WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.040 But fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:16.000 Now here's Nick Coffee. 3 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.359 All right, let's uh, let's finish strong the last hour 4 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.920 for me here at Sports Talk seven ninety Coffee and company, 5 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:27.120 the final the final episode fueled by Thornton's. And that's 6 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:28.640 that's when. Hell of a way to go out. Certainly 7 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.800 appreciate my friends over at Thornton's. And I know they're 8 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:33.600 still going to be, uh be with me as I 9 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:36.560 as I make the move. So it's really starting to 10 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.799 hit now that now that we're here the final hour, 11 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.840 and nobody better to get this hour started with than 12 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.159 a man who uh you know, really introduced me to 13 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.000 sports talk radio on this station when he was an 14 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.439 afternoon underdog, and is Tony Venetti. Tony, give me, give 15 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:53.640 me some advice. You've given me great advice over the years. 16 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.399 Things that you said that I just assumed there was 17 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.799 no way, no way that's true. There's no way, you know, 18 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:00.600 there's no way this is gonna pl out the way 19 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.960 that it did, and then it did. You were correct, Tony, 20 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.120 give me some advice. 21 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.959 Well you know when you switch and again, congratulations, buddy, 22 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.760 you earned it. You know, nine years ago. We stuck 23 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:16.159 you on an island and basically told you to figure 24 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:20.799 it out, and you did. So you know I helped it. 25 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:22.799 I tried to help you guy do as much as 26 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:23.120 I could. 27 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:24.560 But basically you were on your own. 28 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.480 And people don't realize when you do a solo, three 29 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:33.840 hour solo sports show and you moved to a station 30 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.359 like seven ninety, that is a tough, tough gig and 31 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.159 you figured it out, you fought your way through, and 32 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:43.359 you got it done. So congratulations with that. But here's 33 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.200 what's going to happen. 34 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:46.280 And you know I do this with you all the time. 35 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:47.519 What's gonna happen. 36 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.400 You may not believe me, but I'm telling you. I 37 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:51.680 don't know how many times you've said that. 38 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:58.519 Right, Sports radio is like having children. Okay, so here 39 00:01:58.640 --> 00:01:59.719 here's the analogy. 40 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:00.359 Ready. 41 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:05.840 Okay, So when you have your first kid, you try 42 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.120 to keep at least one You try to keep one 43 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.400 foot in your old life. 44 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.319 Right. You're like, hey, I can have my old life 45 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.680 and have a kid. Right, I can have that. I 46 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.719 can do that. I can pull that off. 47 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.919 You soon, you have enough energy to pull it off 48 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.360 for a little while, but when kid number two shows up, 49 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.520 you realize, no, no, no, no, that old Nick is 50 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.479 dead and now Dad is. 51 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:33.240 You know, Nick is reborn. 52 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:36.960 In the Dad and your old fun, cool life gone. 53 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.520 You're gone. That's gone. Now you are goofy Dad, and 54 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.719 that's what you do. But at the beginning, you keep. 55 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.000 One foot in that old life and one foot in dadhood. 56 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.879 You can't do that. So sports radio will be the same. 57 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.400 So when you leave and you leave and you start Monday, 58 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:57.319 you'll be enthusiastic about you know, sports guys calling you 59 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.560 and say, hey, can you do a segment? And you'll 60 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.439 be like, I wish I could talk about this game 61 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.719 on my sports show. And then about four years later 62 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.639 you'll you'll try to keep your foot in that world 63 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.000 and then try to try to do your thing with 64 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.879 the news. But in about four years, you won't know 65 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:15.840 the players' names. You won't know you won't know it coaches, 66 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.919 all the coaches. Look right now, you could probably tell 67 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.599 me where the athletic where the offensive coordinator. 68 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.759 At U of L. You know, well that's Brian Brown. 69 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.240 That's easy. But you know, you. 70 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:29.000 Could tell where all these guys are from, where they 71 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.879 came from, all the details of the assistant coaches in 72 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:33.520 a couple of years, you won't be able to answer 73 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:34.319 those questions. 