10.6: Cool Down - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's seven oh five here on a Monday morning, coffee
and company. Feel about Thornton's on News Radio eight forty whas.
Thanks for hanging out with us, getting your Monday, getting
your week started, and I hope you also had a
good weekend. Fall weather is on the way kind of.
I mean, we're not looking at real super cool temperatures,
but eighty degrees.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We're gonna get there today.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
But moving forward, it looks like those eighty degree days
are are going to be no more. I mean, you
never really know what can happen, but yeah, fall it's here.
I mean officially it's been here for over a week now,
but I think maybe two weeks, but hadn't felt like
it and that will soon change. And personally, I'm excited
about that. As I mentioned, hopefully you had a good week,

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and if you're a Louisville football fan, you probably enjoyed
yourself a beautiful day out at L and N Stadium
three point thirty. Kit gave you a lot of time
to tailgate, probably made it a full day. That's the
kickoff time that I in my experience know that that's
a day there because you know, just the just the
lead up to it. Obviously, if you don't tailgate for
a long time, you got to give yourself some time

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to get there for the game. And of course it's
not ending until around night time. So the experience hopefully
was good, but the result not great. And we've talked
about that a little bit this morning. I know Miller
Moss the quarterback, of course, is he's now a pro right.
I mean that, technically, I guess isn't true because he's
a college athlete. But these guys are pros now.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
They make money.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's a job, and when you are brought in and
you're paid a lot of money to be here, you're
going to be expected to give results. And I find
this to be a tricky situation for Jeff Brown because
he's got a quarterback that you can clearly tell at
times is talented, can make some plays. I mean, look
at these numbers on Saturday, thirty four or forty eight.

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That's seventy one percent of his pass has completed, three
hundred and twenty nine yards, two touchdowns, and one interception.
And in any other situation, win or loss, you're thinking,
well that the quarterback's not the problem. I mean, no,
I mean quarterback, I mean that's one area we're not
concerned about, but not here. And you found yourself in
a situation where I would say a lot of the
talk about Miller Moss is probably man, this guy is

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not getting it done. Did Jeff get it wrong? Did
he go get the wrong quarterback in the portal? And
the reason that is what the noise has become following Saturday,
is because you see times where you can see, yeah,
I know why this guy was a five star quarterback
coming out of high school. But then you also at
times wonder has he ever played the position before? And
it's more good than bad, but the bad is so

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costly where it doesn't really outweigh it at times. And
this is the best way to describe it. We all
have a job, and we make mistakes in our job,
some mistakes bigger than others. But we also probably know
there are certain mistakes we just can't make and expect
not to be criticized and maybe even punished by our superiors.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Or maybe even fired.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Right if I decided to come on the radio tomorrow
morning and open the show by cursing and saying awful things,
and just I mean, that's that's not that's not really
a mistake. That's a choice, I suppose, but still there's
certain mistakes you can't make, and the kind of mistakes
that he made on Saturday, one being that interception that

(03:17):
might go down. And this isn't to pick on him,
This isn't for effect. I'm not exaggerating.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'd be shocked if you.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Get to the end of the year and they're throwing
out all the interceptions that took place in the season
and that's not viewed as one of the worst we'll
see in college football.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's just how big a mistake.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, you gifted gift wrapped a seven point score
for the other team, and look, pick six, halp pick
six has happened, but that was avoidable.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
You didn't need to do it.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
And he also nearly had a pick six late in
the game, and that was I tell you what, that
was a reminder that certain guys are on defense for
a reason. I mean, the defend the defender for Virginia.
I mean, it was a gift wrapped touchdown for him,
and he just you know, it's almost too good to
be treated, and he didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
He was in disbelief that the ball was right there.
He just dropped it.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you avoided a disaster there, but then taking a
sack late in the game, it's easy to forget about
that because third and twenty seven, I think it was
he quickly got up and made up for it, made
a beautiful play, and that was a really good snapshot
of what you get with Miller Moss. He's got some talent,
there's no doubt about that, but he wears visibly his

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anxiety for lack of a better word, right, the pressure's
getting to him, and that's on the old line. Trust me,
the old line hasn't helped him, and the old line
not protecting him at times has led to the pressure,
and he just got to make better decisions when that
pressure is there. But also if the old line was
doing their part and the run game was rolling, life's
a lot easier for Miller Moss. I mean, we talked
about that throughout the summer. Scott with Miller Moss, you

