Speaker 1: Thank you John.
Speaker 2: It is eight oh five here Kentucky had his morning
Speaker 2: news with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 2: Good morning Kentucky, Anda, happy Juneteenth. I know a lot
Speaker 2: of folks are celebrating today and probably have the day off,
Speaker 2: so enjoy.
Speaker 1: Had a wet.
Speaker 2: Start to the day, but it looks as if things
Speaker 2: are clearing up, cloudy skies, and again it's a day
Speaker 2: off for.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, So if so enjoy.
Speaker 2: We will talk to Rory O'Neil coming up at about
Speaker 2: eight thirty. And obviously, like many of us across the world,
Speaker 2: not just this country, we are waiting to see exactly
Speaker 2: what it is that Donald Trump plans to do when
Speaker 2: it comes to the situation in Iran. He knows that
Speaker 2: nobody knows for sure what he's going to do, because
Speaker 2: he said those exact things yesterday quote, nobody knows what
Speaker 2: I'm going to do, as he smirked. So that's got
Speaker 2: a lot of people on the edge of their seats,
Speaker 2: and clearly he enjoys that. It is worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: there are no plans for any type of long term war.
Speaker 2: So thankfully there's no plan to have any type of
Speaker 2: a World War three situation on our hands. Obviously, things
Speaker 2: can certainly change, and he did mention that yesterday. So
Speaker 2: as far as the peace talk with Iran, Trump says
Speaker 2: that they want to have a conversation at the White House,
Speaker 2: they want a nuclear deal, and he's at least seemingly
Speaker 2: make it appear that it's too late for that. They
Speaker 2: missed the window to make that happen. At least that's
Speaker 2: sort of the vibe that's out there right now. So
Speaker 2: if in fact they do get to the point where
Speaker 2: they're going to take action and bomb Iran, the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal says that Trump has approved the plans to
Speaker 2: do that, it's just he hasn't given the full green light.
Speaker 2: He's waiting for Iran to basically ditch its nukes or
Speaker 2: face Israel's ongoing bombings and unconditional surrenders is what he's demanding,
Speaker 2: and that's what he's been pretty clear about. Will that
Speaker 2: actually happen on the other side, we shall see, but
Speaker 2: it's certainly something we're monitoring.
Speaker 1: Will keep you updated as best we can.
Speaker 2: Again, Rory O'Neil, NBC News can join us coming up
Speaker 2: at eight thirty. So we did let you guys know
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show today. In fact, we've
Speaker 2: let you know a few times throughout because it's it's
Speaker 2: our duty to let people know that there's been a
Speaker 2: lottery winner here in the area. And I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: wouldn't be a crazy thing that maybe if I'm the
Speaker 2: one who let you know, oh yeah, I did purchase
Speaker 2: I did purchase a lottery ticket at the Kroger on
Speaker 2: the Grange Road. If I'm the one that let you
Speaker 2: know and then you realize that you bought the winning
Speaker 2: the winning ticket, then I think that means I'm entitled
Speaker 2: to at least something, right. I mean, I'm joking, but like,
Speaker 2: if you did want if you are the winner and
Speaker 2: you did, you did realize that you have a lot
Speaker 2: more money that you that you didn't used to have
Speaker 2: until you won, and you want to throw some of
Speaker 2: my way, I'll take it. But at the Kroger on
Speaker 2: the Grange Road, somebody won a Lucky for Life ticket
Speaker 2: that's worth twenty five thousand dollars a year, or you
Speaker 2: can take the lump sum, which is three hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety thousand dollars. So we had a we had one
Speaker 2: of our listeners used the talkback feature on the out
Speaker 2: radio app to kind of give us a little more
Speaker 2: clarity on what you really get if you take the
Speaker 2: annual payments as far as what you're guaranteed to get
Speaker 2: and also the lump sum. I think I've got the
Speaker 2: correct one cued up here, and we shall see. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give it a shot. If not, it's a quick
Speaker 2: fix here.
Speaker 3: I'm a trump drowd.
Speaker 1: That's the wrong one. But we'll play that in just
Speaker 1: a second. Let's see here, here we go.
Speaker 4: The twenty five for life Kentucky Lottery pays you three
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety thousand lumps up front, or you can
Speaker 4: get twenty five thousand until you die annually, but they
Speaker 4: are guaranteeing you a minimum of twenty years of payments
Speaker 4: to get you more comfortable with taking the annuity option.
Speaker 4: But you get twenty five thousand for life, but a
Speaker 4: minimum guaranteed of at least twenty years.
Speaker 2: So again you get the minimum guaranteed of twenty years.
