Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: John. It is seven oh five here at Kentucky and
Speaker 2: this morning news on News Radio eight forty whas. Happy Friday, everybody,
Speaker 2: Nick coffee. That's me finishing up our first week here,
Speaker 2: my first week these guys have been assembled, and that's
Speaker 2: Scott Fitzgerald as well as John Alden and of course
Speaker 2: John Shannon you just heard there. But I yesterday felt
Speaker 2: like a breakthrough for me as far as adjusting to
Speaker 2: this new sleep schedule because I got a little bit
Speaker 2: of sleep during the day, just enough to where I
Speaker 2: wasn't groggy the rest of the day, and then I
Speaker 2: stayed up and I watched my pacers, which I'm sure
Speaker 2: we'll get back into coming up a little bit later on,
Speaker 2: because how about that come from behind victory And it's
Speaker 2: not the first time you've heard that. That's just kind
Speaker 2: of what they're doing here in the postseason, which has
Speaker 2: which has been awesome to see. Also coming up in
Speaker 2: an hour, we're going to be joined right around eight
Speaker 2: o'clock by Louisville may Or Craig Greenberg. Looking forward to
Speaker 2: chatting with him. Obviously, the biggest talking point I would
Speaker 2: say so far from me this week is the situation
Speaker 2: in the Highlands, and obviously Mayor Greenberg as well as
Speaker 2: Chief Humphrey, they're putting prevent things in place to where
Speaker 2: they don't have to respond to a third straight weekend
Speaker 2: of real chaos. I know last night they spoke quick
Speaker 2: Greenberg spoke with residents and business owners in the area
Speaker 2: in a private meeting. So maybe you can give us
Speaker 2: some insight into how that went. So we'll do that
Speaker 2: coming up around eight o'clock. And also we will talk
Speaker 2: around eight forty five, sorry, eight thirty with Rory O'Neill
Speaker 2: of NBC News. And yesterday was one of those days
Speaker 2: when it comes to just seeing something play out that
Speaker 2: probably everybody is aware of and certainly a lot of
Speaker 2: people are talking about, and that's this internet fight. The
Speaker 2: bromance is officially over between Donald Trump and Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: the most powerful person in America the President, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: the most I don't know if he's the wealthiest, but
Speaker 2: certainly in the conversation Elon Musk, these two guys are
Speaker 2: having an Internet fight like you may see middle schoolers
Speaker 2: do on Back in my day, it was MySpace, but
Speaker 2: you know, maybe nowadays, if they were going to fight,
Speaker 2: they would be fighting on I don't know. Can you
Speaker 2: fight on Snapchat? I guess that's not such. You could,
Speaker 2: but it's not that's not like I guess you could
Speaker 2: put on your story. I was gonna say, it's not
Speaker 2: a public thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you could. You could easily fight. You can
Speaker 3: find any social media you wanted to. But it it
Speaker 3: is telling to watch that unfold. I kind of wondered
Speaker 3: how long that was going to take. And you know,
Speaker 3: I wonder if that goes on, that's gotta go on,
Speaker 3: say in the corporate world, if you've got to alpha,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2: Just two people that are eating very very headstrong and
Speaker 2: heavy egos have probably always operated and existed with an
Speaker 2: enormous amount of power. Yeah, it's just it just becomes
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's probably when you are no longer
Speaker 2: the most powerful and most uh I guess, I mean power.
Speaker 1: Is probably the right way to describe it.
Speaker 2: When you no longer have as you know, when you're
Speaker 2: no longer number one. I mean, that's what Elon Musk
Speaker 2: is dealing with now. I mean that this was rather predictable.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have said that in the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, which I totally understand. But to see
Speaker 2: just the nastiness it was. It was certainly something and
Speaker 2: it all stems from the big beautiful Bill and the
Speaker 2: issues that Musk has with it. And I think most
Speaker 2: people are aware of what specifically he has a problem with,
Speaker 2: but for that all to lead to, I mean, just
Speaker 2: him saying that Trump's on the Epstein list, which you
Speaker 2: know that probably didn't shock some people just because of
Speaker 2: the specifics and and you know, just the background of
Speaker 2: his relationship with Epstein. But nonetheless, I mean, it's one
Speaker 2: of those days where you you know, you see everybody
Speaker 2: reacting to it. It's certainly a national story because you know,
Speaker 2: it's not something you see very often, but I still have.
Speaker 1: A level of is this real, Yeah, it's exactly happening. Well,
Speaker 1: it's what politicians in growing.
Speaker 3: I grew up in the regular era of politics, and
Speaker 3: you know, I was I.
Speaker 1: Didn't really have a political bias.
