8.22: Oblong & Brownies - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
It is six oh five here at Kentucky and it's
morning news, coffee and company with you here on news
radio eight forty whas Friday is here, I am here
and we are off and running.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ten million dollars?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Was uh, that was the winning bid for the Kentucky
Country Ham breakfast yesterday, And if offered a piece of
the ham again, I would probably I would probably take it.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Who would turn down that opportunity. But again, as I
said yesterday, and I was listening there in the news update,
the description as to what makes the ham special, and
I just I think it's nearly impossible for it to
meet the standard that is just instantly set in your
mind when you know what was paid for said ham.
But anyhow, again it is six We're about four minutes

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away from your next traffic and weather update. And I
don't know how much this has been discussed so far
this morning, but there was a brief fear yesterday, probably
for just everybody. I mean, it's probably not true, actually
not everyone. However, the SEC announcing that they're going to
go to nine games in football, which by the way,
didn't expect it, but they did exactly what a lot

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of folks criticized them for not doing for many years,
which is actually playing a challenging schedule, seeking out challengers
and not just wanting to get by with the benefit
of the doubt, for being the best league in football
for really ever. I mean, the SEC has been the
best conference in college football I think for as long

(01:31):
as I can remember, certainly, but they only played eight
games for many, many years, and many teams in the
league would go out of their way to play a really,
really weak and light schedule in the non conference and
just live with some of these programs. It's delusion, living
with delusion that well, you know, what are you going
to do? We're in the SEC. That's why we play

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Popcorn State because I mean it's I mean, it's life
in the SEC. So anyways, now we know they're going
to nine and they're also requiring one. They're they're requiring
every league member to play one non conference game against
a team from the ACC, the Big Twelve, the Big Ten,
or you could play Notre Dame. So that is a

(02:14):
big jump, and that is a format that basically says, yeah,
we're gonna we're gonna actually, you know, on the schedule
with results, we're going to go out and have seasons
that will really show if we are in fact as
dominant as as we think we are, which again, it's
never been about as the league as good as they
claim it is, or is the league the best league
in college football. It's just they want the benefit of

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the doubt when the when, when the results don't necessarily
add up to that. So yesterday the news broke that
they were going to nine games, and that to me said, okay, well,
the Governor's Cups over. Mark Steubs is not going to
have non games in the SEC when the SEC has
only gotten better since he's been in the league, and
teams that were down when he was able to take

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advantage of it, they're not down as much anymore. Why
would he want to play Louisvilleho looks as if they're
going to be a pretty strong, strong opponent for many
years to come with Jeff brom there. Well, now, with
the requirement that you play one team from a non conference,
one non conference game against a power for team, I
mean the Louisville Kentucky games should stay. However, wouldn't it

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be hilarious if they still wanted out of it and
they said Okay, we're going to we're going to schedule
Boston College. That's going to be our one game every
year against a non conference opponent that's from Power for League.
I mean, they wouldn't do that. But what really worked
me up about this whole thing is what I love.

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I love sports obviously, but rivalries that's what makes sports great.
I think you can still enjoy sports if there's not
a rivalry component. It's still awesome. There are, in fact,
programs at the college level that unfortunately just don't have
a really natural hatred with another school that is their rival,

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which I feel for them because it's an awesome thing,
and it's what makes certainly what makes sports big around here.
So many on both sides within this city, specifically in Kentucky.
I mean, that's that's why I always tell people, you
don't really understand the hatred. And that's a strong word,
but you know what I mean when I say it,
For some people, it is actual hatred for some or

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some it's not. It's just how we talk when we
when when we talk about sports. But in this city,
so many of us co exist together to where I
think you really don't you don't get the full extent
of this rivalry and what it is unless you're here.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So who would benefit if they.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Didn't play Nobody, not not I mean maybe Mark Stoops
because he would have a better chance of getting a win.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
But you have an opportunity there to.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Make up for maybe an underwhelming season in the SEC
that you're likely gonna have annually. And that's not to
say that they're gonna stink forever, but I mean they're there.
I mean the last two years specifically, they could have
been much better than they were and the record might
not have been much different because they just play in
a really tough league which is off some times, going
to give you one of the more challenging schedules in
college football.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So if you go, let's say you're three.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And six in the SEC when you go to nine,
but you beat Louisville, that will make it to where
your three and six is not as ugly to your
fan base. And nobody, and I mean nobody can tell
you what the win against the rival does for your
overall approval rating within your fan base than Mark Soops,

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because let's be real, yes he did get Kentucky up
a level compared to where they were for many many decades,
but that says more about where they were.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
For a long time.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
He just gave them some sustainability to where they were
no longer the doormat. They were getting to bowl games,
but they weren't really doing anything and making any.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Big waves in the SEC.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But they finished I don't know, let's say, three and
five in the SCC and have six wins going into
that game against Louisville. They beat Louisville, and all of
a sudden they feel like they did something stantial because again,
I'll admit it too, beating your rival means more than
just beating a lot of teams because of that's how
much fans care. So he's the case study of, yeah,

