Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: John at Is six o five here a Kentucky had
Speaker 1: this morning news on news Radio eight forty whas Happy Monday.
Speaker 1: Let's get another week started here. Hopefully you guys had
Speaker 1: yourselves a good weekend. I know if you're a Louisville
Speaker 1: Cardinal fan, the weekend was good for you, because it
Speaker 1: was it wasn't It didn't come easy. I mean, I
Speaker 1: felt like they had a pretty good chance meeting Louisville
Speaker 1: day McDonald and his team to get the second victory
Speaker 1: on Saturday, but obviously Miami they responded in a really
Speaker 1: close Game three, and now they have punched their ticket
Speaker 1: to omahall the sixth appearance in nineteen years, which really
Speaker 1: speaks to what Daan McDonald's been able to do. Scott
Speaker 1: has touched on that this morning, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: continue to talk about it throughout. But a big I
Speaker 1: mean baseball here when it comes well postseason baseball in
Speaker 1: the Louisville area, mostly just when Louisville has hosted in
Speaker 1: STUB eight postseason games, there's just a different kind of atmosphere,
Speaker 1: different kind of vibe. I'm looking here on the screen
Speaker 1: right here behind me, our partners over WKY. They're showing
Speaker 1: some coverage of it, and I mean people can bring
Speaker 1: up the average attendance, which is not great for get
Speaker 1: games that take place in the regular season, but when
Speaker 1: they're in that spot, that moment, fans show up in
Speaker 1: a big way. And I think objectively speaking, you can
Speaker 1: just tell by watching on television, even if you're not
Speaker 1: a Louisville native or a Louisville fan, that there's a
Speaker 1: real home field advantage there, which it's just nice. This
Speaker 1: is probably gonna sound corny to some, but you can
Speaker 1: tell the players really feeding off of that because the writer,
Speaker 1: you know, for reasons that we don't need to get
Speaker 1: into right now, they're not used to having a crowd
Speaker 1: that big and that juiced. And when there was the
Speaker 1: Eddie chance for Eddie King Junior, who had himself a
Speaker 1: heck of a weekend, like, you can tell they're energized
Speaker 1: by that, and it certainly paid off. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the fans deserve as much credit as I'm giving them,
Speaker 1: but certainly a great atmosphere out there at the Jam
Speaker 1: Patterson Stadium.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's what I love about baseball, college baseball,
Speaker 2: because when my son's home, we do go to a
Speaker 2: lot of the games, and to your point, you can
Speaker 2: pretty much sit when you go to the non conference games,
Speaker 2: even when you go to the paid games, you can
Speaker 2: sit where you want. And we sometimes we've gone from
Speaker 2: sitting down in the field and sitting up so we
Speaker 2: can see everything. But when you get in college baseball,
Speaker 2: is the players chanting. I mean, the players are active
Speaker 2: in this you hear you know, yak can come from
Speaker 2: both dugouts, okay, And that transcends into fans. And what
Speaker 2: we've seen through this College World Series and through the
Speaker 2: regionals is places like Ole Miss where it's like a
Speaker 2: football game and you start getting but you're starting to
Speaker 2: see that expand now into other schools. And you know,
Speaker 2: back in the day when you have l Ues to
Speaker 2: play africat the name of the field they played at
Speaker 2: it was their old field before Paterson. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there were no fans there either. But now
Speaker 2: that you've built this legacy, and then of course you
Speaker 2: look to what Kentucky's doing. They build up Kentucky Proud Park,
Speaker 2: they get crowds out there. And now Murray State and
Speaker 2: for some degree we talked about a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: the show, Morehead State to a nice little baseball going.
Speaker 2: And then lest we forget about this school right around
Speaker 2: the corner, Spalding, who Nick, I know you.
Speaker 1: Have, Yeah, my cousin, Yeah, my second cousin plays for
Speaker 1: Spaulding Baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so I mean Spaulding's got it going on, both
Speaker 2: with the softball and the baseball.
