Speaker 1: All right, let's get this hump day started. Shall we
Speaker 1: welcome in? It is Kentucky and it's morning news here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: I'm present. Let's get a roll called Scott Fitzgerald. He's here.
Speaker 1: I can prove that he's here. His microphone is now
Speaker 1: on and he's here. He's in front of me. Also
Speaker 1: John Alden with me, but just through a computer screen.
Speaker 1: He's just down the hall. And John Shannon's here as well.
Speaker 1: So we've got the full crew and a lot to
Speaker 1: get into today. Obviously, the jury did not take long.
Speaker 1: In fact, what was it ten minutes for them to
Speaker 1: determine what they think the sentencing should be for Brooks
Speaker 1: Houck and Joseph Lawson and the Crystal Rogers case. But
Speaker 1: really just four hours essentially for them to deliberate, and
Speaker 1: not as surprise in the grand scheme of things. But
Speaker 1: I did worry a little bit as we saw this
Speaker 1: trial play out that they didn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of physical In fact, they had no physical proof. But
Speaker 1: certainly I know I'm not alone in you know, the
Speaker 1: court of public opinion thinking that these two were held
Speaker 1: responsible for what in fact they did, so certainly a
Speaker 1: lot to get into when it comes to that today,
Speaker 1: and also I don't want to. I feel like it'll
Speaker 1: be an endless conversation if we get into the whole
Speaker 1: Epstein thing, because it's certainly news, but I feel like
Speaker 1: trying to talk through it and figure out, like what's
Speaker 1: really going on that's not I don't think that's possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll probably never really know the truth, but
Speaker 1: it is big news. And now we have President Trump
Speaker 1: defending the controversial decision to just say, yeah, nothing to
Speaker 1: see here, nothing actually happened, despite people in federal prison.
Speaker 1: One person was in federal prison killed themselves allegedly because
Speaker 1: of a sex trafficking ring that included thousands of victims
Speaker 1: and maybe thousands of people that were in on it,
Speaker 1: meaning take advantage of those victims. But now it's just nothing,
Speaker 1: which is wild. But anyways, a loaded show today. But
Speaker 1: yesterday we started the show mentioning me coming off of
Speaker 1: my thirty seventh birthday and thirty seven. So far it
Speaker 1: feels just like thirty six, which is a good things.
Speaker 1: I'm not aging. I haven't hit a wall at thirty seven.
Speaker 1: But I went back and looked and this is the
Speaker 1: power of chat GPT fellows. I went back and looked
Speaker 1: at some things on the day we were all born,
Speaker 1: and I had no clue of any notable things about
Speaker 1: my birthday as far as just you know, not only
Speaker 1: what happened I mean in previous years on that date,
Speaker 1: but just that date specifically. And there's really not a
Speaker 1: whole lot going on there. But I've got some information
Speaker 1: about yours' birthday. All right, I'm gonna start with you, Scotty.
Speaker 1: Your birthday, correct me if I'm wrong, it is. It's
Speaker 1: July thirtieth, right, that's right, all right, So July thirtieth,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. What if I told you that at
Speaker 1: that time on that exact date, Well, actually, no, this
Speaker 1: is a different year. But did you know that recently
Speaker 1: after you were born, I'm sure recently, right before you
Speaker 1: were born, we landed on the Moon.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did. Yeah, it was always a topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: You remember being a big deal as an infant, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I remember all I remember clearly, which is weird,
Speaker 3: because I mean I developed a keen.
Speaker 2: Fascination with the space programs that grew up. It was
Speaker 2: a big part of my childhood.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was a big deal right when you
Speaker 1: were forming memories right in a white age, I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to be an astronaut, astronaut or a spy.
Speaker 1: Do you know a celebrity that you share the exact
Speaker 1: same birthday with?
Speaker 2: I want to see. I think it's Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1: He's not listed here, but that doesn't mean it's not legit.
Speaker 1: Vivica A Fox, the actress. Oh okay, you if you
Speaker 1: don't know who it is off the top of your head,
Speaker 1: if you saw a picture, you would recognize there. She's
Speaker 1: been been in a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Take a look at her.
Speaker 1: So again, this is one of those random things that
Speaker 1: chet GBT can just help you out with. What John, So,
Speaker 1: your birthday July thirtieth? Do you know the number one
Speaker 1: song in America when you were born? This gonna make
Speaker 1: people feel old. If it made me feel old, it's
Speaker 1: gonna make you all feel old.
