Speaker 1: Happy hump Day, ladies and gentlemen. Wednesday is upon us.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky at his morning news here on news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company Nick Coffee. That's me,
Speaker 1: the company MANA John All on the alongside. And the
Speaker 1: mystery as far as what really happened at the Exposition Center,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to go down as
Speaker 1: one of those mysteries that people here in Louisville talk
Speaker 1: about for a long time. But it is not a
Speaker 1: stretch at all to say that if you were there,
Speaker 1: it probably will stick with you forever. I just everybody's different.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of thing that, despite everything being
Speaker 1: okay and we still not knowing exactly what led to
Speaker 1: it turning into what it turned into there with just
Speaker 1: mass chaos, I'd be highly shocked if there's anybody that
Speaker 1: throughout their life won't remember that, even if it's thirty
Speaker 1: years from now, just because I would imagine for most
Speaker 1: people it was hopefully the first time they were in
Speaker 1: a situation where they were they were fearful that there
Speaker 1: was an active aggressor maybe somebody with a gun. But yes,
Speaker 1: the story about a ceiling tile falling and hitting a chair.
Speaker 1: That is not accurate, as Mayor Greenberg said, but also
Speaker 1: apparently there was a situation long ago where that did happen,
Speaker 1: but somehow there was some confusion and that misinformation spread
Speaker 1: and that's really not surprising to stay and age. But
Speaker 1: I'll always wonder what I mean, because it may just be, well, hey,
Speaker 1: there was the fire alarm going off because of the
Speaker 1: smoke duct. I think that's what it was. That's what
Speaker 1: initially led to the alarm, and that could have just
Speaker 1: led one person assuming the worst and maybe reacting vocally
Speaker 1: that that was what was going on, and then everybody
Speaker 1: just assumed it. And my biggest takeaway at this point
Speaker 1: as far as what we know, is that it's just
Speaker 1: a sign that people now know that that's not a
Speaker 1: crazy thing that you would just assume is not happening
Speaker 1: because of how often that those things, unfortunately have happened.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just again, the good news is that everybody's okay.
Speaker 1: There was never really any real threat. Nobody showed up
Speaker 1: with a gun, none of that happened, but it's certainly
Speaker 1: led to a real scare for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and I'm hopeful that it doesn't impact the run for
Speaker 1: the Roses basketball tournament moving forward, If people do you know,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, do their homework, it's not even
Speaker 1: doing homework. If people just pay attention to the story
Speaker 1: and see it for what it is, they should not
Speaker 1: look at Louisville as a city that should shouldn't be
Speaker 1: hosting this. In fact, I mean again, it's not an
Speaker 1: ideal situation anyway around. But I think it was great
Speaker 1: to see law enforcement first responders show up the way
Speaker 1: they did, and it's nice to know that they were
Speaker 1: there and ready. But fortunately they didn't need to be
Speaker 1: ready for anything because it wasn't wasn't a real threat.
Speaker 1: All right. Sometimes when I see news that that I
Speaker 1: know is worth sharing with you guys on this show
Speaker 1: that is Kentucky and it's morning news, it's it's not
Speaker 1: I mean, it's news, but it's not meaning. It's not surprising.
Speaker 1: So when I tell you guys that right now there's
Speaker 1: an update from this study that says most Americans are
Speaker 1: stressing out over money, I'm not breaking news for you.
Speaker 1: Guys probably knew that I'm probably talking to you, and
Speaker 1: everybody's financial situation is different, and you can stress over
Speaker 1: money and it doesn't mean that you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to make your mortgage payment. But it's clear
Speaker 1: that things cost a lot of money right now, and
Speaker 1: the amount of money that you're making has probably not
Speaker 1: gone up a whole lot. I mean, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure again others are not in that situation where
Speaker 1: maybe they have had a financially life changing kind of situation.
Speaker 1: But not a surprise in any way that most Americans
Speaker 1: say they are anxious about money. The new survey here
Speaker 1: from Northwestern Mutual found that nearly seventy percent of people
Speaker 1: asked we're feeling anxiety and depression of our financial uncertainty.
Speaker 1: That's an eight percent increase from twenty twenty three. As
Speaker 1: for money making, let's see. As for money making, people
Speaker 1: feel sick. Foreign ten Americans say that financial worries have
Speaker 1: made them feel physically ill. I mean, I can't say
Speaker 1: that it's ever made me physically ill, but money worries
Speaker 1: and financial stress has always been a real thing and
Speaker 1: always will be. But I think what's happening now is
Speaker 1: that everything is costing. Everything costs more money, right I mean,
Speaker 1: inflation is a real thing. It even went up in June,
Speaker 1: and yet you're not getting raises at work. A lot
Speaker 1: of people aren't. I'm sure there are some that are.
