Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentuckyana. Let's get the eight am hours started here.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky INA's morning news on news radio eight forty.
Speaker 1: Whas nit coffee with you as we've now put three
Speaker 1: hours in the books here. And I mentioned at five
Speaker 1: o'clock that I was really alert and energetic to start
Speaker 1: the day because I had a cold shower, not by choice,
Speaker 1: but my hot water was not working, which we were waiting. Well,
Speaker 1: I was waiting to see that I would know if
Speaker 1: it was fixed, because I believe I figured out what
Speaker 1: the issue was as to why I didn't have hot
Speaker 1: water this morning. And I've yet to hear from my wife,
Speaker 1: who by now has has started her day, and the
Speaker 1: fact that she hasn't, I feel like i'd know she
Speaker 1: would let me know if there was no hot water
Speaker 1: for her to start her day and get a nice shower,
Speaker 1: So that's a good sign. But yeah, I just realized
Speaker 1: that I hadn't heard from her, So that's good news,
Speaker 1: good news for me. I'm sure none of you care
Speaker 1: at all, but a cold shower, I'm telling you, will
Speaker 1: wake you up. I learned that this morning, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll be signing up to to take
Speaker 1: more cold showers, but it actually benefited me, And I'm
Speaker 1: curious how many people actually, I mean, I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are reasons why you would take a cold shower because
Speaker 1: of you know, I remember being really really sun burnt
Speaker 1: one time thinking that a cold shower would feel good,
Speaker 1: and cold water, hot water, anything touching my skin didn't work.
Speaker 1: But people do the ice tubs, and there's they've got
Speaker 1: like those those those uh, there's things you can like
Speaker 1: purchase for your home. It's not only just an ice tub,
Speaker 1: but it's like I guess it's like dry ice or something.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure those are really expensive, but there's got
Speaker 1: to be a good benefit to it. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm I know, I know my strengths here, meaning I'm
Speaker 1: not strong enough to take a cold shower every morning,
Speaker 1: but if that was one way to wake me up,
Speaker 1: so maybe if i'm if I'm really dragging to get
Speaker 1: the day started and I feel like it's gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll maybe that's when I'll tough it out and
Speaker 1: take a colder shower. But yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: by choice this morning, but it was a good way
Speaker 1: to get the morning started. We're gonna talk to Rory
Speaker 1: o'eil coming up here at about eight thirty. We'll get
Speaker 1: the latest on the shooter in Idaho who lit a
Speaker 1: fire and then had and waited for firefighters to arrive,
Speaker 1: only to then ambush them. Two or dead. Of course,
Speaker 1: the suspect is also dead and one firefighters still fighting
Speaker 1: for his life. What we do know is that it's
Speaker 1: a twenty year old young man who apparently wanted to
Speaker 1: be a forest firefighter and he then was in this.
Speaker 1: We don't know for sure, and we probably will never
Speaker 1: know as far as what led to it, but he
Speaker 1: was turned down for a job in that field, and
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe that had a factor. But again, Rory's
Speaker 1: going to join us, coming up a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: But we've got fourth of July just a few days away,
Speaker 1: So tomorrow's my last day of the week, and then
Speaker 1: I'll have a nice four day week and certainly looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. And I have purchased zero fireworks. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think I can tell you in my many years
Speaker 1: here on Earth, I have never purchased a firework with
Speaker 1: my own money. I'm sure my parents bought me like
Speaker 1: some sparklers when I was a kid, maybe, but I've
Speaker 1: never and I'm not passing judgment. Look, people have got
Speaker 1: their things they're interested in. I've got things I'm interested in,
Speaker 1: And you know, we we live our lives and are
Speaker 1: just find knowing that there are things you enjoy and
Speaker 1: I don't. But I just fireworks have never done it
Speaker 1: for me. But what really I just have a tough
Speaker 1: time relating to is how dangerous they are, but also
Speaker 1: like they're expensive and you're literally lighting money on fire.
