Speaker 1: It is eight oh four here at Kentucky Anda's Morning
Speaker 1: News on News Radio eight forty whas thank you for
Speaker 1: hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: Going to be another hot day today.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's been a hot week thus far, got
Speaker 1: up to ninety yesterday. That may happen today before the
Speaker 1: rain arrives expected tomorrow and on Friday as well. A
Speaker 1: story that we have certainly talked about quite a bit
Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, and that is what's
Speaker 1: taking place on Barchtown Road the last two weekends, no
Speaker 1: surprise Mayor Greenberg, Chief Humphrey obviously getting out in front
Speaker 1: and letting residents, letting business owners know that they're gonna
Speaker 1: As Mary Greenberg said, there's really no there's nothing that's
Speaker 1: off the table as far as what needs to be
Speaker 1: done to get this fixed. And I think we have
Speaker 1: some early signs of progress regarding that. It's tough to
Speaker 1: know for sure, right we'll see this weekend if in
Speaker 1: fact there is real progress made as far as one
Speaker 1: keeping that kind of stuff from happening, but also holding
Speaker 1: those accountable as best you can who.
Speaker 2: Break the law.
Speaker 1: You've got a bar that is already that they will
Speaker 1: in fact go ahead and shut down earlier. That's Highland Taphouse.
Speaker 1: They decided to start closing at two am instead of
Speaker 1: four am. That could lead to other businesses maybe deciding
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. And this isn't necessarily progress,
Speaker 1: but it is at least a sign that they are
Speaker 1: going to make sure that these businesses that may be
Speaker 1: cutting corners and doing things that they shouldn't do, that
Speaker 1: they're held accountable. Greenberg last night mentioned that the Louisville
Speaker 1: Metro Police Department, I'm sorry, the Lottle Metro Department of
Speaker 1: Public Health and Wellness made a visit to friends hohok
Speaker 1: A lounge on Bargetown Road and they were able to
Speaker 1: determine that the business I was operating with an expired license.
Speaker 1: So they have been ordered to remain closed until that
Speaker 1: issue is resolved.
Speaker 2: So again we'll see.
Speaker 1: And does sound as if they are certainly ready to
Speaker 1: hold those accountable that do in fact break the law.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that's what they' that's what they're there,
Speaker 1: that's what they are there to do. And if I
Speaker 1: was you, I certainly wouldn't test that, but that you know,
Speaker 1: that's just me. Also, when it comes to UL baseball hosting,
Speaker 1: the Super Regional just two wins away from Omaha. You've
Speaker 1: got excitement back for Loule of a baseball and it's
Speaker 1: been a while. Not to say that those that are
Speaker 1: fans just haven't been interested, but whenever you're hosting a
Speaker 1: big event like this and it's a best of three
Speaker 1: series with a chance to get to Omaha, the energy
Speaker 1: is back. And I swear whenever I saw yesterday that
Speaker 1: this was the first time they're hosting a Super Regional
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen, it kind of took me back, just
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking there's no way could be that long.
Speaker 1: But it has been quite some time, but that energy
Speaker 1: has returned and a lot of folks looking to get tickets.
Speaker 1: Should be a good weekend out there at Jim Patterson Stadium.
Speaker 1: Also coming up here before too long, we're going to
Speaker 1: bring in Rory O'Neil of NBC News and talk about
Speaker 1: something I didn't expect to be talking about, but maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be surprised. That is the increase in marijuana
Speaker 1: usage among seniors. In fact, it's at an all time
Speaker 1: high right now. So we'll talk to Rory about that
Speaker 1: as well as get an update from him on the
Speaker 1: latest when it comes to the fighting that's going on
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. Something we talked about earlier is the return
Speaker 1: of a very popular McDonald's menu item. I've never it,
Speaker 1: but clearly I'm well aware how popular that it was.
