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I was, I was heartened the first time I was summoned down to the city offices to take a look at this report because it clearly identified, you know, where these folks are. And so to me, I'm a communicator. It's like, now I know who the audience is. And there are three different audiences with some crossover and not everything's all the way one way or another. But okay. So now we know what the problem is. How do we tackle the problem? Yeah.

Yeah. And I think a lot of it is Brian is that we got to get out of all solos. Yeah. And we got to take our minds out of the nineties and we got to change our mindset, right? You know, five years. I don't think it's the nineties. I think it's the fifties. I literally you've got HR doing HR the way they've always done HR. Yeah, we created something called the five. What the hell was it called? The 501. That's been so long ago.

But it was some, it was for young professionals because what we found was a caterpillar was bringing in engineers and they didn't get to know anybody in the community. They knew everybody at their cubicle caterpillar, but they weren't kind of matching. And so, but what we learned was that HR, and this has been 20 years ago, was doing the thing HR was saying, here we are 20 years, nothing has changed. Other than increased unemployment. Yes. Yeah.

what I mean by the name is we got something sorry for us. Right. And we got to rule the ball sleeves and hit the pavement. Right. We know where these individuals are. That's not working. That's not even looking for a job job anymore because they're giving up on it all the way down to the block level. I mean, I can almost go and read the doorbell and tell you what I had based on analysis and show

we have to pull together as a community and start working on silos, right? And where my who's going to get credit for what and work together and figure out how do we get folks into the workforce? Because the jobs do exist here in Decatur. We shouldn't have to go outside of Decatur to field jobs in Decatur because we have more people living in Decatur than just as many people without jobs in Decatur than jobs being that are available. So we got it. We got to work in that fashion. Hang on to that thought because we're going to take a time of the outbreak and come back and pick that up.

And I think it is.

In my opinion, there is a mix. I think you do want to bring brain power to the community, meaning people to come and fill some jobs. And then you want to grow the workforce here. And it's a combination of all of those. And because if we fulfill our economic development dreams, which I think are way closer to reality than they are dreams at this point with literally the IFAB project and the manufacturing side of that. And I happen to know about some projects that are contingent on filling the workforce. And if that happens, there's more

We're coming down the road. So I think it's a little bit of everything. But certainly everybody in this community deserves a pathway to that. We're going to take a break and we'll be back with more. Stay tuned. Every holiday season, St. Mary's Hospital lights up the night sky with our Christmas star. Each light on the star honors a loved one. On Thursday, December 5th at 6 p.m. We'll gather for a special evening at St. Mary's Hospital. Names of those being honored will be read

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Welcome to the eight o'clock hour of Buyers and Company. Dr. Juanita Morris is in from the Civic Leadership Institute. Having a great conversation along with Cordero Patrick, who is with the City of Kater and helping to fund students in that program. The company starts now. Buyers and Company WSOI 1340 AM 103.3 FM streaming live at nowdicator.com.

So I got an email from Juanita last week, kind of freaked me out. It was so organized. It was like literally all the way through December 16th. Aren't you proud of me? A plan. I went holy crap.

Someone's on a binge thing right now. No, you could probably we could do this for two years and you wouldn't run out of things to talk about with all the people you've brought on board. And I think that's the easy thing after the hard work has been done is when you get success, it begets success and more people jump on the bandwagon. And I think that's a good thing. Sometimes, you know, it's like the show me state or whatever it is. You go to Missouri and you have to like literally, hey, this works.

City of Decatur is helping to support what in this program a particular five students? Yeah, so adult students, right? And so obviously the foundation grant covers high school students, but we also want to make sure that we can skill up, right? Skill up will for adults. And so and they want to leave a dose out of the equation because we know baseball and all analysis.

of the workforce ecosystem that we need to do the same thing with adults. And so we sponsor five adults through the program. People finish the program on their way. And you see that if you come to the graduation ceremony, people can concentrate a lot on the high school kids, which is a great story. But there are adults that are making themselves better. And this is what you think about as these star individuals that are identifying in the report that you guys commissioned that they're

employed, but maybe underemployed, and with just a little bit of help and just a little bit of pushing the right direction could be making a lot more money and developing a whole better career for themselves. Pat approached you, right? Yeah, so here's what I really didn't realize. What I didn't realize was that we really were working on employment and skills for our kids.

