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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Morning, Kentucky Anda, Happy Thursday. This is Coffee and Company,
Kentuckyanah's morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas
as John Shannon said, and he couldn't say it if
it wasn't true, this is just what the doctor ordered.
The doctor also needs to find a cure for us,
if there is a doctor that can help us reduce
the violent crime here in Louisville. Obviously that's been a
big discussion for a while now. But given what took
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place yesterday and given what has taken place in Louiell
in the last week, overall, it just seems like there's
more heightened awareness of what Louisville currently is experiencing. Violent
crime is not new to us, and there are some
numbers that are worth mentioning, and you hear mayor Greenberg
talk about those because it is I think it's just
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my opinion. I think you can do both things. You
can find positives and just try to try your best
to maintain positivity, because why would you want to be miserable.
But also, you know, realize that this, let's not convince
ourselves this is anything other than what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's a major problem.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So one thing I wanted to add that feels like
it doesn't need to be said. You would think that
this is an obvious thing, but maybe I'm just my
instincts tell me that it's worth saying that there are
many people who live and have always lived in these
areas that are experiencing violent crime at the highest level,
and certainly at the highest level when it comes to juveniles.
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Like they realize that this is an issue and they
want to do whatever they can to create a change.
And again here I am saying something that like should
be an obvious right. People who live in the areas
where everybody's getting killed, they don't like that. They prefer
that not happen. But I just think when you're out
of site, you're out of mind. You know. Maybe maybe
some people just don't consider that, and I think some
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of them are trying their best to make an impact
and improve their community. But yesterday Woky are Partners. They
caught up with the father of one of the suspects
that has been arrested in the first school bus stop shooting,
and I recommend you check out the interview. It's I
believe it's roughly eight and a half minutes, almost nine
(02:05):
minutes and it just was I mean, it's a real
and raw It doesn't feel like an interview. It feels
like you're just hearing from a father who is, you know,
going through it in a way that most aren't. Right,
one of those violent criminals that has made an impact
on this city in a negative way, being more dangerous
and violent is his son, and his son is a child.
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So I mean, it's just it's a very raw and
real and emotional conversation. But really it's just him kind
of sharing his perspective and sharing his story. And I
just think it was for me. I thought it was
an interesting you know again, I'm not I don't I'm not.
I didn't grow up in that community. I'm not often
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in the area where these things take place, and I
don't have any you know, but just to hear someone
that is going through it in a different way, it
just kind of made me even more like, Wow, this,
you know, it's just a reminder that man, as dangerous
as it is for everybody in Louisville, it being in
your community, it being every night seemingly in your on
your street or maybe a block away, that would be awful.
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I mean, that would be not only scary, but just
something that would be it would I mean, it's awful.
I mean, I guess that's the best way to put it.
But again, check it out if you if you get
some time, because I just think it's I mean, it's
it's worth hearing. But he is the one who turned
his son in. So this was the school shooting that
took place, the school bus stop shooting that took place
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last Thursday, on the first day of school, and there
have been two fifteen year olds arrested facing a combined
thirty four charges. And again this this man's son was
one of those. And I mean, I'll tell you what
I mean, I don't know how often you'll see somebody
turn their own their own son in. So he came
to the scene during the second shooting and recognized, you know,
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the news coverage of his son from the first incident.
So you know, the second arrest that was made here
is because his father came to the scene of the
second one and turned his son in. And he told
w Oka why that his heart sank when he saw
his son's picture on social media and could tell and again,
if it sure, kid, you'd know, right, And he did
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admit that he'd seen some warning signs that he and
he tried to get some help for his son, but
ultimately he you know, he felt like the best way
to help his son is to turn him in and
and you know, do the right thing obviously, but hopefully
get some level of rehabilitation as a as a young
man and not really a young man, he's a child.
He's fifteen years old. So he also shared the story
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of seeing the the the I guess the pictures and
he could tell it was his son, despite a lot
of people probably couldn't just because it really wasn't. You
couldn't see his face, but he just knew the build,
the height, and he talks about it what stood out
that helped him identify that that was probably his son.
