8.25: Summer Chill Out - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is seven oh five now here at Kentucky and
is morning News, Coffee and Company with you here on
News Radio eight forty whas. Yes, fall like temperatures, that
is what we are in for this week. I mean
we're talking highs that are going to stay in the
mid to upper seventies throughout midweek, a lot of sunshine
as well. Morning and nighttime lows could dip into the fifties.
So I mean that is straight up jacket hoodie sweater

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weather that we're getting. And typically that's I mean, I
think I could be outside I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
In the fifties.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I guess that is that's probably the temperature that I
would think, Okay, yeah, I do need to throw a
hoodie on or something like that. But even when we
got the break from the awful human I mean, what
was it last Tuesday when JCPS had to call off
all of the outdoor athletics events just because of how
hot it was with the humidity, Well, clearly it cooled
off pretty pretty amazingly the next couple of days after that,

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and it wasn't cool outside by any means, but because
of the drastic difference, like I felt, okay, yeah, I
need to go throw a hoodie on, So we weren't
there then, But now, I mean fifties at night, fifties
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
That is nice and cool, and I am not complaining, no, And.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think looking at both the six and ten day
and eight and fourteen day outlook, Nick, it's below normal temperatures.
And if you even wanted to get a little further
look ahead, according to the Climate Prediction Center this came
out probably about four days ago, our seasonal temperature outlook
for winter is just slightly above normal, so we could see,
you know, we won't see the frigid temperatures for winter

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time this of course October, November, December, anything beyond that.
So it looks like weather wise, we are setting up
okay here. I don't think there's gonna be too many complaints.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Wednesday morning could get as low as fifty two degrees,
which could break the nineteen forty six record of fifty
one degrees. So bout Thursday and Friday, attempts are going
to rebound into the low eighties, so it will get warmer.
But we're talking. I mean, that's not too warm for
me when it comes to what you typically expect in
the month of August, but dry and sunny weather. I
mean again, things can always change, but the holiday week

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and outlook is phenomenal. And again, it's a holiday weekend.
People like to really go out and enjoy themselves. Maybe
it's going to football games because the season has started.
Maybe it's one last lake weekend. Whatever it may be,
it looks like mother Nature is going to be on
your side.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, I didn't even think about that. You know, you
got a good point, Nick, and that is you can
do a little bit of both. For example, my wife
likes the pool, I'm like you, I like the hoodie.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
So there's a little bit of something for everybody. You know.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Maybe you said temperatures down in the fifties, maybe quhat
if you have.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
A fire pit, maybe put put a couple of logs
on the fire.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
And to put it in perspective, you've got currently again
this week we're not going to get above eighty as
far as the forecast, but the average high in the
last week of August in Louisville historically is eighty eight degrees,
so we're drastically below where we're used to. Because again,
I just feel like when you get to like I
just feel like this annual weekend, this holiday weekend. That

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it that it to me, it's the unofficial kind of
closing out of the summer. That's the way I've always
viewed it. But I just always remember being brutally hot
and humid to where I'm ready for summer to be over.
And it's gonna be more like fall weather this week
and this weekend, And couldn't come at a better time,
because I know college football did get started over the
weekend for a handful of teams Week zero obviously, Western

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Kentucky was one of the teams that did get their
season started in Week zero. But Week one is here
and there are endless amounts of games, and I know
Louisville and Kentucky fans are going to be getting out
and not only enjoying to see there's enjoying watching their
team get the season started, but also one of the
best things about college football is the tailgating experience, the atmosphere,

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and you never know what you're gonna get, and you
only get sometimes five, I guess five to seven, maybe
eight home games do you get, So you don't get
that many opportunities to even do it. I mean, it's
a twelve game season. In college football, sometimes you have
more home games than a way. Louisville is in fact,
in fact, is very lucky this year. I believe they
have eight home games. But I mean, when you can
get a day where the weather is setting up to

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be as good as it's going to be on Saturday,
got to take advantage of it. So again, if you're
somebody's like, yeah, I don't want to tailgate for the
Eku game because you know it's Eku, I'll have my
setup later in the year when they play this team
or that team, and you know, you know you may
hit a and again you can't control.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
You never know.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, so when you do see weather's gonna be on
your side, don't don't don't waste.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It because you didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
There's very I mean, it's one of the things about
college football that you just have very few chances to
go watch your team playing person because it's only twelve games.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
A year, well and in beautiful weather. To your point,
do you and you know how packed lots are going
to be in Lexington, Louisver this weekend given that forecast
you were just talking about, and I mean, people are
gonna be packing up how many people are gonna at
work Friday too, by the way, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Mean if you are, are you working right right?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Are you gonna work? You're gonna be home getting your
stuff ready for tailgate? And along those lines, Nick, you
you're no stranger to you know, Cardinal Stadium. What's your
favorite go to when you tailgate?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
If you may have the one thing on your menu
if you're heading out to tailgate, what is the one
thing you're absolutely not forgetting.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, the one thing is making sure we have plenty
of bush light, right, that's a given. And then so
my uncle he is the reason why I became a
Louisville Cardinal Lunatic fan because he is my dad's older brother.
He in the seventies, just he went to school at
U of L and he just became a big time fan,
and of course his little brother fell in line, and

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here we are, we're the Coffee family, big time Louisville fans.
And it all started with him. So he has a
tailgate that sets up each week and it's nothing crazy,
but he always smokes different meats. So if I can
get some Uncle Wayne's smoked barbecue smoked me that's just
become a staple over the years that he's always wanted
to let us try something that he's been preparing. So

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that's something I feel like I got to have. But really,
the alley is something that Louisville put in. U of
L put this together a few years ago to where
it's basically like a tailgate that's already set up for
everybody to come in and enjoy. So it's right across
the street from the stadium on Floyd Street there, and
it's free. They've got food trucks, they've got all kinds
of different beer options. They sometimes have bams that play,

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and it's it's just awesome because again, if you're somebody
that loves the overall atmosphere of tailgating getting ready for
a college football game, but you don't really have the park,
you don't have the parking pass, you don't have the setup,
you don't maybe let's just say you don't you don't
network enough to know people who really make it a
big thing. Well you can kind of just go. I mean,
I now see why people just say, look, I can.
It's much more convenient for me to just go there

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and enjoy it. And they've got you know, TVs everywhere
as well. So, uh, they put that together, I believe
a little bit after COVID, and I wouldn't I wouldn't
be able to tell you how they're viewing, if it's
been a big success or not as far as you
know revenue and whatnot. But I definitely know that it is.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
It is.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
It has enhanced the tailgating atmosphere. And look, you've got
a lot of options, right. You can tailgate in the
Purple lot of course at at At you know, the
main parking lot at the stadium. You can go across
the street to the alley. You can go to Old Cardinal,
there's the boy scout a lot. There's a lot of
different options, and I can just tell you the the
alley is one that now I don't have to think about, Okay,

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do I need to pack a cooler?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Do I need to pack that?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
I can kind of just you know, show up and
know that everything I'm gonna need is already there.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Nice. But that's very nice. So that's worth checking out.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yes, I would highly recommend checking it out if you
haven't yet, because it just to get it. You don't
have to put any work into it at all from
your end, but yet you still feel like you had
a good tail getting experience. So right, college football's here,
I'm excited. Good stuff, all right, quick updates of trafficking
weather coming your way right here on news radio waight
forty whas.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
So, the Kentucky State Fair.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Of course, came to an end yesterday, and I was
able to make three different trips to the State Fair
and I got my fix.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And one thing I never really knew a whole lot
about is.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
The fierce competition that goes on when it comes to
those that enter different things from antiques to baked goods
and all that stuff. And of course last week's brownie
gate that became a talking point because in fact, I
think it's going to lead to more entries than ever
because I think that being news that no brownie was
worthy enough to get a first place ribbon and they're

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letting everybody no, look, there's a standard, there's an expectation,
and none of you met it. I think that'll lead
to people thinking, Okay, well I've never thought about entering,
but now you're gonna get my brownies because they're the
best ever. And I know it's going to get a
first place ribbon. So maybe I'm wrong there, but I
feel like that getting attention the way that it did
is going to lead to more people wanting to, I guess,
challenge themselves to see if they can maybe get one of.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Those first place ribbons.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
But there were over eight thousand entries that came in
for those that were getting into the contests, and obviously
most of those entries came from Kentucky, but there are
some people that are from Arizona, Massachusetts, Florida that entered something.
Rather it be they're quilting, they're baking, there's all com
I mean, there's just endless different things that you can compete.

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And when I say compete, I mean you put something together,
you put it up for the Kentucky State Fair to view, analyze,
and I guess, assess, and of course also for those
that attend the fair to get a look at it.
But there are an insane amount of rules, two hundred
plus pages of rules that cover everything from firearms, antique
firearms that get entered, Christmas decorations. I mean, there's nearly

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fifty separate nut categories. Yes, nuts, there are fifty different
nut categories for the State Fair. And again that just
tells you that. I mean, it's it's something I can't
quite relate to. But if you are somebody that there's
a specific nut that you know you can either somehow
produce or obtain the best of the best, then you

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want to you want to let people know about it.
But yeah, they are over four hundred quilt entries that
that ended up getting put in, which I believe quilt
was the most entered, which that again I wouldn't have
guessed that, but interesting.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Nonetheless, my daughter had two students who were in the
art competition, which was really cool that they were able
to I the art competition is cool.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I like the photography part too, because I was.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I do too, because you get some you get some
cool ideas how maybe you can start posting pictures yourself.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, and then you see something that you're thinking, okay, well,
like this to me doesn't look like anything other than
just somebody taking a random picture. But then again, you know, hey,
if anything could be.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Art right right.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
And by the way, it wasn't just the Brownies that
that didn't get a first place winner. Brownie I think
got all the attention because again it's Brownie's, but blondies
pickled eggs, grape jelly corn relish also did not have
they So if you brought it, you didn't bring it
to the level that's needed to be brought at the
Kentucky State Fair because whoever of all the people, and
I don't know how many it was that entered for

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those three or those categories, none of them were first
place worthy. And I do love that they're not just
going to give it to the best. If if none
of them are up to first place level, then they're
gonna let you know about it.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, for the record, I made brownies yesterday so my
daughter could take them in and put them in the
teacher's lounge today. So there we go, Brownie got I
can't make anything nice. I just but that got me
going to your point. I said, let me take a
stab at this, and I asked my daughter what she thought.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So well she think, I mean, now we need to
know what what what her class thinks of them, right,
that's right, we got to find out. I'm interested to know.
Maybe maybe it's Scuff Fitzgerald that wins that first place
Brownie ribbon next year. Maybe that's maybe that's what we're
coming for.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, we'll bring them in here.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
You try them out, we'll see. Thanks Scott.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
All right, We've got traffick of other updates on the way.
Also another sports update coming up to right here. It
is seven twenty two at news Radio eight forty whas.
It is Kentucky had it's morning news, Coffee and company
with you here on News Radio eight forty whas. So
just a reminder that there's going to be some some
blasting going on that will lead to some potential delays

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and your commute and also some you know, maybe maybe
you're being maybe annoyance because right blasting very loud. But
they are going to start today and it's a one
hundred and thirty million dollar project that's going to improve
US forty two in the East End. But the daily
rolling roadblocks near I two sixty four and the I

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seventy one interchange, they're going to last twenty minutes once
per day between nine am and three PMS. So I
would say with that schedule it will likely avoid the
biggest I guess window of time in the morning and
in the afternoon where people are either getting up to
get their day started or coming home from work. So
nine am to three pm they'll have twenty minutes once

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per day, those daily roadblocks, and it's going to this
project is essentially widening I two sixty four to three
lanes each direction from Westport Road does seventy one, and
it's going to rework interchanges and expand some of those
on and off ramps in that area. So again, you
may not notice it at all, but if you do
notice it, there's the details again nine am to three pm,

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and it'll be rolling roadblocks. So again be prepared. And
also you know, if you hear something, that's what it is.
I mean, I guess there's no way to know for sure,
but if you're curious and you're in that area and
you do hear some some loud noise, it's probably probably
what it is. So just be advised, all right, fellas,
be advised that if you are somebody that struggles with
a rectile dysfunction, there is something you can do about it,

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and that is going to see my friends at the
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THAVO two four four four four thousand. All right, so
real quick, I know we've got another sports update coming
your way in about fifteen minutes or so. But one
of the biggest differences in college athletics now compared to
really forever, I mean, college athletics was really the same.
The archaic amateurism model from the NCAA was around forever

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until it completely blew up in their face and they realized,
oh yeah, we're not legally allowed to basically treat student
athletes almost like prisoners. And I know that sounds like
an exaggeration than it is, but what I mean is
that they wouldn't let you work, they wouldn't let you
benefit from who you are as a person, because they
claimed it would mean you no longer have you know,
the amateur you're no longer an amateur. So again they

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got sued. That's why a billion dollar settlement and NIL
is now something that is really out of control. It's
clearly a huge part of how you're going to build
your roster, how you're going to put together a good team,
and that's not brand new it's still relatively new. But
what we have now is I guess a little bit,
for lack of a better way to describe it, like

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you've got guardrails now to where it's not just a
complete free for all. It's not the wild wild West totally.
But what I'm anxious to see is that starting in September,
I believe it's next week, we're going to get the
College Sports Commission, they're going to give us the first
monthly data on NIL. So for ANIL. For those who
don't know what inn IL is, it's Name, Image and Likeness.

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And this is the first nationwide transparency we're going to
get on how many agreements are approved, denied, or sent
to arbitration. So what they're trying to do to clean
this up is, if you're going to do ANIL, you've
got to be able to show us that this is
truly a Name, Image and Likeness situation. It's not just
you're getting a million dollar check and it's for we're

(15:38):
saying it's for ANIL, but you're not actually doing anything
to help this business try.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
To I guess profit off of.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
You partnering with them, Right, Like, Name Image and Likeness
is a company that loves the lineman who they want
to put up on a billboard in town because they
really like what this guy's all about as a player,
as a person, and he is promoting their business, he's
doing commercials, that kind of stuff. That's true in IL
now being able to truly track your return on investment,

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like are you really getting anything back off of that investment?
That's I think that's nearly impossible to know. But either way,
that's legitimate.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
In IL.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
A lot of the money that's been paid to these
student athletes to come and play at these schools, they've
not had to do anything. They just because again it's
called in IL, but it's technically not. Well now you're
supposed to be doing it on the up and up
to where you've got to prove if you've got this
athlete making this amount of money, show the college Sports
Commission what the actual deal is, not just the money,

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but what is being done. And this is I mean,
if anything, it's just an attempt to try to clean
it up. I think you're always going to see people
cut corners, try to go around it, because that's just
that's never going to change. So this is at least
I guess a step in the right direction as far
as it not just being a complete free for all
with no guardrails and nobody following any kind of rules.

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But this look next week as far as which deals
they approve, which they didn't. This will give us some
real data and again some transparency on what they're saying
is a good nil deal that you can do what
they're turning away, and it'll just give these universities a
better feel for what they are and are not allowed
to do. That's been the biggest issue I think for
a lot of the higher ups in the college sports

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landscape is that we don't mind following rules.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
We don't mind.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
We just want to know what the heck the rules
actually are, what can we what can we and can
we not do? And that's where the NCAA just does
not have the resources at all to They just don't
have the to govern themselves, which is why there was
big news not that long ago where they handed it over.
Now the power conferences are going to essentially govern themselves,

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and I think that's that's the right way to do it.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
All right, We've got another update of.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Traving the Weather coming your way right here right now
on News Radio eight forty whas. Something we've talked about
more than I would have anticipated in my first few
months here in the Mornings on eight forty Whas is scammers, hackers,
and just how society needs to be mindful of a

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lot of different things that you would never typically expect
to be somebody buttering you up to get your information
and scam you. I mean, it seems like there's a
new tool they're using every day, and this one is
just unthinkable. So it's an example of hey, when you think, well,
so surely this is legit, because what kind of a
sick individual would do this in order to try to

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scam somebody and steal from them, Well, they're doing it.
There are fake obituaries that are out there that are
just basically just using that. They're exploding grieving families who've
lost a loved one. I mean, think about already that
situation alone, losing a loved one. But there's one there's
one Kentucky mother that I mean, her grief of losing

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her son is you know, not just the only thing
she's dealing with. There's also scammers that tried to cash
in on her son's death. So I saw the story
at WDRB, but Dino Weedman. She had a son named
Dylan Bryan, who passed away on August twelfth at the
age of thirty after a battle with addiction, and she
said days after he had passed, a friend alerted her

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that a fake obituary was circulating online. It had his
correct death date and photo, but it did have some
fabricated details, including a false cause of death and even
a bonus a bogus fundraiser claiming to raise money for
a cremation process as well as towing costs, so in reality,
the family had already covered the funeral expenses.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
They it was already taken care of.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
But somehow, you know, I mean, I just feeling violated
in that way would just be something.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I mean, I can't, I can't.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I can't even imagine what that feels like, especially when
you're going through the loss of a son who lost
his I mean, lost his life at the age of thirty,
and it's because he battled with addiction, I mean, and
then somebody's using that to try to make money. It's
just it's it's sick. And I just I never would
I never would, uh, I would think that somebody would

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do that but clearly they're taking advantage of people seeing
a story and wanting to help out. And there are
so many people I'm sure that do donate money without
even because we're not and I don't ever want to
be programmed as a society where you read something like
that and the first thing that comes to mind is
this is probably not real, and somebody's trying to scam
and and and steal money from people because they're they're
going to be willing to maybe help a family that

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would need help with funeral expenses and that kind of stuff.
So you know, I guess nothing should surprise us anymore
as far as what what people will do in order
to try to to scam you.