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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is six oh five here on a Tuesday morning,
Kentucky and this morning news Nick coffee back for day two.
They let me come back two straight days. As I
said earlier, I'm gonna keep doing this until they tell me,
you know, hey, you're no longer needed, which I hope
is a very very very long time from now. But
I am really happy to be here, joined alongside Scott Fitzgerald,
John Alden, and as you just heard there, John Shannon.
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I want to ask you guys when it comes to
the commute on the way in. I'm sixty five north.
I know John Alden is the same way, Scott are you?
Are you sixty four? Okay? So how many lights do
you typically hit? And I don't mean do you get
stopped at? But do you stop? Do you end up
passing many lights? Once you get to the downtown area
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making your way to our beautiful studios who are four
Street Live.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I come off Brook and then if I hit it right,
if I get that light green, I'll hit the rest
of them green all the way through, which is nice,
which is a change.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's the exact reason why I ask, because I've been
coming downtown for the last couple of years, however long
we've been here, and you really never know what you're
gonna get as far as are you gonna hit the
lights or not. But in the morning, there's nobody else out. Yeah,
I mean there's no there's no there's no pedestrians, there's
not many vehicles, and if you do it seems like
if you hit a red light, it's you're gonna hit
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all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I think the the.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Traffic lights and the walkway it seems almost set up
is and we do have to keep pedestrians safe, trust
you are well aware of that, but it does seem
as if it's catered more so, as if we have
a lot more people walking than we do driving, And
it just seems, you know, I'm a very impatient person.
I've been working on it for a long time, not
sure if I'll ever really improve in that department. But
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as I said, at each light, I'm looking around as if, okay,
do we need this seemingly hour long walk, you know,
the walk path, which I'm exaggerating clearly, And again the
root of this is, I'm just a very impatient person.
But when you hit, when you hit your first green light,
you're gonna be smooth sailing. If you hit the red light,
you know, it might take you sometimes maybe five more minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, it just depends.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
John.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Are you still getting off at what is the exit
Saint Catherine?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, so that ever since you and I were in
the afternoon, probably not as necessary at this time in
the morning, but it's become so routine for me that
I just like to go down that way.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
At this point, it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Does seem like it might it might be a little
bit of a longer journey from sixty five when you
get off the exit off sixty five to get here. Yeah,
but I kind of feel like you're less likely to
hit lights in that.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Some reason that that opening stretch when you get off
of sixty five north off of the Saint Catherine's exit,
if it's timed correctly, kind of like Scott was talking
about a second ago with Brook Street, you can hit
every single green light at the exact same.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Time if you time it to be that way. So,
but you've got to have a little luck on your side.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There is something nice about being being downtown this early
in the morning, whenever there's really nothing going on, and
there's something kind of peaceful about it, which I which
I kind of like. Uh, and so far, I don't
know if I've adjusted because it's been two days. But
the early the early starts have been have been nice.
I mean last night I was thinking, Okay, well, here's
your first night where you are needing to get needing
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to make sure you get to bed really early because
you got to get up and do it again. But
it all worked out, worked out naturally. I didn't really
have to do anything I got. I woke up at
three o'clock in the morning yesterday. Therefore, by the time
we got to nine o'clock last night, I was, I was,
here's where you're.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Going to run in trouble.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Here's where you're going to run into trouble. When you
want to watch the Pacers on Thursday one, and you know,
game one until at least ten o'clock unless it goes
into overtime. That's where you kind of run into a
bit of an issue because you got to get up
on Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, and if it was really any other game, especially
in the NBA Finals, I'd probably be okay. But this
is a rare situation where I'm actually watching your team
that I'm a fan of. I'm a Pacers fan, so.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And then you can't get to sleep after. I can't
tell you, guys, how many Super Bowls I've missed. There
was a run where I missed probably ten super Bowls
because I had to.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Go to bed early. That sounds awful, it was, And
so finally I got smart.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
This was the first year that I told our boss Gus,
I said, dude, I'm taking Monday after the super Bowl off.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And I said, because I'm going.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
To I would have so much fomo.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You learned right.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And I've been in the position where you guys are
at where your favorite team is playing at night, and
it's almost it's in a weird, twisted way. It's almost
kind of like Christmas though, because you wake up the
next morning. The first thing you do is you go
to your phone to see if they won, if they
won your related. If they're not, you're like, well, I
didn't miss much.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Is this my life moving forward?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's how I missed the game. One comeback Nick against
the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
But to be fair, that wasn't a comeback that I
think anybody was anticipating. That was one we may never
see again.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, what makes it worse, too, is now I've learned,
like I literally fall asleep at home with the lights on, okay,
but I have to get up and.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There scaring the hell out of me.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I tell you, guys, I tell you this. What was
I go and my wife comes in.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
She goes, I can't go to bed now, because when
I first started doing this, I was right where you
guys are at. And my wife says, I can't. I
can't come upstairs and try to get to bed in
the dark. I can't see anything. I said, well, I
have to get to sleep, and so I've learned how
to fall asleep with the lights on. But yet in
the morning, I can't turn the lights on when I
get up. I have to keep things dark and fumble
for my clothes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, I knew this was going to be somewhat
of a lifestyle change, given that it is such a
different shift and a different schedule for me and all
adjust but there is one specific comment that really stood
out to me from Tony Cruz in one of his
last shows over the last two weeks that really hit
me and kind of made me realize, Okay, you can
try to act like this isn't gonna be a big
change it's going to be a big change because he
was getting ribbed for how early he has to go
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to bed, because for many years, twenty plus years, he
had to get up and start this show at five am.
And he was kind of defending himself almost kind of
like he was a tough guy and saying, well, you
know sometimes on Fridays I step up till like nine
thirty and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
My gosh, this is this my life now.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Now, I told you sign for I told you in
the bright next Saturday night store and money. Because when
you ate one night this stay I'm up till two
in the morning, I can see it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, all right, we got another update of trafficing
weather coming your way right here on news Radio eight
forty whas. That is six sixteen here at Kentucky and
this morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick
coffee with you. And if you have a five oh
two area code, you might want to consider yourself lucky
if you care about your area code. We'll get into
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it in just a second. But I'm not sure area
code is something that you realize that you really I mean,
clearly you have to have one to have a phone number,
but the specific it's I don't think it's going to
be much of an inconvenience if you have a different one,
and I'll explain coming up here shortly. However, here's here's
what we know that if you have a five O
two area code that of course covers Louisville and some
surrounding areas, it's expected to they're going to run out
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of phone numbers by the end of twenty twenty seven
due to population growth and increased device usage. By the way,
that's another factor that I'm not sure many people realize
unless you've actually gone about setting one of these up.
But you can go create a digital number like a
Google Voice. You can have a phone number that is
that is just basically an Internet line. I think you
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have to have a number attach associated to it, and
you certainly have to have some Internet connection to even
obtain that. But if you put in where you live,
and you put in five two two, seven oh eight,
five nine, whatever it may be, it'll populate a bunch
of numbers. And I would imagine that one of the
factors here is that because of this, and this isn't new,
by the way, you've been able to get a digital
number for quite some time, and that has that has
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probably led to a bunch of these numbers no longer
being available. So the Kentucky Public Service Commission is addressing
this by planning to introduce a new area code. Existing
five O two numbers will remain unchanged, but new phone
numbers will be assigned to the new area code. What
that code is going to be, we still don't know.
Public meetings are being held to gather feedback on what
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it should be, and I guess just get feedback from folks.
But the first meeting was scheduled. This took place yesterday
at the Nelson County Fiscal Court out there in Barchtown.
And they're gonna have another meeting coming up on June
fifth at six pm and this will be at the
JCC Southwest campus. So these are meetings that are going
to inform residents and get in put on new area
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code implementation, which I just if you live in Louisville,
you don't have a five O two area code would
feel off, But I think once you realize area codes
are needed. Right again, if you're if you're jotting down
a number and you and you just have assumed that
everything around here is going to be five oh two.
I guess that's where the biggest difference would be.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That was the hardest thing for me to get used
to when I moved here, because I'd asked somebody for
their phone number and they would automatically say, oh, it's
five oh two five five five one two one two,
And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Everybody always gave their area code beforehand. And I asked
my wife, I said, why do people do that? And
because we're so close in proximity to Lexington, then you
have two seven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So where you grew up, was it very rare for
someone to have a different area code?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, it was just and then and then when
did marketing area codes become like, like for merch that's
like the hot thing to do now.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, so you see it in the gear all the times.
True five oh two.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Detroit celebrates three one three day on March thirty first.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
But yeah, excuse me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I thought it was the weirdest thing to just people
would always go, yeah, my number's five oh two.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To this day, if somebody takes my phone number, I
say five oh two, and I just assume it's I
think I do that because if they're gonna put it
in their cell phone, yeah, yeah, you would need to.
I mean, I don't even know this. When somebody gives
me their phone number, I'm used to them giving me
the area code, or I just assume the area code
is five oh two. Sometimes I assume wrong. But if
you were to just put a seven digit number in
a phone and call it, it would work.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Right, it will. Yeah, remember you used not one oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of course you also remember when you used to have
to pay for a long distance call. Now we don't
ever give it a thought.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I mean, it would be weird for me to have
a number that was not five oh two. But when
I saw this yesterday, I'm thinking, well, there's people I
talk to daily that who've been in my phone for
nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I wouldn't be able to guess their.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Phone number, even if you gave me a lineup of
different numbers to select, because once I put it in
the phone and save the contact, I never look at
it again.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Anyways, if you get a new phone in the next
in the coming years, it may not be five zho two,
which again sounds weird, But I don't think it'll be
as big of a deal as you might expect. All right,
another update of traffic and weather is coming your way,
as well as another update on sports from Scott right
here the news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John
at Is six thirty five here Kentucky and this morning
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news on news Radio eight forty whas. So, the Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet studying that stretch of Bargetown Road from the
Bullet County Line close to Mount Washington up to Bulah
Church Road and Seatonville Roads. As John mentioned there, the
study is much needed. I didn't do a whole lot
of studying, but I'm in that area often, and I
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can tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Traffic is really, really bad.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So it's no.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Surprise that the councilman is asking for a temporary pause
on new developments until this study is released. It's going
to come out in August. And again, I don't mean
to act like I genuinely do know what goes into
these studies, but as someone who is in that area,
not super often, but often enough, the traffic is crazy.
