6.2: Can Opener - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky, and it's day two of the I
sixty five shutdown, something that's gonna impact us for the
next two months, and we will all get through it.
We'll all make adjustments. And I don't mean just all
of us that are out here on the roadways, but
everyone involved, including the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, because they are
acknowledging that one of the complaints after day one, they

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believe is a valid complaint that they believe they could
do better at. And that is some of the signage,
not a major issue, but somewhat confusing. I talked a
lot about it yesterday and some this morning that if
you're on sixty five North and you are experiencing this
shutdown for the first time, and you know that you're
gonna be rerouted on the waters, and you're likely just
gonna get in line like you always have right get

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in line, and you're gonna have to wait in a
longer line if you're going sixty five north to go
waters in east. But even when you're going west, there
can be some congestion that slows you down. So that's
just natural for those that drive sixty five every day.
There's nothing that tells you can't keep going straight. But
I do think they could have a it could be
more clear that if you are going sixty five north

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and you are having to go downtown that just stay
drive like it's not shut down, and you're going to
end up where you need to be. And it seemed
like yesterday it was quite clear just from the helicopter
view that many people were just lining up and there
were some major congestion going on that just wasn't needed.
Some of this is just the cost of doing business essentially, right,
some of the issues, But that was one that that

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they feel like they could maybe and again even if
even if they didn't make changes to the signage. I mean,
enough people that drive it daily, they'll figure it out now.
But again, if you've got me, there's one thing that
you have to keep in mind. There's a lot of
people that are drive through every day, drive through here
every day in Louisville, that are never going to come back.
They're just they're just passing through. So the more signage
you have, the better it is for everybody. And I

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think it could have It wasn't totally confusing, it just
could have been a little bit more transparent on sixty
five North that you can keep going and then you
end up on Waterson West. And then also I was
on Waterson eastbound yesterday and the signage I trusted gut,
and I was right, but I wasn't quite sure am
I going to be able to get on sixty five
south here or not? Because they had the big closed signs,

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But it was just because it was telling you couldn't
go north, so not a huge deal. Those were some
of the complaints that folks had in the conversation that
Lky had with folks that were traveling yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I know you're now possibly able to go east on
the waters, but I was confused that maybe you couldn't
get back on the expressway sixty five south, And I
don't know what those people might have been able to do.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Keith Williams said he was confused too. He was coming
back from Shepherdsville tour downtown Monday morning. He wanted to
take I to sixty four West, but said because one
sign was placed further down than the other, it looked.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like it was closed.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
He went east instead, but realized.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
He didn't have to.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
I had to get off on east on the pop
level exit and then get back on get stuck in
that traffic. But once I made it passed, it was
Trafford was kind of was not that bad really once
you got past the airport and everything like that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So again that's Madison Elliott from our partners at WK
why the gentleman there named Keith. His exact scenario is
what I was envisioning some people ending up doing, not
realizing that they have an easier path to go Waterson
West than they realized. So again, trial and er we're
still in that week and we'll continue to monitor it.
But I think overall, if you're somebody like me who

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has a tendency to just prepare for the worst hope
for the best, I think so far pretty smooth, I
will say this morning. On my way in, though I
did I did have my first experience with a semi
in a place that you typically don't see semis, and
that was when I was making my way up to
downtown through second and third Street. And it's it's pretty

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clear that it sticks out like a sore thumb when
you see multiple semi trucks and LK why did a
story and just the broal footage that they had showed
three consecutive eighteen wheelers in Old Louisville, and that just
is not something you see very often, and when you
see it, you realize, oh, yeah, that's going to cause issues.
They take up a lot of space when you're going
light to light. They don't even have the ability to
get up to the speed limit, so's they're just gonna

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slow people down because they're going slow and they're just
in the way, taking up a lot of space. But
for me, I wanted to go around this semi this morning,
just because I wanted to go faster than this truck
was going to be able to go. But I couldn't
because if I got a if I try to go around,
I couldn't pass without potentially hitting one of the park cars.
I didn't see any reports of that, but that is
something that you know is going to happen at some

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point somebody's vehicle that has just parked outside on the road,
because that's how they park in Old Louisville. They're going
to fall victim to just somebody hit them and unfortunately,
probably not even stopping. So we're less than two days in.
This is the beginning of day two, and I do
feel like kind of what I envisioned being a real
talking point throughout the project is already starting to somewhat

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develop into that, meaning that those of us that use
these roads every day that now we can't because it's closed.
We're going to figure it out and we'll adjust. But
if you live where we're all now making these adjustments
and driving through, that's gonna be a pain in the ass,
And not only just because there's gonna be just gonna

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be traffic outside your house a lot, but also like
the noise of the project, Like I don't envy those
that live in Old Louisville that will have a two
month period here that is just much different than anything
than what they've ever experienced as far as people who've
lived there. And if you're gonna choose to live in
Old Louisville, you're not choosing it because of what's going

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on now. In fact, you're choosing it because it's not
a highly trafficked area. As far as just to mean,
to be honest with you, you really Old Louisville is one
of those places that you can use it as like
a cut through in Louisville any day whenever the interstates
aren't shut down, but I feel like it's kind of
one of those places you kind of got to want
to be in, Like you're not typically passing through it
to get somewhere because you're using you know what, the interstate.

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But now it's shut down, so they'll have a lot
more traffic. And I know those who chose to live there,
they didn't have this in mind. But hey, we'll get
through it again. That's all we can do is just
get through it right, all right, stick around traffick and
weather updates are on the way. We'll give you those
details on the beautiful forecast that we have in store
for today. We'll get those from at Melosavich of WLKY.

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I talked a little bit earlier about Donald Trump deciding
to retreat on the plan where he was going to
give nearly one point eight billion dollars to some allies,
including those that I guess he views as his warriors,
the January six ers, and no surprise, when I shared
my thoughts on that, I got some pushback and we'll
let you hear it, and I'm curious to hear your
thoughts as well. What do you think of that? Trump

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at least making it clear that he wants to he
want his priority may be more so those that were
involved in January sixth than maybe you somebody who voted
for him that you know, just wants a cheaper in
a more affordable life here in America. We'll get to
all that and more. Don't go anywhere. It's news RADI
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for hanging with us eight seventeen here on a Twosnesday morning.
All right, So there was a judge, I believe, on
Friday that decided to throw out the Let me just
make sure I've got the details here, because I know
people are going to try to pick apart anything I
say when it comes to Trump. But yeah, there was
a judge that blocked on Friday at one point seven

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seven six billion dollar fund for Trump that was viewed
as something that was going to help his allies, including
those that participated in January sixth. And then also you've
got Democrats push sorry, Republicans pushing back and threatening to
vote with Democrats to kill it. So therefore that led
to Trump retreating on this on Monday. Now, again, that

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could always change in any moment, and what I've talked
about this morning, is that there are a lot of
things that Trump has done. As far as the action
he takes the people that he targets that I think
it's charged from personal feelings more than anything else. I
think Thomas Massey became a marked man for Trump because
not only did he disagree with him on a few

(08:03):
different things, but I think Trump took the Big Beautiful
Bill disagreement as a personal shot at him, and from
that point, as far as Trump's concerned, I think mass
these days were numbered. I also think on the personal
side of things, we're naturally, i think programmed to think, oh,
that's personal. You're taking it like you're taking something personal,

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and it's a negative thing. It's an insult, it's disparaging. Hey,
let's not get personal. But also you could take things
personal and it can be a positive thing. And I
think Trump has always viewed those people that showed up
on January sixth, this is his army, his guys, right,
they mean they chose pro Trump over pro America. And
I think he's had a hard time and I don't

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think he's even trying to be discreed, but it's hard
for it to not be very, very obvious that he
loves those people and he's going to do whatever he
can to help him out. So again, there was a
one point seven billion planned to use your tax money
to pay people who stormed the US Capitol on January sixth,
people who you know, attacked police officers. These people were

(09:09):
convicted in court. People were locked up because they committed
crimes that day, because that's what it is. It's a crime. Now,
not everybody that was in attendance did all the same stuff,
and clearly not everybody that was in attendance has been arrested,
but many people have, and I'd say it's pretty cut
and dry as to why they were actually arrested. Now,
if you want to argue their punishments things like that,

