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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're off to a cool start here on a Monday morning.
Forty four degrees. Looks like the sun's already coming out,
so that's good and it's going to warm up. But
a cool start to the morning, probably the coolest it's
been so far this fall season. So again, we're going
to be in for pretty pleasant week. I would say,
as far as temperatures, very fall like, going to be
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cool in the evenings and in the mornings and then
looking to be I guess upper sixties is probably as
warm as it's going to get this week, and I'll
certainly take it. It feels like fall out there, looks like fall,
and I'm happy to see it. I was also happy
to see Jeff Bram and his team on Friday night
put together one of the best wins. I mean, this
may sound like and in the moment kind of thing,
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some recency bias here, but if you just base it
off of the number that was next to the name Miami,
it's one of the biggest regular season wins in program history.
Second time they've knocked off the number two team in
the country. The last time it happened was with Lamar
Jackson and that team in twenty sixteen beat Florida State,
who was also ranked number two. But what a monumental win.
That really changes how Louisville fans can look at the
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rest of this season. And Jeff Brohm, I don't think
anybody will be able to give you one specific thing
that makes him so good in those games. But he's
got some kind of magic formula that when he takes
a team that is understandably an underdog, he gets them
ready to play and gives his team's chances to win.
And look, Louisville, I don't want to say that they
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ran I mean I don't think they ran away with
the game at all. I mean, clearly if there wasn't
that late interception at the very end, which by the way,
was the fifth interception for Carson Beck, one of them.
He got bailed out with a bad pass of roughing
the passer call. But I was worried they were going
to score a touchdown, which would have changed everything. And
you would think, man, how could you not have taken
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advantage of more? Right, meaning they have so many turnovers
and you weren't able to convert and turn those into points.
Is that going to come back to bite you? Oh?
And then By the way, maybe the biggest momentum shift
in a game I've ever seen is whenever you have
the ball back up, was it eleven or something like that,
and you're at that point and just you're in great shape,
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just wanting to continue to milk some clock, and then
Isaac Brown fumbles, They scoop it, take it to the
goal line, and then score get the two point conversion.
I mean, it looked as if Louisville was in the
driver's seat and get a cruise to a victory to
it being a really close call, which it was. But
I don't think many fans have thought about that ever since,
because you don't think about that whenever your team wins
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a game like that. So what I was getting at is,
not only does he win these games, he's now four
and zero against top three teams when his team is unranked,
a random but yet crazy impressive stat for Jeff Brom.
But I mean, sometimes they win and they win going away.
That happened with Notre Dame. That happened with Clemson last
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year when they beat Ohio State. He knocked off Urban Meyer.
That was really the first big win for Jeff Brom
as a head coach. At the Big Ten and kind
of put him on the map. That team was pretty
good that year, and by the way, that was the
year that he decided to turn Louisville down and stay
at Purdue. But he's got a gift to winning those games,
having his teams ready to play. And yes, they've oftentimes
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his teams, I should say, they've given up a game
to somebody they had no business losing to right after
winning these monumental games. But the scheduling gods are on
your side here because I see it. I mean, you
never say never, but losing to Boston College would make
it to where you just simply know, like, don't even
play the game after beating a big opponent, because they're
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twenty four and a half point favorites against Boston College
and a loss here would be I mean, I just
can't see it happening, but hey, that's why we played
the game. Upsets happened. I'm sure many people didn't see
Louisville winning on Friday, but they did.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
If that happens, they need to start scheduling one of
the BIE weeks after a big opposent. If that that
might be the solution.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That happens I'm gonna lose my mind because I mean,
it would you can't make any sense of why he's
so good, But you also wouldn't make any sense. And
when I say so good, I mean in those games.
But you also can't make any sense as to how
that could even be possible, like how can it be
such a night and day difference from one week to
the other. And look, you can typically have I mean,
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let's be honest, Louisville is not going to be as
up for playing Boston College because there's a human element
involved in sports. They know that they're supposed to win.
