WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.120 All right, let's get this thing started. Welcome in Kentucky, 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:05.839 Anda's morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.480 snick coffee with you five oh five on a hump day, 4 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.119 Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden as well. We'll have your 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.199 first update on traffic and weather coming up here in 6 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.320 about four minutes. Also John Shannon with your first news 7 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.719 update around five point thirty. And it's gonna be ah, 8 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:24.559 it's gonna be a hot one once again, I suppose 9 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.359 because the rain is on the way, not that you're 10 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.960 a meteorologist, mister Fitzgerald. However, it's muggy. Is that the 11 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:32.399 right way to go? 12 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.240 He's right, Yeah, I mean he's right. 13 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.960 I walked outside and uh I set my phone. Uh 14 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.520 I set my phone right outside the garage whenever I 15 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:43.520 was you know, we have a fridge in our garage 16 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:44.799 and I was going there to get a drink before 17 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.479 I head it out, and I'd set my phone down 18 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.759 and I just opened up the garage and it guess 19 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.799 just because there's some level of AC that does get 20 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.079 to my garage, just complete fog in moisture all over 21 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:57.799 my iPhone, which that tells you that it's that it's 22 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.359 human as can be outside, right. 23 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.159 It's very human outside, and we're doing the we're fighting 24 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.400 the thermostat at home. My daughter's moving into a new apartment, 25 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.959 so Horner roommate are there. So my daughter kicks it 26 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.079 down to sixty nine, throws on three blankets, and I'm 27 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.000 paranoid the AC is going to give out because. 28 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.680 It's so there's a there's a battle for the thermostat 29 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.480 inside the Fitzgerald Domain. 30 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.159 And it was freezing in there today. I got ready 31 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.760 to walk out and it was just cold. And then 32 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:20.480 so I knew that. 33 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.799 You know, when you walk outside you feel the heat. Oh, 34 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:25.040 it's you like that? But are you a summer guy? 35 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:26.920 Do you would you wish? 36 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:31.840 Do you prefer I've always been someone who enjoys winter 37 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.400 weather just because I think it's pretty, and I I 38 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.239 just like wintertime just because all the holidays, the sports 39 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.480 that I love take place more so in winter. But 40 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.519 this past winter, maybe because it was one of the 41 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.359 more brutal winners we've had in a while, it got 42 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.040 me a little bit. I was ready for the spring 43 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.959 to get here quicker than I typically am. And then honestly, summer, 44 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.400 I'm usually yeah, once we get really really hot, like 45 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.239 once you walk outside and it's like an oven and 46 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.200 it's just disgusting outside. And if you walk from from 47 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.280 you know, your your front door, to your to your 48 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.640 dry to the to the mailbox and back, you're going 49 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:07.719 to be sweating. That's when I'm ready for summer to 50 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.159 be over. So I don't know, maybe as I get older, 51 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.360 I'll shift more into being pro summer less pro winter. 52 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:14.520 But typically I've been more of a winter guy. I'm 53 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:14.919 a weirdo. 54 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.240 Yeah, no you're not. I'm the same way. And could 55 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:17.400 it be. 56 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.479 It's gotta be because you're from You're from the north. 57 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.360 A lot of people say that, But no, I'm more 58 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.039 hoodie kind of guy, gotcha, And I love my hoodies 59 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:25.840 and I like the winter because when we had that 60 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.479 recent snow, my wife's like, why are you out there? 61 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.280 Because I shoveled the driveway every two hours when you 62 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.919 have a big snow. Now that's something I did bring 63 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.919 home from Michigan, because if you don't. 64 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:35.479 It's just part of it. Yeah, it's embard. 65 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:37.159 My wife's like, why how do you go out there 66 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:38.520 every two hours? Why don't you just wait till it 67 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.759 stops snowing, I said one. I don't mind being out 68 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:43.879 there and to the exercises, okay, but I keep the 69 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.560 driveway clean. 70 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:46.840 To your point, there's something about the winter that, man, 71 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:47.599 it just brings us. 72 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.800 It's good vibes for me. Yeah, and I love Christmas time, 73 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.840 you'll lie, I'm a big Christmas nerd. But this past 74 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.759 winter we had the real big snowfall that took place 75 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.800 in I think at the end of January. And usually 76 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.599 if we get something like that, which is rare as 77 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.120 far as the amount of snow we actually got, it'll 78 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.759 within a couple of days it's sixty degrees or fifty 79 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.439 degrees and it's all gone. We never got a buff 80 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.599 freezing for a long time to wear the big disgusting 81 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:17.120 snow mounds and all these parking lots and my draftways 