Speaker 1: Good morning Kentucky. Aah, welcome in. It is Kentucky Anda's
Speaker 1: Morning News with Coffee and Company here on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas a Tuesday, August the twelfth, and we've
Speaker 1: got the full team here once again, myself, Nick Coffee Scuff,
Speaker 1: It's Gerald, John Alden and of course John Shannon and
Speaker 1: I think fellas this was the closest I've pushed it
Speaker 1: as far as arrival time. Were you worried about me,
Speaker 1: I would have been worried.
Speaker 2: I gave you a call.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Which it was five o'clock on the
Speaker 1: dot when I pulled in and I hadn't heard from
Speaker 1: you guys, and I thought, okay, they trust me. And
Speaker 1: then by the time I made my way in, I
Speaker 1: got the phone call. Because yeah, that was pushing it close.
Speaker 1: And good thing is with this you can usually prepare
Speaker 1: night before and there's not a ton that you need
Speaker 1: you're going to be waking up to, right, So I
Speaker 1: did a lot of that. Today's first day of school
Speaker 1: for both kids, so I set up some things in
Speaker 1: the house to kind of I'm not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to be there with them to start school. And it's
Speaker 1: my son's first day of kindergarten. So I just set
Speaker 1: some stuff up to kind of you know, if they
Speaker 1: remember the whole process of getting up, starting the day,
Speaker 1: going to school for the first time, there'll be something
Speaker 1: maybe they remember of that experience that ties to me
Speaker 1: despite me not being there. That makes sense, that's a
Speaker 1: great point.
Speaker 3: In fact, I texted my daughter this morning because I'm
Speaker 3: on the flip side of that now it's her first
Speaker 3: day of school.
Speaker 1: Yes, she's a teacher, and so I tended same with
Speaker 1: John's wife exactly.
Speaker 3: So I'm right along the same mindset you are. A
Speaker 3: texted my daughter, so she'll get it when she wakes up.
Speaker 3: I just tell her, you know, congratulations, we're prior to you.
Speaker 3: You're right where you need to be, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And it's a big day for folks.
Speaker 1: Do you all remember the first day of school when
Speaker 1: you were starting rather it be kindergarten, first grade? I mean,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I feel like I do, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of memories I have that I start
Speaker 1: to as I get older, wondered do I really remember
Speaker 1: that or if I created a memory based off of
Speaker 1: things I've been told for so many years that's valid.
Speaker 3: I think the thing that sticks out to me is
Speaker 3: one the smell of the new pencil case, because we
Speaker 3: always had those highlight texts Rubbert pencil cases.
Speaker 1: The smell of your lunchbox to right, smells for some
Speaker 1: reasons stick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we had we had those metal lunch boxes,
Speaker 3: and it would always smell obnoxiously some sort of mixture
Speaker 3: of peanut butter and jelly, sandwich and banana by the
Speaker 3: time you got to lunch. And I mean, it's just
Speaker 3: those little things that come back and the rubber pencil
Speaker 3: grips that everybody.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I didn't really think of this
Speaker 1: until you mentioned a smell. I remember at my elementary
Speaker 1: school because schools starting it the school is as clean
Speaker 1: as it's ever going to be on the first day.
Speaker 1: And I remember the smell of the bathrooms always had
Speaker 1: just a distinct and strong smell of like some kind
Speaker 1: of a cleaner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just weird.
Speaker 1: How you you you remember those those little things. I
Speaker 1: think for me, what stand and this might have been,
Speaker 1: this might have been, this might have been first grade,
Speaker 1: not kindergarten. But I do remember being scared to death
Speaker 1: to know at the time, all right, Mom's leaving me here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm with a lot of people that I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I was really shock hit any me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just it was sort of a helplessness feeling, right, John,
Speaker 1: I mean you were just help.
Speaker 2: I think I fired my first day of kindergarten, if
Speaker 2: I remember right.
