9.5: Sour Milk - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is here. Do you feel it?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Can you smell it? That's Friday, ladies and gentlemen. We
have made it welcome in. It is Coffee and Company,
Kentucky in his morning News with You on News Radio
eight forty whas. I'm not sure why I'm talking so fast.
It's maybe because I'm so excited that that it is Friday.
I'm also excited that we've got the full crew here
in the house, Scott Fitzgerald alongside the company man, John Alden.
He is the one actually who makes this happen because
he's the one hitting buttons in his studio that without him,

(00:24):
we wouldn't. We would just be talking to nobody. Scott.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
That's exactly right, John, Good morning to you, by good morning,
Happy Friday to both of you.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes, Happy Friday, Friday, Hey Friday to John Shannon too.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know he might need a little more of a
of a of a warm welcome this morning because he
might be feeling down about the Cowboys coming.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
To UH coming up short last night.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I will say that game was much more competitive
than I expected as the NFL season got started last night,
and I think both teams from what you saw in
Week one look to be pretty solid knocking start.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah solid.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
What was not solid was the weather delay that it
just I mean, yeah, I stayed up, which was a
foolish mistake. I mean, I'm good now, but I'm sure
I'll be paying for it later. I'll be sitting probably
on my recliner knowing, Okay, I got to get the
kids in about an hour, and then I'll realize, oh, man,
if I fall asleep, I may I may not give
back up. Yep, because I'm just you know, I'm paying
for But that's that's the sacrifices you make as an

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NFL addict.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Absolutely, that's that's what you do. It's just part of life.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, in fact, I was already making I'm getting into
the fantasy now and I was already making trade yesterday,
which is.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh, you're willing to do? And man, what is fun
is my I told you yesterday my daughter I heard
you were a great GM just saying I've heard good things.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
My daughter made this league. So my wife and her
sisters are in it. They it's like when people pick
March Madness, know absolutely nothing of what they're doing. Some
of my wife's sitting there last night, she goes, wait,
citey you am he's my player, and I'm like, that's
the beauty of this game.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
And in all seriousness, do you know how many people
here and there over many many years have really had
that type of thing be there. They're I guess, stepping
into being a fan of and realizing like it can
be fun. I mean, fantasy football still popular. I think
sports betting, of course has maybe taken a little bit

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of attention away from it, but also it's helped sports,
especially the NFL, because if you're betting on like I know,
people who I didn't even really know are that. You know,
I wouldn't consider them to be big time sports enthusiasts,
where they follow it, they keep up with it, they
like it like anybody else, and they're like great at
gambling on sports, and you know that is there's no

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doubt interest level and engagement for sports has has picked
up with sports gambling, with fantasy football. I mean you
could make the case and I think we talked about
it the other day that of all the many moments
the NFL has had to just show their dominance, I
believe the fantasy aspect of it really did give them
a boost that maybe some people don't realize it's been
around for so long now.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yes, and hence we saw it last night just to hear.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
And now my wife's becoming even a bigger baseball fan
now because we had the red zone, because my son
works for I mean, she actually got to go to
a game.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh yeah, so I's AM's going to be a fan
of the son's employer. That makes total sense, that's right.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
But it was a good game.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I say, it is great to see the NFL. We
get it again tonight and we've got, of course the
chief going at it. A lot of people think in
the Chiefs when you're talking bold predictions, a lot of
people think Chiefs want to make the playoffs this year.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, there's by the way, there's a lot of wild
hot takes being spewed out there as the NFL season
is getting started. And I now, as I've removed myself
from sports a little bit as far as just not
interest level and whatnot, I still love it, but obviously
it's not as big of a of a priority for
me as far as my job. I now notice things
that I'm like, man, yeah, what are we doing here?

