Speaker 1: It is six so five here Kentucky and it's morning
Speaker 1: news on news radio eight forty w h as Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company. That's uh snit coffee, that's me the company
Speaker 1: mana John ald and alongside. And I know that there
Speaker 1: are now at least two different school districts that are
Speaker 1: that are back in school on the southern Indiana side,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we have any that have gone
Speaker 1: back just yet here in in In on the Kentucky
Speaker 1: side as far as just the region here, but I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, and that of course has been a
Speaker 1: local story here. In fact, as I look in front
Speaker 1: of me on the TV wk why their newscast, they're
Speaker 1: mentioning that it is the first day back for Greater
Speaker 1: Clark County schools. And again I still get that, uh
Speaker 1: that that just that anxiousness about all the dread, that
Speaker 1: that really would start to grow as you get closer
Speaker 1: to going back to school when you're a kid. For
Speaker 1: some reason, it still sticks with me today despite kids
Speaker 1: being in school now that I'm a parent. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: the fact that both my kids are going to be
Speaker 1: in school in the same school, at the same place
Speaker 1: every day on the same schedule. That that's actually a
Speaker 1: benefit and I don't have to pay for dake anymore.
Speaker 1: But anyways, when it comes to the first day of school,
Speaker 1: I was thinking back on the first day in the
Speaker 1: many years I was in I mean, I was in
Speaker 1: school as much as anybody would be in school. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of first days of school, and there
Speaker 1: are some that are memorable to me and some that
Speaker 1: I don't really remember.
Speaker 2: But I'm just curious, with society.
Speaker 1: Being just so much different now than it was what
Speaker 1: thirty years ago whenever I was going back to school,
Speaker 1: I mean, things that stand out to me, I'm curious
Speaker 1: if they're if they're if this is still a thing
Speaker 1: at all anymore. I mean, let's let's look at just
Speaker 1: I mean, let's start with this. I remember the first
Speaker 1: impression of my teacher usually stuck, meaning what I got
Speaker 1: day first day of it was usually what I got
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. And you don't really know
Speaker 1: what you're going to especially when you're younger, like whenever
Speaker 1: you're in high school, and I guess even middle school,
Speaker 1: like you change classes to where you have multiple teachers.
Speaker 1: But when you're young, you have you have your your
Speaker 1: teacher that you're with really all day for the for
Speaker 1: the majority of the day, and at that time, there
Speaker 1: was no like it wasn't like we were I mean
Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to kids that were older than me
Speaker 1: like hey, I had this teacher, here's.
Speaker 2: What you should expect.
Speaker 1: So I was always nervous just not knowing what you
Speaker 1: were going to get, because like every teacher has different styles,
Speaker 1: and you could you could be a great teacher and
Speaker 1: be somebody that is a little bit more I guess
Speaker 1: likable with the students and somebody that maybe isn't quite
Speaker 1: as as as likable. Also, I remember there was always
Speaker 1: there was always a a new kid that you didn't
Speaker 1: recognize that moved in or maybe they just transferred schools,
Speaker 1: and the returning students would always be so intrigued.
Speaker 2: About, Hey, who's that guy? Who's this kid?
Speaker 1: Or like if there was a new girl that maybe
Speaker 1: you thought was cute, like there'd be that would be
Speaker 1: a big talking point with the fellas, right like, wow,
Speaker 1: who's this I mean, we got to get to know
Speaker 1: who this is. She seems awesome. And I remember not
Speaker 1: knowing who to expect. When I ended up in lunch,
Speaker 1: I remember thinking like, well, I hope I hope that
Speaker 1: there's at least somebody that I know that whenever I
Speaker 1: walk out of the line with my tray of food,
Speaker 1: I just look and see somebody that I know and recognize.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why that was the thing, and
Speaker 1: maybe it still is, But like finding somewhere to fit
Speaker 1: in and sit with somebody in the lunch room was
Speaker 1: I think a real worry for me on the first
Speaker 1: day of school. And then you eventually know who's at
Speaker 1: lunch with you at the same time, and you know,
Speaker 1: you probably have a routine when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, first day of school easily, of the many
Speaker 1: days that you have each school year, it's certainly one
Speaker 1: of the more memorable ones. And sometimes it's for good reasons,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's for bad. Anything stand out to you, John
Speaker 1: about your first day back to school in any of
Speaker 1: your years. One thing in the phenomenal Bullet County Public
Speaker 1: school system that we both came up.