What I knew was is that I needed to be able to shift the legacy for each person that interacted with us and walk away with the tangible skill. What started to happen was is even with Pat and we had some conversation, he's like, hey,

I think you came to the graduation that we had at Richland, maybe. And then that's my first one. And I was like, wow, wow, we're doing this on steroids. Yeah. And so what has happened for me, and I'm unbelievably blessed and humbled is that our partners have started to come alongside of us and shore us up as we shore up our community in terms of making sure that they have

access and opportunity to skills and employment. I think it's important to know, too, if there's people out there that still maybe are interested or kind of on the sidelines looking in, there's a way to get involved. Absolutely. There's always a way whether it's time talent or treasure. So resources, we definitely are able to use additional resources to support the growth in people, whether it's intern program, which is amazing because our young folks are going to work.

whether it is CNA, which is nonresidential and residential because our folks are going to work in this community, whether you are interested in pursuing a technical or non-technical for high school students out at our community college.

like there are so many ways to support. But I was glad and hadn't thought about asking or inquiring even when Pat approached us about the opportunity. Well, I think there's enough of these examples out there to see what we need to do in a larger picture. Yeah. You know, the city certainly has to play a role that I'm glad to see you guys being proactive, you know, rather than waiting for somebody to come to you, you see, Hey, I'm at this graduation. Look at all these success stories.

How can we be a part of this? For me, we're a piece of the puzzle, right? We're not the puzzle, we're a piece of the puzzle, right? There are folks that don't work for us very well, such as this program in our community and so for us, it's about how do we invest in that, right? And so we as the city, as the economic community development department, we don't do workforce. We don't train people for workforce, but we need to invest in those places where we see workforce development, training happening,

in a successful way. And so we saw this as an opportunity for us to be able to support the community in that way. Basically, born again, what has come out of our works. Well, yeah, absolutely. But also success. This is a scaled up program that's doing it in less time than what used to be considered to be enough. And you've got a 99.9% success rate. Absolutely. 69 out of 70.

Yeah, 69 out of 7. I mean, that's a class. Well, I don't know where else you find those kind of I really don't. But I think that that comes with partnerships and it comes. It goes back to the original conversation where we are able to be the bridge because while we are building this, we also had to work with. So Andrea came in with me, Andrea Taylor, who's training.

We also have to work with our health care providers, whether it's crossing or DMH, who is hiring. And so it's much, it has more tentacles than what folks typically see as just the, all right, they went through the program and they're gone. No, I know. Who doesn't want to be involved with something with a 99.9% success rate.

kids are doing the work. Well, yes, they are. But you're creating a pathway for them to do that. And that is the thing. We have we know that there's no reason to dance around an elephant in the room. There are a lot of people in this community, you know, that have been left behind. And regardless of the economy, whether it's booming or it's not, those same people still keep getting left behind. And it's not

It's not something we should tolerate anymore. And so you got to do it a different way. And you got to make sure we got a lot of people. You know, the star people, I think are literally the easiest thing to go do. Not that it's easy, but of the categories, it's the easiest because it's like, look,

you're working in a fast food restaurant. You realize in a couple years with some training and some help, you can be making $60,000, $80,000 a year and on your way. Okay, they're already showing up for work. They're doing their thing. They could just have a better, a better path. You know, the middle ones that are are still, you know, a little easier. It's like people have given up hope because they've been passed by every single time.

that you've got to do things just differently. And so I see what you're doing. I see. And by the way, this 99.9, you talk about the kids doing all the work. I'm not calling BS, but I'm saying, I know what you deal with. I know what you deal with because in some of these kids, you're dealing with kids who have been passed over and given up. And there's nothing harder than to instill hope in someone who has lost hope.

And so yeah, you got to do the book stuff and you got to study and you got to get the test scores and you have to pass all this stuff. But there's that hurdle of getting people to buy in that have given up on buying in or maybe not ever known what it was like to buy in because they never felt included to begin with. Yes. That is heavy lifting. Yes. And that's what you do. Thank you. But I'm saying that's the thing that I think people forget when they show up at the Civic Center on that Saturday and watch all these kids cross the stage.

is that all of them come from very different stories and very different backgrounds, and even the three different sections identified by your study isn't complicated enough to reference all that. And that's the magic in what you do. And I look around at a lot of the other stuff we're doing, and we're still doing it the same old way, and we're still missing those kids or adults. Yeah, it hit my heart different when I saw it the first time, Brian, because

I know the statisticians behind it, right? 30% of all kids, all children, indicator is in child poverty, right?

So this is again as an opportunity to bring folks that, like you said, have been missed or looked over an opportunity to bring them into the fold to show them something different. Until you show someone different, what they've been doing, they're normal. This is what we do as people. It's so stupid. When we started the Ag Academy, it was the same thing, kids.

these kids aren't going to, it's like, wait a minute, these kids have never been exposed to this. You have no idea how they're going to react to this. My thought is they're going to react to it like everybody else does when they're exposed to it. But we had to conquer those kind of things coming from adults, you know, before we could even talk to the kids. And so if a kid grows up in a house where the parents or parents have given up, that kid doesn't know anything else. It doesn't mean they won't respond to something if it's put in front of it. That's correct. Yeah.

