WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.399 Good morning, Kentucky and and welcome in. It is Kentucky 2 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:04.480 and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news radio 3 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:10.080 eight forty WHAS five five here on a Thursday, June 4 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:10.679 the twelfth. 5 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:12.039 The full crew is assembled. 6 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:15.199 We've got Scott Fitzgerald, the one and only mister John Alden, 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.760 and John Shannon, who will have your first news update 8 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:22.320 coming up around five thirty. How many days have I 9 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.839 been in the new role here? This makes I believe 10 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:27.559 the ninth show if I can count, it is I 11 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.039 can count. It's early in the morning star I can't count. 12 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:36.479 So one of the many differences in this than what 13 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.799 I did for nearly a decade on seven ninety doing 14 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.640 sports is interaction and engagement, which I get it. That's 15 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.240 really not what this is to the extent that what 16 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:50.880 it is on sports talk. But we do have something 17 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.520 I need to start really pushing, which is a way 18 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.920 to mix in some interaction from listeners that listen to 19 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.200 us via the iHeartRadio app, which I'll give you another 20 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:05.040 plug here. You can listen to us anytime anywhere on 21 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.079 the ahet Radio app. Also listen live at WHAS dot com. 22 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:10.519 But we have within the Aheart Radio app a feature 23 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.120 called the talkback feature. So if you listen on the 24 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.719 app and you you know, you pull it up and 25 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.840 you see the station with that beautiful logo eight forty whas, 26 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.239 you'll see a microphone, and on that microphone, if you 27 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:29.560 click the microphone, it'll then prompt you to record something. 28 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:31.840 I think you have up to thirty seconds to send 29 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:35.920 something in and when you do that, it goes directly 30 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:40.000 to us here within this portal, this talkback portal. I 31 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.120 guess that's the best way to describe it. And then 32 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.680 we can we can listen to feedback. And I don't 33 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.280 mean necessarily feedback on the show, which again what I 34 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.560 used to say on seven ninety questions, complaints, compliments, insults, 35 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.920 whatever you have, feel free to send them our way. 36 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:57.519 But I know that's not necessarily what this is to 37 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.400 the same to the same level. But if we're talking 38 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.959 about something, which again we've got four hours with you, 39 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:04.680 there's a lot of things to come up. You have 40 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.240 some thoughts, you want to share your perspective, there's always 41 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.120 a chance, you know, we can mix in that, and 42 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:11.879 we're going to try to do that here and there. 43 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.360 I don't know exactly to the level of of you 44 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.680 know how often you'll hear feedback from from you know, 45 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:20.400 listeners that want to share thoughts on what's going on. 46 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.680 But it is an option, and I feel like that's 47 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.879 the best way we can include some engagement within the 48 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.520 show that that really hasn't been there. 49 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.240 Well, I shouldn't say that. I don't know. 50 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.319 Maybe there has been some engagement. I know, Scott, you've 51 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.039 got a lot of people who've been loyal listeners of you, 52 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:37.199 to you and all sort of just this station for 53 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.400 a long long time. That that will give you feedback 54 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.479 in different ways on social media, and I hope they 55 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:43.000 still do that. 56 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:44.439 I have the same thing on my end. 57 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.319 As far as folks who reach out via Facebook, X Slash, Twitter, 58 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.800 that kind of thing. But this is this is the 59 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.400 This is an easy way for us to just, you know, 60 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:58.280 you record something. It comes to us. We are told 61 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.439 we have to listen to it before we have play it, 62 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.800 which you do. I feel like it's a no brainer. 63 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:04.759 I feel like it's something you would just assume that. 64 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:05.879 You have to do. But I don't know. 65 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.520 I'm sure there have been some that maybe listened to 66 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.000 the first half of the thirty second clip and then 67 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.439 realized they didn't get to the end of it, and 68 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:16.680 you know what, they had to hit the dump button 69 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:17.080 and all that. 70 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.439 What it replaces is we used to have folks. When 71 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:21.919 I first started this gig long long ago, I think 72 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.479 it was with Bob's Cohler. They you could tell folks 73 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.199 would be up drinking all night and we get the 74 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.879 weirdest calls. Dude. And now when I saw that and 75 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.599 I started using that, I go back and listen to 76 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.000 some of this. You can tell people that clearly. I mean, 77 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.520 it's the term drunk dialing. We had drunk texting, drunk dialing, 78 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.599 and there's people that are all night and one guy 79 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.719 used to call me, oh, liquid courage, Yeah exactly. One 80 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.360 guy used to call me every morning, like right around 81 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.520 five to ten, and my man had been hitting a bottle. 82 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:50.000 Clearly. 83 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.879 Well, at this time, there was no way to interact 84 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.360 with with any type of radio other than picking up 85 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.879 the phone and hoping that somebody answers it. Now it's 86 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:03.360 an insanely different world. And yeah, you mentioned drunk dialing. 87 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.919 I'm gonna I'm gonna miss my well, I almost lied. 88 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.840 I don't want to lie. I'll miss it to an extent. 89 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:11.960 I'm also going to enjoy the weekends where I can 90 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:13.479 spend time with my family. But when I would do 91 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.839 postgame shows for Louisville football and basketball, especially football if 92 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.759 it was a I mean, football is a four hour 93 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.199 game if it's at four hour event, So it wouldn't 94 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.079 be a shocker that maybe seventy five percent of the 95 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.319 callers on some nights on a Friday, especially a Friday, 96 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.000 but sometimes even a Saturday, that they you could tell 97 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.240 they were a little sauced as we as we would 98 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.639 get the postgame show started, and that that always left 99 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.519 the door open for us to go in a lot 100 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:44.720 of different directions and it made it kind of fun. 101 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.519 But yeah, but that talk back feature you're talking about 102 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.639 is very cool, Nick in a lot of ways because 103 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.160 if you're a lot of people are out and about driving, 104 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.759 and I mentioned you off the year where we get 105 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.879 real busys when we have storm damage or we have 106 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.399 a bad like sixty five gets shut down and folks 107 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:00.560 can access through. 108 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.399 That, Yeah, I know they could be a resource for us, 109 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.360 and this is the easiest, most convenient way for that 110 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.079 to happen. So again, questions, compliance, compliments, insults. Again, We're 111 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.160 not afraid of compliments. Although trust me, we're not going 112 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.319 to just I'm winking at Scott. We're not just going 113 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.480 to play the compliments that come in on the show. 114 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.279 But all right, let's get another update. In fact, it's 115 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.879 our first update within the show here of traffic and weather. 116 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.160 We'll talk to Roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five. 117 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:27.399 Scott Fitzgerald's got sports coming your way in fifteen minutes, 118 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.680 and we hope you stick with us. It is Kentucky 119 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.160 This Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas. 120 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.839 Oh my god, I feel like I'm like it. This 121 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.839 is like the last song after the Friday night dance 122 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.399 at the basketball game, and you're scrambling trying to find 123 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.120 somebody to awkwardly dance with. 124 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:50.560 I love how within milliseconds. Maybe there's certain songs that 125 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.240 is as soon as Scott hears yeah enough to know 126 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.399 what the song is, and it usually doesn't take long. 127 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.360 You go to a place. Oh, Gally, John is an 128 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:03.720 ace with the music I got you you. 129 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.160 You have an ear for this more than I've ever 130 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.000 at least with the people we have here at our 131 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:09.920 station and pick up on play. 132 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.800 Yet, before he realized what song it was, I knew 133 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:13.360 what it was, dude, I mean he was he was 134 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.920 reacting before we had Mike Song because he just this 135 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:16.560 is this is. 136 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.120 His shraumaty No, I was traumatized in high school by this. 137 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.600 I was the guy looking for somebody to dance with. 138 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.600 Nobody dances anymore, right, did they still have school dances? 139 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:25.759 Somebody? Right? 140 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:27.560 I don't think we sound like dinosaurs. 141 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:28.000 They have. 142 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:31.480 They gotta have some kind of dance, right like that Prom? 143 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:34.040 Well yeah, but Prom's not even prom anymore. The guys 144 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.839 go over here, the girls go over here, and then 145 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:37.800 nobody talks to each other until the end of the night. 146 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.199 If I was a fly on the wall at a 147 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:45.720 let's say, a football homecoming dance, if those still exists, 148 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.000 I would just imagine it's everybody on their phones. It's 149 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.319 pretty much abody, just like you know, sending snapchats to 150 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.879 each other while in the gymnasium together just twenty feet apart. 151 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.600 Like I can see that. What did we spend on myself? 152 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:01.920 We spent man, I'm getting old. I'm just I'm criticizing 153 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.920 the younger generation. Back in my day, we we actually 154 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.720 we didn't dance either. I think my generation might have 155 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.480 killed the dancing, Scott, because we just hovered around, and 156 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.800 when we did dance, it was more of like a 157 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.439 a hug with enough distance because the teachers were going 158 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:19.160 to make sure we weren't getting too close to each other. 159 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.720 And then we would just kind of awkwardly, very slowly 160 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:22.959 sway and. 161 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:25.360 Then that was it. One you had one of you 162 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.639 had nasty breath, so you were trying to I was 163 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.040 it was too much cologne? That was really? 164 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:31.519 Yes? 165 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:32.399 What was your go to? 166 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:32.800 John? 167 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:33.279 Do you remember? 168 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.160 I don't remember what the brand was. It might have 169 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.879 been just like an air apostle or something. 170 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:38.360 All right, that works. 171 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:38.920 Well. 172 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:42.519 I don't do clone anymore though, because of that. Really, 173 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.079 so don't do a period. 174 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:48.000 So you really So this was a real experience, Okay, 175 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.639 So it wasn't like you just Yeah, I was the 176 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:51.240 guy with too much clone like you were told you 177 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:51.920 were the guy with too. 178 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:55.560 Much and in front of man, did you wear it? 179 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:55.839 Nick? 180 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:56.879 I didn't. Yeah. 181 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.399 In fact, I would wear cologne, believe it or not. 182 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.040 You guys, Scott, you may remember this. John, you have 183 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.720 to be too young. Michael Jordan had a cologne. Yeah, 184 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.800 and I'm not sure if it smelt like sewage or 185 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.800 if it smelled great, but it was Michael Jordan's cologne. 186 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:15.560 So we wore it and I don't remember if it again, 187 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.079 I don't remember if it smelled great, but if it 188 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.439 was the I mean, Jordan was Jordan in the nineties, 189 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.839 that just if you know, you know, But I didn't 190 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.399 realize this, you know, before five twenty am. We're we're 191 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.560 going back in time and revisiting opening up some old 192 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.159 wounds with Scott being left alone on the dance floor 193 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.000 and John being the guy with too much cologne. 194 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.480 Do you know bon Jovi was gonna take us in cologne. 195 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.200 Axe kind of replaced cologne, and now Axe is out 196 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.879 the door. Old spices back in, dude, really to my son, 197 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.159 almost like body washed. 198 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.759 They I used old spice deodorant, and I'm sure they've 199 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.399 got all the different type of fragrance men's products, but 200 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:55.679 old spice is solid. 201 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.759 That used to be. Yeah, I see, I'm I'm I'm 202 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.480 to degree. Okay, I got to go with degree. But 203 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.879 you guys were talking about cologne and now, just for 204 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.039 old times sake, it's still in the stores. I smelled 205 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.480 it when I was and it brought back so many flashbacks. 206 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.519 It was poloed your car and gray flannel. Never heard 207 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.360 of them, never heard of it, Vanetio. 208 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.639 Though it sounds like we've got we've got different uh, 209 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:23.200 different generations. Yeah, different generations represented within within Kentucky. And 210 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.759 it's morning news, so good stuff. And I you know, 211 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.320 I hope eventually you guys can move move past being 212 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.000 the too much cologne guy and Scott, I hope you 213 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.320 can move the trump. I mean that's now, it's now 214 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:35.840 it makes sense why you really had a tough time 215 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.960 just being able to control what this song does to you. 216 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:40.679 And it's because it takes you back to that moment 217 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.039 where you were on the dance floor nowadays though, I 218 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.240 mean too he's he's he's spoken for us and married 219 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.000 man ladies. But if he at the dance floor now, 220 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:48.440 you'd have some takers. 221 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:54.080 I believe that you've lost half yourself. But according to 222 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.600 my wife, I look a little, a little what they 223 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.799 not emaciated? I can't remember. My wife actually told me 224 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:00.480 one day, look alone, raggedy. 225 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.840 So you've lost so much weight. You're getting insults now 226 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.320 from my wife. Wow, maybe it's a sun of endearment. 227 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:09.360 Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate that yeah, yea. 228 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:14.120 So she's noticing you're losing weight. Yeah, good stuff. All right, 229 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.440 We've got sports coming your way here in about five minutes. 230 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.759 We've got another update of traffic and weather coming up 231 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.000 right now. Ten minutes away, we will have our first 232 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.559 news update with John Shannon. It is Kentucky This Morning 233 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.600 News here on news radioate forty whas. 234 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:28.480 Thank you, John. 235 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.320 It is five point thirty five here Kentucky This Morning 236 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.200 News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas. 237 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:36.720 Coming up in ten minutes, we will chat with Rory 238 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:40.240 O'Neill and we'll continue to discuss what we've discussed all 239 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.360 week with Rory, and that is the ice demonstrations that 240 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.559 are going on. We'll get an update on how things 241 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.559 are going in Los Angeles, but also it's starting to 242 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.559 become somewhat of us I'd say, a gradual build to 243 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:57.120 where other cities are are also having these these protests, 244 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.440 and I don't think anything has been quite as is. 245 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.639 What's the best word to use here. 246 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.440 Clearly Los Angeles one of the biggest cities in the world, 247 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.879 certainly in our country here, and to have curfew for 248 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.759 two straight nights, I mean that, lets you know, sort 249 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:14.279 of how things are going there. I don't think we've 250 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.639 got to that point just yet. But again, we'll get 251 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.480 the latest from Rory coming up here shortly. Also we 252 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.960 will also see Yeah, there's another story I wanted to 253 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.200 touch on with Rory, and that is a new national 254 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.879 poll that takes a look at basically everything from President 255 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.799 Trump to vaccines and other things to just I guess, 256 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.519 a new national poll that gives us a feel as 257 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.080 far as the temperature with with President Trump as he's 258 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.240 back in office for the second time. Still clearly very 259 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:49.039 early in that tenure. All right, So JCPS is proposing 260 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.919 new start times for school this upcoming this upcoming school 261 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.799 year twenty twenty five, twenty six. Right now, they're exploring 262 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:01.159 a couple of different options. It sounds like, and I 263 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.559 guess I'll start with this, fellas, do you all remember 264 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:07.799 what time you started school at different levels of school? 265 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:08.840 Seven forty five? 266 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:09.200 I think? 267 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.519 So, did you go to Catholic school growing up? No? 268 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.279 I was public school, same here, public school. We're all 269 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:14.919 public school. 270 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:17.120 I think I was in three different school systems though 271 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.600 elementary I was in Indiana, middle school, I was in 272 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:21.919 the Catholic school system here in Kentucky and then high 273 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:23.919 school I was in Bullet County. You got around I know, 274 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.639 I remember my start time in high school was seven ten, Okay, 275 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.799 so wow, I would assume that is around the time 276 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.360 that I started high school, but I really don't remember. 277 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:36.200 I know that we got out of school around like 278 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.759 two twenty five. I think that's whenever school let out. 279 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.120 Does that sound right, John, we got out of too ten? 280 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:41.679 Okay? 281 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.039 Yeah, I think we got out a little bit later. 282 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.480 But of course I'm a lot older than John is. 283 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:49.559 But I also went to TU Bullet County Public School. 284 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:51.840 So again I don't When I look at these proposed 285 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.919 start times, I don't know if it's a big difference 286 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.919 from what I was used to, and I guess, yeah, 287 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.360 let's see. So right now, the the option currently, one 288 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.440 of the options they're looking at is to shift high 289 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.600 schools and Ramsey Middle School to later start times, as 290 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:13.080 research shows that later starts can improve teen sleep, behavior 291 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:17.559 and grades. But it would require more bus drivers, and 292 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.720 obviously that's an issue they've had for a while now, 293 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:25.600 is having enough bus drivers. So if it does help 294 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.200 with those specific things, then I'd say it's worth looking into. 295 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.399 Right improving teen sleep, behavior grades. Those are things very important. 296 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:37.480 I think everybody involved, parents, students, teachers, administrators would all 297 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.840 agree that, you know, if you've got better behavior and 298 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.039 better grades, then that's what you want. But a change 299 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:47.240 in schedule could really just disrupt the routine for a 300 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:47.759 lot of people. 301 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.240 A high school kid, though, would you ever appreciated the 302 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.440 later start. I don't know. 303 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:58.639 I remember being I was not my high school years 304 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.000 as far as the mornings. I mean, I remember just 305 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.320 being a zombie like kind of sleep walking. Once I 306 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:04.919 was old enough to start driving, it was a little 307 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.919 bit different, but I feel like I was just on 308 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.759 I wasn't really awake when I got to school sometimes. 309 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.240 I mean I rode the bus briefly, and I remember 310 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.120 falling asleep on the bus in the mornings. And then 311 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.000 other times I would just be kind of, you know, 312 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.159 out of it. So maybe I would have enjoyed a 313 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.960 little bit more sleep. But I love getting out of 314 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.279 school sorely too, Like I wouldn't trade that for anything. 315 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.480 And as the older you go in school, the earlier 316 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.200 you start, but of course the later or the earlier 317 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.279 that you get out and that was that was always 318 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:30.559 worth it. 319 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.000 Do you remember what time it was when you all 320 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.360 let out of school every day when. 321 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:34.399 We were three thirty. 322 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.600 Okay, yeah, because I think that's what it more so 323 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:37.080 used to be. 324 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.799 But I could be wrong, not maybe not everywhere, but 325 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 I think as as the years have passed, at least 326 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.879 from what I can tell, it's only gotten to where 327 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:47.919 at the high school level, it seems like it's only 328 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.039 gotten to where you start earlier and you get out earlier. 329 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.000 Well, because my daughter is a teacher, and what I 330 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:55.480 was telling him was is we had two fifteen minute 331 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.679 recess periods, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, 332 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.639 and then after we ate lunch, they let us go 333 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.840 out and we had a nice playground when they let 334 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.080 us go outside for like a half hour forty five minutes, 335 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.360 and it was a beautiful thing, especially when it gets 336 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.159 really cold up in Michigan, because you come in and 337 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.240 you're not jumping around the classroom because you're too don 338 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:14.960 and tired to be doing it. And I think I 339 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.840 shared that with my daughter, and she's like, I would 340 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:19.120 love to have a half hour forty five minutes at 341 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:22.759 lunchtime just to put myself sure together. And I guess 342 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:24.120 they don't do it anymore, and that's why we got 343 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:24.519 out sold. 344 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.039 And one thing you got to keep in mind, you've 345 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.639 got to have a level of staggering just because bus 346 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.159 drivers I would assume you're not just I mean you, 347 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.559 you know, especially when you've got such a shortage of 348 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.360 bus drivers. The option that I mentioned where they start 349 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.960 high schools in Ramsey Middle School earlier, the challenges would 350 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.279 be they would need for at least seven hundred and 351 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.480 fifteen bus drivers, and the district currently has six hundred 352 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.799 and twenty, So you need to add roughly one hundred 353 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.879 bus drivers, which to me sounds like a tough task 354 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.480 to add that many. But maybe I'm wrong, But yeah, 355 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.159 I know for a lot of parents. I'm a parent myself. 356 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.480 When you think of a change like this, first thing 357 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.200 that comes to mind for me is, all right, does 358 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.440 this impact my ability to get them to school or 359 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.240 get somebody to get them to school to where I 360 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:10.559 can still get to work on time. You're you know, 361 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.879 you're always you're always balancing it. Yeah, all right, we'll 362 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.799 talk to Rory O'Neil coming up here in just four minutes. 363 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:17.879 It is Kentucky and his morning news on news radio 364 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.279 A forty whas it is five forty six. Here Kentucky 365 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.559 and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio 366 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.639 eight forty whas it's time to welcome in our friend 367 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:29.480 Rory O'Neal of NBC News. 368 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:30.360 Rory. 369 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.519 A second straight night where Los Angeles had a curfew, 370 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.000 it seems as if that's that's helping the situation at 371 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:37.360 this point. 372 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.120 Yeah, that does seem to be doing the trick in 373 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.519 order for a police to maintain law and order there 374 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.240 in downtown Los Angeles. Again, that curfew applies to just 375 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.120 that one small area about one square mile in the 376 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.360 downtown area near those federal buildings which have been the 377 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.679 scene of these protests and guess they started last Friday 378 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.600 night and have been growing sin But now with a 379 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.599 strong police presence, obviously the National Guard that we've talked 380 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.559 about before, and the US Marines who are out protecting 381 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.960 ICE agents in the field, it seems like things maybe 382 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.720 getting under better control in LA but perhaps unraveling in 383 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:17.240 other cities across the country. 384 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.200 We'll get to that in just a moment. But when 385 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:22.640 it comes to a curfew, I could be wrong, but 386 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.920 I imagine that doesn't happen that often in a city 387 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.880 like Los Angeles. There's a lot of folks that they 388 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:29.839 don't you know, I'm sure they're aware of what's going on, 389 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.119 but it really hits them when it impacts them in 390 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.160 sort of their their day to day lives, and a 391 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:36.759 curfew can certainly do that. Do we know sort of 392 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.160 what the noise has been in Los Angeles as far 393 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.359 as just how much it's inconvenienced the residence and one 394 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:43.440 of the biggest cities in the world. 395 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.000 Yeah, well, I think again, the area is so small 396 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.440 that I think they said it affects something like one 397 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.000 hundred thousand residents directly, which granted is an awful lot 398 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.000 of people. Sure it's of what fourteen million or something, 399 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.440 so it's and again out of five hundred square miles, 400 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.160 it's one square mile that has this curfew in effect. 401 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.079