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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentuckyana, Welcome in Happy Thursday too. It is
five oh six here at News Radio eight forty whas
coffee and company with you, and we are fueled by
Thornton's and we are off to a much cooler start
today than we have been seemingly in quite some time.
At five oh six it is thirty nine degrees and
we are going to get warmer today high fifty two,
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but again a colder start after we had some chilly
weather yesterday, and of course some rain come in one
of those days where I was. I was out and
about moving throughout the afternoon until until we got to
the Louisville game, but meaning like got to that time,
I didn't go to it. But different areas, different results.
Right in East Louisville, nothing seemingly just a cloudy day.
(00:42):
Made it closer to my neck of the woods in
Bullock County and hit a rainstormer. I almost had to
pull off the side of the road it was raining
so hard. So not sure what you got because of
where you were yesterday, but certainly a difference yesterday than
what we had. And today again gonna be gonna be
more cold, but I'll take it. Fifty two is not
bad for March, right, We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, to your point, Nick, I didn't see a whole
lot of rain throughout the day. However, sitting there last night,
just about dinner time, I think it rolled through Hike's Point,
massive rain. Like the wind picked up because we have
some big trees in the neighborhood. You can see the
those starting to blow around, and then it came through.
And then I opened the garage door this morning and
oh it was cold out this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, it's definitely a big difference in temperature. I mean,
it sounds crazy to say because I'm looking at thirty
nine right now, But weren't we John, didn't we get
to seventy yesterday morning?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I think in the morning we were almost in the
mid seventies.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I mean, that's a drastic change in twenty four hours,
but I guess that's what you give this time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think we booked the record too. I think eighty one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Did it get thet Yeah, it was warm one. It's
definitely warm, all right. So we got a lot to
get to today. As you could expect, we're essentially going
to be running back as we've got another day of
afternoon hoops around here, with Kentucky back in action at
twelve thirty after their win against LSU, they're going to
take on Missouri for a chance to move on once
again in the SEC tournament. And then at two thirty
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Louisville will be playing against a Miami team that they
just played five days ago, and that will be an
opportunity for them to also advance and stay alive in
the ACC tournament in Charlotte. And I'd say the Kentucky
game felt more in hand throughout, although it was never
really a complete pull away for Kentucky, but they won,
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and for them it was more of a hey, let's
just avoid a resume stained before we get to selection Sunday.
Probably not a loss that would have really changed their
fate in the tournament, but certainly something that could have
impacted them negatively. Not sure what they gained by winning it,
but now they've got a chance to beat the Missouri
team that we give them, I guess, the quality win
against the neutral site team, and of course a chance
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to stay alive in Nashville. And then for Louisville, I'd
say a game where for the first time or maybe
the second time. I guess you could say the same
thing played out against Miami, but it didn't look good late,
and the reason didn't look good, not because you dug
yourself too big of a hole, and it was just
unthinkable that they could pull it out. It's just they'd
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been in that situation many times this year against a
solid to good team. You're gonna have to make some
plays late, it's gonna come down to the wire. Can
you find a way to win? And I feel like
in those situations Louisville had not been able to do
it at all this year, and then now in two
straight games they've been able to do it, so unlikely
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heroes for both teams. I mean, I don't know if
it was a heroic effort needed by Brandon what's his name,
Brandon the big fellow for Kentucky, Brandon Garrison yea, but
he certainly had his best game that I can think
of make. I mean, it wasn't necessarily a late save,
but just a good performance from him that they typically
don't get. And then for Louisville, I mean, Ryan Conwell
was at one point because they were tracking it against
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SMU in the three games that they played this year,
midway to the second half. In those three games, he
was four of thirty from SMU and my man kept
shooting it and some were questioning me being one of
those questioning should he keep firing it? And sure enough
he had a big one that put him over the
top and then had a nice bucket late to really
seal it. But it was Zugris. He's our Greek freak.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He was.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I mean, he's been inserted in the lineup and he
is an example out there for those that, like, you know,
if you've got a kid that plays basketball or a grandkid,
he's somebody that I'm not sure there's any specific thing
as far as a skill set or a talent that
he has that is better than Sonanda Frew, the big
man who started thirty games for Louisville this year. But
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he plays with a motor. He's got a lot of energy,
he's physical, and that I think has become infectious. So
since being inserted in the lineup, there's been times where
you really won't look at the box score and feel like, man,
he's making a big impact, but you can see he's
bringing energy and effort and physicality where they're lacking. With
Freu and then yesterday a six to zero run by
himself that I feel like was big for Louisville to
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just get back in and give him a chance to win. So, look,
it's march around here. College basketball, as we've discussed. As
you likely know, we consume it like nobody else. And
I know yesterday not big wins in the grand scheme
of things, but what it did is it kept hope
alive that you can keep marching on and maybe find
yourself as an SEC or an ACC champion. And obviously
the big dance next week that's what people mostly focus on.
