(KMN) 10.1: Shutdown - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's seven oh five here on a Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Happy hump day, Toya, thanks for joining us and getting
your day started. It is Coffee and Company, fueled by
Thornton's on News Radio eight forty whas. The government shut down,
of course, is the big story nationally, but here locally JCPS.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yesterday was quite a day.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
For the folks at JCPS because at twelve fifteen, that
is when they were set to provide an update and
discuss the financial nightmare that they have on their hands,
which is one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit.
And I don't remember, I mean, I don't remember seeing
anything specific as far as what was expected other than
to just discuss the situation, take some questions from the

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local media about the situation. And they did that. And
initially it was doctor Brian Yearwood, the first year superintendent,
that discussed the decision that they I guess he had
made about hiring somebody to do an audit and do
it fast. In fact, he said that an outside from
had already been picked. They were going to come in
do the audit and do it quickly. When it comes

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to auditing, I suppose, Oh, how you ended up in
quite a hole like this one hundred and eighty eight
million dollar deficit. But also, what can you do to
get out of it? Now we know that teachers being cut,
their salaries being slashed, that's not an option. That's not
in the plan at least as of right now, which
I think is totally understandable given the fact that you've

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had to really incentivize these teachers to take some of
these jobs that are there. So that was announced yesterday
didn't really give a whole lot of an update. I mean,
it was another, Hey, we we're in a mess here,
let's pay somebody to help us find a way out
of it. I shouldn't mock that, because that's probably not
the worst idea given the situation. But also I think

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throwing money when money is an issue at something is
not not an idea that a lot of taxpayers are
probably happy to hear, because they've thrown money at things
and it's ended up being a big waste at times.
So that was the plan is of yesterday afternoon. But
by last night things had already changed to extent. Nothing
crazy as far as just a complete reversal of a plan,

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but there was a reversal as far as just who's.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Going to be doing the audit?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
So now as of last night, so again it change
from yesterday afternoon. Last night, doctor Eyarwood says they're going
with an RFP route, basically opening it up so multiple
companies can bid on this job. And that led a
lot of people asking is this because of cost, Is
it because of the timing? Is it because of the
scope of the audit that is needed. And nobody got
to ask him that directly because after the board meeting

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last night he ended up heading out, did not talk
to the media, but WDRB did provide some questions to
the school board and got answers from doctor Earwood on
some of these things. And that includes him not knowing
totally what the financial situation was when he took the job.
So one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit he

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did not know about, he says to WDRB. He knew
there was a deficit, but did not know that it
was one hundred and eighty eight million dollars. So this
could be just something that maybe he was being proactive,
went out because of the urgency, because of the timing.
He went out and hired somebody and then found out.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You can't do that.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
You need to open it up for the RFP because
that's just the way we have to do things. So again,
in the grand scheme of things, not a not a
huge deal, but it's just I think a sign of,
if anything, some slight incompetence not having a plan because
your plan initially was set and then it changed the
same day. I can't act like it's some huge deal,

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but optics not great, especially when you consider the current situation.
They're in one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit,
and I mean, I think that's a pretty important detail
about his hiring process, meaning that he was not aware
of one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit. Now

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what he believed what he was May you know, maybe
maybe he was given a number that was just not
the number. Maybe he was told, yeah, we've got a
financial situation on our hands, a big time deficit. But
maybe they didn't give him a specific number. I can't
imagine you wouldn't want to know that when you're taking
on this job that already, I mean, look, who knows
how it's going to play out for doctor Yearwood. I

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think so far I've been Dare I say, rather impressed
with just sort of his visibility and him being very
you know, seemingly transparent. But although we did have a
real bad situation where they were given out rotten milk
to kids and knew about it, and that you know
that can't happen. But nonetheless, I don't know how it's

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going to play out with this guy long term. But
I mean, he could be great, and I'm not sure
if this is a salvageable situation where the the optics
from those that maybe aren't paying close attention but they
just hear the noise of JCPS being in the news
for certain things like this. It's just gonna be hard
for him to win over a lot of people. And