That's great. I just think we have all these stereotypes in our head that drive me crazy. And so that is what presents itself, even with the adults that we work with, right? Because the adults came alongside the 21 or 22 or how many ever we had. But it's the same scenario in terms of advancement and perception and stereotypes.

I think that I'm super grateful for Cordero in his support, even in our community and for the adults. And they all passed. I'm just saying. Yeah. Well, look, 99.9% success rate. And you know, you could tell stories and I know stories that, you know,

Sometimes the adults are a problem, and sometimes you can do everything, and they're still an obstacle, just like everything else, how it happens in life. And so even in these groups, it's so individualized what you're dealing with. That's the work I think people don't see, and I do, and recognize, I know ways on it, because there's days I want to do you in the middle of all this, and yes, you've done, you've had it.

I'm seeing it like that too. So it's not all happy smiles and handing out balloons. There's a lot of challenges that go with it. But what you have proven is if you have the wherewithal and the attitude of overcoming all of that and living to give chances to these kids, it can be very, very, very, very successful. So there's a lot of lessons that we can all learn and apply to a larger scale because we shouldn't

I know I've been doing this a long time. There's times where you come in here and you go, well, you know, it's a pretty good time and you're kind of trying to be optimistic when the news isn't great on the economic front.

things are going well here. Things are getting better jobs are here and coming. But the only way they keep coming is if we produce a workforce that's going to fill those jobs. I mean, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. And so it should be up to every organization, every company, every business, every educational

system to make sure we are getting ready to prepare and meet that future. And that means everyone. Yeah, we've got work to do. Yeah. But you've set such a great example. I think that it's unbelievable. What's the plan, you know, between now and then, I know, like, Eric, Athos is going to be in with you next week, you know, with the work you guys do with public safety.

um uh which is you know he's a great guy and back from FBI I think right yeah and FBI and I was calling him while he was there I was like hey man like I don't know when you're coming home but I got questions uh erofiel will join us and rocky and and all these partners and people that that help

here or there with the scholarship with paying for five adults. There's always room for more of that, right? There's always room for more. And I think as we talk about and as Pat mentioned, even in terms of silos, what I've found is that when we have and find partners, it works. It helps me, in particular, help our community because it's a part of carrying the lift. And so we are working together on, for me, an entry level. I just know sometimes how I see things.

But yeah, we're just kind of walking this journey together with community partners. And if there's somebody out there that wants to support a kid, what's it cost to send somebody through the CNA? So for a high school, a high school student residential CNA, it cost us about $8,000.

for a nonresidential CNA student, which is an adult. It costs us about $3,000. OK, so someone out there, you know, you write a check for six grand ago. I want to sponsor two adults through this program. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Easy. No, I know. I mean, I can't think of a better investment. I mean, right? Three or a few hundred percent. Yeah. And so that's, you know, $6,000, $3,000. That's doable. I mean, what is the worth of investing

that little money, I mean, in the grander scheme of things and changing someone's life. And to shift and change your trajectory. And what I will also say is that even when you do that, the investment comes back because we have partners that will hire our folks, whether they are. This isn't theory. You're walking it all the way to the fence. Yeah. Yeah. So they are at work in our classroom to a career. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So.

Who's that? All right. How do you work in city government? I mean, you don't seem nearly, you don't seem nearly bureaucratic enough to me. Is that just stereotype? Yeah. Look, it's easy to get caught in how you do things. We all do it. And it's a comfort level thing. It's discomforting, just sort of get outside of that box and have to rearrange. But it's so important. I would just tell you, Brad, I just have a different little experience. I grew up in Mississippi, you know, poor,

And so being in public service is my calling. This is what I'm supposed to do. And so I just see it do it totally differently. But was education that silver bullet for you? Well, I mean, what changed the trajectory of your life? Well, I had someone gave me an opportunity, right? And so I grew up, you know, Mississippi, graduated from Russ College, a store of black college in college for instance, Mississippi and political science, and didn't know what I was going to do, right? I moved to St. Louis and met a woman and married her in St. Louis and

I had someone that I just bump into and say, hey, you want an internship, right? And it started from there. I mean, between, and this is not an impact on pass back. But I went from an internship to managing a department of local government within six months. And I had to learn very quickly, right? I had to learn very quickly of how do I understand a little about a lot, right?

