Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentuckyana.
Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Anda's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 2: news Radio eight forty whas eight oh five.
Speaker 1: As we get the week started. We got the week started,
Speaker 1: in fact.
Speaker 2: A lot earlier than you did if you're just now
Speaker 2: joining us. But it's okay if you missed out, just
Speaker 2: you know, set your alarm earlier and you can start.
Speaker 1: Your day with us every day at five o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'm really trying to sell that is it's if it's
Speaker 2: something you're just missing out on, if you're not waking
Speaker 2: up that early. Some people have to wake up that
Speaker 2: early because that's when they start their workday. But if
Speaker 2: you are somebody that gets to sleep in a little
Speaker 2: bit later, I envy you, and also I get it
Speaker 2: sleep is.
Speaker 1: Very valuable.
Speaker 2: In fact, last night was the first Sunday since I
Speaker 2: made the shift to this new role here, and it
Speaker 2: was like nine thirty and the Sunday scaries hadn't set in,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, you know what, I guess they're not
Speaker 2: coming because I just I mean, Sundays are now the
Speaker 2: day John for me, where I just know, okay, I
Speaker 2: can it's part of the weekend still, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not working. I do get to sleep in that day,
Speaker 2: but my Sundays are very mild now compared to what
Speaker 2: they once were, just because you know, I got I
Speaker 2: got an early rise on a Monday one day. I'll
Speaker 2: be as adjusted as you are. But then again, as
Speaker 2: soon as you got adjusted, or at least used to it,
Speaker 2: then you then you became a father, and then your
Speaker 2: sleep pattern, I'm sure became uh, I'm even more.
Speaker 3: Well adjusted to that now. Thankfully, good, good, hopefully I'll
Speaker 3: say that, and then you know, things will change here
Speaker 3: in the next few days, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: But hey, it's good. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear you say that. Also, I can
Speaker 2: tell just by uh, you know that, but also you know,
Speaker 2: I just visually I can just I can just tell
Speaker 2: that you know, you didn't get up, you didn't get
Speaker 2: a good night's sleep certain mornings, and it's not anything you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you still come in here, you do a
Speaker 2: great job, but you wear your your fatigue at times,
Speaker 2: which I don't know how you wouldn't. You just look
Speaker 2: tired sometimes, which again I get it. You got you
Speaker 2: got a newborn at home, But I'm glad to hear it. Again,
Speaker 2: I could tell that you've been You've you've at least adjusted.
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it consistency now that is paying off to where
Speaker 2: there's more of a routine with with baby Daisy.
Speaker 3: It's consistency. It's better communication between me and my wife
Speaker 3: on you know, both of us needing sleep at different
Speaker 3: points of the day, and I think that's really helped
Speaker 3: both of us.
Speaker 1: Good good to hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just did something that I shouldn't have
Speaker 2: done because it happened to me last week and I've
Speaker 2: got I've got tough skin. But my wife, she she
Speaker 2: wanted to let me know without being mean. But when
Speaker 2: you tell somebody they look tired, that's insulting their appearance.
Speaker 2: That's I mean, maybe you're not. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think you're coming from a place of where you want
Speaker 2: to let somebody know that they look awful, they look rough.
Speaker 2: But who has ever been told they look tired? Or
Speaker 2: who has ever told someone they look tired? And the
Speaker 2: feeling on either side being one of compliment nothing right.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we were at an event with
Speaker 2: her work and it was it was last Thursday, and
Speaker 2: I I didn't get as much rest during the day
Speaker 2: so I didn't get the nap that I needed. Therefore,
Speaker 2: by seven o'clock I was running on fumes, and I
Speaker 2: guess it was visibly showing, and she like, you look
Speaker 2: tired today, and I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty tired. And
Speaker 2: then she asked me to go rub some water on
Speaker 2: my face and you know, like freshen up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is it that bad? She was like, you
Speaker 1: look tired. I'm like, all right, geez.
Speaker 2: But that was my fault, because that was every now
Speaker 2: and then I'll get a little a little too confident that,
Speaker 2: oh this is fine, I'm adjusted one thousand percent now,
Speaker 2: nothing to worry about. And then if I don't get
Speaker 2: the proper rest during the day and I don't get
Speaker 2: to bed at a certain time, then I'll learn quickly
Speaker 2: I'm going to be I'm defeated. I've got to be
Speaker 2: able to have that self discipline is really what I've
Speaker 2: always liked, and certainly now I need more of. So anyhow,
Speaker 2: so this is something that you've heard throughout the morning
Speaker 2: on the news that President Trump says that he has
Speaker 2: a buyer for TikTok. He told Fox News that a
Speaker 2: buyer is in place, but he didn't say who it was,
Speaker 2: and he's extended it many times, the deadline to sell
Speaker 2: the company from the Chinese ownership. I think it's Byte
Speaker 2: Dance is the name of the company. So he's trying
Speaker 2: to find buyers, and he says these new buyers, as
Speaker 2: you could expect if you're going to purchase the most
Speaker 2: popular social media platform out there, that you'd be very wealthy.
