(KMN) 7.14: No More Shock Value - Hour 3

home state here in Kentucky. As yesterday, it all started around eleven thirty am when a trooper was shot after he pulled over a suspect near the Bluegrass Airport. After the traffic stop got underway. The suspect opened fire during that traffic stop and obviously from there got a lot worse. He ended up than carjacking someone, and thankfully there were no injuries reported at that incident, But then he made his way to the Richmond Road Baptist church and shot

and killed two people. And there are others that are injured as well, including the officer who was shot. His status, I've not heard an update this morning, but as if yesterday, there's been no real update at all on the status of that officer as well as the identity of the suspect. I would imagine we'll get that at some point today. There's a lot of people, I mean, I feel like every time I open up Facebook or even Twitter, I see someone sharing a picture of who will probably end

up being who this suspect is. It just hasn't been confirmed yet, so and of course people will dig into everything about this person and try to blame one of the political sides as far as of their you know, see, this isn't a lefty, this isn't a map, I mean, and it's just kind of if I've learned that pretty quickly here in this this role that anytime there is a situation, really any situation in the world, probably there are people that are wired to just decide, well, how

can we blame this on the other side of of of the aisle, And it's it's not surprising anymore. But I don't know, that's not the first thing that comes to mind for me when it when when you have situations like this. But maybe I'm maybe I'm in the minority. But again, we'll probably found that later today. Because yesterday the press conference in Lexton, law Enforcement said that they

were going to make it public. However, they decided to do that as far as the identity of the suspect once the suspects family has been notified, so I would expect that that comes today. Also an overall scary situation, but nobody hurt, which at the end of the day, that's a great thing, especially when you consider what happened in Lexington. But in Louisville here during one of the big events that this city has every year, the run

for the Roses Girls basketball Tournament. I wouldn't think you'd say this if you couldn't back it up, but the event claims to be the biggest girls basketball tournament in the world, and yesterday, as they were into tournament play, they had to shut down because there was initially a report of an active aggressor at the basketball tournament at Fairgrounds, and then there was another report of an active aggressor at Kentucky Kingdom that led to chaos in a variety

of ways. And it's great to know that it ended up being a false alarm and everybody is okay, but a lot of people still went through some pretty traumatic experiences, I would imagine, just because when there's that chaos going on and nobody seems to know. I mean, you got to think about the timing here. I mean I got the news report that that was going on, and then there was some information available I feel like pretty quickly

as far as what was going on. L and PD I thought did a great job on their social media platform.

I was following it on X and they were giving good updates throughout, and each update made it seem a little bit more clear that the threat was I wouldn't say not legit, but it just you know, there was no reports of anybody actually being shot, which again sounds like there wasn't even an active aggressor at all, which is again that's a good thing, but it did lead to again a lot of people in a situation that they probably have never been in before, at least hopefully not,

and who knows how it impacts them. Everybody's different. But when you are running to find your loved ones because maybe your kid was out there playing basketball and you're you know, keeping you never if you've never been to one of the basketball tournaments, because there's many that have taken place in the in the north wing and the South wing over there at the Fairgrounds, I mean, you might know where they are, and then whenever the chaos

happens and everybody's running around, it's easy to get lost. There were players meeting children interviewed yesterday after the situation that you know, talked about how scared they were and that they couldn't find their parents, and again that's understandable given what happens. So again the good news is that everybody's okay, but just hate that that's that's where we are, meaning you can never take those things lightly. And I'm sure now if you are in that situation, I don't know.

I'm not trying to play psychologists here, but I'm just curious how many people would be in that situation and assume, well, I'm sure this is nothing, probably just a false alarm, because I don't mean, I would imagine most people wouldn't take it lightly because I don't know how surprised you can be if something like that did happen. That's just again, that's unfortunate. It's no longer uncommon to see headlines about

these kind of things. So they're going to resume play today at the Run Run for the Roses tournament, but there are some teams that decided to back out. Some coaches who were here in town recruiting the event that said that they're gonna going to walk away as well.

So I wouldn't even I'd be foolish to speculate what this does for the future of the event and it being in Louisville, because again, this is an isolated thing, and at the end of the day, I don't really know how you'd blame how you blame well, I don't know.

I guess that's for other people to decide. But a big event that brings so many people here and does so much for our economy, I hate that For many people who were here, the lasting memory for them, among many memories, will probably be that situation, because that's not something you forget if you're there and you're scrambling to try to find your family and you're trying to figure out what's going on. You know, the reason that that it's chaos is because there's belief that there's somebody there

to harm people. So unfortunate, but again glad nobody was hurt. All right. What I want to get to coming up here after this next update on traffic and weather. A lot of people got duped. They think you can go to Vegas at the casino and play Uno. Now you can but a very good marketing, very good marketing as far as how they put that out there, we'll talk about that and screen time. I can't be the only parent that is worried that my kids have way too

much time in front of a screen. We'll talk about some of the findings and some of the things you could potentially do to find a good balance. Stick with US Radios Kentucky. It's Morning News with Coffee and Company on News radioaight forty whas if you were somebody that saw this headline yesterday and you thought that you were going to be able to go to Vegas and hit one of the casinos and gamble on the game Uno, you've been duped. So here are just two examples of

headlines about this story. Uno gets a wild card entry into Vegas Casino Classic card game Uno lands in Las Vegas Casinos. I would have thought the same thing. I did think the same thing, but it just seemed it

seemed to be just so random. And then I noticed that it was being cited by some bigger outlets, but they really didn't give a whole lot of infos So I thought, well, maybe this is maybe it's not fake news, but maybe there's maybe there's some exaggeration going on, and that is exactly what is going on, because it's not being added added as a traditional wagered casino table game.

Mattel has partnered with Palm Casino Resort to launch the Uno Social Club, which is an experimental venue that will have Uno branded suites and lounges, custom Uno game tables with inroom dealers so Uno Room. Essentially, the Euno Social Club has led to people then thinking you can actually

go and play Uno as if you're playing poker. And if the promotion just including included people talking about Uno, I think it worked, but there's so many people understandably so that like if those two headlines that I just read, which by the way, are real, I mean I I totally would have assumed, well that's wild, but hey, Vegas is getting creative. But then you think about it, that

didn't make a whole lot of sense. It reminded me of the movie Vegas Vacation, the National Lampot's movie, with which, of course I think everybody knows the vacation movies, but there was a scene where Clark and Eddie end up in like the low rent casino because they've lost all their money and he's just trying to He's trying to win his money back with cousin Eddie Clark Griswold is and Ellen is she she's she's doing her thing with

Wayne Newton and they end up in this casino. That is a time at the time as a kid, when I watched this movie, I thought it was real, but it clearly isn't. But they had games, and again the movie is trying to pitch it as just this lowest type of casino you could get into. But their games were flip a coin you call it in the air, heads or tails, or you go to a dealer and you got to pick a number one through ten. Rock

paper Scissors was one of them. One of them also was guess which hand a dealer holds something in one hand and in the movie Clark grissold has to guess which hand it's in. I mean, again, none of that's real, by the way. Also, go fish was mentioned as well. You could play go fish, So that's kind of what I thought of whenever I was thinking, wait a second,

I knew that wasn't real. I later learned that wasn't really where you could go and play those games, and I thought maybe this was the you know the same thing, and it is. So you know, you don't book your trip to Vegas and think you're heading to the casino to play Uno because you can play Uno, but it's not. It's not. It's they're just gonna get you in this social club and it's just gonna be nothing but a mirage.

So anyhow, I remember as a kid thinking, Okay, well, yeah, I don't know how to play Texas hold them or traditional poker, but yeah, when I get old enough, I'm gonna go to the casino, I'm gonna play go Fish. I know, want to play that. Give me a little old maid gambling going on? Yeah, like, and that actually would be kind of fun. But there should be a

casino for a juvenile card game. But those I bet those kind of games though, it would be harder for the house to win, as you know what I mean, And that is what they're going to be mindful of, understandably. So all right, we've got an update of traffigand weather coming your way. Also we'll get an update on sports

with Scott Fitzgerald. And also I would like to discuss something I mentioned just a moment ago, as far as parents and what they think about the amount of time their kids spend in front of a screen, mostly tablets and devices, but also television screens as well, because I know I'm one of many parents that thinks there's a benefit from my kid being able to utilize technology to learn a lot of things. But also you don't want them to become robots. So we'll get to that in