Speaker 3: So I talked a little about a little bit about.
Speaker 2: This on Kentucky focused last week on how this area
Speaker 2: you can go all the way back to hey, we reached.
Speaker 2: You can go all the way back to Louisville black
Speaker 2: Caps if you want, and take it even further.
Speaker 3: But of course, the home of the Louisville.
Speaker 2: Slugger, the bat, the bat factory. I mean, baseball is
Speaker 2: a big deal here. Sure, it just doesn't get talked
Speaker 2: about a lot, understandably so because basketball runs the show here.
Speaker 3: Basketball horses. I get that, no doubt, and I can't
Speaker 3: expect that.
Speaker 1: It is nice to see that when there are big moments,
Speaker 1: big opportunities. It seems like the fans and really the
Speaker 1: city of Louisville look pretty good along the way, not
Speaker 1: just not just with what happened over the weekend. Jim
Speaker 1: Patterson stadium. But when Mayor Greenberg was in last week,
Speaker 1: he highlighted something that I didn't forget about. I just
Speaker 1: wasn't on my mind. But when the Louisville volleyball program exploded,
Speaker 1: where they've now become a perennial power in the sport,
Speaker 1: and you've got you had a chance to host here
Speaker 1: in Louisville some of the NCAA post season volleyball, and
Speaker 1: I mean the atmosphere looks amazing, I mean see, and
Speaker 1: it's I don't know how much you truly get from
Speaker 1: it as far as value in recognition. That's tough for
Speaker 1: me to know exactly what the real benefit is, but
Speaker 1: it certainly can't hurts you. Whenever you've got a chance
Speaker 1: to have a postseason event like postseason baseball, postseason volleyball
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere looks like it has looked in most instances,
Speaker 1: that can go a long way. I mean, you're right
Speaker 1: when it comes to what really gets the most attention
Speaker 1: around here, it's going to be college basketball, horse racing
Speaker 1: with the Derby and whatnot. But I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like it ties in. We've always been known as kind
Speaker 1: of a big event city. If there's a big event.
Speaker 1: It'll be a big deal. There'll be a big lot
Speaker 1: of people there. Even if you don't follow the sport
Speaker 1: throughout the entire season, when you get to the postseason,
Speaker 1: you know it's a big event. It's winter go home,
Speaker 1: and Louisville really shows up and shows out. So I
Speaker 1: certainly saw that over the weekend of Jim Patterson Stateium.
Speaker 1: We'll have more on sports with Scott coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit later on. In fact, in about fifteen minutes time,
Speaker 1: we've got your first update here in the six o'clock
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Speaker 1: It is six sixteen here at Kentucky and it's morning
Speaker 1: news on news RADIOA forty whas some news from the
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Former Louisville basketball star I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to call Russ a Louisville legend,
Speaker 1: considering that he's got his jersey retired. But Russ Smith
Speaker 1: was arrested for dui and here are the details as
Speaker 1: far as what we know about this arrest. He was
Speaker 1: pulled over after he made an illegal U turn near
Speaker 1: the intersection of baxterra Avenue and Hyland Avenue. This was
Speaker 1: just after midnight, according to LMPD, and after he was
Speaker 1: pulled over, he did admit to drinking alcohol. He claims
Speaker 1: he had two bourbon pores neat before driving, and the
Speaker 1: arrest report indicates that he failed a walk in turn
Speaker 1: test and swayed once he was asked to step out
Speaker 1: of the car. So the field sobriety tests that he
Speaker 1: went through subjective of course with the officer. The officer
Speaker 1: did not pass him, but then they did a breathalyzer
Speaker 1: test and his blood alcohol content was zero point and
Speaker 1: zero seven to three. The legal limit is zero point
Speaker 1: zero eight, So he cooperated fully, gave two different samples
Speaker 1: and was below the legal limits. So a lot of
Speaker 1: folks saying, well, how can you be arrested and charged
Speaker 1: with DUI when you're below the legal limits? So technically
Speaker 1: the Kentucky law allows d u I arrest based on
Speaker 1: officer discretion if impairment is suspected, even if your blood
Speaker 1: if your BAC is below the legal limit of zero
Speaker 1: point zero eight. So the the officer, it's just his,
Speaker 1: it's his call up to that point. As far as
Speaker 1: does he believe that despite being below the legal limit,
Speaker 1: is he is he is he safe to drive. Now again,
Speaker 1: there are some questions that are legitimate questions as far
Speaker 1: as could he have given him I mean, could he
Speaker 1: had somebody come and to pick him up, because technically,
Speaker 1: although failing the field sobriety tests, he did not actually
Speaker 1: blow above or at the legal limit. And that's the
Speaker 1: question that I don't have the answer to. But one
Speaker 1: thing to to to point out here is the connections
Speaker 1: with the whole Scottie Scheffler thing, which I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long time before Louisville LMPD sort of.
