WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.879 A very smart man once told me that Thursday's the 2 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.600 new Friday, and that smart man is Scott Fitzgerald. I'm 3 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.800 rolling with what you threw out there, dude, to me 4 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.120 weeks ago, because it doesn't quite feel like a. 5 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.760 Friday yet, but we might speak it into existence. Yeah, 6 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.320 it feels like a Friday when you wake up on Thursday. 7 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:36.439 There's a different field to it. There's a different vibe 8 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:36.679 to it. 9 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:37.640 You're down the stretch. 10 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:39.920 You are down the stretch. The weekends right around the corner, 11 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:41.560 and it's time to rock and roll. Brother, it's gonna 12 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.399 be a hot one today, Yes it is. It is 13 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:44.280 gonna be hot here. 14 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.359 It is already hot as we get this thing started 15 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.679 five h six here Kentucky had his morning news on 16 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.679 news radio eight forty whas Coffee and Company. I'm nic Coffee, 17 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.119 He's Scott Fitzgerald. We've got John Shannon alongside today. He'll 18 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.240 give you his first newscast of the morning, at least 19 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.399 within this show since we've got it rolling here around 20 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.479 five thirty Radio. Rick Ryder, he is, he's he's here 21 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.840 with us. Always great to hear your voice. 22 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:07.159 Rick, Well, thanks Rick. 23 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.159 They're a great way to get us started, and I'm 24 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.079 sure everyone here in Kentucky and a completely agrees. Now 25 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:16.439 I need to come clean about something because I I'm 26 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:18.480 sure I'm not the only one who's been in this 27 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.519 situation before. But I'm not sure if you gentlemen have 28 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:24.359 been here before where you you lost something but you 29 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:28.480 were of the belief that it didn't magically disappear, somebody 30 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.319 took it, and then later you realized uh oh, I 31 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.000 I mean, look, I was working on a real investigation. 32 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:37.680 I had narrowed it down to a few suspects as 33 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.519 far as these headphones that are in my ear right now, Yeah, 34 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.159 you got well, they're not new, they're new ish, they're 35 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.400 new now because they've been gone for a long time. 36 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.239 And I just assumed that these and by the way, 37 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.840 those these are probably I mean, how I don't know 38 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.959 how long ago it's been, but these are headphones that 39 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.959 Apple gave you when the iPhone actually had the headphone jack, 40 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.200 which I feel like that was a long time ago. 41 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:04.480 Maybe it wasn't quite as long ago as I'm thinking. 42 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.039 So these are what I've used for years as far 43 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.280 as just headphones while on the air, and I just 44 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.759 assumed that I left them in either this studio or 45 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:15.599 a different studio. 46 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.439 And I don't know if I'm sure you. 47 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.400 Can buy these, but like, these were these were special 48 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.680 to me, not because they're they're not like a family heirloom, 49 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.479 but like it's just what I've always worked with, and 50 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.360 it's only what I only. I don't even think they 51 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.360 make new devices anymore with the headphone jack in it. 52 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:35.639 So anyways, I just assumed they were gone, somebody had them, 53 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.000 and sure enough, I put on a pair of pants 54 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.719 today that I have not worn in a while, they 55 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.080 were in my pocket. And just so you know, you 56 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.960 guys were not included in the final list of suspects. 57 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.919 I was able to. I was able to rule you 58 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.840 guys out because not many people around here use imbuds. 59 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.439 Most people use actual headphones, the big cans. As I say, so, 60 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:58.159 I'm feeling guilty, and I may just track down who 61 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.879 I thought for sure took them and let them know, Hey, 62 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:01.800 you didn't know it, but. 63 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:02.759 I thought you were a thief. 64 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:04.879 I thought you had taken my headphones and lied to 65 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:06.840 me about it, and I was wrong. 66 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.400 My wife and I do that all the time. 67 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:10.439 She'll accused me of taking stuff, and I'll do the 68 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.400 same thing, and then I feel the same way you do. 69 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.479 When I finally found it, I go and I do. 70 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.080 That's one thing I've learned, at least over twenty five 71 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.360 plus years in marriage is that I'm humble enough to 72 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.240 go to her and say, look, I screwed up. 73 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.759 I didn't always do that, and now I have to 74 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:25.560 know I'm with you. 75 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:28.439 I literally don't think my situation is any different than that. 76 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.479 Now I will say we've hand up. I was going 77 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:33.960 to try to do some mental gymnastics here to try 78 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:35.960 to claim it's a two way street. But with my wife, 79 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.280 I am much more. I'm much more likely to accuse 80 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.800 her of moving something or losing something because I'm not 81 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.719 as organized as her. I'll leave something sitting around she 82 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.919 at times It's been rare, but when she's just picking up, 83 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.840 straightening up, she will take something that doesn't belong where 84 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.520 I've left it, and she doesn't really know exactly where 85 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.039 it goes, because honestly, I'm not organized to where it 86 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.159 doesn't have a spot right. I just I don't know 87 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.039 where I want to put it. So I have accused 88 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.439 her of time at times of losing something, and it's 89 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.800 got to the point now where if I am looking 90 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.719 for something, I don't even ask her because I know 91 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.439 she's going to think that I'm that I'm insinuating that 92 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:14.000 she took it or did something with it. 93 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:15.479 So yeah, I've been there. Brother. 94 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:16.759 I need to tell you, I need to follow your 95 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.240 lead and just you know, realize once once you do 96 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.319 get it wrong, let them know it can only. 97 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.319 Help right, and it doesn't take long and then it's 98 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:25.759 over and then you get over it. But I'm glad 99 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.360 you found your headphones, bro, because in fact, you're reminded 100 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:29.959 me because I have. I've got to order one of 101 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.639 those special jacks for the iPhone because I'm been able 102 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:34.240 to listen to the headphones while I cut the grass. 103 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.079 I'm doing it tomorrow and I miss that. Yeah, you 104 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.120 forget how quiet it is out there. Absolutely, and you 105 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.360 can use Bluetooth, but like I don't know, it's. 106 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.160 Just it's same. Yeah, it doesn't work. Yeah, so I 107 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:45.480 got you. 108 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:51.000 Anyways, I apologize for assuming some of our workers things. Look, 109 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.319 it's all about being comfortable, and for whatever reason, it's 110 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.920 probably just in my head because these are what I've 111 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.000 had in my ears for probably I don't know, ninety 112 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.639 five percent of the shows I've done in the last 113 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.000 five year. Even though it's fine without them, I'm just 114 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.959 more comfortable knowing that I've got these old headphones that 115 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.639 I'm gonna I'm gonna use them until they until I 116 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.519 lose them again and I cuse somebody of stealing them 117 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.160 or or maybe you know, maybe when they stop working 118 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.279 at some point. But on good way to start today again. 119 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.800 Thursday's the new Friday. We're rolling with that today. All right, 120 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.399 let's get too a quick update of traffic and weather. 121 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:27.360 It is Top. 122 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.839 Sixteen here at Kentucky and his morning news Coffee and 123 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:32.639 Company on News Radio eight forty whas NIT Coffee with 124 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:34.759 you and you can take us with you wherever you go. 125 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.639 Listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at 126 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.439 w h AS dot com. So I don't believe there 127 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.319 is any traffic issues just yet out here in the UH, 128 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.759 in the Kentucky and A roadways. I could be wrong, 129 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.399 and I'm sure we will have some level of issue 130 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.399 because we usually do. 131 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:54.199 But maybe I'm wrong. 132 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:57.639 Maybe maybe it's smooth sailing this morning. But either way, 133 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.519 we know that Bobby Ellis will get us caught up. 134 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.720 That's what you've come to know and expect here on 135 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.839 news Radio eight forty WHS and his next updates coming 136 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.480 your way in about three and a half minutes or so. 137 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.000 But I do want to let you know that there's 138 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.399 likely going to be a lot of traffic this weekend. 139 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:14.920 So I sixty five is going to be closed in 140 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.519 downtown for a good chunk of the weekend. In fact, 141 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.079 it starts at eight pm on Friday and will end 142 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:27.319 at five am on Monday, and there'll be lane reduction 143 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.600 that continues into next week through Wednesday. But it sounds 144 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.800 like the closures and the traffic issues are more so 145 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.199 just going to be an issue for the weekend, probably 146 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.759 not quite as bad when you get into next week 147 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.680 up until Wednesday. So it's the left three lanes on 148 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.439 I sixty five south of the Kennedy Bridge, so ramps 149 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.879 from I sixty four East and West, as well as 150 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.040 I seventy one South to I sixty five South. That's 151 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.720 going to start at seven pm on Friday, so you'll 152 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.000 be rerouted to I sixty four east, I sixty four 153 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.240 West or I seventy one North to reconnect with I 154 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.079 sixty five South. And what they're doing is they're replacing 155 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.439 expansion joints, which sounds pretty important. 156 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.120 If the expansion joints. 157 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:07.879 If you tell me, hey, looks like we've got some 158 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.480 shoddy expansion joints, I'm gonna say, yeah, close it down, 159 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:15.079 let's get that fixed. Sounds dangerous to me. But this 160 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.160 is apparently the uh, this is a let's see. 161 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:20.319 Make sure I have my numbers right here. 162 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:23.439 The affected area was part of a two point three 163 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.439 billion dollar Ohio River Bridges project, which was put in 164 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.560 place a decade ago. So, uh, this this has been 165 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.240 a long time coming. It sounds like so again, expect 166 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.240 some major delays. And if you if you were planning, 167 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.839 uh to be you know, driving around through downtown Louisville 168 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.000 this weekend, maybe don't, right, I mean I shouldn't. I 169 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.240 shouldn't tell you to change your plans. But when I 170 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.360 hear of this, I just assume the worst and hope. 171 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:48.720 For the best. 172 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.480 But I'm curious if if you hear of big time 173 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:58.959 closures that are expected because of construction, not a rack, 174 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.279 because that's something you just predict, but if you just know, hey, 175 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.720 you got something like this going on where multiple aims 176 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.600 and a very busy area of downtown Louisville on the 177 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.680 Interstate is going to be closed. Would that impact what 178 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:13.879 you do? Do you make plans based off that? Do 179 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.439 people pay attention to that kind of stuff? I'm curious 180 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.000 you can let us know in the talkback feature within 181 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.199 the iHeart Radio app if you'd like, because I probably 182 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.920 should pay attention to those kind of things because I 183 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.160 suffer from being very impatient, and I don't I mean, 184 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.399 I don't think anybody likes traffic, right, But and I'll 185 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:34.480 be honest with you, I've rarely hit really bad, nightmare 186 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.159 type traffic where I'm stuck for a long long time, 187 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.519 and I don't know what I would do. I mean, again, 188 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.960 you're pretty helpless whenever you end up just essentially being 189 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.480 in a parking lot tailgating with other people when you're 190 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:45.960 not moving at all. So I've been lucky to not 191 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.519 be in a situation quite like that. But I mean, 192 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.919 who likes traffic Nobody? Right, So if I did pay attention, 193 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:56.879 then maybe I could reroute and make arrangements to make 194 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.960 arrangements to not you know, not sitting that even if 195 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.440 it adds time. Like I'm somebody that if you tell 196 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:09.120 me the time in your car, will be a little 197 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.879 bit longer, but you will not be sitting for anything 198 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.200 other than maybe the red light. But if you go 199 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.080 the other route, you're gonna end up sitting a lot 200 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:23.600 in traffic, but you'll be four or five minutes quicker. 201 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:25.440 I kind of feel like, more often than not, I 202 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:27.200 would take the route where I'm not sitting because I 203 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.159 just get impatient. But maybe that's sim that's just me. 204 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.919 So again, I'll never forget this. He's on vacation this week, 205 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:37.120 and if he was here, I would I would once 206 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.480 again thank him because I now do this more often. 207 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.360 In fact, I never used to do it, but it 208 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:42.120 makes total sense. 209 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:43.600 And it was one of those moments, and I've had 210 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.440 many of them where I'm like, oh, yeah, that's that's 211 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.159 that's really I'm like, why did not I think of 212 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:47.559 doing that? 213 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:49.200 That makes total sense. I'm an idiot. 214 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.080 But John Olden, whenever he and I were working together 215 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.320 in the afternoons, he would tell me that each day 216 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.159 he would leave and he would put it in his GPS, 217 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.000 but not because he didn't know how to get here, 218 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.759 because he would see if there was any traffic issues 219 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.240 that might make him want to go a different route, 220 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.879 or maybe pick up pick up the pace a little 221 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.279 bit because he's got some delay with traffic. And I 222 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.879 never once thought of using GPS for that reason. I 223 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.639 just use it if I'm lost and don't know where 224 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.320 I'm going. So anyways, we prepared this weekend, folks. You'll 225 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.000 hear me mention that probably throughout the morning and tomorrow, 226 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.679 just so people are aware. Making it my duty to 227 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.559 make sure you guys are aware that if you're going 228 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.039 to be out in downtown near the Kennedy Bridge again, 229 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.080 maybe you don't want to be doing that. All right, 230 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.879 we've got another update of tracking and weather coming your way, 231 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:31.840 Bobby Ellis. We'll get a straightened out when it comes 232 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.720 to the roadways. Also, we'll get a look at the 233 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.639 forecast from WLKWIS. Matt Melosovich and Scott will be in 234 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.519 with sports. As we roll along here, it is Kentucky 235 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:41.720 in his morning news coffee and company right here on 236 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.600 news radioaight forty whas. 237 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:52.200 Paul Miles reports, it. 238 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.399 Is Kentucky in his morning news with coffee and company 239 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.440 here a news radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That's 240 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.559 me Radio Rick Rider, mister Radio Rick, or I should 241 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.240 say alongside Rick, you want to go back in time 242 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.879 once again, back to the days of you cutting your 243 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.559 teeth in the radio business, when you were a young stallion, 244 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:10.960 back in the fall of nineteen seventy. Sure, I've got 245 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.879 some more, some more facts for you. The number one 246 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:18.159 song around that time in the fall, it looks like 247 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.440 there's three here in the mix, War by Edwin Starr. 248 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:22.159 Do you know that one? 249 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:22.960 Yes? I do. 250 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.360 What about Ain't no Mountain high en? If everybody knows that. 251 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.799 One, that's right, okay? And then Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond. 252 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.240 Yeah, you know that that song was about a bottle 253 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:32.720 of wine. 254 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.120 Okay, Crackling rose Nice, I get it now, many people 255 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:37.519 knew that. 256 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.480 But that's the knowledge you provide, Rick. 257 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.000 It's where you, it's where you, it's why, what's why 258 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:44.759 they pay the big bucks around here? Right? Oh? 259 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:45.799 Yeah. 260 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:47.840 So we're taking you up till nine o'clock, which means 261 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.440 we've got a lot more time to go. So stick around, 262 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.039 hang out, let us be a part of your morning. 263 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:52.759 You could take us with you wherever you go again. 264 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:54.720 Listen live on the iHeart Radio app. Also listen live 265 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.240 at w h AS dot com. So this story is 266 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.480 disturb and honestly hard to believe. And it's one of 267 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:07.120 those conspiracy theories that I was just too naive to 268 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.639 assume there was any validity to it. But we now 269 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.440 have legitimate confirmation that it's not just the conspiracy theory, 270 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.240 and it's a story that of course is getting national news, 271 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:22.720 maybe worldwide news right here in Louisville. So a US 272 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:27.759 House subcommittee they're looking into some real issues with an 273 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.720 organ donation system and its focus is on a Louisville 274 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:38.120 based nonprofit company. So federal investigation started into Network for Hope, 275 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:42.399 which has recently merged with CODA, and they looked at 276 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:45.240 about three hundred and fifty ish cases and found nearly 277 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.200 seventy patients who should have been ruled out as organ 278 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:53.320 donors due to serious neurological problems, but weren't. So this 279 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:56.320 is all when I mentioned the conspiracy theory that's out there. 280 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.279 It's those that just assume, well, yeah, you have your 281 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.399 preference as far as what you want to do with 282 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.159 your organs, and your family is just going to be 283 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.440 told whatever they are expected to be told, and what 284 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.720 actually happens with your organs, who really knows. I mean again, 285 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.279 I just would have. I just would assume that there's 286 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.519 day nobody would do that. I mean, that's that's in humane. 287 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.519 That's again hard to believe, but sure enough there are 288 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.639 you have a legitimate apology that that came down from 289 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:30.200 the Yeah, this is from Scott. This is from Secretary 290 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:34.440 Secretary Kennedy says, our findings that hospitals allowed the organ 291 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.759 procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, 292 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.360 and this is horrifying. The organ procurement organizations that coordinate 293 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.360 access to transplants will be held accountable and the entire. 294 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.240 System must be six so must be fixed. 295 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.720 So there's reform here as far as just this whole thing, 296 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:53.960 which clearly that that's needed given the fact that this happened. 297 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.679 I mean, it's insane if you think about it. So 298 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:02.799 there's this story. So the story there's a specific patient 299 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:06.960 that this really I shouldn't say that this is why 300 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:09.039 the investigation happened, because I don't know that, but it 301 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.200 wouldn't shock me if this was a real spark. 302 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:12.840 But there's a guy by the name of TJ. 303 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.960 Hoover who was waking up fighting off staff while being 304 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.679 prepared dad his organs donated. I mean, it sounds like 305 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:26.240 something from a movie, right, You're waking up as they're 306 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.960 trying to remove your organs to donate because they assume 307 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:30.840 you're dead, or they think you're dead, or maybe they're 308 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.559 trying to kill you. So not only is it not 309 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.759 from a movie or ripped from a Reddit thread, it's 310 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.600 now part of I mean, it's part of congressional record here. 311 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.639 So if you were already suspicious about the system, this 312 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.799 does not help. And it confirms what a lot of 313 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.320 people have believed for years, is that they'll do whatever 314 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.399 they want with your organs and you'll never know. And 315 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.559 the black market is a lucrative market when it comes 316 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.200 to reselling organs and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, 317 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.639 I mean, that's one of the those things that I 318 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.519 just would And it's not that I sit around thinking 319 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.919 about it a whole lot, but it's a conspiracy theory 320 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.080 that has had enough traction over the years that you've 321 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.399 probably heard somebody reference it. And I don't know, maybe 322 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.960 I am becoming less naive as I get older, or 323 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.799 there's just been enough proof that I shouldn't just take 324 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.759 everything at face value and assume that there aren't people 325 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:23.240 out here doing things that are just unthinkable, and you 326 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.559 know this actually is it's honestly hard to believe. 327 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.559 So just be prepared. 328 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.960 And I would imagine even when there is a new 329 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.519 system in place, which they're expected to be soon, I 330 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.399 would imagine that, you know, people are still going to 331 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.480 be weary because it's just you just take people at 332 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.799 their word that they're not that they're going to do 333 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.120 what you're supposed to do, because I don't guess I 334 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.000 have such a fear of doing anything to you know, 335 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:51.240 get myself in trouble. But like when you were making 336 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:55.440 this decision to I guess, you know, start in some 337 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.519 way hustling organs on the black market that weren't technically 338 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.559 supposed to be made available to the person who died. 339 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.799 I mean, don't you chalk up sort of the risk 340 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.519 reward there as far as what could. 341 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:07.279 End up happening to you? 342 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.000 So it almost doesn't seem real, but I promise you 343 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.039 it is real. All Right, we got another update of 344 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.720 traving the weather coming your way right here, right now, 345 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:16.200 we'll get the latest forecast from at Melosa. 346 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:16.840 Bitch a WLK. 347 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.480 Why Bobby Ellison get us caught up on how traffic 348 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.440 is looking to get this Thursday started, and Roy O'Neil 349 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.720 of NBC News he set the joints coming up in 350 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.279 about four and a half minutes right here on news 351 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.080 radio wait to wait forty whas Nick coffee. That's me 352 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.399 and we've got Rory O'Neil alongside this morning. Rory, what 353 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.080 can you tell us on the latest from the Gallup 354 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.120 poll any results that are believed to be surprising here? 355 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.200 Well, look, there's this couple of Gallup surveys coming out 356 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.799 and it's a little bit confusing, especially for the radio 357 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:48.600 purposes when. 358 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:50.399 You don't have this list in front of you, gotcha. 359 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.320 But essentially Gallup asked the people about how they felt 360 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:58.879 on twenty different moral issues, everything from birth control to 361 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.879 pre marital sex, to pornography to animal cloning. You know 362 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:06.799 where does this fall? What is morally acceptable? What is not? 363 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:12.519 These days, birth control, divorce, and premarital sex all seem 364 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:16.160 to be much more morally acceptable. But on the other 365 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:20.880 end of the spectrum, sex between teenagers, gender changes, and 366 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:26.240 pornography are much more considered morally wrong. And right in 367 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.759 the middle, we've got some divided views. Abortion and medical 368 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.279 testing on animals are two of the issues that are 369 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.359 almost a toss up among voters. 370 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.559 So do these things, I mean, have you noticed this 371 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.079 fluctuate over years? 372 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:41.400 And I don't know. 373 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.920 And again I don't want to make you sound like 374 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.799 a dinosaur, Rory, but I'm sure these things have been 375 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.359 People have had opinions on this stuff for a long 376 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.599 long time, and I'm just curious as it fluctuated a 377 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.359 lot over the years. 378 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.279 Yeah, you know, we do see some of these numbers 379 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:56.640 change because they do ask you know, they have the 380 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:58.960 age breakdown of the people taking part in some of 381 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.839 the surveys, so that's where you do see some of 382 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:07.680 the changes. And the older the participants, the less likely 383 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.680 they are to consider things morally acceptable. I guess is 384 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.799 the standard rule of thumb. But we haven't seen big 385 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.039 swings in recent years. In some of these numbers, they're 386 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:22.279 relatively flat. We do notice big divides though, in party affiliation, 387 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.839 so they are very different views on things like abortion 388 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:31.000 or changing gender depending on whether or not people identify 389 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:32.519 as Democrats or Republicans. 390 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.039 Rory on Neale NBC News is our guest joining us 391 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.599 here on news Radio eight forty whas so the sentencing 392 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.319 of Brian Koberger, who was the murderer who killed four 393 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:47.920 Idaho college students that happened in twenty twenty two. What 394 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.640 can you tell us as far as just the overall 395 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.480 reaction to the sentencing. Obviously there's nothing that's going to 396 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:56.759 probably do much for the family of these victims in 397 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.519 the moment, but maybe the court of public opinion, does 398 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.160 it seem as folks feel like this this sentence was fair. 399 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.160 Well, Look, Colberger took a plead deal to avoid the 400 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:11.319 death penalty in Idaho, and the prosecutors there have taken 401 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.200