And so it just it just kind of went from there and you know just growing up with having three kids among just You know, well, thank you for whatever perspective. Thank you. All right, and we got any more of this so

Why don't you have like the next six months planned out? I have a content, my mentor has me to understand how to do this. I wanted to ask you about that because you had put down some thoughts and you know when you have that moment when you run into a complete stranger that recognizes your voice. Yes, it's weird. Yeah, it is it is quite uncommon.

comfortable actually really yeah because you are you are the you are no longer in control because they know a little bit more about you think you know about this and you know I'm fairly an introvert and quite close yeah so so you're you're encouraging people at the grocery store to not approach you but what if they have a big check they want to give you I'm all over

really take checks for our kids and community. So what do you hear when that conversation happens? What do I hear? No, no, no, no, stop. This is why people will do this with you. What do people say to you in that moment? Typically they you're at the grocery store, whatever. Recognize the voice. And then they try to match the voice with because I don't know. I don't know if I look like what I sound like. I think I do because it's me. But they recognize the voice. And so they stop. And then they'll say,

you're that so yeah and then I'm you know I'm media famous because I'm along with Brian oh my god yeah you might be but I think there's a fine line between famous and infamous trust me it works both ways

Well, listen, if people want to reach out, I know you guys are active on Facebook and... We're active on Facebook, yeah. There may be the easiest way for people to communicate directly with you and what's the Facebook page name? Pacific Leadership 101. Okay. Yep. And you can get involved, like literally $3,000. Take care of it. Absolutely. I mean, that's, you know, we put prices to things and

I mean, what kind of return on your investment are you talking about in a community in life for three grand for adult eight grand for a high school kid, right? Absolutely. And 99.9% graduation. I'm that girl. All right, guys, we appreciate it. Thank you very much. Nick's got your three day forecast. We'll be back with more right after this.

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You're listening to Buyers & Company, streaming live at nowdicator.com. Hey, I forgot about the Yacht Rock documentary coming. I heard Michael McDonald's all you can think about. Is he separate? You don't put doobie brothers in that category, right? Just Michael McDonald.

Well, I don't know. Well, that's no solo career. Yeah. But that was a doobie brothers. Yeah. Yeah. The doobie brothers were a great band. I don't think there's anything yacht rock. Well, some songs fit yacht rock playlists. That song would fit nice.

maybe I was later to be brothers too. I just, I think when they were as a band at their top, they were so large. The band was, I mean, like you go one of those concerts where like the whole stage is full. You've got all the instrumentalists and everything. I think some of their stuff later had maybe a little bit more of that field than the early stuff did. And then certainly when he went on a solo career. Yeah. I don't think it's a derogatory term. Yeah. A lot of people like that feeling.

Put it on, clean your house to it, whatever. Exactly. That's my whole point. One is art. The other is background noise to clean your house to. If I got into my rental car or something in the station is on, there's probably, I probably wouldn't change. Why in your rental car? Why is it on your car? Because it wouldn't just be on. I'm saying if I sat down and this is what's on, I'd probably leave it. I agreed.

But I wouldn't put it on. But that is what the difference to me is between great art and OK art. Yeah, probably so. Yeah, that's all. It's a snobbery thing. But I think it's an accurate description. There's a reason why they gave it a name like Yacht Rock. It's not complimentary.

Well, it's because it's high end. No, I do not. No, no, no, no, no, because of the shoe where you were since a lot of that stuff. Anyway, my ankles are copyrighted over on TV. I got to tell you, I'm doing even started yesterday. It's getting terrible reviews. And I don't I won't.

That won't be my whether I watch it or not, but it's not giving me just throw it throw that in I watched landman both episodes I did not watch because we watched we had money back guarantee for you. Yeah, I'm sure guarantee we watched Yellowstone because it's on Sunday nights and then we watched lioness which is on Sunday nights now land man's on Sunday nights and then we've still got

uh... god knows what's left with uh... cross which is really good uh... we've got jack the day of the jackal which is incredibly good uh... you've literally got i mean it is unbelievable how much t.v. there is right now i wish they could figure out how to spread this throughout a year you know like we didn't have to go like hardly anything to all at once

But unfortunately, that's what it is. Yeah, it's all commercial driven. But this isn't, you know, we've got all the fall TV back later than usual, but back. So you've got all that. But then you've also got all this streaming stuff happening at the same time. You'd think they'd figure out a way to sort of maybe not have everything on the same time. Well, this this push is for the holidays and sure.

drumming up new subscriptions and being able to say give the gift of. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Sprint season two, by the way, is on just like the Simone Biles. They did four episodes leading up to the Olympic trials. And then these four episodes are the Olympic trials through Paris. And so you get all of the behind the scenes stuff. I'll give you one moment.

as the reason why I really like this show. And first of all, it gives you a whole different take on Noah Lyles. By and large, the same cast of characters, right? Almost. It has to be. It's all the characters from the first four, but then they add some storylines from surprises from the Olympics to give you context about who those people are. Not American. No, no, no, no. You're following just like the Simone Biles did. You got to walk right up to the time when it was almost time for Paris.

this is where it all picks up. And then you relive the COVID and get all the different, the upsets, the people, the Jamaicans that bowed out, you know, all, you get all the backstory. But there's, there's a moment after they win the Gabby Thomas and as you carry Richardson and the team win the four by two hundred gold. Yeah. And after they're celebrating and they're in the tunnel and Gabby Thomas's cell phone rings

And it's Snoop Dogg. And so there is this moment where you would think the president of the United States just called. And one of them comes up late and she goes, who is it? Who is it? And she just whispers Snoop. And she screams. Like it's hilarious. So you get this kind of like you get the highs, the lows, the celebrations, but the celebrations go a little bit further than what you got to see on TV. Many of you get the background. That's awesome. Yeah, it's really good.

I watched a lot of that running during the Olympics. A couple of those races, including Gabby Thomas, I will never probably ever forget her now. Yes, but now imagine with all the drone shots. That's what I'm saying. I'm in already. Yeah, the box to box productions, you know, in the way they do the storytelling at music.

It's really way in on this. And I also found out that I was far enough removed from the Olympics. I didn't remember exactly how everything happened. I mean, I remember her win, but I didn't remember, you know, all of the stories necessarily. So it's really well done. And it's four episodes. I mean, it's, it's, it's a nothing. And if you haven't watched the whole thing, go back and watch the first four. You probably can enjoy this last four standalone, but the whole story behind all these people and how they arrive in Paris.

And to either great success or heartbreak or whatever it might be is very compelling because real life is always more interesting than made up. Yeah, that's really cool. And high end production on a topic that I like. So I'm in. Yeah, I'll tell you my just to share my psychology of why I watch the landman. Maybe other people do this. We have lots of shows in the queue, lots of back episodes.

But I saw that there were two available. And if we could knock those two out week to week, we can keep up. So that's one that I could sort of be able to keep up with versus we got seven or eight left in the queue. We got to dig our way out of that. But the idea that, hey, now here's a show. I can manage it. I can manage it. And I get behind.

I'm to the point of manageability. I did the same thing. Because we make our plans like, OK, well, what are we watching? Well, yellowstone, because then we have to worry about it till next Sunday night, right? Same sort of decision. Silo started. We haven't touched that. There's so many things that are on right now, including that Elvis documentary, which is really good. How does it visually look? Does it look?

throwback or does it look like it was made modern times clean and neat. Very clean and neat and the number of people who are in this documentary from Bruce Springsteen to Billy Corgan to I mean the number of musicians that are very very famous sitting in front of a camera talking about Elvis Presley

is really, really compelling. And the case that was made in the movie, you know, and in real life about Colonel Tom Parker and how much control he had, how he ruined Elvis's career in the movies and not ever letting him, you know, be who he really was and how this one thing he did in 1968 was him reclaiming his own voice. I mean, it brought a lot more gravitas to the story. It wasn't just a TV special. It's, there's at one point,

Robbie Robertson, you know, who was, you know, from the band describes being an upstate New York with Bob Dylan watching this live on TV in a living room. Were they famous? 1968. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 68. Yeah, they would be. Wow. That's crazy. So

He gets written off a lot in life as whatever, but the musical impact he clearly had on a lot of artists that are very, very famous in their own right and have had unbelievable careers. And that ownership of him really finding his voice, even if it did go south and all that stuff and dying. But how powerful that was. If you're a fan of Elvis at all, or just great storytelling, this kind of takes what the movie did a little bit of and really does it in a really

I don't know, powerful way. It's very, very good. And I know quite a bit about Elvis Presley. I didn't expect to be so surprised by it as I was. Did they cut back and forth to the performance?

not at all. They start with the performance and then they really tell you the backstory about how he got all the way to there. And then Bob and weave back to it all maybe a little bit. But it's a timeline thing of how he was on top of the world, how he went from not performing in front of an audience for more than seven years up until the point of this special. It's hard to even believe.

Yeah, because he was doing all these stupid movies that he had no say and he tried to get out of it and the record company and the film company and his own representation basically threatened. You know, the idea that he was an artist trapped in a body who was some sort of Britney Spears pop sensation thing and the artist couldn't get out. That's the story. That's a cool story.

And then how people like Springsteen who have all this context of all of these big careers say, you know, how important it was to them, but also how hurtful it is for them to look at it now because the people around him didn't understand him and kept him in a box that he couldn't get out of. And this two hours was his sort of way to make an escape. So just to give you that. That's a, that's great. Yeah.

I mean, it sucks that somebody's real life and they had all the sats. 42 on a toilet. I mean, there's a lot of things to go, you know, but it was a, it's an interesting show. And then, uh, literally lion is so good this year. So good. We're a little behind on that, but this guy, I, he's

It's like six, seven shows. I mean, that are a full fledged full. OK, you got you got Yellowstone. Yeah, you've got a king. Yeah, you've got. Mayor Kingston. Mayor of Kingstown. You've got.

Linus, you've got the whatever 18, whatever, you know, the Harrison Ford thing you've got. That's five. The other spin off of Yellowstone. That's what I was talking about with Harris. There was one was a standalone one season one. And then there was the second one with Harrison Ford, which I think is. Has Reeves bass man or law man bass Reeves. That's six and lay him in. That's seven.

Yes. Seven active shows on television that are all worth watching. All good. All top talent. Even Yellowstone. This was the second episode of the final episodes of that show's existence, right? I mean, this is the second half of the last season. And even without Kevin Costner and all of that, he still is telling a compelling storyline that makes you want to watch. OK, that's good. Because that first one was, you know, had a thing it needed to do. Now here. Now it's game on.

Game on's fine. I mean, it's it's yes, because you have like the most hated villain since King Joffrey in Jamie Dutton, who's West. What is his name?

I don't know. I don't even watch that show at all. I've never seen a drop of yellow. Why is that? Is that a protest move? No, it's just too much. West Bitly. OK, I just haven't watched it. I just seriously would. OK, it's it's a great show, meaning that it depicts a life that isn't recognizable to most people. But in some ways you find admirable because it's this throwback to things that probably won't exist 20 years from now.

She's cowboys, you know, the way they've always done it, you know, living off the land. There was a rattlesnake scene last night that... Man. I should say rattlesnakes. And then Michael Landon's daughter, who plays one of these cowboys named Teeter, and she, the voice she went with, and she's barely understandable. I mean, like, they have to translate for her all the time.

But it's hysterically funny at a great performance because if you've seen her in anything, she's like a pavilion. She just goes different stuff. Well, they tell a lot of character stories, too. So it's never just been around one person. I think they could do a spin off or something on some of these if they choose. But it seems like he's just like, I suspect the Taylor Sheridan will just eventually go, I'm done and just quit. Like I've gotten it all out of my system.

maybe or he becomes an apparatus where it's already an apparatus. I mean, where it's like, he's just walking in and going, yeah, that works. It clearly isn't. I mean, you know, he's like literally acting in lines. I mean, he's a character in the show. Yeah. And still directing episodes of all this. It's amazing. Some of the detail in this land man, like little, little things that he's making the character do that are very small.

But it makes you feel like it's a person. That's the way yellowstone is. And it's character. I mean, it's obviously exaggerated characters or it's a composite of all the things that are goofy about whatever. But he does kind of gives you a peek inside a thing that grabs your interest more than the characters themselves. Yeah. Yeah. He if anything, he over compared to what you're used to over develops characters.

so that they carry the weight. You know, so yeah, I think it's great. I did. I am certain that Micheloltra and Dr. Pepper paid to be in land man because it feels like product placement. Look.

And Yellowstone, you can't even fast forward through the commercials. Just the commercials all look like the show. He's very good at that. And then even all of the actors in the show, or a lot of them, have deals of their own. So it's not just a car heart ad. It's a car heart ad with one of the characters.

pseudo in character or not, but still doing the job. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Fast forward. Need a new grill. Just want to see what happened. So there's so much on right now that is just really, really, really good. We watched

two or three episodes of Cross. They're all out. They didn't. Yeah. I'm surprised. Usually Jack Reacher or the some of those Amazon shows, they give you a couple and then they do it once a week. It looks like they're all available, which you could binge and really watch that. That actor is good. Fright from the first scene he pops. Yeah. Yeah. Just makes his presence known. And I love the family stuff. I mean, it feels much more like the books than many of the other incarnations of this character.

Uh, just because it's, it's more of about that nuclear family he has of the grandma and the kids and his best friend, you know, that, that really feels right. And that's grandma of the wife, right? I mean, it's somebody asked me that and I, to be honest with you, I don't remember. I thought it was his grandma. Yeah. There was, yeah, I don't want to spoil anything. Yeah. I mean, it was just hard for me to

to tell who was who to who. Yeah. I had the same problem in land, man, with a couple characters to spell it out. You just haven't gotten part of it yet. Congratulations to Maro and Mount Zion. We'll have probably tomorrow or later today. We'll know times and broadcast times for those games. They win one more and it's going to stay right. Isn't that awesome? That's a week from Friday. Yeah. Hard to believe. That's so cool. Week from Friday will be through Thanksgiving.

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You're listening to Buyers & Company, streaming live at NowDecatur.com. And the books, it was his grandmother. I don't know if they changed anything on the TV show. That's the whole piano thing generational that goes through that as well. I haven't watched, like I said, we watched two episodes. All I know is Lindsey declared a rubber apron's never a good sign.

So there you go. Really well done though. All right. So man, I think about the list of things that we have to watch and it's just crazy. So last when I look at the NFL season and I feel bad for your Falcons because they look like they had some promise at the beginning, right? They've looked good except for the last two weeks. Is that it? Yeah. What's the record? No, it's like six and five. OK.