Speaker 1: They don't come to mind when it comes to just
Speaker 1: that Scotty Scheffler in general. I talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: The more successful that Scotty Scheffler is and the more
Speaker 1: likable he appears. You know, you might ask man, who
Speaker 1: wouldn't love this guy? Oh yeah, LMPD because they arrested him,
Speaker 1: and the details that came out since then didn't exactly
Speaker 1: make I don't think, in my opinion, it didn't make
Speaker 1: LMPD look very good. But nonetheless, there's already been some
Speaker 1: misinformation I think, being shared about the arresting officer with
Speaker 1: Russ Smith. There are connections to the Scotti Schefler situation.
Speaker 1: But for those that believe that the officer who claimed
Speaker 1: that Scotty Schffler ran him over as the same person
Speaker 1: who pulled Russ Smith over, not the case. So it
Speaker 1: is Kyle Willis who is the arresting officer, and his
Speaker 1: connection to the Scottie Schffler thing was that he is
Speaker 1: the one who had leaked body caimput it, she's a Basically,
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's the one who transported Scottie Scheffler
Speaker 1: to jail. He's not the one who was on site
Speaker 1: whenever the situation occurred that led to Scottie Schefler being
Speaker 1: put in the back of a cop car. But there
Speaker 1: was a leak of cell phone footage maybe it was
Speaker 1: from Yes, Yes, So LMPD later determined that the body
Speaker 1: camera footage that originally came from it, it came from
Speaker 1: Kyle Willis, and he is the officer who read Scheffler
Speaker 1: his miranda rights initially, and that went on to get investigated,
Speaker 1: and this officer Willis was reprimanded by l MPD because
Speaker 1: of the video being leaked and it ended up, you know, of.
Speaker 3: Course, going viral.
Speaker 1: And so again, if you're somebody who just thinks the
Speaker 1: same officer that mentioned Scotty Scheffler trying to run him
Speaker 1: over made a big deal about his pants being ripped,
Speaker 1: that is not the same person who pulled over Russ Smith.
Speaker 1: So another connection here is the attorney who represented Scotti Schffler,
Speaker 1: high profile attorney Steve Romines. I mean, he seemed very interesting,
Speaker 1: seemed very open to teeing off on LMPD throughout that
Speaker 1: entire situation. Not sure if we're going to see the
Speaker 1: same thing here with the Russ Smith lawsuit. But Russ
Speaker 1: has hired Steve Romines, who claims that evidence, witnesses and
Speaker 1: surveillance footage will prove Smith's innocent's asserting quote he did
Speaker 1: nothing wrong, So we'll see how this plays out again.
Speaker 1: I think the big talking point here is that he
Speaker 1: was pulled over, arrested for DUI taking to jail despite
Speaker 1: blowing below the legal limit. But to be clear, in
Speaker 1: that situation, it is it's the officer's discretion and that's
Speaker 1: what he decided to do. All right, We've got another
Speaker 1: updated trafficking weather coming your way right here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty whas thank you, John at Is six
Speaker 1: thirty five. Here a Kentucky This Morning News on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you, Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: John Alden, and John Shannon, who you just heard alongside
Speaker 1: as we get the week started. Hopefully you guys had
Speaker 1: yourselves a good weekend. One of the stories that John
Speaker 1: has mentioned this morning is the crackdown on shoplifting and
Speaker 1: the mini arrest that took place over the last week
Speaker 1: with LMPD. I think eighty three arrested, nearly actually eighty
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars worth of stolen merchandise recovered. And I've
Speaker 1: been in stores where I've seen lost prevention have somebody
Speaker 1: stopped and police are on the way. I've also seen
Speaker 1: a lot of TikTok videos that show like bodycam footage
Speaker 1: of somebody getting caught stealing, and that has led to
Speaker 1: me meeting the TikTok videos. I kind of sometimes fall
Speaker 1: in a rabbit hole. I'm like, man, I want to
Speaker 1: see how this ends, because there'll be like five parts
Speaker 1: within TikTok that show the loss prevention officer sharing details
Speaker 1: and evidence with actual law enforcement. And I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not a thief, so I can't relate. But when I
Speaker 1: go to stores like this, I'm never thinking about who's
Speaker 1: near me who may be stealing, and not that anybody
Speaker 1: should do that, because you just never know. But it
Speaker 1: goes on a lot more than I think people realize
Speaker 1: as far as just things, that the amount of items
Speaker 1: to get stolen from these types of stores on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, and hence the reason why they're trying to
Speaker 1: really really crack down on it. And sometimes you'll see
Speaker 1: someone gets you know, you'll see somebody stopped, or you'll
Speaker 1: see somebody with one item and you think, okay, well,
Speaker 1: I guess they tried to get greedy. I mean there
Speaker 1: are people who will will actually purchase stuff and then
Speaker 1: have maybe eight to ten items that they fake scanned
Speaker 1: on the on the self checkout. And I'm sure you
Speaker 1: get away with it enough to where you think you can.
Speaker 1: You can always do it and get away with it,
Speaker 1: and eventually you get caught. But then there are some
Speaker 1: there are somewhere they'll end up chasing somebody out of
Speaker 1: the store, law enforcement will get them, and in their vehicle,
Speaker 1: I mean, their entire vehicle is just nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just what they do. I guess they just drive
Speaker 1: around to different stores and they've got a plan and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure it's it's working well for them,
Speaker 1: and you know, until they get caught.
Speaker 2: Well, and there's you know, there's more amongst the big
Speaker 2: major retailers. There's a new initiative by them, and sort
Speaker 2: of their mentality is they tell their employees don't chase
Speaker 2: them outside the store. So when you see these videos,
Speaker 2: I watch the same one as you do. And when
Speaker 2: you see folks, you're like, why are you standing there
Speaker 2: just letting them leave? They tell their employees that because
Speaker 2: their employees their safety what they're pointing first, and they're
Speaker 2: you know, insurance will cover the cost of for these
Speaker 2: big box stores, they can absorb that cost. But they
Speaker 2: tell the employees to let them go and sit down
Speaker 2: and fight with them, just let them go. And it
Speaker 2: is I know some folks that work and lost prevention
Speaker 2: and it's amazing the stories they come back with where
Speaker 2: they tell you how the lengths people will go to
Speaker 2: to not only steal stuff, but to think they can
Speaker 2: steal it.
Speaker 1: What blows my mind is the already being caught, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the jig is up right, yet they'll still be adamant
Speaker 1: that this.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again they're good liars because I'm so
Speaker 1: convinced at times well I don't believe them, but man,
Speaker 1: they don't. They seem convincing. But clearly the evidence is
Speaker 1: here that you know you were you were stealing something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: lost prevention, man, that would be a thankless gig. It's
Speaker 1: clearly an important one and it's very needed. But you
Speaker 1: you're there to make sure as best you can, as
Speaker 1: far as what you're able to do, that merchandise does
Speaker 1: not get stolen, and you keep your eye on the
Speaker 1: store to make sure you know that stuff doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But once you get down to it, you are limited
Speaker 1: at times and what you can and should do.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you've got to keep and you've got to
Speaker 2: be cut out for that gig to be able to
Speaker 2: do it, and you've got to be able to mindset.
Speaker 2: It's one that I think has a lot of job security,
Speaker 2: especially when times get tough, they probably see more of it.
Speaker 3: But it is it's a double a story.
Speaker 2: It's refreshing to see stories tell their folks, hey, look,
Speaker 2: don't chase them out the door. But if there's so
Speaker 2: much stuff going on that it increases my price because
Speaker 2: they have to cover the cost. And I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people that shop local. I'm a big shop
Speaker 2: local guy. I swear by that. But also at the
Speaker 2: same time, you know, the bigger box stores can absorb
Speaker 2: stuff like this and still carry.
Speaker 3: On the prices for us.
Speaker 2: But the lengths people will go to it, and it's
Speaker 2: not just material stuff. If you've ever seen people try
Speaker 2: to steal stuff out of the grocery store, which again,
Speaker 2: I've got a soft spot for folks with homelessness and hunger,
Speaker 2: and if somebody's going to those lengths to steal food,
Speaker 2: that means they're pretty hungry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there are also some great stories that come
Speaker 1: from from I think having body cams on law enforcement
Speaker 1: is beneficial in a variety of ways. But it also
Speaker 1: lets you see good things that maybe you wouldn't believe
Speaker 1: because you just have your own built up perception of
Speaker 1: law enforcement. But there was a there was a woman
Speaker 1: who was stealing food from a dollar General just to
Speaker 1: try to you know, just to try to feed her family.
Speaker 1: And she was sighted and the officer paid for out
Speaker 1: of her own pocket. The officer paid for what the
Speaker 1: cost would have been for what she was stealing. So
Speaker 1: she could, you know, she could feed her family and
Speaker 1: just basically say, you know, there's other ways to get help,
Speaker 1: there's other ways to get assistance. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: do my job, but I'm also going to help you here,
Speaker 1: and you know that's that's so we need more stories
Speaker 1: like that out there, because I'm sure it happens more
Speaker 1: than people realize.
Speaker 3: Yep. So all right, we've got another.
Speaker 1: Update of trafficking weather coming your way right here on
Speaker 1: news Radio A forty whas. It is six forty six
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky and it's morning news on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you. Scott Fitzgerald is
Speaker 1: like me. He enjoys the platform that is TikTok. A
Speaker 1: lot of people think TikTok's just this app where people
Speaker 1: dance and and you can find that there. You can
Speaker 1: find a lot of things on TikTok. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think if you, you know, if you really gave
Speaker 1: it a shot, and if you don't want to use
Speaker 1: that app and you just don't want to do social media,
Speaker 1: good for you, because you probably spend your time much more.
Speaker 1: You use your time more wisely than I do. I'm
Speaker 1: sure but it's also you know, it's a valuable thing
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks. And the reason I'm bringing
Speaker 1: this up is because Trump is going to extend the
Speaker 1: TikTok reprieve again because there's been a deadline that gets
Speaker 1: set to where it needs to be sold, meaning TikTok,
Speaker 1: and it hasn't sold because you know, finding a buyer
Speaker 1: for certain things is pretty difficult to do. I would say,
Speaker 1: finding somebody who would be in the market to purchase
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest and most popular social media app. Currently
Speaker 1: aren't many people with the budget that could afford to
Speaker 1: purchase that. So this I think will continue to be
Speaker 1: kicked down the road until something something changes, because I
Speaker 1: just don't see a scenario where they're going to get
Speaker 1: rid of it. The opportunity to do so was there
Speaker 1: and then it was gone for maybe forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: not even that long actually, and it came right back.
Speaker 2: And with so many people using it. Like you said,
Speaker 2: you and I both go down that rabbit hole numerous times.
