8.11: Like Riding a Bike - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, usually when I get back from vacation, I
shake off some rust as far as just you know, yapping,
as I believe it or not, I don't. I don't
talk for four hours in the same way that I
do each morning here from five am to nine am
in my everyday life outside of work, and certainly I
don't do what I'm on vacation.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
But so far, so good.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's like riding a bike, and I am certainly happy
to be back and did have a good time on vacation.
I hope you guys missed me as much as I
missed you, and I also hope you can sense some
real sarcasm there. But it is six oh five here Kentucky.
This morning News, coffee and company with you. I am
Nick Coffee, and I do want remind you could take
us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the
iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at whas dot com.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
So JCPS.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
This is their first Monday back to school, and it
seems as if Thursday was as smooth as you could
really expect, which is good if we're going to criticize,
and certainly there's been many instances where criticism was worthy
for JCPS. But I would say, so far, so good
when it comes to the new superintendent that of course
walked into, well he didn't walk into. He applied, he

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wanted it, and I think it's a thankless type of gig.
But clearly, I don't know if it's clearly there's there's
certainly some monetary reasons why people would want to get
into education and pursue certain positions. However, I like to
believe maybe this is just what I want to convince myself,
that that people who still choose to be a part
of the education, you know, be a part of the schools,

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get into teaching, be an administrator, people who get into
that line of work. I like to believe that there's
always going to be a level of doing it because
you love it and you realize how important it is.
But anyways, so far, so good for JCPS. We'll see
if Monday they can keep up that good momentum. It
looks like here in the Kentucky and area, we had

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the Catholic School's last Tuesday get started in Jefferson County,
Bullet County is going to start tomorrow, and Mead County
is going to start Wednesday. Oldham County also starting. I'm sorry,
no Meat County started last week on Wednesday, but Oldham
County back to school this Wednesday. And in Southern Indiana,
as we talked about before I left, they started school
pretty early. In fact, it still just seems even if

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I had the same amount of days, if I started
school and it was the month of July, I would
feel like I was being robbed of a summer vacation,
a summer break, because it just sounds so weird to
be back in school already in July.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
But for some of.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
The local school districts here in southern across the river,
in Southern Indiana, that was the case, all right. So
what I want to get to coming up here on
the other side after our next check at trafficking Weather,
which we'll give to you in just a couple of minutes,
is a story from Friday that is just it's still
I think the top story here locally. Just a horrific
situation where a woman was kidnapped after a home invasion

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with her young two children, and then taken to a
bank by the suspect as he tried to rob the bank.
Just an awful situation all the way around, just a
horrific nightmare scenario, and yet it was so avoidable it.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Didn't need to happen.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
And luckily there is a new bill in place that
is I believe, House Bill five. I think that's that
that makes it to where if this will if this individual,
the suspect Orman Langford, had this bill been in place
when he was initially released from prison on shock probation,

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it would not he wouldn't have happened. He wouldn't been
able to get out. And that's I guess that's a
good thing moving forward. But still, I mean, I just
I can't imagine and I'm not saying that will be
any actual consequences for anybody who made this decision, but
I mean just to know that somebody, and it's not
this isn't the first time, by the way, I mean,
you can go There have been violent criminals that have

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told us who they are pretty consistently. They get led
out and then go back to being violent criminals. And
if I was somebody on the receiving end of something
horrific like what went on on Friday, or maybe you know,
you lose your life or somebody you love loses their life,
I would want somebody to be held responsible for making
a really really reckless decision that it was easy to

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not make that has led to somebody again either dying
or having having to, you know, suffer what comes with
being involved in violent crime. I said we were going
to get to it because I'm thinking I don't have
enough time, and then I just couldn't help myself.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just started.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's just such a like that element to it is,
what is just so insane that this happened and it
was avoidable. So again, it'll be discussed throughout the morning
here and there, because obviously it's a big story around here.
But what I do want to get to now that
I've already jumped ahead of one of the things I
wanted to to get to coming up next, This is

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huge news that I just maybe it's because I was
on vacation and I just wasn't really plugged in, but man,
I feel like this is huge for the state of
Kentucky as Apple is going to bring a lot of jobs.
As they are and yes I'm talking Apple, you know, iPhone, iPad,
Apple Watch, they're investing in a two point five billion

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dollar I mean, well put in sway, they're making a
two point five billion dollar investment in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Harridsburg is going to now be where they produce and
manufacture apple products. And that's I mean, I don't know
if people realize just how big that is. So we'll
get to that and a lot more. But your next
check at trafficking weather. It's coming up right here right now.

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We'll get the latest on the forecast from Matt Melosa
Bitch of WLKY, and Bobby Ellis will tell us how
the roadways are looking. I did just see up here
on the monitor, looks like there is a crash at
sixty five north near Henryville up in southern Indiana. That
from what I could tell, it looks like nobody was moving.
But we'll get the latest from Bobby Ellis. It is
Kentucky and his Morning News with Coffee and Company, Nick
Coffee with you here on news radioaight forty whas. It

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is Kentucky and it's morning news here on news RADIOA
forty whas Coffee and Company with you, Nick Coffee. That's
me also John Shannon here in stud ud So the
big investment that Apple has made here in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
We're talking two point five billion dollars and Harrodsburg a
pretty small community there in Mercer County, and this is
going to bring we don't know the amount of jobs necessarily,

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but a longtime glass manufacturer, Corning. They sounds like it's
going to be at least a few hundred jobs added,
maybe even more than that, depending upon what it really
looks like. But they're going to now be given what's
called gorilla glass that will be used in iPhones and
Apple watches. And I mean, I just to think of

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Apple utilizing a company here in Kentucky to help, you know,
put together a product that is both me any Apple
product I feel like is super popular across the globe.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
So what's going to happen is that it's actually going
to increase the workforce there by fifty percent in that
two and a half billion. Apple is going to come
in with an innovation center, probably to help make better
versions of gorilla glass. Gorilla glass has been around for
a while. It's been manufactured at the Corning plant there,
but it's been other places too, and Apple's been taking

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from all the other places where Corning makes gorilla glass.
But what Apple is doing now is saying we are
going to exclusively for every single iPhone and Apple Watch
that we make, our gorilla glass is going to come
straight from this plant. Oh, by the way, we're gonna
throw a couple billion dollars into expanding the plant to
do that and bring an innovation center to help better

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the gorilla glass. And really, gorilla glass is the glass
for any cell phone these days. Whether you've got a
look at your cell phone right now, look at your watch,
you've got gorilla glass. Whether it's Android, whether it's a
pixel phone like I've got, whether it's a Samsung, whether
it's an iPhone, you've got gorilla glass on there. And
it's the industry standard for the capacitative ability, which means

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your ability to touch and move things around on the screen,
the clarity, the brightness, the sharpness, and honestly the durability.
And Steve Jobs when they were developing the iPhone, had
a Poto type in his pocket and he pulled it
out and it was scratched. All the Kingdom come because
of the type of glass. He said, we need something better,
and comes Corning with gorilla glass and the rest is history.

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And now Apple is going to make the plant here
in Kentucky the sole provider of that glass for phones
and watches going forward.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean the glass obviously the phones functions super important
to it being what you would consider because if you
go buy one of these new phones without any type
of plan and you're just buying the phone as is,
it's really expensive and oh, by the way, it's worth
every penny because of the things you can do on him.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I mean, people probably would.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Balk at a certain price because it just but let's
be real, what you can do on that phone. I
think it's you could argue they could double the price
and technically still make the case that it's worth what
it's worth. But the glass is super important because of
the of the not only the we won't get scratched
up quite as easy, but just the interactive I mean,
any any smartphone, any smart watch. That's the kind of

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glass they used. And I'm learning about this this morning,
which has been really really informative, and I appreciate you
popping in, But like, will they will they also provide
guerrilla glass for other part or other I guess clients
as well.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Are there just gonna be an Apple thing?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Now?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No, this is They're not going to say this is
an Apple only plant, they'll still they'll still crank out
glass for for your Samsung for your pixel here, as
well as the other corning plants that are that are
making this glass. It's just Apple is dedicating just to
this plant in Kentucky to help with the infrastructure and
the economy here.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. And I tell you what
I can see. I can picture the scenario where Steve
Jobs realized, oh yeah, now that it's become a thing,
we're not flipping phones open and closed anymore. The screen's exposed,
they're interactive. Now, we got to have something that's more durable,
and clearly that's what this is. Yes, good stuff, Thank you, John.
All Right, we've got a news update coming from John
in about ten minutes. We'll get a sports update with