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But until then, we're still alive here, both with Louisville
and Kentucky. And I know today would have been a
much tougher day to get up and go to work
had it all come to an end for those two teams. Now,
John Alden, I don't even know what to say, my man.
I mean, I haven't known what to say for several weeks.
So it doesn't really change the team. For Indiana's is
very inconsistent. I went into last night very confident in
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the Hoosiers, and so is I. They let me down
and it's just, you know, that's where things stand. They're
not going to make the tournament and third straight year
for him. I mean, isn't that the Isn't that like
that's the result that like that puts him out. I mean,
you just said it, but I think had it been
like another Big Ten team, it still would have been
an open discussion. But Northwestern was just that is just they're.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Not though if Indiana just doesn't match up well with them,
or if they just don't have the response or you know,
the ability to respond when they go on to run
or when team's going to run in general. But you know,
that's I think this team, even though it's a new
era with Darren Devrees, I think I think they looked
worse than last year's Mike Woodson team throughout a lot
of parts, a lot of the majority of this year,
which is very strange to say.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It is, but Mike Woodson's team had talent like they
had some not to say this one doesn't. I mean Wilkerson,
I mean, he's one of those guys that you'll look
back at the records because of what he had two
forty point games in a season, which is that doesn't
happen anywhere very often.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
He's going to go down to kind of like Noah
Vonley from nearly probably over ten years ago at this point,
that's ay the best who gets forgotten because of how
unsuccessful the team as.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A whole was.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no doubt about it, And uh, I don't I
don't know if Indiana fans I mean, you tell me, clearly,
nobody's happy. I saw a lot of criticism, understandably so,
because yesterday was sort of the nail on the coffin
that they're not going dancing, but they're a national champion
in football, So like, do they really have the energy
to get mad? No.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I was talking about this on my podcast earlier this week,
and that's like you can be mad about basketball, of course,
but like, how how much of your energy are you
willing to put towards being angry about it? Whenever there
was so much fun from the football season had not
too long ago. I'm certainly not somebody who I mean,
I'm upset about it, but like it's also not something
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that I'm going to dwell on for a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Can I play psychologists for you guys for a moment here? Yeah,
I think Indiana fans feel bad that they're not more
mad about basketball because that's how they've been programmed. Oh yeah,
for generations to where they can't really get there as
far as that level of anger and disappointment because they
pinched themselves and say, wait a second, it is real.
We just won a national championship in football, which still again,
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I'm not sure it'll ever sound realistic when you say
it out loud, but it happened.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
There is also a level of apathy with basketball in
general that, yeah, within the last decade, there kind of
like Louisville, Indiana has not had a tournament run in
ten years, and that's of course going to continue this year.
It's been three straight seasons of living on the bubble
and not getting on the right side of it, and
so there's a level of frustration. But there's also a
lot of people, myself included, that have kind of put
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basketball on the back burner due to the massive successive
football really the last two seasons.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'll save this for later, but I will tell you, John,
I think there's one specific and there's more than one,
i'm sure, but one that I'm thinking of that what
might surprise people as far as why I think Devrees
could have a much much better second year than he
did this year. How about that tease?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Hey, go ahead, I'm about that all years for it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So we'll obviously we'll talk a lot of hoops. Today
is again we've got another day of daytime basketball, another
day where productivity probably down later in the afternoon in
a lot of places around the city and of course
in Kentucky, Ana. But that's okay, that's what we do
around here. Also, President Trump, he spoke yesterday, had a
lot to say, probably said a lot of what folks
were expecting. So we'll let you hear some of that.
Scott's Got Sports, John Shannon's got News. We've got it
(08:59):
all right here you at News Radio eight forty whas.
I'm not sure if they track true attendance. When I
think tracking attendants, always think of sporting events, and we
all know that the way they do that is not
the actual amount of people that show up at a stadium.
