Speaker 1: All right, good morning, and welcome in sou Kentucky in
Speaker 1: his morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: It is five to five here on June's second, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and it's not Tony Cruz, he's retired. My
Speaker 1: name is Nick Coffee, and I'm excited to be here
Speaker 1: with you guys. I would hope that you know who
Speaker 1: I am. If not, allow me to introduce myself. I'm
Speaker 1: the new guy. I've been in this well. I've lived
Speaker 1: in Louisville my whole life. Don't plan on ever not
Speaker 1: being a Louisville native, and I am thrilled beyond belief
Speaker 1: to be able to have this opportunity. And I am
Speaker 1: joining a team that is already in place. Tony Cruz
Speaker 1: is retired. I'm kind of just entering the line up
Speaker 1: here because again the team is assembled. We've got Scotti Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: who's been a part of News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: for a long long time, and of course he's still here.
Speaker 1: He's with us this morning, and I'm reuniting with my
Speaker 1: former producer, mister John Alden, the company man, and of
Speaker 1: course John Shannon with the news. He'll still be in
Speaker 1: the mix. So again, the team that you have come
Speaker 1: to know and love is still here. But Tony Cruz
Speaker 1: has retired, and I like, I'm not gonna be Tony.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be me.
Speaker 1: If we could all be Tony, we would, right, But
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not that easy. That's not how it works.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be me, Nick Coffee. You will learn
Speaker 1: about me here and there. I'm not going to give you,
Speaker 1: you know, a four hour show this morning where I
Speaker 1: just you know, tell you who I am. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think that would be good anyways. But you'll
Speaker 1: learn about me over hopefully many many many years and
Speaker 1: looking forward to it in a big way. And I
Speaker 1: know that there are some that are a little resistant
Speaker 1: to change. And I'm you know, I know there'll be
Speaker 1: people that may tune in and think, who's this guy,
Speaker 1: Where's where's Tony Cruz. He's been with me every morning
Speaker 1: for twenty plus years and now he's gone.
Speaker 2: So just just give me a shot.
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Speaker 1: is your news, your traffic, your weather, things that you
Speaker 1: depend on every morning for your your commute or maybe
Speaker 1: just your routine. Maybe it's not just the commute, because
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Speaker 1: So I'll start by I guess to a poor attempted
Speaker 1: humor here, and I hope that you guys can pick
Speaker 1: up on sarcasm, because I do, in fact speak sarcasm,
Speaker 1: probably more than I should. I'll need to tone that
Speaker 1: down a little bit with this shift, but I will say,
Speaker 1: give it a shot. If not, come back tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 1: try it again. And after a while you've given it
Speaker 1: many chances and it's still not your cup of tea,
Speaker 1: then that's a you problem. You probably need to work
Speaker 1: on that I could. I'm joking, but again, I am
Speaker 1: so excited. It's been a crazy last few weeks to
Speaker 1: have this all kind of come together. And you don't
Speaker 1: mean I was going to say, you don't work in radio,
Speaker 1: you don't have a career in radio, and not understand the.
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Speaker 1: It's different than anything else when it comes to radio,
Speaker 1: the history of the tradition. So it's something that long
Speaker 1: before I ever had a chance to work at iHeart Louisville,
Speaker 1: I knew and most people probably who don't and have
Speaker 1: never worked in radio ever wanted to know what eight
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Speaker 1: the tradition, especially if you're somebody from the Kentucky and area.
Speaker 1: But in the last few weeks, it's really hit me
Speaker 1: just how amazing of an opportunity I have here to
Speaker 1: again join this team that's already in place. I was
Speaker 1: talking with Terry Miners on Friday and he was giving
Speaker 1: me a nice quick rundown just of the history of
Speaker 1: the morning show Kentucky and his Morning News and I
Speaker 1: was aware, but Terry Miners being the one to kind
Speaker 1: of lay it out, I just had that moment, well,
Speaker 1: you better not screw it up.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I've.