82 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:18.960 a big hill which is just a is a real 83 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:20.360 pain in the you know what when it comes to 84 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.120 having snow and ice, and it just never got warm 85 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.240 enough for a long enough time for it all to melt. 86 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.080 So I feel like we had one of the worst 87 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.199 in a variety of ways. In regards to how you 88 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.680 look at it, I feel like this winter was one 89 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.439 of the worst that we've had in a while. And 90 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.039 I say that, you're probably thinking, this kid, what's he 91 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:36.719 talking about. You grew up in Michigan, where I'm not. 92 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.240 No, no, you're right, no, see. 93 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:39.759 And that's the one thing I was real careful of 94 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.319 when I started here was don't do the whole I'm 95 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.199 from Michigan, you guys, this is nothing, because no it is. 96 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.879 Because when I went up from my class reunion back 97 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.360 I think it was twenty nineteen, they had temperatures that 98 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.719 got up into the mid nineties into August and September. 99 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.759 They were closing. 100 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.000 Schools up there, whereas people here in Kentuck You're like, 101 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:58.879 come on, man, I mean that's what we deal with 102 00:03:58.919 --> 00:03:59.800 on a daily basis. 103 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.960 But they were closing schools because some schools don't have 104 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:03.199 the AC units to handle. 105 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.319 Yeah, and look, your resources are dependent upon what is 106 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.080 most typically going to happen when it comes to weather conditions. 107 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.280 So it's going to be hot today, very very very hot, 108 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:13.800 and well day if you can knock off. 109 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.639 Yeah, So just be prepared for that, everybody. We've got 110 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.519 a lot to get to throughout these next nearly four hours. 111 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.600 With you early signs of six of progress. Maybe I 112 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.519 know results. It's really what business owners and residents on 113 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.240 Bargstown Road in the Highlands are looking for. But we 114 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.519 already have one bar that has decided to close down 115 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.839 earlier on the weekends, as well as one bar last 116 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.199 night got shut down because they don't have a liquor 117 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.879 license it turns out, So there's effort. There's effort being 118 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.360 made on both sides to get this thing squared away. 119 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.839 So we'll get to that in a lot more. Your 120 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.439 first update of traffic and weather is coming up right 121 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:54.959 now right here on news Radio eight forty whas. It 122 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:56.879 is five poin fifteen here at Kentucky and this morning 123 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:00.199 news news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you. 124 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.439 Day three for me, and I'm motivated today. I'm feeling 125 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.000 good and honestly, the last couple of days have have 126 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:07.720 been have been great in the mornings. And what I'm 127 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.360 getting to is that this a big lifestyle change for 128 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.360 me that I'm now having to just concede to. Meaning 129 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.720 I never thought I was gonna be some billy badass 130 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:18.360 and just be able to say and I'll be fine, 131 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.720 No no adjustment to sleep schedule, You'll just be You'll 132 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:22.360 just start getting up at three am, and it's gonna 133 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.120 be normal. I never I've never was that arrogant and 134 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.720 that delusional, but I thought, you know what, you don't 135 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.199 really need an app And now I realize I think 136 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.319 I'm gonna need an APP. But I was told yesterday 137 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.199 by the former uh, the former person who sat in 138 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.680 this chair as well as are our current boss that 139 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.800 I'm just gonna let you know. I don't want you 140 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.439 to get overwhelmed, but day three is gonna be where 141 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.399 this where the sleep really hits you. And it's gonna 142 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.079 it's gonna you know, you're gonna be tired, but just 143 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:48.759 you know, you'll get used to it right it out, 144 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.279 and I'm thinking I'll be okay. So we'll see. But 145 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.560 I'm feeling good this. I think just knowing that there's 146 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.680 a challenge there. They're expecting me to be running on 147 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:58.839 fumes at some point, I'm I'm that that has given 148 00:05:58.879 --> 00:05:59.720 me an extra boost here. 149 00:05:59.720 --> 00:05:59.920 Sky. 150 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.319 Yeah, but you're you're kind of nick knowing you over 151 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.800 the years, You're you're luck like me. We talked about 152 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.439 this that you know, everybody told me that too, And 153 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:08.800 it's kind of like when you first get in and 154 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:10.240 you start doing something like this. It's like when you 155 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.399 have your first kid and John, you know this. Everybody 156 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.399 has different advice and you just follow your gut and 157 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.959 roll with it. I never had that third day issue 158 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.240 whatever everybody talks about, but different. 159 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.480 I'm a morning person, so for me, it was easy. 160 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:25.519 I came about. 