Speaker 1: I think I was more so scared to cry to
Speaker 1: where I was just you know, I think you know,
Speaker 1: I was sitting Indian style, you know, lex crossed them
Speaker 1: and just kind of like, you know, looking around, like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm all alone by myself,
Speaker 1: my mama has left me. And then I don't remember
Speaker 1: what it was, but something distracted me, and then I
Speaker 1: was kind of good to go. But my son he
Speaker 1: starts to get in kindergarten today, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I know for sure, I wasn't as excited as he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he would even go to sleep last night.
Speaker 1: You think you think today was Christmas? With this guy?
Speaker 1: I love it. And he'll learn soon that, you know,
Speaker 1: I got to go every day. Something I gotta do
Speaker 1: every single day, and then he'll probably get tired of it.
Speaker 1: But he's excited and always.
Speaker 3: Was that honeymoon phase. I think back to school, they
Speaker 3: were just excited and then all of a sudden, about
Speaker 3: second third week, you're like.
Speaker 1: Okay, this And I think if I try, and I
Speaker 1: do this often, I try to find things that I
Speaker 1: was able to benefit from without knowing that I benefited
Speaker 1: at the time, and now to know that that's not
Speaker 1: a thing anymore makes me appreciate it. Whenever I was
Speaker 1: really young, of course, but even whenever I was in
Speaker 1: middle school to early high school, we didn't have the
Speaker 1: digital platforms to keep up with people. I was excited
Speaker 1: to see people I hadn't seen all summer. And now
Speaker 1: that's just really hard to imagine you don't see any
Speaker 1: of your classmates. I mean, maybe it is just depending
Speaker 1: upon your lifestyle and what you do, but I remember this,
Speaker 1: and I think it's I mean, I think it's still
Speaker 1: this way today with teachers. That I know that even
Speaker 1: teachers get sort of that honeymoon phase when they get
Speaker 1: back to school. They're getting their classroom ready, they're they're
Speaker 1: getting prepped to kind of see what students they have,
Speaker 1: and that is a reminder that that at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and it's pretty obvious this day and age.
Speaker 1: The people who get into education, it's part of its
Speaker 1: labor of love. They do, they get something out of
Speaker 1: what they do. And man, as I've said many times,
Speaker 1: we need more people to do that. So shout out
Speaker 1: to your daughter and of course John's wife, because again
Speaker 1: we need folks that want to dedicate themselves to having
Speaker 1: a career that really matters. And man, it's never mattered
Speaker 1: more than now, it seems.
Speaker 3: Amen, brother, Amen, And that's they do it because my
Speaker 3: are struggling all the time. She's either asking us for
Speaker 3: money or helping out when she has to, only when
Speaker 3: she has to. But I see the struggles and the
Speaker 3: struggles are real for teachers, that's fact.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. So happy back to school day.
Speaker 1: If you're in Bullet County, that's where that's where my
Speaker 1: family is, also where John's wife is teaching. And of
Speaker 1: course I know JCPS is early in so the early
Speaker 1: stage of school coming back is still in play, and
Speaker 1: hopefully it's going smooth for everybody. All Right, it is
Speaker 1: five eleven here at Kentucky and His Morning News Coffee
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Speaker 1: is five point sixteen here at Kentucky ed his morning
Speaker 1: news with Coffee and Company on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas Nick Coffee with you, the company man John All
Speaker 1: on the alongside, And we've had some big news that I
Speaker 1: think was in the works for a few years now,
Speaker 1: and that is the big announcement yesterday with the electric vehicles.