But there were a lot of people, at least it
seemed yesterday in northern Kentucky as President Trump made his
(09:20):
way and spoke in front of Again, I'm not sure
how big of a crowd it was as far as numbers,
but they were certainly enthusiastic and seemingly happy to be there,
and I'm happy to be.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
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Speaker 1 (09:30):
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day I had. Here is President Trump as he took
the stage yesterday in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Hello, Kentucky, I love Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I love Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We won in a landslide. We won by so much.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
We have the all time record in these states. But
it's great to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with
so many proud, hardworking, unbelievable American patriots. True, and we're
here today with the men and women of the phenomenal
company that has been helping Kentucky grow and prosper for
(10:35):
six incredible decades. In other words, they've been here for
a long time, versed logistics.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Vers legendcy good company.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
There's been a lot of the people that run it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They're good people. They love you. They love you.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Actually, if they didn't, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Probably, I don't think I'd.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Ef they didn't love you, I'd walk off this stage right.
With your help, this family owned business has risen from
a small.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we'll let you hear more of that throughout the
morning here, and I'm sure it'll be included in our
news coverage as well. But I tell you what, I
hope people can can can give me just a little
bit of grace here as far as not not looking
at this in any way from a political standpoint, obviously,
that's that's what this is. But there are times wherever
(11:27):
you see something or you hear something and it really
just does kind of hit you that like this is
this real? And I don't even say that to question
any I mean, it's just an observation that it's not
coming from any way a political way, like there's no
it's just you know Trump clearly by the way, I
think he really likes say in Kentucky. I mean it's
almost like he was in He's like Kentucky. That's fun
(11:49):
to say. I'm gonna keep saying it. And of course
he's playing to the crowd because he's in front of
a bunch of proud Kentuckians. But these are two components
of yesterday's appearance and speech from Trump that just kind
of hit me, like is this real life? One was
Jake Paul joining the stage and being endorsed by Trump
as a future politician, which I'm not even like anti
(12:12):
Jake Paul like a lot of people are, meaning like,
I don't really have a strong opinion on him. I
think he's a character who's really really savvy from a
business standpoint, and he's created millions of followers and he's
very successful. But never would I have thought that he'd
be on stage in a suit talking with President Trump
and Kentucky and Trump endorsing him as somebody that should,
you know, consider a future in politics, like what, It's
(12:34):
just real? And then doctor Oz being there helping an
older woman who collapsed during Trump's speech. If you saw
that that was a scary situation for sure. And like
I thought doctor Oz was just a doctor on TV,
Like is he really a doctor? I mean, I guess
he is. I guess he went to medical school. But again,
just imagine going in again, try if you can. I know,
it's really hard for a lot of people not to
(12:55):
be so super charged up and so serious about politics
in every aspect of the conversation. But like, imagine fifteen
years ago you see these headlines. I mean, you probably
wouldn't know who Jake Paul was, but imagine, you know,
internet YouTuber turned amateur, not really sure if he's a
pro fighter or not being you know, brought out to
(13:15):
I mean, it's just so random. But then doctor Oz
he's there with the President and he's he's he's playing
doctor once again on TV. It's it's a wild, wild
world we live in now. He did talk a lot
about some Kentuckians that you were very familiar with, including
Gal Ryan also gave a plug to Andy Barr, So
(13:38):
we'll let you hear what he had to say specifically
about those Kentuckians of course that a lot of you
are very familiar with. I'm sure stick around somebody you're
now familiar with this. Rody O'Neil. He is set to
join us coming up on the other side, but first
we'll get the traffic and weather updates. It's all right
here at News Radio eight forty whas. Nick coffee with
you here, News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, Thank
(14:00):
you for hanging out with us here on this Thursday morning,
and also big thanks to Rory O'Neil who now joins us. Rory,
once again, we'll start with what we have started with
for consecutive days. Now, what is the latest on the
situation in Iran?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yeah, well, one of the focuses this morning is on
the straight of horror moves. We've seen several tanker fires
now happen in the past oh twelve hours or so,
with Iran ramping up retaliatory attacks on energy supplies, striking
at least two foreign tankers in Iraqi waters.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We saw the price of oil spike a bit overnight.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Now it has come back down, but it did top
one hundred dollars a barrel for a time. And really
everything is just happening almost in real time these days.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It's difficult to keep up with this. Well, I guess
it's a war.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, not to say that you are moonlighting as a
Trump translator, but Trump says a lot of things, and
oftentimes you kind of think you know what he means,
and sometimes you think, okay, maybe is he embellishing, or
maybe you just don't really know what the heck he's
talking about. But when he says we won, I mean,
is that again trying to put you on the spot
here as a Trump translator? Does that? What?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
What is he what is he gaging with that?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like? What? What?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
What level? What metric? I guess is he saying, Okay,
we won? Now we just got to wait it out.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Well, the fact that you're asking that question, I think
speaks volumes as well, right, that they didn't really lay
out in advance what we were doing there and what
the goals were and.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What we want, you know, but we wanted. So he's saying, well, wait, okay,
would we win? What's the prize?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Because look, their military is greatly diminished, and our military
has done a phenomenal job in taking out their air
defense systems, taking out their navy, you know, going after
their ability to launch missile missiles and drones.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's been incredible.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
However, you know that's just sort of one part of
the problem. Okay, we blew it up, But is it
that case of you break it, you buy it? You
know what government then comes next? That's all a bit
in flux. And could it be worse than what was there?