74 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.039 I thought I was getting pranked or I was in 75 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.080 an alternate universe, because you and I chatted earlier today 76 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.560 at Tony Cruise's retirement party, and you said something along 77 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.360 these lines, and I'm I'm not kidding you. That has 78 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.439 been my mindset the last two weeks is that this 79 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.240 is going to be great. It's better for me professionally, 80 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.639 and man, what an opportunity. But hey, I mean, I'm 81 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.120 talking sports all the time. I mean, I'm that's still 82 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.520 going to be there. I can just walk down the hall. Hell, 83 00:03:58.000 --> 00:03:59.800 I know how to run the board. I can just 84 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:01.560 go on the air whenever I want and talk sports 85 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.319 and get it out of my system. So that has 86 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.000 actually been in my mind that this is Ah, it's fun, 87 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.439 it's fine. Don't be sad, you're not leaving. You're just 88 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.439 you're gonna be doing a little bit of both. But yeah, 89 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.360 it'll I'm sure it'll. Again, I wouldn't believe you, But 90 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:16.839 there are things that Tony told me in twenty and 91 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:21.600 sixteen that I appreciated, one even knowing the guy, because 92 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:23.639 I've worked with him now and he was somebody that 93 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.279 really helped me, you know, become a fan of sports radio. 94 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:27.879 And I'd say this all the time to people, and 95 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:29.560 I don't know if it really hits. I don't even 96 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.519 know if you remember this, Fanetti, I didn't know you 97 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.560 did rock radio. I was too young when you did that. 98 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.079 And not to make you feel like an old man, 99 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.680 I did so when people thought you were, you know, 100 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.040 not to give you a bigger ego, but like you know, 101 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.439 obviously you've done a lot of great things, and you've 102 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:45.160 been very successful in this market in a variety of ways. 103 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.800 But eighteen seventeen year old Nick Coffee who turned on 104 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.000 seven ninety and heard you yelling at Adam Neft and 105 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:52.560 I feel like you bullied him at times, but it 106 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:53.439 made for great radio. 107 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.240 But I didn't even know that. 108 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.040 So I just thought you were the name you were 109 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.600 because of sports specifically, and I remember telling you that. 110 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.279 I don't know if you believe me, but it's true. 111 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.240 And then I later learned, you know, the legacy of 112 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.040 the one Tony Vinetti who's made all these moves from 113 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.519 rock radio sports radio super successful in both of those 114 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.000 now killing it, crushing it with Dwight on News Radio 115 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.519 eight forty whas. So you've made some big jumps and 116 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.720 been successful each and every time. And now I know, 117 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.160 I guess you do know what you're talking about because 118 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:22.959 you told me, Nick, tell me listen, man, I know 119 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.360 you love it and I can see your passion. But 120 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.759 come come a few years down the line, when your 121 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.879 daughter gets older and maybe you have another kid, you 122 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.600 know you're not gonna have the energy to go watch 123 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.319 Louisville play Montana State at nine pm on a Tuesday, 124 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.639 And I'm like, oh, I'll be doing the postgame show. 125 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.800 I'll be the press conference asking the questions. I might 126 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.560 go to Montana State to scout. I'm like, I'm young, 127 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:45.079 I'm energetic, I'm thinking nobody's talking about. And like this 128 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:48.600 past year, as Pat Kelsey brought Louisville basketball back to life, 129 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.120 all I thought about was enjoying that experience with my son. 130 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.120 And you literally told me that was going to happen. 131 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.199 Yes, yes, and by thought and by the way, it's 132 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:02.000 not rocket science. Watched the game and talked about it 133 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.240 the next day. You don't have to be there, Uh, 134 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.519 those are the nineteen seventies. You don't want to when 135 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:08.399 you have a family, You've got young kids. 136 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.120 You want to behold you got what you got a 137 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:12.800 short window to be with these kids, and. 138 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.920 You know they, you know, enjoy the time when they 139 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.439 want to be around you. But yes, those those beginning 140 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.120 days of NET where we were just finding our way. 141 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.600 You know, nobody expected you know what we did on 142 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.680 seven ninety. I mean we had. It's the famous story 143 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:29.639 where Kelly Carl's our former marketing. 144 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.480 It's never been done before in this market and will 145 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:33.639 never be done again as far as what seven ninety 146 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:34.160 was at that. 147 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:36.759 Time, that's right, that's right. 148 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:40.120 And we had a huge meeting with all eight radio 149 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:43.759 stations and they said we're going to unveil the marketing 150 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.920 plan and marketing budgets for each station and the plans 151 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.199 to elevate. So I sit there with Nef sitting next 152 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.120 to me, and at the time I was on two stations, 153 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:53.959 one rock station. 154 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.319 And one of sports. And we got we got through 155 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.439 six stations, and he goes, Okay, that's that's good. 156 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.319 You guys go back to work. We'll regroup and send 157 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.079 you an email back with a recap. And I went 158 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.120 up to Kelly Carlos and said, hey, you didn't do 159 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.079 any there's no seven ninety or qmth and he said, yeah, 160 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.399 we didn't do plans for them. 161 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.879 Did he give me a Kelly Carl's life laugh? 162 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.439 Yeah? Yet, well no he didn't do the laugh. But 163 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:21.040 he was not a lot. 164 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.040 He wasn't very emotional, so he just went, yeah, we 165 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:23.879 didn't do plans for those. 166 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:25.839 We didn't. We don't really have plans for those, and 167 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:26.480 then walked away. 168 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.439 Now can I ask you us real quick because I'm 169 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.319 curious at that time were you aware in your career 170 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.120 what HS was. I assume you were then just because 171 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.319 you'd been around radio a long time. But for me, 172 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.839 I didn't really know the true power of HAS until 173 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.040 a little bit, a little bit of time here. But 174 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.120 when he said that to you, I mean clearly you 175 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:45.519 had to go figure it out, and you did. But 176 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.279 like you know, HAS is and the Kelly is is 177 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:50.199 that was a big role. But I'm just curious at 178 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.560 that time when that was said, were you were you 179 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.759 stunned or were you like, Hey, all right, I'm gonna 180 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:55.439 go prove these people wrong. 181 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.160 I'll make it work. 182 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.319 Uh. It was a big ego hit because you know, 183 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.959 you know, you have to make plans for me and 184 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:04.800 my ego whenever we make reservations. 185 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:06.519 So it's it. 186 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.480 Was an ego hit because I thought, no, this is 187 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.040 an important station and sports will be important. And then 188 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.560 I figured it out. They don't care about the rock 189 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.839 and they don't care about the sports. They thought the 190 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.639 sports was cute at that time, Hey, just have fun, 191 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.680 do your thing, and if you make any money on it, 192 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.639 that'll be good. And that was a shock to me 193 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.439 because I had, you know, I had just finished ten 194 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.279 twelve years of Rock Guy, where it was always a 195 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.759 priority and it was rock was huge and all that, 196 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:32.720 and that's when rock was dying. So it was a 197 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.679 wake up point for Neft and I and I said, Neft, 198 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:37.320 we got to go to work. 199 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.759 So we went and took the show on the road. Yeah, 200 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:43.600 loose on the round. So we did a live show 201 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:44.720 for free every day. 202 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:46.679 For you know, for three hundred and sixty five days 203 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.600 a year, and we went after it and the rest 204 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.039 is history. But man, it was a big ego hit 205 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:53.879 and people forget there was a you know, oh, there 206 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.200 was always a priority for sports. 207 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.600 No, No, there wasn't. People are like, oh, it's kind. 208 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.240 Of cute, you just do your thing. But we did 209 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.519 it and then listen. And that's why I'm telling this story. 210 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.039 Is it easily details into yours. 211 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:06.600 You had to do the same. 212 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:09.919 You know, we stuck you on that island and said, 213 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:11.240 Nick Coffee, figure it out. 214 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.240 That's a big reason why you got the gig you 215 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.679 got now. Yeah, and you did it by yourself. 216 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.840 Well, thank you, and you you've shared that with me 217 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.320 before as far as just because you told me to 218 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:23.679 go do the same thing, and I tried and they 219 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:25.759 wouldn't let me because I said, look, I'll go do 220 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:27.679 a show anywhere for free. I just want to build 221 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:29.039 the show, get my name out there. I was well 222 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.559 aware when I got hired that I did not have 223 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.639 quite the radio following that others that had been in 224 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.480 this industry a lot longer, and I was willing to 225 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:37.720 go introduce myself and be out, but they they wouldn't 226 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.799 let me do that. But you said something that did another. 227 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.600 It's another thing that played out. You said that you 228 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:44.440 got to make it work because at the time, you've 229 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.960 got little John and Maggie, really young kids at that point, 230 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.559 and you're just thinking, Okay, this is survival. Let's just 231 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:52.679 go make it work. And I don't know if I've 232 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.320 been in that exact spot. But I also realized, look, 233 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.480 if I'm not out here making relationships with clients potentially 234 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:01.279 and just try and you know, trying everything I can 235 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.000 to keep it alived where they don't see me as 236 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.320 somebody that just looks like dead weight, then it'll be 237 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:07.759 it'll be it'll be my day. And then this last 238 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.759 you know, year or so really especially the last few 239 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:11.600 weeks just kind of realizing sort of what this move 240 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.600 is for me professionally. You know, I now not only 241 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.279 think about how grateful I am, but like I think 242 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:17.879 of my kids and I go, it takes me back 243 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:18.679 to when you'd said. 244 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:23.120 That, and there's no Yes, there's no bigger motivator than 245 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:27.000 standing in a hallway with a door cracked to your 246 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:32.000 kids room when they're sleeping as a guy, as a 247 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:33.639 you know, as a dad. 248 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.679 And say, look, man, I got to figure this out. 249 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:37.519 And you're willing to. 250 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.320 Do anything at that point because there's there's so cutes 251 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.399 there and there sleeping and that you know, it's at 252 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.639 night and you're standing in the doorway and you're like, look, 253 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:45.759 this is on me. 254 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.960 So you are at that spot and you and you're 255 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.320 it's gonna be fun. Man, you're gonna You're gonna have 256 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:52.080 a ball dude. 257 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.320 Plus, we come in right, you know you are our 258 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:57.720 lead in, so we come in and cause chaos. 259 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:59.320 Are you gonna make Dwight shower though? 260 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:01.360 Because I think I think Dwight should should need to 261 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:02.480 shower at least once a week. 262 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:06.639 No, you don't understand. You're you're gonna learn. 263 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:11.240 You're gonna learn the Dwight going going to work. Uh 264 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.320 he gets you together about nine thirty, but he comes in, Uh, 265 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.440 you know, still hungover, still drunk. You know what when 266 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:21.440 the sunglasses are still on first segment, we all know 267 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:22.080 what's going on. 268 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:23.120 Yeah, we know what's going on. 269 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.759 Let me ask you this when it comes to the 270 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:29.320 transition that you went from sports talk to news talk. 271 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.200 You guys started out six to eight eager to take 272 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.279 that spot, to show what it would what it would become, 273 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:36.960 and it became very successful and then obviously made the 274 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.840 move to UH to to to mid days from nine 275 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.519 to noon. Now, what was a surprise for you as 276 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.000 far as because again, knew it would be different. You 277 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.559 knew there would be a big adjustment. You knew you'd 278 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.759 have to prove yourself and you've certainly done that at least, 279 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.159 not prove yourself as a as a as somebody that's talented, 280 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:52.600 but just you know that that you could you could 281 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.039 clearly be successful within that type of show. What stood 282 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.039 out if you could remember early on that that might 283 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.360 have been you know, okay, didn't think of that, but man, 284 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:01.960 I'll adjust because I know that's going to happen to me. 285 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.360 Well, the big thing was and again, if you don't 286 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:08.200 think you have to prove yourself every single step of 287 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.039 the way when you're my age, you'll you'll look. 288 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:12.519 I was upset that they wanted me to do an 289 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.039 audition tape for the Switch. 290 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:21.279 I was like, are you kidding me? And let me 291 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.159 tell you something. I did it because that's what you do, 292 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.480 because it's look, it's show business, not show friends. 293 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.600 So they you know, you go do it. But here's 294 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:29.039 a big thing. 295 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.200 So if sports and politics and this new stuff is 296 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:35.039 very similar, if you could survive, I said it, Leland Comway, 297 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.639 Mandy Condle, Tony Cruz, Dave Jennings, myself, and now you 298 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:39.440 all came. 299 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.759 From sports and went over to news. 300 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.200 Because if you can do sports radio, you can do 301 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.600 any job in broad testing. That is absolutely a fact. 302 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.200 Because it is like seal team training from broadcasting. 303 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:51.240 It's crazy. Now. 304 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.039 What I found out very quickly was Trump was just 305 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.159 elected in the first term and I thought, well. 306 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:58.879 This will be fun because I thought of. 307 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.679 The Fun Sports Day and making fun of the UK 308 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.919 and all that, and then the fun rock days and 309 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:05.399 all that, and I said, this will be fun. 310 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.600 Well, I found out. 311 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:12.159 National politics is so divisive. People don't they don't float 312 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.399 over to the other side in elections or opinions. And 313 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.480 so we started in you know, Dwight was the pro 314 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.000 Trump and I started making fun and in two weeks 315 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.799 in it was like, okay, this ain't working because the 316 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.399 national politics. So we figured out we're just going to 317 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:32.120 cover local politics, which is JCPS, l MPBU and the 318 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:35.879 you know, metro council and smaller city groups like j 319 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.279 Town and Saint Matthew's in Middletown at the West End. 320 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.879 And that was better because a Republican will vote for 321 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.559 a Democrat locally or the opposite. But in national politics, 322 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.799 people go to their corner and they're nasty and I 323 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:49.759 feel local that's. 324 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.840 What you just go to. What you just said though, 325 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:53.679 like I feel like that's that's true. But it's probably 326 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:55.519 never been more true than it is currently with the 327 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.279 climate right correct, correct, because. 328 00:13:58.519 --> 00:13:59.919 It is at an all time high. 329 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.440 Uh. But it's And by the way, you'll want to 330 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.840 be local politics anyway I am. I'm a personal opinion 331 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.159 that you can't really change that national politics. 332 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:09.960 Good luck. Yeah, what are you doing? You know you 333 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.519 want to go to a protest or something. 334 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.960 That that's not gonna that's not gonna change national politics. 335 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:16.759 The d's and the rs is what they call them. 336 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.480 They don't really care about you. Locally. 337 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.519 You can make change locally, big time. You can make 338 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.759 change locally in your in your district, in your neighborhood. 339 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.960 You can make a change. But national politics forget it. 340 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.879 So I've already I said this earlier that of I 341 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:33.879 love the all of the many I love you butts 342 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.519 that I've had in my in my life recently those 343 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:40.879 and then I love you butt congrats, but please stay 344 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.639 away from the politics. And it's like, you know, first 345 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.320 they want me to stick to sports. Then they want 346 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.639 me to not talk about sports. Uh, and then they 347 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.600 want me you know, I'm just gonna be me and 348 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:51.720 you know, let it, let it, let it play out 349 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.320 the way that it is but uh, I do. I'm 350 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.600 kind of entertained. I'm not trolling anybody, This is not 351 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.960 a bit, but I can I get the sense that 352 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.559 people are of the opinion that I'm gonna I'm gonna 353 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.440 roll in there on Monday and just let out a 354 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:09.000 real big indicator of red or blue, Democrat Republican and like, 355 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.039 that's not I mean that first. 356 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.480 That's not what the show is. But also like, why 357 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:14.960 would I do that? That would be really stupid. 358 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:17.799 No, No, Mornings is a different bie. 359 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.159 So you got your information, and uh, you know you 360 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:23.279 don't do the Hall Report anymore like the old days. 361 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.399 Uh, but you know, no, that's not your job. That's 362 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:27.039 not what you do. 363 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.279 And it's and it's really they'll figure out what you are, 364 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.240 but you you know that's not your job. And by 365 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:34.159 the way, you do what I do on every new show, 366 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.240 and you should do it on Monday. At the beginning 367 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.480 of every new show I do, I say, this is 368 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.559 the worst. 369 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.679 Show that you will hear in this time slot from us. 370 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.879 This is the worst, but tomorrow will be really bad 371 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:50.360 but a little better. 372 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.320 Okay, set the bar as low as possible, right, and 373 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:56.759 then just find your way. 374 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:57.120 Son. 375 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.559 You'll use your crutch of the sports Every once in 376 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.720 a while and you're lost and you you kind of 377 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.440 just come back from break and you'll go to a 378 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:05.919 sports thing because that's your crutch. You went to your right, 379 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:07.200 you know, And I don't know if you want to 380 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.320 your left or right in basketball when you're in high school, 381 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.480 I don't know what your go to play was when 382 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:12.559 you drove to the basket. 383 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.600 I could, I could go left, but right was where 384 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:21.639 I preferred. So I will say this the Yeah, the 385 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.799 one thing that in the last four or five hours, 386 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:26.519 just in the conversations I had with so many great 387 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.320 people that I got to meet today and some others 388 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.000 I got to catch up with us. We celebrated Tony 389 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.039 Cruise's retirement, and that is that I've known this, but 390 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:34.559 for some reason, it just now a lot of things 391 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.600 are just processing. Is it's been so chaotic in these 392 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.480 last couple of weeks. But the amount of time that 393 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.279 Kentucky in this Morning News has existed and been a 394 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.639 part of generations. Right There's people that listen to it 395 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:47.759 on their daily drive and their daily commute, whatever it 396 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:48.039 may be. 397 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:49.279 The routine, and. 398 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.279 Their dad did, and their grandfather did, and along all 399 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:56.399 those years, many many years, there's really only been like 400 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.919 three people that have done it all for a good 401 00:16:58.919 --> 00:16:59.600