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August 6, 2025 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kelly nash Hi, Thank god, tomorrow's Thursday. We're almost
into the weekend, brother.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
So you've made it over the much ballyhooed hump.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Man hump just got real high yesterday kept getting higher,
all right. Anyway, so we get it's a Thursday morning
on the morning West. We're gonna give you more chances
to win Nate Bergatzi tickets. That's like one of the
first things we do. It do it at about six thirty.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, every week we get a new ticket thing to
give away. This week it's Nate Bargatzi. He'll be coming
to the Colonial Life Arena next Thursday, and if you'd
like to be there. What you're talking about has the tickets. Miasma.
Miasma is the word.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh. This was in This was introduced to us as
a function of word we can use daily in Karate
Kid four.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, I didn't see Karate Kid four.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
It is Oh, it's stellar and it is a greeting.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That would be interesting as agreeding. Miyasma. It means my
friend an unpleasant or unhealthy smell. Oh yasma. I was
closed karate Kid for the much value.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I don't think there is a karate kid for it. Oh,
I don't know there was only three of them.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I don't know. I think I saw one, and I
don't think I moved on after one. But either way,
miasma is the word of the day the answers on
the Morning Rush blog at ninety seven five wsos dot com,
as Jonathan said, six thirty tomorrow is when we lay
it down. Also, we got a Morning Rush irregular who
uh her sister and family are busting her chops. She

(01:39):
recently turned thirty and she posted on her social media, Hey,
it's my thirtieth birthday. If you'd like to buy me
a drink or something, here's my venmo Now is that taki? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
My gosh, the Queen of Taki.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
That is the Queen of Taki.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh, you're looking for people to facilitate your birthday. And ay,
it's either you're insulting the family because we don't give
you enough gifts. We don't shower you with enough love,
so you got to go out to the world Wide
Web looking for love. You're either begging for attention or
you're just a moocher. We don't want the family to
be known as a bunch of damn moochers around here.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I have no problems with it at all. I think
that I have lots of friends that I wouldn't know
that it was their birthday, per se, and have they
mentioned it? Hey, if you want to buy me a
cocktail or something, absolutely, I'd like to buy you a
beer here, here's four dollars. I'll put it on your vendot.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Four dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's a beer, isn't it. I'm not buying you a
birthday gift. I'm not going out to the store and
dropping thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Twenty dollars drink. She wants to go downtown to berbon.
She wants a nice one brother. She wants something she
can enjoy on her birthday, not a four dollars beer
from grant.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
She didn't qualify it.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
She did a beer for four bucks at the Grand.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
She didn't say, you know, you got to give me
minimum donation dollars towards the birthday fund. She just said,
if you wanted to buy here, I'll buy you a cupcake.
I'll buy you a cookie over at the publics. When
you're swinging by publics, pick yourself up.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
A cook to get a cookie for four bucks.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean, I maybe a. I think it's a
great opportunity for people. I don't find it tacky at all,
but we will debate that out tomorrow. Morning TACKI not
TACKI what say use because it really doesn't matter what
I say or Jonathan says, it only matters that's true.
The Morning Rush irregulars have to say, you.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Live by the rules. The Morning Rushian regulars lay down
on the phone and they know three nights, seven, eight, nine,
two sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now have you heard of the Nicki Minaj challenge. I
know you're not that active on social media, but the
Nicki Minaj challenge is really taking over the internet the
last month or two. And basically it's interesting because she
did it twelve years ago in a music video. I
don't know who who decided like, let's bring that back.

(03:57):
But in a video twelve years ago, Nicki, sitting by
a pool did something that is physically pretty impressive. I
cannot do it. I would fail miserably at the Dickumena's challenge.
Maybe not as bad as this Russian influencer who attempted

(04:17):
the Nicku Mina's challenge and ended up in the hospital
would have broken back. But what you do is you
take like your right leg, you're standing up, and then
you go into a squatting position where your butt is
actually hitting your heel. Okay, now she does yeah, she

(04:39):
does it in like eight inch high heels.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
What's my left leg doing?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Your left leg then crosses over and she is so flexible.
She actually was able to get her left foot on
the ground as well. My private man's stuff prohibits that happening.
But for the ladies, they do it now. I'm the
wins that I see doing it these days on the internet.
Most of them don't get their left leg completely across

(05:06):
and over. They just kind of keep it there, but
they're still it's still a very impressive feet. If you
can put one leg and balance yourself on one foot
and go all the way down and put your butt
on your ankle, that's impressive. Yes, And Nicki Minaj's challenge
is really it's swept the internet lately. But this girl,

(05:27):
Marianna can't say last name because it's Russian, says, I
started blogging. I went on Instagram to post a video
and doing the Nicki minajs challenge and here it is
as I'm now being ushered into the hospital. Something I
don't know what a th nine is, but that's the

(05:49):
compression and the uncomplete, uncomplicated fracture. Anyway, she had just
given berths. And now usually when the people are doing it,
I see mostly women doing this, and they're doing it
and they're like checking their phones or they're looking at
their makeup in the mirror while they're in that position,
because you're supposed to be able to be doing so she.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Was somebody's relaxing Nicki Banaj's position.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, and she was trying to put baby formula into
a saucepan because she had given birth like three weeks ago.
So for anybody concerned, she says, I have two nannies,
so the child was never in any danger. And she says,
is this irony, karma or just life which always tests

(06:33):
our strength at the most unexpected moments. Well, anyway, have
you ever injured yourself doing a challenge? I remember Matt
who used to work here years ago, he saw his
son doing a skateboarding trick and Matt said, I totally
am way better at that than you. Like, He's like, Dad,
you couldn't even ride a skateboard And he said, you

(06:54):
don't think I can? He says no, and he rode
the skateboard and ended up in the hospital. The skateboard
challenge got him because he was like thirty seven at
the time, right he hadn't been on one in probably
simple enough.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
It's a child's toy.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I used to do it all the time when I
was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. I could do incredible things on
a skateboard, and I literally cannot even balance on one
right now. I wouldn't even attempt it because I'm sure
i'd bust my ankle or something.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think the worst I ever hurt myself when I
ended up in the hospital. Here's this is how you
end up in the hospital. Maybe we won't put that
caveat on it. Maybe you didn't have to go to
the hospital. But it was pre four wheelers on a
three wheeler and a jump at about one o'clock in
the morning, and I was screaming over that jump, and
we were going for distance. If the distance counted from

(07:48):
where I landed to the hospital, then I won. But yeah,
I mean I ripped that thumb open, almost lost this
ear because I wasn't wearing a helmet. Why do you
want to wear a helmet?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did we even have helmets back then, we did.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I should have been wearing one, but it wasn't well.
Certainly back in that day, we didn't have social media,
but there was a social challenge that was social pressure.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Somebody threw down the gauntlet exactly, you're not man enough
to try this. Shocking, but maybe not, maybe it shouldn't
be shocking. The staff change that just happened yesterday at ESPN.
This fella Kohley Harvey's his name, Coley Harvey's been with
the network now since twenty thirteen. Is basically serves as

(08:34):
a general reporter on the sports news and he appears
on a lot of the talk shows, the Sports Center,
Highlight Show and those types of things, and then he
also goes on as a guest on some of the
other talk shows. He's being replaced, and he was upset. Obviously,
when you get fired, you're upset. Yeah, he's also upset

(08:55):
because the person they're replacing with has never been on
television ever, not once. Her first ever time on television
still hasn't happened. And she signed a million dollar contract
and she just graduated college like a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Her name is Katie Fenni, twenty two years old, recent
Penn State graduate. What Katie has that Kolee does not
have is fourteen million followers across TikTok and Instagram. Koli
has five thousand followers on Instagram and doesn't even have
a TikTok account, And as they described it, their most

(09:38):
popular show right now. Their original broadcast show Nightly is
the Scott Van Pelt version of Sports Center and that
gets roughly seven hundred thousand viewers per night. Katie has
fourteen million followers. If just three hundred thousand of her
fourteen million decided to tune in, that would equal twenty

(10:01):
five million dollars a year and increased revenue. And Katie's
going to be working not only on some of the
more popular shows like Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown,
College Game Day, As the vice president of Programming says,
Katie's perspective and creativity are a perfect match for how
we're reimagining the coverage to meet the fans where they

(10:24):
are now and bring the energy that she has now.
Katie launched her career at Penn State basically doing interviews
and things on her TikTok account with Penn State fans,
whether they're on the road or away or whatever, and
whether it's football, basketball, baseball. She's a huge Penn State

(10:45):
fan and that's basically what she's going to keep doing
here right now. But I think that what we're seeing
is if you do not have a TikTok following, in
the not too distant future, it's going to be very
difficult for television networks to justify paying you.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean, you start looking at and comparing. Look at
I wonder how many followers Colbert has on social media
versus how many people tune in and watch the show.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, a good point. And the Colbert review or of
his firing, they were talking about how probably eighty percent
of the people don't watch the people who watch Colbert
do not watch him on television.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yes, they watch them on social media, and.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
They could not translate that into revenue, and that's why
he was losing forty million dollars a year for the network.
That's a tough You're going to have to figure out
a way to put original content on the television that
makes it. Now. The great thing about sports, the reason
sports is the cash leader across television is because you

(11:52):
have to watch it live. By the time it's over,
we already know if they want or lost, and there's
no drama. So you want to be there for the
ESPN game day. You want to see the fans as
they're going nuts, but then you really want to see
the actual games, and so sports has a huge advantage.
News would be second, although news usually breaks on the internet,

(12:16):
and then once it's broken on the internet a half
hour to an hour later, then you'll start seeing commentary
on these other networks now point if they have great
and if they have great content, that that could be interesting.
But you're seeing, you know, like on YouTube, if you're
like a news guy. I follow a couple of dudes

(12:37):
on YouTube that really are shocking me. I mean, I
saw one guy. He just celebrated his one year anniversary
on YouTube. He's been on YouTube. He launched his YouTube
channel the day Donald Trump got shot. Okay, he launched
it with zero followers. Obviously, he's now at over two
million subscribers. He's gonna make something like six million dollars

(13:02):
this year. Wow, he's thirty four years old. He launched
it thirty three. Never did anything on television. All he
does is just talk about the news and people want
to hear what he has to say about it.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
It is a new day, my friend.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
So if you're a if you're a television reporter or something,
figure out how to do the Nicki Minaj challenge without
killing yourself. Get you some tact you got to, get
you some followers on the Instagram. So we got those
stories and more. By the way, you know, speaking of
Tacki Jonathan, if you go to the Morning Rest blog
at ninety some five wc is like you'll see a
young lady named Marley Jacks got married to Steve Larson.

(13:40):
I already know where you're coming down on this. They
charged you want to come to our wedding. It's fifty
seven bucks per person. Fifty seven bucks. Now you want
the full VIP weekend package. That's nine hundred and ninety
seven dollars. That comes with two tickets to the full
wedding kind of events, the rehearsal dinner and more. You

(14:03):
also get access to our biohacking brunch and recovery lounge
the day after hacking. Yeah, now good. Here's where you
might not agree. I mean, you probably don't agree with
the idea of selling the tickets. Nobody's getting in without
a ticket, right, But as Marley says, me and my
husband weren't trying to rip anybody off this. We said, please,

(14:26):
no presence, just buy the tickets and all of the
money that we raise will be donated to something called
Village Impact, a nonprofit that builds schools and brings clean
water to Kenya.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
So all the profits that they raise and at the
end of their expenses first I don't know, but on
Sunday they wrote a check for one hundred and thirty
two fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay, So if you like helping charities and you're not
interested in getting toasters, interesting, this is a unique prospect.
But would you pay Jonathan, if this is your niece
or somebody in this you want to come to the weekend,
it's nine hundred and ninety seven dollars?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
No, No, are you gonna send them a toaster? I
would you would send I'm not going to pay to go,
You're not gonna pay. No, I'm just to be snarky.
I might throw in a check for fifty bucks and
say thank you for giving me a reason not to
have to show up for your wedding. I enjoyed my
golf round. If they truly just raising it for the charity,

(15:30):
why would they take offense? Right, I gave buddy to
you charity.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
You couldn't come off the thousand dollars for the kids.
You didn't want the kids to have the clean water.
That's good.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh, here's some water tablets. All right, that's good stuff.
All right, let's stial with that tomorrow on the Morning Rush.
All right, so remember the number you used to win
your neighbor Gotza tickets is the same over your news
to chat at eight O three nine seven eight nine
two six seven nine seven eight w cos tomorrow morning.
Thank god, it's almost the weekend on the Morning Rush
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