So he called his son's mother, who's no longer with
and asked where his son was, and she she gave
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she gave an answer as far as I guess some area,
some neighborhoo in Louisville. And he said, are you sure,
and it you know, I'm paraphrasing here, but I think
he described. Her response was well, I think, And then
his heart sank as he realized that, you know, like
that at that time. I guess he asked where she
where he was, and sure enough, you know, he turned
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his son in. And he went on to talk about
how he had saw warning signs of what his son
was posting on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He could see it. He filed him. He filed.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know if it was to get custody or
whatever it may be, but he filed. And I think
it was like a year ago to the day that
he'd filed and he got nowhere. So just heartbreaking. But
also that's the right thing to do. And I don't
care what your lifestyle is or what your situation is,
that would be a very hard thing to do, to
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turn your fifteen year old son in for those kind
of charges. And maybe people are hearing me, like, what
do you mean that wouldn't be hard.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's the right thing. I get it, but I feel
like it would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You wouldn't know how hard it is or how hard
it isn't until you've in that situation, and many of
us never will be, hopefully, but I imagine that was
not easy. But again, it was the right thing to do,
and it's the best course of action for his fifteen
year old child. And if more parents did that to
where they were willing to do the right thing because
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their kids made mistakes. It would lead to more accountability
and therefore hopefully.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Less of this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So check it out if you guys haven't seen it,
it's on the WLKY YouTube channel, and also they've got
a story about it at the website. All right, let's
get to an update on traving in weather as we
roll along here on a Thursday morning, Coffee and company
with your Kentucky and his morning.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
News here on news radio eight forty whs.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It is seven to seventeen here Kentucky and is morning
news news Radio eight forty whas coffee and company with you.
So if here's somebody who hates waiting in line at
an airport, which who would like that? Right? Nobody enjoys that,
you now will have a chance to potentially speed up
that process. TSA is expanding their touchless face recognition across
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many airports here in America for faster pre check lines.
So travelers that select US airports now have the option
to speed through TSA security, but only if they're willing
to let the government get.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
A selfie of their face.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So to me, I just assume when it comes to
like privacy, look TikTok and read my brain. They're going
to find out what they're going to find out. I mean,
I'm not I mean I'm not worried and it's not
like I've got nothing to hide or anything like that.
I just I don't think you can control it if
you tried, maybe that's me becoming a conspiracy theorist. But like,
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I mean, if people want to find out what they
want to find out about you, they'll they'll do it
meeting those that you know, have have resources and just
knowledge of how you would you would go about doing that.
You don't fly a whole lot, John, But when it
comes to knowing you could you could quickly, and I
mean let's say you could trim you could go from
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an hour and fifth teen minute process too?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Is it that long?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, well, the whole process we're talking about. Okay, do
you have to get in line to check your bags
at the airport?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Do you have to?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Then you have to go through security, But like security
can be rather quick. But let's put it this way.
Let's say you could wait fifteen minutes or it could
take two minutes. Would you sacrifice the time in order
to say uncle, Sam, you're not getting a picture this
handsome mug.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, I don't think that's a significant amount of time enough.
It's significant enough amount of time to warrant doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But why would you What are you worried about?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Like you mean you think that like them having a
picture of your face, like you wouldn't want you wouldn't want.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Them to have that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I just think it's I don't really know the reason
why I get.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It, like it's it's I mean, I know what you mean,
because like privacy is some people do that. Yeah, well
because if anything, you know, they're incentivizing us to where
they can get more of information.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, and that's the other thing, like what more could
they want? They already have everything.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And that's that is the ultimate reason as to why
I would just say, yeah, the hell with it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't care. They're going to find out whatever they're
going to find out.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, And honestly, what we do, I mean, it's not
a visual medium, but like it's pretty public what we do,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's true. So I'm sure that the government could be
listening and take out a voice and be like, oh
that's John Alden, that's Nick coffee right there.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I would do it just because I'm impatient, and I'm
assuming that you know, they've probably scanned my by the
way they scan your face when you get your I
mean I didn't sign anything. They scan my face whenever
I whenever I went through the airport just last week,
and I think it's part of the process.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So maybe what they're really doing is checking to see
who will be more compliant than the others.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Maybe. I don't know if they were to do something,
I mean, if there's any place where they're going to
be able to quickly through facial recognition find a lot
out about you, it's got to be at an airport, right,
I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All right, let's get to a quick update on trafficking weather.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
So the cost of fast food has clearly.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Gone up quite a bit. If you're somebody that doesn't
eat fast food. Good for you because not only are
you probably healthier than most, you've been able to probably
save some money. I don't know though, because everything seems
to be really, really expensive. But you're now starting to
see the potential decline as far as just sales. So
it's been getting I mean, I don't have the exact
numbers year by year in front of me. I do
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have some good data that I want to share with you.
