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October 16, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Believe it or not, I do. I do prepare for
this show, and at times throughout the four hours that
I'm with you in the morning, I'm looking to see
what's developing as far as news while I'm on the air.
That's kind of, you know, part of the gig. And
sometimes I'll see something that really just distracts me. And
that just happened. So Jonathan Gannon is the head coach
of the Aarson the Cardinals, and he was recently criticized

(00:21):
for putting his hands on a player, which you should
never do that. But if there ever was going to
be something that would bring that emotion out of a coach,
it was the play he was reacting to, where I
think for the second time in two weeks, you had
two different NFL players do the unthinkable, just for some
reason drop the ball out of their hands as they're

(00:42):
crossing the end zone with nobody near them. So that
of course was a big factor in Arizona losing the
game to the Titans, and that led to just him
talking a lot about emotions, and his emotions got the
best of him. He did get fined by his employer
of the Cardinals, and he apologized, but he was asked
to recently about when he learned to take the emotion

(01:03):
out of out of coaching, and his response is, it's
it's something and I'll let you guys hear it really
quickly here. So again the question, I think, I think
the entire exchange is here, but let's see if it plays.
It'd be great if it does. It's usually pretty pretty
important for to play. Here, we go, well, how early.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
In your career did you have to start trying to
figure out how to take the emotion out of coaching?
As far as when you when you have all these injuries,
that you have, all these different pieces, when's the first
time that you can recall that two thousand and seven
when our quarterback went to jail.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And that was the end of the press conference. And
I'm curious, how many of you listening in two thousand
and seven remember what he's referring to? Anybody? And he guesses,
Mike Vick went to prison for dog fighting. So, I mean,
I don't know, it's just that's a He probably was
waiting for the reporter to finish the question, but he

(02:03):
already knew his answer, because yeah, that could be that
could get you set to just know, Hey, there's going
to be things that come along the way you're going
to You're gonna have guys that you're invested in that
are really flourishing in your system and then they're just
gone because of injury, or the GM decided to trade
him and you had no say so, or quarterback goes
to jail because he's running a dog fighting operation. So

(02:24):
that would get you prepared for I guess the unexpected
if you are, if you are a coach. And it's
crazy to think that that happened, but it was eighteen
years ago at the time, one of the biggest stories
in I mean certainly sounds sounds like a stretch to
say it now, but certainly in that decade, the two thousands,
that was one of the biggest sports stories ever and
still is shocking to think about years later, because Mike

(02:46):
Vick has has bounced back, came back to the NFL,
played as a good quarterback after he came back for
a little while there, and then now worked as an
analyst and now he's a head coach I think at
Norfolk State. So there you go, all right. So an
LMPD officer has to to resign shortly after being handed
down a suspension, only that officer would be able to

(03:06):
tell you if in fact the suspension led to the resignation.
But Alissa Bagel has resigned. And this is six months
after a deadly crash on Fern Valley Road where she
was driving nearly ninety five miles an hour in a
forty five mile an hour zone with no lights on
and no sirens when she struck another vehicle, killing sixty
one year old Charles Briscoe. So I'm assuming it was

(03:29):
just a mistake to not have the and again it's
a costly mistake, a tragic mistake. When you were a
LA enforcement officer, I think it's a given that you've
got a lot of opportunities to make decisions, and some
of those decisions can be mistakes, and some of those
mistakes can be costly to yourself or to others. That's
just the level of what that job is, being in
law enforcement. So it was on April second, she responded

(03:51):
to an emergency call about a disorderly patient in an ambulance,
and dashcan video shows that she was weaning through traffic
before colliding with Brisco's Cadillac, and investigators found no evidence
she tried to break, and again I think a big
factor here as the whole. I mean again, if in
fact her lights and sirens are on, who knows what

(04:12):
that entire situation is. But when you don't have the
lights and sirens on and somebody's driving ninety five miles
an hour cop or no cop. Again, if you're not
a copy, you wouldn't have lights and sirens. But still
that's a disaster waiting to happen. I doubt there was
any intent by any means, but still it cost somebody
their life. So a grand jury declined to indict this

(04:35):
officer on manslaughter charges back in July because of mitigating factors,
and that decision as far as the criminal side of it,
was wrapped up pretty quickly, just two months. But the
internal review by l and PD as far as the
policy took about six months, and they decided to issue
a suspension. Chief Humphrey determined thirty days suspension was appropriate,

(04:57):
but again she resigned before serving it, and she'd been
on paid administrative leaves since that crash took place in April.
So this is just an all around awful situation. And
I will mention this, but it's not to say that
I'm not. This doesn't This doesn't change sort of my
view on what I just said that it's just a
tragic situation all the way around. But the driver, the
gentleman who passed away, was he was over the limit,

(05:20):
in fact, nearly double the blood alcohol limit as far
as being intoxicated. And the report also says he turned
into her path while she was driving. Now again, drunk
or not. If you can't see, it may not matter, honestly,
because the lights and sirens weren't on. So just an
awful situation all the way around. And that officer, of course,

(05:41):
you know, for those wanting criminal charges, if you're the family,
I mean it's hard to not have. I mean clearly
that that's an emotional situation to where you're going to
want somebody to pay the price. Mistake or no mistake,
they took a life by making a mistake. But also
when you are a law enforcement officer and you you

(06:01):
you take that risk, and you're gonna make mistakes and
sometimes it's going to be costly, and that's that's a
tragic situation, just like this one is. But I think
criminally holding an officer accountable for what was a mistake,
it just you know, it makes sense to me that

(06:21):
the grand jury declined to indict this officer, But doesn't
you know, obviously, if you are somebody close to the
Charles Brisco, I'm sure the emotions are or overwhelming as
far as this whole situation, and that I wish we
would acknowledge this more. Sometimes situations are just tough all
the way around, and that's certainly what this one is,
because obviously that officer wasn't trying to harm anybody, and

(06:43):
yet she has to live with that the rest of
her life, that that mistake that she made, you know,
clearly was a factor or you know. I guess we'll
never know for certain, but obviously I'm sure there's some
guilt there as far as knowing had I had my
lights and sirens on, who knows what would have happened.
All right, let's get to a quick break. We've got
trafficking weather updates on the way. Roory O'Neil's I had
to join us at eight thirty five from NBC, so
stick around for that right here on news Rady eight forty.

(07:04):
Whas So, the folks at the University of Louisville have
launched a swift anomics class. And if you're thinking does
that mean what you you're right. It's Taylor Swift themed,
so u of L. This is, by the way, getting
some national attention. They just made economics a lot more
interesting by turning Taylor Swift's career into a college course,

(07:27):
Swift Aomics, and I'm sure that alone. I mean, who's
got more juice than Taylor Swift right now? I mean
not just right now, for a long time. And those
who can't relate, like me, you're probably just not again
not able to relate. But those who are into Taylor Swift,
it's I mean, put it this way, I get why

(07:48):
people say it's cult, Like I also know that you
can be a fan enjoy her work and not be
of that level. But she's got an insane amount of
fans and they worship and endure her, and hey, that
means she that she's doing something right. Some of them
kind of make her their love for Taylor Swift, their

(08:09):
whole personality. That's where I kind of I kind of
can't really relate to that. But this class, Swift and Omics,
it's using everything from her tour ticket pricing to her
lyrics to teach real world financial concepts that's how they
describe this course. It uses her business empire as framework
to explain supply and demand, opportunity, cost, those kind of things.

(08:30):
For example, the demand for the Ariostour tickets is used
to break down pricing, strategy and market limits. And the
first session sold out quickly, and the professor hopes to
make it a reoccurring course at u of L. A
reoccurring course called Swift and Omics at the University of
Louisville that uses Taylor Swift's career to help people learn

(08:54):
real world financial concepts. I mean, I guess it makes sense,
she said. Nobody calls her tete Tony. It's swifty or
swifties or fans. That's right, Okay, I've never heard tatay.
Is this just is this? Are you? Are you more
in than I am? Tony Venettie when it comes to
Taylor Swift, Yeah, I'm swifty.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
She's talented.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
The marriage of the century. It's royalty for us, my friend.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
But she that's the thing, she was already completely dominating
the spotlight of fame before she got with Travis Kelcey.
Like he's benefiting from this way more than her, right.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
And it was organic, and no one wanted to like it.
Like everyone was like, this is a setup between the
NFL and the Democrats. It's like, what I mean, did
you read all it?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
He was like, are you serious? That was a thing?
That was a thing. That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah right, They're all sitting in this The UNFL is
going to make sure kidsas city's in the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Why because Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Now, that wasn't real. I do remember that part of
the conversation. It's crazy. It was it was crazy, and
it was organic. It was he he sent a text
message or a letter or something and was like, Hey,
you want to, we'll go out, just.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Like all the rest of us. What really just let
me know the level of how much her fans, her
swifties are obsessed with her, is that they were all
so collectively stressed out like parents. Taylor's got this new
NFL boyfriend. I heard he's a run knucklehead. Oh yeah
is he? Is he worthy? And then of course now
they love him.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
When I when I saw this is when I knew
it was real. Uh, when she was sitting with his
mom at the game and they're all dressed like normal
people and they're just sitting in there cheering for the game.
I was like, okay, okay, and then that the brother's
wife is such a such a question.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I could get a beer with any of them.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
She's she runs that household like he's an electrician, and
that's all the money they make.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
She's a reminder of how much relatability matters. Absolutely, She's
the only one with ann ounce of relatability to most people.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
And I think the Taylor Swift family is like, no, no,
this is a great Midwest family.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
We're this is good the American dream.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, let's get to a quick time out. We've
got other sports update on the way. Also, we'll get
a check traffic of weather right here on news radio
eight forty w h A s BB King, we are
wrapping up the show here. It is a forty nine
News Radio eight forty w h A s. Thank you
guys for hanging out with us today. You're in You're
in luck because you've got Tony ofven Eddie coming your
ways to white Back today. He is bad, That's what

(11:17):
I thought. Yeah, he's back.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's taking a sweet time getting here though.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
America, America, I don't know, became better when he re
entered the country.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
I think so whenever that was, he made America great again.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
The drugs made America great again?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yes, by just coming back the MAGA radio host.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, I just said that the America. I could feel
America improved when you crossed into the to the to
the country here from from from Mexico, which I have
a feeling he probably he probably wishes he was still
there sunglasses.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm still on, so we know what kind of morning
this is going to be. Yeah, on with the lights off, yes,
and his boot is still on. This is not going
to be good.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Coming back to work after a long vacation, is I mean,
it's brutal.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
That's where I get the beach vacation. I did an
extra long one of that, and after a little while
you're like, okay, I'm on beach time. I'm not sure
I could go back to.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
The Yeah, you've crossover, you've programmed. Yeh.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
But you understand how those guys that get addicted to
the beach that are just their paces slow and and
they don't do much.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's the Jimmy Buffett life. Yeah. The whole pirate looks
at forty and that sounds like fun. I think the whole,
the mental part of knowing that, the dread of oh,
I got to go back to the not back to
the routine, all that kind of stuff. That's worse. That's
the worst part of it. Once you get back into
a groove, you're good to go. And I'm sure that'll
be the case with.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
What clicks in is I'm an impostor and I haven't
accomplished enough. Let's get back to work.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do you think he missed us more than we missed him?
A chance?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Now I saw miss anything, miss Lemmy more than anybody else.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
I'm surprised they don't take lemon. That'd be No.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
You can't take the reason why, because the reason why
the foures to German commands. Okay, he is an actual
German German shepherd.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yes, it's impressive. Okay, all right, Well, the two fellas,
Tony and Dwight, they were reunited. Coming up next right,
that's right right here on news radio eight forty w
h A. S.
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