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October 8, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's eight oh five here at news Radio eight forty
whas as I look outside the window here at four
Street Live, still a lot of water out here, just
because of how crazy the rain was. I guess, Scott,
how would you describe the uh, the upper level here.
Most people who yeah, I'm sure, have been to four
Street Live and know the second floor area where we are.
And if you don't know, we are in what used

(00:20):
to be Tango, said Cantina. I think that was the
name of the bar that is now wait. I had
pretty sure my first few experiences out of legal age
at a bar was right here where I now work,
but of course it was it was not the fun
studios here about heart Louisville. But whenever you've got wind
and rain, which we had a lot of yesterday, yes
we're covered, but we're kind of not so like the

(00:41):
way the water gets in here is kind of wild.
So we've got some not flooding by any means, but
just some big puddles out here that'll eventually dry up
and it'll be okay. But it just reminds me of
how much rain we got yesterday that really put a
lot of us underwater. And when I think flash flood.
I think I'll now think of yesterday, just because it
all happened pretty quickly. We had consistent rain all throughout,

(01:04):
but it hit a new level of downpour and quickly
flooded streets. And I'm still seeing some of the pictures
and videos from yesterday, and obviously the one that is
getting most attention is the one you typically just don't see,
meaning something like that happened, and that is a road
completely breaking in half. That's plant side drive and the

(01:26):
I mean, what good timing for WK why to have
their chopper there as it is, it is crumbling more
and more to where it's completely, you know, completely collapsing,
And it sounds like the cause of that, because again
I'm sure there's other for those wondering what makes this
different than other roadways? Why didn't that happen elsewhere? Sounds
like there is a eight to ten foot drainage pipe

(01:48):
that was underneath there that gave way, and that's how
something like that can happen.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I suppose, well, you know, and I told you during
the day, I like to get into Shelby Park and
get some of my steps in, and yesterday I'll tough
it out in rain.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
A big do. I have a good umbrella.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I got some frog dogs if I need them. If
it's not raining that hard, I'll go. I remember to
your point walking through and I come around one of
the corners and all of a sudden there was water
like everywhere that wasn't out there before. So I can
certainly if it was on that small of a scale,
like in a place like Shelby Park, I can only
imagine what some of the other areas prone to flooding
were like, because it just seemed to like open up

(02:21):
and just come down in buckets.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, where I'm at is Northern Bullet County. That's where
I live, and I remember years of floods that have
happened to where. I mean, it's just something you remember
because you see areas completely submerged in water. And yesterday,
as far as just my neighborhood and my area where
I live really close, i'd never seen it quite like that. Now, again,
it didn't last long once the rain stopped, and sure enough,

(02:44):
as the day went on it actually became nice. There
was some sunshine to wrap things up. But I mean
I started to wonder, Okay, we're going under here, and
of course the panic of a flooded basement is something
that always will be with me. I assume from now
to the end of time. I've had it happen. I
had it happened twice, two different houses in a relatively
short amount of time, to where I think I'm going
to always be programmed to just run to and again.

(03:06):
My wife is worse than I am as far as
just the panic and the fear. Sure, and you know,
because it is a scary situation and it's you know,
if you've had it happen, it sucks, there's no way
around it. But like, what are we going to do?
Like so we find ourselves, you know, running down to
check the sum pump if it's not working. There's really
not anything I, you know, I can do. And we've

(03:27):
had it, we've had it taxed to the limit where
we've watched it and it's the water is elevated, but
of course it's not. It's not actually flooding just yet.
So there's you know, I think I finally got through
to her yesterday that you know, there's really nothing If
it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, which is not something
you want to hear. But I think at the end
of the day, that's just the reality of the situation.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
So you you bring up a storyline, we have very
similar storylines, and that is I told you off the air,
we have an egress window in our basement and I
did not have the proper covering on it, and it
flooded and the egress window looked we just gave out.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
I guess, dude, it looked like a fishball. Ah.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And so now since then, I've fixed it, I've repaired,
I've got it built up nice.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's it's held tremendously.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
But like your wife, my wife will say to me
every time we get these rains. In fact, they got
a text yesterday, Hey, should we check the egress window?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, can you go check?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Because that that'll dude, that'll scar you when something like
that happens. But now's a good time, And I'm glad
you brought that up, Nick, because now it's a good
time when we have this stretch of nice weather.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Maybe go around.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Your house and start looking at the one of your
gutters clean that's what you really want to work on,
because if your gutters aren't cleaned out, that's the first
thing that's going to cause flooding, and plus if you
have to replace them, you might have your face board
might be all you know, rotted out, et cetera, because
the water's been getting under there for years. Which I
only say this because I have to do this, But
walk around your house and look for different places. Are
you directing the water away from your house? That was

(04:48):
a big problem for us and why we had some
basement flooding. I wasn't pulling the water away from my
house the way I should.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, this is the kind of rainfall that will let
you know quickly if you've got things set up, you know,
as best as possible for situations.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Quite like that.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
But yeah, thirty water related emergency calls yesterday to Louisville
Metro Emergency Services, including multiple driver rescues where people were
out driving, and clearly they they didn't realize how And
again I think just because how quickly it happened, it's
a little bit more understandable as to how somebody could
be in that situation. Now, I will say this, I've
had I've seen many instances where I see somebody's car

