WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:06.320 Hello, Eury Jeff coming to you after Xavier basketball on 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:11.160 seven hundred WLW, an abbreviated nightcap. If you will, I 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:15.039 wish you would, I hope you do stick around. We've 4 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:16.760 got some good guests coming up. But I wanted to 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.519 open up with an appeal to you and to anyone listening. 6 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.879 If you're not on it already, and I'm sure my 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.160 listeners are already hopping on that, but you're just flying 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.480 by on the dial and hearing this. The record amount 9 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.399 of rainfall and now flooding that is occurring in central 10 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:37.359 and eastern Kentucky. And it's an overused term, but it 11 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:42.520 looks like biblical proportions, just record amounts, and people are 12 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.039 flooded out of their homes. There have been fourteen deaths 13 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.159 so far from the heavy rain in Kentucky and Tennessee 14 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.159 and into Virginia. Now the bullseye is on the state 15 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.079 of Virginia as the storm moves on, and now we're 16 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:59.719 getting ice and snow in the forecast. Three to five 17 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.759 inches possible in some of those areas that are still 18 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.840 flooded over. Can you even imagine? And if you're listening 19 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.879 in one of those areas, you don't have to imagine, 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:13.799 because it's right there, literally at your doorstep. But I 21 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:16.159 would just ask you to do what I did earlier 22 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:20.159 today and you can pick the charity you want. Matthew 23 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:25.359 twenty five Ministries does a fantastic job. Anytime our neighbors 24 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:30.640 are fellow Americans, anybody in our country is in distress 25 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:36.840 and needs a hand, they're there. And Samaritans purse similarly, 26 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.159 and the American Red Cross, the Old standby. Any donations 27 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.480 I'm sure would be gladly accepted, and they are needed 28 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.920 so much at this time because the relief efforts haven't 29 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.920 even begune. When they do, people are going to be 30 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.760 coming back and finding that they've lost everything to the 31 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.200 water or the winter storm. There are people without electricity 32 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.120 right now. We should pray for them. We should do 33 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.599 anything we can to help, just like we did in 34 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:08.639 the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the wildfires in southern 35 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:15.719 California Pacific Palisades at all. And it is American's nature 36 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.000 to help out. We are a generous people. It's time 37 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.879 for us to open up our wallets again, and I 38 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.719 would just encourage you to do that on the show tonight, 39 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.879 Reverend Jim Harden from Compasscare USA, Lee Walms Guns from 40 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:33.879 Patriot Mobile, and Max McGuire, he of the Max McGuire Show. 41 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:38.080 We'll talk about numerous issues with these folks, and of 42 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:42.120 course the fur Ball flies in for his Tuesday Night 43 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:46.400 close up in just a few minutes. This is the nightcap. 44 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.080 It's great to be with you, and remember the people 45 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:54.879 in central eastern Kentucky. In Tennessee, fourteen lives lost so far. 46 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.800 Governor Basheer a man who I've given a lot of 47 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.520 crap to, I guess over the years, especially during COVID, 48 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.360 but he has rightly said that if you are not 49 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.439 flooded out of your home, if you are safe, you 50 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.759 should probably stay there if you're in these affected flood areas. 51 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:18.439 As you know, like I said, the recovery hasn't even 52 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.120 begun because we're still in the middle of this, but 53 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.680 it is going to be bad and people are going 54 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:28.800 to need help. So anything you could do is a 55 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:34.240 gift from God to those folks. So done preaching, Let's 56 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.080 get ready to do the rest of the thing. Here 57 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:45.039 seven hundred WLW as I promise, I promise, I delivered, 58 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:46.520 just kind of like President Trump. 59 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.919 Andy Furman is now ready to go on the phone. 60 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:55.639 Wait wait, wait, just a minute, wait, just a freaking minute. 61 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.840 I love you and everything is fine between us. We're 62 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.319 good buddies. But don't be lying to the public on 63 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.639 the radio. Say you deliver like President Trump, because he 64 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:06.719 said that Mexico is going to pay for the wall, 65 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.280 so they'll be lying. Okay, he didn't deliver. 