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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hump Day is upon us. Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is a hump Day Wednesday edition of Kentucky and
this morning news coffee and company with you, and we
are fueled by Thornton's on this brisk called chilly Wednesday morning.
Last night we had our first trunk or treat of
the of the Halloween season, Scott, and it was madness, long, long, long, long,
long lines, and I guess that's part of it. But
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also it was cold soon as the sun went down.
I mean I was looking at my phone to see
what my app was telling me as far as temperature,
and it felt a lot colder than that. But then
it did say that as the night went on, especially
out where I am just a little bit outside of
Louisville and Bullet County, wind chill. I mean, the temperature
is going to say something. But forty five degrees I
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think is what it felt like last night at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So it's here, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was telling you off there, I heard one local
meteorologist talking about get out the ice craper. Locate your
ice scraper if you don't know where it is, because
we could see some frost coming.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Up, so looking that may be exactly what happens. But
I don't even think you need to say what name
it is. We know which local meteorologist is, the one
before thanks before before Halloween. It wants to go ahead
and let you know, an ice scraper may be necessary.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Right right, and this is right on time too.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A couple of we got a busy weekend ahead and
we're heading to hus we have a family out an
we do Sundays.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
We're hoping the rain was gonna hold off.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
How's it looking.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's it looks okay, Okay, it looks okay. And then
I'll be at the Low City game on Saturday. So
I was really hoping it wasn't going to rain there,
and so it looks like it's all going to hold off.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We'll have a spotty shower.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Here and there.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's gonna be if you like gloomy fall day, Saturday
is going to.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Be for you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I checked, this was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I checked the evening forecast as far as what's expected
on Saturday, and of course it can always change, and
right it looked as if at that point rain will
will will be gone, which the levels back in back
in action at home against a bad team, which is
just what the doctor ordered considering what they came, what
they typically do under Jeff Brawm after winning a big game.
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But I don't know if I should expect the crowd
to be reflective of that. I mean, I hope that
it is. It's not going. I mean, I'm gonna go.
We're taking the whole family, so I'm not gonna let
it impact my time at the stadium. That's what I've
always said about Attendant Scott is that, like, I get it,
you want your stadium to be packed and and to
be a great atmosphere for fans and a tough environment
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for the road team. But if you're there and that's
on your mind, where's everybody at whilst there's empty seats?
What are these drunks doing on the party deck? I
just why go, like, you know what, if that's going
to impact your experience, why go, you know, have yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So again, I understand that we want big crowds, but
if I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have a good time regardless.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
At least I'm going to try to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So I hope the weather's okay, and I hope there's
a good crowd, because again, you've got a top twenty
team now and it's a night game, which we all
love around here, and hopefully weather is cooperative, that'll be
a bigger factor. That's always a bigger factor when it
comes to attendance than really anything. Honestly, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now the question is, if you're throwing your tailgate menu together,
is this alter that do you go with the hot
and spicy cozy chili or do you continue to throw
the dogs into burgers on Because man, when I was
at the Virginia game, not only did I smell some
fine cuisine, I saw a lot of variety out there.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh there's a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Sometimes I'll be walking the lot and I smell something
and I'm just on a path to figure out what
it is because it smells delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, for me, I like to keep it simple, keep
it moving. Although whenever I was doing a lot of
pregame interviews with fans in the tailgating lots before games
a couple of years ago, it was hard for me
to turn down what was offered at times to where
I feel like I had a three course meal by
the time the game started. Because I'm trying somebody's chili.
I remember somebody made a brisket one time and I
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had to give that a shot. And then of course
a lot of booze people want to offer it out too,
So yeah, tailgating is one of the When I think
of tailgating, I think of specifically college football.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I know there's other things you can tailgate for, certainly,
but it's part of the experience in the culture of
college football, and you only get a few opportunities to
do it every year. I mean, most teams have six
seven home games. Sometimes if you have a noon or
that really taps into your legitimate time to tailgate. Sometimes
you play on a Friday, which really eats at it,
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unless you've got a day off of work, so.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You could do the IU Louisville double header if you
wanted to this week.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You hear that, John Alden, I'm sure that's a real
convenient thing for you to do as a dad to
a new baby.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I wonder if our Joe Joe Lincoln's gonna do the
Cardinal post game go to Bloomington, because I know he
goes to Bloomington whenever he can.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
John, do you think again, any and if any and
crowds have been phenomenal since Signette's been there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Which wild both this season and last season. The back
half of the home slate has sold out, which is
unheard of.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So again, you can't you literally can't do better than
a sellout. But this is the first time they're returning
home since, of course the extension.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They had Michigan State at home, like that was at home, Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I was gonna think maybe they're being even bigger uh
you know, reaction or atmosphere just because of the momentum
they have right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
But I guess, sorry, a big one. UCLA's have a role.