Speaker 1: That's a two billion dollar bet on Louisville's electric vehicle
Speaker 1: future that Ford has made. And Ford, of course has
Speaker 1: been a big lawyer in this city for quite some time.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned this before, but growing up in the Bullett
Speaker 1: County area, there were a lot of kids I grew
Speaker 1: up with that their families moved to Louisville at some
Speaker 1: point or in the Louisville area. And of course at
Speaker 1: the time I was growing up, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people moving to that area and they were moving here,
Speaker 1: relocating sometimes from far away because their parents, sometimes both
Speaker 1: or maybe just one got a job at Ford. So
Speaker 1: Ford has been good to Louisville over the years, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. And this is take away and
Speaker 1: again the big reason it's a story here locally is
Speaker 1: because of the obvious impact it's going to have on
Speaker 1: this city, especially when it comes to jobs. But this
Speaker 1: is big for Ford in general, just because it's what
Speaker 1: they're calling their biggest change since the Model T and
Speaker 1: they're going to be introducing a universal electric vehicle system
Speaker 1: and platform that'll be right here in Louisville. It's a
Speaker 1: mid size, self sustaining electric pickup and it'll be rolling
Speaker 1: out there in twenty twenty seven. So this to me
Speaker 1: just still seems I don't know. To me, it still
Speaker 1: seems not like and I wouldn't. I'm not the person
Speaker 1: who would know if we should be, you know, trusting
Speaker 1: the future here with with electric vehicles. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you have confidence, I get it. If you have skepticism,
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm just saying to me, it just
Speaker 1: the thought of buying a vehicle, rather it be a
Speaker 1: brand new vehicle or a used vehicle. I just electric
Speaker 1: vehicle just does not come to mind for me. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm in the minority or I
Speaker 1: think I am, But clearly, over the years, electric vehicles
Speaker 1: become more and more popular, But to see four deciding
Speaker 1: to roll one out, it just tells us that this
Speaker 1: is the future, so designed for speed and affordability and
Speaker 1: parts parts are reduced by twenty percent, assembly up to
Speaker 1: forty percent faster than what they've typically done over the years,
Speaker 1: and really just a huge cost cod for buyers, as
Speaker 1: these new vehicles will start at thirty thousand dollars, so
Speaker 1: again it's a two billion dollar investment and it's going
Speaker 1: to secure twenty two hundred full time jobs. So certainly
Speaker 1: a big deal here for this city. John, are you
Speaker 1: interested in electric vehicles? You've trusted that old, trustworthy Toyota
Speaker 1: City Camra, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Only a couple of years away from being classic, which
Speaker 2: means I wanted to pay taxes on it anymore?
Speaker 1: Is it really?
Speaker 2: That's right? Yeah, once it's twenty five years old, isn't
Speaker 2: that wild?
Speaker 1: It's awesome and it's so you because you're such an
Speaker 1: old soul. Right.
Speaker 2: I nearly got rid of it over the summer too,
Speaker 2: but in order to try to save some money now
Speaker 2: with the new baby, I was like, you know what
Speaker 2: this thing's doing, fine, we can get a few more
Speaker 2: years out of it.
Speaker 1: Well, you get to a certain point in the life
Speaker 1: of the of that car to where you want to
Speaker 1: see how long it can go, right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I haven't had that happen just yet. In fact, I
Speaker 1: did with some vehicle that I have now is paid off,
Speaker 1: and that alone makes me content and just not doing
Speaker 1: anything until I have to. However, you know, these kind
Speaker 1: of decisions oftentimes are made by my wife more so
Speaker 1: than me as far as what we do when it
Speaker 1: comes to vehicles. But yeah, that camera And by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know a ton about cars. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big car guy. But what year is that?
Speaker 2: Two thousand and two?
Speaker 1: I would never believe that to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If it's just that body style of a Toyota Camry.
Speaker 2: Well, there's so many of them still out on the
Speaker 2: roads of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's because just I guess the longevity of
Speaker 1: those of those vehicles. But uh yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: got to keep it now. I mean, I want to
Speaker 1: see you with that classic uh as the license play
Speaker 1: right where? Because that visual would really throw me off.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what it would make me feel.
Speaker 2: Damn old if the longest person one of those things.