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Scott coming up here shortly, but first let's get another
check of trafficking weather right here on news radio eight
forty whas So, yes yesterday I saw a story about
AOL's dial up Internet being discontinued thirty four years as
you heard John mentioned there in his news update, and
I thought, okay, when I saw this yesterday, well that's

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not mean there's no way dial up Internet's been around
for fifteen years. And I'm not really even exaggerating. I think,
you know, maybe this just speaks to my ignorance. I
would have believed you if you told me that ten
plus years ago that just wasn't.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
A thing anymore. But apparently it was.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
And I mean, if I think the Internet and how
fast it is now.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I mean even just as soon as you moved on
what was it was.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
It DSL after dial up, and then of course now
we've got fiber and super super fast speed. I think
it has led to society having much less patience than
they used to for anything, because we used to spend
hours on the Internet and it was as slow as

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it would be this. I mean, imagine now that being
the way in which you use the internet dial up.
I mean, it's it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
John. You're younger than I am, but you have to be.
You've got to be. You remember dial up internet, right,
I do.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I don't remember at what age that went away, but
I remember in the first house that we lived in
in Jeffersonville, we had dial up internet and it was
very slow.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
What I remember more than anything about that era of
the Internet was that if you were on the Internet,
you couldn't use your phone and cell phones. I'm sure
they existed at that point, but not to the level
of how they're used now. So in fact, a lot
of people don't even have direct landlines, I mean, and

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if they do, it's just some kind of like a
digital tie in that comes with your Internet and maybe
your TV provider cable provider. But yeah, thirty four years
and they're they're now saying goodbye. I will say AOL
I don't hear much about anymore at all, but I
will occasionally see like an article and realize that they
do still exist, like as a brand. But Yahoo now them.

(12:00):
I think they've owned them for quite some time. But yeah,
AOL dial up first launched in ninety one, which I
would have never guessed it was around that long, and
of course it took off, and I mean I remember
getting I remember not only just the process of connecting
to it, but also the sound that, of course is
it's nostalgic to hear it, for sure, but they were

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trying that you could get like a disc, a CD
CD ROM disc and you could put in your computer,
and it was like a trial of it, and I
assume that trial gave everybody a taste of what you
could do, and everybody said hell yeah. And here we
are many years later, and the Internet as a whole
is somebody who used to be an Internet entrepreneur. The

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rapid growth and just I mean an ever it's an
ever changing thing to where let me give an example,
and there's ways to do this if you really want
to be a nerd. And not to say that, I
guess if you do this, you're a nerd, but this
is nerding out a little bit when it comes to
the tech side. Different websites out there that give you
the ability to reference, like let's say there's web pages

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you visit every day, Yahoo, Fox, CBS, whatever it is
just maybe it's a local news station. Maybe it's not
even a news station, it's just a website that you
frequent quite a bit for information and or entertainment, whatever
it may be. But it'll let you look at what
it looked like and this year that year, so you
can go back certain years. And what always amazed me
was when it's a constant thing, you'll go back and

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look at what a website looked like two years ago,
it'll feel like it was twenty years. As far as
just the visual, it's kind of like your kids, right,
You're with your kids every day. It doesn't happen until
you look back at pictures of them and realize, Wow,
they've grown that much in this amount of time.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
So, yeah, the Internet is to me.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I know there's way more to this than what I know.
But just as as somebody who was interested in the
Internet from the time I first learned of what it was,
I mean aols person, that comes to mind for me
that in Napster. Napster and lime Wire are two things
that come to mind for me as well when it
comes to the early ages of the Internet, at least

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for me.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Did you live the lime Wire?

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I did, And then when LimeWire went down, I used
something called frost Wire.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I remember that.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah, that was kind of the I guess, the the
off brand version of lime Wire.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
And there was one that did not get the whole
to me, it didn't seem like it had quite as
much momentum, but it.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Was called like Khazah. It was also a.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Version of and by the way that that whole era
really forced and shifted how we consume music now. I mean,
I think if they could have continued to manufacture CDs
and whatnot and sell records. It would have been a
more beneficial thing financially for everybody. But they realized now
with technology, good luck and people not you know, I mean,

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they had to do it, and clearly it's I mean,
they don't even think about this. They don't even sell
CDs anymore best buy. I mean, if that isn't an
example of how rapidly the things grow from a technological world,
it's that. But yeah, LP to AOL had some good times.
All right, We've got an updated trapping a weather coming
you way. Bobby Ellis would tell us how the roadways
are looking here on a Monday morning. Also we'll get

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the updated forecast from at Melosavitch a wlky right here
on eight forty whas we are rolling along here on
a Monday morning. It is Kentucky in his morning News
with coffee and company here on news Radio eight forty whas.
So the big story here locally continues to be the
horrific situation that played out on Friday where a woman

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was abducted as a thirty two year old criminal, proven criminal,
a career criminal, seemingly armand Langford is his name. He
broke into the woman's home, abducted her and her two kids,
and forced her to drive to a P and C
bank that was next to Oxmoor Center. He, of course
they're armed with a large knife, allegedly held it to

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the woman's throat and told the tellers he'd killed the
woman unless they gave him twenty thousand dollars and she
was stabbed in the stomach and cut on the hand.
These injuries aren't life threatening, but this is a life
altering situation for everyone involved with this family, and it
could have absolutely been avoided. And that's just what I
think is just I me at a loss for words

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to really that's just insane, because I think we should
believe people when they confirm who they are consistently right,
when someone has proven that they they will continue to
commit violent crimes, if in fact they are free and
able to commit violent crimes, that they're going to keep

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doing it, And that's just this is just it's avoidable,
It was avoidable, and that that to me, that is
that that I don't even want to think about what
it would be like to go through this as the
husband of this woman and of course or two children
obviously that the impact it's going to have on this
woman just a traumatic experience that is horrific. But just

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to know that it's because this guy, who has been
proven to be not safe in society was let out
for reasons we'll never really know, and there's certainly not
a good reason for it. But this man was sentenced
to fourteen years in prison for violent crime robberies, but
was released after serving very little time in prison of

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that fourteen years, and here he is again doing what
he consistently does, commit violent crimes. So it's just it's
terrible now for what it's worth. Because I don't want
to position this as as something that there's any type

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of positive because I don't really think there is. But
there's now a new Yeah, the bill that was put
in place, the Safer Kentucky Act, Housbill five. This did pass.
It went into effect in mid twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I believe.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
That, yeah, this would have this would have required put
it this way, if Langford was up for you know,
he wouldn't be up for shock probation had this bill
been in place at the time he was let out
for shock probation, because he would have been required to
serve at least eighty five percent of his sentence before
being eligible for any type of early release. So again,

(18:22):
I guess it's it's good to know that that moving forward,
someone like this would not be eligible to get out.
But that I mean to me again, trying to put
myself in the shoes of those impacted to this level.
I mean, that doesn't make it any That doesn't change
anything for you, and it also makes you worried. There's
other people that have been Again they told us who

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they were, not to say. They can't rehabilitate, they can't change.
But man, when you've had multiple chances and you continue
to be able to go to prison and not serve
near the time that you that you're sentenced to, you
might be making these decisions knowing you're gonna go back.
But it's worth it to you because you keep getting
another chance. So just awful all the way around. All right,

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let's get to a quick update on traffic and weather.
It's not good. We're not even two hours in, not
even halfway through. My voice is fading a little bit.
I'll be all right. The pipes are a little rusty,
I suppose because I wasn't yapping I didn't do a
four hour show every morning to my family when I
woke up, which would have been funny. If I tried,
I think they would have left vacation and came back home.
But anyways, we've got a outdate of traffick weather coming

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your way right here, right now on news Radio eight
forty WHS.