Speaker 2: I know John's used it before, and you know, the
Speaker 2: advertising potential is there for a lot of folks and influencers,
Speaker 2: let's be honest, influencers rely on that I'm starting to
Speaker 2: know as more retailers are relying on that, which is cool,
Speaker 2: and they're finding innovative ways to come up with it.
Speaker 2: But I like the point you made, and that is,
Speaker 2: you know, TikTok may not be for you. You may
Speaker 2: be a Facebook person, whereas I couldn't stand Facebook, and
Speaker 2: I was so glad once I finally put that down.
Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier last week that Twitter is a great
Speaker 2: resource for you for information, and I was as I
Speaker 2: was scrolling through Twitter this weekend, I found myself saying
Speaker 2: the same thing. Sure that it's great for getting information
Speaker 2: and it's wonderful, but as far as interaction with folks,
Speaker 2: it's just not.
Speaker 1: Engagement is not is not what I would recommend when
Speaker 1: it comes to that platform. But again for info, and
Speaker 1: you choose who you follow, so you see, you know,
Speaker 1: you get a chance to just specifically see what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. Now you can also go to the four You,
Speaker 1: which it's their version of trying to give you an
Speaker 1: algorithm that they believe they know what you want to intern,
Speaker 1: they know what you want to see, and sometimes they
Speaker 1: swing and miss, and sometimes it's fairly fairly accurate. But
Speaker 1: Donald Trump signed an executive order extending the deadline for
Speaker 1: Bite Dance, which that's actually the Chinese parent company that
Speaker 1: owns TikTok Byte Dance. So it's been extended seventy five days,
Speaker 1: another seventy five days, so it looks like April twenty
Speaker 1: six was the was the last deadline, which of course
Speaker 1: has been has been extended, and now it'll look yeah,
Speaker 1: it's they're.
Speaker 3: Going to continue, like the debt ceiling. Now it's like
Speaker 3: right right, it's right down.
Speaker 2: Well, did you see the reaction from folks when the
Speaker 2: first deadline showed. I mean just oh yeah, the TikTok
Speaker 2: videos people were putting out prior to that, I mean
Speaker 2: they were staunchly, like serious, like you're not doing this.
Speaker 1: I felt I felt bad about myself because I realized that,
Speaker 1: you know, my life will be okay, I'm not really
Speaker 1: going to be impacted by it, but it made me
Speaker 1: realize that I would truly miss it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I think one of the big misconceptions about why
Speaker 1: taking this away could impact folks more than you realize
Speaker 1: is that you know, and social media, in most instances,
Speaker 1: you need millions upon millions of followers to genuinely be
Speaker 1: able to monetize that at a high level. But what
Speaker 1: makes TikTok interesting is, let me give an example. I
Speaker 1: have somebody I know who's a videographer and they have,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen hundred followers, nothing crazy, but they share
Speaker 1: gear that they use. And if they put their link
Speaker 1: in their TikTok video for an item that they are
Speaker 1: reviewing and somebody purchases it, depending upon what it costs,
Speaker 1: they make you know, they make some money. Now depending
Speaker 1: on what it costs, it could be a decent amount
Speaker 1: of money or whatnot. But that's the way to work.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I don't know if that's probably not
Speaker 1: many people's soul income. But like the misconception that the
Speaker 1: only people actually making money off TikTok or those that
Speaker 1: have millions of followers, that's not the case because there's
Speaker 1: different ways you can use it. So I'm pro TikTok,
Speaker 1: but I think there's some real reason as to why
Speaker 1: there was some concerns about the you know, the information
Speaker 1: that was obtained by those who were on TikTok. But
Speaker 1: keep it around. I'm entertained by it, and I think
Speaker 1: they're going to continue to keep it here. And something
Speaker 1: shakes because I can't imagine them just taking it away,
Speaker 1: given that so many people use it and rely on
Speaker 1: it all right, Another update of trafficking weather coming up.
Speaker 1: Also another update of sports with Scott Fitzgerald right here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas