8.26: Hoodies & Hydration - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's right, seven oh five here at News Radio eight
forty whas Coffee and Company with you at Kentucky and
it's Morning News, Happy Tuesday. So John mentioned there that
the Louisville Live preseason basketball event for the Louisville basketball
program is not going to happen this year, and there
is enough hype for both teams that I don't think.

(00:21):
I mean, again, it can't hurt. Maybe it would lead
to some more hype and excitement and more folks inclined
to buy season tickets or show up. Again, it can't hurt.
But I do understand that it's it's not as needed
because Pat Kelsey got things off to such a great
start in year one to where I mean, he brought
the program back to life and did it in just

(00:44):
a season's time. So I also just understand now when
it comes to the athletic departments across the country, you
got to watch every penny you spend. You have such
an uncertainty right now with college athletics and the financial
side of it because you know now again twenty million
dollars annually is a bill that schools have because they

(01:04):
have to share revenue with athletes, and that's an expensive
event to put on, and I don't know the exact number,
wouldn't even be able to ballpark it. But you got
to ask yourself, okay, when it comes to how we're
spending our money, would this be a wise thing to
spend money on this year? And I understand how it
probably did not make the cut because again, there's already
built an excitement. This is going to be a team

(01:25):
that's probably, you know, preseason top ten, and of course
Jeff Walls in his program, they've been They've been really
good for a really long time.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I know recently they have not had one of those deep,
deep tournament runs in a little while. But still, I
mean comparatively speaking when it comes to women's basketball, and
I don't know people realize this, maybe they do, but
the women's team here at Louisville, their average attendance is
substantially more than the bulk of the ACC men.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So you know, you look at the UM Center for
a Louisville North Carolina men's basketball game and then you
look at it for a big time game for the
women's team, and you would see clearly a difference in attendance.
But don't let that distract you from the fact that
compared to other women's college basketball programs, Louisville is up there.
There's others, of course, and it's actually a growing sport,

(02:12):
but when it comes to excitement for Jeff Wall's program,
it's always there, seemingly.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So that's been an interesting culture to watch unfold Nick
with the women's because obviously you have women's basketball very
successful in the state of Indiana with the Indiana Fever
to some degree with Terry Moore and at IU, she
has gotten that program off and run, though I think
they've kind of stepped back a little bit this year. Well,
Jeff Walls has had a contest and we.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Are spoiled to where they've just been really good since
he's been here, and they've had years where they weren't
as good and whatnot, but he never has a shortage
of really good players, and we just were spoiled, meaning
there's a built in fan base that's there because they've
watched it grow to where the program has been one
of the better programs in women's college basketball. I mean, look,
they're not right there as this exact moment, but there

(02:58):
was a stretch where anytime they were to break through
and maybe actually win the national championship. Keep him mind
they played in two national championship games in his time here.
I mean that was only that was the next thing
up that they hadn't done yet. So that's why Louisville
Women's HOO has its own sort of world of a following.
But I think what happened is clearly there was a
real big rise with Caitlyn Clark and obviously Angel at LSU,

(03:20):
and I just don't know if you can ever replicate
that again. Doesn't mean that the sport's not still growing
and there's interest, but I just think that was sort
of a peak that will be tough to get back to,
because I'm being honest, Kaitlyn Clark is a once in
a lifetime type of talent that has done something to
women's basketball at every level, youth too, pro that I
just don't know if there's a comparison, and I don't
know if we'll see it again. And her injuries this

(03:41):
year has led to her not playing as well and
not playing as much, and clearly the WNBA, not that
they already didn't know that, but yeah, she's she's the
meal ticket. I mean, that's people can put feelings into
that and make it, make it anything up that they want,
But that's just a fact and the evidence has been
there throughout. So yeah, the Louisville Live event not going
to take place this year, but I understand why. I'm

(04:02):
sure fans are going to miss it, and I'm sure they'll
bring it back at some point. But when you've got
so much uncertainty right now, when it comes to just
the financial side of things and you're watching every little
penny that you spend, this is one that is expensive,
I'm sure, and it just wasn't as necessary. But look,
instead of seeing this team do dunks and three point
shootouts in front of fans and not really any competition,

(04:24):
you have Kansas coming to town, Bill Selts bringing his
crew to you for you to watch this team play
in an exhibition game. So I'll take that over Louisvill Love,
if I'm being honest, because I'm going to get a
chance to see where my team stands.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Still, the coolest thing they did when they did it
was at Churchill Downs. That was oh yeah, that was unique.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
No doubt. That was awesome. Yep, really cool. All right,
So if you remember we talked about this last month,
the parking meter debate in the Highlands. That has got
some pushback as expected, So now it's uncertain if that
actually happens. But we'll give you the latest on that
and a lot more. It's Kentucky. It's Morning News, Coffee
and company with you here on News Radio eight forty
whasly keep people from one to come and give them

