Speaker 1: If you are a student abroad that has had dreams
Speaker 1: of studying in the United States, it could be your
Speaker 1: social media, your tweets that are a factor and if
Speaker 1: you if you if you can get a student visa
Speaker 1: or not. It is six oh five here Kazucky has
Speaker 1: morning news on news radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee
Speaker 1: with you. We've got the full crew here. You just
Speaker 1: heard John Shannon with his newscast. We'll have sports coming
Speaker 1: your way here shortly, and of course John Alden alongside.
Speaker 1: So yes, your your tweets could tank your dreams of
Speaker 1: studying in the United States. And I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think that that's a controversial thing by any means, but
Speaker 1: maybe maybe others see it see it differently. So what
Speaker 1: we now know is that the State Department they announced
Speaker 1: that student visa applications must make their so those who apply,
Speaker 1: and I guess throughout the application process, you must make
Speaker 1: your social media accounts public for review with the US
Speaker 1: Counselor Office scan. They're they're looking for probably anything and everything.
Speaker 1: But I guess what the realcus here is any hostility
Speaker 1: toward America that has been expressed on your social media accounts.
Speaker 1: So as visa processing restarts after a trump Ara pause.
Speaker 1: This this is a new role, and of course it's
Speaker 1: raising some eyebrows. And I don't think that that's something
Speaker 1: that like you shouldn't do. I mean, I guess it
Speaker 1: comes down to, uh, you know, yeah, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong here. I'm just trying to think through what
Speaker 1: would be what would make this something that is crossing
Speaker 1: the line as far as you vetting, vetting a potential
Speaker 1: student who is coming here from another country, especially considering
Speaker 1: the current climate across the world. So I know there
Speaker 1: are many of you listening right now that has had
Speaker 1: a moment. Maybe it's once, maybe it's every now and
Speaker 1: then where you realize just sort of how online we
Speaker 1: are now with social media. Everything seems to be now
Speaker 1: powered by the World Wide Web. We get most of
Speaker 1: our information now from social media, and that's a scary
Speaker 1: thing because a lot of things you see on social
Speaker 1: media is not real, and we have a lot of
Speaker 1: people who believe it. So maybe you know you've had
Speaker 1: those moments where you realize, Man, I'm kind of glad
Speaker 1: this wasn't a thing when I was younger, for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. One of those reasons maybe your younger
Speaker 1: self might have expressed things without awareness of what it
Speaker 1: could do to your long term on social media. Maybe
Speaker 1: you know you, maybe you were out doing something and
Speaker 1: you know, just being a kid. Maybe in your mind
Speaker 1: at the time it's harmless. But if that took place
Speaker 1: more so in the modern era, you know what, people
Speaker 1: would have had their phones out and they might have
Speaker 1: been inclined to start videoing you if you were doing
Speaker 1: something that they felt like might get some attention on
Speaker 1: social media. I mean, this isn't new because I think
Speaker 1: there are people on the younger side that are professionals
Speaker 1: that have graduated college, maybe they already have started a
Speaker 1: family that when they were younger, social media was a
Speaker 1: thing Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I mean, these these platforms certainly
Speaker 1: aren't new. But for me whenever I was when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, and I mean a young young kid,
Speaker 1: the Internet was brand new. It was it was dial up,
Speaker 1: and I felt like, as somebody who doesn't have a
Speaker 1: whole lot of patience, it really wasn't worth getting on
Speaker 1: the Internet because of how long it took to do anything. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't know any different because I'd never experienced past
Speaker 1: internet before. Because it didn't exist at that time. But yes,
Speaker 1: if you are somebody abroad that wants to apply for
Speaker 1: a student visa to come to the United States, you
Speaker 1: were going to be required to make your social media
Speaker 1: public and they'll monitor anything and everything. And that has
Speaker 1: to be a little bit of a frightening thing, maybe
Speaker 1: a big time frightening thing, because even if you feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about yeah, there's nothing that they would they
Speaker 1: would find. There's nothing that that would in any way
Speaker 1: show that I have any hostility towards America. But I
Speaker 1: think even if you were just specifically looking for that alone,
Speaker 1: I think it's human nature to maybe seeing a opinion
Speaker 1: that is shared even see let's just say a tweet
Speaker 1: that wasn't sent out by the person, but they liked it,
Speaker 1: meaning that they may potentially be endorsing or supporting somebody
Speaker 1: that said something controversial or maybe had hostility towards America.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you've never had any awareness of it,
Speaker 1: and you've been active and online on social media for
Speaker 1: a big part of your life, I feel like it
Speaker 1: would almost be impossible to truly know if there's anything
Speaker 1: out there that may in fact be a red flag.