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we need that game on the schedule because man, if
we win, it can really make up for a lot
of It can make up for a lot of things.
So again, as of now, it doesn't look as if
that game really is in jeopardy and less Kentucky wants
to do the unthinkable, which is still somehow try to
find their way out of it, which would be pretty
hilarious if you think about it. All Right again, at Kentucky,
it's morning News, coffee and company with you here six eleven.
But we've got another trafficking weather update coming your way,

(06:32):
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that's me scuff.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's shared alongside.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
We'll have another update of news coming your way with
John Shannon around six point thirty. And I know it's
become one of the most talked about things really in
America right now is the Cracker barrel situation. I know
Scott and Rory chatted about it, and one thing that
just really stands out to me other than why why

(07:12):
did you need to do this again? I'm willing to
acknowledge there are people that know way more about this
than me, and I just I live in a world
where I assume people who make these big decisions they
have a lot of help along the way to where
they are making these decisions based off of specific reasons.
But also Crackerreil paid like three different marketing firms to

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help them with this, and I just I can't see
a scenario where this ends up working out well. But
the CEO Cracker Barrel, she was on Good Morning America
yesterday and she said something that is just flat out
not true, which I guess what that means.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
It is just the lie.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
And when I think of and I'm not even trying
to make this political, but I can't help it. When
I think of like the wokest of the woke, I
go back to a time where people were just living
in an alternate reality, an alternate universe. They were saying
things that they knew everyone knew is just simply not true,

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and yet it just became the norm to just live
in it in their own in their own world. This
is the CEO yesterday on the the reaction, the feedback
the Cracker Barrel has received since deciding to make this
this rebrand and switch some things up. Honestly, the feedback
has been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing.

(08:33):
I'll give you another sound bite. No that that's not true.
That is that that that is absolutely not true.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I mean I can't.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I mean, if I looked hard enough, maybe I would
find somebody that that has given given them praise and
say that they like what they're doing. I mean, I'm
sure there is there is a person, but that's just
saying things that like nobody, like nobody would even believe
is true based off of the reaction that's just everywhere.
You can't really ignore the you can't ignore the negative

(09:05):
reaction if you tried, because it's become such a big story.
And again, it's just it's saying things that that we
just simply know aren't true. I'm here something coming in
my headphones. I don't know if that's my end or what. Uh,
But anyways, the it just I don't know. I just
want to know why. I mean, I was talking to
John Shannon during the break. Cracker barrels that I see,

(09:27):
for the most part are pretty full. I mean from
the parking lot. You never really know if that means
that all the tables are taken up. But there was
a base of customers for Cracker Barrel that clearly liked
it enough that they made it a part of their
routine to an extent. And now you've made changes that
are going to probably keep them away, turn them off,
And who's going to fill the void. I don't know,

(09:49):
but we shall see. Again, there's no scenario that that
individual truly believes that the reaction they've received so far
has been overwhelmingly positive. But again, I guess if you
believe it, it's the truth. But hey, I guess if

(10:10):
there is one positive potentially here, you know, maybe anything,
you know, cracker Bill's being talked about more than it's
ever been talked about. Right, However, I don't. I don't
think that's a I don't think that's a good thing.
All right, let's get a quick time out. We'll check traffic,
we'll get an update on the forecast, which how about
that forecast next week?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
You get me it is going to be perfect.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
We've also got a other sports update coming your way,
as high school football. I guess it officially kicked off
last night. There was one game, but we've got endless
amounts of games tonight, high school football under the lights,
exciting stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
So we'll get to it and more right here on
News Rady wait forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's six point thirty five here Kentucky and this morning
news coffee and company with you as we have made
it to Friday, which exciting stuff. So I know, high
school football getting started for most tonight, and I know
Scott has already discussed that quite a bit this morning,
and we'll get you updated as best we can throughout
the morning. But an exciting and exciting day for I'm

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sure a lot of players, coaches, parents. There's just something
about high school football Friday night under the lights. And
one thing I did not realize is that there are
seven Yeah, I think there's seven of the JCPS schools
here that currently as of right now, don't have a
home field to play on. So I guess it's been
like a two year project and it's not over. It's

(11:30):
gonna be a long term thing. But JACPS has announced
new athletic facilities, but seven of the twenty one high
school football teams still can't host games on their fields
as of right now, and that would be a bummer.
I mean, look, it could be worse. You could have
issues to where maybe you don't get to play, But
it looks like the schools right now that are still

(11:51):
waiting to see those projects completed, and it sounds like
weather's really been the biggest issue as to why there's
been such a delay but right now you've got daw
Spern Creek, mail Manual and Wagner are among the schools
that right now are not able to host games, but
it looks as if most of them will be able

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to if things go according to plan, they'll be able
to host home games at some point this season. But yeah,
it sounds like just a lot of rain that took
place in the spring, and of course we certainly had
we had flooding that was pretty substantial, and that they
can impact things like these projects. So yeah, you've got
the schools so central. They will hopefully be able to

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play their first home game on September the fifth, and
for DAWs, all home games have been moved to the road,
so they may not be ready to play at home
until October. So I guess that's what's happening. Is if
you don't have the ability, if you've got a game
on the schedule and you can't host because of the
field not being available, then you just switch it to
it being a road game, which it wouldn't be fun

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for players because you know, I would imagine that's a
big part of the scitement. It's not just playing football,
but playing in front of your in front of your fans,
it's your school. But du Bois, which is one of
the newer schools, they're still playing at temporary sites because
their popular level facility isn't set to be open until
I think next year. But Fern Creek, their their first
two home games have been moved because of the delays.

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Male they're hoping to be able to play at home
by September nineteenth. That'll be a big game for them
against Trinity and then Manual delayed up until September twenty sixth.
Which one thing that you know, if you are somebody
that has been involved in high school sports at any level,
meaning a player, actually as a player, you may not
even realize it because it's not something that's your priority.
But concessions that is a big deal. That is where

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money is made to help fund these programs and honestly
football itself, I mean JCPS. I would imagine that the
attendance for those games is really all over the place,
depending upon which schools you're talking about. There's some games
that are going to get a big, big crowd and
then there's some that just don't draw that many people.
But when it comes to high school sports, when you

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open up your gates for a high.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
School football game.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Most schools, I would say, gosh, nine out of ten,
that's the biggest opportunity to make money because of you,
people do pay money. I would imagine football is when
I was growing up, football was the most expensive ticket
to get. Now we're not talking about a whole lot
of money, we're talking about a few bucks. But whenever
we would go to other games, there would not be

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any cost at all, or it would be a little
bit smaller. So you know, you do charge admission, and
more often than not, you'll have bigger crowds for football
games than really any other sport. Unds there's a big
basketball game going on, and I guess there are some
schools where there are certain sports that just that are
a bigger deal than others. But also concessions that is
where you can make money. And some of these athletic
directors are citing that these delays it's going to cost

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them a lot of money and concessions. For example, fern Creek,
their first two home games have been moved and their
ad has said that these delays could cost twelve to
fifteen thousand dollars in loss for revenue overall. That's not
just concessions, that's just overall, and that goes. It's a
long way when it comes to funding a high school
athletic team. And there's a reason you see fundraising everywhere

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because again, they need to raise money. It's not free,
and obviously they want to do as best they can
to where a lot of parents don't don't have to
come out have to come out of pocket.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
So well, we have all these foody reviews on TikTok,
how about a foody review of concessions.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I mean, I don't know why, but for some reason,
nachos at a high school football game are better than
nachos anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
I want to tell you Saint Rita has. Saint Rita
has some some fries that they do. They're almost like
they're French fries, but they're like potato chips, if that
makes sense. I can't think of the right word for them.
But you get different places that have. When I work
at the concession stand at at Saint Martha, fish was
always they serve fishy around, so that was always a
popular They know what they're doing, they're smart, right, So
I get your take and I totally understand concessions. Man,

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you go to these games, you got to have something
to eat, yep, And we're spending money to eat something
over there. So I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And look, you got to keep in mind when it
comes to high school sports, there's not a lot revenue streams.
I mean, there's there's not a whole lot of ways
you can just do something to where people are going
to pay money. And then and obviously there you can
raise money through fundraising and think that. I'm sure the
programs are thankful that people will support the things they're
doing to help them raise money. But you know, that's

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that's that's a lot of added work. If you can
just open up your gates and have a game and
have concessions, I mean that that's that's what that's that's
your true natural revenue stream. And not being able to
have it, I mean it could it could definitely cost
some issues.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
And and and another aspect to it, not just the
money aspect. A lot of these schools, you know, they
require the kids to have a certain amount of volunteer hours,
and a lot of those kids pick up volunteer hours
doing what work in the concession stand. So if they're
not in their home stadium and those concession stands aren't
open where those kids can help work those concession stands
and get those hours tracked. Then then they're losing out

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and they got to scramble and try to find something
else as well.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm thinking back to whenever I was in high school,
things we did to help raise money for the basketball program.
And one of the things that that was a constant
was we saw donuts. I guess we had some kind
of an arrangement with Krispy Kreme to where we would
buy them at a certain price and sell them and
we could make a few bucks on each box. And
we did that Saturday mornings after Friday night games all winter,

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and it did well enough to where we kept doing it.
Also was this was fun, but we would help it
a bingo hall, so there would be like a day
of bingo on a Saturday, and parents and coaches would
help out in some capacity, and then some of the
players would volunteer. And it wasn't just volunteering because you
were helping out with the program, but you could make money.