Speaker 3: Coming up, and then when I joined the military, you
Speaker 3: really learned not to have a political bias.
Speaker 1: But my I think my it was interesting.
Speaker 3: My mom was more of a Jimmy Carter person, and
Speaker 3: my pops was more of you know, Gerald Ford. He
Speaker 3: was he was the more conservative in the family. So
Speaker 3: I grew up with both sides of the and then
Speaker 3: when Reagan came in, both my mom and my dad
Speaker 3: sort of kind of united under that umbrella. And I
Speaker 3: was thinking about this the other day after you talked
Speaker 3: about this. It's just that's non existent anymore. We've lost
Speaker 3: the ability to sort of work together. In fact, that's
Speaker 3: where I applaud Metro Council. I think for the longest
Speaker 3: time doing this show before, when we've had Metro Council on,
Speaker 3: Metro Council can get things done. They disagree a bit,
Speaker 3: and it's it's I don't know if it's because it's
Speaker 3: more local, it's not on the federal level. But it's
Speaker 3: amazing how we've just lost that ability at the federal
Speaker 3: level on so many places to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: And it's it's that that's true, and it's it's unfortunately
Speaker 2: the new norm.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've we've kind of been here, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't I don't see any sign of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah you come with the Genie backup model, Yeah, not
Speaker 1: at all.
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Speaker 2: at whas dot com. Here. I am assuming that everybody's
Speaker 2: keeping up with the internet war between Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. Maybe you're not, but if you missed it.
Speaker 2: It started with Musk alleging that Trump's name appears in
Speaker 2: the Jeffrey Epstein files and that I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's it's hard for me to really know which jab
Speaker 2: is viewed as like the one that was the most
Speaker 2: like jaw dropping, not necessarily because of what was alleged,
Speaker 2: but you know, you don't necessarily see people with these
Speaker 2: type of positions, with this much influence fighting on the internet.
Speaker 2: But also, yeah, you kind of do, right, We're talking
Speaker 2: about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. And then Trump ended
Speaker 2: up claiming that he asked Musk to leave his administration,
Speaker 2: citing that Musk's reaction to ending the EV mandates. He
Speaker 2: called Musk's behavior quote Trump derangement syndrome and said Musk
Speaker 2: misses the admission. So yeah, that's a few that probably
Speaker 2: won't won't end anytime soon, and certainly President Trump's going
Speaker 2: to be asked about it. But we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: in a little bit more with Rore O'Neal coming up
Speaker 2: at about eight thirty this morning. All right, So this
Speaker 2: is something that I feel like is going to eventually
Speaker 2: become a bigger story nationally. And this is out of Lexton,
Speaker 2: by the way, And this individual wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 2: maybe somebody gets even more details than what's out there,
Speaker 2: because the details are kind of wild, and they find
Speaker 2: this story to be fascinating, interesting enough to where it
Speaker 2: could be like a Netflix documentary. So there is a
Speaker 2: Kentucky roofing company called Lexington Blue and they collapsed in April,
Speaker 2: leaving hundreds of customers defrauded employees claiming they were exploited
Speaker 2: in The owner is a guy named Brad Pagel, and
Speaker 2: he's accused of running the business almost like a cult.
Speaker 2: He promoted psychedelic drug use, engaged in fraudulent practices, and
Speaker 2: he's being investigated by the Kentucky Attorney General. And I
Speaker 2: just when I see stories like this. I think to
Speaker 2: myself if I was in an employee at a place
Speaker 2: ran by someone who was operating like this, I mean.
Speaker 1: I say, why would you stay?
Speaker 2: Well, obviously people can just up and leave their job
Speaker 2: without a paycheck to depend upon, So I mean just
Speaker 2: a cult like workplace would be I mean, and that's
Speaker 2: what at least a couple of employees have alleged in
Speaker 2: a lawsuit. But I mean he falsely claimed titles like
Speaker 2: rev and doctor, which he wanted his employees to call
Speaker 2: him that, And he very much pushed metaphysical beliefs, calling
Speaker 2: himself a godlike figure, and had bizarre rules that he enforced,
Speaker 2: and employees claimed they were pressured to attend lavish dinners
Speaker 2: where you know, he would preach self worship and urged
Speaker 2: them to embody him. And again the psychedelic drug usage
Speaker 2: or the psychedelic drug pressure, I mean, that was the
Speaker 2: real thing. It sounds like when it comes to employees
Speaker 2: quitting over this and fearing, you know, just what would happen,
Speaker 2: you know, even after they quit.
Speaker 3: So it sounds like my man that was out in
Speaker 3: San Diego that was making people eat pudding before the
Speaker 3: comic came in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that whole stuff.