I think they if they can solve it, they got a bye week. They got some injuries following week after. We'll know if they're for real or not, but they've got to lead in the division. They should be okay. Okay. Is that Oh, I guess who's who they play? Oh, the Broncos. Yeah. Oh, Nick's out of here. He sure did. He looked great. These young quarterbacks all the way around, right? Oh, yeah. It's it's unbelievable. They're

he's now made rookie of the year a race. Bonix is right there. Well, I would assume the kid's commanders is probably. Yeah, the stats are it's mind blowing what Bonix has been able to do. And he hasn't been in the whole thing, right? Yeah, yes. Oh, do you start from day one? But yeah, but he's thrown for like over 70% accuracy like in the last several. Like he just doesn't mess up. Oh, chair golf. Yeah.

has done something. Yeah. No other quarterback in the history of the NFL is. Yeah. I mean, think about that one. I know that this year has been no other quarter. I mean, all the way back to Joe name it, the Dan Marino to like to John Elway, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning. You name it. None of them just killing it. And he went from a five. It came to that seven touchdowns on the first seven drives. Unbelievable. Isn't that crazy? It's just wild.

years so goofy and literally I think that was the Jaguars worst defeat ever like in the history of their I looked at the score of that and it was I you don't you shouldn't lose like that in the NFL and the Falcons felt like that too to be fair that's what it felt like oh you should not oh you should not

Anyway, it's been fun this year to watch. I'm excited because I think you've got those people that were knocking at the door that are now fully in 49ers or 500. They're not. I mean, you know, George Kittle, you know, that receiver show, you know, like those AFC champ early, the NFC championship game, the Super Bowl, I'm gonna be back. I'm gonna be back. I don't know. You may not. You might have had your two and only chances to do it and they don't come back again.

Yeah, it's, it's wild. The Seahawks with the same record. It's like some of the stuff you just in the, in the, the Steelers and Russell Wilson. I mean, what, what is going on with that? And that doesn't make sense. Lamar Jackson hasn't beat the Ravens haven't beaten the Steelers except for one fluke game where Lamar wasn't even playing in like the last eight or nine meetings.

Yeah, it's like, but I mean, don't want did you see him having a resurgence, like back to when they made the Super Bowl with not to the level. I mean, they ran him out of Denver, but they schemed him over here. I thought he'd have some upside. I did. I'll be honest, I didn't think it'd be this.

I didn't think he'd be fully back in the full. So Jerry Goughs, the only quarterback in history to have multiple games with 400 plus passing yards and a perfect passer rating, multiple games. It's unreal. The only quarterback in the NFL history to do that. Can't, can't do it as well. And they go back and extrapolate the stats so that people can't go. Well, they didn't keep perfect. They didn't keep quarterback. No, but they would have. This is exactly what it would have been. So the Detroit lines are fun to root for. I got to tell you, they're, they're everything that bears art.

Yeah, I saw a video of Aidan Hutchinson in a pool, like talking and stuff. Like I don't know if they're trying to say getting back for the playoffs. I don't know. They're showing video of it. All right. The line I win their game over Michigan State, our last tailgate of the year. We do have basketball tickets. We'll be giving away courtesy of first mid and the ticket window.

throughout the entire basketball season. While you're over there, give a shout out to our guy, Tack, who will be the official DJ inside. That's got to be. He has a great life. Sure does. That team is going to be exciting. It is already exciting. Now it's starting off well. A lot of names that you want to get to know and a lot of names that you're going to need to learn quick because they're going somewhere else after this year. I mean, they're gone. Yeah. That's so to me, it's like, do I really want to learn them? This is the nature of it.

And hopefully I know. Do you think and this is more of a philosophical question? I mean, I know it will continue to evolve and change and we're not at the end result yet. But what will the end result be? I don't know how this is sustainable. Seller gap and structure. OK. Every team can spend up to this much. And maybe there's less. So I'm making up numbers. But like the top tier can pay like 200 million.

The next year pays like 60 million. So you basically aren't competing. Mid majors aren't trying to do the same thing. There's just no point. And then that way you get continuity. I just don't know how you keep a fan base.

when you're rolling everything over year to year. Well, that's what Alabama does. Yeah, but football. They go pro quarterback graduates. It's one thing to go. I mean, it's another thing just to switch loyalties and jump to another college team and to jump to. I mean, but they're moving to weren't you disappointed? Like, you know, after the line I made that run when people are jumping ship to go to another school. I stopped. I stopped watching college.

college basketball, college sports in general. I'm casual now. I used to like it a lot. But I think once they stabilize and say, Hey, you have this much money. Here's the up and up. Everybody's paid for level the playing field and then guys will have incentive to stay. It's not not everybody's an NBA player. They don't have the job opening.

