(KMN) 6.10: Protests - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, mister Shannon. It is Kentuckut's Morning News with
Nick Coffee six oh five here on a Tuesday morning scuff.
It's Jared alongside also John Olden. And the scam texts
that have been circulating, I feel like I get like
two or three.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Of those a day. Yeah, get them.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Probably probably an exaggeration on my end, but it's certainly
not a surprise to see them. And am I wrong
for asking aloud who falls for that?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Because people do, right, That's why they do them.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I don't want to pass judgment because you know,
I'm sure these are great people, but there's certain levels
to these scams that I because, to be honest with you,
there are some that are so elaborate, so believable, that
it could get a lot of people. When I say yet,
I mean you could fall for it. But there's some

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that are just okay, if this was legit, this would
not be the way in which they would be contacting me.
And this is not even like a legitimate automated number.
But if they send those out to a million piece people,
all it takes is a few bites and they've probably
been able to compromise your your debit cards, credit cards,
get your information, steal your identity, whatever it is that

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you want to do. So I'm surprised, but maybe I
shouldn't because there's a lot of people in the world
and maybe some are naive or just they don't have
any radar at all as far as just being aware
that there's people out here trying to take advantage of you.
Which that's why a lot of times when you see
you when you see these these victims, because that's what

(01:31):
they are, they're victims. A lot of them are older
people that just back when they were there, they're at
a point now in their life where this is still
relatively new, meaning the tech technological side of it, to
where they're just they're thinking, Okay, well, this is probably
the way that they now communicate with me. If I
have an unpaid bill, I better go ahead and get
this taken care of. But the spoofing that you see
with devices is what.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Makes it really really scary.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
And what I mean by spoofing is there there's technology
that that you can I call I mean, I can't
do it, trust me, I don't know how to do it.
I'm not out here spoofing and scamming people. But if
I had, you know, the technology or just the the
savviness to pull it off like these scammers, I could
call John Alden from Scott and it would show that

(02:16):
it was Scott Fitzgerald's cell phone number. Yeah, and that
a lot. I mean when you most people wouldn't even
have any any hesitation to assume that that wasn't really
the right that that person calling, because they would just assume, well,
it's showing me that you're calling, so that that's that's
a That's something that I don't know how those who
who manufacture iPhones, smartphones, whatever it may be, maybe it's

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cell service, they've got to implement something to where you
can't do that, because that's a scary thing to be
able to call somebody and it show that it's coming
from a different number. I mean, that alone would make
people just assume, well, surely this is true because they
called me from this number.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, and that's the sad part is I don't even
I can't tell you the last time I answered my
cell phone. And that was the hardest thing that convinced
Tony Cruize like he used to call and some degree,
my wife she's she's a caller. My wife doesn't like
to text, and I'm like, just text me, because you know,
numbers get smoved. And you look at the emails now
that come out, the templates that are there.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
The irs has been banging that drum forever.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
They're one of the ones that but those are becoming
AI is changing everything now, I mean voices. Look at
the number of people that got scammed think and their
relatives were being held overseas and they made it manipulate
their relatives.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's a different level of scumbag. Oh, because you know,
you clearly go to that level because you realize that's something.
Even if somebody thought for ninety nine percent chance that
this was not real and it was fake, they they're
not going to risk it. If it's something, you know,
they would be less inclined to just you know, all
the hell with that, that's not real because it's it's

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you imagine, imagine it being real, and you assumed it
wasn't and something happened to one of your loved ones.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
So well, my wife was like, why am I getting
so many calls from so many different places? I said,
because your information has probably been sold Oh yeah to somebody,
And you're crazy if you think that. That's like every
time we used to do these stories on oh hackers
have your information, there's a data breach. I just assume
there's always a data breaching.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's going full circle because now at times you have
if you're on this list, if you don't want to
be on this list, right stop, that's just their way
of establishing some level of communication with you to somehow
see if they can get another response and maybe get
your information. I mean, it's I can't tell you how
many hard to keep up with?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well, how many emails I have blocked? How many people
I have blocked? Out Look is great about letting me
block people, because there's there's a lot of just garbage
I get sent all day. But I've got numbers blocked.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
On my phone.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I mean, just the minute somebody calls me, I know
it's fake. I just block it so I never see
it again. But it's a daily grind of having to
do that.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I'll share this story a little later on. We nearly well,
I was gonna put my wife in the same it
was me. It was me, not her, blame me. I
nearly got got because there was a phone call that
came in about our bank account being compromised. They had
some information, but the number they call from was the
number that was on the back of my debit card.
So I just assumed, well, clearly it's the bank. We

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avoided it. And then it was just a real reminder
that won got to be. You got to be head
on a swivel. You gotta be you gotta have your
guard up. But also it's impressive. If these people used,
you know, their brains, their savviness to be productive, they'd
be successful. But instead they want to be scammers, and
I guess it works for them. So all right, we've
got another updated trafficking weather coming your way. It's Kentucky.

(05:27):
It's Morning News with Nick Coffee here on News Radio
eight forty whas. Happy Tuesday, ladies and gentlemen. It is
six sixteen here at Kentucky. His Morning News with Nick
Coffee on NewsRadio eight forty whas Scott Fitzgerald alongside mister
John Olden as well, And a big story here locally
when it comes to sports that is really surprising with

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one lens looking at it and really not so surprising.
Well maybe I'm lying, because it is really surprising. It's
just it's somewhat unheard of to see a assistant coach
and associate head coach, I should say at Kentucky leave
to take a spot on the staff of the rival program.
And that's what that is what has happened. It was
reported yesterday, initially by Pete Dammel of ESPN, since been confirmed,

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although I'm sure at the University of Louisville it's not
been made official official. When it is, they'll announce that,
I'm sure with some type of press release. But Vince
Marrow is leaving Mark Stoops. He's been his longtime right
hand man, a guy who's been on the staff with
him since he got to Kentucky and has elevated from
just tight ends coach to recruiting coordinator to associate head coach.

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And I feel like he's not only somebody that is
believed to be very responsible for the success that Kentucky's
had under Mark Stoops. And I don't want to say
it's all Vince Marrow, but certainly he's a big part
of it. But he's kind of the hype man, if
you will, and I don't mean that in a disrespectful way,
as if it's all hype and he's not actually coaching.

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But even if he's not somebody that's every day really
just developing the tight end room and maybe he is,
I'm not sure. But even if you're somebody that maybe
your role is not so noticeable on the field, which,
by the way, his role at Louisville as the GM,
Essentially it'll be an off the field role for Marrow
when he works for Jeff Brown. But what I'm getting
at is, regardless if it's on field off the field,

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if you've got an important role that has a big
that is a big factor in how you put a
roster together, how you have success, you're really really valuable.
And I don't think anybody would would question how valuable
Vince Marrow has been believed to be for Mark Stoops.
And after one of the worst seasons that Stoops has
had at Kentucky, a time where the momentum feels as

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low as it ever has, he loses his right hand man,
not just to another job, but to the rival. And
another component to this that I did not mention earlier
when we talked about it is that Vince Marrow has
turned down other jobs along along the way. He's had
opportunities to join Bill Belichick's staff in some capacity at

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North Carolina. There been there's been some talks that he
got interviews to be a head coach. I don't believe
he's ever turned down a job to be a head coach,
but he has remained loyal. He does the same song
and Dan seemingly every off season where he wants it
out there that there's interest, and he loves the Oh
the big dogs stay in and he gets a big
big he gets a lot of praise from their fan base,

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and he certainly eats it up. And I mean, you
could make the case and O Matt Jones said this
yesterday on KSR that you could argue that that Vince
Marrow was one of the most beloved assistant coaches ever
at Kentucky in any sport. And there's really no way
to truly measure that. But I don't think many would
question that on the on the Kentucky side. So I

(08:40):
think Mark Stoops has done a really good job in
the grand scheme of things. I mean, I used to
say this all the time on my sports show. If
you would have told me that a Kentucky football coach
would win ten games in a season once, I would
have assumed that Nick Saban somehow ended up being their coach.
He did it twice. Now, there were certain circumstances along

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the way that led to it, but who cares. I mean,
I'm a Louisville fan. I do the rivalry thing. I'd
love to to to jab at at at Mark Stoops
and and take take joy and satisfaction in their struggles,
because again, it's a rivalry and I'm a Louisville fan.
I've never once, never, once tried to hide that. But
I also I'm a realist. And overall, Mark Stoops want