Speaker 1: And I say it was because they went they got
Speaker 1: rid of it. The snack Rap was removed from the
Speaker 1: menu in twenty sixteen, and yesterday McDonalds announced they're bringing
Speaker 1: it back. As of July tenth, the snack Rap is
Speaker 1: going to return. They're gonna have a couple of different flavors,
Speaker 1: spicy and ranch, and it's gonna be with their new
Speaker 1: Mick Crispy strips. And it fascinates me to see just
Speaker 1: how many people are over the moon about this, just
Speaker 1: absolutely on cloud nine because a fast food item is returning.
Speaker 1: And I don't say that to poke fun or shame them,
Speaker 1: because I get it. There's menu items and well, that's
Speaker 1: what we discussed is fast food items that went away
Speaker 1: and then these companies realized, oh wait, we should bring
Speaker 1: this back. It's really popular. The McRib was one long ago,
Speaker 1: the Taco Bell, Mexican Pizza, Windy Spicy chicken nuggets. I
Speaker 1: talked about the chicken fries returning in Burger King. I
Speaker 1: was really excited about that. Many years ago. I forgot
Speaker 1: about the double down at KFC that returned for that
Speaker 1: return for a limited time there.
Speaker 3: That was the Yeah, that was the one where they
Speaker 3: just brought out the two chicken strips basically chicken breasts.
Speaker 2: Really it looks like a heart attack.
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: You and I were talking about TikTok and what's on there,
Speaker 3: and I've found some nostalgic recipes.
Speaker 4: I actually made your own version.
Speaker 3: Well, the copycat recipe the way KFC used to taste.
Speaker 3: If you've been to Claudia Sanders at all, yes, that's
Speaker 3: the closest I can get to the way KFC used
Speaker 3: to taste back when I was a kid. So I
Speaker 3: decided to give the copycat recipe a shot, and I
Speaker 3: gotta admit, man.
Speaker 4: It good. Yeah, it's just heavy on the papri rika.
Speaker 3: You start to figure out what the actual eleven herbs
Speaker 3: and spices are if you like, I like to play
Speaker 3: in the kitchen.
Speaker 4: So after a while you kind of have an idea.
Speaker 3: But you know, you go back and some of these
Speaker 3: copycat recipes have come to fruition that I've done very well.
Speaker 4: Some have been way off something.
Speaker 1: Yes, you never really know that you give it a shot, right,
Speaker 1: So there have been fast food items that were popular
Speaker 1: then returned to stay, or then they returned just for
Speaker 1: a limited time. And there's also fast food items that
Speaker 1: you may forget existed. And these restaurants probably hope that
Speaker 1: you forget that it ever existed because they were big busts.
Speaker 1: I don't remember eating this one. I probably didn't because
Speaker 1: I was very young at the time that it came out.
Speaker 1: But I remember the McDonald's Arch Deluxe. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a gourmet burger with a quarter pound patty, bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheese,
Speaker 1: and a mustardy mustard mayonnaise sauce. And it had a
Speaker 1: potato flour bun. But it flopped. It was McDonald's attempting to,
Speaker 1: I guess, give you a sophisticated burger, and it didn't
Speaker 1: work out. I don't remember these, but I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: they didn't work out. Burger King had satisfries. It was
Speaker 1: a lower calorie crinkle cut fry with forty percent less
Speaker 1: fat than the regular fries. And you know, there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with given somebody a healthy option, but they probably
Speaker 1: need to taste pretty good.
Speaker 2: And I guess I guess these.
Speaker 3: Did not remember Burger King had the international sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Burger King's not to take a swing on it at all.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, I meant to ask you last
Speaker 3: time we did this segment, who do you prefer when
Speaker 3: it comes to like either the big Mac or the Whopper?
Speaker 2: Do you have a preference honestly? Whopper?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know I I don't have them often, but when
Speaker 1: I do it pretty good. You do you remember Taco
Speaker 1: Bell's seafood salad believe that real? That sounds salad with
Speaker 1: strength whitefish SnO cred. Yeah, that happened in the eighties,
Speaker 1: which ill, Yeah, I'm glad to see that did not
Speaker 1: stick around. Oh that makes my stomach sure they same here?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine me in a meeting somebody pitching that.
Speaker 1: How about a seafood salad at a fast food restaurant?
Speaker 2: Yikes?
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Speaker 2: Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: It is eight sixteen here at Kentucky this morning News
Speaker 1: Nick coffee with you as we take you up until
Speaker 1: nine o'clock and then we'll hand it off to Tony
Speaker 1: and Dwight. This is a breakdown from Northwestern Mutual that
Speaker 1: I wanted to discuss and I find it to be interesting.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys do as well. But it's a
Speaker 1: it's a study, and sometimes you know, the findings within
Speaker 1: a study are are interesting and worthwhile, But then sometimes
Speaker 1: you realize that do we really mean do we really
Speaker 1: need the study? Like almost read you, this is just
Speaker 1: the headline here. Study financial uncertainty is making people feel
Speaker 1: depressed and anxious. That's like study people who commit crimes
Speaker 1: end up in jail more than those who don't. Oh ka,
Speaker 1: I mean that to me, that's a very obvious thing
Speaker 1: that financial uncertainty, stress about money and your finances is
Speaker 1: going to make you anxious and maybe even depressed.
Speaker 2: But nearly two thirds.
Speaker 1: Of Americans sixty three percent admit money worries have kept
Speaker 1: them up at night. According to Northwestern Mutuals Planning and
Speaker 1: Progress study, which has just came out, it finds that
Speaker 1: sixty nine percent say financial uncertainty has left them feeling
Speaker 1: anxious and depressed. Even our love lives are affected, as
Speaker 1: fifty seven percent of those who are married or living
Speaker 1: with a partner say financial uncertainty has impacted their relationship.
Speaker 1: That's not anything positive. But I cannot say in any
Speaker 1: way that I'm surprised at all, because I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I can be stressful.
Speaker 4: If you're worried about money. But that's what's when you
Speaker 4: mentioned that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of like politics, you know, in
Speaker 3: some weird way, we're still having the same arguments, and
Speaker 3: I'm hearing the same things from people today that my
Speaker 3: old man was saying forty years ago. And when Northwestern
Speaker 3: Mutual comes out with a study like this, yeah, it's okay,
Speaker 3: captain obvious next and it's that, Yeah, of course people
Speaker 3: are worried about.
Speaker 4: Their finances right now.
Speaker 3: And I think for the first time, I didn't get
Speaker 3: into the whole price thing because normally I just go
Speaker 3: in and I buy stuff. I don't worry about paying it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, now I'm starting to see it. Like, for example,
Speaker 3: there are some like I told you, I love my
Speaker 3: chocolate craving at night. I noticed a big jump in
Speaker 3: the chocolate I like to buy. I mean, you're talking
Speaker 3: like a two dollars and fifty jump. That's a pretty
Speaker 3: big If you start tolling.
Speaker 2: That card did not notice that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with price fluctuations like if gas goes up
Speaker 3: a nickel or ten cents, even fifteen cents, I'm okay
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 1: As I've discussed and probably shouldn't admit, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: an adult. Like my wife does all the grocery shopping. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she handles a lot of our finances. So oftentimes don't
Speaker 1: really buy anything unless I need it. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: getting gas, getting food, if I need to grab a
Speaker 1: bite to eat. I mean, like, I so what I'm
Speaker 1: going to get. It's not like I don't ever look
Speaker 1: at any price. But I feel like regardless, if you're
Speaker 1: somebody like myself or somebody that is in charge of
Speaker 1: getting the groceries every week for your family and you're
Speaker 1: monitoring price, well, good for you. You're probably you know, you're
Speaker 1: probably noticing some things, and you're maybe able to save
Speaker 1: some money. So honestly, I should be more like you. However,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're seing. I don't know what
Speaker 1: situation you could be into where you have not noticed
Speaker 1: that when you go to purchase something that maybe you
Speaker 1: just get somewhat regularly. Maybe you get it a few
Speaker 1: times a year. It's more like nothing being more expensive
Speaker 1: should surprise anybody right now.
