6.19: Window of Time - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, Welcome in. It is Kentuckyana's morning
News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty WHAS
five six here on June nineteenth, A wet, wet morning,
been a wet evening. It started last night. I know,
we got some pretty big storms last night and on
the way in this morning. For me, my commute takes

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me from the I get on I sixty five at
the Snyder there right around I guess right before the
outer loop between the Brooks exit. In the outer loop
exit on sixty five, that's where I hit sixty five.
And at that time, of course, this was probably about
an hour ago, heavy heavy rain. It did get lighter
as I moved in towards downtown. But yeah, it's been

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a stormy evening. Well, it was a stormy evening and
we still have some rain going on in the area,
so stay safe out there. I didn't see any accidents
on my way in, but would not be shocked at
all if we find out from our own Bobby Ellis
that there has been some accident, maybe as of now,
maybe moving forward this morning, so we'll get your update
on traffic and weather coming up here in roughly three

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minutes time, and we've got a lot to get into today.
We will give you the latest, and it seems to
be it's clearly a developing situation with what's going on
when it comes to President Trump and what he wants
to do. And when I say what he wants to do,
I mean that what he wants to do. However, he's
speaking for I guess, I mean, I guess he's only

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speaking for himself. But you know, what he decides to do,
given the fact that he's the president of the United States,
that certainly will impact a lot of us. Therefore, there
are many like myself on the edge of our seats
here to see where this thing goes. And you can
certainly tell that he enjoys everyone being on the edge
of their seats. So we'll touch on that coming up
here in about ten minutes or so. And also Rory

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O'Neil's going to join us. And I like a little
variety with my daily Rory O'Neill interactions, but man, we've
been following the same couple of things really or the
past week or so, and we'll continue to do that today. Also,
we'll get your update on sports coming up with Scott
Fitzgerald around five twenty five and obviously a lot to
react to from the College World Series. Dan McDonald and

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the Louisville Cardinal baseball program, their season comes to an
end a real bummer, But I think the timing of
this deep run into the postseason was crucial and a
real sign of what Dan McDonald is and I don't
need to tell Louisville fans he's I mean, he's one
of the best in the country when it comes to
college baseball, and this was a big one, meaning just
again the timing of it, and I hated to see

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it come to an end, especially after that rough start
they had yesterday. But it'd be hard for me to
feel as if this wasn't a big, big step forward
after a few years of where it had slipped a
little bit. And also when it comes to sports, we've
got a win or go home situation for the Indiana
Pacers tonight, my Pacers, and I don't like their chances,
especially knowing that we may not see Halliburton and we'll

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get the latest on that and a lot more when
it comes to sports. Now this of course, this is
also in the world of sports, but it's not as
if we're going to be breaking down any kind of
you know, any kind of action. It's about money in sports.
And this is something that if you are in your
own bubble and you just know that, hey, September's here,
I'm going to turn on the TV on Saturdays and

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start watching my college football program that kind of stuff,
and a lot of people are like that. But there's
never been in my lifetime a bigger shift in college
athletics than what we've seen in the last few years
with the transfer portal and nil, but now with twenty
million dollars at minimum moving forward being a bill that

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these universities have to cover, that's I think that's the
biggest change here as far as just the overall sustainability
of college athletics and u of L. We did find
out yesterday it was Eric Crawford of WDRB who had
a great breakdown as far as the financial situation at
u of L. And they're no different than many others

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that are clearly going to have to make some big
adjustments because I don't care who you are, twenty million
dollars now being a payment you have to make annually
that you didn't used to have to make is going
to require you to have to make some real adjustments,
real sacrifices, and that could certainly impact the non revenue sports.
And I'm not at all surprised to see that they're

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taking on a line of credit the University of Louisville
because they need help paying bills. And it sounds alarming, certainly,
but I'm not surprised, and I don't really think it's
anybody's fault. I think that's just the nature of where
we are. Also, maybe by now the winners know that
they've won. But there's a Louisville native, well they were
in louisvill maybe they're not a little native, but that

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won the lottery. They've got the Lucky for Life ticket
twenty five k a year. So like maybe right now
you just realize, oh, I bought one of those. And
if you just realize that, you need to look at
your ticket and you just realized you won. I'm entitled
to something because I'm the reason you thought to look for.
I think I deserve at least something. I mean, I
don't know if if we can maybe working with some

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kind of an arrangement, but anyways, we are. We're gonna
have some fun today. It's nasty, it's wet outside, but
that's okay. We'll keep you company and we've got your
first update of traffic and weather coming up here, and
we'll talk about what we can gather from President Trump's
comments yesterday. It is Kentucky and it's Morning News on
News Radio eight forty whas. It is five sixteen here

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at Kentucky and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on
News Radio eight forty whas. Sorry for butchering the weather.
Sometimes we don't get it right as the show starts,
because you know, the fine meteorologists that our partners over
WK why they've got they got a lot going on,
especially when you've got some rainy weather and it is
also a holiday today. So I just assumed, hey, I'll
go and look where I look every day and it's

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gonna be there, and then boom, it wasn't. So now
I've got a reminder that I should make sure and
check that before we start the show. But we do
have scattered showers and storms that are expected this morning
as the day's getting started. Can it continue in the afternoon.
Some storms could produce heavy rain with highs in the
upper sixties. It's to low seventies, and then of course
as we move forward, that heat wave is coming, the

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first real heat wave of the year, and I don't
know about you guys, but I'm not looking forward to it.
The humidity gross and it's just getting started, like we
really haven't actually hit summer yet, which is kind of
scary for me because I don't love the humidity that
we get around here, especially now that I've developed an

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issue with allergies that is getting better. But anyhow, your
there's your delayed weather updates, so apologies there on my end,
all right, so real quick, we'll talk to Rory and
Neil about this coming up at five point forty five.
But when it comes to yesterday's Yesterday's update, I mean,

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there's a lot of things that were said in regards
to the current situation with Iran and Israel and what
President Trump's going to do. But when he was asked
about blasting Iron's nuclear sites, he gives you the Trump
smirk and says, nobody knows what I'm going to do,
And you can tell he genuinely is is I think

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enjoying that And he's keeping us guessing and we will
we shall see. Now that was said earlier in the day,
and then from then we we learned that he does
have this according to the Wall Street Journal, that he
has signed off on plans to hit Iron's nuclear sites
and he let people know, but he's yet to give

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I guess the green light to make it happen. I
guess he's waiting to see if Iran is it Iran
or Iron helped me out here, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran. Man,
you have been holding that in to correct me, and
I want you to know you can always correct me,
because here I am out here saying it. Probably there's

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nothing worse than like if you say it, if you
say it incorrectly, but you say it incorrectly incorrectly consistently,
you can maybe just get away with like maybe you
know it's a it's an accent or something. But when
you say it wrong and you do it differently each time,
it's a real obvious thing that you don't really know

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how the hell to say it. Which again that was
me right there, So again Iran.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Iran, Iran, you can put it to bed.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
There we go, all right, there we go. Now I
know it is it is Iran. So anyhow he's yet
to give all, you know, give the final green light
for that to happen, but he's at least signed off
on the attack plans if the attack does in fact happen.
So also we we we according to Trump, there there's

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I guess some begging going on from Iran when it
comes to the wanting to have some talks about this
whole situation, and the vibe from from President Trump seems
to be a little bit too late, fellas. And I
think he enjoys knowing that they waited past the deadline.
I guess that he gave them and he's he's he's
got him, he's got him sweating. I suppose at this

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point now this is I guess, reassuring that he's not
itching for a long term war. That's good, right, Thank
you so much for seemingly wanting to avoid World War three.
Really appreciate that. So again we'll get the latest freneury O'Neil.
We've got sports coming your way with Scott Fitzgerald and uh,
we've actually got a real update of weather coming your

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way from the professionals. Also a check on traffic because
you know, you got to be careful out there. We
got some wet, wet roads after a lot of rain
overnight and already so far this morning. It is Kentucky
and It's Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas
it is five thirty five here Kentucky and it's Morning
News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.

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I was kind of joking when I said this at
the beginning of the show, kind of not but there
is somebody out there that may not realize that they have.
They've won themselves a lot of money. So the Kroger
location on the Grange Road here in Louisville, they have
a Lucky for Life ticket that was sold that is
worth twenty five thousand dollars a year for life. So

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that's not multiple millions of dollars that you get just upfront,
but that's I mean that could not only is an
extra twenty five k a year. I mean, that's something
I think everybody could benefit from. Certainly some more than others,
but still that could maybe get you in a position
to where you could change careers, right, take a less

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stressful job that takes less out of you, and you
have a better quality of life. And the salary difference
between those two jobs potentially wouldn't be an issue because
you now have twenty five K a year for life.
So if you have the winning ticket and you're realizing

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it now because you say, oh, I bought one of those?
Did he say the croker on the Grange Road in Louisville,
That's where I got mine? And you see that you
had by the way it was, it was June seventeenth
and the drawing had numbers four, seven, twenty eight, thirty six,
forty six with a lucky ball of two. So if
that's you and you just realized that you have twenty

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five k for life, I didn't get least at least
five to ten percent of that annually should be should
go to me because I'm the one who made you
aware that you you've you've now you know, you've changed
your life in some some type of way. I mean,
twenty five K year is not an insane amount of money,
but there's a you know who wouldn't want that, who
wouldn't benefit from that at least in some way. So

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you can you can milk twenty five k annually for
at least twenty years, totaling five hundred thousand dollars, or
you can grab a three hundred and ninety thousand dollars
cash lump sum payment. So what would you do there, John, if.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
You help some one hundred percent? And not because I
would spend it all in one place, but because I'm
a saver, immediately put that the bank take it as needed.
And I think, I mean, if I had three hundred thousand,
whatever it was, nine there, three hundred ninety thousand, I'd
be feeling pretty good.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, And I would probably do the same. But I
will say, in most instances, whenever this question comes up
after there's a lottery winner, what would you do? Would
you take the lump sum or would you let it
play out over many years where you get paid. I
more often would take the give it to me every year,
because that way, I just know that consistently this is

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coming in. And I don't know what I would do
if I ever win the lottery. In fact, I know
I'll never win the lottery because I never play lottery.
I never buy a lottery ticket at all. And this
I'm sure was not easy to hit. And it's not
as if we're talking, you know, the mega millions, But
for some reason, whenever there's not as much money on
the lot up for grabs. It makes me feel as
if it would be a little bit more easy to win,

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and it has me thinking maybe I should start buying
lottery tickets. But I've never done it before. And they
do say, the only way you know somebody's gonna win
might as well be you, and the only way you
can win is if you actually do play. But the
chances of me put it this way, if I started
spending let's just say, instead of making the weekly donation

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of you know, fifty bucks to FanDuel sports book, Draftking
sports book, whatever it may be, instead of giving them money,
let's just say I went to forty dollars a week.
And I'm not even saying that's my that's the amount
of money I spend. I'm just giving you, you know,
an example. But let's just say I limited, briefly the
amount of money that I that I bet on sports,

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and I started buying lottery tickets, and I did it
for the next fifty years. If I live that long,
there's a much greater chance that I donated all that
money without any winnings than there is me actually winning
money that could change my life.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Now, it's a charitable man.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, it's true. I'm very charitable. I'm donating oftentimes to
all the sports books out there that'll take my money,
and all of them will, and I'll also maybe start
donating to the lottery too. So again, I know that
the probability of winning is not great, and that's putting
it lightly, but there is there is some truth to it. Well,
you know, I can't be mad and jealous if somebody

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else won and I didn't when you know I didn't play.
You're not a lottery guy either, right, I can't.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Imagine played it maybe three or four times?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Is it whenever it gets to be like the super bridge,
whenever it's it's stupid to play it, then yes, exactly
the time that And again I could be wrong here.
I don't think I've ever actually purchased a lottery ticket
on my own. My wife will play, and she doesn't
do it often, but yeah, she'll wait until it's it's
the mega millions we're talking, you know, some of the
biggest winnings you'll see in the lottery, which of course

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makes it that's the worst time to play.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Because if the thought is the logic behind is that, oh,
there's gonna be so many people who buy ticket. Somebody's
gonna win it this time around, it might as well
be me, kind of like you said, And.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
If it is a minor spind I guess there's really
no harm because potentially, you know, you could change your
life and everybody else's life if you are the winner.
But my wife is adorable in a lot of ways
because she she'll have that lottery ticket in her hand,
fresh fresh from the store, and by the time she
gets home, she's already told me what we're spending all
the money on, and she she just believe, you know,

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she's she's got some optimism. And I guess in a
way that's entertaining, right, just like betting on sports, right,
she's donating the lottery and enjoying the experience that comes
with that until she finds out she didn't win. And
you know, I donate money to sportsbooks because I, you know,
like to think that I'm good at that, and I'm not.
I'm not terrible, But in the end, it's it's certainly entertaining.

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I would I live with the donations I make because
it does add an element to the sports experience that
I really enjoy. All Right, we've got Rory O'Neil coming
your way in about four minutes. But first let's get
an update on weather and traffic right here at news
Radio eight forty Whas five forty six here Kentucky, and
it's morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick

(15:55):
coffee with you. It's no time to bring in Rory
O'Neill of NBC News, and we are certainly going to
get the latest on what President Trump is planning when
it comes to Iran and Israel. But I did want
to start Rory with the Trump Gold Card. More than
seventy thousand people have expressed interest in the five million
dollar Trump Gold Card, which of course provides a path

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US citizenship for wealthy foreigners. What can you tell us
about how this works and who is in fact applying here?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, the site came online to register for it just
a few days ago, and already we're hearing from Secretary
Lutnik that there's big interest. Nearly seventy thousand people have
signed up for this visa program. The Commerce Secretary says
they put this website up last week Trump card dot gov.

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The applicants register their interest in the visa, provides some
basic contact information. Now, maybe it's a lot of people
just trying to test the system to see what's going on.
But seventy thousand people, five million bucks a pop. That
be a significant revenue stream.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
No doubt about it. And do you know if there
was any I guess you wouldn't know. I'm not you
can't read the minds of people. But I didn't know
if there was an expectation as far as what the
initial interest would be, because again I wouldn't even be
able to guess. But I feel like, to your point,
seventy thousand people, I mean a five million dollars, that's
a lot of money. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
We also heard President Trump saying that in many cases,
it could be corporations that pay for their employees to
become citizens. So he gave the scenario, imagine someone at
Apple or Google they want to bring in as some
new corporate vice president, but they're living in a different country.
Well let that look, you know, let the tech company

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pay the five million bucks for them as part of
their compensation package to make that person an American citizen
as they hired them to work here in the US.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, that's it's also got to be thinking that if
you are an employer that could really give you an
edge over competitors at finding certain employees if you're willing
to to go down this path. So yeah, it could
be a big revenue stream for sure. But Rory and
Aalem NBC News is our guest joining us here on
news Radio eight forty whas let's discuss the latest here
with the Iran and Israel situation. It sounds like President

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Trump doesn't want to have us in a World War
three type situation, which which is good news for a
lot of folks. But as far as plans to attack,
the plans are there, but he hasn't yet, I guess,
given he's approved the plans but hasn't given the green
light to do anything just yet. Is that still where
we are right now? Rory? Right?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
He says he wants to get this down to the
last minute, was the term he used yesterday, saying that
war can change in an instant. So if he makes
a decision to use military force, including that bunker buster
that we've all talked about, he said that would be
essentially a game day decision that he'd make at the
last minute, because getting the US involved certainly would intensify

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this conflict. There are concerns that Iran could retaliate against
American assets that are in the Middle East or take
action that could restrict international trade in oil, and you know,
suddenly we're all paying seven eight nine dollars a gallon
for gas, and of course that could be significant as well.
So and most military analysts, We'll tell you this isn't

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a case of dropping one big bomb on a site
in a mountain and leaving that. There would have to
be further entanglements with the US military, thing that President
Trump and many of his supporters want to avoid.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Trump claims that Iran is begging for a White House powow,
and not to say that he may be stretching the
truth or embellishing, because he'd never do that. But what
is that? I mean, do we know if there's any
I mean truth to that is? I mean, I don't
think that would be a complete lie. But is there
anything other than just hearing that He's indicated that they
want to talk, but he's saying maybe too late, fellas.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, there's some back and forth. We know that there's
some high level talks, either directly or indirectly with Iran
about what their response to this is going to be Look,
Israel is pretty much launching these attacks to bring about
regime change. Yes, it's about diminishing Iran's ability to create

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a nuclear weapon. But Israel has essentially had enough and
they want new leaders in Iran, and they're trying to
even encourage the population there to rise up and bring
about a change in leadership. So, you know, let's see
if the Trump administration can find an exit strategy. Perhaps,
you know, and they might have to work with other

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international partners. But you know, I think that's one of
the issues, is that no one really sees how this
can come to a peaceful end.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Rory is always thank you at the time. We'll continue
to monitor the situation and I'm sure we'll talk about
the same thing again tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
All Right, thanks Nick, take care that is Rory.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
And NEILIBINBC News always appreciate his time. All right, let's
do this. Let's get an update on traffic and weather.
We'll also have another update on sports with the one
and only Scott Fitzgerald John Shannon with another newscast coming
up at six o'clock. That's the schedule for these next
roughly eight minutes or so, so stick around, but stick
with us. All throughout the morning. We'll take you up

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till nine o'clock right here on news Radio eight forty
whas