Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is six oh five here Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas So, the big move was made by
Speaker 1: President Trump as we now have some US muscle that's
Speaker 1: been put into play here with the Israel and Iran situation.
Speaker 1: And again, a lot of it just stood out yesterday.
Speaker 1: And we had a conversation just a moment ago with
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil in BC News and I asked him, did
Speaker 1: it seem as if and I don't even remember how,
Speaker 1: I probably butchered the question, to be honest with you, however,
Speaker 1: my question was essentially, did it stand out to you
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of emphasis Sunday when it
Speaker 1: comes to just the situation and the United States is side.
Speaker 1: They're not at war with Iran, They're at war with
Speaker 1: the nuclear program, which makes sense, I understand it. But
Speaker 1: then again, then you you hear President Trump mentioning a
Speaker 1: potential regime change in Iran, It's it's a little bit
Speaker 1: kind of contradictoring, but then again, that's kind of that's
Speaker 1: been pretty consistent. Consistently contradicting yourself is never a great look,
Speaker 1: and it certainly seems as if that's been the case
Speaker 1: at times. But that's that's just that's just how I viewed.
Speaker 1: I think this is VP jd Vance yesterday and he
Speaker 1: is speaking, and yet it would be great if I
Speaker 1: actually had the sound turned on. It's pretty I think
Speaker 1: I'm new here, but that's pretty important in radio, right,
Speaker 1: making sure that the sound is on when you're gonna
Speaker 1: when you're gonna play it. No, Christian, we're not at
Speaker 1: war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program,
Speaker 1: and that again, maybe that was just always the stance,
Speaker 1: but it did seem as far as the messaging in
Speaker 1: reaction to what happened Saturday evening yesterday, it seems as
Speaker 1: if that was there was a real focus on making
Speaker 1: sure that that was out there. So that is where
Speaker 1: we are, and this is something that probably doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be said as much as I've already said it
Speaker 1: throughout the first hour this morning, but I it I
Speaker 1: think with strong opinions on both sides, and really the
Speaker 1: reaction from the right and the left was pretty pretty
Speaker 1: expected as far as those that are praising President Trump
Speaker 1: and stating that it was the right move, and then
Speaker 1: there are the others that think it was not only
Speaker 1: a mistake, they're highlighting the fact that there wasn't the
Speaker 1: green light given by Congress. And then you actually do
Speaker 1: have some that are I don't know what these these
Speaker 1: folks identify. I don't know what what people call the
Speaker 1: Republicans who are pro Trump and certainly big time Republican,
Speaker 1: but they don't they don't like the United States dipping
Speaker 1: their toe into wars that that, you know, I guess
Speaker 1: with countries that they aren't believed to be such a threat.
Speaker 1: And again, as far as are they really a threat,
Speaker 1: that's that's for. I mean, everybody's got their own thought
Speaker 1: on that whole thing. But again, what I'm what I'm
Speaker 1: getting at as far as what probably doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be said, but I've said it many times, why not
Speaker 1: say it once more? Anybody with any reaction as of
Speaker 1: right now, as far as what took place over the weekend,
Speaker 1: That that tells you they know where this thing is going,
Speaker 1: good or bad. They don't know. None of us know.
Speaker 1: We just have to We just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: But again, when it comes to the the and again
Speaker 1: it's it's a legitimate point that's being made that this
Speaker 1: was an attack on Euron's nuclear sites without Congress giving
Speaker 1: the the official and formal approval. But that's that's Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's not uncommon. The last four presidents, Obama, Trump, Biden,
Speaker 1: and now Trump again have all launched military actions, from
Speaker 1: drone strikes to again bombing Eiron's nuclear sites, which took
Speaker 1: place over the weekend. So last I checked, the constitution
Speaker 1: is pretty clear only Congress can declare war. And again,
Speaker 1: we're not, technically, I guess, at war with Iran. And
Speaker 1: that's why the emphasis is that we're at war with
Speaker 1: their nuclear programs. I mean, that's semantics. But regardless, people
Speaker 1: both sides have had people will bring up the the
Speaker 1: you know, sounding the alarm essentially that hey, this isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily the way that you're supposed to be going about
Speaker 1: these things. You had ran Paul to Bernie Sanders mentioning that, hey,
Speaker 1: this didn't go this did not go through the formal
Speaker 1: process that it's supposed to go through. However, they're just
Speaker 1: they're drowned out anytime it's brought up. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that they should be because again I think at
Speaker 1: times they mean I think that's that's a legitimate point,
Speaker 1: but I think what's happening here is it's just easier
Speaker 1: to act first and then debate later, because that's just
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we are, but ignoring the risks
Speaker 1: that come with this kind of stuff. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: it's nothing, but maybe maybe it's not. All right. We've
Speaker 1: got another update of traffic and weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: Also will hit sports coming up in fifteen minutes. And
Speaker 1: there was once again another attempted streak takeover here in Louisville,
Speaker 1: but once again LMPD they snipped it out early, shut
Speaker 1: it down. It seems like there's just a fun cat
Speaker 1: and mouse game. They're just it's like they because nobody's
Speaker 1: getting arrested, there's no like. I guess looks as if
Speaker 1: it's about to potentially be a scary situation, only for
Speaker 1: LMPD to do a good job and shut it down.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll get to that in a lot more
Speaker 1: on Kentucky This Morning News News Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1: Good Monday morning, Kentucky, and thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 1: Starting your day, maybe you're not starting your day, maybe
Speaker 1: your day is ending. I don't everybody's got their own schedule.
Speaker 1: But whatever you're doing, however, you're listening. Thank you, we
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Again. It is Kentucky and his Morning News
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me
Speaker 1: John all On alongside. We'll have an update on sports
Speaker 1: coming your way in about ten minutes with Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: and of course another newscast from John Shannon out six thirty.
Speaker 1: I do want to let you know that if you
Speaker 1: are listening on the iHeart radio app, then you can interact,
Speaker 1: you can share your thoughts. I'm sure there are many
Speaker 1: of you that have thoughts when it comes to what's
Speaker 1: currently going on with the United States intervening and dipping
Speaker 1: their toe in the water, if you will. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of different ways you can describe it,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I got to tell you I can't
Speaker 1: move past the way in which this has been described
Speaker 1: as midnight hammer. I mean, that's that's awesome. So again,
Speaker 1: just wann to remind you that you do have a
Speaker 1: way to share your thoughts, and we can't play everything
Speaker 1: that comes in, but if you use the talkback feature
Speaker 1: on the Auhet radio app, and you know there's thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: I think it gives you to to say whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And again it doesn't guarantee you that it's gonna end
Speaker 1: up being part of the show. But we I like
Speaker 1: to to mix in some interactions, some thoughts from our
Speaker 1: listeners here and there. And I think the more we
Speaker 1: do that and you hear other voices other than just
Speaker 1: ours that are from the listeners from the community, the
Speaker 1: more inclined you may be to to share your own.
Speaker 1: So again, it's the talkback feature. If you listen on
Speaker 1: aheart radio, just tap that microphone button and it'll prompt
Speaker 1: you to uh to let it rip. And that's that's
Speaker 1: that's how easy it is, all right. So over the weekend,
Speaker 1: another potential street takeover was was shut down. This one
Speaker 1: took place in the New lou areas. So at about
Speaker 1: twelve forty five am, LMPD was called to Clay and
Speaker 1: Market Street for multiple disorderly people after a call er
Speaker 1: expressed concerns of what they thought was going to be
Speaker 1: a potential street takeover. So the LMPD is real true.
Speaker 1: The Real Time Crime Center confirmed that they were I
Speaker 1: guess about two hundred and fifty people between the Garage
Speaker 1: bar and the Big Bogita Bodagheita I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm not saying that right actually, but I
Speaker 1: know exactly which restaurant it is because I can I
Speaker 1: can visualize it. So that area there a new lou
Speaker 1: By garage bar and I guess maybe just a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks up. There were about again roughly two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty people, motorcycles, cars, all in the area. So
Speaker 1: LMPD began staging additional officers and approached the scene with
Speaker 1: I guess a relatively smaller police presence than maybe you
Speaker 1: would expect. But it worked out well because they had
Speaker 1: the intentions of of clearly resolving the situation, and they
Speaker 1: relied on communication and community cooperation from everybody involved, and
Speaker 1: it worked out to her. Once again, this of course
Speaker 1: is this is a situation, but no arrests were made.
Speaker 1: And to say that this was just nothing, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that would be accurate, because you
Speaker 1: did have some businesses that opted to close early because
Speaker 1: of the situation, so it's not like it was, you know,
Speaker 1: move along, nothing to see here. And also I think
Speaker 1: it's these are things that I think you want to
Speaker 1: get out there to let the community know that, hey,
Speaker 1: if you are trying to take these street takeover situations
Speaker 1: that became a real problem in that little pocket of
Speaker 1: the Highlands there on Barchtown Road. If you're trying to
Speaker 1: take it elsewhere, we're going to find out, and we're
Speaker 1: going to show up and we're going to As a
Speaker 1: chief Humphrey has said, we're going to enforce the law,
Speaker 1: which I don't know why. That's such a subtle but
Speaker 1: awesome way to just let people know what your plan is.
Speaker 1: We're here to enforce the law, and it's almost an endurre.
Speaker 1: You can try to challenge that if you'd like, but
Speaker 1: you'll probably regret that. So LPD worked with officers from
Speaker 1: the ABC Alcohol Beverage Control and talk to the bar
Speaker 1: management and they were able to get this thing taken
Speaker 1: care of to where all parties were cooperated throughout. It
Speaker 1: was about a thirty minute situation in total and there
Speaker 1: were no citations at all made by LMPD or ABC.
Speaker 1: So again, this is as much as there's criticism and
Speaker 1: sometimes for good reason when it comes to to law enforcement.
Speaker 1: I feel like since the since it really became a
Speaker 1: big deal with the two straight weekends of Chaos and
Speaker 1: the Highlands, that has certainly gotten better in that area,
Speaker 1: and we've now had attempted situations to take place elsewhere
Speaker 1: that have been peacefully shut down with nobody getting arrested.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure it could be handled much better
Speaker 1: from the LMPD side. So well done. All right, We've
Speaker 1: got another update of traffic and weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: and then of course we've got another update of sports
Speaker 1: as well right now our news radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John Shannon, it is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: his morning news here on news radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you at six thirty five. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Kentucky in a happy Monday to you, a very very
Speaker 1: hot weekend that is going to carry into this week
Speaker 1: as the heat wave is upon us. I I for
Speaker 1: those and I'm not going to give you my address,
Speaker 1: not that you would care, but I my address is Shepherdsville,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel like I live in Shepherdsville. John.
Speaker 1: You can attest to this right like the zip codes
Speaker 1: and the you know your address and the city if
Speaker 1: you know you know. But anyways, I bring it up
Speaker 1: because I just looked up at the WKY weather forecast
Speaker 1: that's in front of me here and it's showing temperatures
Speaker 1: in certain areas and heat indecks one seven in Bullock
Speaker 1: County today and not much different elsewhere in the region.
Speaker 1: But man, it's going to be hot, So stay hydrated
Speaker 1: and just prepare for it because Summer is here right
Speaker 1: on schedule. Summer arrived and let us know in a
Speaker 1: major way that she's here and she's here to stay
Speaker 1: for a while, So just be prepared. Hopefully everybody had
Speaker 1: a good weekend. I know I certainly did. Didn't come
Speaker 1: to a good end because I am an Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: fan and they lost last night in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it throughout the morning here and
Speaker 1: there when Scott had his first sports update. So I
Speaker 1: know many of you probably don't care about the finals
Speaker 1: or don't care about my Pacers. But one thing that
Speaker 1: I think became a real unavoidable talking point surrounding not
Speaker 1: just the NBA Finals coverage, but the NBA postseason coverage
Speaker 1: and really just the NBA coverage overall from ESPN. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm the only one that noticed it, but it's
Speaker 1: not just fans on X because that's where you go
Speaker 1: if you want to share some negative news and just
Speaker 1: be toxic. Like x is a good resource for news
Speaker 1: information if you can weed out what's real and what's not.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's probably an exaggeration here. In fact,
Speaker 1: it is an exaggeration. But I think you can find
Speaker 1: in the responses to certain ex tweet sex posts, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call them. You know, those that don't
Speaker 1: have any information just have the blank profile and they've
Speaker 1: got three followers, and they follow eighty people, and if
Speaker 1: you go look at their replies, all they're doing is
Speaker 1: just you know, being nasty about anything and everything. It's
Speaker 1: a real toxic place. So maybe this isn't the greatest
Speaker 1: example to give you, but it became something that was
Speaker 1: covered by those who cover the NBA that the ESPN's
Speaker 1: NBA cover just is just so subpar, and it really
Speaker 1: stood out last night. Maybe it was me just being
Speaker 1: a bitter Pacers fan as they were gassing up the
Speaker 1: Thunder as they should, and the Thunder of course were
Speaker 1: the better team and they won. But I expect there'll
Speaker 1: be some big changes next year. And look, everybody has
Speaker 1: their own taste as far as like there's like, for example,
Speaker 1: I don't know many that say Oh yeah, give me
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. Oh, absolutely, give me more Steven A.
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody that I would say, I mean
Speaker 1: a friend, acquaintance, anything that's like, yeah, ESPN, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, but really wish they'd give me more
Speaker 1: Stephen Am Not sure that's ever been said by anybody,
Speaker 1: but clearly he does something good enough there for him
Speaker 1: to have I think the highest salary at ESPN, and
Speaker 1: they put him everywhere. So there's a lot of complaining
Speaker 1: about it, but yet it seems to be working as
Speaker 1: far as just again, he's somebody they've invested a ton
Speaker 1: of money in. But it did feel like there was
Speaker 1: a slight shift, especially during the finals coverage, that there's
Speaker 1: more noise than ever, And of course that's what Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith does. He makes a lot of noise. He yells,
Speaker 1: he's loud, even so much last night that Bob Myers,
Speaker 1: the former Golden State Warriors GM, who was you know,
Speaker 1: who was? Who was? I don't know how long he's
Speaker 1: been with he's been with the ESPN crew, but he
Speaker 1: went from being a GM to now being a broadcaster,
Speaker 1: and last night, I mean he just said, just because
Speaker 1: you yell at doesn't make it true. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that was part of a bit. I don't think
Speaker 1: that was just I think he's speaking for fans who
Speaker 1: are like, all right, this guy needs to quit screaming
Speaker 1: at me, and this isn't really their fault. And I,
Speaker 1: you know, for those who don't know, I used to
Speaker 1: be in sports broadcasting long before well, I wasn't a
Speaker 1: broadcaster as far as doing play by play or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but I worked in sports radio. I was
Speaker 1: a radio loud mouth myself. So with that being really
Speaker 1: my background for more than ten years, I always hesitate
Speaker 1: to say, all this guy stinks because everybody has their
Speaker 1: own preference, and I'm sure there are people who think
Speaker 1: I think so. Everybody has their own taste. And if
Speaker 1: you've got an employer willing to invest in you and
Speaker 1: make you a part of their coverage, then you know
Speaker 1: you're doing good enough. Just because one person or many
Speaker 1: people don't like a particular host and their style and
Speaker 1: their opinions, if they're employed and things are going well,
Speaker 1: then there's enough people that justify it. But with Doris
Speaker 1: Burke and Richard Jefferson being a part of it, with
Speaker 1: Mike Brain, who's been there a long time as the
Speaker 1: play by play guy. It just didn't It did not
Speaker 1: seem It's put it this way, it stood out more
Speaker 1: than I was ever expecting that you're watching the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals in a Game seven, and it wasn't as if
Speaker 1: there was one big goof for one specific moment where
Speaker 1: it felt low class that it felt subpar, but the coverage,
Speaker 1: as far as those that were a part of it collectively,
Speaker 1: it did not match what we actually had, which was
Speaker 1: a Game seven of the NBA Finals, And it just
Speaker 1: to me it seemed as if it got so bad
Speaker 1: to where it wouldn't shock me if they completely revamp things.
Speaker 1: And look they're lead for those that don't know the least,
Speaker 1: ESPN is going to lease the TNT guys for next year,
Speaker 1: meaning Chuck shack Ernie, those guys that you felt like
Speaker 1: were going away because TNT is no longer involved in
Speaker 1: the NBA. ESPN is leasing their contracts to where they
Speaker 1: can utilize them, but they're not using them for endgame.
Speaker 1: They're using them for I guess the pre postgame and
Speaker 1: even halftime to where we don't have to listen to
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith's scream as much. But here's what's probably
Speaker 1: gonna happen. They're gonna put Steven A with him, and
Speaker 1: he's just gonna yell. And I guess it could be
Speaker 1: entertaining to see how like Charles Barkley responds to that,
Speaker 1: because maybe that would be entertaining. But again, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: a bitter Pacers fan. But it felt like last night
Speaker 1: was a real eye opener for a lot of people that, man,
Speaker 1: how did ESPN fall so far behind TNT? And look
Speaker 1: even if T and T didn't exist, because it's unrealistic
Speaker 1: to expect to compete with what they do. However, even
Speaker 1: if they even if that wasn't the standard, the the
Speaker 1: top dog in NBA coverage, I still think what you
Speaker 1: have at ESPN now would be subpar. All Right, An
Speaker 1: update of traffic and weather's coming your way right here
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty WHS six forty seven. Here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky, INA's Morning News. We have another sports update
Speaker 1: coming your way in about eight and a half minutes
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitzgerald. Another check of traffic and weather on
Speaker 1: the way in about two and a half minutes. But uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's out of line, and I'm certainly
Speaker 1: not attempting to pick on Kroger by any means. But
Speaker 1: in my I guess this is the fourth week that
Speaker 1: I've that I'm getting started here. Kroger has been talking
Speaker 1: about quite a bit compared to other things. And they
Speaker 1: had road and infestation at one location which shut it down,
Speaker 1: and then they had another location, I believe the Lagrange
Speaker 1: Road exit or the look, yeah, the Lagrange Road location,
Speaker 1: I should say that had nothing. It wasn't didn't get
Speaker 1: shut down. It was not as severe as what happened
Speaker 1: at the Gass Avenue location. But again, you never want
Speaker 1: to be in the news because there's road and infestation
Speaker 1: at one location and there's I guess the potential threat
Speaker 1: of it due to mouse droppings or rodent droppings. So
Speaker 1: it's not great. But another piece of news from overnight,
Speaker 1: pretty scary situation where they ended up having to ended
Speaker 1: up with no shots fired and no real you know,
Speaker 1: nobody was injured or anything like that, but certainly a
Speaker 1: scary situation as there was a call made about an
Speaker 1: active aggressor at the West Louisville Kroger. That was last
Speaker 1: night around eight forty. Police responded to the Kroger. In
Speaker 1: the twenty seven hundred block of West Broadway, and when
Speaker 1: they got there, they began clearing everybody out of the store,
Speaker 1: employees and shoppers. No shots were fired, according to LMPD,
Speaker 1: but they did have to close down or evacuate I
Speaker 1: should say for the time being McDonald's and Popeyes, which
Speaker 1: is right near that location. So it all started because
Speaker 1: they were notified that somebody entered. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: it was a young adult or a teen that entered
Speaker 1: the Kroger wearing a mask and carrying a handgun. So
Speaker 1: that led to a none one one call of an
Speaker 1: active aggressor and obviously you got to take those things serious.
Speaker 1: So it worked out well. But another not so great
Speaker 1: piece of news that's out there when it comes to Kroger,
Speaker 1: and again they can't control that, but just again, that's
Speaker 1: not something you ever want happening in your store. And
Speaker 1: now we know this actually came out late last week
Speaker 1: I believe it was that there are I think a
Speaker 1: total of sixty Kroger locations that are going to close
Speaker 1: over the next eighteen months. So as far as which
Speaker 1: of those stores in Kentucky you are going to close,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough to know, but there are I mean,
Speaker 1: there are you'd probably know there are so many locations
Speaker 1: here in the state. There's more than yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: Kroger dot Com. They're they're I guess their database of
Speaker 1: locations here lists more than one hundred stores in more
Speaker 1: than fifty Kentucky cities. And I know, I'd be shocked
Speaker 1: if in fact, these closure these closures don't end up
Speaker 1: impacting those that are that are here, which not that
Speaker 1: I would have the information to see these kind of
Speaker 1: things coming, but uh, yeah, I mean that's a that's
Speaker 1: a closing that many stores, is it's rob It says
Speaker 1: that they currently operate two thousand, seven hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: one stores. That was at the beginning of this year,
Speaker 1: and uh, the cut is gonna Yeah, the cut is
Speaker 1: going to represent about two percent of all of its location.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's not a huge issue. It's just
Speaker 1: you don't often see from a you know, grocery re
Speaker 1: type giant. I mean, again, I don't know where they
Speaker 1: are on the list as far as competing with with
Speaker 1: others in their industry, but certainly Kroger a big name brand.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're gonna be closing down sixty stores, all right,
Speaker 1: an update of trafficking weather is coming up right now,
Speaker 1: and then an update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald right
Speaker 1: here on news radio eight forty WHS