6.24: Ceasefire Violation - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, John.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is eight oh five here Kentucky and this Morning
News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas
we are trying our best to keep you as updated
as we can with the developing situation where yesterday looked
as if things were going to end peacefully, but I
guess that was just too good to be true. That
was really unrealistic. Now that we now that we reflect
on what's taken place in the last well guys, really

(00:23):
since since overnight, because when both sides agreed to cease
fire and end it. The best way I can describe
it is there were it's like a fight being broken up,
and you know that somebody is things are calming. You've
got somebody breaking breaking up the fight between you and
somebody else, but you got to get one little jab

(00:43):
in before it's over. And then of course the expectation
of somebody who was on the other end of that
job to just not react at all, that's that's that's
not realistic. So as he was getting getting set to
get on a helicopter within the last hour or so,
Donald Trump was was pretty critical of both, but certainly

(01:04):
critical more so of Israel in them violating the ceasefire
timeline and then he just he put it pretty bluntly
as far as what we've got here, And I think
this is uh not what you typically would hear from president,
but I think we all know what he means here,
And to be honest with you, I think it makes
sense if I'm being u I'm being real with you.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
That been fighting so long and so hard that they
don't know what they're doing. Do you understand that it?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let me back it up a little bit. I missed
the beginning of that, but essentially, you know, I think
you know what he's saying. But anyways, this is this
is the clip I meant to play in totality here.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
You know what we have.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
long and so hard that they.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Don't know what the they're doing. Do you understand that?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
It?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
So that's the latest.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Again, it seemed as if things were headed in the
right direction, but now it's really tough to know exactly
where to go from here. I would say, just from
what I've gatheredck in everywhere and of course both Fox
and CNN, it seems as if the Iran I mean,
I guess should we take them at their word. I
don't know, but they they they claim that they don't

(02:13):
know why Israel is responding because they claimed that that
that it that they didn't violate cease fire. They didn't
send anything. Now you heard Trump mentioned that there was
at least one missile that was thrown, and I guess
he was expecting Israel not to respond to that one
and let it be over, but they didn't want to
do that. So where it goes from here remains to
be seen. But but we we shall see. Well, keep
the update as best we can. And again, I think

(02:33):
as of right now it's maybe some reflection is that, yeah,
we were probably foolish to just assume that it would
just it would just you know, that everything was just
going to be peaceful. It almost seemed too good to
be true yesterday, and oftentimes when things appear to be
too good to be true, there's there's good reason for that,
all right. So I want to remind folks that coming
up on Saturday that will be the the honoring of

(02:55):
Tom George. So it's a public ceremony that will honor
former UL athletic director Tom Jurch for his contributions to
the university in the city of Louisville. We had Mary
Greenberg one with us last week to make that announcement,
and this, to me, I have no clue what to
expect as far as the turnout, but I do know
that and this was a known thing, at least from

(03:15):
my perspective, just in my background and covering u of
L for so long and spending more than ten years
in the sports radio side of things. Tom Jurich has
been gone from u of L for quite some time.
In fact, I believe it was twenty seventeen in the
fall there when he was effectively fired, so it's been
a while since he's no longer been the athletic director here.
But there are still some that I think there. I

(03:38):
think it'd be unnatural to not support u of L
because Tom Jurch isn't here, because that just doesn't It
makes it seem as if you were more so a
Jurich fan than the U of L fan. And I'm
sure there are some that that was sort of how
they were wired, and I don't get it, but I'm
sure they I'm sure there's some kind of an explanation
for that maybe, But nonetheless, Jurich being welcomed by and

(04:00):
him agreeing to come back and be honored. Where they're
gonna name I believe some they're gonna name part of
Floyd Street Jurich Way. All that can do is potentially
help U of L athletics now what it's actually gonna
do as far as something tangible, something that is you
know of note meaning we can look back and say, wow,

(04:20):
that was a great move to to to really make
amends and repair what was clearly a damaged relationship between
Tom Jurich and U of L and the city. That
this result is a direct is direct proof that that
was the right thing to do. I'm not sure if
we ever get anything like that, but again, I don't
see any real harm here because regardless of what your

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thoughts are on the Jurich era, and I don't I'm
only speaking from a fans perspective, and I'm meaning me
as a fan. I can't speak for anybody anybody by myself.
But even though he was loyal to a fault, meaning
he kept Rick Patino for too long, and obviously there
was some some some of going on with the foundation
with him and James Ramsey.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
That of course was covered quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
But like let's be honest, maybe they should, but a
lot of fans don't care about that. So when they
think of Tom Jurdge, they feel as if, hey, without him,
who knows what U ofl Athletics would look.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like right now?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
So I don't know again what the expected turnout is
going to be for those that are going to show
up there on Saturday. But it's at ten am, twenty
one to thirty five South Floyd Street. It's going to
be at the Lenny Lyles Plaza at card Park. So
Jeorge is going to be there. In fact, he's going
to be on our airwaves here on news radio eight
forty whas I believe tomorrow with Terry Miners, so you'll

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hear from the man himself at that point. All, let's
get an update on trapping weather right here, right now
on news radio eight forty whs Age sixteen here Kentucky
has morning news on news.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Radio eight forty whas.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oryo and Neal of NBC News going to join us
at eight thirty and get the latest on what is
going on. And I'm not sure there's going to be well,
you never know, but it has been a busy evening
and morning thus far. As when it comes to keeping
up with what appeared to be a truce yesterday that
is now no longer in place. And it's tough to know.

(06:11):
Is is it both sides that are now saying, yeah,
there's been too much damage done since the ceasefire, therefore
we're back at it. We're at each other's throats. Or
is it more so one side that is claiming, no,
you violated it. We're not going to let it slide.
It certainly seems as if Iran was not you know, again,
hard to know if you can take them at their

(06:32):
word or not. But they seem to be a little stunned.
And again maybe they're full of it as far as
were they, you know, they don't they whoever fired a
missile that that obviously Israel thought was way too late
and well past the deadline. Maybe maybe it was somebody
that was rogue. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's tough to know.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
But again, Rory on Neil MBC, who's going to join
us coming up at eight thirty to give us to
give us the latest on that. All right, if you
have you've not had bread fish jet, I'm probably going
to make you more hungry here because we have a
list here from Delish, that is the news outlet that
has given US America's favorite chain restaurants from healthiest to
most craved. And I don't like when I look at

(07:14):
these lists and realize that there are apparently very popular
chain restaurants here in America that we don't have access
to around here because some of them have never heard of.
Some of them, I know, are very popular in certain
areas of the United States, and I just know that
we're not where they are, including like In and Out, which,
by the way, In and Out is the most according.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
By the way, this is put together by.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Data Essential, a company that provides food and beverage industry insights,
and they've announced the winners of their five hundred Awards
for twenty twenty five, which recognizes the most innovative and
innovative and beloved restaurant chains in the United States. So
when it comes to the most craved, that was In
and Out, I can't crave it because I've never had it.
But I've also never heard anybody say anything but things

(08:00):
about In and Out.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
I've had it.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
One time is when I was in Texas and Livenest
just decent.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Then it didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Then I would say, yeah, I guess that that if
you don't really remember it being anything special, but you
also don't remember it being subpar, it probably was fine.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
It just didn't meet it.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I think there are certain things that that society
sets up for failure because you you you guess it
up so much that it's almost impossible to meet the hype.
I find myself avoiding certain things like that, where publics
I just don't I just don't know if if you know,
I'm sure it'll be fine, but you've put it on
a level that I'm not sure anything for me could

(08:41):
reach the level that you put this at. And I
feel like in and out's kind of like that, Yeah,
if you've been to.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
A public yet not since they've been here that people
talks about their the people who love publics love publics.
So the best burger chain overall, shake Shack. I've had it,
and it was whatever to me.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
It was an East.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know where they are as far as like
the majority of their locations. And then the best America's
best chicken chain Raising canes.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Love raising canes.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I'm fine. Raising canes is good, I will say to me,
It's one of those that I believe I'm gonna blame
everybody else for me not being able to enjoy it
as much as you, because you set the hype so
high that even if I really like it, I'm just
I'm I feel unfulfilled because I don't know if I'm
ever gonna love it the way that you do.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
I was an early adopter for raising canes before it
got super extravagant around here.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh yes, the people who love it love it now.
America's best coffee chain is Dutch Bros. I don't drink coffee.
I've never even heard of that.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Me neither.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
So again, maybe that's another example of a chain that
is popular but just not near us.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Or maybe it isn't. We just don't know. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
America's best restaurant experience is one that is right here, local,
and they've got headquarters here. Texas Roadhouse. Text road Haus
has got some real momentum right now. And I love
Texas Roadhouse. There's like four or five things I could
get in in be satisfied.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
And I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I've never had an experience at Roadhouse that wasn't a
good one.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
The cactus blossom all day, oh.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Man, the salads, Country fried steak, the steaks, the burghers,
I mean, good stuff. Now I'm very hungry.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh yeah, the backfired on me. It's eight thirty almost
eight thirty as well, pretty early.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, America's value leader as far as just what you
get for the price. Their prices have certainly increased substantially
actually over the years. But I will agree as far
as what you pay, you get a lot, and it's
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Certainly when it's fresh. Little Caesars, that is good. That's
a good one. Little Caesars. A lot of people shame
Little Caesars. Pretzel crust for Little Caesars, and they throw out.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Some new creative menu items and I feel like they
rarely miss when it comes to those things. So yeah,
they are, they're the leader when it comes to value.
All right, We've got an update on Travick and weather
coming your way. Also another update on sports with Scott
Fitzgerald right here on news RADIOATE forty whas.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Eight thirty four. Here Kentucky in.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Its morning news and we now bring him in once
again for the second time. Joining us this morning. It's
Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, it seems as if
there's been quite the development since our conversation a few
hours ago. What is the latest here? It seems as
if it looked like we were heading in the right direction.
Maybe now it's not as easy to say.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, look, President Trump is now clearly trying to get
his message out there, trying to make sure that.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
This Sea Spire holds.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yes, it did get off to a rocky start, allegations
Iran launched a missile that Israel intercepted after the Sea
Spires was supposed to have begun, but President Trump urging
Israel and had a quote stern unquote phone call with
Prime Minister net and Yahoo to get this sea spire
to hold. The President used some colorful language that if

(11:43):
I repeated, would get me fired here when describing sort
of the long history that these two countries have of
just fighting one another and don't know what they're doing.
And you can insert an adjective in there of your
own choosing. So it's a tenuous time best right now.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
So correct me if I'm wrong. It seems as if
Israel was responding as if they're they're basically gonna attack
because of something that Iran did, and Iran almost seemingly
acted as if they didn't know what they were referring to.
They claim there's a rare situation where they claimed as
if they didn't actually do what Israel claimed they did.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, I know, but that reminds me of my big brother.
You know, I didn't know what to do. You know.
It's one of those kinds of things.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
And look, we know that anytime this happens all around
the world, when there are these sea spires, both sides
tend to sort of do one last blast of whatever
that may be. What happened in this case, the question
was how was Israel going to respond by that one
last blast from Iran? And President Trump is leaning on
net Yahu's saying, look, yesterday when Iran launched that measly

(12:49):
little attack at the US and cutter, I just took it.
They gave us a heads up that was coming. No
one got hurt, and I just let it slide. You
need to let this slide, and Trump essentially saying I
just did you guys as solid by destroying these three
nuclear bases and put a lot of my political capital
on the line here. The least you can do is

(13:09):
help me out with the seaspire and not over respond
overreact because the President said, even going into the Seaspire,
we've talked about Iran having one last gasp. Well, Israel
was launching an unprecedented missile attack on Tehran, the Iranian capital,
at the same time, so both sides just seem to
have gotten one last blast. What we're hoping now is

(13:30):
that this seaspire takes effect and can hold on. The
President is now on his way to the Hague, so
he's going to sort of be out of pocket for
the next seven or eight hours while Air Force one
makes the trip.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
The color for language you mentioned that we heard from
from President Trump before you got on the helicopter. It
makes sense as far as just given just how these
have been enemies. I guess the scenario where this just
completely ended yesterday with nothing else to develop was probably unrealistic, right,
I mean, these two are or I mean, they've been
enemies for quite some times. So maybe this is just

(14:03):
I guess, the cost of the exit strategy. But it
does sound as if maybe the most recent conversation that
President Trump had with Israel, I mean, it sounds as
if maybe the actual truth could be could be in effect.
I guess we never know, but it sounds like despite
the concerns, this morning is at least heading in the
right direction.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, look, I think we've all also, all of us
self included, have become so skewed that everything's like an
episode of Law and Order, right, it all wraps up
neatly in one hour, and that we're all on this
TV timeline, and the President says, okay, you know, we're
tired of this next episode and wants to change the channel.
But this has been a fight, as he also said,

(14:40):
that's been going on for longer than anyone can remember,
So there has to be This is going to take time,
and it's not necessarily ready for prime time, and it
doesn't go along with the TV or the newspaper schedule.
So you just have to ease into this and realize
that this may not be a linear path. There could
be some bumps and dips along the way, but the

(15:02):
long term commitment to this is what it's going to
take to make it worthwhile.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Rory on Nil of NBC News is our guest joining
us here on News Radioate forty. Whas with the congressional
summer recess approaching, Senate leadership is promising to stay in
session until Trump's big, beautiful bill is passed. What can
you tell us about what is I guess maybe one
of many things the biggest thing holding up this bill here.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, well, the parliamentarian in the Senate has to do
a lot of work with it because they're passing it
to an unusual method.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Not unusual, but they're not. It's not going through normal order.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
So this way they can pass it with fifty votes
or fifty one votes and don't need sixty votes because
the filibuster doesn't apply here. So today's going to be
a big day in taking the language of the bill,
putting it out there, and then starting to push this forward.
Still debate though over how much to cut Medicaid and
how much tax deductions people can have in those high

(15:55):
tax states through salt. But let's see, because whatever changes
they make in the Senate then have to.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Go back to the House for approval. So this is
going to be difficult to get over the finish line.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Rory, thank you so much for your time, and we
will talk soon, my friend.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Thanks Nick.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, that's Rory and Neal of NBC News.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
So it seems as if things have calmed down a
little bit since late evening early this morning, it was
it was chaotic. But again, if you guys, if you
didn't hear the President before he got on his helicopter
to as Rory mentioned, be out of pocket for a
little while. Here here is here's what he had to
say in regards to Israel and Iran. We basically have

(16:33):
two countries that have been.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Fighting so long and so hard that they don't know
what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Do you understand that you let another updated traving the
weather coming your way right here, right now, and then
we'll welcome in mister Tony Venetti, as Simon Duiterer said,
to take over coming up here at nine o'clock right here.
Our news radioate forty whas height forty five here Kentucky,
and it's morning news on news Radio eight forty w
h as. We'll hand it off to Tony and Dwight
coming up here in just about fifteen minutes or so.

(17:02):
I'm sure they'll keep you updated as best they can
on and I'm now that the President Trump's going to
be out of pocket for a while. There may not
be any real development in the next few hours from
this side, meaning in America, but nothing should really surprise us.
When it comes to this current situation, that's for certain.
But one of the things that we did talk about
earlier is the big news and you've heard it throughout

(17:22):
the morning with in the newscast from John Shannon, and
that is the gift that Young Brands is giving JCPS.
They're donating a piece of property that Marty Polio estimates
is essentially going to be a forty million dollars gift,
and Tony, I think this is viewed by a lot
of people is a nice and generous thing, and maybe
to claim that it really isn't a big valuable gift

(17:42):
considering what Young Brands is worth. But they didn't have
to do it, and I'm sure JCPS when they go
through the process today, I guess formally accept this gift.
I mean, they got to be feeling lucky that that
that Young Brands was so generous.

Speaker 7 (17:58):
I've followed KFC a little bit more than most because
my dad worked there for thirty years. He actually died
while still working at KFC, and when they talked to
my mom and I about how they were going to
handle because nobody had died, it had worked that long.
So we met in Colonel Sanders old office, which they
locked the doors the day he died. So we're sitting

(18:20):
at his desk, Colonel Sanders' desk. There's yellow, gold shag
carpet everything. The papers on his desk the day he
died were the papers on his desk. It was wild,
so I followed it in. At one point, KFC ran
all of their stores and then they said, no, let's
just make them all franchises and sell them to people,

(18:41):
and then we'll sell them the stuff. That's when KFC
started to take sort of a noseedive and they didn't
need as many people as they did, so the employee
number went down. I obviously this is a fantastic gift
for JCPS, there's no doubt about it. I don't know
how you do forty million dollars worth of renovations. It's
an office building and the one behind it is a
tech building. It's all full of computers.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
It isn't this close to where they currently are now
at the van Yeah no, yeah, that we're next.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
To us at the studios, the old studios across the street.
So it's just what it's two blocks away. Uh So,
I don't know what forty million dollars is going to count.
But this also feels like a goodbye gesture on behalf
of KFC. I don't want to be naive to the
fact that hey, look at this left hand while we're
right hand is moving more people out of town. We've

(19:28):
seen it with Papa John's Human I can't be far
behind you. Name it brown Foremant and brown Foreman. Get
rid of some folks is lately we've.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Got to figure out so some are leaving, others are
just restructuring, and it's led to a lot of jobs gone.
And then of course maybe just with them. Really, when
you when you downsize as much as some of these
companies have, you kind of change who you are to
where maybe you do need to relocate. It doesn't make
a lot of sense to be to be.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
What are reasons because you do a list? Somebody answered
my post because I pos hosted on this on Facebook
and said that he was part of a group fifteen
years ago of why won't fortune five hundred companies come here?
And he goes the surprising thing was professional sports teams,
And it wasn't the fact that you have an NFL
or an NBA team. It's the fact that other companies

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will say, if the NFL and the NBA did their
homework on where they should move, let's borrow their credibilt
They're already the hard work, and let's move there too,
because it's obviously got to be a good a good market.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's a good point. So if the pro team is
willing to set up shop there, then clearly they've seen that.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yes, they did the Yeah they did. They did the
correct for you. They did the homework for you.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
So we've got to figure out how to gets And Look,
the Brandon Taylor riots and all that and the murder
rate doesn't help, the fact that the fact that JCPS
is still a mess doesn't help. It's just we've made
decisions along the way that haven't helped. And I don't
know what the answer is, and I don't know how
unless it's a startup. How another fortune five hundred company

(21:04):
moves to Louisville.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, I want them.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
To, yes, I just don't. Papa John's is the one
that ultimately they just left. Others have have had, like
for example, KFC the Young Essentially they still have a
lot of employees here, but they did move. I think
it was about one hundred jobs ended up in El Paso, Texas,
and they claim they're going to end up relocating here.
But maybe I'm the naive one, and and and and
maybe you're onto something that this could be a nice

(21:29):
very you know, a gift that they didn't have to
do to maybe when if they do leave, Oh well
they did give us, They did give JCPS this this
great building. So maybe maybe you're onto something there. But Texas,
Texas Roadhouse is booming. They're headquartered here. Yes, yeah, and
that's not that's not somebody bringing started here. Yeah, and
it's and it's i mean a center guy. It's the
number one chain restaurant. And again there's a lot of

(21:51):
different ways you can you can win. That is a
lot of different ways that people determine what is in
fact the best chain and whatnot. But they've got a
lot of momentum. I mean, some of the these concept
restaurants like Bubba thirty threes, I mean they're popping up
around here in the Kentucky and area. So well, let's
see if they can continue to grow and they keep
their headquarters here. Maybe that means more jobs and it's
better of course for the economy. But yeah, there's no

(22:12):
doubt the taxes.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Think about taxes. You moved to Texas, no state or
city tax. Right, Florida, no city or state tax. The
first paycheck I got in Florida when I worked in
I was the day cook at the Huki Lao in
nineteen eighty nine Huki Loo at the Huki Loo was
the day cook. And I got my first paycheck and
I said, something's wrong here. They didn't take any taxes out.
And they're like, you're an idiot. Where you from? I

(22:35):
said Kentucky And they're like, yeah, we don't have any
city or state taxes here. So I got most of
my paycheck I got and that was unfamiliar to you,
very unfamiliar. So think about Texas. So now you move,
you move your business to Texas. You're trying to attract
the best talent. When you pay someone one hundred thousand dollars,
they keep more of the one hundred thousand dollars a
year than if you worked in Louisville, Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, if you are, if you're making the sales pitch
to one of these fortune founmeter companies, what's our what
we hopefully you'd have a lot to mention as far
as why you would come here?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
But I don't even really know.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
What the lead would be as far as just like
here's the here's the here's what we're going to emphasize
more than anything, as far as why would make sense
for you to be here, which again I wouldn't be
the one to make the pitch, but maybe that's a
question for for Mary Greenberg. He's going to be joining
me on Friday. Oh there we go, lead question, bro.
Thank you, all right, there you go, guiding me into.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
The right direction and stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
All right, Tony and Dwyd are coming up next.