Speaker 1: Thank you, John.
Speaker 2: It is eight oh five here Kentucky and this Morning
Speaker 2: News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 2: we are trying our best to keep you as updated
Speaker 2: as we can with the developing situation where yesterday looked
Speaker 2: as if things were going to end peacefully, but I
Speaker 2: guess that was just too good to be true. That
Speaker 2: was really unrealistic. Now that we now that we reflect
Speaker 2: on what's taken place in the last well guys, really
Speaker 2: since since overnight, because when both sides agreed to cease
Speaker 2: fire and end it. The best way I can describe
Speaker 2: it is there were it's like a fight being broken up,
Speaker 2: and you know that somebody is things are calming. You've
Speaker 2: got somebody breaking breaking up the fight between you and
Speaker 2: somebody else, but you got to get one little jab
Speaker 2: in before it's over. And then of course the expectation
Speaker 2: of somebody who was on the other end of that
Speaker 2: job to just not react at all, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: not realistic. So as he was getting getting set to
Speaker 2: get on a helicopter within the last hour or so,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was was pretty critical of both, but certainly
Speaker 2: critical more so of Israel in them violating the ceasefire
Speaker 2: timeline and then he just he put it pretty bluntly
Speaker 2: as far as what we've got here, And I think
Speaker 2: this is uh not what you typically would hear from president,
Speaker 2: but I think we all know what he means here,
Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, I think it makes
Speaker 2: sense if I'm being u I'm being real with you.
Speaker 3: That been fighting so long and so hard that they
Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing. Do you understand that it?
Speaker 2: Let me back it up a little bit. I missed
Speaker 2: the beginning of that, but essentially, you know, I think
Speaker 2: you know what he's saying. But anyways, this is this
Speaker 2: is the clip I meant to play in totality here.
Speaker 4: You know what we have.
Speaker 2: We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
Speaker 2: long and so hard that they.
Speaker 3: Don't know what the they're doing. Do you understand that?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: So that's the latest.
Speaker 2: Again, it seemed as if things were headed in the
Speaker 2: right direction, but now it's really tough to know exactly
Speaker 2: where to go from here. I would say, just from
Speaker 2: what I've gatheredck in everywhere and of course both Fox
Speaker 2: and CNN, it seems as if the Iran I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess should we take them at their word. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but they they they claim that they don't
Speaker 2: know why Israel is responding because they claimed that that
Speaker 2: that it that they didn't violate cease fire. They didn't
Speaker 2: send anything. Now you heard Trump mentioned that there was
Speaker 2: at least one missile that was thrown, and I guess
Speaker 2: he was expecting Israel not to respond to that one
Speaker 2: and let it be over, but they didn't want to
Speaker 2: do that. So where it goes from here remains to
Speaker 2: be seen. But but we we shall see. Well, keep
Speaker 2: the update as best we can. And again, I think
Speaker 2: as of right now it's maybe some reflection is that, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were probably foolish to just assume that it would
Speaker 2: just it would just you know, that everything was just
Speaker 2: going to be peaceful. It almost seemed too good to
Speaker 2: be true yesterday, and oftentimes when things appear to be
Speaker 2: too good to be true, there's there's good reason for that,
Speaker 2: all right. So I want to remind folks that coming
Speaker 2: up on Saturday that will be the the honoring of
Speaker 2: Tom George. So it's a public ceremony that will honor
Speaker 2: former UL athletic director Tom Jurch for his contributions to
Speaker 2: the university in the city of Louisville. We had Mary
Speaker 2: Greenberg one with us last week to make that announcement,
Speaker 2: and this, to me, I have no clue what to
Speaker 2: expect as far as the turnout, but I do know
Speaker 2: that and this was a known thing, at least from
Speaker 2: my perspective, just in my background and covering u of
Speaker 2: L for so long and spending more than ten years
Speaker 2: in the sports radio side of things. Tom Jurich has
Speaker 2: been gone from u of L for quite some time.