They know that it's not a national prime time game
like Friday Night was. But you can usually if you're
that good, if you're good enough to beat the really
good teams, when you've got a dud coming in, you
may not cover a twenty four and a half point spread,
But like the chances of losing are extremely rare. But
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in Jeff's case, it has happened. And I may look
at this a little later this week just to see
the previous scenarios where he what a big game and
then lost when he shouldn't lose. Were they ever twenty
four and a half point favorites. That's a lot for
a conference game. But it'll be a night game, and
I'm sure the crowd will be bigger now that they
pulled off that win against Miami. I don't know what
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to expect as far as the total number, but it's
a game that can certainly change how Louisville fans view
the of this season.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Who knows if they end up making the College Football Playoff.
Who knows what happens the rest of the way, But
a win like that it puts you back in the
mix where you can now see yourself finding a path
to the playoff. And when you are a fan and
your team is in that spot where they are maybe
sometimes fully in control of their own fate. Maybe at
times they've got a good path, they just need some
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things to go their way, a break here, a break there.
That makes it more fun. And we didn't have that
before the playoff expanded. So I do think having more
inclusion in college football with this expanded playoff has helped
the sport in a big way, and Louisville is an
example of that. And with Jeff there certainly have been
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some setbacks here and there. Right, They're not perfect they're
never going to be He'll lose games and we're going
to be upset about it because that's just that's how
it works. But so far he is now, he's got
two more wins than anybody else in the ACC since
he got higher two and a half years ago. You
played in the conference championship game, big game once again.
That gives your program a lot of pub and a
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lot of notoriety. And that's why you bring Jeff Brown home.
I mean, who knows what happens the rest of the way.
But if there's ever somebody that's going to take looival
football to heights, it's never been before, he's going to
be the guy to do it. I think, all right,
let's get too a quick bit of trafficking weather. We
got a lot more to get into before before we
get out of here. Roy O'Neil gonna join us coming
up at eight thirty five of NBC, So stick around
(06:23):
for that right here on news Radio eight forty whas. So,
it sounds like people aren't spending as much money on
Halloween this year. I would say the reason for that
is pretty obvious. But the high spending generations, millennials plan
to spend five hundred and twenty two dollars. Gen Z
plans to spend four hundred and thirty five dollars, nearly
(06:44):
double the national average. Is going to say that sounds
like they're spending a lot, but that is the high
spending tiers there, but says that fifty percent of Americans
say they're cutting back on every variety of how you
would spend money on Halloween, from your costumes to the decorations,
and of course the candy that you give out. But
others say that they thirty nine percent say they admit
(07:05):
they've overspent every year before, which I can't think of
any expenses in my home other than just buying candy
for the kids who come to our neighborhood and also
getting costumes for our kids. But clearly other people they
they do a lot more for Halloween than I guess
I've always done. I mean, Halloween to me was such
(07:28):
a whatever, random holiday, and I guess it's still kind
of is. But now that I've got young kids that
like to dress up and they like to trick or tree,
that's what makes it stand out a little bit more.
But even growing up as a kid, were you a
big Halloween kid? John, I will say back.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Whenever I was younger, there was a time, and I
think it was pretty short lived. Halloween was my favorite
holiday for.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
A while now because of the candy component, or just
because of everything.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That with it the candy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like my family would host a big Halloween party where
a bunch of people would come over and we'd all
trick or treat around the neighborhood. So it was it
was an event for our family for several years. And
this is when live in Indiana too. But once you
moved over here to Kentucky, that obviously stopped and that
was no longer the big deal that it was back then.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I remember. I remember as far as costumes. Once
I got a little older, meaning like eight, nine, ten,
I remember always feeling like I never had a good
enough costume, Like I always felt like my costume wasn't
gonna be it because I mean, I didn't get real creative.
In fact, I think my mom would ask me at
times what I wanted to be, and I would never
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Really I never really had any other than the Batman
costume I got when I was like five or six.
I remember thinking that was the coolest thing in the world.
But after that I just never felt like I was
dressed up enough, and I really have never been huge
on candy. I will say now that now that I'm older,
candy that I really like the sweet, the sour stuff
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like Skittles, Starburst airheads, that kind of stuff. I don't
feel like that was as common in the candy that
you would pick up at somebody's house when you're going
trick or treating. Now there's all kinds of different stuff
you could get.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Also as far as people spending less money, one of
the factors here is costumes because you can now use
AI tools and there's all kinds of them that will
help you. You tell it what you want to be,
and it'll give you different ways. You can make it
yourself and make it look super realistic to what you
want to be. You can also take a picture of
yourself and it'll show you what you would look like
in said costumes. So spending money on costumes has has dropped,
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and it makes total sense if you could do it yourself,
customize a little bit more and spend less money. I
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let's do this. We'll get a update of traffick in weather.
See how we're looking here on the roadways So far,
I think It's been pretty smooth as far as traffic,
(10:26):
but as you know, that can change you any moment,
so we'll rely on Bobby Ellis to keep.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A squared away there.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Also, we'll get a look at the forecast from at
Melosovich and another sports updates come in your way. Roy
O'Neil said to stop in at eight thirty five, So
I mean it when I say we are loaded the
rest of the way, so don't go anywhere. Stick with
us right here on news Radio eight to forty whas
we are wrapping things up here on a Monday morning,
just a few minutes left for us, and then we'll
hand it off to Tony and Dwight. I believe Tony
(10:52):
out today, but that's okay. You're in good hands. The
one and only Dwight Whitne will be with you take
it over around nine o'clock. Been a busy, busy Monday
morning and something we have been keeping up with around here,
and I'm sure many of you may have already noticed
the impact, but the AWS servers being out that has
led to a real issue with seemingly countless platforms that
(11:15):
people every day, folks rely on that rely on these aws.
Amazon Web servers. So it sounds like as of as
of the eight fifteen, they they're continuing to get everything
back up and running. So it sounds like they fixed it.
It's just taking time for the fix to take effect.
And as somebody who used to run and operate a website,
(11:36):
I've been in that helpless, helpless spot to where you
have no I mean, I would never know how to
fix it, even if you know, even if I had
access to a server. But when I ran a website,
obviously I have relied on servers to help to help
keep it up and running. And of course, you know
you pay for that, and you pay a lot of
money if in fact you've got a big following that
has a lot of traffic. And once they get it,
(11:58):
once they get the DNS. I just remember always hearing
that the DNS something has been has been re established,
and that was that was the green light of okay,
now we just wait until it it it kicks back on.
So it sounds like that's where we are. The fix
is in and maybe you haven't even there, won't even
noticed any impact. But this morning, I guess more so overnight,
(12:19):
you had countless platforms that that folks rely on that
did not work because again those servers were down. Just
to give you a little bit of of a rundown
of some of these names. You know we're talking about
if you're playing PlayStation Online, Disney Plus, the McDonald's app,
United's Airlines app, at and T's web portal, a very
(12:39):
popular graphics platform, Canva, Snapchat, Facebook, to an extent, we
even had I think some issues with our iHeartRadio app.
That wasn't an issue once the show started, but I
think overnight there was some issues because again a lot
of folks, a lot of a lot of big companies
that have a have many platforms maybe that millions of
(13:00):
people utilize. In order for that to function and power
they rely on these eightws Amazon web servers four million
customers worldwide. And when it comes to customers, keep in
mind that's not me and you, that's people who who
have a platform and they use a server in need
the need need a powerful server to where they can
(13:22):
let millions of people use their service every day. So
thirty percent of the global cloud infrastructure market is controlled
by AWS. So when it doesn't work, we're going to
know pretty quickly as far as certain things just not working.
The way they are supposed to, all right, John, One
of the stories that we heard in one of the
recent news updates is, I guess not so surprising, but
(13:43):
Big Sky Montana and now being the most searched vacation
spot in America? Am I wrong for assuming that has
to be somewhat related to the popularity of Yellowstone?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh, that's absolutely has a lot to do with it,
would imagine.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But it sounds silly that that would be such a such
a factor. But I just think that that area of
the country was, you know, and again that show is
really popular. And by the way, Big Sky Montana does
look absolutely beautiful. I'm not sure if I'll ever make
it there, but I would love to just because it
looks awesome. It's also not easy to get to and
it's very expensive, especially now whenever it's become so popular.
(14:17):
But that's the first thing I thought of when I
heard Big Sky Montana, which I'm not even sure that
the show was, Phil, I don't know where was the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Show Yellowstone took place in Wyoming? Maybe don't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Maybe you're right, Yellowstone and yeah, so Wyoming, Montana. Those
two states specifically come to mind for me when I
think of just the new interest level that is there
is and by the way, those places have always been beautiful,
but it just seems like in the last decade or
so actually getting out and if you went, I'm sure
you enjoyed every second of it, because it does look
to be absolutely beautiful. I just know that as far
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as people who are not in America looking for destinations
that they want to travel to and see, I wonder
where Big Sky, Montana was ranked fifteen years ago compared
to now.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I feel like, in general, a lot of locations out west,
I've noticed a lot of people that I know they
just people are taking road trips out to that part
of the country a lot more frequently than I've ever seen.
