WEBVTT 1 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:29.519 Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of Fire Up. Are we 2 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:36.280 ready, guys or what yes, we are. I'll take the book down, 3 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.280 George so you can be seen there. Sorry about that. Well, 4 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:44.719 I'm going to welcome my awesome crew tonight, my my second hand, my 5 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.600 co host, my I don't know, Jeremy smoking, Jeremy Bee. Welcome 6 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.920 back, everybody. Great to be here, all right. And then another 7 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.719 staple on the program, mister George Icorn. Good evening, everyone, good 8 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:06.000 to be on board, looking forward to the show. And then another staple 9 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.719 is mister Ralph Williams. Thank you, Candy, appreciate it, Thank you, 10 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.439 thank you. And we have a special guest on tonight. We have 11 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.239 mister will Vogel. Thank you for joining us. Will glad to be back. 12 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.079 When I got the message from Jeremy, I was smiling from ear to 13 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.760 ear because I love talking sports. Twenty four seven, three sixty five, 14 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:32.439 you name it all right, Well, then I'm looking forward to having you 15 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:38.439 on tonight. Thank you. Will. So I was reading an article Arizona's 16 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:45.920 state head coach Kenny Dillingham has a message for coaches who are complaining about the 17 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:51.000 current state of college football. You know how many people want my job. 18 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:57.879 You know how many people want my assistant jobs and my analyst jobs. You 19 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.359 recently read in an interview you don't complain about what we do. You're blessed. 20 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.599 There's a lot of negativity about it. Yes, but do you know 21 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.520 how many people want to be a college football coach? He literally spent ninety 22 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.919 years of his life doing anything to become a coffee boy. So don't give 23 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:22.280 me the oh, it's hard to be a coach right now? Yeah, 24 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:28.199 it's hard. If you don't like it, quit moreall So, I'm gonna 25 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.639 go around the panel. I want you guys to talk about the difference between 26 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:38.800 coaching in college versus NFL, especially now if there's NIL, and how you 27 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:43.199 feel about all of that. And we're gonna start with my co host, 28 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:50.479 smoking Jeremy be Well, all you got to do is look at Alabama prior 29 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.719 to NIL and the transfer portal being where you can just transfer and play. 30 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.840 They look like the best paid team in college football. And now the nil's 31 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.960 they're not able to win the championships like they used to. They're getting runners 32 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.240 up and just outside the playoffs. It was so bad. Nick Saban says 33 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:19.000 that's it. I'm done that pretty much. Let them all. Mister George 34 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:24.680 iichorn your thoughts, Well, yeah, I mean it's his situation that is 35 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.960 to me a little alarming, And I agree with Jeremy. I mean, 36 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.599 you see the situation with a guy like Nick saban He's been in the fabric, 37 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:38.240 part of the fabric of college football for decades, including a stint here 38 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.080 in my state, Michigan with the Michigan State University Spartans. And then you 39 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.240 see a situation like Jim Harbaugh. And I know Jim, Jim is kind 40 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.240 of one of those coaches that you know, did have that other dream, 41 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:57.400 and that other dream being a Super Bowl championship. So his situation was was 42 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.439 a little or maybe a lot more different than Nick Sabans and the fact that 43 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.840 he still had the burden desire to go back to the pros and to coach. 44 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.960 But when we see the coaches that are starting to leave college football, 45 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.520 it is sending up the red flag to me. It is telling me that 46 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:20.439 there are situations that are becoming more and more burdensome. We always knew that 47 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.839 it's tough to be recruiter, I mean, but they knew that going again, 48 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.439 and they've been recruiting for years and years, but with nil, with 49 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:35.519 the transfer portal, with TV Networks screwing around, with your kickoff times being 50 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:43.519 twelve noon now with the Big Ten and that PAC twelve, and you know, 51 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.240 teams moving from California, teams playing in the Big Ten and Washington and 52 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:53.720 Oregon. It's crazy out there. And I can see where the college coaches 53 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:00.399 would be a little frustrated. And I also see those point, Candy that 54 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.879 you mentioned that if you don't want to do it, you can't handle it, 55 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.759 then don't do it. They had the free right to go and not 56 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:12.680 go, but that's always true with any job. But I am concerned if 57 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.480 we lose top tier coaches like we have been. I mean, you know, 58 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:23.639 it's it's just you know, Ralph, you know Bill Cower Oranges, 59 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.519 here's a brilliant man. He never went back to coaching. Jimmy Jobs, 60 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:36.160 no broadcast boot but Steve Marucci he never went back to coaching either. Brian 61 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.879 Billick, I can name you a whole bunch of guys that never went back 62 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.560 to coaching. Coaching is done an easy job. Bill Cower, by the 63 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.399 way, George speaking to him, he was offered the position. He was 64 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:53.199 offered that coaching job at NC State because they had fired Chuck the Motto Donner. 