10.13: Growing Concerns - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Radio eight forty whas So Halloween, we'll be here soon.
And I really felt like this past weekend was the
first time I really got the Halloween vibes. We went

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to Kentucky Kingdom for their I don't know what they
call it, but they're Halloweens set up essentially really just
it's every like every evening at the theme park, I
would imagine, but They've just got a million pumpkins seemingly
all over the place, and when it gets dark outside,
they've got a lot of lights set up.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Really cool.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I've not been to and this was kind of I
didn't think of it, but it was kind of a
last minute thing for us. As far as going. We
want with some other friends. Had a great time. But
I haven't been to Kentucky Kingdom in twenty plus years.
When I went, it was still six flags. I believe
I was probably like a freshman in high school. So
to see that it really has laid out the exact same.

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It was a level of nostalgia that I was not expecting,
because I mean, I forgot about little like areas of
the park because I used to spend a lot of
time there when I was a little kid. But of course,
you know that was a long long time ago. But
all the Halloween stuff being out really really put me
in the Halloween spirit. But Google has given us the
trends here. This is the annual Frightgeist Report that is

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ranking the most searched costumes across the United States this year.
And I'm going to maybe need I'm going to need
to lean on the real youth the young stallion of
the show, John Alden, because I mean he's not a
young young guy, but he's younger than me. Maybe he
has a little more familiarity with with what these costumes
are are because I I don't know what K Pop

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Demon Hunters? Do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I know what it is, but I'm not so it's
a TV show on Netflix. I know that, okay, And
believe it or not, one of my one of my
family members is really into it and it's it's like
this anime like cartoon thing that that's about the best description.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I can And knowing that now, I'm not, you know,
not at all surprised. It's not something that I'm super
familiar with. But the different characters within that show are
all are all crushing it when it comes to the
mode because it's a new I guess this is a
newer show and it's got it. It's got all the
hype right now just because of timing. But yes, uh,
they've got it. Looks like four different no, I'm sorry,

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five different I guess characters that you can be Roomy, Zoey, Mira, Genu,
baby Saja. Again, I'm I'm I don't know any.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Better place to be a demon hunter than on Halloween.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I guess right, Yeah, so that is that is the
if you, if you, and I'm not even even I
need to look and see what it even would look
like the costumes, because that is one of the we
don't We don't spend a ton of time at our
front door because we do a lot of walking around
and we love our neighborhood. We actually have a party
to where we bring We have a lot of people
come and bring their kids just because we've got a
great neighborhood that really embraces it and goes all out

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and gives away good candy too. Also they give out
some boost to the parents if you want some much
you know that also works. So we don't spend a
ton of time when it comes to just waiting at
the door, but when we do, at least try to
figure out what kids are.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
And I wouldn't know.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
But now I'm going to do some research because if
this is the most popular costume idea and there are
five different characters you can be from this show, I
got to I got to brush it up a little
bit on it, but outside of that, I don't know
who this is as well. But I know the name Minecraft,
the video game Chicken Jockey. I know Minecraft. My son
tries to play it. I tell him he's too young
for it. But at least I know what Minecraft is.

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But yeah, I don't know any of this. Lower ax
from the Doctor Seuss is in the tie is right
at the end of the top ten, so I would
be able to to uh, I would be able to
figure out what that is. But yeah, some of the
other ones. I guess it's just timing. Kids wanting to
be what what is? I guess timely for them. But yeah,

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I mean what happened to just like dressing up as
like a dog or or as you know, like bat
like Batman? Like is Batman still a thing? Because this
makes me feel like I'm going to I'm going to
be seeing kids out and about and just when we
were walking around trick or treating or the different trunk
or treat things that we go to. Like if this,
if this one specific breakdown from Google, the trends that

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show you what people are googling, If this is as
accurate as as I think it is, I'm gonna have
to really ask parents, Hey, what what's your kid now?
I don't get it, which is that rude? By the way,
that's not rude, right, Like, I really.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Think it's rude overall, But there will be certain I'm
sure there's certain parents out there that would take offense
to it.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, I guess more than anything it could be because.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Maybe they made the cost to.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, if you have to ask, then then then it
gives the indication that it wasn't a good cast because
nobody knows what you are. But then again, I mean,
if your kid's going to be dressing up is somebody
from K pop Demon Hunters, I don't think I'm the
demo that you would expect to know what that is.
But yeah, that's one of those things about Halloween costumes
that I hadn't really thought about. If you know that