Speaker 1: Is odd, dude. I got in.
Speaker 3: I got into the story of Jim Jones, oh, just
Speaker 3: because I remember seeing that as a kid. My parents
Speaker 3: had it on TV, and it literally scared me. I
Speaker 3: didn't understand a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Of scary and in borderline fascinating and right. I mean
Speaker 2: I probably shouldn't, and I'm not being judgmental necessarily, but
Speaker 2: when I anytime I I've just been kind of hooked
Speaker 2: into kind of learning about a cult and how it
Speaker 2: came together. My first question has always been, how do
Speaker 2: people fall into that?
Speaker 1: That's a great I mean, there's.
Speaker 2: The level of manipulation, brainwashing, but it's.
Speaker 3: And there's it's a complicated picture because there's a lot
Speaker 3: in their past that is endearing them to that sort
Speaker 3: of following, and there's that's a big rabbit hole you
Speaker 3: can go down and spend a lot of time down.
Speaker 1: Heah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I love our boss, but if he
Speaker 2: wants me to start thinking that he's my God, that's
Speaker 2: where I draw the line. Gus Allen, That's where I
Speaker 2: draw the line. All right, I just letting you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good segment for some day. Ro that
Speaker 1: is a wild place. It is all right.
Speaker 2: We got another update of trafficking weather coming your way,
Speaker 2: and also another update on sports right here on news
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you, John.
Speaker 2: It is seven thirty six here at Kentucky this Morning
Speaker 2: News on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That
Speaker 2: is me Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden, John Shannon. The
Speaker 2: full crew is here and Mayor Greenberg is going to
Speaker 2: be joining us around eight o'clock today. Looking forward to
Speaker 2: to having that conversation with him. And I wanted to
Speaker 2: share some of you guys really quickly here and I
Speaker 2: want to give you heads up. I'm this was such
Speaker 2: a cool invention, a cool piece of technology that I
Speaker 2: didn't know about that I'm gonna I was about to
Speaker 2: present it as if it's the coolest thing in the world.
Speaker 2: And I was just so anxious and excited to share
Speaker 2: with you guys because I want you guys to see
Speaker 2: how cool it is. But I often know sometimes I can,
Speaker 2: I can really overdo it, and there's nothing worse than like,
Speaker 2: let me give an exam ample. Have you ever shared
Speaker 2: like a meme or a TikTok video with somebody and
Speaker 2: you think it's so funny. And there's somebody that comes
Speaker 2: to mind, maybe your wife, maybe your friend, and you think,
Speaker 2: you know what, they have a similar sense of humor.
Speaker 2: They'll think this is really really funny too. I'm going
Speaker 2: to share it with them. And you're doing them because
Speaker 2: you care about them and you want them to experience the.
Speaker 1: Joy that you have as well.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing that can be more crushing than them
Speaker 2: just instantly saying I already saw that.
Speaker 1: Exactly you at least just what just enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Just tell me that later, because it's you know, oh,
Speaker 2: sorry for trying to, you know, share my happiness with you.
Speaker 2: You've already seen it, you know what. You clearly don't
Speaker 2: feel the same way that I do because you didn't
Speaker 2: share with me.
Speaker 1: I'm the person who does the Oh I've already seen.
Speaker 2: It, as if you haven't done it to me before
Speaker 2: and I didn't remember it, John.
Speaker 3: I mean, let me ask you guys this along that
Speaker 3: same lines. You ever have that person who comes up
Speaker 3: to your cubicle and just wants to talk and you're
Speaker 3: busy working, and they go, did I ever tell you
Speaker 3: that story?
Speaker 1: And you say, yeah, you did, when they really didn't.
Speaker 2: When you say you did, They're already in They're already
Speaker 2: in the process of telling you again.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: They don't care if if you are aware they've already
Speaker 2: told the story. They're just gonna do it regardless. So
Speaker 2: I've told so many people just wroughte it up. So anyways,
Speaker 2: what I wanted to share was there's this this piece
Speaker 2: of technology. It is AI Translation earbuds. You can purchase
Speaker 2: earbuds that you will put in your ear and if
Speaker 2: you are hearing someone speak a language you're not familiar with,
Speaker 2: it'll pick up on it and it'll tell you what
Speaker 2: they're saying in your native language.
Speaker 1: Is that not cool? That's awesome?
Speaker 2: Okay, do you really believe it? Or do you do
Speaker 2: you really think it's cool? Are you just saying that
Speaker 2: I'm decided to share with you guys?
Speaker 3: Let me say yeah, no, And I think that's very
Speaker 3: cool because I can't tell you the number of people
Speaker 3: that I have communicated with back when I used to
Speaker 3: work in retail and they didn't speak English, but they
Speaker 3: so you know, and I've seen people do this nowadays too,
Speaker 3: that they'll get out their phones because thanks to Google Translate,
Speaker 3: but they have to stop they have to type in
Speaker 3: what they're saying and they have to show you.
Speaker 1: Then you have to do the same thing.
Speaker 3: And when I was in Europe, when I was stationed
Speaker 3: in Europe in the mid nineties, I did some work
Speaker 3: with the UN HDR and we would go down for
Speaker 3: meetings and you ever see the UN people with their
Speaker 3: earpiece on their ear That was incredibly frustrating because you'd
Speaker 3: have to go through the whole translation process.
Speaker 1: Now we can just do away with it, yeah, which
Speaker 1: I think is brilliant. I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: So they rely on AI. Accuracy is up to ninety
Speaker 2: five percent for clear, simple sentences in the major languages, English, Spanish, Mandarin,
Speaker 2: and where it can where it can get tricky is
Speaker 2: accents and slang, idiot, those kind of things. But I
Speaker 2: mean to me, it's not even just about being able
Speaker 2: to have a full lengthy conversation. But if if it's
Speaker 2: working like sixty five to seventy percent, if I'm in
Speaker 2: another country, I'll at least be able to be in
Speaker 2: the same ballpark with the person who is speaking a
Speaker 2: language that I'm not familiar with at all. So I
Speaker 2: just thought this, it's a it's an invention I would
Speaker 2: have never thought of. But it's got to be super convenient. Now.
Speaker 2: The hiccups here could be that it needs some type
Speaker 2: of can activity, meaning it's going to need you to
Speaker 2: pair it with your device and share cell service basically
Speaker 2: internet or Wi Fi. And that's not that's not a
Speaker 2: crazy thing to do. But like if when I go
Speaker 2: to you know, it's not like I travel abroad a lot,
Speaker 2: but whenever I've been in another country, like when we
Speaker 2: go to Cancun, like I can use Wi Fi, but
Speaker 2: my cell service doesn't work. So if I'm just out
Speaker 2: and about not and I don't speak Spanish, you know,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't work in that instance. But I mean still,
Speaker 2: one day we'll get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool, right, that's very anytime we can increase
Speaker 3: communication in this small world we live in, because that
Speaker 3: is sorely locking, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. No, I had not heard that thing.
Speaker 2: Thank you for thinking it's as cool as I do. John,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can live. I mean, you
Speaker 2: didn't see m impressed no comments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised that from you.
Speaker 2: I should have expected that, and I'll never send you
Speaker 2: a meme again. Never gonna happen to consider, Yeah, consider
Speaker 2: the last meme I sent you, the last one you'll get,
Speaker 2: because I just I just wanted to share a good
Speaker 2: laugh with my friend and then you know we already
Speaker 2: saw that. Man, you're late. Anyways, another update of trafficking
Speaker 2: weather's coming your way right here on news radio.
Speaker 1: Waight forty whas.
Speaker 2: Seven forty five here Kentucky and it's morning news on
Speaker 2: news radio Waight forty whs. We've got an update on
Speaker 2: sports coming up in about ten minutes. Also, Mayor ka
Speaker 2: Greenberg going to join us as we get the eight
Speaker 2: o'clock hours started looking forward to that. Hopefully guys will
Speaker 2: stick around. The tickets for this year's Kentucky State Fair
Speaker 2: are now available as they I think they went on
Speaker 2: sale yesterday. The Fair this year is going to run
Speaker 2: August fourteenth through the twenty fourth, and they announced the
Speaker 2: lineup as far as entertainment shows, and it's the Texas
Speaker 2: Roadhouse Concert Series is back in a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of big name artists at least for me, that
Speaker 2: are going to be there, and the free concerts they
Speaker 2: put onto the fair are always a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if they catered to me. I
Speaker 2: say that jokingly. I know that they didn't, but I
Speaker 2: did not expect to see the name Aaron Tippin on
Speaker 2: the lineup.
Speaker 1: But I think I forgot your nineties guy. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean these are two things that I that I
Speaker 2: love that I really can't I can't explain why I
Speaker 2: love them so much. I mean, the Fair is great, yeah,
Speaker 2: but like I'm a nerd for the Fair. I would
Speaker 2: I would be at the fair every day if I could,
Speaker 2: and just and there's really no agenda, no specific thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just walk around at the fair. It's
Speaker 2: it's a lot. And I mean that in a good way.
Speaker 2: They should have you introduced Aaron Tippin at the fair, right,
Speaker 2: I would I would faint, I would faint. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about nineties country. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's just because it remains crazy nostalgic because when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, that's that was oftentimes I guess what
Speaker 2: was on in the in the vehicle whenever I was
Speaker 2: a little kid. Random thing that we don't have time
Speaker 2: to get into right now. My my grandfather, he used
Speaker 2: to he used to be Santa Claus. And I don't
Speaker 2: mean that literally. I mean he used to like that
Speaker 2: was his second career in life, and he was I mean,
Speaker 2: he got some pretty big gigs. He was the he
Speaker 2: was the he was the Santa in the CMT Nashville
Speaker 2: Christmas Parade every year. So there was always a Grand
Speaker 2: Marshall that was a country music artist, and we would
Speaker 2: go and it was a lot of fun. We got
Speaker 2: some cool access. I got to meet Marty Stewart, which
Speaker 2: was pretty cool. So so you know, whenever at that time,
Speaker 2: you couldn't pull up their music on a streaming app.
Speaker 2: You couldn't you couldn't go to YouTube. So I listened
Speaker 2: to it a lot as a kid. And then once,
Speaker 2: you know, once music became much easier to access, it's like,
Speaker 2: to this day, I'm still like going back in time
Speaker 2: when I listen to music that I loved growing up
Speaker 2: that I didn't hear for so long. I mean, keep
Speaker 2: in mind, once once we got past like the mid
Speaker 2: to late nineties, I mean it I don't know how
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't remember hearing much of it on
Speaker 2: the radio. And again, music how you obtained it was
Speaker 2: much different at the time I grew up in the
Speaker 2: era where it became Napster and lime Wire. That was
Speaker 2: really big when I was in really that whenever we
Speaker 2: got to high school. That's how a lot of people, uh,
Speaker 2: not me, because I'm not a criminal, obtained music. They
Speaker 2: would just download it on Napster and lime Wire. So anyways,
Speaker 2: I'm a nerd for nineties country and they've got a
Speaker 2: few different nights where that'll be featured in a big
Speaker 2: way including i mean, not just Darreon Tipping, how about
Speaker 2: Colin Ray and Sammy Kershaw on Sunday on August seventeenth
Speaker 2: for the Military Sunday Roots and Boots is what they're
Speaker 2: calling that. So also Sawyer Brown will be there to
Speaker 2: open it up on the fourteenth. That Thursday, Sister Sledge
Speaker 2: featuring Sledgendary with special guest CNC Music Factory. That'll be Friday,
Speaker 2: Blue Olster, Blue Oyster Colt is going to be there
Speaker 2: on Saturday, that of course will likely have a big turnout,
Speaker 2: I would assume, and then on Monday they'll have The
Speaker 2: Kingdom with special guest Level Ground and Tuesday, August nineteenth,
Speaker 2: that Senior Day, it'll be Happy Together Tour, which includes
Speaker 2: the Turtles, Jay and the Americans, Little Anthony, Gary Pucket
Speaker 2: in the Union Gap, the Vogues and the Cowciles. And
Speaker 2: then Wednesday co headliners Drew Baldridge and Parmalee, who are
Speaker 2: two more modern and current country artists and acts. And
Speaker 2: then they'll have another Country Night on that Thursday, Grand
Speaker 2: Funk Railroad with special guests Frankie Ballard, Friday, Theory of Debt,
Speaker 2: Theory of a dead Man with special guest.
Speaker 1: Wild Ride that's an interesting life turn. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: Saturday Saturday post Grunge from two thousands.
Speaker 2: That last Saturday, they're gonna have all sixty with special
Speaker 2: guest Avery Annas. So mixed in there's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of different flavor, different genres, appealing to those who have
Speaker 2: a variety of different musical tastes. So you know, good stuff, man,
Speaker 2: all right, the deal you I'm not I'm not kidding
Speaker 2: when I tell you I'm obsessed with the fair. John
Speaker 2: can attest to this. It's a weird thing, but I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm wired different.
Speaker 1: I guess when you say it's State Fair time, I
Speaker 1: know we got to go.
Speaker 3: What is the one thing that immediately comes to your
Speaker 3: mind that you most look forward to?
Speaker 2: Kentucky Proud Pork sandwich at it. That's that's, that's what
Speaker 2: comes to mind first for me.
Speaker 1: What about you right now? I do the beer.
Speaker 2: Okay, good belief.
Speaker 1: You say watermelon or something. No, no, no, no, I do
Speaker 1: the beer. It's the smell of the fair and walking
Speaker 1: around with the beer.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Good stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, We've got another update of sports coming your way.
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