You know, we don't really know, so still a lot
of questions about what comes next.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And you know, I know Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Likes to boast and rightly so about again the military
strike and the success and our sheer power. He even
calls it an unfair fight, but that doesn't necessarily mean
victory when it comes to long term success overall.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Here Royo nails our guest joining us at news Radio
eight forty whas we've got more companies and hiring CEOs
that are leaving high tax, high regulation states for lower
cost places to do business. What have you seen that
seems to really be driving this shift? And are other
certain states that are benefiting from this more?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, we've got a couple issues happening out on the
West coast.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
You know, in Washington State, they're considering new tax essentially
on an annual tax on people who earn more than
one million dollars a year. It's ten percent Washington doesn't
have taxes on wages or salaries otherwise, so this would
specifically target high income households each year. And we got
(17:06):
word this week that the former CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz,
a billionaire, is going to up and move the family.
They're leaving Washington State, going to Florida, which has no
state income tax, and taking you.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Know, their treasure with them. And they're just the latest.
You know.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
In California has also got a ballot initiative voters could
approve of five percent tax on the state's billionaires, two
hundred and fifty five of them, you know. And now
you've got some billionaires looking to move out. And we've
seen now So there goes Howard Schultz from Starbucks, he's
moving to Florida. Jeff Bezos, he's going from Seattle to Florida.
(17:41):
Mark Zuckerberg just bought the most expensive house ever in Miami,
Dad at one hundred and seventy million dollars. So there's
someone else going from Silicon Valley to Florida. It seems
to be a trend.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I guess this is the way like when when
someone like myself is really just looking out for ways
to you know, be smart financially. It's you know, checking
all the prices and the deals and see if I've
got any q pons. For the billionaires, it's just finding
the states that are going to tax them the lease right.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Well right, and look ba they have the money, they
can leave. They can bring their companies with them. We've
seen Starbucks, you know, sort of slowly drip drip drip
like a coffee capot out of the Seattle area. They're
building a big operation in Nashville and the whole operation
could officially move there very soon. Palenteer Technologies another company
that announced it's moving to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There with somebody else on my list. But yeah, we're
just seeing this.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
This We've seen it in Texas the past few years,
especially Silicon Valley companies making the move to places like Austin,
Texas again to take advantage of those better tax rates.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And it just shows that there is a tipping point.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Right that you can't sure constantly say let the billionaires
pay it, you know, there is a point.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So totally totally off topic, but I'll leave you with
this question. Have you have you have you been to
Nashville at all recently? Have you been before.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I have not, so Nashville is it's not too far
from Louisville, and I actually spent a lot of time
here when I was younger, and I think the transformation
of Nashville in the last twenty years is something I
don't know what other city can compare as far as
just the crazy rapid growth and to know that they've
got I'm not sure if the Starbucks headquarters it's going
to be there is right there in Nashville, but it is.
It's a city that has, I mean, everything seems to
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be going to Nashville this day and age, and twenty
twenty five years ago it wasn't much different than the
city that I'm in right now, which now completely different worlds,
it seems.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yeah, And you can see how with just a few
policies here and there. Sometimes it's policies that you know,
they don't necessarily Nashville or Louisville don't necessarily.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Have to do anything. They can just sit back and
on the other folks implode, right, yep. Well, you know,
we're just going to make.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Our community as attractive as possible and that will draw
in other CEOs and companies that are that are looking
for greener, cheaper pastors.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, Yamaha.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yamaha just announced it was leaving its headquarters in California
to go to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That was the other company. I think that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Rory has always appreciate your time, my friend. Have a
good day. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Thanks Nick, talking to you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Then, he is Rory and Neal of NBC News. Let's
get a check a quick check of traffic and weather.
We've got Morose getting us updated on the forecast this morning.
Bobby Ellis will tell us how the roads are looking,
all that's coming up right now. And then we've got
another sports update with mister Scott Fitzgerald. It's News Radio
eight forty whas
Good morning, Kentuckyana, Welcome in Happy Thursday too. It is
five oh six here at News Radio eight forty whas
coffee and company with you, and we are fueled by
Thornton's and we are off to a much cooler start
today than we have been seemingly in quite some time.
