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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Happy Tuesday, everybody, welcome in Kentucky and his morning news
here on News Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Whas Nick Coffee. That is me.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I would hope that by now you know my name.
If not, I'll continue to let you know my name again.
It's Nick Coffee. We've got Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden
as well as John Shannon, who'll give you your first
news update coming up in about thirty minutes. Fellas, how
we feeling good? Beautiful Tuesday, and I'm already off to
a rough start. I had their own microphone on.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You're fine due all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just wanted to get the first goof out of
the way. Now we're goof free the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Dude is guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It is going to get warm.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, summertime, I thought this was going to be the
first morning where I might have have scooped Bobby Ellis
are phenomenal traffic anchor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But he's on it. He's on it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I thought maybe it was something that happened recently and
he wouldn't know, but he knew that the light that
is out at first in Muhammad is something that he
should be sharing. So thank you to On Shannon for
mentioning that. So anyways, the first thing I noticed when
I get off of the Brooks exit, and it was.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
One of the good mornings for me.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, I did stop because when when there's no when
the light is not working at all, you treat it
as a stop sign.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, that's right?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay, So I think what happened was because I could
just stop and see that there was no other no
other cars, there was nobody.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was, you know, four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I then caught every green light, which has got to
be a good sign for the day that we're about
to have here. But when I was at that stop
light that wasn't working, essentially a stop sign. Did you
guys happen to notice if you come in on brook
Street the trash cans that were completely like dumped over?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Did you notice that? John? Were you? Were you?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Still?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I didn't get off right, you know, Saint Catherine's. I
don't know if this was due to the same thing.
There was a bunch of paper all in one area,
so I'm assuming that was some trash dumped over.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
What surprised me is that the the trash cans that
that I'm that I saw dumped over stood out because
it wasn't just your trash bin, it was the black
I thought it was kind of bolted somehow to the
to the concrete, because I don't these things, to my
knowledge of they don't just fall over, but somebody, somebody
was able to lift them up off the ground somehow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But it's just it's wild how in the morning, especially
when we're when we're getting here. Sometimes in the last
what seven eight days that I've been in this in
this position, in this role, getting up a lot earlier
than I'm usually used to getting up at.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've noticed that. It's just it's kind of peaceful being
downtown when there's nothing. I mean, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, it's it's interesting because you know, most people are
still asleep, but we're not. We're here ready to rock
and roll, and hopefully you guys are ready to do
are ready to do the same. So we will have
your first update of traffic and weather once again coming
up in a couple of minutes. We'll have sports at
around five twenty five. We'll talk at five forty five
with Rory O'Neill and continue to get the latest on
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the protests going on in California. As now, approximately seven
hundred US Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to
LA to assist. Last week it was Trump versus Elon Musk.
This week it is Trump versus Gavin Newsom. As Trump
has threatened to arrest the governor of California. So, oh jeez,
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that that's one of those things you just say it
out loud, You're like, well, come on, you're embellishing, you're.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Exaggerating for entertainment purposes.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, quite literally, he said he's threatened to arrest the
governor of California. So that's where we are. As far
as protests happening elsewhere. You said this yesterday, Scott, that
you'll you'll probably see him pop up in other areas.
Already happened in Louisville yesterday. Peaceful protests, of course, at
least that's that's what it seems. But we'll get into
that a little bit. And on the sports side, something
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that I want to hit on in just a few
minutes that you rarely ever see is a coach leaving
a position at the University of Kentucky to then take
a position a lower level position in fact, at the
rival school, which is the University of Louisville. You don't
see that really ever when it comes to vice versa.
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And that's what happened as Vince Marrow, a long time
Mark Stoops assistant a associate head coach for Kentucky. He's
had that role for a while now. News broke yesterday
from Pete Thamil of ESPN that the Big Dog, as
they call him, Mince Marrow will be making the trip
down sixty four and will be joining Jeff Brahms program
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in a different role, a role that I think is
very well suited for him, but it is in fact,
as far as the title and certainly the salary, it
is a step down. And it also has led to
because it's going to be an off the field role.
There's no buyout for UFL to go snag him. So
there's a lot of layers to this. But what it does,
more than anything, is it just kind of to me,
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it points to the momentum that Mark Stoops has built
and look the guy, regardless of how it ends, if
it does end anytime soon, he's already had success at
Kentucky when it comes to football. That I really never
thought anybody would have. But man momentum seems to be
at an all time low. For him to lose your
top guy to the rival after a disastrous season a
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year ago, vib's not great for Kentucky football. So we'll
hit on that next and a lot more. It is
Kentucky and His Morning News on news Radio eight forty whis.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Here at Kentucky and his Morning News, Nick Coffee with
you on news Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
We'll have our first update.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
On sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming up in about ten minutes.
