WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.759 Good morning Kentucky and a six oh five here on 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.639 news Radio eight forty WHAS It's Kentucky and his Morning 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.160 News with Nick Coffee. The full crew is here. Thank 4 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:11.839 you John Shannon once again for another great news update. 5 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.720 Also John Alden alongside the Johns are here as well 6 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:17.640 as Scott Fitzgerald and again myself. Don't forget to take 7 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:19.320 us with you wherever you go. You can listen live 8 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:23.480 on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at whas dot com. Also, 9 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.879 you can use the talkback feature to chime in and 10 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:29.960 share really whatever it is that you want with us 11 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.960 with us this morning. All right. So, one of the 12 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.840 big stories I think so far this summer in sports 13 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:42.759 here locally is the Vince Marrow Kentucky departure in him 14 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.039 ending up at Louisville and I, John, you can help 15 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:48.799 me out here. Wouldn't you say that this wouldn't be 16 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:54.759 Mark Stoop's Losing Vince Merrow really under any circumstance to 17 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.759 any other job would be a blow. It would be 18 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:00.719 a bad look because he's the fan favorite within Big 19 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.840 Blue Nation, meaning Vince Marrow, just because he's he's kind 20 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:05.480 of almost like I don't want to call him mask. 21 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.359 I don't want to call him the mascot because that's 22 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:09.680 it sounds like I'm insulting him. But I mean, he's 23 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:13.159 very visible within their program. He's kind of a hype 24 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.599 man as showman, if you will. And he didn't just leave. 25 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.319 He left to go to Louisville, which is kind of crazy. 26 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.519 But John, have you seen how he let the folks 27 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.680 at the University of Kentucky know that he was leaving. 28 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:26.760 I have not seen this. 29 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:32.280 No, So this uh to me, this is this is 30 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.079 this is kind of a bad look. However, I maybe 31 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.239 there's really no good way to go about it when 32 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.120 it comes to you leaving a job and it clearly 33 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:42.519 going to be public and it's going to be a 34 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.280 big story. But he let them know through text messages. 35 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:46.519 Oh man. Yeah. 36 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.159 So Lindsey Goff, who is a sports anchor at w 37 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:55.519 WKYT in Lexington, she did an open records request to 38 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:00.280 obtain the resignation letter from Vince Marrow and through the 39 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:05.319 open records request, she was given how he informed his 40 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:08.400 employer at the time that he was leaving. And it 41 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.479 wasn't through any letter or an email, it was through 42 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.199 a text message. And yeah, it was UK Deputy Athletics 43 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:19.240 Director Mark Hill who got the text message from Vince 44 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.520 Marrow and this came the same day that U of 45 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:28.360 L announced Marrow's hiring, which what I would love to know, 46 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.759 And maybe I'll reach out to Lindsay to ask because 47 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.599 I do think. I mean, it's not worth anything now 48 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.879 it's over, he's at Louisville and you know, it really 49 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.759 doesn't matter. But I guess more for my curiosity, there's 50 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:46.159 a big difference in when it was announced that he 51 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.120 was going to be going to Louisville. That was that 52 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:50.240 was Pete Thamil who broke that news, but it was 53 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.120 days later that it became official where they announced it 54 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.080 via press release at the University of Louisville. So maybe 55 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.039 it's just a formality because when it was broke by 56 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.680 Pete Fammeil, that's when it really became real. I guess 57 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.360 there's a difference here and really you know that it's happening, 58 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.159 and then the final acknowledgment of it being official has 59 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.080 got to be the press release. But anyhow, this is 60 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.400 what he said to this is it? Yeah, this was 61 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:21.319 Thursday at ten fifty seven am. Let me know when 62 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:26.240 we can chat about moving on car, any devices and keys, 63 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:31.520 et cetera, all the things that was that was sent. 64 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.360 I'm sorry that was sent by the Deputy Athletic Director 65 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:40.639 Mark Hill. And then later Vince wrote K just K 66 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.840 that was his response, and then he later said, hey, Mark, 67 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.520 today is my last day at UK. Thanks for everything. 68 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.439 I bet he put t X four the number four 69 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.439 and then EVR why I just as short as possible. 70 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:54.840 It is how he did it. 71 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:57.159 It says thanks, let me know when you want to 72 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:02.159 get your Ford expedition to my house. So yeah, whenever, 73 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.800 whenever you end up moving on from a from a job, 74 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.840 I mean, how you do it, I don't think is 75 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.319 necessarily I mean it's important. But I'm trying to give 76 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.399 Vince mayor a little bit of benefit of the doubt 77 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.240 here because there may have been some conversations that that 78 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:26.160 that took place that you know, this was instead of 79 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:28.199 just telling him, like if you said it via phone, 80 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.439 maybe maybe the Athletic department at the University of Kentucky 81 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.240 they need some level of like documentation and just word 82 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.720 of mouth via a phone call. Maybe that doesn't do it. 83 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:39.000 So maybe there maybe this was the official way of 84 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:41.959 of you know, documenting this process of him moving on, 85 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.639 and because he wasn't bought out, it wasn't as if 86 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.319 his contract was broke because he's not coming to Louislle 87 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.279 to be in on the field staffer. As far as 88 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.480 a position coach, he's he's the director and I don't 89 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:54.959 know his exact title, don't have it in front of me, 90 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.879 but director I think of player development, recruiting, that kind 91 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.439 of stuff. So yeah, he let him know via text message, 92 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.079 and you know, that's that's I don't know. Part of 93 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:07.920 me says that's not the way to go about it, 94 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.399 but sometimes there's no good way. I mean, he's he 95 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.000 could have gone about it in the most professional way possible. 96 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.800 We could have asked all the AI platforms to, hey, 97 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:19.959 give me the best way to break up with my employer. 98 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:22.879 I want to do it with the most class and integrity. 99 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.560 The fact that he left to go to Louisville would 100 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.240 have made none of that matter, I think. But yeah, 101 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:33.079 the big dog broke up via text message. Yikes, And 102 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.920 you're probably right. There probably was a THHX there, John, 103 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.279 I could see that all right. We got an update 104 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.399 of trapping a weather coming your way. Also, what I 105 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.160 want to get to coming up here on the other side. 106 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:45.319 I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and 107 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.680 not only has it not changed, it's getting worse, gotten worse. 108 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.279 The majority of our headlines here in Louisville regarding violent 109 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.959 crime or with juveniles children. And I know the question 110 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.959 everybody's asking, where where are the parents, who who's respond 111 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:04.079 unstable for these young children that are shooting each other? 112 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.839 And I don't have the answer to that, but I 113 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:08.319 have a theory that I want to run BIA. So 114 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:09.759 we'll get to that next right here on Kentucky and 115 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:11.839 it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight 116 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.959 forty whs. It is six seventeen here at Kentucky. Anda's 117 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.199 Morning News with Nick Coffee on NewsRadio eight forty whas. 118 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:28.319 So it's it's I think become a real unfortunate growing trend, 119 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:31.240 and that is that one violent crime here in Louisville 120 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.120 continues to happen, but it continues to be either the 121 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:39.680 victim or the perpetrator being not just juveniles meaning under 122 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.160 the age of eighteen, but a twelve year old girl 123 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.480 yesterday turned herself in joining a thirteen year old girl 124 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.079 charged in a Louisville shooting that injured two teenage girls. 125 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.519 And again, juvenile crime has surged in Louisville and at 126 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:58.120 a sad and scary rate. I mean, you had a 127 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:00.839 shooting in the Russell neighborhood that was at the end 128 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:05.079 of May, and that was that was That's what this 129 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.079 whole case is about. It's two teenage girls were found 130 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.120 with non life threatening injuries and gunshot wounds and hospitalized. 