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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Halloween, everybody. Happy Friday to you. It is Kentucky
and it's morning news, coffee and company with you, and
we are fueled by Thornton's. You know, I'm curious, and
it all, I guess, depends on what it is that
what you do for a living, what your job is,
what's your workplace environment is like. But dressing up at work,
I mean maybe there's a costume contest. I'm sure there
(00:20):
are many places that have something like that, have some
fun with today. Maybe there's others where they don't care
if you dress up, but some do, some don't. And
then like maybe maybe if you dress up just thinking,
because I'll take you back to my previous life wherever whenever,
I uh, before I was able to do this for
a living and make it my full time job, which
(00:43):
crazy to think it's been ten years since I've been
able to make that move. But when I lived the
cubicle life, we had somebody John who their first day
ever was on Halloween. Okay, that's interesting, and this is
somebody that I ended up working with for years and
knowing them years later. It really, even more so seemed
(01:05):
awkward for them because he asked the guy who hired
him the boss, Hey do do people dress up on Halloween?
Because he wanted to make an impression. He didn't want
to be the guy that seemed anti dressing up, like
he wasn't fun, and also of course didn't want to
dress up and be the only one that did it.
So I think just in passing, he was told yeah,
(01:25):
you know some basically yeah, but you're not You're not.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Forced to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, he shows up dressed up as Dracula, and he
happened to be the only one that day that shows
to dress up. So talk about an awkward way to
start a new job, right, I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You're if you're told that it's optional, you got to
go with the safe bed and not dress up that year.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, and look, I don't have a problem with what
anybody wants to do, wants to dress up, but there
are certain instances where it would be awkward. So if
you are going to a business meeting and you know
you're you're meeting somebody for the first time and it's
your first impression, that person is always going to be
to you whatever they're dressed up as. Right, So I
(02:07):
mean I'm trying to think of just what a typical
costume would be for an adult. I mean, there's a
lot of options to choose from. We'll just stick with Dracula.
But if I meet you and we're breaking bread, talking
business and we become longtime partners, clients, whatever it may be,
and you're dressed is Dracula, You're gonna always be Dracula
to me.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, if you were dress as Dracula, you'd be
Nicula today.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, And there's a story Jim Rome shares about going
to the going to the dentist on Halloween and just
something about the procedure being a little weird knowing that
your dentist is dressed up as something while he's extracting
a tooth. You know, it probably doesn't impact the job performance,
but the visual of it is just weird. So again,
I'm sure there are many that are celebrating Halloween in
(02:49):
their own in their own way at their workplace. And
when I used to work the cubicle life, we had
every every Friday, the Friday of Halloween week, rather that
be a day like today where it actually falls on
a Friday, or if it's over the weekend or earlier
in the week, we had a chili cookof and it
was super competitive. One of my favorite days of the
year when I used to work for a software company
because we had a lot of fun. Really basically, we
(03:10):
didn't really do much work. We had a chili cook
off that started around lunchtime and then that was kind
of our workday. We didn't really go back at it after,
which was a lot of fun. But later today I'm
heading over to the offices of Alex R. White PLLC
because they're having their office cookie chili cook off and
talk about hot steaks, talk about super competitive. It sounds
(03:32):
like this is this is a big deal. This is
something they talk about year round. There's a lot that
goes into it, and am I'm going to be there
enjoying it also, not only just to see how the
competition plays out, but to sample a lot of the
different chilies. I've never participated in any kind of cookoff
because one, I can't cook. My cooking experience. I mean,
(03:52):
I can make some scrambled eggs. I did challenge myself
to make certain dishes at times, and I was able
to complete dish. It was edible, but I wouldn't say
it was good and I don't need to cook. My
wife will always be a better cook. She likes cooking,
she's great at it, so I've benefit from that. But
chili cookoffs are fascinating because chili, to me, is one
of those foods that there's so many different ways to
(04:13):
do it and it really just comes down to preference.
But when you have a bunch of people who all
have maybe different styles when it comes to chili, they
you know, you really don't know what you're gonna get
as far as a winner. I mean, there may be
some that that the same chili cook off every year
has the same participants. They don't mix it up. They
bring the same they bring their same batch. One year
(04:34):
you might finish first place, the next year you might
finish last.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You just don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But what I think is awesome is just how serious
they take this. So look, I go to where the
action is at my core, John Alden, I'm a reporter.