(03:37):
Like I don't believe that you believe what you're yelling
about and you seem really really, really strongly opinionated on it.
But I don't believe that you believe what you're saying. Yes,
that's h and look, I'll be honest, I'll throw a
party if the Chiefs don't.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Make the playoffs, I think. But I feel like that is.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
One of those things that people say because they know
that will catch people's attention.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I agree, And I went through the exact thing
you went through. There was this magical point in my
life life or the hot take finally became okay.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're just saying that.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're saying that just to say that now.
And there's people that give hot takes that I respect,
but on the same token.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
And there's some people that just can't quite understand that
there's never going to be the payoff that you're anticipating.
Let me give you an example. Skip Bayless hot take artist,
hot take professional right, the best of the best as
far as just saying crazy things, you he hates Lebron James,
and he's made a big time career out of saying

(04:31):
nonsensical things about a lot of people, mostly Lebron James.
And there are people who love Lebron James, and when
Lebron wins a title in Cleveland or when he wins
his first one in Miami, they think the payoff is
oh okay'not wait to tune in to see Screaming A
Smith and Skip Bayless tomorrow because Skip's gonna have to
eat take his medicine.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
No, he'll always find a way to tell you that.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Lebron's a bum and it's you know, it's he's he's
a clown and he's not gonna be MJ. And it's
a cycle that I just I feel less of society
knowing that there's so many people, millions of them, that
don't quite understand that that that just it's just a game.
I mean, and I don't mean sports is just a game.
It is, but like that's that's how Steven A. Smith
can be the highest paid man that works for ESPN,

(05:13):
and yet nobody's ever once been like, wow, you know,
it's a really good point.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Steve.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Steve, Steve h really out there just providing great analysis.
This morning, I had.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Somebody in this business who used to work for this
station tell me, no matter what you do, it's a
long long time ago when I was first coming up.
Never ever, ever let anybody know you're wrong, no matter
what you have to say. I'm like, Okay, that didn't
sit right with me for some reason. I mean, I
get it, but I was kind of like, if you're wrong,
you're wrong, go ahead and throw it out there.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't think there's a more valuable quality in someone
than being able to acknowledge faults and admit when wrong.
And if you can't, I don't have any time for it.
R Yeah, exactly, I can't.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I can't. I can't go there with you. Yeah, it's
a Friday, folks.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It looks like the rain is expected to hold off,
which you know, fingers Crow. We've got a big game
tonight for the Louis of the Cardinals, and of course,
what a weekend we've got. We'll talk to some sports
with Scott coming up about fifteen minutes. We've got traffic
in weather on the way. And it's a Friday, folks,
let's have some fun. What I want to get to
next is JCPS. I found myself defending JCPS here and

(06:17):
there because I do feel like they're trying right, but
something that has happened simply cannot happen and it did.
So we'll talk about that next right here, And he
was ready to wait forty whs. So it was already
bad enough that JCPS did have to acknowledge that they

(06:38):
were giving out bad spoiled milk to students. Oh yeah,
you missed the story when you were out, John, And
it's it's I'm trying to give bene through the doubt here.
But even even if I did and say, hey, honest mistake,
really unfortunate situation, overall, it's still just simply can't happen.
And I don't mean the fact that bad milk went

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to kick kids. But here's what we know now, and
I'll give WDRB credit here. This was something I'm glad
I did see last night as I was taking some
time to find something else to watch because the NFL
game was in rain delay. But JCPS there, they're starting
to get some backlash, and I think they're going to
get more just because of after internal records have revealed

(07:19):
that the district knew about spoiled milk before it was
served to students, in fact, nearly a week before they
notified parents of the situation. So initial statements that they
sent out claiming no students drank the milk were later
proven to absolutely be false. I hesitate to say absolutely
a lie, because, as the superintendent did say when asked,

(07:43):
doctor Yearwood said that that message could have been put
out by someone who really would not know specifically if
they'd had it or not, and that's that's plausible, but
either way it was not true. So let's give the
timeline here. Stone Street Elementary staff they reported finding mold

(08:03):
inside the Prairie Farm's milk cartons. Seneca High School and
Goldsmith Elementary students notified the lunch room and I guess
teachers as well that the milk that they were drinking
tasted sour. So that's on the fourteenth. We're talking about
staff and students at different schools within the district saying
we got some bad milk. Care Well, that's the fourteenth.

