Speaker 1: That it doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city,
Speaker 1: and all around people who can have bet are walking
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Cattle and a match there.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Aena, Welcome in to Kentucky and his
Speaker 1: Morning News with Nick Coffee and the crew. In fact,
Speaker 1: I guess I should go ahead and get this out
Speaker 1: of the way as we get the morning started. It's
Speaker 1: five o six here Kentucky and His Morning News. But
Speaker 1: I think we've been getting the name of the show wrong,
Speaker 1: or at least I have. I mean, Kentucky and His
Speaker 1: Morning News has been the name of this show for
Speaker 1: a long long time, and that's not really changing. But
Speaker 1: I've been saying Kentucky and His Morning News with Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee because I'm running, you know, running the show. But
Speaker 1: clearly there's there's a crew involved, a team here that
Speaker 1: you hear throughout the entire morning. And I was talking
Speaker 1: to some of our team yesterday in sales, and when
Speaker 1: they are pitching the show and selling it, they they
Speaker 1: are calling it Kentucky and His Morning News with Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company, which, for those who don't know, that was
Speaker 1: actually the name of my show when I was doing
Speaker 1: sports on seven ninety before I made the move here,
Speaker 1: which I think Coffee and Company is more fitting. But
Speaker 1: I don't know Kentucky and is morning News with Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company. It just seems like a lot of words
Speaker 1: for the name of a radio show. I gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with you, But I also feel like we should
Speaker 1: be aligned, we should be on the same page, and
Speaker 1: I think Kentucky in his Morning News is probably probably
Speaker 1: what most folks are are going to stick to, because again,
Speaker 1: that's what it's been for generations. No joke, although I
Speaker 1: do think and it Scott you may know this, but
Speaker 1: Wayne Perky was was in the seat here for for
Speaker 1: many many years? Was it? Was it the Morning Team?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I dreaming that thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: While I was here in post I came in in
Speaker 3: the Bob's Collar phase, and it was that that you
Speaker 3: worked with Milton Metz.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know. I'm kidding them. I feel like I
Speaker 1: said that like you were an old man. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean for it to come off that way. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: way Perk YEA. Yeah, it was very towards the end
Speaker 1: of Wayne Perky, Right, I feel like I've been here
Speaker 1: that long.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's just no, I came in I think
Speaker 3: called it was after nine to eleven. I know that
Speaker 3: because I was not reducing I started part time here,
Speaker 3: and I believe two thousand and I was doing Saturdays
Speaker 3: and whatnot. But I think it's always been Kentucky INA's
Speaker 3: Morning News. Then they tried the morning team rewind Gosh, Saturdays.
Speaker 3: That didn't work out so well. So then we just
Speaker 3: call it Kentucky and a Saturday Morning News.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Well it's Kentucky and Morning News with coffee and company,
Speaker 1: because again, there's company here. It's it's Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
Speaker 1: who's not with us today but he'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: And then obviously John Shannon and then you guys who
Speaker 1: listen you you're you're I don't. But that's where it
Speaker 1: gets tricky because I don't want you to feel like company.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to feel like a guest. I
Speaker 1: want you to feel comfortable. I want you to feel
Speaker 1: like you're at home.
Speaker 2: Family.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well there is coffee though, there's a lot of coffee.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: It's true, there's a lot of a lot of coffee,
Speaker 1: just spell a little bit differently, which by the way
Speaker 1: this is. I'm probably getting a little too too much
Speaker 1: into the weeds here, but I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: those who just listened to radio casually it's just a
Speaker 1: brief part of their morning routine, or maybe if you
Speaker 1: listen periodic throughout the day or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: You may not know that when it comes to sort
Speaker 1: of how how we are evaluated in this as far
Speaker 1: as ratings, and by the way, you wouldn't believe how
Speaker 1: archaic the process actually is as far as like sending
Speaker 1: out mail to random people and asking if they'll volunteered
Speaker 1: to fill out a journal, like that's how it's so
Speaker 1: there's in fact, there's really no way to know for certain. However,
Speaker 1: the digital world does give you the ability to have
Speaker 1: a good traction of who's who's listening via stream. But
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at is people do get one of
Speaker 1: those journals and they fill it out. I could be
Speaker 1: wrong here. The station they listen to certainly is important,
Speaker 1: but also there's certain things that that like there's I
Speaker 1: don't know how many get, but you get like four
Speaker 1: or five different things. Maybe that can be quite like
Speaker 1: some people may just say a name of a host
Speaker 1: and that, and that that's clearly a sign that that's
Speaker 1: what they listen to. But you know, long story short,
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at is if you don't have a
Speaker 1: consistent way of labeling and resetting what your show is
Speaker 1: and branding it essent, then you may people may put
Speaker 1: something down in the journal that wouldn't necessarily give you credit.
