11.14: They Could Smell It - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this carriage dispute between Disney and YouTube tv is
now in its third weekend, and it's left millions of
subscribers without something that they pay for unless they've already canceled.
And I guess that is the benefit of the new
streaming world, is that from a contract situation, you can
drop whatever service you have at any moment. Now you

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won't probably get any payment back if you've canceled, maybe
before a month comes to an end, but it's not
I mean, you can easily cancel any time now, which
you would think that that would be something that YouTube
TV would keep in mind that you don't have the
ability to hold somebody to a contract to where regardless

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if they want your service or not, they signed up
to pay for it. But I refuse to believe that
the decision to let this go on as long as
it has, I refuse to believe that some of it
is not tied to knowing that the people who are
missing out are sports fans, and sports fans love the NFL,

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and they're missing out on the games that are going
to be on ESPN. But there's only one game on ESPN.
So the NFL is the king of live viewership in
this country, and ESPN only has one game a week
when it comes to the Sunday Slate. You still have
access on YouTube TV to Fox and CBS, and they

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also have the NFL Red Zone. I pay for the
NFL Red Zone, so I already have a new service
that I'm using. But I'm also not canceling YouTube TV
yet because I've already paid them for NFL Red Zone
and that's a lump payment, that's a one time thing,
so I'm already invested. So again, what I'm getting at

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is I think that they've got to be mindful of
people like myself who are going to ride it out
because I've already paid and I still want to consume
the NFL. So yesterday seemed like a day that maybe,
at least in the morning when we discussed it, it seemed
as if they were they were making progress, and I
guess just really sitting at the table with the realization

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that everybody's losing here, let's find a way to make
it work. Well, they didn't find a way to make
it work, because now you have the Disney CFO Hugh
Johnson telling investors they're willing to let this drag on
as long as it takes. So Bob Eiger defended Disney's position,
saying their offer to YouTube TV is equal or better
than deals with other big distributors. So this is clearly

(02:32):
a point in the finger situation. And these are always
a point the finger situation where the network's going to
tell you to call and give your provider hell for
not not having the station that you pay for, and
your provider is going to say, hey, we're trying, but
they're bullying us, or I doubt that those are the
exact words they would use, but still it's a fight,

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and it's it's lasted longer than I can remember, as
far as a carriage dispute, keeping customers without something that
clearly they utilize. Maybe not everybody, but and sometimes I
need to remind myself not to get in my own
bubble because I know that there are people that don't
consume sports really at all. And that's okay. There's many

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of you out there that don't really care or follow
sports at all. Maybe you keep up with it here
and there, but you're not sitting down to watch a
lot of action. But when it comes to people who
watched things live, meaning hey this is on right now,
I need to find a way to watch it. Let
me go to my live TV provider, which is YouTube
tv or maybe Hululi, whatever it may be. The numbers
have been there for years and it's only growing that

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live products on television. Sports is king, the NFL is king.
So I just I can't think of another scenario, especially
in the streaming world, where there's been a dispute that's
lasted this long and it's clearly having customers go without

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something that they genuinely made me. I'll say this that
I can only speak for myself. This has made me
realize that if I, like, I don't even open YouTube
TV very often because if I watch sports now I'm
watching ESPN and I'm using the new service that I
have through ESPN Plus. So like, I mean, I've known this,

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but now it's actually playing out there where YouTube TV's
not really ever opened on my on my Roku. So
I knew, but now I actually am living through it
and confirming for sure I don't need live TV unless
it's me wanting to watch a live sporting event. So
the financial fallout is crazy. Disney's losing five million dollars

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a day while YouTube keeps simorrhaging subscribers. And of course
they're offering that twenty dollars bill credit to keep people
from leaving. But I think that turned out more so
as the real direct invitation to leave with some customers.
I will say, this sounds sounds like a get off
my long kind of thing to say. Maybe it's me
getting older, but that was the move for me to

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go ahead and start paying for another service and just
count my days until the NFL season comes to an end.
Because it isn't as if you're asking me to go
wait in line at a store to get a rebate,
like it's nineteen ninety two, but you're gonna give me
twenty dollars in credit, but I gotta go through the
process to get it. You don't just take it off
my bill. YouTube tv is owned by Google. You don't

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have the ability to realize anybody within your network of customers,
anybody that's paying for your service is getting this right.
It's not a customized plan. So having it just automatically
taken off the bill would be an easy thing for
you know, Google and YouTube to do given their technological resources.
So telling customers they have to do it, it's it

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sounds like an exaggeration to say it's a middle finger
to them, but it kind of is. So both sides
not budget and they're losing from it. But the biggest
losers here are us, people who just you know, want
to watch something we pay for. All right, quick update
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So the city has opened up the new Community Outreach
Center to help those still dealing with the physical, emotional
and logistical fallout from the plane crash last week. And
there are a variety of different types of victims here
when it comes to just those that of course lost

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loved ones, those that are out of work because their
place of employment is now no longer up and running
or it's shut down for the foreseeable future, and then
just those that are that are dealing with the trauma
that comes with being in a situation like that. So
the new location is is at two hundred High Rise Drive,

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that's near Fern Valley Road, and it's bringing together a
bunch of different organizations under one roof to collectively help
those that are in need of help. You've got seven
county services for the mental and behavioral health, You've got
family health centers for physical health, metro EMA coordinating additional
partners to come in and help in other ways. So
the goal simple meet residents where they are, help them

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navigate throughout this entire ordeal with trauma, resources and recovery
from this. And I know I've said it many times
this week, why not say it once more? You can
absolutely be a victim of this and not know it
and be uncomfortable feeling as if you are. You know,

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you're you're a victim and you're dealing with something because
if you're somebody that was able to survive or you
weren't there for no reason other than just the randomness
that comes with life, there's no reason specific. I mean,
I know a lot of people believe everything happens for
a reason, and I'm somebody that that does does sort
of live with that philosophy. But there's just randomness throughout

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your day. When you decide to get up and go
to the bathroom, when you you know, when you hit
a red light, instead of a green light, and then
you know, who knows what happens that at that intersection. So, uh,
those kind of things, the everyday life that we never
even think about throughout it. A little thing here and
there can result in you either being a victim in

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this tragedy or somebody that ends up not there. And
it may be the only time that month that on
a Tuesday, at that time, you weren't right there in
the path of where this this tragic accident happens. So
when people ask if you're okay, you're gonna probably think like,
what do you mean, I'm fine. There are people who

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are dead, and that's that's a that's a I think
a pretty normal reaction. But and everybody's different. I can
just tell you for me that that that would be
that would haunt me as far as just the overall
I guess mental try that comes with that. And I
noticed some it sounds like, what's this guy talking about?
He doesn't make any sense. Trust me. If you if

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you are able to survive a near death experience or
at least just avoid a situation for for randomness, and
maybe somebody you know was a victim and you feel
like you why them, not me like that's that's that's
not something people typically go through and it can have
a traumatic impact on you. So don't hesitate to utilize

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these resources that the city has has put in place.
So it's going to be open from seven am to
nine pm daily except Sunday, and you can call and
make an appointment at five O two four seven three
five two seven when our partner's over WK. Why they've
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It's news Radio eight forty whas so government service is

(10:13):
slowly resuming. That's good news, right. The government shutdown came
to an end after forty three days. If you are
expecting your back pay Sunday, it sounds like is the
earliest that you could receive that. So I'm sure that's
great news for those that have been going without a paycheck.
And yes, you knew the whole time. Eventually, when it ends,
you will be paid. But still that doesn't make that

(10:37):
didn't make it a stress free situation for a lot
of folks. So Sunday it sounds like is the day.
And those that worked through the shutdown every day without pay,
they're getting ten thousand dollars bonuses if they if you're
a TSA agent. So as far as the amount, it's
yet to be determined. Because they did say yesterday when

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announcing this that you know, every every individual will be
viewed as a as a case back case, uh situation.
So yesterday it was the Homeland Security Secretary that that
made this announcement and handed a check to somebody, and
certainly seemed like it was it was it was for show,
But hey, I think there's a lot of things and

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I think you know what I mean when I say
for show that wanted wanted wanted to look like, hey,
look at us, we're so great, we're gonna get We're
gonna give these people money. And look, regardless if it
was for show or not, it is something that was
I'm sure very much appreciated by those that did show up,
no questions asked, because that's just the job, and they
were being loyal to their employer. Whenever, let's be real,

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your employer at times is not going to be loyal
to you. So I'd be a liar and a phony
if I if I expressed some type of fake uh
you know, fake rage or fake anger about this, because
it just I don't. I don't have an issue with it.
But if you do, I get it because you're probably thinking, well, hey,
did they really deserve that, because technically they got paid
for working, they just got it late. So again, I'm

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sure opinions differ when it comes when it comes to that,
but tens of thousands of employees is the direct words
used yesterday by Christy Noum. And these people also took
on extra ships because of others not showing up. And again,
just because you're picking up extra ship, that doesn't mean
you're going to start getting paid. You still had to wait.

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So she was pressed on how the exemplary service will
be defined for those that are going to qualify for
this ten thousand dollars bonus, but she did say it
doesn't necessarily mean they were the ones who didn't call
in sick. The DHS is going to review individuals on
a case by case basis, So these bonuses are meant
to help agents quote, get through their family, sorry, get
their families back on their feet after going without pay.

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So if you knew going in that you were going
to eventually get all your back pay and ten K
added on top, I think many would have been more
incentivized to show up. But I also have no issue
with anybody that didn't go to work because they weren't
getting paid and they just wanted to take advantage of

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the fact that they have PTO, they've got sick time,
or maybe they needed to go elsewhere and not show
up to work because they had to find a way
to put some kind of money in their pocket in
order to keep food on the table, to keep you know,
to to survive. That's also a real thing because right now,
I'm not sure if we've ever been in in my
lifetime a situation where seemingly there's a very small percentage

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that can go without getting their paycheck and not have
a bill become late or might miss a payment on something,
or might struggle to get groceries because that's just how
that's just how tight finances are for a lot of folks.
So again, ten K going to those that showed up
as if they were still getting paid. And at least

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I guess not everybody is in that situation, because again
there's going to be some that may be we still
are in that in that window of exemplary service, and
they'll be rewarded for it. All right, it's Coffee and Company.
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get to coming up here in just a few minutes
after we get an update on the traffic out there.
Also we'll get a look at the forecast from at Melosovich.
There is a rundown of the the highest paying blue

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collar jobs and one I think that's interesting data. But
also there's a real battle in the blue collar world
about you know, which job is more tough, which job
is truly blue collar? And I find as somebody who
is is has never worked a blue collar job in
my life because I'm not. I'm not built for it

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like you guys. So the the intense debates that you
hear from someone in this industry and somebody in that industry,
I just find it to be entertaining. But we'll tell
you which ones actually are are paying the most money.
And also we'll talk a little more about what Mark
Pope had to say yesterday because been a rough week

(15:43):
for him. Obviously, lost to Louisville doesn't doesn't. It's not
the end of the world by any means, But obviously
it's going to be a loss that fans really are
bothered by more than maybe any other loss than other
than the one that injure season at the end of
the year. But to to to throw out some information
without really including any information about a pregame situation they had,

(16:09):
I'm trying to to you using word salad here because
he was vague something happened before they tipped off against
Louisville internally with his team, and he wanted people to
know about it, but he also wanted people to know
he's not ready to talk about it yet, which all
that did is just create endless speculation that was just
very avoidable and can only can only cause a distraction.

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Maybe it doesn't distract them, but still very odd. All right,
stick with us right here at news Radio eight forty
whas all right, So we've got a traffic situation here.
We've got all lanes blocked on I sixty four East
that is right before the second street bridge. So I'm
looking here at the traffic cam and the view that

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I have here does not show what the actual accident is.
But again, all lanes are blocked, and that of course
can cause some real issues, and it already is from
what I can see with traffic. So stick around. We
will keep you updated a lot. I won't keep you updated.
Bobby Ellis will keep you updated. That's why we've got him.
He's a pro, and he'll keep us updated throughout the
morning on all traffic situations. And this is one to

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certainly monitor. So again, if you are just now tuning in,
all lanes are blocked at I sixty four East. That
is right around the right around Second Street bridge. So
keep in mind if you are heading out and that's
the way you plan to get to wherever it is
you're going, you might want to find an alternative route.
All right. So this is something that reminded me of

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a TikTok trend that occasionally I'll see, and it is
pretty funny. So women who are married to men that
work a blue collar job, they'll be sitting at the
kitchen table, maybe sitting on the couch at home, and
they'll start videoing without letting their husband know that they're videoing,
and they'll just casually bring up or ask the question,

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I should say, do you wish you had a more
blue collar job? Do you think that do you think
that you know you'd you'd feel worth more if you
if you really worked a blue collar job. And they
asked these questions knowing that their husbands do in fact
work a blue collar job, and their quick rage is
something I find to be funny because they take that

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personal what do you mean? And a lot of the
wives who do this will share that they don't even
work and there their their biggest I guess job of
the day. Maybe as far as not to say they
don't do anything, but like when it comes to that
kind of stuff, like they may take the trash out
for him, and then he should thank them if they
the wives should thank them if they do that. So anyways,

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that's just one of the random reasons what TikTok can
be funny at times because that that evolved into instead
of just asking do you wish you had a blue
collar job? It will there's at least two videos I've
seen where where women will say, hey, have you seen
which job is viewed to be the most blue collar?
And look, I would have no way of truly myself

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knowing what makes a job more blue coller than the other.
But it's a competitive world within within the that that
blue collar industry as far as who's who's putting in
more hours, whose job is more difficult, that kind of stuff,
They compete to be more blue collar. And and these
women will just make up a job that's borderline blue collar,
or maybe the one that's not believed to be as

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as as us physically demanding, and it'll set them off
just like the other one. So anyways, this is an
updated survey. This is an updated study that shows the
highest paying blue collar jobs. And uh, there's some of
these jobs that I'm not surprised they fit within that
world of blue collar. But you know, when I think
blue collar, I just think of close friends and family

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of mine that have worked in a trade for for
a long time that are journeymen from electricians to sheet
metal workers. But again there's there's all kinds of different
jobs that fit in that in that realm. But the
highest paying is elevator and escalator technicians making a medium
of one hundred and six thousand dollars a year. Electrical
power line installers and repairs, the median salary there is

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ninety two thousand dollars. Aircraft techs the median is about
seventy nine thousand dollars. Railroad workers the median is about
seventy five thousand dollars. And then going down the rest
of this list, you have stationary engineers, boiler operators, industrial

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machinery mechanics, plumbers, pipe fitters, steam fitters, wind turbine techs, electricians,
and a solar panel installer. So I've talked about this
before whenever I was when I was at the impressionable
age where they're trying to really tell you to figure
out what you want to do. Where do you want
to go to college? What do you want to major in?

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And I don't. I mean, I'm jealous of those that
have a bunch of degrees and have had a lot
of education at the higher level because regardless, if you
don't even use that for your career, it's not a
factor and why you have the job you have, it's
still something you accomplished that you benefited from. Now, maybe
the student law payments, maybe those keep you from realizing

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that you benefited from it. But you know, I'm all
about higher education, but I do wish At the time
I was in high school, in those impressionable years, there
was more. There was more awareness about you can you
can take different paths and still make a great living,
have a great career. And also, by the way, get education.
Right if you're in a trade and you're going through

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the apprenticeship program for some of these some of these trades,
you're getting schooling. It's part of it. So I know
there's many out there that that took that path and
are happy they did for themselves and their family. So
and clearly, as you can see here, you can make
some good money. All right, let's get to a quick
time out. We've got traving weather updates on the way,
a sports update with Scott and also we've got Dwight

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Mitchell back in the house with us this morning, looking
forward to having him on as we get the seven
o'clock hour start. It's a stick around right here. It's
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