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you have a creative costume idea, but you'll have to
explain to somebody what it is, and then they'll get
it and appreciate it, it is it still considered good.
Maybe that's your conversation starter, right, Like, maybe maybe addresses
something very unusual, and you know, you can't wait for
people to try to guess what you are, and then
whenever you do tell them, that's the payoff and they're

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like Oh, that's.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Creative, that's great. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I feel like keeping it simple is the way to go.
But I haven't dressed up for Halloween in twenty five years,
so I'm a little out of the game when it
comes to that. All right, let's get to an update
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still an issue. So again we'll keep you updated on
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Radio eight forty Whas I'm sure many of you have

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at times wondered if you got into if you got
into the wrong industry, right you thought, man, that would
have been a better option for me. Well, I can
tell you, no matter what you do, I think the
case can be made getting into being a high level
college football coach is probably one that at times, especially
with the contract buyouts, that looked like that would have

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been a better path for everybody if we could make
it work, because there's really no comparison as far as
an industry, a type of job that you can be
really bad at and still absolutely change. I mean, you
can make generational wealth. And the firing of Penn States
James Franklin yesterday and seeing that he's going to get
fifty million dollars roughly over the next few years to

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not coach a football team, to not be an employee,
I mean it almost feels illegal, it really does. And
I don't know how. I really don't know how colleges
and universities got themselves into this situation, because look, college
football is the money maker for just about every program.
I mean, it just it's what really fuels your entire

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athletic department, and you need to be good there in
order to generate the most revenue possible. And obviously, if
you want to have a winning coach, you're gonna have
to pay them a lot like that. That's not where
I blame them, I get I think you're at fault
if you're not prioritizing football for your athletic department, because
that's that's what you have to do to make everything
else work. But how we got to agents being able

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to completely bully the industry of college football for their coaches,
their clients. I mean, to be fair to them, they're
doing their job, But at some point there became just
this notion that you've got to give your coaches new
contracts all the time when results aren't even there, because
if you don't, they'll leave because somebody else wants them.

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And if you want it became to it even if
you aren't having the success that would even remotely warrant
an extension, a reinvestment into you from your employer, they'll
put fear into you. Well, hey, if you want it
to work, we gotta we got to have a long
term commitment because if not that, then kids won't come
here and play for me because they'll think that you're
gonna fire me. So you better show them that I'm

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gonna be here and it it. It's become insane. And
I'm sure there are other In fact, there are many
other industries to an extent where you can you can
have a contract and if you get fired, they pay
you out the contract. But it's it's in football, it's
just different, and it's it's foolish when it Again, I'm
not blaming them for giving them a big salary, but
just it being a thing where you can you can

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you're agreeing, Hey, you could lose every single little football
game you ever coach, but you know what, every bit
of this contract, you're gonna get every penny of it.
I mean, that's that's one insanely stupid. But I can't
comprehend how we got there. Imagine anybody else you know,
having it to where in their contract when it comes
to you know, your employment, your terms calls for firing

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should always be if you're bad at your job, we're
gonna be up, We're gonna be entitled to fire you. Well,
in football it's a little different, right because winning and losing,
but because you can't necessarily make it a point to
where hey, we're gonna pay you, but like you're only
gonna get paid depending on how many games you win.
I mean, you can have contract incentives and all that
kind of stuff. But what I'm getting at is it
just being a known thing that hey, here's your deal,

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and only two years of it are guaranteed. Now again,
that might make it to where it would be coaches
would be looking around because they don't feel the commitment.
But right now, the way it's set up, it's it's irresponsible,
reckless when it comes to spending that is coming from
these universities because to know that you to pay somebody
that much money to not do the job. And also

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keep in mind, the reason you're in this situation is
because they were They were terrible at their job. I mean,
that's not the case with Franklin, but his situation is unique.
But like Kenny Payne, Kenny Payn's making more money to
sit next to Calipari on his bench and do nothing
than he is to actually do that. Louisville is paying
Kenny Payne more this season than you have than Arkansas

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is paying him, and he's not here and he nearly
ruined the program. Like he's an extreme example because of
how bad he was, But there are many other jobs
where there's this, many glaring examples of just what that
makes no sense. And again it's different. You have to
fund your athletic department and part of that is paying

(10:47):
your coaches a lot of money to keep them around.
But the scenario that they've got you by the you
know what, and you know I mean Mark Stoops has
a contract that says if they fire him just for
being a lousy coach, he gets not only nearly forty
million dollars in a buyout, he gets every penny of
it in forty or in sixty days. Like that is reckless, idiotic, irresponsible.

