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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Happy hump day, Welcome in. It is Kentucky
and this morning news Coffee and Company with you here
on News Radio eight forty whas August the thirteenth. We've
got the full crew here today, myself, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald,
John Alden, and John Shannon and fellas. I will say
this is this morning, I've definitely noticed a difference in
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not necessarily traffic. It would be a lie to say
that I had any traffic this morning. But when you
go from really almost not even noticing another vehicle on
Interstate sixty five at around four am to now clearly
there's more cars, it's noticeable.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It was noticeableling the way home last night.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, I back to school will certainly add just a
difference in just the volume of vehicles out and about.
And again it won't.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It does.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're lucky because it's not going to make us late.
I mean, it'd be tough for us to ever sell
an excuse unless there's like a crazy accident where something's closed.
It would take a rare occurrence. And again I say this,
I'm the new guy. You guys have been doing this
longer than me. I mean, have you all when need
to arrive here, and of course we get here before
five am. But knowing you need to be here by
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five am, have you all at any point experienced traffic
situations to where you couldn't you couldn't get here? Now,
there may be other things like oversleeping. I'm sure that's
gonna happen to me at some point.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It does, but traffic usually doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean, I can't imagine that's happened many times up
at all.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Once in a bloom moon.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now I have the lens alert on my phone, which
is nice, so when I wake up, I power my
phone back up, so I know, like they'll say I
sixty or for whatever is closed down, so then that's
the only thing or that's useful road Yeah, unexpected, so
get the lens alert. But unexpected road conditions.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Maybe they shut down the water ice or something. Bingo,
what about you, John, I've never had traffic issues.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I've only been doing this since November, so I have
a very small sample size, but I can I can
imagine it will happen at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I tell you what. The scenario that I can
think of is where Because we are starting our morning
pretty early compared to most I say that I don't
really know it, however, I mean this is for me.
When I tell people when I have to get up
and come to work, they look at me like, oh
my god. What. So it makes me feel like it's
a little more rare. But if there were to be
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some icy roadways, we might be out and about before
there's really a hole, like before, a lot of people
are up and at it to get you alerted that
that's that that in fact, we're kind of responsible for me.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, there were a couple of times this past winter
where we stayed in one of the hotels downtown overnight
to make sure because it was it wasn't you know.
It's whenever you have bad weather coming through, you want
to make sure you're already down here because when it's
coming through overnight, it's not always convenient to get down
here while it's doing its thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, So, Scott, have you ever had to do the
overnight hotel thing, because it sounds like it would be
like a fun school field trip kind of thing, like
an overnight But I'm sure it's just something I'm imagining.
I bet you all probably just had your own rooms
and just stayed by yourself and wanted to be in
your home, not at work.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's exactly what happens, and it's weird coming over. When
we stayed at Bishop Blane, I mean it was the
Red Riffin. Okay, not knocking the Red Riffin, that's your style. Well,
but then when we came downtown it was the Hyatt.
Oh my goodness, moving on, Oh bitch, But what's weird
when you stay on Bishop Blane for folks who know
that area, you still got to get in your car,
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dust it off and then drive.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
From there to the studio.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But to your point, if you pay attention to social media,
when I always came in this early, it was nice
to be able to jump on like I'll jump on
X in our Facebook and let folks know, by the way,
if you're heading out, this.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is what the Waterston looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now that said, it's not as bad as what a
lot of I mean, it is bad, don't get me wrong.
But when you get out that early and road crews
haven't exactly hit it, you learn over time kind of
how to navigate those roads, which I love to do
because that's a good service to our listeners. Sure, and
being able to post that before we get out, because
then they know when they wake up, because that's the
first question everybody asked, you know what the roads look like?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Of course, yeah. And even when it doesn't, even when
you feel yeah, it's probably not too bad, you still
just want to know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You want to be reassured exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So I can't lie. I've gotten distracted here. Just the
thought of going from red roof into the hygatt that's
a substantial shift.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's like when you don't have sugar for a while
and you have your first taste of chocolate and it
was just and I've seen some stuff now we would
stay sometimes down it's now the window.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It used to be a best Western.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But that said, it is nice to wake up a
few minutes before you have to come into work when
the weather is that bad. And that's where all plaut
iHeart and news radio eight forty whs. They spared no expenser, like, hey,
we got rooms blocked off. We'll pay for him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You go, yeah, I tell you what. That area where
we were for so long, Newburgh Road, right off the
right off the waters in there. I feel like that
maybe it's just because I didn't have really any I'd
never been in that area a whole lot maybe ever
until I started working for the company ten years ago.
That is such a just it's like an isolated bubble
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that like, I don't know, it's it's just there's.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's just losing the Dean's Milk plant was a big blow.
