(KMN) 10.3: State of Mind - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Friday is upon us. Happy Friday, Welcome
in coffee and company. That's us. We are fueled by
Thornton's here on News Radio eight forty whas we made
it Fellas. It's here Friday, best day of the week.
It's still a workday, but as I often say, it's
a state of mind. Friday is a state of mind.
And there's no better state of mind than knowing you

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got your workday ahead of you and then you're out
of here for just a couple of days. But man,
we try to make the most out of those two days.
And I tell you I've really benefited a lot from
making the move to this time slot on the station
compared to what I used to do. But maybe one
of the biggest benefits that was someone unexpected is that
my days now Monday through Friday, as far as routine schedule,

(00:42):
very different than my schedule and routine for Saturday and Sunday.
And that has made the weekends stand out more. There's
more pop there and I now look forward to the
weekends more than ever.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, it is well the hidden benefits, it is, Nick,
and that's what I'll do for you, and amazing you
know I'm working Saturday too. It's because we love what
we do. I used to you tell anybody, hey, you
got to get up at early in the morning on
Saturday and go to work. Everybody's like rolling their eyes collectively.
It's not the same here. It's you come in on Saturday.
It's what we used to call radio study hall. It's
it's a little bit more laid back, and your schedule

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does vary, and you also appreciate the time at home.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It also doesn't start at five am, right six, It
doesn't really I thought it was seven.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
When do you sleep? I'm a light sleeper, vampire. I'm
just a light sleeper, and that comes thanks to the
US military.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm a light sleeper.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, I guess that. I guess that adds up.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You try to sleep on an aircraft carrier with planes
basically doing a controlled crash above your head.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know, sleep not not a thing for Scott Fitzgerald.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So when you say that, you know you you appreciate
things more. Do you find yourself just kind of noticing
things that you didn't notice before.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, it's just like a it's a real break. And
I guess the other benefit would be meeting. The other
way around is that because I didn't I mean, my
routine wasn't the same. I didn't come in here and
do a three hour sport show on Saturdays and Sundays
in the afternoon, but like I didn't have to get
up at any certain time, a lot more flexible with
the schedule to where now it's I mean, I've always

(02:10):
known this, but this specific shift and really lifestyle change,
has been the ultimate reminder for me that I am
a creature that needs routine and with this there's you know,
whatever's going on.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
I got to be here and ready to go about
five m every morning.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's why I tried to explain to my wife.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
With this kind of job, you can't just go, Okay,
i'm not feeling well, I'm running a little bit behind
this morning. You got to hit that five o'clock mark.
My question for you, how's your family adjusted?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Here's good.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The big difference is my wife is now responsible for
getting the kids up and out the door, whereas I
used to do that, and now I'm responsible for picking
them up wherever they are, and she used to do that.
So that's the big change. As far as bedtime, you know,
that's been better than I expected. There have been a
few times where I'm like, all right, look we can't

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be outside, and it's it's easier now that it's getting
darker earlier outside, But there were some summer nights where
it would be nine fifteen, nine thirty and I realized,
wor still outside playing with the kids. This is not ideal.
So overall it's been it's been smooth sailing. But yeah,
I the weekends being you know, clearly, just knowing I'm
not going to have to see the alarm clock going

(03:20):
off at three forty five is it's it's nice. And
again the other way around was pretty beneficial too, it
was pretty carefree. But this has made me really appreciate
the weekends even more. And this weekend we've got another
hot one highs in the eighties, upper eighties, I should say, sunny,
and I feel like this is if you're somebody that
likes a good football tailgate, and you're somebody that prefers

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those tailgates to be in warm, sunny weather, not as
much the cold, you know, November tailgates, this is this
is your time to shine because we've got a three
thirty kick tomorrow for Louisville and Virginia. And again we're
talking sunny and mid eighties at that time, so you
only get maybe six sometimes seven. This year, randomly it's

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eight for Louisville, but one of their games was a
Friday night, which changes tailgating a little bit. But you know,
college football, it's such a big part of our culture
here in America, not quite like the NFL, but you
only get so many days a year to take in
what a lot of people view as the full day
of college football in that experience, which is the tailgate,
you know, being there. Of course it's a sometimes it's

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an eight hour commitment, depending upon how long you want
to tailgate. So I bet there's guys in gals getting
up getting their day started right now that are already
working on how they're going to execute tomorrow with the tailgate,
with the grill, with all the making sure they coordinate
a plan to the team today. It's like they're preparing
for a game tomorrow, like Jeff Bram and his team
are as.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
I say, number one question is when is card March again?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
They yet?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So the card March, I've not been to one of
those in quite some time. But I'm so glad they
now do them where they do because it's to where
people don't have to just drop and run.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
But that's that's Uh. It's still get hits.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It still hits me like I'm like, I'm an eleven
year old watching watching Chris Redmond get ready to play
a game the card marches. It takes me back to
my uh when I was a fan as a kid.
Not to make Chris feel old, but he is old.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Hey, well, it's a big one this week too. And
to your point, rank the pony coming to town.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah, absolutely, man, we'll hit that hard and heavy today.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
And also to your point, that cooler weather looks like it's.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Going to roll in about Tuesday, we're talking.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
We could see temperatures in some of the outlying areas
in the upper forties.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
After that, So this heat is going where. Yeah, heat's
going away to your point.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And I'm happy about that. Others if you're not, I
get it. But hey, right on, dude, we got to
get a fall here soon. Yep, all right, let's get
let's get it started. We've got tracking weather updates on
the way as we move forward here again, it's a
Friday morning, and Who's Radio eight forty w h A S.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
John. Do you know who's.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Responsible for those those promos that we hear that are
that are voiced by a professional voiceover guy.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
I don't think it's anybody here lowly, but I could
be wrong.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
That may be the first one that I heard that
I feel like, okay, that actually does check out for
for the for the boys Tony and Dwight, which you
know some I don't hear them as much here, but
some of the ones that I would that I would
hear on seven ninety, I would think, who who wrote this?

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I liked your old ones, the the Mookie Wilson rookie
card that was in your back pocket or something that.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, some of those were I mean I and I
will say I remember, I remember like it was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I was.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I used to hear them and think, man, like I
thought it was. There were two different people that we
work with that I assumed were responsible for those, and
I was just thinking like, man, these these are so corny,
these are so bad. And then when I realized, oh,
this is way above them. This is like outsourced through
you know, the higher levels of our heart media, And
it made me feel better about not wanting to eventually

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have a conversation and say.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Hey, these are really bad.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean the Mookie Wilson Rookie card might have actually
been one of the better ones.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Which is definitely one of the more memorable ones.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
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We'll give another pair of tickets away a little later
on in the show. I'm curious if we should do
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We just hope that you don't.

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We hope that you're on your best behavior and you
you know, you compete fairly. All right, we've got traffic,
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coming your way. We've got a lot more to get
into when it comes to the government shut down. Donald
Trump has now threatened to shut down cuts to democratic
agencies because of this government shutdown. That's clearly a Republican v.

(09:08):
Democrat fight, and the sooner the fight ends, the better
it is for everybody, especially those depending upon a paycheck
from a government job. All Right, it's five to twenty
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you for hanging out with us. So day three here

(09:29):
of the government shutdown, and it doesn't look as if
there's really anything to point to currently that we give
you any belief that this will be ending soon. I mean,
it could literally happen in any moment. You really never know.
It's not as if they're giving us around the clock
in depth updates behind the scenes. But from what we
do know, as far as what we can see and

(09:50):
what we are hearing, it doesn't seem as if there's
going to be any agreement made anytime soon. But hopefully
that's not the case. But the shutdown did get a
little more heeded as Trump has signaled towards a plan
to use you know, basically use this as leverage, specifically
targeting Democrat led states and agencies. And I can't say
anybody should be surprised by that, just as far as

(10:12):
the threat yesterday is he said he's going to meet
with OMB Director res Bot to decide which Democrat democratic
agencies that he's going to cut. So he framed the
shutdown as an unprecedented opportunity to save billions. That's the way,
that's the way he he voiced it. Now, there was
somewhat of a contradiction as to what jd. Vance had
said just today earlier, as he insisted the administration wasn't

(10:34):
targeting agencies based on politics, Yet cuts have already hit
New York, New Jersey, and projects backed by Chuck Schumer.
So you've got the VP saying it's not at all
about targeting agencies based on politics. Yet Trump is now
saying a day later he's going to have to meet
with somebody to decide which Democrat agencies he wants to cut.

