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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky and and welcome in. It is Kentucky
and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news radio
eight forty WHAS five five here on a Thursday, June
the twelfth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The full crew is assembled.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We've got Scott Fitzgerald, the one and only mister John Alden,
and John Shannon, who will have your first news update
coming up around five thirty. How many days have I
been in the new role here? This makes I believe
the ninth show if I can count, it is I
can count. It's early in the morning star I can't count.
So one of the many differences in this than what
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I did for nearly a decade on seven ninety doing
sports is interaction and engagement, which I get it. That's
really not what this is to the extent that what
it is on sports talk. But we do have something
I need to start really pushing, which is a way
to mix in some interaction from listeners that listen to
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us via the iHeartRadio app, which I'll give you another
plug here. You can listen to us anytime anywhere on
the ahet Radio app. Also listen live at WHAS dot com.
But we have within the Aheart Radio app a feature
called the talkback feature. So if you listen on the
app and you you know, you pull it up and
you see the station with that beautiful logo eight forty whas,
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you'll see a microphone, and on that microphone, if you
click the microphone, it'll then prompt you to record something.
I think you have up to thirty seconds to send
something in and when you do that, it goes directly
to us here within this portal, this talkback portal. I
guess that's the best way to describe it. And then
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we can we can listen to feedback. And I don't
mean necessarily feedback on the show, which again what I
used to say on seven ninety questions, complaints, compliments, insults,
whatever you have, feel free to send them our way.
But I know that's not necessarily what this is to
the same to the same level. But if we're talking
about something, which again we've got four hours with you,
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there's a lot of things to come up. You have
some thoughts, you want to share your perspective, there's always
a chance, you know, we can mix in that, and
we're going to try to do that here and there.
I don't know exactly to the level of of you
know how often you'll hear feedback from from you know,
listeners that want to share thoughts on what's going on.
But it is an option, and I feel like that's
the best way we can include some engagement within the
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show that that really hasn't been there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, I shouldn't say that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Maybe there has been some engagement. I know, Scott, you've
got a lot of people who've been loyal listeners of you,
to you and all sort of just this station for
a long long time. That that will give you feedback
in different ways on social media, and I hope they
still do that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I have the same thing on my end.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
As far as folks who reach out via Facebook, X Slash, Twitter,
that kind of thing. But this is this is the
This is an easy way for us to just, you know,
you record something. It comes to us. We are told
we have to listen to it before we have play it,
which you do. I feel like it's a no brainer.
I feel like it's something you would just assume that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You have to do. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I'm sure there have been some that maybe listened to
the first half of the thirty second clip and then
realized they didn't get to the end of it, and
you know what, they had to hit the dump button
and all that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What it replaces is we used to have folks. When
I first started this gig long long ago, I think
it was with Bob's Cohler. They you could tell folks
would be up drinking all night and we get the
weirdest calls. Dude. And now when I saw that and
I started using that, I go back and listen to
some of this. You can tell people that clearly. I mean,
it's the term drunk dialing. We had drunk texting, drunk dialing,
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and there's people that are all night and one guy
used to call me, oh, liquid courage, Yeah exactly. One
guy used to call me every morning, like right around
five to ten, and my man had been hitting a bottle.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Clearly.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, at this time, there was no way to interact
with with any type of radio other than picking up
the phone and hoping that somebody answers it. Now it's
an insanely different world. And yeah, you mentioned drunk dialing.
I'm gonna I'm gonna miss my well, I almost lied.
I don't want to lie. I'll miss it to an extent.
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I'm also going to enjoy the weekends where I can
spend time with my family. But when I would do
postgame shows for Louisville football and basketball, especially football if
it was a I mean, football is a four hour
game if it's at four hour event, So it wouldn't
be a shocker that maybe seventy five percent of the
callers on some nights on a Friday, especially a Friday,
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but sometimes even a Saturday, that they you could tell
they were a little sauced as we as we would
get the postgame show started, and that that always left
the door open for us to go in a lot
of different directions and it made it kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But yeah, but that talk back feature you're talking about
is very cool, Nick in a lot of ways because
if you're a lot of people are out and about driving,
and I mentioned you off the year where we get
real busys when we have storm damage or we have
a bad like sixty five gets shut down and folks
can access through.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That, Yeah, I know they could be a resource for us,
and this is the easiest, most convenient way for that
to happen. So again, questions, compliance, compliments, insults. Again, We're
not afraid of compliments. Although trust me, we're not going
to just I'm winking at Scott. We're not just going
to play the compliments that come in on the show.
But all right, let's get another update. In fact, it's
our first update within the show here of traffic and weather.
(05:21):
We'll talk to Roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five.