I know he was up past his bedtime last night.
I don't know your bedtime, Scott, Yeah, I was. You're
up a watching Murray State. Don't you lie to me.
You've been caught. You've been caught too late.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was crazy, crazy ending to that game. It held
the drama even further. And you know, just because I've
covered this team.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You're around.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
They've been fun to watch. And just like the Louisville Cardinals,
you know, Murray State most hot more aboud. As we
get into sports, Murray State moving on to the College
World Series in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And it feels like they are Cinderella. I mean, I
always try to find I always find. I don't try
to do, it just happens to naturally. I always try
to compare what's going on in sports to a college
basketball because I'm a college basketball junkie. But as the
field is now set for Omaha, no doubt the Murray
State Racers.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They've got this.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They've got Cinderella slipper on and outside of of course,
the Volva Cardinals. I'm going to be pulling for the Racers,
and they look as if they'll they'll be able to compete.
They're off to such a great start, so nothing to lose,
nothing to bet here, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Represented by the male Bulldogs, Nick Shutty on the hill
for the Racers. So you got Madisonville North Hopkins is represented,
so a lot of a lot of local talent.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They are the darling, no doubt. I know we'll get
into that coming up here shortly. So the big news
yesterday this let me just back up. I guess a
few months ago, maybe actually longer than that, now that
we're into June, when Louisville season came to an end, really,
when college football season came to an end. There was
talk of Vince Marrow leaving his position on Mark Stoops's
staff at the University of Kentucky as the tight ends
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coach and associate head coach recruiting coordinator. He had a
lot of titles, and I just never believed that there
was any It just didn't If something just makes no
sense whatsoever to me, there's a good chance that it's
probably not true. And that's the way I viewed the
Vince Marrow to Louisville situation. So I guess I'll just
give you the news. He's leaving Kentucky and he's going
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to take a position on Jeff Brahm's staff at Louisville,
so leaving his longtime friend to go join the rival
when his longtime friend and I guess previous boss now
is really in a make or break year seemingly, which
we can get into that later, because I'm not sure
if it's if it's a break year, meaning where they
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don't make it and they don't win many games, I
just don't. I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But the amount of money that it would cost to
just flat out fire Mark Stoops is a lot of
money to any program, I would say, or at least
most of them. And also, you now are counting your
dollars more so than you ever have because you have
to share revenue. You've got a twenty million plus dollar
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annual bill every year where you're sharing revenue now like
your revenue is staying the same, and now you have
to share twenty million it with your with your student athletes.
So anyhow, just the thought to me, it made no
sense because he would have to take a pay cut.
There's no way Loisbell's going to pay him. Maybe I'm wrong,
I will stand corrected. It just the position that he's
taking on at U of L. It's an off the
field role. He's going to be the As far as
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the exact title, I'm not sure, but he's basically going
to oversee roster management, the transfer portal. He's basically going
to be the GM, which is a new position that
you're seeing within college programs because now you need that.
You've got the portal, you've got free agency, you've got
nil money. So it is a very important job. So
maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they are going to be able
to pay him what he was making. But he was
already one of the top assistant coaches in the SEC
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as far as salary, meaning Vince Marrow. So maybe he
is getting the same kind of money. But this move,
to me, more than anything, the talking point here it's
not just wow, he left Mark Stoops for the rivals,
it's that he's I mean that he's doing this because
there's been a fallout with him in Stoops to some extent,
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but also he's jumping shit before it gets even worse
than it already was. And for those who don't know
Vince Merrill's background, I mean he is believed to be
I don't want to say solely responsible, but mostly responsible
for bringing in the caliber player to Kentucky during the
Stoops era that Kentucky never used to get. And I
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don't want to act as if they've been bringing in
recruiting classes that are competing with the top dogs in
the SEC, like Alabama in Georgia or in the Big
Ten of Ohio State and Michigan. But for a Kentucky
program that had always been in the bottom tier of
the Southeastern Conference in football, they elevated from that. Now
I think at times maybe they believe they elevated further
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than they actually did, But still they went from being
a program that a three and nine, two and ten,
four and eight type of season wasn't really that uncommon
for them, and then they had some sustained success under
Marks Oops and and.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Zmar Vince Barrow was believed to be a big, big
part of that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And now when when they need a bounce back year
more than they ever have, he's gone.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Do you think he's able to bring some of those
recruits he was going to bring to Kentucky to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
There's already some talk about some guys that have that
may be decided maybe trying to flip because I mean
this it was maybe this isn't as unusual as I
believe that it was.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But with with.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Vince Marrow, I mean you'd have guys that it wasn't
just talking to friends or behind the scenes. They would
talk on camera on microphone and not take any shot
at Mark Stoops, But they also wouldn't hide the fact
that they were there because of Vince Marrow. So he's
clearly a great recruiter. And now he's uh, he's leaving
Kentucky to come to Louisville. Not something you see very often,
which by the way. There are a handful of examples
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of players coaches over the many years that have made
the jump from one to the other. I tracked down
a few of them. We'll get to that later because
there may be something I'm missing, But your next update
of trafficking weather is coming up right here, right now,
and we also have an update sports coming with Scott Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It is five thirty five here Kentucky in his morning
news with Nick Coffee on news radio eight forty whas.
We'll be joined in about ten minutes by Roy O'Neal
of NBC News, and we'll continue to ask him about
the latest as far as what's going on not just
in California, La San Francisco, but also elsewhere, because these
protests are probably going to be popping up all over
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the country, and obviously the attention right now is in California.
As Donald Trump has sent two thousand more National Guard
troops to LA and says that the it says the.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Let me let's see. Yeah. I thought it was seven hundred,
but then I was thinking that seems like a lot.
But no.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The Pentagon has also deployed seven hundred marines to shield
federal buildings and immigration agents. Official say the marines are
barred from police work the under a previous act. So this,
this is it's not gonna I don't I don't see
this ending anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It seems like it's gonna be a real fight. Donald
Trump is clearly set on what he wants to do
and wants to follow through with with the Immigration Act
in California is clearly resisting, which is why you had
the And it's not as if it's a surprise to
people that that Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump aren't exactly
on the same side. But these two Trump and Newsom,
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I mean, it turned into another another back and forth
via the internet yesterday. And when you see Donald Trump
threatened to arrest the governor of California, isn't it back
in the aren't we right back to the once again?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Is this real? Is this really happening? But but it is.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You know, and you'll get it's kind of like what
we saw on Bartstown Road. You know, same church, different pew.
But you know, we talked on this show about how
okay Barstown Road's gonna happen. People are gonna get out
of the system. They're gonna move on. These protests are
gonna happen, and they're gonna get bigger and maybe a
little bit more violent, but ultimately people are going to
move on to the next step. And that's not a
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bad thing. That's not saying whoever's representing the cause, whatever
side you sit on, is not worthy of your representation. However,
I've seen these things unfold before and they get white
hot for a while and then it just kind of
takes its own course.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They've got to run their they got to run their.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Course exactly just like we saw Barstown Road and it
ran its course and everything was back to normal. So
I'm glad the protests here in Louisville are peaceful. I
hope they stayed that way. It just sounds like in
California they just started escalating and escalating and escalating, and
you know, you've seen this before, nig I mean, they
get out of hand and next thing you know, you've
got serious problems, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So yesterday, Newsom called the deployment unconstitutional and inflammatory, claiming
local police had the situation under control. He's suing the
Trump administration alleging a violation of state sovereignty, and didn't
take long for Trump to respond to that and said
that Newsom could be arrested for gross incompetence. His press
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secretary said new some risks arrest if he obstructs federal
law enforcement, though no plans are confirmed. Newsome then fired
back on social media, daring Trump's borders are tom Holman
to arrest him and called it a move toward I mean,
it's just this is it's getting contentious between these two,
and I guess I'm not really surprised the more you
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think about it. And as far as the local protests
that started, I believe yesterday it was downtown near the
Mizzoli Federal Building, Metro Hall, a handful of different council
members that were there. Of course, they're opposing the ice
raids and Trump's immigration policies. Overall, so peaceful, certainly, and
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it doesn't sound as if they plan on stopping. And
it also doesn't sound as if they plan on having
these protests become non peaceful, but certainly something to monitor.
And as you said a moment ago, these when you
hear there's protests going on, I think a lot of
folks just all, well, you know, this could be clearly
people are protesting because they're very upset about something, they
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feel very strongly about it. And yes, there's much different
there's a lot of different ways actually to handle it
when it comes to protesting. But really these things will
run their course. You just hope that throughout it it's
you know, as smooth as possible, and with that you
really you really never know. But again, we'll talk more
about this coming up here in about five minutes with
Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Looking forward to our daily
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chat with Rory. We'll also get his thoughts on some
other things as well, so stick around. It is five
thirty nine. Your next update of traffic and weather is
right now at news Radio eight forty whas. It is
five forty six here at Kentucky and is morning news
on News Radio eight forty whas it It's time for
our daily chat with Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Rory,
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let's get the latest one something we just discussed yesterday,
and that is the unrest in California. Any big updates
since yesterday. It seems as if things are escalating. Maybe
I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well, it's sort of a mixed bag. Look, it was
another night of unrest of the police have an overwhelming
presence now in downtown Los Angeles, but it seems that
there are more agitators in the crowd. The people who
are stirring, the potty anarchists, seem to be increasing in number,
while the legitimate protesters, the political demonstrators exercising their First
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Amendment right, they seem to be backing off a little bit.
