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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Keilly dash Hi there Tomorrow will be the third
of December and twenty two more shopping days till Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yep, the County run is on.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey tomorrow, we're gonna give you another opportunity to win
Zach Brian tickets at six point thirty. What you're talking about,
We give you the answer of the morning Rush, Bob.
We give it to you here verbally.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All right, I'm gonna try to pronounce it. Maulagara grous,
maulagra guras, m A l A g r u g
r o u s.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm gonna start taking your pronunciations because it's tough enough
already trying to discern the definition of the word if
I knew it to begin with, and with your if
your pronunciations, I believe for throwing me off even further.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's why you have to go to the morning rest plus.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's right, okay, mulagers malaw grew gross.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Gang green, but it only shows up in a weird
purple color.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And they and body part.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Malagergress just really it's a fancy apparent word for dismal.
Oh okay, So the weather this morning was malogra for yes,
so if you want to try to use that three
times in a sentence and have everybody go, what the
hell are you saying?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Malager gurus? Who came up with that word? But anyway,
it doesn't matter who came up with it doesn't matter
if you pronounce it right. All you need to know
is the answer. It's a one word answer, dismal. It's
on the Morning Rush Blog ninety seventy five w sos
dot com. By the way, the tickets for this concert.
Tomorrow morning, they will have the early pre sale beginning
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for the Zach Bryan concert and we have the link
on how to register right now to so on the
off chance that you don't win tomorrow, you can pre
register to be one of the first people to buy
the tickets. Gotcha, Brian As he comes to the Bank
of America Stadium Saturday, April eight, he will sell it out.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's a lot of people, a.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lot of folks. It's trying to mean six seventy thousand
people for a concert, So that's a big deal. As
by the way, I know everybody is supposed to have
your real ID by now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But Sally does not next month January. The TSA says,
if you do not have your real ID and you
attempt to get on a flight, they will charge you
in extra forty five dollars. So I don't understand how
that works.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, it does your show up with your passport and
then this traformation basically you'd have for the real ID.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Nope, they charge you forty five bucks. I guess that's
if you have a passport, because otherwise, what good is
the the thing? Right at that point, it's like, oh,
so a terrorist can get on the plane for forty
five dollars. I don't have any ID, but I got
forty five dollars. I got this obvious fake ID that
I bought off a college kid in Times Square. But
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I also have forty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's hysterical.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So everybody should get the real idea. I don't know
what the hold up is. It's so easy to get
these things. Jordan went in and got his. It took
literally less than fifteen minutes. So it's not a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Just good.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's so easy peasy. Nowadays, DMV has really improved the
last few years. I feel like so salute to the
DMV employees. I don't know what's going on down there,
but they seem to have kind of cleaned up their act.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We mentioned this earlier, but it's one of the busiest
days for scammers. And not only are they setting up
these fake websites that have names that sound like the
Red Cross or Salvation Army or Saint Jude's or whoever
you think you're giving to. If you're off by a letter,
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they've got all those other websites so it'll look just
like the Saint Jude website, but it's not the Saint
Jude website. So not only do they just scam your money,
oftentimes on top of it to what do you say,
add insult to injury. Yeah, this is actually more than
an insult. Then they will actually keep your credit cards
and they will then start using them to buy other
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things as well.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So adding injury to injury, yes, we're doubling down on
the pain.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So be careful on your Giving Tuesday. We don't want
you to be taking advantage of I mentioned this to
you off the air, but now we also have is
adding now this is insult to injury. This year's Super
Bowl show apparently will not be performed in English. It
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will be performed in Spanish by Bad Bunny, and Bad
Bunny apparently is I'm not a familiar with Bad Bunny,
but I understand from some.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Of the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Commentary Bad Bunny is a well known He's not a transgender,
but some one who promotes cross dressing. So he will
perform as a male, as a female, and as a
number of other characters duets. Yes, so that could be interesting.
I suppose maybe you don't want your children to watch this,
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but they have just announced that for the first time
in American history, there will be a and I don't
know what a Puerto Rican sign language person is as
opposed to a Spanish but they made a very big deal.
Puerto Rican sign language person will be performing with Bad Bunny,
but no English translation, so even the deaf people will
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not have any idea unless you speak Puerto Rican slash
Spanish as to what he's performing. Now, we will have
American sign language interpretations for the national anthem America the Beautiful,
and what's known as the Black National Anthem, the Lift
Every Voice song.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You know, I never contemplated it before, but I had
just assumed that sign language was Internet recognized. Apparently different
languages have different sign language. Yes, yeah, I don't know
why don't either, like why not arose by any other name?
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I guess, like if you're trying to teach somebody who
is a hearing person sign language so that they can
be interpreters, like this upcoming person. If my language is
English and I'm trying to teach you the word like
for hot dog, but.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
If you're trying to teach me the word, then you're
using your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But I'm also explaining it, like this is a bottle
and I'll hold up the bottle and I'll say this
is the bottle, right. But if I'm but if I
don't have something to point to and I'm just saying bottle, right, yeah, bottle.
But I don't speak English, I'm like, I have no
idea what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You speak English and Portuguese, but.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If I don't. What if I just speak English and
I'm trying to learn saying sign language, I have to
learn it my native tongue.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, okay, And that's apparently contemplated this one.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Apparently there's like eighty five dance sign languages.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Given that I won't be watching the halftime show. I
won't have to contemplate that ever again, to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Have you already considered what you're going to watch instead
of the halftime show?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I haven't. They keep announcing new ones every day, seemingly,
so I'm not sure which one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
This is a prime opportunity for somebody to have a
big breakout now. I don't know if it's going to
be the year of the Puppy Ball.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I know Turning Point USA sponsoring would that's right, that
Puppy Ball is still going to be going on. I
know this is a long list of people that are
doing their own Nickelodeon's doing something maybe, well.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Doesn't Nickelodeon usually do the simul cast.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Only for special games?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, which would be a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't know if they have the rights to do
the Super Bowl, And.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Then they would have the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, like when the players get tacked, they get
the splashed or whatever, and then they have some of
their characters doing the play by play and that's the
weird cartoon voices. AYI technology, Yeah, that's exactly well that's coming,
so it'll be even wilder once the AI is fully
fully I don't know what the word is implemented into
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our culture. It's not fully into the culture.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
If I had the new glasses with the attached to earbuds,
are we talking about Bad Bunny? Wouldn't it automatically translated
for me? And I would hear in my earbuds America
or English version of it.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I don't think so. Okay, but I'm not saying that's
not true.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
AI is coming to tell you that that way, you
could drop me anywhere in the world. If that availability
was true, and I could, I could understand every word
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You probably I'm thinking they could translate the words, but
you wouldn't hear Bad Bunny. You wouldn't get the because again,
what makes a singer valuable is their voice. So if
you like Mariah Carey, that's because of her voice. If
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you like Chris Stapleton, it's because of their voice. I
mean Chris Stapleton or me saying Chris Stapleton's words not
very impressive.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sure, but if you are using sign language, I'm not
hearing the music anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Nor do I think most deaf people give a rip
about Bad Bunny. But it is nice to see the
national anthem, I suppose, and those types of patriotic songs.
