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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That it doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city,
and all around people who can have bet are walking
on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Cattle and a match there.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning, Kentucky, Aena, Welcome in to Kentucky and his
Morning News with Nick Coffee and the crew. In fact,
I guess I should go ahead and get this out
of the way as we get the morning started. It's
five o six here Kentucky and His Morning News. But
I think we've been getting the name of the show wrong,
or at least I have. I mean, Kentucky and His
Morning News has been the name of this show for
a long long time, and that's not really changing. But
(00:30):
I've been saying Kentucky and His Morning News with Nick
Coffee because I'm running, you know, running the show. But
clearly there's there's a crew involved, a team here that
you hear throughout the entire morning. And I was talking
to some of our team yesterday in sales, and when
they are pitching the show and selling it, they they
are calling it Kentucky and His Morning News with Coffee
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and Company, which, for those who don't know, that was
actually the name of my show when I was doing
sports on seven ninety before I made the move here,
which I think Coffee and Company is more fitting. But
I don't know Kentucky and is morning News with Coffee
and Company. It just seems like a lot of words
for the name of a radio show. I gotta be
honest with you, But I also feel like we should
be aligned, we should be on the same page, and
(01:13):
I think Kentucky in his Morning News is probably probably
what most folks are are going to stick to, because again,
that's what it's been for generations. No joke, although I
do think and it Scott you may know this, but
Wayne Perky was was in the seat here for for
many many years? Was it? Was it the Morning Team?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Maybe? Is that?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Am I dreaming that thing?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
While I was here in post I came in in
the Bob's Collar phase, and it was that that you
worked with Milton Metz.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Didn't you know. I'm kidding them. I feel like I
said that like you were an old man. I didn't
mean for it to come off that way. Yeah, you're
way Perk YEA. Yeah, it was very towards the end
of Wayne Perky, Right, I feel like I've been here
that long.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, it's it's just no, I came in I think
called it was after nine to eleven. I know that
because I was not reducing I started part time here,
and I believe two thousand and I was doing Saturdays
and whatnot. But I think it's always been Kentucky INA's
Morning News. Then they tried the morning team rewind Gosh, Saturdays.
That didn't work out so well. So then we just
(02:14):
call it Kentucky and a Saturday Morning News.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Gotcha, Well it's Kentucky and Morning News with coffee and company,
because again, there's company here. It's it's Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
who's not with us today but he'll be back next week.
And then obviously John Shannon and then you guys who
listen you you're you're I don't. But that's where it
gets tricky because I don't want you to feel like company.
I don't want you to feel like a guest. I
want you to feel comfortable. I want you to feel
like you're at home.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Family.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Family.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, well there is coffee though, there's a lot of coffee.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's true, there's a lot of a lot of coffee,
just spell a little bit differently, which by the way
this is. I'm probably getting a little too too much
into the weeds here, but I wouldn't be surprised if
those who just listened to radio casually it's just a
brief part of their morning routine, or maybe if you
listen periodic throughout the day or whatever it may be.
(03:02):
You may not know that when it comes to sort
of how how we are evaluated in this as far
as ratings, and by the way, you wouldn't believe how
archaic the process actually is as far as like sending
out mail to random people and asking if they'll volunteered
to fill out a journal, like that's how it's so
there's in fact, there's really no way to know for certain. However,
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the digital world does give you the ability to have
a good traction of who's who's listening via stream. But
what I'm getting at is people do get one of
those journals and they fill it out. I could be
wrong here. The station they listen to certainly is important,
but also there's certain things that that like there's I
don't know how many get, but you get like four
or five different things. Maybe that can be quite like
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some people may just say a name of a host
and that, and that that's clearly a sign that that's
what they listen to. But you know, long story short,
what I'm getting at is if you don't have a
consistent way of labeling and resetting what your show is
and branding it essent, then you may people may put
something down in the journal that wouldn't necessarily give you credit.
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Which again I don't know if there's anything more older
as far as just not modern in any way as
far as the process than how our market because we're
not a I think it's called a PPM market's where
you can't actually they'll pick up on like the actual signal.
There's like a radar signal thing essentially where people will
wear like a pager like it's nineteen ninety three, and
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that pager will will show in fact which radio signals
are being picked up. So anyways, I'm nerding out too
much on things you guys probably don't care about. But again,
if you hear me mention the name of the show
being Kentucky in This Morning News, that's what it's been
for a long time and that's not changing. But if
you're Coffee and Company, it's just because I'm trying to
get some consistency in that way. You know, people know
it's Coffee and Company, so coffee is right, yes, right now.
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I'm sure there's many of you make it a cup
of coffee or maybe enjoying your first cup right now,
So stick with us. We've got you for the rest
of the morning, and certainly a lot to get into.
I'm I'm I'm hope and that the weather doesn't play
out on Saturday tomorrow like it's looking because that would
be very unfortunate for the ESCO Championship, which is off
to a good start yesterday. I'm sure we'll talk about
that throughout the day today. Also JCPS, I mean, I
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hate to say that I'm not surprised at all, but
they they've got some plans in place to try to
hire teachers very quickly because they've got a big, big shortage.
