6.23: Horsing Around - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and thank you for being with us here
on this Thursday eight oh five at NewsRadio eight forty
whas Nick Coffee. That's me the company man, John All
on the alongside, And we are now in the week four
of the I sixty five shutdown, and I'm going to
share something with you that I did not expect to
be saying. Are you ready? John? Are you sitting down
for this?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Nom? Stand up?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, I just want to make sure you're ready because
it's it's it's surprising news. Oh it's good news. The
can opener hasn't been fed in a while. Oh wow,
we've now had according to the official See this feels wrong,
it feels like it can't be right, but I think it.
I think it is. There's a there's a website louisvillecnopener
dot live which brands itself as the official website for

(00:41):
the can opener. Uh and it does do updates every day.
And we've now had I believe right about a week
straight without any reported feedings for the can opener. So
maybe there's been enough awareness and uh, enough people have
made the mistake and others have learned from it. But

(01:02):
that's good news, right, because if we didn't have the
humorous situation, and I always feel bad saying that, but
it is. It's kind of funny, it's amusing. Clearly others
are getting amusement by it. We've got people making AI
parody songs about it. But like, if you are somebody
that ends up driving through it, I mean, I feel
for you because that sucks, But at the end of

(01:23):
the day, I can still feel sorry for you and
know that it's your fault, right like that can That's
a human reaction, right, Like, Hey, that does suck. Hate
that for you, but you know it is your fault.
There's nobody else at fault. The only person who can
be at fault when this happens is the person driving
the vehicle not knowing how tall the truck is, or
just choosing to not look at the signs and ignore

(01:45):
them and trust GPS that is not GPS that is
up to the standard of somebody that's driving an eighteen wheeler.
So it is long story short. What I'm getting at is,
if we didn't have this at all, if the can
opener situation didn't exist, I mean, we would be talking
about this maybe being one of the smoothest things ever
when it comes to just the worry that was there
about the potential nightmares that you could have with a

(02:07):
sixty five shut down. That we've got here, so we're
not far from the halfway point. And I'll say, so far,
so far, so good, especially if we found a way
somehow to keep these truck drivers from, you know, falling
victim to the can opener. I'd say, more than anything,
enough have made the mistake to where in the trucking world,
I'm sure enough people talk to where it's just a
known thing, like, Hey, if you're going through Louisville, be

(02:29):
advised there's going to be a re route that if
you're not paying attention, you might drive through an area
that you will learn the hard way you weren't supposed
to be at. So again, I mean, wouldn't you say
without the can opener situation, this would be viewed as
about as smooth of a project thus far as you
could possibly have. Wouldn't you say, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
There's been nothing that's made major, major headlines other than
the can opener. And that was again you laid it
all out earlier with the humorous aspect of it, just
the fact that it felt like there was so many
different scenarios and signs that were put up to keep
people from going down that route, and people were doing
it anyway if you remove all of that, I mean,
I don't want to speak for anybody who's had a

(03:09):
terrible experience, which I'm sure there are some who've had
it harder than others, but it's been very smooth for
the most part.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yes, so I know some just like to play Devil's advocate,
and some people just like to blame city officials leadership,
just because that's their nature. But I'm still a little
surprised anybody is viewing this as anything other than the
fall of the person driving. And I think most people
see it that way. But even if you wanted to
play Devil's advocate, how could you, like imagine, just like

(03:36):
visualize a scenario where you are the driver and you're
rolling through and then boom, you hit the can opener
and it probably scares the crap out of you, and
it sounds like when this happens, nobody's been hurt, but like, still,
it's an awful situation. Imagine getting out of the vehicle,
looking around and pointing a finger at anybody but yourself, Like, who,
how could that be on anybody, but you like, that's

(03:57):
quite literally your responsibility, your fault for knowing how or
not knowing I guess how tall your truck is and
ignoring the near thirty signs that are right there telling you, hey,
don't go down this path. If you are a truck driver,
if you're in a semi turn left before you get there,
or turn right, whatever it is, I guess, depending on
which way you're going. All right, So yesterday there was