(10:57):
So not much consistency there between the President and the VP.
But you know, sometimes that happens, I guess, But I
continue to just think about those that will face that
impact in that realization of this here soon, meaning whenever
they're expect whenever they're their next pay day is supposed

(11:20):
to happen, and it doesn't because of this delay. Because
I really do think that this could be an opportunity
to really feel how different cost of living is now
compared to the last time that this happened. Obviously, you know,
people are living check to check around the country more

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so than you probably even imagine, and it's it's it's
also sort of it's it's not the same for everybody,
right like living check to check, I mean that could
literally mean that you you wouldn't be able to like
your lights are going to go off in your house,
you will you will have no food in order to
you know, to feed your family. Like that can technically

(12:03):
be living check to check because if you don't have
that check when you're supposed to get it, then then
you lose all resources that you have for survival. But
also it could just mean that you know, you live
check to check because you know if you go without one,
you know you're not going to end up on the street.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
You'll be able to get by.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
But you know you're you're now like you don't you
don't have funds sitting aside to make necessary payments to
stay above water when it comes to your bills and
just what you pay every month to live. So when
you consider just two things that keep me going back
and forth on this, here's one. Despite the rise and

(12:39):
cost of living, despite grocery specifically being substantially more expensive
now than they were the exact time that the last
government shut down took place. When it comes to like
entertainment and whatnot, people are still paying for things they
want to do. People are still avoiding big sacrifices to
do things that they clearly don't have to do. It's

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not a necessity, it's something they want to do.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think a lot of people are probably going into
more credit card debt than they would want. But and
I'm not predicting in any way how long this lasts,
because I have no clue nobody does, to be honest
with you. But if we get to a point where
this is three weeks, I just I really haven't. I mean,
I don't really know what's off the table as far

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as the reaction from people who are impacted by it, negatively,
of course, due to the fact that one it could
be a bigger nightmare for them financially than it was
last time. Or maybe they've never been in this situation,
maybe they've never worked at a job where their salaries
paid by the government and now they're in this position
for the first time and they realize how hard it is.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
But also just how absolutely.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Divided we are, right, I mean, if you've got a
lot of folks suffering from this wanting it to end,
won't we see a more more loud fight among each
other about it's your it's your side's fault, it's your
side's fault. So I'm certainly not rooting for that. I

(14:07):
hope I hope it ends sooner rather than later. None
of us truly know, but I'm just I'm trying to
look ahead here to see and I guess just predict
the future, which is impossible for me to do, but
I don't. I really don't know what would be off
the table as far as like a big shock or
if this thing lingers and and it is something that
that it probably it probably already has added some stress.

(14:28):
I'm sure it has added stress to to to to
a lot of for a lot of folks, and and
one of the one of the best pieces of advice
I've ever been given. And at times it's hard for
me to to to stick with it. Sometimes I got
to remind myself of this is that what good comes
of you worrying about things you can't control nothing. If

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you have no control over it, you giving it enery
any any or any any energy is not going to
be productive in any way. It's going to be counterproductive.
But also whenever it you know, something like your livelihood,
your paycheck is hard, it's almost impossible not to stew
over it. I will talk more about this on the
other side with Rory O'Neil of NBC News don't go anywhere,

(15:11):
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Roory O'Neil said to join us now from NBC. Rory,
what can you tell us as far as this government
shut down? Who's getting blamed for it? I see the

(15:33):
blame game is certainly going on. I guess that was
probably to be expected.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yeah, and look, these polls are going to fluctuate pretty
wildly because we're still in early days here. But as
it stands right now, President Trump and the Republicans in
Congress are getting more of the blame for the shutdown.
The Washington Post poll finds forty seven percent of Americans
blame the president and the GOP Democrats get thirty percent

(15:58):
of the blame. But the not that's at twenty three percent,
so a pretty high number. You know, what they didn't
ask was both, and I don't see that showing up
in this category in this poll.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Either, Yeah, that probably would have been a popular choice
for those participating in it. Now, as far as job
and program cuts that are expected to happen, do we
know which jobs and programs are facing these cuts.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
It's been interesting, you know, we've really gotten some mixed
messages about the job cuts because we've heard President Trump
even say this would be an opportunity to make some
furloughed workers permanently cut, to try to have some more
government reforms, like a dose two point zero. But then
we're also getting messages from the other people in the
administration saying, you know what, slow down on this, back

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off on extreme job cuts. So I think that number
is going to change, you know, if this drags on longer.
So you know, if this is wrapped up maybe next week,
maybe there won't be a lot of permanent job cuts,
but if it drags on like the last shutdown thirty
five days, it could be more significant.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
There are many that just worry about how it's going
to impact them. And if you have a job that
relies on the government funding your salary, then you know
how it's going to impact you.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
But just the everyday.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
American, I mean, at what point do you feel like
it'll be a realization because I think even when it happened,
and it was thirty plus days some years back, I mean,
I know there were many people that didn't even this
current shutdown is reminding them that that happened, and they
clearly didn't have much of an impactcaus they didn't really
remember it.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
Well, right, you know, and remember what ended the last
shutdown really were airport disruptions because TSA and air traffic
controllers who weren't getting paid started organizing sickouts so that
that would affect air travel. And those members of Congress
are all frequent flyers, so they're like, oh, hey, wait
a minute, this is actually doing something. So that's actually

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what brought them back to the bargaining table in many
ways was the air traffic control system. But you know,
we also like during the pandemic, you know when you
have all these workers who are staying home, well, they're
not getting lunch, they're not spending money at the dry cleaner,
they're not all meeting for Sally's birthday at during happy
hour after the day at work.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
I was looking about to Sally's birthday dinner too.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Rory.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Well, you know, Sally gets around, But there's a lot
that's a lot of economic activity. You know that, really
you throw a wet blanket on it because these federal
workers don't know how long this is going to last.
You know, in the rear of your mirror, if you say, oh,
it's an eight day shut days, yeah, that's nothing. But
on day six, you don't know if it's going to
be eight days or if it's gonna be thirty five.
So it's it really is a lot of anxiety for

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these workers who just don't know when their next paycheck
is coming.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yep, the unknown, and also knowing you have zero control
over it, that alone will add some real anxiety and stress.
I can totally understand that. So the Super Bowl this year,
this season, I should say Ice is going to be there.
That was something that we now know. And Puerto Rican
singer Bad Bunny's going to be performing the halftime show.
A lot of people are connecting dots here thinking that

(18:55):
maybe he'll have I don't know, this is this is
not something I think you would typically see as far
as this announcement that Ice would be here.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
But what's the reaction, I mean, what do they mean?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Obviously there's a clear emphasis on getting Eagle League immigrants
out of this country, regardless of their status, regardless of
what it is that they do, and maybe they just
feel like this big event that is the super Bowl
gives them a chance to make a mass round up
or something.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, a few different points.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
One, Puerto Rico is part of the US, so go ahead, immigration,
they're Americans. Two, this is because Bad Bunny has been
so critical of ice and the ice raids.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
He said he couldn't.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Perform the mainland US because of all the ice activities.
So this is about a beef that Bad Bunny has
with Ice more than anything. And then they're saying, oh, yeah,
well we're going to be your super Bowl halftime show.
I'm not sure how many illegal immigrants show up to
the super Bowl, but I'm guessing it's a pretty small number.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
And look, Ice is always at the Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
They always have a press conference with Customs and Border
Protection as well, because they always do it a bit
about fake merchandise and all the fake stuff.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
That I remember those stories.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, I've gone to a half dozens of different Super Bowls.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
The icing CBP are always there, So yeah, I think
this is a bit of a reaction to the fact
that he was selected, which in certain corners is not
going over well. Rory.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, I don't know if I've ever had a
conversation with anybody just casually drops and you've been to
a half dozen Super Bowls.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
I mean, that's pretty that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
For work purposes only, I will say the great tragedy
was I had to miss the Print super Bowl in
Miami because of.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
We had tornadoes.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
That same range system that he was in had caused tornadoes,
so I was in tornado covering you from.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Seeing what a lot of folks myself included still believe
was one of the not the best half timber.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Pounds robbed and you two New Orleans two thousand and two.
I'm gonna put there with my Patriots. But also the
fact I saw the Pat's Eagles Super Bowl and Jackson.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
It was pretty good person.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Good stuff, living the life, my man. Have a good
week in Rory always, we appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Thanks starting Monday.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
All right, that's Roy.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
O'Neil of NBC News. I mean that, sincerely, that's quite
a flex from Rory. You have been a half dozen
Super Bowls. I mean, just casually dropping that in my
man Rory O'Neal living the life. Good stuff, all right.
We've got a quick time out on the way here.
We'll get trafficking, weather updates, we've got a sports update.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Comme on your way. It is five point fifty two
here at news Radio eight forty whas