Speaker 1: And now again that's subjective what's a red flag to
Speaker 1: some may not be a red flag at all to others.
Speaker 1: But I know whenever a lot of my era, my friends,
Speaker 1: once college wrapped up and everybody was trying to you know,
Speaker 1: grow up and start their their adult lives. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of my you know, for
Speaker 1: what I do, I've got to be very much online.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of my friends they decided
Speaker 1: to make everything very private on any social media platform
Speaker 1: just because it isn't worth the risk of something just
Speaker 1: being it could just be not that you're a bad person,
Speaker 1: but like they could just see something within your social
Speaker 1: media portfolio different platforms that just maybe not a red flag,
Speaker 1: but they just it turns them off and that could
Speaker 1: keep them from hiring you. So I'm sure there's many
Speaker 1: of you listening that are happy that there's no receipts
Speaker 1: from when you were maybe young and immature and didn't
Speaker 1: have the awareness of you know, what you put out
Speaker 1: there and how it could impact you. All Right, we've
Speaker 1: got an update of traffic and weather coming your way
Speaker 1: right here on Who's Radio eight forty WHS. Just as
Speaker 1: soon as it seemed as if we were going to
Speaker 1: get some real regulation within college athletics, and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be such a mess with lawsuits and nobody really knowing
Speaker 1: what the rules are. And if you feel like you
Speaker 1: might have violated a NC DOUBLEA bylaw, you just hire
Speaker 1: a lawyer and you win. I mean, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been a real mess. And the House settlement and the
Speaker 1: recent decision for the NC DOUBLEA to hand over the
Speaker 1: enforcement power, they are now letting these schools handle it themselves,
Speaker 1: the power for commissioners, the powerful conferences, I should say,
Speaker 1: they're now the ones who are going to determine if
Speaker 1: everybody's playing by the rules. And with that, the agreement
Speaker 1: was at least the hope was that everybody would agree, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just stop suing, because when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: to get college athletics cleaned up and regulated, there's certain
Speaker 1: things that they're going to tell you you need to
Speaker 1: to not do right, things that you know bylaws. Right,
Speaker 1: there's got to be rules, there's got to be guardrails essentially,
Speaker 1: But I think everybody realizes now because of what's played
Speaker 1: out in recent years, that they don't really have a
Speaker 1: right to tell you that you can't do certain things.
Speaker 1: And if you hire a lawyer and you take them
Speaker 1: to court, you have a good chance of winning. And
Speaker 1: I thought that was going away, but maybe not. It
Speaker 1: is six seventeen here Knentuckutive Morning News with Nick Coffee
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas we'll get a quick
Speaker 1: update here in a couple of minutes on traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: Also another update on sports. But yesterday it was Michigan's
Speaker 1: House bill for six four to three that was introduced
Speaker 1: by a state representative who also is a former Michigan
Speaker 1: State football player, Joe Tate. He co sponsors this this
Speaker 1: he has co sponsors on this bill and it's and
Speaker 1: it's aimed to curb the n C double A oversight
Speaker 1: of NIL deals. So what this does is it would
Speaker 1: prohibit these Michigan schools, Michigan, Michigan State, and other Division
Speaker 1: one schools I suppose that are in Michigan from reporting
Speaker 1: n I nil deals to the n C double A.
Speaker 1: It's College Sports Commission and a new NIL clearinghouse. So
Speaker 1: again I thought it was a step in the right
Speaker 1: direction that that there would be an agreement, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't just an agreement. I think that they're trying to
Speaker 1: put a document out there to have every school agree
Speaker 1: to sign that says, if you want to continue to
Speaker 1: be a part of the big boy leagues, the power
Speaker 1: for and get those big revenue checks every year from
Speaker 1: your media rights deal, you need to sign this and
Speaker 1: you agree that you will, you will let us enforce
Speaker 1: rules and not hire a lawyer and fight it because
Speaker 1: you don't want to play by the rules. And this
Speaker 1: is the first sign that clearly not everybody is on
Speaker 1: the same page. And not to nerd out too much
Speaker 1: on this, but when it comes to players getting paid,
Speaker 1: this is a big change. Right. We know that there's
Speaker 1: revenue sharing that's going to take place, but that's essentially
Speaker 1: going to serve as a stipend for college athletes, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna get paid by the school. But it isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily based off your performance. It's just each sport has
Speaker 1: a pool of money and it's it's being split up.
