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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is coffee and Company. Hil Beth Orton's here at
news Radio eight forty whas I appreciate you hanging out
with us here on a on a Tuesday morning post
national championship Tuesday morning, which is absolutely still something that
I woke up today and couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Actually happened, but it did.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Indiana is your national champions in college football. I mean,
still saying it out loud hadn't quite hit me yet.
And I say that as if like I'm a fan
and I've been waiting so long. It's certainly not that.
It's just I think easily one of the most unpredictable
stories of all time in sports in my lifetime certainly.
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And what you make movies about this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of movies out, Nick,
They're gonna come out according to this storyline, I mean,
a perfect sixteen and er we'll hear a clip from
coach Signetti and what this win meant to him, you know,
mister graffy groff and got a little emotional himself. And
do you you made this point Nick throughout the week,
and I really appreciate you doing that really throughout Indiana's run,
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and that is just how the entire state of Indiana
has really rallied around this team and now more important.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Would you expect them not to No, No, I think
they would. I think you're right. I just think it's
just such a feel good story. There's something wholesome.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I've been to IEU a few times for football games,
and you know, there's just something wholesome about IU. I
know they're not perfect like anybody else, but yeah, they're
this this lovable team. As far as just their story,
they seem to be a real reflection of their coach.
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I I found it hard not to, you know,
enjoy seeing them ultimately get it done. I mean, even
if they would have lost last night, it's still a
phenomenal story that still would not seem real. But here's
when it became real last night at Jamari Sharp interception
as Miami's driving under a minute left, they're at the
forty yard line. Twenty one twenty was the score at
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that time, and an interception from Carson beck Is is
what's sealed it, meaning an interception that he threw on.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
First down and ten shotgun snap, he's under pressure, he's
cross and.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It is intercepting half of their fifteen yard line. Tony
sir with the interception, and Indiana's going to win the
national championship on the first turnover of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So there are some crazy numbers I want to throw
at you guys real quick here before we get an
update on the forecast and an update on traffic as
we get this Tuesday morning started. But these are numbers
that really, I think, put in perspective how unreal it
is that Indiana is in is in this situation. So
Indiana's postseason wins prior to hiring Kurt Signetti in program
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history three Indiana's postseason wins this month.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Three.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean from twenty twenty through twenty twenty three, that's
four seasons Indiana won fifteen games total. They went sixteen
to o this year. I mean, it's unbelievable to see
what they've been able to do. I mean, before Signetti
was hired, the last time Indiana won more than eight
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games in a season was nineteen sixty seven. For some perspective,
we hadn't put a man on the moon yet. The NFL,
the AFL, merger hadn't happened yet, the NHL had just
six teams, and gasoline cost thirty two cents per gallon.
So just some numbers that put in perspective how unbelievable
it is to see Indiana do it and not to
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get to corny. But I think in an era that
is here and not going anywhere, the era where college
sports turned into professional sports, to see a team with
this guy coaching that comes from James Madison, that adjusts
and adapts to this new world, and his infectious charisma,
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his ability to lead agrip, his ability to get a
buy in from a group in back to back seasons
and accomplish this, it's good for college football. Indiana is
not a sexy program historically by any means. In fact,
when he took over another fact here, when he took
over the program, they were the most losing hist team
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in the history of college football among power conferences. So
you know, for some I guess it's just, yeah, this
is kind of weird, cool story. I'm over at Indiana's
blah fair enough, But I think we need a program
like Indiana right now, thriving the way they are, to
remind folks that, yes, despite it being professional sports and
players jumping around all the time, you still can get
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a buy in. You still can get a team to
work together and make you it. Thomas forget that they're
out there making a lot of money because they play
for one another. And to see this group put it
all together was really cool. And again, as I started,
it doesn't seem real, but it is real. Maybe it's
because we talk about JCBs quite a bit on the show,
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But I'm not a member of the JCPS parents Facebook
group and I really never will should be.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
My kids are in school, but they don't go to JCPS.
But anyways, there's a post from Ballered mental Health. This
is an Instagram post and it says canceling school tomorrow
would help our mental health. Please consider JCPS Sincerely, Ballared
mental Health, and it goes on to discuss how cold
it's going to be and how for many students in
JCPS getting to and from school and these conditions can
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be stressful, unsafe, and mentally exhausting. The post goes on
to say mental health is closely tied to students sense
of safety, stability, and well being. When students start their
day feeling anxious, coal or overwhelmed, they can affect their
ability to focus, learn, and fully engage in the classroom.