Speaker 1: But here's what really is scary to me is I
Speaker 1: know people who have have said, look, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't keep doing this for what you're paying me for.
Speaker 1: You know, you clearly know that I'm now maybe struggling
Speaker 1: because you haven't bumped my salary in any way, and
Speaker 1: it's quite clear that everything, the cost of living has
Speaker 1: gone up, and you clearly don't value my worth. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave. And leaving for a new job
Speaker 1: without or leaving your current job without a new job
Speaker 1: is a real risk, and it has always been, but
Speaker 1: right now, I mean, I know people that have left
Speaker 1: the job in an industry that is one that you
Speaker 1: know you wouldn't have a tough time typically finding employment,
Speaker 1: but they're having a tough time finding employment, especially one
Speaker 1: that is comparable to what they were making before, and
Speaker 1: certainly finding a job that'll pay you more than what
Speaker 1: you're making elsewhere. It's possible, but I just I think
Speaker 1: I think employers out here are challenging you. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not going to pay you any more money, and
Speaker 1: if you want to leave, you can, and then you're
Speaker 1: learning the hard way that that's just kind of where
Speaker 1: we are right now with the economy. And I know
Speaker 1: everybody's job and financial situation is different, but I hope
Speaker 1: that changes at some point, because it's quite clear the
Speaker 1: rise in cost has been here for a while and
Speaker 1: it's not slowing down, and the amount of money people
Speaker 1: are making from their employer, at least a lot of them,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be to be rising at the
Speaker 1: same level, which again is a real concern. Hopefully there's
Speaker 1: some relief along the way. All right, let's get an
Speaker 1: update on traffic and weather. Bobby Ellis will get a
Speaker 1: squared away as far as how the roadways are looking
Speaker 1: here on a wet Wednesday, we'll get the latest forecast
Speaker 1: from Matt Melosovich, and keep this thing rolling along. It
Speaker 1: is Kentucky. It is Morning News with Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: right here on News Radio eight forty Whas. I always
Speaker 1: say that I'm not one for conspiracies, but maybe I am.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm developing into somebody that will see things and
Speaker 1: just assume there's some some conspiracy associated with it. Because
Speaker 1: clearly the fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk that's
Speaker 1: been well documented in recent months and wild when you
Speaker 1: consider how they were. They were pretty pretty good, buddy,
Speaker 1: seemingly certainly during the election and the lead up to
Speaker 1: the election, and now not so much so. When I
Speaker 1: open up the platform that is X that is owned
Speaker 1: by Elon Musk, maybe maybe he's he's working something within
Speaker 1: that algorithm formula within his platform that that has nothing
Speaker 1: but tweets. I guess X posts is what we call
Speaker 1: them now. It's just it's just people complaining about Trump
Speaker 1: and how he's handling the Epstein files. And it's not
Speaker 1: just your everyday average joes. It's people that clearly identify
Speaker 1: as big time Republicans that probably label themselves in the
Speaker 1: MAGA world. And all my feed has been for the
Speaker 1: last I don't know, roughly twenty four hours. Every time
Speaker 1: I check, it's just nothing but a wave of posts
Speaker 1: from people questioning Trump as far as just his inability
Speaker 1: to read the room here not understand that he's just
Speaker 1: wrong when he says that nobody cares, and he continues
Speaker 1: to say that, but there has been a slight shift
Speaker 1: as far as he's no longer saying I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess he's still saying it to an extent, but now
Speaker 1: it's more so that people shouldn't care. And this is
Speaker 1: what he had to say yesterday. And I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: some that say, well, yeah, he's right, and everybody's making
Speaker 1: a big deal about nothing. But there's many, including those
Speaker 1: that I think used to probably believe they'd never find
Speaker 1: themselves as bothered by Trump as they are right now
Speaker 1: with this situation. But this was from yesterday, yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2: President, I know you've urged people to move on, but I'm.
Speaker 3: Curious, why do you think your supporters in particular have
Speaker 3: been so interested in the Epstein story and so upset
Speaker 3: about how it's been handled.
Speaker 4: Why do you think that is why they would be
Speaker 4: so interested. He's dead for a long time. He was
Speaker 4: never a big factor in terms of life. I don't
Speaker 4: understand what the interest or what the fascination is. I
Speaker 4: really don't have the credible information has been given. Don't
Speaker 4: forget we went through years of the Bolo Wood hunt
Speaker 4: and all of the different things to steal dossier which
Speaker 4: is all fake. All that information would take. But I
Speaker 4: don't understand why the Jeff we FC case would be
Speaker 4: of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. It's shorted,
Speaker 4: but it's boring, and I don't understand why it keeps going.
