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Speaker 3 (00:00):
Good Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is Kentuckyana's morning news here on News Radio eight
forty Whas Coffee and Company, Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The full crew is here, you Distirred John Shannon with
the news. John Alden's back after a nice vacation staycation,
i should say, and of course Scott's alongside. We'll go
back to sports coming up here in about twenty minutes
or so. But some big news from yesterday to get
our week started here, and that is that there is
a trade deal that has taken place that of course
(00:29):
was I mean, look the tariffs, that's been a big
topic of conversation for quite some time now and still
a lot of unknown as far as overall where that
ends up, where that ends up headed, but as far
as the deal that the United States and the European
Union came together to agree on is big. So as
(00:50):
we discussed earlier with Rio Neil, there's still a lot
of unknowns, but the deal includes a fifty percent tariff
across the board according to the European Commission Chief. And
again this is this is this is good news right
when it comes to just things that you could potentially
expect to see from this for those maybe who don't
pay attention and you just will notice it whenever it
impacts you. We'll tell you a little bit about areas
(01:14):
that may notice it earlier than others. We'll do that
coming up a little bit later on. But here's President
Trump in regards to this big news as they've come
to a trade agreement.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Very importantly, they'll be investing a lot of money. But
the military is a big number. But that's one number.
We're not determining it's going to be whatever it is,
but they're going to be purchasing hundreds of billions of
dollars worth of military equipment. They're very important that they're
going to purchase seven hundred and fifty seven hundred and
(01:43):
fifty billion dollars worth of energy, so that's going to
be great, and six hundred billion dollars worth of investments
into the United States over and above what they have,
and I think that basically concludes the deal. I mean,
those are the factors. I don't think there are too
many other factors.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So again, as far as what type of jobs, industries
I should say are gonna benefit from this, there's a
pretty good breakdown. And again it's just a projection, but
I think it's encouraging news. So we'll talk about that
coming up a little bit later on. One of the most
talked about things in the streaming world right now is
Adam Sandler's second Happy Gilmore movie, that, of course is
a Netflix original. And I've said this before. I'm sure
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you don't remember it, because why would you. It is
probably the movie I can recite word for word better
than any other. I mean, I've probably watched Happy Gilmore
more than any movie I've ever watched in my life,
and I'm not sure if that'll ever be topped, and
it's such a nostalgia thing for me. But think Happy Gilmore,
Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy. Those are like the three
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comedy movies that just played on repeat for me when
I was young, and I could still watch them today
over and over and enjoy them because I'm sure everybody
has movies like that that they just watched enough and
it's something that's special to you. So I remember having
a near panic attack knowing they were going to legitimately
run it back and do the entire thing all over
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again with so many pieces from the original, because this
isn't needed, right this isn't necessary. I'm not even really
sure who's asking for this. But over time, I thought
to myself, Okay, I trust Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler, I mean,
he's a smart guy. He knows that if you're gonna
do this, just make it a nice, just nostalgic situation
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to where you just kind of, I mean, don't do
the same movie all over again, but maybe just you know,
remind us of how much we loved it, add some
new flavor as many many years have passed since the
original came out. So I started to be optimistic about
it once I found out it was going to happen,
and I'm certainly gonna watch it. But I haven't watched
it yet, and I thought to myself, all, okay, I'm
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going to avoid anybody that gives any kind of like
a recap, not even really because of spoilers, because I mean,
I doubt there's some like crazy storyline here that's going
to completely throw me off. But I just didn't want
to hear what people thought of it, because I wanted
to be able to come to my own conclusion and
not feel as if I was. Let me, let me
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give an example as to what I would have expected.
And by the way, I've now realized there's no way
to avoid people talking about it, because anytime I pop
up in any social media platform, whether it be Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok x, slash, Twitter, like, one of the first things
that I see is somebody talking about this movie and
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sharing thoughts, and I quickly try to scroll past it
because I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But it's unavoidable.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But what I didn't want to see is people crushing it,
because then I would probably watch it and like it
and be like, it's just my nature to defend it
because I don't wanted people to say it's bad.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So from what I've gathered, you're you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I've seen two pretty consistent reactions across the board. Some
have just said it's it's very awful, it's a disgrace,
should have never been done. They're so disappointed. And then
I've seen others that say it wasn't great, but it
was perfect for what that would have to be. You know,
you're not gonna make a better version of the movie.
You know that it's not necessary. It's just a nice
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you know, just a nice way to bring it back
into modern the modern world. But I haven't seen anybody say,
oh wow, this was great man, what a phenomenal movie,
which maybe I'll be the first to watch it and
say that, because that's what I want to believe. But
to be fair, like, there aren't many movies where a
sequel is viewed as not only as good, but it's
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super rare to see one that's viewed as being better
than the original. It happens like, I know some people
say that Top Gun, the remake of that is actually
better than the original, But I can't think of many.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, I can't think of many.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I can't think of many comedies where they did a
sequel and you felt like, oh wow, that was better
than the first one. I mean, it's happened. We'll talk
about that next because again, sometimes the sequel and if
they go even further than that, it's clearly because they
know there's a market for it. It's a money it's
a money thing, right. But you could have not with
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a lot of these over the years, and it would
have been fine. We'll get to that and a lot more.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Stick with us.
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Speaker 3 (06:28):
We are rolling along here on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It is seven sevent seen here at Kentucky and this
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News Radio eight forty.
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Whas So when it comes to the big, the major
deal between the United States and the European Union, for
those that are wondering, okay, well, how will this impact
my wallet?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
How will this?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How will this impact me? And when you consider the
energy sector boom, the EU's buying of seven hundred and
fifty billion dollars worth of US energy. So if you
work in oil, gas or energy infrastructure, I mean you
can certainly expect a ripple effect of opportunity. And also
when you consider the exports coming from America US companies,
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they're gonna flood the European market. We're talking goods, energy services.
So there could be more demand, more production, and more
jobs here at home in the United States. If you're
in if you're in those kind of injuries or if
you're in those kind of industries, I should say, all right,
So back to the Happy Gilmore situation. I again, there's
no scenario that our technology is not listening to us,
(07:33):
right because I talk Happy Gilmore for that segment the
beginning of the seven o'clock hour, and sure enough, it's
it's now all that's popping up on anything I go to.
It was already doing that anyway, but I'm not sure
that that's timing. But when it comes to the reviews,
this one, this isn't this is from Rotten Tomatoes, I
think this is this. This puts me in a good place.
(07:55):
It's getting so so reviews, but fans don't seem to care,
meaning fans who just love Happy Gilmore. That makes me
feel good as to it, because if I love it
like I think I do, it could be subpar. And
I'm still gonna say, well, I enjoyed that. I appreciated
that that opportunity to really get nostalgic was there for me.
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So anyhow, I'm gonna watch it at some point. But
my wife asked me last night because we got the
kids to bed a little earlier than we usually do, and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I was too scared.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
John, I was like, no, I can't do it time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's just all because of the Sunday scaries too.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, oh absolutely, yeah, you know me too. Well, that
was a big factor. Had it not been Sunday, I
might have been able to do it, but like, yes,
the Sunday scaries were creeping in to where I'm thinking
to myself, Okay, yeah, not tonight. I wouldn't even be
able to enjoy it if it was good, because I'm
you know, that Sunday. And by the way, I will
say this, the Sunday scaries kind of went away from
me whenever I was starting my on air shift at
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three o'clock in the afternoon. But now that I'll wake
up at three o'clock in the morning to get my
day started, Sunday is just turned into.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's almost not even the weekend anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, because there's there's so much and
it's more of a mental thing than anything. But yeah,
just knowing when I when I get out of here
on Fridays and I've got all day Saturday, I'm not
thinking about what I got to do the next day. Well,
now I've got to be super mindful all day Sunday.
Not only do I have to get up early and
start the week, but I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna
be recovering from the weekend. And I don't mean because
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I'm outraging partying like some you know, wild man, It's
just I don't get up at three o'clock in the
morning on the weekends. Therefore, it's it's a it's a
quick return to routine that mondays, you know, like anybody,
regardless of what your routine is, a lot of people probably,
you know, the Monday morning wake up maybe.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
The toughest wake up of the of the week for folks.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I know I'm not alone there, but I'll eventually watch
it and I'm sure I'll be fine, But yeah, last
night I was too scared. All right, we got another
traffic and weather update coming your way. Bobby Ellis will
tell us how the roadways are looking here on a
Monday morning. Also, we'll get an update to look at
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then it's got to be back with another sports update.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So we've got you covered.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And how could I forget to mention we're nine minutes
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you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Ana's morning
news Coffee and company Nick Coffee with you here on
news radio eight forty WHAS take us with you wherever
you go. You can listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Also listen live at wh as dot com. So John
(10:23):
Alden is back with us, by the way, which I know,
that's why you're here. He's the company man.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We missed him and we're excited he's here. And this
this is not something you can blame John for. But
you're you're you're in the minority seemingly as far as
having children.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You are you're a new father.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You've got a newborn baby. Which when is the newborn
stage over? Because i've heard eight weeks. Okay, so she's passed,
she's past that. But what is this? This is this
just baby stage?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Is?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's certainly not toddler and I think baby goes up
until they're a year old or something like that. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So you are, you're a new parent and people this
day in or just not having kids the way that
they used to. And there is a lot of factors
that go into that, probably more than we even realize.
But the US fertility rate falls to an all time
low in twenty twenty four, So that number, again, i'd
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be curious if you just were to do a rapid
fire man on the street kind of thing. You just
walk up to somebody, Hey, the US fertility rate has
fallen to an all time low.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I wanted the first thing that would come to mind
For a lot of people, I guess it probably depends
on your situation, maybe your beliefs. Some would blame the economy,
some would blame I mean again, I'm sure everybody has
their own opinion. But we've seen a real drop in
this over I guess, like really two decades down, yeah,
(11:51):
I mean nearly two decades. This has been a trend
as declining birth rates. It's been all age groups, by
the way, twenty twenty four, the fertility rate is now
at one point five nine nine children per women, which
is well below the replacement rate of two point one
So US fertility peaked in two thousand and seven, then
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steadily declined. There was a brief uptick in twenty twenty four,
but it didn't reverse the trend of So again, I
just again, are there are countless factors as to why
there aren't as many kids being born today as there
was ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.
But just take out, like I just think society take away.
(12:39):
I mean, I just think now I got I got
married at a young age. I feel like even for
that time I got married in twenty and eleven, and
that time I was just I was just about twenty
two up, I think was how old I was at
that time. I think that's I think that's right something
around that age. And I felt like even then that
was young to get me. But now I feel like
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that would be really rare to see two people twenty
to twenty three getting married like my wife and I.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You got married at twenty two back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're an old soul and you had your first child
at what twenty seven?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Twenty seven? So did I? I was twenty seven s
yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So so you know, for me, I just it's not
even about any specific factor that I just think you
can just say, well this is why cost or you know.
I mean, I'm trying to think of if I wouldn't
ask somebody that I know, like, hey, why haven't you
had kids yet?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Like I know people that have tried to have children.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Unfortunately they've just found out along the way that it's
not going to be as easy for them, and there's
a lot of things they have options to do, but
in some of those things are just not doable depending
upon cost and just maybe what would come with it,
because you know, you can try a lot of options
as far as using medical science to help you have
a kid, but some of those things don't really guarantee
that it actually is ever going to work, and that
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could be something that you just you sign up for
potentially being heartbroken and devastated to go through that process.
So I just I think a lot of people fresh
out of college or just in that age range, I
don't want to act like they're all like childish and
immature and they're not ready to grow up yet. They
just don't seem to be any real hurry to kind
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of just open that door of okay, well here we go, now,
get married, probably start a family soon, and just kind
of start that phase of my life.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And good.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
More people do whatever the hell they want. I mean,
it doesn't impact me by any means. But when I
hear that money is a factor and just how expensive
everything is right now in the economy and where it is,
and man, I can tell you certainly that childcare is
very expensive. Maybe this is just me and my own world.
But I personally, when we had both our kids, we
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were trying and I've got a lot of friends. In fact,
our social get together is with our friends is really
just all of our kids getting together. I mean, and
I'm very lucky that the vast majority of the friends
that I grew up with, people that I've known for
over thirty years, still close with a lot of them,
and our friends O our kids are around the same
age and their friends. But I don't ever remember any
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of us ever thinking we were gonna have another kid,
but we decided to wait because of how expensive things are.
And that's not to act like it's not a real issue.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But I think when you decide to be a parent
for the first time or the second or third time,
I just you need to be responsible and know if
you can afford to take care of a human being
or not. I don't act likely it doesn't matter at all.
But that's never been like if we're deciding, hey, should
we have another should we try now?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I just I just have never thought, Okay, well, what's
the price going to be? How much is it going
to cost me to be a dad?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I hate that I'm sounding like I'm mocking it,
because I guess technically I am, and people should be
more responsible. I'm sure there's many people that should not
have brought children into the world, and they did. In fact,
I know that to be the case, but I don't know.
Just the monetary aspect of it is just something and
I've never once thought about, because you know, maybe this
just speaks to me not realizing how fortunate I am.
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But there's no cost, Like whatever I got to do
for my kid, I got to do for my kid.
If it puts me in a million dollars a debt
or whatever it may be, that's just life, and that
would be that would not be something that I would
that I would want to do by any means, But
it wouldn't even be a decision. It would just be done,
because that's that's being a parent. But anyways, nobody's having
nobody's having kids anymore. People still having sex though, that's
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that's for sure. Sex not down, but children not happening
as much. All right, let's get to an update of
the traffic in the weather. We'll keep this thing rolling along.
It is Kentucky and this Morning News Coffee and Company
Nick Coffee with you here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
So we've talked.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
About the Happy Gilmore sequel that was released on to
Netflix on Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I've yet to watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But when it comes to movies that decided to run
it back for a sequel or do some version of
just a remake, there have been many that were not necessary,
and there have been some that were viewed as I
guess the success and success can be determined differently.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
If if you hated it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But yet those who put it together made billions at
the box office, then that's the success to them. But
when I think of movie like Bad Boys Too with
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The original came out in
nineteen ninety five, Bad Boys two came out and maybe
ten years later, and I remember thinking, Okay, this one
was like you could have not given me the first one,
And if this was just the only one it was
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a standalone, I would have said it was great, and
not that the first one was bad. But when it
comes to sci fi and action, I think you've got
many that are competing with the original, or some would
say maybe even better, like The Dark Knight, that of
course was a big hit, that was a sequel to
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Batman begins. Terminator two. That's a little before my time,
but that was viewed to be the one that really
elevated the brand Terminator. But when it comes to comedy,
I kind of feel like it's harder to do. But
here are some examples of remakes and comedy that did
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not do well. The Hangover Part two and Part three.
They kind of tried the same thing and it was
popular to an extent, but nowhere near the original. And
I will say this, I think the second and the
third are worth watching. They're fine, but I will say
just my opinion only it does keep me from realizing
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how good the first one was. The first one didn't
get worse because they made the second and the third.
But sometimes less is more, and I think that's it.
Really That to me is a good example of that.
And then this one, I got to be honest, I
didn't finish it because just because it didn't hook me.
It was an interesting it just didn't do it for me.
It was Anchorman two. Anchorman the original a classic and
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really stupid but really stupid kid be funny, but that
one just didn't do it for me. Like for example,
Step Brothers. Really stupid movie, but really funny. Maybe that's
where it just gets out. Maybe that's hard to create
in general. Therefore, recreating it and expecting it to stick
is one that you know, it just makes it difficult.
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Like Zoolander two, Dumb and Dumber two coming to America.
Those are those were nostalgic ones, but they just they
couldn't come close to competing. And I guess that's probably
what's going to be said about Happy Gilmore when it's
all said and done. Not one that was needed, but
a nice nice shot of nostalgia for those that are
really appreciated, because of course that was a really popular
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movie for a lot of people. All right, let's do this.
We'll get another update of Travick and Weather coming your way.
Another sports update on the way as well, as we
are just nine minutes away from eight o'clock here at
News Rady eight forty whas
Good Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is Kentuckyana's morning news here on News Radio eight
forty Whas Coffee and Company, Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The full crew is here, you Distirred John Shannon with
the news. John Alden's back after a nice vacation staycation,
i should say, and of course Scott's alongside. We'll go
back to sports coming up here in about twenty minutes
or so. But some big news from yesterday to get
our week started here, and that is that there is
a trade deal that has taken place that of course
(00:29):
was I mean, look the tariffs, that's been a big
topic of conversation for quite some time now and still
a lot of unknown as far as overall where that
ends up, where that ends up headed, but as far
as the deal that the United States and the European
Union came together to agree on is big. So as
(00:50):
we discussed earlier with Rio Neil, there's still a lot
of unknowns, but the deal includes a fifty percent tariff
across the board according to the European Commission Chief. And
again this is this is this is good news right
when it comes to just things that you could potentially
expect to see from this for those maybe who don't
pay attention and you just will notice it whenever it
impacts you. We'll tell you a little bit about areas
(01:14):
that may notice it earlier than others. We'll do that
coming up a little bit later on. But here's President
Trump in regards to this big news as they've come
to a trade agreement.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Very importantly, they'll be investing a lot of money. But
the military is a big number. But that's one number.
We're not determining it's going to be whatever it is,
but they're going to be purchasing hundreds of billions of
dollars worth of military equipment. They're very important that they're
going to purchase seven hundred and fifty seven hundred and
(01:43):
fifty billion dollars worth of energy, so that's going to
be great, and six hundred billion dollars worth of investments
into the United States over and above what they have,
and I think that basically concludes the deal. I mean,
those are the factors. I don't think there are too
many other factors.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So again, as far as what type of jobs, industries
I should say are gonna benefit from this, there's a
pretty good breakdown. And again it's just a projection, but
I think it's encouraging news. So we'll talk about that
coming up a little bit later on. One of the most
talked about things in the streaming world right now is
Adam Sandler's second Happy Gilmore movie, that, of course is
a Netflix original. And I've said this before. I'm sure
(02:26):
you don't remember it, because why would you. It is
probably the movie I can recite word for word better
than any other. I mean, I've probably watched Happy Gilmore
more than any movie I've ever watched in my life,
and I'm not sure if that'll ever be topped, and
it's such a nostalgia thing for me. But think Happy Gilmore,
Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy. Those are like the three
(02:47):
comedy movies that just played on repeat for me when
I was young, and I could still watch them today
over and over and enjoy them because I'm sure everybody
has movies like that that they just watched enough and
it's something that's special to you. So I remember having
a near panic attack knowing they were going to legitimately
run it back and do the entire thing all over
(03:08):
again with so many pieces from the original, because this
isn't needed, right this isn't necessary. I'm not even really
sure who's asking for this. But over time, I thought
to myself, Okay, I trust Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler, I mean,
he's a smart guy. He knows that if you're gonna
do this, just make it a nice, just nostalgic situation
(03:31):
to where you just kind of, I mean, don't do
the same movie all over again, but maybe just you know,
remind us of how much we loved it, add some
new flavor as many many years have passed since the
original came out. So I started to be optimistic about
it once I found out it was going to happen,
and I'm certainly gonna watch it. But I haven't watched
it yet, and I thought to myself, all, okay, I'm
(03:53):
going to avoid anybody that gives any kind of like
a recap, not even really because of spoilers, because I mean,
I doubt there's some like crazy storyline here that's going
to completely throw me off. But I just didn't want
to hear what people thought of it, because I wanted
to be able to come to my own conclusion and
not feel as if I was. Let me, let me
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give an example as to what I would have expected.
And by the way, I've now realized there's no way
to avoid people talking about it, because anytime I pop
up in any social media platform, whether it be Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok x, slash, Twitter, like, one of the first things
that I see is somebody talking about this movie and
(04:34):
sharing thoughts, and I quickly try to scroll past it
because I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But it's unavoidable.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But what I didn't want to see is people crushing it,
because then I would probably watch it and like it
and be like, it's just my nature to defend it
because I don't wanted people to say it's bad.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So from what I've gathered, you're you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I've seen two pretty consistent reactions across the board. Some
have just said it's it's very awful, it's a disgrace,
should have never been done. They're so disappointed. And then
I've seen others that say it wasn't great, but it
was perfect for what that would have to be. You know,
you're not gonna make a better version of the movie.