And it just goes on to say that a weather
related cancelation of delay can be an opportunity to emphasize
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that education systems value their students as people first learner. Second,
protecting mental health, reducing stress, and promote voting safety builds
trust within this within the community and creates long a
stronger foundation for success when students return. So that, as
you could expect, got a lot of reaction from people claiming,
why would they ever cancel school for being cold outside?
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And then also there were plenty that said, anybody opposing
this doesn't have a kid that has to stand outside
for a certain amount of time. And you know, anybody
saying that it's soft, they probably have their kids sitting
in their warm car as they wait for the bus.
And it just became you know, what you'd expect a
Facebook group to be when it comes to a subject
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like this. But what I took away from it and
I hate that I have to put the disclaimer on
there out there, put the disclaimer on it, But like
I do, mental health is a real thing, and I
think especially for men. It's something that we need to
be more comfortable talking about instead of just brushing it
off as if pretending it doesn't exist. Now, with that said,
what kids are being asked to do here is something
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that has been done for generations. Waiting at a bus
stop in the winter when it's cold outside. That's not new,
it's not radical. It's not something that until very recently
was viewed as adversity. It was, you know, part of life.
Ten fifteen years ago. The idea of saying, I don't
know if I can do this. It's cold and I
have to wait at the bus stop wouldn't have even
crossed people's minds. It wasn't framed as you know, a
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traumatic experience. It wasn't considered to be even really harmful.
You put on a coat, you waited, and you moved on.
And I'm not somebody that is oftentimes bothered that, you know,
kids get out for reasons that I didn't get out
of school for whenever I was younger, because it doesn't
even it doesn't really impact me. But when we start
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treating this as something kids shouldn't have to endure, I
think the bigger question from that is if this is
considered too much. If this is where we drove all
the line, like what happens when life actually gets hard?
And I don't mean to be insensitive, I'm being honest.
If sitting at the bus stop outside having to put
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another layer on because it's really cold ends up just
being something that we just you can't do. I mean, Wow,
life is gonna hit you a lot harder really probably
maybe not everybody, but and whatever is you end up doing,
there's gonna be tough days, tough times, things that just
you know, happen, adversity, it's life. And I just think
the more that we you can balance it better than
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I think we do at times when it comes to
being aware and not insensitive to things, but also not
completely shield young people from what is going to come
as they get older, which is life, the ups and
downs of you know, life. But I'm curious, are you.
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Are you somebody that thinks that because we can do
NTI now that we should do it more often when
you have days like this where yes, it is really cold.
I mean, not to put him on the spot, but
Scott Fitzgerald grew up in Michigan. You all had to
wait at a bus stop for the school bus.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But I think you make some great points here, Nick,
and that is absolutely right. We're in a different day
and age, and there's a lot of different things that
there are a lot of different moving parts in here.
It's not like, you know, the folks, the decision makers
are making these decisions. Just to make these decisions. There's
a real safety involved here. And yeah, but I mean
it's it's not safety.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I mean, like, again, what was it viewed as unsafe
when we've done it for generations?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, I see your point. Yeah, there's validity to that,
absolutely there is.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
My point is that what people are being asked to
do now is put their kids at a cold bus
stop was not ever viewed as some trauma. It was
viewed as part of life. And now the more we
view things in that lens of it's just too hard.
And again there are things now that it's also them
that are easy for us and things that used to
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be considered things that used to be very difficult. And
you know, I don't want to use the word trauma,
but things that used to be just the way it
had to be. But now in the current world, it's
not as difficult because if you know, the ever evolving
life that we live, that we live technology, all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Resources.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's not that I'm anti that, but it's just the
more we start to sensitize every little thing as like
just too much adversity, too much for people to deal with.
What are they going to do when they actually have
to deal with real world stuff? That's that's moul Do
you want to you wonder if it might be a
litigation thing as well? What do you mean Like, let's say, for.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Example, a young person is out at a bus stop,
and I'm not saying this is legit, and I'm not
trying to give an encredence because I think what you're
saying is making a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
By the way, No, nobody's considering letting them out of school.