That had been a staple forever. And of course they
put in a warehouse.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But yeah, it was cool. Now I didn't mind.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It was there's there's a part to me that just
misses the you know, because that's where we were for
so long. But this is this is pretty awesome as
I look around here as we're coming to you live
from four Street Live, and just an awesome setup here.
So we're gonna have an awesome morning. At least we're
gonna try. That's what we're gonna try to do, and
we usually do a pretty good job at it, at
least I think. And if you don't agree, just keep
that to yourself, please. We've got a busy, busy morning.
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It is Kentucky and His Morning News, Coffee and Company
with you here on News Radio eight forty whas it
is five point sixteen here on a Wednesday morning, Coffee
and Company with you, Kentucky and his morning news news
radio eight forty whas we are up at it. I
was gonna say bright and early, but it's not brighton early.
It's actually very dark outside. Still, John, I know you
are a coffee guy. I am, and that is that
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is a big part of your morning routine to pick
me up. If you, let's say coffee just became illegal
for whatever reason, that's a very stupid hypothetical because that's
never gonna happen. But let's just say you knew you
didn't have access to coffee, what would you turn to
to help wake you up.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's a good question right now because I've got my
back up at the moment. I've got a yell a
lemon lime gatorade that I'm drinking from this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So no coffee.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I woke up, didn't get much sleep last night,
and the stomach wasn't feeling the best. So, like you
know what, We're gonna take a break from the coffee
and do something else today.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, as a non coffee drinker, can't relate. However, I've
heard that at times when the stomach issues are there,
maybe coffee could make it worse, or maybe sometimes coffee
is the reason you have stomach issues that could be
the case. So the reason I ask is this because
this is I guess some good advice to share if
you believe it. I've I'm not super skeptical of things.
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In fact, I found myself at times more naive about things.
Maybe that's changing as I get older. But we have
a list of things that can help you get you know,
get morning habits that could give you a bigger boost,
more so than even your coffee, because I'd say most people,
if they're looking for just something in the morning to
get them going, it's it's usually coffee. And I say
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that knowing that I'm a big outside because a lot
of people drink coffee. But here are five things that
can can help get you going. This is according to
a survey. Well, yeah, this is from there's a Let
me see. Let me just make sure I give credit
here to this. This study that I'm going to claim
I don't necessarily believe. But this is doctor Jimmay Menescalco.
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She claims that sun exposure, which we can't do. That
it's five o'clock in the morning, so that one's out
the window. This one, I totally believe. Movement and that
can It doesn't have to be like a sweat session
at the gym, but like quick stretching yoga. I don't
do yoga, but I know people that do, and to
me that would be like relaxing. But I've heard many
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people and I'll trust them that it actually does. It
does gets you going a little bit. It provides kind
of a boost, which, hey, anything to get you that boost,
because the best part of the day, if in fact
you're somebody that does try to find some optimism to
start a day, is when you do kind of snap
out of that morning fog, if you know what I mean.
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So sometimes, honestly for me, like if I feel like,
all right, I've gotten other shower, I'm getting ready to leave,
or sometimes even when I get here, I'm thinking, why
am I still just kind of carrying a little bit
of that sleep from the night before. If I knock out,
like fifteen push ups or something that'll that'll that'll help.
Meditation and breath work, even five minutes of meditation can
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help boost energy. Quiet mental noise can help with focus,
according to a psychologist, doctor Andrea Lene. I'm sure she's
got some data to back up that claim. If I'm
meditating and like doing breath work or whatever the hell
that is. I'm gonna fall back asleep, like that's actually
what I do to fall asleep. They would not wake
me up. And then I shouldn't mind. I shouldn't laugh
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at this, but I can't. I can't help it laugh
at this gratitude journaling that, I mean, what that's supposed
to wake me up in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I guess maybe it's get your brain thinking, like, yeah, well,
well am I thankful about from the last you know,
twenty four hours or something like that, You're starting to
think brainworking.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Maybe maybe gratitude journaling can be a way of actually
reminding yourself how fortunate you are, and you can then
be When you have gratitude, you feel thankful, and that
is an emotion that will lead to I would say
optimism and excitement, which can get you going. The last
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two here I totally will stand by. Don't need to
do it often, but one I certainly have cold water
the morning when we didn't have a hot water heater
and I took a cold shower. I've never been more
alive and alert in my life. Don't want to do
it again, but it definitely woke me up. And this
one is this vocal vibe shift, which is basically saying,
if you just if you hum and sing along to songs,
I toltal. I've done that too, right, I'll play music
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that is more upbeat, and then if I'm singing along,
I'm ready to go. So, if in fact you don't
have coffee, John chose to not have coffee for the
sake of his stomach. That's a mature choice on your part, John,
You're an old. But anyways, there's some help to get
you woke up this morning if in fact you are
in need of it and you don't have coffee or
you don't like coffee. All right, we've got traffic weather
updates coming your way. Bobby Ellis will tell us how
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these roadways are looking again, busier roadways now that everybody's
back in school, and we'll get an update from Matt
Melosovich on the forecast. And yesterday, gross, I don't know
if you guys were outside around, you know, between five
pm to about seven pm, but it was just It's
like I was an item in a bowl of soup.
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Just gross.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And I'm hoping ready, I'm ready for summer to be over.
I am all right again. Traffic weather updates coming your
way right here, right now on News Radio eight forty
whas we are rocket and rolling here on a Wednesday morning.
Appreciate you hanging out with us. Happy hump Day. It
is Kentucky and this morning news here coffee and company
with you. And this is something that has been out
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there for the last few days and it has not
been discussed on this morning show, at least not by me,
and not really for any specific reason because I'm you know,
I'm ignoring it. I'll probably just realize that I've admitted
to you on air that maybe I'm not doing my
job as best I could, because this is certainly a
piece of news that needs to be discussed. But I'll
blame it, if anything, on ignorance and maybe just catching
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up from vacation and getting back into the groove here.
But there is a major, major story that is not
going to go away. And I don't know if we've
had any official update on the accusations that have been made,
but there is a This is an investigation that WDRB
did and it has brought up a pretty awful allegation
that's been made by a former clerk, Melissa Mormon, who
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worked for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and she claims that
multiple state offices issued fraudulent licenses to undocumented workers four
or five times a day for at least two years,
and she has filed a lawsuit. I believe it is
because she claims that she was fired for reporting this.
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She says that she reported the activity to her supervisor
but was fired soon after. She alleges her own ID
was misused in the scheme. So DRB did obtain documents
showing that KYTC sent over fifteen hundred letters warning recipients
their licenses were issued in error and would be canceled.
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This is, I mean, this is awful. I don't want
to be dramatic, but like the fact that this went
on is I mean, a terrible look in every way
for Frankfort. And it would be foolish of me to
allege that they're just ignoring it and hoping that it
goes away. But if there's been any kind of you know, official,
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get out in front of it and talk about it.
I certainly haven't haven't seen it. So again, this has
led to as you could expect, lawmakers asking you know,
for some accountability and wanting to see, you know, what's
going They want this thing vetted fully, which is totally understandable,
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but yeah, this is just a bad look. And you've
got Kentuckians born here, you know, living here that have
been in line for hours complaining about not being able
to just you know, get something that they're entitled to,
that they need, that they're required to do for a
lot of things, you know, getting an identification, I mean
it's I guess it's not just an ID, but it's
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also a driver's license. I mean, it's been one of
the biggest issues for a while now as far as
just the headache that comes with going to get a
real idea you're really just going to get a driver's
license because of the changes made within the last few years,
as far as just making it much more difficult to do,
shutting down the local offices at some levels. I mean,
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you've got Kentuckians waiting for hours. News coverage of residents
that have had a week impacted substantially from driving across
the state trying to make an appointment because you know,
well they when your livelihoods at stake to an extent
when you don't have an identify when your ID is
is is not up to date and it's not legit.
Now again, clearly some blame should fall on others from procrastinating,
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There's no doubt about that. But still it's been an
issue as is for a while that needs to be fixed.
There's been a lot of coverage on it. And now
we know that there have been illegal immigrants skipping the
line and got licenses using fake documents after bribing state
workers with a few hundred bucks. I mean, that's that's
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what's happened here, at least the allegation. And again I
think with DRB's investigation uncovering that there was there was
notice sent out to over fifteen hundred people in the
state warning them that their licenses were issued in error
and would be canceled. I mean, that's not it doesn't
look good here. So and look, you can have you
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can have people that just go rogue. I mean, it's unfortunate,
and at the end of the day, it's a bad
look for you as an entity because you're responsible for
you and and sometimes you end up hiring somebody that
you know you wouldn't have been able to vet the
situation to see that they were somebody that you shouldn't
not have hired. But this seems like something that, again
according to the allegations, went on four or five times
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a day for two years. This is it's a scheme here.
This isn't somebody just you know, it's in a one
off situation. So we'll see where this ends up. But
not a good look. All right, let's get to another
update on traffic and weather and we'll keep this rolling along.