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You could get tips be a bingo runner, which I
remember I would do that every now and then, and
I would think that I mean, this is a nice
hustle for me. But yeah, there's all kind of In fact,
when I was back in my high school a few
months ago when they had the Hall of Fame ceremony,
they put one of the and this is awesome that
they did this. They put one of the bigger fundraisers
ever in the history of the school into the Hall

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of Fame because she stuck around even after her kids
graduated and helped them with fundraising and just projects that
she knew could help generate money. And man, talk about
people that you just you know' that's somebody behind the
scenes that people don't realize.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
The last school absolutely so, you know, good stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
So hopefully they can get these these fields complete and
and get get get these guys back playing in their
home field. I mean, it'd be a bummer to not
be able to have a home game, fish if you're senior.
So hopefully they get it worked out sooner rather than later.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, let's get to a quick update.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
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tell you what the uh. The Section eight housing situation
is something that fortunately I don't I've not been in
a situation where I've ever as a child had to

(18:46):
rely on that or even as a as a as
an adult now and I've been well aware of what
Section eight Section eight housing was, but I didn't know
I guess the specifics of the program as far as
you know, the process of how you how you qualify
and whatnot. And there's a major shift that could be
coming that will impact a lot of people, and it's
going to be I mean, it's already turned into a

(19:08):
big talking point because there are some who are going
to be impacted in a negative way. But then there's
others who, like myself, didn't quite realize that it I
mean for certain people, and I'm sure it's not everybody,
but it became a lifestyle, not necessarily just a resource
that you utilize when times are hard, and that again,

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out of sight, out of mind for me, I'll admit
ignorance to that. I just not something I thought much
about because again, fortunately I've not had to know a
lot about it, but for the first time, long term
recipients are going to face strict limits on how long
they can receive these benefits. So a draft proposal with
CAP Section eight housing assistance at two years maximum. The

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new rules are expected to be finalized in October during
the twenty twenty six federal budget process. So once approved,
states will notify tenants who've been on Section eight for
longer than two years, and tenants would get sixty to
ninety days notice, depending on the state that they're in
what laws they have before their benefits are cut off.
So public housing authority reps will begin contacting recipients, starting

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with those who've been on the program the longest. Officials
say the goal is to ensure Section eight is a
temporary safety net, not a lifestyle passed down for generations.
So I think there are many that just use that
as a it's just again, it's the lifestyle, not a
resource to help. And I can't you never know what

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on the Internet is real and what is just there
for engagement farming, if that makes sense. Somebody who's going
to put out a very wild opinion, a wild situation,
and I mean that's what that's what's crazy. Somebody will
will put out the most unpopular opinion on a TikTok
video that will get everybody saying like, this person's crazy.

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Do they realize how they sound? They have no aware
is they're delusional? Well, they know it's going to get
that reaction on the internet and get a lot of traffic,
a lot of views. So that's kind of the point.
So I'm very hesitant at time, Stephen real to even
think some of these videos that I see are real.
But there are people who are sharing TikTok videos as
almost as if they're victims and life is really against them.

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But it's quite literally complaining they're no longer going to
be given handouts, They're no longer going to be able
to simply just live off of government assistance without any
attempt to actually do anything for themselves. So part of
me says, yeah, they know how they're sounding. They know
this video is going to take off because everybody's going
to share it and talk about how wow, can you
believe get a load of this person? Can you believe

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their lack of awareness? And one of the videos I
saw yesterday was a girl who was using her food
stamp money the snap benefits and I guess because it's
at Walmart, and Walmart has a nail salon she could
get she could get her nails done with the money
that she gets for food stamps. And a woman I
guess made a comment about it that shouldn't be used
for that, and she shared, well, people.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Need to mind their own business.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
People are just jealous that I get these benefits and
they don't. And I'm sitting here thinking, wait a second,
there's no way. There's no way.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Somebody truly just can't quite read the room to that extent.
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Maybe if it's if it's literally been a lifestyle passed
down for generations of just being on Section eight and
not really trying to actually better yourself, get a job,
and you know, not live off the government, not live
off of other people. I mean, maybe you don't have
the ability to read the room. I don't know, but
that'll that'll be a noticeable thing for a lot of
folks if in fact, this goes through to where they're
gonna really make it to where you can't just live

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off it forever. You got to show that you're trying
to actually better yourself. All Right, We've got driving weather
updates coming your way. Also, another update on sports coming
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