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Now? Here's nick coffee. Today is another day where the city of
Louisville, I think, is being discussed nationally more so than we're used to.
The Scotti chef the Scottie Scheffler legal situation has concluded, which all charges
have been dropped, as we expected. When I say expected, I mean
I think yesterday's announcement of the county attorney talking at one Steve Romans, the
attorney for Scottie Scheffler talking at one thirty, it certainly looked as if this
was going to happen, and again charges being dropped. That's a national piece
of news. Any development in this is a national piece of news, and
this is the right outcome. But the things we have learned since this happened
twelve days ago, make it more and more obvious that it didn't need to
happen at all, and that's unfortunate. It really is, all right.
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ninety nit coffee that is me the company man John Alden alongside today and we're
gonna have some fun today. We're gonna mix it up. We've hit that
time of the year where I think I'm trying to I don't want to act
as if like you know, because one thing that has always been a real
annoyance for me is, you know, before I had a chance to be,
you know, on the radio, it's my job and get a platform
and get to have fun with it, try to be creative and do something
that I love. You know, I consumed a lot of sports radio,
not just here in the market but everywhere, and one thing that always made
me so angry was when people who either host, co host, fill in,
whatever, producer even would say things like, well, you know,
it's not a whole lot going on. I mean, if we've hit that
time of the year. I mean, it's just not a lot going on.
It would it would bring a rage out of me because I would think,
well, I mean, let me fig oh, he try, like
I'm pretty sure I could figure something to talk about. Like it just it
always bothered me. So even though you know, the things we talk about
the majority of the time around here, we've got a little ways to go
before we get college football, NFL, college basketball, and the NBA Finals.
I mean we'll talk about them here and there maybe, but this is
like truly the off season for me. Like June through I guess mid August.
I mean even in mid August, I mean it's just preseason NFL and
you're just waiting for camps to end for the football season to start. But
like June, July and half of August, I feel like is whenever you
know you get to get you get creative, right. It's not as if
somebody's going to tune in today and want to hear analysis on the game last
night, because you know there's no games going on. So I've always really
enjoyed this time of year because I can go in a direction that you know,
maybe some won't notice it as much that I'm not really doing a sports
talk show and it's fun. And yesterday it really reminded me of how fun
this could be because something we talked about in the five o'clock hour, and
not only did I get more reaction on the text line about that than anything
else we discussed, but I had people writeing me on social media, had
a friend of mine text me who heard us talking about it. And then
later last night my group chat group text with a lot of my close buddies
that we've had going for many, many many years. You know, they
showed me a picture of the same situation happening, and that is the dudes
that go door to door. And maybe there's not maybe it's not just dudes.
Maybe women do it as well, although I will say I've never seen
a woman doing a There's a lot of different door to door gigs out there
over the years that I've at least seen. Whether you're selling security systems,
you're selling meat out of the trunk of your car, or you're selling like
pest control. What else? Is there any other things John you could think
of that fit in that category. Those are the big ones. I've definitely
had the most encounters with the pest control in the security system. Have you
ever seen a woman doing it? No, I have. Yeah, I
mean I'm sure they can. In fact, they'd probably be more successful.
Yeah, exactly. And you know, maybe they're just better at, you
know, selling the product. I don't know, but I mean they're they're
they're everywhere, and I don't know if it's like time of the year kind
of thing, but there's one specific company, and I want to you know,
I'm not going to mention who they are are. John knew exactly who
I was talking about when I said it yesterday because and let me ask you
this, did you notice that recently or was it like just something you remember
from you know, or something. I think it was maybe a year or
two ago, whenever we first moved into the neighborhood we live in now in
Mount Washington. I guess they were scoping out, you know, the trying
to find out who might be new in the area. And you know,
we were one of the people. We got targeted by the pest control company
and the one of the security system companies. Yeah, I mean, and
I've I've become more and more fascinated about the whole trading process. How they
just no matter what you say, they have an answer. They do not
hear you saying no, not interested. They don't even hear you saying hey,
you know, leave me alone or whatever. I mean, I'm sure
they do, but like they've got a response for all of it. But
let's in the area that I live in. I live in Northern Bullet County.
There's this company that's selling pest control and let's just say they got boots
on the ground. They're everywhere they got I mean, and I've learned this,
you know, some hoa's And I don't know how legit this is.
It's not as if I've talked to law enforcement. But like I feel as
if these folks that are selling these things door to door, if they're saying
this, it's because their employer told them to say this. And that is
like, hey, you know, cause if you're if you're riding around those
hoverboards and that's that's what they're called, right I think So I think I'd
break my neck if I try to use one. But it's just this thing
you stand on and somehow you just you know, it's got two wheels on
it. I mean, I think people know what I'm talking about. But
does it have like a stick or do they just drive? No, No,
it's just like definitely abodeah okay, they're just floating. And like if
they're doing it on a street, a public street, like they're not trespassing.