I'm covering big events. In the Alex Rwite PLC Chili
cook Off, it's a big event. You could just tell
the cities the city's buzz. And I told Alex that
this is gonna be my This is basically my speech
to his team today as they get set months of
(04:59):
prepper countless secret ingredients, many brave souls ready to risk
it all for one title, the suit Distracted Driver dot
Com Chili Champion. Friendships will be tested, taste buds will
be torched, only one pot will rise above the rest,
and glory will never taste so spicy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Man, I feel like they need to give you a
megaphone or something that distorts your voice while you're.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Saying, doesn't that signify just what we're dealing with?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
God high steak stuff in tense stuff going on with
Alex White staff.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And I cannot wait to get there later today and
experience it and again taste some great chili, but also
see who becomes the champion, and there is again I
can't relate, I've never experienced it, But that would be
a cool feeling, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That you've got the batch that and the best way
is the best way.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
To do it is it's got to be anonymous, right
like you can't have people, you can't know who's chili
you're trying. Because I think we're all humans, so therefore
to not be at least somewhat objective, it would be
almost impossible. I mean, maybe you could do it, but
still I think it's more of a real accurate way
to determine winter loser when you don't even.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Know whose it is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's just, hey, I'm basing it off of what these
taste buds told me. So yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'm sure the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Workday for many of you is just like any other
day when it's Halloween. I'd say that's the case for most.
But if you're able to maybe have a lighter load
at the workplace and enjoy Halloween in a variety, there's
a lot of ways to celebrate it, So celebrate accordingly.
All right, let's get to a quickup bit of traffic
and weather. A lot to get you caught up on
government shut down now at thirty days.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Some big news.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yesterday about the future of young and their employees here
in the Louisville area, specifically downtown. Big day for Mary
Greenberg to be able to share that with us. We'll
get to that and more right here. It New's Radio
eight forty whas we are rolling along here on a
Halloween morning. Happy Halloween, everybody. It is Kentucky and this
morning news coffee and company with you, and we are
fueled by Thornton. So the government shut down is now
(06:53):
into day thirty and we've got benefits resistance resources that
will officially be cut off as of tomorrow. So if
you are someone that is impacted by that, or you're
someone that is in a situation where you could help
those that are impacted by that, you can do exactly that,
(07:16):
either to receive help or give help with the food
drops we've got set up here. So it started last
night at Boo at the Zoo, but today, I'm sorry,
sat Tomorrow morning from nine to eleven at U of
L through the vill five K. That's one of the
events going on this weekend and they'll have set up
where you can combine donate money, donate food. And also
tomorrow night from six to eight pm at the Zoo
(07:37):
for through the Boo twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
At the Louisvie Zoo, they'll have a setup there.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So again, if it's more convenient for you to just
donate money online, you can do that as well. At
the day tocare website come out a little bit later on.
We'll talk about not just when it comes to food
assistance that folks rely on, but just other ways in
which this shutdown is impacting folks, and how maybe it
was and is noticeable, but it's expected to be really noticeable,
(08:03):
really unavoidable. Now that we've we've gotten this far into
but we can reset that coming up a little bit
later on. I will say real quickly, John, I know
we got to get to another break in just a moment.
But I saw a TikTok yesterday that that I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I could not.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, you're supposed to have a strong opinion and
stick with it. I couldn't decide if I was wanting
to give this guy credit or saying that he crossed
the line. But somebody shared on TikTok their office chili
cookoff experiment, and this guy went and bought like ten
servings of Wendy's chili, put it, put it in a pot,
took it to work, and he won.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He later shared with his office colleagues that it that
it was from Wendy's. I guess that doesn't mean that
he I mean, there could be rules that say, look,
if you didn't make it, it doesn't count. But it's clever
on his end. Wendy's chili is in fact good. But
if I was a competitor, I would say, you know,
especially this guy, this gut's banned from the league.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, no, I'd I'd be furious too if I was
somebody that had also had a good chili and maybe
came up just short.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah it's again, it's a good case study to just
show you that. And it also reminded me that there's
probably plenty of people who show up to Thanksgiving or
whatever different events that they've got it prepared as if
they cooked it, but they didn't. And I feel like
I would have a hard time, not because I wouldn't
want you to think I made something if I could
make If I made food and you liked it, that
(09:25):
would make me feel good. But I would never have
this urge to trick people that I'm a good cook.
