12.17: Dropship - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are eight days away from Christmas, and I'm sure
all of you have got all your Christmas shopping done right.
I hope you can send some sarcasm because I know
I'm not the only one that can procrastinate. Now, I
did get everything ordered as far as you know what
I need. I'm sure something will come up that I realize,
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. But I use Amazon
Prime to buy a lot of things. And my wife

(00:22):
and I we share an Amazon Prime account, and that
has taken a little bit of the fun away because
like she sees John, she sees what I'm buying. She
uses the app.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Too, right, there are ways where you can archive in
order to so it doesn't like give you updates on
whins delivered in that sort of thing, because my wife
and I have had the same issue in the past.
But anytime I get a notification this time of year
across my screen about Amazon, I just quickly, I don't
look at it and I scroll. I get it off
the screen as quick as I can.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah. So last year we didn't do gifts at all,
just the two of us, and we just didn't really
see that. We felt like, hey, why not, you know,
we can save some. For the most part, if there's
something we want, we'll find a way to get it,
regardless of it being Christmas time or anything like that.
We'll just get it for ourselves. And it did. It
did kind of miss We missed it more than we
thought we would. So this year we're actually doing gifts

(01:12):
and we're not planning to buy anybody. We weren't planning
to buy any extraving and gifts anything like that. But
now that I'm aware that she's probably seeing everything I'm ordering,
I don't know. It kind of makes me feel like
I'm gonna be like, I don't know if I'm gonna
believe her when she's like, oh, you got me this,
Oh that's great now. Also, let's be real like whenever
you're asking somebody to get you something, like when don'ts

(01:34):
get each other gifts unless it's like, you know, a
gift cards you get your buddy or something like that. Like,
for the most part, you're gonna get what somebody tells
you to get them, right, Like, I don't know as
I'm thinking about it. More often than not, eighty percent
of gifts that I've received from my wife has been
something she knew that I needed that I you know,

(01:55):
procrastinated or just didn't realize that I needed, or it's
something that I like asked for. I mean, she's me
a surprised here or there, but I guess it really
isn't about surprise, so maybe therefore it doesn't matter. I
don't know when you get when you open gifts from
your wife, John, is it usually something that like you said, hey,
get me this for Christmas? Or is it her just saying, hey,
I saw it and I thought you'd like it.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
There's usually at least one thing that I might ask
directly for, something that maybe I wouldn't buy for myself.
But if she gets me in one or two other
little surprises, it's usually things that I'm not expecting, which
is kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't buy myself clothes very often me neither, and
that's usually where my wife comes in clutch for me.
She'll get clothes and rather it be for my birthday,
and I guess mostly for Christmas. And it's usually something
that you know, I would I wear it, I like it,
and I just wouldn't be out looking for it, so
that's you. I usually get my best wardrobe updates during
during the Christmas season where my wife will get me

(02:50):
some new clothes or she'll actually she'll buy them and
then get money from like her grandmother or her parents,
and that's that's that's their gift to me. So if
you really think about it, there's not a whole there's
not a whole lot of like, oh my gosh, I
can't believe you got me this. But yeah, I will
say the the list that you can make on Amazon
is super convenient for sharing with others. So we have

(03:12):
created a huge list of gifts for our kids and
we send that to my parents, her parents, and you know,
their aunts and uncles, and that makes it super convenient
to where I mean not only convenient for us, but
for them. Right like, because I'm sure you probably haven't
gotten that question just yet because you got a little
bit of baby who's experiencing her first Christmas. But you'll

(03:34):
be there at some point where you'll have everybody, Hey,
what should I get Daisy for christ Oh my goshcha,
and you'll probably be saying the same thing that I've
said for years now. Anything but more toys because they
have enough and they just take up a lot of space.
I'm already there, Okay, I'm sure all the.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Little things that she can kind of mess around in
a little flying then the walking saucers whatever you call
those things are house sam big enough for more of
that stuff right now.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
And I feel bad because we'll we'll be moving stuff around,
like I won't be shocked if I end up in
our our area the house, the unfinished area that that
is where we really put a lot of storage where
I'll be putting some of that stuff up just to
because we host a couple of different Christmases with my
side of the family and with her side of the family.
So it's it's pretty hectic as far as just cleaning

