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Speaker 1: I didn't know if i'd like you, Nick coffee, but
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Speaker 1: love this feedback portion never heard of it before. Love it.
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Speaker 2: the ones that stand out are the ones where you
Speaker 2: see the cab of an eighteen wheeler hanging off of
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Speaker 2: say truck driver? I don't know, it's like truck I
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Speaker 4: And what's cool about it, Nick, is it allows people
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Speaker 4: I'd love to hear what folks are thinking. Because what's
Speaker 4: funny about having that is the first thing when a
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Speaker 2: what I want to get to coming up in just
Speaker 2: a few minutes is the latest with the the brief
Speaker 2: pause that we had as far as who Donald Trump
Speaker 2: really wanted ICE to to prioritize as far as these
Speaker 2: immigration rates. The pause didn't last long because clearly the
Speaker 2: economy is going to be impacted if in fact they're
Speaker 2: successful in getting rid of everybody who's here illegally that
Speaker 2: happens to work in industries that rely heavily on migrant workers.
Speaker 2: So the prioritizing of immigrations also with the economy, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a balancing act. And the inconsistency in the last
Speaker 2: week or so, I think it's a poor look. But
Speaker 2: that's just my thoughts. We'll talk about it. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about that and a lot more as we move forward.
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Speaker 2: We've got an update of sports coming your way in
Speaker 2: about ten minutes. And one of the things that has
Speaker 2: been really an ongoing conversation for many months now is
Speaker 2: the future of TikTok here here in America. And Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is expected to sign an order extending the TikTok
Speaker 2: band deadline once again. This is going to give the
Speaker 2: owner of TikTok ninety more days to sell the video app.
Speaker 2: It's the third extension since talks first started. I think
Speaker 2: in the spring is when it really kind of ramped up,
Speaker 2: and I imagine we'll probably continue to get extensions until
Speaker 2: it gets it gets worked out. But Donald Trump says
Speaker 2: that the extra time should let Bite Dance, which is
Speaker 2: the name of the company that actually owns TikTok, to
Speaker 2: find a US buyer and finish a deal that protects
Speaker 2: Americans data. I'm I'm of the belief that, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to make light of it, as if it's
Speaker 2: something we should just laugh off. But I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like with every with everything that I do on
Speaker 2: my phone, as far as my data, my info, I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like people already have access to it. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's just me being you know, cynical, but either way,
Speaker 2: I love TikTok. TikTok is something I probably love too much.
Speaker 2: Meeting I spend I waste too much time on it,
Speaker 2: but you can really get lost and just it's got
Speaker 2: a It has an ability. I think, of all the
Speaker 2: social media platforms to find an algorithm that that best
Speaker 2: suits you, and you wonder How did they know that
Speaker 2: I would find this funny? How would they know that
Speaker 2: this hits my sense of humor? So I'm hoping they
Speaker 2: can keep TikTok around. But I also know that for
Speaker 2: to get to the point where we've had to have
Speaker 2: multiple extensions because of the access that they get to
Speaker 2: our data. I mean, that's a real thing. They're not
Speaker 2: doing it because it's it's nothing. So hopefully they can
Speaker 2: they can find a buyer and when it comes to
Speaker 2: those that are believed to be in the market to
Speaker 2: purchase something like TikTok, which again, by the way, it
Speaker 2: is and I know some people still think of TikTok
Speaker 2: as this app where kids get on there and dance,
Speaker 2: and certainly people do that, and you can find that
Speaker 2: within TikTok, But there's different worlds within TikTok. I mean,
Speaker 2: there are one hundred and twelve million US monthly active
Speaker 2: users on TikTok. Nine billion with a B is the
Speaker 2: gross merchandise value from the TikTok shop. The average daily
Speaker 2: time that Americans spend on this platform those that are
Speaker 2: active on it, is fifty one minutes. I don't know
Speaker 2: if people realize how insane that is. TikTok for at
Speaker 2: least a couple of years now, has taken the lead
Speaker 2: as far as being the social media platform that not
Speaker 2: only people use the most, they spend more time on
Speaker 2: it than they do anything else. And it's easy to
Speaker 2: do because you know, I don't know if anybody has
Speaker 2: a schedule where they say, okay, I've got thirty minutes
Speaker 2: to dedicate to TikTok, but you open it up and
Speaker 2: then you realize thirty minutes have gone by.
Speaker 4: Well, and it's great because I like to play in
Speaker 4: the kitchen. I love exploring your recipes. My pet peeve
Speaker 4: you were talking about those earlier are recipe websites because
Speaker 4: they're just chock full of pop up ads. You got
Speaker 4: to look forever to get the recipe. You gotta get
Speaker 4: through this I can. I've gotten so many good recipes
Speaker 4: off TikTok. They don't have that. And then you know
Speaker 4: when for example, another reason why TikTok is so good
Speaker 4: to your point, like, let's just say I eat on
Speaker 4: a pretty normal schedule. I try not to snack when
Speaker 4: I'm sitting on the couch until it's time for me
Speaker 4: to eat. Well, way I fight that off is I
Speaker 4: go to TikTok, and it keeps me preoccupied and it
Speaker 4: diverts me away from wanting to have to eat, and
Speaker 4: so the next thing, I know, half hour later, Oh
Speaker 4: it's time to eat. That's cool. But I there's definitely
Speaker 4: from the numbers you're throwing out there, there is a
Speaker 4: clear market for see a need filaed. There are advertised.
Speaker 4: There are people that see this and they know this
Speaker 4: is wrong. And I think that's why we keep seeing
Speaker 4: the deadline extended, extended, extended. If they could find the
Speaker 4: magic formula where they're not extracting data the way they
Speaker 4: say they are. But then how is that different from
Speaker 4: say Facebook, because we heard the same thing that people
Speaker 4: say that about Facebook. You'll be talking having a conversation,
Speaker 4: then lo and behold, something pops up in Facebook. You
Speaker 4: were just talking about.
Speaker 2: Of all the platforms and the algorithms that all of
Speaker 2: them have, Facebook is the worst. I'll just be scrolling
Speaker 2: and I don't know why Facebook thinks that I want
Speaker 2: to join a group that is, you know, Valley Station
Speaker 2: soccer moms like, no offense to Valley Station soccer moms.
Speaker 2: Why what about mas social media experience has you thinking
Speaker 2: that I belong and said group begin no offense to,
Speaker 2: and I don't think that's a real group. But I
Speaker 2: see all the time things that I'm that I'm being
Speaker 2: targeted with, and I'm thinking, okay, like, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: listen to what I've listened to my conversations on my
Speaker 2: phone and have have info that I don't know how
Speaker 2: you get it, but you target me with it, Like
Speaker 2: what do you what are you listening to? Like, at
Speaker 2: least give me something. A lot of times whenever I
Speaker 2: see something that pops up on anything the Internet, any platform,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait a second, how do they know that?
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about that? A lot of times
Speaker 2: it's convenient. I'm kind of happy, Hey, you're right, there's
Speaker 2: a reminder I wanted to buy this and now there's
Speaker 2: an ad for it. So anyways, Oracle has been frequently
Speaker 2: mentioned as a strong candidate to purchase the company. They've
Speaker 2: got an existing relationship with TikTok and they've they've apparently
Speaker 2: they're at the top of the list as far as
Speaker 2: I guess, most likely to make the purchase here, So
Speaker 2: we shall see. But I don't think TikTok's going anywhere
Speaker 2: anytime soon, and selfishly, I'm happy about that. All right,
Speaker 2: We've got an update of traffic and whether coming your way.
Speaker 2: Also another update on sports right here on news Radio
Speaker 2: eight forty WHS eight forty seven Here at Kentucky, Anda's
Speaker 2: Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas we are wrapping things up here on a hump day,
Speaker 2: and we've got the one and only Tony Vanetti with us.
Speaker 2: Did you get a chance to watch the Cardinal nine yesterday?