Speaker 1: So you can still get NIL deals, but you have
Speaker 1: to go to a new clearinghouse, the NIL clearinghouse, and
Speaker 1: show that this is legitimately name image and likeness. We
Speaker 1: just call it name image and likeness. But the majority
Speaker 1: of the money these college athletes have made it hasn't
Speaker 1: been because they're they're doing work for a company. They're
Speaker 1: they're being bought and that's just how it is. So
Speaker 1: this would prohibit the Michigan schools from having to disclose
Speaker 1: the details of these nil deals so that this clearing
Speaker 1: house could see if it's legit or not. And again,
Speaker 1: what what was so obvious for so long, but now
Speaker 1: it's really playing out, is that what the nsabah I
Speaker 1: had to do as far as there's their archaic amateurism model,
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't legal and that's why they have
Speaker 1: a billion dollar settlement going out to former athletes. And
Speaker 1: now there's revenue sharing because the NCAA just said, hey,
Speaker 1: do this, do that, this is our rules. You don't
Speaker 1: like to deal with it. But from a legal standpoint,
Speaker 1: clearly a judge told them, yeah, what you've been doing forever,
Speaker 1: since the beginning of time, since your existence, that's not legal.
Speaker 1: So more lawsuits and I don't see college sports ever
Speaker 1: being what it once was. But I just wanted to
Speaker 1: not be so chaotic. But we'll see, all right, We
Speaker 1: got an update of trafficking weather. Also another update of
Speaker 1: sport's coming your way right here right now. It's Kasuckyana
Speaker 1: It's Moring News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whs. Thank you, John. It is six thirty five
Speaker 1: here Kentucky and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas. Have you ever wondered what
Speaker 1: old school skills from the Boomer era could still save
Speaker 1: you time, money, or stress today? And let me clarify
Speaker 1: because I had to look this up. When I hear boomer,
Speaker 1: I just think of somebody that is that is on
Speaker 1: the older side and according to the Internet, and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be on the Internet if it wasn't true, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: Boomer The Boomer era is essentially those born between like
Speaker 1: nineteen forty five and nineteen sixty five. So the approximate
Speaker 1: age of boomers is sixty one to seventy nine. So
Speaker 1: I don't use the I don't use the term boomer
Speaker 1: as like an insult, but that's that's you know, if
Speaker 1: you hear boomer, that's that's the age range people are
Speaker 1: talking about. So shout out to all of our our
Speaker 1: our boomers out there, because they apparently they didn't you know,
Speaker 1: when they were younger, they didn't have they didn't have
Speaker 1: technology to rely upon quite like we do, and apparently
Speaker 1: there's some things that even now as we as we
Speaker 1: are here in the New World twenty twenty five, there
Speaker 1: are some things, according to Bold dot com that are
Speaker 1: labeled Boomer inspired life skills that remain surprisingly useful to
Speaker 1: this day. And one of these is spot on Budgeting
Speaker 1: with Cash. Says here that budgeting with cash. Cash will
Speaker 1: help you control spending by making transactions tangible, useful, financial
Speaker 1: useful for financial discipline, which is true. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you don't swipe your debit card and you're not writing checks,
Speaker 1: which checks seems so forty years ago, but I guess
Speaker 1: there are still some people that write personal checks. But
Speaker 1: if you just have cash in your wallet and you
Speaker 1: just know, hey, I'm not swiping the card for anything
Speaker 1: this week, I have already taken out X amount of money,
Speaker 1: and I just checked my wallet to see what I
Speaker 1: have there, and I'll know that unless I've got some
Speaker 1: things automatically coming out of the account, then the account
Speaker 1: should stay should stay where it is. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: budgeting would be easier if you were just relying specifically
Speaker 1: on cash. Although there are some instances where you can't
Speaker 1: pay cash. That's becoming more common right cash less situations
Speaker 1: that are out there. This one is this one is
Speaker 1: this one. I believe we could be in the future
Speaker 1: one hundred years from now and this will still hold
Speaker 1: up ironing clothes because there's a lot of different ways
Speaker 1: in which you can you can keep your clothes from
Speaker 1: being wrinkled. I mean, nowadays, with the new technology, even
Speaker 1: with washer and dryers, you really don't need an iron.