You know that it's not necessary. It's just a nice
(05:18):
you know, just a nice way to bring it back
into modern the modern world. But I haven't seen anybody say,
oh wow, this was great man, what a phenomenal movie,
which maybe I'll be the first to watch it and
say that, because that's what I want to believe. But
to be fair, like, there aren't many movies where a
sequel is viewed as not only as good, but it's
(05:41):
super rare to see one that's viewed as being better
than the original. It happens like, I know some people
say that Top Gun, the remake of that is actually
better than the original, But I can't think of many.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, I can't think of many.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I can't think of many comedies where they did a
sequel and you felt like, oh wow, that was better
than the first one. I mean, it's happened. We'll talk
about that next because again, sometimes the sequel and if
they go even further than that, it's clearly because they
know there's a market for it. It's a money it's
a money thing, right. But you could have not with
(06:19):
a lot of these over the years, and it would
have been fine. We'll get to that and a lot more.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Stick with us.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Your next update of trapping a weather coming your way
right here right now on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
We are rolling along here on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It is seven sevent seen here at Kentucky and this
morning news Coffee and Company NIT coffee with you here on.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
News Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Whas So when it comes to the big, the major
deal between the United States and the European Union, for
those that are wondering, okay, well, how will this impact
my wallet?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
How will this?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How will this impact me? And when you consider the
energy sector boom, the EU's buying of seven hundred and
fifty billion dollars worth of US energy. So if you
work in oil, gas or energy infrastructure, I mean you
can certainly expect a ripple effect of opportunity. And also
when you consider the exports coming from America US companies,
(07:12):
they're gonna flood the European market. We're talking goods, energy services.
So there could be more demand, more production, and more
jobs here at home in the United States. If you're
in if you're in those kind of injuries or if
you're in those kind of industries, I should say, all right,
So back to the Happy Gilmore situation. I again, there's
no scenario that our technology is not listening to us,
(07:33):
right because I talk Happy Gilmore for that segment the
beginning of the seven o'clock hour, and sure enough, it's
it's now all that's popping up on anything I go to.
It was already doing that anyway, but I'm not sure
that that's timing. But when it comes to the reviews,
this one, this isn't this is from Rotten Tomatoes, I
think this is this. This puts me in a good place.
(07:55):
It's getting so so reviews, but fans don't seem to care,
meaning fans who just love Happy Gilmore. That makes me
feel good as to it, because if I love it
like I think I do, it could be subpar. And
I'm still gonna say, well, I enjoyed that. I appreciated
that that opportunity to really get nostalgic was there for me.
(08:15):
So anyhow, I'm gonna watch it at some point. But
my wife asked me last night because we got the
kids to bed a little earlier than we usually do, and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I was too scared.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
John, I was like, no, I can't do it time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's just all because of the Sunday scaries too.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, oh absolutely, yeah, you know me too. Well, that
was a big factor. Had it not been Sunday, I
might have been able to do it, but like, yes,
the Sunday scaries were creeping in to where I'm thinking
to myself, Okay, yeah, not tonight. I wouldn't even be
able to enjoy it if it was good, because I'm
you know, that Sunday. And by the way, I will
say this, the Sunday scaries kind of went away from
me whenever I was starting my on air shift at
(08:49):
three o'clock in the afternoon. But now that I'll wake
up at three o'clock in the morning to get my
day started, Sunday is just turned into.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's almost not even the weekend anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, because there's there's so much and
it's more of a mental thing than anything. But yeah,
just knowing when I when I get out of here
on Fridays and I've got all day Saturday, I'm not
thinking about what I got to do the next day. Well,
now I've got to be super mindful all day Sunday.
