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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get it started. Here on a cool
Thursday morning. It is Kentucky and his morning news Coffee
and Company, fueled by Thornton's here on news Radio eight
forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me, Scott, it's joed alongside
John Shannon with us as well as we will take
you up till nine o'clock and get you get you
ready for this, this wonderful Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thursday is the new Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're gonna speak that into existence until it just becomes
it becomes a thing. But yes, it is a cool
morning to get it started. Fifty three degrees. This is uh,
this is this is perfect for me. Shorts and again,
shorts and hoodie. That's uh, that's what I'm rolling with.
I'm gonna see how many days consecutively that will be
my wardrobe. That's one of the that's one of the
benefits of this is that really we should dress as
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if we were going to work and not as slobs.
But for the most part, especially with this shift, Scott,
it really didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right. I mean, they're lucky we're clothed.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's exactly right. Now, you be comfortable.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I've always appreciated that in the morning when I wake up,
you know, and whether it be a favorite pair of
jeans to your point of hoodie, I love that hoodie
weather I've got my hoodies out of storage now, they're
all hanging up ready to go, and you know.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But don't underestimate.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Hey, I've seen TV folks, you know from the ways down,
show up in flip flops and shorts themselves and put
that sport code down with that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't fault them for it, right, if you can
get away with it. Then didn't sure which which, honestly,
TV would be. It would be a tough gig for
me for a variety of reasons. I don't think I'd
be very good at it. But there's a lot like
ours because of the visual component, and I don't I
don't mind dressing nice.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't think I've got great style by any means.
I borderline it right, like, yeah, I kind of. I
definitely don't dress up a lot, but you know, I
try not to look like a bum. That's that's sort
of my my style for the most part. But if
I had to wear what they had to wear every
day to be on television, as I'm looking at them
right now on WK.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Why that would get old really quick.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, and you know, I've been in workplaces too where
you can get away with when we I don't know
we made the transition to the casual work where in
the office, but it's been amazing, you know. I've worked
at places still in the modern day where folks are like, yeah,
we're going to dress up, you're gonna wear that, which
I understand. I totally respect. It's your workplace. You do
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what you need to do. But I think when workers
show up to your point, Nick, if you're comfortable in
hoodie and shorts, you're going to get the job done,
and probably better than you would if you were having
to throw on a pair of dress pants and the stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
He sure, comfort is key and everything everything. No matter
what it is you do, you're going to do a
better job at it if you are comfortable, and rather
it be physically mentally. It is a crucial element to
really every everyday life. So I'm comfortable looking right here
that it's fifty five degrees now here in Louisville, which,
by the way, Fridays, I don't know tomorrow, which crazy
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to think how fast this week has gone by, but
I think it might be tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We could see maybe overnight thirties.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It is a psycho for really like being overly excited
about that, because I'm sure some people hear that and
they're like, Oh, get the heck out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
No, And I heard you and Tony yesterday talking. Tony
mentioned he had seasonal effective disorder when it looked like
it was dark out during all that rain. Dude, if
we have consecutive days, especially when I was a bigger
person with my weight, et cetera, if we had consecutive
days where it was over one hundred degrees in the humidity,
was I I just was in a straight nasty mood.
I mean I was, like, I admitted to my wife,
I'm like, look, it's hot, it's nasty. If I appear
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to be in a nasty mood, it's not personal, it's
just I can't stand this weather.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I may I may ask Chad Gpt to self diagnose
me because I I think I might be a sick oh,
because I get the seasonal depression when that ends whenever
the whenever it gets dark early, yeah, whenever that when
that that era comes to an end light. When spring starts,
that's when I have seasonal oppression, which and I hate
using that word because it's I think we use that
way too loosely because I don't it's not genuinely that
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I'm depressed, but it certainly impacts my mood and and
that that can't be normal.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, you are normal because I'm right there way with you, bro,
I'm right there with you. There is something to me
when I get home, Like, for example, tonight, I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Maybe it's Justusu're for Michigan, right, Maybe that has something
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
When I go home tonight, I'm gonna cut the grass
because it's gonna need it. I've got a busy weekend,
gonna be at Lynn Family Stadium on weekend, so I
won't have time. But when I get home, there's something
cozy too. As I come in from cutting the grass,
the sun is setting, it's kind of dark. Throwing the blanket,
throwing the ballgame, grab a little snack, and then I'm
ready for bed. Dude, I can't sit and come in
from eighty degree heat, take a shower, sit down. Nine
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times out of ten, I can't throw a blanket on me.