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don't really know what you're gether. You're gonna get more Plumber,
You're gonna get more Tyler Shuck, And I remember thinking, well,
you're not gonna need him to be great because you
got Isaac Brown and Duke Watson and those guys have
been banged up, but also they haven't had a lot
of help from that old line. And the old line man,
it's the thankless position, right, I mean, yeah, I mean
whenever there's somebody running for an eighty yard touchdown, rarely

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are you talking about, Wow, what a great job by
those guys in the trenches. They don't get a whole
lot of credit when things are going well, but man,
when things fall apart, they get a lot of blame.
And that's just kind of the cost of doing business
as an old lineman. But it's not it's not all
Miller Moss.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
But no, it was well, it was interesting for the
I think for the first time this year, I finally
heard the Boo birds come out and we were at
the game.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I heard about that.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Wow, and the Boue birds came out, and it was
it was right after mil I wasn't sure if it
was for the old line, if it was for Miller Moss,
but it was right after the offense came off the field.
And clearly Cardinal fans are frustrated to your point, because
it's it's worse because you get a good look at
a good Miller Moss and a good lois offense, and
then you turn right around and you get something silly happen,

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and it's like a gut punch. And Louisville fans are
clearly getting frustrated over fifty thousand in attendance. They responded,
they met the team halfway. They show it was rocking.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean they were.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think the crowd was a big factor in that
ten point deficit. That was a race, but of course
a lot to I mean, the decision to kick the
field goal in overtime, that's so not Jeff.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Why he did that. I have my theory. Maybe I'll
get to that later.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
But a tough loss and Chris Bell one of the
best performances I've seen from a Louisville receiver in quite
some time, and of course it comes in a loss.
So you've got the pieces right, I don't. I don't
worry about Louisville having enough to win a lot of
games this year. Now, clearly they got to get better
at certain spots. But what's really tough for Jeff Bram
is that this is the second straight year, in my opinion,
where you are midway through the season, or at least

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close to it, and you've got some issues, some frustrations,
and in the biggest one is that you you self inflict,
you you you self destruct, and you shoot yourself in
the foot. And that's not a good that's not a
good trend for a team because that that's points to
a team that is that is not disciplined, that is
not sharp. And not to say that if Louisville, you know,

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cleaned up this here and there, that they'd be perfect,
but last year that was the case, right, They should
have won more games early on and just made some
mistakes you can't make to beat good teams. That certainly
would happen on Saturday against Virginia. And let's be real,
they were very fortunate to claw out of a big
hole seventeen nothing against Pittsburgh and it took big plays
from Chris Bell and Isaac Brown to avoid a loss

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to James Madison. Louisville trailed going into the fourth quarter.
So four and one is still a lot on the
table as far as what they can accomplish with wins.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
But also they could very easily be a.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Football team right now that has three losses, and again
they don't, so let's not act like they do. But
as far as where this team goes from here. They're
gonna have to stop making mistakes that cost you games.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, and that was the common theme afterwards for most fans. Sure,
we talked about it on the postgame show that look,
there's enough. They're not fans aren't real worried. They're frustrated now,
not worried to your point, because they see the team's
got the nucleus, it's got the right parts. They've just
got to put it all together. It's like a giant
game of Tesla. They've got to find ways to fit
everybody and get it going, and once they correct those,

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they'll be on their way.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yep, all right, let's get to a quick break.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
We've got trafficking weather updates on the way, and what
I want to get to. On the other side, we
talked earlier about how many more of us are living
check to check with the economy being what it is.
But there's a certain I guess, career path you can
go down. That Not to say that it's a full
proof for no potential issues, but it's it's certainly something
that was not as encouraged whenever I was a young

(08:18):
adult entering the grown up world. We'll get to that
in a lot more right here, and who's ready to
bet forty whs. So a Goldman's Sachs study reveals that
thirty nine percent of Gen Z and forty five percent
of millennials and forty one percent of Gen Xs say
that they're currently living paycheck to paycheck. And I think
paycheck to paycheck is fairly common for people of all

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age ranges, but obviously those that used to be a
little more comfortable because of savings, because of retirement situations.
Clearly that those people have been impacted just like everybody
else in America seemingly so not a good trend by
any means, but certainly not surprising. But one thing that
is exploding is the blue collar, skilled type of jobs.