Scott Fitzgerald's got sports coming your way in fifteen minutes,
and we hope you stick with us. It is Kentucky
This Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh my god, I feel like I'm like it. This
is like the last song after the Friday night dance
at the basketball game, and you're scrambling trying to find
somebody to awkwardly dance with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I love how within milliseconds. Maybe there's certain songs that
is as soon as Scott hears yeah enough to know
what the song is, and it usually doesn't take long.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You go to a place. Oh, Gally, John is an
ace with the music I got you you.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You have an ear for this more than I've ever
at least with the people we have here at our
station and pick up on play.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yet, before he realized what song it was, I knew
what it was, dude, I mean he was he was
reacting before we had Mike Song because he just this
is this is.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
His shraumaty No, I was traumatized in high school by this.
I was the guy looking for somebody to dance with.
Nobody dances anymore, right, did they still have school dances?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Somebody? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't think we sound like dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They have.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They gotta have some kind of dance, right like that Prom?
Well yeah, but Prom's not even prom anymore. The guys
go over here, the girls go over here, and then
nobody talks to each other until the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
If I was a fly on the wall at a
let's say, a football homecoming dance, if those still exists,
I would just imagine it's everybody on their phones. It's
pretty much abody, just like you know, sending snapchats to
each other while in the gymnasium together just twenty feet apart.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Like I can see that. What did we spend on myself?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We spent man, I'm getting old. I'm just I'm criticizing
the younger generation. Back in my day, we we actually
we didn't dance either. I think my generation might have
killed the dancing, Scott, because we just hovered around, and
when we did dance, it was more of like a
a hug with enough distance because the teachers were going
to make sure we weren't getting too close to each other.
And then we would just kind of awkwardly, very slowly
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sway and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then that was it. One you had one of you
had nasty breath, so you were trying to I was
it was too much cologne? That was really?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What was your go to?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
John?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you remember?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I don't remember what the brand was. It might have
been just like an air apostle or something.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, that works.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't do clone anymore though, because of that. Really,
so don't do a period.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So you really So this was a real experience, Okay,
So it wasn't like you just Yeah, I was the
guy with too much clone like you were told you
were the guy with too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Much and in front of man, did you wear it?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
In fact, I would wear cologne, believe it or not.
You guys, Scott, you may remember this. John, you have
to be too young. Michael Jordan had a cologne. Yeah,
and I'm not sure if it smelt like sewage or
if it smelled great, but it was Michael Jordan's cologne.
So we wore it and I don't remember if it again,
I don't remember if it smelled great, but if it
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was the I mean, Jordan was Jordan in the nineties,
that just if you know, you know, But I didn't
realize this, you know, before five twenty am. We're we're
going back in time and revisiting opening up some old
wounds with Scott being left alone on the dance floor
and John being the guy with too much cologne.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do you know bon Jovi was gonna take us in cologne.
Axe kind of replaced cologne, and now Axe is out
the door. Old spices back in, dude, really to my son,
almost like body washed.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
They I used old spice deodorant, and I'm sure they've
got all the different type of fragrance men's products, but
old spice is solid.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That used to be. Yeah, I see, I'm I'm I'm
to degree. Okay, I got to go with degree. But
you guys were talking about cologne and now, just for
old times sake, it's still in the stores. I smelled
it when I was and it brought back so many flashbacks.
It was poloed your car and gray flannel. Never heard
of them, never heard of it, Vanetio.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Though it sounds like we've got we've got different uh,
different generations. Yeah, different generations represented within within Kentucky. And
it's morning news, so good stuff. And I you know,
I hope eventually you guys can move move past being
the too much cologne guy and Scott, I hope you
can move the trump. I mean that's now, it's now
it makes sense why you really had a tough time
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just being able to control what this song does to you.
And it's because it takes you back to that moment
where you were on the dance floor nowadays though, I
mean too he's he's he's spoken for us and married
man ladies. But if he at the dance floor now,
you'd have some takers.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I believe that you've lost half yourself. But according to
my wife, I look a little, a little what they
not emaciated? I can't remember. My wife actually told me
one day, look alone, raggedy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So you've lost so much weight. You're getting insults now
from my wife. Wow, maybe it's a sun of endearment.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate that yeah, yea.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So she's noticing you're losing weight. Yeah, good stuff. All right,
We've got sports coming your way here in about five minutes.
