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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Killing Nash, Good morning, good morning, Happy Monday, everybody,
It's tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Showed the day tomorrow be the twentieth of August.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, the month is flying by.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
One month away from the iHeart Radio Music Festival September
Twentieth's when it kicks off in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Baby, are you giving away more tickets?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
M hm, We'll give you more chances to score that
trip with a friend and one thousand dollars? Would you
spend any of that at the table? If that were you,
you got a thousand dollars in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know, I have officially never gambled on anything. I
have never placed a bet on anything with money. Now,
there was that time at Saint Jude's where you and
I were in Where's It Memphis? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
they had like a casino night. But that was that
was like, you know, funny money. Yeah, and we had
a we had a dealer at the blackjack table who
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was trying to help us. Remember I can't remember that
guy's name, but he was nice. He was hooking us up.
But it wasn't real money. I mean I don't I
don't remember how it worked. Maybe you could get a
prize later or something if you win.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The section, and we could buy things to bring to
the Morning Rush regulars and give away on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, we could get like autographed merchandise or something from.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Cars and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's right, that's right. Yeah, that was a that was
a fun night. But I've I've never I tried gambling.
When I was a kid on pitching pennies and it
was literally just pitch. I don't if anybody's ever pitched pennies,
but that was a big thing when I was a kid.
You'd kind of stand, I don't know, ten feet from
the wall or whatever. You flip the penny and it
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would try to get whoever got closest to the wall.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Would win the penny.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And I don't want to say a penny.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
There's a lot of money in the seventies, but it
was I mean, it was definitely more. It was like
pitching a nickel or a dime today, I guess right, it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Was back in then. It's when we could buy a
blowpop for a nickel.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
My grandfather heard I was doing that and he said, oh,
you want to pitch some pennies, Let's pitch some pennies.
He lost a couple, then he won a couple, then
he lost a couple, then he won a couple, then
he didn't lose again, and I lost all my pennies.
And he said, Kelly, you're going to get hustled. That's
what happens. He used to hustle pool, he hustled pitching pennies.
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I guess he was a hustler. And so that was
one of the lessons. And then the other lesson was
that he taught me was that the house never loses,
the house will always win. So when I meet all
these people who tell me I went to Vegas and
I want a thousand dollars whatever it was that they want,
I understand that perhaps there is a very few isolated
incidents where you've only been one time and you want
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a lot of money, and you never gambled again. I'm
not saying it doesn't happen. What I'm saying is, for
ninety eight percent of the people who go to Vegas
or go to Atlantic City or go to some Indian reservation,
you are going to walk out with less money than
you came in with.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, you can tell from a distance that somebody's losing
some money because Vegas has a hell of a light bill.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh I get that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
We were up at Angela and I were at I
think it was Mohegan Sun. We were at the other
day up in Connecticut and it was just unbelievable how
nice that place still is. And there was a beautiful
shopping mall. And I'm surprised they don't just give everything
away in the mall because the casino is jam packed
in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's like two o'clock out on Wednesday, and there's ten
thousand people see and all they're doing is pulling that slot.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Pull it up, pull it, pull it, pull it. I
never did this.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I have never played a slot machine in my life.
I wanted to go to the black jack table because
I like like, I like the game, and I would
always whenever I went to Vegas, or I was in
New Orleans or wherever I could find a blackjack table,
I looked at it. You have to. I figured you
look at it as entertainment. So if I were going
to go to a movie and dinner, I'm going to
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spend sixty bucks, maybe seventy, Okay, So you decide what
would entertainment for the night be and you take that
one hundred dollars or whatever it is, and that's it.
So if you get down I remember getting down to
ten dollars, I'm like, oh no, my entertainment's almost over.
Then I get on a roll. I get back up
to one hundred and fifty. Did I played for like
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four hours? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Really? If you make it last that long, that's great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Then you got to when you finally lose it all
you go, well that was that was That was four
hours of entertainment. That's what I came here for.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That worked out.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well. If you don't go back to the GAYTM machine
and get more money.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
No, don't ever do that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's why we give you one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And if you want to blow it, blow it. If
you want to go shopping, whatever you want to do. Hey,
breaking news. Phil Donahue just passed away. What Yeah, so
he was eighty eight And obviously Phil Donahue huge influence
on what would become the whole talk show industry, like
launched the Oprah Winfrey Show, launched you know, some of
the more I don't sallacious television shows like Jerry Springer
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and so on, and so forth.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He was mister daytime TV.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Man when I was a kid, and people would imitate
him all the time, that walking around, jumping out with
the microphone.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What do you say? What do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Maybe we'll talk about favorite talk shows? Did you have
a favorite talk shows? Like Jerry Springer was a phenomena.
But there was you know, what was her name, Jenny
Jones was a big one back in that day, that era.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There was what was the who is the guy who
ushered out all the he's the baby daddy.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh that's Maury Povich, right, Maury Povitch. That's right.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, So with his wife, did she have a talk show?
She was on CBS news journalist. Yeah, she probably humiliated
by him, but he made so much money that she
could retire early and enjoy her letter years.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
She probably made like ten times more than she did,
and she was like one of the highest paid journalists.
That was Connie Chong, Yes, yeah, Connie Jung.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Other stories that we can talk about there. You know,
you were telling me some insanity about in California, they're
discussing the idea of paying students to come to school.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, nationwide, we've got a huge truancy problem. And in
South Carolina there is a story today about we've got
people that are not we have kids who are not
scoring as well as they were in pre COVID, and
one of the things that's a great concern is our
number of missed or or attendance levels. I should say so.
And I read another story in California where they're developing
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more entertaining recess hours.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
What does that mean they're going to bring in a
clown show ors.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, I think it's more along the lines of team
and organized sports. So try to get the guys back in.
They can play basketball or whatever, but it's more of
an organized recess time. And then the other thing is
is that just that they asked them, what do you
what would it tend to get you to come back
to school? Money? So we're going to pay them in California.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well there's I mean, that's one suggestion. Now we have
another suggestion, canceling homework. According to this, the research shows
that there's no benefit to the homework.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
The study shows that you don't actually learn more by
doing homework. You don't learn discipline by forcing yourself to
do work on your own. All of the benefits that
we thought might be associated with homework are bs according
to a study in Arlington, Virginia, another one in Maryland,
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another one in California, another one in Iowa. So there's
several school districts throughout the country who are just eliminating homework. Now,
what do you think of that as an idea?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You know, I do remember the very Valley complaint that
we were loading on kids with too much homework, and
the couple of things that they learned from that was
that the kids weren't able to get it all done.
They didn't want to go back to school next day
because they were embarrassed, or they knew that they'd get
a bad score or whatever because they didn't have their
homework done. So I get that, but you know, you
still need to have them, I think. So I don't know,
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maybe we'll get some morning Russian regulars. Moms and dads,
you got some insight on that what you thought was best.
Because I have four different kid tracks at my house.
Every one of my children had a different track in
their education system, but all of them had homework.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And I think that for I'm guessing for some parents,
it's very helpful that they have homework, because like my
parents would say, go to your room and don't come
out until you can show us you've completed your homework.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Homework.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, so I could be in there for hours, not
leaving because I might not want to do it, so
I would just sit there and play with my Calico
football game and then I'd start doing it or whatever. Yeah,
just but it kept me out of their hair. We
have a thread on Reddit where somebody asked, what's a
social habit everyone seems to accept but you find it
really annoying. And I'll give you an example for me.
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It's when a group of two or more or walking
two or three wide down a sidewalk and they expect
everybody else to move to the side for them. So
my wife and I are holding hands, but we none
have to get into a single file because there's three
You're coming three wide like you're in a race, and
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we have to move over for you. You don't move over
at all. I'm often stepping off the curb into the
road to help people get by, but they don't seem
to want to make that same thing for me. Another
thing that I don't like. You and I are talking
somebody will walk into the room and they'll just interrupt
what we're talking about. Oh, they got to get they
got to get their things.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yes, like I was sitting and when kids do that,
when my kids would do that, Because it's a humanistic tendency,
I guess to think that whatever you have to say
has to be twenty times more important than what anybody
else is talking about right now. Yeah, but when they
will walk in and do that, I go, wow, Lee,
did you for some reason think that we were just
sitting here hoping that you would come in and share
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us this good news about what happened today at school.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, at least he was talking about school and not
something that you know, did you hear? Clemson got so
and so and the you know got a four star? Great? Great,
there's some other stuff in here. Let people, and you
can read the whole list of what people put in.
But like things like being at the airport, why people
blocking the baggage carousel like they're the only ones there
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to get their bags?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And it could be the rudeness too that even simple things.
One of my boys the other day got very upset
with a a high profile figure here in Columbia who
was coming in the store at about the same time
they were exiting. Okay, my son held the door for them, Oh,
which he is taught to do. Yeah, and he's not
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supposed to do it because anybody's going to stop and
applauding for it. Yeah, but he got very upset that
the dude just walked right past him, didn't even recognize it,
didn't give him that like I'm the doorman appreci Well,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Know if that one's socially acceptable. Is that one socially accepted?
I think that your son would be correct like in
this one. Here, here's another one shaking hands. I find
it disgusting. I don't want your germ covered booger pictures,
pickers in my hands. Filming at a concert, people standing
there with their cell phones in the air, you're blocking
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my view.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Enjoyed the moment, live brother. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Being expected to be available at all times via text,
social media chat all hours, day and night, and then
I'm labeled antisocial when I don't get back to people.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You're right, my bias Apple was bad. Those are those
are all good because the premise, again is.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
These are things that are apparently social habits that are
accepted by most of society, got it, but we find
them very annoying. Anyway, there's a whole bunch of them.
We'll talk about those. Get to yours tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Uh, what is going on in your neighborhood we should
be talking about. Let us know. Reach out to and
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Speaker 1 (12:04):
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