6.17: For The Win H1

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Speaker 4 (01:29):
Let's Texas. We did have an issue this morning. Early
this morning on sixty five North it was shut down,
and I noticed as soon as I was getting onto
Preston Highway to start my adventure here to our studios
at four Street Live. There was no joke, probably three
to four times more vehicles on Preston and honestly, it
wasn't like there was traffic. It's just usually there's nobody

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out at you know, three forty five four o'clock in
the morning. And mister Fitzgerald alerted me as soon as
I got here that there was a reason for that,
because I'm sure these people were getting off of sixty
five getting onto p and hwhway. It does look like
that's been cleared up though, right.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yes it does. Yeah, it's all open.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Got the lens alert from Metro Safe said it's all open, reopen,
ready to go. I woke up this morning and it
was already in my text, so evidently this happened. I
think a little bit after midnight and so they just
now opened it up, so it was pretty significant cracks.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Okay, yeah, I'm looking here and there is no doubt
you can. They still have a traffic cambu here that
shows and yeah, man, it must have been. I mean,
it's crazy to say that midnight close to one am
is when it looked like it happened, and it is
wild to think that really wasn't that long ago. I mean,
we do get up pretty early around here, but I
guess that's going to happen. I guess it's better for

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it to happen then than to happen, you know, at
seven am whenever. Everybody in this city is seemingly out
trying to get where it is that they need to go.
So we'll keep you updated on traffic. Bobby Ellis. In fact,
I'm lying to you. Bobby Ellis is not here this week.
I believe he's on vacation. But we'll still get you covered.
Your next traffic update is coming up here in just
a moment, and what I want to get to coming
up in about five minutes. I'll just be frank with

(02:59):
you if I'm I really don't have a clue. If
we won the war with Iran or not. I do
know that Trump is. I was thinking earlier, well, he
better he better hold up on the victory lab because
all we kept hearing about was, Look, the objective here
is to eliminate the nuclear threat from Iran, and that's
really what's most important. He's not worried about midterms. He

(03:19):
doesn't care about the affordability issues. Not because he's insensitive
and not because he's not focused. But he's just got
so much attention on eliminating the nuclear threat. So without
any proof of that, I'm thinking, let's pump the brakes
and not start warming up just yet for the victory lap.
But he's already taken many victory laps. And what I
don't know is what's actually true. I mean, we have

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a page and a half document that he claims that
he will read aloud to us because he wants the
media to get it right. He thinks that the media
is portraying this deal with Iran unfairly to him. And
if that's the case, I'd love to hear evidence that
people got it wrong. But I'm also willing to be
transparent with you and say it's right now. With this

(04:05):
specific situation, it's the ultimate reminder is that it is
so tough to truly know what is true and what
is not. I mean, it's also a weird, a weird
scenario where there's there's information out there that that you
can find that that people aren't disputing. Now there's other
information that is being disputed, but there's certain information that

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really there's not a lot of this and that it's
it's what it is, but it's just how people are
presenting it, right, like, well this here's what it is,
but let me tell you why it's good. Well this
is what it is, but let me tell you it's bad.
So again, we'll get the latest on that coming up here.
On the other side, we'll give you a update coming
from the White Houses. Trump talked yesterday just about how
he thinks that this is being portrayed unfairly to him

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and its administration and that we won and Iran will
never have a nuclear weapon again. And as you could expect,
some Democrats pushing back Democrat leadership, I should say, but
also you in Republicans are are questioning the transparency here.
So we'll give you the latest on that coming up
here in just a few minutes. And also we want
to hear for you this morning. Don't forget you've got

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Maybe I don't need to keep reminding people of that
because you are. I'm well aware you can utilize that
that line of communication to insult me. And again, you

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will get a press conference today from President Trump a
little bit later this morning, and then of course Friday
is the day that we're expected to get I guess

(05:49):
everything finalized pen to paper, as they say when it
comes to this deal with Iran, and I don't think
there's been a ton of confusion as far as just
what is included. As what we know right now, right,
I think it's a page and a half and uh,
it was pretty clear even as of Sunday night, as
far as just what we're looking at here, But it's
it's really how you choose to see it, is just

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how you want to see it, because you can find
whatever you want. I say it all the time. We
live in a world now where whatever you want to believe,
you can find something that'll make you feel like you're
you're you're on the right side and what you believe
is the actual truth and anybody that sees it differently
is wrong. And if you want to live that way,
knock yourself out. But I'm somebody that doesn't necessarily like
I don't have a like this isn't like I'm tuning

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in for a game with a team I'm pulling for.
And I'm sure there's many out there just like me.
But obviously right now, there's so many that just want
to be able to say, hey, Trump got it right,
and this was all justified at anybody hate and it's
just they got they got derangement syndrome.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
And then there's the others that really, we could be,
we could be.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
In a one billion times better situation thus far in
the second term for Trump. But I'm not saying that
we are. But if we were, there would be people
upset because that would mean that he was doing something right.
That's just unfortunately how some are wired. But here's the
latest as far as what Trump had to say yesterday,
and again some pushback from both Democrats and Republicans as

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far as just this arrangement and the transparency. This is
Tina Kraus from the White House.

Speaker 7 (07:24):
President Trump posing for a picture with world leaders at
the G seven summit as he sells the US Iran
agreement as a positive step forward.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
The run will never.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Have any caleer weapon, and it says it loud and clear,
and I going to develop it.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Then I can to buy it, and.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Then I can do anything with it.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
The text of the deal to end the war with
Iran has not been made public, with an in person
signing scheduled for Friday in Switzerland. That's drawing criticism from
Democratic lawmakers.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
He needs to stop keeping America in the dark after
more than one hundred days of bloodshed. I just have
one He's a question, which is, if this deal is so.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Good, why can't the public see it?

Speaker 7 (08:06):
Even some Republicans are reserving judgment.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I think we'd all like to see the terms of
memorandum and hopefully end up with a real deal.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
President Trump is directing his critiques at Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel struck bea route targeting Iran backed
Hesbala fighters just as the agreement was finalized.

Speaker 9 (08:25):
Issuals Fightingzbrala too long and too many people are being killed,
and you don't have to knock down an apartment house
every time.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
You're looking for somebody.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
Netting Yaho is vowing to keep forces in southern Lebanon
as long as needed and.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Saying the struggle has not ended.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
Iran says their presence violates the US Iran deal to
end the war. Tina Kraus, CBS News, London.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
So we'll talk a little more about that with Roy O'Neil,
who's going to join us, coming up at about five
forty five this morning. House Bill two o eight was
passed in March of last year, and this required Kentucky
districts to adopt policies to keep cell phones out of classroom. However,
there was not a single statewide standard that was set
for that. They allowed these school districts to figure out

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really how they wanted to do it and when JCPS
did is they let each school choose how to implement
the law. And there are some schools that have gone
with a plan that is really working, but there's many
more that have gone with a plan that is not
really making much of a difference. And the one school
that is looking as if they got it right is

(09:37):
PRP High School. And when you look at the data
as far as the amount of referrals, and I'll just
give you some of these numbers really quick here the overall,
so can we look at the number overall? It doesn't
really seem like this cell phone band has made much
of a difference as far as just kids having a
better and more productive day at school because they're not

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distracted by their cell phones.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
But numbers, again, they don't lie.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
More than thirty thousand referrals and over twenty three hundred
suspensions in JCPS in year one tells you the law
itself didn't really didn't really fix anything. But again PRP
High School they seem to have gotten it right. And
I think if you really give it some thought, prior
to putting your plan as a school in place, you
should have known any scenario where the kids can still

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actually physically have access to their phone. Then it's not
really going to make much of a difference. It's going
to be kind of tough to enforce. And here's what
PRP did. So there are these pouches I think they
are where you lock your phones essentially in it. So
again PRP went with that, So students lock their phones

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but keep them on them on their person. And this
is a progressive discipline policy where repeated violations eventually lead
to you being suspended. By the six offense, a student
can be actually suspended. So that's at least working to
an extent. So if PRP these students caught with phones,

(11:09):
they got to lock them in a box until the
end of the day, if in fact they get caught,
you know, being on them when they're not when they're
not supposed to be. So to me going in, this
would have been obvious. Any plan that is kind of
lightly followed would would be really tough to I mean what,
I think it's tough to enforce because if there's if
there's a chance for you to get out your phone

(11:29):
during class breaks, I mean, or even during I just
think it's either all or nothing. And I will say
that is a parent because I'm sure, plenty of parents
even deep down, if they know that cell phones in
school are probably not helping their kid when it comes
to obtaining the education that they need. That's why they're there.
I think parents would have that fear that they don't

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have a direct line at all times to their child,
even when they are in school, and if they if
you call them and they didn't answer, you would likely
know that it's because they can't they're in school. But
if you just know that if you needed to get
to your kid and that line of communication wasn't there
because the phones locked away or it's turned off, you
would live with the fear.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
And look, you don't you don't know what you don't know.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
What I mean by that is think about what life
was like in like the eighties and nineties. It was
a hey, almost see you when I see you. There's
no chance of us connecting via anything else other than
a landline, and a lot of people had jobs that
didn't include a direct line at an office or an extension.
So it was again, I almost see you when I
see you, and I'm just gonna hope that the next

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time I plan on seeing you when I expect for
us to be in front of each other that nothing
went wrong and you're there. But now, if you're a parent,
you've got a kid in high school, you've probably had
direct access to your kid for a long long time.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
So, like anything, we evolve.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
And my kids don't have cell phones yet and I
don't really have a plan on when they're going to
have them. But as a paranoid person in general, if
I just knew that if I needed to reach them
or they needed to reach me and they didn't have
the ability to get out a phone and do it,
it would make me uneasy.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
It. Well, you know, it's interesting you bring that up, Nick,
because you were saying everything I was thinking, Well, you
were talking about that, and I, you know, I was
on both ends of the spectrum. Cell Phones were just
coming into play when my daughter was in school and
then with my son. And to your point, it's easy
for some folks to say, well, we never had cell phones.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
We just had to go to school and we just
had to deal with it. And the school personnel can.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Take all and the snow boat negative thirty degrees differently
back then exactly.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
And the problem is the genie has been let out
of the bottle. Now that's the problem. You can't put
it back in. So when parents are used to getting
a hold of their children, and I can say this,
I mean I went.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Through the same thing.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
I My son wasn't supposed to use his cell phone
in school either, but it was nice to have that
pipeline to them. So I appreciate what you're saying. I
also appreciate the fact that we didn't have them, But
then again it was a different day and age, yep.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
So treating it as during instruction only with gray areas
is at lunch in hallways between classes. I mean, I
think that guts the whole point of breaking the addiction,
because that experience on a phone between classes absolutely will
impact how you get to your next class and get
things started, because you're gonna be basically cramming, Like instead

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of cramming for a test, you're just trying to I
got to catch up. I've been away from my phone
for a whole class period. I gotta I gotta just
get in what I can during this break. And again
data tells you that that really is not making that
much of a difference. But on the other hand, when
it comes to PRP, you know, they went from having
the I think they were confiscating. It looks like around

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I mean, this is crazy, but they went. They've gone
from confiscating around fifty phones a day to now being
close to just above double digits.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
So again shocker.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
When you take the phone away, kids start checking out
books again. Internal test numbers and failure rates move in
the right direction. So if there's a model that's getting
it right thus far, I say it be PRP High School.
But most of the other schools did not not really
see a whole lot of a difference, and there wasn't
much of an impact made. And I'm here to tell
you that, all things considered, I'm really not that surprised.

(15:10):
All Right, we got Rory O'Neil coming up here on
the other side. He'll tell us the latest as far
as gas prices. I don't want to jinx it, knock
on wood, but we're in a much better position than
we were for a good chunk of this war, and
hopefully as we look to be coming out on the
other end of that, things get even better. But Rory's
got the latest there and he'll have it for us

(15:31):
right here.