Speaker 4: Not at all.
Speaker 3: And now on the flip side of that, there are
Speaker 3: things I think stores, grocery stores, local grocery stores are
Speaker 3: here doing a good job at putting certain things on sale,
Speaker 3: so you have to it takes a little bit more
Speaker 3: personal responsibility.
Speaker 4: For example, I love strawberries.
Speaker 3: Well, I find a great deal on strawberries yesterday, and
Speaker 3: I stocked up, and I'll see a great deal on
Speaker 3: other stuff that I see.
Speaker 4: I think stores do a great job.
Speaker 3: And with these new apps that we get now where
Speaker 3: they can track what we spend, that is a fantastic
Speaker 3: tool for everybody because then I get the weekly cute.
Speaker 4: Bond sent to me in the mail.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's way we got incentive to make that
Speaker 1: store where you go because you know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: I mean, that's there's a good there's a good reason
Speaker 1: for doing that.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 3: There's personal responsibility at hand here, and I think both
Speaker 3: sides are making strides to meet.
Speaker 4: In the middle.
Speaker 1: It is here that thirty nine percent of gen z
Speaker 1: and thirty eight percent of millennials, it is it has
Speaker 1: them feeling the anxiousness and depression at times on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis. So look, I get it. Money, money worries
Speaker 1: is always going to be a stressful thing. And obviously
Speaker 1: things are very expensive now, and you know some people,
Speaker 1: you know, they've had to probably sacrifice and maybe make
Speaker 1: some changes to their to what they do because times
Speaker 1: are hard. I get it, all right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 1: come back on. We'll come back here in just just
Speaker 1: a few minutes and get you an update on sports.
Speaker 2: You're up.
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Speaker 1: it's ay forty five here Kentucky at this morning news
Speaker 1: on News Ready eight forty whas. We'll be handing it
Speaker 1: off to Tony and Dwight here shortly, Tony, have you
Speaker 1: seen any of the pictures floating around on social media
Speaker 1: actor Terrence Howard hanging out in Louisville. No, so they're
Speaker 1: filming a movie and it's on pause because of a
Speaker 1: strike that's going on with the crew. And this is
Speaker 1: actually right around Derby time, I think where he was
Speaker 1: first spotted at a breakfast place in the Highlands, and
Speaker 1: then I don't know how recent the picture is, but
Speaker 1: somebody posted it yesterday and it wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 1: it's within the last couple of days where he was
Speaker 1: out and about somewhere and they got a picture and
Speaker 1: he smirked as if like, Okay, this is the acknowledgment
Speaker 1: that yes, I'm who you think I am. And spotting
Speaker 1: celebrities during Derby Week, spotting celebrities at Churchill Downs, or
Speaker 1: like even in an airport at a big city, you
Speaker 1: might be taken aback like, oh wow, that's such and such,
Speaker 1: or wait a second, is that who I think it is?
Speaker 1: And then you consider situation, circumstance where you are, and
Speaker 1: it would make sense. But running into a random celebrity
Speaker 1: in some of the most random play like this, there's
Speaker 1: probably been sightings that someone thought that that might be it,
Speaker 1: but they're thinking.
Speaker 4: On no way.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: What my experience in the last thirty five years being
Speaker 5: in media in Louisville is that Louisvillians really don't they
Speaker 5: care that you're over there. But they're not stargazers. They're
Speaker 5: not like Rick Patino said it. Rick said in Lexington,
Speaker 5: I couldn't go to dinner. He goes in Louisville, people
Speaker 5: don't care. I'm in the restaurant and that's it, and
Speaker 5: they don't even They might look over and say, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's Rick Patino. But he was like, there's a big
Speaker 5: difference in Louisville. I think I don't know why that is,
Speaker 5: but we don't mob celebrities in Louisville. It's like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's so and so cool.
Speaker 1: Speaking of mobbing celebrities, back in the day, it would
Speaker 1: be mobbing to say hello and find something that they
Speaker 1: could sign. I can't relate. I know, you sign a
Speaker 1: lot of autographs, take a lot of pictures. I've never
Speaker 1: that's not my life. Maybe I'll get there one day,
Speaker 1: like you and Dwight. Remember those shiny, glossy pictures they
Speaker 1: used to have.
Speaker 5: I don't think people do that, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, welcome McClain showed up. They had thirty
Speaker 1: of them. Nobody took one of them, and then they
Speaker 1: put an in it. I mean, that's that's what happened.
Speaker 1: But anyways, nobody's getting on like it's lost to me.
Speaker 1: Think a celebrity son an autograph. There wasn't like memorabilia
Speaker 1: as an athlete. Now it's all about getting your phone
Speaker 1: out getting a selfie.
Speaker 5: So I think most of the time you go to
Speaker 5: those cosplays whatever, those little nerd conventions that they have
Speaker 5: where you know, like the stars of Jaws are there,
Speaker 5: or like Freddy Krueger is yeah, yeah, those comic Yeah,
Speaker 5: the comic con things like there's one in Lexington it's
Speaker 5: called Freyfest and the Freddy Krueger guy is going to
Speaker 5: be there, like they do their signings there. Plus there's
Speaker 5: also like people stop asking for autographs really, I think.
Speaker 5: But then the guys they sell it online, like if
Speaker 5: you've ever been to like.
Speaker 2: A sports thing.
Speaker 1: It's a real big in sports to where athletes now
Speaker 1: know I'm not signing it. You're just going to try
Speaker 1: to make.
Speaker 5: A bunch of money. Yes, And we used to do shows,
Speaker 5: whether it be a former UFL player there or something
Speaker 5: like that, old timer and he would they would get
Speaker 5: mad because again they were somebody would show up at
Speaker 5: twenty things and the guy would say, look, man, I'm
Speaker 5: not signing twenty things. I'll sign something for you, but
Speaker 5: I know what you're doing and I'm not doing that,
Speaker 5: which I think was a cool deal.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 5: The guy I understood was like, oh okay, man, I.
Speaker 1: Don't understand it. And again, people can spend their money
Speaker 1: on whatever they want. I'm sure I spend money on
Speaker 1: things that people would never want to spend money on,
Speaker 1: but I've always not been able to relate to those
Speaker 1: who really want. Like, memorability that you hang up in
Speaker 1: your home is cool, but saying something is now worth
Speaker 1: a million dollars because it was signed by somebody, I mean, well, you.
Speaker 5: See him more now. So social media and the internet.
Speaker 5: You see these people in starsay life, right, So that's
Speaker 5: you know, that's one thing, But you don't want to
Speaker 5: meet a lot of these people. Oh yeah, you don't
Speaker 5: want to know st your heroes. Mickey Mantle. Uh, there's
Speaker 5: a book called The Last Boy Boy Scout and you
Speaker 5: should read that because the press would not cover like Kennedy,
Speaker 5: and up until Kennedy they would didn't. They didn't cover
Speaker 5: Actually after Kennedy, they wouldn't cover the private lives of
Speaker 5: these stars, and Mickey Mantle was that and he was
Speaker 5: sort of the last boy Scout. Is what they're saying
Speaker 5: is make sense. The New York Press said, we have
Speaker 5: to cover that he's a and a womanizer and he's
Speaker 5: not a very good person like we have to keep
Speaker 5: their business. And they finally broke that fourth wall, I guess,
Speaker 5: journalist wise, journalism wise, and said we got to cover this.
Speaker 5: And then after that they started covering the TMZ type
Speaker 5: of the athletes. But before then that the private lives
Speaker 5: were off limits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's wild how it's gone completely the opposite
Speaker 1: direction over many, many, many years, because now they want
Speaker 1: to try to find anything they can on you, because
Speaker 1: that's now good, that's what it's now good for the business,
Speaker 1: whereas previously, you know, it was better for them. If
Speaker 1: everybody's just still in awe by this, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: tough to say because we don't know this for certain,
Speaker 1: but man, it certainly feels like nobody benefited from the
Speaker 1: timing of culture and society, especially technology lack of social
Speaker 1: media than Michael.