Roy and Neil set to join us coming up here
at about five forty five right here on news RADIOA
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forty whas. All right, this is Coffee and Company with
you here on News Radio eight forty whas. Appreciate you
hanging out with us here on Wednesday morning. We also
appreciate Rory and Neil NBC, who joins us here. Rory,
We've seen some surges in the past when it comes
to economic data, But what are we looking at right
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now as far as the future interest rates, that kind
of stuff. The tariffs are going to kick in. Do
we have any type of a roadmap of where we're
heading here?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Well, you know, we saw a good surge on Wall
Street yesterday based on that inflation number. The consumer price
index data came in pretty much as expected, maybe a
little bit softer. I think there were some concerns that
tariffs would have done more to increased prices, but a
lot of those tariffs hadn't hit yet, so I think
we're still waiting to see the full.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Impact of tariffs.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We've seen lots of big companies like Procter and Gamble
and Ford say that the tariffs are going to take
a billion dollar bite out of their bottom line. You know,
about how long are they willing to absorb those kinds
of costs is the big open question. Today we're going
to get the producer price Index, which is more the
wholesale cost of things, so that'll be interesting to watch
as well. But look, President Trump is out there celebrating,
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essentially saying, you know, I told you tariffs would be
good for the economy. The money is pouring in to
the treasury, and so far he thinks there hadn't been
consequences and wants the Fed to lower interest That's and
that's why the market was rallying because it still looks
like the Fed could lower rates at least twice, even
some chatter of three rate cuts this year and I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, we'll have to wait and see. There's no
way to predict the future. But it does seem as
if there is a breakthrough where interest rates are adjusted
in a good way for the for Americans, that would
be viewed as a real time breakthrough, right.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It would.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
When the FED lowers interest rates, that means the rate
you get for a car loan comes down, the rates
on your credit cards come down immediately, and will likely
then impact mortgage rates which are set differently. And then
it also spurs business investment. You know, now the company,
you know, the ABC company only has to borrow or
can borrow cheaper money in order to put that new
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factory in or that new warehouse. So it's lower borrowing
costs for them. So it does spur economic growth. But
the Fed has to keep inflation in check while maximizing employment.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Inflation is essentially two point seven percent over a year.
You know the goal there mandate is to get to
two percent and two point seven eighty two. And the
concern is that if you get these tariffs, suddenly it
nudges up over three and oh, here.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
We go again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, the uncertainty has had a lot of people stinted
to in a lot of ways, and it totally makes sense.
But yes, once those if the FEDS do in fact
lower those interest rates, I can tell you I'm sure
there's a lot of people out there that will breathe
a sigh of relief. Broyan nealis our guest. He joins
us here on news Radio eight forty. Whas the average
age of American farmers right now is fifty seven, which
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means half of all Americans are older than that. What
does that mean for the future of American agriculture? I
will admit I don't know many people on the younger
side that are getting into that field. If so, it's
probably those who come from a family farm that kind
of stuff. But this, how is this new data as
far as just the age demographic here, How is that
being viewed?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, it's a fascinating story in USA today that took
a look at this concern. As you said, the average
farmer being over fifty seven years old, more than remember,
more than ninety five percent of farms in the US
are family owned, and look as a society as a planet,
families are having fewer kids. So maybe if you had
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six kids, one or two who wanted to continue the
farming tradition. Well, now one kid, maybe two kids in
a household and they don't want to continue the farming tradition,
So then what happens. So we're seeing a lot more consolidation,
sell off to more corporate interests as well, but just
concerns that you're also losing a massive knowledge base here
or you're not raising a new set of farmers who
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will learn those critical tasks and skills that are necessary to.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Feed the world. So it's a bit of a red flag.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
There are some encouraging signs. We have seen more people
enrolling in agriculture programs in colleges, so that's seeing a
slight uptick. But overall, we need to be paying more
attention to the farmers here in America.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No doubt about it. Rory, you are the man. I
appreciate your time as always, Enjoy the rest of your
day and we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thanks Nick taught you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Then, all righty, that is Royal Deeal of NBC News.
I'll tell you what I know. A few friends, just
people I've known over the years that have worked on
a farm that they're family owned, and only one of
them that I can think of decided to kind of
just you know, that be what he does to make
a living and keep the farm going on. And I mean,
I hope people are well aware of just how important
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the agriculture industry is to America and if we start
to see it fade. Here is that story from the
USA today suggest as far as just there's a lot
of older farmers now and not as many on the
younger side. That is concerning. Hopefully there's in fact, with
the Kentucky State Fair starting this week, I wouldn't be
shocked if there's some kind of initiative to just spread
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awareness about the industry and that you know, it can
be something that is very profitable for you depending on
what you do. And also we need them, We need
farmers out here. All right, Let's get to another update
of the traffic and weather and we'll keep this thing
rolling along. Scott is back with another sports update, so
stick with us right here on news Radio eight forty
whas
All right, Happy hump day, Welcome in. It is Kentucky
and this morning news Coffee and Company with you here
on News Radio eight forty whas August the thirteenth. We've
got the full crew here today, myself, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald,
John Alden, and John Shannon and fellas. I will say
this is this morning, I've definitely noticed a difference in
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not necessarily traffic. It would be a lie to say
that I had any traffic this morning. But when you
go from really almost not even noticing another vehicle on
Interstate sixty five at around four am to now clearly
there's more cars, it's noticeable.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It was noticeableling the way home last night.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, I back to school will certainly add just a
difference in just the volume of vehicles out and about.