(05:01):
business in the area. So they did say when this
became a story, I believe it was late June that
obviously they were they were gonna get community input on
the situation. But the future of these parking meters along
Barstown Road, it's uncertain because again residence, business owners and
city leadership have questioned if this is this is the
way to go. So when you consider the let's see,

(05:25):
let's see the numbers are here. Surveys show that fifteen
hundred residents and one hundred and fifty businesses oppose the meters,
which that doesn't really surprise me really at all. But
the revenue projections here, the initial study estimated two hundred
and eighty five thousand dollars in annual revenue from Bargetown
Road parking meters, and that to me doesn't really sound

(05:48):
like a whole lot of money, and when it comes
to what the potential negative impact could be there, because
you have to keep in mind, if you're somebody that
has a certain type of restaurant and you are you're
right there the Highlands in Bargetown Road. I mean, look,
let's be real, you've probably already been negatively impacted by
what else we've discussed when it comes to Bargetown Road

(06:08):
in the Highlands this summer, just because it became an
area where people would just come and do shutdowns of
the street with rap. You just, I mean, it became
a real issue. And obviously Mary Greenberg and his team
have have have done a lot of good things from
what I can tell, to improve that situation. But there's
measures in place moving forward to make sure that that
just doesn't end up turning into what it was for

(06:29):
a little while there. So you've probably already negatively been
impacted by that. Compared to your competition. Let's see whatever
type of restaurants you have. Let's say there's one in
NWLU Let's say there's one on Frankfort Avenue that area.
If there's no parking meters there, and I'm just looking
for a specific type of meal, I may think, yeah,
you know what, I don't want to deal with parking meters.

(06:50):
I'll go I'll go to Frankfort Avenue, I'll go to Nulu,
And look, you have to pay to park in Nulu,
at least from what I can remember having gone down
there in a while. But what I'm getting at is is,
if you are somebody that is a business owner, I
just can't see a scenario where you, even if you
don't think this is going to be substantially damaging to
your business as far as just loss of revenue, what

(07:10):
do you gain how to do it? And again the
two and eighty five thousand dollars in annual revenue, I
mean that probably wouldn't be worth it for you. I
mean again, it's not your money necessarily. So I'm not
surprised there was a pushback here, and for now it
is stalled because again, business owners probably already had enough
to worry about as far as just what the Highlands

(07:31):
area has turned into at times, to where you throw
up parking meters, I mean it could potentially keep people away. Now,
the other side of that coin is, well, then you
wouldn't have people just taking up spots for a long, long,
long amount of time on the street where other customers
could come in and park and maybe go get dinner. Also,
maybe having parking meters could lead to improvement in what

(07:53):
at times Bargtown Road and the Highlands turns into late
at night on the weekends. So those were I guess
the positives. But when it's all about the bottom dollar
and you want business, anything that's going to scare that
you feel like may keep customers away, I would say
nay on that. But we'll see it has been stalled
for the time being, and that does not surprise me
at all. All Right, we've got another update of trafficking

(08:13):
and weather on the way. Also we'll get another sports
update with Scott. It is seven twenty one here at
News Radio eight forty whas we were up and running
here on a Tuesday morning, fifty seven degrees. It is
beautiful and I'm gonna I'm going to enjoy this beautiful
fall weather that we have here. And it's early and
I'm sure we'll get some warmer temperatures down the line,
but I mean, if we can just stay, you know,

(08:34):
like below eighty five the rest of the way, I'll
take that. Because usually when you get close to this
holiday weekend that's coming up. I think we said yesterday
the average temperature was mid eighties, I think, and now
we're not going to be anywhere near that, and that
makes me very very happy. But again, it's Kentucky. It's
morning News, coffee and company with you here on News
Radio eight forty Whas. This is something that I absolutely

(08:57):
could have told you was going to happen, and that
is is backtracking, having to let children know, hey, it's
not so easy to become a professional video gamer. Esports
of course has exploded, but this notion that kids were
just going to focus on that in school and have
a career in video games, I mean I could have

(09:20):
told you that that's not realistic. In fact, you actually
probably have a better chance of making the NFL than
playing video games professionally at that level. Now, again, you
can make money with your following because you're a gamer,
and you've got YouTube subscribers, and you can certainly monetize
a big following. But the rise of esports worldwide has

(09:41):
a lot of kids dreaming of turning gaming into a career.
But now they're having a backtrack and say, hey, you know,
maybe we should have a different approach here as far
as how you can utilize gaming. And I mean again,
there are that many career paths and look, it's a
real sanctioned KHS double a sport now e sports, And

(10:04):
I know how popular video games are. Trust me, I'm
not acting like video games are going to go away,
but I could. I remember years ago, probably a little
bit less than a decade ago, it became a thing
to where kids were doing it in school and it
was a part of school in some way. I don't
know how educational it was. And it just became this,

(10:24):
Oh that's what I'll do. I'll play video games. And
I'm thinking to myself, okay, I mean that I don't
good luck finding you know, a good paying job that
I mean it just to me, it was a non
existent world as far as video Like who has a
job playing video games? Very very few people on the planet.
Now again, you can monetize and make money off of

(10:45):
having a big following by playing games. But yeah, they're
having to walk it back a little bit because it's
just not realistic. So they now have dissuasion classes to
discourage children from chasing that specific dream. Apparently this has
become a bigger deal in China. But it's also a
situation here in the United States where it was just
an idea floated out there that you could, you know, hey, yeah,

(11:07):
focus on gaming. You could have a career in that.
And I guess you could, like you could go to
school and become a video game designer or whatever. And
again I'm I'm talking that on my rear end here
because I know nothing about video games as far as
like how they're created. But you know, you'd still have
to go to school college for that. I mean, you'd
have to take you have to you know, you'd have
to actually still take college classes that had nothing to
do with video gaming in order to eventually I assume,

(11:29):
have one of those one of those jobs. But again,
parents are complaining that kids are spending more time gaming
than studying. I mean, that's been a thing for a
long time, I would say, with a lot of kids.
But and these kids are now often citing that their
justification is they want to go pro they want to
you know, It's like it's like you know, me telling
my mom, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the NBA.
I didn't even need to go to college. I'm gonna
go to NBA right out of high school. I mean,

(11:51):
I didn't really say that when I was a kid,
but I mean, it's just it's it's not realistic.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I wonder if they thought gaming was going to go
the way of competitive eating, something nobody saw.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
But even that is even that is a hard thing
to get into. I mean, it's just it's not even
if Joey Chestnut, the most famous competitive eater of all time,
he still has to hustle and take gigs. That surprised
me because again, like it's not like he's not in
a he's not in the NFL making a salary. He's
got to go out and pound food and collect a check.

(12:19):
I mean, so it's not really an industry where you
just get a bunch of there's where a bunch of
jobs exist. So again I'm I mean, I video games.
I'm not against them. I just I never really caught
the itch to be a gamer, and I'm actually happy
that I didn't because it allowed me to spend a
lot of time doing other things that I think has
helped me in my life today. But that's not to

(12:40):
knock anybody that has spent a lot of time playing
video games. Because it's a hobby, it's a passion, and
I get it. It's fun. I've seen the latest and
greatest when it comes to video games, and they're awesome.
It's just I never I could never really just spend
that much time doing it. And now a lot of
kids are and that's never really changed. But the better
the video games get, the more kids are gonna play them.
I'm sure sure, and they're just something was created in

(13:02):
society that I don't think was ever realistic that like
they that could be their career. Again, it's it's possible,
but it's not like you know, you're gonna go get
your you know, it's not like going in the union
and getting an apprenticeship and learning a trade. I mean,
it's not an industry really.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right, And well you look at you look at the
hysteria that came out with college football twenty five when
that came out and just when they brought the game back.
I mean I was listening to some sports talk radio
and you know, dudes were going crazy. Oh.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
It really made me aware of how much I missed that.
Like I don't mean miss it as if like, oh
I need it. I missed out on just that whole
thing because I never really caught the gaming bug like others.
And again I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If
you did, I'm sure it's something that you really enjoy.
But yes, the return of the college that's the first
time in my time, in many years I covered sports

(13:51):
and had a sports radio platform to where I mean,
that's the first time video games became such a talking
point within sports radio because the return of the college
football game was such a big deal that just and
again most of that was nostalgia. It was a game
that was gone and then they brought it back. But yeah,
I realized how much how serious gaming is at that time.
And again, knock yourself out, have fun with it. But

(14:13):
I just you know, I can't relate. I guess all right,
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(15:37):
So just to continue the conversation about video games, because
now there's now dissuasion classes being offered in certain parts
of the country that are letting kids know that they
need to maybe pursue a different career path because the
dream that was floated to them about turning video games
into a career at the time, it was insanely unrealistic