a lot more. Keep it locked right here. It's Kentucky and it's Morning News on news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Ana's Morning News with Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas, Nick Coffee, that's me the company man himself, John Alden alongside today. And one thing that you and I are alike many things we are I think alike with but we didn't have tablets devices phone in front

of our face when we were growing up. You are about a decade younger than I am, and as you got older, it was there, but like you didn't have like an iPad when you were a little kid, right, Maybe I don't know, maybe I didn't have an iPad. I remember having a leap Frog pad. Yeah, much different though, and those were educational and there wasn't a whole lot you can do other than whatever the leap Frog program had on it. Right, You weren't surfing the internet, no,

So I I'm glad that I had that. I grew up in the era that I did, where technology was cool and we were able to do cool things. The Internet really kind of exploded and became a thing during my childhood, and I remember that. I remember very well. I remember the doing doing sound when you would have the dial up. Actually, do you remember dialogue? You know we did have dial use. Yeah, so I was gonna say, maybe you don't remember that, but yeah, I guess it

probably would have been. Which I feel like the when you realized what the internet was, and it wasn't on any device. It was literally a connection through your your your home phone. I mean I remember not. I mean, there was such I was so interested to see really what it was like, you know, I would I remember as a kid hearing like people describe what it is and which you can do, and I'm thinking, well how and then sure enough, now we're all I mean, technology

is a big factor in everything that we do. But anyways, there's a new study that I guess a survey, I should say, that's the best way to describe. It's a survey that says eighty five percent of US parents monitor screen time for kids under eighteen, and thirty nine percent want stricter limits, which you know, I get it. As a parent, I'm thinking, well, wait a second, if you want that, then do it. You're the parent, You're in charge.

But I'm sure there's there's the balance of you know, it does keep them occupied, and there are some things that clearly you know that they enjoy when it comes to screen time, or there be a tablet, a video game, a phone, whatever it may be. And you want to see your kids enjoying things that they like. And I think there's a lot of things you can I mean, you can learn a lot of things. You can teach yourself, teach yourself stuff as a kid that when we were kids,

we didn't, we didn't have the ability to do. But also, you know, you don't there's not as much social interaction. And what I think is is a bigger it's just speaking for myself as a parent, The bigger concern for me is just what my kids are exposed to, because that is going to be something that we learn about over the years, because there's going to be people that grow up and become adults and they'll be the first

test for us. As far as them having access to so many things via the Internet and via the tablet that they have at their home, I mean, well maybe their cell phone. So you can obviously learn a lot, you can educate yourself, you can teach yourself how to do certain things with this technology, but also it can expose you to things that could have an impact on you that is not good. I mean, that's one thing

that I don't think. I don't think can be said enough because a lot of parents, and I guess there are parents that are younger than even you know myself and even John that maybe when they were growing up they had they had much more of a they've they've they had these tablets and these devices in front of him at all times. But if you're like me, like I don't, I don't. I wasn't exposed to a lot of things because we just didn't have that. It wasn't a thing at the time, so I didn't know what

I didn't know that makes sense. Well, now, I mean every now and then my son will end up off of the YouTube Kids tablet or the YouTube Kids app on his iPad and end up on YouTube, and a lot of times, more often than not, he's watching something that you know, he's watching kids play video games where he's watching no joke, like old horse races. He's he's odd. He loves horse racing and it's it's it's it's an

obsession for him. But then sometimes he'll end up on something not knowing what it is, and I guess he's interested, and then he'll start crying and it'll be because you know, something scary happened, and that's that's I mean, if he's scared that, I don't want that to happen. But you know, it just reminds me. Light bulb goes off, like wow, I mean, I guess, really, if I'm not monitoring it, he could be exposed to a lot of things. So excuse me. We're much more mindful of it now than

especially that he's getting a little bit older. But I just you know, who am I to give parenting advice? But when it comes to just kind of you know, keeping them preoccupied, keeping them busy, they're not you know, if you've got siblings, they're not fighting with each other because they're each in their own world on their iPads. Yeah, that can be beneficial. And then whenever they don't have devices and they don't know how to act and they're whiny and fussy. My kids do that all the time.

I mean, I get it. Sometimes you do it just to say, okay, right, let's just calm down here, here you go. So finding the balance as far as being able to take advantage of the ability to learn and utilize technology like we didn't have when we were younger, but also knowing that it may not be for good, right, Like, there's clearly a lot that you can be exposed to on the World Wide Web. And this is something that

doesn't really surprise me, but it is. It is certainly troubling information that this survey says that parents claim that their family conflicts forty three percent. Yeah, it says that

parent survey. Yeah, it says the eight percent of parents were concerned, with forty three percent reporting that family CONTUCTI family conflict, I should say, tied to the excessive screen use, which, again, you know, if you don't want to hear your parents arguing or whatever it may be, put your headphones in, watch your tablet, and get lost in your own world.

So I just don't know. As a parent myself, I'm now more than ever just trying to be mindful of things that like my kid could see, that like I would never see because there was no way for me to see it. All right, let's get to a quick update. We'll get you caught up on weather traffic. That of course is next. And then also yesterday, Andy Basher did an interview with Meet the Press and was asked about a potential run for president. We'll let you know what

he had to say right here on. He's ready to wait forty whas So, the suspect that was shot and killed by police in Lexton yesterday after killing two individuals at a church has been identified. Lexning Police Department said forty seven year old Guy House died from wounds after three officers shot him. Of course, this was after he shot an officer after a traffic stop at the near the Bluegrass Airport and then ended up carjacking someone, only to then make his way to that church and killed

two innocent people. So we politicize everything. This day and age. So I'm not surprised that right now, if you just look up the name Guy House, search the name Guy House on any social media platform. I'm doing it on x formerly known as Twitter, and no joke. The first two posts that I see. One is somebody claiming that he is a free Palestine Muslim, and then they show pictures of him. I guess what he's wearing. I assume they're sharing this as evidence that hey, see he's on

the left, he's a Democrat. And then you also have another picture and I don't know, I don't know what's real, but there's another picture of him wearing what appears to be a Confederate flag hoodie, and it's somebody claiming that's that's he's maga. And again I don't know what to believe, because I don't. I still don't really when these things happen. I don't. I'm not wired, and hopefully I never am.

To just just think, Okay, who can we blame this on the other can we blame this on the other side, the other side of the aisle. And none of that surprises me at all, because that's just where we are right now. But regardless of what political side he's on who he voted for. What I think is just really unfortunate to know is that while doing this and committing these crimes yesterday that of course took the lives of two people, an officer injured, and of course he's dead now.

He did this while while being on felony probation. So this guy, his name is Guy House, and he was on felony probation when he when this occurred yesterday. So twenty twenty three arrest for being in possession of a firearm while being a felon, and he's violated probation numerous times, including just a few months ago. It looks like so again I'm when I this is something I'll admit hand, I was ignorant to how many people are out roaming the streets that have done a pretty good job. They've

been pretty consistent at showing they break the law. They're dangerous,

they're violent people. And I know that there's a lot of criticism thrown towards judges who make these decisions, and I understand that totally, but also, you know, I don't think it's as easy as well, Okay, nobody should ever get a second chance and get out there, but also like if you repeatedly are proving to everyone who you are and that you are in fact a threat somebody that is dangerous, there's got to be something done to believe these people when they tell us who they are.

Is that a good way to describe it? So anyways, the victim in this, well, he's not a victim. He's I mean, I guess he was, but technically he probably when committing the awful acts that he did yesterday, I'm not sure what the hell was going on in his brain and I'll never want to relate to that, but not surprised that law enforcement showed up and did what they had to do after he took two lives and of course shot at an officer. So again, his identity

is now known. Forty seven year old guy House. All right, quick update on traffic and weather is coming your way. Another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming up as well in just a few minutes, and we'll get into it in the eight o'clock hour. I wanted to discuss the breaking news here as far as the identity being confirmed of the Lexian shooter, but we'll talk about when Andy Rasher had to say when He had his interview yesterday with Meet the Press, was asked about a potential

run at president again. We'll talk about it right here on news radioaight forty whas