(KMN) 7.1: Bad Look - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Kentucky and a six oh five here on
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with us this morning. All right. So, one of the
big stories I think so far this summer in sports
here locally is the Vince Marrow Kentucky departure in him
ending up at Louisville and I, John, you can help

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me out here. Wouldn't you say that this wouldn't be
Mark Stoop's Losing Vince Merrow really under any circumstance to
any other job would be a blow. It would be
a bad look because he's the fan favorite within Big
Blue Nation, meaning Vince Marrow, just because he's he's kind
of almost like I don't want to call him mask.
I don't want to call him the mascot because that's

(01:07):
it sounds like I'm insulting him. But I mean, he's
very visible within their program. He's kind of a hype
man as showman, if you will. And he didn't just leave.
He left to go to Louisville, which is kind of crazy.
But John, have you seen how he let the folks
at the University of Kentucky know that he was leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I have not seen this.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, So this uh to me, this is this is
this is kind of a bad look. However, I maybe
there's really no good way to go about it when
it comes to you leaving a job and it clearly
going to be public and it's going to be a
big story. But he let them know through text messages.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
So Lindsey Goff, who is a sports anchor at w
WKYT in Lexington, she did an open records request to
obtain the resignation letter from Vince Marrow and through the
open records request, she was given how he informed his

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employer at the time that he was leaving. And it
wasn't through any letter or an email, it was through
a text message. And yeah, it was UK Deputy Athletics
Director Mark Hill who got the text message from Vince
Marrow and this came the same day that U of
L announced Marrow's hiring, which what I would love to know,

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And maybe I'll reach out to Lindsay to ask because
I do think. I mean, it's not worth anything now
it's over, he's at Louisville and you know, it really
doesn't matter. But I guess more for my curiosity, there's
a big difference in when it was announced that he
was going to be going to Louisville. That was that
was Pete Thamil who broke that news, but it was

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days later that it became official where they announced it
via press release at the University of Louisville. So maybe
it's just a formality because when it was broke by
Pete Fammeil, that's when it really became real. I guess
there's a difference here and really you know that it's happening,
and then the final acknowledgment of it being official has
got to be the press release. But anyhow, this is

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what he said to this is it? Yeah, this was
Thursday at ten fifty seven am. Let me know when
we can chat about moving on car, any devices and keys,
et cetera, all the things that was that was sent.
I'm sorry that was sent by the Deputy Athletic Director

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Mark Hill. And then later Vince wrote K just K
that was his response, and then he later said, hey, Mark,
today is my last day at UK. Thanks for everything.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I bet he put t X four the number four
and then EVR why I just as short as possible.
It is how he did it.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
It says thanks, let me know when you want to
get your Ford expedition to my house. So yeah, whenever,
whenever you end up moving on from a from a job,
I mean, how you do it, I don't think is
necessarily I mean it's important. But I'm trying to give

(04:15):
Vince mayor a little bit of benefit of the doubt
here because there may have been some conversations that that
that took place that you know, this was instead of
just telling him, like if you said it via phone,
maybe maybe the Athletic department at the University of Kentucky
they need some level of like documentation and just word
of mouth via a phone call. Maybe that doesn't do it.

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So maybe there maybe this was the official way of
of you know, documenting this process of him moving on,
and because he wasn't bought out, it wasn't as if
his contract was broke because he's not coming to Louislle
to be in on the field staffer. As far as
a position coach, he's he's the director and I don't
know his exact title, don't have it in front of me,
but director I think of player development, recruiting, that kind

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of stuff. So yeah, he let him know via text message,
and you know, that's that's I don't know. Part of
me says that's not the way to go about it,
but sometimes there's no good way. I mean, he's he
could have gone about it in the most professional way possible.
We could have asked all the AI platforms to, hey,
give me the best way to break up with my employer.

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I want to do it with the most class and integrity.
The fact that he left to go to Louisville would
have made none of that matter, I think. But yeah,
the big dog broke up via text message. Yikes, And
you're probably right. There probably was a THHX there, John,
I could see that all right. We got an update
of trapping a weather coming your way. Also, what I

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want to get to coming up here on the other side.
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and
not only has it not changed, it's getting worse, gotten worse.
The majority of our headlines here in Louisville regarding violent
crime or with juveniles children. And I know the question
everybody's asking, where where are the parents, who who's respond
unstable for these young children that are shooting each other?

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And I don't have the answer to that, but I
have a theory that I want to run BIA. So
we'll get to that next right here on Kentucky and
it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
forty whs. It is six seventeen here at Kentucky. Anda's
Morning News with Nick Coffee on NewsRadio eight forty whas.
So it's it's I think become a real unfortunate growing trend,

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and that is that one violent crime here in Louisville
continues to happen, but it continues to be either the
victim or the perpetrator being not just juveniles meaning under
the age of eighteen, but a twelve year old girl
yesterday turned herself in joining a thirteen year old girl
charged in a Louisville shooting that injured two teenage girls.

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And again, juvenile crime has surged in Louisville and at
a sad and scary rate. I mean, you had a
shooting in the Russell neighborhood that was at the end
of May, and that was that was That's what this
whole case is about. It's two teenage girls were found
with non life threatening injuries and gunshot wounds and hospitalized.
And now we know that a thirteen year old girl,

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she was arrested last week charged with two counts of
first degree assault, and then Monday, a twelve year old
girl turned herself in facing two counts of first degree
assault complicity. So this ties in with Over the weekend,
three juveniles were arrested by LMPD fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen
year old and they were linked to a bunch of
burglaries across Louisville. And also you had a drive by

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shooting in mutual that was I believe on June twenty second.
It left a fifteen year old girl and a seventeen
year old boy injured, and a seventeen year old male
juvenile was arrested and charged with two counts of assault
in connection to that incident. So it's it's scary as
can be, regardless of the age. It's these are things

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that you I was, they don't want happening. And if
I had the answer of the solution to how to
limit this stuff, you know again, I wouldn't be sitting
here yapping on the radio. And obviously nobody wants this
going on. But I know a lot of people who
just go about their life every day. They get up,
they go to work, they try to provide for their family,
they keep up with the news, but obviously it's sometimes

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just background noise. This is the kind of background noise
that will get your attention. A twelve year old girl
has turned herself in for being an accomplice in the shooting.
I mean easily, these these two teenage girls that were
that were shot, could have been killed. So I mean,
this is this is I'm at a loss for words

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because what else can you mean? What can you say?
It's awful, it's it's unthinkable. But a lot of people
who I think are you know, your average jos that
are just you know, living their life, trying to make
ends meet. If they've got children, they're just thinking, well,
where are their parents. Who's raising these kids, And that's
a fair question. Clearly, not having good guidance at home

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is probably a factor to this in a major way. Now,
you can also have a good mentor in your home
and somebody that does everything that you're supposed to do
and does the best they can as far as keeping
their children from being exposed to violent crime and of
course letting them be a part of violent crime. And
you know, sometimes it's just you know, you can be
the best parent ever and your kids can be bad apples.

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But what I think is this is not there are
clearly young individuals here in the community that do not
have good role models. They don't have good parents in
their home. They don't have somebody to set an example.
And that's awful, but that's not new. That's been a
thing for unfortunately a long time generations. There have been

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young children that don't have good parents in their life
to set an example. But now it seems as if
they don't have really anybody. Maybe or maybe they do,
but I'm telling you, when it comes to just people
in the community that may we don't even have kids
that would volunteer time to be mentors in their area.
Where they know kids are out running the streets without

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somebody to set an example. I mean, maybe we don't
have as many of those people as we used to.
I don't know what it is, but the surge in
violent crime with children in Louisville is alarming. All Right,
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way. Also,
we'll get an update on sports. It's Kentucky and it's
Morning News with Nick Coffee right here on News Radio

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eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon. It
is Kentucky and it Morning News with Nick Coffee. I
can't confirm what he said is true. I am Nick Coffee,
and again this is Kentucky and his Morning News. Be careful, everybody.
We've got the month of July off to a very wet,
wet start, which has led to some real traffic issues.

