Speaker 1: Thank you, John.
Speaker 2: It is seven oh five here Kentucky in this morning
Speaker 2: news on news Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee with you.
Speaker 2: Happy hump Day Wednesday is upon us and a busy,
Speaker 2: busy morning we have had thus far. As far as
Speaker 2: what's happening with America's involvement in the Iran Israel situation,
Speaker 2: these next twenty four to forty eight hours are believed
Speaker 2: to be critical. In fact, President Trump met with his
Speaker 2: top advisors in the White House yesterday and said that
Speaker 2: that exact thing, that the next twenty four to forty
Speaker 2: eight hours are going to be critical as far as
Speaker 2: what type of stance we see, And certainly it is
Speaker 2: it's a question many are are asking with clearly no
Speaker 2: answer just yet, but are we going to war? And again,
Speaker 2: I don't have the answer to that, but we'll talk
Speaker 2: to Rory O'Neil coming up a little bit later on
Speaker 2: within the show here. And I'm not going to put
Speaker 2: the task on Rory to tell us if in fact
Speaker 2: we are for sure going to war and really what's
Speaker 2: going to play out over these next forty eight hours,
Speaker 2: but would he's certainly somebody we can lean on when
Speaker 2: it comes to giving us the latest also a change
Speaker 2: to the change took place yesterday Friday, is whenever President
Speaker 2: Trump decided to inform ICE that when it comes to
Speaker 2: these immigration raids, to no longer pursue those that are
Speaker 2: working in certain industries and we're talking farms, hotels, restaurants.
Speaker 2: There was a pause, but it was brief because yesterday
Speaker 2: we now know that that is over and we're now
Speaker 2: back to expecting ICE to enforce the immigration plans from
Speaker 2: Trump in full force, regardless of what industry that you
Speaker 2: are working in. So again a quick turnaround here, and
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to prioritize immigration enforcement over economic concerns,
Speaker 2: and that's a balancing act. But what really stands out
Speaker 2: from my perspective is that what, first of all, I
Speaker 2: guess we'll start at the beginning. What would make you
Speaker 2: think that we weren'tn't heavily reliant upon immigrant workers before
Speaker 2: the rates took place, right? I mean, that was a
Speaker 2: known thing that if you end up just really enforcing
Speaker 2: this the way you want, getting rid of anybody and
Speaker 2: everybody who is in fact in this country illegally, regardless
Speaker 2: of their age, regardless of what work they do, I mean,
Speaker 2: you would have to know that that would be something
Speaker 2: that is going to impact the economy. And I guess
Speaker 2: there was clear proof of that. I shouldn't say proof,
Speaker 2: maybe there wasn't proof just yet, but something led to
Speaker 2: President Trump deciding to make it to make a change.
Speaker 2: But again it was very, very brief. So it's one
Speaker 2: of the instances where you really don't know exactly are
Speaker 2: you are you full? And I'm not necessarily sharing an
Speaker 2: opinion on what should be done here as far as
Speaker 2: how you want to go about it, who you want
Speaker 2: to really target when it comes to immigrants that are
Speaker 2: here illegally, But the inconsistency, I just think it's somewhat
Speaker 2: of a poor look when it comes to the leadership.
Speaker 2: So I mean, maybe once again, if in fact there
Speaker 2: is a real maybe we do get proof. Maybe it
Speaker 2: is a real glaring issue that these ice raids that
Speaker 2: are getting rid of so many people that are here
Speaker 2: illegally but do work in industries that we rely on
Speaker 2: them because they're a big part of that workforce. If
Speaker 2: it hits the economy to such an extent, I guess
Speaker 2: now I can't say that there would be any surprise
Speaker 2: on my end if in fact they do another brief
Speaker 2: pause as far as just targeting those specific immigrants that
Speaker 2: are working in those industries. And usually when when you
Speaker 2: hear President Trump lay out what he intends to do
Speaker 2: and how eager he is to do it, I mean
Speaker 2: he seems full go more often than not. So then
Speaker 2: to see that pause and then a quick unpause, it
Speaker 2: makes me wonder, Okay, wouldn't shock me if we get
Speaker 2: another pause at really any moment now. So again, that
Speaker 2: is something that will continue to honitor not only the
Speaker 2: ice rates that are going on across the country and
Speaker 2: with industries it's impacting, but also what's going on with
Speaker 2: Iran in Israel. And again the next twenty four to
Speaker 2: forty eight hours are believed to be very critical and
Speaker 2: we'll keep you updated as best we can here on
Speaker 2: News Radio eight forty whas. A lot more to get
Speaker 2: into throughout the morning here. The Louisville Cardinals are moving
Speaker 2: on well, they survive, They're still around in the College
Speaker 2: World Series in Omaha. That is certainly exciting. Also, I
Speaker 2: have some more thoughts to share on the big news
Speaker 2: that was broke here with us on News Radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas, and that is Tom Jurich getting honored at
Speaker 2: u of L by both not only the university but
Speaker 2: the city, and I just think it's a positive situation
Speaker 2: all the way around, and it's a good time to
Speaker 2: do it because there's really good energy seemingly right now
Speaker 2: when it comes to UL athletics.
