updates on the way. It's news
ready eight forty whas
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