Speaker 2: Mean Scott, right, you said my name?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, John?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: John?
Speaker 5: Okay, you said July thirty.
Speaker 1: Yes, Saugust twenty four, Okay, we're all summer birthdays.
Speaker 5: I think the number one song it was by Notorious
Speaker 5: Big was a non.
Speaker 1: You're in the You're actually it was a tribute, so yes,
Speaker 1: you're kind of right. It was actually by puff Daddy
Speaker 1: That's what he went by at the time in Faith Evans,
Speaker 1: and it was I'll be missing you. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: were Yeah, it was the number one song on Time Work. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way in which we talk about Puff Daddy slash
Speaker 1: Ditty now much different currently than it was than it
Speaker 1: was back then. Also, when you were born, a big
Speaker 1: tech story. DBD players were just entering the US market,
Speaker 1: meeting rip to the VHS. That's when the VHS started
Speaker 1: dying off. And then also Microsoft was pushing Windows ninety eight,
Speaker 1: which was the successor to Windows ninety five. And a
Speaker 1: famous birthday John for you that you share that is
Speaker 1: not the same exact day. This guy's older than you,
Speaker 1: but Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm also the exact same age and have
Speaker 5: the same birthday as the current White House Press Secretary.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: That is random.
Speaker 2: But what about you knew what happened on your birth.
Speaker 1: So on my birthday that there was I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: let's see, these are things obviously that I don't remember.
Speaker 1: By the way, the number one song was the Flame
Speaker 1: by Cheap Trick. Do you know that one? Scott That's
Speaker 1: more your wheelhouse?
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then also the biggest movie in the box office.
Speaker 1: It was dominating the box office. It says, here coming
Speaker 1: to America, no kidding. Yeah, I remember that movie as
Speaker 1: a young kid, one of the first movies that I
Speaker 1: remember watching. And of course this was when it was
Speaker 1: out in VHS. You could rent it. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: it was brand new, but I remember that having a
Speaker 1: lot of buzz when I was a kid, and of
Speaker 1: course it's it's a classic. And also on my birthday,
Speaker 1: the day I was born. There was drama at the
Speaker 1: Democratic convention in nineteen eighty eight. Says nineteen eighty presidential
Speaker 1: election approach to Tension was heating up around Michael Dukakis,
Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee who would go on to lose to
Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush in November. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the drama was, but it says there was drama.
Speaker 3: Well, go back, you know what you ought to do
Speaker 3: at one time. These are really cool to do, and
Speaker 3: I'm glad you did that. Go back and look too
Speaker 3: and see what the cost of living was on certain things.
Speaker 1: Oh man, let's make that a theme today, right, going
Speaker 1: back in time?
Speaker 2: Hey, dam on not going Yeah, it's nostalgia back time.
Speaker 2: It's actually.
Speaker 1: Certain things we didn't experience because we were alive. But
Speaker 1: you know, we were babies.
Speaker 2: I told you.
Speaker 3: When the day goes a little strong and I want
Speaker 3: to take a break, I'll get on YouTube and look
Speaker 3: up some old believe it or not TV commercials.
Speaker 1: Just go back in time, right.
Speaker 2: I spent all my life flipping through them. Now I
Speaker 2: go back and watch.
Speaker 1: Nostalgia is a powerful drug, good stuff, fellas. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get an update on traffic and weather. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from Matt Melosovich and see what the forecast is today,
Speaker 1: and also we'll get an update on traffic. Right here,
Speaker 1: it's the news radio forty whas it is five seventeen
Speaker 1: here at Kentuckyana's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty w h as mister John all on
Speaker 1: alongside today this morning, I should say, because it's early,
Speaker 1: it's five seventeen, I am I'm now fully used to
Speaker 1: being up and Adam and I'm I was worried. There
Speaker 1: were moments in the last month John where I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know, am I am I ever gonna get
Speaker 1: used to this? And it Today was one of those
Speaker 1: days where I didn't enjoy seeing the alarm clock going
Speaker 1: off in a being three am. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you do it's something you do anything a certain amount
Speaker 1: of times, and there's that repetition. It's hard not to
Speaker 1: get used to it.
Speaker 2: And that's good though.
Speaker 5: You get to the middle of the week, most people
Speaker 5: are usually feeling that middle of the week fatigue. And
Speaker 5: if you're feeling good on a Wednesday, obviously that's a
Speaker 5: pretty good sign.
Speaker 1: It's a good sign for finishing the week strong, which
Speaker 1: I hope to hope to do. All right, So yesterday
Speaker 1: we found out the jury in the Crystal Rogers case
Speaker 1: did not need a long time to figure out what
Speaker 1: they thought meaning the verdict. They found both Brooks Hawk
Speaker 1: and Joseph lost and guilty of what they were charged with,
Speaker 1: and it didn't take them very long to determine what
Speaker 1: sentence they believe was justified for this. And you've got life,
Speaker 1: which is the expectation for Brooks Howck, as far as
Speaker 1: the recommendation from the jury, and then also Joseph Lawson.
Speaker 1: I believe it's twenty five years. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: to unpack here, and we'll do it throughout the morning.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to the reaction from the City
Speaker 1: of Barchetown yesterday, it was it was pretty powerful, and
Speaker 1: I guess I hadn't really throughout the the you know,
Speaker 1: the last ten years. I mean, there have been moments
Speaker 1: where I sit and think, Okay, wow, this is a
Speaker 1: national story that's getting a lot of attention, and it's
Speaker 1: just I mean, I'm from Bullet County, so Barchtown it's
Speaker 1: not that far from where I grew up. In fact,
Speaker 1: I used to drive through Barchtown whenever I would go
Speaker 1: to Saint Catherine College many many years ago. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm Barchtown is a big community, a big I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is as far as population, but I
Speaker 1: mean as far as just areas right outside of Louisville
Speaker 1: that that are that are known and pretty popular, Barchtown's
Speaker 1: always been one of them. And I'd never really thought
Speaker 1: about what it would like to be a Barchtown resident,
Speaker 1: not just somebody that is in some way related or
Speaker 1: close to Crystal Rogers and her family, but to live
Speaker 1: ten years knowing that you know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: murderer walking free. And even if you didn't necessarily believe,
Speaker 1: because maybe throughout this entire decade ordeal, there wasn't the
Speaker 1: I mean, I think from the from the from the
Speaker 1: earliest I can remember brooks House and those around him
Speaker 1: looked clearly guilty of being involved in some former fashion.
Speaker 1: But even if you didn't think that, still, I mean,
Speaker 1: you had some real awful I mean Bargetown in twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: I don't know if people know this or not, it
Speaker 1: was named the most beautiful small town in America by
Speaker 1: USA today. And I don't need to sell up Bargetown
Speaker 1: as far as what makes it awesome is they've got
Speaker 1: a very historic, charming, if you will, downtown area certainly
Speaker 1: very very vibrant in the Bourbon culture. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got my old Kentucky home. It's believed to be
Speaker 1: the Bourbon capital of the world. Actually, so again, if
Speaker 1: you live there, you know that. And I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people still think of the really great qualities
Speaker 1: of Barchtown. And in no way am I saying that
Speaker 1: what went on here, and of course the other murders
Speaker 1: that are still unsolved. Chrystal Rogers's father, Officer Jason Ellis,
Speaker 1: those don't represent the residents of the community, So that's
Speaker 1: not at all where I'm going. But you also, if
Speaker 1: you are prideful about where you come from, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure people of Barchtown are a lot of people. When
Speaker 1: they think of your town, they think of these things,
Speaker 1: and even though that doesn't reflect and represent again the
Speaker 1: residents that live there in that community, you don't want
Speaker 1: that to be what people think of. And yesterday I
Speaker 1: think was a step in the process of I guess
Speaker 1: one day that won't be the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind for some people. But this ain't over tough
Speaker 1: to know exactly what we can expect when it comes
Speaker 1: to charges and more trials to follow, But we'll let
Speaker 1: you hear coming up a little bit later on from
Speaker 1: one of the detectives. In fact, it's John Snow who
Speaker 1: was one of the detectives during this entire situation of
Speaker 1: the last decade, and he was happy to see justice yesterday,
Speaker 1: but also made it pretty clear this sitting over all. Right,
Speaker 1: We've got a sports update coming your way, but first
Speaker 1: let's get a check on traffic from Bobby Ellis and
Speaker 1: we'll get the latest on the forecast with Matt Melosovi.
Speaker 1: It's right here on news radio eight forty w hullo wajas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, mister Shannon. It is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: it's morning news here on news radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick coffee with you as we get the hump day started.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you are somebody who is if
Speaker 1: your daily commute involves being on Seventh Street, but man,
Speaker 1: the humongous hole in the ground. It was one of
Speaker 1: those pictures John that when I saw it, if you
Speaker 1: told me it was not real and created by AI,
Speaker 1: I think I would have believed you.
Speaker 5: I saw a video of it yesterday and the damage
Speaker 5: that it looked like it was causing looked ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean there was already a street that
Speaker 1: was flooded, so clearly even if and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the latest is as far as just the the
Speaker 1: water levels in that area, but the ground itself, like
Speaker 1: that's not only something that's going to make that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you we're if you are somebody that is every
Speaker 1: day on that road, Seventh Street road, that is where
Speaker 1: there's now just a humongous hole. It'll it'll clearly impact
Speaker 1: your your your travel because that's not something you just go,
Speaker 1: you go fix, and you go repair. So uh, stay
Speaker 1: stay aware. And I would imagine that there are I
Speaker 1: don't you know. This is one of those things where
Speaker 1: when I saw this picture yesterday and was reading about it,
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, surely the people that are in
Speaker 1: that area, they're keeping up with the new I mean
Speaker 1: imagine not hearing about it, not knowing anything, and then
Speaker 1: just going outside your home in one seeing this massive
Speaker 1: hole in the ground. Now, if it was yesterday, you
Speaker 1: would have you would have seen a lot of the
Speaker 1: presence from first responders and whatnot. But you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't get any early rain yesterday. But you just walk
Speaker 1: outside and you see, you know, the street that you
Speaker 1: live on is flooded. So I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: I try to a time has put myself in the
Speaker 1: shoes of those being surprised by something like that, And
Speaker 1: I mean I would be thinking, what the hell's hell's
Speaker 1: going on? What happened? So I don't know what led
Speaker 1: to that, but I'm sure it'll be an inconvenience for
Speaker 1: a lot of folks, all right, So They're one of
Speaker 1: the stories that got us started this week, which of
Speaker 1: course another awful one where there was a murder that
Speaker 1: took place, in fact, a double shooting in Shavely that
Speaker 1: has left two women dead. From early on in this
Speaker 1: the those I think it was the Shavely Police department.
Speaker 1: I think they knew who they were looking for. And
Speaker 1: now we know who the suspect is. It's a thirty
Speaker 1: five year old man by the name of le Bradford Ward.
Speaker 1: And the story I saw this morning from Woky was
Speaker 1: the I think it was the aunt of this this suspect,
Speaker 1: who was pleading for him to turn himself in. And
Speaker 1: obviously that's probably what I mean, that's that's what this
Speaker 1: person should do. Now what ends up happening? Who knows
Speaker 1: but this whoever, I don't know where they are, and
Speaker 1: clearly law enforcement doesn't either. But this person has at
Speaker 1: least been The suspect has been on the run for
Speaker 1: I guess over forty eight hours now, and who knows
Speaker 1: where he is. Hopefully they can apprehend him soon and
Speaker 1: he does, in fact do what his family wants him
Speaker 1: to do, which has turned himself in. And look, this
Speaker 1: is a tragic situation. All the way around. But it
Speaker 1: did remind me of something that probably isn't and for
Speaker 1: understandable reason, the first thing people think of in these situations,
Speaker 1: and that is the impact on the family of the perpetrator,
Speaker 1: the suspect. Clearly, the obvious reaction is the remorse for
Speaker 1: the two people who lost their lives and those that
Speaker 1: are impacted. But it was just it was a passionate
Speaker 1: thing to see both his cousin and his aunt just
Speaker 1: wanting him to do the right thing at this point
Speaker 1: after committing such a you know, allegedly committing such an
Speaker 1: awful act, which is killing two women. But yeah, he's
Speaker 1: I mean again, that's all you can do at this
Speaker 1: point is to just hope that he does turn himself
Speaker 1: in if you are the family, but you don't see
Speaker 1: it that often where within a couple of days of
Speaker 1: somebody being the top suspect and law enforcement making it
Speaker 1: a priority to track this person down, their family wanting
Speaker 1: to go public and say, look, not only am I
Speaker 1: this person's aunt or cousin, I want them to come
Speaker 1: forward and turn themselves in and do the right thing
