Speaker 1: We are off and running here on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: It is six oh five at Kentucky and its Morning
Speaker 1: News with Coffee and Company, myself, Nick Coffee, the whole
Speaker 1: cruise here, John Alden alongside the company man himself. You
Speaker 1: just heard John Chinnon. And we'll have another sports up
Speaker 1: day with Scott coming up in about twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 1: A big, big day yesterday here, yesterday here in Louisville,
Speaker 1: as Ford made it official and announced their two billion
Speaker 1: dollar electric vehicle investment here in Louisville. And obviously this
Speaker 1: is going to create a lot of jobs, and it's
Speaker 1: going to impact this city and state in a major way.
Speaker 1: And Ford has been a big part of the workforce
Speaker 1: here in Louisville. And I know there's many people that
Speaker 1: listen to this station every day that spend their days
Speaker 1: working on the assembly line at Ford. So just huge overall,
Speaker 1: and I know this is it sounds like this is
Speaker 1: in the works for I think about three years, and
Speaker 1: there was some rumor that this big news was coming,
Speaker 1: and to have it become a fish yesterday certainly a
Speaker 1: big deal and a big enough deal to get Andy Basher,
Speaker 1: the Governor of Kentucky here to discuss the impact it's having.
Speaker 2: This is a massive investment in our commonwealth. Even more important,
Speaker 2: it's securing an incredible twenty two hundred full time jobs
Speaker 2: for our people. The best part is these vehicles will
Speaker 2: be affordable. They're going to help so many American families
Speaker 2: keep more money in their pockets for groceries, medicine, school supplies,
Speaker 2: and yes, even that family vacation. This is a massive
Speaker 2: investment in our commonwealth.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the electric vehicle movement, I'm
Speaker 1: not anti electric vehicle. It just doesn't come to mind
Speaker 1: for me when I think about any vehicle that I'm
Speaker 1: going to have anytime soon, because I don't really plan
Speaker 1: on getting a different vehicle anytime soon. But eventually, that's
Speaker 1: probably what we're all going to be driving, right John,
Speaker 1: You and I aren't that far apart in age in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things. But do you think that
Speaker 1: you will? I mean the scenario where we don't own
Speaker 1: electric vehicles before we call it quits and and our
Speaker 1: life comes to it, And let's just assume that's when
Speaker 1: we're seventy seven or older, like, well, we'll probably own
Speaker 1: multiple electric vehicles by the inn reute.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't surprise me. I don't know at what age.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to predict that far ahead of when,
Speaker 3: all especially being the type of person that I am
Speaker 3: driving old vehicles. Yeah, but it wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 3: at some point that I'm driving something like that.
Speaker 1: If you want to hold on to and this is
Speaker 1: I think something we're far far away from. But if
Speaker 1: you want to hold on to a vehicle because of
Speaker 1: it's paid off and it's you don't you don't want
Speaker 1: a new one, you like it, you don't want to
Speaker 1: buy anything different. There's a lot of people like that.
Speaker 1: It may just become where it is not as convenient
Speaker 1: to have a car that has been you know, running
Speaker 1: on gasoline. You know what I mean, that's true. Like eventually,
Speaker 1: again it's hard for me to eaven envision a scenario
Speaker 1: where you can't find a gas station to fill up
Speaker 1: your Toyota or your or your you know, your forward
Speaker 1: pick up, it's not electric, whatever it may be. But eventually,
Speaker 1: maybe in one hundred years, I don't know, that's probably
Speaker 1: where we're going to be. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: When electric charging stations become just as normal and easy
Speaker 3: to find as regular gas stations, and I know there's
Speaker 3: probably more than I realize there are, but whenever they're
Speaker 3: you know, kind of second nature. I guess I think
Speaker 3: that's when you'll see people like me and you driving
Speaker 3: electric vehicles more often.
Speaker 1: And I'm not looking for them by any means, but
Speaker 1: I'm noticing more of those charging stations everywhere I go.
Speaker 1: Now it's more so when I'm not in I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's actually not as often to see them here,
Speaker 1: but you know, when I travel, I notice them, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's not as if they're everywhere, but clearly
Speaker 1: there's enough electric vehicles on the roadway to where those
Speaker 1: things are popping up. So the there was a Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal survey that looked at the potential EV buyers
Speaker 1: and found they found that the average age of respondents was,
Speaker 1: I mean, this can't be right, sixty five. Wow. I mean,
Speaker 1: that just seemed like to me that it would be
Speaker 1: the last deal that would want to they would want
Speaker 1: to buy.
