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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, good Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome into another week, another edition here Coffee and Company,
Kentucky AND's morning news here on News Radio eight forty
whas we are up and run and we've got a
full crew in house today. Well, John Alden's not back
with us just yet, but we've got Scott Fitzgerald, You've
got John Shannon, and of course myself, I hope that
you knew that, but if not, now you do. I'm
Nick Coffee and I cannot get over how amazing it
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already feels outside. And it's nice knowing that we are
entering the final week of August here with temperatures that
almost don't seem real. Are we getting we getting trolled
here or something? Because it's not expected to get above
eighty degrees in the next week.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean, this feels really really rare for late August.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I feel like late August early September, we get temperatures
and humidity that really just make it seem like, all right,
we've had enough the summer. You were good to us,
but can we get some faul temperatures? And now they're here.
This doesn't seem real, Scott.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, it does.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And the age fourteen day outlook still has more cooler
temperatures on the way, and as you heard that report
in ABC prior till I hate for anybody to have
to go through what we went through here earlier this summer.
But that's exactly what they're dealing with out on the
West Coast, and I can certainly appreciate what they have
going on, but man, it feels good that we aren't
dealing with this this time. What a beautiful morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean, yesterday it was about six thirty and We're
getting ready to do dinner and I'm outside letting the
little one run around. He's playing basketball baseball, and I
just thought, this is like I feel like I usually
have to wait until.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
October to get this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, and it's early, and again, I'm sure we'll eventually
get some warmer temperatures that aren't too comfortable. But I mean,
if you're somebody that's going to make your way out
to L and N Cardinal Stadium to see Louisville get
their season started, or maybe you're heading to Kroger Field
as Kentucky gets their season started as well Saturday, I mean,
we're looking at a high of seventy nine degrees, are
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you kidding me, Wow, Sonny with some partly cloudy skies
mixed in. I mean, it does not get better than.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That, absolutely, and it's gonna be a great weekend. And
talk about you know, Friday night lights too, the high
school season. You know, folks are filling that chill in
the air too. Definitely turned the corner. I'm seeing the
fall decorps making its way out at retailers as well.
I think everybody is just about ready for this, and
we certainly paid our price.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Hey, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We had a brutal summer.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And it's nice to get kind of a reprieve, a
wet summer too, to my you know.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And a quick one.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I cannot believe that we're already we're already hitting the
holiday weekend because to me, this the and I'm an idiot.
You guys probably knew that already, but I get him
mixed up Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I overthink at any time we.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Discussed it, but those two holiday weekends, to me, one
officially starts the summer, and I think one officially kind
of wraps up the summer. Now again, I know, technically
that's not how summer starts ends because those aren't. That's
not how the dates line up. But it just feels like,
you know, people try to get their pools opened by
the time you get to is it. That's that's moral
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day weekend, right, right, That's right?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And then and now I don't know if people are
closing down their pools, but it just kind of feels
like summer because everybody's back in school by now. Football
season has really started it at the high school level everywhere.
And then of course we had week zero in college football,
but this is the big weekend where really everybody will
get it started if they didn't do it in a
week zero. So yeah, we had a summer that was
very hot, and you, as you mentioned, had some times
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it was very wet. But what I can't get over
is how quickly it went by.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It was fast, dude.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We sat around talking about that over dinner last night
and just how it's upon us, and we were talking
about all the things we had to do. Everybody settled in,
and to your point, my wife was just talking about
how she's gonna make one last hurrah at the pool
because she likes, she likes heading to the pool. She
canna make one last hurrah this.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Weekend, close it down essentially.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, as we're putting those all together, So I think
your fingers on the pulse. There a lot of people
getting ready to do that, for sure. But your kids
getting adjusted well to the new school routines.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was Uh, it's just and I'm
sure we do take it for granted, but we so far,
and again I'm sure it'll change at some point. My
daughter's always loved school. She she's I mean, it's she
just always has because.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Of her class.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know, she's had the same classmates really every year.
She's a special needs child, so her class when she
goes back to school, it's for the most part, kids
that she's been in school with for quite some time,
and she's really close with them. So she just she's
always loved school. My son, I thought by now he
would be Okay, yeah, this is I've done this, this
is this is now something I'm no longer as excited about.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like I thought the.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Newness of school would maybe make it to where he
wasn't as excited. But sure enough, last night on Sunday,
usually when the Sunday scaries kick in for a lot
of people, including kids having to go back go back
to school from the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He's excited, he's ready to go. So eventually that'll fade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna take advantage of it now
and I know I gotta get my kids ready for
the week and they're not dreading it, right.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know that'll eventually change.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, especially when the when the temperat just get really
cold and then everybody's just kind of like, you know,
oh yeah, I think we're ready for snow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Day makes it hard to get out of bed when
it's cold like that, right on, right, right, So we've
got an update of traffic and weather coming your way.
