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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So it looks like the pointing fingers that he said,
she said between JCPS board members at least some of them,
and former Superintendent Marty Polio. It continues because yesterday we talked.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
About the.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
CFO of j CPS saying that he understood and wasn't surprised. Essentially,
I'm paraphrasing here, but he understood why there were some
that were really surprised to see just how big the
deficit was for JCPS as far as far as funds.
So the back and forth here is not going to
change anything. Clearly, they got a situation on their hands
(00:38):
that is severe, to say the least, and I'm sure
it's the biggest priority right now, but that doesn't mean
that there's any quick solution to figure it out. When
you talk about having to make the type of cuts
that they're going to have to make, it is I
wouldn't be shocked if this is an all timer, not
just for JCPS, but from if you compare the school
district here JCPS to others around the cut country similar
(01:00):
in size. To have this amount of money needing to
be cut from your budget because of the shortfall, I mean,
I wouldn't be shocked if this again is an all timer,
but we now know I guess the the the cause
here as far as the shortfall, and there isn't one
specific thing. There are a handful of things, and we
(01:21):
talked about this yesterday. The JACPS were a lot heavily
on the federal COVID nineteen relief funds and those funds
were not going to last forever. They also had a
one time seventy five million dollar property tax ESCRO payout,
so other things that of course led to this financial
nightmare that they are in. Is the transportation disaster that
(01:42):
took place in twenty twenty three, a story that of
course got national coverage and that had a big, big
factor in the financial strain that JCPS is currently experiencing.
Costs for that included nearly one million dollars on new
routing software, twelve million dollars in outside bussing contracts, twelve
million dollars and parent stipends for student transportation, eleven point
(02:07):
five million annually in bus driver pay increases, twenty two
I'm sorry, two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for
an audit, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for re
routing contracts. So that was costly to say the least,
not just as far as reputation, but from a financial
standpoint as well. And I mean, I keep spending my
(02:32):
wheels here, which is not great for somebody live on
the radio, but just to see the amount of money
that they they are short as far as their budget
is crazy. But Christa Johnson of the Courier Journal has
a good breakdown of it. That's where I'm referencing these numbers.
So again I'm sure they're they're making this the top priority,
(02:52):
but I wish them the best of luck because again,
that's that's that's a lot. And again yesterday there was
the superintendent, former Superintendent Mariti Polio, who denied the report
that there were ever any any changes in any misleading
of what the financial situation was. He claimed that it
(03:14):
was just you know, not emphasized as much or something
along those lines. So hopefully they can get it figured out,
but there's clearly gonna be some big cuts and some
jobs that are lost. And really what's off the table
as far as I mean, what they're gonna end up
having to do in order to to to get this
situated not good, to say the least, and what I
(03:37):
don't understand when it comes to the the the COVID
relief funds, and it's tough to know for sure. This
is again it's a back and forth. It's finger pointing,
people making decisions as if that money was going to
be around forever.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can't understand that, and.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Maybe they didn't, but yet it just they needed that
money at the time because they had spences and it
was there, and maybe they knew that eventually it was
going to not be there, but for the time being,
they had to dip into those funds because.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's all they had access to. So there is there is.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
One board member, by the way, that has that has
said that they don't believe that there was any misuse
of funds anywhere. So the one hundred and eighty eight
million dollar deficit is what they're facing. But one board member,
that's James Craig. He talked to WHS eleven and said
that he believes that all the money that was spent
was was well spent where it was supposed to be
was supposed to be spent. But JCPS they have a
(04:38):
nightmare situation on their hands, to say the least, and
a good a good question that was brought up yesterday
that I don't have the answer to is doctor Brian Yearwood,
the superintendent, who was in his first year, did he
have access to this information? Would that have impacted him
pursuing this this job. Just something I'm I would be
(04:58):
I would be curious about, all right, So I'm trying.
I'm gonna try not to jinxit here, but it looks
like right now not any real major issues on the roadway.
We'll get another traffic update coming for you here in
just a moment. Also, we'll get a look at the
updated forecast, as we've got some storms that I guess
are headed to this area if they've not already arrived.
So we'll get you caught up on both trafficking weather updates.
