Speaker 1: All right, let's get this thing started. Welcome in Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Anda's morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: snick coffee with you five oh five on a hump day,
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden as well. We'll have your
Speaker 1: first update on traffic and weather coming up here in
Speaker 1: about four minutes. Also John Shannon with your first news
Speaker 1: update around five point thirty. And it's gonna be ah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hot one once again, I suppose
Speaker 1: because the rain is on the way, not that you're
Speaker 1: a meteorologist, mister Fitzgerald. However, it's muggy. Is that the
Speaker 1: right way to go?
Speaker 2: He's right, Yeah, I mean he's right.
Speaker 1: I walked outside and uh I set my phone. Uh
Speaker 1: I set my phone right outside the garage whenever I
Speaker 1: was you know, we have a fridge in our garage
Speaker 1: and I was going there to get a drink before
Speaker 1: I head it out, and I'd set my phone down
Speaker 1: and I just opened up the garage and it guess
Speaker 1: just because there's some level of AC that does get
Speaker 1: to my garage, just complete fog in moisture all over
Speaker 1: my iPhone, which that tells you that it's that it's
Speaker 1: human as can be outside, right.
Speaker 3: It's very human outside, and we're doing the we're fighting
Speaker 3: the thermostat at home. My daughter's moving into a new apartment,
Speaker 3: so Horner roommate are there. So my daughter kicks it
Speaker 3: down to sixty nine, throws on three blankets, and I'm
Speaker 3: paranoid the AC is going to give out because.
Speaker 1: It's so there's a there's a battle for the thermostat
Speaker 1: inside the Fitzgerald Domain.
Speaker 3: And it was freezing in there today. I got ready
Speaker 3: to walk out and it was just cold. And then
Speaker 3: so I knew that.
Speaker 2: You know, when you walk outside you feel the heat. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's you like that? But are you a summer guy?
Speaker 2: Do you would you wish?
Speaker 1: Do you prefer I've always been someone who enjoys winter
Speaker 1: weather just because I think it's pretty, and I I
Speaker 1: just like wintertime just because all the holidays, the sports
Speaker 1: that I love take place more so in winter. But
Speaker 1: this past winter, maybe because it was one of the
Speaker 1: more brutal winners we've had in a while, it got
Speaker 1: me a little bit. I was ready for the spring
Speaker 1: to get here quicker than I typically am. And then honestly, summer,
Speaker 1: I'm usually yeah, once we get really really hot, like
Speaker 1: once you walk outside and it's like an oven and
Speaker 1: it's just disgusting outside. And if you walk from from
Speaker 1: you know, your your front door, to your to your
Speaker 1: dry to the to the mailbox and back, you're going
Speaker 1: to be sweating. That's when I'm ready for summer to
Speaker 1: be over. So I don't know, maybe as I get older,
Speaker 1: I'll shift more into being pro summer less pro winter.
Speaker 1: But typically I've been more of a winter guy. I'm
Speaker 1: a weirdo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no you're not. I'm the same way. And could
Speaker 2: it be.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be because you're from You're from the north.
Speaker 3: A lot of people say that, But no, I'm more
Speaker 3: hoodie kind of guy, gotcha, And I love my hoodies
Speaker 3: and I like the winter because when we had that
Speaker 3: recent snow, my wife's like, why are you out there?
Speaker 3: Because I shoveled the driveway every two hours when you
Speaker 3: have a big snow. Now that's something I did bring
Speaker 3: home from Michigan, because if you don't.
Speaker 2: It's just part of it. Yeah, it's embard.
Speaker 3: My wife's like, why how do you go out there
Speaker 3: every two hours? Why don't you just wait till it
Speaker 3: stops snowing, I said one. I don't mind being out
Speaker 3: there and to the exercises, okay, but I keep the
Speaker 3: driveway clean.
Speaker 2: To your point, there's something about the winter that, man,
Speaker 2: it just brings us.
Speaker 1: It's good vibes for me. Yeah, and I love Christmas time,
Speaker 1: you'll lie, I'm a big Christmas nerd. But this past
Speaker 1: winter we had the real big snowfall that took place
Speaker 1: in I think at the end of January. And usually
Speaker 1: if we get something like that, which is rare as
Speaker 1: far as the amount of snow we actually got, it'll
Speaker 1: within a couple of days it's sixty degrees or fifty
Speaker 1: degrees and it's all gone. We never got a buff
Speaker 1: freezing for a long time to wear the big disgusting
Speaker 1: snow mounds and all these parking lots and my draftways
Speaker 1: a big hill which is just a is a real
Speaker 1: pain in the you know what when it comes to
Speaker 1: having snow and ice, and it just never got warm
Speaker 1: enough for a long enough time for it all to melt.
