Speaker 1: Good Thursday morning, Kentucky, and it is six o four
Speaker 1: here a Kentucky. This Morning News with Nick Coffee on
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Speaker 2: Hey, Nick love the show, Glad Scott's back. I think
Speaker 2: the crew's really done a good job.
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Speaker 4: Very nice and stuff. Appreciate the listener checking in as well.
Speaker 4: I know Calin Ribeck over Bellaman. She's always great. She
Speaker 4: always corrects me when I get names. I'm terrible with
Speaker 4: names sometimes and she sends me a friendly email to say,
Speaker 4: hey listen, no it wasn't that.
Speaker 2: This is how you see.
Speaker 3: So she's a member of the Correction Police.
Speaker 4: Force exactly, and I appreciate And Joe Jacobino is a
Speaker 4: proud member in standing.
Speaker 2: When we were together on Saturdays and she still doesn't
Speaker 2: appreciate your service.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean appreciate this so well.
Speaker 2: I welcome that, dude.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 4: I have zero problems with getting corrected. I mean that
Speaker 4: that does not because I want to make sure we
Speaker 4: have it right.
Speaker 1: Well, I used to, I think I used to. I
Speaker 1: used to yell at John, not yell because I can
Speaker 1: never yell at me, He's too nice. But whenever I would,
Speaker 1: I would not realize that I would slip up and
Speaker 1: say something incorrectly, or just get a specific detail wrong,
Speaker 1: or just more often.
Speaker 3: Than not, it's it's it's a name.
Speaker 1: It's just not you know, it's saying a name incorrectly
Speaker 1: or having a name wrong is one of the many
Speaker 1: things that I that I say that is incorrect, and
Speaker 1: I want my produc I've always one of my producer
Speaker 1: to let me know so I can correct myself as
Speaker 1: quickly as possible, to prevent you know, all all available
Speaker 1: members of the correction police force from you know, sirens
Speaker 1: on heading my way let me know, hey, you got
Speaker 1: this wrong, right, because you know I want to avoid that.
Speaker 1: And again, I like, I'm gonna make this won't be
Speaker 1: the This will not be the next mistake I make,
Speaker 1: the next goof I have. As far as saying something incorrectly,
Speaker 1: it will not be the last. Sure, it happens often,
Speaker 1: and it's not as if I'm too sensitive to be told, hey,
Speaker 1: you got this wrong. I just I try to correct
Speaker 1: myself as quick as possible to avoid those that just
Speaker 1: want to let you know, hey, you mean this one
Speaker 1: specific detail, you got it wrong. Well, thanks for paying attention,
Speaker 1: and again we appreciate you correcting us. But we make
Speaker 1: mistakes at times. It happens.
Speaker 4: I've developed some great relationships through folks that started initially
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Speaker 4: email and saying, Scott, this, this is really, this is
Speaker 4: what happened here. He kind of got this wrong and
Speaker 4: I was totally okay. And it goes back to my
Speaker 4: days of working in retail back in high school and
Speaker 4: even post high school. And you know, if someone would
Speaker 4: ask me a question, I had zero problems telling that
Speaker 4: person I don't know the right answer for you. And
Speaker 4: I found out that folks are more receptive to that
Speaker 4: when you admit to them, hey, look, I just don't
Speaker 4: know and or I screwed that up, or I got
Speaker 4: that wrong, And that carries me well in my relationship
Speaker 4: even with my wife. I have zero problems with telling
Speaker 4: my wife you were right, I was absolutely wrong there.
Speaker 4: I mean the humility and because I see sometimes not
Speaker 4: just in radio, but I see it in media, in
Speaker 4: our business and other avenues and other people where there
Speaker 4: are some people that just absolutely refuse to admit that
Speaker 4: they got something wrong, and they will go out of
Speaker 4: their way to kind of spin it in a way
Speaker 4: that they weren't wrong. And I find out that that's
Speaker 4: even that's harder than name.
Speaker 3: It's called being stubborn.
Speaker 4: It is being stubborn, right, and so so when a
Speaker 4: listener uses something like this and they'll reach out to me,
Speaker 4: like Kaylen ryback over at Bellerman and it's kind of
Speaker 4: a running joke now.
Speaker 2: And we talk with each other when we see each other.
Speaker 4: And you know, I just because one it makes me
Speaker 4: smarter because usually if Kaylen will email me and tell me, hey,
Speaker 4: so and so's name is pronounced this way, that's awesome
Speaker 4: because then I make a note of it. In fact,
Speaker 4: I have a here on my computer with the program
Speaker 4: I use for sports, I have a running directory of
Speaker 4: pronunciations and a lot of them.