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that may not be his fault and all that. Again,
he may be terrible. I don't know that. You know,
only time will tell, and to be honest, even with time,
I wouldn't be the one that would know, specifically because I.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Don't work with the guy or for the guy.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
But to wrap it up, what a mess, what a
mess JCPS has has on their hands. And I hate
to be such a you know, such a negative nancy,
as they say, but it's the truth. But I also
should reiterate that that doesn't mean that everybody that works
within JCPS, I mean should feel responsible because I think
if you are somebody that's going to work every day

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and you're just tunnel vision worrying about what you do,
meaning educating children, being a good teacher, being a good administrator, whatever,
whatever it may.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Be, good on you. We need you. We need people
like you.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
But overall, at the tip top of this this entity
that is JCPS not a great time right now, all right,
we've got a quick update of trafficking weather on the way.
Also coming up on the other side, we'll give our
first pair of tickets away to the Wine on the River,
the Wine on the Wine and Bourbon festival that we've
got coming up here. It's an aheart event which we're

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excited about. It's going to be October the eleventh of
the Belvidere. But stick around when we get back into
a few minutes, we'll tell you how you can be
the next winner right here on news Radio eight forty
whas we're just a couple of minutes away from your
next update on traffic and weather. Here it is Coffee
and Company Filbeth Thornton's on news Radio eight forty whas
last week we learned that there's a growing trend of

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folks who don't plan on really sharing a life together,
sharing a mortgage together, buying a home with somebody that
again would essentially be a roommate, but of course not
your I think typical roommate situation where you join in
on a lease together.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
So I get it.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
If you really want to buy a home and you
feel like that's the best investment, but you realize financially
on your own, it's just not realistic. I mean, I
can't relate, but I'm not surprised that others are following
that trend.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Also, there are other Americans that are simply giving up
on home ownership. So there's a new survey that suggests
the American dream of owning a home is slipping away
for many. So one in six aspiring first time home
buyers say they're giving up on buying a home all together.
This is a survey from bank Rate, and the key
obstacles here are high home prices, low supply of homes,
high mortgage rates. Now the generational breakdown as far as

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who's currently shopping for a home, You've got nine percent
gen Z seven percent, Millennials, Gen X seven percent, baby
Boomers five percent, So Gen Z looking more than anybody,
but it's not buy a whole lot more than both
millennial and Gen X, and then the baby boomers are
again at five percent. So I totally get it, and

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I'm glad that timing was on our side. Whenever I
became a young adult that realized, you know, our timeline
is probably not not that much different than most. Meaning
my wife and I we had an apartment together and
we were engaged, we got married, the lease was coming up.
We had put ourselves in a position financially where we

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had jobs careers that the next step for us was
buying a home, and it was. It was stressful, but
not for the people are stressful are stressed about it now.
We just couldn't I mean, we couldn't agree. She was
getting she was getting nancy and just was starting to
I think, uh adjust her her and our both of

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our expectations of what we wanted.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now. I don't mean price wise.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
We knew where we were going to be price range,
and we were pretty consistent on that, but we just
couldn't find a house that we really really liked and
really really just could see being our home together where
we have our first child and start a family. And
then as we got a few weeks into it, I
was content on signing another six month least because I
just didn't want to buy a home if I didn't
really like it. That's a pretty big important purchase. And she,

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of course was starting to well you know what that
when we looked at and I'm like, no, we wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
We wouldn't. What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
You would never want to live there? And it wasn't
just me, she was. She was changing the moving the goalpost,
if you will, and I just kept reminding her, I
know you hate this apartment.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I do too.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I want to get out of here, but I'm not
gonna buy a house if I don't love it. So
eventually we were at odds and then finally we looked
at a house we both loved. It offered that day
and they accepted that day. So worked out well for us.
So my stress was just about are we going to
find something we like? Now the stress of people trying
to buy their first home, it's much different, and I'm

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lucky that again Tomming was on my side as far
as me in that part of my life. All right,
let' get to a qui update of traffick in weather,
shall we. We'll hear from Matt Melosovich, we'll see what
the forecast is looking like the rest of the week,
and of course today we'll see what traffic looks like
with Bobby Ellis and another sports update's coming your way
right here on news Radio eight forty whas. All right,

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at seven thirty six here on a Wednesday morning, it
is Coffee and Company Filbeth Thornton's News Radio eight forty whas.
We've got another pair of tickets to give away wine
on the River. It is our Wine and Bourbon Festival
October the eleventh, so next weekend on the Belvidere from
two to six pm. And what we're doing is we're
going to have some Louisville trivia in order to determine
who is the winner. We've got Jamison and Kevin, so

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I'm gonna give each of you four four questions and
there'll be multiple choice. This is Louisville Trivia the city
of Louisville, and whoever ends up with the most after
four rounds will be the winner. And if we have
a tie, we'll determine a tiebreaker in some way. I'm
kind of running with this on the fly here, so
hopefully there's a winner. We don't have to go to
a tiebreaker, but if so, we'll get it figured out.
So I'm gonna start with Jamis and Jamison You with me? Yeah? Man?

Speaker 1 (10:22):
All right.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
So the nineteen seventy five Ali versus Webner fight in
Cleveland famously inspired what Hollywood film Raging Bull Rocky million Dollar.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Baby, The Fighter for the auctions again, Rocky.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Raging Bull, million Dollar Baby, the Fighter, Raging Bull. Incorrect,
It was, it is, it is Rocky all right. So
we're gonna go down to Kevin. Kevin, you with me?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yes? I am all right?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
So what made the Louisville Garden a nationally known venue
in the mid twentieth century? The first arena in the
South with air conditioning, prominent professional wrestling hosting, Elvis Presley's
first televised concert, or the largest indoor boxing venue in
the US.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Largest indoor boxing, largest indoor boxing incorrect?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
It is the prominent stops in professional wrestling during the
fifties all the way up to the seventies.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
So it's okay.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
One round in no points for either, but we've got
many more opportunities. All right, we're going to go back
to Jamison. Now, which major fast food chain tested its
very first drive through concept in Louisville in nineteen eighty two?
Was it Burger King, Long John, Silver's, Arby's or Dairy Queen.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Again?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
First fast food chain tested it in the test of
the drive through concept here in Louislle in nineteen eighty two.
Burger King, You said Arby's, Okay, That is incorrect. It
was Long John sil It's okay. Now we're going to
go to Kevin for round two. I may have made
these a little bit more difficult than I should have,
but it's okay. Will get a winner here one way
or the other. The Louisville Fairgrounds Coliseum later known as

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Freedom Hall, hosted the first indoor game in which sport
in nineteen fifty six. Is it box lacrosse, college basketball
in the domed arena, indoor track cycling or professional indoor
soccer again? Nineteen fifty six to the first the first
indoor game.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Of this indoor soccer and correct.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
And this is a little bit of a tricky one
because it's college basketball. But in inn eight, and I
guess in arena like that, So I feel bad about
that one.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
But anyways, we'll move on. We'll keeping it rolling here.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now we're going to go back to looks as if
we are now back to Jamison, Jamison, you ready, we've.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Got this here.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
The Louisville Gardens hosted what historic first in nineteen sixty seven,
Muhammad Ali's last and only five in Louisville, The Door's
Only Louisville concert, Elvis Presley's first Louisville concert or NCAA
Regional for the first time.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Here at Louisville in CAA regional.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
It is the Door's only concert in Louisville. I feel terrible, alright, alright,
so now we go. It's Kevin's turn. Correct, Yes, we're
going back, so Kevin. The Louisville Cardinals football team made
its first ever BCS Bowl appearance in two thousand and seven.
What bowl game was?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
It?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Was? It the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Orange
Bowl of the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, that is one
of them, but it was not their first. That was
their second. The first one was the Orange Bowl. All right,
last round here, we've got this. We're gonna get a
winner here, Jamison's up and I'm feeling I'm feeling the confidence.
So what Louisville TV station made history in nineteen forty

