8.29: Friday Vibe - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky, Ina. We made it.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Friday, Friday, with the holiday weekend on the
horizon as well, so that's good, right, It's Kentucky had
his morning news, Coffee and company with you here on
news Radio A forty whas the crew has assembled, myself,
Nick Coffee, Scottfi's showed alongside, and of course John Shannon.
He'll be in a little later with the news and
we will take you up until nine o'clock and then

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we're out of here for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Kind of.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean, we have some other things we do actually
do other than just you know, turn these microphones on
and yap. But something about a holiday weekend again, I
feel like this is kind of the close out of
the summer weekend. I'm not sure if other people see
it that way, but I've always viewed Memorial Day and
Labor Day weekend as the unofficial summer start summer end,
and the weather has not felt so summer like as

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of late, and I've been enjoying it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
They didn't get warmer yesterday. I don't know. I feel
like yesterday it actually got.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Warmer as the as the evening kind of went on,
and then of course the sun went down and it
was it was beautiful once again. But we have got
beautiful weather that looks to be here all week for us.
And we also have non stop college football this weekend,
which actually started last night.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
You get to watch much last night, Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I caught a little bit of Boise State and South Florida.
I did not stay up for the Natti I tried.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I was too tired.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
You won't believe what happened. Scott Saderfield's team lost another
close game. Who would have seen it coming.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I hate to pile on because I do think Scott
Saderfield is is a decent guy. He and I had
had a not a weird relationship that would be weird
that that wouldn't be fair to say, but we were
we were good and then we weren't. But nonetheless, last night,
I mean the decision he made. We'll talk about a
little bit later on. I don't want to break down
the Cincinnati Bearcats football team, but I just I can't

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tell you how genuine I am when I say this.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I can't consider Cincinnati a bit of rival in football.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's sad, though, that because it used to be such
a good rivalry.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, and I'm sure once they play maybe all that
goes out the window.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Just don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And to your point, they've been a rival for They've
not only just been a rival because they are a
big rival in Kentucky, of course is the biggest rival,
but it's just so different with Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
They're like your step brother or something.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And in a weird way, I felt like when Louisville
was able to break out of the American and end
up in the ACC and of course Cincinnati was left
behind for many years, and then now of course they're
part of the Big.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Twelve, I kind of felt like, well, come on, let
them come with us. Come on.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
You know, it's like you know, you're you're you're getting
into a club or something and they won't let one
of your one of your one of your buddies in.
That's kind of what it felt like, because they've just
always been a part of Louisville athletics as far as
just every conference we've ever been in, they've been in
it as well until that change. But so yeah, the
rival real is is is it's still a thing. I
just I mean, I watch last night and I fell

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asleep late in the game, and then woke up actually right,
and I woke up to go to bed to leave
the recliner at a perfect time to uh to to
to see the ending. They're within field goal range, the
clock is ticking. They don't need to take any big shot.
They just need to play it safe, kick the field
goal and take it into overtime potentially. And he decides
to throw a long pass and it's intercepted. Nebraska gets it.

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They hold on, of course, and just run the clock
and in the game. Very avoidable mistake and with sadder field.
He just he's not the worst coach. Louisville wasn't terrible
with him. They just I feel like they'd capped out
and we saw time and time again. You lose those
kind of games when he's the head coach, and it's
not always because of a boneheaded decision like last night.
It's just he's not quite to the level that a

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Louisville and even a Cincinnati expects from their program. So
for the fact that Cincinnati was able to want it
to bring him in and pay Louisville to take him
off their hands, which of course opened the door for
Jeff Brohm to come home after turning Louisville down many
years before that, I guess about five six years before that.
And then also you had some money to go help
pay his buy out at Purdue, because again Cincinnati paid

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you for Sadderfield. It's a transaction that I still can't
quite believe that it happened. But I'm here to tell
you no, there's no no takebacks, no no takebacks. And honestly,
I guess Luke Fickle we thank him too, right he
left Cincinnati to go to Wisconsin, right, and that just
you know, that was the domino effect.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, everything falls into place for a reason. Things happen
for a reason. I don't know where the Bearcats go
from here. I had a chance to talk to my
son last year, who of course, you know, he's over
at neighboring Xavier, but a lot of his friends are
going to the Natty and you know they they're scratching
their heads as well. It's the air has deflated itself
in Cincinnati, which is really sad.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean, you have a trophy called the Keg of Nails.
That's an awesome name for a trophy.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
No doubt, you know, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
And what a.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Robbery it was, and now to see it go by
the wayside. I mean, I'm glad to see that Pat
Kelsey and the basketball team are going to reinvigorate that,
or at least we hope so, albeit just temporary.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
But yeah, anytime Cincinnati and Louis will get together.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
And I don't know what the Bearcats do because it's
not gonna get any easier obviously, there aren't a lot
of coaching candidates out there.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
The game has changed. I don't know what Cincinnati does.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, I think Luke Fickle, to be honest with you,
maybe he felt like it had run its course there.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
But it was wild to see him decide to.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Leave when he did, knowing that they were going to
be in the Big twelve soon and he had he
had something good going there. Yeah, and he doesn't seem
to have a whole lot of momentum right now in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
So how many times do we see that narrative play out?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh, Grass and always greener, right yep?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean Lois Lowell's a great example of that with
guys who've moved on, and really that kind of it
never really did much after that.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well too, in college basketball, Matt mcmahony left Murray stadium.
That's right, thing going on there, and then he's struggling
at LSU.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yep, All right, let's get the table set. We've got
a lot to get to today. Of course, you're going
to get your trafficking whether we'll keep you updated. There
was a pedestrian hit, I believe somewhere near down town.
Bobby Ellis will give us the latest on that. That,
of course, could be causing some delays early this morning. Also,
some of the things I want to get into we
now know. I guess which city there's gonna be a
lot of presence in courtesy of the President of the

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United States. Obviously there's been a lot of talk about
what's been going on in DC lately, but it sounds
like we know which city there's going to be a
lot of resources tapped into here coming up next week.
Also a story that I want to talk about here
on the other side, a woman who has since passed away,
but she was prosecuted for fourteen months for a DUI
despite there being seemingly zero evidence that she was under

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the influence. And I'm just curious as to how something
like that could happen. I'm sure there is some reasoning
that we wouldn't know without you know, being involved in
like the investigation. Maybe that's something we can bring up
with Dwight Mitchell because we'll join us coming up in
the seven o'clock hour. So we are loaded today. It's
a Friday, you can feel it right, Friday vibes. They're
here and we're gonna have some fun this morning. So
hang out right here on news Radio eight forty whas.

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It is five p seventeen here at Kentucky and it's
morning news. Coffee and company with you on news radioaight
to forty whas. Take us with you wherever you go
on a Friday morning. Listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Also listen live at whas dot com. So we now
know that there's going to be some immigration raids planned
for Chicago next week. So the Trump administration is preparing

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to launch a major immigration enforcement operations in Chicago and
it could start as early as today according to reports. Now,
this of course is an immigration raid for the illegal
immigrant situation. Clearly that has been a big emphasis of
the Trump administration. And when the LA raids took place,

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as I'm sure you remember, there were protests going on
and just really a contentious situation, and I wouldn't be
shocked if that's the same thing that we see in Chicago,
just because you've got local leaders. In fact, both the
mayor and the governor governor of Illinois, the mayor of
Chicago strongly oppose both the efforts here from the Trump administration,

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saying that in fact, this is from the Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker quote, mister President, do not come to Chicago. You
are neither wanted here nor needed here. So again, this
is a little different than just sending in the National
Guard to help keep your city safer or at least
attempt to try to get things in order, because that's

(08:18):
what's going on in DC. And again I too, totally
different situations for sure, But if in fact the National
Guard were because again there's this plan that's that we're
talking about here. As far as the immigration situation, it
is different than what Trump's push is to because he's
referenced sending the National Guard troops to Chicago to fight crime.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
So again, two different things.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
But when it comes to the crime situation, I know
I've said it earlier this week at least once. I
can't quite I can't quite understand the pushback here, other
than just being bothered by maybe thinking that the president
is overreaching what he can do, or maybe just because
the thought of of the National Guard presence in your
city with you know, armored vehicles and heavy weaponry, that

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just makes you uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
And look, if that's truly how you feel, that's how
you feel.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
But if in fact, the same thing that is going
on in DC took place in Chicago and there was
a substantial reduction in violent crime, which last I checked,
Chicago has no shortage of violent crime. But if in
fact there were there were good results from this, if
it happened all hypothetical here, of course.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Who whoo? Who opposes that? Who's bothered by that? Who's
who's mad about that? That's what I can't quite understand.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I mean, if I lived in a city that and
again I'll to be honest, I live in Louisville. We
have our issues as well when it comes to violent crime.
Let's be let's be real. I'm not indicating we need uh,
you know, reinforcements and help from the National Guard like
other cities, But I just I can't quite I just
feel like I'm I'm there's something I'm missing, And I

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guess what that is is just not being able to
relate on a political level with people as far as
just like not really caring or wanting about what's better
for everybody, but just what's gonna make my side look
look right or look you know is justified? Because how
can you with a straight face as a leader in
Chicago say that you have things under control? That's like,

(10:22):
that's rich. Speaking of rich, Do we have a Powerball
winner just yet?

Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, buddy, we'll find out tomorrow though. I mean, I'm
gonna go get my ticket.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Goodness, gracious, that's a lot of money, Yeah, it is.
I mean, there's a lot of things you can do.
I was doing a little more thinking about that last night,
of all the things you could do if, in fact
you were the winner. I mean, I how that you'd
want to do some of these things, But just to
know that you could is it really tells you just
how much money that actually is. But anyways, we've got traffic,
weather updates on the way. Also our first sports update
on the way. We've got some high school football getting
kicked off once again tonight, A good, good slate of

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games this evening, and I'm looking forward to getting out
to see my North Bullet Eagles make their home home
debut this year.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Looking forward to it. So stick with us here on
a Friday.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Morning on Who's Radio, Wait forty whas So yesterday a
big story that got us started really was a situation
on I sixty five South where around the Critin and
Drive area.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
There was I guess a call that.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Came in and officers arrived on that to that scene
thinking they were showing up to a crash investigation.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
But it wasn't the case.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
There was not a crash as far as multiple vehicles,
but there was a woman that they found that they
found shot. So twenty eight year old want Nita Barnett.
She is in recovery after being found shot along I
sixty five South. It was near Great Lane early Thursday morning.
So they initially responded again thinking it was some kind
of a crash, but when they got there they saw
that she had a gunshot wound. And now everyone, law enforcement,

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her family, everyone is looking for answers as to how
this happened. So her mother, Robert rob Sorry, Robin moy
She spoke with our partners over at WLKY and says
her daughter. The car was riddled with bullets and one
struck her in the head. She did have surgery to
remove the bullet, though fragments of her skull remain. Fragments

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of the bullet remain in her fragments of the says here,
fragments of her skull remain in her brain. So doctors
have said, and this is pretty powerful that her survival
at this point is viewed as a miracle just because
of I mean, again, you get shot in your head.
I mean, i'd say that the chances of you being
able to have surgery successfully and it be clear you're

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going to at least be okay is a rarity.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
So that is a blessing.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
But she's now just now as last night, she's just
now regaining her memory, and she has told her mother
that she was shot outside before jumping in her car
to flee, which I guess that's what led to her
vehicle being.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
To the wreck.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
And again she didn't reckon another vehicle. It's a single
vehicle crash. So I mean, hopefully when her memory does
come back, she'll have a little bit more clarity of
the situation prior to her jumping in her vehicle as
she said and leaving, But that would make it make
sense as to how she she you know that it
wasn't as if it didn't appear that she was, that
there was any that the shooting took place on I

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sixty five there, But I mean that that's a scary situation.
And again, it's not uncommon that you that you that
we show up here and overnight there was a violent
crime that resulted in somebody getting shot and maybe even
losing their life. That's unfortunately not a rare situation. But
the way this played out certainly rare. And I'm sure

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that her family is happy that she's gonna sounds like
she's gonna be okay, however, just a I would want
answers to understandably so. But yeah, twenty eight year old woman,
that's who it was that they found that they found shot.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's sad.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Thanks for the insight on that, nig because I wondered
what happened yesterday and how that shut shut all that down.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
But you know, the gun violence, the gun violence is.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
You know, and I'm not anti gun by any means,
but it's just you know, that combined. I had a
chance to talk with my daughter last night about the
school of shooting at the in Minnesota at the school
and that shook her up pretty of.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Course, Yeah, pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
And it's not to say that the shootings that take
place that aren't school related aren't. I just think it's
something so many people can relate to. I think if
there's a violent crime and gun violence and it's you know,
it's there's really not many details about where it is,
or you hear the location and you don't really know
what it is, so it just doesn't really stick with

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you as far as just a visual of the scene.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
We know what goes on in a school.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
We know when kids go to school that the expectation
is that they're being that they're in a safe environment.
And obviously children very innocent, you know, human beings. So
I'm sure there's other shootings that have taken place that
really again, it'll hit people differently just depending upon what
they've been exposed to, what they've been around. I mean,
if you're somebody that every day you get up and

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you go to school because you're a teacher, you know,
you teach young children, you're around them, I mean I
would hope that you don't ever think about that when
when you're doing your job and just in the moment
of being a teacher. But the more this stuff happens,
I'm sure the more. I mean, there's some like my son,
he started school for the first time this year and
he's in kindergarten, and he came home I think it

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might have been third or fourth day of school, and
he was really excited and he still loved school, which
is great, but he was really excited to just tell
me about what he did throughout the day. And I
realized that one of the things he was describing to
me was active shooter awareness stuff, and that just it,
you know, I think not that it was some traumatic
moment for me, but once I realized what he was

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talking about, it hit me in a way that I
kind of feel like I'll always remember of, Oh, yeah,
my son, who's five, he's starting kindergarten, and this is
now something that is absolutely required and should be I
don't know if it's required. I feel like it should
be required to, you know, be mindful of what to
do in those in those emergency situations. And I could
tell you that wasn't something we were we weren't exposed

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to that as children meeting where we I mean, it
wasn't even something that that that came to mind.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
When did Columba happen ninety four?

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, because I mean as.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
A kid, I remember that being being newsworthy, right, I mean,
I remember that being such a big deal. But even
at that point, you know, I don't remember being in
school where we had to you know, there was act there,
there were there were things in place to to to
train everybody in the building. Rather it becho to school
teachers or students as far as hey, you know, let's
let's do let's do you know a mock situation of

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what we would do if something was to happen. And
I don't it's not as if they tell the kids,
especially my five year old, hey, you know, somebody may
be here with a gun. It's just you know, getting
prepared for those kind of things. They don't put them
in their mind and put fear in them. But again,
it's part of it now, and I get it. But
it's just one of the many reminders I think in
society that this is this is now not that rare

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of a thing, which is awful to say.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Well, and that's awesome that your son is aware of
that and I think in lieu of what we saw
just down the road here at the First National Bank,
that you know, maybe more workplaces can kind of take
If you're listening now and you're in management or someone
that's a decision maker, maybe take a look at Okay,
are we up to date with our active shooter policy?
Do our employees fully understand what needs to happen in

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the case of an active shooter?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's always worth revisiting.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, and unfortunately it probably will continue to happen. I
hope not, but I'd be shocked if this all just
comes to an end. Be great, yep, but we may
find that whatever plans they've put in place to make
people more prepared could be saving their lives. And it's
just it's awful that you have to be prepared, but
you have to write. I mean, we know this is

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a this is a threat to an extent, and you know, again,
the best way for me to say it is that
if you just you know, if you're somebody that's out
of side, out of mind, you don't really spend a
whole lot of time thinking about it, because when you
don't want to be depressed, and obviously you just want
to leave your life.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
But if you just ask yourself, hey, if you hear
about one of these happening tomorrow, the next day, the
next day after that, would you really be surprised?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
And the answer I believe is no. And that's that
at the root of it.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
That's just what is so sad that that's just now
the way things are. All right, let's get to an
update of track and weather. We also have Rory o'il
set to join us from NBC News coming up right
here on news Radio forty whas.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Happy Friday, Kentucky, Anda. It is coffee and company with
you here.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
On news radio A forty whas can you set for
a holiday weekend?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
And joining us now is Rory O'Neil of NBC News.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Rory, let's talk Christmas shopping in late August, shall we?
Obviously tariffs have left a lot of uncertainty when it
comes to a lot of things here, But when it
comes to what spenders can expect as far as the
impact on tariffs this holiday season, which again it's a
way so what people like to get an early start.
What can you tell us as far as what we
may be in for here.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Hey, it's not that early anymore. Sorry to tell you
your Labor Day weekend. Here we go, it's on, and you.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Know, Christmas items are already starting to pop up in
some stores. I'm sure we'll all be seeing those big
inflatables at the.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Home improvement store any day now.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
But yeah, there is some advice that's being given ahead
of the holiday shopping season. A lot of it is
what we heard back when we had the shipping crisis.
Remember all the containers that were stuff off the coast
of California. Well, there's a new report from Wells Fargo
that looks at the impact that the tariff uncertainty has
been having, And really that's the focus. It's not so
much whether it's five ten, twenty five percent, fifty percent,

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whatever it is. It's the uncertainty because a lot of
companies held back making these purchases.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Not sure of what the heck was going to be happening.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
So the advice is, if you are shopping for the holidays,
you should start early, and sixty six percent of shoppers
planned to start earlier these days because of some of
these shipping issues, the tariff issues. We had the story
earlier about the Dominimus tax, the exemption you know, they're
not allowing stuff shipped into the country if it's less
than eight hundred bucks and that sort of thing.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
So there's a lot of confusion. So the advice is,
if you see.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
It and you'll like it, get it, get it now,
because it may not be there when you're trying to
shop on December twentieth.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
You've just given me a look into the future where
I can see as we get closer to the actual
holiday season, I can just sense panic from people thinking, Okay,
I order something, Am I going to get it?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Is it going to make it through?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Because yes, there's been a lot of awareness lately that
just hey, there's really no at this point. It's tough
to say how things look even in a month's time
as far as just getting shipments from things overseas, which
is honestly how a lot of people purchase stuff now
via the internet.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Well, especially when we're talking about the holiday decorations as well,
all that stuff is made in China, and that's where
we've seen a lot of the disruptions. Those Liberation Day
announcements were all sort of made at the same time.
A lot of companies order that stuff to be made
to be imported in time for the holidays. So the
advice is, if you see it, you should get it

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as soon as you can, especially when it comes to
items like clothing, because a lot of that also manufacture overseas.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
That includes shoes as well.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Plus obviously technology, you know, computers, tablets, phones, earbuds, all
that stuff. All of that is imported, so that's something
else to you should buy it when you can. This
is going to be turning into the Christmas of the
gift card as you sort of just get them something
because it's not on the shelves.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, let them figure it out right, it's been a
gift card. Gift usually meets but Roy and Neil is
our guest joining us here on News Radio eight forty whas.
So when it comes to peace in Ukraine, there were
some talks earlier this month that we were potentially close
to peace there and now it looks as if the
United States is really taking some additional steps here to
protect the country from drone attacks from Russia.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
What can you tell us about the latest there, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Some interesting stuffs.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
So on the Russia Ukraine front, we really haven't seen
a whole lot of progress in the two weeks since
President Trump and President Putin had that big meeting in Alaska,
So that's been a bit of a setback that really
we haven't gotten to a deal where they can actually
expect the two leaders to sit down and meet face
to face. So it's a bit of a wait and

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see on that front as to whether or not those
meetings actually will ever happen. And then, of course, in
the past thirty six hours or so, Rush has launched
one of its largest attacks into even the capital of Kiev,
killing at least two dozen people and some of them children,
and even targeting the offices of.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
The European Union there in Kiev.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
So it seems that two weeks after all those talks,
not much has happened.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Now.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Meanwhile, you brought up this other interesting story that Axios
had this week. How there, how do we fight back
against the new drone warfare which we've seen to be
so effective in this conflict with Russia and Ukraine. Who
a pretty spectacular test was held this week in Indiana.
And yeah, the technology now to take out these drones

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really that is the focus of a lot of defense officials.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Rory is always appreciate your time. Enjoyed the holiday weekend
and we'll talk soon, my friend.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Thanks Beck, have a good weekend.