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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, welcome in. Can you can you
feel it? Can you smell it? That's Friday, folks. We
have made it here to the end of the week.
Friday's the best day of the week. I don't really
think it's I mean, is it isn't the debate No.
I mean, I just looked up a you gov poll
that was taking This was taken from twenty twenty two,
so it's not super recent, and I just looked this
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up a moment ago. There's I know that Friday's a
work week and most people for most people obviously, but again,
it's state of mind. You're the way, the way you feel.
It's all about state of mind more than maybe anything.
And when you have the weekend right there, you get
the end of the work day not too far away
from for a lot of us. I mean, I just
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I won't leave it alone. I want people to realize
that Friday is the best day of the week. And
we've made it, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It is Friday. I'll put Saturday up there with it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And now that Thursday's Saturdays right too, Thursday's the new Friday,
like we like to say. And you know what's interesting
is you notice a different vibe at work. Everybody knows
I working to the gig. I could tell I was
getting flooded with emails starting late Wednesday, and then it
was getting flooded with emails yesterday. My wife had not
had that conversation last night. She goes through the same thing.
And you can tell people are getting ready to push
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off absolutely because it just they start coming in a fast.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's not an off day. But you really grind hard
Wednesday Thursday. So Friday can can be what you want
it to be.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Especially in the summer.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh, no doubt. Yeah, obviously during the summer people probably
have more things and plan for the weekend and whatnot.
But yeah, Friday is here, and we're happy you guys
are with us here on a Friday morning. It's Kentucky
and his Morning News with Coffee and Company Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
He's Scott Fitzgerald, John All on the alongside John Shannon. We'll
have him with a news update coming up around five
point thirty. And I don't know if you guys saw,
there was another another semi truck crash downtown last night.
And I shouldn't be as fascinated by this as I am.
But I don't know, maybe others see this as just
odd and unusual just because of how often this is
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now happening. And I'm not pointing any fingers blaming anybody.
I just think to see semi trucks crash this frequently
in that area, it just has to be unusual. I
don't know if we can pull any data that'll compare
the rate of this happening in Louisville compared to other cities,
but it it just it seems like a really not
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just it's clearly not just a coincidence. But the truckers
that we've heard from when we've talked about this before, Scott,
they've referenced a couple of things that stand out to me.
One is that there's just not enough signage letting people
know who aren't familiar with the spaghetti junction, essentially that
you need to slow down. Ye and I don't really
know whose fault that is. Maybe they could add some
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signage ahead of time that maybe people can be alerted,
but still you have a responsibility to pay attention when
you're driving. And then there's others that say that when
it comes to the training, and I'm sure there's a
lot of differ I know, in fact, I know there's
a lot of different ways you can go through training
to become a driver with a CDL. But at least
one of our listeners said that when they went through
the pro it wasn't really teaching you in vehicle how
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to drive as much as it was just making sure
you can pass the test. Now, those are two different things.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Absolute they are, And I think when I saw that too,
and I think when you see the number of trucks,
because I take that corner quite a bit both both directions,
and I do notice trucks are going a bit slower
as they go through, I think word is out amongst
the truckers said, hey, you need to watch this. There
are plenty of truckers that navigate that every day, and
then we see the occasional one like you said that
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that just goes off the wayside. So you know, I
don't know if you put down maybe a rumble strip,
but you don't want to slow down traffic anymore going
through there now, because anytime things fall from the sky,
people just lose their ability to navigate efficiently, if you will.
But it is telling that this is happening more and
more now.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Can you imagine being a new truck driver, maybe you
just you just got your CDL recently and first day
on the job on your own in your truck, and
you happen that's part of your path wherever you're going,
I would be a nervous wreck. And again, there's plenty
of semi trucks that passed through there, probably right now
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as we speak, and it's not an issue. So I'm
sure the numbers would tell us that it's still rare
compared to how many semi trucks are in that area
every single day. But I think, as I'm racking my
brain here, I think not only just because it's been
in the news so much that these keep happening over
the last couple of years, but just some of the
visuals that have that we've seen. I mean, one on fire,
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hanging from an overpass, yes the bridge, or one of
the semis last year was literally hanging from the bridge
nearly you know, about to fall into the Ohio River,
and that of course became a national story. So I
think more than anything, my fascination has led to just
the visuals of those things here in Louisville. Some of
it has not even looked real, you would you could
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convince me that it was created by AI just because
it's something you don't usually see.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's like the UL.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, it's also really fascinating to be.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So maybe we need to start a social media following
for the sixty five curb to let people know because
we have both that straight on. So I did notice that.
I thought of you, Nick, and I'm glad you brought
it up because we'll see if the mayor speaks about this.
I don't know what the mayor can do, because obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's gonna be on with us today at eight o'clock,
so we'll talk to you because I can bring it up.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I know the highways are a state federal issue, but
it certainly is a concern for people here in Louisville
because fortunately we haven't seen other motorists impacted so much
so yet and that's a conneccept for.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The most part. And again I don't have all the
details in front of me, but yes, for what it's
looked like and the coverage that understandably we've had with
these stories, it doesn't seem as if there's been you know,
put it this way, I guess the visual makes you
feel like it could have been worse, exactly, exactly, all right, fellas,
let's have a Friday shall always do this, Let's do
it all right. We've got an update of tracking the
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weather coming your way right here, right now, and a
loaded Friday for you. So I'll set the table as
we move along here and get this thing started again.
It's Kentucky and his Morning News with coffee and company
right here on News ready to wait forty whs. When
I tell you we are loaded here on a Friday morning,
I mean it a lot to get to. I mentioned
it just a moment ago. The Mayor is going to
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stop in at eight o'clock. Mayor Greenberg will be with us. Also,
we'll have our usual Friday morning conversation with Dwight Mitchell
of LMPD, and of course Rory O'Neil. He'll join us
at five forty five. So we'll have some guests with
us today, which of course is always always a good
thing for the show, but also a lot of things
to get into. Specifically, I guess we'll start with what
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I think is a is probably one of the bigger
stories going on currently in really the world, maybe, and
that is the Epstein files, And now we have Donald
Trump versus the Wall Street Journal, as they've released a
story that includes, yes, Walstreet Journal, they had a report
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that alleged that he sent a lewdday letter to Jeffrey Epstein,
and Trump has responded by threatening legal action against the
Wall Street Journals, saying it's fake, defamatory, and he's directing
Attorney General pambam Bonding now to unseal grand jury testimony
related to Epstein's criminal case, which is something that often
or that rarely happens, meaning the courts rarely allow it.
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But maybe we will finally get some some transparency here.
But nothing would shock me. However, it does seem as
if as of last night, really yesterday, I suppose more
than yesterday evening that became. I mean again, nothing would
shock me. But the tone from Trump following the report
from the WSJ makes me think that he's just just
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to kind of like he's had enough of everybody talking
about it to where he's going to finally have them
release something. What that is, nobody knows, so we'll get
into that. Also, when it comes to things that go viral,
I'm fascinated by how certain things just they really spread
like file fire, and sometimes you understand why a specific
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story just gravitates the way it does and spreads. Sometimes
I ask myself, Okay, this is clearly one of the
top ten viral stories of the year, but I don't
really know why. For example, Hawk Tua that became a
huge deal, and I never really understood how something like
that took off the way that it did, meaning to
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where it was quite literally one of the most talked
about things seemingly in the world at the time. Now,
this one, a CEO getting caught on the JumboTron at
a Coldplay concert in Boston, that is one that I
do understand sort of why this thing became.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Such a viral story.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So a CEO was caught on the big screen at
the Cultplay concert, clearly having a romantic moment with a
woman that was not his wife. In fact, it was
the company's HR chief. And we'll get into some of
the details of that later on what we know. But
I just I mean, imagine telling these two individuals prior
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to the concert that something like this could play out
to where they end up hugging it up being romantic
with one another during the concert. Only for everybody in
Boston at the show to see them on the jumbo tron,
and then even the lead singer from from Coldplay acknowledging,
oh hey, oh wait oh, they're either having an affair
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or they're very shy, and he was right. He had
two options as far as the scenario, and one of
them appeared to be correct, which I mean that that'll
I mean, you go from just I mean again, these
aren't average Joe's. I would say, this guy is the
CEO of a big company, but I mean the Internet
is forever, and now when you google this person's name, forever,
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I mean, that's gonna come up. But that's probably the
least of his worries right now. I mean maybe sounds
like his wife probably did not know that he was
having an affair. I would assume she didn't. So again,
that has become and it took off like crazy for
good reason. People I think are taking joy and knowing
that these two cheaters, I guess are getting caught. Also,
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this is a big story and we'll maybe get to
this with Rory O'Neil coming up around five to forty five.
But Ice is apparently now going to get access to
personal data of all seventy nine million Americans enrolled in Medicaid,
and that includes names, home addresses, birthdays, and ethnicities, and
even social Security numbers. And this is to help ICE
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track down immigrants who may be living here in the
US illegally, which I feel like this type of development here,
in this clear emphasis that Trump has on getting illegal
immigrants out of the country, This is something that it
was if I was somebody here illegally and I had
already been worried about potentially being snatched up, this would
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add a new level of worry, just because this is
going to give them access to all the information that
will better help them find those that are not here legally,
regardless if you are a criminal or if you're somebody
who's here illegally, but you are working and you're productive,
so we'll follow that as well. So again, a busy Friday,
but it's Friday. That's good, right, Friday's best day of
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the week. I'm gonna say it until everybody just agrees
with me. It is Kentucky. It's Morning News with coffee
and company right here on news Radio eight forty WHS.
Thank you very much, John Shannon, It is Kentucky and
his Morning News with Coffee and Company here on news
Radio eight forty whas Nit coffee with you the company
man John Alden alongside John, I just have to say,
(11:35):
you must have found a routine that works well, because
the first few weeks I could tell you were you
were running on fumes as a early riser because of
this shift and of course the father of a brand
new human being. But you have been in good spirits,
not that you were ever in bad spirits, but what
have you found the magic formula that keeps you fresh
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and ready? Because I'm sure you're still doing all the
added work of you know, taking care of a baby,
helping helping your wife, but you you've got good vibes.
I would say it's it's noticeable.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I don't think I've found First of all, thank you,
I appreciate it. I don't think I've found a magic formula.
I do think part of the of what's helped the
last few weeks is the fact that the baby doesn't
get up nearly as often in the middle of the
night as she did in the first few weeks of
her being alive. And so that's that helps even me
when I look back on that time now, even though
it was only for about a month month and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
If even that that was that was rough?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You feel like you were a zombie?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right, I did, and it was.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I didn't hate life, I loved it, but it was
just something I had never experienced before. And it's it's
not for the it's not for the faint of heart.
Maybe that's first world problems, but.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, it's dude, it's life. And I know there are
many people listening that know exactly what you're talking about,
and maybe they probably are saying what I'm saying, Like, no,
it does make sense, like it's not as if and
I don't think you know until you're in that you're
in that spot. And not to make it too deep,
but it to me, it reminds me of the very
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beginning stages of being a parent, to where without really
any train of thought, it just comes natural, to where
there's a level of selflessness that just kicks in because
you know what you made the baby, you're you're half
responsible with it, along with your wife, your partner, and
it just you know, you might like you probably there's
probably moments where you're just literally running on autopilot, quite literally,
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seeming like a zombie. And it doesn't, you know, And
I'm sure for some parents it lasts longer than they like.
But I would say with with with miss Daisy growing
up and and now how old is she now?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
She's just turned three months.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, I knew it was coming up on three months.
So yeah, so now just like you know, you have
found probably a little bit more of a structured routine
and a little bit more consistency because she has found
some consistency with her schedules.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So there's another wrench coming here soon, and that's my
wife going back to work, oh teacher, and that of
course it will be something brand new here very shortly.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't I don't want to scare you, but that
is a process, my friend, I have heard. Yeah, Mama
bear going back to work and no longer being just
you know, there's a reason that mothers, most of them,
at least I hope they do. They get they get
a good amount of time off to spend with the
baby after after giving birth. And it's not just because
they went through the process of giving birth. It's because
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of the process of of of motherhood. And yeah, and
it'll be everybody's situation is different. But I think the
lead up to it for us was more the issue
just my wife was really scared just about the thought
of not being with her with her baby. But it'll
all work out.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It'll be good.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But you're right, that's gonna be a challenge. But look,
you've you've navigated this thing flawlessly so far, so it'll
be okay. But it's still wild to me that your dad.
It's wild to me you grew up right in front
of my eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's stuff, all right. So that one of the big
stories from yesterday that you heard John Shannon reference there
in his newscast was the DOJ recommending no prison time
for Brad Hankinson and the Breonna Taylor case. And their
recommendation is that he should serve one day in jail,
which he already served, followed about three years of supervis
released and a one hundred dollars fine. That'll just just
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that sentence. I'll read it again. Federal prosecutors say Hankinson
should serve one day in jail, followed followed about three
years of supervis released. Any one hundred dollars fine, just
take that sentence, knowing sort of just everything that has
come with the coverage of the Breonna Taylor situation over
how many years now, five plus years. I think there's
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a lot of people that if they just take that sentence,
they're just going to assume that this is, this is
unheard of. I mean, how could how could Obviously MARYA.
Greenberg has called for a serious prison sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Rep.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Morgan McGarvey, you know, he slammed the proposal here from
the DJ claiming that is it is morally reprehensible that
that is their recommendation. So I guess my question is this,
when it comes to just what this entire situation has
has has I don't want to say has done to
the city, but I kind of I don't know, maybe
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that is the right way to say it. Clearly, this
has been something that has been lingering, and it was
a national story for obvious reason, and it was something
that clearly this will be something I think Louisvillions remember
forever as far as just that whole thing and in
the aftermath of it. But that decision, does that move
us forward or backwards when it comes to just wanting
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to move on from this, this this whole situation, And
I'm not necessarily and I'm speaking more so it's just
when you think of this goes back to kind of
the conversation we had earlier this week about the Run
for the Roses tournament at the Expo Center, where for
a while the news the story was active aggressor or
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shooter at a at a big time girls basketball tournament
in Louisville, and obviously that ended up being nothing, thankfully,
But it to me, maybe this is just selfish on
my end as a Louivillion that I hate that we
keep making national news for things that are not great.
And again that made national news to an extent and
it all ended up being nothing. But when people think
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of Louisville who aren't from here, people that follow news
headlines and are plugged into national news stories, they probably
think of the Breonna Taylor situation and what Louisville kind
of turned into during those protests and riots, and that's
just not a good look for our city. And I
don't know if so. With all that said, what I
mean is just wanting to not have that be one
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of the first things that come to mind here now
knowing that the DJ has recommended what I think a
lot of people see is a very light punishment if
they even see that as a punishment for Ben Hankinson. Like,
I'm not really sure where this takes us as far
as moving on from this, And I don't mean that
we should move on from it and never talk about
it again. That's not at all what I'm saying. But
clearly some type of closure here in regards to just
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being at peace with it all. Right, Rory O'Neil from
NBC News is set to join us coming up here
on the other side, So stick around, We've got another
update of track. They're coming for you right here, right
now on News Radio eight to forty whas Happy Friday,
It is Kentucky and is Morning News with Coffee and
company here on News Radio eight forty whas. It is
now time to bring in Rory O'Neill of NBC News. Rory,
(18:15):
when it comes to the Coca cola product, is this real?
Is are they really going to change their formula? As
Donald Trump has suggested.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Well, Coca cola is the real thing, right, and that
we've already grown.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Up hearing of course you're too young to remember the
real thing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well I know of it, but yes, memory, yeah, not possible.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, So here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
It all started sort of an out of the blue again,
President Trump trying to change the topic away from Epstein.
Doesn't me go on truth social to say he's been
talking about to Coca Cola about using real cane sugar,
not corn syrup in the formulation. And well, Coca Cola's
in the US whitched over to corn syrup decades ago
for its sweetener, and the sugar version is still available.
(19:02):
It's known as Mexican coke. Uh, and it's still out
there and in some easy to find in many Hispanic communities.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But Coca Cola was sort of not aware.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Of this, so they said, well, we appreciate the President's interest,
but right now, we don't have any immediate plans to
change all of our coke to Mexican coke.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
None of that surprises me as far as Coca Cola
not being aware and them having that response. The most
important question you're going to get today, Rory, is this,
Are you more of a Coca Cola guy or are
you Pepsi guy?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, it's got it, only there's only coke.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Thank you, thank you. I was hoping that would be
very answer, and you didn't let me down.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Is there anything more disappointing than when you say, oh
you can I have a coke pleasing?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh pepsi?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Okay, oh no, actually really thanks.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'm with you one thousand percent. And it's not it's
not it's not the service fault by any means. But
if they do let me know that it is pepsi.
At times I'll say, okay, well I'll take a sprite
or a water or something like that, and it it's
not their fault. It's just yeah, Coca Cola is the
way to go. And they're not even paying us to
say that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Rory, Yeah, yeah, right. We need a better deal, we
need a better agent.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's great, exactly exactly, Roy any of THEBC News is
our guest here on news radio eight forty whas sticking
with Trump when it comes to spending cuts. He's asking
Congress to pull back money on things that they've already
budgeted for. What exactly is being affected here with these cuts?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Right, So overnight the House passed the final version of
what they call recisions. It's clawing back money that, as
you said, Congress already approved. So this is just nine
billion dollars dropping the bucket stuff. But this may be
the first of many similar bills. A lot of this
is the result of DOGE and some of the cuts
that they had suggested. Most of these cuts, about eight billion,
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come in foreign aid programs, things like funding the UN
or the US contribution to UNICEF. They did put back
some money that the President asked to be canceled, and
that was about four hundred million dollars for an anti
aid initiative that was first started by President Bush W.
Bush and has saved something like twenty six million lives
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by some counts. So they put that four hundred million
dollars back in the budget. But you and I are
probably following the fact that it also takes out one
point one billion dollars in spending for the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, the company that funds a lot of NPR
and PBS programming. So the money really is going to
more directly affect individual stations more so than the networks themselves.
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So a lot of potential layoffs could be happening at
individual stations, not necessarily as much impact on the big networks.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I wouldn't ask you to speak for anybody but yourself,
but when it comes to pulling funding for the public
broadcasting world. It is believed to be rooted from just
expenses that aren't necessary, meaning they're wasted, or is it
just that they don't you know, there's there's not much
maybe appreciation for what that is.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, no, it's purely political. The Republicans in Congress and
President Trump feel that the network's NPR and PBS are
too liberal, that the news programming in particular has a
distinct liberal slant. And this has been sort of one
of the issues stuck in their crawl for decades really,
but now they're doing something about it. Keep in mind,
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the one point one billion is over two years, so
it was cutting five hundred and thirty five million dollars
in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven funding. Obviously,
you know, those channels do plenty of solicitation to listeners
and viewers to try to get back some of the funding.
I think it's something like fifteen percent of NPR's fund
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or fifteen percent of PBS's funding actually comes from the
federal government. A lot of it is through donor support.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Some would say it's political. I would say maybe it's
petty too. That's just my way of saying it. But again,
that's just me. Rory has always appreciate the time. Enjoy
your Friday and enjoy your weekend. We'll talk next week,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thanks Neck, talk to you then. Take care.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That is Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Yeah, I mean
there are I just from my perspective when it comes
to certain cuts and just action that's being taken here
by Trump, it's just hard for me to see some
of those decisions not being rooted in personal feeling and
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in pettiness to an extent. And that's a human reaction.
That's that's that's that's not uncommon to see in a
lot of areas of life. But I just think when
you are the president of the United States, I just
feel like, you know, that shouldn't be a factor in
any decision that you make. But a lot of things
are different with uh, with with with this president who's
now in his second term. And I don't you know,
(23:41):
I don't say that necessarily to be critical. It's just
I oftentimes just think like, wow, this is this is
not what you typically see. But hey, here we are.
All right, let's get too quick break. We'll come back
after a check of traffic and weather. Scott will get
us updated on sports as we roll along here. On
a Friday, it's Coffee and Company, Kentucky had his morning
news news radio eight forty whs
Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, welcome in. Can you can you
feel it? Can you smell it? That's Friday, folks. We
have made it here to the end of the week.
Friday's the best day of the week. I don't really
think it's I mean, is it isn't the debate No.