(04:20):
up and moving stuff around. And we'll we'll put some
gifts that have been opened probably in there, and I
bet I'll see something, Oh yeah, Moose got this last year.
He didn't even open. It also makes me realize I
should go look at that stuff before I buy new
things and be like, hey, here you go, you forgot.
He'll never remember that he got. He opened up that
two years ago on Christmas morning. So yeah, I uh

(04:42):
Amazon Prime and really just online ordering his his That's
now how people do their Christmas shopping. There's no doubt
about it. But as we discussed earlier, there is something
that that I miss about just more than anything, just
the surety of knowing I'm gonna walk in and leave
with an item that I'm then gonna wrap and put
under the tree. Because when you get caught up in
try rusting the delivery process, I'd say more often than

(05:03):
not it you have no issue, but you really never know.
And if you end up with a package that's late
and it gets here after Christmas, you know you're kind
of screwed. All right, let's get to a quick time out.
Don't go anywhere. We got a lot more to get
into this morning. We'll get a traffick in weather update,
and I hope you hang out with us, don't Why
would you not right stick with us here at news

(05:25):
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(06:30):
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(06:53):
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(07:14):
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Friday with the with the hot well, just I'm utilizing
the remaining days I have left for vacation, so not

(07:36):
many shows left for me before we get to the
actual Christmas holiday. So this is something I found to
be interesting that I want to talk about. If you've
watched Home Alone, you probably remember when Kevin McAllister went
to the grocery store. You made that grocery run back
in nineteen ninety. We'll tell you what his grocery trip
would have cost, what it costs today compared to what

(07:57):
it costs back then, So that that I think will
probably not surprise you, but interesting to say the least.
So stick around a lot more to come. Also, our
friend Alex White's gonna be by in about ten minutes
or so, so keep it locked right here. It's news
Radio eight forty whas. It is seven thirty five here
at News Radio eight forty whas Kentucky in this morning news.

(08:17):
Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. We've got a guest.
It's mister Alex White, who is with us here in studio. Happy,
happy to have you in again. And I was hopeful
that we would be starting our chat off with a
conversation about a Louisville basketball win last night in Knoxville.
But that that didn't happen. That didn't happen. A rough
game and one that they hopefully can can can build from.

(08:38):
But yeah, not a whole lot of good to take
from that one. But Tennessee, of course, is a really
good team. But earlier this morning I got a text
from one of my friends who went to the game.
He'd never been to Knoxville for a football or basketball game,
and obviously for those two sports, also women's basketball too,
I would imagine it's probably a pretty and baseball they've
won a national championship there, so I'm sure the atmosphere
of the environment is awesome. But he said on his

(08:58):
way out there were to Tennessee fans that I guess
saw him making, you know, the sad walk back to
the to the parking lot. So well, hey, at least
Kentucky stinks, And you know, it's just a reminder that
they're they're kind of a frene of me, right because
like you want to beat them. Obviously last night they
got the best of us, but they're, uh, their enemy
is our enemy, right with UK fans. You've been you've

(09:18):
been to Knoxville for football, right, Yeah, Nelan, what was
that experience?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Like, so I married my wife went to ut Okay,
I didn't know that, and uh, I've been down several
times now. I would recommend it's not even a bad
drive from Louisville really, So you know, if you get
a chance, go they. I mean they eat up their
sports big time, just like we do in Kentucky. But yeah,
they're hardcore. They are hardcore. And this morning, actually I
woke up to a message on Facebook from someone that

