(KMN) 10.1: Shutdown - Hour 4

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The big story today nationally is the government shut down.
And there are many that won't be impacted by this,
and there are some that will and may not even
really notice it until they realize that payday was supposed
to be here and now it's delayed because they will

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be retroactively paid, meaning those that are still working but
not expected to be paid until this government shut down ends.
And that's unfortunate for me, just my own personal I
guess the way I am, I would have hoped that
this wouldn't be something that lasts a really long time.
But also just not knowing exactly how long it's going

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to last would have me very anxious and worried, because
right now, this is the first time it's happened since
twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and things were a lot different then,
and I'm sure there are many that at that time
would have a difficult time going without a paycheck. But
I also wouldn't be shocked if those that were having
a difficult time then would have an even more difficult
time now facing delay and getting paid. Now you're gonna

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have some leeway with your landlord and creditors and things
like that because of your employment status. But still it's
not ideal, and I'm sure I'm sure everybody's hoping that
this thing gets resolved sooner rather than later. But as
far as the impact here locally, again, when it comes
to the types of jobs that are within the government,

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it comes down to essential and non essential. So right now,
if you are somebody that's working I think for like
the parks, I don't know if you're considered essential at
this point. I would assume not, but I could easily
be be wrong when it comes to that, but public safety,
law enforcement kind of stuff, air traffic controllers, TSA, federal

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law enforcement agencies, members of the US Armed Forces. Those
of course are examples of unpaid but still working because
again those are essential essential roles. Now, there are some
employees that are being furloughed here that are on the
non non essential side, and again they won't be paid. However,
they will get everybody's gonna get back pay. And I

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guess timing is probably best case scenario here because I
imagine they were probably paid at the end of the
month and then of course their next paycheck is on
the way, maybe in a couple of weeks, and hopefully
by then this gets resolved, because these things can last
a couple of days, but of course they could also
last a lot longer than that. It just depends. But
it doesn't seem as if either side is looking to

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concede here as far as the differences in what they
think should happen. So again that's the big story here now. Actually,
also JCPS, yesterday twelve fifteen, they had a scheduled media
availability to take some questions in regards to the current
financial crisis they have with a one hundred and eighty
eight million dollar deficit, and doctor Brian Yearwo, the new superintendent.

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He announced a plan at that time to let folks
know that they've they've hired a firm to come in
and do an audit essentially and not only I guess
figure out how they ended up in such a financial mess,
but also how can they get out of it. You know,
they've made some cuts on their end, but they're still
far away from getting this thing resolved to where they
won't run out of money by this time next year.

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But and again that that's not a surprise. As far
as what doctor Yearwood shared yesterday afternoon, I also don't
think timing is great when it comes to, hey, we're
gonna throw some money at something and have somebody help
us out. I mean that's I mean that you've got
to rely on resources to help you because you're in
a mess and you need help. But also throwing money

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at something and just hoping that they end up helping.
I could understand if there are some taxpayers out there
that aren't confident that this is going to really.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do a whole lot of good because.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
They've thrown money at things before that ended up unfortunately
being a waste, and you never know that in real time.
But when you have such a financial mess, throwing money
it fixes, you know, let's hope it works. But the
timing also not great yesterday because I don't even think
this is a major deal, but the optics aren't great.
When you have a press conference, media availability, whatever you

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want to call it, yesterday afternoon, where the superintendent tells
you the plan and that the plan is already in
place in being executed. He said yesterday that he has
hired an outside firm and they are going to come
and do the audit and they're going to do it quickly. Well,
then by the time a board meeting ended yesterday evening,
they made a change. Instead of that firm, he says,
they're now going with the RFP route, basically opening it

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up so multiple companies can can bid on the job.
And that's probably just maybe that wouldn't shock me if
that's just a protocol kind of thing. But to within
the same day already revert back on your initial plan
to an extent, it's just to get I can't lie
and act like it's some huge deal that people should
be losing sleepover. But optics, you know, not great. And

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also after leaving the board meeting last night, Doctor Earwood
did not take questions, but WDRB did submit some questions
to the board and got some answers, And one of
those answers I think is pretty important to this situation.
Doctor Brian Yearwood did claim that he knew there was
a deficit when he took the job, but he did
not know that it was one hundred and eighty eight million. Now,
only he would know if that would have impacted his decision,

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And I wouldn't be shocked at all if it would
have impacted his decision, because again, one hundred and eighty
eight million dollar deficit, where within a year you got
to figure something out or you'll run out of money.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I don't know which.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't know who would be looking to walk into
that job, especially if you already have employment and you
can clearly get employment elsewhere doing what you do. But hey,
only he would know that, only he would be able
to answer that question. All right, let's get to a
quick update on traffic and whether what's doctor Rory O'Neil
coming up here at about eight thirty five from NBC.
He'll tell us the latest on this government shut down.

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And also the plan for Donald Trump to send to
send the National Guard into multiple cities, and of course
the cities that he's looking to send resources to, some
of them don't want the resources. So we'll get to
that in a lot more right here on News Radio
eight forty whas.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So, if you are.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Somebody that has YouTube TV, and I'm one of those people,
it looks as if Google, who owns YouTube TV, and
NBC Universal have reached a temporary deal. So this short
term agreement is going to keep NBC programming on YouTube TV,
and as far as how long that lasts's unclear, but
this deal does prevent an immediate blackout, but it's only temporary.

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They're still looking at a long term agreement and they'll
continue to negotiate. But the deadline was was I guess
midnight last night. So this temporary agreement will make it
to where you can still watch not only NBC and
of course if you hear if your if your local
news station of choice is Way three, you can continue
to get that, but also NBC when it comes to

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Sunday night football, college football on the weekends, and all
the other channels that that that NBC Universal owns we're
talking MSNBC, CNBC, the Oxygen channel, So I'm sure there's
there's many that that consume those channels, and uh, if
you have YouTube TV, you don't have to worry about
losing them now.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
So that's usually how it works out.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I feel like more often than not in recent years,
when there's been an ongoing dispute and they hit that
deadline of either getting it figured out or you losing
access to that channel while they continue to negotiate past
the contract, they usually find some way to at least
kick it down the road a little bit, which again
is good for the customer because you don't you let
them figure it out why you still are able to
use their service that.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
You pay for.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, So I cannot be the only one that
has noticed the amount of SAM calls and messages just
becoming unbearable. I don't know what I've done to seemingly
put myself in a situation where I get it worse
than others, But maybe I'm not alone here. Again, I
can't tell you the last time I've asked somebody and

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they can't say, Yeah, it happens to me. Every now
and then I get a phone call that will identify.
You know, I don't answer if it says spam. But
sometimes you can get a phone call that doesn't say spam.
It's just a local number, and you assume that it
may be somebody trying to reach out to you for
a variety of reasons. Right if you're in sales or
whatever it is you do, somebody calling you from a
local number that you don't have saved as a contact.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's not that rare.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
In fact, it's probably pretty common for many people. But
I know at least some of you are picking up
the phone and realizing it's a bot, it's a spam call.
And mine have been terrible lately with texts, and I
don't know how to. I mean, I ignore them, but
it's just it's NonStop. And the reason I bring this
up is because here in America we deal with it

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more than any other country. So Americans are officially number
one in the world for unwanted scam contacts. So a
global survey of over ten thousand adults find the average
American gets nine scam calls a week, nine scam emails
a week, seven scam texts a week, which adds up
to nearly one hundred scam attempts every month. So in

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comparison here in America, we're looking at one hundred in
the UK, about eighty in Australia fifty two. Singapore is
at forty. So spam email overload is the worst here.
But I mean, the survey says that fifty three percent

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delete immediately, fifty two block the cinder. But I'm telling
you I've blocked the number. I've blocked the but it's
a different one every time, right, And the calls are annoying,
but I can easily just you know, bypass that. But
a text message, I guess it's maybe not even as annoying,
but I'm not as used to getting the spam text
to where I'm just you know, and it looks legit,

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but it's not right. Like of all the things that are,
you know, in the ballpark of being too good to
be true, being bombarded non stop from a company telling
me they want to give me money. I mean, it's
amazing that there are people every day that fall for that. Yeah,

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it makes a lot of sense. Oh, you're telling me
somebody applied for a loan for me thirty thousand dollars.
Oh thank you, What do you need oh my social
Security number. Sure, I mean, think about how ridiculous that sounds.
But I guess there's enough the reason this exists the
way it does because it's clearly a good business for people.
There's enough that fall for it to where it's worth doing.

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know the trill. You've got Tony and Dwight coming your

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way here in just a couple of minutes. Another busy,
busy morning. And I'm not sure if you heard it
or not, Tony, I'll see if I can pull up
the sound. But there's a this actually, let's just do this.
Let's let's let's give you what Kentucky fans sounded like
just a few years ago. This was, this was how
much they loved their beloved football coach at that time,
because you know now they're they're just thinking, okay, is

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he going to give us a break? Can he take
twenty million instead of thirty six just to get out
of here? But it wasn't long ago when the crew
at KSR was roaming the parking lots at Kroger Field
asking when the Stoops statue should get started.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's building, I'll help, I'll get some money.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
What we're gonna do?

Speaker 4 (11:50):
You're not even a maybe you're ready to get out.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Let's build it right now.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
He's a man, Yeah, Stuart building it right now?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Should we build a Mark Stoop statue already?

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Well?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Hell yeah, he deserves it. Is it time for the
Mark Stoop statue? Or are we a little early in
this conversation.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
We're never too early for a Mark Stude statue. We're overdue,
so overdue for the statue. To now, life is a
lot is a lot different. And this is another piece
of sound I played earlier, which again, these are just
two vastly different situations in a rather short amount of time.
When it comes, I mean we're talking maybe two three
years now, you have Kentucky fans just to I guess

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get through it. They're laughing at themselves at a level
I've not ever heard before. This was a fake, I
guess infomercial put together by a Kentucky fan. Let me
start it over here, Cross Kentucky. Back it up, sir.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Every Saturday across Kentucky, innocent fans suffer. They've cheered, they've hoped,
they've believed, and yet heartbreak finds them again. For just
a small monthly gift, you can help end this suffering.
Your donation will go directly to the Mark Stoops buy
out funds, giving Kentucky football a chance at a brighter tomorrow.

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Please don't change the channel.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
The Wildcats can't help themselves. But you can.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Call now and we'll send you a picture of a
Kentucky fan smiling again.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh, fickle bunch.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Sports fans are okay, and let's not let's remind Louisville
fans Sadderfield was acc Football Coach of the Year his
rookie year and was fired two seas or left two
seasons later.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, and look this okay, this things bought them out
and Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
To be fair, one of the reasons that There's season
is going to be so bad is they play one
of the toughest schedules in the country murders. But in
a year where you needed to bounce back and show
that last year was a fluke, that's not happening. The
offense still a mess, they don't have a quarterback and
they're just not very good. But when you bought them out,
that usually means that the good the good sign of
the good thing that could come from that is that
you know it's over right. And I mean this sincerely.

(14:04):
The best thing Kenny Paine ever did was be consistent.
He was awful from day one. Therefore, there was no
discussion to have after two years with Stoops, He's he's
just got a contract that he'd be foolish to walk
away from. They owe that man in sixty days of
firing him thirty eight million dollars.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
So that makes it to where as a Kentucky fan,
the helplessness has to be that what do you do
like even if you bought him out, are they going
to get rid of him?

Speaker 6 (14:27):
And it was the one thing that I got from
doing I don't know, a sports radio for about twelve
years or fifteen years, whatever I did. It was one
of the things that I came away with was I
used to trust coaches and trust situations like, oh man,
we've got our guy. You don't have your guy, like
I said the other night. I was at the nineteen
fifty three dinner for Trinity High School and somebody at
the table said, Bolly, we got we got our guy,

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and he's going to be here forever. He got he
got out, and I laughed, and they're like what, And
I was like, dude, he could be gone tomorrow. He
could be gone tomorrow. I mean the Denny Crumb days
of staying thirty years, the Dean Smith days of thirty
five years, those are over.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's gone.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
And there's such an emotional investment fans make to their
program that it's hard for it to it's hard for
you to live in reality that what this is is
a job for these individuals, and a job can be
bigger than just going to work, clocking in and getting
a salary.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
And I don't care who you are, Yeah, I don't
care who you are.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Door to Dame lost their coach.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you know what? Do you know? What?

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Is like?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
The ultimate reminder for me is that I thought Charlie
Strong would never leave Louisville and I know it wasn't alone,
but I was also probably just very naive because I
you know, he turned out Tennessee. Well, he turned out
Tennessee because he knew he had another year Teddy Bridgewater
and Devonte Parker and they'd get a bigger job like Texas, right.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean, well, there was there was a question brought
up on a postgame show last year on KSR, and
I think it was after the South Carolina game, and
it was will Kentucky football fans be satisfied with what
Stoops is getting paid and just get nine wins every year?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Nine wins?

Speaker 4 (15:54):
I know that was that was before the before the downturn,
But I'm basically, are they going to be statis fighted
with what the what wins they get from Stoops for
however long? Because he's had a couple ten wins seasons.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well he's Here's what's unfortunate is that if if he
does ride it out and just say look, I'm not walking.
You know, I don't want to talk any settlement. I
need I want my money. It's in the contract. And
he doesn't do that, and he has to stay longer,
in a couple more years, whatever it may be, that
will absolutely change his legacy. And to be fair, he
did a great job overall. Even at this point, you'd

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be hard to say he's not been successful for them.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Lifetime contracts and huge contracts are just so stupid, barn
You're not going to keep your coach because you just
gave him a great contract. If he's gonna leave, he's
gonna leave.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
And Barnhardt absolutely got bailed out by Arkansas. There's no
doubt about that in this one. He's not going to
get bailed out. Nobody's gonna come and take Stoops away
from you right now. And if they if they ride
out Stoops for a year more longer. Kaentucky fans are
not going to let him off the hook for Cali.
They're going to acknowledge he got lucky and well coach
his legacy too. Yeah, coaching searches are great for radio show.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, absolutely start doubt about that. All right, we're out
of here.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Tony and Dwight coming your way next right here on
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