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On August eighteenth through twenty first to the twenty first,
reports poured in from schools all over all over describing
sour smells, curdling, and missed expiration dates, meaning they either
weren't on there, which that's a whole other conversation potentially.
I don't want to allege that they were trying to
hide it. But either way, I mean, if they're not
on there, that just seems odd. And then also there

(08:48):
were photos and staff emails that were documented widespread spoilage
and poor storage practices. Were talking photos of staff members
letting everybody know, hey, we got a situation here. So
that was the fourteenth, the initial timeline, and then days
later it's becoming a bigger issue. Yet parents hadn't been

(09:11):
notified in about six days, so JCPS waited until August
the twenty to inform parents, initially saying the issue was
caught in quote routine quality checks and that quote no
students consumed the spoiled milk.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's a lie.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
It wasn't noticed in routine quality checks, and students did
consume the milk. It's just a flat out And again
it can be a lie. That is, maybe this is
an example of a lie that there was no bad intent,
but that's just not true. So later that day, to
their credit, they did walk back to the statement admitting
students had complained their milk tastes. It's funny, which, look,
some people just make silly decisions that you can't make

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any sense of. But if in fact the person who
put the message out from the pr side of things,
that no students drank the milk if they thought that
they were just gonna be able to get away with lying.
I can't believe that, because kids would see that and
be like, what are you talking about. I tasted the milk,
I've been sick or something. So I mean, if it's not,

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I mean, here's what makes it worse. According to records,
you know, complaints from staff and students at several schools
continued to come in after JCPS had already sent out
its first letter to parents on August twenty. It's saying
the issue was discovered during routine checks and no students.
So you've got some elementary schools and male high school
staff that put milk on hold after they were still

(10:29):
getting complaints. So it continued to be a problem. And
it sounds like even after they tried to clarify their
response and.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Walk it back a little bit, there was still bad.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Milk being served and that just can't happen, Like that's
just that's it can't happen. All right, we got an
update of trafficking weather coming your way. Also, we'll get
to sports with Scott Fitzgerald. It is a five twenty
one here News radiway forty whs it is five thirty
five here on a Friday morning, News Radio eight forty

(11:00):
whas coffee and company with you. Appreciate you hanging out
with us. So a scary situation yesterday afternoon ended up
being i mean, still an issue, probably a traumatic experience overall,
but what I'm sure was a couple hours of worrying
in a major way. I'm sure the parents in this

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situation were relieved to know that everything was okay. And
what I'm talking about is LMPD having to reunite a
couple of kids with their mother, because in East Louisville
yesterday afternoon, there were two young children that were found
wandering away from their home. And I mean, I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
To see the exact ages of these of these.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Children, but they were I mean, I think one of
them was a baby, and they shared the story on
social media, meeting LMPD stating that they're looking for I mean,
that tells you that they really didn't know where to
start in these kids. Again, I'm trying to pull up
the exact day just because I don't I don't want
to get it incorrect here, but I believe they were
two very very young children that didn't know. They couldn't

(12:05):
tell them I guess where they'd come from, They couldn't
tell them how to get in touch with anybody. Therefore,
LMPD they had to essentially post on their platform saying, hey,
we're looking for somebody who can account for these two
who's responsible for these two young children? Because they were
found roaming around, So it didn't take long for somebody,
I guess once it became public to realize they knew

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those children and they were able to reunite them. But
it turns out they were spotted running around. Yeah, it
looks like they were running, and it was near an
apartment complex at the ninety two hundred block of Blossom Lane,
and there was a concerned passer by who noticed alerted authorities.
That was about two fifteen yesterday afternoon in LMPD got
involved right away, and they did credit the quick thinking

(12:47):
resident who stepped in to say, hey, you know this,
this doesn't seem right, and they did the right thing
by Coln law enforcement. So no charges are expected in
the case. So it sounds as if they got away.
They they got away from their grandmother somehow. Their grandmother
was watching them, and I guess for a brief moment
wasn't watching them, and they ended up I guess sneaking

(13:07):
out essentially. And again I can't imagine. I mean, I've
I could think of many times in like the last
few months where I'm at a store or in fact,
I tell you the last time that had happened. I got
out of the car to pump gas. And my gas
pump is on the left, my gas tank is on

(13:29):
the left side, so when I get out of the
it's on the driver'side, I should say, so when I
get out and it's right there, I don't have to
walk around the car or anything. So my daughter was
in the back seat, in the passenger side, back seat,
and I looked in the back seat as I'm a
pump gas, and she never gets out of the vehicle.

