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Speaker 2: All right, So we did start the day updating you
Speaker 2: on the big stories from yesterday, and of course one
Speaker 2: of those was what took place on Sunday afternoon at
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Fairgrounds where there was reports of an active
Speaker 2: shooter at both Kentucky Kingdom and also at a basketball
Speaker 2: tournament that had forty thousand people there. And I just
Speaker 2: think this happens to be just bad luck as far
Speaker 2: as just what led to. Like, if you are upset,
Speaker 2: which I'm bummed, I shouldn't say that I'm upset, because
Speaker 2: I just think it's unfortunate for this story to and
Speaker 2: again it's it's understandable that the story turned into what
Speaker 2: it turned into. It's understandable kind of how all of
Speaker 2: this happened. So I don't really know who if you're
Speaker 2: upset about it, I mean who you mad at, Like,
Speaker 2: who could have prevented this?
Speaker 1: Who's at fault? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just a terrible timed, random thing that took place
Speaker 2: that hopefully the coverage now as we as we stand
Speaker 2: here at six h six is hopefully there's enough people
Speaker 2: that realize Louisville was that this is not an example
Speaker 2: to point out about Louisville being a dangerous and violent city.
Speaker 2: And anybody paying even a little bit of attention to
Speaker 2: this story specifically they know that, but a lot of
Speaker 2: people aren't paying specific attention. A lot of people saw
Speaker 2: this on the news wire Sunday that don't live here,
Speaker 2: or maybe they just don't follow things unless you know,
Speaker 2: it gets the attention that something like this gets. And
Speaker 2: I just you know, it's unfortunate because I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what could have been done to prevent it turning into
Speaker 2: what it turned into. So, as you heard there in
Speaker 2: the latest news cast from from John Shannon, what we
Speaker 2: now know is that it was a combination of these
Speaker 2: two things that really got this to what it turned into,
Speaker 2: and that was a ceiling tile falling and hitting a
Speaker 2: metal chair, which of course that'll create a very loud noise,
Speaker 2: especially when it's that far in the in the sky
Speaker 2: or in the air in the ceiling and hitting a
Speaker 2: metal chair. And then also a moment where a woman
Speaker 2: experienced a medical emergency nearby around that same time. So
Speaker 2: the combination of sounds of that tile hitting the chair
Speaker 2: and the sounds of a woman having a medical emergency,
Speaker 2: that commotion created people assuming that it was that it
Speaker 2: was an active shooter and all it takes is one
Speaker 2: person and to maybe think that's the case, and maybe
Speaker 2: they just they that's how they that's how they're wired,
Speaker 2: meaning they just they have word vomit and they didn't
Speaker 2: see it, but they were worried and they were scared,
Speaker 2: so they just said it. And now if somebody says it,
Speaker 2: you can't think they're joking, because that's just unfortunately today's society.
Speaker 1: So I just think it's it's terrible luck. I really do. Now.
Speaker 2: One of the LMPD spokesman yesterday who you heard there
Speaker 2: in the newscast with John Shannon, Matt Sanders. He talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about just the calls that prompted the
Speaker 2: response that you saw from LMPD on Sunday, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, any type of call of that nature, there's
Speaker 2: always going to be that kind of response.
Speaker 3: So that escalated to nine to one one calls for
Speaker 3: service for an active aggressor at their fairgrounds with forty
Speaker 3: thousand people prompting your police response. So when we show
Speaker 3: up on scene, we're in search mode, and then when
Speaker 3: we hear gunshots, it's fast as you can go. You're
Speaker 3: blowing past doors. You're not searching anymore, you're going to
Speaker 3: the sound of gunshots. We never heard that yesterday.