You're not alone, brother. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, I know it's been a debate that you've probably
had with colleagues, friends, family. You know, if you have
to tough it out in the extreme cold or the
extreme heat, which would you prefer. I always, I always
say cold. But you know, with that said, that could
be brutal too. But the whole being able to put
on as many layers as possible and then you know,
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only being able to get you know, and by the way,
you can't. I mean, you'd probably get arrested if you
got naked because it's hot outside.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Been ready for the heat to go away.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And really, as we talked about, really for a couple
of weeks, we had a pretty brutaln't as if it
was crazy. It was just unusually warm for the last
couple of weeks of September. But now it looks like
that fall weather's going to be. You're gonna get a
warm here and there, I'm sure from now until the
next next month or so. But yeah, feels like fall
this morning as we get it started here, it's five
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Thorton's here and it is Coffee and Company. A lot
to get into here today, including some big news yesterday
as Trump announceds the first phase of Israel Hamas's peace deal.
That's certainly a big deal after two years of this war.
So that'll certainly be a talking point this morning, among
a lot of other things. I'll come back and kind
of set the table as we are busy, busy, but
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Speaker 2 (06:17):
And the.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Airport issues, as expected, are not going away. And I
think right now this is. I guess this is the
best chance for it to become a more heightened issue
as far as just people realizing, okay, when the government
is shut down, I guess it can cause a lot
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of issues. But man, this is really a big issue,
and that's probably a really dumb way to describe it,
But I think there are so many people that right now,
if you tell them, hey, do you know the government
shut down, they would know, but they're not living day
to day with reminders throughout their everyday life that Oh yeah, well,
I guess that's because the government shut down. So it's
(07:02):
it's only gonna get worse, right because once these employees
actually miss the paycheck, because that hasn't happened yet, I
think it'll probably be I guess, I guess it'd be
middle of the month, maybe early next week.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think they pay fifteenth and thirtieth ten.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, so you know that that will be the Who knows,
maybe by then the government shutdown will have come to
an end and they won't have missed a paycheck and
at the end of the day, they really weren't that
impacted all that much other than maybe burning up some
sick time.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I mean, I think we're starting to find out too, Nick,
We're finding more and more people that are impacted as
the day goes on. I know, my wife's best friend
is a TSA worker, and I just asked her last
night when I got home. I said, is so and
so is she working without pay now? And she goes, oh, yeah,
and she's not happy about it. And I says, she
worried about it now I'm getting in check and she says, oh, definitely, definitely,
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she knows the pay is coming, and she's already taken
the step to notify creditors, you know, those she needs
to notify. And she said, they've been very a common
with that, by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And they as they should and as they're you know,
they're supposed to. But and I haven't heard this, but
I just I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I
could find someone that would would try to play devil's
advocate and resist any like sympathy towards those that are worried,
because yes, they haven't missed a paycheck yet, but just
the unknown can create a lot of worry and anxiety
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for people, especially when you have no control. So I
mean it is worth mentioning that right now. It's not
as if they're they've missed it and you know it's
it's been a long, long delay and they've gone six
weeks without paychecks, nothing like that. But you know it
could get there now. I'm not saying it will. Hopefully
it'll be this whole thing will get resolved sooner rather
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than later. But I think just the I mean times,
even even before the government shutdown, I think there's probably
an increased level of worry financially just because of the economy,
the cost of living, those kind of things, and adding
this to it, especially with zero control is is certainly
a stressful thing I imagine for a lot of people.
But right now the pressure is mounting for these airlines
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to make it work as best they can. But again,
they're not really at fault here.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right I'm looking at the prediction markets, Nick, and apparently
I go there a lot when there's news stories like this,
because it told me the story that when Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Won the first election.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Right now, trading at a high volume is betters are
placing in the prediction market that this will last just
over twenty one days. That's where they're betting just about
two and a half million dollars on that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, and that would be very interesting, to be honest
with you, but because that's an interesting way to look
at this whole thing. Yea, But right now, I guess
that would put us at another roughly a little bit
under two weeks yep. So we'll see real quickly. If
your flight's canceled because of this, the airlines must rebook
you on a later flight for no charge, or refund
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you if you choose not to travel. Refunds must include
any unused extras like backfees, set up upgrades. But as
far as compensation limits, US airlines are not required to
pay for hotels meals during shutdown related cancelations. So if
you're somebody that wants to be compensated because you've been inconvenienced,
it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You can get your money back if you canceled, but
other than that, you're just at the mercy of whatever
whatever they can do. All right, let's get to a
quick update of traffic and whether we'll see how these
roadways are looking as we get the Thursday morning started.
Bobby Ellis, he's got us covered there. Also, we'll see
how the forecast looks the rest of this actually, I
say the rest of this week. Today's Thursday, the new Friday.
So we're at the end of the week, which is good.
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worried about Dolly Parton, worry no more.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
She's She's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So she she came to social media yesterday to let
people know that that she's she's not dead, which I
don't think anybody thought she was dead, but her sister
did ask folks to pray for her because of some
some I guess it was pretty pretty mysterious as far
as what the what the issue could be, but.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Obviously she is.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
She's I really don't even know who to compare Dolly
to as far as just lovable celebrities, because there are
many that just seem to have the it factor when
it comes to just being likable or lovable, but I don't.