Speaker 1: But if you want your your clothes to be as
Speaker 1: as unwrinkly as possible and as polished and professional, there's
Speaker 1: no there'll never be I'm convinced there's never going to
Speaker 1: be a way better to do it than an old
Speaker 1: fashioned iron and an ironing board. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, there's some spray that you
Speaker 1: can get, and I'm sure there's different products out there
Speaker 1: to where you spray it a little bit, you throw
Speaker 1: it in the dryer to fluff, and you hope that
Speaker 1: whatever this substance is can can help get some wrinkles out.
Speaker 1: And it's effective to an extent, but not more effective
Speaker 1: than the old school ironing board. Also, I learned how
Speaker 1: to use an iron for the first time a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago because I realized if I wanted to
Speaker 1: get this this suit that I had to wear looking
Speaker 1: better than it was the only the only option I
Speaker 1: had at that point that I that I hadn't tried
Speaker 1: yet wasn't iron, and I burned myself, which of course
Speaker 1: is a memory you don't forget. But it was worth
Speaker 1: it because now I know how to use an iron
Speaker 1: and I will rely on that more than anything when
Speaker 1: it comes to knowing I got to get some wrinkles
Speaker 1: out of my clothes. Uh, this one, I get it,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I can't tell you the last time
Speaker 1: I received one, or that I put one together myself.
Speaker 1: But a handwritten letter says here that it adds a
Speaker 1: personal touch to communication, strengthening relationships. You know, I never
Speaker 1: think about writing a handwritten letter, And I take that back.
Speaker 1: I did get a hand a handwritten letter within the
Speaker 1: last year or so, and it did add a It
Speaker 1: did add some personal touch to it, and I believe
Speaker 1: the person who gave me the letter knew that. And
Speaker 1: because it's not a text message, because it's not an
Speaker 1: email or just a conversation, because of the meaning that
Speaker 1: that you know, I guess, because of the the extra
Speaker 1: step and actually sitting down and writing it. And this
Speaker 1: wasn't somebody who can't use a computer or a text message,
Speaker 1: but I think they wanted to for effect, you know,
Speaker 1: give me something that I could hold in my hand
Speaker 1: and read, and it was written by them. Like now,
Speaker 1: I like if it's on my desk at my house
Speaker 1: and it's put away, But like if I ever like
Speaker 1: start to clean up and get rid of stuff and
Speaker 1: just declutter, get rid of some junk, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll ever be able to throw that away because
Speaker 1: it's the handwritten letter. If it's in text message or
Speaker 1: an email, you know, out of sight, out of mind. John,
Speaker 1: when's the last time you received or wrote a handwritten
Speaker 1: letter yourself? Ever? Maybe honestly, I wou wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to tell you. Yeah, I mean you probably have. I
Speaker 1: mean it's I would have guessed for an assignment back
Speaker 1: in high school something like that, Like that's yeah, schooling
Speaker 1: is the last time I actually sat down and really
Speaker 1: wrote a lot. But even at that time, in the
Speaker 1: college years, college age, it was more so using a computer.
Speaker 1: The last time I wrote a letter, like a legitimate letter,
Speaker 1: it's probably when I was passing notes in class, no joke.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that can go a long way. So good
Speaker 1: stuff there, So shout out to the boomers, you guys
Speaker 1: inspired some things that again still very much useful and
Speaker 1: impactful today. And I feel like when I say boomer,
Speaker 1: it sounds like I'm using as in a derogatory way,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I promise I'm not. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get an update of traffic and weather right here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas for those of us that
Speaker 1: spend way too much time scrolling on social media platforms
Speaker 1: like Instagram with the reels and Facebook reels, TikTok that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. For me, when I see a video
Speaker 1: of that is described as somebody losing their mind or
Speaker 1: nearly getting arrested or getting arrested at an airport, I
Speaker 1: can't seem to turn away. I can't seem to turn away.
