Speaker 1: Thank you John Shannon, Happy Humpday, Kentucky, and and welcome
Speaker 1: in Kentucky. And is morning news here on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: Nick coffee with you.
Speaker 1: We've got John Alden alongside. The full team is here.
Speaker 1: And yesterday I learned of a new Kentucky law that
Speaker 1: is about to be in effect here. It's Senate Bill
Speaker 1: Onet eighty one that became effective now essentially, but it
Speaker 1: restricts how public school employees and volunteers meaning teachers, coaches
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily staff members but they work within the
Speaker 1: school system. It now restricts these people from communicating with
Speaker 1: students to prevent.
Speaker 2: Child sex abuse.
Speaker 1: So the new law restricts students all those folks mentioned teachers, staff, faculty, coaches,
Speaker 1: even if you're a paid employee or you're a volunteer,
Speaker 1: part time, full time, whatever, No texting, no social media
Speaker 1: or third party app communication with students, No messaging students
Speaker 1: with personal emails. All communication must be traceable through official
Speaker 1: school channels that I believe are still being being put together.
Speaker 1: So this this is not a huge surprise given the
Speaker 1: seemingly non stopping story stories that out there about teachers
Speaker 1: that cross the line that clearly you can't cross. So
Speaker 1: until let's see, until August first, twenty twenty five, JCPS
Speaker 1: staff must use only JCPS email or communicate via parents.
Speaker 1: Post August first, JCPS will adopt a standardized traceable communication
Speaker 1: method and then school statewide have until August fifteenth to
Speaker 1: comply to this new law. So I think overall instant
Speaker 1: reaction for most and I could be wrong, is yeah,
Speaker 1: this makes sense. Why would why would teachers coaches need
Speaker 1: to communicate with students in a in a social media
Speaker 1: platform or in an email that is a personal email.
Speaker 1: It should be all communication that has done within not
Speaker 1: only school hours, but if it's non school hours, it
Speaker 1: should be done through school channels. I don't think you'll
Speaker 1: hear a lot of pushback from many, but if you do,
Speaker 1: I think it's those that realize a couple of things.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's more than just these two things,
Speaker 1: but these are the two things that stood out to
Speaker 1: me more than anything when it comes to how this
Speaker 1: could impact students in a negative way. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are many teachers that do have added communication with the
Speaker 1: student because they realize that they are that they need
Speaker 1: that right and unfortunately there are people who take advantage
Speaker 1: of this, meaning where you were able to do this
Speaker 1: without it being against the law and something that could
Speaker 1: get you in trouble not only with your job and
Speaker 1: your career, but also with the law that clearly cross
Speaker 1: the line. And some of these people that were referring to,
Speaker 1: you know, understandably so and deservedly so, are in prison.
Speaker 1: But you know, the bad apples have have made it
Speaker 1: to where this will have I believe some negative impact
Speaker 1: as well. But again because so many have crossed the line.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to say that so many as
Speaker 1: if it represents the majority of those who are in
Speaker 1: fact teaching and coaching and working with young adults. But
Speaker 1: enough has has have taken it, have taken advantage, crossed
Speaker 1: the line to where this needs to be in place.
Speaker 1: So I certainly see both sides of it. But one
Speaker 1: of the critics is a JCPS parenting coach who talked
Speaker 1: to WKY and and stated that, you know, kids don't
Speaker 1: use email very often, which I look, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of young people that don't use email at all
Speaker 1: unless and I mean young adults, unless it's something for work.
Speaker 1: Now you have I think most people have an email address,
Speaker 1: but I would say it wouldn't be as surprise that
Speaker 1: there are some that really don't need standard email as
Speaker 1: far as a way to communicate on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: So high school students or middle school students even not
Speaker 1: having an actual personal email account is understan but I
Speaker 1: guess they'll have email accounts or some type of communication
Speaker 1: in place through the school's official channel, however they decide
Speaker 1: to do it. So and again, if you're a coach,
Speaker 1: I don't really know how you get around. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're a basketball coach, football coach, whatever, whatever the
Speaker 1: sport is, not be and you also tea you not
Speaker 1: being able to talk to your players through a text message.
Speaker 1: To me, that just seems like a real, a real
Speaker 1: issue as far as just being able to run your
Speaker 1: program the way that you want to run it.
Speaker 2: But I'm curious if you are.
Speaker 1: I guess you don't have to be a parent or
Speaker 1: even an administrator teacher in the JCPS school system or
Speaker 1: any school system for that matter, because again this is
Speaker 1: now in effect for the entire state after August. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious your thoughts on this. If you have some,
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Speaker 1: All right, We've got another update of traffick in weather
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Speaker 1: wild facts about the draft that may surprise some of you.
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Speaker 1: eight forty Whas six sixteen here at Kentucky and his
Speaker 1: morning news on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee
Speaker 1: with you. We've got an update on sports coming your
Speaker 1: way in about nine minutes or so, John on alongside
Speaker 1: and John Indiana. As far as guys who are moving on.
Speaker 1: Scott mentioned earlier in his first sports cast that there's
Speaker 1: a good chance that both, in fact all three Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Louisville and Indiana may not have anybody drafted. I suppose
Speaker 1: that that could change if somebody's taken in the second round.
Speaker 1: But who would be the most I guess draftable player
Speaker 1: from from the Hoosiers or is there even anybody like
Speaker 1: the guy?
Speaker 3: I think the two names that I've heard if they
Speaker 3: get me, I don't think they'll get drafted, but they
Speaker 3: could find their way onto a roster of some sort,
Speaker 3: like a g Leete Ross w Be, Trey Galloway and
Speaker 3: Numar ballow Okay Mackenzie Imbacco. Initially we tested out the
Speaker 3: draft Waters as well, but believe he's transferred elsewhere.
Speaker 1: I think he's at A and M Texas A and
Speaker 1: m Okay gotcha. So yeah, there's always look you could
Speaker 1: you can find a home in the NBA despite not
Speaker 1: being drafted. Certainly you've got a tougher path to get
Speaker 1: there than those that get that big investment from an
Speaker 1: NBA franchise with a first or second round pick. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to those that have made it in
Speaker 1: the NBA, not only undrafted, because there's many that have
Speaker 1: done that, but those that have been really, really, really
Speaker 1: good stars. Ben Wallace is one who played for the Pistons,
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive players in that era. Certainly
Speaker 1: the Pistons were a title team and he.
Speaker 2: Was a big part of that.
Speaker 1: A rare star that didn't even take many shots, just
Speaker 1: impacted the game so much with Block just being a
Speaker 1: rim presence and a guy that rebounded and defended really well.
Speaker 1: And then I gotta admit as somebody who considers myself
Speaker 1: a basketball nerd, especially a fanatic of the NBA in
Speaker 1: the nineties. I know I know who John's but I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that he did not get drafted. He had
Speaker 1: a big run for the Knicks. And then most recently,
Speaker 1: this is this is probably the most recent, really good
Speaker 1: example of somebody that not only was successful in the
Speaker 1: NBA but became a star despite being undrafted. That's Fred
Speaker 1: van Vliet, of which Toss state. He had a great
Speaker 1: run in Toronto, was a part of their title team,
Speaker 1: and now it's got I'm a max contract, maybe even
Speaker 1: a super max. He's probably not a super max con
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, but he's with the Rockets.
Speaker 1: So you can go undrafted and still find your way
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and some have done it at a
Speaker 1: really really high level. But what I like when it
Speaker 1: comes to the draft is just the the stories that
Speaker 1: really over the years come in that have nothing to
Speaker 1: do like I'm a nerd for the draft just because
Speaker 1: I think it's entertaining to watch. I'll watch, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll watch every round of the NFL Draft, and it's
Speaker 1: not because of my love of the NFL. I just
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to see. Maybe it's maybe it's
Speaker 1: just wanting to imagine that. You know, I think if
Speaker 1: you were drafted, there's got to be a it's got
Speaker 1: to be one of the most memorable moments in your
Speaker 1: long journey of being an athlete, right because that mean,
Speaker 1: even if you know you're going to be drafted, right
Speaker 1: you're there, you're invited to the green room, when you
Speaker 1: walk across the stage, shake the commissioner's hand, that just
Speaker 1: has to be one of those moments that you realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: this all paid off, it worked out, it finally happened.
Speaker 1: Even if again you're there because you know somebody's about
Speaker 1: to pick you, even Cooper Flag I would imagine, who
Speaker 1: has been believed to be the lock for this first
Speaker 1: pick in the draft for many years. But then there's
Speaker 1: some that this is one of my favorite stories. And
Speaker 1: it's fitting because Nicola Jokich, who of course is a
Speaker 1: multi time MVP, probably could win it every year and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have an issue with it as far as
Speaker 1: how well he's playing right now and where he.
Speaker 2: Is as a star.
Speaker 1: But he also has got a weird component to him
Speaker 1: to where he just doesn't really seem to care.
Speaker 2: It's a job, like he has to go to work
Speaker 2: every day.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's living this lifestyle and just loving
Speaker 1: being a basketball player. I'm sure he could find worse work,
Speaker 1: but he looks at it as a job. But when
Speaker 1: he was drafted in the second round with the forty
Speaker 1: first overall pick by the Nuggets in twenty fourteen, they
Speaker 1: were at commercial break, so they're showing advertisements, but the
Speaker 1: bottom ticker is telling you draft picks that come in,
Speaker 1: and a Taco bell commercial was playing while we got
Speaker 1: word that Nicola jokicch one of the best players of
Speaker 1: all time in my opinion, was drafted also in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four. Bill Walton, you'll like this story, John, You're
Speaker 1: a Bill Walton finatic like me.
Speaker 2: R Ip.
Speaker 1: Bill Walton, the legend, the first overall pick by the
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers. He was backpacking across the country in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four, didn't know he was drafted until a grocery
Speaker 1: store worker told him and that's such a Bill Walton
Speaker 1: stor exactly.
Speaker 3: There's no other player in the NBA that would have
Speaker 3: ever had that experience.
Speaker 2: Rip Bill Walton.
Speaker 1: Love that guy, miss him, but he left us with
Speaker 1: a lot of good vibes, that's for sure. All Right,
Speaker 1: we've got another update on sports coming your way, but
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Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John, it is six
Speaker 1: thirty five as I need to apologies there didn't didn't
Speaker 1: see that coming anyways, six thirty five years executive Morning
Speaker 1: News on News radioate forty whas. Nick Coffee with you,
Speaker 1: and I think Mary Greenberg might have just dunked on
Speaker 1: Tony Vannetti.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that because it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that's clearly a joke. But I hope people can understand
Speaker 1: when I have a poor attempt. I think that was
Speaker 1: at humor. But yesterday, with the big news of the
Speaker 1: gift coming in from from the Young Brands to JCPS,
Speaker 1: a gift that Marty Pollio as estimates could be worth
Speaker 1: more than forty million dollars, the JCPS did approve to
Speaker 1: accept that gift. Venetti throughout the scenario to where maybe
Speaker 1: this is just a little bit of a smoke screen,
Speaker 1: to where if YUM does in fact relocate not here
Speaker 1: in Louisville, then this could be a way to kind
Speaker 1: of soften the blow a little bit to where maybe
Speaker 1: there's not as much criticism thrown their way because oh, well,
Speaker 1: they did give j CPS a building that you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to do that, but Maryy Greenberg, they're emphasizing,
Speaker 1: and that was that was the that was the that
Speaker 1: was the joke. Is that, you know, maybe he heard
Speaker 1: Venette claiming that this you know, this could be YOUM
Speaker 1: just trying to kind of not make it so obvious
Speaker 1: when they do when they do leave. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like that's the case. It sounds like their new
Speaker 1: home is going to be here in Louisville, and that's
Speaker 1: that's good news, because, of course, a lot of jobs
Speaker 1: here and a lot of people work for you in Louisville.
Speaker 2: And I'm assuming they don't want to leave. I hope
Speaker 2: they don't want to leave, and.
Speaker 4: Young is now in the process of looking for a
Speaker 4: new home here in Louisville. I want to be very
Speaker 4: clear about that. A Yum's new home will be in Louisville.
Speaker 4: We have been talking with them for several months about
Speaker 4: a few different locations that they are considering.
Speaker 2: So that's good news. So eat that venette.
Speaker 1: And again he didn't state that that was actually what
Speaker 1: was going to happen, but you know, just just having
Speaker 1: fun with him. And by the way, they like to
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun on their show, and they're
Speaker 1: they're coming up Tony and Dwhite. They'll be with you
Speaker 1: starting at nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, coffee list.
Speaker 2: Whoop's wrong? That's the talkback button? Sorry about that. One
Speaker 2: day I'll learn how to use this board right and
Speaker 2: play big spaceship. But you're flying it is it looks
Speaker 2: like spaceship.
Speaker 1: And I could give you an excuse as to why
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with it at times, but I don't have
Speaker 1: a good one, because I've used this same exact board
Speaker 1: for a while whenever I was in a different studio
Speaker 1: on a different station. But if there's any difference here,
Speaker 1: I guess it's that I'm now utilizing our news system
Speaker 1: that has different sound and sometimes I hit a button
Speaker 1: and assume it's the right one, and sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1: But what I do want to get to later. I
Speaker 1: know you've heard about it throughout the morning in our
Speaker 1: newscasts with John Shannon about the budget that Mayor Greenbook
Speaker 1: has putting Mayor Greenberg has put in place. We'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that in detail coming up later on.
Speaker 2: But back to the.
Speaker 1: Corporations here that have had headquarters in Louisville over the years,
Speaker 1: and there have been some that just decided to leave,
Speaker 1: and that's a blow, right, you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want as many big companies to come
Speaker 1: here as possible and have their headquarters in our city
Speaker 1: to where again it helps the economy, creates a lot
Speaker 1: of jobs and brings people.
Speaker 2: It's good for the city.
Speaker 1: And the only one that I can think of that
Speaker 1: quite literally just decided to up and leave, that was
Speaker 1: a real you know, that was unfortunate. Was was Papa
Speaker 1: John's and you know that that was that was that
Speaker 1: was tough because that did either eliminate a lot of
Speaker 1: jobs around here or people had to relocate.
Speaker 2: That happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: But some of the others it wasn't as if they
Speaker 1: just decided to they just decided to leave because they
Speaker 1: didn't like Louisville or they found somewhere cheaper. Some of
Speaker 1: it's just been a product of the economy and of
Speaker 1: course the the changing landscape when it comes to the workforce,
Speaker 1: as far as people being able to work from home
Speaker 1: and you can have entire departments that seven eight years
Speaker 1: ago you had many people in office every day and
Speaker 1: now it's completely remote to where they don't need the
Speaker 1: same office space and they don't even really need necessarily
Speaker 1: a corporate headquarters. So you know, there's there's there's been
Speaker 1: some that that did downsize, and that's that's unfortunate as
Speaker 1: far as just laying off employees, but that's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a sign of of the city not being an attractive
Speaker 1: spot for corporations.
Speaker 2: To have to have their headquarters located.
Speaker 1: I mean, Humana, they remain headquartered here in Louisville, and
Speaker 1: there's been some speculation about them relocating or downsizing, but
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened just yet. As far as the you know,
Speaker 1: to the extent that some people have worried about. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Kindred health Care, a Louisll based health
Speaker 1: care service. I'm sure a lot of you familiar with
Speaker 1: Kindred health Care. They were required by Life Point Health
Speaker 1: and that led some that led them to essentially cease
Speaker 1: operations as a standalone entity, of course, and that that
Speaker 1: had an impact on certain jobs. So and again Young
Speaker 1: did did have some some of their employee I think,
Speaker 1: I think it was one hundred jobs effectively were relocated
Speaker 1: to Texas, and that, of course that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: But still many many employees here of Young in this area,
Speaker 1: some that I know that I'm friends with, So glad
Speaker 1: to hear that their plan is to relocate, but not
Speaker 1: out of Louisville, but to stay here with us. All Right,
Speaker 1: we've got another updated travel the weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: I'll try to learn how to do this as far
Speaker 1: as what buttons to hit, what sound to play. So
Speaker 1: I'm learning, let's do's radiowaight forty whs. I've never heard
Speaker 1: of Reem Rayuda? Is that a woman name or a
Speaker 1: man named John helped me out here?
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that was a name you were saying.
Speaker 1: Reem Rayuta is a conscious parenting coach, and she makes
Speaker 1: me feel like maybe I'm a bad parent.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a level of insecurity here, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to share it with you guys that are also parents,
Speaker 1: and hopes that you tell me no, Nick, I do
Speaker 1: that too as a parent. You're not a bad parent
Speaker 1: because she's got some tips. As far as things phrases,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say that you that you probably
Speaker 1: say to your kids, but you shouldn't say them yet.
