Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, Happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: News Radio forty whas John all on alongside today and
Speaker 2: as you could expect, two of the big stories nationally
Speaker 2: we've discussed throughout the morning here here and there a
Speaker 2: mass shooting that took place yesterday in midtown Manhattan where
Speaker 2: a lone gunman.
Speaker 1: Showed up forty four story office tower.
Speaker 2: I think it was killing four people, including an NYPD officer,
Speaker 2: and also taking his own life.
Speaker 1: So the.
Speaker 2: Situation here, I just I don't know what to expect
Speaker 2: at all when it comes to any type of response
Speaker 2: from the NFL. So for those who who haven't, look,
Speaker 2: if you haven't got the latest information here, I totally
Speaker 2: get it. This took place yesterday early evening, and well
Speaker 2: into the evening it seems as if, and I guess
Speaker 2: maybe even well into the morning, you're still starting to
Speaker 2: hear more about this individual who decided to do what
Speaker 2: he did, And as far as the reasoning, I'm still
Speaker 2: trying to get used to talking about a reasoning without
Speaker 2: it sounding like, oh, okay, well that's why he did
Speaker 2: it makes sense. No, nothing will ever make sense when
Speaker 2: it comes to these kind of things. But the motive
Speaker 2: here appears to be something related to football and CTE.
Speaker 2: So this twenty seven year old former high school football
Speaker 2: player from southern California, he's lived in Vegas, and he
Speaker 2: claims to have CTE. And they found a note in
Speaker 2: his pocket referencing chronic traumatic in a philuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm butchering it. I just know it as CTE.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about when I say ct And the note cited
Speaker 2: Terry Long, a former Steeler who died by suicide after
Speaker 2: suffering from CTE. And of course, this this individual, this suspect,
Speaker 2: expressed rage toward the league with a quote football gave
Speaker 2: me CTE. You can't go against the NFL. They'll squash you.
Speaker 2: So he did request in his note his brain to
Speaker 2: be studied and left an apology for somebody by the
Speaker 2: name of Rick. So this building is where the NFL
Speaker 2: has one of their corporate headquarters, and one NFL employee
Speaker 2: was critically injured. Another business that's there as Blackstone, they
Speaker 2: had an executive that was shot and killed in the
Speaker 2: lobby and then also an officer died, a thirty six
Speaker 2: year old off duty officer who was their working security.
Speaker 2: So just an awful situation all the way around. And
Speaker 2: the NFL. I can't imagine really what their response will
Speaker 2: be here because you know, they have an employee who
Speaker 2: is has been critically injured in this situation, and but
Speaker 2: they'll be asked about I mean this, what this is
Speaker 2: going to do is in at some point Roger Goodell
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's already been requests for comment a
Speaker 2: statement in regards to what happened. But CSE will continue
Speaker 2: to be a talked about thing for a long long time.
Speaker 2: And no doubt they will study this individual's brain and
Speaker 2: we'll see I mean again, regardless of if you have
Speaker 2: CTE or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't speak because I I don't have it. I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody that does. But what I'm curious, and I'm
Speaker 2: not insinuating that this will be the case, but is
Speaker 2: did this individual try to get into like does the
Speaker 2: NFL know who this guy is? He's somebody that's been
Speaker 2: like trying to get in touch with them, harassing them,
Speaker 2: anything like that. Not that that will make a huge difference,
Speaker 2: but that is what I'm curious to know.
Speaker 1: But let's be honest.
Speaker 2: The NFL, yes, they are the National Football League, right,
Speaker 2: it's the it's I mean it's they have no competition,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you when it comes to sports
Speaker 2: in America, when it comes to popularity, viewership, all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But he didn't play in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean, he played high school football, and I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure that's where it stopped. So those of you that
Speaker 2: are anti football, which I can't imagine, but hey, everybody's
Speaker 2: everybody's different, I'm sure this will be, you know, used
Speaker 2: as an example why football is too dangerous, which.
Speaker 1: I always say this.
Speaker 2: And I don't hope this happens and it never will.
Speaker 1: This is not realistic in any.
Speaker 2: Way, but I do believe that if football as a
Speaker 2: sport was introduced today the way that we play it.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the athletes that look like they were
Speaker 2: created in laboratories. If you introduce this sport today and
Speaker 2: gave us a sample of it, I do believe medical
Speaker 2: professionals would tell us yeah, we can't do that just
Speaker 2: because I mean.
Speaker 1: It's quite literally a car wreck every play. It just is.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love the NFL, and clearly it's dominant, probably more
Speaker 2: so than the average sports fan realizes. When it comes
Speaker 2: to just it's king and you know, they could get
Speaker 2: away with certain things that other pro leagues wouldn't be
Speaker 2: able to get away with because it's the NFL. A
Speaker 2: lot of power within the NFL. So again, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that we should get rid of football in any way.
Speaker 2: Love football, and there's been many many that played it
Speaker 2: throughout their whole life that ended up, you know, living
Speaker 2: lives with no long term effects. But obviously there are
Speaker 2: some that have had some issues, including CTE. And then
Speaker 2: there's another aspect of this as well, in the grand
Speaker 2: scheme of like society football. The way we play it
Speaker 2: now from like a societal standpoint is relatively new. Meaning
Speaker 2: we'll see right like down the line, guys who played
Speaker 2: in the NFL and the nineties when they all get older,
Speaker 2: like what's their condition going to be? What is their
Speaker 2: you know, what kind of health are they going to
Speaker 2: be in? And to be fair, the NFL, they've got
Speaker 2: the resources for it, but they are constantly, constantly spending
Speaker 2: an insane amount of money to continue to try to
Speaker 2: learn the best way they can keep players safe and
Speaker 2: keep them healthy as possible, and that's what you would do.
Speaker 2: But the reality is this, the football as it is
Speaker 2: in the NFL is always going to be a very
Speaker 2: violent sport and that's never going to change. All right,
Speaker 2: Let's get an update of traffic and weather as we
Speaker 2: roll along here at Kentucky and it's morning news, coffee
Speaker 2: and company with you here on news radio eight forty
Speaker 2: w uhas. It sounds like today and tomorrow are gonna
Speaker 2: be the worst of this, this current heat wave that's
Speaker 2: going on, and the relief is expected to arrive Thursday
Speaker 2: and Friday with some cooler temperatures, but today going to
Speaker 2: be really, really hot.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, the high is around ninety four ninety
Speaker 2: five degrees, but it's gonna feel like starting at let's see,
Speaker 2: starting at eleven am, it'll feel like one hundred degrees
Speaker 2: or hotter for the rest of the day up until
Speaker 2: ten o'clock tonight when it comes to the heating decks.
Speaker 2: So the heating decks is expected to be at its
Speaker 2: worst around between four and six PM when it's at
Speaker 2: one hundred and six degrees So gross. Right now, I've
Speaker 2: asked folks to share. If you are somebody that works
Speaker 2: in this, I'm sure you don't enjoy it, but maybe
Speaker 2: you get used to it, and clearly you're tougher than me.
Speaker 2: But I would like to know what is something that
Speaker 2: may surprise someone like myself who's soft and not as
Speaker 2: tough as you that can help when it comes to
Speaker 2: dealing with this type of heat and humidity during a
Speaker 2: work shift.
Speaker 1: Obviously, hydration is key.
Speaker 2: But I'm curious if there's something that you make sure
Speaker 2: you do to get through that workshift better that maybe
Speaker 2: some people don't know about. And look, maybe not only
Speaker 2: could you give us some good info, you could help others.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be a gatekeeper when it comes
Speaker 2: to doing whatever you can to make sure people can
Speaker 2: can get through what would be I think just an
Speaker 2: absolutely brutal day of work. But hey, it's been hot
Speaker 2: before people have gotten through it. That's what they do,
Speaker 2: So props to you, guys. I'm very fortunate to be
Speaker 2: able to be in a temperature controlled environment here just
Speaker 2: jap it in front of a microphone. But yeah, if
Speaker 2: you want to share that with us, you can on
Speaker 2: the talkback feature within the iHeartRadio app. Just open it up,
Speaker 2: click on that microphone. So if you're listening to HS,
Speaker 2: you'll see that little microphone when you're within the app,
Speaker 2: and you you can chime in. We'll get to some
Speaker 2: of those a little bit later on as we all
Speaker 2: try to ride out this this heat wave, but again
Speaker 2: later this week we're expected to get a little bit
Speaker 2: a little bit of relief with that. All right, So
Speaker 2: we're now what seven no nine days away from school
Speaker 2: starting here in Louisville at JCPS, and last night there
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 1: Let's see what was it. It was a.