(05:22):
And yesterday the ACC made an announcement as far as
how they're going to move forward with football scheduling, which
I think is a great, great thing for college football
fans like myself who want to watch legitimate games, meaning
you're playing a team to where at least accounts towards
your conference record, or it's a test that you know
(05:42):
you're going to learn something about your team, and it
does moving forward puts you in a situation where you
will avoid what we are dealing with right now, where
we've gone a month and we have no I feel
like the Louisvill's football season hasn't even started yet, and
it's I mean it's almost October. So we'll get to
that and a lot more right here our news Radio
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Speaker 2 (06:46):
All Right, So.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Louisville football, I have no clue if they're a pretty
good team, if they're really good, or maybe they've taken
a huge step back, and really you can you get
a mixed bag of results in the three games they've
played as far where you can probably convince yourself really
whatever you want. I do think you'd have a tougher
time convincing yourself right now that they're really good.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it's also tough.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To know, because, as I talked about yesterday, the human
element is a real thing where if they don't come
out in the second half after getting a big lead
against a team like Bowling Green State, you don't want
that coaches are going to be all over them if
they do come out complacent. But these guys know that
the stadiums have full, they're playing a team that really
(07:30):
isn't gonna challenge them, And it's just it's the human
element that I think is ignored in a lot of
aspects in life, especially in sports. So anyways, the ACC
deciding yesterday to announce a nine game football schedule moving forward,
and also a requirement to play one non conference game
against a power for a league is something that one
(07:54):
I'm happy about, but also it absolutely will prevent this
from happening, meaning where you'll have a three game stretch
like this because you won't even have three games available
on your schedule to play what you've just played. So
this is now what the SEC has done. The Big
Ten has had a nine game league schedule for a while.
(08:14):
I don't know exactly what the Big twelve is gonna do,
but this is this is this is good for everybody
because I think this really started to be noticeable to
me about three four years ago that when it comes
to a big game as far as rivalry or just
(08:34):
a lot on the line, two really good programs at
college football and even college basketball, you know you're still
gonna have a lot of people that want to be there.
But now we have endless options to watch the game
elsewhere or consume it in a different way, and more
and more people are content with doing that. When I
was younger, it was just a thing to where if
(08:55):
you weren't at the game and you're a fan, like
you feel like you're missing something. Again, not everybody's been
able to to go to games because of tickets and
all that. But if you had tickets or the ability
to get tickets, you would just do it because that's
what you did as a fan. Those days are over
the days of well, hey, the Cards player, the Cats play,
and I'm a fan, So nope, Johnny's not playing soccer
(09:16):
this fall because we got to be at the game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's what we do.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We're fans. It's our job, it's our duty. We have
to report for duty and show up and sit there
for six hours and it's one hundred degrees outside. People
don't do that anymore, especially when you're playing teams nobody's
heard of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So it is super.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Super competitive right now to get people's attention, to get
people to come out and choose you. As far as entertainment,
and whenever there are games against nobody opponents where the
spread is thirty points, you'll still get people to go.
(09:54):
But nowhere near full capacity in most places. And it's
not because what these athletic programs are crumbling and the
fan base is dying. People don't we evolve as human beings.
So the season ticket format that whole it look. People
still buy season tickets and if you do, good for you,
(10:15):
and if you are somebody that inherited season tickets from
your dad and his dad.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
They'll never be a scenario where people aren't buying season tickets.
But the amount of people I think is only going
to drop because you don't need to buy them. You
can go to any game you want and not actually
buy a season ticket and pay a donation. So these
games meaning games of value, where Louisville now moving forward,
will have at least ten out of twelve games on
(10:41):
their schedule that are not always going to be great games.
