If you are a student abroad that has had dreams of studying in the United States, it could be your social media, your tweets that are a factor and if you if you if you can get a student visa or not. It is six oh five here Kazucky has morning news on news radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you. We've got the full crew here. You just heard John Shannon with his newscast. We'll have sports coming your way here shortly, and of course John Alden alongside.
So yes, your your tweets could tank your dreams of studying in the United States. And I don't I don't think that that's a controversial thing by any means, but maybe maybe others see it see it differently. So what we now know is that the State Department they announced that student visa applications must make their so those who apply, and I guess throughout the application process, you must make your social media accounts public for review with the US
Counselor Office scan. They're they're looking for probably anything and everything. But I guess what the realcus here is any hostility toward America that has been expressed on your social media accounts. So as visa processing restarts after a trump Ara pause. This this is a new role, and of course it's raising some eyebrows. And I don't think that that's something that like you shouldn't do. I mean, I guess it comes down to, uh, you know, yeah, I mean, maybe
I'm wrong here. I'm just trying to think through what would be what would make this something that is crossing the line as far as you vetting, vetting a potential student who is coming here from another country, especially considering the current climate across the world. So I know there are many of you listening right now that has had a moment. Maybe it's once, maybe it's every now and then where you realize just sort of how online we are now with social media. Everything seems to be now
powered by the World Wide Web. We get most of our information now from social media, and that's a scary thing because a lot of things you see on social media is not real, and we have a lot of people who believe it. So maybe you know you've had those moments where you realize, Man, I'm kind of glad this wasn't a thing when I was younger, for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons maybe your younger self might have expressed things without awareness of what it
could do to your long term on social media. Maybe you know you, maybe you were out doing something and you know, just being a kid. Maybe in your mind at the time it's harmless. But if that took place more so in the modern era, you know what, people would have had their phones out and they might have been inclined to start videoing you if you were doing something that they felt like might get some attention on
social media. I mean, this isn't new because I think there are people on the younger side that are professionals that have graduated college, maybe they already have started a family that when they were younger, social media was a thing Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I mean, these these platforms certainly aren't new. But for me whenever I was when I was a kid, and I mean a young young kid,
the Internet was brand new. It was it was dial up, and I felt like, as somebody who doesn't have a whole lot of patience, it really wasn't worth getting on the Internet because of how long it took to do anything. Now, I didn't know any different because I'd never experienced past internet before. Because it didn't exist at that time. But yes, if you are somebody abroad that wants to apply for a student visa to come to the United States, you were going to be required to make your social media
public and they'll monitor anything and everything. And that has to be a little bit of a frightening thing, maybe a big time frightening thing, because even if you feel pretty good about yeah, there's nothing that they would they would find. There's nothing that that would in any way
show that I have any hostility towards America. But I think even if you were just specifically looking for that alone, I think it's human nature to maybe seeing a opinion that is shared even see let's just say a tweet that wasn't sent out by the person, but they liked it, meaning that they may potentially be endorsing or supporting somebody that said something controversial or maybe had hostility towards America.
I feel like if you've never had any awareness of it, and you've been active and online on social media for a big part of your life, I feel like it would almost be impossible to truly know if there's anything out there that may in fact be a red flag. And now again that's subjective what's a red flag to some may not be a red flag at all to others. But I know whenever a lot of my era, my friends, once college wrapped up and everybody was trying to you know,
grow up and start their their adult lives. I know a lot of a lot of my you know, for what I do, I've got to be very much online.
But I know a lot of my friends they decided to make everything very private on any social media platform just because it isn't worth the risk of something just being it could just be not that you're a bad person, but like they could just see something within your social media portfolio different platforms that just maybe not a red flag, but they just it turns them off and that could
keep them from hiring you. So I'm sure there's many of you listening that are happy that there's no receipts from when you were maybe young and immature and didn't have the awareness of you know, what you put out there and how it could impact you. All Right, we've got an update of traffic and weather coming your way
right here on Who's Radio eight forty WHS. Just as soon as it seemed as if we were going to get some real regulation within college athletics, and it wouldn't be such a mess with lawsuits and nobody really knowing what the rules are. And if you feel like you might have violated a NC DOUBLEA bylaw, you just hire a lawyer and you win. I mean, it's been it's
been a real mess. And the House settlement and the recent decision for the NC DOUBLEA to hand over the enforcement power, they are now letting these schools handle it themselves, the power for commissioners, the powerful conferences, I should say, they're now the ones who are going to determine if
everybody's playing by the rules. And with that, the agreement was at least the hope was that everybody would agree, hey, let's just stop suing, because when it comes down to it, to get college athletics cleaned up and regulated, there's certain things that they're going to tell you you need to
to not do right, things that you know bylaws. Right, there's got to be rules, there's got to be guardrails essentially, But I think everybody realizes now because of what's played out in recent years, that they don't really have a right to tell you that you can't do certain things. And if you hire a lawyer and you take them to court, you have a good chance of winning. And
I thought that was going away, but maybe not. It is six seventeen here Knentuckutive Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas we'll get a quick update here in a couple of minutes on traffic and weather. Also another update on sports. But yesterday it was Michigan's House bill for six four to three that was introduced by a state representative who also is a former Michigan
State football player, Joe Tate. He co sponsors this this he has co sponsors on this bill and it's and it's aimed to curb the n C double A oversight of NIL deals. So what this does is it would prohibit these Michigan schools, Michigan, Michigan State, and other Division one schools I suppose that are in Michigan from reporting n I nil deals to the n C double A.
It's College Sports Commission and a new NIL clearinghouse. So again I thought it was a step in the right direction that that there would be an agreement, and it
wasn't just an agreement. I think that they're trying to put a document out there to have every school agree to sign that says, if you want to continue to be a part of the big boy leagues, the power for and get those big revenue checks every year from your media rights deal, you need to sign this and you agree that you will, you will let us enforce rules and not hire a lawyer and fight it because you don't want to play by the rules. And this is the first sign that clearly not everybody is on
the same page. And not to nerd out too much on this, but when it comes to players getting paid, this is a big change. Right. We know that there's revenue sharing that's going to take place, but that's essentially going to serve as a stipend for college athletes, so they're gonna get paid by the school. But it isn't necessarily based off your performance. It's just each sport has a pool of money and it's it's being split up.
So you can still get NIL deals, but you have to go to a new clearinghouse, the NIL clearinghouse, and show that this is legitimately name image and likeness. We just call it name image and likeness. But the majority of the money these college athletes have made it hasn't been because they're they're doing work for a company. They're
they're being bought and that's just how it is. So this would prohibit the Michigan schools from having to disclose the details of these nil deals so that this clearing house could see if it's legit or not. And again, what what was so obvious for so long, but now it's really playing out, is that what the nsabah I had to do as far as there's their archaic amateurism model, I mean, it wasn't legal and that's why they have
a billion dollar settlement going out to former athletes. And now there's revenue sharing because the NCAA just said, hey, do this, do that, this is our rules. You don't like to deal with it. But from a legal standpoint, clearly a judge told them, yeah, what you've been doing forever, since the beginning of time, since your existence, that's not legal. So more lawsuits and I don't see college sports ever being what it once was. But I just wanted to not be so chaotic. But we'll see, all right, We
got an update of trafficking weather. Also another update of sport's coming your way right here right now. It's Kasuckyana It's Moring News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whs. Thank you, John. It is six thirty five here Kentucky and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas. Have you ever wondered what old school skills from the Boomer era could still save you time, money, or stress today? And let me clarify
because I had to look this up. When I hear boomer, I just think of somebody that is that is on the older side and according to the Internet, and it wouldn't be on the Internet if it wasn't true, right, Uh, Boomer The Boomer era is essentially those born between like nineteen forty five and nineteen sixty five. So the approximate
age of boomers is sixty one to seventy nine. So I don't use the I don't use the term boomer as like an insult, but that's that's you know, if you hear boomer, that's that's the age range people are
talking about. So shout out to all of our our our boomers out there, because they apparently they didn't you know, when they were younger, they didn't have they didn't have technology to rely upon quite like we do, and apparently there's some things that even now as we as we are here in the New World twenty twenty five, there are some things, according to Bold dot com that are labeled Boomer inspired life skills that remain surprisingly useful to this day. And one of these is spot on Budgeting
with Cash. Says here that budgeting with cash. Cash will help you control spending by making transactions tangible, useful, financial useful for financial discipline, which is true. I mean, if you don't swipe your debit card and you're not writing checks, which checks seems so forty years ago, but I guess
there are still some people that write personal checks. But if you just have cash in your wallet and you just know, hey, I'm not swiping the card for anything this week, I have already taken out X amount of money, and I just checked my wallet to see what I have there, and I'll know that unless I've got some things automatically coming out of the account, then the account should stay should stay where it is. Yeah, I think budgeting would be easier if you were just relying specifically
on cash. Although there are some instances where you can't pay cash. That's becoming more common right cash less situations that are out there. This one is this one is this one. I believe we could be in the future one hundred years from now and this will still hold up ironing clothes because there's a lot of different ways in which you can you can keep your clothes from being wrinkled. I mean, nowadays, with the new technology, even with washer and dryers, you really don't need an iron.
But if you want your your clothes to be as as unwrinkly as possible and as polished and professional, there's no there'll never be I'm convinced there's never going to be a way better to do it than an old
fashioned iron and an ironing board. So yeah, I mean I realized that, you know, there's some spray that you can get, and I'm sure there's different products out there to where you spray it a little bit, you throw it in the dryer to fluff, and you hope that whatever this substance is can can help get some wrinkles out. And it's effective to an extent, but not more effective
than the old school ironing board. Also, I learned how to use an iron for the first time a couple of years ago because I realized if I wanted to get this this suit that I had to wear looking better than it was the only the only option I had at that point that I that I hadn't tried yet wasn't iron, and I burned myself, which of course
is a memory you don't forget. But it was worth it because now I know how to use an iron and I will rely on that more than anything when it comes to knowing I got to get some wrinkles out of my clothes. Uh, this one, I get it, but I can't. I can't tell you the last time I received one, or that I put one together myself. But a handwritten letter says here that it adds a
personal touch to communication, strengthening relationships. You know, I never think about writing a handwritten letter, And I take that back. I did get a hand a handwritten letter within the last year or so, and it did add a It did add some personal touch to it, and I believe the person who gave me the letter knew that. And because it's not a text message, because it's not an email or just a conversation, because of the meaning that that you know, I guess, because of the the extra
step and actually sitting down and writing it. And this wasn't somebody who can't use a computer or a text message, but I think they wanted to for effect, you know, give me something that I could hold in my hand and read, and it was written by them. Like now, I like if it's on my desk at my house and it's put away, But like if I ever like start to clean up and get rid of stuff and just declutter, get rid of some junk, like, I don't think I'll ever be able to throw that away because
it's the handwritten letter. If it's in text message or an email, you know, out of sight, out of mind. John, when's the last time you received or wrote a handwritten letter yourself? Ever? Maybe honestly, I wou wouldn't be able to tell you. Yeah, I mean you probably have. I mean it's I would have guessed for an assignment back in high school something like that, Like that's yeah, schooling is the last time I actually sat down and really
wrote a lot. But even at that time, in the college years, college age, it was more so using a computer. The last time I wrote a letter, like a legitimate letter, it's probably when I was passing notes in class, no joke. So yeah, that can go a long way. So good stuff there, So shout out to the boomers, you guys inspired some things that again still very much useful and impactful today. And I feel like when I say boomer, it sounds like I'm using as in a derogatory way,
but I'm not. I promise I'm not. All right, let's get an update of traffic and weather right here on news Radio eight forty whas for those of us that spend way too much time scrolling on social media platforms like Instagram with the reels and Facebook reels, TikTok that kind of stuff. For me, when I see a video of that is described as somebody losing their mind or nearly getting arrested or getting arrested at an airport, I can't seem to turn away. I can't seem to turn away.
And there's a new one that I want to get to here in just a second. But it is six forty seven here Kentucky, and it's morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas, So I guess I'll give you the latest as far as this specific story, and it's become not a huge story nationally, but these
kind of things do get a lot of attention. But there was a woman who was at the LaGuardia Airport and she ended up being arrested for an alcohol fueled outburst on a Southwest Airlines flight that was going to Kansas City. She was intoxicated and assaulted a female passenger over seat space that was the dispute, grabbed someone's hair, was spitting, kicking and hurling, body shaming, insults, and of course a lot of this was caught on video and
has since gone viral. But port authority police arrested this woman for aggravated assault and she was removed in handcuffs from the flight and evaluated at a hospital and taken into custody. So for me, you know, this isn't good stuff, right, This isn't behavior anybody would condone. But I'm fascinated by airport behavior. In fact, I'm fascinated by airports. Airports are
a unique world. It's almost as if you're in an alternative You're in like an alternative world when trapped via airline, because in a rather short amount of time, you could almost magically be in another part of the world, especially if you don't fly that often. You know, you realize Hey, I'm hundreds of miles away and that flight was an hour and a half, So that just makes it almost seem not real, especially again if you're somebody that doesn't
fly that often. Also, with airports, you have no control. I can't think of a more helpless place in the world than an airport. That's clearly an exaggeration, but not by much. So, like I believe those factors that I just mentioned combined with alcohol that is at airport bars. I love an airport beer. It's my number one beer on my top beer list. But you have to do it responsibly. But you throw in all those factors and then booze. It's led to some insanely wild scenes at
airports across the country for many years now. People become unhinged, showing a side of themselves that they didn't know existed due to airlines maybe delaying a flight, canceling flights and just telling you to deal with it. What do you mean my flight is canceled and the next available flight is in three days. Yeah, that's the best we can do. Have a good day. Here's a five dollars coupon for the best Western ten miles away. We'll see if we
can get a shuttle. So like all these factors combined bring out a version of people that they simply won't believe is really them when they sober up and then see the video of their outburst that has gone viral with millions of views. And I'm sure some of the people who end up committing crimes getting held accountable and really showing their rear end at an airport and then he goes viral. Maybe some of those people are in fact exactly who they show us they are in those instances.
But there's just something about an airport that I think because of all those factors, the helplessness, having no control, booze and you're gonna you're just gonna have to deal with whatever they tell you. And also I get it they probably do with a lot of rude people on a daily basis. I would never try to put myself in there's use because I can't. But you know they're also not as you know, there's not a whole lot
ill I shouldn't. I'm not gonna step out of line here, but I've had good and bad experiences with folks who work for airlines, work for just work at the airport. But again, I'm sure they've they've got some stories that would make it a little more sense as to why they're maybe not always super friendly. All right, let's get an update of traffic and weather. Also another update of sport's coming your way here in just a moment on Kentucky in This Morning News on news Radio eight forty WHS.