(KMN) 7.18: The Best Day of the Week - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Kentucky and this morning news Coffee and Company
here on News Radio eight forty whas Happy Friday, everybody.
That's right, it is Friday, best day of the week
in my opinion. We've got LMPT Spokesman Dwight Mitchell with us.
Happy Friday. How are we feeling?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Everything's going well? Nick.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's always a pleasure to be in your presence, and
especially today for a simple fact. I noticed that the
T shirt you had on came in of the room
this morning is very near and dear to my heart,
and that's a dare T shirt which stood for Drug
Abuse Resistance Education, one that I was very much a
part of in the beginning here in Lowland, Jefferson County,
and I'm very proud of that to this day. And

(00:37):
I'm glad that you're downing that particular show and.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
It worked out well because this is a a vintage
old shirt. And again, I'm sure a lot of people
know exactly what Dwight Mitchell's talking about when he mentions there,
but if you saw the logo on the shirt, I
think it would take you back in time because when
I was growing up and I hate to make myself
always sound so young to an audience that probably thinks
I'm young and childish anyway. But in the nineties this

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a big deal. I mean, it became a cool thing
for kids to just embrace. And clearly the motivation was
good to again keep kids away from drugs. But you
shared something with me when you saw the shirt that
I thought was fascinating, and I just I know people
will appreciate this story. There are kids at the time
who were a part of the DARE program with you

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that ended up following a path to law enforcement, many
of them right, well.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, and there's about five or six of them that
are on the police department now and may be more,
but several of them are in our upper command. In fact,
the Deputy Chief of Police, Emily McKinley was one of
my DEARE students in a few years ago. My direct supervisor,
Lamont Washington, was the sergeant of the Oh yes and uh.

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He was part of the DARE program as well as
as many others that are there. And it does my
heart well, not so much that they came into law enforce,
but the fact to see them grow and mature and
become the responsible adults that they had. We had any
small part roll in that at the time we did that,
What a great testimony that is.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, there's no doubt there was clearly some level of
an impact as far as making an impression to where
they they've grown to be not only very productive human
beings but also clearly working in a profession that we
need people like them. So that is that is awesome
to see. And I guess when I don't want to
sound like I'm some young kid, I don't want to

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make you sound like you're some old ancient dinosaur. But
he said it not me. You've you've done this a
long time. You've been in this community a long time
with LMPD in some form or fashion. What is it
like to see those that that sort of kind of
climb within that profession. And I mean, it's got to
make you proud.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, it makes me a static because here's the thing
in life. You know, as you grow and you mature,
you don't necessarily know what you're going to do. But
it's just one of those things that once you figured
that out and then you do it to the best
of your ability and you're able to make a career
out of it and then to affect someone else's life,

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and I just call that just paying it forward. You
just one thirsty man telling another thirsty man word to
get water. And I think that's great. And if again,
if we had some small impact on that at the
time that they were growing and maturing, then to God
be the glory.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I appreciate that that line you said about one thirsty
man to another thirsty man. I will tell you those
kind of lines from Dwight Mitchell are getting a lot
of praise. People seem to like those. So you bring
a lot of wisdom and you say you've shared some
things that I'm not sure people have heard, and they say,
you know what. I like that people are putting those
in their pocket and running with them. I hope they
credit you when they share those those type of lines.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
They shouldn't credit me because I got it from someone
else and just smart.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Enough to say it.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
There you go, all radio is. It's just recreating something
else as somebody else said.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's why I'm under a lot of great wisdom, mainly
my great mother, my minister, and some other people in
my life that have helped steer me. And you know,
when you hear something you stored in your memory. Brank
and when you have an opportunity to use it to
give it to someone else, why wouldn't you do that?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
No doubt, things stick with you for a reason. There's
no doubt about that. But Dwi Mitchell LL ANDPD spokesman's
with us here on news radio eight forty Whas obviously,
crime in the community, crime in Louisville, gun violence, that's
been a talking point for quite some time and always
will be, just as far as that's news, it's stuff
that people need to know about. But what I think
should be emphasized more than it is is just that

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we are seeing a drop in the number of these
types of crimes right now. Homicides down thirty four percent,
non fatal shootings are down thirty one percent, carjackings down
thirty six percent. And obviously it goes without saying you
want those to be at zero percent. As far as
just them happening, that's not reality. But this is good progress,

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and I'm just curious your thoughts on the progress itself
and maybe some factors that have led to this, because
clearly things are heading in the right direction here.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, I think getting the message out and officers are
returning back to doing good groundwork policing. You know, the
backbone of the police department are not detectives or things
like that. It's the men and women on the street
that ride those cars that you see that are very visible,
are working those streets, are being aggressive when they're seeing things.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
And I think that's helped mitigating some of it.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Now, if I had the civil bullet to say, if
we keep doing this, then it'll keep going down. And
I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason, and
I don't care as long as it as it is
going down. And that's the trend that we hope that
continues to do. But I think a lot of the
programs that that Metro government under Mary green Bird's leadership,

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putting those in place, having good continuity within the police
department and having one mission, one goal, and that is
to help eradicate crime. Now, you know, we've been a
police department of some sort, whether it was the city police,
County police, and now LMPD and the other agencies that
we have other law enforcement agencies we have in our

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community been doing this for over two hundred years. And
you know, now we're seeing a downward trending and I
hope that it continues that way. Not to some people,
perception is reality because on the news, you know, in
the media, that's what you hear is when something goes
wrong or if there's a tragedy and the should be reported.
Nobody's not saying that. But I do want to tap

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the fact that crime is going down. But there's no
simple saying solution to say that if we just because we.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Did this, it's going down.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
And I don't think that would be wise to do either,
because we're just going to keep doing what we're doing
and hope the results continue the way that they are.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
You mentioned continuity. That's something that I would say maybe
the average citizen doesn't really think about as far as
what is important when it comes to the police department.
You guys are a huge team, one big family, really
a fraternity, and you see it often when you know,
for example, Bear knows pizza had a benefit right for
the officer who recently had passed away and for her family,

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and just to see the army of law enforcement and
first responders really that are there. That was a reminder
to me that you know, if they are they're brothers
in arms. I mean, that's that's brothers and sisters in arms.
I should say so continuity when it comes to just
you know, having that that could that could go a
long way. As far as just improving.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Everything, well, yes, I think when you have clear cut,
defined goals, whatever organization you and your chances of succeeding
are good because everyone knows the mission and as long
as we're working in that same direction, change is inevitable.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's going to happen if you do that.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
But if you're going this way and that way and
this way and that way, then you're going to have
that what I just said, chaos without using the term.
But that's what we're what we're striving for, will continue
to do and I see a great, great future that
we have and I hope that it continues and gets better.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I gotta ask, are you going to be out at
Freedom Hall any over the next few days to watch
the former Cardinals play.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
I'm gonna be there tomorrow at twelve thirty gap my
TV ticket, there we go, and TBT ticket and I'm
ready to go.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's been such a treat for fans to see former
players play again, but just seeing guys play together that
clearly were many years apart during their time. I'm envious
of you because you got to experience the era that
made Louisville basketball what it is. It kind of became
my religion growing up. I know a lot about it,
but I didn't get to experience it. I was born

