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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, how we fail in this morning? It is
eight oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here at news Radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company
with you, fueled by Thornton's I'm sure some of you
aren't feeling great if you're sitting in traffic, and I
do feel for you because that sucks. Could be late
to work, could be late to wherever it is you
need to be, or you're just you know, you're inconvenienced.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
May you get to miss that staff meeting this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, I guess that's that's the silver lining. I'm gonna
stop using the line I was using for a while
because I have learned that sarcasm is is not something
that is interpreted by as many people as I would hope. Okay,
you know, whenever I would say you know you could
I had two different people over the last few months
when I would make the very poor attempted humor that
if you're sitting in traffic, look at it as look
(00:42):
at it as a win because you get to experience
the Coffee and Company experience longer than you usually do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But that that that that rubs some people the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So I'm not I'm not I'm not making jokes about
your frustration. Traffic sucks, and I get it. But you know,
we'll try to help your, help you on your to
maybe be maybe we can distract you from sitting in traffic,
although as somebody who doesn't like sitting in traffic as
much as anybody else, it's all you want to do
is just move hard to distract you whenever, in fact,
(01:11):
you're distracted by the fact that you're sitting on an
interstate probably looking at how late you're going to be
to work or wherever it is you're going, and that
can be frustrating. So just stay safe because there are
a lot of accidents out there this morning, and I'm
sure many of you listening have already seen the impact
of that. But we'll have another update coming your way
in just a few minutes with Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But a busy, busy morning.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
This is the story that I haven't talked about just yet,
but you did hear to the news this morning with
John Shannon. But a small plane that crashed in Bullock County,
my neck of the woods in Mount Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now I'm not from at Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But where I saw all the coverage of this wild story,
I know exactly where it is I just a day before,
maybe twenty four hours before the plane crashed, I was
right exactly where that was, heading back from my son's
flag football game. But yeah, it was a small engine
plane that took off from Louisvill's Bowman Field that crashed
Monday afternoon in a field of Mount Washington at the
(02:03):
United Methodist Church right off of Flat Lake Road. And
I mean, I'm just imagining if I am, if I'm
driving down forty four between Mount Washington and Shepherdsville and
I'm I'm I'm seeing this plane headed headed down.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, it would be.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It would be scary as can be sure, and of
course very fortunate in a variety of ways here because
the pilot only person on board sustained very minor injuries
and is and it's going to be just fine. But
also I could have hit somebody's house. I mean, that
could have hit I mean, Mount Washington is the most
I say this chokingly, but.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's way too crowded.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I mean it's if you've ever been stuck out there
in traffic at uh rush hour times. I mean, it
became the cool thing to do many many years ago,
and everybody's still doing it. Seemingly moving to Mount Washington.
That place is is exploded in growth over the last
couple of decades. But yeah, thankfully nobody hurt seriously, but
not some you typically see.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I mean I could just I could.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I could see myself driving and then realizing, wait a second,
the planes a little close to us. What a plane
just landing and crashing. I mean, that would be scary
as can be.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I looked at that, and this looks like it was
a red biplane. And I was asking my wife last
night when I seld the story. There's a red biplane
that flies out of Bowmen and I'll see it on
nice days there. I think they give tours. And I
don't know if this is the same one or not.
Maybe somebody can email he's got a WHS dot com.
I was curious if that was the same plane, because
on a nice day, there's always this red biplane that's
(03:32):
in the air, and I did some research on it
because I'm an ab geek like that, and apparently it
gives tours and this one looked an awful lot like it.
I don't know if it's it, but I was just curious.