Speaker 2: But he said he'll have more to say on the
Speaker 2: matter in about two weeks. So, as you likely know,
Speaker 2: Congress forced the sale of TikTok fearing the national security
Speaker 2: concerns over the Chinese ownership.
Speaker 1: So what I think is, when I have a hard
Speaker 1: I think this.
Speaker 2: Thing will be extended until something is done to where
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about needing extension. But what
Speaker 2: nobody seems to really highlight is that Byte Dance the
Speaker 2: owner of TikTok. Unless I've missed out on it, I
Speaker 2: don't think they've ever indicated they have any interest in selling.
Speaker 2: So you can find a buyer, you can have unlimited money.
Speaker 2: Someone is going to have to want to sell you
Speaker 2: what you want. Finding a buyer is really really important,
Speaker 2: and it's a big piece when you are trying to
Speaker 2: sell something. I don't think the company that owns TikTok
Speaker 2: is eager to sell.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Again, they may get an offer they can't refuse, and
Speaker 2: maybe they realize, maybe they feel like they've maximized what
Speaker 2: they could get out of it, and it's only going
Speaker 2: to go down from here. But again, I know at
Speaker 2: times I sound like I'm some big advocate of TikTok,
Speaker 2: and it's not that, because you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: I mean, in fact, if you don't want to spend
Speaker 2: any time on any of these social media platforms, you're
Speaker 2: probably better off. But I just think that a lot
Speaker 2: of people have a misconception of really what TikTok is,
Speaker 2: and I don't even really know what When it comes
Speaker 2: to describing what it is, it can be a variety
Speaker 2: of different things for different people. That's the power of
Speaker 2: what it is as far as the platform. So again,
Speaker 2: Trump says he's got a buyer. We'll know more in
Speaker 2: two weeks as far as who that is. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to a transaction, a buyer and a seller,
Speaker 2: you need too And he says he has the buyer,
Speaker 2: But do they want to sell. I've yet to see
Speaker 2: any indication that they're looking to put it up on
Speaker 2: the market, but we shall see. All right, we'll talk
Speaker 2: a little more about what we know as far as
Speaker 2: the situation in Colorado that took place I'm sorry, Idaho
Speaker 2: that took place yesterday, and we'll also bring in roy
Speaker 2: O'Neil coming up at eight thirty. It's Kentucky and it's
Speaker 2: Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: WHS eight sixteen. Here Kentucky. Anda's Morning News with Nick
Speaker 2: Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas we'll talk to
Speaker 2: Roy O'Neil a the NBC News Coming up here at
Speaker 2: eight thirty. We'll get the latest on the situation in
Speaker 2: Idaho where firefighters were ambushed while responding.
Speaker 1: To a fire. We do know that at least two firefighters.
Speaker 2: Have been killed and the suspect also was found dead.
Speaker 2: As far as the identity of that individual, that is
Speaker 2: still not something we know at this time. So again,
Speaker 2: roy O'Neil set to join us coming up at about
Speaker 2: eight thirty. The big story here locally this morning has
Speaker 2: been the passing of legendary Hall of Famer heck of
Speaker 2: a guy, de Wayne Lucas, who passed away on Saturday
Speaker 2: at the age of eighty nine. If you are somebody
Speaker 2: that is even somewhat familiar with this city and horse racing,
Speaker 2: you know who d Wayne Lucas is. This is the
Speaker 2: guy who won the Derby four times, has a total
Speaker 2: of fourteen Triple Crown race wins, and won the Preakness
Speaker 2: six times, as well as four wins in the Belmont,
Speaker 2: and he also secured twenty Breeders' Cup victories and just
Speaker 2: a guy that did it for a long time and
Speaker 2: was very successful, seemingly from start to finish. But what
Speaker 2: I have come to realize, and and by the way,
Speaker 2: I did not have any I've never had the pleasure
Speaker 2: of meeting or just or talking to d Wayne Lucas.
