Speaker 3: Good Monday morning.
Speaker 1: It is Kentuckyana's morning news here on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty Whas Coffee and Company, Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 1: The full crew is here, you Distirred John Shannon with
Speaker 1: the news. John Alden's back after a nice vacation staycation,
Speaker 1: i should say, and of course Scott's alongside. We'll go
Speaker 1: back to sports coming up here in about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: or so. But some big news from yesterday to get
Speaker 1: our week started here, and that is that there is
Speaker 1: a trade deal that has taken place that of course
Speaker 1: was I mean, look the tariffs, that's been a big
Speaker 1: topic of conversation for quite some time now and still
Speaker 1: a lot of unknown as far as overall where that
Speaker 1: ends up, where that ends up headed, but as far
Speaker 1: as the deal that the United States and the European
Speaker 1: Union came together to agree on is big. So as
Speaker 1: we discussed earlier with Rio Neil, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of unknowns, but the deal includes a fifty percent tariff
Speaker 1: across the board according to the European Commission Chief. And
Speaker 1: again this is this is this is good news right
Speaker 1: when it comes to just things that you could potentially
Speaker 1: expect to see from this for those maybe who don't
Speaker 1: pay attention and you just will notice it whenever it
Speaker 1: impacts you. We'll tell you a little bit about areas
Speaker 1: that may notice it earlier than others. We'll do that
Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later on. But here's President
Speaker 1: Trump in regards to this big news as they've come
Speaker 1: to a trade agreement.
Speaker 2: Very importantly, they'll be investing a lot of money. But
Speaker 2: the military is a big number. But that's one number.
Speaker 2: We're not determining it's going to be whatever it is,
Speaker 2: but they're going to be purchasing hundreds of billions of
Speaker 2: dollars worth of military equipment. They're very important that they're
Speaker 2: going to purchase seven hundred and fifty seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars worth of energy, so that's going to
Speaker 2: be great, and six hundred billion dollars worth of investments
Speaker 2: into the United States over and above what they have,
Speaker 2: and I think that basically concludes the deal. I mean,
Speaker 2: those are the factors. I don't think there are too
Speaker 2: many other factors.
Speaker 1: So again, as far as what type of jobs, industries
Speaker 1: I should say are gonna benefit from this, there's a
Speaker 1: pretty good breakdown. And again it's just a projection, but
Speaker 1: I think it's encouraging news. So we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later on. One of the most
Speaker 1: talked about things in the streaming world right now is
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler's second Happy Gilmore movie, that, of course is
Speaker 1: a Netflix original. And I've said this before. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you don't remember it, because why would you. It is
Speaker 1: probably the movie I can recite word for word better
Speaker 1: than any other. I mean, I've probably watched Happy Gilmore
Speaker 1: more than any movie I've ever watched in my life,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if that'll ever be topped, and
Speaker 1: it's such a nostalgia thing for me. But think Happy Gilmore,
Speaker 1: Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy. Those are like the three
Speaker 1: comedy movies that just played on repeat for me when
Speaker 1: I was young, and I could still watch them today
Speaker 1: over and over and enjoy them because I'm sure everybody
Speaker 1: has movies like that that they just watched enough and
Speaker 1: it's something that's special to you. So I remember having
Speaker 1: a near panic attack knowing they were going to legitimately
Speaker 1: run it back and do the entire thing all over
Speaker 1: again with so many pieces from the original, because this
Speaker 1: isn't needed, right this isn't necessary. I'm not even really
Speaker 1: sure who's asking for this. But over time, I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, I trust Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a smart guy. He knows that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, just make it a nice, just nostalgic situation
Speaker 1: to where you just kind of, I mean, don't do
Speaker 1: the same movie all over again, but maybe just you know,
Speaker 1: remind us of how much we loved it, add some
Speaker 1: new flavor as many many years have passed since the
Speaker 1: original came out. So I started to be optimistic about
Speaker 1: it once I found out it was going to happen,
Speaker 1: and I'm certainly gonna watch it. But I haven't watched
Speaker 1: it yet, and I thought to myself, all, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going to avoid anybody that gives any kind of like
Speaker 1: a recap, not even really because of spoilers, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I doubt there's some like crazy storyline here that's going
Speaker 1: to completely throw me off. But I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to hear what people thought of it, because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to come to my own conclusion and
Speaker 1: not feel as if I was. Let me, let me
Speaker 1: give an example as to what I would have expected.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I've now realized there's no way
Speaker 1: to avoid people talking about it, because anytime I pop
Speaker 1: up in any social media platform, whether it be Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 1: TikTok x, slash, Twitter, like, one of the first things
Speaker 1: that I see is somebody talking about this movie and
Speaker 1: sharing thoughts, and I quickly try to scroll past it
Speaker 1: because I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3: But it's unavoidable.
