3.9: Time Change - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to discuss the job market really falling off in February

(00:46):
and also the rising cost of a lot of things
that could be on the way. We know right now,
gas prices have certainly climbed, probably noticeable for everybody listening
if you've filled up or maybe you just got some gasp,
because yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's one of those things that we should have expected
whenever we knew that the situation in Iran was developing
and we are now at war. They even told us
about it, but man, it's different when you actually experience it.
So again, Jille's going to join us, coming up here shortly.
All right, is this a crazy story out of out
of my neck of the woods in fact, closer to
John's area, because look, would you agree we're both Bullet

(01:24):
County guys. Yeah, and we're from different sides of the county,
but like collectively, we got to stick together, for sure,
we do. So I don't know this. This is just
a horrific story, regardless of where it would take place,
but just not something that you typically hear about anywhere,
but certainly for the community of Mount Washington. So yesterday,
and by the way, some of the details in this

(01:44):
arrest have changed. Initially, I think it was WDRB that
had mentioned that an axe was involved. That's now I
guess being shifted to something else. But here's the story.
A sixty seven year old man by the name of
Richard Chesher early Saturday morning was arrested and charged with murder,
tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse. So,

(02:05):
according to the Bullet County Coroner's Office, this investigators believe
this man killed his wife around ten pm Friday using
a wooden board. And again, initially the headline from DRB
said it was an axe. And I'll be honest with you, regardless, I mean,
this is horrific in every way, but that story took
off I think mostly because of the acts. I mean,

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you hear of that, just the nature of that, it
adds to it. Again, maybe not everybody's wired that way,
but I think not that a wooden board is any better. Again, overall,
a horrific crime that you would never expect to see anywhere,
but there's something about hearing an axe involved that I
think would get more people's attention. More So, I'm not
sure where they mix up was, but the reports now,
in fact, the original story that did have the headline

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with an axe, it's now changed to a wooden board.
So police say he was attempting to move his wife's
body from the house to the back of a truck
at his home and that's what they found when they
arrived on scene. He ended up in the garage and
I guess was trying to close the garage but was
then arrested. And I mean just not something at all

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you hear happening anywhere, but especially in that community. And
I've now learned that the area of where he lives,
in fact the street. I mean, it's in the news report,
so it's not as if it's some big secret. But
Williamsburg Court, I know people who live right near there,
and it's just one of those things that I'm sure
many people in that area would have never ever thought
that they were living in a home where something like

(03:31):
that could could take place. So in fact, now Washington,
my sister lives out there. Now again when you're growing up, like,
I've never felt it from John. In fact, let's know,
I've just remembered something that took place. And I don't
know if you know where I'm going here, but didn't
you at one point when we were chopping it up
on the air about Bullet County, like you referenced something
about thinking that people were from the area that I'm from.

(03:54):
Is like meth heads, am I am? I dreaming here?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
So in high school and I'm sure this is changed
way since I've graduated, but each of the three high
schools had their own stereotypes. Yeah, Bullet Eese was like
the snanny rich kids, and I always got it mixed up.
Either North Bullet or Bullet Central was one of these two.
One of them was like the rednecks and the other
one was the white trash. Those were the other two.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Which, as much as that may be offensive to some
people listening, I can confirm that, like, we all had
automatic ammunition prepared if you were gonna jab at the
other because we're all rivals and whatnot. But no, I
think that was pretty I mean, I don't know which
ones which I think in reality we all three collectively
share some of those some of those Bullet County traits.
But I will say the one that is most spot

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on is that the Mount Washington side was not all
rich kids necessarily, but they always just turned their nose
up at everybody else. They were the snobs, and certainly
they do have some rich people out there, so for
that to have this story, and then the one that
took place two years ago that I still can't believe
is real, is where they arrested a forty year old
man in Mount Washington because he had forty human skulls

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in his home, like dead body parts, and that got
a lot of national attention because it was interesting. I mean,
some you don't see very often. But when asked by
investigators who else is inside as they're arresting him, he said,
only my dead friends. So how about that, you snobs?
Why don't you clean it up? That kid? Kid? All right,
let's get to a quick time out. We'll talk to

