Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. It is hump Day.
Speaker 2: Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Kentucky and This Morning News,
Speaker 2: Coffee and Company right here on news Radio weeight forty whas.
Speaker 1: The gang is here.
Speaker 2: The crew has assembled, myself, Nick Coffee, Scott Fitzgerald, We've
Speaker 2: got John Shannon and of course mister Radio Rick Ryder alongside,
Speaker 2: and hump Day. Hump Day's here, fellas. I'm starting to
Speaker 2: hit that, all right, the countdown is on. So I'm
Speaker 2: on vacation, not next week with the week after and
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. But the time's going to drag
Speaker 2: until I get there. But also, I know I've said
Speaker 2: it a million times, why not say it once more?
Speaker 2: How has the summer gone by this fast?
Speaker 1: It has? Brother, I cannot believe.
Speaker 3: In fact, I've got so much sports today that will
Speaker 3: not get to it all.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about that as I was preparing it.
Speaker 3: We're now officially entering fall crossover season because training camps.
Speaker 3: Everybody's reporting training camps.
Speaker 1: Dude, there is so much sound, there's so much news.
Speaker 2: How about the drama at these conference media days? That
Speaker 2: it's going to be fun. It's like middle school drama.
Speaker 2: They just they're caddy. College football produces the caddiest environment
Speaker 2: as far as just you know, it's little jabs at
Speaker 2: one another and and it's all really just about you
Speaker 2: only played twelve games in the regular season, so you
Speaker 2: try to do everything you can to let your words
Speaker 2: maybe influence how people perceive you. And that's certainly going
Speaker 2: on before the seasons even started.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was. I was listening to signetti yesterday and
Speaker 1: he me, I wait to talk about that.
Speaker 3: He reminds me of my government high school teacher when
Speaker 3: he would he would talk. He he was a long pauser,
Speaker 3: so he'd say something and they'd stop and then he'd
Speaker 3: get a jab in.
Speaker 1: He's very passive aggressive.
Speaker 2: I don't think people can pick up on his humor
Speaker 2: right away exactly because he he doesn't really deliver it
Speaker 2: in a way that people instantly realize. Okay, he was
Speaker 2: being funny there. He was being being a smart ass exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the summer is flying by. We had my son
Speaker 2: had his first Uh I mean they're doing conditioning now
Speaker 2: for five year old flag football Scott.
Speaker 1: We had conditioning, Yeah, started him early, right, Wow, what
Speaker 1: does that entail?
Speaker 2: So cone drills, high knees, bear crawls, those kind of things,
Speaker 2: just sprints. They did some snapping of the ball last night.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're starting them early, and I'm loving it.
Speaker 2: But it's a lot, yeah, a lot seeing the parent.
Speaker 3: Do you still go out and watch all the practices now?
Speaker 2: So he's so young, and that's what's crazy is that
Speaker 2: he's he just turned five. This is his second year
Speaker 2: playing flag football. He has played baseball three years now,
Speaker 2: te ball, i should say, and then he's now in
Speaker 2: his second league of basketball. So I don't think I
Speaker 2: played anything organized until probably about three to four months
Speaker 2: down the line from where he is right now. So yes,
Speaker 2: we stay because if we left, he would he would
Speaker 2: lose his mind because, you know, especially early on because
Speaker 2: he's just getting to know some of his teammates and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's uh, we're starting him early. And last night,
Speaker 2: sitting there in the in the hot, humid evening, I
Speaker 2: just remember thinking, Okay, this is life now.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Now a lot of my free time will be doing
Speaker 2: whatever I need to do because my kids play sports,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't have it any other way. But I've
Speaker 2: yet to even get to the further complaint that you
Speaker 2: hear from parents, which is just how.
Speaker 3: Expensive it is almost having kids in anything, you don't
Speaker 3: never remember the magical moment when I first dropped my
Speaker 3: son off at practice and I didn't have to stay
Speaker 3: at practice anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, the angels sang from the heavens above. And
Speaker 1: I went home and I told my wife, I said,
Speaker 1: what do we do? You know, we don't, and you
Speaker 1: get to your point, but it's a good one.
Speaker 2: Do we do?
Speaker 1: Right, It's a very good way because we're doing that now.
Speaker 3: In fact, we get We're going to Cincinnati this weekend
Speaker 3: to see my son and he's working all weekend, but
Speaker 3: we're still going to see him.
Speaker 1: And my wife's like, well, he's working all weekend. I said, hello,
Speaker 1: I'm here. That's just a nice little getaway.
Speaker 3: There's a big music fest in downtown Cincinnati this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's you and I hanging out. You'll find
Speaker 2: all that. You'll find your way to Ryan Geist or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: I must stop by Moreland first.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Then I mentioned the Cincinnati breweries I don't.
Speaker 2: Even know about, but I know when you got a
Speaker 2: weekend trip, you're going to find a way to get
Speaker 2: to a Bruce.
Speaker 1: That's just that's your I know your brandy on you,
Speaker 1: I'm argue, man, man be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I've yet to experience just the cost associated
Speaker 2: with it. But speaking of that, I'm balancing the the
Speaker 2: good and kind of sad, which is really good that
Speaker 2: I won't have to pay for daycare anymore. Sorry, I
Speaker 2: mean the countdown is actually more fitting for that than
Speaker 2: my vacation because when he starts kindergarten, we no longer
Speaker 2: have daycare, which again it's kind of sad that he's
Speaker 2: start in kindergarten because my goodness. But also, man, I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Is it good?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: This is this is day? Good for you?
Speaker 2: Yep, good stuff. Happy humped everybody. Stick with us. We'll
Speaker 2: have some fun this morning. A lot to get into,
Speaker 2: so don't go anywhere. We'll get your first update on
Speaker 2: the traffic out there from Bobby Ellis. Also, we'll get
Speaker 2: an updated look at the forecast for Matt Melosovich as
Speaker 2: we roll along. Scott'll be back with sports in about
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes or so, so stick around right here on
Speaker 2: New's Radio eight forty w h ass. Craig Greenberg made
Speaker 2: a big announcement yesterday as the city of Louisville has
Speaker 2: dropped its sanctuary city status. So Louisville is officially changing
Speaker 2: its policy and will no longer be considered a sanctuary city,
Speaker 2: a decision prompted really by threats from the Department of Justice. Uh,
Speaker 2: and of course just the growing federal pressure to fall
Speaker 2: in line and help Donald Trump do what he wants
Speaker 2: to do, which is to get out all illegal immigrants from.
Speaker 1: The United States.
Speaker 2: Again, one thing that I really feel of all the well, hey,
Speaker 2: you're you're you know, you're leaving out an important detail. Hey, uh,
Speaker 2: there's there's some half truth there. I think one that
Speaker 2: that just from from my years only, I just don't
Speaker 2: think it's mentioned enough. And when it comes to the
Speaker 2: amount of illegal immigrants that are deported, there are previous
Speaker 2: presidents from the Democratic side that actually had a bigger
Speaker 2: push as far as just the numbers. So clearly those
Speaker 2: that are so bothered by this, maybe more so it's
Speaker 2: because they're just bothered by Donald Trump. But also I
Speaker 2: think more than anything, is that it's just how it's done.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a whole lot of noise about the amount
Speaker 2: of immigrants that Barack Obama deported, but with Trump, I
Speaker 2: think he wants the noise out there that he's doing it,
Speaker 2: that he's coming to get you out of here if
Speaker 2: you're not legally here. And also just some of the
Speaker 2: can some of the the uh, what's the best way
Speaker 2: to describe it. I guess how they're going about obtaining
Speaker 2: these folks and getting them back to where they originally
Speaker 2: came from or just you know, out of the United
Speaker 2: States or in prison here in the United States or
Speaker 2: something like that. So anyhow, this so for those who
Speaker 2: don't know that, the sanctuary city refers to jurisdictions that
Speaker 2: limit cooperation with the federal immigrant immigration authorities. So this
Speaker 2: is this is something for that Louisville adopted. It's a policy.
