Speaker 1: Ato five here Kentucky, and it's Morning News with Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas we will talk
Speaker 1: with Rory O'Neal of NBC News coming up at eight thirty.
Speaker 1: And obviously there will be one specific thing that we discuss,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you know exactly what it is I'm
Speaker 1: referring to, and that is an Operation Midnight Hammer. As
Speaker 1: Donald Trump let us know last week that two things. One,
Speaker 1: he was well aware that everybody wanted to know what
Speaker 1: he was going to do and was clearly interested because
Speaker 1: obviously that's a big decision. They could have some major implications.
Speaker 1: But he knew that nobody knew for certain, and I
Speaker 1: got the sense that he kind of liked that.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was just me.
Speaker 1: But then also he said, roughly two weeks. I think, no,
Speaker 1: I think it was exactly two weeks. Time will be
Speaker 1: when the decision is made within a two week window.
Speaker 1: And I assumed that we'd get a decision much sooner
Speaker 1: to that date whenever it was late last week than
Speaker 1: two weeks from then. And I guess I was right,
Speaker 1: because the decision was made, and uh, it happened, And
Speaker 1: obviously that's been the story, and sort of what happens
Speaker 1: from here. That's that's anybody's guests. And I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are there are many that that have an idea or
Speaker 1: what they expect will be the outcome of this on
Speaker 1: both sides, meaning from what Iran does and of course
Speaker 1: what the United States does as far as either moving
Speaker 1: forward and and and you know, maybe maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 1: in the end we'll learn that Iran was was not
Speaker 1: not able to follow through with what they claim is
Speaker 1: going to be a real retaliation, or maybe they do retaliate,
Speaker 1: and then we we've got to we've got to respond
Speaker 1: in a certain way. So I've said this throughout the morning,
Speaker 1: and it's not some type of hot take, as they say.
Speaker 1: I don't know, is that is that a thing in
Speaker 1: news talk? They say hot take? That's more of a
Speaker 1: sports thing. I suppose, right, But I don't think this
Speaker 1: is a strong, bold opinion. I don't think it's out
Speaker 1: of line to say. I think it's rather obvious. And
Speaker 1: sometimes things that are rather obvious end up needing to
Speaker 1: be said more than you would expect. And that that's
Speaker 1: why I think anybody that's trying to tell you that
Speaker 1: they know for certain where this goes good or bad.
Speaker 1: They're just guessing. Nobody truly knows. But here's the announcement
Speaker 1: from President Trump on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Our objective was the destruction of irans nuclear enrichment capacity
Speaker 3: and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
Speaker 3: world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can
Speaker 3: report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular
Speaker 3: military success. Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been
Speaker 3: completely and totally obliterated.
Speaker 1: So I don't say this really with any opinion or
Speaker 1: approval or being not satisfied. But if you saw the
Speaker 1: breaking news on Saturday and you ended up finding a
Speaker 1: way to its television or maybe just on your device,
Speaker 1: because that's how a lot of people consume content now,
Speaker 1: and you just wanted to know, and it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I found myself regardless if I was in
Speaker 1: this position that I'm in now, I mean I was.
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear and I wanted to get what
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to hear what was said by
Speaker 1: everybody involved. And if you were somebody like me, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure millions across the country were, just because it's
Speaker 1: a big deal, it's an important thing, was it not
Speaker 1: exactly what you expected from Trump. But again, anytime I
Speaker 1: say things like that, I can already tell I can
Speaker 1: sense it that there's those that are maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit triggered. As if I'm saying that in a critical way.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I mean also, I'm not saying it as there's any
Speaker 1: great approval from Maya, not that he needs or anybody
Speaker 1: would would would would care about my approval of anything.
Speaker 2: But it was exactly what you would have expected.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could see John Alden there in the
Speaker 1: in the in the production studio. You know, you knew
Speaker 1: exact I mean, if I gave you the script of
Speaker 1: what he was going to say, you knew how he
Speaker 1: was going to emphasize certain things and spectacular I mean,
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 4: I honestly wish people would stop being shocked about the
Speaker 4: way that he kind of carries himself.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, these people get so anything he's
Speaker 1: consistent with delivery and with just you know, him being
Speaker 1: him right or wrong, he's at least he's.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's a where it aggravates people as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of things that he has done
Speaker 1: and said, even when he's you know, the president has
Speaker 1: been rooted with him knowing it may aggravate some people.
Speaker 1: I think there's a level of emotion involved in a
Speaker 1: lot of decisions made. And look, that's not just him,
Speaker 1: trust me. That's I mean to go back to the
Speaker 1: the online, and it wasn't just online.
Speaker 2: It was a real thing.