So that just seems to be anecdotal, But clearly police
are ramping up their activities, arresting more people and being
more aggressive about clearing the streets of these demonstrators.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So seven hundred US Marines have been sent back.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, So how rare is something like this in these situations?
Protests unfortunately have not been a rarity in recent years,
But how often does it get to this level where
they're calling upon seven hundred US Marines?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, the Marines being called up that may be crossing
the line for some now. The National Guard who have
been activated at the will of the President over the
objection of the governor. That's something we haven't seen since
the nineteen sixties. So you've got a total now of
four thousand National Guard troops activated, only a few hundred
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have been deployed to protect federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
The Marines being called up is slightly different. We haven't
really seen American Marines take up arms against fellow Americans
on US soil before, so that is we're getting into
some uncharted territory here. But we haven't seen the Marines
deployed to the streets either, So it's all a bit
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of a wait and see. And look, the administration does
want to show it, and I say the Trump administration
wants to show its teeth. It wants to I don't
want to say silence protesters, but it wants protesters off
the streets, you know. And if you want to have
organized demonstrations as their co ordinated with local government's fine.
But the kind of chaos we're seeing in parts of
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downtown LA is not acceptable.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Rory Riy O'Neil of NBC News is our guest joining
us here on News Radio eight forty whas anti Trump
demonstrations seems as if those may ramp up nationally as
we get into Saturday's military parade in Washington, DC. I
would imagine the Trump administration is making sure they're as
prepared as possible for this.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would assume well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Right, and remember June fourteenth, Flag Day, birthday of the
US military, two hundred and fifty years ago. President Trump
orders this military parade to happen through the streets of Washington, DC.
Lots of military hardware will be on display for Saturday,
which also happens to be his birthday. But in coordination
with that, or in response to that, we're seeing lots
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of anti Trump demonstrations being organized all across the country.
So what's happening in LA may feed into that this
anti administration kind of anger that might be growing this week.
So that's something that we're tracking, especially in the Blue
States where these anti Trump demonstrations could become significant.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Actuum A scheduled to launch a four person crew to
the International Space Station this morning. What is the future
of the ISS in light of Russia's war with Ukraine
and of course Elon Musk pulling out his government contractor
revides Shuttle service to the space station. What's the latest
on this.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, so the Axiom launch had to be postponed today.
They're going to try again tomorrow due to some weather
issues off the coast in the emergency landing zone. So
if there were a problem and the crew had to reject,
that's where the bad weather is over the Atlantic. So
they will hopefully try again tomorrow, but still lots of
long term questions. You know, they are making plans to
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deorbit and destroy the International Space Station. It's more than
twenty five years old. Some stay its outlived its usefulness
or it's going to need some significant upgrades to keep
on going. And you know Elon Muskin SpaceX have actually
won the contract to destroy the space station. NASA is
hoping to find commercial partners out there to keep it going.
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Of course, NASA has no administrator right now and hasn't
since January twentieth, so that agency is almost to drift
as they try to figure out who the next leader
will be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Rory is always appreciate your time. Always enjoyed the conversation,
and enjoy the rest of your day, my friend.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Thanks Nick, talk to you tomorrow. Right.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That's Rory O'Neil of NBC News Again. Always enjoy chatting
with him.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Marines being called upon to assist in LA that felt
like a different type of thing as far as responding
to protests, and of course are they peaceful? Are they
not peaceful? I mean, I think people make their own conclusion.
I know I certainly have my opinion on what I
see and if I believe it is peaceful or not.
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So this is probably not going to go away anytime soon.
But again, things got to run their course, and that's
that's certainly what we have here.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
All right, let's take a quick time out.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
We've got traffic and weather coming your way, and also
another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald. It's Kentucky This
Morning News on news Radio eight forty whas
All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Happy Tuesday, everybody, welcome in Kentucky and his morning news
here on News Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Whas Nick Coffee. That is me.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I would hope that by now you know my name.
If not, I'll continue to let you know my name again.