And again it won't.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It does.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're lucky because it's not going to make us late.
I mean, it'd be tough for us to ever sell
an excuse unless there's like a crazy accident where something's closed.
It would take a rare occurrence. And again I say this,
I'm the new guy. You guys have been doing this
longer than me. I mean, have you all when need
to arrive here, and of course we get here before
five am. But knowing you need to be here by
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five am, have you all at any point experienced traffic
situations to where you couldn't you couldn't get here? Now,
there may be other things like oversleeping. I'm sure that's
gonna happen to me at some point.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It does, but traffic usually doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean, I can't imagine that's happened many times up
at all.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Once in a bloom moon.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now I have the lens alert on my phone, which
is nice, so when I wake up, I power my
phone back up, so I know, like they'll say I
sixty or for whatever is closed down, so then that's
the only thing or that's useful road Yeah, unexpected, so
get the lens alert. But unexpected road conditions.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Maybe they shut down the water ice or something. Bingo,
what about you, John, I've never had traffic issues.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I've only been doing this since November, so I have
a very small sample size, but I can I can
imagine it will happen at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I tell you what. The scenario that I can
think of is where Because we are starting our morning
pretty early compared to most I say that I don't
really know it, however, I mean this is for me.
When I tell people when I have to get up
and come to work, they look at me like, oh
my god. What. So it makes me feel like it's
a little more rare. But if there were to be
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some icy roadways, we might be out and about before
there's really a hole, like before, a lot of people
are up and at it to get you alerted that
that's that that in fact, we're kind of responsible for me.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, there were a couple of times this past winter
where we stayed in one of the hotels downtown overnight
to make sure because it was it wasn't you know.
It's whenever you have bad weather coming through, you want
to make sure you're already down here because when it's
coming through overnight, it's not always convenient to get down
here while it's doing its thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, So, Scott, have you ever had to do the
overnight hotel thing, because it sounds like it would be
like a fun school field trip kind of thing, like
an overnight But I'm sure it's just something I'm imagining.
I bet you all probably just had your own rooms
and just stayed by yourself and wanted to be in
your home, not at work.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's exactly what happens, and it's weird coming over. When
we stayed at Bishop Blane, I mean it was the
Red Riffin. Okay, not knocking the Red Riffin, that's your style. Well,
but then when we came downtown it was the Hyatt.
Oh my goodness, moving on, Oh bitch, But what's weird
when you stay on Bishop Blane for folks who know
that area, you still got to get in your car,
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dust it off and then drive.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
From there to the studio.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But to your point, if you pay attention to social media,
when I always came in this early, it was nice
to be able to jump on like I'll jump on
X in our Facebook and let folks know, by the way,
if you're heading out, this.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is what the Waterston looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now that said, it's not as bad as what a
lot of I mean, it is bad, don't get me wrong.
But when you get out that early and road crews
haven't exactly hit it, you learn over time kind of
how to navigate those roads, which I love to do
because that's a good service to our listeners. Sure, and
being able to post that before we get out, because
then they know when they wake up, because that's the
first question everybody asked, you know what the roads look like?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Of course, yeah. And even when it doesn't, even when
you feel yeah, it's probably not too bad, you still
just want to know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You want to be reassured exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So I can't lie. I've gotten distracted here. Just the
thought of going from red roof into the hygatt that's
a substantial shift.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's like when you don't have sugar for a while
and you have your first taste of chocolate and it
was just and I've seen some stuff now we would
stay sometimes down it's now the window.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It used to be a best Western.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But that said, it is nice to wake up a
few minutes before you have to come into work when
the weather is that bad. And that's where all plaut
iHeart and news radio eight forty whs. They spared no expenser, like, hey,
we got rooms blocked off. We'll pay for him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You go, yeah, I tell you what. That area where
we were for so long, Newburgh Road, right off the
right off the waters in there. I feel like that
maybe it's just because I didn't have really any I'd
never been in that area a whole lot maybe ever
until I started working for the company ten years ago.
That is such a just it's like an isolated bubble
(04:48):
that like, I don't know, it's it's just there's.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's just losing the Dean's Milk plant was a big blow.
That had been a staple forever. And of course they
put in a warehouse.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But yeah, it was cool. Now I didn't mind.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It was there's there's a part to me that just
misses the you know, because that's where we were for
so long. But this is this is pretty awesome as
I look around here as we're coming to you live
from four Street Live, and just an awesome setup here.