Speaker 1: So I feel like we had one of the worst
Speaker 1: in a variety of ways. In regards to how you
Speaker 1: look at it, I feel like this winter was one
Speaker 1: of the worst that we've had in a while. And
Speaker 1: I say that, you're probably thinking, this kid, what's he
Speaker 1: talking about. You grew up in Michigan, where I'm not.
Speaker 2: No, no, you're right, no, see.
Speaker 3: And that's the one thing I was real careful of
Speaker 3: when I started here was don't do the whole I'm
Speaker 3: from Michigan, you guys, this is nothing, because no it is.
Speaker 3: Because when I went up from my class reunion back
Speaker 3: I think it was twenty nineteen, they had temperatures that
Speaker 3: got up into the mid nineties into August and September.
Speaker 2: They were closing.
Speaker 3: Schools up there, whereas people here in Kentuck You're like,
Speaker 3: come on, man, I mean that's what we deal with
Speaker 3: on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: But they were closing schools because some schools don't have
Speaker 2: the AC units to handle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, your resources are dependent upon what is
Speaker 1: most typically going to happen when it comes to weather conditions.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be hot today, very very very hot,
Speaker 3: and well day if you can knock off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So just be prepared for that, everybody. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot to get to throughout these next nearly four hours.
Speaker 1: With you early signs of six of progress. Maybe I
Speaker 1: know results. It's really what business owners and residents on
Speaker 1: Bargstown Road in the Highlands are looking for. But we
Speaker 1: already have one bar that has decided to close down
Speaker 1: earlier on the weekends, as well as one bar last
Speaker 1: night got shut down because they don't have a liquor
Speaker 1: license it turns out, So there's effort. There's effort being
Speaker 1: made on both sides to get this thing squared away.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that in a lot more. Your
Speaker 1: first update of traffic and weather is coming up right
Speaker 1: now right here on news Radio eight forty whas. It
Speaker 1: is five poin fifteen here at Kentucky and this morning
Speaker 1: news news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: Day three for me, and I'm motivated today. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: good and honestly, the last couple of days have have
Speaker 1: been have been great in the mornings. And what I'm
Speaker 1: getting to is that this a big lifestyle change for
Speaker 1: me that I'm now having to just concede to. Meaning
Speaker 1: I never thought I was gonna be some billy badass
Speaker 1: and just be able to say and I'll be fine,
Speaker 1: No no adjustment to sleep schedule, You'll just be You'll
Speaker 1: just start getting up at three am, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be normal. I never I've never was that arrogant and
Speaker 1: that delusional, but I thought, you know what, you don't
Speaker 1: really need an app And now I realize I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need an APP. But I was told yesterday
Speaker 1: by the former uh, the former person who sat in
Speaker 1: this chair as well as are our current boss that
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to get overwhelmed, but day three is gonna be where
Speaker 1: this where the sleep really hits you. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna you know, you're gonna be tired, but just
Speaker 1: you know, you'll get used to it right it out,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking I'll be okay. So we'll see. But
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good this. I think just knowing that there's
Speaker 1: a challenge there. They're expecting me to be running on
Speaker 1: fumes at some point, I'm I'm that that has given
Speaker 1: me an extra boost here.
Speaker 2: Sky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're you're kind of nick knowing you over
Speaker 3: the years, You're you're luck like me. We talked about
Speaker 3: this that you know, everybody told me that too, And
Speaker 3: it's kind of like when you first get in and
Speaker 3: you start doing something like this. It's like when you
Speaker 3: have your first kid and John, you know this. Everybody
Speaker 3: has different advice and you just follow your gut and
Speaker 3: roll with it. I never had that third day issue
Speaker 3: whatever everybody talks about, but different.
Speaker 2: I'm a morning person, so for me, it was easy.
Speaker 2: I came about.
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to sit here and tell you, Hey, Nick,
Speaker 3: you know this is what you should expect, because the
Speaker 3: same thing I told John when he became a new dad,
Speaker 3: I said, everybody and her brother is going to have
Speaker 3: new advice for you, and oh yeah, and it's all
Speaker 3: going to be different. It's all going to be different.