At five oh six it is thirty nine degrees and
we are going to get warmer today high fifty two,
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but again a colder start after we had some chilly
weather yesterday, and of course some rain come in one
of those days where I was. I was out and
about moving throughout the afternoon until until we got to
the Louisville game, but meaning like got to that time,
I didn't go to it. But different areas, different results.
Right in East Louisville, nothing seemingly just a cloudy day.
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Made it closer to my neck of the woods in
Bullock County and hit a rainstormer. I almost had to
pull off the side of the road it was raining
so hard. So not sure what you got because of
where you were yesterday, but certainly a difference yesterday than
what we had. And today again gonna be gonna be
more cold, but I'll take it. Fifty two is not
bad for March, right, We'll take it.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, to your point, Nick, I didn't see a whole
lot of rain throughout the day. However, sitting there last night,
just about dinner time, I think it rolled through Hike's Point,
massive rain. Like the wind picked up because we have
some big trees in the neighborhood. You can see the
those starting to blow around, and then it came through.
And then I opened the garage door this morning and
oh it was cold out this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, it's definitely a big difference in temperature. I mean,
it sounds crazy to say because I'm looking at thirty
nine right now, But weren't we John, didn't we get
to seventy yesterday morning?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I think in the morning we were almost in the
mid seventies.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I mean, that's a drastic change in twenty four hours,
but I guess that's what you give this time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think we booked the record too. I think eighty one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Did it get thet Yeah, it was warm one. It's
definitely warm, all right. So we got a lot to
get to today. As you could expect, we're essentially going
to be running back as we've got another day of
afternoon hoops around here, with Kentucky back in action at
twelve thirty after their win against LSU, they're going to
take on Missouri for a chance to move on once
again in the SEC tournament. And then at two thirty
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Louisville will be playing against a Miami team that they
just played five days ago, and that will be an
opportunity for them to also advance and stay alive in
the ACC tournament in Charlotte. And I'd say the Kentucky
game felt more in hand throughout, although it was never
really a complete pull away for Kentucky, but they won,
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and for them it was more of a hey, let's
just avoid a resume stained before we get to selection Sunday.
Probably not a loss that would have really changed their
fate in the tournament, but certainly something that could have
impacted them negatively. Not sure what they gained by winning it,
but now they've got a chance to beat the Missouri
team that we give them, I guess, the quality win
against the neutral site team, and of course a chance
(02:42):
to stay alive in Nashville. And then for Louisville, I'd
say a game where for the first time or maybe
the second time. I guess you could say the same
thing played out against Miami, but it didn't look good late,
and the reason didn't look good, not because you dug
yourself too big of a hole, and it was just
unthinkable that they could pull it out. It's just they'd
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been in that situation many times this year against a
solid to good team. You're gonna have to make some
plays late, it's gonna come down to the wire. Can
you find a way to win? And I feel like
in those situations Louisville had not been able to do
it at all this year, and then now in two
straight games they've been able to do it, so unlikely
(03:23):
heroes for both teams. I mean, I don't know if
it was a heroic effort needed by Brandon what's his name,
Brandon the big fellow for Kentucky, Brandon Garrison yea, but
he certainly had his best game that I can think
of make. I mean, it wasn't necessarily a late save,
but just a good performance from him that they typically
don't get. And then for Louisville, I mean, Ryan Conwell
was at one point because they were tracking it against
(03:46):
SMU in the three games that they played this year,
midway to the second half. In those three games, he
was four of thirty from SMU and my man kept
shooting it and some were questioning me being one of
those questioning should he keep firing it? And sure enough
he had a big one that put him over the
top and then had a nice bucket late to really
seal it. But it was Zugris. He's our Greek freak.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He was.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I mean, he's been inserted in the lineup and he
is an example out there for those that, like, you know,
if you've got a kid that plays basketball or a grandkid,
he's somebody that I'm not sure there's any specific thing
as far as a skill set or a talent that
he has that is better than Sonanda Frew, the big
man who started thirty games for Louisville this year. But
(04:33):
he plays with a motor. He's got a lot of energy,
he's physical, and that I think has become infectious. So
since being inserted in the lineup, there's been times where
you really won't look at the box score and feel like, man,
he's making a big impact, but you can see he's
bringing energy and effort and physicality where they're lacking. With
Freu and then yesterday a six to zero run by
himself that I feel like was big for Louisville to
(04:56):
just get back in and give him a chance to win. So, look,
it's march around here. College basketball, as we've discussed. As
you likely know, we consume it like nobody else. And
I know yesterday not big wins in the grand scheme
of things, but what it did is it kept hope
alive that you can keep marching on and maybe find
yourself as an SEC or an ACC champion. And obviously
the big dance next week that's what people mostly focus on.
