7.15: Thick and Disgusting - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky, and it is Kentucky and is Morning
News with Coffee and Company here on News Radio eight
forty whas So, what we have learned from the big
stories yesterday, we now know that the situation to the
Fairgrounds on Sunday was really nothing. And I do think
the explanation makes it make sense as to how you

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could have everything involved from the visual that we've now
seen from many social media clips of those that were
attending the basketball tournament panicked running trying to find probably
their kids or whoever they were there with, just in
fear because they assumed that there was an active aggressor

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showing up. And we just can't be surprised when those
kind of things happen anymore. Unfortunately, so to know that
that took place, there was also and I still don't
know for sure the specifics of the Kentucky Kingdom incident,
but nonetheless it became a big issue.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
You had law enforcement show up and respond, because that's
what they're always going to do when there's a report
of an active aggressor or an active shooter in a
situation like that. So for it to end up playing
out to where it was nothing, I think the explanation
makes it make sense. I certainly wouldn't have guessed it.
But it turns out there was a ceiling tile that

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fell and struck a metal chair around the same time
a woman experienced a medical emergency nearby. So the combined
sounds and commotion created I guess confusion and fear that
quickly escalated and spread. And that's that's not really surprising,
and it's it's unfortunate to know that that really this

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was this was just just a random situation with just
bad timing for things to happen. And if you want
to blame anybody, I'm not really sure who you would blame, right,
this is just something that I mean, I guess maybe
the ceiling tile falling, maybe that's but I mean, those
things happened, and you wouldn't typically think that it would
lead to what an ended up playing out on Sunday.

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But the good news is that nobody ended up being hurt.
But I was just fearful that this was going to
be another thing for people to point at about our
city and say, well, man, this place needs to get
their stuff in order, because my goodness, and look, we
do need to get our stuff in order. I mean,
that's not that's not something I'm trying to deflect. But
this was just a bad timing, bad luck. Can we

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catch a break? That's kind of what I'm thinking here. Also,
we're continuing to learn a little more about the gunman
on Sunday in Lexington that opened fire on a trooper
after being pulled over near the Bluegrass Airport, only to
then carjack someone and make his way to a church,
killing two people wounding two others. So guy House, we

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now know that he has a background of being a criminal,
also drug use and mental health issues. That is what
those who know him and some of his family, including
the mother of his children, has come out and said.
But also another detail here as far as just maybe
some timing that led to this, he had a hearing

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on Monday for domestic violence. So the day before he
did this, he was set to go to court for
a hearing when it comes to domestic violence, but it
did not involve the women he was reportedly seeking at
the church. The woman, I should say, and that's the
mother of his child, who has since done at least
a couple of interviews that I've seen, and clearly this
was a troubled individual. And I don't know if you're

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out here looking at people and trying to evaluate who
the next potential person to do something like this is,
because that would be no way to live. And I
think it'd be tough to know. But drug problems, criminal history,
mental health issues. Maybe the mental health issues have come
from the life that this person has experienced, but just
a tragic situation all the way around. When you combine

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the components of this situation top to bottom, it's not
a shocker that this became, of course, a national story.
Law enforcement getting fired upon just when holding someone over carjacking,
and then a mass shooting at a church. So unfortunate
all the way around. And it is nice though to
see there were folks near the airport when the officer

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was shot that took action, called nine one one and
tried to help. And those are things that you would
just assume and hope that everyone does, because I mean,
that's what you should do. But I think two sides
of this one. I don't think anybody really knows what
they would do in that situation. I mean, if you didn't,
you didn't clearly see that the person who shot the

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officer was gone and made his way to, I guess,
find somebody and steal their car. I mean, I don't
know if people would have taken as quick of action.
I mean, you just don't. I don't think anybody knows
what they'll do in a lot of situations until they
in fact are in said situations, and that's one of them.
But also, if you are the officer, I mean, I'm
sure you will forever feel grateful for someone who probably

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doesn't know you. And clearly, law enforcement there's not enough
said about the good things they do and what they
sign up for and what they experience in that line
of work all because they want to. And yeah, there's
plenty of examples of individuals taking advantage of things that
come with being in law enforcement, but that's I mean,
that's a minor thing compared to the vast majority who

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probably go about their day assuming that people don't appreciate them.
And look, they clearly don't get into it to be appreciated,
or they wouldn't do it. So I know there was
at least one of the one of the individuals that
was nearby when that happened that took action and helped
the trooper called nine one one and always nice to

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remind people that those individuals still exist in society. All right,
let's get an update on traffic and weather. I want
to revisit the tipping conversation from earlier. You got to
be mindful when you get that receipt from a restaurant.
You might want to double check their math. They may
be just putting a number down that tells you that's
twenty percent of of what your bill is and just

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assuming you're gonna believe it, which hand up. I've probably
done that before. But there's also some other things I
want to discuss when it comes to tipping, because that's
something everybody has a strong opinion on. All right, first,
let's get an update on traffic and weather. Right here,
it's Kentucky and his Morning News with Coffee and Company
on News Radio eight forty. Whas if we were going
to put together a list of things that most have

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not just an opinion, but maybe a strong opinion on,
I feel like gratuity tipping is one of those. And
this is something we talked about earlier. If you weren't
with us in the seven o'clock hour, but a customer
at Chili's is accusing them of not math in the
right way, and he claims that Chili's is deceptive because

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the percentage that was shown on his receipt, which I'm
sure that's common at a lot of restaurants. Not everyone
has it, but a lot of times if you give
him the receipt to check out at a restaurant, the
receipt that you signed will have options fer gratuity that
just say, you know, here's what it would be if
you tip eighteen percent, here's what it would be if
you tip twenty fifteen, whatever it may be. And he
did show that the receipt didn't add up as far

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as what they claimed the certain so his dinner was
twenty seven dollars and seven cents. The receipt claimed that
eighteen percent of that equals six twenty eight and twenty
five percent of that equals eight to seventy three, when
the correct calculations were lower than that. And he went
on to say that it's illegal. And this became a
big story because others have chimed in to say that
they've experienced the same thing at Chili's, and then there's

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others that have said it's happened at other restaurants before.
I'm only bringing it up, because I will admit I've
never even looked at that. I've just assumed, well, surely
that's right. And to be fair, those that said that
there was probably an explanation for it, and there may
be an explanation for it, or this guy could be lying.
Who knows, but if you have a q pon or

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a rewards program at that restaurant, then maybe that you know,
maybe the tip was already there, but then your price
was lower because they saw that you had like a
twenty percent off or whatever it may be. However, this
guy did claim that that was not the case. He
didn't have any kind of discount, and he just said
that they that it was just wrong and it could
be I mean, it could clearly be just an error,
or it could be just a way to see if
people are actually paying attention and maybe you can end

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up getting more of a tip. So I hadn't thought
about this, but we had somebody reach out to me
on Twitter that was listening and said that they would
love to know if restaurants require their servers to inform
a big party that gratuity has already been added. And
that's a great question. I can tell you I've seen

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it both ways. I've had a server tell a big
party that I was with hey, just so you know,
gratuity's already added. And sometimes it's a given, but sometimes
it's not. Sometimes if there's a big party and you've
got multiple different checks, right, maybe it's a big dinner
and there's six to seven different checks. Don't really know

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how it would work out as far as just the
total number, but it wouldn't shock me if maybe at
that point, depending upon the restaurant, they might prefer that
it wasn't included and you just get your tips from
each each individual check that's there. I guess it depends
upon the situation. But I've also I give an example
I had. I was out celebrating a birthday last summer

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and there were a lot of us there, and my
buddy's dad was celebrating with us, and he went and
bought a bunch of drinks for everybody buying around, right,
And he ended up bringing back like eight nine drinks,
and the bill was really expensive. And after a while
he started to think, like, yeah, I know, buying booze
is expensive, but man, some didn't add up, And sure

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enough he checked the receipt and they had already included gratuity,
which I guess because of how many drinks he bought,
they were able to do that, but they didn't tell him,
so he also tipped on top of that. And I
feel like it's a little deceptive if you don't inform
somebody whenever the tip is already included whenever they probably
aren't expecting it. But I also am not surprised that

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they'll see if you'll tip them extra. I would have
a hard time. What I would fear is the you
aren't gonna tell me, because then I would be like, oh,
I forgot you know, I don't know. I wouldn't I
would not would well leave.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Them though I wouldn't believe them if they said they
forgot oho either.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, And look, I am not somebody that would do
well at being a server, and they're clearly very important
and uh appreciated when you go out to dinner. So
but I just you know, you've got to deal with
a lot of people and a lot of interaction, and yeah,
I would hate to get caught being being deceptive like that,
which will keep me from doing it. But hey, maybe
they're just trying to make a living. But I believe

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you should always be transparent. If the tip's already been
taken out, let them know. And even if it's on
the receipt, I think you should also still let them know.
Maybe you're not required to, but anyhow. Or let's get
an update on Travick and weather. We'll see what the
eroads are looking like out here at Kentuckyana, and also
we'll get an update on the forecast and another sport.
It's update coming your way as well. Right here our
news radio eight forty whas. It's eight forty six here

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at Kentucky, and it's morning news on news Radio eight
forty whas Coffee and Company. And I've got some company
right here, as the one and only Tony Venetti has
joined me and.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
A bigger stars on the phone. George Timmering from Burno's
it's a big day to day, George, Good morning, George.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Good morning guys. Look I remember Nick Coffee doing the
after game late night show Barenos Downtown fifteen years ago
with his brother, and now he is the morning guy.
I'm the big Stick eighty four whas.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
And one of those shows. Thank you, George, I'm glad
you remember that one of those shows. Took place during
a season when Louisville won a national championship, So it
was it was dude, I'm not taking credit for the championship.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
You remember those those good times. A lot of players
would come over afterwards.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Your brother was better than you. I don't know how
you ended up.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
This is my cousin, not my brother. A lot of
people assume he's Yes, he's the he's the talent of
the family. He just chose to go and he chose
to to work in a career where he can make
a lot more money than I made.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Look, we all well, congratulations and it's great to have
you on and.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Thank you appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, you both had similar conversations with your parents. Of course,
George went to he's got a law degree from Bandy Son.
What are you gonna do? I'm gonna make Pizza's dad,
And that's what he did, very very well in your Dwight's.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
People, my friends from school think I made it made
sense because they knew how much treat that in college.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Everybody loves pizza man. Who's happy?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Are some of your lawyer buddies or you the career
path that you have chosen. I would say, you.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
All well appreciate that, but well, we're excited today. It's
a huge day. We're we are doing a benefit in
memory of Michelle Rush, who is a Crimed against Children
detective for the Louisville Metro Police Department. And she was
really well liked in and very passionate about our job,

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and even when she was going through some tough times
with chemo and whatnot, kept on fighting for the kids
of Louisville and just just hear wonderful things. And she
left behind a husband who also is on the police force,
and three kids. And we were approached about doing a
benefit today and everybody jumped on board, all thirteen area

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Barons location. So we're excited today. We're going to be
doing twenty percent towards through the Rush family, through the
Louisville Metro Police Foundation, all day, lunch, dinner. As I
always tell people, when you know election time, vote early,
and often today I'm saying, order food early and often

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want to We want people to We want to be
packed at Baronos today so that we can give a
big check. And then also, you know, today's more than
just selling a lot of pizzas, so we can give
a good check for the family. It's also about the camaraderie.
You know, a lot of the biggest people that always
support these benefits for us are always fellow first responders,

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and first responders really come together when they lose one
of their own. It's a special bond. And so there'll
be a lot of groups together, please fire ms, all
of them meeting together. So it's always it's always. Uh,
it's a day that you don't want to have because
you know someone has passed. But then on the other hand,
you're glad to have the opportunity to at least kind

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of show some people's support in their time.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
And ee, yeah, we sometimes dismiss the impact of one
individual and her impact as a mother, as a wife,
as a protector of children. For the city of Louisville.
Think about just taking one person out and that void
that has to be filled. And the husband now is

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his needs our help today? I mean he's got a
mortgage now that he can't swing unless he gets help.
And now he's mom and dad and he needs our
help today. And let's just George won't say it, but
twenty percent is basically what they make for a day.
So give think about your business in thirteen stores and

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saying we're not going to make money on this day. Look,
numbers in restaurants are a small of a margin anyway,
So think about doing that in your month and then
add it up in the month. But they do it
without thinking, and it's good on you, George, and bear knows,
So any bear knows today, please please try to stop

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buy and grab something to eat. And it goes to
a great cause.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
And includes southern Indiana and Shepherdsville and then obviously all
the Louisville Metro locations and most stores will be cranking
up at eleven o'clock this morning, or you can probably
even call sooner and get your order in and then
be open at least till nine or ten o'clock tonight.
You know, all day, all day long.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
The safest place in Louisville today will be any barons.
They're going to be police, and every baron knows will
be packed with cops. Save his place to have luxur
dinner today will be a baros anywhere in town, George,
which one will you be working at?

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I will be uh downtown at lunch today. I heard
the chief might chief the police might stop by, so uh,
you know, we hope we have a big, big crowd
for that and and uh you know, like I said,
do some good and then as Dwight likes to say,
do some good in the neighborhood and uh, you know,
let's pack out baronos today and really help this help

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this family and help uh you know, our first responders.
I know Nick was talking earlier about you know, the
events of the weekend and how you know these people
go in, go in right when other people are running,
they're going into trouble, and uh, you know that's that
kind of hit home today, you know, important support and
everybody today there's no better way to show appreciation to them,

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to make a big statement today for the Rush family
and the Louisville Metro Police Foundation. So appreciate you all
letting me on to tell about it, and we'll let's
have a big day and thank you guys, and again
congratulations Nick on the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Thank you, George. Appreciate it. I'm sure, buddy, I'm sure
there'll be big crowds at the various locations here in
Kentucky and Ina, and certainly for a great cause. Just
a tragic situation all the way around, and to your point, Tony,
when it comes next to George, so it comes to
those when it comes to just the outpouring of I mean,
you really can sense somebody's impact when something like this,

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unfortunately happens. And the fraternity that is, those that work
in law enforcement, first responders. You're right, every bear knows
is going to be packed with transponders, good stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, so if you have a warned against you, I
wouldn't go. But other than that, have fun.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Good stuff. Thanks, Thanks, Tony. We'll be well, actually I'll
be back in what eighteen hours something like that.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
We'll see here.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Take care, Tony and Dwier coming up next right here
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