Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is eight h five here Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1: Whas been a busy morning so far. We will talk
Speaker 1: coming up here at eight thirty with Roredyo O'Neal of
Speaker 1: NBC News to get the latest on the unrest that
Speaker 1: is still a situation, to say the least in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and looting is what became, i guess, an added layer
Speaker 1: to the situation in LA and in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, it's probably not a surprise that ended up
Speaker 1: becoming a thing. That's usually what happens when you have protests, riots,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them. I'm sure again, what
Speaker 1: some view as a peaceful protest, some would call a riot,
Speaker 1: and vice versa. It really is just an objective thing
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. But there were, let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm sure the amount of it's tough to know the
Speaker 1: exact amount of businesses that were impacted as far as
Speaker 1: being vandalized and had items stolen, but there was an
Speaker 1: Adida store, in Apple Store, a place called Shoe Palace,
Speaker 1: different dispensaries, a pharmacy, and a jewelry store that were
Speaker 1: broken into, damaged and of course, had a lot of
Speaker 1: things stolen, buildings and police vehicles were defaced with graffiti
Speaker 1: across the ten block radius in LA So it sounds
Speaker 1: like thats the latest is that that has come to
Speaker 1: an end for the time being. And again that's just
Speaker 1: one of the many things that comes with these type
Speaker 1: of situations getting to this point where it's gone on
Speaker 1: many days, and I just I think it's gonna get
Speaker 1: at least a little worse before he gets better. But
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Roy O'Neil of NBC News coming up
Speaker 1: at eight thirty. As far as the protests that have
Speaker 1: gone on here in Louisville the last couple of days,
Speaker 1: for the most part, it seems like those have been
Speaker 1: very peaceful, not been an issue. Mayor Greenberg dig talk
Speaker 1: yesterday and emphasized that he is confident that the peaceful
Speaker 1: protests here in this city won't hit any level of
Speaker 1: what we've seen elsewhere. But here were his comments on
Speaker 1: that when he talked yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I will not tolerate LMPD, will not tolerate damage to property,
Speaker 3: We will not tolerate risk and danger to others, and
Speaker 3: so that we don't expect to occur here, and so
Speaker 3: we will continue to move forward with lmpd's focus on
Speaker 3: preventing and responding to violent crime.
Speaker 1: So I just think whenever you see the looting, that's
Speaker 1: actually been a conversation we've had throughout the morning here
Speaker 1: the looting. I think, if you're somebody that is trying
Speaker 1: to make a change, take a stand, and that's the
Speaker 1: way you go about it, I just have a hard
Speaker 1: time believing that that that just doesn't add up at all.
Speaker 1: I think what you have is you have people who
Speaker 1: are really going about it in a peaceful way and
Speaker 1: not being violent at all, and even at times encouraging
Speaker 1: others to follow that exact same approach. Then you have
Speaker 1: others who might mean well, but they can't control themselves.
Speaker 1: They get the urge to maybe do it in a
Speaker 1: violent way. And then I think you have looters who
Speaker 1: see just how heated the situation is in certain cities
Speaker 1: where you have protests like this going on, and they
Speaker 1: look at it as the jackpot, the opportunity to go
Speaker 1: in and just you know, start damaging everything in sight
Speaker 1: and stealing anything inside of value. And it's a lot
Speaker 1: when you see it happening in your city. And again
Speaker 1: I'm not from LA, but it took me back to
Speaker 1: watching and again to the extent of what's going on
Speaker 1: in LA. It's probably not what we had here. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. It was a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and I really wouldn't know the exact extent, but watching
Speaker 1: the live coverage of the looting happening in downtown Louisville
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, I mean, it was a feeling. I
Speaker 1: didn't really know how to describe it, and I didn't
Speaker 1: really know where it was coming from. But I think
Speaker 1: Scott said the word earlier that really resonated with me
Speaker 1: is I think you feel violated.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I don't own the city of Louisville, but I live here.
Speaker 1: This is my home. This is where I was raised,
Speaker 1: is where I raised my family. And when you have
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff going on, you just feel like
Speaker 1: you're being violated. It's not a good feeling at all.
Speaker 4: No, and then it gets the bad press. So folks
Speaker 4: that want to come it doesn't help anyone because one
Speaker 4: the business owners obviously, then the employees that work at
Speaker 4: the business, this is their livelihood. They're going to be
Speaker 4: out of work for a while, and then when it
Speaker 4: gets on TV, like with the Brown and Taylor riots,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe conventions we're planning on coming in town,
Speaker 4: and that just takes money out of everybody's pocket. And
Speaker 4: I'd just be interested to catch up with some of
Speaker 4: these looters maybe five years down the road, five seven
Speaker 4: years down the road, and say, what did that really
Speaker 4: get you? So you stole an iPhone? First of all,
Speaker 4: you couldn't activate it. So did you sell it on
Speaker 4: the black market? Did it get you a couple bucks?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's got to be black market. And maybe I'm
Speaker 1: overthinking it, but I just assume these people aren't aren't
Speaker 1: people that give a you know what about what it's
Speaker 1: being protested. They just see it as an opportunity. It
Speaker 1: could be a Netflix series, right, a documentary series tracking
Speaker 1: down these people who, you know, maybe maybe they'll talk
Speaker 1: and tell us how it all works. If they can
Speaker 1: keep their faces hidden, because that's what they do. They
Speaker 1: have masks on you can't see them. So yep, yeah, again,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Rory O'Neil about this coming up around
Speaker 1: eight thirty And if you've yet to hear the reaction
Speaker 1: from Kentucky fans, on the decision from the big Dog
Speaker 1: as they call him, Vince Merrow, leaving his position at
Speaker 1: Kentucky to join the rival. We'll let you hear that.
Speaker 1: On the other side, we've also got more sports coming
Speaker 1: up with Scott, but first an update on traffic and
Speaker 1: weather right here on news Radio eight forty whas. It
Speaker 1: is eight sixteen here at news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for hanging out with us here this morning,
Speaker 1: getting your Wednesday started. Maybe it's already, maybe it started
Speaker 1: long ago, but either way, we appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 1: We've got sports coming your way with Scott Fitzgerald in
Speaker 1: about eight minutes, but real quickly. There's going to be
Speaker 1: some changes coming to the college basketball world where you
Speaker 1: can now have coaches challenge specific calls at any point
Speaker 1: in the game if they have a time out available.
Speaker 1: So this is pretty big. Each team in college basketball
Speaker 1: is going to get one challenge per game, with a
Speaker 1: second challenge granted at the first one is successful. This
Speaker 1: is similar to the NBA's one plus one system, and
Speaker 1: the reviewable calls will be out of bounds violations, basket
Speaker 1: interference or goaltending, whether a secondary defender was legally positioned
Speaker 1: in the restricted arc, so you can't review everything, but
Speaker 1: those are certainly very much judgment calls and they have
Speaker 1: the ability to go to the monitor and get it right.
Speaker 1: So challenges will now be a thing in college hoops.
Speaker 1: And then also they're making a slight change to the
Speaker 1: continuation rule, basically going with the NBA. They've kind of
Speaker 1: already done that in a way in college hoops to
Speaker 1: where it becomes very much just the judgment of the official.
Speaker 1: But the continuation is not supposed to be a thing
Speaker 1: in college hoops. Before now it was just if you're
Speaker 1: fouled in the active shooting, you take free throws, where
Speaker 1: now they're going to just let it be if you
Speaker 1: were you know, if you were in the process of
Speaker 1: getting up a shot, you're in motion to get a
Speaker 1: layup or whatever it may be. Even if you have
Speaker 1: to take an extra step after getting fouled, they're going
Speaker 1: to give you. They're going to give you the bucket
Speaker 1: if you make it, or of course just say that
Speaker 1: it is a shooting foul. So, uh, those those are
Speaker 1: some pretty big changes, especially the challenge. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: a thing, and a lot of a lot of sports
Speaker 1: at college and pro levels, and obviously in college hoops
Speaker 1: they can certainly certainly benefit from it.
Speaker 4: Is it just me? Or did at least I thought
Speaker 4: while I was watching college basketball this year, more games
Speaker 4: once they got inside two minutes were constantly being stopped
Speaker 4: for reviews.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was a huge issue with college hoops. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's there's a fine line, and this is tough to balance.
Speaker 1: You do you want to knowingly, I guess, impact the
Speaker 1: product in a negative way as far as the experience
Speaker 1: or do you know and by doing that, just know
Speaker 1: that you are you're going to make sure you get
Speaker 1: it right. Yep. So because where I think the fine
Speaker 1: line is if you know you have the ability to
Speaker 1: utilize technology and go see if you get it right
Speaker 1: under two minutes, then you're going to do that. But
Speaker 1: you also it has become a real turn off for
Speaker 1: people that aren't invested in the sport of college hoops.
Speaker 4: So well, it's not if you're waiting for the next game,
Speaker 4: yeah to come on. That happened to me a lot
Speaker 4: this year and it was just kept going forever forever.
Speaker 1: All right. So, if you haven't heard this yet, this
Speaker 1: is a This is about about a minute long clip
Speaker 1: of callers yesterday to KSR expressing their anger and disappointment
Speaker 1: in Vince Marrow, their beloved assistant coach, the big Dog
Speaker 1: as they call him, who decided to take another job.
Speaker 1: But he took another job at Louisville. That's not just
Speaker 1: any other job. As I'm sure you are well aware.
Speaker 1: If you are someone on either side of this rivalry,
Speaker 1: you went ahead.
Speaker 2: And soldier Sola here too early.
Speaker 5: I'm done with big fan of you events, but not
Speaker 5: if you go to an inferior institution.
Speaker 2: El's down, little Dog, el's down our event. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you're listing because when you throw the l's up, I
Speaker 2: hope to God your hand cramp. I hope that you
Speaker 2: know when you go do the karaoke of simple Man
Speaker 2: in acc all six of their fans at the ACCY tournament,
Speaker 2: all six of their fans are gonna love it. Okay,
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you are not
Speaker 2: a big dog anymore. You are no more than a
Speaker 2: toy poodle. And I hope you stub your toe you
Speaker 2: have your press conference. I think this probably that is
Speaker 2: low life patrol move. As the coach could do, he
Speaker 2: went to Louisville. I would we get a chance to
Speaker 2: run it down his throat, run a red sideline.
Speaker 5: I don't care if you get a penalty, throw the
Speaker 5: helt down in his.
Speaker 6: He is now the enemy.
Speaker 5: I don't wear red shirts.
Speaker 2: I won't even wear red underwear. Coachmorrow Man, I used
Speaker 2: to love, and now I despise.
Speaker 5: You're trader. You have to betrayed the UK UK fans.
Speaker 5: Vince Merrill, the dirty bird finger and the l's down
Speaker 5: shall now be the official Vince Merrill greeting. He did
Speaker 5: that to UK football, UK Athletics and now BBN don't
Speaker 5: go to the loser bill down the road.
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to share that with you guys
Speaker 1: to pile on, because I get it. If I was
Speaker 1: a Kentucky fan, i'd probably feel the same way to
Speaker 1: an extent. But this, the fact that he's leaving, wouldn't
Speaker 1: be anything close to the level of a story that
Speaker 1: it is if it was anywhere else other than Louisville.
Speaker 1: This is just a reminder of the rivalry and what
Speaker 1: it is around here, and you don't see it often.
Speaker 1: There have been very few that have made a jump
Speaker 1: from one to the other, especially directly right like you've had.
Speaker 1: Patino went to the Celtics and then went to Louisville,
Speaker 1: which of course is still I'm sure I think Kentucky fans,
Speaker 1: many many years later is still stunned that it happened.
Speaker 1: But it happened. But yeah, not something you see very often.
Speaker 1: All Right, We've got another update at Traffick and weather
Speaker 1: coming your way. Also another update on sports with Scott
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and then Roy O'Neil's going to stop by at
Speaker 1: eight thirty right here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: It is a forty seven here at Kentucky and it's
Speaker 1: morning news on News Radio eight forty whas about to
Speaker 1: hand it off to the fellas Tony Venetti and Dwight
Speaker 1: Whitten who have made their way here into studio, and
Speaker 1: we were talking fake IDs. They're cracking down on folks
Speaker 1: that are not following the rules and do what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do if you serve serve alcohol, and as
Speaker 1: you heard Brad Silvia say in our latest newscast that
Speaker 1: if you are serving alcohol to minors, then you no
Speaker 1: longer are of have a right to have a liquor
Speaker 1: license and serve alcohol, which makes total sense, but fake IDs,
Speaker 1: there's still clearly a thing I want would assume. But
Speaker 1: what I think a lot of young people who use
Speaker 1: a fake i D don't realize, which I would never
Speaker 1: although I did admit to it earlier that I did
Speaker 1: have one, but I didn't have a fake identification card.
Speaker 1: I had a real identification card. It just wasn't me statues. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: thank you, so so. But but if you actually have
Speaker 1: a fake i D where somebody has has manufactured something
Speaker 1: that's not a state issued i D, I think you're
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people just the fears
Speaker 1: they might take it from me and I'll be I'll
Speaker 1: have the walk of shame.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I got kicked out and I paid money and it
Speaker 1: didn't work. But you could also be that's a that's
Speaker 1: a bigger charge. Like if you're going to get held,
Speaker 1: if the police want to make an example of you,
Speaker 1: they have a much better way there, but the punishment
Speaker 1: will be much more severe for you. If you have
Speaker 1: a fake ID that somebody manufactured somebody's.
Speaker 6: That might be federal.
Speaker 3: At that point.
Speaker 6: My first fake i D was there's a street in
Speaker 6: south of Louisville.
Speaker 1: Collte hypothetically speaking, right.
Speaker 6: This happened. It was on hot Rod Haven, the apartments there,
Speaker 6: and so I went down the basement apartment. There's a
Speaker 6: giant picture of a license sitting on the wall. I
Speaker 6: stand in front of that.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you guys take a picture.
Speaker 6: And then they laminated it by the bing Boy to Boom.
Speaker 6: I was Todd Kraft, twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: Todd Craft.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was by the Todd Craft, but that was
Speaker 6: my name.
Speaker 1: Did it work though?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: It worked because that was we were the first generation
Speaker 7: that had to start doing that because mostly in the
Speaker 7: sixties and seventies, bars and liquor stores didn't care if
Speaker 7: you had a little bit of a five o'clock shadow.
Speaker 7: They're going to sell you beer or a booze or
Speaker 7: get into a bar. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 7: mad came around and people started cracking down and the
Speaker 7: ABC started busting bars for a serving underage. But they
Speaker 7: were still plenty of bars that let you in in
Speaker 7: the nineteen nineties and it was notoriously the college hangout
Speaker 7: in a different world.
Speaker 1: There's a video that has made its rounds. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a newscast from gotta be the eighties, but it's
Speaker 1: it's in I believe, out of Lexington, and they're getting
Speaker 1: they're getting citizens reaction to the rule where you can
Speaker 1: no longer drink. They're going to really enforce it to
Speaker 1: where you can't drink while driving. And there's this guy,
Speaker 1: blue collar guy, and he's like, I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous. What God can't have a couple beers
Speaker 1: on his way home from work? And I'm like, what what?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Time?
Speaker 7: No, that was Look and we just had the prosecutor
Speaker 7: for the bus crash on Paul Ridgewalski. You understand that
Speaker 7: there were protests every single day that they went to
Speaker 7: the courthouse because the people in Courton were like or
Speaker 7: Cordon carold Carrollton. Uh, we're saying, oh, he's just a
Speaker 7: good old boy. He had too many to drink. I
Speaker 7: mean you shouldn't prosecute him with all those deaths. I
Speaker 7: mean they were protesting. It was crazy, but it was
Speaker 7: a different age and it needed to happen. And sure
Speaker 7: did my kids generation joke about drinking and driving. Ironically
Speaker 7: as they're like, hey, we're gonna drink and drive as
Speaker 7: it's funny, they would never ever get in the car
Speaker 7: and drink. I mean, at least my kids and their friends.
Speaker 1: I mean it's I mean, it happens. But I'm a
Speaker 1: lot younger than you. Uh so by the time, by
Speaker 1: the time, by the time, alcohol was something that was
Speaker 1: around whenever I was a teenager, I mean not to
Speaker 1: be goody two shoes, but I mean we felt dangerous
Speaker 1: enough by sneaking a beer or something. When it comes
Speaker 1: to doing anything while driving. There was just there was
Speaker 1: enough fear that had been instilled. And I think my generation,
Speaker 1: where most wouldn't, our parents got our lines for us.
Speaker 1: You understand that, right, our parents.
Speaker 7: At my graduation in nineteen eighty seven, there was ten
Speaker 7: cases of beer and a bunch they my parents bought
Speaker 7: the booze for my graduation party.
Speaker 1: I was eighteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mine never did that, but lots of my friends would.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first time alcohol was around at a social gathering
Speaker 1: was I think I was in like eighth grade and
Speaker 1: somebody brought and that somebody was me one wine cooler
Speaker 1: for the whole party.
Speaker 8: Were crazy? Were you were so popular with your floppy
Speaker 8: hair one cooler? And then it got and then it
Speaker 8: got out that I was the one who brought it.
Speaker 8: Became a big deal with the PTA at school, and
Speaker 8: that was the bad boy.
Speaker 7: When did beer When did beer can pyramids stop? Like
Speaker 7: in the late nineties, when did that happen? Because that
Speaker 7: happened at every party I went.
Speaker 1: To that was that was not a thing beer pong,
Speaker 1: but beer pong became a thing. Was beer pong a
Speaker 1: thing back then? Did you know a beer can?
Speaker 6: We're talking about every Yeah, yeah, pyramids yeah.
Speaker 1: Different times, different times. Have a good show.
Speaker 6: Fellas start now.