3.11: Ominous - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's seven oh five and seventy two degrees here at
News Radio eight forty whas happy hump days to you.
We've got rain in the forecast for the day and
some storms on the way, and in fact, we are
currently in a tornado watch, so keep in mind those
storms are going to be here for a while. I
think until noon is whenever these watches are in effect.

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But what you've heard, what you heard just recently from
WKY our partners, was the forecast for the day. But
I do want to check in. We'll go live here
to Susan Horgan of WKY. As far as the current
storms that we are tracking, as again, we are currently
in a tornado watch in certain areas of the Kentucky
and region.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Tornado watch does continue until noon today. We don't have
any warnings across our local area right now, but of
course we'll continue to keep you posted. So again, tornado
watch until noon today. What we are watching is some
pretty strong storms passing through the WLKY viewing area. You
can see those warnings back out to the west. So
we're going to be watching for some strong storms now
moving across the areas of barber Meat, Green Spring. This

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is pushing into the Prospect area in the next couple
of minutes, so do be prepared for some heavy downpours.
Moe is telling us the reports of a tree down
in Scott County on a vehicle, so not clear if
that's weather related, it would seem to be with the
very windy weather that we have here this morning, so
a few of those storms certainly could pack a punch.
We're looking at very heavy rainfall moving across areas of
the Lee Hamilton, perhaps some hail showing up across portions

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of Floyd County and back over into northern Harrison County.
So we're dealing with these storms right now, and unfortunately,
we are going to have to contend with rounds of
thunderstorm activity for today, and some of those storms could
be strong too severe. Our primary threat at this point
does look to be a damaging wind threat, but obviously,
with that tornado watch in place, we're also concerned about
the potential of a brief spin up tornado. So we're

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watching for heavy rainfall moving right across areas of Scott
County that's moving into Jefferson County, and you can see
that very heavy rainfall now over spreading portions of Floyd County.
As we time out our risk of shower and thunderstorm activity,
you can see this batch of the understorm activity that
we're seeing here this morning. We hold onto the risk
of additional shower and thunderstorm activity as we head into

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your mid to late morning hours. Even into midday, we're
still watching for the threat of some of those strong storms.
Until we see that cold front sweep through the region.
We're going to contend with, unfortunately, some thunderstorms. So you
can see as we head into this evening, once we
see that front move through, our severe weather threat. And

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so that front moves through, and that's going to move
through basically from northwest to southeast, then everything winds down
and we're just talking about cool conditions. But for today
we need to stay weather and where we have that
tornado watch until noon, we also have a wind advisory
through seven o'clock with winds that could gust the upwards
about forty miles per hour. And keep in mind that's
outside any thunderstorm. Temperature is fortdaying in the mid seventies.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's warm. It's so again until about seven thirty tonight,
you could see some severe weather in areas of Kentucky
and so be advised of forty miles per hour when
that's pretty serious. So again this is a reminder that
in this time of the year, we're not even to
the spring season just yet, but we are certainly in

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whatever you want to call it, whatever season, whatever time
of the year, where you really just don't know what
to expect as far as weather. Because we had some
really great, beautiful warm weather in the last week, a
lot of it, a good dose of it in the
last seven days or so, and it'll be back eventually,
but it's going to cool off as we move through
the day. And obviously tomorrow you're looking at a high

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of just right around I think right around fifty degrees
and again tomorrow morning it'll be real cold. So it
was a nice while it lasted, and it'll be back
at some point. But we've got some pretty serious weather
going on right now and some rain that's going to
have a big impact. All right, It's game day for
all of the local Kentucky in the teams as far

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as the big programs around here, right Louis will getting
started today at two thirty in the ACC Tournament and
Charlotte taking on SMU and for Kentucky they get started
at twelve thirty in Nashville for the SEC Tournament and
then in Indiana taking on Northwestern tonight at six thirty.
And I assume that's on the Big ten network, Is
that right, John?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So yeah, this is the first postseason game for all
three teams. And I think when you look at the
Louisville situation, the big I guess the big update as
of right now for those that are just now joining
us and maybe didn't see this late yesterday, but mckel
brown Junior going to be out for the entire ACC tournament,
regardless of how long Louisville is there, and that leads to, Okay,

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have we seen the last of him? And none of
us really know, But that was the same question that
was proposed whenever we found out he was going to
be missing. I believe it was the Syracuse game last week,
and I'd say, you're really in the same situation. He
hasn't returned just yet, but the consistent message from Pat
Kelsey since last week has been just getting him to

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one hundred percent because I think you could see towards
the back end of his return he was playing not
at one hundred percent, and you know that has lingering effects.
You're seeing areas where he's just you know, not as sharp.
And if you're going to play mckel brown junior, you
need to play him at one hundred percent if you
can get him there. And I think resting during the

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ACC tournament and hopes and again you never know how
he's gonna be if he's gonna be able to go
at all, but more downtime, more rest hopefully can get
him back to too close to one hundred percent to
win it all matters when that's when it's winner go
home in the in the NCAA tournament. So as far
as Kentucky and by the way, we had somebody text
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Driver dot Com. But the question that came in was
who do I think face is more pressure to win
in the postseason? Mark Poper, Pat Kelsey and I think
both are facing a level of pressure. One because there's

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always pressure to win when it matters around here because
we've got two of the bigger programs, you know, in
the history of the sport. Obviously, Louisville situation has been
much different in recent years where they've had a long
stretch without any March relevance. So they're clearly in a
different situation than Kentucky, who didn't have a long drought

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and now they're back with a chance to you know again,
tournament started just yet, so I guess you're talking about.
I mean, look, I think the conference tournament should get
more attention, more notoriety, but just because of the way
in which college basketball operates, they're so easily forgotten regardless
of what happens if you don't get it done in
the big Dance. So I mean, let's be honest. If

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Louisville or Kentucky was to win their conference tournament, first
of all, it'd be a pretty impressive feat given the
situation for both teams going into the tournament. But also
if you were to do that and then lose in
the first round, I mean, that's not going to keep
anybody from being devastated and upset that the season came
to an end with the first round exit. It would

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actually maybe make it even worse because if you won
your conference tournament, that would mean that you showed what
you're capable of. So you know, I'm going to get
into it. I hope Louisville does win the ACC as
a Louisville fan myself, I'm sure Kentucky fans hope that
their team wins in Nashville and goes all the way
to Sunday. But regardless of what happens, it's all about

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the next week and the week after. Of course, if
you can get there. So I would say pressure if
you're talking specifically about just like the pressure to go
deep into the tournament. It's tough to say because with Louisville,
I mean, Pat Kelsey hasn't won a tournament game yet,
so I mean doing that would be not something that

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Louisville fans are necessarily going to be like celebrating as
if like it's some major accomplishment, But it would be
regardless of how you view it, what it means, it
would be a depth for the program getting their first
tournament wins since dare I say two thousand and seventeen,
I mean we're talking about nine years so you never

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want to embrace it like it's a big deal, but
it is part of this process of kind of, you know,
getting your face up off the mat after you had
a rough eight years or so when it comes to
just what you used to be as a college basketball brand.
So I don't know if pack Kelsey has like a
lot of pressure. I think a first round exit would
ramp up pressure for him next year. Like if he

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doesn't win a game this year, with what the expectations
were and with what this team showed at times, that
would be a pretty big disappointment for Pope. I don't
even really feel pressure because I don't feel that Kentucky
fans really have that expectation that they want to have,
you know what I mean? Does that makeing sense, John,

(08:54):
I think Kentucky fans deep down like, no, this team
has shown to be a team that you know, kind
of looks it's like round of thirty two at best, unless,
of course, you you know, you play well and have
a favorable matchup, Like, it's different whenever there's the expectation.
So if they lose in the round of thirty two,
or let's say they lose in the first round, like
let's say there're a seven to ten and they lose

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to a ten seed. I think there would be an
uproar from Kentucky fans because again, that's just that's not
Kentucky basketball. That's probably something you'd hear a lot of
them say. But I don't know if deep down they'd
be shocked because they've watched this team play this year
and know that that is certainly a possibility.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I think it would depend more so the manner in
which they lose at that point, because of course the
loss is going to be disappointing, but if you get
run off the floor by whoever it is, you know,
twenty twenty five points, and that's going to anger Kentucky
fans on a level that I mean that you're probably
talking about in general here, but it's still that's a
different that's a different stake. And when it shurs to
how it puts added pressure on Mark popetting into the offseason,

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look ahead it next.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Year, and I think, look, no matter what, there's going
to be pressure to win at these jobs. Because we're
talking about two programs that care a lot about college
basketball and have a high standard. So that's always gonna
be the case. But I think both of these guys
are looking at a year three where fans are gonna
really start to feel okay, is this gonna work out
long term? Neither is gonna lose their job after two years.
That's I mean, anybody in anybody suggesting that it's just

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not with us in reality. And as far as like
what needs to happen next year for these guys to
feel safe, I mean, I think Pat Kelsey could miss
the tournament next year and not worry about losing his job.
I know people would say, what are you talking about? Well,
I mean Louisville had made the tournament, hadn't had any
tournament success, and if he gets to his third year
and they don't make the tournament, I mean that would

(10:36):
ramp up things in a big way. But like he
would probably be allowed in three years to miss the
tournament once before he'd lose his job. I mean that's
just realistically speaking. Now with Mark Pope a little bit
of a different situation. He's clearly gonna get year three,
but he's gonna have a new boss at some point.
Right there's a new athletic director coming in, and you
know that could make it to where whatever happens in

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year three. I mean, that's that's the decision, right, A
new guy on the job that didn't hire Pope. Is
he gonna is he gonna commit to him long term then?
Or is he gonna say, Look, you've been fine, you're
one of you're one of of of you know, you
you're Kentucky guy, you get it. But I know basketball
is held to a really high standard around here, and
that's my job to get it back there, and it's

(11:17):
my livelihood. And I don't think you're the guy. So
I'm gonna go with somebody that at least I can choose.
I mean, that's that's an element to the Mark Pope situation,
that it's different. He's gonna have a new boss, the
guy that didn't hire him. All right, stick around trafficking,
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(11:37):
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some sports with Scott coming up here in about twenty minutes.
We are tracking some pretty serious weather that is in
the area right now. You've got a tornado watch and
effect from now until noon in really what looks to

(11:58):
be every county that is that is near us. So
you know, be advised. I know that this is not
expected to really fully get out of here until later
this evening, around seven thirty, so some serious storms could
happen throughout the entire day, so just prepare yourself. Also,
some serious wind you know that typically happens when you've

(12:19):
got some serious storms, but when up to forty miles
an hour in fact, that's already taking place in you know,
areas just outside of Kentucky. And so again we're tracking
some serious weather this morning, and we'll be sure to
keep you updated as best we can. All Right, So,
been a lot of talking in recent weeks about the
job market. As you know, it's certainly not in a
great place. February was a dreadful month as far as

(12:41):
just jobs lost, layoffs, that kind of stuff. And it
kind of felt like that was brewing because the noise
was not as loud as I would have expected it
to be as far as what it felt like when
it comes to just the job market in America, all
these big layoffs, jobs that are seemingly getting a limited
and it's it's a scary time, and I try not

(13:05):
to give it a whole lot of thought because I mean,
what can I do about it? Right as far as speak.
AI is going to change a lot, and it won't
eliminate every job, but it'll eliminate a lot. And I
mean this sincerely. If you know that there, if you
know of ways that you could utilize artificial intelligence to