But John, you're with me, I know you don't probably
eat fast food a ton, But the noticeable jump in
prices at the common places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, wherever
you go. I mean, it's not brand new, it's been
seemingly growing for the last couple to three years.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Like even if you take from what is considered like
the value menu, it doesn't even feel like a value anymore.
Oh exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean when you compare what you used to pay
to get a certain meal at a certain restaurant, it
is skyrocketed. And if there's a place where it hasn't,
let me know, and I'd be happy to be surprised,
and I'd be happy to maybe give them some business
next time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I'm going to decide to eat fast food.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But when you look at the revenue for the fast
food industry, despite I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
People are still eating it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's more expensive, but they're still making a lot of money,
And that just goes to show that people will. I mean,
it's probably convenience. It's probably you know, if fast food
is your is your go to, there's probably not a
price that's going to put you away because that's just
how you feed yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And I think less people just know how to cook.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now, yes, yeah, and really when you know that going
to the grocery and getting a week's worth of food
and you could you could crunch the numbers and see
what makes more sense for you if you're really watching
your budget to that extent.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Which if you are, good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But the the just knowing you may be racking up
a couple hundred bucks at the grocery for a week,
that alan will keep you from doing it, and you'll
justify spending seven eight bucks for a meal at fast
food just because it's a one off expense and it's
just not you've forking over a couple hundred bucks. So
the reason I bring this up is because it's been
growing for a while, and yet they've still been able
to make a lot of money. I mean, twenty nineteen,
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the fast food industry grew to let's see US fast
food industry revenue. It grew to four hundred and seventeen
point five billion from twenty nineteen up until I guess
the end of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So that was that was steady growth.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So let me give you an example, global fast food
market eight hundred and sixty two billion in twenty twenty,
six hundred and sixty three billion overall. So again that's
down globally, but in America we like fast food, we
just do. So we're now though, starting to see a
little bit of a change where McDonald's sales fall to
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the lowest level since COVID lockdowns, despite them actually making
some improvements here to maybe give give some folks a
little bit of relief with the with the money, I mean,
with what they're what they're spending. I mean, they have
at least made an attempt to start to add some
value menu items that are that you know, six years
ago they wouldn't been viewed as a value, but I
guess considering what things cost now, there is there's clearly
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I guess the level of value there. Also, Wendy says
US sales have been really weak, and I just I'm curious.
Is this more so because people have just decided, yeah,
I can't justify food that's really bad for me, that
cost this much whenever you know, I mean, we may
have hit the point where the Americans have at least
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made some level of progress to say, yeah, I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna pay for that anymore. Or maybe
it just costs way more with what you know to
produce all the food that these fast.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Food restaurants make.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But yeah, I mean when you see for the first
time since the pandemic COVID lockdown, McDonald's has has mentioned
their sales falling, and also I mean reference a shaky
economy being the factor. I mean, that's that's pretty telling.
But also it really can't be as surprise. If you'd
have told me three years ago people weren't going to
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fast food restaurants as much because it was expensive, I
would have absolutely believed you, because I get it. I mean,
going to Taco Bell with the family, I mean, we
don't necessarily penny pinch there. But if everybody just gets
what they want, and they typically want. We're talking about
my two young children and my wife and I we're
thirty something bucks. I mean, maybe that just makes us
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sound really fat, but you know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It mean you still be those same amount of people
for the same amount of meals, and you'd probably get
twenty dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Of food, no doubt.
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off of I seventy one. We've got trapicking weather updates
come on your way, and of course we'll keep this
thing rolling along. It's a Thursday. Thursday's the new Friday
right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Doesn't look
as if there's been any progress just yet. Well, I'm
sure they're working behind the scenes. There may be progress,
but no news, no new information as far as the
suspect yesterday and the shooting that took the life of
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a young woman who was walking a child to a
bus stop. So if there is any update, you'll be
sure to hear it right here on news Radio eight
forty whas coming up around eight o'clock. I'll let you
guys kind of I'll reset a little montage of sound
out put together from the Louisville leaders yesterday at all levels.