Speaker 10 (15:32):
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Speaker 5 (15:39):
I am Nick Coffee, and I have Rory O'Neil who
was with me. Rory.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
I don't want to speak too soon here, I don't
want to jinx it. But gas prices at least for me,
gotten much better. Still not where I want it to be,
of course, but big improvement of the last few weeks.
That's certainly something that I'm sure many Americans are happy
to see, if in fact that's what's happening where they are.
But you got to think that with this, with Iran
looking like it's coming to an end, things are likely

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going to get even better. What I don't know is
how long that's going to.

Speaker 9 (16:05):
Take, ah now to see. That's the big number that
we're all not so sure about.

Speaker 11 (16:09):
Right.

Speaker 9 (16:10):
I'm looking at Kentucky gas Buddy says, three sixty three
a gallon is your average in the state of Kentucky,
three seventy one. Here in Florida, three point ninety nine
is the national average. So we are below that four
dollars mark.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
And we are seeing actually some ships already making the
move through the Strait of Horror moves three vessels, two
Iranian flagged, one sort of iron affiliated with about five
million barrels of total oil getting through the strait, so
certainly encouraging, but you know the problem.

Speaker 9 (16:42):
One of the issues is we are so tapped out.
All the tanks are empty, so a lot of the
first oil that comes in is really just going to
go right back into storage to get the supplies back up.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
So when you hear pushback that will wait a second,
this because Trump has said that when this is over,
thin are going to get much better when it comes
to gas prices right away, anybody that I guess it
depends on what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait he said
oil prices.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
Okay, gotcha right way right, you know, because then there's
a difference between oil and the refined gasoline products, and
a lot of that is where the ketchup is going
to be.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
There's a big process.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's a good clarification.

Speaker 9 (17:22):
Yeah, a good refiner in India that does a lot
of the work for a third of the world, and
you know just getting that back online is going to
take some time. So yeah, no, there is a difference
when we say oil and gas.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
You may have just answered the question, but when when
you hear of those, and I guess it depends on
who we're hearing from. As far as disputing the timing
of how things are going to get better, it's not
to say that it's not going to get better. It's
more so that, hey, this isn't just going to be
a snap your fingers overnight kind of thing, right.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Right, And you know when we talk about it, even
where even when I correct you, I'm using lazy language
in that.

Speaker 9 (17:53):
Uh, there's a whole range of oils.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
It ain't all one thing.

Speaker 9 (17:57):
So when you look at all the different products that
come from refined oil, what kind of oil is at heavy?
Is it light, brent, crewed, WTI? I mean all these
different factors come into play. Is it used to make
jet fuel? Is it better used for diesel? Is it
used for fertilizers? So you have to make all these
kind of accommodations when you're talking about where that oil

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is going to go and what we'll be freed up
once we see more shipping traffic.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Rory o'neils our guest. He joins us here at news
Radio eight forty whas does America need more religion? Many
Americans were asked in a new national poll what were
the results here. When it comes to this question, Ury.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
Yeah, I think Americans, according to this Gallup survey, have
long felt that more religion would be a good thing,
but that number is falling.

Speaker 9 (18:43):
So sixty five percent of us say it would be
positive for society if more Americans were religious. It used
to be seventy five percent the last time Gallup asked
this question way back in twenty thirteen. So we are
seeing maybe more Americans are stepping away from But it's
an interesting thing to track about how we feel about
the role of religion and whether or not there should

(19:06):
be more moral authority coming from the government in the future.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Rory is always appreciate the time, my friend. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. And I know you're going to be
out next week so we'll miss you. But I have
to know any any big plans for your for your
for your downtime.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
It's literally like, oh.

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Going to the doctor, getting a dentists appointment, and new
tires in the car. One of those things is that.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Doesn't sound fun at all.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
No, I know, I'm still working at a lot of
world copies.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Probably Okay, there we go. Well, Rory, we'll talk to
you tomorrow. My friend is always appreciate the time.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
Talk to you.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
That tech Nick, He is Rory O'Neil, and again he
joins the each every morning here at news Radio eight
forty wha. Sorry, we got sports coming your way.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Next.

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