Speaker 1: A forty million dollar gift. I feel comfortable in saying, well,
Speaker 1: one that I've never received a gift of that of
Speaker 1: that magnitude, and I probably won't because not many do.
Speaker 1: But that is a big gift to JCPS courtesy of
Speaker 1: Young Brands. It's six oh five here Conseucket. It's Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: We've got the full crew in place. We've got John
Speaker 1: Ald inlongside. We'll have another sports update coming your way
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes with Scott Fitzgerald and of course John
Speaker 1: Shinn and just gave you his newscast and we'll give
Speaker 1: you another one coming up at six thirty. But yes,
Speaker 1: that was It's one of those things that I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are many that see a a corporation like Young
Speaker 1: Brands that has I don't know the exact status of
Speaker 1: how well they've done as a business, but I would
Speaker 1: say is a corporation that has roughly sixty one thousand
Speaker 1: restaurants and one hundred and fifty five countries with KFC,
Speaker 1: Taco Bell, Pizza Hut. I would imagine they're not hurting
Speaker 1: for money. So whenever they give a gift that is
Speaker 1: forty million dollars in value. According to Marty Polio of JCPS.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are many that just think, oh, that's nothing, that's.
Speaker 2: The least they could do.
Speaker 1: But you should look at it that way. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know how grateful JCPS I'm sure is for this.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is big time. So it was.
Speaker 1: It was a bummer earlier this year in February where
Speaker 1: Young announced plans to relocate I believe one hundred jobs
Speaker 1: roughly in the corporate headquarters they have here in Louisville,
Speaker 1: and they were relocating those to Plano, Texas, which, of
Speaker 1: course you never you never want to see that anybody
Speaker 1: losing their job here in Louisville at a corporation because
Speaker 1: they're moving some stuff. But clearly there's still some presence
Speaker 1: here in Louisville with Young, and they're looking for a
Speaker 1: new location. So that's not only a good not only
Speaker 1: a good sign that they are still going to have
Speaker 1: major presence here, but also that's one of those things
Speaker 1: that I just feel like, Okay, who cares? And I
Speaker 1: don't mean like you don't care that JCPS is getting
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you don't care. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't control or really know what you care about. But
Speaker 1: because it's it's Young Brands again, a corporation that is
Speaker 1: huge all over the world, all over the planet, it
Speaker 1: probably isn't viewed as that big of a gesture, when
Speaker 1: in fact it is. And what I will say just
Speaker 1: a reminder they didn't have to do that. There wasn't
Speaker 1: an expectation to do that. So thank you, Young Brands,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure JCPS has expressed their appreciation. And when
Speaker 1: it comes to corporations here in Louisville that have restructured
Speaker 1: just because of the economy, some of that happened during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. That's never good, right. You want corporations to
Speaker 1: have headquarters here in Louisville, whether they start here or
Speaker 1: they don't, because obviously that's good for the economy, it's
Speaker 1: good for the job market. And you know Papa John's
Speaker 1: that was a big deal when they decided in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty to significantly shift their operational focus where they were
Speaker 1: in Louisville with a big presence for quite some time.
Speaker 1: And now I believe the majority of those type of
Speaker 1: jobs or in Atlanta. I think they still have some
Speaker 1: presence here in Louisville, but obviously the primary headquarters is
Speaker 1: now in Atlanta, so that when that happens, man, that's
Speaker 1: a tough blow. You know, there's a lot of not
Speaker 1: only for those who have jobs that are impacted by
Speaker 1: those kind of decisions, but also you know, just for
Speaker 1: the economy. I mean, if you are somebody like myself
Speaker 1: who's lived here in this area your whole life, I
Speaker 1: mean you you probably know. I mean, heck, I know
Speaker 1: people in fact, my family, my mom's side of the family,
Speaker 1: they ended up here where my mom was born and
Speaker 1: raised along with her brothers and sisters, because my grandfather
Speaker 1: got a job at GE. I'm sure there are many
Speaker 1: people here that they call this their hometown because their dad,
Speaker 1: or maybe their mom, or maybe their grandparents got a
Speaker 1: job at a place like Ford. So you know, when
Speaker 1: you have a corporation like Papa John's who is here
Speaker 1: for quite some time, young, it could be the same thing.
Speaker 1: There could be people that now call this area their home.