Speaker 2: I hope you watched? What the Cardinal nine? The baseball team?
Speaker 2: I'm just throwing random baseball term?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: Maybe that's wrong? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 2: I think the Cardinal nine is referred to as the
Speaker 2: Louisville baseball team. And again I feel like a poser
Speaker 2: in a way because I don't really follow baseball at
Speaker 2: all at any level. However, postseason baseball in the College
Speaker 2: World Series, clearly it's much more interesting and I'm willing
Speaker 2: to watch and love watching when Louisville's playing. But even
Speaker 2: if they're not, like I would say, it's the most
Speaker 2: appealing baseball to me on television.
Speaker 3: It's fun and I got to tell you, it's a
Speaker 3: perfect time and we just had the Assumption team in
Speaker 3: yesterday and I mentioned to the coach, I was like,
Speaker 3: how hard is it to get the seniors to focus
Speaker 3: because they graduated May seventh or eighth or something like that,
Speaker 3: and they had prom and they had all that stuff
Speaker 3: as the playoffs were going on. Same story with college baseball.
Speaker 3: The semester's been over forever. But this is perfect timing
Speaker 3: for the World Series, right, there's nothing else. So Jackie
Speaker 3: is out of town, she's in Pittsburgh for business. She's
Speaker 3: in a bar watching watching U of L play. I'm
Speaker 3: in Louisville watching It's captured the city and it was
Speaker 3: fun and again we thought we had it melt down
Speaker 3: and then the comeback. It's just it is. It's nerve wracking.
Speaker 3: I'm not a baseball guy, same here, so I did
Speaker 3: so watching it again, all the nuances to everything is
Speaker 3: crazy and I don't know, I don't know what they
Speaker 3: should be doing or which way to bunt the ball.
Speaker 2: But Dan McDonald, I mean, they could not have scripted
Speaker 2: a more dramatic three games that they've had. All of
Speaker 2: them have been insane as far as the you know,
Speaker 2: the way it played out in their first loss, which
Speaker 2: of course they avenged that yesterday by beating Oregon State,
Speaker 2: but in the in the game against Arizona, I mean,
Speaker 2: what a what a comeback for them, And then yesterday
Speaker 2: it was it looked like it was going to be
Speaker 2: one of the all time meltdowns, only to then rally
Speaker 2: at the very end and walk it off bases loaded.
Speaker 3: No outs, and you're thinking, if they don't do it,
Speaker 3: You're like, you let that go, no outs and bases loading.
Speaker 3: Alls you need is one run.
Speaker 2: And had they lost, I mean I believe it would
Speaker 2: have I think most fans would have say, hey, that
Speaker 2: was a great there was a big bounce back for
Speaker 2: dam McDonald the program because it had been a while
Speaker 2: since they had that kind of success in the postseason.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, just a loss without without
Speaker 2: that kind of a meltdown, it would have been a bummer.
Speaker 2: But had they lost in that fashion, it would have
Speaker 2: been a little bittersweet. You knew that they did make
Speaker 2: a big step forward and clearly they needed it, but man,
Speaker 2: that would have been a tough way to go.
Speaker 3: But what a scene the video of him in the
Speaker 3: game before where he's in the dugout, we're not waiting
Speaker 3: to the ninth. We've got four innings. We're going to
Speaker 3: put the ball in play. It's like a It was
Speaker 3: exactly like a movie, and he delivered his lines perfectly.
Speaker 3: I've never seen that side of Dann McDonald, right, like
Speaker 3: nobody's seen that side. He's also he's always stoic, has
Speaker 3: the right answer. He's one of the best human beings
Speaker 3: on the planet. Sometimes good things happen to good people,
Speaker 3: and that's what happened at the end of this year
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 2: You said it last Friday before they got started in
Speaker 2: Omaha that this was a little bit different, just because
Speaker 2: there's somewhat of a there's there's a little bit of
Speaker 2: house money. Yep. When it comes to just they had
Speaker 2: no momentum when they ended the ACC Tournament and they
Speaker 2: got in and had to play the number one overall
Speaker 2: seed in Vandy, and they they knew they had they
Speaker 2: were up against it, I mean, playing Vandy in Nashville,
Speaker 2: but they rallied, got it done, knew they weren't expected
Speaker 2: to win, and they've just been playing loose and look
Speaker 2: at what they've they've been. They've been in tough situations
Speaker 2: as to where like most teams, I think would have
Speaker 2: wil to. But I think they're just they're loose knowing
Speaker 2: they're they're not. They weren't expected to be here. And
Speaker 2: that's the difference in this trip to Omaha compared to
Speaker 2: the others. And how about the fans. I mean, on TV,
Speaker 2: it looks so great and you did sports for a really,
Speaker 2: really long time and social media wasn't then what it
Speaker 2: is now. What I think is really awesome to see
Speaker 2: that fans will never not love is when coaches of
Speaker 2: other sports are so clearly genuine when they're supporting when
Speaker 2: they're there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean there was a baseball player who put the
Speaker 2: UFL football helmet on after he got a big hit
Speaker 2: and he posted on Twitter and tagged Jeff Bram and
Speaker 2: then Jeff Brams responding like, hell, yeah, we're supporting you
Speaker 2: and the guys like, I mean, one, it's genuine, but
Speaker 2: also fans loved that stuff. We didn't have that with
Speaker 2: with Petrino and Patino.
Speaker 3: No, no, they were well that whole system wait and
Speaker 3: we can go back. And since Tom is coming back,
Speaker 3: there was the three silos. You know, there was Rick,
Speaker 3: there was Bobby, and there was Tom and everybody. You know,
Speaker 3: they portrayed the big family, but there was the three silos.
Speaker 3: Rick had his people, Bobby had his people, and Tom
Speaker 3: his people. And you know, we used to have that
Speaker 3: conversation on the endless sports shows three Hours of ull.
Speaker 2: Do you think that was a factor in one of
Speaker 2: the factors in why Tom was so much more visible
Speaker 2: in his role as athletic director than elsewhere because Petrino
Speaker 2: and Patino won and fans clearly loved that, but they
Speaker 2: weren't real accessible. They weren't in any way relatable. I
Speaker 2: don't think you'll find a duo that was coaching at
Speaker 2: the time that was more unrelatable to fans than those two.
Speaker 2: But Tom was visible. Tom was everywhere and that it worked.
Speaker 2: I mean until it you know, until it didn't.
Speaker 3: No, it was. It was a golden era of U
Speaker 3: of L sports. There's no doubt about it. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you ever have a twenty thirteen ever again.
Speaker 3: I mean, who does what's.
Speaker 2: Cool does especially with this climate. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you can go up and down every year just because
Speaker 2: players can do whatever they want now they can leave. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whatever the news came out yesterday about Tom, I've just
Speaker 2: since then, I've just been thinking about the era that
Speaker 2: was the Tom Jerch Air and of course how it
Speaker 2: came to a messy end. Does it seem like it's
Speaker 2: been as long as it.
Speaker 3: Has well, how long has it been since he left.
Speaker 2: It's been coming up on nine years, nine years. So
Speaker 2: part of me says it was he's a different world.
Speaker 2: Part of me says it was a few weeks ago
Speaker 2: when he was here.
Speaker 3: What a different planet we lived on.
Speaker 2: Much different And he has been away and when he
Speaker 2: does come back, he's certainly not visible, and that surprised
Speaker 2: me a little bit. I mean, the guy was below.
Speaker 3: No he's not, because his son is. He's part of
Speaker 3: our parish. So they're they're here in Louisville.
Speaker 2: Well really yeah, yeah, I didn't know his wife and
Speaker 2: the kids are holy trending. Well, I'm hopeful that the
Speaker 2: church family, and there's a lot of them can be
Speaker 2: here for this big, big day because I know it's
Speaker 2: going to be a special to the fans, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, Tony and Dawider coming up next right here,
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