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, more Metro police declined to enforce the
Speaker 2: federal immigration detainers. So this is a practice that had
Speaker 2: remained in place, you know, since then. So in May,
Speaker 2: DHS released a list of five hundred plus sanctuary jurisdictions,
Speaker 2: in Louisville of course, was included, and since then the
Speaker 2: dj has threatened to sue these non compliant cities and
Speaker 2: potentially withhold federal funding. So even ag Pambondi cited Louisville
Speaker 2: as an example when mentioning cities that they will take
Speaker 2: action against, They're not going to hesitate taking legal action,
Speaker 2: and it could be millions of dollars lost if, in
Speaker 2: fact Louisville didn't make this change. And Mayor Greenberg has
Speaker 2: decided to make this change.
Speaker 5: I've been assured by the United States Department of Justice
Speaker 5: that if we reinstate, the forty eight hour detainers for
Speaker 5: inmates who've been arrested for crimes, Louisville will be taken
Speaker 5: off the federal sanctuary city list. We have tens of
Speaker 5: thousands of immigrant families in Louisville. We do not want
Speaker 5: to see highly coordinated and often violent federal enforcement action here,
Speaker 5: especially in workplaces, residential areas, schools, places of worship, parks,
Speaker 5: and other areas where law abiding people gather.
Speaker 2: So detainers are I mean, that's a standard practice in Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and Louisville has been the only city in the state
Speaker 2: that did not comply. And Greenberg did emphasize that this
Speaker 2: effects fewer than one hundred inmates per year out of
Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of immigrant families that we have
Speaker 2: here in Louisville. So I mean, I'm only speaking for
Speaker 2: myself here, just my observation and not at all saying
Speaker 2: that this is for certain the way Mayor Greenberg feels.
Speaker 2: But if so, it wouldn't shock me that I think
Speaker 2: this is really I mean, it looks like compliance, which
Speaker 2: it is compliance, but to me it sounds more so
Speaker 2: like damage control. I mean, you've got cooperation here with
Speaker 2: ice detainers, but it's also you know, making it. I
Speaker 2: think this is not about rounding up immigrants when it
Speaker 2: comes to Mayor Greenberg. I think it's more about avoiding
Speaker 2: the chaos that could come if you don't make this change.
Speaker 2: It's a calculated decision, I think, and I think it
Speaker 2: makes total sense. And of course protecting federal funding that's huge.
Speaker 2: So again, one key detail here that I think is
Speaker 2: really important to the context of this is that this
Speaker 2: affects fewer than one hundred inmates a year that end
Speaker 2: up in the metro polite, you know, metro corrections. So
Speaker 2: all right, we've got another sports Actually we haven't even
Speaker 2: had a sports update just yet. We're gonna get our
Speaker 2: first one of the morning coming up here in just
Speaker 2: a moment. But first let's get an updated look at
Speaker 2: the roadways out there. Bobby Ellis will check on the
Speaker 2: traffic for us, and we'll get a look at today's
Speaker 2: forecast from wlkis Matt Melosovich.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky.
Speaker 2: In is Morning News with coffee and company right here
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Speaker 1: Five thirty six here in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: In is morning News, Coffee and company right here on
Speaker 2: news RADIOA forty whas Nick Coffee. That is me and
Speaker 2: the prin of darkness has passed away. Ozzy Osbourne died
Speaker 2: at the age of seventy six yesterday. A true rock icon,
Speaker 2: of course, the legendary frontman of Black Sabbath and then
Speaker 2: had a hell of a solo career. And also some
Speaker 2: may not think of this when they think of Ozzy
Speaker 2: Osbourne at first, but reality TV star John Shannon's with
Speaker 2: me here, John, when you you know, not to make
Speaker 2: you sound like an old man, but you're older than
Speaker 2: I am. When you think of Ozzy Osbourne, what comes
Speaker 2: to mind initially?