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of what you're doing right now. Again,
Speaker 1: if you enjoy it, is your money, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1: But last year, we had fourteen thousand and seven hundred
Speaker 1: people treated in the emergency room for a dramatic injury
Speaker 1: due to fireworks on fourth of July. That was a
Speaker 1: fifty two percent increase from twenty twenty three, and the
Speaker 1: most common injury was burns at thirty seven percent, injuries
Speaker 1: to your hands and fingers thirty six percent, and then
Speaker 1: twenty two percent had injuries to their head, face, ear,
Speaker 1: and then sparklers. That led to seventeen hundred trips to
Speaker 1: the er, which means about one third of sparkler injuries results. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one third of sparkler injuries resulted in hospitalization, which I
Speaker 1: think people just assume those are the safest ones, but
Speaker 1: clearly you can still hurt yourself. And also illegal fireworks
Speaker 1: those are still a thing, and I guess in certain
Speaker 1: states there are fireworks and I wouldn't know how to
Speaker 1: tell you which ones are, Like where do you get
Speaker 1: to a point with a firework to where it passes
Speaker 1: the you know, from being legal to be legal? But
Speaker 1: fourteen percent of injuries are caused by fireworks that people
Speaker 1: technically shouldn't shouldn't even have. Yeah, legal fireworks have the
Speaker 1: highest hospitalization rate at fifty six percent. And reloadable shells
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure what that is, but it says
Speaker 1: that those also pose a really really high risk. I
Speaker 1: mean again, I can't relate not somebody that enjoys fireworks.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't mind them as far as like
Speaker 1: on Fourth of July night, I'm ptty sure our neighborhood's
Speaker 1: going to probably have a good little setup to where
Speaker 1: there'll be a few houses throughout the neighborhood that'll that'll
Speaker 1: spend their money and burn their money for us to enjoy.
Speaker 1: So thank you. My kids will enjoy it, and then
Speaker 1: you know, it'll probably be a thing to where they're
Speaker 1: just gonna stay. They're gonna want to stay out there
Speaker 1: all night and watch and hey, if there's one night
Speaker 1: to do it, it would be on fourth of July.
Speaker 1: But are you is your neighborhood You've been in your
Speaker 1: house for a few years now, John, are they Is
Speaker 1: it been a common thing where the neighbor the neighborhood? Uh?
Speaker 1: They did? They go all out. There's people lightening fireworks
Speaker 1: off last weekend, which oh, I mean people have been
Speaker 1: lighting them off all all week long and last week
Speaker 1: here and there. But on the night of it, like,
Speaker 1: is it a big deal or oh yes, yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: The dogs hate it and that's just you know, par
Speaker 1: for the course, but you got to deal with it.
Speaker 1: This is our third year in our house where we're
Speaker 1: at now. I think the first year we're actually out
Speaker 1: of town. But last year I realized that there are
Speaker 1: many in my neighborhood that really go all out, and
Speaker 1: so much so that people just show up and like,
Speaker 1: park this and take it in. So stay safe, everybody,
Speaker 1: because again, uh, a fifty two percent increase in er
Speaker 1: visits due to fireworks last year. Let's hope that goes
Speaker 1: down this year. All right, we've got an update of
Speaker 1: traffic and weather coming your way right here right now
Speaker 1: and news radio waight forty WHS. I would imagine that
Speaker 1: those that were in a position of influence when it
Speaker 1: comes to sports betting becoming legal in many many states
Speaker 1: here in America, they were well aware that with this
Speaker 1: you're going to have, I mean it was it's inevitable
Speaker 1: that you will have some level of misuse, meaning players
Speaker 1: betting on their own games. And we've had many stories
Speaker 1: throughout the early years here of the sport, because when
Speaker 1: I go back to twenty sixteen, that's when I first
Speaker 1: started working at iHeart here on the sports side of
Speaker 1: things and sports gambling. At that point, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was legal in many places other than like Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And then within a few years it started to become
Speaker 1: legal in certain states, and then Indiana of course had
Speaker 1: it first. But what I'm getting at is it used
Speaker 1: to be something that just the you wouldn't even mention
Speaker 1: it like it was. It was viewed as just, you know,
Speaker 1: so morally wrong. And now it's it's within the content
Speaker 1: of sports. Banduel has their own network that you watch
Speaker 1: NBA in Major League Baseball games on the big leagues
Speaker 1: here in sports are in bed with these sports betting companies.
Speaker 1: And I'm not complaining. I love bet I love sports betting.
Speaker 1: But what I'm getting at is they just had to
Speaker 1: realize that there was going to be some people that
Speaker 1: don't follow rules, and you have to know that going
Speaker 1: in when you make the decision, Yes, we're going to
Speaker 1: make it legal, and we're also going to you know,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be against the rules for pro
Speaker 1: sports teams to be in business with the sports books.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can bet on sports while at stadiums now.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it exploded in recent years. So anybody
Speaker 1: thinking that there would be no one that abuses this
Speaker 1: is just insanely naives. So I bring that up to
Speaker 1: say that it had to come down to, okay, holding
Speaker 1: those accountable that do in fact break the law and
Speaker 1: of course compromise the integrity of sports. And I think
Speaker 1: the best example of that thus far is John say Porter,
Speaker 1: the NBA player who was clearly in bed with a
Speaker 1: gambling ring, and he had a gambling addiction, and he
Speaker 1: was he was knowing what his player props were set
Speaker 1: at and trying to cook the books and make money.
Speaker 1: So that's a course. Now he'll go to federal prison.
Speaker 1: He's been banned from the NBA for life. Like that
Speaker 1: is the example. That's an example that should remind these
Speaker 1: professional athletes that if you do this, you'll get caught
Speaker 1: and it'll ruin your life and your livelihood. And I
Speaker 1: even if there wasn't an example of that, meaning Johntay Porter,
Speaker 1: I just don't. I've done many dumb things in my life,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure I'll do more dumb things moving forward.
Speaker 1: I'll do some dumb things today, but I can't think
Speaker 1: of a stupider decision to compromise everything you have over
Speaker 1: maybe winning a parlay. Now it does seem as if
Speaker 1: the NBA players who do who you know? Because the
Speaker 1: latest is that Malik Beasley, who is coming off a
Speaker 1: pretty good season with the Pistons, he is now being
Speaker 1: investigated for when he was in Milwaukee with the Bucks
Speaker 1: and he's being federally investigated by the US District Attorney's
Speaker 1: office for gambling on NBA games and prop bets that
Speaker 1: he played in that featured him. So it happened in
Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty four, and I mean it's wild
Speaker 1: to go back and see people pull the video clips
Speaker 1: of these games and it's not direct proof, but yeah,
Speaker 1: seems to check out that he knew he needed one
Speaker 1: more point, he knew his team needed four points two
Speaker 1: minutes left, and he's playing with desperation that nobody else has.
Speaker 1: Because I mean, again, there's no proof, but it certainly
Speaker 1: looks suspicious in a major way. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just maybe he's got money issues, because oftentimes there
Speaker 1: are athletes that that simply just don't know how to
Speaker 1: use their money. And maybe these guys are gambling because
Speaker 1: they see that as a way to make up for
Speaker 1: money that they've blown, because they realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: when you make a lot of money in the NBA,
Speaker 1: Uncle Sam's gonna get a lot of that, your agent's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of that if you've got child
Speaker 1: support situation. So again, regardless even if that's the case,
Speaker 1: like how you've you potentially lose your ability to bring
Speaker 1: in high level revenue to potentially get yourself out of
Speaker 1: a financial jam because you know you're gonna end up
Speaker 1: in federal prison. I just I cannot think of a
Speaker 1: dumber thing that. I mean, again, I guess there it's
Speaker 1: not violent crime, but it's just so it's such a
Speaker 1: self sabotage. I mean, it is just so self destructive
Speaker 1: of your entire life, and it's so avoidable, and the
Speaker 1: I guess risk reward is just it's very much, so
Speaker 1: it's just not worth it. But again, I think sometimes
Speaker 1: when these stories and they're not good stories, trust me,
Speaker 1: it's not a good look. But I think the risk
Speaker 1: was worth taking as far as saying, yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: bring sports gambling into being a billion dollar industry and
Speaker 1: we'll know there'll be some bad stories along the way,
Speaker 1: but we just hold those accountable and it still ends
Speaker 1: up being in that positive And I still am there.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, if you are somebody dumb
Speaker 1: enough to do this kind of stuff, gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: be made an example of, and it probably won't even
Speaker 1: be looked at as an example, it'll just be that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you do something like this. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got trafficking weather coming up, another update on sports,
Speaker 1: and then Royo O'Neal of NBC News set to join
Speaker 1: us at eight thirty Right here on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whs. We're wrapping things up here on Kentucky Anda's
Speaker 1: Morning News on news Radio eight forty whas. I was
Speaker 1: expecting a very very small crew in the office today
Speaker 1: because if you've got some vacation to use, this is
Speaker 1: a good week to use it, because of course the
Speaker 1: fourth of July holiday on Friday. But we've got a
Speaker 1: full crew here. Mister Terry Miners is in the studio
Speaker 1: early this morning because he's here going to be joining
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge on his show. So maybe I now know
Speaker 1: that if I throw an invitation to Terry, he may
Speaker 1: come in. Although he's also here from three to six.
Speaker 1: He's actually here a lot longer than that doing his show.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's always nice to see mister Terry Miners.
Speaker 1: And we were discussing during the break there something that
Speaker 1: we brought up earlier in the show. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you guys were with us at that time, but
Speaker 1: that was through an open records request and this was
Speaker 1: from WKYT in Lexington. They obtained Vince Merrill's resignation to
Speaker 1: the University of Kentucky, which came via text message. And
Speaker 1: the more I think about it, I think quitting your job,
Speaker 1: and I guess resigning of your position. I guess that's
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing, but it's probably still a
Speaker 1: rare thing. I mean, I think you could even like
Speaker 1: you could even you could even leave on bad terms,
Speaker 1: and I just think it wouldn't even be of thought
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, this is me saying I'm quitting because
Speaker 1: I'm text messaging. So I don't know, maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 1: out of touch. I've never I mean i've left jobs before.
Speaker 1: Most of most jobs I've left. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: every job I've left was on was on good terms
Speaker 1: for the most part, and it wasn't through. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you resigned via text message, doesn't that mean you're
Speaker 1: not honoring any kind of two week notice? And clearly,
Speaker 1: with Vince Marrow's role, I mean, that's not a typical
Speaker 1: job where you would honor any kind of notice. And
Speaker 1: it's also it's all there's no great way to depart
Speaker 1: there unless you're retiring and writing off into the sunset.
Speaker 1: Marrow left to take a job at the rival school,
Speaker 1: so text message. He could have sent a letter, he
Speaker 1: could have emailed, he could have done the face to face.
Speaker 1: It still would have been received. With probably the same
Speaker 1: type of reaction that it was received with I lied.
Speaker 1: Not every job have I left on good terms or
Speaker 1: at least left with a formal hey, I'm letting you
Speaker 1: know that I'm leaving that kind of thing. It was
Speaker 1: my first job. Do you remember the story John, wasn't
Speaker 1: it with finish Line? I worked a finish line for
Speaker 1: a while and that was a good gig. I left
Speaker 1: there on good terms. But it was Hollister Hollister. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: so my first job. When people ask me my first job,
Speaker 1: I rarely ever think of this because I only worked
Speaker 1: there for a few hours because I got hired. And
Speaker 1: I remember it was really awkward because I just stood
Speaker 1: and folded shirts and then would unfold them and fold
Speaker 1: them and just stand there as people would walk in,
Speaker 1: and I had to ask, have you heard how good
Speaker 1: our genes fit? And at that point I did it
Speaker 1: for maybe an hour an hour and a half. It
Speaker 1: took a long bathroom break because I was avoiding having
Speaker 1: to do it because it was just awkward, very cringe
Speaker 1: and I remember I got my break and I called
Speaker 1: my mom and I called my mom and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, can I quit? And she was like it's
Speaker 1: your first job, you just started, And somehow I was
Speaker 1: able to convince her to allow me to leave, and
Speaker 1: I never came back. And what I don't know is
Speaker 1: if anybody ever actually took me up on it and said, actually, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know how great your genes fit. Can you
Speaker 1: tell me? I don't know what I would have said,
Speaker 1: but I said it to two different people, and then
Speaker 1: after the second, the second person I said it to
Speaker 1: just kind of like walk by. I'm like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing this. So then I ended up at another
Speaker 1: retail position where I worked at finish line, which was
Speaker 1: which was better not great. Retail wasn't fun for me,
Speaker 1: But yeah, have you I don't And I don't even
Speaker 1: know how good the genes fit there. What was your
Speaker 1: first job?
Speaker 2: Construction?
Speaker 1: Of course you're a blue collar man.
Speaker 2: I almost blew up fifteen people with dynamite. Well, I
Speaker 2: taught myself on fire and I fell off a scaffolding.
Speaker 1: Did they fire stories?
Speaker 2: No, because I was still alive.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yes, I had an adventure, you know, I worre construction.
Speaker 2: First time out. I was I was pumping water out
Speaker 2: of this place they needed water out over onto Uh dinamite.
Speaker 2: You know, ID drill those holes and the water. The
Speaker 2: water can set the caps off, which can set the
Speaker 2: dynamite off. How old were you seventeen?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I bet that was an experience to say the least.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm thinking like, what if you to what
Speaker 1: if you had hurt yoursel? I mean like it's oh, yes,
Speaker 1: well I fell off a scaffold.
Speaker 2: The scaffold fell on top of me, and my foreman
Speaker 2: was a former World War Two sergeant, and instead of
Speaker 2: going are you okay? Do we need to call ambulance?
Speaker 2: He goes, you dumb stuff, blahah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Did how long did you work there? A little like
Speaker 1: half a year?
Speaker 2: Then I went to college.
Speaker 1: That made you realize you wanted to give college a trial? Right?
Speaker 1: You do it?
Speaker 2: Because I looked out we were raking gravel, and I
Speaker 2: looked into the guy and he asked me how old
Speaker 2: it was. I said seventeen. I thought he was sixty.
Speaker 2: He goes, I'm thirty eight, and he looked sixty. And
Speaker 2: that's when my brain went, oh, ain't I ain't working outside?
Speaker 1: So I I realize just now. I never actually got
Speaker 1: my paycheck for the two and a half hours I worked.
Speaker 1: You think I showed up today and say, hey, you
Speaker 1: owe me money. I wonder if they I doubt they
Speaker 1: have it. Oh, there's some old dude out here that
Speaker 1: says we only money. I mean it was really do
Speaker 1: you know what Hollister is? Yes? It was very loud,
Speaker 1: and are they still open?
Speaker 2: Didn't they isn't at the place where the guys would
Speaker 2: stand out there shirtless and spray.
Speaker 1: People with you to go shirtless? But I had the
Speaker 1: long blonde hair.
Speaker 2: Would you have gone shirtless back then?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I mean absolutely, Uh, but you know I
Speaker 1: had to just stand there awkwardly. And have you heard
Speaker 1: how good jeans fit? I mean, how cringe is that
Speaker 1: you should buy it? But it never dawned on me
Speaker 1: that if somebody would have said, well, actually, no, I'm
Speaker 1: interested to hear how do they fit? I don't know
Speaker 1: what I would have said. They didn't. So that's why
Speaker 1: I quite it was im they didn't train me properly.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's something weird about telling another guy that
Speaker 2: he looks good in jeans?
Speaker 1: Oh it was. It was It was guys and girls
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. I mean, next, we up, Next, we're late.
Speaker 1: See you