Speaker 2: But if I ever did, I would have I'd like
Speaker 2: to believe I would have considered it to be a
Speaker 2: really big honor, just because that's the kind of presence
Speaker 2: that he had, somebody that not only was impactful in
Speaker 2: a major way when it comes to horse racing, but
Speaker 2: he seemed to really leave an impression and make an
Speaker 2: impact on a lot of people as well. That is
Speaker 2: not something that goes unnoticed. When you know somebody's always
Speaker 2: going to be just because their presence and what they've
Speaker 2: established in their industry, meaning horse racing, they're going to
Speaker 2: be a no name. But I think in at least
Speaker 2: the last ten years or so, when people would talk
Speaker 2: about Dwayne Lucas, it wasn't as much about what he
Speaker 2: accomplished in horse racing. It was just the impression that
Speaker 2: he left on them. I mean, I think for as
Speaker 2: long as he did it, he was pretty consistent, very genuine,
Speaker 2: and those that got a chance to know him a
Speaker 2: little bit and covered him throughout his career, they're not
Speaker 2: talking a whole lot about his accomplishments. Not that they
Speaker 2: don't value what he did when it comes to his profession,
Speaker 2: but certainly somebody that's going to be missed in a
Speaker 2: major way. So rip and thoughts and prayers with his
Speaker 2: family and of course all those that did know de
Speaker 2: Wayne Lucas eighty nine years old and passed on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Churchill Down's put out a press release with that information
Speaker 2: on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Also the Crystal Rogers case, the trial is expected to
Speaker 2: start back up today, but last week as it came
Speaker 2: to an end, and there was some testimony that I
Speaker 2: think was is damaging is damaging of anything that has
Speaker 2: come up in this trial that started last week. For
Speaker 2: the defense, we now have a neighbor who's testified that
Speaker 2: brooks Howk's family, his mother and brother, they suspiciously, suspiciously
Speaker 2: moved bags from their trunks into into brooks Howse's basement
Speaker 2: just days after Christal Rogers vanished. And also there was
Speaker 2: another another witness that testified that she over heard Joseph
Speaker 2: and Stephen laws and discussing moving a body on the
Speaker 2: house farm using a skid steer. So again that's that's
Speaker 2: not that's not direct proof. There's still I mean there's
Speaker 2: no body, there's no physical evidence, so all this is circumstantial,
Speaker 2: which of course is not ideal in most instances for
Speaker 2: the prosecution. But I think when it comes to the evidence,
Speaker 2: even though again it's it's it's there's no body, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no crime scene, that's always a challenge when it
Speaker 2: comes to the prosecution. But I guess what we're gonna
Speaker 2: find out is that here are they willing to run
Speaker 2: with all of the evidence that certainly can't just be
Speaker 2: some coincidence to make a decision that of course would
Speaker 2: find these individuals guilty of murder. So it'll start back
Speaker 2: up today and we'll keep the updated as best we can.
Speaker 1: As you could expect.
Speaker 2: The defense they're emphasizing and they're going to continue to
Speaker 2: emphasize that this case stems from the media and family
Speaker 2: pressure and some of the things that they're being accused
Speaker 2: of doing. As far as being shady and suspicious, they
Speaker 2: were just worried that law enforcement was out to get them.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the gist of what the defense is here,
Speaker 2: and that, you know it, don't be surprised if we
Speaker 2: hear that that was said more than anything throughout this
Speaker 2: entire situation is that there's no body, there's no crime scene,
Speaker 2: there's no physical evidence, because those are.
Speaker 1: Pretty important things when it comes to a trial like this.
Speaker 2: All right, we've got sports coming your way, but first,
Speaker 2: an update on trafficking weather, and again don't forget Roy
Speaker 2: and Neil going to join us at eight thirty.
Speaker 1: Right here, there's radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 2: It is a forty five here Kentucky AA's Morning News
Speaker 2: with Nick Coffee.
Speaker 1: Here. I almost said the wrong station.
Speaker 2: It's News Radio eight forty WHS the Big Stick and
Speaker 2: Tony Venetti is with me. Here this morning, I just
Speaker 2: shared some news with you that you don't seem too
Speaker 2: happy about, and that is that there's not going to
Speaker 2: be parking meters in the Highlands potentially, and that that'll
Speaker 2: be a big change just because forever you've never had
Speaker 2: to pay to park on Barchtown Road in the Highlands
Speaker 2: if you're right there on the street in front of
Speaker 2: all the businesses and whatnot. But now the Parking Authority
Speaker 2: of River City plans to add three hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: eight parking meters along Barchtown Road in the Highlands to
Speaker 2: increase revenue and also parking turnover for businesses.
Speaker 4: Every policy, okay, every policy, you gotta find what information
Speaker 4: makes this make sense. Because if there's no agenda, then
Speaker 4: you go, oh, that should be great for business. Opposite,
Speaker 4: no one wants. It'll be another hurdle people will have
Speaker 4: to do to go down there and spend money.
Speaker 1: Dwight will not go.
Speaker 4: He's the unusual weirdo, but he'll not go to the
Speaker 4: Highlands because.
Speaker 1: You go, oh, the convenient parking No, thank you.
Speaker 4: Like he has to go anyway because that now you
Speaker 4: throw parking meters in there, that will reduce business in
Speaker 4: the Highlands. What makes that make sense my opinion, and
Speaker 4: I have no evidence based on this because I haven't
Speaker 4: talked to anybody about this subject yet, but that means
Speaker 4: to me that says Nick that they want to tow
Speaker 4: cars and get rid of some of these.
Speaker 1: Pop up parties.
Speaker 2: Could be or they want money. This would generate apparently
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty five thousand annually and it's supposed
Speaker 2: to help fund the operations of the Parking Authority.
Speaker 1: Of River City.
Speaker 2: So you're right, there are people who just think of
Speaker 2: the having to parallel park on that busy road and
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, I'm out. But if you throw in
Speaker 2: you got to do that and you gotta pay, it
Speaker 2: could turn a lot of people away.
Speaker 4: So I thought the uber lanes were a great idea.
Speaker 2: So the Friends of Barstown Road that group, they opposed
Speaker 2: the plan, and what they have cited as far as
Speaker 2: the unfairness here is that other areas like Frankfort Avenue
Speaker 2: remain meter free, and that is a legitimate great because
Speaker 2: if you are competing with a restaurant that's in the
Speaker 2: same space as you as far as the type of food,
Speaker 2: and they're relatively the same distance from where you're coming from.
Speaker 2: People would probably choose to to go to the one
Speaker 2: where they don't have to pay to park.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Saint Matthew's. Yeah, there's that whole Saint Matthew's
Speaker 4: Bar corridor. Uh, there's what seven or eight bars there.
Speaker 4: There's no pain for parking there. So that's where they're
Speaker 4: going to go.
Speaker 2: Put your put yourself in the shoes of a business owner,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to sell you on the positive of this.
Speaker 2: Oh what's the positive, sir, Well, what this could do
Speaker 2: is help turn over parking to get more people to
Speaker 2: be able to park and come to your business. That
Speaker 2: now people won't leave their car there all day and
Speaker 2: limit parking spaces for people that want to come and
Speaker 2: give you business. Doesn't sound like I'm hitting here, doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like it's connecting.
Speaker 4: No, not selling me, not selling me at all. If
Speaker 4: I'm with you, I wouldn't think if I own the
Speaker 4: business actually, after the shootings, after the pop up parties,
Speaker 4: if I own a business, and especially the ones that
Speaker 4: have owned the businesses for like thirty years down there,
Speaker 4: there's a point when you got to go, I'm out,
Speaker 4: I'm not doing this. There are areas that get hot
Speaker 4: and then and then they die off, right, So and
Speaker 4: that I'm not saying the Highlands is dying off.
Speaker 1: It's it's a walkable.
Speaker 4: Most people that used to go to those businesses live
Speaker 4: in the Highlands and they walk there.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: That's the whole thing about the Highlands is that on
Speaker 4: a Friday, or's warm Friday or Saturday night, that there's
Speaker 4: just a ton of people walking on the sidewalks.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I like the uber idea because even I mean, Jackie
Speaker 4: and I we uber everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's so easy.
Speaker 4: The longest I've ever waited for an uber is four minutes,
Speaker 4: especially in Louisville. So you have nothing but an uber lane,
Speaker 4: or it's just a row of ubers you can just
Speaker 4: get in. That would be the idea. And it's safety,
Speaker 4: not drinking.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think one. I didn't give this much thought.
Speaker 2: But the first thing you mentioned, as far as just
Speaker 2: wanting to tow, wanting to tow cars that haven't paid
Speaker 2: the meter and get them out of there, that's probably
Speaker 2: a bit and that's I'd say that's at least somewhat
Speaker 2: of a factor in this decision. But I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if in twenty years. You just know if you
Speaker 2: leave the house and go somewhere, probably less than twenty years,
Speaker 2: probably five years. He probably next week. I don't know
Speaker 2: that if you end up having to pay to park anywhere, like,
Speaker 2: we just can't be surprised.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do it.
Speaker 2: But I am no longer surprised when I go anywhere
Speaker 2: and I've got to pay to park.
Speaker 4: All right, let me ask you a question. They're chief
Speaker 4: one to ten. How good are you at parallel parking?
Speaker 1: I used to park cars for a living, so I'm
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 1: I was a valet valet parker.
Speaker 2: At Jewish Hospital when I was eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 4: I'm fifty six and still suck at it. I can
Speaker 4: teach you I'm in, I'm in, I'm in. It is
Speaker 4: more and people aren't good at that. So now you're
Speaker 4: going to start downe it under pressure on a busy road.
Speaker 4: Now you're going to go to Molly Balloons and have
Speaker 4: one of those really thick beer and they're trying to
Speaker 4: get out of a parking spot.
Speaker 1: Should I lead with.
Speaker 2: That in conversations like not only not only can I
Speaker 2: parallel park, I can do it in a resume, can
Speaker 2: do it at a five speed just so where that's
Speaker 2: like I break the ice from people. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know this about me, but I've been known
Speaker 2: to be a really good parallel parker and could also
Speaker 2: do it with a manual transmission as well.
Speaker 1: I think you should chart it as a business. I'm
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee.
Speaker 4: If you're old and can't still can't parlelo a parallel park,
Speaker 4: I'll teach you.
Speaker 2: I've got you all right. What are some other things
Speaker 2: that used to just be free? You would never think
Speaker 2: you'd ever have to pay for parking? Is certainly one
Speaker 2: of them. The broadcast television used to be that way
Speaker 2: because you could just get an antenna, right, But now
Speaker 2: you have to have a converter to use at antenna.
Speaker 2: Somebody on the talkback feature earlier mentioned one that's good
Speaker 2: air for your tires. Now it's hard to find a
Speaker 2: place where you don't have to pay. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: I finally bought the thirty dollars are what about? This
Speaker 2: is more so in Europe, but there are I've never
Speaker 2: experienced this in the United States, but I did in Mexico,
Speaker 2: and I never knew it was a thing, but public restrooms,
Speaker 2: I went to a mall in Kane Kun and the
Speaker 2: restroom was upstairs and you had to like it's almost
Speaker 2: like you're paying to get on, like through a train station,
Speaker 2: Like you have to put like a quarter in to
Speaker 2: use the bathroom.
Speaker 1: That's not a thing here.
Speaker 2: But I'll crawl under bottled water like I don't know
Speaker 2: if you would get But now, the bottled water industry
Speaker 2: didn't used to exist right now it's a four hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollar industry. Yeah, because they don't trust the water
Speaker 2: coming out of their tap. There's an old commercial where
Speaker 2: the guy's sitting in the in the creek in the
Speaker 2: nineteen seventies and he pours out he has a bottle
Speaker 2: and goes, I think I'm gonna start selling bottled water,
Speaker 2: and they were like, dude.
Speaker 1: Water's free, and buy water waters free. Dude.
Speaker 2: Well, I think those that grew up before bottled water
Speaker 2: was the thing, they just drank it out of the faucet.
Speaker 2: Those individuals seem to be better off than those that
Speaker 2: have been well, that have been exposed to the bottled
Speaker 2: water industry.
Speaker 4: Well, most people that I know that are crazy and
Speaker 4: have real issues. Dwight Whitton Trees still drinks out of
Speaker 4: the tap.
Speaker 1: I'm still a garden hose guy. You kidding me answers
Speaker 1: a lot of questions.
Speaker 4: Filling up the pool answers a lot of questions there
Speaker 4: cutting the grass you know has been drugging you for years.
Speaker 2: It's a hard time paying for a bottle of water.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes you have to.
Speaker 4: It's six dollars for twenty four of make Kroger Like, no.
Speaker 1: That's different.
Speaker 2: But like if you go to like a bottle of
Speaker 2: water at a bowl game, I mean that's just like
Speaker 2: if I'm good, if I'm paying, I'm not getting water.
Speaker 1: I'm getting it.
Speaker 2: Try Disney cold beer, and I'm gonna throw it down
Speaker 2: the neck.
Speaker 1: Try Disney.
Speaker 2: Oh never, that's when I envisioned Hell on Earth. I
Speaker 2: think a Disney. Hey, what about the mouse like that? Look,
Speaker 2: my kids still think that the Hillview Fair and Bullet
Speaker 2: County is Disney.
Speaker 1: And if somebody tells.
Speaker 2: The otherwise, then with me was Mickey to help sell it.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, we'll uh, we'll be back at it tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Tony Dwight, come on your way up next right here
Speaker 2: on New's ready wait forty to be your chance