I've never, I've never in my life heard anybody say
a bad thing about Dolly Parton, and I'm sure if
I looked hard enough, I could find somebody to say something.
(11:59):
But she's just universally beloved, it seems.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And her philanthropy work, her philanthropic work, et cetera, that
she's done, has been absolutely unbelievable, Nick, I mean, coming
to the aid of victims of natural disasters, especially in
that region, which she's done of course with Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
She's just amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And you know, Dolly Parton's one of those people that
you don't realize, you know, you don't think about her
that much until one she's in the news for this
or she does her good work like she does, and
that's a testament to being so successful in that she's
such an icon seventy nine years old.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I mean she's looked the same for forty years.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It seems right, right, Yeah, she's she Again, I can't
really put into words. And it's not like I'm questioning
it why people would like her. It's just she has
something about her that is that people just love and
you know, it must be nice. She's she's the best.
And again a lot of people worried and she let
him know that she's she's okay.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Do I look sick to you?
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease, those of you that seem to be
real concern, which I appreciate, and I appreciate your prayers
because I'm a person of faith. I can always use
the prayers for anything and everything. But I want you
to know that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Good to know that she is okay.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And I'm I'm looking at the video here that I
just played for you guys, and again I will see
she does look as if she's had a lot of
work done, but also she's kind of looked relatively the same.
For again, I mean since I've been alive, it seems.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
She has right and she's timeless. You know, she's her
husband just passed away, what just recently.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
If I'm not mistaken, she'll by the way, she'll be
eighty in January.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That's crazy. And she did, of course, her collaborative efforts.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
She's branched out and tried to reinvent herself a Glantis
which is a Swedish dm ban that I like to
listen too. She did a great song called Faith with them,
filmed entirely in Tennessee. The video was and she just
did such a great job. And what I like about
Dolly is not only her energy and again her filmthropic
work that she does, but she's constantly trying to reinvent herself.
She doesn't want to get locked into you know, there's
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more to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Than just Jolene.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And you know, in this day and.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Age where we're we got people up tight because Bad
Bunny's playing the super Bowl and that's different to them.
Dolly's always been one that has just embraced change, and
I think that's.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's fantastic, that's that's it'spirational to me, no.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And I'm just I'm racking my brain to try to
think of any type of like comparison to There isn't
to her as far as just because again you mentioned
the philanthropy work, and obviously musician is clearly what she
became famous for. But that that doesn't even really come
to mind for me when I think of her. She's
just an iconic figure. Now, not to say that her
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music wasn't great and she wasn't super talented, but it's
somebody who used that platform of being a musician to
really be such an influential figure that again, there's no comparison.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I don't think there isn't.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I mean, you know, and she you know, when she
partners up she obviously with Kenny Rogers, she had a
long history with him, with Hammy, Wynette and Ron's Dead,
and then she gets in, you know, with folks like
Molly Cyrus and Sea.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
She had a collaboration with Scene.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I remember seeing something she did with Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Dude, That's what I'm saying, man, so you know, she's
just so inspirational and I don't want to dwell on
the negative. It's more of a celebration than anything else.
But when Dolly does pass, I mean can, it's gonna
be a big doing.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know, talk about one of.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Those people who have who have just influenced music in
every way, shape or formance. It's kind of where when
we talk about, like the rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
people had a problem when rap acts started going into
the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Well, that's built
for people who have who provide changing influence on music,
on rock and roll music, and Dolly certainly would fall
not only the country music Hall of Fame, et cetera,
but definitely the rock and roll Hall of.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Fame, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
In fact, maybe this is a good chance to use
the Alex RWITPLLC talkback line, because if you could think
of some celebrity that may be in that same realm
as far as just they've got the it factor when
it comes to just being really likable, having a lot
of charisma, and you just know that nine out of
ten people you talk to are going to say, yeah,
(16:19):
I mean I love that person, right, knowing, knowing I
don't actually really know them, because you know, most of
us don't know these celebrities. But yeah, see I'm curious
to hear what here, and one of those is and
I mean this sincerely. It's not to the same level.
But like Snoop Dogg's kind of like that he.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Is in his own way, right, right, do you have
like a celebrity knick that you look up to that you.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Go, No, I like that person.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
No, And I'm not like all celebrities are all fake,
They're the worst. It's not that I just I have
never really been interested in people who are notable because
of just fame, you know what I'm saying, Like like
behind the scenes stuff as far as celebrities, reality shows,
TMZ time, stuff that just doesn't interest me at all.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It never really has.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Not to say that I don't get starstruck by certain celebrities.
That certainly happened before. But I'm not someone that would
ever just want to you know that. I you know,
I found most of these folks not really relatable, to
be honest with you. So yeah, it's not like I'm
I'm anti celebrity but yeah, I just I've never really
had anybody that I've just that I've gravitated to as
(17:24):
far as a musician, an actor, political figure, just you know.
Not I've had some that I've liked, but never to
the point where, you know, it's just been somebody that
I think of as somebody I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Look up to.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But sure, maybe maybe I'd be better off in life
if I had somebody like that. Maybe I'll start a
place where you guys can sign up. All right, we've
got a tracking your weather update on the way. Also,
we've got Roy O'Neil NBC News going to join us,
and we said we've got a lot to get to
with him, so stick around right here on News Radio
eight forty whas. Happy Thursday, Kentucky and it is coffee
and company with you on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
All right, let's bring him in. He's Roory O'Neil of
NBC News. Rory.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Some big news that and of course, two years in
the making, we now know that there has been a
big break here as both Israel and Hamas have signed
on to the first phase of a peace deal.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What can you tell us about the.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Last year a Ceaspire deal anyway, with Israel saying that
they will abide by a sea spire. On the Israeli side,
this deal would mean that the hostages who've been held
for two years now forty eight in all still being
held captive by Hamas, all of them we believe, are
to be released by Monday.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
According to President Trump. That would also.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Then lead to the release of hundreds of Palestinians who
are being held by Israeli jails, some of them serving
life sentences. So this is going to be an interesting
swap that we might see before over the Weeke and
into Monday. Of course, the celebrations are already underway with
I think there's a lot of cautious optimism, a lot
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of relief that this two year conflict may be entering
a new phase.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But there's also a lot of work to.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Be done, because while this could get the hostages released,
you know, getting Hamas to fully disarm, or getting Hamas
to agree that it won't have any role in Gaza's future,
that's still a lot that's a high bar to clear.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Still, yeah, I think the cautious optimism is maybe the
best way to describe it. For a variety of reasons.
But let's switch gears here. Government shutdown. That's of course
still going on, and it seems as if each day
there's more and more awareness of it, just because more
and more folks are really seeing the impact of this.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But mostly with the airlines right right.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
We're still seeing a lot of airport disruptions, not widespread,
you know, I think yesterday's weather from Washington up to
Boston was more of a factor than some of these
sickouts that we've seen involving TSA agents or air traffic controllers. Look,
the big hurdle comes next week when it's supposed to
be payday for millions of workers, but a lot of
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them won't be getting paychecks now. President Trump did say
yesterday that he I'd like to see legislation pass that
would see soldiers active duty military get paid. That contradicts
what Speaker Johnson had said. But let's see if there
can be some sort of a deal struck in order
to keep those active duty members paid, because boy, talk
at not a good look. You're not paying the military,
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but you are paying Congress.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So if your paycheck is going to be delayed, which
again next week is when we really see just how
much I guess those who are are impacted by with
their paycheck if they decide to start burning up sick
time and really just you know, deciding, yeah, I'm not
as interested in this job whenever the paycheck's not there,
which of course makes total sense. But what about those
that receive assistance from the government. That's probably another area
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where right away there's real worry about what this could
do to you.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Yeah, they are making a lot of accommodations, and look, Medicare, Medicaid,
they're still there.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Social Security is still there.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
But programs like WICK, the women, Infants and Children nutrition
program that might run out of money without some action
being taken. The White House has said they'll use incoming
tariff money and move it around there. That's sort of
a weird method, but okay, but they want to keep
that program funded. So yeah, So a lot of those
baseline programs are continuing to be operational.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But if you have to do.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Business with the Social Security Administration, say, apply for new
benefits or change things, that's where you're going to start
to see a lot of the struggles because the offices
just aren't open.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Do you anticipate that if this could if this drags
on for let's say a little over three weeks, that
there could be some worry from folks who may have
the realization that maybe they'll maybe their job won't be
viewed as is important because maybe they weren't missed quite
as much. That's another layer I think here as far
as anxiety for folks just on what this could do
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for their lovelihood.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Well, absolutely, Look, the last shutdown was thirty five days,
and that causes big issues. When you go over a
month without pay. You know a lot of people can't
pay the landlords. So now you're trying to get extensions
from your landlord or credit card companies, trying to say, oh, okay,
you're with the government, all right, there's a strike or not,
there's a furlough, then we'll make some accommodations because you're
(22:11):
a federal worker. But now you've got to apply for
all that stuff, spend all your time trying to plead
your case, and again it causes a lot of anxiety
because you don't know when it's going to come to
an end.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
So a lot of that is behind a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Of why people are so concerned about this and why
it's such a wet blanket on communities around d C
where so many federal workers are centered. But I should
also note that there are federal workers across the country
and this is having a rolling impact.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Rory, you are the best. As always, we appreciate your time,
enjoy your day. We'll talk tomorrow morning, my friend.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's Rory O'Neil the in TOBC News.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let's get a quick time out where we check on
the weather with Matt Melosavich of WLK. Why we've also
got to look at the roadways as we get this
Thursday started. Scott's got another sports update coming up as well,
right here on news Radio eight forty whas
All right, let's get it started. Here on a cool
Thursday morning. It is Kentucky and his morning news Coffee
and Company, fueled by Thornton's here on news Radio eight
forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me, Scott, it's joed alongside
John Shannon with us as well as we will take
you up till nine o'clock and get you get you
ready for this, this wonderful Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thursday is the new Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're gonna speak that into existence until it just becomes
it becomes a thing. But yes, it is a cool
morning to get it started. Fifty three degrees. This is uh,
this is this is perfect for me. Shorts and again,
shorts and hoodie. That's uh, that's what I'm rolling with.
I'm gonna see how many days consecutively that will be
my wardrobe. That's one of the that's one of the
benefits of this is that really we should dress as
(00:45):
if we were going to work and not as slobs.
But for the most part, especially with this shift, Scott,
it really didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right. I mean, they're lucky we're clothed.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's exactly right. Now, you be comfortable.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I've always appreciated that in the morning when I wake up,
you know, and whether it be a favorite pair of
jeans to your point of hoodie, I love that hoodie
weather I've got my hoodies out of storage now, they're
all hanging up ready to go, and you know.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But don't underestimate.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Hey, I've seen TV folks, you know from the ways down,
show up in flip flops and shorts themselves and put
that sport code down with that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't fault them for it, right, if you can
get away with it. Then didn't sure which which, honestly,
TV would be. It would be a tough gig for
me for a variety of reasons. I don't think I'd
be very good at it. But there's a lot like
ours because of the visual component, and I don't I
don't mind dressing nice.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't think I've got great style by any means.
I borderline it right, like, yeah, I kind of. I
definitely don't dress up a lot, but you know, I
try not to look like a bum. That's that's sort
of my my style for the most part. But if
I had to wear what they had to wear every
day to be on television, as I'm looking at them
right now on WK.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Why that would get old really quick.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, and you know, I've been in workplaces too where
you can get away with when we I don't know
we made the transition to the casual work where in
the office, but it's been amazing, you know. I've worked
at places still in the modern day where folks are like, yeah,
we're going to dress up, you're gonna wear that, which
I understand. I totally respect. It's your workplace. You do
(02:15):
what you need to do. But I think when workers
show up to your point, Nick, if you're comfortable in
hoodie and shorts, you're going to get the job done,
and probably better than you would if you were having
to throw on a pair of dress pants and the stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
He sure, comfort is key and everything everything. No matter
what it is you do, you're going to do a
better job at it if you are comfortable, and rather
it be physically mentally. It is a crucial element to
really every everyday life. So I'm comfortable looking right here
that it's fifty five degrees now here in Louisville, which,
by the way, Fridays, I don't know tomorrow, which crazy
(02:48):
to think how fast this week has gone by, but
I think it might be tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We could see maybe overnight thirties.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It is a psycho for really like being overly excited
about that, because I'm sure some people hear that and
they're like, Oh, get the heck out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
No, And I heard you and Tony yesterday talking. Tony
mentioned he had seasonal effective disorder when it looked like
it was dark out during all that rain. Dude, if
we have consecutive days, especially when I was a bigger
person with my weight, et cetera, if we had consecutive
days where it was over one hundred degrees in the humidity,
was I I just was in a straight nasty mood.
I mean I was, like, I admitted to my wife,
I'm like, look, it's hot, it's nasty. If I appear
(03:26):
to be in a nasty mood, it's not personal, it's
just I can't stand this weather.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I may I may ask Chad Gpt to self diagnose
me because I I think I might be a sick oh,
because I get the seasonal depression when that ends whenever
the whenever it gets dark early, yeah, whenever that when
that that era comes to an end light. When spring starts,
that's when I have seasonal oppression, which and I hate
using that word because it's I think we use that
way too loosely because I don't it's not genuinely that
(03:51):
I'm depressed, but it certainly impacts my mood and and
that that can't be normal.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, you are normal because I'm right there way with you, bro,
I'm right there with you. There is something to me
when I get home, Like, for example, tonight, I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Maybe it's Justusu're for Michigan, right, Maybe that has something
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
When I go home tonight, I'm gonna cut the grass
because it's gonna need it. I've got a busy weekend,
gonna be at Lynn Family Stadium on weekend, so I
won't have time. But when I get home, there's something
cozy too. As I come in from cutting the grass,
the sun is setting, it's kind of dark. Throwing the blanket,
throwing the ballgame, grab a little snack, and then I'm
ready for bed. Dude, I can't sit and come in
from eighty degree heat, take a shower, sit down. Nine
(04:28):
times out of ten, I can't throw a blanket on me.
You're not alone, brother. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, I know it's been a debate that you've probably
had with colleagues, friends, family. You know, if you have
to tough it out in the extreme cold or the
extreme heat, which would you prefer. I always, I always
say cold. But you know, with that said, that could
be brutal too. But the whole being able to put
on as many layers as possible and then you know,
(04:54):
only being able to get you know, and by the way,
you can't. I mean, you'd probably get arrested if you
got naked because it's hot outside.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Been ready for the heat to go away.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And really, as we talked about, really for a couple
of weeks, we had a pretty brutaln't as if it
was crazy. It was just unusually warm for the last
couple of weeks of September. But now it looks like
that fall weather's going to be. You're gonna get a
warm here and there, I'm sure from now until the
next next month or so. But yeah, feels like fall
this morning as we get it started here, it's five
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Thorton's here and it is Coffee and Company. A lot
to get into here today, including some big news yesterday
as Trump announceds the first phase of Israel Hamas's peace deal.
That's certainly a big deal after two years of this war.
So that'll certainly be a talking point this morning, among
a lot of other things. I'll come back and kind
of set the table as we are busy, busy, but
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Speaker 2 (06:17):
And the.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Airport issues, as expected, are not going away. And I
think right now this is. I guess this is the
best chance for it to become a more heightened issue
as far as just people realizing, okay, when the government
is shut down, I guess it can cause a lot
(06:40):
of issues. But man, this is really a big issue,
and that's probably a really dumb way to describe it,
But I think there are so many people that right now,
if you tell them, hey, do you know the government
shut down, they would know, but they're not living day
to day with reminders throughout their everyday life that Oh yeah, well,
I guess that's because the government shut down. So it's
(07:02):
it's only gonna get worse, right because once these employees
actually miss the paycheck, because that hasn't happened yet, I
think it'll probably be I guess, I guess it'd be
middle of the month, maybe early next week.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think they pay fifteenth and thirtieth ten.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, so you know that that will be the Who knows,
maybe by then the government shutdown will have come to
an end and they won't have missed a paycheck and
at the end of the day, they really weren't that
impacted all that much other than maybe burning up some
sick time.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I mean, I think we're starting to find out too, Nick,
We're finding more and more people that are impacted as
the day goes on. I know, my wife's best friend
is a TSA worker, and I just asked her last
night when I got home. I said, is so and
so is she working without pay now? And she goes, oh, yeah,
and she's not happy about it. And I says, she
worried about it now I'm getting in check and she says, oh, definitely, definitely,
(07:52):
she knows the pay is coming, and she's already taken
the step to notify creditors, you know, those she needs
to notify. And she said, they've been very a common
with that, by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And they as they should and as they're you know,
they're supposed to. But and I haven't heard this, but
I just I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I
could find someone that would would try to play devil's
advocate and resist any like sympathy towards those that are worried,
because yes, they haven't missed a paycheck yet, but just
the unknown can create a lot of worry and anxiety
(08:24):
for people, especially when you have no control. So I
mean it is worth mentioning that right now. It's not
as if they're they've missed it and you know it's
it's been a long, long delay and they've gone six
weeks without paychecks, nothing like that. But you know it
could get there now. I'm not saying it will. Hopefully
it'll be this whole thing will get resolved sooner rather
(08:44):
than later. But I think just the I mean times,
even even before the government shutdown, I think there's probably
an increased level of worry financially just because of the economy,
the cost of living, those kind of things, and adding
this to it, especially with zero control is is certainly
a stressful thing I imagine for a lot of people.
But right now the pressure is mounting for these airlines
(09:09):
to make it work as best they can. But again,
they're not really at fault here.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right I'm looking at the prediction markets, Nick, and apparently
I go there a lot when there's news stories like this,
because it told me the story that when Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Won the first election.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Right now, trading at a high volume is betters are
placing in the prediction market that this will last just
over twenty one days. That's where they're betting just about
two and a half million dollars on that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, and that would be very interesting, to be honest
with you, but because that's an interesting way to look
at this whole thing. Yea, But right now, I guess
that would put us at another roughly a little bit
under two weeks yep. So we'll see real quickly. If
your flight's canceled because of this, the airlines must rebook
you on a later flight for no charge, or refund
(09:55):
you if you choose not to travel. Refunds must include
any unused extras like backfees, set up upgrades. But as
far as compensation limits, US airlines are not required to
pay for hotels meals during shutdown related cancelations. So if
you're somebody that wants to be compensated because you've been inconvenienced,
it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You can get your money back if you canceled, but
other than that, you're just at the mercy of whatever
whatever they can do. All right, let's get to a
quick update of traffic and whether we'll see how these
roadways are looking as we get the Thursday morning started.
Bobby Ellis, he's got us covered there. Also, we'll see
how the forecast looks the rest of this actually, I
say the rest of this week. Today's Thursday, the new Friday.
So we're at the end of the week, which is good.
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worried about Dolly Parton, worry no more.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
She's She's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So she she came to social media yesterday to let
people know that that she's she's not dead, which I
don't think anybody thought she was dead, but her sister
did ask folks to pray for her because of some
some I guess it was pretty pretty mysterious as far
as what the what the issue could be, but.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Obviously she is.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
She's I really don't even know who to compare Dolly
to as far as just lovable celebrities, because there are
many that just seem to have the it factor when
it comes to just being likable or lovable, but I don't.
I've never, I've never in my life heard anybody say
a bad thing about Dolly Parton, and I'm sure if
I looked hard enough, I could find somebody to say something.
(11:59):
But she's just universally beloved, it seems.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And her philanthropy work, her philanthropic work, et cetera, that
she's done, has been absolutely unbelievable, Nick, I mean, coming
to the aid of victims of natural disasters, especially in
that region, which she's done of course with Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
She's just amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And you know, Dolly Parton's one of those people that
you don't realize, you know, you don't think about her
that much until one she's in the news for this
or she does her good work like she does, and
that's a testament to being so successful in that she's
such an icon seventy nine years old.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, I mean she's looked the same for forty years.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It seems right, right, Yeah, she's she Again, I can't
really put into words. And it's not like I'm questioning
it why people would like her. It's just she has
something about her that is that people just love and
you know, it must be nice. She's she's the best.
And again a lot of people worried and she let
him know that she's she's okay.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Do I look sick to you?
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease, those of you that seem to be
real concern, which I appreciate, and I appreciate your prayers
because I'm a person of faith. I can always use
the prayers for anything and everything. But I want you
to know that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Good to know that she is okay.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And I'm I'm looking at the video here that I
just played for you guys, and again I will see
she does look as if she's had a lot of
work done, but also she's kind of looked relatively the same.
For again, I mean since I've been alive, it seems.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
She has right and she's timeless. You know, she's her
husband just passed away, what just recently.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
If I'm not mistaken, she'll by the way, she'll be
eighty in January.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That's crazy. And she did, of course, her collaborative efforts.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
She's branched out and tried to reinvent herself a Glantis
which is a Swedish dm ban that I like to
listen too. She did a great song called Faith with them,
filmed entirely in Tennessee. The video was and she just
did such a great job. And what I like about
Dolly is not only her energy and again her filmthropic
work that she does, but she's constantly trying to reinvent herself.
She doesn't want to get locked into you know, there's
(14:16):
more to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Than just Jolene.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And you know, in this day and.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Age where we're we got people up tight because Bad
Bunny's playing the super Bowl and that's different to them.
Dolly's always been one that has just embraced change, and
I think that's.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's fantastic, that's that's it'spirational to me, no.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And I'm just I'm racking my brain to try to
think of any type of like comparison to There isn't
to her as far as just because again you mentioned
the philanthropy work, and obviously musician is clearly what she
became famous for. But that that doesn't even really come
to mind for me when I think of her. She's
just an iconic figure. Now, not to say that her
(14:55):
music wasn't great and she wasn't super talented, but it's
somebody who used that platform of being a musician to
really be such an influential figure that again, there's no comparison.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I don't think there isn't.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I mean, you know, and she you know, when she
partners up she obviously with Kenny Rogers, she had a
long history with him, with Hammy, Wynette and Ron's Dead,
and then she gets in, you know, with folks like
Molly Cyrus and Sea.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
She had a collaboration with Scene.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I remember seeing something she did with Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Dude, That's what I'm saying, man, so you know, she's
just so inspirational and I don't want to dwell on
the negative. It's more of a celebration than anything else.
But when Dolly does pass, I mean can, it's gonna
be a big doing.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know, talk about one of.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Those people who have who have just influenced music in
every way, shape or formance. It's kind of where when
we talk about, like the rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
people had a problem when rap acts started going into
the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Well, that's built
for people who have who provide changing influence on music,
on rock and roll music, and Dolly certainly would fall
not only the country music Hall of Fame, et cetera,
but definitely the rock and roll Hall of.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Fame, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
In fact, maybe this is a good chance to use
the Alex RWITPLLC talkback line, because if you could think
of some celebrity that may be in that same realm
as far as just they've got the it factor when
it comes to just being really likable, having a lot
of charisma, and you just know that nine out of
ten people you talk to are going to say, yeah,
(16:19):
I mean I love that person, right, knowing, knowing I
don't actually really know them, because you know, most of
us don't know these celebrities. But yeah, see I'm curious
to hear what here, and one of those is and
I mean this sincerely. It's not to the same level.
But like Snoop Dogg's kind of like that he.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Is in his own way, right, right, do you have
like a celebrity knick that you look up to that you.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Go, No, I like that person.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
No, And I'm not like all celebrities are all fake,
They're the worst. It's not that I just I have
never really been interested in people who are notable because
of just fame, you know what I'm saying, Like like
behind the scenes stuff as far as celebrities, reality shows,
TMZ time, stuff that just doesn't interest me at all.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It never really has.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Not to say that I don't get starstruck by certain celebrities.
That certainly happened before. But I'm not someone that would
ever just want to you know that. I you know,
I found most of these folks not really relatable, to
be honest with you. So yeah, it's not like I'm
I'm anti celebrity but yeah, I just I've never really
had anybody that I've just that I've gravitated to as
(17:24):
far as a musician, an actor, political figure, just you know.