Speaker 1: Been thinking about the last few weeks, but or the
Speaker 1: last few days, I should say, some comfortable nerves because
Speaker 1: I'm so excited, but being here with Scott and the
Speaker 1: Johns and then everybody else within the team here and
Speaker 1: not just those that you hear on air, those behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, I'm comfortable. I mean, I hope it works out.
Speaker 1: I'm certainly gonna, you know, do my best and try
Speaker 1: to give listeners in the Knsuckyana area what they've they've
Speaker 1: come to expect, but also maybe add my own flavor.
Speaker 1: But I am, I'm really really excited, and I hope
Speaker 1: you guys are as well. We've got a big morning
Speaker 1: for you coming up. In fact, we've got your first
Speaker 1: update on traffic and weather. We'll also have sports coming
Speaker 1: up with Scotty Fitzgerald around five twenty five. John Shannon
Speaker 1: with your news at five point thirty. It is five
Speaker 1: to ten here at Kentucky in his morning news on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas it is five fifteen here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky and his morning news News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas Nick Coffee with you, the new guy. How about
Speaker 1: that right after the first segment ever, it's my turn
Speaker 1: to go to weather, and I had it ready and
Speaker 1: I fumbled poor delivery on my part. But hey, I
Speaker 1: told you not that long ago as we started the show.
Speaker 1: There's there's been some very delicate and it's actually been
Speaker 1: worded differently, don't screw this up. So I've kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, in the last couple of days, been thinking, men,
Speaker 1: I better not screw this up. So so I'm making
Speaker 1: sure we've got everything set up on the board here
Speaker 1: to have a smooth operation this morning and completely forgot that.
Speaker 2: You know, you need to be ready to deliver weather.
Speaker 2: But I'll be ready the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: I'd be a liar if I said that'll never happen again,
Speaker 1: because you know I can't control if that does. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can control it, but I make mistakes.
Speaker 2: I'm human.
Speaker 1: But anyways, apologies for that. When I mentioned weather, I
Speaker 1: said winter weather, don't worry. Winter is not here. It is,
Speaker 1: in fact June second, and we've got summer weather that's
Speaker 1: going to be here today. Tomorrow is going to be
Speaker 1: really warm. Actually, so anyways, that won't be my first
Speaker 1: goof I I can assure you that. But it's Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald and of course John Alden alongside. We'll have
Speaker 1: the news coming up at eight thirty with John Shannon,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine this will probably be something you'll
Speaker 1: hear about throughout the morning here, and that is the
Speaker 1: chaotic street takeover that took place on Barchtown Road over
Speaker 1: the weekend in the Highlands area. I guess this is
Speaker 1: the second straight weekend that this type of thing has happened,
Speaker 1: and obviously it's there's a lot of coverage of it,
Speaker 1: different social media videos that have emerged, or you've got
Speaker 1: large crowds, people climbing on vehicles. I think there were
Speaker 1: people trying to climb on top of the taco bell
Speaker 1: near there. I believe that was what was reported. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not good by any means. But one of the
Speaker 1: things that stood out to me just in the wky
Speaker 1: are partners over there their story on it was they
Speaker 1: were talking to some of the neighbors in the community
Speaker 1: that were being asked about things that they think could
Speaker 1: be done to maybe keep this from happening. As I
Speaker 1: suppose it's become a growing problem. And one of the
Speaker 1: native the area residents mentioned closing the bars a lot
Speaker 1: earlier than they do. And for those who don't know
Speaker 1: much about me, I'm thirty six, don't I don't have
Speaker 1: a real wild night life lifestyle anymore. I never really
Speaker 1: never did to be honest with you at all, but
Speaker 1: John ought to let me ask you this. You buy,
Speaker 1: I would hope you're not out at the bars. You've
Speaker 1: got a newborn.
Speaker 2: Baby at home, so I'm a bit doing different things.