Mayboy knew if that's that's the one that want.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So the cause of this crash remains under investigations. Fichels
are ensure why the plane was flying solo at the time,
but the Louisville Regional Airport Authority did confirm that the
aircraft had arrived at Bowman Field the night before the crash.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So oh, okay, so it probably wasn't then, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, I mean it could be.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, if it's well that I think it was
based on a Bowman Okay, So I got you. So
this one may have been one that arrived to stop
and then was was Yeah, I got you. So, yeah,
very fortunate situation all the way around. And I mean
the amount of people who survived plane crashes there, there's
there's not there's not many, and this one is uh again,
(04:16):
when you hear somebody getting in a plane crash, I mean,
I probably shouldn't view it this way as far as
just being so pessimistic, but I just assumed that the
likelihood of survival is going to be low. But now
I've seen the actual plane, and I would have assumed
even more so that that was not going to be
a good result. But yeah, just minor injuries and is
expected to expected to be okay, which again that's good news. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, it's kind of like when people watch NASCAR and
they look at some of the recks that NASCAR gets
into and they're like, how did they walk away from that?
And if there's a plus side to all these areas.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It really is amazing now that I think about it,
just some of the visuals.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right right in what we learned, there's a plus side
to all these what we learned through these air crashes.
Smithsonian and they ran a documentary I'm air Crashes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Where they went in and looked at the things they learned.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And when the NTSP goes to work and they start evaluating,
you know, we learn from this and people learn where
to sit, and aviation safety is is at an all
time high right now, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This is a good example of that, right right.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So were you always did you ever ever have a
fear of flying or do you like flying? I?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I have a I have a fear of flying, but
it's not it's more of just more than anything, it's
just my anxiety rises because of my lack of control
and just the uncomfortable, uneasy feeling of being in an airplane.
I mean, flying isn't comfortable to me just because of
a lot of aspects of it. And maybe it is
because I don't fly first class.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But when I have.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Fear of flying, it's not that I fear I'm going
to be in a crash. Yeah, I mean I know
that's a possibility, but if I started thinking about that,
I'd never get on a plane.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, let's say, to your point, though, you know, it's
a real thing.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
My mom, I mean, I love flying again because I'm
an AVGI, but my mom liked flying, but she always
hated the takeoffs. The take the worst for her, and
then once they took it for.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Me, it's the landing, right, I just think all these wheels.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Are gonna break, So you don't clap at the landing,
do you?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Night than I usually got my headphones on in my
own world.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
But yeah, but it is an interesting setup. And but
now aviation safety is safer now than it ever has been. However,
to your point when you were talking in the last
half hour, if this air traffic controller thing goes on
longer and longer, and we heard John Shannon play the
complaints from people out west at Orange County Airport.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, it could be a problem, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean there's already complaints every day at an airport
for a variety of reasons. But whenever it's because nobody's
coming to work because they're not getting paid, that's it's
only going to take it to a different level.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, let's get it up there to traffickan weather.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We'll get you caught up on how these wet roadways
are impacting the commute this morning here in Kentuckyana. Also
good to look at the forecast to see when this
rain is expected to stop, and a lot more to
get into, So.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Stick with us right here.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's eight twelve, but news Radio eight forty whas it
is eight eighteen here on this wet Tuesday morning. Apologies
if you've been stuck in traffic, there's a lot of
that with a lot of accidents that have taken place.
So we'll get you another update here soon in a
couple of minutes from Bobby Ellis. But as you know,
we are feel about Thornton's, make sure you keep them
in mind when it comes to getting your day started.
Not only can you get a delicious cup of coffee
(07:14):
and a donut for just three bucks. You could also
get one of their delicious breakfast tacos. We're talking breakfast
charizo tacos, ham bell peppers, onions, cheese, two of them
for five bucks. So again we are feel about Thorton's
here Coffee and Company with you a busy, busy morning,
and I'll give you a quick rundown of really what's
been on the table so far this morning. Another awful
(07:35):
story for JCPS that almost doesn't seem real as far
as just the awful financial situation they're in. Seemingly there's
an update daily that just makes it seem even worse
as far as just the financial disaster that they're in.
