Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started, shall we.
Speaker 2: This is Kentucky INA's Morning News, Coffee and Company here
Speaker 2: with you on news radio eight forty whas the gang
Speaker 2: is here. I'm Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden.
Speaker 2: He's running the operation in the control room or studio.
Speaker 1: Is it studio? D Is that right? It is studio?
Speaker 2: Okay, you just want to make sure. And then of
Speaker 2: course John Shannon alongside as well. And I was gonna
Speaker 2: ask you guys if you're ready, but I already know
Speaker 2: the answer that you're.
Speaker 1: Ready, dude, New Friday man. That's right. I could tell.
Speaker 2: I could tell when I saw John Alden pull into
Speaker 2: the parking lot and his sported up Toyota camery.
Speaker 1: That's true. It does have a spoiler on A two thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go.
Speaker 2: And then Scott walked in studio about ten minutes ago,
Speaker 2: and you probably were startled at first because I'm wearing
Speaker 2: a blue shirt that I hadn't thought of it until
Speaker 2: you said it. Of all the blue shirts I have,
Speaker 2: and I don't have many, this one it does actually
Speaker 2: look more Kentucky blue than any of the others, and
Speaker 2: it would you probably almost fainted. Seeing that, right I did.
Speaker 2: And what's that say?
Speaker 3: It's a testament to you, Nick, because everybody knows you're
Speaker 3: affinity for the Cards. I mean, your ex handle is
Speaker 3: the card connected, right, I mean, I get it. And
Speaker 3: you're no stranger. You admit on this show you are
Speaker 3: a fan of the Cardinals. And when you walk in,
Speaker 3: I see you in blue. That is a different look
Speaker 3: for you, dude, it does, and that's weird. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's sad or awesome at the same time.
Speaker 3: That that's what hit me in the face first.
Speaker 1: Now totally makes sense. Who are you repping?
Speaker 2: Here's this is the West Canaan Coyotes, the team that's
Speaker 2: not real that is from Varsity Blues.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha? Yeah, gotcha?
Speaker 2: Okay, dude, I've got a John mox in Jersey as well.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite sports movies, which I tell
Speaker 2: you what, I hadn't thought about it until you just
Speaker 2: asked who this was, which makes total sense. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm sure most people probably wouldn't know it just by
Speaker 2: glancing at it.
Speaker 1: But again, it's the team that is that.
Speaker 2: Is the football squad and Varsity Blues one of my
Speaker 2: favorite football movies ever.
Speaker 1: But there are some I don't know if it's.
Speaker 2: Just because we know it's not real and because we
Speaker 2: know that, like it would be unusual to see somebody
Speaker 2: actually have gear.
Speaker 1: But I've always.
Speaker 2: Found teams that are in movies and TV shows that
Speaker 2: of course aren't real, to just be cool.
Speaker 1: Some of them.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, man, yeah, you know I would love
Speaker 2: to have like that. That team is so cool. I
Speaker 2: wish I could have a jersey.
Speaker 3: Well you know what I did because my daughter turned
Speaker 3: me on to cricket to make, you know, shirts and
Speaker 3: stuff with To your point, I love three quarter like baseball,
Speaker 3: like the old concert tees. So I made the Hamilton
Speaker 3: Mustang's Hockey Club and it goes back to a movie
Speaker 3: Rob Lowe and Young Blood.
Speaker 2: And that's obscure enough to yeah, because that's what you
Speaker 2: go for.
Speaker 1: Most people don't know it.
Speaker 3: But every now and then I'll get people to stop
Speaker 3: me thinking where did you get that shirt? And it's
Speaker 3: like I made it and they know they were a
Speaker 3: big fan of the movie.
Speaker 2: So another thing that some may not know about me.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure a lot of you knew that I'm
Speaker 2: a big time Louisville fan, But if you didn't now
Speaker 2: you do. But everybody I think has sort of like
Speaker 2: a I wouldn't call it a hobby, but just maybe
Speaker 2: like a vice, and they're really interested into certain things.
Speaker 2: For me, it is it is basketball jerseys. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: it's not because I wear them to work every day
Speaker 2: or anything like that. If I'm gonna wear one, it's
Speaker 2: usually if I'm at the beach or the pool or
Speaker 2: something like that. But I like to collect NBA basketball jerseys.
Speaker 2: But I'm not talking about like a Jordan jersey or
Speaker 2: a Shaquille O'Neal jersey. I'm talking about rare jerseys, colors
Speaker 2: and schemes, maybe even logos that teams no longer wear
Speaker 2: that they did in the nineties sometimes the eighties, and
Speaker 2: then also players that are obscure, like I have a
Speaker 2: big Country Bryant Reeves jersey. It's it's a similar reaction
Speaker 2: that you get whenever whenever people see it, they're like,
Speaker 2: I forgot that guy existed where they well did you
Speaker 2: get that? And I don't really know why that's become
Speaker 2: sort of a quirky thing that I'm into, but it is.
Speaker 2: And you mentioning the shirt that you created, like it's
Speaker 2: a similar thing, right, people sometimes probably wouldn't know, or
Speaker 2: they some people will ask like, I'm not familiar with
Speaker 2: that team, tell me more. Or some will know and
Speaker 2: be like, oh my god, where'd you get that?
Speaker 1: Oh I've got a Dug Glad jersey and he's out
Speaker 1: of the movie.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, now I'm drawing a complete blank. He was
Speaker 3: the enforcer in the movie and now acky movie dougle
Speaker 3: If you've not seen, it's hilarious and I don't know
Speaker 3: forgive for driving. It's a popular movie. Yeah, Doug Glatt
Speaker 3: was Goon Goon. This movie I'm thinking of funny is
Speaker 3: all get up?
Speaker 1: Goon Tou was horrible. But when I wear the glat jersey,
Speaker 1: so it was good to remaker, No, no, no, that
Speaker 1: was an original movie.
Speaker 2: So the Goon original that's the one that has the
Speaker 2: It's gonna drove me crazy too.
Speaker 1: It's it's a stiffler. He's in Yes, Yes, yes, and so.
Speaker 3: And what's funny about that is when I wear that
Speaker 3: because everybody else is wearing the Johnson William Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right, everybody else is wearing the the Johnstown Chiefs
Speaker 3: jersey for slap shot. That's kind of But man, when
Speaker 3: I put that Glatt jersey on. I went to my
Speaker 3: son's hockey games. There you could tell the hardcore hockey folks,
Speaker 3: oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Especially in that niche in that world.
Speaker 3: And I was I was going to tell you when
Speaker 3: you were talking about basketball jerseys and you get yourself
Speaker 3: one of those turquoise Pistons jerseys if they wore with.
Speaker 1: The horse head logo on it. I have one. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: number thirty three grand Hill. Yes, good again.
Speaker 2: It would if you saw the collection I have. I
Speaker 2: don't think there'd be many that would be impressed. They
Speaker 2: would think this is guy, this guy's weird. But it's
Speaker 2: just it's it's just a thing. I think being a
Speaker 2: collector is pretty common, but people can sometimes be collectors
Speaker 2: of things that others would say, why the hell would
Speaker 2: you want that?
Speaker 1: Thank you too. Just became best friends.
Speaker 2: And I like you good stuff, And this was absolutely
Speaker 2: and this is we'll get back. We'll get back to
Speaker 2: work here soon. At least we'll get to work here soon.
Speaker 2: But I feel like this was probably the first time
Speaker 2: we had to start to the show where I really
Speaker 2: didn't have any mindset that we were actually on the radio,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if that's good or not.
Speaker 3: That is it's great, it's it's it's a it's a
Speaker 3: morning coffee talk.
Speaker 1: It's a way to get it going there.
Speaker 2: All right, bro, let's let's get a quick check of
Speaker 2: traffic and weather out there. Also, we've got sports coming
Speaker 2: your way about fifteen minutes. And also we'll have Rory
Speaker 2: O'Neil join us around five forty five, the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: We're up and running.
Speaker 2: It is a Thursday, it's Kentucky, and it's morning news
Speaker 2: with coffee and company here on news Radio WA forty whas.
Speaker 1: I was a little.
Speaker 2: Underwhelmed this morning when I walked out the garage door
Speaker 2: and of course then opened the big garage door, and
Speaker 2: I was still met with some disrespect from the humidity.
Speaker 2: But it sounds like that will get better later today
Speaker 2: because there are some storms expected later this evening, which
Speaker 2: I guess will then lead to a little bit of
Speaker 2: a cool down. I will say, can we pump the
Speaker 2: brakes on calling it a cold front? I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess technically it will be colder than it has been,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't describe anything about what's on the forecast
Speaker 2: as cold. But that's me just nitpicking. But Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be some rain today, apparently some real downpours later on,
Speaker 2: and then of course that's when it does get a
Speaker 2: little bit more pleasant out there, and I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: The last week roughly, maybe not quite a week, but
Speaker 2: certainly the last five days or so have just felt
Speaker 2: as bad as bad as it's been around here in
Speaker 2: a long time when it comes to just the consistency
Speaker 2: of the humidity and the temperatures, and as much as
Speaker 2: summer break ending is a sad thing for those that
Speaker 2: you have to go back to school and whatnot, and
Speaker 2: usually means your vacation is out of the way. But
Speaker 2: I'd say what I mean, who isn't ready for fall
Speaker 2: weather after the last week or so that we've had
Speaker 2: around here. Speaking of vacations, I should have mentioned this
Speaker 2: a little bit more throughout the week, But I'm out
Speaker 2: next week, so you will not get me. I know
Speaker 2: it's probably some tough news for you to hear, but
Speaker 2: I'll be back and you will be in good hands.
Speaker 2: And I don't know the full extent of the plans overall,
Speaker 2: but I do know that two individuals that are here
Speaker 2: with me every morning will be here.
Speaker 1: God willing.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's the company man, John Alden, and also
Speaker 2: the one and only Scott Fitzgerald. So I think we'll
Speaker 2: have Joe Elliott mixed in at some point throughout the week.
Speaker 2: Don't know exactly, but again, you'll be in good hands,
Speaker 2: and I am. I'm really looking forward to the family vacation.
Speaker 2: You will probably do this at some point, John, and
Speaker 2: maybe you already have. And I'm just showing that I
Speaker 2: don't know as much as I thought I did, But
Speaker 2: you and your lovely wife, you now are parents and
Speaker 2: you have your own, your own little family, and I
Speaker 2: would encourage you to find a spot. It could be
Speaker 2: whatever you guys want it to be. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: not as big of a beach guy as my wife,
Speaker 2: but I do love destined. So, just as a kid,
Speaker 2: did you have a vacation spot that you went on
Speaker 2: every year or at least like frequently that was just
Speaker 2: kind of known as the place where the family does vacation.
Speaker 4: It's weird throughout my childhood that that place kind of changed,
Speaker 4: like we'd go to the same place for four or
Speaker 4: five years and then go to a different place.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's not all I would say, That's not I
Speaker 2: would say that's not uncommon.
Speaker 4: But my wife has a place that she wants to
Speaker 4: kind of be our vacation home base. It's It's Carolina
Speaker 4: Beach of course, nice in North Carolina. She loves that
Speaker 4: part of the country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I as a kid, we would go. It
Speaker 2: was my dad's family. We would go to a place
Speaker 2: called Jekyl Island, Georgia, which it was probably our trip
Speaker 2: for gosh, seven eight years of my childhood throughout you know,
Speaker 2: not every year, but pretty consistently. And I hadn't been
Speaker 2: in probably twenty something years. And then we went as
Speaker 2: a family with my you know, my family and my
Speaker 2: dad and my stepmom and my sister and her son.
Speaker 2: We went for about three years in a row in
Speaker 2: the last five years, and it was the nostalgia was
Speaker 2: But I'll be honest with you. It's a fine place.
Speaker 2: It's very chill. It's literally an island. But it does
Speaker 2: you know, for those who've never been there, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it would be like, Wow, this place is awesome,
Speaker 2: we got to get back here. I don't think you would.
Speaker 2: I don't think you would hate it or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But what makes it special to me is that it
Speaker 2: was just it was our place, and I spent a
Speaker 2: lot of child I spent a lot of my childhood there,
Speaker 2: And there was also something cool about it for me
Speaker 2: because I knew that a lot of people like it's
Speaker 2: not a big time vacation destination. It's not like Deston,
Speaker 2: which I'm pretty sure next week when I'm in Destin,
Speaker 2: i'll see probably, you know, thirty percent of the crowd
Speaker 2: being from right here in Louisville. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a saying for a reason, and I'm exaggerating, of course,
Speaker 2: but that's just an area where we go every year,
Speaker 2: and it's not uncommon for not only me to see
Speaker 2: many Louisville or Kentucky I should say, license plates, Louisville flags,
Speaker 2: UK flags. There's a lot of of Kentucky presence and
Speaker 2: Destin anytime I go anywhere there. But even where we stay,
Speaker 2: I mean there, it wouldn't shock me if the family
Speaker 2: staying next to us in our condo is from the area,
Speaker 2: because that's just that's kind of a you know, it's
Speaker 2: kind of our place.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm looking forward to it, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm also looking forward to our next update here from
Speaker 2: the one and Only Matt Melosa, bitch, you'll get us
Speaker 2: caught up on the forecast and when we can expect
Speaker 2: those showers and that cooler temperature to come in. Bobby Ellis,
Speaker 2: We'll get us updated on the traffic out there as
Speaker 2: we get this Thursday started right here on news Radio
Speaker 2: eight forty WHS. Thank you very much, John Shannon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't see things ending well for Shannon Sharp when
Speaker 2: it comes to the situation he found himself in towards
Speaker 2: the end of April. And I feel like Shannon Sharp
Speaker 2: as a former NFL player who became a pretty big
Speaker 2: time name in the I guess the world of former
Speaker 2: players who turned to not really broadcasters, but more so entertainers.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's that's kind of what that that
Speaker 2: gig is. I don't think enough people actually realize that
Speaker 2: that's what they're there to do, because you've got people.
Speaker 1: Like Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith and Skip Bayless, who are some other hot take
Speaker 2: artists out there, John, I mean, show of the.
Speaker 1: Two biggest ones for sure.
Speaker 2: Shannon Sharp, I don't he's very you know, he's energetic,
Speaker 2: and I actually think he's I really like Shannon Sharp
Speaker 2: as a as a host of the many different roundtable
Speaker 2: shows he's been on. I think his his opinions on sports,
Speaker 2: even if I don't necessarily agree with him, they're not
Speaker 2: to me. And I feel like I've got a pretty
Speaker 2: good radar for this given just what I've what I've done,
Speaker 2: meaning how long I've been in in the sports media world,
Speaker 2: or I guess I should say was in the sports
Speaker 2: media world. He can give a take in a way
Speaker 2: that very much is delivered in a delivered with a
Speaker 2: lot of emphasis. Let's say that a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of flavor on on his delivery and what he
Speaker 2: shares his opinions, but they're not outlandish things. It's not
Speaker 2: things that I hear and think, well, I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure you believe it. I think you're just playing a
Speaker 2: character on television. Because, by the way, that's what Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith does, that is what Skip Bayless does. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy isn't a great example, but he's certainly captivated
Speaker 2: people like Steven A. Smith has done for many years,
Speaker 2: LeVar Ball. I mean, these are characters, and I think
Speaker 2: the more people realized that, the more you would not
Speaker 2: get so worked up. I mean, Stephen A. Smith is
Speaker 2: paid a lot of money It ain't because he's right
Speaker 2: about sports. It's just because he's he's gonna yell, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get people worked up. He's going to play the
Speaker 2: role that is screaming a Smith. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 2: what it is. So I don't take them serious, but
Speaker 2: I don't mean that in a disrespectful way as if, oh,
Speaker 2: those guys are clowns. I mean, I'd gladly play the
Speaker 2: role of I mean, if you want to call him
Speaker 2: a clown, I'll take the job in a heartbeat for
Speaker 2: five percent of what they pay Stephen A Smith. So
Speaker 2: what's weird to me, though.
Speaker 1: Is that Stephen A Smith.
Speaker 2: He to me, he's just again he's clearly I mean,
Speaker 2: the whole Lebron James thing a few months ago was wild,
Speaker 2: where he's approaching Lebron or Lebron confronts him court side
Speaker 2: at the Lakers game, and then Stephen A wants people
Speaker 2: to believe that if Lebron would have made any physical
Speaker 2: contact with him in any way, he would have knocked
Speaker 2: him out. Like what Like there's a level of like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I get, I get You're you're you're really you're turning
Speaker 2: the volume up pretty loud which is hard to do
Speaker 2: given how loud he is in general. But what I
Speaker 2: mean is he's really just being extra, as they say.
Speaker 2: But there's that, and then there's just saying things that
Speaker 2: like nobody would believe you at all. But again when
Speaker 2: you when you hear that and you get worked up,
Speaker 2: just realize, Okay, he's he's a character on television.
Speaker 1: That's that's what he is. Now.
Speaker 2: When it comes to Shannon Sharp, I felt like he
Speaker 2: gave you a little bit of the animated uh, you know,
Speaker 2: just over the top, really really highly energetic and some
Speaker 2: good liners that you maybe get from Steven A. But again,
Speaker 2: I think his sports analysis was more It was more respected.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean that just because he's a former player,
Speaker 2: because I've always felt like those who claim that only
Speaker 2: former athletes should be able to talk about sports and
Speaker 2: be in the media, I think that's the dumbest thing ever,
Speaker 2: because it shows that you don't have any clue really
Speaker 2: what that industry is, because believe it or not, it's entertainment.
Speaker 1: Like that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Former players are there to provide analysis that most could
Speaker 2: not provide because again, most of us didn't play in
Speaker 2: the NFL. The NBA, the major leagues, and their value
Speaker 2: is real. They have value. They are an added component,
Speaker 2: they're needed, they're necessary. There's some that are great. However,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's a level of entertainment,
Speaker 2: especially for those kind of shows. If you're a broadcaster,
Speaker 2: meaning for the game, color commentary, play by play, I
Speaker 2: mean that's not mean you are there to beat to addle.
Speaker 1: You're there to.
Speaker 2: Enhance what people are watching in that experience. But if
Speaker 2: you're on TV for an hour hour with three other
Speaker 2: people given given takes, and and and having debates, that
Speaker 2: quite literally is there for entertainment reasons, which is why
Speaker 2: some of them that are that feature journalists that do
Speaker 2: have really good opinions and they they are phenomenal writers
Speaker 2: when it comes to columns, features, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: When you put those guys on TV, just them, it
Speaker 2: just does. It doesn't hit because again it's not it's
Speaker 2: not as entertaining. And that's not an insult, that's just
Speaker 2: again there's certain roles that that come that come with it.
Speaker 1: Meaning, you know how.
Speaker 2: You cover sports, but you you you were, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't think you'd be. I don't remember you being
Speaker 2: a big fan but I feel like during our time
Speaker 2: together on Sports you you were you were pro Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I remember he remember he had the really
Speaker 4: hid some interesting things come up about him though during
Speaker 4: our time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah on the Sports show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's uh, yes, so were we together when
Speaker 2: he uh whenever he went live on IG accidentally.
Speaker 1: Yes, wild that he cant his job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's easy to forget now because of the lawsuit
Speaker 2: that he just settled. But yeah, Shannon Sharp goes live
Speaker 2: on Instagram unknowingly with his phone sitting in a hotel,
Speaker 2: nothing visible.
Speaker 1: But we got to hear the real if you.
Speaker 2: Ever wanted to hear what Shannon Sharp sounds like when
Speaker 2: he is having intercourse. He provided that for a lot
Speaker 2: of people, and somehow you survive that. But then when
Speaker 2: you were accused of rape and there's a lawsuit against
Speaker 2: you and you settle for fifty million dollars after claiming
Speaker 2: that it was nothing, you're going to be vindicated. This
Speaker 2: is all a setup. I mean, you settling is a
Speaker 2: sign that you you clearly are aware that if you
Speaker 2: don't settle, you could have to pay more than fifty
Speaker 2: million dollars. So easy for ESPN, I think to make
Speaker 2: the decision to cut ties there.
Speaker 1: But Unk, as they.
Speaker 2: Call him, I'll miss him. All right, Let's get to
Speaker 2: a quick update on the roads out there. Bobby Ellis
Speaker 2: will getus caught up on the traffic. We've got another
Speaker 2: update coming your way when it comes to the weather
Speaker 2: out there. Mat Melosavich and Roy O'Neil going to join
Speaker 2: us from MBC on the other side right here on
Speaker 2: news radioaight forty whs.
Speaker 1: This is Kentucky Anda's.
Speaker 2: Morning news here on news radio eight forty w h
Speaker 2: as Nick Coffee, that is me, and we've got Rory
Speaker 2: o'eial of NBC News with us here. So, Rory, the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve, they're not going to drop interest rates just yet,
Speaker 2: and that is not a good thing when it comes
Speaker 2: to those that are dependent upon these kind of things.
Speaker 2: What can you tell us as far as just the
Speaker 2: you know, the latest key economic indicators here, as far
Speaker 2: as what we can't expect or I guess maybe when
Speaker 2: we could potentially expect some relief here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now, they are still optimistic that they can start
Speaker 5: to cut rates later this year, maybe even two quarter
Speaker 5: point rate cuts.
Speaker 1: That's encouraging, but that would be encouraging.
Speaker 5: But by the way, Chairman Powell is just chairman of
Speaker 5: this Federal Reserve Board. They all get to vote on
Speaker 5: the rate, so it's not just him, but obviously he's chairman,
Speaker 5: he's got a bit more sway. But still they decided
Speaker 5: to hold rates where they are, in part because we
Speaker 5: don't know what's going to happen to the economy when
Speaker 5: the tariffs really start to take effect tomorrow. You know,
Speaker 5: for the first half of the year, we saw a
Speaker 5: lot of businesses they were bringing in inventory early before.
Speaker 1: Tariffs took effect.
Speaker 5: But now when they have to start paying fifteen thirty
Speaker 5: fifty percent more for some of what the import Brazil
Speaker 5: in particular, they can't absorb that cost and it's going
Speaker 5: to have to be passed on. And since the Fed
Speaker 5: is concerned with two things, unemployment and inflation, inflation could
Speaker 5: be an issue if the tariffs cause its prices to spike.
Speaker 5: That's why the Fed is sort of staying let's just
Speaker 5: stay the course, let's see what happens with tariffs.
Speaker 2: Is it fair to say that the economic uncertainty that
Speaker 2: we have right now is largely due to just I guess,
Speaker 2: the unknown of what happens with the tariffs.
Speaker 1: That is a big part of it.
Speaker 5: And again it's also because it's not as if these
Speaker 5: tariffs are all being passed as some part of big
Speaker 5: trade bill that's being negotiated by Congress, and that's normally
Speaker 5: how it's done. Instead, this tends to be you know,
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is angry at Brazil this week, so they
Speaker 5: get a fifty percent tariff rather than thirty five or
Speaker 5: whatever it may be. So you tend to see these
Speaker 5: wild swings in some of the either the tariffs that
Speaker 5: are threatened or the tariffs that actually will take effect
Speaker 5: at starting tomorrow. So it's it is a lot of
Speaker 5: uncertainty out there. And look, even we heard it from
Speaker 5: the EU over the weekend when the President was in
Speaker 5: Scotland announcing the framework of a deal. There, it's like,
Speaker 5: at least they have the certainty. Now they've got it
Speaker 5: in writing that it's going to be fifteen percent for X,
Speaker 5: Y and Z products, so they know how to plan
Speaker 5: for it. You know, that's the real thing, that's the
Speaker 5: real issue for a lot of these corporate managers. You know,
Speaker 5: you're trying to figure out what will the tariff be,
Speaker 5: and now that you know, you can sort of see
Speaker 5: if you can work around it.
Speaker 2: Rory and Neil of NBC News is our guest, joining
Speaker 2: a serial news radio eight forty Whas obviously birth rates
Speaker 2: have declined, that's been a pretty consistent thing over the years.
Speaker 2: And also the housing market. Who would buy a house
Speaker 2: right now given the current interest rates. I'm sure there
Speaker 2: are people doing it, but I totally understand when it
Speaker 2: comes to those that are not do these things.
Speaker 1: Is there is there any.
Speaker 2: Possibility that these things could be tied together as far
Speaker 2: as the housing market being what it is and that
Speaker 2: being a factor and people deciding to hold off on
Speaker 2: maybe having their first child or having a child.
Speaker 1: Ange right, by the.
Speaker 5: Way, this is how old I am. And it just
Speaker 5: a clip came up in my feed the other day
Speaker 5: in a nineteen eighty one news report that talked about
Speaker 5: mortgage rates hitting twenty percent.
Speaker 1: Wow, different times what we're seeing. You're not old, you're
Speaker 1: a young stallion Rory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, But with the rates that we're seeing now
Speaker 5: six and a half to seven percent, they're really much
Speaker 5: more normal. Like we got boiled with those three percent
Speaker 5: interest rates. So now that we're all saying, oh, they're
Speaker 5: so high, like historically they're maybe a little bit above average,
Speaker 5: but they're pretty much running the average. But these interest
Speaker 5: rates on mortgages are really disrupting a lot more than
Speaker 5: just the housing market, as you suggested, With the cost
Speaker 5: of housing so high, even rents are soaring across the country,
Speaker 5: more and more couples are saying, oh, not a good
Speaker 5: time to have a kid, or I can't afford to
Speaker 5: feed an extra mouth in the house or put clothes
Speaker 5: on its back. And we all know how expensive kids
Speaker 5: can be, so and the daycare is often more expensive
Speaker 5: than the mortgage. So you're seeing a lot of couples
Speaker 5: are pulling back, saying, look, we just can't afford to
Speaker 5: bring that extra child into the world.
Speaker 1: Rory, you're the man.
Speaker 2: As always, we appreciate your time, Enjoy the rest of
Speaker 2: your day and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nick. That's Roy O'Neil NBC News. He's not old.
Speaker 2: I mean he's he's older than me, but you'd never know.
Speaker 2: He's sharp as attack. Again, he's a young stallion. Rory
Speaker 2: O'Neil of NBC News, that's our guy, and again, always
Speaker 2: appreciate his time. Let's get to a quick update on
Speaker 2: the roadways out there. Bobby Ellis will get us caught up,
Speaker 2: and we've got another look at the forecast from at Melosovich.
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