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All right, we are back, Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. I wasn’t going to cover this, actually. This just popped up on my social media newsfeed, so I thought, why not?
I’ve talked about this before, but I’ll do it again, because some people don’t get to hear me every time I talk about some of these things. And this also shows you, by the way, where everything you read on social media isn’t true. Newsflash.
In fact, the majority of what you read is not true. So here’s one. Tips on pumping gas.
I know I’ve covered this before, so if you’ve heard this before, you know, it’ll only take me a minute to go through this. But tips on pumping gas. And again, these always crack me up.
I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline. My line of work is in the petroleum industry for about 31 years. So, here are some tricks to get some more of your money’s worth for every gallon.
Here at Kinder Morgan Pipeline, where I work in San Jose, California, we deliver blah, blah, blah, blah, and this guy goes on. Well, first of all, you have the foggiest idea if this guy actually works here or not. Neither do you.
Neither is anybody repeating this. This could be some yo-yo with a keyboard, typing crap out. How do you know?
No idea. He starts off only by, and I should say he, could be a she, I don’t know. Only buy or fill up your car or truck early in the morning when the ground temperature is still cold.
You know, this at one time was probably a bigger deal than it is today. Ground temperature, by the way, doesn’t vacillate a ton, especially here in Colorado. You know, even on a hot, hot day, that ground temperature isn’t changing.
For me personally, not enough to bother whether I fill up in the morning or at night. But not a hill of beans, but a difference. You know, remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground.
The colder the ground, the more dense the gasoline. When it gets warmer, gasoline expands. So buying in the afternoon or evening, your gallon is not exactly a gallon.
In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and so on, plays an important role, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Again, folks, fill up when you can. And use top-tier fuel like I talk about on Saturdays on Drive Radio, but outside of that, fill up when you can.
It doesn’t make a hilly bean’s bit of difference when it is. You’re not going to notice enough difference. If you were to literally take a glass beaker and go through the arduous tax of, you know, tack, can’t, can’t talk, task of actually measuring this out at different times like this guy’s saying, it’s minuscule if it’s even noticeable.
And, I mean, you’ve got to, you would have to have a scale and literally get down to that type of measurement to really determine are you getting a better deal at one time of the day or the other. It’s minuscule. And before somebody criticizes me on all of this saying, well, yeah, it costs a lot of money though.
If I can maximize that, why not? Your lead foot has more to do with what you’re using in gasoline than this guy telling you when to buy. I mean that sincerely.
How often you idle, how long you idle, how you jackrabbit start, how you stop. There’s more to do with all of that than there is with what time of the day you’re buying gas. Let’s just say that.
And guys, I’m a car guy, been in this industry my whole life. So this is a non-issue. Next, when you’re filling up, do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the fast mode.
If you look, you’ll see that the trigger has three stages. Yes, it does. You should be pumping at low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you’re pumping.
Again, maybe, maybe. Again, for me personally, not enough to mess with. Most of the fill systems now on new cars have a flap device.
And, you know, in Colorado, we don’t recover the vapors like they do in California at their stations. But, you know, in this case, you don’t have enough fumes coming out to where it’s a big deal. Fill up when you want, fill as fast as you want, and get in and out.
For me, personally, nothing worse than trying to get to the pump and the guy in front is dinking around with something. You know, trying to figure out how to pay. Slow pumping, gets back in the car, fiddle farts around, finally gets back out.
I mean, no, just pump and leave. I got better things to do than sit at the gas station. So pump and leave.
And no, don’t go on slow. You’re just going to irritate the guy behind you. Fill up and get out of there.
If you’re that concerned, then, you know, pump at midnight when no one else is around. And I’m being a little rude, but I honestly don’t care. Pump and leave.
And just real quick on this note, when you’re getting to the station, have your stuff ready to go. Nothing worse than watching somebody pull up, get out, fumble around for the credit card, because very few people go in. I’m one, by the way.
If I have to go in, I’m going to another station. You lost me as a customer. If your pump isn’t working and I can’t pay at the pump, I’m gone.
I’m leaving. I’m not dinking around. I am not walking inside.
I have better things to do than dinking around and walking inside. Yeah, I’m out on pump such and such. No, I’m not doing that.
Those days are gone. And if you as a station operator don’t have that figured out, you lost me as a customer. I’ll go to the next place.
