Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started. Welcome in, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1: You can feel it, right, It's Friday. We've made it
Speaker 1: to the end of the week and I'm on vacation
Speaker 1: next week, which is exciting. So I'm gonna make the
Speaker 1: most of these four hours before I get out of
Speaker 1: here for a week. I know you'll miss me, right right,
Speaker 1: everybody will miss me, right Please say please, thank you.
Speaker 1: I needed that.
Speaker 2: You won't believe how much on mission Nick, thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah really, John and I talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it's been a real real process for
Speaker 1: you guys this week, just the dread and worry of
Speaker 1: knowing what life will be like without me for a week.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's nothing better than to really uh inflate
Speaker 1: my ego myself. I'm doing it myself clearly to get
Speaker 1: the show started here on a Friday. But it is
Speaker 1: Kentucky and this Morning News, Coffee and Company, and we
Speaker 1: were rolling with you for the next four hours. And
Speaker 1: I tell you what, We've got cooler temperatures comparatively speaking,
Speaker 1: this feels I mean, it's not fall weather, nothing close
Speaker 1: to it, but it kind of feels like it. Given
Speaker 1: the heat way we've had recently, and we had football
Speaker 1: on TV last night. I mean, this is arousing. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what we've been waiting for. And we got
Speaker 1: a long way to go before we actually get to
Speaker 1: real football games. Well not a super long way, but
Speaker 1: still long. Yeah, seeing football on TV last night it
Speaker 1: got me excited again.
Speaker 3: Next Saturday, well coming up, not this Saturday, but next Saturday.
Speaker 3: Will mark the Saturday football every Saturday until February. Mid February, dude,
Speaker 3: this is the last Saturday. So if you need to
Speaker 3: get stuff done and you're distracted by football, tomorrow's the
Speaker 3: day to get it done.
Speaker 1: Noted. Everybody, make sure you keep that in mind because
Speaker 1: he's don't say he didn't try to get your prepared
Speaker 1: right or what's about to come whenever we actually get
Speaker 1: to you know, the real stretch of it. And that's fun.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before on my sports show, and
Speaker 1: because of sports just being such a huge part of
Speaker 1: my life, my lifestyle, and really the older I get,
Speaker 1: the more I think, you know, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anything wrong with that, but you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: grow out of that a little bit because you know,
Speaker 1: you got things that you you that are like you can't.
Speaker 1: I can't not be a dad for a weekend because
Speaker 1: Louis was playing in a big game, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like I've got responsibilities like like most people do.
Speaker 1: But my years have always not necessarily like mentally, my years,
Speaker 1: they don't change over in January. They change over when
Speaker 1: we get to a new sports season. And and so
Speaker 1: for me, like once we get past Derby and the
Speaker 1: sports year, for me, as far as what I really
Speaker 1: you know, crave and and love covering, that's kind of like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, now the off seasons here, the year's over,
Speaker 1: and then once we get to football starting, then you
Speaker 1: have that going for obviously the entire season. Then college
Speaker 1: basketball starts and then you really roll into about Derby
Speaker 1: and like that. So when a school year starts, football starts,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what that to me, that's kind of
Speaker 1: how I chalk up here we go, there's another year.
Speaker 1: Because I basically have made my years based off of seasons.
Speaker 3: There's been there's a magic to your point, I feel
Speaker 3: your vibe because there's a magic to that that fall
Speaker 3: transition when we and what it is the beauty of
Speaker 3: college football is basically it's it's a summer. It's a
Speaker 3: it's a fall picnic that breaks us from summer, from
Speaker 3: coast to coast. That's what college football. As people go out,
Speaker 3: they tailgate. You see it Louisville games, you see at
Speaker 3: Kentucky games. You can see it down at Moorehead and
Speaker 3: Murray wherever you go up there. And I you, John,
Speaker 3: that's one of my favorite places to tailgate is up
Speaker 3: in Bloomington.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, beautiful place.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, in Bloomington in the fall is magical
Speaker 1: and quick.
Speaker 3: Right, And my my wife and daughter are not sports
Speaker 3: fans by any means, but football is kind of served
Speaker 3: as a rallying cry for our family. And whether it
Speaker 3: be a Saturday afternoon where we're all just kind of
Speaker 3: sitting around, or it'd be Sunday, you know, everybody gathers around.
