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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is coffee and company, and we are fueled by
Thornton's here at News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you
so much for hanging out with us. Keep Thorton's in
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got plenty of things that can help you stay fueled
for the day ahead. And we've talked a lot about
JCPS in recent months for a variety of reasons, mostly
(00:20):
because of their of their budget issue, which is really
its own it's its own world when it comes to
a big issue that really could fund could fundamentally change
what that whole overall school district looks like when it
comes to the cuts they're going to have to make.
But we've also got some updated test scores here that
I wanted to to run through here because obviously, when
(00:42):
you see the headline, it's not fake news, it's real
and it's uh, you know, it's it's not great. But
what I hope people realize is when it comes to
just measuring things like test scores, which of course are
very important for a variety of reasons, JCPS, there's no
compare prison, meaning there's no other school district in our
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state that is any anything close to what JCPS is.
I guess Fayette would be Fayette County would be the
second biggest district. But if you look at the drastically
different sizes of those districts, I mean, there's JCPS is
really in its own world when it comes to the
state level. So again, the headline here is not a
(01:24):
great one, and that is that you see five percent. Yes,
since the report show here the JCPS are in the
bottom five percent statewide and overall performance with many of
their schools, So yeah, school classify schools classified under CSI
or in the bottom five percent. And twenty twenty two,
the number of JCPSCSI schools was thirty four. This year
it has risen to forty one. So there, it's clearly
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clearly gotten worse, and that's not good news. I'm not
trying to doctor this up as anything other than what
it actually is. But when you start to just compare
pure numbers in pure data with other school districts within
the state, I do think it is very import to
understand that j CPS is just it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
A different world.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, I guess that's the best way I could
think of to lay it out there for you. So again,
they'll never be a scenario where we're not keeping up
with things going on with j CPS, because again it's
it's a school district, the biggest school district in the state,
of course, and this this Lousville area. I mean, there's
many of you that have children that are there, there's
many of you that work there, are employees of j CPS. So, uh,
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there's been a lot of different reasons. We've discussed them,
and that'll never really change. But uh, yeah, the the
the budget specifically, and that's what I wanted to kind
of shift gears here too, because, uh, the the outsourcing
and and I'm sure there's so much of this that
is very normal, very standard, but the optics have just
been so bad with with how j CPS has gotten
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themselves into such a financial disaster that when I see
them once again another story about hiring an accounting firm
to identify the budget cuts, I mean again, and it's
probably it's probably what most school districts would do, regardless
of any kind of issue when it comes to their
budget or any kind of just day to day operations
when it comes to budget. But you're not in a
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position right now with JCPS to have situations that are standard,
But again, the optics of it are going to because
perception's reality and we all know that, and right now,
the perception of JCPS, I'm not sure in my lifetime
I can think of a time where it's been It's
been worse, and I really do feel for the man
that's in charge of getting it cleaned up, because look,
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you know he signed up for this, but did he?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But did he?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Doctor Yearwood? He knew the job as far as what
it was, and I'm sure he had a good understanding
of things that really needed to be emphasized if he
was going to be hired to be the superintendent. But
only he will know, and he'd never tell us, and
I wouldn't expect him to. I wouldn't ask him if
I had the chance, because it'd be foolish for him
to give an answer. But if he knew, because he's
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said he did not know the extent of the financial
crisis that JCPS had when he when he took the job,
only he will know deep down if he would have
actually taken it had he had all the information. And
it's such a convoluted mess because take away just the
overall financial the financial nightmare where they've got they've got
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a trim an insane amount of money that again could
potentially change how this entire school district exists. I mean,
there's one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit and
they've got to they've they've got to cut one hundred
and thirty two million in the next budget. Just saying
those numbers out loud is crazy, But I mean, you
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have now the inability to even truly know what the
deficit is. And that's why you're relying on it, because
you're relying on these these audits for people to truly
tell you, Okay, we think this is where we are,
but like, what is the actual deficit and we think
we need to cut this much? But is that when
percent accurate? So again, they approved the company of Alvarez
(05:06):
and Marshall Public Sector Services. That is the company that
is on this contract. It's a forty one five hundred
dollars audit contract. It is the second lowest bid out
of the five that came in and this work was
supposed to start by November thirteenth, but the board didn't
approve the contract until November eighteenth, earlier this week, already
missing the start window again. Probably not a huge deal,
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but it by optics, right, I mean, you just you
didn't approve the bid in order to get the project
started whenever you intended to get it started. And I
do try my best to to make it clear that
I'm not somebody that has been in this space before.
I'm I mean, there's way more to it than I
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will ever know and ever care to know. So easy
to be critical and point out things whenever you're just
you know, whenever you're not, You're not like I don't
have the solution. I guess that's what I'm trying to say.
But you don't have to be knowledgeable about any of
this to just look at where they are financially and
see these numbers and see he said, she said that
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has gone on as far as blame game, finger pointing,
and again you can be completely dejected and just see
that clearly this is a mess that has been made
and good luck cleaning it up. I said it before
they actually hired the new superintendent, and now we know
it as doctor Brian Yearwood, and I'll say it once
again now that he's been here on the job for months.
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Now I do not envy his situation at all. All right,
let's get to a quick time out, don't go anywhere.
Traffic and weather updates on the way as this gloomy
Thursday morning continues at news Radio eight forty whas. All right,
let's dive back into the porch pirate conversation we were
having earlier. So there's some things you can do to
prevent porch pirates from getting your holiday packages. I would say,
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if you are a porch pirate out there, this is
your time to shine, your time to guess, take advantage
of more packages being on front porches than the other
months throughout the year because of the holiday season. So
there's a c net survey that shows just how common
package theft has become, and again, what you can do
to keep your deliveries from being someone else's early Christmas gift.
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I didn't come up with that line that was in
the story I'm reading here, but well done. Right, let's
get to the data. So c nets surveyed a little
bit over twenty five hundred adults, and thirty percent say
they've had a package stolen in the past year or
they know someone who has. Fourteen percent say they were
the victim. Twenty one percent knows someone.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Who has been a victim.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The average value of holiday season deliveries. This surprised me.
Let's do a little trivia. I'm gonna put the company
man John Alden on the spot here. The average value
of holiday season delivery, So the average value of items
that are delivered any guests.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Because I will tell you I'm idiot, I was way
off one particular item, right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is this the average.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Value of any item that is on somebody's porch that
is a holiday delivery. I'm gonna say again, it could
be something worth five bucks, could be something worth you know,
one hundred. I'm gonna say about forty five dollars. I
would have been right around there, probably lower. It says
the average value of holiday season deliveries is three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now, wow, if this is taking into account like the
entire country. Obviously we live in an area of the
country that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Obviously, and obviously we feel more poor now than we
did five minutes ago. Right.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Of course, anytime we do these national surveys got money,
I always feel very.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, and they are a really good chance to kind
of just find a way to see kind of how
you can relate to the average. But it's also very
important to note that when you serve a twenty five
hundred people, that's a that's a teeny tiny a bit
of you know, bit of data. But yes, thieves are
they're not just swiping little little value items they're snipe
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They're they're getting things that have good value for either
themselves or for return. If I ordered something that cost
half of that, I would I would do whatever I mean,
I would.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I would have it set up to where I have
to sign for it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Like I just spent one hundred and twenty five dollars
on a new set of Christmas lights, and I thought
that was expensive.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I would too.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm with you, We're we're in the same lane, I
guess when it comes to that kind of stuff. But
it says here that when it comes to what gets stolen,
ten percent had a personal item taken, seven percent say
a gift was stolen.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then it says here that when.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It comes to adjusting things, twenty eight percent planned to
avoid leaving home for more than a few hours so
they can beat thieves to the porch. This also just
makes me just makes me think that others are dealing
with this worse than I mean, I've never had it
happen to me, but I know that it's a common thing,
more I guess now more common than I ever even realized.
