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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy hump Day, Kentucky, Ina, thanks for hanging out with
us here in the eight o'clock hour, Kentucky had his
morning news coffee and company with you on News Radio
eight forty whas So Howard Stern, the thought of him
being canceled, not you know, from society, but I guess,
you know, being canceled by serious sexim and him just
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not having enough juice in the radio world anymore just
is something I just never saw coming. And I really
don't have any clue what's going on with Howard Stern,
because his long anticipated big announcement was an announcement that
there's an upcoming big announcement. And I'm I'm a fan
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of Howard Stern just because of what he has been
in what this is talk radio, But over the time
it's certainly been clear that he just doesn't have the
same And again, I feel like such a fool on
talk radio myself, acting like Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's not really anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This guy he's a clown, because that's just something that
sounds very odd to say, because he's a legend. He's
been a pioneer in talk radio, but it seems as
if his big time fans, which I wouldn't claim to
be one of those. They've just it sounds like post
twenty fifteen is when is when Stern I guess just
maybe sort of lost a lot of those who just
(01:23):
assumed that they'd never not listen when he's on because
he's Howard Stern and he's a legend. So I'm starting
to believe that maybe there is some truth to this
conspiracy theory about a hoax just to maybe get in
back out there as far as just being talked about
because the relevance has has slipped. But there was a
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truth bomb that they were teasing for September second, with
the dramatic promo that declared you know, headlines declaring him fired,
canceled all that kind of stuff, and of course they
wanted fans to be on the edge of their seat.
A lot of folks, I think, are just looking at
this as for what it might actually be, which is
a desperate hoax for serious XM to just try to
(02:06):
get some new life and generate some attention and some
momentum for him because clearly his listenership has dropped, has
dropped quite a bit, so he ended up coming back
to deliver no announcement and instead it's now been pushed
back a week, as you heard there in John Shannon's
news updates. So my guess, and it's just a guess,
is that the teas only to then remain silent. It
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could point to I guess ongoing contract negotiations with Serious XM.
Maybe they're still working it out. But if there was
a plan here to just make people think you're canceled
and then you rally and show some resilience and start
to generate the listenership you once had, I don't think
that's going to go well, but what we shall see.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And again it's just the thought of.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Howard Stern being on air in any plot in any
way right, whether it be Trestra Radio or Serious XM,
and him not having a big approval rating and a
huge listenership. And again I'm sure he still does compare
to most, but just doesn't seem like the Again, what
I've done is to try to to to read read
(03:11):
about those read what you can find from those that
have decided that they just they don't listen anymore, and
they once wouldn't go a day without listening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's just not the same anymore. Maybe he's lost his energy.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I mean, I think he's clearly gone into some political
things that have alienated certain listeners that I think that's
probably without question. But yeah, the big lead up to
then only not get an actual announcement. Something else we
heard there in the news update from John Shannon is
the chat gpt situation. His story was in regards to
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just the guard rails going to be added for children
because of lawsuits out there. One of them is a
lawsuit tied to a child who used chat gpt to
help himself commit suicide, which of course is a tragic
situation all the way around. But we started the show
this morning referencing a chat GPT out so open AI.
They had some issues on their end that led to
(04:04):
a lot of people waking up to start their workday
and not being able to utilize a tool that I'm
sure for many it's become a big part of how
they do their job. And I want to be clear
because I still feel like it's for some they don't
quite care. And I get it, you don't care, you
don't care, but using AI and chat gpt to help
you in your job is not having it do your
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job for you in a lot of instances, so I
don't say that, well, people were actually having to go
to work today. Now, clearly you probably did have to
do some things you hadn't been doing in a while
if you do rely on.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Chad GPT to help you. But I just I looked
at it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
As an opportunity for folks to maybe realize to have
a real case study on their hands as far as
how much they truly do rely on artificial intelligence with
tools like CHADGPT, because for a few hours at least,
it didn't work at all. So they were able to
identify the problem on their end and they implemented a fix.
It looks like around around six am Eastern time, I believe,
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but of course it took a couple hours for that
to roll out for everybody as far as getting everybody
up and running and working. But yeah, this was the
biggest outage that it's had since it's become, of course,
a very very popular tool that many many people use.
And again, maybe if you weren't able to use it,
you realized you've become too reliant on it, or maybe
you realize, Okay, I didn't realize I needed this quite
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as much. Let's figure out other ways it can help me.