(09:31):
different conversation in my opinion. But Jack, like, nobody did
anything wrong there at all, and this is all an
exaggeration I think is laughable. And we did have somebody
who took exception to me referencing these people as what
they are, criminals.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, I hear you, Nick, but I think you're I
think the framing there is a little off. A lot
of those people weren't violent, they were just they were
there and they got treated like terrorists when some of
them were just I mean, some of them were just
walking around. And yeah, maybe the fund was a bad idea,
but calling them all criminals feels like a stretch to me.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's also it's also a fact. If you are a
criminal and you've been charged with a crime, and you
either plead guilty or you're convicted, you know what you
are by definition, you're criminal. So those that were just
walking around, if they were just walking around and they
weren't up close involved, they were just kind of there,
as you said, walking around. Those people haven't been charged.

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But I do love the well they're just walking around.
If a guy walks into your house through a broken
window while fifteen hundred of his friends are also walking
through that window, are you are you? I mean, what
do you think the Jerry's going to say about you?
I Mean, the walking around argument I think is kind
of silly because again, yeah, there were people there that
were walking around, but the over twelve hundred people that

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were convicted, yeah they didn't all break the windows, but
they then stormed in and some of them did things
that you just clear can't do, and there's visual proof
that they did it. So maybe this is the flip
side of the TDS, right, there's trumped arrangement syndrome that
is not those that just let him consume them at

(11:16):
an unhealthy level. And trust me, that exists in a
big way. I know people that have it where they
just can't live life because it isn't even about politics anymore.
They just hate Donald Trump. And he's pretty good at
really getting those people to continue to hate him. He's
really good at that. But there's the other side of
it too that will never see any thing that this

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guy does wrong. And I think this is one of
the examples for sure that if you don't think that
anybody needed to be held accountable for what they did,
we can agree to disagree, I guess, but it's not
really a stretch. If you're convicted of a crime, which
over twelve hundred people were, you know what, that makes

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you a criminal. You might have been walking around, but
you can't just walk around a place that you're not
supposed to be. All right, trapping weather updates on the way,
We've got another sports update coming your way as well.
Mark Pope got some great news yesterday for his roster.
We can certainly get into that and also Rody O'Neil
gonna stop by here before too long, looking forward to
catching up with him. There's a lot a lot of states.
In fact, I think it's six to seven states today.

(12:18):
They've got voters coming out and maybe one of the
more followed races here is what's going to happen with
the mayor of Los Angeles. A reality TV star has
got a lot of momental. We'll get to that in more.
It's News Radio eight forty whas. Final segment for us,
and then we're gonna hand it off to mister Venetti.
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(12:40):
in mind they've got but you need to stay fueled
for the day ahead, all right. So the artists and
groups that decided to back out of the planned performance
that they had for DC where we celebrate two hundred
and fifty years here in America, there's at least now
an explanation as to how you could see how you

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would get confused. I was confused how you could be
confused initially, but now I think there's at least a
reasonable explanation as to how these groups or musicians, or
maybe their representation is saying, hey, we thought we were
doing this and not that this is different. We're out.
There was a mix up, there was confusion. So America

(13:21):
two fifty was created in twenty sixteen, and this was
a law establishing that the plan for the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is overseen
by a bipartisan group of members of Congress plus private citizens.

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So that's America two fifty created back in twenty sixteen,
ten years ago. Freedom two fifty was something that Trump
put together via executive order creating Task Force two fifty
after his second term, started with Trump as the chair
and Jade Vance as the vice chair. This operates as
a separate nonprofit with closer ties to the administration and

(14:04):
more latitude because it is not under direct Congressional oversight.
So you may not believe it. It may be an easy
excuse for those who realized, uh oh, temperatures not great here.
I didn't realize this was going to be weaponized against me.
And I don't want anybody thinking I'm taking sides politically
because I want the phone to ring. I want to
still get booked at seventy something years old, as I'm

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still trying to, you know, make a living. Some can
use this excuse, and maybe they don't have it legitimately,
but I do think that's at least a reasonable explanation
as to how you could not know what you actually
were supposed to be playing at. You thought America two
fifty was what you signed on for, but in fact
it was Freedom to fifty. Again, that at least it

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makes it makes sense. Now. What I'm curious is how
much money were these artists going to to get paid
to be a part of this, because you know, part
of me yesterday, as we discussed, is if these people
like Young MC and Martina McBride, I mean, I don't
think they'd be on the streets if they weren't still performing.