(13:28):
do a better job at whatever it is that you
do for a job, I would I would spend some
time learning because maybe one day it won't matter and
they'll have technology that can do it without any human element.
But for now, there's still plenty that are not near
that because you still clearly need you need somebody that's,

(13:50):
you know, a real human. I mean, I think you
need that in every aspect. But certainly there's things now
that you just don't need as many or you don't
need them to do as much because you can rely
on technology. And it's it sounds like right now, when
you are hearing about this super competitive hunt for jobs,
companies are more inclined to go with somebody that at
least is familiar with this new world. You know, I

(14:13):
think there's some that might view it as well.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I wouldn't want them to know that, because I wouldn't
want them to think that I'm cheating or that I'm
I'm not capable of doing it myself. Well, it's not
about that. In fact, we're not far from whatever you've
self taught yourself how to do and manually do. That
won't matter. If you can use the tools to do
it and do it efficiently and do it fast, that's
all that's going to really matter. And again, all this
is subjective to whatever it is that you do for

(14:38):
a living. But man, there's not many industries that are
completely untouched at this point. So I bring this up
to give you an update on I guess an era
that is now over. I never heard of this, but
the Great Resignation Era. Have you heard that reference before? John?

Speaker 4 (14:56):
See, I think I've heard that before, but I don't know.
If I knew what it was, I can tell you
what it is, Okay. So this is apparently the era
where companies were desperate for workers post pandemic, so people
were quitting left and right of the jobs they had
switching jobs and almost guaranteed a significant raise.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
So here's some updated data. When we were just coming
out of the pandemic, and that hiring boom workers who
switched jobs were getting sometimes massive pay bumps about fourteen
percent an average. In twenty twenty two, if people left
their job for a new job, the average increase in
salary was fourteen percent. But now it has changed in
a big way to where if you are job hopping

(15:33):
as of January, the average is about a four percent raise,
which is again a sign that the labor market has
cooled significantly. And if I'm getting a four percent raise
and I don't hate my job, I'm not leaving. I
mean again, it might be I don't feel secure here
that they may get rid of me for whatever reason cuts,
then that's different. But if it's just if your money
motivated to make a move, and that's the only motive,

(15:55):
I mean again, it's a little bit of a bump,
but that's not enough for me to just shake up
a situation that I'm happy and now if I'm unhappy,
that's a totally different conversation. But according to Bank of Amra,
Bank of America Institute analysis of payroll deposit data workers
who changed jobs in January again only saw about a
four percent So that's even lower than the pre pandemic

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norm in twenty nineteen. So I know enough people that
do a variety of different things for a living that
have felt them. I'm not going to leave because I
fear that I wouldn't be able to get a job
doing what I do anywhere else, not because of my
lack of qualifications, but just because that's what the market
feels like. So it's like a lot of things. When

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you get you get data, you get analytics. Sometimes you
can feel something, but it won't show on paper in
those analytics, in those in those breakdowns until a little
bit later. And I think that's what's happened here, because
we had heard that, you know, January wasn't bad the
end of the year, didn't you know it wasn't bad?
Of course, now it's harder than ever to know, Like
when they tell us, oh, things are great, well are they?

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You know what I mean? Like I know, for me,
I feel like we are in a time right now
that I'm going to look back on years from now
and hope that I look at it and say, man,
that was tough. I'm glad we got through it, Glad
things are better now, because again, there's not a whole
lot I can do about it. As one person, I'm
going to live my life and focus on things that
I should focus on that I do have control over,
which is, you know, my job, my career, my family,

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my marriage, that kind of stuff, because I think if
you do get too caught up in it and let
it consume you, I mean that that could be overwhelming,
especially when you consider the fact that, like in most instances,
there's nothing you can do about it. All right, let's
get to a quick traffic and weather update. We'll see
how the roadways are looking. We'll see if this weather
has caused any real impact on traffic. Bobby Ellis has

(17:43):
got us updated there, and then we'll also get to
another weather update. As far as the forecast, Suzanne's going
to tell you what the day's looking like as we've
got storms in the mix from now until later on
this evening. Stick around it's news Radio eight forty whas
it is news Radio eight fourhasa stormy Wednesday morning. Rolls
along here. Thank you for hanging out with us. Coffee

(18:05):
and Company, fueled by Thornton's Nick Coffee. That is me
the company man John all On alongside today. So yesterday
we got news of a documentary that is has been
in the works. I guess it's concluded essentially, because we're
going to get the first episode on Friday, and we'll
get more as March Madness rolls along. But it is
a documentary series on the Louisville men's basketball program and

(18:26):
Pat Kelsey. So I had known for a while that
there were cameras following Pat Kelsey at times that were
not from the university's hiring. It's not their own. I mean,
the guy who does the video content for them is
a former player for Patt, I believe when he was
at Winthrop, and obviously he does a great job. But

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this was different. Having seen and been around as a
Netflix documentary series was put together, I could tell it
it was something more similar to that than in house
content for a college basketball program. But they weren't always there, right,
It was kind of here and there, and it always
mean that's something that interests me in general, and I
didn't really do a whole lot of digging, but sure enough,

(19:09):
Pat Kelsey, I believe on his Coaches show at one
point did come out and just say because they were there,
I believe filming, and he made reference that they've been
following him for a long time, even since he's been
at Charlton, and I kind of thought to myself, well,
that might mean that, you know, maybe that means that
that that Pat Kelsey's like got his own thing he's
putting together for himself. And I didn't really think a

(19:31):
whole lot about it. In fact, that was last season
whenever all this was was at least discussed to an extent.
But now we know what it all is. And it
is a documentary series titled March to Madness and again
it follows Pat Kelcey from the move to from Charleston
to Louisville and, according to the press release, quote coach
Kelsey as he climbs the NCAA ladder, launching from mid

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major college to Charleston to the living, breathing giant of
Louisville Cardinals basketball, one of the most storied, scrutinized, and
expectation heavy programs in collegiate sports. March into Madness will
feature this year's ACC Tournament and selection Sunday Dogs so
I guess the final chapter of this will be the
postseason here. So again, Sports Illustrated is the one who

(20:16):
obtained this documentary as far as for their network, and
I knew SI Films has in recent years really gone
in this direction. I think they can see how popular
and successful the untold series that Nextflix has, they do
a phenomenal job. And then obviously for a long time
you've had the E sixty stories that that have been great.

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So I'm going to enjoy this because of just the
It's Louisville basketball, something I'm a big fan of, but
I also think it's got a chance to if it
gets What I worry about, is it going to get
in front of enough people. When I'd heard details about
the involvement here as far as who was in play,
I mean Danny McBride, I thought to myself, Okay, this
could be something that's gonna end up like on HBO
and ended up on SI Films, which will be on

(20:59):
their YouTube channel, I suppose. So anyways, it's I think
it's gonna be great, but I just don't know if
it's gonna end up getting in front of enough people
to where you'd really feel the effect of having something
like this put together because the here's it, So the
rough House production rough House Pictures is the name of

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the I guess the film company that kind of film
this and put it together. But it's also the same
people who wrote and created Righteous Gymstones, a very popular show.
So I mean, I think it's gonna be well put
together for somebody that likes documentaries, and it's going to
give us the true behind the scenes look of a
lot of things. And as far as what really benefit

(21:41):
it does, it just gives you more exposure and it
gives people people a peek behind the curtain to show
the good and of course maybe some bad. But it's
going to highlight how much we care about college basketball
and how it's just different here than anybody anywhere else.
And as I've discussed throughout the morning here, I think
that's I think that's something we should be proud of.
It can only help us when it comes to, you know,
getting better players that kind of stuff. All right, let's

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