So ay, I's not going anywhere, And I just think
the two things that that I think are worth mentioning
now when it comes to just the never ending growth
of it and how much you hear people talk about it,
I still think the day where I'm going to be
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worried is whenever people don't care that anything and everything
they consume is robot. Like if you now can watch
a movie and you know that it's not real and
it's created by artificial intelligence, I guess you could still
technically be entertained. But I feel like if you gave
me music or a movie or anything in that realm
that was crafted, literally put together, and I'm watching people
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that aren't real they were created, or musicians that aren't real,
you know their voice was created by AI, I would
right now say I have no interest in listening to that,
just because of the element that I know that it's
not real. But one day will probably no longer care,
and that's where I just that's that's what worries me.
And of course you have to worry about what it
can do to your job, and depending upon your industry,
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could is it a threat?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So anyways, it's not going anywhere. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
All right, let's get to an update of traffick and
weather right here Undrew's Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So it should not surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You that with cell phones now being banned in Jefferson
County Public school classrooms, that the kids have found something
to do with their time to entertain themselves because they
can't use their phones. And it's good. They're checking out
books at the library. So House two eight. It now
requires school systems to have some kind of policy when
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it comes to cell phoned device tablet usage in the classroom.
And this, again it shouldn't surprise you at all but
that this is leading to something good happening, and we
should probably talk more about the good things that take
place within jcps, and this is certainly one of them.
So the surge in book checkouts compared to last year
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is substantial at a lot of schools. So PRP High
school students have already checked out twelve hundred books since
school started, which is nearly half of what a typical
year's total is. One of the seniors talked to our
partners at WKY and said that after they locked up,
his phone bored him push bored and pushed him to reading,
and he's.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Glad he did.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But other schools Crosby Middle reported double the checkouts, Farnsley Middle,
Wagner High School seeing triple. So you take the devices away,
they can't distract themselves with that, and then they they
found something to do. Not only are they reading books
checking out books, they're probably spending more time studying and learning,
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which again is pretty pretty vital. So this was this
was eventually gonna happen. And I'm sure there's other states
that have a similar policy just because it's I mean,
if I was in school and I had a cell phone,
I mean I would be easily distracted by it. I
mean I would I would be very very unproductive. I
would imagine, and you when I was in school, we
had cell phones. It's just they weren't smartphones. They were
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flip phones and other than maybe in fact, the first
cell phones, I didn't have one of these, but the
first cell phone I remember existing when I was a
teenager in school was the Nokia and you couldn't even
send a text message. You could just call somebody and
you could play a game called Snake, which was actually
pretty fun, but that was that was That was as
much as you could do, uh with with the first
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cell phone that I saw people having in school whenever
I was younger. And then of course now you can
do anything on your phone.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So again no.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Cell phones allowed in class while class is going on
while you're in school, and that's led to people reading
more books, which again can only help. I can't give
you exactly how much it's going to help, but it
certainly doesn't hurt. All right, I want to talk to
you guys, but the Jefferson Animal Hospital and the American
Red Cross because they've got a big event coming up.
It's the second year they're doing it where you can
bring your pet to a family friendly event. It's a
(09:24):
one of a kind blood donation event for you and
your pet and you can give blood. You can give
a blood donation of the American Red Cross and your pets,
dogs and cats they can donate blood as well, and
you can learn more about it and sign up to
become a blood donor for yourself and for your dog
and or cat. Each pet donation can save up to
four to six lives. So this is the pet This
(09:48):
is their Yeah, this is their annual event that they're doing.
I don't know they're going to make an annual make
it every year, but it wouldn't shock me if they do,
because right now, pet blood donation is a big deal
and again it can help save the lives pets. So
it enjoy food, talk to the experts. I'm sure if
you have a pet, you're gonna want to get some information.
You're gonna want to know more about the process as
far as having your pet donate blood, and that's where
(10:10):
the JEFFERSONNAMAL Hospital can help you out. So it's going
to be Saturday, September the twenty seventh at their Okalhona
location four five zero four outer Loop and you can
get more information at pet Bloodbank dot com or give
them a call at five O two nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Pets.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
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over forty five years. Since nineteen eighty, they've been opened
twenty four hours a day, including all holidays, with the
doctor on site every night including Christmas. JEFFERSONNA the hospitals
dedicated doctors and staff. They've got you covered in case
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All right, we've got traffic, some weather updates on the way.
We've also got another sports update coming up here with
Scott Fitzgerald on Who's Radio eight forty WHS. Thank you
very much, John Shannon, it is eight thirty four here
at news Radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company with you.
(11:08):
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(11:52):
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Speaker 1 (11:58):
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Speaker 2 (14:14):
Are we ready for some football or not? You're ready
and buy some football?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Heck yeah, I am Chris Farley. I'll answer your question.
I am ready, all right, will a couple We are
a couple of minutes away from your next update of
traffic and weather, but real quick, just to kind of
reset something that I discussed a little bit earlier for
those who may not have been with us. But when
you look at the news every single day, you can't
be if you're somebody that just keeps up a little bit.
(14:41):
You can't be stunned when you tune in to the
local news, you tune into this station here be a radio,
or you check the websites these stories that involve juveniles
in violent crime. It's it's an issue, right and we're
not alone. I mean, I'm sure there's many other cities
that are dealing with the same thing. But these are
fore headlines, all within the last few days that you
(15:04):
can find right now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Team killed.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Eighteen year old charged with murder after triple shooting in
Valley Station. Third juvenile charged in deadly June shooting in
Louisvill's Newburg neighborhood. Police charge second teenager with February murder
at Louisville Park. Louisville police arrests thirteen year old for
allegedly assaulting elderly woman on her porch. So I bring
all this up to say that lawmakers who are making
(15:29):
are making it clear that they find it unacceptable that
the completion date for Louisville's new juvenile attention center at
twenty twenty seven, the year twenty twenty seven is just
unacceptable when you consider just the youth violence. And yes,
if you are somebody that's out here actually killing people.
As a juvenile, you are getting arrested. But if you're
somebody that picks up a charge, that isn't nearly as substantial.
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And I don't know the exact level of what the threat.
I don't know what the threshold is. But there are
some there are some children that are out dabbling, if
you will, in violent crime. Right maybe probably just they
haven't they haven't actually committed some of these Actually maybe
they haven't, haven't got caught. I don't know, But they're
not being held responsible, and they're not actually physically being
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held to where they stay off the streets and help
make this city safer. So we've talked quite a bit
about this in recent months. But the issue that we
have right now is that the state says that they're
on the same page essentially as far as knowing that
it's in need, but they got to get the ball rolling,
and hearing that twenty twenty seven is the estimated complete
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completion date is just not it's just not acceptable. So,
I mean, the Juvenile Justice Center closed in twenty nineteen.
It was staffing, safety, budget issues. That's of course what
was said whenever they closed down. So now I mean
to not have that is just wild, for lack of
a better way to word it, considering just how many
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issues we have with with with violence that juvenile are
a part of. And look, if you are, if you've
got there's kids out there that just don't have any
parnal figures in their home, they don't have anybody to
look out for them, and they've they've probably found a
level of worth and they're self worth because maybe they're
(17:17):
now part of a gang and they're out committing violent
crimes and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Which that's awful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But clearly the gangs in those that, of course I
guess are leaders in the violent crime world in Louisville,
they're the ones benefiting from this. And I guarantee you
there are parents out there that are trying their best,
but they don't have the resources. They they can't quite
get through to their kids. They're doing everything they can,
they want to keep them safe, but they just they
can't get it under control themselves. I guarantee you they'd
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be happier knowing that their kid is in the juvenile
attention center than having to worry every morning if they
wake up and they're going to find out that they
were killed. I mean to just not have a juvenile
detention center in Louisville where clearly violent crime with juveniles
is a really big issue and a growing issue, and
being told by the state, yeah, twenty twenty seven, that's
what we're targeting. But yet the ball's not rolling, nothing's happening,
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and that to me is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So some's got to give, right, I don't know, maybe
not all right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Update to traving weather on the way right here on
news ready to wait forty whs. We're wrapping things up
here on a Wednesday morning. Wednesday, but feels like a Tuesday.
That's one of the benefits of a three day weekend
that we just got. So I'm happy to know that
we are closer to the weekend and we're just one
day away from football actually getting started. The NFL will
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kick off, and obviously I love college football a lot,
but the NFL it's a different level.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And to know that we are just a day away,
are you ready bust some football?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I don't remember that SNL skip. By the way, Chris
Farley is Hank Williams junior. That's when it looked like
a lot of the Farley stuff that I see I'm
seeing it way after the fact, but it's new to
me and it reminds me of how great he was
and how much he has missed.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I'm not looking forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Tony ven Eddie's with us here in studio. Tony, I mean,
you're a Steelers fan, so yeah, you don't have your
team doesn't play tomorrow. But I mean NFL, like, was
it always as dominant, because I feel like other sports
clearly have had ebbs and flows where there's you know,
there's momentum or just big movements to where clearly, like
college football is a way bigger thing now than it
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was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
The NFL, I mean, it.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Doesn't have any competition, uh, the interest level and just viewership.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Nothing compares.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
The distance between them and the other sports. Happened when
fantasy football and HD television came out at the same time. Like,
so you had this fantasy football, so now you're in
on all these other games. Why would I care about
the Seattle Sea Chickens. Why would I care? But now
I have a tight end plane for them, right And
at the same time, that's why golf and Tiger did
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well because that HD television you're turning your television on
and you're watching the spin of the ball and the
blades of grass on the ground, and then now you're
watching football and you see the all spinning in the
air as it's going in in these close ups. It
was it was really perfect timing for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I think, to put a finer point on the fantasy
football stuff. When it went from being called rotisserie ball
and everybody had large paper printouts put on the wall
following everything to an app in your hand. That's a
lot of that. And then when you saw the NFL kickoff,
when when NFL decided to establish its dominance on TV
and Thursday night kickoff where they took Thursday night to
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have the kickoff for the entire season instead of just
starting on a Sunday like everything else, and some of
these Saturday playoff games. That's where it really started taking
off when they when they decided to flex, they took
over everything. Anytime long time baseball was considered America's pastime,
now it's football.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Anytime the NFL wants to they can, they can. They
can make it clear that they really have no competition.
And one of the many things that different that's different
with the NFL than anything I could think of as
far as sports in America specifically. They don't need any
individual or any any specific franchise to be dominant, right Like,
you could be the best player in the NFL four
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or five years run and then you just retire. Something
maybe tragic happens that it doesn't matter, Like Jordan clearly
did something different for the NBA Tiger with golf were
seeing with Kaitlyn Clark. The NFL does not need any
individual or franchise well to flick the viewership there.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It reflects also America, where it's look who runs the NBA?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The players?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Who runs? I mean baseball really is run by the players.
I mean their their contracts are ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And they're at odds now're likely going to strike.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yes, four years, two hundred million dollars is not enough.
I need more. But football is that last one that
reflects corporate America or America reflection, which is the players really,
sorry to hear it, they're disposable. You'll you'll replace a
Hall of Famer with another name just growing in. Plus
Michael Parsons about that, plus they plus the players coming
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into the NFL now are ready to play. Your first
round draft pick should be on an all star team, right,
all Pro or something. Now where it took well, they're
going to have to transition, learn the system, and do
all that back in the old days. Now college football
is so good players wise, they specialize, they have fitness instructors,
They come into the game ready to play. So you're
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replacing star after star with other stars. So that also
has helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
They clearly work better together than other owners collectively in
their leagues, and certainly better than the cattiness that is
college sports. Because give me give you an example, when
Deshaun Watson got an insane contract. It probably will go
down as one of the worst contracts ever as far
as what the Browns gave him. That led to other quarterbacks,
Lamar Jackson specifically saying, look, if he's getting that, I'm
getting more, and collectively the NFL worked together and said, look,
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that's only the idiot Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Nobody. We didn't reset the market.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Everybody was on the same page knowing that even if
you wanted Lamar or you didn't, we're not. We're going
to collectively let it be known that that's not the
new it's not the new.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Bar think about the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So I'm sitting there ten fifteen years ago and I'm like,
how do we replace the Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Ben
Roethlisberger era to where these quarterbacks are everywhere? Aaron Rodgers
seem impossible? It was seen impossible. It was like, boy,
we're never guess what.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Patrick mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Yes, yess what place?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And we're not even thinking about them?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Uh? You know?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And I always said it, and people used to get
mad when I did the U of L show. When
you know Teddy Bridgewater leaving, I go, you understand it.
We will forget Teddy Bridgewater in about a season and
a half. When somebody comes shows up, Well, guess what.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Didn't somebody like try to stabb you for saying that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Absolutely, they broke a window out hitting they broke a
window out of the KRD even remember that one, that one,
Uh that might have been a UK fan, But what happened, oh,
Lamar Jackson? You know it is we replaced our heroes
really quick, or these stars in football, and we move
on to the next thing. So, oh, how are we
going to replace that? Well, we're ready.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I have an outlier I've yet to recover from Andrew
Luck deciding he just didn't want to play football anymore
days before the season started.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I loved him, How could you not?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So is there a resentment in the Indie fans for that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So for me, I loved Andrew Luck so much and
I understood it to where I couldn't be mad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I was just sad.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Now I'm mad because we got Anthony Richardson and Daniel
Jones battling for the quarterback spot, only to go with
the right choice, probably with his civil war.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh yes, I read it. I read it, and I
read it in that voice too.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The best one is when he's like sending messages home
to his wife. That's good stuff, all right, Tony Anddwke
coming your way next right here on?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Who's ready? Way forty wh a s
Happy hump Day, Kentucky, Ina, thanks for hanging out with
us here in the eight o'clock hour, Kentucky had his
morning news coffee and company with you on News Radio
eight forty whas So Howard Stern, the thought of him
being canceled, not you know, from society, but I guess,
you know, being canceled by serious sexim and him just
(00:21):
not having enough juice in the radio world anymore just
is something I just never saw coming. And I really
don't have any clue what's going on with Howard Stern,
because his long anticipated big announcement was an announcement that
there's an upcoming big announcement. And I'm I'm a fan
(00:42):
of Howard Stern just because of what he has been
in what this is talk radio, But over the time
it's certainly been clear that he just doesn't have the
same And again, I feel like such a fool on
talk radio myself, acting like Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's not really anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This guy he's a clown, because that's just something that
sounds very odd to say, because he's a legend. He's
been a pioneer in talk radio, but it seems as
if his big time fans, which I wouldn't claim to
be one of those. They've just it sounds like post
twenty fifteen is when is when Stern I guess just
maybe sort of lost a lot of those who just
(01:23):
assumed that they'd never not listen when he's on because
he's Howard Stern and he's a legend. So I'm starting
to believe that maybe there is some truth to this
conspiracy theory about a hoax just to maybe get in
back out there as far as just being talked about
because the relevance has has slipped. But there was a
(01:45):
truth bomb that they were teasing for September second, with
the dramatic promo that declared you know, headlines declaring him fired,
canceled all that kind of stuff, and of course they
wanted fans to be on the edge of their seat.
A lot of folks, I think, are just looking at
this as for what it might actually be, which is
a desperate hoax for serious XM to just try to
(02:06):
get some new life and generate some attention and some
momentum for him because clearly his listenership has dropped, has
dropped quite a bit, so he ended up coming back
to deliver no announcement and instead it's now been pushed
back a week, as you heard there in John Shannon's
news updates. So my guess, and it's just a guess,
is that the teas only to then remain silent. It
(02:27):
could point to I guess ongoing contract negotiations with Serious XM.
Maybe they're still working it out. But if there was
a plan here to just make people think you're canceled
and then you rally and show some resilience and start
to generate the listenership you once had, I don't think
that's going to go well, but what we shall see.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And again it's just the thought of.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Howard Stern being on air in any plot in any
way right, whether it be Trestra Radio or Serious XM,
and him not having a big approval rating and a
huge listenership. And again I'm sure he still does compare
to most, but just doesn't seem like the Again, what
I've done is to try to to to read read
(03:11):
about those read what you can find from those that
have decided that they just they don't listen anymore, and
they once wouldn't go a day without listening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's just not the same anymore. Maybe he's lost his energy.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I mean, I think he's clearly gone into some political
things that have alienated certain listeners that I think that's
probably without question. But yeah, the big lead up to
then only not get an actual announcement. Something else we
heard there in the news update from John Shannon is
the chat gpt situation. His story was in regards to
(03:43):
just the guard rails going to be added for children
because of lawsuits out there. One of them is a
lawsuit tied to a child who used chat gpt to
help himself commit suicide, which of course is a tragic
situation all the way around. But we started the show
this morning referencing a chat GPT out so open AI.
They had some issues on their end that led to
(04:04):
a lot of people waking up to start their workday
and not being able to utilize a tool that I'm
sure for many it's become a big part of how
they do their job. And I want to be clear
because I still feel like it's for some they don't
quite care. And I get it, you don't care, you
don't care, but using AI and chat gpt to help
you in your job is not having it do your
(04:25):
job for you in a lot of instances, so I
don't say that, well, people were actually having to go
to work today. Now, clearly you probably did have to
do some things you hadn't been doing in a while
if you do rely on.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Chad GPT to help you. But I just I looked
at it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
As an opportunity for folks to maybe realize to have
a real case study on their hands as far as
how much they truly do rely on artificial intelligence with
tools like CHADGPT, because for a few hours at least,
it didn't work at all. So they were able to
identify the problem on their end and they implemented a fix.
It looks like around around six am Eastern time, I believe,
(05:02):
but of course it took a couple hours for that
to roll out for everybody as far as getting everybody
up and running and working. But yeah, this was the
biggest outage that it's had since it's become, of course,
a very very popular tool that many many people use.
And again, maybe if you weren't able to use it,
you realized you've become too reliant on it, or maybe
you realize, Okay, I didn't realize I needed this quite
(05:24):
as much. Let's figure out other ways it can help me.
So ay, I's not going anywhere, And I just think
the two things that that I think are worth mentioning
now when it comes to just the never ending growth
of it and how much you hear people talk about it,
I still think the day where I'm going to be
(05:44):
worried is whenever people don't care that anything and everything
they consume is robot. Like if you now can watch
a movie and you know that it's not real and
it's created by artificial intelligence, I guess you could still
technically be entertained. But I feel like if you gave
me music or a movie or anything in that realm
that was crafted, literally put together, and I'm watching people
(06:07):
that aren't real they were created, or musicians that aren't real,
you know their voice was created by AI, I would
right now say I have no interest in listening to that,
just because of the element that I know that it's
not real. But one day will probably no longer care,
and that's where I just that's that's what worries me.
And of course you have to worry about what it
can do to your job, and depending upon your industry,
(06:29):
could is it a threat?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So anyways, it's not going anywhere. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
All right, let's get to an update of traffick and
weather right here Undrew's Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So it should not surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You that with cell phones now being banned in Jefferson
County Public school classrooms, that the kids have found something
to do with their time to entertain themselves because they
can't use their phones. And it's good. They're checking out
books at the library. So House two eight. It now
requires school systems to have some kind of policy when
(07:04):
it comes to cell phoned device tablet usage in the classroom.
And this, again it shouldn't surprise you at all but
that this is leading to something good happening, and we
should probably talk more about the good things that take
place within jcps, and this is certainly one of them.
So the surge in book checkouts compared to last year
(07:26):
is substantial at a lot of schools. So PRP High
school students have already checked out twelve hundred books since
school started, which is nearly half of what a typical
year's total is. One of the seniors talked to our
partners at WKY and said that after they locked up,
his phone bored him push bored and pushed him to reading,
and he's.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Glad he did.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But other schools Crosby Middle reported double the checkouts, Farnsley Middle,
Wagner High School seeing triple. So you take the devices away,
they can't distract themselves with that, and then they they
found something to do. Not only are they reading books
checking out books, they're probably spending more time studying and learning,
(08:07):
which again is pretty pretty vital. So this was this
was eventually gonna happen. And I'm sure there's other states
that have a similar policy just because it's I mean,
if I was in school and I had a cell phone,
I mean I would be easily distracted by it. I
mean I would I would be very very unproductive. I
would imagine, and you when I was in school, we
had cell phones. It's just they weren't smartphones. They were
(08:30):
flip phones and other than maybe in fact, the first
cell phones, I didn't have one of these, but the
first cell phone I remember existing when I was a
teenager in school was the Nokia and you couldn't even
send a text message. You could just call somebody and
you could play a game called Snake, which was actually
pretty fun, but that was that was That was as
much as you could do, uh with with the first
(08:52):
cell phone that I saw people having in school whenever
I was younger. And then of course now you can
do anything on your phone.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So again no.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Cell phones allowed in class while class is going on
while you're in school, and that's led to people reading
more books, which again can only help. I can't give
you exactly how much it's going to help, but it
certainly doesn't hurt. All right, I want to talk to
you guys, but the Jefferson Animal Hospital and the American
Red Cross because they've got a big event coming up.
It's the second year they're doing it where you can
bring your pet to a family friendly event. It's a
(09:24):
one of a kind blood donation event for you and
your pet and you can give blood. You can give
a blood donation of the American Red Cross and your pets,
dogs and cats they can donate blood as well, and
you can learn more about it and sign up to
become a blood donor for yourself and for your dog
and or cat. Each pet donation can save up to
four to six lives. So this is the pet This
(09:48):
is their Yeah, this is their annual event that they're doing.
I don't know they're going to make an annual make
it every year, but it wouldn't shock me if they do,
because right now, pet blood donation is a big deal
and again it can help save the lives pets. So
it enjoy food, talk to the experts. I'm sure if
you have a pet, you're gonna want to get some information.
You're gonna want to know more about the process as
far as having your pet donate blood, and that's where
(10:10):
the JEFFERSONNAMAL Hospital can help you out. So it's going
to be Saturday, September the twenty seventh at their Okalhona
location four five zero four outer Loop and you can
get more information at pet Bloodbank dot com or give
them a call at five O two nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Pets.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Jefferson NL Hospital has been serving the Louisville community for
over forty five years. Since nineteen eighty, they've been opened
twenty four hours a day, including all holidays, with the
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All right, we've got traffic, some weather updates on the way.
We've also got another sports update coming up here with
Scott Fitzgerald on Who's Radio eight forty WHS. Thank you
very much, John Shannon, it is eight thirty four here
at news Radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company with you.
(11:08):
Great to have the full team assembled today, myself, Nick Coffee,
the company man, John Alden, John Shannon, you just heard there,
and of course Scott Fitzgerald. So what a good Wednesday
we are off to. And when it comes to sports
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(11:29):
in September of twenty twenty three, and of course initially
you could make wagers in person, and then of course
they had to get everything situated with the online gaming.
But there was clearly an appetite for sports betting, that
is for sure. When you look at the current numbers.
So the sports betting in Kentucky dipped in the month
(11:52):
of July, but year over year gains are there.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So if you look at.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Sixteen point one one i'm sorry, one hundred and sixty
one point four million dollars in handle plus a two
point four million dollars in taxes, so from year over year,
twenty five percent bump in the handle, which of course
is the money that that people come in, that people,
you know, the amount of money people are wagering. And
then also fourteen point three percent bump year over year
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Speaker 2 (14:14):
Are we ready for some football or not? You're ready
and buy some football?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Heck yeah, I am Chris Farley. I'll answer your question.
I am ready, all right, will a couple We are
a couple of minutes away from your next update of
traffic and weather, but real quick, just to kind of
reset something that I discussed a little bit earlier for
those who may not have been with us. But when
you look at the news every single day, you can't
be if you're somebody that just keeps up a little bit.
(14:41):
You can't be stunned when you tune in to the
local news, you tune into this station here be a radio,
or you check the websites these stories that involve juveniles
in violent crime. It's it's an issue, right and we're
not alone. I mean, I'm sure there's many other cities
that are dealing with the same thing. But these are
fore headlines, all within the last few days that you
(15:04):
can find right now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Team killed.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Eighteen year old charged with murder after triple shooting in
Valley Station. Third juvenile charged in deadly June shooting in
Louisvill's Newburg neighborhood. Police charge second teenager with February murder
at Louisville Park. Louisville police arrests thirteen year old for
allegedly assaulting elderly woman on her porch. So I bring
all this up to say that lawmakers who are making
(15:29):
are making it clear that they find it unacceptable that
the completion date for Louisville's new juvenile attention center at
twenty twenty seven, the year twenty twenty seven is just
unacceptable when you consider just the youth violence. And yes,
if you are somebody that's out here actually killing people.
As a juvenile, you are getting arrested. But if you're
somebody that picks up a charge, that isn't nearly as substantial.
(15:53):
And I don't know the exact level of what the threat.
I don't know what the threshold is. But there are
some there are some children that are out dabbling, if
you will, in violent crime. Right maybe probably just they
haven't they haven't actually committed some of these Actually maybe
they haven't, haven't got caught. I don't know, But they're
not being held responsible, and they're not actually physically being
(16:13):
held to where they stay off the streets and help
make this city safer. So we've talked quite a bit
about this in recent months. But the issue that we
have right now is that the state says that they're
on the same page essentially as far as knowing that
it's in need, but they got to get the ball rolling,
and hearing that twenty twenty seven is the estimated complete
(16:36):
completion date is just not it's just not acceptable. So,
I mean, the Juvenile Justice Center closed in twenty nineteen.
It was staffing, safety, budget issues. That's of course what
was said whenever they closed down. So now I mean
to not have that is just wild, for lack of
a better way to word it, considering just how many
(16:56):
issues we have with with with violence that juvenile are
a part of. And look, if you are, if you've
got there's kids out there that just don't have any
parnal figures in their home, they don't have anybody to
look out for them, and they've they've probably found a
level of worth and they're self worth because maybe they're
(17:17):
now part of a gang and they're out committing violent
crimes and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Which that's awful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But clearly the gangs in those that, of course I
guess are leaders in the violent crime world in Louisville,
they're the ones benefiting from this. And I guarantee you
there are parents out there that are trying their best,
but they don't have the resources. They they can't quite
get through to their kids. They're doing everything they can,
they want to keep them safe, but they just they
can't get it under control themselves. I guarantee you they'd
(17:43):
be happier knowing that their kid is in the juvenile
attention center than having to worry every morning if they
wake up and they're going to find out that they
were killed. I mean to just not have a juvenile
detention center in Louisville where clearly violent crime with juveniles
is a really big issue and a growing issue, and
being told by the state, yeah, twenty twenty seven, that's
what we're targeting. But yet the ball's not rolling, nothing's happening,
(18:05):
and that to me is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So some's got to give, right, I don't know, maybe
not all right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Update to traving weather on the way right here on
news ready to wait forty whs. We're wrapping things up
here on a Wednesday morning. Wednesday, but feels like a Tuesday.
That's one of the benefits of a three day weekend
that we just got. So I'm happy to know that
we are closer to the weekend and we're just one
day away from football actually getting started. The NFL will
(18:33):
kick off, and obviously I love college football a lot,
but the NFL it's a different level.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And to know that we are just a day away,
are you ready bust some football?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I don't remember that SNL skip. By the way, Chris
Farley is Hank Williams junior. That's when it looked like
a lot of the Farley stuff that I see I'm
seeing it way after the fact, but it's new to
me and it reminds me of how great he was
and how much he has missed.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I'm not looking forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Tony ven Eddie's with us here in studio. Tony, I mean,
you're a Steelers fan, so yeah, you don't have your
team doesn't play tomorrow. But I mean NFL, like, was
it always as dominant, because I feel like other sports
clearly have had ebbs and flows where there's you know,
there's momentum or just big movements to where clearly, like
college football is a way bigger thing now than it
(19:21):
was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
The NFL, I mean, it.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Doesn't have any competition, uh, the interest level and just viewership.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Nothing compares.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
The distance between them and the other sports. Happened when
fantasy football and HD television came out at the same time. Like,
so you had this fantasy football, so now you're in
on all these other games. Why would I care about
the Seattle Sea Chickens. Why would I care? But now
I have a tight end plane for them, right And
at the same time, that's why golf and Tiger did
(19:49):
well because that HD television you're turning your television on
and you're watching the spin of the ball and the
blades of grass on the ground, and then now you're
watching football and you see the all spinning in the
air as it's going in in these close ups. It
was it was really perfect timing for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I think, to put a finer point on the fantasy
football stuff. When it went from being called rotisserie ball
and everybody had large paper printouts put on the wall
following everything to an app in your hand. That's a
lot of that. And then when you saw the NFL kickoff,
when when NFL decided to establish its dominance on TV
and Thursday night kickoff where they took Thursday night to
(20:27):
have the kickoff for the entire season instead of just
starting on a Sunday like everything else, and some of
these Saturday playoff games. That's where it really started taking
off when they when they decided to flex, they took
over everything. Anytime long time baseball was considered America's pastime,
now it's football.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Anytime the NFL wants to they can, they can. They
can make it clear that they really have no competition.
And one of the many things that different that's different
with the NFL than anything I could think of as
far as sports in America specifically. They don't need any
individual or any any specific franchise to be dominant, right Like,
you could be the best player in the NFL four
(21:03):
or five years run and then you just retire. Something
maybe tragic happens that it doesn't matter, Like Jordan clearly
did something different for the NBA Tiger with golf were
seeing with Kaitlyn Clark. The NFL does not need any
individual or franchise well to flick the viewership there.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It reflects also America, where it's look who runs the NBA?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The players?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Who runs? I mean baseball really is run by the players.
I mean their their contracts are ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And they're at odds now're likely going to strike.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yes, four years, two hundred million dollars is not enough.
I need more. But football is that last one that
reflects corporate America or America reflection, which is the players really,
sorry to hear it, they're disposable. You'll you'll replace a
Hall of Famer with another name just growing in. Plus
Michael Parsons about that, plus they plus the players coming
(21:52):
into the NFL now are ready to play. Your first
round draft pick should be on an all star team, right,
all Pro or something. Now where it took well, they're
going to have to transition, learn the system, and do
all that back in the old days. Now college football
is so good players wise, they specialize, they have fitness instructors,
They come into the game ready to play. So you're
(22:14):
replacing star after star with other stars. So that also
has helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
They clearly work better together than other owners collectively in
their leagues, and certainly better than the cattiness that is
college sports. Because give me give you an example, when
Deshaun Watson got an insane contract. It probably will go
down as one of the worst contracts ever as far
as what the Browns gave him. That led to other quarterbacks,
Lamar Jackson specifically saying, look, if he's getting that, I'm
getting more, and collectively the NFL worked together and said, look,
(22:42):
that's only the idiot Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Nobody. We didn't reset the market.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Everybody was on the same page knowing that even if
you wanted Lamar or you didn't, we're not. We're going
to collectively let it be known that that's not the
new it's not the new.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Bar think about the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So I'm sitting there ten fifteen years ago and I'm like,
how do we replace the Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Ben
Roethlisberger era to where these quarterbacks are everywhere? Aaron Rodgers
seem impossible? It was seen impossible. It was like, boy,
we're never guess what.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Patrick mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Yes, yess what place?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And we're not even thinking about them?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Uh? You know?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And I always said it, and people used to get
mad when I did the U of L show. When
you know Teddy Bridgewater leaving, I go, you understand it.
We will forget Teddy Bridgewater in about a season and
a half. When somebody comes shows up, Well, guess what.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Didn't somebody like try to stabb you for saying that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Absolutely, they broke a window out hitting they broke a
window out of the KRD even remember that one, that one,
Uh that might have been a UK fan, But what happened, oh,
Lamar Jackson? You know it is we replaced our heroes
really quick, or these stars in football, and we move
on to the next thing. So, oh, how are we
going to replace that? Well, we're ready.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I have an outlier I've yet to recover from Andrew
Luck deciding he just didn't want to play football anymore
days before the season started.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I loved him, How could you not?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So is there a resentment in the Indie fans for that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So for me, I loved Andrew Luck so much and
I understood it to where I couldn't be mad.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I was just sad.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Now I'm mad because we got Anthony Richardson and Daniel
Jones battling for the quarterback spot, only to go with
the right choice, probably with his civil war.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh yes, I read it. I read it, and I
read it in that voice too.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The best one is when he's like sending messages home
to his wife. That's good stuff, all right, Tony Anddwke
coming your way next right here on?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Who's ready? Way forty wh a s
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