(05:20):
But until then, we're still alive here, both with Louisville
and Kentucky. And I know today would have been a
much tougher day to get up and go to work
had it all come to an end for those two teams. Now,
John Alden, I don't even know what to say, my man.
I mean, I haven't known what to say for several weeks.
So it doesn't really change the team. For Indiana's is
very inconsistent. I went into last night very confident in
(05:41):
the Hoosiers, and so is I. They let me down
and it's just, you know, that's where things stand. They're
not going to make the tournament and third straight year
for him. I mean, isn't that the Isn't that like
that's the result that like that puts him out. I mean,
you just said it, but I think had it been
like another Big Ten team, it still would have been
an open discussion. But Northwestern was just that is just they're.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Not though if Indiana just doesn't match up well with them,
or if they just don't have the response or you know,
the ability to respond when they go on to run
or when team's going to run in general. But you know,
that's I think this team, even though it's a new
era with Darren Devrees, I think I think they looked
worse than last year's Mike Woodson team throughout a lot
of parts, a lot of the majority of this year,
which is very strange to say.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It is, but Mike Woodson's team had talent like they
had some not to say this one doesn't. I mean Wilkerson,
I mean, he's one of those guys that you'll look
back at the records because of what he had two
forty point games in a season, which is that doesn't
happen anywhere very often.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
He's going to go down to kind of like Noah
Vonley from nearly probably over ten years ago at this point,
that's ay the best who gets forgotten because of how
unsuccessful the team as.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A whole was.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no doubt about it, And uh, I don't I
don't know if Indiana fans I mean, you tell me, clearly,
nobody's happy. I saw a lot of criticism, understandably so,
because yesterday was sort of the nail on the coffin
that they're not going dancing, but they're a national champion
in football, So like, do they really have the energy
to get mad? No.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I was talking about this on my podcast earlier this week,
and that's like you can be mad about basketball, of course,
but like, how how much of your energy are you
willing to put towards being angry about it? Whenever there
was so much fun from the football season had not
too long ago. I'm certainly not somebody who I mean,
I'm upset about it, but like it's also not something
(07:24):
that I'm going to dwell on for a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Can I play psychologists for you guys for a moment here? Yeah,
I think Indiana fans feel bad that they're not more
mad about basketball because that's how they've been programmed. Oh yeah,
for generations to where they can't really get there as
far as that level of anger and disappointment because they
pinched themselves and say, wait a second, it is real.
We just won a national championship in football, which still again,
(07:48):
I'm not sure it'll ever sound realistic when you say
it out loud, but it happened.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
There is also a level of apathy with basketball in
general that, yeah, within the last decade, there kind of
like Louisville, Indiana has not had a tournament run in
ten years, and that's of course going to continue this year.
It's been three straight seasons of living on the bubble
and not getting on the right side of it, and
so there's a level of frustration. But there's also a
lot of people, myself included, that have kind of put
(08:13):
basketball on the back burner due to the massive successive
football really the last two seasons.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'll save this for later, but I will tell you, John,
I think there's one specific and there's more than one,
i'm sure, but one that I'm thinking of that what
might surprise people as far as why I think Devrees
could have a much much better second year than he
did this year. How about that tease?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Hey, go ahead, I'm about that all years for it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So we'll obviously we'll talk a lot of hoops. Today
is again we've got another day of daytime basketball, another
day where productivity probably down later in the afternoon in
a lot of places around the city and of course
in Kentucky, Ana. But that's okay, that's what we do
around here. Also, President Trump, he spoke yesterday, had a
lot to say, probably said a lot of what folks
were expecting. So we'll let you hear some of that.
Scott's Got Sports, John Shannon's got News. We've got it
(08:59):
all right here you at News Radio eight forty whas.
I'm not sure if they track true attendance. When I
think tracking attendants, always think of sporting events, and we
all know that the way they do that is not
the actual amount of people that show up at a stadium.
