Speaker 1: John, Thank you very much. Good morning, Welcome to Thursday.
Speaker 2: As we like to say, Thursday is the new Friday
Speaker 2: here in news Radio EID forty WHS.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, July seventeenth. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. John Alden's in
Speaker 2: studio D and you heard John shit and there nick
Speaker 2: coffee taking care of some personal business. He'll be back
Speaker 2: with us sun tomorrow morning, starting at five o'clock and
Speaker 2: get you going into the weekend. As John mentioned, we
Speaker 2: are dealing with a case of the measles here in Louisville,
Speaker 2: and we were talking about vaccinations earlier. We'll talk more
Speaker 2: about that coming up on Kentucky Focus this weekend. I
Speaker 2: talk with some folks there and plus Generative AI, and
Speaker 2: it's a big part of classrooms right now.
Speaker 1: It's a big part of our lives. It's not going away.
Speaker 2: The genie is out of the bottle, So how can
Speaker 2: we best manage that and work as parents and educators
Speaker 2: with our children as the new school year starts. We'll
Speaker 2: also talk about that coming up on Kentucky Focus this weekend. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we're sort of dealing with a dilemma here at news
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty WHS. Our coffee maker is out here again.
Speaker 1: That means no coffee for folks.
Speaker 2: It started last Saturday when Joe and Jack Avino came
Speaker 2: in John, and she poked her head in the door.
Speaker 2: I sit here in the studio on Saturday's wee kah
Speaker 2: and she poked her head in the door, and she goes,
Speaker 2: is the coffee maker not working? I think those are
Speaker 2: the Those are almost the worst words you can hear.
Speaker 2: Next too, I don't think the air conditioners working. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those are two both both very bad scenarios. You wake
Speaker 2: up in the morning and you just see your debagie
Speaker 2: rising on your air conditioner, and you're like, you know
Speaker 2: what's coming. So the coffee maker has not worked all week,
Speaker 2: so we've all had to improvise. I've switched over to
Speaker 2: the energy drinks. John, you are making coffee at home now, thankfully.
Speaker 3: So you told me on Monday morning, early Monday morning
Speaker 3: that you really that was going to be out, and
Speaker 3: so I was already heading out that day. I stopped
Speaker 3: at a gas station the first couple of days heading in,
Speaker 3: and then I realized I can't be doing that every
Speaker 3: single day. So I'm like, you know what I'm gonna
Speaker 3: set up the coffee maker overnight, like an old school
Speaker 3: way of doing things, and you know, just wake up
Speaker 3: in the morning, feed the baby, turn on the coffee pot,
Speaker 3: and there it is ready for me as I'm getting
Speaker 3: ready to go. It's not the most convenient thing, but
Speaker 3: it is at the same time and save me some money.
Speaker 3: And so I'm glad I'm able to do that. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, I do miss having that here
Speaker 3: because that only allows me one cup of coffee the
Speaker 3: way that I'm doing things now, whereas I can have
Speaker 3: as much as I want whenever the coffee maker's working here.
Speaker 1: How long does your cough?
Speaker 2: I'll see your coffee buzz last year if you have
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee when you going for that second cup, I.
Speaker 3: Try to spread them out two hours apart in the morning,
Speaker 3: just so I'm not doing it overdoing it in one
Speaker 3: you know, go. But I do like to just kind
Speaker 3: of have a warm drink, and so it is tempting
Speaker 3: to just go from one cup immediately to the second one,
Speaker 3: but I do try to spread them out.
Speaker 2: See you're like me, and when we were talking off
Speaker 2: the air, I'll pop it every half hour. But see
Speaker 2: and see there's smaller cups. I still use the styrophone
Speaker 2: cups they give us here at the station. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've used my own coffee cup before, but one I
Speaker 2: either lose it, or I break it, or I leave
Speaker 2: it here. So the station provides us with the styrofoam cubs.
Speaker 2: And to your point, it's about thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: In each of these studios. And since the weight loss,
Speaker 1: I get colder faster.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so it's a comfort thing for me to
Speaker 2: have that cup of coffee in my hand in the morning.
