Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky A.
Speaker 2: It is eighth five here Kentucky, Ana's morning News on
Speaker 2: news radio eight to forty, whas Nick Coffee with you. So,
Speaker 2: the death toll is rising in regards to the flooding
Speaker 2: that took place in Texas. Just a tragic situation all
Speaker 2: the way around. There are now at least one hundred
Speaker 2: and four people that have been confirmed killed by the
Speaker 2: flooding that took place in the Guadalupe River, and there
Speaker 2: are more than forty that are still missing as they
Speaker 2: continue to search.
Speaker 1: So again we're.
Speaker 2: Talking about water that came down on Friday, rain I
Speaker 2: should say that got the water up twenty six feet
Speaker 2: in just forty five minutes. So just a tragic situation
Speaker 2: all the way around. And we'll get more on that
Speaker 2: situation coming up around eight thirty when we are joined
Speaker 2: by Roy O'Neal of NBC News. So a story that
Speaker 2: you're going to see today from our partners WKY is
Speaker 2: because it was an interview that they did last week
Speaker 2: that has gotten somebody in a little bit of trouble
Speaker 2: that was already in some trouble.
Speaker 1: And I am I'm fascinated.
Speaker 2: By those who just I guess have selective remorse because
Speaker 2: I don't think it's accountability if it only kicks in.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not accountability if it only kicks in
Speaker 2: after the plea deal. So for those who haven't followed
Speaker 2: the Jamie Noel and again I guess the Noel family situation.
Speaker 2: He is a former Clark Ketty Sheriff, Jamie Noella is
Speaker 2: and he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for
Speaker 2: misusing taxpayer money, in fact millions of personal expenses that
Speaker 2: was coming from taxpayer funds. So he's already been found guilty.
Speaker 2: He pleaded guilty to twenty seven felonies and again he
Speaker 2: got twelve years in prison. Well, his estrange wife last
Speaker 2: week she pled guilty to five counts of theft and
Speaker 2: five counts of tax evasion for using New Chapel Ems
Speaker 2: funds for personal purchases. So her plea deal was accepted
Speaker 2: last week on July the third, and she was sentenced
Speaker 2: to eighteen months in prison in order to pay restitution
Speaker 2: of over six hundred and sixty thousand dollars to New
Speaker 2: Chapel Ems and roughly thirty thousand dollars to the Indiana
Speaker 2: Department of Revenue. So right after she was sentenced, she
Speaker 2: did an interview with Wie OK why and she I
Speaker 2: guess just felt like that was a good idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can't speak for her, but my guess is that
Speaker 2: she still wanted to try to make it out that
Speaker 2: she didn't do anything wrong. She wanted to do I
Speaker 2: guess have the last word here, because yes, the news
Speaker 2: was that she had pled guilty and had been sentenced
Speaker 2: to eighteen months in prison, but she wanted to be
Speaker 2: on camera and say that she was you know, she
Speaker 2: was misled by her estranged husband into believing the nonprofit
Speaker 2: was his private business, not taxpayer funded.
Speaker 1: So you can't do that.
Speaker 2: And the judge Larry Medlock ruled yesterday that her statement
Speaker 2: suggested that she did not quote knowingly and intentionally commit theft,
Speaker 2: which undermines her plea deal. So he has ordered that
Speaker 2: you know, yeah says here that Medlock's order stated that
Speaker 2: a guilty plea cannot stand if the defendant maintains innocence,
Speaker 2: So he is scheduled a rule to show cause hearing
Speaker 2: to consider setting aside the plea and possibly proceeding to
Speaker 2: a trial, citing potential contempt of court for her contradictory
Speaker 2: statements in the interview and of course when.
Speaker 1: She actually pleaded guilty.
