3.11: Ominous - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you very much, John Shannon. It's eight oh five
here at News Radio eight forty whas we've got warm weather,
but that is going to end here in the next
We're really just today it's going to cool down, and
of course tomorrow is gonna be much cooler, and that's
because we've got some storms in the vicinity. In fact,
we are under a tornado. Yeah, there's a severe thunderstorm

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warning right now in southern Indiana, but there's also a
tornado watch that is ongoing in the area as well,
so be advised. I do want to check in. You
just heard the forecast update for the day from Susanne
Horgan from our partners over at WKY. This is her
latest live update as we are currently tracking again some
severe weather in the Kentuckian area until noon today. We'll

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keep you posted.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Right now, we don't have any local warnings across the
WLKY viewing area. There is a warning across areas of
Lawrence County, which is just a little bit to the
northwest of the WLKY viewing area. Bottom line, will be
watching for that line of shower and thunderstorm activity to
race to the east at about seventy miles per hour
likely acting let's say parts of Jackson County and Jennings

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County perhaps right now, we don't have any warnings with
this batch of shower in thunderstorm activity, but boy, it
is pouring right here across sections of Sellersburg back over
into Floyd County, right along the Lee Hamilton and upright
along sixty five. So we're going to be watching for
the risk again of scattered shower and thunderstorm activity really
at any point during the day today, and some of

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those storms could pack a punch as far as the
potential for some strong to severe storms. We'll continue to
watch for the risk of additional shower in thunderstorm activity
as we head into your evening hours as well.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I think once we make.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Our way right around sunset, everything should quiet down.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Let's check in with mo SO again right now. I
guess just the severity I mean, the severe weather is
not necessarily directly and I say our area, our region,
the Kentucky and area. I mean, there's plenty of you
that listen that I guess technically wouldn't qualify to be
in the Kentuckyan area. But whatever is going on right
now that isn't impacting the majority of our re here.

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It's on its way and it could be mixed in
throughout the day, so strong wins, some severe storms, so
be advised. A wet and nasty start to the day,
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for college basketball fans. It's Louisville, Kentucky, and Indiana all

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getting postseason place started. We'll dive back into that coming
up here shortly. But also a big day in Kentucky,
as you have the President of the United States is
that it's going to be making his way to northern Kentucky.
So he's going to be at a pharmaceutical biotech manufacturing
facility in the Northern Kentucky area, and it's to promote

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trump RX, a federal program meant to let patients by
discount of medications directly from manufacturers. He's been elsewhere to
promote the same thing. And he's going to speak at
Verse Logistics Contract packaging facility that's in Hebren near the
Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky. And the event, yes, the
doors for that event, it's going to open up at
one PM and then remarks from Trump expected later in

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the afternoon. And there is a yet this is an
official White House trip, so therefore you do have to
go through the process of actually signing up to attend.
And I'm sure there'll be a big turnout there, There's
no doubt about that. So when the president is traveling,
obviously there's a lot that goes into that, and I'm
sure some of this won't necessarily surprise you, but maybe

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it will. So the full presidential motorcade can run up
to roughly forty to fifty vehicles include decoys, communications, vans,
and ambulance press vans. You also have multiple identical limos
that are flown in ahead of time in order to
no one knows which one he's actually riding in meeting
the president. And also there's advance work that has gone

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on before the trip ever takes place. So there's usually
a Secret Service advanced team that will show up days,
maybe weeks ahead of time to visit and really walk
through every inch of the venue that the President's going
to be at. They're going to map every building and
plan how to turn it into a location. They feel
completely comfortable and secure, and they know everything they need

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to know to do in fact, what it is they do,
which is keep the President safe at all costs. So
hospitals along the plan routes are pre alerted with emergency
rooms and trauma teams basically put on standby in case
the President has a medical emergency or there's an attack.
That's one that's something that I would have never thought about,
but I suppose it's wouldn't be, you know, considered a