(04:22):
a judge who was in front of I guess it
was the defendants that were in front of the judge.
That's the best. That's the better and more accurate way
to describe it. But it was some of those that
were arrested for their involvement and what took place once
again over the weekend in the Highlands area on Barchtown Road.
And I think the judge said said it best when
it comes to just, you know, talking to these individuals

(04:42):
who are choosing to go out and make it a
really an awful situation for those that actually want to
enjoy the good night life that you can have, or
at least you used to be able to have in
the Highlands on Barstown Roads.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Ridiculous go to an establishment and have fun like regular
people around town, or stay home or in a friend's house.
This favor is ridiculous. That all of you are sitting
in here.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Is so dumb.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
You're grown acting a fool and messing up everybody else's
nigh too.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
So that was a judge, Christina Garvey, and I believe
one of those that she was that was in court
yesterday in front of her was somebody that's like like
twenty six. I mean, these are adults. This isn't this
even you know, it's still a tough situation. If you've
got teenagers that are fourteen years old hanging out at
three am on Bargetown Road, I mean that is happening.

(05:34):
By the way, some of these are juveniles, which again
that's a different conversation. But like, this all comes down
to people just making the decision to either follow rules,
do what you're supposed to do, or break the law.
And I don't know when the switch flip to where
some people the instincts for them now go to not

(05:56):
pointing the finger at the person who made the decision
to break the law that actually is the ultimate one responsible.
Now you just have well they got to do something
they got to do something. Look, there are things that
can be done, and it sounds like the city is
looking at more so looking at things other than just
the the task force. They're going to actually look at
other things they can do to make the situation better,

(06:17):
and I think they should. I don't have the plan myself,
but obviously whatever you can do to to make it
to where this is no longer an issue, you're going
to want to do. But the scenario that this changes,
or that this was prevented with any involvement other than
the people choosing not to behave this way anymore or
initially never doing it in the first place, Like that's
how you actually get better here, Like that at the

(06:40):
end of the day, LMPD is not responsible for what
these people choose to do. Now, if you want to
have the conversation about, well, some of these people that
are doing it, they're criminals, they should have never been free,
different conversation. And also, to be fair, that's not lmpd's fault.
They don't decide how long people stay behind bars. So
again it's almost like the judge is talking to an

(07:03):
eight year old who's not been behaving. But I guess
that's what you have to do. And I don't know
if the words are gonna are gonna make a difference here.
Maybe these people that are arrested are gonna continue to
do it as soon as they get the opportunity. And
you know what if they do, you know whose responsibility
that's on them. If somebody chooses to go out there
and do that, there's no task force. There's nobody at LMPD,

(07:25):
Craig Greenberg. They can't go out there and prevent it.
It's just not reality at all. All right, we'll get
you caught up on traffic and whether we do have
a developing situation. A sixty I'm sorry and I'm seventy
one northbound crash has blocked all lanes. We'll get the
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dot Com. This this came in just a moment ago,
and I'll give you the answer to this question. That's
driving this gentleman crazy? Yeah, Nick, I was. I was
really hoping that Judge was going to tell those idiots
just stop breaking the law, you know, like your like

(08:30):
your drop says.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
But here's what's actually driving me crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I know that's from a movie, and I cannot, for
the life of me figure out which one it is.
Driving me absolutely insane stop breaking the lot.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
So, John, do you know where that comes from? I
think if you don't movie with Jim Carrey, right, Yeah,
that's Jim Carrey's voice.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I don't know the movie.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's Liar, Liar okay, and it's and I think, if
I remember correctly, which I should, because it's one of
the movies I've seen so many times, mostly when I
was a kid, I haven't seen it in a while actually,
but that was during Jim Carrey's really great run, I
mean my childhood, like mid nineties, late nineties. He was
on a tear from the mask Ace Ventura. Liar Liar,

(09:18):
He's I mean, it's funny now because I can't think
of the last time I watched a movie of his
that was relatively new, Like I probably haven't watched a
movie Jim Carrey's been in that's been made in twenty years,
maybe longer. I really can't think of it. But anyways,
that was liar liar right when he's coming to the
realization that he no longer has the ability to do
anything but share the truth and a client calls He's

(09:40):
a lawyer, and a client calls him, and because he
can't really communicate how he typically would, he just he's
sped up and just that's what he starts telling his
clients who needed services in and they're in a tough situation.
So that it comes from Jim Carrey in liar Liar,
And I think some of the best drops and we
don't use a lot of them on this show, although
it's one of my favorite things about radio is sound drops.