So I'd have no problem saying, yeah, you like it,
here's where I got it. You know, you know what
I mean. So yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm sure
if I would have been participating in the competition and
I lost a guy who didn't make chili, he brought
Wendy's in, I would say that that's bad form, and
maybe that maybe that maybe the commission needs to take
(09:47):
a look at the ethics of this league, this competition,
I should say, all right, we've got sports of a
coming your way here shortly, so stick with us. Also
traffic at weather updates as this Friday is flying by
a Halloween morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Edition right here, Who's radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yesterday was the first time I noticed that retailers are
letting you know, hey, we need pennies. We're running out
of pennies. So it was Kroger that I was heading into,
and I saw a couple of different signs acknowledging that
because of the the nationwide penny shortage, they're they're, they're they're.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Seeing the effect of it.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I was all in on not having pennies produced anymore,
just because to me, they're just annoying. And that's a
very stupid way to look at it. But I I
throw away pennies if there's a few of them in
my pocket, and I don't, you know, I'm not in
a situation where I can drop them in a change
bucket or something. I just I shouldn't say I throw
It's hard. I don't actually just say hey, let me
(10:43):
go pick up all the pennies I can find and
throw them in the trash. But if they end up there,
it's not something that I spend any any time thinking about.
Now they are sure, I learned when we talked about this,
I think it was earlier this week, that there are
still people that collect them and roll them and cash
them in, and hey, good for you. Your your effort
and your energy that you invest into that it is
(11:03):
literally paying off for you. So hey, you're you're, you're
you're on the right track more so than I am.
It's just I I to me, they're always just in
the way, and I rarely ever find myself needing them
because I rarely pay cash for anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I mean, if I do have cash, I quickly get
rid of it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Because to me, you know, I just it's not something
I typically need to have. Therefore, and in a weird way,
I guess it's just the way. It's the way you
look at it. If I'm spending cash, it's already you know.
If if if I have cash on me, the money's
already spent. That's the way I look at it. Which
again it's all an individual personal preference. But yeah, pennies
no longer being produced has impacted these businesses to where now, uh,
(11:43):
they don't have the ability to make exact change, and
they're rounding up for customers, and that that eventually will
will impact your bottom line, right. I mean it may
seem like a little but you got to think about
how many different locations there are for a retailer like
Kroger who I mean, they're the ones. I only bring
them up because it's the first place I was out
and actually saw that. They're letting you know at every
(12:06):
at the register, at the door, when you walk in,
hey we need pennies. But banks are rationing the pennies
they have left. Stores are getting creative. For example, Sheets,
which is a convenience store chain, they're giving away free
sodas in exchange for one hundred pennies. A company called
Giant Eagle. I'm not sure where they are located regionally,
but I don't think I've heard of them, but they're
(12:27):
offering gift cards worth double the value of any pennies
turned in. So I think these are companies that realize, hey,
this is worth doing, because if not, they're not making
pennies anymore. So if it's already an issue at this point,
what are we going to mean? It will eventually impact
the bottom line. So this is an example that is
referenced in this story that I have a hard time believing,
(12:48):
but I'm going to assume it's true. And it's back
to what I said a moment ago. When you consider
how many transactions take place every day across the country
for companies that have hundreds of locations, it does add up.
The shortage this year could cost Quick Trip around three
million dollars. So on the flip side, the government expects
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to see fifty six million by halting productions since each
penny actually cost three point seven cents to make, so
it makes total sense to get rid of it when
it comes to the cost. But also you could tell
it's impacting businesses. And I'm not sure what their long
term strategy is here, because again there's still a lot
of pennies all over the world, but they're not making
(13:33):
new ones anymore. And eventually it'll be long, long, long,
long time from now, but there'll be a rare thing,
probably when I'm long gone, maybe hundreds of years after
I've been long gone, we'll be in a position where
pennies are something. It's like finding a two dollar bill, right,
a real rarity. So just keep that in mind, and
if you want to help out these retailers, good on you.
