WEBVTT - 10-2-25 Scott Sloan Show 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.640 Don't want to be an American. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:04.600 The answer to the question do you miss me? Would 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.840 be who slowly back on seven hundred w l ws. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.120 I said back a little longer than I explained to 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.040 be out at this point, I'm the injury, but I'm 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.320 playing injured. Unlike some people, I can play injured. Explain 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.040 to me. Austin Elmore is in from ESPN fifteen thirty. Well, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.319 chop up the Reds demise. But here's Joe Burrow, the 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.240 multi billion dollar quarterback. We're not gonna do here we go, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.240 You're not in the game. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:35.479 After being gone, you take more vacation time than Willie, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.200 and then you have this phantom ankle injury that keeps 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.080 you out for an extra month, and you want to 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.760 come in here talking about the durability of Joe Burrow. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:49.160 I don't want to hear it. I'm Joe Burrow, and 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.680 I am more able. Jimmy kimmeled your ass. That's what 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.279 should have happened. I go in for an ankle procedure, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.240 which thought, hey, I got this bone rubbing out of 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.000 ten and it's kind of sore. Yeah. Two hours later, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.680 her surgeon consentsals, my wife, your husband has been walking 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.360 around for god knows how long on a fully ruptured 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.920 foot foot tended. That's insane and uh is that what? 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.080 You blame your golf game on me? And now I 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.720 got Now there's no excuses. Yeah, you got your shoulder fixed, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.399 you got your ankle fixed. You better get the game fixed. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.360 I'm like a Nascar The right side of my body 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.959 has been I got to the left side. Now, Holy crap, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.640 just need an oil change. My search is like, yeah, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.720 you fully ruptured your tendon. It's gonna be a minute. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.640 Could you think of a moment when you did it? 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.240 Because there a pinpoint I'm speaking of my my you know, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.319 eight thousand vacation days. We were in Australia and I 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.240 felt like a little pop and it hurt for like 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.840 the better part of a day. But she said you 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.800 probably did it before that it was something else. So 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.840 I'd like, I don't know, man, I'm just stupid. Well, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.480 my younger my younger brother actually had surgery yesterday on 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.000 his shoulder and they're like, you know, we fixed your shoulder, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.040 but apparently somewhere along line, you rupture your bicep. Completely 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.720 had no idea. Nope, that's true, Like we just have 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:07.800 no money Badgers. I was watching and what was it. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.440 It was called Nova Can the guy who could Feel 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.040 No pain. It's like that should be the nickname. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:16.079 Now, okay, wow, yeah, Like all right, well guy, I 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.799 guess I'm glad you're no. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.480 It's fine. I mean there's and there's in all seriousness, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.959 there's people who have far worse more illnesses. So I'll 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:27.120 take some osteoarthritis and attended seven and whatever. It's there's 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.200 worst crap out there and one of those things that's 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.160 causing a lot of pain. Today. Uh, Sunday was wonderful 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.560 because Sunday the champagne was flowing. The shirts came out. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:41.640 You get your limited edition built for Fall shirts. Maybe 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.360 second guessing that purchase this morning Wednesday, I'm really glad 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.079 I didn't go down to that shop. You know, you're 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.320 not that guy. I like that. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.280 I like that sort of stuff, but I only will 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.280 buy it, really if the team advances. I have a 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.919 Bengals Super Bowl fifty six quarters it yeah, still has 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.320 the tags on it. Never worn it not at all 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.640 because they didn't win. It just sits in my car. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.760 I don't wear the Hey wild Card, like if you 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.000 win the World Series, Super Bowl. Whatever. Did you see 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:17.040 the different story of the hat with the post? How 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.720 much seventy dollars? It's insane. Somebody right now is looking, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.120 this's going, I'm really stupid. I'm really I should not. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:23.480 Don't. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.520 Don't fall into that. That means nothing, right, Championships means something, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:32.040 even like AFC National League champion Pennant went okay, yeah, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.000 but he win the division. Yeah I'm not but I'm 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.560 not buying that. It's just it's so anyway, Uh, how 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.080 do you kill cockerroaches with a big, heavy bat with 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.520 a Louisville slugger, Because that's what happened on two games. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.800 They're eighteen to nine. They're outscored. The longest drought in 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.520 sports continues for the Red Legs. Austin Elmore, my boy 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.320 from ESPN fifteen thirty. El here, he and Tony Pike 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.640 this afternoon, about noon talking about this and all these 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.600 sports misery. We went in a short period of weeks 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.120 when like FC was rolling. The Reds are in a 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.240 historic run right now to close out the season, get 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.000 in the postseason. You got the Bengals kick off, oh well, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.520 two and zero, and all of a sudden, in a 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.360 few short weeks all, it all burned down. Yeah, from 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.160 the time I left and came back, the whole city 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.880 burned down. What the hell happened? I wish I could 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.920 explain it, I really do. Like, obviously, the Burrow injury 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.320 changes everything for the Bengals, and the way that they 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.240 performed in Minnesota, You're like, Okay, just got away from them, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.120 Surely they're not that bad. And then they confirmed that 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.239 they are that bad with the way that they perform 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.760 in Denver, and all of a sudden you've lost all 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.440 expectations for the Bengals. And then with the Reds it 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.919 was the exact opposite. They played just good enough to 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.440 outlast the Mets and get into the playoffs. Normally, an 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.159 eighty three win team is not going to get you 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.640 into the playoffs. The Reds were just enough better than 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.960 the Mets, who had a historical collapse and the same 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.280 and half of the season to get into the The 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.720 Reds did not go on this surge of offense and 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.240 pitching in defense to earn a spot into the postseason. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.960 They simply didn't play as bad as the Mets. In 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.360 all fairness, they played a really good series against the 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.920 Milwaukee team was resting some guyst the Chicago Cubs swept 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.400 the Cubs, so down the stretch they did some some 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.560 and I you know people, well, yeah, you but Milwaukee's 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.920 resting their starters and there. Yeah, but you still did 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.680 something you haven't been able to do, I think since 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.800 Kennedy was president, feels like and that was beat it. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.080 Take a series in Milwaukee, brothers in Milwaukee on top 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.159 of that. Yeah, but what does that mean? 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:38.080 Now? 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.880 You were in the playoffs? Okay, so had they lost 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.719 they swept again, they wouldn't be in and they played 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.240 two more games. It's another beat. It's a it's another 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.040 baby step forward. The big question. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.200 It's a baby step because in a normal year, an 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.920 eighty three win team is not going to make. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.120 That at all. But you did. So they did it. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.640 Now what happens in the offseason, that's going to be 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.479 the three hundred fifty million dollar questions for sure. And 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.720 I'll start with that because because you often hear, especially 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.680 with a team like the Dodgers, where they have a 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.479 three hundred and fifty bazillion dollars payroll in the top 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.480 three guys and they're there are one, two three guys 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.760 make more than the entirety of your club combined, and 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.520 we're not even getting into pitchers and everyone else. It is, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.000 Can the Reds actually compete on that stage? Now you 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.960 look at that go, well, Cleveland's in there. There's some 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.920 smaller market teams, smaller payroll teams that did really well. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.520 The Mets didn't do much or were the Mets right now. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.440 They've got a really high payroll. But at the end 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.120 of the day, can you really compete at that level? 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.720 Yes, you can. The Milwaukee Brewers have a lower payroll 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.920 in the Reds. They're the number one seed in the 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:38.560 National League. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:38.800 Yep. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.760 Everything they do is first classes and the way it's 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.440 scouting and development in their minor league system, in their 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.400 pitching department, all of it. And so, if you are 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.159 going to be an organization that chooses not to compete 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.159 at the highest level financially with the top guys in 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.840 the National League, which the Reds do, they do. They 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.200 have that type of money, the Dodgers' money. No, nobody 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.560 has the Dodgers' money, but the Reds. The Reds could 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.280 be much more. They could spend much more money than 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.200 they do. They choose not to. So if you're going 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.720 to operate that way, you better have the rest of 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.320 your button, your operation buttoned up, and it doesn't feel 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.680 like they have that entirely buttoned up right now because 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.680 there was not enough development this year from young players. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.000 I think you feel really good about Noel vi Marte. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.239 I think you feel really good about salth Stewart. Awesome, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.120 but you're questioning Ellie de la Cruz defensively took a 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.040 step back. Matt McClain put together one of the worst 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.720 offensive seasons in the history of the Reds franchise, and 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.200 he played nearly every day. Austin Hayes one year deal, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.040 hurt all the time, Miguel andhar expiring deal, good acquisition. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.000 Maybe you consider bringing him back. TJ friedel red hot 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.240 for the first seventy five games of the season, just 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:02.920 a guy for the back half. Stevenson injured, Okay, not great, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.400 Jose Travino fell off a cliff, Gavin Lux not a 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.360 complete liability defensively. So there's clearly a lot of work 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.440 that needs to be done on this roster. And I 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.960 give Terry francona credit for all of what I just said. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.480 He did a good job with them of weathering the 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.880 storm and keeping them competitive. He never let it unravel. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.960 That felt like that was the best that you could 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.120 get out of this group of guys. Terry Francona got 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.040 the best out of what he was given. Yeah, as 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.000 he always does. I would say that up until like 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.200 the last two weeks of the season into the playoffs, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.640 I found myself second guessing him more than of Zach Lettel. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.240 Zach Lettel, I mean, I got it right here. So 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.040 the whole idea of the Reds making the playoffs was 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.840 they have Hunter Green, they have Nicolodolo, and they have 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.760 Andrew Rabbit. Andrew Rabbit pitching the All Star Game this year, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.760 he didn't pitch in the postseason. Yeah, Niicolodolo last Night 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.600 fourteen was filthy. He threw fourteen pitches. Yeah, and Hunter 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.560 Green did not meet the moment through sixty five pitches 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:06.080 and got showed. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:06.719 Did anyone see that? 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.800 So the reason that they were supposed to be competitive 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.840 in the playoffs, and I thought they would be competitive, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.800 I legitimately hand up. I gave up on this team. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.880 I quit on this team. I second guessed this team. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.160 But I said the entire time, if they make the postseason, 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.679 they can make some noise because of their pitching, and 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.680 Abbott and Lodolo combined for fourteen pitches. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.960 For the ball for the second half of the season, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.280 probably last third of the season. I was convinced, Okay, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.440 this feels to me, it's a five hundred team, right, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.599 It's a five hundred ball club, maybe a couple of 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.439 games over below. But he kind of backed into the 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.560 playoffs with the Mets collapsing as they did, and it 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.080 felt like, Okay, it's not twenty five, it's twenty six, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.720 it's twenty seven, that they're going to get this thing together. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.680 Put it in. I get the criticism of Terry frank ConA, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.720 but did anyone expect to his credit? Okay, so he 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.680 pitches zach Lytell, and he went why the hell would 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.240 he not? Why is Loddole only getting a dozen pitches? 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.160 Why are you saying having Abbott for a game three 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.080 that may not happen. You know you've got to play 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.920 for tomorrow. You gotta play for today, not tomorrow. I 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.040 understand the second guessing he's a Hall of Fame manager. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.040 I give why birth to that, because he has a 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.520 track record of success where he goes. The zach Lytell 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.080 start was certainly questionable, but you know to him going 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.800 to you don't know what your game one day the next. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.600 The biggest evidence of that, as you mentioned, is Hunter Green. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.880 Did anyone expect Hunter Green in Game one to collapse 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.800 as quickly and as easily as said? No one believed that. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.520 And here's the other part of the whole conversation of 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:35.079 having your operation buttoned up. It was revealed yesterday afternoon 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.920 that the Reds were tipping their pitches did in Game one, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.320 and Hunter Green was the chief among them, and he 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.440 obviously gets touched up by the Dodgers. How do you 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.120 not know going into the postseason what your tels are. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.319 Mike Napoli is on the Reds pitching staff, he or 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.840 is on the Reds coaching staff. He's there because he's 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.280 really good at that picking up guys that are tipping pitches, 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.079 both on the opponents and on themselves. Well, first of all, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.200 how many times have the Reds off exploded offensively? It 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.480 makes you feel like, oh, the other team was tipping 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.160 their pitches. Never happens. And how do you not have 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.959 a self scout in there in your system to say, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.120 Hunter you're doing this with your glove when you throw 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.959 a breaking ball. You're doing this with your foot when 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.719 you throw a fastball. Whatever it is like that sort 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.360 of stuff is what I'm saying. You have to have 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.040 that buttoned up because you don't have the talent advantage 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.400 against the best teams in baseball. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.079 And that's at least twice has happened this season where 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.960 somebody's tiping their pitches. It happened with Chase Burns in Boston. Right, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.360 how many other clubs have you heard this season that happen? 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.120 By the way, Chase Burns is another one. He pitched 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.240 the eighth inning last night. The game was out of hand. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.200 What are we doing? You're not gonna You're. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.320 Pitching is your strength and they combined for seventy six 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.200 pitches seventy nine pitches. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.440 The other side of that, though, is offensively speaking, it's 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:51.959 sound like, you know, the Dodgers have a Vulnert but 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.360 in their bullpen versus ours, and did not exploit that. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.600 Now they did anyone think last night? That a two 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.960 run lead, and it was great to see them pouncing 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.880 on him early. I mean, that was awesome. Right. Sure, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.600 you mentioned Sal Stewart, I am I'm definitely buying some 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.240 sales Stewart. I love that guy for a rookie to 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.560 show what he did at Chabez Ravine that clutch shit 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.400 to drive runs in fantastic and I think it's unfair 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.720 to him, but shows the kind of guy he's for 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.520 hanging that loss on him and that that throwing here 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.440 because there's a lot of other problems I had that 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.960 was not at all on sales. Stewart, that's that. I 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.720 look at what transpired in that regard last night and 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.520 it just leaves me shaking my head, going, well, okay, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.400 you know, you got a great bullpen, you get to 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.200 the Dodgers billing and can't produce runs. I look at 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.640 Ellie de la Cruz wearing that forty four, and we 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.360 heard the story on the telecast last night million million 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.520 times about how Rick Stobe but quet that number on 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.319 him because he reminded him of Eric Davis. He has 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.120 got a long way to go, a long way to 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.520 go before he's at the level of Eric Davis. Is Ellie, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.599 you know, we talk about he's a superstar. He's a 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.120 every commercial you see for mlbing a promo, Ellie's on there. Ay, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.959 all well and good, but what's that guy done? Yeah? 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.200 It was a tough season for Ellie. I know there 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.600 was a lot of off field issues and the loss 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.400 of his sister. He had a quad injury that I 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.000 think was probably a little more severe than we realized 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.120 that he played through. He had adjusted that swing to 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.199 where there was a toe tap instead of a leg kick, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.600 and when he went back to the leg kick, some 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.480 of the power went back. Defensively, he was atrocious up 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.320 until the last two weeks of the season. A difficult 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.360 season for Ellie, but there were moments in which you 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.600 were waiting for him to grab hold of it and 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.840 to become that superstar and to match all the hype. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.880 I did an entire segment about this going into the 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.520 game on Tuesday night, which is, yeah, Hunter Green is starting, 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.800 and that's cool, but this is a chance for Elie 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.320 de la Cruz to emerge, yes, and to. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.000 Be the guy. And he didn't do it. He didn't 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.440 do it last night with the bases loaded. It sucks. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.800 I mean, there's no other way to say it. It 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.680 stinks that in that moment, your guy didn't have a moment, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.079 and you know there was a. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.240 Couple of time opportunities. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.840 Yeah he did. He's had opportunities all season, He's just loaded. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.839 Come on, and the Reds, you know, with runners in 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.640 scoring position and when the bases loaded, are among the 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.720 worst two worst teams in baseball. That's this was a 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:14.080 perfect encapsulation of their season. And it sucks for Ellie, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.200 it really does. It sucks for Reds fans. I don't 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.040 know how else to say it. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.720 Well again, and maybe he needs a few reps next 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.760 season too. Is not playing every yeah. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.400 And Jeff Brantley made a point about that is next year, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.880 the kids got to get some days off. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:26.400 Yeah. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.359 And there was actually a moment last night Doug Glanville 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.520 on the TV broadcast played for Terry Francona in Philadelphia, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.880 and he had told Terry Francona, I want to play 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.280 all one hundred and sixty two games, right, And there 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.480 was a point later in the season where Francona comes 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.160 up to him and says, it looks like the bat 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.160 is swinging you. I'm giving you a day off. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.240 Yeah. He's got to be able to do that with 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.160 Eli Da La Cruz next year. And I think there's 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.760 a learning even his advance, his advanced age and all 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.600 the experience he has, Terry would tell he admit that 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.640 he learned something new every day, which is that's what 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.160 makes him the Hall of Famer that he is. It 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.200 was awfully tough to watch Game one because you know, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:00.560 it was out a hand early, and I think for 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.280 a lot of Reds fans, did you have a sense 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.400 like as soon as Otani hit that that jack jack 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.520 that first, You're like, man, maybe this this run is over. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:10.920 You know what to do that to the first inning, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.160 the first pitch, But boy, you know that was an 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.520 eye opening moment for me, and it got worse from there. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.680 In Game one, you're hoping for a bounce back ten 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.080 who it started that way, and you're like, we got 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.960 to get more than two runs against this Dodger team, 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.160 and they didn't until it was too late. Yeah, I 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.440 mean I kind of figured once the home runs happened 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.280 that the game one was over, just because I know 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.320 the Reds don't have the ability to score a bunch 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.120 of runs, So you know, that one I thought it 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.440 was over. But I legitimately thought the plan going into 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.960 last night, if lttel can go through the order once 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.200 and then get you through to Lodolo, you'll be good. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.000 Everybody on the planet knew that you can't leave Lodolo 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.040 or Lattel in more than that batter in the fourth 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.600 Yea and Francona did. There was, if I have any criticisms, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.200 there was times towards the end of this season where 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.960 it felt like Terry Francona didn't have the feel for 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.400 the game. And that's concerning to me. All right, off season, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.680 Red's gonna We're gonna talk about this all offseason. And 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.000 now a lot of this is it's not about Terry 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.480 francne Is. It's gonna certainly be on the front off. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.200 It's going to be Bob and Phil in time to 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.240 open up the purse strings, micause you got this far. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.720 My final point is this, Yes, you can be happy 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.160 that the Reds made an appearance in the postseason, but 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.160 you should at no point feel satisfied with what they accomplished. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.720 They shouldn't feel that way, Bob, Phil, Nick, Terry, every 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.520 player on that team. There was a sense of accomplishment 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.000 in the clubhouse last night, and that's bs. They should 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.760 not feel that way because this team underachieved. As far 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.880 as I'm concerned, A lot left on the table and 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.800 waiting for that moment to go Okay, good this this 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.160 is a pause, and now we move forward. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.120 The goal should always be much, much more than just 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.360 making an appearance in the postseason. The Reds have the 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.320 longest playoff advancement drought in North American sports at over 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.760 thirty years. Until you change, and until you actually advance, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.280 no one's going to take you seriously. And I will 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.760 not celebrate postseason appearances. Don't buy the postseason built for 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.680 fall shirt. So you spend your money however you want. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.280 I don't care until I'm not going to do it. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:10.960 I'm waiting till you do. You got to do something. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.159 You got to show me something. Win the division, win something. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.679 Austin Elmore late today new in ESPN fifteen thirty. Are 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.000 lots to talk about with him and to Pike, thanks Budy, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:24.840 appreciate you seven hundred WW. Every time there's a protest 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.960 place like oh Portland, for example, and people are on 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.320 the streets, and then the people in law enforcement wearing 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.880 the helmets and have the batons out and the shields, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.800 and when these people get arrested for not they always 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.240 start crying. You kind of knew it's coming. If you 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.640 don't get out, you're surprised at you're crying that you're 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.200 getting arrested. I just I don't understand it. I don't 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.119 I don't get it. But that's part of old Agehoe 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.080 is getting all banged ups. Loney back on seven hundred WLW. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.240 All right, the ankle's making but we're making progress on 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.439 the ankle. Three more weeks and I can put it. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:05.439 How about that good times to be had? You know this, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.600 I don't know, and I haven't listened at all because 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.880 I've been kind of out of it. But the government shutdown. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.359 Get into that for a minute here before other stuff. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.879 You know, it's the same tired political game that goes on, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.920 and if you're cheering for one side or the other, 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.560 then you know, maybe you want to take pause and 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.280 just listen for a second. Because everything you need to 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:30.800 know about this shutdown comes from a headline from of 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.639 all things, the athletic, and the headline is that what 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.880 the athletic? What has that got to do with the shutdown? 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:44.160 Here's your headline. Air Force versus Navy football will go 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:49.399 on as scheduled. The ongoing US government shutdown will not 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.119 impact the playing of college sports games at Air Force 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:56.760 Army and Navy. What does that tell you about the 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.400 seriousness of those who are shutting our government down. It's 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:06.840 all theater. If you manufacture a crisis and pretend it's 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.119 the other side that's evil in doing this, and you 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.040 get enough people to believe you, you win, because fear 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:18.600 is the currency of power. The truth is how much 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.399 has actually closed? Do you have an idea of how 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.480 you look at all the federal government? The eleventy billion 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.399 eleveny what is it, eleven dy billion dot, whatever the 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.439 hell it is, of how much money we spend every minute? 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.000 The shutdown effects about eight percent of that federal budget. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.600 Eight percent of the federal budget is not funded currently 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:46.280 because of the shutdown. In the order itself, it requires 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.880 it non essential departments shut down. What should enrage all 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.560 of us, especially those of us who are either those 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.400 of you who are really conservative Magget conservatives or lean 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.960 to the right, or libertarian like me, because that means 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.679 that the Maga Doze phonies consider ninety two percent of 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.240 government to be essential. I thought, this is about shedding. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:10.200 We'll get to that in a second, because you may, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.520 just because of the nature of the way this is going, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.560 shed some jobs here. But so that means that those 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.399 who are going to shut this thing down, ninety two 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.159 percent of government is essential. Well, what was Doze about then? 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:32.280 And Dooze literally figuratively didn't do anything. So you have defense, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.160 you have veterans affairs, you have health and human services, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.000 and labor and education and energy, and a bunch of 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:42.240 air traffic controllers, Transportation Security Administration TSA officers. My daughter's 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.160 flying today, so she'll be fine. Customers in Border Protection 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.600 IRS FBI, all those agents are still on the job. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.119 About a quarter the FAA, though, is going to be furloughed, 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.960 which again is just just enough, just enough disruption for 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:00.959 someone to know. It's not going to shut the airlines down. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.600 I'm not gonna shut anything, but it's gonna be just 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.960 a little more, a little more crowd, a little more slow, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.320 little more plotting, just enough to maybe get your tender. 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.600 You're still gonna get your student loan, You're still gonna 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.840 get your Social Security, you're gonna blieve me, you're gonna 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:16.720 be able to get your PLAVIXX. You're gonna be fine. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.119 But if you you know the thing is, if you 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.240 really want to stop this BS, we're gonna shut the 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.280 government down. Every time we don't get our way, or 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.119 to send a message and bring America to its knees, 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.080 which really doesn't have you really want to stop this, 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.480 you know, Congress, the executive branch, the judiciaria. How about 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.520 you don't get paid during a shutdown? What you can't 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.600 not pay us? How about your health benefits go away? 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.680 Members of the Senate, members of the Congress, you get 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.720 in it. You can't go to the doctor, you can't 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.399 get You're gonna have to pay out of pocket for 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.200 stuff when the government shuts down. I know, okay, we can't. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:53.840 We gotta pay these guys because it's constitutional, it's protected. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.840 But what about the benefits? Why don't we cut the 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:58.439 spict off to that? Why don you guys vote on that. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:00.520 Put that up there and say hello, and every time 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:01.960 we shut the government down, we can't come with a 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.760 budget and we'll get paid. But yeah, the healthcare of 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.879 the perks, the car surface, all that stuff that they 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.159 get that goes away. So we open things. But you 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.040 don't think that would maybe we'd see a lot fewer 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:19.720 disruptions like this. I would, because you know it's a 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:24.160 temper tantrum. We want outrage for our cause. Not outrage 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.280 at the system that encourages it. You know, if you 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:29.840 again on that note, if you want to hear from 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.520 constituents and they you know, they want you maybe paying 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:34.520 attention to all the government's shutting down. This is bad. 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:36.560 We've got to get this thing together and on what's 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:41.000 causing this whole thing. If you cut medicare off in 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:45.200 social security, that get it people's attention, right and and 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.840 but now it's like, well, okay, what's the narrative on 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.600 this thing, the shutdown? Well, Schumer really is under pressure 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.119 from his base to show that Democrats are want to 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.680 take the hammer to Trump and those the AOC who's 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:58.160 been all over the place, the EOC is the world 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.640 of progressives of the party are angry as Trump continues 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:03.880 to get what he wants, and so like, hey, we'll 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.240 shut things down and we'll use healthcare in this case 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:11.240 as a pretext. And you know, the sad part about 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.560 this thing is what we want. Okay, we need to 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:16.480 save Obamacare. That's what this is about. This is about 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:18.800 saving We got to there's twenty two million people who 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:20.919 depend on this, and I agreed, and the healthcare has 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.480 been a mess for a long time and Republicans hold 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.760 a majority, but Democrats are needed to move those funding 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:30.080 bills in the Senate, And so now it's the party 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.760 attacking Republicans is irresponsible for threatening shutdowns in the past, 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:35.760 and now they're shutting things down themselves and throwing their 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:40.719 own temper tantrum, which further illustrates the silliness of politics. 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:43.639 I will say, though, that as I look at this, 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.080 maybe there's a chance that the federal workforce comes out 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.879 and maybe it's a little bit smaller as result of 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.040 this thing. Because you know Trump is and he's great 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:54.439 at calling somebody's bluff saying okay, went after the Office 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:58.080 of Budget Management and say, how about this, We'll start 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.399 permanent job cuts as the government shuts down. But we 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:04.639 know the government really never shuts down, as I just 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.880 pointed out, by only eight percent of government shutting down, 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:12.080 ninety two percent is still fully functional and funded, and somehow, 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:14.520 some way, within a week or two at the most, 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:16.760 the two parties always work out in agreement. And what 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.359 the agreement is is, hey, you know what, we're just 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.040 going to kick the can down the road for a 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.040 few more months and spend a lot more money doing it, 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.719 bankrupting America even further. That sound like a plan to you. 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.280 That sounds like a plan, and that's what happens every 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:33.840 stinging time. So the idea that somehow is like we're 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:35.919 fighting for this guys who we're fighting for the American 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.080 But they're fighting for yourselves. You're fighting for power and 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.439 scaring people is the currency you spend to get what 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.000 you want. And that's really how things work. That's how 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:48.879 government works. But helps like eight percent. Okay, you look 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:50.120 at that, go wait, wait a minute, this is about 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:52.240 eight percent of the government. Yeah, the important stuff, that 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:55.040 is stuff important to them. It still stays open, some 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:59.200 big deal. It's illustrated by that point. The Air Force 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:01.320 Navy football game will still go on. Well why isn't 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:05.160 that shut down. I'm not saying I enjoy Service academy battles, 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.080 especially the Army Navy game. We didn't like that. It's 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.240 about as American as it gets. Tell you what, I've 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.639 seen a game in Navy Marine Corps Stadium. It's a 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:16.760 phenomenal play. I haven't seen anything at the other academies, 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:20.560 but they're in Maryland. Absolutely, it puts a lump in 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:22.040 your throat. It makes the hair in the back of 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:23.640 your next ten. It's all of that. If you've ever 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:27.320 been to a game there, it's fantastic to watch the 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:30.880 midshipman come marching. It's really really cool. But okay, if 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:33.560 we shut government down, why are we doing that? Well, 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:40.120 that's different, is it is? That doesn't seem essential? Yeah, 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:43.800 but you can't. Really that's punishing the athletes of Yeah, 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:46.120 but you're the ones guys shutting the government down, not them, 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:51.480 not our soldiers and airmen and sailors. Well you don't understand. 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:53.960 I understand perfectly. What you're doing is you're jerking our chain. 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:57.399 Like if you really wanted to get stuff done in Washington, 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:00.960 if there's an impetus to do that, you would. But 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:03.840 you know, we again it's the nature of politics because 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:08.359 we took what works in sports, and that is you 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.959 know this, this this rabid fan base that we have 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:13.359 for you look at look at everything in sports are 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:18.439 gone all right? You look at people buying Bengals jerseys 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:20.600 and helmets. You know, you see somebody wearing a I 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.080 don't know, a Trump hat, or someone who has a 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:25.640 bunch of you know, liberal bumper stickers on their Volvo 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:29.200 driving on seventy five I mean, you're kind of buying 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.520 that merch too. It's it's to we take in sports 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:32.679 and just said, hey, you know what they worked for 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:35.280 sports looking to rabbit. People are over sports. We'll just 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:38.720 apply to the politics. That's pretty damn good. Let's do that. 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:40.679 And we've kind of made a theater so you know, 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:42.520 we're the ones that encourageous behavior. If we want to 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.119 stop the nonsense. And I don't know if that day 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:48.040 is coming or we said okay, enoughs enough already, then 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:50.840 we say, all right, we're going to make some changes 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:51.960 on who we vote for and who we're going to 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:54.040 send a wash into our bidding. But that's not going 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:55.920 to happen for a very very long time, if any 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:59.240 time in my lifetime are yours? But the shocking fact 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:01.520 of the matter is ninety two percent of government still 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:04.280 operates just fine. It's the eight percent. It's kind of like, 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:09.520 I don't want to I'm trying to look think at 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:12.160 a really good metaphor for this kind of like let's say, 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:15.159 I don't know, you show up to a place that 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.119 you have business with and there's a front office and 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:20.000 you go the doors are locked, and the receptionist desk 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:22.920 is empty and it's dark. But meanwhile, in the back, 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:25.199 if you kind of look around where the receptionist area is, 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:28.760 you're like, there's people back there working. That's kind of 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:30.119 what this is like. It's like, I don't know, a 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:32.679 company holiday or something like, yeah, okay, well the forward 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:37.520 facing people, the receptionists, the janitors, the vendors that okay, 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:39.320 you know what, we're not going to put snacks back 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.240 in the vending machine this week or two weeks, but 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.879 everything else is still going to work. Well, that's what 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:50.120 this is. Government's still working, all the important stuff's getting done. 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:54.680 It's just they're showing us just how silly the whole 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:57.080 battle is over. Well, what is this? This is over healthcare. 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:00.000 I mean, you can negotiate this and not close the governm. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.720 But every time we have a shutdown, it's because of something, 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:06.000 somebody trying to make a political point. And certainly they're 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.040 fighting for the soul to the Democratic Party with the 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:11.480 progressive Left and the Centrists and the you know, the 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.960 Greg Lansman's against the others and so on, and that's 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.320 all well and good, but I don't understand why you 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:18.520 need to do this to make your point. You know, 0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:20.399 healthcare has been in atrocity in this country for a 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:22.720 long time. And maybe I'll get this at a later 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:26.719 date in that top of my head. You know, if 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:30.399 you look over the last even twenty years, the number 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:33.840 of businesses that are offering healthcare benefits, and particularly it's 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:36.480 it's small business are fewer and fewer. 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:36.600 Now. 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:38.840 If you're in a big company, you can offer great 0:28:38.880 --> 0:28:41.160 healthcare benefits. And I've been working for a big company. 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:43.440 I take advantage that I just got off medical leave 0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:48.080 with ankle surgery because my company offers a wonderful health 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:50.680 benefits package. And I'm very very fortunate and blessed and 0:28:50.720 --> 0:28:53.040 lucky to have that. I get that because if you 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:55.040 work for a smaller company or smaller companies or a 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.280 mom and pop, you can't afford the healthcare benefits used 0:28:57.280 --> 0:28:58.960 to be. That's like, okay, we've got to offer this 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.240 stuff to stay comped. If you can't afford to do 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:04.680 that anymore, and fear in fear companies, small companies and 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:06.960 that'd be those who employ under two hundred, which are 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:10.440 the bulk of employers in America, can't do that any longer. 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:14.720 And we've heard from Democrats about how we have to 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:17.160 save that for people. Okay, good, what's your plan. Well, 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:20.680 we've got this Affordable Care Act thing. Okay, how's that work? Well, 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:23.600 it pays your itself, except for the fact that we 0:29:23.720 --> 0:29:26.760 have to subsidize about twenty two million people for them 0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:28.200 to be able to afford it, and then even the 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.440 people who aren't subsidized really can't afford it all that much. 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.680 That works really well when you have it, but it 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:34.320 really cost a hell of a lot of money. So 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:36.640 we have to take government money to fund the healthcare 0:29:36.680 --> 0:29:40.400 program that we passed in the first place because we 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:42.600 said it would save a lot of people. Well, then 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:45.400 it doesn't pay for itself. It doesn't work. Well, it works, 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:47.640 we just have to prop it up with subsidy. Well, 0:29:47.640 --> 0:29:51.840 then it doesn't work. If that's the case, And that's 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:53.560 what they're dying on the sol far right now, or 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:55.160 at least I guess the theater of dying on the 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:58.160 hill for you and I. Meanwhile, we've had Republicans in 0:29:58.200 --> 0:30:02.720 power for a while, and when they continue to shoot 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.240 down the Affordable Care Acts for pointing out what I 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:07.400 just said and other things, nod your head and you 0:30:07.400 --> 0:30:11.440 agree with them, then you go, well, what's your plan? Well, 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.520 have you heard any plans. I mean, we spend a lot. 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:16.760 We're talking about spending on defense and ice and all 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:19.640 these other things, not saying that those aren't bad causes, 0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:22.040 but healthcare is pretty important to a lot of us. 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.240 And the older you got, the more important it is. 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:26.560 Trust me, I'm the poster boy for that right now. 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.040 It's not like Republicans are going, here's what we're going 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:31.520 to do for healthcare other than oppose the ACA? 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:31.920 What else? 0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:35.760 You got nothing? So, you know, instead of working for 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:37.880 the party and our cause and our belief in getting 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:39.920 us voted and get us in power, and the promises 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:41.560 were going to change and everyone's life is going to 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:43.640 be better, and we're going to hit you here. We 0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:46.240 are now well into Trump's term and I'm not quite 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:48.240 seeing where all this money is. Everyone's going to be rich, 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:49.880 and all the promises are made in the trail or 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:53.200 not quite comes to fruition. Similarly, when Democrats get elected, 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:57.040 same thing. The promises made are never kept. Some of 0:30:57.080 --> 0:30:59.640 them are the big ones day we kind of forgot about. 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:03.080 But by and large, you know, healthcare isn't getting any better. 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:06.320 It's getting worse. Arguably, it's getting worse. For us, but 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:09.560 shutting government down to make for some gestures just stupid. 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.960 It's irresponsible, which is fairly illustrative of how politics work 0:31:14.000 --> 0:31:16.400 for us, which is simply just not at all. But hey, 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:18.920 the good news is Air Force and Navy are gonna 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:21.160 play football this weekend, So the important stuff has been 0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:25.000 left open and saved by the federal government. And maybe 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:27.360 we're a little bit cranky this morning because staying up 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:30.480 late last night and getting fully invested in this Reds 0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:35.400 baseball team that bitterly disappointed us. Maybe there's another reason. 0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:37.520 Maybe looking well, you know, we've got the now we 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:40.240 don't have the Bengals this weekend, got the Lions coming 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:43.200 to town against the Bengals. And if you thought that 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:46.400 Minnesota was bad, you think, okay, maybe that's a one 0:31:46.520 --> 0:31:49.000 not a one off, that's a trend. And I don't 0:31:49.040 --> 0:31:50.520 think the Lions are going to come in here and 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:55.880 lay an egg. Probably not. And so we've time to 0:31:55.920 --> 0:31:58.480 look for things to distract us and go we'll take 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:00.720 my man off the pain in agony real life, get 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:02.440 me something new in jail. We don't even have that 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:05.200 right now. I was tough watch last night. If you 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.400 stayed up late to watch. I tuned out about the 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:09.400 sixth seventh inning, said, I know how this movie is 0:32:09.440 --> 0:32:11.520 going to end. I guess I can watch the highlights 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:13.200 in the morning, and I did, and I was like, yeah, 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:15.840 I'm glad I got caught a few hours sleep last night. 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:18.680 Reds get eliminated in LA at the hands of the 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:22.280 almighty Dodgers. Is it a payroll issue? I Austin Olmore 0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:24.800 was just don said no, not as much, because Milwaukee's 0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:26.560 doing just fine and they have very low pay one 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:29.320 of the lowest in baseball. So is it all a 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:31.680 payroll issue or is it a front office issue? 0:32:31.680 --> 0:32:31.840 Now? 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:34.080 The front office, starting today has to get to work, 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:36.240 get some bats in the lineup to help the Reds 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.000 get over the homp, and hopefully at this time next 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:40.479 year we'll be talking not about a wild card, but 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:45.480 god forbid, maybe a division championship. Maybe sitting out and 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:47.240 going okay, we're getting ready to find out who we 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:49.440 play the wildcard teams because we're not one of them. 0:32:49.840 --> 0:32:52.320 And then hopefully on the division we move around the 0:32:52.320 --> 0:32:55.320 divisionals and then the League Series and of course the 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:58.240 World Series, and we'll see what happens. Hopefully that is 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.560 the case. In twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:03.560 for the Red Lags. Hopefully Joe Burrow heals in the offseason. 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:05.960 I don't even know if he comes back in December, 0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:07.800 that's going to be enough the way this team is 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.520 playing right now. But hopefully brighter days are ahead. I 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.360 think that's probably true for our sports teams as well 0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:14.960 as this country. At some point we will wake up. 0:33:15.000 --> 0:33:18.160 That's how it is. Scott Flown Show at five, three, seven, four, nine, 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:21.040 seven tho eight hundred, Big One Talkback iHeartRadio app coming 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:23.160 up at ten oh seven this morning. Here's an interesting 0:33:23.200 --> 0:33:25.680 story that kind of developed when I was out, and 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:29.880 that is a truce between the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:34.000 the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. And in case you 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:35.880 haven't heard the story, because there'sen a lot of important 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:37.680 stories going, but I like to focus on the local 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:40.240 stuff too. As the Archdiocese apparently did a onoint eighty, 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:42.600 the Girl Scouts are going to get kicked out because 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:45.920 of their very leftist pro I don't know abortion policies. 