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into this, didn't have any didn't have any options. In
my son, he's the same way. He's excited about going
and watching him play, and he's getting to see guys
play that he wasn't even alive when they were playing
for Louisville. But because of this event, he's watched them,
he knows of them, and he's super excited. But imagine
if this would have been a thing back in the eighties,
some of the teams they could have put together with
Dinny's teams then just loaded rosters, good stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, actually, there was a game that took place and
it was I guess it was in the late eighties
that took place, but the nineteen eighty National championship team
played the nineteen eighty six National championship team, which I
was there, and it was the first of It's kind
of like that, so you did get to see that
ear again.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I remember seeing a clip on YouTube of somebody showing
like highlights of it, and I remember thinking, like, I
didn't know this happened. That was crazy. Griff played too,
didn't he?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, and I mean tore them up.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And those are the two. Those, of course, are the
first two national championship teams. And back then was there
was there a back and forth between hey, we're better
because fans don't care. They love both teams. They love
all the teams, especially those that want a title. But
I could see some competitiveness of from the eighty guys
in the eighty six guys.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, one of the best competitors of it all was
Derek Smith. And even though he had gone up because
actually the freshman purpose of nineteen eighty six, we had
like five or six of them that came in and
they were playing a summer league. We should have a
summer league that many of the UFL players played in.
And I remember Derek being really really tough on them,

(10:03):
but I think it actually tough in them.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Of course it did to win that championship in six.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
So it's Louivell basketball has always been a part of
the factory. I've been here my whole life and been
a Louisville fan. My whole time. And I even go
back to Junior Bridgeman and Alan Murphy days and Jim
Price and when Denny first got here.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So it was all good.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'll tell you what. Those guys arriving as freshmen. It
was important for those that were either finishing up their
career or were that had an impact on being what
it is. They're gonna let them know. Look, if you're
gonna wear this shootiform and we're gonna keep this thing going,
you gotta be tough. You gotta be ready.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh yes, you gotta be ready, ready to go. And uh,
you know Louivelle basketball in the eighties, we were the
team of it.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, And I'm still jealous as hell,
but I didn't get a chance to experience them.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Don't be jealous. Here's what you do. At least you
had somebody to tell you your hostory. And any time
you know your history, even if you weren't there, you'll
have a better appreciate for to push it forward. And
that's what you're doing now.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
And even though I didn't get to experience it, it
happening sort of created it becoming such an important thing
around here. Not that it was not that it wasn't
prior to that era, but yeah, we are the community
where this kind of an event can thrive because man,
we care about this stuff more than a lot of fans.
Oh yeah, we're crazy for college troops.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
We are.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
And I think what now, three years ago when we
first were in this, you know, when we're at a
long time in the basketball ye, little athletics.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
We needed that as a fan base.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
We did, and I think it was a good rallying point.
And you know, that's the thing about it. When you're
down and you're lying on your back, the good thing
about it is you're looking up. And that's what we
saw and we had hope. And then you know what
last year with a new revitalization that the program needed. Uh,
you know, it's just fantastic what we're experiencing today.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
So brought us back to life, right that one down, Folks,
when you're lying on your back, you're still looking up.
I like he's providing wisdom. That's what he does. He's
LMPT spokesman Dwight Mitchell White has always appreciate your time.
Always good to see you, and I may run into
you tomorrow at the game.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well I'm when we're off there to exactly where I'm sitting,
so we make sure that we connect.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Awesome, awesome. I got to introduce you to my son.
He's a he's a super fan of law enforcement and firefighters.
And I told him I get to talk each week
to Dwight, Mitchell, Bell and PD. He's he's gonna be
he's gonna be starstruck. You and Mantres Harrel are probably
going to be the two he's the most excited to see.
Looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Thanks to right take care.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, let's get to a quick update on traffic
and weather. Keep this thing rolling along again. And it's
Kentucky and this morning News Coffee and Company here on
news radio waight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon,
it is Kentucky and his morning news Coffee and Company
here on news radio eight forty w h as, Nick Coffee.
That's me the company man, John all on alongside John.