Speaker 1: You're up late, having fun and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: changing diapers, being a new dab, but it's not out
Speaker 1: at the bars.
Speaker 2: I would assume.
Speaker 1: So if you and you may already know this, but
Speaker 1: if I just asked you, hey, when do you think
Speaker 1: like the latest bars in the bars in Louisville clothes,
Speaker 1: what would you guess?
Speaker 3: I think, realistically, you would think one or two in
Speaker 3: the morning would be what they would do.
Speaker 1: So I think I would have said the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I do remember when I was younger that you
Speaker 1: would run into people who were in Louisville visiting, or
Speaker 1: maybe you were actually I remember going to different cities
Speaker 1: for bachelor parties and whatnot, and we'd mentioned we were
Speaker 1: from Louisville, and in places like Nashville, which of course
Speaker 1: is a big party scene now, and obviously Broadway has
Speaker 1: become just a much different Broadway than it was fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, but they would almost be jealous, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: You guys get to stay out real late.
Speaker 1: So I don't think a lot of people realize that
Speaker 1: that Louisville's bars have not all of them making You
Speaker 1: can have your own preference as far as when you
Speaker 1: want to close, but one of the neighbors or one
Speaker 1: of the people that lived near in the neighborhoods I
Speaker 1: guess close to where this took place in the Highlands.
Speaker 1: You know mentioned closing closing down similar to what Lexington does,
Speaker 1: and apparently it depends on the liquor license, the type
Speaker 1: of liquor license that you have. So the currently a
Speaker 1: standard license. Bars and restaurants with a standard liquor license
Speaker 1: can serve alcohol until midnight, and that's Monday through Saturday
Speaker 1: from one pm to midnight. And there's an extended hours license,
Speaker 1: which again those are the night life places, places that
Speaker 1: are are going to be open as late as possible,
Speaker 1: and for a good chunk of that time they're not
Speaker 1: serving anything other than booze probably, I mean, you could
Speaker 1: do not have to get out, mean they're not serving food,
Speaker 1: I guess more so, it's what I mean. So if
Speaker 1: you have the extended hours license, you can stay open
Speaker 1: till four am, and I guess clearly there's still there's
Speaker 1: still a reason to do that as far as as
Speaker 1: far as business. But in Lexington, according to the research
Speaker 1: I'm looking at here, you know, they don't they don't
Speaker 1: have extended extended hours. I guess that they're not. I
Speaker 1: guess they're not. I guess the latest they could stay
Speaker 1: open would be like two and which to me, that's
Speaker 1: still really really late.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine wanting to be out that late.
Speaker 1: But hey, everybody's got different lifestyle and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Probably up as late as these folks, John, But again,
Speaker 1: it's diaper change stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been there. Man, It's it's a lot.
Speaker 1: But trust me, it may sound insane when I say this,
Speaker 1: but you'll miss it. It sounds crazy right now, especially
Speaker 1: probably at five twenty am, and you probably are running
Speaker 1: on fumes. But hey, it's all part of the process
Speaker 1: and it's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We have got traffickan weather coming up here another update
Speaker 1: for you as well as sports with Scott Fitzgerald right
Speaker 1: here on Kentucky This morning News News ready to eight
Speaker 1: forty whas. Thank you John Shannon, Kentucky and is Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee. That that made me even it
Speaker 1: made it real. Thank you, John Shannon. I think that's
Speaker 1: the first time anybody has said it this morning other
Speaker 1: than myself. But it is Kentucky and his Morning News
Speaker 1: and I am Nick Coffee. And again you just heard
Speaker 1: the news there from John Shannon. We've got Jo on
Speaker 1: all and alongside Scott Fitzgerald as well. He'll be back
Speaker 1: with sports coming up towards closer to six am. But
Speaker 1: John Shannon, he was in such a hurry to get
Speaker 1: here today because he was so excited to get the
Speaker 1: week started. And I assume he was excited because I'm
Speaker 1: making my debut here.