And I’m not one to wait till empty to fill up, so I can go to the next place. I’m one of those that fills up between a quarter and a half, just like I talk about on Drive Radio all the time. I don’t go below that.
So, again, filling up on low, waste of time. Don’t dink with it. It’s not worth it.
The next one, one of the most important tips you can do when you fill up your tank is to fill it half full. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank, the less air occupying the empty space, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, again, folks, we have evaporative systems on cars that are recapturing those fumes.
They’re reusing those as well. That’s a part of your emissions side of your car. And again, this person’s completely wrong.
It’s a non-issue. You can fill up when it’s almost empty. You can fill up when it’s full.
Now, I would recommend that you again fill up between a quarter and a half. A, you have more choice on when you can fill up. You’re not beholden to somebody and you can do it on your time, not somebody else’s time.
And you’re not always running on E. I also understand that some folks can only put so much gas in at a time. I get that.
And if that’s you, then you need to do whatever you need to do. And I’m being fully sympathetic to that. And once again, unlike everything in this particular post, do what you want.
This last one, I kind of agree with and kind of don’t. I mean, if the tank is there filling up, can it stir things up in the tank? And could you potentially be picking up things that you don’t want to?
I would say on some of your more cut-rate stations where they don’t do a good job of changing filters at the pump and so on, possibly, but if it’s a high-end station where they’re keeping things well maintained and you can look around and tell that they are, would I fill up when the truck’s there? I prefer not to, but if you absolutely have to and you’re on a time schedule and that’s just what you need at that point in time, fill up. Fill up.
Highly doubtful it’s going to be harmful. You have a bigger risk at a fuel station of there being a bad load of gas. Some of the cut rate stations where depending upon when they’re getting their loads and how close to that cut off point in the pipeline is, because they use water actually to decipher between the different types of fuel that come down the pipeline, the different fuels that come down the pipeline, I should say.
And if you’re at one end or the other of that, yeah, you might have some issues. Although I will tell you any more even from Drive Radio and the listeners we have and the reports I get back, the issues of getting bad gas anymore is almost gone. Rarely do we hear anybody getting bad gas.
It happens. No one’s immune from it, but it just doesn’t happen like it used to. So is that something I’m going to lose sleep over?
No. I got a text message just a moment ago from Dave Hart, by the way. I have way more important things to worry about than a few ounces of fuel.
Thank you, Dave. Yes, I do as well. And by the way, we all do.
Again, that few ounces that you may or may not, and I say may or may not because I’m still not convinced that everything this person says really works at the end of the day, that teeny bit of extra fuel you may get, it’s not worth the hassle of what this person is saying. So, but my point is this. These posts go out on social media.
People pick them up. They share them. They think they’re really caught on to something, and that’s how these things sort of go viral.
I’m shooting this one down right off the back as the majority of it’s not true. Not worth repeating. So do not repost.
Do not comment. Just delete, ignore, move on. But this shows you how things on social media get started.
And it’s like Dan Muir and I used to make fun of there was the burn victim. It was a little girl. And they were raising money for the burn victim.
Well, turned out the burn victim wasn’t really a burn victim. It was a little girl with baloney on her face that they made look like she was burned. And anyways, it captured the internet.
But those sorts of things happen. And again, at the end of the day, they’re just, it’s all a joke. So hang tight, Joe.
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By the way, lots of text messages on this topic. So thank you. Some of you guys are actually really, really funny.
And I appreciate the comedy and all of this as well. Joe, you’re next. Go ahead.
And John, if you want to be frustrated at the gas pump, you ought to live in New Jersey, which is now the last state in the union, which illegal to pump your own gas. Yeah.
They don’t think you’re smart enough, right?
No, they don’t think we’re smart enough. So, and here’s the situation. I go to costco, because I got great prices on gas.
And sometimes it’s a little busy, even though they have five islands, which is, you know, ten pumps. So, I’m waiting five minutes, and then the person in front of me finally gets there, and when the guy walks up and they roll down the window and they have to hand in their credit card and membership card.
It ain’t ready.
It ain’t ready.
Oh, my word, Joe.
You see them looking, we have women, they’re down in their purse, and you see guys, they’re lifting up their hip, they’re digging, they’re getting the wallet out, and they’re looking down, thumbing through the… John, it just… You know, you had five minutes to get your membership card and your credit card out, and you wait till you pull up to the pump to do this.
