9.4: Wet Start - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is Kentucky and it's morning news, coffee and company
with you on News Radio eight forty whas Thursday, September fourth,
and we are off to a wet start. I can't
see from where I'm sitting. I do love, by the way,
one of the perks of the move here to just
I don't know what, maybe twenty yards away from where
I used to sit in the afternoons. Now I'm here

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in the studio in the morning with a window, but
I can't see. Actually, you know, we're here in the
beautiful Sto four Street Live studios. Therefore I can actually see.
Only thing I can tell as far as weather is,
I can I can tell from a specific spot where
I look if the sun is up or not. So
I don't know if it's actually raining right now, but
I know it is expected to rain throughout the morning,

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and it certainly has quite a bit up to this point.
So right now, we've got some accidents that you need
to be aware of. We've got a disabled vehicle on
I sixty five West ramp from Southhurstburn Parkway, so currently
looks as if the right shoulder is blocked and from
can tell you here it doesn't look as if there's
a whole lot of delay at this point, but of course,
as we are now at seven o six, I'm sure

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if things aren't cleaned up pretty quickly and it is raining,
then there's going to be potentially a big time delay.
But there was a crash on the Snyder between looks
as if it's just past Builtown Road. So this is
northbound on the Snyder, right shoulders blocked because again Builtown Road,
there's been an accident. So again we'll keep you updated
as best we can. I say we as if I
have any real role, the real pro at keeping us

(01:29):
updated on how the roadways are looking. As Bobby Ellison,
We've got another update coming for you in about four
minutes or so, and I will say the conversation we
had a little bit earlier about the Netflix documentary that
has become the new documentary that everybody's talking about, the
High School Catfish documentary. I didn't realize John that you

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had watched it as well, and you and I both
went in not knowing really what was going to happen.
Where I do feel like a lot of people and
they certainly do know if they were listening, because I
did at least tease that I was going to give
a spoiler.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
But don't you feel as if we had.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
A better experience watching without knowing that they were eventually
going to tell us that the individual who was harassing
and saying vile and awful things to a teenage daughter
and the teenage daughter's boyfriend was the mother.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
And yeah, it's it's one of those shows that you
really can't talk about without giving away spoilers. So I
kind of I see why you had to go down
that route, because the documentary does such a good job
at making you think early on that like, the person
involved that they're eventually going to reveal is probably somebody
that they're not You're not going to hear from during
the documentary.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm thinking of some fat old dude in his mom's basement,
and you.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
You hear from you hear from the mom early on,
as if she's just you know, you know her and
the husband and the other the boys family as well.
They're friends and they talk about that time together, and
so you think that these two families are you know,
and they do play a role in helping figure out
what's going on. But you later find out that this

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the woman who ends up being the person doing all of.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
This, she's she had more issues than just that.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes, yeah, like you said, everything that she does and
you find out about her is so disgusting and vile,
and there's some deep rooted issues there. It's it's a
very if you haven't seen. Of course, sorry for the spoilers,
like we mentioned earlier, but it is still worth watching,
I feel.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like, and it will I mean, it'll make you, I guess,
be a little bit more aware of something that could
be right in front of you for and you just
don't know, right, I mean, this is.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It does kind of reiterate the fact that you can
almost trust nobody exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So again for those who didn't who didn't hear about it,
it's it's if you go to Netflix right now, I
guarantee it'll be right there in the top rankings or
whatever I think they do. They rank the top ten
shows and movies that are being that are being shown,
and as of yesterday, it was number one for the
documentary movies, and I can't see that changing until at
least a week or so, just because of how much
attention it's getting for good reason. So again, we've we've

(03:58):
spoiled it for you as far as who the person is,
but I'm sure that won't keep you from having interest
in thinking. Wait a second, you're telling me that a
teenager and her boyfriend were harassed over fifteen months to
two years time, with awful things being sent to them
via text from an anonymous number telling them, you know,
just vile sexual things, and of course somebody telling the

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girl to kill herself, encouraging her to go jump off
a bridge, only to then it be found out that
it was her mother who was saying this.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's just it's a wild ride to say. To say
the least, I say one more thing.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Sure, and again I understand that you only get like
an hour and a half's worth of all the information,
but it blows my mind that the husband of the
wife who did all this had zero idea that this
was going on. I feel like it's some especially over
the course of two years, you'd at least have an
inkling of thought.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
So and he was my I honestly feel like just
because he did express some raw, real emotion in the
documentary when they talked about things with him, and also
you saw the body cam footage of him finding out
you heard the phone call when law enforcement called him
to tell him they figured out who it was, and
he found out who it was. I think that made
him actually the one that I felt the most compassioned for,

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and I felt sorry for him.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
And again, he handled himself very well with the body
cam footage. And I don't know if he knew, I
would have not.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
There's no way I would have been able to have
been as composed as he was. I mean, I don't
know how it react. Don't think anybody does until they're
in that situation something you just never envisioned. But the girl,
of course, she's the ultimate victim here because it's her mother.
But and I do feel sorry for her, but I
think when you watch, you'll see that she doesn't quite
really know the damage that's probably been done. She's going

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to get older, she's going to mature, and that is
going to traumatize her, I would imagine for the rest
of her life, understandably. So so I encourage you to
check it out if you haven't. It's just a it's again,
it's a it's a wild ride, and I I think
you'll have, unfortunately more questions than than then you would
expect just because of how something like that could happen,

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and how the I mean again on what you couldn't
pay me a billion dollars to be in in a
documentary like that, to just make that a worldwide thing
known about you. I mean again, the Internet. It's a
powerful tool. People can look it up and find it out.
But you know, I bet ninety nine percent of those
that have watched that up to this point never knew

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of the story, right just because it's you know, it's
a small town in Michigan. All right, let's let's get
to the updates that are needed here this morning on
a rainy Thursday. We'll get you caught up on how
the weather's going to look the rest of the day,
as well as how the roadways are looking. And I
also want to take a look here on the other
side at an updated look at student loans. It looks

(06:45):
as if those that sometimes skip payments, they've really started
to skip payments. And it's a sign of just where
we are with the economy. So we'll talk about that
in a lot more right here on News Radio eight
forty whas. I'm sure sure there are many listening that
are happy that their student loans have been paid off.

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Maybe they've been paid off for a long time, maybe
you recently paid them off. And maybe there are still
some that have student loan payments because obviously going to
school is expensive, and not everybody's able to get scholarships
or have some assistance from their families or maybe and again,
I know there's many that put themselves through college while
working full time. It's difficult, but I know many have

(07:28):
been able to do it. So if you are one
of those people, shout out to you. But when it
comes to your student loans, it looks as if there's
been a real increase in those that just are skipping payments,
assuming because of rising living costs, and really, I guess, honestly,
another factor could be the lack of the new policy solutions,

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just because it's kind of been in limbo, right. I mean,
there was the break that you got where it was
the Cares Act, which was enacted it's September of twenty
twenty two, or Congress made it to where payments were
suspended and paused and interest to curel on most federal
student loans. But yeah, so the details here, I mean,
I knew it was around the time of the pandemic.

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So you you were able to to kind of just
hit pause and not and not pay your student loans
because of some clearly some there was a reason that
that that you wouldn't you wouldn't have money, right, A
lot of people were impacted with the loss of job
and whatnot. But the pause ended as far as interest
in September first of twenty twenty three, and the repayment

(08:32):
on ramp is h is currently is currently in the
works where they're just trying to tell people that, hey,
you got to get caught up. You need to uh,
you need to to get this, get this, this is
This didn't just go away because there were some changes
made where you could hit pause, and there was a
change as far as what the interest was doing. But
right now it looks as if these skip payments have

(08:52):
doubled year over year, and it looks like a total
of U the total US student loan debt room mains
around one point six trillion, which is not really that surprising.
I suppose again we're talking about I mean, when you consider,
let's just say you have to take out student loans
for all of your four years of college, I mean,

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think about what that adds up to be. And there's
many people that do that, and I am pleased to
know that there's at least more of an understanding of
what you're walking into if that is what you do. Meaning,
if that's the way you have to go about it,
are you setting yourself up for a really tough situation
as you start your professional life post college to where yeah,

(09:37):
you're at an entry level career and you're making money.
You got through with college, But can you even benefit
from the college education as far as the pay because
entry level salaries aren't really that impressive in a lot
of industries right now, and you're gonna have to pay
a lot of this money back. So it's one point

(09:58):
six trillion, is I mean, that's a ton of money, clearly,
But when you just consider how many people do have
to finance their college education and that they likely go
for four or more years, i'd how you get to
that number. So yeah, I feel for those that are
still trying to make ends meet, and that's still a
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(11:17):
It is seven thirty five here on a Thursday morning.
It is coffee and company with you, Kentucky and this
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hanging out with us on a wet and soggy Thursday.
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All right.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
The roadways so far this morning have not been awesome,
and that tends to happen whenever you've got you've got
wet roadways, and that's what we have this morning. So
we'll get a we'll get caught up here with Bobby
Ellis and see just how bad it is out there
as far as traffic, and then of course we'll also
get another update on the weather. Some things I want
to make sure we get to before we run out
of time and hand it off to the fellas Tony

(15:56):
and Dwight, Taco Bell apparently rely on AI in an experiment,
and it may be a reminder that AI is advancing
pretty I mean, it's exploding, but it may not be
there yet to where you can just rely on AI
to do work for you, like you know, fast food
service and whatnot. So we can certainly get into that

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and a lot more as we as we move along.
Here again, it is a Thursday morning, it is Kentucky
in this morning news on news radio waight forty whas.
So I gotta admit I don't think I've ever experienced
the AI drive through situation at fast food restaurants, and
I knew it was the thing. I just haven't experienced it,
and it probably would. It probably would turn me off,

(16:42):
not to say, I can't believe they're doing this, what's
wrong with them? I'm never giving them any business, because
you know, I wouldn't care enough to do that, but
I would probably still like to know. Okay, let's keep
it old school here. Let me order and at least
tell somebody what it.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Is that I want.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
But Taco Bell introduced five hundred drive through AI locates
in the year twenty twenty four, and throughout the year
two million orders were placed via their AI system, and
the customer experiences have been hit or missed, to say
the least. There was a customer that tested the limits once,

(17:17):
even trying to order eighteen thousand cups of water before
a real employee intervened, and I guess had to say like, hey,
what are you doing here? I guess maybe there's things
that will will the AI will, the robot will essentially
let a real human know, Hey, some I can't comprehend
what they're doing here, what's going on? So the Taco
Bell CEO did say that the system has let them

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down at times, but says the company is learning and refining.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
And I think if you.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Are able to just go full force and get rid
of many employees in the store and rely a lot
on AI, you may get people that realize, hey, I'm
not doing it and I'm losing business, and you know,
or I'm not giving them them any business because I
want to still go to Because here's what I think.
I think if they there's got to be a they're

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not going to do it because they're competitors. But I
think like a collective decision from the fast food giants
that they're all going AI would probably benefit them, because
I think there's still enough people that unless they're just
super loyal and they only like one fast food restaurant
when they've got six to choose from off of an
exit on I sixty five or wherever they are, if

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they know one place is all AI and the others aren't,
I still think there's many that will just select another option.
That is I shouldn't call it old school because it's
really not, but it's it's non AI. It's where there's
a real human they're taking your order where you actually
you actually communicate. So, John, you told me you've experienced
an AI drive through at a fast food place that

(18:47):
will rename it, that will remain nameless, and it sounds
like it wasn't a good experience for you from what
I'm getting.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
The aggravating thing about it is that it's it was
slow for one thing, and then they try to ask
you a bunch of extra questions like do you want
to add this to it? Do you want to get
this special that they're having, that sort of thing, And
I just want to order my mozarella sticks and move
on that sort of you know what I mean, Just
get my order and go to the drive through. Getting
and you know, head home, getting the parking lot, or
sitting in the parking lot and eat whatever it may be.

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It just made it a very it made it a
much slower experience. I'm sure it was just a test
because they don't do it anymore the particular place that
we're talking about, But it wasn't a very good experiment.
I would imagine.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's not a huge like, it really doesn't impact me overall.
But I don't know why I get so annoyed anywhere
I go whenever I've got to get through like an
introductory meeting where they ask me if I'm a member
of a program, and do I want to be a member?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Am I signing it on the boards?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Do I?

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
And clearly that's a successful uh, that's a successful route
when it comes to retaining business and getting information. And
so I get why they do it. I understand, but
it just it annoys me whenever it's we're talking maybe
a three to five second delay and actually completing the transaction.
But when you've been waiting at a drive through longer

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you than you want, which happens often, and the first
thing you hear is not the person taking your order,
it's a pre recorded would you are you checking in online?
Are you using your mobile ad? What's your social Security number?
What was your dog's name? Like? Just let me order, right,
I mean, it's it's again, it's it's just I guess
speaks to my my impatience.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Or even when you when you say your order and
you say it clearly and then they think you ordered
something else.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh I would, I would, I would leave, not really,
but like I don't know why I think.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean, I would if my mother heard what I
said to Siri or Alexa when she doesn't hear me,
she would blush and be and be ashamed of her
son because I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
But if if I say.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Something and they don't get it at all and do
something different, it makes me angry and I don't I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's not a real human. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean again, it's my fault for not just doing
it myself and being lazy and you know, thinking I
can just tell it what to do.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
But uh, I don't use it that often.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
But when I do, especially when I do talk to text,
and it has words that I'm not even sure what
they are instead of what I'm saying which I think
is pretty clear. It just annoys me, which makes me
think that maybe once we do become really even more
so reliant upon technology and AI, that I'm gonna be
the grumpy old guy that just wishes we had old

(21:21):
school human interaction, which really is an old school but
it will be at some point, that is for sure.
And yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'll eventually experience an
AI drive through, and I'm sure if I have frustrations
and a delay and complaints, I.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Won't be the only one.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
All right, Let's talk about Jeffson Animal Hospital. They have
partner up with the American Red Cross here for an
awesome event. It's the second year they're doing it, and
they're going to let you donate blood with the American
Red Cross, and they're also going to let your pets
donate blood as well. And I don't know if people realize,
but pet blood donation is a really really important thing
right now.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's needed.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Each pet donation as far as blood can save up
to four to six lives. And I can't tell you
enough how much I appreciate the partnership that we've had
with j Jefferson Animal Hospital. And I know many of
you listening, appreciate them for all that they've done over
the years. I mean they've been around for forty plus years,
I'm sorry, forty five years serving the louisvill community since

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nineteen eighty. They've been open twenty four hours a day,
including all holidays, with a doctor on site every night
including Christmas. And that's the Oklahona location there. So again,
they've been there for you probably when your pets have
an emergency. If they haven't been there because you haven't
had one, that's awesome, But eventually they happen, and you
need to know where you can turn to, and I
can tell you Jeffson Animal Hospital and outter Loop. That's
where you should turn. You can get more information about

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them at Jefferson Vets dot com. And if you want
to get more info on the Pet Blood Bank event,
go to pet Bloodbank dot com or you can call
five oh two nine hundred pets and chat with them.
But the event is Saturday, September twenty seven. That again,
the Jefferson Animal Hospital and Regional Emergency Center four five
zero four outer Loop. It's pints for palls and people
and they're going to have food, they're going to let

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you talk to the experts, because obviously, when it comes
to this, I'm sure you have questions about that process.
Right your dog or cat donating blood, which maybe you've
never even thought about it. They'll let you know, they'll
put you at ease and tell you how the process works.
And again, every donation can save up to four to
six lives. So again, check that out. On Saturday, September
twenty seventh at the Jeff's Animal Hospital on outer Loop,

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