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So college is clearly no longer the only ticket to success,
and it really has never been the only ticket for success.
But I can tell you firsthand I graduated high school
twenty years ago, and maybe this is just how I
how I remember it, But you were encouraged to pursue
higher education after high school, and I'm sure clearly you

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still are now, But there was a level of tone,
really a stigma that if you didn't pursue that and
that wasn't your future. You were going to have a
rough life and you were going to be doomed for
I mean a poverty, but a really tough life, and
that never was the case. And I'm happy to know

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now that that's not seemingly the tone that is out
there because it's just clearly not true. In fact, where
I went to school. I grew up in Bullet County,
Bullet County Public school system. There's now, I believe, an
entire department within the education system there that did not
exist that is specifically to encourage folks and educate them
on how they can pursue these trades and still make

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a great living and also still get an education when
doing it right. When you go through the apprenticeship program
to become a journeyman in a skilled trade like electrical plumbing, construction,
you are educated in that process. So I mean, I'm
not at all surprised that that gen z is shifting
to skilled trades and they're going to be better off
for it. There's a story Yahoo had this story about

(10:34):
a twenty three year old who runs his own electric
company and he launched it in twenty twenty four. In
his first year his business made ninety thousand dollars as
on track to do about one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in twenty twenty five. So no college degree, but
he's his own boss and he feels insulated from the
AI job losses. And that's a big factor too for

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the young folks. Right, they're aware of AI just as much,
probably more than most, and they can see which job
would not be as vulnerable to AI coming in and
taking it. And of course I mean college. I mean tuition,
room and board now top thirty eight thousand dollars a year,
nearly sixty k for private schools. You factor in debt,
lost income. I mean a college degree can ultimately cost

(11:16):
you half a million dollars. And look, if you go
to college and you still mean trust me, I'm not
anti college because even if it's something you never utilize,
even if you go to school and get your degree
and then you don't work because you're just wealthy, somehow,
I think college is still an accomplishment that should be
celebrated because it's a difficult thing to do. I say

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that as somebody without a four year college degree. So
it's never that you shouldn't do it. But it's now
very very understandable why many don't, especially right now, and
I don't. I know, I've got a lot of friends.
In fact, my brother in law hardest working man I've
ever met in my life, and he is he followed

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the past of getting into sheet metal as an apprentice
when he was a young young man. Now he's now
he's not only a journeyman and a professional in his trade,
he's he's a foreman. He's a leader in his profession
and uh makes a great living. And and you know,
he has a big team of guys that follow that
same path. And again it's not new, right I'm talking,

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I'm probably talking to a lot of people like, well, yeah,
there's you know, the majority of the people, you know,
the majority of people in your family. You're probably thinking, well,
that's what of course we've got, you know, plumbers, pipe fitters, electricians,
all that kind of stuff. I just know that that
was not as encouraged quite as much whenever I was younger,
and I'm glad to know that it is now because
it's a great way to make a living and clearly
it's a there's a need for it.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
So oh yes, for education, I can tell you that
for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
And when I was reading those numbers, Scott, I was
thinking about you.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, there is a lot of money, and I've been
working a lot, but what.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
A great investment too.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
As far as just your future, right, It's it's not
one is better than the other.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's just there's other options.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And of course with the financial side out of it,
it's understandable why some people may be entering adult years
thinking if I'm going to go to Kyle, I'm at
least wait and see if things settle down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, especially working with local iron workers here locally here
in Louisville, right, I can tell you firsthand that the
training they provide, that they will put you to work
and they'll show you how to do the job right. So,
folks that are going, I'm glad to see the resurgent
and resurgence in the trade movement.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's awesome, good stuff. Let's get to a quick break.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
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Speaker 2 (14:32):
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You see them very much involved in the community, and
we certainly appreciate Alex and his team. Also appreciate the
one and only John Shannon, who has made his way
here in studio today. Before we get into this awful
situation where a family who had a six year old
child stabbed to death ten years ago, the guy who
did it is now not in prison anymore.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I got to ask you.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
You made a trip to Illinois this weekend, right, I
did pumpkin patch.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Huh that was great.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Oh, it was awesome pumpkin patch.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
That was a selection.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
They had every color under the rainbow. They had the
ones that have all what I call warts.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
All over them.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Those warts, the Cinderella ones, as my daughter calls them.
It looks like Cinderella's coach observation. No it's not.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
She got a couple of those. The boy, my grandson's
got a couple to decorate. Uh. And we picked up
a bunch of fruit and uh, because they've got a
market there too.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
It's a farm like you can go around here to
some of.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
The time to shine.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
And went to their meat department, picked up some brots
to cook, got some other delicious they got some the
most amazing apple sider that you can taste, and got
some apples to do some baking for the upcoming holidays.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Are they Are they dealing with the warm weather that
we are too? Is it a little bit cooler there?

Speaker 4 (15:41):
No? No, this is this is southern Illinois.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
So we're probably about forty five minutes from downtown Saint Louis,
okay o Fallon Air Force Base or Scott Air Force.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Base that area.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yeah, and it was every bit eighty six eighty seven
degrees yesterday when I'm chasing grandkids picking pumpkins.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, and you know, you could still have a good time.
But when I'm thinking pumpkin patch, I'm thinking not necessarily
cold weather by any means, but just you know, some
fall tempts footy weather.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm going to Hubers in a couple of weeks with
my daughter for her for her field trip, and I'm
hopeful that we we have the I think we're gonna
have the visual as far as what it looks like.
I just hope it feels a little more like fall,
and it should at that point because we'll be a
little bit closer into to the end of the month.
But Doug, glad to hear you had a good weekend,
and yes, I did want to bring you in to
discuss this story that, of course, is starting to get
some attention nationally. It really, I think took off early

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last week, but now it's hit a new level where
the White House has weighed in on the release of
a Kentucky child killer who again did kill a six
year old child as he slept in his home in
Versales in twenty fifteen, but he was found not guilty
of murder by reason of insanity and again him being
sentenced to twenty years in prison. I think is a

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is a head scratcher for a lot of folks. But
he only serves seven and now is released. We'll be
off we'll be off of supervision in June of next year,
which is just insane to think about. But it sounds
like there could be some kind of of a legal
loophole that really it wasn't anybody's direct decision.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's just maybe the system.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, it's apparently in the law.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
And maybe our friend Alex White can call or text
you and explain a little bit more about this, because
neither one of us are pretend to be lawyers.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
But the ads play went on the radio every now
and then. No, no, it didn't pass the bar.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
So in reaction to this, and in reaction to the
Trump administration getting involved in this horrible, horrible situation, the
Kentucky Justice Cabinet says that they did not their parole
board did not grant him parole, and their actual recommendation
was at exanta, stay in prison for the remainder of
his twenty years, since only saw that eight years. Yeah,

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they say, but there's always a butt with these things.
A provision in state law required the Department of Corrections
to release the inmate on what's called mandatory re entry supervision.
So apparently it's a flaw in the criminal law that
that it's a loophole that that that this guy is

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able to slip out through that may needs to be corrected.
I mean, if it's drawn White House attention, which which
will probably be the DJ's Civil Rights Department looking at this.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, I just I mean, when I hear the word
mandatory is if this guy's got a right that it's
mandatory that somebody who did this, regardless of mental situation,
be completely I mean again not not that we're lawyers here,
but he's super His supervised release will be within less
than eleven years after he committed such a heinous act.

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And had the father you brought this up to me,
the father who we played earlier, the sound that he's
basically he says it very very directly. If he ever
comes in in, you know, he's gonna kill him and
kill him where he stands. So I just I mean,
this father was able to keep him from killing the
rest of the family, and as he was doing that,
this lunatic was letting him know that his plans were

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to kill the entire family. It wasn't I mean, the
child had siblings, of course, and also the father and
his wife. So this displays as to how it could
ever happen. But man, there's something not right with this.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
And I've seen the video of the father.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
He's by no sense of this of anybody's description of
tiny a small guy, he's pretty stout, and he says
that this guy, when he jumped on him to stop
him from originally from attacking his daughters, threw him.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Across the room, like shook him like like a bad guy.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
He probably had.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
He probably had the strength that kicks in that you
only know unless you're in a situation quite like that
where maybe that individual, the murderer, could have been a vehicle,
but a thrown him across the room because of instincts
they just kick in. Clearly some tongue in cheek there.
But I just again, there's so many layers to this
as far as just the public, like how could this
guy be out? How could this guy soon be off
of supervised release? And then you know the family, I mean,

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there's no way to relate to them in any way,
but that that that part of it, Just knowing that
the person who did it is living their life and
because of a plea that was you know, because of
it just reopens a womb. Yeah, because of the insanity
aspect of it. That just means that he tempt he
can just move on with his life. Right, There's really
not justice at that point.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
No, he's not.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
And the grandmother reiterated that there is. You know, she
believes that there should be justice for everyone, but she
says there is no justice in this situation, and by
his own emission, it's a heartbreaking story. He says he
shut down, he didn't want to get out of bed,
he didn't want to live anymore because of his six
year old son died.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Makes total sense, and you.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Know, his whole when when you're when your house is
invaded like that, your whole world and what you think
is safe and secure gets thrown totally upside down.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh, instincts kick in right and well.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
That and just you don't feel safe anymore anywhere once
you've been invaded like that, and then to have a
murder like that on top of it just just adds
to that fear of everywhere you go, you know, and
you lock your doors.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
And yeah, you've been violent, definitely, and it's not something
you get over easily. And then to have as you're
trying to go through the healing.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Process of this, ten years on, you find out the
man that's responsible for it's gonna get turned loose, free
and clear, no supervision, nobody looking over his shoulder in
about six months down in Florida.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yep, it's scary stuff, no doubt, thanks John.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
All right, let's get to a quick time out travving
and weather updates on the way, we'll see how the
roadways are looking. There is a store that you used
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like some of them were, it was notable that they
were dying because it was it was a big deal.
It was sad like Sears, Like Sears, I mean they
had over thirty five hundred stores nationwide in the early
two thousands.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, I'll never you know, Sears always had that popcorn smells.
Where you went on this you could.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Get you I mean, you could get your pictures made,
you could get your oil changed, you could get a lawnmower,
you could get a Sunday church outfit. I mean, the
concept of those stores, it's nostalgia that's kicking in for
me here.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
But like they were cool.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well, I thought about that, you know now that you
mentioned that, because I was posting Friday, I made a
beer run across. I go, there's a place I go
in Clark Store where I make my beer runs. And
I went past Green Tree Mall and I speaking of
the auto service centers. There was an auto service center
that was right outside Green Tree Mall that's closed up
and now it's for sale. And I thought about the
same thing you're thinking about.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm like, man, how depressing is this? You know, you
go to the mall. There were restaurants around the mall.
It was almost like a day thing.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh yeah, the family because they had so many I mean,
was there really wasn't anything you couldn't get there?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Right, right, and so we always for us, you know,
we take the bus out to the mall on a
Saturday morning and then you go and they had the
arcade at Series is what they had.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So we grab our.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Quarters and go hang out in the arcade and walk
through the mall and man, you just don't have that anymore.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, Kmart. I remember very little about Kmart specifically. Oh,
but they were one that for me specifically, I just
feel like that's one that died off and I didn't
realize it until they were dead for a little while.
But they had over twenty five hundred stores in the
nineties and the blue Light special that was something you
heard off.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Them with Kmart and did you see and now they're gone?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Where was it? Did you see?

Speaker 3 (24:46):
The deli like sold a record one thousand? They decided
to make the Kmart subs no and they sold a
record in some crazy amount of time. And the owner
of this place actually wrapped them in that plastic cellophene
they used to wrapping Kmart. That's how hungry people are,
like yourself, you're saying that nick for nostalgia, Oh.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
My gosh, I want to go.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I mean, this is a totally different type of industry,
but like, I'm not sure there's a more nostalgic feeling
than Blockbuster for me. And of course they have one
location left I think in like Washington State or Alaska.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
But yeah, I mean that whole yeah, and it is.
It is one of the it's one of.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
The craziest but real stories out there, and that is
that Blockbuster the owners had the option to buy Netflix
and passed and thought, yeah, it's not sustainable, no long
term value there, and my goodness were they wrong and
it ended them essentially. So yeah, crazy stuff. All right,
let's get to a quick bit of trafficking weather. We've

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got sports coming up as well. Another news update at
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