(09:43):
I didn't recognize the name. I guess you know, we
were friends amendment at some point and it said, uh,
go Valls, You're the only U of L fan I
know haha.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
So he just wanted to find somebody that he could,
you know, connect to Louisville and and and celebrate flex
that that they won.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
So I looked at friends in common and you know,
it's like my wife's are our only mutual friends?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Was like, who is this? Like, oh, you met him
at dinner three years ago. I went to high school.
And he remembers you based off of the little of
being a U of L guy.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
UT fans are crazy enough that like three years later
he was still willing and able and excited to talk
trash to me having I'm a U of L fan
in his life. I kind of respect it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I do too. Yeah, I mean I'm not mad at him.
I'm like, that's good. He got me good, Like, what
a way to wake up? Thanks man? Yeah, well played.
So you when you decided to come to u of
L and go to law school, I know a lot
of things went into that decision, but correct me if
I'm wrong. Wasn't one of Wasn't One of the things
that made Louisville appealing to you is that we were
rivals with West Virginia. Okay, so he also went to Marshall's.
So there again their enemy is like Marshall and Louisville,

(10:43):
we share an enemy, right, Yeah, yeah, I was Yeah,
the Big East days.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
So, I mean I wanted to go to u of
L because, uh, the like I think it was like
December six or something, two thousand and four Blackout.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Game, you know, the last all time game.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
But I mean just phenomenal watching that game in my
apartment with my Marshall friends, you know, as a sophomore
at Marshall. That put Louisville on the map for me,
and then Louisville wins that game. Historically, awesome. And then
you know, everyone in my apartment, I mean, we had
a bunch of guys in there. We just got done
playing flag football or something, so we'd all, you know,
kind of huddled up there. Everybody's going wild cheering for

(11:19):
u of L. So like my first experience as a
u L fan was a Marshall fan cheering for the
team that was playing WU and that was a I mean,
that's probably why I ended up.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's that's awesome. But also, academics sports, lets go knowing
how like rivalries work. Like I'm just envisioning a bunch
of Marshall students and fans watching like you're invested because
you want to see Westerns and you lose, right like
that that was the appeal of it. It was a
big time game, by the way, but when you saw
because it was determined national champions absolutely yeah. And if

(11:49):
louisvill didn't slip up that next game to Rutgers, you know,
who knows what might have been. But you know, that's
a huge moment in UFL football history. And clearly you
know you're all watching just because you love Louisville that night,
based off the fact that they're playing your enemy. And
I'm happy that we came through. Yes, and I'm happy
that it led to you here.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
The thought process was like, hey, I get we got
two shots at the year, like I've got the Marshall
game and I've got the Big East rivalry, and then
you know, I show up in nine and then like
Louisville leaves the Big East because just completely just disappears,
and like, well we've got did.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
We not finish strong against them?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Though?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
In that time? Though, I feel like in both basketball
and football, actually we did pretty well down West Virginia fans.
I've not made the trip to Morgantown for a football game,
but I know many Louisville fans that did. And I'm
not exaggerating when I tell you that. I think everyone
that I've that I've talked to had some type of
a nightmare story to share about how bad their fans were.

(12:46):
You grew up in West Virginia, obviously on the Marshall
side of the of the rivalry there, Like what is
it that makes it just like, okay, not going to
that road game because that's become a thing for people.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Ye, So I can remember in that era Big East,
I waited Tay was that o. Charlie's in Huntington, So
that's midway between Louisville and to View. And there were
Louisll fans that I that I waited on that were
coming back from the game the next day or whatever.
And you know, I'm a hospitable guy. Yeah, so I said, hey, guys,
I'm so glad you're wearing all the gear. Was like,

(13:16):
thanks for coming to They were passing through. Yeah was it,
thanks for coming to West Virginia, Like, you know, so
glad to have you, blah blah blah, and you know
this table said will never be back. I mean like
it was just they had the worst experience with the fans.
And you know, the beer bottle throwing, the battery throwing,
that's the thing there for some reason.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, that's one of their traditions. I suppose it's it's
it's a it's a bad group and it's it's really
top down. Because I saw a video of West Virginia
fans and Pitt fans, because that's a rivalry for them
as well. Pitt in West Virginia they play in football.
Now the only time I ever chare for Pitt. Yeah,
same here, and it's these are college students that the