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Have you ever checked out at a store gas station,
maybe you were settling up at a fast food spot
and the total ice be six dollars and sixty six cents.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
You know, I think I have done that, yes, And
do you think.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
About like it does it bother you at all. Do
you add something to the menu.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, I do.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
It does pop in my head like, oh, that's the
Devil's number or whatever it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
This morning, I was doing the self checkout at Thornton's
because you guys know, I'm fueled by Thornton's. And I
stopped in to get my Monster Energy drink, and then
I also got a sprite and something else. I don't
remember what it was. Oh little, yeah, a little piece
of candy. Little it wasn't it. It was an airhead
and I just wanted some sugar. In fact, if I

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get a little sugar in my system early on when
I take meds that I take in the morning, that
usually keeps me from getting nauseous. So anyways, long story short,
the total was six dollars and sixty six cents. And
because it was a self checkout I had I thought, Okay,
I can't risk it. I mean, I wouldn't have thought
about it another second had I walked out and it
not been self checkout, meaning I would have to then

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have her rerun something if that makes sense, meaning like
the cashier. But because all I had to do was
pick something up, scanned again to not make it six
dollars and sixty six cents, but make it just a
little bit more expensive. And I don't know if I've ever
done that before. As far as being fearful of like that,
being a bad luck, or being superstitious about those kind
of things, I don't think I am superstitious at all
compared to I guess the average. But for some reason

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today I did that, and I'm having a great Friday,
So maybe the friday wouldn't be so good had I
checked out and paid six dollars in sixty six cents.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
I remember one time when it happened to me. I
didn't say anything about it, but the person who wrung
me up said, oh no, I've got to add a
penny to this because they were worried that something was
going to happen because of it.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
And I don't know if there's really anybody who's chucked
up a bad life experience because they you know, and
they think it's because they paid a total of six
dollars and sixty six cents. But I'm thinking, look, if
I add another airhead to the mix, it's another forty
none sense and it's there's no reason to not, you know,
avoid that potential risk. But yeah, I'm glad I'm not superstitious,

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which I'm just kind of knowing how I'm wired. I'm
kind of surprised that I'm not. But anyhow, I don't
remind you. When it comes to Thornton's. You could take
advantage of the Frequency Club. If you purchase purchase something
so frequently, eventually you get a free one, hence the
name Frequency Club. For example, if you get let's say
your routine is every day you stop in and you

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get yourself a twenty ounce bottle of Coca Cola, maybe
a twenty ounce bottle of Sprite. Well, if you've purchased nine,
the next one is ten. And look, I know, buying
nine of them to get the tenth one in one
visit is not ideal. But if it's part of your
routine every now and then, you're going to be checking out,
put that refreshing rewards membership in and boom, you get
it for free. So again, you guys know the drill.

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I'm fueled by Thornton's love Thorton's. All right, so let's
see where do we want to go here? Obviously I
want to reset some things before we get to Mayor Greenberg,
who's going to join us coming up around around eight o'clock.
But I guess just to kind of keep folks caught
up with really where we've been today, to kind of
give you give you a rundown of things we've discussed. Obviously,
we did talk about the cold Play concert leading to

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an affair getting exposed with a CEO and his HR
chief of staff. That is an example of things just
going viral because of everything involved. It's the satisfaction that
I think people get by seeing two people doing something
that they're not supposed to do get caught. But I
tell you the reaction from them making it quite clear

(16:22):
that it was a nightmare scenario for them to be
up on the screen, that was the real giveaway. And
I will say, you got to keep in mind the
world we live in now, there is so much fake
news that is generated. And I'm not talking about like politics,
certainly it exists there, but there's been like this press
release that's been put out by supposedly this guy and

(16:44):
his company about the situation. I think you might have
even referenced it earlier. John, It's not real. There's been
no there's been no confirmation from like the statement where
he released, you know, kind of playing victim or whatever,
that's not real. And I would have believed it. I
did believe it until you know, you do a little checking.
And again, because my whole thought is if if you're

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this guy, you just mean you don't say anything publicly,
you just try, it's worse. But if you didn't say anything, no.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
If he yeah the statement, yeah, I mean because it
just because and he put that little the in the
you know, the fake thing. It had like a lyric
at the end of.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Y it was like super So you know, I'm amazed
and also scared at how real fake things appear. And
I don't I'm not programmed yet, but I'm sure eventually
I will be programmed to where at all times you
just have to make sure what you're seeing despite how
look how it looks or even how it reads it.

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It may be doctored. And there's certain things that people fake,
like but for for what like it's not even like
that big of news. It wouldn't even generate much interest
if it was in fact real, So it's just it's
it's wild. But yeah, that whole that whole situation at
the Coldplay concert. It Uh, it's made its way national,
and I'm sure there's a lot of folks that are thinking, well, good,

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They're going to get what they deserve, I will say.
The linked end quote from the HR chief, who again
is clearly having some type of romantic relationship with her
married CEO on LinkedIn the quote says she's able to
build trust with employees of all levels. Well, she proved

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that at the highest level of that company. She's seemingly
having an affair with that guy, Andy Byron, the CEO
of Astronomer. So all right, let's take a quick break,
get you caught up on traffic and weather. Also, we
need to talk about this threat from President Trump, a
lawsuit that he's threatened he's start in legal action against

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the Wall Street Journal. And also when it comes to
the clear emphasis on getting legal immigrants out of the
country ICE, it sounds as if they're going to have
access to something that might make them much more effective
at what they want to do, which is get his
many people out of this country that are here illegally.
So we'll talk about that in a lot more as
we move along. It is Kentucky and is morning news,

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coffee and company right here on news radio eight forty whs.
It is Kentucky and it is Morning News. Coffee and
company here on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee,
that's me and we have Mayor Greenberg said to join
us coming up here at eight o'clock. So stick around
for that, all right. So we now know that, and
we've known for a while that there's a clear emphasis

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from President Trump to get illegal immigrants out of this
country really, regardless of their situation, regardless of their criminals,
regardless of them potentially working in working in industries that
the economy clearly relies on. So that's not new information.
But what is what is new information is the revelation

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that ICE is now going to be granted access to
personal data of I think it's seventy nine million Americans
that are enrolled in Medicaid, So they're going to have
access to names, addresses, ethnicity, these birth dates, social Security numbers.
And the purpose of this is because it's going to
help them track down immigrants who may be living in
the United States illegally. So again this is this has

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been a clear focus for Trump, and this I think
just gives ICE more information to more so be able
to do what they're setting out to do, which is
to just get rid of as many legal immigrants as possible,
regardless of their situation. And when I think of just

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this whole, this whole, what do you I mean, what's
the better what's the word to use? I mean, it's
clearly a task that he has that he's given Ice
as far as just make it's put it this way,
it's a big priority for Trump.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
But the the inconsistency early on just kind of still
sticks with me because I don't know how you could
make this decision without the knowledge that if in fact,
you get rid of anybody and everybody that's he illegally
regardless of said situation. There are certain industries that our
economy depends upon workers who are here I legally. And

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then there was that pause where they weren't targeting those
that worked in certain industries. I think it was hospitality,
maybe restaurants, and then within a few days they went
back to saying, regardless of your situation, they're there, they
could be coming for you. So I try to at
times put myself in the shoes of of of people

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in different situations, and it's really sometimes it's silly to do,
because I mean, I don't think you can truly relate
to certain things unless you experience those things. But if
you have lived here your whole life, or maybe just
lived here a good part of your life, and you
have been you know, you're not you're not legally necessary,
You're you're not here legally necessarily, but you've just you know,

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you've you've been off the radar, you've been you've been
a good contributor to society. I mean, the fear that
you would have every day, I mean, I can't imagine.
And that's why do you think you have seen some
just decide to say, instead of ending up in a
situation where you get pulled from your family or whatever
it may be, and you don't have any say so
in said process, maybe that's why there have been more

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people decide to self deport. And I think if I
was in that situation, that's I mean, I don't know
what I would do, and I don't even want to
think about it. That'd be scary for sure. But yeah,
I just I think this information that ICE is going
to have, it's just going to give them again the
better ability to find who they want to find, which

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is again people who are here illegally, regardless of circumstance.
All right, let's get an update on trafficking, weather, and
then of course we'll get another update on sports with Scott.
Stick with us. It is Kentucky and this morning news
Coffee and Company here on news radio waight forty whas