Speaker 6: Well, of course, his his success with Black Sabbath, and
Speaker 6: then his I followed him a little bit more in
Speaker 6: his so in his solo career, and then you know,
Speaker 6: with his you know, the stuff that he wrote and
Speaker 6: did with Randy with his late guitarist Randy Rhodes. Being
Speaker 6: a Texan, I'm also very aware of the fact that
Speaker 6: he he took a whiz on the Alamo back back
Speaker 6: in eighty two and was banned from the state for
Speaker 6: ten years until he apologized to the mayor of San
Speaker 6: Antonio for it.
Speaker 2: Those are things that you know, you would remember if
Speaker 2: you're from Texas, because you don't off to see somebody
Speaker 2: do that was Did he just think it would Was
Speaker 2: that him being the rock and roll hooligan or was
Speaker 2: it did he have some kind of beef with San Antonio,
Speaker 2: because that seems personal.
Speaker 6: That was just I believe they were in town for
Speaker 6: he was in town for a concert. He just that's
Speaker 6: that was Ozzy being Ozzy at the time and being,
Speaker 6: like you said, a rock and roll hooligan and thought
Speaker 6: it'd be be funny to do that, not understanding the
Speaker 6: history of what that place was and what it means
Speaker 6: to people in Texas.
Speaker 2: And clearly I'm sure they took it personal and that
Speaker 2: apology was was was necessary, no doubt. Now, when I
Speaker 2: think of Ozzy Osbourne, I mean again, I'm showing my
Speaker 2: age here. I think of him in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was a known put it this way,
Speaker 2: he was a known celebrity, and I knew he was
Speaker 2: certainly a legend in the rock and roll world, but
Speaker 2: I just knew him as the guy. And I did
Speaker 2: not even really know much about Black Sabbath. I'd heard
Speaker 2: of him, but again I just wasn't exposed to that
Speaker 2: because I wasn't alive at the time. That was a
Speaker 2: big deal. Now, when he left Black Sabbath, he was
Speaker 2: booted right like. It wasn't a situation where he just
Speaker 2: decided to go on his own. He was kicked out.
Speaker 2: And it's probably just because he had a lot of
Speaker 2: advices that could probably get in the way of a
Speaker 2: successful band.
Speaker 6: They were like any rock and roll band at that time.
Speaker 6: They all had their vices, they all had their issues,
Speaker 6: and it all kind of would come to a head
Speaker 6: in the studio trying to cut records and issues on
Speaker 6: tour two with abuses of substances and alcohol and and yeah.
Speaker 6: So that led to him going going onto his solo,
Speaker 6: very successful solo career, which you know, it's funny. He
Speaker 6: was three years younger than I am when he went
Speaker 6: into the rock and roll hall of fame the first time.
Speaker 2: Wow, that does speak to just how throughout his entire
Speaker 2: cur mean, again, there's a lot of shenanigans that stand
Speaker 2: out more so than maybe the music itself, but certainly
Speaker 2: was was phenomenal at that which is what gave him
Speaker 2: the platform to showcase that he was.
Speaker 1: He was quite the character.
Speaker 2: But his health, it really it really started to suffer.
Speaker 2: I think two in twenty twenty he had Parkinson's, which
Speaker 2: of course that was that was that was that. But
Speaker 2: at that point I think he'd already been battling a
Speaker 2: lot of health issues. Now when I think of him,
Speaker 2: when I think of him, I mean it goes back
Speaker 2: to a show that I don't often think of. I
Speaker 2: forgot about, but MTV's The Osbourne's. That was the first
Speaker 2: ever show like that where it's a family like it's
Speaker 2: a family reality TV show. So again, it's not an
Speaker 2: exaggeration to say Ozzy Osbourne paved the way for their
Speaker 2: Kardashians to have what they have now. Again, their level
Speaker 2: of fame before that show is just simply because of
Speaker 2: the name and the connection and I guess the Hollywood status,
Speaker 2: but they were just famous for kind of being famous,
Speaker 2: and then they. I mean, I don't know if we'll
Speaker 2: ever see anything quite like what the Kardashians have turned
Speaker 2: into as far as just all the different variations of
Speaker 2: the reality shows. But I mean, think about, you know,
Speaker 2: think about others that were big, and this may seem
Speaker 2: like I forgot some of these shows existed, But Jessica
Speaker 2: Simpson and Nicholas Shay had a super successful television show
Speaker 2: Runs House with run DMC on it. Like those shows
Speaker 2: never existed, And the first one that made it look like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this may work was the Osbourne.
Speaker 6: And the other and the other big rock and roll
Speaker 6: win that followed Ozzy's was Gene Simmons fan.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people like me that didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily grow up when those musicians and or these bands
Speaker 2: we were at their peak. Therefore, like that, that's that's
Speaker 2: how I know a little bit about him, which you know,
Speaker 2: I'm glad, you know, I didn't experience Ozzy Osbourne in
Speaker 2: his prime, but I got to see the character that
Speaker 2: he is, and I got to hear him say this
Speaker 2: a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: We just yelled.
Speaker 2: I feel like every ten seconds in that show he
Speaker 2: would just yell share it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he would and you know that kind of helped
Speaker 6: the success off of that kind of revived him and
Speaker 6: helped him do oz Fest and kind of have a
Speaker 6: second act in his solo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And for you know, folks that were younger at
Speaker 2: the time, like me, I'm thinking, Okay, this guy's kind
Speaker 2: of wild.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, he's a character for sure. Thanks Jean.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to an update on the traffic.
Speaker 2: We'll see what we've got going on the roadways here
Speaker 2: with Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 1: He'll get a square it away.
Speaker 2: Also another look at Matt Melosa, but just forecast from
Speaker 2: WLK Y and Roory O'Neil set to join us at
Speaker 2: five forty five right here on Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 2: Happy hump Day, Kentucky, Anda it is a Wednesday, Nation
Speaker 2: of Kentucky and his morning news with Coffee and Company
Speaker 2: here on News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That's
Speaker 2: me and he is Rory Oneil of NBC News. Rory,
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the rich. There've always been a gap
Speaker 2: between the rich and the poor, but at the same time,
Speaker 2: a new study says the gap is growing. Other reachers,
Speaker 2: other research is telling us that financial insecurity is causing
Speaker 2: significant mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Tell us about this gap between the rich and the poor.
Speaker 2: And again, maybe I'm not tasking you with this because
Speaker 2: that would be unfair for me to do.
Speaker 1: But the economy is not great right now. It seems well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty good.
Speaker 4: It's unemployment is low, wages are rising. You know, there
Speaker 4: have been worse and yes, I realize wages maybe playing
Speaker 4: ketchup after that big spike of inflation, but you know,
Speaker 4: it could be worse. I know, though, it's so uneven
Speaker 4: out there. But they've discovered this thing called money dysmorphia,
Speaker 4: essentially that you know, when you look at this disconnect
Speaker 4: out there, you're looking through your phone. How come everyone's
Speaker 4: in Rome this summer and I'm at home? Or how
Speaker 4: come everyone's traveling and I'm stuck here and I can't
Speaker 4: afford to put into a t bone steak because beat
Speaker 4: prices are so high, and a lot of that envy
Speaker 4: is out there, and it's being made worse by social media.
Speaker 4: They're actually measuring widespread financial insecurity. Sixty nine percent of
Speaker 4: Americans feel insecure about their finances right now, and that's
Speaker 4: not a good place. And actually a lot of Americans
Speaker 4: about two thirds of us actually have a lot of
Speaker 4: concern and anxiety over the government's debt level as well.
Speaker 2: Not surprising at all. And when it comes to just
Speaker 2: folks being insecure about their financial situation, I wonder if
Speaker 2: some of that is true worry and fear, or if
Speaker 2: it's more so just maybe maybe they used to feel
Speaker 2: like they were in a little bit of a different
Speaker 2: position when it comes to the class system. But do
Speaker 2: we know, and I'm putting you on the spot here
Speaker 2: when cause it seems people are still spending money on
Speaker 2: things that they really enjoy doing, they're making sacrifices, or
Speaker 2: they're just living a little bit more so paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 2: Is there any specific industry that is being hurt by
Speaker 2: folks making adjustments to sort of continue to live the
Speaker 2: lifestyle they want with with again things still being very expensive.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's that's a lot that I told you.
Speaker 1: I told you I was putting you on spot, that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Look, we've seen a fall off in
Speaker 4: domestic travel. We're still seeing a lot of that bucket
Speaker 4: list travel, big trips to Europe and Asia. That demand
Speaker 4: is still very high. Airlines, though, are now peeling back
Speaker 4: some of the seat inventory. They're flying domestically, so fewer
Speaker 4: people go into Vegas, Miami, Orlando, New York City, that
Speaker 4: kind of thing. So that's interesting where they're see some pullback,
Speaker 4: and that spills over into hotels and restaurants as well.
Speaker 4: You know, we're seeing people slow down in the car markets,
Speaker 4: you know, because the prices of cars have gotten so high,
Speaker 4: averaging around forty three thousand dollars for a new car.
Speaker 4: People are trying to you know, keep their old clunker
Speaker 4: going another year or two if they can.
Speaker 1: Things like that.
Speaker 4: Small ways, I think people are trimming things back because
Speaker 4: you know, we're seeing so much higher insurance premiums and
Speaker 4: electric bills and all that other stuff eating away at
Speaker 4: the paycheck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense when it comes to automobiles because
Speaker 2: I think sometimes when people do get a new car,
Speaker 2: it's not always a real necessity. It's okay, I probably
Speaker 2: can wait a few more years, but you know what,
Speaker 2: why not, I really like this one. I can afford it,
Speaker 2: So maybe, yeah, that makes total sense. I can see
Speaker 2: people holding onto those cars a little bit longer than
Speaker 2: they used to.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about GASA.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the situation guys that continues to deteriorate. We've got
Speaker 2: millions in the region running short on food and supplies.
Speaker 2: What can you tell us as far as the latest
Speaker 2: with this this really miserable situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had some more strikes overnight, Israeli strikes in
Speaker 4: Gods that killed at least twenty one people. Reports on
Speaker 4: the ground say half the victims are women and children.
Speaker 4: We're seeing more and more people who are being killed
Speaker 4: while trying to get food at these distribution sites, and
Speaker 4: a lot more pressure on Israel to try to allow
Speaker 4: more of that food distribution to happen. Groups like the
Speaker 4: UN and World Food Kitchen are saying, you know, people
Speaker 4: are near famine in Gaza, which once was home to
Speaker 4: more than two million people, So there's a lot more
Speaker 4: pressure on Israel to allow more of those resources to
Speaker 4: get in there. Doesn't seem though, like we're going to
Speaker 4: see any significant change in the policies right now. The
Speaker 4: fear is that a lot of the food that's meant
Speaker 4: to help the victims, the true Palestinian victims there instead
Speaker 4: gets siphoned off by Hamas and it turns into support
Speaker 4: for that terror group.
Speaker 1: Miserable stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's brutal no doubt. Rory is always you
Speaker 2: are great. We appreciate your time and we will talk
Speaker 2: to you some.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nick. All right, that's Rory and Neil in BC News.
Speaker 1: Let's do this. We'll get an updated look at.
Speaker 2: The roadways out there with with Bobby Ellis. I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, Rory O'Neil, I ask, I ask a lot
Speaker 2: of Rory, put him on the spot with questions he's
Speaker 2: probably not expecting, throw things at him. The last thing
Speaker 2: I need to do is throw more on his plate
Speaker 2: by having him be the guy that tells us how
Speaker 2: the roadways are looking in louisvill Kentucky when he's not here.