11.14: WARMIN UP - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Look, there's no right way to do it, so I
might as well just use my radio show to do it.
YouTube TV. We're broken up. I'm dumping you. We are
no longer in a relationship together. It wasn't working out.
Too much drama. Can't deal with it. I just want
to watch TV that I pay for, and you having
your your drama and your fights with with with others.

(00:23):
It's impacting our relationship and with that, I just can't.
I can't. I can't deal deal with it. So I
now have. I now have. I found a new a
new provider, somebody that's there for me, that can give
me what I need, give me a consistency. Certainly not
going to worry about much much drama, although I did
realize that as I am now a Fubo customer. Guess

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who just bought Fubo? Oh Disney, And I think it was,
which I don't get it. Disney is the is the
overall owner of a lot of things, including ESPN, but
the I think I think I saw the and it's
not important because they're all the same, but I believe
it was. It was pitched as if ESPN bought it. Well,

(01:07):
that means that means Disney bought it. But either way,
I'm happy where I'm at and I wish you nothing
but the best YouTube TV. But it's over and you again,
you you just it didn't work out and you're now
my ex. So with all that said, there is some
movement that this could come to an end. This is
a story that developed later late late late yesterday afternoon

(01:30):
that The Athletic had that there's finally some movement in
this standoff that has left more than ten million YouTube
TV subscribers without ESPN, ABC and every Disney owned channel
for two weeks. So the two sides, it's Google and
YouTube TV on one end and Disney ESPN on the other.
But they came back to the table and for once,

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it doesn't feel like they're just you know, staring at
each other in silence. They're actually working towards getting something
done and the pressure's on and that's why that's what
leads to this happening. So Disney's earnings have hit and
as you heard the news update there, they're not good,
and viewers of course are furious. The NFL and college

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football you're just now ramping up for this playoff race
where there's going to be an even bigger demand for
people wanting to watch these channels, So Disney's Disney's taking
a hit YouTube TV customers the twenty dollars credits. Even
if you took it off of my bill automatically, it's
still something that you all need to figure this out.

(02:32):
We're paying customers now. I think it is rich to
tell somebody they got to do the legwork. And yes,
it's not as if they have to go and wait
in line somewhere to get a rebate like it's nineteen
ninety two. But the fact that they have to go
through any process in order to get money back, that
you're going to charge them for something that you're not

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providing them. You're taking money for something you can't give us,
and we have to do the work to be made whole,
which WHI That to me just seems like a slap
in the face because it's none of our we have
no control, it's not our problem, not our fault. And
you can't convince me that a company YouTube TV owned
by Google doesn't have the technological means to just simply

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reduce that from everybody's bill. It's almost as if it's
a middle finger to your customers. That sounds dramatic, but
think about it, like, how could they not just automatically
know that anybody that has a subscription that they pay
for with them that includes these channels, because no one
can get it right. It's not as if you've got
a certain package, you get it, but the poor package

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people don't. Nobody that has YouTube TV can watch any
of these channels. Therefore, it should just be removed as
a line item in an invoice. And it sounds like
a little thing, and it is. It's not like, you know,
it's not like it's it's going to be rocket science
to get your money back. But overall it just seems
to be completely tone deaf. So this is where it

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gets to you work something out because both sides are
taken a beating. Nobody's winning, customers are losing, and customers
are why you exist. Right, If people weren't paying to
watch YouTube TV, YouTube TV wouldn't be a thing. So
the hold up is Disney's bundling every everything together ESPN, ABC, Disney,
Channel FX, Freeform that go it's all or nothing, that's

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what you get. You don't get to pick, and YouTube
TV doesn't love paying for channels with shrinking audiences. There's
a lot of kids network shows in cable dramas that
have all migrated to streaming. Again, nobody's watching that live
because you don't need to. There's endless ways to consume
that content on all kinds of different platforms, including one

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of Google's own YouTube, the actual you know, the actual
network like the social media platform. So Disney insists the
bundle is discounted as a whole. YouTube TV insists it's
paying it's for stuff subscribers don't watch. I actually side
with Disney on this, meaning they're they're taking a stand

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and and and really opening up the eyes to for
a lot of people that they don't really need live
TV maybe the way they thought they did. But also,
like YouTube TV, there would not be near the amount
of people that have that service if it wasn't for
watching sports directly live, because it's it's it's it's one

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of the only things that people still will only watch live.
You can DVR a game and watch it later if
your if your schedules in the way, all that kind
of stuff, but if you can you want to watch
a game live, it's it's one of the only things
left in live television that people still need to have
and want to have. There's other things that people will

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watch live, but within a matter of I don't know,
ten years or so, you don't need to mean no
matter how you consume, Like remember when DDR was viewed
as like this add on that, oh you got DVR.
Well not any anybody who has any streaming platform or
even if you have standard table, your box has DVR.
So it's now not looked at as something you've got
to go have. It's just there. And with that, people

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now really it's just it's a no brainer to leave
things on record and it's there and you can watch
it whenever you want. There's no incentive to watch anything live.
You can do it on your own time and your
own schedule. However, sports that that will always be something
that there's value in watching live. And YouTube TV is letting,
they're letting. I'm sorry, Disney and ESPN is letting YouTube

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TV and Google know, hey, look, let's let's let's let's
let's wake up from from you know, your your delusion
here that that you think you can just still have
things set up the way that you know it was
whenever TV was a thing twenty years ago. I mean
the game has changed, the data shows it, and you've

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got now Disney and ESPN at least whole holding somebody
to the fire to see if they you know, if
they fill budget and restructure and arrangement that's already been
set in place. So I don't know what the overall
win is here, but if you are somebody that's not
going to move on from YouTube TV and you just
want it to be over, who knows as far as
when it actually happens, But as of yesterday, according to

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the Athletic this is they're at least now discussing how
they can at least just get out of this mess,
because it's a mess for both right now, there's no
doubt about it, and I guess they both knew going
in the risk and now it's lasted over two weeks
and the only real loser, I mean, who wins. Everybody's losing.
I mean customers are losing for sure, and the two

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sides nobody's budget yet, So I don't know what the
compromise is, but I wouldn't be shocked if we get
to Sunday, another NFL day, really actually maybe Monday, because
of Monday Night Football on ESPN, ABC Maybe that's that's
whenever it's it's back up and running again. Maybe that's
wishful thinking, but that's my guess.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'd just be curious see how many people dropped into
at NFL Sunday ticket as well. That's a big decision
to make there.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, you wouldn't because you've already paid for it. If
you cancel it, then you don't have access to see
paid for Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
You haven't just for that, but then you now you've
got to buy another service so you can watch ESPN.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, I mean that's that's probably something that the folks
at YouTube TV considered as leverage. Hey, they may be upset,
we know, we see what they do when it comes
to NFL, so they'll be mad, they'll be they'll be complaining,
but we already got their money. They're not getting it back,
so they're too deep. They're invested. They're going to ride
it out with us because we've already got them by

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the you know what, I'm maybe I'm cynical here, but
I would not be shocked at all if that was
a factor in the right and their decision to say,
let's go to war. We'll hold out because we've already
got their money, and we know the NFL is like
a drug that they can't go without.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's it.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
I mean, I say that tongue in cheek, but when
it comes to live content that people consume on their
television or on their device, there's nothing quite like the
drug that is the NFL. It's just different. All right.
Let's get a quick update at Travigan Weather. Thank you
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(09:10):
and also thank you Scott Fitzgerald's. That's my teammates this morning.
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(09:53):
somebody that relies on the Kennedy Bridge, you need to
know that for the next few weeks there's gonna be
some closures there could impact you. And it starts tomorrow
at eight pm. So tomorrow at eight pm until Saturday
morning at ten am. It is going to be closed
down at sixty five South. So again, if you're driving

(10:14):
in from southern Indiana on I sixty five, the John F.
Kennedy Memorial Bridge is going to be completely shut down
overnight and it will be three different weekends between now
in early December. This is all for that expansion joint
that we've heard a lot about, also some still repair
work that the state says has yet to be completed.

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So it'll be tomorrow starting at eight pm until ten
am the next morning, Saturday morning, and then the same
thing for the next couple of weeks. So next Friday,
November twenty first, same exact routine, and then as soon
because of the holidays, they're going to have the third
and finals shut down to get this all completed. The

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work it is going to be December fifth. It's a
Friday eight pm, so eight pm to ten am in
so three weekends over the next four weeks, you will
have that window of time to where you cannot get
into Indie. You cannot get into Kentucky if you're heading
sixty five south from Indiana on the Kennedy Memorial Bridge.
And I'm someone that am very thankful to see this

(11:20):
stuff daily because of what I do. I'm the idiot
that would just never know what's going on, and people
would be like, yeah, you haven't heard him talking about it.
I'm like, oh, I was in my own world, I guess. So, yeah,
I've never had any daily routine that has had me
needing to cross into Indiana or back into Kentucky, which

(11:40):
I guess that's kept me from experiencing some real issues
that folks have had when it comes to just construction accidents,
closures because of construction that needs to be done. So
it can be a headache. But yeah, just don't say
we didn't warn you. And there's probably warnings and minders everywhere,

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because that's what you need to do to let people know, Hey,
if you're planning on going this way at this time,
you won't be able to so you need to find
an alternative route. So again, don't say here, it didn't
warn you.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Careful, Yeah, because they it's funny. Sometimes the signs can
be deceiving too. A couple of times they've closed down
the ram because I come sixty four and then go
on that brief hit on sixty five South and get
off at Brook Street. I believe it's Brook woint of
the streets there, right by the UML hospital there, And
sometimes the signage hasn't always been correct and I found
out too late and I had to go all the

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way across the bridge.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
So sometimes I curse these updates and the signage when
there's construction completed and it is slightly changed things. Yeah,
and it's really just my fault for not paying attention.
But there's one specific area where I've done it now.
So when I go pick up my daughter she goes
to on Thursdays, she goes to she doesn't go to school,
she goes to a place where she just has a

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full day of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, just
some things to kind of help her. And it's my
path to get there is Snyder East to sixty four
West and then I get off at Hurstbourne. And because
of the construction that was done on the Snyder, the
rams to go either sixty four east or west, it's

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different now, and I don't ever think of that, and
then I end up realizing, wait a second, I've passed
it up. Now I have to go down to what
seems to be maybe the busiest exit at all times
of the day, which is getting off at Middletown there
on the Snyder right before Old Henry Road, and I
just have to loop back around and it typically just
because of traffic and lights, it adds about eight to

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ten minutes, and it's caused me to be late. So
I wish I could tell you it's somebody else's fall.
It's not. It's mine. Especially after doing it once, you
would think that I would remember, hey, don't be an
idiot again and miss the exit and be late. And
I've now done it twice, so if I if I
do it today, I'm just going to give up.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
When it comes to up a good point now immediately
without thinking too hard about it. When it comes to
the most congested congested point in Louisville in your opinion
from where you drove, where do you think it is,
off top of your.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Head, the most congested area of Louisville.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, man, I mean, without thinking about it, what comes
to your mind.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well congested, I think Snyder. I don't think the Snyder.
I don't think the Snyder is big enough for when
it yeah, for what it gets at it peaked times, right,
I mean, I think the Snyder is the one interstate
in Louisville that I can think of that more often
than not, you're sitting and there's no accident. It's just
just a ton of people more often than not on
sixty five and the Waterson you know, unless there could

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be busy exit ramps. Right, but but man, the congestion
that's on the Snyder, just because of the amount of
people is noticeable if you're somebody that takes the Snyder.
Also if you are on Waterson headed west and you
are actually, yeah, well there's this is This isn't like
a huge jam, it's just congested. When you're on Waterson
West getting to see sixty five south, there's a there's

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a real congestion that's pretty consistent throughout the day there,
even when it's not peak time. Also, the sixty five
north to get on Waterson East, there's usually just a
long line of congestion there. And and and I'll admit it,
I'm the guy. I just drive up and hope for
somebody to be not paying attention and get over.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I do that.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh so you do as well? Yeah, I do it.
So so I don't feel like I'm in I'm not
cutting people off. I'm not inconveniencing anybody. I usually, without
any issue can find a spot to just kind of
slide over to where I'm nobody has to slow down
or anything.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
If you're sitting on your phone and there's a gap there,
I'm gonna jump in.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
So I've admitted that before, and I remember feeling as
if whoever I told that to they now they now
do not respect me as a human being, because it
was like and I'm like, it's not like, I'm not
I'm not cutting people off. I'm not. I'm not being
dangerous And and I was met with the direct well,
there's a line for a reason, get in line, And

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I'm like, that's not how it works here.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, if you're sleeping, No, I'm going And I'll echo
that because I see that, because I'll go down like
if that. I frequent some businesses on Preston Highway, so
I'll go down that way a little bit, and I
see the congestion on the other side, and I said,
I'm gonna come up another way. But Hike's point is
just notorious. Yeah, I mean, especially I'm not there often,
but yeah, oh my god, dude, especially on a Saturday,
it's congestion.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
And that's just because of the there's just not a
lot of space for the amount of people that at
certain times are moving through there now.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
And if you have to wait for a train in
Germantown right there by the old Antiquema better pack of lunch.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
That be a while. And to be clear, I'm not
the guy that's literally standing still on the interstate turns
signal and hoping somebody lets me over, because that's that's
dangerous and and I've I've been in a situation where
that was that was about to happen, and I just
go sixty four waters into the airport and loop around,
which which which again is not convenient, but it adds
a little and it adds a little bit of time,

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But that's better than being the guy that's literally blinker
on not moving as I mean, it's just dangerous to do.
So I don't want to be clear. I don't do that,
you know what, you know what, as we're talking about this,
there's now when I get off of Snyder Snyder, I
guess it would be eastbound to Preston Highway. That's my
exit to get back to my to my to my

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native land Bullet County. And when you get when you
get off the exit to go Preston and head south
on Preston, like you don't have to stop, like they
already have a lane that only you have access to.
Nobody can get over in your lane. You don't need
to stop and wait to turn on red. And the
amount of people who don't know that, they just stop
and wait and look around without any realization that they
have created a single lane for you. It is your

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lane quite literally, nobody else is going to be in
it other than you, so you can just keep on
moving on and then find your spot to get over.
And when I mean I I lay on my horn
when somebody stopped looking to see if they can go.
You can go. There's you don't need to get old.
It's like driving my own man, Do I have road rage? No?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I did the same thing, bro, I did the same thing.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
You're just that's just like, yeah, that's just in confidence.
And when I do honk my horn, I'm not kidding you.
I do hank my horn, which I probably shouldn't do it. Yeah,
I'm laying I'm laying on it till I know that
you know, till I know that you know, I'm honking
at you. And then the people look at me as
if like I'm the lunatic, which maybe I am, but

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they think that that I like, they still don't realize
you didn't need to stop. And there's a sign about
ten yards before you get there, and there's a sign
directly to your right when you're there that tells you
you don't need to stop. In fact, it's dangerous when
you stop, because people who know what they're doing might
be hit with you. Break checking. Yep, I need to
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