Speaker 1: Happy hump Day, Kentucky Anda. Welcome in to a Wednesday
Speaker 1: edition of Kentucky Anda's morning News. Coffee and Company here
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty w h as the whole
Speaker 1: cruise Here myself, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden, and
Speaker 1: John Shannon. We have, as symboled to give you four
Speaker 1: hours of what you come to expect, news, traffic, weather,
Speaker 1: hopefully some good information, maybe some nonsense along the way
Speaker 1: and fellas. I don't know if the thunder was as
Speaker 1: loud and disruptive overnight as it was for you guys
Speaker 1: where it's compared to where it was for me. But
Speaker 1: people who don't have the alarm clocks set as early
Speaker 1: as we do, they might have. They might have been
Speaker 1: woken up by the thunder this morning. It was. It
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty ferocious.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's sorry, boss. My wife was up.
Speaker 3: I heard her up this morning. The storm started just
Speaker 3: before I left the house, at least that's the ones
Speaker 3: I heard. And then I heard her up wrestling around too.
Speaker 3: She gets anxious when the storm's hit, and.
Speaker 1: So my kids do as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, John, I was already I was getting ready to
Speaker 3: feed the baby once once the storm started, so they
Speaker 3: didn't wake me up, but they kind of kept me
Speaker 3: from going back to sleep after the fact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't any real loud, humongous boom of thunder,
Speaker 1: but it was just the rolling thunder kind of consistent,
Speaker 1: and for a while it was raining pretty hard once
Speaker 1: I got Once I got on the way, since I
Speaker 1: hit sixty five, of the rain had kind of stopped.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the storms were really active all throughout the night.
Speaker 1: I got up in the middle of the night, which
Speaker 1: middle of the night for me is now like midnight,
Speaker 1: which is crazy, but that's just you know, the adjustment.
Speaker 1: And it was already it was already raining pretty good
Speaker 1: out out my way. So we'll get you caught up
Speaker 1: on the forecast coming up here shortly. Also with rain,
Speaker 1: of course, that means there may be some more accidents
Speaker 1: than usual, So Bobby Ellis will get us a check
Speaker 1: on the traffic coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to start by letting you all know
Speaker 1: and letting Scott Fitzgerald know that I have a new
Speaker 1: level of respect for Scott, which is tough to say
Speaker 1: because I've already had a lot of respect for him.
Speaker 1: But you showed up yesterday forgetting your cell phone.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that was That was the worst, dude.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it before or the show started, and
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about it, and I just remembered
Speaker 1: earlier this morning because I left mine in my car
Speaker 1: and then had to just walk, make the walk right back,
Speaker 1: so from the I got to almost the elevators, so
Speaker 1: I didn't make it far and then I had the panic,
Speaker 1: am I gonna do what Scott did yesterday? And luckily
Speaker 1: when I got back to the car and my phone
Speaker 1: was my phone was there, it was all good. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you had to have been anxious and just
Speaker 1: going through withdraws not having your phone, and I know
Speaker 1: you're probably not glued to your phone the way I am.
Speaker 1: And I say that because I'm I mean, I have
Speaker 1: an issue. I will we use the word addiction. I
Speaker 1: think way too loosely about things, but I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm addicted to my phone.
Speaker 3: I was well, and it's eff And I know when
Speaker 3: I don't have my phone, first, when I don't feel
Speaker 3: it in my pocket, and then I look at my
Speaker 3: phone and my Bluetooth isn't connected or in my car,
Speaker 3: then I'm like, oh, and that's when the heart dropped.
Speaker 2: And you're at that point where you're on your way
Speaker 2: to work, you're too far.
Speaker 1: So you made it too far before you realize exactly you're.
Speaker 2: Too far before you have to go back home. And
Speaker 2: and I think I told.
Speaker 1: You, I'm not sure there's a too far for me, right.
Speaker 3: The worst thing for me was I always having And
Speaker 3: we get to a point in the show where I've
Speaker 3: done all I can do for one day and that's okay,
Speaker 3: that's a good place to be.
Speaker 2: That means we've got things done.
Speaker 3: But I was going so I jump on TikTok and
Speaker 3: I started scrolling through that one.