And we now know of maintenance that needs to be
done on a variety of these schools and they don't
(07:59):
have the funds to do it. It's never been more expensive,
seemingly to do that. And these are things, of course
that have been cited by the school, by the school
district itself, But yeah, two point five billion dollars in
maintenance is what's needed, and that's just not that's not
reality at all as far as that actually happening. So
this to me is the first time that you're really
(08:20):
in again. I'm sure people have connected the dots for
a while now, just given the fact that they have
a one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit. But
closing of schools, right, I mean, if they if these
schools are way past the point of needing to be
upgraded and it becomes dangerous, that's when you consolidate, and
then the likelihood of them being able to actually get
(08:44):
these schools renovated. I mean, that's just not again, it's
not reality. So I uh, I really made it. I
made sure to look everywhere to make just to just
to be clear that I was getting the numbers correct here,
because again, it's almost it's almost its unbelievable to just
see how how bad it is. I mean, last week
it wasn't really any new layer to the mess that
(09:06):
they're in, but it was a press conference to discuss
how they're going to get out of this hole, and
doctor Yearwood talked about hiring a firm to audit them
and they're going to move quickly, only to then later
after a board meeting that night, have to walk that
back and say, well, we're not going to use that firm.
We've got to put it up for a vote, which
I guess is more so just the process they're supposed
(09:26):
to go through. But also they've realized they don't actually
even know if the one hundred and eighty eight million
dollar deficit is the real number or not. So that
was just more optics, just looking bad but not a
good situation by any means. Also, something else that probably
wouldn't surprise you, but I do think it's important to know.
He did acknowledge when talking to WDRB doctor Eyearwood, the
new superintendent, that he was aware of some financial issues
(09:49):
but had no he did not know that it was
as bad as it actually is. So it's a mess.
It is a mess. Also, something else we've talked about
this morning, the government shut down continues. We'll have Rory
O'Neil of NBA News joining us here at about eight
thirty five to see if he can give us any
kind of an update on that as we roll along. Also,
it's Tuesday, tom Machine Tuesday. We'll do that coming up
(10:10):
towards the end of the eight o'clock hours, so stick.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Around, don't go anywhere. Traffic updates on the way. We
need him. This morning.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's a mess out there, so Bobby Ellis has us
covered right here on news Radio eight forty whas
All right, how we fail in this morning? It is
eight oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here at news Radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company
with you, fueled by Thornton's I'm sure some of you
aren't feeling great if you're sitting in traffic, and I
do feel for you because that sucks. Could be late
to work, could be late to wherever it is you
need to be, or you're just you know, you're inconvenienced.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
May you get to miss that staff meeting this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, I guess that's that's the silver lining. I'm gonna
stop using the line I was using for a while
because I have learned that sarcasm is is not something
that is interpreted by as many people as I would hope. Okay,
you know, whenever I would say you know you could
I had two different people over the last few months
when I would make the very poor attempted humor that
if you're sitting in traffic, look at it as look
(00:42):
at it as a win because you get to experience
the Coffee and Company experience longer than you usually do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But that that that that rubs some people the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So I'm not I'm not I'm not making jokes about
your frustration. Traffic sucks, and I get it. But you know,
we'll try to help your, help you on your to
maybe be maybe we can distract you from sitting in traffic,
although as somebody who doesn't like sitting in traffic as
much as anybody else, it's all you want to do
is just move hard to distract you whenever, in fact,
(01:11):
you're distracted by the fact that you're sitting on an
interstate probably looking at how late you're going to be
to work or wherever it is you're going, and that
can be frustrating. So just stay safe because there are
a lot of accidents out there this morning, and I'm
sure many of you listening have already seen the impact
of that. But we'll have another update coming your way
in just a few minutes with Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But a busy, busy morning.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
This is the story that I haven't talked about just yet,
but you did hear to the news this morning with
John Shannon. But a small plane that crashed in Bullock County,
my neck of the woods in Mount Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now I'm not from at Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But where I saw all the coverage of this wild story,
I know exactly where it is I just a day before,
maybe twenty four hours before the plane crashed, I was
right exactly where that was, heading back from my son's
flag football game. But yeah, it was a small engine
plane that took off from Louisvill's Bowman Field that crashed
Monday afternoon in a field of Mount Washington at the
(02:03):
United Methodist Church right off of Flat Lake Road. And
I mean, I'm just imagining if I am, if I'm
driving down forty four between Mount Washington and Shepherdsville and
I'm I'm I'm seeing this plane headed headed down.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, it would be.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It would be scary as can be sure, and of
course very fortunate in a variety of ways here because
the pilot only person on board sustained very minor injuries
and is and it's going to be just fine. But
also I could have hit somebody's house. I mean, that
could have hit I mean, Mount Washington is the most
I say this chokingly, but.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's way too crowded.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I mean it's if you've ever been stuck out there
in traffic at uh rush hour times. I mean, it
became the cool thing to do many many years ago,
and everybody's still doing it. Seemingly moving to Mount Washington.