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We can continue the list as far as the decision
there from Mitch Barnhart, I mean, that makes no sense.
And the reality is, no matter how much you want
to keep your coach, no matter how good they are,
there's very few you could probably count them on one
hand that are irreplaceable.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
All right, let's get to a quick update of.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Traffic and weather. We've also got sports on the way,
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News Radio eight forty WHAS. Thank you very much. John
Shannon is seven thirty five here on a Monday morning.
Wake up, Kentucky and hopefully you head yourselves a good weekend.
But it is time to get another week started. We've
been busy this morning and one of the things we
have discussed is this government shut down. As we are

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now entering week three, this will be a week where
maybe it's just you know, the same level as far
as just the growing impact that we're seeing with the
government shut down, or maybe we see a real spike
whenever payday is set and it's not there. Again, I
think these folks are aware. I mean, I don't know
how you couldn't be aware that you won't be getting
a paycheck until this government shut down ends if you

(12:10):
are somebody that is paid by the government. But it's
one thing to know what's happening. It's one thing for
it to become real. And things that are already being impacted,
even if it isn't substantial, those are only going to
get worse. And there's going to be new elements here
as this process plays out, unless, of course, the shutdown
comes to an end soon, which I hope that's the case,
but doesn't look like there's any indication that that there's

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that that it's going to happen anytime soon. But again,
maybe maybe we're all wrong and and it gets resolved
in the next couple days. One thing we do know
is and again any survey poll that you see is
not you know, it's not like they've asked everybody. There's
really no way to get every single person's opinion on
certain things. But right now, when you look at the

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you look at the folks that have that are I
guess shared how concerned they actually are. It's it's pretty
split as far as just where they throw that blame.
I mean, it looks to be sixty three percent of
Americans in this new is it routers. I think it's
the Routers poll. I think that's how you say that.
But sixty three percent of Americans say they're at least

(13:17):
somewhat concerned about the shutdowns effect on services like Social
Security and student a Nearly half forty nine percent believe
it could cause real delays. But as far as so,
the concern is widespread. But the blame forty two percent
say President Trump deserves a great deal of blame, Thirty
eight percent say the same about Republicans in Congress. Thirty
one percent say Democrats in Congress deserve it. To the

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public sentiment could be I mean again, it's I think
who you want to blame is probably just going to
be which side you seem to be on right now
when it comes to your political affiliation. Now, what I
think will be I think pretty evident is that once
or maybe maybe it will never impact you to the

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level where you are waking up each day, living your
life and feeling the effects of what a government shutdown
can do. Maybe we don't get there, maybe you never
get there. But that's whenever people will stop so much
thinking about I mean, we don't have any control over
we are completely helpless in the situation overall. But that
will be well maybe, you know, because I think that
happened in the election. I think there are people who

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just assume that, well, they're you know, I think there's
on the Democratic side that well, there's just no way
that this many people are going to vote for Trump
because I mean just there's just no way. There's just
no way they would do it. And clearly they were
wrong in a big way. And it's because many people
care about how their lives are impacted day to day
with their family, their livelihood, and and that showed at
the election. So you know, no matter where you're throwing

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blame right now, if it gets so bad, there'll be
certain people that don't care who's involved. They just wanted
to get resolved. But unfortunately we don't have any control
over it actually getting resolved. So let's hope that the
those that do have the power and the decision making
process here they can get to some kind of agreement,
because again we are three weeks in, and by all accounts,

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those covering this a lot more than I am, they
don't see it an end anytime soon. But again I
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to get into before we wrap it up, and the

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the controversy over the weekend in the Georgia Auburn game
is one that, uh, even if you're not a big
football fan, this one the visual If you haven't seen
Kirby Smart clearly call for a timeout and then have
regret only to claim he was clapping his hands, not
signaling time out. I mean, I'm not surprised coaches do that,
especially a guy like Kirby Smart. They'll get away wherever

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they can. But what a bad look to get for
the reps to get bullied and just be It was
so clear he was calling time out and it didn't
end up impacting the game. But again, we've talked about it,
I guess more so than I was anticipating this morning.
College football coaches, man, they got it good. Their contracts.
They can stink and lose every game. They're getting every
penny on that deal. They can just yell and refs
will change a call because they're scared of them.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
What a gig to have.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Again, it's not great whenever you're actually I was gonnay,
it's not great whenever you're losing.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, if if Kentucky fires Mark Stoops, like some
of their fans want, he'll be paid a lot of
money to just simply not work. What a life, all right,
let's get to it. Updated trafficking weather right here on
there's radio eight forty whas. It's easy to say now,
but I did believe that it was pronounced a Reuter's
poll survey. But then I was looking at the spelling, thinking, well,

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there's no way that's how it was. Really, I was
second guessing myself, and you know, I goofed, but yes,
some of my teammates here let me know that's how
it's pronounced. My father texts me as well. So yeah,
that probably won't be the last thing today, maybe even
in this hour that I that I mispronounced. So sorry
about that. But again, I just think the government shut down.
We all know what's going on. If you're keeping up

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even a little bit, or even if you're trying not to,
it's I mean, it's something that's one of those types
of pieces of news that that's just going to be
a constant. But until you really feel it, I don't
think you're gonna know really what you're gonna think. But
not ideal for really anybody. Let's be let's be real,
all right. So again, did you see this on Saturday? John, Again,
I'm sure you were celebrating the Hoosiers and not thinking
about anything else. But Georgia head coach Kirby Smart he

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was granted a time he called time out, and I
don't really I didn't understand why he was so oh no,
I don't want to use it. Maybe it's because they
they actually they got the playoff in time, but he
didn't think they were going to, and he only had
one time out left, I believed, but he called time out,
they granted it. Then he went like a nuts on
the sideline. Did you see any of this.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm watching it right now.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
He's claiming I wasn't calling it tome out. I wanted
to call it tome out. I was clapping, I was clapping.
I was clapping. You know, you guys got it wrong,
and sure enough they gave it. They get they sided
with him that he didn't burn the time out, and
I don't. I don't think the refs have any I mean,
I guess they could go I mean, could.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
You review that. You should be able to, because he's
clearly I'm watching a camera angle of it right now
he's doing the time out signal before he's doing all
the clapping nonsense.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I mean, I'm not surprised that a coach tries to
pull that, and I don't. It doesn't do anything for
me as far as what I think of said coach,
because again, they're going to try to win at all costs.
But if he's to try to tell people with a
straight face that he that he was not calling a
time out and he was clapping after the fact, like
an a post game presser. I would lose respect for
him for insulting the intelligence or just the brain existence

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of human beings, because he was clearly calling a time out, right, Like,
there's no way you could look at that and not
say he was calling a time out. But to me,
it just reminded me of the fact that I think
the refs gave it to him. Maybe not because they
believed him, they were just too scared, They were chicken.
They didn't want to have to tell him. Kirby Smart,
two time national title winning coach, that you know that.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I saw someone say that he could or should be
fine for that. I don't know if that's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, I saw somebody maybe we saw the same person
that the SEC officials and him should be fine, and
I don't I don't see that happening. I wouldn't I
wouldn't advocate that it that it's mandatory, but I wouldn't
say that it's that it's off base, because I mean.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Imagine in a big game and a critical point of
the game, that.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
So refs know what they saw and then for them
to just be, you know, be scared to actually, you
know not give him his way. I mean, that's exactly
what that was. And what I don't know is I mean,
if you're Auburn that game was there, you would should
you should have been showing that replay on the sideline
or on the big screen, whether just just because maybe
that would have given the rep the indication that we're
gonna look really foolish if we just reverse course here.

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But they did and it didn't really have an impact
on the game at all. To be honest with the
Georgia just you know, found a way to win because
they're better than Auburn. But if you are an Auburn
fan at that moment, like that was truly a terrible decision.
And look, those happen. Refs are always gonna make bad calls,
and sometimes those bad calls happen at the worst time possible.
But that was just an example of Kirby smart can
cry and.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Get his way. That's exactly what that was. All right.
We've got an update of traving

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