I'm only reacting to a class in school that is
advocating that the school should let them have remote learning
when it's this cold, because if they're worried and anxious
about being cold at the bus stop, it could impact
their mental health.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So it's not like the school. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I was looking at more like, let's say a child's
waiting outside and somehow they get sick and then someone
decides they wanted to take the school district to court
and say, well, that's because you made my child sit out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean you could then then that's somebody I would
consider that. It's very very soon happy. Yes, I I agree.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's where I kind of wonder where some of the
mentality is, you know, with this to your point, because
listening to you, I get what you're saying. I can
I can totally pick up on that. You know, I
was the last key kid I grew up. Now almost now,
latch key kids are sometimes unheard of. You know, kids
have to be entertained twenty four to seven after school.
There's there's things, you know, I came home, I put
my stuff down, you know, I got a snack, watch
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a little TV.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If I felt like it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I would do my homework and then folks would get
home from work, they do their thing, we'd all go
to bed, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And now that's almost unheard of.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now that's in some cases that could be construed as
a beauty.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You know, neglect.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, And I just think there should be in my
in my view, a more heightened awareness of balancing that
line of when when and sometimes having people deal with
like I think if my kid goes through something that's
tough and challenging, I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna
you know, be happy to see that. But I'll I'll
view it and say, Okay, he'll grow from this, She'll
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grow from this. This is this is part of life.
This is how you how you grow, how you develop.
So if we no longer even put them through those
situations because it's just too hard, will they ever be
prepared for? You know, when life really really hits you.
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a group at Ballard High School that was suggesting that
JCPS should consider remote learning INTI whenever it is this
cold outside, and we can reset that a little bit
later on. But I just think that if something like
this is now viewed as just too difficult and we
just can't put our kids through sitting at the bus
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stop when it's cold, when that's really been something that's
existed for generations. It wasn't even viewed a decade ago
as something that was adversity. It was just part of life.
And there are many things that used to be more
difficult and now they're not, and life's maybe better because
of that. Maybe not overall, but you know, things are
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better that you don't have to do certain things because again,
we evolve, things evolve, you get access to better resources.
Obviously technologies changed a lot of things. But my argument was,
let's balance that a little better. Let's be mindful that
we should put our kids through things that they may
not want to do, they may not love doing. That
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might be you know, something they dread because one long
term it won't hurt them, and also it'll get them
more prepared for when legitimate adversity hits. This is not,
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it is that you want. All right, this story is
insanely frightening. You've got a standoff yesterday in Saint Matthew's
that thankfully ended peacefully, but it was a man inside
that had barricaded himself in a home with a six
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month old baby, and then that man had later confessed
to a separate shooting just hours earlier. So officers with
LMPD responded that it was right afternoon to a call
that was in looks like the one hundred block of
Wiltshire Avenue that's near Shelbyville Road in Breckamridge Lane, and
there was a man twenty eight year old Clint Dean Lobbig,
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who had forced someone out of the home and barricaded
himself inside, and there was a six month old infant
there so officers secured the area called in Swat and
it was around three twenty pm where he did surrender
peacefully and the baby was checked on and thank god, unharmed.
I cannot be I cannot imagine being the parent in
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that situation, how frightening that would be. But court documents
say that the man's mother, who was arrested, called nine
one one earlier that morning reporting her son was aggressive
and agitated. Before the call of disconnected. She later texted
this dispatched the address. Police say the man forced his
mother out of the apartment after allegedly throwing her under
a bed and smothering her for about a minute, preventing
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her from breathing. After his arrest, he admitted the police
that he was involved in a shooting Sunday evening near
a laundry matt on Lexington Road. Now we can reset
this coming up in a moment. I want to make
sure I've got this correct for you. But this, this,
this could give us. This could be the update that
we were bound to get or in regards to a
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shooting that took place on Sunday night, it sounds like
that's that's what this was. So yeah, I mean thankfully
that this man who's dealing with whatever he's dealing with.
I mean, that was the before we even knew details.
That was the report yesterday. I guess the standoff was
going on, and that was that this guy is believed
to be having a mental episode. Well, whatever he's going through,
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let's make sure he's not. He's not out roaming with
with with you know, citizens here who he could clearly
put it danger because it's a miracle that seemingly everything's
okay from yesterday's situation. Obviously the shooting a little bit
of a different story. But I mean, imagine you're just
at home with your six month old baby and all
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of a sudden you get forced out of your home
potentially a gunpoint to then know that you're six month
old baby. I mean, I'm just imagining what it would
take to keep me from running in there like a
lunatic myself. I mean, I would hope that I wouldn't
do that, and I would trust that law enforcement and
professionals are there to handle this situation. That's what they're
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trained to do. But man, parental instincts can be a
powerful thing. All right, Let's get to a quick time
out we'll check on traffic and weather. Also, we'll have
Rory O'Neil who's set to join us as we discuss
the latest on what's happening with ice in Minneapolis, as
well as the global response that's out there as far
as the takeover of Greenland. Stick with us. It's News
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Radio eight forty whas entucking in this morning news Nick Coffee,
that's me and we've got Roory O'Neal with us. Rory,
what's the latest with ice in Minneapolis? Obviously that's been
a consistent thing that we've discussed over the last couple
of weeks. What is the latest ays of this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, one of the things that happened over the weekend
is still triggering a lot of fallout, and that was
when anti ice demonstrators went into a church, the city's
church in Saint Paul, where a pastor there is a
local ICE official and disrupting the church services on Sunday,
maybe crossing a line. And the US Deputy Attorney General
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for Civil Rights is investigating this as potentially a civil
rights violation, even looking at whether or not journalists Don
Lemon might be targeted of some potential investigation because he
seemed to know that this demonstration, this interruption was going
to happen, and was filming it all along the way.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Of course, it might also just be stirring the pot
a bit as well.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now, when it comes to President Trump's long running bid
to bring Greenland fully under US control, and by the way,
he's now framed it as imperative for national and world security.
What's the global response from this entire situation with Trump
trying to bring Greenland under US control?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, I think Russia is about the only country that
supports this idea.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know, the President is now threatening tariffs against eight
European countries that have come out against this idea. Says
those ten percent tariffs start next month, they go up
to twenty five percent until they change unless they change
their tune on this.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Idea, you know.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
But he's heard pushback from the leaders of France and
the UK who really don't understand why this is being done.
You know, Greenland has said the US can expand its
military operations in Greenland. That's fine, that they could even
build more bases. So there's a real head scratch. They're
going to give you everything you want. Why do you
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want to take over Greenland, and I think a lot
of a lot of Americans still have that same question.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Ory and Neils our guest joining us here on news
radio eight forty whas, let's talk about political potty mouth.
So it seems now that there's politicians more comfortable at
times using vulgar language in public that maybe you didn't
used to see from politicians. Any data out there, any
clue who some of the bigger offenders are.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, well it's anecdotal.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And I think this story caught the attention of axios
with that Minneapolis mayor saying a few things about.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Getting ice agents out.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You know, obviously the words that are being used more
frequently are ones we cannot use because we're respectable individuals.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
But it is something we're seeing just.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
More and more at all levels, you know, from a
mayor of Minneapolis up to the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just a lot more coarse language, a lot more for
letter words involved. You know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Look something saying that this excites the base, and it
moves politicians beyond their boring, stoic talking points, and it
makes it more relatable when someone uses when they drop
an F bomb, But others, you know, still makes the
hair go back, stand up in the back of my
neck when you hear it?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Am I the only one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And I'm sure I'm not that it really seems and
stands out like a real force. Whenever curse words are used,
really in situations like this by politicians of those that
just clearly it stands out because you know that you
would never typically hear it. It just seems like such
an obvious thing that you're trying to become relatable, You're
trying to I guess just you know, get a reaction.
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But I've yet to hear curse words similar to what
we saw last week or a couple of weeks ago,
whenever it was from the mayor of Minneapolis and did
not feel like a real force.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well right, and look, I've been in radio for decades,
let's just leave it at that. But for me, look,
I'm not going to say, as a sweet, pure bred irishman,
I'm not going to say the words haven't passed my lips.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
However, every time I hear someone.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Use those words that could gets you fired, I sort
of cringe, like, oh, that's one of those you know,
some words you can apologize for if you slip them
on air. Others you can. So every time I hear it,
I'm like, oh gosh, don't say that. Yeah, so i'm, i'm, I'M.
I tend not to use a whole lot of four
letter words, at least not the ones that get you
fired anyway, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Every time I hear it.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I sort of like duck and cover, like, oh yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
There is the flash effect. I get it.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Look, we see it in stand up comedy all the time, right,
you know, the good comics don't need them. The scientils
of the world, they don't need to use those words.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But let's the Andrew diized Clay. Maybe that's the whole bit.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I couldn't agree more.
I mean, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is coffee and Company. Hil Beth Orton's here at
news Radio eight forty whas I appreciate you hanging out
with us here on a on a Tuesday morning post
national championship Tuesday morning, which is absolutely still something that
I woke up today and couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Actually happened, but it did.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Indiana is your national champions in college football. I mean,
still saying it out loud hadn't quite hit me yet.