Speaker 1: So stick with us.
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Speaker 2: an update on sports coming up in about fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: right here on news Radio eight forty WHS seven seventeen
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Speaker 2: just a few minutes. When it comes to the news
Speaker 2: here locally, our partners over WKY a couple of stories
Speaker 2: that they're tracking and I'm sure you'll hear about throughout
Speaker 2: the day here at NewsRadio eight forty WHS. Involves crimes
Speaker 2: that involve juveniles. We had a story yesterday where a
Speaker 2: second arrest was made in a situation that took place
Speaker 2: earlier this month, on June sixth, and you've got now,
Speaker 2: I believe, two juveniles that have been arrested and charged
Speaker 2: with complicity to first degree assault possession of a handgun
Speaker 2: by a minor. And then, of course another story that
Speaker 2: we've already heard a little bit about this morning. I
Speaker 2: know John Shannon and his news update did touch on this,
Speaker 2: but headline community pleading for justice after boy dies in
Speaker 2: Algonquin neighborhood. And this is obviously tragic in any way,
Speaker 2: but certainly when you think about children being involved, whether
Speaker 2: it be the victim or the perpetrator. And I think
Speaker 2: when you become a parent, you really see things differently.
Speaker 2: And I know everybody's different, so I can only speak
Speaker 2: for myself, but I know I'm not alone that when
Speaker 2: you become a parent, life just a little bit different.
Speaker 2: And the thought of juveniles children being either again involved
Speaker 2: in any way is a scary, scary thing. But just
Speaker 2: the fact that seemingly so many in the community are
Speaker 2: exposed to it without any intent to be involved in
Speaker 2: any way. I mean, it's just it's I wish it
Speaker 2: wasn't I'll put it this way. I wish it was
Speaker 2: way more surprising when you see headlines of violent crime
Speaker 2: that involved juveniles, and it's been a growing concern. And
Speaker 2: when you look at the data, again, it's not just
Speaker 2: those that are victims, it's also those that are that
Speaker 2: are criminals themselves, particularly in homicides. So in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: Louisville recorded over one hundred and forty homicides, which was
Speaker 2: which was down from one point fifty. Yeah, it decreased
Speaker 2: from one fifty and twenty twenty three and one fifty
Speaker 2: seven in twenty twenty two. However, the proportion of juveniles
Speaker 2: involved in these types of crimes has risen and it
Speaker 2: is it's been described as a as as an epidemic
Speaker 2: by those in our community that are leaders, and it's
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I mean, if there was an
Speaker 2: easy fix, I think would we would have it in place?
Speaker 1: I think it it I think it starts at home
Speaker 1: with parents.
Speaker 2: But again, I mean that's not to say that you
Speaker 2: can do everything you can as far as being involved
Speaker 2: in your kid's life and trying to keep them away
Speaker 2: from an environment that may lead to them becoming a
Speaker 2: victim or falling into a criminal lifestyle at a young age.
Speaker 1: It's just scary, scary stuff.
Speaker 2: And what really stood out to me this morning is
Speaker 2: that those those type of headlines, although they don't happen
Speaker 2: maybe every day, they're no longer in any way a surprise,
Speaker 2: and that that's that's awful. I don't have the fix.
Speaker 2: If I did, I probably wouldn't be a loud mouth
Speaker 2: on the radio with you guys this morning. I'd probably
Speaker 2: be in a different position. But scary scary stuff, no doubt. Again,
Speaker 2: it's these are these are children, and it's it's it
Speaker 2: seems to be only getting worse as far as just
Speaker 2: these types of crimes that involved again kids, children. All Right,
Speaker 2: it is seven twenty. We've got an update of sports
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Speaker 2: radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is seven thirty five here because
Speaker 1: I get his morning.
Speaker 2: News with Nick Coffee on News radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2: So I've got a survey I want to want to
Speaker 2: take a look at here. So this is a recent
Speaker 2: survey that reveals small yet every day moments that stress
Speaker 2: Americans out, Little things that others do that really irritate
Speaker 2: and I can I can I guess the best way
Speaker 2: to as far as what I gather here in regards
Speaker 2: to like the best example, it's something that you know
Speaker 2: is not a huge deal. It's not it's not like
Speaker 2: is if somebody has offended you, insulted you. They didn't
Speaker 2: you know, they didn't hit you. But it's something little
Speaker 2: that they probably don't even realize they're doing potentially, or
Speaker 2: maybe they realize they're doing it, but they have no clue,
Speaker 2: no awareness that it can be really really annoying to
Speaker 2: some I'm gonna list off what these top answers are
Speaker 2: as far as the survey here, and we'll see if
Speaker 2: these things are annoying to you guys, and then we'll
Speaker 2: also maybe throw in our own because I've got some
Speaker 2: that aren't listed here, and they're also little things that
Speaker 2: may annoy you, but nobody else would ever find it annoying.
Speaker 2: Everybody's different. But the number one stressor for every day,
Speaker 2: everyday life is seeing somebody that you don't want to
Speaker 2: talk to. Forty six percent say, uh, this spikes their
Speaker 2: stress when they see someone that they don't want to
Speaker 2: talk to, But the other person meeting the person they saw,
Speaker 2: they're either unaware that that person doesn't want to talk
Speaker 2: to them or they just don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been there. I mean you see it in
Speaker 3: cube farms all the time that people are going to
Speaker 3: work today. Let's be honest, there's that person who wanders
Speaker 3: around sure, yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Office and just roaming my pet looking for looking for
Speaker 2: somebody to just talk their face off.
Speaker 3: My pet beab is when I sit down for lunch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and because that's my personal time, I'm with you three yeah,
Speaker 3: and then they show and they think you're just eating
Speaker 3: lunch so they can just sit there and the appway
Speaker 3: then and like no, Or I have a chair in
Speaker 3: my office, and what I do is I put my
Speaker 3: bag in there because if I don't, people will just
Speaker 3: casually walk by.
Speaker 1: And I actually have.
Speaker 3: One person in the office that used to move my
Speaker 3: bag and sit down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's somebody who just clearly doesn't can't read the room. Right.
Speaker 2: So I don't really deal with any of that because
Speaker 2: my day to day is not like most as far
Speaker 2: as just being in a workplace throughout it a full
Speaker 2: work day. But one of the benefits I think of,
Speaker 2: and if there was, there weren't many. But during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: When you wore masks, you felt less likely to run
Speaker 2: into somebody, you know. And it's not that I avoid
Speaker 2: people that might want to have a conversation. But maybe
Speaker 2: this is me just admitting that I'm that I'm not
Speaker 2: the most social. But there are certain people that I
Speaker 2: genuinely like. But if I do see them, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to be bothered if they don't see me, And
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go out of my way and say, hey,
Speaker 2: how you doing, just because you know, like it would
Speaker 2: just be the casual. There's nothing wrong with a little
Speaker 2: small talk, Hey, how you doing, how you've been right?
Speaker 2: But then like there's that awkwardness of all right, we
Speaker 2: don't really have anything else to say. We probably could
Speaker 2: have just waived, but now we're standing here not really
Speaker 2: knowing what to ask because we're friendly, we're acquaintances, but like,
Speaker 2: you know, how's your family? You know, not to say
Speaker 2: you don't care about their family, but I don't know,
Speaker 2: Like I did like that aspect of the masks on
Speaker 2: at stores to where I didn't have to worry about
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm an introvert, which again is a weird
Speaker 2: thing to do. Yeah, it's just unlikely. It's not common
Speaker 2: in what we do to be introverted.
Speaker 3: Actually, you probably be surprised because if you I've heard
Speaker 3: from so many people in this business when you talk
Speaker 3: for a living, like the last thing they want to
Speaker 3: do is go talk and to your point, then you get.
Speaker 1: Does that makes sense? You go to that? Relate to that,
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: To that awkward point in the conversation where the conversation's
Speaker 3: over one of you has to do Guys like when
Speaker 3: you shake hands, who pulls their hand away first when
Speaker 3: you shake hands?
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody, without even knowing it, probably has a an
Speaker 2: exit strategy for conversation. And the most common one is
Speaker 2: all right right, the all right That is a way
Speaker 2: to just kind of, you know, say that you're done
Speaker 2: with the conversation. And but yet some people don't pick
Speaker 2: up on that, and that's where you end up in
Speaker 2: those awkward situations.
Speaker 1: John, What annoys you and what annoys me?
Speaker 2: Like little things like talking about people that chew loud,
Speaker 2: people who are just always loud. You got anything, I'll
Speaker 2: give you one way you think about it, go ahead.
Speaker 2: People who talk on speakerphone in public.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, I noticed that the other day.
Speaker 1: I know it stores.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it's it's just not necessary, and it's I
Speaker 2: think it's rude. And another this is actually we were
Speaker 2: at dinner over the weekend and it wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 2: somebody talking on speakerphone. I thought they were, and then
Speaker 2: I realized, oh no, they're doing talk to text aloud
Speaker 2: to where not only are people some people out here
Speaker 2: having phone calls where you can hear everything, but now
Speaker 2: they're they're they're basically letting you know what they want
Speaker 2: to send to somebody to text message because they can hit.
Speaker 1: The talk to text. So I've got one. But you
Speaker 1: got people who are too lazy to put their shopping
Speaker 1: cart back in the car corral. That's pretty common. But
Speaker 1: that's something that comes to mind.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, and that's something that like that
Speaker 2: doesn't typically I guess it can, but that's an annoyance
Speaker 2: to you, even when it doesn't impact you right like
Speaker 2: it didn't hit your car, it didn't get in your way.
Speaker 1: But when you just see somebody was so lazy do
Speaker 1: they especially could walk were fighting next to the to
Speaker 1: the car, cryer like I'm just gonna leave it right
Speaker 1: here inside the parking spot instead.
Speaker 2: And this one's going to make me sound like I've
Speaker 2: got a road rage. And I promise you I'm not
Speaker 2: coming from that place. But maybe I'm in denial. But
Speaker 2: slow turners, you don't need to come to a complete
Speaker 2: stop to make to make your turn. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't need to be going fifty over the speed
Speaker 2: limit when you hit the when you hit a right.
Speaker 2: But when some people take so long to turn, then
Speaker 2: you end up catching a light. And had they you know,
Speaker 2: have they gone a little faster. And I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about speeding. I'm talking about just, you know, not coming
Speaker 2: to nearly a complete stop.
Speaker 3: To your point, I saw a TikTok video yesterday along
Speaker 3: those lines when you're driving down in like say seventy one,
Speaker 3: and a truck goes to get around to another truck
Speaker 3: but doesn't go quite fast enough and you're kind of
Speaker 3: pinned behind them, and you got to wait, oh like
Speaker 3: three or four miles before they finally get around the
Speaker 3: other truck man.
Speaker 1: You are so right about that.
Speaker 3: That using that speakerphone on their phones when they're walking.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I see that so much.
Speaker 2: I mean, we were we were in the waiting, We
Speaker 2: were in the waiting room, or I was in the
Speaker 2: waiting room at an appointment last week, and I mean,
Speaker 2: this woman just having a full I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: like that's part of the family, right, an open personal conversation.
Speaker 2: I can hear hurry app and I can hear the
Speaker 2: other person, and you know, yeah, it just to me,
Speaker 2: it seems kind of rude, but I'm glad you miss
Speaker 2: that may not even be something people notice.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: We think we all have little things that bother us,
Speaker 2: and we probably wish that they didn't bother us.
Speaker 1: But they do so good stuff. All right, We've got.
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Speaker 1: Seven forty seven. Here Konsecuy had it's morning News with.
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Speaker 2: radio eight forty whas it was I guess roughly twenty
Speaker 2: three hours ago where the mayor Mayor Greenberg joined me
Speaker 2: here to break the news that the city, as well
Speaker 2: as the University of Louisville are coming together to honor
Speaker 2: Tom Jeurge, former UFL athletic director. And I think the
Speaker 2: timing of this couldn't be better. And this was, by
Speaker 2: the way in place before the momentum continued to rise
Speaker 2: as far as just good vibes, good energy with U
Speaker 2: OFL Athletics. But I feel like when you are reminded
Speaker 2: that this, you know, this fan base does have a
Speaker 2: really good presence within college baseball where when you've got
Speaker 2: a regional or a super regional like they had here
Speaker 2: at Jim Patterson Stadium last week, and you see it
Speaker 2: sold out, you see the fan base well represented, looking
Speaker 2: like a great atmosphere.
Speaker 1: And then of course in Omaha, A.
Speaker 2: Scott's mentioned throughout the morning and at Sports Updates the
Speaker 2: cardination that showed up there in Omaha. Man, they look good.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean they look like beautiful people. They
Speaker 2: are beautiful people. I'm just saying like, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of them. They're into it, and it's just awesome to see.
Speaker 2: It's a great look for the program, this fan base,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of value in that. And what
Speaker 2: that does is it reminds me of oh, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: been a while since Louisville baseball made this kind of
Speaker 2: a run in the postseason, but it was all started
Speaker 2: with Dan McDonnell. And not to say that there wasn't
Speaker 2: some success with baseball to an extent, but here's the facts.
Speaker 1: Louisville had never.
Speaker 2: Won a postseason game before Dan McDonald got hired, and
Speaker 2: his first year he takes them to the College World Series.
Speaker 2: They've now been there six times. This is their third
Speaker 2: finish in the top four, and they're not finished yet.
Speaker 2: I just say that if they if it ends today,
Speaker 2: which it may, I mean, this is the third time
Speaker 2: they've been a final four team essentially in college baseball.
Speaker 2: And I bring all this up to say that Tom
Speaker 2: Jurich won made the phenomenal hire of Dan McDonald, But
Speaker 2: the foundation was established to where this thing was so
Speaker 2: good for a good stretch, and it's always been relatively good.
Speaker 2: They just had some down years kind of navigating the
Speaker 2: new world with Nil and the portal, and they had
Speaker 2: a really really good team that got to play a
Speaker 2: few games before college baseball and got canceled back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. So I just think when you look at
Speaker 2: the coaches that are in place right now, because Josh
Speaker 2: Hurd has done a phenomenal job at making hires.
Speaker 1: There's really good energy.
Speaker 2: Not only with just the athletic department, but you can
Speaker 2: just tell that when you see when you see coaches
Speaker 2: interacting with one another. You see Jeff Brahms showing up
Speaker 2: at these games, and you see Pat Kelsey supporting all
Speaker 2: the sports here. I mean he was a die hard
Speaker 2: fan of Danny Busboom Kelly when that volleyball team was
Speaker 2: on their run last year. That's infectious. Fans eat that
Speaker 2: stuff up, seeing the coaches working together and supporting one another.
Speaker 2: And I think these coaches are all really good coaches,
Speaker 2: those that are having success. So I don't want to
Speaker 2: I want to act like I don't want to act
Speaker 2: as if you know, Tom Jurich is responsible for all
Speaker 2: of their success. But the athletic department at U of
Speaker 2: L and the foundation that he set makes it to
Speaker 2: where if you can coach, which I think clearly there's
Speaker 2: some good coaches over there on Floyd Street, it's it's established,
Speaker 2: meaning the foundation, the resources are there.
Speaker 1: You can win here.
Speaker 2: It's been proven, and that really got rolling with U
Speaker 2: of L Athletics. Outside of basketball, basketball is a different
Speaker 2: world because of just what Denny Crumb built it to be,
Speaker 2: but everything else Tom laid the foundation for that. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's an exaggeration. This is not hyperbole
Speaker 2: to say that the success that's currently going on and
Speaker 2: the success in the future, it's not possible without the
Speaker 2: run that Tom Juridge had here. And that's why, regardless
Speaker 2: of the messy exit that certainly did happen, he needs
Speaker 2: to have this type of honor because without him, I
Speaker 2: don't know what Louisville Athletics looks like, and I like
Speaker 2: how it looks right now. And again it's not just Tom,
Speaker 2: but certainly he had a huge factor. So very happy
Speaker 2: that that's going to happen later this month, June twenty
Speaker 2: eighth at ten am, So get out there and you
Speaker 2: can support Tom, support you of AL athletics and certainly
Speaker 2: going to be a big day. All Right, We've got
Speaker 2: another update of traffic and weather coming your way, and
Speaker 2: then an update on sports. So stick around here on
Speaker 2: News Radio eight forty whas