I know you're go win the game, mind you, but
they're on a roll. So yeah, it's scare the game
scares me. I just hope they take care of.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Business, got it. I've been there, done that, John, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Exactly at a comfortable fear, John, Yes, you're confident. You're
in college, there's no doubt about that. And UCLA is
the is absolutely the best example right now of that.
They look to be like a team that had no
chance of winning any game. Now they're actually out there
competing in the Big ten. So yeah, good story, all right,
let's get to it. We've got Travick and weather updates.
Scott'll be back with a sports update in about fifteen minutes.
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Whas it is five seventeen here at news Radio eight
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gonna talk to roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five,
Rory of NBC News will join us to discuss a
couple of things, including I guess now more flight delays
(05:59):
and cams. Talked yesterday yesterday about how the numbers there
just really aren't. I mean, if you were expecting it
to be an all out disaster due to the government shutdown,
that just hasn't been the case. But maybe there are
now some numbers, some data out there that shows that
it is becoming a bigger issue.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But Royo join us to discuss that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
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So we'll get to this here and there, I would
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imagine throughout the morning. But so much going on right
now in the world of sports, and the NBA started
back up last night, And to me, it's not about
Lebron missing his first NBA opener in what twenty years roughly,
or the the Lakers losing without him, and obviously, okay,
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see the defending champs they played. I mean not to
knock anybody who was into last night's matchups, but the
NBA returning to NBC. That was the story last night
about the NBA. Talk about in nostalgia, I feel like
I got hit with a drug that I've been cleaned
from for twenty five years, just because it takes me
back to watching the NBA as a child, and that
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alone just made me happy. Took me back to a
place that that at times I wish I was still
in in my innocence, right But Michael Jordan returning to
basketball essentially where he is now going to be part
of the NBC coverage is I wish I could. I
wish I could find a better way to put it
into words, But Michael Jordan has the it factor.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For lack of a better way to describe it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I feel like that's not even really the accurate way
to articulate what I'm saying. But he has a charisma
about him that I guess we'll call it the Jordan
effect that I'm sure certain demographics, certain age ranges, it's different.
But as somebody who grew up in the nineties, Jordan's
(08:54):
just different. And he could be the most bland, non
informative analyst or you know, panelist, commentator whatever. They're going
to probably utilize him in a variety of different ways
because he's Jordan. But he could be objectively awful in
that role, but we'll all still just be wide eyed,
(09:16):
jaw on the ground because it's Jordan, Like, it's just different.
And hearing him last night discuss sort of how he
feels about the game of basketball currently and I want
to play this for you guys. A little bit later on,
but he was asked by Michael Wilbon, who is of
course part of this NBC NBA coverage. He was asked,
(09:37):
when was the last time he played basketball? Picked one
up and if you haven't heard his answer, I didn't
know what to expect, but it wasn't wasn't what I expected,
as far as what he said, so again, last night,
I was I was like a kid in nineteen ninety
four watching the NBA and it was just the music,
(09:59):
of course, the let legendary NBA on NBC sound and
the visual and had been twenty years. I think the
NBA Finals in two thousand and four, I believe that
was the last time there was any NBA product on NBC.
And now it's everywhere, by the way it's it's spread out,
and you're going to see that across other leagues as well,
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where there are multiple networks that have there that have
at least at least a little bit of a piece
of the pie when it comes to just NBA distribution
of their games. So NBA on NBC is back, and
that made me happy. All right, Let's get to an
updated traffic in weather. So far, so good when it
comes to traffic, but as you know, that can always change.
We rely on the one and only Bobby Ellis to
(10:40):
keep us updated throughout the morning, and we'll certainly do
that this morning. Also we'll get a check of the
forecast with Matt Melosavich of WLKY.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Stick with us right here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
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November the first, the rad Revival is coming back to
Paristown Hall a eighties and nineties party. It's going to
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be a car show as well, only vehicles from the
eighties and nineties. There's going to be a costume contest,
a contest as well for the vehicles, and there's gonna
be some BMX stunts going on. When I say BMX stunts,
do I I mean? I feel like I'm just using
words and I know what I mean, but I'm not
familiar with the BMX world Official X Games Corresponding John Alden,
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When I say BMX stunts, does that?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Do people know what I'm talking about? It sounds like
you're giving an advertisement from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, well, people are going to be riding bikes on
those ramps to give you a visual that kind of thing,
doing tricks. Yes, BMX stunts. I think that's what it's called.
But you know what I mean, right, if you've ever
seen a BMX X Games kind of thing, expect that.
So I don't want to I don't want to undersell
it because I know it's one of the many key
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things that makes this rad Revival event special. But what
I think makes it the most special is, of course
Alex and his his crew they put this event together.
But the first car project is something that's just really
cool and it's one of those reminders that I think
we need more of about there's just good people that
are that want to You know, when you when you
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go out of your way to help people and it's
somebody in need and you try to involve others. It's
great to see that become infectious and that's really what
this is. So Alex and his partner they they decided
years ago to start the first Car Project and help
raise money to provide vehicles to foster children that are
starting their life as adults exiting the foster care system.
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So maybe they're graduating from college, maybe they're obtaining their ged,
and when they become adults, they're not going to have
the assistance that they had with a foster family and
the foster care system. So having the means to just
go buy a vehicle to help you get that part
of your life started. When it comes to just transportation
for everyday life, for job interviews, maybe it's for school,
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whatever it may be, they're not going to you know,
not that everybody has the means to do that right away,
but obviously foster children who become adults, they're not necessarily
going to be able to expect help from family like
a lot of us would be because again they're in
the foster care system and I'm sure they have a
foster family, but maybe it's a situation where the foster
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care family is taking in many other kids, and the
ability to just provide transportation and vehicles to all these kids,
I mean, that's just that's unrealistic for I think most people.
So what Alex has done is rely on the help
of others that are in the automotive world. Rather it
be body shops, car dealerships, just repair shops to where
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they'll get used vehicles. Some of them may not be
in great shape, but they get at times free labor.
These from these businesses that are willing to take on
this work for nothing because they want to be a
part of something like this that's going to help people.
So I think it's really cool and Alex great guy.
Not only is he great at what he does being
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a personal injury attorney, but also he utilizes what you know,
his success in his practice to give back to this community.
And there's no better example of him doing that than
with this right here. So at the event Rad Revival,
they'll on November first, they're going to give away the
two vehicles to the two winners who have been chosen.
I was talking to Alex about this a few weeks
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ago and he brought he brought something up that makes
total sense. I wouldn't have thought about it, though, is
that when it comes to the decision, meaning picking which
foster care child that is entering the adult world that
is going to be able, that is going to I
hate even calling it the winner because.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
There's no loser.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's just whoever is chosen to be the you know,
to to to get the new vehicles, Like, how could
you review every situation and say no to this person,
no to that person, and then choose this one. It
would be difficult. So he has no involvement in the process.
He has a board that that collectively makes that decision,
and I totally get it because if it was if
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it was me, I feel like I would and it
wouldn't be realistic. It would wouldn't be doable, I'm sure.
But anybody that is I guess advocating that they would
love uh the They would love the chance to, I guess,
tell their story to see how they could be the
person who gets one of these vehicles. I feel like
I would want to give it to everybody who reached out,
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but of course that's not doable. So again, the rad
Revival events coming up November the first at Paristown Hall,
I mean take away all the good it's gonna do
for just the community. But also, I mean it's gonna
be a party. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
It's eighties, it's nineties, the two best decades ever. And
if you disagree, that's okay, you're wrong. It's just you know,
and look, I'm wrong a lot it. We're forty minutes
into the show, probably been wrong a few times. But
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if you don't believe the eighties and nineties were the best,
you're wrong. All right, stick with us. We've got a
lot more to get into, including a conversation with Rory
O'Neil of NBC News. He'll join us on the other side,
but first let's get an update of traffic and weather
right here on News Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Happy hump Day, Kentucky, Anna, thank you for hanging out
with us here on a Wednesday morning. It is coffee
and Company and we are fueled by Thorntonson and we
are also now joined about Rory O'Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Rory, we've had flight.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Delays and cancelations happening every day, regardless if there's a
government shutdown going on.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right Airports are very helpless places.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Everybody knows that who has traveled, but obviously a government
shutdown can absolutely impact that and make it worse than
we typically did. What do we know as far as
just the increase of delays and cancelations, because it does
seem as if if it becomes just an all out
mess to where nobody can seemingly travel, which that sounds
hard to envision. However, that is something that could really
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ramp up pressure on getting this government shut down right right.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Let me throw some numbers at you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
According to flight Aware this weekend, then we're nineteen thousand
flights that were delayed from Saturday and Monday, and on
Sunday alone, there were eight thousand delays nationwide. There were
sixteen hundred flight cancelations during that span, and a lot
of this can be traced back to the shortage of
air traffic controllers. Secretary Duppy said, typically there's about a
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five percent ABS and TEE rate in a typical day.