Speaker 1: But what I didn't want to see is people crushing it,
Speaker 1: because then I would probably watch it and like it
Speaker 1: and be like, it's just my nature to defend it
Speaker 1: because I don't wanted people to say it's bad.
Speaker 3: So from what I've gathered, you're you.
Speaker 1: I've seen two pretty consistent reactions across the board. Some
Speaker 1: have just said it's it's very awful, it's a disgrace,
Speaker 1: should have never been done. They're so disappointed. And then
Speaker 1: I've seen others that say it wasn't great, but it
Speaker 1: was perfect for what that would have to be. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make a better version of the movie.
Speaker 1: You know that it's not necessary. It's just a nice
Speaker 1: you know, just a nice way to bring it back
Speaker 1: into modern the modern world. But I haven't seen anybody say,
Speaker 1: oh wow, this was great man, what a phenomenal movie,
Speaker 1: which maybe I'll be the first to watch it and
Speaker 1: say that, because that's what I want to believe. But
Speaker 1: to be fair, like, there aren't many movies where a
Speaker 1: sequel is viewed as not only as good, but it's
Speaker 1: super rare to see one that's viewed as being better
Speaker 1: than the original. It happens like, I know some people
Speaker 1: say that Top Gun, the remake of that is actually
Speaker 1: better than the original, But I can't think of many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can't think of many.
Speaker 1: I can't think of many comedies where they did a
Speaker 1: sequel and you felt like, oh wow, that was better
Speaker 1: than the first one. I mean, it's happened. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that next because again, sometimes the sequel and if
Speaker 1: they go even further than that, it's clearly because they
Speaker 1: know there's a market for it. It's a money it's
Speaker 1: a money thing, right. But you could have not with
Speaker 1: a lot of these over the years, and it would
Speaker 1: have been fine. We'll get to that and a lot more.
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Speaker 1: Whas So when it comes to the big, the major
Speaker 1: deal between the United States and the European Union, for
Speaker 1: those that are wondering, okay, well, how will this impact
Speaker 1: my wallet?
Speaker 3: How will this?
Speaker 1: How will this impact me? And when you consider the
Speaker 1: energy sector boom, the EU's buying of seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars worth of US energy. So if you
Speaker 1: work in oil, gas or energy infrastructure, I mean you
Speaker 1: can certainly expect a ripple effect of opportunity. And also
Speaker 1: when you consider the exports coming from America US companies,
Speaker 1: they're gonna flood the European market. We're talking goods, energy services.
Speaker 1: So there could be more demand, more production, and more
Speaker 1: jobs here at home in the United States. If you're
Speaker 1: in if you're in those kind of injuries or if
Speaker 1: you're in those kind of industries, I should say, all right,
Speaker 1: So back to the Happy Gilmore situation. I again, there's
Speaker 1: no scenario that our technology is not listening to us,
Speaker 1: right because I talk Happy Gilmore for that segment the
Speaker 1: beginning of the seven o'clock hour, and sure enough, it's
Speaker 1: it's now all that's popping up on anything I go to.
Speaker 1: It was already doing that anyway, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that that's timing. But when it comes to the reviews,
Speaker 1: this one, this isn't this is from Rotten Tomatoes, I
Speaker 1: think this is this. This puts me in a good place.
Speaker 1: It's getting so so reviews, but fans don't seem to care,
Speaker 1: meaning fans who just love Happy Gilmore. That makes me
Speaker 1: feel good as to it, because if I love it
Speaker 1: like I think I do, it could be subpar. And
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna say, well, I enjoyed that. I appreciated
Speaker 1: that that opportunity to really get nostalgic was there for me.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, I'm gonna watch it at some point. But
Speaker 1: my wife asked me last night because we got the
Speaker 1: kids to bed a little earlier than we usually do, and.
Speaker 3: I was too scared.
Speaker 1: John, I was like, no, I can't do it time.
Speaker 3: It's just all because of the Sunday scaries too.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh absolutely, yeah, you know me too. Well, that
Speaker 1: was a big factor. Had it not been Sunday, I
Speaker 1: might have been able to do it, but like, yes,
Speaker 1: the Sunday scaries were creeping in to where I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, yeah, not tonight. I wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy it if it was good, because I'm
Speaker 1: you know, that Sunday. And by the way, I will
Speaker 1: say this, the Sunday scaries kind of went away from
Speaker 1: me whenever I was starting my on air shift at
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the afternoon. But now that I'll wake
Speaker 1: up at three o'clock in the morning to get my
Speaker 1: day started, Sunday is just turned into.
Speaker 3: It's almost not even the weekend anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're right, because there's there's so much and
Speaker 1: it's more of a mental thing than anything. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just knowing when I when I get out of here
Speaker 1: on Fridays and I've got all day Saturday, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking about what I got to do the next day. Well,
Speaker 1: now I've got to be super mindful all day Sunday.
Speaker 1: Not only do I have to get up early and
Speaker 1: start the week, but I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be recovering from the weekend. And I don't mean because
Speaker 1: I'm outraging partying like some you know, wild man, It's
Speaker 1: just I don't get up at three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning on the weekends. Therefore, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: quick return to routine that mondays, you know, like anybody,
Speaker 1: regardless of what your routine is, a lot of people probably,
Speaker 1: you know, the Monday morning wake up maybe.
Speaker 3: The toughest wake up of the of the week for folks.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not alone there, but I'll eventually watch
Speaker 1: it and I'm sure I'll be fine, But yeah, last
Speaker 1: night I was too scared. All right, we got another
Speaker 1: traffic and weather update coming your way. Bobby Ellis will
Speaker 1: tell us how the roadways are looking here on a
Speaker 1: Monday morning. Also, we'll get an update to look at
Speaker 1: the forecast from at melosavit a w ok why And
Speaker 1: then it's got to be back with another sports update.
Speaker 3: So we've got you covered.
Speaker 1: And how could I forget to mention we're nine minutes
Speaker 1: away from another news update with John Shannon, So stick
Speaker 1: around right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Ana's morning
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Speaker 1: Also listen live at wh as dot com. So John
Speaker 1: Alden is back with us, by the way, which I know,
Speaker 1: that's why you're here. He's the company man.
Speaker 3: He's back.
Speaker 1: We missed him and we're excited he's here. And this
Speaker 1: this is not something you can blame John for. But
Speaker 1: you're you're you're in the minority seemingly as far as
Speaker 1: having children.
Speaker 3: You are you're a new father.
Speaker 1: You've got a newborn baby. Which when is the newborn
Speaker 1: stage over? Because i've heard eight weeks. Okay, so she's passed,
Speaker 1: she's past that. But what is this? This is this
Speaker 1: just baby stage?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 3: It's certainly not toddler and I think baby goes up
Speaker 3: until they're a year old or something like that. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: So you are, you're a new parent and people this
Speaker 1: day in or just not having kids the way that
Speaker 1: they used to. And there is a lot of factors
Speaker 1: that go into that, probably more than we even realize.
Speaker 1: But the US fertility rate falls to an all time
Speaker 1: low in twenty twenty four, So that number, again, i'd
Speaker 1: be curious if you just were to do a rapid
Speaker 1: fire man on the street kind of thing. You just
Speaker 1: walk up to somebody, Hey, the US fertility rate has
Speaker 1: fallen to an all time low.
Speaker 3: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 1: I wanted the first thing that would come to mind
Speaker 1: For a lot of people, I guess it probably depends
Speaker 1: on your situation, maybe your beliefs. Some would blame the economy,
Speaker 1: some would blame I mean again, I'm sure everybody has
Speaker 1: their own opinion. But we've seen a real drop in
Speaker 1: this over I guess, like really two decades down, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean nearly two decades. This has been a trend
Speaker 1: as declining birth rates. It's been all age groups, by
Speaker 1: the way, twenty twenty four, the fertility rate is now
Speaker 1: at one point five nine nine children per women, which
Speaker 1: is well below the replacement rate of two point one
Speaker 1: So US fertility peaked in two thousand and seven, then
Speaker 1: steadily declined. There was a brief uptick in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: but it didn't reverse the trend of So again, I
Speaker 1: just again, are there are countless factors as to why
Speaker 1: there aren't as many kids being born today as there
Speaker 1: was ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: But just take out, like I just think society take away.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think now I got I got
Speaker 1: married at a young age. I feel like even for
Speaker 1: that time I got married in twenty and eleven, and
Speaker 1: that time I was just I was just about twenty
Speaker 1: two up, I think was how old I was at
Speaker 1: that time. I think that's I think that's right something
Speaker 1: around that age. And I felt like even then that
Speaker 1: was young to get me. But now I feel like
Speaker 1: that would be really rare to see two people twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty three getting married like my wife and I.
Speaker 3: You got married at twenty two back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: You're an old soul and you had your first child
Speaker 1: at what twenty seven?
Speaker 3: Twenty seven? So did I? I was twenty seven s
Speaker 3: yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: So so you know, for me, I just it's not
Speaker 1: even about any specific factor that I just think you
Speaker 1: can just say, well this is why cost or you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to think of if I wouldn't
Speaker 1: ask somebody that I know, like, hey, why haven't you
Speaker 1: had kids yet?
Speaker 3: Like I know people that have tried to have children.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately they've just found out along the way that it's
Speaker 1: not going to be as easy for them, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things they have options to do, but
Speaker 1: in some of those things are just not doable depending
Speaker 1: upon cost and just maybe what would come with it,
Speaker 1: because you know, you can try a lot of options
Speaker 1: as far as using medical science to help you have
Speaker 1: a kid, but some of those things don't really guarantee
Speaker 1: that it actually is ever going to work, and that
Speaker 1: could be something that you just you sign up for
Speaker 1: potentially being heartbroken and devastated to go through that process.
Speaker 1: So I just I think a lot of people fresh
Speaker 1: out of college or just in that age range, I
Speaker 1: don't want to act like they're all like childish and
Speaker 1: immature and they're not ready to grow up yet. They
Speaker 1: just don't seem to be any real hurry to kind
Speaker 1: of just open that door of okay, well here we go, now,
Speaker 1: get married, probably start a family soon, and just kind
Speaker 1: of start that phase of my life.
Speaker 3: And good.
Speaker 1: More people do whatever the hell they want. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't impact me by any means. But when I
Speaker 1: hear that money is a factor and just how expensive
Speaker 1: everything is right now in the economy and where it is,
Speaker 1: and man, I can tell you certainly that childcare is
Speaker 1: very expensive. Maybe this is just me and my own world.
Speaker 1: But I personally, when we had both our kids, we
Speaker 1: were trying and I've got a lot of friends. In fact,
Speaker 1: our social get together is with our friends is really
Speaker 1: just all of our kids getting together. I mean, and
Speaker 1: I'm very lucky that the vast majority of the friends
Speaker 1: that I grew up with, people that I've known for
Speaker 1: over thirty years, still close with a lot of them,
Speaker 1: and our friends O our kids are around the same
Speaker 1: age and their friends. But I don't ever remember any
Speaker 1: of us ever thinking we were gonna have another kid,
Speaker 1: but we decided to wait because of how expensive things are.
Speaker 1: And that's not to act like it's not a real issue.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: But I think when you decide to be a parent
Speaker 1: for the first time or the second or third time,
Speaker 1: I just you need to be responsible and know if
Speaker 1: you can afford to take care of a human being
Speaker 1: or not. I don't act likely it doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 1: But that's never been like if we're deciding, hey, should
Speaker 1: we have another should we try now?
Speaker 3: I just I just have never thought, Okay, well, what's
Speaker 3: the price going to be? How much is it going
Speaker 3: to cost me to be a dad?
Speaker 1: And I hate that I'm sounding like I'm mocking it,
Speaker 1: because I guess technically I am, and people should be
Speaker 1: more responsible. I'm sure there's many people that should not
Speaker 1: have brought children into the world, and they did. In fact,
Speaker 1: I know that to be the case, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just the monetary aspect of it is just something and
Speaker 1: I've never once thought about, because you know, maybe this
Speaker 1: just speaks to me not realizing how fortunate I am.
Speaker 1: But there's no cost, Like whatever I got to do
Speaker 1: for my kid, I got to do for my kid.
Speaker 1: If it puts me in a million dollars a debt
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, that's just life, and that
Speaker 1: would be that would not be something that I would
Speaker 1: that I would want to do by any means, But
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be a decision. It would just be done,
Speaker 1: because that's that's being a parent. But anyways, nobody's having
Speaker 1: nobody's having kids anymore. People still having sex though, that's
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Sex not down, but children not happening
Speaker 1: as much. All right, let's get to an update of
Speaker 1: the traffic in the weather. We'll keep this thing rolling along.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and this Morning News Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 3: So we've talked.
Speaker 1: About the Happy Gilmore sequel that was released on to
Speaker 1: Netflix on Friday.
Speaker 3: I've yet to watch it.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to movies that decided to run
Speaker 1: it back for a sequel or do some version of
Speaker 1: just a remake, there have been many that were not necessary,
Speaker 1: and there have been some that were viewed as I
Speaker 1: guess the success and success can be determined differently.
Speaker 3: If if you hated it.
Speaker 1: But yet those who put it together made billions at
Speaker 1: the box office, then that's the success to them. But
Speaker 1: when I think of movie like Bad Boys Too with
Speaker 1: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The original came out in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, Bad Boys two came out and maybe
Speaker 1: ten years later, and I remember thinking, Okay, this one
Speaker 1: was like you could have not given me the first one,
Speaker 1: And if this was just the only one it was
Speaker 1: a standalone, I would have said it was great, and
Speaker 1: not that the first one was bad. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to sci fi and action, I think you've got
Speaker 1: many that are competing with the original, or some would
Speaker 1: say maybe even better, like The Dark Knight, that of
Speaker 1: course was a big hit, that was a sequel to
Speaker 1: Batman begins. Terminator two. That's a little before my time,
Speaker 1: but that was viewed to be the one that really
Speaker 1: elevated the brand Terminator. But when it comes to comedy,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's harder to do. But
Speaker 1: here are some examples of remakes and comedy that did
Speaker 1: not do well. The Hangover Part two and Part three.
Speaker 1: They kind of tried the same thing and it was
Speaker 1: popular to an extent, but nowhere near the original. And
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think the second and the
Speaker 1: third are worth watching. They're fine, but I will say
Speaker 1: just my opinion only it does keep me from realizing
Speaker 1: how good the first one was. The first one didn't
Speaker 1: get worse because they made the second and the third.
Speaker 1: But sometimes less is more, and I think that's it.
Speaker 1: Really That to me is a good example of that.
Speaker 1: And then this one, I got to be honest, I
Speaker 1: didn't finish it because just because it didn't hook me.
Speaker 1: It was an interesting it just didn't do it for me.
Speaker 1: It was Anchorman two. Anchorman the original a classic and
Speaker 1: really stupid but really stupid kid be funny, but that
Speaker 1: one just didn't do it for me. Like for example,
Speaker 1: Step Brothers. Really stupid movie, but really funny. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: where it just gets out. Maybe that's hard to create
Speaker 1: in general. Therefore, recreating it and expecting it to stick
Speaker 1: is one that you know, it just makes it difficult.
Speaker 1: Like Zoolander two, Dumb and Dumber two coming to America.
Speaker 1: Those are those were nostalgic ones, but they just they
Speaker 1: couldn't come close to competing. And I guess that's probably
Speaker 1: what's going to be said about Happy Gilmore when it's
Speaker 1: all said and done. Not one that was needed, but
Speaker 1: a nice nice shot of nostalgia for those that are
Speaker 1: really appreciated, because of course that was a really popular
Speaker 1: movie for a lot of people. All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1: We'll get another update of Travick and Weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: Another sports update on the way as well, as we
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