Speaker 3: You just you run your own race, which is what
Speaker 3: you're great at. Nick, That's what you do. You're like
Speaker 3: nobody else in this town.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and that's I'm big on compliments. Yeah, that's well,
Speaker 1: you and John are the same way. If we want
Speaker 1: to make that a big part of the show, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like the right right.
Speaker 3: I feel like the sleep issue may hit you more
Speaker 3: so next week as opposed to sometime this week.
Speaker 1: Not only is everybody wanting to give me some tips,
Speaker 1: which again I think most people are coming from a
Speaker 1: good place when they do that. There's also some that
Speaker 1: are somewhat surprisingly sorry, meaning like oh you poor guy
Speaker 1: like you because I get so early, and it is,
Speaker 1: but look, there's benefits to being up really early. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I got a chance to do this and it
Speaker 1: started at one am, I think I'd have to do
Speaker 1: it because you know, it's just what I want to do.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited and just be. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm going to fight through and not worry about getting
Speaker 1: You know, the wall is going to hit at some point,
Speaker 1: and I'll know how I'm going to react whenever. Whenever
Speaker 1: we get there.
Speaker 2: Now it hits over and over. Dude, You're human, have
Speaker 2: you guys?
Speaker 1: Scott, You've been doing this a long time as far
Speaker 1: as this shift, and you've always been an early riser
Speaker 1: from your time in the service. John, you're somewhat newish,
Speaker 1: but certainly a lot more used to it than I am.
Speaker 1: You also are very a very brand new dad, which
Speaker 1: means sleep just as anytime you can get it. It's
Speaker 1: such a blessing. Have you guys had a moment where
Speaker 1: it hits you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Most of society is not up yet, and they won't
Speaker 1: be up for a while. I started sending out text
Speaker 1: messages this morning and I'm like, yeah, that's probably an
Speaker 1: a whole move that the mudle woke somebody up. Who
Speaker 1: you know is you know, still got four or five
Speaker 1: hours to sleep.
Speaker 3: I was told by my wife do not send me
Speaker 3: text before seven o'clock. But see when I go to
Speaker 3: bed at night, I turned my phone off and I
Speaker 3: told Cruse and I told the brothers that yeah, I
Speaker 3: told my sid guys, I got to sleep. If you
Speaker 3: want me, get me before nine the phone is off.
Speaker 3: And I'm see, I'm really good with boundaries. I love
Speaker 3: my boundaries. I live by them, and I was very
Speaker 3: straightforward with them. So if you want me, because Cruise
Speaker 3: you send me stuff, Curs will call me like nine
Speaker 3: thirty at night. I'm like, dude, why are you not
Speaker 3: in bed? You know you got to get up. And
Speaker 3: so I shut my phone off. Then I turned on
Speaker 3: and like, like I said, if I got to text
Speaker 3: my wife, I'm thinking about something. She's like, she leaves
Speaker 3: it lit up by her bed, and so she complained
Speaker 3: she can't sleep because the phone is going off, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, shut it off. Just tell people you're to well.
Speaker 3: The kids are get it. The kids are away, my
Speaker 3: son's at school, my daughter's moved out. She wants to
Speaker 3: have it on for the kids, for a safe service,
Speaker 3: and I totally understand that. Me on the other hand,
Speaker 3: no call your mom.
Speaker 1: So you said something about that? That really that I've
Speaker 1: been told I need to do, because I've been trying
Speaker 1: to get a little nap in just to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more energized. What I don't want to do
Speaker 1: is be the guy that whenever my kids get out
Speaker 1: of daycare, kids get out of summer camp or whatever,
Speaker 1: and my wife gets home from work, that I'm just
Speaker 1: a zombie to where they're you know that I'm just,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of going through the motions because
Speaker 1: I want to be you know, I want to enjoy
Speaker 1: that time with them. However, the nap thing, if I
Speaker 1: just sit around and tell myself you better sleep, you
Speaker 1: better sleep, it won't happen. But turning my phone off
Speaker 1: would probably help. But I have such a I guess
Speaker 1: fomo if like, if my phone's off, what maybe this
Speaker 1: just tells you how highly I think of myself. Maybe,
Speaker 1: because what's the world going to do if they can't
Speaker 1: reach me?
Speaker 2: If my phone's off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think things will be if I just
Speaker 1: let people who need to reach me know, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is when you squeeze into power now, because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to you know, not be in bed by five point
Speaker 1: thirty pm and have a little bit of a you know,
Speaker 1: in the evening or whatnot. So I'll adjust. But hey,
Speaker 1: it's been awesome thus far, and we're going to keep
Speaker 1: it rolling. We've got our first check of sports coming
Speaker 1: up here in about five minutes. Are also another update
Speaker 1: when it comes to traffic and weather, and in ten
Speaker 1: minutes we'll get our first update from John Shannon on
Speaker 1: the news. So keep it locked right here Kentucky and
Speaker 1: his morning news news radio Way forty whas. Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: It is five thirty five here Kentucky and his morning
Speaker 1: news news radio waight forty whas. Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty clear within the first really
Speaker 1: the first twenty four hours that it became a known thing,
Speaker 1: just how wild the scene was on Barchtown Road this
Speaker 1: past weekend and the weekend prior. I think you could
Speaker 1: sell from both Mary Greenberg and Chief Humphrey that they're
Speaker 1: aware that this is unacceptable and they got to do
Speaker 1: something to get this, to get this resolved, at least
Speaker 1: make some progress. And I think there's some early signs
Speaker 1: here because we did find out that at least one
Speaker 1: barr has decided that they will start closing their doors
Speaker 1: at two am instead of four four am moving forward,
Speaker 1: And no way to know for sure if that's going
Speaker 1: to one lead to other bars deciding to do the
Speaker 1: same thing, or if it's going to lead to a
Speaker 1: real improvement, but it certainly can't hurt and our partners
Speaker 1: over WK why they talk to some of the residents
Speaker 1: in the Highlands about just what's going on in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. No longer is it you know,
Speaker 1: people go out and have a good time till two
Speaker 1: or maybe four am. Now it's more of a contest of.
Speaker 2: What can we get away with right?
Speaker 1: How crazy can it get?
Speaker 3: You've got to have the local leadership involved, you've got
Speaker 3: to make sure they're on board with it, and you've
Speaker 3: got to make sure that they're all on the same
Speaker 3: page as the residents and the business owners.
Speaker 2: I think these are steps in the right direction.
Speaker 5: Highland tap Room that's great, though, start closing it too,
Speaker 5: I think will be even better if everyone else started
Speaker 5: closing it.
Speaker 4: Too, you'll move the noise earlier. Instead of being three
Speaker 4: or four in the morning, it'll be two in the morning.
Speaker 4: But in general, it's probably a better idea to close
Speaker 4: the bars earlier, just because people have a little less
Speaker 4: time to drink and it'll be less of a problem
Speaker 4: at two than for now.
Speaker 6: Both may Or Greenberg and Chief Paul Humphreys did speak
Speaker 6: publicly again about this issue today. Chief Paul Humphrey says
Speaker 6: that LMPD well once again this weekend, have a larger
Speaker 6: police presence on Bardstown Road and they will be enforcing
Speaker 6: the law. They'll be towing cars, issuing tickets, and arresting
Speaker 6: anyone that's not complying with the law.
Speaker 1: Again, that's courtesy if our partner's over at WLKY. I've
Speaker 1: yet to have the pleasure of the honor to meet
Speaker 1: Chief Humphrey, and I'm sure I will at some point,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to insinuate that I know him
Speaker 1: by any means, But obviously when he's in the position
Speaker 1: that he's in, you hear him talk quite a bit.
Speaker 1: He leads the Louisville Metro Police Department. But there's something
Speaker 1: I really like about We're going to be enforcing the law.
Speaker 1: That is very direct, very subtle, but it's almost a
Speaker 1: we're going to be making sure that nobody's trying us
Speaker 1: testing us. Again, I'm not speaking for anybody at all,
Speaker 1: but they realize they got to you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it would be accurate to say that
Speaker 1: they just got to set examples, but they're just if
Speaker 1: you're if you are doing things that are against the law.
Speaker 1: That of course has contributed to the shenanigans in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks in the Highlands. They're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna hold you accountable, which is I mean, that's that's progress, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's absolutely that's what you need.
Speaker 3: That's and I I think I like the the the
Speaker 3: person that I mentioned the fact that it's gonna move
Speaker 3: the noise up earlier, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: You're still not going to have people drinking longer.
Speaker 1: Which that that that alone there makes it more dangerous
Speaker 1: the later into the evening, Yes, longer amount of time
Speaker 1: to drink. That's where that's where that's where it's a
Speaker 1: real you know, it's not to say that it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be concerned if you've got people that are at ten
Speaker 1: ten pm loaded and acting crazy because that's never good.
Speaker 1: But no, Yes, for me, I would sacrifice uh making,
Speaker 1: you know, having it happen a little earlier than than
Speaker 1: thinking that, Okay, here we go again, when maybe I'm
Speaker 1: I'm getting up to get my day started. At four
Speaker 1: thirty five o'clock, you still got people trickling out of
Speaker 1: the area completely load.
Speaker 3: I've seen them down here when I come and do Saturdays.
Speaker 3: And you know, if the longer you like pet Let's
Speaker 3: be honest, we've all been in a place and I
Speaker 3: want to say we all, but I want to paint
Speaker 3: everybody with that brush, but most of us have been
Speaker 3: in a place where we're like I should have went
Speaker 3: home a long time ago.
Speaker 2: I maybe shouldn't have stayed for.
Speaker 1: That last sounds like my twenties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly same here.
Speaker 3: And so I think to your point, that's gonna go
Speaker 3: a long way in curving this violence.
Speaker 2: Will it ever totally go away? Probably? I don't want
Speaker 2: to say violence, but just ruckus. Will it ever totally
Speaker 2: go away? Probably not. Will it shift to other parts.
Speaker 3: Of the city, maybe maybe it'll shift over to Nulu,
Speaker 3: maybe it'll shift over to I mean we've seen this before.
Speaker 2: Remember we had all the problems down at the Big
Speaker 2: four bridges.
Speaker 3: Sure everybody was scared to go down there, and then
Speaker 3: it shifted over, it died away.
Speaker 2: So I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I think the city has has accomplished everything they needed.
Speaker 2: To do here and will continue to do more.
Speaker 1: And if it does end up elsewhere, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to continue to operate the same way you are right now.
Speaker 1: And hope you like people accountable to I guess, just
Speaker 1: hope that if it's quite clear that if you do this,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be held account and remember that that you
Speaker 1: know you, people won't do it as much anymore.
Speaker 3: No, you remember the street the street burnouts and then
Speaker 3: the LMPD cracked out on that with the mayor and
Speaker 3: that went away.
Speaker 2: Same.
Speaker 3: I believe the same scenario will happen here. Big tip
Speaker 3: the hat to the LMPD, Big tip the hat to
Speaker 3: the mayor. Great job also, Highland Taphouse. You know, maybe
Speaker 3: this will lead to others doing the same thing. And
Speaker 3: maybe it only took one to say, Okay, well we'll
Speaker 3: do what we can to help the community around here.
Speaker 1: Yep, Mac, I don't know. I've gotten a lot older
Speaker 1: over the years. I'm not an old man, but staying
Speaker 1: out till four am what I can't relate. I mean,
Speaker 1: that sounds awful. That sounds awful to me, it really does.
Speaker 1: All Right, it is five forty here at Kentucky and
Speaker 1: it's Morning News. You got another update of traffic and
Speaker 1: weather coming your way. We're going to talk to Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neil on the other side of NBC News about something
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have expected to here, but maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised. It's the rise in marijuana usage among seniors.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that in more.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: It's five forty one now here at News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas it is five forty five here a Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News on News radiohas Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: We are now joined by Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory,
Speaker 1: it sounds as if senior citizens have decided to partake
Speaker 1: in marijuana usage at a much higher rate here recently
Speaker 1: than they did in years past. What does the data
Speaker 1: show us as far as just how much of an
Speaker 1: increase this is and maybe some factors that have led
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting, especially when you break it down among
Speaker 5: the different demographics. But the new research finds that about
Speaker 5: seven percent of adults over the age of sixty five
Speaker 5: admit to using cannabis within the past month. Essentially, the
Speaker 5: rate is up about forty six percent over the past
Speaker 5: few years, and in large part that's because it's become
Speaker 5: legalized in a lot more states. So that's one factor.
Speaker 5: But we're also seeing a change in the groups of
Speaker 5: seniors who are using it. Used to be more prevalent
Speaker 5: among older people with less income, but now as the
Speaker 5: social taboo goes away, people more who are more affluent
Speaker 5: with more income, they're also getting on board and getting high.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the way in which you would
Speaker 1: access marijuana dispensaries prescriptions, I just don't feel as if
Speaker 1: I've seen a whole lot of marketing geared towards that
Speaker 1: demo when it comes to these kind of products, do
Speaker 1: we know I mean, again, there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to access it this day and age, but is
Speaker 1: there a certain way in which they obtain it more
Speaker 1: consistently on the older.
Speaker 5: Side, Yeah, we haven't seen too much of that. We
Speaker 5: now know though, that more women are using marijuana over
Speaker 5: the age of sixty five. That's also a specific demographic
Speaker 5: that's on the rise. And hey, look, remember these are
Speaker 5: the baby boomers. These were the berds who are bringing
Speaker 5: it back in the sixties, so for them it's an
Speaker 5: old habit. But it's also because they're using it as
Speaker 5: we used to treat ailments. As people get older, many
Speaker 5: people want to avoid going to a pharmacy and find
Speaker 5: a more natural option. So that's why it's been more
Speaker 5: attractive for the older demographic. But I think it's interesting
Speaker 5: too that a lot of that stigma is going away,
Speaker 5: which is why people over sixty five, women in particular
Speaker 5: and the more affluent are now more likely to be
Speaker 5: using in some way. But there is a warning from
Speaker 5: doctors who are like, look, you got to tell us
Speaker 5: that you're using this stuff. They're not being judgmental, they're
Speaker 5: just saying a lot of people are on medications for
Speaker 5: high blood pressure and diabetes and for that bad knee,
Speaker 5: but whatever it may be, they please keep your doctor
Speaker 5: in the loop about any marijuana usage.
Speaker 1: That was actually going to be my next question, and
Speaker 1: that's the stigma around marijuana. It has changed quite a
Speaker 1: bit in recent years at a rapid rate, and that
Speaker 1: would have been the first thing I thought of, Rory
Speaker 1: as far as well, maybe they would be interested but
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it because of that stigma. But that's changed
Speaker 1: in a big, big way.
Speaker 5: It really has. You know, it's advertised a lot more frequently.
Speaker 5: Now it's not under the table. You don't have to start,
Speaker 5: you don't have to buy it. By starting with buddy,
Speaker 5: you know, you can actually have safer ways of getting
Speaker 5: marijuana as well, is also a big factor for people. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: the whole marketplace has changed in so many different states.
Speaker 5: It's not universal. Obviously, there are still pockets of the
Speaker 5: country where it's illegal, but clearly it is growing more
Speaker 5: and more popular, especially on the medical side.
Speaker 1: Rory and Neil of NBC News is our guest here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas certainly doesn't look like
Speaker 1: the fighting in Ukraine is letting up. Rory, what can
Speaker 1: you tell us on the latest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we saw that massive attack that Ukraine
Speaker 5: used drones to strike deep into Russia, taking out bombers
Speaker 5: while they were still on the tarmac in an incredible
Speaker 5: display of technology and stealth operations. But now Ukraine has
Speaker 5: done it again, this time striking a critical bridge, the
Speaker 5: Kurse Bridge, which links Russia and Crimea. I think it's
Speaker 5: the third time this bridge has been attacked by Ukraine
Speaker 5: since the war began over three years ago. We saw
Speaker 5: some more rocket attacks by Russia yesterday, but I think
Speaker 5: most the world is still bracing for Russia to fully
Speaker 5: respond to the drone strikes at the airplanes and now
Speaker 5: to this latest attack on the bridge, which has put
Speaker 5: it in what they call an emergency condition.
Speaker 1: So I mean it safe to say these are real
Speaker 1: setbacks as far as those still holding out hope for
Speaker 1: progress in this situation.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, it's also.
Speaker 5: Though, you know, Ukraine also wants to show that it
Speaker 5: doesn't have to just give in work. Right, if we
Speaker 5: are starting to get to the round of maybe gett
Speaker 5: into peace talks or at least a ceasefire, Ukraine doesn't
Speaker 5: want to show that it's giving up and has to
Speaker 5: roll over that they've still got some fight in them.
Speaker 1: Rory, as always, thank you for your tom have.
Speaker 2: A great day. Thanks thank you too.
Speaker 1: That is Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Let's get another
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