Speaker 2: Did he get pulled over?
Speaker 1: And he may not have wanted me to share that,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited how excited John Shannon was, so i
Speaker 1: just had to share it with folks. And I'm hopeful
Speaker 1: that you know, he didn't get a speeding ticket, but
Speaker 1: he is here, and I'm happy that he was.
Speaker 2: This excited as we as we get this rolling, all right.
Speaker 1: So, one of the things that has become I think
Speaker 1: a conversation not only that you hear about on news
Speaker 1: platforms like this, but I think it's a conversation among friends,
Speaker 1: among co workers, and that is getting your real ID.
Speaker 1: Because obviously that was a big, big thing at the
Speaker 1: beginning of May May seventh, was that was the cutoff
Speaker 1: for compliance for the real ID enforcement. Without a real ID, passport,
Speaker 1: military ID, or other acceptable forms of identification, you're going
Speaker 1: to face additional hurdles at the airport security that you know,
Speaker 1: more hurdles than you typically get. But John Alden, do
Speaker 1: you have your real idea young man?
Speaker 3: I do not know a scenario where I would need
Speaker 3: mine in the immediate.
Speaker 1: So that's I think there's so much coverage for good reason,
Speaker 1: right you want to I mean people need to realize
Speaker 1: when it comes to flying. I mean you can have
Speaker 1: I mean, you can have a nightmare travel situation when
Speaker 1: it comes to the airport and it's completely out of
Speaker 1: your control. But if you end up having an issue
Speaker 1: and it's because you didn't realize you didn't have the
Speaker 1: right forms, at that point you feel like, okay, now
Speaker 1: you just add in a goof on your end, and
Speaker 1: then all the potential nightmare situations you may have that
Speaker 1: have the airport is very important, right We use it
Speaker 1: a lot, and I prefer flying than driving. But you
Speaker 1: just have to know going in that you really have
Speaker 1: no control. You hope that you that things go off smoothly,
Speaker 1: but that isn't always the case, and I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of us have learned that. But anyways, with the
Speaker 1: real id, my wife I appreciate her greatly, but she
Speaker 1: is she's not at all a procrastinator and I am.
Speaker 1: So what I didn't realize is that initially you've been
Speaker 1: able to get a real ID since I think it
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty nineteen. Which did you realize that, John?
Speaker 1: And I'm not putting you on the spot tackle you know,
Speaker 1: to ask you, like, were you educated enough on this?
Speaker 2: But because it's just been such a talking.
Speaker 1: Point lately, because the deadline was was May seventh, I
Speaker 1: just assume, Well, there's no way I know I wasn't
Speaker 1: proactive enough. I wasn't somebody that was making sure I
Speaker 1: was on top of it. But I didn't realize actually
Speaker 1: got my real ID a long long time ago.
Speaker 3: I remember a couple of years ago in my previous
Speaker 3: licensed expire, they asked if I wanted to upgrade to
Speaker 3: a real ID, and I didn't know there was going
Speaker 3: to be a requirement where I had to, so I
Speaker 3: said no.
Speaker 2: It was more so much of option. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and what you may not ever need it,
Speaker 1: because you I shouldn't say ever needed, But it sounds
Speaker 1: as if your decision was more so based off the
Speaker 1: fact that for the time being, you're not in any
Speaker 1: big hurry to get it, and maybe if you need
Speaker 1: it at some point, you'll wait, because it sounds as
Speaker 1: if the issue just been getting an appointment.
Speaker 2: With a lot of folks.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that's what's come up in conversation is because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people procrastinate it, which makes
Speaker 1: me not feel so bad about being a procrastinator. And
Speaker 1: they're trying to scramble to see if they can get
Speaker 1: an appointment because maybe they've got they've got a trip
Speaker 1: planned this summer, because obviously people travel a lot, go
Speaker 1: on vacations in the summer. But yeah, I was There's
Speaker 1: many many moments throughout my everyday life where I'm thankful
Speaker 1: for my wife for you know, being the real grown
Speaker 1: up in our in our relationship, in our marriage.