Speaker 2: Meeting of some sorts. I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 2: right way. Yeah, they had a parents and teachers gathered
Speaker 2: last night to have ay, they call it community conversations
Speaker 2: with the new superintendent. So this is a they're having
Speaker 2: a series of these public forums and again they're calling
Speaker 2: it community conversations with doctor Brian year Would and it's
Speaker 2: just I guess, providing some well needed and deserved transparency
Speaker 2: as you've got a new superintendent and schools about to start.
Speaker 2: But as far as the key concern raised by those
Speaker 2: that were there. You've got student assignment, staffing shortages, legislative relationships,
Speaker 2: and educational equity. That is according to our partners over
Speaker 2: at WLKY. So he did confirm doctor Yearwood that JCPS
Speaker 2: faces a budget deficit and they're reviewing potential cuts, which
Speaker 2: I mean that speaks to kind of where they are.
Speaker 2: Probably not a huge surprise to those who are keeping
Speaker 2: up with things, but yeah, they the shortage of teachers
Speaker 2: is everywhere, and I don't and look, maybe there's somebody
Speaker 2: that can give us some good info that can provide
Speaker 2: some optimism, but I totally get why being a teacher
Speaker 2: is not as appealing as it once was. And that's unfortunate,
Speaker 2: because man, being a teacher is really really important and
Speaker 2: we need them in a major way. And it's not
Speaker 2: only an industry that you just don't see as many
Speaker 2: people pursuing when they start that career path.
Speaker 1: There are people who.
Speaker 2: Have done it, maybe even for for a few years,
Speaker 2: or maybe they've done it for a long time that
Speaker 2: are walking away from it. So that's that's that's that's
Speaker 2: not good, and I would imagine just about everybody. Maybe
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that because I have no clue, but
Speaker 2: I would imagine a lot of people that are that
Speaker 2: that that have decided to do it recently in the
Speaker 2: last four to five years, and it's it's something they
Speaker 2: still enjoy. There's got to be a huge element of that.
Speaker 2: That's just a labor of love. They love doing it.
Speaker 2: They don't do it for the money. Yeah, there's the
Speaker 2: convenience of the summer break and all that. But man,
Speaker 2: shout out to those people because we need them. With
Speaker 2: my daughter in school and my son starting kindergarten, I mean,
Speaker 2: teachers are are important and whatever we got to do
Speaker 2: to to to make them stay and want to do
Speaker 2: it and of course encourage others to want to go
Speaker 2: down that same path.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: I don't have the answer, but it is scary, no doubt.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to another quick update on the roadways.
Speaker 2: Bobby Ellis will get as caught up on the traffic
Speaker 2: out there here in Kentucky, and we'll get the latest
Speaker 2: from Matt Melosa Bitch on the forecast, and Scott's back
Speaker 2: with another sports update for us right here on News
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon,
Speaker 2: It is Kentucky and it's morning News Coffee and company
Speaker 2: with you here on news Radio eight forty whas I'm
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee. The one and only John Alden was alongside John.
Speaker 2: How often are you using chat GPT these days? I
Speaker 2: don't use it a ton, but my wife uses it
Speaker 2: a lot. Oh yeah, I can see a teacher really
Speaker 2: finding it resourceful for a lot of things, which I
Speaker 2: want to save this conversation for down the line, just
Speaker 2: because it would be one that would probably take a
Speaker 2: little bit more time than we have right now. But
Speaker 2: you now have some cities who have leaders that are
Speaker 2: making it clear there. I think the mayor, I think
Speaker 2: it's the mayor of San Jose, California, that has said
Speaker 2: that he just you know, he gave a speech recently
Speaker 2: and mentioned that he used chad GPT for it. And
Speaker 2: to me, that sounds kind of ballsy to make it
Speaker 2: see because a lot of people just hear that and think, well,
Speaker 2: it's not genuine.
Speaker 1: Well it can be.
Speaker 2: You can take your work and just polish it with
Speaker 2: chat GPT, and I'm sure a lot of teachers are
Speaker 2: doing that. So the reason I ask is, John, if
Speaker 2: you're a criminal, you need to be careful what you
Speaker 2: tell chat GPT.
Speaker 1: Oh real, those.