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming up
right now. Ten minutes away, we will have our first
news update with John Shannon. It is Kentucky This Morning
News here on news radioate forty whas.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It is five point thirty five here Kentucky This Morning
News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Coming up in ten minutes, we will chat with Rory
O'Neill and we'll continue to discuss what we've discussed all
week with Rory, and that is the ice demonstrations that
are going on. We'll get an update on how things
are going in Los Angeles, but also it's starting to
become somewhat of us I'd say, a gradual build to
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where other cities are are also having these these protests,
and I don't think anything has been quite as is.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What's the best word to use here.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Clearly Los Angeles one of the biggest cities in the world,
certainly in our country here, and to have curfew for
two straight nights, I mean that, lets you know, sort
of how things are going there. I don't think we've
got to that point just yet. But again, we'll get
the latest from Rory coming up here shortly. Also we
will also see Yeah, there's another story I wanted to
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touch on with Rory, and that is a new national
poll that takes a look at basically everything from President
Trump to vaccines and other things to just I guess,
a new national poll that gives us a feel as
far as the temperature with with President Trump as he's
back in office for the second time. Still clearly very
early in that tenure. All right, So JCPS is proposing
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new start times for school this upcoming this upcoming school
year twenty twenty five, twenty six. Right now, they're exploring
a couple of different options. It sounds like, and I
guess I'll start with this, fellas, do you all remember
what time you started school at different levels of school?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Seven forty five?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I think?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, did you go to Catholic school growing up? No?
I was public school, same here, public school. We're all
public school.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I think I was in three different school systems though
elementary I was in Indiana, middle school, I was in
the Catholic school system here in Kentucky and then high
school I was in Bullet County. You got around I know,
I remember my start time in high school was seven ten, Okay,
so wow, I would assume that is around the time
that I started high school, but I really don't remember.
I know that we got out of school around like
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two twenty five. I think that's whenever school let out.
Does that sound right, John, we got out of too ten?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I think we got out a little bit later.
But of course I'm a lot older than John is.
But I also went to TU Bullet County Public School.
So again I don't When I look at these proposed
start times, I don't know if it's a big difference
from what I was used to, and I guess, yeah,
let's see. So right now, the the option currently, one
of the options they're looking at is to shift high
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schools and Ramsey Middle School to later start times, as
research shows that later starts can improve teen sleep, behavior
and grades. But it would require more bus drivers, and
obviously that's an issue they've had for a while now,
is having enough bus drivers. So if it does help
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with those specific things, then I'd say it's worth looking into.
Right improving teen sleep, behavior grades. Those are things very important.
I think everybody involved, parents, students, teachers, administrators would all
agree that, you know, if you've got better behavior and
better grades, then that's what you want. But a change
in schedule could really just disrupt the routine for a
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lot of people.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
A high school kid, though, would you ever appreciated the
later start. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I remember being I was not my high school years
as far as the mornings. I mean, I remember just
being a zombie like kind of sleep walking. Once I
was old enough to start driving, it was a little
bit different, but I feel like I was just on
I wasn't really awake when I got to school sometimes.
I mean I rode the bus briefly, and I remember
falling asleep on the bus in the mornings. And then
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other times I would just be kind of, you know,
out of it. So maybe I would have enjoyed a
little bit more sleep. But I love getting out of
school sorely too, Like I wouldn't trade that for anything.
And as the older you go in school, the earlier
you start, but of course the later or the earlier
that you get out and that was that was always
worth it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Do you remember what time it was when you all
let out of school every day when.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
We were three thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, yeah, because I think that's what it more so
used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But I could be wrong, not maybe not everywhere, but
I think as as the years have passed, at least
from what I can tell, it's only gotten to where
at the high school level, it seems like it's only
gotten to where you start earlier and you get out earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, because my daughter is a teacher, and what I
was telling him was is we had two fifteen minute
recess periods, one in the morning, one in the afternoon,
and then after we ate lunch, they let us go
out and we had a nice playground when they let
us go outside for like a half hour forty five minutes,
and it was a beautiful thing, especially when it gets
really cold up in Michigan, because you come in and
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you're not jumping around the classroom because you're too don
and tired to be doing it. And I think I
shared that with my daughter, and she's like, I would
love to have a half hour forty five minutes at
lunchtime just to put myself sure together. And I guess
they don't do it anymore, and that's why we got
out sold.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And one thing you got to keep in mind, you've
got to have a level of staggering just because bus
drivers I would assume you're not just I mean you,
you know, especially when you've got such a shortage of
bus drivers. The option that I mentioned where they start
high schools in Ramsey Middle School earlier, the challenges would
be they would need for at least seven hundred and
fifteen bus drivers, and the district currently has six hundred
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and twenty, So you need to add roughly one hundred
bus drivers, which to me sounds like a tough task
to add that many. But maybe I'm wrong, But yeah,
I know for a lot of parents. I'm a parent myself.
When you think of a change like this, first thing
that comes to mind for me is, all right, does
this impact my ability to get them to school or
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get somebody to get them to school to where I
can still get to work on time. You're you know,
you're always you're always balancing it. Yeah, all right, we'll
talk to Rory O'Neil coming up here in just four minutes.
It is Kentucky and his morning news on news radio
A forty whas it is five forty six. Here Kentucky
and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
eight forty whas it's time to welcome in our friend
(16:27):
Rory O'Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
A second straight night where Los Angeles had a curfew,
it seems as if that's that's helping the situation at
this point.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, that does seem to be doing the trick in
order for a police to maintain law and order there
in downtown Los Angeles. Again, that curfew applies to just
that one small area about one square mile in the
downtown area near those federal buildings which have been the
scene of these protests and guess they started last Friday
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night and have been growing sin But now with a
strong police presence, obviously the National Guard that we've talked
about before, and the US Marines who are out protecting
ICE agents in the field, it seems like things maybe
getting under better control in LA but perhaps unraveling in
other cities across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We'll get to that in just a moment. But when
it comes to a curfew, I could be wrong, but
I imagine that doesn't happen that often in a city
like Los Angeles. There's a lot of folks that they
don't you know, I'm sure they're aware of what's going on,
but it really hits them when it impacts them in
sort of their their day to day lives, and a
curfew can certainly do that. Do we know sort of
what the noise has been in Los Angeles as far
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as just how much it's inconvenienced the residence and one
of the biggest cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, well, I think again, the area is so small
that I think they said it affects something like one
hundred thousand residents directly, which granted is an awful lot
of people. Sure it's of what fourteen million or something,
so it's and again out of five hundred square miles,
it's one square mile that has this curfew in effect.
But I think the bigger concern of that part of
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the city is to protect the one on one freeway, which,
as we've seen in the video, runs right through there.
You know, when there are demonstrations in La this is
a frequent spot where it happens, and this has been
a tactic that's been in growing popularity of marchers just
disrupting traffic, and that's an easy spot to do it,
which is why now there's been such a strong presence
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to make sure the freeway can stay open for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Roo and Neil VC News is our guest joining us
here on news Radio eight forty. Whas you mentioned the
other cities, obviously Seattle and Spokane, there's been a lot
of coverage about the protest going on there Las Vegas.
I know there was a raid in Omaha yesterday that
led to employees of a meat packing facility blocking ice
cars as they were trying to leave after one of
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the raids took place.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Is it correct to.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Say that right now a lot of cities are doing
whatever they can to put some things in place to
prevent it gets to a level of what we've seen
in Los Angeles. I know, again you're probably seeing this
in a lot of the bigger cities, but it hasn't
gotten to anything close to what we've seen in LA
and I assume that's what they're trying to keep from happening.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I think there was a dumpster fire in one city,
so a relatively small thing. What a half dozen arrests
in Tucson as well. You mentioned Omaha where there was
that raid by ice of the meat processing facility and
some sympathetic protests after that as well. So we're seeing
this in spots, and again to your point, nothing is widespread.
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New York did have a couple hundred arrests earlier this
week at protests that were happening there, but that's a
day that ends in a why for New York, right,
So there's always something going on there, And the concern
is that we're going to see more of these events
happening as we get closer to Saturday's military parade, which
coincides with President Trump's birthday. So they're having these no
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Kings events at about eighteen hundred places all across the country.
So I think these are all sort of overlapping. If
it's a ven diagram, the two circles are almost one,
I think of what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
We'll certainly talk about that tomorrow. As far as the
big Saturday that, of course a lot of cities are
preparing for, as you mentioned. But one thing I wanted
to get to real quickly here is the new National
poll that takes a look at pretty much everything from
President Trump, and it gives us, I guess a little
bit of a look at the temperature of how the
nation feels with a lot of things early on here
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in President Trump's second tenure. What do we know about
just the current temperature that Americans have for the for
the president right now?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, Nick, you and I are going to bring up
these Quinnipiac polls a lot. They come out just about
once a month, and don't look at just what happens
one day, look at the trend, because that's where you
can see attitudes change. Sure, specifically on President Trump, this
Quinnipiac pole finds that thirty eight percent of voters approve
of the way Donald Trump is doing the job, fifty
four percent disapprove. That's essentially flat from where was with
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the poll that was conducted back in April. A little
bit worse, but sort of within the margin of error.
On the One Big Beautiful Bill, fifty three percent oppose
the legislation, twenty seven percent support, but there's a big
twenty percent who have no opinion, meaning they don't know
what it's about and what's in it or why it's beautiful.
And more specifically, on Medicaid, that's nearly half of voters
(21:21):
forty seven percent think federal funding for Medicaid should actually
go up, forty percent say should stay the same. Only
ten percent think federal funding for Medicaid should go down.
And it's those funding cuts for Medicaid that are paying
for a lot of the big beautiful bills, So that
could be a disconnect there.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Rory, thank you as always for the time. Enjoyed the conversation.
Have a great day. We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
All right, that's Rory and Neil of the NBC News.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way,
and another update of sports with Scott Fitzgerald. It's I
was almost converted. I was.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I nearly said the name of my previous radio show,
but I resisted. This is Zecky. It's boring news with
Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas
Good morning, Kentucky and and welcome in. It is Kentucky
and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news radio
eight forty WHAS five five here on a Thursday, June
the twelfth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The full crew is assembled.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We've got Scott Fitzgerald, the one and only mister John Alden,
and John Shannon, who will have your first news update
coming up around five thirty. How many days have I
been in the new role here? This makes I believe
the ninth show if I can count, it is I
can count. It's early in the morning star I can't count.