161 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.240 But I'm not going to sit here and tell you, Hey, Nick, 162 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.639 you know this is what you should expect, because the 163 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.600 same thing I told John when he became a new dad, 164 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.560 I said, everybody and her brother is going to have 165 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.680 new advice for you, and oh yeah, and it's all 166 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:37.720 going to be different. It's all going to be different. 167 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.480 You just you run your own race, which is what 168 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.399 you're great at. Nick, That's what you do. You're like 169 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:43.600 nobody else in this town. 170 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:47.160 Thank you, and that's I'm big on compliments. Yeah, that's well, 171 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:48.879 you and John are the same way. If we want 172 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.240 to make that a big part of the show, I'm fine. 173 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.560 I mean, I feel like the right right. 174 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.319 I feel like the sleep issue may hit you more 175 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.959 so next week as opposed to sometime this week. 176 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.040 Not only is everybody wanting to give me some tips, 177 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:04.439 which again I think most people are coming from a 178 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.000 good place when they do that. There's also some that 179 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:14.120 are somewhat surprisingly sorry, meaning like oh you poor guy 180 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:17.480 like you because I get so early, and it is, 181 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.279 but look, there's benefits to being up really early. I mean, 182 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.839 if I got a chance to do this and it 183 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:25.480 started at one am, I think I'd have to do 184 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:27.959 it because you know, it's just what I want to do. 185 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.120 So I'm excited and just be. You know, I'm gonna 186 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.759 I'm going to fight through and not worry about getting 187 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.560 You know, the wall is going to hit at some point, 188 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.600 and I'll know how I'm going to react whenever. Whenever 189 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:39.079 we get there. 190 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.600 Now it hits over and over. Dude, You're human, have 191 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:42.160 you guys? 192 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.399 Scott, You've been doing this a long time as far 193 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.600 as this shift, and you've always been an early riser 194 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.519 from your time in the service. John, you're somewhat newish, 195 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.519 but certainly a lot more used to it than I am. 196 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.600 You also are very a very brand new dad, which 197 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.000 means sleep just as anytime you can get it. It's 198 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.759 such a blessing. Have you guys had a moment where 199 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:01.279 it hits you? 200 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:01.480 Oh? 201 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:01.759 Yeah. 202 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.879 Most of society is not up yet, and they won't 203 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.040 be up for a while. I started sending out text 204 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.480 messages this morning and I'm like, yeah, that's probably an 205 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.279 a whole move that the mudle woke somebody up. Who 206 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.199 you know is you know, still got four or five 207 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:17.000 hours to sleep. 208 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.360 I was told by my wife do not send me 209 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.720 text before seven o'clock. But see when I go to 210 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:23.800 bed at night, I turned my phone off and I 211 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.560 told Cruse and I told the brothers that yeah, I 212 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.199 told my sid guys, I got to sleep. If you 213 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.720 want me, get me before nine the phone is off. 214 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:32.960 And I'm see, I'm really good with boundaries. I love 215 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.360 my boundaries. I live by them, and I was very 216 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.960 straightforward with them. So if you want me, because Cruise 217 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.080 you send me stuff, Curs will call me like nine 218 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.000 thirty at night. I'm like, dude, why are you not 219 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.200 in bed? You know you got to get up. And 220 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.240 so I shut my phone off. Then I turned on 221 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:48.919 and like, like I said, if I got to text 222 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.919 my wife, I'm thinking about something. She's like, she leaves 223 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.399 it lit up by her bed, and so she complained 224 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.200 she can't sleep because the phone is going off, and 225 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.200 I'm like, shut it off. Just tell people you're to well. 226 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:01.559 The kids are get it. The kids are away, my 227 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.600 son's at school, my daughter's moved out. She wants to 228 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.240 have it on for the kids, for a safe service, 229 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.720 and I totally understand that. Me on the other hand, 230 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:08.759 no call your mom. 231 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.480 So you said something about that? That really that I've 232 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.320 been told I need to do, because I've been trying 233 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:15.639 to get a little nap in just to be a 234 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.559 little bit more energized. What I don't want to do 235 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.639 is be the guy that whenever my kids get out 236 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.879 of daycare, kids get out of summer camp or whatever, 237 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:23.840 and my wife gets home from work, that I'm just 238 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.120 a zombie to where they're you know that I'm just, 239 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:27.799 you know, I'm kind of going through the motions because 240 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:28.799 I want to be you know, I want to enjoy 241 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.159 that time with them. However, the nap thing, if I 242 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.000 just sit around and tell myself you better sleep, you 243 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.279 better sleep, it won't happen. But turning my phone off 244 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.879 would probably help. But I have such a I guess 245 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.399 fomo if like, if my phone's off, what maybe this 246 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:45.799 just tells you how highly I think of myself. Maybe, 247 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:47.600 because what's the world going to do if they can't 248 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:47.919 reach me? 249 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.039 If my phone's off. 250 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:50.879 I mean, I think things will be if I just 251 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:52.879 let people who need to reach me know, Hey, this 252 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.759 is when you squeeze into power now, because I'm trying 253 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:57.879 to you know, not be in bed by five point 254 00:09:57.879 --> 00:09:59.879 thirty pm and have a little bit of a you know, 255 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.600 in the evening or whatnot. So I'll adjust. But hey, 256 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:04.960 it's been awesome thus far, and we're going to keep 257 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.240 it rolling. We've got our first check of sports coming 258 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.720 up here in about five minutes. Are also another update 259 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.639 when it comes to traffic and weather, and in ten 260 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:14.720 minutes we'll get our first update from John Shannon on 261 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:16.240 the news. So keep it locked right here Kentucky and 262 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:21.000 his morning news news radio Way forty whas. Thank you, John. 263 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:22.840 It is five thirty five here Kentucky and his morning 264 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.159 news news radio waight forty whas. Nick Coffee with you. 265 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.000 I think it was pretty clear within the first really 266 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.720 the first twenty four hours that it became a known thing, 267 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.000 just how wild the scene was on Barchtown Road this 268 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.120 past weekend and the weekend prior. I think you could 269 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.519 sell from both Mary Greenberg and Chief Humphrey that they're 270 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.600 aware that this is unacceptable and they got to do 271 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.799 something to get this, to get this resolved, at least 272 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:51.279 make some progress. And I think there's some early signs 273 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:54.000 here because we did find out that at least one 274 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.320 barr has decided that they will start closing their doors 275 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:01.240 at two am instead of four four am moving forward, 276 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.080 And no way to know for sure if that's going 277 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.039 to one lead to other bars deciding to do the 278 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.639 same thing, or if it's going to lead to a 279 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:13.720 real improvement, but it certainly can't hurt and our partners 280 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.559 over WK why they talk to some of the residents 281 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.399 in the Highlands about just what's going on in the 282 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.639 last couple of weeks. No longer is it you know, 283 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.559 people go out and have a good time till two 284 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.519 or maybe four am. Now it's more of a contest of. 285 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.759 What can we get away with right? 286 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:29.519 How crazy can it get? 287 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.399 You've got to have the local leadership involved, you've got 288 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:33.960 to make sure they're on board with it, and you've 289 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.120 got to make sure that they're all on the same 290 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.120 page as the residents and the business owners. 291 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.279 I think these are steps in the right direction. 292 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.799 Highland tap Room that's great, though, start closing it too, 293 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.559 I think will be even better if everyone else started 294 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:47.159 closing it. 295 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.799 Too, you'll move the noise earlier. Instead of being three 296 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.360 or four in the morning, it'll be two in the morning. 297 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.600 But in general, it's probably a better idea to close 298 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.080 the bars earlier, just because people have a little less 299 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.000 time to drink and it'll be less of a problem 300 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.759 at two than for now. 301 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.399 Both may Or Greenberg and Chief Paul Humphreys did speak 302 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.120 publicly again about this issue today. Chief Paul Humphrey says 303 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.320 that LMPD well once again this weekend, have a larger 304 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.679 police presence on Bardstown Road and they will be enforcing 305 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.039 the law. They'll be towing cars, issuing tickets, and arresting 306 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.159 anyone that's not complying with the law. 307 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.320 Again, that's courtesy if our partner's over at WLKY. I've 308 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:25.440 yet to have the pleasure of the honor to meet 309 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.919 Chief Humphrey, and I'm sure I will at some point, 310 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:29.799 but I don't want to insinuate that I know him 311 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:31.919 by any means, But obviously when he's in the position 312 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.200 that he's in, you hear him talk quite a bit. 313 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.159 He leads the Louisville Metro Police Department. But there's something 314 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.960 I really like about We're going to be enforcing the law. 315 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.639 That is very direct, very subtle, but it's almost a 316 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.879 we're going to be making sure that nobody's trying us 317 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.320 testing us. Again, I'm not speaking for anybody at all, 318 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.440 but they realize they got to you know, I don't 319 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:54.759 even know if it would be accurate to say that 320 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.519 they just got to set examples, but they're just if 321 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.639 you're if you are doing things that are against the law. 322 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:03.039 That of course has contributed to the shenanigans in the 323 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.759 last couple of weeks in the Highlands. They're gonna they're 324 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.799 gonna hold you accountable, which is I mean, that's that's progress, right, 325 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.279 I mean, that's absolutely that's what you need. 326 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.639 That's and I I think I like the the the 327 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.200 person that I mentioned the fact that it's gonna move 328 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.840 the noise up earlier, but that's okay. 329 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.279 You're still not going to have people drinking longer. 330 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.360 Which that that that alone there makes it more dangerous 331 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.799 the later into the evening, Yes, longer amount of time 332 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.879 to drink. That's where that's where that's where it's a 333 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.879 real you know, it's not to say that it wouldn't 334 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.759 be concerned if you've got people that are at ten 335 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.399 ten pm loaded and acting crazy because that's never good. 336 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:44.519 But no, Yes, for me, I would sacrifice uh making, 337 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.399 you know, having it happen a little earlier than than 338 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.720 thinking that, Okay, here we go again, when maybe I'm 339 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.039 I'm getting up to get my day started. At four 340 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:53.240 thirty five o'clock, you still got people trickling out of 341 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:54.519 the area completely load. 342 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:57.200 I've seen them down here when I come and do Saturdays. 343 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.600 And you know, if the longer you like pet Let's 344 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.559 be honest, we've all been in a place and I 345 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.879 want to say we all, but I want to paint 346 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.519 everybody with that brush, but most of us have been 347 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:07.200 in a place where we're like I should have went 348 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:08.399 home a long time ago. 349 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:10.519 I maybe shouldn't have stayed for. 350 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:11.759 That last sounds like my twenties. 351 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.440 Yeah, yeah, exactly same here. 352 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.039 And so I think to your point, that's gonna go 353 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:17.840 a long way in curving this violence. 354 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.600 Will it ever totally go away? Probably? I don't want 355 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.039 to say violence, but just ruckus. Will it ever totally 356 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.759 go away? Probably not. Will it shift to other parts. 357 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.759 Of the city, maybe maybe it'll shift over to Nulu, 358 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.519 maybe it'll shift over to I mean we've seen this before. 359 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.039 Remember we had all the problems down at the Big 360 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:34.559 four bridges. 361 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.000 Sure everybody was scared to go down there, and then 362 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:38.399 it shifted over, it died away. 363 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.759 So I think you're right. 364 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.759 I think the city has has accomplished everything they needed. 365 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.559 To do here and will continue to do more. 366 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.519 And if it does end up elsewhere, you're gonna have 367 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.879 to continue to operate the same way you are right now. 368 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.480 And hope you like people accountable to I guess, just 369 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:57.600 hope that if it's quite clear that if you do this, 370 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:59.600 you're gonna be held account and remember that that you 371 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:01.320 know you, people won't do it as much anymore. 372 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.480 No, you remember the street the street burnouts and then 373 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.799 the LMPD cracked out on that with the mayor and 374 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:07.519 that went away. 375 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:08.320 Same. 376 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.480 I believe the same scenario will happen here. Big tip 377 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.279 the hat to the LMPD, Big tip the hat to 378 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.320 the mayor. Great job also, Highland Taphouse. You know, maybe 379 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:18.399 this will lead to others doing the same thing. And 380 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.799 maybe it only took one to say, Okay, well we'll 381 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.759 do what we can to help the community around here. 382 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.600 Yep, Mac, I don't know. I've gotten a lot older 383 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.519 over the years. I'm not an old man, but staying 384 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.279 out till four am what I can't relate. I mean, 385 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.559 that sounds awful. That sounds awful to me, it really does. 386 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.240 All Right, it is five forty here at Kentucky and 387 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:38.519 it's Morning News. You got another update of traffic and 388 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.480 weather coming your way. We're going to talk to Rory 389 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.360 O'Neil on the other side of NBC News about something 390 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.399 I wouldn't have expected to here, but maybe I shouldn't 391 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.600 be surprised. It's the rise in marijuana usage among seniors. 392 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:51.639 So we'll get to that in more. 393 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:51.879 Again. 394 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.159 It's five forty one now here at News Radio eight 395 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.600 forty whas it is five forty five here a Kentucky 396 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.240 and it's Morning News on News radiohas Nick Coffee with you. 397 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:06.159 We are now joined by Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, 398 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.240 it sounds as if senior citizens have decided to partake 399 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:13.759 in marijuana usage at a much higher rate here recently 400 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:15.879 than they did in years past. What does the data 401 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.960