And technically, you know, even if you have an hoa, the
street is not is not private property. But maybe you're private maybe your property
is private and at that point I think they are in fact, you know,
able to tell you you need to get off the property. It's private
property. By the way. Again, another example of me just showing you
how I don't know a whole lot of things that other grown ups probably do
know. How does one make your do you make like how if I wanted
my private if I wanted my property in my home to be private, how
does that work? Like do you is there like a process? Like I
mean, what what makes it private property? That's a good question. I
mean, could I just buy a sign? You know what I mean?
Like, I guess you could claim your private property. I mean, yeah,
maybe there's a situation where somebody could challenge it. And I'm sure again
I shouldn't put you on the spot because like you know, here we are
both acknowledge and we don't know really how that works. And I'm sure there
are many people who now are including you with me as far as just being
a dumbass, and I never want to do that, but I didn't,
like, can I go buy a private property sign? Put it up in
my front door and just like now my property's private. I'm sure that's not
how it works, but I don't know who says you can't. Yeah.
Uh, the last house we lived in, we did. We left the
security system sign in the yard that you know, we didn't inherit. We
just left the sign, like we didn't take the system. And I remember
a mutual friend of mine worked in security systems, you know, and it
was not a not a heated conversation, but like I we you know,
I'd mentioned that that we just kind of left it there. We don't have
a system. And I thought I was getting cuffed and stuff like that I
was committing fraud because I am, you know, presenting it as if I've
obtained these services that I haven't. But like what charge would that be?
Right? Like I'm I just have you know, a sign in the yard.
I mean, I don't know anyways what I'm getting at is if you
have private property, I'm sure you can tell them, like you don't need
to be on here, and they probably don't go towards those places because they
know they really have no shot. But if you think you're protected by your
HOA that has a policy of no soliciting, here's their new response. They've
they've got a permit from the city, which I guess they can just obtain.
Now. It doesn't give them a right to not leave your property,
but like they can be in your name, and maybe they're wrong. Maybe
they just say that hoping you won't fight it. But the Facebook group for
my neighborhood, the Facebook group for like for for the general area that I
live in, it's all anybody's talking about. And it's because they always they
don't take no for an answer, and whenever you do have to be more
rude than you'd ever want to be to them, they then play victim and
act as if you are you're in the wrong, Like it's it's fascinating to
me, Like, to be honest with you, whoever trains these people,
I give them credit because they don't take no, they're not discouraged, and
they're annoying, and that's I guess what you kind of have to do if
you're gonna be you know, if you're gonna be a successful door to door
salesman. Like one person chimed in and it was one of the you know,
an older person on Facebook who I don't know, but he was just
in the group of the area that I live. And I've never once commented
or anything on there, but it is fascinating to see it. You know,
I live in Bullet County, so you see some you see some stuff
on the internet. A lot of people you can you can back this up.
In fact, John and I were talking about it yesterday, like Bullet
County ins on Facebook can provide a level of entertainment that I'm not sure you're
going to get in a lot of places. Right. It's pretty impressive.
And again we can say that because that's where we're from, that's where we
live. But he acknowledged, Hey, the kids just out there trying to
make a living. I bought the services from him. He was kind,
you should too, dude, got completely bombarded with like you know, just
like well, I told him I wasn't interested. Shouldn't that be enough?
It's just I don't know I've so anyways, I don't know where the conversation
goes today, but I think it. I would love to be a fly
on the wall to hear the training process, because again, it is impressive
how no matter what you say, they have an answer and they won't.