(10:03):
But that's more so I think for shows that have
I try. I'm gonna try to think of how how
I want to word this without misspeaking. But like, we
are a live, real time news show to where you
know you're only getting people for small segments here and there,
so you got to be really broad and there are
certain sound drops that are fit. They fit with with

(10:26):
things that come up often. Right, Like the reason I'm
able to play this, I could play it every day
if I wanted, God is because a lot of people
break the law and usually that comes up at some
point within the show. But I wouldn't want to. I
wouldn't want to use one that would seem unrelatable and
people would be like, what the hell is that? Why
does he keep playing it? Well, usually when we're talking

(10:46):
about somebody getting in trouble, you know, you're well aware
while we're playing this, which really is great advice that
I could play on a loop. I don't think it
would make a difference. It would just annoy you, but yeah,
it checks out. So, yeah, Jim, what's when you think
of Jim Carrey? What do you think of John?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
For me, it's the Grinch?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, and that's most a Yeah, I guess I think
that speaks to our age difference, and I mean, I'm
my first impression of Jim Carrey was actually when he
was on in Living Color and he was hilarious as
a as a cast member there. And then the first
movie I think of is is Is the Mask? But

(11:26):
cable guy? Like that was to me again, I'm I'm
thinking of these movies as like all time classics, and
they're probably just viewed as you know, stupid comedies, which
doesn't mean that people disliked it, but like those are
the kind of movies I would watch over and over.
So yeah, that's where it's from now, you know, and
hopefully you're it's not driving you crazy anymore. All Right,
We've got a sports up day coming up on the

(11:48):
other side, but we'll get to something you don't often
see a guy that looks like he's the future of
a sport. That's Dusty May in college basketball, now choosing
after just two years at his most recent stop and
a national championship trophy, he's now moving on from college basketball.
We'll get to that coming up next. So it sounds

(12:08):
like there is some movement now on I seventy one North,
which is a good sign. That means they're making progress.
As I'd say, it's been about an hour, maybe a
little over an hour where you had no lanes open,
which means everybody was just sitting and that's never a
good situation, especially on your morning commute. So it sounds
like they're making progress there on seventy one North. All right,
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there's never a bad time to talk talk a little
college basketball around here, right, That's what we do. We

(13:12):
are college basketball country. And when you see a guy
who just won a national championship in his second year
at a school that certainly isn't the best program in
college shops. But Michigan, I mean they're they're in that
second tier, right, like nobody's shocked when they're good. They've
got a.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Title before Fab five or I guess came close to it.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, they've had history. I mean they
they've had They've had success in a lot of different eras, right,
I mean they had the Fab five, as you mentioned.
That's what I think of when I think of the
early days of Michigan basketball being good. And then of
course they had a great run under a coach whose
name I often forget, but he's probably like the best coach.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
He left for the NBA, just like Dusty Matd by
the way, John b Lyin, Yeah, John Blin, I mean
he had it rolling there. They made at least three
final fours, played in two national championship games and then
he went to the kind of became forgotten about. But
Dusty May leave in Michigan after two years, and it's
really not surprising. And I think John, you and I
aren't is plugged into sports as we used to be

(14:12):
on a daily basis when we would do a three
hour show together. Yeah, but I feel like there's not
as much overall jaw dropping shock because we've now been
in this whatever you want to call it, for long enough,
the era of uncertainty, if you will, when it comes
to college sports, that any coach leaving really under any

(14:35):
in any circumstance can be chalked up as well. You know,
I get it. I wouldn't expecting it, but it kind
of makes sense because right now college sports specifically and
certainly college basketball is in there as well. You just
don't really even know what your job's going to look like.
Not meaning that you're worried you're gonna be fired, yeah,
but like what's going to be the rules? Right? What
are you allowed to do? And I think another factor here.

