10.30: Farfetched - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get it started. Happy Thursday. I feel
like it is still barely rain and it's been doing something.
So we had some showers, we had light rain, but
for the last twenty four hours since we started the
show yesterday, at this time, I don't feel like we've
had a break from any type of rain. And I
guess it's good to see that. It looks as if

(00:21):
it's getting whatever it needs to get out of its
system before we get to Halloween. But yeah, it's been
a wet twenty four hours here in Kentuckyana, it's been.
It's a cold rain. Yeah, it's right.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It does b nearly above fifty I think in the
last twenty four hours exactly.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
And my wife's dealing with a head cold. People at
work are out sick there. I mean, this just adds
to it. And to your point, though, it looks like
down the road should be a nice weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yep, we've yet to do it, but we got close yesterday.
As far as turning the heat on, we did in
the house.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
We did that dude that came on and when was
it last weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
But we only keep it at seventy So yeah, what
so is it Is it a collective fit Gerald headquarters
decision or is it you or the wife that is more?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, look enough's enough, I'm getting cold. Yeah, no, we
it's collective decision. However, we do argue over a degree.
Oh yeah, that's I feel like most do as far
as just you know, everybody's got their own comfort level,
and one or two degree off can can can throw
can throw people off. What about you, John? Have you
guys you turn the heat on just yet?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
We did turn it on primarily because we've got a
baby in the house now since and during this time
of year, we used to keep it on sixty five,
but we decided that was probably a little too low,
so we're we're doing sixty seven this time around.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, today was the Today was the first day for
me since I've been waking up really really early with
you guys that I thought, Man, it's a little harder
to get out of this bed whenever it's it's I
know it's chilly outside, it's it's a comfortable cool in
the house, but man, this bed is cozy. Don't want
to get up, but you know, once like once I
get up and run and I'm good to go. But yeah, uh,

(01:58):
the fall weather. I've been asking for it, and this
week specifically, I don't like the rain all that much.
Certainly you cast some big issues yesterday with the morning commute,
but overall, the fall weather is here. And I'm sure
a lot of folks say this about wherever they live,
if they live in an area that is even a
little bit similar to where we are. But this area,

(02:19):
Kentucky anda in the fall, I mean, there's so many
just different play. It's not like you got to really
go to a certain destination, but just i'd say on
a daily commute, for a lot of folks, wherever they go,
it's beautiful. Oh yeah, the color. And again I'm sure
we're not that rare when it comes to that. I
don't think Louisville, Kentucky, the Kentucky in a region is
viewed as wow, you got to get there in the fall.

(02:39):
It's just beautiful. But fall in general, the season itself
is just it's the best when it comes to just
the beauty that you get from the from the colors you.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Do and just a stone's throw you go across the river,
maybe you go to Brown County. In fact, we were
at Hubers on Sunday. Even my daughter made mention she goes,
the colors are amazing as you drive up sixty four
and get ready to get off on one to fifty there,
And that's because the moisture we've had. It feels like
we've had a drought all summer, but we had a
lot of moisture in the spring. It really brought out
those colors. In fact, I took a couple of pictures

(03:07):
when I was out Sunday taking a walk in just
how deep red the leaves are.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now and how they've changed show.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And I noticed that in Shelby Park yesterday. So Huber's
the drive to Huber's farm once you, I guess, get
off the interstate for good, it's a little bit of
it's not not a long drive, but there's a little
stretch of that of that trip to where you are
not on you're not really even on main roads, and
it is beautiful. I mean, it's one of the best
experiences of going to Hubers is just that part of

(03:35):
the drive because just all the different farms there, and
man it is. When I went for the field trip
a couple of weeks ago with my daughter's class, I
remember thinking I'm not sure I can think of a
of a route that I that I'm on at least
once per year during the fall season that is more
beautiful than that. No, Southern Indiana, I mean, I'll gast
them up. I feel like Southern Indiana all the different

(03:55):
farms that they have in just different areas there. I
guess it's just obviously so that Indiana is a big area,
but a little different than what you see in the
metro area of Louisville. And it's a beauty, especially the
knobs that area over there.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
If we go to Bloomington to see a football game,
we go to the back road, we go through Mitchell,
we go up that way. I can't tell you last
time I took sixty five up there. And if you
are heading up to see the Hoosiers what's left of
the season this year, or maybe see the basketball team,
even the wintertown can be a little treacherous, so play
your cards right, But to drive through those back roads
and head through there, and you get to go through Mitchell, Indiana,

