Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is six oh five here Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty WHA. We'll have another update of traffic and
Speaker 1: weather coming your way in about four minutes time. So
Speaker 1: are we going to war? That's a question I'm sure
Speaker 1: many are asking. I guess maybe more so, are we
Speaker 1: getting involved in a war that is currently ongoing? And
Speaker 1: that's an answer I don't have, and I'm sure most
Speaker 1: of you, in fact, I would imagine all of you
Speaker 1: don't have because we don't have any real say so
Speaker 1: in that. But that is certainly something that a lot
Speaker 1: of us are going to continue to monitor because it's
Speaker 1: a scary, scary situation and also two separate things, really,
Speaker 1: but the current situation going on with Israel and Iran,
Speaker 1: that is something that has been on the radar as
Speaker 1: far as what we're monitoring, and I don't mean we
Speaker 1: meeting us on the show, I mean America, but also
Speaker 1: the ice raids as far as the real enforcement of
Speaker 1: getting illegal immigrants out of the country. That has led
Speaker 1: to protests going on, and obviously we had our own
Speaker 1: protests here in Louisville in the last week or so.
Speaker 1: But what I think is just a bad look. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not here to share political opinions in a strong way.
Speaker 1: I really don't have many of them, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, and if I did, that wouldn't be what
Speaker 1: they want me to do here. But I just think
Speaker 1: when you are in a position of leadership and there
Speaker 1: is a quick reversal and it's a pretty big decision,
Speaker 1: I just think it's a poor look on leadership because
Speaker 1: as a leader, I think you need to be consistent
Speaker 1: and you need to stand by sort of what you're enforcing.
Speaker 1: And to have the change on Friday, I believe it
Speaker 1: was to where there were there were they were no
Speaker 1: longer going to be targeting. When I say they, I
Speaker 1: mean ice. They were no longer going to be going
Speaker 1: after those that are in workplaces like farms, hotels, restaurants.
Speaker 1: That that made sense, But again I think that was
Speaker 1: also somewhat of a bad look because I don't think
Speaker 1: we needed to see all these raids taking place to
Speaker 1: then have the realization, oh, yeah, we in America, we
Speaker 1: depend heavily upon migrant workers, and if we just get
Speaker 1: rid of everybody, no questions asked, that is here illegally,
Speaker 1: that's going to impact the economy, and then now within
Speaker 1: three four days whatever it was, there's been a quick reversal.
Speaker 1: So they are now going to start targeting illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: at those types of workplaces. So just the inconsistency here
Speaker 1: without really anything seemingly changing it just don't think it's
Speaker 1: a great look. But I can't necessarily say that I'm
Speaker 1: that I'm totally surprised, So uh yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: is if you are someone that has someone in your life,
Speaker 1: maybe it's somebody that works for you, maybe it's somebody
Speaker 1: that you just know for whatever reason, and you know
Speaker 1: that they are here illegally, and you you know that
Speaker 1: they're they're productive members of society as best they can, right.
Speaker 1: I guess there's a level as far as what you can.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not here legally, there are certain
Speaker 1: things you can't do as far as being you know,
Speaker 1: as far as being an American, right, you know, taxes,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So anyhow, I get it, like
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to in fact, it would be
Speaker 1: impossible to just think of all the endless different scenarios
Speaker 1: where you could be somebody here in America born and
Speaker 1: raised and you have someone in your life that is
Speaker 1: that is not here legally, and it'd be a scary,
Speaker 1: scary time right now, just knowing that at any moment
Speaker 1: there could be a raid that takes place, and then
Speaker 1: who knows what happens from there.
Speaker 2: I think in Cincinnati there was the young man who
Speaker 2: was deported. He was I want to say, he was
Speaker 2: eighteen or nineteen, and it was it made the headlines
Speaker 2: in the Cincy Enquirer and Ice rounded up and they
Speaker 2: said he wasn't going to get deported. He wasn't going
Speaker 2: to be but he ended up getting deported. And then
Speaker 2: now you're dividing families up in this respect. Now, I
Speaker 2: also understand the argument from folks there. We have the
Speaker 2: immigration office right here, across the hall from it, or across.
Speaker 1: The street, live just feed away from us, right and
Speaker 1: it used.
Speaker 2: To be their ceremonies were down here every other Friday
Speaker 2: or so every Friday they were down here, and there
Speaker 2: were people that were entering this country legally. I totally
Speaker 2: respect that argument. I see that one hundred percent. I
Speaker 2: also see the families that are here. And as we
Speaker 2: mentioned before, Dale Romans when he held court over on
Speaker 2: the backside of Churchill Downs that week saying these are
Speaker 2: the people we need here and they're good people and.
Speaker 3: Then do good things.
Speaker 2: And it is a very very interesting debate. To your point,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's a gray area there that we
Speaker 2: need to work out as society and figure out. Maybe
Speaker 2: we need to look at sort of the requirements on
Speaker 2: why people are staying here and better to find them.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer, but it's clear that we're
Speaker 2: at least I like to say that emotion creates motion,
Speaker 2: and I think that's where we're heading out least, we're
Speaker 2: having the conversation.
Speaker 1: And I don't have a clue as far as what
Speaker 1: to expect at Churchill Downs. I mean, you mentioned what
Speaker 1: Dale Romans had said, but they did there was an
Speaker 1: ice rate at the Louisiana Track that just happened recently.
Speaker 1: That is just you know, that story being out there
Speaker 1: has to put potentially some people who may be here
Speaker 1: illegally that are a part of the Churchill Downs sit
Speaker 1: that work there. I mean, that's a scary situation and
Speaker 1: it's people that are right here in Louisville, no doubt. So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as the Iran Israel situation, when it comes
Speaker 1: to President Trump, no surprise here, But when meeting with
Speaker 1: his top advisors in the White House yesterday, he did
Speaker 1: say that the next twenty four to forty eight hours
Speaker 1: are going to be critical. So again, it's a situation
Speaker 1: we'll continue to monitor and we'll keep you updated as
Speaker 1: best we can. Here at news Radio eight forty whas,
Speaker 1: we've got traffic in weather coming your way, so stick around. Also,
Speaker 1: something happened to me yesterday that made me feel very old.
Speaker 1: I'll share that with you guys next right here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas all right, six sixteen here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky and his morning news with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas. Hump Day is upon us.
Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, everybody. I got a question for my team here,
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald and of course the one and only John Alden.
Speaker 1: And I know the answer because I'm looking across at
Speaker 1: Scott and I can see that he is wearing He
Speaker 1: is wearing glasses. John, do you have contact lenses? No, sir,
Speaker 1: you got good vision. I do have good vision. I
Speaker 1: found out yesterday. I have to get glasses. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't have to get that moment, let me back up
Speaker 1: side here. I don't have to get glasses, but it
Speaker 1: was encouraged that I that I get glasses for driving
Speaker 1: at night potentially, and after I saw what it would
Speaker 1: look like as far as my vision, if I did
Speaker 1: have glasses, it improved it enough to where I can
Speaker 1: I don't think that the doc is lying to me.
Speaker 2: So you you glossed over the cheater phase, you're going
Speaker 2: straight to glasses.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't plan on wearing them in public, not
Speaker 1: because I'm embarrassed, although I did feel like I look
Speaker 1: very old in appairing glasses. But uh, I think if
Speaker 1: I'm working at home on the computer or even here,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I could have maybe not a
Speaker 1: substantial improvement of vision, but a bet like things will
Speaker 1: pop a little bit better. And I've never at any
Speaker 1: point had I mean, I've never felt like I mean,
Speaker 1: I hadn't. The reason I wouldn't got my eyes checked
Speaker 1: is because my wife, she she made the appointment for
Speaker 1: the whole family because my son starts kindergarten, so he
Speaker 1: has to get a vision check. Same thing with my
Speaker 1: daughter who will be back in school next year. So
Speaker 1: I think my wife's she has terrible visions, so she
Speaker 1: just needed to get an update and get some more
Speaker 1: contact lenses. The only reason I would have ever had
Speaker 1: mine checked is because now I have a real ID
Speaker 1: and to get it renewed. There don't I don't have
Speaker 1: any vision check on file. So I went thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal and they're not forcing me to
Speaker 1: get glasses. But the whole process here and I was
Speaker 1: new to it. I've never done this before. I can't
Speaker 1: I've never needed to get my eyes checked as far
Speaker 1: as thinking, oh wow, I'm not seeing well anymore. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how long it had been, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they were showing me, you know, they were putting whatever
Speaker 1: it is they put in front of me and showing
Speaker 1: I guess what my you know, what my vision would
Speaker 1: be if I did have glasses, and clearly it could
Speaker 1: be better. So it doesn't make me feel like old
Speaker 1: old It's just, you know.
Speaker 3: I remember that moment. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I remember the moment where I, like most people fight
Speaker 2: turning on the air in the summer of the heat
Speaker 2: and the winter.
Speaker 3: I fought and fought and fought.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'll struggle through this. Stuff was getting harder
Speaker 2: to say, do glasses run in your family?
Speaker 1: So my yeah, Well, my my dad has readers, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I and my mother she has U
Speaker 1: and I hope she's not listening. She has very bad vision. Ye,
Speaker 1: so she's always my whole life, she's had contacts and glasses.
Speaker 1: My sister h no, no glasses, no contacts. So uh,
Speaker 1: I guess I got it, honest, I don't know. Like
Speaker 1: my dad, he wears them, probably more so than than
Speaker 1: I will now, but I would imagine I probably fell
Speaker 1: fell in line with him as far as just getting
Speaker 1: to a certain point where you know you can You
Speaker 1: can still get by without them, clearly, but you could
Speaker 1: also benefit from having them, and especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to driving, driving at night.
Speaker 2: Huge, And then what happens is, like I'm sure you
Speaker 2: did probably started out the same way.
Speaker 3: That's what I did. Like I'll just get a pair
Speaker 3: of cheaters.
Speaker 2: And I start on the low end, and then what
Speaker 2: happens is I wear them every now and then, and
Speaker 2: because you see so well with the mind, you keep
Speaker 2: wearing them. And then eventually I just now these that
Speaker 2: I'm wearing Now, I just now got real glasses. I
Speaker 2: mean I thought and fought it, and I was wearing
Speaker 2: cheaters all the time and just some of great Probably
Speaker 2: when you.
Speaker 1: Say cheaters, what do you mean the readers? Oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: got you, And so that makes sense. I just never
Speaker 1: heard of heard as it does great.
Speaker 2: You fight it, fight it and fight it, but it
Speaker 2: does greatly improve your quality of life. And if you're
Speaker 2: worried about feeling old, I mean, look at me. There's
Speaker 2: young people that wear glasses every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look there's I mean, needing glasses doesn't make
Speaker 1: you feel old, but I feel like I looked old.
Speaker 1: And what really got me is and this is probably
Speaker 1: something neither of you have ever noticed, but you've never
Speaker 1: seen me wear a hat, right, you never see me
Speaker 1: wear sunglasses. I don't know why. There's no real reason.
Speaker 1: I've just never been someone that has ever wanted to
Speaker 1: put on, you know, accessories, a hat to keep you know,
Speaker 1: my head, shaded sunglasses like I raw dog the sun.
Speaker 1: And it's a really stupid thing to do. But I've
Speaker 1: just never wore I've never wore sunglasses before. So when
Speaker 1: I put the glasses on yesterday to pick out which
Speaker 1: ones I'm gonna get, my kids saw me with glasses
Speaker 1: for the first time, and they did not hold back
Speaker 1: and letting me know that I looked very old, and
Speaker 1: you remember those kind of things. Ye, John, when you
Speaker 1: get your real ID, you're gonna need a You're gonna
Speaker 1: need a vision check. And I want to hear the
Speaker 1: results because you're you're the young stallion of the squad here,
Speaker 1: and I bet you've still got really good vision. You've
Speaker 1: never needed any glasses ever. Never look at that. Oh
Speaker 1: we'll see he's built different. John Allen, all right, We've
Speaker 1: got an update of travicking weather coming your way and
Speaker 1: another update on sports right here at news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas.
Speaker 2: Just watch this the other night. I will always think
Speaker 2: of a dugout.
Speaker 1: Now when you say watch this, I have no clue
Speaker 1: what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: It's fast time as at Ridgemine High.
Speaker 1: Good to know.
Speaker 2: I always see a dugout in southern California and it
Speaker 2: those who've seen the movie no, it's song this goes
Speaker 2: with it was awesome. I forgot Cameron Crowe directed that.
Speaker 2: By the way, I think it was camera grow.
Speaker 1: Make sure right over my head.
Speaker 3: I know you are right over my head.
Speaker 2: I know you when you think back to some of
Speaker 2: the big movies that you grew up with it you'll
Speaker 2: never ever forget that we're a big like. For me,
Speaker 2: it was all John Hughes and it was just it
Speaker 2: was pretty in pink Breakfast Club. I mean, what kind
Speaker 2: of movie stands out to you?
Speaker 1: You are? You are bringing me somewhere that I've I've
Speaker 1: been told not to go.
Speaker 3: Oh is that right?
Speaker 1: Beating? Well not yes? Actually, I just let's just talk
Speaker 1: about it, shall we. So I have been given advice
Speaker 1: that I think is good advice. I wouldn't have thought
Speaker 1: of it. But I've been given advice not to say
Speaker 1: my age anymore on this show. Oh okay, do you
Speaker 1: know why? Why? Just because I'm a lot younger than
Speaker 1: the demo that we reach.
Speaker 3: You're fine, dude, Well.
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're look I'm not ashamed of I'm
Speaker 1: not ashamed of my age. I'd much rather be my age.
Speaker 1: I'll be there someday, but I'm enjoying my age where
Speaker 1: I'm at now and when you get older. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: so anyhow, I when I this is going to probably
Speaker 1: like if people don't care about my age, then great.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I mean, I can't control it,
Speaker 1: but I'm well aware that the majority. I shouldn't say
Speaker 1: majority because you really never know. I don't believe in
Speaker 1: some of these metrics numbers that they give us because
Speaker 1: to me, it's an educated guess. There's really no way
Speaker 1: to truly know the specifics. But I would say that
Speaker 1: this answer I'm about to give you might make people
Speaker 1: really think just it happened whenever John and I work together,
Speaker 1: because were certainly shouldn't mention his age if there's hessitency
Speaker 1: to mention mine because I am, I'm roughly ten years
Speaker 1: older than you John, is that right? Nine? So he
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll take every can get. But he sounds
Speaker 1: as old, if not older than me, and he's clearly
Speaker 1: make sure beyond his years. I'm not sure if I am.
Speaker 1: But anyhow, this to me when I think of movies
Speaker 1: that like I watched all the time as a kid,
Speaker 1: Like I grew up when Adam Sandler moved on from
Speaker 1: SNL because he was getting all the big movies like
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, I would say the three movies
Speaker 1: I watched as a kid more than even to this day,
Speaker 1: I've still probably watched. I haven't watched these recently, but
Speaker 1: I watched these countless times. The kid we've got actually
Speaker 1: teen Wolf you know that movie Michael J.
Speaker 3: Fox.
Speaker 1: That was actually before I was even a lot, but
Speaker 1: that was that was just a VHS that we had,
Speaker 1: and I loved basketball, and I just thought that was
Speaker 1: really cool. I wanted to be a were wolf and
Speaker 1: play basketball too, right, that sounds awesome. So I watched
Speaker 1: Teenwolf a lot, and then it's Happy Gilmore Tommy Boy.
Speaker 3: And that's not making you young, dude, I watched those movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean I was, you know, I was
Speaker 1: a kid, like I was, you know, young young. So
Speaker 1: so again I I there's I grew up. I grew
Speaker 1: up in the nineties but born in the eighties, so
Speaker 1: like nostalgia for me is nineties and I'm an I'm
Speaker 1: an Adam Sandler fan. He's certainly made some bad movies too,
Speaker 1: especially in More in his later years, but like when
Speaker 1: he became a movie star, not just known for being
Speaker 1: on SNL, like that was sort of like whenever, like
Speaker 1: anything he put in theaters, we were going to see,
Speaker 1: uh and whatnot. So yeah, and honestly, I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of sports movies like Mighty Ducks. That movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was how you of course you know what you
Speaker 1: love hockey, have you.
Speaker 3: Seen well like Coach Carter's one of the sports movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was when I was in high school.
Speaker 3: That's a good one saying so you dude, you and
Speaker 3: John Bolt there are.
Speaker 1: So you're You're You're Fast times Ridgemont High Air era. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm more nineties John. I know you don't watch a
Speaker 1: ton of movies. You say, this is the best question
Speaker 1: you use. You use your time more wisely than most
Speaker 1: of us, Right, you don't waste a lot of time
Speaker 1: watching TV and movies. I think you're missing out, but hey,
Speaker 1: you're You're probably more productive and you've been that way
Speaker 1: your whole life and you're content, So you know, I
Speaker 1: get it, not passing any judgment, but what when you
Speaker 1: think of watching a movie as a kid, is there
Speaker 1: one that pops up? If not? Like again, I get
Speaker 1: it because I've I've had this conversation with John before
Speaker 1: about how you know he's just you know, he's I
Speaker 1: feel like he's somebody that doesn't watch TV.
Speaker 3: About it.
Speaker 1: I would come up with something, but I hate that.
Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer for you.
Speaker 3: I really don't.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, and and for those thinking like, oh
Speaker 1: he's he's spinning his wheels because he's been put on
Speaker 1: the spot. No, my man just doesn't watch TV and movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say, my wife and I do watch
Speaker 4: a lot of TV together, but growing up I just
Speaker 4: didn't watch a lot of TV.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. If she wasn't encouraging you
Speaker 1: in mentioning shows that she wants to watch that you
Speaker 1: watch with her and then enjoy, would you be watching
Speaker 1: as much as you do urt No, none at all.
Speaker 1: You're an old soul, my man. You can go without
Speaker 1: television and movie. I feel like you can go without
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 4: And I wish if it were not for the career
Speaker 4: field that I chose, I would have deleted my social media.
Speaker 1: And what's wild is that we are in a I
Speaker 1: mean that is rare for most people, regardless of age.
Speaker 1: I would say, but you are. I think most your age,
Speaker 1: they their whole life is just being on a device, yeah,
Speaker 1: and looking at screens. And you, again, you're an old soul.
Speaker 1: I say that as a compliment. Never never changed, my friend.
Speaker 3: I don't want to change.
Speaker 1: Don't do it? Would you dare? Or you'll have to
Speaker 1: deal with the old guys like me and Scott? All right,
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Speaker 1: six forty seven here at Konseuckuta's Morning News with Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas. Some really really
Speaker 1: good energy right now within the Louisville Athletic Department, and
Speaker 1: it's it's evident with what we're seeing in Omaha as
Speaker 1: Dan McDonnell and his team have have advanced to essentially
Speaker 1: the final four of the College World Series. They're gonna
Speaker 1: play later today against Coastal Carolina the Shanta Clears Who.
Speaker 1: That's not a big name brand program in really any
Speaker 1: other sport. I think they've made some waves in football,
Speaker 1: but in baseball they actually have a national championship they
Speaker 1: won within the last decade, I think it was roughly
Speaker 1: around that time, and they're very, very good. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough, tough game today. But this team
Speaker 1: Dan McDonald has this year, they have shown they've got
Speaker 1: some real resilience. But I'm really having to manufacture it
Speaker 1: a little bit more on my end because I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily find Coastal Carolina as a is a team that's
Speaker 1: easy to dislike, but they're the enemy today because again,
Speaker 1: I want to see Louisville win, but they feel I
Speaker 1: guess the level of disrespect. The Associate Athletic Director tweeted
Speaker 1: this out yesterday, Patrick Osborne's the He's the Coastal Carolina
Speaker 1: Associate AD. He says, so far this week, we've had
Speaker 1: official merchandise being sold with Chanta Clear's misspelled, their color misidentified,
Speaker 1: and then he put in parentheses it's not green. And
Speaker 1: countless moments of shants Chanta Clear's being mispronounced, and their
Speaker 1: coach will let you hear a little bit of what
Speaker 1: he had to say about it, because he's he's he's
Speaker 1: not happy. I'm not sure if he's playing the disrespect
Speaker 1: card to try to motivate his guys. Look, we're always
Speaker 1: trying to find an edge when it comes to competition,
Speaker 1: but I feel like he's doing a little too much here.
Speaker 1: Everybody say it with me, Shant Clears shot to Clears,
Speaker 1: not Shant to Clear, Shanta Clears. So that was the
Speaker 1: beginning of their their hype video as their their entering
Speaker 1: the stadium out at Omaha. So, uh, again, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough game, and I think there's a level
Speaker 1: of let me balance this because I don't want to
Speaker 1: act as if Dan McDonald just took a bunch of
Speaker 1: players off the street and made this run. But I
Speaker 1: think where they were at the end of the regular
Speaker 1: season seemingly all momentum drained from a season that was
Speaker 1: a good bounce back, but also there was a roller
Speaker 1: coaster type of season where you had some good moments,
Speaker 1: then you had some moments that really didn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: like the loss to Bellerman, and then some series they lost,
Speaker 1: so they kind of they were defeated, but yet they
Speaker 1: got to the postseason, really the NAA Tournament. They lost
Speaker 1: in the first round of the ACEC Tournament. But once
Speaker 1: they got in postseason play, that Friday night victory over Vandy,
Speaker 1: the number one overall seed, they they I think they've
Speaker 1: since been playing, Hey, we're not supposed to be here,
Speaker 1: let's just play loose, let's just have fun. And you
Speaker 1: have seen it. Man, College baseball in the postseason is entertaining.
Speaker 1: It's a really good product. I believe. I know others
Speaker 1: clearly believe it because the numbers are pretty strong for
Speaker 1: college baseball in this moment at this time. But how
Speaker 1: about Louisville just finding ways to give you a heart attack.
Speaker 1: Cardiac cards is a real thing, because every one of
Speaker 1: these games in Omaha have been really i mean electrifying
Speaker 1: towards the end. So we'll see what happens later.
Speaker 2: Now today, right now, the Chanta clears plus two twenty
Speaker 2: in Vegas now to win it. Louisville comes in at
Speaker 2: plus eighteen hundred lsus your plus one oh five favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt. Louisville is the team that has
Speaker 1: a lot of appearance is in the CWS during Daan
Speaker 1: McDonald's tenure. But this team specifically, they are they're the underdogs, yeah,
Speaker 1: in a major way. All right, let's get an update
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Speaker 1: and weather, and then we'll get an update on sports,
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