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Speaker 2: So I've thrown out the first pitch at the Bats
Speaker 2: game tonight, and I just happened to see something they're
Speaker 2: doing that I think is I think is pretty cool,
Speaker 2: and I'm just curious to see how effective it is
Speaker 2: in regards to season ticket sales. So apparently they sent
Speaker 2: out an email to their season ticket holders that they're
Speaker 2: going to have a renewal party on September fourteenth, uh
Speaker 2: to you know, for their season ticket holders to renew
Speaker 2: and it's really just a big party, and you know,
Speaker 2: they do it, do it, do it big for those
Speaker 2: that support them by purchasing season tickets, which of course
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Bats greatly appreciate those that they purchase
Speaker 2: season tickets, But you can RSVP for the you know,
Speaker 2: for the for the party and missus wild that if
Speaker 2: you hit a home run, they're gonna let you. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's take the field for your very own batting session
Speaker 2: while you're there at the party, and if you hit
Speaker 2: a home run, your twenty twenty five season tickets are
Speaker 2: on them. I'm cure. And again, maybe I can ask
Speaker 2: the folks at the Bats tonight whenever I get out
Speaker 2: there to to slug or field. But I'm curious have
Speaker 2: they done this before, and as anybody ever got free
Speaker 2: season tickets because they were able to hit one out
Speaker 2: of the park. I mean, I feel like they'd be
Speaker 2: really hard to do for anyone. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: like if it's just if somebody's just loft in it
Speaker 2: to you and it's not like you got to actually
Speaker 2: take a pitch from somebody that you know is within
Speaker 2: the Reds organization pitching for the bats. But you know,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if there's a couple of people
Speaker 2: maybe that that could could do that. I mean, I
Speaker 2: would assume they'd have to play baseball, meaning like they
Speaker 2: probably have had a career playing baseball in college. I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe even semi you know, professionally in the
Speaker 2: minor leagues or whatnot. But I think it's cool when
Speaker 2: when professional sports franchises do things like that, because even
Speaker 2: if it's not like, even if they know, hey, nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna hit it out, there's enough people that will give
Speaker 2: it a shot and try and if you got him there,
Speaker 2: you know, and they're around, you know, even if they
Speaker 2: don't hit a home run, maybe they'll still end up
Speaker 2: buying and renewing their season tickets. Of all the things
Speaker 2: in sports that like I know I can't do, which
Speaker 2: I can't do much of anything, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but like hitting a hitting a baseball from a you know,
Speaker 2: legitimate pitcher, the guy that's you know, pitching for the
Speaker 2: for the bats, I don't think I would ever be
Speaker 2: able to make contact with the ball. And I don't
Speaker 2: think that's I don't feel like I'm in the minority
Speaker 2: if like most people who have never played baseball even
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I've never played baseball at any
Speaker 2: level competitively. But like I think even if you played baseball,
Speaker 2: like in high school twenty years ago, fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: I feel like that would be really hard to do,
Speaker 2: scoring on like a G League player, Like, if a
Speaker 2: G League player is guarding you, like, could you score? Like,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to the normal average joe that might
Speaker 2: have played sports competitively, but not at a level where you're,
Speaker 2: you know, chasing a career in that sport. I feel
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of average jos that you know,
Speaker 2: back in their day, probably were not nearly as good
Speaker 2: as they thought they were, but they feel like they
Speaker 2: could do that, and I think they'd be humbled. I'm
Speaker 2: somebody that is well aware if I tried to step
Speaker 2: onto the field the court with an athlete that you know,
Speaker 2: that's their livelihood, that's what they do, I would be
Speaker 2: embarrassed in a major way, and I think most people would.
Speaker 2: But John, don't you think there's some people out there
Speaker 2: that just assume they could do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate to name drop it. Billy Relig would
Speaker 3: probably say he could do it.
Speaker 2: You're so right, But what made you think of Billy?
Speaker 3: Because for some reason, I remember the story you brought up.
Speaker 3: I believe this is years ago. You told me he
Speaker 3: was filling in for you, and he said he could
Speaker 3: outrun what's the guy's name, famous football player. Oh, it
Speaker 3: could be anybody obviously famous football.
Speaker 2: It was a UK player, was a UK. It was
Speaker 2: a UK as a form. I think, gosh, I'm having
Speaker 2: I'm having really weird deja vous. I feel like it
Speaker 2: might have been a former UK and Billy might be listening.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can tell us. But Billy, it was a
Speaker 2: former UK football player that hadn't been away from Kentucky
Speaker 2: football for a while. I mean, I think he might
Speaker 2: have been out of school maybe three four years, and
Speaker 2: he was I think helping out with like coverage of
Speaker 2: UK football for KSR or something, and Billy thought he
Speaker 2: could beat him in a race. And I don't remember
Speaker 2: if it ever happened. And think it might have been
Speaker 2: Ryan Timms, who, by the way, was like a speedster.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. And by the way, if Billy
Speaker 2: did in fact try this and beat him, we'd all
Speaker 2: know about it because he'd still be talking about it
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: He would be Yeah.
Speaker 2: Billy also is the guy who the first day I
Speaker 2: met him, he thought he would be able to get
Speaker 2: Jennifer Lawrence's number if he actually got a chance to
Speaker 2: see her so many years ago. He was training to
Speaker 2: become a producer. He had just got out of WKU,
Speaker 2: and you know, a young confident And I love Billy Relich,
Speaker 2: by the way, and I'm so proud that he's been
Speaker 2: able to kind of grind it out for the last
Speaker 2: I don't know, six seven years, which is crazy to
Speaker 2: think he's been around that long. But now he's got
Speaker 2: his own show with Shannon, and he works his ass off,
Speaker 2: and you know, you have to do that in order
Speaker 2: to get an opportunity like he has right now. So
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm jabbing at Billy. He would tell
Speaker 2: you straight up. He's got a lot of belief in himself.
Speaker 2: He's very very confident, and he was filling in or
Speaker 2: not filling in actually what he was doing. He was producing,
Speaker 2: but it was more so just like on a trial basis,
Speaker 2: Like my producer at that time was still there, but
Speaker 2: they were just kind of seeing if Billy could run
Speaker 2: the board. And he did a fine job at that.