Speaker 2: In fact, I believe it was twenty seventeen in the
Speaker 2: fall there when he was effectively fired, so it's been
Speaker 2: a while since he's no longer been the athletic director here.
Speaker 2: But there are still some that I think there. I
Speaker 2: think it'd be unnatural to not support u of L
Speaker 2: because Tom Jurch isn't here, because that just doesn't It
Speaker 2: makes it seem as if you were more so a
Speaker 2: Jurich fan than the U of L fan. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure there are some that that was sort of how
Speaker 2: they were wired, and I don't get it, but I'm
Speaker 2: sure they I'm sure there's some kind of an explanation
Speaker 2: for that maybe, But nonetheless, Jurich being welcomed by and
Speaker 2: him agreeing to come back and be honored. Where they're
Speaker 2: gonna name I believe some they're gonna name part of
Speaker 2: Floyd Street Jurich Way. All that can do is potentially
Speaker 2: help U of L athletics now what it's actually gonna
Speaker 2: do as far as something tangible, something that is you
Speaker 2: know of note meaning we can look back and say, wow,
Speaker 2: that was a great move to to to really make
Speaker 2: amends and repair what was clearly a damaged relationship between
Speaker 2: Tom Jurich and U of L and the city. That
Speaker 2: this result is a direct is direct proof that that
Speaker 2: was the right thing to do. I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: we ever get anything like that, but again, I don't
Speaker 2: see any real harm here because regardless of what your
Speaker 2: thoughts are on the Jurich era, and I don't I'm
Speaker 2: only speaking from a fans perspective, and I'm meaning me
Speaker 2: as a fan. I can't speak for anybody anybody by myself.
Speaker 2: But even though he was loyal to a fault, meaning
Speaker 2: he kept Rick Patino for too long, and obviously there
Speaker 2: was some some some of going on with the foundation
Speaker 2: with him and James Ramsey.
Speaker 1: That of course was covered quite a bit.
Speaker 2: But like let's be honest, maybe they should, but a
Speaker 2: lot of fans don't care about that. So when they
Speaker 2: think of Tom Jurdge, they feel as if, hey, without him,
Speaker 2: who knows what U ofl Athletics would look.
Speaker 1: Like right now?
Speaker 2: So I don't know again what the expected turnout is
Speaker 2: going to be for those that are going to show
Speaker 2: up there on Saturday. But it's at ten am, twenty
Speaker 2: one to thirty five South Floyd Street. It's going to
Speaker 2: be at the Lenny Lyles Plaza at card Park. So
Speaker 2: Jeorge is going to be there. In fact, he's going
Speaker 2: to be on our airwaves here on news radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas I believe tomorrow with Terry Miners, so you'll
Speaker 2: hear from the man himself at that point. All, let's
Speaker 2: get an update on trapping weather right here, right now
Speaker 2: on news radio eight forty whs Age sixteen here Kentucky
Speaker 2: has morning news on news.
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: Oryo and Neal of NBC News going to join us
Speaker 2: at eight thirty and get the latest on what is
Speaker 2: going on. And I'm not sure there's going to be well,
Speaker 2: you never know, but it has been a busy evening
Speaker 2: and morning thus far. As when it comes to keeping
Speaker 2: up with what appeared to be a truce yesterday that
Speaker 2: is now no longer in place. And it's tough to know.
Speaker 2: Is is it both sides that are now saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's been too much damage done since the ceasefire, therefore
Speaker 2: we're back at it. We're at each other's throats. Or
Speaker 2: is it more so one side that is claiming, no,
Speaker 2: you violated it. We're not going to let it slide.
Speaker 2: It certainly seems as if Iran was not you know, again,
Speaker 2: hard to know if you can take them at their
Speaker 2: word or not. But they seem to be a little stunned.
Speaker 2: And again maybe they're full of it as far as
Speaker 2: were they, you know, they don't they whoever fired a
Speaker 2: missile that that obviously Israel thought was way too late
Speaker 2: and well past the deadline. Maybe maybe it was somebody
Speaker 2: that was rogue. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's tough to know.