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And sure enough I looked to my right as I'm
pumping gas and noticed that she was not in her seat.
And I looked to my left, looked to my right,
didn't see her. And I'm panicking. And we're talking about
maybe like half a second where I just have that
like my heart dropped, And sure enough, as soon as
I probably completely lose my mind.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Here she is.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
She she was walking around the vehicle and just so
happened that as I was looking, I just didn't catch
her because she was you know, the brief moment where
she's in where she's she's literally behind the vehicle where
I can't see her. And of course, you know, I
got on her. And she really didn't do anything wrong.
She just got out of the car and walked over
to me. She didn't, she didn't wonder off. But when
you when you are somewhere and you and you're within
your peripheral, you can no longer see your young kid,

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especially if you're out, if you're out at a busy
place or public place, I mean, it'll, it'll, it'll scare
the heck out of you. So I'm sure this is
a lesson learned to keep your eye on your kids
or your grandkids. And I will ask this to what
I'll ask to White Mitchell's coming up a little bit
later on, because I feel like this is also something
where police just really have it's their discretion, or maybe

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it's prosecutor's discretion.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I really don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
And again, maybe a good question for Dwight, who's going
to join us later on because there are parents who
get charged with things like that and child endangerment. It
happens all the time. Unfortunately. In fact, probably more than
anybody realizes, there are people who just they leave their
young young children at home unattended and go do something,

(15:18):
probably sometimes doing things they probably shouldn't be doing, but
it's not really an emergency situation. But they do it
for an hour, they get away with it, and then
they just assume, okay, that's fine. They can watch themselves
until eventually, you know, they get out or somebody notices that,
let's say, get out like the pets. But you know,
they end up they end up leaving the apartment, the
house wherever you live, or maybe something happens, one of

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them gets hurt and nobody's there to help them. I mean,
I mean, I don't think it needs to be said
that you shouldn't do that, but I guess I'm not
really surprised that people do so. Again, what was a
real scary situation ended up really being something that fortunately
everybody everybody was Okay, all right, we've got tracking weather
updates on your way here in just a moment. We

(16:02):
also have Rory O'Neil, who is set to join us
coming up in about five minutes or so, looking forward
to our daily chat with Rory O'Neill, and also Sport's
coming your way in about fifteen minutes, and we've got
a loaded show. I've yet to really set the table here,
but we've got coming up at seven o'clock, will be
joined by LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell, and then at seven

(16:23):
forty five we're going to talk to the voice of
the Kentucky Wildcats, Tom Leach, and then at eight o'clock
we're going to hear from Mayor Greenberg. So we've got
a full show for you guys this morning, and we
appreciate you letting us be a part of your morning
as we get this Friday started. It's News Radio Way
forty WHS. Happy Friday, Kentucky. Anda appreciate you joining us

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here on a Friday morning on Who's Radio Waight forty
whas it is Coffee and Company with the Kentucky Eds
Morning News and we have Rory O'Neill of NBC who
is with us here to get things started. Rory, what
can you tell us as far as the test testimony
from RFK yesterday? I wouldn't ask you to give us
a full breakdown, but just some takeaway as a recap.

