Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 2: Hay hump day and welcome in to Kentucky and his
Speaker 2: morning news coffee and company here on news Radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me full crew in the
Speaker 2: house today. Let's do a roll call. We've got Scott
Speaker 2: Fitzgerald here, We've got the company man, John Alden, and
Speaker 2: we have John Shannon here as well as another hot
Speaker 2: one on the way.
Speaker 1: And it does look like Thursday.
Speaker 2: And Friday are going to be not just better than
Speaker 2: what we've had the last few days, but pretty pretty cool,
Speaker 2: I think comparatively speaking as far as which you typically
Speaker 2: get in late July early August.
Speaker 1: Then I looked at is it is it really July thirtieth?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: It can't be it is, brother, It's the end.
Speaker 4: I mean you all, thank god New Alny schools are
Speaker 4: going back today.
Speaker 1: Oh man, they're back.
Speaker 2: Just gave me a little anxiety I get back to school.
Speaker 2: I swear the back to school just anxiousness. It still
Speaker 2: sits with me like I'm a seventh grader. Scott, I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is, but just the oh man,
Speaker 2: when summer breaks coming to an end, and I talked
Speaker 2: about it, earlier this week when you start to see
Speaker 2: those back to school commercials, you walk into Walmart or wherever,
Speaker 2: and that's all you see is they got the school supplies,
Speaker 2: they got sales for the clothes and whatnot. And it
Speaker 2: just I've been out of the public school system for
Speaker 2: a long time as a student. But I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if that that anxiousness and just that I guess the
Speaker 2: dread it's always.
Speaker 1: Going to be there. I think, Well, John, your wife's
Speaker 1: a teacher, is she right or wrong?
Speaker 2: Bye?
Speaker 1: Way, Well, this whole.
Speaker 4: Week she's she's got three days of meetings of trainings
Speaker 4: for the upcoming years, so she's she's getting back into
Speaker 4: the swing of things.
Speaker 3: Wow, so many schedules you have to adjust, so many
Speaker 3: things you have to get used to. Even my wife
Speaker 3: said last night to your point Nick, along those same line.
Speaker 3: She goes, how is it the end.
Speaker 1: Of July already? I can't believe it, she said, The.
Speaker 3: Summer is over. Before you know what, we'll be talking
Speaker 3: about Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1: In a month.
Speaker 2: It'll be college football season like actually you know here
Speaker 2: games like it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Do you pay a lie? Do both of you guys
Speaker 1: pay a lot of attention to Week zero.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love Week zero is as much as the
Speaker 4: games are not super exciting, it's just kind of like
Speaker 4: that appetizer for the rest of the college football season,
Speaker 4: and it's you have the game that they do annually
Speaker 4: up in Ireland now and even if again, even if
Speaker 4: the matchup isn't fun, it's still nice to know that
Speaker 4: that's kind of the new mark for the beginning of
Speaker 4: college football season.
Speaker 2: It's the opening act and it's it's usually underwhelming, as
Speaker 2: John mentioned, as far as the games the matchups, but
Speaker 2: it's the sign that it's here, and it's a nice
Speaker 2: way to kind of ease in.
Speaker 1: And I've always said this.
Speaker 2: If I was if I was a fan of a
Speaker 2: team that played in Week zero, I would love it
Speaker 2: because you do it.
Speaker 1: First of all, you get to start earlier.
Speaker 2: And also you really get a bigger opportunity to make
Speaker 2: some kind of a statement just based off the fact
Speaker 2: that it's usually actually usually games themselves are standalone. Now
Speaker 2: the weekend is not because you'll have maybe three to
Speaker 2: four games, but when people are hungry and just you know,
Speaker 2: starving for college football to get here, they'll watch any
Speaker 2: game when it's Week zero, no matter who it is,
Speaker 2: and if you've got a chance to really get in
Speaker 2: front of a big audience, and let's be real, college
Speaker 2: football perception matters. I still believe Notre Dame two years
Speaker 2: ago when Louisville got and when they came to Cardinal Stadium,
Speaker 2: those the year's Hartman was there, they beat the breaks
Speaker 2: off of I think it was Navy in Ireland and
Speaker 2: that led to them getting a nice splash to start
Speaker 2: the season and I think that was a factor and
Speaker 2: then being a top ten team when they came to town.
Speaker 2: So I think there's benefits to playing in Week zero
Speaker 2: and yeah, week zero is. It's what it does is
Speaker 2: just gives us a shorter offseason.
Speaker 3: Essentially, to your point, I was gonna tell you, as
Speaker 3: you realize now this Saturday is the last Saturday without
Speaker 3: football until the middle of February.