I mean, they don't hear you. They don't process it when you say
no. And that's actually what makes it to where I get like, you
know, they got nobody's been rude to me. Nobody's been like and when
it's happened to me, nobody's been rude or like disrespectful. But when you've
been quite clear that hey, I'm not interested, no thanks, we already
have somebody you know, don't come near me. I have the plague something
like, they just shift to something else, and I think that's like rude
for you to just not listen to me. It's also just rude. And
you mentioned your situation yesterday. You're in the middle of vehicle, you have
your kids, You're trying to get out and go somewhere. That's rude to
approach you in and of itself and not see that I'm clearly trying to leave
and you are holding me up. Yes, and I don't you know,
maybe this specific company they trained differently, because again, you know, this
is not uncommon at all. I mean different types of services, different business
like, but there's this one company specifically they seem to be a little bit
more aggressive. And I happen to think that like even the others that at
times, you know, or just out there trying to make a living,
they they would not have approached me the way that person did. But it
wasn't even a thought to him. It was like a say, just you
know, he's he's on and he's trying to sell, and you know he
doesn't want to hear and he's not going to hear anything other than In fact,
I don't think he's listening to any thing. To be honest with you,
I don't think you heard or listened anything I said, because it was
just oh do you know the such and such as down the road? How
long you lived here? We've protected a lot of people in your in your
uh and And that's one thing that a lot of folks have shared is that
their line is always oh do you know the such and such as? Because
they'll get somebody's name and ask if you know them, and that you know,
when they're asking questions that have nothing to do with you buying something that
keeps the conversation going, and I guess that makes them feel more so like
there's like they're developing you or something. Yeah, and you know, I
haven't had somebody tell me that for a long time. They just didn't answer
the door. But if they know you're there and just not answering, they'll
keep knocking, like they'll do it until you do have to come to the
door and just tell them to leave. Like the it's wild. It's wild
to me. And I'm fascinated by things that are you know, I'm fascinated
about different things than most, I'm sure. But if you have any stories
of these door to door salespeople, you know, And again we're not gonna
mention a name of any name of any company because you know, I don't
want to get myself in trouble. But yeah, it's just it's crazy.
All right. Let's get to, you know, the big news of the
day, and I I feel like we should start because everybody knows what's happened
now, and that is that the charges have been dropped and the County Attorney
O'Connell i believe Mike O'Connell, you know. He yeah, it says here
and I'll just let you guys hear this for yourself. Prosecutors, and I
quote and of course it's doing the same dumb thing either way, he says,
Uh, mister, he's and I'll read directly from this report. Attorney
Mike O'Connell requests that all charges be dropped against Scotti Schffler. He says,
quote, mister Schffler's characterization that this was a big misunderstanding is cooperated by the
evidence. So you know, this is what needed to happen. We all
know that is the big piece of news. There's no lawsuits going to be
filed. Uh. And again this is the right way to end it.
But it still just seems like something that should not have happened at all.
But what was released earlier today is the audience from the body cam of the
officer who was talking to Scottie Scheffler after everything happened, not the guy who
lied about being dragged, which, by the way, that is important to
know. I mean multiple witnesses that both Steve Romines and the county attorney have
spoken to refute any allegation that Scheffler dragged that police officer with his car,
and they would not be moving to drop charges if they felt that that was
true. That's a lie. And it's crazy that it can be a third
degree felony and then just nothing, no in between. So clearly law enforcement
did something wrong and there'll be no accountability for it other than maybe you know,
somebody getting reprimanded. It's just a it's unfortunate, it really is.
But again, body language, you know, doesn't always tell every I mean,
it's sometimes it can be misleading. But the video that we did have,
because there are some that claim that the actual initial incident, which clearly
you can hear when we play this sound for you, you'll be able to
hear for yourself that when they do start talking to him like things, you
know. Nonetheless, what I'm trying to say is that even if there was
something that that happened initially, which clearly was some level of a situation,
the other law enforcement officers that were near the cop that just started beating on
his door and trying to rip him out of the car, if they if
they if he was dragged by the car and hurt, they would have reacted
much differently. Than they did. It was just one dude losing his mind
trying to get Scheffler out of the car. So I don't know Scotty Scheffler
at all. None of us do. Maybe if you are somebody really well
connected in the golf then you know him a little bit. But he has
a reputation of being a very upstanding man with you know, high character,
and that's all anybody has said. And then sure enough, I mean,
you hear this, you know this, this back and forth between him and
law enforcement officer, and it proves that, you know, not that he's
a perfect human being, because nobody is, but he seems like a very
level I mean it just he did everything I think that you would would need
to do in order to get the benefit of doubt after this situation to where
you could have a conversation and everybody come to the realization that this was just
a big misunderstanding. But law enforcement, you know, didn't even want to
think about doing that. But again, here's the sound. This was at
least earlier this morning my tea time. Yeah, I had to loop all
the way around that way. It took me about probably a half hour because
I'm pulling in here the police officer up there told me this is chef the
opposite way with the traffic, and then come in. And as I was
pulling in, my window is down. An officer told me to stop,
and as I was first of all, I did not know that he was
a police officer. I thought he was one of the security guards that was
mistaken. And as I was pulling by me, he wrote stop stop right
there. Why does that matter if he's a security guard or a police officer,
because somebody's telling you a stop. Yes, you're right, I should
have stopped. I did get a little bit impatient because I'm point late for
my tea time, and as he was reaching in the car, he grabbed
my shoulder and hit me like I'm trying to get you to stop right,
yes, okay. It seemed to be a little bit over aggressive because the
entrance was open, okay, and I pulled a little bit because I was
afraid. I thought he was gonna start hitting me, and I didn't know
who he was. He didn't tell me he was a police officer. I
didn't always saw was a yellowjacket. I don't know what he was doing.
