11.14: WARMIN UP - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is the longest shutdown that we have ever had, and
it is now finally back open. President Trump signed the
funding package late last night, ending weeks of stalled paychecks,
frozen services, and of course growing economic anxiety with a
lot of folks in this country. But again, it is
now over. But we also need to keep in mind

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that they've unlocked the doors essentially, but the drama is
far from over, because we could have some real big
political fights as we wrap up this year, and it
feels like we've already had a lot of that of course.
But yeah, they got it open. But to say that
everything's everything's good to go and everybody's on the same page,

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that would be that'd be a lie, because that's just
simply not the case. All right, So yesterday we got
an update from Mayor Greenberg as they have released the
names of.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
All the victims.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
So that's not supposed to play there, but I'm getting
ready to let you hear not anything from over Stock,
but something from Mayor Greenberg. Is he had a press
conference yesterday as he announced the names of all the victims,
and we'll certainly talk about that throughout the morning, but
you know, yesterday felt like another step in this whole thing.

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And I mean from just those in this community that
are observing the impact, not necessarily feeling it, like the
victims' families, and just there's there's a lot of folks
that you may not think of being impacted by this,
but this has this, this this has layers to it,
There's no doubt about that. So, uh, seeing a picture

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of each of these individuals and hearing more about their
stories because of family members that are talking to local
media outlets, it just makes it seem more real because
Louisville is a big small town. I mean, I learned
yesterday one of the other another one of the fourteen
victims I happened to know. I happen to know some
of their family. And that's really not a big surprise

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because I've lived here my whole life. Uh, I know
a lot of people and and and I'm sure there's
many of you listening right now that it's the same situation.
Oh yeah, guy used to work with that's his brother
or and I'm just giving you a hypothetical, but that's
just the kind of the kind of thing that that
that that you see whenever you've got fourteen people here
in this city, that again, I believe is has been

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accurately described as a very big, very big small town.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
But here is.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Here's Mary Greenberg yesterday discussing, uh, I guess the one
of the one of the steps here in this entire process,
as far as just making it public and now all
of the family members are it's been confirmed that that
their loved one that they were looking for and presumed
was dead. That is, in fact, unfortunately what what has happened,
and their bodies have been recovered and now they go

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through another very tough process and that is just the
the process of of of after life right where you
you have a funeral or you have whatever whatever it
is that you choose to do. So again here's Mary
Greenberg yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
So as we hear these names today, let's never forget
their lives, their laughter, their love, and all that they
meant to those around them and to our entire city.
Each of these victims represents a life full of purpose,
interrupted far too soon, and also a life that will

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never fade because we will always remember them, We will
take care of their loved ones, walk with them through grief,
and honor the lives they built by always saying their names.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
So again that just another step in this tragic situation
that will be remembered for a long long time, probably
something a lot of people around here remember forever. So
doesn't it feel like it doesn't feel like it was
a month ago when it happened.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I was just going to say that it feels like
it's really kind of I don't know, it's been a
long time. I was watching some of that when you
were talking about the mayor and watching some of the footies,
and of course it's running endless on social media as
we learned the final victim's name, et cetera. It does
nick it feels like it's been forever. I think the
city will be better for it. And getting applauding the
mayor for getting the word out, and I think that's

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just not.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Political speak that you hear from the mayor.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
I think that's genuine. I think that comes from his heart.
I think he genuinely cares about this city. And to
see everybody rally and even to see the emotional images
before the uk U of L basketball game, is everybody
came together collectively around this was just nothing short of impressive,
and with each tragedy, the city goes through, going back
to the first National Bank tragedy, we all grow a

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little bit more inside, and suddenly the things that divided us,
well they'll still divide us for a while, you know,
start to chip away a little bit more, and we
start it starts to put things in perspective.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So if there's a silver lining to.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
It, Yeah, two things that that I've taken from this
among many, and I'm sure it'll there'll be other things
that that come to mind to me throughout this process.
Is I just kind of sit back and observe something
that will be remembered for a long time here. One
leadership really shines in situations like this, and I think
from from top to bottom, it's been very impressive to
see our local leaders here, from Mary Greenberg to Andy Bisheer,

