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Visit us at capitalfinancialusa.com. This is the Adam Gold Show. So I had a group come and just set up four chairs and an umbrella 15 yards in front of me and directly in front. Before they even got through with their setup, some people came up and were like, dude, we're set up right in front of those other people. Let's move over here into a stagger position.
That's exactly what they did. Their tent was a little bit off to the left of me, never directly in front. And when at all possible, stagger. I don't know the rules of Delaware. I don't know the rules of Myrtle Beach. We're in North Carolina, OK? And at Emerald Isle, in a civilized society, we stagger at the beach.
This is the Adam Gold Show. With Hays Permars beach sticks filling in, just because football was played last night, don't think you're not catching these beach sticks again today. It's still summer.
I feel like when people start playing football games, they're like, all right, summer's over. Time to pick out your back to school supplies, your Halloween costume, and buy a turkey for Thanksgiving. Like, slow down. Slow down, Oreo, with your pumpkin spice coming out on August 15th. What?
Yeah, that's right. Oh, God. Let's talk about that today.
I mean, the pumpkin spice is already out hard, but Oreo is bringing theirs back after two years off. I am filling it in, and yes, I do have more beach etiquette takes. I'll also ask our guests if they have beach etiquette takes, because I know that they are all North Carolina beachgoers.
I actually don't know. Jeremy Green is our mountain guy, right? We'll do the roundtable at 2.15 with Jeremy Green up in Asheville. He is the ESPN draft nerd. And Randy Slack down in Wilmington. So, obviously, our Wilmington guy's got beach takes. Luke DeCock is going to join us at 1.15, columnist in the state of North Carolina, a great sportswriter.
He's won North Carolina Sportswriter of the Year multiple times. I know he hits the beach. He's got beach takes, so we will be getting these beach takes. Just don't think, just because a football game was played last night, that we're shutting down summer.
That's not how this is going to go. We can get either, like, hiking or camping etiquette from Jeremy Green if he's not a beachgoer. Because there is.
There is. There is a summer mountain thing. And I get it. I went to camp in the mountains for a little bit. I guess my personal, my family, my mother's from West Virginia. So, my family does a mountain vacation, but it's in the mountains of West Virginia. So, I don't really know the etiquette of the North Carolina summer mountains. I respect a good 4th of July fireworks being shot off a mountain, being looked at from your cabin.
I respect that. But I am much more of a beach guy when it comes to the summer. To me, the summer is not complete without the beach. Yes, I have been to the mountains. I've played golf in the summer. It's like, oh wow, you can actually play golf in the middle of the day in the mountains. It's not too bad.
But for the most part, I hang my hat down by the Atlantic Ocean in the summer. So, we will get some more of those takes. But, yes, there was a football game last night. And by contractual rules, because we work in sports... What is on my TV right now?
What is this? Is ESPN doing the Ocho today? Yeah. It's not August 8th.
I know. I thought they did that on August 8th. They should. They're doing it today for some reason. Is this quidditch? I thought there was lacrosse on my TV, which I was totally fine with. I mean, if there was lacrosse on TV, I'd totally be watching it. It looks like it's quidditch.
No, they're playing quidditch. There are a lot of sports things that I see out there that I'm not going to talk about. Because that's what you do in sports radio. You talk about the things that you find interesting. And if enough people that are listening also find those things interesting, then you get invited back to talk about those things. At least that's how it works for a guest host.
For a regular host, I guess you just keep in your contract. I'm not going to talk about quidditch. There's several other things I'm not going to talk about. But, because this is sports in America, I'm contractually obligated to kick things off with football. Let's get out of the gate. The Hall of Fame game! We waited all this time. It's been an excruciating, painful life with no football. And then it's time.
Unless the weather's not cooperating. And then we've got to wait 40 more minutes. That was fantastic. Football? Nope. We don't have it. A weather delay.
Perfect for preseason. Do these people not know about heat lightning? Are they not aware of Heat Lightning Awareness Month? Sports Channel 8 has always tried to put out the word. It's in June, though.
I know. We didn't put the word out enough hard. We didn't put the word out hard enough.
How about I get the words in order there? We didn't put the word out hard enough in June. So now people weren't aware. And yes, we did have a weather delay. But after the weather delay, we had football.
And you know what that means? Football means field goals. Last couple of years. And it's field goal from 32 yards. First points of the season. So it's starting.
Man, Mike Torreco sounded excited. The first points of the season. We got a field goal.
Yeah, baby. Football's back. We got points in the Hall of Fame game. Football's here. The party's going. Everyone was watching. 30 million people watched us. I don't know.
I have no idea. It was the Raiders and the Jaguars. Come on, man.
I was more excited about the lightning delay. Yeah, that's right. Football's back. That's right, baby. Football is back. And we're Americans.
So we are celebrating. The Raiders won 27-11. The over hit.
If you were keeping tabs at home. Unfortunately, the Jags didn't cover. I love 27-11. Do we have pre-season score agami? Because that might have been one. Pre-season things get weird.