And I say that as if like I'm a fan
and I've been waiting so long. It's certainly not that.
It's just I think easily one of the most unpredictable
stories of all time in sports in my lifetime certainly.
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And what you make movies about this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of movies out, Nick,
They're gonna come out according to this storyline, I mean,
a perfect sixteen and er we'll hear a clip from
coach Signetti and what this win meant to him, you know,
mister graffy groff and got a little emotional himself. And
do you you made this point Nick throughout the week,
and I really appreciate you doing that really throughout Indiana's run,
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and that is just how the entire state of Indiana
has really rallied around this team and now more important.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Would you expect them not to No, No, I think
they would. I think you're right. I just think it's
just such a feel good story. There's something wholesome.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I've been to IEU a few times for football games,
and you know, there's just something wholesome about IU. I
know they're not perfect like anybody else, but yeah, they're
this this lovable team. As far as just their story,
they seem to be a real reflection of their coach.
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I I found it hard not to, you know,
enjoy seeing them ultimately get it done. I mean, even
if they would have lost last night, it's still a
phenomenal story that still would not seem real. But here's
when it became real last night at Jamari Sharp interception
as Miami's driving under a minute left, they're at the
forty yard line. Twenty one twenty was the score at
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that time, and an interception from Carson beck Is is
what's sealed it, meaning an interception that he threw on.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
First down and ten shotgun snap, he's under pressure, he's
cross and.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It is intercepting half of their fifteen yard line. Tony
sir with the interception, and Indiana's going to win the
national championship on the first turnover of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So there are some crazy numbers I want to throw
at you guys real quick here before we get an
update on the forecast and an update on traffic as
we get this Tuesday morning started. But these are numbers
that really, I think, put in perspective how unreal it
is that Indiana is in is in this situation. So
Indiana's postseason wins prior to hiring Kurt Signetti in program
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history three Indiana's postseason wins this month.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Three.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean from twenty twenty through twenty twenty three, that's
four seasons Indiana won fifteen games total. They went sixteen
to o this year. I mean, it's unbelievable to see
what they've been able to do. I mean, before Signetti
was hired, the last time Indiana won more than eight
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games in a season was nineteen sixty seven. For some perspective,
we hadn't put a man on the moon yet. The NFL,
the AFL, merger hadn't happened yet, the NHL had just
six teams, and gasoline cost thirty two cents per gallon.
So just some numbers that put in perspective how unbelievable
it is to see Indiana do it and not to
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get to corny. But I think in an era that
is here and not going anywhere, the era where college
sports turned into professional sports, to see a team with
this guy coaching that comes from James Madison, that adjusts
and adapts to this new world, and his infectious charisma,
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his ability to lead agrip, his ability to get a
buy in from a group in back to back seasons
and accomplish this, it's good for college football. Indiana is
not a sexy program historically by any means. In fact,
when he took over another fact here, when he took
over the program, they were the most losing hist team
(04:19):
in the history of college football among power conferences. So
you know, for some I guess it's just, yeah, this
is kind of weird, cool story. I'm over at Indiana's
blah fair enough, But I think we need a program
like Indiana right now, thriving the way they are, to
remind folks that, yes, despite it being professional sports and
players jumping around all the time, you still can get
(04:41):
a buy in. You still can get a team to
work together and make you it. Thomas forget that they're
out there making a lot of money because they play
for one another. And to see this group put it
all together was really cool. And again, as I started,
it doesn't seem real, but it is real. Maybe it's
because we talk about JCBs quite a bit on the show,
(05:03):
But I'm not a member of the JCPS parents Facebook
group and I really never will should be.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
My kids are in school, but they don't go to JCPS.
But anyways, there's a post from Ballered mental Health. This
is an Instagram post and it says canceling school tomorrow
would help our mental health. Please consider JCPS Sincerely, Ballared
mental Health, and it goes on to discuss how cold
it's going to be and how for many students in
JCPS getting to and from school and these conditions can
(05:31):
be stressful, unsafe, and mentally exhausting. The post goes on
to say mental health is closely tied to students sense
of safety, stability, and well being. When students start their
day feeling anxious, coal or overwhelmed, they can affect their
ability to focus, learn, and fully engage in the classroom.
And it just goes on to say that a weather
related cancelation of delay can be an opportunity to emphasize
(05:52):
that education systems value their students as people first learner. Second,
protecting mental health, reducing stress, and promote voting safety builds
trust within this within the community and creates long a
stronger foundation for success when students return. So that, as
you could expect, got a lot of reaction from people claiming,
why would they ever cancel school for being cold outside?
(06:15):
And then also there were plenty that said, anybody opposing
this doesn't have a kid that has to stand outside
for a certain amount of time. And you know, anybody
saying that it's soft, they probably have their kids sitting
in their warm car as they wait for the bus.
And it just became you know, what you'd expect a
Facebook group to be when it comes to a subject
(06:38):
like this. But what I took away from it and
I hate that I have to put the disclaimer on
there out there, put the disclaimer on it, But like
I do, mental health is a real thing, and I
think especially for men. It's something that we need to
be more comfortable talking about instead of just brushing it
off as if pretending it doesn't exist. Now, with that said,
what kids are being asked to do here is something
(07:00):
that has been done for generations. Waiting at a bus
stop in the winter when it's cold outside. That's not new,
it's not radical. It's not something that until very recently
was viewed as adversity. It was, you know, part of life.
Ten fifteen years ago. The idea of saying, I don't
know if I can do this. It's cold and I
have to wait at the bus stop wouldn't have even
crossed people's minds. It wasn't framed as you know, a
(07:24):
traumatic experience. It wasn't considered to be even really harmful.
You put on a coat, you waited, and you moved on.
And I'm not somebody that is oftentimes bothered that, you know,
kids get out for reasons that I didn't get out
of school for whenever I was younger, because it doesn't
even it doesn't really impact me. But when we start
(07:48):
treating this as something kids shouldn't have to endure, I
think the bigger question from that is if this is
considered too much. If this is where we drove all
the line, like what happens when life actually gets hard?
And I don't mean to be insensitive, I'm being honest.
If sitting at the bus stop outside having to put
(08:09):
another layer on because it's really cold ends up just
being something that we just you can't do. I mean, Wow,
life is gonna hit you a lot harder really probably
maybe not everybody, but and whatever is you end up doing,
there's gonna be tough days, tough times, things that just
you know, happen, adversity, it's life. And I just think
the more that we you can balance it better than
(08:32):
I think we do at times when it comes to
being aware and not insensitive to things, but also not
completely shield young people from what is going to come
as they get older, which is life, the ups and
downs of you know, life. But I'm curious, are you.
(08:52):
Are you somebody that thinks that because we can do
NTI now that we should do it more often when
you have days like this where yes, it is really cold.
I mean, not to put him on the spot, but
Scott Fitzgerald grew up in Michigan. You all had to
wait at a bus stop for the school bus.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But I think you make some great points here, Nick,
and that is absolutely right. We're in a different day
and age, and there's a lot of different things that
there are a lot of different moving parts in here.
It's not like, you know, the folks, the decision makers
are making these decisions. Just to make these decisions. There's
a real safety involved here. And yeah, but I mean
it's it's not safety.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I mean, like, again, what was it viewed as unsafe
when we've done it for generations?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, I see your point. Yeah, there's validity to that,
absolutely there is.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
My point is that what people are being asked to
do now is put their kids at a cold bus
stop was not ever viewed as some trauma. It was
viewed as part of life. And now the more we
view things in that lens of it's just too hard.
And again there are things now that it's also them
that are easy for us and things that used to
(10:02):
be considered things that used to be very difficult. And
you know, I don't want to use the word trauma,
but things that used to be just the way it
had to be. But now in the current world, it's
not as difficult because if you know, the ever evolving
life that we live, that we live technology, all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Resources.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's not that I'm anti that, but it's just the
more we start to sensitize every little thing as like
just too much adversity, too much for people to deal with.
What are they going to do when they actually have
to deal with real world stuff? That's that's moul Do
you want to you wonder if it might be a
litigation thing as well? What do you mean Like, let's say, for.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Example, a young person is out at a bus stop,
and I'm not saying this is legit, and I'm not
trying to give an encredence because I think what you're
saying is making a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
By the way, No, nobody's considering letting them out of school.
I'm only reacting to a class in school that is
advocating that the school should let them have remote learning
when it's this cold, because if they're worried and anxious
about being cold at the bus stop, it could impact
their mental health.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So it's not like the school. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I was looking at more like, let's say a child's
waiting outside and somehow they get sick and then someone
decides they wanted to take the school district to court
and say, well, that's because you made my child sit out.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean you could then then that's somebody I would
consider that. It's very very soon happy. Yes, I I agree.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's where I kind of wonder where some of the
mentality is, you know, with this to your point, because
listening to you, I get what you're saying. I can
I can totally pick up on that. You know, I
was the last key kid I grew up. Now almost now,
latch key kids are sometimes unheard of. You know, kids
have to be entertained twenty four to seven after school.
There's there's things, you know, I came home, I put
my stuff down, you know, I got a snack, watch
(11:39):
a little TV.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If I felt like it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I would do my homework and then folks would get
home from work, they do their thing, we'd all go
to bed, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And now that's almost unheard of.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now that's in some cases that could be construed as
a beauty.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You know, neglect.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, And I just think there should be in my
in my view, a more heightened awareness of balancing that
line of when when and sometimes having people deal with
like I think if my kid goes through something that's
tough and challenging, I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna
you know, be happy to see that. But I'll I'll
view it and say, Okay, he'll grow from this, She'll
(12:11):
grow from this. This is this is part of life.
This is how you how you grow, how you develop.
So if we no longer even put them through those
situations because it's just too hard, will they ever be
prepared for? You know, when life really really hits you.
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About fifteen minutes ago. There is a Instagram page from
(13:17):
a group at Ballard High School that was suggesting that
JCPS should consider remote learning INTI whenever it is this
cold outside, and we can reset that a little bit
later on. But I just think that if something like
this is now viewed as just too difficult and we
just can't put our kids through sitting at the bus
(13:39):
stop when it's cold, when that's really been something that's
existed for generations. It wasn't even viewed a decade ago
as something that was adversity. It was just part of life.
And there are many things that used to be more
difficult and now they're not, and life's maybe better because
of that. Maybe not overall, but you know, things are
(14:01):
better that you don't have to do certain things because again,
we evolve, things evolve, you get access to better resources.
Obviously technologies changed a lot of things. But my argument was,
let's balance that a little better. Let's be mindful that
we should put our kids through things that they may
not want to do, they may not love doing. That
(14:23):
might be you know, something they dread because one long
term it won't hurt them, and also it'll get them
more prepared for when legitimate adversity hits. This is not,
in my opinion, adversity, but I'm curious maybe you feel differently.
So the talk back line is there again. If you're
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and you'll be prompted to fire away and share whatever
it is that you want. All right, this story is
insanely frightening. You've got a standoff yesterday in Saint Matthew's
that thankfully ended peacefully, but it was a man inside
that had barricaded himself in a home with a six
(15:05):
month old baby, and then that man had later confessed
to a separate shooting just hours earlier. So officers with
LMPD responded that it was right afternoon to a call
that was in looks like the one hundred block of
Wiltshire Avenue that's near Shelbyville Road in Breckamridge Lane, and
there was a man twenty eight year old Clint Dean Lobbig,
(15:28):
who had forced someone out of the home and barricaded
himself inside, and there was a six month old infant
there so officers secured the area called in Swat and
it was around three twenty pm where he did surrender
peacefully and the baby was checked on and thank god, unharmed.
I cannot be I cannot imagine being the parent in
(15:49):
that situation, how frightening that would be. But court documents
say that the man's mother, who was arrested, called nine
one one earlier that morning reporting her son was aggressive
and agitated. Before the call of disconnected. She later texted
this dispatched the address. Police say the man forced his
mother out of the apartment after allegedly throwing her under
a bed and smothering her for about a minute, preventing
(16:12):
her from breathing. After his arrest, he admitted the police
that he was involved in a shooting Sunday evening near
a laundry matt on Lexington Road. Now we can reset
this coming up in a moment. I want to make
sure I've got this correct for you. But this, this,
this could give us. This could be the update that
we were bound to get or in regards to a
(16:32):
shooting that took place on Sunday night, it sounds like
that's that's what this was. So yeah, I mean thankfully
that this man who's dealing with whatever he's dealing with.
I mean, that was the before we even knew details.
That was the report yesterday. I guess the standoff was
going on, and that was that this guy is believed
to be having a mental episode. Well, whatever he's going through,
(16:54):
let's make sure he's not. He's not out roaming with
with with you know, citizens here who he could clearly
put it danger because it's a miracle that seemingly everything's
okay from yesterday's situation. Obviously the shooting a little bit
of a different story. But I mean, imagine you're just
at home with your six month old baby and all
(17:17):
of a sudden you get forced out of your home
potentially a gunpoint to then know that you're six month
old baby. I mean, I'm just imagining what it would
take to keep me from running in there like a
lunatic myself. I mean, I would hope that I wouldn't
do that, and I would trust that law enforcement and
professionals are there to handle this situation. That's what they're
(17:39):
trained to do. But man, parental instincts can be a
powerful thing. All right, Let's get to a quick time
out we'll check on traffic and weather. Also, we'll have
Rory O'Neil who's set to join us as we discuss
the latest on what's happening with ice in Minneapolis, as
well as the global response that's out there as far
as the takeover of Greenland. Stick with us. It's News
(18:01):
Radio eight forty whas entucking in this morning news Nick Coffee,
that's me and we've got Roory O'Neal with us. Rory,
what's the latest with ice in Minneapolis? Obviously that's been
a consistent thing that we've discussed over the last couple
of weeks. What is the latest ays of this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, one of the things that happened over the weekend
is still triggering a lot of fallout, and that was
when anti ice demonstrators went into a church, the city's
church in Saint Paul, where a pastor there is a
local ICE official and disrupting the church services on Sunday,
maybe crossing a line. And the US Deputy Attorney General
(18:41):
for Civil Rights is investigating this as potentially a civil
rights violation, even looking at whether or not journalists Don
Lemon might be targeted of some potential investigation because he
seemed to know that this demonstration, this interruption was going
to happen, and was filming it all along the way.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Of course, it might also just be stirring the pot
a bit as well.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now, when it comes to President Trump's long running bid
to bring Greenland fully under US control, and by the way,
he's now framed it as imperative for national and world security.
What's the global response from this entire situation with Trump
trying to bring Greenland under US control?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, I think Russia is about the only country that
supports this idea.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know, the President is now threatening tariffs against eight
European countries that have come out against this idea. Says
those ten percent tariffs start next month, they go up
to twenty five percent until they change unless they change
their tune on this.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Idea, you know.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
But he's heard pushback from the leaders of France and
the UK who really don't understand why this is being done.
You know, Greenland has said the US can expand its
military operations in Greenland. That's fine, that they could even
build more bases. So there's a real head scratch. They're
going to give you everything you want. Why do you
(20:03):
want to take over Greenland, and I think a lot
of a lot of Americans still have that same question.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Ory and Neils our guest joining us here on news
radio eight forty whas, let's talk about political potty mouth.
So it seems now that there's politicians more comfortable at
times using vulgar language in public that maybe you didn't
used to see from politicians. Any data out there, any
clue who some of the bigger offenders are.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, well it's anecdotal.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And I think this story caught the attention of axios
with that Minneapolis mayor saying a few things about.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Getting ice agents out.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You know, obviously the words that are being used more
frequently are ones we cannot use because we're respectable individuals.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
But it is something we're seeing just.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
More and more at all levels, you know, from a
mayor of Minneapolis up to the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just a lot more coarse language, a lot more for
letter words involved. You know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Look something saying that this excites the base, and it
moves politicians beyond their boring, stoic talking points, and it
makes it more relatable when someone uses when they drop
an F bomb, But others, you know, still makes the
hair go back, stand up in the back of my
neck when you hear it?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Am I the only one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And I'm sure I'm not that it really seems and
stands out like a real force. Whenever curse words are used,
really in situations like this by politicians of those that
just clearly it stands out because you know that you
would never typically hear it. It just seems like such
an obvious thing that you're trying to become relatable, You're
trying to I guess just you know, get a reaction.
(21:39):
But I've yet to hear curse words similar to what
we saw last week or a couple of weeks ago,
whenever it was from the mayor of Minneapolis and did
not feel like a real force.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well right, and look, I've been in radio for decades,
let's just leave it at that. But for me, look,
I'm not going to say, as a sweet, pure bred irishman,
I'm not going to say the words haven't passed my lips.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
However, every time I hear someone.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Use those words that could gets you fired, I sort
of cringe, like, oh, that's one of those you know,
some words you can apologize for if you slip them
on air. Others you can. So every time I hear it,
I'm like, oh gosh, don't say that. Yeah, so i'm, i'm, I'M.
I tend not to use a whole lot of four
letter words, at least not the ones that get you
fired anyway, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Every time I hear it.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I sort of like duck and cover, like, oh yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
There is the flash effect. I get it.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Look, we see it in stand up comedy all the time, right,
you know, the good comics don't need them. The scientils
of the world, they don't need to use those words.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But let's the Andrew diized Clay. Maybe that's the whole bit.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I couldn't agree more.
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