That place is is exploded in growth over the last
couple of decades. But yeah, thankfully nobody hurt seriously, but
not some you typically see.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I mean I could just I could.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I could see myself driving and then realizing, wait a second,
the planes a little close to us. What a plane
just landing and crashing. I mean, that would be scary
as can be.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I looked at that, and this looks like it was
a red biplane. And I was asking my wife last
night when I seld the story. There's a red biplane
that flies out of Bowmen and I'll see it on
nice days there. I think they give tours. And I
don't know if this is the same one or not.
Maybe somebody can email he's got a WHS dot com.
I was curious if that was the same plane, because
on a nice day, there's always this red biplane that's
(03:32):
in the air, and I did some research on it
because I'm an ab geek like that, and apparently it
gives tours and this one looked an awful lot like it.
I don't know if it's it, but I was just curious.
Mayboy knew if that's that's the one that want.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So the cause of this crash remains under investigations. Fichels
are ensure why the plane was flying solo at the time,
but the Louisville Regional Airport Authority did confirm that the
aircraft had arrived at Bowman Field the night before the crash.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So oh, okay, so it probably wasn't then, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, I mean it could be.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, if it's well that I think it was
based on a Bowman Okay, So I got you. So
this one may have been one that arrived to stop
and then was was Yeah, I got you. So, yeah,
very fortunate situation all the way around. And I mean
the amount of people who survived plane crashes there, there's
there's not there's not many, and this one is uh again,
(04:16):
when you hear somebody getting in a plane crash, I mean,
I probably shouldn't view it this way as far as
just being so pessimistic, but I just assumed that the
likelihood of survival is going to be low. But now
I've seen the actual plane, and I would have assumed
even more so that that was not going to be
a good result. But yeah, just minor injuries and is
expected to expected to be okay, which again that's good news. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, it's kind of like when people watch NASCAR and
they look at some of the recks that NASCAR gets
into and they're like, how did they walk away from that?
And if there's a plus side to all these areas.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It really is amazing now that I think about it,
just some of the visuals.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right right in what we learned, there's a plus side
to all these what we learned through these air crashes.
Smithsonian and they ran a documentary I'm air Crashes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Where they went in and looked at the things they learned.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And when the NTSP goes to work and they start evaluating,
you know, we learn from this and people learn where
to sit, and aviation safety is is at an all
time high right now, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This is a good example of that, right right.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So were you always did you ever ever have a
fear of flying or do you like flying? I?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I have a I have a fear of flying, but
it's not it's more of just more than anything, it's
just my anxiety rises because of my lack of control
and just the uncomfortable, uneasy feeling of being in an airplane.