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huge surprise. So also the Secret Service builds multiple rings
of security, and I'm sure that's even heightened since there
was an attempt on Trump's life not that long ago,
but they've got rooftop snipers, bomb techs, counter assault teams,
counter drone teams. I mean, I could probably throw anything

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out there and you really wouldn't be that surprised as
far as just the links they go to to make
sure this is this is safe. But yeah, it's also
even if you don't actually in certain cities, depending upon
your size, I feel like if you're kind of out
and about on a day where the president is there,
like you're going, you're going to feel it. I'm sure
with traffic and just I mean, I feel like in Louisville,

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we're not a huge city, right, but if he was
in Louisville and he was downtown, I mean when you
think about the forty to fifty different vehicles, the multiple limos,
I mean, and of course all that is, you know,
blocked off for their trip. I mean, it's it'd be
something that would be like I guess I'm trying to
envision a scenario, John, where you could be somebody that
is a daily commuter in a city and not know

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the President's there. I mean, even if you were just
ignoring any news that's out there, like you would feel
it in some way I would imagine, you.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Know, it kind of reminds me of and this might
not be the exact same thing. Whenever we had the
Muhammad Ali funeral several years ago, the city just felt
like it was in a very felt like there was
national attention on us, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yeah. So I was looking in to see if
there ever been any cities that weren't prepared, that didn't
sort of you know, basically, have there been any And
I don't mean like a disaster as far as an
attempt on somebody's life, but just like a logistical nightmare
for cities that really couldn't handle it, and it just
you know, was not a good trip for anybody involved
because of traffic, that kind of stuff, and you know,

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maybe even the you know, everything that comes with the
president and visiting, maybe they didn't view it as a
good experience. And there really aren't any examples I can find,
which I think is really a reminder that the Secret
Service and law enforcement they run this playbook so often
that outright failures are really really rare. And again, when

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you hear residents of cities say things like, well the
city wasn't prepared, I mean, it's usually the residents not
really knowing what comes with this meeting the President showing
up in your town. All right, So I'm sure we'll
hit on it coming up here in just a few
minutes with Scott Fitzgerald when he joins us for his
last sports update in the morning. But again, we've got
all three local teams in action today getting postseason play started.

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And for Louisville, the update is that Mickel Brown Junior're
not going to play in the ACC tournament at all,
regardless of how far Louisville does advance. Now they win
today against SMU, they play at two thirty, and then
from there they'll eventually play the winner of let's see,
I'm going to pull up the updated bracket here because
I really think with Louisville, I think they've got a

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pretty favorable draw given the fact that they have to
start their play today on Wednesday, right, they didn't qualify
for a double buy, they got the six seed. But
I do think that you know, if you get past SMU,
easier said than done, of course, you then would play
a Miami team that you just beat without Michael Brown
Junior at their place, and then from there, if it
goes Chalk you'd play, you'd play Virginia in the semi

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finals on Friday, a team that you also played without
Michael Brown Junior. And also, I mean that was one
of those games where among many that you lost, that
I felt like you you should have won. But I
mean Louisville didn't play well, and I think Virginia played
extremely well. In fact, I think they made like nine
threes to start the game, and Louisill still had a
chance in a really not so not so solid performance.

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So again, louisll could lose today and it wouldn't shock
me just because that's the kind of season that they've had.
But you are on the other bracket with Duke, and
Duke of course has been the dominant team in this league.
But again two thirties, when it's gonna tip off today
as Louisville gets a chance to go to and one
against SMU, the Cards knocked him off when they traveled
to the Ump Center earlier this year, and then Louisville

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made the return trip to Dallas in a game that
really was a reminder for me that the playbook's kind
of out on Louisville, and that is that if you can,
if you can match them at their pace and you
can make threes like SMU did in the first half
of that game. And then you slow it down and you,
you know, you really make them guard you in the
half court, you make them run offense and kind of

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dare their guys to go one on one. I mean,
that's a pretty good recipe to beat them. So again,
should be a good matchup today on the Kentucky side. Again,
they've got LSU the worst team in the SEC, or
at least one of them. I guess the you know,
the the bracket would tell you that they're the worst
team as the sixteen seed, but I guess you could

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also make the case that, you know, maybe that's Mississippi State,
maybe that's South Carolina. So Kentucky only played them once
and it was the Malaca Moreno buzzer beater that that
helped them get out of there with a win. And honestly,
that's the kind of loss that had you had you
not had that shot not fallen and everything else played
out the same way. I mean, that's a that's a
bad loss. I still think it probably doesn't put you

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outside the tournament or maybe even on the bubble, just
because of what the bubble is. But for Kentucky, they've
got Missouri next if they do win today, which they should,
and then after that the quarterfinals on Friday, if they
get there, will be Florida's first game in Kentucky's third
game in three days. So not a great draw for them.
Florida just happens to be the team that as of

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late is running through that league, just like Duke is
the ACC. And then for Indiana, John, I mean, they've
got I'm pulling up the bracket here because they've got
a game today that they should just I mean they should,
mean they should win. Today's huge because a loss puts
them out of the tournament, right.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I mean, they're already out. They'll stay out a little further.
Just make it easy for them to keep them out
of the tournament.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I mean, there's still some that project them, but I
guess they're the ultimate coin toss. I think right now,
as it stands, as you know currently now.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Waiting today probably keeps you in that category. If you
beat Purdue in your second game, you probably at the
very at worst case scenario, you're in Dayton if you
beat Purdue a second time time, and then at that
point you'd face Nebraska, who is a team that Indiana
had was up fifteen sixteen points on back in January
and ended up letting that's lead slip away, And.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, that would have been a huge one for them.
So we'll see.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I mean, there's a route that is somewhat favorable for them,
given you know, considering how they played against these teams
during the regular season. But you know, they have to
put together good performance in order to get where they
want to go.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, I think Purdue, although they did they did get
the best of Indiana last time they played them. Indiana
did the same thing in the first matchups, So you know,
I think for Indiana, a win today, as you said,
probably keeps them status quo. And then against Purdue, I
think even a competitive showing would probably get you feeling
pretty good on the right side of the bubble unless
you have like what nobody thinks about is the bid

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steelers from the high level, because bid steelers are usually
teams that are you know, from from somewhat of the
lower level, like if you an A ten school or
something like that like VCU, you know, they're the only
A ten team likely going to make the tournaments unless
I'm wrong there, but but if somebody, you know, if
they lose in the championship game to a solid team
that gets in only because they want it, that's where

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you get into bitstealing. I mean North Carolina State, if
you remember. I mean, it's still unbelievable to think about
their run to the final four a couple of years ago.
I mean, they should have lost to Kenny Payne in
the ACC Tournament, and sure enough, they went on to
make it all the way to the final four. But
they wouldn't have sniffed the tournament. They had a losing record,
but they won the ACC Tournament and that's what got
him in. And that what that did is that put

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one bubble team on the outside. So that is something
you got to keep in mind. But college basketball postseason
has arrived and it's a beautiful thing. Not gonna be
a beautiful day when it comes to weather, but college
hoops we do it bigger and better than anybody else,
and it's our time to shine. Quick time out coming
your way. We'll get to news. I'm sorry, we'll get
to traffick in weather as well as another sports update

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Have you ever heard of it? Yes? Nineties country? Okay, yeah,
you hear this voice? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
I was on rock radio in this. I know I
was not listening to.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
You missed out? Yea, yeah, yeah, he's still great. I
think you missed out. But you know I've learned. I'm
I'm not. There's not a whole lot of us out
here that still have a love and appreciation for nineties country.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
I feel better about myself just listening to it.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
There you go, There you go. There's a lot of
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honest with you, I mean, look, I'm just saying I
don't see it that way, but I'm sure some people do.
All right, So final segment for us, we're gonna hand
it off to Tony and do I don't forget UK
coverage coming your way here this morning after Tony and
Dwight as they're set to take on LSU at twelve thirty,
So Louisville two thirty. That's tip time against SMU in

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the first ACC Tournament game. And there will be cameras there,
not just for the ESPN crew, but because they're going
to be filming the final pieces of this docu series
that we actually get our first episode of on Friday.
So we've talked about it here and there throughout the morning.
Have you seen the trailer yet?