(13:56):
unfortunately alex like whenever we think of back the heated moments,
by then they were they were they were any biddy.
So like, it's just a thing that the hatred from
West Virginia fans for whoever their rival is. I guess
whoever it is is just is just next level. So
so your in the state of West Virginia. I guess
it could be different in Huntington, but you know, what's
the percentage. Obviously there's way more Kentucky fans in this

(14:17):
state than Louisville fans. But in Louisville, of course, there's
a humongous fan base. If you are a big time
Herd fan and your anti Mountaineers, like, do you stick
out like a sore thumb? Uh not. In hunting it's
kind of like Louisville. Okay, it's a split. Yeah, it's
a split.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
But then you get out into the counties and it's
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Just like it is here. Right It's it's harder to
find Loisll fans as you get out deeper in the state.
But I will say it was always nice whenever I
was specifically on the on the sports side, there are
fans out in the state that are big UFL fans
for random reasons. Maybe they're from here, maybe they went here,
maybe they were the black sheep of the family, and
they're the ones who are always like, hey, I'm listening
from Pikeville, and you know, I'm out numbered. So they exist,

(14:57):
but yeah, they're they're definitely outnumbered, to say the least,
out in the rest of the respect to them, absolutely,
yeah for being willing to holding it down. Yeah, no doubt.
So we are eight days away from Christmas. Is her
Christmas shopping done yet? I? Thank god?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I hope so, I think so I stopped doing it,
So I hope I got everything.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, So you've put an end to it, thinking, okay,
everything's done. Yeah, So you're like me, You're you think
you're done, but you know there's going to be something
that comes up and you're like, man, I've forgot one
item or one gift or one person.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
At this point, now that you mentioned it, I literally
need to make my list and check it twice well,
just to make sure.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, because I think I'm done. I've got everything for
my wife. I think she's listening. So so I did
it earlier this year, babe like weeks ago. Good, so
he's he's ahead of me.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I got most of my stuff ordered, and uh, now
when I'm looking to buy something, it's not even when
I say it's not about price, it's not because I
have unlimited money, trust me, that's not the case. But
it's like can it get here in time? Will the
shipping get it here when I need it? Because that's
that's that's what I do. I wait till I got
to really make sure I've got the date locked in

(15:58):
because when I see it could get here the day
before Christmas Eve on like the twenty third, like that
just makes me nervous. And then I got to go
out and buy something.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, and going to the stores right now is tough.
A few weeks ago, I said, hey, you know, I'm
gonna go run some errants and I was like on Saturday,
which was you know, code for I'm gonna go do
some Christmas shopping. What I stopped by my office because
I'm kind of crazy. I work Saturday's frequently anyways, can't
keep him out of there, and I was I was
literally I was going to go to the outlet. I
was gonna go to them all whatever, and then I

(16:26):
sat down at my desk and you know, there wasn't
people weren't in there. It wasn't crowded, just my office,
and I thought, I'm gonna get everything on Amazon. So
I did a lot of a lot of online shopping
this year.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
So have you missed the experience of just being I
was gonna say out in the madness with the chaos,
but I'm not sure it's madness and chaos anymore? Is
it like people again? You could find places that are crowded.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm sure, but yeah, So my wife wanted to go
to Target this weekend, which I was dreading, and it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
That bad inside. Really, We're now programmed to just get
our phones out and buy things and it's super convenient,
and just.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Got to do it earlier this week though, Like now
you're you're calling it close.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I felt it yesterday and I'm like, all right, I've
got to get this out of the way because if
I'm waiting till any later than this, it's going to
be a real sweat. And I've had that happen to
where I've had to go get like a gift. It's
not as good as the gift that's on its way
because it's late. And you know, my wife, I guess
if anything, she knows I'm consistent. She's never surprised, you know,
she just knows. Okay, Yeah, that's that's that's I'm not
surprised you did that, And I'll open your gift whenever,

