Speaker 1: A fresh eight o'clock hour here of coffee and Company
Speaker 1: on Kentucky and this morning news Nick Coffee, that's me
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerred alongside, and we've got one hour left. And
Speaker 1: for those just now joining us, welcome in Happy Friday
Speaker 1: to you. We did early on talk about the teacher
Speaker 1: shortage going on at JCPS, and I always stand corrected,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I do.
Speaker 2: I do prepare for this show.
Speaker 1: I do research as best I can, and apparently it
Speaker 1: is not that uncommon currently for there to be job
Speaker 1: fairs to hire actual teachers. It's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: it's common in public K twelve school systems, but there
Speaker 1: are vacancies in a lot of places when it comes
Speaker 1: to teachers. The teacher shortage is not just a JCPS issue.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere. But JCPS, of course the biggest school district
Speaker 1: in our state, and obviously they've had their share problems
Speaker 1: and they're welcoming in a new superintendent. And to hear
Speaker 1: that they are still short of eighteen hundred different people,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, let me let me make sure I get
Speaker 1: the Yeah, not eighteen no, no, I'm sorry. That was more
Speaker 1: of a national number. But JCPS currently has three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two classroom teacher vacancies and fifty three other
Speaker 1: certified positions that are still open, and one and eighty
Speaker 1: six of those are support staff roles. So what they're
Speaker 1: doing in order to try to get ready for school
Speaker 1: is it's I think less than a month away. They're
Speaker 1: having a job fare and it's actually going to be
Speaker 1: today from ten am to two pm at the Center
Speaker 1: for Professional Learning Complex that is on Atkinson Square Drive.
Speaker 1: So I just the reason I brought up the job
Speaker 1: fair thing is I think for bus drivers and just
Speaker 1: other positions within the school that are not necessarily for teachers,
Speaker 1: it just seemed odd to me that there would be
Speaker 1: a job fare for that, But again it's becoming more
Speaker 1: common because of the lack of teachers everywhere.
Speaker 2: But if you are the.
Speaker 1: New superintendent here, I mean, you knew what you were
Speaker 1: walking into, you knew that the job was an important one.
Speaker 1: And clearly some improvements are needed in JCPS in a
Speaker 1: variety of ways. But hopefully they can they can get
Speaker 1: off to a good start. I mean, look, getting this
Speaker 1: is I don't want to. I don't be too hard
Speaker 1: on them because again I think sometimes the people that
Speaker 1: go to work every day and deal with it, and
Speaker 1: and you know they choose to do it because more
Speaker 1: often than not, I would assume it's the labor of love,
Speaker 1: and you can be compensated well as a teacher to
Speaker 1: an extent. But obviously, you know, I don't think many
Speaker 1: people who do it do it for the money.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Act like it's all bad for JCPS, but I would
Speaker 1: say when it comes to having a successful school system
Speaker 1: school district, there's a lot that goes into that, but
Speaker 1: maybe the two most important people, or maybe to the
Speaker 1: two most important things are transportation, meaning getting kids to
Speaker 1: school so you can conduct school, and then also having
Speaker 1: enough teachers there to teach the kids. So again I'm
Speaker 1: sure transportation and teacher shortages are an issue in a
Speaker 1: lot of places, not just JCPS, but clearly there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of pressure on this
Speaker 1: new superintendent just because you know, change, change was wanted,
Speaker 1: I assume by many people. But I think at times
Speaker 1: with Marty Polio, I just I felt like there was
Speaker 1: a genuine genuineness to him to where I just felt like, man,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty helpless job and I think that's a
Speaker 1: position I wouldn't want to be in because no matter
Speaker 1: what you do, you're gonna have people, you know, yelling
Speaker 1: at you and criticizing you. And look, you take that
Speaker 1: kind of job knowing there's always going to be criticism.