Speaker 3: But maybe they have more more money, though I'm sure
Speaker 3: they're more expensive vehicles. I would imagine.
Speaker 1: Forty two percent of electric vehicle owners in the United
Speaker 1: States are age thirty to forty four. That makes way
Speaker 1: more sense in my opinion. And you're right. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're in your twenties, you may be in you may
Speaker 1: be super interested in this because you just know it's
Speaker 1: the future. But you know, being a fort you know,
Speaker 1: can you go how many people can go buy a tesla?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: There's not there's not a used marketplace for teslas that
Speaker 1: were manufactured in two thousand and two, like your like
Speaker 1: your camera, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just yeah, it's it's much different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, eventually we'll be there, and uh, there'll be many, many,
Speaker 1: many electric forward vehicles on the roadways in years to come,
Speaker 1: and they'll be they'll be manufactured right here in this city,
Speaker 1: in this state, which of course is a good thing,
Speaker 1: right all right. Uh, I shouldn't be as fascinated by
Speaker 1: this as I am, but I just am. And that
Speaker 1: is scammers because they're smart. If they used their savviness
Speaker 1: to you know, do something productive and not be criminals,
Speaker 1: the world would be a better place. But Kentucky is
Speaker 1: not in a good place compared to other states as
Speaker 1: far as falling victim to scammers. And there's some numbers
Speaker 1: I want to share with you, and a new website
Speaker 1: that is designed to help those in this state to
Speaker 1: detect if they're being scammed or not, because again, sometimes
Speaker 1: I think, well, why would you fall for that? But
Speaker 1: then sometimes I'm like, damn, that would have got me too.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a cook update traffic and
Speaker 1: whether Bobby Ellis will tell us how the road lays
Speaker 1: are looking. I believe this is the first day where
Speaker 1: the majority, maybe the vast majority of school systems in
Speaker 1: the Kentucky and a region are back in school, which
Speaker 1: you know what that means a change in traffic. So
Speaker 1: Bobby will tell us how we're looking out there. We'll
Speaker 1: also get an update on Matt Melosovich when it comes
Speaker 1: to the forecast right here on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas So, the state of Kentucky has launched a statewide
Speaker 1: anti scam website, but Shier has decided to take new
Speaker 1: act to protect Kentuckians who fall victim to the savvy
Speaker 1: scammers that are all over the world. So there's a
Speaker 1: new state run website that is aimed to prevent this
Speaker 1: from happening by providing awareness of I guess trendy scams
Speaker 1: that are out there, and of course, unfortunately, how you
Speaker 1: can recover from being a victim to scammers. So the
Speaker 1: website is Stop Scams dot ky dot GV it is,
Speaker 1: it's now live and it's your one stop resource essentially
Speaker 1: for spotting these scams, reporting them, and again finding recovery
Speaker 1: tools if you have been if you've been targeted. And
Speaker 1: I think this is the right way to describe it.
Speaker 1: Bashir calls these scams mean and cruel and saying they
Speaker 1: strip Kentuckians of savings meant for essentials like rent, groceries,
Speaker 1: and retirement. And when you think about that, the vulnerable
Speaker 1: are those that would in fact end up losing out
Speaker 1: on retirement money, life savings, that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: there's been progress made in Kentucky, but the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four FBI report shows the Kentuckians are still losing over
Speaker 1: seventy four million dollars annually to online scammers. Think about that,
Speaker 1: I mean seventy four million dollars a year in this state.
Speaker 1: That's seventy four million of of of citizens in this state.
Speaker 1: That's their money that scammers are taking, Which I mean,
Speaker 1: does that not if anything? I mean, look seventy four
Speaker 1: million dollars, there is a lot of money I think
Speaker 1: might no matter how you're looking at it. But doesn't
Speaker 1: that speak to how I think it speaks to more
Speaker 1: how effective scammers are than maybe how vulnerable other people are.
Speaker 1: Clearly it's a little bit of both. But I mean
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. I mean, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: it up. Where does Kentucky rank compared to other states?
Speaker 1: Because clearly we've always I think been towards the bottom.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's changed because again there has been progress.
Speaker 1: But even whenever you have progress made, you know, the
Speaker 1: scammers they're getting smarter every day too. And I haven't
Speaker 1: even thought of this, but it's so true. Imagine how
Speaker 1: much easier it potentially could be for scammers with the
Speaker 1: powerful thing that is called artificial intelligence. I mean, yikes.