65 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.160 And then what happened was they offered him the job, he turned it 66 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:01.560 down. And then he was interviewed twice by by reporters from like CBS and 67 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.160 whatnot, and they all tell he told them the same thing. Why would 68 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:08.800 I want to get back into coaching when I got the best commentary job there 69 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.519 is and I make good money, I could see my daughters and I have 70 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.160 a life. That's exactly how he put it. And if you can make 71 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:19.720 more money going broadcasting, then you can coaching and you don't have to work 72 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:26.000 that much. I do it in a second, you know. So, 73 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.399 in my opinion of the NIL is this. The NCAA are be ashamed of 74 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:35.319 themselves. And it all started when they start letting athletes leave before four years. 75 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:41.000 Okay, there's no structure. The NCAA has zero structure, and it's 76 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.639 all about money. Okay, all right. They sit there, they go 77 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.600 on and on and on about how they care about the student body. Well, 78 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.519 if you care about the student body and the student athletes so bad, 79 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:54.879 then why do you have Stanford in the ACC and why do you have CALU 80 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:58.879 traveling all the way to Pitt to play Pitt at Akashuer Stadium for the twenty 81 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.240 twenty four season. So I don't want to hear it from the NCAA that 82 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:06.560 they care about athletes because they don't. It's all about the Benjamins. Okay, 83 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.759 mister will your opinion which you got a mistake. It's a two sided 84 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.279 coin. It's a two sided coin. I can see both arguments, but 85 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:25.079 I think college coaches are getting fed up. College coaches have to please the 86 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:30.639 administration that they help work for and the alumni. They have to deal with 87 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.720 a young athlete getting X amount of money. They also have to deal with 88 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:42.079 the transfer portal. And I wouldn't be surprised if more coaches follow suit where 89 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:44.319 they're like, you know what, I'm sick of this. I'm going to 90 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:47.800 the NFL. I don't have to deal with this transfer portal in this NIL 91 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.439 stuff. And I think Jeff Hartley said it best, and I might be 92 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:59.319 that Ralph said it pre show because I actually brought down what he said. 93 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:07.959 He said and I agree wholeheartedly. College coaching has become fundraising nil recruiting and 94 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.639 owning a team and transferse and there's no time to coach anymore. It's just 95 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.519 all about those other things. So I am on the side of Coach Hartley. 96 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:24.120 He went from Boston Coach to the Green Bay Packers because he couldn't stand 97 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.639 it anymore. It just got annoying. And yes, I agree with what 98 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.919 you said, Candy. If you can't do it, just don't do it. 99 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:39.200 If you can't do it, then great. Okay, guys, you 100 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:45.080 guys are all too soft. I let me ask you a question. I'm 101 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:50.200 gonna ask. I'm gonna first ask Jeremy. Okay, in the last five 102 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:58.639 years, your job has it changed because of technology? The technology is retire 103 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.799 tech hasn't changed since nineteen ninety five when they did away with what was known 104 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.960 as the arm breaker, you know, the old center post tire removers that 105 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.200 they had. They called them the arm baker because if you use it wrong, 106 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:15.559 the arm that came around would break your arm while you're taking the tire 107 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.679 off. Now they have these touchless machines. So yes, the job change, 108 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.279 but not in the last five years. Well, the technology to run, 109 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.960 how to do things and maybe order and that a little Okay. They 110 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:37.120 haven't even enough to put a computer in yet, so some of you know, 111 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.960 some of you don't know. I work in the banking industry. The 112 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:46.799 banking industry has changed tremendously over the years. How many people are using ATMs, 113 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.360 How many people are using what you would call a little smartphone. You 114 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.240 can do your banking on your smartphone. You can pay your bills, you 115 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.799 can you can hold your credit card and a digital wallet and use this at 116 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.159 the ATM for a debit card. My job is, My point is, 117 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.480 my job has changed over the course of the last how many years. And 118 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:13.440 my choice was either you adapt and you learn and you grow with the job, 119 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.440 or you get out of the business. Because now let me ask George. 120 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:22.600 Let me ask you one question, George. You've worked for radio stations 121 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:28.440 and newspapers. How many newspapers are still around? Well, quite a few 122 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.720 of them have folded, as you know, candy and But as far as 123 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.120 the changes, oh, yes, of course, in radio and TV and 124 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.039 newspapers, it's been tremendous. I mean to think back when I went to 125 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:46.600 college, one of my courses was obviously newswriting, and we used typewriters, 126 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.919 yes, Manuel, we had to use at Wayne State University in the old 127 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.879 main building as it's called. And in the broadcast area. Oh, tremendous 128 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:03.679 of course in scott and I know because we were on we started almost close 129 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.879 to each other as far as the radio business goes. And it was called 130 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.519 rip and read. So you waited for the teletype machine to come and tell 131 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.320 you the story on the Detroit Lions game that somebody wrote at the stadium and 132 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:24.879 used a phone or something to send his story transmitted or one of these suction 133 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.720 cups devices they're public on the phone and transmit the story. I mean, 134 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.879 those days are gone, I mean the days of bringing in a tape recording 135 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.879 machine or yeah. So yeah, to answer your question, tremendous changes as 136 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:43.559 far as radio, TV and newspapers going. And now, of course newspapers, 137 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.360 like you said, Andy, many of them we've lost and then they'll 138 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:50.080 