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even people like Jody Myman who clearly have a role
in sort of the city, the community getting through this
tragic situation. So that's been great. And it's not at
all political. I mean, it's just I mean, I'm sure
there's still some that can't see anything completely free of
any political lens, if you will, But I've not once
thought about anybody's political affiliation throughout any of this, and

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yet I've been tuned in and plugged in as best
I can, probably more so than most one because of
just what we do, but also just because I care.
At every step of the way I've been I've felt
as if we have good leadership throughout this, which again
I can certainly appreciate that, but also it's something that
can bring people together. It's just the human element that
you need to be reminded of every now and then,

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that a tragic situation can really can bring people together.
And this is just an example of of of the
community our our friends across the river in southern Indiana.
Obviously they had no you know, there was no impact
as far as the Hoosier State, but there are neighbors,
and there's a lot of people who listen to this
show that are in Southern Indiana, a lot of people
who live in Southern Indiana that come to work here

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in Louisville. And as I was leaving Southern Indiana over
the weekend, those big billboards that are right there before
you cross the bridge, I mean they had a bunch
of I and it was two of them at the
same time. It was the digital billboard that said, you know,
pray for Louisville. And there was another one that said
something similar, and it just you know, like that's that's
just something good to do, you know what I mean,
And that's that's there's that's still a part of this community.

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Obviously different state. Uh, they're there, they're across the river.
But again, I just as corny as it may sound
to some, I saw that and I thought, well, that
was that was nice.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
That was great.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
So anyways, you're absolutely right. Leadership certainly has shined through
all this.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
And as you mentioned, the good folks across the street,
our neighbors at Kentucky Emergency Management, I mean, the first responders, everybody,
bro we we're all better for it.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, diff Kentuckians, Indiana Natives, you know, Hoosiers, they're still
a like it or not. We got to live together, right,
there's a lot of exactly right, we kind of all
coexist with of course, so many people on both sides here.
But let's get to an update of traffic and weather.
We'll see how the roadways are looking as we get
this Thursday started. Also, Matt Melosovich will tell us how
we're looking as far as the forecast. And also we've

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got a sports update coming up as well, so stick around.
It is Coffee and Company. We're fieldbout Thornton's here at
news Radio eight forty whas when newsbroke earlier this week
that a Texas man has has been indicted for terroristic
threatening and some other charges, all against the victims. Here

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is Jeff Brahm. His family quarterback Miller Moss. I would
not have guessed that the man Brian Mandel, wouldn't have
guessed that he has the background that he has. But
I guess it's just a reminder the regardless of somebody's status,
their position, what they do for a living, you never
really know what they could be into, what they could
be dealing with, And I can't. Nobody knows if this

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guy is a degenerate gambler who has a big addiction
to gambling, because that's a real thing. But if he
does again, it'll just be a reminder that, regardless of
anybody's situation, you can get caught up and let something
consume you and become addicted to it so much so
that you let it ruin your life. Because this guy

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is far from what I would have expected. He is
a and by the way, he flew to Louisville as
soon as he heard about his charges, which tells you
he knew the severity of it. But he's from Corpus Christy.
He's the vice chair of his city's planning commission, and
not only did he fly to Kentucky after learning of
the indictment, he was never contacted by police until seeing

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this story in the news, which that had to be
scary to realize. Uh, oh, I did this and now
I'm I'm I'm in trouble. But check this out. His father,
Scott Mandel, is running for Congress in Texas's thirty fourth district.
He's a former law enforcement officer crime Task Force commander.