Speaker 2: But again, Rory on Neil MBC, who's going to join
Speaker 2: us coming up at eight thirty to give us to
Speaker 2: give us the latest on that. All right, if you
Speaker 2: have you've not had bread fish jet, I'm probably going
Speaker 2: to make you more hungry here because we have a
Speaker 2: list here from Delish, that is the news outlet that
Speaker 2: has given US America's favorite chain restaurants from healthiest to
Speaker 2: most craved. And I don't like when I look at
Speaker 2: these lists and realize that there are apparently very popular
Speaker 2: chain restaurants here in America that we don't have access
Speaker 2: to around here because some of them have never heard of.
Speaker 2: Some of them, I know, are very popular in certain
Speaker 2: areas of the United States, and I just know that
Speaker 2: we're not where they are, including like In and Out, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, In and Out is the most according.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is put together by.
Speaker 2: Data Essential, a company that provides food and beverage industry insights,
Speaker 2: and they've announced the winners of their five hundred Awards
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five, which recognizes the most innovative and
Speaker 2: innovative and beloved restaurant chains in the United States. So
Speaker 2: when it comes to the most craved, that was In
Speaker 2: and Out, I can't crave it because I've never had it.
Speaker 2: But I've also never heard anybody say anything but things
Speaker 2: about In and Out.
Speaker 3: I've had it.
Speaker 5: One time is when I was in Texas and Livenest
Speaker 5: just decent.
Speaker 1: Then it didn't.
Speaker 2: Then I would say, yeah, I guess that that if
Speaker 2: you don't really remember it being anything special, but you
Speaker 2: also don't remember it being subpar, it probably was fine.
Speaker 1: It just didn't meet it.
Speaker 2: And I think there are certain things that that society
Speaker 2: sets up for failure because you you you guess it
Speaker 2: up so much that it's almost impossible to meet the hype.
Speaker 2: I find myself avoiding certain things like that, where publics
Speaker 2: I just don't I just don't know if if you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be fine, but you've put it on
Speaker 2: a level that I'm not sure anything for me could
Speaker 2: reach the level that you put this at. And I
Speaker 2: feel like in and out's kind of like that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you've been to.
Speaker 6: A public yet not since they've been here that people
Speaker 6: talks about their the people who love publics love publics.
Speaker 6: So the best burger chain overall, shake Shack. I've had it,
Speaker 6: and it was whatever to me.
Speaker 1: It was an East.
Speaker 2: I don't know where they are as far as like
Speaker 2: the majority of their locations. And then the best America's
Speaker 2: best chicken chain Raising canes.
Speaker 1: Love raising canes.
Speaker 2: I'm fine. Raising canes is good, I will say to me,
Speaker 2: It's one of those that I believe I'm gonna blame
Speaker 2: everybody else for me not being able to enjoy it
Speaker 2: as much as you, because you set the hype so
Speaker 2: high that even if I really like it, I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm I feel unfulfilled because I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: ever gonna love it the way that you do.
Speaker 5: I was an early adopter for raising canes before it
Speaker 5: got super extravagant around here.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the people who love it love it now.
Speaker 2: America's best coffee chain is Dutch Bros. I don't drink coffee.
Speaker 2: I've never even heard of that.
Speaker 1: Me neither.
Speaker 2: So again, maybe that's another example of a chain that
Speaker 2: is popular but just not near us.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it isn't. We just don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: America's best restaurant experience is one that is right here, local,
Speaker 2: and they've got headquarters here. Texas Roadhouse. Text road Haus
Speaker 2: has got some real momentum right now. And I love
Speaker 2: Texas Roadhouse. There's like four or five things I could
Speaker 2: get in in be satisfied.
Speaker 1: And I don't.
Speaker 2: I've never had an experience at Roadhouse that wasn't a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 1: The cactus blossom all day, oh.
Speaker 2: Man, the salads, Country fried steak, the steaks, the burghers,
Speaker 2: I mean, good stuff. Now I'm very hungry.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the backfired on me. It's eight thirty almost
Speaker 1: eight thirty as well, pretty early.
Speaker 2: Yes, America's value leader as far as just what you
Speaker 2: get for the price. Their prices have certainly increased substantially
Speaker 2: actually over the years. But I will agree as far
Speaker 2: as what you pay, you get a lot, and it's
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Certainly when it's fresh. Little Caesars, that is good. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Little Caesars. A lot of people shame
Speaker 1: Little Caesars. Pretzel crust for Little Caesars, and they throw out.
Speaker 2: Some new creative menu items and I feel like they
Speaker 2: rarely miss when it comes to those things. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they are, they're the leader when it comes to value.
Speaker 2: All right, We've got an update on Travick and weather
Speaker 2: coming your way. Also another update on sports with Scott
Speaker 2: Fitzgerald right here on news RADIOATE forty whas.
Speaker 1: Eight thirty four. Here Kentucky in.
Speaker 2: Its morning news and we now bring him in once
Speaker 2: again for the second time. Joining us this morning. It's
Speaker 2: Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, it seems as if
Speaker 2: there's been quite the development since our conversation a few
Speaker 2: hours ago. What is the latest here? It seems as
Speaker 2: if it looked like we were heading in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Maybe now it's not as easy to say.
Speaker 4: Well, look, President Trump is now clearly trying to get
Speaker 4: his message out there, trying to make sure that.
Speaker 3: This Sea Spire holds.
Speaker 4: Yes, it did get off to a rocky start, allegations
Speaker 4: Iran launched a missile that Israel intercepted after the Sea
Speaker 4: Spires was supposed to have begun, but President Trump urging
Speaker 4: Israel and had a quote stern unquote phone call with
Speaker 4: Prime Minister net and Yahoo to get this sea spire
Speaker 4: to hold. The President used some colorful language that if
Speaker 4: I repeated, would get me fired here when describing sort
Speaker 4: of the long history that these two countries have of
Speaker 4: just fighting one another and don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: And you can insert an adjective in there of your
Speaker 4: own choosing. So it's a tenuous time best right now.
Speaker 2: So correct me if I'm wrong. It seems as if
Speaker 2: Israel was responding as if they're they're basically gonna attack
Speaker 2: because of something that Iran did, and Iran almost seemingly
Speaker 2: acted as if they didn't know what they were referring to.
Speaker 2: They claim there's a rare situation where they claimed as
Speaker 2: if they didn't actually do what Israel claimed they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but that reminds me of my big brother.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know what to do. You know.
Speaker 3: It's one of those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: And look, we know that anytime this happens all around
Speaker 4: the world, when there are these sea spires, both sides
Speaker 4: tend to sort of do one last blast of whatever
Speaker 4: that may be. What happened in this case, the question
Speaker 4: was how was Israel going to respond by that one
Speaker 4: last blast from Iran? And President Trump is leaning on
Speaker 4: net Yahu's saying, look, yesterday when Iran launched that measly
Speaker 4: little attack at the US and cutter, I just took it.
Speaker 4: They gave us a heads up that was coming. No
Speaker 4: one got hurt, and I just let it slide. You
Speaker 4: need to let this slide, and Trump essentially saying I
Speaker 4: just did you guys as solid by destroying these three
Speaker 4: nuclear bases and put a lot of my political capital
Speaker 4: on the line here. The least you can do is
Speaker 4: help me out with the seaspire and not over respond
Speaker 4: overreact because the President said, even going into the Seaspire,
Speaker 4: we've talked about Iran having one last gasp. Well, Israel
Speaker 4: was launching an unprecedented missile attack on Tehran, the Iranian capital,
Speaker 4: at the same time, so both sides just seem to
Speaker 4: have gotten one last blast. What we're hoping now is
Speaker 4: that this seaspire takes effect and can hold on. The
Speaker 4: President is now on his way to the Hague, so
Speaker 4: he's going to sort of be out of pocket for
Speaker 4: the next seven or eight hours while Air Force one
Speaker 4: makes the trip.