Now that number is closer to fifty percent because look
here we are three weeks in and that they've missed
a paycheck at this point, and now there's really no
end in sight.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
And in order to cope for their households.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Many of these air traffic controllers TSA workers are now
doing uber working for delivering pizzas and door dash delivery
because they still have to put food on the table.
And you know, we've had these conversations before. Most American
households don't have five hundred dollars scurorelled away for an emergency.
Now you have a case where you've gone at least
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three weeks without pay and you don't know when this
is going to end.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It would be very frightening to be somebody in a
situation that tries to find I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Peace in avoid stress.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Knowing that eventually you'll come out of this and you'll
be made whole and you'll start receiving your regular paychecks
and back pay. But I can say this, I would
have a lot of stress and anxiety just with it
seemingly being no end in sight, no real light at
the end of the tunnel. It's not going to last forever.
But it also does doesn't feel like this is going
to end anytime soon.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Well, right, And it's the uncertainty, right, I mean, so
the last short shutdown was the longest in history at
thirty five days. But you know, on day twenty seven,
we didn't know it was going to be over in.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Thirty five days.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
And even when you look back now, like that's a month,
all right, maybe I could find a way to swing that.
It's not that bad. And you know, maybe it'll be
a few days late and the electric bill no big deal.
But that's because we know it's thirty five days now.
But now, but in this instance, we don't know when
this is going to be letting up, and obviously something's
going to give. You know, you've got to Even if
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you were to approve the bill before Congress today in
the Senate, it only gets you to November twenty first,
So now here you are, it doesn't even get you
a month's time in order to reopen the government.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Rory on Neale NBC is our guest joining us here
on news Radio eight forty whas tell us a little
bit about the beef that American rangers have with President
Trump's trade policy with Argentina.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, things are going on right now.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
So argent Tina's economy is in free fall, right, So
the US is promising is getting them forty billion dollars,
like twenty billion in cash and twenty billion and other
investment stuff forty billion dollars. Now, here's the sting for
both ranchers and farmers in the US as part of
the trade war that the US has with China. In
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China now buys it's soybeans from Argentina. So American growers
have zero orders for soybeans this year. That's obviously a
major hit. And then this week President Trump said, hey,
let's help out the Argentine economy by buying their beef.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
They've got great beef. We'll just import it from them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
So now that's hitting American cattle ranchers saying, look, we
are facing the highest prices ever does. Our costs are crazy,
we don't have large herds. We're battling drought in certain locations.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So it's we're giving.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Them forty billion dollars and American agriculture taking a big
hit here.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
That I mean, that's not good. I mean, when it
comes to just the recent no in regards to just
the future of agriculture and farming, you know, the future
seems a little questionable as far as just the direction.
I know, we've had the conversation about the decline, as
far as just interest in getting into that field. And
then when you see stories like this not great well.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Right, and I think a lot of people are saying, wait,
why are we doing this now? And you know, yes,
you want to sort of bail out a democracy kind
of maybe help them out a little bit and.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Stop the disruption in South America.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
But you know, again, we haven't really had a fuller
broader discussion as a country, especially with Congress as dysfunctional
as it is, saying wait, why are we giving them
forty billion dollars at the whim of the president?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Right? This isn't really congressionally authorized stuff here either.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That question has has come up more often, it seems lately,
is wait a second, can somebody tell me why we're
doing this?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What since does this make right?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And then like what doesn't Congress control the spending? How
are we doing all this money swap stuff? You know,
with a wink and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Thank you as always, Rory, appreciate your time, enjoyed the
rest of your day, and we will talk.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Soon, my friend, talk to you tomorrow. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He is Rory.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
O'Neill of NBC News. Always enjoy his time and appreciate
the conversation. He said something there that really just that.
That's when you know Rory's ready to deliver whatever it
is we're gonna throw at him. There's stuff going on here,
that's what he said, and that should be that should
be a podcast. Rory O'Neill, there's stuff going on here,
or I think he said there's stuff going on right now.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
There's stuff going on right now with Rory O'Neil. You bet,
you bet your rear in there is all right. We've
got tracking weather updates. That's what's going on right now
with us. Also another sports update with Scott so stick
around right here with us on
Speaker 1 (22:39):
News radio eight forty whas
Hump Day is upon us. Welcome in.
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It is a hump Day Wednesday edition of Kentucky and
this morning news coffee and company with you, and we
are fueled by Thornton's on this brisk called chilly Wednesday morning.
Last night we had our first trunk or treat of
the of the Halloween season, Scott, and it was madness, long, long, long, long,
long lines, and I guess that's part of it. But
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also it was cold soon as the sun went down.
I mean I was looking at my phone to see
what my app was telling me as far as temperature,
and it felt a lot colder than that. But then
it did say that as the night went on, especially
out where I am just a little bit outside of
Louisville and Bullet County, wind chill. I mean, the temperature
is going to say something. But forty five degrees I
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think is what it felt like last night at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So it's here, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was telling you off there, I heard one local
meteorologist talking about get out the ice craper. Locate your
ice scraper if you don't know where it is, because
we could see some frost coming.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Up, so looking that may be exactly what happens. But
I don't even think you need to say what name
it is. We know which local meteorologist is, the one
before thanks before before Halloween. It wants to go ahead
and let you know, an ice scraper may be necessary.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Right right, and this is right on time too.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A couple of we got a busy weekend ahead and
we're heading to hus we have a family out an
we do Sundays.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
We're hoping the rain was gonna hold off.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
How's it looking.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's it looks okay, Okay, it looks okay. And then
I'll be at the Low City game on Saturday. So
I was really hoping it wasn't going to rain there,
and so it looks like it's all going to hold off.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We'll have a spotty shower.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Here and there.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's gonna be if you like gloomy fall day, Saturday
is going to.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Be for you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I checked, this was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I checked the evening forecast as far as what's expected
on Saturday, and of course it can always change, and
right it looked as if at that point rain will
will will be gone, which the levels back in back
in action at home against a bad team, which is
just what the doctor ordered considering what they came, what
they typically do under Jeff Brawm after winning a big game.
(01:58):
But I don't know if I should expect the crowd
to be reflective of that. I mean, I hope that
it is. It's not going. I mean, I'm gonna go.
We're taking the whole family, so I'm not gonna let
it impact my time at the stadium. That's what I've
always said about Attendant Scott is that, like, I get it,
you want your stadium to be packed and and to
be a great atmosphere for fans and a tough environment
(02:19):
for the road team. But if you're there and that's
on your mind, where's everybody at whilst there's empty seats?
What are these drunks doing on the party deck? I
just why go, like, you know what, if that's going
to impact your experience, why go, you know, have yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So again, I understand that we want big crowds, but
if I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have a good time regardless.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
At least I'm going to try to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So I hope the weather's okay, and I hope there's
a good crowd, because again, you've got a top twenty
team now and it's a night game, which we all
love around here, and hopefully weather is cooperative, that'll be
a bigger factor. That's always a bigger factor when it
comes to attendance than really anything. Honestly, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now the question is, if you're throwing your tailgate menu together,
is this alter that do you go with the hot
and spicy cozy chili or do you continue to throw
the dogs into burgers on Because man, when I was
at the Virginia game, not only did I smell some
fine cuisine, I saw a lot of variety out there.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh there's a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Sometimes I'll be walking the lot and I smell something
and I'm just on a path to figure out what
it is because it smells delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, for me, I like to keep it simple, keep
it moving. Although whenever I was doing a lot of
pregame interviews with fans in the tailgating lots before games
a couple of years ago, it was hard for me
to turn down what was offered at times to where
I feel like I had a three course meal by
the time the game started. Because I'm trying somebody's chili.
I remember somebody made a brisket one time and I
(03:42):
had to give that a shot. And then of course
a lot of booze people want to offer it out too,
So yeah, tailgating is one of the When I think
of tailgating, I think of specifically college football.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I know there's other things you can tailgate for, certainly,
but it's part of the experience in the culture of
college football, and you only get a few opportunities to
do it every year. I mean, most teams have six
seven home games. Sometimes if you have a noon or
that really taps into your legitimate time to tailgate. Sometimes
you play on a Friday, which really eats at it,
(04:15):
unless you've got a day off of work, so.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You could do the IU Louisville double header if you
wanted to this week.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You hear that, John Alden, I'm sure that's a real
convenient thing for you to do as a dad to
a new baby.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I wonder if our Joe Joe Lincoln's gonna do the
Cardinal post game go to Bloomington, because I know he
goes to Bloomington whenever he can.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
John, do you think again, any and if any and
crowds have been phenomenal since Signette's been there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Which wild both this season and last season. The back
half of the home slate has sold out, which is
unheard of.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So again, you can't you literally can't do better than
a sellout. But this is the first time they're returning
home since, of course the extension.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They had Michigan State at home, like that was at home, Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I was gonna think maybe they're being even bigger uh
you know, reaction or atmosphere just because of the momentum
they have right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
But I guess, sorry, a big one. UCLA's have a role.
