(KMN) 9.30: When September Ends - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we have an accident I sixty five North just
past Saint Catherine Street. It looks like the right shoulder
is the right shoulder in the right lane currently blocked.
It looks like this accident just took place within the
last few minutes, so be advised already some delays as
the right lane, right shoulder blocked. It's sixty five north

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just past Saint Catherine Street. Also, we've got a disabled
vehicle on I two sixty four East that is in
the area of Third Street. So a couple of accidents
that are causing some issues this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We'll keep you updated throughout the morning. That's what we do.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Your next update coming up at about four minutes. Also,
we'll have an update on the forecast, So stick with
us here at News Radio eight forty whas Happy Tuesday too.
It's the final day of September and that means fall season.
It's actually here, believe it or not. Last week was
the first day of fall. But the weather has not
arrived just yet, and I guess better late than never.
And in fact, the rest of this week it's still

(00:54):
going to be pretty warm out there, and I know
a lot of folks are on the other side. As
far as my my preference when it comes to weather,
I'm somebody that give me the fall cool temperatures, hoodie weather,
bonfire weather. Love it, but not going to get it
for at least the next couple of days. But again
I know, in fact there's probably more people that prefer
the warm weather than the other way around, and I get.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It all right.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
So later today we're going to get an update from JCPS.
So doctor Brian Yearwood, the new superintendent in JPS, is
going to speak this afternoon at twelve fifteen to give
an update on their plans with the budget issue they have.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Recently, they announced one hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
And eighty eight million dollar budget deficit and I don't
think there's any easy solution to just fix this, and
they've already made some significant cuts, but yet still seem
to be pretty far off from where they need to be.
So it was last week whenever we found out that
cash flow could eventually run out by October of next

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year without major changes, and in fact, I think you
know major changes can be because I feel like there's
already major changes taking place, but yet again they're still
seemingly far away from where they need to be. So
they're closing the gap, but the gap still still is there,
and I don't Again, there are people involved in this
that know way more about it than I ever would,

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so trust me, maybe they have a plan, and I'm
just ignorant to what that plan could be and how.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
It could get straightened out.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
But one hundred and eighty eight million dollar budget deficit,
that's I mean, it also wouldn't shock me if there's
really no simple fix for anything like that, because again,
that's a lot of money. So again, twelve fifteen is
when he's going to speak today again, Superintendent Doctor Brian Yarwood.
I'm sure Paul Miles later this afternoon will have some
updates on that for you, and I have no clue

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really what to expect, but obviously I'm sure this has
been the main priority for everybody within JCPS that of
course has a position to where they're going to be
working together to get this thing figured out.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So you are somebody that consumes NBC and the channels
that are within the NBC network, and you have YouTube TV,
you may no longer have access to those channels after today.
So there is a deadline of October first between YouTube
TV and NBC Universal. So if they don't come to
terms on a new update, a new agreement, I should say,

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the current carriage deal is set to expire at midnight tonight.
So for me, I'm just thinking about, Okay, what do
I watch on NBC And the only thing I can
think of that I watch on NBC is football Sunda
night football with the NFL. And then I didn't realize
that NBC has as many college football games as they

(03:42):
actually do.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I haven't tuned in to watch one of those as
far as just wanting to watch this game specifically, but
I guess I have probably tuned over to see updates
on scores because Notre Dame plays most thir games on
NBC and now the Big Ten, and I believe the
Big Twelve may have some games that are played on
and on NBC, certainly the Big Ten. So that's what

(04:03):
comes to mind for me is wow, I hope you
get this figured out. I'm a YouTube TV customer and
I don't want to miss football games. But there's also
a lot of channels under the NBC Universal umbrella. John
Shannon pointed this out to me, But it's not just NBC.
It's Bravo, E Entertainment Network, USA Network, Oxygen, True Crime,

(04:27):
sci Fi. I guess there's a sci fi channel. And
then also you've got CNBC MSNBC, NBC News Now, which
is the streaming platform. NBC doesn't have THEIRNBCD Sports doesn't
exist anymore, but also the Golf channel that's within the
NBC Universal Network. So it's all these channels that you'll lose,

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you'll lose access to if you have YouTube TV and
they don't come to an agreement. So YouTube TV has
said that they are going to give a ten dollars
refund for those who who are impact if it doesn't
work out and you go without NBC while they work
this out, they're going to give you ten dollars off
your bill I guess each month until it is squared away. Now,

(05:09):
I mean, I don't think there are in fact what
they're gonna do. They're gonna give you ten dollars refund
even if you have any NBC channel that disappears for
any for.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, it says for an extended period.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm not really sure what is considered an extended period,
but I think it's rare for these situations to turn
into where you you lose access to one of these
channels for a very long time at all. Now, maybe
that's just me not ever having to deal with it
as far as a channel that I want to watch
not being available to me. But usually these things get
these things get figured out before anybody actually loses access.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
So maybe that's what ends up happening today.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
But for me, it will impact me more so than
just football because MSNBC, I think that is the I
think that's the channel. There's a show called American Greed.
I don't know if you guys ever heard of it
or not. I'm just fascinated by con men, people who are,
people who are and it doesn't just feature those kind
of people, but it's like a true crime type of

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white collar crime type of show, and it's fascinating to me. Also,
there's a show called Locked Up, which is about prison.
I don't know if they still make it anymore. But
if i'm if I'm just looking for something to watch
late at night and i'm and I'm looking at what's
available on YouTube t if there's an old lock Up raw,
I'm gonna watch it. You watch any of these channels

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at all, John, I'm assuming I don't. You could lose
Ac says and never notice.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I mean I would obviously, and thankfully I don't use
YouTube TV currently, so it's not going to affect me.
But if I were right, do what you're Hulu guy,
Hulu with live TV guy. It is fairly expensive. But
at the same time, I've never had a deal with
this YouTube nonsense, so I'll take that, but I don't.
The only thing I watch on it regularly is is
really the college football and Sunday night football, as you mentioned.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
So with Hulu, the reason it's more expensive is because you.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Also saw the whole library with it. Yeah, because Hulu's.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Got a lot of their and they've got a lot
of programming that's there, and of course they've got a
lot of original stuff as well.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So do you often do you?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Do?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You watch that very often?

Speaker 3 (06:58):
As far as like, yeah, there's a few things I
like to watch, or watch Animal Control whenever that comes
out once a year. It's a kind of a sitcom
and that's not really your thing that comes on. I'm
familiar with it. I think they've got fourth season coming
out of this upcoming January.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
But and then my wife watches a few different things
on Hulu as well.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, I've not heard anybody have any complaints about Hulu Live.
So maybe if I ever end up really being without
something I can, I can switch over. And I'm not
super loyal to YouTube TV to where I would never
I would never leave it, you know, But it's just
always it's it's just got the job done for me.
I know how to use it. The interfaces is easy
to figure out. But if there's ever a time where

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there is a dispute and I'm without something I rely on,
it won't be hard for me to.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Break up with YouTube TV. It'll be It'll be a pretty.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Clean break, and I'll find something else and probably get
used to that, and then wait until there's another issue
where there's a potential loss of the channel or a network,
and then I gotta like, it is crazy how quickly
the streaming world has really evolved, where now it's it's
I mean, it's I think rare to find somebody who
doesn't lie on live television via one of these streaming platforms.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but the amount of people who have,
I mean, cutting the court isn't even really a saying
anymore because it's such a common thing but yeah, we'll
see if they can to get a deal done. All right,
quick break, We've got trafficking weather updates on the way
right here on news Radio eight forty. Whas. It really
is crazy to see how different college athletics is now

(08:24):
in the last i don't know, roughly four years, compared
to what it was really since its existence, right, I mean,
for generations. It was the same archaic model that the
NCAA tried to run with until they found out it
was illegal. And now that's why you have revenue share,
where these universities they have to share revenue with student athletes.

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And of course that doesn't even change the fact that
these athletes can still clearly get paid and it is
pay for play, meaning you get paid to go to
a school and play a certain sport. They can try
to live in a world where that's not the case,
but we all know that it is. And the reason
I'll bring this up is because with the now requirement
to share, actually I guess you don't have to. You're

(09:04):
not required to share revenue, but if you want to
compete and you are a school that's say, yeah, we're
gonna we want you to come here and play. But
We're not going to share any of our revenue. The
twenty million dollars that these other schools that we compete
with that they're going to share with their student athletes,
We're not going to do it. We just want you
to come here because you love the university. Like, that's
not reality. So you have to share revenue or you'll

(09:27):
you'll you have a tough time, a very tough time
being competitive. So universities across the country are scrambling to
try to find any way to cut costs in any
way to add revenue streams. And I mean there are
some universities that now are charging students more tuition. I mean,
there was at least a four or five percent tuition

(09:50):
increase that was out there, and some schools are labeling
it's something that might not make it so obvious what
they're doing. Others are pretty direct about it. So anyways,
one of the latest stories is that a way to
bring in more money to help cover the cost of
the revenue share is adding sponsorship patches to college football jerseys.

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So NCAA division commissioners are discussing if they're going to
allow this starting next fall, And as far as who
decides it. It's going to be the NCAA. Individual schools
are going to have to say so conferences. I mean
everybody with any real power, any real say so in
college sports are going to I guess collectively come to
a decision.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
So this could be very lucrative.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Estimates range from five hundred thousand annually for smaller programs
and then up to twelve million if you are a
power program. So you've got another issue here is you've
got you know, the companies like Learfield and JMI that
are I mean, they pay a lot of money to
these universities so that they have the exclusive rights to

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go monetize that brand and that logo. So if somebody
has you know, basically owns the rights to have any
anything that is going to be used in advertising and
marketing that's got an official school logo or mascot on it,
they own the rights to that. So they're going to
want their cut of that, And that could end up

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being a very tricky situation because if you are a
school that has essentially sold over your rights and your
deal is locked in, but now you have to share
twenty million dollars annually in revenue, you don't have as
much room if you will, to to create revenue streams
because you no longer have the exclusive access to it.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
So there's workarounds.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
But it is a wild time in college athletics where
things are so different now than they used to be.
Jobs have certainly changed. You really can't coach the way
you used to because now players have all the power
they can up and leave. So again, I don't have
a lot of sympathy for coaches that have to make
some adjustments because a lot of these guys make a
lot of money, and a lot of us who have jobs.

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It's pretty common for us to have to potentially make
some adjustments because things change. But that also doesn't mean
that it's not really a completely different thing depending on
I guess what your role is in college athletics.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'm just trying to envision U of l or UK
playing football on Saturdays with a big old logo of
some brand. I think there's some obvious companies that you
would you would maybe expect to see there, but maybe
it'll be a bidding war. All right, quick break, We've
got travck of weather updates on the way. Another sports
update on the way as well, Right, here on news
Radio eight forty Whas. It is seven thirty six now

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at news Radio eight forty Whas Coffee and Company with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us, Take us with you
wherever you go. Listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also
listen live at whas dot com. So have a question,
and I'll start with the one person that I'm that
I can speak to right now, and that is that
it's the company man, mister John Olden. Let's say in
a world where you were looking for a job, you're

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not though, because you got the best job in the world.
They pay the big bucks around here.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Uh and uh.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
I would never want you to have a different job.
But if you, let's say you started a new job
and everything seemed clearly if you're going to take on
a new job, it means that you're interested. You think
it's a good opportunity for you, You think you would
enjoy it, you can make a good living. But then
you arrived at the job and you didn't realize until
your first day that it was an office, an office

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environment that allowed workers to bring their pets to work.
Would that would that would you feel as if that
was something they should have let you know ahead of time.
Would you feel blind sided? I mean some people would
would probably.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Would probably like it.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I really felt like they were keeping that information from me.
I'd probably feel blindsided.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
But then if, regardless, if I show up to the
workplace and I see some animals, I don't know how many.
It would probably depend on the number of animals that
are there and how noisy and distracting their office. Just
a couple, I probably wouldn't be bothered too much much
by it, But if you got, you know, seventy five
percent of the office filled with people's pets, that'd be
a little strange.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, And I think it's so.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I have a friend who just started a job and
he's allergic to cats, and apparently there's somebody that works
in like a cubicle not far from him that brings
their cat, and you know, he's the new guy, and
he had no clue that it was just and it's
not like there's a ton of animals there, but somebody
occasionally brings their cat in, and there's I guess one

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of the higher ups will occasionally let their dog roam
around the office. And I bet some people would think
that was cool, and they would probably feel even more.
I guess in a casual environment to where hey, they
don't take things too serious.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Here.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I like this work hard, play hard kind of thing.
So I guess how you would perceive the news depends
on if you like being around animals. But he asked me,
is he wrong to say something?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
And I.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
I told him I'm probably not the right person to ask,
because I'm not anti pet by any means. I've always
been in defense mode when when I talk about this,
because I never had a pet growing up that I
had a close relationship with, so I've never experienced that
doesn't mean that I don't understand that people really love
their pets. Some people see their pets as if it's

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their child. So because I've never had a close relationship
with any dog, cat, pet, or anything, don't I just
don't go Google got Ga over anybody's animals. And I
think some people love their animals so much that if
you don't go Google goga, then you're anti animal. And
I'll always be in full defense mode of just because
I'm not super happy that when I show up to

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your house and your dog jumps on me doesn't mean
I don't like your dog. I just I don't really
want to do that with your dog. Your dog's fine,
but I'm you know, I like when somebody's dogs starts
humping my leg and I'm you know, I'm resistant and like, hey,
can you get away from me? I don't feel like
I've done anything wrong. So he asked me, you know,
does is he out of line to say something? And

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I'm like, no, I feel like they should let you
because most people wouldn't assume in an office type environment
that that would be a thing. It's not like the
craziest thing you've ever heard, but it's not like super common.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I wouldn't think.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
And again, especially if you're just letting the animals roam
the office.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well, he wants to say something about it, but doesn't
want to get off to a bad start at a
new job that he likes. He just doesn't, you know,
when there's a cat there, and even if the cat's
not there, if the cat's there once a week or maybe,
there's gonna be remnants of the cat, and it's it's
causing it's causing issues. So I told him it was
a dilemma that I wanted to bring to the airwaves

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here and see if there's anybody that could provide any
kind of you know, if you know, if anybody could
maybe give us some feedback, because I mean, he wouldn't
be wrong to say, hey, I wasn't aware any any
chance I could move to a different area or maybe
work from home, because I mean, that's not out of
line by any means. But yeah, I also understand that

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you don't want to be very new and you know,
start making complaints and anybody who has their dog or
cat there once a month or something, if it was
to be an issue for somebody because of allergies or
just because they're bothered by it. Like I mean, I
don't think your dog or cat is entitled to be
with you at work. Again, as I say this out loud,

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the more I'm like, yeah, of course you have a
right to say something. This isn't normal. But I also
haven't worked in a office cubicle type job in a
long long time. Maybe things have changed, but I I'll
you know, but do I know, just give you my opinion.
I think if you're courting an employee to come and
work for you, I would I would include that that

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is being something that is that they're aware of, just
because again, I think they're entitled to know that, but
that's just me. All right, Let's get a quick update
of trafficking weather as we keep this morning rolling along.
It's our last day here of September, and it's forty
one and news Radio eight forty Whas seven forty seven
here in News Radio eight forty whas. Thanks for hanging

(18:08):
out with us so quickly. I want to continue our conversation.
Just a moment ago, we were discussing if you take
a job and it's a job where it is okay
for I guess at times employees to bring their dog
or cat to work, that the employer should let you
know ahead of time, which I don't think is an

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unfair thing at all. But I was talking to John
Shannon during the break and I remembered a story that
is perfect for this, because I never worked at a
place where it was a normal thing where people would
bring their dog or cat, but on occasion, under certain circumstances,
it wasn't It wasn't crazy, and like if you had
a meeting in the morning and then you needed to

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take your dog to the vet after, like you could
bring your dog to the office and it wouldn't be
a big deal, almost like we had some company mascots.
And there was a sad situation towards the end of
my time working at this company because one of my
one of my friends, who was a coworker of mine,
his dog was was dying and he wanted to be
around his dog at all times, so he bring his

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dog to work pretty pretty commonly, and I remember thinking, well,
I get it. You don't want to go home and
find your dog had passed away. But you also wouldn't
want your dog to pass away when you're at work
with it, right, So anyways, a tough situation just sat
all the way around. The dog was very, very old,
and this was somebody who was well aware that, you know,
his dog may annoy people. So the dog didn't do
much of anything because it was so old. But if

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it ever moved near somebody who had brought their lunch
back to their cubicle and started sniffing around, maybe wanting
some food, the guy whose dog it was would quickly
yell out, hey, you know, the dog name was Jake,
Hey stop, you know, go away, go lay down. And
then sometimes this wasn't a common thing, but a couple
of times at least the dog would go to the
bathroom because it just that's that's the stage the dog

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was in, and you know, he'd get upset at the
dog and yell at it, and just it was sad
because he clearly knew the dog being there wasn't normal,
but he was going through it and the dog eventually
passed away. It wasn't at work, and it was sad.
And then I remember about a month after that, we're
leaving the office. We were on the elevator heading out,
and we stopped at the floor of the floor below

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us and let somebody else on the leave, and the
woman who got on, she gave us kind of a
dirty look, which was noticeable.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
We didn't really know what it was about.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
And then by the time we got down to the
to the to the main floor, the elevator opens up.
She walks out first, and she just can't control herself.
She turns around and just says, like, I don't know
what it is that you guys do, but the way
you speak to Jake is absolutely uncalled for. And she

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she had no clue that Jake was a human. She
thought she thought Jake was a human. She could this
was an old building, and the floors were paper thin, seemingly,
so we could hear everything going on upstairs and below
us and all that. And she just assumed that whenever
this guy was yelling at his dog, Jake, shut up,
laid out and go to sleep, Jake, you want to
take you home, Jake, she thought that he was talking

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to a real person. And then, of course she later
realized and we laughed and then told her that, you know,
Jake was actually a dog and that, and then we
explained the situation to her and it made sense. And
I remember thinking to her, like, you must have really
thought we were just completely we were just completely being abusive.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
To this, to this person. Horrible people.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, so that's one that's a human name, although you know,
it's not an uncommon thing for a dog to have
a human name. But also, you know, she knew what
we did upstairs was not We didn't have pets, we
didn't have animals, but we did on rare occasion. And
I will never forget her thinking that the whole time
that this dog's getting yelled at you because he went
to the bathroom on the floor, that he's trying to

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eat somebody's foods, Shut up and lay down and go
to sleep. Jake, Yeah, you would typically hear that, but yeah,
I guess that's where it could potentially backfire if you
bring a pet pet to work. All Right, we got
a quick up bit of tragicking weather coming your way.
Also another sports update as well, right here on news radio.
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