(13:56):
If not, totally get it all right, let's get to
a quick time out traving weather updates on the way.
We'll talk about this big piece of news from yesterday
from Mayor Greenberg as Young is sticking around in Louisville
and bringing a lot of workers not just into Louisville
back to work, but downtown.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So good news all the way around.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Stick with us right here, Happy Halloween, everybody from News
Ready weight forty whas some big news shared yesterday Mayor Greenberg.
When it comes to the Young brand's future here in Louisville,
there had been some concern that they would be another
one of the big corporations that has had a lot
of presence here for a long time no longer be here.
(14:33):
And some of that was legitimate because they did relocate
some of the jobs to l Passo, Texas, as you
likely know, and then they made the big donation from
their former headquarters. They gave that to JCPS and I
didn't think that was anything other than what it appeared
to be a gift. But if you did think that,
maybe that would be a sign that they're just you know,
they're they're trying to give us a nice gift to
(14:54):
the community that will benefit the community as they as
they bail on us. But that is not the case,
because I mean, it's one of Louisville's most recognizable companies,
there's no doubt about that. And as you likely know,
they're the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut.
They now are moving their global headquarters into the P
and C Tower in downtown Louisville on South first Street.
(15:14):
So we're talking roughly five hundred and fifty employees coming
to work every day here in downtown Louisville, which makes
downtown Louisville better in a major way. I'm sure it'll
take a while, and I'm sure there's endless ways you
can track data to see what the real benefit actually is,
but just having more people here downtown to give it
(15:35):
some life, and I think there is life here. That's
why I said more life. But I've enjoyed seeing I
think timing was so bad for the pandemic as well.
I mean, not that there's a good time for that,
but also with the Breonna Taylor situation to where right
before all that, like twenty nineteen, downtown Louisville was awesome
(15:55):
and it's still as awesome now. But you know, there
was that stretch where nobody was coming down town. I
never agreed with it, but I understood why some people
acted as if it's some boarded up war zone. But slowly,
but surely, here we are. As we've got just a
couple of months left in twenty twenty five. And every
time I experience downtown Louisville, rather be a weekend doing
something out and about, or maybe just a week day
(16:18):
whenever I've stuck around after the show and I make
my way to maybe meet my mom for lunch or
something like that, and it's it's alive, and I think
it's only gonna get better with it with something like
this where you just bring so many more people downtown.
So there have been some corporations that have left, bailed
on us, no longer providing jobs to the community, and
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that's always tough to see. Nobody wants that. But this
is huge, meeting young sticking around. But also you got
to consider how places like Texas Roadhouse has exploded as
one of the bigger restaurant chains in the world. I mean,
I think the last survey, and I'm not sure if
it was I don't know how it was determined, but
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they were by at least one publication voted as the
best restaurant in America. And again it's Texas Roadhouse, but
they're from right here in Louisville. There's a lot of
jobs that have been in place for a long time
at places like ge and there's more jobs coming. So
this is good for the overall health of our city.
And not to say we don't have our own problems.
Everybody does, but certainly good for Louisville, but especially downtown
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because when I see people that aren't from here and
they come here to visit, or they just end up
here because they're traveling for work or whatever it may be,
when I see they come in with no expectation and
they think, oh wow, this place is awesome. Never I
didn't know what to expect. But Louisville's actually a real city.
It's not just farmland like the rest of the state.
There's a lot to do here. There's good culture. I
(17:45):
mean that makes me happy as somebody that has lived
here in my whole life and never plan on leaving.