Speaker 1: Absolutely like that could be like a like that could
Speaker 1: be like a national story now was it your first
Speaker 1: car or sex second car? So what I thought, what
Speaker 1: was your first car?
Speaker 2: In a Suzu Rodeo that they nearly blew up on me?
Speaker 1: Those are those? Are? You don't see many of those around?
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, a big news yesterday here in Louisville,
Speaker 1: and it led to Andy Basher's showing up and of
Speaker 1: course talking about how big it is for this city
Speaker 1: and of course the state Pat Kelsey was on hand
Speaker 1: there and talked about how big big the news is
Speaker 1: for the city of Louisville. Good to see him out
Speaker 1: and shaking hands and just and talking with a lot
Speaker 1: of Louisville fans that of course work it for it.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Andy b. Sheheer yesterday Terry Miners had
Speaker 1: a good conversation with a guest that will play some
Speaker 1: of that sound because when it comes to the issue
Speaker 1: we have here with violence in Louisville that involves whether
Speaker 1: it be victim or perpetrator, being a child, the juvenile,
Speaker 1: there's something that clearly needs someone's got to give and
Speaker 1: their discussion. I kind of want to pick up where
Speaker 1: they left off yesterday, so we'll do that as we
Speaker 1: roll along here. It is Kentucky and this morning News
Speaker 1: with Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, mister Shannon. It is Kentucky Morning
Speaker 1: News with Coffee and Company here on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas, Nick, Coffee with you. And yesterday a big,
Speaker 1: big topic of conversation not only on this show, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure throughout the day here at news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas was the situation from Friday where a man
Speaker 1: who was sentenced to fourteen years in prison after again
Speaker 1: proving he's consistent he's a violent criminal, he was let
Speaker 1: out on shot probation and continue to be a violent criminal.
Speaker 1: We don't need to get into the details. I think
Speaker 1: everybody knows just about the horrific situation as armand Langford was.
Speaker 1: Home invasion and kidnapping, stabbing, bank robbery. Quite the day
Speaker 1: for him, and of course it's left a family I'm
Speaker 1: sure with an experience that they'll never get over or
Speaker 1: I should say they'll never forget. That's for certain. As
Speaker 1: far as getting over it, I hope that they do.
Speaker 1: But just an awful thing, and for me is what
Speaker 1: I hit on a lot was just it was avoidable.
Speaker 1: This was someone that didn't need to be available to
Speaker 1: do the kind of crimes. He should have been in
Speaker 1: prison where he was sentenced to fourteen years. So yesterday
Speaker 1: Terry Miners had a guest on and I thought, for
Speaker 1: the most part that Anthony Pageantini was was pretty spot
Speaker 1: on when it comes to just the issue with with
Speaker 1: juvenile crime. And we'll get into a little bit of
Speaker 1: it later on because I've got some sound I want
Speaker 1: to share with you guys. But there needs to be
Speaker 1: a juvenile detention center, and it needs to be I
Speaker 1: mean that to me, that that is the best option
Speaker 1: as far as just if these if these children are
Speaker 1: going to continue to be in the streets and committing
Speaker 1: violent crime, living a lifestyle that some of them are living,
Speaker 1: including when you have the first day of school last Thursday,
Speaker 1: a kid shows up and fires off a bunch of shots.
Speaker 1: I mean these that that's just that that's happening. And
Speaker 1: clearly there are many reasons as to why this is happening, because,
Speaker 1: as I think a lot of people agree, it starts
Speaker 1: at home. I mean these whoever's respond actually those who
Speaker 1: are supposed to be responsible for these children clearly are
Speaker 1: not and they're not doing their part. And even if
Speaker 1: you're a great parent and you can't control your kid
Speaker 1: who's a violent criminal that is wrecking havoc on the city,
Speaker 1: they need to be in jail despite being children, if
Speaker 1: they can't be controlled by parents or parents are non
Speaker 1: existent and they are somehow ending up I guess, kind
Speaker 1: of under the wing of gang members and being you know,
Speaker 1: given a purpose by doing some work and you know,
Speaker 1: living that lifestyle. And I mean it's like these gangs
Speaker 1: are probably getting some free labor from these kids who
Speaker 1: nobody else is watching over, and yet they're they're falling
Speaker 1: in line and wanting to be like gang members. Maybe
Speaker 1: they already are gang members. I don't know. But if
Speaker 1: nobody can control them and and they just keep ending
Speaker 1: up out in the streets, making Louisville a more violent city,
Speaker 1: they need to be in jail or the city will
Speaker 1: continue to get worse when it comes to violent crime.
Speaker 1: I mean, so again, I'll let you hear it from
Speaker 1: from himself, because again I thought Pageantini was pretty spot
Speaker 1: on as far as the state Basher specifically is who
Speaker 1: he called out and saying that they got to stop
Speaker 1: dragging their feet essentially on this because it's needed, And
Speaker 1: it's true, I know you don't like the idea. Nobody
Speaker 1: likes the idea of a child being incarcerated, But what
Speaker 1: is the other option if in fact nobody is I mean,
Speaker 1: it makes no sense to just do what we're doing
Speaker 1: right now, right, And it does sound like the city
Speaker 1: itself is all for this. It just you know, comes
Speaker 1: down to the need. They need approval from the state,
Speaker 1: or the state has to initiate the process in some way.
Speaker 1: So I'll let you hear some of that couple of
Speaker 1: different clips from that interview that Terry Miners had yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: All right, So something else I want to get into
Speaker 1: here before too long. We got Roy and' neil coming
Speaker 1: your way on the other side, so stick around for that.
Speaker 1: But I did some digging yesterday. I was just fascinated
Speaker 1: to learn that AOL dial up Internet still existed, because yesterday,
Speaker 1: I guess, was the last day of it. You could
Speaker 1: have told me it ended ten years ago and I
Speaker 1: would have believed you. But it was interesting to me
Speaker 1: to see who was still using it and why. And
Speaker 1: we'll get to that later on. It is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: it's Morning News with coffee and company here on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas it is Kentucky and it's morning
Speaker 1: news here on a Tuesday morning, News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas Nick Coffee with you. We now bring in Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neil of NBC News. Rory tell us how the state
Speaker 1: of Kentucky stacks up when it comes to our latest
Speaker 1: study that tells us which states here in the United
Speaker 1: States are the best to live in. Shoot hit hit
Speaker 1: us with the news. I'm gonna assume I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna assume the worst, hope for the best.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not the worst, but clearly not the best either.
Speaker 4: According to this wallet hub survey, they rank Kentucky thirty
Speaker 4: seventh out of the fifty states. Again, this is a
Speaker 4: survey that took takes a look at affordability, the economy, education,
Speaker 4: healthcare access, quality of life, and safety as well. So
Speaker 4: that's they put it together and that's where Kentucky came in. Now,
Speaker 4: Kentucky didn't come in number ten on the list specifically
Speaker 4: in affordability, but then forty ninth, near the bottom of
Speaker 4: the barrel when it comes to the economy of the state.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the affordability I think is due to things
Speaker 1: that may be contributing to the state being at thirty
Speaker 1: seven out of the fifty. Who are some of the
Speaker 1: best and some of the worst.
Speaker 4: Some of the top three, it's a mix. The number
Speaker 4: three on the list is New Jersey, which scored very
Speaker 4: well when it came to public safety and the quality
Speaker 4: of life there. Idaho was number two. The economy rank
Speaker 4: was although we up to number seven on their list
Speaker 4: and cutting into number one my Casey casem impersonation. Go
Speaker 4: google who that is kids the states of Massachusetts, which
Speaker 4: are ranked number one in education and healthcare, at number
Speaker 4: nine in their economy, but number forty four affordability.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Casey Kaseum did, in fact have
Speaker 1: I don't know if he lived here, but he had
Speaker 1: he had some some roots in Kentucky. I think he
Speaker 1: had property here at some point. So nice you mentioned
Speaker 1: Casey Caseum. I'm gonna I'm gonna mention Kentucky having it
Speaker 1: not a claim to him, but he liked us enough
Speaker 1: to where he at least you know, was here at
Speaker 1: some point. But when it comes to this, the states
Speaker 1: that are that are the worst. I mean, what from
Speaker 1: the study is there's a specific part of their criteria
Speaker 1: that clearly can just crush you and and make it
Speaker 1: much more difficult for you to not be towards the bottom.
Speaker 4: Well, when they take the yeah they have, everything is
Speaker 4: all weighted by different things. So when they look at
Speaker 4: the economy, for instance, that's twenty points of the score.
Speaker 4: Affordability is twenty points of the score. Quality of life
Speaker 4: is twenty points. But then when you look into quality
Speaker 4: of life, they look at average hours work, So the
Speaker 4: average commute time, miles of trails for bicycles and walking,
Speaker 4: is it a bike friendly state, quality of roads, performing
Speaker 4: arts centers, museums per capita, access to beaches, which would
Speaker 4: be tough for number two Idaho, But there you go.
Speaker 4: So they put that fall together and compile all those
Speaker 4: different data points. States at the bottom of the barrel
Speaker 4: and ones you might suspect. Number forty six is Alaska,
Speaker 4: number forty seven, Mississippi forty eight, Arkansas, forty nine, Louisiana
Speaker 4: and dead last in the survey at number fifty. You
Speaker 4: might not expect it, but little Green Men seem to
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 1: New Mexico interesting. Would not have guessed that, but good
Speaker 1: to know, all right. So when it comes to food stamps,
Speaker 1: they're now it's now called SNAP and this program is
Speaker 1: designed to provide nutritious food to those who simply can't
Speaker 1: afford to get it. But there's also some things that
Speaker 1: don't necessarily fall in line with being considered nutritious or healthy.
Speaker 1: Are we going to see some of these items banned
Speaker 1: as far as being able to use SNAP benefits to
Speaker 1: purchase items that just clearly there's no real health benefit, right,
Speaker 1: So more and.
Speaker 4: More states are getting waivers to have exclusions on what
Speaker 4: you can buy with your food SAMs through the SNAP program.
Speaker 4: Things like soda, energy drinks, candy, prepared desserts is something
Speaker 4: else that will be banned in some states, and some
Speaker 4: of the states are doing different things. Some just have
Speaker 4: soda and candy, Others say energy drinks and prepared desserts.
Speaker 4: Others have rule about hot soups and rotisserie chickens, whether
Speaker 4: not they're good or bad. This is an effort, they say,
Speaker 4: to improve health outcomes. It's part of that Maham movement.
Speaker 4: But there really is any hard data to show that
Speaker 4: this is going to have an effect, so we don't
Speaker 4: really know. I think this is just wishful thinking. What
Speaker 4: we're seeing is a lot of the states so far
Speaker 4: are Republican states, with one exception of Colorado.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Rory, you are the man whos always we appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. Enjoy the rest of your day, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Thanks Nick, talk to you then.
Speaker 1: All right. That's Ory O'Neil the NBC News always appreciate
Speaker 1: his time. And I did a little digging. I knew
Speaker 1: there's no way. I just randomly thought that Casey Kaseum
Speaker 1: had roots in Kentucky, and it turns out he had
Speaker 1: a farm in Kentucky raising both crops and cattle that
Speaker 1: was in central Kentucky. Why I have that absolutely useless
Speaker 1: piece of information installed in my brain, I don't know,
Speaker 1: But now you know. All right, we've got an update
Speaker 1: on Travick and weather coming your way right here, right now. Also,
Speaker 1: we've got another sports update coming from Scott Fitzgerald on
Speaker 1: There's Radio eight forty whas