Doctor Yearwood, the JCPS superintendent, I thought was really well spoken,
and it was my first chance to really get to
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hear him in an unfortunate context, of course, but obviously
it's good to have a leader that was comfortable in
that spot because he's the JCPS superintendent. And yes, yet
this is clearly an issue where children are going to
a bus stop and people are getting shot and killed.
I mean, that's that's an awful thing to say out loud.
But here we are also Chief Humphrey and Mayor Greenberg.
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Will let you hear that coming up around eight o'clock.
I lied to you coming up around eight oh five.
All right at Kentucky, it's morning news with you here
on News Ready eight forty w h as Coffee and Company.
I tell you what I felt like last week when
I was in when I was in Destin, I was
more visible and aware of just things that are tourists traps,
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slash scams. You know, there's there's like this, and I'm
sure if you've gone to Destin you know exactly what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But the the the I think it's.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Called the Harbor where they've got like the restaurants and
stuff like we got we got dinner at a place.
The food was fine, but you know it's super expensive.
Then you got like a four different fee charges. One
one for like the the harbor fee, one for the
you know you you got you got four family members
and they all have legs that were going three dollars
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and fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Let's add that to the receipt.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I mean, it's just never ending, and I'm starting to
become irritated with that, just the they Nicolindomia. It is
in mostly just tourist cities, but that's happening really everywhere now. However,
I wanted to bring this up because there's now some
advice out there as far as what you can what
you can identify as a tourist scam before you know,
spot the tourist scams before they spot you. And some
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of these are more so in different in different countries,
and really, I mean, I wouldn't know what to I mean,
I feel like anytime I've gone to another country it's
been In fact, I've only been I've been to Canada
and I've been to Mexico. It's as far as I've
gone outside of the United States. And when I think
of tourist scams and whatnot, I just think, I just
think of it's not really a scam. It's just they're pushy,
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like they're they're in. They don't they don't take no
for an answer. They've got a way in which they
can they can get you. They they can get you
to a point of your being so you're so uncomfortable
you might just buy. They don't care that's how they operate, right,
It's not like they're really trying to sell you on
this product that you can't get anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They just get you and hope that you submit, essentially.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But this is in certain cities where if you're walking
around and I guess this has happened in New Orleans,
and I just feel like if you fall for this,
like come on, but they'll hand your partner a rose
and then pressure you into paying more than it's worth
because they already have the rows. Like I'm not one
for confrontation, but I would absolutely absolutely say yeah, sorry,
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you can have the rose. Back. Listen to this one, John,
This gives me a good example of last week for us.
So a lot of people take their kids on vacation. Right,
you're on the beach, So there's these guys have these
permits and they roll these carts of ice cream and
popsicles and they're selling them, and there were I mean,
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I'm embarrassed to say this. We paid fifteen bucks per popsicle.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I'm still I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Still pissed off about it, even saying it out loud,
and it was disgusting. So then we just fell and
I asked my wife, like, why did you do that?
And he was like, well, they already had him. And
then a family overheard us talking about it, and I
guess the prior day we weren't around. But that's what
they do. They'll they'll they'll see your kids playing in
the sand, playing near the water, and if you're if
your little kids run up to them, they'll just hand
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them to you and open them and then tell you
that like here you go, name and you can name
whatever price, at least they think. And I love the story.
I wish I would have seen it. Apparently a mother
threw the ice cream at the guy and was like,
you think we don't know what you're doing, get out
of here. Turned out the guy didn't even a permit.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He got arrested.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Wow, But like that's a waiting, that's that's that's preying
on like and again, that's that's really life right Clearly,
if you want to get people to fork over money,
do something that their kids like, that's you know, that's
a way to get to their money. But yeah, I
can't believe I admit that on the radio, although I'll
blame my wife throw under the bus because I was
sitting in the chair. They came back with them and
she had a disgusting look on her face, and I
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said what, and she was like fifteen dollars for both,
and I said, I wanted to chase the guy down
and give him a talking to, but I let it go. Anyways,
we've got another traffic weather update coming your way and
another sports update coming as well, right here on news
RADIOA forty whs
Good Morning, Kentucky Anda, Happy Thursday. This is Coffee and Company,
Kentuckyanah's morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas
as John Shannon said, and he couldn't say it if
it wasn't true, this is just what the doctor ordered.