never be back, some of them. And even the way we're reading the 139 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.639 newspaper, as you guys all know, is very different because most people just 140 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.759 read it online. They don't subscribe to it, even though I still do, 141 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.639 but you know, most of them don't get a hard copy. Yeah, 142 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.080 a lot of changes. So my point is that a lot of jobs 143 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.039 have changed over the years, and you have to learn to adapt with those 144 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.840 changes. If you don't want to adapt with those changes, then get out 145 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.600 of the business. So what I'm telling you is these college coaches that are 146 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.720 complaining, I get it, it's not the same as what it was. 147 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.120 But then you need to go out and find something different because stop complaining about 148 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.799 it because it's not going to get any easier or any better. Your job 149 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.120 is not changing. Well, Candy, I'll tell you what Pitt has done. 150 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.080 The University of Pittsburgh. They went on and they started a group called 151 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:43.240 Alliance for One two and they have some alum who are actually working as consultants. 152 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.679 And what they do is they go out and they solicit donations for NIL. 153 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.600 Okay. That takes the pressure off of Pat Rdoozi, the head coach, 154 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.080 Okay and the assistants, so we don't have to deal with that. 155 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.120 Now. They have a separate group that does it. It's called Alliance for 156 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.720 One two. That's what Pitt does. Nah. And I know Penn State 157 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.759 because I know somebody that covers Penn State that I'm friends with, and he 158 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.960 told me they have a seventy million dollar budget for NIL and they have a 159 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:16.320 group two that handles that seventy million dollar budget. So that right there, 160 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.240 James Franklin, Paton Rdouzi, and maybe some other coaches and some other universities 161 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.519 or and programs or probably have the same thing. But I know Pitt does 162 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:30.480 what Pitt does without what I just explained to you, So I get it. 163 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.480 So that they're adapting, they're learning how to adapt so that all the 164 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.120 pressures aren't on a coach. That's exactly what you need to do. But 165 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:43.639 don't complain as a coach. I'm sick and tired of people complaining and going 166 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.919 to the media and complaining or when they're being interviewed complaining about it. You 167 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.799 knew it was going to happen. They've been talking about it for years. 168 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.279 It didn't just all of a sudden appear. You knew it was going to 169 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.240 happen. So either be proactive and find a different job, because, let's 170 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:05.960 face it, college coaches get paid a pretty penny. All of them make 171 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:09.759 way more money than I make. My job, like I said, has 172 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:18.919 changed tremendously, and especially I would say since COVID because people COVID advanced a 173 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.919 lot of things, so people it can be more self sufficient. So my 174 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.519 question to you is going to be is there going to be many more brick 175 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.399 and mortar like banks or self service things like that, Because if more and 176 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.759 more people are doing them at an ATM, at a machine, or doing 177 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:43.600 them online or online banking, my job is going to be going away eventually. 178 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.360 So if I don't think now and be proactive, it's going to be 179 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.080 like some of the newspaper editors that are out jobs because there's no longer newspaper 180 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:58.279 print newspapers anymore. So my point is all these college coaches that are complaining 181 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:05.759 either take a job someplace else, coach someplace else, or collaborate like Pitt 182 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:11.200 did, and get a group that's taking off some of the pressure off you 183 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.960 so you can coach and other people can do some of these other jobs. 184 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.559 It's kind of funny because I because look at the NFL, how many people 185 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.559 want to be GM and head coach so they want more responsibilities. And yet 186 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:31.960 college coaches are complaining because now they have too many responsibilities. Any anybody else 187 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:39.679 want to chime in our thoughts? No, you've nailed it, thank you, 188 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:45.480 will well, I say, oh, I'll say this. I'll say 189 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.840 this, Kitty, I do agree with what you're saying if they don't like 190 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.000 their job. And I do agree with you about banking based on the fact 191 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.600 that this is a sports show. We have P and C Bank here, 192 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.720 their headquarters is here in Pittsburgh. They have cut many teller jobs. I 193 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.000 know some tellers that cut their jobs cut. Okay, when you walk into 194 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.320 some of the branches, now there's a computer screen there and you talk to 195 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:12.000 a virtual teller. You don't go to a personal teller. I'm not with 196 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:17.080 P and C because of that. I am with a different bank that still 197 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:22.399 has tellers, personal tellers. And when their theft services call me to tell 198 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.879 me that my card has been hacked or something, I get a direct phone 199 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.799 call from an office in downtown Pittsburgh, not in India, and I get 200 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.480 somebody that speaks English. You understand what I'm saying. That's why I stick 201 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.679 with that bank. But P and C has been doing that. Citizens Bank 202 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.919 here, They're headquarters is here. They're under the umbrella Bank of New York. 203 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.799 They have cut tailler jobs. So I get what you're saying. And 204 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.879 it's the same thing with College. But pitt had to learn how to adapt 205 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.759 because they got burned with this nil when it first came out a transfer portal. 