Speaker 2: So again, this is one of those situations that I
Speaker 2: don't know who's at fault. I think LMPD showing up
Speaker 2: the way that they did. If you are somebody that
Speaker 2: is there already fearful of what's going to happen, because
Speaker 2: the assumption is that there's an active aggressor, somebody with
Speaker 2: a gun, and you're probably scrambling to find your your
Speaker 2: loved ones who you're there with. Maybe that I mean,
Speaker 2: even if you're there as a referee or something, you're
Speaker 2: there by yourself, like it's a scary situation that clearly
Speaker 2: is is something that can that can stick with you,
Speaker 2: just having that moment of helplessness, that feeling and fear.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if I saw law enforcement show up
Speaker 2: the way that they did, my I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know where my mind would be, but it would only
Speaker 2: more so make me think this is real. That is
Speaker 2: that that's they're here reacting like this because they know
Speaker 2: And again you're not. You're not You're not investigating the
Speaker 2: those who show up as if they have the right
Speaker 2: to be. You know, it's you're not overthinking in that
Speaker 2: moment I wouldn't expect. So it sucks and I just
Speaker 2: don't know if there's much that could have been done
Speaker 2: to prevent it. It's just a bad set of circumstances
Speaker 2: that I hope just doesn't end up being something. And look,
Speaker 2: anybody claiming that this is an example of of let
Speaker 2: me try to make sense, I'm about to go down
Speaker 2: a path where I think I may lose you, just
Speaker 2: because as I was trying to think about how I
Speaker 2: want to lay it out, I was confusing myself. But
Speaker 2: even though people will know that this ended up being
Speaker 2: not a real threat, there was no real danger. This
Speaker 2: wasn't an incident where Louisville can be, you know, described
Speaker 2: as a dangerous place with a lot of gun violence.
Speaker 1: Now we are that, trust me.
Speaker 2: But this is clearly just this is just bad luck.
Speaker 2: But just knowing that it happened, it'll it still sticks
Speaker 2: with people to where there's that stigma. And again, I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that we don't have issues as far as
Speaker 2: gun violence and whatnot, but I just hope that this
Speaker 2: has no impact on the future of the tournament. And
Speaker 2: a lot of the coverage you're seeing about players, parents,
Speaker 2: coaches being interviewed, this was all before they realized that
Speaker 2: there was They were never in danger. There was no threat,
Speaker 2: and I just I don't know, I think that should
Speaker 2: be emphasized more than it is, but that's just me.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get an update on traffic and weather. Also,
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Speaker 2: coming from from the recent tax cuts from Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So we'll get that in a lot more. It's consecutive.
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Speaker 2: news Radio eight forty whas So, when it comes to
Speaker 2: situations like Sunday spreading the way that they the way
Speaker 2: that they do on social media, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: factors in that, but one of them is the groups
Speaker 2: out there that follow the police scanner, and I think
Speaker 2: that's led to certain people. I know of a couple
Speaker 2: folks that were there at the event, and I guess
Speaker 2: they didn't realize just maybe they were late in realizing
Speaker 2: what was going on. Maybe they weren't near where the
Speaker 2: tile fell and hit the chair and created just that
Speaker 2: commotion that had everybody thinking there was potentially an active
Speaker 2: shooter there. But it spreads like wildfire on social media
Speaker 2: because the Facebook groups that follow this they and I
Speaker 2: think these people at times just want to have information
Speaker 2: and maybe they want to help, but they'll read or hear.
Speaker 2: Actually what happens is someone will will overhear somebody probably
Speaker 2: reacting to a nine one call that had come in,
Speaker 2: and then they'll paraphrase it as best they can and
Speaker 2: it just maybe gets exaggerated every time it is shared,
Speaker 2: and that sometimes leads to just misinformation getting out there.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure there LMPD appreciates those that are that
Speaker 2: are trying to help. But sometimes you know, if you
Speaker 2: don't have the right info, it can be you could
Speaker 2: be hurting more than helping. But anyhow, nothing, it was nothing,
Speaker 2: which again is good. I just to know that it
Speaker 2: easily could have been avoided. That's that's what's got me
Speaker 2: bummed out a little bit. All Right, it's six nineteen
Speaker 2: here at Kentucky and it's morning News, Coffee and company
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Speaker 2: weather coming your way, Bobby Ellis. We'll getus caught up
Speaker 2: on the roadways as we get this Tuesday started. We'll
Speaker 2: get a check of the forecast from Matt Melossavitch a WLKY,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get another sports update with Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 2: right here. On news radio eight forty whas. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Anda's Morning News
Speaker 2: with coffee and company right here on news radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas. So we talked about this, I believe, I
Speaker 2: believe it was late last week and it was former
Speaker 2: Louisville Cardinal Teddy Bridgewater who was requesting some assistance as
Speaker 2: far as helping fund the high school football program that
Speaker 2: he is coaching and has been funding out of his
Speaker 2: own pocket. And this is now turned into Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 2: probably being done as their coach. And I'll give you
Speaker 2: the details here in just a moment. But what I
Speaker 2: think could happen this to me, is generating enough attention
Speaker 2: that I don't know what action can be taken that
Speaker 2: would make everybody say, Okay, you guys fixed it, you
Speaker 2: got it right. But man the decision to suspend him
Speaker 2: from them from being the coach because of learning of
Speaker 2: all the money that he paid out of his own
Speaker 2: pocket to help his program. He wasn't out there buying players.
Speaker 2: He was help He was helping them be able to
Speaker 2: get to practice. He was helping them have a meal
Speaker 2: before a game, because they wouldn't have probably had one
Speaker 2: without him helping. So him being punished for that, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's maybe the best example I can think of
Speaker 2: in a long time of the higher level I guess
Speaker 2: just the school systems. Do they like or do you
Speaker 2: care for the kids or not? I mean, to punish
Speaker 2: somebody for helping out. Isn't the root of what you
Speaker 2: do when it comes to athletics within the school system
Speaker 2: and even with the NCAA like Isn't it supposed to
Speaker 2: be about the athletes the players. So Teddy has had
Speaker 2: a rough few days, but he seems to be handling
Speaker 2: it like you would expect. Of course, he's a Louis
Speaker 2: of a legend, and he's one of those guys that
Speaker 2: I I wouldn't claim to know personally, but I've never
Speaker 2: heard anybody who does know him not pause what they're
Speaker 2: doing if his name comes up and talk about how
Speaker 2: good of a guy he is. And you can tell
Speaker 2: that that reputation is fitting when you just see the
Speaker 2: overall respect that he commanded in his ten plus years
Speaker 2: in the NFL, just as a guy who was a
Speaker 2: good locker room guy, a guy who you know, was
Speaker 2: a leader and did things the right way.
Speaker 1: So not at all not.
Speaker 2: I mean, Teddy's the kind of guy that would in
Speaker 2: fact retire from the NFL go coach his high school
Speaker 2: football team, pay thousands upon thousands of dollars out of
Speaker 2: his own pocket to help his community because he did
Speaker 2: in fact make it out to become a professional athlete
Speaker 2: and doing very well for himself. And then of course
Speaker 2: he had the random signing with the Detroit Lions at
Speaker 2: the end of his high school season because they just
Speaker 2: wanted another experienced quarterback on the roster for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So anyways, what is now gotten him into some trouble
Speaker 2: is that the school has self reported violations because they
Speaker 2: claim what he did is technically against the rules, but
Speaker 2: there's really no What Teddy wants to emphasize, and it
Speaker 2: makes total sense, is that he does he volunteers, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: He's not a paid coach. They can't officially suspend him
Speaker 2: or investigate him whenever he doesn't work for them. I
Speaker 2: guess he kind of does. But anyways, Teddy, in a
Speaker 2: pretty fiery Facebook post, accused associate head coach Verne Lewis
Speaker 2: and others of trying to force him out because they,
Speaker 2: I guess want the gig. But he made it clear
Speaker 2: he's not going anywhere. He said he'll even volunteer from
Speaker 2: the bleachers if he has to, just like he did
Speaker 2: prior to becoming the coach. I mean, he would show
Speaker 2: up as an NFL uarterback on a Friday night and
Speaker 2: sit in the stands and watch his high school team
Speaker 2: play because that's just who he is. So he's a
Speaker 2: community first guy, cares a lot about his community and
Speaker 2: was funding a lot of the program himself and was
Speaker 2: asking for donations and it led to him now maybe
Speaker 2: not coaching again.
