12.30: Finishing Touches - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is seven oh five here at news Radio eight
forty whas it is Coffee and Company and we are
fueled by Thornton's thank you for hanging out with us.
Don't forget you could take us with you wherever you go.
Listen live on the Alheart Radio app. You can also
use the talkback line on the Ouheart Radio app and
it's powered by Alex R. White PLLC Sudistracted Driver dot Com.
You never know when a distracted driver is going to
turn your day upside down, and when they do, there's

(00:22):
a lot of things you're going to be scrambling for.
One of those things is finding the right personal injury
attorney that can fight for you. And I can tell
you Alex and his team they will do exactly that. Again,
it's Alex R. WHITEPLLC Sudistracted Driver dot Com. Another cold
morning here is we wrap up twenty twenty five. And
this could be recency biased on my end, but I

(00:42):
feel like what we experienced Sunday as far as warm
weather seventy degrees roughly, I mean, I know people that
were cutting their grass and shorts Sunday and then yesterday
that was that was as far as the windshiel extreme.
I mean it was freezing, So I cannot think of

(01:03):
a more extreme change in a matter of twenty four
hours than what we experienced on from Sunday to Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Also, who's cutting their grass at the end of December?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
My dad come on, pop a call? I think it's
I think he probably just looked at it as a
I mean, to be fair, it's a good time to
do it if you need it now, but who.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Needs it in December? That's kind of what I'm getting at.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I I can't imagine you have a wear rise at.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Your lawnmower at this time of the year. I mean,
I guess you're just you were waiting for a day
like you got this past Sunday. But I mean I
emptied out everything back at the end of November, as
I feel like most people probably let's.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Go back two hours when we started the show. You're
somebody that wouldn't have put off anything. You would have
absolutely not procrastinated. You're a ficient You get stuff done,
and I guess my dad didn't. I could always give
the excuse of, well, you know, guys just like cutting
the grass. I'm not sure my dad likes cutting the
grass that I don't like cutting it.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I mean, I like it whenever it's nice and mild
in the early part of spring. But that's really about it.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
No, I'm with you. I'm with you. So Sunday had
a record high of seventy five degrees, and then of
course that cold front moved through and by Monday morning,
temperatures were in the twenties across the region. So the
feel like temperature was a bone chilling four degrees yesterday
morning and not much better this morning, so the true

(02:23):
temperature difference was around fifty degrees. That's extreme to put
it lightly, all right, So a story we've been keeping
you up to date on as best we can. From overnight,
there was a fire at the Cluckers in Jeffersonville and
it was a devastating fire. And the good news is
there's no injuries. No one was in the building. But

(02:43):
the massive fire has cast some traffic this morning along
Riverside Drive in Jeffersonville that area there, But obviously the
fire itself, I mean, it's devastating to that property, the
Cluckers there that has has probably been an employ it's
probably where a lot of people go to make a living.

(03:04):
I don't know how the employees they have, but a
lot of impact here when it comes to just what
this means. And the Big four area in Jeffersonville is beautiful.
I don't I go there, not enough, honestly, And I
say that as somebody who you know does go there.
I don't know. Every few months will end up there
for dinner at one of those restaurants and you won't
get a better view of Louisville. And it's just a beautiful,

(03:27):
very open area to where you know, downtown Louisville is great.
You know, I say that genuinely. I know there's a
there's there's certain people that just assume downtown Louisville is
still some boarded up war zone and it's not at all.
It's it's awesome. But if you like a view of
a downtown but not I guess more of a big
city downtown feel, uh, that's what Jeffersonville has. And you

(03:49):
know they'll still have that obviously that's not going away.
But this particular property is is I mean devastated, for
lack of a better word, I mean the fire when
it was initially up in flames, the building was around
two am. There was a guy that posted a video
on Facebook, and our partners at WOK why they've used
his video and shared it's it's at that point I

(04:14):
would have assumed that the scenario where this doesn't end
up spreading to impact other businesses right there in the area,
I would be highly shocked. Now, again, what do I know.
I'm not an expert when it comes to that kind
of stuff. So credit to the firefighters that showed up
to battle that early morning fire. It took them a
long time. As of five am it was still burning,
but sure enough, by about five point thirty they seem

(04:35):
to have gotten it completely put out. And yeah, no injuries,
but it broke out. It's near the river stage there
if you if you're not familiar with this particular restaurant,
the Cluckers there, but heavy flames, smoke, and firefighters working
extensively to try to get that under control. So again,
no injuries have been reported, and again it'll take some

(04:56):
time before they can determine what the actual cause is.
But no doubt, a big story from overnight that we've
been keeping you updated on as best we can. What
I want to do on the other side, we'll once
again revisit something we've been talking about here and there
throughout the morning. I think this is awesome that somebody
was able to dig up from twenty I'm sorry, not
twenty it was nineteen ninety eight. They asked folks in