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The family spokesperson says that the son, the one who's charged,
has no role in his father's campaign, and the city
of Corpus Christie says they do not have any process
for suspending an indicted board member. So this guy has
been ordered by a judge to consume no alcohol and
refrain from gambling. My assumption here is that he I mean,

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he did at least show up and face the music,
didn't run, and given what the judge ordered, I would
imagine that that this means that in his defense, maybe
he didn't have much of a defense, but in his
explanation he blamed it on gambling and being drunk, because
that and that totally totally makes uh makes sense here,
And I don't know why, but I'm so I'm so

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curious to know what he what he missed out on.
My guess.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
This is just a guess.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
That game was played late at night, seven o'clock. It's
a random game. He doesn't have any seeming. He has
no connection to cal or to Louisville. So with it
being something that led to him again committing crimes terroristic
threatening extortion, it's probably like the last leg of a

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parlay to where that's all he needed in order to
maybe cash a big, big, big, big big ticket, or
maybe it could be a one off bet that he
would have won twenty bucks. You never really know, but
for it to get to this level, I just assumed
that he missed out on a lot of money and
Louisville probably didn't need to cover. They probably just needed
to win, and it came down to the overtime loss.

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And again I'm totally speculating, trying to guess. You never
really know. I mean, I see people lose their mind
on social media. I've seen people at a sports book
with a lot of theatrics when it comes to just
letting every everybody there know they lost they had a
bad beat and they're dealing with it and you find
out they're out ten bucks. You know, it's just it's

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you never really know how anybody's gonna act. But yeah,
this guy, he could be, and he could he could
be somebody that is used as an example and as
a case study here that yeah, we all have access
to sports gambling now. It is very much in your
face because it's embedded within the sports cover, the sports
content we consume everywhere. I mean, even if you don't

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have interest in it and you don't participate, it's almost
impossible not to know how how much it is prevalent
in society now. So don't let that get the best
of you to where you let it consume you. So, look,
addiction is real. We can get addicted to anything. Gambling
is certainly one of those things that people get addicted to,
and it can it can ruin your life, like getting

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addicted to hard drugs. And hopefully this guy learned from
it and his life isn't totally ruined. But obviously when
you do what he did, you're gonna have to pay
some consequence, and it.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Makes it it makes it tougher when there was it
was the overtime loss. Even my wife would throw something
at the TV shows as I hate college overtime when
it's that dramatic. And I don't know how much money
this guy put down on the game. Like you said,
maybe it was the back end of a parlay, but
it sounds like there was a lot there that could
have been lost.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't know what he lost. I don't know what
his situation is.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
But to react in that way, combine with the alcohol,
mind you, that was a problem, but you know it
didn't help the game went into overtime. I just I'm
not a fan of college overtime.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I never have been. I just I don't like it.
I don't like this you score, I get to score
that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
I know I'm probably swimming upstream here when I say that,
but it's like, just let my defense go win the
game for me.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I mean a lot of people love college overtime compared
to the NFL because the NFL will let you tie,
which is the stupidest thing. In all of sports. But yeah,
the charge is six counts of second degree terroristic threatening,
one count of attempted theft by extortion over ten thousand dollars.
Accused of threatening Brahm, his wife, and his son as
well as his brother Brian Brahm, and also threaten Miller

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Moss the next day an attempt to extort more than
ten thousand dollars. So this is the following day, and
I guess you missed out on a bunch of money,
and you're you want Miller Moss to pay you back,
and you make a threat that you're going to do
something if he doesn't. I mean again, it's just being
an idiot on the internet. But I'm all for exposing
and holding more idiots on the internet accountable to only

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clean up the toxic wasteland that is the Internet. Right anyways,
quick update of Travick and Weather's on the way. Rody
O'Neil set to join us in just a few minutes,
so stick around right here. It's news Radio eight forty whas.
Good Thursday morning, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky Anda's morning news,
Coffee and company with you here at news Radio eight
forty whas Rody O'Neil, He joins us Rory. The government

(13:45):
shutdown has come to an end. The forty three day
shutdown is now over, but it sounds like we could
be in the works for another shutdown not too long
from now, right.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Right, you know, this funding bill signed last night by
President and Trump in the Oval Office just keeps the
lights on through the end of January, So when you
factor in the holidays, it's really not a lot of
time for lawmakers to get their act together in order
to come up with a full funding plan for the
fiscal year that started back on October first. But we're

(14:17):
still going to see some of the same tripping points, right,
and these Obamacare subsidies are going to be a big
part of the negotiations going forward.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
In your opinion, which side do you think has the
better feeling this morning as if maybe they won the fight.
It seems as if it'd be tough to determine if
either side feels as if they came out on the winning.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
End here well, right, and there is an old line
that says, nobody wins in a government shutdown, and I think,
you know, I think are what's the word I'm looking for?
But are discussed with Congress, is it all record high?
You know, we're just fed up with a lot of
them for not doing their jobs, you know, and acting

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responsibly on behalf of the email and people that just
we're not seeing that. And you know, even looking if
you're a deficit hawk, could say, we're's crazy spending. Well,
this funding bill just keeps the same spending levels out there,
So it's not even addressing that issue either.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
So if we really have pause, didn't we we.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Have and nothing's been happening. You know, the fact that
I think the house has been out for fifty four
days now, you know, you're like, hey, guys, we are
still paying you almost a couple hundred grand. You know,
you got stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
So when it comes to the timeline here, Congress has
it looks to be about four working weeks left in
the year to handle the Obamacare subsidies expiring, the Farm bill,
energy credits, spending bills up until the end of January.
A lot of work to be done in a little
amount of time. And it doesn't seem as if there
was a handshake and everybody's on the same page now, right,

(15:49):
We just we just kind of hit pause and got
it got it restarted, but still this isn't really over.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
It seems well right, and even look at how this
came to an end. You know, it wasn't as if
we'd been to both sides a minute at the table
every day pounding the table and yelling at each other
and trying to hammer something out. Both sides were entrenched
right doing nothing, and it took some side groups to
come together and put together this plan that sort of
got them around what had been before the senators to debate. So,

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you know, even though we're not seeing much leadership get
together to sit down with the opposition party and figure
something out, it's just a news conference after news conference
and not real negotiation.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Rory O'Neil's our guest joining US Serial News Radio eight
forty Whas now the Olympic Games come into Los Angeles
in twenty twenty eight, big changes come into the schedule.
What can you tell us as far as these big
changes and how they've typically done it.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Well, it's going to be a bit more of a
feminine flair in LA in twenty twenty eight. For the
first time, the women's one hundred meters track final, not
the men's, will open the first night of metal competition
for the Games. The men's one hundred final, which traditionally
goes first, will instead be held the next night, and
actually the participation overall is a bit more feminine too.

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The LA Olympics will feature a record number of female athletes.
USA Today reporting that fifty point five percent of total
athletes will be women, participating in fifty one different games
at forty nine competition venues. Rory.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
In your career, have you ever covered the Olympic Games?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
I have. I went to the Games in Salt Lake
back in two thousand and two, mostly though as a
security story because it was just a couple months after
nine to eleven, obviously extra concerns about what was going
on there. So as mostly they're covering security related to events,
and maybe I got to a vend or two.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Cool experience. I assume I'm very jealous.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Yeah, And I would also say that the summer the
Winter Games are great because they're very small. These Summer
Games are massive, and some of the competition in the
Summer Games is happening in Oklahoma City, so that's how
sprawled out this thing is. Whereas, yeah, the Winter Games
are much smaller, fair, which I kind of enjoyed that
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Rory has always we appreciate your time, my friend, have
a good day. We'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Thanks Nick.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
That is Rory O'Neill. Yeah, I'm jealous. Covering the Olympics
would be really really cool in a variety of ways,
just to see all the different cultures. And I'd love
to experience Olympics really in any way. Maybe I will
one day. When he mentioned security he was covering security,
that was the story. I kind of thought he was
going to tell me he was working security, which would
have made sense too. I mean, Rory also let me

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know the other day he's six'. Six my man can
do both, journalism badass security. Guard It's roory. O'Neil all,
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