Speaker 1: And there were a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Des Bryant, Tyron, Matthew, RG three,
Speaker 2: Chanting Crowder, all of these and that's just a few
Speaker 2: as far as NFL players, highlighting his real love for
Speaker 2: his community, and it should be applauded not punished, which
Speaker 2: is true. So I mean, again, I know, you have
Speaker 2: to have rules, and if rules aren't enforced, then they're
Speaker 2: not rules, they're suggestions merely. But to me, this just
Speaker 2: seems like the best example as far as what you
Speaker 2: could present to say you might want to revaluate some
Speaker 2: of these rules. You might want to rethink sort of
Speaker 2: what you have in place, because this is not an
Speaker 2: example of somebody cheating or really, I mean, how could
Speaker 2: you look at what Teddy's doing and claim that like
Speaker 2: he's done anything wrong. But again I guess by technicality
Speaker 2: because of the rules, it's like impermissionble, impermissionble benefits or whatnot. Hey, look,
Speaker 2: Teddy Bridgewater could not pay a dime in Miami, Northwestern
Speaker 2: is still gonna always have all the players because that's
Speaker 2: what they've always done, And Teddy could not pay a
Speaker 2: dime to help them with meals and uber rides to
Speaker 2: practice where they don't have transportation, and they would still
Speaker 2: have all the players because they would want to play
Speaker 2: for a guy like Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, when we
Speaker 2: talked about this last week, I never for a second
Speaker 2: thought this would turn into him getting in trouble essentially
Speaker 2: and honestly losing his job that he volunteered for, that
Speaker 2: they didn't pay him for and he paid money out
Speaker 2: of his own pocket for. But that's where we are,
Speaker 2: and it's just a reminder of how archaics some rules are. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the NCAA gets way more attention on that because that's
Speaker 2: a national thing, and that is backfire. The NCAA wanting
Speaker 2: to hold onto their archaic amateurism model has led to
Speaker 2: some real cons sorrying about what college athletics looks like
Speaker 2: moving forward because the recent settlement and now the revenue
Speaker 2: having to be shared among athletes, that is going to
Speaker 2: change a lot moving forward. And it's all the NAA's
Speaker 2: fault for not revisiting things that you know, you probably
Speaker 2: should have revisited thirty forty years ago. So with high school,
Speaker 2: there's clearly some still there's clearly still some stupid rules
Speaker 2: in place that need to be reevaluated, because this is
Speaker 2: not somebody cheating, this is somebody just being a good
Speaker 2: human being. Also, I would assume that these other these
Speaker 2: other coaches that are trying to force them out, I mean,
Speaker 2: they probably want the gig.
Speaker 1: It's a good gig to have.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get an update on traffic from Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 2: We'll see how the Tuesday's getting started here as far
Speaker 2: as the roadways. Also, we get an update on the
Speaker 2: forecast from at Melosovich. As we move along here, it
Speaker 2: is Kentucky and it's Morning News with Coffee and Company
Speaker 2: on News Radio eight forty Whas it is six forty
Speaker 2: six here Kentucky and it's Morning News, Coffee and Company, myself,
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee, John Alden alongside today and John we're gonna
Speaker 2: break some hearts as I say this for those who
Speaker 2: didn't know, both John and myself are married, So ladies, sorry,
Speaker 2: I hope you guys can sense sarcasm as well. But
Speaker 2: we're both married and I don't get in fights with
Speaker 2: my wife, and I guess a fight can be viewed
Speaker 2: as a different thing than let me a fight for
Speaker 2: me and my wife is that you know, she didn't
Speaker 2: kiss me good night when when she went to bed
Speaker 2: because she was sending a message. We don't actually fight,
Speaker 2: but we've got an update here. As far as the
Speaker 2: most common reasons why American couples in relationships fight and
Speaker 2: what may be the biggest trigger. As far as what
Speaker 2: leads to a fight starting any guess.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably something related to money.
Speaker 2: Money is number two. So you are, you are, You're
Speaker 2: on the right track. But when it comes to reasons,
Speaker 2: I guess the most common reasons why American couples fight
Speaker 2: and argue it is the tone of voice or attitude
Speaker 2: that the other one may have.
Speaker 4: That's a good one. Yeah, I think that might be
Speaker 4: the thing that makes my wife when I fight the most.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think tone of voice and attitude is why
Speaker 2: most humans end up going down a potential path of conflict.
Speaker 2: But I guess just because, like I mean to me,
Speaker 2: it would take like a real out of character uh
Speaker 2: situation for for one of us to say, Okay, we're fighting,
Speaker 2: meaning like you know we need I'm mad, I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you know, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be pasive, aggressive, or I'm just gonna call you
Speaker 2: out because you know you're you're you're given attitude and
Speaker 2: you're just being a And look, I'll admit it, hand
Speaker 2: up way more often me than her as far as
Speaker 2: just being moody, and she puts up with it and
Speaker 2: deals with it just fine. But we're different in that way.
Speaker 2: So for me, if she's given me any kind of
Speaker 2: uh on the mound, it's fine, it's fine. I'm not mad.
Speaker 2: When whenever clearly she's mad, like I don't leave it alone,
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, like you can you know just what's
Speaker 2: going on, like and then we talk it through. Where
Speaker 2: with her, I think more than anything, she just doesn't care.
Speaker 2: She knows I'm just being a little you know what,
Speaker 2: and I'll get over it. But yeah, tone of voice, attitude?
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 2: Is there a hair? I am putting you on the
Speaker 2: spot here. I'm sorry because it's your personal life. But
Speaker 2: is there And if you don't want answer, you don't
Speaker 2: have to. Is there a indicator for you when it
Speaker 2: comes to tone of voice or attitude for your lovely
Speaker 2: wife Alicia, that kind of lets you know she's in
Speaker 2: a bad mood an indicator.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I'm just someone who's body like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, just we've already talked tone of voice, or
Speaker 4: if I can tell that she's just unhappy that maybe
Speaker 4: something hasn't gotten done around the house.
Speaker 1: That usually usually.
Speaker 4: Those types of things, I would say.
Speaker 2: I may regret this later, but I'll just say it.
Speaker 2: And Honey, when we got married, you married into this.
Speaker 2: Just just so you know you knew, you knew the
Speaker 2: deal when you signed up. My wife, well, she'll tell
Speaker 2: you this too. She just may not want me saying
Speaker 2: it on the air. She's got a real noticeable RBF
Speaker 2: oh man, resting b face to where and she knows
Speaker 2: it and she you know, is in fact that's it.
Speaker 2: Tom's been a way of getting her cheered up, because
Speaker 2: I'll just look at her, knowing she's bothered by something
Speaker 2: that's probably not a big deal, and I'll just say, man, you.
Speaker 1: Look like you hate life right now.
Speaker 2: And then she'll maybe have the awareness of, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know why, but I'm in a bad mood, and
Speaker 2: then maybe she gets over it so that or she's
Speaker 2: just being really and she doesn't do this anymore. This
Speaker 2: reminds me of when we were married, very young, or
Speaker 2: even before we were married and we were dating. If
Speaker 2: she's like thinking about something and she's trying to be passive,
Speaker 2: aggressive or just short with me, like I'm gonna pick
Speaker 2: up on it, and I'm gonna like just like, what
Speaker 2: is it? Like, what's going on? Like I don't want
Speaker 2: to do, you know, but I thin get maybe she's
Speaker 2: matured or and I'm sure she has, or maybe she
Speaker 2: just knows that if she ends up ends up, you know,
Speaker 2: just pouting and mop and I'm gonna say, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Just tell me be direct. So we don't really get
Speaker 2: into that anymore. But yeah, tone of voice. Gratitude is
Speaker 2: number one, and then money is number two. We'll do
Speaker 2: this in the seven o'clock hour, give you the other.
Speaker 2: There's a top ten list here as far as the
Speaker 2: reasons American couples fight the most, and I'm sure many
Speaker 2: of us listening, many of you listening can relate. So
Speaker 2: we'll get to that a little bit more later on.
Speaker 2: But now it is time for another update on at
Speaker 2: traffic and weather, and of course Scott Fitzschure with another
Speaker 2: sports update right here on news Radio eight forty whas