Speaker 1: Herman who it was, who looked very awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And really these two individuals told on themselves as far
Speaker 1: as doing something they knew they were not supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing that they didn't want people to see. But
Speaker 1: Andy Byron has resigned as the CEO of Astronomer, the company,
Speaker 1: of course, that he led before all this happened. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us as far as the impact that
Speaker 1: this viral story, super viral story has caused to those involved,
Speaker 1: including the company.
Speaker 2: All right, hey, do you have a favorite meme yet?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, I saw what the Savannah the Savannah Bananas did.
Speaker 2: That was the best video I've seen from it. But
Speaker 2: the memes they're all great, Uh they are. I mean
Speaker 2: it's unlivable.
Speaker 3: I have a personal affection for the Fozzy Bear and
Speaker 3: Miss Piggy.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that was good. I don't know, I thought
Speaker 2: that was clever. Yeah, the obviously political ones.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it is just fascinating how this is NonStop
Speaker 3: and just how it has proliferated so much across the Internet.
Speaker 2: Social media is just full of this stuff.
Speaker 3: And again, as you mentioned, Savannah Bananas and even Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball teams trying to bounce on this moment. I
Speaker 3: think it's just the summer distraction, right. Oh, it's a story.
Speaker 3: It's an awkward story that a lot of us can
Speaker 3: relate to. That's easy to relate to, just and and
Speaker 3: the whole idea of a couple allegedly having an affair
Speaker 3: and being essentially caught on the kiss cam at the
Speaker 3: Coldplay show outside Boston is all rather remarkable.
Speaker 2: But you know, it does raise a lot of that.
Speaker 3: And then of course for it to involve the CEO
Speaker 3: and the head of HR, like HR, which puts out
Speaker 3: all these memos using all that language that they use
Speaker 3: to dissuade.
Speaker 2: You can't make this kind In fact, you would you
Speaker 2: think it was.
Speaker 1: Made up because to see that her position was one
Speaker 1: of human resources and then for her to be the one,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's I guess everything involved
Speaker 1: here is how. That's why this thing went viral like
Speaker 1: it did. It's got all the elements.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then what she's like chief people officer, not
Speaker 2: even HR.
Speaker 1: She's great at connecting with employees of all levels Rory.
Speaker 2: She certainly should that. She certainly did.
Speaker 3: I mean they are essentially a case study in that HR.
Speaker 2: And what you're not supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3: And then also what about everyone else who was in
Speaker 3: the box with them, right, Apparently they all knew that
Speaker 3: this affair was going on, Like that's something else that
Speaker 3: is you know, wait, so we're all good with letting
Speaker 3: the spouses of these two people sort of stay in
Speaker 3: the dark. But yeah, it's a it just it could
Speaker 3: not be a better summer time distraction. I guess now
Speaker 3: that Love Island is over here, we got this instead.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Rial Hill, BBC News is our guest joining us here,
Speaker 1: our news ready to eight forty whas so the release
Speaker 1: of grand jury files associated with the Jeffrey Epstein case, That,
Speaker 1: of course, is what a lot of people have been asking.
Speaker 1: They've been begging for some transparency in regards to this
Speaker 1: entire situation. And of course a lot of folks think
Speaker 1: thinks there's a cover up, a conspiracy here. What do
Speaker 1: we know as far as just heading in the direction
Speaker 1: of where where Americans feel is if there's the wanted
Speaker 1: transparency that they seek.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, President Trump asked the Justice Department to
Speaker 3: take action to unseal the grand jury testimony, but that
Speaker 3: may not satisfy a lot of people because that's not everything,
Speaker 3: and I think that's a big part of it. You know,
Speaker 3: this may be just limited in scope, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people may say, oh, you know, it's another nothing burger, right,
Speaker 3: And so we'll see if the court agrees to release
Speaker 3: some of this data, of course redacting the names of
Speaker 3: the underage victims and things like that. But it's I
Speaker 3: don't think this controversy is certainly going away. And you know,
Speaker 3: this weekend marked six months of the Trump two point
Speaker 3: zero administration. He's been trying to change the focus on
Speaker 3: everything from you know, getting coke made with cane sugar,
Speaker 3: to getting making Rosy o'donnelld not a citizen anymore. I
Speaker 3: forgot the one that get oh, renaming the rents and
Speaker 3: or bringing back the name of the Washington of the
Speaker 3: command switching the name of the commanders and the Cleveland Indians.
Speaker 2: So anything to change the topic so far from this administration.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, you know, maybe there is some thought
Speaker 1: that eventually, if you just you know, let it die down,
Speaker 1: there won't be as much noise. But I think this,
Speaker 1: I think what they're probably going to release is going
Speaker 1: to end up being underwhelming to a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and it's just going to keep this thing going well.
Speaker 3: I mean they're all in the same vein, right, the
Speaker 3: cold Play story in this one, they're cheap, sexy whatever.
Speaker 3: And you know, easy to understand because if we were
Speaker 3: to sit back and talk about healthcare reimbursements and how
Speaker 3: Medicaid cuts are going to impact rural hospitals, everyone knows
Speaker 3: the eyes glaze over and you get you know, gen
Speaker 3: z stare. But whereas you're talking about sex cases. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're going to pay attention.
Speaker 2: Rory. You are the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you as always for your time. Enjoy the rest
Speaker 1: of your day.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to my friend. Thanks.
Speaker 1: No, it's a forty six here a Kentucky and this
Speaker 1: morning News Coffee and Company. You're a news radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me Toty ben Eddie alongside.
Speaker 1: It'll be Tony Dwight coming your way here here shortly
Speaker 1: also John Shannon and studio with us. So the President
Speaker 1: has told us that he will potentially block a new
Speaker 1: stadium for Washington unless they change their name from the
Speaker 1: Commanders back to the Redskins. He also said that he's
Speaker 1: encouraging the Cleveland Organization in MLB to go from the
Speaker 1: Guardians back to the Indians, citing that there's a real
Speaker 1: public demand for it. So take away the political component here,
Speaker 1: which is tough to do at times. But I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a scenario, and I've talked about this a
Speaker 1: lot this morning, where either side at this point wants
Speaker 1: to go through another rebrand.
Speaker 2: I mean that goes into that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you do, because you sell more gear. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: why they change names all the time. That's why the
Speaker 4: Bats change colors and all that, because you sell a ton.
Speaker 1: But it's not news. It's the same thing. They didn't
Speaker 1: even change colors.
Speaker 5: But there's going to be new merchandise with the old
Speaker 5: Red Skin's logo that everybody would have to go out
Speaker 5: and buy because they've ditched all of that for the
Speaker 5: Washington commanders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean see, I think Indians can come
Speaker 4: back more than Redskins because it's it's about a skin color, right,
Speaker 4: And I get it. I get that. No one, nobody
Speaker 4: in the actual community of Native Americans care, no, no,
Speaker 4: and they don't care.
Speaker 5: The family, the family of the guy whose head was
Speaker 5: the logo for the Redskins for all those years, said
Speaker 5: they were upset that he got changed. They had no
Speaker 5: problem with it. It's it's kind of that Florida Seminoles
Speaker 5: deal where everybody got upset about about the the mascot
Speaker 5: for the Florida Seminoles that's actually about to tribe, right,
Speaker 5: but the Seminole Nation came out and said, hey, we're
Speaker 5: not offended.
Speaker 1: Both the commanders and guardians have said publicly they don't
Speaker 1: want to change, and uh, it sounds I mean, this
Speaker 1: is this is the this is the quote from President Trump.
Speaker 1: If they don't change the name back, I won't make
Speaker 1: a deal for them to build a stadium in Washington.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And he said that their commander's moniker is ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: to hear that they don't want to make a change,
Speaker 1: I just think it's a sign that there's so much
Speaker 1: that would go into that. Now, you're right, money matters
Speaker 1: more than anything. But when it comes to rebranding, the
Speaker 1: amount of time, effort, energy into not even and I'm
Speaker 1: not even talking about the creative process. I'm talking just
Speaker 1: about everything that identifies your brand, which it being visible,
Speaker 1: is super important. I mean again, with the commanders and
Speaker 1: the end, they would be going back to something that
Speaker 1: already previously existed. So again, you're not starting from scratch,
Speaker 1: but neither side as far as these organizations are asking
Speaker 1: for this, and yet he's made it visa news.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a win win for the Redskins. Look, I'm yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm fifty six. It's a win win because look, guess who. Look,
Speaker 4: the NFL is thirty two billionaires. What you know what,
Speaker 4: You don't tell a billionaire what to do? Billionaires tend
Speaker 4: to tell a bunch of jump off that bridge, Yes, sir, whoo.
Speaker 2: They don't like to be told what to do. Right.
Speaker 4: Secondly, if they do postpone the new stadium, right, they
Speaker 4: can blame the President of the United States and go.
Speaker 4: If you don't blame me, blame the president.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: So this is a win win for them, and it
Speaker 4: of course keeps them in the news. The NFL doesn't
Speaker 4: need it.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, I mean, I'm I'm a Colts fan,
Speaker 1: but more so me it's just U of L. But Tony,
Speaker 1: I know you're UFL fan, big Steelers fan. I know, John,
Speaker 1: you cheer for the Cowboys. Can you imagine one day
Speaker 1: You're like, it would be impossible to just call my
Speaker 1: team something different, Like I wouldn't be able to do
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 4: During that insanity of the COVID woke crazy time that
Speaker 4: was going on, there were two articles written by good
Speaker 4: journalists that suggested the Cowboys should change their name because
Speaker 4: it has boys in it. And I said, okay, we've
Speaker 4: jumped the shark as a society. And I'd say, well
Speaker 4: that is that. That's probably an indicator. Like to know
Speaker 4: that that wasn't as crazy sounding at that time tells
Speaker 4: you where we were. Well, I called the Redskins. I
Speaker 4: call Redskins fifteen years agoing in Inderdogs. I said, they're
Speaker 4: gonna come for that name some point. Yeah, And everybody's like,
Speaker 4: you're crazy.
Speaker 2: Doesn't follow.
Speaker 1: We're taking we're taking a we're taking a little bit
Speaker 1: of a step back from being so PC. I think
Speaker 1: I think Shane Gillis is a great example of the
Speaker 1: fact that yeah, you'll find people that are offended, but
Speaker 1: you'll also find people more comfortable acknowledging it's not real life.
Speaker 1: It's comedy, it's humor. It's not that serious exactly. And
Speaker 1: what I really thought stood up more than anything about
Speaker 1: Shane Gillis at the SP's was that the crowd full
Speaker 1: of athletes they felt scared to laugh because they didn't
Speaker 1: want to be criticized for laughing at something that they
Speaker 1: may be ridiculed for or canceled because how could they
Speaker 1: think that's so funny? They're insensitive. Now again, some say, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's because he was making jokes about them, that wasn't it.
Speaker 1: They were, I mean they were not. The only thing
Speaker 1: that he said that they couldn't control their laughter is
Speaker 1: when they realized they all got god because he made
Speaker 1: a phenomenal joke acknowledging that nobody knew that the woman
Speaker 1: that he brought that he mentioned was yeah, but like
Speaker 1: it was the truth. Like sometimes we laugh at ourselves
Speaker 1: when we're laughing at somebody's jokes because.
Speaker 4: You are afraid. I asked a question in the Crusade
Speaker 4: for Children Trivia last week about where did the fortune
Speaker 4: cookie get invented? San Francisco or New York, And everyone
Speaker 4: was afraid to say that Chinese people live in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: even though that's a fact.
Speaker 2: So it's just like it was just like.
Speaker 4: Are you a scared? I said on the air, I said,
Speaker 4: are you afraid to say that Chinese people live in
Speaker 4: San Francisco?
Speaker 2: But that's where we.
Speaker 5: Are The height of that stupidity got to when they
Speaker 5: were going back and finding Instagram and Twitter tweets from people,
Speaker 5: well they were twelve years old. But to answer one
Speaker 5: of your questions earlier, real quick. In a way, technically
Speaker 5: the president can control that because Congress controls everything to
Speaker 5: do with the city of Washington, d C. They make
Speaker 5: all the final approvals on everything, So he could go
Speaker 5: to Speaker Johnson and say, hey, xnay this until they change.
Speaker 4: Don't make a fight with you, don't pick a final fight,
Speaker 4: Do not pick up buddy in anything.
Speaker 1: The NFL will win, the Shield will level of power
Speaker 1: we don't you don't see anywhere else right Tony and
Speaker 1: the Wider coming up next right here on news radio
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