Speaker 3: You don't have to be a technical football fan to
Speaker 3: appreciate the football season. And that's a big part of
Speaker 3: American culture.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's what I was going to say, the
Speaker 1: word culture. It is such a it is such a
Speaker 1: big part of of really, and I know there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of there's some people that just that really
Speaker 1: aren't that interested in it. And I live I live
Speaker 1: so much of my life thinking, wait a second, it's
Speaker 1: not a big party every thing you do in your life,
Speaker 1: and then you know other people do different things. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, I was in my own world,
Speaker 1: I suppose. But with this shift, as far as the
Speaker 1: time of year, you really go from okay, summer break
Speaker 1: for kids, you've got really really hot temperatures and technically
Speaker 1: when football starts and school starts, it's still hot outside,
Speaker 1: but it's going to start to downshift. But you go
Speaker 1: from you know, kind of having a loose schedule because
Speaker 1: again not to say that people don't follow baseball, but
Speaker 1: when high school football starts for families, that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's it's a huge priority, that takes up a lot
Speaker 1: of time. It's a big emphasis for them, and that
Speaker 1: that it's you know, it's it's gonna be here well
Speaker 1: before you know it.
Speaker 3: And you get so many communities, not just here in Louisville,
Speaker 3: but start looking outside the waters and I look at
Speaker 3: some of these communities in southern Indiana, look at some
Speaker 3: of them around Kentucky.
Speaker 2: You go to a place like.
Speaker 3: Bell County, I mean communities rally around football. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways, dude, So you're you're spot
Speaker 3: on your assessment. There certainly is a changing of the
Speaker 3: guard going on right now, and I think flipping the
Speaker 3: calendar to August really emphasizes that.
Speaker 1: I can't wait and again it'll be here soon enough. Yep,
Speaker 1: good stuff. All right, let's get you caught up on
Speaker 1: the forecast. I was going to say the warcast. That's
Speaker 1: not a word. But we'll get you caught up on
Speaker 1: what we can expect today in the weather with Matt
Speaker 1: Melissa Bitch of WLK why. Bobby Ellis will give us
Speaker 1: an update on the traffic, and we'll keep this thing
Speaker 1: rolling along a lot to get into today. Mayor Greenberg
Speaker 1: set to join us at eight o'clock this morning, so
Speaker 1: make sure you stick around for that and stick around
Speaker 1: for us. We're here for the next three hours four
Speaker 1: hours roughly, and I hope you stay with us right
Speaker 1: here on news Radio forty whas. It is five point
Speaker 1: sixteen here at Kentucky Anda's Morning News Coffee and Company,
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you here on news radio at forty whas. So.
Speaker 1: One of the big stories yesterday was the explosion that
Speaker 1: took place in Jeffersonville. There was a house that exploded.
Speaker 1: Five people were injured, and it sounds like the injuries
Speaker 1: were not life threatening, which is certainly certainly good. However,
Speaker 1: still an awful situation. And I didn't see some of
Speaker 1: the I mean yesterday when looking at the monitor in
Speaker 1: front of me. The wky coverage is what I saw
Speaker 1: from a visual standpoint. Obviously was following along and keeping
Speaker 1: up with what was being reported about it, but it was,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what you could expect, I suppose when
Speaker 1: you hear a house exploding and one of those things
Speaker 1: that just again from the visual standpoint, to know that
Speaker 1: no one lost their life is really a miracle just
Speaker 1: from the looks of it. But they found some of
Speaker 1: those victims yesterday in the front yard and they flew
Speaker 1: to to the hospital be a helicopter, while the remaining
Speaker 1: three were taken to the hospital in an ambulance. So
Speaker 1: the home completely completely destroyed and there's no evidence at
Speaker 1: all of malicious intent, which is also I would say,
Speaker 1: a good sign. It doesn't change anything as far as
Speaker 1: the outcome here, but investigators are urging the public not
Speaker 1: to speculate on the cause and warning that you know,
Speaker 1: rumors can be harmful and even slanderous, which this is
Speaker 1: maybe me being the new guy here in following these
Speaker 1: types of stories a little bit more as far as
Speaker 1: the detail, But that just to me seems like well,
Speaker 1: or like right out of the gate. Why would you
Speaker 1: think people would speculate. I mean, I think more than anything,
Speaker 1: people would want to know. But I also think that
Speaker 1: most would be aware that there's all kinds of different
Speaker 1: scenarios that could have led to this happening. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to acknowledge ignorance as far as how these
Speaker 1: things happened to where you could tell me this explanation
Speaker 1: and it may be something I would have never even
Speaker 1: known possible that could cause that. So it might be
Speaker 1: because meaning they might be warning people not to speculate
Speaker 1: and urging them, I should say, is because there was
Speaker 1: a house that exploded with a natural gas leak in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen that I believe backs up to this house.
Speaker 1: So to me, just trying to read the situation here,
Speaker 1: reading between the lines, certainly speculating on my end, not
Speaker 1: any proof by any means, but people are going to
Speaker 1: say this was this was caused by a gas leak,
Speaker 1: and that of course would be you know, that would
Speaker 1: be man. There's no there's no good way to have
Speaker 1: your house blow up, right, I mean, there's nothing like,
Speaker 1: there's no but to know that it was caused because
Speaker 1: of a gas leak. I mean that would be you know,
Speaker 1: at that point, you're going to wonder who's responsible for
Speaker 1: that gas leak happening. So yeah, the explosion that took
Speaker 1: place in twenty nineteen on Assembly Drive was due to
Speaker 1: a natural gas leak, and that explosion killed one man,
Speaker 1: injured his wife and a neighbor. So one of the
Speaker 1: attorneys involved in that twenty nineteen case shared that the
Speaker 1: widow of the man who died that she's you know,
Speaker 1: she's she's recovered, and she sends her best wishes to
Speaker 1: the victims of this latest tragedy. So again, it's I
Speaker 1: guess you could call it speculation, but it's reasonable speculation
Speaker 1: without question that a house that backs up to a
Speaker 1: home that previously exploded in twenty nineteen and killed somebody.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just be real here, most who are
Speaker 1: you know, and again I'm not calling anybody else ignorant.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about what would lead to this.
Speaker 1: So again, there's many scenarios that could be explained to me,
Speaker 1: and I'll just take your word for it. If you're
Speaker 1: somebody that does, in fact know a lot about this,
Speaker 1: you're an expert. But I think most are just going
Speaker 1: to assume, well, yeah, that can't that's too much of
Speaker 1: a coincidence. Right. So Centerpoint Energy says no gas leaks
Speaker 1: have been found in their system, but surveys are still ongoing,
Speaker 1: and gas service in that area has been shut off
Speaker 1: as a precaution, which makes total sense. So, yeah, a
Speaker 1: scary situation, but again, fortunately no one is suffering from
Speaker 1: any life threatening injuries in that explosion. All Right, We've
Speaker 1: got a loaded show for you guys the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, so stick with us. We've got sports coming
Speaker 1: your way here. In just a few minutes, Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: will deliver his first sports update of the day, and
Speaker 1: of course you've got traffic and weather coming up. Bobby
Speaker 1: Ellis will get us caught up on how the roadways
Speaker 1: are looking this morning. Matt Melosa bitch is going to
Speaker 1: give us some good news. At least, I think it's
Speaker 1: good news not to be as hot as it's been
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, which that's that makes me happy,
Speaker 1: I say, that as I'm heading to Florida, which will
Speaker 1: probably be brutal humidity and whatnot, but hey, it'll be
Speaker 1: on the beach and that'll be that'll be the best.
Speaker 1: That's the best way to deal with some crazy heat, right,
Speaker 1: all right, stick with us again. It's Kentucky Na's Morning News,
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company we can hear on news radioaight forty whas.
Speaker 1: I would certainly hope this is my mother's favorite radio show.
Speaker 1: It would really break my heart if it wasn't. But
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna believe that it is. In fact, I
Speaker 1: know that it is Happy Friday, everybody. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and is Morning News with Coffee and Company here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee, that's me. You
Speaker 1: just heard John Shannon prior to that, Scott Fitzgerald in
Speaker 1: with sports and the one and only John Ald in
Speaker 1: alongside today. So the team has asseymboled here on a Friday.
Speaker 1: And just a reminder, I'll be out next week and
Speaker 1: I'll miss you guys, and I know you'll be struggling
Speaker 1: without me, I'm sure, but looking forward to a nice getaway.
Speaker 1: But John, you knew this about me because of the
Speaker 1: years we worked together prior to the reunite being reunited
Speaker 1: here at WHAS. But the pre travel anxiety is not
Speaker 1: kicked in yet for me.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's because of the time of day
Speaker 2: being so much different than you know, when you were
Speaker 2: doing the afternoon show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I usually would just get and
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a real thing, and maybe I
Speaker 1: just looked it up to feel less or to feel
Speaker 1: more normal, which really you can find anything on the
Speaker 1: internet this day and age to make you believe whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you want to believe. But when I
Speaker 1: would go on any type of really trip, rather it
Speaker 1: be vacation or just a trip that's you know, associated
Speaker 1: with work, but it's also you know, something I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to. Right before leaving for any kind of trip,
Speaker 1: I get I would get this panic and this anxiousness
Speaker 1: that well, I shouldn't be going. I don't need to
Speaker 1: do you know, there's no I don't need to go.
Speaker 1: There's and there's never really been a reason for that,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, And it's good that hasn't kicked
Speaker 1: in for me just yet, because I am excited to
Speaker 1: get down to Destin, Florida and I'm hoping that we
Speaker 1: see a much lighter crowd than when we have been
Speaker 1: in previous years, because this is the latest we've gone
Speaker 1: in a while. Once my daughter started school, we could
Speaker 1: no longer go in early to mid August, just because
Speaker 1: we needed to be back here so she could start school.
Speaker 1: And we didn't realize how lucky we had it, because
Speaker 1: most schools across the country are back when you get
Speaker 1: to August, at least early August, mid August. I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: it's wild to think that some of these schools in
Speaker 1: southern Indiana started school in July and that could.
Speaker 2: Again, it doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: It felt early. But I went to dinner with my
Speaker 1: dad yesterday and he pointed out that he couldn't believe
Speaker 1: that those schools were already back in Those schools were
Speaker 1: already back to school, And then he mentioned that it's
Speaker 1: just in July, and I'm like, yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. Just the optics of that
Speaker 1: is it sounds like these kids are being robbed of
Speaker 1: summer to know that they're back in school in the
Speaker 1: month of July. Now again, it was only like one
Speaker 1: or two days, but still it's really early, and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think.
Speaker 2: About the amount of snow days we had this past year.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't
Speaker 2: surprise me if some of the Indiana schools went into
Speaker 2: June before they got out for summer break. That seems
Speaker 2: very short.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you started school at the end
Speaker 1: of July and let's just say, you only get a
Speaker 1: few snow days, which honestly, last year was the worst
Speaker 1: winter we've had in a while. I mean, we hadn't
Speaker 1: had that many. I mean there was some what was
Speaker 1: it the first week back to school from Christmas break
Speaker 1: here in Louisville. I don't think they went back to school. No,
Speaker 1: I think they got like a three week break. So,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, if we get the average amount
Speaker 1: of snow days within the last decade, it won't be
Speaker 1: that many. To be honest with you, and you started
Speaker 1: school in July, are you out by like Derby? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that would mean that would make sense as far
Speaker 1: as with the typical school year when it lasts. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I can imagine those kids knowing that they got to
Speaker 1: go back to school and it's not you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we went back to school whenever I was
Speaker 1: like in high school. I want to I think it
Speaker 1: was like mid August, like two weeks from now, which
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong on that, but yeah, back to school.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in j CPS or the other
Speaker 1: school districts here in the area, you'll it'll be your
Speaker 1: day soon. In fact, it's next Thursday when JCPS starts,
Speaker 1: so be prepared. But again, I'm out next week. You'll
Speaker 1: be in good hands. It'll be the crew that you
Speaker 1: typically get every morning here minus myself and then Joe
Speaker 1: Elliott's going to be mixed in in some form or
Speaker 1: fashion within the week. So you'll be in good hands.
Speaker 1: And I'll miss you, and trust me, I know you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna miss me like crazy. And I hope
Speaker 1: you guys have been able to pick up on my
Speaker 1: poor attempt at sarcasm here and there. We've got Rory
Speaker 1: o Heil coming your way in about five minutes. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to to the conversation with him, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be able to give us some encouraging
Speaker 1: news as far as the prices of homes, which if
Speaker 1: you have not bought a home recently despite maybe needing
Speaker 1: one looking for one because of the prices. I totally
Speaker 1: get it. So maybe Roy is gonna Rory's gonna give
Speaker 1: us some good news here in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: But your next update of traving weather, Bobby Ellis, will
Speaker 1: getus caught up on the roadways. As far as how
Speaker 1: we're looking to get this Friday start, Matt Melosevich, we'll
Speaker 1: tell us what we're in for as far as weather
Speaker 1: right here on news radio eight forty whas Happy Friday,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It is Kentucky AND's morning news here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you,
Speaker 1: and we now bring in Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory.
Speaker 1: Home prices have dropped in fourteen of the major cities
Speaker 1: here in the United States. What does this mean for
Speaker 1: buyers when it comes to, you know, finally being able
Speaker 1: to feel more comfortable in making what is a huge
Speaker 1: investment in a big purchase in anyone's life. It sounds
Speaker 1: like things are getting better for those folks.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so it is shifting a bit to the
Speaker 4: buyers side of the equation, but things are still pretty
Speaker 4: jammed up right now. You're right. Medium home sales prices
Speaker 4: fell in fourteen of the fifty biggest areas in the country,
Speaker 4: and prices are falling because the housing market is slow
Speaker 4: due to the high housing costs and a lot of
Speaker 4: the economic uncertainty out there. Homes are also taking long
Speaker 4: longer to sell than a year ago in just about
Speaker 4: every major metropolitan area. A lot of people are still
Speaker 4: waiting for perhaps that interest rate cut that could lower
Speaker 4: mortgage rates, so that's kept a lot of buyers on
Speaker 4: the sidelines as well.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I was thinking about this the
Speaker 1: other day, and it may just be because it's something
Speaker 1: I'm giving more thought to, But I can't remember the
Speaker 1: last time I knew someone that was purchasing a home,
Speaker 1: rather be the first time, or maybe they're just moving
Speaker 1: up just because right now, with all things considered, it's
Speaker 1: just a scary thing to do because of the economic uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Do we know sort of those that are buying? Is
Speaker 1: it people that are just not as worried about the
Speaker 1: market because maybe they're financially just in a situation to
Speaker 1: where it really won't matter to them. Because I just
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of who right now unless you
Speaker 1: just have to have somewhere to live, which again that
Speaker 1: may be the case for some, but I just tarked
Speaker 1: for me to envision when it comes to the average
Speaker 1: American who's buying houses.
Speaker 4: Well, right, and look, plenty of people still relocate, usually
Speaker 4: for work, so you know, there was still a lot
Speaker 4: of mobility in the country for you know, and taking
Speaker 4: new opportunities things like that, and a lot of people
Speaker 4: are cashing out and perhaps downsizing a little bit, which
Speaker 4: is also why we've seen a lot of pressure on
Speaker 4: those entry level homes. You know, if you had a
Speaker 4: family home in the Northeast, now you want to move
Speaker 4: to Florida. You're you know, you had the four or
Speaker 4: five bedroom house, Now you like just want a two
Speaker 4: bedroom because it's just the two of you. That kind
Speaker 4: of thing. Those small entry level houses are very tough
Speaker 4: to find. But the you know, there are some hot
Speaker 4: spots still. I mean a year in Cleveland, for instance,
Speaker 4: prices are up fifteen percent. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, is up
Speaker 4: about nine percent. Detroit is up about seven percent. But
Speaker 4: then you go to Oakland, California, and then in Florida,
Speaker 4: West Palm Beach and Jacksonville both have seen prices. Same
Speaker 4: with Austin, Texas and Houston, Texas as well, where there's
Speaker 4: been a big, big building boom. So that's a matter
Speaker 4: of supply and demand in places like Austin and Houston.
Speaker 1: I feel like empty nesters may may not be able
Speaker 1: to become empty nestors as quickly as they wanted to,
Speaker 1: or maybe they won't be able to stay in that
Speaker 1: situation quite as long. Because if if you're finishing college
Speaker 1: and you are looking to you know, you're no longer
Speaker 1: living on campus because you graduated, I mean, you probably
Speaker 1: don't have it right away. A job that financially puts
Speaker 1: you in a spot where you're comfortably able to get
Speaker 1: a lease on an apartment and certainly buy a home.
Speaker 1: But he knows, maybe the empty nesters are thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need some relief. Yeah, you can come back, give
Speaker 1: us a little bit of rent money to help with
Speaker 1: this mortgage.
Speaker 4: Well right, Well that's the other thing. So if you
Speaker 4: have the empty nesters, though, say they're sixty five, you
Speaker 4: know they have the mortgages been paid off, they've been
Speaker 4: there in that house for thirty years. You know, it's
Speaker 4: pure cash for them to go buy something smaller in Florida,
Speaker 4: So that's a very different kind of transaction. And you know,
Speaker 4: and those people sometimes they can buy in all cash.
Speaker 4: You know, that's something we've seen a lot of as well,
Speaker 4: that there's a lot of cash buyers in the marketplace.
Speaker 4: And we've seen a lot of investment in homes by
Speaker 4: corporate investors who are buying those entry level homes and
Speaker 4: then turning them into mental property. So that's had been
Speaker 4: another big factor in a lot of this getting the
Speaker 4: real estate market punched up.
Speaker 1: Rory and Hiliv NBC News is our guest joining us
Speaker 1: here on news Radio eight forty whas the Presidential Fitness
Speaker 1: Test is returning to schools across the United States. And
Speaker 1: I will admit maybe this is me showing my younger side.
Speaker 1: I'd heard of this, didn't really know a whole lot
Speaker 1: about it. I love it as somebody who loves sports
Speaker 1: and courage, you know, all kids to be active within
Speaker 1: sports in some form of fashion. What can you tell
Speaker 1: us about sort of what this entails as far as
Speaker 1: the test itself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we haven't gotten those details. But it used
Speaker 4: to be that up until I think twenty twelve, you
Speaker 4: used to have to pass this test that included forty
Speaker 4: push ups, ten pull ups, a six and a half
Speaker 4: minute mile run, and I think when it started they
Speaker 4: used to have a softball throw, a six hundred yard jog,
Speaker 4: fifty yard dash, a long jump, so it used to
Speaker 4: be a lot more complicated when it started. But yeah,
Speaker 4: they phased it out about fifteen years ago to try
Speaker 4: to promote overall health rather than what had become concerning
Speaker 4: about the shame test of you can't do ten pull
Speaker 4: ups in front of your classmates or you can't climb
Speaker 4: the rope in front of the whole class of fifth graders.
Speaker 4: So they were trying to avoid that shame that a
Speaker 4: lot of kids felt. I'm talking about myself here, so
Speaker 4: that was a part of it. But President Trump wants
Speaker 4: to bring this back as part of MAHA celebrating the
Speaker 4: two hunred and fiftieth Birthday of America. He wants to
Speaker 4: get the kids healthy again.
Speaker 1: Rory, as always, we appreciate your time, enjoy your weekend,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to my friend.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks, Dick, come a good weekend.
Speaker 1: That is Rory O'Neil of NBC News. I think the
Speaker 1: Presidential Fitness Test totally makes sense that there could be
Speaker 1: some kids that wouldn't be able to complete it, and
Speaker 1: that could, of course, you know, maybe make them feel
Speaker 1: a little less confident in themselves, which is what you
Speaker 1: don't want. But I also think it just sounds fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not even a kid anymore. I'd like
Speaker 1: to do the test. I don't know how well I
Speaker 1: would do, but a lot of fun for sure. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll have some fun the rest of the way here,
Speaker 1: so stick with us your next update of trapping weathers
Speaker 1: right here, right now, and then we'll have another sports
Speaker 1: update with Scott Fitzgerald on news radio eight forty WHS