Speaker 2: Conversations aren't confidential. So the CEO of Open AI, he
Speaker 2: is sounding the alarm, letting users know that treating chat
Speaker 2: GPT like a therapist or a trusted confidant is risky
Speaker 2: because your conversations with AI can be used in court,
Speaker 2: and most users don't know that. I will tell you
Speaker 2: I don't have anything to worry about because I'm not
Speaker 2: a criminal, but I would have. That's news to me
Speaker 2: that I was unaware of, and it honestly kind of
Speaker 2: surprises me a little bit. I don't think we've yet
Speaker 2: to get to a point where we've had a big
Speaker 2: trial that they used. What communication that individual, that suspect
Speaker 2: was giving to chat gpt.
Speaker 1: But let's be real, think.
Speaker 2: About twenty years from now, maybe even like two years
Speaker 2: from now, maybe two days from now. That's probably an exaggeration,
Speaker 2: but like AI is going to be a part of trials,
Speaker 2: It's going to be part of everything, and the rapid
Speaker 2: growth of it is just amazing. And I guess it's
Speaker 2: really not surprising though, because when you think about what
Speaker 2: it is, I mean, it's only going to keep growing,
Speaker 2: and it's going to do it at a rapid rate.
Speaker 2: But if you are using it to help yourself figure
Speaker 2: out how to be a criminal, or you're using it
Speaker 2: as a therapist, and you're opening up in ways that
Speaker 2: you never open up to anybody else, just be prepared.
Speaker 2: Maybe one day you get caught and they're investigating you
Speaker 2: and there's not a lot of evidence, but then they
Speaker 2: get access to what you've been saying to the robot
Speaker 2: on your phone, and know that that can be used
Speaker 2: against you, and it won't be long before somebody ends
Speaker 2: up getting convicted and that was the smoking gun. That's
Speaker 2: just that'll happen sooner rather than later. I would expect
Speaker 2: a hard Again.
Speaker 1: It's Kentucky.
Speaker 2: It's morning news here on new Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: This story is one that is certainly going to get
Speaker 2: a lot of attention, and it is a story about
Speaker 2: an NFL player who was recently released from his contract
Speaker 2: after signing a huge deal last year. Former Raider, former
Speaker 2: Clemson Tiger Loisill fans probably remember this name, Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 2: He was released by the Raiders last week, I think
Speaker 2: it was, And this was after he just last year
Speaker 2: became one of the biggest free agents in the NFL
Speaker 2: and had a big time contract, and it seemed to
Speaker 2: be sort of a puzzling decision from the Raiders. And
Speaker 2: then there were some rumors that something weird happened, something
Speaker 2: something that you don't typically see in the NFL might
Speaker 2: have taken place here with Wilkins, And now we know
Speaker 2: that it did, and he is accused of trying to
Speaker 2: playfully kiss a teammate and the teammate didn't like that
Speaker 2: and made the club aware of it, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: that was least one of the factors and why they
Speaker 2: decided to move on from Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: Is he how injured?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: When's he back? What happens here with Christian wilcoms.
Speaker 3: Again from speaking to people inside of the locker room,
Speaker 3: I think what everybody's dancing around and tap tiptoeing around
Speaker 3: is the fact that when you speak to people there
Speaker 3: inside of the locker room, they say that Christian playfully
Speaker 3: went to kiss a teammate on top of his head,
Speaker 3: and those same people said that that player took offense
Speaker 3: to it. So that's what everybody's been dancing around and
Speaker 3: tap dancing around an incident in the locker room where
Speaker 3: he allegedly playfully kissed a teammate on top of his head.
Speaker 3: That teammate felt offended by it. And that's what a
Speaker 3: lot of this talk and speculation that people have just
Speaker 3: been floating around out there is about.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he kissed a teammate on a forehead in
Speaker 1: a playful manner. Teammate said nope.
Speaker 2: So that was Adam Schefter with Pat McAfee yesterday. And
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that checks out.
Speaker 1: If that is true, I.
Speaker 2: Can see the teammate going to the higher ups and
Speaker 2: letting them know. And yeah, this has got to be
Speaker 2: a first in the NFL as far as just to
Speaker 2: becoming the story like this.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's it's unusual. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's not. I've never I've never played in
Speaker 2: the NFL. That may surprise some of you. But yes,
Speaker 2: it never made it to the NFL. But there wasn't
Speaker 2: a lot of smooching going on. It wasn't a thing
Speaker 2: when I played basketball, played in high school, played briefly
Speaker 2: in college. There was no Hey, good play, buddy, smooch time.