Speaker 2: But at that time, Jennifer Lawrence was coming into the
Speaker 2: studio across the hall to be on with Terry Miners.
Speaker 2: As Terry Miners is I think close family friends with
Speaker 2: Jennifer Lawrence's parents, and she knows Terry and I think
Speaker 2: she's been on a few times over the years. I
Speaker 2: think it's been a long time since it happened, But
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, I think it was she. She was
Speaker 2: coming in studio and at that time, you know, she
Speaker 2: comes in with like security that looks like the Secret Service, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, she's she's senter for Lawrence, So you know,
Speaker 2: I knew she was here. I saw her through the
Speaker 2: window when I was walking out of the building and
Speaker 2: I can see through the window there in the has studio.
Speaker 2: But like, you know, I wasn't trying to like, hey
Speaker 2: can I can I sneak in and get a picture?
Speaker 2: You know, it's not really my personality anyways, but even
Speaker 2: if I try, they wouldn't let me. Well, Billy, he
Speaker 2: was gonna try, but I told him, like no, like
Speaker 2: you had to realize you're not just gonna walk past
Speaker 2: her in the hallway. You know, it's like not really
Speaker 2: how it works, you know, she's And then he said, well,
Speaker 2: I know, if I do get a chance to talk
Speaker 2: to her, I guarantee I could get he phone number.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, Billy I'm pretty sure she's married. It's like,
Speaker 2: I don't care, it doesn't matter. And I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: that he wasn't joking. He was quite serious that if
Speaker 2: he had a chance to be in the same room
Speaker 2: with Jennifer Laurence. I guess that Billy Ruttledge charm would
Speaker 2: just be oozing to where he could get the digits
Speaker 2: and she would forget. She might have been married at
Speaker 2: the time. I don't know if she was married, but
Speaker 2: she was with somebody. And oh, by the way, she's
Speaker 2: Jennifer Lawrence. He's fresh out of college training to be
Speaker 2: a producer on AM radio, like a little bit of
Speaker 2: a different stratosphere when it comes to status. But he
Speaker 2: he wasn't joking. He believed it. And I know that
Speaker 2: story has been told before on KSR, and I'm the
Speaker 2: one who told Mad about it because Billy was filling
Speaker 2: in and they were learning this guy, this guy really
Speaker 2: he's awesome. But man, he's really, really, really a fan
Speaker 2: of himself. But actually, let me back up, I don't
Speaker 2: think Billy's like it's yes, it's not. I mean, it
Speaker 2: is arrogance, but it's not like in your face, right,
Speaker 2: It's not like he's not a showman.
Speaker 3: He's not afraid to be himself, but he.
Speaker 2: Really does have a lot of belief in himself when
Speaker 2: it comes to anything, which, to be honest, is probably
Speaker 2: why he's been able to be successful at this point.
Speaker 2: But some of the things that he does in fact believe,
Speaker 2: I know, I mean, I don't have the heart to
Speaker 2: tell him he's delusional, but like he'll he'll learn the
Speaker 2: hard way, right Like.
Speaker 3: By the way, wasn't was it not DK Metcalf? Was
Speaker 3: that the athlete you say, get out run? That may
Speaker 3: often in my head.
Speaker 2: Maybe because I think it's that sounds about right, because
Speaker 2: it was an outlandish thing said like that, and then
Speaker 2: it got turned into where we actually could prove you wrong.
Speaker 2: Let's see if we can go get this former UK
Speaker 2: player and let's see if you can beat him. I
Speaker 2: think that's might that might have been how it played out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, there's certain people that are you know,
Speaker 2: big time celebrities that that have made their way into
Speaker 2: studio and been on with you know, mostly with has
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, mostly Terry Minors because you
Speaker 2: know he's Terry Miners. But yeah, Jennifer Lawrence is one
Speaker 2: that you know, you're not just gonna casually run into
Speaker 2: her in the hallway, and if you do, you know
Speaker 2: you're gonna be told to get away because she's Jennifer
Speaker 2: Lawrence and you're not. And I don't mean that she
Speaker 2: would say that to you, but you know she's I mean,
Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say is she's still probably
Speaker 2: currently the most globally famous person from Louisville, like right now,
Speaker 2: Like obviously people know Muhammad Ali from Louisville, and there's
Speaker 2: others that are known from being from Louisville. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to like, I mean, she's still an active
Speaker 2: a lister when it comes to Hollywood and Jack Harlow,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's a big time for sure, but
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's I mean maybe their neck
Speaker 2: and neck, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: And there are two different industries music and film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, And what's wild to say is that
Speaker 2: of all the celebrities that have been in and out
Speaker 2: of the building since I've worked here, which it's not
Speaker 2: like there's a thousand of them, but you know, you
Speaker 2: can always tell, right, Like if a country start, a
Speaker 2: country artist is here doing something with AMZ, you know,
Speaker 2: even if you're not a country music fan like you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's just the that's the effect that celebrities have
Speaker 2: on people. And to this day, there is there's never
Speaker 2: been you know, I've worked here for gosh, going on
Speaker 2: nine years now, and there's never been someone who was
Speaker 2: making an appearance in at Ihart Louisville that generated the
Speaker 2: aura and the you know, the attention. Then Mason Ramsey,
Speaker 2: the kid who yeldled at Walmart and went viral.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that? I remember him?
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean and by the way, he's still like
Speaker 2: making music and he became like a star. But like
Speaker 2: he was doing some kind of an appearance at a
Speaker 2: Walmart that was near where we used to be our
Speaker 2: old studios, and I guess he came in to do
Speaker 2: a performance. He came in to do a performance in
Speaker 2: our auditorium to promote that he was going to be
Speaker 2: at the Walmart. And like the news stations heard about it.
Speaker 2: They showed up to iHeart and it's a it's like
Speaker 2: an I mean, a nine year old kid who just
Speaker 2: was yodeling at Walmart and became like the biggest thing
Speaker 2: on the internet. Oh that he was inside the last
Speaker 2: home day she said, good an, well a lot I
Speaker 2: thought of the dry Should do me?
Speaker 3: Should do you?