Speaker 2: So I still think with this amount of money, the
Speaker 2: twenty five k for a minimum twenty years or the
Speaker 2: lump sum up three ninety, I'm still taking three ninety.
Speaker 2: But again, everybody's got their own Like there's some people
Speaker 2: I'm sure that hear this and think, oh, I've learned
Speaker 2: over my many years on earth that if I get
Speaker 2: if I get three hundred and ninety thousand dollars, I
Speaker 2: don't trust myself that I will be able to use
Speaker 2: that wisely. I'll start spending money that I probably shouldn't
Speaker 2: be spending. And honestly, you really don't know until you're
Speaker 2: in that position, right. I mean, I'm sure there's many
Speaker 2: that have never had that amount of money just come
Speaker 2: to them out of nowhere. And I guess it depends
Speaker 2: more so on I feel like three hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: thousand dollars just a one time payment. I guess it
Speaker 2: depends on your age, depends on plans that you already
Speaker 2: have in place for retirement.
Speaker 1: I guess you're four oh one k. But that would
Speaker 1: probably be enough money.
Speaker 2: For a lot of folks to just go ahead and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and retire now early or maybe
Speaker 2: retire really early.
Speaker 1: Although if you get.
Speaker 2: The twenty five this is what first thing that came
Speaker 2: to mind for me, cause twenty five thousand dollar year
Speaker 2: is not a substantial amount of money as far as
Speaker 2: you're an annual salary. But if you are somebody that
Speaker 2: works a job that you are really stressed about every day,
Speaker 2: but it's it's a good paying job, and certainly your
Speaker 2: your lifestyle has become very consistent with that type of
Speaker 2: money that you get. Well, maybe the twenty five k
Speaker 2: a year can put you in a spot to where
Speaker 2: you take a job with less stress, clearly less responsibility
Speaker 2: therefore less money. But it all works out because of
Speaker 2: the twenty five k that you get annually. So again,
Speaker 2: if you are the winner, just remember you if you're
Speaker 2: finding out that you won because of me, I mean,
Speaker 2: doesn't that mean I deserve something?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Please, I don't know, don't make me beg Anyways, we've
Speaker 2: got an update of traffic and weather coming your way
Speaker 2: right here, right now. We've got an update of sports
Speaker 2: coming up in about fifteen minutes. And again, Rory O'Neil
Speaker 2: NBC News is going to join us at eight thirty,
Speaker 2: so don't go anywhere, stick with us. Right here, it's Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and it is Morning News on News Radio eight to forty,
Speaker 2: Whas it is eight seventeen here at Kentucky and is
Speaker 2: Morning News news Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee with you.
Speaker 2: We've got the full squad here. John Alden of course
Speaker 2: running the operation. Scott will be in for another sports
Speaker 2: update coming up in about eight minutes, and of course
Speaker 2: John Shannon has your news his next news date, next
Speaker 2: news update coming up at eight thirty. So something we've
Speaker 2: been discussing here and there since last Friday was the
Speaker 2: scary accident that took place on just near the Kennedy
Speaker 2: Bridge that led to that eighteen wheeler engulfed in flames.
Speaker 2: Just a real, real scary situation, and that of course
Speaker 2: was one that'll get way more attention given just the
Speaker 2: visual and just the crazy story that this driver, Jeffrey Walker,
Speaker 2: despite having some injuries when it comes to a broken leg,
Speaker 2: broken ankle, and that's going to take a while to recover.
Speaker 2: But the fact that he's you know, he's he's okay
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things, is really a miracle when.
Speaker 1: You just think of what you saw.
Speaker 2: So that's the fourth semi crash in the area since
Speaker 2: May and Mayor Greenberg is taking action and looking into
Speaker 2: ways to prevent these accidents, and of course the cause
Speaker 2: of this specific accident is still unknown. Investigators are looking
Speaker 2: at camera footage to pinpoint the cause and could be
Speaker 2: wet roads, could be speeding, and we'll have to just
Speaker 2: wait and see. Clearly, they're going to try to figure
Speaker 2: out why this keeps happening. And look, they may not
Speaker 2: find out any real specific root cause that they can eliminate,
Speaker 2: but of course it's something that you got to look
Speaker 2: into as best you can because of how dangerous it is.
Speaker 2: But we had another truck driver using our talkback feature
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app share his thoughts on the many
Speaker 2: accidents that we're having here in really very similar spots
Speaker 2: or sometimes the same spot.
Speaker 1: And it's eighteen wheelers.
Speaker 3: I'm a truck driver in the city of Louisville and
Speaker 3: I've been across that sixty five bridge many, many, many times,
Speaker 3: and I believe the main problem there is not the surface,
Speaker 3: it's signage and speed of the trucks. And Nick, I
Speaker 3: think you're doing a great job.