You're gonna host of Boston College or something like that
and they're going to be down. That's not like you're
gonna have a big time opponent every week. Let's be really,
the acc kind of stinks in football, if I'm being
honest with you, But we don't have to worry about
e KU bowling, Greens State, can't state, Murray State, no
(11:03):
offense to those schools. But that's not a big that's
it's not an attractive ticket. There are people who would
choose not to go if they could go for free,
and it's not because they're out on UFL football. It's
just because people now realize they don't need to be
there to still have the same experience as a fan,
meaning they're not missing out on a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They'll choose to go to the games that interest.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Them, meaning the games that are against good teams where
the atmosphere is going to be better and it's just
a better matchup. So this is good College boards. Eventually,
I think will have to make some real shifts here overall,
because again, if attendance is going to matter and viewership
is going to matter, playing games where there's thirty point
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spreads in basketball and football, honestly, it's a waste of time,
is what it is. All right, let's get to a
quickupdate of traficking weather. Also, we've got at Sports of
Day coming your way with Scott Fitzgerald right here, and
there's ready to eight forty Whas seven thirty five News
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Speaker 2 (12:03):
And company with you. Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We did have some chances of I guess we do
have a small percentage chance of some rain coming our
way here soon, but it looks like throughout the day
we should be able to stay pretty dry. That was
not the case yesterday and of course tomorrow not expected
to be the case either, So I will say it's
probably one of those times where maybe it was needed
because of just the lack of rain that we have
(12:28):
had really for quite some time. But I'm sure nobody
likes rain, right, I mean maybe even though you know
we need it. Yesterday, if you were driving around in it,
I'm sure traffic was not as good as it typically is. Actually,
I'm sure traffic was slower than typically is. I don't
know I trafficks ever really good, because traffic's not a
good thing. But anyways, we'll get you caught up on
the weather in the forecast with Matt Melosovich coming up
here in just a few minutes. But yes yesterday a
(12:50):
lot of rain. I looked out of my front door
yesterday knowing that it was raining outside. But I feel
like we have not had at least I've not seen
a downpour like that around here in a little in
a while. And I don't mean many months or anything
like that, but it just hit me that it hadn't.
I hadn't seen it rain quite that much. So again,
stay and right now, so I act like weather's the
(13:12):
only thing that can cause traffic issues out there. That's
not the case, but it does look like as of
right now, we don't have anything substantial that's causing any
real major backups as of right now. But again, we'll
get you caught up on that coming up here in
just a few minutes. So Jimmy Kimmel is going to
make his return tonight, but there's still gonna be millions
of people that won't see his show on ABC because
(13:33):
Sinclair Broadcasting they are still choosing not to air his
show and they want him to apologize for his comments last.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Week after the Charlie Kirk situation.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So Kimmell negotiated his return with the Disney CEO, Bob
Iger and the entertainment coach here Dana Walden. So it
sounds like he is going to address this controversy in
his opening monologue, but he's not going to apologize. They
have thirty one ABC stations, according to the New York Post,
and they claim that they will preempt his programming or
(14:07):
preempt that show with news programming instead. Next Star is
the other large ABC station owner. They have yet to
say whether they're going to carry the show or not.
I would assume that means that they are, but I
don't know. Could be totally wrong, and what was said
on September fifteenth, This was the monologue from Kimmel where
(14:28):
he claimed that Kirk's assassin was a Trump supporter and
then went on to say, you know, went on to
discuss Maga and whatnot. And I really I feel like
I'm in the minority here. And it's not even like
I'm coming from a political place at all, because I
don't really see what Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the
(14:51):
air and suspended has to do with free speech. And
I know that sounds stupid to a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Lot of people. What are you talking about? That's exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
This is his job, he this is his employer. They're
like free you can say whatever you want and not
be necessarily held legally accountable, like in trouble with the law.
But you say certain things your employer that they don't like,
Like your employer could not like something that you said
(15:22):
that ninety nine percent of the population agreed with and
like that you said it. But they can still do
whatever they want. I mean, it's not like he's getting
thrown in prison for saying something. I mean, you're your
employer can fire you for maybe not any reason, but
and they didn't fire him, by the way, They just
(15:43):
they took him off the air, and it sounds like
he is he is, you know, he's had this this
break to guess regroup with Disney CEO and their entertainment chairman.
But I just let's say I was the farthest you
can get left, and just to complete lunatic on that side,
let's just.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Say I was there.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I still don't think I would feel like he's you know,
he's being robbed of free speech. You can muzzle people
if they work for you, because you pay them, you
are an employee.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's what's so That's.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What I just can't quite understand that nobody else seems
to see it that way. I'm not acting like it's
the only real like clearly there's politics are involved here,
Like there's no doubt that him him saying what he
said and it being clearly not only is it is
it a real issue with a lot of a lot
of people across the country and seemingly insensitive and really
a lie that that that's beside the point. It's his employer,
(16:39):
who clearly you know, I mean, I don't know. I
just I feel like I'm in the minority here. Is
even if you wanted to view this without looking at
it from a left or right perspective, you don't have
a right to say whatever you want according to your employer.