I mean, I just looked up a you gov poll
that was taking This was taken from twenty twenty two,
so it's not super recent, and I just looked this
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up a moment ago. There's I know that Friday's a
work week and most people for most people obviously, but again,
it's state of mind. You're the way, the way you feel.
It's all about state of mind more than maybe anything.
And when you have the weekend right there, you get
the end of the work day not too far away
from for a lot of us. I mean, I just
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I won't leave it alone. I want people to realize
that Friday is the best day of the week. And
we've made it, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It is Friday. I'll put Saturday up there with it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And now that Thursday's Saturdays right too, Thursday's the new Friday,
like we like to say. And you know what's interesting
is you notice a different vibe at work. Everybody knows
I working to the gig. I could tell I was
getting flooded with emails starting late Wednesday, and then it
was getting flooded with emails yesterday. My wife had not
had that conversation last night. She goes through the same thing.
And you can tell people are getting ready to push
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off absolutely because it just they start coming in a fast.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's not an off day. But you really grind hard
Wednesday Thursday. So Friday can can be what you want
it to be.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Especially in the summer.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh, no doubt. Yeah, obviously during the summer people probably
have more things and plan for the weekend and whatnot.
But yeah, Friday is here, and we're happy you guys
are with us here on a Friday morning. It's Kentucky
and his Morning News with Coffee and Company Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
He's Scott Fitzgerald, John All on the alongside John Shannon. We'll
have him with a news update coming up around five
point thirty. And I don't know if you guys saw,
there was another another semi truck crash downtown last night.
And I shouldn't be as fascinated by this as I am.
But I don't know, maybe others see this as just
odd and unusual just because of how often this is
(01:58):
now happening. And I'm not pointing any fingers blaming anybody.
I just think to see semi trucks crash this frequently
in that area, it just has to be unusual. I
don't know if we can pull any data that'll compare
the rate of this happening in Louisville compared to other cities,
but it it just it seems like a really not
(02:19):
just it's clearly not just a coincidence. But the truckers
that we've heard from when we've talked about this before, Scott,
they've referenced a couple of things that stand out to me.
One is that there's just not enough signage letting people
know who aren't familiar with the spaghetti junction, essentially that
you need to slow down. Ye and I don't really
know whose fault that is. Maybe they could add some
(02:40):
signage ahead of time that maybe people can be alerted,
but still you have a responsibility to pay attention when
you're driving. And then there's others that say that when
it comes to the training, and I'm sure there's a
lot of differ I know, in fact, I know there's
a lot of different ways you can go through training
to become a driver with a CDL. But at least
one of our listeners said that when they went through
the pro it wasn't really teaching you in vehicle how
(03:04):
to drive as much as it was just making sure
you can pass the test. Now, those are two different things.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Absolute they are, And I think when I saw that too,
and I think when you see the number of trucks,
because I take that corner quite a bit both both directions,
and I do notice trucks are going a bit slower
as they go through, I think word is out amongst
the truckers said, hey, you need to watch this. There
are plenty of truckers that navigate that every day, and
then we see the occasional one like you said that
(03:29):
that just goes off the wayside. So you know, I
don't know if you put down maybe a rumble strip,
but you don't want to slow down traffic anymore going
through there now, because anytime things fall from the sky,
people just lose their ability to navigate efficiently, if you will.
But it is telling that this is happening more and
more now.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Can you imagine being a new truck driver, maybe you
just you just got your CDL recently and first day
on the job on your own in your truck, and
you happen that's part of your path wherever you're going,
I would be a nervous wreck. And again, there's plenty
of semi trucks that passed through there, probably right now
(04:08):
as we speak, and it's not an issue. So I'm
sure the numbers would tell us that it's still rare
compared to how many semi trucks are in that area
every single day. But I think, as I'm racking my
brain here, I think not only just because it's been
in the news so much that these keep happening over
the last couple of years, but just some of the
visuals that have that we've seen. I mean, one on fire,
(04:30):
hanging from an overpass, yes the bridge, or one of
the semis last year was literally hanging from the bridge
nearly you know, about to fall into the Ohio River,
and that of course became a national story. So I
think more than anything, my fascination has led to just
the visuals of those things here in Louisville. Some of
it has not even looked real, you would you could
(04:51):
convince me that it was created by AI just because
it's something you don't usually see.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's like the UL.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, it's also really fascinating to be.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So maybe we need to start a social media following
for the sixty five curb to let people know because
we have both that straight on. So I did notice that.
I thought of you, Nick, and I'm glad you brought
it up because we'll see if the mayor speaks about this.
I don't know what the mayor can do, because obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's gonna be on with us today at eight o'clock,
so we'll talk to you because I can bring it up.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I know the highways are a state federal issue, but
it certainly is a concern for people here in Louisville
because fortunately we haven't seen other motorists impacted so much
so yet and that's a conneccept for.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The most part. And again I don't have all the
details in front of me, but yes, for what it's
looked like and the coverage that understandably we've had with
these stories, it doesn't seem as if there's been you know,
put it this way, I guess the visual makes you
feel like it could have been worse, exactly, exactly, all right, fellas,
let's have a Friday shall always do this, Let's do
it all right. We've got an update of tracking the
(05:53):
weather coming your way right here, right now, and a
loaded Friday for you. So I'll set the table as
we move along here and get this thing started again.