Speaker 2: The color for language you mentioned that we heard from
Speaker 2: from President Trump before you got on the helicopter. It
Speaker 2: makes sense as far as just given just how these
Speaker 2: have been enemies. I guess the scenario where this just
Speaker 2: completely ended yesterday with nothing else to develop was probably unrealistic, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, these two are or I mean, they've been
Speaker 2: enemies for quite some times. So maybe this is just
Speaker 2: I guess, the cost of the exit strategy. But it
Speaker 2: does sound as if maybe the most recent conversation that
Speaker 2: President Trump had with Israel, I mean, it sounds as
Speaker 2: if maybe the actual truth could be could be in effect.
Speaker 2: I guess we never know, but it sounds like despite
Speaker 2: the concerns, this morning is at least heading in the
Speaker 2: right direction.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I think we've all also, all of us
Speaker 4: self included, have become so skewed that everything's like an
Speaker 4: episode of Law and Order, right, it all wraps up
Speaker 4: neatly in one hour, and that we're all on this
Speaker 4: TV timeline, and the President says, okay, you know, we're
Speaker 4: tired of this next episode and wants to change the channel.
Speaker 4: But this has been a fight, as he also said,
Speaker 4: that's been going on for longer than anyone can remember,
Speaker 4: So there has to be This is going to take time,
Speaker 4: and it's not necessarily ready for prime time, and it
Speaker 4: doesn't go along with the TV or the newspaper schedule.
Speaker 4: So you just have to ease into this and realize
Speaker 4: that this may not be a linear path. There could
Speaker 4: be some bumps and dips along the way, but the
Speaker 4: long term commitment to this is what it's going to
Speaker 4: take to make it worthwhile.
Speaker 2: Rory on Nil of NBC News is our guest joining
Speaker 2: us here on News Radioate forty. Whas with the congressional
Speaker 2: summer recess approaching, Senate leadership is promising to stay in
Speaker 2: session until Trump's big, beautiful bill is passed. What can
Speaker 2: you tell us about what is I guess maybe one
Speaker 2: of many things the biggest thing holding up this bill here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the parliamentarian in the Senate has to do
Speaker 4: a lot of work with it because they're passing it
Speaker 4: to an unusual method.
Speaker 3: Not unusual, but they're not. It's not going through normal order.
Speaker 4: So this way they can pass it with fifty votes
Speaker 4: or fifty one votes and don't need sixty votes because
Speaker 4: the filibuster doesn't apply here. So today's going to be
Speaker 4: a big day in taking the language of the bill,
Speaker 4: putting it out there, and then starting to push this forward.
Speaker 4: Still debate though over how much to cut Medicaid and
Speaker 4: how much tax deductions people can have in those high
Speaker 4: tax states through salt. But let's see, because whatever changes
Speaker 4: they make in the Senate then have to.
Speaker 3: Go back to the House for approval. So this is
Speaker 3: going to be difficult to get over the finish line.
Speaker 2: Rory, thank you so much for your time, and we
Speaker 2: will talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 3: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Rory and Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 2: So it seems as if things have calmed down a
Speaker 2: little bit since late evening early this morning, it was
Speaker 2: it was chaotic. But again, if you guys, if you
Speaker 2: didn't hear the President before he got on his helicopter
Speaker 2: to as Rory mentioned, be out of pocket for a
Speaker 2: little while. Here here is here's what he had to
Speaker 2: say in regards to Israel and Iran. We basically have
Speaker 2: two countries that have been.
Speaker 4: Fighting so long and so hard that they don't know
Speaker 4: what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Do you understand that you let another updated traving the
Speaker 2: weather coming your way right here, right now, and then
Speaker 2: we'll welcome in mister Tony Venetti, as Simon Duiterer said,
Speaker 2: to take over coming up here at nine o'clock right here.
Speaker 2: Our news radioate forty whas height forty five here Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and it's morning news on news Radio eight forty w
Speaker 2: h as. We'll hand it off to Tony and Dwight
Speaker 2: coming up here in just about fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll keep you updated as best they can
Speaker 2: on and I'm now that the President Trump's going to
Speaker 2: be out of pocket for a while. There may not
Speaker 2: be any real development in the next few hours from
Speaker 2: this side, meaning in America, but nothing should really surprise us.
Speaker 2: When it comes to this current situation, that's for certain.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that we did talk about
Speaker 2: earlier is the big news and you've heard it throughout
Speaker 2: the morning with in the newscast from John Shannon, and
Speaker 2: that is the gift that Young Brands is giving JCPS.
Speaker 2: They're donating a piece of property that Marty Polio estimates
Speaker 2: is essentially going to be a forty million dollars gift,
Speaker 2: and Tony, I think this is viewed by a lot
Speaker 2: of people is a nice and generous thing, and maybe
Speaker 2: to claim that it really isn't a big valuable gift
Speaker 2: considering what Young Brands is worth. But they didn't have
Speaker 2: to do it, and I'm sure JCPS when they go
Speaker 2: through the process today, I guess formally accept this gift.
Speaker 2: I mean, they got to be feeling lucky that that
Speaker 2: that Young Brands was so generous.
Speaker 7: I've followed KFC a little bit more than most because
Speaker 7: my dad worked there for thirty years. He actually died
Speaker 7: while still working at KFC, and when they talked to
Speaker 7: my mom and I about how they were going to
Speaker 7: handle because nobody had died, it had worked that long.
Speaker 7: So we met in Colonel Sanders old office, which they
Speaker 7: locked the doors the day he died. So we're sitting
Speaker 7: at his desk, Colonel Sanders' desk. There's yellow, gold shag
Speaker 7: carpet everything. The papers on his desk the day he
Speaker 7: died were the papers on his desk. It was wild,
Speaker 7: so I followed it in. At one point, KFC ran
Speaker 7: all of their stores and then they said, no, let's
Speaker 7: just make them all franchises and sell them to people,
Speaker 7: and then we'll sell them the stuff. That's when KFC
Speaker 7: started to take sort of a noseedive and they didn't
Speaker 7: need as many people as they did, so the employee
Speaker 7: number went down. I obviously this is a fantastic gift
Speaker 7: for JCPS, there's no doubt about it. I don't know
Speaker 7: how you do forty million dollars worth of renovations. It's
Speaker 7: an office building and the one behind it is a
Speaker 7: tech building. It's all full of computers.
Speaker 2: It isn't this close to where they currently are now
Speaker 2: at the van Yeah no, yeah, that we're next.
Speaker 7: To us at the studios, the old studios across the street.
Speaker 7: So it's just what it's two blocks away. Uh So,
Speaker 7: I don't know what forty million dollars is going to count.
Speaker 7: But this also feels like a goodbye gesture on behalf
Speaker 7: of KFC. I don't want to be naive to the
Speaker 7: fact that hey, look at this left hand while we're
Speaker 7: right hand is moving more people out of town. We've
Speaker 7: seen it with Papa John's Human I can't be far
Speaker 7: behind you. Name it brown Foremant and brown Foreman. Get
Speaker 7: rid of some folks is lately we've.
Speaker 2: Got to figure out so some are leaving, others are
Speaker 2: just restructuring, and it's led to a lot of jobs gone.
Speaker 2: And then of course maybe just with them. Really, when
Speaker 2: you when you downsize as much as some of these
Speaker 2: companies have, you kind of change who you are to
Speaker 2: where maybe you do need to relocate. It doesn't make
Speaker 2: a lot of sense to be to be.
Speaker 7: What are reasons because you do a list? Somebody answered
Speaker 7: my post because I pos hosted on this on Facebook
Speaker 7: and said that he was part of a group fifteen
Speaker 7: years ago of why won't fortune five hundred companies come here?
Speaker 7: And he goes the surprising thing was professional sports teams,
Speaker 7: And it wasn't the fact that you have an NFL
Speaker 7: or an NBA team. It's the fact that other companies
Speaker 7: will say, if the NFL and the NBA did their
Speaker 7: homework on where they should move, let's borrow their credibilt
Speaker 7: They're already the hard work, and let's move there too,
Speaker 7: because it's obviously got to be a good a good market.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. So if the pro team is
Speaker 2: willing to set up shop there, then clearly they've seen that.