They can decide if they I mean they you work
for them. You know. It's not like he's he's you know,
(17:00):
out in the streets doing this on a public in
a public place, holding up a sign that's says something
because he doesn't have a right to say whatever he
wants on an ABC talk show because ABC it's there
like he works for them. So again, nobody wants to
see it this way. But there are layers to this.
(17:23):
There are multiple factors as to why he was taken
off the air, and who's to say which one is
a bigger deal than any of them. I mean, I
would say the current climate of things was probably the
biggest factor, but it washn't the only thing. All right,
let's get to a quick time out. We've got trafficking
weather updates on the way. Also, this is something I
(17:44):
found interesting and I'm looking forward to to sharing it
with you guys. And that is the types of jobs
that are the worst as far as having a successful
relationship and marriage. We'll talk about that and a lot
more right here on news radio Wait forty whas seven
forty seven. Here at news Radio eight forty whas coffee
(18:06):
and company with you. So this is a Reddit thread
that took off. Somebody on Reddit asked what the professions
out there? Which professions make the worst spouse? So over
two thousand responses came in, and there are certain jobs
that came up a lot more than others, and they
all make sense. I don't think many of these will
(18:26):
surprise you when you think about it. But number one,
John restaurant and bar managers. That was the top of
the list.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Any sort of manager I feel I could qualify for.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That, yes, because the stress that comes with it, yes,
and the responsibility of course, but the managing a bar
and restaurant, you're open a lot more than you're not, right,
so twelve to fifteen hour days, weekends, holidays, you know,
little time for family. Your busiest times where you're probably
most needed is when your kids are probably not in
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school and you're spouse unless she's got a or he's
got a different schedule.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, yeah, it would.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Really I think just manager or not working in restaurants
as far as a server, bartender, it really becomes a lifestyle,
and I know a lot of people who some of
them are still. In fact, I got a couple of
people I know that still that's you know, that's what
they do because it'd be foolish to do something else,
because they make really good money doing it, and over
time it's been a lifestyle shift for them to where
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a lot of the people they hang out with in
their free time happen to be people that do the
same kind of work because a lot of others work
in nine to five, and again, if you're wanting to
make money and really thrive in that role, nine to
five is probably not the most ideal shift to work.
So not so surprised to see that one at the top.
Others here that come up often chefs, lawyers, surgeons. Those
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jobs are viewed as stressful jobs with long hours and
intense personalities.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Lawyer would have been my first guess, because you know
that they could win any argument against you, at least
can vinced themselves that they want every argument against you.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I've never thought about it, but I think chef, lawyer,
and surgeon, I do think those are those are gigs
that you would likely find somebody with an intense personality,
and that's not an insult.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I just think that's I would that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
That wouldn't surprise to a lot of those scenarios.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sure, flight attendants and pilots because of constant travel, jet
lag and high rates of infidelity, which, yeah, that'll do it.
That'll that'll be that'll make you a bad spouse. Infidelity
and you're traveling all the time. And I guess there's
just I would I guess temptation. Maybe police officers listed
because of divorce and alcohol alcoholism rates run high, plus
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the stress and the danger of the job.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, that can be.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's what we talked about last week when we had
Dwight mitchellin is that you know, a lot of people
don't humanize law enforcement, and I'm I'm starting to do
that more and more, just because I'm starting to to,
you know, establish relationships with with with people that work
at LMPD. And if my wife or it was the
other way where we spend our day working out, is
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you know somebody that's a first responder putting your life
on the line.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
If I'd ever get used to it to where I
wouldn't worry, right, It's you, it's your significant other, it's
somebody you share life with. So I can get how
that would be. That'd be difficult, and there's a lot
of sacrifices that are there. But at the end of
the day, the bottom line is this long hours, constant
stress or jobs that keep you away from home. That's
where you're going to really potentially face a challenge. So
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radio host not on there good to know. Maybe it
would have been many years ago, but not now, and
I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right. We've got trafficking weather updates on the way.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We'll see how the forecast is looking the rest of
the day from Matt Melosavich a wlky. Scott's back with
another sports update as well, right here in New's Radio
eight forty whas
So it looks like the pointing fingers that he said,
she said between JCPS board members at least some of them,
and former Superintendent Marty Polio. It continues because yesterday we talked.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
About the.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
CFO of j CPS saying that he understood and wasn't surprised. Essentially,
I'm paraphrasing here, but he understood why there were some
that were really surprised to see just how big the
deficit was for JCPS as far as far as funds.
So the back and forth here is not going to
change anything. Clearly, they got a situation on their hands
(00:38):
that is severe, to say the least, and I'm sure
it's the biggest priority right now, but that doesn't mean
that there's any quick solution to figure it out. When
you talk about having to make the type of cuts
that they're going to have to make, it is I
wouldn't be shocked if this is an all timer, not
just for JCPS, but from if you compare the school
district here JCPS to others around the cut country similar
(01:00):
in size. To have this amount of money needing to
be cut from your budget because of the shortfall, I mean,
I wouldn't be shocked if this again is an all timer,
but we now know I guess the the the cause
here as far as the shortfall, and there isn't one
specific thing. There are a handful of things, and we
(01:21):
talked about this yesterday. The JACPS were a lot heavily
on the federal COVID nineteen relief funds and those funds
were not going to last forever. They also had a
one time seventy five million dollar property tax ESCRO payout,
so other things that of course led to this financial
nightmare that they are in. Is the transportation disaster that
(01:42):
took place in twenty twenty three, a story that of
course got national coverage and that had a big, big
factor in the financial strain that JCPS is currently experiencing.
Costs for that included nearly one million dollars on new
routing software, twelve million dollars in outside bussing contracts, twelve
million dollars and parent stipends for student transportation, eleven point
(02:07):
five million annually in bus driver pay increases, twenty two
I'm sorry, two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for
an audit, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for re
routing contracts. So that was costly to say the least,
not just as far as reputation, but from a financial
standpoint as well. And I mean, I keep spending my
(02:32):
wheels here, which is not great for somebody live on
the radio, but just to see the amount of money
that they they are short as far as their budget
is crazy. But Christa Johnson of the Courier Journal has
a good breakdown of it. That's where I'm referencing these numbers.
So again I'm sure they're they're making this the top priority,
(02:52):
but I wish them the best of luck because again,
that's that's that's a lot. And again yesterday there was
the superintendent, former Superintendent Mariti Polio, who denied the report
that there were ever any any changes in any misleading
of what the financial situation was. He claimed that it
(03:14):
was just you know, not emphasized as much or something
along those lines. So hopefully they can get it figured out,
but there's clearly gonna be some big cuts and some
jobs that are lost. And really what's off the table
as far as I mean, what they're gonna end up
having to do in order to to to get this
situated not good, to say the least, and what I
(03:37):
don't understand when it comes to the the the COVID
relief funds, and it's tough to know for sure. This
is again it's a back and forth. It's finger pointing,
people making decisions as if that money was going to
be around forever.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can't understand that, and.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Maybe they didn't, but yet it just they needed that
money at the time because they had spences and it
was there, and maybe they knew that eventually it was
going to not be there, but for the time being,
they had to dip into those funds because.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's all they had access to. So there is there is.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
One board member, by the way, that has that has
said that they don't believe that there was any misuse
of funds anywhere. So the one hundred and eighty eight
million dollar deficit is what they're facing. But one board member,
that's James Craig. He talked to WHS eleven and said
that he believes that all the money that was spent
was was well spent where it was supposed to be
was supposed to be spent. But JCPS they have a
(04:38):
nightmare situation on their hands, to say the least, and
a good a good question that was brought up yesterday
that I don't have the answer to is doctor Brian Yearwood,
the superintendent, who was in his first year, did he
have access to this information? Would that have impacted him
pursuing this this job. Just something I'm I would be
(04:58):
I would be curious about, all right, So I'm trying.
I'm gonna try not to jinxit here, but it looks
like right now not any real major issues on the roadway.
We'll get another traffic update coming for you here in
just a moment. Also, we'll get a look at the
updated forecast, as we've got some storms that I guess
are headed to this area if they've not already arrived.
So we'll get you caught up on both trafficking weather updates.
(05:22):
And yesterday the ACC made an announcement as far as
how they're going to move forward with football scheduling, which
I think is a great, great thing for college football
fans like myself who want to watch legitimate games, meaning
you're playing a team to where at least accounts towards
your conference record, or it's a test that you know
(05:42):
you're going to learn something about your team, and it
does moving forward puts you in a situation where you
will avoid what we are dealing with right now, where
we've gone a month and we have no I feel
like the Louisvill's football season hasn't even started yet, and
it's I mean it's almost October. So we'll get to
that and a lot more right here our news Radio
eight forty Whas. It is seven fifteen here at news
(06:06):
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Speaker 2 (06:46):
All Right, So.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Louisville football, I have no clue if they're a pretty
good team, if they're really good, or maybe they've taken
a huge step back, and really you can you get
a mixed bag of results in the three games they've
played as far where you can probably convince yourself really
whatever you want. I do think you'd have a tougher
time convincing yourself right now that they're really good.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it's also tough.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To know, because, as I talked about yesterday, the human
element is a real thing where if they don't come
out in the second half after getting a big lead
against a team like Bowling Green State, you don't want
that coaches are going to be all over them if
they do come out complacent. But these guys know that
the stadiums have full, they're playing a team that really
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isn't gonna challenge them, And it's just it's the human
element that I think is ignored in a lot of
aspects in life, especially in sports. So anyways, the ACC
deciding yesterday to announce a nine game football schedule moving forward,
and also a requirement to play one non conference game
against a power for a league is something that one
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I'm happy about, but also it absolutely will prevent this
from happening, meaning where you'll have a three game stretch
like this because you won't even have three games available
on your schedule to play what you've just played. So
this is now what the SEC has done. The Big
Ten has had a nine game league schedule for a while.
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I don't know exactly what the Big twelve is gonna do,
but this is this is this is good for everybody
because I think this really started to be noticeable to
me about three four years ago that when it comes
to a big game as far as rivalry or just
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a lot on the line, two really good programs at
college football and even college basketball, you know you're still
gonna have a lot of people that want to be there.
But now we have endless options to watch the game
elsewhere or consume it in a different way, and more
and more people are content with doing that. When I
was younger, it was just a thing to where if
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you weren't at the game and you're a fan, like
you feel like you're missing something. Again, not everybody's been
able to to go to games because of tickets and
all that. But if you had tickets or the ability
to get tickets, you would just do it because that's
what you did as a fan. Those days are over
the days of well, hey, the Cards player, the Cats play,
and I'm a fan, So nope, Johnny's not playing soccer
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this fall because we got to be at the game.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's what we do.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We're fans. It's our job, it's our duty. We have
to report for duty and show up and sit there
for six hours and it's one hundred degrees outside. People
don't do that anymore, especially when you're playing teams nobody's
heard of.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So it is super.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Super competitive right now to get people's attention, to get
people to come out and choose you. As far as entertainment,
and whenever there are games against nobody opponents where the
spread is thirty points, you'll still get people to go.
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But nowhere near full capacity in most places. And it's
not because what these athletic programs are crumbling and the
fan base is dying. People don't we evolve as human beings.
So the season ticket format that whole it look. People
still buy season tickets and if you do, good for you,
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and if you are somebody that inherited season tickets from
your dad and his dad.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
They'll never be a scenario where people aren't buying season tickets.
But the amount of people I think is only going
to drop because you don't need to buy them. You
can go to any game you want and not actually
buy a season ticket and pay a donation. So these
games meaning games of value, where Louisville now moving forward,
will have at least ten out of twelve games on
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their schedule that are not always going to be great games.