And also something else I want to get to here
early in the morning, there is a nine one one
operator who has a story that I just I want
to use the platform here to share it because it's
almost like something you see in a movie. So we'll
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get into that in a lot more. It is Kentucky
in this morning news with Coffee and Company, right here
our news radio forty WHS. It is five point seventeen
here in Kentucky and this morning News with Coffee and
Company on news Radio eight forty WHAS Nick Coffee with you,
Scott Fitzgerald alongside. We'll have an update on sports coming
(05:56):
your way in about ten minutes. Also, we'll get John
Shannon's first newscaster for the More around five thirty. And
if you want to listen and take us with you
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radio app. Also you can listen live at whas dot com.
So JCPS, we talked a lot about them earlier this week,
just because I am rooting for the new JCPS superintendent,
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who is taking on a job that is very, very important.
But it's got to be one of those jobs where
if you don't, if you don't try to find, if
you don't try to embrace the small victories, I don't
know how you wouldn't feel just overwhelmed with just no
matter what you do, you're going to face criticism and
there's going to be things that you walk into that
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are still going to be an issue that you had
nothing to do with. And it'd be unrealistic to just
think this guy shows up and automatically every issue that
JCPS ever had was just removed. It's no longer an
issue anymore. So that's not realistic. And I'm sure anybody
who's in the position to pursue this job JCPS superintendent one,
the money's got to make it really worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I also think, and maybe I'm naive, that there are
people that choose to work in education rather be at
administrator level or a teacher, that they got into it
because they did want to impact young people and be
involved in the education system. But nonetheless, I just this
is one of those jobs that I just think about
when I think about j CBS and the superintendent position,
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because obviously Marty Poyo has been in that spot for
quite some time, and certainly some criticism was fair at times,
but I also feel like the guy could never win,
and that's kind of what always sticks with me when
I think of just what that position would be. So again,
it's very important, and I'm sure you're compensated very well,
but it's probably for good reason. So anyhow, the transportation
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issue that they've had for years, that'll be I think
what folks are focusing on more than anything day one,
and even if you don't even have kids in the
school system, where you don't work in the school system
at all, and you're just the JCPS resident, well, one
of your tax dollars of course are at play here,
but also because of how bad it's been at times,
it's almost become, dare I say, like a car wreck.
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People are going to be interested. They just want to
They just want to see and hear. I mean, I
hate to say this, but I've spent more time than
I probably should looking at the comment sections on Facebook
when JCPS posts anything they do about a correct just
basically trying to apologize for transportation issues or even the
decision to cancel school because of snow, because people just
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lose their mind about anything. No matter what you do,
you're going to face a level of toxicity and criticism,
which I just want to remind folks as much as
I can, those are not easy decisions to make, and
if you were in the position that they were in,
you would have to know that no matter and this
is where I do think you can put yourself in
the shoes of those people and just realize that no
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matter what you do, you're going to make a certain
amount of people mad and they're going to yell at
you about it, and that's just the nature of what
it is. So anyhow, another issue they're dealing with. It's
not just the transportation, and maybe transportation is no longer
an issue after this year, but I'll I'll believe that
when I see it. But as they're just weeks away
for the first day of school, they've got a real
big time staffing crisis with over three hundred and sixty
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classroom teacher vacancies and more than fifty other certified roles
that have gone unfilled. So that's that's a big number
and right now they are trying to fill those positions
as best they can. They've got an apprenticeship program that
it's going to allow JCPS high schoolers to earn college
credits through u of L. So that's just a way
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in which I guess they're not needing teachers quite as much.
And then also they're going to have a hiring event
that is coming up today actually it is. Yeah, it's
from ten am to two pm and it's going to
be at the Center for Professional Learning Complex that's on
Atkinson Square Drive. So if you have the ability I
mean again, I feel like if you're I don't think
it's to me. This is telling And maybe I'm wrong here.
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When I think of job fair, I don't typically think
of a job fair being for people who are you know,
actual tea features that that just job fair. I feel
like it's more of you know, potential, good opportunities. But
I think a job fair just tells you just how
much they need people to come in and if you
have the ability meeting, you're qualified, they need you in
a big way. All right, let's get to another update
(10:14):
on traffic and whether Bobby Ellis will give us the
latest when it comes to how the roads are looking.
Some stalled vehicles early, which is kind of rare at
this time of the morning. Also, we get an update
for Matt Melosavitch on the forecast, and of course Scott
Fitzgerial with an update on sports right here on news
radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I'm John Shannon, News Radio eight forty Wahas.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is six. I'm sorry, no,
five thirty five. I'm getting ahead of myself. It is Friday.
I'm ready for the weekend, and I'm sure a lot
of you guys are as well. But again I'm early.