0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:48.240 I don't think that's probably true at all with Girl Scouts, 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.320 but that's what the previous archbishop thought. We got a 0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:52.640 new archbishop and looked at it and said, no, no, 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:56.040 that's that's not what the Girl Scouts are about. The 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:59.040 Girl Scouts have been saved for our community. I think 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.440 that is a wonderful thing, because if you don't believe me, 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:03.560 and I know there are fewer kids and Scouting ever before, 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:05.160 I think we need it now more than ever because 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:08.040 if you look around at the bloodshed, the violence, the nonsense, 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:12.440 and the problems that happened this summer throughout Cincinnati, I 0:34:12.480 --> 0:34:14.360 know the people that were doing that were probably not 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.480 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. We kind of need more 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:18.400 of them in these times, not fewer of them. Anyway. 0:34:18.440 --> 0:34:20.680 We'll get to that right after news update on the 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:22.520 Home of the Bengals, the Home of the Reds, and 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:28.759 other frustration. Seven hundred WWD Cincinnati. It's slowing off the 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:31.960 DL and back on seven hundred w welw and it's 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:33.879 good to be back after sitting around for a couple 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:36.400 of weeks. Jump right back into it. So one of 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:40.319 the stories I followed We All Together, was involving the 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:43.280 Archdiocese of Cincinnati ending there over one hundred year partnership 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:47.719 with the Girl Scouts of America because the bishop, the 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:50.520 Archbishop Denis Schnur, I guess the former bishop, I should 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:52.520 say at this point, just kind of out of the 0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:55.719 blue center letter to parishioners about a year ago explaining 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.279 that at the end of this year, being twenty twenty five, 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:01.640 every Girl Start Troope would be kicked off unless they 0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:04.440 converted to an American Heritage Girl Trooper leieve. And this 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:08.359 had to do with some noise coming from the Girl 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:11.319 Scouts nationally anyway, because out of you know this, but 0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.239 they kind of operate. They're like independent operators. They can 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:16.440 pick and choose what type of things they want to 0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:19.239 teach and what they're gonna what programs are going to 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:22.359 offer girls, and that depends on where you live. Makes sense, right, 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:25.520 And so the Girl Scouts wasn't high largely under the 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:29.480 Archidives Cincinnati are Catholics themselves, and so the concern was 0:35:29.480 --> 0:35:33.000 they're going to teach a LGBTQ plus curricula to the girls, 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:36.759 which was never happening in the first place. And now 0:35:36.800 --> 0:35:39.960 you have a new archbishop and Robert Casey, who read this, 0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.680 looked at it and said, yeah, they haven't been doing 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:45.480 it before, and they came to an agreement although I 0:35:45.520 --> 0:35:48.480 can't figure it out myself. If you come to an 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:51.759 agreement on something you haven't violated and haven't been doing well, 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:54.279 what was the point of this all? Exercise? Jo on 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:57.440 the show this morning on seven hundred WLW, whos a 0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:00.759 Jennifer British? He's a west Side Derek Trupley a Girl 0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.560 Scout leader and joins the show once again to discuss well. 0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:05.200 First of all, congratulations Jennifer. 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:07.360 Oh, thank you, Scott. 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:10.759 And it's not just me that deserves congratulating. So many 0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:14.760 women work tirelessly with the archdiocese to come to disagreement. 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:15.320 Where the world. 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:19.600 I know that these days the scouting in generals and 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:22.480 it's been declining and been looked down by many people 0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:25.440 for years. It peaked I think in the nineteen seventies. 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:27.600 I was a Scout and my dad was an Eagle. 0:36:27.640 --> 0:36:30.440 My brother's an Eagle. So I've been through boy Scouts myself, 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:33.239 and so it has a special place in my heart. 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:34.800 I understand what it does for a young man and 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:38.040 young women and does create future leaders. Gives you a 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:41.960 base of knowledge. You get to experience different things that 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:44.840 you may consider for career or vocation, whatever it might be, 0:36:45.680 --> 0:36:48.200 It makes you a broader person, more into a person. 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:50.240 So I have a fun place in my heart for Scouting, 0:36:50.239 --> 0:36:52.279 and it tore my heart apart as yours did to 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:55.360 see what you've gone through over the last year and 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:56.680 seemingly unnecessarily. 0:36:57.880 --> 0:37:01.000 Yeah, yeah, I mean Scouting for me to family tradition, 0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:04.799 it's something that you know, I'm a truth leader. It 0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:07.120 gives me purpose, It gives me an opportunity to give 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:10.040 back to girls and gives them opportunities that they would 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:14.400 never have through school or through normal means. And so 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:18.520 it's just it's an amazing program in general. To your point, 0:37:18.960 --> 0:37:20.759 we've been here a lot over the past year, a 0:37:20.760 --> 0:37:23.120 lot of uncertainty, a lot of fog over what would 0:37:23.120 --> 0:37:27.120 happen with our troops and and how we would continue 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:29.680 to operate in the community. And this is a big day, 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.600 a big deal for our troops and Catholic leaders across 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:34.480 the arch type. 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:38.000 The previous Archbishop, Denis Schnurr said, Girl Scouts embraced and 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:41.560 promoted an impoverished worldview regarding gender and sexuality, and that 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:44.400 includes the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio that the chapter's 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:47.239 you on gender goes against Catholic teaching saying that they've 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:49.640 used our false and harmful. But I've had you and 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:52.000 others on the show several times and said, well, no, 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:55.200 we you know, we don't teach that stuff. We don't 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:57.839 have an inclusive together patch we hand out, we don't 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:03.240 really celebrate LGBTQ plus prime months and recommending watching movies 0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:06.920 that may violate Catholic doctrine because you and other leaders 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:09.120 are Catholic, so you're not going to teach something that 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:10.560 violates your sensibilities. 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:14.560 That's right, And every troop has the opportunity to create 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:16.840 programming that specifics to the troops. You got to think, like, 0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:20.600 it's not just Catholic Girl Scouts. They're a Jewish Girl Scouts, 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.840 they're Muslim Girl Scouts. What the Girl Scouts does is 0:38:23.960 --> 0:38:29.120 help us through the Girl Scout programming, you know, fortify 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:32.400 our faith, so we can pursue anything that is specific 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:35.200 to the girls that we are working for and the 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:38.520 troop and what the troop wants to go after. This 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:41.600 is not something that would ever enter into our troupe 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:46.440 curriculum or programming. Our programming is really about strength and 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:50.280 strengthen strengthening these women, these young ladies as the future 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:55.359 leaders in our community, strong mothers, strong strong women who 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:58.480 can advocate with themselves and and all of that. It's 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:00.759 just not something that would ever enter into a programming. 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:03.799 So to take it away from the girls, to take 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:08.600 away this opportunity from girls just really struck us in 0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:11.200 the heart because it was something that it's so special 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:12.640 to us, and specially. 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:16.600 So yeah, I can't imagine that if you looked at 0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:18.960 the programming, and granted it's a VN diagram, there's going 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:20.879 to be a lot of overlap. But if you looked 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:23.680 at the programming for the Girl Scouts of Southern California, 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:25.759 the Girl Scouts of Portland, Oregon, the Girl Scouts of 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.480 Greater New York City metropolitan area, and compare that to 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:33.920 Cincinnati and Louisville and Indianapolis and Columbus, that it's going 0:39:34.000 --> 0:39:36.480 to differ all that much. I mean, maybe there's differences 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:39.680 between Cincinnati and Columbus Girl Scouts, but again, those are 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:41.760 the nuances of where you live and what the community 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.640 values are and that's not going to fly here in 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.919 Southwest Ohio. It never has and so that's what left 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:50.120 most of us scratching our head. I guess who try 0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:52.480 to analyze us and go, okay, well, what's the endgame here? 0:39:52.520 --> 0:39:56.480 What did Schnerr want? He just seemingly got some advice 0:39:56.560 --> 0:39:59.840 from I guess maybe at the national level and apply 0:39:59.880 --> 0:40:02.000 to to Cincinnati and even sitting down and talking with 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:05.600 you folks, with you ladies, he wouldn't even listen to that. 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:07.680 I mean, it was. It sounded like up until last 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:11.360 minute it was a done deal until he was essential 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:12.799 because of health reasons forced out. 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:15.799 Yeah, it was. It came as a shock to all 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:19.000 of us, including the Girl Scouts the Western Ohio. To 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:22.799 my knowledge, they were in conversations and were surprised by 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.160 the announcement as well, and it hit all of our 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:28.799 group leaders at the same time. So we found out 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:31.440 as the Girls scot leadership was finding out about it 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:35.920 as well. But yes, it was. You know, Archbishoptioner is 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:38.560 now retired for health reasons, as I understand it, and 0:40:38.600 --> 0:40:41.560 we have the new Archbishop, Robert Casey, and he took 0:40:41.600 --> 0:40:44.560 another look at it and realized the good the Girl 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:48.239 Scouts does for young women across as arch diocees and 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:51.959 not just young women that you know, women too. There's 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:54.839 so many wonderful, amazing women who have dedicated their lives 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:59.720 to Girl Scouts and getting back to the next generation 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:03.400 of who were coming up, and we were all impacted severely. 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:06.719 And you know, we talked last year, Scott, I talked 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:09.439 about how these girls and my own daughter was looking 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.640 at me saying, what did we do wrong? It just 0:41:11.760 --> 0:41:15.480 felt like such an indictment against us personally, that we 0:41:15.480 --> 0:41:18.840 had done something wrong or im moral that was obviously 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:22.880 not the case. And so now I really feel strongly 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:25.040 and I'm so thankful and have so much gratitude to 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:28.680 Archbishop Casey for taking another look at this and realizing 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:30.880 that we can be Girl Scouts and Catholic at the 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:35.200 same time and help with the formation of our girls 0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:38.359 in both. In both areas, we can be fully who 0:41:38.400 --> 0:41:42.840 we are and helped to pass along good values, good morals, 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:46.200 the teachings of the Gospel to these girls through Scouting. 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:49.480 Jennifer Brady here she is a Westside Troop leader of 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:53.239 Girl Scouts of Southwestern Ohio and the Catholic Church the 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:57.440 Archdiocese under the new bishop, the newer Bishop, Anyway, Robert Casey, 0:41:57.520 --> 0:42:00.319 has decided to allow Girl Scouts to continue as they 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:03.080 have been for now over one hundred years. You can 0:42:03.080 --> 0:42:05.480 see your one hundred year partnership continue, which is a 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:09.799 wonderful thing. I look through the Memorandum of Understanding the 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:12.480 MoU as we call it, and what changed. 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:18.400 I think that there's more guidelines for TRUP leaders and 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:22.240 pastors now in terms of use of diocese and property. 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:26.000 True leaders are going to have to and we were anyway, 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.279 we're going to have to demonstrate our care for our 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:33.200 Catholic faith and morals and making sure that we are 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:36.600 are upholding those if we already use diosts and property. 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:39.160 I think it's a good thing. I think this is 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.920 a good thing Scott, because I mean, truth be told, 0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:45.120 I don't know that the church really understood what the 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.000 girls of their parishes were doing or how they were 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:51.520 interacting outside of school and church. And now they're going 0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:53.120 to take an active look and they're going to be 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:55.640 paying attention and they're going to see and this is 0:42:56.040 --> 0:42:59.560 truly what was so disheartening about the decision last year 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:04.320 is I don't nobody at the archdiocese they asked some level, 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.440 had come to a TRUP meeting or asked what we 0:43:06.440 --> 0:43:10.160 were doing, or really understood the programming that we were 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:13.319 doing for our girls, and now they will. They have 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:16.960 to and we have to and that dialogue, that interchange 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:20.400 is so valuable and so important. It gives us a voice, 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:22.880 It helps us be who we are, It helps us 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:25.880 be part of the broader church community, and that's huge. 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:28.520 So what you're saying is the archdiocese, who for one 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.560 hundred years welcome Girl Scouts, never really knew what the 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:33.560 Girl Scouts are doing? Is that more on them? Are you. 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.759 You know? Good question? I think both. Yeah, I think 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.000 we both bear a responsibility for that. I can't say 0:43:40.040 --> 0:43:43.120 I don't know what happened one hundred years ago, but 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.880 at least my time as trup leader, there was not 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:49.680 a lot of exchange of information at the troop level 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:51.840 right in terms of what we were doing. But now 0:43:51.880 --> 0:43:53.080 we're going to have to do that, and that's a 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:53.399 good thing. 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:56.239 Is it frustrating to think that that Schner not only 0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:58.440 didn't know, but didn't want to know because you offered 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:00.279 I mean, you guys said, hey, look here's what we do. 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:02.200 Here's a nope, don't care. You guys are out. 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:06.080 It is a little frustrating. I mean I did have 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:11.839 meetings with archdiocese personnel leadership trying to explain what it 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:14.359 was that we did at the troop level, but by 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:17.120 then the decision has already been made. I think the 0:44:17.160 --> 0:44:21.000 most frustrating part of it is, you know, a year 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.600 has gone into this, so many women have poured their 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:27.239 hearts and souls into these conversations and trying to make 0:44:27.280 --> 0:44:30.000 this right and trying to advocate for our girls. And 0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:32.239 truly we're right back where we started. So there's been 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:37.200 a lot of emotional upheopal and here we are. The 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:39.799 good that has come out of it is a broader understanding. 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.800 I think of Girl Scout programming in our Catholic parishes 0:44:43.840 --> 0:44:48.000 and I think, like I said before, the archdiocese, parish leadership, 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:51.120 pastor's priest will be more involved with the formation of 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:52.120 the girls in other ways. 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:53.960 Yeah, I mean, it's one thing to go, hey, what 0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:57.040 are you guys doing, because we're hearing disturbing things from 0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:01.400 other Girl Scouts facility in other states and areas, what 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:03.319 are you guys doing specific or But to not even 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:06.240 listen to what you guys presented to me is abhorrent. 0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:10.240 And at the same time I realized that Archbishop Schner 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:14.480 had to leave and retire because of medical reasons. Had 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:17.560 that not occurred, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:19.239 do you guys, would just simply. 