Speaker 1: A generational kind of thing where you know, you got
Speaker 1: three generations of families that now you know, they they're
Speaker 1: here in our community and impacting the economy because of
Speaker 1: jobs that were created because of these corporations that had
Speaker 1: such presence here in the area. So it's been it's
Speaker 1: been an up and down kind of thing, and there's
Speaker 1: been some that haven't left. They've just they've just shifted
Speaker 1: to where you know, it's sigh of the times. And
Speaker 1: really I think we were already headed in the direction
Speaker 1: of remote work becoming more common in a lot of
Speaker 1: different industries. But what the pandemic did because we were
Speaker 1: sort of forced to adjust and just figure it out.
Speaker 1: I think it led to that speeding up at a
Speaker 1: rapid rate. That if we didn't have to just isolate
Speaker 1: ourselves and of course be locked down to an extent
Speaker 1: because of the of the coronavirus, maybe these corporations would
Speaker 1: not have learned that, Okay, you know, we actually can
Speaker 1: be pretty efficient and effective, and not only that, we
Speaker 1: can save money by not having, you know, such such
Speaker 1: space in certain areas. So anyways, for the those that
Speaker 1: just think, oh, it's the least the young brands can do,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you're right, but it's still in something
Speaker 1: they had to do, so I'm sure you know, they
Speaker 1: hopefully they get they get proper praise. All Right, we've
Speaker 1: got another update of traffic and weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: so stick around right here. It's because I can't as
Speaker 1: morning news on news Radio eight to forty whas as
Speaker 1: a society, I think we toss around addiction like it's
Speaker 1: like it's a punchline. I'm addicted to. I say things
Speaker 1: like I'm addicted to TikTok, and actually I may I
Speaker 1: may be addicted to TikTok. But there are modern habits
Speaker 1: from doom scrolling to I mean, look, everybody's got their
Speaker 1: own thing that they just casually say they're addicted to,
Speaker 1: and maybe they actually are. But this reddit thread as
Speaker 1: far as things that people claim that they feel that
Speaker 1: they've become addicted to, meaning that they didn't. They casually
Speaker 1: threw that word out there, and then maybe they're having
Speaker 1: this this self reflection, the realization that Okay, maybe I
Speaker 1: am I'm actually addicted to this. Here are here are
Speaker 1: some that maybe you will realize you are maybe addicted
Speaker 1: to validation addiction that is believed to be the compulsive
Speaker 1: need for approval, praise, or recognition from others. I'd say
Speaker 1: that's more of a personality trait, but maybe maybe with
Speaker 1: that you could you could chalk it up to being
Speaker 1: an addiction. This one is very obscure. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe as I say this, you'll say, yep, that's me
Speaker 1: totally addicted to nasal spray. I've actually used nasal spray
Speaker 1: recently as I've discussed my allergy issues. John, I can
Speaker 1: tell you, I don't know how you would become addicted
Speaker 1: to that, because that would I dread doing that.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just the feeling for some people, the feeling
Speaker 2: you having a clear sinus, yeah, or something like.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's some kind of stimulation involved there that I
Speaker 1: just I'm not I'm not experiencing on my end, because
Speaker 1: I would avoid that at all costs. Shopping that can
Speaker 1: be certainly an addicting thing. Victim mindset. Again, some of
Speaker 1: these to me are more so just more of your
Speaker 1: personality than maybe your or maybe something that you are
Speaker 1: addicted to. Now, gambling is certainly an addiction, and I
Speaker 1: don't make light of it because it can ruin people's lives,
Speaker 1: just like being addicted to heroin or being addicted to alcohol.
Speaker 1: But I used to have this conversation all the time
Speaker 1: with people, and there weren't many and those that were
Speaker 1: opposed to sports gambling in the state being legal as
Speaker 1: if it was going to ruin society. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the proof is that they were wrong. That's not
Speaker 1: to say it hasn't had a negative impact on certain people,
Speaker 1: but I'd say the vast majority are doing it responsibly
Speaker 1: and clearly it's been it's made money here in this state.
Speaker 1: But gambling can absolutely be an addiction and just as
Speaker 1: scary and detrimental as again being addicted to hard drugs.
Speaker 1: But yeah, gambling is certainly an addiction that is a
Speaker 1: scary one, no doubt. Social media, Yeah, I will say
Speaker 1: social media is one where I would say that's not
Speaker 1: a personality thing, that's not just you know, somebody that
Speaker 1: is I guess using the platform to try to get
Speaker 1: that validation and show people that hey, look at me,
Speaker 1: I'm doing this. There are people who I'm I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm addicted to social media. I'm addicted to
Speaker 1: just my phone in all aspects. Just it consumes me
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of different things I do on
Speaker 1: my phone. But social media is certainly a part of that.
Speaker 1: And I really since I've been in this position meaning
Speaker 1: where I don't necessarily I mean, I'm no longer just
Speaker 1: a sports talk host. I now talk, news, talk and
Speaker 1: other things. I don't feel the need to be just
Speaker 1: keeping up with what's going on every second of the
Speaker 1: day in sports, so that i'm you know, so I'm
Speaker 1: not missing out on something and it's actually refreshing. John,
Speaker 1: you have a good balance with social media. I think
Speaker 1: you you you have a presence there. You realize that
Speaker 1: it is useful and really it's worthwhile for you to
Speaker 1: be on it in what you do in your career,
Speaker 1: both gigs that you have here and of course elsewhere.
Speaker 1: But you you know, you don't. I don't think you
Speaker 1: crave it like some people, which is good.
Speaker 2: I think so many people use it as just a
Speaker 2: place to just scream into the ether, and I'm I've
Speaker 2: seen that, especially the last several days with all the
Speaker 2: stuff going on with the strikes on. I've never seen
Speaker 2: so many people show their rear end. But you're not
Speaker 2: surprised though, right It doesn't surprise me. You have to
Speaker 2: learn to just realize that social media is full of
Speaker 2: those people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wonder what if this if the era
Speaker 1: and again I say the era of social media. It's
Speaker 1: more than just an ara. It's a huge part of
Speaker 1: our life now. But if in fact this existed in
Speaker 1: the sixties, seventies, eighties, would we I mean, how much
Speaker 1: different would society be? Because what social media has done
Speaker 1: is it's given everybody a platform to an extent. Now
Speaker 1: it's an echo chamber for most people, but maybe they
Speaker 1: get some sense of relief being able to just hey,
Speaker 1: I want to get this off my chest. I want
Speaker 1: to let people know, and they type it on their phone,
Speaker 1: they hit post, and maybe they get some validation there.
Speaker 1: But do people always have the built up I guess
Speaker 1: just I mean, look, there's a lot of bitch and
Speaker 1: going on, right, I mean, that's that's not all that
Speaker 1: you see on social media, but certainly that's a that's
Speaker 1: a big part of it. And what I hear a
Speaker 1: lot of people say is well, because you have social media,
Speaker 1: it makes you feel as if you have that you know,
Speaker 1: people care what you think. I don't. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people post it without even thinking that anybody cares.
Speaker 1: They just want to get it out there, and they don't.
Speaker 1: And that's even if it only reaches a few people.
Speaker 1: I mean, some people who who you know, tweet post
Speaker 1: awful things that have like three followers and like just
Speaker 1: just text your friends who are following you, like you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, it's just send it
Speaker 1: text like it. You don't need to put all that
Speaker 1: toxicity out into the world, just you know, keep it internal.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm sure there's many that know or never
Speaker 1: even think about who it's reaching. They just want to
Speaker 1: get it off their chests. So any anyway, social media
Speaker 1: certainly is a real addiction. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got another news in traffic and weather
Speaker 1: update coming right In fact, here's I'll give you the rundown.
Speaker 1: We've got traffick in weather, then sports, then news. How
Speaker 1: about that right here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: That's right, a brand new batch coming your way. Here
Speaker 1: it's Kentucky and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John. So, when
Speaker 1: I was discussing earlier this big gift that Marty Polio
Speaker 1: estimates to be worth forty million dollars roughly from Young Brands,
Speaker 1: that of course they're going to move forward and hopefully
Speaker 1: get the green light to accept this gift. It's it's
Speaker 1: the building, it's their well known Young Brands campus that
Speaker 1: is gonna that they've offered to donate, which again I
Speaker 1: don't know if I clarified that earlier, but again a
Speaker 1: great gesture and something that I'm sure folks won't think
Speaker 1: is super generous because you're thinking, well, young brands, forty
Speaker 1: million in a building that needs repairs. You know that's
Speaker 1: nothing to them. And maybe you're right when it comes
Speaker 1: to just what they're worth and what they are offering
Speaker 1: to give away as a gift. But they didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that, and that's kind of what I wanted
Speaker 1: to emphasize a little bit earlier. But it's six thirty
Speaker 1: five here, Kentucky, its morning news. I do want remind
Speaker 1: you could take us with you wherever you go. Listen
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Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app, keep us in mind. When it
Speaker 1: comes to interacting with us. You can use the talk
Speaker 1: back feature and share whatever you want and we'll try
Speaker 1: to get some of those across the airwaves here throughout
Speaker 1: the morning. I know I've been mentioning it here and there,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I've realized this is the more
Speaker 1: I do remind you that it's there, the more likely
Speaker 1: somebody is going to think, okay, well let me let
Speaker 1: me give this a shot. So again, it's there. If
Speaker 1: you're listening live on the IET Radio app. And I
Speaker 1: know there are some that don't listen via the app.
Speaker 1: They listen while they're driving and they just they you
Speaker 1: can still you know, be safe on the road, of course,
Speaker 1: but you can still just get out the app and
Speaker 1: just click that microphone button and you're good to go.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna put the one and only
Speaker 1: John Olden on the spot here right ahead. I'm going
Speaker 1: to play some sound for you that has been it's
Speaker 1: become somewhat of a piece of news. And there was
Speaker 1: something said in this twenty three seconds that was, I
Speaker 1: guess believed to be controversial, but I'm gonna play it
Speaker 1: for you and you and look, I'm just to be clear,
Speaker 1: I didn't I had to do some digging to see
Speaker 1: what the bit what was in any way controversial. So
Speaker 1: if you don't pick up on it, don't feel bad.
Speaker 1: I was right there with you. So just to be clear,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to get it, but
Speaker 1: if you don't, we are in the same boat because
Speaker 1: I didn't find anything to be triggering at all. But
Speaker 1: come here, some people get worked up so.
Speaker 3: They disagree with you. They do, and I disagree with them,
Speaker 3: and that's fine. That's what makes America great, right, Pat Mark,
Speaker 3: I should rephrase that, yes, but yeah, I did. Opinion
Speaker 3: are perfectly Yes, that's a better way to say.
Speaker 4: So any clue What might have been is the fact
Speaker 4: that she said make America great. Yes, and so she
Speaker 4: doesn't want to come off as necessarily being fully aligned
Speaker 4: with mister Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So the w NBA and you are correct, you you
Speaker 1: knew it, and I thought that could be it. But
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, well, first of all, it wasn't an
Speaker 1: endorsement for the president in his branding his slogan of
Speaker 1: make America Great Again. No, I mean, I think you
Speaker 1: can say that makes America great and it and it
Speaker 1: not have anything to do with Donald Trump, because I
Speaker 1: would assume there are many that regardless of your political
Speaker 1: affiliation or your hatred or love for Donald Trump, we
Speaker 1: can say America is great, or that's what makes America great?
Speaker 1: How great is America? You can you can really put
Speaker 1: it together in a variety of ways, and it might
Speaker 1: it might make you think of the make America Great
Speaker 1: slogan of course MAGA, or it could just be something
Speaker 1: that you know, you don't even think about because Donald
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't consume you one way or the other, good
Speaker 1: or bad, love or hate. And that I mean that
Speaker 1: I was beside myself to see that that that this
Speaker 1: became a thing that the WNBA, I mean they somebody
Speaker 1: who covers the WNBA clipped this from a broad cast recently.
Speaker 1: This was the Indiana Las Vegas WNBA game that was
Speaker 1: on ESPN, and it wasn't because let me give you
Speaker 1: two examples Clay Travis, which of course you hear on
Speaker 1: news radio eight forty whs Clay and Buck. They're here
Speaker 1: on from noon to three. And clearly I think everybody
Speaker 1: knows which side they lie on and what their their
Speaker 1: beliefs are politically and who they support. So I saw
Speaker 1: Klay Travis's post with this and it says wa announcer says, quote,
Speaker 1: that's what makes America great, then apologizes and rephrases after
Speaker 1: awkward silence from co announcer who was upset with her
Speaker 1: word choice, and he says most WNBA media move possible. Well,
Speaker 1: the initial reason this became a thing is because somebody
Speaker 1: I guess that's on the complete opposite side was get
Speaker 1: a load of this. Can you believe what this announcer
Speaker 1: said and then had to rephrase? I mean, like the
Speaker 1: fact that it is so triggering is really sad. But
Speaker 1: also I think there's a level of delusion to think
Speaker 1: that even those that did maybe aren't proach Trump or
Speaker 1: aren't far right, would hear that and think, oh, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, how I mean, It's just it's I mean,
Speaker 1: dare I say It's comical? Is what it is. But
Speaker 1: that's also just another reminder that he's effective at getting
Speaker 1: under your skin, right, Like I mean, if you can't
Speaker 1: just say America, great, great America in some form or
Speaker 1: fashion and it not triggered, I mean like he's won,
Speaker 1: he's defeated you mentally. And I don't even say that
Speaker 1: in support of him. I'm just acknowledging what's going on here. Anyways,
Speaker 1: We've got another update of traffick and weather coming your
Speaker 1: way right here, right now on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: WHAS six forty seven here Kentucky, and it's morning news
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: We've got an update on sports coming your way with
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald in about eight minutes. Your next update on
Speaker 1: traffick and weather coming up here in about two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes. And I will tell you I am
Speaker 1: somebody that does suffer. I guess it's my own doing.
Speaker 1: But subscription overload, let me tell you what that is.
Speaker 1: That is those like myself who have subscribed to many
Speaker 1: things just assuming okay, four ninety nine a month, that's nothing.
Speaker 1: How much is that per day? I can afford it?
Speaker 1: And then years go by and you don't even really
Speaker 1: know how many things you're subscribed to and if you
Speaker 1: actually need them or not. And to let you know
Speaker 1: this is really a thing, there's a new business, a
Speaker 1: new industry essentially of companies that will, I guess take
Speaker 1: the email, but they'll help you manage it, like they'll
Speaker 1: somehow be able to run a check to see just
Speaker 1: how much you are subscribed to what you need, and
Speaker 1: then you can somehow turn it off within their platform
Speaker 1: and it'll end your subscription. I don't know how it works,
Speaker 1: but there are now at least a few different competitors
Speaker 1: that are targeting people, Hey, do you have a lot
Speaker 1: of subscriptions? You don't really know exactly what you're subscribed to.
Speaker 1: Is it a trial that you signed up for and
Speaker 1: you forgot about. I mean, I'm guilty of that, and
Speaker 1: I like knowing that I have the ability to pop open,
Speaker 1: for example, like the Peacock streaming app on my phone,
Speaker 1: my iPad, or even my Roku TV, But I don't
Speaker 1: know if I need it, and yet I don't even
Speaker 1: really know what I pay for it. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's something that's super expensive, but I'm sure I could
Speaker 1: save more money than I even realize if I truly
Speaker 1: only paid for subscriptions, that my usage rate would justify
Speaker 1: me paying whatever it is. So there is a real
Speaker 1: subscription overload problem going on. This is according to c
Speaker 1: Net that the survey here says Americans average about ninety
Speaker 1: bucks a month, so that's about roughly one thousand and
Speaker 1: eighty dollars a year on subscriptions like Netflix, Amazon Prime,
Speaker 1: even digital storage apps like Dropbox. So we're wasting two
Speaker 1: dollars a year as far as the estimation on things
Speaker 1: we don't even use. So sixty percent of us are
Speaker 1: looking at the cancel button and twenty six percent have
Speaker 1: already pulled the plug on at least one of their services,
Speaker 1: because again, I think people are now realizing. For me,
Speaker 1: what makes me realize what am I doing here is
Speaker 1: just all the different apps that I have. And I've
Speaker 1: got many apps that I don't I don't use, but
Speaker 1: there's certain ones that I just when I see them
Speaker 1: when I'm on my phone, I just know, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm paying for that, and I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: There's no scenario I need it because I haven't opened
Speaker 1: the app and forever it's got an update available for
Speaker 1: download and I haven't. I haven't touched it. So apparently
Speaker 1: millennials are the big spenders at over one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: a month, and then gen Z's not far behind. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just just maybe if you're looking to give yourself, I mean,
Speaker 1: imagine like what extra money you could potentially have per
Speaker 1: month on a dinner or I don't know, just whatever
Speaker 1: you want to spend it on by eliminating subscriptions that
Speaker 1: you don't use. Because again, even if it's five bucks
Speaker 1: a month, nine bucks a month, whatever, it adds up, right,
Speaker 1: and if you're not using it, you don't need it.
Speaker 1: And if you do need it, you can go sign
Speaker 1: up again all right again, trafficking weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: followed by an update on sports with Scott, and then
Speaker 1: we'll have another news update with John Shannon right here
Speaker 1: our news radio eight forty whas