It's Nick Coffee. We've got Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden
as well as John Shannon, who'll give you your first
news update coming up in about thirty minutes. Fellas, how
we feeling good? Beautiful Tuesday, and I'm already off to
a rough start. I had their own microphone on.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You're fine due all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just wanted to get the first goof out of
the way. Now we're goof free the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Dude is guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It is going to get warm.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, summertime, I thought this was going to be the
first morning where I might have have scooped Bobby Ellis
are phenomenal traffic anchor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But he's on it. He's on it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I thought maybe it was something that happened recently and
he wouldn't know, but he knew that the light that
is out at first in Muhammad is something that he
should be sharing. So thank you to On Shannon for
mentioning that. So anyways, the first thing I noticed when
I get off of the Brooks exit, and it was.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
One of the good mornings for me.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, I did stop because when when there's no when
the light is not working at all, you treat it
as a stop sign.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, that's right?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay, So I think what happened was because I could
just stop and see that there was no other no
other cars, there was nobody.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was, you know, four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I then caught every green light, which has got to
be a good sign for the day that we're about
to have here. But when I was at that stop
light that wasn't working, essentially a stop sign. Did you
guys happen to notice if you come in on brook
Street the trash cans that were completely like dumped over?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Did you notice that? John? Were you? Were you?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Still?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I didn't get off right, you know, Saint Catherine's. I
don't know if this was due to the same thing.
There was a bunch of paper all in one area,
so I'm assuming that was some trash dumped over.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
What surprised me is that the the trash cans that
that I'm that I saw dumped over stood out because
it wasn't just your trash bin, it was the black
I thought it was kind of bolted somehow to the
to the concrete, because I don't these things, to my
knowledge of they don't just fall over, but somebody, somebody
was able to lift them up off the ground somehow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But it's just it's wild how in the morning, especially
when we're when we're getting here. Sometimes in the last
what seven eight days that I've been in this in
this position, in this role, getting up a lot earlier
than I'm usually used to getting up at.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've noticed that. It's just it's kind of peaceful being
downtown when there's nothing. I mean, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, it's it's interesting because you know, most people are
still asleep, but we're not. We're here ready to rock
and roll, and hopefully you guys are ready to do
are ready to do the same. So we will have
your first update of traffic and weather once again coming
up in a couple of minutes. We'll have sports at
around five twenty five. We'll talk at five forty five
with Rory O'Neill and continue to get the latest on
(02:50):
the protests going on in California. As now, approximately seven
hundred US Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to
LA to assist. Last week it was Trump versus Elon Musk.
This week it is Trump versus Gavin Newsom. As Trump
has threatened to arrest the governor of California. So, oh jeez,
(03:12):
that that's one of those things you just say it
out loud, You're like, well, come on, you're embellishing, you're.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Exaggerating for entertainment purposes.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
No, quite literally, he said he's threatened to arrest the
governor of California. So that's where we are. As far
as protests happening elsewhere. You said this yesterday, Scott, that
you'll you'll probably see him pop up in other areas.
Already happened in Louisville yesterday. Peaceful protests, of course, at
least that's that's what it seems. But we'll get into
that a little bit. And on the sports side, something
(03:42):
that I want to hit on in just a few
minutes that you rarely ever see is a coach leaving
a position at the University of Kentucky to then take
a position a lower level position in fact, at the
rival school, which is the University of Louisville. You don't
see that really ever when it comes to vice versa.
(04:03):
And that's what happened as Vince Marrow, a long time
Mark Stoops assistant a associate head coach for Kentucky. He's
had that role for a while now. News broke yesterday
from Pete Thamil of ESPN that the Big Dog, as
they call him, Mince Marrow will be making the trip
down sixty four and will be joining Jeff Brahms program
(04:24):
in a different role, a role that I think is
very well suited for him, but it is in fact,
as far as the title and certainly the salary, it
is a step down. And it also has led to
because it's going to be an off the field role.
There's no buyout for UFL to go snag him. So
there's a lot of layers to this. But what it does,
more than anything, is it just kind of to me,
(04:45):
it points to the momentum that Mark Stoops has built
and look the guy, regardless of how it ends, if
it does end anytime soon, he's already had success at
Kentucky when it comes to football. That I really never
thought anybody would have. But man momentum seems to be
at an all time low. For him to lose your
top guy to the rival after a disastrous season a
(05:07):
year ago, vib's not great for Kentucky football. So we'll
hit on that next and a lot more. It is
Kentucky and His Morning News on news Radio eight forty whis.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Here at Kentucky and his Morning News, Nick Coffee with
you on news Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
We'll have our first update.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
On sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming up in about ten minutes.