You'd be like, oh, God, bless America. Yes, that's the
land that I love. And I'll stand beside her and
guide her.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes with portgage Portuguese sign language.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If they're not doing it in Spanish, all three songs
will be done in English. And then get the hell
out of the way. Oh, you're not allowed to do
the sign language. This is only for This is only
for the Puerto Ricans, so.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I won't understand him, nor will there be any captions
subtitled or otherwise no available.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Like he told you when he hosted a Stay Night Live,
you had eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
To learn it. That's why he did tell us, they.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Learn my language because I'm not becoming an American even
though I'm Puerto Rico, which is interestingly an American territory.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Now, how many people will be watching it just on
the off chance he has a wardrobe malfunction and his
skirt flies up, because we know that he likes to
show off his very I.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Mean, would he even be held accountable for that, because
I mean, that's part of my act. You knew that
going into this. This is not a wardrobe malfunction.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This is what I do.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
This is my thing. My thing is my dinga ling,
is Chuck Berry saying right, so my dinga ling should
be seen.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they've already told you. The NFL has already told
you we're no longer than that. We're not when we
say national, we're talking about the US.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, they should be the i f L for International
International Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And because they want to take on soccer.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I wonder how much you know that's an interesting good luck.
I wonder you know, as they would call it the
real football.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I bet you you're still wolfully trailed, woefully, woefully except
for Super Bowl Sunday. Yet, let's see soccer matches themselves
viewed when Liverpool or whoever plays whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I wonder how F one does, because I think that's
very popular worldwide.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
F one.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's see what this says. They're not ranking them. Why
are you not ranking them?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We don't have television ratings on this.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Holy crap, Jonathan, you're not only right, you're right than
you ever thought you were right.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Woefully short.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
This has got to be an outdated It is not.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
This is an outdated list.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It says Major League baseball is more and more popular
than ball.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, well, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But again they're going worldwide with baseball. There's five hundred
million fans in America, Japan, Central and South America.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
American football doesn't crack the top ten. Number one soccer
known as football three and a half billion fans around
the world. Number two. Can you guess number two? Can
Jonathan Rush stroke the gin? Think hard, because there's no
way I would have guessed it. But then when you
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hear it, you go, I guess that would make sense.
Cricket two and a half billion cricket fans in the world,
I believe it. Basketball two point two billion, field hockey
two billion fans, mostly in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I would never have guessed field hockey.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Tennis has over a billion fans around the world, that's true.
Volleyball nine hundred million fans.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm watching for the uniforms.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What is wedged between volleyball and baseball? Jonathan, amaze me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Stun me with this.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Stun me.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Bowling table tennis aka ping pong has eight hundred and
fifty million fans who to watch table tennis, then baseball,
then golf. Golf is more popular than American football it's
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only in America that we love the football.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is a mistake for the NFL. They don't realize it.
So they're trying to grow. We want to be at
least as popular the NFL. Anyway, we've already got. College
football is the new NFL. It's called fifty two team pickup.
That would be That will be the way I would
market college football. Fifty two card pickup. Fifty two team pickup.
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You pick the best fifty two teams of the year, okay,
and then they play next year in the in the
playoff football series.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Okay, there's the championship series.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Because every one of the players is a different card,
and they're all going to hit the portal and we're
all you're all going to come out with nil money
and the other cash from donors, and you're going to
try to buy the best team that LSU can buy
for Lane Kiffin. But who could come out of the blue,
who could come out of the ward?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Would work?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What happened to Carolina finally found the number of donors
at Clemson hass and came up with enough money.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, we're woefully short. We have woefully short.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Fifty two team pickup, you know, and I I hear
the calls that Congress needs to get involved, somebody needs
to get involved. The NCAA has completely lost control of
college football and to another degree, college basketball, which is
far less popular than college football. But those two sports
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well really college football. Like if you just looked at
South Carolina, college football pays for everything except for men's
college basketball, which makes a slight profit like two hundred
grand a year. The loss leader for South Carolina is
women's basketball, which loses over two million a year.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Loses.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Then everything else is paid for, so college football, the
Gamecock football team pays for the baseball team, which loses money, Volleyball, tennis, equestrian,
any sport you can think of sport. Yeah, all the
sports are covered by whatever comes out of college football
except for men's basketball. And people say, well, well, why
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don't the women's basketball team make the money? Well, two reasons.
One the tickets are almost free and two the TV.
Right when you look at even the most popular women's
college basketball games of the last five years, which has
been the pinnacle of the sport. You know, if you're
looking at South Carolina versus Yukon or something like that,
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Iowa versus LSU. You're still looking at just a portion
of a college basketball regular season basketball game, like right
North Carolina plays Virginia that will get the same as
the championship women's game. So the TV rights money will
never be there unless they can cultivate another fifty million
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fans somehow, which does not seem likely that there's going
to be fifty million college women basketball fans in the
near future. South Carolina will continue to lose money. I mean,
they might be able to break even because they're not
going to get the TV money, but they could break
even if they were able to raise their ticket prices
to the men's prices. Right now, I think average ticket
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price is six dollars for the women. Median ticket price
for a men's game is like twenty eight dollars. So
if you were to raise it to twenty eight and
you were able to sell out the Colonial Life Arena
like you've been doing at six, that might.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The fan wouldn't pay twenty eight dollars a ticket.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's been the complaint is that they won't, and don
Staley wants a packed arena, she'd rather because I when
you go to a men's game, it's usually half full. Yes,
but that the people paying the twenty eight dollars to
make it half full bring in more money than the
people paying six dollars to sell it out and have
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a wild environment.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Right and so, and how important is a bill? A
lot of these coaches now get paid a seat bonus.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I wonder if Donati, who's the new athletics director, will
change the pricing structure for men's basketball and say, you
know what, maybe we could actually lose one hundred tw
hundred thousand dollars a year on this team to get
a sold out stadium, to get the wild environment. Because
don Staley a ticket, Yeah, that was her big thing
was like what she got here is we need to
get the fans here. So for a while they were
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doing a dollar a ticket just to get them used
to coming to the game.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I think they did free groups too. If you had
a group of boy Scouts or girl Scouts or Brownies
or whatever, you had a class, a school class. Yeah,
I think they did free groups.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Just to get them in, just because it does create
a social club.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Free tickets, and so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Maybe that's an angle that they'll be looking at for
men's basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I mean, look at what Coastal Carolina did with football
this year, which was insane to me. I would love
to talk to the guy who used to be the
athletic director assistant athletic director here, who is the ad
down down there at Coastal? How did that structure work
with free concessions? Like I spent thirty dollars to come
to the football game, or twenty dollars or whatever it was,
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and you're saying I can go eat as many hot dogs,
drink as many beers, have as many French fries and
whatever else I want. That seems like a losing proposition,
even if you bought everything Sam's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Club, especially when you're taking Jordan Well, I mean Jeordane's
good eats. It would seem like for that amount of money,
you just take your kids there to have dinner. You
know what you want, kids, and if you want to
watch the game, that's fine too. Otherwise we're gonna leave
here before the game's over.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
How about a nineteen year old boy. What does a
nineteen year old boy do to uh oh and all
you can eat buffet? Oh my gosh, Lee and David,
you got chicken sliders, You've got Hamburger sliders.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They would lay that thing out.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You got onion rings, you got slices of pizza. I
could get probably in my prime when I was like
nineteen twenty years old, I don't think I don't think
I would have flinched in a ten thousand calorie meal.
A meal of ten thousand calories.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I don't think you'd flinch you that? Yeah, like Sae
that that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So if each hamburger had say, eight hundred calories in it,
I'd eat five. Okay, Now I'm at forty five hundred
calories or whatever, and now I got to have two
or three sodas or whatever. Those are two or three
hundred calories a piece. Get me a couple of slices
of pizza, top it off with some money rings. Yeah,
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I'm just freaking destroying this.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Our French fries.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
How did they make it?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But they were doing it because they wanted to have
a full house for the Chanta Clears. That had to
be a lost leader for him. But either way, I
don't even know how we got on this, But you
are correct, Jonathan, American football nowhere near as possible as
I had thought. So they're trying to grow it globally
and bad Bunny is the ticket.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
And college football is stealing. They're stealing your deal, stealing
your stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think college football is in trouble. I mean I
really believe that. I mean, does anybody care about Indiana?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, sir?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
How about Texas Tech?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
No sir.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Those are two of the best football teams in the
country this year and they literally bought that, Like, they
both spent over twenty million dollars to get these teams,
and nobody cares. And so that will be the only
reason that the Big Ten Championship will have any interest
is because Ohio State's playing in it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You know when Clemson scored that touchdown and our fans
were putting a birdie in his face. Yeah, and people
were outraged love by that. I'm like, uhh, he's not
a student athlete, he's a professional. You can do what
you can, yell whatever you want. I used to be
upset by people yelling stuff, obscene language and the like
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at the players when they were student athletes. Yeah, now
you can yell whatever you want. You paid damn good
money to get in there to watch that game. He's
getting paid a whole lot more to be there. You
can give him a you can go down his family
tree and talk about his mom and his daddy. You
can yell whatever you want to yell. You fall within
your rights. Now we've changed the atmosphere of college football.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, I mean, you know, I brought my sister in
law to the Clemson game this year, and so before
we went in, I handed her the ticket and she
looked at it and she said, oh my god, it's
one hundred and ten dollars a ticket face value. Yeah,
that's what the ticket price is. She's like, how does
anybody bring their kids?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Like, how could you?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So you're telling me to bring your family of four,
it's four hundred and fifty dollars. Don't forget it's going
to be seventy dollars to park, right, So now you're
at five twenty, you're going to spend probably one hundred
to two hundred dollars on concessions. So it suddenly became
a seven hundred dollars excursion, and if you wanted the tailgate,
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you might be up to a thousand. Yep, so it's
one thousand dollars, which is more than most families, I
would say, spend on a vacation to go to one
day of Carolina football and watch them ill I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Last week, he's putting the battery in my truck. We're
talking about game call football, he said. I got off
the bus. I would always take my two boys. I'm
spending about five or six hundred dollars a game. Yeah,
I'm not going to go watch them get beat. I mean,
I'm just not going to. I'm not gonna spend that
kind of money on that. I could buy them something
a bunch greater value.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, and look at what Carolina Football has already told you.
We're doing stadium renovations specifically to jack the ticket prices
to bring more money in. So you know that one
hundred and ten dollars ticket that was for a Friday's
game or Saturday's game that I would expect will be
one eighty within the next three years. Yeah, somewhere in
that price range. You would expect it to be that
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because they need to generate several million dollars more just
in ticket sales in order to try to go after
some of these athletes, because, as Jonathan says, they're all professional.
Every high school junior who's got a shot at Division
one has an agent. Now when you're fifteen, you sign
with an agent, and that agent is looking for college deals.
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They're not looking for the college for you to learn anything.
They're looking at how much playing time can he get,
how much nil money is available, what kind of endorsements
do you see for him? What is his path to
the end? NFL All of these types of discussions are
happening because again I get it, the kid's career is
going to be over at twenty five, right, twenty six,
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So twenty six, your body's broken down and we dispose
of you. So he's got nine years from twenty five
to make his entire life earnings.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, in baseball, they identify these kids by eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, well, yeah, if you're possible, If you're possible by
the time you were a junior, that's when we know
did you did you learn? Because you Like, I was
talking to a guy once, and I think I've told
you this. He's a He was an offensive line coordinator
for Auburn, and he was telling me as the that
he can look at kids literally in like by the
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time they're like eight, and tell them, do you have
the build of an SEC lineman. You may have the
build of aligneman, but do you have the build of
an SEC lineman at age eight, he can tell the parents.
Fortunately for him, his hips are not designed to do
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what is required of an SEC lineman, which means he
has no shot at the nfl E desonating. But because
just the way the body's built, his hips have to
be wide enough for him to get into the squat
position and stay there. And if it's if it's not
built that way, he can't do it. And it's not
a matter of will or I want to do it.
You just physically cannot do what is required. So we're
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not even going to talk about it. You could be
the number one lineman in the country at high school,
but we're not talking to you. You're three hundred and
twenty pounds of pure muscle, but your hips were you're
not born with the right hips. You're out. So there's
not the nil guy's not going to talk to him much.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yet, Scout do the same thing. Just watching the kid
turn on a baseball. Yeah, he said he didn't even
have to hit it. I just want the same swing.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I can teach him the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, we can teach him how to hit.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay, now what you're saying, Oh, we're talking about places
if you're to have dinner tonight. Oh yeah, well you
know aute what's this kid's this kid? Now he's not
on my list. Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's a very unique skill set that would make you
a professional athlete in most sports. I mean, I don't
know if there's like special things for like ping pong players,
which I had no idea was like the number eight
most popular sport in the world. I'm assuming these people
are multimillionaires. If they're playing in the number eight most
popular sport in the world, they are. But you know,
(26:25):
I know in football, I know in baseball, I know
in golf. There are certain physical attributes that are required.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Michel Philps.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If you do not have that physical attribute, you will
not be successful at the next level. You can be
very successful at high school, you can dominate the state
because the guys who have that physical trait maybe have
not developed it as far as they can go. But
you might have tapped out, you might have reached your
pinnacle at age sixteen, seventeen eighteen. The guys that are
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going to make money at twenty four, that's right, they've
got something that you don't have. And again, of those
that have that skill set or that unique physical ability.