Speaker 2: I was having TikTok.
Speaker 1: Withdraw just because the scroll. I'm sure, what is TikTok
Speaker 1: for you? Could be Facebook for others exactly. It's just right,
Speaker 1: it's just how we're wired, and it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's probably not a good thing, I know, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe as I've come to grips with the
Speaker 1: fact that I have an addiction that I'm probably not
Speaker 1: going to shake, maybe I'm just trying to normalize it
Speaker 1: because I know we're not alone as far as just
Speaker 1: being attached to our phones, but I feel like ten
Speaker 1: years ago, maybe five, six years ago, if someone would
Speaker 1: have left their phone at home, it would have been
Speaker 1: an easier decision to say, Okay, I'll be all right,
Speaker 1: I'll ride it out. I'll send an email when I
Speaker 1: get to work to let my her husband know that
Speaker 1: I don't have my phone whatever. But now I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think each year that passes, we
Speaker 1: become more attached to them. And then look, there's some
Speaker 1: people who when it comes to their workday tasks, maybe
Speaker 1: half of what they do is just things they could
Speaker 1: They've just come to do on their phone because exactly
Speaker 1: the ability.
Speaker 3: To well, I have to authenticate, like if I want
Speaker 3: to log if I'm away from the studio and I
Speaker 3: want to jump a good point, some of the software
Speaker 3: I have to authenticate on my phone.
Speaker 1: Without that device, you wouldn't have been able to get in.
Speaker 2: So I had, so I found myself email.
Speaker 3: It's like when you used to move and you did
Speaker 3: change of address cards, Like I'm emailing everybody that I
Speaker 3: know that contact.
Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, I don't have my phone, so that's
Speaker 2: all you can do. That's what I realized. How much
Speaker 2: I text during this Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I think just being unreachable, knowing that you know,
Speaker 1: it's not that, it's not that we just assume that
Speaker 1: everyone at all times is trying to contact us, but
Speaker 1: knowing that if they did, there'd be no way. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't get it. It's just a it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a weird feeling. I look, if it was me, I
Speaker 1: would have been fine. I would have I would have
Speaker 1: made it. I would have been able to let my
Speaker 1: wife know like it would not. I would have been
Speaker 1: just fine as far or is just like being able
Speaker 1: to do my job, being able to have a normal day,
Speaker 1: But like I would have been in my own head
Speaker 1: so much about not having it, and that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to not have a phone for a
Speaker 1: day and just go through it cold turkey and realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't need to be so connected to it. But
Speaker 1: I thought about it this morning. I was thinking because
Speaker 1: I wouldn't it would be an exaggeration to say that
Speaker 1: I had a panic attack. But that walked back to
Speaker 1: my car, that was probably fifteen yards I was. I
Speaker 1: was in full panic mode, like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: don't have my phone. What I'm gonna do? What I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I have. My wife past I
Speaker 1: was gonna to bring it to me. She's got to
Speaker 1: take day off work, Like, there's no way I can't
Speaker 1: have my phones.
Speaker 2: Well, I guarantee you this.
Speaker 3: When I walked out of the house this morning, I
Speaker 3: made sure I had and I've done that with my lunch.
Speaker 2: You forget your lunch one day, man, You're like, especially
Speaker 2: if you're close to a payday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you forget your lunch. You're like, you'll never forget
Speaker 3: your lunch again. So anyway, yeah, good stuff, man.
Speaker 1: We all have our phones today, Yes, sir, We're not
Speaker 1: gonna have panic attacks, but good stuff. Let's get a
Speaker 1: check of traffic and weather again. It's a Wednesday ed
Speaker 1: issue of Kentucky and This Morning News with Coffee and
Speaker 1: Company right here on news radio waight forty whas. So
Speaker 1: we have another update on what happened on Sunday at
Speaker 1: the Exposition Center as far as the chaos that ended
Speaker 1: up being nothing but certainly a scary situation for everyone there,
Speaker 1: those at Kentucky Kingdom and of course those at the
Speaker 1: run for the Roses basketball tournament. And the latest update
Speaker 1: that we got yesterday is an update that we don't
Speaker 1: really know what happened, and we may never know what happened.
Speaker 1: So during the show yesterday, I got a couple of
Speaker 1: messages from someone on Twitter and someone on Facebook that
Speaker 1: was sending me the ceiling of the Exposition Center and
Speaker 1: insinuating that how could a ceiling tile falling have caused that?
Speaker 1: There's no ceiling tiles here, which, judging by the picture,
Speaker 1: is correct. There's no tile like, that's just not what
Speaker 1: the ceiling looks like. That's not how it's how. It's
Speaker 1: just not really possible, I suppose. So sure enough, Maya.
Speaker 1: Greenberg had a press conference yesterday discussed seeing many things,
Speaker 1: including that what was said by LMPD was simply not
Speaker 1: what happened. In fact, I'll see if I can get
Speaker 1: the quote here, but yeah, he says that the report
Speaker 1: by police that a ceiling tile fell and hit a
Speaker 1: metal chair prompting the false active aggressor incident at the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Exposition Center was quote not accurate information that did
Speaker 1: not happen. So they still have no clue what I
Speaker 1: guess really caused it, and they may never know. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like that actually did happen, but it was
Speaker 1: a long time ago. So this is just a good
Speaker 1: example of how misinformation can really spread like crazy. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is apparently there was an
Speaker 1: event a basketball tournament years ago at the Exposition Center
Speaker 1: where a ceiling tile fell and caused something to happen.
Speaker 1: What that was, I don't know, but maybe somebody referenced
Speaker 1: that ran with it, or maybe somebody referenced that he
Speaker 1: thought they were talking about. And just like I would
Speaker 1: love to know, just for a social experiment, as far
Speaker 1: as how does how does that end up becoming what
Speaker 1: everybody just assumes happens? And it's not super important as
Speaker 1: far as just how how it ended up becoming just
Speaker 1: what everybody assumed happened. I guess the honest answer is
Speaker 1: because LMPD told us that's what happened. As far as
Speaker 1: where they got mixed up, I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna be probably something we never fully know.
Speaker 1: And my you know, if I had to, if I
Speaker 1: had to to give you a way to kind of
Speaker 1: wrap this whole story up, it's just a sign of
Speaker 1: how we as a society here in America know that
Speaker 1: that could happen. I mean, you know what if in
Speaker 1: fact there, we still don't know as far as what
Speaker 1: led to it truly turning into the mad dash to
Speaker 1: get out of there and to find your loved ones
Speaker 1: because of the chaos and the fear that there was
Speaker 1: an active aggressor. I mean, I just it's probably maybe
Speaker 1: one person panicking because of something we don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, and then everybody just kind of ran with it. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say the other the alarms going off that
Speaker 1: clearly was that contributed to people assuming that something something
Speaker 1: was wrong, because again there was the fire alarm did
Speaker 1: go off inside parts of the building, and that triggered
Speaker 1: that was triggered by a duct sensor, a duct smoke censer,
Speaker 1: I should say, but that that system only alerts for smoke,
Speaker 1: no other emergencies. But people that are there don't know that,
Speaker 1: so it's probably gonna end up being a mystery. LMPD
Speaker 1: has now acknowledged that they may never pinpoint what caused
Speaker 1: the initial panic, but of course have emphasized how quickly
Speaker 1: fear of a shooting can can spark that kind of chaos.
Speaker 1: LMPD chief Paul Humphrey said, quote, it frustrates me the
Speaker 1: fear of active shooter incidents is so prevalent a moment
Speaker 1: of confusion could create chaos. This should not be the
Speaker 1: norm in America. Amen. He also went on to praise
Speaker 1: the fast response from his officers, who of course believed
Speaker 1: there was a real threat. So it's a mystery, and
Speaker 1: again I think, turning into what it turned into, there
Speaker 1: were a lot of factors, but one is just that
Speaker 1: people are fearful of that because it happens way too often.
Speaker 1: Any time it happens is too often. But clearly it's
Speaker 1: not that uncommon anymore. All right, let's get a quick
Speaker 1: update of trafficking weather with Bobby Ellis. He'll tell us
Speaker 1: how the road ways are looking early this morning. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll get the updated forecast from Matt Melosovich. Scott will
Speaker 1: be back in with sports, and we got to talk
Speaker 1: about this Epstein stuff. There's no doubt in my mind
Speaker 1: that right now the MAGA crowd, and I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: still plenty that are going to support Trump and never
Speaker 1: criticize anything, and look, if that's what you want to do,
Speaker 1: knock yourself out. But there's now more noise from that
Speaker 1: crowd than I've ever heard as far as just being
Speaker 1: disappointed and almost dumbfounded that Trump is handling this Epstein
Speaker 1: stuff the way that he is, I mean, clearly not
Speaker 1: able to read the room, it seems. All right, don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere, don't move, stay with us right here. It's
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Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So the Epstein situation is the Epstein files. I should say,
Speaker 1: it's it's wild, I mean, and there's a couple of
Speaker 1: different ways to attack this this morning. As far as
Speaker 1: just it being a continuous talking point, we'll get into
Speaker 1: sort of Trump's seeming. I mean, I don't want to think,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that he has an inability
Speaker 1: to read the room. I mean, I think he does
Speaker 1: on this situation. But you got to wonder who who's
Speaker 1: telling him that nobody cares. Because it's one thing for
Speaker 1: him to say that he doesn't care and that other
Speaker 1: people shouldn't care. But I think he genuinely, genuinely thinks
Speaker 1: that no one at all is wanting transparency on that situation,
Speaker 1: and he's very much wrong. Now again, I'm not acting
Speaker 1: as if everyone is upset with the way he's handled
Speaker 1: it and maybe surprised that he doesn't understand that this
Speaker 1: is a big deal and people do want the transparency.
Speaker 1: But clearly there seems to be more noise coming from
Speaker 1: the Magacide than ever as far as just being surprised, disappointed,
Speaker 1: maybe even angry, as far as just him not being
Speaker 1: able to read the room, and also continue it's one
Speaker 1: thing to just say that you don't care, but he's
Speaker 1: saying nobody cares, and then he's also saying things like
Speaker 1: it's fake news. And I just have a hard time
Speaker 1: thinking that he believes that. But what do I know.
Speaker 1: I can't read his mind, and I mean maybe he does.
Speaker 1: Maybe he just is that out of touch with with
Speaker 1: with what Americans care about. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie and be a phony and act
Speaker 1: like I'm losing sleep at night because we're not going
Speaker 1: to get transparency. I mean, do I think we we are?
Speaker 1: I mean, what's what's ever wrong with being transparent about
Speaker 1: some things? And I do think this is a touchy
Speaker 1: or situation because there could be people involved that would
Speaker 1: be listed on something that would maybe have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with anything that Epstein and that crew were involved in.
Speaker 1: And you don't want to, you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: to risk somebody's livelihood because of that. But to just
Speaker 1: handle it the way they've handled it, like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to see here, I mean, that's that's almost
Speaker 1: insulting the intelligence of people. I mean, who would I mean,
Speaker 1: especially the way in which it was handled for soul
Speaker 1: long prior to this, right, I mean, the accusation that
Speaker 1: this was created by by Obama and who else did
Speaker 1: he blame it on? Biden and those people and it's
Speaker 1: fake news. Well that was the case and there and
Speaker 1: they did it to try to bring you down. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't they release it? And if there's nothing, if these documents,
Speaker 1: these files don't exist, then then what was the how
Speaker 1: did you investigate? How how were how did how did
Speaker 1: Epstein go to trial and get convicted and sent to
Speaker 1: federal prison? If if nothing happened, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's wild. And then you had a brief moment yesterday
Speaker 1: where it sounded as if Okay, there's enough pressure, there's
Speaker 1: enough heat, they are going to really something different than
Speaker 1: what we got last week from the DJ, and then
Speaker 1: that as of late last night, it didn't appear that
Speaker 1: was the case. So we'll see, because I don't this didn't.
Speaker 1: This didn't going away as far as people just you know,
Speaker 1: asking about it, and I don't mean just everyday American citizens.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to continue to be pressed by this,
Speaker 1: and my guess is that he's going to continue to
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to act like it's no big
Speaker 1: deal and that nobody cares and just hope that it
Speaker 1: goes away.