Speaker 2: A lot of them come from people who.
Speaker 4: Sent me an emailers reached out to me and said, Scott, no,
Speaker 4: you say it this way or this way.
Speaker 2: So yeah, listeners, I love you. I love that feature.
Speaker 1: I used to be good at names I used to
Speaker 1: consider myself and look, I don't consider myself great at
Speaker 1: many things.
Speaker 3: So it's not like I'm just, oh, I'm great at this.
Speaker 1: I used to be really good at remembering names, and
Speaker 1: now I'm terrible. I don't know what's happened, but I
Speaker 1: got so it's one of the things. I've lost my
Speaker 1: fastball as far as my memory, and now I get
Speaker 1: in my head to where I'm thinking, I know this
Speaker 1: person's name. Why can't I think of it? What's this
Speaker 1: blockage going on? So yeah, maybe I need to start
Speaker 1: taking notes like you can only help. All Right, We've
Speaker 1: got another sports up day coming up at about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: but I want to get to on the other side.
Speaker 1: Here is a report coming out from John Rostein, and
Speaker 1: it is who the Louisville Cardinals are going to be
Speaker 1: playing this year in the acc SEC Challenge. A couple
Speaker 1: of familiar faces that Pat Kelsey, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: how familiar he is with them, but Louisville fans certainly
Speaker 1: familiar with these two. We'll talk about that next right
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky and it's morning News on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas it is six sixteen here at NewsRadio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas John jamming.
Speaker 3: He is jamming, That's what he does.
Speaker 2: Hey, he's a rocker, rocking John all right.
Speaker 1: So yesterday it was reported by John Rostein of CBS Sports,
Speaker 1: who covers college basketball, and I feel like he breaks
Speaker 1: this every year. He's the one who has the pairings
Speaker 1: in the annual acc SEC Challenge. So this is not official,
Speaker 1: but I would say that it is likely going to
Speaker 1: be official at some point, as this has been the
Speaker 1: rumored opponent for Louisville and Pat Kelcey in their I
Speaker 1: guess the third year in this acc SEC Challenge, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Arkansas and the Razorback. So according to Rostein,
Speaker 1: Louisvill will travel to Fayetteville to take on John Caliperi
Speaker 1: and Kenny Payne. So that clearly is a big storyline.
Speaker 1: I could be I could be wrong, but I well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was gonna say, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Arkansas side, do you think they they wanted this,
Speaker 1: this matchup, this pairing, Because I would say, if I
Speaker 1: had to guess, I would say no. But one I'm
Speaker 1: just guessing, and two it's not because I'm saying they're
Speaker 1: scared of Louisville and Pat Kelcey. But the storyline is
Speaker 1: going to be that Kenny Payne is going to be
Speaker 1: He's not the head coach, he's an assistant, but.
Speaker 3: He will be.
Speaker 1: You know that Louisville's going to play a program that
Speaker 1: one is now coached by a coach that was at
Speaker 1: the rival of Louisville for a long time. And clearly
Speaker 1: Cali Perry is a big name brand in college basketball
Speaker 1: and one of the one of the rare remaining sort
Speaker 1: of figures within college basketball. He's a no name. He's
Speaker 1: done in a long time, had a lot of success,
Speaker 1: has been involved in obviously some controversy, but that's been many,
Speaker 1: many years. So nonetheless, cal Perry's a no name, and
Speaker 1: he had a lot of success against Louisville and the rivalry.
Speaker 1: He did a lot of things well at Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: really he did it throughout until the very end. It
Speaker 1: just kind of that whole thing had run its course.
Speaker 1: And obviously when you have upsets against teams like Saint
Speaker 1: Peter's and Oakland and the NSAA Tournament, that will that
Speaker 1: will obviously, you know, lead to your fan base realizing
Speaker 1: this is this is slipping this is not what it
Speaker 1: once was. So Cal will get a chance to play
Speaker 1: Louisville once again. And I would just assume, given that
Speaker 1: the Cal Kenny Payne relationship is as strong as it
Speaker 1: is no surprise that as soon as Louisville moved on
Speaker 1: from Kenny Payne, he went right back to being on
Speaker 1: John Caliperry's bench. But this is going to just bring
Speaker 1: up the fact that Kenny Payne quite literally had probably
Speaker 1: the worst tenure that you will ever see at a
Speaker 1: high major college basketball program. Certainly one of those programs
Speaker 1: that is in the top tier of the sport. Louisville's
Speaker 1: not a top five program of all time, but there's
Speaker 1: somewhere between six and ten, depending on how you want
Speaker 1: to look at it.
Speaker 2: So, uh, you have you ever seen and you've seen
Speaker 2: your fair share.
Speaker 4: We went through the Steve Cragthorpe ear with Louisville, Nick,
Speaker 4: and I was going to ask you this question the
Speaker 4: other day. Have you ever seen a darker time? I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not the Patino thing aside. I'm talking about on
Speaker 4: the field stuff. A darker time for Louisville sports than
Speaker 4: during the Kenny Payne era.
Speaker 3: No, as far as the impact.
Speaker 4: No, I mean that's like Steve Kragthorpe And.
Speaker 3: No, there's no comparison, Cooper, there's no comparison. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean it's crazy to think. And when you and
Speaker 4: I talked off, I remember my son coming home from Zay.
Speaker 4: He would drive home from Xavier to watch the Cardinals,
Speaker 4: despite the fact he had a basketball right outside his
Speaker 4: front door. But he loves the Cardinals. And we were
Speaker 4: sitting watching the game one day and he was, this
Speaker 4: just doesn't feel right. This, I don't know where I'm at.
Speaker 4: It's like some sort of twilight zone for him. It
Speaker 4: was weird.
Speaker 1: Still doesn't seem like it really happened, But it did.
Speaker 1: And that's it's not that people are in disbelief, like
Speaker 1: they're thinking, no way that really happened.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows it was real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because something you don't forget, especially if you're a
Speaker 1: fan that has made that emotional investment and you're considered
Speaker 1: a diehard, as they say. But Pat Kelsey brought us
Speaker 1: back to life. And I say us because I'm a
Speaker 1: Louisville fan, but he brought the program back to life.
Speaker 1: And you're one with a good season that had a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of success and a lot of
Speaker 1: big moments for fans, and when you have that happened
Speaker 1: that early. Thankfully, not many people are thinking about Kenny Payne.
Speaker 3: Right If there was.
Speaker 1: Truly this big mess and you were still suffering from
Speaker 1: the lingering effects of having two disastrous years where you
Speaker 1: won four games and then you won eight, then you'd
Speaker 1: be thinking Kenny. But he's out of sight, out of
Speaker 1: mind because we just got lost in the new era
Speaker 1: and a what a great start it has been for
Speaker 1: Pat Kelson. So we'll talk a little more about that
Speaker 1: later on as far as Louisville's non conference schedule, how
Speaker 1: it's shaping up. But we got another update of traffic
Speaker 1: and weather coming your way right now on news radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas.
Speaker 3: Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and his morning news with Nick Coffee
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas six thirty six.
Speaker 3: Here on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: This was in one of John's newscasts yesterday, so I'm
Speaker 1: a little late on it, but I was reading this
Speaker 1: morning and I'm so fascinated by this story. I think
Speaker 1: this is something that you could easily see a movie
Speaker 1: made out of.
Speaker 3: There is in this story again.
Speaker 1: It got a lot of attention when it initially happened,
Speaker 1: but the update is is why it's back in the news.
Speaker 1: But there was a Kentucky man named James Farthing who
Speaker 1: won one hundred and sixty seven point three million dollars
Speaker 1: in the power ball jackpot that happened in I believe
Speaker 1: late April. He ended up deciding to split the prize
Speaker 1: with his mother, and not long after winning one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven point three million dollars, he found himself
Speaker 1: in trouble with the loss. So this guy, he has
Speaker 1: a criminal record and he was on parole from prior
Speaker 1: convictions in Kentucky at the time. He's from Georgetown, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: He's a Kentucky native. But shortly after winning the lottery.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the trip that he took had
Speaker 1: something to do with coming into a bunch of money
Speaker 1: or maybe it was already planned, but regardless, just days
Speaker 1: after winning the lottery, he was arrested at a Florida
Speaker 1: resort and he was accused of punching another guest in
Speaker 1: the face. He kicked a SHARE's deputy in the face
Speaker 1: during the altercation, leading to a battery charge. So this
Speaker 1: is someone who had just won one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven point three million dollars.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know his whole story, his life story by
Speaker 1: any means, but he had obviously been in trouble with
Speaker 1: the law again, he was on parole, and then he
Speaker 1: has you know, so clearly it's a life changing situation
Speaker 1: for somebody to win one hundred and sixty seven point
Speaker 1: three million dollars, but within days of becoming a millionaire,
Speaker 1: he probably hadn't actually become a millionaire just yet. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how quickly you get your money, but nonetheless
Speaker 1: money on the way, and then he gets himself in
Speaker 1: legal trouble, facing a battery charge that could have put
Speaker 1: him right back in prison because he violated parole. I
Speaker 1: mean talk about I mean, bad luck is what a
Speaker 1: lot of people would say. But think about just the
Speaker 1: crazy and luck is certainly involved, I would say when
Speaker 1: it comes to the lottery. But if you, you know,
Speaker 1: you assault somebody and get arrested, that's not bad luck,
Speaker 1: that's being a criminal, so you know it. But to
Speaker 1: have such a day where you can't believe it's real,
Speaker 1: followed by a few days later the exact same situation,
Speaker 1: but for the entire an entire, entirely different reason and
Speaker 1: it being you know, wow, I got myself in trouble
Speaker 1: and now I could be going away for a long time.