(14:59):
I'm not saying this has anything do a Dusty May,
but I think the awkwardness of knowing that, I mean,
you got coaches making less money than their star player.
You've got assistant coaches. They're making the high end of
what an assistant coach makes at a big time school
and the star players making four times that. And look,

(15:22):
what's more valuable an assistant coach or somebody that can
help lead you to a Final four. I'm sure fans
would say, look, we don't care if that coach is
making anything. We want the best players. But like, internally,
that's just not normal. And it may be the new
Norman twenty years, but those that have been in college
basketball as coaches long before we hit this level of
the new world where college sports became pro sports, it

(15:45):
is a tough thing to navigate, especially if you've been
doing the job for the same way twenty years and
now things are different. I think coaches just walking away
from college basketball and even college football like it can't
really be a shock at all anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
There was a screenshot of a post that was made
on Twitter back on April fifth. It was sent to
me yesterday. Pete Famill initially tweeted Dusty May has informed
Michigan officials that he's not pursuing any college basketball jobs,
and then Trilly Donovan on the same day quote tweeted
that saying an important distinction to notice college basketball jobs.

(16:19):
And of course now you got two and a half
months later that ended up being very important because he
was just doing an NBA professional job.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yep. And how about this for being awkward. This all
broke while the Dusty May basketball camp was going on
at Michigan. How Oh, there's somebody who posts somebody who
posts a picture of the jumbo tron at their home
arena where it shows Dusty May basketball camp and it's got,
you know, all the branding on the video boards and

(16:47):
says here a bad day to be a counselor at
the Dusty May basketball camp. So yeah, not ideal timing
at all. So here's what you need to know as
far as what this means for that roster that Michigan has.
You know, the roster that I mean a lot of
guys are going to be gone from year's team. In fact,
I have no clue who they even have coming back.
But when you've got momentum, and there's no better momentum
than being fresh off a national title, and you've clearly

(17:08):
got resources at a place like Michigan, you're gonna have
a good roster. Probably a lot of it is through
the portal or through high school ranks, but these guys
are now able to So here's here's the policy change
that this will be the This actually just changed in January,
so when a head coach is it moves on. So basically,
when a coaching change occurs, players are gonna have a

(17:29):
fifteen day period in which to enter the portal. So
the portal has been closed for a while now, but
these guys will be able to enter the They're gonna
they're gonna have a fifteen day window to hit the portal,
and that window begins five days after the new head
coach is hired or publicly announced. So they're kind of
in limbo right now. And this is what I don't know.
We had somebody asked this to me earlier, and I
don't know the answer to this question because these guys

(17:51):
have signed to play at these schools by now, and
yet they don't have a coach. Like this could be example,
This could be let me give you a prediction here, John,
This could be the ultimate example of somebody truly getting
caught tampering because they have no coach right now, which
means behind the scenes, everybody's tampering. So wouldn't shock me

(18:12):
if coaches are finding a way to get access to
communicate to these players that are at Michigan. Oh yeah,
but like for here, this is just like if they
it's been it's been pretty direct for a while now
that if guys are entering the portal with a non
contact you know what, that means they've been tampered with. Right,
They've already been talking through third party channels or maybe
even directly. But if there's a Michigan player who announces

(18:35):
that he's you know, makes it public that he's transferring
when he technically isn't even allowed to be in the
portal yet, that will be the full on proof like
we've never seen before, that somebody tampered and it may
give the NCUABLEA a chance to try to enforce something.
But then again, as I say that, I realize how
insane that sounds, because the NCAA enforcing anything this day
and age just doesn't seem like reality, does it. I mean,

(18:58):
they have no power.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
So but one thing that I'm worried about, not worried about,
but curious on how things will shape up. Most everyone's
got their roster full. Yeah, I know you can make
room probably one way or another. But like, these are
elite players I would imagine for the most part that
will want to jump in the transfer portal, or maybe
they won't, who knows, But if they do, where are
they gonna go? Like how are your room left? Who's

(19:19):
got money left? Because then you're also kind of fooling around,
maybe your own nil contracts for these other different schools,
and maybe somebody who was going to get this amount
of money is not going to get less money. And
it's a big disaster what's going on with college sports, right.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
And I think every coach is just trying their best
to navigate it. But you don't want to look forward
and see nothing but in uncertainty, and that's where they've
been for a while now. And I think if it
really just depends on how you're wired, right, if you're
somebody that like I think Pat Kelsey was already having
to deal with this stuff before it got to the
higher level because he was losing his good players when

(19:54):
he was coaching at Charleston, right, So he had to
build a roster. If he had good players, he knew
he was likely going to lose them because that's that's
just what was happening in his final years there at Charleston.
So I think just your history, your path in the
profession is going to have a big factor in how
you can handle this. But regardless if you're somebody that's
embracing it and doing well or you're somebody that's struggling,

(20:15):
I think collectively they would all agree there needs to
be some level of just looking forward and knowing what
is allowed and what is not, What are the rules,
what are the standards, because that seems to be more
cloudy now than it's ever been. And again there's legislation
that's been drafted, but there really isn't any feel as
far as is this going to change, like this is going
to happen or not, because no matter what, hiring a

(20:36):
lawyer going to court has always worked. And I don't
see the collective coming together from college sports as a
whole to keep people from doing that. I think they're
going to continue to try to lawyer up and do
what they can they get an edge over anybody else.
All right, quick time, I will come back and wrap
this thing up and hand it off to the one
and only Leland Conway filling in this morning for mister

(20:58):
Tony and Dwight. Stick around, all right, just a couple
of minutes left with us, then we're gonna hand it
off to mister Leland Conway filling in for Tony and Dwight.
And this doesn't surprise me because there's been a lot
of buzz about it, But Toy Story five scores the
year's biggest debut with one hundred and sixty million at
the box office, and it shattered the franchise opening record week,

(21:22):
a record for the opening weekend for any of the
Toy Story movies. I've only seen I think the first
Toy Story really the second, the second one, I probably
have seen it, but I don't know for certain. I
don't really remember it. I've seen the first one a
bunch of times. But yeah, it's really popular, and I
felt like the noise leading up to it was, yeah,

(21:44):
can do they really need to keep doing this? Right?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Like?

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Is it worth doing another one? And yet a lot
of people showed up to see it, and from anybody
I've heard talk about it, they've said it was great because.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
You know what it is people my age who grew
up with the original Toy Stories one and two. They're
taking their kids to see Toy Story five. Like, wow,
I grew up with this series. Now you get to
watch it like I did. It's that, it's that whole thing.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yes, So the first one came out in ninety five,
the second one came out in ninety nine. So I
did see the second one when it came out because
I was still young. I was probably the target audience
then still, But then they didn't release another one until
twenty ten. And I know I've not seen the third one,
the fourth one, or the fifth one. So maybe that's
something I do with my son, get him watching all
of them, and I can. I can catch up because

(22:27):
of all the And I've never been even as a kid,
I wasn't real big on cartoons. I don't know why
You're too good for him. No, it wasn't that, I
just don't. I don't to this day. I everything we
watch on movies or television, like, if you really try
to look for it, you'll you'll realize how unrealistic a
lot of things are. But with a cartoon clearly being
not real that just for some reason, it kind of

(22:48):
always turned me off a little bit. And I'm weird.
I like documentaries, that kind of stuff. I'm more so
into that than really anything. But Toy Story as a
Kid was one of my favorite movies. So maybe I'll
catch up at some point. But yeah, a lot of
money made it a box office. All right, we're out
of time. You're in for a treat. You got the
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