That's why the draft is only two rounds long and that's too long. Yeah, but I mean, now it's football, it's everything. And it's like, I just, it's not that I want the kids to be able to make money. It's not a philosophical thing to me. It's just inaction, how it plays out. I don't know how to get attached to rooting for someone for that short period. Yeah. I mean, that's a fair, fair criticism and it's hard to manage. It's hard to coach Brad Underwood. We heard him talk in person.

Um, about that, you know, you're, you're constantly recruiting. You're looking for kids that are on other teams and other countries and you're not sitting here. I mean, they turned over almost their entire team. Yeah. After a really successful run, it wasn't like we were on an old terrible program. Nope. But you basically are in a rebuild. Yeah. Not because you sucked, but because you were really good. All right. Let's take one last break. We'll come back and, uh, as I said, we do have a line that tickets to give away all season long.

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We are back here on a dreary kind of patchy fog and mist and rain Monday in downtown Decatur. Hopefully that will get out of here soon.

So I told you, or at least I told you I thought my opinion was that this love affair between Donald Trump and Elon Musk would eventually come crashing to the ground just because of the personalities involved. We saw a couple of bricks loosened in the foundation over the weekend when Elon didn't get the pick he wanted or is trying to is going now public with bad choices and putting his two cents in.

Yeah, I think these two are going to bicker at each other, but I think they will figure out a way to keep working together for a while. We're not talking about two normal dudes here. I mean, in any stretch of the imagination, the ego size of both and all of that.

It's like, and oddly enough, to me, it will be Elon that will be the problem in this relationship, because no matter how much inside info or how much he gets to be at the table, if it's not 100% in agreement with what he wants, he's going to make it know.

Yeah. And there's never, I mean, he's making hundreds of millions of dollars almost daily. It's evaluations are going up based on policy and things like that. So his power increases. It's just a different kind of power. Yeah. But he's going to, I'm just telling you, you know, he thinks we'll see. We're only like a week into this. Yeah. I said, somebody, I saw a headline that said, we're only 11 days into a presidency that hasn't begun yet. And this is going on. Yeah.

And then I don't know what the deal was with Robert Kennedy, eating McDonald's on the private plane. That was sort of odd. The whole thing is really interesting to me. We'll see what happens as it plays out right now. It's all just theory. But I just I promise you, you cannot get two people this with this big ego in the same room for very long without this thing happening. Oh, yeah. And with one literally having pun intended, not intended,

the Trump card over it. I mean, it's like, there's a power dynamic where this, this power over here doesn't work in this world. No, it cannot sit side by side. No, every, every other situation, carte blanche and always walk into one room and you're number two. Yeah. And not going to have that. And he just can't help but make it public. I mean, usually these kind of squabbles that happen behind the scenes, you know, when you go, okay, we're not going to agree a hundred percent.

He's been putting everything out there. I continue to gladiator to. Will you see this in theater? If I, if I, if the opportunity arises, sure, if I were in the mode of going to all that, I'd absolutely would make the list. So it makes the list, whether I get started this week, right? Oh, I think so. Oh, yeah. I guess we're already there. Yes. So it is literally getting great reviews. That's great. I don't like the Pepsi commercials with the NFL players. I think it's goofy.

Yeah, tie it somehow. I get that. It's just, do you think they think it's goofy? I mean, like, okay, we're going to dress you up. I don't know. I look at it and I'm like, what is this in their age where they're at and they, especially the veterans.

I, I, there are a lot of people that say that's the greatest movie of all time. That is like leaning into that's their godfather. I don't disagree. So it's kind of cool to be connected to the greatest film that ever was.

I, if I'm them, I'm standing out there in that outfit going, what are we doing? And we're not gladiators. They were slaves who got fed to the lions. You guys are making hundreds of millions of dollars and you're in plastic gladiator gear. Yeah, there's a lot of weird. Doing a Pepsi commercial. That's right. I just, I don't, it was like Travis Kelsey and, and, um, Josh Allen, who else is in that spot? I only remember Kelsey.

Well, I know Josh Allen is in it as well. So as an equal opportunity. That's awesome. I just, it makes me uncomfortable for them. Yeah, you can't avoid the NFL has about seven to eight commercials. You can't avoid during any broadcast, really. Well, yeah. And what's her faces in it? Megan the stallion. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like with the Queen song, you know, we will rock you. It's it's her, Josh Allen,

Travis Kelsey, Justin Jaferson and Derek Henry. Oh, yeah. Are the NFL players that are in the spot. And if you watch an NFL game on a weekend, you're going to see about 400 times. That's exactly right. You cannot miss it. And you're cringe with every single one of them. Yeah. And there are some pretty cringy commercials on, I think right now. There really are. It almost it's like we're regressing in some way. OK.

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