How many of them either don't max it or get
injured in the process. You're talking like one percent of
the of the people on earth have that physical ability.
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How many of them are going to push it? And
then how many of them are going to get injured
while pushing it. So you're talking about such a small
group of people that can do this thing, whatever this
thing is. It's so rare. And I mean, I don't
want to say that that's why we pay them a
lot of money, because it's also very rare to be,
you know, to have the mind Like It's like, I
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love the conversation once that I heard between a Rod
and Warren Buffett. And a Rod was saying to Warren
Buffett at Warren Buffett's favorite m MacDonald's. They are somewhere
and where where does he live? North Dakota or whatever,
Fargo or whatever, And at the McDonald's and he's saying
to Warren Buffett, I've studied investing my whole life. I
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want to be an investor. And Warren Buffett said, don't bother.
He said, look, people have skill sets. You do not
have an investors skill set. And he said, how do
you know that I don't have an investor of skill set.
He said, Well, let me ask you a question. Are
you excited about reading a company's P and L for
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the last ten years. If that excites you, then you
have a skill set that is worthy of the of
furthering it. That was my hobby as a child. I
would go I would go to the library and I
would find P and L sheets for companies, which makes
me very I have a brain uniquely wired to do
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this thing. This is all I this is literally the
only thing I'm good at. I can't I can't cook,
I can't do anything. I'm okay at card game, not
even that good. My wife beats me usually. But at
investing jet tire, I can't grow up plant. But he said,
you are really good at baseball, And if I was you,
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I would stay as good as I can do in
baseball because it pays very well, probably going to pay
more than you make in investing, and so do that
for as long as you can, and then maybe try
to find a broadcast career or something else. Let somebody
who has a skill set of investing take your money
and invest it for you. But I'm not anything special.
(29:32):
I'm just somebody who was born this way. You were
born to play baseball. Thank god there was a game
called baseball. How many other sports would you have been
good at? You might have been okay at some other sports,
but you're a baseball player. That's what you were built
to do.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I remember one of the most intimidating conversations I ever
had was with Dave Thomas and Wendy's. Oh okay, was
there for a golf tournament he was hosting for. There
were a lot of professional athletes there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He liked to help out the kids who are being adopted, right,
that was his big charity m hm.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
And I knew that one of the one of the
guys who was ultra rich because of his availability as
an athlete, wanted to pitch him this business idea. And
so I'm standing there in the urinal next to him.
I got to come up with something to say, right, okay,
other than hey, I like your hamburgers.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh all right, that'd be awkward.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey, so and so was telling me about that business
he wants to put together. That sounds like it could
be interesting. Dave Thomas says, I, like him, would never
go into business with that guy. I said, really, no,
he's not a businessman. Yeah, and I got clammy real quick.
Like this guy can he can. He can see it
in the thirty second conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Which is a great thing. I mean, everybody's got you know.
I thought Will Smith one time said something which I
thought was very interesting. I don't know if Will Smith
is a religious person. I don't know anything about Will Smith,
but he was talking about when he first started becoming famous,
and he first started like he bought his first house
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and he was doing everything he could to keep the
home up, including mowing his own lawn, edging the driveway,
all that sort of stuff. And he was like it
was a big pain in the butt. But I thought,
you know, my parents told me to be wise with
my money and don't be frivolous, and so I thought
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I was being He used the word steward of my money,
and somebody else talked to him and said, you're an idiot.
That is not being a good steward. God made you
to go be a movie star. You have a unique
charismatic personality that people like. They like your face for
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whatever reason, they like your speaking voice. You were designed
for this. Go do more of that. And God also
made people whose skill set are landscapers and lawnkeepers. You're
denying them the right of what God gave him the
ability to do because you're cheap. That's not a good
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steward of money. Let's stab it to Larry Bird. Larry
Bird ruined his entire career trying to pave his parents driveway. Yeah,
what an idiot moron. Should have just paid somebody five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He would have made that. He would have made that
in an hour. You made that in three buckets, brother. Yeah, No,
he wanted to do it on his own, do something.
I don't know what the motivation was, because he's a
hard worker. Larry Bird used to be. Kids would stand
outside of Larry Bird's house because everybody knew where he
lived in Boston and watch him mow his lawn with
a pushing more.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
He was just I'm a blue.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Collar guy, shoveling, crush and run gravel. Ye threw his
back out.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yep, never was. I mean he played for like five
more years, but he was never the same.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I learned that lesson the hard way, putting down side.
I put it down, and guess what, I didn't put
it down right.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
First?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh you don't put fertilizer down when you're putting down
saw because it's sorry have been fertilized. So I threw
my back out putting down a palette aside and watched
it die because it burned from the fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
That added injury to the insult.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And when I went back to the place, Carolina Side,
Carolina Farms, I went back to the guys. I said
it all died. He said, well, tell me what you did.
I said, well this, I did put this down. He said,
you put that down, You killed it all. You don't
have to put it out. Well, but if I'd used
a professional, not only would I have not spent hundreds
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of dollars getting my back back in line. If he
had put down fertilizer, he'd have to come back and
replace it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
He wouldn't have put the fertilizer down. It probably would
have been perfect exactly, and your line would have looked amazing.
And again, everybody's got a skill and something unique about us.
It makes can make society amazing. So we should celebrate
those things and not try to just go after one
whatever that one thing is. Like, we all want to
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be a music star or a actor, or we want
to be whatever, and you pour all your heart into that,
and that's not really what you're that good at. That's
why American Idol is so funny.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Hey, exactly, somebody should have told this kid early this
is not yours. Scarcely why we watch it? Yeah, see
to hear the people that aren't good at this and
they really think that at age nineteen, I'm nailing this.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Great.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood we should be
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(34:58):
the third of December, tomorrow of lit Morning Rush
Hello, Keilly dash Hi there Tomorrow will be the third
of December and twenty two more shopping days till Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yep, the County run is on.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey tomorrow, we're gonna give you another opportunity to win
Zach Brian tickets at six point thirty. What you're talking about,
We give you the answer of the morning Rush, Bob.
We give it to you here verbally.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All right, I'm gonna try to pronounce it. Maulagara grous,
maulagra guras, m A l A g r u g
r o u s.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm gonna start taking your pronunciations because it's tough enough
already trying to discern the definition of the word if
I knew it to begin with, and with your if
your pronunciations, I believe for throwing me off even further.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's why you have to go to the morning rest plus.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's right, okay, mulagers malaw grew gross.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Gang green, but it only shows up in a weird
purple color.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And they and body part.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Malagergress just really it's a fancy apparent word for dismal.
Oh okay, So the weather this morning was malogra for yes,
so if you want to try to use that three
times in a sentence and have everybody go, what the
hell are you saying?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Malager gurus? Who came up with that word? But anyway,
it doesn't matter who came up with it doesn't matter
if you pronounce it right. All you need to know
is the answer. It's a one word answer, dismal. It's
on the Morning Rush Blog ninety seventy five w sos
dot com. By the way, the tickets for this concert.
Tomorrow morning, they will have the early pre sale beginning
(01:42):
for the Zach Bryan concert and we have the link
on how to register right now to so on the
off chance that you don't win tomorrow, you can pre
register to be one of the first people to buy
the tickets. Gotcha, Brian As he comes to the Bank
of America Stadium Saturday, April eight, he will sell it out.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's a lot of people, a.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lot of folks. It's trying to mean six seventy thousand
people for a concert, So that's a big deal. As
by the way, I know everybody is supposed to have
your real ID by now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But Sally does not next month January. The TSA says,
if you do not have your real ID and you
attempt to get on a flight, they will charge you
in extra forty five dollars. So I don't understand how
that works.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, it does your show up with your passport and
then this traformation basically you'd have for the real ID.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Nope, they charge you forty five bucks. I guess that's
if you have a passport, because otherwise, what good is
the the thing? Right at that point, it's like, oh,
so a terrorist can get on the plane for forty
five dollars. I don't have any ID, but I got
forty five dollars. I got this obvious fake ID that
I bought off a college kid in Times Square. But
(03:04):
I also have forty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's hysterical.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So everybody should get the real idea. I don't know
what the hold up is. It's so easy to get
these things. Jordan went in and got his. It took
literally less than fifteen minutes. So it's not a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Just good.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's so easy peasy. Nowadays, DMV has really improved the
last few years. I feel like so salute to the
DMV employees. I don't know what's going on down there,
but they seem to have kind of cleaned up their act.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We mentioned this earlier, but it's one of the busiest
days for scammers. And not only are they setting up
these fake websites that have names that sound like the
Red Cross or Salvation Army or Saint Jude's or whoever
you think you're giving to. If you're off by a letter,
(03:56):
they've got all those other websites so it'll look just
like the Saint Jude website, but it's not the Saint
Jude website. So not only do they just scam your money,
oftentimes on top of it to what do you say,
add insult to injury. Yeah, this is actually more than
an insult. Then they will actually keep your credit cards
and they will then start using them to buy other
(04:16):
things as well.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So adding injury to injury, yes, we're doubling down on
the pain.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So be careful on your Giving Tuesday. We don't want
you to be taking advantage of I mentioned this to
you off the air, but now we also have is
adding now this is insult to injury. This year's Super
Bowl show apparently will not be performed in English. It
(04:43):
will be performed in Spanish by Bad Bunny, and Bad
Bunny apparently is I'm not a familiar with Bad Bunny,
but I understand from some.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Of the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Commentary Bad Bunny is a well known He's not a transgender,
but some one who promotes cross dressing. So he will
perform as a male, as a female, and as a
number of other characters duets. Yes, so that could be interesting.
I suppose maybe you don't want your children to watch this,
(05:15):
but they have just announced that for the first time
in American history, there will be a and I don't
know what a Puerto Rican sign language person is as
opposed to a Spanish but they made a very big deal.
Puerto Rican sign language person will be performing with Bad Bunny,
but no English translation, so even the deaf people will
(05:38):
not have any idea unless you speak Puerto Rican slash
Spanish as to what he's performing. Now, we will have
American sign language interpretations for the national anthem America the Beautiful,
and what's known as the Black National Anthem, the Lift
Every Voice song.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You know, I never contemplated it before, but I had
just assumed that sign language was Internet recognized. Apparently different
languages have different sign language. Yes, yeah, I don't know
why don't either, like why not arose by any other name?
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I guess, like if you're trying to teach somebody who
is a hearing person sign language so that they can
be interpreters, like this upcoming person. If my language is
English and I'm trying to teach you the word like
for hot dog, but.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
If you're trying to teach me the word, then you're
using your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But I'm also explaining it, like this is a bottle
and I'll hold up the bottle and I'll say this
is the bottle, right. But if I'm but if I
don't have something to point to and I'm just saying bottle, right, yeah, bottle.
But I don't speak English, I'm like, I have no
idea what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You speak English and Portuguese, but.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If I don't. What if I just speak English and
I'm trying to learn saying sign language, I have to
learn it my native tongue.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, okay, And that's apparently contemplated this one.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Apparently there's like eighty five dance sign languages.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Given that I won't be watching the halftime show. I
won't have to contemplate that ever again, to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Have you already considered what you're going to watch instead
of the halftime show?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I haven't. They keep announcing new ones every day, seemingly,
so I'm not sure which one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
This is a prime opportunity for somebody to have a
big breakout now. I don't know if it's going to
be the year of the Puppy Ball.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I know Turning Point USA sponsoring would that's right, that
Puppy Ball is still going to be going on. I
know this is a long list of people that are
doing their own Nickelodeon's doing something maybe, well.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Doesn't Nickelodeon usually do the simul cast.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Only for special games?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, which would be a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't know if they have the rights to do
the Super Bowl, And.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Then they would have the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, like when the players get tacked, they get
the splashed or whatever, and then they have some of
their characters doing the play by play and that's the
weird cartoon voices. AYI technology, Yeah, that's exactly well that's coming,
so it'll be even wilder once the AI is fully
fully I don't know what the word is implemented into
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our culture. It's not fully into the culture.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
If I had the new glasses with the attached to earbuds,
are we talking about Bad Bunny? Wouldn't it automatically translated
for me? And I would hear in my earbuds America
or English version of it.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I don't think so. Okay, but I'm not saying that's
not true.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
AI is coming to tell you that that way, you
could drop me anywhere in the world. If that availability
was true, and I could, I could understand every word
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You probably I'm thinking they could translate the words, but
you wouldn't hear Bad Bunny. You wouldn't get the because again,
what makes a singer valuable is their voice. So if
you like Mariah Carey, that's because of her voice. If
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you like Chris Stapleton, it's because of their voice. I
mean Chris Stapleton or me saying Chris Stapleton's words not
very impressive.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sure, but if you are using sign language, I'm not
hearing the music anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Nor do I think most deaf people give a rip
about Bad Bunny. But it is nice to see the
national anthem, I suppose, and those types of patriotic songs.