Speaker 2: My problem is I need to take your advice because
Speaker 2: if I'm popping a cup every half hour, I'm not
Speaker 2: necessarily flying off the walls. But I certainly by the
Speaker 2: time we get to about eight o'clock, i'm done with coffee.
Speaker 2: And I hate doing that because I've discovered and I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's an age thing, and I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. But you know, Saturday afternoon, I
Speaker 2: have no beef with making myself a cup of coffee
Speaker 2: because I like to taste, not because I'm tired, just
Speaker 2: because I like taste.
Speaker 3: I could drink coffee all day, every day if it
Speaker 3: didn't have the you know, the after effects of it.
Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, and my daughter bought one of those espressos,
Speaker 2: which I've come to find myself being.
Speaker 1: I'm my own little personal barista. Like I experiment with it.
Speaker 1: So I'll throw and like I make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get the espresso cups and I'll throw those
Speaker 2: in and start throwing some. I didn't used to be
Speaker 2: a sugar coffee. Straight black coffee. That's what I like,
Speaker 2: and that's what I drink in the mornings here. But
Speaker 2: on the weekends I like to try to mess around,
Speaker 2: and especially come Christmas time, it's nice because you can
Speaker 2: play around with the cinnamon and all that stuff and
Speaker 2: make that. But apparently, apparently, worldwide, it's estimated that over
Speaker 2: two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.
Speaker 1: Well I don't one hundred percent believe.
Speaker 2: Then I do too, and it's it's a little different
Speaker 2: now because I don't know what was the case when
Speaker 2: you were growing up, But when I was growing up,
Speaker 2: it was like folks just had coffee in the morning.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: There were no coffee shops on every corner. You had
Speaker 2: coffee shops, you had coffee and donut shops, but people
Speaker 2: weren't drinking coffee like they are now, and of course
Speaker 2: that's expanded into energy drinks, and as I mentioned, I'm
Speaker 2: drinking the energy drink in the morning, which is getting
Speaker 2: me by It goes on to say that here in
Speaker 2: the United States, by the way, sixty six percent of
Speaker 2: Americans drink coffee every day. It's about one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty million daily coffee drinkers in the US alone.
Speaker 3: Do you have a cut off for yourself in the evening?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I can't drink it in the evening.
Speaker 3: Before before I switched over to early mornings with you guys,
Speaker 3: I could do a cup of coffee as late as
Speaker 3: eight o'clock at night. If I do that, now that's
Speaker 3: a mistake. Well, I think it's about five or six
Speaker 3: o'clock because this as late as I'll do a cup
Speaker 3: of coffee.
Speaker 1: Nowadayeah, you'll be up. You'll be up all night.
Speaker 2: And then in some cases for you, if you're up
Speaker 2: feeding Daisy, that kind of comes in handy.
Speaker 1: This, that's true.
Speaker 3: Thankful, she's getting to the point to where she is sleeping,
Speaker 3: not all the way through the night, but we only
Speaker 3: get up to feed her once, and it's right before
Speaker 3: I get ready to come here. So that kind of
Speaker 3: just works out with my my current you know, the
Speaker 3: regular schedule if you will.
Speaker 1: You know, and do you do this sugar and cream
Speaker 1: type thing or all black coffee? Yep. See. What's interesting though,
Speaker 1: is that you know, we're going on what day three now.
Speaker 2: Without a coffee maker, and unfortunately we have coffee. We
Speaker 2: have a couple of coffee shops close by. That's true,
Speaker 2: just leave the office and go down there. But for folks,
Speaker 2: when you walk in that office and there's no coffee
Speaker 2: and you're used to coffee being there, that's a problem
Speaker 2: for a lot of people. So we'll see, hopefully we
Speaker 2: get it fixed and whatnot as we move on through
Speaker 2: here in the morning. Fortunately, they keep our fridge stocked
Speaker 2: with some caffeinated drinks if we'd like those.
Speaker 1: They take care of us here at iHeart.
Speaker 2: We're we're not starving to stay awake here, So speaking
Speaker 2: of that, we're back after this. John, It's John Alden
Speaker 2: down in studio d John Shannon, I'm Scott fitzgeril Nick.