Maybe it's just a shift in what people are interested
in doing when it comes to going on vacation, but
I feel like it used.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
To just be the default. Everyone goes to the beach,
that's the allea thing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I get it if you want to. I mean,
I'm all about trying different stuff. My wife and I
that's one thing we're not on the same page about.
She could go to the same place every single time
we go on a trip and have a good time,
and I could have a good time doing that as well.
But I like to experience new places, and obviously you'll
have a risk of going to a new place and
finding out you you don't like it and you've got
to spend a week there now, or whatever it may be.
(15:36):
But I would love to get to that part of
the country, not just Montana, but just really really out west.
I've been to Phoenix, I've been to Vegas. I've not
been to La don't really have any desire to go there,
to be honest with the In fact, I don't really
have any desire to go to California.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I know that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But the Pacific Northwest has always been a place that
I would that I've that I've wanted to go to
just because I think it looks beautiful from what I
can tell. And then of course that that that that
just really what's the best way to describe it, because
it's it's it's I guess, just the Montana Wyoming. I
don't have a whole lot of interest in the Dakotas,
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although I have seen some areas there that are beautiful,
those places that I just I know I'll never drive
through because I'm on my way somewhere, right, those are
some places that I find myself wishing I could get
to at some point. But by the way, Yellowstone was
primarily filmed in Montana, especially in the later seasons, but
also a lot of locations were Utah and Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Montana and Wyoming, those two states, I'm sure they have
had a big tom boom in tourism in recent years,
and maybe that's why it's so expensive to go there
now or stay there by property.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
All right, let's get to our last break.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
In fact, this is going to be a long this
is going to be a what a twenty hour break
coming up here. So you got dwhite wit and to
hold you over until then, stick around right here on
news radio eight forty WHS
We're off to a cool start here on a Monday morning.
Forty four degrees. Looks like the sun's already coming out,
so that's good and it's going to warm up. But
a cool start to the morning, probably the coolest it's
been so far this fall season. So again, we're going
to be in for pretty pleasant week. I would say,
as far as temperatures, very fall like, going to be
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cool in the evenings and in the mornings and then
looking to be I guess upper sixties is probably as
warm as it's going to get this week, and I'll
certainly take it. It feels like fall out there, looks like fall,
and I'm happy to see it. I was also happy
to see Jeff Bram and his team on Friday night
put together one of the best wins. I mean, this
may sound like and in the moment kind of thing,
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some recency bias here, but if you just base it
off of the number that was next to the name Miami,
it's one of the biggest regular season wins in program history.
Second time they've knocked off the number two team in
the country. The last time it happened was with Lamar
Jackson and that team in twenty sixteen beat Florida State,
who was also ranked number two. But what a monumental win.
That really changes how Louisville fans can look at the
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rest of this season. And Jeff Brohm, I don't think
anybody will be able to give you one specific thing
that makes him so good in those games. But he's
got some kind of magic formula that when he takes
a team that is understandably an underdog, he gets them
ready to play and gives his team's chances to win.
And look, Louisville, I don't want to say that they
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ran I mean I don't think they ran away with
the game at all. I mean, clearly if there wasn't
that late interception at the very end, which by the way,
was the fifth interception for Carson Beck, one of them.
He got bailed out with a bad pass of roughing
the passer call. But I was worried they were going
to score a touchdown, which would have changed everything. And
you would think, man, how could you not have taken
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advantage of more? Right, meaning they have so many turnovers
and you weren't able to convert and turn those into points.
Is that going to come back to bite you? Oh?
And then By the way, maybe the biggest momentum shift
in a game I've ever seen is whenever you have
the ball back up, was it eleven or something like that,
and you're at that point and just you're in great shape,
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just wanting to continue to milk some clock, and then
Isaac Brown fumbles, They scoop it, take it to the
goal line, and then score get the two point conversion.
I mean, it looked as if Louisville was in the
driver's seat and get a cruise to a victory to
it being a really close call, which it was. But
I don't think many fans have thought about that ever since,
because you don't think about that whenever your team wins
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a game like that. So what I was getting at is,
not only does he win these games, he's now four
and zero against top three teams when his team is unranked,
a random but yet crazy impressive stat for Jeff Brom.
But I mean, sometimes they win and they win going away.
That happened with Notre Dame. That happened with Clemson last
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year when they beat Ohio State. He knocked off Urban Meyer.
That was really the first big win for Jeff Brom
as a head coach. At the Big Ten and kind
of put him on the map. That team was pretty
good that year, and by the way, that was the
year that he decided to turn Louisville down and stay
at Purdue. But he's got a gift to winning those games,
having his teams ready to play. And yes, they've oftentimes
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his teams, I should say, they've given up a game
to somebody they had no business losing to right after
winning these monumental games. But the scheduling gods are on
your side here because I see it. I mean, you
never say never, but losing to Boston College would make
it to where you just simply know, like, don't even
play the game after beating a big opponent, because they're
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twenty four and a half point favorites against Boston College
and a loss here would be I mean, I just
can't see it happening, but hey, that's why we played
the game. Upsets happened. I'm sure many people didn't see
Louisville winning on Friday, but they did.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
If that happens, they need to start scheduling one of
the BIE weeks after a big opposent. If that that
might be the solution.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That happens I'm gonna lose my mind because I mean,
it would you can't make any sense of why he's
so good, But you also wouldn't make any sense. And
when I say so good, I mean in those games.
But you also can't make any sense as to how
that could even be possible, like how can it be
such a night and day difference from one week to
the other. And look, you can typically have I mean,
(04:12):
let's be honest, Louisville is not going to be as
up for playing Boston College because there's a human element
involved in sports. They know that they're supposed to win.
They know that it's not a national prime time game
like Friday Night was. But you can usually if you're
that good, if you're good enough to beat the really
good teams, when you've got a dud coming in, you
may not cover a twenty four and a half point spread,
But like the chances of losing are extremely rare. But
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in Jeff's case, it has happened. And I may look
at this a little later this week just to see
the previous scenarios where he what a big game and
then lost when he shouldn't lose. Were they ever twenty
four and a half point favorites. That's a lot for
a conference game. But it'll be a night game, and
I'm sure the crowd will be bigger now that they
pulled off that win against Miami. I don't know what
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to expect as far as the total number, but it's
a game that can certainly change how Louisville fans view
the of this season.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Who knows if they end up making the College Football Playoff.
Who knows what happens the rest of the way, But
a win like that it puts you back in the
mix where you can now see yourself finding a path
to the playoff. And when you are a fan and
your team is in that spot where they are maybe
sometimes fully in control of their own fate. Maybe at
times they've got a good path, they just need some
(05:21):
things to go their way, a break here, a break there.
That makes it more fun. And we didn't have that
before the playoff expanded. So I do think having more
inclusion in college football with this expanded playoff has helped
the sport in a big way, and Louisville is an
example of that. And with Jeff there certainly have been
(05:41):
some setbacks here and there. Right, They're not perfect they're
never going to be He'll lose games and we're going
to be upset about it because that's just that's how
it works. But so far he is now, he's got
two more wins than anybody else in the ACC since
he got higher two and a half years ago. You
played in the conference championship game, big game once again.
That gives your program a lot of pub and a
(06:03):
lot of notoriety. And that's why you bring Jeff Brown home.
I mean, who knows what happens the rest of the way.
But if there's ever somebody that's going to take looival
football to heights, it's never been before, he's going to
be the guy to do it. I think, all right,
let's get too a quick bit of trafficking weather. We
got a lot more to get into before before we
get out of here. Roy O'Neil gonna join us coming
up at eight thirty five of NBC, So stick around
(06:23):
for that right here on news Radio eight forty whas. So,
it sounds like people aren't spending as much money on
Halloween this year. I would say the reason for that
is pretty obvious. But the high spending generations, millennials plan
to spend five hundred and twenty two dollars. Gen Z
plans to spend four hundred and thirty five dollars, nearly
(06:44):
double the national average. Is going to say that sounds
like they're spending a lot, but that is the high
spending tiers there, but says that fifty percent of Americans
say they're cutting back on every variety of how you
would spend money on Halloween, from your costumes to the decorations,
and of course the candy that you give out. But
others say that they thirty nine percent say they admit
(07:05):
they've overspent every year before, which I can't think of
any expenses in my home other than just buying candy
for the kids who come to our neighborhood and also
getting costumes for our kids. But clearly other people they
they do a lot more for Halloween than I guess
I've always done. I mean, Halloween to me was such
(07:28):
a whatever, random holiday, and I guess it's still kind
of is. But now that I've got young kids that
like to dress up and they like to trick or tree,
that's what makes it stand out a little bit more.
But even growing up as a kid, were you a
big Halloween kid? John, I will say back.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Whenever I was younger, there was a time, and I
think it was pretty short lived. Halloween was my favorite
holiday for.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
A while now because of the candy component, or just
because of everything.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That with it the candy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like my family would host a big Halloween party where
a bunch of people would come over and we'd all
trick or treat around the neighborhood. So it was it
was an event for our family for several years. And
this is when live in Indiana too. But once you
moved over here to Kentucky, that obviously stopped and that
was no longer the big deal that it was back then.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I remember. I remember as far as costumes. Once
I got a little older, meaning like eight, nine, ten,
I remember always feeling like I never had a good
enough costume, Like I always felt like my costume wasn't
gonna be it because I mean, I didn't get real creative.
In fact, I think my mom would ask me at
times what I wanted to be, and I would never
(08:28):
Really I never really had any other than the Batman
costume I got when I was like five or six.
I remember thinking that was the coolest thing in the world.
But after that I just never felt like I was
dressed up enough, and I really have never been huge
on candy. I will say now that now that I'm older,
candy that I really like the sweet, the sour stuff
(08:48):
like Skittles, Starburst airheads, that kind of stuff. I don't
feel like that was as common in the candy that
you would pick up at somebody's house when you're going
trick or treating. Now there's all kinds of different stuff
you could get.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Also as far as people spending less money, one of
the factors here is costumes because you can now use
AI tools and there's all kinds of them that will
help you. You tell it what you want to be,
and it'll give you different ways. You can make it
yourself and make it look super realistic to what you
want to be. You can also take a picture of
yourself and it'll show you what you would look like
in said costumes. So spending money on costumes has has dropped,
(09:25):
and it makes total sense if you could do it yourself,
customize a little bit more and spend less money. I
think people are going to do that all right. Speaking
of spending less money, that's what you will do when
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(09:45):
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(10:05):
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let's do this. We'll get a update of traffick in weather.
See how we're looking here on the roadways So far,
I think It's been pretty smooth as far as traffic,
(10:26):
but as you know, that can change you any moment,
so we'll rely on Bobby Ellis to keep.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A squared away there.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Also, we'll get a look at the forecast from at
Melosovich and another sports updates come in your way. Roy
O'Neil said to stop in at eight thirty five, So
I mean it when I say we are loaded the
rest of the way, so don't go anywhere. Stick with
us right here on news Radio eight to forty whas
we are wrapping things up here on a Monday morning,
just a few minutes left for us, and then we'll
hand it off to Tony and Dwight. I believe Tony
(10:52):
out today, but that's okay. You're in good hands. The
one and only Dwight Whitne will be with you take
it over around nine o'clock. Been a busy, busy Monday
morning and something we have been keeping up with around here,
and I'm sure many of you may have already noticed
the impact, but the AWS servers being out that has
led to a real issue with seemingly countless platforms that
(11:15):
people every day, folks rely on that rely on these aws.
Amazon Web servers. So it sounds like as of as
of the eight fifteen, they they're continuing to get everything
back up and running. So it sounds like they fixed it.
It's just taking time for the fix to take effect.
And as somebody who used to run and operate a website,
(11:36):
I've been in that helpless, helpless spot to where you
have no I mean, I would never know how to
fix it, even if you know, even if I had
access to a server. But when I ran a website,
obviously I have relied on servers to help to help
keep it up and running. And of course, you know
you pay for that, and you pay a lot of
money if in fact you've got a big following that
has a lot of traffic. And once they get it,
(11:58):
once they get the DNS. I just remember always hearing
that the DNS something has been has been re established,
and that was that was the green light of okay,
now we just wait until it it it kicks back on.
So it sounds like that's where we are. The fix
is in and maybe you haven't even there, won't even
noticed any impact. But this morning, I guess more so overnight,
(12:19):
you had countless platforms that that folks rely on that
did not work because again those servers were down. Just
to give you a little bit of of a rundown
of some of these names. You know we're talking about
if you're playing PlayStation Online, Disney Plus, the McDonald's app,
United's Airlines app, at and T's web portal, a very
(12:39):
popular graphics platform, Canva, Snapchat, Facebook, to an extent, we
even had I think some issues with our iHeartRadio app.
That wasn't an issue once the show started, but I
think overnight there was some issues because again a lot
of folks, a lot of a lot of big companies
that have a have many platforms maybe that millions of
(13:00):
people utilize. In order for that to function and power
they rely on these eightws Amazon web servers four million
customers worldwide. And when it comes to customers, keep in
mind that's not me and you, that's people who who
have a platform and they use a server in need
the need need a powerful server to where they can
(13:22):
let millions of people use their service every day. So
thirty percent of the global cloud infrastructure market is controlled
by AWS. So when it doesn't work, we're going to
know pretty quickly as far as certain things just not working.
The way they are supposed to, all right, John, One
of the stories that we heard in one of the
recent news updates is, I guess not so surprising, but
(13:43):
Big Sky Montana and now being the most searched vacation
spot in America? Am I wrong for assuming that has
to be somewhat related to the popularity of Yellowstone?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh, that's absolutely has a lot to do with it,
would imagine.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But it sounds silly that that would be such a such
a factor. But I just think that that area of
the country was, you know, and again that show is
really popular. And by the way, Big Sky Montana does
look absolutely beautiful. I'm not sure if I'll ever make
it there, but I would love to just because it
looks awesome. It's also not easy to get to and
it's very expensive, especially now whenever it's become so popular.
(14:17):
But that's the first thing I thought of when I
heard Big Sky Montana, which I'm not even sure that
the show was, Phil, I don't know where was the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Show Yellowstone took place in Wyoming? Maybe don't.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Maybe you're right, Yellowstone and yeah, so Wyoming, Montana. Those
two states specifically come to mind for me when I
think of just the new interest level that is there
is and by the way, those places have always been beautiful,
but it just seems like in the last decade or
so actually getting out and if you went, I'm sure
you enjoyed every second of it, because it does look
to be absolutely beautiful. I just know that as far
(14:48):
as people who are not in America looking for destinations
that they want to travel to and see, I wonder
where Big Sky, Montana was ranked fifteen years ago compared
to now.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I feel like, in general, a lot of locations out west,
I've noticed a lot of people that I know they
just people are taking road trips out to that part
of the country a lot more frequently than I've ever seen.
Maybe it's just a shift in what people are interested
in doing when it comes to going on vacation, but
I feel like it used.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
To just be the default. Everyone goes to the beach,
that's the allea thing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I get it if you want to. I mean,
I'm all about trying different stuff. My wife and I
that's one thing we're not on the same page about.
She could go to the same place every single time
we go on a trip and have a good time,
and I could have a good time doing that as well.
But I like to experience new places, and obviously you'll
have a risk of going to a new place and
finding out you you don't like it and you've got
to spend a week there now, or whatever it may be.
(15:36):
But I would love to get to that part of
the country, not just Montana, but just really really out west.
I've been to Phoenix, I've been to Vegas. I've not
been to La don't really have any desire to go there,
to be honest with the In fact, I don't really
have any desire to go to California.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I know that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But the Pacific Northwest has always been a place that
I would that I've that I've wanted to go to
just because I think it looks beautiful from what I
can tell. And then of course that that that that
just really what's the best way to describe it, because
it's it's it's I guess, just the Montana Wyoming. I
don't have a whole lot of interest in the Dakotas,
(16:11):
although I have seen some areas there that are beautiful,
those places that I just I know I'll never drive
through because I'm on my way somewhere, right, those are
some places that I find myself wishing I could get
to at some point. But by the way, Yellowstone was
primarily filmed in Montana, especially in the later seasons, but
also a lot of locations were Utah and Texas.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Montana and Wyoming, those two states, I'm sure they have
had a big tom boom in tourism in recent years,
and maybe that's why it's so expensive to go there
now or stay there by property.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
All right, let's get to our last break.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
In fact, this is going to be a long this
is going to be a what a twenty hour break
coming up here. So you got dwhite wit and to
hold you over until then, stick around right here on
news radio eight forty WHS
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