Speaker 1: It says, don't say these phrases to kids if you
Speaker 1: want them to listen. I think I say all these
Speaker 1: things to my son and my daughter at times, maybe
Speaker 1: not word for word, but something along the lines because
Speaker 1: I said so. I mean, how many times have you
Speaker 1: said that to your kids? I mean, come on, I
Speaker 1: mean little Daisy is only a couple months old, few
Speaker 1: months old. She probably already told her right, hey, because
Speaker 1: I said so, go.
Speaker 2: To sleep, take that milk. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, if she gives you the look of
Speaker 1: why you say because I said so? Again, don't take
Speaker 1: my advice because, according to this parenting coach, I'm doing
Speaker 1: it wrong. She says or he says that all this
Speaker 1: does is shut down communication. But if you explain your reasoning,
Speaker 1: even briefly, it helps your kid feel respected without negotiating
Speaker 1: or debating. Instead, try saying quote, I know you don't
Speaker 1: like this decision. I'll explain and then we're moving forward.
Speaker 1: My son would look at me as if what is
Speaker 1: this a business meeting? Or or you know, are you
Speaker 1: my dad? I know you don't like this decision. I'll explain,
Speaker 1: and then we're moving forward.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 1: I guess that there's something wrong with saying that, but maybe,
Speaker 1: like if you have older kids, answer my sun just
Speaker 1: turned five, he would look at me like I was crazy.
Speaker 1: They also say or this parenting coach says that you
Speaker 1: should not say this quote to or this praise to
Speaker 1: your kid. If you don't listen, you'll lose blank privilege
Speaker 1: says the threats like this create defiance and force kids
Speaker 1: to defense mode. But you can remove the power struggle
Speaker 1: by saying, quote, when you're ready to do specific behavior,
Speaker 1: we can do desired activity. This puts the ball on
Speaker 1: the child's court and they can make it happen when
Speaker 1: they are ready.
Speaker 2: This one, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I'm sure it would be a lie if I
Speaker 1: said I've never threatened to take away a certain privilege
Speaker 1: from my kid.
Speaker 2: But I also in.
Speaker 1: Fact this this this played out a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: actually is longer than that another I think about it,
Speaker 1: but my son, who I'm trying to not spoil because
Speaker 1: I've realized that for the most part of his life,
Speaker 1: if he's wanted something, and he's a pretty well behaved kid,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, when he's wanted something and
Speaker 1: it's doable, I want to get it for him or
Speaker 1: do it for him because I want to see him happy.
Speaker 1: And he's always seemingly been appreciative. But you have to
Speaker 1: worry is there ever going to be a moment where
Speaker 1: he just assumes he can get whatever he wants? So
Speaker 1: instead of just giving it to him, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you can be more polite to your
Speaker 1: mother and maybe not give her any any attitude at all,
Speaker 1: even if it's playful, then you know you can give me.
Speaker 2: If you give me a week of good.
Speaker 1: Behavior according to your mom, then you can get a
Speaker 1: new you can get a new PlayStation game. And he
Speaker 1: really saw that as a challenge and was better. Not
Speaker 1: that he was ever really bad, but like he was
Speaker 1: mindful of I need to be on my best behavior,
Speaker 1: and he worked towards it and he ended up getting
Speaker 1: the game. So I guess that's that the comparison for me,
Speaker 1: there would be that he did have to work for
Speaker 1: something and show that he could, you know, really really
Speaker 1: pay attention to how you know, it wasn't anything crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't act like my son's at four years old
Speaker 1: at the time was was.
Speaker 2: Was somebody that needed to be disciplined in a big way.
Speaker 1: But you know, just little whoy mommy or I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, just little things like that. So
Speaker 1: we've got some more that we'll get later on. One
Speaker 1: of these that we can talk about is how many
Speaker 1: times do you.
Speaker 2: Have to tell you?
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't everybody say that to their parents, or
Speaker 1: doesn't every parents say that to their kids.
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
Speaker 3: How my wife says it to me all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much we should put into what
Speaker 1: this parent coach parenting coach says. But if they're right, yikes,
Speaker 1: what's that say about me? All Right, we've got another
Speaker 1: update of Trapping the Weather coming your way. Also another
Speaker 1: check on sports with Scott Fitzgerald right here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty WHS