Speaker 1: So what he's decided to do, he chose to remain
Speaker 1: in jail where he currently is in Florida, to serve
Speaker 1: out his sentence rather than pursue a hearing. So what
Speaker 1: he's done is he's waived his right to a hearing
Speaker 1: and he requested to complete that sentence with his release
Speaker 1: expected in August of this year. So he'll he'll serve
Speaker 1: out and then I don't really know what what what
Speaker 1: will happen as far as the charge and a potential
Speaker 1: parole violation. Again, he was on parole in Kentucky and
Speaker 1: the arrest took place in Florida at a resort.
Speaker 2: But so why would you why would you have liked
Speaker 2: to stay?
Speaker 4: I don't know, unless he just wants to just get
Speaker 4: done with the legal drama, because you could hire a
Speaker 4: decent lawyer at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. Yeah, I don't know that. That's what
Speaker 1: I don't understand. My guess would be, and it's just
Speaker 1: a guess. I have no experience in the criminal justice system.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never been charged with a crime, and
Speaker 1: hopefully that never that never changes. But it's to me
Speaker 1: there's got to be some strategic move on his part
Speaker 1: to where by serving out and not fighting it may
Speaker 1: give him a better chance of getting mercy when it
Speaker 1: comes to some type of parole violation.
Speaker 4: Well, my question is, too, can the Lottery Commission award
Speaker 4: winnings if you're a convicted criminal service.
Speaker 1: I would say so, Yeah, I still do it, I
Speaker 1: would say so. I mean maybe I don't know that
Speaker 1: for certain, but I would say that they probably can.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by the aftermath of those who win the lottery,
Speaker 1: and it's really sad. I mean, they made an entire show.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been on I was.
Speaker 2: Just gonna.
Speaker 3: Lottery. What happened to Lottery Winners?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I don't know what they called it, but yes,
Speaker 1: that's basically what it was. And I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 1: specifically focused on those where they won the lottery and
Speaker 1: it kind of ruined their life, it did, or they
Speaker 1: ended up losing their life because of being associated with
Speaker 1: somebody that tried to take advantage. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: play the lottery, therefore I will never win. My wife
Speaker 1: she plays often, and she's she chooses to play when
Speaker 1: it becomes impossible to win, because you know, that number
Speaker 1: gets bigger and bigger and bigger. But yeah, there would
Speaker 1: be some real I mean, look, if you tell me,
Speaker 1: is it better to or to not win the lottery,
Speaker 1: it's better to win it. I would love to win
Speaker 1: the lottery, but I'm sure there's things that come with
Speaker 1: it that you really never know or even think about
Speaker 1: until you're in that position.
Speaker 4: This guy was an auto mechanic, and to your point,
Speaker 4: one of these specials, he said people would show up
Speaker 4: at his door in all hours of the night wanting
Speaker 4: to fix their car, and he heard SOB story after
Speaker 4: SOB story. And I'm glad you mentioned that show because
Speaker 4: I watched that too, and I'm like, I don't need
Speaker 4: to buy a lottery.
Speaker 3: Ticket this week.
Speaker 1: It fascinated me because it just made it seem and again,
Speaker 1: there's so many people that win the lottery. Therefore, it's
Speaker 1: not like every situation ends up like that, but there's
Speaker 1: enough of the bad situations to where I believe they
Speaker 1: made multiple seasons of a show that just documented how
Speaker 1: winning the lottery doesn't always work out in the long
Speaker 1: run for a lot of people. So anyways, you could
Speaker 1: make a movie out of this story. I really think
Speaker 1: you could. All right, we've got another update of trafficking
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Speaker 1: radio eight forty whas six forty six here a Kentucky
Speaker 1: had his morning news with Nick Coffee on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Something we justus earlier that you're going
Speaker 1: to continue to hear more about is a potential change
Speaker 1: to the start time for JCPS school's next school year.
Speaker 1: And I have two children. My youngest will start in
Speaker 1: the Bully County Public School system this upcoming school year.