(05:23):
driving into it. I'm thinking, what do you do? What
are you thinking?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I can't give you an alternate plan to avoid a
disaster here, but I can tell you you driving through
it is not gonna not gonna work. Right.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Have you ever have you ever chanced to? Have you
ever gotten to the plant? Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
It scares the crap out of me? Right, I don't.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, I mean I if there's even any sign that
I may hydroplane, I'm gonna slow down and and and
be as safe as possible. I've seen, I've seen, I've
seen an accident hab it in real time. There was
there was, there was hydro plane. It was in front
of me years ago. I was on sixty five North.
There's actually in your hospital curve. And it was the
visual that I needed to let me know, hey, don't

(06:00):
risk it whenever there's water on the roadway.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I admit one time I did. I chanced it when
I shouldn't have. And this was I was a new driver.
I shouldn't have gone there, and I was lucky enough.
I got too far in, I had just enough room
to pull out. I started getting scared, like you did,
and ever since I vowed never to do it again.
But I'm I'm glad you brought up the thing about
hydro planing too, because you might if you have some
tires that have some significant way, you may have noticed

(06:23):
yourself hydro planing yesterday too as well.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, that's scary, scary stuff. Right, let's get a quick
update of traffic and weather. I will give you a
spoiler when it comes to weather. We are in good
hands the rest of this week. It's going to be beautiful.
In fact, today, I believe Sonny in seventy two is
the high. Wow, that's near perfect in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Good stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Also, we'll get a look at the roadways, see how
traffic is looking. I don't know if this is I
can't prove this, but I do feel like just considering
yesterday and how much more quiet it's been the day,
I'd say we're off to a good a better start
with with traffic because of the rain moving out of here,
which is good.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
So we'll get updates for you there.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I also coming up at eight already five we're
going to be joined by Rory and El of NBC News.
We'll discuss the latest on this government shut down and
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learn more today. All right, So this, uh, I don't
think this story is is a little off to me.
As far as the timing. I see that California is
cracking down on something. When I hear a crackdown, I think, Okay,
this must be serious. They're cracking down on this. It
must be something that needs to be addressed and needs
to be dealt with. And the crackdown is on loud

(08:03):
streaming ads. So the rise of streaming, of course, has
had a big role in traditional television, and one of
those things is that is I guess the downside is
that the inconsistency when it comes to volume. So with
multiple subscriptions and ads supported tiers, viewers have obviously found
themselves with with ads like they thought they'd avoid with

(08:25):
the streaming services, but also different levels of volume. So
California has passed a new law targeting streaming platforms that
crank up AD volume above I guess whatever your TV
is set. So beginning July twenty twenty six, ads on
platforms like Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube will have to match
the same audio levels as the content they interrupt. This

(08:48):
law was inspired by State Senator Tom Umberg, who filed
the bill after his newborn was jolted awake by loud
streaming ads. So that can be annoying, and I've finding
consistent see within sound is certainly an issue with streaming
that was not an issue before that. I mean, I
don't really notice it as much as I guess others do.

(09:08):
But when I saw this headline, my first thought was,
is this really top priority?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
We got a government shutdown going on. We've never I
mean like this needs to be addressed at this level.
I mean, again, it could be annoying, but a lot
of things can be annoying. I mean, am I wrong here?
Like this just seems like for this to be we're
cracking down on this. Yeah, because your baby woke it
up and startled.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I will say, yeah, I know, I will say annoying
loud ads are annoying, And you know sometimes I've talked
to my folks in the TV business who are up
against this and asked them why that is, and they said,
sometimes they just get auto fed in and they're all
dubbed in at a different level and there's no way
they can catch them. We tried to regulate it the
best we can here, but yeah, it's a problem. But
I'm with you, Nick, and they're bigger fish to fry

(09:55):
along the way. And maybe how about some improved content
on the ads?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean here is here's another headline from it. California
has enacted a law to regulate the volume of ads
on streaming services. That could be felt across the country.
If I see that as a headline after waking up
from a coma, I'm gonna assume if this is our
biggest problem.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Life's been great. Well that too.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, if you want to if you're gonna go to
the streaming ads, then how about the ads on YouTube
that are clearly AI, that are so bad.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Well, if you don't pay for YouTube, then you know.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I know, I I don't take it out of my
user fees. I get it.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I'm using YouTube for free. I tell that people have
to Facebook when they change the lots.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I pay to skip those ads just because it's uh,
I'm about to start. Yeah, it's worth it. I mean
as much as I watch it, even don't watch it
that often that it probably doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
But yeah, those those who were worried about AI sort
of you know, taking over, if the ads on YouTube
are any indication, you have nothing to worry about.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Trust me, I'll tell you what the uh not a
bad strategy. Let's let's get let's offer streaming with no
ads for a while. Then we'll bombard you with an
overwhelming amount of ads to you just are forced to
pay more money to us so we don't show.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
You the ads.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's a great, great, great strategy there. All right, let's
get to an update of traffick and weather. We've also
got a sports update coming your way. John Shannon's back
with news around a thirty and then at eight thirty five,
Rory on Il of NBC News is going to stop by.
We'll talk about the latest on the government shutdown and
President Trump's comments about some maybe not getting back pay
with this government shutdown. So again, stick with us right here.

(11:24):
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