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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started the five o'clock hour
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Speaker 2: with us. I'm refreshing this story at WLKY because it
Speaker 2: did say at the bottom here that they will continue
Speaker 2: to update the story, and there's been no update yet,
Speaker 2: which is no update a good update when it comes
Speaker 2: to the JCPS back to school stuff. So we talked
Speaker 2: about it at the beginning of the show. I know
Speaker 2: nobody tunes in to this show to hear about the
Speaker 2: JCPS back to school situation, but it did become a
Speaker 2: national story a year ago. And I know there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people listening that have children in JCPS, or
Speaker 2: maybe they have grandchildren, nieces, nephews, maybe they are teachers,
Speaker 2: and you know, it impacts a lot of people when
Speaker 2: it's the biggest school district in this state and it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's not even close, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: and with last year being so bad, clearly there was
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of eyeballs and attention on
Speaker 2: the back to on the first day back to school
Speaker 2: this year, and I feel like, you know, less, I'm
Speaker 2: missing something. It's been very smooth considered, you know, if
Speaker 2: you compare it to last year, and yeah, four thirty,
Speaker 2: let's see here, maybe we do have an update. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it says school's let out at two ten and the
Speaker 2: latest dismissal for school was four twenty, so about forty
Speaker 2: five minutes roughly have has has it been since every
Speaker 2: school has let out? It says that around four thirty
Speaker 2: more parents began reaching out about long lines at some
Speaker 2: schools for pickup, but they also said but several also
Speaker 2: said things were running smoothly where they were, And again
Speaker 2: that's good because last year, of course, you know, some
Speaker 2: kids didn't get dropped off until around ten pm. So
Speaker 2: I'm sure not everybody's made it home yet. And there's
Speaker 2: no scenario where any school system has the perfect day
Speaker 2: when they all go back to school. But I think
Speaker 2: we're getting closer to be able to say job well
Speaker 2: done for JCPS. I think saying it now we might
Speaker 2: be speaking a little too soon. But you know, so far,
Speaker 2: so far, so good.
Speaker 3: Like if we get here tomorrow and we find out
Speaker 3: that the last kid was dropped off at you know,
Speaker 3: at least relatively close to when they're supposed to. That's
Speaker 3: a job well done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know I always hesitate to, you know,
Speaker 2: throw a party for somebody for doing something that they're
Speaker 2: supposed to do. But like, clearly, if it was easy
Speaker 2: to you know, implement a perfect scenario where kids can
Speaker 2: get to school on time with no issue and the
Speaker 2: US routes and have a staff of drivers that you know,
Speaker 2: the amount of drivers that you need. Like, clearly, it's
Speaker 2: not been easy, but you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people that have been working tirelessly to try to get
Speaker 2: this thing, you know, in a situation to where it's
Speaker 2: not a national story, you don't have as many parents complaining.
Speaker 2: You're always gonna have some parents complaining. But by the
Speaker 2: looks of it, when I go to this this Facebook
Speaker 2: thread at wlky where they ask JCPS parents essentially you know,
Speaker 2: how's the day going, I'm scrolling here and again I
Speaker 2: continue to see mostly positive updates from parents, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, to be honest with you, a big surprise,
Speaker 2: A big surprise for me. Now we did us some
Speaker 2: people on the text line when I when I was
Speaker 2: when I was talking earlier about how you know, even
Speaker 2: if you don't have anybody within the school system that
Speaker 2: you you know, your kid, your grandkids, you know, you're
Speaker 2: don you don't work in the school system. You know,
Speaker 2: just out of sight, out of mind, you wouldn't. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you people puted this out on the text
Speaker 2: line because you're right with you. When you have nobody
Speaker 2: involved in the school system and it's out of sight,
Speaker 2: out of mind, when you do realize.
Speaker 3: That school is back, is traffic.
Speaker 2: I mean, morning commutes in the early morning are different
Speaker 2: when school's going on. I forgot about that because you know,
Speaker 2: I haven't worked in the mornings in quite some time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in the afternoons, I mean it's there's a
Speaker 2: lot more people out driving with buses and you know,
Speaker 2: I mean just think about this, like, think about all
Speaker 2: the people that work at JCPS throughout the city of
Speaker 2: Louisville that get off school at two something, three something
Speaker 2: for something like that is an insane amount of people
Speaker 2: that are just out on the road driving themselves from
Speaker 2: work that in the summer. I mean not to say
Speaker 2: they're not out doing stuff I'm sure they're not all
Speaker 2: just sitting at home, but you know.
Speaker 3: It's just also not a schedule at the same time exactly,
Speaker 3: so I'm sure they'll be traffic.
Speaker 2: And it does sound like the biggest complaint is just
Speaker 2: the adjustment of having so many more car riders than
Speaker 2: what they used to have, because again, one of the
Speaker 2: things that JCPS did was they no longer have busing
Speaker 2: for the traditional schools and the Magnet schools most of them.
Speaker 2: That is so big influx of car riders, which again
Speaker 2: is just gonna you know, with it being the first
Speaker 2: time they've probably had this many car writers, they're probably
Speaker 2: learning throughout these first couple of days as far as
Speaker 2: what's going to be the best strategy to get people
Speaker 2: in and out as smooth as possible. When it comes
Speaker 2: to the car rider line. At my kids elementary school,
Speaker 2: they've changed that whole plan a few different times over
Speaker 2: the years, because you know, you're just trying your best
Speaker 2: to make it as smooth as possible to get kids
Speaker 2: into school on time and get you know, parents out
Speaker 2: of there to where they can go and you know,
Speaker 2: start their day or you know, end their day by
Speaker 2: picking up the kids from school.
Speaker 3: So so far, so good.
Speaker 2: I'm going to wait until tomorrow before we give them
Speaker 2: a full on, like, you know, hell yeah, you guys
Speaker 2: did a great job. Wait to bounce back after making
Speaker 2: national news last year for you know, all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3: Because that's exactly what they're waiting to hear. They need
Speaker 3: the Coffee and Company. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know when Marty Poyle started the
Speaker 2: week knowing that Thursday was the day, he was hoping, Man,
Speaker 2: I just hope we can make Coffee and Company and
Speaker 2: their listeners proud at getting these kids back to school.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you already, so far, looks like your
Speaker 2: team's done a great job. Let's let's hope you guys,
Speaker 2: hope you guys finished strong.
Speaker 3: Remember when we had a bus driver call in last year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was kind of giving us some feedback
Speaker 2: as to like, you know, how they just didn't have
Speaker 2: any if I remember correctly, it was mostly just about
Speaker 2: how they don't have enough people, right, Like, it was
Speaker 2: just essentially that they cannot get enough people to do it.
Speaker 2: And he also I think acknowledged some things that have
Speaker 2: been discussed and even reported on that it's not an
Speaker 2: attractive job because of the behavior of a lot of
Speaker 2: the kids at times. So you know, I I remember
Speaker 2: feeling very bad for everybody involved about this, Not to
Speaker 2: say that they didn't deserve criticism, because again, like it's
Speaker 2: their job to get this stuff figured out, and they
Speaker 2: weren't doing their job well. But I think some of
Speaker 2: the issues that led to it just being a mess
Speaker 2: were I mean I kind of felt like, what do
Speaker 2: you want them to do? Right, Like, I mean I
Speaker 2: want to go there, But like I think, sometimes these
Speaker 2: jobs and these situation I'm just being created.
Speaker 3: That AI generated bus route, yeah, well that.
Speaker 2: Was a disaster and that was a goof too. And
Speaker 2: they did that because they didn't have enough drivers. That
Speaker 2: was the reason they went to that plan. Anyway, They
Speaker 2: just had a tough time getting drivers and they decided
Speaker 2: to do something that I think it was Boston that
Speaker 2: it did it, and Boston had a terrible experience, and
Speaker 2: they still decided to use this contractor that yeah, used
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence to kind of help route the routes for
Speaker 2: the buses. But you know, parents got to do their
Speaker 2: part two, if that makes sense. I mean, they can't
Speaker 2: be with them at school, but like, I think some
Speaker 2: of the reason that you see people not wanting to
Speaker 2: be in the education business anymore, if you want to
Speaker 2: call it that, but being in public education rather be
Speaker 2: being a teacher or working for a school in any role,
Speaker 2: is because like it's not a lucrative job by any means,
Speaker 2: and dealing with really really badly behaved kids, dangerous kids
Speaker 2: even like that's like people are gonna do that. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're gonna un else they have to or unless they
Speaker 2: just love the job. And man, you gotta love it
Speaker 2: a lot if you're dealing with some of the things
Speaker 2: that that some of these these people have had to
Speaker 2: deal with. So anyways, so far, so good, all right
Speaker 2: for those just not joining us. Some good news on
Speaker 2: the Louisville basketball front for fans. Louisville Live is coming back.
Speaker 2: They're gonna bring it back after last year not having it,
Speaker 2: uh and it's gonna be for the first time ever
Speaker 2: at the KFCM Center, which I'm I'm assuming there's there's
Speaker 2: a lot of benefits to having it in your home arena.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have to stage the place creatively,
Speaker 2: uh to you know, to to to have a good
Speaker 2: looking crowd. But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm underestimating fans
Speaker 2: and their eagerness to get out and and see this team.
Speaker 2: It won't be a game and there's no competition, but
Speaker 2: it's really a pep rally, a pep rally on steroids
Speaker 2: where you get to, you know, see these players be introduced.
Speaker 2: They entertain as best they can with you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: you see dancing, you see you know, it's just a party.
Speaker 2: And I know that those fans that watched this team
Speaker 2: in the Bahamas, I know a lot of them are
Speaker 2: probably more eager to go to Louisville Live now than
Speaker 2: they were before because not that they weren't excited but
Speaker 2: before the Bahamas trip, but I would say they're even
Speaker 2: more excited now after how this team looked. So maybe
Speaker 2: they just close off the upper area and you sell
Speaker 2: out the lower bowl of the And if that's the case,
Speaker 2: it's going to look great in there. And it really
Speaker 2: is all about look And that's why I love when
Speaker 2: they did it at for Street at Churchill Downs. I
Speaker 2: did not see it at Slugger and I didn't hear
Speaker 2: that it was great there. But you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know that for certain, because again I wasn't there, But
Speaker 2: it looks so cool at Churchill, looks so cool here
Speaker 2: at Force Street where we are, and I'm assuming there's
Speaker 2: again my just a guess here. They don't have to
Speaker 2: pay money to go rent out the UMP Center. They
Speaker 2: would have to pay money to Force Street, they'd have
Speaker 2: to pay money to Churchill, they'd have to pay money elsewhere.
Speaker 2: And not to say that they're running out of money,
Speaker 2: but it's quite clear every university's athletic department is going
Speaker 2: to have to be very very careful how they spend money,
Speaker 2: because again you need to start saving and start bringing
Speaker 2: in more, because soon you will be on the hook
Speaker 2: to pay twenty two million annually two year student athletes,
Speaker 2: which again that's not gonna be easy for anybody to do.
Speaker 2: So maybe they'll eventually go back to doing it elsewhere
Speaker 2: down the road, but it being at the UM Center
Speaker 2: could be pretty cool, and it'll go Tickets go on
Speaker 2: sale in September. The date is October the fourth, though,
Speaker 2: and it'll set up for a nice week and Louisville
Speaker 2: will be hosting SMU and football that Saturday, so I
Speaker 2: would imagine that'll be a big weekend of visitors for
Speaker 2: really all sports, not just Pat Kelsey and his crew,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure you'll have Jeff Walls. Of course, they're
Speaker 2: going to be a part of the Louisville Live event
Speaker 2: as well. They always are and they always put on
Speaker 2: a show. So I'm glad they're bringing it back. And
Speaker 2: for what this event is for, meaning, it's a pep
Speaker 2: rally to get people excited about the upcoming season. It's
Speaker 2: like the official tip off. I mean, things are already
Speaker 2: in a good place as far as energy, enthusiasm, morale,
Speaker 2: but you know, maybe it hits an even new level
Speaker 2: once we get to October the fourth. Really really looking
Speaker 2: forward to it, all right. Somebody had asked earlier on
Speaker 2: the text line why Rick Patino was so against doing
Speaker 2: an event like this, and I've never known the answer
Speaker 2: at all to that, and only he could speak to it.
Speaker 2: But they did what was I believe called Matine Madness
Speaker 2: with Louisville Basketball when Rick was either in his first
Speaker 2: or second year something like that. I mean, this was
Speaker 2: we're talking twenty plus years ago, so there probably isn't
Speaker 2: any references to it, you know, on the internet. But
Speaker 2: they did it at the Exposition Center and Patino showed
Speaker 2: up in a limousine, and I remember being there sitting
Speaker 2: front row. I was a young kid. I was there
Speaker 2: with my father and my sister, and I believe my uncle,
Speaker 2: who really is, is the reason, one of the big
Speaker 2: reasons why, you know, my father became such a diehard
Speaker 2: Louisville fan, and of course, you know, it led to
Speaker 2: me and now my son's all into it, so like
Speaker 2: it's a family thing for us. But my uncle Wayne
Speaker 2: is a big part of that. And I remember we
Speaker 2: were there and I'm thinking, man, this is cool as
Speaker 2: can be, Like these players are getting introduced. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a big show. But apparently it was not well attended.
Speaker 2: And I guess Rick was bothered by that, because you
Speaker 2: got to keep in mind he had been a part
Speaker 2: of big Blue Madness. I would assume, like I imagine
Speaker 2: they still did that when Rick was there. I don't
Speaker 2: know when that thing started, but I would imagine when
Speaker 2: Rick was at Kentucky, you know, that thing was probably
Speaker 2: at its peak. And then to have the first ever
Speaker 2: one for Louisville and it be done at the Exposition
Speaker 2: Center or the Convention Center.
Speaker 3: Actually, and yeah, I think it was the Convention Center.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was awesome as a young kid,
Speaker 2: but apparently it was not well attended, and Rick was like, nope,
Speaker 2: we're not doing that ever again. So look these things,
Speaker 2: I mean, these things are important. I don't want to overstate,
Speaker 2: like if you don't have one of these, you'll never
Speaker 2: get recruits. But man, it's an opportunity to really show off.
Speaker 2: And I think Louisville basketball is a program that has
Speaker 2: a lot to show off when it comes to history facilities,
Speaker 2: with the young center, passionate fan base, I mean, you
Speaker 2: should utilize what you have and really put on a
Speaker 2: show with events like this to you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: all it can do is help you show off to
Speaker 2: potential fans and of course potential potential players, players who
Speaker 2: visit things like that. I mean the images and the
Speaker 2: videos that surfaced following the Louisville Lives that took place
Speaker 2: at four Street, the ones at Churchill, I mean, those
Speaker 2: things are I mean, they look amazing and you can
Speaker 2: never have too much of that stuff that makes you know,
Speaker 2: makes you look good. All right, again, it's coffee and Company.
Speaker 2: We are feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Here on a
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon. Been busy throughout the show today, which I
Speaker 2: think is a good thing. Time flies when you know
Speaker 2: when you're having fun. We did in the four o'clock
Speaker 2: hour kind of doing a live look in as the
Speaker 2: men's The United States men's basketball team had a big comeback.
Speaker 2: I mean they were getting they were getting hammered, literally
Speaker 2: getting blown out by Serbia jokicch I didn't see his
Speaker 2: stat line, but obviously he's a multi time MVP, and
Speaker 2: you know, one of the best players on the planet
Speaker 2: and his team was given Team USA the absolute business.
Speaker 2: And to see the Team USA was able to come
Speaker 2: back and win it was kind of awesome. It It
Speaker 2: was an unfamiliar situation for me watching the United States
Speaker 2: men's basketball team, you know, need a big time comeback
Speaker 2: to kind of keep the gold medal hope alive. Usually
Speaker 2: when you watch them play, they're dominating. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't think of many games I've watched where it's
Speaker 2: getting close late and you felt like they may lose. Well,
Speaker 2: if you watched the majority of the if you watch
Speaker 2: the majority of the second half, you felt like they
Speaker 2: were going to lose. I mean even towards the very end,
Speaker 2: he wasn't completely you know, wouldn't come letely wrapped up.
Speaker 2: It took some free throws down the line, down the
Speaker 2: stretch there from Steph Curry to to kind of give
Speaker 2: you a little bit more comfort. But I mean, to
Speaker 2: the very end, it was it looked like it was
Speaker 2: going to be a potential loss and they were able to, uh,
Speaker 2: they were able to come back and get it done,
Speaker 2: which you know, that's the expectation, that's what you know,
Speaker 2: that's what that's what you should do. Hopefully that hopefully
Speaker 2: that uh, let me see what I'm trying to see
Speaker 2: what the rest of the schedule is for them.
Speaker 3: Let's see here. I believe, so the France defeated Germany
Speaker 3: in the other semi final, and they'll take on France
Speaker 3: in the gold medal matchup there we go, so that
Speaker 3: they'll be technically the away team in this since Paris
Speaker 3: is hosting. Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So I just was referencing the stats here
Speaker 2: just to make sure I wasn't crazy because one of
Speaker 2: the guys on this team that gets criticized, in fact,
Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say he gets criticized more
Speaker 2: than anybody is Joel embiid uh. And you know, he had,
Speaker 2: you know, the best game of his career against Jokic.
Speaker 2: And and I don't mean the best game of his
Speaker 2: career overall. I mean just I guess in you know,
Speaker 2: in Olympic play. But he had nineteen points and really
Speaker 2: ignited that second half push to to kind of put
Speaker 2: them put them over there, put them over the top.
Speaker 2: Lebron James only his fourth triple double and Olympic only
Speaker 2: the fourth triple double in Olympic history. Sixteen points, twelve boards,
Speaker 2: ten assists, So yeah, it was nice to see them
Speaker 2: them come from behind. But it was Steph Curry who
Speaker 2: had you know who did Steph Curry things? Thirty six points.
Speaker 2: He made nine of fourteen from three, and again his
Speaker 2: two free throws down the stretch really really sealed the victory.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to be in that position,
Speaker 2: but that was fun.
Speaker 3: Man. I can't you know, I you know, I.
Speaker 2: You usually never really feel like you got to be
Speaker 2: on the edge of your seat for these things. And
Speaker 2: I don't want to say we take it for granted,
Speaker 2: but maybe we do, right, I mean, whenever it's become
Speaker 2: such a consistent thing that you dominate the basketball portion
Speaker 2: of the Olympics. You're you know, you're proud of that,
Speaker 2: and it's awesome, but it kind of leads to where
Speaker 2: there's not a ton of intrigue, right, Like, usually the
Speaker 2: games are blowouts, and this one was not. It was
Speaker 2: a blowout up for a good chunk of the game,
Speaker 2: but the United States team was on the wrong side
Speaker 2: of it until they rallied and came from behind.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Speaking of lebron James, it's already happening once again with
Speaker 2: his with his other son obviously, Bronnie James has been
Speaker 2: one of the most talked about athletes of the summer because,
Speaker 2: you know, despite having really no credentials, he was drafted.
Speaker 2: We all know why he was drafted. He was drafted
Speaker 2: because his dad's Lebron James. Some clear nepotism going on.
Speaker 2: He got a contract that had a lot of money
Speaker 2: guaranteed that you don't see anybody else in his position,
Speaker 2: meaning a guy drafted at that spot get that much
Speaker 2: of a guarantee. And he did. You know why, because
Speaker 2: his dad is Lebron James. Well, Bryce is the younger
Speaker 2: brother of Bronnie, and he has skyrocketed to become a
Speaker 2: top one hundred recruit in the latest ON three rankings,
Speaker 2: and that has become, you know, a big talking point
Speaker 2: because it's as egregious as Ronnie James being a five
Speaker 2: star McDonald's All American with really not any reason behind it.
Speaker 2: So Bryce has jumped up to number one hundred overall
Speaker 2: by ON three in the twenty twenty five class after
Speaker 2: participating on the Nike EYBL circuit. He plays for I
Speaker 2: guess the club that's called Strife for Greatness. Again, he's
Speaker 2: been elevated now to the number one hundred player and
Speaker 2: he's a four star kid.
Speaker 3: And on this circuit.
Speaker 2: He averaged five points and two rebounds at the Peach
Speaker 2: Jam on the UYBL circuit, so five points, two boards
Speaker 2: and this guy's a four star player, top one hundred,
Speaker 2: and we all know why because he's Lebron James's son.
Speaker 2: But my question is those of you that rank players,
Speaker 2: and I know it's not just one guy, but if
Speaker 2: you work for ON three rivals twenty four to seven
Speaker 2: sports esp in, are you being nudged by your editors
Speaker 2: and bosses to include Lebron's kids because it could lead
Speaker 2: to more traffic? Like what do you get out of it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, there's there's some belief
Speaker 2: that Jonathan Givoni, who works for ESPN, who really started
Speaker 2: the whole Bronni James thing, right like last summer he
Speaker 2: had him in his lock his his mock draft in
Speaker 2: the lottery, and that led to people thinking, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: Lebron's son must really kind of be coming on because
Speaker 2: at that point, you're only watching him in highlights in
Speaker 2: high school, right, Like it's tough to know you hadn't
Speaker 2: been able to see him playing in college, and you
Speaker 2: haven't been able to I mean just you know, you
Speaker 2: don't know. You're just thinking, okay, with the kid, must
Speaker 2: be pretty good. He's Lebron James's son, and he's you know,
Speaker 2: got the size and athleticism. Well, then you see Bronnie
Speaker 2: James against other McDonald's Americans, and then of course you
Speaker 2: watch him at USC and clearly he was not a
Speaker 2: high He wasn't a very impactful player. Doesn't mean he'll
Speaker 2: never be successful at some at some level in the NBA,
Speaker 2: but like it was quite clear. So Jonathan Givoni really
Speaker 2: kind of created the bron James is going to be
Speaker 2: a was is going to be a notable, uh you know,
Speaker 2: draft you know, draftable player and whatnot. Whereas he probably
Speaker 2: benefited that I mean meaning Gravoni probably benefited from doing
Speaker 2: that by maybe getting some access to Lebron. Maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't want to allege that he got
Speaker 2: paid to do it. But you know, like, this kid
Speaker 2: is in the twenty twenty five class, so he's going
Speaker 2: to be a senior next year. And there's not been
Speaker 2: near the hype for for Bryce as there was Bronni
Speaker 2: because most don't believe that that the two are I mean,
Speaker 2: or the same level of player. And yet now here
Speaker 2: we go again, another guy getting a lot of hype
Speaker 2: and the only reason behind it is because of his
Speaker 2: last name and who his dad is. But I'm now wondering, Okay,
Speaker 2: what do we like, what do we get out of this? Like,
Speaker 2: especially knowing that the majority of the conversation about Lebron
Speaker 2: and his son Bronni has been like this is this
Speaker 2: is insane, it's ridiculous, it's nepotism. Would I would actually
Speaker 2: think that those that ranked players would learn from that
Speaker 2: and think, yeah, we probably should be a little bit
Speaker 2: more careful and not get enamored by who's who's the
Speaker 2: parents of these players and really only rank them and
Speaker 2: evaluate them based off of, you know, what they do
Speaker 2: on the court and what their true potential is as
Speaker 2: basketball players. All right, let's get to our first break
Speaker 2: here in the five o'clock hour. We'll keep it rolling along,
Speaker 2: taking you up till six o'clock. So hang out, snick
Speaker 2: around right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. So,
Speaker 2: with the economy being you know what it is, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are relying on second jobs
Speaker 2: or just a side hustle that's not technically a job
Speaker 2: that is even part time, but it's just something you
Speaker 2: do to make money. And there's a new breakdown here
Speaker 2: from Forbes that tells us the top ten most popular
Speaker 2: side hustles in the United States. Any yes, is John
Speaker 2: what some of these would be?
Speaker 3: I bet the top is either like Uber driver or
Speaker 3: door dash Deliver, one of those two.
Speaker 2: Ride share driver is number one. That is, I mean,
Speaker 2: I should know this, but I don't. Can you do
Speaker 2: that as your full time job?
Speaker 3: There are people who do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just curious, like what kind of like
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 3: Is it sustainable? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like if you stay busy all day, every day doing it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would assume you can make you can
Speaker 2: make a decent living.
Speaker 3: I bet if you're a single person or maybe just
Speaker 3: a you know, a couple that doesn't have kids, it's
Speaker 3: probably sustainable. But if you've got a big family, maybe
Speaker 3: it's a little different. I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember in certain cities I would get
Speaker 2: an Uber and throughout the conversation with said uber driver,
Speaker 2: I would learn that they actually live, you know, a
Speaker 2: few hours away or a city over, and they spend
Speaker 2: the weekend in a big city that always needs somebody
Speaker 2: to you know, if you're in Chicago or a city
Speaker 2: of that size, I mean, you can probably head into
Speaker 2: town and if you want, drive all day and make money, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming there's enough need for them in
Speaker 2: certain places. But I never, like, I mean, I've I
Speaker 2: if I'm using Uber or Lyft, it's ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: of the time when I'm traveling, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: It's not when I've turned.
Speaker 3: You've never been in either an uber or a lyft before.
Speaker 2: I think you might have mentioned that before. Is it
Speaker 2: just because you haven't ever found yourself needing one?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: I don't think you're not like antis, right. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do it, but I also wouldn't seek it out.
Speaker 3: I would only use it if I absolutely had to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've used it here in town whenever
Speaker 2: I've went out, which is rare.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Back whenever I would find myself occasionally going out and
Speaker 2: you know, for a late night at different bars or whatnot.
Speaker 2: I mean, uber wasn't really a thing yet. We would
Speaker 2: you would literally rely on cabs or we'd have to
Speaker 2: call somebody to come get us, so we would have
Speaker 2: a designated driver. I mean it's, uh, it's much more
Speaker 2: convene to just you know, hop in an uber. But
Speaker 2: if you go with a bunch of people, then you
Speaker 2: have to get one that's uh that's you know, big
Speaker 2: enough to hold like a van or something like that
Speaker 2: to hold enough people. But yeah, I mean I'm not
Speaker 2: surprised to see that as number one. But number two
Speaker 2: is a YouTube content creator. So, like I do have
Speaker 2: a good understanding of Internet monetization, how you can how
Speaker 2: you can make money on the Internet with you know,
Speaker 2: advertising revenue, or you can share a code for some
Speaker 2: for somebody that you know follows your channel to purchase
Speaker 2: something and you get you get like a small commission
Speaker 2: of that. But to see that that's number two, Like
Speaker 2: is there not? Are there that many people that are
Speaker 2: doing that?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess think about it. That's kind of
Speaker 3: what I'm doing now with the new show that I've
Speaker 3: got on YouTube impartners with the website. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: mean I wouldn't call that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it is technically in that same
Speaker 2: space as far as YouTube content creation.
Speaker 3: It's definitely a different direction than probably the stereotypical YouTube
Speaker 3: content creator.
Speaker 2: But I just feel like for for ad revenue strictly
Speaker 2: from the YouTube itself, from your from your channel, like
Speaker 2: I think, to make you know, legitimate, and I shouldn't
Speaker 2: it because legitimate money, good money, bad money, that's all relative.
Speaker 2: It just depends on you know, who you're talking to,
Speaker 2: how they view money. But you know, you need to
Speaker 2: have like a good amount of followers and traffic to
Speaker 2: where it turns into where it's probably like because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of time that goes into that, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, if you're doing I just feel
Speaker 2: like you'd have to put a lot of time into
Speaker 2: your YouTube content creation for it to be monetizable. And
Speaker 2: and at that point it comes down to, Okay, if
Speaker 2: this is a side hustle, is it getting in the
Speaker 2: way of like my real job, you know what I mean? So,
Speaker 2: but look, it's it's something, you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised to see some type of content creation is
Speaker 2: some of it. But it's just there's you know, I
Speaker 2: guess I'm a little out of touch as far as
Speaker 2: the ways you can truly, you know, make a buck
Speaker 2: or two doing that personal trainers, number three, number four
Speaker 2: as a virtual assistant, got to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I don't sure what that is. And then number five
Speaker 2: as a life coach. Do you know any life coaches? John,
Speaker 2: I don't know any.
Speaker 3: I'm familiar that. That's uh. I hate to laugh. It
Speaker 3: sounds kind doing it, But I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 3: to call it a fake job because any people can
Speaker 3: say this is a fake job.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this a job? Are you getting paid?
Speaker 2: They're not paying me? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm paid.
Speaker 2: I'm paid a hefty salary here from the fine folks
Speaker 2: at i Heeart Media. But yeah, I mean, I was
Speaker 2: gonna just say it now, I'm gonna be a little
Speaker 2: careful because I don't want to offend anybody, but like
Speaker 2: I think it is you got some balls on you
Speaker 2: to say you're qualified to coach someone in life. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I just think that that's like we should get a
Speaker 2: different term for the job, in my opinion, because I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to take myself serious if I said
Speaker 2: I'm a life coach, because look, we're all figuring life
Speaker 2: out as we go, ladies and gentlemen. There's things that
Speaker 2: are gonna hit you that you know, a coach ain't
Speaker 2: been in this situation before, right, And everybody's life is different.
Speaker 2: So if you're a life coach, like, how do I
Speaker 2: know you can coach my life?
Speaker 3: How do you know? Maybe you have been in my shoes.
Speaker 3: Maybe we can. We come from different paths. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know I know of some people, not close friends
Speaker 2: or anything like that, but I know of some people
Speaker 2: who have kind of like made that their whole personality
Speaker 2: that they're life coaches. And I'm like, you ain't got
Speaker 2: no business coaching anybody in life, like I know about
Speaker 2: your life, and I don't know. I just it's always
Speaker 2: been one of those things when I hear the term
Speaker 2: life coach, and I hear that as a Hey follow
Speaker 2: me on Instagram, I'm a life coach. I don't know, man, Like,
Speaker 2: nobody's perfect, and I'm sure anybody who's a life coach
Speaker 2: would acknowledge that. But I just to be able to
Speaker 2: say that, like I am, like I'm because the life
Speaker 2: coach definition here from the from the Dictionary online here,
Speaker 2: it says a person who counsels and encourages clients on
Speaker 2: matters having to do with careers or personal challenges. Sounds
Speaker 2: like a therapist, yeah, without without the degree, without the certification.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yes, Like, it's one thing to be like a motivator
Speaker 2: and tell people, like you know, to encourage positive in
Speaker 2: their life and influence them in that way. But honestly,
Speaker 2: more than anything, it's just it's just what it's called.
Speaker 2: Life coach to me, seems like a little much. Might
Speaker 2: sound like a complete a home No, I think it
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're paying somebody to kind of like
Speaker 3: be your friend to in a little Yes.
Speaker 2: No way, I could see that too, Like, Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: my life, I kind of feel like it sucks. Do
Speaker 2: you want to coach me to make it better and
Speaker 2: be my friend. Yes, pay me and I'll do that, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, just it's it's made me
Speaker 2: uncomfortable because I've had people that I know of that like, hey,
Speaker 2: please support me. I'm I'm becoming a life coach, and
Speaker 2: I'm I just don't have the ability to be that fake.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I do because I don't tell
Speaker 2: them what I don't really think. But I also just
Speaker 2: I'm uncomfortable because I'm like, who are you coaching in life?
Speaker 2: It's and you know, I think just what I would
Speaker 2: envision someone who's never been a life coach or have
Speaker 2: never leaned on the services of a life coach, I
Speaker 2: feel like you have to be very motivational and inspiring,
Speaker 2: and you know, you got to be able to preach,
Speaker 2: I guess, and you have to have a lot of
Speaker 2: I would assume you have to have a lot of
Speaker 2: life experiences, Like that's why you should have to be.
Speaker 3: At least sixty years old to be a life coach.
Speaker 2: Like I at times feel like I'm I mean, like
Speaker 2: we're all learning as we go and it's hard enough
Speaker 2: to be a parent, right, and then like to also
Speaker 2: say you're going to be a parent of kids and
Speaker 2: raise them, but you're also coaching other people in their lives.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just it's always been something I've been
Speaker 2: uncomfortable with. But anyways, other side hustles here according to
Speaker 2: this Forbes breakdown number six, as food delivery driver, I
Speaker 2: would have expected that to be higher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was I did that during COVID. It's
Speaker 3: because there was really not a lot you could do
Speaker 3: during COVID, So.
Speaker 2: I see a lot of mixed, mixed opinions on if
Speaker 2: that's like, if that's worth doing.
Speaker 3: Or not, you know what I mean. Yet at the
Speaker 3: time it was worth it for me a wrong way
Speaker 3: people could eat right. Yeah, and I wouldn't, I mean,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do it now unless I just absolutely had
Speaker 3: to fall back on something while I was looking for
Speaker 3: a different job. But it's also a lot more thankless
Speaker 3: than I feel like might imagine as well, what do
Speaker 3: you mean? At least in some cases in COVID, people
Speaker 3: were a lot more like during the thick of it,
Speaker 3: whenever you know, you couldn't really go out to places.
Speaker 3: It obviously got more lax the more that we, you know,
Speaker 3: further got into it. But people just assume that the
Speaker 3: driver is responsible for what's in the bag, and they're not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they just they're taking it from the restaurant to the house.
Speaker 2: You're quite literally delivering it and you don't work for
Speaker 2: the restaurant. Yes, now what was was there ever?
Speaker 3: Any like? Are you supposed to look and see if
Speaker 3: what's doing right?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: So the restaurant usually like seals it. You can't look
Speaker 3: in the bag because they don't want you taking it.
Speaker 2: Obviously, gotcha, that makes total sense. But I'm just curious
Speaker 2: as to how the drivers have been blamed for something
Speaker 2: being like left out of.
Speaker 3: The of the like the like I would. There would
Speaker 3: be times it didn't happen super often, but they would.
Speaker 3: The person I would deliver the food w would call
Speaker 3: and say, hey, I didn't get this. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: there's nothing I can do. Unfortunately, you can call the restaurant,
Speaker 3: or you can call customer service and maybe you can
Speaker 3: get some some money back or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, you would be the most respectful and polite
Speaker 2: person because like, at some point you need to just say, look,
Speaker 2: you need to call the company you bought food from,
Speaker 2: Like I.
Speaker 3: Will say one when there was one time I just
Speaker 3: hung up on somebody to deal with it. It's good.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't I could totally see that being
Speaker 2: a very thankless job. And and is it just I mean,
Speaker 2: in the way do you make money on just tips?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So there was there were times so you could
Speaker 3: schedule I did with grub hub before doors became like
Speaker 3: the giant for it. But you could schedule time slots
Speaker 3: where you had to have your little notifier on and
Speaker 3: if you didn't get any orders, but you were, you
Speaker 3: were labeled as on for like a three or four
Speaker 3: hour period, you would get a minimum payment. Gotcha, just
Speaker 3: being available for your time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just I feel like lately that has
Speaker 2: become not as not as it just not as worth.
Speaker 2: It's not worth doing it if you're not able to
Speaker 2: genuinely make you know, because if you're if you're out
Speaker 2: there giving up four hours of your time and tips
Speaker 2: aren't great and you're just getting the money for your time,
Speaker 2: you just got to It's one of those things that
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me if people do it for a little
Speaker 2: while and realize, yeah, that really isn't worth it. I'm
Speaker 2: going to try to find something else as like a
Speaker 2: side hustle, but also like, I guess people are still
Speaker 2: utilizing those services, but for me, like I've only done
Speaker 2: it a couple of times, and I just can never
Speaker 2: justify what it cost. And it's not the fault of
Speaker 2: the delivery driver by any means, but like I now,
Speaker 2: more often than not, if I see somebody discussing one
Speaker 2: of those food delivery services, whether it be Uber Eats,
Speaker 2: grub Hub, Postmates, what are some other ones those like
Speaker 2: the main.
Speaker 3: Ones, there's a fourth one not thinking of.
Speaker 2: But either way, like the more often than not, if
Speaker 2: I see somebody discussing those services, it's people complaining about
Speaker 2: how I paid such and such for this meal, and
Speaker 2: it just like it makes it to where there's no
Speaker 2: point in doing it.
Speaker 3: I feel like most people who use it nowadays, since
Speaker 3: we're not in COVID times, it's people who work in
Speaker 3: like with large groups and there's no easy way to
Speaker 3: get to a restaurant at your job or I mean,
Speaker 3: really that's it that I can think of, Or maybe
Speaker 3: you have like you're trying to get somebody to cater
Speaker 3: your your party and you just need to order a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of food that's not pizza something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people who have Like there's a guy
Speaker 2: that I know of that has had a career and
Speaker 2: has seemingly done well for himself, but for like ten
Speaker 2: years plus he's delivered pizza's part time just to kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, have a different, you know, different revenue stream
Speaker 2: coming in.
Speaker 3: And I'm it's somebody.
Speaker 2: It's somebody that I've never asked him, like what kind
Speaker 2: of money he makes, but like he wouldn't do it
Speaker 2: if it wasn't something to where he could, you know,
Speaker 2: make some good money, right, I mean, because it's probably
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's one of those things if you
Speaker 2: don't mind driving and you can just you know, put
Speaker 2: your headphones in or let's why. It was just something
Speaker 2: that you felt like, you know, why not, right, there's
Speaker 2: a way to make some money. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to our last break here. We'll come back on the
Speaker 2: other side. Finished strong here on a Thursday afternoon. I
Speaker 2: got another football practice to go to tonight. John, I'm
Speaker 2: getting excited. Moos has got his first game coming up
Speaker 2: on the Sadaturday, his first flag football game.
Speaker 3: It's making me feel old, but I am excited for him.
Speaker 2: I just remembered as soon as we're going to break
Speaker 2: because I'm thinking, oh wow, the show's almost over, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, as soon as I get out of here,
Speaker 2: I got to get to football practice. I mean I
Speaker 2: don't have to, but you know, I feel bad if
Speaker 2: I don't go. All right, don't go anywhere. We'll come
Speaker 2: back one more segment right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: That's right, Coffee and Company were rolling along here, finishing
Speaker 2: up a Thursday ED issue of the show. First week
Speaker 2: back for me from vacation, and Manna, it went by fast.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not over yet. We still have tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but I feel like this week has absolutely flown by,
Speaker 2: which is a good thing. I mean means the weekend's
Speaker 2: getting closer, means football season will be here sooner rather
Speaker 2: than later, which is which is certainly a good thing.
Speaker 2: And earlier today they had another one of their open
Speaker 2: practices and Tyler Griever, who does a great job for WDRB,
Speaker 2: he was on site getting some clips, some highlights for
Speaker 2: his newscast, and he shared some takeaways from the practice.
Speaker 2: And I think this is really really encouraging to hear,
Speaker 2: and that is that Colin Lacy continue use to be
Speaker 2: to be getting more and more acclimated. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't want to say that he had a bad spring
Speaker 2: because I don't really I don't really think that that's
Speaker 2: that would be. I mean, I wouldn't know that, and
Speaker 2: I didn't hear anybody say that. But for him to
Speaker 2: be a guy that is returning to college football with
Speaker 2: more receiving yards last season than anybody else in the country,
Speaker 2: you know that that that comes with big expectation as
Speaker 2: well as knowing that when he hit the portal, I mean,
Speaker 2: everybody wanted him, and you know, I think he ended
Speaker 2: up picking Louisville over Texas A and M and one
Speaker 2: other big school, and that means there's a lot of
Speaker 2: money involved for him. So you know, he's he's continuing
Speaker 2: to get more and more comfortable. It looks like there's
Speaker 2: some highlights that that Tyler posted over there on his
Speaker 2: Twitter page, which you know, I mean, it's just highlights,
Speaker 2: it's just little clips.
Speaker 3: It doesn't show a whole lot, but you know it's
Speaker 3: good to see.
Speaker 2: Also when it comes to running back, you know, I
Speaker 2: think Donald Cheney is going to be a guy that
Speaker 2: you know, is more than serviceable. Like I don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about these running backs as if I expect
Speaker 2: Maurice Turner and Donald Cheney to be anything close to
Speaker 2: what Louisville had with Isaac Garrindo and jo Or Jordan,
Speaker 2: because those two guys were phenomenal. I mean again, Louisville
Speaker 2: is the only program that had two running backs drafted
Speaker 2: last year in the NFL Draft, and it was those
Speaker 2: two guys, and I wouldn't be shocked if both of
Speaker 2: them end up having you know, a few few years,
Speaker 2: maybe four years in the NFL. I mean, especially Garindo.
Speaker 2: I think Grendo is is kind of a you know,
Speaker 2: I think you could be a potential gym in the
Speaker 2: NFL when you consider his speed, his size, and just
Speaker 2: to me, he's a tough guy to tackle. With Jordan,
Speaker 2: you know, a little bit a little bit different, but
Speaker 2: you know, after seeing when he when he was healthy
Speaker 2: last year, how good he was, I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if he has you know, a few a few years
Speaker 2: in the NFL where he's a guy getting some healthy carries.
Speaker 2: So those guys don't need to be that which is
Speaker 2: a good thing because you have I think a quarterback
Speaker 2: that can they can they can essentially be better than
Speaker 2: the one you had. Last year, right with Tyler Shuck,
Speaker 2: I think he will be able to utilize weapons like
Speaker 2: Chris Bell, Colin Lacey, ja Corey Brooks from Alabama. Like,
Speaker 2: I think the offense is getting a little bit slept
Speaker 2: on because yes, all the transfers are question marks, Shuck
Speaker 2: included because of the injuries as well. But when you
Speaker 2: consider the fact that they now have the tight end
Speaker 2: position to utilize that they didn't have previously, that's a
Speaker 2: big difference. And these guys don't you know, with that
Speaker 2: with if Shuck can really find you know, if you
Speaker 2: can get Colin Lacey in space, and maybe Chris Bell
Speaker 2: becomes a guy that has real good chemistry with Shuck
Speaker 2: and he's a guy that maybe didn't have a ton
Speaker 2: of catches, but man, each catch he has is for
Speaker 2: thirty forty yards. I mean, that's a little bit that's
Speaker 2: asking a little bit much. But just long story short,
Speaker 2: these guys don't need to be Grindo and Jordan. However,
Speaker 2: I actually think they're pretty good. And Maurice Turner's been
Speaker 2: here a while and it's never really clicked for him
Speaker 2: to where he's been kind of one of the main guys.
Speaker 2: But you know, he's he's got some talent, and he's
Speaker 2: definitely bulked up this offseason. I mean, he continues to
Speaker 2: get first string running by reps. But Donald Cheney, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a guy who was good at Miami. I mean,
Speaker 2: this isn't a guy who left Miami because he wasn't
Speaker 2: getting on the field. Now, I will say there's no
Speaker 2: doubt the freshman they had last year running back that
Speaker 2: really showed why you know, he was a five star recruit.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd say that was one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why Donald Cheney decided to move on. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's a guy who at Miami, you know he was
Speaker 2: He wasn't just some guy who was buried on the
Speaker 2: depth chart that never played. It's a guy who you know,
Speaker 2: he rushed for eight hundred and fifty two yards and
Speaker 2: six scorers in twenty.
Speaker 3: Five games at Miami.
Speaker 2: So I'm as if you haven't been able to tell already,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty excited for this football season. I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna see an offense that is a little more like
Speaker 2: the type of offense we envisioned Louisville having with Jeff
Speaker 2: brom as their coach. It worked last year, it just
Speaker 2: wasn't exactly what you would typically expect from a Jeff
Speaker 2: brom led offense. All right, we're at a time. We'll
Speaker 2: be back at it tomorrow for a feel good Friday.
Speaker 2: ViBe's always strong on a Friday, so make sure you
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