I know you're go win the game, mind you, but
they're on a roll. So yeah, it's scare the game
scares me. I just hope they take care of.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Business, got it. I've been there, done that, John, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Exactly at a comfortable fear, John, Yes, you're confident. You're
in college, there's no doubt about that. And UCLA is
the is absolutely the best example right now of that.
They look to be like a team that had no
chance of winning any game. Now they're actually out there
competing in the Big ten. So yeah, good story, all right,
let's get to it. We've got Travick and weather updates.
Scott'll be back with a sports update in about fifteen minutes.
(05:37):
As we get this Wednesday started right here, it's coffee
and Company fueled by Thornton's on News Radio eight forty
Whas it is five seventeen here at news Radio eight
forty Whas it's coffee and company fueled by Thornton's, We're
gonna talk to roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five,
Rory of NBC News will join us to discuss a
couple of things, including I guess now more flight delays
(05:59):
and cams. Talked yesterday yesterday about how the numbers there
just really aren't. I mean, if you were expecting it
to be an all out disaster due to the government shutdown,
that just hasn't been the case. But maybe there are
now some numbers, some data out there that shows that
it is becoming a bigger issue.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But Royo join us to discuss that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
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So we'll get to this here and there, I would
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imagine throughout the morning. But so much going on right
now in the world of sports, and the NBA started
back up last night, And to me, it's not about
Lebron missing his first NBA opener in what twenty years roughly,
or the the Lakers losing without him, and obviously, okay,
(07:46):
see the defending champs they played. I mean not to
knock anybody who was into last night's matchups, but the
NBA returning to NBC. That was the story last night
about the NBA. Talk about in nostalgia, I feel like
I got hit with a drug that I've been cleaned
from for twenty five years, just because it takes me
back to watching the NBA as a child, and that
(08:09):
alone just made me happy. Took me back to a
place that that at times I wish I was still
in in my innocence, right But Michael Jordan returning to
basketball essentially where he is now going to be part
of the NBC coverage is I wish I could. I
wish I could find a better way to put it
into words, But Michael Jordan has the it factor.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For lack of a better way to describe it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I feel like that's not even really the accurate way
to articulate what I'm saying. But he has a charisma
about him that I guess we'll call it the Jordan
effect that I'm sure certain demographics, certain age ranges, it's different.
But as somebody who grew up in the nineties, Jordan's
(08:54):
just different. And he could be the most bland, non
informative analyst or you know, panelist, commentator whatever. They're going
to probably utilize him in a variety of different ways
because he's Jordan. But he could be objectively awful in
that role, but we'll all still just be wide eyed,
(09:16):
jaw on the ground because it's Jordan, Like, it's just different.
And hearing him last night discuss sort of how he
feels about the game of basketball currently and I want
to play this for you guys. A little bit later on,
but he was asked by Michael Wilbon, who is of
course part of this NBC NBA coverage. He was asked,
(09:37):
when was the last time he played basketball? Picked one
up and if you haven't heard his answer, I didn't
know what to expect, but it wasn't wasn't what I expected,
as far as what he said, so again, last night,
I was I was like a kid in nineteen ninety
four watching the NBA and it was just the music,
(09:59):
of course, the let legendary NBA on NBC sound and
the visual and had been twenty years. I think the
NBA Finals in two thousand and four, I believe that
was the last time there was any NBA product on NBC.
And now it's everywhere, by the way it's it's spread out,
and you're going to see that across other leagues as well,
(10:19):
where there are multiple networks that have there that have
at least at least a little bit of a piece
of the pie when it comes to just NBA distribution
of their games. So NBA on NBC is back, and
that made me happy. All right, Let's get to an
updated traffic in weather. So far, so good when it
comes to traffic, but as you know, that can always change.
We rely on the one and only Bobby Ellis to
(10:40):
keep us updated throughout the morning, and we'll certainly do
that this morning. Also we'll get a check of the
forecast with Matt Melosavich of WLKY.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Stick with us right here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
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November the first, the rad Revival is coming back to
Paristown Hall a eighties and nineties party. It's going to
(11:39):
be a car show as well, only vehicles from the
eighties and nineties. There's going to be a costume contest,
a contest as well for the vehicles, and there's gonna
be some BMX stunts going on. When I say BMX stunts,
do I I mean? I feel like I'm just using
words and I know what I mean, but I'm not
familiar with the BMX world Official X Games Corresponding John Alden,
(12:01):
When I say BMX stunts, does that?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Do people know what I'm talking about? It sounds like
you're giving an advertisement from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, well, people are going to be riding bikes on
those ramps to give you a visual that kind of thing,
doing tricks. Yes, BMX stunts. I think that's what it's called.