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We'll get the latest from Bobby Ellis coming up here
in about five minutes. However, it looks as if in
the last hour we've had an accident on I sixty
four eastbound a Ninth Street, which is blocking the right lane,
and also the accident on I sixty four eastbound and
Hurstbourne blocking the left lane. And also it looks as
if the yes, there's an accident at sixty five northbound

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at Crittin Drive blocking the left lane. And I'm looking
at some visuals here at the five oo two traffic
social media account and a lot of a lot of
wet roads, dark skies and cars not moving. It looks
like there's now a crash that has taken place on
I sixty four east bound at the second street bridge

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that has the right lane blocks. So stay safe. It's
a sloppy morning, and again we're gonna have showers expected
and storms throughout throughout the morning here.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
All right.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
So that story that you just heard there in John
Shannon's news update about the father who heroically jumped into
the Atlantic Ocean to save his daughter after she fell
from a from a Disney cruise ship, I cannot imagine
being in that guy's position. I mean, again, he's a hero,
but how do you how do you snap back? Do

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you ever snap back to normal after experiencing something like that?
So it took place on a Disney Dream cruise from
the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale. As the girl fell from
deck four into the Atlantic Ocean. Her father took action.
I'm sure instincts took over. I would imagine there was
no moment of giving any kind of thought of what
should be done, who should I call? He just jumped

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in and tried to savor and fortunately he was successful,
says They treaded water for about twenty minutes. The ship's
crew issued a man overboard alert and deployed a lifeboat,
and of course they were both rescued successfully, and there
were passengers there that of course recorded the whole thing.
And again what a miracle that this that this ended

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up not leading to both of them drowning and dying.
So there were there was there were plexiglass barriers in
place for safety, but it's clear how the young girl
fell fell overboard. And I mean this is within a
few days after we were talking about cruises, so was

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it late last week we were talking about going on cruises.
I'm I'm anti cruise more than anything because I have
a phobia of being on water where I can't see land,
and that that that is, that that has let me
know that I'll never go on a cruise in my
life because pretty sure that's the majority of your time
at sea, you don't see anything. Uh So I've never

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been someone that has any has had any interest just
because of me, not because you know, I don't think
it'd be fun. I just not my kind of thing.
And when I hear a story like this, all it
does is make me more content in my my my
status on cruises for me individually. I mean, I've seen
videos and I don't know. Sometimes it's it's AI creation

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and it just looks very real. But there's been some
videos that have surfaced and even if it's not real,
to see what it would look like if maybe water
got real rocky and you're I mean you got it
scares the hell out of me. John.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
If you've been on a cruise, I've not. I'm not
as opposed to it as maybe you are, buts I
have my reservations.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, I I've always and again I think maybe everybody
before they go on a cruise has a little bit
of reservation, because there are many that will. In fact,
most people who I talk to about a cruise, they'll
go out of their way to say, oh, you don't
even you don't even know you're on the water. Yeah,
it's like you're on another you know, another country.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm more so worried that I would get seasick. I
think that's my biggest issue with it.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, and I would have. I mean, maybe I'm wrong again,
I've never been, but I think if you if you
end up going on a cruise for let's say, I
don't know, a week, I mean, if you don't take
any kind of medication to help prevent you from getting seasick,
I guess you can see yourself lucky. Or maybe it's
you know, I know my my mom and my stepdad
have been on many cruises. They love it.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
My friends. In fact, I have a friend as we
speak that is on a cruise, UH with his family,
and they tried to get us to go, and it
I feel bad because you know, we like and we
like traveling with them, and our kids are really close
with their kids, and they're they're they're great, great friends.
And it's my buddy who I've known for no joke,
thirty years. But you know, I was the reason that
we didn't we didn't take this vacation because you know,

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I just know that I wouldn't. I mean, I'd survive,
but I would be you know, I'd be terrified. And
I know what people are thinking. I want a whimp.
You'll get you'll you know, you'll be fine, Like you'll
you'll realize it's nothing, and like you may be right.
But I don't have here. I am as a man
admitting to you, I don't have the courage to at
least test it out, because, uh, I can just see

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me having a panic attack and calling nine to one one. Oh,
I can't call not on one, there's no cell service.
Send the helicopter to get me, to get me out
of here. Also, when I went to Cabo a couple
of years ago, I witnessed one of the cruise ships
and this is what they do, and it's actually really convenient,
but it was another reminder, yeah, I'm content on not
going on cruises. It was where you kind of like,

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I don't know how, you like repelled down off the
side of the cruise ship. In some way you're safe,
but you get on like a little many boat and
they take you so like the cruise doesn't dock, but
they'll come and get you if you want to go
to the town wherever they're close to and like do
excursions and stuff, and just that whole thing scared the
hell out of me. But again I'm in the minority. Clearly,

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cruise ships and cruises are very popular. But yeah, how
about that Dad. I mean again, I'm sure he's just
counting his blessings that his daughter's safe and they're both safe.
But I don't know. I mean, there's no way he
snapped back to reality at after such an experience like that.
But again, that could have been tragic. But Dad's a hero.
All right. We've got another update of traffick and weather
coming your way right here, and again pay attention to

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the weather, to the traffic updates, folks, and weather too,
by the way, because we got a sloppy start that's
led to a lot of accidents here in the Kentucky area.
It is consuckyated. It's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
News Radio eight forty whas Mayor Greenberg is set to
talk a little later on this morning, I believe at
ten or eleven. In regards to the recent attempted street

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takeovers in Nulu, it was the Highlands last month and
now we've got I guess three straight weekends where in
Newlu there have been attempts to take over the streets.
It's led to a lot of police presence where they've
got to intervene some businesses I believe have shut down
and hotel entrances were blocked, which of course can be

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problematic to say the least. So I do think the
last few weeks of sniffing it out early, meaning LMPD,
either relying on tips or just being savvy and knowing
where it's going to take place and shutting it down
before it gets to being super chaotic, that I think
is a positive sign that it's not led to it
getting out of hand. But I just think resources being

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utilized by law enforcement every week to be on alert
of it tempted takeovers. I mean, that's not sustainable. So
we'll hear from Mayor Greenberg a little bit later on
Today it's five forty seven here Kentucky in this morning
news on news Radio eight forty whas I think Caitlyn
Clark has well. First of all, I'll just say this
because I'm itching to shere a sports opinion, because I

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don't do that whole lot anymore. But I think Kaitlyn Clark,
as of right now is the best women's basketball player
that I've ever watched, and she could stop playing today
and I would believe that. And obviously, when it comes
to accomplishments. I mean, she's in her second season as
a pro, so the accomplishments wouldn't be there, and they
may not be right. Who knows how many w NBA
titles she wins, or if she even wins one at all,

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or if the WNBA exists in years I mean, it
probably will. But my point is I just I've watched
her play enough and she is She's special, which is
why she is one of the most talked about athletes
in the world, regardless of gender and regardless of sport.
That's not how purble, that's not an exaggeration. I don't
care who you are. If you don't know who Caitlin
Clark is. As far as just hearing the name and

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knowing who people are talking about, you must be living
under a rock. And by the way, as I say that,
I'm looking at Woky and they're talking about her right
now because she's worthy of news because she has that
much she just commands that much attention, and it's just
rare for a women's basketball player to have this type

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of fame and it's just something I've never seen before.
And again, I think there's a variety of factors. One
because she's so good. But to see that the WNBA players,
when it comes to the All Star voting, they have
I guess they've got fan voting, media voting, and then
player voting. That is how you get your weighted score

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as far as the w NBA All Stars, and she
was number one in fan vote, which shoudn't surprise anybody,
but she was ninth in player voting, and that's at
her position. And if that doesn't can mean I don't
believe that. In fact, it's laughable that professionals, grown ups

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are filling out this ballad as players. Meaning I don't
know if it's done online or what it is, but
they can't with a straight face tell you that they
believe she's the ninth best guard in the WNBA. So this,
to me confirms what I have unfortunately been witnessing for
for a little while now, the delusion that exists within

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the WNBA. I mean, that's that's flat out delusion, And
I don't believe that they believe it, but their inability
to just acknowledge that this superstar has given you exposure
that you would have never received had it not been
for her just being this special. You don't need to
kiss her rear end. But the jealousy is just, oh,

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it is showing, and it's just it's it's hilarious because
here's klen Clark could leave the WNBA starter her own
league and it would instantly be more successful than the WNBA.
And that's really not anybody's fault. I don't think the
WNBA collectively does itself many favors as far as growing
the game, but I couldn't. I was speechless when I
saw that the peers of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA

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thinks she's the ninth best guard in the in the league.
I mean laughable, laughable. All right, we got an update
on traving the weather coming your way. Also another update
on sports was Scott Fitzgerald right here on news radio
eight forty WHS