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Talk You've seen the trailer and it looks like they
spend some money on it. It's it's some slick production,
and uh, I'm I'm watching it trying to figure out
is this angle gonna be good or bad for Louisville.
And I think it's gonna be good. Once I found
out Mitchell and and Billis were involved, as said, yeah,
it's probably gonna be good.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. I mean in the trailer they show Donovan Mitchell
saying fam when talking about Kentucky before they play, So
that's in the trailer. That's a they're selling you that
this is truly gonna be raw and real, right not.
You know, there's no ted Lasso situation here about everybody's
playing hard. It's it's really I think. I think it's
gonna be about the fact that pack two two elements

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that I've gathered Pat Kelsey's journey from mid major to
a place like Louisville where he better win or it's
gonna be an uncomfortable situation for him here, and he
knows that. But also Louisville is one of the new
program one of the programs in this new world of
college basketball where if you come here, you're gonna be
paid a lot of money because we care a lot
more than other.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Will make him look like a psychopath, Like, uh, I
think the the clip is perfect to where he's they're
doing some crazy screaming and jumping around and he snaps
his finger to the left. Oh yeah, and he was like,
I broke my finger and they snap it back and
I remember back, remember I can't remember what who was
coaching football, but they had that guy, the defensive or
offensive line coach that would hit the guys in pregame

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and he'd be bloodied up. And at first you're like, wow, man,
that's intense.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
He's still here, Mark Ivy. Oh.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
But it turned into a negative thing though, when people
are like commentators were like, he looks like a psychopath.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I think Pat Kelsey oftentimes looks like a psychopath,
and it's all it's all in the of the viewer
how they want to see it. I think he's intense,
that's very evident, always always at full level when it
comes to energy, and that will certainly stand out within
this docu series. But I think it could help you
as far as the sales pitch in regards to two things.

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And again there's chances that could hurt you too, as
far as it's how you come off things that you see.
But it'll highlight what a lot of people already know,
but they'll be reminded and they'll see it up close
that Louisville basketball fans are different than most. We care
a lot more. And then also that in that new world,
if you're a player, I mean they showcase in Pryor
and they highlight him and the trailer saying that coming
to Louisville has financially changed his family's lives because of

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the money he made and it's turned him into a businessman.
That kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
How do we not know about this? So that that's
the crazy thing is that this is dropping and it's
Mitchell and billis are involved with a documentary about Louisville,
and everyone's going wait, wait, Well.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
So I think because the cameras have been both at
Charleston and in Louisville, and they've been here and there
over a long stretch of time, it's not been consistent.
He did slip up last year on his Coaches show
in reference one of the cameras being there. And I
was around that Netflix show that filmed the OVW thing,
and I could tell that wasn't just the in house
production people. That was something something special. And then I

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never knew anything about I couldn't put it together. But
somebody had mentioned that Kelsey and Danny McBride were in
something together Right, and Danny McBride, of course one of
the stars of Right, Jimstones, was a part of the
writing team. Well, the production crew that put this whole
docu series together is it's the Righteous Gemstones people. And
the reason I don't think we heard about it for
a long time is because they put it all together

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and they were shopping it and I think they were
waiting to find out where it was going to be.
I'm surprised at.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
The other angle, Yeah, how SI, what direction do they
are going? But when you read Gemstones, You're like, WHOA, Okay,
is this going to be nuts because that show is crazy?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah. Great, he seems to be the crazy character in that.
It's just like the lunatic basketball coach who's small but
Manny's hyper. I mean, I could see it so Baby Billy. Yeah,
that's one of the best comedy shows ever ever, And
I can't think of one close to as good as
that's come out in the last five six years. It's
and I don't think you could cast it any better.

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The Walls character is perfectly cast. I mean, the Walls great, strange,
good stuff. All right, Tony and Dewater coming your way
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