But you know what I mean, right, if you've ever
seen a BMX X Games kind of thing, expect that.
So I don't want to I don't want to undersell
it because I know it's one of the many key
(12:28):
things that makes this rad Revival event special. But what
I think makes it the most special is, of course
Alex and his his crew they put this event together.
But the first car project is something that's just really
cool and it's one of those reminders that I think
we need more of about there's just good people that
are that want to You know, when you when you
(12:48):
go out of your way to help people and it's
somebody in need and you try to involve others. It's
great to see that become infectious and that's really what
this is. So Alex and his partner they they decided
years ago to start the first Car Project and help
raise money to provide vehicles to foster children that are
starting their life as adults exiting the foster care system.
(13:09):
So maybe they're graduating from college, maybe they're obtaining their ged,
and when they become adults, they're not going to have
the assistance that they had with a foster family and
the foster care system. So having the means to just
go buy a vehicle to help you get that part
of your life started. When it comes to just transportation
for everyday life, for job interviews, maybe it's for school,
(13:30):
whatever it may be, they're not going to you know,
not that everybody has the means to do that right away,
but obviously foster children who become adults, they're not necessarily
going to be able to expect help from family like
a lot of us would be because again they're in
the foster care system and I'm sure they have a
foster family, but maybe it's a situation where the foster
(13:54):
care family is taking in many other kids, and the
ability to just provide transportation and vehicles to all these kids,
I mean, that's just that's unrealistic for I think most people.
So what Alex has done is rely on the help
of others that are in the automotive world. Rather it
be body shops, car dealerships, just repair shops to where
(14:16):
they'll get used vehicles. Some of them may not be
in great shape, but they get at times free labor.
These from these businesses that are willing to take on
this work for nothing because they want to be a
part of something like this that's going to help people.
So I think it's really cool and Alex great guy.
Not only is he great at what he does being
(14:36):
a personal injury attorney, but also he utilizes what you know,
his success in his practice to give back to this community.
And there's no better example of him doing that than
with this right here. So at the event Rad Revival,
they'll on November first, they're going to give away the
two vehicles to the two winners who have been chosen.
I was talking to Alex about this a few weeks
(14:58):
ago and he brought he brought something up that makes
total sense. I wouldn't have thought about it, though, is
that when it comes to the decision, meaning picking which
foster care child that is entering the adult world that
is going to be able, that is going to I
hate even calling it the winner because.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
There's no loser.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's just whoever is chosen to be the you know,
to to to get the new vehicles, Like, how could
you review every situation and say no to this person,
no to that person, and then choose this one. It
would be difficult. So he has no involvement in the process.
He has a board that that collectively makes that decision,
and I totally get it because if it was if
(15:40):
it was me, I feel like I would and it
wouldn't be realistic. It would wouldn't be doable, I'm sure.
But anybody that is I guess advocating that they would
love uh the They would love the chance to, I guess,
tell their story to see how they could be the
person who gets one of these vehicles. I feel like
I would want to give it to everybody who reached out,
(16:03):
but of course that's not doable. So again, the rad
Revival events coming up November the first at Paristown Hall,
I mean take away all the good it's gonna do
for just the community. But also, I mean it's gonna
be a party. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
It's eighties, it's nineties, the two best decades ever. And
if you disagree, that's okay, you're wrong. It's just you know,
and look, I'm wrong a lot it. We're forty minutes
into the show, probably been wrong a few times. But
(16:26):
if you don't believe the eighties and nineties were the best,
you're wrong. All right, stick with us. We've got a
lot more to get into, including a conversation with Rory
O'Neil of NBC News. He'll join us on the other side,
but first let's get an update of traffic and weather
right here on News Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Happy hump Day, Kentucky, Anna, thank you for hanging out
with us here on a Wednesday morning. It is coffee
and Company and we are fueled by Thorntonson and we
are also now joined about Rory O'Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Rory, we've had flight.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Delays and cancelations happening every day, regardless if there's a
government shutdown going on.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right Airports are very helpless places.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Everybody knows that who has traveled, but obviously a government
shutdown can absolutely impact that and make it worse than
we typically did. What do we know as far as
just the increase of delays and cancelations, because it does
seem as if if it becomes just an all out
mess to where nobody can seemingly travel, which that sounds
hard to envision. However, that is something that could really
(17:22):
ramp up pressure on getting this government shut down right right.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Let me throw some numbers at you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
According to flight Aware this weekend, then we're nineteen thousand
flights that were delayed from Saturday and Monday, and on
Sunday alone, there were eight thousand delays nationwide. There were
sixteen hundred flight cancelations during that span, and a lot
of this can be traced back to the shortage of
air traffic controllers. Secretary Duppy said, typically there's about a
(17:51):
five percent ABS and TEE rate in a typical day.