206 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.480 Oh my gosh, did they get burned. They lost a lot of 207 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.159 good athletes. I get it, I get it. I can say I'm 208 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.120 not going to say the name of the bank that I work for, but 209 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:04.759 it is not peace right. That's fine, right, No, not, 210 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.319 I get that. The one thing I will say about the bank that I 211 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:15.440 do work for is that we did not lay off any of our tellers. 212 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.960 Yes, our tellers are not just tellers anymore. We are training them to 213 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.319 be work on both sides so they can start opening accounts and they can help 214 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:30.720 people with service. So we're upscaling that postion, which I really do. 215 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.599 I'm going to tell you a little story here, real quick, Candy, 216 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.279 before we want. I don't mean to get off topic, but here's a 217 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:40.319 good story you were telling me about how tellers are doing other jobs. The 218 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:44.000 radio station where I do my sports show, they just fired the news to 219 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:47.839 Rippor because and he was there for twelve years. They fired him because all 220 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.279 he wanted to do was the news. They wanted him to do like accounting, 221 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.839 you know, putting in like advertising, a constant of the computer and 222 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.960 doing clerical work, and he was messing it up because he didn't know how 223 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.200 to do it right, and they fire him. They said, you don't 224 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.039 want to do this, you're fired. And he was there for twelve years. 225 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.079 I was shocked when I went to do my show on Tuesday at the 226 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.559 studio and I found out from my producer that this guy got fired. I 227 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.279 said, oh, my gosh, that's a nice guy. And then all 228 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:15.319 you know, all of a sudden, he got fired. I found out 229 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.279 he just wanted to do the news. He don't want to do nothing else. 230 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.799 And that's you know, that's what it is to m h. I 231 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:27.359 get it. Well, we're going to move on to the segment that I 232 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.319 started I don't know how many shows ago, but it's called my Town, 233 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:37.400 and it's where you can talk about either the town you're currently living in or 234 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:42.440 the town you grew up in love for whatever you want. I am going 235 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:48.039 to go last, So I am going to start with let's start with our 236 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:55.400 special guest, mister Will Man. Oh, I've got one of each, 237 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:00.519 but I think I think that's okay. I'm going to start with the town 238 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.119 I was born and I was born in Stanford, Connecticut, and I'm a 239 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:10.039 women's Yukon Huskies fan, and so I'm gonna talk about their women and their 240 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:15.359 men's basketball team. The first thing is the women. Gino Oriyama just passed 241 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:23.960 Mike Krzyzewski for second most wins in NCAA history, and Paige Becker's surprised all 242 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:32.079 her fans on senior night saying, I am coming back for my senior year 243 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.279 as opposed to going to the draft where she probably would have been a top 244 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.839 five pick. And I think even next year she'll be a top five pick. 245 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:45.720 On the men's side of that, Dan Hurley was walking off the court 246 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.759 and he got in a verbal exchange with a fan and it got ugly, 247 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:53.720 and the fan was saying some nasty stuff and Hurley was saying some nasty stuff. 248 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.839 And as a coach, it doesn't look good. It was caught on 249 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.720 camera. It doesn't look good. So, like I get it, like 250 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.839 a fan was saying something need to you, but you need to remain professional. 251 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:10.319 You're a leader of men, you're a coach. Stay in your ground, 252 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.920 know your place. As for where I am right now, they were 253 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:21.680 Charlotte, North Carolina. The MLS season kicks kicked off last night, but 254 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:26.839 in Charlotte kicks off on Saturday. I wish I could go, but I'm 255 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:33.839 working. The Charlotte FC is kicking off their season against New York City FC. 256 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:41.960 And we we have a great attendance in Charlotte, so hopefully we can 257 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:47.240 build on last year's season where we didn't make the playoffs. So hopefully this 258 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:52.559 year we do make the playoffs. Awesome, thank you. Will you have 259 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.480 a fan out there, Petty Grimes is saying good job, thank you, 260 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.279 Patty. I know, Patty awesome, Thank you, Patty Awesome. Mister 261 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.279 let's say, mister George, let's go with you tonight. What's happening? 262 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:11.640 Yeah, And my town is Detroit, Michigan, as you guys know. 263 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:17.640 And I got the sad news before I went on the show with London, 264 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.720 Condon and Scott and I used to work with Ron brand. Ron Cameron died 265 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:27.640 Tuesday night. I just got word today, seventy nine years old. This 266 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:34.599 guy was like the godfather of sports talk radio in Detroit. We started out 267 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.960 in the business, well, he started out before me, but I was 268 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:45.319 a producer of his radio show back in the late seventies early eighties, and 269 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.960 then Scott succeeded me as the producer of the show on ABC owned and operated 270 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:56.720 a new x yz AM twelve seventy. Ron was a dinosaur you talked about, 271 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:03.160 you talked about the top of you know, how things have changed candy 272 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.960 over the years, And certainly Ron was one of those guys that he still 273 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:12.000 kind of lived in the past. He would sell his own advertising, he 274 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:18.519 would buy his own airtime, and he would do trades. You advertise on 275 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:25.559 my show holiday in exchange, you give me a room. You know, 276 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:29.960 things that you don't even see anymore like that. Once took a trip with 277 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.759 him down to Lakeland, Florida, to see the Detroit Tigers. And what 278 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.759 happened was, I said, what are you going to do? Rent a 279 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:38.599 car? Oh? No, I don't rent it. I said, what 280 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.400 do you mean, Ron, how are we going to get down there? 281 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:47.160 He says, no. It's called the drive away. Some person, usually 282 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.440 a senior, and wants their car delivered from Detroit to Florida. So you 283 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.000 make a deal with that person and you sign up to get that vehicle down 284 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:02.200 there within three days, seventy two hours, whatever it was. And so 285 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:07.559 and so we took this really fancy car from Detroit down to Lakelyn and I 286 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.240 said, well, n how are we going to get back? He goes, 287 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:12.640 Oh, we're going to pick up another one from a guy in Tampa. 288 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:18.400 We got to deliver his car back up to Windsor, Ontario. I 289 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.240 says, Oh, okay, I mean this is the kind of crazy stuff 290 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.480 you know that Ron did to watch his pennies and his dollars. It's a 291 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:33.240 big loss. He hasn't been well for the last couple of years, had 292 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.680 some very serious medical issues, so it didn't come as a total surprise. 293 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:42.519 Ron Cameron was an institution in Detroit radio as well as other things. He 294 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:48.400 had shows in Arizona and Florida at one time. So farewell, my friend, 295 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:51.759 you did a lot for sports in Detroit. I mean, I know 296 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:53.960 you were outspoken and a lot of people didn't like you, but boy, 297 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.920 oh boy, you certainly put your name on the map here as far as 298 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:03.039 sports talk radio Detroit. Thank you, Candy and letting me share this today, 299 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:11.359 of course, welcome rest in peace. Ralph. Okay, Ralph Williams. 300 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:17.480 Your what's happening in your town? Well, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been 301 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.920 stinking up the joint. They're not doing real well. The power play stinks. 302 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.640 They can't score goals. The goalie Christian Jari, who I wanted to 303 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.759 run out of town, actually is doing pretty well for himself. Last night 304 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:36.400 that the backup goalie. The other night, the Djerkovic or Duke of Covid, 305 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:41.480 however you pronounced his last name. He played goal. We still lost 306 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:44.960 five before We've been losing close games, but we just can't score the goals. 307 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.079 I hope Kyle Dubis does something about the Penguins and we'll see what happens. 308 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.000 Also, the Pirates finally opened up. Bob Nutting, the owner, 309 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:56.359 finally opened up his wallet, and we signed Mitch Keller to a five year, 310 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:02.400 seventy seven million dollar contract. So I hope that the Wallett continues to 311 00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:06.319 open up. I have John Perrato, who some of you might know, 312 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:11.519 maybe George and Jeremy and what not might know. And Scott he's a well 313 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.480 known baseball writer, not only just in Pittsburgh but across the country. He's 314 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.200 going to be on my show from Bradenton, Florida on Tuesday on my radio 315 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:23.640 show to tell me exactly the rumor I heard that there's some friction between Bob 316 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:29.559 Nutting and Ben Cherrington. Bob Nutting toold ben Cherrington, I'll open up the 317 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.799 wallet, you tell me what you need, fix this team and do it 318 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.279 right. And he hasn't asked Bob Nutting for extra funds. And now finally 319 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:41.559 Bob Nutting opened up the wallet and said, I'm going to give Mitch Keller 320 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.680 money and they're going to start signing some of their core players. They signed 321 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.440 keep Brian Hayes last year to a big contractor two years ago, next to 322 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.920 working on O'Neill, Cruz and a few other guys. So now the pirates 323 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.720 are starting to realize that you can't be frugal anymore, and Bob Nutting is 324 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.559 willing to open it up. And I hope that Bob Nning continues to do 325 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.839 this and Ben Sherrington might get fired next year because he was told he was 326 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:11.640 allowed to spend whatever he needed and he hasn't done it. Okay, and 327 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:18.200 that completes my report. Okay, smoking Jeremy b what is happening in your 328 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.799 town that you want to talk about? Well, today we made sure that 329 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:27.759 we're probably not drafting a kicker this year because we reseave Michael Badley to the 330 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:33.839 Detrait Lions, which means Dan the Gambler Gambles shall keep up his fourth and 331 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:40.480 Townsend as a coach. We've already talked about that. Ye, Shay Towson 332 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:45.119 is the secondary coach. Terrell Williams is now the d line coach. Uh. 333 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.799 We also got another assistant coach that we just brought in on the defense 334 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:53.680 and much to the trigger into a lot of Lions fans. Dre Bli, 335 00:26:53.880 --> 00:27:08.319 Brian Duker, John Fox, and John Hostler have all been really from Okay, 336 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:12.680 So I'm gonna piggyback. Well, first I'll piggyback a little bit off 337 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:21.400 will Yes. MLS started the season opened last night down here in Fort Lauderdale 338 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:30.119 because Linel Messi played and intern Miami one to nothing yesterday and that would be 339 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:34.680 down here in Florida. But as for my real my town, I have 340 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:40.880 a gripe and it has to do with the NBA. I'm specifically gonna take 341 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:48.079 a shot at Adam Silver. Adam Silver if reports what I'm hearing are coming 342 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:53.400 out that are true. I have not been a fan of NBA really for 343 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.720 the last I don't know how many years, but this will definitely seal it 344 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:04.400 for me. Typically, you're an NBA franchise and you build a new stadium, 345 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:11.640 typically you will get the NBA All Star Game in your new stadium. 346 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:18.279 So what did Milwaukee do. Milwaukee build a stadium, the Pier Forum, 347 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.480 and they've been trying to bid to get then the All Star Game. Now 348 00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:26.960 it's not a game that I really care about, but but you have an 349 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:33.160 NBA franchise in the Milwaukee Bucks that build the new stadium, they should get 350 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.720 the NBA All Star Game. And now you're renigging because now there is a 351 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:45.039 report coming out that they're all of a sudden going to start changing the requirements. 352 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.359 So there's going to be a minimum requirement of minimum hotel rooms, the 353 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:56.240 size of a convention center, and the number of NonStop and international flights coming 354 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.519 to that city. Well, then why do you have an NBA team there? 355 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:07.160 That is ridiculous. I'm sorry. The stadium seats seven What did I 356 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.599 say? I think I looked it up. Seventeen thousand, five hundred for 357 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:19.319 a game. They have over eight thousand hotel rooms around the city of Milwaukee. 358 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:25.799 And if you want to drive hour hour and a half, you can 359 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:32.160 get to Chicago, where there's forty five thousand hotel rooms. So and you 360 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.759 can't tell me that there aren't people that if they go to I don't know, 361 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.279 Golden State Warriors or some of these other stadiums, that the traffic to 362 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.599 get to some of these teams isn't going to take you an hour an hour 363 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.880 and a half to get there. So driving to and from Chicago is not 364 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.839 that big of a deal. Adam Silver, if you don't bring the NBA 365 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:55.240 All Star Game to Milwaukee because they built a new stadium, you are alienating 366 00:29:55.319 --> 00:30:00.559 a fan base, and I'm sorry that is not your job. Your job 367 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.480 is not to alienate a fan base of a pro team you have in that 368 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:10.480 league. It'd be different if you didn't have a team there. I would 369 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:15.839 get it then, But you have a team there. I albeit. I 370 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.279 know it's a small market. You're not the NFL. You're not the super 371 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:25.839 Bowl that wants a nice, glamorous city or wants a city in that are 372 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:32.240 a super Bowl that's inside, or whether can climate controlled or warm weather. 373 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:36.200 I get it. Lambeau will not get a super Bowl. I get it. 374 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.279 But we're talking about a sport that plays indoors. It should not matter 375 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:47.640 all of those other things. So, Adam Silver, I hope this isn't 376 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.119 true, and I hope you do bring an NBA All Star Game, even 377 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:55.759 though I don't care. And let's face it, how many people watched that 378 00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:00.400 NBA All Star Game that happened last weekend when there was absolutely no defense play. 379 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.240 It's not a it's not a game. It's a how many shots can 380 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:10.640 we take? How many how many free not free throws? How many shots 381 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.200 can we fire up and make? That's all it is. It's not defense. 382 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.799 So I really don't care about the game. But it's a principle of 383 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:23.960 that, the principle of alienating a fan base that you have in your league. 384 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.440 So that's that's nice. So Bucks, Sorry, guys, but so 385 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.680 any any of the thoughts anybody come wants to comment on anybody else's I got 386 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.000 en updates. Scott's probably able to go to bed because the Red Wings beat 387 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:47.039 the Avalanche two to one. Yeah, that was a great win for Detroit. 388 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:51.759 Candy. I've been fighting the same issues with the All Star Games here 389 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:55.079 in Detroit. You know, we got a beautiful new arena, Little Caesars 390 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.960 Arena, and they will not award Detroit the NHL and the NBA All Star 391 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:05.119 Games yet. Now, I did hear a report yesterday saying that the NHL 392 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:10.519 is considering Edmonton and Detroit for a future game. And you know, but 393 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:15.119 I agree with you. I mean, Milwaukee definitely deserves that game the NBA 394 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:21.640 and and I don't know what kind of smoke and mirrors they use there. 395 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.720 You know, they already awarded it to the new Los Angeles Slippers Arena. 396 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:30.279 Okay, I see they got one in a couple of years in Indiana, 397 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:31.960 of course, but it hasn't been in the new Arena in Indiana, so 398 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:36.400 I'm glad they went there this year. But yeah, there's so much politics 399 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:42.440 in those All Star selections. Oh, I hate it. I agree, 400 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:47.519 it doesn't belong in the sport. Thanks Patty for agreeing with me. I 401 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:52.880 appreciate that. It's also good for business in Milwaukee. You're right, especially 402 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.160 for a small market team, then you could use it. And you're talking 403 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.359 about a city as you know, Candy, You guys most of the Democratic 404 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:06.160 Convention and now you're having the Republican National Convention there, So don't give me 405 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:10.480 that stuff about not enough hotel rooms. The parties would not bring their conventions 406 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.880 there if if Milwaukee could not adequately handle it. I agree with you. 407 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:22.279 I've been to Milwaukee, I know it said. On top of that, 408 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.839 I have a quick question for the panel before we signed off. Who's the 409 00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:30.880 worst commissioner of the league? Adam Silver, Roger Goodell, the guy I 410 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.920 can't even think of his name that runs Baseball? So which one? Which 411 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:43.960 one of the baseball commissioner is the worst? All three? All three? 412 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:49.720 Yeah? Rocher are But I mean if I had my choice of one, 413 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:52.640 it would be the Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfretty or whatever his name is Manfred. 414 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:57.759 Yeah. Yeah, I think Silver has been running it into the ground 415 00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:01.240 ever since he's been there. I don't like anything he's done. He's had 416 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:07.000 so much favoritism towards the big market teams that isn't funny. All the mid 417 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.400 market the small market teams are being left out of everything and it isn't fair. 418 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.400 No, I've got a comment on them Silver, but I will say 419 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:23.039 that after the show. Yeah, but I I agree all three of them. 420 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:28.840 Yes, but I would give the tip to Adam Silver because I just 421 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:35.360 think like he's he said, he's been alienating the fan base. Bob Manfred, 422 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.199 He's at least been trying to And I know a lot of people don't 423 00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.440 like some of the changes he's made to the game. But if people, 424 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.800 if he was losing people, he's trying to make adjustments. So I give 425 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:52.760 him credit for trying to make adjustments. But and let's say Roger Goodell, 426 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:58.960 he's they've got the deepest pockets now he's developed the league. So now it's 427 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:04.920 way out powered all any other any it's you know, it makes the most 428 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.440 money, so I would I gotta give my mind. But maybe it's because 429 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:15.719 Adam Silver has got my goat right now, especially but Adam Silver, because 430 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.920 I think the NBA the game has gotten away from what it was and I 431 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.519 we don't watch it as much. It's not fun to watch. It's more 432 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:36.440 watching exactly, it's not fun anymore to watch. I haven't watched it since 433 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:43.519 they ran the Bad Boys out of Town. Mm hmm. Yeah. With 434 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.960 that being said, we're gonna go around the panel because unless anybody else has 435 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:52.159 any other topics they want to quick bring up to anybody, we'll go around 436 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:53.639 the panel. You can tell everybody how they can get a hold of you, 437 00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.880 and then we will sign off. Let's start with mister George icorn Well. 438 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:06.480 You can reach me at South Florida Tribune you'll find me under the Motor 439 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:12.519 City Tribune with a lot of great writers, including Scott and Candy Well she's 440 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:19.320 a great photographer too, and Jeremy and the MotorCity Tribune. At the end 441 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.000 of my column, you'll see a little tag that'll show you how to if 442 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:27.440 you were interested in my book. It's called Detroit Sports Podcasters on the Air. 443 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:32.000 And I'm also blessed to be asked to write the forward for Scott's book, 444 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:37.159 Lessons from the Microphone, So make sure you pick up one of each. 445 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:42.159 If you want good reading, good information and lots of stories. You 446 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.000 can reach me at Giicorn at yahoo dot com, on LinkedIn under my name 447 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:51.239 George Iicorn, and also on Twitter at Sanjee Sports ninety nine and follow me 448 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.039 too on many of these shows which I appear, and I'm very grateful for 449 00:36:55.159 --> 00:37:00.679 that and looking forward to more of the fire up shows and we had earlier 450 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:06.400 tonight under and eight Stitches. And keep up the great work all of you 451 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:12.280 that contribute to those great shows. Okay, we are going to I'm gonna 452 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.320 turn it over to mister Will and let me tell everybody that's in our audience, 453 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.440 mister Will is on this show because mister will comes in in our chat 454 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:25.719 room and he talks and he brings up comments, and he listens to our 455 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.960 shows and he watches us. And we've said on our shows before, if 456 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.960 you comment and on our shows, we'll bring you on from time to time 457 00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.000 and look here you are. Will tell us how people can get a hold 458 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:45.159 of you. So you guys can find me on Wednesday nights on Jeremy Bee's 459 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:52.320 channel, we have the NFL round Table talks with him and Von Doom and 460 00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:59.239 other fans. Friday nights you could find me also on Jeremy Bee's channel with 461 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:05.320 Jeremy Be and vond Do, but it is the Detroit Lions fan Cave chat 462 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.239 Thursdays. You can find me on the sip Off occasionally host a Biden bag 463 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:15.039 in Price. It just depends what she's doing. It's not every week, 464 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:21.079 it could be every other week. And then whenever I'm invited, I'm here. 465 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:27.599 But if I'm not here, I'm always in the comment section. Exactly. 466 00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.239 Thank you will, mister Ralph. How can people get a hold of 467 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:37.039 you? Ralph Williams seven three seven at gmail dot com. I now have 468 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.280 all my shows moved from broad Block Talk Radio I've discontinued myself with them. 469 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:46.400 Everything will be on YouTube or Facebook or Twitch or Twitter x platforms. I 470 00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:52.440 now have seven podcasts altogether. Now I'm taking a couple of weeks off from 471 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:58.800 some shows that will not be aired until March eleventh, but you can all. 472 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.800 I have my own YouTube, you'll please subscribe. I also can be 473 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:07.559 reached on Facebook. I'm also on Tumblr. I'm also on Twitter and LinkedIn 474 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:12.119 as well. And i also have my own radio show on Tuesday night, 475 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.159 Tuesday, four to six pm Beaver County Radio. Check it out. I 476 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.039 have some great guests coming on this Tuesday with me, Ralph william Smoking, 477 00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:28.559 Jim Fraser awesome. Okay, last, but not definitely not last, because 478 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:34.159 I haven't gone yet my posts smoking Jeremy, I gave you the little side 479 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.079 I right there, I said last. You still gotta go, but anyway. 