Speaker 1: Coffee back tomorrow at five here at NewsRadio eight forty whas.
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Speaker 2: Now News Radio eight forty WHS this Thursday, July seventeenth.
Speaker 2: I'm Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden down in studio d John Shann.
Speaker 1: I'm work in the control room Nick Coffee taking care
Speaker 1: of some personal business.
Speaker 2: He'll be back with us starting at five am tomorrow
Speaker 2: and coming up at nine o'clock mister Tony Venetti and DWIGHTE.
Speaker 1: Witting, Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 4: We're gonna take calls from the jump. We usually don't
Speaker 4: do that right at nine, but we're gonna take your
Speaker 4: calls on what you dislike. It's a form of the
Speaker 4: old hate Day. If you remember Scott, Yes, sir, I do.
Speaker 4: It was a big deal. That was an adam neft
Speaker 4: idea that there was only there's only one day a
Speaker 4: year when there's no sports, and that was the day
Speaker 4: after the Baseball All Star Game. It was the only
Speaker 4: day of the year no sports. So we said, let's
Speaker 4: do a hate day, and we did it and it
Speaker 4: was great. It was awesome, So we we're bringing it back.
Speaker 1: Soone comes to hate when it's Tony Vannetti.
Speaker 4: There's several things that irritate me. There's some hate and
Speaker 4: irritate like people that walk around a store with their
Speaker 4: speaker on and talking out loud. They're holding a platter
Speaker 4: and it's and they're talking so loud and we can
Speaker 4: hear the person on the phone. You're just like, dude,
Speaker 4: are you what what said to you?
Speaker 1: From?
Speaker 4: It's crazy, you know, because.
Speaker 2: One of the things in my dislikes are loud sneezers
Speaker 2: and repetitive sneezers.
Speaker 1: So it was really for turn my wife, because she
Speaker 1: is that person. So I'm in her story four in
Speaker 1: a row. Yes, I'm in the store the other day
Speaker 1: and it's people that sneeze and loud yawners.
Speaker 4: Yes they Oh, thank you, John, so good.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do hate day. Wait, what do you think?
Speaker 4: The terms Dwight the most everything? Everything, It's everything.
Speaker 1: There's not a list long enough.
Speaker 4: No, he again, we think lockeall McLean is gonna call in.
Speaker 4: He is the king of hate. Okay, but Dwight. Dwight
Speaker 4: thinks he's low maintenance, or he thinks he's he thinks
Speaker 4: he's low maintenance. He is high maintenance. Everything irritates. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: Well we'll get him in here and he'll he'll get
Speaker 4: on a roll.
Speaker 3: John, what do you hate? I hate a lot of things.
Speaker 3: I'll start with this. I hate the downtown traffic lights.
Speaker 3: Whatever traffic light system we have right now, it does
Speaker 3: not work for cars. It's catered to humans, and there's
Speaker 3: not enough humans walking downtown for it to cater to that.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 2: If if you come down early enough, it's like a
Speaker 2: zombie walking. You gotta keep your head on a swivel
Speaker 2: now because you've got people wandering around and you don't
Speaker 2: see him.
Speaker 3: There's more people wandering around downtown than there are actual
Speaker 3: people trying to use the crosswalk.
Speaker 4: I think, well, yes, clear or washing themselves naked in
Speaker 4: the spring about the hotels. But I think there will
Speaker 4: be several things that everyone hates. Yeah, right, Like the
Speaker 4: guy that gets up when the plane lands, stands in
Speaker 4: the in the h You know he's way back, but
Speaker 4: he stands in the aisle. You just saved yourself ten seconds. Congratulations, right,
Speaker 4: But every one of the planes like, oh there you go.
Speaker 1: Do they still clap when the plane lands.
Speaker 4: When it's a rough landing, you know, thank God God.
Speaker 2: Yeah, before we get out here, Tony, I did when
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to talk to you. Both you
Speaker 2: and I are close to the archdis is a little
Speaker 2: the Catholic Education Foundation, you are a big spokesperson for them.
Speaker 1: A big advocate for them. Heart how are they doing
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 4: Great? Thirty six hundred kids heard the answer. Yes, this
Speaker 4: is an opportunity for kids and families that can't afford
Speaker 4: to go to Catholic school. We will will pay for it.