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:22.239 Be out Yeah, one hundred percent. I truly believe that 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:27.279 it was ar Cases taking a look at this, understanding 0:45:28.520 --> 0:45:31.720 what our girls needed and that, you know, their formation 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:34.120 as Catholic women is bigger than just what they can 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:34.880 learn at school. 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:35.640 Yeah. 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:37.239 And by the way, they're going to be in a 0:45:37.280 --> 0:45:40.879 secular world, They're going to be exposed to things at 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:43.720 some point in time. It is important that we expose 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:47.640 them in the bounds of like a comfortable and safe place. 0:45:49.120 --> 0:45:53.880 And I'm not advocating for exposure to DEI, gender identity 0:45:54.360 --> 0:45:57.359 content anything like that, but it's important that we look 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:59.319 at them as whole people who will be out in 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:02.880 the world, will not be sheltered by their parish community 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:07.560 for their entire lives. So Arch Casey took a look 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:10.440 at that, understood that, and realized that the full formation 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:14.680 of girls is equally as important as just their spiritual formation, 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:18.640 and gave us another shot. And I'm I'm just so grateful. 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.920 It feels like a new era in the Archdiocese of 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.200 Cincinnati with Robert Casey. And this is not the first 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:25.520 good thing I've heard about him and some of the 0:46:25.520 --> 0:46:27.239 decisions he made maybe been a little bit younger and 0:46:27.280 --> 0:46:28.560 open mind and going, hey, you know, we need to 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:30.800 kick the time, take a look at things as opposed 0:46:30.800 --> 0:46:33.239 to just simply listening to another voice or outside. I 0:46:33.239 --> 0:46:36.120 don't know what Schner was listening to, if anyone seemed 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:38.400 like his mind was made out about eliminating girl Scouts 0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:40.400 had been around for one hundred years in Cincinnati, and 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:44.080 you know, as conservative and traditional as we are here 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:46.560 in Cincinnati, you know, you start messing with things like 0:46:46.640 --> 0:46:49.480 the girl Scouts. To me, that's up there, scoutings up 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:54.120 there with like baseball in the American flag in Cony dogs. 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:56.719 Right, yes, yes, that's why it was such a head 0:46:56.760 --> 0:46:59.879 scratcher when the decision came down. It's like, why why 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:03.080 take up dismantle with girl Scouts in your in your parishes? 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:06.359 You know, there's so many other bigger things to fight 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:11.000 or to advocate for for our community other than girl 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:16.600 Scouts in troops where we're trusted adults. So, by the way, 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:19.920 have to go through extensive training for the archdises just 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:23.400 to volunteer for these for these troops and these positions 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:27.439 trusted adults are not trusted in that way to take 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:30.799 care of these girls. And so yeah, I mean it's 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.200 it's it's been a conundrum that we've been wrestling with 0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:35.759 for quite some time. I think Archbishop Casey took another 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:37.400 look at and said, you know what, we have to 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:39.880 trust the women of our parish or leading these troops. 0:47:40.800 --> 0:47:42.560 We have to have a little bit more oversight, we 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:45.799 have to have a little bit better understanding, and they 0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:48.719 have to you know, prove what they're doing with on 0:47:49.000 --> 0:47:53.040 bass and property. That's not a problem for us. I'm 0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.840 always been more than open about sharing exactly what it 0:47:56.880 --> 0:47:58.719 is that we're doing. I think it's it's amazing that 0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:01.239 people want to know and want to care about what 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.720 it is that we're teaching girls. But to your point 0:48:03.719 --> 0:48:06.160 about just a change in what's happening in the art 0:48:06.200 --> 0:48:11.959 at the archdiopcy level, I'm so hopeful that Archbishop Casey 0:48:11.960 --> 0:48:13.839 has come in and taking a look at things and said, 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:17.080 you know what, there's another way to do this. This 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:20.520 is not an indictment for me on Archbishop Schner, but 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:22.440 I think that there's always more than one way to 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.680 get things done, and if we can be open minded 0:48:25.800 --> 0:48:29.799 enough and listen to each other enough and more we 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:32.720 can find a pass forward. And it's even the toughest, 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:34.560 toughest things that we have to. 0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:36.759 Well, well, that's a tenant of the gospel, is that 0:48:36.920 --> 0:48:40.759 the conversation right and learning from each other, and that 0:48:40.840 --> 0:48:44.600 was completely absent when it came to Archbishop Sneer. Robert 0:48:44.640 --> 0:48:46.439 Casey sounds like a guy wants to sit down and listen. 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:49.359 And quite honestly, there's been no you guys haven't chance 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:51.600 to change your policy at all. That's what I look 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:53.799 at this MoU and go, hey, three years you got 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.440 the deal done, and certainly you know they knowing what 0:48:56.480 --> 0:48:58.200 you're about, and you knowing what they are about, you 0:48:58.239 --> 0:49:00.239 can strike a partnership. But I think that was one 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:02.560 way street for so long. I don't know why and 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:04.680 how it got lost in the in the mind of Schner. 0:49:04.840 --> 0:49:07.319 But Robert Casey sounds like a good guy in this 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:10.200 regard and welcome to the girl scouts back. And I 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:12.720 think too, if you look at this long brutal summer 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:15.120 that we had large and a lot of a teen 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:18.040 violence involved, and a lot of teens doing the wrong 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:21.000 thing scouting and girls scouting in particular, or something. As 0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:25.680 you mentioned, it creates virtuous, upstanding young women. We need 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:28.680 more of that, not less. 0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:30.720 Not less, problem solving people who are critical thinkers, people 0:49:30.719 --> 0:49:35.440 who can help to lead their community through you know, 0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:39.000 tough times, all of these things Scouting does. All of 0:49:39.000 --> 0:49:42.319 these things Scouting does, and so yes, we absolutely need 0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:43.799 more of that. And that's what I mean when I 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:46.880 say it's not just it's religious formation first and foremost, 0:49:47.280 --> 0:49:52.600 the formation of young women into good, upstanding, contributing members 0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:54.960 of society. This is one of those programs that does it, 0:49:55.640 --> 0:49:58.000 you know, and the other thing that this whole situation 0:49:58.120 --> 0:50:01.280 is really done. I do think that there's some positivity 0:50:01.400 --> 0:50:03.759 that's coming out of it. When I share the news 0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:07.200 with my daughter, she was just so proud. The girls 0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:09.200 actually were advocating from themselves. 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:09.439 Good. 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:11.760 I don't know if you know that, but the girls 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:16.239 were sending letters to the archbishop, you know, coloring pictures 0:50:16.280 --> 0:50:18.960 and saying things like, you know, how important girl Scouts 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:23.880 lives to them. There was an archdiocese why letter writing campaign. 0:50:24.400 --> 0:50:26.719 And so what we've taught our girls through and through 0:50:26.760 --> 0:50:29.560 all of this is that their voices matter, that they 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:32.440 can advocate for themselves, that they can ask for more 0:50:33.520 --> 0:50:37.840 and they're not. They truly can't stand up as leaders 0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:40.520 in their community. When I share the news with my daughter, 0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:42.640 she looked at me, up at me, and oh, tears 0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:45.640 in her eyes. This will get emotional. But we did it, mom, 0:50:45.719 --> 0:50:47.239 we did it. And I said, yes, we did. We 0:50:47.280 --> 0:50:50.000 did it as a community of women, faithful women who 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:53.720 care about the people around us and the community around 0:50:53.760 --> 0:50:55.319 us and making a better day. 0:50:55.360 --> 0:50:56.120 And we did it. 0:50:56.160 --> 0:50:57.400 We're so so happy. 0:50:57.440 --> 0:50:58.959 That has got to be because that's a rare moment 0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:02.200 for parents are to empower your child like that, to say, hey, 0:51:02.200 --> 0:51:04.000 you know what, if you fight hard enough for something 0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:06.279 you believe and you can make a difference, you can win, 0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:09.719 you can be you can't win and get what you 0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:11.440 want if you try to do it the right way. 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:13.239 And I mean that's something is to carry her for 0:51:13.280 --> 0:51:15.680 the rest of her life. That's a that's a core 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:17.680 tenant that she saw in action. How cool is that? 0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:21.320 Oh, it's amazing. My heart felt with a lot of pride, 0:51:21.640 --> 0:51:24.719 not just for the work that I did, minimal, you know, 0:51:24.840 --> 0:51:27.439 work that I did, but the work that so many 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:32.160 women the Catholic Committee for GSWO GSWO Leadership, I mean, 0:51:32.200 --> 0:51:36.200 they were the ones at the table having these tough conversations, negotiating, compromising, 0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:39.200 coming up with a pass forward. That's the hard work. 0:51:40.200 --> 0:51:43.960 But our girls, their voices are the reasons why and 0:51:44.320 --> 0:51:46.120 care for them are the reasons why we got to 0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:47.600 see They got to see it at the table to 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:50.839 make this happen. So yes, it's an amazing opportunity for 0:51:50.880 --> 0:51:53.880 these young girls to see what advocacy and action can 0:51:53.960 --> 0:51:57.120 lead to. I can't tell you how many people Scott 0:51:57.200 --> 0:52:00.239 told me last year, You're not going to change any thing. 0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:03.319 That's impossible. This is what it is. Move on, and 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:07.520 we didn't. The girls and the women of Girl Scouts 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:10.719 in the archdiocese didn't move on. We didn't stop to 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.680 continue to advocate for ourselves in the right way, in 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:15.360 a positive way with this course. 0:52:15.760 --> 0:52:20.640 Jennifer Brady, west Side Troop Leader, congratulations and a victory 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:23.799 well deserved. All the best to you, Scott, Thank you, 0:52:23.840 --> 0:52:27.360 Take care. Yeah, I hear that I can help, but 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:29.960 think that you know, God works in mysterious ways, and 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:32.800 you certainly never want to pray for someone else's demise 0:52:32.960 --> 0:52:35.759 or you know, health or something like that. But the 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:39.360 timing of Archbishop Schneer getting sick and having to resign 0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:42.200 because of health reasons. It certainly worked out for the 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:45.440 Girl Scouts in this case because had he not, they 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:48.960 would be done. And that is it's an abomination not 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:50.360 to not to sit down at least listen to what 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:52.759 they have to say. You have all the credit in 0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:55.000 the world to Robert Kaser for being that guy. Time 0:52:55.040 --> 0:52:57.080 out Mortifile Sloany seven hundred WLW. 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:04.200 Time for your girl too, taking on that trending topics 0:53:04.239 --> 0:53:07.760 on social media, breaking down the latest celebrity in music news. 0:53:07.960 --> 0:53:10.960 Then you off on all local nightline anything else she 0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:14.520 feels like talking about. This is three things with Tiff 0:53:14.600 --> 0:53:17.279 Potter on seven hundred El Jelly. 0:53:17.160 --> 0:53:19.120 What is good to be back? My girl Tiff Potter 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:21.920 is here from Kissleno seven to one. How about that 0:53:23.239 --> 0:53:26.400 forget how to do this segment that what is to 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:30.160 be a man? To go through life as a man? 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:35.440 Your tendant was ruptured for months. 0:53:34.960 --> 0:53:37.080 And you're like, why am I in so much pain? 0:53:37.120 --> 0:53:38.680 And then you go and they're like, we basically need 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:40.920 to cut this thing off and give you a new leg. 0:53:41.120 --> 0:53:42.680 Yeah, I got a whole new leg right now. It's 0:53:42.680 --> 0:53:44.880 a little Barbie leg too. It's a little weird pretty 0:53:44.920 --> 0:53:47.400 if you're the pink now it's going to be like 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:49.799 a Barbie leg is the atrophy probably is. 0:53:50.560 --> 0:53:53.560 What the I still cannot get over the fact that 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:57.480 you went that long with an injury that required that 0:53:57.600 --> 0:53:58.560 much time off. 0:53:58.600 --> 0:54:01.759 Well, right, I know what what does that say about 0:54:01.840 --> 0:54:02.400 Joe Burrow? 0:54:04.080 --> 0:54:07.279 For real? No, for real? 0:54:07.719 --> 0:54:10.640 Three months? My toe I had a ruptured tendon. And 0:54:10.680 --> 0:54:12.520 I'm thirty years older than you are. A son tough 0:54:12.520 --> 0:54:15.200 at that now. Yeah, I had a ruptured tendon to 0:54:15.239 --> 0:54:16.759 my foot. It turned out was I had a little 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:18.239 bit of foot paint. Been doing that for a couple 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:20.239 of months. But all good. You want to know, I 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:21.560 don't want to hear about how hard is it when 0:54:21.560 --> 0:54:26.919 you women give birth. You guys have for three months 0:54:27.000 --> 0:54:29.040 been on the air for a minute and a half. 0:54:29.040 --> 0:54:30.239 Were not going there. 0:54:30.440 --> 0:54:32.640 I missed you, and I host you to I haven't 0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:35.040 used my computer in so long that it decided right 0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:37.359 now is the time to update, so as I get 0:54:37.400 --> 0:54:38.880 myself organized here a little bit. 0:54:38.920 --> 0:54:40.320 By the way, if you're like, I'll give you a 0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:42.279 second to pause, because if you ever have to do 0:54:42.320 --> 0:54:44.200 this and take because like longer than three days it's 0:54:44.239 --> 0:54:46.880 Family Medical Leave Act kicks and then they tapp in 0:54:46.880 --> 0:54:49.200 your sick days that way. So I came back this morning, 0:54:49.239 --> 0:54:51.560 and I should have came come in like three hours earlier, 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:54.480 because just to log back into email and get back 0:54:54.560 --> 0:54:56.560 like online in this monitor, it's a whole thing. It's 0:54:56.600 --> 0:54:59.480 like a whole thing out on maternity leak. I was 0:54:59.520 --> 0:55:00.560 gone non back. 0:55:00.640 --> 0:55:04.560 So okay, Well, while you were gone, I realized I 0:55:04.680 --> 0:55:08.480 have a tattoo because of one man in Cincinnati. 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:12.239 Your tattoo lists up to this point, well, virgin skin. 0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:15.040 The only one I have is because of this one 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:18.040 man in Cincinnati. Give me a hot second. We'll get there. 0:55:18.480 --> 0:55:21.319 We have things to debrief. Obviously, you saw the Super 0:55:21.320 --> 0:55:22.480 Bowl halftime announcement. 0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:23.759 We have to talk about that. 0:55:24.360 --> 0:55:26.760 Talk about Taylor Swift, the biggest thing on the internet, 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:31.000 maybe a little Cardi B and maybe one or two 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:35.400 other things. So I realized this yesterday that I have 0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:38.719 a tattoo, the only one I've ever gotten, and if 0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:42.440 the invisible string theory exists, it has nothing to do 0:55:42.520 --> 0:55:45.160 with romance in my life apparently, and has everything to 0:55:45.200 --> 0:55:49.239 do with the Cincinnati Reds. Okay, after it didn't go 0:55:49.320 --> 0:55:51.080 well for us, last night, but I think we're gonna 0:55:51.120 --> 0:55:53.080 be patient with Tito. 0:55:53.160 --> 0:55:54.840 Oh my god, I can't believe you got a twenty 0:55:54.880 --> 0:55:58.839 twenty five world champion. Maybe premature. 0:56:00.360 --> 0:56:02.719 No, this happened actually back in two thousand and eight, 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:06.440 when I turned eighteen, after the Red Sox won the 0:56:06.480 --> 0:56:10.000 World Series, I got a matching tattoo with my best 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:11.440 friend for the Red Sox. 0:56:11.520 --> 0:56:13.160 Do you know who managed the club at that time? 0:56:13.239 --> 0:56:17.960 Jerry Franco exactly came back around, started managing the Reds, 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:19.040 took them to the playoffs in. 0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:19.839 Their first year. 0:56:20.320 --> 0:56:22.520 And who knew back when I was eighteen, I'm now 0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:26.040 thirty five. I got a tattoo that would eventually, in 0:56:26.120 --> 0:56:26.919 some weird way. 0:56:27.000 --> 0:56:28.239 Time you back to Cincinnati. 0:56:28.360 --> 0:56:30.719 Oh cool, I thought you didn't have to to. I 0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:31.680 thought you said you had not to. 0:56:31.719 --> 0:56:34.880 You just it's on my foot, and I'm not like 0:56:35.000 --> 0:56:37.760 Rick Uchino, where I'll wear a funk sandal in public. 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:42.920 I think there's a shot I can hear your little 0:56:42.920 --> 0:56:46.000 scooter rolling around in the background. It really does. 0:56:46.520 --> 0:56:46.640 So. 0:56:46.920 --> 0:56:50.319 Unfortunately, we took the l yesterday a little bummed about that. 0:56:50.600 --> 0:56:53.120 I'm sure a lot of Cincinnatians wear that scar. It 0:56:53.239 --> 0:56:54.720 just keeps us the wound that keeps opening. 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:59.239 Do you watch lesson last night? I know what's I 0:56:59.280 --> 0:57:01.319 know your schedule. I know you get it to eight now. 0:57:01.360 --> 0:57:02.759 I don't even have cable to watch. 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:03.480 Oh right. 0:57:04.120 --> 0:57:05.799 What I do love about this, and I know we're 0:57:05.840 --> 0:57:08.480 forward thinking to opening day, is that we open against 0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:09.080 the Red Sox. 0:57:09.560 --> 0:57:10.920 Yeah, so that'd be pretty Coqel. 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:15.719 Twenty six, I think of March believe. Yeah, okay, let's 0:57:15.719 --> 0:57:16.240 talk about it. 0:57:16.320 --> 0:57:19.400 I am excited that Bad Bunny is doing the Super 0:57:19.440 --> 0:57:20.200 Bowl halftime show. 0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:22.800 Per usual, I got it so wrong. Was on your 0:57:22.800 --> 0:57:23.280 list at all? 0:57:23.400 --> 0:57:26.600 Not even not even in the nowhere in the alphabet. 0:57:26.960 --> 0:57:29.760 I have never seen a streak of someone Quite honestly, 0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:32.600 is this young lady here, my good friend Tiff Potter 0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:35.840 is incorrectly guessing who is going to be even the 0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:38.720 shortly give me five artists, not even anywhere near it. 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:40.520 Bad Bunny would not be on it. No, I didn't 0:57:40.520 --> 0:57:41.479 even think of that. 0:57:41.880 --> 0:57:47.800 I am per usual. Every decision comes with backlash. But overall, 0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:51.560 if you were entertained, not if you liked, but if 0:57:51.560 --> 0:57:55.200 you were entertained by Kendall Lamar in any way, then 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:58.720 you will most certainly be entertained by Bad Bunny because 0:57:59.280 --> 0:58:03.080 he is just he's good like that. His shows are 0:58:03.280 --> 0:58:06.600 super energetic, so I have a feeling it'll be extremely entertaining. 0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:08.760 Will you understand all of it? No? 0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:10.880 And I thought that was a bold choice by jay Z. 0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:14.000 But you know, so far in the last couple of 0:58:14.120 --> 0:58:17.760 years since he took over, we had Rihanna, Usher Kendrick 0:58:17.840 --> 0:58:19.040 and now bad Money with Apple. 0:58:19.400 --> 0:58:21.520 What is the reaction, Ben you said some of it 0:58:21.600 --> 0:58:24.000 not good. As far as what catalog the fact that 0:58:24.000 --> 0:58:28.080 he's I think it's just do do people know him? 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:31.160 And will they? Will they know the lyrics? Will they 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:34.360 know the words? Just about everything he does is in Spanish. 0:58:34.920 --> 0:58:35.520 I did like. 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:39.400 Puerto Rican So sorry if I forgot to mention that 0:58:39.920 --> 0:58:41.960 here he is after jay Z called him and made 0:58:41.960 --> 0:58:46.280 the announcement. Cool cool, Cool, Still doing the update on 0:58:46.320 --> 0:58:49.600 the computer. I'll work on that. But in the meantime, 0:58:49.840 --> 0:58:51.440 sing it. 0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:56.560 Not quite Other. 0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:59.680 Big things that happened while you were away and is 0:58:59.760 --> 0:59:02.479 kind of bleeding into today. We are just hours away 0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:06.760 from a brand new Taylor Swift album and she is 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:11.320 putting out her album tonight at midnight. Kiss one oh 0:59:11.320 --> 0:59:13.240 seven one has kind of been your home and your. 0:59:13.240 --> 0:59:14.000 Go to it's. 0:59:17.600 --> 0:59:20.560 It is so annoying the world's number one audio company. 0:59:20.840 --> 0:59:23.360 Just want to point that out. No, this is a 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:25.920 user era. It has nothing to do with their company. 0:59:26.280 --> 0:59:29.080 It's all because I haven't used this computer since you've 0:59:29.120 --> 0:59:32.480 been gone, and it needed to update four hundred and 0:59:32.520 --> 0:59:34.360 seventy five things right before we went on there. 0:59:34.840 --> 0:59:36.520 Because you know what, it's just easy to throw the 0:59:36.560 --> 0:59:38.760 man under the bus. You take the bullet. I'm taking 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:40.200 the bullet on this, but it's my fault. 0:59:40.400 --> 0:59:42.320 So album comes out Life of a show Girl tonight 0:59:42.320 --> 0:59:46.280 at midnight if you are a in person person. At 0:59:46.280 --> 0:59:48.760 seven am this morning, we kicked off our partnership with 0:59:48.840 --> 0:59:51.120 Kiss and high Ball Sincy, which is a bar right 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:54.000 around the corner from Finley Market, we're playing every album 0:59:54.040 --> 0:59:55.720 back to back to back, leading all the way up 0:59:55.720 --> 0:59:57.880 to Life of a show Girl tonight at midnight. If 0:59:57.880 --> 1:00:00.440 you're like not for me, I I don't want to 1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:03.280 be in person. iHeartRadio and Kiss. One oh seven one 1:00:03.360 --> 1:00:06.360 are going to have exclusive content from Taylor. She's taking 1:00:06.400 --> 1:00:10.160 over our radio station tonight and she'll go through the album. 1:00:09.880 --> 1:00:11.360 Track by track. We'll talk about it. 1:00:11.680 --> 1:00:13.960 So I think that this is going to be the 1:00:14.240 --> 1:00:16.400 biggest thing for the next probably week. 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:17.760 I know it's my super. 1:00:17.440 --> 1:00:19.760 Bowl on my show and my radio station, and so 1:00:19.840 --> 1:00:22.680 therefore it will eventually bleed over to yours well. 1:00:22.600 --> 1:00:24.600 As a position to sit on my ass and soak 1:00:24.640 --> 1:00:26.360 in entertainment, because like I do right now, I will 1:00:26.360 --> 1:00:29.240 say that she has dominated that that sphere for sure, 1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:31.320 at least in my opinion. And I saw a little 1:00:31.400 --> 1:00:33.920 promo for her album where she's dressed as a showgirl 1:00:33.960 --> 1:00:36.600 and comes out over with a poster and like trips 1:00:36.600 --> 1:00:38.720 over them the lamplote, which I thought with Madie giggle 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:41.600 because I love that self deprecating kind of you know, 1:00:41.760 --> 1:00:45.800 she's really good at that she is, and Life of 1:00:45.800 --> 1:00:47.480 a Showgirl is the title of the album. If I 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:49.320 forgot to mention, she's dress as a show girl with 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.080 a poster of her and then trips over a thing 1:00:51.120 --> 1:00:52.040 and then yeah. 1:00:52.680 --> 1:00:55.000 Ah my god, this laptop is really bothering me. 1:00:55.160 --> 1:00:55.640 I'm sorry. 1:00:55.720 --> 1:00:57.320 I could have prepared a little bit for this. 1:00:57.760 --> 1:00:59.760 We are just coming in real hot. 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:01.320 I did my bid I'm here. 1:01:01.800 --> 1:01:06.880 Well, those are the bigger pop culture moments outside of that. 1:01:06.960 --> 1:01:10.680 Carti B and Nicki Minaj have really started getting into 1:01:10.720 --> 1:01:12.800 it on the internet. Now for the third day, let 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:14.560 me give you a little bit of a brief history. 1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:18.480 Cardi B's album Am I the Drama came out last 1:01:18.560 --> 1:01:21.240 Friday because she has been taken over, might have been 1:01:21.280 --> 1:01:22.320 even the Friday before that. 1:01:22.360 --> 1:01:24.080 She's been taking over the last week or two. 1:01:25.280 --> 1:01:30.120 Nicki Minaj and her haven't gotten along in several years. 1:01:30.800 --> 1:01:33.280 And I think it's really because Nicki just likes to 1:01:33.320 --> 1:01:36.040 think that she is the queen of New York, the 1:01:36.120 --> 1:01:38.040 queen of the New York rapt scene. She thinks that 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:41.800 Cardi B should bow down to her. Cardi B comes along. 1:01:41.840 --> 1:01:44.280 At first they tried to be friends, then things down 1:01:44.320 --> 1:01:48.080 the line ended up shifting, and then really ever since then, Nicki. 1:01:47.760 --> 1:01:49.240 Has had a lot to say about Carti. 1:01:49.720 --> 1:01:52.760 Carti I think has the upper hand in this kind 1:01:52.760 --> 1:01:55.960 of battle at the moment, because Nicki keeps bringing in 1:01:56.720 --> 1:01:59.320 the kids and started saying things on Twitter that I 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:01.600 probably can can't even read out loud on this radio, 1:02:02.440 --> 1:02:04.360 probably don't want to get fired on our first day 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:06.960 back together. So it finally got to the point where 1:02:07.040 --> 1:02:10.080 Carti had said, listen, like drop the address, like I'll 1:02:10.080 --> 1:02:13.080 come and show up wherever you are. She also had 1:02:13.120 --> 1:02:15.920 made some pretty bold claims about claims about Nicki on 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:20.200 potentially having bipolar disorders and being addicted to drugs, And 1:02:20.240 --> 1:02:22.280 the only reason why I think there might be some 1:02:22.400 --> 1:02:24.760 validity to that now, granted, I don't know Nicki Minaj's 1:02:24.760 --> 1:02:27.439 medical history, and I almost feel a little ridiculous talking 1:02:27.480 --> 1:02:30.640 about a rap beef on seven hundred wow, but it 1:02:30.800 --> 1:02:33.000 really is very big on the internet, and you. 1:02:33.000 --> 1:02:35.040 Might scroll past it, and I want to make sure 1:02:35.080 --> 1:02:36.560 you're in the living, big part of hip hop for 1:02:36.600 --> 1:02:38.280 a long time. You have that right. 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:41.000 There's always beef right, and that's why I'm not surprised 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:42.400 that her and Nicki go back and forth. 1:02:42.440 --> 1:02:44.840 It is what it is, that's our culture. So the 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:45.760 only reason I think. 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:48.120 There might be some validity to the mental health things 1:02:48.160 --> 1:02:51.520 that Carti said about Niki is because sometimes Nicki does 1:02:51.560 --> 1:02:54.360 come off as a little on the like unhinged side, 1:02:54.360 --> 1:02:55.840 like why are we even talking. 1:02:55.520 --> 1:02:57.000 About this right now? 1:02:57.880 --> 1:03:00.320 But again, I'm not naive to think that it isn't 1:03:00.560 --> 1:03:04.080 just all a part of the game, like no press 1:03:04.080 --> 1:03:04.600 is bad press. 1:03:04.840 --> 1:03:06.240 The thing I think it's I think a lot of 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:08.120 this is pro wrestling. I think a lot of it 1:03:08.160 --> 1:03:11.080 is now I don't know when bullets fly, and that's 1:03:11.200 --> 1:03:13.840 you know that kind that's a different story entirely when 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:16.280 there's actually, you know, someone dies, different stories. 1:03:16.280 --> 1:03:18.880 I don't think it would come to so Carti is 1:03:18.880 --> 1:03:22.160 gonna be in Sincy one time, but potentially two. So 1:03:22.240 --> 1:03:26.440 her tour comes to heritage in March. And she also 1:03:26.520 --> 1:03:29.320 is dating Stephan Diggs. Now, who does Stephan Diggs play 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:34.040 for Patriots? Patriots come here on the weekend of Thanksgiving? Yes, 1:03:34.400 --> 1:03:37.800 so we could see maybe Carti could see Cardi here twice. 1:03:37.800 --> 1:03:38.920 Why would she she would come here? 1:03:39.240 --> 1:03:41.280 I think she wants to support Steph on she's pregnant 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:43.360 with her fourth child. 1:03:43.600 --> 1:03:48.280 Yeah, it says, so we'll see what comes to that. 1:03:48.280 --> 1:03:50.800 That's awesome. Shall we check to see if my laptop works. 1:03:50.880 --> 1:03:58.840 Let's see, let's see maybe maybe by Tuesday, we'll see. 1:03:59.400 --> 1:04:01.440 There's all the way is always Tuesday. 1:04:01.520 --> 1:04:02.280 There's always that. 1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:05.120 What I think that those are the big things, Cardi happened. 1:04:05.160 --> 1:04:07.720 I thought of you during the super Bowl halftime announcement. 1:04:08.200 --> 1:04:11.840 Taylor's coming out tonight. I have a tattoo back to 1:04:11.880 --> 1:04:12.439 the super Bowl. 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:14.600 Do you think there's gonna because I think a lot 1:04:14.600 --> 1:04:16.800 of people don't you know older like myself. I know, 1:04:17.160 --> 1:04:19.200 I think probably would recognize a couple of the songs, 1:04:19.720 --> 1:04:22.080 but I can't say I'm a bad bunny expert. I 1:04:22.120 --> 1:04:23.800 know he's Puerto Rican, but I wonder how much of 1:04:23.800 --> 1:04:26.320 a backlash there's going to be with that element because 1:04:26.320 --> 1:04:28.800 all those songs are in Spanish. With an American sport 1:04:28.840 --> 1:04:31.520 like football. Now, the NFL has made tremendous ord's trying 1:04:31.520 --> 1:04:34.440 to grow market share by having games in Dublin and 1:04:34.480 --> 1:04:38.080 in London and of course in South America. That's part 1:04:38.080 --> 1:04:40.360 of this. If you found football all, you know this 1:04:40.400 --> 1:04:43.440 can't possibly be surprised as they tried to expand. 1:04:44.160 --> 1:04:45.360 That was my question for you. 1:04:45.400 --> 1:04:47.640 Do you think that this is a little bit more 1:04:48.000 --> 1:04:49.640 of let's say, a power. 1:04:49.360 --> 1:04:53.120 Play by the NFL than it is anything else. I 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:53.880 turned it off. 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:56.120 It just keeps updating. 1:04:56.880 --> 1:04:59.560 No, I think they're trying to expand to younger audiences, 1:04:59.560 --> 1:05:01.280 and I think you're older and you're offended by this 1:05:01.320 --> 1:05:03.280 and want to see, you know, I don't know, Bruce 1:05:03.320 --> 1:05:06.400 Springsteen again or something like that. You're probably not going 1:05:06.480 --> 1:05:09.120 anytime soon because the money is in the younger demos, 1:05:09.200 --> 1:05:12.480 it's in gen z R audience. Isn't like even I 1:05:12.520 --> 1:05:16.160 would say, certainly. I don't want to discount you millennials, 1:05:16.200 --> 1:05:18.640 but I think it's about building a base with gen zers. 1:05:18.720 --> 1:05:20.680 And look at the flag football thing. It's interesting. They 1:05:20.800 --> 1:05:22.760 really lean the flag football so they can get more 1:05:22.800 --> 1:05:25.840 younger people, kids, young women to play and get invested 1:05:25.840 --> 1:05:27.800 in the game of football, so they become customers in 1:05:27.800 --> 1:05:29.440 the future. That's what this is all about. 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:31.400 I think you make a great point. I do want 1:05:31.400 --> 1:05:32.960 to squeeze one or two more things in if we. 1:05:32.880 --> 1:05:33.320 Have the time. 1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:34.680 Do you have the sound for it? The audio? 1:05:34.760 --> 1:05:34.920 I do? 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:35.640 Well, let's see. 1:05:35.720 --> 1:05:42.240 Let's see world famous Jane Goodall, Oh yeah, passed away 1:05:42.320 --> 1:05:44.240 yesterday at the age of ninety one. 1:05:44.320 --> 1:05:46.919 That woman was working literally up until her death. 1:05:47.280 --> 1:05:49.320 She was on tour for her book that came out 1:05:49.400 --> 1:05:54.160 in twenty twenty one, and she had passed passed away 1:05:54.160 --> 1:05:56.400 while out on the tour. I guess of natural causes, 1:05:56.720 --> 1:06:01.000 and let's see if this works. Nope, still doesn't work. 1:06:01.120 --> 1:06:03.640 That is one big gorilla. 1:06:03.800 --> 1:06:06.600 She was one of only eight people to be able 1:06:06.640 --> 1:06:09.960 to get a degree or a doctorate without having a 1:06:10.000 --> 1:06:11.840 college degree. And I don't know how that works, but 1:06:11.880 --> 1:06:15.000 I read that this morning the honorary then right, no, no, no, 1:06:15.040 --> 1:06:17.600 this is legitimate, Jeane Girdlea. You just get to skip ahead. 1:06:17.640 --> 1:06:19.800 You don't have to take biology one oh one, you 1:06:19.800 --> 1:06:21.880 don't have to take intro to psychology. 1:06:22.320 --> 1:06:25.800 I think it's because the woman literally lived in the 1:06:25.840 --> 1:06:28.680 woods with the monkeys on her own. I had seen 1:06:28.720 --> 1:06:31.040 a little bit of her documentary on Hulu. I recommend it. 1:06:31.160 --> 1:06:33.080 I don't think I ever finished it, but I remember 1:06:33.160 --> 1:06:35.840 being super intrigued by it. The woman was out in 1:06:35.880 --> 1:06:40.440 the jungle on her own when she was in her twenties. 1:06:40.000 --> 1:06:42.000 Didn't get her head ripped off or nothing. So some 1:06:42.080 --> 1:06:43.840 of these people are like, oh, they're just like us, 1:06:43.880 --> 1:06:47.280 wind up dying horrific death because the animals don't think 1:06:47.280 --> 1:06:49.480 that we're like them. They think they'll Loogan eventually go, 1:06:49.600 --> 1:06:51.240 you know what, this guy's pissing me off. I'm gonna 1:06:51.240 --> 1:06:57.919 eat them, Jane, any primate, right, she really became one 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:01.000 of the chimpanzees, and I think her research want it 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:04.880 was known for just understanding them and then stopping the 1:07:04.960 --> 1:07:08.560 use of the of chimpanzees for science, for entertainment and 1:07:08.560 --> 1:07:10.439 stuff like that. Ninety one though, that's a good long 1:07:10.480 --> 1:07:13.320 life for someone who's but good. And there's somebody to 1:07:13.320 --> 1:07:15.720 be said about that too. Is we age? And you 1:07:15.720 --> 1:07:17.480 know when you retire and quit, there's some people at 1:07:17.480 --> 1:07:19.480 work and they just that's ther whole purpose in life, 1:07:19.520 --> 1:07:21.320 and they just keep on going. She's one of those. 1:07:21.920 --> 1:07:22.760 Yeah good. 1:07:23.360 --> 1:07:25.720 I have never felt like a segment dragged on for 1:07:25.760 --> 1:07:26.720 so long in my life. 1:07:26.720 --> 1:07:29.000 And keep waiting for your computer to wow. 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:30.000 Like, I can't believe it. 1:07:30.000 --> 1:07:32.800 We've gone three weeks without talking, and I'm like, how 1:07:32.800 --> 1:07:33.840 do I do this job? 1:07:34.440 --> 1:07:36.960 What's the wrong with that? Between my foot and your 1:07:37.600 --> 1:07:38.480 mystery tattoo? 1:07:38.600 --> 1:07:40.960 Oh my god, wait until you hear I'm about to 1:07:40.960 --> 1:07:44.280 book a forty five hundred dollars flight for someone that 1:07:44.280 --> 1:07:46.920 I'm dating four thousand. 1:07:47.400 --> 1:07:49.360 I was going to think that the tattoo would have 1:07:49.440 --> 1:07:53.040 been of this person, not Oh come on, you know me. 1:07:53.400 --> 1:07:56.439 I know you, so you get but sometimes you get 1:07:56.440 --> 1:07:58.400 invested in something and you push all those chips in 1:07:58.440 --> 1:08:00.880 the middle of the table. You know, don't read the room. 1:08:01.080 --> 1:08:03.640 We commit, we go hard. Don't read the room. She's 1:08:03.640 --> 1:08:05.960 Tip Potter kiss one of seven one mornings, and she 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:08.880 pops in Tuesday Thursdays with three things at the top 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:10.360 of thet all right, appreciate you. Good to be back 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:13.200 when you get a news update in and when we return. 1:08:13.240 --> 1:08:16.880 Speaking of those red legs, what's next after there? Should 1:08:17.000 --> 1:08:19.360 I don't think stunning is the right word. I would 1:08:19.360 --> 1:08:22.400 say the sobering wake up call of what big payroll 1:08:22.439 --> 1:08:24.680 teams are going to do to you doesn't mean you 1:08:24.680 --> 1:08:26.639 can't get it done. Look at the Milwaukee Brewers, but 1:08:26.840 --> 1:08:28.640 Red's got some work to do. The offseason chat with 1:08:28.760 --> 1:08:32.479 Jeff Cup from Lockdown. Reds just ahead on seven hundred WW. 1:08:32.600 --> 1:08:36.920 Since then, do you want to slow me back on 1:08:36.920 --> 1:08:39.320 seven hundred WW? That's what I said back on seven 1:08:39.400 --> 1:08:43.879 hundred W dow Barring some ankle surgery, severed ten completely 1:08:43.920 --> 1:08:46.479 ruptured tendon that I'm dealing with, but you know what, 1:08:47.520 --> 1:08:50.400 that can be repaired. That can be Can the Reds 1:08:50.439 --> 1:08:53.680 be repaired? That's the question now. Sunday we had champagne. 1:08:54.000 --> 1:08:57.599 The hangover lasted till Wednesday, then sobriety hit last night. 1:08:57.640 --> 1:08:59.080 He looked in the mirror and go, what the hell 1:08:59.080 --> 1:09:01.880 did I do when I was drinking champagne? Eight to 1:09:01.960 --> 1:09:04.760 four last night the final despite two early runs, they 1:09:04.760 --> 1:09:10.360 couldn't compete. The Cockerroaches have been exterminated outscore eighteen to nine, 1:09:10.800 --> 1:09:15.400 and the longest drought in professional sports continues. The agony 1:09:15.720 --> 1:09:18.000 of the Reds not advancing is going to be known 1:09:18.040 --> 1:09:20.519 at least another year on it As our buddy from Lockdown, 1:09:20.560 --> 1:09:23.000 Red's the only daily Reds podcast, that'd be Jeff Carr. 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:24.920 He's gonna have a lot to talk about in the 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:29.760 offseason starting today, Jeffrey, Welcome, Hi you Ben Sony. It's 1:09:29.800 --> 1:09:30.679 been a wild ride. 1:09:30.680 --> 1:09:35.200 Like you mentioned, it felt like celebration turned to reality far, 1:09:35.320 --> 1:09:38.320 far too quick. But that's been the reality of Red's 1:09:38.360 --> 1:09:40.920 postseason baseball in the recent history. 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:43.960 I know I'll be a little bit more optimistic probably here. 1:09:44.920 --> 1:09:47.160 I know that you look around the wrestling game and 1:09:47.240 --> 1:09:51.200 watching day baseball on the IR as I was watching 1:09:51.240 --> 1:09:54.840 Detroit in Cleveland. They're going to play a game three today. 1:09:54.920 --> 1:09:57.360 San Diego's at Chicago and the Cubbies. Hopefully we're gon 1:09:57.360 --> 1:09:59.360 limit the Cubbies here San Diego and then Boston. New 1:09:59.439 --> 1:10:01.840 York was great game last night and he thought, well, 1:10:01.840 --> 1:10:04.880 can they go four for four? Can all four wild 1:10:04.880 --> 1:10:07.960 card games advanced to a pivotal Game three? And the 1:10:08.040 --> 1:10:11.160 answer was no. The Reds let us down. If any 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:14.320 of those teams they'll face the Dodgers instead of US. 1:10:15.400 --> 1:10:17.800 I think that the Dodgers probably beat a lot of 1:10:17.800 --> 1:10:20.599 those teams, if not almost all those teams saved maybe 1:10:20.640 --> 1:10:23.519 I don't know, maybe New York or Boston. I think 1:10:23.520 --> 1:10:25.599 they could beat Cleveland. I think they could be Detroit. 1:10:25.600 --> 1:10:29.639 I think they could probably beat Chicago. It just happens 1:10:29.680 --> 1:10:33.720 we drew the Dodgers. That starting pitching is going to 1:10:33.760 --> 1:10:36.000 be so hard for anybody to be there. I mean, 1:10:36.040 --> 1:10:39.120 the way that Yamamoto and Blake Snell were both dealing, 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:41.599 didn't feel like there was a whole lot of lineups 1:10:41.640 --> 1:10:44.439 that could really hang with them. It's just the pitching 1:10:44.479 --> 1:10:46.800 side of things for the Reds ended up letting them down, 1:10:46.840 --> 1:10:52.080 which was the big twist that we were all not expecting. 1:10:51.520 --> 1:10:52.360 In this story. 1:10:52.960 --> 1:10:54.240 But I agree with you. 1:10:54.280 --> 1:10:57.120 I think the Dodgers pitching really was the impressive part 1:10:57.120 --> 1:11:00.200 of this. Their lineup did what we all expected it today. 1:11:00.880 --> 1:11:03.280 Yeah, right, and they absolutely mowed him down. And then 1:11:03.280 --> 1:11:05.120 you look at the Dodgers and you watch how they played, 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:06.559 going all, how the hell could they be in the 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:09.679 wild the wild guard? How is that possible? 1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:14.200 There's a reason, especially they're in the wildcard, right, right, 1:11:14.600 --> 1:11:17.639 It's just I mean, Philly and Milwaukee had great seasons. 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:20.880 It's interesting because going into the year, the Dodgers over 1:11:21.000 --> 1:11:22.640 under win total was at one hundred and three and 1:11:22.680 --> 1:11:25.680 a half, so based on that, they really underachieved at 1:11:25.800 --> 1:11:28.439 ninety three. But boy, ninety three looks a lot better 1:11:28.479 --> 1:11:30.320 than eighty three if you're looking from the Reds point 1:11:30.360 --> 1:11:30.639 of view. 1:11:30.720 --> 1:11:34.840 Yeah, no question. The criticism was fast and furious, and 1:11:34.880 --> 1:11:37.920 that started with Tel getting the start. They worked Lodola 1:11:37.920 --> 1:11:39.160 out of the pen. I don't think he had like 1:11:39.200 --> 1:11:42.599 a dozen pitches maybe, And the question mark is, well, 1:11:42.600 --> 1:11:45.160 why are we saving Andrew Abbott for today? There is 1:11:45.200 --> 1:11:45.759 no today? 1:11:47.320 --> 1:11:50.599 Right, I mean I didn't understand. I know that there 1:11:50.680 --> 1:11:52.760 was a little bit of a discussion about short rest 1:11:52.880 --> 1:11:55.880 and things like that, but in a short playoff series. 1:11:56.600 --> 1:11:59.400 We talked many times this year about the fact that 1:11:59.640 --> 1:12:03.000 with Green, Lodolo and Abbot you feel really confident going 1:12:03.080 --> 1:12:07.680 up against anybody. Well, in this series Green got was 1:12:07.720 --> 1:12:10.719 tipping pitches or something like that and got a little 1:12:10.760 --> 1:12:14.799 bit blinded by the like Nickelodolo threw fourteen total pitches 1:12:14.840 --> 1:12:17.519 and Andrew Rabbit threw zero of them. Those are the 1:12:17.520 --> 1:12:20.799 three guys that you were expecting to be a huge 1:12:20.840 --> 1:12:24.559 reason why the Reds could compete with anybody, and quite frankly, 1:12:24.640 --> 1:12:28.719 they were three of the least important players in this series, 1:12:28.840 --> 1:12:30.479 or at least you know, Green was one of the 1:12:30.479 --> 1:12:33.639 most important as far as negatively, and then Nickelodolo and 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:35.800 Andrew Rabbit were next to Superpluis. 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:38.000 Well, yeah, you don't know what you're getting on Lego. 1:12:38.080 --> 1:12:40.760 I mean, I was as shocked as anybody that Hunter 1:12:40.840 --> 1:12:44.120 Green had the outing that he did in Game one. Yeah. 1:12:44.240 --> 1:12:46.360 Yeah, he turned back the clock, but not in a 1:12:46.400 --> 1:12:48.960 great way. And I think it was immediately whenever he 1:12:49.360 --> 1:12:51.920 gave up the home run to Otani, he stopped being 1:12:51.960 --> 1:12:54.160 a pitcher and he went back to being a thrower. 1:12:54.840 --> 1:12:57.560 And I think that's probably why, you know, Busseroni was 1:12:57.560 --> 1:12:59.880 talking about he was tipping his pitches and all the 1:13:00.120 --> 1:13:03.679 other stuff. But quite frankly, us Reds fans know what 1:13:03.800 --> 1:13:06.559 Hunter Green looks like when he's pitching versus what he's 1:13:06.840 --> 1:13:09.719 looks like when he's throwing. I mean, he wasn't able 1:13:09.760 --> 1:13:11.880 to use the splitter. He tried to throw it a 1:13:11.920 --> 1:13:13.759 couple of times, and he spiked it in the ground 1:13:13.840 --> 1:13:17.200 and his slider was not landing for strikes. It was 1:13:17.240 --> 1:13:19.840 starting on the plate and breaking off the plate, so 1:13:20.120 --> 1:13:22.360 Dodger sitters knew they could lay off of it. And 1:13:22.400 --> 1:13:24.320 then whenever he would go to throw his fastball, it 1:13:24.439 --> 1:13:26.760 just caught way too much of the plate. And so 1:13:27.680 --> 1:13:30.960 that was watching old Hunter Green pitch again. I think 1:13:31.400 --> 1:13:33.519 part of it was it's like, man, this is his 1:13:33.560 --> 1:13:36.280 first playoff start, and then they add all of this 1:13:36.320 --> 1:13:39.679 other stuff onto it. Oh, you know, hometown kid. He's 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:42.720 coming back home faced the team he watched growing up, 1:13:42.760 --> 1:13:45.920 and all this other stuff, and I think just everything 1:13:46.080 --> 1:13:48.400 just caught up to him the moment that show Heyo 1:13:48.520 --> 1:13:50.000 Tani hit that ball to the movie. 1:13:50.080 --> 1:13:52.320 Yeah, Hunter Green was obviously a lock in Game one, 1:13:52.760 --> 1:13:56.120 but Lodolo come out of the pen for a limited appearance, 1:13:56.120 --> 1:13:58.000 and then Abbott waited till today. He was going to 1:13:58.040 --> 1:14:00.959 throw him today and there was no today. There's only yesterday. 1:14:01.520 --> 1:14:03.760 Did Tito explain that zach ly telstar. 1:14:05.479 --> 1:14:09.240 I didn't hear like specifically. I think they cited the 1:14:09.320 --> 1:14:11.920 short rest for Andrew Rabbit, but I didn't hear like 1:14:11.960 --> 1:14:16.479 specifically why it was the Tel But I just find 1:14:16.520 --> 1:14:21.200 it so weird funny, especially the short outing for Nickolodolo. Okay, 1:14:21.320 --> 1:14:24.400 if he throws in relief on Sunday and you want 1:14:24.439 --> 1:14:27.200 to keep him in that role for some reason, fine, 1:14:27.479 --> 1:14:29.599 but throw him for at least two any at least 1:14:29.640 --> 1:14:32.000 two or three innies. He could totally do that. 1:14:32.640 --> 1:14:35.840 All right. So the Reds limp home and a lot 1:14:35.840 --> 1:14:37.800 of soul searching can be done the offseason. And for 1:14:37.840 --> 1:14:39.599 those who are like, okay, well here we go again. 1:14:39.640 --> 1:14:41.439 You know, Burrow goes down in the injury, the Bengals 1:14:41.439 --> 1:14:43.679 are done. How many days till opening day? The Reds 1:14:43.680 --> 1:14:45.800 disappointed they get the only team in the wild card. 1:14:45.800 --> 1:14:48.680 He gets swept as our Cincinnati Reds. The misery continues 1:14:48.720 --> 1:14:52.759 for another year. Haven't even tasted the postseason. Postseason success 1:14:53.479 --> 1:14:56.720 at this point. Keep in mind, and you mentioned Hunter Green, 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.120 very young roster, A lot of guys have not seen 1:14:59.160 --> 1:15:02.080 postseason play, and a lot of those guys, wilted I 1:15:02.080 --> 1:15:04.160 thought it was surprising to show that contrast, as a 1:15:04.160 --> 1:15:06.080 guy like Hunter Green thought, man, he's gonna go out 1:15:06.080 --> 1:15:08.439 there and just dominate. He did not, could barely get 1:15:08.439 --> 1:15:11.360 out of the first inning. It is a guy in 1:15:11.400 --> 1:15:14.120 Matt McClain whose defense has been spectacular all season. His 1:15:14.200 --> 1:15:16.320 bat has been absent for most of the season, been 1:15:16.400 --> 1:15:19.040 terrible at the plate. Had it not been for his glove, 1:15:19.080 --> 1:15:20.760 he would have been sent back down, I would think, 1:15:20.840 --> 1:15:24.000 or at least at least benched at the very least. 1:15:24.040 --> 1:15:26.200 And yet he comes out and he smokes a double. 1:15:26.320 --> 1:15:27.720 When is the last time he got a hit, let 1:15:27.760 --> 1:15:30.760 alone a double. He played pretty well, So you know, 1:15:30.760 --> 1:15:33.519 it's about getting those experience, those moments of experience, I 1:15:33.600 --> 1:15:36.280 think in the postseason, Jeff, and then of course we'll 1:15:36.320 --> 1:15:38.320 talk about this in a minute, that's him adding some pieces. 1:15:38.360 --> 1:15:41.680 But the I think the youngness of this team, the 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:43.080 youth of this club really showed up. 1:15:44.320 --> 1:15:46.640 Yeah, if there's anything that I can glean from the 1:15:46.680 --> 1:15:48.439 fact that they just kind of. 1:15:48.840 --> 1:15:51.840 Got dog walked by the Dodgers. 1:15:51.080 --> 1:15:54.360 That now they can at least draw from this experience. 1:15:54.439 --> 1:15:56.680 They showed up and they did the thing. You know, 1:15:56.800 --> 1:15:58.920 everybody was saying they don't believe in him and all 1:15:58.960 --> 1:16:02.599 this other stuff, and they showed why nobody believed them 1:16:02.640 --> 1:16:04.559 because they got ran over by the Dodgers. And I 1:16:04.600 --> 1:16:07.320 think that that's actually going to be a positive. They're 1:16:07.360 --> 1:16:10.160 going to get to a point next year where maybe 1:16:10.200 --> 1:16:13.000 they hit some struggles and they can draw back on 1:16:13.080 --> 1:16:15.599 this season where you know, the whole cockroaches thing, which 1:16:15.640 --> 1:16:17.920 quite frankly, I'm kind of glad that's done. 1:16:18.000 --> 1:16:21.680 Let's do something else next year. I don't love that Moniker. 1:16:21.920 --> 1:16:22.479 But I get it. 1:16:22.520 --> 1:16:26.599 I understand it's thirty. It's dirty, I suppose, but okay, 1:16:26.680 --> 1:16:28.599 I mean, you know, it took the Mets to screw 1:16:28.600 --> 1:16:31.080 things up for you to get in. It's not like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:16:31.080 --> 1:16:33.679 I know what's in Milwaukee. But it's not like Milwaukee 1:16:33.800 --> 1:16:36.760 is playing all their starters anyway. They're resting up for 1:16:36.800 --> 1:16:39.920 a long playoff run. So you know, way, whatever helps 1:16:39.920 --> 1:16:43.240 you get up the next day and get motivated, that's fine, right. 1:16:43.720 --> 1:16:45.559 But the good news is they can draw on this 1:16:45.760 --> 1:16:49.680 experience for next year, and because they know that playoffs 1:16:49.680 --> 1:16:52.639 baseball sounds different. But you know, once you get into 1:16:52.680 --> 1:16:55.840 inning two, inning three, inning four, there's still three outs, 1:16:55.840 --> 1:16:58.840 there's still three strikes, there's still four balls, and there's 1:16:58.840 --> 1:17:01.280 still twenty seven ounces. You got to get on the opponent. 1:17:01.600 --> 1:17:03.320 And at the end of the day, it's the same 1:17:03.360 --> 1:17:05.320 baseball game you've been playing all your life. And I 1:17:05.360 --> 1:17:08.080 think that that, more than anything, is going to be 1:17:08.240 --> 1:17:12.200 such a huge, a huge lesson for this team moving 1:17:12.240 --> 1:17:14.720 into an offseason that you know, they should be full 1:17:14.760 --> 1:17:17.559 of lessons based on what's happened this year and different 1:17:17.560 --> 1:17:21.000 things that they need to answer before twenty twenty six 1:17:21.040 --> 1:17:21.519 gets going. 1:17:21.680 --> 1:17:23.360 All right, how much of this then is going to 1:17:23.360 --> 1:17:26.520 be turned towards the front office and this offseason Terry Francona, 1:17:26.600 --> 1:17:29.479 despite the criticism about Zach Lettel, despite some of the 1:17:29.560 --> 1:17:31.880 criticisms done, like, as a Hall of Fame manager, you 1:17:31.920 --> 1:17:34.600 can't get better than Terry Francona. He got you to 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:37.439 the postseason, something the Reds haven't tasted a long time. 1:17:38.720 --> 1:17:40.880 At the same time, now the front office has to 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:43.320 give an ownership has to give Terry Francona something to 1:17:43.320 --> 1:17:46.360 play with. You know, a lot is made about payrolls, 1:17:46.360 --> 1:17:48.120 and we've always heard about is a three hundred and 1:17:48.160 --> 1:17:53.080 fifty million dollar Dodger payroll, Dodger payroll, this huge Dodger peril. Meanwhile, 1:17:53.080 --> 1:17:56.439 they're also a wildcard team. So how much of the 1:17:56.600 --> 1:18:00.000 cry about payroll disparity and that we're among the lowest 1:18:00.200 --> 1:18:03.760 MLBA is really relevant in this case? How much of 1:18:03.800 --> 1:18:05.040 that do you weigh on payroll? 1:18:05.400 --> 1:18:09.000 This loss I don't put as much as other people do. 1:18:09.040 --> 1:18:11.759 I mean, think about it too, like the Mets actually 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:14.519 technically had a bigger payroll than the Dodgers did, and 1:18:14.560 --> 1:18:18.240 they collapsed entirely and didn't make the playoffs. So I 1:18:18.280 --> 1:18:21.280 don't think it is, as you know, one for one, 1:18:21.439 --> 1:18:25.040 indicative of success, but I certainly think it would help. 1:18:25.120 --> 1:18:27.200 At the same point, there were different I saw a 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:29.800 post that had to do with peers of payroll, and 1:18:29.880 --> 1:18:31.880 the Reds are in the bottom tier, and they've been 1:18:31.920 --> 1:18:33.920 in the bottom tier for a long time. It just 1:18:33.960 --> 1:18:36.640 feels like if they put a little bit more, not 1:18:36.680 --> 1:18:38.519 saying they got to put one hundred and fifty million 1:18:38.560 --> 1:18:40.760 dollars more, but like just a little bit more, maybe 1:18:40.760 --> 1:18:43.720 twenty thirty million more into the payroll than what they 1:18:43.720 --> 1:18:46.760 did this past year, then they will get everything that 1:18:46.800 --> 1:18:49.479 they need. And I mean, you're talking about twenty four 1:18:49.520 --> 1:18:53.000 million coming off the books for Nick Martinez. You're talking 1:18:53.040 --> 1:18:54.720 about a couple of million more for some of the 1:18:54.720 --> 1:18:57.639 other guys that'll be leaving via free agency from the bullpen. 1:18:57.960 --> 1:19:00.920 Obviously those guys need to be replaced, but it feels 1:19:00.960 --> 1:19:04.439 like they're going to have somewhere between thirty and thirty 1:19:04.439 --> 1:19:08.040 five million from what they spent this year to spend 1:19:08.200 --> 1:19:12.040 on free agents and arbitration contracts, and so if they 1:19:12.080 --> 1:19:14.400 add a little bit more to that, they could really 1:19:14.400 --> 1:19:18.080 go for something here, including you know everyone's favorite son 1:19:18.120 --> 1:19:19.559 from Middletown, Kylee Shwarber. 1:19:19.720 --> 1:19:21.840 Yeah, maybe there's a college Swarber there. On the other 1:19:21.920 --> 1:19:25.719 high side, a lot was put on someone like Ellie 1:19:25.760 --> 1:19:28.120 de la Cruz. I mean, we heard the story last 1:19:28.200 --> 1:19:30.720 night about Rick Stowe giving him number forty four because 1:19:30.760 --> 1:19:32.840 you run out of Eric Davis. I'll tell you what. 1:19:33.080 --> 1:19:35.200 I saw Eric Davis as his prime and you did too. 1:19:35.560 --> 1:19:38.080 Ellie da la Cruz is not quite Eric Davis yet. 1:19:39.280 --> 1:19:42.840 No he's not. And that was the other part of 1:19:42.880 --> 1:19:46.080 this Dodgers series that surprised me because it looked like 1:19:46.120 --> 1:19:48.400 down the stretch he was getting the second wind. That 1:19:48.439 --> 1:19:51.320 looked as if he was ready for the big for 1:19:51.400 --> 1:19:54.120 the big stage here again. And we've seen him play 1:19:54.240 --> 1:19:57.080 very well against the Dodgers, but the Dodgers have completely 1:19:57.120 --> 1:19:59.840 shut him down this year. And then the two game 1:20:00.000 --> 1:20:03.160 Wildcard series, really, I mean, he was a non factor. 1:20:03.520 --> 1:20:05.080 He was on base a couple of times in the 1:20:05.080 --> 1:20:07.559 first game by a walk and then he had a 1:20:07.560 --> 1:20:10.840 fielders choice that got an rv I. But that's it. 1:20:10.960 --> 1:20:13.840 Like there was no impactful moment for Elie de la Cruz, 1:20:13.920 --> 1:20:16.360 especially there in Game two where he comes up in 1:20:16.360 --> 1:20:18.400 the sixth thenning with the bases loaded, and it feels 1:20:18.439 --> 1:20:20.760 like this is a moment where he can make a 1:20:20.840 --> 1:20:24.519 name for himself, and he struck out, and I think 1:20:24.560 --> 1:20:26.559 that there's definitely a lot that he can glean. He's 1:20:26.560 --> 1:20:30.439 still very early on in his career, but yeah, you're right. 1:20:30.560 --> 1:20:33.600 I mean he's not there yet. He still remains a 1:20:33.640 --> 1:20:36.080 bunch of potential rather than approven product. 1:20:36.640 --> 1:20:39.759 Yeah, there's a number of young guys in this roster 1:20:39.960 --> 1:20:41.920 that that pop out at you, going, well, there's a 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:43.920 guy to build round one of those guys. I've been 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:46.120 joined to watch the season of Sales Stewart, and I 1:20:46.160 --> 1:20:48.240 know he took it hard. He took it on himself, 1:20:48.280 --> 1:20:50.519 saying we lost that game because of my errand throw. 1:20:51.000 --> 1:20:53.240 But keep in mind he got up in a couple 1:20:53.280 --> 1:20:55.920 of clutch hits for that matter, and some just smart 1:20:56.000 --> 1:20:59.640 baseball plays. I like Sales Stewart a lot, and I 1:20:59.680 --> 1:21:01.760 look at him and go, Okay, there's a guy that's 1:21:01.800 --> 1:21:03.200 going to be a cornerstone for a while. 1:21:04.160 --> 1:21:06.120 Yeah, I feel like there might be a dozen things 1:21:06.120 --> 1:21:07.960 that open on the list before I get to South 1:21:08.000 --> 1:21:11.360 Stewart for that game last night. I do really like 1:21:11.400 --> 1:21:13.360 what he brings to the table. He's got so much 1:21:13.400 --> 1:21:15.519 confidence when he steps into the box. I mean, you 1:21:15.560 --> 1:21:19.400 saw it. Yamamoto was just mowing people down, but every 1:21:19.400 --> 1:21:22.519 time salth Stewart stepped in it was very good at back. 1:21:22.840 --> 1:21:25.120 It did strike out once, but a couple of very 1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:28.280 impactful hits in this game. And I really like what 1:21:28.360 --> 1:21:30.439 sal brings to this team. I mean, he got caught 1:21:30.520 --> 1:21:33.400 up in the beginning of September and he provided a 1:21:33.400 --> 1:21:36.360 couple of homers for him down the stretch. Didn't look like, 1:21:36.600 --> 1:21:38.840 you know, oh hey kid, welcome to the big leagues. 1:21:38.880 --> 1:21:40.479 By the way, we're in a pennant race, and don't 1:21:40.520 --> 1:21:44.240 mess anything up here. And he didn't. He looked fantastic, 1:21:44.280 --> 1:21:47.400 and he's got a great personality to root for too. 1:21:47.560 --> 1:21:50.000 I just I really hope that they commit to one 1:21:50.040 --> 1:21:52.280 position with him, because they keep doing this thing where, 1:21:52.760 --> 1:21:55.000 you know, so they get somebody on the roster and 1:21:55.000 --> 1:21:57.240 they're like, oh, well he could play anything. It's like, well, 1:21:57.280 --> 1:21:59.960 give him, give him a position, and I feel like 1:22:00.080 --> 1:22:02.400 he looked good at first. He's looked good at third 1:22:02.439 --> 1:22:05.000 base in his minor league career as well. There's gonna 1:22:05.000 --> 1:22:07.599 be so many options open to this front office this 1:22:07.800 --> 1:22:11.360 off season because of guys like South Stewart, but they've 1:22:11.439 --> 1:22:13.200 really got to make sure that they have a plane 1:22:13.200 --> 1:22:16.280 in place next year and not this current roster that 1:22:16.280 --> 1:22:20.280 feels like it has a whole bunch of square pegs 1:22:20.320 --> 1:22:22.840 for square holes. But there's only so many holes you 1:22:22.840 --> 1:22:24.759 can fill, and they've got far too many pegs. 1:22:24.800 --> 1:22:27.120 Yeah, I love Sales Stewart also because he looks like 1:22:27.200 --> 1:22:30.639 a lot like a young Al Capone. He's Jeff Carr 1:22:30.720 --> 1:22:35.200 with locked on Reds this morning, wrapping up the red 1:22:35.280 --> 1:22:37.599 season and not ending the way we hoped or wanted. 1:22:37.640 --> 1:22:40.240 But the reality is you got bum rushed by the 1:22:40.680 --> 1:22:43.240 La Dodgers, who are a much much better team than 1:22:43.280 --> 1:22:46.240 their position, and seating would lead you to believior just 1:22:46.280 --> 1:22:48.160 to look off the street. But I think the Dodgers 1:22:48.120 --> 1:22:51.080 are gonna they may have a good chance of going 1:22:51.080 --> 1:22:53.400 from a wild card to World Series back to back 1:22:53.479 --> 1:22:56.320 champions because they look that damn good. They just continue 1:22:56.360 --> 1:22:58.719 to come at you with play after play after player, 1:22:58.800 --> 1:23:00.880 and you know that too. Nothing lead that they had 1:23:00.960 --> 1:23:02.479 last night early like that, Well, they're going to have 1:23:02.520 --> 1:23:05.120 to probably quadruple that if they got a chance down 1:23:05.160 --> 1:23:08.160 the stretch, they did not, And long about after what 1:23:08.240 --> 1:23:10.120 the fourth or fifth inning, they started having to play 1:23:10.120 --> 1:23:12.519 from behind, and that's not a good when you're in 1:23:12.520 --> 1:23:15.640 the position the Cincinnati Reds are, but got to the postseason. 1:23:15.720 --> 1:23:17.679 The goal next season is going to go much much 1:23:17.720 --> 1:23:20.960 deeper in the playoffs. And how much of that is 1:23:21.000 --> 1:23:23.040 retaining some of the core guys you mentioned We're gonna 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:25.080 lose some guys in free agency, which all teams do, 1:23:26.560 --> 1:23:29.120 but also what they add, what do you think happens 1:23:29.520 --> 1:23:31.559 in the next what four and a half five months here? 1:23:32.479 --> 1:23:36.320 I think it really depends on how concrete a position 1:23:36.360 --> 1:23:38.960 they believe. Elie de la Cruz has a shortstop, If 1:23:38.960 --> 1:23:41.320 they're going to move him to the outfield or something 1:23:41.360 --> 1:23:44.720 like that, that would open up more opportunities for enfielders. 1:23:44.720 --> 1:23:47.360 But it feels like this team is full of infielders 1:23:47.800 --> 1:23:50.160 and they've tried to move some to the outfield and 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:53.519 it just doesn't necessarily work. And they don't have a 1:23:53.520 --> 1:23:55.720 whole lot of outfielders right now, Like Austin Hayes has 1:23:55.760 --> 1:23:59.760 a mutual option. I'm not sure how that one's going 1:23:59.800 --> 1:24:01.800 to go because the season has been sort of up 1:24:01.840 --> 1:24:03.719 and down for Austin Hey. There's a lot of injuries, 1:24:04.120 --> 1:24:08.200 some production, but none of it's super consistent, and I 1:24:08.240 --> 1:24:11.040 don't think that the Reds are going to pick up 1:24:11.520 --> 1:24:14.240 the mutual side of that option. Then you have Miguel 1:24:14.280 --> 1:24:17.679 Andrewharr who came over here from the A's and he's 1:24:17.720 --> 1:24:19.920 played the outfield a lot in his career. It's just 1:24:20.320 --> 1:24:22.360 he had a leg injury that was limiting him to 1:24:22.439 --> 1:24:25.200 DH only and so is he going to get healthy 1:24:25.200 --> 1:24:27.320 in this offseason? Do you commit to him playing in 1:24:27.320 --> 1:24:29.280 the outfield for a little bit, maybe give him a 1:24:29.320 --> 1:24:32.519 one year proven deal or something like that. There's a 1:24:32.520 --> 1:24:35.799 lot of interesting options that they currently have in the house. 1:24:35.920 --> 1:24:40.200 But I also would really and the goal for me 1:24:41.400 --> 1:24:44.240 for Nick Crawl because there is you mentioned this early 1:24:44.280 --> 1:24:47.120 on when we started talking like how much pressure shifts 1:24:47.160 --> 1:24:49.679 to the front office. This has to be the most 1:24:49.680 --> 1:24:53.320 pressure packed off season for Nick Crawl because they just 1:24:53.360 --> 1:24:55.280 showed that they could do this with the roster that 1:24:55.320 --> 1:24:57.360 they got, but they don't have enough to go much 1:24:57.400 --> 1:25:00.360 further than where they got, and they've got to get 1:25:01.080 --> 1:25:03.200 some help. I think that the first thing he's got 1:25:03.200 --> 1:25:05.519 to look at is somebody who can be an anchor 1:25:05.560 --> 1:25:07.720 for this lineup. There was nobody in this lineup at 1:25:07.720 --> 1:25:10.719 any point this season that was a consistent like when 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:13.000 we need a hit, he's going to give it to us, 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:15.200 and when we need an RBI, he's going to give 1:25:15.240 --> 1:25:17.800 it to us. They've got to go find that guy, 1:25:17.880 --> 1:25:20.200 whether he's an outfielder or a d H or whatever 1:25:20.240 --> 1:25:24.280 he might be, or whether his name rhymes with Blorber. 1:25:25.560 --> 1:25:31.240 I think that that was a Borber, But you know, 1:25:32.240 --> 1:25:34.479 whether that is the option or not, he's got to 1:25:34.479 --> 1:25:37.240 figure that out because there's definitely some boopen needs that 1:25:37.280 --> 1:25:41.720 he has, and you could argue that there's definitely some 1:25:41.880 --> 1:25:44.760 needs there on the bench as well. What is Will 1:25:44.800 --> 1:25:45.960 Benson to this team? 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:46.759 Is scie? 1:25:47.080 --> 1:25:48.920 Are we going to run it back with Santiagos? 1:25:49.000 --> 1:25:49.120 Now? 1:25:49.160 --> 1:25:51.240 Please don't? I really don't want that to be the 1:25:51.280 --> 1:25:55.000 answer is yes. But there's so many different answers that 1:25:55.080 --> 1:25:57.760 Nick Call needs to give. But the first one is 1:25:57.800 --> 1:25:59.679 who's anchoring this lineup next year? 1:26:00.000 --> 1:26:02.519 It's a good question. We'll pick it up again. In 1:26:02.560 --> 1:26:05.519 just a few months. Jeff Carr always enjoyed our chats 1:26:05.560 --> 1:26:07.479 on Monday, kind of recap in the weekend, look at 1:26:07.479 --> 1:26:10.600 a week aheads, and hopefully we'll both be around in 1:26:10.640 --> 1:26:12.160 a few months to be able to do that, Jeff 1:26:12.160 --> 1:26:14.519 Carr Lockdown ORIDGS only Daily Reads podcast, are gonna have 1:26:14.560 --> 1:26:16.560 a lot to talk about in the next four or 1:26:16.600 --> 1:26:19.200 five months, for sure, before things start ramping up out 1:26:19.200 --> 1:26:21.720 a goodyear and then the twenty twenty sixth version of 1:26:21.720 --> 1:26:25.160 this team comes to fruition, and I think we have 1:26:25.240 --> 1:26:28.839 reason to be optimistic and excited. Provide to the front office, 1:26:28.960 --> 1:26:31.519 get some critical pieces in there. Jeff, have a great offseason, 1:26:31.520 --> 1:26:33.120 all the best. I've been appreciating you all these. 1:26:33.040 --> 1:26:35.200 Months, Bunby, appreciate you. 1:26:35.240 --> 1:26:37.160 Go right, all right, let's get a time out in 1:26:37.320 --> 1:26:39.800 Sloaney back on seven hundred. The Reds are dead, but 1:26:39.840 --> 1:26:44.720 I'm alive, apparently barely. Some healthish look get into that 1:26:44.800 --> 1:26:47.840 coming up too, and how about some news first though, 1:26:47.880 --> 1:26:48.639 I'm seven hundred. 1:26:48.680 --> 1:26:56.040 W jeez, the Princess of property, the Queen of closings. 1:26:56.360 --> 1:26:57.759 But touch us some deals. 1:26:58.880 --> 1:26:59.720 It's realistic. 1:27:00.160 --> 1:27:05.120 What's Michelle Sloan all hal the bestest Remax time agent 1:27:05.360 --> 1:27:08.640 I've ever met on seven hundred wl W. 1:27:09.520 --> 1:27:13.240 All right back after an extended hiatus. Here my nurse 1:27:13.280 --> 1:27:17.479 and wife, Michelle Sloan try to show this morning back 1:27:17.560 --> 1:27:20.519 into the regular groove. Here we go. What's going on? 1:27:20.640 --> 1:27:22.160 Maybe I don't know. 1:27:22.200 --> 1:27:25.680 We've just spent the last three weeks together. I have 1:27:25.760 --> 1:27:26.559 nothing more. 1:27:26.479 --> 1:27:29.240 Two weeks in two three days. I don't know, but 1:27:29.680 --> 1:27:33.120 so yeah, hey, you know what, it'll be your turn 1:27:33.160 --> 1:27:35.800 at some point. Of course, of course, then I got 1:27:35.800 --> 1:27:37.360 to cart your ass around. 1:27:37.600 --> 1:27:41.240 Yeah, well we have it is. We have another three 1:27:41.280 --> 1:27:44.479 weeks of non weight bearing. 1:27:44.760 --> 1:27:48.160 So anyway, long story short, and it's good to be back. 1:27:48.240 --> 1:27:50.400 I said's great to be out of the house as 1:27:50.439 --> 1:27:52.320 someone that used to sitting around as long as I've 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:55.840 been sitting around. Went in for some ankle surgery. Had 1:27:55.840 --> 1:27:57.400 a bone that was rubbing on a tendon in my 1:27:57.479 --> 1:27:59.599 right foot, and it turned out that I've been walking 1:27:59.640 --> 1:28:03.880 around all summer on a severed tendon. And that was 1:28:03.880 --> 1:28:05.519 the first news the surgeon told me when I got out. 1:28:05.560 --> 1:28:10.200 She said, yeah, you severed your tendon completely. Oh okay, so. 1:28:10.439 --> 1:28:12.240 It was a lot worse thanur. 1:28:12.400 --> 1:28:14.400 So, yeah, she's in her while sew and everything back 1:28:14.439 --> 1:28:16.240 together and sewing it to another tendon and stuff. 1:28:16.240 --> 1:28:18.639 So anyway, yeah, I was sitting in the waiting room. 1:28:19.160 --> 1:28:23.479 It was supposed to be an hour surgery. After ninety minutes, 1:28:23.920 --> 1:28:29.000 here we go. I'm like, okay, there's it wasn't really worried, No, 1:28:29.280 --> 1:28:30.120 I mean it was worse. 1:28:31.160 --> 1:28:34.600 Yeah, yeah, I mean, as I said, you don't people like, 1:28:34.600 --> 1:28:36.639 oh my god, it must be terrible. Look, there's people 1:28:36.680 --> 1:28:38.479 with far worse stuff in the world, and I've seen 1:28:38.520 --> 1:28:42.479 it firsthand, family friends, close friends that and God bless 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:43.920 you if you're going through that now. So what I 1:28:44.000 --> 1:28:45.880 had can be fixed. There's a lot of people who 1:28:46.200 --> 1:28:49.120 don't have a remedy for that. So more prayers to 1:28:49.120 --> 1:28:51.639 you than to me. So and when the doctor, I'm lucky, 1:28:51.680 --> 1:28:52.559 I can get this fixed. 1:28:52.600 --> 1:28:55.120 She just she when I met with the doctor before 1:28:55.200 --> 1:28:57.880 you were out of anesthesia and everything, she just she 1:28:58.040 --> 1:29:01.040 just put her head down and shook her head with 1:29:01.080 --> 1:29:04.400 her hand on her head, going, oh my gosh. It 1:29:04.560 --> 1:29:06.280 was a mess when I got in there. 1:29:06.400 --> 1:29:06.719 Mess. 1:29:06.920 --> 1:29:09.840 It was an absolute mess. Two inches of the tender. 1:29:09.760 --> 1:29:12.000 She said, you didn't do feel any pain? What's like, 1:29:12.040 --> 1:29:13.720 I mean, hurt a little bit. She goes well with 1:29:13.720 --> 1:29:16.599 a rete, it should have been a lot more painful than. 1:29:16.800 --> 1:29:19.280 Yeah, and your bone spur was three centimeters. I was 1:29:19.320 --> 1:29:21.320 looking on my hand trying to figure out what three 1:29:21.320 --> 1:29:22.120 centimeters looks like. 1:29:22.120 --> 1:29:24.240 I don't roll into the doctor until it's fallen off 1:29:24.280 --> 1:29:24.800 at this point. 1:29:25.720 --> 1:29:26.720 What you are? 1:29:26.800 --> 1:29:28.559 Yeah, exactly right? 1:29:29.439 --> 1:29:32.040 All right? So yeah, my wife Michelle's driving me around, 1:29:32.880 --> 1:29:35.320 which is so because she likes to sleep in until 1:29:35.320 --> 1:29:39.439 the ungodly hour like seven am. I know, and I'm 1:29:39.439 --> 1:29:41.760 in much older than that, so God bless you. She's 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:42.519 going to be driving a. 1:29:44.600 --> 1:29:45.200 Knee scooter. 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:48.360 Scooter's all good, so he's pretty fast on that. Doctor 1:29:48.640 --> 1:29:53.360 Samantha Baker at christ she's great. Yeah, I it was awesome. 1:29:54.000 --> 1:29:55.839 What's going on in the world of real estate? Although 1:29:56.040 --> 1:29:58.720 I suppose we should talk more healthcare related stuff at 1:29:58.720 --> 1:30:00.519 this point. I know the government should down. Is that 1:30:00.560 --> 1:30:01.479 affecting things at all? 1:30:01.640 --> 1:30:05.040 It is? Yeah, absolutely, it's going to slow things down, 1:30:05.400 --> 1:30:09.560 and depending on how long the government shut down lasts, 1:30:10.120 --> 1:30:13.599 the impact on real estate could certainly take a while. 1:30:13.640 --> 1:30:17.879 It's going to delay some transactions, so if you're planning 1:30:17.920 --> 1:30:21.840 to close in the next two weeks, it may be delayed. 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:25.200 So we're going to have to have a lot of patients. 1:30:25.200 --> 1:30:27.200 If you're a buyer, if you're a seller, if you 1:30:27.400 --> 1:30:33.040 have plans to move, if you have movers scheduled, it 1:30:33.080 --> 1:30:36.519 may be completely out of your hands. If you're waiting 1:30:36.600 --> 1:30:41.120 on some federal funding. That would be your government backed loans. 1:30:41.240 --> 1:30:47.439 Federal Housing Administration, the FAHA loans, the VA loans, USDA 1:30:47.600 --> 1:30:53.839 loans are all vulnerable for being slowed down during this process. 1:30:54.040 --> 1:30:55.720 Not stop, but slowed, just. 1:30:55.720 --> 1:31:00.320 Slowed because they're taking about half of the employees and 1:31:00.360 --> 1:31:03.479 they're furloughing them, got it, so the other half will 1:31:03.479 --> 1:31:09.400 be doing double duty. And so eventually, eventually it will close, 1:31:09.560 --> 1:31:13.040 the paperwork will go through. But yeah, it's it's going 1:31:13.120 --> 1:31:15.680 to take a minute. And I think that everybody's just 1:31:15.680 --> 1:31:16.360 got to be aware. 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:20.479 It's just enough to make it so inconvenient. It upsets 1:31:20.520 --> 1:31:22.920 you about the government showdown for the now. If you're 1:31:22.920 --> 1:31:25.360 going through it, it's you know, life and death, because 1:31:25.680 --> 1:31:28.320 if you think about when we just bought a house, right, okay, 1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:30.280 so you have to sell your house to buy the 1:31:30.320 --> 1:31:32.360 new house, and then that person's buying a house, and 1:31:32.400 --> 1:31:37.840 if one person in that chain has an FHA or 1:31:37.960 --> 1:31:40.519 VA long or something like that, then that could come 1:31:40.640 --> 1:31:44.000 everything up and screw things up just enough to slow 1:31:44.040 --> 1:31:46.439 it down to a point where you're losing a lot 1:31:46.439 --> 1:31:48.920 of sleep over it, which is exactly what they wanted. 1:31:48.960 --> 1:31:50.639 I was pointing out the first half of the show. 1:31:50.920 --> 1:31:52.720 But you know, the war of the government shutdown and 1:31:52.720 --> 1:31:54.559 who's really the blame here, And the fact of the 1:31:54.560 --> 1:31:58.680 matter is it's politics, right, So roughly you think it's 1:31:58.720 --> 1:32:01.679 a lot more. But for total federal spending, only eight 1:32:01.720 --> 1:32:03.519 percent of the government to shut down and what they 1:32:03.560 --> 1:32:05.960 call non essential role, so ninety two percent of the 1:32:06.000 --> 1:32:09.680 government according to Democrats and Republicans who are empower may 1:32:09.680 --> 1:32:11.960 I point out think that ninety two percent of governments 1:32:12.040 --> 1:32:16.400 essential what gets shut down museums, national parks, the FHA, 1:32:16.520 --> 1:32:19.120 loans get slowed down, all that stuff. To make you squeeze. 1:32:19.160 --> 1:32:21.639 You know, it's still going on though, But the Army, 1:32:21.880 --> 1:32:27.639 the Navy Air Force game on Saturday, just. 1:32:27.560 --> 1:32:30.320 To show you, like, well, you know what we want 1:32:30.320 --> 1:32:32.080 people to be, we don't want to be. You want 1:32:32.080 --> 1:32:34.920 to get people upset, start cutting the Medicare and Social 1:32:34.920 --> 1:32:39.400 Security payments. But they will do it because this is politics, 1:32:39.400 --> 1:32:40.200 it's not reality. 1:32:40.560 --> 1:32:44.599 There are a lot of employees who have to there. 1:32:44.840 --> 1:32:47.639 Essential employees have to report to work, but they're not 1:32:47.720 --> 1:32:50.599 going to be getting a paycheck until all this is over. 1:32:51.000 --> 1:32:53.720 Now they will get back paid. Don't get the back pay. 1:32:53.800 --> 1:32:55.280 I'm going to go that long. It never does. But 1:32:55.400 --> 1:32:57.840 how many longest one we had was twenty eight days 1:32:57.920 --> 1:32:59.720 or something, and that's when people started to feel the pain. 1:33:00.360 --> 1:33:02.839 You get paid every two weeks, and that's what happens. 1:33:02.880 --> 1:33:05.160 So you really wanted to knock the stuff off. You 1:33:05.160 --> 1:33:06.599 know what you do is you just wouldn't pay these 1:33:06.640 --> 1:33:10.400 bums in Congress, the executive branch, the judiciary, and the 1:33:10.479 --> 1:33:14.479 legislative branch is simply cut their benefits off and see 1:33:14.479 --> 1:33:14.920 how they like. 1:33:14.960 --> 1:33:15.120 It. 1:33:15.479 --> 1:33:16.720 Wouldn't have any shutdowns. 1:33:17.640 --> 1:33:20.200 When we go back to the real estate issues, if 1:33:20.280 --> 1:33:23.840 you are a government employee and you're in the process 1:33:24.000 --> 1:33:27.559 of buying a home and you don't have any income 1:33:27.640 --> 1:33:31.200 coming in, there's a good chance that that loan can't 1:33:31.200 --> 1:33:33.680 close until your money is you know, until you get 1:33:33.720 --> 1:33:34.559 all of your money. 1:33:34.920 --> 1:33:35.200 Now. 1:33:35.360 --> 1:33:37.519 Of course, there are ways to get around it, because 1:33:37.560 --> 1:33:39.920 we know that eventually you'll get paid. 1:33:40.120 --> 1:33:41.240 Yeah, But and. 1:33:41.200 --> 1:33:44.920 Then the government employees are very concerned about being able 1:33:44.960 --> 1:33:48.120 to make their mortgage. And if you're in that vote 1:33:48.120 --> 1:33:49.559 and you don't know if you're going to be able 1:33:49.600 --> 1:33:51.920 to make your mortgage, if it does last for that 1:33:52.040 --> 1:33:55.320 long a thirty days or more, you may ask for 1:33:55.360 --> 1:33:59.720 an extension. I think most lenders are going to They're 1:33:59.720 --> 1:34:03.760 going to understand the situation, and as long as you've 1:34:03.760 --> 1:34:06.879 been doing a really good job of making your payments 1:34:06.960 --> 1:34:11.320 on time, you should be fine. But overall, it's it's 1:34:11.360 --> 1:34:14.280 gonna slow down. We don't need any more slow downs 1:34:14.320 --> 1:34:17.040 in the real estate industry right now. We just don't 1:34:17.200 --> 1:34:20.479 need it. Because interest rates have been so high, they're 1:34:20.520 --> 1:34:23.719 starting to come down. They're supposed to come down even further. 1:34:23.880 --> 1:34:27.440 Everybody there. It's interesting because I keep hearing this recurring 1:34:28.400 --> 1:34:30.760 buyers saying, I think the interest rates are going to 1:34:30.800 --> 1:34:31.519 come down to three. 1:34:31.360 --> 1:34:34.160 Persons, So people wait to go wait, come back. 1:34:34.400 --> 1:34:39.439 And you know, there's I absolutely believe that if you 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:43.240 can afford to go ahead and buy, knowing all of 1:34:43.280 --> 1:34:46.120 this and having all of the information, go ahead and 1:34:46.160 --> 1:34:50.080 move forward if you can. And there are a lot 1:34:50.120 --> 1:34:52.880 of sellers out there right now who have been on 1:34:52.920 --> 1:34:57.960 the market for two, three, four, five weeks, and those 1:34:58.000 --> 1:35:00.920 sellers are starting to get a little nervous, a little 1:35:00.920 --> 1:35:05.120 bit antsy, they are more willing to negotiate. So now, 1:35:05.160 --> 1:35:09.040 as a buyer, there are opportunities that you have not 1:35:09.240 --> 1:35:13.280 had for years. For years, it's been a seller's market. 1:35:13.960 --> 1:35:16.960 Now the market is kind of it's moving in a 1:35:17.040 --> 1:35:21.160 direction that it's more of an even playing field, and 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:25.960 buyers have opportunities. Buyers have opportunities. Now, I'm never going 1:35:26.040 --> 1:35:27.960 to tell a buyer to go in and do that 1:35:28.040 --> 1:35:31.799 low ball thing go down like twenty thirty forty thousand dollars. 1:35:32.240 --> 1:35:36.559 You're only going to make the seller really mad, and 1:35:36.880 --> 1:35:41.000 you're not being realistic. Let's be realistic. I know everybody's 1:35:41.000 --> 1:35:45.439 looks for a deal, but I personally think that there 1:35:45.479 --> 1:35:50.479 are opportunities. There are always opportunities in any situation. You know, 1:35:50.520 --> 1:35:53.840 when the stock market goes one way or another, there's opportunities. 1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:58.719 Same thing with real estate. This shutdown of the government 1:35:59.280 --> 1:36:02.479 could provide some opportunities for some people. It can also 1:36:02.800 --> 1:36:03.680 provide a lot of. 1:36:03.640 --> 1:36:04.760 But it isn't a big problem. 1:36:04.800 --> 1:36:09.200 Still inventory though we have inventory, We do have some inventory. 1:36:09.360 --> 1:36:11.120 Last week you said we had no inventory. Now this 1:36:11.160 --> 1:36:12.040 week we got inventory. 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:14.200 What do you mean we haven't talked about real estate 1:36:14.240 --> 1:36:14.880 for three weeks. 1:36:14.880 --> 1:36:16.800 Wait, wait, it's three weeks later. What happened? What kind 1:36:16.840 --> 1:36:19.400 of drugs are you giving me this recovery? 1:36:20.400 --> 1:36:20.600 You know? 1:36:21.920 --> 1:36:22.960 Yeah, drugs are good. 1:36:22.960 --> 1:36:25.759 Three weeks later? Yeah, the hell's going on? I haven't 1:36:25.800 --> 1:36:29.800 talked on this channel. Yeah, and now too. Yeah, and 1:36:29.920 --> 1:36:32.160 there's some more inventory. It's certainly not there where you 1:36:32.160 --> 1:36:33.760 need to be, but there is. So there are people 1:36:33.760 --> 1:36:35.479 waiting for more deals, is what you're Saying's like, I 1:36:35.520 --> 1:36:37.800 can get better if I sign, but you could always 1:36:37.840 --> 1:36:41.439 refinance later too, right of course, and the property you want. 1:36:42.520 --> 1:36:45.280 And right now, the interest rate is around six point 1:36:45.280 --> 1:36:48.519 three five when I looked yesterday. That's pretty good because 1:36:48.560 --> 1:36:49.880 we were around seven percent. 1:36:50.600 --> 1:36:52.800 How long it's good. People are waiting to get back 1:36:52.800 --> 1:36:55.280 down to the glory days of sub three percent. It's 1:36:55.280 --> 1:36:56.519 gonna be like ten years, isn't it. 1:36:56.560 --> 1:36:58.439 I don't think you'll ever see that again, because it 1:36:58.560 --> 1:37:01.400 really it's what they say, it really mess stuff. I mean, 1:37:02.880 --> 1:37:04.719 I don't know, I'll never say never. 1:37:05.400 --> 1:37:07.200 What did it mess up? You said it was gonna mess. 1:37:07.000 --> 1:37:08.920 Well, because there's so many people that are still sitting 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:11.400 on the sidelines with a three percent mortgage saying I'm 1:37:11.400 --> 1:37:12.240 not giving that up. 1:37:12.360 --> 1:37:14.519 Oh yeah, yeah, you know so paid. 1:37:14.720 --> 1:37:17.439 Many people are staying in their home so much longer 1:37:17.920 --> 1:37:20.439 because they have that low mortgage rate. So that's how 1:37:20.439 --> 1:37:23.559 it messed up things. Is like everybody felt like they're 1:37:23.560 --> 1:37:26.720 in a standstill and you know you're never going to 1:37:26.800 --> 1:37:29.040 see those rates again. It was like we've talked about it. 1:37:29.040 --> 1:37:32.240 It's like free money, you know, three percent mortgage, are 1:37:32.240 --> 1:37:32.639 you kidding? 1:37:32.680 --> 1:37:35.959 I remembers locking into like two seven five or something ridiculous. 1:37:36.080 --> 1:37:38.880 And there are some people who they are milking every 1:37:38.920 --> 1:37:41.040 bit of that. You know, they're not paying it off 1:37:41.080 --> 1:37:41.760 because they're like. 1:37:42.160 --> 1:37:44.840 Well, at some point, you know, you either move because 1:37:44.880 --> 1:37:48.519 of a job or because you've got to move, or 1:37:48.600 --> 1:37:52.280 you you know, you wind up dying yourself at that point. 1:37:52.360 --> 1:37:55.680 But that's a long time though. That's that's glacial in 1:37:55.760 --> 1:37:58.719 terms of what you guys do. Also when the mortgage 1:37:58.720 --> 1:37:59.759 mortgage broking business. 1:38:00.080 --> 1:38:03.680 Absolutely, so we're definitely going to see some volatility. I 1:38:03.720 --> 1:38:07.360 would say, you know, just everybody has to be patient. 1:38:08.200 --> 1:38:11.840 I have had to be really patient over the last now. 1:38:15.720 --> 1:38:18.240 But and I know that everybody has missed you, So 1:38:18.960 --> 1:38:22.040 I don't think that's true. No, I know, I've heard 1:38:22.120 --> 1:38:23.479 lots of people who have missed. 1:38:23.720 --> 1:38:26.160 Somebody gave me this morning, somebody somebody I work with it. 1:38:27.720 --> 1:38:31.640 How's your week? Are are you? How you were you 1:38:31.640 --> 1:38:31.920 in bed? 1:38:33.360 --> 1:38:34.320 They didn't even notice. 1:38:34.160 --> 1:38:37.640 You right, see you all the time. Thanks for the flowers. 1:38:38.200 --> 1:38:40.519 My wife Michelle Sloan Sloan Selles Holmes dot com open 1:38:40.560 --> 1:38:43.599 house show that's on YouTube and of course via the 1:38:43.600 --> 1:38:46.519 iHeartRadio app where the podcasts are to talk real estate 1:38:46.520 --> 1:38:49.240 every Thursday morning. I was going to come back on Monday, 1:38:49.280 --> 1:38:51.200 but she said, damn it, I've missed my segment twice 1:38:51.240 --> 1:38:54.840 now and I gotta you gotta get back. Come back 1:38:54.880 --> 1:38:57.760 on Thursday so I can. Well it worked out because 1:38:57.760 --> 1:38:59.920 you know, and you're picking me up and stuff like that. 1:39:00.080 --> 1:39:01.800 Yes, for the next three weeks, I get to be 1:39:01.880 --> 1:39:03.200 the chauffeur to the Star. 1:39:03.400 --> 1:39:06.160 There's a chance maybe though that it's sooner rather than later. 1:39:06.160 --> 1:39:09.000 There's a chance I could maybe start driving again. 1:39:09.520 --> 1:39:10.719 You can't pick up your scooter. 1:39:10.960 --> 1:39:12.360 Yeah, I gotta have littlecoore. I got a little ne 1:39:12.439 --> 1:39:14.400 scooter I roll around with with a basket on it 1:39:14.880 --> 1:39:16.800 full so if you see me, you get a shot. 1:39:17.400 --> 1:39:20.439 He does have a basket like Dorothy. It's so funny 1:39:20.800 --> 1:39:22.559 his knee scooter. And he's pretty fast. 1:39:22.920 --> 1:39:25.559 Now, yeah, the most stable thing you could. I could 1:39:25.640 --> 1:39:27.680 roll that pretty easy. I gotta be careful, I know. 1:39:27.960 --> 1:39:28.559 Yeah that's all. 1:39:28.800 --> 1:39:30.479 But i'll tell you what. It beats crutches, that's for 1:39:30.560 --> 1:39:31.000 damn sure. 1:39:31.520 --> 1:39:32.680 Yeah you're pretty I can. 1:39:32.800 --> 1:39:33.960 I got crutches too, but. 1:39:33.960 --> 1:39:35.479 I can outrun you on the finding is. 1:39:35.520 --> 1:39:38.439 The crutches were from my daughter at acl surgery when 1:39:38.439 --> 1:39:42.040 she was a teenager. From sports and uh, somehow, I 1:39:42.080 --> 1:39:43.519 don't know, I got those a little short for me, 1:39:43.560 --> 1:39:45.920 so i'd wrapped howels like, why did I just get 1:39:45.960 --> 1:39:48.679 a new pair of crutches but I got old school crutches. 1:39:48.720 --> 1:39:51.679 It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, but manly that nee scooter. 1:39:51.680 --> 1:39:53.599 I tell you, if you had leg knee surgery, that's 1:39:53.600 --> 1:39:54.040 the way to go. 1:39:54.160 --> 1:39:54.320 Man. 1:39:54.720 --> 1:39:55.479 It's pretty good. 1:39:55.800 --> 1:39:58.599 Yeah, it's it does seem a bit wobbly though it is, 1:39:59.160 --> 1:40:01.920 but yeah, you the hard part for you now, our. 1:40:01.840 --> 1:40:03.400 Dog is not a fan of that. He sees that 1:40:03.439 --> 1:40:06.120 thing and he hides because he's afraidest title is going 1:40:06.200 --> 1:40:07.720 to get run over or something with that. Other than that, 1:40:07.720 --> 1:40:10.720 it's pretty good. So yeah, all right, well love me, 1:40:10.720 --> 1:40:13.000 thanks again, and I've got to get going here because 1:40:13.040 --> 1:40:14.320 Willie is on the way in a few minutes here 1:40:14.320 --> 1:40:16.800 in the Big One seven hundred WLW. Of course, the 1:40:16.840 --> 1:40:19.519 big story today written and we'll get into this. I 1:40:19.560 --> 1:40:21.120 think maybe with the Reds round up the cowb I'm 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:24.040 not quite sure. But of course, the Reds losing last 1:40:24.080 --> 1:40:27.559 night in LA kind of root in a sense, thinking, oh, 1:40:27.600 --> 1:40:31.000 this is a foregone conclusion because the other teams all 1:40:31.000 --> 1:40:33.880 took them to game four or game threes rather, and 1:40:34.120 --> 1:40:37.320 the Reds got swept out in Los Angeles last night. 1:40:38.200 --> 1:40:40.280 We had a chance early on, They're up to nothing, 1:40:40.320 --> 1:40:41.960 looks it was gonna hold for a while, and then 1:40:42.080 --> 1:40:43.920 LA does what they do with that big fat payroll 1:40:43.960 --> 1:40:47.640 of theirs and just steamrolled the Cincinnati Reds last night. 1:40:47.680 --> 1:40:50.479 So the Reds have been eliminated and you can't kill 1:40:50.520 --> 1:40:52.360 them while they got killed in two games just like that. 1:40:52.600 --> 1:40:54.720 So we got lots to talk about that. Of course, 1:40:54.760 --> 1:40:57.120 the big story today, And if you're waking up this morning, 1:40:57.200 --> 1:40:59.680 you're a little hungover from watching the Reds and they 1:40:59.720 --> 1:41:04.000 had answer certainly basis loaded situations, couldn't get the guys around, 1:41:04.280 --> 1:41:07.720 and they lose in Los Angeles, eliminated from playoffs for 1:41:07.840 --> 1:41:10.720 twenty twenty five. Now, the good news is, and I 1:41:10.760 --> 1:41:13.280 think the honest is on ownership here in the Castellini family, 1:41:13.520 --> 1:41:16.479 what moves you make in the offseason to get yourself 1:41:16.520 --> 1:41:18.920 to the point where you can advance in the postseason. Really, 1:41:18.920 --> 1:41:20.720 I mean, we talked about it all year long, how 1:41:20.720 --> 1:41:23.040 close they really were, felt like a five hundred team 1:41:23.080 --> 1:41:25.080 all season. They hovered around that. But what puts them 1:41:25.080 --> 1:41:27.479 over the top gonna be some bats, although we've seen 1:41:27.479 --> 1:41:30.320 that before. You get bats in Cincinnati and Great American 1:41:30.360 --> 1:41:32.800 Small Park, and for some reason, batters come here and 1:41:32.840 --> 1:41:34.800 they still can't hit. So I don't know if there's 1:41:34.800 --> 1:41:36.800 a curse, if we have to have some sort of 1:41:36.960 --> 1:41:40.000 exorcism at Great American Ballpark, I'm not quite sure. But 1:41:41.040 --> 1:41:42.759 as bad as it is to get licked and whooped 1:41:42.800 --> 1:41:45.479 in Los Angeles against the team that quite honestly came 1:41:45.479 --> 1:41:48.040 off a World Series championship and just said they're payroll 1:41:48.040 --> 1:41:50.960 absolutely loaded, so I know it's going to be a 1:41:51.000 --> 1:41:52.800 good twenty twenty six for sure. I know, I know. 1:41:52.920 --> 1:41:55.519 And we've got a long, long cold winter the way 1:41:55.560 --> 1:41:57.599 the Bengals are playing anyway, that and more coming up 1:41:57.640 --> 1:42:00.680 with Jeff Brownley the Cowboy. We'll get to news, and 1:42:00.680 --> 1:42:02.680 then Cunningham takes over twelve oh six. I'll see it 1:42:02.720 --> 1:42:04.519 back here to Martin. Nine oh six, got thrown back 1:42:04.600 --> 1:42:07.599 finally on the Home of the Red seven hundred WWD Cincinnati,