But there were a lot of people, at least it
seemed yesterday in northern Kentucky as President Trump made his
(09:20):
way and spoke in front of Again, I'm not sure
how big of a crowd it was as far as numbers,
but they were certainly enthusiastic and seemingly happy to be there,
and I'm happy to be.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
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day I had. Here is President Trump as he took
the stage yesterday in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Hello, Kentucky, I love Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I love Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We won in a landslide. We won by so much.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
We have the all time record in these states. But
it's great to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with
so many proud, hardworking, unbelievable American patriots. True, and we're
here today with the men and women of the phenomenal
company that has been helping Kentucky grow and prosper for
(10:35):
six incredible decades. In other words, they've been here for
a long time, versed logistics.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Vers legendcy good company.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
There's been a lot of the people that run it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They're good people. They love you. They love you.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Actually, if they didn't, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Probably, I don't think I'd.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Ef they didn't love you, I'd walk off this stage right.
With your help, this family owned business has risen from
a small.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we'll let you hear more of that throughout the
morning here, and I'm sure it'll be included in our
news coverage as well. But I tell you what, I
hope people can can can give me just a little
bit of grace here as far as not not looking
at this in any way from a political standpoint, obviously,
that's that's what this is. But there are times wherever
(11:27):
you see something or you hear something and it really
just does kind of hit you that like this is
this real? And I don't even say that to question
any I mean, it's just an observation that it's not
coming from any way a political way, like there's no
it's just you know Trump clearly by the way, I
think he really likes say in Kentucky. I mean it's
almost like he was in He's like Kentucky. That's fun
(11:49):
to say. I'm gonna keep saying it. And of course
he's playing to the crowd because he's in front of
a bunch of proud Kentuckians. But these are two components
of yesterday's appearance and speech from Trump that just kind
of hit me, like is this real life? One was
Jake Paul joining the stage and being endorsed by Trump
as a future politician, which I'm not even like anti
(12:12):
Jake Paul like a lot of people are, meaning like,
I don't really have a strong opinion on him. I
think he's a character who's really really savvy from a
business standpoint, and he's created millions of followers and he's
very successful. But never would I have thought that he'd
be on stage in a suit talking with President Trump
and Kentucky and Trump endorsing him as somebody that should,
you know, consider a future in politics, like what, It's
(12:34):
just real? And then doctor Oz being there helping an
older woman who collapsed during Trump's speech. If you saw
that that was a scary situation for sure. And like
I thought doctor Oz was just a doctor on TV,
Like is he really a doctor? I mean, I guess
he is. I guess he went to medical school. But again,
just imagine going in again, try if you can. I know,
it's really hard for a lot of people not to
(12:55):
be so super charged up and so serious about politics
in every aspect of the conversation. But like, imagine fifteen
years ago you see these headlines. I mean, you probably
wouldn't know who Jake Paul was, but imagine, you know,
internet YouTuber turned amateur, not really sure if he's a
pro fighter or not being you know, brought out to
(13:15):
I mean, it's just so random. But then doctor Oz
he's there with the President and he's he's he's playing
doctor once again on TV. It's it's a wild, wild
world we live in now. He did talk a lot
about some Kentuckians that you were very familiar with, including
Gal Ryan also gave a plug to Andy Barr, So
(13:38):
we'll let you hear what he had to say specifically
about those Kentuckians of course that a lot of you
are very familiar with. I'm sure stick around somebody you're
now familiar with this. Rody O'Neil. He is set to
join us coming up on the other side, but first
we'll get the traffic and weather updates. It's all right
here at News Radio eight forty whas. Nick coffee with
you here, News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, Thank
(14:00):
you for hanging out with us here on this Thursday morning,
and also big thanks to Rory O'Neil who now joins us. Rory,
once again, we'll start with what we have started with
for consecutive days. Now, what is the latest on the
situation in Iran?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yeah, well, one of the focuses this morning is on
the straight of horror moves. We've seen several tanker fires
now happen in the past oh twelve hours or so,
with Iran ramping up retaliatory attacks on energy supplies, striking
at least two foreign tankers in Iraqi waters.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We saw the price of oil spike a bit overnight.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Now it has come back down, but it did top
one hundred dollars a barrel for a time. And really
everything is just happening almost in real time these days.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It's difficult to keep up with this. Well, I guess
it's a war.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, not to say that you are moonlighting as a
Trump translator, but Trump says a lot of things, and
oftentimes you kind of think you know what he means,
and sometimes you think, okay, maybe is he embellishing, or
maybe you just don't really know what the heck he's
talking about. But when he says we won, I mean,
is that again trying to put you on the spot
here as a Trump translator? Does that? What?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
What is he what is he gaging with that?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like? What? What?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
What level? What metric? I guess is he saying, Okay,
we won? Now we just got to wait it out.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Well, the fact that you're asking that question, I think
speaks volumes as well, right, that they didn't really lay
out in advance what we were doing there and what
the goals were and.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What we want, you know, but we wanted. So he's saying, well, wait, okay,
would we win? What's the prize?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Because look, their military is greatly diminished, and our military
has done a phenomenal job in taking out their air
defense systems, taking out their navy, you know, going after
their ability to launch missile missiles and drones.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's been incredible.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
However, you know that's just sort of one part of
the problem. Okay, we blew it up, But is it
that case of you break it, you buy it? You
know what government then comes next? That's all a bit
in flux. And could it be worse than what was there?
You know, we don't really know, so still a lot
of questions about what comes next.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And you know, I know Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Likes to boast and rightly so about again the military
strike and the success and our sheer power. He even
calls it an unfair fight, but that doesn't necessarily mean
victory when it comes to long term success overall.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Here Royo nails our guest joining us at news Radio
eight forty whas we've got more companies and hiring CEOs
that are leaving high tax, high regulation states for lower
cost places to do business. What have you seen that
seems to really be driving this shift? And are other
certain states that are benefiting from this more?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, we've got a couple issues happening out on the
West coast.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
You know, in Washington State, they're considering new tax essentially
on an annual tax on people who earn more than
one million dollars a year. It's ten percent Washington doesn't
have taxes on wages or salaries otherwise, so this would
specifically target high income households each year. And we got
(17:06):
word this week that the former CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz,
a billionaire, is going to up and move the family.
They're leaving Washington State, going to Florida, which has no
state income tax, and taking you.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Know, their treasure with them. And they're just the latest.
You know.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
In California has also got a ballot initiative voters could
approve of five percent tax on the state's billionaires, two
hundred and fifty five of them, you know. And now
you've got some billionaires looking to move out. And we've
seen now So there goes Howard Schultz from Starbucks, he's
moving to Florida. Jeff Bezos, he's going from Seattle to Florida.
(17:41):
Mark Zuckerberg just bought the most expensive house ever in Miami,
Dad at one hundred and seventy million dollars. So there's
someone else going from Silicon Valley to Florida. It seems
to be a trend.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I guess this is the way like when when
someone like myself is really just looking out for ways
to you know, be smart financially. It's you know, checking
all the prices and the deals and see if I've
got any q pons. For the billionaires, it's just finding
the states that are going to tax them the lease right.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Well right, and look ba they have the money, they
can leave. They can bring their companies with them. We've
seen Starbucks, you know, sort of slowly drip drip drip
like a coffee capot out of the Seattle area. They're
building a big operation in Nashville and the whole operation
could officially move there very soon. Palenteer Technologies another company
that announced it's moving to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There with somebody else on my list. But yeah, we're
just seeing this.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
This We've seen it in Texas the past few years,
especially Silicon Valley companies making the move to places like Austin,
Texas again to take advantage of those better tax rates.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And it just shows that there is a tipping point.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Right that you can't sure constantly say let the billionaires
pay it, you know, there is a point.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So totally totally off topic, but I'll leave you with
this question. Have you have you have you been to
Nashville at all recently? Have you been before.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I have not, so Nashville is it's not too far
from Louisville, and I actually spent a lot of time
here when I was younger, and I think the transformation
of Nashville in the last twenty years is something I
don't know what other city can compare as far as
just the crazy rapid growth and to know that they've
got I'm not sure if the Starbucks headquarters it's going
to be there is right there in Nashville, but it is.
It's a city that has, I mean, everything seems to
(19:21):
be going to Nashville this day and age, and twenty
twenty five years ago it wasn't much different than the
city that I'm in right now, which now completely different worlds,
it seems.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yeah, And you can see how with just a few
policies here and there. Sometimes it's policies that you know,
they don't necessarily Nashville or Louisville don't necessarily.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Have to do anything. They can just sit back and
on the other folks implode, right, yep. Well, you know,
we're just going to make.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Our community as attractive as possible and that will draw
in other CEOs and companies that are that are looking
for greener, cheaper pastors.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, Yamaha.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yamaha just announced it was leaving its headquarters in California
to go to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That was the other company. I think that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Rory has always appreciate your time, my friend. Have a
good day. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Thanks Nick, talking to you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Then, he is Rory and Neal of NBC News. Let's
get a check a quick check of traffic and weather.
We've got Morose getting us updated on the forecast this morning.
Bobby Ellis will tell us how the roads are looking,
all that's coming up right now. And then we've got
another sports update with mister Scott Fitzgerald. It's News Radio
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