John, it just drives me insane.
Joe, to me, it’s like, okay, wait a minute, you’ve known, especially in that case, you’ve known for the past 10 minutes that the guy’s going to come to your window to grab that stuff. What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for? John, I’ve been known to… It’s about an 18-mile drive for me to get over the Delaware to Pennsylvania.
I’ve been known to drive over to Pennsylvania to buy my gas, to pump my own gas.
Wow. Okay, really quick. And why does Jersey feel like you can’t pump your own?
They think it’s somehow unsafe. 49 other states in the Union, I guess they think, people are bursting into flames.
It’s unsafe. So do we have a outburst of fires and deaths at pumps and so on nationwide?
Well, they must believe it. And here’s the other thing, John. And because, and first of all, that adds about 10 cents a gallon to the cost of gasoline to pay for the attendant.
And then because nobody wants to pay for an attendant between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. You can’t fill up. You can’t. So God forbid you’re a nurse, you get off at midnight and you’re running low on gas.
You can’t buy gas. I think maybe there’s a Wawa. You know, you might be lucky to find a Wawa or…
Do they have Wawas out there?
No, we don’t have them here. No.
Well, it’s kind of like a 24-hour 7-Eleven. But 90% of the gas stations, you know, close at 10, 30, or 11 at night. So God forbid you’re a nurse, gets off work at midnight and you need to buy gas to get home, you’re out of luck.
You’re not going to get gas to get home tonight.
That’s amazing. Again, Joe, I still… I mean, I know Oregon was that way forever and then they finally changed it to where, I think, like you say, you are now the last state in the union to not allow people to pump their own gas, which to me, I just…
It’s just… It’s mind boggling. Now, I will say this.
I wish… I wish, because there’s times where it’s like, you know what, if I could pull up and somebody could pump mine because of either weather, the dress you’re in, whatever the case might be, you know what, I’d be all for that. But we now have gone completely the other way here in Colorado.
I don’t know if… There might be a couple of full-service stations out there, but not anywhere I travel.
And Johnny, I remember when you used to have a choice between self-serve and full-serve, and there was like a nickel-a-gallon difference between the full-serve and they’d wipe your windshield for you and check the air in your tires. I remember the good old days. And I thought, okay, we’ll let them do that in New Jersey, but no, they insist upon, you’re too stupid and irresponsible to pump your own gas.
Yeah, okay, so here’s another question for you. What if you’ve got your lawnmower or gas can you need to fill up? How do you do that in that case?
You take it there and you hand the guy the gas can, you tell him how much to put in. Now, most of these guys, after they take the credit card and activate it, and I say, I say, I’ll just, I tell them, I’ll do it. And they’re fine with that.
Okay.
But, you know, but in terms of activating the pump and-
Unbelievable.
Putting the nozzle in the can.
Okay, so here’s another question for you on that end of it, because it’s been forever since I’ve used full-serve. Do you tip these guys? Do they turn the pad around and ask you for a tip as well?
Oh, no. Hell no. Hell no.
Nobody tips the attendant.
Okay, so nobody tips the attendant. So that, those days are gone.
Those days are gone.
You know, because at one time, Joe, you did, you tipped the little guy that would come out and, you know, do all the things you just mentioned. And depending upon what all they did, you might give them a buck or two as a tip back in the day.
They just ask you, do you want a receipt? Yes or no? And with that, you say no, and you roll up your window and you drive away.
And the same is true even at costco and Sam’s.
Same as at costco, Sam’s, no matter where you go.
I’m guessing because it’s a law, you can’t have pumps unless there’s an attendant, right?
That’s absolutely correct. You know, you can’t pump gas. You know, costco pumps shut down here at, I think, eight or nine o’clock at night.
Right.
And they don’t open until seven.
And you dumb citizen, you don’t know how to pump gas.
I don’t know how to pump gas. I don’t know how I’ve survived all these years.
Oh, here’s another dumb question. People that live there and have maybe their whole life and they go to another state, do they know how to pump gas? Can they handle it?
Actually, John, I have to tell you a funny story. My daughter who works at Penn State out in Pennsylvania, apparently there was a woman out there and she’s at the gas pump at Sam’s Club. And a woman pulls up next to her with jersey plates and she said to my daughter, how do you work this thing?