Speaker 4: But they have they have a little a stake in it.
Speaker 4: They pay a little bit, they work at the schools
Speaker 4: and doing all that kind of stuff. But thirty six
Speaker 4: hundred kids that could not have gone and it changes
Speaker 4: their li And this is all private money. This isn't
Speaker 4: government money, this isn't state money. This is thirty This
Speaker 4: is thirty six hundred kids. Seven million every year. So
Speaker 4: January one we start over and we raised seven million dollars.
Speaker 4: Again that's the community because you know that, you know,
Speaker 4: if you give a kid a base anything that life
Speaker 4: throws at him later divorces and losing a job or
Speaker 4: whatever it is, you can handle it if you go
Speaker 4: to those schools where the teachers care and the curriculum
Speaker 4: is a little bit better and they give you a
Speaker 4: base for life. And that's what the Catholic Education Foundation.
Speaker 4: John Asher was one of the original founders of the
Speaker 4: Catholic Education Foundation, and when he passed away, they asked
Speaker 4: me to be involved and I could not say no.
Speaker 4: And I had no idea what I was getting into,
Speaker 4: but for the good, Like I didn't know how my
Speaker 4: heart would just connect to this.
Speaker 2: And you guys, of course a big part of the
Speaker 2: salute to the game lunch in between Santex and Trinity. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's a big, big stepping stone. Now folks are listening
Speaker 2: and they may not have heard of the Catholic Education Foundation.
Speaker 2: They want to pursue. Yeah, how do they get involved
Speaker 2: in that?
Speaker 4: Dot org? Go to the website. You do not have
Speaker 4: to be Catholic to go to Catholic school. You understand
Speaker 4: that you do not have to be affiliated with with
Speaker 4: the with the religion to go to school. Plenty of
Speaker 4: kids don't, right, so that's the number one thing. Well,
Speaker 4: my kids, we're not Catholic. Doesn't matter, all right. You
Speaker 4: want a choice, and again you give them that first
Speaker 4: through eighth grade. They'll probably make a choice for one
Speaker 4: of the Big five schools, but doesn't matter where they
Speaker 4: go from there because they'll have the base. So go
Speaker 4: to the Catholic Education Foundation. Website apply and of course
Speaker 4: our slug line is the answer is yes.
Speaker 1: That's outstanding. And again you're hosting the salute to the
Speaker 1: Game lunch, and.
Speaker 4: Again Holy we have Coach Kelsey is a huge Catholic
Speaker 4: from Cincinnati. He's part of the Holy Trinity Parish. His
Speaker 4: son's a little basketball player, I think in fifth grade
Speaker 4: or something at Holy Trinity. He's going to jump up
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the luncheon and do his why
Speaker 4: I'm a Catholic, Da da dah.
Speaker 2: As he formed an allegiance yet to any one of
Speaker 2: the Catholic schools here?
Speaker 1: Is he going to stay?
Speaker 4: Well you meet high schools. Yeah, I don't know yet
Speaker 4: because I think his kids are his daughter's r at Assumption.
Speaker 4: Maybe okay, but I don't know about the sun yet.
Speaker 4: That'll be a big question.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Well, so it's hey Day coming up, and you guys
Speaker 2: are gonna talk about hate.
Speaker 1: So if people want to vent, will you take calls
Speaker 1: on Hey Day?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? If we're taking calls from everybody, so what what
Speaker 4: do you dislike? Five seven, one, eight, four eighty four.
Speaker 4: We're taking calls all shows, so lock it in good
Speaker 4: See again, my friends, Sir John Alden.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, buddy, appreciate you. See you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right, my man, we'll do it all again tomorrow
Speaker 2: thanks to John Alden. You all have a great day again.
Speaker 2: Tune in Terry Miners and Company on the way home
Speaker 2: with Jay Cardosi. Storms could get a little dicey around
Speaker 2: three o'clock this afternoon, could make you drive home complicated.
Speaker 2: Nick coffee back with us at five o'clock. I'm Scott Fitztreld.
Speaker 2: Have a great day everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow.