10.23: Headlines - Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what they say. It wouldn't be on the
internet if it wasn't true. But I don't know if
I believe what I'm seeing here at wlky dot com
because they say it's forty four degrees outside, and that
is probably accurate. But it felt colder, did it not?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This morning?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It was cold, dude, Yeah, it was called house was
sixty seven when I left this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
So I like sleeping when it's when it's cold. I
don't I don't want to be shivering and be I
don't want to wake it up in the middle of
the night every now and then because my teeth are chattering.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
But I like it.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I like it nice and cool. But I also know
it's harder to get out of bed when you're snuggled
up and you're cozy. That was me today, first time
that it was, you know, before four am, and I'm
I'm I'm realizing, Oh man, it's a little bit harder
to get out of this bed when I know I'm
going to be cold and I'm nice and cozy with
blankets on me. Actually, my son was laying on top

(00:48):
of me. He moves all around in his sleep. He
jumped in bed with us last night. But anyways, a cool, chilly,
brisk morning here, fall is certainly alive and well and
I enjoy it. Now again, we'll get warmer throughout the
day and that's that's usually how it works this time
of year. But the frost advisory, that's now there's things
I'm just not real informed on. And frost and what

(01:11):
it does why we are on watch is something I've
never really paid attention to before. But now when you
consider like what it does to like plants and whatnot
and farmers that kind of stuff, like, it's it's something
they got to be mindful of.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Right absolutely to your point, I was sitting there last
night watching The Wings and I had the blankets on me,
and it was you're in that.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
We have a chair at home that I sit in
that is like your thrown bingo. Everybody fights owhere because
it's so comfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
And I kept telling my wife last night, I said,
I've got to have the energy to go to bed.
I'm falling asleep, I'm dozing off because the Wings just
played freaking great last night, Tony in Cheek.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But then my wife goes, just go to bed.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I go.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm trying, but I can't get out of this chair.
I am so cozy.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Do you know what? Sometimes it's hard for me to
do get out of my car when I get home
and I get the garage. Okay, so it's not just me,
John all and looks as if he's on the same page.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
That should mean when I get here.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I mean the last couple of days, I've been taking
little five to ten minutes snoozes in the parking lot
before I'll walk in the building.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So that is something that I'm sure there are studies
surveys out there that give some perspective on why that's
a thing, because I mean, I've seen over the years
many times somebody share a meme or just a quote
a graphic on Facebook and it's been shared a million
times by people, and it's just something along the lines

(02:30):
of you know that moment when you're in your car,
either before you get out to go into work or
before you get out of your car at home to
go in your house, and there's just something that and
I know I'm wasting time, I'm not doing anything. I
just it's like peak laziness. But maybe it's not. Maybe
there's something else to it other than just laziness that
you know, clearly everybody, not I shouldn't everybody, but a

(02:52):
lot of people for no rhyme or reason. It's just
just one of those things.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'd like to say.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
You're in your cars listening to your favorite songs, which
we used to do but now that we have strang
I mean it does it?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I mean just you can get out and continue listening.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, I just sit Sometimes I'll do something on my phone,
but it's on just just it's almost like a I
don't know, it sounds awful, like I usually when I
get home, and especially if it's if it's a situation
where I'm coming home and like my wife and kids
are already home. It's not like I'm just dreading walking
into my to my life and my and and you
know what I do every day. But sometimes I'll sit

(03:25):
in there for fifteen minutes. Yeah, and and why, I
don't really know. Did I accomplish anything, certainly not. But
it's just something that I do.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Right right, And that's that's where I'm at on the
chair at night. I'm like, it's almost like you're paralyzed.
I can't get out of this chair. I know I
got to get out once I get up and go
to bed and you're just you're cold, you don't want
to get up.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
So anyway, you're just so content. It's like, why do
I want to this is yeah, I just don't. I
don't want to ruin this this level of being content
right now. So anyways, the frost advisory is an effect
from four am to nine pm, So just to keep
that in mind, gonna be even colder tomorrow morning, so
it'll in place from two am to nine am for
the entire listening area here Kentucky, Kentucky, and so temperatures

(04:07):
could drop out of the lower thirties, flirting with the
freezing mark in several spots. So it's here that cold weather.
And man, this is the time of year where if
you get some sunshine, which we usually do, the drastic
difference from the temperature at four thirty five am till
later in the day.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's a huge shift.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
So the wind was strung yesterday when I was walking
in Shelby Park, you turned that corner and it hits you.
It's comfortable because I wear a hoodie. It's cold, but
it's comfortable, if that makes sense. And I think we'll
see more of that day.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
So I can get real warm today.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh yeah, hoodie season, it's here, good stuff, all right,
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(05:00):
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but if I if I get full to an extent
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at you that that that is going to be there
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testing it out to see what the demand is for it.
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It's it's far from what gas station food used to
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It's it's fresh. And there are people who are there
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out if you if you have not. All right, So,
a scary, scary situation yesterday in Jeffersontown, as a man
was found shot and killed inside of his apartment. It's
the Point at Stonybrook, that's the complex. It's on Arbor

(07:08):
Point Drive in the Jaytown area. Police were called at
about nude reports of gunfire. Officers arrived and they found
an apartment door slightly open and inside there was a
man who is yet to be identified, in his late
twenties to early thirties, they say. But he was found dead,
and I guess the investigators already believed this is this is,
this is a situation. It wasn't wasn't a random thing.

(07:30):
These two likely knew each other from what investigators believe
at this point, and just sitting in his chair in
his apartment and it sounds like somebody just came in and.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Killed him.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
And obviously this is these things happen, unfortunately, and I
believe it was just a few weeks ago that there
was actually I think it might have been longer than that.
But in South LOUISLL in the Okalona area, there was
a similar situation in an apartment where two people were
found killed and now they've charged the route. It turns

(08:02):
out they've now charged a woman who was the roommate
of those two that lived there. So I just when
I see this yesterday, and I'm familiar with this area.
In fact, I know somebody that used to live in
those apartments. If I lived in those apartments, and I
knew that happened. Yeah, it's the law enforcement's doing their
job by letting us know. Hey, you know, we don't

(08:24):
believe that the rest of the community is in danger here.
We believe we believe this wasn't you know. Yes, the
shooters still at large, but this is an isolated situation
as far as just these two from what we believe
in our early investigation here, they knew each other, like
there's something here. It's not somebody just out walking and
roaming the area killing people. But that wouldn't make you know,

(08:44):
again that's that's that's protocol for them, But that wouldn't
make me feel any better. I mean, John, if you
lived in an apartment and you knew this happened and
it wasn't a place where like that was, I mean,
it's never expected or ever normal, But like you know,
you don't think of I mean really any apartment. That's
what I think. It's a rare thing for for something
to play out like this. But I don't know. I
I feel like I would probably not stay there for

(09:06):
a while because I'm that would.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Just yeah, it would be a little alarming with now.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Especially if you have you have a family, right, yes,
But I don't know the reason I bring the whole
thing up as far as just like what I would
do in that situation if I lived in that apartment
complex and let's say my unit was two doors down
or one one floor below or above, I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Just it's it.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Are we going to get to a point where it's
not normal by any means? But like we're just we're
numb to violent crime occurring. And I know there's good
progress being made, and I'm somebody that believes we should
really prop that up whenever there is progress being made,
because it's it's it's it's not only do people need
to know that it's it's it's worth worth praise, but

(09:51):
the the rate in which these kind of things are happening,
I just think it's human nature that that that we
now just accept that that's that's, that's how life is.
So anyways, they don't have any they've made an arrest
just yet, and who knows what they know actually in
the early stages of the investigation. But here's to hoping
they can get this killer off the street. I would

(10:13):
imagine as somebody who's of course never investigated a crime before,
when you do believe and maybe you already have good
evidence to show you that you know, this was somebody
that clearly knew the victim. Probably wouldn't be hard to
figure out if they had a riff or they had
an issue with an individual that might be you know,
prompt suspect number one. But anyhow, let's get too a

(10:33):
quick update of trafficking. Whether Bobby Ellis will get us
caught up on the roadways as we get this Thursday started.
We've got a sports update coming your way as well,
right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you
very much, John Shannon.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't have any.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Data to back this up, but I feel like since
I've been in this position, what are we looking at
a few months four months now, something like that AI
store their stories involving AI and what it is, how
it's impacting really everything. I feel like it is really
steadily increased as far as just how often it is

(11:09):
it is news. I mean when you say so, John,
you've been You've been with me every step of the way.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
I mean yeah, and even even like with the Tony
and Dwight Show, which I do after your show every day.
I feel like every other day we're talking about an
AI story. Do those dinosaurs know what AI is yet?
I don't know. Man, Yeah, they're scared that their toaster
is going to start talking to them every other day.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I think Venetti thinks when we say AI, we're talking
about Alan Iverson. Still you might that could be it,
but it I'm fascinated by it. I utilize it for
things that have nothing really to do with with my
job here, but just I mean, I I've always been
someone that is really I like to try to teach