And even before for the latest development, as far as
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just the new restaurants, the new shopping center, and it's
great over there, that stretch between really Fern Creek in
Mount Washington, there's a lot going on over there, and
it's there's a lot of good restaurants businesses.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But I really really.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Don't think I've been in that area at any time
in the last few years, maybe even longer than that,
where it is not as bad as it gets when
it comes to traffic in an.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Area like that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Obviously, there's stretches of Shelbyville Road, Preston Highway, Dixie Highway.
I mean, you're gonna get traffic jams and just expect traffic,
especially during certain times of the day with people commuting
from work and whatnot in school. But that is a
different level of bad at least from my experience. And look,
I'm not some nobody likes traffic. Who does, But when
it comes to where we are here in Kentucky, and
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I've always felt like we've always had it pretty good.
We can get to a lot of places, we can
go a lot, we can get really anywhere within our
Kentucky and area, I don't want to say in a
relatively short time, but without really bad traffic, it doesn't
really take us a whole long time to get to
a lot of places, especially compared to other cities, even
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some that are I mean Lexington. I've never lived there,
but I know there's been studies previously that A's at
one point they had some of the worst traffic you'll
find they did.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
We found that out.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
My son played a lot of hockey tournaments there, and
even because I'm like, how big is the city, it's not.
It's it's big, but it's not that big. But it
took forever to get every place. And I think, what
to your point listening you talk about this, I'm like you,
I'm impatient in traffic. So what's helped me is I
dial up my app on my phone and it says, okay,
your arrival time is, you know, six fifty six. As
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long as I know, I'm okay, I'm going to get
there about that time, which it's pretty spot on.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It is wild how accurate they can they can get
you when it comes to time. I used to put
it in my GPS and think, okay, well I know
I know a different route, and I would and I
would try to battle with my GPS app on my phone.
I use ways and ways ways as a wedding over
me as far as proving me wrong that I went
away that I assumed would be quicker and Ways was
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Ways was right and Nick was wrong. But yeah, that
just to me, see, and oftentimes I've thought, well, maybe
this is just me complaining because I'm now sitting in
traffic when I typically don't. But as more business as
if popped up in that area New Fern Creek, I mean,
it's it's an absolute mess. When you're on the Snyder
and you are attempting you know, let's say you're even
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if you're going past that Bargetown Road exit on the
Snyder heading east, you know you're still going to be
jammed up because there's so many people lined up, like
almost two exits back at times to get off at
the at the Barchtown Road Fern Creek exit area there.
So not again not surprised to hear that the councilman's
asking for a temporary pause on new development.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But the new development's great, it's just there's it's such
a jam.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's so congested, dude, I'm telling you, And I know
so many people have moved to that part of the
city now that it bought because their houses were such
a steal. I mean, they got a nice area, so
it's a very nice area. They got a good house
with a nice area, and they were down there. And
to your point, when you're talking about traffic, I was
also thinking about I remember Mayor Abramson announced that we
were going to redo the Dixie Highway corridor because they
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had a lot of problems. And I was down there recently,
and it's not perfect. To your point, you're going to
get traffic anywhere. Those businesses totally understand that. But I
think there have been improvements on Dixie Highway. Now there's
maybe somebody who's sitting there right now listening to us, going,
you're crazy, dude, I'm stuck.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I understand that, but I've seen those improvements well.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And if you are a business owner, I think traffic,
for the most part's a good thing. There's a lot
of people around, there's a lot of visibility, but man,
there's a fine line of like people may avoid even
getting in that area because it's such a such a mess.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Now, sometimes you're right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But when I found out though, too, because that area
you're talking about, you've got that big Walmart there, they
do very well. I've been down that area quite a bit.
You've got the cracker Barrel that's right off right off J.
Schnyder So and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
A lot of people.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
If you want to take the if sixty five is
congested and you want to get down to Barnstown, if
you're headed that way, you can just cut down here.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So I have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My sister lives in Mount Washington, and her way of
getting to us oftentimes is to just go Barchtown Road
all the way to the Snyder and then head west.
But I mean, I'm sure she's found some alternate routes
because if you hit that And I was going to
say at a bad time, but I'm not sure there's
a good time, unless maybe we're talking like middle of
the night, real quick. Worst city you've ever experienced traffic.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Chicago, hands down. Even La is a close second.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Chicago Atlanta for mehe was bad. Yep, real bad.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
All right, we got another update of traffic and weather
coming your way right here on Kentucky And it's morning
news on news radio eight forty whis six forty six
Here Kentucky and it's morning news. Nick Coffee with you
here on news Radio eight forty whs. We'll have another
update in about ten minutes on Sports with Scott Fitzgerald.
One of the stories from earlier was the addition of
a Sonanda Frew, who goes by Sonny Frew. He is
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a big man from Germany who's going to join Pat
Kelsey's team. And he said something in a recent interview
on the Field of sixty eight, which is an outland
that covers college basketball, that I wouldn't say that this
has become a humongous talking point among Louisville and Kentucky fans,
but it is something that you don't expect to hear.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I wouldn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And on the other side, I think they have a
great fan base. My teammate he played at Kentucky last
year and he told me Lugle like, they are the
best fans in the whole world basically, and already right
reached out tanks me some dms. I'm super happy, super thankful.
So I can't wait to get over and touchdown in Louisvuo.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So the hosts went on to ask him, wait a second,
you're telling me you committed to play at Louisville and
you had a teammate in Germany that played at Kentucky
and told you that Louisville had the best fans, and
he went on to confirm that that was the case.
And the former player was Trey Mitchell, who played at Kentucky,
I believe for just a season two years ago. He played,
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I believe in the last season of Cala Perry being there.
And the reason I wanted to bring this up is
because I don't know if this is going to do
much to the rivalry, but I think we are in
a very rare and certainly unique spot with the rivalry here,
because clearly Louisville Kentucky when it comes to basketball. Personally,
and I'm biased, I think it's the best rivalry in
college basketball. I would put it above Duke in Carolina
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because to me, rivalries are all about fans. Players come
and go, coaches come and go, And I think if
you live in Louisville, there's so many of us that
coexist together that I just think, you know, and I'm
sure there's many of you listening right now that know
exactly what I'm talking about. You're probably heading to work
thinking about you know, you got a buddy in the
cubicle next to you, and when Louisville and Kentucky play
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each other in football or basketball, you know that following
day when you go back to work is going to
either be a really good day for you, a really
bad day for you because you're gonna have to maybe
take your medicine, or maybe you're gonna feel great and
glow because again, there's just so many on both sides.
But I think again, when I say it's rare right
now where we are, I think it's clear that on
the Louisville side, And for those who don't know, I'm
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a big Louisville fan, I find it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Really really hard to diss like Mark Pope.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I don't mean dislike him as an eman, being
I don't know him, but you know you it's easier
whenever there's a villain on the other side, and he's
far from that. He's I mean, I think he's a really,
really good coach too. I think he had a great
first season, and I actually believe his coaching was a
bigger factor in their success in year one than anything else.
And I can't speak for Kentucky fans, I'm not one
of them, but I think they wanted to find Pat
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Kelsey pretty easy to dislike and are having a tough
time doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And what makes.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It even more difficult if you're somebody that really just
wants to get into the hatred and just and look
when they play each other, clearly you know where you
stand and you're not going to need any anybody nudging
you one way or the other. You know where you're
gonna you know, you know where your emotions are going
to be. We become some of us, I guess I
should only speak for me, become lunatics during this rivalry
game and whatnot. But these two coaches, Mark Pope and
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Pat Kelsey, you can tell that they genuinely like each other,
respect each other. And not to say that other coaches
that have been at both schools had real animosity. Will
never get like what we had with Patino and Caliper.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I mean that was that was.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A personal rivalry that then just played. I mean that
was that was cinema, That was theater as far as
just you could tell the two made each other's skin crawl.
But with Pope and Kelsey, they're not going to force it.
They do respect one another. And what we didn't see
a whole lot last year, and I don't want to
nerd out too much on basketball. But because of injuries
that Louisville suffered early on in the season and the
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injuries that Kentucky suffered a little bit later, you didn't
you didn't quite see it, but they actually want to
play nearly the exact same way A bunch of in
rhythm threes a bunch, I mean they're they're striving to
get open threes in rhythm, free throw line or layups
around the rim, and I think it was right. But yeah,
the last season for Pope at BYU, the last season
for Kelsey at Charleston, they were both in the top
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three and three point field goals attempted per game. They're
they're very so I think when you not only respect
one another as coaches and seem like good dudes, but
you also are similar as far as how you want
to play the game, I think, you know, it's natural
to the only thing, the only thing that makes them
incompatible is one guy's coaching Big Blue Nation. When guys
coaching coordination, that's that's really it. But yeah, good stuff.
We got another update of sports coming your way with
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Scott Fitzgerald, as well as another update on news and
traffic right here on news radio forty whas
Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is six oh five here on a Tuesday morning,
Kentucky and this morning news Nick coffee back for day two.
They let me come back two straight days. As I
said earlier, I'm gonna keep doing this until they tell me,
you know, hey, you're no longer needed, which I hope
is a very very very long time from now. But
I am really happy to be here, joined alongside Scott Fitzgerald,
John Alden, and as you just heard there, John Shannon.
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I want to ask you guys when it comes to
the commute on the way in. I'm sixty five north.
I know John Alden is the same way, Scott are you?
Are you sixty four? Okay? So how many lights do
you typically hit? And I don't mean do you get
stopped at? But do you stop? Do you end up
passing many lights? Once you get to the downtown area
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making your way to our beautiful studios who are four
Street Live.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I come off Brook and then if I hit it right,
if I get that light green, I'll hit the rest
of them green all the way through, which is nice,
which is a change.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's the exact reason why I ask, because I've been
coming downtown for the last couple of years, however long
we've been here, and you really never know what you're
gonna get as far as are you gonna hit the
lights or not. But in the morning, there's nobody else out. Yeah,
I mean there's no there's no there's no pedestrians, there's
not many vehicles, and if you do it seems like
if you hit a red light, it's you're gonna hit
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all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I think the the.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Traffic lights and the walkway it seems almost set up
is and we do have to keep pedestrians safe, trust
you are well aware of that, but it does seem
as if it's catered more so, as if we have
a lot more people walking than we do driving, And
it just seems, you know, I'm a very impatient person.
I've been working on it for a long time, not
sure if I'll ever really improve in that department. But
(01:41):
as I said, at each light, I'm looking around as if, okay,
do we need this seemingly hour long walk, you know,
the walk path, which I'm exaggerating clearly, And again the
root of this is, I'm just a very impatient person.
But when you hit, when you hit your first green light,
you're gonna be smooth sailing. If you hit the red light,
you know, it might take you sometimes maybe five more minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, it just depends.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
John.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Are you still getting off at what is the exit
Saint Catherine?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, so that ever since you and I were in
the afternoon, probably not as necessary at this time in
the morning, but it's become so routine for me that
I just like to go down that way.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
At this point, it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Does seem like it might it might be a little
bit of a longer journey from sixty five when you
get off the exit off sixty five to get here. Yeah,
but I kind of feel like you're less likely to
hit lights in that.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Some reason that that opening stretch when you get off
of sixty five north off of the Saint Catherine's exit,
if it's timed correctly, kind of like Scott was talking
about a second ago with Brook Street, you can hit
every single green light at the exact same.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Time if you time it to be that way. So,
but you've got to have a little luck on your side.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There is something nice about being being downtown this early
in the morning, whenever there's really nothing going on, and
there's something kind of peaceful about it, which I which
I kind of like. Uh, and so far, I don't
know if I've adjusted because it's been two days. But
the early the early starts have been have been nice.
I mean last night I was thinking, Okay, well, here's
your first night where you are needing to get needing
(03:05):
to make sure you get to bed really early because
you got to get up and do it again. But
it all worked out, worked out naturally. I didn't really
have to do anything I got. I woke up at
three o'clock in the morning yesterday. Therefore, by the time
we got to nine o'clock last night, I was, I was,
here's where you're.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Going to run in trouble.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Here's where you're going to run into trouble. When you
want to watch the Pacers on Thursday one, and you know,
game one until at least ten o'clock unless it goes
into overtime. That's where you kind of run into a
bit of an issue because you got to get up
on Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, and if it was really any other game, especially
in the NBA Finals, I'd probably be okay. But this
is a rare situation where I'm actually watching your team
that I'm a fan of. I'm a Pacers fan, so.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And then you can't get to sleep after. I can't
tell you, guys, how many Super Bowls I've missed. There
was a run where I missed probably ten super Bowls
because I had to.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Go to bed early. That sounds awful, it was, And
so finally I got smart.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
This was the first year that I told our boss Gus,
I said, dude, I'm taking Monday after the super Bowl off.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And I said, because I'm going.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
To I would have so much fomo.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You learned right.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And I've been in the position where you guys are
at where your favorite team is playing at night, and
it's almost it's in a weird, twisted way. It's almost
kind of like Christmas though, because you wake up the
next morning. The first thing you do is you go
to your phone to see if they won, if they
won your related. If they're not, you're like, well, I
didn't miss much.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Is this my life moving forward?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's how I missed the game. One comeback Nick against
the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
But to be fair, that wasn't a comeback that I
think anybody was anticipating. That was one we may never
see again.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, what makes it worse, too, is now I've learned,
like I literally fall asleep at home with the lights on, okay,
but I have to get up and.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There scaring the hell out of me.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I tell you, guys, I tell you this. What was
I go and my wife comes in.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
She goes, I can't go to bed now, because when
I first started doing this, I was right where you
guys are at. And my wife says, I can't. I
can't come upstairs and try to get to bed in
the dark. I can't see anything. I said, well, I
have to get to sleep, and so I've learned how
to fall asleep with the lights on. But yet in
the morning, I can't turn the lights on when I
get up. I have to keep things dark and fumble
for my clothes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, I knew this was going to be somewhat
of a lifestyle change, given that it is such a
different shift and a different schedule for me and all
adjust but there is one specific comment that really stood
out to me from Tony Cruz in one of his
last shows over the last two weeks that really hit
me and kind of made me realize, Okay, you can
try to act like this isn't gonna be a big
change it's going to be a big change because he
was getting ribbed for how early he has to go
(05:30):
to bed, because for many years, twenty plus years, he
had to get up and start this show at five am.
And he was kind of defending himself almost kind of
like he was a tough guy and saying, well, you
know sometimes on Fridays I step up till like nine
thirty and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
My gosh, this is this my life now.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Now, I told you sign for I told you in
the bright next Saturday night store and money. Because when
you ate one night this stay I'm up till two
in the morning, I can see it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, all right, we got another update of trafficing
weather coming your way right here on news Radio eight
forty whas. That is six sixteen here at Kentucky and
this morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick
coffee with you. And if you have a five oh
two area code, you might want to consider yourself lucky
if you care about your area code. We'll get into
(06:13):
it in just a second. But I'm not sure area
code is something that you realize that you really I mean,
clearly you have to have one to have a phone number,
but the specific it's I don't think it's going to
be much of an inconvenience if you have a different one,
and I'll explain coming up here shortly. However, here's here's
what we know that if you have a five O
two area code that of course covers Louisville and some
surrounding areas, it's expected to they're going to run out
(06:36):
of phone numbers by the end of twenty twenty seven
due to population growth and increased device usage. By the way,
that's another factor that I'm not sure many people realize
unless you've actually gone about setting one of these up.
But you can go create a digital number like a
Google Voice. You can have a phone number that is
that is just basically an Internet line. I think you
(06:58):
have to have a number attach associated to it, and
you certainly have to have some Internet connection to even
obtain that. But if you put in where you live,
and you put in five two two, seven oh eight,
five nine, whatever it may be, it'll populate a bunch
of numbers. And I would imagine that one of the
factors here is that because of this, and this isn't new,
by the way, you've been able to get a digital
number for quite some time, and that has that has
(07:19):
probably led to a bunch of these numbers no longer
being available. So the Kentucky Public Service Commission is addressing
this by planning to introduce a new area code. Existing
five O two numbers will remain unchanged, but new phone
numbers will be assigned to the new area code. What
that code is going to be, we still don't know.
Public meetings are being held to gather feedback on what
(07:40):
it should be, and I guess just get feedback from folks.
But the first meeting was scheduled. This took place yesterday
at the Nelson County Fiscal Court out there in Barchtown.
And they're gonna have another meeting coming up on June
fifth at six pm and this will be at the
JCC Southwest campus. So these are meetings that are going
to inform residents and get in put on new area
(08:02):
code implementation, which I just if you live in Louisville,
you don't have a five O two area code would
feel off, But I think once you realize area codes
are needed. Right again, if you're if you're jotting down
a number and you and you just have assumed that
everything around here is going to be five oh two.
I guess that's where the biggest difference would be.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That was the hardest thing for me to get used
to when I moved here, because I'd asked somebody for
their phone number and they would automatically say, oh, it's
five oh two five five five one two one two,
And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Everybody always gave their area code beforehand. And I asked
my wife, I said, why do people do that? And
because we're so close in proximity to Lexington, then you
have two seven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So where you grew up, was it very rare for
someone to have a different area code?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, it was just and then and then when
did marketing area codes become like, like for merch that's
like the hot thing to do now.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, so you see it in the gear all the times.
True five oh two.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Detroit celebrates three one three day on March thirty first.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
But yeah, excuse me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I thought it was the weirdest thing to just people
would always go, yeah, my number's five oh two.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To this day, if somebody takes my phone number, I
say five oh two, and I just assume it's I
think I do that because if they're gonna put it
in their cell phone, yeah, yeah, you would need to.
I mean, I don't even know this. When somebody gives
me their phone number, I'm used to them giving me
the area code, or I just assume the area code
is five oh two. Sometimes I assume wrong. But if
you were to just put a seven digit number in
a phone and call it, it would work.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Right, it will. Yeah, remember you used not one oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of course you also remember when you used to have
to pay for a long distance call. Now we don't
ever give it a thought.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I mean, it would be weird for me to have
a number that was not five oh two. But when
I saw this yesterday, I'm thinking, well, there's people I
talk to daily that who've been in my phone for
nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I wouldn't be able to guess their.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Phone number, even if you gave me a lineup of
different numbers to select, because once I put it in
the phone and save the contact, I never look at
it again.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Anyways, if you get a new phone in the next
in the coming years, it may not be five zho two,
which again sounds weird, But I don't think it'll be
as big of a deal as you might expect. All right,
another update of traffic and weather is coming your way,
as well as another update on sports from Scott right
here the news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John
at Is six thirty five here Kentucky and this morning
(10:15):
news on news Radio eight forty whas. So, the Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet studying that stretch of Bargetown Road from the
Bullet County Line close to Mount Washington up to Bulah
Church Road and Seatonville Roads. As John mentioned there, the
study is much needed. I didn't do a whole lot
of studying, but I'm in that area often, and I
(10:37):
can tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Traffic is really, really bad.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So it's no.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Surprise that the councilman is asking for a temporary pause
on new developments until this study is released. It's going
to come out in August. And again, I don't mean
to act like I genuinely do know what goes into
these studies, but as someone who is in that area,
not super often, but often enough, the traffic is crazy.
And even before for the latest development, as far as
(11:02):
just the new restaurants, the new shopping center, and it's
great over there, that stretch between really Fern Creek in
Mount Washington, there's a lot going on over there, and
it's there's a lot of good restaurants businesses.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But I really really.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Don't think I've been in that area at any time
in the last few years, maybe even longer than that,
where it is not as bad as it gets when
it comes to traffic in an.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Area like that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Obviously, there's stretches of Shelbyville Road, Preston Highway, Dixie Highway.
I mean, you're gonna get traffic jams and just expect traffic,
especially during certain times of the day with people commuting
from work and whatnot in school. But that is a
different level of bad at least from my experience. And look,
I'm not some nobody likes traffic. Who does, But when
it comes to where we are here in Kentucky, and
(11:49):
I've always felt like we've always had it pretty good.
We can get to a lot of places, we can
go a lot, we can get really anywhere within our
Kentucky and area, I don't want to say in a
relatively short time, but without really bad traffic, it doesn't
really take us a whole long time to get to
a lot of places, especially compared to other cities, even
(12:10):
some that are I mean Lexington. I've never lived there,
but I know there's been studies previously that A's at
one point they had some of the worst traffic you'll
find they did.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
We found that out.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
My son played a lot of hockey tournaments there, and
even because I'm like, how big is the city, it's not.
It's it's big, but it's not that big. But it
took forever to get every place. And I think, what
to your point listening you talk about this, I'm like you,
I'm impatient in traffic. So what's helped me is I
dial up my app on my phone and it says, okay,
your arrival time is, you know, six fifty six. As
(12:39):
long as I know, I'm okay, I'm going to get
there about that time, which it's pretty spot on.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It is wild how accurate they can they can get
you when it comes to time. I used to put
it in my GPS and think, okay, well I know
I know a different route, and I would and I
would try to battle with my GPS app on my phone.
I use ways and ways ways as a wedding over
me as far as proving me wrong that I went
away that I assumed would be quicker and Ways was
(13:05):
Ways was right and Nick was wrong. But yeah, that
just to me, see, and oftentimes I've thought, well, maybe
this is just me complaining because I'm now sitting in
traffic when I typically don't. But as more business as
if popped up in that area New Fern Creek, I mean,
it's it's an absolute mess. When you're on the Snyder
and you are attempting you know, let's say you're even
(13:26):
if you're going past that Bargetown Road exit on the
Snyder heading east, you know you're still going to be
jammed up because there's so many people lined up, like
almost two exits back at times to get off at
the at the Barchtown Road Fern Creek exit area there.
So not again not surprised to hear that the councilman's
asking for a temporary pause on new development.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But the new development's great, it's just there's it's such
a jam.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's so congested, dude, I'm telling you, And I know
so many people have moved to that part of the
city now that it bought because their houses were such
a steal. I mean, they got a nice area, so
it's a very nice area. They got a good house
with a nice area, and they were down there. And
to your point, when you're talking about traffic, I was
also thinking about I remember Mayor Abramson announced that we
were going to redo the Dixie Highway corridor because they
(14:09):
had a lot of problems. And I was down there recently,
and it's not perfect. To your point, you're going to
get traffic anywhere. Those businesses totally understand that. But I
think there have been improvements on Dixie Highway. Now there's
maybe somebody who's sitting there right now listening to us, going,
you're crazy, dude, I'm stuck.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I understand that, but I've seen those improvements well.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And if you are a business owner, I think traffic,
for the most part's a good thing. There's a lot
of people around, there's a lot of visibility, but man,
there's a fine line of like people may avoid even
getting in that area because it's such a such a mess.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Now, sometimes you're right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But when I found out though, too, because that area
you're talking about, you've got that big Walmart there, they
do very well. I've been down that area quite a bit.
You've got the cracker Barrel that's right off right off J.
Schnyder So and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
A lot of people.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
If you want to take the if sixty five is
congested and you want to get down to Barnstown, if
you're headed that way, you can just cut down here.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So I have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
My sister lives in Mount Washington, and her way of
getting to us oftentimes is to just go Barchtown Road
all the way to the Snyder and then head west.
