9.29: More Shootings - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, good morning, and welcome in Happy Monday. It
is coffee and company with you here on Kentucky and
his morning news news RADIOATE forty whas. That's right, another Monday.
Hopefully everybody had themselves a good weekend. Certainly a lot
to unpack from the weekend, although I will start with
I'm ready for the warm, summer like weather to be over,

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as we were just a couple of days away from
getting October underway. But it doesn't look like it's going anywhere.
I think this week is going to be well above
the average and eventually we'll get back to fall weather.
But I knew there would be some type of payback
that we had to be a part of on the
wrong end of it. Once it was like three weeks
almost I feel like I'm exaggerating, but at least two

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weeks where we had fall like weather. But that was
like a month ago, and now here we are almost
to October, and this weekend, I mean it felt like summer.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, don't look for a relief too, Nick from the
eight to fourteen day temperature out like maybe a little
bit past that, but right now we're going to be
above normal at least through the twelfth of October.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
And I was outside this weekend than I usually am.
Friday night, we had the Fall festival at my kid's school,
which was nice, but it didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Feel like fall.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I mean it was seven point thirty on a Friday
and it was still very warm. Saturday, my daughter had
a baseball game, and then yesterday back to back games
for my son for flag football. So that's probably why
I'm complaining, because I was outdoors than I usually am.
But man, I'm ready for some fall like weather. But
we had a I believe, well above the average yesterday,

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and I think really this week specifically, maybe later in
the week, it'll kind of cool down a little bit,
but the summer is it's not going away.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, we're not getting a relief. There's some hurricane activity
off the coast at the east coast. We're not getting
a relief from that eastern Kentucky maycy. But we're not
getting any relief from that, and like you said, eventually
it'll hit.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I remember those days.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I was right there with you. I used to announce
the football games at Saint Martha, and I just remember,
you know, summer just hanging on, and I'm like, come on,
give you.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
And then all of a sudden it came out of nowhere.
I went from shorts. Dude, I was freezing, I believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
And look I'm complaining yet I'm sure there are some
that are loving every second and it's holding onto the
warm weather.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Before it goes away for good.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
But when I see the Halloween decor everywhere, and at
times you'll see a visual rather it be a picture
or just maybe you're driving you know, you're driving home
and it's it's just late enough where the sun is
no longer out, and you see that those the crisp
leaves and the color of the trees. It looks like fall.
The visual is there, but the temperature just just is not.

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I think if I wasn't looking at all the Halloween
stuff going up all over my neighborhood, I wouldn't be
so eager for some fall temperatures. But no doubt, a
warm weekend and a warm week to get things started
a lot to get into.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
This morning, unfortunately, another awful situation over the weekend where
we had multiple mass shootings, one that took place at
a church in Michigan. We'll get the details of that,
I'm sure that's something we'll talk to Rory O'Neil about
coming up when he joins us around five point forty five.
And obviously this time of year on a Monday, a
lot to unpack from the world of sports, and we'll
certainly do that this morning. Scott's going to be busy

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as usually is. But how about last night? Have you
stayed up late? You you? I feel for you because
I can tell you this. I am someone who uh
I hate that you can have a tie in a
football game, hate it, And that's what you got last night,
two of the bigger brands in the NFL, of course,
a game that was very competitive because it went to overtime,

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only for it in in a forty forty tie between
the Packers and the Cowboys. Every time this happens, which
it's not that that common, it happens, but.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's relatively rare.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
In fact, it's probably really rare when you consider how
many games are played each week. But has anybody ever
in the history of the NFL after a tie felt satisfied,
felt as if, yeah, that's the way we should do it.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah we should just end it and nobody win. Yeah,
that sounds like a good idea. I'm all for that.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Who like who said, like, the NFL is unbelievably popular.
I mean, you can find critics of certain but those
people probably still consume the product that are really high
level because the NFL has no competition in this country
really with anything. But this is the stupidest thing ever,
and why not It would not take long for somebody

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to just to say, yeah, you know, we're not gonna
do that anymore.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Let's let's just have a kickoff.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I mean, like meaning like just see who can let's
have your kick or kick until somebody misses. Like ending
in a tie in American football is terrorism.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
It had a crime, I said, when they went to
this goofy overtime system that the NFL had. Take it
back to the old school days where you simply lined up.
And if I'm a defensive guy, I'm more defensive minded
than I am offensive. I prefer I prefer a good
defense to basketball and grass and an unpopular opinion, I
get it. But if I'm a defensive guy, let me

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line up and stop you, let me do my job.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Do anything other than this, I mean, this is stupid.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, they made this stupid overtime formula that you need
to go Russell Crow all beautiful to try to figure out,
and yet we still end up in a tie.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
So go back to old school, line it up and lets.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
The who benefits from this, right? I mean like maybe
the players have played too long, but they add games.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Every few years.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
They're not worried about players playing too much. The longer
you keep of you or the better it is for
your ratings. I mean, it's gonna spike if somebody knows, oh,
this game's going into triple overtime or double overtime, more
people are gonna tune in to watch.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well you think shootouts are popular in NHL.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I mean, it's just I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
And anytime we have it happened, I always ask who
chose this?

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Who's keeping this the thing?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Right? Right?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I feel bad for John Shann. I don't know if
he's stay up late, God bless him. If he did,
ah to stay up late and then not get a payoff,
you kid me.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
So anyways, that's only That's one of the many things
we got to talk about when it comes to sports
this morning, So stick with us. It's a Monday morning
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the iHeartRadio apps. So a tragic situation on Sunday morning
that I wish I could say these things would would
be real shockers and surprise because it's just something you
can't believe happened. You're in disbelief because of just how
unthinkable it is. There's always going to be an element
to that, at least I hope, but the surprise has

(06:23):
certainly worn off when it comes to mass shootings because
they happen far too often. Any occurrence is something that
should not happen. But these are things I feel like
that in a previous world would have been just something
that would stop you in your tracks. And now I
just don't know if that's the case, because again, the
amount of times it happens, it's just way more than

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it ever was, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down.
But eight injured, four dead in Michigan. It was about
ten thirty am yesterday. More than one hundred people were
attending a worship service when a gunman of forty year
old from Burton, Michigan, drove his vehicle through the church's
front doors, then fired several rounds from an assault rifle

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into the congregation before then setting the building on fire.
The ATF says that he may have used gasoline as
an accelerant, which would have led to the fire taken
off like it did. So police did confirm that four
people are dead. Two victims died from gunshot woods, two
more bodies were discovered after the fire was extinguished, and
at least eight additional people were injured. So Grand Blanc

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Township Police Chief William Rain called it quote an act
of targeted violence. The FBI, they've taken over the investigation,
and as these things typically play out, we'll learn more
about this twisted individual, and honestly, we're probably gonna hear
all about what his political beliefs were, and we'll try
to figure out any way possible to blame it on this.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Side or that side.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And that's just now society seemingly with a lot of
folks again hate to sound so you know, casual about it,
but that's I mean, as anybody can anybody say that
they'd be surprised if that's not what this turns into.
As far as just how this tragic situation, it's no
longer just about just something unthinkable, something unimaginable if it's

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you or someone you know or someone you love. But
the noise nationally will be defense mode for some if
there's the realization that this person had strong beliefs that
maybe tying with a certain political party, and then of
course it'll be weaponized and used against the other.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
That's just that's how we react to this stuff now.
So I'd be.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
You know, color be shocked if that's not how it
ends up, how it ends up planning out. But roy
O'Neil said to join us coming up here about five
forty five. Looking forward to catching up with him on
a variety of things. Also, we've got another trafficing weather
update coming your way right here right now. I'm not
sure if we've got any real major issues to start
the day. It doesn't look like we do, but if so,
we will certainly keep you updated throughout the morning here

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that's what we do. And what a what a loaded weekend.
When it comes to sports, we addressed the awful tie
that took place last night in the NFL. But obviously
a lot to react to from both Louisville, Kentucky and
Indiana actually this weekend in college football. And Bobby Patrino,
how about it? He is back head coaching at Arkansas. Yes,
it's the interim position because Sam Pittman was fired. But

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let's go back in time, ladies and gentlemen. Imagine me
telling you fifteen, sixteen years ago Bobby Patrino would be
coaching arkansaft football. You wouldn't believe me, no way, But
that's where we are, all right. Stick with us his
news radio eight forty Whas five point thirty five here
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(09:46):
and company with you.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
We've got the full crew here. You just heard John
Shannon Nick Coffee. That's me.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
The company made John old In alongside Scott'll be back
with sports at about twenty minutes. A busy, busy Monday
morning here. As we have a lot to react to.
But as you heard there, it is National Coffee Day.
And I'm someone who has yet to really ever include
coffee in my in my I mean, I've had, I've had.
I can now say that I've had a cup of coffee.
In fact that you should feel honored, John, you are

(10:11):
still the only person that has ever prepared me a
cup of coffee that I have consumed. Oh wow, completely,
it's just not you know, I've not acquired the taste
and I've never I guess really, I've never gotten to
a point where I feel like I really need it,
if that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Like you're more of an energy drink kind of guy, yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Doubt, And I've got a good balance as far as
knowing what will keep me from getting like a big
crash from an energy drink. And really, I only drink
one energy drink. There's not any others. I'm not somebody
that consumes a lot of them as far as just
different kinds. But the White Monster energy drink is something
that I'm probably relying upon, just like you guys are

(10:50):
relying upon coffee, because I think that's really what I mean. Again,
I'm an outsider, so what do I know. But I
think most people drink coffee every day, every morning for
a variety of reasons, but mostly because it's it's it's
a way to get going, it's a way to get
get energized and trust me, I rely on something different.
But I but I totally get it.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
But yeah, if I didn't have to go to betterly
like all of us here, I'd drink coffee at eight
o'clock at night, and I used to back whenever we
were on the afternoon show. But I can't obviously do
that anymore. That has to be for taste, right, It's more,
I think it's just the comfort of a warm drink.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think that's okay, that good. I mean, look, everybody's
got their own thing. For me.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
One of the I guess things that has kept me
from just wanting to jump in because I know a
lot of people my age weren't really it did. They
didn't have coffee as part of their morning routine until
they got a little bit older, and I've yet to
do that. But drinking warm stuff is always throws me
off for some reason. Okay, I'm not a big soup guy,
even though that's clearly a food more so than just

(11:48):
a drink. But yeah, warm liquid has just not really
ever been something I've been super comfortable with. But I
will say again, this is a badge of honor for you.
You're the only person who's given me a cup of
coffee that I that I could stomach, and it wasn't
you know, the taste wasn't great, but it also wasn't terrible,
and it got it got the job the job.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It gave me a.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Nice little boost, and it also made me have to
go to the bathroom. And I now know that a
lot of people that that is something that they're used to,
and also I guess appreciate about coffee because.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It keeps them regular, right, cleans you out a little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, So it's it's part of many, many people across
the world's morning routine. And today is your day to
shine because it's National Coffee Day here in the United
States and in Canada. And let's see the the there's
free cups and promotions going on, of course with different
different companies of course who celebrate. But here's just some
facts for you when it comes to coffee. Seventy five

(12:38):
percent of all caffeine Americans consume comes from the drink
that is coffee. Two thirds of women and sixty two
percent of men drink coffee every single day. The average
American has just one cup per day, but that adds
up to four hundred million cups consumed across the country
every single day, So over the course of a year,

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that's one hundred forty six billion cups of coffee here
in America. Globally, Brazilic sports about seven billion pounds of
coffee annually. And here's a fun fact for you. A
single coffee plant can live up to be one hundred
years old. So congratulations or I guess happy National Coffee
Day to those who celebrate. I guess congratulations to you
if you're somebody that is able to financially benefit from

(13:20):
again a drink that and again a lot of people
are benefiting. I know, it's it's I don't know if
them like if you wanted to go to seven Brew or.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
What are some other ones?

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, the places that have become more of like the
Crazees of late, because they offer the cold and the
and the fancy one, you know, the iced coffee. And
I'm talking out of my rear in here because I
don't know anything about these these specific drinks, but clearly
they're very, very popular because people will wait in line
at a drive through just to get a cup of
coffee for seemingly a lot longer than they would wait

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to get a meal at a fast food place, and
I again I can't relate, but clearly those in those
in that industry are doing something right. They know their
customer base very well because they seem to be very popular.
There is a there's a Scooters that's near my house
that's relatively newer and it's still it still does well.
But man, the first month or so it was open,
I never saw the drive through not backed up. And

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now there's a seven Brew right near the Thorntons that
I go to, and I mean, I've never seen anything
like it as far as just when they've got some
kind of sale going. And I think occasionally you could
like get one free, like a drink for free, and
you would think that they're giving away, you know, bags
of money to people.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
The way they line up. It's wild.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
It has me all It has me wondering at times
what am I missing? What are they have in there?

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Is there?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I mean, what it is in these iced coffee drinks
that has people just not being able to go without them?
But I guess what was gonna ask? Are those places open.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like this early?

Speaker 5 (14:51):
I think I think most coffee places are open by
six Okay, I don't know if they're I mean again,
maybe I'm totally wrong about that. I don't usually stop
at a coffee drive through, but I'm I'm sure if
they're not opening yet, they'll be open soon.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
The reason I was asking is because you know, when
I think of the coffee to get you going, to
get your day started, because you just have to have
before you get going, I don't think of I think,
I don't think of those kind of places because to me,
those are more so just I guess. I mean it's again,
I don't drink it, so I don't really know, but
clearly they're doing something right. So Happy National Coffee Day, everybody.
All right, let's get to a quick time. We've got

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Rody O'Neil set to join us coming up here on
the other side from NBC News. We've got another traffic
and weather update coming for you right here, right now,
News Radio eight forty whas good Monday morning, Kentucky, and
it is Kentucky and it's morning news Here coffee and
company with you on News radio eight forty whas Rory
O'Neal of NBC News joins us. Now, Rory, a couple

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of mass shootings over the weekend, and I wish these
these situations would would be more shocking, but they just
aren't because of the amount of times they happen. And
these two over the weekend of note, of course, take
took place at places you typically wouldn't expect it.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I don't know where you expected, but a church and
also a waterfront restaurant. Deadly situations, no doubt. What can
you tell us about the latest here?

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yeah, what's interesting is that both of the shooters were
forty years old and both of them ex military. Saturday
in North Carolina, three people were shot and killed. Five
more were injured when a man opened fire while he
was on a boat targeting these waterfront bars and restaurants
in this community. And he actually was able to get

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away from the scene, but the Coastguard tracked him and
was able to get him under arrest. His name is
Nigel Edge, again forty years old, now in custody, expected
to make his first court appearance today on multiple counts
of first degree murder. And then the other case is
in Michigan outside Flint at the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints and ex marine drove his pickup

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trucks through the front door started shooting. Miraculously police were,
honest to goodness, thirty seconds away, were able to confront
the gunman rather quickly and took him out, but not
before they set fire to the church.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
There.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Four people are known dead. We've got at least eight wounded.
Seven of them are in stable condition. One though, is
still pretty dicey right now.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Any indication just yet on either motive for these two individuals,
not that there'd be one that would make it make
any sense.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Right, Nothing explains that I know.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
Yeah, and then in the North Carolina case, that guy
has had a few run ins with the law.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
They say that he is.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
Self identified as having PTSD, perhaps from his time serving
in Iraq, but.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's all part of the investigation.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
And of course in the Michigan case, that suspect was killed,
so that investigation is out the way.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Nothing obvious yet in terms of a motive.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Just a sad situation we're in here where I'm not
sure anybody can truly feel safe just about anywhere.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Unfortunate, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Let's sift gears here to talk about the recent economic
no numbers obviously jobs and loss of jobs.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
AI taking over jobs.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's going to continue to be a big conversation here,
but seasonal hiring, it looks like it's now the lowest
that it's been in fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
What do we believe has led to that?

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yeah, it seems to be a few different factors. One,
we may not be going to the mall as much.
That's a big factor. So a lot of the shopping
we do requires clicking, and some of that might and
there's a lot of technology advancements even in that. So
you think, well, so maybe you don't need a clerk
in the mall store, Well you're going to hire someone
at the warehouse. Not necessarily. A lot of that stuff

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is now becoming much more automated, with a lot more
robotics involved. So we're not seeing the big spike in
that logistics and warehouse hiring that we see as well.
Even that is on the downward trend. Right now, they're
estimating fewer than a half million seasonal workers. I mean
just last year it was five hundred and forty five thousand,
so it's about a ten percent drop off or more.

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And these are typically pretty good paying jobs. You know,
they pay a little extra in hourly salary because there
are no benefits and because it's temporary work.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'm sure there are many that even though it is
a temporary thing throughout the calendar year, that it's something
they do annually, and I'm sure over time it's become
part of your you know, it's an expectation when it
comes to maybe your annual income that you bring in.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
Well, I know a lot of families who say, well,
I'll work the extra job for the holidays. That's going
to pay for the Christmas presents, you know, like that's
sort of how it works.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
And yeah, that money, those jobs just may not be there.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
And we've gotten some vague stuff holes and targeted said yes,
we're going to be hiring, but they haven't really given
specific numbers. I think Baths and body Works that they
were going to hire thirty two thousand seasonal workers. I
thought that was high. You know those spirit Halloween stores
that always take us to the old empty place, Yeah,
they hire about fifty thousand workers through the end of

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next month.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I've often wondered is there really that much of a
need as far as those who love the Halloween, But
clearly those those stores pop open every year and there's
there's clearly a need because they keep doing it.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Now Nick.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Work with me here, right, we need to make that
store then just turn into a Christmas store. Yeah, doesn't
it just do that? Why doesn't it mean?

Speaker 3 (20:06):
It makes so much sense, Rory, That's why.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
Helped me out you and it's it's all made by
the same Chinese company, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, good stuff, Rory has always be appreciate your time.
Enjoyed the rest of your Monday. We'll talk to my friend.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's Rory O'Neal NBC News. I tell you what He's
got me thinking. When's the last time I went to
the mall because like I needed, they had something I
needed and there was another option. I mean, I think
the last few times I've gone to the mall have
honestly been just to kill time. I was out and
about might have stopped in around Christmas time because I've

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procrastinated and didn't really know what to get somebody, and
I just walked around the mall hoping that I would
find something that, oh, yeah, let's get this gift for
such and such.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
But it is sad.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I've seen way too many memes, TikTok videos, Instagram reels
over the years that just shows what malls used to
look like compared to now, and I can. When I
see what a mall look like in the nineties, especially
during like Christmas time, it makes me so sad.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
The nostalgia is there, but.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I know that that will never exist anymore, and it
makes me really sad again. It's sad all the way around,
especially if you're somebody that you know, Let's say you
spent the majority of your career working retail in the mall.
I mean, you could still do that, I suppose, but
it's much different than It'll never be the same, but
Christmas time really makes me sad. All right, quick break,
We've got traffic and weather updates on the way. Also
another sports update coming up here with Scott. It is
five pin fifty one at news Radio eight forty whas