It's only five thirty six actually now here at news
Radio eight forty whas coffee and Company with you, and
I've got WKHY here on my TV right in front
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of us. They are are news partners and they do
a great job, and I now they're a part of
my routine every morning four point thirty there on, and
then they stay on here and on our monitor throughout
the throughout the morning for me. But they're showing the
view of the of the of the roadways, giving you
a look at traffic, and so far it looks to
be pretty pretty smooth, and Bobby Ellis has kind of
confirmed that throughout the morning thus far, and certainly you
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can find out if that change is coming up here
in about three minutes. However, it reminded me of something
yesterday that made me feel very stupid. And I may
not be wise in admitting this, but at times I
really think, man, you are You're a special kind of stupid.
We don't think we all have moments where we maybe realize, wow,
I should have known that, or where have I been?
Have I've been living under a rock And yesterday my
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wife and I were driving to dinner and we were
on the Gen Snyder and I noticed a bunch of
trash bags on the side of the road. Just I
mean it was, I mean, it was impossible not to
notice it. It was just as if as if a
garbage truck somehow flipped over and trash bags were scattered
for miles and I'm I'm thinking what could have happened?
(12:07):
And my wife, she in her sarcastic way, asked me,
are you being serious? And I'm like, yeah, do you
see all these trash bags? And somehow I have never
noticed that, Like that's a thing meaning whenever, whenever you yeah, yeah,
And I'm thinking, is she messing with me? Is there,
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like you know what's going on? But yes, the people
who do either volunteer or maybe they are inmates that
are going through work release or doing their community service
or whatever it may be. Those that the workers that
walk the roadside collecting litter, they fill trash bags and
it makes total sense. But I don't know how I've
never noticed that before, and I thought she was she
was messing with me, and sure enough, like yeah, it
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makes total sense that the people that are bringing either
inmates or or even volunteers. They wouldn't be equipped to
and certainly wouldn't be expected to just put all the
trash in their vehicle, right.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Just lift it up in the back of a big
up and well, it's always funny along those lines. What
happens usually about two weeks before Derby, there's that stretch
of the waters and right before I believe Newburgh suddenly
plans get planted and mulch goes in. It's they try
to beautify it, and then as soon as everybody leaves
for Derby, everything dries up and it goes back to
being dingy. Oh yeah, you see the trash back.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's one of the first early signs that Derby is
getting close is that we start cutting the grass around here.
You don't have a you know, the median with grass
as tall as Shaquille O'Neal. You no longer see the
ninety seven blazer that's just been occupying occupying space on
the green Belt Highway for seven months. Those there seems
to be some real attention to detail whenever we've got
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people come into town, which I get it. I mean,
it's if anything, we're consistent. So yeah, and thank you
to those who either do it because they have to
or they volunteer because it made me realize in I believe,
just a day's time. I mean, maybe I just don't
notice it again, I mean I went years without noticing it,
but it almost seemed as if the majority of the
trash bags that were out were from maybe a day
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or two of work. And that tells you just how
much litter is out there.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So have you ever had to pick up trash like
that for a job or like a service project or
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
One time it was a fundraiser for my high school
basketball team. We did clean up at I believe it
was the State Fair and luckily we didn't have to
mean we were one of many programs that I guess
do it as far as fundraising for your sports program
and whatnot, and I believe it was one of the
bigger money makers for us at that time. But you
didn't know where you were going to be assigned to
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clean up, and we ended up I think having to
clean up. It was old Cardinals Stadium where the free
concerts used to be before they tore it down, and
that wasn't that bad, but there was another school there
that we realized it could have been us. They were
in charge of cleaning up like where all the animals were.
Oh and it wasn't just nothing. I mean a lot
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of that stuff's cleared out, but there's remnants of what
ten days is it of just different animals leaving. Sure,
I mean yeah that would so it could have been worse,
but yeah, that it makes you realize just how you know,
if you're not looking to clean stuff up, you're not
looking for litter or just anything that's just been thrown
around as trash, you don't really notice it. But when
you pick up trash, if you've ever done it, and I
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don't know if you have or not, Scott, it'll make
you realize just how much people litter.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, my parents used to do it a side house
on My dad and my stepmom used to do it
because they never held a real job, and they would
we didn't realize it at the time, but they would
employ us kids to go out and help them. And
I just remember, like, you go out and pick up
around construction sites and whatnot. Who's the worst thing ever, dude,
even in the summer. I mean, you're just sweating and
you're picking up trash and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh and you probably found stuff that you just can't
believe is why would this be here?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You're out in some remote field somewhere, and like, who
actually was out here to leave this?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yep? And then your mind can go in a lot
of directions as far as trying to put the pieces
of the puzzle together because it doesn't make sense, right,
why would this be here?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yikes?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All right, We've got Roriy O'Neil coming up here in
about four minutes. Also, we'll get another update on sports
to wrap up the five o'clock hour, and at some
point we got to talk about Kroger. I'm not here
to pick on Kroger, but this storyline, I mean, this
has been in the news for easily a month, I believe,
as far as just their locations that are popping up
with new issues with rodent droppings or locations that have
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already had it, and then they get it corrected and
then it reappears. It's I mean, it's not a good look,
to say the least. And I feel for them because
this is this is bad and it's the fact that
this has been in the news cycle this long is
pretty pretty damaging. I think to them all right, let's
get a quick break. We've got traffic and weather updates
coming out. I have forty six here Kentucky, INA's Morning News,
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Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas it's
time to bring in Rory O'Neal of NBC News and Rory,
we found out yesterday the suspensions that we're going to
be in place for those in the Secret Service that
were held accountable for I guess, just not doing their
job when it comes to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
But the shooter, Thomas Crooks. I could be wrong here,
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but I feel like if you'd ha told most people
that we'd be this far removed from that situation and
have such little info as far as the motive and
just just about the individual, I think most would would
have been surprised. What do we know about this individual?