You're gonna host of Boston College or something like that
and they're going to be down. That's not like you're
gonna have a big time opponent every week. Let's be really,
the acc kind of stinks in football, if I'm being
honest with you, But we don't have to worry about
e KU bowling, Greens State, can't state, Murray State, no
(11:03):
offense to those schools. But that's not a big that's
it's not an attractive ticket. There are people who would
choose not to go if they could go for free,
and it's not because they're out on UFL football. It's
just because people now realize they don't need to be
there to still have the same experience as a fan,
meaning they're not missing out on a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They'll choose to go to the games that interest.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Them, meaning the games that are against good teams where
the atmosphere is going to be better and it's just
a better matchup. So this is good College boards. Eventually,
I think will have to make some real shifts here overall,
because again, if attendance is going to matter and viewership
is going to matter, playing games where there's thirty point
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spreads in basketball and football, honestly, it's a waste of time,
is what it is. All right, let's get to a
quickupdate of traficking weather. Also, we've got at Sports of
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Speaker 2 (12:03):
And company with you. Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We did have some chances of I guess we do
have a small percentage chance of some rain coming our
way here soon, but it looks like throughout the day
we should be able to stay pretty dry. That was
not the case yesterday and of course tomorrow not expected
to be the case either, So I will say it's
probably one of those times where maybe it was needed
because of just the lack of rain that we have
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had really for quite some time. But I'm sure nobody
likes rain, right, I mean maybe even though you know
we need it. Yesterday, if you were driving around in it,
I'm sure traffic was not as good as it typically is. Actually,
I'm sure traffic was slower than typically is. I don't
know I trafficks ever really good, because traffic's not a
good thing. But anyways, we'll get you caught up on
the weather in the forecast with Matt Melosovich coming up
here in just a few minutes. But yes yesterday a
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lot of rain. I looked out of my front door
yesterday knowing that it was raining outside. But I feel
like we have not had at least I've not seen
a downpour like that around here in a little in
a while. And I don't mean many months or anything
like that, but it just hit me that it hadn't.
I hadn't seen it rain quite that much. So again,
stay and right now, so I act like weather's the
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only thing that can cause traffic issues out there. That's
not the case, but it does look like as of
right now, we don't have anything substantial that's causing any
real major backups as of right now. But again, we'll
get you caught up on that coming up here in
just a few minutes. So Jimmy Kimmel is going to
make his return tonight, but there's still gonna be millions
of people that won't see his show on ABC because
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Sinclair Broadcasting they are still choosing not to air his
show and they want him to apologize for his comments last.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Week after the Charlie Kirk situation.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So Kimmell negotiated his return with the Disney CEO, Bob
Iger and the entertainment coach here Dana Walden. So it
sounds like he is going to address this controversy in
his opening monologue, but he's not going to apologize. They
have thirty one ABC stations, according to the New York Post,
and they claim that they will preempt his programming or
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preempt that show with news programming instead. Next Star is
the other large ABC station owner. They have yet to
say whether they're going to carry the show or not.
I would assume that means that they are, but I
don't know. Could be totally wrong, and what was said
on September fifteenth, This was the monologue from Kimmel where
(14:28):
he claimed that Kirk's assassin was a Trump supporter and
then went on to say, you know, went on to
discuss Maga and whatnot. And I really I feel like
I'm in the minority here. And it's not even like
I'm coming from a political place at all, because I
don't really see what Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the
(14:51):
air and suspended has to do with free speech. And
I know that sounds stupid to a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Lot of people. What are you talking about? That's exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
This is his job, he this is his employer. They're
like free you can say whatever you want and not
be necessarily held legally accountable, like in trouble with the law.
But you say certain things your employer that they don't like,
Like your employer could not like something that you said
(15:22):
that ninety nine percent of the population agreed with and
like that you said it. But they can still do
whatever they want. I mean, it's not like he's getting
thrown in prison for saying something. I mean, you're your
employer can fire you for maybe not any reason, but
and they didn't fire him, by the way, They just
(15:43):
they took him off the air, and it sounds like
he is he is, you know, he's had this this
break to guess regroup with Disney CEO and their entertainment chairman.
But I just let's say I was the farthest you
can get left, and just to complete lunatic on that side,
let's just.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Say I was there.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I still don't think I would feel like he's you know,
he's being robbed of free speech. You can muzzle people
if they work for you, because you pay them, you
are an employee.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's what's so That's.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What I just can't quite understand that nobody else seems
to see it that way. I'm not acting like it's
the only real like clearly there's politics are involved here,
Like there's no doubt that him him saying what he
said and it being clearly not only is it is
it a real issue with a lot of a lot
of people across the country and seemingly insensitive and really
a lie that that that's beside the point. It's his employer,
(16:39):
who clearly you know, I mean, I don't know. I
just I feel like I'm in the minority here. Is
even if you wanted to view this without looking at
it from a left or right perspective, you don't have
a right to say whatever you want according to your employer.
They can decide if they I mean they you work
for them. You know. It's not like he's he's you know,
(17:00):
out in the streets doing this on a public in
a public place, holding up a sign that's says something
because he doesn't have a right to say whatever he
wants on an ABC talk show because ABC it's there
like he works for them. So again, nobody wants to
see it this way. But there are layers to this.
(17:23):
There are multiple factors as to why he was taken
off the air, and who's to say which one is
a bigger deal than any of them. I mean, I
would say the current climate of things was probably the
biggest factor, but it washn't the only thing. All right,
let's get to a quick time out. We've got trafficking
weather updates on the way. Also, this is something I
(17:44):
found interesting and I'm looking forward to to sharing it
with you guys. And that is the types of jobs
that are the worst as far as having a successful
relationship and marriage. We'll talk about that and a lot
more right here on news radio Wait forty whas seven
forty seven. Here at news Radio eight forty whas coffee
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and company with you. So this is a Reddit thread
that took off. Somebody on Reddit asked what the professions
out there? Which professions make the worst spouse? So over
two thousand responses came in, and there are certain jobs
that came up a lot more than others, and they
all make sense. I don't think many of these will
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surprise you when you think about it. But number one,
John restaurant and bar managers. That was the top of
the list.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Any sort of manager I feel I could qualify for.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That, yes, because the stress that comes with it, yes,
and the responsibility of course, but the managing a bar
and restaurant, you're open a lot more than you're not, right,
so twelve to fifteen hour days, weekends, holidays, you know,
little time for family. Your busiest times where you're probably
most needed is when your kids are probably not in
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school and you're spouse unless she's got a or he's
got a different schedule.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, yeah, it would.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Really I think just manager or not working in restaurants
as far as a server, bartender, it really becomes a lifestyle,
and I know a lot of people who some of
them are still. In fact, I got a couple of
people I know that still that's you know, that's what
they do because it'd be foolish to do something else,
because they make really good money doing it, and over
time it's been a lifestyle shift for them to where
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a lot of the people they hang out with in
their free time happen to be people that do the
same kind of work because a lot of others work
in nine to five, and again, if you're wanting to
make money and really thrive in that role, nine to
five is probably not the most ideal shift to work.
So not so surprised to see that one at the top.
Others here that come up often chefs, lawyers, surgeons. Those
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jobs are viewed as stressful jobs with long hours and
intense personalities.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Lawyer would have been my first guess, because you know
that they could win any argument against you, at least
can vinced themselves that they want every argument against you.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I've never thought about it, but I think chef, lawyer,
and surgeon, I do think those are those are gigs
that you would likely find somebody with an intense personality,
and that's not an insult.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I just think that's I would that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
That wouldn't surprise to a lot of those scenarios.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sure, flight attendants and pilots because of constant travel, jet
lag and high rates of infidelity, which, yeah, that'll do it.
That'll that'll be that'll make you a bad spouse. Infidelity
and you're traveling all the time. And I guess there's
just I would I guess temptation. Maybe police officers listed
because of divorce and alcohol alcoholism rates run high, plus
(20:39):
the stress and the danger of the job.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, that can be.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's what we talked about last week when we had
Dwight mitchellin is that you know, a lot of people
don't humanize law enforcement, and I'm I'm starting to do
that more and more, just because I'm starting to to,
you know, establish relationships with with with people that work
at LMPD. And if my wife or it was the
other way where we spend our day working out, is
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you know somebody that's a first responder putting your life
on the line.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
If I'd ever get used to it to where I
wouldn't worry, right, It's you, it's your significant other, it's
somebody you share life with. So I can get how
that would be. That'd be difficult, and there's a lot
of sacrifices that are there. But at the end of
the day, the bottom line is this long hours, constant
stress or jobs that keep you away from home. That's
where you're going to really potentially face a challenge. So
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radio host not on there good to know. Maybe it
would have been many years ago, but not now, and
I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right. We've got trafficking weather updates on the way.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We'll see how the forecast is looking the rest of
the day from Matt Melosavich a wlky. Scott's back with
another sports update as well, right here in New's Radio
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