Speaker 2: So to me, this just screams a level of arrogance
Speaker 2: just to think that anybody would believe you that you
Speaker 2: don't think you did anything wrong, and if anything, you're
Speaker 2: just guilty of believing your husband and blaming it all
Speaker 2: on him. And certainly he is guilty. He pled guilty,
Speaker 2: he was sentenced to twelve years in prison. But I
Speaker 2: just to go on camera and want to act just
Speaker 2: the assumption that you could then convince people that you're
Speaker 2: not guilty and you did nothing wrong. And I don't know,
Speaker 2: there's arrogance, there's delusion, but again I think it's it's
Speaker 2: not real remorse. And you also have to keep in mind,
Speaker 2: like think of your audience. Did you think that anybody
Speaker 2: wanted to hear you on television doing an exclusive? And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was an exclusive or not,
Speaker 2: but the Olky interview is the one that ended up
Speaker 2: airing the day I guess it was the day of
Speaker 2: four sentencings. So anyways, long story short, she had inconsistencies
Speaker 2: with the interview she did and when she actually was
Speaker 2: was pleading guilty, and that's going to potentially come back
Speaker 2: to bite her. But your audience when it comes to
Speaker 2: the news channel, it's likely going to be not filled.
Speaker 2: But there's probably plenty of people in Clark County that
Speaker 2: it was their tax money. It was you know, their
Speaker 2: taxpayers who their money was misused by you and your
Speaker 2: family for millions of dollars of personal expenses. I mean,
Speaker 2: to I don't know, just to me, it's I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess it's karma. Now, maybe it ends up being nothing,
Speaker 2: But I guess there's a chance that she could end
Speaker 2: up going to trial and in the plea deal be removed,
Speaker 2: and at that point, I guess she could be looking
Speaker 2: at more than just an eighteen months an eighteen month sentence.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think sometimes, Look, I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: This is a sad reality. There are people who pled
Speaker 2: guilty and had to just lie in court and say
Speaker 2: they're guilty because they just are of the opinion that
Speaker 2: this is the best course of action because they're up
Speaker 2: against it, right, they don't have a great defense. Now
Speaker 2: there's also the Alford please, which will let you plead
Speaker 2: guilty but maintain innocence and claim that you are just
Speaker 2: acknowledging there's enough evidence to convict you, But I just
Speaker 2: I don't know the claiming you still are completely I mean,
Speaker 2: to me, that's somebody who's likely to commit a similar
Speaker 2: crime again because in their mind, like this is it.
Speaker 2: Let me give you an old George Costanza line, like
Speaker 2: it's not a lie if you believe it. Like I
Speaker 2: think that's what a lot of people do, Like they
Speaker 2: deep down know if they did or didn't do something,
Speaker 2: but they just convinced themselves internally mentally and live life
Speaker 2: as if like they didn't commit crimes and do awful things.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I know I'm going to be following to
Speaker 2: see what ends up happening here. But any of the
Speaker 2: Noel family has has faced charges and clearly, heart I
Speaker 2: mean I have a heart time thinking any of them
Speaker 2: were unaware.
Speaker 1: Of what they were doing. But that's just me. All right.
Speaker 2: We've got another update of traffick in weather coming your way. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll tell you which you need to know about the
Speaker 2: construction project going on on the Waters and Expressway which
Speaker 2: is going to lead to some potential traffic in the evening.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that in a lot more. It's Kentucky.