And of course maybe what a potential motive would have been.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, yeah, we never did get to that motive, I think,
and I think that's been frustrating for a lot of people. Obviously.
But the six Secret Service agents who were suspended, one
of them was actually with I guess we'll call him
candidate Trump's detail. The other five were assigned to the
local field office in the Pittsburgh area, and essentially they
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were suspended because of the way they set up the event,
especially with the lack of communication between local law enforcement
and the Secret Service agents who were there on the ground.
You know, plenty of people had seen croaks on that
rooftop reported it to local police, but local police had
a heck of a time try to get that information
relayed to the Secret Service, and specifically the sniper who
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was supposed to be taken him out in advance, but
the sniper wasn't able to open fire until after President
Trump had been shot and one audience member killed and
two others wounded.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Typically, when these when these things happen, when the when,
when the perpetrator is no longer alive, you do you
find people wanting to know more about the family and
connections and whatnot. And it seems very quiet on that
front as well.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, you know, he was a bit of a loaner,
was the description that we got, and you know, his
motivation and all this as so whether or not he
had this deep hatred for President Trump, was he trying
to put some other message out there with this. There
was no manifesto left behind or something that would possibly
explain why he did this, why he chose this event
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in Butler, you know, his political view still really are unknown.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Roy On Neil the NBC News is our guest joining
us here on News Radio eight forty whas So, when
it comes to the Big Beautiful Bill, I heard a
lot of noise in regards to how this would be
bad for those that gamble, especially those that gamble on sports.
It's become legal here in Kentucky in the last couple
of years and certainly been a big boom. And then
I've also heard some say, well, hey, chill out, not
a big deal. It's really only if you are someone
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that might be trying to make a living gambling, what
can you tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's pretty much what it boils down to. The casual
gambler probably won't notice this, but the rules are changing.
Used to be that you would deduct your losses at
one hundred percent versus your winning. So let's say you
won one hundred thousand dollars, but you also lost one
hundred thousand dollars during a year of gambling. Well, okay,
you'd walk away square. Well, now the irs says, or
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we'll say starting in January, you can only deduct ninety
percent of your losses. So now if you win one
hundred thousand dollars and you lose ninety one hundred thousand dollars,
you can you have to because it's only ninety percent
can be deducted. That means you have to pay taxes
on that ten thousand dollars difference. Yeah, that is That's
why they're saying a lot of people could really be
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hurt on this and with their professional gambling.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And I think even if you're somebody that doesn't necessarily
rely on it, but it's something that you that you
do frequently for entertainment, you may have a big hit
like that. I know some that have had a similar
winning in that range, which of course is rare. But
I know you've got to pay taxes on it. That
certainly impacts the amount of money that you're going to
bring home. Uncle Sam's going to get his cut. What
do we know about what this means for the books
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in the casinos themselves, any reaction to this beautiful, big,
beautiful bill about how it could either benefit them or
hurt them.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, they've already got a good lobbying group trying to
change the wording to this, but the big beautiful law
also needs the money. This change by reducing what you
can deduct from your losses from one hundred percent down
to ninety percent, sounds like nothing right, But it's going
to generate a billion dollars over ten years in new
tax revenue, so that's not nothing right. So that's why
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they're saying that this could really impact it, mostly again
the professional gambler types. Someone made the analogy that if
you're a high roller, a professional who wins three million
dollars but loses two point eight million dollars a year
would have earned two hundred thousand dollars, but he's going
to be taxed on four hundred and eighty thousand dollars
based on that ninety percent change in what you can
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do for losses. So you can see how it really
could add up to a hefty tax bill. The concern
is that a lot of this action then moves offshore
with casinos or betting systems based in other countries, and
that can get a little shady too.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Sure, no doubt, Rory, you are the best. Have a
good weekend, my friend. We'll talk soon. Fact Nick, alright again,
that's Roy and Neil of NBC News. Stick with us.