But it also makes me want to say Hey, if
you're not enjoying what this place has to offer, maybe
you should get out and experience it, because again, Louisville's
Louisvill's a great place. And I'm sure some disagree, and
that's okay, you're wrong. I mean, look, you have your
own opinion. That's fine. But I love it here and
there's a lot to like. And this is big news
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having Yum stick around and really bring some more life
back to downtown Louisville with five hundred.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And fifty employees.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
All right, quick break, traffic and weather updates on the way,
A sports updates coming up as well as Friday Morning
continues to fly.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
By here on Halloween. Stick with us A News Radio
eight forty WHS
Happy Halloween, everybody. Happy Friday to you. It is Kentucky
and it's morning news, coffee and company with you, and
we are fueled by Thornton's. You know, I'm curious, and
it all, I guess, depends on what it is that
what you do for a living, what your job is,
what's your workplace environment is like. But dressing up at work,
I mean maybe there's a costume contest. I'm sure there
(00:20):
are many places that have something like that, have some
fun with today. Maybe there's others where they don't care
if you dress up, but some do, some don't. And
then like maybe maybe if you dress up just thinking,
because I'll take you back to my previous life wherever whenever,
I uh, before I was able to do this for
a living and make it my full time job, which
(00:43):
crazy to think it's been ten years since I've been
able to make that move. But when I lived the
cubicle life, we had somebody John who their first day
ever was on Halloween. Okay, that's interesting, and this is
somebody that I ended up working with for years and
knowing them years later. It really, even more so seemed
(01:05):
awkward for them because he asked the guy who hired
him the boss, Hey do do people dress up on Halloween?
Because he wanted to make an impression. He didn't want
to be the guy that seemed anti dressing up, like
he wasn't fun, and also of course didn't want to
dress up and be the only one that did it.
So I think just in passing, he was told yeah,
(01:25):
you know some basically yeah, but you're not You're not.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Forced to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, he shows up dressed up as Dracula, and he
happened to be the only one that day that shows
to dress up. So talk about an awkward way to
start a new job, right, I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You're if you're told that it's optional, you got to
go with the safe bed and not dress up that year.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, and look, I don't have a problem with what
anybody wants to do, wants to dress up, but there
are certain instances where it would be awkward. So if
you are going to a business meeting and you know
you're you're meeting somebody for the first time and it's
your first impression, that person is always going to be
to you whatever they're dressed up as. Right, So I
(02:07):
mean I'm trying to think of just what a typical
costume would be for an adult. I mean, there's a
lot of options to choose from. We'll just stick with Dracula.
But if I meet you and we're breaking bread, talking
business and we become longtime partners, clients, whatever it may be,
and you're dressed is Dracula, You're gonna always be Dracula
to me.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, if you were dress as Dracula, you'd be
Nicula today.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, And there's a story Jim Rome shares about going
to the going to the dentist on Halloween and just
something about the procedure being a little weird knowing that
your dentist is dressed up as something while he's extracting
a tooth. You know, it probably doesn't impact the job performance,
but the visual of it is just weird. So again,
I'm sure there are many that are celebrating Halloween in
(02:49):
their own in their own way at their workplace. And
when I used to work the cubicle life, we had
every every Friday, the Friday of Halloween week, rather that
be a day like today where it actually falls on
a Friday, or if it's over the weekend or earlier
in the week, we had a chili cookof and it
was super competitive. One of my favorite days of the
year when I used to work for a software company
because we had a lot of fun. Really basically, we
(03:10):
didn't really do much work. We had a chili cook
off that started around lunchtime and then that was kind
of our workday. We didn't really go back at it after,
which was a lot of fun. But later today I'm
heading over to the offices of Alex R. White PLLC
because they're having their office cookie chili cook off and
talk about hot steaks, talk about super competitive. It sounds
(03:32):
like this is this is a big deal. This is
something they talk about year round. There's a lot that
goes into it, and am I'm going to be there
enjoying it also, not only just to see how the
competition plays out, but to sample a lot of the
different chilies. I've never participated in any kind of cookoff
because one, I can't cook. My cooking experience. I mean,
(03:52):
I can make some scrambled eggs. I did challenge myself
to make certain dishes at times, and I was able
to complete dish. It was edible, but I wouldn't say
it was good and I don't need to cook. My
wife will always be a better cook. She likes cooking,
she's great at it, so I've benefit from that. But
chili cookoffs are fascinating because chili, to me, is one
of those foods that there's so many different ways to
(04:13):
do it and it really just comes down to preference.
But when you have a bunch of people who all
have maybe different styles when it comes to chili, they
you know, you really don't know what you're gonna get
as far as a winner. I mean, there may be
some that that the same chili cook off every year
has the same participants. They don't mix it up. They
bring the same they bring their same batch. One year
(04:34):
you might finish first place, the next year you might
finish last.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You just don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But what I think is awesome is just how serious
they take this. So look, I go to where the
action is at my core, John Alden, I'm a reporter.
I'm covering big events. In the Alex Rwite PLC Chili
cook Off, it's a big event. You could just tell
the cities the city's buzz. And I told Alex that
this is gonna be my This is basically my speech
to his team today as they get set months of
(04:59):
prepper countless secret ingredients, many brave souls ready to risk
it all for one title, the suit Distracted Driver dot
Com Chili Champion. Friendships will be tested, taste buds will
be torched, only one pot will rise above the rest,
and glory will never taste so spicy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Man, I feel like they need to give you a
megaphone or something that distorts your voice while you're.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Saying, doesn't that signify just what we're dealing with?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
God high steak stuff in tense stuff going on with
Alex White staff.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And I cannot wait to get there later today and
experience it and again taste some great chili, but also
see who becomes the champion, and there is again I
can't relate, I've never experienced it, But that would be
a cool feeling, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That you've got the batch that and the best way
is the best way.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
To do it is it's got to be anonymous, right
like you can't have people, you can't know who's chili
you're trying. Because I think we're all humans, so therefore
to not be at least somewhat objective, it would be
almost impossible. I mean, maybe you could do it, but
still I think it's more of a real accurate way
to determine winter loser when you don't even.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Know whose it is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's just, hey, I'm basing it off of what these
taste buds told me. So yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'm sure the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Workday for many of you is just like any other
day when it's Halloween. I'd say that's the case for most.
But if you're able to maybe have a lighter load
at the workplace and enjoy Halloween in a variety, there's
a lot of ways to celebrate it, So celebrate accordingly.
All right, let's get to a quickup bit of traffic
and weather. A lot to get you caught up on
government shut down now at thirty days.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Some big news.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yesterday about the future of young and their employees here
in the Louisville area, specifically downtown. Big day for Mary
Greenberg to be able to share that with us. We'll
get to that and more right here. It New's Radio
eight forty whas we are rolling along here on a
Halloween morning. Happy Halloween, everybody. It is Kentucky and this
morning news coffee and company with you, and we are
fueled by Thornton. So the government shut down is now
(06:53):
into day thirty and we've got benefits resistance resources that
will officially be cut off as of tomorrow. So if
you are someone that is impacted by that, or you're
someone that is in a situation where you could help
those that are impacted by that, you can do exactly that,
(07:16):
either to receive help or give help with the food
drops we've got set up here. So it started last
night at Boo at the Zoo, but today, I'm sorry,
sat Tomorrow morning from nine to eleven at U of
L through the vill five K. That's one of the
events going on this weekend and they'll have set up
where you can combine donate money, donate food. And also
tomorrow night from six to eight pm at the Zoo
(07:37):
for through the Boo twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
At the Louisvie Zoo, they'll have a setup there.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So again, if it's more convenient for you to just
donate money online, you can do that as well. At
the day tocare website come out a little bit later on.
We'll talk about not just when it comes to food
assistance that folks rely on, but just other ways in
which this shutdown is impacting folks, and how maybe it
was and is noticeable, but it's expected to be really noticeable,
(08:03):
really unavoidable. Now that we've we've gotten this far into
but we can reset that coming up a little bit
later on. I will say real quickly, John, I know
we got to get to another break in just a moment.
But I saw a TikTok yesterday that that I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I could not.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, you're supposed to have a strong opinion and
stick with it. I couldn't decide if I was wanting
to give this guy credit or saying that he crossed
the line. But somebody shared on TikTok their office chili
cookoff experiment, and this guy went and bought like ten
servings of Wendy's chili, put it, put it in a pot,
took it to work, and he won.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He later shared with his office colleagues that it that
it was from Wendy's. I guess that doesn't mean that
he I mean, there could be rules that say, look,
if you didn't make it, it doesn't count. But it's clever
on his end. Wendy's chili is in fact good. But
if I was a competitor, I would say, you know,
especially this guy, this gut's banned from the league.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, no, I'd I'd be furious too if I was
somebody that had also had a good chili and maybe
came up just short.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah it's again, it's a good case study to just
show you that. And it also reminded me that there's
probably plenty of people who show up to Thanksgiving or
whatever different events that they've got it prepared as if
they cooked it, but they didn't. And I feel like
I would have a hard time, not because I wouldn't
want you to think I made something if I could
make If I made food and you liked it, that
(09:25):
would make me feel good. But I would never have
this urge to trick people that I'm a good cook.