I mean, flying isn't comfortable to me just because of
a lot of aspects of it. And maybe it is
because I don't fly first class.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But when I have.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Fear of flying, it's not that I fear I'm going
to be in a crash. Yeah, I mean I know
that's a possibility, but if I started thinking about that,
I'd never get on a plane.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, let's say, to your point, though, you know, it's
a real thing.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
My mom, I mean, I love flying again because I'm
an AVGI, but my mom liked flying, but she always
hated the takeoffs. The take the worst for her, and
then once they took it for.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Me, it's the landing, right, I just think all these wheels.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Are gonna break, So you don't clap at the landing,
do you?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Night than I usually got my headphones on in my
own world.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It is.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
But yeah, but it is an interesting setup. And but
now aviation safety is safer now than it ever has been. However,
to your point when you were talking in the last
half hour, if this air traffic controller thing goes on
longer and longer, and we heard John Shannon play the
complaints from people out west at Orange County Airport.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, it could be a problem, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean there's already complaints every day at an airport
for a variety of reasons. But whenever it's because nobody's
coming to work because they're not getting paid, that's it's
only going to take it to a different level.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, let's get it up there to traffickan weather.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We'll get you caught up on how these wet roadways
are impacting the commute this morning here in Kentuckyana. Also
good to look at the forecast to see when this
rain is expected to stop, and a lot more to
get into, So.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Stick with us right here.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's eight twelve, but news Radio eight forty whas it
is eight eighteen here on this wet Tuesday morning. Apologies
if you've been stuck in traffic, there's a lot of
that with a lot of accidents that have taken place.
So we'll get you another update here soon in a
couple of minutes from Bobby Ellis. But as you know,
we are feel about Thornton's, make sure you keep them
in mind when it comes to getting your day started.
Not only can you get a delicious cup of coffee
(07:14):
and a donut for just three bucks. You could also
get one of their delicious breakfast tacos. We're talking breakfast
charizo tacos, ham bell peppers, onions, cheese, two of them
for five bucks. So again we are feel about Thorton's
here Coffee and Company with you a busy, busy morning,
and I'll give you a quick rundown of really what's
been on the table so far this morning. Another awful
(07:35):
story for JCPS that almost doesn't seem real as far
as just the awful financial situation they're in. Seemingly there's
an update daily that just makes it seem even worse
as far as just the financial disaster that they're in.
And we now know of maintenance that needs to be
done on a variety of these schools and they don't
(07:59):
have the funds to do it. It's never been more expensive,
seemingly to do that. And these are things, of course
that have been cited by the school, by the school
district itself, But yeah, two point five billion dollars in
maintenance is what's needed, and that's just not that's not
reality at all as far as that actually happening. So
this to me is the first time that you're really
(08:20):
in again. I'm sure people have connected the dots for
a while now, just given the fact that they have
a one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit. But
closing of schools, right, I mean, if they if these
schools are way past the point of needing to be
upgraded and it becomes dangerous, that's when you consolidate, and
then the likelihood of them being able to actually get
(08:44):
these schools renovated. I mean, that's just not again, it's
not reality. So I uh, I really made it. I
made sure to look everywhere to make just to just
to be clear that I was getting the numbers correct here,
because again, it's almost it's almost its unbelievable to just
see how how bad it is. I mean, last week
it wasn't really any new layer to the mess that
(09:06):
they're in, but it was a press conference to discuss
how they're going to get out of this hole, and
doctor Yearwood talked about hiring a firm to audit them
and they're going to move quickly, only to then later
after a board meeting that night, have to walk that
back and say, well, we're not going to use that firm.
We've got to put it up for a vote, which
I guess is more so just the process they're supposed
(09:26):
to go through. But also they've realized they don't actually
even know if the one hundred and eighty eight million
dollar deficit is the real number or not. So that
was just more optics, just looking bad but not a
good situation by any means. Also, something else that probably
wouldn't surprise you, but I do think it's important to know.
He did acknowledge when talking to WDRB doctor Eyearwood, the
new superintendent, that he was aware of some financial issues
(09:49):
but had no he did not know that it was
as bad as it actually is. So it's a mess.
It is a mess. Also, something else we've talked about
this morning, the government shut down continues. We'll have Rory
O'Neil of NBA News joining us here at about eight
thirty five to see if he can give us any
kind of an update on that as we roll along. Also,
it's Tuesday, tom Machine Tuesday. We'll do that coming up
(10:10):
towards the end of the eight o'clock hours, so stick.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Around, don't go anywhere. Traffic updates on the way. We
need him. This morning.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's a mess out there, so Bobby Ellis has us
covered right here on news Radio eight forty whas
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