(15:59):
and it's even more or and realistic now. However, to
shift gears a little bit, what you can do if
you're a gamer, and this is something I'm fascinated in
because I just I think it's really impressive people are
able to do it. But when you've got a really
big following online because of something that you do, rather
it be reviewing food or maybe reviewing video games or

(16:19):
playing video games, this is something I can't relate to
at all, but I know that it's a real thing.
My son, he just turned five in June. He does
it he watches people play video games on his tablet.
I would never want I would get angry watching my
friends play video games when I was a kid because
I wanted to play. Now kids just watch and it's
a huge thing. So if you have that, you can

(16:40):
monetize it, you can make money. That can be your career.
But what you're learning is not. I mean again, you
need to know how to play the video games. What
you need to learn to do that is how to
grow a following, ways in which you can monetize it,
how to collaborate with sponsors and maybe other channels. So
it's not to say that like anybody trying to make
a living doing gaming is never going to do it.

(17:01):
But just being good at a game, I think is
what some kids thought would turn them into professional video gamers,
and that's not the case. I guess it can, but
the competition as far as getting you know, and I
don't even really I'm talking out of my rear end
because I don't know anything about professional video gaming, but
clearly there are pros and you see them playing on
television and whatnot. Esports is a big world to an extent,

(17:24):
but you know, competing for one of those jobs. I mean,
good luck. It's got to just be luck timing opportunity,
because I'm sure there are countless individuals that are really
really good at certain video games. So I would say
that the emphasis should be, Hey, if you are really
good at a game and you've already established a following,
just learn how to market yourself. Learn how to stand

(17:46):
out in a super competitive, oversaturated field that is, you know,
anything online, right.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
I mean, it reminds me a lot when people wanted
to go before video games and influencers became a thing.
You know, at least in my generation, everybody would say, Hey,
I'm going to go out to LA and be the
next star. I'm going to be a rock star, and
I'm going to do this. I'm going to I'm going
to get rich at this. But to your point, it
is the same church, different pew. You had to have
something that stood out, especially if you were a musician.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You've got to stand out in a competitive space, and
that's hard. Yeah. Oh dude, man, you just you just
hit me with something that I had never thought about.
And that used to just be Hey, I'm getting out
of here. I'm going to Hollywood, you know, to be
an actor. Or a movie star or you know, a
musician or whatever it may be. And now and again
I'm not It's not like I know a lot of

(18:32):
people that are starting their adult life. I don't have
any I mean, any of the kids that I know
are still very young. Rather it be my children or
my friend's children. But I haven't heard like somebody reference
that dream of getting to Hollywood and making it big
in the movie industry, like that became such a cliche
for generations, and now they just want to go big
online because that's what they that's what they're exposed to,

(18:54):
that's what they're in front of, and they see every
second of every day probably just being on their phones,
right yep. And influencers, And again it's clearly a gift.
If you've got the ability to influence a big number
of people and you've got a big following, you'll make
a lot of money. I mean, it's the proof is there.
It's just to me and this, this is gonna sound awful,
and I don't mean it to sound as bad as
it's gonna sound, But a lot of people probably still

(19:17):
view that as what are you famous for?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
You got a bunch of followers but hey, that's that's
that's the talent, is having that following. That regardless if
they love you or hate you, they follow and they
keep up with what you do, and that gives you
great value. Look no further than Jake Paul, right, I mean,
he's he's maybe the I don't know where he ranks
as far as wealth, but that guy, he's a brilliant marketer, right,
and he kind of just became a professional d bag

(19:42):
and and and I mean he's probably I mean, I
don't think he would deny that, but it worked, you know.
And he's got he's got to he's got a gift.
That's his talent. That's why he's famous because he's a
self marketer. And man, he's he's on top of the world.
That I don't mean everybody loves him, but like he
can do anything, it's gonna get attention. And that's that's
the name of the game.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
They said Christianando Cristiano Ronaldo is the top influencer right
now over one billion.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Isn't that just because all the women think he's hot
and he's a good soccer player. Yeah, I think I
think that helps him. Put that gives him a leg
up compared to others. But yes, Ronaldo and also Ronaldo
and MESSI that's when I realized, Okay, maybe like there
are other sports people really care about outside football and basketball,
because those two guys have the biggest following out there.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well and tell me you've heard of somebody named Charlie Demelo.
Oh yeah, Arliemelo top TikTok influence one hundred and fifty million.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Follow up, Yeah, I mean that that is a level
of value that like we don't even probably realize just
how much value that is. Because again, everybody's got a
device these days, and they're in front of it, and
if you can reach one hundred and fifty million of them,
you you're making a lot more money than me. I'd say,
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