So I'd have no problem saying, yeah, you like it,
here's where I got it. You know, you know what
I mean. So yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm sure
if I would have been participating in the competition and
I lost a guy who didn't make chili, he brought
Wendy's in, I would say that that's bad form, and
maybe that maybe that maybe the commission needs to take
(09:47):
a look at the ethics of this league, this competition,
I should say, all right, we've got sports of a
coming your way here shortly, so stick with us. Also
traffic at weather updates as this Friday is flying by
a Halloween morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Edition right here, Who's radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yesterday was the first time I noticed that retailers are
letting you know, hey, we need pennies. We're running out
of pennies. So it was Kroger that I was heading into,
and I saw a couple of different signs acknowledging that
because of the the nationwide penny shortage, they're they're, they're they're.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Seeing the effect of it.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And I was all in on not having pennies produced anymore,
just because to me, they're just annoying. And that's a
very stupid way to look at it. But I I
throw away pennies if there's a few of them in
my pocket, and I don't, you know, I'm not in
a situation where I can drop them in a change
bucket or something. I just I shouldn't say I throw
It's hard. I don't actually just say hey, let me
(10:43):
go pick up all the pennies I can find and
throw them in the trash. But if they end up there,
it's not something that I spend any any time thinking about.
Now they are sure, I learned when we talked about this,
I think it was earlier this week, that there are
still people that collect them and roll them and cash
them in, and hey, good for you. Your your effort
and your energy that you invest into that it is
(11:03):
literally paying off for you. So hey, you're you're, you're
you're on the right track more so than I am.
It's just I I to me, they're always just in
the way, and I rarely ever find myself needing them
because I rarely pay cash for anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I mean, if I do have cash, I quickly get
rid of it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Because to me, you know, I just it's not something
I typically need to have. Therefore, and in a weird way,
I guess it's just the way. It's the way you
look at it. If I'm spending cash, it's already you know.
If if if I have cash on me, the money's
already spent. That's the way I look at it. Which
again it's all an individual personal preference. But yeah, pennies
no longer being produced has impacted these businesses to where now, uh,
(11:43):
they don't have the ability to make exact change, and
they're rounding up for customers, and that that eventually will
will impact your bottom line, right. I mean it may
seem like a little but you got to think about
how many different locations there are for a retailer like
Kroger who I mean, they're the ones. I only bring
them up because it's the first place I was out
and actually saw that. They're letting you know at every
(12:06):
at the register, at the door, when you walk in,
hey we need pennies. But banks are rationing the pennies
they have left. Stores are getting creative. For example, Sheets,
which is a convenience store chain, they're giving away free
sodas in exchange for one hundred pennies. A company called
Giant Eagle. I'm not sure where they are located regionally,
but I don't think I've heard of them, but they're
(12:27):
offering gift cards worth double the value of any pennies
turned in. So I think these are companies that realize, hey,
this is worth doing, because if not, they're not making
pennies anymore. So if it's already an issue at this point,
what are we going to mean? It will eventually impact
the bottom line. So this is an example that is
referenced in this story that I have a hard time believing,
(12:48):
but I'm going to assume it's true. And it's back
to what I said a moment ago. When you consider
how many transactions take place every day across the country
for companies that have hundreds of locations, it does add up.
The shortage this year could cost Quick Trip around three
million dollars. So on the flip side, the government expects
(13:10):
to see fifty six million by halting productions since each
penny actually cost three point seven cents to make, so
it makes total sense to get rid of it when
it comes to the cost. But also you could tell
it's impacting businesses. And I'm not sure what their long
term strategy is here, because again there's still a lot
of pennies all over the world, but they're not making
(13:33):
new ones anymore. And eventually it'll be long, long, long,
long time from now, but there'll be a rare thing,
probably when I'm long gone, maybe hundreds of years after
I've been long gone, we'll be in a position where
pennies are something. It's like finding a two dollar bill, right,
a real rarity. So just keep that in mind, and
if you want to help out these retailers, good on you.