We'll keep you updated throughout the morning. That's what we do,
let you know how the roadways are looking. Also, again,
I think we're gonna get some pleasant news throughout the
morning here as far as the forecast, because from what
I can see, and look, I'm no I'm no expert, right,
I'm no Matt Melosovich, but from when I see, it
looks pretty pretty awesome. So we'll get you caught up
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throughout the morning here. And the Kentucky State Fair came
to an end yesterday and we've got just some I guess,
some quick observations. As far as how this year's Kentucky
State Fair went, I will say I lived up to
me being a fanboy, because not only did I make
it out early last week, we went Friday and Saturday.
Just wanted to take advantage of it before before it's over,
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and of course it's over now, but we had a
good time. So again, we're with you for the rest
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Thirty seconds, I believe is what it gives you. And
again that's that's a way for you to contribute and
be a part of the show. So there is a
blasting that is going on that is going to potentially
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lead to some delays on your commute. Now this is
in so it starts today and it's part of a
one hundred and thirty million dollar improvement project for US
forty two. So if you are in eastern Jefferson County,
against delays and really noise could be could be noticeable
on the on the Waters and Expressway. So it says
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that expect they're expecting some delays because there's going to
be roadblocks near I two sixty four and the and
I seventy one interchange that last up to twenty minutes
once per day between nine am and three pm. So
I would say with that nine am to three pm
timeframe that really it's just inside, it's just outside of
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I guess rush hour commuting. Again, I'm sure there are
people that maybe between nine and ten am they're still
getting their day started, or maybe you you know, you
leave work at two thirty and you'll potentially be impacted
more so if you are out in that range than
if you're somebody that gets the day started a little
bit earlier than nine am, and of course if you're
somebody that leaves work around four or five or maybe
even six pm, so I guess the timing here could
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make it less of an issue. But again, just be
advised there could be some delays and also again some
loud noise. So they're gonna be widening I two sixty
four to three lanes each direction from Westport Road to
I seventy one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That is I guess the big part of this project.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And again it'll be complete fall of twenty twenty seven,
So just just be advised. Uh, and again not that
I can not that I can add any solutions for you,
but at least you'll be not as surprised if you
end up noticing blasting and of course maybe some potential
delays out there in the East End.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That inevitably happens when they do some of it.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I like when Fort Knox sends out there their notice
saying that because inevitably we'll get emails here at the station.
We did get emails, but now it's all done via
social media. People hear that, and they.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Still want to they want to know what the heck's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They don't know any I mean, it happens all the time,
but when you hear stuff like that, and that's why
I appreciate you mentioned and they'll be doing blasting like
that because there's people that probably don't realize that, that
don't get the notices.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh yeah, and you kind of hear that stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Me, Wait, what was that?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I remember as a kid growing up in Bullock County,
we would oftentimes hear something coming from Fort Knox because
it wasn't that far away from us. And you know,
once you once you grow, once you're there long enough,
you get used to it, you know what it is.
But I remember for the first time as a kid,
thinking what the heck was that? And you know, as
a kid, you're thinking it could be a lot of
different things. And then I was explained sort of, Okay,
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it's gonna be pretty common. It's gonna be something that
we're going to hear from time to times, so nothing
to be alarmed about.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But yes, whatever, I.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mean, this takes me to a place that sometimes I
end up and I just can't help but get lost there,
and that is the Facebook neighborhood groups.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yes, oh my god, somebody hears a big boom yet
Linda will get out her phone and open up the
Facebook and go to the group what was that big noise?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And then bury from down the street, I heard it too,
anybody know, And just then you'll have a couple of
neighbors throwing out like wild guests as as to what
it could be, and then somebody somehow takes offense to it.
I can just Facebook neighborhood groups, and to be honest
with you, are useful because there's I mean, it gives
you a chance to communicate to the neighborhood. You know, hey,
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just everybody knows my address is here, and we're gonna
have a graduation party for our sons. So there may
be some cars in the street, but let us know
if we're in anybody's way.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Like it has some real there's some real.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Benefits to having one, but also some of the things
people use it for just you just make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I've told the story before.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'm in a much smaller neighborhood now than I once was,
so ours is not super active. But I could never
leave the neighborhood Facebook group that I was in from
our previous house because of the entertainment value. Like it
was a real it was a real highly dramatic situation.
Whenever they outed the HOA president and got a new
one and then kicked him out of our Facebook group.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It was wild and I hate that I got such
entertainment from that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But no, a lot of people drama, man, a lot
of people do.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You're right, they do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They do keep a looking out for people. Drama can
look you in, man always does.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Speaking of that drama, what a site over in Ireland
as Kansas State and Iowa State got the season started.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We'll get to this a little bit later on. You
saw a fight breakout.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Which is not something that you that should really surprise you. Right,
people go to college football games, they get drunk and
sometimes a fight will happen. But who was fighting, I
think will really surprise you. Not something you expect to
see really at any But we'll get to that a
little bit later on. We've got trapping of weather updates
on the way. Scott's got a sports update for us
right here on News radio eight forty whas. Thank you
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very much, John Shannon. It is Consecutive's morning news Coffee
and Company with you. That is us, Nick Coffee, that's
me you just Serard, John Shannon Scott fitz Jared alongside
as Well and Southwest Airlines. They have announced some some
changes coming that is certainly going to impact some folks
that have been able to benefit from Southwest for quite
some time, I believe, sort of being an airline that
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had some unique perks that certainly helped them stand out
among their competitors. However, now they are no longer going
to refund the cost of a second seat for plus
size passengers if the flight is sold out. So I
got to be honest with you, I was not aware
they even did that in general. But obviously you can
be very very much not close to being a plus
size individual and fit not so comfortably within an airline seat.
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So I mean, I I can't even I'm just for
for for transparency or not that anybody cares. I'm five
foot eight, one hundred and sixty three pounds, I believe
last time I hit the scale, So I'm not a
very large man, but and I fit comfortably. I mean
I don't, It's not like I'm but I oftentimes think,
man if I was a little bit bigger, I mean,
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you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't have a whole lot
of room and clearly, there are people that are a
lot bigger than me that I would never consider to
be plus size. So I mean, I'm sure, and I
again I've never had to really think about this, but
I'm sure there's many that have avoided traveling via airline
just because, even if they are able to pay for
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two seats, because they're just big and need the space.
It's just an uncomfortable experience for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But yeah, they're they're getting some pushback for this, and I.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Think more than anything, it's just because they offered it
for a while, I don't think, and again, everybody has
their own way of viewing this, but I think to hear,
they're not going to give you a complimentary free seat
because you were taking up more space than just what
you would take up with one seat. I mean, I
don't feel like they're out of line to do it.
It's just one of those things that they It was
a perk and they probably didn't have to do it,
but they did it, and it helped them maybe get
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more business from those that are on the bigger side.
And now, of course they're not gonna be you know that.
Now now they're taking it away. So passengers must now
pay for the two seats up front, submit a refund
request within ninety days, and then you do get reimbursed.
You can still somehow get reimbursed, and the details of that,
I'm not quite sure. But again, for years, Southwest was
considered the most plus size friendly US airline, and now
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I guess they're they're not They're not going to be
viewed that way, and they've gotten away from other things
that again were unique perks, like open seating where you
can just go anywhere. I've not flown Southwest in a while,
but I know they either made some changes to that
or they got rid of it all together, So you know,
that was one of the things that was just it
made them different. Also, they cut the two free check
bag policy. I guess now they've there's some charges that
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apply that weren't there, and they're now closely alone lined
with their direct competitors American Delta, United, and I feel
like Southwest many years ago used to kind of be
looked at as the cheaper, lower level airline, and now,
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I've I've had
great experiences with Southwest, and I've had great experiences with
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Allegiant that is viewed as now one of those lower
tier cheaper you know, you only fly that airline if
you're a poor And I say that tongue in cheek
because I'd never I wouldn't, I wouldn't ever pass judgment
on anybody if they decided to go for a cheaper
airline ticket, because my lord, flying is insanely expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But now you've got Spirit and.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Some other airlines that are just yes, yeah, yeah, And
then there's another one that's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Breeze Ye. Those are the airlines that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They've probably been around a long time, but we didn't
used to have any flights out of Louis, at least
at least not till you know, the last decade or
so with some of these other airlines. So Southwest has
kind of climbed the ladder a little bit to where
they can now, I guess, be more aligned with the
bigger airlines that of course have seemingly been around a
little bit longer, like the American in the delta of
the United but Southwest, and honestly, there's not an airline
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that I can think of that I'm like, oh, yeah,
I'm going to avoid that one because I've had a
nightmare experience and I've had, for the most part, pretty
good experiences when I travel. And I'm sure eventually that
will change, because i feel like everybody's got a story
at some point in their life where they just were
completely helpless. And I mean there's no more helpless place,
I think than being at an airport when they just
tell you what's going to happen. You have no say,
so you have no control and sometimes you can just
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have a crappy situation all the way around. And that's
just the cost of doing business with airlines, I suppose.
But yes, I'm sure you'll see you'll see some upset
Southwest customers that now are going to you know, not
have that perk they used to have.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It's so hard to think back to a time when
flying was you know, you had your ticket, you had
your seat, you didn't wait in the long lines. In fact,
I can go all the way back when my grandparents
used to fly out from Florida and you could walk
out to the gate with like walk up to the gate,
at least with my grandparents, And now you can't get
through security.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I mean, oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
An insane to think how the industry has changed so much,
to your point, And I did think that there was
some pushback on the discount airlines recently, and I don't
know if that prompted Southwest to make some changes initially,
because remember we went through that rash was Spirit.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh look, I mean you get what you pay for, Yes, exactly,
that's straight up what it comes down to. And I'm
not above flying really any airline if it checks out,
and it's uh, you know, and and when I say
it checks out, I meaning like it meaning it's a
really good rate that I just can't pass up. But
also like if in fact I did end up in
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a situation with a Spirit or a Jet Blue one
of those and it was a you know, disaster, I
would have to sit back and think, Okay, well, you
know there was some there was some mornings out there
that maybe this airline has the reputation that it has
for good reason. But yeah, you're right the whole I mean,
we just went to Destin and we flew, we went
Allegiance and just you're right, the experience at an airport.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
We don't have to take our shoes off anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That's great, And you can now I guess, get your
face scanned and maybe that'll get you. We hadn't done
that just yet, but yeah, the you know, nine eleven
is when it really really changed, and it you know,
there's things in place now that will be in place
forever just because of that specific situation. Ununderstandably so. But yeah, airports, man,
I don't think you'll find more helpless place, a more
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helpless place than being at an airport knowing that you
really have no clue how your day's going to go,
and now things should really surprise you.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Anyways, let's get to a quick update of traffick and weather.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We also have got Roory O'Neal of NBC News set
to join us in just a few minutes right here
on news radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Good Monday morning, Kentucky, Ina.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is Coffee and Company with you here on Kentucky
and it's morning News news Radio a forty whas. And
we were joined about Rory O'Neal of NBC News scammers. Rory,
they're getting better every day, it seems, and the FBI
is now warning us of a new billion dollar scan
that is draining retirement funds. That sounds scary as can be,
How does it work, what do we know? How can
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folks protect themselves from this potential scam?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Nick it's the phantom hacker scam, and so far it's
cost Americans about a billion dollars just in the past
year or so.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
According to the FBI. It works in a.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Couple different phases, with a tech support impostor, an impostor
from a financial institution, even an impostor from the government,
trying to swindle people out of their savings, and once
you give up the cash, it's basically impossible to try
to get it back. Many times that money goes overseas,
so when that money's gone, it's gone, Which is why
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the FBI is really urging families to have discussions about
these kind of scams that to specifically tend to target
older people who may be less tech savvy and a
bit more trusting.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, and I will tell you it certainly makes sense
that those are a little bit on the older side,
wouldn't they Just they're not thinking about somebody looking to
do this. And that's clearly why the hackers, the scammers,
they know where they have a better success rate as
far as getting people to fall for it. But I
can tell you I've seen some things that regardless of age,
I understand what people will fall for it. I mean,
we had a situation on a couple of summers ago
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where we got a phone call and somehow these hackers
were able to spoof the phone number, meaning the phone
call that we got said it was coming from our
actual bank to warn us of something. And in the
end we realize some of the questions they were asking
you just didn't make a lot of sense, and sure
enough they were able to somehow make it appear that
they were calling from our financial institution. And that was
for me the first time I was I mean, that
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was an example of Wow, these guys are pretty good at.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
What they do.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This is scary well, and.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Here's how it could work.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Say they're using AI in this more and more by
scrubbing the internet for some of this information. But let's
say on Facebook, you like your bank, maybe it's let's
call it Rory's Bank, and you like it, and you
follow your Facebook page right and send all your money
to it. But if you like it and you follow it, well,
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then maybe that means you're a customer of it. So
then they'll spoof their phone to say it's Rory's bank
when they call you knowing that you already liked this
company or this may be your bank, and then that's
sort of the camel's nose under the tent sort of
is right there. Or there are some comparisons. They say, oh,
you know you collect corvettes. Well, hey, I've got this
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corvette I'm trying to sell. You're like, well, how did
he know I like corvettes? And they're not realizing that
all this stuff, these little pinpoints that you don't think
mean anything on social media, can all get added up
together and form a pretty good profile of you and
give those hackers or these scam artists a real edge
to get again, to get the nose in there and
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start this scam process.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Roy and Neil, the NBC News is our guys, joining
us here on news radio forty whas let's talk some
let's talk chip makers. So the federal government's take an
equity stake in the struggling chip maker Intel. What do
we know about this plan? And obviously what this investment
looks like for the government.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
So it's worth about eleven billion in all.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
So essentially you and I are part owners of ten
percent of the of Intel. And it's because under the
Chips Act, Intel had qualified for billions and federal dollars,
a lot of that money to go to building a new, massive,
the highest of high tech plants in Ohio. Now they've
been sort of stringing along that development of that facility
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for a whole bunch of technical reasons. But now instead
of just giving Intel the money for the investment, instead
we take an ownership claim of ten percent of Intel.
And I know that sounds good, but boy, that does
have some ramifications. One, the little socialism, right is the
first issue. But two then you will sort of have
you wonder does Intel then act in the best interests
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of politicians or for its shareholders? And they're sometimes they clash,
and sometimes a company has to fire workers, you know,
just before an election or in a swing state, and
they have to make those decisions for the benefit of
the company. They'll but now will they be more suaded
by political issues?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
That's one of the open questions now as part of
this deal.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Rory has always appreciate your time, enjoyed the conversation, and
we will do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
My friend, he Nick talked to you.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Then, all right, that's or a new LENBC news good stuff.
Speaking of good stuff, we've got some weather updates coming
your way, and I think you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Like what you hear.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Also, we'll get a check of the roadways, and of
course the sports update coming your way right here on
news Radio eight forty whas
All right, good Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome into another week, another edition here Coffee and Company,
Kentucky AND's morning news here on News Radio eight forty
whas we are up and run and we've got a
full crew in house today. Well, John Alden's not back
with us just yet, but we've got Scott Fitzgerald, You've
got John Shannon, and of course myself, I hope that
you knew that, but if not, now you do. I'm
Nick Coffee and I cannot get over how amazing it
(00:26):
already feels outside. And it's nice knowing that we are
entering the final week of August here with temperatures that
almost don't seem real. Are we getting we getting trolled
here or something? Because it's not expected to get above
eighty degrees in the next week.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean, this feels really really rare for late August.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I feel like late August early September, we get temperatures
and humidity that really just make it seem like, all right,
we've had enough the summer. You were good to us,
but can we get some faul temperatures? And now they're here.
This doesn't seem real, Scott.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, it does.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And the age fourteen day outlook still has more cooler
temperatures on the way, and as you heard that report
in ABC prior till I hate for anybody to have
to go through what we went through here earlier this summer.
But that's exactly what they're dealing with out on the
West Coast, and I can certainly appreciate what they have
going on, but man, it feels good that we aren't
dealing with this this time. What a beautiful morning.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I mean, yesterday it was about six thirty and We're
getting ready to do dinner and I'm outside letting the
little one run around. He's playing basketball baseball, and I
just thought, this is like I feel like I usually
have to wait until.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
October to get this.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, and it's early, and again, I'm sure we'll eventually
get some warmer temperatures that aren't too comfortable. But I mean,
if you're somebody that's going to make your way out
to L and N Cardinal Stadium to see Louisville get
their season started, or maybe you're heading to Kroger Field
as Kentucky gets their season started as well Saturday, I mean,
we're looking at a high of seventy nine degrees, are
(01:58):
you kidding me, Wow, Sonny with some partly cloudy skies
mixed in. I mean, it does not get better than.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That, absolutely, and it's gonna be a great weekend. And
talk about you know, Friday night lights too, the high
school season. You know, folks are filling that chill in
the air too. Definitely turned the corner. I'm seeing the
fall decorps making its way out at retailers as well.
I think everybody is just about ready for this, and
we certainly paid our price.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Hey, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We had a brutal summer.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And it's nice to get kind of a reprieve, a
wet summer too, to my you know.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And a quick one.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I cannot believe that we're already we're already hitting the
holiday weekend because to me, this the and I'm an idiot.
You guys probably knew that already, but I get him
mixed up Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I overthink at any time we.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Discussed it, but those two holiday weekends, to me, one
officially starts the summer, and I think one officially kind
of wraps up the summer. Now again, I know, technically
that's not how summer starts ends because those aren't. That's
not how the dates line up. But it just feels like,
you know, people try to get their pools opened by
the time you get to is it. That's that's moral
(03:04):
day weekend, right, right, That's right?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And then and now I don't know if people are
closing down their pools, but it just kind of feels
like summer because everybody's back in school by now. Football
season has really started it at the high school level everywhere.
And then of course we had week zero in college football,
but this is the big weekend where really everybody will
get it started if they didn't do it in a
week zero. So yeah, we had a summer that was
very hot, and you, as you mentioned, had some times
(03:28):
it was very wet. But what I can't get over
is how quickly it went by.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It was fast, dude.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We sat around talking about that over dinner last night
and just how it's upon us, and we were talking
about all the things we had to do. Everybody settled in,
and to your point, my wife was just talking about
how she's gonna make one last hurrah at the pool
because she likes, she likes heading to the pool. She
canna make one last hurrah this.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Weekend, close it down essentially.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, as we're putting those all together, So I think
your fingers on the pulse. There a lot of people
getting ready to do that, for sure. But your kids
getting adjusted well to the new school routines.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was Uh, it's just and I'm
sure we do take it for granted, but we so far,
and again I'm sure it'll change at some point. My
daughter's always loved school. She she's I mean, it's she
just always has because.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Of her class.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know, she's had the same classmates really every year.
She's a special needs child, so her class when she
goes back to school, it's for the most part, kids
that she's been in school with for quite some time,
and she's really close with them. So she just she's
always loved school. My son, I thought by now he
would be Okay, yeah, this is I've done this, this
is this is now something I'm no longer as excited about.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like I thought the.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Newness of school would maybe make it to where he
wasn't as excited. But sure enough, last night on Sunday,
usually when the Sunday scaries kick in for a lot
of people, including kids having to go back go back
to school from the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He's excited, he's ready to go. So eventually that'll fade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna take advantage of it now
and I know I gotta get my kids ready for
the week and they're not dreading it, right.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know that'll eventually change.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, especially when the when the temperat just get really
cold and then everybody's just kind of like, you know,
oh yeah, I think we're ready for snow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Day makes it hard to get out of bed when
it's cold like that, right on, right, right, So we've
got an update of traffic and weather coming your way.
We'll keep you updated throughout the morning. That's what we do,
let you know how the roadways are looking. Also, again,
I think we're gonna get some pleasant news throughout the
morning here as far as the forecast, because from what
I can see, and look, I'm no I'm no expert, right,
I'm no Matt Melosovich, but from when I see, it
looks pretty pretty awesome. So we'll get you caught up
(05:27):
throughout the morning here. And the Kentucky State Fair came
to an end yesterday and we've got just some I guess,
some quick observations. As far as how this year's Kentucky
State Fair went, I will say I lived up to
me being a fanboy, because not only did I make
it out early last week, we went Friday and Saturday.
Just wanted to take advantage of it before before it's over,
(05:48):
and of course it's over now, but we had a
good time. So again, we're with you for the rest
of the morning here taking you up till nine o'clock.
So don't go anywhere. Hang out with us again. Traving
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Radio eight forty whas. It is five six Team here
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to go from there. You can tell us whatever you want.
Thirty seconds, I believe is what it gives you. And
again that's that's a way for you to contribute and
be a part of the show. So there is a
blasting that is going on that is going to potentially
(06:33):
lead to some delays on your commute. Now this is
in so it starts today and it's part of a
one hundred and thirty million dollar improvement project for US
forty two. So if you are in eastern Jefferson County,
against delays and really noise could be could be noticeable
on the on the Waters and Expressway. So it says
(06:54):
that expect they're expecting some delays because there's going to
be roadblocks near I two sixty four and the and
I seventy one interchange that last up to twenty minutes
once per day between nine am and three pm. So
I would say with that nine am to three pm
timeframe that really it's just inside, it's just outside of
(07:15):
I guess rush hour commuting. Again, I'm sure there are
people that maybe between nine and ten am they're still
getting their day started, or maybe you you know, you
leave work at two thirty and you'll potentially be impacted
more so if you are out in that range than
if you're somebody that gets the day started a little
bit earlier than nine am, and of course if you're
somebody that leaves work around four or five or maybe
even six pm, so I guess the timing here could
(07:38):
make it less of an issue. But again, just be
advised there could be some delays and also again some
loud noise. So they're gonna be widening I two sixty
four to three lanes each direction from Westport Road to
I seventy one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That is I guess the big part of this project.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And again it'll be complete fall of twenty twenty seven,
So just just be advised. Uh, and again not that
I can not that I can add any solutions for you,
but at least you'll be not as surprised if you
end up noticing blasting and of course maybe some potential
delays out there in the East End.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That inevitably happens when they do some of it.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I like when Fort Knox sends out there their notice
saying that because inevitably we'll get emails here at the station.
We did get emails, but now it's all done via
social media. People hear that, and they.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Still want to they want to know what the heck's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They don't know any I mean, it happens all the time,
but when you hear stuff like that, and that's why
I appreciate you mentioned and they'll be doing blasting like
that because there's people that probably don't realize that, that
don't get the notices.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh yeah, and you kind of hear that stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Me, Wait, what was that?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I remember as a kid growing up in Bullock County,
we would oftentimes hear something coming from Fort Knox because
it wasn't that far away from us. And you know,
once you once you grow, once you're there long enough,
you get used to it, you know what it is.
But I remember for the first time as a kid,
thinking what the heck was that? And you know, as
a kid, you're thinking it could be a lot of
different things. And then I was explained sort of, Okay,
(08:57):
it's gonna be pretty common. It's gonna be something that
we're going to hear from time to times, so nothing
to be alarmed about.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But yes, whatever, I.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mean, this takes me to a place that sometimes I
end up and I just can't help but get lost there,
and that is the Facebook neighborhood groups.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yes, oh my god, somebody hears a big boom yet
Linda will get out her phone and open up the
Facebook and go to the group what was that big noise?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And then bury from down the street, I heard it too,
anybody know, And just then you'll have a couple of
neighbors throwing out like wild guests as as to what
it could be, and then somebody somehow takes offense to it.
I can just Facebook neighborhood groups, and to be honest
with you, are useful because there's I mean, it gives
you a chance to communicate to the neighborhood. You know, hey,
(09:44):
just everybody knows my address is here, and we're gonna
have a graduation party for our sons. So there may
be some cars in the street, but let us know
if we're in anybody's way.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Like it has some real there's some real.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Benefits to having one, but also some of the things
people use it for just you just make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I've told the story before.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'm in a much smaller neighborhood now than I once was,
so ours is not super active. But I could never
leave the neighborhood Facebook group that I was in from
our previous house because of the entertainment value. Like it
was a real it was a real highly dramatic situation.
Whenever they outed the HOA president and got a new
one and then kicked him out of our Facebook group.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It was wild and I hate that I got such
entertainment from that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But no, a lot of people drama, man, a lot
of people do.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You're right, they do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They do keep a looking out for people. Drama can
look you in, man always does.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Speaking of that drama, what a site over in Ireland
as Kansas State and Iowa State got the season started.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We'll get to this a little bit later on. You
saw a fight breakout.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Which is not something that you that should really surprise you. Right,
people go to college football games, they get drunk and
sometimes a fight will happen. But who was fighting, I
think will really surprise you. Not something you expect to
see really at any But we'll get to that a
little bit later on. We've got trapping of weather updates
on the way. Scott's got a sports update for us
right here on News radio eight forty whas. Thank you
(11:08):
very much, John Shannon. It is Consecutive's morning news Coffee
and Company with you. That is us, Nick Coffee, that's
me you just Serard, John Shannon Scott fitz Jared alongside
as Well and Southwest Airlines. They have announced some some
changes coming that is certainly going to impact some folks
that have been able to benefit from Southwest for quite
some time, I believe, sort of being an airline that
(11:31):
had some unique perks that certainly helped them stand out
among their competitors. However, now they are no longer going
to refund the cost of a second seat for plus
size passengers if the flight is sold out. So I
got to be honest with you, I was not aware
they even did that in general. But obviously you can
be very very much not close to being a plus
size individual and fit not so comfortably within an airline seat.
(11:58):
So I mean, I I can't even I'm just for
for for transparency or not that anybody cares. I'm five
foot eight, one hundred and sixty three pounds, I believe
last time I hit the scale, So I'm not a
very large man, but and I fit comfortably. I mean
I don't, It's not like I'm but I oftentimes think,
man if I was a little bit bigger, I mean,
(12:19):
you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't have a whole lot
of room and clearly, there are people that are a
lot bigger than me that I would never consider to
be plus size. So I mean, I'm sure, and I
again I've never had to really think about this, but
I'm sure there's many that have avoided traveling via airline
just because, even if they are able to pay for
(12:40):
two seats, because they're just big and need the space.
It's just an uncomfortable experience for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But yeah, they're they're getting some pushback for this, and I.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Think more than anything, it's just because they offered it
for a while, I don't think, and again, everybody has
their own way of viewing this, but I think to hear,
they're not going to give you a complimentary free seat
because you were taking up more space than just what
you would take up with one seat. I mean, I
don't feel like they're out of line to do it.
It's just one of those things that they It was
a perk and they probably didn't have to do it,
but they did it, and it helped them maybe get
(13:10):
more business from those that are on the bigger side.
And now, of course they're not gonna be you know that.
Now now they're taking it away. So passengers must now
pay for the two seats up front, submit a refund
request within ninety days, and then you do get reimbursed.
You can still somehow get reimbursed, and the details of that,
I'm not quite sure. But again, for years, Southwest was
considered the most plus size friendly US airline, and now
(13:33):
I guess they're they're not They're not going to be
viewed that way, and they've gotten away from other things
that again were unique perks, like open seating where you
can just go anywhere. I've not flown Southwest in a while,
but I know they either made some changes to that
or they got rid of it all together, So you know,
that was one of the things that was just it
made them different. Also, they cut the two free check
bag policy. I guess now they've there's some charges that
(13:56):
apply that weren't there, and they're now closely alone lined
with their direct competitors American Delta, United, and I feel
like Southwest many years ago used to kind of be
looked at as the cheaper, lower level airline, and now,
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I've I've had
great experiences with Southwest, and I've had great experiences with
(14:17):
Allegiant that is viewed as now one of those lower
tier cheaper you know, you only fly that airline if
you're a poor And I say that tongue in cheek
because I'd never I wouldn't, I wouldn't ever pass judgment
on anybody if they decided to go for a cheaper
airline ticket, because my lord, flying is insanely expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But now you've got Spirit and.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Some other airlines that are just yes, yeah, yeah, And
then there's another one that's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Breeze Ye. Those are the airlines that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They've probably been around a long time, but we didn't
used to have any flights out of Louis, at least
at least not till you know, the last decade or
so with some of these other airlines. So Southwest has
kind of climbed the ladder a little bit to where
they can now, I guess, be more aligned with the
bigger airlines that of course have seemingly been around a
little bit longer, like the American in the delta of
the United but Southwest, and honestly, there's not an airline
(15:09):
that I can think of that I'm like, oh, yeah,
I'm going to avoid that one because I've had a
nightmare experience and I've had, for the most part, pretty
good experiences when I travel. And I'm sure eventually that
will change, because i feel like everybody's got a story
at some point in their life where they just were
completely helpless. And I mean there's no more helpless place,
I think than being at an airport when they just
tell you what's going to happen. You have no say,
so you have no control and sometimes you can just
(15:31):
have a crappy situation all the way around. And that's
just the cost of doing business with airlines, I suppose.
But yes, I'm sure you'll see you'll see some upset
Southwest customers that now are going to you know, not
have that perk they used to have.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It's so hard to think back to a time when
flying was you know, you had your ticket, you had
your seat, you didn't wait in the long lines. In fact,
I can go all the way back when my grandparents
used to fly out from Florida and you could walk
out to the gate with like walk up to the gate,
at least with my grandparents, And now you can't get
through security.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I mean, oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
An insane to think how the industry has changed so much,
to your point, And I did think that there was
some pushback on the discount airlines recently, and I don't
know if that prompted Southwest to make some changes initially,
because remember we went through that rash was Spirit.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh look, I mean you get what you pay for, Yes, exactly,
that's straight up what it comes down to. And I'm
not above flying really any airline if it checks out,
and it's uh, you know, and and when I say
it checks out, I meaning like it meaning it's a
really good rate that I just can't pass up. But
also like if in fact I did end up in
(16:40):
a situation with a Spirit or a Jet Blue one
of those and it was a you know, disaster, I
would have to sit back and think, Okay, well, you
know there was some there was some mornings out there
that maybe this airline has the reputation that it has
for good reason. But yeah, you're right the whole I mean,
we just went to Destin and we flew, we went
Allegiance and just you're right, the experience at an airport.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
We don't have to take our shoes off anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That's great, And you can now I guess, get your
face scanned and maybe that'll get you. We hadn't done
that just yet, but yeah, the you know, nine eleven
is when it really really changed, and it you know,
there's things in place now that will be in place
forever just because of that specific situation. Ununderstandably so. But yeah, airports, man,
I don't think you'll find more helpless place, a more
(17:25):
helpless place than being at an airport knowing that you
really have no clue how your day's going to go,
and now things should really surprise you.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Anyways, let's get to a quick update of traffick and weather.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We also have got Roory O'Neal of NBC News set
to join us in just a few minutes right here
on news radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Good Monday morning, Kentucky, Ina.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is Coffee and Company with you here on Kentucky
and it's morning News news Radio a forty whas. And
we were joined about Rory O'Neal of NBC News scammers. Rory,
they're getting better every day, it seems, and the FBI
is now warning us of a new billion dollar scan
that is draining retirement funds. That sounds scary as can be,
How does it work, what do we know? How can
(18:03):
folks protect themselves from this potential scam?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Nick it's the phantom hacker scam, and so far it's
cost Americans about a billion dollars just in the past
year or so.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
According to the FBI. It works in a.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Couple different phases, with a tech support impostor, an impostor
from a financial institution, even an impostor from the government,
trying to swindle people out of their savings, and once
you give up the cash, it's basically impossible to try
to get it back. Many times that money goes overseas,
so when that money's gone, it's gone, Which is why
(18:37):
the FBI is really urging families to have discussions about
these kind of scams that to specifically tend to target
older people who may be less tech savvy and a
bit more trusting.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, and I will tell you it certainly makes sense
that those are a little bit on the older side,
wouldn't they Just they're not thinking about somebody looking to
do this. And that's clearly why the hackers, the scammers,
they know where they have a better success rate as
far as getting people to fall for it. But I
can tell you I've seen some things that regardless of age,
I understand what people will fall for it. I mean,
we had a situation on a couple of summers ago
(19:10):
where we got a phone call and somehow these hackers
were able to spoof the phone number, meaning the phone
call that we got said it was coming from our
actual bank to warn us of something. And in the
end we realize some of the questions they were asking
you just didn't make a lot of sense, and sure
enough they were able to somehow make it appear that
they were calling from our financial institution. And that was
for me the first time I was I mean, that
(19:32):
was an example of Wow, these guys are pretty good at.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
What they do.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This is scary well, and.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Here's how it could work.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Say they're using AI in this more and more by
scrubbing the internet for some of this information. But let's
say on Facebook, you like your bank, maybe it's let's
call it Rory's Bank, and you like it, and you
follow your Facebook page right and send all your money
to it. But if you like it and you follow it, well,
(19:58):
then maybe that means you're a customer of it. So
then they'll spoof their phone to say it's Rory's bank
when they call you knowing that you already liked this
company or this may be your bank, and then that's
sort of the camel's nose under the tent sort of
is right there. Or there are some comparisons. They say, oh,
you know you collect corvettes. Well, hey, I've got this
(20:19):
corvette I'm trying to sell. You're like, well, how did
he know I like corvettes? And they're not realizing that
all this stuff, these little pinpoints that you don't think
mean anything on social media, can all get added up
together and form a pretty good profile of you and
give those hackers or these scam artists a real edge
to get again, to get the nose in there and
(20:39):
start this scam process.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Roy and Neil, the NBC News is our guys, joining
us here on news radio forty whas let's talk some
let's talk chip makers. So the federal government's take an
equity stake in the struggling chip maker Intel. What do
we know about this plan? And obviously what this investment
looks like for the government.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
So it's worth about eleven billion in all.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
So essentially you and I are part owners of ten
percent of the of Intel. And it's because under the
Chips Act, Intel had qualified for billions and federal dollars,
a lot of that money to go to building a new, massive,
the highest of high tech plants in Ohio. Now they've
been sort of stringing along that development of that facility
(21:23):
for a whole bunch of technical reasons. But now instead
of just giving Intel the money for the investment, instead
we take an ownership claim of ten percent of Intel.
And I know that sounds good, but boy, that does
have some ramifications. One, the little socialism, right is the
first issue. But two then you will sort of have
you wonder does Intel then act in the best interests
(21:44):
of politicians or for its shareholders? And they're sometimes they clash,
and sometimes a company has to fire workers, you know,
just before an election or in a swing state, and
they have to make those decisions for the benefit of
the company. They'll but now will they be more suaded
by political issues?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
That's one of the open questions now as part of
this deal.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Rory has always appreciate your time, enjoyed the conversation, and
we will do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
My friend, he Nick talked to you.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Then, all right, that's or a new LENBC news good stuff.
Speaking of good stuff, we've got some weather updates coming
your way, and I think you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Like what you hear.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Also, we'll get a check of the roadways, and of
course the sports update coming your way right here on
news Radio eight forty whas
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
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