Speaker 1: He'll be in kindergarten. And my daughter, she's been in
Speaker 1: the Bully County Public School system for a while now,
Speaker 1: she'll be in third grade next year, which makes me
Speaker 1: sad to say, but she's growing up. So I wasn't
Speaker 1: aware of the current schedule as far as when they
Speaker 1: start school because I just assume that in Jefferson County,
Speaker 1: which again shows what I know that middle school all
Speaker 1: started at this time, elementary all started at this time,
Speaker 1: high school started at this time, and that's not the
Speaker 1: case at all, So you have three different start times.
Speaker 1: Seven thirty am to two ten pm is the early window,
Speaker 1: and there are many elementary schools that start at that time.
Speaker 1: There are a handful of middle schools that starts at
Speaker 1: that time, and a handful of high schools. So that
Speaker 1: is the biggest window. So the majority is starting its
Speaker 1: the three tiers. That's the earliest start time seven thirty
Speaker 1: am to two ten pm.
Speaker 4: Well, then apparently the average school start time in the
Speaker 4: US is around eight h three am.
Speaker 2: That's what it works out to.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that middle school and
Speaker 4: high school start no earlier than eight thirty.
Speaker 1: So the second window is the is another mixture of elementary,
Speaker 1: middle and high school as well as a couple of
Speaker 1: specialty schools, and that is eight forty to three twenty pm.
Speaker 1: And then there are a bunch of elementary schools and
Speaker 1: one specialty school that start at nine to forty and
Speaker 1: let out at four twenty.
Speaker 3: So if you have had your.
Speaker 1: Kid in one of the schools that is in the
Speaker 1: early window, or the mid window, or the later window
Speaker 1: four years now, a potential change could really you know,
Speaker 1: could really change or routine you know, you may have
Speaker 1: to find different you know, how you got them to
Speaker 1: school previously may now be different because you may have
Speaker 1: you may not be able to because maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the start time changes is going to make that
Speaker 1: much of an impact. So right now they haven't made
Speaker 1: any definitive decision on this, but certainly something they're looking at.
Speaker 1: And I know, I'm sure when parents see any any
Speaker 1: any decision that a JCPS board is considering, uh than than,
Speaker 1: they're gonna instantly think about, Okay, how does this impact me?
Speaker 1: What do I need to know? What kind of arrangements
Speaker 1: do I need to make? Do I need to change anything?
Speaker 1: Because you know, that's why when it comes to snow
Speaker 1: days or NTI days or just days where you don't
Speaker 1: have school at all, I mean, it's nobody's fault. And
Speaker 1: I see a lot of parents just venting their frustration
Speaker 1: at the j CPS school system and other school systems
Speaker 1: on Facebook and just ranting about how it's ridiculous they
Speaker 1: didn't have school. You know, why did they cancel school?
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's because they're jealous that kids
Speaker 1: get a day off school, but it probably impacts.
Speaker 3: Their mourning, their routine. Maybe they've got to burn.
Speaker 1: Pto hours because of school being out, and then they see,
Speaker 1: wells the school should have been in because my roads
Speaker 1: were fine, and what I don't think needs to be said,
Speaker 1: but it actually, well it shouldn't need to be said,
Speaker 1: but it does. Whatever decision they make on certain days,
Speaker 1: they're well aware they can't win. There's gonna be people
Speaker 1: that are upset this school wasn't canceled, or there's gonna
Speaker 1: be people that are upset that it is. It's a
Speaker 1: really thankless position to be in that spot making said decisions.
Speaker 1: So they really can't win, and they are making the
Speaker 1: decision that is that is best in the best interest
Speaker 1: of keeping kids safe. So even if it does impact
Speaker 1: your day, that could be a real pain in the
Speaker 1: rear end. Trust me, I've been there to whear last
Speaker 1: minute cancelation to school because of whether you got to
Speaker 1: you gotta maybe call off work or something like that,
Speaker 1: and that sucks.
Speaker 3: But like who you blame it.
Speaker 1: They're trying to mean, their job is to make a
Speaker 1: decision that is best for keeping kids safe, and you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're going to make a decision that the majority
Speaker 1: think is the wrong decision. And I'm sure they know
Speaker 1: that going in, but just I don't have anybody that
Speaker 1: I know. Actually, I do have a couple of friends
Speaker 1: that work in JCPS, and I feel for them because
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of times, anytime I see
Speaker 1: anybody talking about JCPS, it's just nothing but people bashing.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they've left opportunity open for legitimate reasons
Speaker 1: to be critical, but you know, I just like to
Speaker 1: believe they're trying their best and there's no perfect way.
Speaker 3: To do it.
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