It's Kentucky and his Morning News with coffee and company
right here on News ready to wait forty whs. When
I tell you we are loaded here on a Friday morning,
I mean it a lot to get to. I mentioned
it just a moment ago. The Mayor is going to
(06:14):
stop in at eight o'clock. Mayor Greenberg will be with us. Also,
we'll have our usual Friday morning conversation with Dwight Mitchell
of LMPD, and of course Rory O'Neil. He'll join us
at five forty five. So we'll have some guests with
us today, which of course is always always a good
thing for the show, but also a lot of things
to get into. Specifically, I guess we'll start with what
(06:36):
I think is a is probably one of the bigger
stories going on currently in really the world, maybe, and
that is the Epstein files, And now we have Donald
Trump versus the Wall Street Journal, as they've released a
story that includes, yes, Walstreet Journal, they had a report
(06:58):
that alleged that he sent a lewdday letter to Jeffrey Epstein,
and Trump has responded by threatening legal action against the
Wall Street Journals, saying it's fake, defamatory, and he's directing
Attorney General pambam Bonding now to unseal grand jury testimony
related to Epstein's criminal case, which is something that often
or that rarely happens, meaning the courts rarely allow it.
(07:20):
But maybe we will finally get some some transparency here.
But nothing would shock me. However, it does seem as
if as of last night, really yesterday, I suppose more
than yesterday evening that became. I mean again, nothing would
shock me. But the tone from Trump following the report
from the WSJ makes me think that he's just just
(07:43):
to kind of like he's had enough of everybody talking
about it to where he's going to finally have them
release something. What that is, nobody knows, so we'll get
into that. Also, when it comes to things that go viral,
I'm fascinated by how certain things just they really spread
like file fire, and sometimes you understand why a specific
(08:04):
story just gravitates the way it does and spreads. Sometimes
I ask myself, Okay, this is clearly one of the
top ten viral stories of the year, but I don't
really know why. For example, Hawk Tua that became a
huge deal, and I never really understood how something like
that took off the way that it did, meaning to
(08:26):
where it was quite literally one of the most talked
about things seemingly in the world at the time. Now,
this one, a CEO getting caught on the JumboTron at
a Coldplay concert in Boston, that is one that I
do understand sort of why this thing became.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Such a viral story.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So a CEO was caught on the big screen at
the Cultplay concert, clearly having a romantic moment with a
woman that was not his wife. In fact, it was
the company's HR chief. And we'll get into some of
the details of that later on what we know. But
I just I mean, imagine telling these two individuals prior
(09:05):
to the concert that something like this could play out
to where they end up hugging it up being romantic
with one another during the concert. Only for everybody in
Boston at the show to see them on the jumbo tron,
and then even the lead singer from from Coldplay acknowledging,
oh hey, oh wait oh, they're either having an affair
(09:27):
or they're very shy, and he was right. He had
two options as far as the scenario, and one of
them appeared to be correct, which I mean that that'll
I mean, you go from just I mean again, these
aren't average Joe's. I would say, this guy is the
CEO of a big company, but I mean the Internet
is forever, and now when you google this person's name, forever,
(09:49):
I mean, that's gonna come up. But that's probably the
least of his worries right now. I mean maybe sounds
like his wife probably did not know that he was
having an affair. I would assume she didn't. So again,
that has become and it took off like crazy for
good reason. People I think are taking joy and knowing
that these two cheaters, I guess are getting caught. Also,
(10:11):
this is a big story and we'll maybe get to
this with Rory O'Neil coming up around five to forty five.
But Ice is apparently now going to get access to
personal data of all seventy nine million Americans enrolled in Medicaid,
and that includes names, home addresses, birthdays, and ethnicities, and
even social Security numbers. And this is to help ICE
(10:31):
track down immigrants who may be living here in the
US illegally, which I feel like this type of development here,
in this clear emphasis that Trump has on getting illegal
immigrants out of the country, This is something that it
was if I was somebody here illegally and I had
already been worried about potentially being snatched up, this would
(10:54):
add a new level of worry, just because this is
going to give them access to all the information that
will better help them find those that are not here legally,
regardless if you are a criminal or if you're somebody
who's here illegally, but you are working and you're productive,
so we'll follow that as well. So again, a busy Friday,
but it's Friday. That's good, right, Friday's best day of
(11:14):
the week. I'm gonna say it until everybody just agrees
with me. It is Kentucky. It's Morning News with coffee
and company right here on news Radio eight forty WHS.
Thank you very much, John Shannon, It is Kentucky and
his Morning News with Coffee and Company here on news
Radio eight forty whas Nit coffee with you the company
man John Alden alongside John, I just have to say,
(11:35):
you must have found a routine that works well, because
the first few weeks I could tell you were you
were running on fumes as a early riser because of
this shift and of course the father of a brand
new human being. But you have been in good spirits,
not that you were ever in bad spirits, but what
have you found the magic formula that keeps you fresh
(11:56):
and ready? Because I'm sure you're still doing all the
added work of you know, taking care of a baby,
helping helping your wife, but you you've got good vibes.
I would say it's it's noticeable.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I don't think I've found First of all, thank you,
I appreciate it. I don't think I've found a magic formula.
I do think part of the of what's helped the
last few weeks is the fact that the baby doesn't
get up nearly as often in the middle of the
night as she did in the first few weeks of
her being alive. And so that's that helps even me
when I look back on that time now, even though
it was only for about a month month and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
If even that that was that was rough?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You feel like you were a zombie?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right, I did, and it was.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I didn't hate life, I loved it, but it was
just something I had never experienced before. And it's it's
not for the it's not for the faint of heart.
Maybe that's first world problems, but.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, it's dude, it's life. And I know there are
many people listening that know exactly what you're talking about,
and maybe they probably are saying what I'm saying, Like, no,
it does make sense, like it's not as if and
I don't think you know until you're in that you're
in that spot. And not to make it too deep,
but it to me, it reminds me of the very
(13:04):
beginning stages of being a parent, to where without really
any train of thought, it just comes natural, to where
there's a level of selflessness that just kicks in because
you know what you made the baby, you're you're half
responsible with it, along with your wife, your partner, and
it just you know, you might like you probably there's
probably moments where you're just literally running on autopilot, quite literally,
(13:26):
seeming like a zombie. And it doesn't, you know, And
I'm sure for some parents it lasts longer than they like.
But I would say with with with miss Daisy growing
up and and now how old is she now?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
She's just turned three months.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, I knew it was coming up on three months.
So yeah, so now just like you know, you have
found probably a little bit more of a structured routine
and a little bit more consistency because she has found
some consistency with her schedules.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So there's another wrench coming here soon, and that's my
wife going back to work, oh teacher, and that of
course it will be something brand new here very shortly.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't I don't want to scare you, but that
is a process, my friend, I have heard. Yeah, Mama
bear going back to work and no longer being just
you know, there's a reason that mothers, most of them,
at least I hope they do. They get they get
a good amount of time off to spend with the
baby after after giving birth. And it's not just because
they went through the process of giving birth. It's because
(14:18):
of the process of of of motherhood. And yeah, and
it'll be everybody's situation is different. But I think the
lead up to it for us was more the issue
just my wife was really scared just about the thought
of not being with her with her baby. But it'll
all work out.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It'll be good.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But you're right, that's gonna be a challenge. But look,
you've you've navigated this thing flawlessly so far, so it'll
be okay. But it's still wild to me that your dad.
It's wild to me you grew up right in front
of my eyes.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's stuff, all right. So that one of the big
stories from yesterday that you heard John Shannon reference there
in his newscast was the DOJ recommending no prison time
for Brad Hankinson and the Breonna Taylor case. And their
recommendation is that he should serve one day in jail,
which he already served, followed about three years of supervis
released and a one hundred dollars fine. That'll just just
(15:10):
that sentence. I'll read it again. Federal prosecutors say Hankinson
should serve one day in jail, followed followed about three
years of supervis released. Any one hundred dollars fine, just
take that sentence, knowing sort of just everything that has
come with the coverage of the Breonna Taylor situation over
how many years now, five plus years. I think there's
(15:33):
a lot of people that if they just take that sentence,
they're just going to assume that this is, this is
unheard of. I mean, how could how could Obviously MARYA.
Greenberg has called for a serious prison sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Rep.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Morgan McGarvey, you know, he slammed the proposal here from
the DJ claiming that is it is morally reprehensible that
that is their recommendation. So I guess my question is this,
when it comes to just what this entire situation has
has has I don't want to say has done to
the city, but I kind of I don't know, maybe
(16:03):
that is the right way to say it. Clearly, this
has been something that has been lingering, and it was
a national story for obvious reason, and it was something
that clearly this will be something I think Louisvillions remember
forever as far as just that whole thing and in
the aftermath of it. But that decision, does that move
us forward or backwards when it comes to just wanting
(16:26):
to move on from this, this this whole situation, And
I'm not necessarily and I'm speaking more so it's just
when you think of this goes back to kind of
the conversation we had earlier this week about the Run
for the Roses tournament at the Expo Center, where for
a while the news the story was active aggressor or
(16:46):
shooter at a at a big time girls basketball tournament
in Louisville, and obviously that ended up being nothing, thankfully,
But it to me, maybe this is just selfish on
my end as a Louivillion that I hate that we
keep making national news for things that are not great.
And again that made national news to an extent and
it all ended up being nothing. But when people think
(17:08):
of Louisville who aren't from here, people that follow news
headlines and are plugged into national news stories, they probably
think of the Breonna Taylor situation and what Louisville kind
of turned into during those protests and riots, and that's
just not a good look for our city. And I
don't know if so. With all that said, what I
mean is just wanting to not have that be one
(17:30):
of the first things that come to mind here now
knowing that the DJ has recommended what I think a
lot of people see is a very light punishment if
they even see that as a punishment for Ben Hankinson. Like,
I'm not really sure where this takes us as far
as moving on from this, And I don't mean that
we should move on from it and never talk about
it again. That's not at all what I'm saying. But
clearly some type of closure here in regards to just
(17:51):
being at peace with it all. Right, Rory O'Neil from
NBC News is set to join us coming up here
on the other side, So stick around, We've got another
update of track. They're coming for you right here, right
now on News Radio eight to forty whas Happy Friday,
It is Kentucky and is Morning News with Coffee and
company here on News Radio eight forty whas. It is
now time to bring in Rory O'Neill of NBC News. Rory,
(18:15):
when it comes to the Coca cola product, is this real?