Speaker 2: But she got me.
Speaker 1: She had me go with her to get our IDs
Speaker 1: done a long time ago, and I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: that it was because we needed a real ID, But
Speaker 1: that was I mean, again, you've had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: get this if you wanted one and needed one for
Speaker 1: a really, really really long time, you wanted a real
Speaker 1: if there was if there was a checklist out there
Speaker 1: about all right, if if seven of these fifteen things
Speaker 1: are true, then you are a really bad procrastinator. I
Speaker 1: think I would be towards I would. I would probably
Speaker 1: have a lot more than seven. My car does not
Speaker 1: update the time automatically with the time change, so it
Speaker 1: still says that it's an hour off, and I, just
Speaker 1: like I might, I probably will leave it that way
Speaker 1: until it's then correct because I just never changed it.
Speaker 1: That's It's just me. I'll do better, at least I'll try.
Speaker 1: All Right, It's five forty here at Kentucky and it's
Speaker 1: morning news. We've got another update of traffic and weather
Speaker 1: coming your way right here on news Radio eight forty Whas.
Speaker 2: It's five forty five here at Kentucky and it morning news.
Speaker 1: Nick coffee with you on a beautiful, beautiful Monday morning,
Speaker 1: John Shannon. We'll have your next news update coming up
Speaker 1: at six o'clock. But before that, Scott Fitzgerald with another
Speaker 1: update on sports. In roughly ten minutes, We've got John
Speaker 1: Alden alongside today. And I don't know how many people
Speaker 1: make it a point to get out to Churchill Downs
Speaker 1: other than you know, the big week of course, where
Speaker 1: in fact, I would imagine a lot of locals would
Speaker 1: love to at least get a taste of experiencing Churchill
Speaker 1: Downs during Derby week. Maybe it's Derby, maybe it's Oak
Speaker 1: so maybe it's one.
Speaker 2: Of the other days.
Speaker 1: Obviously five oh Tuesdays become a big thing, and uh,
Speaker 1: I've been a couple of times during the spring racing
Speaker 1: since the Derby and you know, much less crowded. Uh,
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun. And I just
Speaker 1: saw that there was something that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 2: That that is rare.
Speaker 1: So this this isn't something I'd given a whole lot
Speaker 1: of thought about, but I guess when you do consider it,
Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not a surprise that it's a
Speaker 1: rare thing. But horses that have won at won the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby, and most of them, you know, you can
Speaker 1: I'm not somebody who can go year by year and
Speaker 1: tell you every single winner, but you hear a name
Speaker 1: and you probably think, oh, yeah, I don't remember maybe
Speaker 1: what year that derby was, but but I remember that
Speaker 1: name because winning the Derby is is.
Speaker 2: A is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: But uh, Mystic Dan ended up coming back over the
Speaker 1: weekend and and was a was a winner at Churchill
Speaker 1: Downs after winning the Derby and again when it comes.
Speaker 2: To just how how rare that is.
Speaker 1: I usually if you if you win the Derby after that,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to try to hopefully be in
Speaker 1: position to have that horse in in the Belmont and
Speaker 1: the Preakness and whatnot. But yeah, as of as of
Speaker 1: this moment, only a select few Derby winners have returned
Speaker 1: to win another race. And Mystic Dan did it because
Speaker 1: he was the winner of the one hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby last May, and on May thirty first, this
Speaker 1: past weekend, he returned to Churchill Downs and won the
Speaker 1: Great Three Blamestakes, becoming the first Derby winner in nearly
Speaker 1: thirty years to secure another victory at Churchill Downs. The
Speaker 1: last time it happened was Silver Charm, who did it
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight, and again Silver Charm that by
Speaker 1: the way, Silver Chummer won the Derby in ninety seven,
Speaker 1: but came back and won won the Clark Handicap in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. Silver Charm is a name I remember,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have been able to just tell you
Speaker 1: off the top of my head what year it was.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you win the Derby, and maybe this
Speaker 1: is me being a Kentucky Derby snob, and I don't
Speaker 1: mean somebody that you know is a big horse racing guy.