Speaker 4: You really are.
Speaker 2: Keep it up, bro, Thank you, dad, appreciate it. Now
Speaker 2: that's not really my dad, but I do thank you
Speaker 2: for saying that.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And you know that's somebody who is in the area
Speaker 2: from Louisville that says that he's he's driving that in
Speaker 2: that stretch.
Speaker 1: He either he is currently or he does he used
Speaker 1: to at some point.
Speaker 2: So that's somebody with direct knowledge of of of driving
Speaker 2: an eighteen wheeler in the area where these accidents happen,
Speaker 2: and speed certainly a factor. I wouldn't I wouldn't think
Speaker 2: anybody would be surprised by that, But maybe there could
Speaker 2: be some signage, maybe some more warnings ahead that you're
Speaker 2: gonna need to reduce the speed, and if you keep
Speaker 2: having accidents like this, you're just gonna know, Hey, I'm
Speaker 2: going through an area with a with a semi truck
Speaker 2: that others have not been able to get through without
Speaker 2: a pretty serious accident.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure they'll do as best they.
Speaker 2: Can to figure out why this is happening and do
Speaker 2: whatever is possible to prevent it if possible.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got another update of sports coming your way. Also,
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neill going to join us at eight thirty.
Speaker 2: But now let's get a check on the weather and
Speaker 2: traffic on Who's Radio eight forty whas it's our final
Speaker 2: segment here this morning on Kentucky and it's Morning News.
Speaker 2: Tony and Dwight are coming your way here shortly. We've
Speaker 2: talked a lot about the baseball season coming to an
Speaker 2: end this morning, Tony. But what does it do for
Speaker 2: somebody who covered sports for so long around here? When
Speaker 2: you see that the University of Louisville, because of a
Speaker 2: financial shortfall, is having to take out a line of
Speaker 2: credit from P and C Bank of twenty five million
Speaker 2: just to get the bills paid, it's certainly the sign
Speaker 2: of the times. But also that's just I mean, we're
Speaker 2: not that far removed from where it seemed like UFL
Speaker 2: couldn't run out of money.
Speaker 5: This is where when you pay and I don't know what, look,
Speaker 5: Tom overpaid people a good people to come here. A
Speaker 5: lot of those right, A lot of those salaries it kept,
Speaker 5: you know, through the last ten years or nine years
Speaker 5: he's been gone. Sometimes you've got to ask, is the
Speaker 5: and no offense to the softball field hockey coach, No
Speaker 5: offense to you. But I'm just saying, for sports that
Speaker 5: aren't bringing any money in, do you pay those people
Speaker 5: four hundred thousand dollars when you know someone's going to
Speaker 5: do it for one twenty five?
Speaker 6: You know, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I have to know that too. That's all right, say
Speaker 1: I mean, you.
Speaker 5: Know how mean a coaches'd be like to coach college
Speaker 5: into ACC I'll do it for one twenty five. You know,
Speaker 5: you got to start making those decisions because you shouldn't
Speaker 5: be able. You shouldn't be in debt. When you're making
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty million dollars in revenue in the
Speaker 5: athletic department. That is an insane amount of money. I
Speaker 5: said that to somebody the other day and they looked
Speaker 5: at me and said, you mean per year, and I
Speaker 5: was like, yes, they generate one hundred and eighty million
Speaker 5: dollars a year and they still can't make their bills.
Speaker 6: That's a problem.
Speaker 5: If they start passing this on to the regular students,
Speaker 5: I'll lose my mind.
Speaker 6: There's I'll lose my mind.
Speaker 2: Wichita State again example, because they're they're they have some
Speaker 2: basketball presents, but obviously they don't bring in the annual
Speaker 2: revenue from the American Conference like you do in the
Speaker 2: Big ten SEC and whatnot. They have increased tuition, letting
Speaker 2: people know it is because we have to pay players now, and.
Speaker 6: You gotta hide that information. You got to hide that information.
Speaker 5: A lot of him tell him it's for something else.
Speaker 5: It's you know, it's the fleecing of America. A four
Speaker 5: year degree. My daughter is at Cincinnati, it's gonna end
Speaker 5: up coll siness about one point fifteen. There's no reason
Speaker 5: a four year classical studies degree from u SEE should
Speaker 5: be one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it's me getting older and becoming I
Speaker 2: guess a grown up. But you can't convince me in
Speaker 2: any way that the return on investment is really there, because, yes,
Speaker 2: you could utilize your degree to potentially put yourself in
Speaker 2: a position where you have a good paying job, or
Speaker 2: you could do something else without a degree and probably
Speaker 2: be in a similar situation financially. I guess it all
Speaker 2: depends on what you do. But I mean it is uh.