Speaker 1: She's got the guys.
Speaker 2: It's unreal how certain things go viral like that. Like, again,
Speaker 2: that's a good yodeler for a kid, But like what
Speaker 2: made that become the most talked about thing on the
Speaker 2: planet for you know, hour or something. I mean that's
Speaker 2: almost longer than that. That was you two. But the video,
Speaker 2: the video blew up on Facebook. Okay, that's that's when.
Speaker 2: And it was an eight Yeah, March of ninth March
Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen. He gained he gained an international fame.
Speaker 2: He gained international fame from a viral video of him yodling.
Speaker 2: And now he's like, you know, now he's grown up
Speaker 2: and his voice has changed, and you know he doesn't
Speaker 2: he doesn't sound.
Speaker 3: What can I go do in Walmart to get me famed?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like the hawk Tua girl. Yeah, like.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't even want to be famous. What am
Speaker 3: I talking about? That wouldn't be fun? Well it would?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think being famous would certainly have its benefits,
Speaker 2: but being famous for, like what you're famous for, is
Speaker 2: the biggest factor, you know, what I mean, like you
Speaker 2: could be super famous for being the biggest psychopath in
Speaker 2: the world. I don't think anybody would want that, but
Speaker 2: if you would have, I mean, it's almost like magic
Speaker 2: how the internet can just like because if you just
Speaker 2: describe a kid wadling yodling in Walmart who sounds pretty
Speaker 2: you know, pretty good, and he's kind of a because he's,
Speaker 2: you know, a little kid, like telling somebody that, even
Speaker 2: having somebody kind of visualize that, they would never expect
Speaker 2: that to be a viral story. Same thing with Hawk
Speaker 2: to a girl like what she said, you know, and
Speaker 2: she's cute, she's young, she's you know, there's some sexual
Speaker 2: innuendo there with what she's talking about, you know, just
Speaker 2: spitting on that thing. We all know what that was,
Speaker 2: but nobody would have believed beforehand that that specific clip
Speaker 2: would would be the biggest that was the biggest clip
Speaker 2: of the summer, was it?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Not? Even yeah, I mean so far, it's so it's
Speaker 2: just I don't know, I I'm fascinated by it, but
Speaker 2: it also kind of doesn't make me sad.
Speaker 1: But like.
Speaker 2: This can't I don't know, like if it changes people's
Speaker 2: life with the better than great like doesn't doesn't impact me,
Speaker 2: but it's just there's something better about somebody being famous
Speaker 2: for something, you know, like noteworthy, something good, something positive,
Speaker 2: something entertaining, and hawk to a girl, more power to her.
Speaker 2: But like that, I mean, like what did she do?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Now, if you're hawk to
Speaker 3: a girl that's going to interview for a job, no
Speaker 3: matter you're going to be to a girl, going to
Speaker 3: be like, oh my gosh, you're the hawk to a girl,
Speaker 3: and that's eventual actually gets older, that's gonna get annoying.
Speaker 2: Did you see that she? Did you see that she
Speaker 2: throughout the first pitch at the Mets game last week?
Speaker 2: I didn't, And everybody was upset about it because like
Speaker 2: how could the Mets do that? Like what are we
Speaker 2: doing here? And then the Yankees GM I think it
Speaker 2: was maybe the owner somebody within the Yankees organization either
Speaker 2: was asked about it or just to decided to comment
Speaker 2: on it, and you know, acted as if like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we would never do that because you know, we're the Yankees.
Speaker 2: So she she gets invited throughout the first pitch, she's
Speaker 2: just catching strays from the Yankees because they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we actually have real celebrities to throw out our first pitch.
Speaker 2: Maybe that happens tonight whenever, you know, Pat Kelsey gets
Speaker 2: introduced because he's thrown out of first pitch too. He's
Speaker 2: got the basketball fan base excited and energized for the
Speaker 2: first time in years. He's going to get a standing. Oh,
Speaker 2: people on the Interstate sixty five might just pull over
Speaker 2: because they're gonna think, what's going on here?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: It's so loud this guy?
Speaker 3: Who is that?
Speaker 2: Who's out there on the mound and it's Pat Kelsey?
Speaker 2: And then they introduced me, and everybody says, who the
Speaker 2: hell's that? What's he doing here?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: I worried about making Pat Kelsey's moment less because I
Speaker 2: am some way involved in it. Hopefully that doesn't happen
Speaker 2: because that that's not good for me. Right, No, I
Speaker 2: don't like. I don't want to be in the way.
Speaker 3: It is odd that they it's you're not like the
Speaker 3: opening act for Pat Kelson. I don't know how this
Speaker 3: is gonna work for you.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody does. But I have learned, and
Speaker 2: thank you to those on the text line. I even
Speaker 2: had a friend as well that that that had had
Speaker 2: told me that he's been to games where they're it's
Speaker 2: not uncommon to have more than one person throughout at
Speaker 2: first poke. So I'm sure they've done this before. They
Speaker 2: have a plan. It's not going to be like super
Speaker 2: awkward at least I hope not real quick before we
Speaker 2: move on. This is one of those segments where I
Speaker 2: don't even know what we've accomplished, but you know what
Speaker 2: it's right, So anyways, this is a random a random
Speaker 2: celebri that that that I that I ended up encountering
Speaker 2: it the old office.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And do you know who Charlie Pooth is?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Singer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so is he famous like he is? Isn't he like?
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 1: Or is he nine?
Speaker 3: He's famous like he's a pop singer, but he's not
Speaker 3: like on the level of a lot of pop singers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he was at iHeart years ago for some reason
Speaker 2: that I don't that I don't really know, and me
Speaker 2: making an appearance. I think he might have done something
Speaker 2: on ninety eight nine and I didn't know that he that,
Speaker 2: I didn't know what he looked like, didn't know who
Speaker 2: he was. And back in the day we used to
Speaker 2: have way more people in our building. I think even
Speaker 2: when you started working here many years ago, Like it
Speaker 2: was just a different vibe because working remotely wasn't a
Speaker 2: thing because the pandemic hadn't happened yet. Like you'd see
Speaker 2: a ton of cars in the parking lot and that
Speaker 2: was only for like three months for me. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then everything kind of you know changed in a major way.