(17:06):
And I guess just what we heard on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, what was most interesting, I think was the fact
that RFK Junior, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
got pretty equally grilled by Democrats and Republicans alike. You know,
a lot of the Republicans who had some of the
toughest questions were physicians themselves, who were very critical of
Kennedy and the way he sort of turned the CDC
upside to be disrupting it a.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Bit too much.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
But they're also trying to walk this fine line where
they say that Operation Warp Speed, the program that developed
the COVID vaccine, was the greatest thing since slice bread,
and President Trump should win the Nobel Prize for Operation
Warp Speed.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
But at the same time they claim, now.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Skeptically that you know, Secretary Kennedy said it was probably
the deadliest vaccine ever created.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
So you started to saying, well, wait, how does that jibe.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
But a lot of performative performances there from senators from
both sides.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of the aisle, So what's next in this situation? How
does this play out.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, there were some allegations that were made about the
CDC director who was fired last month. She wrote an
op ed that was published just hours before the hearing began,
accusing Kennedy of essentially saying, look, you have to rubber
stamp what this vaccine committee is going to do before
they even do it. She refused, that's why she was fired.
That's what she claims. Anyway, Kennedy has a different version

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of events. She might be up to testify before this
committee soon.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Rory on Hil of NBC News is our guest joining
us here on news radio eight forty. Whas So, the
National Guard is expected to maintain presence in DC for months,
and now we've got Boston, New Orleans, Chicago maybe next
for the National Guard. As far as just policing those cities,
what can you tell us as far as just the pushback,
Clearly there's pushback from Chicago. But when it comes to

(19:00):
d C, I mean again, I'm asking you to tell
me the impossible, which is what's really true? What's what
should we believe? What's what's the actually suit here? Because
with DC you're seeing a drop in crime. But you know,
some people are saying that Trump deserves credit for the
presence that's there by the Guard, and then others say, hey, no,
he's taking credit. We already implemented things before he got here.
I don't know what to believe.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Rory, Well, it's a little it's a buffet.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Of belief, Okay, that you're still in that a little
bit from there.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Get to the middle and find out what's true.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
So right, the National Guard troops that actually are from
d C, they just got their mission extended through the
end of November. Now those Guard troops that are there
from other states, most believe or the governors have sent
them there saying essentially plan on being there through December,
and again those missions could be extended.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Now. The look the Guard.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
The criticism of the Guard is that they're standing around,
not doing much of anything, taking photos with tourists. Now
you're taking up trash, cleaning trash and putting down mulch
as part of a beautification project, which you know that's
a very expensive way to do it is to deploy
National Guard troups for it.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Others will say, look, their.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Presence is a crime fighting tool, and by being around
the National Mall and the other tourist spots, they then
free up police to do other activities. Plus, in addition
to the Guard troops which we focus on, there's also
a lot of ICE activities, So there's a lot of
immigration agents going through going through these raids and sweeping

(20:28):
up people who are in the country illegally. So that's
another big component here. We tend to talk more about
the Guard than the ICE operations.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
So when it comes to you know, I'm sure people
who use this as a as a real gripe against it,
I'm sure some of their opinion is rooted in politics.
But let's just try to act like somebody can view
things without having that political lens on. Just the presence
of the National Guard as far as just you know,
them being armed, I do think that again, politics aside,

(20:56):
that could make people feel uncomfortable. However, maybe if you
realize just how dangerous where you live is your city,
I mean maybe that means again, I think both both
options could take you uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well well right, and you know it could be too intimidating.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't know if I want to go out to
dinner tonight.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, exim is a fair word to use.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Right, I got to walk past all these things and
the armed guards and what's going on? Am I in
the prison or you could say, oh, thank goodness, they
make me feel safe and secure. So it really is
going to be up to the individual how they perceive that.
So it's a bit tricky, and you know, do you
want armed guards like that walking through your nation's capital
at all times? Plus, by the way, that also means

(21:38):
uncle Sam, you and I are footing the bill for this,
right unlike you know. That's the other thing is that
the mayor of DC has sort of been like, you
want to spend two billion dollars. You want to beautify
and spread mulch and clean up trash, and my city
doesn't have to do it. You're saving my budget. Go
to knock yourself out. It's essentially, you know, part of
her message is, well, we'll take the free help and

(21:59):
anything else you want to invest in the district.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Rory, as always, we appreciate your time and enjoy the
rest of your Friday, have a great week, and we'll
talk next week.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
My friend, Thanks Nick, talk to you then.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
That is Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Always appreciate his time.
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