Oh, my word.
My daughter left her ass off.
Unbelievable.
She showed her how to work the pump.
So in that particular case, they really didn’t know how to use the pump.
Really didn’t know how to use the pump. My daughter had to show her how to use the pump at Sam’s Club. All right.
All right, Joe. Appreciate you as always, man. Have a great rest of your day.
John and Cheyenne, you’re next.
Hey, John. I don’t know if it’s still going on, but the one thing I loved about living in New Jersey was the Hess. Leon Hess, the Hess station.
Yeah.
His attendants, his stations were white. His attendants wore white uniforms.
Yeah. I’ve seen those.
And this is in the 90s until we moved out here in 2003. They always cleaned your windshield. And if they did all that, I’d give them a dollar.
He’d say, no, no, that’s all right. And I’d say, here’s a dollar. It’s a dollar.
Right.
But they take the thing, clean your windshield, they wipe your headlights off. Now, if you didn’t want them to do it, you tell them no. But if it was a snowy day or a rainy day or a muddy day, you didn’t mind having somebody clean your windshield.
You can almost wonder if there were options for that even here in Colorado or Wyoming where there was actually full service stations, where maybe one island was, would people actually use it? Or have they done enough studies on that, that they find it’s not worthwhile and that’s why we don’t have any?
Yeah, I’m thinking that’s the case. But if you always noticed, there’s always that little sign, Handicap Press for Assistance.
Oh, that’s true. That’s true.
But shifting back to getting through faster. Yeah. Which you were talking about.
I am totally hooked on Sinclair’s app. Comp to your fuel, you pull in, you open the app, it says you are 20 feet from your pump, which means you’re right there. You put the pump number in and you hit authorize.
It already has your credit card in the app.
That’s pretty cool.
It starts and it takes a dime off a gallon.
That’s pretty cool, actually. That’s a worthwhile deal.
So I paid on Saturday $274 with the app to fill up.
That’s not bad.
We paid a bad price either.
Yeah, that’s not bad at all.
For the top tier. No, it’s equivalent. What I’ve noticed is using that app, I pay the same as what I would pay if I waited in line at costco.
Right. Yeah. No, there’s nothing wrong with that at all, John.
Absolutely. That’s awesome.
And, you know, and here’s the nice thing. You don’t have to get out, swipe your card in the cold, in the rain. You get out when it’s ready to pump, because it tells you the pump has been authorized right on the app.
Yeah. Yeah. So that’s cool.
I like that. And the other thing I use, and I know everybody looking to save a nickel, I do use Gas Buddy just to see if there’s like in Cheyenne, there’s six Sinclair stations and three of them are always cheaper than the other three. Well, I’ll go to the cheaper one because they’re all about the same distance.
Yeah. As long as you’re not driving a long ways to find that, absolutely. Absolutely.
No. Last thing, real quick, I said it to you on X today. Did you see the billboard that somebody put up on I-25 southbound?
About the Venezuelans?
Yeah.
Yes, I did.
Did you think that was hilarious?
I think it’s absolutely hilarious. The sheriff up there thinks it’s hilarious as well.
Yeah. Okay. Okay.
So really quick, for everybody that doesn’t know, what does the billboard exactly say?
As you’re leaving Wyoming and through Colorado, it says, Venezuela ahead, be prepared.
Yeah. Good one.
And some local company, I don’t know who put it up. It’s in the small print on the bottom. That’s pretty good.
But it’s pretty funny actually. Yeah.
Some association, some property association or something, if I’m not mistaken, John, I have to reread it again, but I think it’s a property association.
What I loved about it is how many people took offense to it.
Oh, jeez.
They don’t see humor anymore.
I don’t see any offense, and I think it’s hilarious.
I do too, but there are people that took offense to it. So, John, when you drive home today, just be careful, because you’re in Aurora.
I know.
From Venezuelans.
You’re right. I am. John, love you, man.
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All right, we are back. My son Richard Rush joining us now. Richard, welcome.
And it was a, for at least Colorado individuals, folks like the broncos and the Buffs, it was an exciting weekend.
It was, it was a great weekend for football and that we, I’ll be honest with you, we haven’t had a whole lot of these past few years, or number of years, I should say, where both the Buffs and broncos win, and I guess CSU won too, so we’ll throw them in there. But you know, where the Buffs and broncos win on the same weekend. And the broncos, not as exciting, although obviously they got the job done.
But let’s, yeah, let’s start with the Buffs, dad, which is to say that, you know, they came out against Baylor, a little bit of rain, homecoming game, first game back in the Big 12. So really big deal for them. You know, obviously kind of going back to their roots, I guess you could say even the Big 8 conference before that.
And just, they had a really exciting game.
I mean, you could argue that they sort of tried to give it to Baylor at times through some of those things where there’s still times where you can just look at them and say, man, you guys still have a long way to go in your player development and so on and even maybe even some of the coaching and play calling and so on on the same token, it was all said and done, they delivered the win.
That was just going to say that that was ultimately what happened and you can see and here’s here, a lot of people are going to get on on Deon and coach Clive for this, right? Which is to say that he, you know, he doesn’t develop, you know, struggles at coaching in the offensive line. Well, I saw a team that has slowly but surely got better every week.
I mean, they’re running the ball a little bit better. I think that part of running the ball is finding the right running back. And, you know, we can talk about, you know, pro guys and you’re paying running back and all sorts of stuff.
But ultimately, you’ve still got to have a competent running back guy that’s going to, you know, do what he’s supposed to do, hit the hole, find the hole, that sort of different thing. But ultimately, for them, that I’ve seen steady improvement on their line, offensive and defensive, they’re not quite there. I’ve seen massive improvement from last year to this year with the defense, right?
I mean, college is never great defense, right? Outside of, you know, SEC schools, maybe some of the big 10 schools, just depending on that. There’s not a lot of great defenses involved, right?
But can they give you enough chances, right? Can they create turnovers? Can they, you know, give you extra opportunities, things like that.
Special teams, definitely a down night. They struggled a little bit there. But folks, if you didn’t watch the game, which you should have, it was, you know, Prime Time Fox kind of obviously in the night, there’s a few games after it, but, you know, great time, you know, a great viewing experience.
It was an exciting game, dad. I know you went and I will say this, it was, it was exciting.
The weather wasn’t, you know, great, although it wasn’t absolutely awful. Tons of people there, the crowd. I mean, I will say this, and you’ve talked about it before, the size of the crowd, the energy around the stadium and all of that, but it’s way different than it’s been in literally decades.
I don’t know how else to say it. It’s been, it’s been unique as far as that goes.
Well, you are uniquely qualified to comment on this, which is to say you went to games for years.
Ever.
And years. And when they were…
I grew up going to games. I mean, I, you know, for folks listening, I went through even all of the old 80 Crowder years and so on, where, you know, used to go and sit with my dad and we’d watch the games and all of that. So, no, I’ve been going up there to that stadium.
And the one downside of that stadium, just as a side note, I’m sitting on the same stinking bleachers I did when I was about nine.
You are. Well, they’re still jamming you in like sardines. That’s a fact.
Not much has changed. But you’ve seen it, right? You’ve seen the years.
You’ve seen the McCartney years. You’ve seen the Barnett years. New Highsville.
Correct. We’re going a little bit out of order here. You know, the Hawkins, you know, you sat through the 62-36 game.
Oh, they were awful.
Well, you know, that was a great game, right? But you know, the other games were they just were getting demolished. And you sat through that game.
And honestly, I haven’t even had a chance to ask you this. How did that compare to what you’ve been through?
Oh, well, this game, you know, this past… And again, you always have the armchair quarterback that’s sitting around you commenting on what this should be done and that should be done and what the next play should be and what the last play should have been and so on. There’s always those knuckleheads that, you know, you sit around that and in some ways make the game entertaining and in some ways kind of ruin it because it’s almost like, you know, just shut up, let the guys do their job and enjoy the game and have fun.
It always is interesting at college games, by the way, especially big homecoming games, to also watch the drunk people. I will say that. I mean, there’s a, there’s a lot of drunk fans at a game like that.
It makes it always very interesting just to see that end of it. But all in all, still a fun experience. I mean, you laugh when it’s all said and done.
And ultimately, it’s all about, for me anyways, it’s about the entertainment. If they can pull off a win, all the better. But I will say that, you know, when it comes to Coach Prime and the fans, while there are some that are critical, not everybody’s on his side, I will say that by and large, it’s a different atmosphere than what you’re used to hearing in the past.
I mean, even in the McCartney years, because McCartney was a polarizing guy. Some people love the guy. Some people hated the guy.
Some people hated the guy because of his Christian values and his beliefs and so on. And I will say with Prime, there’s a lot more unification around him than I’ve probably ever seen in a coach.
Well, and here’s the deal. The only one thing you can’t say about Deion is he doesn’t bring the eyeballs, right? Right, wrong or otherwise, he’s going to have people watching him.
And in fact, when you’re as successful as him, you have some people watching you just to watch you fail, right? Or just to wait to watch you fail. That’s right.
And he said that multiple times and people have said, I don’t know who’s looking. I can tell you this, dad, there are just some people, and here’s the deal, this is for pretty much any successful person out there, either side of the aisle, either side of sports, whatever it might be. If you’re, I’ll say this, I watched Tom Brady for all those years, hoping he would fail.
Right. And he didn’t very often, and I still sit here and watch Patrick Mahomes, and I hope he fails. That’s right.
Watched him last night, same deal.
And here’s the deal, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but yes, when you are at the top, whether you’re really good, you’re just super polarizing, whatever it might be, ultimately people are going to be watching you and hoping you fail. And he handles that better than almost anyone. And you can argue some of his exes and those, for example, the second year in a row, there’s been an overtime game at home.
I don’t know, this time he didn’t win the toss, so he had to go first. I don’t know why he doesn’t go towards the students. He again went opposite of the students.
And maybe his kicker, right? Maybe his kicker likes kicking that way. He hasn’t said it.
He hasn’t given up his strategy.
I will say that, you know, and I’ve never played at that field, but I will tell you that when you’re trying to call plays and you’re trying to do things and you’re trying to go one direction versus the other and knowing that the new really brightly lit scoreboard is at the student section and the other end is not that way, I could see where there might be some advantages going towards the open end of the stadium versus the horseshoe.
And you could be correct. And so I will…
Now, and I’m not going to criticize you, Mom, because frankly, I’m not sure I would do that any differently.
Well, here’s the deal. In that game, there was a few, you know, questionable things. They had a fourth down call that was kind of questionable as far as, you know, the play call.
But ultimately, I think Deion, he’s much more of a CEO than he is coach. And again, right, wrong or otherwise, that’s how he’s decided to be.
You know, he’s relying on his line coaches, the defensive back coaches, his offensive coordinators and so on. He’s relying on those guys to handle things. And some of those guys, I’ll just say straight up, are better than others.
Correct. And I will say this. His defensive coordinator, who he got from the Cincinnati Bengals as a defensive backs coach, and he has been phenomenal.
That guy will be a head coach, whether it be for in college or somewhere else, he will be a head coach before all of a sudden done in the next number of years. He’s just really good. I think he does well with his players.
All of those things.
Offensive coordinator, Pat Shermer. He was offensive coordinator for the broncos for a few years. You could argue that there’s something left to be desired there.
Although I will say this. I think that Shermer has done a much better job over the past few weeks of blending. You’ve gotten the offense to work together.
Folks, maybe we would bore you with this, but ultimately, that is to say this. I’ve seen improvement every single week. They are now a 14-point underdog going into their game against Central Florida this next week.
I think that’s too much because the team that I’ve seen play over the first four weeks of the season can pretty much play with anyone. I think if you can play defense well and you can score and this team is proving that you can do both, then you kind of have a chance each week. But as far as the game goes, dad, phenomenal Hail Mary, although it really shouldn’t have been a Hail Mary because the guy should have caught the play before that on the two-yard line, but neither here nor there.
And then Travis Hunter, dad, this guy is a unicorn. He’s an alien. He’s a machine.
Whatever you want to say, I don’t know how you can play, not only play both ways, dad, but play them to the level that he is playing. He is an elite receiver, and he’s in the elite corner. He’s playing over a hundred snaps a game.
That is insane. Oh, the guy’s amazing. He really is.
He’s worth going to watch just by himself.
I’m just saying, he is worth watching just by himself. He is CU’s best Heisman Trophy candidate since Rashan Salam won it way back when. And honestly, at this point in time, the only thing that’s going to prevent him from winning it is a quarterback or potentially CU’s final record.
Because CU may struggle to get to 500, right? Just depending on how it goes. And that may limit.
But either way, he should be in the running. He is next level talented. And then, dad, kind of on to the broncos, right?
You sort of saw what maybe what Sean Payton and everyone has been talking about from Bo Nix this past weekend. He made quick decisions. They ran the ball better.
The team felt like they kind of came together.
They looked, I mean, I don’t know what everybody else thought. And I wasn’t at that game, you know, live just happened to watch it on TV. And I missed a few things here and there because I was doing some chores and so on.
But, you know, caught most of the game. And I will say that they just look like a complete, maybe I’m looking at it differently than others, but Richard, they look like a completely different team.
They did, and I’ll be honest, I watched the first part of the game, and well, I actually watched all of the game, and it just felt like a different team.
I mean, you and Andy picked Tampa Bay to win. You said the broncos would cover the spread, so don’t bet against them as far as that, but neither one, you or Andy, felt like they’d win.
No, I didn’t. And I was basing, and Andy and I were both basing it off of essentially the past several weeks, right? What has been happening and how you’ve been playing.
And Tampa Bay had been playing really, really well. Baker had played really well, and the broncos just took them out of their game. They did whatever they wanted to.
It was a kind of a sigh of relief. And here’s the deal, I don’t think every game is gonna go that way the rest of the year, but for broncos fans this year, I just wanna see progress. I don’t care if we lose every game from here on out, but as long as Bo Nicks continues to make progress, he’s close, maybe a few things don’t go our way, maybe some injuries happen, but he continually processes well.
He makes the right decision, and yeah, he’s got a few throws each game or a few plays where you’re like, okay, wow, there’s not many people that can make that play, right? I think that’s kind of what broncos fans are looking for, and you got it yesterday. They’re on the road this next week against the old Aaron Rodgers and the Jets, which will be exciting, but honestly, at this point in time, you’ve got two excited fan bases and the Buffs and the broncos, and I guess rightfully so, at least for this week.
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All right, we are back. Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Richard, let’s shift gears for just a few minutes here.
Normally, we have a car review. We don’t at the moment. So, let’s switch over to technology and lots of things in that particular world that we can discuss.
Some of it, by the way, having to do even with what goes on with the football games and so on. So, really quick, a question for you. This is something that is technologically, I guess, along those lines of what I should say.
So, sitting at the game, CU game on Saturday night. I was going to ask you this. I’ll just ask you now instead.
A couple of guys in front of us that had these some sort of sports book apps out, and I heard one of the guys around them asking what they were doing. They were basically giving live updates to this app that goes to sports books that they somehow get paid to do. I’m trying to figure out what are they doing that guys can’t get off of regular television and what’s going on in the game anyways?
What am I missing?
Well, in theory, television and all of that is behind. Even radio is slightly behind, as we know, there’s a delay. My guess would be by having guys in the stands physically reporting on a play of what’s happened.
For example, because there’s wagers that you can make inside of a game. You can say, the next touchdown, I think, is going to be this person. These guys are probably setting odds reporting on that.
Depending on the book, and I don’t know what college allows or not, but depending on the sports book, you can even bet on what’s going to happen on this next play. You can say, I think the next play of this drive is going to be a first down or a touchdown even, or a run, or a pass, and there’s different odds for that. So my guess would be these guys are relaying information in real time, and so that information can get passed back.
Now granted, I don’t know how much that saves you from watching the TV copy, but in theory, I guess, every second counts, right? Every second is money, and so if these guys can be updating something interesting literally in that moment from the actual event, well, because what’s the TV’s typical delay? 30 seconds?
Or more, I don’t know, Charlie. Could be even up to a minute, right? I mean, we’re on our break right now.
You’re listening to a 90-second delay roughly here on Klz, anywhere from 60 to 90 seconds. So yeah, to your point, Richard, I mean, just for an example, when I go out at the top of the hour and I usually go use the restroom, walk around for a minute and so on, I’m hearing myself as I’m exiting the studio because that’s how much the delay is. So yeah, to your point, you’re getting things, I guess, in more of a real time, in some cases, maybe up to a minute faster.
Well, and that’s the case of radio, because radio is typically faster than TV, right?
Right.