But what you can do is have a real time
tracking set up to where you know as soon as
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it hits your porch and you can be mindful of
having somebody go pick it up.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Also, the video doorbell.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Systems, those are those coming handy for a variety of reasons,
this being one of them.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Also, delivery lock boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Didn't know it was a thing, makes total sense, heavy
duty secured boxes that thieves can't just pick up. And
then also in garage delivery, I don't know a whole
lot about that, but there is a service called Amazon
key that lets drivers place packages inside your garage. If
you trust them to do that, that would be the
full proof way of doing it. But I guess there's
plenty that wouldn't trust that, And there's also plenty that don't
have a garage all right, quick time out tracking weather
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Alex R. Whitepllc SU Distracted Driver dot com. Really quickly,
I wanted to hit on something that is easy to
forget if you're a college basketball fan, and maybe something
you didn't even realize because it's certainly it's implicated, and
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it's deep into the weeds, and it's nerdy stuff when
it comes to college hoops. But analytics has become a
very very very prevalent thing in sports overall, but in
college basketball, when it comes to putting together a resume
that'll get you a good seat and get you into
the NCAA tournament, you now have to be mindful of
how these analytics are used. So for example, you know Louisville,
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they knocked off the number one team in the kN
Pom just which, by the way, I love Ken Pom
For those who don't know, it's Kin Pomeroy. He's his
own statistical magician, and coaches in the industry of college
hoops follows his formula. And by the way, real quick,
whenever people claim, well, they're getting disrespected by the kenpommell,
I mean maybe, but do you realize, like, it's not
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one person's rankings, it's a formula, it's a computer, like,
it's not a there's not anybody with a built in
bias towards anybody. It's just crunching numbers. But nonetheless, Louisville
they didn't jump that much because again they they did
jump when they beat Kentucky, and Kentucky's fallen from number
one to number eleven. And the reason that they haven't
fallen further is because, yes, they did get beat and
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they got beat pretty handily the other night, and the
Louisville game wasn't even as close as the final score indicated.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But the reason they that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They're three and two overall but still a top eleven
team is because they're getting great value because it accounts
for who you play, so losing to good teams doesn't
even really hurt you, which is an issue right Winning
and losing needs to be factored in more. But if
you're a head coach and you just simply know how
it works and you only run with that, you're doing
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your job. So if you're scheduling based off of the
best way to get you, you know, a better analytic ranking,
that's what you're supposed to do. So for example, I
did see some complaints the other day, nothing, nothing big,
and it was just a couple of people online saying,
you know, can we work to get the walk Ons
in more than just twenty seconds? We were up thirty,
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you know, a few minutes left against Ohio, and I
hear you. But if you're Pat Kelsey, you you fell
because you you know, you didn't beat them enough. I
mean that score. I mean Louisville beat Ohio in that
game on Saturday, a game they never trailed, they were
they were rolling, and they won one oh six to
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eighty one. But because of these analytics, you need to
beat them by more than that or you're gonna fall.
And I always tried to emphasize this when I was
hosting a sports show. There are two conversations here. The
system itself is stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It is stupid. Nobody would distribute that. But it's the system.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is what it is, and you have to know
these are the rules, this is how it works. So
another fact, another issue that's happening is that because this
is the system and coaches now know this, this is
how you're gonna be judged. What you're seeing is you'll
play a team that's in the three hundred undreds because
you feel good that you'll beat them by like forty
and you'll benefit in these in these numbers. Well, now
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you can go play a team that is in like
the give me a middle of the pack, mid major
kind of program.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Let's just say, for some.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Reason, I always think of Quinnipiac when we do these
questions pack.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
They're random, they're more so lower level. But but then
again they could be like decent, like an Old Dominion.
They could yeah, Old Dominion, or let's say like a
Decayne who's in the A ten. Those are the kind
of teams that you are just wise to not schedule
because the scenario where you play them and jump up
is a very difficult one because you have to beat
their brains in. And so again, two conversations. The stupid
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system in formula where winning and losing is not factored
as much as it is. That's that's its separate issue.
But navigating what the guardrails are is it? So long
story short, those middle of the pack programs, among the
three hundred plus d ones, they're having a tough time
scheduling games and non conference because the big dogs don't
want to play them because they stand to benefit in
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no way unless they can can somehow beat them just
so badly. And then you've got also another issue here
that we'll see later on, because it happens every year.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You can play a you can play an eighteen game league,
a conference schedule, and let's say sixteen games in you
are four and twelve in your league, but your league
is loaded with good teams, and you play these teams competitively,
you can have a losing record and be a top
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thirty top thirty five team. Those that's the evidence that
tells you that it's fundamentally broken. It's stupid, it makes
no sense that, but the coaches can't control that, so
they just got to run with it the way it
is and try to put their teams in the best
situation possible for selection.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So you know Louisville, you know they play a style
where they're going to score a lot of points. They're
also going to give a lot give up a lot
of points on certain nights because that's just that's just
the that's just how you play. But at times that's
going to lead to you if you give up eighty
one points. Yeah you scored one oh six, but you
gave up eighty one. That's going to make it to
where your formula number is. It takes a little bit
of a hit. So just something to keep in mind.
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And I know that's a little deep into the weeds
and it may be too nerdy when it comes to
sports stuff, but it's a I think it's something that
unless you're a diehard college hoops fan, it's probably something
you're not really aware of. All right, quick time out,
we'll come back here on the other side and keep
this thing rolling along. It is Coffee and Company, and
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something we got to talk about a little bit later
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on because I wouldn't say that there's been legitimate controversy,
but at least I mean, again, how are we going
to in years, maybe even right now. Maybe we don't
need to wait years down the line. But people complaining
on the internet, like, we can't define that as controversy,
because people will complain on the internet about anything, right,
But what I'm getting to is the CMA Awards last
night a lot of reaction.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's probably the best way to put it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We'll talk about that a little bit later on, because
clearly country music has for years now seeing an injection
of artists that most would say are not country, and
it's been sort of selectively defined here and there. And
I get it, you know, I see certain artists and
(17:15):
hear certain songs that I'm thinking, I mean, you can
put it on this station, you can call it what
you want. This isn't country music. But I also realize
that doesn't mean that people don't like it or that
it's not good. You know, there are certain artists and
groups that really the first thing that comes to mind
(17:35):
for me is that, yeah, you can't really stick them
in any genre. You know, they can be they can
They're really just a mixture of a lot of things.
And the only time it becomes an issue, I suppose
this whenever they end up getting awards that people claim,
Wait a second, how are they even up for this?
But anyways, we'll do that a little bit later on.
What I want to do right now is tell you
about my good friend Bob Siccola and the Cecolar team
at Remax Properties East. Buying and selling a home, there's
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a lot that goes into it, and obviously you're going
to have a better process if you have somebody that
you can trust that's going to take care of everything
for you, but also just look out for you in
a way that others won't know that you may need
to pick up the phone and call them a few
times a day because you've got questions, maybe you get
(18:18):
worried about something. Bobsicoler and his team they understand that's
part of the process. They they let They let you
know you can reach out at any time. And the
market right now, the coverage of it has been has
been legitimate, meaning that it's not like it's fake news.
I mean, it is what it is as far as
interest rates and just the market being what it is.
But that does not mean you should just stay put
(18:41):
and not put your house up for sale. If you
want to get out of it or buy a home
if you found one that you believe is your dream home.
And that's where I think Bob and his team really excel,
among many other areas they excel in, is that they
can navigate this process to where you'll not only I
mean you'll understand and why Hey, yeah, I hear what
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my house and it'd be foolish not to take advantage
of that right now. So the coverage of the market
I think has clearly impacted the the proactiveness of folks
when it comes to being involved and buying and selling.
And I do understand that, but don't let that. Don't
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Reach out to Bob, talk to him, have a conversation,
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You can check them out online at we sell Louisville
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them out online. All right, we'll check out an update
of trafficking weather as this gloomy morning rolls along. Rain
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coming to later today, so be advised. Also, we've got
a sports update coming up right here at news Radio
eight forty whas
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is coffee and company, and we are fueled by
Thornton's here at News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you
so much for hanging out with us. Keep Thorton's in
mind when it comes to getting your day started. They've
got plenty of things that can help you stay fueled
for the day ahead. And we've talked a lot about
JCPS in recent months for a variety of reasons, mostly
(00:20):
because of their of their budget issue, which is really
its own it's its own world when it comes to
a big issue that really could fund could fundamentally change
what that whole overall school district looks like when it
comes to the cuts they're going to have to make.
But we've also got some updated test scores here that
I wanted to to run through here because obviously, when
(00:42):
you see the headline, it's not fake news, it's real
and it's uh, you know, it's it's not great. But
what I hope people realize is when it comes to
just measuring things like test scores, which of course are
very important for a variety of reasons, JCPS, there's no
compare prison, meaning there's no other school district in our
(01:02):
state that is any anything close to what JCPS is.
I guess Fayette would be Fayette County would be the
second biggest district. But if you look at the drastically
different sizes of those districts, I mean, there's JCPS is
really in its own world when it comes to the
state level. So again, the headline here is not a
(01:24):
great one, and that is that you see five percent. Yes,
since the report show here the JCPS are in the
bottom five percent statewide and overall performance with many of
their schools, So yeah, school classify schools classified under CSI
or in the bottom five percent. And twenty twenty two,
the number of JCPSCSI schools was thirty four. This year
it has risen to forty one. So there, it's clearly
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clearly gotten worse, and that's not good news. I'm not
trying to doctor this up as anything other than what
it actually is. But when you start to just compare
pure numbers in pure data with other school districts within
the state, I do think it is very import to
understand that j CPS is just it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
A different world.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, I guess that's the best way I could
think of to lay it out there for you. So again,
they'll never be a scenario where we're not keeping up
with things going on with j CPS, because again it's
it's a school district, the biggest school district in the state,
of course, and this this Lousville area. I mean, there's
many of you that have children that are there, there's
many of you that work there, are employees of j CPS. So, uh,
(02:27):
there's been a lot of different reasons. We've discussed them,
and that'll never really change. But uh, yeah, the the
the budget specifically, and that's what I wanted to kind
of shift gears here too, because, uh, the the outsourcing
and and I'm sure there's so much of this that
is very normal, very standard, but the optics have just
been so bad with with how j CPS has gotten
(02:50):
themselves into such a financial disaster that when I see
them once again another story about hiring an accounting firm
to identify the budget cuts, I mean again, and it's
probably it's probably what most school districts would do, regardless
of any kind of issue when it comes to their
budget or any kind of just day to day operations
when it comes to budget. But you're not in a
(03:12):
position right now with JCPS to have situations that are standard,
But again, the optics of it are going to because
perception's reality and we all know that, and right now,
the perception of JCPS, I'm not sure in my lifetime
I can think of a time where it's been It's
been worse, and I really do feel for the man
that's in charge of getting it cleaned up, because look,
(03:33):
you know he signed up for this, but did he?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But did he?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Doctor Yearwood? He knew the job as far as what
it was, and I'm sure he had a good understanding
of things that really needed to be emphasized if he
was going to be hired to be the superintendent. But
only he will know, and he'd never tell us, and
I wouldn't expect him to. I wouldn't ask him if
I had the chance, because it'd be foolish for him
to give an answer. But if he knew, because he's
(03:59):
said he did not know the extent of the financial
crisis that JCPS had when he when he took the job,
only he will know deep down if he would have
actually taken it had he had all the information. And
it's such a convoluted mess because take away just the
overall financial the financial nightmare where they've got they've got
(04:21):
a trim an insane amount of money that again could
potentially change how this entire school district exists. I mean,
there's one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit and
they've got to they've they've got to cut one hundred
and thirty two million in the next budget. Just saying
those numbers out loud is crazy, But I mean, you
(04:44):
have now the inability to even truly know what the
deficit is. And that's why you're relying on it, because
you're relying on these these audits for people to truly
tell you, Okay, we think this is where we are,
but like, what is the actual deficit and we think
we need to cut this much? But is that when
percent accurate? So again, they approved the company of Alvarez
(05:06):
and Marshall Public Sector Services. That is the company that
is on this contract. It's a forty one five hundred
dollars audit contract. It is the second lowest bid out
of the five that came in and this work was
supposed to start by November thirteenth, but the board didn't
approve the contract until November eighteenth, earlier this week, already
missing the start window again. Probably not a huge deal,
(05:30):
but it by optics, right, I mean, you just you
didn't approve the bid in order to get the project
started whenever you intended to get it started. And I
do try my best to to make it clear that
I'm not somebody that has been in this space before.
I'm I mean, there's way more to it than I
(05:50):
will ever know and ever care to know. So easy
to be critical and point out things whenever you're just
you know, whenever you're not, You're not like I don't
have the solution. I guess that's what I'm trying to say.
But you don't have to be knowledgeable about any of
this to just look at where they are financially and
see these numbers and see he said, she said that
(06:11):
has gone on as far as blame game, finger pointing,
and again you can be completely dejected and just see
that clearly this is a mess that has been made
and good luck cleaning it up. I said it before
they actually hired the new superintendent, and now we know
it as doctor Brian Yearwood, and I'll say it once
again now that he's been here on the job for months.
(06:31):
Now I do not envy his situation at all. All right,
let's get to a quick time out, don't go anywhere.
Traffic and weather updates on the way as this gloomy
Thursday morning continues at news Radio eight forty whas. All right,
let's dive back into the porch pirate conversation we were
having earlier. So there's some things you can do to
prevent porch pirates from getting your holiday packages. I would say,
(06:54):
if you are a porch pirate out there, this is
your time to shine, your time to guess, take advantage
of more packages being on front porches than the other
months throughout the year because of the holiday season. So
there's a c net survey that shows just how common
package theft has become, and again, what you can do
to keep your deliveries from being someone else's early Christmas gift.
(07:17):
I didn't come up with that line that was in
the story I'm reading here, but well done. Right, let's
get to the data. So c nets surveyed a little
bit over twenty five hundred adults, and thirty percent say
they've had a package stolen in the past year or
they know someone who has. Fourteen percent say they were
the victim. Twenty one percent knows someone.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Who has been a victim.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The average value of holiday season deliveries. This surprised me.
Let's do a little trivia. I'm gonna put the company
man John Alden on the spot here. The average value
of holiday season delivery, So the average value of items
that are delivered any guests.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Because I will tell you I'm idiot, I was way
off one particular item, right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is this the average.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Value of any item that is on somebody's porch that
is a holiday delivery. I'm gonna say again, it could
be something worth five bucks, could be something worth you know,
one hundred. I'm gonna say about forty five dollars. I
would have been right around there, probably lower. It says
the average value of holiday season deliveries is three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now, wow, if this is taking into account like the
entire country. Obviously we live in an area of the
country that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Obviously, and obviously we feel more poor now than we
did five minutes ago. Right.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Of course, anytime we do these national surveys got money,
I always feel very.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, and they are a really good chance to kind
of just find a way to see kind of how
you can relate to the average. But it's also very
important to note that when you serve a twenty five
hundred people, that's a that's a teeny tiny a bit
of you know, bit of data. But yes, thieves are
they're not just swiping little little value items they're snipe
(08:49):
They're they're getting things that have good value for either
themselves or for return. If I ordered something that cost
half of that, I would I would do whatever I mean,
I would.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I would have it set up to where I have
to sign for it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Like I just spent one hundred and twenty five dollars
on a new set of Christmas lights, and I thought
that was expensive.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I would too.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm with you, We're we're in the same lane, I
guess when it comes to that kind of stuff. But
it says here that when it comes to what gets stolen,
ten percent had a personal item taken, seven percent say
a gift was stolen.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then it says here that when.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It comes to adjusting things, twenty eight percent planned to
avoid leaving home for more than a few hours so
they can beat thieves to the porch. This also just
makes me just makes me think that others are dealing
with this worse than I mean, I've never had it
happen to me, but I know that it's a common thing,
more I guess now more common than I ever even realized.
But what you can do is have a real time
tracking set up to where you know as soon as
(09:43):
it hits your porch and you can be mindful of
having somebody go pick it up.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Also, the video doorbell.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Systems, those are those coming handy for a variety of reasons,
this being one of them.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Also, delivery lock boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Didn't know it was a thing, makes total sense, heavy
duty secured boxes that thieves can't just pick up. And
then also in garage delivery, I don't know a whole
lot about that, but there is a service called Amazon
key that lets drivers place packages inside your garage. If
you trust them to do that, that would be the
full proof way of doing it. But I guess there's
plenty that wouldn't trust that, And there's also plenty that don't
have a garage all right, quick time out tracking weather
(10:17):
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Alex R. Whitepllc SU Distracted Driver dot com. Really quickly,
I wanted to hit on something that is easy to
forget if you're a college basketball fan, and maybe something
you didn't even realize because it's certainly it's implicated, and
(11:00):
it's deep into the weeds, and it's nerdy stuff when
it comes to college hoops. But analytics has become a
very very very prevalent thing in sports overall, but in
college basketball, when it comes to putting together a resume
that'll get you a good seat and get you into
the NCAA tournament, you now have to be mindful of
how these analytics are used. So for example, you know Louisville,
(11:23):
they knocked off the number one team in the kN
Pom just which, by the way, I love Ken Pom
For those who don't know, it's Kin Pomeroy. He's his
own statistical magician, and coaches in the industry of college
hoops follows his formula. And by the way, real quick,
whenever people claim, well, they're getting disrespected by the kenpommell,
I mean maybe, but do you realize, like, it's not
(11:46):
one person's rankings, it's a formula, it's a computer, like,
it's not a there's not anybody with a built in
bias towards anybody. It's just crunching numbers. But nonetheless, Louisville
they didn't jump that much because again they they did
jump when they beat Kentucky, and Kentucky's fallen from number
one to number eleven. And the reason that they haven't
fallen further is because, yes, they did get beat and
(12:08):
they got beat pretty handily the other night, and the
Louisville game wasn't even as close as the final score indicated.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But the reason they that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They're three and two overall but still a top eleven
team is because they're getting great value because it accounts
for who you play, so losing to good teams doesn't
even really hurt you, which is an issue right Winning
and losing needs to be factored in more. But if
you're a head coach and you just simply know how
it works and you only run with that, you're doing
(12:37):
your job. So if you're scheduling based off of the
best way to get you, you know, a better analytic ranking,
that's what you're supposed to do. So for example, I
did see some complaints the other day, nothing, nothing big,
and it was just a couple of people online saying,
you know, can we work to get the walk Ons
in more than just twenty seconds? We were up thirty,
(13:00):
you know, a few minutes left against Ohio, and I
hear you. But if you're Pat Kelsey, you you fell
because you you know, you didn't beat them enough. I
mean that score. I mean Louisville beat Ohio in that
game on Saturday, a game they never trailed, they were
they were rolling, and they won one oh six to
(13:21):
eighty one. But because of these analytics, you need to
beat them by more than that or you're gonna fall.
And I always tried to emphasize this when I was
hosting a sports show. There are two conversations here. The
system itself is stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It is stupid. Nobody would distribute that. But it's the system.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is what it is, and you have to know
these are the rules, this is how it works. So
another fact, another issue that's happening is that because this
is the system and coaches now know this, this is
how you're gonna be judged. What you're seeing is you'll
play a team that's in the three hundred undreds because
you feel good that you'll beat them by like forty
and you'll benefit in these in these numbers. Well, now
(14:06):
you can go play a team that is in like
the give me a middle of the pack, mid major
kind of program.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Let's just say, for some.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Reason, I always think of Quinnipiac when we do these
questions pack.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
They're random, they're more so lower level. But but then
again they could be like decent, like an Old Dominion.
They could yeah, Old Dominion, or let's say like a
Decayne who's in the A ten. Those are the kind
of teams that you are just wise to not schedule
because the scenario where you play them and jump up
is a very difficult one because you have to beat
their brains in. And so again, two conversations. The stupid
(14:43):
system in formula where winning and losing is not factored
as much as it is. That's that's its separate issue.
But navigating what the guardrails are is it? So long
story short, those middle of the pack programs, among the
three hundred plus d ones, they're having a tough time
scheduling games and non conference because the big dogs don't
want to play them because they stand to benefit in
(15:04):
no way unless they can can somehow beat them just
so badly. And then you've got also another issue here
that we'll see later on, because it happens every year.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You can play a you can play an eighteen game league,
a conference schedule, and let's say sixteen games in you
are four and twelve in your league, but your league
is loaded with good teams, and you play these teams competitively,
you can have a losing record and be a top
(15:34):
thirty top thirty five team. Those that's the evidence that
tells you that it's fundamentally broken. It's stupid, it makes
no sense that, but the coaches can't control that, so
they just got to run with it the way it
is and try to put their teams in the best
situation possible for selection.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So you know Louisville, you know they play a style
where they're going to score a lot of points. They're
also going to give a lot give up a lot
of points on certain nights because that's just that's just
the that's just how you play. But at times that's
going to lead to you if you give up eighty
one points. Yeah you scored one oh six, but you
gave up eighty one. That's going to make it to
where your formula number is. It takes a little bit
of a hit. So just something to keep in mind.
(16:12):
And I know that's a little deep into the weeds
and it may be too nerdy when it comes to
sports stuff, but it's a I think it's something that
unless you're a diehard college hoops fan, it's probably something
you're not really aware of. All right, quick time out,
we'll come back here on the other side and keep
this thing rolling along. It is Coffee and Company, and
we are fiel about Thornton's at NewsRadio eight forty whas
something we got to talk about a little bit later
(16:33):
on because I wouldn't say that there's been legitimate controversy,
but at least I mean, again, how are we going
to in years, maybe even right now. Maybe we don't
need to wait years down the line. But people complaining
on the internet, like, we can't define that as controversy,
because people will complain on the internet about anything, right,
But what I'm getting to is the CMA Awards last
night a lot of reaction.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's probably the best way to put it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We'll talk about that a little bit later on, because
clearly country music has for years now seeing an injection
of artists that most would say are not country, and
it's been sort of selectively defined here and there. And
I get it, you know, I see certain artists and
(17:15):
hear certain songs that I'm thinking, I mean, you can
put it on this station, you can call it what
you want. This isn't country music. But I also realize
that doesn't mean that people don't like it or that
it's not good. You know, there are certain artists and
groups that really the first thing that comes to mind
(17:35):
for me is that, yeah, you can't really stick them
in any genre. You know, they can be they can
They're really just a mixture of a lot of things.
And the only time it becomes an issue, I suppose
this whenever they end up getting awards that people claim,
Wait a second, how are they even up for this?
But anyways, we'll do that a little bit later on.
What I want to do right now is tell you
about my good friend Bob Siccola and the Cecolar team
at Remax Properties East. Buying and selling a home, there's
(17:57):
a lot that goes into it, and obviously you're going
to have a better process if you have somebody that
you can trust that's going to take care of everything
for you, but also just look out for you in
a way that others won't know that you may need
to pick up the phone and call them a few
times a day because you've got questions, maybe you get
(18:18):
worried about something. Bobsicoler and his team they understand that's
part of the process. They they let They let you
know you can reach out at any time. And the
market right now, the coverage of it has been has
been legitimate, meaning that it's not like it's fake news.
I mean, it is what it is as far as
interest rates and just the market being what it is.
But that does not mean you should just stay put
(18:41):
and not put your house up for sale. If you
want to get out of it or buy a home
if you found one that you believe is your dream home.
And that's where I think Bob and his team really excel,
among many other areas they excel in, is that they
can navigate this process to where you'll not only I
mean you'll understand and why Hey, yeah, I hear what
(19:01):
the what the market looks like. But man, I stand
to really benefit and make a lot of money on
my house and it'd be foolish not to take advantage
of that right now. So the coverage of the market
I think has clearly impacted the the proactiveness of folks
when it comes to being involved and buying and selling.
And I do understand that, but don't let that. Don't
(19:22):
let that be the reason you don't do something right.
Reach out to Bob, talk to him, have a conversation,
and look, you may realize that you know, you might
want to wait a few months, or you may realize, hey,
I'm glad I picked up the phone and called Bob
and his team because they've now made this make a
lot more sense to me to where yes, my instincts
for right, I could put the house up for sale
and really take advantage and yeah, it's going to be
a high price point and that's really the reason you're
(19:43):
doing it. But they can put that home, the listing
in front of the type of buyers that want exactly
what you have, and that's that's the beauty and it all.
So again, it's the scholar team at Remax Properties East.
You can check them out online at we sell Louisville
dot com. And I'm sure I'm talking to some of
you right now that you know you're thinking, is he
(20:04):
talking to me? Yes, I'm talking to you because you've
probably thought about it. You know what, Man, this house
we never wanted to move, but cheese. You see the market,
well take advantage of it and Bob can help you
do that. So again, so Coola team at Remax Properties Ease,
We sell Louisville dot com. That's where you can check
them out online. All right, we'll check out an update
of trafficking weather as this gloomy morning rolls along. Rain
(20:24):
coming to later today, so be advised. Also, we've got
a sports update coming up right here at news Radio
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