(11:47):
myself how to do certain things. I don't want to
make it sound as if I know how to do
all these crazy cool things that I've that I've learned
over the years. It's not that. It's just a lot
of trial and error and if I if I feel
like there's a chance maybe I could, I could teach
myself how to do something rather it be just trial
and error or YouTube videos all that kind of stuff,
like I'll just let it consume me. It's more so
just my my personality. So AI that that's that's right

(12:09):
in my wheelhouse, because it's really just figuring out different
ways you can utilize it as a tool to help
you do things, and that just interests me. But also
it's it's helped me at times. It's not just an
interest thing. It's genuinely, genuinely helped me as far as
saving time, being more organized, and there are endless ways
to use it. There's endless I guess AI tools that

(12:31):
are created for different things, but I'm sure there are
still many out there that that just they don't they don't.
Maybe they're they're fearful of it, maybe they're in denial.
And I don't think that that. Trust me, I don't
think that that there's anybody out there that thinks it's
not real. But I'm sure there are many that assume, well,
it's just a robot, and eventually a robot is going

(12:53):
to break and there's no way this is this is sustainable.
And I'm with you on that as far as just
trusting it a point to do things that clearly, if
in fact it did not work, it could be you know,
it could be a real nightmare, maybe even like a
tragic situation. We're not there yet. But the way in
which the AI world has rapidly grown and is growing

(13:15):
every second seemingly is it's like something I've never seen
before in my life. And I'm not really sure what
you would compare it to, because again, this is just
I mean, it's like we mean, it's like we've got
an alternate world now where it's just you know, everything
is run by a code and AI tools artificial intelligence

(13:36):
of course, So I what I'm getting at is, I
think if you're somebody that it doesn't interest you, you're
not real tech savvy. You don't care to be, you know,
you just you're sort of just in your own bubble.
When it comes to that kind of stuff. Where you
will first really feel the effect of it will probably
be whenever it costs people their jobs. And I'm not

(13:58):
trying to put fear out there that is justified, because
I mean, who knows what kind of jobs end up
being replaced because of AI or whatnot. You just I mean,
I'm sure there's some good there's some obvious ones that
you would think of that would be first in line
to potentially go away, if in fact they can get
AI robots to do it for free and not have
to pay employees. But overall, it just it's the ultimate

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unknown as far as the future. However, this is this
is scary. Amazon. They've got an automation push that that
they're working on that could eventually result in half a
million jobs just not existing anymore. So they're reportedly accelerating
their move towards automation in a way that that I mean,

(14:40):
is it an exaggeration to show that this, to say,
this could reshape the American workforce hundreds of thousands of
jobs being wiped out over the next decade. There's no
doubt anybody could claim that that's good for anybody. But
if it's about saving money, big corps are going to
do that, right But The New York Times is reporting
that in turn, Amazon documents show plans to automate seventy

(15:02):
five percent of all warehouse operations about twenty thirty three.
Executives expect product sales to double by then, But instead
of hiring six hundred thousand new workers, Amazon believes robotics
can handle most of that workload. So the company's already
deployed it's one millionth robot, up from its first fully

(15:24):
automated machine just three years ago. So three years ago
they launched this robot. Well, now there's a million of
them out there that help Amazon do what they do
every day. So that is where big corporations are headed
as far as just how they're going to utilize it
and save money and get rid of a lot of jobs.
And I don't know who could spend that as a
good thing for anybody in society, right, That's I mean,

(15:49):
but it's not surprising that if they can do that,
they will, And this story specifically yesterday, just got me
thinking about all there's endless types of jobs that people
have right and in less endless positions. I mean it's
everybody's got a different kind of gig. No, not every
job is the same, but like what's safe. I mean,

(16:11):
there's certain jobs that you would never see. You could
never envision us trusting artificial intelligence and a robot to
do it. But I don't know, maybe maybe I'm maybe
I'm not uh maybe maybe maybe I'm underestimating it. All right,
let's get to an update of trafficking weather. We'll see
how the roadways are looking here to get this Thursday started,
Bobby Ellis, we'll get us caught up. Also, we'll get

(16:32):
a WLKY forecast for the day. So stick around right
here on there's Radio eight forty whas. It is coffee
and company with you here on News Radio eight forty
w h as we are fueled by Thwards. We're also
now John by Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, we
have another national poll that is out that has given
us a look at how Americans feel about a lot

(16:52):
of things that we have discussed on this show for
the last few months, from hamas to the government shutdown.
What can you tell us as far as how Americans
are feeling right now.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, good morning. This is that monthly poll we get
from Quinnipiac University up there in Connecticut. Always good to
watch the trend that they can track, but they also
pick some headlines of the day. Of course, the government
shutdown is front and center in this poll. Forty five
percent of registered voters blame the Republicans in Congress for
the shutdown. Thirty nine percent blame the Democrats. Other polls,

(17:25):
we've seen that gap getting more and more narrow, with
more voters saying they're both responsible. But what to watch,
it's independence. Forty eight percent of those swing voters think
Republicans are more to blame for the shutdown, Thirty two
percent blame the Democrats. So that's a pretty big gap
there among independents.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, when it comes I mean, let me ask you this,
when it comes to these these monthly polls that have
been in existence for quite some time, and the things
that Americans are asked to share thoughts.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
On varies over the years.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
But is there any consistency throughout as someone who's reference
these things a lot longer than.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Me, consistency on issues or.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, just as far as the political party.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I mean sometimes when I hear, okay, well, Democrats they
this percentage is their approval Republicans is this It's to
be expected to give in sort of what the subject is.
But to me, it seems as if I don't if
I was trying to guess where the numbers and percentage
you were going to tell me, I feel like I
would be really bad at it. Maybe that's just me,
or maybe it does effect. Maybe it does fluctuate that much.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Well, right, And look, there are certain things that we
can expect. For instance, they always ask people, what's your approval?
How do you think President Trump is doing his job?
This poll finds forty percent approve of the way the
president is doing his job.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Now.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Last month it was thirty eight percent, So that's within
the margin of error, so essentially pretty much holding flat
on those things. And you can also look at some
of these numbers when it comes to the approval of Congress,
those have been at a continuously downward trent. Twenty six
percent of voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress
are doing their job. Thirty five percent of voters approve

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of the way the Republicans are doing their job. So
both of them well underwater, and that continues in this poll.
The Israel Hamas conflict obviously a lot of headlines in
that In the past six weeks. In that case, forty
seven percent approve of the way President Trump has been
handling that situation. That's a big jump from thirty one

(19:26):
percent approval the month before. Seven to ten voters think
the President should get a great deal of credit or
at least some of the credit for brokering that deal
with Hamas and Gaza and Israel.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Roy and AILVIMBC News is our guest joining us here
on news Radio eight forty whas So, social Security it's
been a safety net for quite some time for folks
that want to live in their later years, their senior years,
and obviously there's a lot of Americans that are planning
to use that. But what's the real worry here as
far as just folks wondering is there gonna be anything
left for them when they get there?

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Well, it's that issue, but also what will it mean
for you? Right? You know, social Security was really targeted
to help the indigent people, right, the people who were
homeless and retired. But in this case, now it really
has become much more of a strategy part of the
three legged stool I guess for retirement. The question is

(20:21):
how much are you leaning on that part for your
retirement security. What we're seeing is, according to this bank
Rate survey, many Americans fifty two percent are expected to
depend on Social Security for their later retirement years once
they exit the workforce. Yet more than three and four
of them, seventy six percent are concerned that Social Security

(20:44):
will be downsized and they won't be getting those benefits.
So there's a big gap there of people essentially putting
their head in the sand.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I can imagine if you're somebody that is looking
at that as a real big part of how you
survive in your later years. The uncertainty in the future
is something I can totally understand. Rory is always we
appreciate your time and you enjoy your long weekend.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
You're you're gonna get some.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Rest and relaxation, right one.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Little Yeah, we'll see about that. I'm not sure how
much relaxation. Just pray for my flights and the TSA
and okay, yes, control.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
We will do that. We will pray for a smooth,
smooth day of travel, because you know you're really again,
airports find a more helpless place right right.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Well, you'll know what happened if you don't hear.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
From me on Monday. Good stuff, Thanks as always, Rory,
appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Thanks thanks ticket That is Rory on a live NBC
news Good stuff. All right, let's get to a quick
a bit of traffick and whether we'll see how these
roadways are looking as we get this Thursday morning started.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's cool outside.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
If you've yet to uh to make it outdoors, just
make sure you bundle up. I mean, it's not freezing cold,
but certainly felt like one of the colder mornings so
far in this fall season, so be prepared for that.
But we'll get an update on the forecast as well,
so you'll be informed there when it comes to temperatures
throughout the day. And also a sports updates coming your
way here in just a few minutes, so stick around
right here on news Radio eight forty whas