Speaker 6: And again, I will encourage any hes pro.
Speaker 1: Sports in college athletics, now right, that's what this is.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I would encourage anybody to take my son's route, which
Speaker 5: was he did a paper on student loan debt when
Speaker 5: he was a sophomore in high school and it scared
Speaker 5: him so bad. You know, he wants to serve, that's
Speaker 5: the first thing. But he paid for half his school
Speaker 5: by committing to the Navy, and he'll do five years
Speaker 5: in the Navy, which he loves already.
Speaker 6: But do take that route. It's a cheat code for life.
Speaker 5: Let them pay for your college, serve for five years
Speaker 5: at least, and you have some supplemental insurance for less
Speaker 5: of your life, and you know what else, you get
Speaker 5: the benefit of the doubt for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Well said, Well said.
Speaker 2: And I think it just reminds me of something I
Speaker 2: was talking about with John earlier whenever I was in
Speaker 2: high school at that time. And I believe this was
Speaker 2: the case. This was just the temperature with education in
Speaker 2: our country around this time. That we weren't brainwashed, but
Speaker 2: there was consistently throughout my entire time in high school,
Speaker 2: there was the notion if you didn't go to a
Speaker 2: four year institution, it was going to be a really
Speaker 2: tough life for you, and that things were just going
Speaker 2: to be things were just going to be really hard.
Speaker 2: And the big you know, the face that teachers would
Speaker 2: make when you would tell them you didn't have plans
Speaker 2: for a four year degree.
Speaker 1: Oh, they were so sad for your year.
Speaker 2: And yet now in the Bulla County public school system,
Speaker 2: where there's a whole department that didn't exist then that
Speaker 2: does now. That is just going to schools in middle
Speaker 2: school and high school. That is letting that letting them
Speaker 2: know of all the resources they have after high school
Speaker 2: to go get a trade job, to get an apprenticeship somewhere.
Speaker 2: And when you look at getting a good paying job
Speaker 2: learning how to do something that certainly there's value there
Speaker 2: and you don't have an insane amount of debt yet
Speaker 2: that just can cripple.
Speaker 6: Youah, or just get a simple four year degree. You
Speaker 6: don't have to because here's the thing.
Speaker 5: They'll ask that the studies have been done, how much
Speaker 5: people retain from their four years in college. Every year
Speaker 5: that you go out from graduation day, it goes down
Speaker 5: in percentage, and it's a large percent. Just twelve months later,
Speaker 5: how much they retained from what they learned in college,
Speaker 5: it's like twenty percent, and then it goes down from there.
Speaker 5: So you're five ten years out, you don't remember anything
Speaker 5: that you took. Oh, I took eight years of Spanish,
Speaker 5: yes speak Spanish.
Speaker 2: I can't things that I think should have always been
Speaker 2: rather obvious. You now hear people saying aloud, which is
Speaker 2: your four year degree is a sign of you working
Speaker 2: hard being educated, and it is. It is an accomplishment.
Speaker 2: I applaud anybody who goes and finishes college and gets
Speaker 2: a degree, but man, there cannot be many that are
Speaker 2: using on a day to day basis something that they
Speaker 2: specifically took away from the curriculum in college.
Speaker 5: And the other thing with universities, most of the costs
Speaker 5: now is the living expenses because they don't own those.
Speaker 5: That's been the biggest fleecing thing is those condos they
Speaker 5: build on campus, like at u of L.
Speaker 6: They don't own those.
Speaker 5: They have a contract with that company, right and I'm
Speaker 5: sure they make they get a cut of it, but
Speaker 5: that company is fleecing Americans.
Speaker 6: Their rent.
Speaker 5: Their rent per month and they're sharing a space with
Speaker 5: everybody is more than most people's mortgages, And you're like,
Speaker 5: how does this make sense?
Speaker 2: I think at least some are realizing that that you
Speaker 2: clearly can can not you could, you can, You have
Speaker 2: options when it comes to which you want to do
Speaker 2: post high school. But man, I swear I think it's
Speaker 2: just the fear for so many years is certainly in
Speaker 2: my childhood of.
Speaker 1: Okay, whatever it is we got to take out, will
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Because Hubby, room and board, meal plan, whatever we got
Speaker 2: to do, we'll do it because the thought of my
Speaker 2: kid not going to a college, you know, means the
Speaker 2: life is over.
Speaker 5: And there's companies like Target and others that will pay
Speaker 5: for your school if you'd go to UPS, if you
Speaker 5: go to work for them, they'll help you pay for it.
Speaker 2: Hello, take advantage. Tony and Wide are up next. It's
Speaker 2: hock to you tomorrow.