The doctor also needs to find a cure for us,
if there is a doctor that can help us reduce
the violent crime here in Louisville. Obviously that's been a
big discussion for a while now. But given what took
(00:22):
place yesterday and given what has taken place in Louiell
in the last week, overall, it just seems like there's
more heightened awareness of what Louisville currently is experiencing. Violent
crime is not new to us, and there are some
numbers that are worth mentioning, and you hear mayor Greenberg
talk about those because it is I think it's just
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my opinion. I think you can do both things. You
can find positives and just try to try your best
to maintain positivity, because why would you want to be miserable.
But also, you know, realize that this, let's not convince
ourselves this is anything other than what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's a major problem.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So one thing I wanted to add that feels like
it doesn't need to be said. You would think that
this is an obvious thing, but maybe I'm just my
instincts tell me that it's worth saying that there are
many people who live and have always lived in these
areas that are experiencing violent crime at the highest level,
and certainly at the highest level when it comes to juveniles.
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Like they realize that this is an issue and they
want to do whatever they can to create a change.
And again here I am saying something that like should
be an obvious right. People who live in the areas
where everybody's getting killed, they don't like that. They prefer
that not happen. But I just think when you're out
of site, you're out of mind. You know. Maybe maybe
some people just don't consider that, and I think some
(01:43):
of them are trying their best to make an impact
and improve their community. But yesterday Woky are Partners. They
caught up with the father of one of the suspects
that has been arrested in the first school bus stop shooting,
and I recommend you check out the interview. It's I
believe it's roughly eight and a half minutes, almost nine
(02:05):
minutes and it just was I mean, it's a real
and raw It doesn't feel like an interview. It feels
like you're just hearing from a father who is, you know,
going through it in a way that most aren't. Right,
one of those violent criminals that has made an impact
on this city in a negative way, being more dangerous
and violent is his son, and his son is a child.
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So I mean, it's just it's a very raw and
real and emotional conversation. But really it's just him kind
of sharing his perspective and sharing his story. And I
just think it was for me. I thought it was
an interesting you know again, I'm not I don't I'm not.
I didn't grow up in that community. I'm not often
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in the area where these things take place, and I
don't have any you know, but just to hear someone
that is going through it in a different way, it
just kind of made me even more like, Wow, this,
you know, it's just a reminder that man, as dangerous
as it is for everybody in Louisville, it being in
your community, it being every night seemingly in your on
your street or maybe a block away, that would be awful.
(03:10):
I mean, that would be not only scary, but just
something that would be it would I mean, it's awful.
I mean, I guess that's the best way to put it.
But again, check it out if you if you get
some time, because I just think it's I mean, it's
it's worth hearing. But he is the one who turned
his son in. So this was the school shooting that
took place, the school bus stop shooting that took place
(03:30):
last Thursday, on the first day of school, and there
have been two fifteen year olds arrested facing a combined
thirty four charges. And again this this man's son was
one of those. And I mean, I'll tell you what
I mean, I don't know how often you'll see somebody
turn their own their own son in. So he came
to the scene during the second shooting and recognized, you know,
(03:54):
the news coverage of his son from the first incident.
So you know, the second arrest that was made here
is because his father came to the scene of the
second one and turned his son in. And he told
w Oka why that his heart sank when he saw
his son's picture on social media and could tell and again,
if it sure, kid, you'd know, right, And he did
(04:15):
admit that he'd seen some warning signs that he and
he tried to get some help for his son, but
ultimately he you know, he felt like the best way
to help his son is to turn him in and
and you know, do the right thing obviously, but hopefully
get some level of rehabilitation as a as a young
man and not really a young man, he's a child.
He's fifteen years old. So he also shared the story
(04:36):
of seeing the the the I guess the pictures and
he could tell it was his son, despite a lot
of people probably couldn't just because it really wasn't. You
couldn't see his face, but he just knew the build,
the height, and he talks about it what stood out
that helped him identify that that was probably his son.