Now that number is closer to fifty percent because look
here we are three weeks in and that they've missed
a paycheck at this point, and now there's really no
end in sight.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
And in order to cope for their households.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Many of these air traffic controllers TSA workers are now
doing uber working for delivering pizzas and door dash delivery
because they still have to put food on the table.
And you know, we've had these conversations before. Most American
households don't have five hundred dollars scurorelled away for an emergency.
Now you have a case where you've gone at least
(18:29):
three weeks without pay and you don't know when this
is going to end.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It would be very frightening to be somebody in a
situation that tries to find I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Peace in avoid stress.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Knowing that eventually you'll come out of this and you'll
be made whole and you'll start receiving your regular paychecks
and back pay. But I can say this, I would
have a lot of stress and anxiety just with it
seemingly being no end in sight, no real light at
the end of the tunnel. It's not going to last forever.
But it also does doesn't feel like this is going
to end anytime soon.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Well, right, And it's the uncertainty, right, I mean, so
the last short shutdown was the longest in history at
thirty five days. But you know, on day twenty seven,
we didn't know it was going to be over in.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Thirty five days.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
And even when you look back now, like that's a month,
all right, maybe I could find a way to swing that.
It's not that bad. And you know, maybe it'll be
a few days late and the electric bill no big deal.
But that's because we know it's thirty five days now.
But now, but in this instance, we don't know when
this is going to be letting up, and obviously something's
going to give. You know, you've got to Even if
(19:35):
you were to approve the bill before Congress today in
the Senate, it only gets you to November twenty first,
So now here you are, it doesn't even get you
a month's time in order to reopen the government.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Rory on Neale NBC is our guest joining us here
on news Radio eight forty whas tell us a little
bit about the beef that American rangers have with President
Trump's trade policy with Argentina.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, things are going on right now.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
So argent Tina's economy is in free fall, right, So
the US is promising is getting them forty billion dollars,
like twenty billion in cash and twenty billion and other
investment stuff forty billion dollars. Now, here's the sting for
both ranchers and farmers in the US as part of
the trade war that the US has with China. In
(20:21):
China now buys it's soybeans from Argentina. So American growers
have zero orders for soybeans this year. That's obviously a
major hit. And then this week President Trump said, hey,
let's help out the Argentine economy by buying their beef.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
They've got great beef. We'll just import it from them.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
So now that's hitting American cattle ranchers saying, look, we
are facing the highest prices ever does. Our costs are crazy,
we don't have large herds. We're battling drought in certain locations.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So it's we're giving.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Them forty billion dollars and American agriculture taking a big
hit here.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
That I mean, that's not good. I mean, when it
comes to just the recent no in regards to just
the future of agriculture and farming, you know, the future
seems a little questionable as far as just the direction.
I know, we've had the conversation about the decline, as
far as just interest in getting into that field. And
then when you see stories like this not great well.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Right, and I think a lot of people are saying, wait,
why are we doing this now? And you know, yes,
you want to sort of bail out a democracy kind
of maybe help them out a little bit and.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Stop the disruption in South America.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
But you know, again, we haven't really had a fuller
broader discussion as a country, especially with Congress as dysfunctional
as it is, saying wait, why are we giving them
forty billion dollars at the whim of the president?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Right? This isn't really congressionally authorized stuff here either.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That question has has come up more often, it seems lately,
is wait a second, can somebody tell me why we're
doing this?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What since does this make right?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And then like what doesn't Congress control the spending? How
are we doing all this money swap stuff? You know,
with a wink and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Thank you as always, Rory, appreciate your time, enjoyed the
rest of your day, and we will talk.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Soon, my friend, talk to you tomorrow. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
He is Rory.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
O'Neill of NBC News. Always enjoy his time and appreciate
the conversation. He said something there that really just that.
That's when you know Rory's ready to deliver whatever it
is we're gonna throw at him. There's stuff going on here,
that's what he said, and that should be that should
be a podcast. Rory O'Neill, there's stuff going on here,
or I think he said there's stuff going on right now.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
There's stuff going on right now with Rory O'Neil. You bet,
you bet your rear in there is all right. We've
got tracking weather updates. That's what's going on right now
with us. Also another sports update with Scott so stick
around right here with us on
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