So we're gonna have an awesome morning. At least we're
gonna try. That's what we're gonna try to do, and
we usually do a pretty good job at it, at
least I think. And if you don't agree, just keep
that to yourself, please. We've got a busy, busy morning.
(05:18):
It is Kentucky and His Morning News, Coffee and Company
with you here on News Radio eight forty whas it
is five point sixteen here on a Wednesday morning, Coffee
and Company with you, Kentucky and his morning news news
radio eight forty whas we are up at it. I
was gonna say bright and early, but it's not brighton early.
It's actually very dark outside. Still, John, I know you
are a coffee guy. I am, and that is that
(05:40):
is a big part of your morning routine to pick
me up. If you, let's say coffee just became illegal
for whatever reason, that's a very stupid hypothetical because that's
never gonna happen. But let's just say you knew you
didn't have access to coffee, what would you turn to
to help wake you up.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's a good question right now because I've got my
back up at the moment. I've got a yell a
lemon lime gatorade that I'm drinking from this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So no coffee.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, I woke up, didn't get much sleep last night,
and the stomach wasn't feeling the best. So, like you
know what, We're gonna take a break from the coffee
and do something else today.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, as a non coffee drinker, can't relate. However, I've
heard that at times when the stomach issues are there,
maybe coffee could make it worse, or maybe sometimes coffee
is the reason you have stomach issues that could be
the case. So the reason I ask is this because
this is I guess some good advice to share if
you believe it. I've I'm not super skeptical of things.
(06:36):
In fact, I found myself at times more naive about things.
Maybe that's changing as I get older. But we have
a list of things that can help you get you know,
get morning habits that could give you a bigger boost,
more so than even your coffee, because I'd say most people,
if they're looking for just something in the morning to
get them going, it's it's usually coffee. And I say
(06:58):
that knowing that I'm a big outside because a lot
of people drink coffee. But here are five things that
can can help get you going. This is according to
a survey. Well, yeah, this is from there's a Let
me see. Let me just make sure I give credit
here to this. This study that I'm going to claim
I don't necessarily believe. But this is doctor Jimmay Menescalco.
(07:21):
She claims that sun exposure, which we can't do. That
it's five o'clock in the morning, so that one's out
the window. This one, I totally believe. Movement and that
can It doesn't have to be like a sweat session
at the gym, but like quick stretching yoga. I don't
do yoga, but I know people that do, and to
me that would be like relaxing. But I've heard many
(07:43):
people and I'll trust them that it actually does. It
does gets you going a little bit. It provides kind
of a boost, which, hey, anything to get you that boost,
because the best part of the day, if in fact
you're somebody that does try to find some optimism to
start a day, is when you do kind of snap
out of that morning fog, if you know what I mean.
(08:03):
So sometimes, honestly for me, like if I feel like,
all right, I've gotten other shower, I'm getting ready to leave,
or sometimes even when I get here, I'm thinking, why
am I still just kind of carrying a little bit
of that sleep from the night before. If I knock out,
like fifteen push ups or something that'll that'll that'll help.
Meditation and breath work, even five minutes of meditation can
(08:24):
help boost energy. Quiet mental noise can help with focus,
according to a psychologist, doctor Andrea Lene. I'm sure she's
got some data to back up that claim. If I'm
meditating and like doing breath work or whatever the hell
that is. I'm gonna fall back asleep, like that's actually
what I do to fall asleep. They would not wake
me up. And then I shouldn't mind. I shouldn't laugh
(08:47):
at this, but I can't. I can't help it laugh
at this gratitude journaling that, I mean, what that's supposed
to wake me up in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I guess maybe it's get your brain thinking, like, yeah, well,
well am I thankful about from the last you know,
twenty four hours or something like that, You're starting to
think brainworking.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Maybe maybe gratitude journaling can be a way of actually
reminding yourself how fortunate you are, and you can then
be When you have gratitude, you feel thankful, and that
is an emotion that will lead to I would say
optimism and excitement, which can get you going. The last
(09:26):
two here I totally will stand by. Don't need to
do it often, but one I certainly have cold water
the morning when we didn't have a hot water heater
and I took a cold shower. I've never been more
alive and alert in my life. Don't want to do
it again, but it definitely woke me up. And this
one is this vocal vibe shift, which is basically saying,
if you just if you hum and sing along to songs,
I toltal. I've done that too, right, I'll play music
(09:48):
that is more upbeat, and then if I'm singing along,
I'm ready to go. So, if in fact you don't
have coffee, John chose to not have coffee for the
sake of his stomach. That's a mature choice on your part, John,
You're an old. But anyways, there's some help to get
you woke up this morning if in fact you are
in need of it and you don't have coffee or
you don't like coffee. All right, we've got traffic weather
updates coming your way. Bobby Ellis will tell us how
(10:10):
these roadways are looking again, busier roadways now that everybody's
back in school, and we'll get an update from Matt
Melosovich on the forecast. And yesterday, gross, I don't know
if you guys were outside around, you know, between five
pm to about seven pm, but it was just It's
like I was an item in a bowl of soup.
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Just gross.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And I'm hoping ready, I'm ready for summer to be over.
I am all right again. Traffic weather updates coming your
way right here, right now on News Radio eight forty
whas we are rocket and rolling here on a Wednesday morning.
Appreciate you hanging out with us. Happy hump Day. It
is Kentucky and this morning news here coffee and company
with you. And this is something that has been out
(10:51):
there for the last few days and it has not
been discussed on this morning show, at least not by me,
and not really for any specific reason because I'm you know,
I'm ignoring it. I'll probably just realize that I've admitted
to you on air that maybe I'm not doing my
job as best I could, because this is certainly a
piece of news that needs to be discussed. But I'll
blame it, if anything, on ignorance and maybe just catching
(11:14):
up from vacation and getting back into the groove here.
But there is a major, major story that is not
going to go away. And I don't know if we've
had any official update on the accusations that have been made,
but there is a This is an investigation that WDRB
did and it has brought up a pretty awful allegation
that's been made by a former clerk, Melissa Mormon, who
(11:39):
worked for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and she claims that
multiple state offices issued fraudulent licenses to undocumented workers four
or five times a day for at least two years,
and she has filed a lawsuit. I believe it is
because she claims that she was fired for reporting this.
(12:01):
She says that she reported the activity to her supervisor
but was fired soon after. She alleges her own ID
was misused in the scheme. So DRB did obtain documents
showing that KYTC sent over fifteen hundred letters warning recipients
their licenses were issued in error and would be canceled.
(12:22):
This is, I mean, this is awful. I don't want
to be dramatic, but like the fact that this went
on is I mean, a terrible look in every way
for Frankfort. And it would be foolish of me to
allege that they're just ignoring it and hoping that it
goes away. But if there's been any kind of you know, official,
(12:44):
get out in front of it and talk about it.
I certainly haven't haven't seen it. So again, this has
led to as you could expect, lawmakers asking you know,
for some accountability and wanting to see, you know, what's
going They want this thing vetted fully, which is totally understandable,
(13:05):
but yeah, this is just a bad look. And you've
got Kentuckians born here, you know, living here that have
been in line for hours complaining about not being able
to just you know, get something that they're entitled to,
that they need, that they're required to do for a
lot of things, you know, getting an identification, I mean
it's I guess it's not just an ID, but it's
(13:25):
also a driver's license. I mean, it's been one of
the biggest issues for a while now as far as
just the headache that comes with going to get a
real idea you're really just going to get a driver's
license because of the changes made within the last few years,
as far as just making it much more difficult to do,
shutting down the local offices at some levels. I mean,
(13:47):
you've got Kentuckians waiting for hours. News coverage of residents
that have had a week impacted substantially from driving across
the state trying to make an appointment because you know,
well they when your livelihoods at stake to an extent
when you don't have an identify when your ID is
is is not up to date and it's not legit.
Now again, clearly some blame should fall on others from procrastinating,
(14:10):
There's no doubt about that. But still it's been an
issue as is for a while that needs to be fixed.
There's been a lot of coverage on it. And now
we know that there have been illegal immigrants skipping the
line and got licenses using fake documents after bribing state
workers with a few hundred bucks. I mean, that's that's
(14:31):
what's happened here, at least the allegation. And again I
think with DRB's investigation uncovering that there was there was
notice sent out to over fifteen hundred people in the
state warning them that their licenses were issued in error
and would be canceled. I mean, that's not it doesn't
look good here. So and look, you can have you
(14:52):
can have people that just go rogue. I mean, it's unfortunate,
and at the end of the day, it's a bad
look for you as an entity because you're responsible for
you and and sometimes you end up hiring somebody that
you know you wouldn't have been able to vet the
situation to see that they were somebody that you shouldn't
not have hired. But this seems like something that, again
according to the allegations, went on four or five times
(15:12):
a day for two years. This is it's a scheme here.
This isn't somebody just you know, it's in a one
off situation. So we'll see where this ends up. But
not a good look. All right, let's get to another
update on traffic and weather and we'll keep this rolling along.