So he called his son's mother, who's no longer with
and asked where his son was, and she she gave
(04:57):
she gave an answer as far as I guess some area,
some neighborhoo in Louisville. And he said, are you sure,
and it you know, I'm paraphrasing here, but I think
he described. Her response was well, I think, And then
his heart sank as he realized that, you know, like
that at that time. I guess he asked where she
where he was, and sure enough, you know, he turned
(05:17):
his son in. And he went on to talk about
how he had saw warning signs of what his son
was posting on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He could see it. He filed him. He filed.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know if it was to get custody or
whatever it may be, but he filed. And I think
it was like a year ago to the day that
he'd filed and he got nowhere. So just heartbreaking. But
also that's the right thing to do. And I don't
care what your lifestyle is or what your situation is,
that would be a very hard thing to do, to
(05:46):
turn your fifteen year old son in for those kind
of charges. And maybe people are hearing me, like, what
do you mean that wouldn't be hard.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's the right thing. I get it, but I feel
like it would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You wouldn't know how hard it is or how hard
it isn't until you've in that situation, and many of
us never will be, hopefully, but I imagine that was
not easy. But again, it was the right thing to do,
and it's the best course of action for his fifteen
year old child. And if more parents did that to
where they were willing to do the right thing because
(06:18):
their kids made mistakes. It would lead to more accountability
and therefore hopefully.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Less of this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So check it out if you guys haven't seen it,
it's on the WLKY YouTube channel, and also they've got
a story about it at the website. All right, let's
get to an update on traving in weather as we
roll along here on a Thursday morning, Coffee and company
with your Kentucky and his morning.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
News here on news radio eight forty whs.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It is seven to seventeen here Kentucky and is morning
news news Radio eight forty whas coffee and company with you.
So if here's somebody who hates waiting in line at
an airport, which who would like that? Right? Nobody enjoys that,
you now will have a chance to potentially speed up
that process. TSA is expanding their touchless face recognition across
(07:02):
many airports here in America for faster pre check lines.
So travelers that select US airports now have the option
to speed through TSA security, but only if they're willing
to let the government get.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
A selfie of their face.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So to me, I just assume when it comes to
like privacy, look TikTok and read my brain. They're going
to find out what they're going to find out. I mean,
I'm not I mean I'm not worried and it's not
like I've got nothing to hide or anything like that.
I just I don't think you can control it if
you tried, maybe that's me becoming a conspiracy theorist. But like,
(07:38):
I mean, if people want to find out what they
want to find out about you, they'll they'll do it
meeting those that you know, have have resources and just
knowledge of how you would you would go about doing that.
You don't fly a whole lot, John, But when it
comes to knowing you could you could quickly, and I
mean let's say you could trim you could go from
(07:59):
an hour and fifth teen minute process too?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Is it that long?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, well, the whole process we're talking about. Okay, do
you have to get in line to check your bags
at the airport?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Do you have to?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Then you have to go through security, But like security
can be rather quick. But let's put it this way.
Let's say you could wait fifteen minutes or it could
take two minutes. Would you sacrifice the time in order
to say uncle, Sam, you're not getting a picture this
handsome mug.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, I don't think that's a significant amount of time enough.
It's significant enough amount of time to warrant doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But why would you What are you worried about?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Like you mean you think that like them having a
picture of your face, like you wouldn't want you wouldn't want.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Them to have that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I just think it's I don't really know the reason
why I get.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It, like it's it's I mean, I know what you mean,
because like privacy is some people do that. Yeah, well
because if anything, you know, they're incentivizing us to where
they can get more of information.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, and that's the other thing, like what more could
they want? They already have everything.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And that's that is the ultimate reason as to why
I would just say, yeah, the hell with it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't care. They're going to find out whatever they're
going to find out.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, And honestly, what we do, I mean, it's not
a visual medium, but like it's pretty public what we do,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's true. So I'm sure that the government could be
listening and take out a voice and be like, oh
that's John Alden, that's Nick coffee right there.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I would do it just because I'm impatient, and I'm
assuming that you know, they've probably scanned my by the
way they scan your face when you get your I
mean I didn't sign anything. They scan my face whenever
I whenever I went through the airport just last week,
and I think it's part of the process.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So maybe what they're really doing is checking to see
who will be more compliant than the others.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Maybe. I don't know if they were to do something,
I mean, if there's any place where they're going to
be able to quickly through facial recognition find a lot
out about you, it's got to be at an airport, right,
I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All right, let's get to a quick update on trafficking weather.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We will then have another sports update coming your way
right here on news radioa forty whas. Thank you very much,
John Shannon, it is Kentucky, had his morning news, coffee
and company with you here on news radio eight forty whas.
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
So the cost of fast food has clearly.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Gone up quite a bit. If you're somebody that doesn't
eat fast food. Good for you because not only are
you probably healthier than most, you've been able to probably
save some money. I don't know though, because everything seems
to be really, really expensive. But you're now starting to
see the potential decline as far as just sales. So
it's been getting I mean, I don't have the exact
numbers year by year in front of me. I do
(10:27):
have some good data that I want to share with you.
But John, you're with me, I know you don't probably
eat fast food a ton, But the noticeable jump in
prices at the common places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, wherever
you go. I mean, it's not brand new, it's been
seemingly growing for the last couple to three years.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Like even if you take from what is considered like
the value menu, it doesn't even feel like a value anymore.
Oh exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean when you compare what you used to pay
to get a certain meal at a certain restaurant, it
is skyrocketed. And if there's a place where it hasn't,
let me know, and I'd be happy to be surprised,
and I'd be happy to maybe give them some business
next time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I'm going to decide to eat fast food.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But when you look at the revenue for the fast
food industry, despite I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
People are still eating it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's more expensive, but they're still making a lot of money,
And that just goes to show that people will. I mean,
it's probably convenience. It's probably you know, if fast food
is your is your go to, there's probably not a
price that's going to put you away because that's just
how you feed yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And I think less people just know how to cook.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now, yes, yeah, and really when you know that going
to the grocery and getting a week's worth of food
and you could you could crunch the numbers and see
what makes more sense for you if you're really watching
your budget to that extent.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Which if you are, good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But the the just knowing you may be racking up
a couple hundred bucks at the grocery for a week,
that alan will keep you from doing it, and you'll
justify spending seven eight bucks for a meal at fast
food just because it's a one off expense and it's
just not you've forking over a couple hundred bucks. So
the reason I bring this up is because it's been
growing for a while, and yet they've still been able
to make a lot of money. I mean, twenty nineteen,
(12:11):
the fast food industry grew to let's see US fast
food industry revenue. It grew to four hundred and seventeen
point five billion from twenty nineteen up until I guess
the end of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So that was that was steady growth.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So let me give you an example, global fast food
market eight hundred and sixty two billion in twenty twenty,
six hundred and sixty three billion overall. So again that's
down globally, but in America we like fast food, we
just do. So we're now though, starting to see a
little bit of a change where McDonald's sales fall to
(12:51):
the lowest level since COVID lockdowns, despite them actually making
some improvements here to maybe give give some folks a
little bit of relief with the with the money, I mean,
with what they're what they're spending. I mean, they have
at least made an attempt to start to add some
value menu items that are that you know, six years
ago they wouldn't been viewed as a value, but I
guess considering what things cost now, there is there's clearly
(13:12):
I guess the level of value there. Also, Wendy says
US sales have been really weak, and I just I'm curious.
Is this more so because people have just decided, yeah,
I can't justify food that's really bad for me, that
cost this much whenever you know, I mean, we may
have hit the point where the Americans have at least
(13:33):
made some level of progress to say, yeah, I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna pay for that anymore. Or maybe
it just costs way more with what you know to
produce all the food that these fast.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Food restaurants make.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But yeah, I mean when you see for the first
time since the pandemic COVID lockdown, McDonald's has has mentioned
their sales falling, and also I mean reference a shaky
economy being the factor. I mean, that's that's pretty telling.
But also it really can't be as surprise. If you'd
have told me three years ago people weren't going to
(14:07):
fast food restaurants as much because it was expensive, I
would have absolutely believed you, because I get it. I mean,
going to Taco Bell with the family, I mean, we
don't necessarily penny pinch there. But if everybody just gets
what they want, and they typically want. We're talking about
my two young children and my wife and I we're
thirty something bucks. I mean, maybe that just makes us
(14:27):
sound really fat, but you know.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It mean you still be those same amount of people
for the same amount of meals, and you'd probably get
twenty dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Of food, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Let me tell you we can get You can get
some relief when it comes to your finances. That's a
track County four because they've got the summer sales event
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(15:08):
off of I seventy one. We've got trapicking weather updates
come on your way, and of course we'll keep this
thing rolling along. It's a Thursday. Thursday's the new Friday
right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Doesn't look
as if there's been any progress just yet. Well, I'm
sure they're working behind the scenes. There may be progress,
but no news, no new information as far as the
suspect yesterday and the shooting that took the life of
(15:30):
a young woman who was walking a child to a
bus stop. So if there is any update, you'll be
sure to hear it right here on news Radio eight
forty whas coming up around eight o'clock. I'll let you
guys kind of I'll reset a little montage of sound
out put together from the Louisville leaders yesterday at all levels.
Doctor Yearwood, the JCPS superintendent, I thought was really well spoken,
and it was my first chance to really get to
(15:51):
hear him in an unfortunate context, of course, but obviously
it's good to have a leader that was comfortable in
that spot because he's the JCPS superintendent. And yes, yet
this is clearly an issue where children are going to
a bus stop and people are getting shot and killed.
I mean, that's that's an awful thing to say out loud.
But here we are also Chief Humphrey and Mayor Greenberg.
(16:13):
Will let you hear that coming up around eight o'clock.
I lied to you coming up around eight oh five.
All right at Kentucky, it's morning news with you here
on News Ready eight forty w h as Coffee and Company.
I tell you what I felt like last week when
I was in when I was in Destin, I was
more visible and aware of just things that are tourists traps,
(16:35):
slash scams. You know, there's there's like this, and I'm
sure if you've gone to Destin you know exactly what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But the the the I think it's.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Called the Harbor where they've got like the restaurants and
stuff like we got we got dinner at a place.
The food was fine, but you know it's super expensive.
Then you got like a four different fee charges. One
one for like the the harbor fee, one for the
you know you you got you got four family members
and they all have legs that were going three dollars
(17:04):
and fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Let's add that to the receipt.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I mean, it's just never ending, and I'm starting to
become irritated with that, just the they Nicolindomia. It is
in mostly just tourist cities, but that's happening really everywhere now. However,
I wanted to bring this up because there's now some
advice out there as far as what you can what
you can identify as a tourist scam before you know,
spot the tourist scams before they spot you. And some
(17:28):
of these are more so in different in different countries,
and really, I mean, I wouldn't know what to I mean,
I feel like anytime I've gone to another country it's
been In fact, I've only been I've been to Canada
and I've been to Mexico. It's as far as I've
gone outside of the United States. And when I think
of tourist scams and whatnot, I just think, I just
think of it's not really a scam. It's just they're pushy,
(17:49):
like they're they're in. They don't they don't take no
for an answer. They've got a way in which they
can they can get you. They they can get you
to a point of your being so you're so uncomfortable
you might just buy. They don't care that's how they operate, right,
It's not like they're really trying to sell you on
this product that you can't get anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
They just get you and hope that you submit, essentially.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But this is in certain cities where if you're walking
around and I guess this has happened in New Orleans,
and I just feel like if you fall for this,
like come on, but they'll hand your partner a rose
and then pressure you into paying more than it's worth
because they already have the rows. Like I'm not one
for confrontation, but I would absolutely absolutely say yeah, sorry,
(18:34):
you can have the rose. Back. Listen to this one, John,
This gives me a good example of last week for us.
So a lot of people take their kids on vacation. Right,
you're on the beach, So there's these guys have these
permits and they roll these carts of ice cream and
popsicles and they're selling them, and there were I mean,
(18:54):
I'm embarrassed to say this. We paid fifteen bucks per popsicle.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I'm still I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Still pissed off about it, even saying it out loud,
and it was disgusting. So then we just fell and
I asked my wife, like, why did you do that?
And he was like, well, they already had him. And
then a family overheard us talking about it, and I
guess the prior day we weren't around. But that's what
they do. They'll they'll they'll see your kids playing in
the sand, playing near the water, and if you're if
your little kids run up to them, they'll just hand
(19:21):
them to you and open them and then tell you
that like here you go, name and you can name
whatever price, at least they think. And I love the story.
I wish I would have seen it. Apparently a mother
threw the ice cream at the guy and was like,
you think we don't know what you're doing, get out
of here. Turned out the guy didn't even a permit.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He got arrested.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Wow, But like that's a waiting, that's that's that's preying
on like and again, that's that's really life right Clearly,
if you want to get people to fork over money,
do something that their kids like, that's you know, that's
a way to get to their money. But yeah, I
can't believe I admit that on the radio, although I'll
blame my wife throw under the bus because I was
sitting in the chair. They came back with them and
she had a disgusting look on her face, and I
(19:58):
said what, and she was like fifteen dollars for both,
and I said, I wanted to chase the guy down
and give him a talking to, but I let it go. Anyways,
we've got another traffic weather update coming your way and
another sports update coming as well, right here on news
RADIOA forty whs
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