Speaker 1: And now you're getting excited. You get excited. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's unbelievable, now, you know.
Speaker 3: And then coming up Thursday, we had the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame game. Between the lines. I would not expect much
Speaker 3: from either team in that game. But to your point,
Speaker 3: it's just nice to hear the theme music again.
Speaker 1: You're gonna turn your TV.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of NFL game, but it
Speaker 2: is a regular season game.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's real.
Speaker 2: And that's that's exciting. It's tomorrow, Yes, it is. My goodness,
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait. All right, we were
Speaker 2: loaded today here on a Wednesday, certainly a lot to
Speaker 2: get into. We've got another note that was found on
Speaker 2: the suspect who showed up in New York over the
Speaker 2: weekend and then of course carried out an awful act,
Speaker 2: killing many people. And we also now know that he
Speaker 2: got off the wrong He got on the wrong elevator,
Speaker 2: which led him to not get where he wanted to go.
Speaker 2: And just the thought of what would have happened had
Speaker 2: he got on the right elevator and ended up where
Speaker 2: he wanted to be, which was the NFL offices inside
Speaker 2: that building. Just a really, really scary, scary situation. Also
Speaker 2: a big time earthquake overnight that we can certainly discuss,
Speaker 2: and a lot to get into. As we were up
Speaker 2: and running, happy humped, everybody, hope you stay with us
Speaker 2: for the next three hours and fifty one minutes because
Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to and we'll have
Speaker 2: some fun along the way. It's Kentucky, and it's morning News,
Speaker 2: Coffee and Company on news radio eight forty WHS. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm a little bit dramatic when it
Speaker 2: comes to the heat, because as much as I am
Speaker 2: just sharing facts when it comes to you know, the
Speaker 2: temperature outside and the heat index and whatnot, I do
Speaker 2: have at least some awareness that I complain about it
Speaker 2: whenever I'm someone that doesn't have to actually be out
Speaker 2: and about working in it. And there's a lot of people,
Speaker 2: probably even people that are are five o'clockers, that get
Speaker 2: up and start their day early, and I'm sure you
Speaker 2: can do a lot of different types of work, depending know,
Speaker 2: regardless of what your schedule is. But I know how
Speaker 2: that comes off to some people, so I try not
Speaker 2: to do it as much and always acknowledge that, hey,
Speaker 2: here I am complaining, and yet you guys actually are
Speaker 2: out there in these conditions making a living, and you're
Speaker 2: a lot tougher than I am. But I do feel,
Speaker 2: I guess less like a wimp whenever I see numbers
Speaker 2: and facts that actually really put in perspective just how
Speaker 2: brutal this current heat wave is here in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So the heat index is essentially what it feels like outside,
Speaker 2: and I think most people listening know what that is.
Speaker 2: Temperatures have been hot, but where it really gets you
Speaker 2: is just the stick humidity. And yesterday I was walking
Speaker 2: out of kindergarten kickoff, which we went to yesterday for
Speaker 2: my son, which that's one of those things with this
Speaker 2: I'm happy that the school that the summer is wrapping
Speaker 2: up because I'm over this heat. I'm ready for college football.
Speaker 2: But he starts kindergarten soon, which is good because we
Speaker 2: don't have to pay for daycare anymore. But also it's
Speaker 2: just sad because he's I'm just watching him walk around yesterday.
Speaker 2: He's so excited and and you know, he sees some
Speaker 2: of his friends from daycare, some of his friends from
Speaker 2: his football team, and it just, you know, it makes
Speaker 2: me kind of sad that he's growing up.
Speaker 1: But anyways, we're walking out of.
Speaker 2: There yesterday, probably about I don't know, about six o'clock,
Speaker 2: and that walk from the building we were at to
Speaker 2: the vehicle was just I mean, I remember thinking, I
Speaker 2: think I might remember this for the rest of my
Speaker 2: life because I'm not sure if I've ever been outside
Speaker 2: where it felt just that humid and just that gross.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's a fact as far
Speaker 2: as it being like a record, but yesterday's heat in
Speaker 2: decks as far as just the now national comparison, Tampa Bay,
Speaker 2: Florida and Orlando that is where it was the worst.
Speaker 2: We're talking peak heat index between one hundred and thirteen
Speaker 2: and one hundred and eighteen degrees, and then Savannah, Georgia
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen, and
Speaker 2: then after that it's US. It's Louisville, Kentucky. When it
Speaker 2: comes to just heat indecks specifically, not temperature, and I
Speaker 2: think that one hundred and something degrees, but the heat
Speaker 2: index in the humidity being low, to me, I might
Speaker 2: notice a difference. In fact, I wouldn't notice a difference,
Speaker 2: but like, that's still hot as hell. Like I remember,
Speaker 2: I've told the story before I went at Phoenix for
Speaker 2: the first time years ago, and I'd always heard.
Speaker 1: It's a dry heat.
Speaker 2: It's a dry heat, And I'm thinking, Okay, well, I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell that means, but I guess
Speaker 2: I'll find out. I guess, you know, I'll find out
Speaker 2: for myself. If temperatures being substantially higher at times, but
Speaker 2: the heat indecks being lower. It's that's the preferable temperature.
Speaker 2: And I remember I was at outside at like six
Speaker 2: am West Coast time, walking to my rental car leaving
Speaker 2: the airport, and within about fifteen seconds of being outside,
Speaker 2: dry heat, wet heat whatever, I was soaking, wet and sweat.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was, you know. So I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't really have a preference. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 2: if you gave me two and I could pick on
Speaker 2: the spot, I would.
Speaker 1: There's one, I would take over the other. But to me,
Speaker 1: hot as hell, as hot as hell.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the heat in decks yesterday one oh five
Speaker 2: between one o five and one oh nine, and that's
Speaker 2: that's brutal, very brutal. So again, be prepared Today. Probably
Speaker 2: not gonna be much different. But the cool weather is
Speaker 2: on the way, and we may feel like we're in
Speaker 2: the Arctic temp you know, we may feel like it's
Speaker 2: Christmas time. Whenever we get the cooler temperatures.
Speaker 1: Might get your tree out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure like Saturday Friday evening,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's going to be like in the
Speaker 2: upper sixties. Maybe that's more so like overnight and if
Speaker 2: it's not humid, that's going to feel like heaven. I
Speaker 2: may wake up in the middle of the night, just
Speaker 2: go outside and see what it feels like, because it's
Speaker 2: been a while since we've had weather like that. All right,
Speaker 2: it's Kentucky. It's morning News Coffee and Company, Nick Coffee
Speaker 2: with you. We've got an update of Traffick and.
Speaker 1: Weather coming your way.
Speaker 2: Bobby Ellis will get a straightened out on the Trafvick
Speaker 2: situation so far this morning. Also, Matt Melosavich, he'll give
Speaker 2: us the facts as far as what we can expect
Speaker 2: when it comes to the temperature's heat index and all that,
Speaker 2: so stick with us. Also, another sports update coming your way.
Speaker 2: In fact, our first sports update of the morning is
Speaker 2: on the way in just about four and a half
Speaker 2: minutes right here on News Radio eight forty whas. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, John Shannon. It is five point thirty
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Speaker 2: I need to start mentioning it more because I sometimes
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Speaker 2: to follow, you know, rules, There's certain things you can
Speaker 2: and can't say on the radio. All right, So the
Speaker 2: Manhattan shooter, as far as what we know now that
Speaker 2: maybe we did not know yesterday, when it comes to
Speaker 2: this individual who twenty seven years old, former football player
Speaker 2: that drove across the drove across the country over the
Speaker 2: weekend and then, of course on Monday, took out just
Speaker 2: a hainous act where he shot and killed four people,
Speaker 2: including himself. And it's clear that he was targeting the
Speaker 2: NFL headquarters inside that building, and the report that came
Speaker 2: out yesterday afternoon is just kind of I don't want
Speaker 2: to act as if the NFL folks are more important
Speaker 2: than the others that are in that building that work
Speaker 2: for a different industry and whatnot, but it's just he
Speaker 2: had it. The mindset from this individual seemed to be
Speaker 2: that he was going there to maybe take out anybody
Speaker 2: and everybody he could that was in that building because
Speaker 2: they worked for the NFL. And it sounds as if
Speaker 2: he got off the wrong elevator or got on the
Speaker 2: wrong elevator which led to him not being I guess where.
Speaker 1: He needed to be and wanted to be.
Speaker 2: And again there's already lives that have been lost and
Speaker 2: at least I think two people still fighting for their
Speaker 2: lives in one of those people as an NFL employee.
Speaker 2: So just an awful situation. But here is New York
Speaker 2: Mayor Eric Adams. Yesterday, this was his appearance on a
Speaker 2: I believe a radio show in New York City.
Speaker 1: I truly always believe that there would be a day.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's not the right sound apologies here, it is.
Speaker 2: We have reason to believe that he was focused on
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 5: Agency that was located in the building.
Speaker 2: So he claims that the NFL is untouchable, and he
Speaker 2: also claims that he has CTE and that that claim
Speaker 2: is unproven at this point, and I think determining I
Speaker 2: guess more about this. This this guy's life leading up
Speaker 2: to him making this decision to do what he did.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to say it, because there's still
Speaker 2: something that I just can't quite get comfortable with when
Speaker 2: it comes to expressing on this platform that I'm interested
Speaker 2: in people who do these kind of things because you know,
Speaker 2: they don't deserve our time and attention because they're awful
Speaker 2: human beings. However, I mean it, you can't help but
Speaker 2: want to know what would lead somebody to take out
Speaker 2: to do something like this. I mean, it's it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, something I certainly can't relate to. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the NFL did confirm Roger Goodell that, as you heard
Speaker 2: it in the news update there from John Channon, that
Speaker 2: they did confirm that one of their employees was one
Speaker 2: of the ones that was shot and is still fighting
Speaker 2: fighting for their life. Now what we also know is
Speaker 2: there was another note that was found, but this note
Speaker 2: was I think it was just a yeah, it was,
Speaker 2: it was a second note. They found it at his
Speaker 2: home in Vegas and it was described as an apology
Speaker 2: to his parents, So I'm sure they'll be you know, well,
Speaker 2: when these kind of things happen, usually it doesn't take
Speaker 2: too long before every little detail about these these awful
Speaker 2: people that do these things we find out. And then
Speaker 2: sometimes you don't, and then it makes you think, Okay,
Speaker 2: how in the world could like the person who attend
Speaker 2: to assassinate Trump, we still.
Speaker 1: Know very little about that individual.
Speaker 2: And that's just, you know, that's just unusual given that
Speaker 2: you know, you can typically, like the Internet has people
Speaker 2: who will be web sluts and find out really any
Speaker 2: bit of information that they can on somebody. So you
Speaker 2: would think that, you know, law enforcement people that have
Speaker 2: access and resources that most don't have, would be able
Speaker 2: to figure more out. But yeah, the the uh, this
Speaker 2: guy was looking to probably take out anybody and everybody
Speaker 2: he could, specifically that was in that building that worked
Speaker 2: for the NFL, and maybe in the end it's a
Speaker 2: blessing in disguise that it wasn't worse because you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he didn't end up doing what he intended as
Speaker 2: far as just the magnitude of it, because he knew
Speaker 2: he was in the wrong spot. But yeah, just just
Speaker 2: awful news. All right, let's talk to Rory O'Neil who
Speaker 2: joined us. Coming up here in just a few minutes,
Speaker 2: Roy O'Neil of NBC. But first, another update on the
Speaker 2: roadways from Bobby Ellis and another update on the forecast
Speaker 2: with Matt Mellosa bit right here on News radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas. Good morning, Kentucky. Anna, This is Kentucky and
Speaker 2: his morning news coffee and company Nick Coffee with you
Speaker 2: here on.
Speaker 1: News radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: And we now welcome in Rory O'Neal of NBC News
Speaker 2: and Rory, when it comes to artificial intelligence, it is
Speaker 2: growing really like nothing i've ever seen before. I think,
Speaker 2: just the awareness of it, folks realizing not only is
Speaker 2: it a potential threat to what you do for a
Speaker 2: living and maybe dangerous, it can also be very very
Speaker 2: useful for folks. But when it comes to college students today,
Speaker 2: they can lean on AI to help them when it
Speaker 2: comes to their work, but also knowing how to use
Speaker 2: it can be a fundamental skill that can maybe even
Speaker 2: help them in maybe the first career path they decide
Speaker 2: to go down. What can you tell us as far
Speaker 2: as just how that's being handled. There's no scenario where
Speaker 2: college professors can tell you, yeah, we just ignore that.
Speaker 1: It's clearly going to be here for a while.
Speaker 5: Well, right, And look, this is on a couple different fronts. Right,
Speaker 5: You've got the college professors concerned that kids are sort
Speaker 5: of skating through by letting programs do the work for them,
Speaker 5: letting AI do the homework be this generation's cliffs notes,
Speaker 5: I guess. But there's the other side too, where all right,
Speaker 5: let's see this as a tool, and then who's going
Speaker 5: to know how to wield that tool? Right? Half of
Speaker 5: students believe that learning how to use AI is the
Speaker 5: most important skill they'll gain while in college. According to
Speaker 5: this new pullout, today, sixty two percent believe that learning
Speaker 5: how to use AI responsibly will actually be essential for
Speaker 5: their future careers. Because look, as much as you know,
Speaker 5: you don't want war and peace to be summarized by
Speaker 5: some program when you do get out into the real world.
Speaker 5: These programs are going to be available and there won't
Speaker 5: be a professor saying you can't use that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if you are someone that's just
Speaker 2: resistant of it for whatever the reason is, and you
Speaker 2: are someone that is a young enough professional, that you
Speaker 2: will likely be in the workforce for a long time
Speaker 2: because you're not retiring anytime So I'm not really sure
Speaker 2: anybody is going to be retiring anytime soon in the
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things. But I just I feel like
Speaker 2: there's been a shift in a major way in really
Speaker 2: just the last few months.
Speaker 1: As far as just hey, this is here to stay.
Speaker 1: This isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 2: It's going to be very much directly involved in what
Speaker 2: a lot of us do moving forward.
Speaker 5: Well, right, and then how do we use it? And look,
Speaker 5: these nineteen twenty twenty one year olds going through college
Speaker 5: and coming out, they're the ones who are going to
Speaker 5: shape this stuff going forward, right, you know, these will
Speaker 5: be the tech titans of the future who will mold
Speaker 5: AI and they're the ones who are going to steer
Speaker 5: it away from taking over the world. But as of
Speaker 5: right now, this Grammarly survey found that nearly half the
Speaker 5: students use it for brainstorming. That's how they use AI currently.
Speaker 5: They'll use it for spelling and grammar check and things
Speaker 5: like that. I thought it was interesting that nearly a
Speaker 5: third said that they use AI to ask questions they
Speaker 5: would otherwise be embarrassed to ask the professor in front
Speaker 5: of the class.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I wouldn't have thought of that.
Speaker 2: But that's really what AI for my end is when
Speaker 2: I'm just fascinated to hear of all the ways people
Speaker 2: have learned or maybe just been made aware of of
Speaker 2: how they could use this to help them, right. I mean,
Speaker 2: it can turn your brain to mush if you're not
Speaker 2: really doing much critical thinking and you're just relying on
Speaker 2: it for information. But it could also get your brain
Speaker 2: working a little bit, which that's that's.
Speaker 1: Something I've really thought about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, about a quarter of them say they use it
Speaker 5: to create study car note cards other study tools. They'll
Speaker 5: have AI quiz them, you know, on subject material, rather
Speaker 5: than have AI summarize it for them. They'll say, no,
Speaker 5: you know, I've got a test on Warren Peace tomorrow,
Speaker 5: give me give me a practice exam.
Speaker 2: That kind of thing, And that can be useful in
Speaker 2: a major way. I can certainly see that. Royan Hill
Speaker 2: of NBC News is our guest joining us here on
Speaker 2: News Radio eight forty whas let's talk about stress. Big
Speaker 2: companies like Procter and Gamble always do in market research
Speaker 2: on the habits of Americans, and their latest study has
Speaker 2: revealed some surprising results related to the stress that Americans
Speaker 2: face today.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Procter and Gamble is out whether it's quarterly results yesterday,
Speaker 5: and what they're finding is consumers are under stress. And
Speaker 5: they've said that consumers right now, are you tapping into
Speaker 5: their pantry inventory right clearing off the shelves before going
Speaker 5: to the store to buy stuff. They say that there
Speaker 5: are concerns once they get to the store, they'll buy
Speaker 5: too much other stuff that's out there, which is why
Speaker 5: Procter and Gamble thinks that sales. You know, P and
Speaker 5: G is behind stuff like Tide and Charm and and
Speaker 5: you know they make those consumer staples that we all
Speaker 5: go to the grocery store in order to get, and
Speaker 5: P and G is warning that, Yeah, consumers are tightening
Speaker 5: their wallets. Yes, at the low end, but also at
Speaker 5: the high end.
Speaker 1: Makes sense.
Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me at all. Rory is always appreciate
Speaker 2: your time, Enjoy your day and we will talk soon.
Speaker 5: Thanks Meg.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Rory and Ey NBC News always enjoy
Speaker 2: has always enjoyed the conversation and certainly appreciate his time.
Speaker 2: He's a busy guy, but he makes time for us
Speaker 2: each and every morning, and we certainly appreciate that. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to another update on the roadways. Bobby Ellis
Speaker 2: would tell us how traffic's looking so far this morning.
Speaker 2: We'll get a update for Matt Melosovich on the forecast,
Speaker 2: and Scott Fitzgerald is back for another with another update
Speaker 2: on sports. As we roll along here, it is five
Speaker 2: fifty one here at News Radio eight forty w h
Speaker 2: A S