(13:56):
If not, totally get it all right, let's get to
a quick time out traving weather updates on the way.
We'll talk about this big piece of news from yesterday
from Mayor Greenberg as Young is sticking around in Louisville
and bringing a lot of workers not just into Louisville
back to work, but downtown.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So good news all the way around.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Stick with us right here, Happy Halloween, everybody from News
Ready weight forty whas some big news shared yesterday Mayor Greenberg.
When it comes to the Young brand's future here in Louisville,
there had been some concern that they would be another
one of the big corporations that has had a lot
of presence here for a long time no longer be here.
(14:33):
And some of that was legitimate because they did relocate
some of the jobs to l Passo, Texas, as you
likely know, and then they made the big donation from
their former headquarters. They gave that to JCPS and I
didn't think that was anything other than what it appeared
to be a gift. But if you did think that,
maybe that would be a sign that they're just you know,
they're they're trying to give us a nice gift to
(14:54):
the community that will benefit the community as they as
they bail on us. But that is not the case,
because I mean, it's one of Louisville's most recognizable companies,
there's no doubt about that. And as you likely know,
they're the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut.
They now are moving their global headquarters into the P
and C Tower in downtown Louisville on South first Street.
(15:14):
So we're talking roughly five hundred and fifty employees coming
to work every day here in downtown Louisville, which makes
downtown Louisville better in a major way. I'm sure it'll
take a while, and I'm sure there's endless ways you
can track data to see what the real benefit actually is,
but just having more people here downtown to give it
(15:35):
some life, and I think there is life here. That's
why I said more life. But I've enjoyed seeing I
think timing was so bad for the pandemic as well.
I mean, not that there's a good time for that,
but also with the Breonna Taylor situation to where right
before all that, like twenty nineteen, downtown Louisville was awesome
(15:55):
and it's still as awesome now. But you know, there
was that stretch where nobody was coming down town. I
never agreed with it, but I understood why some people
acted as if it's some boarded up war zone. But slowly,
but surely, here we are. As we've got just a
couple of months left in twenty twenty five. And every
time I experience downtown Louisville, rather be a weekend doing
something out and about, or maybe just a week day
(16:18):
whenever I've stuck around after the show and I make
my way to maybe meet my mom for lunch or
something like that, and it's it's alive, and I think
it's only gonna get better with it with something like
this where you just bring so many more people downtown.
So there have been some corporations that have left, bailed
on us, no longer providing jobs to the community, and
(16:39):
that's always tough to see. Nobody wants that. But this
is huge, meeting young sticking around. But also you got
to consider how places like Texas Roadhouse has exploded as
one of the bigger restaurant chains in the world. I mean,
I think the last survey, and I'm not sure if
it was I don't know how it was determined, but
(17:00):
they were by at least one publication voted as the
best restaurant in America. And again it's Texas Roadhouse, but
they're from right here in Louisville. There's a lot of
jobs that have been in place for a long time
at places like ge and there's more jobs coming. So
this is good for the overall health of our city.
And not to say we don't have our own problems.
Everybody does, but certainly good for Louisville, but especially downtown
(17:24):
because when I see people that aren't from here and
they come here to visit, or they just end up
here because they're traveling for work or whatever it may be,
when I see they come in with no expectation and
they think, oh wow, this place is awesome. Never I
didn't know what to expect. But Louisville's actually a real city.
It's not just farmland like the rest of the state.
There's a lot to do here. There's good culture. I
(17:45):
mean that makes me happy as somebody that has lived
here in my whole life and never plan on leaving.
But it also makes me want to say Hey, if
you're not enjoying what this place has to offer, maybe
you should get out and experience it, because again, Louisville's
Louisvill's a great place. And I'm sure some disagree, and
that's okay, you're wrong. I mean, look, you have your
own opinion. That's fine. But I love it here and
there's a lot to like. And this is big news
(18:06):
having Yum stick around and really bring some more life
back to downtown Louisville with five hundred.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And fifty employees.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
All right, quick break, traffic and weather updates on the way,
A sports updates coming up as well as Friday Morning
continues to fly.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
By here on Halloween. Stick with us A News Radio
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