Speaker 2: So this guy was there and again i'd heard the name,
Speaker 2: and then I ended up it was just awkward, Like
Speaker 2: I was walking into the bathroom he had just gotten
Speaker 2: done washing his hands, and we kept doing like the
Speaker 2: face to face dancing thing to where like we're trying
Speaker 2: to get out of each other's way, but when he
Speaker 2: moves right, he moves to his right. I ended up
Speaker 2: moving the same direction to where we just keep like
Speaker 2: so finally I was like, hey, sorry, man, and I
Speaker 2: like you know, ended up moving around him and I
Speaker 2: patted him on the back, and I thought it was
Speaker 2: somebody who worked in sales because I didn't know, and
Speaker 2: he was kind, but he was very very surprised I
Speaker 2: touched him and I don't and I don't usually touch,
Speaker 2: like I'm not that's not normal for me, but because
Speaker 2: of what had happened, like I just like Okay, let
Speaker 2: me you know, sorry about that buddy, like hit him on,
Speaker 2: you know, hit.
Speaker 3: Pat would have been like, I'm Charlie Pooth, why did
Speaker 3: you do that?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying, Like I kind of wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been shocked if he did that, but he didn't.
Speaker 2: But he did seem just a little He didn't even
Speaker 2: seem like bothered, but more so like okay, well, like
Speaker 2: he didn't expect somebody to touch him because he is
Speaker 2: Charlie Pooth. But he was nice. And then I ended
Speaker 2: up going back. Was right before my show started at noon,
Speaker 2: and I ended up after the first break. I checked
Speaker 2: my email and they were announcing that he was about
Speaker 2: to start his performance, and I'm like, who Charlie Pooth?
Speaker 3: That guy?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I know that name, and it's because
Speaker 2: at that time, and I don't think it's the way.
Speaker 2: In fact, this video at one point had more views
Speaker 2: than any video on YouTube I think for many years.
Speaker 3: This this is his voice, Like this is a big song, right,
Speaker 3: that was a song that was ineurious movies.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it was ended up being like the rip
Speaker 2: song to Paul Walker. Yes, and it's a good song
Speaker 2: with Khalifa and Charlie Pooth. But like if you've never
Speaker 2: heard of him and you don't know any songs, you
Speaker 2: know this song and that's him singing it. And I
Speaker 2: think it was right around the time that this was
Speaker 2: like a big deal.
Speaker 1: So you know.
Speaker 2: Anyways, I ended up seeing that he was here, didn't
Speaker 2: think anything of it. Well then right around one o'clock
Speaker 2: I got another break and i'd go into the auditorium
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, that was Charlie Pooth, who I
Speaker 2: you know, had an encounter with in the restroom. Not
Speaker 2: that not that kind of encounter, you perverts, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Although he is he's a famous guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 2: he's doing now, but we did have a moment. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he remembers it, just just like I do. We
Speaker 2: don't have that anymore, man. I miss that, like the
Speaker 2: days of like just having a full building where you
Speaker 2: never know who's going to pop in.
Speaker 3: It's just, you know, I think the only time that
Speaker 3: I've ever encountered that in my time working here is
Speaker 3: whenever you had the mayor on and I walked him
Speaker 3: back to your studio and he had like a clan
Speaker 3: of you know, he's the mayor. Yeah, he's the only
Speaker 3: time I ever, you know, experienced being around someone like that.
Speaker 2: Yep, I'm so glad I got to know Craig before
Speaker 2: he became mayor, not because like I now think differently
Speaker 2: of him as mayor, but I got it. You know,
Speaker 2: he's the mayor, so when he's in front of a
Speaker 2: microphone and in front of a camera, he's going to
Speaker 2: be very you know, presidential as they say, and polished.
Speaker 2: And he's like that in real life, not in front
Speaker 2: of a camera. But you know, I consider him a
Speaker 2: friend and you know, I love Craig. But it is
Speaker 2: weird hearing you say like that was like something because
Speaker 2: you know he is different to you. Well, because it's
Speaker 2: hard for me to sometimes realize, Like again, it's normal now,
Speaker 2: but you know now every day almost if I pop
Speaker 2: up and then if I pop on the news when
Speaker 2: we're eating dinner or something and I leave it on
Speaker 2: it in its entirety, there's a good hands I'm gonna
Speaker 2: see him twice on there because he's the mayor of Louisville.
Speaker 2: So anyways, yeah, I just I miss when we used
Speaker 2: to just have the you know, you never know who's
Speaker 2: And there's also been people who've been around that were
Speaker 2: a big deal but they thought they were a bigger
Speaker 2: deal than they really were. And I've only heard stories
Speaker 2: about this, but I think Tom Green, do you even
Speaker 2: know who that is?
Speaker 3: The comedian? Yeah, I know he's a comedian, but I
Speaker 3: don't know any of his work or anything.
Speaker 2: I love Tom Green, by the way. I think he's hilarious.
Speaker 2: He's stupid funny, which is kind of you know, right
Speaker 2: up my alley. I have a very dumb sense of humor,
Speaker 2: as I'm sure a lot of you guys have picked
Speaker 2: up on over the years with this show. But either
Speaker 2: him or his like agent or bodyguard or security or
Speaker 2: something i'd heard was like as bad as anybody when
Speaker 2: it comes to just you know, like all right, dude,
Speaker 2: you're like, we know who you are, but like if
Speaker 2: you're gonna be like this, we don't need you here,
Speaker 2: Like you don't have to be here, Like you're not
Speaker 2: doing us any favors, that kind of stuff. So anyways,
Speaker 2: let's get to a quick break. We'll come back on
Speaker 2: the other side. Keep the party rolling a lit. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about about NFL Sunday ticket because you know,
Speaker 2: I don't need Sunday ticket. I am not interested in
Speaker 2: purchasing it because I can do NFL Red Zone and
Speaker 2: you know, be fine. But a lot of people love
Speaker 2: Sunday ticket. But I am so curious to see in
Speaker 2: you know, three or four months, if the price increase
Speaker 2: really did an impact, did have an impact on people?
Speaker 2: Will you know people? Because NFL is king, But when
Speaker 2: you know the minimum price that you can get Sunday ticket, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's worth it for a lot
Speaker 2: of people. So we'll get to that and a lot more.
Speaker 2: It's coffee and Company. We are fueled by Thornton's right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Is this him?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 3: This is the song I always think of when I
Speaker 3: think of Truple. How old is this one? I was
Speaker 3: a senior in high school, so mid twenty sixteen, I guess.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this along with his appearance in that or
Speaker 2: his feature in that Fast and Furious song, I guess
Speaker 2: right around that time he was on top. That's why
Speaker 2: he didn't want me touching him in the bathroom. And
Speaker 2: I don't usually touch other men in the bathroom. But
Speaker 2: if you if you don't know if you don't understand
Speaker 2: that that sounded really bad, But for context you can
Speaker 2: go check out the podcast.
Speaker 3: I wish I wish he would have said I'm Charlie
Speaker 3: Pooth to you in the bathroom, because yeah, you would
Speaker 3: have been like, who I mean?
Speaker 2: I would have said, you said that like it means something,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure it does. But I'm drawing a blank
Speaker 2: a little bit here, give me anything. He's like, I'm
Speaker 2: a I'm you know, a uh a Grammy nominated artist,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, hmm.
Speaker 3: Could have said, you just want attention, Just like that song.
Speaker 2: I should have said, well, can you sing something for me?
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that I can't can't, I can't quite place you, Charlie.
Speaker 2: Maybe sing something for me and see if that helps
Speaker 2: me out. But actually, real quick, and this is another
Speaker 2: example of us just getting completely off track here. Do
Speaker 2: you know what video on YouTube surpassed the Whiz Khalifa
Speaker 2: Charlie Pooth when I See You Again as far as
Speaker 2: the most viewed music.
Speaker 3: Video Charlie bit my finger or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was Old Town Road.
Speaker 3: Uh oh you're talking music specific? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. Old Na Sex Still of Bank Billy
Speaker 3: Ray Cyrus still a hit, Still a hit, all right.
Speaker 3: So look, I would never tell anybody what how to
Speaker 3: spend their money. And that's like when it comes to
Speaker 3: the people go into games and season ticket sales, you know,
Speaker 3: like occasionally, like you know, I'll encourage, hey, let's fill
Speaker 3: the stadium, right, let's let's let's do our part and
Speaker 3: get a great turnout. But like what people spend their
Speaker 3: money on is their choice, and there are expends. I mean,
Speaker 3: everybody's financial financial situation is different. And season tickets specifically,
Speaker 3: like if you if you pay that donation and you
Speaker 3: pay whatever it called, like that's a big expense, Like
Speaker 3: that's that's a sacrifice to where if you didn't, I mean,
Speaker 3: you could use that money annually and go on a
Speaker 3: couple vacations, maybe three vacations, just depending on you know,
Speaker 3: what it is you actually spend. Obviously, the donation is
Speaker 3: a set price, but if you get season tickets and
Speaker 3: they're really good seats, then obviously that's a much bigger
Speaker 3: price tag.
Speaker 2: So you know, I spend money on what you want.
Speaker 2: But I'm curious to see how many people are willing
Speaker 2: to pay three hundred and eighty dollars for Sunday ticket.
Speaker 2: So that's the minimum price for the Sunday ticket. I
Speaker 2: guess like best case scenario right now. So ESPN apparently
Speaker 2: had proposed individual team packages for seventy dollars that would
Speaker 2: allow you to watch all seventeen of your favorite teams
Speaker 2: NFL games, meaning your team. Like let's say John is
Speaker 2: a big Broncos fan, and you know, if he doesn't
Speaker 2: have Sunday ticket or the red zone, or he's not
Speaker 2: illegally streaming at somewhere else, like obviously the Broncos games
Speaker 2: are not always going to be on TV around here.
Speaker 2: But if he had this plan, this package that ESPN
Speaker 2: put together, he could pay seventy bucks a year and
Speaker 2: watch all of his games. I think that is a
Speaker 2: good I think that would be a fair price and
Speaker 2: a lot of people would do that. But the NFL
Speaker 2: said no. The league is being greedy, it seems. So.
Speaker 2: This was from NFL Chief Media and Business officer Brian Rollout.
Speaker 2: This was a couple months ago. He said in a
Speaker 2: published interview quote, we try to think about what the
Speaker 2: fan wants and get as much distribution as possible, which
Speaker 2: you know, that's just a canned answer. Where it sounds
Speaker 2: like you are looking out for, which is again, that's
Speaker 2: what that's what you'd want to hear if you're a fan. Well,
Speaker 2: you got owners like Robert Kraft, who later said in
Speaker 2: an interview quote, We're not looking to get lots of people.