It's Kentucky at his morning news with coffee and company
on news Radio eight forty whas
That it doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city,
and all around people who can have bet are walking
on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Cattle and a match there.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning, Kentucky, Aena, Welcome in to Kentucky and his
Morning News with Nick Coffee and the crew. In fact,
I guess I should go ahead and get this out
of the way as we get the morning started. It's
five o six here Kentucky and His Morning News. But
I think we've been getting the name of the show wrong,
or at least I have. I mean, Kentucky and His
Morning News has been the name of this show for
a long long time, and that's not really changing. But
(00:30):
I've been saying Kentucky and His Morning News with Nick
Coffee because I'm running, you know, running the show. But
clearly there's there's a crew involved, a team here that
you hear throughout the entire morning. And I was talking
to some of our team yesterday in sales, and when
they are pitching the show and selling it, they they
are calling it Kentucky and His Morning News with Coffee
(00:52):
and Company, which, for those who don't know, that was
actually the name of my show when I was doing
sports on seven ninety before I made the move here,
which I think Coffee and Company is more fitting. But
I don't know Kentucky and is morning News with Coffee
and Company. It just seems like a lot of words
for the name of a radio show. I gotta be
honest with you, But I also feel like we should
be aligned, we should be on the same page, and
(01:13):
I think Kentucky in his Morning News is probably probably
what most folks are are going to stick to, because again,
that's what it's been for generations. No joke, although I
do think and it Scott you may know this, but
Wayne Perky was was in the seat here for for
many many years? Was it? Was it the Morning Team?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Maybe? Is that?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Am I dreaming that thing?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
While I was here in post I came in in
the Bob's Collar phase, and it was that that you
worked with Milton Metz.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Didn't you know. I'm kidding them. I feel like I
said that like you were an old man. I didn't
mean for it to come off that way. Yeah, you're
way Perk YEA. Yeah, it was very towards the end
of Wayne Perky, Right, I feel like I've been here
that long.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, it's it's just no, I came in I think
called it was after nine to eleven. I know that
because I was not reducing I started part time here,
and I believe two thousand and I was doing Saturdays
and whatnot. But I think it's always been Kentucky INA's
Morning News. Then they tried the morning team rewind Gosh, Saturdays.
That didn't work out so well. So then we just
(02:14):
call it Kentucky and a Saturday Morning News.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Gotcha, Well it's Kentucky and Morning News with coffee and company,
because again, there's company here. It's it's Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
who's not with us today but he'll be back next week.
And then obviously John Shannon and then you guys who
listen you you're you're I don't. But that's where it
gets tricky because I don't want you to feel like company.
I don't want you to feel like a guest. I
want you to feel comfortable. I want you to feel
like you're at home.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Family.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Family.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, well there is coffee though, there's a lot of coffee.
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's true, there's a lot of a lot of coffee,
just spell a little bit differently, which by the way
this is. I'm probably getting a little too too much
into the weeds here, but I wouldn't be surprised if
those who just listened to radio casually it's just a
brief part of their morning routine, or maybe if you
listen periodic throughout the day or whatever it may be.
(03:02):
You may not know that when it comes to sort
of how how we are evaluated in this as far
as ratings, and by the way, you wouldn't believe how
archaic the process actually is as far as like sending
out mail to random people and asking if they'll volunteered
to fill out a journal, like that's how it's so
there's in fact, there's really no way to know for certain. However,
(03:22):
the digital world does give you the ability to have
a good traction of who's who's listening via stream. But
what I'm getting at is people do get one of
those journals and they fill it out. I could be
wrong here. The station they listen to certainly is important,
but also there's certain things that that like there's I
don't know how many get, but you get like four
or five different things. Maybe that can be quite like
(03:43):
some people may just say a name of a host
and that, and that that's clearly a sign that that's
what they listen to. But you know, long story short,
what I'm getting at is if you don't have a
consistent way of labeling and resetting what your show is
and branding it essent, then you may people may put
something down in the journal that wouldn't necessarily give you credit.
(04:05):
Which again I don't know if there's anything more older
as far as just not modern in any way as
far as the process than how our market because we're
not a I think it's called a PPM market's where
you can't actually they'll pick up on like the actual signal.
There's like a radar signal thing essentially where people will
wear like a pager like it's nineteen ninety three, and
(04:26):
that pager will will show in fact which radio signals
are being picked up. So anyways, I'm nerding out too
much on things you guys probably don't care about. But again,
if you hear me mention the name of the show
being Kentucky in This Morning News, that's what it's been
for a long time and that's not changing. But if
you're Coffee and Company, it's just because I'm trying to
get some consistency in that way. You know, people know
it's Coffee and Company, so coffee is right, yes, right now.
(04:51):
I'm sure there's many of you make it a cup
of coffee or maybe enjoying your first cup right now,
So stick with us. We've got you for the rest
of the morning, and certainly a lot to get into.
I'm I'm I'm hope and that the weather doesn't play
out on Saturday tomorrow like it's looking because that would
be very unfortunate for the ESCO Championship, which is off
to a good start yesterday. I'm sure we'll talk about
that throughout the day today. Also JCPS, I mean, I
(05:12):
hate to say that I'm not surprised at all, but
they they've got some plans in place to try to
hire teachers very quickly because they've got a big, big shortage.