66 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.199 No, And Andy, Andy, you're living in the pre you're living, 67 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:15.639 you're living in the past. 68 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:18.079 This time he is following. 69 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:20.480 He's a liar. He's following. 70 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.680 He's following through on all of his campaign promises right now, 71 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.920 in real time as you and I speak tonight. 72 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.920 So he's been president for twenty freaking days. Let's see 73 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.560 what he does. All right, let's move on. 74 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.360 You haven't moved on anyway. Well, let's let's know you're 75 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.839 you're like the Democrats, who have you loved on. 76 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.079 I'm not lying. I don't lie. 77 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:44.120 I don't lie till I delivered, just like President Trump. 78 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.040 I promised, I promised you were coming on, and here 79 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:47.439 you are. 80 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:50.360 Okay, that's the only thing you said so far. 81 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:50.839 It's been true. 82 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.040 Let's say let's move on. 83 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:53.120 What's going on? 84 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.519 Andy, Well, you know what, I tell you something. It's 85 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.839 funny because I'm hearing all this buzz. If the Sinci 86 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.759 Bengals and the signed Jamar Chase, they got to sign 87 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.240 t Higgins, they got to sign Trey Henderson. I say, 88 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.560 wait a minute, did any of these people watch the 89 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.240 Super Bowl? Did they see that blueprint had to win? 90 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:13.199 It's line play. It's line play. Hey, look, Joe Burrow 91 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.279 runs rings around the Jalen Hurts, the quarterback of the 92 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.720 Ingles to know that about that? He fromot five thousand yards, 93 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.279 no doubt about that. But if you have a quarterback 94 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.600 that doesn't turn the ball over, and a great defensive 95 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.639 line and a great offensive line, and I'm running back 96 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.439 that could really go crazy, which Sequon Barkley did, you 97 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.120 could win. They gave up Joe Mixon. No one talks 98 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.399 about that. Joe Mixon had a hell of a year 99 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.120 in Texas, Okay, with the Texans. So I'm not so 100 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.240 certain signing these guys is such a major deal. I 101 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:44.000 really don't believe that. I really don't. 102 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.439 All right, Two things, Andy, Saquon Barkley did not run 103 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.240 rampant during the Super Bowl. They they devised a plan, 104 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.279 a successful plan to stop him. 105 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.480 And Joe Dix. He got them there. 106 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.680 Joe Mixon wasn't in the Super Bowl this year doing anything. 107 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.759 It didn't really help the Texans at all. They have 108 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.600 him have a great year. So I don't think the 109 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.279 running back is really the issue. A running game in 110 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.600 which you could have done with p Ryan. If the 111 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.199 Bengals had had an offensive line when they had p 112 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.199 Ryan in the lineup, they could have been fine with 113 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.680 p Ryan if they had a good run offense, which 114 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.920 they have still yet to prove that they can deliver 115 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:25.000 for the fans. 116 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:26.879 So if you. 117 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.079 Look at the successful teams in the playoffs, what do 118 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.639 they do? They played great defense and they ran the football. 119 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.160 The Buffalo Bills they turned it around this year. Why 120 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.319 they ran the football not necessarily Bengals obviously, Well, you 121 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.560 know it's one game, but they got there. You know, 122 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.959 the Bengals never got to the playoffs. They got there. 123 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.839 And the point I'm saying is that the Bengals don't 124 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:46.720 have a running game. 125 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.000 They don't know that means they don't have a running 126 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.560 game because they do not have a proper offensive line 127 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:56.079 or defensive line. So I'm agreeing with your assessment. That's 128 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:56.480 where it. 129 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:01.759 All right, And they don't have a quality running back. 130 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.199 But sa Quon Barkley played for the Bengals, he still 131 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.360 have an outstanding year. Not as good a year as 132 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.639 he had in Philadelphia, but he'd have a great year. 133 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:09.360 He really would. 