Speaker 1: It's not like you just assume everybody's just going to
Speaker 1: be doing nothing but praising you. But I just I
Speaker 1: think sometimes things happen and I don't really know who
Speaker 1: we point the finger to. I don't know who we blame.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it's a collective thing at times,
Speaker 1: but like, for example, if this transportation situation when they
Speaker 1: start school is a nightmare, again, certainly the superintendent's going
Speaker 1: to fall on the sword, or at least he should
Speaker 1: because that's what you do in that job. But there
Speaker 1: may not have been anything specifically that you missed out on,
Speaker 1: that you didn't do that could have prevented it. And
Speaker 1: I just sound so pessimistic, but I just think that's
Speaker 1: the reality of it. I just think that right now
Speaker 1: it's tough to see JCPS moving forward not continuously being
Speaker 1: mentioned as having a lot of these issues, which the
Speaker 1: reason I hate that is because one that's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: there's clearly a lot of good going on within jcps
Speaker 1: as well. There's great teachers, great stories, and you know,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't ignore that as much as we probably do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot of a lot of positions
Speaker 1: that need to be filled within jcps. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a gig and you're qualified, keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe make a career change, because certainly there's a
Speaker 1: real need for teachers everywhere, not just JCPS, but teacher
Speaker 1: pay and.
Speaker 2: Burnout has been a big factor here.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next, as far as just the
Speaker 1: amount of teachers in jcps that hold graduate degrees, but
Speaker 1: their pay doesn't reflect that. I mean, that's another thing
Speaker 1: working against them that maybe isn't working against other school
Speaker 1: districts to that same extent. So look at to that
Speaker 1: and a lot more. Also, what I want to talk
Speaker 1: about coming up here in just a few minutes is
Speaker 1: if you're somebody that consumes a lot of content on YouTube,
Speaker 1: there's some changes as far as that experience for you.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that in a lot more. First,
Speaker 1: let's get an update on the forecast from Mat Melosovich
Speaker 1: as well as another traffick update from Boby ellis right
Speaker 1: here on news Radio eight forty Whame continue. It is
Speaker 1: eight sixteen here at Kentucky, and it's Morning News with
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company. News Radio eight forty whas Tony Dwight
Speaker 1: coming your way around nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: It'll be actually at nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: And I think the reason I was hesitating here I
Speaker 1: think they're on remote, but I don't know that for certain,
Speaker 1: but I will double check because I believe they might be. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're giving out some passes to the Jay Town Beer Fest.
Speaker 2: I believe so.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you're somebody interested in that, they can they
Speaker 1: can maybe help you out, which Scott at some point,
Speaker 1: I got I gotta get your like, you got to
Speaker 1: tell me what I'm walking into when it comes to
Speaker 1: certain types of beers, because you're you're my resource with that,
Speaker 1: because I may end up at the j Town Beer
Speaker 1: Fest and I'm gonna be I'm gonna I'll probably be
Speaker 1: wearing it on my forehead essentially, like I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, somebody guide me.
Speaker 3: They will, And that's you know, that's why we're so
Speaker 3: blessed with so many great breweries in town. They're always
Speaker 3: willing to talk to you, you know, because there they're
Speaker 3: going to give you your sample, your beer, which you have.
Speaker 3: I was trying to look at the beer list that
Speaker 3: was here, and I know you got other things you
Speaker 3: want to talk about, so I won't get too far
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 2: But no, you go.
Speaker 3: I'll take a look at what they have and you
Speaker 3: can't go wrong. Especially I have my own local my
Speaker 3: favorite local breweries. I don't mind saying it. That Against
Speaker 3: the Grain when it comes to local breweries is my
Speaker 3: number one go to, and then Mile Wide is a
Speaker 3: close second.
Speaker 2: They're staple against the grain. It's been around for a while.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they they kick out the og of
Speaker 3: Kraft beers and that's you know, sit your ass down.
Speaker 3: That's that's my Favorite's always in my fridge. And Mile
Speaker 3: Wide has a West Coast I PA that I love.
Speaker 3: So dude, I hope you get a chance to get
Speaker 3: out there and enjoy it. Should be a good time.
Speaker 3: I'm glad Tony and Dwighter out there. That'll be fun.
Speaker 2: I have a I like.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a beer that I really like and
Speaker 1: it may not be one that you like, but you'll
Speaker 1: at least kind of know my Palette a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 1: The West six I PA oh, absolutely great brewery and
Speaker 1: if you ever get a chance to make it to
Speaker 1: the West six Brewery, it's a fantastic I need to
Speaker 1: check out because they were one craft brewery that I've
Speaker 1: had a couple of theirs that I really like. But
Speaker 1: if I'm going with a craft beer, I would go
Speaker 1: with the West six IPA never let me down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, not at all.
Speaker 3: It's a great product. If you get a chance to
Speaker 3: make it out, stop in their brewery, sit down and
Speaker 3: have one.
Speaker 2: It's a great experience. Good stuff. A right.
Speaker 1: So YouTube has been around for quite some time, and
Speaker 1: I'll admit I'm kind of new to YouTube being a
Speaker 1: part of my daily content experience because more often than not,
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm going to you, if I'm going
Speaker 1: to YouTube, it's to find something that, like I can't
Speaker 1: find elsewhere. And now I realize you can get anything
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I mean any type of content is within
Speaker 1: the YouTube platform. Are you often on YouTube? Do you
Speaker 1: find yourself like, Hey I'm bored or Hey I'm interested
Speaker 1: in something, Let's go to YouTube. Because I now remind myself, hey,
Speaker 1: you should probably check there.
Speaker 2: Because you can. I mean, you can teach yourself how
Speaker 2: to do anything on YouTube.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say that's how I kept the repairman
Speaker 3: out of my house. My dryer has been going. I'm
Speaker 3: knocking on whatever fake would I can find in here.
Speaker 3: My dryer's been going for about twenty five years now
Speaker 3: thanks to YouTube.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't think of any I mean, there's
Speaker 1: things that I've learned how to do that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to rack my brain here, but I bet there's something
Speaker 1: that I've taught myself how to do that I don't
Speaker 1: even remember that. It was a YouTube video that showed
Speaker 1: me a tutorial some guy. And look, these people probably
Speaker 1: don't anticipate it at the time when they launch their
Speaker 1: YouTube channels, but there are people who probably make a
Speaker 1: great living just simply offering like ninety second videos showing
Speaker 1: you how to do something that you've never had to
Speaker 1: do before. Because sure enough, that's a platform that is
Speaker 1: so big that there's gonna be enough people that need
Speaker 1: to figure out how to do it, and that's their
Speaker 1: quickest way to learn. So I'm sure there's many that
Speaker 1: have changed their lives because they were ahead of the
Speaker 1: curb and they've got big channels with subscribers and they
Speaker 1: can monetize all that. But there's changes coming to the
Speaker 1: homepage for you. So they're retiring the trending page, which
Speaker 1: is a feature that really captured viral videos in a
Speaker 1: single feed, and now they're going to show a more tailored,
Speaker 1: category specific thing. And what they're telling you without using
Speaker 1: the word, is they've changed their algorithm. They're going to
Speaker 1: now have not a trending page showing you just what
Speaker 1: is big across the overall platform. They're gonna show you
Speaker 1: things that are big more so in your in your niche.
Speaker 1: So they're eliminating it's all in one trending tab and
Speaker 1: replacing it with specialized charts and you will you're use
Speaker 1: your viewing history and habits will show if you are
Speaker 1: somebody that is more so shifted to movies, podcasts because
Speaker 1: podcasts have become huge on YouTube, and then music videos
Speaker 1: and then just different things that are maybe within within
Speaker 1: your niche. So, uh, this is this is ten years
Speaker 1: for the platform or for the trending pigs that is
Speaker 1: now going away. And I'm telling you this to me
Speaker 1: is is there's a variety of reasons. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: goes into this. But as soon as and this has
Speaker 1: been a couple of years since this happened, as soon
Speaker 1: as time spent consuming content per experience at TikTok was
Speaker 1: longer than YouTube, YouTube had to do something. Because TikTok,
Speaker 1: you don't even get a lot of time in a video,
Speaker 1: but you scroll continuously because their algorithm knows what you want.
Speaker 1: That's how you end up spending way more time on
Speaker 1: TikTok than you ever intended. And YouTube they're doing okay,
Speaker 1: they're doing just fine. But again, they offer long form
Speaker 1: video content more than anybody else. And the experience is
Speaker 1: it's not as it's not as lengthy as it is
Speaker 1: there as it is TikTok. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's gonna help them out, but I guarantee you that's
Speaker 1: a factor in that change. Amen, brother, and you and
Speaker 1: I are both TikTok guys.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I was in it last night and I couldn't get
Speaker 3: out of it. I was trying to watch Bob's Burgers,
Speaker 3: but TikTok kept taking me.
Speaker 2: Away till you look.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I hate saying this because I know there's some especially
Speaker 1: in this audience, that are gonna think, oh, this guy sucks.
Speaker 1: But like I sometimes look forward to knowing it's late
Speaker 1: at night, I don't have to go to work the
Speaker 1: next day.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna scroll TikTok.
Speaker 4: I do it.
Speaker 3: I do it right before I have a snack at night.
Speaker 3: I don't need a dinner, and it gets me through
Speaker 3: that half hour because I eat it at a certain time
Speaker 3: every day.
Speaker 1: Those who have the stigma of a young guy coming
Speaker 1: in on this show, that's probably the worst thing I
Speaker 1: could have said. But if any thing, I'm just honest
Speaker 1: with you, and I'm telling you. If you just think
Speaker 1: TikTok some platform where people do stupid dances and act
Speaker 1: like fools, that's there.
Speaker 2: But there's way more to it than just that. So
Speaker 2: I like the roller skating videos. Oh there's there's a
Speaker 2: ton of stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, We got to get to a quick break,
Speaker 1: another update on traffick, a weather coming your way, and
Speaker 1: also we'll get another sports update from Scott right here
Speaker 1: on news.
Speaker 2: Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Lows five forty six here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky and it's morning place for those in the
Speaker 1: Secret Service that were held accountable for I guess just
Speaker 1: not doing their job when it comes to the assassination
Speaker 1: attempt of Donald Trump. But the shooter, Thomas Crooks. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong here, but I feel like if you'd
Speaker 1: have told most people that we'd be this far removed
Speaker 1: from that situation, has such little info as far as
Speaker 1: remotive and just just about the individual, I think most
Speaker 1: would would have been surprised. What do we know about
Speaker 1: this individual? And of course maybe what a potential motive
Speaker 1: would have been.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we never did get to that motive, I think,
Speaker 5: and I think that's been frustrating for a lot of
Speaker 5: people obviously. But the Secret Service agents who were suspended,
Speaker 5: one of them was actually with I guess we'll call
Speaker 5: them candidate Trump's detail. The other five were assigned to
Speaker 5: the local field office in the Pittsburgh area, and essentially
Speaker 5: they were suspended because of the way they set up
Speaker 5: the event, especially with the lack of communication between local
Speaker 5: law enforcement and the Secret Service agents who were there
Speaker 5: on the ground. You know, plenty of people had seen
Speaker 5: Croaks on that rooftop reported it to local police, but
Speaker 5: local police had a heck of a time try to
Speaker 5: get that information relayed to the Secret Service and specifically
Speaker 5: the sniper who was supposed to be taken them out
Speaker 5: in advance. The sniper wasn't able to open fire until
Speaker 5: after President Trump had been shot and one audience member
Speaker 5: killed and two others wounded.
Speaker 1: Typically, when these when these things happen, when the when,
Speaker 1: when the perpetrator is no longer alive, you do you
Speaker 1: find people wanting to know more about the family and
Speaker 1: connections and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And it seems very quiet on that front as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he was a bit of a loner
Speaker 5: with the description that we got, and you know, his
Speaker 5: motivation and all this as to whether or not he
Speaker 5: had this deep hatred for President Trump. Was he trying
Speaker 5: to put some other message out there with this.
Speaker 2: There was no.
Speaker 5: Manifesto left behind or something that would possibly explain why
Speaker 5: he did this, why he chose this event in Butler,
Speaker 5: you know, his political views still really are unknown.
Speaker 1: Roy On Neild, NBC News is our guest joining us
Speaker 1: here on News Radio eight forty whas So, when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Big Beautiful Bill, I heard a lot
Speaker 1: of noise in regards to how this would be bad
Speaker 1: for those that gamble, especially those that gamble on sports.
Speaker 1: It's become legal here in Kentucky in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years and certainly been a big boom. And then
Speaker 1: I've also heard some say, well, hey, chill out, not
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's really only if you are someone
Speaker 1: that might be trying to make a living gambling, what
Speaker 1: can you tell us about it.
Speaker 5: That's pretty much what it boils down to. The casual
Speaker 5: gambler probably won't notice this, but the rules are changing.
Speaker 5: Used to be that you would deduct your losses at
Speaker 5: one hundred percent versus your winning. So let's say you
Speaker 5: won one hundred thousand dollars, but you also lost one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars during a year of gambling. Well, okay,
Speaker 5: you'd walk away square. Well, now the IRS says, or
Speaker 5: we'll say, starting in January, you can only deduct ninety
Speaker 5: percent of your losses. So now, if you win one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars and you lose ninety one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 5: can you have to because it's only ninety percent can
Speaker 5: be deducted. That means you have to pay taxes on
Speaker 5: that ten thousand dollars difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is That's why they're.
Speaker 5: Saying a lot of people could really be hurt on
Speaker 5: this and with their professional gampling.
Speaker 1: And I think even if you're somebody that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: rely on it, but it's something that you that you
Speaker 1: do frequently for entertainment, you may have a big hit
Speaker 1: like that. I know some that have had a similar
Speaker 1: winning in that range, which of course is rare. But
Speaker 1: I know you've got to pay taxes on it that
Speaker 1: that certainly impacts the amount of money that you're going
Speaker 1: to bring home. Uncle Sam's going to get his cut.
Speaker 1: What do we know about what this means for the
Speaker 1: books in the casinos themselves, any reaction to this beautiful,
Speaker 1: big beautiful bill about how it could either benefit them
Speaker 1: or hurt them.
Speaker 5: Well, they've already got a good lobbying group trying to
Speaker 5: change the wording to this. But the big beautiful law
Speaker 5: also needs the money. This change by reducing what you
Speaker 5: can deduct from your losses from one hundred percent down
Speaker 5: to ninety percent sounds like nothing right, But it's going
Speaker 5: to generate a billion dollars over ten years in new
Speaker 5: tax revenue. So that's not nothing right. So that's why
Speaker 5: they're saying that this could really impact it most Again,
Speaker 5: the professional gambler type someone made the analogy that if
Speaker 5: you're a high roller, a professional who wins three million
Speaker 5: dollars but loses two point eight million dollars a year
Speaker 5: would have earned two hundred thousand dollars, but he's going
Speaker 5: to be taxed on four hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 5: based on that ninety percent change in what you can
Speaker 5: do for losses. So you can see how it really
Speaker 5: could add up to a hefty tax bill. The concern
Speaker 5: is that a lot of this action then moves offshore
Speaker 5: with casinos or betting systems based in other countries, and
Speaker 5: that can get a little shady too.
Speaker 1: Sure, no doubt, Rory, you are the best. Have a
Speaker 1: good weekend, my friend. We'll talk soon. Fact Nick, all
Speaker 1: right again, that's Roy and Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 2: Stick with us.
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Speaker 1: and a matter of minutes, eight forty whs is going
Speaker 1: to be coming to you live from Barons in Jaytown
Speaker 1: with pizza, other great options as well, and enhanced vibes.
Speaker 1: Kurt see of Tony Venetti and Dwight Whitton. I will
Speaker 1: say when it comes to when it comes to the
Speaker 1: great pizza at Barons, you can never go wrong. But
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear Dwight pumping up other items on
Speaker 1: the menu because they have wings. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if many people think of wings when you think of Barons,
Speaker 1: but they are delicious.
Speaker 2: So I'm very jealous of you guys.
Speaker 4: They are. But I thought you were playing that song
Speaker 4: because I was just telling young Daniel here, I.
Speaker 2: Call him Danny, Danny boy.
Speaker 4: This used to be Mama Grasanti's before it was bear Nos,
Speaker 4: it was no your cost gersonis. I know you're from
Speaker 4: Buller County. You didn't come in town some nice Italian.
Speaker 2: I was cultured.
Speaker 1: Come on, now, so is this this is the one
Speaker 1: that's next to like brickhouse tavern?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: This is no?
Speaker 4: No, No, it's no, it's it's this. Everyone in Louisville
Speaker 4: will know that's older than thirty will know this used
Speaker 4: to be Mama.
Speaker 2: Oh so this is okay, I got you. I know exactly.
Speaker 2: It's when you're out broadcast before. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1: And look there's many bars in Little Well because bare
Speaker 1: knows is great but correct. They some places, you know,
Speaker 1: there's just no way you're not gonna be known for
Speaker 1: a certain item because you do it so well and
Speaker 1: it's kind of mean, it's the root of your existence.
Speaker 1: But it is impressive for restaurants to be able to
Speaker 1: offer something that isn't the first thing that comes to mind,
Speaker 1: that isn't the focus of the real push to market
Speaker 1: your your restaurant, and do that really well too. And
Speaker 1: I've got a guess of those wings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the wings are good. Dwight loves
Speaker 4: the bake spaghetti. I look at bakes spaghetti.
Speaker 2: Now you're seving like Bulla County.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I'm trying to h Yes, as a
Speaker 4: true Italian, it's hard for me to say bake spaghetti.
Speaker 2: You gotta hear you. Are you all give away beer
Speaker 2: fest tickets? There's that a lot.
Speaker 4: We are, Okay, we are beer Fest beer fest dot
Speaker 4: com if you want to buy tickets.
Speaker 2: It's a ticketed event.
Speaker 4: But Scott will tell you, man this, this is all
Speaker 4: the craft beers in the world in one spot for
Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday. You gotta make it out here. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the weather guys have been wrong so many times.
Speaker 4: They're it's gonna rain on Sunday. Sunday, Yeah, it's not
Speaker 4: gonna rain.
Speaker 5: Dude.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something that I have observed doing
Speaker 2: this job for over a month.
Speaker 4: Yea, more than I realized, more than yes, yes, and
Speaker 4: uh and you know, and they defend themselves, but it's again,
Speaker 4: the Ohio River has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 4: Once it hits the Ohio River, it kind of dissipates her,
Speaker 4: it ramps up. So they're never And I don't even
Speaker 4: say that to be critical. I'm just highlighting when I
Speaker 4: when I when I reference the weather many times throughout
Speaker 4: a four hour shift in the morning, I then go
Speaker 4: out through I go out through the rest of my
Speaker 4: day thinking, well, I guess we'll come back and try
Speaker 4: to get in tomorrow. Well I always, yeah, I always.
Speaker 2: I always asked.
Speaker 4: I was like, how do you put up with that?
Speaker 4: Because if you're married, you're go home and you're wrong
Speaker 4: every time. You know, Also, so you're at working, you're wrong.
Speaker 4: But then I thought you and I did sports for
Speaker 4: a lot of years, we were wrong a lot in sports,
Speaker 4: you're wrong a lot in sports. When you make calls
Speaker 4: on games, or how the outcome of some games are
Speaker 4: going to be.
Speaker 1: And a beautiful thing that nobody seems to to really
Speaker 1: pay attention to is that it I shouldn't say that
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're wrong all the time, because
Speaker 1: clearly you want to be able to have some knowledge
Speaker 1: of which talking about and some proof along the way
Speaker 1: that you you can't assess what sport you're covering.
Speaker 2: But you think Stephen A. Smith's making a million dollars.
Speaker 1: Because he's right about anything he says, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean like and he's not loud and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but at least here's the thing. At least the
Speaker 4: best to me are the ones that admit they were wrong, right.
Speaker 2: So there makes you relatable.
Speaker 4: Yes, especially in the political world, that will not admit
Speaker 4: after they were you know, it was proven wrong. They
Speaker 4: won't come back and go, well, I got that one wrong.
Speaker 4: Most most of the good ones I know will say,
Speaker 4: you know, I got that one wrong. Uh, I didn't
Speaker 4: see that one coming.
Speaker 1: So I tell you where you're wrong about something, okay,
Speaker 1: because you thought you thought you you were dead inside.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the passion for Louisville Cardinal basketball,
Speaker 1: and I was a sad said radio son of Tony Venetti,
Speaker 1: who just was so pessimistic and lifeless. And then Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey brought you back to life. Brother, he brought us,
Speaker 1: He brought a lot of us back to life.
Speaker 2: And you did I bring this.
Speaker 1: Up is because you are someone that again has done
Speaker 1: this a long time. The NCAA turn, it seems like
Speaker 1: an event that it'd be hard to screw up. At
Speaker 1: least that's what I think. Maybe that's wishful thinking on
Speaker 1: my end. There's been a lot of talk about expanding
Speaker 1: the tournament from sixty eight to upper seventies, maybe even
Speaker 1: in the eighties.
Speaker 2: At some point, I.
Speaker 1: Would still watch college basketball's primetime event because I'm a lifer.
Speaker 1: But like, this is far from necessary, right.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, it's far from necessary. You've got to have
Speaker 4: a number on it. It's all about money. It's all about you.
Speaker 4: You add fifteen teams, you're gonna add fifteen games on television,
Speaker 4: or how many games it would add on television. That's
Speaker 4: all it's about. I will tell you. The bigger impact
Speaker 4: on me is the football playoffs last year.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean the popular at least?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right, but the games itself regardless of
Speaker 4: who was in. I didn't watch a lot of bowl games.
Speaker 4: I watched every playoff game in the NCAA last year.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't because you know, I'm Louisville fan, but
Speaker 4: you know I'm a Catholic Italian and Louisville you got
Speaker 4: to be a Notre Dame fan.
Speaker 2: The story in the playoffs, and.
Speaker 4: They were the story, and they were the story. But
Speaker 4: I watched every single playoff game in the college football playoffs.
Speaker 4: I will look to see those expand because you know,
Speaker 4: football makes ten times or you know one hundred times
Speaker 4: what basketball makes.
Speaker 1: Well, and it gives you. What that does is that
Speaker 1: there's more. It's because the reality is it's not really
Speaker 1: changing as far as like who truly has a chance
Speaker 1: to win the national championship. I guess when it comes
Speaker 1: to pure numbers, yes, you're you're there to play for it,
Speaker 1: but the top dogs are going to remain the top dogs.
Speaker 1: But what this does is it gives you more inclusion
Speaker 1: in the top tier of the sport to where now
Speaker 1: you can look at a college football playoff appearance and
Speaker 1: I think it can equate to a Final Four appearance
Speaker 1: in basketball and you can still feel as if. Okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't win a title, but man, yes we made
Speaker 1: the playoff. We feel like we belong.
Speaker 2: Yes, SMU got in last year.
Speaker 4: It's a chance for the Louisvilles and the Indianas to
Speaker 4: get into the into a football playoff where we had
Speaker 4: zero chance before that. So yeah, I'm in for that,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: Enjoy yourself at Bear Knows Fellas and the Grats. Whoever
Speaker 1: ends up winning those a Town beer Fest tickets. Hey,
Speaker 1: Rick Coffee may be there tomorrow, Tony, Oh what's up?
Speaker 4: Rick Coffee's coming out?
Speaker 2: Man, it happened.
Speaker 1: You can just say he was dead and then he
Speaker 1: and then he might reappear for the weekend.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it man.
Speaker 2: That stuff that was doing losh just like birds of
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