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Jill Slessinger on the other side. At first, let's get
caught up on tracking weather. Nick coffee with you here
at news Radio eight forty whas, thanks for hanging out
with us. Also thanks to Jill Slessinger, who joins us
CBS News Business analyst. Jill, I'll start with this, I mean,
how has it this at this point? How has this
war in the Middle East? How's it been hitting the

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wallets of Americans?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
So far?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
How about that?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think you said it best.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's bad. Well, Triple A says that the average cost
of a gallon of gas has already risen forty eight
cents from a week ago. And I think that this is,
you know, sort of something to not worry about if
the war ends in the next few days or even
in the next week or two. But if this persists,

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if the war drags on, if oil production in the
Middle East slows down, I know everyone's sort of like, oh,
don't don't we make a whole bunch of oil and gas.
Don't we have that here in the US. It won't
matter because we are pricing this commodity on a global basis,
and that's why we are seeing the rise in the costs.

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And it's kind of scary. But on the other hand,
you know, you don't have a lot to do. You
have to drive less, take public transportation more. But I
think a lot of people are kind of scratching their
heads and being like, maybe I was not going to
maybe I was going to go away for my spring break.
Maybe I was going to drive, and maybe I won't. So,
you know, it's already in our lives as we speak.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
So when it comes to the higher energy costs, I
mean that this could lead to you paying a lot
more for things other than just gas, right, and I
think Americans field that's been the case already, even before
the war started.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think that that's really the critical issue. I mean, listen,
if you go back to when Russia invaded Ukraine. We
saw the price of oil and then gas rise and
that was when we had more than five dollars a
gallon at the pumps on average. So we're not there yet,
you know, we're sort of at four ish. But what

(07:22):
I think that or we're approaching for is what I
think the issue is that you know, listen, oil and energy,
it kind of fires so much of the economy, you know,
transporting things like food. It means that you know, the
cost of jet fuel is rising. All of these things
are factoring in, and there's one extra cost that especially

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is going to hit folks at the grocery store if
this again, if it persists. We don't know if it will,
and that is that we get a ton of fertilizer
for our food from the Middle East that is essentially
stopped right now. So you could only imagine that if
this were to go on for a few months, all
of a sudden, oil is up, food prices are up.

(08:07):
People are freaking out, and I don't blame them, you
know this, As you said, people have been complaining about
affordability for a while. And you know, when we talk
about affordability, it's not the inflation rate, which has actually
come down from over nine percent to you know, we're
two and a half three percent, so that's good, but
the overall price level, that's what we're really talking about.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Affordability. I feel like had become a bigger talking point
than it ever has right before the war started here
and now it's about to get about to get even worse.
Let's talk about the job market. Ninety two thousand jobs
were lost in February. I know last time we spoke
about this, you had a little more optimism compared to
some others. Where do you stand right now as far

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as these results.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I mean, it wasn't a good report. I wish that
I could give you better news. But that said, it
is one month. It's it's very strange to have January
look like a pretty good month. February doesn't look like
a good month. I just don't think we have enough
information to glean what the longer term trend is. What

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we do know is the job market's really weird right now.
There are a lot of industries that are just not hiring. Healthcare,
which was kind of the engine of growth of jobs
over the last couple of years, that had a strange
reading last month because there were thirty thousand nurses that
were on strike. That'll reverse itself. But still, you know,

(09:33):
there just wasn't a lot of broad based hiring. I
still think that we are essentially in let's call it
a low higher low fire environment until further notice, And
so it is going to take you longer to find
a job if you lose one. Another reason you should
have your a nice, big plump emergency reserve fund. And
if you're a young person once you know, we had

(09:55):
a little bit of a reprieve over December January. It
looked like the entry level stuff was loosening up a
little bit. This report did not show that. So I
guess that I'm trying to say, if your kid is
flying on your couch and saying I just can't get
a job, and believe him or her, and if you
are really worried about your own job, I would be

(10:16):
very clear that it is not a good time to
leave a job. It is a good time for you
to just, you know, kind of settle in, do the
best you can hang on to that job you do have,
because I think it's going to be a little rocky here, Jill.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
As always, we appreciate your time keep up with the
great work and we'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Take care. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
That is Jill Slessinger Again, I always appreciate her making
time for us each and every Monday morning. She does
a great job. CBS News Business Analyst Jill on Money.
That's where you can check her out online. Quick time out.
We will get to a traffic and weather update. The forecast.
I'll go ahead and spill the beans. It's going to
beautiful today, Sonny, with some clouds, but hey, sunshine mixed
in throughout seventy four degrees. I believe it's the high.

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We'll get more of those details coming up from Suzanne Horrigan. Also,
we've got a sports update on the other side right
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there's been a lot of discussion and already some impact
in what the world of AI is going to do
to the job market, and Anthropic put together a report

(11:39):
that shows where there is observed AI coverage as far
as industries, meaning that they've already been able to see
that this is this is happening. Right, there's data that
shows you and of course proof that jobs are being
eliminated and AI is taking over. So there's the observed
coverage meaning it's already happening and it's being fel well.

(12:00):
And then there's theoretical coverage, meaning where you've got the
threat and I guess the fear that eventually it's going
to happen, but it hasn't happened just yet. And I
think as far as the securest positions, I would say,
or I guess I should say industries more so than positions,
probably not surprising. And I think the same can be
said for those that are already feeling it those industries,

(12:21):
probably not surprising. So computer in I'm sorry, don't think
back up office and administration that is a that is
a that's that's the that's the industry that has been
felt the hardest stuff to this point, where there's already
from an office admin perspective, a lot of those jobs
have become much more reliant upon AI. Not a shock

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at all. And then by the way, that's the far
that's a far and far ahead the leader. And then
after that you've got computer in math behind but still
a big gap there. And then near computer in math
is business and finance. And then I would say the
fourth would be arts and media and is something a
lot of us have probably already experienced maybe ourselves right

(13:04):
where maybe you're realizing, hey, with the power of AI,
I can become a graphic designer, or I can I
can you know, get rid of certain you know there's
that's that's one that I think you can tell who
you know who's cranking something at AI, and you can
tell somebody who maybe is using it a graphic designer
and whatnot. But I'd say that's probably the most felt
industry that I can think of off the top of

(13:25):
my head. Graphic designers are still going to be worthwhile.
You're going to get a better product as far as
your brand, your consistency, even the storytelling. I mean, there's
a lot that goes into that. Not to sound like
an artsy fartsy nerd, but I mean there's a lot
of artistic to a graphic designer rather than somebody that
just published a logo for you. I mean there's a
lot that goes into it. But now people know they

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can get something in their mind that's close and that's
maybe free or maybe they you know, pay much cheaper
because of AI. So the industries that are the safest
right now, food and service, not at all surprised. They're right,
we don't have any robots any AI delivering food to
us at restaurants. Now, again, I'm sure they're utilizing it
in their own way, but as far as in person dining,

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I don't know how much AI is being used. And
then outside of that, you've got agriculture and then grounds maintenance.
So some of those industries, we can think of many
jobs that tied to it, some of them I'm not
totally sure of. But would you say, John, those are
the when it comes to those that have already been
hit the hardest, not a surprise in those that haven't
really had an impact yet, not surprising either.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, and hopefully they don't come for us, right, we
fit them to the media category that sort of.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Thing, and don't give them any ideas.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, I mean, what.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Are we supposed to say real human here?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
What does it guaranteed human? That's guaranteed human slogan? Right now?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, So again, that'll that'll be something that I certainly
will check in on every now and then, just to
see what industries are being impacted the most, because I'm
sure there's going to be some industries that you're surprised. Oh,
I wouldn't have thought of that. While they really are
able to use AI to do this, and they can
get rid of a bunch of employees. Hood he wants that.

(15:00):
But then there's going to be something you might expect
to be a seamless transition. But then you'll learn, okay,
there was a human element involved here that I didn't
realize how important it was. All right, real quick, before
we get to another check at trafficking and whether I
do want to let you hear the latest as far
as what's going on in Iran. Rachel Hessinger she is
a I'm sorry Hersheimer. She is a White House correspondent

(15:21):
for our partners at WKY. And this is the latest
as far as what's going on there and what President
Trump is pushing for, and that is to make sure
he has say so, and who's the next leader of
that country?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Aron naming a new supreme leader certainly injects more uncertainty
into what will happen next and how long this war
will continue. Much Tabahamanei, Iran's next leader, who was the
son of the Ayah Toola killed, is believed to hold
views even more extreme than his late father. He'll be
in charge of Iran's armed forces and decisions regarding Tehran's

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nuclear program.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Now.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Over the weekend, the US military did not give an
up date on the number of missiles and drones Iran
has fired in recent days. Am for saying the rate
had gone down, but experts say it is possible Iran
is holding back some missiles in reserve. At this point,
there is no end in sight to the war. Over
the weekend, President Trump called for an unconditional surrender by Iran,

(16:18):
but neither side is showing signs of backing down anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
We're what are your war, buddy?

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I maka We've decimated their whole evil empire. It'll continue,
I'm sure for a little while.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
On Sunday, US Central Command announced the death of an
additional US service member who was injured last week in
an Iranian attack in Saudi Arabia, bringing the number of
Americans killed to seven. In Washington, mitchil Hersheimer to be
o ky news.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
So again, we'll keep you updated as best we can.
And I'm sure many of you are paying close attention,
and I'm sure some are keeping up with it, but
not exactly trying to let it consume you. Which that's
that's where I reside, all right. When it comes to
the prices of homes, right now, that's been a big conversation,
right Can you believe what they're asking for this? Can
you believe what the market's dictating? And that has led

(17:07):
to a lot of people being scared to either try
to buy a home or to even put theirs on
the markets, saying that, hey, nobody would buy this. Have
you've seen what he would have praice for. We got
to wait until things settle down. Well, you might look
at it that way and play it safe, or you
could maybe look at it the other way and say,
we may actually have some leverage here because the market
is what it is we can get a lot out

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of our home, and there may not be tons of buyers,
but if you find the right person to help you
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We sell Louisville dot Com. It's Bob Sicoler with the
secolar team, It's simpler dot real Estate. President Trump will
be in the Bluegrass State this week. Wednesday is the
date he is going to make a stop in northern Kentucky,
scheduled to deliver some remarks. It sounds like this is

(18:32):
going to be about Trump RX as well as some
of the recent talking points he's had when it comes
to affordability. But this will be the looks like the
sixth time that it Trump has has has been to
Kentucky since he decided to run for president back in

(18:52):
the twenty sixteen election. And of course, it was a
Louisville rally at the Exposition Center during the twenty sixteen
presidential race that got a lot of attention, not just
locally here but also nationally. If you remember, there were
protesters that were told to be removed by Trump. They
later sued claiming that Trump incited violence, but a federal
court did dismiss that riot claim back in twenty eighteen.

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But again, that was the first trip when he pursued
to be the president. And then he came not long
after that to an NRA convention that took place in Louisville,
took some shots at Hillary Clinton along the way that
was sort of, you know, what everybody expected, probably not
a surprise. And twenty seventeen, after winning and taking over

(19:35):
in the office, he did return to a rally that
was at Freedom Hall, part of a national tour promoting
his policy agenda that included tax cuts, immigration enforcement. And
then in twenty nineteen he came to both Louisville and Lexington.
In Louisville he was an event honoring veterans with permanent
disabilities at the Gold House, and then in Lexington he
came to rupt for support for republic Governor Matt Bevin,

(19:55):
which again I said it earlier when we discussed this,
that seems like so long ago. I mean, it was
seven years ago, so it's not like it was super recent,
but the Bevin era seemed so long ago, and it,
you know, really wasn't. And then also in twenty twenty two,
Trump came to Kentucky for the one hundred and forty
eighth Kentucky Derby. So when the president is in your state,
you're likely going to feel it in some way as

(20:16):
far as coverage, for sure. But I remember trying to
this wasn't even when the president was in my home state.
But I remember realizing sort of what you know, things
you have to do understandably. So when the president is
traveling in the air, and I remember I was in Chicago,
connecting getting a Connecting flight home, and because at the

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time it was Obama who was in office, and he
was in the air, and obviously you have to reduce
the amount of planes that can be in the air whenever,
whenever the president's traveling. And I remember being impacted by that,
thinking like, yeah, I guess I never thought about it,
but you know, it makes sense. So, yeah, trouble be
here on Wednesday, and we'll have all the coverage for you.
Who knows, maybe there'll be a significant update as far

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as what's going on in Iran. Uh by then all right,
let's get to traffic and weather updates. We'll also get
to another sports update coming up here with Scott Fitzgerald.
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