Speaker 2: It's morning news right here on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas it is eight sixteen here at Kentucky. It is
Speaker 2: Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas John Alden alongside. And we are going to be
Speaker 2: seeing some traffic in the evening on Waterson on the
Speaker 2: Waterston Expressway moving forward, because last night is when the
Speaker 2: I guess construction began. This is going to widen and
Speaker 2: improve the Waterson Expressway, and it looks as if, yeah,
Speaker 2: last night there were lane closures that started from seven
Speaker 2: pm to five am this morning, and this is going
Speaker 2: to be nightly, so again keep in mind this won't
Speaker 2: be during the day, but that doesn't mean that despite
Speaker 2: even you know, despite this not being in your typical
Speaker 2: drive time when people are going to work or coming
Speaker 2: home from work, you know, if you've got lane closures,
Speaker 2: there still could obviously be some some traffic that you
Speaker 2: want to be aware of. So later this week there's
Speaker 2: going to be ramp closures from the Waterston too is
Speaker 2: seventy one north and South, and it doesn't say here
Speaker 2: as far as yeah, it doesn't look like they know
Speaker 2: what time that's going to take place, but obviously just
Speaker 2: be prepared. And I'm sure you know that's if you
Speaker 2: are somebody that is often taking this you're on Waterson
Speaker 2: often and you know you probably already know you probably
Speaker 2: you could probably see where they were starting to work
Speaker 2: if it was going to impact your commute, So just
Speaker 2: be prepared against. The good news is that it's not
Speaker 2: going to be, you know, twenty four seven, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be during the rush hour. But Bashir yesterday
Speaker 2: announced one hundred and thirty million dollar project to increase
Speaker 2: the capacity of I two, sixty four, I seventy one
Speaker 2: and US Highway forty two, which is of course known
Speaker 2: to a lot of people as Brownsboro Road. So again,
Speaker 2: just be mindful of that.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So this situation in Philadelphia is fascinating to me, and
Speaker 2: it's a real reminder that we should probably appreciate certain
Speaker 2: workers that we at times just never think about. Because
Speaker 2: right now you have the entire I guess the entire
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a union, but people who
Speaker 2: work in the sanitation department in Philadelphia, they work for
Speaker 2: the city. They are on strike, which has led to
Speaker 2: nobody being able to get their trash picked up. And
Speaker 2: it's becoming more than just an I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: nightmare in Philadelphia. I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys have seen some of the coverage of this story,
Speaker 2: but these guys that are on strike, guys and gals,
Speaker 2: I should say, whatever they're asking for, I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if they get it, because this is not sustainable.
Speaker 2: And it's just a reminder that if in fact, the
Speaker 2: workers that do that here in this area, if if
Speaker 2: all of them just, you know, decided to go on
Speaker 2: strike and for a month or two months or whatever
Speaker 2: however long it lasted, we didn't have somebody coming to
Speaker 2: pick up our trash.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be that'd be.
Speaker 2: A disaster, right, But there's other like there's other industries
Speaker 2: that I don't think we truly realize how much we
Speaker 2: need these people in these positions, because if they just
Speaker 2: randomly stopped doing what they were doing, I mean, it
Speaker 2: would it would. I don't want to say it would
Speaker 2: shut down the world, but it would. It would cause
Speaker 2: a major impact. I mean, let's just look at truck drivers,
Speaker 2: especially those that have the long haul over the road.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if there was a nationwide strike in
Speaker 2: some form or fashion, which I'm not even sure if
Speaker 2: that would be possible. I mean, think about grocery stores
Speaker 2: having shortages, fuel delays, I mean, medicine supply chain breakdowns.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously the power line workers they held keep
Speaker 2: lights on quite literally, So I think, you know, not
Speaker 2: only do we realize they're important, but just the thought
Speaker 2: of what life would look like if they were if
Speaker 2: they just decided they were going on strike. And I
Speaker 2: guess a lot of it depends upon how competitive a
Speaker 2: certain industry is, right, Like you know, for example, we
Speaker 2: have a few different options here in this area as
Speaker 2: far as who picks up your trash, but there's one
Speaker 2: that's dominant, meaning that has way more customers here in
Speaker 2: the region than most. And if their employees just decided
Speaker 2: to say, yep, we're we're not coming back to work
Speaker 2: until this is taken care of and we get what
Speaker 2: we feel like we deserve, I mean, that would be
Speaker 2: it'd be a nightmare for some people. So I don't
Speaker 2: know when they're going to get any relief in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: but the trash is everywhere, and I imagine it's just
Speaker 2: I mean, again, it's a disaster.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: We've got another update of traving on weather coming your way. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll get another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald as Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's morning news on news Ready to eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: Alright, it is a forty six here a Kentucky and
Speaker 2: it's morning news on News radio eight forty w h
Speaker 2: A s. We'll be handing it off soon to Tony
Speaker 2: and Dwight. Uh, Tony, is it as big of a
Speaker 2: deal as people are making it out that Axel Rose
Speaker 2: and Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne finally met and they've never met
Speaker 2: until recently.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Okay, you would know again your your roots are in
Speaker 2: rock radio, and I feel like this, I mean.