Speaker 1: But when you had Trump and his administration throwing jabs
Speaker 1: at California Governor Newsom, and then Newsom of course getting
Speaker 1: involved as well. I mean, it wasn't about what the
Speaker 1: message no longer included what was good for the people,
Speaker 1: or what was good for those that you know, maybe
Speaker 1: are here illegally but are not a threat and are
Speaker 1: not criminals. It's just it was a finger pointing of
Speaker 1: can you believe how awful this guy is? Can you
Speaker 1: believe what this guy did? And I think it's because
Speaker 1: there's especially I mean, look, let's just be real.
Speaker 2: It'd be the biggest.
Speaker 1: Lie in society for a certain a certain percentage of
Speaker 1: the far left to not acknowledge that they are insanely
Speaker 1: triggered by him.
Speaker 2: And he knows that.
Speaker 1: I think he utilizes that. So yeah, that's that's where
Speaker 1: we are. But again, Operation Midnight Hammer. I just like
Speaker 1: saying that that's fun again. I'm telling you, if I
Speaker 1: told you that was the name of the WWE's next
Speaker 1: pay per view, and it wasn't the strike that America took,
Speaker 1: you know, took out on Iran on Saturday.
Speaker 2: You believe me, wouldn't you? I think you would.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got rory O and heill come your
Speaker 1: way eight thirty. We'll talk more about this and also
Speaker 1: an update of traffick and weather's coming your way right
Speaker 1: here on news radio eight forty. Whas. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: kid rotting. Yes, that is kid rotting. If you if
Speaker 1: you quizzed me before I read this at Good Morning
Speaker 1: America what that means, I wouldn't. I would not have
Speaker 1: guessed what would it actually is. But kid rotting is
Speaker 1: a trendy term for what summer break used to look
Speaker 1: like for children, meaning before we had devices and PlayStations,
Speaker 1: xboxes and what's the new Nintendo game that's sold out?
Speaker 2: The Switch? Yeah, the Switch.
Speaker 1: So a lot of parents, of course rush to sign
Speaker 1: their kids up for anything in the summer camps programs,
Speaker 1: and that's good. I think that's more productive than them
Speaker 1: just sitting in the house playing video games all day.
Speaker 1: But what they're encouraging is that kid rotting is a
Speaker 1: good thing because experts say that it can be productive.
Speaker 1: Where whenever you've got the free time and you know,
Speaker 1: there's worried that they're just going to be bored and lazy,
Speaker 1: sometimes the free time and being bored can lead to
Speaker 1: being creative, learning to be independent, and really using your imagination.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not old enough yet.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: My kids aren't old enough yet to relate. Like my son,
Speaker 1: he's well, I guess I can. I mean, he's just
Speaker 1: turned five years old and he has a PlayStation five.
Speaker 1: He spoiled he has, I mean, he's got anything. He
Speaker 1: has enough to where he should never get bored. We
Speaker 1: cannot buy another thing. He could not leave the house
Speaker 1: until he turns eighteen. And there's no scenario that young
Speaker 1: man can claim he's bored. He's got stuff to do.
Speaker 2: And I've just assumed that.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're you know, and again I know I'm spoil
Speaker 1: spoiling my child, and I need to make sure that
Speaker 1: he understands that moving forward, when he gets older, he
Speaker 1: doesn't just get things because he wants them. You know,
Speaker 1: you should be appre Gifts should be gifts because of
Speaker 1: certain things like a birthday or Christmas, or because you
Speaker 1: had a good report card, that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: my wife and I are trying to be mindful of
Speaker 1: that because we like to spoil our kids because and
Speaker 1: at this age they seem receptive to where they do
Speaker 1: appreciate it, they thank us. But there's at some point
Speaker 1: got to be a line of Okay, you don't just
Speaker 1: get anything you want. So anyways, I totally understand how
Speaker 1: this would in fact be really beneficial to just don't
Speaker 1: completely shut them off to where you take away the
Speaker 1: YouTube and the screen time and all that, because you
Speaker 1: don't want to just completely cut them off cold turkey,
Speaker 1: but having a dedicated amount of time that you think
Speaker 1: makes the most sense for your kid to just think
Speaker 1: for themselves and like use their imagination. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not just kids. I mean, I think I'm guilty as anybody.
Speaker 1: I am consumed by a screen in front of me
Speaker 1: for way too much of my day, and it mostly
Speaker 1: is my phone, and you know, you can do a
Speaker 1: lot of things on your phone. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I would do without it. You know, the balancing of
Speaker 1: the power of technology and how it can can help
Speaker 1: us in everyday life balancing that as well as where
Speaker 1: we can just become too consumed by it to where
Speaker 1: we don't even know how to socialize with people anymore.
Speaker 1: We don't even know how to think for ourselves. Or
Speaker 1: I mean, like most kids. And man, I sound like
Speaker 1: an old fart right now. I sound like the old
Speaker 1: get off my lawn guy. But like I don't think
Speaker 1: kids today, at least most of them are, you know
Speaker 1: that have YouTube and PlayStations and all that and tablets devices.
Speaker 2: They don't know what bored is a right.
Speaker 1: They don't know, I mean even when you're I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember as a kid before I had a game Boy.
Speaker 1: Remember game boys? That was like, that was the cool
Speaker 1: thing back when I was a kid. But I didn't
Speaker 1: get bored on road trips because I wasn't in my room.
Speaker 1: I was at least able to look out the window
Speaker 1: and see certain things. Anyways, we'll talk a little more
Speaker 1: about that when Tony Venetti stops in. But we've got
Speaker 1: an update of sports coming your way right here right now,
Speaker 1: first traffic and weather, and then Rory any of the
Speaker 1: NBC news is going to join us to get the
Speaker 1: latest on the United States. Is well, Donald Trump's decision
Speaker 1: to get involved here with this war between Iran and Israel.
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas. It is a forty five here Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes left roughly for us, and then we'll hand
Speaker 1: it off to Tony and Dwight. Tony, have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of kid rotting? No, let me tell you what
Speaker 1: it is. It sounds awful, right, Okay, So rotting is
Speaker 1: actually something that according to Good Morning America's story here
Speaker 1: that it's it's a trendy term for what summer break
Speaker 1: used to look like for children. So kid rotting is
Speaker 1: when you just are sitting in your board and they're
Speaker 1: saying that kid rotting is now good for your kids
Speaker 1: because if they take some time away from the screens,
Speaker 1: the video games, that kind of stuff, they can get bored,
Speaker 1: and that could be good because then they'll get creative,
Speaker 1: they'll be independent, they may realize they've got an imagination,
Speaker 1: they may realize what an imagination is because they're not
Speaker 1: as consumed by screen time. I think this is legit,
Speaker 1: and I said earlier when I was a kid. Bored
Speaker 1: to me was just literally not like just like sitting
Speaker 1: in isolation, I would get not excited. But if I
Speaker 1: was on a car ride, eventually I would maybe get
Speaker 1: a little bored. But it was nice to just be
Speaker 1: able to look out the window and see things I
Speaker 1: haven't seen. Kids now, when they say they're bored, I
Speaker 1: mean like it has to be something to do for
Speaker 1: ninety seconds.
Speaker 4: It's exactly they haven't. They're like, I'm bored. You just
Speaker 4: did something. I'm not here to entertain you for the day.
Speaker 4: Figure it out. But I think you're exactly right. That's
Speaker 4: why they say when they go to sleep. When your
Speaker 4: kids get a little older, they got to go to sleep.
Speaker 4: They have to have that time where they lay in
Speaker 4: bed and they're not sleeping, but they're looking at the
Speaker 4: ceiling think and they have to think and they have
Speaker 4: to figure out what the day happened and process all
Speaker 4: of it self.
Speaker 1: Reflection, even at a young age, is really when you
Speaker 1: kind of get a feel We don't even realize it,
Speaker 1: but it's when you get a feel for kind of
Speaker 1: who you are. Because because now there's a time you
Speaker 1: said fifteen seconds, If my son goes ten seconds without
Speaker 1: without the tablet.
Speaker 4: Think about it when in the summer, you know, all
Speaker 4: the bikes are in your front lawn and all of
Speaker 4: you all are sitting in someone's living room and going,
Speaker 4: I'm so bored. What do you want to do? Let's
Speaker 4: go throw rocks at the abandoned house.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You figure something out, but that's that's part of summer, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's paying Now. There are book clubs you
Speaker 4: can do if your kids are read.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's summer camps and those are that's more
Speaker 1: productive than being in front of a screen, because that
Speaker 1: gives you a chance to socialize and interact and meet
Speaker 1: new kids in the summer.
Speaker 2: Summer that you don't go to school with every summer,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Don't That is something that as a kid, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I didn't realize at the time, but
Speaker 1: that is so valuable when it comes to just being
Speaker 1: able to interact with human beings. If you're just in
Speaker 1: isolation and you don't even realize that you could get
Speaker 1: to be a teenager or certainly an adult and you
Speaker 1: just don't really know how to socialize.
Speaker 4: My only acidy, my only advice for the summer stuff
Speaker 4: because the summer costs us more money than the tuition
Speaker 4: for their school. Okay, because you this week is Lego camp,
Speaker 4: the next week is football camp, the next week is whatever.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I will encourage people to put them in more academic
Speaker 4: division schools rather than linebacker camp or division whatever camp, because.
Speaker 2: Get some good balance. You got to get search balance
Speaker 2: with sports camp that kind of stuff. That's right.
Speaker 4: The odds of your kid being that special athlete or
Speaker 4: are going to be a lot less than hey, they
Speaker 4: might get an academic scholarship over a sports scholarship. So
Speaker 4: science camp, math camp, stuff like that is good. Lego
Speaker 4: Camp Bellerman has a Lego camp. They have a million
Speaker 4: of them. Put them in that, or send them to
Speaker 4: Camp Piamingo, which is like a nineteen fifties camp and
Speaker 4: out on Dixie Highway, and they do you know, the
Speaker 4: canoeing and the bow and arrow stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what's wild is I think the thought of
Speaker 1: that to a young kid who maybe only had experienced
Speaker 1: a camp that is for a sport or anything else,
Speaker 1: they would think, oh my gosh, what they do, this
Speaker 1: is all They would end up loving it.
Speaker 2: They would they would end.
Speaker 1: They would get they would probably have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a tough time initially, but then they would end up.
Speaker 2: They would they would they would make friends.
Speaker 1: They would play like that's the word play, Like when
Speaker 1: you would ask me as a as an eight year
Speaker 1: old nine year old in my neighborhood with my friends
Speaker 1: and we would ride our bikes and we'd we'd play basketball,
Speaker 1: then we'd wait for the ice cream truck. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what we did, but we play. Now
Speaker 1: if I say play play what, Yeah, you would play PlayStation?
Speaker 1: You woulda play basketball. I'm like, no, just go play.
Speaker 4: Darryl Isaacs talked us into because his kids were going
Speaker 4: to Piamingo And I dropped John off when he was
Speaker 4: seven for a seven day stay away camp. And when
Speaker 4: I picked him up that next week, he was a
Speaker 4: different child. He was a completely different It was like
Speaker 4: he figured it out right, Like I got to do
Speaker 4: all of this stuff on my own, don't I It
Speaker 4: was I tell you that the away camps the best
Speaker 4: thing you can do for your kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it didn't really hit me until reading this
Speaker 1: story from Good Morning America how rarely kids are ever
Speaker 1: alone with thoughts and that at times can be bored,
Speaker 1: but it's also, I mean, if you've never been there,
Speaker 1: I just feel.
Speaker 2: Like you're turning to a robot. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 2: kind of scary.
Speaker 4: Well you get well, we see some of the young
Speaker 4: people that come into the office. They're like robots. I
Speaker 4: mean that's what they have been programmed. But it is
Speaker 4: he said it, not me.
Speaker 2: I don't care. In fact, I know you don't care.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, you're well a where they're sitting thirty feet
Speaker 1: from us, right yeah, yeah, I tell him, I tell
Speaker 1: them speaking of camp, yeah, one one thing that if
Speaker 1: there's one word you could only use one word to
Speaker 1: describe Pat Kelsey, it would be energy, right sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the words. Well, the basketball camp for kids,
Speaker 1: his camp at UFLA starting today, and I just saw
Speaker 1: a video that these works. He posted. Parents and kids
Speaker 1: are walking in. He's at the door, let's go, we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna get better today. He's you know, he's.
Speaker 1: He's so hyped and I'm just like, of course that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He would be the coach that's just
Speaker 1: standing there waiting for kids, and you got to match
Speaker 1: that energy early and okay, but.
Speaker 2: We all know this.
Speaker 4: Ten years in Caliperry's act got old. Right. They were
Speaker 4: talking about this the other day. Who coached at the
Speaker 4: hardball Michigan Stanford all that. You see, he's got a
Speaker 4: little bit, he's got a window to coach, and everyone
Speaker 4: loves that hard ass, you know, old school football thing
Speaker 4: until they don't like it, right, they're just like this
Speaker 4: is old man. Answer a question.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what we didn't experience early on with Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey in any way, we don't know how fans will
Speaker 1: react to that consists positive energy NonStop when they are
Speaker 1: really struggling like they this year. Anytime they did hit
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rut early on, there were
Speaker 1: legitimate reasons as to why that was the case, or
Speaker 1: we just knew, hey, no matter what, we're better off
Speaker 1: now than we were previously. Like if they hit a
Speaker 1: slide where they're really struggling, I mean, again, it's a
Speaker 1: good thing that it didn't happen, But you're right like
Speaker 1: that that same level of energy and just overly optimistic
Speaker 1: and enthusiastic. Our fans are crazy, yes, right, I mean
Speaker 1: we all this guy's great, and then everything we loved
Speaker 1: about him will be weaponized against him if the winds
Speaker 1: don't come. Kind of like a marriage, Yes, exactly, because
Speaker 1: we're lunatics. The clicking in your jaw was really cute
Speaker 1: for the at first, and then after about twenty years
Speaker 1: of marriage, you're like, can you do something about that clicking?
Speaker 2: I really like how how funny you are now I
Speaker 2: wish you would just shut that up. Is the reything
Speaker 2: you have to be a joke. I wasn't talking.
Speaker 1: About you, honey, I was just saying, just just saying
Speaker 1: it all right. Tony and d Wider next right here
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