(15:06):
But like, there's clearly a reason they're still doing shows.
They still need to make a living to maintain a lifestyle.
I don't think they're just doing it for fun. So
there is one side of the coin, which is, hey,
if you take sides politically, that phone may stop ringing
and you need to be mindful of that. And it's
so easy for everybody else to say, oh, you're weak,
stand up for what you believe in if they want to. Yeah,

(15:28):
you can say that until you might actually in your situation,
whatever your job is, if it creates an issue with
you making a living and taking care of your family,
you probably would be hesitant as well to just publicly
join on if it could eventually end up working against you.
And if that's not right, that that would ever happen,
that sucks. But that's where we are. You used to
be able to be a part of these things and
nobody would think that it means you're politically siding one

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way or the other. But we aren't there anymore, and
you got to be mindful of it when it comes
to your livelihood. But if you are somebody like you
know Brett Michaels, and the price for you to perform
here for Trump's party was more than you'd made for
any show in thirty years, like, maybe it would be
worth it. I don't know. That's only that person's opinion.

(16:10):
You know Brett Michael's story better than most. You were
on rock radio when he was creating his legend. Mister Venetti,
what do you think he's getting paid? Look, that's the deal.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Pay the electric bill and the longer you get away
from being in pop culture, than you gotta do what
you gotta do, and some people could take risk. Taylor
Swift took a risk with going out against Trump, but
she was Look, it's the Bob Knight thing. Remember Bob Knight.
As long as he was winning, he was doing the
stuff that they busted him for his entire career. But
when he started losing, that was the deal. When you're

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as big as a Bob Knight or a Taylor Swift,
you could pull that stuff off and still be successful.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Stillially, when you're in your peak, right, you know you
have a little bit more of an ability to do
whatever the hell you want. Yeah, to be honest with you,
and these these these individuals, they really don't. I mean,
I guess they could, but they probably still They're gonna
play it safe, and I think more people would do
that than they realized. People think they're all tough, but
a lot of us don't have a job where if
you were, you can go on Facebook right now and

(17:07):
spew your political nonsense if you want, and it won't
ever impact your job.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Separate the man from the artist, right, So he's a dude,
So that's what he's doing. Or she's doing in her
private life is coming out for or against, and then
you can enjoy the artist. I think the biggest risk
taker was de Niro lately, his last couple of years.
I mean, he goes I think because de Niro knew
him in New York. Like if your buddy that you

(17:32):
always thought was kind of goofy became president, you know,
so you're coming out against him because you're like, no, man,
he's the guy from the old neighborhood, not the president.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
He has a perspective. Oh boy, yeah, don't it never will.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
That's right. So because he is New York, but he's
nobody's come out at against him more than that, And
I think it's fine. He's obviously and.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
There's some that take a risk that don't really realize
what they're doing is a risk. Like when George Clooney
stepped up to say, yeah, I'm not sure Biden should
be not only the president, but like maybe he should
be at a home. I mean I'm paraphrasing here, but
you remember when everybody attacked George Cloudy. He's saying out
loud what everybody knew is that, yeah, Joe Biden don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
What planet he's on right well, and Clooney was smart,
like when he came out against and said, look, if
Trump gets elected, on moving, well he did that, but
then kept quiet. He moved to Italy with his wife
and kids, stayed there for four years right during the
first Trump. And you didn't hear from him. He didn't
pull a Rosi O'Donnell. And by the way, if you
saw his house in Italy, you'd be like, yeah, i'd
stay there too.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
George Clooney's one of those like he just has he's
next level as far as like fame and presence. And
he's from Kentucky and nobody ever talks about that.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
That's right. Him and Heather friends sort of grew up together.
He talks about them kind of playing around. They both
have good jeans. Yeah, he guided his career pretty well.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is he from? Is it Augusta, Kentucky?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
It's northern Kentucky. Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, Well you're up next? Are you right to think?

Speaker 4 (18:56):
So?

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Are you ready? Are you just telling me you're ready
to think?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
So?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think he's ready, folks, He's coming your way. It's
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