I'd listened well the police officer, so the thing is he's wearing a uniform.
Okay. He also was wearing the same jacket that I have on the
says police also on that if someone's telling you to stop, no matter who
it is, you don't keep going. So what happened is you kept going
and you took him with you while he's a pedestrian. Okay, So you
took him with your car, yes, and drug him okay, which is
not a good thing right everywhere. That was to make it so to listen
to me, so make it even worse. When he asked you to get
out of the car, he refused to get out of the car. I
still did not was not aware he's a police officer. I was actually looking
out the window of the car to try to find a police officer. I
asked, we're all right here, and he was there. Believe me.
Sure. We're all wearing yellow vests. So you can see this. If
you knew he was a police officer, I would have been much more or
less afraid. But panic kind of set in. As you can see.
I'm still shaking because I was afraid. I didn't know who he was.
He didn't say police, get out of a car. He just hit me
with his flashlight and yelled get the car. So we're wearing a lot of
police gears. That's surely signifies that we're leaving me. If I knew he
was a police officer, I would have gone out of the car. I
don't know what to tell you other than well, it's a little bit panic
trying to get into the golf course. And now I don't know what to
do. But let's go back to the first point. Okay, no matter
if you thought he was a police officer or not, somebody have stuff.
Why we're wearing yellow vests? Why do you think we're wearing yellow? Best
so you can see us, right, so you can see this. And
if somebody tells you to stop, if it's a traffic guard, security guard,
anybody, that means you stop at that time, you don't keep going.
Sure, Okay, so stuff like this doesn't happen is because you actually
actually hurting him and he's a police officer. Yes, he's got a huge
scrape on his knee. He's getting checked by ems, big Bruce, So
I don't I don't know. But for you right now, you're the main
question is if you're going to jail and it's up to him. I don't
know if I able to speak with him. No, not at he's no,
so what I'm gonna do? Yeah? So, I mean again,
that's a long that's a three minute clip there that let you hear you really
the aftermath, and I mean one, I guess the biggest takeaway for me
was that he was as courteous as you could possibly be to law enforcement regarding
the situation. Apologetic claimed it was a misunderstanding. They clearly didn't want to
hear and even entertain any scenario that he was confused. They just wanted to
I mean, I'll stop myself. I mean, I wasn't gonna say aything
crazy, but like that's just them wanting to abuse authority. I mean.
And again, one specific detail that came up towards the end of Steve Romans
media Q and A after the charges were officially dropped publicly, was that there's
witnesses that all will will that both the county attorney and Romans have talked to
that say that that did not happen, like that, that is not what
happened. And you know, he was calmer than I think most people would
be, which you know, credit to him. I mean I don't mean,
I don't know what I would do in that situation, but this is
in this could be I mean, if you really wanted to follow these stories,
and this wouldn't be a story. If it's an average Joe, it
doesn't make the news, you don't hear about it. But because it's Scotti
Scheffler and we all now at least can see what happened, we heard what
I mean, like, it scares people to think that like that could me.
I would probably still be in in jail. And if I have,
you know, maybe a criminal record, if I have any other previous offenses,
maybe I go to prison or something. I mean, I don't know
how if that would actually end up being the punishment. But the cop that
was talking to him, I mean to say that you should just stop for
anybody, no, like that doesn't even make any sense. And for them
to act as if you there's no way you didn't know that we were cops.
I mean again, I wasn't there. We don't have great video.
In fact, the one video we do have is not I mean, it's
it's not a great look by any means as far as quality. But that
was the first thing everybody said as soon as it became a story that morning
was maybe he didn't know who was hitting his car. Maybe he didn't know
who it was because they're just wearing big yellow jackets. Which again, where
does it say police. It's got to be on the front, but it's
dark outside, it's pouring down rain, and he didn't say anything on the
back that said you know, and I will say this one thing I brought
up the day that's happened was even if he didn't know it was a cop,
why would you drive and drag someone with you ten to fifteen yards.