Speaker 3: They're the dichotomy of each other, like Axel.
Speaker 1: How how is Ozzy os One still love?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I got to tell you one
Speaker 4: of the best guys in rock ever, I mean just
Speaker 4: so accommodating, Uh you know, loved everybody, didn't treated the
Speaker 4: lowliest of low to the highest of guy the same way.
Speaker 4: And Axel Rose total opposite jerk jerk phase.
Speaker 2: Now, is that from your experiences that both are just
Speaker 2: what is what is a lot of Well believe that
Speaker 2: my experience is that's the reputation from both correct my yeah,
Speaker 2: my experience echoes what everyone else has said in that,
Speaker 2: so we'll probably admit that in those days he was
Speaker 2: he was you know, he was a jerk. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if he is now because I haven't interviewed him,
Speaker 2: but I've Ozzie could barely speak the times that I
Speaker 2: interviewed him. But then I watched him twenty minutes later
Speaker 2: walk on stage and perform to perfection, and.
Speaker 4: I'm like, how does that happen now? He also, this
Speaker 4: is twenty something years ago. He's incontinent, so he had
Speaker 4: a guy. They have somebody on stage on the side
Speaker 4: of the stage with a bucket of water, so if
Speaker 4: he goes to the bathroom on himself, they would run
Speaker 4: out and throw water on him, so it wouldn't it
Speaker 4: wouldn't look like he did that on himself. So you know,
Speaker 4: he has obviously some physical limitations. But that was twenty
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't mean to he
Speaker 1: I don't how old is he?
Speaker 2: Like, he's seventies, mid to late seventies. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 2: late seventies. I mean I would have assumed he was
Speaker 2: ninety just because my early like Ozzy Osbourne is just
Speaker 2: the name you know as a little kid.
Speaker 1: But if you remember, he was one of the first
Speaker 1: people Reality TV.
Speaker 3: Remember that show, and it made him look awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, it made him look awesome.
Speaker 4: But you got to understand at the beginning of his career,
Speaker 4: what was he famous John.
Speaker 3: Shannon, what one word answer? What was he famous for
Speaker 3: in the Alamo?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Bats?
Speaker 5: Well that too, he bats bats. He bit the head
Speaker 5: off of a bat he on stage.
Speaker 1: Technically again, how was he alive?
Speaker 3: He technically, he says.
Speaker 4: The story was he was with a bunch of record
Speaker 4: reps and there was something and he bit into the
Speaker 4: bat or something as right as a joke or something.
Speaker 4: He didn't bite at all, but he's been but that
Speaker 4: was what he was famous for. Didn't great for his career.
Speaker 5: See as a Texan, when you ask what he's famous for,
Speaker 5: it's for him taking a whiz in the early eighties
Speaker 5: on the side of the Alamo and being banned from
Speaker 5: performing in the state for a decade.
Speaker 1: That was just a rock stars, But that was what
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, that's what you do, he said.
Speaker 5: I saw an interview with him the other day, though
Speaker 5: he said he's been able to live so long, get
Speaker 5: to seventy six like he is now because he's able
Speaker 5: to laugh at himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's true. No, he did.
Speaker 1: He did seem like Makable on that reality show.
Speaker 5: Him and Geene Simmons were like the first reality shows
Speaker 5: that put some stuff on the map for rock and roll.