(17:25):
whenever it does arrive. But you and I around the
same age, so back in, I mean, I feel like
Christmas movies in that era were really strong, and Home
Alone is certainly one of them. Is it up there
for you? Like? Top top tier, top mount Rushmore, Top two,
top three? What are your others?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
The Santa Claus yep, that's a classic. The Christmas Carol
and it's been done by everybody. Just I love that.
The Muppets one was really good. It's coming to mind.
I'm Home Alone for sure. Yeah, Home Alone's up there.
And Christmas Story they used to play it for twenty
four hours a day on. That was the one my
family and not I.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
I always watch same here and I actually saw it,
I believe it Actors Theater some years back, and it
was it was well done. So we grew up with
the same movies that were always on and Home Alone.
Here we are years later, many years later, and it's
still going to be on on all the stations that
play these Christmas movies. But I wanted to do something
that I found interesting because the grocery trip that Kevin

(18:20):
makes where he's in the he's in the grocery getting
certain items we now have.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
So, yeah, let's see here the new research toothbrush. He
tries to find out if his certifying Yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, he's want like an he's wanting the clerk to
do like a quality inspection on the toothbrush, and she's
clearly annoyed by him. But so in nineteen ninety he
loaded up on food and household essentials and the total
was nineteen dollars in eighty Yeah, nineteen dollars in eighty
three cents. So here's what he had. Half gallon of milk,
half gallon of orange juice, large white bread, a TV dinner,

(18:55):
frozen mac and cheese, tied liquid, detergent, saran wrapry sheets,
toilet paper, and if you remember, he bought some toy soldiers.
So if you look at the price of all those items,
then it's crazy to think that all of that was
nineteen dollars and eighty three cents.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, it's crazy to think about being that age and
having a twenty dollars bills. Yeah, I mean, oh twenty eight, dude,
A twenty.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Would last me a couple of weeks back whenever I
was like, you know, first driving, I mean, I would
have to stretch it out, no wonder he survived the weekend. Yeah,
twenty dollars. So that was the price. Then, Now if
you go line by line and add it up and
they give you a reference as far as where you
can get it it, what was your guess? Hundred bucks
fifty four fifty three dollars and ninety five cents. So

(19:39):
like the half gallon of milk dollar forty four. Like
the most expensive thing he bought was urgent. Yes, oh yeah,
so the liquid detergent thirteen bucks. You can get toy
soldiers for six bucks on Amazon Prime. Toilet paper is
six forty nine. Now draw listen to this. Dryer sheets
and liquid detergent. The total of that was twenty bucks.
In fact, over twenty bucks, it's twenty one bucks when

(20:01):
you add up the change there. So yeah, not a
real surprise, but also that's one of the things that
makes me feel old. Yeah, I mean that movie's that
old like that that was our childhood. And now you know, he.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Said he wants to do a new movie with his
kid as like the kid that's Home Alone.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Now. Could you see that? I saw he was in
the news for something about Home Alone, which I think
he rarely talks about.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
But yeah, I mean, if they make it, I mean
it's like Happy Gilmore too. Yes, I was so going
about it and then it was like, come on, guys,
you had you had all the star power, everyone came back,
and then you just forgot to write the script good.
So if they remake Home Alone again, I mean obviously
there was like several homelone two was great too, but
if they do a remake now retro, I just really

(20:44):
hope it's good because I love that franchise.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, but I hope, just like Abby Gilmore, I loved
it so much that even if the remake wasn't great,
like it doesn't change, it doesn't tarnish my first love
of the actual movie itself. Yeah. I was just sad. Yeap,
I was just sad. I was so excited. I'm like,
all this movie's coming out on Netflix's I feared it
and it's exactly the way it played out, my good night,
Well Alex, we appreciate you stopping by. I hope you
have a very merry Christmas and a happy new Year.

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And we'll get you. We'll get you in here at
the start of twenty twenty six. All right, we'll see,
all right, let's get a quick time out. We'll getrafficking
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