Speaker 4: I think, well, really, only pretty bad people, including pay us,
Speaker 4: want to keep something different like that, but incredible information.
Speaker 4: Let them give it anything it's credible, I would say,
Speaker 4: let them have it.
Speaker 1: So bad people, those who like fake news, those are
Speaker 1: the people who want who want transparency. In regards to
Speaker 1: the Epstein files, I mean, what where do we start?
Speaker 1: Can't read the room clearly just wrong? And are you
Speaker 1: serious with that comment there at the end. By the way,
Speaker 1: a Rismussen report, the survey here shows that the majority
Speaker 1: of voters remain skeptical about the FBI and the DOJ's
Speaker 1: investigation in to Epstein. And yeah, fifty six percent of
Speaker 1: voters reject the findings of the Epstein investigation. Only forty
Speaker 1: four accept them. And I think that nowher's going to
Speaker 1: continue to grow because at every turn they're giving they're
Speaker 1: giving folks more fuel to just look at this situation
Speaker 1: and say you're withholding something, this is a cover up
Speaker 1: for someone, and really it's inconsistent. I mean, you had
Speaker 1: jd Vance going on with THEO. Vaughn not that long ago,
Speaker 1: and laughing about it as if he can't wait to
Speaker 1: release the files and then now, yeah, nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't make a lot of sense. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to Rory and a little more about it coming
Speaker 1: up around eight thirty. But let's get a check of
Speaker 1: the traffic out there with Bobby Ellis, We'll get Mamlosa
Speaker 1: Bitch's forecast, and then sports with Scott Fitzgerald. Right here,
Speaker 1: it's Kentucky and his Morning News with Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: on news RADIOA forty whas. Well done. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: this one from John Alden, but well done. It is
Speaker 1: Kentucky and this Morning News. You're a news radio way
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick Coffee, Tony, Ben Eddie alongside before we
Speaker 1: hand it off to Tony and Dwight. This song is great.
Speaker 1: It is what what era are we talking here?
Speaker 2: Eighty three, eighty two something like that. I was in
Speaker 2: high school.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, Adie Davis, I I envy you experiencing
Speaker 1: that era that I did not experience.
Speaker 2: Listening to this on the way to a mixer.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. I mean again, you can't call it nostalgia
Speaker 1: because I didn't actually experience it. But there there's an
Speaker 1: actual there's an actual word for it that that I
Speaker 1: wouldn't remember even if you said it that you you
Speaker 1: feel like it's nostalgia, but you also know that it
Speaker 1: can't be because you didn't actually experience it. It's like
Speaker 1: a time that you, I guess so much wish you
Speaker 1: could have experienced. That's me in the eight for the eighties.
Speaker 1: I mean I was born in eighty eight, but I
Speaker 1: have a memory of that of that era.
Speaker 3: Yeah, best era, right, Yeah, Jens is the first generation
Speaker 3: just won't let it go. We think the nineties were
Speaker 3: five years ago, and all you got to do is
Speaker 3: go to Facebook and look at the pictures of the
Speaker 3: moms with the two kids, and the two kids are
Speaker 3: like standing there with their arms on their side and
Speaker 3: like gym shorts and moms in a short skirt shooting
Speaker 3: the peace.
Speaker 2: Sign, going what's up?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: I who's the children? As the parent?
Speaker 1: That's one thing that really hits me as far as
Speaker 1: my age is when I realized how long ago the
Speaker 1: nineties was. Because when I see this is every time,
Speaker 1: it never, it never doesn't just stop me in my
Speaker 1: tracks momentarily when I see the date, how old you
Speaker 1: have to beat a baboose and to know that that
Speaker 1: it's it's too you know, we'll take thousand and four.
Speaker 3: White and Eye are the same age as the girls
Speaker 3: on The Golden Girls.
Speaker 1: Meaning when that show is on. Yes, don't tell me that.
Speaker 2: Yes, don't tell me you are you are? No, you're
Speaker 2: older than I am.
Speaker 1: No, I'm like the younger neighbor.
Speaker 2: Who are you mistaken for all the time, Sammy Hagar?
Speaker 2: How old is Sammy Hagar? No, he's mistaken from seventy six?
Speaker 1: So young and handsome son.
Speaker 2: Prosecution, rest your honor.
Speaker 1: That's what he's. That's what That's what I always hear.
Speaker 1: People around town have been saying, he listen, Hagar's son,
Speaker 1: So listen.
Speaker 5: I don't care.
Speaker 2: Whatever gets me to retirement closer.
Speaker 1: Let me be old, Yeah, to be able to retire
Speaker 1: with the way the economy.
Speaker 5: Is, yeah, you kid, I need a shock, tequila, coffee
Speaker 5: and water.
Speaker 2: What a person to be around in his retirement.
Speaker 5: And my wife of course, I don't need much out.
Speaker 1: I just worry about what everything looks like when I
Speaker 1: get to retirement age. I'm I'm I'm far away, you guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, this conversation is turned into me realizing I
Speaker 1: need to cherish my time with you. You guys have
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, Dwight looking like somebody in his seventies.
Speaker 2: You really should because something.
Speaker 1: The Golden Girls think totally trip totally.
Speaker 2: Totally ages the girls. Yeah, Mick, you really hit on something.
Speaker 5: You should cherish your time because Tony and I won't
Speaker 5: always be here to ask you to get coffee for it.
Speaker 1: That's right, and I'll and I'll share all things for it.
Speaker 1: We'll cherish those coffee runs and and other things along
Speaker 1: the way. All right, So the the Emmys, I'm now
Speaker 1: looking at the the full list of the candidates here,
Speaker 1: the nominees and most of.
Speaker 5: These shows, I may step out of the room because
Speaker 5: this is one of the biggest events for me, the
Speaker 5: Emmys and the Oscars and anytime millionaires can pat each
Speaker 5: other on the back. Okay, I don't want you to
Speaker 5: run it, so I'm gonna go to the studio.
Speaker 2: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say that.
Speaker 5: Thank you know what, I'm sure this will be exciting radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna mention, how when did it get
Speaker 1: to all of the shows being streaming platform shows?
Speaker 3: Well, don't they double dip. They're up for Oscars and
Speaker 3: they're up for Emmys. Yeah, Emmys is television.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking here. It says the Emmy nominations for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and it's the fullest. This is from
Speaker 1: today dot Com and it's his best lead actor in
Speaker 1: an anthology series or movies. So I guess maybe you
Speaker 1: can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, streaming counts then yeah, but you look at it again.
Speaker 1: When I think of new shows to watch, even if
Speaker 1: it's on a network like FX. They've got a show
Speaker 1: called The Bear that's really populard. I couldn't I couldn't
Speaker 1: get into it.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I think it's on but it's FX.
Speaker 1: But Hulu and FX it's from the same parent company.
Speaker 1: So I mean the days of watching a TV show
Speaker 1: on Thursday night every week, Yes, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it now sounds ancient to know that you can DVR
Speaker 1: it and still watch it at a different time, But
Speaker 1: I guess we're not that far removed to where if
Speaker 1: you if you wanted to watch something, it was appointment,
Speaker 1: you had to make the appointment you or maybe you
Speaker 1: could get your VCR out and recorded that.
Speaker 3: We think about the Thursday night lineup with Seinfeld Friends Er,
Speaker 3: it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Tgif for me it was Family Matters, step by Step,
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World, that was And again, if I wasn't
Speaker 1: in front of my TV in the basement when I
Speaker 1: was nine years old, I wasn't gonna see it.
Speaker 2: No, uh no.
Speaker 3: So there's good and bad to both all of it.
Speaker 3: But you know, and now people always want to complain, right,
Speaker 3: So then you get the they.
Speaker 2: Only drop one a week, I want to binge watch it.
Speaker 1: And that did hit me really hard the first time
Speaker 1: because I didn't realize that was a thing, and I
Speaker 1: just felt like, wait a second, I need the payoff.
Speaker 1: I think the first show I watched was on Amazon
Speaker 1: or Apple TV where they did that. They gave you
Speaker 1: four episodes and then it was weak. I looked, well,
Speaker 1: now there's endless shows, endless content. You can let them
Speaker 1: complete the series and then binge them. There are shows
Speaker 1: that I know I wouldn't have Not only would I
Speaker 1: not have stuck around if it was a week by
Speaker 1: week thing, I don't think I would have enjoyed it
Speaker 1: the same. I couldn't binge it.
Speaker 3: And then you bail on some early you watch episode
Speaker 3: of two and you go, I can't do this.
Speaker 1: And you know you're fine with moving on because there's
Speaker 1: something else from Did you watch Severans on Apple TV?
Speaker 3: I watched two episodes and then we went on to
Speaker 3: something else. I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I love season one. Season two was good. It's one
Speaker 1: of the more popular shows as far as the nominees.
Speaker 1: That White Lotus, The Studio White Lotus another one that
Speaker 1: like it was fine. But if I can't get into
Speaker 1: a show at the same level other people are into it,
Speaker 1: I kind of just move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And sometimes when they were really difficult and weird, like Severance,
Speaker 3: where you need a book on the side to keep up.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll just admit it. There's a certain show I'm
Speaker 1: not smart enough for chip up with. I'm just not.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'll admit it. All right, we're out of here.
Speaker 1: Tony and Dweight are coming your way right here, right
Speaker 1: now on news Radio Weight forty whs