Speaker 2: Let me give it as a hell of a pass, baby,
Speaker 2: give me a smooch when we get back.
Speaker 1: When that we get back to the huddle.
Speaker 2: You're getting a smooch, you're getting a nice kiss, because
Speaker 2: what a play like that's not normal. So we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens here with Christian Wilkins. And there are some
Speaker 2: sharing some previous footage of Wilkins during his college days
Speaker 2: and NFL days that might might, just might make you
Speaker 2: think that if there was going to be an NFL
Speaker 2: player that wanted to be kissing teammates, maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 2: he would.
Speaker 1: Be in that group, which is none wrong with that,
Speaker 1: but you know, you're at work. You got to be professional.
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, speaking of that, I mean I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make an obvious observation here that I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if others have noticed it. But we'll get to that
Speaker 2: on the other side here. But first let's get a
Speaker 2: check on the roadways. Bobby Ellis will tell us how
Speaker 2: traffic's looking out there here in Kentucky and Ina. We'll
Speaker 2: get the latest forecast from Matt Melosovich right here on
Speaker 2: news radio. Wait forty whas So we're just a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes away from your next update on traffic and weather.
Speaker 2: I'll spoil the news. It's going to be hot today,
Speaker 2: so be prepared for that. As far as the traffic,
Speaker 2: Bobby Ellis will get you caught up and let you know.
Speaker 2: What you need to know is you may be getting
Speaker 2: ready to get your Tuesday started. But regardless if you're
Speaker 2: getting ready to get it started, it's already started. Whatever
Speaker 2: you're doing wherever you are, we certainly appreciate you now
Speaker 2: real quick. On the Christian Wilkins situation, So for those
Speaker 2: who missed, he's a former Clemson player who of course
Speaker 2: was part of that legendary run Davos Sweeney had at Clemson.
Speaker 2: He's been in the NFL for probably about five years
Speaker 2: now and signed a huge contract last year that led
Speaker 2: to him being one of the big I mean, he
Speaker 2: was one of the big winners of free agency as
Speaker 2: far as the compensation. Well, now, just a year later
Speaker 2: the Raiders moved on from him, and now we know
Speaker 2: that it to some extent was due to him allegedly
Speaker 2: kissing a teammate on the forehead and the teammate not
Speaker 2: having any you know, not having any time for that
Speaker 2: and bothered by it. And this will be a sensitive
Speaker 2: talking point for some and I get it because it
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be a comfortable thing to like, if in fact,
Speaker 2: and I'm not saying he is, but if in fact,
Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins is a gay man, there's been wrong with
Speaker 2: that at all. It's just not something that you typically
Speaker 2: see in the NFL. And I'm sure the environment in
Speaker 2: an NFL locker room would not be one of those
Speaker 2: places that would be super welcome, uh to those that
Speaker 2: might that might be gay. And you know, that's unfortunate,
Speaker 2: but I think that's just reality. But what I think
Speaker 2: is is just an obvious observation that will probably never
Speaker 2: you know, we'll never really know, or maybe we will,
Speaker 2: but when it comes, I let let me just say it.
Speaker 2: There are some that will claim, well, the the Raiders,
Speaker 2: they're discriminating against him if it does come out that
Speaker 2: he's that he's gay, and that's probably what I mean,
Speaker 2: they'll be They'll be the woke mob claiming that this
Speaker 2: is that that that the Raiders are at fault in
Speaker 2: the NFL is at fault and this guy's a victim. However,
Speaker 2: if he did this to a female and he was
Speaker 2: not potentially gay, he would be looked at as the
Speaker 2: biggest pig and he would never work again. Right, But
Speaker 2: because he did it to a man, he'll be portrayed
Speaker 2: as a victim here if in fact it does play
Speaker 2: out that way, like, let's be we know where we
Speaker 2: are currently in society, right, like that will happen. That's
Speaker 2: me potentially predicting the future. Again if in fact it
Speaker 2: does come out that he that he's and again it's
Speaker 2: not really our business at all, but when you kiss
Speaker 2: an employee, that's a no no, regardless of your sexuality.
Speaker 2: And it's going to become news. So now it is news,
Speaker 2: and sort of what happens from here? Who knows, all right?
Speaker 2: What I do know is you've got another update of
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