You'd be like, oh, God, bless America. Yes, that's the
land that I love. And I'll stand beside her and
guide her.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes with portgage Portuguese sign language.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If they're not doing it in Spanish, all three songs
will be done in English. And then get the hell
out of the way. Oh, you're not allowed to do
the sign language. This is only for This is only
for the Puerto Ricans, so.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I won't understand him, nor will there be any captions
subtitled or otherwise no available.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Like he told you when he hosted a Stay Night Live,
you had eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
To learn it. That's why he did tell us, they.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Learn my language because I'm not becoming an American even
though I'm Puerto Rico, which is interestingly an American territory.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Now, how many people will be watching it just on
the off chance he has a wardrobe malfunction and his
skirt flies up, because we know that he likes to
show off his very I.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Mean, would he even be held accountable for that, because
I mean, that's part of my act. You knew that
going into this. This is not a wardrobe malfunction.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This is what I do.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
This is my thing. My thing is my dinga ling,
is Chuck Berry saying right, so my dinga ling should
be seen.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they've already told you. The NFL has already told
you we're no longer than that. We're not when we
say national, we're talking about the US.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, they should be the i f L for International
International Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And because they want to take on soccer.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I wonder how much you know that's an interesting good luck.
I wonder you know, as they would call it the
real football.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I bet you you're still wolfully trailed, woefully, woefully except
for Super Bowl Sunday. Yet, let's see soccer matches themselves
viewed when Liverpool or whoever plays whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I wonder how F one does, because I think that's
very popular worldwide.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
F one.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Let's see what this says. They're not ranking them. Why
are you not ranking them?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We don't have television ratings on this.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Holy crap, Jonathan, you're not only right, you're right than
you ever thought you were right.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Woefully short.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
This has got to be an outdated It is not.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
This is an outdated list.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It says Major League baseball is more and more popular
than ball.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, well, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But again they're going worldwide with baseball. There's five hundred
million fans in America, Japan, Central and South America.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
American football doesn't crack the top ten. Number one soccer
known as football three and a half billion fans around
the world. Number two. Can you guess number two? Can
Jonathan Rush stroke the gin? Think hard, because there's no
way I would have guessed it. But then when you
(12:35):
hear it, you go, I guess that would make sense.
Cricket two and a half billion cricket fans in the world,
I believe it. Basketball two point two billion, field hockey
two billion fans, mostly in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I would never have guessed field hockey.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Tennis has over a billion fans around the world, that's true.
Volleyball nine hundred million fans.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm watching for the uniforms.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What is wedged between volleyball and baseball? Jonathan, amaze me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Stun me with this.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Stun me.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Bowling table tennis aka ping pong has eight hundred and
fifty million fans who to watch table tennis, then baseball,
then golf. Golf is more popular than American football it's
(13:41):
only in America that we love the football.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is a mistake for the NFL. They don't realize it.
So they're trying to grow. We want to be at
least as popular the NFL. Anyway, we've already got. College
football is the new NFL. It's called fifty two team pickup.
That would be That will be the way I would
market college football. Fifty two card pickup. Fifty two team pickup.
(14:06):
You pick the best fifty two teams of the year, okay,
and then they play next year in the in the
playoff football series.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Okay, there's the championship series.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Because every one of the players is a different card,
and they're all going to hit the portal and we're
all you're all going to come out with nil money
and the other cash from donors, and you're going to
try to buy the best team that LSU can buy
for Lane Kiffin. But who could come out of the blue,
who could come out of the ward?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Would work?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What happened to Carolina finally found the number of donors
at Clemson hass and came up with enough money.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, we're woefully short. We have woefully short.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Fifty two team pickup, you know, and I I hear
the calls that Congress needs to get involved, somebody needs
to get involved. The NCAA has completely lost control of
college football and to another degree, college basketball, which is
far less popular than college football. But those two sports
(15:07):
well really college football. Like if you just looked at
South Carolina, college football pays for everything except for men's
college basketball, which makes a slight profit like two hundred
grand a year. The loss leader for South Carolina is
women's basketball, which loses over two million a year.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Loses.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Then everything else is paid for, so college football, the
Gamecock football team pays for the baseball team, which loses money, Volleyball, tennis, equestrian,
any sport you can think of sport. Yeah, all the
sports are covered by whatever comes out of college football
except for men's basketball. And people say, well, well, why
(15:51):
don't the women's basketball team make the money? Well, two reasons.
One the tickets are almost free and two the TV.
Right when you look at even the most popular women's
college basketball games of the last five years, which has
been the pinnacle of the sport. You know, if you're
looking at South Carolina versus Yukon or something like that,
(16:12):
Iowa versus LSU. You're still looking at just a portion
of a college basketball regular season basketball game, like right
North Carolina plays Virginia that will get the same as
the championship women's game. So the TV rights money will
never be there unless they can cultivate another fifty million
(16:36):
fans somehow, which does not seem likely that there's going
to be fifty million college women basketball fans in the
near future. South Carolina will continue to lose money. I mean,
they might be able to break even because they're not
going to get the TV money, but they could break
even if they were able to raise their ticket prices
to the men's prices. Right now, I think average ticket
(16:59):
price is six dollars for the women. Median ticket price
for a men's game is like twenty eight dollars. So
if you were to raise it to twenty eight and
you were able to sell out the Colonial Life Arena
like you've been doing at six, that might.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The fan wouldn't pay twenty eight dollars a ticket.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's been the complaint is that they won't, and don
Staley wants a packed arena, she'd rather because I when
you go to a men's game, it's usually half full. Yes,
but that the people paying the twenty eight dollars to
make it half full bring in more money than the
people paying six dollars to sell it out and have
(17:36):
a wild environment.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Right and so, and how important is a bill? A
lot of these coaches now get paid a seat bonus.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I wonder if Donati, who's the new athletics director, will
change the pricing structure for men's basketball and say, you
know what, maybe we could actually lose one hundred tw
hundred thousand dollars a year on this team to get
a sold out stadium, to get the wild environment. Because
don Staley a ticket, Yeah, that was her big thing
was like what she got here is we need to
get the fans here. So for a while they were
(18:03):
doing a dollar a ticket just to get them used
to coming to the game.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I think they did free groups too. If you had
a group of boy Scouts or girl Scouts or Brownies
or whatever, you had a class, a school class. Yeah,
I think they did free groups.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Just to get them in, just because it does create
a social club.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Free tickets, and so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Maybe that's an angle that they'll be looking at for
men's basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I mean, look at what Coastal Carolina did with football
this year, which was insane to me. I would love
to talk to the guy who used to be the
athletic director assistant athletic director here, who is the ad
down down there at Coastal? How did that structure work
with free concessions? Like I spent thirty dollars to come
to the football game, or twenty dollars or whatever it was,
(18:48):
and you're saying I can go eat as many hot dogs,
drink as many beers, have as many French fries and
whatever else I want. That seems like a losing proposition,
even if you bought everything Sam's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Club, especially when you're taking Jordan Well, I mean Jeordane's
good eats. It would seem like for that amount of money,
you just take your kids there to have dinner. You
know what you want, kids, and if you want to
watch the game, that's fine too. Otherwise we're gonna leave
here before the game's over.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
How about a nineteen year old boy. What does a
nineteen year old boy do to uh oh and all
you can eat buffet? Oh my gosh, Lee and David,
you got chicken sliders, You've got Hamburger sliders.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They would lay that thing out.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You got onion rings, you got slices of pizza. I
could get probably in my prime when I was like
nineteen twenty years old, I don't think I don't think
I would have flinched in a ten thousand calorie meal.
A meal of ten thousand calories.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I don't think you'd flinch you that? Yeah, like Sae
that that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So if each hamburger had say, eight hundred calories in it,
I'd eat five. Okay, Now I'm at forty five hundred
calories or whatever, and now I got to have two
or three sodas or whatever. Those are two or three
hundred calories a piece. Get me a couple of slices
of pizza, top it off with some money rings. Yeah,
(20:07):
I'm just freaking destroying this.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Our French fries.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
How did they make it?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But they were doing it because they wanted to have
a full house for the Chanta Clears. That had to
be a lost leader for him. But either way, I
don't even know how we got on this, But you
are correct, Jonathan, American football nowhere near as possible as
I had thought. So they're trying to grow it globally
and bad Bunny is the ticket.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
And college football is stealing. They're stealing your deal, stealing
your stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think college football is in trouble. I mean I
really believe that. I mean, does anybody care about Indiana?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, sir?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
How about Texas Tech?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
No sir.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Those are two of the best football teams in the
country this year and they literally bought that, Like, they
both spent over twenty million dollars to get these teams,
and nobody cares. And so that will be the only
reason that the Big Ten Championship will have any interest
is because Ohio State's playing in it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You know when Clemson scored that touchdown and our fans
were putting a birdie in his face. Yeah, and people
were outraged love by that. I'm like, uhh, he's not
a student athlete, he's a professional. You can do what
you can, yell whatever you want. I used to be
upset by people yelling stuff, obscene language and the like
(21:28):
at the players when they were student athletes. Yeah, now
you can yell whatever you want. You paid damn good
money to get in there to watch that game. He's
getting paid a whole lot more to be there. You
can give him a you can go down his family
tree and talk about his mom and his daddy. You
can yell whatever you want to yell. You fall within
your rights. Now we've changed the atmosphere of college football.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, I mean, you know, I brought my sister in
law to the Clemson game this year, and so before
we went in, I handed her the ticket and she
looked at it and she said, oh my god, it's
one hundred and ten dollars a ticket face value. Yeah,
that's what the ticket price is. She's like, how does
anybody bring their kids?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Like, how could you?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So you're telling me to bring your family of four,
it's four hundred and fifty dollars. Don't forget it's going
to be seventy dollars to park, right, So now you're
at five twenty, you're going to spend probably one hundred
to two hundred dollars on concessions. So it suddenly became
a seven hundred dollars excursion, and if you wanted the tailgate,
(22:31):
you might be up to a thousand. Yep, so it's
one thousand dollars, which is more than most families, I
would say, spend on a vacation to go to one
day of Carolina football and watch them ill I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Last week, he's putting the battery in my truck. We're
talking about game call football, he said. I got off
the bus. I would always take my two boys. I'm
spending about five or six hundred dollars a game. Yeah,
I'm not going to go watch them get beat. I mean,
I'm just not going to. I'm not gonna spend that
kind of money on that. I could buy them something
a bunch greater value.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, and look at what Carolina Football has already told you.
We're doing stadium renovations specifically to jack the ticket prices
to bring more money in. So you know that one
hundred and ten dollars ticket that was for a Friday's
game or Saturday's game that I would expect will be
one eighty within the next three years. Yeah, somewhere in
that price range. You would expect it to be that
(23:23):
because they need to generate several million dollars more just
in ticket sales in order to try to go after
some of these athletes, because, as Jonathan says, they're all professional.
Every high school junior who's got a shot at Division
one has an agent. Now when you're fifteen, you sign
with an agent, and that agent is looking for college deals.
(23:46):
They're not looking for the college for you to learn anything.
They're looking at how much playing time can he get,
how much nil money is available, what kind of endorsements
do you see for him? What is his path to
the end? NFL All of these types of discussions are
happening because again I get it, the kid's career is
going to be over at twenty five, right, twenty six,
(24:08):
So twenty six, your body's broken down and we dispose
of you. So he's got nine years from twenty five
to make his entire life earnings.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, in baseball, they identify these kids by eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, well, yeah, if you're possible, If you're possible by
the time you were a junior, that's when we know
did you did you learn? Because you Like, I was
talking to a guy once, and I think I've told
you this. He's a He was an offensive line coordinator
for Auburn, and he was telling me as the that
he can look at kids literally in like by the
(24:43):
time they're like eight, and tell them, do you have
the build of an SEC lineman. You may have the
build of aligneman, but do you have the build of
an SEC lineman at age eight, he can tell the parents.
Fortunately for him, his hips are not designed to do
(25:03):
what is required of an SEC lineman, which means he
has no shot at the nfl E desonating. But because
just the way the body's built, his hips have to
be wide enough for him to get into the squat
position and stay there. And if it's if it's not
built that way, he can't do it. And it's not
a matter of will or I want to do it.
You just physically cannot do what is required. So we're
(25:26):
not even going to talk about it. You could be
the number one lineman in the country at high school,
but we're not talking to you. You're three hundred and
twenty pounds of pure muscle, but your hips were you're
not born with the right hips. You're out. So there's
not the nil guy's not going to talk to him much.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yet, Scout do the same thing. Just watching the kid
turn on a baseball. Yeah, he said he didn't even
have to hit it. I just want the same swing.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I can teach him the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, we can teach him how to hit.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Okay, now what you're saying, Oh, we're talking about places
if you're to have dinner tonight. Oh yeah, well you
know aute what's this kid's this kid? Now he's not
on my list. Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's a very unique skill set that would make you
a professional athlete in most sports. I mean, I don't
know if there's like special things for like ping pong players,
which I had no idea was like the number eight
most popular sport in the world. I'm assuming these people
are multimillionaires. If they're playing in the number eight most
popular sport in the world, they are. But you know,
(26:25):
I know in football, I know in baseball, I know
in golf. There are certain physical attributes that are required.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Michel Philps.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If you do not have that physical attribute, you will
not be successful at the next level. You can be
very successful at high school, you can dominate the state
because the guys who have that physical trait maybe have
not developed it as far as they can go. But
you might have tapped out, you might have reached your
pinnacle at age sixteen, seventeen eighteen. The guys that are
(26:56):
going to make money at twenty four, that's right, they've
got something that you don't have. And again, of those
that have that skill set or that unique physical ability.
How many of them either don't max it or get
injured in the process. You're talking like one percent of
the of the people on earth have that physical ability.
(27:20):
How many of them are going to push it? And
then how many of them are going to get injured
while pushing it. So you're talking about such a small
group of people that can do this thing, whatever this
thing is. It's so rare. And I mean, I don't
want to say that that's why we pay them a
lot of money, because it's also very rare to be,
you know, to have the mind Like It's like, I
(27:43):
love the conversation once that I heard between a Rod
and Warren Buffett. And a Rod was saying to Warren
Buffett at Warren Buffett's favorite m MacDonald's. They are somewhere
and where where does he live? North Dakota or whatever,
Fargo or whatever, And at the McDonald's and he's saying
to Warren Buffett, I've studied investing my whole life. I
(28:07):
want to be an investor. And Warren Buffett said, don't bother.
He said, look, people have skill sets. You do not
have an investors skill set. And he said, how do
you know that I don't have an investor of skill set.
He said, Well, let me ask you a question. Are
you excited about reading a company's P and L for
(28:29):
the last ten years. If that excites you, then you
have a skill set that is worthy of the of
furthering it. That was my hobby as a child. I
would go I would go to the library and I
would find P and L sheets for companies, which makes
me very I have a brain uniquely wired to do
(28:50):
this thing. This is all I this is literally the
only thing I'm good at. I can't I can't cook,
I can't do anything. I'm okay at card game, not
even that good. My wife beats me usually. But at
investing jet tire, I can't grow up plant. But he said,
you are really good at baseball, And if I was you,
(29:11):
I would stay as good as I can do in
baseball because it pays very well, probably going to pay
more than you make in investing, and so do that
for as long as you can, and then maybe try
to find a broadcast career or something else. Let somebody
who has a skill set of investing take your money
and invest it for you. But I'm not anything special.
(29:32):
I'm just somebody who was born this way. You were
born to play baseball. Thank god there was a game
called baseball. How many other sports would you have been
good at? You might have been okay at some other sports,
but you're a baseball player. That's what you were built
to do.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I remember one of the most intimidating conversations I ever
had was with Dave Thomas and Wendy's. Oh okay, was
there for a golf tournament he was hosting for. There
were a lot of professional athletes there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He liked to help out the kids who are being adopted, right,
that was his big charity m hm.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
And I knew that one of the one of the
guys who was ultra rich because of his availability as
an athlete, wanted to pitch him this business idea. And
so I'm standing there in the urinal next to him.
I got to come up with something to say, right, okay,
other than hey, I like your hamburgers.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh all right, that'd be awkward.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey, so and so was telling me about that business
he wants to put together. That sounds like it could
be interesting. Dave Thomas says, I, like him, would never
go into business with that guy. I said, really, no,
he's not a businessman. Yeah, and I got clammy real quick.
Like this guy can he can. He can see it
in the thirty second conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Which is a great thing. I mean, everybody's got you know.
I thought Will Smith one time said something which I
thought was very interesting. I don't know if Will Smith
is a religious person. I don't know anything about Will Smith,
but he was talking about when he first started becoming famous,
and he first started like he bought his first house
(31:07):
and he was doing everything he could to keep the
home up, including mowing his own lawn, edging the driveway,
all that sort of stuff. And he was like it
was a big pain in the butt. But I thought,
you know, my parents told me to be wise with
my money and don't be frivolous, and so I thought
(31:29):
I was being He used the word steward of my money,
and somebody else talked to him and said, you're an idiot.
That is not being a good steward. God made you
to go be a movie star. You have a unique
charismatic personality that people like. They like your face for
(31:50):
whatever reason, they like your speaking voice. You were designed
for this. Go do more of that. And God also
made people whose skill set are landscapers and lawnkeepers. You're
denying them the right of what God gave him the
ability to do because you're cheap. That's not a good
(32:10):
steward of money. Let's stab it to Larry Bird. Larry
Bird ruined his entire career trying to pave his parents driveway. Yeah,
what an idiot moron. Should have just paid somebody five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He would have made that. He would have made that
in an hour. You made that in three buckets, brother. Yeah, No,
he wanted to do it on his own, do something.
I don't know what the motivation was, because he's a
hard worker. Larry Bird used to be. Kids would stand
outside of Larry Bird's house because everybody knew where he
lived in Boston and watch him mow his lawn with
a pushing more.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
He was just I'm a blue.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Collar guy, shoveling, crush and run gravel. Ye threw his
back out.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yep, never was. I mean he played for like five
more years, but he was never the same.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I learned that lesson the hard way, putting down side.
I put it down, and guess what, I didn't put
it down right.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
First?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh you don't put fertilizer down when you're putting down
saw because it's sorry have been fertilized. So I threw
my back out putting down a palette aside and watched
it die because it burned from the fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
That added injury to the insult.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And when I went back to the place, Carolina Side,
Carolina Farms, I went back to the guys. I said
it all died. He said, well, tell me what you did.
I said, well this, I did put this down. He said,
you put that down, You killed it all. You don't
have to put it out. Well, but if I'd used
a professional, not only would I have not spent hundreds
(33:39):
of dollars getting my back back in line. If he
had put down fertilizer, he'd have to come back and
replace it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
He wouldn't have put the fertilizer down. It probably would
have been perfect exactly, and your line would have looked amazing.
And again, everybody's got a skill and something unique about us.
It makes can make society amazing. So we should celebrate
those things and not try to just go after one
whatever that one thing is. Like, we all want to
(34:06):
be a music star or a actor, or we want
to be whatever, and you pour all your heart into that,
and that's not really what you're that good at. That's
why American Idol is so funny.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Hey, exactly, somebody should have told this kid early this
is not yours. Scarcely why we watch it? Yeah, see
to hear the people that aren't good at this and
they really think that at age nineteen, I'm nailing this.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Great.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood we should be
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We have fun. That's what we're here for. Eight oh
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