Speaker 1: All right, let's get the eight o'clock hour started, shall we.
Speaker 2: It is eight oh five here at Kentucky in this
Speaker 2: morning news on news Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee
Speaker 2: with you. Another reminder that they are seeking input when
Speaker 2: it comes to I guess a new area code in
Speaker 2: the future. We've talked about it throughout the week. The
Speaker 2: area code five oh two is it's not coming to
Speaker 2: an end because if you have a phone that where
Speaker 2: your numbers five oh two, you're good. But in the
Speaker 2: future that is going to run out. The different variations
Speaker 2: in which you can have a phone number with the
Speaker 2: area code five oh two, we're going.
Speaker 1: To run out of them.
Speaker 2: So they're seeking input Tonight at the JCC Southwest location
Speaker 2: at six o'clock they're going to have a meeting with
Speaker 2: the public as the Kentucky Public Service Commission is seeking
Speaker 2: input on this. So I just want to remind you
Speaker 2: guys of that. But I would not have gotten an
Speaker 2: one hundred percent score on this test. But I'm gonna test.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you guys how you would do on
Speaker 2: this test. There are in the state of Kentucky, there
Speaker 2: are five different area codes. Can you name all five?
Speaker 2: Either of you, because I'll tell you I got four.
Speaker 2: I would have never guessed. I would have never known
Speaker 2: of the fifth.
Speaker 1: We alternate, Scott, you and I. Yeah, go ahead by
Speaker 1: to work as a team here. You want to do
Speaker 1: it all right?
Speaker 3: Well, obviously there's the five oh two.
Speaker 1: What say you, John? We'll go two seven oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: about six oh six? Yesh man, what's the Owensboro ones?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: The one is that two seven zero eight five nine
Speaker 1: eight five nine.
Speaker 2: That's one? Okay, So you guys are now four of
Speaker 2: four and then the fifth one. So I think we
Speaker 2: would have done the same. I don't I did not
Speaker 2: even know there was a fifth area code.
Speaker 4: Is it the southeastern portion of the state that this
Speaker 4: one covers, because I don't think I think that's the
Speaker 4: one we're missing.
Speaker 1: Yes, go for it.
Speaker 2: Three six four if you I had no idea, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I can't think of I mean yes. It
Speaker 2: says that the three six four area code is an
Speaker 2: overlay for the two seven oh area code in Kentucky,
Speaker 2: primary primarily serving Okay. It's western and south sent part
Speaker 2: of Kentucky, So the majority of the cities that do
Speaker 2: have the three six four area code are around Bowling Green,
Speaker 2: but it looks like Hopkinsville, Owensboro and Paducah, Kentucky, which
Speaker 2: that makes sense. You know. Paducah, Kentucky is a place
Speaker 2: that I've been to it a couple of times, and
Speaker 2: just because it's so far away from here, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't often think about it being one of the
Speaker 2: bigger cities in our state, but it certainly is. I
Speaker 2: just don't think i've ever I've ever looked at a
Speaker 2: number that I looked for a number that I needed
Speaker 2: and noticed a three six four area code. And I
Speaker 2: don't think I know of anybody that's ever given me
Speaker 2: a number with a three six four area code. But
Speaker 2: then again, with cell phones being the way that we
Speaker 2: mostly communicate now, and once you save a contact and
Speaker 2: then you really don't I mean, I maybe somebody did
Speaker 2: give me it. So if you gave me a three
Speaker 2: six four area code and we talked regularly and I
Speaker 2: didn't remember, don't take it personal. Nobody remembers anybody's phone
Speaker 2: number anymore. That's just not a thing. It's something we've
Speaker 2: talked about, talked about throughout the week.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I had no idea. So now, at least if
Speaker 3: we get this, what cracks me up. Is we're gonna
Speaker 3: have hearings on this? I mean, is there someone who's
Speaker 3: vehemently opposed to having another Harry code?
Speaker 1: I mean, if we run out of numbers, you're run
Speaker 1: out of numbers, right right?
Speaker 3: Are there people that show up and go, no, I
Speaker 3: don't want that area code? I mean, what do we
Speaker 3: discuss at these meetings?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess just input on maybe what maybe what the
Speaker 2: number would mean.
Speaker 1: Do you do you get the pick? I mean I
Speaker 1: don't really.
Speaker 2: This is something that has existed these like these area
Speaker 2: codes we've discussed, the ones that we just ran through,
Speaker 2: they've been in existence seemingly forever. Therefore, it's not a
Speaker 2: process that we typically typically run into. Also, another story
Speaker 2: that we followed this week is after back to back
Speaker 2: weekends with a certain area on Barstown Road near their
Speaker 2: Highlands having I think upwards of four hundred people just
Speaker 2: out in. You know, obviously we know what's been going on,
Speaker 2: blocking traffic, dancing on cars. So obviously Mayor Greenberg as
Speaker 2: well as Chief Humphrey, they've talked throughout the week letting
Speaker 2: you know that they're gonna do it. Basically, there's nothing
Speaker 2: off the table as far as what they need to
Speaker 2: do in regards to get this thing under control. So
Speaker 2: we now have a second business that has decided to
Speaker 2: close their doors a little bit earlier from four am
Speaker 2: to two am. So it was Highlands Taperm initially now
Speaker 2: the Taco Bell. Oh wow, I bet that's is so busy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at that time of night. I mean right.
Speaker 3: Right, I get that is a gutsy call because you're
Speaker 3: right down in the middle of I mean, that's prime time.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to that time of I was
Speaker 2: going to say evening, it's really morning, but that late
Speaker 2: even the bars that are open aren't serving food anymore. No,
Speaker 2: So Taco Bell, I mean they've probably got It's probably
Speaker 2: a lot for those that are working that shift at
Speaker 2: that time, just a lot to deal with, probably overwhelmed
Speaker 2: and take away the potential behavior issues with customers, but
Speaker 2: just the amount of people that are, you know, wanting
Speaker 2: to eat at that time. And I doubt you're fully
Speaker 2: staffed at that a day. But if you wrong, I
Speaker 2: forgot those they probably they probably dominate the competition in
Speaker 2: that window atom because where else you're going to get
Speaker 2: a bite to eat that lake at Taco Bell their fault.
Speaker 2: They're trying to help as well. So maybe we'll see
Speaker 2: more businesses in that area. Decided to close down a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier. Who knows just what impact that will have,
Speaker 2: but it certainly can't hurt things.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised there's not more food trucks down there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you will have a food truck around four in the morning.
Speaker 3: You may kill a business.
Speaker 1: Oh you would. I bet those.
Speaker 2: I bet those who used to Maybe it's still a thing.
Speaker 2: They used to hustle hot dogs on the corner road
Speaker 2: the street when people would leave bars.
Speaker 1: I bet they make a killing.
Speaker 3: Those tasted so good.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah they did.
Speaker 2: The alcohol is probably a factor and why it tasted
Speaker 2: so good, But they tasted good. You are right, all right,
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Speaker 2: here Kentucky had his morning news on news radio eight
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Speaker 2: get his thoughts on the big beautiful bill that President
Speaker 2: Trump has has certainly received some pushback on from some folks.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Rory coming up here shortly. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll have another update of sports with Scott Fitzgerald. And
Speaker 2: as you likely know when we've discussed it this morning,
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals will start tonight, and I already have
Speaker 2: some fatigue when it comes to just one of the storylines.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it would be fair to
Speaker 2: say that this is a non existent storyline that people
Speaker 2: are forcing into being a storyline slash talking point, because
Speaker 2: it is somewhat unusual for the smaller market teams really
Speaker 2: in any professional sport to end up playing each other
Speaker 2: for the championship, the title, the super Bowl, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: the World Series.
Speaker 1: But it does.
Speaker 2: Happen, and there are some rare examples of small market
Speaker 2: pro teams that are super successful, like the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: I mean, so what annoys me is that it feeds
Speaker 2: into something that I've noticed on the sports side for
Speaker 2: a while now, that it's more about a popularity contest
Speaker 2: than it is about actual results and the actual competition.
Speaker 2: Because when I keep hearing, well, the NBA, what are
Speaker 2: they gonna do if it ends up being the thunder
Speaker 2: and the Pacers, which we know that it is now,
Speaker 2: and I get it when it comes to it's not
Speaker 2: as ideal because it's.
Speaker 1: But there's no fix for it.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's never gonna be a scenario where the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder have as big of a fan base
Speaker 2: as big of a reach as the New York Knicks.
Speaker 2: That's just and that shouldn't ever be an expectation. So
Speaker 2: the noise.
Speaker 1: About how they fix it, how do they avoid this?
Speaker 2: I mean they can't and they shouldn't try to avoid it,
Speaker 2: because you know, if your team wins and your team
Speaker 2: is successful, you end up there. So this actually has
Speaker 2: and I don't just say this as a Pacers fand
Speaker 2: this actually has a chance to be a very very
Speaker 2: entertaining series, which I would think it would lead to
Speaker 2: a lot of people viewing the game. So yeah, the
Speaker 2: number may be down just because of people not being
Speaker 2: as interested if it's not a huge market team that
Speaker 2: has one of the big spaces in the league, like
Speaker 2: a Lebron James or a Steph Curry. But you can't
Speaker 2: really control that, and there's really no fix for that
Speaker 2: unless you want to live in a world where we
Speaker 2: make it way more based off popularity rather than you know,
Speaker 2: competition and entertainment. And if you watch this series and
Speaker 2: you're not a fan of the Indiana Pacers or the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder, and it's really competitive, really entertaining, and
Speaker 2: yet you have a moment while watching the product and think, yeah,
Speaker 2: but maybe better if it was the Lakers or the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I mean, what, like, how does that? Why does that matter?
Speaker 2: I mean, why does who it is matter? If you're
Speaker 2: actually getting the entertainment value from the series. It reminds
Speaker 2: It reminds me a little bit of whenever you go
Speaker 2: to a game. And this is a fight I used
Speaker 2: to have with Louivill fans, because.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: You want a lot of You want a lot of
Speaker 2: people to show up. Attendance is important for variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: But you really can't control that. And why would you
Speaker 2: let that ruin your experience? If you paid your harder
Speaker 2: money to show up to a game and you're there,
Speaker 2: you're excited, and you look around and notice some empty seats,
Speaker 2: and it has changed the way you can enjoy that experience.
Speaker 1: That's a you problem. It reminds many people do that.
Speaker 3: It reminds me a lot of the NCAA tournament where
Speaker 3: everybody loves the underdogs to win, but when it comes
Speaker 3: down to the final four, they want the blue bloods.
Speaker 3: It also reminds me a lot of NASCAR people go, oh,
Speaker 3: Nascar is dying. That race was no good. Well, not
Speaker 3: every race is going to be a photo finish at
Speaker 3: the end, and.
Speaker 1: That goes with any sport.
Speaker 3: Not everybody's gonna be up there with three and two
Speaker 3: two outs, bottom of the ninth, and that's what happens.
Speaker 3: So to your point, I feel the same way you do,
Speaker 3: and I felt this way for a long time, and
Speaker 3: I'm glad you've finally said something about it. So I
Speaker 3: say to those people, why do we even have the
Speaker 3: Pacers in the Thunder in the NBA? Yes, why don't
Speaker 3: we just keep it like the Yankees and Dodgers in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball and let them play year round.
Speaker 2: Look, both things can be true. Yeah, it's the best
Speaker 2: case scenario for a pro league if the best two
Speaker 2: teams that play for it all are your bigger brands
Speaker 2: with a humongous reach. But there's no fix to make
Speaker 2: that happen all the time unless you want to rig
Speaker 2: or get rid of the small teams.
Speaker 1: Again, both things can be true.
Speaker 2: It could still be very entertaining and you can enjoy
Speaker 2: it and just know that the reach may not be
Speaker 2: the The ceiling for the reach is just not quite there,
Speaker 2: because again, you're not talking about La.
Speaker 1: Or New York.
Speaker 2: You're talking about smaller markets. So it just annoyed me
Speaker 2: a little bit. But I'm gonna watch. I'm gonna hopefully
Speaker 2: enjoy it and hopefully not fall asleep. It's gonna be tough,
Speaker 2: all right. We have another update of sports coming your
Speaker 2: way with Scott on the other side. It's eight twenty
Speaker 2: here at news Radio eight forty w h AS. It's
Speaker 2: a forty five here Kentucky. This Morning News on news
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty w h AS now joined in studio
Speaker 2: by Tony Venetti.
Speaker 1: Just I thought I thought of you earlier.
Speaker 2: We were talking about this new Nintendo switch to game
Speaker 2: that people are.
Speaker 4: Waiting, nerds waiting in line.
Speaker 1: Well, you're a huge You.
Speaker 2: Are someone that of all of my friend's colleagues, people
Speaker 2: that I know, I cannot see you ever being a
Speaker 2: video game guy at any point in your life.
Speaker 4: I gave it up when I became a dad. I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm not playing video games. I'm a dad.
Speaker 1: I just took the play What do you mean like
Speaker 1: growing up?
Speaker 4: Oh like ATARII was when I was very young, Thank
Speaker 4: you for And then Nintendo was really when I stopped
Speaker 4: well because I don't know.
Speaker 3: So he was never in it to begin with.
Speaker 4: Here's here's my problem. I had friends and girlfriends, so
Speaker 4: I was doing stuff, tough life, friends and girlfriends. All right,
Speaker 4: God be with you. You guys sit here all night
Speaker 4: playing the video games. I'm gonna go out.
Speaker 1: So I had a PlayStation.
Speaker 2: I got it as a gift when I was when
Speaker 2: I was probably entering middle school. I ended up getting
Speaker 2: a PlayStation two not long after that, and that was
Speaker 2: really it. I never had another gaming system, and video
Speaker 2: games were always popular when I was in high school,
Speaker 2: but it just never really hooked me. And again, people
Speaker 2: enjoy what they enjoy. But the conversation I went that
Speaker 2: we had earlier is the waiting in line. Has there
Speaker 2: ever been anything that you said, okay, if I got
Speaker 2: to stand there for eight hours without moving, or I
Speaker 2: got a camp out overnight to get something like take
Speaker 2: video games out of the equation. There's really not anything
Speaker 2: I would think that would be worthwhile to me where
Speaker 2: I would just stand in line that long.
Speaker 4: If they brought John Belushi back from life and said
Speaker 4: you got to wait in line for tickets to see
Speaker 4: one show of John Belushi. I wouldn't do it. I'm
Speaker 4: also the guy. Everyone has a time period when they
Speaker 4: walk into a restaurant. Now if they're if they say
Speaker 4: for me, it's twenty minutes. If it's fifteen minutes, I go,
Speaker 4: all right, well wait, but if it's twenty I turn around.
Speaker 4: How many time you sent your wife in before you
Speaker 4: get out of the car, go see what the wait is?
Speaker 4: And they say it's twenty five minutes. She doesn't even ask.
Speaker 4: She just gets back in the car and go what's next.
Speaker 2: What I love doing is calling her out whenever she
Speaker 2: tells me, yeah, they said about fifteen twenty minutes. That
Speaker 2: I'm like, They did not say fifteen twenty minutes. You
Speaker 2: just wanted to stay. You wanted to get me in
Speaker 2: the door. You want to You wanted me to have
Speaker 2: the kids out of the car seats, bring them in
Speaker 2: to where we're already there. We've invested enough, so we're
Speaker 2: just gonna stick around because you really want to eat here.
Speaker 2: Because you know that if you'd have told me it
Speaker 2: was thirty five to forty minutes.
Speaker 1: I always said, well we can go next door and
Speaker 1: eat something.
Speaker 4: Because now it depends on date night or just a
Speaker 4: Tuesday night. Like we used to go to Old Charlie's
Speaker 4: on Wednesday night because it was free pie Wednesday. You
Speaker 4: would get a slice of free pie and it was packed.
Speaker 4: But they have a bar, so if it was if
Speaker 4: it was if you were on a hey, we were
Speaker 4: not in a rush thing. You go to the bar
Speaker 4: and have a beer. You'll wait the thirty minutes and
Speaker 4: they'll call your name. But if you're in a rush,
Speaker 4: you're hungry. You know, the family's hungry. I got to
Speaker 4: eat now the kids are in the back. On what
Speaker 4: are we gonna eat? You want to get in and out.
Speaker 2: Killing time or trying to keep kids, you know, and
Speaker 2: from losing their mind when you're in the when you're
Speaker 2: in the waiting area at a restaurant is difficult, and
Speaker 2: I try to avoid that at all costs.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the bar.
Speaker 2: I don't know why it's the case, but when my
Speaker 2: wife and I when we go to dinner on a
Speaker 2: date night, even if we're at a table or we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna have a couple of drinks, just like
Speaker 2: we would if we were at the bar. So I
Speaker 2: want to insinuate that the but when we said at
Speaker 2: the bar together and have dinner, for some reason, it's
Speaker 2: a better experience.
Speaker 4: It's a ten times better experience, is that?
Speaker 1: And I think we're doing the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why people don't like it, because
Speaker 4: it's like they'll go, it's a thirty minute wait, and
Speaker 4: then you look at the bar and there's four seats open,
Speaker 4: and you go, can we sit at the bar, And
Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, we know, faster service. You get your
Speaker 4: food faster, you get your drinks faster, because remember the
Speaker 4: bartender has to make the drink and then give it
Speaker 4: to the waitress and the waitress takes it to you.
Speaker 4: But if you sit at the bar, fresh beer, food
Speaker 4: comes faster. You know, what are we getting onto here?
Speaker 2: I mean, i'd tell you what the Maybe it's because
Speaker 2: it just seems like there's more like I don't want
Speaker 2: to sound like a bad husband, but I'll probably be
Speaker 2: more often more likely to be on my phone if
Speaker 2: we're across from each other.
Speaker 1: That's true, We're just we just kind of know you're.
Speaker 4: More engaged at the bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but never, but.
Speaker 2: We're next to each other, so we're not really looking
Speaker 2: out of eye. But yeah, we went out on our
Speaker 2: anniversary dinner a couple of weekends ago, and we had
Speaker 2: a lot of options, there were open tables, but we
Speaker 2: decided to sit at the bar, and I'm like, we.
Speaker 1: Should just do this more often.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely correct, and I'm realizing that now you're
Speaker 4: more or engaged, Jacky.
Speaker 1: Your next days you're going to be at the bar.
Speaker 4: That's right, you're more engaged with your wife if you
Speaker 4: are sitting at the bar. And you're right. When we
Speaker 4: sit in the booth, I don't know how many times
Speaker 4: I've looked up and we're both on our phone exactly
Speaker 4: and so stupid.
Speaker 2: So look at us giving advice dating rights problem. You
Speaker 2: mentioned the weight at restaurants. My favorite people when it
Speaker 2: comes to the weight at the restaurants are those who
Speaker 2: walk in just looking already inconvenienced, as if, yeah, the
Speaker 2: hell's going on? Did people not know I was coming here?
Speaker 2: And then they'll tell the sixteen year old hostess a
Speaker 2: party of four and they'll say it'll be a forty
Speaker 2: five to fifty minutes, as as the room is crowded,
Speaker 2: people are outside waiting and.
Speaker 1: They're like, forty five to fifty minutes. No, nope, you
Speaker 1: wait to put your name down, sirps, no thanks, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the chicken parms.
Speaker 2: That sixteen year old hostess is impacted by you going elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're already busy enough. That's why there's a weight.
Speaker 4: And how many times is the sixteen year old host
Speaker 4: is going to lie to you to get rid of
Speaker 4: you so they don't. She wants to clear this hallway,
Speaker 4: so when you ask, it's probably twenty minutes, but she's
Speaker 4: saying fifty minutes because I want you to walk out.
Speaker 2: I would love for somebody to be like overly sarcastic
Speaker 2: but yet polite to where you just have to there's
Speaker 2: no way you can like, oh, I'm really sorry to
Speaker 2: hear that you're gonna go elsewhere. Oh no, I hope
Speaker 2: we recover as an industry because Bob and his two
Speaker 2: kids are disgusted by so they're gonna go next door.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we eat out a lot, and everybody that's
Speaker 4: listening to no, no, we never ate out, but nowadays
Speaker 4: it's it's constant credit cards.
Speaker 2: When you when I heard you mentioned the other day
Speaker 2: how often you door dashed from a dear house that's
Speaker 2: so not the Tony.
Speaker 4: Venetti become a millennial when when my family's out and
Speaker 4: there's Jamie, I'm like, you know what, Jimmy John's will
Speaker 4: be here in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: I get the Big John number two with extra lettuce
Speaker 4: and extra mail.
Speaker 1: Now I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: Have a good show, a friend, you too, brother, Take care,
Speaker 2: We'll be back at it tomorrow. Tony and Dwight coming
Speaker 2: up next right here on news Radio eight forty whas