131 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.720 And now we know that a thirteen year old girl, 132 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.040 she was arrested last week charged with two counts of 133 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.199 first degree assault, and then Monday, a twelve year old 134 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.639 girl turned herself in facing two counts of first degree 135 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:25.439 assault complicity. So this ties in with Over the weekend, 136 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.680 three juveniles were arrested by LMPD fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen 137 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.399 year old and they were linked to a bunch of 138 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:37.279 burglaries across Louisville. And also you had a drive by 139 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.319 shooting in mutual that was I believe on June twenty second. 140 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.240 It left a fifteen year old girl and a seventeen 141 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.959 year old boy injured, and a seventeen year old male 142 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.519 juvenile was arrested and charged with two counts of assault 143 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.279 in connection to that incident. So it's it's scary as 144 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.360 can be, regardless of the age. It's these are things 145 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.439 that you I was, they don't want happening. And if 146 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.199 I had the answer of the solution to how to 147 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.560 limit this stuff, you know again, I wouldn't be sitting 148 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.519 here yapping on the radio. And obviously nobody wants this 149 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.199 going on. But I know a lot of people who 150 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.199 just go about their life every day. They get up, 151 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.439 they go to work, they try to provide for their family, 152 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.720 they keep up with the news, but obviously it's sometimes 153 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:23.519 just background noise. This is the kind of background noise 154 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.959 that will get your attention. A twelve year old girl 155 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.079 has turned herself in for being an accomplice in the shooting. 156 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.759 I mean easily, these these two teenage girls that were 157 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.840 that were shot, could have been killed. So I mean, 158 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.840 this is this is I'm at a loss for words 159 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.840 because what else can you mean? What can you say? 160 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:47.679 It's awful, it's it's unthinkable. But a lot of people 161 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:49.759 who I think are you know, your average jos that 162 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.879 are just you know, living their life, trying to make 163 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.519 ends meet. If they've got children, they're just thinking, well, 164 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.759 where are their parents. Who's raising these kids, And that's 165 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.320 a fair question. Clearly, not having good guidance at home 166 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:06.000 is probably a factor to this in a major way. Now, 167 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.600 you can also have a good mentor in your home 168 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.320 and somebody that does everything that you're supposed to do 169 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.759 and does the best they can as far as keeping 170 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.200 their children from being exposed to violent crime and of 171 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.360 course letting them be a part of violent crime. And 172 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.960 you know, sometimes it's just you know, you can be 173 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.000 the best parent ever and your kids can be bad apples. 174 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:29.240 But what I think is this is not there are 175 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.600 clearly young individuals here in the community that do not 176 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.519 have good role models. They don't have good parents in 177 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:36.639 their home. They don't have somebody to set an example. 178 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:41.960 And that's awful, but that's not new. That's been a 179 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:45.799 thing for unfortunately a long time generations. There have been 180 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.200 young children that don't have good parents in their life 181 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.039 to set an example. But now it seems as if 182 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.840 they don't have really anybody. Maybe or maybe they do, 183 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.279 but I'm telling you, when it comes to just people 184 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.159 in the community that may we don't even have kids 185 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.879 that would volunteer time to be mentors in their area. 186 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.080 Where they know kids are out running the streets without 187 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.080 somebody to set an example. I mean, maybe we don't 188 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.639 have as many of those people as we used to. 189 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.720 I don't know what it is, but the surge in 190 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:22.919 violent crime with children in Louisville is alarming. All Right, 191 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.039 We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way. Also, 192 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:26.720 we'll get an update on sports. It's Kentucky and it's 193 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.559 Morning News with Nick Coffee right here on News Radio 194 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:34.080 eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon. It 195 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.240 is Kentucky and it Morning News with Nick Coffee. I 196 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.759 can't confirm what he said is true. I am Nick Coffee, 197 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.279 and again this is Kentucky and his Morning News. Be careful, everybody. 198 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.559 We've got the month of July off to a very wet, 199 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.960 wet start, which has led to some real traffic issues. 200 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.159 We'll get the latest from Bobby Ellis coming up here 201 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.799 in about five minutes. However, it looks as if in 202 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.320 the last hour we've had an accident on I sixty 203 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.879 four eastbound a Ninth Street, which is blocking the right lane, 204 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.519 and also the accident on I sixty four eastbound and 205 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.879 Hurstbourne blocking the left lane. And also it looks as 206 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:12.919 if the yes, there's an accident at sixty five northbound 207 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.639 at Crittin Drive blocking the left lane. And I'm looking 208 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.519 at some visuals here at the five oo two traffic 209 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.000 social media account and a lot of a lot of 210 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:27.879 wet roads, dark skies and cars not moving. It looks 211 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.679 like there's now a crash that has taken place on 212 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.639 I sixty four east bound at the second street bridge 213 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.480 that has the right lane blocks. So stay safe. It's 214 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.440 a sloppy morning, and again we're gonna have showers expected 215 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.679 and storms throughout throughout the morning here. 216 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:43.639 All right. 217 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.559 So that story that you just heard there in John 218 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.759 Shannon's news update about the father who heroically jumped into 219 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.799 the Atlantic Ocean to save his daughter after she fell 220 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.799 from a from a Disney cruise ship, I cannot imagine 221 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.639 being in that guy's position. I mean, again, he's a hero, 222 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.879 but how do you how do you snap back? Do 223 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.519 you ever snap back to normal after experiencing something like that? 224 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.759 So it took place on a Disney Dream cruise from 225 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.240 the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale. As the girl fell from 226 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.799 deck four into the Atlantic Ocean. Her father took action. 227 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.679 I'm sure instincts took over. I would imagine there was 228 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.480 no moment of giving any kind of thought of what 229 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.000 should be done, who should I call? He just jumped 230 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.519 in and tried to savor and fortunately he was successful, 231 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.480 says They treaded water for about twenty minutes. The ship's 232 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.519 crew issued a man overboard alert and deployed a lifeboat, 233 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:40.759 and of course they were both rescued successfully, and there 234 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.639 were passengers there that of course recorded the whole thing. 235 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:48.519 And again what a miracle that this that this ended 236 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:53.679 up not leading to both of them drowning and dying. 237 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.639 So there were there was there were plexiglass barriers in 238 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.360 place for safety, but it's clear how the young girl 239 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:07.480 fell fell overboard. And I mean this is within a 240 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.759 few days after we were talking about cruises, so was 241 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.840 it late last week we were talking about going on cruises. 242 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.200 I'm I'm anti cruise more than anything because I have 243 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.480 a phobia of being on water where I can't see land, 244 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.799 and that that that is, that that has let me 245 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.399 know that I'll never go on a cruise in my 246 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:28.960 life because pretty sure that's the majority of your time 247 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.440 at sea, you don't see anything. Uh So I've never 248 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:35.000 been someone that has any has had any interest just 249 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.919 because of me, not because you know, I don't think 250 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.320 it'd be fun. I just not my kind of thing. 251 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.480 And when I hear a story like this, all it 252 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:47.559 does is make me more content in my my my 253 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:51.440 status on cruises for me individually. I mean, I've seen 254 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.559 videos and I don't know. Sometimes it's it's AI creation 255 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.559 and it just looks very real. But there's been some 256 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.360 videos that have surfaced and even if it's not real, 257 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.240 to see what it would look like if maybe water 258 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.200 got real rocky and you're I mean you got it 259 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:07.840 scares the hell out of me. John. 260 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.240 If you've been on a cruise, I've not. I'm not 261 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:15.200 as opposed to it as maybe you are, buts I 262 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:16.120 have my reservations. 263 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:21.440 Yeah, I I've always and again I think maybe everybody 264 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.200 before they go on a cruise has a little bit 265 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.240 of reservation, because there are many that will. In fact, 266 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.279 most people who I talk to about a cruise, they'll 267 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.600 go out of their way to say, oh, you don't 268 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.639 even you don't even know you're on the water. Yeah, 269 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.399 it's like you're on another you know, another country. 270 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.639 I'm more so worried that I would get seasick. I 271 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.159 think that's my biggest issue with it. 272 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.679 Yeah, and I would have. I mean, maybe I'm wrong again, 273 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.559 I've never been, but I think if you if you 274 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.639 end up going on a cruise for let's say, I 275 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.879 don't know, a week, I mean, if you don't take 276 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:56.200 any kind of medication to help prevent you from getting seasick, 277 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.320 I guess you can see yourself lucky. Or maybe it's 278 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.720 you know, I know my my mom and my stepdad 279 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.080 have been on many cruises. They love it. 280 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:04.639 Uh. 281 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:06.879 My friends. In fact, I have a friend as we 282 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.759 speak that is on a cruise, UH with his family, 283 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.200 and they tried to get us to go, and it 284 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.200 I feel bad because you know, we like and we 285 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:16.759 like traveling with them, and our kids are really close 286 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.519 with their kids, and they're they're they're great, great friends. 287 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.480 And it's my buddy who I've known for no joke, 288 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:24.320 thirty years. But you know, I was the reason that 289 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.960 we didn't we didn't take this vacation because you know, 290 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.879 I just know that I wouldn't. I mean, I'd survive, 291 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.279 but I would be you know, I'd be terrified. And 292 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.600 I know what people are thinking. I want a whimp. 293 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.200 You'll get you'll you know, you'll be fine, Like you'll 294 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.440 you'll realize it's nothing, and like you may be right. 295 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.799 But I don't have here. I am as a man 296 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.679 admitting to you, I don't have the courage to at 297 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:47.679 least test it out, because, uh, I can just see 298 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.440 me having a panic attack and calling nine to one one. Oh, 299 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.519 I can't call not on one, there's no cell service. 300 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.360 Send the helicopter to get me, to get me out 301 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:59.200 of here. Also, when I went to Cabo a couple 302 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.120 of years ago, I witnessed one of the cruise ships 303 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:04.919 and this is what they do, and it's actually really convenient, 304 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.240 but it was another reminder, yeah, I'm content on not 305 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.360 going on cruises. It was where you kind of like, 306 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.600 I don't know how, you like repelled down off the 307 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.840 side of the cruise ship. In some way you're safe, 308 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.360 but you get on like a little many boat and 309 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:21.879 they take you so like the cruise doesn't dock, but 310 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:23.559 they'll come and get you if you want to go 311 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.799 to the town wherever they're close to and like do 312 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.399 excursions and stuff, and just that whole thing scared the 313 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:32.840 hell out of me. But again I'm in the minority. Clearly, 314 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.120 cruise ships and cruises are very popular. But yeah, how 315 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.720 about that Dad. I mean again, I'm sure he's just 316 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.320 counting his blessings that his daughter's safe and they're both safe. 317 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.320 But I don't know. I mean, there's no way he 318 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:46.000 snapped back to reality at after such an experience like that. 319 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.519 But again, that could have been tragic. But Dad's a hero. 320 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.039 All right. We've got another update of traffick and weather 321 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.799 coming your way right here, and again pay attention to 322 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.000 the weather, to the traffic updates, folks, and weather too, 323 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.919 by the way, because we got a sloppy start that's 324 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.440 led to a lot of accidents here in the Kentucky area. 325 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.399 It is consuckyated. It's Morning News with Nick Coffee on 326 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:08.119 News Radio eight forty whas Mayor Greenberg is set to 327 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.720 talk a little later on this morning, I believe at 328 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:15.079 ten or eleven. In regards to the recent attempted street 329 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:19.319 takeovers in Nulu, it was the Highlands last month and 330 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.440 now we've got I guess three straight weekends where in 331 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.519 Newlu there have been attempts to take over the streets. 332 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.480 It's led to a lot of police presence where they've 333 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:32.119 got to intervene some businesses I believe have shut down 334 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.880 and hotel entrances were blocked, which of course can be 335 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.519 problematic to say the least. So I do think the 336 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:42.279 last few weeks of sniffing it out early, meaning LMPD, 337 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:46.200 either relying on tips or just being savvy and knowing 338 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:47.880 where it's going to take place and shutting it down 339 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.160 before it gets to being super chaotic, that I think 340 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:53.599 is a positive sign that it's not led to it 341 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.559 getting out of hand. But I just think resources being 342 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.599 utilized by law enforcement every week to be on alert 343 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.279 of it tempted takeovers. I mean, that's not sustainable. So 344 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.119 we'll hear from Mayor Greenberg a little bit later on 345 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.440 Today it's five forty seven here Kentucky in this morning 346 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:13.200 news on news Radio eight forty whas I think Caitlyn 347 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.359 Clark has well. First of all, I'll just say this 348 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.680 because I'm itching to shere a sports opinion, because I 349 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.359 don't do that whole lot anymore. But I think Kaitlyn Clark, 350 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.519 as of right now is the best women's basketball player 351 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.640 that I've ever watched, and she could stop playing today 352 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.079 and I would believe that. And obviously, when it comes 353 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.799 to accomplishments. I mean, she's in her second season as 354 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:36.960 a pro, so the accomplishments wouldn't be there, and they 355 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:39.400 may not be right. Who knows how many w NBA 356 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:43.640 titles she wins, or if she even wins one at all, 357 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.160 or if the WNBA exists in years I mean, it 358 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.880 probably will. But my point is I just I've watched 359 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.880 her play enough and she is She's special, which is 360 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.720 why she is one of the most talked about athletes 361 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.079 in the world, regardless of gender and regardless of sport. 362 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.200 That's not how purble, that's not an exaggeration. I don't 363 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.000 care who you are. If you don't know who Caitlin 364 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:05.720 Clark is. As far as just hearing the name and 365 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.559 knowing who people are talking about, you must be living 366 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.759 under a rock. And by the way, as I say that, 367 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:16.279 I'm looking at Woky and they're talking about her right 368 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.319 now because she's worthy of news because she has that 369 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.640 much she just commands that much attention, and it's just 370 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.240 rare for a women's basketball player to have this type 371 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.319 of fame and it's just something I've never seen before. 372 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:32.200 And again, I think there's a variety of factors. One 373 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:37.880 because she's so good. But to see that the WNBA players, 374 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.839 when it comes to the All Star voting, they have 375 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:46.119 I guess they've got fan voting, media voting, and then 376 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.839 player voting. That is how you get your weighted score 377 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.039 as far as the w NBA All Stars, and she 378 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.440 was number one in fan vote, which shoudn't surprise anybody, 379 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.799 but she was ninth in player voting, and that's at 380 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:02.240 her position. And if that doesn't can mean I don't 381 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:08.880 believe that. In fact, it's laughable that professionals, grown ups 382 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:14.640 are filling out this ballad as players. Meaning I don't 383 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:16.279 know if it's done online or what it is, but 384 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.079 they can't with a straight face tell you that they 385 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:23.279 believe she's the ninth best guard in the WNBA. So this, 386 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:28.599 to me confirms what I have unfortunately been witnessing for 387 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.400 for a little while now, the delusion that exists within 388 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:35.640 the WNBA. I mean, that's that's flat out delusion, And 389 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.240 I don't believe that they believe it, but their inability 390 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:44.559 to just acknowledge that this superstar has given you exposure 391 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:47.240 that you would have never received had it not been 392 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.640 for her just being this special. You don't need to 393 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.400 kiss her rear end. But the jealousy is just, oh, 394 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.680 it is showing, and it's just it's it's hilarious because 395 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.319 here's klen Clark could leave the WNBA starter her own 396 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.720 league and it would instantly be more successful than the WNBA. 397 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:05.480 And that's really not anybody's fault. I don't think the 398 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:08.720 WNBA collectively does itself many favors as far as growing 399 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.880 the game, but I couldn't. I was speechless when I 400 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:16.440 saw that the peers of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA 401 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.920