134 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:13.319 Chase Chase a gat year for a Bengal quarter running 135 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:20.000 back expected. Chase Brown showed flashes of of like all 136 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.199 pro play when he wasn't injured this year, and the 137 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:26.639 Bengals could do the things you're talking about with a 138 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.040 Chase Brown or with a p Rynd in the backfield. 139 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.519 They don't have to have Saquon Barkley to get there. 140 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:34.480 They don't see kuon. 141 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.480 Look, Chase Brown had more success catching the ball out 142 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:44.160 of the backfield than running the football. Okay, at the 143 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.120 end of the day, I's either here or there because 144 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.480 the Bengals, like you and I were in front of 145 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:51.519 their TV sets watching the playoffs. That's the bottom line, 146 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.759 all right. So the point is that you've got to 147 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.720 do something to make your team better, and to give 148 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.839 those guys, those three players more money. To me, is 149 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.560 going to make your team better. No, I do. I'm 150 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:03.199 not disagreed. 151 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.800 I'm not disagreeing with you on that one. 152 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.800 I think that they are crucial for continued Bengals success, 153 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.600 but that can't be the only thing. They've got to 154 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.519 put these other places together some reason. 155 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:18.680 Let me they continued Bengel success. They've hadn't had success 156 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.160 in the last two years. Think about that. What kind 157 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:22.120 of success if they. 158 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.680 Had, if they have season they want to continue the 159 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.240 kind of offensive success that they have enjoyed. Even this 160 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.560 season in a nine and eight season, they had offensive success, 161 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.240 but their defense was not up to the challenge and 162 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.240 they did not have a proper offensive line. Joe Burrow 163 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.519 was on his but more than a toddler learning to walk. 164 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:44.960 And that's because the Bengals don't have. 165 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.360 Play You're right, But offensive success got them nowhere. He 166 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.600 threw for about five thousand yards nine picks, like forty 167 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.879 three touchdowns. Where did it get them? That's what I'm saying, Well, no, 168 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:56.960 they did it get them. 169 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.559 They can have that component, and they can have a 170 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.240 defense that can tackle people, and they can have an 171 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:06.440 offensive line that protects him and blast holes for any 172 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.879 running back that's back there. Let's not let's not look 173 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.480 at a marquee running back as part of the Bengals 174 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.720 answer to get over the hamp Andy. It's all about defense. 175 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.159 It's all about learning to tackle for in the open field, 176 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.399 and it's learning to protect Joe Burrow. And they've got 177 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:24.000 to have the right. 178 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.720 Pieces of Philadelphia statement I said. I said, if you 179 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.240 watch the blueprint of the Philadelphia Eagles, how do they win? 180 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.360 And defensive play line, the line play. 181 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:34.440 I agreed with you. 182 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.919 So the Bengals, the Bengals need some people on the 183 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:42.200 line who are like three hundred and fifty pounds with 184 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:44.840 one eye in the middle of their forehead, who can 185 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:49.360 actually not jump off sides or you know, offensive motion 186 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.639 themselves out of first downs. You're right, they need a 187 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.960 competent line and they need competent line play on both 188 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.279 sides of the ball. And I don't know where you 189 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.879 shop for those, but we got to find some of 190 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.440 those somewhere. And wait, there's people that Bengals could afford 191 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.759 and still signed t Higgins and Jamar Chase and Trey Hendry. 192 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.039 No, No, they could sign all three. There's no doubt 193 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:13.679 in my mind they can. But here here's what. I 194 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.080 really have a sore spot, a real big source spot, 195 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.519 a whole of my stomach because of it. It makes 196 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.480 me sick when they fired Luana Rumo. Okay, lou Ana 197 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.600 Rumo was a scapegoat. No one's even saying anything about that. 198 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:28.840 I may have heard maybe one or two people mentioned that, 199 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.240 But lou Anna Rumo was a scapegoat for the downfall 200 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.679 of the Bengals defense. And I don't see it getting 201 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.039 much better next year. And it hurts me because he's 202 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:38.639 a hell of a guy. He was a hell of 203 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:41.240 a coach. He was up for several head coaching spots 204 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.120 several years ago, and now all of a sudden, he's 205 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.120 an idiot. It doesn't work that way. Well, given the 206 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:49.320 players Joe Burrow was crying about give me players to 207 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.840 work with, No, Louiana Rumo is the one who should 208 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.279 have been crying give me players to work with. It's wrong, 209 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:55.440 That's where it should have been. 210 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.879 You are absolutely right in so many ways, and you 211 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:04.120 are fatally wrong in another way. You know as well 212 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:08.679 as I do that the NFL Professional Sports is a 213 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:10.600 what have you done for me lately? 214 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:11.919 Business? 215 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.279 Well, yeah, and lou Anmo was hailed is gonna be 216 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.240 the next big head coach somewhere because of the brilliant 217 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.440 defensive job he had done with the Cincinnati Bengals. Well, 218 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.559 you know what, you got to continue that excellence or 219 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.720 you lose your luster. That the bloom goes off the 220 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:29.679 roads real fast in that league. 221 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:30.639 And you know that. 222 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.440 And I'll tell you something else. I really believe in 223 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.240 my heart of hearts that sometimes coaches getting fired and 224 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.519 moves like that more so to appease the fan base 225 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.360 than a piece maybe the media as well than anybody else, 226 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:46.679 because they had to make some sort of a move 227 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.279 if the two bad seasons not going to the playoffs. 228 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.799 So they chucked Louis on Romo's head off and now 229 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.960 everybody's happy because he's not there because the defense stunk. Well, 230 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.000 the defense be any better with the same players, No, 231 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.200 But I think that they're afraid of losing to good 232 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:06.799 holders and media respect and media I guess, publicity backlash, 233 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.440 whatever it may be. So someone has to pay the price. 234 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.000 And they're not going to fire Zach Taylor because he's 235 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.159 got several years on his contract and the Bengals notoriously 236 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:17.679 will never fire a guy and pay for it. And 237 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.840 I'm working that's the bottom line. 238 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.559 All this discussion about firings brings up something else. I 239 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:27.039 know all of us if you've been in this business 240 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.679 as long as I have, as long as you have, Andy, 241 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:35.759 firing or getting fired is always a possibility, and everybody 242 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.320 goes through it. Anybody that's any damn good at all 243 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.480 in this business has at one time or another in 244 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:42.879 their career been fired. 245 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.840 And no doubt, and I know, so do I. 246 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:47.360 So do I. 247 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:47.759 So. 248 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:52.720 What I'm saying is it's it's a necessary thing, and 249 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:57.600 it's not always a bad thing sometimes getting fired, in 250 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.480 fact most times. In my case, I know every time 251 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:04.840 that I've been fired in radio, I was better the 252 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:08.320 next time around. I learned from that. And I'm sure 253 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:12.480 lou Anarumo is learning wonderful lessons right now and he's 254 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.480 going to land on his feet and he won't make 255 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:18.960 any mistakes that he made this time around. Well, because 256 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.320 of right exactly, he's gonna be. 257 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:23.960 He's gonna be. 258 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.000 He's going to be better than he was with the 259 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.159 Bengals because of that. Failure breed success always, Andy, And 260 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.399 it doesn't matter if you fail, and it's not your fault. 261 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.120 But this was a blessing from God that. 262 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.840 You comparing apples and oranges, because in football there's a barometer. 263 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.200 You could see how you failed. The defense stunk and 264 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:47.480 they were lower. The lower. 265 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.840 There's a barometer, it's called the ratings. It's called the. 266 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:55.039 How did you get fired in radio? 267 00:13:55.480 --> 00:14:01.279 Well, for reason, Well, the first time I was just 268 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.440 a young, dumb kid and I got set up and 269 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.919 it really wasn't my fault, but it really was because 270 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.240 I wasn't wise enough to see it coming and get 271 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.360 out of the way. The second time I got fired, 272 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.200 I got lazy, I got complacent in my job. And 273 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.720 that was in Chattanooga nineteen eighty four. Let's see. The 274 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.799 next time I got fired, a new company took over 275 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:26.000 the radio station where I had been the number one 276 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:29.960 afternoon drive disc jockey at for four straight years, and 277 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.000 they purposely wanted to get rid of the salaries that 278 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:36.840 we had, and that's where I got off. And you know, 279 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:40.600 this last time that I lost my full time job 280 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.480 in radio was in two thousand and nine, and we 281 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.879 all knew it was coming for a year because the FCC, 282 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:52.679 in coordination with the Department of Justice, said that Clear Channel, 283 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.200 which is the name of the company at the time 284 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:59.440 now it's iHeartMedia Clear Channel because they went from being 285 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:04.879 a public traded company to a private fund company, they 286 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.360 could not own as many radio stations that they as 287 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.919 they had in the market, and they did not have 288 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.000 the choice of which stations they had to get rid 289 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.799 of and mine the Fox was one of those stations 290 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.519 that they were ordered by the d o J in Washington, 291 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:24.480 d C. Another federal bureaucracy that I hope Trump straightens out. 292 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.960 But I was you know what, for the first time. 293 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:30.559 In my career, Andy Gary Jeff Walker and intellectual property 294 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:32.879 were married in the same sentence, believe it or not. 295 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.879 And I chose not to go with the new company 296 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.120 because I enjoyed doing talk and I didn't want to 297 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.759 sit and babysit music anymore. And that's what I would 298 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.080 have been relegated to doing without a chance to continue 299 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.840 on WLW. So I really didn't get fired. I made 300 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:51.200 a choice, and I feel better for that choice. So 301 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:55.600 there there's I'll give you mind if you want to. Well, 302 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.919 I mean, you know I I showed you, I showed 303 00:15:59.960 --> 00:16:02.360 you mind. You you show me yours love. 304 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:04.159 Yeah, I was fired twice. I was fired at an 305 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.320 FM station was called real Uh what was the super talk? 306 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.279 Super talk on the FM dial? And it wasn't at 307 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.480 the office One day it wasn't that super. They called 308 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.840 me into the office and in the December afternoon after 309 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.399 my shift and they said, well, we're going from uh 310 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:23.720 going from sports talk to country music I think it was. 311 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.080 And that was the end of that. I was gone. 312 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.879 And then prior to that, I was let go at 313 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:31.320 the seventeen seventeen eighteen years at WLW, which is no 314 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.679 fault of my own, because you know the ratings book, 315 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.440 we were number one and I still have the the 316 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.120 the evidence for it because I did the show what 317 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.000 Chris Collins was I did. It was like something like 318 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.000 fifty three writing books and we were like number one, 319 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.559 fifty out of fifty three. And I was doing a 320 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:51.200 Wednesday evening interview show for the Bengals with t. J. 321 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:55.120 Huschman Zada. He didn't show several times, Darryl Pod I'm 322 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.720 telling you the truth. There's a whole story which I've 323 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:57.440 never gone public with. 324 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:03.279 I'll tell you, wait, Andy, is there an NDA associated 325 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.400 with your your letting go? I mean you may a 326 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.839 non disclosure agreement. You may want to be treading carefully here. 327 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:12.400 No, not for legal reason. 328 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.160 As a matter of fact, many people have been fired 329 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:16.640 and they had to sit out six months with it 330 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.640 and not compete. They waived that, and I was fired 331 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.319 for there's a cause, and I know no cause. I 332 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.799 was not fired for cause. So that tells you what happens. 333 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.720 I'll tell you what. The day I was let golfrom 334 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.519 Mill w they had like nineteen other people lost their 335 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.160 jobs for budget cuts, so I think rather than put 336 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.480 me in that hole, they just fired me. Let me go, 337 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:36.920 all right, I'll leave it at that. So I was 338 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.920 fired there, and you're right it worked out well because 339 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.799 I still remain with the same company. It was clear 340 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.880 channel then though to iHeartMedia now and would Fox Sports 341 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.640 been with them over twelve thirteen years? 342 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.000 So what are you griving about? 343 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.119 Sound like it was a bad deal? Okay, it was 344 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:54.519 all right? 345 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.519 Well, you know, see this is the thing in life. 346 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.799 We all run into bad deals. And life isn't fair. 347 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.160 I know, I'm not telling you anything new. You've lived 348 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.480 longer than I have. Life is not fair, Andy Furman. 349 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:11.200 And sometimes that unfairness reaches into our personal lives and 350 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:14.119 smacks is around and reminds us that life isn't fair. 351 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.720 And if we recognize, if we recognize and look at 352 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.160 the reasons after the initial hurt and sting of it. 353 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.079 We realize that we're better off, and it's like refining 354 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:26.319 us like golds. 355 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.680 Like you know when it happens like one door closes. 356 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.200 You know, if it was that serious when I was 357 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.680 like call mell w, I wouldn't have had all these goodies, 358 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.640 you know, attached to my firing, like the six months 359 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:41.759 not compete was waived. 360 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:42.359 You know. 361 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:44.640 I went to the other stage, I went to super Talk. 362 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.599 From there, I went directly to super Talk, and they 363 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.720 allowed me to take some of my sponsors with me 364 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.640 from WLW super Talk. So it was a budget cuts. 365 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:54.200 I mean, there's no doubt in my mind it was. 366 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:55.240 And it happened. 367 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.240 It happens in this business, you know, and sometimes the 368 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.400 numbers just don't make sense, no matter how good you are. 369 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:04.960 And then you know, it could happen to me anytime. 370 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.599 It may happen after this show tonight, because we're airing 371 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:08.880 all this dirty laundry. 372 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.799 But I've got I mean, you see this nondisclosure. I mean, 373 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:14.960 I'm talking about fifteen sixteen years ago, so I'm sure 374 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.839 there's a point in time what just goes away talk about. 375 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.799 Oh well, what I mean, once they stopped paying me 376 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:23.119 the severance that pretty much was over. 377 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:25.640 And that's the thing I got. 378 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.279 I got severance pay for losing the job at the Fox, 379 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:30.920 and I still got paid for being on WLW all 380 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:31.880 in the same check. 381 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:33.000 How do you figure out? 382 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:35.160 Well, and I had a contract at LW which had 383 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:36.799 two more years to go, and they paid me off 384 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:38.279 and I was getting paid to the station. 385 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.039 Oh you so you were double dipping? You have you have? 386 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:48.640 You have nothing to complain about. I'm nothing to whine about. 387 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:49.480 Andy. 388 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:53.880 No, here's a thing I don't mind if I screw up, 389 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.440 if I'm called jaywalking and I get a fine. Okay, 390 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:00.240 it sucks, but I did it. I created it. I 391 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.000 didn't create the whole situation over there. I would have 392 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.480 been happy if if they told me that, you don't 393 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:08.680 you're losing your job because the budget cuts. That would 394 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.880 be any old scenario that I went through. And it 395 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.519 was embarrassing because it was in the press and no 396 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:14.480 one talked about it. 397 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.920 Andy, it's a different company, it's a different even a 398 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:20.000 different name. It's a different company. So you know, the 399 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:22.279 people in charge now have nothing to do with what 400 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:23.440 happened with Clear Channel. 401 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.680