So one of the many differences in this than what
(00:36):
I did for nearly a decade on seven ninety doing
sports is interaction and engagement, which I get it. That's
really not what this is to the extent that what
it is on sports talk. But we do have something
I need to start really pushing, which is a way
to mix in some interaction from listeners that listen to
(00:58):
us via the iHeartRadio app, which I'll give you another
plug here. You can listen to us anytime anywhere on
the ahet Radio app. Also listen live at WHAS dot com.
But we have within the Aheart Radio app a feature
called the talkback feature. So if you listen on the
app and you you know, you pull it up and
you see the station with that beautiful logo eight forty whas,
(01:21):
you'll see a microphone, and on that microphone, if you
click the microphone, it'll then prompt you to record something.
I think you have up to thirty seconds to send
something in and when you do that, it goes directly
to us here within this portal, this talkback portal. I
guess that's the best way to describe it. And then
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we can we can listen to feedback. And I don't
mean necessarily feedback on the show, which again what I
used to say on seven ninety questions, complaints, compliments, insults,
whatever you have, feel free to send them our way.
But I know that's not necessarily what this is to
the same to the same level. But if we're talking
about something, which again we've got four hours with you,
(02:03):
there's a lot of things to come up. You have
some thoughts, you want to share your perspective, there's always
a chance, you know, we can mix in that, and
we're going to try to do that here and there.
I don't know exactly to the level of of you
know how often you'll hear feedback from from you know,
listeners that want to share thoughts on what's going on.
But it is an option, and I feel like that's
the best way we can include some engagement within the
(02:25):
show that that really hasn't been there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, I shouldn't say that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Maybe there has been some engagement. I know, Scott, you've
got a lot of people who've been loyal listeners of you,
to you and all sort of just this station for
a long long time. That that will give you feedback
in different ways on social media, and I hope they
still do that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I have the same thing on my end.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
As far as folks who reach out via Facebook, X Slash, Twitter,
that kind of thing. But this is this is the
This is an easy way for us to just, you know,
you record something. It comes to us. We are told
we have to listen to it before we have play it,
which you do. I feel like it's a no brainer.
I feel like it's something you would just assume that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You have to do. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I'm sure there have been some that maybe listened to
the first half of the thirty second clip and then
realized they didn't get to the end of it, and
you know what, they had to hit the dump button
and all that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
What it replaces is we used to have folks. When
I first started this gig long long ago, I think
it was with Bob's Cohler. They you could tell folks
would be up drinking all night and we get the
weirdest calls. Dude. And now when I saw that and
I started using that, I go back and listen to
some of this. You can tell people that clearly. I mean,
it's the term drunk dialing. We had drunk texting, drunk dialing,
(03:39):
and there's people that are all night and one guy
used to call me, oh, liquid courage, Yeah exactly. One
guy used to call me every morning, like right around
five to ten, and my man had been hitting a bottle.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Clearly.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, at this time, there was no way to interact
with with any type of radio other than picking up
the phone and hoping that somebody answers it. Now it's
an insanely different world. And yeah, you mentioned drunk dialing.
I'm gonna I'm gonna miss my well, I almost lied.
I don't want to lie. I'll miss it to an extent.
(04:10):
I'm also going to enjoy the weekends where I can
spend time with my family. But when I would do
postgame shows for Louisville football and basketball, especially football if
it was a I mean, football is a four hour
game if it's at four hour event, So it wouldn't
be a shocker that maybe seventy five percent of the
callers on some nights on a Friday, especially a Friday,
(04:31):
but sometimes even a Saturday, that they you could tell
they were a little sauced as we as we would
get the postgame show started, and that that always left
the door open for us to go in a lot
of different directions and it made it kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But yeah, but that talk back feature you're talking about
is very cool, Nick in a lot of ways because
if you're a lot of people are out and about driving,
and I mentioned you off the year where we get
real busys when we have storm damage or we have
a bad like sixty five gets shut down and folks
can access through.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That, Yeah, I know they could be a resource for us,
and this is the easiest, most convenient way for that
to happen. So again, questions, compliance, compliments, insults. Again, We're
not afraid of compliments. Although trust me, we're not going
to just I'm winking at Scott. We're not just going
to play the compliments that come in on the show.
But all right, let's get another update. In fact, it's
our first update within the show here of traffic and weather.
(05:21):
We'll talk to Roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five.
Scott Fitzgerald's got sports coming your way in fifteen minutes,
and we hope you stick with us. It is Kentucky
This Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh my god, I feel like I'm like it. This
is like the last song after the Friday night dance
at the basketball game, and you're scrambling trying to find
somebody to awkwardly dance with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I love how within milliseconds. Maybe there's certain songs that
is as soon as Scott hears yeah enough to know
what the song is, and it usually doesn't take long.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You go to a place. Oh, Gally, John is an
ace with the music I got you you.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You have an ear for this more than I've ever
at least with the people we have here at our
station and pick up on play.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yet, before he realized what song it was, I knew
what it was, dude, I mean he was he was
reacting before we had Mike Song because he just this
is this is.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
His shraumaty No, I was traumatized in high school by this.
I was the guy looking for somebody to dance with.
Nobody dances anymore, right, did they still have school dances?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Somebody? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't think we sound like dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They have.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They gotta have some kind of dance, right like that Prom?
Well yeah, but Prom's not even prom anymore. The guys
go over here, the girls go over here, and then
nobody talks to each other until the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
If I was a fly on the wall at a
let's say, a football homecoming dance, if those still exists,
I would just imagine it's everybody on their phones. It's
pretty much abody, just like you know, sending snapchats to
each other while in the gymnasium together just twenty feet apart.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Like I can see that. What did we spend on myself?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We spent man, I'm getting old. I'm just I'm criticizing
the younger generation. Back in my day, we we actually
we didn't dance either. I think my generation might have
killed the dancing, Scott, because we just hovered around, and
when we did dance, it was more of like a
a hug with enough distance because the teachers were going
to make sure we weren't getting too close to each other.
And then we would just kind of awkwardly, very slowly
(07:21):
sway and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then that was it. One you had one of you
had nasty breath, so you were trying to I was
it was too much cologne? That was really?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What was your go to?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
John?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you remember?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I don't remember what the brand was. It might have
been just like an air apostle or something.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, that works.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't do clone anymore though, because of that. Really,
so don't do a period.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So you really So this was a real experience, Okay,
So it wasn't like you just Yeah, I was the
guy with too much clone like you were told you
were the guy with too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Much and in front of man, did you wear it?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
In fact, I would wear cologne, believe it or not.
You guys, Scott, you may remember this. John, you have
to be too young. Michael Jordan had a cologne. Yeah,
and I'm not sure if it smelt like sewage or
if it smelled great, but it was Michael Jordan's cologne.
So we wore it and I don't remember if it again,
I don't remember if it smelled great, but if it
(08:17):
was the I mean, Jordan was Jordan in the nineties,
that just if you know, you know, But I didn't
realize this, you know, before five twenty am. We're we're
going back in time and revisiting opening up some old
wounds with Scott being left alone on the dance floor
and John being the guy with too much cologne.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do you know bon Jovi was gonna take us in cologne.
Axe kind of replaced cologne, and now Axe is out
the door. Old spices back in, dude, really to my son,
almost like body washed.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
They I used old spice deodorant, and I'm sure they've
got all the different type of fragrance men's products, but
old spice is solid.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That used to be. Yeah, I see, I'm I'm I'm
to degree. Okay, I got to go with degree. But
you guys were talking about cologne and now, just for
old times sake, it's still in the stores. I smelled
it when I was and it brought back so many flashbacks.
It was poloed your car and gray flannel. Never heard
of them, never heard of it, Vanetio.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Though it sounds like we've got we've got different uh,
different generations. Yeah, different generations represented within within Kentucky. And
it's morning news, so good stuff. And I you know,
I hope eventually you guys can move move past being
the too much cologne guy and Scott, I hope you
can move the trump. I mean that's now, it's now
it makes sense why you really had a tough time
(09:35):
just being able to control what this song does to you.
And it's because it takes you back to that moment
where you were on the dance floor nowadays though, I
mean too he's he's he's spoken for us and married
man ladies. But if he at the dance floor now,
you'd have some takers.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I believe that you've lost half yourself. But according to
my wife, I look a little, a little what they
not emaciated? I can't remember. My wife actually told me
one day, look alone, raggedy.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So you've lost so much weight. You're getting insults now
from my wife. Wow, maybe it's a sun of endearment.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate that yeah, yea.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So she's noticing you're losing weight. Yeah, good stuff. All right,
We've got sports coming your way here in about five minutes.
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming up
right now. Ten minutes away, we will have our first
news update with John Shannon. It is Kentucky This Morning
News here on news radioate forty whas.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It is five point thirty five here Kentucky This Morning
News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Coming up in ten minutes, we will chat with Rory
O'Neill and we'll continue to discuss what we've discussed all
week with Rory, and that is the ice demonstrations that
are going on. We'll get an update on how things
are going in Los Angeles, but also it's starting to
become somewhat of us I'd say, a gradual build to
(10:52):
where other cities are are also having these these protests,
and I don't think anything has been quite as is.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What's the best word to use here.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Clearly Los Angeles one of the biggest cities in the world,
certainly in our country here, and to have curfew for
two straight nights, I mean that, lets you know, sort
of how things are going there. I don't think we've
got to that point just yet. But again, we'll get
the latest from Rory coming up here shortly. Also we
will also see Yeah, there's another story I wanted to
(11:25):
touch on with Rory, and that is a new national
poll that takes a look at basically everything from President
Trump to vaccines and other things to just I guess,
a new national poll that gives us a feel as
far as the temperature with with President Trump as he's
back in office for the second time. Still clearly very
early in that tenure. All right, So JCPS is proposing
(11:49):
new start times for school this upcoming this upcoming school
year twenty twenty five, twenty six. Right now, they're exploring
a couple of different options. It sounds like, and I
guess I'll start with this, fellas, do you all remember
what time you started school at different levels of school?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Seven forty five?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I think?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, did you go to Catholic school growing up? No?
I was public school, same here, public school. We're all
public school.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I think I was in three different school systems though
elementary I was in Indiana, middle school, I was in
the Catholic school system here in Kentucky and then high
school I was in Bullet County. You got around I know,
I remember my start time in high school was seven ten, Okay,
so wow, I would assume that is around the time
that I started high school, but I really don't remember.
I know that we got out of school around like
(12:36):
two twenty five. I think that's whenever school let out.
Does that sound right, John, we got out of too ten?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I think we got out a little bit later.
But of course I'm a lot older than John is.
But I also went to TU Bullet County Public School.
So again I don't When I look at these proposed
start times, I don't know if it's a big difference
from what I was used to, and I guess, yeah,
let's see. So right now, the the option currently, one
of the options they're looking at is to shift high
(13:04):
schools and Ramsey Middle School to later start times, as
research shows that later starts can improve teen sleep, behavior
and grades. But it would require more bus drivers, and
obviously that's an issue they've had for a while now,
is having enough bus drivers. So if it does help
(13:25):
with those specific things, then I'd say it's worth looking into.
Right improving teen sleep, behavior grades. Those are things very important.
I think everybody involved, parents, students, teachers, administrators would all
agree that, you know, if you've got better behavior and
better grades, then that's what you want. But a change
in schedule could really just disrupt the routine for a
(13:47):
lot of people.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
A high school kid, though, would you ever appreciated the
later start. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I remember being I was not my high school years
as far as the mornings. I mean, I remember just
being a zombie like kind of sleep walking. Once I
was old enough to start driving, it was a little
bit different, but I feel like I was just on
I wasn't really awake when I got to school sometimes.
I mean I rode the bus briefly, and I remember
falling asleep on the bus in the mornings. And then
(14:14):
other times I would just be kind of, you know,
out of it. So maybe I would have enjoyed a
little bit more sleep. But I love getting out of
school sorely too, Like I wouldn't trade that for anything.
And as the older you go in school, the earlier
you start, but of course the later or the earlier
that you get out and that was that was always
worth it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Do you remember what time it was when you all
let out of school every day when.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
We were three thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, yeah, because I think that's what it more so
used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But I could be wrong, not maybe not everywhere, but
I think as as the years have passed, at least
from what I can tell, it's only gotten to where
at the high school level, it seems like it's only
gotten to where you start earlier and you get out earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, because my daughter is a teacher, and what I
was telling him was is we had two fifteen minute
recess periods, one in the morning, one in the afternoon,
and then after we ate lunch, they let us go
out and we had a nice playground when they let
us go outside for like a half hour forty five minutes,
and it was a beautiful thing, especially when it gets
really cold up in Michigan, because you come in and
(15:10):
you're not jumping around the classroom because you're too don
and tired to be doing it. And I think I
shared that with my daughter, and she's like, I would
love to have a half hour forty five minutes at
lunchtime just to put myself sure together. And I guess
they don't do it anymore, and that's why we got
out sold.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And one thing you got to keep in mind, you've
got to have a level of staggering just because bus
drivers I would assume you're not just I mean you,
you know, especially when you've got such a shortage of
bus drivers. The option that I mentioned where they start
high schools in Ramsey Middle School earlier, the challenges would
be they would need for at least seven hundred and
fifteen bus drivers, and the district currently has six hundred
(15:46):
and twenty, So you need to add roughly one hundred
bus drivers, which to me sounds like a tough task
to add that many. But maybe I'm wrong, But yeah,
I know for a lot of parents. I'm a parent myself.
When you think of a change like this, first thing
that comes to mind for me is, all right, does
this impact my ability to get them to school or
(16:06):
get somebody to get them to school to where I
can still get to work on time. You're you know,
you're always you're always balancing it. Yeah, all right, we'll
talk to Rory O'Neil coming up here in just four minutes.