Speaker 1: Yes, they did the Yeah they did. They did the
Speaker 1: correct for you. They did the homework for you.
Speaker 7: So we've got to figure out how to gets And Look,
Speaker 7: the Brandon Taylor riots and all that and the murder
Speaker 7: rate doesn't help, the fact that the fact that JCPS
Speaker 7: is still a mess doesn't help. It's just we've made
Speaker 7: decisions along the way that haven't helped. And I don't
Speaker 7: know what the answer is, and I don't know how
Speaker 7: unless it's a startup. How another fortune five hundred company
Speaker 7: moves to Louisville.
Speaker 1: Well, I want them.
Speaker 2: To, yes, I just don't. Papa John's is the one
Speaker 2: that ultimately they just left. Others have have had, like
Speaker 2: for example, KFC the Young Essentially they still have a
Speaker 2: lot of employees here, but they did move. I think
Speaker 2: it was about one hundred jobs ended up in El Paso, Texas,
Speaker 2: and they claim they're going to end up relocating here.
Speaker 2: But maybe I'm the naive one, and and and and
Speaker 2: maybe you're onto something that this could be a nice
Speaker 2: very you know, a gift that they didn't have to
Speaker 2: do to maybe when if they do leave, Oh well
Speaker 2: they did give us, They did give JCPS this this
Speaker 2: great building. So maybe maybe you're onto something there. But Texas,
Speaker 2: Texas Roadhouse is booming. They're headquartered here. Yes, yeah, and
Speaker 2: that's not that's not somebody bringing started here. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's and it's i mean a center guy. It's the
Speaker 2: number one chain restaurant. And again there's a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways you can you can win. That is a
Speaker 2: lot of different ways that people determine what is in
Speaker 2: fact the best chain and whatnot. But they've got a
Speaker 2: lot of momentum. I mean, some of the these concept
Speaker 2: restaurants like Bubba thirty threes, I mean they're popping up
Speaker 2: around here in the Kentucky and area. So well, let's
Speaker 2: see if they can continue to grow and they keep
Speaker 2: their headquarters here. Maybe that means more jobs and it's
Speaker 2: better of course for the economy. But yeah, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt the taxes.
Speaker 7: Think about taxes. You moved to Texas, no state or
Speaker 7: city tax. Right, Florida, no city or state tax. The
Speaker 7: first paycheck I got in Florida when I worked in
Speaker 7: I was the day cook at the Huki Lao in
Speaker 7: nineteen eighty nine Huki Loo at the Huki Loo was
Speaker 7: the day cook. And I got my first paycheck and
Speaker 7: I said, something's wrong here. They didn't take any taxes out.
Speaker 7: And they're like, you're an idiot. Where you from? I
Speaker 7: said Kentucky And they're like, yeah, we don't have any
Speaker 7: city or state taxes here. So I got most of
Speaker 7: my paycheck I got and that was unfamiliar to you,
Speaker 7: very unfamiliar. So think about Texas. So now you move,
Speaker 7: you move your business to Texas. You're trying to attract
Speaker 7: the best talent. When you pay someone one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 7: they keep more of the one hundred thousand dollars a
Speaker 7: year than if you worked in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you are, if you're making the sales pitch
Speaker 2: to one of these fortune founmeter companies, what's our what
Speaker 2: we hopefully you'd have a lot to mention as far
Speaker 2: as why you would come here?
Speaker 1: But I don't even really know.
Speaker 2: What the lead would be as far as just like
Speaker 2: here's the here's the here's what we're going to emphasize
Speaker 2: more than anything, as far as why would make sense
Speaker 2: for you to be here, which again I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: the one to make the pitch, but maybe that's a
Speaker 2: question for for Mary Greenberg. He's going to be joining
Speaker 2: me on Friday. Oh there we go, lead question, bro.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, there you go, guiding me into.
Speaker 1: The right direction and stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, Tony and Dwyd are coming up next.