Speaker 5: Jordan's right, Michael Jordan is the smartest dude walking on
Speaker 5: the planet, because here I heard he did not engage
Speaker 5: in any of that stuff. And boy, if there's a
Speaker 5: time now that stars and athletes need to just shut
Speaker 5: up and move along, is this culture of you're either
Speaker 5: a devil or the saint. And right now I'm not
Speaker 5: saying you shouldn't have in your opinion and you're for
Speaker 5: this or that, but right now would be smart for
Speaker 5: people to say, I have no comment.
Speaker 1: So Reggie Miller was my favorite athlete growing up. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was the guy pretended to be shooting basketball in
Speaker 1: the driveway. And when Louisville played against Minnesota in Des
Speaker 1: Moines in the NCAA Tournament, he was on the call
Speaker 1: and we had the open practice, the media and FanFest
Speaker 1: thing that went on the day before, and he was
Speaker 1: he was probably within I don't know ten feet of me,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I can't believe it. I mean all
Speaker 1: but I thought to myself, I'm not doing it. There's
Speaker 1: no the chance to where this would end up being
Speaker 1: an experience that I felt was worth. It is not
Speaker 1: as good asking him giving me an impression of himself
Speaker 1: that I would feel like he's no longer this guy
Speaker 1: that he was my hero.
Speaker 5: Now the opposite was Kareem. My hero now is White Whitten,
Speaker 5: who just walked in. By the way, he cobbled in
Speaker 5: Reggie Miller.
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller out Dwight Whitten in us up Nick coffee,
Speaker 1: how we feeling.
Speaker 6: Coffee man like to drink?
Speaker 5: Okay, he's got his sunglasses on still inside.
Speaker 6: So this is just by chance, okay, the only reason
Speaker 6: I've got. I'm not pissed off, I'm not hungover, none
Speaker 6: of that.
Speaker 2: I thought this was an insult.
Speaker 1: You're reminding me with your sunglasses you're a little hungover
Speaker 1: too much tequila last night, just to let me know
Speaker 1: that I can't drink past eight pm.
Speaker 6: Generally, when you see me walking in with the sunglasses
Speaker 6: still on, it's.
Speaker 5: A bad scene, man, But not scene here this.
Speaker 6: Morning is just because I had my shady rays color
Speaker 6: rush on. I parked my Craig Lander.
Speaker 5: At jeepes dot com, and.
Speaker 6: As you know, I didn't want to whip them off
Speaker 6: with the crutches I got, you know, gray Canyon Mule
Speaker 6: already with all this crap, so I just left them on.
Speaker 6: That's how the story is.
Speaker 1: With is the commute getting better as far as vehicle
Speaker 1: to studio or is it still a pain in the air.
Speaker 5: It's such a painting Oh, you just seen yesterday leaving.
Speaker 5: I tried to help him, that was impossible. You ended
Speaker 5: up slamming your laptop on the ground again from your
Speaker 5: cheap backpack.
Speaker 6: Yeah sput Nick, by the way, has been dropped twice
Speaker 6: still they give you.
Speaker 1: The option to do a surgery for a quicker recovery,
Speaker 1: or they just say this.
Speaker 2: Is it wouldn't been.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't have been any quicker.
Speaker 2: Same thing.
Speaker 6: And so basically, doctor Michael Solomon, they flew him in
Speaker 6: from what's.
Speaker 5: The Furthest Solomon Allen's Australia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they flew him all the way from Australia.
Speaker 6: So, I mean, this guy knows his business, Doctor Michael
Speaker 6: Solomon does.
Speaker 1: Yet that's the kind of care you would expect for
Speaker 1: someone like Dwight Whitten.
Speaker 2: We're next, fellas, have a good show.