Speaker 1: And there's a new one that I want to get
Speaker 1: to here in just a second. But it is six
Speaker 1: forty seven here Kentucky, and it's morning News with Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas, So I guess
Speaker 1: I'll give you the latest as far as this specific story,
Speaker 1: and it's become not a huge story nationally, but these
Speaker 1: kind of things do get a lot of attention. But
Speaker 1: there was a woman who was at the LaGuardia Airport
Speaker 1: and she ended up being arrested for an alcohol fueled
Speaker 1: outburst on a Southwest Airlines flight that was going to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. She was intoxicated and assaulted a female passenger
Speaker 1: over seat space that was the dispute, grabbed someone's hair,
Speaker 1: was spitting, kicking and hurling, body shaming, insults, and of
Speaker 1: course a lot of this was caught on video and
Speaker 1: has since gone viral. But port authority police arrested this
Speaker 1: woman for aggravated assault and she was removed in handcuffs
Speaker 1: from the flight and evaluated at a hospital and taken
Speaker 1: into custody. So for me, you know, this isn't good stuff, right,
Speaker 1: This isn't behavior anybody would condone. But I'm fascinated by
Speaker 1: airport behavior. In fact, I'm fascinated by airports. Airports are
Speaker 1: a unique world. It's almost as if you're in an
Speaker 1: alternative You're in like an alternative world when trapped via airline,
Speaker 1: because in a rather short amount of time, you could
Speaker 1: almost magically be in another part of the world, especially
Speaker 1: if you don't fly that often. You know, you realize Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm hundreds of miles away and that flight was an
Speaker 1: hour and a half, So that just makes it almost
Speaker 1: seem not real, especially again if you're somebody that doesn't
Speaker 1: fly that often. Also, with airports, you have no control.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a more helpless place in the
Speaker 1: world than an airport. That's clearly an exaggeration, but not
Speaker 1: by much. So, like I believe those factors that I
Speaker 1: just mentioned combined with alcohol that is at airport bars.
Speaker 1: I love an airport beer. It's my number one beer
Speaker 1: on my top beer list. But you have to do
Speaker 1: it responsibly. But you throw in all those factors and
Speaker 1: then booze. It's led to some insanely wild scenes at
Speaker 1: airports across the country for many years now. People become unhinged,
Speaker 1: showing a side of themselves that they didn't know existed
Speaker 1: due to airlines maybe delaying a flight, canceling flights and
Speaker 1: just telling you to deal with it. What do you
Speaker 1: mean my flight is canceled and the next available flight
Speaker 1: is in three days. Yeah, that's the best we can do.
Speaker 1: Have a good day. Here's a five dollars coupon for
Speaker 1: the best Western ten miles away. We'll see if we
Speaker 1: can get a shuttle. So like all these factors combined
Speaker 1: bring out a version of people that they simply won't
Speaker 1: believe is really them when they sober up and then
Speaker 1: see the video of their outburst that has gone viral
Speaker 1: with millions of views. And I'm sure some of the
Speaker 1: people who end up committing crimes getting held accountable and
Speaker 1: really showing their rear end at an airport and then
Speaker 1: he goes viral. Maybe some of those people are in
Speaker 1: fact exactly who they show us they are in those instances.
Speaker 1: But there's just something about an airport that I think
Speaker 1: because of all those factors, the helplessness, having no control,
Speaker 1: booze and you're gonna you're just gonna have to deal
Speaker 1: with whatever they tell you. And also I get it
Speaker 1: they probably do with a lot of rude people on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. I would never try to put myself
Speaker 1: in there's use because I can't. But you know they're
Speaker 1: also not as you know, there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: ill I shouldn't. I'm not gonna step out of line here,
Speaker 1: but I've had good and bad experiences with folks who
Speaker 1: work for airlines, work for just work at the airport.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm sure they've they've got some stories that
Speaker 1: would make it a little more sense as to why
Speaker 1: they're maybe not always super friendly. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: an update of traffic and weather. Also another update of
Speaker 1: sport's coming your way here in just a moment on
Speaker 1: Kentucky in This Morning News on news Radio eight forty WHS.