(KMN) 10.2: Deficit - Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Nah, Welcome into a Thursday edition of Coffee and Company.
Fieldbouth Thornton's here on News radio eight forty w h
A S. It's Kentucky and this morning news. And that's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you the news,
and I'll guess I'll start with news that is gonna
continue to be probably the lead story unless something very
substantial happens to uh, to steal the spotlight. But day
two of the government shutdown is is is underway, And

(00:26):
as far as a realistic timeline, I mean, I'm sure
if you looked hard enough, if you could find something
on the internet that might make you feel as if
it was accurate.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
But I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm gonna roll with hey until they tell me it's over.
I'm just gonna, you know, let them handle it, let them.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Figure it out. But that's the issue.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Doesn't seem as if there's a whole lot of working
together to to figure to figure things out. So uh,
I'm sure there are many people who when they when
they think of this and it's out of sight, out
of mind, Okay, do that impact me? I'm gonna go
about my everyday life and then you realize, oh, I've
got a flight this weekend, I'm traveling fall brakes coming up?
How could that impact my travel with the airport? And uh,

(01:04):
it sounds like as of yesterday there were really no issues. Uh,
many airports across the country, including our airport here Louisville's
Muhammad Ali International Airport, adjusting to this shutdown. So workers yesterday,
TSA FAA workers are working and there's there's no pay
unfortunately until this is resolved. But they were warning travelers

(01:26):
TSA is that nationwide there could be longer wait times
as the shutdown continues because both TSA screeners and air
traffic controllers are classified as essential employees, meaning they're going
to be there continuing to work during the shutdown. However,
there are other there are other positions that technically, I
guess assist the process, but they are not necessarily They're

(01:47):
going to be furlough, They're not working, and that could
slow things down. And nobody wants to be slowed down
at the airport. Right could already happen when there's full staff,
no government shut down, nothing, But yeah, this is uh,
this is not ideal for those that are impact by
But you know, here's the hope, and they can get
them figured out well.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
According to Reuter's they said that this week marks the
largest single year exodus of federal US employees in almost
eighty years.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Not surprising, right, A lot of jobs cut and there's
more job loss expected moving forward. And again that's that's
not surprising just when you consider the climate of things
recently and as far as a lot of the alleged
overspending going on in this country, I think there's clearly
been some legitimacy to it. But it's something that Trump

(02:30):
administration has has emphasized, among many other things, and they've
taken action and gotten rid of a lot of jobs
that they deem not not essential as far as using
government funds to have them.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's been a very interesting juxtaposition with opinions on this
whole story, Nick, And that is the fact that people
who work in civil service, some.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
People do this, that's their goal in life.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
They live to work in civil service, whatever that job
might be, and they're very proud of that work, as
they should be. And then there's the other side of
the coin where you just mentioned that people say that
the government spends too much money, there's too much oversight,
there's too much, too many employees. So it's interesting watching
the two sides sort of get through this together. And
as you said, the mass exodus that is happening now

(03:14):
and there will be more. I for one, looked at
a government job coming out of the military, thinking, Wow,
that'd be cool because I'll be set. You know, usually
government jobs you're set for a while, you're set for life.
They're pretty stable. You don't make as much money as
the private sector. A bit, you're set, and now I'm
kind of glad I'm working in the private.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's probably pretty common, I say, for those coming out
of the service to seek employment that is a government
type type of gig. It makes it makes total sense,
and it's probably one of those things that if it's
what you do, especially coming out of the service, it's
it's it's kind of all you you know, right, you
have to have a job that is in some way
being a public service, so it's safe.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
You see it as being a safe job. You know,
I've worked both. I've worked in the private sector. I've worked
for startup businesses.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Startup businesses. I made more money, but it's risky, high risk,
y reward. You said safe.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'll tell you what I remember as a kid, not
knowing really what what it meant, whenever there was some
level of of got a government job, works for the state,
works for you know. I remember hearing of parents, friends
of mine's parents that had a government job or they
worked for the state, and it wasn't positioned nonchalantly like, oh,

(04:22):
they're making the big bucks. But now I realized the
emphasis on mentioning and referencing that they work for the
government or the state, whatever it may be, is because
of the safety of it. Oh they're set ye, that's right,
not with you know, millions of dollars to live, you know, happy,
happily ever after when they retire. But it's it's safe,
it's said, because again it's government funded. And now you're
in a position that, you know, I'm sure when we've

(04:44):
had these these shutdowns here and there, which, by the way,
we'll get a look at I guess previous instances when
this has happened.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
We do know.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
The last time it happened, of course, was twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, between you know, the in the December, very
beginning of January. But there's been other times as well.
And if it's just a couple of days, you really
I mean, if you honestly, if you don't go without
a paycheck, you don't notice, right, But if it gets
you know, but because if it gets resolved within the
two weeks of your pay period, you really don't notice
it when it comes to that. But as soon as

(05:12):
payday hits and there's no hit in the bank account,
that's when you probably start to think, Okay, can they
get this thing figured out?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yes, But it's like when the private sector goes on strike, yep,
and you just don't know when it's gonna end.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's rough.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's right to these folks.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
All Right, let's get this so let's get this morning started,
shall we. We've got a lot to get into. It
is a Thursday. My friend Scott Fitzgerial once told me
that Thursday is the new Friday, and ever since he
said it, I've just I've believed it. We're going to
speak it into existence. So we've got trafficking weather updates
on the way and a lot more stick with us.
It is coffee and Company fuelbouth Thornton's right here on
News Radio eight forty whas so far, so good on

(05:48):
the roadways this morning, at least stuff I can sell here.
There is a disabled vehicle on I sixty four east
as you approach Hurstburn Parkway, but that's just got the
right lane, I'm sorry, the right shoulder block. No lanes
block just yet, and no real delays from what I
can tell. So we'll keep you updated throughout the morning
and let you know how the roadways are looking. Yesterday
was a wild day on the roadways.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I was. I was out on the Snyder, near.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Where you where you can get on sixty four going
east or west and right or around. I think it
was might have been just past maybe the Blanken Baker
Parkway exit, so near the Snyder where I was, but
I could see what looked to be a pretty serious
fire not far away as I'm headed west on Snyder.

(06:34):
And then sure enough I pop up in social media
latter and see the pictures of a semi truck that
was completely up in flames. A real wild visual, and
it does sound like everyone involved was okay, But man,
just the visual of a of a first. The biggest
vehicles we have on our roadways are, in fact, the
eighteen wheelers, and for one to just be completely engulfed

(06:56):
in flames was wild to see. And then also, this
wasn't something on the roadways, but I'm sure it was
probably something that was visible if you were out and about.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
In this area.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
But there was an explosion yesterday that I believe ended
up starting some small fires near where the explosion took place,
and thankfully no injuries reported at all. Yeah, it was
an explosion in a Louisville, a Louisville chemical plant, and
that it was in rubber Town, and it was the
PRP fired Fire Department that showed up to assess the situation.

(07:30):
But yeah, it was a company called Carbide Industries, and
that is in rubber Town. They received report of an
explosion around eleven twenty eight am, and they observed quickly
that there was heavy smoke roughly two minutes from when
the call was made, and says here that flames were
potentially Yeah, potentially there was a chemical called calcium carbide.

(07:54):
Won't pretend to know what that is, but it's a
chemical used to create flammable gas. And that sounds really
dangerous and it was a dangerous situation. But thankfully, and
certainly thankfully thanks to those that responded quickly. No one
was injured in what looks to be again, you know,
it's one of those things where if you hear the details,
you see the visual. I would assume that that it

(08:15):
would be a miracle if there was no one injured.
But it sounds like everybody that was near an at
that at that plant was able to get out before
it got bad. But yeah, as of yesterday afternoon, there
were still some small fires burning in that area as
they worked to put them out. So this is this
is not the first time something has happened at carbide Industry.

(08:38):
So in March of twenty eleven, there was an explosion
that killed two workers and injured two others. According to
a case study from that incident, the explosion occurred when
an electric when an electric area furnace over pressured and
emitted powder, debris, hot gases, and molten calcium carbide.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So I won't pretend to.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Know what those things combined together can do as far
as damage, but it's seemingly pretty bad. So yeah, scary
situation and you never want this to happen at any point.
But of course, when you have these types of accidents
take place more on more than one occasion at one
specific plan. Never a good look, to say the least.
All right, we've got trafficking weather updates on the way.

(09:20):
We'll get a look at the forecast from WLKY. Morose
will tell us how we're looking. I'm hoping that fall
weather's on the way. I don't know if it is
or not, but I'm hopeful that it is. We'll find
out here soon again, keep it locked right here. It
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all these questions that were put together, some of them
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(14:42):
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of NBC News.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Rory.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Day two of the government shutdown is underway. Who can
you tell us is maybe feeling the effects of this
more than others right out of the gate here.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
Oh boy, I'd say the reporters who have to work
in more, well, they're the one feeling it because you know,
look for most Americans, as we said yesterday, life goes
on the mail got delivered, the check.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Got depositive from Social Security, the Medicare, the Medicaid, the VA,
all of them operating as usual. We really haven't started
to feel the effects of this for the most part. Now,
if you are a government worker, you might disagree with me.
If you are now having to go to work and
you're not getting paid to be on the job. That
would be someone like a TSA screener or an air

(15:30):
traffic controller. Yes, ultimately they'll get paid in the back
pay and they'll get made good.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
But look, a lot of people, a lot of Americans.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
You'll go paycheck to paycheck, and if this drags out,
there could be some real pain.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I think if you just try to put yourself in
the shoes of someone who is still just getting up
daily routine going to work. And no, not many are
paid daily, right, it's usually a biweekly thing. I think
if you get to the two week point where the
paycheck was supposed to hit, and of course you know
that it's not, but then you realize, hey, I just
worked two weeks and in the moment here I have

(16:05):
nothing to show for it. I think, I mean the
impact there as far as morale, I mean, it's one
of those things that I feel like you can know
going in what you're dealing with, but then once you
get there and that check's not there, I think that's
when it really starts to seem real to you.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Well, right, and the last shutdown went on for thirty
five days. You know, that's a month's pay, So I
mean that's a lot to sort of float essentially, you know.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
And then how many.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Federal workers now on furlough are like, oh, you know what,
maybe we better not go out Friday night because I
don't know how long this is going to last, and
maybe we shouldn't buy this and buy that. And you
know they're going to pull back on their spending until
things are secured. So yeah, there's a lot of that
confusion out there. And again this hasn't hit most people yet,
but you know, if you do have an issue and

(16:52):
you need to contact Social Security, or if you need
to hurry up and get that passport approved and get
back to you, or you know, so many different little
things are going to start to crop up.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
No doubt, and there's things resources you just depend on
to just be there whenever you need them, and you
never really know when you need them, But this is
the kind of thing that can happen to whenever you
do need them. They're not going to be available until
they get this thing, to get this thing figured out.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
But Royan Neils our guest doing us here, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I said, And I'd like my food to be inspected.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
And that's like my very important.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
All these other little things that go out there too,
and my and my new airplane to get approval, and
my yeah, and my FCC licenses to be approved.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Those are good too.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, important things that you don't think about until you think, okay, well, yeah,
maybe maybe this is more valuable than I would have
ever thought until you know it's it's not available to you.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
But but I did see one issue with though, where
they said, you know, you can't get your flood and
you can't get new flood insurance premiums now because FEMA
is closed. Yea, And then that could affect that could
affect closing on a home. So now maybe your home
buying experience gets disrupted.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Things like that, yeah, added to the long list of
just the lingering effects of something like a government shut down.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
But let's talk Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
He's got a plan to go after Wikipedia, he wants,
uh Grockipedia. I'm not sure sure if I'm saying that
that correctly, but tell us the latest here as far
as Elon's plan, and I guess the root cause behind it.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, the issue is that Wikipedia is too liberal, that
conservative voices that try to make edits on Wikipedia are
often silenced, too often silenced. Even one of the founders,
who has since left the company now also says the
same thing. So it's been it's been a growing frustration
I think among a lot of conservatives. And Musk says

(18:29):
that by letting GROC do it, that's his artificial intelligence
that it will be objective and non biased, and probably is.
You know, GROC has had some issues with anti Semitism
and some some pro Hitler stuff that was coming out
with its first development, so it's not perfect either. So yeah,
but Musk thinks there's an opportunity here to be a

(18:51):
competitor to Wikipedia, which you know, we all sort of use.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
We shouldn't put our lives on some of the facts
that you see in there.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
But you know, whether or not it confirms Dolly Parton's
birthday or you know, when was the Battle of Gettysburg,
it can be handy.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, I think those who've used Wikipedia for a long time,
many many, many years, I think at this point there's
a maybe not a consensus, but a known level as
far as what you really should trust. And if you
see something, I think to me at least it stands out,
Yeah that may be true, but maybe let me maybe
I should double check here. Like Wikipedia, I think it's
been around long enough that even outside of the censoring

(19:29):
of certain political views, I think it's just a known
thing that you can trust it enough.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
But certain things you may just want to double check.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Right, And it's awfully handy, right, And oftentimes when you
put a search into Google, it's Wikipedia's advice is the
first thing that comes up. I think now the Google
AI is now summarizing that stuff for you. But so
things are a bit different, but yeah, it was also
we have been directed there many times over the years too.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
No doubt, Rory. As always, we appreciate your time, enjoy
your day. We'll talk tomorrow, my friend roy On Neil
of NBC News. Let's get to a quick update of
traffic and weather. We'll see how the roadways are looking
as we get this Thursday morning started. Also, we've got
another sports update coming your way here in just a
few minutes. It is five point fifty one and it's
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Speaker 1 (20:12):
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