Roy and Neil set to join us coming up here
at about five forty five right here on news RADIOA
(15:33):
forty whas. All right, this is Coffee and Company with
you here on News Radio eight forty whas. Appreciate you
hanging out with us here on Wednesday morning. We also
appreciate Rory and Neil NBC, who joins us here. Rory,
We've seen some surges in the past when it comes
to economic data, But what are we looking at right
(15:54):
now as far as the future interest rates, that kind
of stuff. The tariffs are going to kick in. Do
we have any type of a roadmap of where we're
heading here?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Well, you know, we saw a good surge on Wall
Street yesterday based on that inflation number. The consumer price
index data came in pretty much as expected, maybe a
little bit softer. I think there were some concerns that
tariffs would have done more to increased prices, but a
lot of those tariffs hadn't hit yet, so I think
we're still waiting to see the full.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Impact of tariffs.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We've seen lots of big companies like Procter and Gamble
and Ford say that the tariffs are going to take
a billion dollar bite out of their bottom line. You know,
about how long are they willing to absorb those kinds
of costs is the big open question. Today we're going
to get the producer price Index, which is more the
wholesale cost of things, so that'll be interesting to watch
as well. But look, President Trump is out there celebrating,
(16:49):
essentially saying, you know, I told you tariffs would be
good for the economy. The money is pouring in to
the treasury, and so far he thinks there hadn't been
consequences and wants the Fed to lower interest That's and
that's why the market was rallying because it still looks
like the Fed could lower rates at least twice, even
some chatter of three rate cuts this year and I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, we'll have to wait and see. There's no
way to predict the future. But it does seem as
if there is a breakthrough where interest rates are adjusted
in a good way for the for Americans, that would
be viewed as a real time breakthrough, right.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It would.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
When the FED lowers interest rates, that means the rate
you get for a car loan comes down, the rates
on your credit cards come down immediately, and will likely
then impact mortgage rates which are set differently. And then
it also spurs business investment. You know, now the company,
you know, the ABC company only has to borrow or
can borrow cheaper money in order to put that new
(17:44):
factory in or that new warehouse. So it's lower borrowing
costs for them. So it does spur economic growth. But
the Fed has to keep inflation in check while maximizing employment.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Inflation is essentially two point seven percent over a year.
You know the goal there mandate is to get to
two percent and two point seven eighty two. And the
concern is that if you get these tariffs, suddenly it
nudges up over three and oh, here.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
We go again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, the uncertainty has had a lot of people stinted
to in a lot of ways, and it totally makes sense.
But yes, once those if the FEDS do in fact
lower those interest rates, I can tell you I'm sure
there's a lot of people out there that will breathe
a sigh of relief. Broyan nealis our guest. He joins
us here on news Radio eight forty. Whas the average
age of American farmers right now is fifty seven, which
(18:31):
means half of all Americans are older than that. What
does that mean for the future of American agriculture? I
will admit I don't know many people on the younger
side that are getting into that field. If so, it's
probably those who come from a family farm that kind
of stuff. But this, how is this new data as
far as just the age demographic here, How is that
being viewed?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, it's a fascinating story in USA today that took
a look at this concern. As you said, the average
farmer being over fifty seven years old, more than remember,
more than ninety five percent of farms in the US
are family owned, and look as a society as a planet,
families are having fewer kids. So maybe if you had
(19:12):
six kids, one or two who wanted to continue the
farming tradition. Well, now one kid, maybe two kids in
a household and they don't want to continue the farming tradition,
So then what happens. So we're seeing a lot more consolidation,
sell off to more corporate interests as well, but just
concerns that you're also losing a massive knowledge base here
or you're not raising a new set of farmers who
(19:35):
will learn those critical tasks and skills that are necessary to.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Feed the world. So it's a bit of a red flag.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
There are some encouraging signs. We have seen more people
enrolling in agriculture programs in colleges, so that's seeing a
slight uptick. But overall, we need to be paying more
attention to the farmers here in America.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No doubt about it. Rory, you are the man. I
appreciate your time as always, Enjoy the rest of your
day and we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thanks Nick taught you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Then, all righty, that is Royal Deeal of NBC News.
I'll tell you what I know. A few friends, just
people I've known over the years that have worked on
a farm that they're family owned, and only one of
them that I can think of decided to kind of
just you know, that be what he does to make
a living and keep the farm going on. And I mean,
I hope people are well aware of just how important
(20:23):
the agriculture industry is to America and if we start
to see it fade. Here is that story from the
USA today suggest as far as just there's a lot
of older farmers now and not as many on the
younger side. That is concerning. Hopefully there's in fact, with
the Kentucky State Fair starting this week, I wouldn't be
shocked if there's some kind of initiative to just spread
(20:46):
awareness about the industry and that you know, it can
be something that is very profitable for you depending on
what you do. And also we need them, We need
farmers out here. All right, Let's get to another update
of the traffic and weather and we'll keep this thing
rolling along. Scott is back with another sports update, so
stick with us right here on news Radio eight forty
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