Well he didn't, so that's the answer. It didn't happen. So you
know, this, this easily could have been avoided in every way, and
it you know, de escalation is something that law enforcement is supposed to practice,
meaning that they're not They shouldn't be out there looking to just arrest people
and create situations that don't really need to be created. And that's what this
was. Not to say that. You know, even Jeffler admitted, you
know, it's a misunderstanding and he was confused, and I mean he was
even apologetic in the video, but I think it was more so apologetic for
the misunderstanding and trying to kind of let let law enforcement know why that happened,
and they didn't want to hear any of it. And another thing that
that I that I wonder is that you know, like I don't know.
I mean, if you if you were an officer there and you saw everything,
I guess it would be great if he had your body came on.
But why, like you know, I guess it's just the code. But
if like four or five cops were there and they knew that this was truly
a big exagger like, wouldn't they come forward to their superior and say,
like this this doesn't need like this doesn't need to happen. And I just
I don't know it. It burns me up hearing that officer there, who
again wasn't jealous. Gillis whatever the hell's name is, Like it's up to
him now, like he's he's the boss, he's the but he's you answer
to him, like just because he you know, he scraped his knee because
he acted like a fool and was a hot heead he just gets to aside
what charges are and who goes to jail. That's a waste of resources.
I mean, that's that's that's being a bad cop, is what it is.
And I'm sure'll just you know, well, actually I was gonnay,
I'm sure it'll go away and it'll die down. But this sucks all the
way around. But what really is just you know, infuriating at times,
is that it could have all been avoided. None of this needed to happen.
So here was a statement from LMPD about an hour ago. It says,
we respect the County Attorney's decision and we'll respect the judicial process. LMPD
will remain focused on our mission to serve the city of Louisville and mitigate violent
crime. Videos and documents which were previously unreleased due to the jal judicial process
will be made available after appropriate reactions are made. So here's my question.
If there's more video that does come out that they did not release, you
know, we'll see. I won't claim that this tells us anything. I
know. O'Connell was asked about it and he said that it hadn't been released
yet because they were still investigating it. But everybody, it shouldn't sy everybody,
but a lot of people, myself included. To be honest with you,
I'm the assumption that like, when they do put it out there,
it's gonna make them look even worse because I don't. I mean, again,
what do I know. I know nothing about how an investigation is supposed
to work, as far as the exact protocols are supposed to follow, as
far as releasing stuff and all that. But if you felt like you had
video evidence that confirmed you were justified in making the arrest and charging him with
what you charged him with, it would be public already. And again I
know I've said this now three times Romans, which by the way, we'll
let you hear some sound from him, because he's I mean, clearly he's
pretty good at what he does, being a you know, a defense attorney.
But you know, he was pretty fiery about certain things that I know
a lot of folks myself included some of it. I kind of agree with
what he's saying. But they would not drop this if they had video footage
of this guy being like completely dragged ten fifteen yards like he claims he was.
And also there are witnesses that have talked to both the county attorney and
to Roman that multiple not just one, that say I saw this and that
is not what happened, and like the fact that had it not been Scotti
Scheffler and he not been able to afford someone like Steve Romans, and there
wouldn't be this much attention on it. Somebody could just be sitting in jail
for because a cop got his feelings hurt and bumped his knee. Had a
boo boo needs a band aid. All right, we'll get our first break
out of the way. Stick with us. It's coffee and Company. We
are Philbeth Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety so. Tonight at midnight
is the deadline for those that are in the NBA Draft to pull their names
out and return to college. And Yukon just got some good news. I
wasn't even aware that they were expecting a potential return from one of their top
big men from last year. What is his name, Karah, Yeah,
Alex Caravan. But he's decided to come back to school, which again means
they're gonna be good ones again, they were gonna be good even without him.
But what if they pull off the three P I mean, it just
sounds crazy to think that somebody would be able to do that. But then
again, like, why would they not be the favorite to do that,
you know what I mean, Like they've been so dominant the last couple of
years, and as we discussed after they won their second consecutive championship, what
makes them so good is scary because it's not based off of a once in
a lifetime type of talent. They have good players, no doubt about it,
But I mean it's it's the type I mean they it's the type of
system they run. And I don't even mean like style of play, I
mean just I mean, he finds talented guys, but they don't have to
be top five, top ten NBA lottery prospects. These are guys who are
you know, four star maybe even guys who transferred in from a lower level
that you know, really fit what they're looking for as far as having a
type, right, and that's guys that are going to play hard, buy
in, not worry about individual numbers. And you know, I don't see
you kN Sloan down anytime soon, which is kind of scary. But some
names out there that have yet to make a decision, at least not that
I've seen Coleman Hawkins. I think Arthur Koluma. If you remember Arthur Kluma.
He actually started his career creaton was pretty good play last year for Jerome
Tang at Kansas State and had another good year. But some guys that have
made a decision to come back to school. John L. Davis, the
FAU guard, who again I wasn't and once he committed Arkansas, I just
assumed that meant he was not going to go to the NBA. But he
has decided to go to Arkansas and play for John Cala Perry. And there
are some names here that are coming back that it sounds like John Cali Perry
could go get Wooga Poplar the Miami guard. I mean I mentioned Kaluma.
There's a belief that maybe Arkansas would be the school willing to pay the most
for Coleman Hawkins. So you know, we'll see how Cow's team. You
know, I think his roster will be similar. Actually I don't know.
You know, he wins the off season every single year. Caliperry, right,
like he absolutely, you know, he's he's the hype machine and it
usually works and for the most part, they're usually pretty good. But if
in fact they because they've got another great class and he's landed some good transfers
so far, especially the kid from Tennessee and obviously John El Davis, who
some believe is the number one player that entered the portal in college basketball.
But if they were to add somebody like Coleman Hawkins, John, do you
think that the national height would be there for cal at Arkansas like it usually
as in Kentucky, Because I kind of feel like it wouldn't be, but
then again, not on the same level just because it's at Arkansas. Yeah,
I think he'll still get the notoriety that Cali Perry generally gets because he's
himself, but just because that he's at a program like Arkansas instead of Kentucky,
naturally, you're just not gonna get the hype. Sure, And I
don't know how real this is. It could just be Arkansas fans trolling.
But if they were able to get Jackson Robinson, who, for those that
don't know who that is, he played at BYU for Mark Pope was their
best player, best NBA prospect, he was in the draft has now decided
to come back, and Kentucky clearly is believed to be, you know,
one of the one of the top choices for him, and I'm sure many
people expect him to go there, but apparently Kansas has been involved in Arkansas.
And it is wild to see two guys that played for Pope not I
mean, in fact, two guys not only didn't want to play for Pope
at Kentucky, they wanted to play for Louisville. One guy visited, you
know, even was met at the airport. We all heard about that,
and then he went back to BYU and decided to stay there. So if
Jackson Robinson ends up anywhere but Kentucky, I mean that like doesn't mean Mark
Pope's gonna suck. It doesn't mean that, you know, it's a humongous
red flag that he's going to be a bum. But like anybody acting like
that is normal, and you know, something that you would have expected is
lying like that's to me that would be a head scratcher. And then the
kid last week that has another piece of news that I missed. It wasn't
big news, but the kid from North Florida whose name I've forgotten. You
know, Kentucky Tennessee were believed to be the two leaders, and sure enough
he picked He ended up picking Kentucky. I'm sorry, picked Tennessee over Kentucky.
So if Jackson Robinson ends up anywhere but Kentucky, like, that'll just
be I mean again, your Kentucky fans don't care, and they still think
they're gonna be great. Sure, like you know whatever, not telling you
not to be excited about your team. But this, to me, this
is the one guy that it's always you know, it's always just been assumed
that if he doesn't go to the NBA, he's gonna follow mar Pope and
if at the last minute he doesn't, it'll just be again a head scratcher.
All right, it is Coffee and Company. We are feel about Thornton's
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. As you could expect, we spent the
majority of the first segment discussing the big news today's charges dropped against Scotti Scheffler,
which is the right thing, but man, it really seems as if
this entire thing could have been avoided. We also talked about the door to
door salesman and it's a pest control company that they're as aggressive as anybody I've
seen as far as how they train these salesmen to not take no for an
answer, always have a response for anything. And I'm fascinated by it.
We had somebody texted and said, Nick, you may not believe this,
but I had a buddy who fresh out of college sold vacuum cleaner's door to
door. All he had to do was sell one a week, and he
was cleaning up based off the commission that he received. These vacuum cleaners were
nearly two thousand dollars apiece. Who would buy a two I mean that mean
who would buy a two thousand dollars vacuum cleaner? Is that real? Like,
I mean I'm just reading from the text line, but like at that
point you have to be targeting neighborhoods, yeah, you know, the fire
end and people who just have money to blow at that point, and let
me let me say something. I know my mother in law does not listen
to this. She bought a vacuum cleaner from somebody who showed up at her
door years ago, and her kids never let her live it down because it
was very expensive. I don't remember being two thousand dollars, But like that
to me, I just I mean two, I mean how much is a
normal vacuum clim Like? What can this vacuum cleaner do? Can it take
me? To space, like what that price is insane? Also, this
text says Nick. Well, this text says Nick. It's not it.
