Speaker 1: Good Morning, Happy hump Day, Welcome in. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas I expected, had no clue really what
Speaker 1: was going to happen, but I did expect the jury
Speaker 1: to find Brooks Howck and Joseph laws and guilty, which
Speaker 1: they did yesterday. What I didn't really know what to
Speaker 1: expect was and I didn't really give it much thought,
Speaker 1: but the reaction from the community of Barchtown yesterday, as
Speaker 1: you could tell that community was happy to see Crystal
Speaker 1: Rodgers family get justice and to get some closure in
Speaker 1: that situation. But really it's one one big step. It's
Speaker 1: a big step, and maybe this one big step leads
Speaker 1: to other steps taken to hold others accountable for the
Speaker 1: notable homicides that have taken place in Barchtown. But if
Speaker 1: you are somebody from Barchtown, I'm sure you're proud to
Speaker 1: be from there, and clearly what went on with Crystal
Speaker 1: Rogers and Officer ellis Crystal Rogers father Tommy.
Speaker 2: That doesn't represent the community. That doesn't mean that you know.
Speaker 1: But I think if you care about where you're from,
Speaker 1: which most people I would say, do you don't like
Speaker 1: the idea of people thinking of your town and in
Speaker 1: those being the things that come to mind. You know,
Speaker 1: for example, here in Louisville, love Louisville born and raised,
Speaker 1: don't plan on living anywhere else. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: love about this place. But for a while, and I
Speaker 1: think we're slowly making progress. When people outside of Louisville
Speaker 1: think of Louisville, they think of not so great things
Speaker 1: like the Breonna Taylor situation, and unfortunately many other not
Speaker 1: so great stories about our city, some more lighthearted than others.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this may sound silly, but the arrest
Speaker 1: of can't think of the golfer's name while am I
Speaker 1: blanking on his name? The golfer who got arrested here
Speaker 1: in Louisville. Scheffler, Yeah, Scotti Scheffler. What a brain fart
Speaker 1: on my end. So again, like that doesn't represent the
Speaker 1: entire city of Louisville, or even the entire LMPD.
Speaker 2: But you know, you'd.
Speaker 1: Prefer to have stories about your city, your town be
Speaker 1: positive and not necessarily negative. So again, I don't want
Speaker 1: to indicate that this proves that the people of Bargetown
Speaker 1: are good people, but I imagine they probably are hoping that
Speaker 1: there's resolution with the rest of these murders and that
Speaker 1: slowly but surely, yes, people will always remember that this happened,
Speaker 1: but it won't be one of the first things that
Speaker 1: come to mind. I mean, Bargetown in twenty twelve was
Speaker 1: named by the USA today is the most beautiful small
Speaker 1: town in America. And it is beautiful. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is vibrant in the Bourbon community, some states, the Bourbon
Speaker 1: capital the world. You've got Mold Kentucky home. Their downtown
Speaker 1: area is beautiful, something out of a movie. Kind of
Speaker 1: takes you back in time. So again, I had no
Speaker 1: real expectation as far as what the people of Bargtown
Speaker 1: were expecting and what they would do, but you could
Speaker 1: tell yesterday was a big day for that community and
Speaker 1: certainly a good day all so real quick the case itself,
Speaker 1: I mean mean, when you when you consider the fact
Speaker 1: that this was mostly just I mean, this was largely circumstantial.
Speaker 1: Now you did have consistent and damning evidence that was circumstantial,
Speaker 1: but again there and you also had a test the
Speaker 1: testimony of the co conspirator here, Lawson, that was that
Speaker 1: was huge, and that was something that we knew was
Speaker 1: going to be instrumental and then being able to bring
Speaker 1: the charges and of course take this thing to trial
Speaker 1: and get the get the verdict that they want. But
Speaker 1: if you go back and look at some data of
Speaker 1: other cases that are that are similar when it comes
Speaker 1: to just what type of evidence you had, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not uncommon to see somebody end up being found
Speaker 1: not guilty. I mean this is a while back, but
Speaker 1: Casey Anthony, you remember that trial. She was accused of
Speaker 1: murdering her two year old daughter and prosecution post the
Speaker 1: prosecution focused mostly just on her behavior after her daughter's disappearance,
Speaker 1: including lying to the police partying. I think she ended
Speaker 1: up getting like tattoos and stuff the night that her
Speaker 1: daughter was I guess supposedly killed, and her daughter went
Speaker 1: missing for thirty one days before it was reported. Yet
Speaker 1: there was no cause of death determine from the remains
Speaker 1: and no DNA evidence.
Speaker 2: That tied her to the murders.
Speaker 1: So despite all of that heavy circumstantial evidence, they found
Speaker 1: her not guilty. So I guess I think most of us,
Speaker 1: and I can't speak for anybody but by myself, but
Speaker 1: it just felt as if the expectation here was that
Speaker 1: the jury was going to find Brooks how Can his
Speaker 1: accomplice lost and guilty, and they did. But it is
Speaker 1: interesting for me to just see that this is not
Speaker 1: I mean, it never felt like an open and shut
Speaker 1: case because again the defense did their job of reiterating
Speaker 1: as many times as possible. There's no physical evidence, this
Speaker 1: is all circumstantial.
Speaker 2: This is all you know. I'm not saying this is true.
Speaker 1: But they alleged that they became guilty in as far
Speaker 1: as the court of public opinion because of the coverage
Speaker 1: of this trial, and the cops may be out to
Speaker 1: get it, which is really laughable if you think about it.
Speaker 1: But a guilty verdict yesterday, and it didn't take long
Speaker 1: for them to get there, and it also didn't take
Speaker 1: long for them to recommend a life sentence for Brooks Howck.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about this a little.
Speaker 1: Bit more come up later on, because as far as
Speaker 1: what happens next, I think a charge is potentially coming
Speaker 1: or an indictment coming for Rosemary Howck and Nick how Gott.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't shock me at all, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little bit later on. Also, what I want
Speaker 1: to get to coming up on the other side after
Speaker 1: we get an update on traffic and weather. The new
Speaker 1: JCPS superintendent what a thankless job. And I am rooting
Speaker 1: for this gentleman to succeed. And we'll tell you what
Speaker 1: he had to say here recently as he visited his
Speaker 1: first JCPS school earlier this week. All right, an update
Speaker 1: on traving weather coming your way right here right now
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty whas can a new leader
Speaker 1: turn the page for JCPS after many years of I
Speaker 1: guess what we'll call transportation turmoil.
Speaker 2: It's seven to seventeen here a Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's morning news on news radio eight forty whas nit
Speaker 1: coffee with you. And the new JCPS superintendent is doctor
Speaker 1: Brian Yearwood. And he stepped in and was hired recently
Speaker 1: as Marty Polio is on his way out. And I
Speaker 1: think it was Yearwood, Yeah, Yearwood and others and they
Speaker 1: visited one of the schools earlier this week in JCPS.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which elementary school it was, but talk
Speaker 1: to the media afterward, and as you could expect, there
Speaker 1: was some talk about transportation and it sounds as if
Speaker 1: doctor Yearwood is laser focused on transportation. And again, if
Speaker 1: you know the history and even if it's not, even
Speaker 1: if you didn't have the fiasco that you've had really
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago being the big one, and
Speaker 1: it's never been a smooth situation seemingly as far as
Speaker 1: getting kids to school and the bus situation and all that,
Speaker 1: So makes total sense to emphasizes that being something you're
Speaker 1: very focused on. But he met with the district's team
Speaker 1: to ensure that six hundred plus bus drivers are going
Speaker 1: to be ready for the first day of school, which
Speaker 1: will be on August the seventh. So it's a promising
Speaker 1: sign that right out of the gate, this guy is
Speaker 1: at least well aware of what needs to be the focus.
Speaker 1: But I feel like this is one of those things
Speaker 1: where if you mess this up and it may not
Speaker 1: even be your direct fault, right it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to come back from because right now it just
Speaker 1: feels like there's and it's not fair because there's so
Speaker 1: many people at JCPS that do a great job that
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with issues that the school system
Speaker 1: has had. And honestly, I mean, even if there is
Speaker 1: legitimate blame to go towards whoever not only maybe an individual,
Speaker 1: but maybe multiple people responsible for some of the issues.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anybody's out here trying to
Speaker 1: have these situations take place. Now again, you've got to
Speaker 1: be held accountable. So I'm rooting for doctor Brian Yearwood
Speaker 1: to although it seems almost possible to envision but a
Speaker 1: really smooth first day where not that you have a
Speaker 1: perfect day where there's no issue at all, but a
Speaker 1: smooth day all around when it comes to just getting
Speaker 1: kids to school. I mean, this is the biggest school
Speaker 1: system in our state, and man, I really feel like
Speaker 1: this is a thankless job, just because no matter what
Speaker 1: you do, you're facing criticism. And I mean, Marty poyl
Speaker 1: can tell you firsthand what comes with this job. But
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just be honest. When it comes to
Speaker 1: getting kids to school, that's like the first step, right
Speaker 1: and having a successful school system getting them there, and
Speaker 1: that of course became a national story here in Louisville
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and I doubt we'll see
Speaker 1: something quite like that ever again, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but I just I can see it if it ends
Speaker 1: up being a day where even objective folks look back
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, they messed that up.
Speaker 2: It wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1: We weren't asking for perfection, but man, they could have
Speaker 1: done a lot better. I think people are going to
Speaker 1: be done with this guy, which is unfair. So I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for him. I hope it works out. We'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about this later on because there's
Speaker 1: a new software they're utilizing. And if i'm if I'm
Speaker 1: doctor Yearwood, I'm not going to be joining the IT
Speaker 1: tech team or anything like that, but I would know
Speaker 1: how important it is to get this as smooth as possible.
Speaker 1: That I would I would know how to use the
Speaker 1: software myself, front and back. But right now, if you
Speaker 1: want to help out, meaning you you do your part
Speaker 1: as a parent making sure you have all the information
Speaker 1: that you have, you can go to jcpsfirst day dot com.
Speaker 1: They've got a bus teller within that system at JCPS
Speaker 1: first day dot com and you can verify your child's
Speaker 1: bus stop.
Speaker 2: So meet him halfway, help him get.
Speaker 1: Off to a good start here, because again, it's a
Speaker 1: thankless job, and I don't envy him. All right, We've
Speaker 1: got another update of trapping and weather coming your way. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll get another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald, So
Speaker 1: stick around right here on news Radio eight forty Whas
Speaker 1: It is in thirty five year Kentucky and it's morning
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Speaker 1: listen live at whas dot com. So a new report
Speaker 1: shows that twenty seven percent of Americans have a side hustle.
Speaker 1: And maybe you don't know what a side hustle is,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you do, but a way in which you
Speaker 1: can do a job on the side that is not
Speaker 1: your everyday gig where you make a living, but you
Speaker 1: can just make some extra money. And with the economy
Speaker 1: being what it is, I feel like that's never been
Speaker 1: more needed than it is right now. But that twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent is actually lower than what it used to be,
Speaker 1: despite seemingly they're being more of a need for side hustles,
Speaker 1: just for people to live a little bit more comfortably.
Speaker 1: So current side hustles that are becoming really really popular
Speaker 1: as far as just as that, and I'm sure this
Speaker 1: change is often but mobile car washing services. So if
Speaker 1: you've got like your own side hustle of being an
Speaker 1: auto detailer, you can at the time as of now,
Speaker 1: you can make some money. There's low startup costs and
Speaker 1: high convenience when it comes to just people would rather
Speaker 1: do that than maybe go through And I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like if you were good at what you do,
Speaker 1: you will always find work because people want their car
Speaker 1: taking care of. And if you can do it for
Speaker 1: less than maybe a company that does it as a corporation,
Speaker 1: and it's just a side hustle for you to make
Speaker 1: a little bit of money, then I get it. This
Speaker 1: is something that I was not aware of. But selling
Speaker 1: stock photos so you can take photos that you own
Speaker 1: and instead of paying professional photographers to go make stock
Speaker 1: photos for these companies that need photos for content, I'm
Speaker 1: sure if somebody's just doing that as a side hustle.
Speaker 1: And the phones we have in our pocket, the camera
Speaker 1: on them is amazing. So that's one I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought of, but makes total sense. Crypto trading is one
Speaker 1: of the popular side hustles right now in America. And
Speaker 1: then pet sitting that surprises me a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I think people will always want their pets to be
Speaker 1: taken care of, and now people are earning money to
Speaker 1: go watch your pet for a while, and then the
Speaker 1: other is freelancing food and grocery delivery. So I guess
Speaker 1: you can pay somebody less than what you would pay
Speaker 1: Kroger or Walmart when they bring when they bring your groceries. Now,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons may be why you're seeing the
Speaker 1: percentage dropping as far as those that do have a
Speaker 1: side hustle that brings them money that helps them live
Speaker 1: more comfortably, is because it's become harder to monetize certain things.
Speaker 1: Like I never did this because I never believed you
Speaker 1: could make money, but apparently you could taking online surveys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you'd have to. To me, it
Speaker 1: always just seem like a scam, Like nobody they're really
Speaker 1: going to pay you to take a survey, And I
Speaker 1: guess they would, but you'd have to do a lot
Speaker 1: of them for it to be kind of worth your while.
Speaker 1: But this is what used to be. I mean, this
Speaker 1: was my side hustle that really was just something I
Speaker 1: love doing, and then I ended up I could make
Speaker 1: a little money doing and then it turned into me
Speaker 1: kind of launching that into the career that I have now.
Speaker 1: But blogging for ad revenue, I mean that became a
Speaker 1: real challenge. That was ten years ago whenever I stopped
Speaker 1: sort of prioritizing that. But she used to be able
Speaker 1: to if you had good traffic, you could make legitimate money.
Speaker 1: And now it's just nowadays when it comes to digital dollars,
Speaker 1: there's just not as much there.
Speaker 2: And then this is one that I was not aware of,
Speaker 2: but it makes sense. Uber and lyft.
Speaker 1: It's still a thing, but in a lot of regions
Speaker 1: it's no longer viewed as really worth doing if in
Speaker 1: fact you were doing it for extra income and it
Speaker 1: taking up a little bit of your time. So right
Speaker 1: now there's a this is a this is a report
Speaker 1: from Killerstartups dot com that drivers have recently reported that
Speaker 1: after gas, maintenance and taxes, their hourly rate dropped to
Speaker 1: about fourteen dollars an hour all things considered, which barely
Speaker 1: covered the costs.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure.
Speaker 1: There are drivers that have done in a long time,
Speaker 1: certainly in areas where it's in high demand, and it
Speaker 1: can be not only a good living, not only a cito,
Speaker 1: so it can maybe be a good living, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it certainly has become harder to do it
Speaker 1: in certain areas, Like I would love to know if
Speaker 1: you are an uber driver or a lift driver and
Speaker 1: it has not only become a side hustle, but something
Speaker 1: that you did at one point maybe that made you
Speaker 1: a little bit of money to where you felt like
Speaker 1: this is worth doing. How much has that changed with
Speaker 1: gas prices? Although they're down now as we speak, they've
Speaker 1: they've gotten lower and seemed to be training in the
Speaker 1: right direction, but that hadn't always been the case. And really, again,
Speaker 1: the cost of everything is expensive. John, you used to
Speaker 1: do the door dashing right.
Speaker 2: With the food? Was it uber Eat? It was a
Speaker 2: grub Hub grub Hub back during COVID, Now was that
Speaker 2: did you feel like?
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were days where it was clearly worthwhile
Speaker 1: and then days where it's like, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: I guess I made a little bit of money, But
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Think that was great about when I did grub Hub
Speaker 3: is that you could schedule a time frame and even
Speaker 3: if you didn't get any orders, you would get paid
Speaker 3: for the amount of time that you signed up to
Speaker 3: do stuff for. So there were times where it was
Speaker 3: worth it, But there are also may be times where
Speaker 3: you're doing, you know, a whole bunch and maybe you
Speaker 3: feel like you're not getting any money worth out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like this is going to be
Speaker 1: a This is going to be a very fast moving
Speaker 1: thing as far as just you got to strike whenever
Speaker 1: there's the demand for it and you can make money,
Speaker 1: because it seems like those things just don't last as
Speaker 1: long anymore. As far as just things that that if
Speaker 1: you can provide that service on the side, somebody will
Speaker 1: pay you. I mean, again, there's some that are timeless,
Speaker 1: but again there's others that after a while, you giving
Speaker 1: your time to do it doesn't make you as much money.
Speaker 1: Or again, AI could do a lot of things now
Speaker 1: that people used to do.
Speaker 2: As a side hustle.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got an update of traving weather coming
Speaker 1: your way right here on news.
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: So I am early on in month two here in
Speaker 1: the saddle as the host of Kentucky and Its Morning News,
Speaker 1: which still kind of doesn't seem real. But one thing
Speaker 1: I've learned is that right now, and maybe this changes
Speaker 1: at some point, it's not it's not been common to
Speaker 1: see a big news item that has general interest that
Speaker 1: again it's a national story, and regardless of political affiliation,
Speaker 1: the vast majority seems to be on the same page,
Speaker 1: and that.
Speaker 2: Is what we have here. It's rare, but the Epstein situation.
Speaker 1: So yesterday at a press conference, there was a question
Speaker 1: asked that wasn't wasn't for Donald Trump. It was actually
Speaker 1: for someone else, but Trump wanted to step in and
Speaker 1: I guess question while the question was being asked.
Speaker 2: And here here's what that sounded like.
Speaker 1: I just send your.
Speaker 3: Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
Speaker 2: This guy's been talked about for years.
Speaker 3: You're asking we have Texas, we have this, we have
Speaker 3: all of the things, and are people still talking about
Speaker 3: this guy?
Speaker 1: This great?
Speaker 2: That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Well, it really is not unbelievable at all. And I
Speaker 1: don't say that to criticize Trump. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised by his comments there, but we also live in
Speaker 1: a world where people just say things knowing it's not true.
Speaker 1: Even if you think it's unbelievable, nobody can be surprised
Speaker 1: that the recent decision to just tell us, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of over. You know, when it comes to
Speaker 1: when it comes to transparency and accountability, we don't it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's over.
Speaker 1: So, I mean that was the expectation. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think if you ask anybody that's being honest, what would
Speaker 1: the temperature be in America here if in fact we
Speaker 1: got what we got earlier this week, which is that
Speaker 1: it's essentially over and there's no new list, or there's
Speaker 1: no list, there's no I mean, basically there's nothing left here.
Speaker 1: We've got Epstein, who we don't really know what happened,
Speaker 1: but they tell us that he did in fact kill himself.
Speaker 1: And of course he was involved in a sex trafficking
Speaker 1: ring that had thousands of victims, many of whom were minor,
Speaker 1: and obviously he ended up. I mean, throughout that trial, testimony,
Speaker 1: core document, the investigation overall, I mean, it confirmed the
Speaker 1: reality of what happened. But now you just have I mean,
Speaker 1: what it stems from is the frustration from those who
Speaker 1: look at this as a cover up or incomplete justice,
Speaker 1: because these things just don't add up. How could this
Speaker 1: have gone on? And it play out the way that
Speaker 1: it did during this trial after Epstein was charged in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and everything play out the way that it
Speaker 1: did since then, including comments just a few months ago
Speaker 1: about a document being on a desk and now said
Speaker 1: document doesn't exist. So as delusional as that as that
Speaker 1: seems that it's an insult. It's an insult to our
Speaker 1: intelligence to expect people to just believe that. It's Also, though,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, it's not the easiest situation here,
Speaker 1: because you could be you could be tied to Epstein
Speaker 1: and have nothing to do with the awful things he
Speaker 1: was involved in, or even any knowledge of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty clear. But also think about this, for those
Speaker 1: who just say, I mean, what do they think, we're stupid?
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty stupid thing to assume that
Speaker 1: there'd be like a physical notepad where they're documenting for
Speaker 1: what I mean, like keeping it to be That just
Speaker 1: seems I mean, who would do that? That seems insane
Speaker 1: to think about. But anyways, we're all at least united
Speaker 1: on one front that this is nonsense.
Speaker 2: Nobody believes what they've told us in regards to this situation.
Speaker 1: But I doubt we get any legitimate updates, But that
Speaker 1: won't keep people from talking about this, probably until the
Speaker 1: end of time. All Right, we got an update of
Speaker 1: traffick and whether coming your way. Bobby Ellis will tell
Speaker 1: us if we've got any improvement when it comes to
Speaker 1: the traffick situation on the waters, and we'll get an
Speaker 1: update from Matt Melosovich on the forecast for today, and
Speaker 1: then Scott Fitzgerald back in for another sports update, So
Speaker 1: stick with us right here on news Radio eight forty
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