Speaker 2: We want to keep it as a premium offering, meaning
Speaker 2: we'll charge whatever, and the people who pay it will
Speaker 2: feel as if they are super elite status because and
Speaker 2: by the way, that is a that's a that's a
Speaker 2: way to do business. Right, Like you, there are people
Speaker 2: who are more interested in spending if it's really expensive
Speaker 2: because they want to feel like they're they want to
Speaker 2: you know, they want to show off that they have
Speaker 2: the ability to pay for that, or they just feel
Speaker 2: better about themselves knowing that they did. I mean, everybody's
Speaker 2: different as far as how they spend money. So I
Speaker 2: just don't know how you could justify paying Again, if
Speaker 2: you've got money out your rear end, then whatever. But
Speaker 2: I'd say the average you know, the average person that
Speaker 2: maybe isn't living check to check to the point that
Speaker 2: if you know, they don't get a check, they're going
Speaker 2: to be homeless. But obviously times aren't great financially right
Speaker 2: now in this economy. I mean again, I'm sure some
Speaker 2: people have never had to worry or stress about money,
Speaker 2: and God bless you if that's the case. But that's
Speaker 2: not a lot of peop people. So you know, if
Speaker 2: you pay three hundred and eighty bucks for the Sunday ticket,
Speaker 2: like I just again, it's it's all your perspective in
Speaker 2: regards to it being worth it. But I've never understood
Speaker 2: the obsession with the Sunday ticket because being able to
Speaker 2: watch any NFL game, Like, you can't watch them all
Speaker 2: at the same time. Now, if you're at a sports
Speaker 2: bar and you're operating a bar, yeah, it makes total sense.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't be able to put every game on. But
Speaker 2: if you're at home and you're because I would say
Speaker 2: most NFL fans have a team and they're gonna watch
Speaker 2: other NFL football games because the NFL's king, but like
Speaker 2: the game they really care about is their team. So like,
Speaker 2: if you get Sunday ticket for that, like you're you're
Speaker 2: paying a lot of money and you have accessed all
Speaker 2: these other games, but there's no way you're watching them
Speaker 2: all the way through. And even if you just here's
Speaker 2: the scenario, let's say, in the one o'clock slate, you're
Speaker 2: watching Colts Jaguars, and you know that on the Sunday
Speaker 2: ticket you can switch over to watch Chiefs Raiders, But
Speaker 2: you don't want to watch Chiefs Raiders because you're so
Speaker 2: focused on the Colts Jags, So you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 2: DVR it and come back to it later. Well, if
Speaker 2: you're watching Colts Jags, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 2: avoid knowing what's happening in the other games, because they're
Speaker 2: gonna show you. Like that's how this works, like the
Speaker 2: halftime show when they come back from break, like on
Speaker 2: the bottom of the screen they're showing scores. So I
Speaker 2: think it's totally understandable to get it at a sports
Speaker 2: bar where you're gonna want to where you are trying
Speaker 2: to make it to where you can get any game
Speaker 2: anybody would want because you have that. But as far
Speaker 2: as like I remember the first time I signed up
Speaker 2: for direct TV back in like two thousand, gosh, I
Speaker 2: guess it was probably around like twenty twelve, maybe when
Speaker 2: we moved into our home, maybe closer to twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Because of the promo for direct TV, we got Sunday
Speaker 2: ticket for free, and I think we referred enough people
Speaker 2: to sign up for Direct TV That next year, I
Speaker 2: got Sunday ticket for free twice. I've never paid for it,
Speaker 2: but I had it and it felt awesome, Like I
Speaker 2: liked sitting on the couch knowing I can go to
Speaker 2: any game I want, but I didn't fully you to
Speaker 2: where I could ever justify the expense for it. So
Speaker 2: I love the red zone. It's a little hectic for
Speaker 2: me at times, but the red zone, you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's great. It's how I consume the NFL for
Speaker 2: the most part, especially when I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 2: if my bets are going to hit or not. And
Speaker 2: I got four leg parlays going and all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. But you also can't really just get into
Speaker 2: one game because they're throwing back and forth. And again,
Speaker 2: I'm not criticizing the red zone. I think the red
Speaker 2: zone's great. That's that's what I do pay for and
Speaker 2: it's worth it. Although they're raising the price on that too,
Speaker 2: and I still think it's gonna be worth it, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just the three hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: bucks being the lowest the lowest best case scenario right
Speaker 2: now for somebody to get Sunday ticket. I just think
Speaker 2: that that's greedy from the NFL. Like you could make
Speaker 2: it one hundred bucks and your greedy billionaire owners would
Speaker 2: still be able to return some kind of a profit
Speaker 2: on it. And I just think holding that. I mean again,
Speaker 2: it's business right. You know, you could you charge whatever
Speaker 2: you want right you own the league you are in.
Speaker 2: You know, the NFL can charge whatever they want. The
Speaker 2: owners can collectively discuss what they think is fair, and
Speaker 2: they can you know, they have a right to do it.
Speaker 2: It's just I feel like if you made it one
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, you'd actually end up getting way more money
Speaker 2: from it because people would buy it. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: I just I know the Sunday ticket is a is
Speaker 2: a big deal to a lot of people. But I'd
Speaker 2: love to be a fly on the wall with someone
Speaker 2: who because even if you even if you are someone
Speaker 2: that does go back and forth throughout the one o'clock
Speaker 2: to four through the whole day of football on Sundays
Speaker 2: and you've got fantasy players you're tracking, you're tracking your bets,
Speaker 2: and you have the ability to go to do a
Speaker 2: live check in anytime you want. Like, that's cool, but
Speaker 2: are you really you Like, how could someone truly say
Speaker 2: I need every single game accessible when they're all on
Speaker 2: at the same time. I just that to me is
Speaker 2: a little bit of a head scratcher. But hey again,
Speaker 2: people will spend money on what they want. You have
Speaker 2: Hula Hulu right, Yes, Do they give you the option
Speaker 2: to add like red Zone or anything?
Speaker 3: No, unless I'm unaware of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I that YouTube TV does give you the
Speaker 2: option to buy You can buy a Sunday ticket and
Speaker 2: you can buy red Zone. It's just an add on
Speaker 2: and you you know, you pay for It's just it
Speaker 2: makes your YouTube TV build more expensive. I just didn't
Speaker 2: know if the other streaming services offered that, I would
Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if Hulu doesn't, because it's probable I
Speaker 2: think right now, as far as cord cutters live, and
Speaker 2: by the way, a lot of people have cut the
Speaker 2: cord and they don't have a YouTube TV or a
Speaker 2: Hulu TV or a direct TV now or whatever it's called,
Speaker 2: or what else is there? If gone?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's still around. But what I'm getting
Speaker 2: at is, you know a lot of people just have Netflix, Amazon,
Speaker 2: HBO Max or Apple TV, like all the streaming services,
Speaker 2: and because nobody watches live TV other than what sports.
Speaker 2: And I shouldn't say nobody, but I you know, and
Speaker 2: at times I get really just in my own world
Speaker 2: here because I'm thinking, who doesn't watch football on Sunday?
Speaker 2: And then you realize there's a lot of people that
Speaker 2: don't like when you see the like when you realize
Speaker 2: that more than half of America is not watching or
Speaker 2: slightly above half of America is watching the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Am I the only one? Like every single Like I
Speaker 2: know that's a fact, but every single time we get
Speaker 2: to Super Bowl Sunday, I think to myself, who in
Speaker 2: the hell's not walking in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: But I think sometimes you have to think about maybe
Speaker 3: part of that is because people have Super Bowl parties.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, people have their own households.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, and I think that's really what it is.
Speaker 2: Like again, like, I consider that watching, right, But I guess, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're I if forty people are at one place and
Speaker 2: it's one TV, one subscription, one service whatever it may be,
Speaker 2: cable or streaming, you know that's not countering everybody. Which
Speaker 2: again I mean that takes away from what that percentage
Speaker 2: rating is, meaning it's probably more than half. But again,
Speaker 2: just seeing those numbers always reminds me that, yes, I'm
Speaker 2: obsessed with sports in a way that a lot of
Speaker 2: people aren't. And there are people out there, believe it
Speaker 2: or not. It's crazy to think about, but like, there
Speaker 2: are people that are out there that sports is not
Speaker 2: in any way a component to their life and I
Speaker 2: can't even process that. But hey, it's a free country.
Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want. Real quick speak, speaking
Speaker 2: of money, I just found this to be somewhat interesting.
Speaker 2: If you are, you know, curious about what it costs
Speaker 2: to go to college football games across the country, just
Speaker 2: know that Louisville is on the very cheap side. So
Speaker 2: bookies dot Com calculated the cost to the cheapest available
Speaker 2: ticket for every home game of all seventy power for
Speaker 2: conference teams including Notre Dame and then Washington State and
Speaker 2: Oregon State. So the prices were acquired from Ticketmaster and
Speaker 2: seat geek, which more than one hundred schools use to
Speaker 2: sell their tickets. So the average lowest ticket price for
Speaker 2: a Louisville home game this year is eleven dollars and
Speaker 2: sixty seven cents, so you're certainly on the cheap side.
Speaker 2: So you could attend again. Like this is if you
Speaker 2: just want to get the bare minimum, you can get
Speaker 2: in to every home game this year for seventy bucks. Now,
Speaker 2: big kicker here is that Louisville's homeslate. We get a
Speaker 2: huge turnout at every game. And yes, I said we
Speaker 2: because you know I might walk on the team or
Speaker 2: something like I'm Mariy Huggins, Bruce, you know, but the
Speaker 2: home slate sucks, like any game that you're juiced about
Speaker 2: is not at home other than Miami, and that will
Speaker 2: be a big game. So that I mean that that's that,
Speaker 2: that is a big game. But like the other ones,
Speaker 2: like let's just be real, Jacksonville State and Austin P.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Butthole State, Butthole Tech. It should
Speaker 2: have been Indiana the Hoosier should have been on the schedule.
Speaker 2: But we know how that on the me too. So
Speaker 2: you've got Jacksonville State, Austin p, Georgia Tech, Miami, SMU,
Speaker 2: and Pitt those are your I mean that that's a
Speaker 2: stinky home slate. So that's why it's so cheap. It
Speaker 2: wouldn't be like that if you had, you know, the
Speaker 2: Kentucky game at home this year, or Notre Dame at
Speaker 2: home like you did last year, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So Louisville is certainly on the cheaper side. Uh, the
Speaker 2: most expensive average ticket price. This just makes me want
Speaker 2: to puke. John. It's Colorado and they've got a huge stadium,
Speaker 2: by the way, and like they a huge fan base.
Speaker 2: Certainly they're a state school.
Speaker 3: But like I will say, you're paying for the views
Speaker 3: partially at Colorado if you've seen their backtob before.
Speaker 2: True, but like, but you're also paying for the Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're paying for Dion and I just think that's lame.
Speaker 2: So outside after that, it's Tennessee and by the way,
Speaker 2: the average price to the lowest average price yeah sorry,
Speaker 2: the cheapest average ticket for Colorado home games this year,
Speaker 2: they have six of them. The average is one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy two dollars one hundred and fifty six dollars Tennessee,
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty dollars Texas A and M one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty dollars at Florida State and then Georgia
Speaker 2: is at number five with one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 2: The one team in the top twenty. That makes no
Speaker 2: sense to me, and I think we did kind of
Speaker 2: figure out why they're there. That is Northwestern at number seven,
Speaker 2: and it's because they're playing in a tiny stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're temporary stadium that's right up against what is
Speaker 3: it Lake Michigan.
Speaker 2: Or something, So there's not a lot of seats there.
Speaker 2: Therefore people they can charge more because you know, there's
Speaker 2: there's the demand is there and there's not many of them.
Speaker 2: So let's see if it lets me scroll through. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kentucky comes in at number thirty two nationally with fifty
Speaker 2: four dollars being the cheapest. Louisville is sixty eight out
Speaker 2: of seventy. Only Illinois and Boston College have a cheaper
Speaker 2: average ticket price. Kind of surprising Indiana. Let me see
Speaker 2: where they came in here.
Speaker 3: I bet it's like fifty nine or sixty Indiana.
Speaker 2: Where are they?
Speaker 3: Where are the Hoosiers at Boston College? Being last? Is
Speaker 3: in surprising.
Speaker 2: Indiana's fifty seven with the average ticket price being twenty
Speaker 2: six eighty eight. So yeah, that's not a good looks
Speaker 2: for Louisville. But hey, it's also Hey, I could go
Speaker 2: to any game and it's pretty cheap. But I feel
Speaker 2: like if this was last year and the hype was
Speaker 2: there like it is now, be much different because again,
Speaker 2: you had some pretty damn good home games last year.
Speaker 2: This year not as much. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 2: come back wrap at the four o'clock hour. On the
Speaker 2: other side, it's coffee and company fuel about Thornton's right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, Coffee and
Speaker 2: company fueled about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you hanging out with us on a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Wrapping up the four o'clock hour. I we'll let you
Speaker 2: know for those of you that missed our conversation with
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins earlier, well you missed out because it was great,
Speaker 2: but you're in luck. We are gonna let you hear
Speaker 2: it once again in the five o'clock hour. I got
Speaker 2: to get out of here a little bit early, just
Speaker 2: a little earlier than usual, because I got to make
Speaker 2: sure I can get to Slugger Field in time to
Speaker 2: throw out the first pitch and you know, try not
Speaker 2: to embarrass myself. You got a hot date with the mound,
Speaker 2: that's right, that's right. I like that is that I've
Speaker 2: never heard that before, but that you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know baseball lingo or I've never heard it before either.