But I mean, I'm sure she's found some alternate routes
because if you hit that And I was going to
say at a bad time, but I'm not sure there's
a good time, unless maybe we're talking like middle of
the night, real quick. Worst city you've ever experienced traffic.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Chicago, hands down. Even La is a close second.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Chicago Atlanta for mehe was bad. Yep, real bad.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
All right, we got another update of traffic and weather
coming your way right here on Kentucky And it's morning
news on news radio eight forty whis six forty six
Here Kentucky and it's morning news. Nick Coffee with you
here on news Radio eight forty whs. We'll have another
update in about ten minutes on Sports with Scott Fitzgerald.
One of the stories from earlier was the addition of
a Sonanda Frew, who goes by Sonny Frew. He is
(15:53):
a big man from Germany who's going to join Pat
Kelsey's team. And he said something in a recent interview
on the Field of sixty eight, which is an outland
that covers college basketball, that I wouldn't say that this
has become a humongous talking point among Louisville and Kentucky fans,
but it is something that you don't expect to hear.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I wouldn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And on the other side, I think they have a
great fan base. My teammate he played at Kentucky last
year and he told me Lugle like, they are the
best fans in the whole world basically, and already right
reached out tanks me some dms. I'm super happy, super thankful.
So I can't wait to get over and touchdown in Louisvuo.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So the hosts went on to ask him, wait a second,
you're telling me you committed to play at Louisville and
you had a teammate in Germany that played at Kentucky
and told you that Louisville had the best fans, and
he went on to confirm that that was the case.
And the former player was Trey Mitchell, who played at Kentucky,
I believe for just a season two years ago. He played,
(16:51):
I believe in the last season of Cala Perry being there.
And the reason I wanted to bring this up is
because I don't know if this is going to do
much to the rivalry, but I think we are in
a very rare and certainly unique spot with the rivalry here,
because clearly Louisville Kentucky when it comes to basketball. Personally,
and I'm biased, I think it's the best rivalry in
college basketball. I would put it above Duke in Carolina
(17:14):
because to me, rivalries are all about fans. Players come
and go, coaches come and go, And I think if
you live in Louisville, there's so many of us that
coexist together that I just think, you know, and I'm
sure there's many of you listening right now that know
exactly what I'm talking about. You're probably heading to work
thinking about you know, you got a buddy in the
cubicle next to you, and when Louisville and Kentucky play
(17:34):
each other in football or basketball, you know that following
day when you go back to work is going to
either be a really good day for you, a really
bad day for you because you're gonna have to maybe
take your medicine, or maybe you're gonna feel great and
glow because again, there's just so many on both sides.
But I think again, when I say it's rare right
now where we are, I think it's clear that on
the Louisville side, And for those who don't know, I'm
(17:55):
a big Louisville fan, I find it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Really really hard to diss like Mark Pope.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I don't mean dislike him as an eman, being
I don't know him, but you know you it's easier
whenever there's a villain on the other side, and he's
far from that. He's I mean, I think he's a really,
really good coach too. I think he had a great
first season, and I actually believe his coaching was a
bigger factor in their success in year one than anything else.
And I can't speak for Kentucky fans, I'm not one
of them, but I think they wanted to find Pat
(18:23):
Kelsey pretty easy to dislike and are having a tough
time doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And what makes.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It even more difficult if you're somebody that really just
wants to get into the hatred and just and look
when they play each other, clearly you know where you
stand and you're not going to need any anybody nudging
you one way or the other. You know where you're
gonna you know, you know where your emotions are going
to be. We become some of us, I guess I
should only speak for me, become lunatics during this rivalry
game and whatnot. But these two coaches, Mark Pope and
(18:49):
Pat Kelsey, you can tell that they genuinely like each other,
respect each other. And not to say that other coaches
that have been at both schools had real animosity. Will
never get like what we had with Patino and Caliper.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I mean that was that was.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
A personal rivalry that then just played. I mean that
was that was cinema, That was theater as far as
just you could tell the two made each other's skin crawl.
But with Pope and Kelsey, they're not going to force it.
They do respect one another. And what we didn't see
a whole lot last year, and I don't want to
nerd out too much on basketball. But because of injuries
that Louisville suffered early on in the season and the
(19:22):
injuries that Kentucky suffered a little bit later, you didn't
you didn't quite see it, but they actually want to
play nearly the exact same way A bunch of in
rhythm threes a bunch, I mean they're they're striving to
get open threes in rhythm, free throw line or layups
around the rim, and I think it was right. But yeah,
the last season for Pope at BYU, the last season
for Kelsey at Charleston, they were both in the top
(19:44):
three and three point field goals attempted per game. They're
they're very so I think when you not only respect
one another as coaches and seem like good dudes, but
you also are similar as far as how you want
to play the game, I think, you know, it's natural
to the only thing, the only thing that makes them
incompatible is one guy's coaching Big Blue Nation. When guys
coaching coordination, that's that's really it. But yeah, good stuff.
We got another update of sports coming your way with
(20:05):
Scott Fitzgerald, as well as another update on news and
traffic right here on news radio forty whas
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