480 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:39.719 You can find me on the South Florida Tribune dot com. Underneath MotorCity 481 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:45.159 Tribune heading underneath the great authors that write books, such as Scott Morgan Roth 482 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.800 and George Eichorn, you can find my writings about the NFL and the Dedrey 483 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.480 Lions. You also can find me right here on the South Florida Tribune channel 484 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:53.920 on any of the fire Up shows, which could be three a week, 485 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.760 sometimes two, sometimes it's one. It all depends on the week and the 486 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.079 who's got the schedule. Then you can find me eight days a week on 487 00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:06.280 my channel, which is Kneecat Biting with the MotorCity Lions, where I do 488 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.960 my daily talk show at eleven am before I go into my work, my 489 00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:15.480 day job, where I talk any and any and all Lions news. I 490 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:21.679 also try to come up with my own original topics and questions. Then you 491 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.880 got my Wednesday night show, which will mentioned where because he started out as 492 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:31.559 a Panthers fan and I somehow converted him to the Lions because I've five to 493 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:38.880 ten drumming the one time I don't know but and then the Lions ban cave 494 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.639 chat. I also do a Monday show where it's a random topic where it's 495 00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.679 just me and Von Doom because that's how I run my postgame show, It's 496 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:55.559 just me and my co ho. So that being said, I'm everywhere Facebook, 497 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:04.920 Twitter, Instagram, recently opening a kick channel and I'll explain that in 498 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.280 a minute. Oh I forgot to mention too, I'm going to be on 499 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:12.599 my shows. Now we'll be on the fan First Sports Network and that's coming 500 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:17.760 up at the beginning of March. Nice, awesome, thank you. Okay, 501 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.440 So, first and foremost, I want to thank all of you for 502 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.000 coming on the show tonight. Second of all, I would like to ask 503 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.880 all of our guests, if you haven't hit our red subscribe button, please 504 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:35.719 do it now share our content, but also go to all of our co 505 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.039 hosts and our panelist and go to their YouTube channels and subscribe to them too, 506 00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:43.360 because if it weren't for them, we wouldn't be on here either. 507 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:50.320 So we all collaborate together and we all help support each other. They're sorry, 508 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.840 Jeremy, you're kind of being hidden right now. But this is what 509 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:58.159 Scott's book, my husband wrote, Lessons from the Microphone. Please go out 510 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:04.000 and get it and kindle. It talks about his over forty four years in 511 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.920 the media business and how it has changed over the years. We talked earlier 512 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:12.119 on this show, how my job has changed, how college coaching has changed, 513 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:16.480 well, so has being in the media. Amazon and kindall, it's 514 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:21.679 got great pictures too. Then go to our website www. Dot sol Florida 515 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:25.239 Tribune dot com, where we have great writers like Jeremy and George and my 516 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:30.480 husband Scott and I go out and take pictures, so there will be pictures 517 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:39.840 Jacksonville Jaguars, they'll be Miami Hurricanes, USF basketball against FAU basketball. Go 518 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:45.000 see some of my pictures on the website. See any of our shows. 519 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.719 We have a plethora of shows. If you like baseball, it's one hundred 520 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:49.960 and eight, such as Baseball Talk. If you like football, it's Inside 521 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.880 the Pigskin. If you like well rounded shows, we have Sports Exchange. 522 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:58.599 We do pundits Pundit before this. On Thursday nights. We have Fire Up 523 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:05.400 tonight. Last night we had Euroup Michigan. On Sunday, you will have 524 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.880 Fire Up, and that's where it's just Jeremy and I and you never know 525 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.360 what we might be talking about. You'll have to tune in to find out. 526 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:24.159 I know what we won't talk about what I on my podcast. So 527 00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.519 there you go. You can do it for all of us because I I 528 00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:37.760 reviewed exactly, so do we and we also we also go ahead. Sorry 529 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:42.400 Jeremy, it's just like being in the bar. You don't talk politics or 530 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:44.920 religion. It's a good way to end up in a fight and it doesn't 531 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:51.840 even have to be a myrish cub exactly right correct. Go to our website 532 00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:54.360 if you have ideas, you can always be in our chat room. Otherwise 533 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:59.199 you can email us at selfwart Tribute at gmail dot com if you want to 534 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:04.239 advertisers any one of our shows. Are all of our shows call Scott nine 535 00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:08.519 five three oh four four one. The audio version is can be heard on 536 00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.880 iHeartRadio, Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. Again, 537 00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.000 please hit our red subscribe button if you haven't already, and go to 538 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:21.559 our co host and hit that red subscribe button. I believe the red subscribe 539 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.119 button is right by Will tonight. It's normally down in the right corner. 540 00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:29.960 So just hit that red subscribe button. Get in the modifications of all of 541 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.800 our shows and when they're going on, and then you can come on and 542 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:38.840 comment. But most importantly, just be a good person and have a good 543 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:43.519 day and have a good week. Jeremy, what's you're saying as you end 544 00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.400 the shows? Try every day to be a better person than you were the 545 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.320 day before. That's the only way to make the best world a better place. 546 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.559 It starts in here. You don't start with yourself you cannot change the 547 00:44:52.559 --> 00:45:00.000 world. So thank you, Jeremy, thank you, Ralph, thank you, 548 00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.239 George, thank you. Will everybody have a great weekend.