Speaker 1: Which again I don't know if there's anything more older
Speaker 1: as far as just not modern in any way as
Speaker 1: far as the process than how our market because we're
Speaker 1: not a I think it's called a PPM market's where
Speaker 1: you can't actually they'll pick up on like the actual signal.
Speaker 1: There's like a radar signal thing essentially where people will
Speaker 1: wear like a pager like it's nineteen ninety three, and
Speaker 1: that pager will will show in fact which radio signals
Speaker 1: are being picked up. So anyways, I'm nerding out too
Speaker 1: much on things you guys probably don't care about. But again,
Speaker 1: if you hear me mention the name of the show
Speaker 1: being Kentucky in This Morning News, that's what it's been
Speaker 1: for a long time and that's not changing. But if
Speaker 1: you're Coffee and Company, it's just because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get some consistency in that way. You know, people know
Speaker 1: it's Coffee and Company, so coffee is right, yes, right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's many of you make it a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee or maybe enjoying your first cup right now,
Speaker 1: So stick with us. We've got you for the rest
Speaker 1: of the morning, and certainly a lot to get into.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm hope and that the weather doesn't play
Speaker 1: out on Saturday tomorrow like it's looking because that would
Speaker 1: be very unfortunate for the ESCO Championship, which is off
Speaker 1: to a good start yesterday. I'm sure we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that throughout the day today. Also JCPS, I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate to say that I'm not surprised at all, but
Speaker 1: they they've got some plans in place to try to
Speaker 1: hire teachers very quickly because they've got a big, big shortage.
Speaker 1: And also something else I want to get to here
Speaker 1: early in the morning, there is a nine one one
Speaker 1: operator who has a story that I just I want
Speaker 1: to use the platform here to share it because it's
Speaker 1: almost like something you see in a movie. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into that in a lot more. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: in this morning news with Coffee and Company, right here
Speaker 1: our news radio forty WHS. It is five point seventeen
Speaker 1: here in Kentucky and this morning News with Coffee and
Speaker 1: Company on news Radio eight forty WHAS Nick Coffee with you,
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald alongside. We'll have an update on sports coming
Speaker 1: your way in about ten minutes. Also, we'll get John
Speaker 1: Shannon's first newscaster for the More around five thirty. And
Speaker 1: if you want to listen and take us with you
Speaker 1: wherever you go, you can do that on the Aheart
Speaker 1: radio app. Also you can listen live at whas dot com.
Speaker 1: So JCPS, we talked a lot about them earlier this week,
Speaker 1: just because I am rooting for the new JCPS superintendent,
Speaker 1: who is taking on a job that is very, very important.
Speaker 1: But it's got to be one of those jobs where
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't try to find, if
Speaker 1: you don't try to embrace the small victories, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you wouldn't feel just overwhelmed with just no
Speaker 1: matter what you do, you're going to face criticism and
Speaker 1: there's going to be things that you walk into that
Speaker 1: are still going to be an issue that you had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with. And it'd be unrealistic to just
Speaker 1: think this guy shows up and automatically every issue that
Speaker 1: JCPS ever had was just removed. It's no longer an
Speaker 1: issue anymore. So that's not realistic. And I'm sure anybody
Speaker 1: who's in the position to pursue this job JCPS superintendent one,
Speaker 1: the money's got to make it really worth it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I also think, and maybe I'm naive, that there are
Speaker 1: people that choose to work in education rather be at
Speaker 1: administrator level or a teacher, that they got into it
Speaker 1: because they did want to impact young people and be
Speaker 1: involved in the education system. But nonetheless, I just this
Speaker 1: is one of those jobs that I just think about
Speaker 1: when I think about j CBS and the superintendent position,
Speaker 1: because obviously Marty Poyo has been in that spot for
Speaker 1: quite some time, and certainly some criticism was fair at times,
Speaker 1: but I also feel like the guy could never win,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what always sticks with me when
Speaker 1: I think of just what that position would be. So again,
Speaker 1: it's very important, and I'm sure you're compensated very well,
Speaker 1: but it's probably for good reason. So anyhow, the transportation
Speaker 1: issue that they've had for years, that'll be I think
Speaker 1: what folks are focusing on more than anything day one,
Speaker 1: and even if you don't even have kids in the
Speaker 1: school system, where you don't work in the school system
Speaker 1: at all, and you're just the JCPS resident, well, one
Speaker 1: of your tax dollars of course are at play here,
Speaker 1: but also because of how bad it's been at times,
Speaker 1: it's almost become, dare I say, like a car wreck.
Speaker 1: People are going to be interested. They just want to
Speaker 1: They just want to see and hear. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate to say this, but I've spent more time than
Speaker 1: I probably should looking at the comment sections on Facebook
Speaker 1: when JCPS posts anything they do about a correct just
Speaker 1: basically trying to apologize for transportation issues or even the
Speaker 1: decision to cancel school because of snow, because people just
Speaker 1: lose their mind about anything. No matter what you do,
Speaker 1: you're going to face a level of toxicity and criticism,
Speaker 1: which I just want to remind folks as much as
Speaker 1: I can, those are not easy decisions to make, and
Speaker 1: if you were in the position that they were in,
Speaker 1: you would have to know that no matter and this
Speaker 1: is where I do think you can put yourself in
Speaker 1: the shoes of those people and just realize that no
Speaker 1: matter what you do, you're going to make a certain
Speaker 1: amount of people mad and they're going to yell at
Speaker 1: you about it, and that's just the nature of what
Speaker 1: it is. So anyhow, another issue they're dealing with. It's
Speaker 1: not just the transportation, and maybe transportation is no longer
Speaker 1: an issue after this year, but I'll I'll believe that
Speaker 1: when I see it. But as they're just weeks away
Speaker 1: for the first day of school, they've got a real
Speaker 1: big time staffing crisis with over three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: classroom teacher vacancies and more than fifty other certified roles
Speaker 1: that have gone unfilled. So that's that's a big number
Speaker 1: and right now they are trying to fill those positions
Speaker 1: as best they can. They've got an apprenticeship program that
Speaker 1: it's going to allow JCPS high schoolers to earn college
Speaker 1: credits through u of L. So that's just a way
Speaker 1: in which I guess they're not needing teachers quite as much.
Speaker 1: And then also they're going to have a hiring event
Speaker 1: that is coming up today actually it is. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: from ten am to two pm and it's going to
Speaker 1: be at the Center for Professional Learning Complex that's on
Speaker 1: Atkinson Square Drive. So if you have the ability I
Speaker 1: mean again, I feel like if you're I don't think
Speaker 1: it's to me. This is telling And maybe I'm wrong here.
Speaker 1: When I think of job fair, I don't typically think
Speaker 1: of a job fair being for people who are you know,
Speaker 1: actual tea features that that just job fair. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's more of you know, potential, good opportunities. But
Speaker 1: I think a job fair just tells you just how
Speaker 1: much they need people to come in and if you
Speaker 1: have the ability meeting, you're qualified, they need you in
Speaker 1: a big way. All right, let's get to another update
Speaker 1: on traffic and whether Bobby Ellis will give us the
Speaker 1: latest when it comes to how the roads are looking.
Speaker 1: Some stalled vehicles early, which is kind of rare at
Speaker 1: this time of the morning. Also, we get an update
Speaker 1: for Matt Melosavitch on the forecast, and of course Scott
Speaker 1: Fitzgerial with an update on sports right here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3: I'm John Shannon, News Radio eight forty Wahas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is six. I'm sorry, no,
Speaker 1: five thirty five. I'm getting ahead of myself. It is Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the weekend, and I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of you guys are as well. But again I'm early.
Speaker 1: It's only five thirty six actually now here at news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas coffee and Company with you, and
Speaker 1: I've got WKHY here on my TV right in front
Speaker 1: of us. They are are news partners and they do
Speaker 1: a great job, and I now they're a part of
Speaker 1: my routine every morning four point thirty there on, and
Speaker 1: then they stay on here and on our monitor throughout
Speaker 1: the throughout the morning for me. But they're showing the
Speaker 1: view of the of the of the roadways, giving you
Speaker 1: a look at traffic, and so far it looks to
Speaker 1: be pretty pretty smooth, and Bobby Ellis has kind of
Speaker 1: confirmed that throughout the morning thus far, and certainly you
Speaker 1: can find out if that change is coming up here
Speaker 1: in about three minutes. However, it reminded me of something
Speaker 1: yesterday that made me feel very stupid. And I may
Speaker 1: not be wise in admitting this, but at times I
Speaker 1: really think, man, you are You're a special kind of stupid.
Speaker 1: We don't think we all have moments where we maybe realize, wow,
Speaker 1: I should have known that, or where have I been?
Speaker 1: Have I've been living under a rock And yesterday my
Speaker 1: wife and I were driving to dinner and we were
Speaker 1: on the Gen Snyder and I noticed a bunch of
Speaker 1: trash bags on the side of the road. Just I
Speaker 1: mean it was, I mean, it was impossible not to
Speaker 1: notice it. It was just as if as if a
Speaker 1: garbage truck somehow flipped over and trash bags were scattered
Speaker 1: for miles and I'm I'm thinking what could have happened?
Speaker 1: And my wife, she in her sarcastic way, asked me,
Speaker 1: are you being serious? And I'm like, yeah, do you
Speaker 1: see all these trash bags? And somehow I have never
Speaker 1: noticed that, Like that's a thing meaning whenever, whenever you yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, is she messing with me? Is there,
Speaker 1: like you know what's going on? But yes, the people
Speaker 1: who do either volunteer or maybe they are inmates that
Speaker 1: are going through work release or doing their community service
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. Those that the workers that
Speaker 1: walk the roadside collecting litter, they fill trash bags and
Speaker 1: it makes total sense. But I don't know how I've
Speaker 1: never noticed that before, and I thought she was she
Speaker 1: was messing with me, and sure enough, like yeah, it
Speaker 1: makes total sense that the people that are bringing either
Speaker 1: inmates or or even volunteers. They wouldn't be equipped to
Speaker 1: and certainly wouldn't be expected to just put all the
Speaker 1: trash in their vehicle, right.
Speaker 3: Just lift it up in the back of a big
Speaker 3: up and well, it's always funny along those lines. What
Speaker 3: happens usually about two weeks before Derby, there's that stretch
Speaker 3: of the waters and right before I believe Newburgh suddenly
Speaker 3: plans get planted and mulch goes in. It's they try
Speaker 3: to beautify it, and then as soon as everybody leaves
Speaker 3: for Derby, everything dries up and it goes back to
Speaker 3: being dingy. Oh yeah, you see the trash back.
Speaker 1: That's one of the first early signs that Derby is
Speaker 1: getting close is that we start cutting the grass around here.
Speaker 1: You don't have a you know, the median with grass
Speaker 1: as tall as Shaquille O'Neal. You no longer see the
Speaker 1: ninety seven blazer that's just been occupying occupying space on
Speaker 1: the green Belt Highway for seven months. Those there seems
Speaker 1: to be some real attention to detail whenever we've got
Speaker 1: people come into town, which I get it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's if anything, we're consistent. So yeah, and thank you
Speaker 1: to those who either do it because they have to
Speaker 1: or they volunteer because it made me realize in I believe,
Speaker 1: just a day's time. I mean, maybe I just don't
Speaker 1: notice it again, I mean I went years without noticing it,
Speaker 1: but it almost seemed as if the majority of the
Speaker 1: trash bags that were out were from maybe a day
Speaker 1: or two of work. And that tells you just how
Speaker 1: much litter is out there.
Speaker 3: So have you ever had to pick up trash like
Speaker 3: that for a job or like a service project or
Speaker 3: anything like that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: One time it was a fundraiser for my high school
Speaker 1: basketball team. We did clean up at I believe it
Speaker 1: was the State Fair and luckily we didn't have to
Speaker 1: mean we were one of many programs that I guess
Speaker 1: do it as far as fundraising for your sports program
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and I believe it was one of the
Speaker 1: bigger money makers for us at that time. But you
Speaker 1: didn't know where you were going to be assigned to
Speaker 1: clean up, and we ended up I think having to
Speaker 1: clean up. It was old Cardinals Stadium where the free
Speaker 1: concerts used to be before they tore it down, and
Speaker 1: that wasn't that bad, but there was another school there
Speaker 1: that we realized it could have been us. They were
Speaker 1: in charge of cleaning up like where all the animals were.
Speaker 1: Oh and it wasn't just nothing. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff's cleared out, but there's remnants of what
Speaker 1: ten days is it of just different animals leaving. Sure,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah that would so it could have been worse,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that it makes you realize just how you know,
Speaker 1: if you're not looking to clean stuff up, you're not
Speaker 1: looking for litter or just anything that's just been thrown
Speaker 1: around as trash, you don't really notice it. But when
Speaker 1: you pick up trash, if you've ever done it, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you have or not, Scott, it'll make
Speaker 1: you realize just how much people litter.
Speaker 3: Well, my parents used to do it a side house
Speaker 3: on My dad and my stepmom used to do it
Speaker 3: because they never held a real job, and they would
Speaker 3: we didn't realize it at the time, but they would
Speaker 3: employ us kids to go out and help them. And
Speaker 3: I just remember, like, you go out and pick up
Speaker 3: around construction sites and whatnot. Who's the worst thing ever, dude,
Speaker 3: even in the summer. I mean, you're just sweating and
Speaker 3: you're picking up trash and.
Speaker 1: Oh and you probably found stuff that you just can't
Speaker 1: believe is why would this be here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: You're out in some remote field somewhere, and like, who
Speaker 2: actually was out here to leave this?
Speaker 1: Yep? And then your mind can go in a lot
Speaker 1: of directions as far as trying to put the pieces
Speaker 1: of the puzzle together because it doesn't make sense, right,
Speaker 1: why would this be here?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Yikes?
Speaker 1: All right, We've got Roriy O'Neil coming up here in
Speaker 1: about four minutes. Also, we'll get another update on sports
Speaker 1: to wrap up the five o'clock hour, and at some
Speaker 1: point we got to talk about Kroger. I'm not here
Speaker 1: to pick on Kroger, but this storyline, I mean, this
Speaker 1: has been in the news for easily a month, I believe,
Speaker 1: as far as just their locations that are popping up
Speaker 1: with new issues with rodent droppings or locations that have
Speaker 1: already had it, and then they get it corrected and
Speaker 1: then it reappears. It's I mean, it's not a good look,
Speaker 1: to say the least. And I feel for them because
Speaker 1: this is this is bad and it's the fact that
Speaker 1: this has been in the news cycle this long is
Speaker 1: pretty pretty damaging. I think to them all right, let's
Speaker 1: get a quick break. We've got traffic and weather updates
Speaker 1: coming out. I have forty six here Kentucky, INA's Morning News,
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas it's
Speaker 1: time to bring in Rory O'Neal of NBC News and Rory,
Speaker 1: we found out yesterday the suspensions that we're going to
Speaker 1: be in place for those in the Secret Service that
Speaker 1: were held accountable for I guess, just not doing their
Speaker 1: job when it comes to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: But the shooter, Thomas Crooks. I could be wrong here,
Speaker 1: but I feel like if you'd ha told most people
Speaker 1: that we'd be this far removed from that situation and
Speaker 1: have such little info as far as the motive and
Speaker 1: just just about the individual, I think most would would
Speaker 1: have been surprised. What do we know about this individual?
Speaker 1: And of course maybe what a potential motive would have been.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we never did get to that motive, I think,
Speaker 2: and I think that's been frustrating for a lot of people. Obviously.
Speaker 2: But the six Secret Service agents who were suspended, one
Speaker 2: of them was actually with I guess we'll call him
Speaker 2: candidate Trump's detail. The other five were assigned to the
Speaker 2: local field office in the Pittsburgh area, and essentially they
Speaker 2: were suspended because of the way they set up the event,
Speaker 2: especially with the lack of communication between local law enforcement
Speaker 2: and the Secret Service agents who were there on the ground.
Speaker 2: You know, plenty of people had seen croaks on that
Speaker 2: rooftop reported it to local police, but local police had
Speaker 2: a heck of a time try to get that information
Speaker 2: relayed to the Secret Service, and specifically the sniper who
Speaker 2: was supposed to be taken him out in advance, but
Speaker 2: the sniper wasn't able to open fire until after President
Speaker 2: Trump had been shot and one audience member killed and
Speaker 2: two others wounded.
Speaker 1: Typically, when these when these things happen, when the when,
Speaker 1: when the perpetrator is no longer alive, you do you
Speaker 1: find people wanting to know more about the family and
Speaker 1: connections and whatnot. And it seems very quiet on that
Speaker 1: front as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he was a bit of a loaner,
Speaker 2: was the description that we got, and you know, his
Speaker 2: motivation and all this as so whether or not he
Speaker 2: had this deep hatred for President Trump, was he trying
Speaker 2: to put some other message out there with this. There
Speaker 2: was no manifesto left behind or something that would possibly
Speaker 2: explain why he did this, why he chose this event
Speaker 2: in Butler, you know, his political view still really are unknown.
Speaker 1: Roy On Neil the NBC News is our guest joining
Speaker 1: us here on News Radio eight forty whas So, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Big Beautiful Bill, I heard a
Speaker 1: lot of noise in regards to how this would be
Speaker 1: bad for those that gamble, especially those that gamble on sports.
Speaker 1: It's become legal here in Kentucky in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years and certainly been a big boom. And then
Speaker 1: I've also heard some say, well, hey, chill out, not
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's really only if you are someone
Speaker 1: that might be trying to make a living gambling, what
Speaker 1: can you tell us about it?
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what it boils down to. The casual
Speaker 2: gambler probably won't notice this, but the rules are changing.
Speaker 2: Used to be that you would deduct your losses at
Speaker 2: one hundred percent versus your winning. So let's say you
Speaker 2: won one hundred thousand dollars, but you also lost one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars during a year of gambling. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: you'd walk away square. Well, now the irs says, or
Speaker 2: we'll say starting in January, you can only deduct ninety
Speaker 2: percent of your losses. So now if you win one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars and you lose ninety one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: you can you have to because it's only ninety percent
Speaker 2: can be deducted. That means you have to pay taxes
Speaker 2: on that ten thousand dollars difference. Yeah, that is That's
Speaker 2: why they're saying a lot of people could really be
Speaker 2: hurt on this and with their professional gambling.
Speaker 1: And I think even if you're somebody that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: rely on it, but it's something that you that you
Speaker 1: do frequently for entertainment, you may have a big hit
Speaker 1: like that. I know some that have had a similar
Speaker 1: winning in that range, which of course is rare. But
Speaker 1: I know you've got to pay taxes on it. That
Speaker 1: certainly impacts the amount of money that you're going to
Speaker 1: bring home. Uncle Sam's going to get his cut. What
Speaker 1: do we know about what this means for the books
Speaker 1: in the casinos themselves, any reaction to this beautiful, big,
Speaker 1: beautiful bill about how it could either benefit them or
Speaker 1: hurt them.
Speaker 2: Well, they've already got a good lobbying group trying to
Speaker 2: change the wording to this, but the big beautiful law
Speaker 2: also needs the money. This change by reducing what you
Speaker 2: can deduct from your losses from one hundred percent down
Speaker 2: to ninety percent, sounds like nothing right, But it's going
Speaker 2: to generate a billion dollars over ten years in new
Speaker 2: tax revenue, so that's not nothing right. So that's why
Speaker 2: they're saying that this could really impact it, mostly again
Speaker 2: the professional gambler types. Someone made the analogy that if
Speaker 2: you're a high roller, a professional who wins three million
Speaker 2: dollars but loses two point eight million dollars a year
Speaker 2: would have earned two hundred thousand dollars, but he's going
Speaker 2: to be taxed on four hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: based on that ninety percent change in what you can
Speaker 2: do for losses. So you can see how it really
Speaker 2: could add up to a hefty tax bill. The concern
Speaker 2: is that a lot of this action then moves offshore
Speaker 2: with casinos or betting systems based in other countries, and
Speaker 2: that can get a little shady too.
Speaker 1: Sure, no doubt, Rory, you are the best. Have a
Speaker 1: good weekend, my friend. We'll talk soon. Fact Nick, alright again,
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