(05:17):
ninety eight what they thought America would look like in
twenty twenty five, and here we are wrapping up the
year twenty twenty five. And surprisingly a lot of folks
were spot on about some of these predictions for twenty
twenty five, twenty seven years. You know later they were
often they were actually wrong about some of them as well.
But what I want to do this time around is

(05:39):
look at how they expected to feel about America here
in twenty twenty five. So stick around. We'll also do
a little more of a recap and kind of look
back on the year as we're As we're wrapping it up,
I'm out tomorrow, so this is actually my last show
of twenty twenty five, so I'm going to make the
most of it, all right, stick around traffic and weather
updates or next right here, it's coffee and company fueled
by Thornton's at News Radio eight forty whas so the

(06:04):
state of Kentucky has a two million dollar Mega Million
winner that was sold right here in the Bluegrass States.
So a ticket where two million was sold on December
twenty sixth, and that's according to the Kentucky Lottery. The
ticket was purchased at a racetrack gas station at one
oh one Bizack Boulevard in Frankfurt. So the ticket matched

(06:26):
all five white balls and included a two times multiplier,
making it a second tier prize, just one number, shy
of what would have been of course that Jackpop money.
But hey, two million, that's a lot to me. I'm
sure it has a lot to a lot of people.
But yeah, congratulations to whoever the winner was in Frankfort,
because that's a nice way to get a late Christmas

(06:47):
gift right December twenty sixth when you purchased it, and
you soon found that you are a lot richer. All right.
It's Coffee and Company, and we are Phil Bebeth Thornton's
here at news Radio eight forty whas wrapping up the
year twenty twenty five, I want to revisit something we've
talked about here and there throughout the morning in nineteen
ninety eight, over one thousand people. In fact, it was
one thousand and fifty five. People were asked to make

(07:09):
predictions about what America would look like in twenty twenty five.
So surprisingly, they were pretty accurate when it comes to
these predictions. Things that they were correct about the US
would elect a black president, gay marriage would be legal
and common, A deadly new disease would emerge. Drug use
like marijuana would be commonplace. Online shopping would replace most stores.

(07:34):
That's accurate as far as online shopping being a big deal,
but I don't know if you could say that it's
replaced most stores. I mean, I think a lot of
stores offer both. But clearly online shopping has made a
major impact on what life looked like in nineteen ninety eight.
As far as people going to stores, things they got wrong.
Sixty six percent said they thought that there would be

(07:55):
a female president by now. Fifty nine percent said they
thought there'd be a cure for cancer, sixty one percent
predicted people would routinely live to be one hundred years old,
and then sixty nine percent thought that space travel would
be common for everyday Americans. So that's where they swinging
and missing there. But here's how Americans thought they would

(08:17):
feel in twenty twenty five, and I want to see
if you guys believe they were accurate or inaccurate, because again,
only you can control how you feel, or I guess
only you know how you feel. Seventy percent believed the
quality of life would improve for the rich. I feel
like it's probably accurate. Views were split for the middle

(08:41):
class as far as just life, and I don't know
again middle class. I think there's actually late levels to
middle class, but most thought life would get worse for
the poor. That's where I don't Again, it's tough to
there's different ways in which you could view that. And

(09:02):
I guess there is some data, some statistics that we
use when it comes to discussing quality of life, but
really it's subjective to one person, right, I mean, if
you were somebody that was living in the poor side
of things in ninety eight, you're still living on the
poor side of things. Now, only you would know if

(09:23):
your quality of life is better off. And look, it
may not be something you even realize, but if you
went back to ninety eight, which unfortunately we can't go
back in time, maybe that would be the realization that, hey,
things have gotten better for you. But eighty percent predicted
that they have less personal privacy. That's correct, right, John, Like.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, yeah, it's almost impossible to have any sort of Yeah,
I mean you can have some privacy.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
By no change of your own, just a change in
society and technology. You've lost a lot of privacy. Yeah,
I mean it didn't used to be to where in
nineteen ninety eight, you didn't walk in any place seemingly
any where and there'll be a camera on you. Yeah,
and that too.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
My Space was the first one, and then of course
Facebook was the really big one, and every other social
media platform that's come since then.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. Now, fifty seven percent said at the time they
expected that they would have less personal freedoms. Again, that
can be that that that could be very subjective. Ye,
that could be a conversation. But here's the kicker. In
nineteen ninety eight, sixty percent of Americans said they were
satisfied with how things were going. Today, that number is
at twenty four percent according to CNN. So twenty four

(10:36):
percent say that they were satisfied with how things were
going now. That number was at sixty percent in nineteen
ninety eight. That's a it's a there's a lot to
unpack from that, and I don't think that that's like
a I'm not trying to say that that's inaccurate. But

(10:56):
I also feel like in nineteen ninety eight, we didn't
know what we didn't have. We didn't know what we
didn't know, right, Like we weren't like you didn't have
put it this way, And I think this does not
get discussed enough. You didn't have the ability in nineteen
ninety eight like you do now to know a lifestyle

(11:17):
you never will live. You watched it in movies, but
you knew it was movies. Now you've got social media,
you've got influencers that at any moment you can you
can take a look at how others are living and
just get it. You could get We're just now exposed
to so much more with technology, the Internet, these devices
in our pockets every day. And I think in nineteen

(11:37):
ninety eight, you weren't necessarily comparing your situation to a
whole lot of others because you didn't have the ability
to do it like you do now, and because you
didn't know what you didn't know. I think people were
more content in life. That's just the way I see it,
all right. Quick update of trafficking weather on the way.
We'll talk some sports with Scott also in just a
few minutes right here at News Radio eight forty whas.

(12:00):
There are a lot of situations that you can instantly think, Okay,
well we got to hear, we got to hear the
other side. There's got to be a reason for this.
There's got to be some way of making sense of
this action or something that took place. And oftentimes when
I find myself completely hooked on like a body cam

(12:23):
or video on the YouTube or TikTok, that I just
get sucked into. You know, you'll see folks wait for
the cops to show up, and sometimes they call them themselves,
sometimes not. And they they think is they think they're
justified in what they did right, Like, well, he looked
at me the wrong way. That's why that's why I
stabbed him. Is if the cops going to be like, Okay, well, yeah,

(12:45):
we got glad I could hear both sides. That reminds
me of the story that you heard johnsin And mentioned
in the newscast where a fifty six year old man
was arrested after allegedly shooting a woman in the park
Hill neighborhood. And I don't know if he ran or
if he was waiting for the police when he got there.
But yeah, not a great Well, let's hear both side situation.

(13:07):
You shot her? Why, Well, she accused me of eating
her snack and I told her that I didn't it
was good, So then I shot her. Oh yeah, okay,
makes sense. You're justified in doing that. And again, I
hope you guys can pick up on sarcasm. But yeah,
not the type of arrest you see every day. But
that's what took place yesterday. So yeah, non life threatening
injuries to the woman, thankfully. But as she was leaving,

(13:30):
the victim said that this man fifty five year old
what is his name? Fifty something beals he was accused
of eating her snack and he didn't like that. He
confirmed that he did eat it, it was good, and
then he shot her. So yeah, you can't do that.
All right, it's News Radio eight forty whas, thanks for
hanging out with us, Coffee and company, and we are

(13:52):
fueled by Thornton's All right, so we now are I
guess roughly rough almost six years since the global pandemic
took place, and that of course led to the work
from home world exploding in a way that I really
never thought possible. And I'm somebody personally that just does

(14:12):
not like the thought of working from home. It's convenient,
for sure, but when I was forced to work from
home because we weren't allowed to come to work, and
you know, thankfully I was able to keep my job,
We were able to still do this job. But I
think even if I did something different than wasn't broadcasting,
I just don't think I would be somebody that's built
to work from home because I don't think i'd be
as productive. I don't like being in isolation. But obviously

(14:34):
some people love working from home and they won't take
a job unless they can work from home. But the
ability to do that is not there anymore for certain
people that work for certain companies, because millions of workers
are now being called back to office starting in January.
Some of the biggest companies in America have clearly realized

(14:56):
that the work from home situation that they have for
their employees was either not as productive or they I
mean again, I guess they've got their own reasons. But
you've got big companies like NBC, Universal, Paramount, Instagram, Microsoft,
I mean, these are tech companies of course, but I

(15:18):
know there's a lot of other companies that have given
you the convenience to kind of do it if you
can to where now it's you know, it's not allowed
or hey, it's got to be an exception, it's not
the norm. And I'm not knocking it because I'm sure
there are industries and I'm sure there's data you could
put in front of me that says, no, this is
actually better, this is why it's more productive, and I'm

(15:38):
sure for certain people it is. But you know, for me,
I just I not only would I not be I
guess as I don't think i'd be as productive as
a worker. I just don't know, Like, hows a if
you have a department and you've got a team, Yeah,
you can communicate on zoom and teams and all that,
and that is convenient. I'm glad we can do that
now than having every meeting being person like it used
to be. But I just I just think that if

(16:00):
you're just gonna simply compare the two, people may not
like Your employees may not like it as much, and
maybe them not liking it would lead to them not
being happy at work, and then you know, they're not
as productive, the morale goes down again, You're always going
to be able to point to potential issues. But you
know what, before we knew we could work from home,
Before like it was possible to essentially connect and work,

(16:22):
people went to work every day and they didn't love it.
You know, it was just life. So I'm sure there's
different reasons out there as to why certain companies have
decided to either eliminate working from home altogether or tighten
it up a little bit. And there's also stories out

(16:42):
there of companies that because they're you know, they wouldn't
be so sad if you left the company right, Like,
they're not necessarily able to fire you outright, but they
don't want to lay you off. They want you to
quit on your own terms. And a way in doing
that is to taking advantage of, Yeah, we allowed you
to work from home because of the pandemic, and now
we're just like telling you that that's over. Well I

(17:04):
moved five states away. Well sorry, you got to come
to work every day now like that. That's that's happened
to many people. It sounds like, so yeah, I uh,
I get it, though, I mean, I'm I'm sure I'm
in the out I'm sure I'm the outlier here because
I'm in the minority, I should say, because I I
know a lot of people that work from home and
love it, and they would not take a job if

(17:24):
they couldn't work from home. And hopefully those people will
be able to continue to find work. But I'm not
surprised that some are mixing it up. So the data
tells us that the research is mixed, and that's that's
what I would have expected. But one survey of tech
specialists found remote option work sixty nine percent higher for
personal productivity than office only setups. Okay, as you are

(17:48):
you talking personal productivity for your job or like you
can also get stuff done at home like you know,
are you including your personal productivity getting a little laundry
and while you're also on the clock, like I'm I
know people do that, all right? Quick update of traving
weather on the way stick around right here, it's news
Radio eight forty whas. So we've got a big jump

(18:10):
in pending home sales, in fact, the biggest boost in
roughly two years. So after two years of near freeze
conditions in the housing market, there's finally a pulse once again,
new data shows buyers are starting to step back in
and in a big way. So here's some numbers for you.
Pending home sales surged three point three percent in November.

(18:30):
That was the largest monthly gains since twenty twenty three.
And they're forecasting yeah, they actually forecasted just one percent,
so a big jump as far as what the expectation was.
But year over year, pending sales up two point six percent.
So again, that is progress, and it sounds like the

(18:51):
progress is expected to sustain here. And I know some
are thinking, well, you know, couldn't be worse, and you're
probably not wrong for at least feeling that way. I mean,
I wouldn't. I don't encourage anybody to think of the well,
it can't get worse, because that's just an invitation for
you to be reminded it can always get worse. But anyways,
I know many of you have just looked at the
market in recent years as a turn off and just

(19:14):
a non starter for you, and I get it. But
what I would like you to keep in mind is
how the market being what it is, could end up
putting you in a spot where you could take advantage
of it and that's your house being appraised for something
that you might think is laughable. But if you find
the right expert, like my friend Bop Secolar with the

(19:35):
Cecolar team at Remax Properties East, he's got a team
that'll put it in front of the right people that
will love the house and have the means to make
it their own, so it never hurts to get an estimate.
You can go to WESA Louisville dot com right now
and you can get an estimate on what your house
is worth. That might get you to pick up the
phone and make a call to my friend Bob Siccolar,

(19:57):
because he could put you in a position where, hey,
you won't even think about moving because again the market
was just a turn off for you, or you thought
it was impossible, or you just see the market on
your side as far as the value of your home
and you want to try to take advantage of that,
and hey, I don't blame you. So again it's Bob
Sicolor the Secolar team at Remax Properties East. You can
give Bob a called directly on his cell phone FABO

(20:17):
two three seven six five four eight three. That's FABO
two three seven six five four eight three. I don't
know if he's going to answer every single time, because
you know he might be on the phone, he might
be in a meeting, but he's always going to get
back to you if he doesn't answer, and that's where
he'll be for you throughout the entire process of buying
and selling. Maybe you're doing one of the two, maybe
you're doing both. That of course is a very common process,

(20:40):
right buying a home, So you got to put yours
on the market. So when you have that that close
connection and that real direct communication with Bob and his team,
you'll never go through anybody else when it comes to
this process of buying and selling a home. And if
you really want them to let you know how confident
they can get the results for you. How about this

(21:02):
right now? Bob's so confident then he can sell your
home that if he doesn't sell it in fifty nine days,
he will buy it. It's on the market, doesn't sell
in fifty nine days, well he's gonna buy it. I
mean that's if that doesn't tell you he's confident he
can get the results for you, I'm not sure what will.
So again it's Bob Sicoler, the Secolar team at Remax
properties East. Check him out online at we sell Louisville
dot com. Give Bobb a call FABO two three seven, six,

(21:25):
five four eight three all right, Traffickan Weather updates on
the way. Also a sports updates coming up. We're about
to hit the eight o'clock hour and it's my it'll
be my final hour of the year that I'm not
gonna do it. I'm not gonna be guy. I'm not
gonna say it. I'm not gonna say it. I'm a
grown up now, John, No more nonsense. All right, okay,
not falling into the corny liners that you hear about

(21:48):
next year, not doing it? All right, Traffickan Weather's next
right here at news Radio. Wait forty whas