The Andrew Cooperrider Show

Kentucky is losing farmland—and Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell says the problem has reached an emergency level nationally. I sat down with Commissioner Shell to discuss the growing loss of farmland, including the impact of data centers and solar farms, the recent Fair Board showdown with Beshear, and how recent federal actions have affected Kentucky’s farming community—both good and bad.

Millions in contracts were issued this month, including a few to nonprofit organizations with questionable expenses.

Beshear has become not just a hindrance but is actively sabotaging the Legislature’s plans to get Kentucky to a 0% income tax. This has manifested itself in state policies and insane decisions like destroying whole fraud departments out of welfare programs under the guise of “cutting costs.” I go into just what the Legislature needs to do in order to fight this. The Kentucky Association of School...

A WKYT investigation leads to questions as it discovers the Lexington FLOCK system is searched 1 million times a month, and 99% of those searches are by outside agencies. I’ll discuss what LPD’s excuses were and why they don’t hold water. I’ll also ask why Lexington should keep footing the bill for all these other agencies. Also, it’s school taxing season, which means it’s time to argue about whet...

In Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, Republicans have historically won the district with over 60% of the vote. The last close election was in 2018, and since then, the district has been redistricted to be more friendly to Republicans. Despite this, albeit slightly flawed, polling has the race between Republican Dr. Ralph Alvarado and Democrat Zach Dembo as neck and neck. I'll talk abo...

🚩Kentucky's Senate President, Robert Stivers, writes an op-ed in support of data centers. Leaving me to ask only one question: Why would he do that? Beshear is coming out with meaningless executive orders trying to backtrack his prior comments and actions in light of new polling showing what a hot-button issue data centers are becoming. Instead of taking a route to outmaneuver Beshear and cal...

"White allies need help overcoming ambivalence in their anti-racism commitments" - Dr. Yara Mekawi University of Louisville Color Lab Professor Despite Kentucky law banning DEI in public colleges and universities, the University of Louisville still has a Color Lab. An associate professor from this Color Lab, Dr. Yara Mekawi, was recorded by an undercover journalist from Accuracy in Media...

- Products were manufactured for no one in order to keep billions in taxpayer funds, with some spontaneously catching fire and requiring forklifts to move flaming pallets into water dunk tanks. -Mold stalagmites are growing in an abandoned building that hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds were spent constructing just a few years ago. These are just some of the issues at the now-shuttered and cu...

Beshear struggles with the concept that not everything is about him, as he suggests that pre-K for all hasn’t passed in Kentucky because it’s his idea—not because it is an expensive, bad idea. I discuss the real reasons why it hasn't (and shouldn’t) pass. Rocky Adkins declares he is running for governor—a relic of a bygone Democrat era trying to hold on, despite how much modern Democrats would...

Beshear lied from the podium at a press conference while claiming State Representative Bivens is spreading "misinformation" and should be ashamed. The state Supreme Court ruled that Beshear regained the power to control the Fair Board and the Executive Ethics Commission. Outside of the absurdity that the commissions and boards the legislature created by statute can now no longer be chang...

A data center developer is attempting to build in Kentucky and is getting pretty upset that citizens in the community won’t let him rezone the land. However, he’s getting some help from members of the government who are trying to push the data center for the tax revenues. Brian Luftman, founder and president of American Farm Investors, sent a letter to Mercer County Planning & Zoning, throwing...

A 3 a.m. email throws a Kentucky school district into chaos as the FCPS superintendent quits — but doesn’t quit, but definitely quits. I’ll read what most would call his resignation letter and point out just how ridiculous this all is. Hopefully we can all learn the dangers of emailing your employer at 3 a.m. from this. JCPS is building some new schools despite losing students. UK is coming under...

Beshear admits he is trying to sell the idea of data centers to Kentuckians. I discuss exactly why politicians everywhere are giving away tax incentives and taxpayer cash in order to attract massive data centers to their areas, despite the citizens they are supposed to represent not wanting them there. Beshear gave us a huge hint as to why with his statements.

Dr. Ralph Alvarado, Republican candidate for Congress in Kentucky’s 6th District, sits down with me to break down the biggest issues facing America: Iran, Israel, Ukraine, reckless government spending, and our exploding national debt. We also tackle the tough questions head-on — addressing the reasons some voters have hesitated to support him and what he has to say in response.

The House impeached a judge for the first time since 1916. Then a Supreme Court Justice threatened every House member with felonies — and disbarment if they were lawyers — for daring to do it. There were 4 other impeachment petitions filed… including one against another Supreme Court Justice. So what actually happened? How did it all go down? I sat down with Rep. Steve Doan, a member of the House...

Beshear declares a state of emergency! But it's not snowing, flooding, the wind isn't blowing, and a mass amount of people don't have the sniffles. So what is the emergency? Gas prices, he says. His orders include activating price-gouging laws, lowering the gas tax, and stopping a future hike. I'll break down exactly what he did, and importantly, did he do the same thing under Bide...

46% Thomas Massie, 40% Ed Gallrein, 14% Undecided — that's where Kentucky political insider and constitutional attorney Chris Wiest says the Thomas Massie vs. Ed Gallrein 4th Congressional race is currently polling. He joins me to discuss where the Senate race currently stands and whether Daniel Cameron has a lane to victory. We also break down the 4th Congressional District and what has happe...

Who is going to win the Kentucky Senate race? Who is going to win in the 4th District? Thomas Massie or Ed Gallrein? Who is going to win the 6th District congressional seat? I had a conversation with Dr. Stephen Voss, an associate professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. We discussed these questions. While no one has a crystal ball, you will hear insights about what happens in...

Iran war. Exploding national debt. Abortion. Immigration. AIPAC. Nate Morris — the businessman running to replace Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race — sat down with me and took tough questions from both me and live listeners. We hit those issues head-on, plus much more. No attacks. No softballs. Just direct questions wanting answers.

A $1.7 billion one-time spending bill was just signed by the Governor — and most of us had no idea it was even happening. Over $300 million in potential waste and abuse has been identified in HB 900. It started at $800 million for unnamed projects. Then, at last minute, it grew to $1.7 billion — stuffing in spending items that nobody had time to properly review… and that were kept hidden from Kent...

Beshear lied about HB1 to further his presidential aspirations. Shocker, I know — but Governor Beshear straight-up lied about what House Bill 1 actually does for school choice in Kentucky. He vetoed it, claiming it would take money from public schools and hurt Kentucky kids. That was false. HB1 simply lets Kentucky families participate in a federal tax credit scholarship program. Kentuckians can d...

I'm joined by Dog The Bounty Hunter to discuss a huge easter egg hunt going on in Louisville as well discuss his experience in hunting fugitives and views on the criminal justice system. Then I discuss a new Audit by Allison Ball, and a court case of a women being banned from her daughter's school for being too popular on social media.

I discuss how ridiculous the push to put a McConnell statue in the Frankfort Capitol building rotunda is when we look at who else his statue would sit by. I go through the Matt Bevin court case. Beshear responds to Ball's audit.

I discuss the first Senate debate and take live texts from the radio audience.

Kentucky's war on woke is far from over—our public universities are openly defying the law! I talk with Adam Guillette from Accuracy In Media (AIM) to break down their recent explosive undercover investigations that have exposed Western Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky. Hidden cameras caught staff admitting DEI is still alive and embedded in curricula—rebranded, hidden, and f...