And also something else I want to get to here
early in the morning, there is a nine one one
operator who has a story that I just I want
to use the platform here to share it because it's
almost like something you see in a movie. So we'll
(05:33):
get into that in a lot more. It is Kentucky
in this morning news with Coffee and Company, right here
our news radio forty WHS. It is five point seventeen
here in Kentucky and this morning News with Coffee and
Company on news Radio eight forty WHAS Nick Coffee with you,
Scott Fitzgerald alongside. We'll have an update on sports coming
(05:56):
your way in about ten minutes. Also, we'll get John
Shannon's first newscaster for the More around five thirty. And
if you want to listen and take us with you
wherever you go, you can do that on the Aheart
radio app. Also you can listen live at whas dot com.
So JCPS, we talked a lot about them earlier this week,
just because I am rooting for the new JCPS superintendent,
(06:18):
who is taking on a job that is very, very important.
But it's got to be one of those jobs where
if you don't, if you don't try to find, if
you don't try to embrace the small victories, I don't
know how you wouldn't feel just overwhelmed with just no
matter what you do, you're going to face criticism and
there's going to be things that you walk into that
(06:38):
are still going to be an issue that you had
nothing to do with. And it'd be unrealistic to just
think this guy shows up and automatically every issue that
JCPS ever had was just removed. It's no longer an
issue anymore. So that's not realistic. And I'm sure anybody
who's in the position to pursue this job JCPS superintendent one,
the money's got to make it really worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I also think, and maybe I'm naive, that there are
people that choose to work in education rather be at
administrator level or a teacher, that they got into it
because they did want to impact young people and be
involved in the education system. But nonetheless, I just this
is one of those jobs that I just think about
when I think about j CBS and the superintendent position,
(07:20):
because obviously Marty Poyo has been in that spot for
quite some time, and certainly some criticism was fair at times,
but I also feel like the guy could never win,
and that's kind of what always sticks with me when
I think of just what that position would be. So again,
it's very important, and I'm sure you're compensated very well,
but it's probably for good reason. So anyhow, the transportation
(07:41):
issue that they've had for years, that'll be I think
what folks are focusing on more than anything day one,
and even if you don't even have kids in the
school system, where you don't work in the school system
at all, and you're just the JCPS resident, well, one
of your tax dollars of course are at play here,
but also because of how bad it's been at times,
it's almost become, dare I say, like a car wreck.
(08:03):
People are going to be interested. They just want to
They just want to see and hear. I mean, I
hate to say this, but I've spent more time than
I probably should looking at the comment sections on Facebook
when JCPS posts anything they do about a correct just
basically trying to apologize for transportation issues or even the
decision to cancel school because of snow, because people just
(08:23):
lose their mind about anything. No matter what you do,
you're going to face a level of toxicity and criticism,
which I just want to remind folks as much as
I can, those are not easy decisions to make, and
if you were in the position that they were in,
you would have to know that no matter and this
is where I do think you can put yourself in
the shoes of those people and just realize that no
(08:45):
matter what you do, you're going to make a certain
amount of people mad and they're going to yell at
you about it, and that's just the nature of what
it is. So anyhow, another issue they're dealing with. It's
not just the transportation, and maybe transportation is no longer
an issue after this year, but I'll I'll believe that
when I see it. But as they're just weeks away
for the first day of school, they've got a real
big time staffing crisis with over three hundred and sixty
(09:08):
classroom teacher vacancies and more than fifty other certified roles
that have gone unfilled. So that's that's a big number
and right now they are trying to fill those positions
as best they can. They've got an apprenticeship program that
it's going to allow JCPS high schoolers to earn college
credits through u of L. So that's just a way
(09:31):
in which I guess they're not needing teachers quite as much.
And then also they're going to have a hiring event
that is coming up today actually it is. Yeah, it's
from ten am to two pm and it's going to
be at the Center for Professional Learning Complex that's on
Atkinson Square Drive. So if you have the ability I
mean again, I feel like if you're I don't think
it's to me. This is telling And maybe I'm wrong here.
(09:53):
When I think of job fair, I don't typically think
of a job fair being for people who are you know,
actual tea features that that just job fair. I feel
like it's more of you know, potential, good opportunities. But
I think a job fair just tells you just how
much they need people to come in and if you
have the ability meeting, you're qualified, they need you in
a big way. All right, let's get to another update
(10:14):
on traffic and whether Bobby Ellis will give us the
latest when it comes to how the roads are looking.
Some stalled vehicles early, which is kind of rare at
this time of the morning. Also, we get an update
for Matt Melosavitch on the forecast, and of course Scott
Fitzgerial with an update on sports right here on news
radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I'm John Shannon, News Radio eight forty Wahas.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is six. I'm sorry, no,
five thirty five. I'm getting ahead of myself. It is Friday.
I'm ready for the weekend, and I'm sure a lot
of you guys are as well. But again I'm early.
It's only five thirty six actually now here at news
Radio eight forty whas coffee and Company with you, and
I've got WKHY here on my TV right in front
(11:00):
of us. They are are news partners and they do
a great job, and I now they're a part of
my routine every morning four point thirty there on, and
then they stay on here and on our monitor throughout
the throughout the morning for me. But they're showing the
view of the of the of the roadways, giving you
a look at traffic, and so far it looks to
be pretty pretty smooth, and Bobby Ellis has kind of
confirmed that throughout the morning thus far, and certainly you
(11:23):
can find out if that change is coming up here
in about three minutes. However, it reminded me of something
yesterday that made me feel very stupid. And I may
not be wise in admitting this, but at times I
really think, man, you are You're a special kind of stupid.
We don't think we all have moments where we maybe realize, wow,
I should have known that, or where have I been?
Have I've been living under a rock And yesterday my
(11:44):
wife and I were driving to dinner and we were
on the Gen Snyder and I noticed a bunch of
trash bags on the side of the road. Just I
mean it was, I mean, it was impossible not to
notice it. It was just as if as if a
garbage truck somehow flipped over and trash bags were scattered
for miles and I'm I'm thinking what could have happened?
(12:07):
And my wife, she in her sarcastic way, asked me,
are you being serious? And I'm like, yeah, do you
see all these trash bags? And somehow I have never
noticed that, Like that's a thing meaning whenever, whenever you yeah, yeah,
And I'm thinking, is she messing with me? Is there,
(12:27):
like you know what's going on? But yes, the people
who do either volunteer or maybe they are inmates that
are going through work release or doing their community service
or whatever it may be. Those that the workers that
walk the roadside collecting litter, they fill trash bags and
it makes total sense. But I don't know how I've
never noticed that before, and I thought she was she
was messing with me, and sure enough, like yeah, it
(12:47):
makes total sense that the people that are bringing either
inmates or or even volunteers. They wouldn't be equipped to
and certainly wouldn't be expected to just put all the
trash in their vehicle, right.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Just lift it up in the back of a big
up and well, it's always funny along those lines. What
happens usually about two weeks before Derby, there's that stretch
of the waters and right before I believe Newburgh suddenly
plans get planted and mulch goes in. It's they try
to beautify it, and then as soon as everybody leaves
for Derby, everything dries up and it goes back to
being dingy. Oh yeah, you see the trash back.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's one of the first early signs that Derby is
getting close is that we start cutting the grass around here.
You don't have a you know, the median with grass
as tall as Shaquille O'Neal. You no longer see the
ninety seven blazer that's just been occupying occupying space on
the green Belt Highway for seven months. Those there seems
to be some real attention to detail whenever we've got
(13:42):
people come into town, which I get it. I mean,
it's if anything, we're consistent. So yeah, and thank you
to those who either do it because they have to
or they volunteer because it made me realize in I believe,
just a day's time. I mean, maybe I just don't
notice it again, I mean I went years without noticing it,
but it almost seemed as if the majority of the
trash bags that were out were from maybe a day
(14:04):
or two of work. And that tells you just how
much litter is out there.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So have you ever had to pick up trash like
that for a job or like a service project or
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
One time it was a fundraiser for my high school
basketball team. We did clean up at I believe it
was the State Fair and luckily we didn't have to
mean we were one of many programs that I guess
do it as far as fundraising for your sports program
and whatnot, and I believe it was one of the
bigger money makers for us at that time. But you
didn't know where you were going to be assigned to
(14:34):
clean up, and we ended up I think having to
clean up. It was old Cardinals Stadium where the free
concerts used to be before they tore it down, and
that wasn't that bad, but there was another school there
that we realized it could have been us. They were
in charge of cleaning up like where all the animals were.
Oh and it wasn't just nothing. I mean a lot
(14:55):
of that stuff's cleared out, but there's remnants of what
ten days is it of just different animals leaving. Sure,
I mean yeah that would so it could have been worse,
but yeah, that it makes you realize just how you know,
if you're not looking to clean stuff up, you're not
looking for litter or just anything that's just been thrown
around as trash, you don't really notice it. But when
you pick up trash, if you've ever done it, and I
(15:16):
don't know if you have or not, Scott, it'll make
you realize just how much people litter.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, my parents used to do it a side house
on My dad and my stepmom used to do it
because they never held a real job, and they would
we didn't realize it at the time, but they would
employ us kids to go out and help them. And
I just remember, like, you go out and pick up
around construction sites and whatnot. Who's the worst thing ever, dude,
even in the summer. I mean, you're just sweating and
you're picking up trash and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh and you probably found stuff that you just can't
believe is why would this be here?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You're out in some remote field somewhere, and like, who
actually was out here to leave this?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yep? And then your mind can go in a lot
of directions as far as trying to put the pieces
of the puzzle together because it doesn't make sense, right,
why would this be here?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yikes?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All right, We've got Roriy O'Neil coming up here in
about four minutes. Also, we'll get another update on sports
to wrap up the five o'clock hour, and at some
point we got to talk about Kroger. I'm not here
to pick on Kroger, but this storyline, I mean, this
has been in the news for easily a month, I believe,
as far as just their locations that are popping up
with new issues with rodent droppings or locations that have
(16:19):
already had it, and then they get it corrected and
then it reappears. It's I mean, it's not a good look,
to say the least. And I feel for them because
this is this is bad and it's the fact that
this has been in the news cycle this long is
pretty pretty damaging. I think to them all right, let's
get a quick break. We've got traffic and weather updates
coming out. I have forty six here Kentucky, INA's Morning News,
(16:45):
Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas it's
time to bring in Rory O'Neal of NBC News and Rory,
we found out yesterday the suspensions that we're going to
be in place for those in the Secret Service that
were held accountable for I guess, just not doing their
job when it comes to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
But the shooter, Thomas Crooks. I could be wrong here,
(17:06):
but I feel like if you'd ha told most people
that we'd be this far removed from that situation and
have such little info as far as the motive and
just just about the individual, I think most would would
have been surprised. What do we know about this individual?