People like to try weird plays and do stuff. Was there anything that mattered in this game? All I got is Trevon Walker, the number one pick. Got a sack. He should have had two sacks, but he committed a penalty on one. He got his hand up.
He had a face mask. In the NFL. In the SEC, they might allow you to eat quarterbacks or whatever.
But in the NFL, you can't touch those guys. When the number one pick does number one pick things in the first game, I guess that's football worthy? Raiders rookie running back, Zamir White, from North Carolina.
Went to Scotland High School. He had a pretty good debut. Yeah, I should have done a better job of that. Especially when you're getting down to your second and third string guys. That's when a lot of times we can see those local guys shine, baby. We don't often have the number one. We've had number one draft picks come from our state, from this area. But when you're getting to see 100 dudes play instead of 50, there's a better chance that it might just be the guy from a local school. He got drafted sixth or seventh.
Yeah, he was drafted though this year. So there we go. Again, did I say the score? Raiders 27 to 11.
You did. And now we move on. I don't think we have any other football this weekend. The Hall of Fame game is always super early.
Now we get the Hall of Fame inductions this weekend. But no actual other football, I don't believe, this weekend. If there is, I'm sorry, I won't be watching. Canadian football.
Yeah, there might be. But congratulations. Football is back.
You made it. And now you can wait like another week or so. Next preseason games are this coming Thursday, the 11th. So it's always, the Hall of Fame game is always like super early and then it starts like an actual round of football. The intriguing storylines of the Giants at the Patriots.
Oh, Super Bowl rematches. Aren't we down to three preseason games now at least? Yeah, we are. That's good.
There are fewer of those. Next up, getting out of the gate. The Wyndham championship rolls on. I do think, somebody wrote this well that I was, the Wyndham doesn't suffer as much from the live tour being there.
I mean, yes, a lot of their past champions, we talked about this yesterday. Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed, Hendrick Stinson, all these dudes have won the Wyndham. And in theory, might have an incentive to come back if they've had a good experience there. But they're all on the live tour so they're not coming.
But it does have good local flavor. Obviously, the Wyndham is not going to be one of the top five events in the PGA Tour. You know, it's in Greensboro, smaller market, smaller tournament.
But still, guys like Davis Love, who's always been a fan favorite, come out to play. Webb Simpson will always play this tournament as long as he's healthy. We talked about all the dudes locally from Raleigh who got exemptions through some of the McConnell golf guys are playing in it. Chesson Hadley, Brendan Todd, there was somebody else I'm leaving out who had a pretty good day yesterday, I can't think of it off the top of my head. But in terms of like an exciting leaderboard that people are going to want to watch on Sunday, we got a little bit of work to do. Although Russell Henley climbing the leaderboard is pretty good. But John Huh just not quite exciting enough for me. Adam Gold would be able to tell you who all these dudes are and what they did in their Monday qualifying, or in their Q school qualifying. But we'll see if the leaderboard shakes out and we can get somebody. I mean, give me a Harold Varner in the top ten. Give me a Webb Simpson in the top ten. Give me somebody up there.
Because you know what happens when we don't have Doc Redmond. That's the other guy with local ties. He tees off just about now. He's probably going off right now.
He was at 200 yesterday. Let's see if he can make some noise. Him or Brendan Todd maybe.
Come on, somebody do something. Give us somebody to cheer for that's a local dude. Because you know what happens when we don't have local dudes to talk about at the Wyndham, Dennis Cox? What's that? We have to talk about the live tour. Yeah, that's right. We're talking about the live tour. Boo!
Dennis Cox gave me one of those looks as if I said something disparaging about comic books. But no, the news this week, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and others are now suing the PGA Tour. Which some people find interesting because apparently they want to be able to play on both tours.
Right? It seemed pretty cut and dry that you were going to have to choose one or the other. Now they want to play on both. The interesting part about that, and I didn't pull this audio because it was hard to identify who is who.
Because it was just like a super cut. All the golfers going to the live tour back to back to back to back to back to back. One of the things almost all of them cited as their reasons for going were playing less golf.
Right? Like part of that guaranteed money. Like I can have a better lifestyle.
I've got kids that are growing up. Understandable things. And that might have been true for some of these dudes. But it ain't true for Bryson DeChambeau. All that dude wants to do is play golf. So it was not about an easier lifestyle for him. It was about a bunch of money. And because he thought he'd still be able to play on the PGA Tour when it came down to it.
And in fact, Bryson DeChambeau said as much talking to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. He says he thinks he will be back on the PGA Tour after he's done working at the other pizza shop or something? I don't know. You have a pizza shop that's been in existence for 50 years. And all the customers go to and it's a great product. All of a sudden a new pizza shop opens up. Right? And they start paying the customers to come eat at their place. And that pizza is potentially a little bit better of a pizza. Right? And then all of a sudden that original pizza house goes, if you go over there, we're banning you from ever coming back to our pizza shop.
What's wrong with that economic model? That does seem short-sighted. Yeah.
Particularly if you have been the only pizza shop in town, if you've had a monopoly. Correct. That's probably not allowed.
Now I'm confused here. Is Bryson DeChambeau calling himself a customer of the PGA Tour? Yeah. Like I don't think the PGA Tour is banning fans from buying tickets to the live tour and then coming to, like if you were at Bedminster in New Jersey a couple weeks ago and you want to be in Greensboro this weekend, like pretty sure that's okay. Nobody's banning that. Last time I checked as well, they weren't paying to play on the PGA Tour either.
It's not like the first pizza shop was like, oh, you have to pay to come eat here. No. It was weird. Now what's interesting is people that have not joined this lawsuit. Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka. And those are two dudes that I'm not sure they were totally honest with their answers. And even Koepka specifically had said at one point, I support the PGA Tour. And then like three weeks later, he was like, I'm out.
So we know at one point he was like kind of at least being deceitful, right? But he started before about how we go through this all the time in all sports. As fans, we like to believe that every professional athlete wakes up and says, I want to win the championship. And that's the number one most important thing to me, whether it's the quarterback or the punter or the offensive lineman for your team, whether it's if it's an individual sport, if it's a golfer or tennis player, you would like to think that they wake up being like, I want to beat Nadal and win Wimbledon and the French Open and the Australian and the U.S. Open. That's my goal this season for every tennis player. And that every golfer wakes up saying, I want to win the Masters.
Right. And I want to win every tournament. I want to beat everybody and I want to beat Tiger Woods. That every professional athlete has that mindset.
As fans, we want them to be robots who want to win. The reality is these are humans and some of them play golf or whatever it is their sport because they realize that economically the best viable option for them in life was to play that sport. And some of them might be driven number one by money. Some of them might be driven by the best family life. We see that all the time. We see the balance of people choosing to play a certain number of events where they could make more money making more events.
Right. Or by choosing where they want to play. Some dudes do prioritize the championship. Maybe they've made a lot of money and they say, look, I could get paid the max amount of money.
I'll get paid two thirds of that to play for this other team. Right. Different people have different priorities and it does not surprise me at all to see Brooks Koepka say, no, I peaced out for the PGA Tour. I'd love to still play the majors and compete against the best in the world, but I'm not wired to want to win every week like this. And in fact, he's talked about how he doesn't like playing 18 holes. How four hours or what?
I mean for them it's like five hours. Five hours of golf is boring. He wants to play. If live golf offered him a chance to play 12 hole rounds. He'd be like, yes.
Let's do that. So I do find it interesting that Koepka, Dustin Johnson, not part of this lawsuit. And again, they were two probably the guys who were probably most open about. Now I really don't want to play a lot more golf. DeChambeau said he didn't want to play a lot more golf and he wanted a better lifestyle because that's one of the things that made sense for going to the live tour. When in reality, DeChambeau only wants to play golf. If he could play a live event and a PGA event in the same weekend because they were close enough and he could work out the times, like he would do that. He's just a golf junkie. He wants to play. I credit him for being that, but not for being dishonest about it. Again, in that interview with Tucker Carlson, he goes on to say he thinks it'll be resolved and they'll be back on the tour. He doesn't say give an exact date, but basically he says soon.
He says whether it's resolved legally or like in court, specifically with the court ruling or basically the parties getting together and working something out before the court rules, he seems to think so, but I don't know. To me, the number one biggest thing still out there is the majors. It kind of hinges on the Masters right now. Year one, it was easy to give a pass and say, well, these people qualified.
We can't do anything about it right now. The Masters had basically a year to plan for what they're going to do with these live tour guys. I think that there's a lot of people watching what the Masters is going to do.
It would be fun to see more live guys on PGA Tour week to week, but again, I get it if you're Brooks Koepka and you're like, no, I'd like to play the majors, four other events to warm up for the majors, and then maybe two other events the rest of the year. If you want to pay me $100 million for that, I'm all in. Next up, it's opening day for the English Premier League. Do you have an English... I can't even say the word English. That's bad.
What? Do you have an English Premier League team, Dennis Cox? I'm not fully sold on one yet.
That's a no. I'm not fully sold on one yet. If you have a team, you know what the team is. I lean towards Liverpool. Oh. All right, so the two good teams are Liverpool and Man City apparently, and then there's everybody else, and then there's everybody else.
There's everyone else. The English Premier League, I find it interesting mostly because it comes up in American sports right now a lot of times because people talk about it in terms of college football, and looking back at what the English Premier League did, I don't know, is it two decades or more ago, to basically break away and form what became the most powerful professional league in the world, I think, sports-wise? I don't know. There may be a cricket league that I'm unaware of, but the college football looks at them and envies and says, you know what? We can do our own thing. We've got enough brands that if we pick the number of teams right, we could basically break off and have an English Premier League style.
And it's the thing that I think when... The easiest comparison for fandom for British soccer clubs is American football. I've never been to an Alabama home game or a Georgia home game, but those atmospheres and events are the closest thing to me to what you see at the English Premier League football.
So it's no surprise that college football, the people who run it, look with envy over at the English Premier League, like, yeah, we just didn't have these pesky universities that we were tied to to get in the way. Next up, getting out the gate. Oh, yeah, we got baseball takes. It's a real- Yeah, we do. It's a real easy one.
You ready for this? Yeah. The Angels hit seven home runs last night. Really? And they lost.
And that is how you know it's time to hang things out. I know the trade deadline just passed, and they didn't move Mike Trout. Apparently, he's hurt, and they didn't move Shaho Otani, who hit two home runs last night. But dude, first of all, when you hit seven home runs, and you only score seven runs with those seven home runs, the baseball gods are frowning on you, right? Yeah. Then when you hit seven home runs, seven home runs. You should have put up 15 runs easily. And you lose. You lost. I mean, I know you can't.
Obviously, a team can't be like, you know what? We're out. We're done for the season. We're just going to shut it down.
We're going to figure out. We're not going to waste any of our pitchers' arms. We're going to train. We're going to stay healthy. We're going to bring up the minor league team.
This is not our year. I try not to do this. I play a lot of bad golf. So oftentimes, I'll have an eight on a hole, right? Like, that's not uncommon.
It's nice. I play some rounds without an eight. And I try not to be, you know, I could have a bad stretch, but I try to be cognizant of the fact that you could have a terrible three hole stretch followed by six straight pars or whatever it is. Like, that could happen. But there are times when you get to like hole 14 or 15, and it's just been bad, and it's been bad. And you've had bad luck.
Like, your good shots randomly hit stuff, and like, hit the cart path and go flying or whatever. And you're like, you know what? I'm just, I'm not playing the last two holes. That's what I feel like the Angels are right now.
And you hit seven home runs, and you lose eight to seven, you just got to be like, you know what? We're out. We're out. We're out. Next up, getting out the gate, a little women's college hoops news.
I actually saw this two days ago, and I didn't get into it yesterday, but I did want to mention on it. Paige Beckers from UConn, one of the best players in college basketball, had an incredible freshman year, was injured for much of her sophomore year last year, came back, played great towards the end of the season, including eliminating NC State in the NCAA tournament. She just tore her ACL again, out for the season, probably, which brings up two things. One, the WNBA apparently has a rule that you got to be like 22 to go in. Basically, they're preserving college basketball, similar that they've tried to do on the men's side by making guys go to college at all. On the women's side, they're like, we need them to develop the stars in college basketball. And also, because there's not quite enough teams in the WNBA.
There's only eight. So there's not that many roster spots. But for somebody like Paige Beckers, who's an incredible player, like maybe she should have been able to start earning money playing instead of having to wait out two ACL tears. And the focus should be on the tragedy of her injury and wish for a speedy recovery and then she can get back to where she's playing. As someone who has observed NC State athletics for a long time, I could not help but notice the coincidence of basically Paige Beckers had two ACL tears and for the most part was out for like two whole seasons, except for one little stretch where she came back just in time to interrupt maybe NC State's best season ever. That's the kind of things that happens to NC State athletics. And obviously there are a lot of great things to celebrate about NC State athletics, but it just seemed like, are you telling me that the best player in women's college basketball is only going to play like four games in two total seasons based on two tragic injuries, but that one of them is going to be going off to eliminate NC State? Oh, by the way, at a game that they had to play in Connecticut, even though they were the number one seed.
Speaking of which, the other piece of news for women's college basketball, and this just came out this morning, I saw it thanks to Jonas Pope or Jonas as they call him on this show. Jonas Pope of the News and Observer, I saw him tweet out, the women's college basketball has announced they are going from four regional sites down to two. That actually is kind of tied to the reason that NC State had to play at Connecticut through some coded words when they had to explain why the game was played at Connecticut and NC State had to go play UConn. They basically said, we wanted to sell a lot of tickets and we knew that if we had a game right there in stores or I forget exactly where it was, but basically right there next to UConn, we knew it would sell out.
Bridgeport I think is where they were. So I think that's right. So I believe the NCAA women's tournament has kind of had trouble maybe filling four regional sites because at that point, teams have already played two games and advanced and then if they win again, you're going to a Final Four. So it's almost like a college football situation. If you're a UConn basketball fan or a South Carolina basketball fan and you're pretty sure your team's going to go to the Final Four, it's like if Clemson's going to the ACC Championship and a bowl game and then another bowl game, like if they're in the playoff, you're going to play three more games at the end of the season.
Like, are you going to all of them? So there were some of these regionals where the attendance wasn't as great. Well, they have consolidated, there will only be two regional sites now and for 2023, the sites will be Greenville, South Carolina and Seattle, Washington. So of course, we look forward to the NC State women getting a number one seed in their region and then facing the number one seed in the other region, South Carolina in Greenville.
Of course. Since there's only two regional sites. I would say also, I do think the NCAA has a lot of affection for the Triangle area specifically as an NCAA host and while the rally doesn't have always the best amenities for getting a women's Final Four because they don't have as many hotels and all those other things at PNC Arena, the arena itself is thought of as a great host site and if we don't get a women's Final Four, I bet there's a really good chance we could get one of those two women's regionals at PNC Arena in Raleigh in the next five or so years.
I would bet on that being the case. And the final thing getting out of the gate, some good news. Forecasters are taming the hurricane outlook for the season instead of a 65% chance for above normal activity, we're down to a 60% chance for, you can't talk hurricane, it's not a hurricane joke, and we've increased the odds of a normal hurricane season from 25% to 30%.
This is huge. Instead of projecting three to six big time hurricanes, it's now down to three to five. Unfortunately, forecasters did not tell us anything about Martin E. Neches and what his deal might be. Are we trading Neches? Is that a deal? There were hints from Don Waddell and some comments he made that there might be a bridge deal for Neches, get something short-term done to possibly set up a long-term deal later.
But the good news is less chance of lots of deadly hurricanes coming our way. Adam Gold here from my man, Coach Pete DeRuta with the Capital Financial Advisory Group. We are talking retirement.
All right, Coach, simple. When do we start tax planning in retirement? We should start as soon as possible because here's one thing, Adam, taxes are not going away.
Right. So the game here is we know the rules, a lot of people want to ignore the rules or act like they aren't familiar with them, but the IRS knows the rules. And so when we get to retirement, they're going to reach in and start taking some of their money out of your accounts. So the secret here is to put a force field around as much as possible by strategically moving some of our money to Roth IRA or some of the other vehicles that aren't taxed, like special life insurance policies.
You can borrow against your money there and never have to pay tax on your money that you build up inside your cash value. So there are a lot of strategies here. The one strategy that does not work is ignoring it. So let's make sure to not ignore it.
The next 10 people will do for you your very own tax and retirement plan that'll help you minimize taxation all the way through retirement. 800-661-7383. All you got is call or you can text Adam to 21000 for Coach Pete DeRuta. The best seats in sports are typically where? In hockey, on the glass, right? Debatable.
I mean, come on, both of you guys, I got Victoria over there giving me a not real, I mean, some guys I like the view. I mean, okay, I'm going like with the what of the cliche, the most expensive seats. Oh yeah. Right. Like a concert front row, right? Oh yeah.
Oh no, I actually like the wall and it's a better atmosphere, but okay, we okay, fine. You asked the question. On the glass. We're giving you answers. Basketball on the court, front row, right? Yeah. Football. I don't want to know where you think in the 50 yard line, right? Yeah. Okay. I guess in golf, technically you're on the playing surface because they can hit it near you.
Forget that. But in track tonight, in track, you don't see very often where fans stand on the track next to the runners. And that's how it goes down at the Sir Walter Miler, several events, including the elite men and elite women's miles. Joining us now is one of the founders of the Sir Walter Miler, the guy who runs it and he'll have happily sell you a mortgage as well. It is Pat Price. What's going on, Pat?
Hey, it's always good to hear from you. I like that lead in music reminded me of one of my favorite movies, PCU. Excellent. Is that the one with the meme from Steve Buscemi?
How's it going fellow dudes? Is that a different one? It's Jeremy Piven. You know, when he, when he goes, there's a bunch of school year olds in college basically. Yes, yes, yes. All right, the event tonight, I've heard the backstory enough times, if people don't know the backstory, then go look it up. You had a friend who was trying to break a four minute mile, you got a bunch of people together to fire them up and that kicked off an event where now you bring in elite runners from across the United States and really across the world and attempt to run some of the fastest mile times they can. Other than the elite mile tonight, what are some of the things that are happening at Cardinal Gibbons High School that make it the great event that it is?
Sure. So we kick off at seven, you know, right after they finished football practice over there, we have on running, doing a tailgate on the field with free food. We've got four food trucks in the parking lot and then at 830, the races start. The first one is going to be that coaches clash, which is a bunch of local coaches running the mile to kind of inspire their kids and you're one of the fun wrinkles in that race. We've been telling people all week, we have, we have Olympians from four different countries running the event tonight. But one of those Olympians is Dan Middleman, who was a 10K athlete on the 1996 team for representing the USA.
He's a teacher in Raleigh now, so kind of cool having that. And then after that at 840 is the run club relay. So you've probably been or heard of a club in town, whether it's Bond brothers or the node club or you name it, that these guys line up, they're, they're best for athletes.
It's a mixed race. They usually have some men and women on them and they just get after it. There will be hamstrings pulled, there will be ice bags given out.
They will not have access to the trainer, but we'll happily give them a few Advil. All right. A couple of questions for you.
Pat Price of Sir Walter Mahler. For my good friend, Josh Goodson, since you have all these, uh, track coaches there, can you get them on record a video of like what track coaches actually do? Because Josh Goodson doubts that track coaches are necessary at all.
He says they're totally worthless. Basically, it's just people sitting there yelling, run faster and holding clipboards. So make sure to ask the coaches what they actually do. Let's get with that.
All right. Let's brag a little bit. You already mentioned one, uh, of, uh, elite runner who's in this field, a former Olympian, but let's talk about people who have been in this field, who have gone to do other things. Cause I saw the, um, we saw us trials not too long ago, and then the, uh, the world track and field championships, actually the world athletic championships.
I'm going to ask you about that in a second, uh, took place in Oregon. And I know there were folks that were in that field that had been Sir Walter Mahler runners. So what, what have some of the people that have run in the Sir Walter Mahler gone on to do at the Olympic and international level? Yeah.
I mean, that's it. We've had some people get some medals, whether it's, uh, the world championships, I don't think we have an Olympic medal yet, but we do have those calm games are going on right now. Certainly us championships, lots of medals from athletes that either ran our race earlier in their career or that they're coming now, you know, one of the guys in the field, uh, is running our race tonight, just ran the world championships, ran the 10 K and we'll be running the mile tonight.
And it's cool because his first race right before he went pro was at the Mahler in 2018. And he just said, y'all have the wildest crowd out there of any race in America. I got to get back. And those are the kinds of things we like to hear because we don't have the biggest person out there, but, uh, we will have the most fans and people in Raleigh show up for this event. And, uh, it's just a blast. If you haven't been before it's free, it's a lot of fun.
You can go over to Raleigh brewing afterwards and hang out with these athletes after they've run a three 53 mile or something, and it really kind of see what's going on with the sports a little different than what you might not be used to. Very cool. All right.
A couple of questions. How cool is it? This is an event you started almost a decade ago now, and I'm sure you had dreams of it being bigger, you know, bigger the next year than it was the year before, but I have no idea what you thought it would become. How cool is it now when you're watching, uh, uh, you know, an Olympic event or a world championship and there's somebody running in the final race in the mile or whatever or qualifying to run in the, uh, you know, the finals at the Olympics or the world championships. And that's a person that ran at the server Walter Myler and event you started. That's gotta be pretty cool.
Right? It's huge. You know, and a lot of it is exactly what you're saying. You take a lot of pride in hosting these people. We have families host the athletes here and it's like, you know, having that band that you like that gets big and we're playing at the poor house and the next thing you know, they're at Walnut Creek and there's definitely that feeling to it. And, uh, the local families and athletes that come out and watch, they take a lot of inspiration from it as well. And that's, that's our goal.
Okay. I think we just stumbled onto something. This is the Sir Walter Myler is the hopscotch of track events, right? Like you might like, you might be seeing Lizzo play like some, you know, with like 250 other people in 2012 or whatever it was, having no idea that you're watching the next superstar. So like, get out there, you'll re you'll remember these names when one of these people is the best American Myler and the, and you know, she's trying to win an Olympic gold or whatever it is. Um, let me ask you a couple of bigger questions about track and field. Cause I don't know if you knew this, but track and field does not dominate sports radio the way it should. So since I've got, since I've got you here, I want, I want to tap your expertise.
One, I said, and I asked you about this kind of jokingly, but I'm also like curious and serious about it. I always, my whole life I've heard it referred to as track and field. Track is the running on the track, whether it's the longer events or the sprints. Field is the throwing, the jumping, all the other stuff, right?
I noticed for the first time, I'd never seen this. What I used to know, the world championships track and field were being referred to as athletics. And when I asked you about it, like, what, what is the, what is this? You said, well, give me your answer. Like why, why are we going by athletics? And then my, my followup is, so at the next Olympics, will it be referred to as athletics?
Is this a move that the we're making for the, for the longterm? I think it depends who you ask. Athletics is more of an international term. It's kind of like the metric system in the U S you'll still hear track and field a little bit more. It's all the same, but, uh, athletics doesn't offend me. I'm used to hearing it, but I, but I know some people might hear athletics and they might think football or basketball or hockey or whatever, um, but, but I'm okay with it. It's just like putting a U in color or favorite. Sure.
Sure. But am I wrong that I just noticed it for the first time? Like I don't like the signage, I feel like even, and it was in America said world athletics or whatever. And that's the new name of it. It used to be called the IIAF and it was changed to world athletics a few years ago because the president was, you know, laundering money and taking payouts and all kinds of stuff. And they said, Hey, let's change it up. And so that's it. Yeah. It was the world athletics championship, basically the Olympics in a non Olympic year for track and field or athletics as they call it.
If you live abroad. Um, and then what is the health of U S athletics or track and field, however you call it right now? I mean, I, I, I remember growing up the era of, you know, Carl Lewis and then Michael Johnson, obviously those are sprinters. Um, and track and field encompasses a lot of stuff. The, you know, the there's the field events, there's sprint, there's long distance, and I know you're more focused on the long distance, but, uh, but also saw several events at the, at the world championships that the American sprinters were, uh, sweeping. Obviously many of the traditional countries were doing well in the things they do. What's the health of American track right now or running in general? Well, I think it was the best performance that the U S has ever had at a world championship.
I think a lot of it has to do with it with being in Eugene in America. This is the first time it's happened in our lifetime. Uh, people like you're talking about Sidney McLaughlin running a world record, no allows, you know, getting the American record, beating Michael Johnson, who a lot of us remember from the 96 games in Atlanta, where in the gold spikes, um, things are good and it's across the board. Sprints are good.
Distance runners are competing in the events with the Kenyans and Ethiopians. And that's, that's been a new thing over the fast past few years in our throwers have just been incredible. Um, so it's, it's, it was really entertaining to watch. Uh, you know, part of the reason we do the milers to kind of seclude a little area to give people just a little dose, but, uh, you know, I was entertained the whole time and, and I'm a critic of the sport as well. So very cool.
Uh, Pat price, sir, Walter Meyers tonight, uh, for the elite races, you can get on the track and watch them. All right. I got to ask this. What made you feel older? Pat price finding out that you had a cataract or, um, or losing to Joe Ovius in a running race. What was up with that, dude? Hey, you know, you and I and Joe are all the same age class of 97.
Sure. I told my wife this the other day, I'm starting to feel it this year. And I think both of those things, the cataracts as my, my ophthalmologist basically made fun of me for being too young to have one. And, uh, of course chasing Joe around and 90 degree weather and a hundred percent humidity did not feel like the days of Providence high school running around, uh, McAlpine park, you know, a little bit stiffer, but Hey, it's all fun.
We'll, we'll enjoy others doing it and, uh, getting out there and jogging just the same will be nice once the weather gets a little cooler. Did your doctor prescribe anything for the cataract? Cause I'm not a doctor, but sometimes I hear you get the prescriptions to prevent those things or once you get it, I don't know how that works anyway. And then to be fair, all right. You were racing Ovious four laps, first three, and you had to do the math and think I can run a six minute mile and he can't run three laps in six minutes.
Right. Was that the calculation you were doing? That, that was a calculation. I made one small error. I didn't realize he was going to kick hard, uh, at the end of lap three and just walk the last lap.
So that was on me. He should have to run his first lap in like a two minute and then you guys race for three laps against each other and you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I feel like he made it sound like he wasn't trying to get lapped, but then he really didn't even like he was just running a three lap race. It wasn't like he was really running a mile. He sprinted three laps and then walked the last one. I'm not sure.
Yeah. I'll give him the strategy points on that one cause he definitely was smart enough to kind of hear me come in and make that extra move so that I couldn't catch him right at the end. I like to continue to tell myself that I could break a six minute mile without ever having to prove that I could. So until someone like put some stakes out there for me, um, stakes like S T A K E S not S T E. I've had too many of the S T E A K S I need some stakes to, to, uh, some, uh, some incentive. So, uh, anything else that we need to know about the miler tonight, it'll be, uh, at Cardinal Gibbons food trucks, you said great atmosphere. It's the hopscotch of running.
So you're going to see, uh, some of the next great runners and some of the great runners who've already been great and are just stopping in to do the mile. Anything else we need to know about the event tonight? It's free. So, you know, no charge. Come on out and see one of the biggest, uh, American track and field nights for no cost at all.
Just show up, have fun, go to rally brewing afterwards. Good times. Pat Price.
Sir Walter Miler. Go check it out. One of the coolest events homegrown right here in North Carolina. We appreciate the time, man. Have a great event tonight. Thanks guys.
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Listen now, find Kane's 25th anniversary wherever you get your podcasts. It's the weekends. Is it fun Fridays? Is that what we do here?
I mean, it can't, it can turn into it's been, it's been a funky Friday so far feels like good stuff. Dennis Cox producing Victoria associate producing right there. Yes.
Kicking it. I understand we'll be doing a show together in a few weeks. So shout out to everyone who's headed down to the beach or the mountains or wherever you might be.
I might, I might do both. Don't be working afternoon on a Friday in August. Don't be doing that. I know, I know football just started, but do not be acting like the summer is over. We are not packing it in. The summer continues just because football started doesn't mean it's fall.
Check the temps. Still mid nineties, real feel one Oh three chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. We're still got the everyday summer forecast going on. Okay. So I figured, you know, with football being started that, you know, we are, that's right.
Football. That's right. No, no, no. We are, we are living in America, but we're still living in summer.
I need some like Lizzo. I need people to remind people that it is still summer. It is not fall stave off the pumpkin spice. We're not, we're already in stave mode and we're still in summer Friday mode, which means, Hey, I'm going to lunch at 11 and then you don't have to say, but it's implied I'll see you on Monday.
All right. That's what it is right now. Speaking of going down to the beach, I'm going to give you a little more beach etiquette. And remember if you heard yesterday's show and you're driving down to highway 40, I see this is what this is.
This is what I do still remind people. This is summer. We're still listening to beach music. You know, this is not a football song, right? You don't listen to the song at a tailgate.
They can be. I mean, obviously you can put this on anytime. And we did have a Lizzo reference in the last segment because Sir Walter Myler is the hopscotch of track events. What year was it that Lizzo came to hopscotch?
How cool was that? I don't know. Almost a decade ago now, or maybe not. Probably not that long.
It's probably more like 2016, 2018. Anyway. All right. In the mentions, you get at us, you tweet at us, you email us. You want to hear about things. We respond.
This came up yesterday. You talking to me? Oh.
Then who the hell else are you talking to? We have production aids. I forgot.
I forgot. This is a professional show. So yesterday we talked to Jeremy Markovich about how if you were driving on I-40 east of Meddon, basically if you're from Alamance County all the way down to Brunswick County, that highway is sponsored by Johnson Automotive. It's a clever marketing ploy. They spend a lot of money and they help keep the highways clean and you get to see their name whether you notice it or not. But one of the things I noticed in Jeremy's article was he talked to the marketing director at Johnson Automotive who said billboards are harder to come by these days. A lot of municipalities are putting the kibosh on billboards.
There aren't as many. So the sponsor of highway was a creative way to get their name and logo out there to people who drive cars, right? But in the article he said, I'm not a big fan of TV ads. He said there's no good car commercial TV ads out there, which I found ironic because one of the greatest local car ads ever was for Johnson Automotive and when I mentioned this yesterday, I got a lot of response from people who, like me, remembered the Badger. You remember the Badger commercials, right? He was the car salesman. Yeah. Like, for example, the Badger might, you know, talk to a single woman trying to sell a car and he was your stereotypical terrible car salesman.
Here's what he sounded like. Can I help you, ma'am? Yeah, I'm interested in this SUV.
As soon as your husband gets here, I'll be more than happy to show you all the features. Actually, it's for me. So there's no need looking under the hood. Here's where the cup holders are and there's the rear view mirror.
That's where you can put on your makeup. And this is the steering wheel here is what you use to drive with. Hey, honey, come on back here. Tired of being badgered?
Come to any Johnson Automotive dealership. Great deals, great service, no badger. Just a fantastic. So then people were like, you know, reminded of their, people would remember the lines from the Badger ads. There's one where he'd be like, the guy would be like, do we have any wiggle room in the price? And he'd be like, wiggle room? I'll show you wiggle room.
Wiggle, wiggle, what? And then one guy was like mini blue and I was like, Ming, I was trying to remember them all. And here's the Ming blue ad that people remembered. I really like the car. I was just wondering if it's available and any other colors?
Oh yeah, we got a wide range of colors. Great, great. Um, how about this white opal? Not available.
Okay. Um, the platinum metallic? Out of stock. Gold mist metallic?
Not available. How about the Ming blue? The mini blue? Ming blue. Ming blue? Ming. Ming blue. Ming blue? Ming blue? Yes. Nope.
Tired of being badgered? Then come to Johnson Hyundai of Cary. Ming blue. Great deals. Great service.
No badger. One of the greatest car commercials of all time. So yes, I agree. Most car commercials are bad. I don't want to start naming companies who have bad car commercials, but like some of them are really bad, but this was one of the greatest ones ever. They hired the people to do the Geico ads.
You can kind of see some of the themes of the Geico ads in those Johnson Lexus automotive ads. Was anybody in your mentions about anything, Dennis Cox? I didn't want to take all of the mentions.
I do have another one to fit if you need me to go. Oh, just someone that would threaten to beat you up for knocking me on comic books. Oh yeah, your comic book nerd friends came out from like their parents' basement to defend you. Yeah. Are they going to beat me over the head with like plastic comic protectors?
Is that what's going to happen? Seattle gold show, Hayes-Permar cut off. That's right. You can look at him trying to talk. Where's my microphone? Oh, there it is.
There's your microphone. No, the only other mention that a lot of people were talking about, we talked about Blake McShea was a Monday qualifier at the Wyndham. Okay. He's now top 10, he's 500 for the day, 600 overall. So we might have to start talking more and more about these Zebulun, I might have to take you just hole by hole through the Zebulun country club in honor of Blake McShea. I started the show by saying we need a local story to pull for because the leaderboard is not doing so hot. Well, darn it. We got Blake McShea, eight time champion at the Zebulun country club.
Now in the top 10 at the Wyndham. That's what I'm talking about. That's who we're cheering for. This is the Adam gold show. June 19th, 2006, but it all started May 6th, 1997 with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina. It's a story of transition, of heartbreak, of figuring it out on the fly. The Canes Corner look at the 25th anniversary of the move presented by the aluminum company of North Carolina. And now find Canes 25th anniversary wherever you get your podcasts.
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