Speaker 2: I'm giving you credit because I think that's an original
Speaker 2: line there from the One and the Only the Company Man,
Speaker 2: and I think it's great. I might, I might, I
Speaker 2: might start using that good stuff, all right, So real quick,
Speaker 2: I am always reminded when it comes to how popular
Speaker 2: soccer is when you see the fame that Christiano Ronaldo
Speaker 2: and Lionel Messi have. I mean, John, you know soccer,
Speaker 2: so you know that those the two most famous athletes
Speaker 2: on the planet Kings, and they have been for a
Speaker 2: long long time. But I'm going to tell you something
Speaker 2: that I think puts in perspective just how insanely famous
Speaker 2: they are, the reach they have, and how much like
Speaker 2: they're really on a different planet when it comes to
Speaker 2: any other athlete. I mean Ronaldo for sure, because he
Speaker 2: launched a YouTube channel earlier. Let's see, he launched his
Speaker 2: YouTube channel yesterday and it was yesterday morning, so within
Speaker 2: seven hours seven hours of launch, like creating the channel
Speaker 2: and sharing on social media that he has a YouTube channel,
Speaker 2: encouraging his followers to subscribe in seven hours he had
Speaker 2: seven He surpassed seven million subscribers.
Speaker 3: That's crazy and I'm looking at it right now and
Speaker 3: it looks like he has twenty six million subscribers.
Speaker 2: Do people? Do people know how insane that is?
Speaker 3: That's to do it that fast?
Speaker 2: That is unbelievable. Yeah, he's it, says here. This is
Speaker 2: a report from three o'clock earlier today. He's added more
Speaker 2: than twenty million subscribers in one day. That has to
Speaker 2: be a record. And look YouTube, I'm not active on
Speaker 2: YouTube now because I thought I was going to be
Speaker 2: with the show and then you know, I was told
Speaker 2: I couldn't be understandably, so like I get it. But John,
Speaker 2: you know YouTube a lot better than I do, as
Speaker 2: far as you know monetization, that kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 2: everybody who has a big, big following online is starting
Speaker 2: their YouTube channel, Like Tom Brady created a YouTube channel
Speaker 2: the other day. Now you've got Ronaldo, Like these people
Speaker 2: don't need it. But YouTube has to be becoming like
Speaker 2: the place for content over everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially when it comes to long form content. I
Speaker 3: noticed video podcasts that type of stuff. If you're not
Speaker 3: listening to the audio only versions on any of you
Speaker 3: know what Spotify, Apple podcast whatever, maybe iHeartRadio. Then you
Speaker 3: know you're doing it on YouTube with the video element.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder, let me just google it really quickly.
Speaker 2: Here who has the most subscribers on YouTube?
Speaker 3: It's mister Beast.
Speaker 2: Yes, he has three hundred and eleven.
Speaker 1: What does he do? So?
Speaker 3: I don't really follow him. I have friends that enjoy him,
Speaker 3: but he got viral or he went viral years ago
Speaker 3: whenever he made a video of him counting to like
Speaker 3: like one hundred thousand, like it's just them him discounting.
Speaker 3: So he does a bunch of weird stuff that just
Speaker 3: kind of goes viral and not you know what I
Speaker 3: just described. That's not like his regular content that just
Speaker 3: made him get famous. But he's he's a household name clearly.
Speaker 2: So this is the fifty most subscribed channels on YouTube,
Speaker 2: Mister Beast is number one, and he doesn't have a
Speaker 2: whole lot of competition. However, who is t series like
Speaker 2: it's a Idea, it's a music and entertainment channel in India,
Speaker 2: they have two hundred and seventy two, and then there's
Speaker 2: a big gap after that. It is Coco Melin which
Speaker 2: I'm very familiar with Cocomelan because a lot of cocomelon
Speaker 2: video has been played in my household on the devices
Speaker 2: that we have for our children. I could probably sing
Speaker 2: a lot of these cocomel and songs, not that anybody
Speaker 2: would want to hear that. And then there's another kid's
Speaker 2: channel like that stuff I get because your kids will
Speaker 2: watch the same thing over and over and over, which
Speaker 2: I guess that doesn't really speak to the subscribers. It's
Speaker 2: more so just in fact. That's what's wild, is that,
Speaker 2: Like my kids have probably watched Coco Melon videos a
Speaker 2: billion times, but they're not subscribed to it like we
Speaker 2: just like That's another thing, like I oftentimes use YouTube
Speaker 2: and watch content on YouTube, but I rarely subscribe to
Speaker 2: a channel Like I.
Speaker 3: Was the same way for the longest time. But the
Speaker 3: more I watched different channels on YouTube regularly and wanted
Speaker 3: to know when they were posting new stuff, that's that's
Speaker 3: when I began actually subscribing to certain channels. But I'm
Speaker 3: very picky about who I subscribed to.
Speaker 2: Like the only top ten channel here as far as
Speaker 2: subscriber base that I would say is like mainstream is WWE.
Speaker 2: Other than that, it looks. It's like it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's entertainment. I mean, I feel so out of touch
Speaker 2: with the Internet, which you know, the internet really is.
Speaker 2: The Internet is how I create a career for myself.
Speaker 2: But obviously I haven't done that, haven't. You know, I
Speaker 2: still utilized the Internet. It's a big deal in what
Speaker 2: we do, not only for content but for streaming and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But you know, like I
Speaker 2: don't know who any of these people are, and they've
Speaker 2: got hundreds of millions of subscribers. Like I just feel
Speaker 2: like I'm so out of touch with like the digital world,
Speaker 2: which is not a good thing for somebody who you know,
Speaker 2: works in a works in an industry where digital is
Speaker 2: in fact going to it is has taken over. So
Speaker 2: maybe I need to get hip to the you know,
Speaker 2: the Vladin Nikki channel or.
Speaker 3: Black Pink with Peutie Pie one of the top ones too.
Speaker 3: He was he used to be the top before number.
Speaker 2: Eight was number eight. OK, so he's up there with
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven million subscribers. Crazy, All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side five o'clock hours
Speaker 2: next right here on Sportsbox seven ninety