Speaker 3: In, you'd mentioned the new kid. So I was the
Speaker 3: new kid a couple different times. I was in the
Speaker 3: Catholic school system from sixth through eighth grade, and so
Speaker 3: I was the new kid going into sixth grade, which
Speaker 3: is middle school for.
Speaker 2: A lot of people.
Speaker 3: That was a very awkward and interesting transition. And then
Speaker 3: going into the Bullet County Public school system into high school.
Speaker 3: I remember going into my very first class and you
Speaker 3: mentioned how people just kind of look at you when
Speaker 3: you know you're the new person.
Speaker 1: They don't recognize you, and it's so very They're the
Speaker 1: racking their brain about, like who the hell is this guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people made fun of me because they thought
Speaker 3: I was faking my deep voice because I was always
Speaker 3: clearing my throat like I did just there, and so
Speaker 3: people would people just thought that I was faking my.
Speaker 2: They were jealous of those broadcast pipes that you've got.
Speaker 2: See that's a good.
Speaker 1: Radio story for you as someone who now works in broadcasting,
Speaker 1: and that is one of the reasons I'm used to
Speaker 1: it by now. But that is one of the reasons
Speaker 1: among many that. And I don't know, you could take
Speaker 1: this however you want. I mean it as a compliment,
Speaker 1: and I hope you take it that way. People don't
Speaker 1: believe that you're as young as you are, because one
Speaker 1: you sound older, but also just your wisby on your years.
Speaker 1: But no, I look it sounds like you dealt with that, okay,
Speaker 1: But knowing how I was as a kid. I was
Speaker 1: really shy. I'm very much and still am, which surprises people.
Speaker 1: I'm an introvert, but I would be scared to debt
Speaker 1: to go to a new school. And you did it
Speaker 1: and you survived.
Speaker 3: It was definitely weird times in my life, for sure,
Speaker 3: But you know, I always enjoyed my school experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd tell you what. That's one of the things
Speaker 1: that i'd never really I don't know many people. Well,
Speaker 1: I said one of my closest friends as a really
Speaker 1: young young kid, I think it might have been like
Speaker 1: third or fourth grade. He moved in and we struck
Speaker 1: up a conversation when I asked him if I could
Speaker 1: borrow a pencil because he was playing drums with his
Speaker 1: pencils and I needed one, and he shared it with me,
Speaker 1: and we became best friends for life. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't speak to him as much anymore, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess in a way I helped him transition because
Speaker 1: he you know, he was the new kid, but he
Speaker 1: was comfortable was playing drums first day of school. Also,
Speaker 1: there was always a kid that grew a lot, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell happened? You know, somebody will just shoot
Speaker 1: up in the summer break. So yeah, happy first day
Speaker 1: back for those in southern Indiana in the Greater Clark
Speaker 1: County school system, and I hope you have a good
Speaker 1: first day everybody. All right, let's get to an update
Speaker 1: of Travick in weather. Also we will get to another
Speaker 1: sports update coming up coming up at about fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: right here our news radio Waight forty whas So, it
Speaker 1: was earlier this week when we found out that they
Speaker 1: are seizing all of Brooks Howke's assets as he's trying
Speaker 1: to offload those assets due to the fact that he's
Speaker 1: got a potential lawsuit. In fact, the lawsuit is currently
Speaker 1: I mean, it's active, and he may end up having
Speaker 1: to in a civil suit give up a lot of his.
Speaker 2: Estate.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, I mean, maybe that's not
Speaker 1: the right way toward it. But anyhow, there's another story
Speaker 1: here that involves this Crystal Rogers murder and of course
Speaker 1: brook Howks being convicted of that earlier this month.
Speaker 2: But right now this is one that I feel like
Speaker 2: is probably a bigger deal than people realize to Crystal
Speaker 2: Rogers's family because brooks Hawk's sister, Rada mcilvoy maybe it's Ronda.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a typo here in the story I'm referencing
Speaker 1: from WKY. But she's now asking a judge for permanent
Speaker 1: custody of the son that Howck and the deceased Crystal
Speaker 1: Rogers had together. And as you know, Hawck was convicted
Speaker 1: of murder and tampering with evidence in connection to her
Speaker 1: disappearance and the sister she has had temporary custody of
Speaker 1: the ten year old boy for the last I guess
Speaker 1: two years, and before that it was a I guess,
Speaker 1: an ongoing battle between Sherry Ballard, Cristel's mother, and Rosemary
Speaker 1: how Brooks How's mother of who would have custody of
Speaker 1: this child. In a new filing as of I guess
Speaker 1: earlier this month, roughly a week or so after the conviction,
Speaker 1: she claims permanent custody is in the child's best interest,
Speaker 1: and she cites that it's for for the it's because
Speaker 1: of permanency and stability. That's why she claims that permanent
Speaker 1: custody should go to her. Again, this is Brooks Hawk's sister.
Speaker 1: Now there's not been any courtinate said just yet, and
Speaker 1: there's separately a temporary injunction that was issued this week
Speaker 1: to prevent again, as I mentioned, him selling off his
Speaker 1: assets because of those of illegal proceedings that are going on.
Speaker 1: So I mean this what, it's not crazy. I don't
Speaker 1: think to think of someone from the someone from the
Speaker 1: Hawk side of things that may be a little younger,
Speaker 1: maybe they have other children, maybe young children, that would
Speaker 1: make a little more sense as far as just some
Speaker 1: stability rather than going to Cristel's mother, who you know
Speaker 1: is older. Like, that's not a crazy scenario that somebody
Speaker 1: within brooks House's family could be a good fit. But
Speaker 1: the sister, I mean she was, she was she was
Speaker 1: involved according to testimony and according to what we learned
Speaker 1: in the trial.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: The child living with somebody and that person having permanent custody,
Speaker 1: knowing that there's there's good evidence and certainly good testimony
Speaker 1: that suggests that she was well aware and maybe even
Speaker 1: involved to an extent, potentially of the murder of Crystal Rogers,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's that to me, that's a knife
Speaker 1: in the in the heart of of the Rogers family
Speaker 1: once again, unless unless there's something we don't know, meaning
Speaker 1: that they are supportive of this, which clearly doesn't look
Speaker 1: like they are.
Speaker 2: So I just just the the optics.
Speaker 1: Of this, knowing that not only I mean again, she's
Speaker 1: an unindicted co conspirator, just like Brooks House's mother and brother,
Speaker 1: and yet the thought of her getting permanent custody, while
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe eventually she is indicted, I just I
Speaker 1: have a hard time seeing that happen.
Speaker 2: But I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to an update on traving the weather,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get another update on sports from Scott
Speaker 1: right here on news radio waight forty whas. We are
Speaker 1: up and running here on a Thursday morning. It is
Speaker 1: Kentucky Anda's Morning News with Nick Coffee, Coffee and Company.
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Speaker 1: and also on the iHeartRadio app. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to the when it comes to the well, this is
Speaker 1: one of those I had, I realized what Tom it was.
Speaker 1: And this is me still trying to get comfortable John
Speaker 1: in knowing that instead of having really as much time
Speaker 1: as I want, sometimes like twenty minutes in a segment,
Speaker 1: that is not what this is. So I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shelf where I was going and save that for
Speaker 1: a little bit later on and maybe just try to
Speaker 1: find a way to condense it. But anyhow, and by
Speaker 1: the way, I'll give you a tease here because I
Speaker 1: think this will be something that most people would be
Speaker 1: interested in. Maybe I'm wrong, but red flags as far
Speaker 1: as restaurants, little things that people who've worked in restaurants before,
Speaker 1: they could give you an indicator of sort of how
Speaker 1: the restaurant has run.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that later.
Speaker 1: And it's not anything that's going to like gross you
Speaker 1: out as far as just stories of how food's prepared
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't want to know. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: find that on the internet if you want. But anyways,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that later. But right now, I have
Speaker 1: a question for everybody out there. If right now you
Speaker 1: were required to write somebody a letter or maybe just write,
Speaker 1: you know, a paragraph, and you had to use cursive,
Speaker 1: how easy would it be for you? Would it be
Speaker 1: easy because you're writing cursive every day. I find that
Speaker 1: to be hard to believe, but maybe I'm wrong. Would
Speaker 1: it be something that it's like riding a bike. Once
Speaker 1: you start doing it, it comes back to you I've
Speaker 1: not tried. I think I'd be able to do it,
Speaker 1: but I also don't think i'd be totally stunned if
Speaker 1: I was questioning everything I was doing as I was
Speaker 1: writing incursive. So there is a there's this school year Kentucky,
Speaker 1: students are once again going to be required to learn
Speaker 1: cursive handwriting. So there's a cursive comeback in Kentucky. It's
Speaker 1: a new law that's ensuring that it's more than just
Speaker 1: an optional skill, but it's now going to be a
Speaker 1: mandated part of the curriculum. And this is part of
Speaker 1: Senate Bill one sixty seven that was passed in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four and it goes into effect this upcoming school year,
Speaker 1: So it mandates all elementary schools teach cursive and that
Speaker 1: students reach proficiency by the end of fifth grade. It
Speaker 1: was removed as a requirement with the adoption of common
Speaker 1: Core back in twenty ten, So that's clearly one of
Speaker 1: the factors in cursive just seemingly not being not being
Speaker 1: as common anymore. But maybe it was already very less
Speaker 1: common before we got to twenty ten. I remember learning
Speaker 1: how to write in cursive, but I don't remember I
Speaker 1: could be totally wrong. Here have been a long time
Speaker 1: since I've been in the school system, But if I
Speaker 1: was writing papers or just doing school work, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't remember cursive being used really that often at all.
Speaker 1: Maybe I completely you know, I wasn't the best student. Therefore,
Speaker 1: when I think of high school and even any other
Speaker 1: year of class, the curriculum isn't something that really stands
Speaker 1: out to me because I wasn't paying enough atention and
Speaker 1: I was just you know, I mean, I wasn't the
Speaker 1: worst student, but I wasn't. I mean, I could have
Speaker 1: done a lot better. John, You clearly learned how to
Speaker 1: write in cursive, right.
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you the last time I wrote anything
Speaker 3: other than my name in cursive, but.
Speaker 2: You remember it being part of school, right because it
Speaker 2: was my mom.
Speaker 3: She writes everything incursive. Still props to her, because I
Speaker 3: don't know how she does.
Speaker 1: And I think it's probably just because it was more
Speaker 1: of a of a common thing I guess to that generation.
Speaker 1: But my thought is, how much much longer are we
Speaker 1: really gonna This is gonna sound really dumb, because you
Speaker 1: need to be able to write. I mean, that's something
Speaker 1: you're gonna always I think need to learn when you
Speaker 1: are in school, whether it be writing in cursive or not.
Speaker 1: But I don't write anything. I can tell this is
Speaker 1: not an exaggeration. And I don't know how any way
Speaker 1: of proving this. It's just really a guess. But I
Speaker 1: feel confident in telling you that in the calendar year,
Speaker 1: I pick up a pen or a pencil to write
Speaker 1: something other than a receipt I'm signing at a restaurant
Speaker 1: maybe five times a year. And it's and it's because
Speaker 1: I just write everything down on my phone. I take
Speaker 1: notes on my phone. I do everything digitally. I always have,
Speaker 1: and clearly there are others that don't do that. They
Speaker 1: just their instincts are just to jot stuff down. I
Speaker 1: mean that my handwriting has always been not great. But
Speaker 1: when I go to the doctor's office and I got
Speaker 1: to fill out an updated I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: the dumbest human. I mean, I question did I go
Speaker 1: to school that I actually learn anything because I can't
Speaker 1: read any of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's terrible.
Speaker 1: So cursive is making a comeback, and yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I'm not against it. I just have a
Speaker 1: hard time thinking that anybody. I mean, maybe the emphasis
Speaker 1: is that people need to know how to sign their signature,
Speaker 1: because I think those are always going to be a
Speaker 1: way in which we identify people, you know, matching your
Speaker 1: signature and whatnot. So anyways, there's a cursive comeback coming.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a quick update on the roadways.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis will getus caught up on traffic this Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: and we'll get a look at the forecast from Matt Melosa.
Speaker 2: It's right here on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Another one of Louisville's biggest employers is offering voluntary early
Speaker 1: retirement packages for some eligible workers, which anytime that happens
Speaker 1: it raised concerns about what this really signals for the
Speaker 1: future of this company and of course the future of
Speaker 1: people who have depended upon said company to make probably
Speaker 1: a good living.
Speaker 2: And the offer here.
Speaker 1: If you are fifty years or older and have worked
Speaker 1: at Humana for at least three years, you received an
Speaker 1: email Monday offering you early retirement. It's part of a
Speaker 1: broader transformation agenda to reduce costs and modernize operations. And
Speaker 1: this I think everybody's situation is different. Therefore, this news
Speaker 1: really could hitch you in a variety of ways. It
Speaker 1: could certainly be panic if you really aren't in a
Speaker 1: position to retire early move on, and maybe you just
Speaker 1: i mean, let's be honest, finding a job like the
Speaker 1: one you have there probably isn't going to be easy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it may be intriguing to take whatever incentive
Speaker 1: to throw in your way and then you know, look
Speaker 1: for some different work. But then if you're somebody who
Speaker 1: has financially been smart with money, maybe you have a
Speaker 1: second income in your home with your significant other, maybe
Speaker 1: you can use this to maybe kind of start a
Speaker 1: new career and maybe not be as dependent upon the
Speaker 1: future salary. But there have been many companies here in
Speaker 1: the area that that have offered this over the years.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got just recently ups they they offered
Speaker 1: full time drivers across the country voluntary buyouts, and that
Speaker 1: that had never happened before. You know, the Brown Foreman
Speaker 1: that wasn't necessarily that was more so just layoffs, and
Speaker 1: there was severance included, but that was really I think
Speaker 1: I think it was just over tw hundred jobs affected
Speaker 1: by that. And then here recently you've got the Office
Speaker 1: of Federal Student Aid in Kentucky. That's not Louisville, but
Speaker 1: more so just the state that offered buyouts in early retirement.
Speaker 1: Two hundred people I believe were affected by that.
Speaker 2: Ford.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've done it multiple times. I remember because
Speaker 1: I had a lot of friends. In fact, growing up
Speaker 1: in Bullet County, there were many people who moved to
Speaker 1: the area because their family members, their dad or maybe
Speaker 1: even mom got jobs at Ford, and you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't live in the Kentucky and area. And of course,
Speaker 1: you know, Bullet County was really growing at that time.
Speaker 1: So I remember back in two thousand and six, they
Speaker 1: unveiled a massive restructuring plan and it was called the
Speaker 1: Way Forward, and it was a big time downsizing.
Speaker 2: Of of their workforce.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was thirty thousand hourly and
Speaker 1: salary jobs that were affected by this. Then they were
Speaker 1: offering one hundred thousand dollars severance buyouts for workers and
Speaker 1: they you know, you were relinquishing your future benefits, but
Speaker 1: I believe you kept your pension at that time. So
Speaker 1: that was a big deal at that time. Of course,
Speaker 1: and then not that long ago, the Kentucky plants here
Speaker 1: for Ford, and this.
Speaker 2: Was yeah, this was I believe the end of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three.
Speaker 1: Early twenty twenty four, they offered a fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: lump some retirement buyout program for those that met the
Speaker 1: certain requirements there. So it's not totally uncommon, and I
Speaker 1: think it's never a great sign that a company is
Speaker 1: doing this, But it also I think can be met
Speaker 1: this news can be met differently depending upon your situation.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure it's not good news for many, and
Speaker 1: I get it. All right, We've got another update of
Speaker 1: Travck and weather coming your way. Also, we'll get a
Speaker 1: sports update from Scott Fitzgerald. It's Kentucky. It's morning News,
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company Nick Coffee with you right here on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas