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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is six so five here in news Radio eight
forty WHAS. Happy Friday to youa Kentucky Anda. Thank you
for hanging out with us. Don't forget take us with
you wherever you go. Listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Also listen live at WHAS dot com. Full cruise here today,
Nick Coffee. That's me. I hope you knew. If not,
my ego is not hurt. But now you know, and
I hope you stick with us. You know the man,
the one and only John Alden, he's here with us.
(00:21):
He's I mean, are you ready for tomorrow? For your Hoosiers.
I'm living vicariously through you because I'm ready every week.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm very confident after the win, and then as the
week goes on, getting ready for the next game, I
begin to like have that self doubt in my team
as I typically do, and that's probably where I'm at
right now. But I think I'm confident that my Hoosiers
can get it done.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was two years ago John and I made the
trip up to Indianapolis to watch Louisville and Indiana play
in Lucas Soil Stadium. That's right, and I was doing
social media content at the time doing interviews in the
stadium with Indiana fans, LOUISLL fans and Indiana fans. There
was no identity as far as a football fan base.
There were mostly fans there, and I shouldn't say mostly,
(01:02):
but a lot of fans there wearing basketball gear, which
isn't crazy, but you know it was.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Or a Michael PENNOCKX Jersey, a player who was not
on your team anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And they had like I mean, I mean, they had
no confidence, and I get it, like they didn't have
a whole lot of success in previous years and things
weren't looking good in the Tom Allen air, and of
course it was his last year. But to think about
the different world now compared to two years ago really
is insane. And I've seen I've seen the growth, and
(01:31):
I've seen John, you know, come to life as a
who's your fan? But for what it's worth, you you
were an Indiana football fan.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Before it was the cool thing to do. Yeah, I
started watching games during what was the Bill Lynch era.
He didn't He started off as an interim head coach
for a coach away Terry Hepner, and then I mean
there was really no real success until a couple of
years under Tom Allen that was a flash in the pan,
and here we are with Kurt Signetti with unprecedented success.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It is it's I think of all the stories, storylines
in college football in the last year and some change,
this is one of them. Because I don't I can't
think of a comparison. Now. Again, it is just one season,
and you know, we'll see just how sustainable it is.
But I think it is going to be sustainable as
far as just clearly being successful now. Making it to
(02:22):
the playoff every year easier said than done, and they
may have down years.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Signetti. I mean, if he keeps winning, he's going to
get opportunities elsewhere and he'll have some decisions to make.
But I just I really never envisioned a scenario where
Indiana football would be where they are right now. And
it's awesome because I said this yesterday, me and John
we're talking off the air. Indiana is a huge has
(02:48):
a huge fan base. I mean, their alumni basi is humongous.
They've got alum all across the planet and in basketball,
clearly they have a lot of tradition and they're always
going to have support not not not had a lot
of success in the grand scheme of things recently as
far as what they used to have. But they're a
basketball school, they're a basketball fan base. But when you've
(03:09):
got that mini fans and you get football rolling, like,
it's not a shocker that they're going to have sellouts
and and and and it went from being sort of
something that was just a casual thing that maybe you'd
go to a game to to hang out for a
half and then go get drunk in the parking lotter
hit up, hit up, mother nse pizza. Yeah, kill Roy's right,
That's just that's just what it was. And now they,
(03:31):
I mean, they they they have some life, and it's
it's really cool to see because there's really no I mean,
if you're an Indiana football fan and you're old enough
to be John's grandpa, I mean, I'm sure you can
reference some years that were that were successful for the standard,
But in the first year of the expanded college Football Playoff,
Indiana made it. If I woke up from a coma,
(03:51):
I would say, there's no scenario that happened. What in
the world did Nick Saban leave Alabama to go to Indiana?
Like what how did we get here? And it's not
Saban's to Saban disciple, and that is Kurt Signetti. I
feel like I cut a promo there, like I'm like,
I'm I'm I'm voicing a documentary about Kurt Signetti or
something I got say.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Part of me, though, is rooting for Kaylin to boor
to continues to do. I mean, not that he's had
great success in his first year in a few games,
but if that Alabama job opened up, I do worry.
I mean, there's there's more than one job that I
worry about Signetti would taking or would take. But I
can't see him passing up that opportunity, especially when he
is a Saban disciple as you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know what I think, I think Kaylen de bores thinks.
I think he doesn't have the zest for that job.
He No, he does not have the charisma, he does
not have the and I don't know looks taking them
for saving that good luck. But there's something that there's
some type I can't you know, I don't want to
give you one of the cliches, the it factor or
you know, the and I've already given you some of
(04:47):
them as far as just charisma, But I mean he
just to me, he does not make out.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Have the Alabama brand part of him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I feel like, and I mean, if that makes sense,
I think what he did at Washington was certain only.
I mean, he did well.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah to the runner, you're a national runner up, but
I just I think you got to have some You
gotta have something about you as far as personality to
succeed at a place like that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I don't mean succeed like save and nobody's gonna
do that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But I learn a lot about them when they face
Georgia this.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Week, absolutely, and it's gonna if that game is ugly.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, I'm taking Georgia minus two and a half.
That feels like easy money. But maybe you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I'm with you. I'm totally with you. I'm right
there with you, all right. Coming up on the other side,
we'll talk about the executive order that was signed by
Trump to pave the way for this new TikTok deal
where it's gonna stay here, but there are gonna be
some changes to it. When it comes to the algorithm.
We can certainly get into that in a lot more
right here in News Radio eight forty whas It's six
(05:46):
eighteen here News Radio eight forty whas Happy Friday, Sea,
thanks for hanging out with us. So the future of
TikTok here in America has been a big conversation the
last really the last year or so, as clearly there
was some that needed to be done, and it sounds
like that has actually happened now. So President Trump announced
a major move yesterday that involves TikTok aiming to bring
(06:08):
the platform fully under US control. I mean, it'll be
fully under US control in the United States, but not
fully as a company. That's that's not the case. But anyways,
the executive order is tied to a deal that would
transfer TikTok's ownership to US investors to where again this
(06:29):
side in the United States, there's going to be some control,
most notably when it comes to the algorithm. So Vice
President JD. Vance said. The agreement insures TikTok's algorithm will
come under American oversight, with US with the US version
valued at fourteen billion dollars. So the Chinese president approved
(06:49):
this deal, according to Trump, and they've yet to publicly
announce it in Beijing. But this is the exact thing
that I guess needed to happen in order for it
to still exist here as as far as a social
media platform that you can use, and clearly there's going
to be some and what those changes are, I think
it remains to be seen. What we do know is
(07:09):
Oracle is confirmed as one of the investors and they
are going to be a part of just what it
looks like here in America. But here's jd Vance talking
a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We really couldn't have done this without the President actually
ushering this deal over the finish line. There was some
resistance on the Chinese side, but the fundamental thing that
we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep
TikTok operating, but we also wanted to make sure that
we protected Americans data privacy as required by law, both
because it's the right thing to do, but also because
it's a legal requirement of the law that was.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Passed last year by Congress. So we think that we
were able to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Of course, we're going to keep on working at it,
but this deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok,
but actually use it with more confidence than they had
in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I have nothing but confidence and TikTok not only with data,
but with my brain know my brain better than I
know my brain, and I kind of have now realized
that that's actually what makes it a social media platform
that I that I do. I mean, it's catered to me,
and I feel like it's catered to anybody who uses
(08:13):
it because it has clearly not only the information from
your device needed to give you in the algorithm on
your timeline, what you what you would want to see,
even though you may not even realize it, but I'm
telling you, something will pop up in my brain and
I'll pull out that app and it'll it's whatever was
in my brain will then soon be on the on
(08:34):
the feed, which is scary, is you know what? But hey,
it's led to me using that using that app more
than I probably should. But for those worried about TikTok
going away the final step here as far as keeping
that from happening, it sounds like that's taking place. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We've got a sports update.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Coming your way here. It's a few minutes from Scott Fitzgerald,
Travick and Weather on the way. Also another news update
coming up with John Shannon at about six thirty and
then there's some new words being added to the Merriam
Webster Dictionary, five thousand words. We'll talk about some of
those coming up here at about twenty minutes on news
radioaated forty whas.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It is six thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Here on a Friday morning news radio eight forty whas
coffee and company with you. So there are some new words,
in fact, five thousand words being added to the Merriam
Webster Dictionary, and it's a rare full revision that they're
releasing in the twelfth edition of its Collegiate Dictionary that'll
be coming out in November, and again more than four
(09:33):
thousand words are going to be added. Some of these
words I'm not real familiar with with, but I guess
maybe that just speaks to me getting a little bit older,
not being as as in the know with slang that
I guess I mean, is it considered slang if it
ends up in the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Doesn't sound like scipity abit Skibity's one of them. What
did you just remember schibity toilet? That was one of
the weird things that kids were saying a couple of
years ago. I don't even know what it means. I
hope I can say it over there. I'm pretty sure
that's it doesn't mean anything like that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bad. So here's some modern lingo. Dumb phone, dumb phone,
we heard that one, No clue, ghost kitchen. No, don't
know what that is either, Dad, bod that's that that's
going in the dictionary.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dad, These are this is? Those are phrases. Why are
these going in the dictionary? Those are two separates.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't I don't know what I mean, Why.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Do we need this in the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's a good question. Good question. Uh, Cultural trends farmed
a table, uh, hard pass, adulting, cancel culture not not surprised.
That's their internet slang, doom scroll. I know what that is.
W f H. I know what w t F is.
W f H. I'm not quite sure what's for now?
(10:49):
Let me see. Yeah, I mean it's so work from
home and that. But I've never, I've never, I've never
heard a single person say, yeah, I'm I'm a w
f H employee.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Have you No?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I I mean, work from home is not it's not
a real taxing process to say work from home. Those
three words RIZ.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That of course is RIZ. I would say riz.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is one of the the words that it took off
enough to where I feel like most people have at
least heard it being referenced. If you haven't, you know,
you're not really missing out. But it's a slang term
short for charisma, which riz. If you've got riz, you
have charisma. And now riz will be in the Merriam
Webster Dictionary. What else do we have?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Sidi?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'm not sure these are actual. I mean, these these
aren't neither like these are words, but like.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This is just a pop culture phrase dictionary.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, and this is, by the way, is the first
hard copy update in twenty two years to this dictionary.
Do you know what doom scroll is?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, it's when you can't stop like going through.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
TikTok or I'm a doom scroll victim. Yeah, I mean
I guess I'm it's my own, it's my own, it's
my own demise. I'm self destructive and that's how I
became a victim of doom scrolling. But I do it
a lot, and uh, there's no doubt it. It is
a It is something that more often than not, following
a doom scroll session, I don't feel like I'm in
(12:18):
a in a more positive, uh state of mind than
I was prior to starting Doom. Exactly, it's a real thing.
It is, Uh, it is real for sure. So yeah,
who's like, who's buying a new dictionary? Like, obviously they'll
be available in libraries and schools and whatnot. But when
I when I when I read first hard copy update
in twenty two years, I mean, I guess hard copy
(12:41):
books are still a thing for a lot of people.
I mean, you can read a book digitally or an audiobook,
but I get it. I mean, if I was going
to read a book, I haven't read a book in
a while, I would want to have one that I
can physically hold in my hand. But I mean, I
can't remember the last time I saw a dictionary somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, me neither.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh And And I mean, is it also not a
little surprising though they haven't actually had a legitimate update
in a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I meuse, who at Miriam Webster is like, Man, we
got to do this, We got to putting it all
for so long.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I gotta add, dad, bod, we've got to get cancel
culture in there, because right now, I mean, with with
the internet, do we need a dictionary? I mean you can,
you can find out what words mean easily regardless of
having a dictionary not and of course dictionaries online too,
right Like, I mean, that's if you need to utilize
(13:31):
what a dictionary provides. I'd say nine out of ten
people are a are just firing, pulling out their phone
and getting getting out Google or something. See how five
thousand new words are going to be added. So again,
some of these I'm not familiar with. Others I am,
but I'm not quite sure if they're if it's a
necessary thing to have those those in the dictionary. But
(13:52):
that's just me, all right. We've got a quick update
of traffic in weather coming up, so don't go anywhere,
give it luck with us right here on Who's Radio
eight forty whas it is six forty seven here News
Radio eight forty whas. We've got another traffick and weather
update coming your way here in just a few minutes.
There's an accident sixty five north at Fern Valley that
has caused them some delays, so we'll get you caught
(14:13):
up on the roadways here shortly. Also, we've got another
sports update coming your way, and as always, as we
hit seven o'clock. We'll bring in Dwight Mitchell LL and
p D spokesman who's going to join us here in
studio real quickly though. Yesterday both Mitch Barnhardt and Josh Hurd,
the athletic directors of course at U of L and UK,
they were speaking in Frankfurt to state leaders to discuss
a new federal nil measure called the Score Act and
(14:36):
what this would do. It would set nationwide rules for name,
image and likeness deals, something that is clearly needed as
far as just regulation, having guardrails. And I don't have
a ton of sympathy. I say this all the time.
I don't have a ton of sympathy for coaches when
it comes to just having to navigate different changes in
I mean, how many of you go to work every
day and you realize something within your job has changed
(15:00):
it's life. And these individuals, these coaches that complain about it,
they sometimes are the highest paid employees in their state,
so having to make some changes and adjustment, I have
no sympathy, but I will acknowledge it is really hard
to navigate when you really don't even know what you're
allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do,
and that's sort of where things are right now in
(15:21):
college athletics. And it's a whole different story as far
as how they got there. The NCAA there archaic amateurism
model blew up in their face and now it's like
a puzzle that got blown up and putting it back
together is seemingly impossible. So it's the ultimate unknown, meaning
the future of college athletics. There's so much uncertainty, but
(15:43):
some type of regulation is clearly needed, and I guess
that's what the Score Act is aiming for. So both
Heard and Barnhardt also updated leaders on Kentucky Senate built
three signed earlier this year Babashir, which allows schools to
directly share revenue with athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That is that's the.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Biggest game changer, in my opinion, in the history of
college sports, and it still is tied to just this
new world of nil and transfer portal, but universities sharing
their revenue. It hasn't hit just yet, but it will. It'll,
I think, be the first real visual, impossible to not
(16:20):
notice kind of thing when it comes to college sports.
Because a twenty million dollar bill annually that you now
have to pay with no added income from this is
a scary thing. So the big schools like u of
L and UK they're going to navigate through it. They're
going to be okay. But clearly there's already some changes
that have taken place as far as just trimming costs
(16:43):
and also new revenue streams that you didn't ever think
would be a thing. I mean, for example, you have
now a report from I think this is from CBS
Sports that college athletics is expected to approve legislation allowing
uniforms to feature sponsorship of patches on college football and
basketball jerseys. So again, these are things that you're now
(17:05):
mindful of because you've got to bring in as much
revenue as possible. That's always the goal, right, But now
again twenty million dollars every year no matter what, and
it's actually gonna go up because the revenue is gonna
go up and you're gonna have to share more at
some point. So that that is that it's not new information.
But when we get there, I think you'll see a
lot of changes. But anyways, barn Harden heard here's a
(17:26):
little clip of them discussing the future of the rivalry,
because that, of course has been a big conversation with
the SEC going to nine, now the ACC going to nine,
will the two teams still play? And really, of course
they're gonna play. I mean now that you're required in
both leagues to play one non conference opponent against the
opponent that's from a power conference elsewhere, I mean it
(17:48):
would The only way that this would not happen is
if they literally one of the sides clearly just decided
they're scared to play, which I don't think either are.
And clearly the state benefits from having this rivalry game.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
It's good for our communities, it's good for our financial
economic structures where we all live. We know what it
means for the city of Lexington to have people coming
in here to eat our restaurants and to stay in
our hotels.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We haven't even talked about it, and from my end,
I didn't feel like I needed to because I'm just
assuming that we're going to play every year because it's
extremely important to the commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So I kind of feel silly even taking the bait
about a scenario where they wouldn't play. I guess it
was possible, but it would have been It would have
been a really tough, tough look if Barnhardt or Heard
for that matter, which I don't think he heardouldever consider.
But if Barnhart or Stoops even decided, yeah, let's just
not do it, that would tarnish I think whatever legacy
(18:43):
they're going to have with their fan base, because fans
want rivalries. That's what makes sports great. That's what I mean.
Without Louisville, Kentucky, the rivalry being what it is in
basketball and people caring as much as they do lunatic level,
which I say that in a complimentary way. I'm not
sure if I would have ever had an opportunity to
get into what I'm doing now. So I can't imagine
the world where they don't play each other every year,
(19:04):
and I don't see that ever changing. All Right, quick
update of Traffick and Weather. We'll get Scott in here
for another sports update, and again Dwight Mitchell with us
here in studio to get the seven o'clock hour started
on News Radio eight forty whas
It is six so five here in news Radio eight
forty WHAS. Happy Friday to youa Kentucky Anda. Thank you
for hanging out with us. Don't forget take us with
you wherever you go. Listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Also listen live at WHAS dot com. Full cruise here today,
Nick Coffee. That's me. I hope you knew. If not,
my ego is not hurt. But now you know, and
I hope you stick with us. You know the man,
the one and only John Alden, he's here with us.
(00:21):
He's I mean, are you ready for tomorrow? For your Hoosiers.
I'm living vicariously through you because I'm ready every week.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm very confident after the win, and then as the
week goes on, getting ready for the next game, I
begin to like have that self doubt in my team
as I typically do, and that's probably where I'm at
right now. But I think I'm confident that my Hoosiers
can get it done.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was two years ago John and I made the
trip up to Indianapolis to watch Louisville and Indiana play
in Lucas Soil Stadium. That's right, and I was doing
social media content at the time doing interviews in the
stadium with Indiana fans, LOUISLL fans and Indiana fans. There
was no identity as far as a football fan base.
There were mostly fans there, and I shouldn't say mostly,
(01:02):
but a lot of fans there wearing basketball gear, which
isn't crazy, but you know it was.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Or a Michael PENNOCKX Jersey, a player who was not
on your team anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And they had like I mean, I mean, they had
no confidence, and I get it, like they didn't have
a whole lot of success in previous years and things
weren't looking good in the Tom Allen air, and of
course it was his last year. But to think about
the different world now compared to two years ago really
is insane. And I've seen I've seen the growth, and
(01:31):
I've seen John, you know, come to life as a
who's your fan? But for what it's worth, you you
were an Indiana football fan.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Before it was the cool thing to do. Yeah, I
started watching games during what was the Bill Lynch era.
He didn't He started off as an interim head coach
for a coach away Terry Hepner, and then I mean
there was really no real success until a couple of
years under Tom Allen that was a flash in the pan,
and here we are with Kurt Signetti with unprecedented success.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It is it's I think of all the stories, storylines
in college football in the last year and some change,
this is one of them. Because I don't I can't
think of a comparison. Now. Again, it is just one season,
and you know, we'll see just how sustainable it is.
But I think it is going to be sustainable as
far as just clearly being successful now. Making it to
(02:22):
the playoff every year easier said than done, and they
may have down years.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Signetti. I mean, if he keeps winning, he's going to
get opportunities elsewhere and he'll have some decisions to make.
But I just I really never envisioned a scenario where
Indiana football would be where they are right now. And
it's awesome because I said this yesterday, me and John
we're talking off the air. Indiana is a huge has
(02:48):
a huge fan base. I mean, their alumni basi is humongous.
They've got alum all across the planet and in basketball,
clearly they have a lot of tradition and they're always
going to have support not not not had a lot
of success in the grand scheme of things recently as
far as what they used to have. But they're a
basketball school, they're a basketball fan base. But when you've
(03:09):
got that mini fans and you get football rolling, like,
it's not a shocker that they're going to have sellouts
and and and and it went from being sort of
something that was just a casual thing that maybe you'd
go to a game to to hang out for a
half and then go get drunk in the parking lotter
hit up, hit up, mother nse pizza. Yeah, kill Roy's right,
That's just that's just what it was. And now they,
(03:31):
I mean, they they they have some life, and it's
it's really cool to see because there's really no I mean,
if you're an Indiana football fan and you're old enough
to be John's grandpa, I mean, I'm sure you can
reference some years that were that were successful for the standard,
But in the first year of the expanded college Football Playoff,
Indiana made it. If I woke up from a coma,
(03:51):
I would say, there's no scenario that happened. What in
the world did Nick Saban leave Alabama to go to Indiana?
Like what how did we get here? And it's not
Saban's to Saban disciple, and that is Kurt Signetti. I
feel like I cut a promo there, like I'm like,
I'm I'm I'm voicing a documentary about Kurt Signetti or
something I got say.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Part of me, though, is rooting for Kaylin to boor
to continues to do. I mean, not that he's had
great success in his first year in a few games,
but if that Alabama job opened up, I do worry.
I mean, there's there's more than one job that I
worry about Signetti would taking or would take. But I
can't see him passing up that opportunity, especially when he
is a Saban disciple as you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know what I think, I think Kaylen de bores thinks.
I think he doesn't have the zest for that job.
He No, he does not have the charisma, he does
not have the and I don't know looks taking them
for saving that good luck. But there's something that there's
some type I can't you know, I don't want to
give you one of the cliches, the it factor or
you know, the and I've already given you some of
(04:47):
them as far as just charisma, But I mean he
just to me, he does not make out.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Have the Alabama brand part of him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I feel like, and I mean, if that makes sense,
I think what he did at Washington was certain only.
I mean, he did well.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah to the runner, you're a national runner up, but
I just I think you got to have some You
gotta have something about you as far as personality to
succeed at a place like that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I don't mean succeed like save and nobody's gonna
do that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But I learn a lot about them when they face
Georgia this.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Week, absolutely, and it's gonna if that game is ugly.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, I'm taking Georgia minus two and a half.
That feels like easy money. But maybe you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I'm with you. I'm totally with you. I'm right
there with you, all right. Coming up on the other side,
we'll talk about the executive order that was signed by
Trump to pave the way for this new TikTok deal
where it's gonna stay here, but there are gonna be
some changes to it. When it comes to the algorithm.
We can certainly get into that in a lot more
right here in News Radio eight forty whas It's six
(05:46):
eighteen here News Radio eight forty whas Happy Friday, Sea,
thanks for hanging out with us. So the future of
TikTok here in America has been a big conversation the
last really the last year or so, as clearly there
was some that needed to be done, and it sounds
like that has actually happened now. So President Trump announced
a major move yesterday that involves TikTok aiming to bring
(06:08):
the platform fully under US control. I mean, it'll be
fully under US control in the United States, but not
fully as a company. That's that's not the case. But anyways,
the executive order is tied to a deal that would
transfer TikTok's ownership to US investors to where again this
(06:29):
side in the United States, there's going to be some control,
most notably when it comes to the algorithm. So Vice
President JD. Vance said. The agreement insures TikTok's algorithm will
come under American oversight, with US with the US version
valued at fourteen billion dollars. So the Chinese president approved
(06:49):
this deal, according to Trump, and they've yet to publicly
announce it in Beijing. But this is the exact thing
that I guess needed to happen in order for it
to still exist here as as far as a social
media platform that you can use, and clearly there's going
to be some and what those changes are, I think
it remains to be seen. What we do know is
(07:09):
Oracle is confirmed as one of the investors and they
are going to be a part of just what it
looks like here in America. But here's jd Vance talking
a little bit more about that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We really couldn't have done this without the President actually
ushering this deal over the finish line. There was some
resistance on the Chinese side, but the fundamental thing that
we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep
TikTok operating, but we also wanted to make sure that
we protected Americans data privacy as required by law, both
because it's the right thing to do, but also because
it's a legal requirement of the law that was.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Passed last year by Congress. So we think that we
were able to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Of course, we're going to keep on working at it,
but this deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok,
but actually use it with more confidence than they had
in the past.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I have nothing but confidence and TikTok not only with data,
but with my brain know my brain better than I
know my brain, and I kind of have now realized
that that's actually what makes it a social media platform
that I that I do. I mean, it's catered to me,
and I feel like it's catered to anybody who uses
(08:13):
it because it has clearly not only the information from
your device needed to give you in the algorithm on
your timeline, what you what you would want to see,
even though you may not even realize it, but I'm
telling you, something will pop up in my brain and
I'll pull out that app and it'll it's whatever was
in my brain will then soon be on the on
(08:34):
the feed, which is scary, is you know what? But hey,
it's led to me using that using that app more
than I probably should. But for those worried about TikTok
going away the final step here as far as keeping
that from happening, it sounds like that's taking place. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We've got a sports update.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Coming your way here. It's a few minutes from Scott Fitzgerald,
Travick and Weather on the way. Also another news update
coming up with John Shannon at about six thirty and
then there's some new words being added to the Merriam
Webster Dictionary, five thousand words. We'll talk about some of
those coming up here at about twenty minutes on news
radioaated forty whas.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It is six thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Here on a Friday morning news radio eight forty whas
coffee and company with you. So there are some new words,
in fact, five thousand words being added to the Merriam
Webster Dictionary, and it's a rare full revision that they're
releasing in the twelfth edition of its Collegiate Dictionary that'll
be coming out in November, and again more than four
(09:33):
thousand words are going to be added. Some of these
words I'm not real familiar with with, but I guess
maybe that just speaks to me getting a little bit older,
not being as as in the know with slang that
I guess I mean, is it considered slang if it
ends up in the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Doesn't sound like scipity abit Skibity's one of them. What
did you just remember schibity toilet? That was one of
the weird things that kids were saying a couple of
years ago. I don't even know what it means. I
hope I can say it over there. I'm pretty sure
that's it doesn't mean anything like that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bad. So here's some modern lingo. Dumb phone, dumb phone,
we heard that one, No clue, ghost kitchen. No, don't
know what that is either, Dad, bod that's that that's
going in the dictionary.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dad, These are this is? Those are phrases. Why are
these going in the dictionary? Those are two separates.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't I don't know what I mean, Why.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Do we need this in the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's a good question. Good question. Uh, Cultural trends farmed
a table, uh, hard pass, adulting, cancel culture not not surprised.
That's their internet slang, doom scroll. I know what that is.
W f H. I know what w t F is.
W f H. I'm not quite sure what's for now?
(10:49):
Let me see. Yeah, I mean it's so work from
home and that. But I've never, I've never, I've never
heard a single person say, yeah, I'm I'm a w
f H employee.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Have you No?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I I mean, work from home is not it's not
a real taxing process to say work from home. Those
three words RIZ.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That of course is RIZ. I would say riz.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is one of the the words that it took off
enough to where I feel like most people have at
least heard it being referenced. If you haven't, you know,
you're not really missing out. But it's a slang term
short for charisma, which riz. If you've got riz, you
have charisma. And now riz will be in the Merriam
Webster Dictionary. What else do we have?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Sidi?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'm not sure these are actual. I mean, these these
aren't neither like these are words, but like.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This is just a pop culture phrase dictionary.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, and this is, by the way, is the first
hard copy update in twenty two years to this dictionary.
Do you know what doom scroll is?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, it's when you can't stop like going through.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
TikTok or I'm a doom scroll victim. Yeah, I mean
I guess I'm it's my own, it's my own, it's
my own demise. I'm self destructive and that's how I
became a victim of doom scrolling. But I do it
a lot, and uh, there's no doubt it. It is
a It is something that more often than not, following
a doom scroll session, I don't feel like I'm in
(12:18):
a in a more positive, uh state of mind than
I was prior to starting Doom. Exactly, it's a real thing.
It is, Uh, it is real for sure. So yeah,
who's like, who's buying a new dictionary? Like, obviously they'll
be available in libraries and schools and whatnot. But when
I when I when I read first hard copy update
in twenty two years, I mean, I guess hard copy
(12:41):
books are still a thing for a lot of people.
I mean, you can read a book digitally or an audiobook,
but I get it. I mean, if I was going
to read a book, I haven't read a book in
a while, I would want to have one that I
can physically hold in my hand. But I mean, I
can't remember the last time I saw a dictionary somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, me neither.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh And And I mean, is it also not a
little surprising though they haven't actually had a legitimate update
in a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I meuse, who at Miriam Webster is like, Man, we
got to do this, We got to putting it all
for so long.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I gotta add, dad, bod, we've got to get cancel
culture in there, because right now, I mean, with with
the internet, do we need a dictionary? I mean you can,
you can find out what words mean easily regardless of
having a dictionary not and of course dictionaries online too,
right Like, I mean, that's if you need to utilize
(13:31):
what a dictionary provides. I'd say nine out of ten
people are a are just firing, pulling out their phone
and getting getting out Google or something. See how five
thousand new words are going to be added. So again,
some of these I'm not familiar with. Others I am,
but I'm not quite sure if they're if it's a
necessary thing to have those those in the dictionary. But
(13:52):
that's just me, all right. We've got a quick update
of traffic in weather coming up, so don't go anywhere,
give it luck with us right here on Who's Radio
eight forty whas it is six forty seven here News
Radio eight forty whas. We've got another traffick and weather
update coming your way here in just a few minutes.
There's an accident sixty five north at Fern Valley that
has caused them some delays, so we'll get you caught
(14:13):
up on the roadways here shortly. Also, we've got another
sports update coming your way, and as always, as we
hit seven o'clock. We'll bring in Dwight Mitchell LL and
p D spokesman who's going to join us here in
studio real quickly though. Yesterday both Mitch Barnhardt and Josh Hurd,
the athletic directors of course at U of L and UK,
they were speaking in Frankfurt to state leaders to discuss
a new federal nil measure called the Score Act and
(14:36):
what this would do. It would set nationwide rules for name,
image and likeness deals, something that is clearly needed as
far as just regulation, having guardrails. And I don't have
a ton of sympathy. I say this all the time.
I don't have a ton of sympathy for coaches when
it comes to just having to navigate different changes in
I mean, how many of you go to work every
day and you realize something within your job has changed
(15:00):
it's life. And these individuals, these coaches that complain about it,
they sometimes are the highest paid employees in their state,
so having to make some changes and adjustment, I have
no sympathy, but I will acknowledge it is really hard
to navigate when you really don't even know what you're
allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do,
and that's sort of where things are right now in
(15:21):
college athletics. And it's a whole different story as far
as how they got there. The NCAA there archaic amateurism
model blew up in their face and now it's like
a puzzle that got blown up and putting it back
together is seemingly impossible. So it's the ultimate unknown, meaning
the future of college athletics. There's so much uncertainty, but
(15:43):
some type of regulation is clearly needed, and I guess
that's what the Score Act is aiming for. So both
Heard and Barnhardt also updated leaders on Kentucky Senate built
three signed earlier this year Babashir, which allows schools to
directly share revenue with athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That is that's the.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Biggest game changer, in my opinion, in the history of
college sports, and it still is tied to just this
new world of nil and transfer portal, but universities sharing
their revenue. It hasn't hit just yet, but it will. It'll,
I think, be the first real visual, impossible to not
(16:20):
notice kind of thing when it comes to college sports.
Because a twenty million dollar bill annually that you now
have to pay with no added income from this is
a scary thing. So the big schools like u of
L and UK they're going to navigate through it. They're
going to be okay. But clearly there's already some changes
that have taken place as far as just trimming costs
(16:43):
and also new revenue streams that you didn't ever think
would be a thing. I mean, for example, you have
now a report from I think this is from CBS
Sports that college athletics is expected to approve legislation allowing
uniforms to feature sponsorship of patches on college football and
basketball jerseys. So again, these are things that you're now
(17:05):
mindful of because you've got to bring in as much
revenue as possible. That's always the goal, right, But now
again twenty million dollars every year no matter what, and
it's actually gonna go up because the revenue is gonna
go up and you're gonna have to share more at
some point. So that that is that it's not new information.
But when we get there, I think you'll see a
lot of changes. But anyways, barn Harden heard here's a
(17:26):
little clip of them discussing the future of the rivalry,
because that, of course has been a big conversation with
the SEC going to nine, now the ACC going to nine,
will the two teams still play? And really, of course
they're gonna play. I mean now that you're required in
both leagues to play one non conference opponent against the
opponent that's from a power conference elsewhere, I mean it
(17:48):
would The only way that this would not happen is
if they literally one of the sides clearly just decided
they're scared to play, which I don't think either are.
And clearly the state benefits from having this rivalry game.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
It's good for our communities, it's good for our financial
economic structures where we all live. We know what it
means for the city of Lexington to have people coming
in here to eat our restaurants and to stay in
our hotels.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We haven't even talked about it, and from my end,
I didn't feel like I needed to because I'm just
assuming that we're going to play every year because it's
extremely important to the commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So I kind of feel silly even taking the bait
about a scenario where they wouldn't play. I guess it
was possible, but it would have been It would have
been a really tough, tough look if Barnhardt or Heard
for that matter, which I don't think he heardouldever consider.
But if Barnhart or Stoops even decided, yeah, let's just
not do it, that would tarnish I think whatever legacy
(18:43):
they're going to have with their fan base, because fans
want rivalries. That's what makes sports great. That's what I mean.
Without Louisville, Kentucky, the rivalry being what it is in
basketball and people caring as much as they do lunatic level,
which I say that in a complimentary way. I'm not
sure if I would have ever had an opportunity to
get into what I'm doing now. So I can't imagine
the world where they don't play each other every year,
(19:04):
and I don't see that ever changing. All Right, quick
update of Traffick and Weather. We'll get Scott in here
for another sports update, and again Dwight Mitchell with us
here in studio to get the seven o'clock hour started
on News Radio eight forty whas
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