Not I've had some that I've liked, but never to
the point where, you know, it's just been somebody that
I think of as somebody I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Look up to.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But sure, maybe maybe I'd be better off in life
if I had somebody like that. Maybe I'll start a
place where you guys can sign up. All right, we've
got a tracking your weather update on the way. Also,
we've got Roy O'Neil NBC News going to join us,
and we said we've got a lot to get to
with him, so stick around right here on News Radio
eight forty whas. Happy Thursday, Kentucky and it is coffee
and company with you on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
All right, let's bring him in. He's Roory O'Neil of
NBC News. Rory.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Some big news that and of course, two years in
the making, we now know that there has been a
big break here as both Israel and Hamas have signed
on to the first phase of a peace deal.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What can you tell us about the.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Last year a Ceaspire deal anyway, with Israel saying that
they will abide by a sea spire. On the Israeli side,
this deal would mean that the hostages who've been held
for two years now forty eight in all still being
held captive by Hamas, all of them we believe, are
to be released by Monday.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
According to President Trump. That would also.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Then lead to the release of hundreds of Palestinians who
are being held by Israeli jails, some of them serving
life sentences. So this is going to be an interesting
swap that we might see before over the Weeke and
into Monday. Of course, the celebrations are already underway with
I think there's a lot of cautious optimism, a lot
(18:57):
of relief that this two year conflict may be entering
a new phase.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But there's also a lot of work to.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Be done, because while this could get the hostages released,
you know, getting Hamas to fully disarm, or getting Hamas
to agree that it won't have any role in Gaza's future,
that's still a lot that's a high bar to clear.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Still, yeah, I think the cautious optimism is maybe the
best way to describe it. For a variety of reasons.
But let's switch gears here. Government shutdown. That's of course
still going on, and it seems as if each day
there's more and more awareness of it, just because more
and more folks are really seeing the impact of this.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But mostly with the airlines right right.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
We're still seeing a lot of airport disruptions, not widespread,
you know, I think yesterday's weather from Washington up to
Boston was more of a factor than some of these
sickouts that we've seen involving TSA agents or air traffic controllers. Look,
the big hurdle comes next week when it's supposed to
be payday for millions of workers, but a lot of
(19:56):
them won't be getting paychecks now. President Trump did say
yesterday that he I'd like to see legislation pass that
would see soldiers active duty military get paid. That contradicts
what Speaker Johnson had said. But let's see if there
can be some sort of a deal struck in order
to keep those active duty members paid, because boy, talk
at not a good look. You're not paying the military,
(20:18):
but you are paying Congress.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So if your paycheck is going to be delayed, which
again next week is when we really see just how
much I guess those who are are impacted by with
their paycheck if they decide to start burning up sick
time and really just you know, deciding, yeah, I'm not
as interested in this job whenever the paycheck's not there,
which of course makes total sense. But what about those
that receive assistance from the government. That's probably another area
(20:42):
where right away there's real worry about what this could
do to you.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Yeah, they are making a lot of accommodations, and look, Medicare, Medicaid,
they're still there.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Social Security is still there.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
But programs like WICK, the women, Infants and Children nutrition
program that might run out of money without some action
being taken. The White House has said they'll use incoming
tariff money and move it around there. That's sort of
a weird method, but okay, but they want to keep
that program funded. So yeah, So a lot of those
baseline programs are continuing to be operational.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But if you have to do.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Business with the Social Security Administration, say, apply for new
benefits or change things, that's where you're going to start
to see a lot of the struggles because the offices
just aren't open.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Do you anticipate that if this could if this drags
on for let's say a little over three weeks, that
there could be some worry from folks who may have
the realization that maybe they'll maybe their job won't be
viewed as is important because maybe they weren't missed quite
as much. That's another layer I think here as far
as anxiety for folks just on what this could do
(21:48):
for their lovelihood.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Well, absolutely, Look, the last shutdown was thirty five days,
and that causes big issues. When you go over a
month without pay. You know a lot of people can't
pay the landlords. So now you're trying to get extensions
from your landlord or credit card companies, trying to say, oh, okay,
you're with the government, all right, there's a strike or not,
there's a furlough, then we'll make some accommodations because you're
(22:11):
a federal worker. But now you've got to apply for
all that stuff, spend all your time trying to plead
your case, and again it causes a lot of anxiety
because you don't know when it's going to come to
an end.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
So a lot of that is behind a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Of why people are so concerned about this and why
it's such a wet blanket on communities around d C
where so many federal workers are centered. But I should
also note that there are federal workers across the country
and this is having a rolling impact.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Rory, you are the best. As always, we appreciate your time,
enjoy your day. We'll talk tomorrow morning, my friend.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's Rory O'Neil the in TOBC News.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let's get a quick time out where we check on
the weather with Matt Melosavich of WLK. Why we've also
got to look at the roadways as we get this
Thursday started. Scott's got another sports update coming up as well,
right here on news Radio eight forty whas
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