Speaker 2: And why was acxul in this story because he Yeah,
Speaker 2: So here's what happened the Black Sabbath, Oh yeah, beginning
Speaker 2: farewell show over the weekend and Ozzie was there and
Speaker 2: shared a backstage picture on Instagram, and that was the
Speaker 2: first time those two had met. And I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people knew that because it's a random fact.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of people like myself that are
Speaker 2: surprised here that just given the figures that those two
Speaker 2: guys are in your time when rock radio was rock radio,
Speaker 2: who was the biggest name that had a presence different
Speaker 2: than anybody else that would Evaleen?
Speaker 3: Okay, he was just different.
Speaker 4: He was the only one out of everybody I met
Speaker 4: and we interviewed everybody. For example, one Saturday afternoon, the
Speaker 4: hotline rings and it's my boss. He goes, Oh, I
Speaker 4: forgot you to tell you Foreigner and Doobie Brothers are
Speaker 4: coming in today. They're all going to play, and I
Speaker 4: was like, what, he goes they should be at the
Speaker 4: front door now, and I was like, what it was
Speaker 4: Saturday aftern They all come in, the Doobie Brothers, all guitars.
Speaker 4: They plug in a keyboard. Lou Graham from Foreigner backed
Speaker 4: up the Doobie Brothers on their three songs, taking it
Speaker 4: to the streets and China Growth. And then they backed
Speaker 4: up Foreigner with Lou Graham singing Cold as Ice and
Speaker 4: all that. And I'm sitting at the board interviewing all
Speaker 4: of them and they're singing that stuff happened every day.
Speaker 4: But Eddie was just different. Like when he walked in
Speaker 4: a room, it was like he floated, Yeah, a presence,
Speaker 4: Yeah he floated, He didn't walk, And it.
Speaker 3: Was just and that was when, I mean, they were
Speaker 3: making so much money.
Speaker 2: Well, did you at that time realize sort of? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there have been moments where you think, man,
Speaker 2: I wish I could go back to that. That was awesome,
Speaker 2: But did you know at the time, like.
Speaker 1: What you were, what you were as far as here we.
Speaker 2: Are, many many many years later, don't sound like a grandpa.
Speaker 2: But I mean those are still names that are legends
Speaker 2: generations later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they was it all a blur because rock
Speaker 4: radio was the rock island.
Speaker 3: The rock island got real small.
Speaker 4: That's why I went to seven ninety and did sports
Speaker 4: sho because the rock island got small because rock music
Speaker 4: was dying. Uh. I got in a huge argument with
Speaker 4: Dave Mustaine from Megadeath originally was in Metallica because I said,
Speaker 4: we're telling because I went after him and said, look
Speaker 4: why rock's dying. I was like, there are no bands
Speaker 4: coming up, and he and he disagreed and arguing argued
Speaker 4: who ended up right?
Speaker 1: What killed it? Uh?
Speaker 3: Kid rock?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 3: Rap rock? Rap rock helped killed it.
Speaker 4: Plus Uh, the the moment we got grunge with which
Speaker 4: was great rock music, we called it alternative rock, and
Speaker 4: we split it up to two different stations, so we
Speaker 4: played classic rock. But we should have done is played
Speaker 4: Smashing Pumpkins next to the doors. We should have played Uh,
Speaker 4: we should have played them next to a c DC
Speaker 4: because it belonged, and it belonged to and uh, and
Speaker 4: we didn't. We split them up, and it was not
Speaker 4: alternative rock.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: It just got too fractured.
Speaker 4: I think yeah, but so yeah, so Rock uh pretty
Speaker 4: much and no one's gonna argue with me.
Speaker 3: Rock died r I P. It was what do you have?
Speaker 1: What do you have planned for tomorrow?
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have a really good hour in the TENA.
Speaker 4: It's the Cross Eye Bear Tomorrow at ten am. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have the captain of a Seal Team six for
Speaker 4: ten years. He's gonna break down the Middle East and
Speaker 4: tell us here's the bad guys, here's the good guys,
Speaker 4: and what you should see moving forward, and we'll take
Speaker 4: calls with him.
Speaker 3: So ten am tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tony Dwight a coming next. That's it for us.