Speaker 2: I love the Derby.
Speaker 1: I don't know a ton about the sport of horse racing,
Speaker 1: but I mean, if you win the Derby, does it
Speaker 1: get any better than that? Obviously accomplished? The triple Crown
Speaker 1: feed is something really rare, and that's the top accomplishment
Speaker 1: in horse racing. I doubt that you don't need to
Speaker 1: be somebody that's an expert on that sport to know that,
Speaker 1: But I thought that was interesting. For the first time
Speaker 1: in a long long time, a Derby winner comes back
Speaker 1: and wins another race at Churchill Downs. But Scott Fitzgerald's
Speaker 1: going to have more sports for you coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit later on. But real quick, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to mention this as we are roughly an hour into
Speaker 1: our morning news here. Big congrats to Dan McDonald and
Speaker 1: his team. I mean, Louisville baseball this year had a
Speaker 1: bounce back season and clearly looked as if they were
Speaker 1: safely going to make the field. But man, they might
Speaker 1: have been one of the coldest teams that got into
Speaker 1: the field of sixty four. But they are now headed
Speaker 1: to the super Regionals after a couple of big wins.
Speaker 1: They knocked off Vanderbilt, which of course was the top
Speaker 1: overall seat, only for Vandy to then lose on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I believe it was or I'm sorry no, they lost Sunday,
Speaker 1: which led to Louisville then playing last night against Wright State,
Speaker 1: which they got the victory, and now they're going to
Speaker 1: face the winner of today's winner take all regional final
Speaker 1: between sixteenth seas Southern Miss in Miami. So if Southern
Speaker 1: Miss wins, Louisville is going to be headed to Hattiesburg
Speaker 1: next weekend. And if the Miami Hurricanes win, then Louisville
Speaker 1: will be hosting them. But yeah, Vandy becomes the first
Speaker 1: team ever to be a number one overall seed and
Speaker 1: not make it to the regional final. It's happened to
Speaker 1: where you don't get out of the regional. But they
Speaker 1: just went over two to start it. And that was
Speaker 1: all she wrote. So I will admit, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: I've got the great resource that is Scott Fitzgerald. I'm
Speaker 1: not somebody that keeps up with college baseball really at all.
Speaker 1: I mean I would lie to you and be like,
Speaker 1: I don't really keep up with it that much. I
Speaker 1: don't really keep up with it at all other than
Speaker 1: just knowing what UL is up to, because obviously I'm
Speaker 1: a Louisville fan. But the postseason in college baseball is exciting,
Speaker 1: good TV product, and I feel like it's growing each
Speaker 1: and every year, and I'm sure we can get to
Speaker 1: this at some point. I'm not sure if it's going
Speaker 1: to be in Scott's update down the line here, but
Speaker 1: you had a coach yesterday for Coastal Carolina just unload
Speaker 1: on Florida's coach and a little surprising.
Speaker 2: You don't see it very often.
Speaker 1: I guess that's just say you don't hear it very
Speaker 1: often in regards to just how strongly outspoken he was
Speaker 1: with an.
Speaker 2: Issue he had with Florida's head coach.
Speaker 1: But I like it the drama calling another coach out
Speaker 1: at the podium. I mean that that adds to some
Speaker 1: entertainment in my opinion. All Right, your next update of
Speaker 1: trafficking Weather's coming up right now. Also another update of
Speaker 1: sports from Scott Fitzgerald at IS five point fifty at
Speaker 1: Kentuckuy his morning news right here on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas