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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Monday, Happy Mlkday here at news Radio eight forty
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So be prepared. But many of you may not even
have to leave your house today because you may be
enjoying a day off with the holiday mlkd So if
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that is you enjoy. I know a lot of offices
are closed today. Our office is closed, but you know,
no days off for us. I mean I say that jokingly.
We do get days off. In fact, we'll get an
added day off to take whenever we want because we
are here, but are on air team with you here
on Mlkday as we celebrate. Here is Martin Luther King.
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This was right after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights
movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn
for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom
and a rule of justice. I refuse to accept the
view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless
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midnight of racism and war.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So this is the let's see.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The nineteen eighty six was the first federal observance day
for this holiday MLKDA. So it's a holiday that, of
course has been around for a long time, and I'm
sure many are are happy to have the day off
and of course to celebrate MLKDA. All right, So one
of the things that has become i think a bigger
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conversation each and every year in America is the value
of a college education.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's a big investment for a lot of people, and
sometimes you wonder is that investment worth it?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I've always had the you know, I've always felt as
if you go to school, you put in that work,
and you get your degree, you walk across the stage,
I mean you earned it. A lot of work goes
into it, and I don't know how anybody would feel like, yeah,
I shouldn't have done that, you know, that was It's
like going to the gym. Is anybody ever regretted going
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to the gym? No, because you work likely or you're
working hard, and maybe it's tough to know in real
time with the value is from that one gym session.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But like, I don't know anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's ever felt after the fact, yeah, probably shouldn't have
done that.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
When it comes to a college education, however, I say
that as somebody that is not sitting on an insane
amount of student loan debt. And that's where it comes in.
All Right, I'm glad I got my degree, I accomplished something,
and you know, maybe even.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's it's used in what it is that you do.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But if you were just to look at it from
a sheer numbers perspective, I mean, I get why people
would say, yeah, that's not a good investment to make,
that's not a wise financial move. So here's what we have,
some new numbers that sort of I guess, get get
more into the question, you know, is it worth it?
This is a stat that's made its rounds on social
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media and a lot of a lot of folks kind
of picking certain things that might be exaggerated, But here's
just the numbers. A quarter of unemployed Americans right now
have college degrees. And what that has led to again
a lot more folks saying, hey, is the college route is?
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Did it stop working now? The reality is it's more nuanced,
but the frustration behind it makes total sense. One point
nine million Americans aged twenty five and older with at
least a bachelor's degree were unemployed in late twenty twenty five,
making up roughly twenty five percent of all unemployed workers.
That's the highest share since this tracking started back in
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nineteen ninety two. But that does not mean that twenty
five percent necessarily of college grads are unemployed the unemployed.
The unemployment rate for people with a four year degree
remains rather low, So that's where it is a little
bit exaggerated. However, just I'm sure as we discussed this,
there are people that you know and it might be you.
You might be the person that is still looking at
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an insane amount of student loan dead and you are
in a position now making a salary that even if
like even if you are at your job and you
know that the job that you have. You have it
because of your college degree, if you're just going to
look at it from the numbers. Yet this got me
the job. But man, this is my like, this is
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my salary, and and I'm not far from capping out
as far as what people make on the high end
and what I do. And I still have this insane
amount of student loan debt that just is never gonna
I can't. I'm having a tough time actually breaking through
and getting it completely paid off. And here's here's something
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that is, you know, that is undeniable. I mean, when
you look at how expensive college is now compared to
fifty years ago. Obviously, like like anything, it's going to rise,
but it's seven hundred and fifty percent more expensive now
than it was fifty years ago. The graduates earned seven
hundred and fifty percent more now than they did then. No,
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are you learning seven hundred and fifty percent more than
you would in college fifty years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Would people say that the education is in fact substantially
better now than it was back then. That I guess is,
you know, that's debatable depending on what areas of education
you're talking about. But nothing in our economy has ever
kept up with this level of inflation when it comes
to college. And again, if you're just not tuning in,
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I am not anti college at all, because again I think.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
If you go to school, you get a degree that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Is something you should be proud of, even if it's
not used for your job, your career. You still did it,
you're educated, you worked for it. But that's a different
conversation than Okay, is it financially a wise move for
people to get into that amount of debt? Will they
look back fifteen twenty years later and say, yeah, that
was probably the best thing for me. So the percentage
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has doubled since two thousand and eight, meaning those with
a four year college degree that are unemployed. All right,
one thing that real quick put out there before we
take a break. You got to keep in mind, now
there's way when the value of college was really just
very much evident. At that time, there were far fewer
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people in society that had the college degree. Now it's
it's you know, it's if you're competing in nineteen eighty
eight with somebody and you got six candidates, only two
of you have a degree. You know, the two that
have it are probably going to be in a better spot. Well, now,
i'd say you're fighting for you're fighting between much more
than six to ten people, and all of them have degrees.
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So that's that's something else that should be factored in.
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we got a national championship game tonight between the Miami
Hurricanes and the Indiana Hoosiers. And I keep coming back
to who would have predicted this be the two teams
that are here. I mean, even though Indiana was dominant
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all year, I do feel like they're win against Ohio
State in the postseason. By the way, is what really
led to people saying, Okay, look, we can't really deny it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They're actually really really good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But even for a team that's undefeated, they didn't have
the like For example, had Indiana had the season, you
take Indiana's name logo away and the same team had
their season throughout the regular season, and that could be
you know, any of the big brands, they certainly would
have been taken a little bit more serious. But I
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do feel like it's shifted completely now to where everybody
knows this Indiana team is for real. They have proven that.
And then in Miami, I feel like it's Miami. It's
a known brand, they have national championships in their history.
But also like, if you pay attention to the sport
close enough, you know that this is also sort of
a very sort of unexpected appearance in the national championship games.
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All right, so been a busy morning thus far. Obviously
tonight's National Championship game, that of course, has been a
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big talking point as you've got the Hoosiers I think
getting more and it makes total sense, but they're getting
more coverage from the Louisville market in its media outlets
than they've ever received. Now I would imagine at any
time had they made it all the way to the
National Championship game, it would have been the same. But
it's just unusual to see, you know, Indiana football be
the lead story. But they're not just the lead story
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around here when it comes to sports, and they're not
even really in our I mean they are, but they
aren't in our market. In fact, do you know this
John in Bloomington? If I was turned on a local
TV station, will I get Indianapolis stations? Ye? Okay, So
they've always had some coverage in our market. And look,
we're just across the river from southern Indiana and there's
plenty of Hoosier fans over there. But they're not just
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the local story. They're the national story. They are the
story of this college football season. And I can't see
a scenario where one they don't win, but also that
it's not at least close, Like that's probably the most
most unlikely scenario, right, a blowout where it's not on
the Hoosier side. If there's a blowout, I think we
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know which team, or at least we feel like we
know which team is going to be doing the blowing out.
So I'm not an Indiana fan by any means, but
I think they're a hard group not to like. I
think the story is hard not to sort of get behind.
But if you're an Indiana fan, what have you had
to tell you? Because you don't what you know? Obviously
it's what fans do, right. Fantasy short for fanatic. All
of us that are fans of sports, believe it or not,
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we have very little to no impact on what happens.
I guess the only scenario where you could have an
impact is that if you're at a game and you're cheering,
and maybe it encourages the team to play better.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But there's no real way to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So you know, if you've got like a routine that
you follow, a lucky shirt like that really doesn't matter.
But I get it. I do stuff like that too
for my team. So you never want to get like
ahead of yourself. You try to prepare for, you know,
maybe being let down, just so whenever whatever it is
that happens, you can be best prepared. But when you
think of Miami as an Indiana fan, what worries you, John?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I mean what worries me?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I think the way that they putshed around Ohio State
in that game a couple a couple of weeks ago.
It didn't concern me as an Indiana fan, but it
felt like they were just as dominant as Indiana. Well
not that Indiana was dominant against Ohio State, but they
were able to push them around just as much as
Indiana was. And that's what makes me think the way
that this game goes in the trenches, whoever's able to
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kind of get that extra push, whether it's offensive line
or defensive line, that's where you're gonna kind of see
the edge get to one team or another.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I feel like, yeah, and I think it wouldn't be
crazy to think that maybe maybe Ohio State overlooked Miami.
I mean, I don't oh fair enough, yeah, because I
don't think that Ohio State really felt as if they
were going to be, you know, challenged, and they didn't
just get challenged, they got they got punked. I mean
Julie pushed around.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The pick six that was in that game from Julian
Sam might have been one of the worst throws I've
ever seen to Miami.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And what was crazy about that game is that it
is you got about maybe third quarter ish, it was
still a competitive game, and you had to feel blessed
as an Ohio State fan because it could have been
a lot worse. I mean, there was a ques estionable
call that went against Miami. There was a Miami turnover
when they got the ball I believe at like the
twenty five yard line, and yet they still had a
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big lead. So yeah, I hope we get a competitive
game just because that'll be entertaining. But yeah, I can't lie.
I'm pulling for the Hoosiers tonight. And it's not as
if I'm going to lose sleep if they don't win.
But what a story? Why let it end with anything
short of actually doing the ultimate goal that everybody has
in college football? Very unrealistic for many to win a
national championship. Indiana is one of those programs that for
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the entire existence of the program until I don't know,
maybe the last two years, it's been a pipe dream.
It's been delusion to think they would ever win a
national championship in football. And here they are again. That's
the expectation tonight. Also on the NFL side, we now
have the final four of the NFL Patriots, Broncos. That's
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who's going to play for that ticket to the Super
Bowl currently in New England. Favored by five and a half,
you got to think the boat injuries got to be
a factor.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The Patriots are a really good team and they were
impressive in their win yesterday against the Texans. And then
the Seahawks and the Rams. That's the other two that
are going to be playing for a spot in the
Super Bowl. That should be a really, really good game.
I know the Seattle's had a really good season, but
the Rams are like the ultimate team that if they
if they slip up and lose to somebody, I mean
they nearly lost to the Panthers, but like they're also
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a team if they end up winning the entire Super Bowl,
who's going to say that you're surprised. It's McVeigh, it's Stafford,
and those two together, I feel like you've always got
a chance to beat anybody. All right, let's get to
a quick time out. We'll talk about it on the
other side. I talked I mentioned it earlier, and that
is a list that I've found to be I don't know,
maybe spot on as far as identifiers, spotting a fake
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smart person. Things that people say that they may not
realize is that they're overcompensating.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Stick around. It's news radio to eight forty whas all right.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So, something on the Internet that I'm way late to
compared to most is Reddit. I don't engage on reddit
or post anything, but Reddit was a world i'd heard about,
knew of, but didn't really never ended up there. And
I've never been one to just go back and forth
on message boards forums. That's just not really been my
thing when it comes to using the Internet, but a
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lot of people do and it has led to a
lot of interesting things to bring to a talk show.
And this is one that I found to be very interesting,
and that is spotting fake smart people. So a Reddit
post asks what's a dead giveaway that someone is pretending
to be smarter than they actually are. There was four
thousand responses that poured in, and here are some of
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the top red flags I want to see if you
guys agree. They're terrified of saying I don't know, so
they keep talking until no one can interrupt.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That feels like me.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Now, I'll tell you I don't know a lot of things,
but yeah, sometimes they just keep talking. It's kind of
you know what I do. I'm working on it. This
one is I think fair. Instead of using better arguments,
they just get louder.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, they know people like that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That may just be somebody that's obnoxious though, right I
mean yeah, I mean arguing with somebody without the ability
to just you know, like leave it alone like that,
I guess that's more stubbornness, I suppose. But anybody who
like wants you to know their qualifications right out of
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the gate, Like to me, I don't instantly think, well, hey,
they're over compensating. They they must not actually be smart
and they're just again overcompensating. That's not where my mind
typically goes. I'm usually just kind of turned off by
those people who, you know, just want you to know
right away you're talking to somebody that is very very
very very intelligent, and there's a lot of different ways
that you can you can do that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I to me, in conversation with anybody to bring up, well,
I'm really smart, like to me that, I don't know
how you do that naturally. To me, that just seems
like a real force unless somebody was, you know, questioning
your intelligence. This one makes sense to they state there
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IQ proudly because they've tested it. I mean, I can't
say I've interacted with a lot of people who are hey,
just see, you know, here's my IQ level. But if
I did, I'm you know, that could be somebody that
might be over compensating, having some overconfidence. Yeah. Can you
think of a conversation you've had with somebody where they
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squeezed in throughout the convo how smart they are, because
I don't know how you do that and it not
seem like a tryhard movie.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Like if they're saying those words directly. I don't know
if I've ever I can't recall anything specific like that,
but there's there's definitely been conversations where people will kind
of just insinuate like I know what I'm talking about,
Like it's like, trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'll say that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I like this quoting internet influencers. Oh man, so this
to me is is I don't see this and again
at some one who does not believe that I'm the
smartest man in many rooms I walk into, I rarely
am just thinking of somebody's intelligence level. It would either
take somebody to do something really smart or maybe really
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stupid for me to have that thought of Okay, this person,
they might be an idiot, or this person might be brilliant,
But there are those that share those quotes and there's
a level of like, you guys just don't get it,
Like I'm on a different level intellectually, and you guys
just can't quite relate.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
There's a lot of quotes.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
From influencers that sort of give off that, and I
see a lot of people share those, and I don't
pass a ton of a ton of judgment, but I
typically just think, you know, oh, brother, really like get
over yourself. Yeah, I h this reminds me. Let me
give you, Let me give you somebody who I feel
like at times was was really just overdoing it. You
remember Kyrie Irving used to talk about the Earth being flat. Yes,
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and he used to and he was very you know,
very he was very much, you know, anti vaccine. It
wasn't that he was anti vaccine. It really wasn't that
he had his opinion that the Earth was flat. It
was the way in which he talked about it, as
if like, oh gosh, I'm just again, I'm on a
different level intellectually that you all could never quite understand.
So it's almost as if like you guys are cute
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for even wanting to have the conversation but I can't
with you because you just wouldn't get it. You're not
You're not there with us that are of the higher IQ's.
That's the sort of the tone when it comes to
somebody that I just felt like, Okay, you seem like
you're really wanting people to think that you're just on
a different level when it comes to how smart you are,
but you actually kind of sound stupid. That's that's in
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the rare situation where I would think, Okay, this person
might be overdoing it. That's the best example I could
think of off the top. And again, maybe I'm just
not having conversations like a lot of people in society
you're having. But I just can't think of many scenarios
where somebody would tell you how smart they are and
it not be a real force that they're the you know,
why would you bring that up unless again, you you
questioned their comp that there you know their intelligence. I
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Happy Monday, Happy Mlkday here at news Radio eight forty
whas it's a cold morning here, but whatever, we were
up at it hours ago, So if you're just now
waking up about time, I'm kidding. I'm sure if I
was able to sleep in, I would do it. But
at four point thirty this morning I heard from Matt Melosovich,
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meteorologists for our partners over at WKY, that we were
already experiencing the high of the day at the four
am hour. So going to be colder throughout the day,
frigid temperatures and that wind makes it a lot worse,
So be prepared. But many of you may not even
have to leave your house today because you may be
enjoying a day off with the holiday mlkd So if
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that is you enjoy. I know a lot of offices
are closed today. Our office is closed, but you know,
no days off for us. I mean I say that jokingly.
We do get days off. In fact, we'll get an
added day off to take whenever we want because we
are here, but are on air team with you here
on Mlkday as we celebrate. Here is Martin Luther King.
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This was right after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights
movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn
for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom
and a rule of justice. I refuse to accept the
view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless
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midnight of racism and war.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So this is the let's see.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The nineteen eighty six was the first federal observance day
for this holiday MLKDA. So it's a holiday that, of
course has been around for a long time, and I'm
sure many are are happy to have the day off
and of course to celebrate MLKDA. All right, So one
of the things that has become i think a bigger
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conversation each and every year in America is the value
of a college education.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's a big investment for a lot of people, and
sometimes you wonder is that investment worth it?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I've always had the you know, I've always felt as
if you go to school, you put in that work,
and you get your degree, you walk across the stage,
I mean you earned it. A lot of work goes
into it, and I don't know how anybody would feel like, yeah,
I shouldn't have done that, you know, that was It's
like going to the gym. Is anybody ever regretted going
(02:36):
to the gym? No, because you work likely or you're
working hard, and maybe it's tough to know in real
time with the value is from that one gym session.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But like, I don't know anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's ever felt after the fact, yeah, probably shouldn't have
done that.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So I look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
When it comes to a college education, however, I say
that as somebody that is not sitting on an insane
amount of student loan debt. And that's where it comes in.
All Right, I'm glad I got my degree, I accomplished something,
and you know, maybe even.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's it's used in what it is that you do.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But if you were just to look at it from
a sheer numbers perspective, I mean, I get why people
would say, yeah, that's not a good investment to make,
that's not a wise financial move. So here's what we have,
some new numbers that sort of I guess, get get
more into the question, you know, is it worth it?
This is a stat that's made its rounds on social
(03:32):
media and a lot of a lot of folks kind
of picking certain things that might be exaggerated, But here's
just the numbers. A quarter of unemployed Americans right now
have college degrees. And what that has led to again
a lot more folks saying, hey, is the college route is?
(03:52):
Did it stop working now? The reality is it's more nuanced,
but the frustration behind it makes total sense. One point
nine million Americans aged twenty five and older with at
least a bachelor's degree were unemployed in late twenty twenty five,
making up roughly twenty five percent of all unemployed workers.
That's the highest share since this tracking started back in
(04:13):
nineteen ninety two. But that does not mean that twenty
five percent necessarily of college grads are unemployed the unemployed.
The unemployment rate for people with a four year degree
remains rather low, So that's where it is a little
bit exaggerated. However, just I'm sure as we discussed this,
there are people that you know and it might be you.
You might be the person that is still looking at
(04:37):
an insane amount of student loan dead and you are
in a position now making a salary that even if
like even if you are at your job and you
know that the job that you have. You have it
because of your college degree, if you're just going to
look at it from the numbers. Yet this got me
the job. But man, this is my like, this is
(04:59):
my salary, and and I'm not far from capping out
as far as what people make on the high end
and what I do. And I still have this insane
amount of student loan debt that just is never gonna
I can't. I'm having a tough time actually breaking through
and getting it completely paid off. And here's here's something
(05:19):
that is, you know, that is undeniable. I mean, when
you look at how expensive college is now compared to
fifty years ago. Obviously, like like anything, it's going to rise,
but it's seven hundred and fifty percent more expensive now
than it was fifty years ago. The graduates earned seven
hundred and fifty percent more now than they did then. No,
(05:43):
are you learning seven hundred and fifty percent more than
you would in college fifty years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Would people say that the education is in fact substantially
better now than it was back then. That I guess is,
you know, that's debatable depending on what areas of education
you're talking about. But nothing in our economy has ever
kept up with this level of inflation when it comes
to college. And again, if you're just not tuning in,
(06:10):
I am not anti college at all, because again I think.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
If you go to school, you get a degree that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Is something you should be proud of, even if it's
not used for your job, your career. You still did it,
you're educated, you worked for it. But that's a different
conversation than Okay, is it financially a wise move for
people to get into that amount of debt? Will they
look back fifteen twenty years later and say, yeah, that
was probably the best thing for me. So the percentage
(06:43):
has doubled since two thousand and eight, meaning those with
a four year college degree that are unemployed. All right,
one thing that real quick put out there before we
take a break. You got to keep in mind, now
there's way when the value of college was really just
very much evident. At that time, there were far fewer
(07:04):
people in society that had the college degree. Now it's
it's you know, it's if you're competing in nineteen eighty
eight with somebody and you got six candidates, only two
of you have a degree. You know, the two that
have it are probably going to be in a better spot. Well, now,
i'd say you're fighting for you're fighting between much more
than six to ten people, and all of them have degrees.
(07:26):
So that's that's something else that should be factored in.
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Hurricanes and the Indiana Hoosiers. And I keep coming back
to who would have predicted this be the two teams
that are here. I mean, even though Indiana was dominant
(08:11):
all year, I do feel like they're win against Ohio
State in the postseason. By the way, is what really
led to people saying, Okay, look, we can't really deny it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They're actually really really good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But even for a team that's undefeated, they didn't have
the like For example, had Indiana had the season, you
take Indiana's name logo away and the same team had
their season throughout the regular season, and that could be
you know, any of the big brands, they certainly would
have been taken a little bit more serious. But I
(08:42):
do feel like it's shifted completely now to where everybody
knows this Indiana team is for real. They have proven that.
And then in Miami, I feel like it's Miami. It's
a known brand, they have national championships in their history.
But also like, if you pay attention to the sport
close enough, you know that this is also sort of
a very sort of unexpected appearance in the national championship games.
(09:04):
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All right, so been a busy morning thus far. Obviously
tonight's National Championship game, that of course, has been a
(12:02):
big talking point as you've got the Hoosiers I think
getting more and it makes total sense, but they're getting
more coverage from the Louisville market in its media outlets
than they've ever received. Now I would imagine at any
time had they made it all the way to the
National Championship game, it would have been the same. But
it's just unusual to see, you know, Indiana football be
the lead story. But they're not just the lead story
(12:24):
around here when it comes to sports, and they're not
even really in our I mean they are, but they
aren't in our market. In fact, do you know this
John in Bloomington? If I was turned on a local
TV station, will I get Indianapolis stations? Ye? Okay, So
they've always had some coverage in our market. And look,
we're just across the river from southern Indiana and there's
plenty of Hoosier fans over there. But they're not just
(12:45):
the local story. They're the national story. They are the
story of this college football season. And I can't see
a scenario where one they don't win, but also that
it's not at least close, Like that's probably the most
most unlikely scenario, right, a blowout where it's not on
the Hoosier side. If there's a blowout, I think we
(13:05):
know which team, or at least we feel like we
know which team is going to be doing the blowing out.
So I'm not an Indiana fan by any means, but
I think they're a hard group not to like. I
think the story is hard not to sort of get behind.
But if you're an Indiana fan, what have you had
to tell you? Because you don't what you know? Obviously
it's what fans do, right. Fantasy short for fanatic. All
of us that are fans of sports, believe it or not,
(13:25):
we have very little to no impact on what happens.
I guess the only scenario where you could have an
impact is that if you're at a game and you're cheering,
and maybe it encourages the team to play better.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But there's no real way to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So you know, if you've got like a routine that
you follow, a lucky shirt like that really doesn't matter.
But I get it. I do stuff like that too
for my team. So you never want to get like
ahead of yourself. You try to prepare for, you know,
maybe being let down, just so whenever whatever it is
that happens, you can be best prepared. But when you
think of Miami as an Indiana fan, what worries you, John?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I mean what worries me?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I think the way that they putshed around Ohio State
in that game a couple a couple of weeks ago.
It didn't concern me as an Indiana fan, but it
felt like they were just as dominant as Indiana. Well
not that Indiana was dominant against Ohio State, but they
were able to push them around just as much as
Indiana was. And that's what makes me think the way
that this game goes in the trenches, whoever's able to
(14:19):
kind of get that extra push, whether it's offensive line
or defensive line, that's where you're gonna kind of see
the edge get to one team or another.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I feel like, yeah, and I think it wouldn't be
crazy to think that maybe maybe Ohio State overlooked Miami.
I mean, I don't oh fair enough, yeah, because I
don't think that Ohio State really felt as if they
were going to be, you know, challenged, and they didn't
just get challenged, they got they got punked. I mean
Julie pushed around.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The pick six that was in that game from Julian
Sam might have been one of the worst throws I've
ever seen to Miami.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And what was crazy about that game is that it
is you got about maybe third quarter ish, it was
still a competitive game, and you had to feel blessed
as an Ohio State fan because it could have been
a lot worse. I mean, there was a ques estionable
call that went against Miami. There was a Miami turnover
when they got the ball I believe at like the
twenty five yard line, and yet they still had a
(15:08):
big lead. So yeah, I hope we get a competitive
game just because that'll be entertaining. But yeah, I can't lie.
I'm pulling for the Hoosiers tonight. And it's not as
if I'm going to lose sleep if they don't win.
But what a story? Why let it end with anything
short of actually doing the ultimate goal that everybody has
in college football? Very unrealistic for many to win a
national championship. Indiana is one of those programs that for
(15:31):
the entire existence of the program until I don't know,
maybe the last two years, it's been a pipe dream.
It's been delusion to think they would ever win a
national championship in football. And here they are again. That's
the expectation tonight. Also on the NFL side, we now
have the final four of the NFL Patriots, Broncos. That's
(15:51):
who's going to play for that ticket to the Super
Bowl currently in New England. Favored by five and a half,
you got to think the boat injuries got to be
a factor.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The Patriots are a really good team and they were
impressive in their win yesterday against the Texans. And then
the Seahawks and the Rams. That's the other two that
are going to be playing for a spot in the
Super Bowl. That should be a really, really good game.
I know the Seattle's had a really good season, but
the Rams are like the ultimate team that if they
if they slip up and lose to somebody, I mean
they nearly lost to the Panthers, but like they're also
(16:24):
a team if they end up winning the entire Super Bowl,
who's going to say that you're surprised. It's McVeigh, it's Stafford,
and those two together, I feel like you've always got
a chance to beat anybody. All right, let's get to
a quick time out. We'll talk about it on the
other side. I talked I mentioned it earlier, and that
is a list that I've found to be I don't know,
maybe spot on as far as identifiers, spotting a fake
(16:46):
smart person. Things that people say that they may not
realize is that they're overcompensating.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Stick around. It's news radio to eight forty whas all right.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So, something on the Internet that I'm way late to
compared to most is Reddit. I don't engage on reddit
or post anything, but Reddit was a world i'd heard about,
knew of, but didn't really never ended up there. And
I've never been one to just go back and forth
on message boards forums. That's just not really been my
thing when it comes to using the Internet, but a
(17:17):
lot of people do and it has led to a
lot of interesting things to bring to a talk show.
And this is one that I found to be very interesting,
and that is spotting fake smart people. So a Reddit
post asks what's a dead giveaway that someone is pretending
to be smarter than they actually are. There was four
thousand responses that poured in, and here are some of
(17:38):
the top red flags I want to see if you
guys agree. They're terrified of saying I don't know, so
they keep talking until no one can interrupt.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That feels like me.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Now, I'll tell you I don't know a lot of things,
but yeah, sometimes they just keep talking. It's kind of
you know what I do. I'm working on it. This
one is I think fair. Instead of using better arguments,
they just get louder.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, they know people like that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That may just be somebody that's obnoxious though, right I
mean yeah, I mean arguing with somebody without the ability
to just you know, like leave it alone like that,
I guess that's more stubbornness, I suppose. But anybody who
like wants you to know their qualifications right out of
(18:24):
the gate, Like to me, I don't instantly think, well, hey,
they're over compensating. They they must not actually be smart
and they're just again overcompensating. That's not where my mind
typically goes. I'm usually just kind of turned off by
those people who, you know, just want you to know
right away you're talking to somebody that is very very
very very intelligent, and there's a lot of different ways
that you can you can do that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I to me, in conversation with anybody to bring up, well,
I'm really smart, like to me that, I don't know
how you do that naturally. To me, that just seems
like a real force unless somebody was, you know, questioning
your intelligence. This one makes sense to they state there
(19:10):
IQ proudly because they've tested it. I mean, I can't
say I've interacted with a lot of people who are hey,
just see, you know, here's my IQ level. But if
I did, I'm you know, that could be somebody that
might be over compensating, having some overconfidence. Yeah. Can you
think of a conversation you've had with somebody where they
(19:31):
squeezed in throughout the convo how smart they are, because
I don't know how you do that and it not
seem like a tryhard movie.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Like if they're saying those words directly. I don't know
if I've ever I can't recall anything specific like that,
but there's there's definitely been conversations where people will kind
of just insinuate like I know what I'm talking about,
Like it's like, trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'll say that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I like this quoting internet influencers. Oh man, so this
to me is is I don't see this and again
at some one who does not believe that I'm the
smartest man in many rooms I walk into, I rarely
am just thinking of somebody's intelligence level. It would either
take somebody to do something really smart or maybe really
(20:11):
stupid for me to have that thought of Okay, this person,
they might be an idiot, or this person might be brilliant,
But there are those that share those quotes and there's
a level of like, you guys just don't get it,
Like I'm on a different level intellectually, and you guys
just can't quite relate.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
There's a lot of quotes.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
From influencers that sort of give off that, and I
see a lot of people share those, and I don't
pass a ton of a ton of judgment, but I
typically just think, you know, oh, brother, really like get
over yourself. Yeah, I h this reminds me. Let me
give you, Let me give you somebody who I feel
like at times was was really just overdoing it. You
remember Kyrie Irving used to talk about the Earth being flat. Yes,
(20:56):
and he used to and he was very you know,
very he was very much, you know, anti vaccine. It
wasn't that he was anti vaccine. It really wasn't that
he had his opinion that the Earth was flat. It
was the way in which he talked about it, as
if like, oh gosh, I'm just again, I'm on a
different level intellectually that you all could never quite understand.
So it's almost as if like you guys are cute
(21:18):
for even wanting to have the conversation but I can't
with you because you just wouldn't get it. You're not
You're not there with us that are of the higher IQ's.
That's the sort of the tone when it comes to
somebody that I just felt like, Okay, you seem like
you're really wanting people to think that you're just on
a different level when it comes to how smart you are,
but you actually kind of sound stupid. That's that's in
(21:39):
the rare situation where I would think, Okay, this person
might be overdoing it. That's the best example I could
think of off the top. And again, maybe I'm just
not having conversations like a lot of people in society
you're having. But I just can't think of many scenarios
where somebody would tell you how smart they are and
it not be a real force that they're the you know,
why would you bring that up unless again, you you
questioned their comp that there you know their intelligence. I
(22:02):
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