Speaker 4: President. I know you've urged people to move on, but I'm.
Speaker 5: Curious, why do you think your supporters in particular have
Speaker 5: been so interested in the Epstein story and so upset
Speaker 5: about how it's been handled.
Speaker 4: Why do you think that is man? Why they would
Speaker 4: be so interested. He's dead for a long time, he
Speaker 4: was never a big factor in terms of life. I
Speaker 4: don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is.
Speaker 4: I really don't have the credible information has been given.
Speaker 4: Don't forget we went through years of the Mullo wood
Speaker 4: hunt and all of the different things to steal dossier
Speaker 4: which is all fake. All that information is think but
Speaker 4: I don't understand why the Jeffrey E. F Se case
Speaker 4: would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff.
Speaker 4: It's shorted, but it's boring, and I don't understand why
Speaker 4: it keeps going. I think, well, really, only pretty bad people,
Speaker 4: including fakedus, want to keep something like pictord like that
Speaker 4: joint but incredible information. Let him give it anything it's credible,
Speaker 4: I would say, let them have it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a wild response, which is saying something
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. I mean it's almost as if he
Speaker 1: doesn't know what Jeffrey Epstein was accused of and ended
Speaker 1: up being convicted of sex trafficking children. I mean, like
Speaker 1: it's it's wild. So who knows what we end up
Speaker 1: finding out, if anything, But this is not going away
Speaker 1: as far as people just demanding, and their demands probably
Speaker 1: will fall flat because I guess we're not entitled to
Speaker 1: it as far as just transparency. But the biggest issue
Speaker 1: is that you could run with this as being nothing
Speaker 1: if it wasn't something that. I mean, there's an interview
Speaker 1: jd Vance did with THEO Vaughn not that long ago,
Speaker 1: that meeting probably right before the election, that where he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's hammering release the files. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: what why? Why not? What changed? So anyways, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that coming up with Rory O'Neal and about
Speaker 1: four minutes, but let's get an update on the traffic
Speaker 1: and weather right here at Kentucky and is Morning News
Speaker 1: with Coffee and Company on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Happy hump day, Kentucky. And it is Kentucky and is
Speaker 1: Morning News with Coffee and Company here on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. And it's time to bring in Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neal of NBC News. Rory, I gotta I gotta start
Speaker 1: with something that has just been a continuous talking point
Speaker 1: and really just ramping up overnight and maybe even as
Speaker 1: we speak. Donald Trump's handling of the the Epstein situation
Speaker 1: as far as just seemingly not believing that anyone cares,
Speaker 1: and certainly if there are people that care, he thinks
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. I mean, nothing really surprises me anymore. But
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's able to read the room here. Well.
Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting though some of the leading voices
Speaker 5: in the MAGA movement seemed to be ready to move on,
Speaker 5: or at least say they are and won't bring it
Speaker 5: up again. We heard from Charlie Kirk sort of saying, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm ready to move on. But to your point, a
Speaker 5: lot of people were just really having these questions about transparency, saying, hey,
Speaker 5: I thought you were the transparent president. What's going on here?
Speaker 5: And I think that's that's the bigger concern, is that,
Speaker 5: you know, we were promised this, We were promised openness
Speaker 5: and transparency and this is not that, not at all.
Speaker 1: And Charlie Kirk he he doesn't trust the government when
Speaker 1: it comes to vaccines, healthcare, war spending, but on this
Speaker 1: he's oh, yeah, I trust my government, which was you know,
Speaker 1: seems a little inconsistent there. And there's also some allegations
Speaker 1: that maybe those influencers on on that side have have
Speaker 1: maybe received some phone calls to to maybe help help
Speaker 1: the help Trump and his team out.
Speaker 5: But certainly, and it certainly it puts the Attorney General,
Speaker 5: Pam Bondi in an interesting spot. Absolutely, she had the
Speaker 5: binders out first. She brought in the influencers rather than
Speaker 5: mainstream media right to release those binders that turned out
Speaker 5: to be nothing burgers. But yeah, she sort of and
Speaker 5: they were Phase one, clearly labeled there on the binders
Speaker 5: Phase one. So we never got phase two and apparently
Speaker 5: we never will.
Speaker 1: Roy On Neil, the NBC News is our guest joining
Speaker 1: us here on News Radio eight forty whas nearly one
Speaker 1: in four credit card holders apparently don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to ever get out of that credit card debt, and
Speaker 1: that of course has led to Americans downsizing summer vacation
Speaker 1: plans and just really it's not great right now when
Speaker 1: it comes to the economy. What kind of issues right
Speaker 1: now do you feel like Americans are really just struggling
Speaker 1: the most with as far as things that keep them
Speaker 1: up at night.
Speaker 5: Well, right, you know, we had the inflation report that
Speaker 5: came out yesterday showed inflation ticked up a little bit
Speaker 5: in certain areas with the highest and four months not
Speaker 5: sounding alarm bells. But this is before we get some
Speaker 5: new tariff policies taking effects. Something to watch, and if
Speaker 5: we're seeing an increase in inflation, that means the Fed
Speaker 5: is probably less likely to lower interest rates, which is
Speaker 5: what a lot of people are hoping for, especially those
Speaker 5: first time home buyers who are feeling priced out of
Speaker 5: the marketplace. There's a report out from walle Hub looking
Speaker 5: at the best and worst markets for home buyers. The
Speaker 5: worst markets they're all in California, city by city, La
Speaker 5: Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Monica number three hundred
Speaker 5: on the list, Berkeley, California dead last. The best places
Speaker 5: for first time home buyers number three, Tampa, Florida, Number two, Boise, Idaho,
Speaker 5: Number one, Palm Bay, Florida. They're saying there's a lot
Speaker 5: more affordability and a lot more new homes being built,
Speaker 5: so adding to inventory, making it an ideal place for
Speaker 5: first time home buyers.
Speaker 1: One more for you rory. When it comes to the
Speaker 1: telephone ringing, most people, I assume still pick it up
Speaker 1: and say hello. However, there are youngsters that now have
Speaker 1: just I guess, grown up differently to where they expect
Speaker 1: the caller to speak first, which sounds insane to me.
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe I'm getting on the older side
Speaker 1: where I can't relate to the younger crew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick, you are showing your age.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: This is a gen Z thing out there.
Speaker 5: Apparently they just pick up the phone and listen, so
Speaker 5: they think if you called, you should initiate the conversation.
Speaker 5: Part of this may be because of all the robo
Speaker 5: calls out there, right, all those spam calls, you know,
Speaker 5: because as soon as you say hello, the computer starts talking,
Speaker 5: and there's that way concern, right, or they're concerned about
Speaker 5: the recording your voice and stealing your ID. I laugh
Speaker 5: too that gen Zers in particular will have a whole
Speaker 5: series of text messages about when they can set aside
Speaker 5: five minutes for a phone call.
Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me as much as the answering the
Speaker 1: phone and just sitting in silence waiting for somebody to speak.
Speaker 1: And again, the only time I've ever done. That is
Speaker 1: when I just assume that it is somebody that is
Speaker 1: waiting for you, don't sit there for thirty seconds sometimes
Speaker 1: and that it's the indication that, yeah, there's nobody there
Speaker 1: until you speak, and then they're prompted to say hello,
Speaker 1: how are you right?
Speaker 5: Right? So it's fascinating. Well, look, we've only had the
Speaker 5: word hello is a recent phenomenon, right in in terms
Speaker 5: of Humanity's only something we've been doing for one hundred
Speaker 5: years or so. So it's interesting to see how it
Speaker 5: may be changing among the next generation.
Speaker 1: You're right, I'm showing my age. There's no doubt about it. Rory,
Speaker 1: thank you as always, put the time, enjoy your day,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, that's where we nailed NBC News. I cannot
Speaker 1: relate to that. I mean, but again, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things the younger generation. We talked about it the
Speaker 1: other day. If if you FaceTime me, I'm considering no
Speaker 1: longer being friends with you. And that's how a lot
Speaker 1: of the younger people, that's just that they don't text anymore.
Speaker 1: When from phone calls to text and now it's just
Speaker 1: like I'm going to FaceTime somebody while I'm in my
Speaker 1: car when I'm walking walking down the street. It's just
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm getting older. I guess. All right,
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