If radio is 90 seconds, you got to think TV is at least two minutes. I can tell you streaming-wise, I can get the game faster from people who are at the game, even people on ESPN, on the app. If I’m streaming through my YouTube TV or whatever it is, I can get the updates faster there than I can by watching.
One of the downsides to streaming, right? It just takes a while to pass through. So my guess is that’s what would be happening with some of these, I guess, sportsbook applications.
And in theory, if you’re offering it, I think, well, here’s the deal. The more items that you allow people to bet on, dad, the more money you make in theory, right?
Yeah, and Charlie said also on streaming, there’s no obscenity delay which radio and TV both have to have for obvious reasons. So that’s why streaming is always faster and more quickly updated than it would be on radio or TV.
Yes, well, and I think Charlie is correct, but obviously, broadcast TV, you’re getting the same signal. But again, streaming is so slow. I’ll just say that.
It’s not as fast as the guy who’s actually sitting there in the stands, I guess, when it’s all said and done.
Well, exactly. And again, ultimately, if we’re talking about saving, well, again, we’re talking about dollars and cents, right? And each second counts, each minute counts.
And so if you can update that live for someone sitting at home or again, for people that are on streaming, on TV, whatever it might be, you’ve got the ability to update that rather quickly.
Interesting. Again, I was watching these guys, I was going to ask you that because I really had no idea what these guys were doing. I was fascinated by what they had this special app, which you knew they were doing something unique because they had this special app where different things would happen and they’d give different answers.
I was kind of looking over their shoulder, literally sitting directly behind them. So you’re kind of watching these guys do different things. And I’m like, at the end of the day, it’s like, well, they’re doing something, they’re earning money for it.
I don’t know how much money they actually earn, but they’re earning money doing it.
I think technology, again, just from everything that’s going on is just getting that much more superior. I mean, we’re not too far away from, well, you actually are seeing some of it with, I don’t know if you’ve seen some of the TV commercial, Daddy, speaking of technology and football, where some of these schools for the death, you’re blind hard to play football that way, but they can actually, it’s funny because I actually talked about this when I was in high school, basically putting visors on kids or players and being able to overlay the play of what’s going to happen. And so, you think about it and then obviously, college football is now getting into something as simple as the radio in the head, is that right?
So, Tredor is getting play calls from Pat Schermer in his head on a, well, basically, that’s how he gets to play. You’re not seeing as many of the gyrations on the sideline from Oregon, right? Oregon would have four guys and two of them are calling in dummy signals.
One of them is calling in information, one of them is calling in the plays, right? Like, just crazy amounts of stuff to do. Well, now you’re radioing the play.
I don’t know why some of these leagues and such that don’t embrace more technology, because to me, that would be something that would potentially be able to set schools apart.
It’s a game changer.
You go to Stanford, and who knows what Stanford can do, right? Who knows what they can put forth? Right.
I’ll be honest, and I’m surprised with, and I’m sure there’s some sort of NCAA rule. Back to the gambling thing, Dad. I don’t know how these, you know, I actually think at least they use partnered with DraftKings or something like that, if I’m not mistaken.
Lots of ads there say must be.
I don’t know how, well, and that’s one thing that you talk about, and I on some other stuff. It’s one thing for a professional athlete to not take a dive because it’s too valuable. But for that kid that’s making maybe whatever it is, I don’t know.
I mean, it just gets into a shady thing. I mean, again, we talk about technology. And I mean, something as simple as, again, that as an in-game update, maybe that kid for that play does take a dive, right?
Maybe he falls down, doesn’t get the first, I don’t know. Just saying.
Interesting. Well, lots to talk about. We’ll see how things develop real quick in closing.
I know we were going to chat about it. We got about a minute left. The ticket price at a CU game, I will say this, has gone up substantially since Deion Sanders has been there than it was prior.
I’ll just say that much.
Yeah, when you’re, I think the cheapest ticket we were saying is about $100 now. I remember the days for CU where you used to be able to get in for $15. Heck, you used to be able to get a CU student pass for the entire season for $100.
So, it is drastically gone up and one of the results, by the way, it was actually over a sellout on Saturday. So, even with these high ticket prices, you’re still seeing sellouts happen and, again, that’s only a positive for the university because it’s more money in their pockets.
Interesting. Well, all good stuff. Richard, appreciate it again.
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