And of course maybe what a potential motive would have been.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, yeah, we never did get to that motive, I think,
and I think that's been frustrating for a lot of people. Obviously.
But the six Secret Service agents who were suspended, one
of them was actually with I guess we'll call him
candidate Trump's detail. The other five were assigned to the
local field office in the Pittsburgh area, and essentially they
(17:44):
were suspended because of the way they set up the event,
especially with the lack of communication between local law enforcement
and the Secret Service agents who were there on the ground.
You know, plenty of people had seen croaks on that
rooftop reported it to local police, but local police had
a heck of a time try to get that information
relayed to the Secret Service, and specifically the sniper who
(18:06):
was supposed to be taken him out in advance, but
the sniper wasn't able to open fire until after President
Trump had been shot and one audience member killed and
two others wounded.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Typically, when these when these things happen, when the when,
when the perpetrator is no longer alive, you do you
find people wanting to know more about the family and
connections and whatnot. And it seems very quiet on that
front as well.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, you know, he was a bit of a loaner,
was the description that we got, and you know, his
motivation and all this as so whether or not he
had this deep hatred for President Trump, was he trying
to put some other message out there with this. There
was no manifesto left behind or something that would possibly
explain why he did this, why he chose this event
(18:57):
in Butler, you know, his political view still really are unknown.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Roy On Neil the NBC News is our guest joining
us here on News Radio eight forty whas So, when
it comes to the Big Beautiful Bill, I heard a
lot of noise in regards to how this would be
bad for those that gamble, especially those that gamble on sports.
It's become legal here in Kentucky in the last couple
of years and certainly been a big boom. And then
I've also heard some say, well, hey, chill out, not
a big deal. It's really only if you are someone
(19:23):
that might be trying to make a living gambling, what
can you tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's pretty much what it boils down to. The casual
gambler probably won't notice this, but the rules are changing.
Used to be that you would deduct your losses at
one hundred percent versus your winning. So let's say you
won one hundred thousand dollars, but you also lost one
hundred thousand dollars during a year of gambling. Well, okay,
you'd walk away square. Well, now the irs says, or
(19:49):
we'll say starting in January, you can only deduct ninety
percent of your losses. So now if you win one
hundred thousand dollars and you lose ninety one hundred thousand dollars,
you can you have to because it's only ninety percent
can be deducted. That means you have to pay taxes
on that ten thousand dollars difference. Yeah, that is That's
why they're saying a lot of people could really be
(20:10):
hurt on this and with their professional gambling.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And I think even if you're somebody that doesn't necessarily
rely on it, but it's something that you that you
do frequently for entertainment, you may have a big hit
like that. I know some that have had a similar
winning in that range, which of course is rare. But
I know you've got to pay taxes on it. That
certainly impacts the amount of money that you're going to
bring home. Uncle Sam's going to get his cut. What
do we know about what this means for the books
(20:32):
in the casinos themselves, any reaction to this beautiful, big,
beautiful bill about how it could either benefit them or
hurt them.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, they've already got a good lobbying group trying to
change the wording to this, but the big beautiful law
also needs the money. This change by reducing what you
can deduct from your losses from one hundred percent down
to ninety percent, sounds like nothing right, But it's going
to generate a billion dollars over ten years in new
tax revenue, so that's not nothing right. So that's why
(21:02):
they're saying that this could really impact it, mostly again
the professional gambler types. Someone made the analogy that if
you're a high roller, a professional who wins three million
dollars but loses two point eight million dollars a year
would have earned two hundred thousand dollars, but he's going
to be taxed on four hundred and eighty thousand dollars
based on that ninety percent change in what you can
(21:24):
do for losses. So you can see how it really
could add up to a hefty tax bill. The concern
is that a lot of this action then moves offshore
with casinos or betting systems based in other countries, and
that can get a little shady too.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Sure, no doubt, Rory, you are the best. Have a
good weekend, my friend. We'll talk soon. Fact Nick, alright again,
that's Roy and Neil of NBC News. Stick with us.
It's Kentucky at his morning news with coffee and company
on news Radio eight forty whas
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