9.23: Returning - Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is six so five here at News Radio eight
forty whas Coffee and Company with Ti Kentucky had his
morning news. We've got the full crew in the house today.
You just heard John Shannon, I'm Nick Coffee John Alden
alongside today back after a few days office. He was
he was rocking and rolling at Louder than Life. That
sounded really old and not not cool, but trying.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
My best to you know, said we were a rolling
though there were a lot of people on the ground.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, and I could just sit and watch those circular
mosh pit kind of things where it really like wasn't amash.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I just I'm fascinated by something I just can't quite understand.
It's so I'm so out of my element. But to
see the because you got like forty people just creating
almost like a big circle, and they're moving there and
they're swinging their hands, uh and and they're all in sync.
And I have no clue what they're doing, but they
look like they know what they're doing, and they look
they're like they're having a great time. I'm sure you

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weren't involved in that, but I was learned.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
The swinging of the arms but like they're running around
in the circle part of it? Okay, so is that
what is that called? Is that just got Okay? Those
are those seem a little bit more tame, you know
what I mean? Those aren't.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
There are people that get hurt, but it's usually those
who were dehydrated, not taking care of.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
The cost of rock and roll. Right, Absolutely good stuff.
So we also we've also got scuff fitz Jared alongside.
He'll be back with another sports update coming before too long.
One of the things that he mentioned in his sports
update earlier is Bruce Pearl deciding to retire yesterday. I
think the shock value of successful college basketball coaches that

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are viewed to be in the top tier of active coaches,
those guys abruptly retiring, the shock values gone because it's
happened so often in recent years. And it's understandable given
that that is absolutely a different job than it used
to be. Now, with that said, Bruce Pearl wasn't somebody
that that seemed to be really bothered by the the

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new world of college athletics. Now Again, just because he's
having success doesn't mean that it's not taking its toll
on him. Because again, it to say that it's a
different job sounds like an exaggeration, but put it this way,
the job description is now much different than it really
has ever been because you not only have to coach
them up and recruit, you.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Have to rerecruit your roster.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
You have to recruit wealthy people to give your program
money so you can pay the players. You have to
coach them, maybe differently depending on your style and your personality.
Because players now have all the power, the players can
really do whatever they want as they should be able to.
You know, I know that when it comes to the

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free for all that is out there with the portal
and players just up and leave and take, and I
mean I get it. It's a mess and it has
complicated things for sure. I think in the grand when
you consider what the transfer portal has done to change
college sports, I think basketball is actually the one that
has benefited from the New World more than anything, because
now the sport is more attractive to players to where

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they're not just abandoning two years left of eligibility to
go play in Europe because they can actually make more
money playing in college. Right they can play four years.
Some guys are playing six years if they can because
they can now make a lot of money doing it,
so I still think it's an overall net positive. But
still it's you know, for coaches, although I don't have
a ton of sympathy for them, because you know, they

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should be able to figure it out. They make a
lot of money. Have you guys ever had a job
where you know, what things change, you have to evolve.
That's life. So I don't have a lot of sympathy
for them, but I will acknowledge it is a lot
different and some coaches, I think, have just learned, hey,
this either I don't want to do this anymore, or
I simply cannot succeed in a way that I used

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to be able to because the job has changed so
much that I would I'm no longer as good at
said job because it's changed that much. I think, you know,
some coaches realize, hey, there's a standard at this program
that can't be met by me because the job's change
and it's not for me. I don't know if I
believe Tony Bennett that's why he did it in Virginia,

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but that was his claim, and I think he was right.
They were really falling apart of Virginia now with Bruce
Pearl here, he was succeeding. He just went to a
final four, had a really good team the year before that.
Now they got upset in the tournament by Yale, but
he was succeeding. I think this is just him wanting
to have his son take over. And there was talking
about Bruce Pearl running for senate. Doesn't sound like that's
gonna happen. But either way, Bruce Pearl moving on and

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leaving the gig to his son is really not a
surprise because one Pearl had wanted his son to be
the coach in waiting for a long time. And also
you're seeing more programs go for the young guy that's relatable,
that maybe can be more of a player's coach, right Like,
the players are going to respect him, but they're not

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going to see him as, you know, a drill sergeant.
They're gonna see him as somebody who also played that
they can relate to. And I think, honestly, so far,
there aren't that many that have been able to take
advantage of that, right, I can't think of many coach
like John Shires off to a pretty good start, that's
for sure, but he's also a do where he's going
to always have great players. So that was certainly a
big piece of news in college basketball, but it just

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felt like the shock value wasn't quite there as it
once was, which Bruce Pearl. I guess Kentucky fans, if
you wanted him to take over for Caliperry, which would
have absolutely made sense, right. I mean, it wouldn't have
been a good look now, but that would have been
a great hire. But they went in a different direction.
And I'm sure Kentucky fans are happy with Mark Pope
being there. But I remember when Bruce Pearl after Chris

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Mack was out and he walked away, Bruce Pearl did
a great job of finessing and wanting Auburn to think
that he was going to come to Louisville when he
was never going to come to Louisville, and that got
him a really really fat new contract, some new facilities
at Auburn because they put he put fear into them
that he was going to up and leave, and he's

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leaving now, but it's his son who's taken over and
he's got those great facilities they just put in place
down there. So let's get to a quick update trafficking
and weather on the way. We'll talk a little more
about Jimmy Kimblel making his return to ABC tonight, but
not everywhere right Sinclair Broadcasting, the biggest ABC affiliate out there.
They're they're not ready to put him back on the air.
So we'll talk about that in a lot more right

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here on News Radio eight forty whas So the LMPD,
they've officially opened the brand new headquarters in downtown Louiville.
You heard John mention that in his new story a
little bit earlier. I'm sure LMPD is happy to get
themselves in a new spot. Now again, there's a lot
of work to be done before everybody is there in
their new two hundred thousand square feet facility. But I

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did not realize just how how how run down the
previous headquarters was prior to of course it being Was
it demolished, I don't know if they If it was,
I don't know, maybe condemned. I saw I saw a
picture of I guess what was as WK why had
the story and I saw a picture of what I

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guess it used to be And if it wasn't condemned
before maybe being taken down, it probably should have been. Yeah,
and work environment matters like that's good for company. I
know l and PD's not looked at as like a company,
but there's a lot of people that work there, not
only law enforcement officers, but just an entire team of
people that work for LMPD that you need everybody in

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the same building, at least a lot of people in
the same building. You need a good work environment. I
heard of yesterday Chief Humphrey mentioning that it wasn't it
wasn't really safe from you know, a physical standpoint to
be where they used to be. But now, you know,
moving forward, once they get this taken care of, this
can only help LMPD, who, of course is you know,
I feel like they've got some momentum right now with

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just the new recruiting class that they've had, and obviously
I think Chief Humprey has done a great job as
he's now entering one years as the official no longer
interim of course, so you know it really it really
took me being in this position to really kind of
see what the I guess just and I don't want

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to say reputation because that sounds like a but I
guess it's what it was, I mean I had to
tiptoe around it. But the way in which people viewed
the entire LMPD force for so long, I mean, it's crazy.
Obviously there was some things that went on that clearly
are going to bring up, going to bring some bad attention.
And nobody would ever claim that they're perfect and that
they haven't brought some really foolish things on themselves. That's

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and they would have done out that either No, no, no,
but just the you know, the the stigma of LMPD
for the last few years.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Longer than that. Actually, it's just it's it's awful.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, And Chief Humphrey has has done a great job
in getting the stink off of LMPD. And I can
tell you talking about the building, you know, it's a
it's a it's a morale thing too to get a
new place if you've worked in and I've worked in
some really really bad buildings where if you plugged in
one more space gear because we had no heat in
the building, everything blew. I went into my audio video

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room one time with twenty thousand dollars of equipment I
was assigned for and there's water dripping down through an
electrical junction box when training that seems problematic.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
That yeah, it's problematic.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And just the boost and the kind of lift you
get if you move to a new building like like
we ended up doing is just everybody's spirits are kind
of lifted. And I think that's when they get this
what used to be the AT and T building completely
renovated and that's the new police headquarters. It's it'll do
a mirror you know, it'll do a miracles for their
for their morale and and and a pride in in

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the force. You know, chiefs talked about pride in the patch. Uh,
A new building like this that they can go to
and work in where everything works and there's no you know,
no rundown to worry about black mool or whatever else
was going on with the other building. That's a sense
of pride.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh no doubt.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
And it'll it'll I mean it could it just it
can boost morale, boost energy, especially if it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Gonna be brand new. Yeah, that's gonna be really noticeable.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
So in our in our conversations we have with with
l M p D each week, I try to humanize
these guys because not just the individuals we talk to.
But but the the law enforcement officers out there, because
I think so many people don't don't do that. And
if you really just stop to think, Okay, these are
these are human beings with families just like just like

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we are, it would you know. And again it's not
to say there haven't been some really bad examples, but
that's that's that's a real teeny tiny percentage of those
that actually do a very very important job that we
that we need.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
They're a microcosm of society in general. So if one
person in that small group screws up, it looks like
it's magnified to where it looks like it's the entire force.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
That thing happened that with the military is the perception
of the entire force, which is just unfair. And it's
always probably been that way to an extent. But man,
it's been really bad here in the last five six years.
But I can sense it getting better, and I certainly
hope that's the case. All Right, let's get to a
quick update of trafficking weather. Scott's back with a sports
update right here on news Radio eight forty whas. So,

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we have a new top selling beer here in America.
So michelob Ultra has officially dethroned Medello to become America's
best selling beer. Annazer Busch in beeB announced the mikeel
of Ultra was the top selling beer for the fifty
two weeks, which I guess they run it in a
not January to December, but fifty two weeks, and it

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ended in September fourteenth and number one not only as
far as just best selling, but also number one beer
in bars and restaurants over the past years. So this
is a big comeback from anahazer Bush given the bud
Light situation where they had a situation, to say the least,
with Dylan mulvaney in that partnership, And clearly that is

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what I think a lot of people. I shouldn't say
clearly as if I speak for anybody about myself, but
I know I'm not alone. When I think of go Woke,
Go broke, I just think of that, and it's not
even like I'm looking at it from a political standpoint.
I just look at it as that really backfired on them,
and I don't think that they clearly expected that it would,
and it seemed like there was some real denial initially

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that it was going to harm them, and it did.
And of course they are the owners of bud Light
and many other beers. But now that michelob Ultra has
has got the top spot, I'd say this is this
is a comebacks and I think a lot of companies
can learn from from what anazer Bush did when it
comes to the whole bud Light thing. I mean, one

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company that didn't learn until they had to learn the
hard way was Cracker Barrel. Although they've decided to completely
halt any plans to make any changes at Cracker Barrel
now and if anything, they're keeping what they now know
that their customers wanted in place, meeting the current concept.
And we had people talking about Cracker Barrel for a
for a long time because of that story. In fact,

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I would be willing to bet that because of that
story about Cracker Barrel and their attempt to and I
guess I never understood why they thought they needed to
change what they have always been known as, because that's
what made them attractive to the people that would go there.
But anyways, that backfired on them. But I would be
willing to bet that a lot of folks learned throughout

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just the coverage of the Cracker Barrel situation that they
now sell alcohol. I don't people know that or now
you give the most as you can get beer. That's
I mean, I bet you didn't know that, did you,
John Alden.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I didn't know you couldn't get at Cracker Now. I
don't really order alcohol in general.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, it's relatively new within the last last few years
they started selling alcohol there and I don't really know
what led to it. But if I'm choosing breakfast spots
like that, I mean, you can go to a lot
of places and get a good breakfast bar and brunch,
and they clearly serve booze. Big mimosas are a big
breakfast alcoholic beverage that people tend to enjoy when they

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have breakfast or brunch. But Cracker Barrel and Bob Evans
and Ihop like those are more of the national breakfast chains,
and they'd never had alcohol available until recently. Now the
only one that does that I know of is Cracker Barrel.
So yeah, Michelo ultra Is is your top selling beer,
and they've they've also had some six This is not
new for them as far as just being the top

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selling beer. Back in the mid twenty tens, they briefly
claimed the top spot in certain sales categories. So I'm
not a big mc ultra guy, but I don't dislike it.
If I'm gringging light beer at a restaurant or if
I'm buying it take it back to the house, I'm
going bush Light first, and if there's no bush Light available,

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I'll then go bud Light. But mikel I'm not gonna lie.
I don't buy Michele Ultra for the house, but there's
certain places, like if they've got Miller Cores or Michelob
but as like the only options for draft, then I'll
go Michelob. Not my favorite, but certainly it gets the
job done, all right. So this story yesterday is for

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those who don't know this, and John, you know this
just because of our time working together prior to us
being paired here on eight forty. But I am fascinated
by prison escapes. I'm fascinated by prison in general, just
prison documentaries, prison shows like they just fascinate me.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
If anything, it.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Keeps me well aware that I need to be on
the right side of the law because I would not
do well behind bars. But there was an inmate that
escaped in Ohio, that is back behind bars and he
was captured last night here in Louisville by the FBI.
Jerry Cooper, accused of attempted murder, was taken into custody
late last night here in Louisville by the FBI. He

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and another inmate, Roy Butler, escaped from the Brown County
Adult the tension facility in Ohio by breaking a window
and scaling a fence. Butler was recaptured within twenty four hours,
but Cooper managed to stay on the run for five days.
Authority described him as armed and dangerous, with multiple sidings
reported during the manhunt. So a couple from Ohio has
also been arrested for allegedly assisting Cooper, but the details

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of their role is not known just yet. But apparently
they got on a stolen a stolen boat, a stolen
paddle boat I believe it was, and they made their
way across the Ohio River and they were out on
the run for a little while, but not too long.
Against The other inmate was captured within twenty four hours,
so he didn't have much of a pursuit. But this one,
Jerry Cooper, gone for about five days and he ended

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up making his way to Louisville. I just if this
is what there's a show that they don't make it anymore,
but I wish they did. It was on Investigation Discovery
John and it was called out almost got away with it, okay,
And it was so fascinating to hear one how people
were able to escape and how they were at times

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able to be on the run so long. And it's
just more often than not, it wasn't some big who
would have ever thought they couldn't Like we're talking Shaw
Shank redemption here. These guys just took advantage of somebody
getting complacent that worked within the prison, and they took
advantage of it. They knew that they you sit there
long enough, you can spend some time thinking about, okay,

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where is there a vulnerable spot for me to potentially
take a risk and try to get out. And a
lot of those who were able to escape, that's that's
how it ends up happening.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
But the little things.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
That they don't even think about that get them caught,
that's what that's what fascinates me. So again last night
here in louisve of the FBI tracked down a guy
who was on the run. And I would also just
love to to to know the mindset of the person
that's on the run, because you know, you're clearly fearful.
You're probably not even able to sleep because you're just
like paranoid as can be that they're gonna get you,

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and you want to get as far away as possible,
create some distance. But once you get to like day four,
you're probably thinking, I don't know, maybe I'm good. Yeah,
But the second you get comfortable, that's when they're going
to get you. All right, quick break, We've got trafficking
weather updates on the way right here on news Radio eight.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Forty Whas six forty eight.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Here at news Radio eight forty whas Kentucky and his
morning news coffee and company with you. Thanks for hanging
out with us. So the TikTok platform is staying alive
here in America. I never really felt like it was
going to go away completely, but we were getting down
to of course, another extension needed, and they did sign
another extension. But it sounds like there is now an
actual plan as far as how they're going to keep

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this very popular social media app available to us here
in the United States. So the White House laying out
the details that is the plan to save TikTok by
restructuring US operations under a new ownership model. So again,
there's some national security concerns with TikTok, which has led
to this being a situation for a while now. And

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one thing that I've always mentioned, I've probably overemphasized it,
but it's rare that this wasn't really a this wasn't
a divided thing. Nobody pushed back on what TikTok was
able to get from us by us using their platform,
meaning nobody's acting as if we should be giving them
the access to what they have access to. I won't
pretend to know how any of that works. It's way

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over my head as far as just the technological component,
but nobody's disputing it. It's just, OK, how do we
get around it? And the thought of ByteDance, who owns TikTok,
just up and selling it was never realistic, But I
guess they found a work around. A joint venture here
that's going to be created where there's going to be
American ownership here here in the United States and board control,

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so Oracle is going to be responsible for securing the
platform and that is monitoring TikTok's algorithm to prevent misuse
of uh misuse or foreign influence. So again, the algorithm
is the secret sauce. We talked about this a lot yesterday.
There is no platform that I'm familiar with as far
as social media that, as far as algorithm can can

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dial up exactly what it is that you that you
want even before you know that you want it. And
another another factor is that in this speak, this is
this is another thing that makes TikTok different than the others.
So a lot of times when you go to Facebook,
Instagram x Snapchat, you'll see clearly a national brand ad

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or even a local ad that somebody bought. Like let's
just say there's you know, a big, a big company
here in town. They know that there's people on TikTok.
They want to reach them. You can purchase ads through,
you can do campaigns through TikTok directly. But really, the
the the the the algorithm makes it to where the
the biggest use for advertising is is on more of

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like a local creator level, and that just gives the
power to those that are the creators. And you don't
have that right like Instagram, Facebook, you got to you're
not getting much tried. Things can organically go viral, and
those who have the ability to do that are gifted.
But sometimes it's just luck. You want to really boost
your viewership and your reach with those platforms, you have

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to pay up with TikTok, you don't really have to
do that. You can or you can just find your niche,
put creative, compelling content that that that is catered to
that niche and you can.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
You can.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
This guy's the limit for you as far as doing business.
So I'm excited to see that it's staying. But again,
I know a lot of people have yet to really
experience TikTok and to say that you're missing out might
be a stretch. But I love it, I really do.
All right, quick break trafficking, weather updates on the way.
We've got sports with Scott as well right here on
news Radio forty whas