Not only do I have to get up early and
start the week, but I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna
be recovering from the weekend. And I don't mean because
(09:20):
I'm outraging partying like some you know, wild man, It's
just I don't get up at three o'clock in the
morning on the weekends. Therefore, it's it's a it's a
quick return to routine that mondays, you know, like anybody,
regardless of what your routine is, a lot of people probably,
you know, the Monday morning wake up maybe.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
The toughest wake up of the of the week for folks.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I know I'm not alone there, but I'll eventually watch
it and I'm sure I'll be fine, But yeah, last
night I was too scared. All right, we got another
traffic and weather update coming your way. Bobby Ellis will
tell us how the roadways are looking here on a
Monday morning. Also, we'll get an update to look at
the forecast from at melosavit a w ok why And
then it's got to be back with another sports update.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So we've got you covered.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And how could I forget to mention we're nine minutes
away from another news update with John Shannon, So stick
around right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank
you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Ana's morning
news Coffee and company Nick Coffee with you here on
news radio eight forty WHAS take us with you wherever
you go. You can listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Also listen live at wh as dot com. So John
(10:23):
Alden is back with us, by the way, which I know,
that's why you're here. He's the company man.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We missed him and we're excited he's here. And this
this is not something you can blame John for. But
you're you're you're in the minority seemingly as far as
having children.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You are you're a new father.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You've got a newborn baby. Which when is the newborn
stage over? Because i've heard eight weeks. Okay, so she's passed,
she's past that. But what is this? This is this
just baby stage?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Is?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's certainly not toddler and I think baby goes up
until they're a year old or something like that. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So you are, you're a new parent and people this
day in or just not having kids the way that
they used to. And there is a lot of factors
that go into that, probably more than we even realize.
But the US fertility rate falls to an all time
low in twenty twenty four, So that number, again, i'd
(11:18):
be curious if you just were to do a rapid
fire man on the street kind of thing. You just
walk up to somebody, Hey, the US fertility rate has
fallen to an all time low.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I wanted the first thing that would come to mind
For a lot of people, I guess it probably depends
on your situation, maybe your beliefs. Some would blame the economy,
some would blame I mean again, I'm sure everybody has
their own opinion. But we've seen a real drop in
this over I guess, like really two decades down, yeah,
(11:51):
I mean nearly two decades. This has been a trend
as declining birth rates. It's been all age groups, by
the way, twenty twenty four, the fertility rate is now
at one point five nine nine children per women, which
is well below the replacement rate of two point one
So US fertility peaked in two thousand and seven, then
(12:14):
steadily declined. There was a brief uptick in twenty twenty four,
but it didn't reverse the trend of So again, I
just again, are there are countless factors as to why
there aren't as many kids being born today as there
was ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.
But just take out, like I just think society take away.
(12:39):
I mean, I just think now I got I got
married at a young age. I feel like even for
that time I got married in twenty and eleven, and
that time I was just I was just about twenty
two up, I think was how old I was at
that time. I think that's I think that's right something
around that age. And I felt like even then that
was young to get me. But now I feel like
(13:01):
that would be really rare to see two people twenty
to twenty three getting married like my wife and I.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You got married at twenty two back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're an old soul and you had your first child
at what twenty seven?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Twenty seven? So did I? I was twenty seven s
yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So so you know, for me, I just it's not
even about any specific factor that I just think you
can just say, well this is why cost or you know.
I mean, I'm trying to think of if I wouldn't
ask somebody that I know, like, hey, why haven't you
had kids yet?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Like I know people that have tried to have children.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Unfortunately they've just found out along the way that it's
not going to be as easy for them, and there's
a lot of things they have options to do, but
in some of those things are just not doable depending
upon cost and just maybe what would come with it,
because you know, you can try a lot of options
as far as using medical science to help you have
a kid, but some of those things don't really guarantee
that it actually is ever going to work, and that
(13:59):
could be something that you just you sign up for
potentially being heartbroken and devastated to go through that process.
So I just I think a lot of people fresh
out of college or just in that age range, I
don't want to act like they're all like childish and
immature and they're not ready to grow up yet. They
just don't seem to be any real hurry to kind
(14:19):
of just open that door of okay, well here we go, now,
get married, probably start a family soon, and just kind
of start that phase of my life.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And good.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
More people do whatever the hell they want. I mean,
it doesn't impact me by any means. But when I
hear that money is a factor and just how expensive
everything is right now in the economy and where it is,
and man, I can tell you certainly that childcare is
very expensive. Maybe this is just me and my own world.
But I personally, when we had both our kids, we
(14:51):
were trying and I've got a lot of friends. In fact,
our social get together is with our friends is really
just all of our kids getting together. I mean, and
I'm very lucky that the vast majority of the friends
that I grew up with, people that I've known for
over thirty years, still close with a lot of them,
and our friends O our kids are around the same
age and their friends. But I don't ever remember any
(15:11):
of us ever thinking we were gonna have another kid,
but we decided to wait because of how expensive things are.
And that's not to act like it's not a real issue.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
But I think when you decide to be a parent
for the first time or the second or third time,
I just you need to be responsible and know if
you can afford to take care of a human being
or not. I don't act likely it doesn't matter at all.
But that's never been like if we're deciding, hey, should
we have another should we try now?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I just I just have never thought, Okay, well, what's
the price going to be? How much is it going
to cost me to be a dad?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I hate that I'm sounding like I'm mocking it,
because I guess technically I am, and people should be
more responsible. I'm sure there's many people that should not
have brought children into the world, and they did. In fact,
I know that to be the case, but I don't know.
Just the monetary aspect of it is just something and
I've never once thought about, because you know, maybe this
just speaks to me not realizing how fortunate I am.
(16:05):
But there's no cost, Like whatever I got to do
for my kid, I got to do for my kid.
If it puts me in a million dollars a debt
or whatever it may be, that's just life, and that
would be that would not be something that I would
that I would want to do by any means, But
it wouldn't even be a decision. It would just be done,
because that's that's being a parent. But anyways, nobody's having
nobody's having kids anymore. People still having sex though, that's
(16:27):
that's for sure. Sex not down, but children not happening
as much. All right, let's get to an update of
the traffic in the weather. We'll keep this thing rolling along.
It is Kentucky and this Morning News Coffee and Company
Nick Coffee with you here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
So we've talked.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
About the Happy Gilmore sequel that was released on to
Netflix on Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I've yet to watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But when it comes to movies that decided to run
it back for a sequel or do some version of
just a remake, there have been many that were not necessary,
and there have been some that were viewed as I
guess the success and success can be determined differently.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
If if you hated it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But yet those who put it together made billions at
the box office, then that's the success to them. But
when I think of movie like Bad Boys Too with
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The original came out in
nineteen ninety five, Bad Boys two came out and maybe
ten years later, and I remember thinking, Okay, this one
was like you could have not given me the first one,
And if this was just the only one it was
(17:31):
a standalone, I would have said it was great, and
not that the first one was bad. But when it
comes to sci fi and action, I think you've got
many that are competing with the original, or some would
say maybe even better, like The Dark Knight, that of
course was a big hit, that was a sequel to
(17:52):
Batman begins. Terminator two. That's a little before my time,
but that was viewed to be the one that really
elevated the brand Terminator. But when it comes to comedy,
I kind of feel like it's harder to do. But
here are some examples of remakes and comedy that did
(18:12):
not do well. The Hangover Part two and Part three.
They kind of tried the same thing and it was
popular to an extent, but nowhere near the original. And
I will say this, I think the second and the
third are worth watching. They're fine, but I will say
just my opinion only it does keep me from realizing
(18:32):
how good the first one was. The first one didn't
get worse because they made the second and the third.
But sometimes less is more, and I think that's it.
Really That to me is a good example of that.
And then this one, I got to be honest, I
didn't finish it because just because it didn't hook me.
It was an interesting it just didn't do it for me.
It was Anchorman two. Anchorman the original a classic and
(18:55):
really stupid but really stupid kid be funny, but that
one just didn't do it for me. Like for example,
Step Brothers. Really stupid movie, but really funny. Maybe that's
where it just gets out. Maybe that's hard to create
in general. Therefore, recreating it and expecting it to stick
is one that you know, it just makes it difficult.
(19:17):
Like Zoolander two, Dumb and Dumber two coming to America.
Those are those were nostalgic ones, but they just they
couldn't come close to competing. And I guess that's probably
what's going to be said about Happy Gilmore when it's
all said and done. Not one that was needed, but
a nice nice shot of nostalgia for those that are
really appreciated, because of course that was a really popular
(19:37):
movie for a lot of people. All right, let's do this.
We'll get another update of Travick and Weather coming your way.
Another sports update on the way as well, as we
are just nine minutes away from eight o'clock here at
News Rady eight forty whas
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