Is are they really going to change their formula? As
Donald Trump has suggested.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Well, Coca cola is the real thing, right, and that
we've already grown.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Up hearing of course you're too young to remember the
real thing.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well I know of it, but yes, memory, yeah, not possible.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, So here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
It all started sort of an out of the blue again,
President Trump trying to change the topic away from Epstein.
Doesn't me go on truth social to say he's been
talking about to Coca Cola about using real cane sugar,
not corn syrup in the formulation. And well, Coca Cola's
in the US whitched over to corn syrup decades ago
for its sweetener, and the sugar version is still available.
(19:02):
It's known as Mexican coke. Uh, and it's still out
there and in some easy to find in many Hispanic communities.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But Coca Cola was sort of not aware.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Of this, so they said, well, we appreciate the President's interest,
but right now, we don't have any immediate plans to
change all of our coke to Mexican coke.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
None of that surprises me as far as Coca Cola
not being aware and them having that response. The most
important question you're going to get today, Rory, is this,
Are you more of a Coca Cola guy or are
you Pepsi guy?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, it's got it, only there's only coke.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Thank you, thank you. I was hoping that would be
very answer, and you didn't let me down.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Is there anything more disappointing than when you say, oh
you can I have a coke pleasing?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh pepsi?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Okay, oh no, actually really thanks.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'm with you one thousand percent. And it's not it's
not it's not the service fault by any means. But
if they do let me know that it is pepsi.
At times I'll say, okay, well I'll take a sprite
or a water or something like that, and it it's
not their fault. It's just yeah, Coca Cola is the
way to go. And they're not even paying us to
say that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Rory, Yeah, yeah, right. We need a better deal, we
need a better agent.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's great, exactly exactly, Roy any of THEBC News is
our guest here on news radio eight forty whas sticking
with Trump when it comes to spending cuts. He's asking
Congress to pull back money on things that they've already
budgeted for. What exactly is being affected here with these cuts?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Right, So overnight the House passed the final version of
what they call recisions. It's clawing back money that, as
you said, Congress already approved. So this is just nine
billion dollars dropping the bucket stuff. But this may be
the first of many similar bills. A lot of this
is the result of DOGE and some of the cuts
that they had suggested. Most of these cuts, about eight billion,
(20:45):
come in foreign aid programs, things like funding the UN
or the US contribution to UNICEF. They did put back
some money that the President asked to be canceled, and
that was about four hundred million dollars for an anti
aid initiative that was first started by President Bush W.
Bush and has saved something like twenty six million lives
(21:07):
by some counts. So they put that four hundred million
dollars back in the budget. But you and I are
probably following the fact that it also takes out one
point one billion dollars in spending for the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, the company that funds a lot of NPR
and PBS programming. So the money really is going to
more directly affect individual stations more so than the networks themselves.
(21:31):
So a lot of potential layoffs could be happening at
individual stations, not necessarily as much impact on the big networks.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I wouldn't ask you to speak for anybody but yourself,
but when it comes to pulling funding for the public
broadcasting world. It is believed to be rooted from just
expenses that aren't necessary, meaning they're wasted, or is it
just that they don't you know, there's there's not much
maybe appreciation for what that is.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, no, it's purely political. The Republicans in Congress and
President Trump feel that the network's NPR and PBS are
too liberal, that the news programming in particular has a
distinct liberal slant. And this has been sort of one
of the issues stuck in their crawl for decades really,
but now they're doing something about it. Keep in mind,
(22:21):
the one point one billion is over two years, so
it was cutting five hundred and thirty five million dollars
in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven funding. Obviously,
you know, those channels do plenty of solicitation to listeners
and viewers to try to get back some of the funding.
I think it's something like fifteen percent of NPR's fund
(22:41):
or fifteen percent of PBS's funding actually comes from the
federal government. A lot of it is through donor support.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Some would say it's political. I would say maybe it's
petty too. That's just my way of saying it. But again,
that's just me. Rory has always appreciate the time. Enjoy
your Friday and enjoy your weekend. We'll talk next week,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thanks Neck, talk to you then. Take care.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That is Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Yeah, I mean
there are I just from my perspective when it comes
to certain cuts and just action that's being taken here
by Trump, it's just hard for me to see some
of those decisions not being rooted in personal feeling and
(23:21):
in pettiness to an extent. And that's a human reaction.
That's that's that's that's not uncommon to see in a
lot of areas of life. But I just think when
you are the president of the United States, I just
feel like, you know, that shouldn't be a factor in
any decision that you make. But a lot of things
are different with uh, with with with this president who's
now in his second term. And I don't you know,
(23:41):
I don't say that necessarily to be critical. It's just
I oftentimes just think like, wow, this is this is
not what you typically see. But hey, here we are.
All right, let's get too quick break. We'll come back
after a check of traffic and weather. Scott will get
us updated on sports as we roll along here. On
a Friday, it's Coffee and Company, Kentucky had his morning
news news radio eight forty whs
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