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nine by broadcasting the first ever televised Kentucky Derby? Was
it WLKY thirty two, WHS eleven, A DRB forty one
or Way three? First televised Derby in nineteen forty nine? Wade?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
It is WHAS eleven? All right?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
So, and this one may be the most difficult question here.
The first ever female jockey to ride in the Kentucky
Derby was in nineteen seventy was from Louisville.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who was she?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Was it Diane Crump, Julie Crone, Donna Barton or Penny Chennery? Again,
the options are Penny Chennery, Julie Crone, Diane Crump, or
Donna Barton.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Those are the four names.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Which one was the first female jockey to ride in
the Derby in nineteen seventy Donna Barton? It was Diane Crump.
So not a great showing. But I'll tell you what.
Here's where the magic comes in. I didn't give away
any tickets yesterday, so you both are gonna win tickets today.
Say thank you both Jamison and Kevin for participating. I

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now noticed scale back the difficulty of these questions. But
stick around and get your give your information to to
John and you'll be contacted when you can pick them up.
So congratulations. And I will admit now that I'm looking
at uh, at all of these, all of these questions here,
I would have gotten probably three of them right, but
the others it's really just I guess guessing and you

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know that, uh that tends to happen. So again, congratulations
to you guys for winning. And uh you know we
uh will well, we're I like doing trivia, and I
will admit and I'll give you this is this is something.
I'll give you a little bit of a peek behind
the curtain here because when I was putting these questions together,
there were some that I felt like, we're way too
easy to where almost anybody would have known. But then again,

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maybe I'm wrong. Again this the Louis let me get
Let me give you the first questions I got where
I said, look, I need more difficult ones. Let's work
on something. Let's try to find something a little more challenging.
Louisvell is the largest city in Kentucky. By population, what
major sporting event is held there annually on the first
Saturday in May. Everybody in the planet seemingly would know that.
So also which Louisville is often associated with, which which

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famous athlete, and then it gives many athletes, and of
course you know that the answer is Muhammad Ali. So
I got to find a good balance because some of
the other some of the ones that came in, you
really And that's I think sometimes trivia just having it
be no knowing that you're going to just gonna have
to guess. I mean, I think that's what kind of
makes trivia fun in a certain because I'm sure many

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have participated in trivia. Maybe you are somebody that goes
to trivia knights at certain restaurants and sometimes you realize, hey,
they're asking questions and you are the expert in that
specific lane. Or sometimes they ask questions and you get
it right because you you were allied on a partner,
or maybe you just guessed. But here are some other
ones that I probably should have included. This is Louisville

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has a long standing rivalry with the University of Kentucky.
What is the name of the annual Men's and the
men's What is the name of the annual men's football
game that the two compete in, and it's the Battle
of the Governor's Companies the correct Like again, these are
ones that are too easy. I gotta find a balance
because the ones that we use were probably a little
more difficult. Uh. And I'm curious, maybe this is a
good chance for folks to use the talkback feature, which

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is presented by Alex R. White so distracted Driver dot com,
because I'm curious, did you listen to that and think
to yourself, Man, how could these guys not know this?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I know this?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Or were you playing along and realized you would have
been wrong just as much as they were. I'm curious
let us know because I do like the thought. I
do like giving away free stuff, and I think trivia
is going to be a cool way to do that. So, uh,
you know, I'll work on getting better questions, because yeah,
not ideal to have a trivia contest.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Did not anybody get any any winners though?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Here? Yeah that's right, it's yeah, you still won, So
I'm sure you won't be thinking the rest of the
day about getting them wrong. You'll be thinking, Hey, I
participated and I won that won't always be the case,
so today was just your day, So thanks to both
those who participated, certainly appreciate you. Congrats to Jamison and Vin.
We've got trafficking weather updates on the way, also with
sports update coming your way right here on news Radio
eight forty whas