It is Kentucky and his morning news on news radio
A forty whas it is five forty six. Here Kentucky
and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
eight forty whas it's time to welcome in our friend
(16:27):
Rory O'Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
A second straight night where Los Angeles had a curfew,
it seems as if that's that's helping the situation at
this point.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, that does seem to be doing the trick in
order for a police to maintain law and order there
in downtown Los Angeles. Again, that curfew applies to just
that one small area about one square mile in the
downtown area near those federal buildings which have been the
scene of these protests and guess they started last Friday
(16:58):
night and have been growing sin But now with a
strong police presence, obviously the National Guard that we've talked
about before, and the US Marines who are out protecting
ICE agents in the field, it seems like things maybe
getting under better control in LA but perhaps unraveling in
other cities across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We'll get to that in just a moment. But when
it comes to a curfew, I could be wrong, but
I imagine that doesn't happen that often in a city
like Los Angeles. There's a lot of folks that they
don't you know, I'm sure they're aware of what's going on,
but it really hits them when it impacts them in
sort of their their day to day lives, and a
curfew can certainly do that. Do we know sort of
what the noise has been in Los Angeles as far
(17:39):
as just how much it's inconvenienced the residence and one
of the biggest cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, well, I think again, the area is so small
that I think they said it affects something like one
hundred thousand residents directly, which granted is an awful lot
of people. Sure it's of what fourteen million or something,
so it's and again out of five hundred square miles,
it's one square mile that has this curfew in effect.
But I think the bigger concern of that part of
(18:06):
the city is to protect the one on one freeway, which,
as we've seen in the video, runs right through there.
You know, when there are demonstrations in La this is
a frequent spot where it happens, and this has been
a tactic that's been in growing popularity of marchers just
disrupting traffic, and that's an easy spot to do it,
which is why now there's been such a strong presence
(18:27):
to make sure the freeway can stay open for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Roo and Neil VC News is our guest joining us
here on news Radio eight forty. Whas you mentioned the
other cities, obviously Seattle and Spokane, there's been a lot
of coverage about the protest going on there Las Vegas.
I know there was a raid in Omaha yesterday that
led to employees of a meat packing facility blocking ice
cars as they were trying to leave after one of
(18:50):
the raids took place.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Is it correct to.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Say that right now a lot of cities are doing
whatever they can to put some things in place to
prevent it gets to a level of what we've seen
in Los Angeles. I know, again you're probably seeing this
in a lot of the bigger cities, but it hasn't
gotten to anything close to what we've seen in LA
and I assume that's what they're trying to keep from happening.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I think there was a dumpster fire in one city,
so a relatively small thing. What a half dozen arrests
in Tucson as well. You mentioned Omaha where there was
that raid by ice of the meat processing facility and
some sympathetic protests after that as well. So we're seeing
this in spots, and again to your point, nothing is widespread.
(19:34):
New York did have a couple hundred arrests earlier this
week at protests that were happening there, but that's a
day that ends in a why for New York, right,
So there's always something going on there, And the concern
is that we're going to see more of these events
happening as we get closer to Saturday's military parade, which
coincides with President Trump's birthday. So they're having these no
(19:56):
Kings events at about eighteen hundred places all across the country.
So I think these are all sort of overlapping. If
it's a ven diagram, the two circles are almost one,
I think of what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
We'll certainly talk about that tomorrow. As far as the
big Saturday that, of course a lot of cities are
preparing for, as you mentioned. But one thing I wanted
to get to real quickly here is the new National
poll that takes a look at pretty much everything from
President Trump, and it gives us, I guess a little
bit of a look at the temperature of how the
nation feels with a lot of things early on here
(20:28):
in President Trump's second tenure. What do we know about
just the current temperature that Americans have for the for
the president right now?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, Nick, you and I are going to bring up
these Quinnipiac polls a lot. They come out just about
once a month, and don't look at just what happens
one day, look at the trend, because that's where you
can see attitudes change. Sure, specifically on President Trump, this
Quinnipiac pole finds that thirty eight percent of voters approve
of the way Donald Trump is doing the job, fifty
four percent disapprove. That's essentially flat from where was with
(21:00):
the poll that was conducted back in April. A little
bit worse, but sort of within the margin of error.
On the One Big Beautiful Bill, fifty three percent oppose
the legislation, twenty seven percent support, but there's a big
twenty percent who have no opinion, meaning they don't know
what it's about and what's in it or why it's beautiful.
And more specifically, on Medicaid, that's nearly half of voters
(21:21):
forty seven percent think federal funding for Medicaid should actually
go up, forty percent say should stay the same. Only
ten percent think federal funding for Medicaid should go down.
And it's those funding cuts for Medicaid that are paying
for a lot of the big beautiful bills, So that
could be a disconnect there.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Rory, thank you as always for the time. Enjoyed the conversation.
Have a great day. We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
All right, that's Rory and Neil of the NBC News.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way,
and another update of sports with Scott Fitzgerald. It's I
was almost converted. I was.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I nearly said the name of my previous radio show,
but I resisted. This is Zecky. It's boring news with
Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas
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