There's one that that that text did say Nick. But I'm not going to
read it because it's it's not nice. It's not something I should say on
it. It's somebody just because of much different view of this whole Scotti Schefler
thing than me, which they're entitled to. But I can't, you know,
I can't read exactly what it is that you had said. But this
person, this other person, made a good point, and that was that
why wouldn't the officer who clearly caused the miscommunication, who told Scheffler he could
go, and then the other guy got involved, why didn't he intervene to
say no, I told him he could, he went. He was given
the green light essentially from me. Why don't they do that? And I
don't know the answer of that, but that's a great question. It's a
great question. All right. So here's Steve Rowmins on the let's see here,
and there's a lot of clips here, and I want to thank our
news team, news Radio eight forty WHS for having these available for us to
play. But Doug, I think This is his opening statement on the charge
of being dropped again. This is Steve Rowmines, the defense attorney for Scottie
Scheffler. We were pleased that the case was dismissed today. Obviously was dismissed
without prejudice or with prejudice, which was something that we had required. We
were prepared to go forward and litigate this matter. We were also prepared to
litigate the case. Civilly lawsuits are paid by the taxpayers. If he prevails
in civil litigation against LMPD, who pays that taxpayers of Louisville. He doesn't
wish the taxpayers to Louisville of Louisville to pay him or whatever occurred. So,
I mean, that just sounds like something you would say to make your
client look good. But knowing what I know about Scheffler and his reputation and
what I've heard, I feel like he means that, like he just it,
you know, And this is this is probably the clip that yeah,
this is from. In fact, this one's probably not going to play either
because it's doing the same thing. But I'll get it fixed. But whenever
Romans was asked about why Scheffler originally, you know kind of agreed to claim
that he dragged officer. Officer gillis I mean in which he didn't really do
that. But again this is let me see here, because I'm sure this
is not going to play correctly. And actually here we go. This might.
Yeah, Steve, I have to ask you thought the standards that thought
he made after the vest don't see to prove the line with what you're seeing
right now, he admits that he got in Piche and went to farm.
No, here's what happens is he is being interrogated after the most stressful situation
of his life, right, and the officer is actually asking him leading questions
and trying to get him to agree with them. Okay, and that's why
you don't talk to the police, because they are going to try to put
words in your mouth. And that's exactly what they did. No, of
course he didn't have to speak, but again, he asked to talk to
the officer. He wanted to explain to him what happened. However, they
are trying to get him to confess to something that he didn't do, and
the video evidence shows he didn't do it. That's why you don't talk to
the police. They are not trying to get to what happened. They are
trying to get you to incriminate yourself, and that's what they were trying to
do to him, and he didn't incriminate himself. He continued to show the
quality of his character by trying to diffuse the situation. There are multiple eyewitnesses
to the incident, the actual initial contact that I've spoken with. I have
statements from that, the county spoke the prosecutor's office have spoken with that confirm
that he was not dragged. You believe they would have dismissed this case if
he was dragged. No, they would not have. That did not happen.
And to be fair in all honesty, miscommunication or not, if he
dragged a law enforcement officer knowingly or not for ten to fifteen yards as it
was initially put in the police report, he should be charged. Now it
probably can be resolved to where it's not a fell anything, but you know,
and maybe it in you know, I'm not saying they throw him in
jail, in ruin his life, but like you know that anybody else would
have been charged, misunderstanding or not. He shouldn't get preferential treatment because he's
Scottie Scheffler. However, that just didn't happen. And it's a scary thing
to think about because this wasn't even that I mean, nobody got hurt.
This wasn't even that big of a deal, and yet they threw felony charges
on him. And if it's a random Joe and the attention's not on their
case, like Scottie Scheffler's case, that's somebody who you know, doesn't get
the benefit it out and is going to end up, you know, wrongful.
I mean what he said there at the end about diffusing the situation,
I mean I thought that's what law enforcement was supposed to do, especially when
somebody is calm and working with you and trying to explain what had happened and
being you know, sympathetic apologetic, even if they don't really you know,
like he's I think he's sorry that that guy had his leg hurt, like
he claimed and needed a band aid and a hug from his mommy. But
like it's not as if he's admitting that he did it. He's claiming,
well, I'm sorry, you know, that's what you're saying. I'm sorry.
But and one of the things Steve Roman said that we talked about this
a few months ago after I think you had gotten pulled over just for a
speeding and that they asked you the reason, like if you knew why you
got pulled over, because they want you to have that confession exactly, Like
Steve Romans just laid out, Yeah, and I am somebody you should I
think you should be kind to law enforcement. I think you should be.
But here's something that makes people uncomfortable that are all about you better respect the
police. You don't have to answer their questions. And sometimes they're asking you
things that have nothing to do with anything, and for you to just not
answer it doesn't mean you're not you're not that you're not complying and that you're
resisting, you know, like some things they ask is just not you know
where you heading today? None of your damn business where I'm heading? Like
you know what I mean? Like, and you're not asking me because you
care and you want to have a conversation and you want to be friends.
You're doing it because you're trying to incriminate me in some way. You know,
if possible, I quick break will come back and wrap at the three
o'clock hour here on the other side. Uh oh, Venetti says, the
pest people have infiltrated the mean streets of Saint Matthew's. Oh, they won't
last long there. I used to think I was a pretty piggy eater until
I met John, and I think we both are picky eaters in certain ways.
And I don't eat a ton of fast food, but there's a few.
I'm sure everybody has a restaurant that they understand. There's a lot of
hype. People like it, they're big fans of it, but I've just
never been into it or never even been there. In one place, I
can tell you that I've never eaten a that I know is popular Chipotle.
You ever been there? Never been there, but you agree like it's a
popular place. People who like it really really like it. Yep. So
I find this fascinating. But I love it too. So I don't know
how this started. But fast food, any food, everything in the world
right now is stupid expensive. Like I feel like if you were going to
go to get a full meal at at a restaurant, fast food restaurant,
I mean, you're not spending less than like ten bucks, are you?
I mean maybe around here, But if you're in a bigger city, like
you know, big market. Everything's a little more expensive there. But like
you're ontown New York City, downtown Chicago, and you go to a fast
food place, and again, you get a full meal, and I'm not
talking about like just something off the valume in you in a water, I
mean a full meal. You're probably spending fifteen bucks, not exaggerating. And
Chipotle, I've never been there. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would imagine
a place like that is more expensive than your standard fast food place. So
you're paying more than you ever have. And you know, maybe the cost
of the supplies is also impacting restaurants, because apparently Chippotle has been getting a
little light on the portions right, not making you as much food as they
used to. But it's also one of those places that makes your food in
front of you. So apparently people in the bigger cities, New York cities
where this some thing started, are going to get Chipotle and holding their phone
out videoing the person making and I don't know if they're making a threat,
they're you know, claiming they're going to report them to corporate. But I've
seen a couple of these videos and there's no I mean, they're not really
saying anything. They're just holding their phone and that you can tell they're videoing
them. And it has led to them getting like nearly double the portion of
what I guess they were previously getting. So according to Alex Friedman, who
is a reporter for Let's See Here looks like Tech Stars, She says that
this is her report. People on social media have been dragging Chipotle so hard
that allegedly a memo was sent out to Chipotle employees instructing them to fill up
the bulls as much as possible if someone has their phone out or is filming
while ordering. And then somebody, I guess once this became a story a
couple of days ago, somebody walked in, had somebody film them as they're
walking up to the you know, to tell them what they want. And
then they show the footage of them right in front of where they're making the
food, and there's you know, they they gave him food that I feel
like I could eat off his meal. I feel like I could eat off
that for three days. So, I mean, if that's true, and
like the memo is I mean like real, I mean, isn't that like,
is that for odd? Like you're basically saying, you know, we're
skimming people and not giving them what we should. However, you know,
if they act like they're gonna make a big deal about it, will cave
and give them, you know what we feel like, we'll keep them from
clowning us on social media. It's funny how there can't just be like a
happy medium. You have to either give them not enough or give them way
too much. Well, you know, at certain places. I only know
this because I had a buddy in high school that worked at Arby's and a
lot of times, you know, depending on like how the roast beef is,
I guess, positioned on your sandwich, it can look really really smaller.
It can look like you got a bunch right, So if you just
kind of have it, like you can put roast beef on a sandwich in
a certain way to make it look as if like it's fallen off because there's
so much of it, when in fact, you know, it's probably the
same. So I only know that, and I don't know if they still
do this or not, but it used to be a weight thing. You
would grab a certain amount of roast beef and it would be weighed and that
way you knew, no matter what it looks like, they're getting the same
amount. But you know, I'm sure at times it's a little bit more
than what you're supposed to give in a little bit less. But man,
like, everything's expensive but the one and because Americans, for the most part,
a lot of us are so fat. Like that's what you hear people
complaining about more than anything, right, Like, everything is way more expensive,
but fast food. I mean he used to be able to, like,
I mean, if I go and get and we never do this,
but we did get Taco bell as a family in the drive through not that
long ago. And I mean, I'm pretty sure it costs like thirty three
dollars, which is insane. And you know, it's not much cheaper to
buy groceries and need at home, but at least it's healthier. Right,
don't go anywhere. We got two hours left. It is coffee and Company.
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