Speaker 1: here and pleading with this person if in fact he
Speaker 1: is watching the news, which who knows what he's doing
Speaker 1: at this time. But yeah, just a tragic situation all
Speaker 1: the way around. But again, if you see le Bradford Ward,
Speaker 1: I would encourage you to call law enforcement. Don't approach him,
Speaker 1: don't let him know they're looking for him. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's well aware. And now I'm thinking out loud here
Speaker 1: where like, I mean, do you think he's did he
Speaker 1: did he take off somewhere? Did he you know? Is
Speaker 1: he hiding out? I mean, this guy won't be I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be on the run for long, although
Speaker 1: I say that knowing that we've got I think one
Speaker 1: of the this will be a movie at some point.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the New Orleans prison escape against in
Speaker 1: New Orleans jail where there was like eight to ten
Speaker 1: INMTES that escaped a long time ago. We're talking like
Speaker 1: early maybe early June, maybe even BEFO for that, and
Speaker 1: there's there's now only one that's still out there on
Speaker 1: the run. And anytime, you know, anytime there's there's a
Speaker 1: prisoner that's on the run, that becomes a big story
Speaker 1: because everybody needs to be mindful of you know, where
Speaker 1: this person could be if if you're near the area,
Speaker 1: be alert, but also it becomes more of a national
Speaker 1: story when people realize, Wow, they still haven't got they
Speaker 1: still haven't got this guy. And there's one of the
Speaker 1: many that were able to escape from that New Orleans
Speaker 1: jail that is still on the run, and I assume
Speaker 1: he'll be caught at some point. But I feel like
Speaker 1: the longer you have been able, I mean, you can run,
Speaker 1: but you can't hide. That's a saying for a reason.
Speaker 1: But I've never been on the run from law enforcement.
Speaker 1: That may surprise some of you, but I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence that i'd be able to uh
Speaker 1: to to you know, stay hidden, because again, they got
Speaker 1: a lot of resources to track you down, and that's
Speaker 1: why more often than not they do exactly that. All Right,
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil of NBC News going to join us, coming
Speaker 1: up here in just a few minutes. We'll also let
Speaker 1: you hear from the detective in the Crystal Rogers case
Speaker 1: that let it be known that this isn't over and
Speaker 1: there could be there could be more trials along the
Speaker 1: way when it comes to the Christa Rogers situation, and
Speaker 1: of course also Jason Ellis and Tommy Ballard. All Right,
Speaker 1: It's Kentucky. It's morning news right here our news radioa
Speaker 1: forty whas. Happy hump Day, Kentucky, and Ina, it is Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Anda's morning news here on news radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you, and we've got Rory and Eale
Speaker 1: of NBC News joining us. Rory, We've got now over
Speaker 1: at least one hundred and ten deaths confirmed in the
Speaker 1: flooding that took place in Texas last week on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July, and now I think it's over one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty people still missing. Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg
Speaker 1: Abbott made it clear that the state was ready for
Speaker 1: this emergency prior to the flooding that has claimed now
Speaker 1: over one hundred lives. What can you tell us as
Speaker 1: far as the reaction from folks that are questioning if,
Speaker 1: in fact this might have been less tragic had resources
Speaker 1: been a little better.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we're in that natural progression that seems
Speaker 4: to happen after every disagn Right, there's first the shock,
Speaker 4: and now everyone is asking, well, wait, why and could
Speaker 4: this have been prevented or could it have been just
Speaker 4: not so bad as it was? Because I think we
Speaker 4: agreed this thirty foot wall of water that developed with
Speaker 4: this flood is something that really no one could respond to.
Speaker 4: It just was moving so quickly. But could somehow the preparations,
Speaker 4: the alerts, the awareness beforehand, could that have been improved.
Speaker 4: Still a bit of a gray area, and you know,
Speaker 4: the officials on the ground, including the governor, are saying that, look,
Speaker 4: right now, the focus still has to be on finding
Speaker 4: the victims, hopefully finding a survivor, although that seems unlikely,
Speaker 4: but still that's what they're focused on now and sort
Speaker 4: of want to push all the finger pointing down the
Speaker 4: road until this search and rescue operation is complete.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the one and ten people,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry over one hundred and sixty people that are
Speaker 1: still missing doing I mean, obviously the type of flooding
Speaker 1: that took place, it could lead to those that didn't survive.
Speaker 1: I mean, the scenarios are less as far as where
Speaker 1: they could end up. But oh, maybe I'm foolish here
Speaker 1: in thinking it's still surprising there's that many still unaccounted for.
Speaker 4: Well, right, I mean, we were down They said that
Speaker 4: the missing yesterday morning was about twenty three and then
Speaker 4: the governor gave the updated figure of about one hundred
Speaker 4: and sixty five people missing yesterday, So that was a
Speaker 4: big turnaround.
Speaker 2: And a lot of this.
Speaker 4: Also has to do with the fact that these locations
Speaker 4: in Kerk County, in particular, a lot of vacation rentals
Speaker 4: are along the river. So it was fourth of July weekend,
Speaker 4: a lot of people were renting the homes on the
Speaker 4: river for the lazy weekend, and so you had people
Speaker 4: in the houses who aren't necessarily the owners, and we
Speaker 4: didn't know how many people were there. So by the
Speaker 4: time you start saying, well, wait a minute, there was
Speaker 4: a group of six people that was renting that house
Speaker 4: for the long weekend, even though it belongs to Joe Smith,
Speaker 4: it's actually six people that we need to account for.
Speaker 4: So that's the kind of math where things have been
Speaker 4: changing and we see these numbers tragically.
Speaker 1: Climb Rory and Nale NBC News is our guest joining
Speaker 1: a serio news radio eight forty whas and I know
Speaker 1: the economy has a lot of folks looking for ways
Speaker 1: to make some extra money, which means it's not when
Speaker 1: it comes to side hustles out there. We've got a
Speaker 1: new report that says Americans are side hustling quite a bit,
Speaker 1: which is understandable. What can you tell us as far
Speaker 1: as this new report what those side hustles are, because
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people listening right now that would love
Speaker 1: to develop a side hustle and bring in some more income.
Speaker 4: Well, look, a lot of people do it because they
Speaker 4: love it. A lot of people have side hustles because
Speaker 4: they hate the Monday through Friday nine to five job. Right,
Speaker 4: they can if they do woodworking or something, they can
Speaker 4: sort of do that as their mental hobby and then
Speaker 4: make a profit on the side. But about twenty seven
Speaker 4: percent of adults in the US now say they have
Speaker 4: a side hustle, according to Bankrate. But that's actually the
Speaker 4: lowest number since twenty seventeen. Wow, you know, when we
Speaker 4: saw that real spike in inflation in twenty twenty three
Speaker 4: and twenty twenty four, the side hustle numbers were like
Speaker 4: thirty six thirty nine percent of Americans that they had
Speaker 4: side hustles. So whether it's they have i'll do a
Speaker 4: little work on the sign with the graphic design project
Speaker 4: or you know, some freelance writing, but for others it's yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm a food delivery driver, I'll tutor on the side.
Speaker 4: I do, you know, doggy daycare and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So some people do it just because you can love it.
Speaker 4: You're bringing the extra dog or whatever, and it's fun. Others,
Speaker 4: you know, delivering pizzas and stuff may not be as
Speaker 4: romantic and fun, but it pays the bills, which is
Speaker 4: what a lot of households need.
Speaker 1: Rory is always appreciate the time, enjoy the rest of
Speaker 1: your day and we'll talk soon. My friend fact sick.
Speaker 1: When it comes to side hustles, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can I can tell you firsthand there are side
Speaker 1: hustles that become tougher to monetize. I do think Rory
Speaker 1: brings up a good point that a side hustle for
Speaker 1: a lot of people ends up being something that they
Speaker 1: enjoy and then realize, oh wow, I could actually maybe
Speaker 1: use some time here. I've got the extra time and
Speaker 1: make some money doing it. But there's things that now
Speaker 1: and I know this is going to be an easy
Speaker 1: excuse for a lot, but AI can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things that you probably used to pay people to
Speaker 1: do on the side for you. So yeah, twenty seven percent,
Speaker 1: I know if people could have a side hustle and
Speaker 1: make more money, that number would be a lot higher.
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