I know he was up past his bedtime last night.
I don't know your bedtime, Scott, Yeah, I was. You're
up a watching Murray State. Don't you lie to me.
You've been caught. You've been caught too late.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was crazy, crazy ending to that game. It held
the drama even further. And you know, just because I've
covered this team.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You're around.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
They've been fun to watch. And just like the Louisville Cardinals,
you know, Murray State most hot more aboud. As we
get into sports, Murray State moving on to the College
World Series in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And it feels like they are Cinderella. I mean, I
always try to find I always find. I don't try
to do, it just happens to naturally. I always try
to compare what's going on in sports to a college
basketball because I'm a college basketball junkie. But as the
field is now set for Omaha, no doubt the Murray
State Racers.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They've got this.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They've got Cinderella slipper on and outside of of course,
the Volva Cardinals. I'm going to be pulling for the Racers,
and they look as if they'll they'll be able to compete.
They're off to such a great start, so nothing to lose,
nothing to bet here, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Represented by the male Bulldogs, Nick Shutty on the hill
for the Racers. So you got Madisonville North Hopkins is represented,
so a lot of a lot of local talent.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They are the darling, no doubt. I know we'll get
into that coming up here shortly. So the big news
yesterday this let me just back up. I guess a
few months ago, maybe actually longer than that, now that
we're into June, when Louisville season came to an end, really,
when college football season came to an end. There was
talk of Vince Marrow leaving his position on Mark Stoops's
staff at the University of Kentucky as the tight ends
(06:50):
coach and associate head coach recruiting coordinator. He had a
lot of titles, and I just never believed that there
was any It just didn't If something just makes no
sense whatsoever to me, there's a good chance that it's
probably not true. And that's the way I viewed the
Vince Marrow to Louisville situation. So I guess I'll just
give you the news. He's leaving Kentucky and he's going
(07:10):
to take a position on Jeff Brahm's staff at Louisville,
so leaving his longtime friend to go join the rival
when his longtime friend and I guess previous boss now
is really in a make or break year seemingly, which
we can get into that later, because I'm not sure
if it's if it's a break year, meaning where they
(07:33):
don't make it and they don't win many games, I
just don't. I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But the amount of money that it would cost to
just flat out fire Mark Stoops is a lot of
money to any program, I would say, or at least
most of them. And also, you now are counting your
dollars more so than you ever have because you have
to share revenue. You've got a twenty million plus dollar
(07:54):
annual bill every year where you're sharing revenue now like
your revenue is staying the same, and now you have
to share twenty million it with your with your student athletes.
So anyhow, just the thought to me, it made no
sense because he would have to take a pay cut.
There's no way Loisbell's going to pay him. Maybe I'm wrong,
I will stand corrected. It just the position that he's
taking on at U of L. It's an off the
field role. He's going to be the As far as
(08:17):
the exact title, I'm not sure, but he's basically going
to oversee roster management, the transfer portal. He's basically going
to be the GM, which is a new position that
you're seeing within college programs because now you need that.
You've got the portal, you've got free agency, you've got
nil money. So it is a very important job. So
maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they are going to be able
to pay him what he was making. But he was
already one of the top assistant coaches in the SEC
(08:40):
as far as salary, meaning Vince Marrow. So maybe he
is getting the same kind of money. But this move,
to me, more than anything, the talking point here it's
not just wow, he left Mark Stoops for the rivals,
it's that he's I mean that he's doing this because
there's been a fallout with him in Stoops to some extent,
(09:03):
but also he's jumping shit before it gets even worse
than it already was. And for those who don't know
Vince Merrill's background, I mean he is believed to be
I don't want to say solely responsible, but mostly responsible
for bringing in the caliber player to Kentucky during the
Stoops era that Kentucky never used to get. And I
(09:25):
don't want to act as if they've been bringing in
recruiting classes that are competing with the top dogs in
the SEC, like Alabama in Georgia or in the Big
Ten of Ohio State and Michigan. But for a Kentucky
program that had always been in the bottom tier of
the Southeastern Conference in football, they elevated from that. Now
I think at times maybe they believe they elevated further
(09:48):
than they actually did, But still they went from being
a program that a three and nine, two and ten,
four and eight type of season wasn't really that uncommon
for them, and then they had some sustained success under
Marks Oops and and.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Zmar Vince Barrow was believed to be a big, big
part of that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And now when when they need a bounce back year
more than they ever have, he's gone.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Do you think he's able to bring some of those
recruits he was going to bring to Kentucky to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
There's already some talk about some guys that have that
may be decided maybe trying to flip because I mean
this it was maybe this isn't as unusual as I
believe that it was.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But with with.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Vince Marrow, I mean you'd have guys that it wasn't
just talking to friends or behind the scenes. They would
talk on camera on microphone and not take any shot
at Mark Stoops, But they also wouldn't hide the fact
that they were there because of Vince Marrow. So he's
clearly a great recruiter. And now he's uh, he's leaving
Kentucky to come to Louisville. Not something you see very often,
which by the way. There are a handful of examples
(10:47):
of players coaches over the many years that have made
the jump from one to the other. I tracked down
a few of them. We'll get to that later because
there may be something I'm missing, But your next update
of trafficking weather is coming up right here, right now,
and we also have an update sports coming with Scott Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It is five thirty five here Kentucky in his morning
news with Nick Coffee on news radio eight forty whas.
We'll be joined in about ten minutes by Roy O'Neal
of NBC News, and we'll continue to ask him about
the latest as far as what's going on not just
in California, La San Francisco, but also elsewhere, because these
protests are probably going to be popping up all over
(11:30):
the country, and obviously the attention right now is in California.
As Donald Trump has sent two thousand more National Guard
troops to LA and says that the it says the.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Let me let's see. Yeah. I thought it was seven hundred,
but then I was thinking that seems like a lot.
But no.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The Pentagon has also deployed seven hundred marines to shield
federal buildings and immigration agents. Official say the marines are
barred from police work the under a previous act. So this,
this is it's not gonna I don't I don't see
this ending anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It seems like it's gonna be a real fight. Donald
Trump is clearly set on what he wants to do
and wants to follow through with with the Immigration Act
in California is clearly resisting, which is why you had
the And it's not as if it's a surprise to
people that that Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump aren't exactly
on the same side. But these two Trump and Newsom,
(12:26):
I mean, it turned into another another back and forth
via the internet yesterday. And when you see Donald Trump
threatened to arrest the governor of California, isn't it back
in the aren't we right back to the once again?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Is this real? Is this really happening? But but it is.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You know, and you'll get it's kind of like what
we saw on Bartstown Road. You know, same church, different pew.
But you know, we talked on this show about how
okay Barstown Road's gonna happen. People are gonna get out
of the system. They're gonna move on. These protests are
gonna happen, and they're gonna get bigger and maybe a
little bit more violent, but ultimately people are going to
move on to the next step. And that's not a
(13:05):
bad thing. That's not saying whoever's representing the cause, whatever
side you sit on, is not worthy of your representation. However,
I've seen these things unfold before and they get white
hot for a while and then it just kind of
takes its own course.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They've got to run their they got to run their.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Course exactly just like we saw Barstown Road and it
ran its course and everything was back to normal. So
I'm glad the protests here in Louisville are peaceful. I
hope they stayed that way. It just sounds like in
California they just started escalating and escalating and escalating, and
you know, you've seen this before, nig I mean, they
get out of hand and next thing you know, you've
got serious problems, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So yesterday, Newsom called the deployment unconstitutional and inflammatory, claiming
local police had the situation under control. He's suing the
Trump administration alleging a violation of state sovereignty, and didn't
take long for Trump to respond to that and said
that Newsom could be arrested for gross incompetence. His press
(14:02):
secretary said new some risks arrest if he obstructs federal
law enforcement, though no plans are confirmed. Newsome then fired
back on social media, daring Trump's borders are tom Holman
to arrest him and called it a move toward I mean,
it's just this is it's getting contentious between these two,
and I guess I'm not really surprised the more you
(14:22):
think about it. And as far as the local protests
that started, I believe yesterday it was downtown near the
Mizzoli Federal Building, Metro Hall, a handful of different council
members that were there. Of course, they're opposing the ice
raids and Trump's immigration policies. Overall, so peaceful, certainly, and
(14:44):
it doesn't sound as if they plan on stopping. And
it also doesn't sound as if they plan on having
these protests become non peaceful, but certainly something to monitor.
And as you said a moment ago, these when you
hear there's protests going on, I think a lot of
folks just all, well, you know, this could be clearly
people are protesting because they're very upset about something, they
(15:05):
feel very strongly about it. And yes, there's much different
there's a lot of different ways actually to handle it
when it comes to protesting. But really these things will
run their course. You just hope that throughout it it's
you know, as smooth as possible, and with that you
really you really never know. But again, we'll talk more
about this coming up here in about five minutes with
Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Looking forward to our daily
(15:27):
chat with Rory. We'll also get his thoughts on some
other things as well, so stick around. It is five
thirty nine. Your next update of traffic and weather is
right now at news Radio eight forty whas. It is
five forty six here at Kentucky and is morning news
on News Radio eight forty whas it It's time for
our daily chat with Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Rory,
(15:50):
let's get the latest one something we just discussed yesterday,
and that is the unrest in California. Any big updates
since yesterday. It seems as if things are escalating. Maybe
I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well, it's sort of a mixed bag. Look, it was
another night of unrest of the police have an overwhelming
presence now in downtown Los Angeles, but it seems that
there are more agitators in the crowd. The people who
are stirring, the potty anarchists, seem to be increasing in number,
while the legitimate protesters, the political demonstrators exercising their First
(16:25):
Amendment right, they seem to be backing off a little bit.
So that just seems to be anecdotal, But clearly police
are ramping up their activities, arresting more people and being
more aggressive about clearing the streets of these demonstrators.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So seven hundred US Marines have been sent back.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, So how rare is something like this in these situations?
Protests unfortunately have not been a rarity in recent years,
But how often does it get to this level where
they're calling upon seven hundred US Marines?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, the Marines being called up that may be crossing
the line for some now. The National Guard who have
been activated at the will of the President over the
objection of the governor. That's something we haven't seen since
the nineteen sixties. So you've got a total now of
four thousand National Guard troops activated, only a few hundred
(17:21):
have been deployed to protect federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
The Marines being called up is slightly different. We haven't
really seen American Marines take up arms against fellow Americans
on US soil before, so that is we're getting into
some uncharted territory here. But we haven't seen the Marines
deployed to the streets either, So it's all a bit
(17:43):
of a wait and see. And look, the administration does
want to show it, and I say the Trump administration
wants to show its teeth. It wants to I don't
want to say silence protesters, but it wants protesters off
the streets, you know. And if you want to have
organized demonstrations as their co ordinated with local government's fine.
But the kind of chaos we're seeing in parts of
(18:05):
downtown LA is not acceptable.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Rory Riy O'Neil of NBC News is our guest joining
us here on News Radio eight forty whas anti Trump
demonstrations seems as if those may ramp up nationally as
we get into Saturday's military parade in Washington, DC. I
would imagine the Trump administration is making sure they're as
prepared as possible for this.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would assume well.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Right, and remember June fourteenth, Flag Day, birthday of the
US military, two hundred and fifty years ago. President Trump
orders this military parade to happen through the streets of Washington, DC.
Lots of military hardware will be on display for Saturday,
which also happens to be his birthday. But in coordination
with that, or in response to that, we're seeing lots
(18:49):
of anti Trump demonstrations being organized all across the country.
So what's happening in LA may feed into that this
anti administration kind of anger that might be growing this week.
So that's something that we're tracking, especially in the Blue
States where these anti Trump demonstrations could become significant.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Actuum A scheduled to launch a four person crew to
the International Space Station this morning. What is the future
of the ISS in light of Russia's war with Ukraine
and of course Elon Musk pulling out his government contractor
revides Shuttle service to the space station. What's the latest
on this.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, so the Axiom launch had to be postponed today.
They're going to try again tomorrow due to some weather
issues off the coast in the emergency landing zone. So
if there were a problem and the crew had to reject,
that's where the bad weather is over the Atlantic. So
they will hopefully try again tomorrow, but still lots of
long term questions. You know, they are making plans to
(19:47):
deorbit and destroy the International Space Station. It's more than
twenty five years old. Some stay its outlived its usefulness
or it's going to need some significant upgrades to keep
on going. And you know Elon Muskin SpaceX have actually
won the contract to destroy the space station. NASA is
hoping to find commercial partners out there to keep it going.
(20:08):
Of course, NASA has no administrator right now and hasn't
since January twentieth, so that agency is almost to drift
as they try to figure out who the next leader
will be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Rory is always appreciate your time. Always enjoyed the conversation,
and enjoy the rest of your day, my friend.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Thanks Nick, talk to you tomorrow. Right.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That's Rory O'Neil of NBC News Again. Always enjoy chatting
with him.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Marines being called upon to assist in LA that felt
like a different type of thing as far as responding
to protests, and of course are they peaceful? Are they
not peaceful? I mean, I think people make their own conclusion.
I know I certainly have my opinion on what I
see and if I believe it is peaceful or not.
(20:54):
So this is probably not going to go away anytime soon.
But again, things got to run their course, and that's
that's certainly what we have here.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
All right, let's take a quick time out.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
We've got traffic and weather coming your way, and also
another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald. It's Kentucky This
Morning News on news Radio eight forty whas
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