(04:30):
the hometown to Chase Brisco, one of the NASCAR contenders,
and there's little stuff like that along the way that
it's just awesome.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
You don't get on sixties. There are there. My dad
has lived in southern Indiana really the vast majority of
my life, more so on the Jeffersonville so he's just
across the river now, but he'd lived in other areas
of Southern Indiana when I was growing up, and it
gave me a little bit, a little bit of appreciation
of just go just across the river. Really not that
far away, but it kind of feels like at times
you're in it. You're not on a different planet necessarily,

(04:57):
but just just a different vibe, different look, but certainly
very beautiful this time of year. So hopefully this rain
gets out of the way here soon and we can
get back to it being beautiful out there. But let's
get to our first update of trafficking weather. We've got
sports coming up in about fifteen minutes. We've also got
a loaded list of things to get to today. Fed's
going to cut interest rates for the second time. That's
good news, right. Also, we'll take a look at what

(05:18):
Hurricane Melissa, what what she has done as far as
the devastation, and a whole lot more, including a rumor
that we need to get to the bottom of, is
it real is it not Walmart again? The room are
gonna shut down stores because they're worried about what people
may do if, in fact, the government shut down continues

(05:39):
and snap benefits are cut off to where looting could
be at a real all time high. Sounds like a rumor, right,
smells like there's no way that's true. And we'll see.
I mean again, I guess only time will tell, but
we'll get to that in a lot more. Right Here
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(06:02):
Thursday is the new Friday. Right, we're gonna speak that
into existence. And although technically it's really not true, Thursday's Thursday,
Friday is Friday, but look it's all state of mind. Right.
If you've got Friday vibes seven days a week, you're
probably living happier than most. All right, So the government
shut down again, still in effect, and still no end

(06:23):
in sight. And to look at it from a glass
half full perspective, if you'd have told me just the
given the climate of society, as far as just how
divided we are as a country, and how you just
see things that have become kind of normal. But overall,

(06:45):
in my nearly forty years on earth, it never was
normal before, as far as just the things you hear
from both sides politically, and just how at each other's
throats we are. So with that, if you'd have told
me that we'd be this deep into this government shutdown,
I probably would have. I can't give you any specific
thing that I can tell you that that I would

(07:05):
have predicted to happen, but I feel like there would
have been there would have been a more heightened I
guess just toxicity, and I'm sure if I wouldn't looking
for it, i'd find it. But overall, despite being this
deep into the shutdown, I mean, what nearly a month in,
many have felt the impact. Certainly, that's that's that's there's
no doubt about that. But I kind of would have

(07:27):
expected it to be it to be worse and easy
for me to say whenever I am someone that has
yet to really have anything changed for me. But the
more it it it it drags on here. Eventually there's
gonna be a moment, there's gonna be sort of a
breaking point makes that that's dramatic. I don't I don't
know what a breaking point would actually be, but what

(07:49):
when is that coming? Because you know, the airline is
situation that continues to be a problem. But overall, again
if you just look at the raw data, yes, the
government shutdown has impacted with more flight delays cancelations, but
the numbers show you that it really hasn't been that
that crazy. Another one of those things where I feel

(08:11):
like when I look at the numbers, and we can
go with those numbers a little bit later on because
they change every day. I haven't got an updated look
as far as just the amount of flight cancelations, delays,
that kind of stuff. But again I would have expected
the number to be worse. So I when people stop
being able to feed their families, that's got to be
like the ultimate uh oh. You know, look, you have

(08:33):
no control, right, I guess you could, you could protest,
you could do things, but I mean, at the end
of the day, this government shutdown will come to an
end whenever the powers that be decide to somebody decides
to give right, somebody decides to concede. And when I
say feed your family, I mean those that are relying
on benefits and without it, they don't have a way

(08:54):
to feed their family. And by the way, here Louisville,
this is another thing we'll certainly get you. I want
to make sure I've got all the info out there,
and I've got a lot of it, but i want
to make sure I'm not missing anything, because if you
need food assistance, there's a lot of food pantries resources
in the Louisville area, more so than I ever knew existed,
But certainly good to know that at a time like this.
So it eventually all of us will at some point

(09:17):
feel the effect of what a government shut down can do.
But hopefully this thing is over sooner rather than later.
All right, trapping a weather updates on the way, we'll
see what we're looking at as far as the forecast
today with Matt Melosovitch of WLK, why Bobby Ellis, let's
hope that we have a smoother morning. And look, it's
not Bobby Ellis's fault. Acted like it was his fault,
but he's the one who had to break all the

(09:37):
bad news yesterday morning about all the accidents causing real issues.
So hopefully we're off to a smoother start than we
had yesterday, but Bobby Ellis will get a square away regardless,
and our first sports update of the morning with Scott
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have the largest recruiting class in years that is kicked

(12:46):
off here. So this is great news for a variety
of reasons. But they just launched the largest class since
twenty nineteen, and this is obviously a sign that efforts
to rebuild staffing numbers are paying off. Forty two new
recruits begin training this week, including one that is assigned
to the arson investigation for Louis of Fire. So I

(13:10):
don't know what number that is to compare again, I
think it's quite clear, and there's data that shows it
as far as just the amount of officers that LMPD
has had in the last few years compared to what
it was many years ago, including really just pre Breonna
Taylor stuff. To be honest with you, So Deputy Chief
Emily McKinley says that recruitment is going really well and

(13:32):
she's crediting new incentives and outreach as far as just
trying to ramp up the recruiting efforts. So these recruits
spend twenty seven weeks in classroom training and physical conditioning,
of course, all while being paid, and then after graduation,
they enter a six month field training program before then
working independently. Chief Paul Humphrey called the class quote a
renewed investment in public safety in community partnership. Though there's

(13:55):
another class that's going to begin in February, and if
you want to apply, no better time than now, and
those applications closed. It looks like on November seventeenth. You
can get that at the LMPD website. But I will
admit I'm somebody that was just in my own world
not I mean, I was aware of the black eye

(14:15):
that the city of Louisville was facing because of l
MPD and the Breonna Taylor stuff, and that is such
a far from simple situation. But I don't know how
you could argue that it's that it was fair, and
it's not to say that that LMPD wasn't at fault.
I think even those that were involved in in what

(14:38):
took place with Breonna Taylor in that whole thing, would
would tell you that that some of the some of
the way in which it was handled was clearly not
not the way it's supposed to be. But also just this,
this the perception of of of law enforcement in this
city it was completely unfair how they were viewed overall.

(14:58):
And again they make it easy. Sometimes there's certain instances
where as you're trying to sort of change the stigma,
when people think of Louisville and l ANDPD, they no
longer think about the bad stuff. I mean, then you
have Scotti Scheffler getting arrested for seemingly no reason. That
was very avoidable and it was another bad look. But
the more we realize and I guess appreciate the fact

(15:21):
that these people do sign up to protect and serve
it is a thankless job, probably always has been to
an extent. But the more we prop it up as
something that you appreciate and you realize that the vast
majority that do it are there to do it because
they want to help, they want to make a positive impact,
then the more interest you'll have from people growing up

(15:44):
that want to do that. I mean, think about it
this way. My son, he's five years old. He knows
what firefighters and cops do. He thinks that's the coolest
thing in the world. He thinks like those are actual superheroes.
And I'm not saying that we should as adults look
at it that way, because he's a five year old child.
But if we at least had a little bit of
appreciation and realize, hey, these are people that sign up

(16:07):
to protect and serve and put their life on the line,
that's pretty bad ass. That would lead to more people,
you know, wanting to do it. So look, I'm not
saying then they're not that they're that they don't make mistakes.
They clearly do. They've made way more than they ever should.
And it's an industry where unfortunately, any bad apple, if
there's only one out of a billion, is going to
be a bad thing that you know, you got to fix.

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But I think this is one of the many examples
in recent months that things are improving for LMPD. And
I think it starts with culture, and that starts with leadership,
and it certainly seems as if Paul Humphrey has done
a really good job of shifting the culture. And it's
good to see. All right, quick break, Rory O'Neil going
to join us on the other side from NBC News
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joined by Roory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, what is
the latest on Melissa? What has she done? As far
as just the devastation the aftermath? This appears to be settling,
but again not without some some real impact.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Right, and let's keep in mind Melissa is still around.
The update we got from the Hurricane Center of about
forty five minutes ago shows that Melissa is still a
Category two hurricane. Winds of one hundred and five miles
per hour now bearing down on the Bermuda as we speak,
so there could be some impacts there late today. Then
it's off toward Newfoundland and hopefully just dissipate over the

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Northern Atlantic. But in Jamaica, obviously, the damage assessments are
still underway and it's been a real challenge. A lot
of the roads and bridges have been washed out. The
communication power lines are also down, so it's been difficult
to get a rapid analysis of exactly what Melissa did
to Jamaica. The Prime Minister did post a tragic looking

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video that showed an aerial flyover of some communities, especially
around a town called Black River, where it seemed the
roof of every building was just ripped right off, and
if the roof was gone, then it seemed half the
building had also collapsed as well. So it really is
pointing to a housing crisis that's unfolding as we speak

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in Jamaica.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
So regardless, if you are in an area that has
had more devastation over the years historically with hurricanes, it's
still something that you just you can't be so to
you can't be you can't really be prepared for if
it's going to do what it's going to do, and
if it's devastating, that's exactly what's going to happen, devastation.
But is this an example of maybe an area that
is that is feeling the effects of this type of

(18:37):
storm in a way they have not before. Obviously with Jamaica,
that seems to be the case. And obviously again there's
no there's no preventive things you can do to keep
Mother Nature from doing what she's doing. But it certainly
seems like this is something they've not experienced before.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well they haven't not a storm of this intensity, you know,
Cat one, Cat two hurricanes sort of come across the
area all the time and everyone sort of shrugs. Same
for Florida. But now that you're in this Cat five
one hundred and eighty five mile per hour winds, gusts
over two hundred miles per hour, and especially hitting this
part of the island, it's not as commercialized. It doesn't

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have the concrete towers with reebar and big hotel investments. Instead,
this is more residential, at least on the southern side
of the island. Montego Bay, on the north side of
the island, it was also hit very hard by this storm.
So it is fascinating to see just how much destruction
that this has caused. Trees, roads and utilities, all that

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essentially destroyed, and it's going to have to be built
from the bottom up.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Roy O Neils, our guest joining us here on News
Radio eight forty whas so interest rates they're dropping. That's,
of course what a lot of folks were hoping that
we would see. It's now the second time here recently
that we've seen them drop. What is this going to
do as far as just the market, as far as expectation,
are we going to see maybe more people deciding to
purchase a home, more people decide to put theirs on
the market, maybe a little bit of both.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, so the interest rates that the Fed announced the
cut yesterday of a quarter point that indirectly affects mortgage rates,
so it's not direct for mortgages. Now it does directly
affect car loans. It affects your credit card interest rates directly,
but not for mortgages. Those have already been coming down.
They more depend on the bond market versus these overnight

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interest rate numbers. So but it's still an encouraging sign
that this is happening. And now Chairman Powell, well, let
me just first say this was all sort of baked
into the marketplace. Everyone was expecting this quarter point rate cut.
The real question is what happens in December, and that's
what Chairman Powell was talking about yesterday. You know, they
make the announcement, then they have a news conference, and

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it's that news conference where everyone tries to read the
tea leaves, and Powell was a little reluctant saying, hey,
a December rate cut is no guarantee. So that's why
we saw the market sell off a little bit yesterday.
One of the factors is the government shut down. They
don't have the data that they normally have, especially on jobs.
To make the decision about interest rate. So maybe if

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we can get the government reopened soon, then they'll have
the data and if they know they're balancing this job
picture now, especially when you hear companies like Amazon and
Target and paramount mass layoffs, they're like, well, what's going
on here? Because the Fed has to do two things.
It has to keep inflation under three percent and it
has to maximize employment. We're seeing some troubling numbers out

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on the employment side, no.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Doubt about that, I tell you. I just add that
to the list of things that you really don't think
about a government shut down causing an impact until it happens.
Access to data that is very vital, very important to know, right.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Exactly one of those things you're like, shutdown, who cares?
Doesn't affect me? Like you know what, It's going to
pop up more ways than you think. Yep.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
And the longer lingers, the more people are going to
start to feel that. There's no doubt about that. But
Rory's always we appreciate your time. Enjoy the rest of
your day, my friend. Thanks Nick, That's Rory O'Neal, NBC News. Yeah,
I'm still just stuck in when I hear interest rates.
I think mortgage is because obviously we want our partners
over Bob Sicolor and the Scholar team of Remax Properties
East to do well, and they do well regardless of
the market, because they've shown and proven that you can absolutely,

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absolutely still take advantage of the value of your home.
And tomming is a factor, but you should never let
that get in the way of you maybe putting an
offer on a house that you think is your dream home,
or maybe taking advantage of all the money you could
make on your home because of the market being what
it is. But yeah, interest rates for credit cards, all

(22:35):
that other stuff certainly really really important. All right, thank
you as always to mister Rory O'Neil for giving us
some of his time each and every morning. Let's get
to an update of traffick and weather, shall we. Also,
we've got a sports update coming your way as we
are wrapping up the five o'clock hour here on News
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