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at a level at Kentucky had a level of sustainability
that most people said would never happen. He also got
people to believe in football enough to where he was
out rounding up money, right. I mean, he's very close
with the Craft family, and there's been resources put towards
football in his tenure there that were not there before.
And it's because he gave them somewhat of a somewhat

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of a return, and that is okay, we can We
probably aren't Gonn. I'm sure he didn't say this, but
I don't think anybody was truly believing they were gonna
go win the SEC, but they could no longer be
the doormat of that league along with Vandy. They could
have sustained success, and they've done that, but at this
point it does seem as if all that momentum has
faded away, and right now there's not a whole lot

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to point to in this upcoming twenty twenty five season
that would make you think that Kentucky's gonna be any
better than they were a year ago. And again, last
year they were by themselves alone in I believe, fifteenth
place out of sixteen teams, So not a good situation.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Do you think he'll he'll be able to recruit the
AEC the way he did the SEC.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think what Mary's going to try to do is
to just instead of bringing those kids from Michigan and Ohio,
where he has those strong connections, I imagine he'll probably
just try to bring those players to Louisville. And let's
be real, those were really good recruits for Kentucky, they'd
be really good recruits for anybody, so certainly they'll be
really good recruits for Louisville. So I'm sure that's the

(10:51):
plan here. Something else we can hit on when we
get back into this conversation is there is a connection
between Marrow and Brom that a lot of people probably
don't know about. We can hit on that and more.
We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way,
as well as another update on sports with Scott. So
keep it locked right here on Kentucky and it's Morning
News on News Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.

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It is six thirty five here at Kentucky and it's
Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Back to back days where we have similar stories that
I feel like prior to the Russmith situation, which will
give you an update on that in just a moment,
as well as this story regarding the off duty l

(11:31):
LMPD LMPD officer who was arrested for DUI and hardin
County another exact I mean, I would imagine that most
people shouldn't say most because I don't know that for certain.
But the big reaction as far as Russ Smith's DUI
is that, wait a second, what's going on here? He
didn't blow above the legal limit? Why did he get
a d UI? And it doesn't shock me that there's

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many that didn't realize that you can blow below the
legal limit but still be arrested for DUI. It's it's
the officer's discretion, they can make that call. And the
same thing that happened to Russ Smith seemingly happened here
to this officer who was off duty. Now, the officer
did not take the breathalyzer test while being pulled over,
but once he was taken to the Radcliffe Police Department,

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he then took a breathalyzer test where he blew zero
point seven, which again is below the legal limits. So
he was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the
influence in proper display registration plates and failure to notify
address change to Department of Transportation. And since this, there's
been an internal investigation with LMPD that was launched and
he's been put on administrative leave. So this, I think

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is just random timing here to have these two stories,
and again they're both stories, but I bet there's many
that didn't realize that when it comes to just the
breathalyzer test alone, if you are drinking and you're below
that legal limit, and you have shown in the officer's
view that during those field sobriety tests that you were

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not up to drive, then that's their call. They make
that decision, and maybe I'm wrong here, I think you
should always. I think you should always cooperate with law
enforcement because I feel like, more often than not, it
will only hurt you if you don't. You also have
your rights to do certain things you don't have to.
I mean, it can't force you to take the field
sobriety tests. But I think these two stories wouldn't shock

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me if it does persuade people to say, yeah, I'm
not going to do that and just leave it open
for interpretation as far as my you know, I could,
I could fail that and have never had a drink
of alcohol in my life. But if I end up,
you know, blowing on the breathalyzer and it's still below
legal limit, but I have been drinking at that point,
I'm just it's just the officer's decision, whatever they want

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to do. So I think a lot of folks probably
have been educated to an extent in regards to this situation. Now,
Rus Smith has released a statement on behalf of well
his attorney has helped him with a statement, and his
attorney is Steve Romins. I'm sure a lot of you
are familiar with Steve Romins. He's represented a lot of
folks and some pretty big cases that have made that
have made news, including Satti Schefler, which wasn't just a

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story here locally but also nationally. But this is what
Russ said yesterday. I'd like to thank everyone for the
support I've received, but I've been advised not to discuss
this matter other than this statement from my attorney, Steve
Romines quote. The evidence, witnesses and surveillance footage clearly showed
that Rust did nothing wrong. He was sober and cooperated fully.
He voluntarily submitted to two breathalyzer tests and a blood test.

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He also took and passed every field sobriety test he had,
despite the fact that his BAC was below the legal limit,
and he passed every test, he was nonetheless arrested. Indeed, indeed,
why even have investigative tests when an officer is allowed
to simply ignore them all. We look forward to litigating
this matter in court, in a court of law where
his innocence will be proven end quote. So not at

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all surprised to hear that kind of tone from Steve Romans,
and I just if in fact, we do get access
to surveillance footage, body cam footage, and it may be
tough to really know. I mean, I'll admit hand up,
I hope things work out well for russ Us.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
But I won't.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, I guess I'll have to find out whenever
I guess if it does become available, but I won't
be able to watch the body cam footage and be
able to tell you for certain, Oh, this is all
a sham. He was clearly fine. Like I'm willing to
tell you, I'm not somebody that is trained to put
somebody through these tests and make a determination do I
think that they are impaired or not. But because of
who this is, Russ Smith, one of the best basketball

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players that has ever played at the University of Louisville.
If he appears to be not drunk, meaning he's not wobbling,
and I'm not acting like this officer would be in
the wrong, I just I can feel the reaction coming
from those who want to say, here we go again.
Can you believe this? They can't get out of their
own way LMPD. And I'm not even saying that would
be that would be a correct responsor that that would

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be accurate. I just I know how people will respond
because of just the recent situations that have happened with
LMPD and the weird random connections to the Scottie Scheffler
situation where the officer who pulled Smith over and gave
him the DUI was involved to the extent of taking
Scottie Scheffler to jail and being the one who was

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reprimanded for leaking cell phone footage of the entire situation.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, see, that's what I hate is that we don't
ever get to hear the officer speak. And I'm looking
forward to the opportunity when someone either the officer speaks
or someone speaks for the officer, because attorneys can spout
off shit I want. And again, this officer, I'm sure
had some reason why.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
And again I'm not into I'm not saying at all
that if that is the response by supporters of Russ
Smith and people that want to pile on the LMPD,
I'm not even saying they'd be correct. I just it
that that I mean, not that I can predict the future,
but I can totally see that happening because they're gonna
want Rus Smith to be vindicated and they're gonna want
to pile on LMPD for right or wrong. I just

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think there's gonna be some that choose to do that really,
regardless of how this plays out. Yep, all right, we
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whas dot com. Scott Fitzgerald alongside. We'll have another update
on sports coming up in about nine minutes. You've got
John Olden alongside as well. Today and father Father's Day
will be here this weekend. And I celebrate Father's Day
two time, two time father, meaning I've got two children
and I am very lucky to still be close with
my father. So I'm looking forward to Father's Day. But

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I do feel like it has it has snuck up
on us. So I wouldn't be shocked if I just
said that. And there's people right now that think, oh,
this guy may be. Oh, he's right. It is Father's Day.
So so you're welcome. So now you don't have to procrastinate.
You can make plans for your dad and hopefully have
yourself as a good Father's Day it Scott your dad
as well, and John, first Father's Day for you, my man. Yes, congratulate, Welcome,

(17:52):
Welcome to the team. I think this is going to
be my first time using this in the studio. I
think it's an appropriate first time usage of this bell
for John Alden celebrating his first Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yes, sir, I'm gonna use it only for I'm gonna
make sure when this is used here on Kentucky and
This Morning News, We're not just gonna do the bell
for anything. We're gonna do it for special reasons. In
I think John celebrating his first Father's Day is a
is a special reason.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Did you did you see, by the way, the National
Retail Federation said we're gonna spend twenty four billion dollars
on Dad this year.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I like to hear that. I mean, and it's all
going to John because he's in fact, John, do you
just want sleep for Father's Day?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Is that? My gosh?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is that what you want to sleep? The newborn baby
phase is still in full effect, and sleep is I'm
sure you're getting sleep when you can, But am I
wrong to assume that the real challenge is just the
unknown of when and how long you're going Like, there's
really no, there's nothing, it's not it's not consistent, right.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, And what is consistent is that I probably and
I hope this hasn't come across as complaining. Maybe it will,
but before I come here every morning, i'd say I
get no more than four and a half five hours
every night. Five hours is a good night sleep from
me right now, And you're not complaining.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
There's many listening right now that know exactly what you
and your lovely wife are going through when it comes
to just what a blessing it is to be parents
and have a newborn baby girl. But these early you
just don't know what you're going to get as far
as sleep, and it's you know, it sounds insane, but
you will, you will in fact miss it. So here
I am. I've thought about you a lot lately because

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not only because I love you, but also because I
am trying to get adjusted myself right with this new
schedule this new routine, and I have found what I
believe is a pretty good routine for me as far
as the amount of sleep that I can get at
night and still live somewhat of a not I'm not
going to be a night alby any means, but I'm not.
I don't want to go to bed at eight o'clock,
which would be pretty extreme. So I've found a good balance.

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And I've also found a little bit of time during
the day where I can squeeze in some rest, a
quick nap. And here I am thinking about my challenges.
Imagine if I was doing this adjusting all while also
taking care of a brand new baby. So you're you're
not complaining, You're just you know, you're living. You're living it,
and it's again, it is a blessing, but it's also
I'm sure at times exhausting, both physically and mentally, and

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you're you're running on fumes at times. But Father's Day,
let's I hope you can just get some rest, my man,
you deserve it.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I was gonna say, let me ask you boys, being
totally honest here, and if you could have anything you
wanted for Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
I mean, it's the obvious. I want to spend time
with my family, I want rest, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
But let's just say the good fairy came down and
wished you and said your family can give.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
You whatever you want. What would what would either of
you guys want?

Speaker 1 (20:46):
And this has to be like a material things.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
It can be material, can be experienced, but it just
has to be something other than the standard. I just
want to spend time with my family, and I just
you know, I want to get sleep.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
You want me to go first, John, Yeah, go, because
I mean I wish I could give you some unexpected answer,
but I mean mine is pretty routine. I want to well,
I'll be selfish to an extent, meaning I do want
to have a fun day with my kids, and we'll
do that. We go to Churchill Downs every Father's Day
and it's always a lot of fun. I love being

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at Churchill Downs. My kids enjoy it as well. We
usually get a nice a nice lunch or maybe a
brunch somewhere. We'll either get lunch after or maybe do
some brunch before. And then I would like to sit
in my recliner. That's what That's what I would like.
I would like to sit in my recliner. Might you know,
might give Moosa heads up on the drive back from Churchill. Hey,

(21:39):
wouldn't be a bad idea. If you want to go
get a couple of bush lights out of the fridge
for your old man, I'll be sitting in the recliner
and he'll be eager and excited to do it. So
I want to have time with my family and enjoy
Father's Day and really just soak in is what is
every what's great about being a dad, but also just
you know, some relaxing time. I'm not to the point,
and maybe I'll get there. It's a point, but I'm

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not to the point when it comes to just the
all right, all I want is you got to just
leave me alone, give me my day. I get why
people say that at times, but I'm not there yet
because my kids are still so young.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
What about you, John, I think it's got to be sleep.
I've only been I've only been a dad for so days.
You will be two months old tomorrow, and obviously sleep
is just kind of the default answer. So just just
to give me something a little unique, I'll give you
an answer that is not possible in any way, shape
or form. I just wish Father's Day was on a
Big ten football Saturday and I was walking.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
That's what I was looking for you. That's that's it, John,
Great dude. I want a good barbecue and a good beer.
That's I want to sit down and I can have
whoever I want around me. I live from barbecues, kind
of my kryptonite barbecue and pizza.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Give me a good beer and a good barbecue.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
With the craft beer, are you more of like just
knowing a specific one, or do you want like I
feel like you'll try any beer. I'll try any.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
To a degree. I'm not a longer guy, and I
play bigfoots.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
All earwax blondie. I mean, since your ass down is
a straight og, that's a good beer.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Actually do like that brew.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
So I'm not just a bush light bum. I can
get sophisticated and go craft beer with you occasionally.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Don't mind Catalina Breeze from the good folks over at
Mile White.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's a West Coast I p a. I can do
that all day, long time.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Now he's talking brew.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right now, buddy, all right, We've.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Got another update of trafficking weather. It coming your way. Also,
some more sports with Scott right Here on news radio
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