Speaker 1: So ata Kentucky is thirty fifth out of fifty when
Speaker 1: it comes to preventing scams. So yeah, not good. And
Speaker 1: let me give you another example of one that is
Speaker 1: I think if you really think about it and consider
Speaker 1: sort of what is being presented to you, you would
Speaker 1: just assume this is probably too good to be true.
Speaker 1: But I had a friend who their mother was retired
Speaker 1: and she was looking for some type of part time
Speaker 1: work to stay busy have a little bit of extra income,
Speaker 1: and she'd been retired for some years and she was
Speaker 1: head up by a company that emailed her, had a
Speaker 1: legit website, and they were offering to pay just like
Speaker 1: a stipend of money per month. I think it was
Speaker 1: like they were going to give her one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month if she had her vehicle wrapped in a
Speaker 1: logo of like a I think it might have been
Speaker 1: like an energy drink or something, and they were just
Speaker 1: trying to get people to allow you to basically use
Speaker 1: they were wanted to use your vehicle for advertising space.
Speaker 1: And again, it all looked legit as far as the visual,
Speaker 1: the website, the process. But what I remember throwing out
Speaker 1: there and I don't know if I prevented it, but
Speaker 1: I was glad to know that they didn't fall followed
Speaker 1: through with the offer because it was a scam. This
Speaker 1: was a retired woman who doesn't leave her home. Why
Speaker 1: are they going to give her over one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month to I mean, so that's where you just
Speaker 1: have to think about, like this makes yeah, it sounds
Speaker 1: it sounds awesome, this is perfect, but it's clearly a
Speaker 1: little bit too good to be true, and also doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense why they are coming after you. And
Speaker 1: I later learned that there's many people that fell victim
Speaker 1: to that kind of thing, and you know, they present
Speaker 1: something that's really not existent only to just make you
Speaker 1: more likely to give up your info so they can
Speaker 1: take that and do what they do, steal your identity,
Speaker 1: drain your bank accounts, that kind of stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: a real issue. And again the new state website to
Speaker 1: help with it in every aspect is Stopscams dot Ky
Speaker 1: dot gov. All right, we've got an update of traffick
Speaker 1: and weather coming your way. Matt Melosavitch will tell us,
Speaker 1: hopefully some good news because I'm over this heat and humidity.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was far worse than any of the eight days
Speaker 1: I was in the Panhandle.
Speaker 3: Just gross.
Speaker 1: Also, we've got Scott Fitzgerald with another sports update coming
Speaker 1: your way. Right here our news radioaight forty whas, that's right,
Speaker 1: it is Kentucky and his morning news hero news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Coffee and Company with you, Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: that's me for the full crew is here today and
Speaker 1: we've got I think just about everybody in the Kentucky
Speaker 1: and a region back in school, which means the roadways
Speaker 1: are a little more busy, and that could mean there's
Speaker 1: more traffic. You'll have an update on traffic up here
Speaker 1: at about four and a half minutes from Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 1: But you noticed a difference in traffic this morning, didn't you,
Speaker 1: mister John, And tell.
Speaker 3: Us what you really think about the drivers this morning.
Speaker 3: So for me, it's very different each and every day.
Speaker 3: But I did notice on I sixty five north, really
Speaker 3: right around the time you're by the Expo Center and
Speaker 3: Louisville Ellen and Stadium and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: vehicles traveling a lot faster than normal, and people being
Speaker 3: a lot more impatient. I had somebody come up behind me,
Speaker 3: and I don't believe I did anything to this driver
Speaker 3: or vehicle, but they turned on their brights and completely
Speaker 3: tailed me for a couple maybe about a mile or
Speaker 3: two on that part of that stretch of ICE sixty five.
Speaker 3: I was just talking about and I don't know if
Speaker 3: that person was angry or intoxicated or what it was,
Speaker 3: but that was the only very strange thing I ran into.
Speaker 3: But otherwise, there was just a lot of people in
Speaker 3: a hurry this morning.
Speaker 1: I just noticed more cars on the roadway, which again
Speaker 1: that tends to happen when when school's back in session.
Speaker 1: And this is the first time I've been in this position,
Speaker 1: doing this shift in the mornings where you've got school
Speaker 1: going on, and I tell you what, when it comes
Speaker 1: to just the difference in the amount of cars, and
Speaker 1: it makes total sense, to be honest with you, but
Speaker 1: you know, you really start to see a real increase.
Speaker 1: If you're commute is probably between like seven and eight
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, maybe maybe even around right now.
Speaker 1: But even for us who in the summer, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty deserted along some of the roadways. It's you know,
Speaker 1: there's still more people out because depending upon your situation,
Speaker 1: rather it be the employees that work for the school
Speaker 1: systems that have to get there super early, or maybe
Speaker 1: you are responsible and you don't rely on the school
Speaker 1: system's bus transportation to where you know, people get their
Speaker 1: day started early. And yeah, I know with school back
Speaker 1: in well just about everybody around here, we'll see more
Speaker 1: busy roadways and I'm sure that means more traffic, and
Speaker 1: that's that's not really good for anybody, right. However, there's
Speaker 1: one way you could look at it, look at it
Speaker 1: as a positive, and that means you may have more
Speaker 1: time to enjoy the experience that is Kentucky at It's
Speaker 1: morning news with coffee and company before you get to work.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind. And I hope again
Speaker 1: you can sense sarcasm there. I'm sure you know, no
Speaker 1: matter what we do, if you're late for work and
Speaker 1: you're sitting in traffic, you're going to be upset. And
Speaker 1: I totally get it. But maybe we can distract you
Speaker 1: from being upset. All right, So some big news yesterday
Speaker 1: towards the end of the show. That is I think
Speaker 1: like the fifth different big announcement we've had as far
Speaker 1: as broadcast rights to sports entertainment events. It was yesterday
Speaker 1: the UFC announced their deal with Paramount. So this is
Speaker 1: a one. Let's see, it's a seven year deal worth
Speaker 1: an average of one point one billion per year. So
Speaker 1: Paramount sky Dance Corporation, they now are the exclusive broadcast
Speaker 1: rights owner of the UFC, which will start in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. And this, I mean the UFC has grown
Speaker 1: over the years and clearly it is a big time
Speaker 1: television product. But what's different here is that now when
Speaker 1: it comes to what you get out of the I
Speaker 1: mean subscribers that are part of Paramount's streaming service, Paramount Plus,
Speaker 1: they are going to get premium UFC events at no
Speaker 1: cost beyond their regular Paramount Plus subscription. So what this
Speaker 1: has done there's no more pay per view model for
Speaker 1: the UFC, which is pretty substantial when it comes to
Speaker 1: just how long that's been around. So this does in
Speaker 1: fact end ESPN's deal with with UFC, which I think
Speaker 1: makes sense. But what's interesting that I'm not sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people really know, maybe just because you don't care,
Speaker 1: or maybe because you don't follow UFC or the ww
Speaker 1: because you got to give in mine. Last week, it
Speaker 1: was the big news that the ESPN and the WWE
Speaker 1: made a big announcement that you're now going to see
Speaker 1: some of the WWE's content within the ESPN platform. Arms
Speaker 1: So TKO, I believe, is the name of Yeah Tko.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's it called Yeah TKO Group Holdings. They
Speaker 1: actually own both the WWE and the UFC. I don't
Speaker 1: know if many people realize that, but that just speaks
Speaker 1: to how I mean, like they're now all when it
Speaker 1: comes to sports entertainment wrestling clearly is choreographed and UFC
Speaker 1: is not. But they're under the same parent company and
Speaker 1: they are in bed with ESPN when it comes to
Speaker 1: the wrestling, and they're in bed with Paramount when it
Speaker 1: comes to UFC and a lot of money. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Paramount deal has mentioned seven point seven billion over
Speaker 1: seven years, and the ESPNWWE deal, which will start same
Speaker 1: year is one point six billion over five years, so
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five million a year. And again,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, the premium live events for the WWE,
Speaker 1: including WrestleMania, Summer Slam, all the big pay per views,
Speaker 1: those are going to be streaming on ESPN's new direct
Speaker 1: to consumer service, with some similar different broadcast versions on
Speaker 1: their different networks. So just keep the mind the difference
Speaker 1: in money there is that UFC is all under Paramount now,
Speaker 1: whereas the WE, they still are going to have their
Speaker 1: Monday night raw television show that's on Netflix, and then
Speaker 1: they have SmackDown, which I believe is on one of
Speaker 1: the TV networks out there. So WV split up a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, people, I know that there's some
Speaker 1: people thinking like who watches that? How Well, clearly there's
Speaker 1: a market for it, because that's a lot of money
Speaker 1: for those broadcast rights that these big companies like Paramount
Speaker 1: Disney which owns ESPN, they know they can monetize that,
Speaker 1: so a lot of money. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: an update on the roadways. Bobby Ellis will tell us
Speaker 1: how it's looking with the traffic. Matt Melosavitch will getus
Speaker 1: caught up on the forecast as we move along here
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday morning on Who's Radio Weight forty WHS.
Speaker 1: We talked to Rory and Eal of NBC News a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier this morning about the Snap Benefits, which
Speaker 1: is now essentially food stamps, and how there's some potential
Speaker 1: changes coming to where that would not cover food that
Speaker 1: is clearly not nutritious it's actually bad for you, like
Speaker 1: some candy and sodas and whatnot. And that reminded me
Speaker 1: of something I read yesterday. It really fascinated me. And
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm gonna take this into consideration to
Speaker 1: try to become healthier, but it is just really interesting
Speaker 1: when you look at how the Amish are able to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. So the Amish have a four percent obesity rate,
Speaker 1: which is ten times lower than the rest of America.
Speaker 1: And they're not counting calories, tracking macros. They don't have
Speaker 1: gym memberships, fitness apps, certainly no ozembic. Yet they're leaner, healthier,
Speaker 1: and happier seemingly. I mean, I don't know anybody specifically
Speaker 1: that I can reference, but I mean have they And
Speaker 1: again I don't know about the happiness, but if you
Speaker 1: are healthy, ID assume that contributes to some potential happiness.
Speaker 1: But here is just some examples of their way of
Speaker 1: life that goes a long way, a lot of movement
Speaker 1: throughout the day. Amish men average over eighteen thousand steps
Speaker 1: a day. Women average over fourteen thousand steps a day.
Speaker 1: We're talking walking, lifting, hauling, building, of course, growing their
Speaker 1: own food. Movement is a big part of their of
Speaker 1: their every day and when it comes to eating food,
Speaker 1: they only eat natural food. There's no processing, no chemicals,
Speaker 1: seed oils. They eat high carbon, high fat foods, but
Speaker 1: still stay lean and it's because their food is all natural.
Speaker 1: And also sleep. They sleep with the sun, wake up
Speaker 1: when the sun rises, relax, wine down when it goes
Speaker 1: to get when it goes dark, and then of course
Speaker 1: go to sleep soon after that. So their circadian rhythm
Speaker 1: is dialed in which that can improve your mood and metabolism,
Speaker 1: make eat easier to stay lean and healthy. And this
Speaker 1: is more of a mental thing, I suppose, but just
Speaker 1: living with purpose, Like they're not chasing status or any
Speaker 1: social media clout. Their focus is every day their faith,
Speaker 1: family and contributing to the Amish community. And there's legitimate
Speaker 1: scientific studies that show that people who have a purpose
Speaker 1: live longer, and I think that totally makes sense. And
Speaker 1: when it comes to just living a simple life, I
Speaker 1: mean there's not as much. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to act like it's but again, they're not trying to
Speaker 1: keep up with the joneses or stressing about jobs and career, money,
Speaker 1: status because that's just not their way of life and
Speaker 1: something that I can't imagine not having. But clearly they
Speaker 1: don't have screen time, right, I mean, we're on screens
Speaker 1: all day, work in front of your computer, watching TV,
Speaker 1: scroll and social media, and it's terrible for your sleep,
Speaker 1: increases your risk of anxiety and depression. Because more and
Speaker 1: this is just my opinion on it, you now have
Speaker 1: access to see that you are not of status that
Speaker 1: others are that didn't used to exist. You would know,
Speaker 1: but you didn't see it. Now you can see it
Speaker 1: every second. I mean, you can watch movies back in
Speaker 1: the day, but now we're constantly comparing ourselves to others
Speaker 1: without even any real intent because it's just in front
Speaker 1: of our face everywhere. So another thing that it says
Speaker 1: here is that they eat their main meal around noon,
Speaker 1: and that is a big deal when it comes to
Speaker 1: digestive enzymes when they're at their peak, and it can
Speaker 1: help you help you digest your food better. So I
Speaker 1: can't think if I've ever seen an Amish individual that
Speaker 1: I would label as obese, but yeah, they've clearly got
Speaker 1: to figure it out as far as health. The more
Speaker 1: you know. All right, let's get to an update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather. Matt Melosavitch will tell us how human
Speaker 1: and hot it's going to be today. I hope he
Speaker 1: gives us good news, but if it's anything like yeah, yesterday,
Speaker 1: they won't be It won't be the case. Also, Scott's
Speaker 1: back within their sports update coming up here in about
Speaker 1: four minutes on news radio Wait forty w h as