Speaker 1: Do want to be an American idiot?
Speaker 2: All right, Friday morning, slowly here seven hundred WLW, and
Speaker 2: not all.
Speaker 3: The news is good.
Speaker 2: Great day yesterday, Opening Day at the Holy Grail with
Speaker 2: me and Moe and Tom Brenneman, and of course without
Speaker 2: all day great game. Of course the outcome was not
Speaker 2: as as good as we'd like, with a three nothing
Speaker 2: shut up by the Boston Red Sox. And of course
Speaker 2: after the game is the big news story, because all
Speaker 2: hell started breaking loose at the Banks right around eight
Speaker 2: thirty or so. Opening Day turned into pretty much an
Speaker 2: evening of fights down town, not just at the Banks,
Speaker 2: but downtown. And just think about it, We're not if
Speaker 2: this is not even spring break yet. For crying out
Speaker 2: loud for CPS students on, This is FOP president Ken
Speaker 2: Kober joining the show. Ken welcome, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 4: How are you, Scott.
Speaker 3: I'm doing fine.
Speaker 2: I thought with CPS, not until spring break till next week.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at this thing going. I was
Speaker 2: down there. It seemed like it was a huge crowd
Speaker 2: mass that we expect when it's eighty degrees in sunny,
Speaker 2: and it turns into this non sense. I guess the
Speaker 2: big question everyone's mind this morning. Is it's pretty.
Speaker 3: Clear that Terry Siegs you should be fired for this?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean certainly a theory. I guess you could
Speaker 5: try to eat somehow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'd be unbelievable that report came out in
Speaker 2: the next couple of days. You know, it's a much
Speaker 2: bigger problem than the chief I think. So let's start this.
Speaker 2: You were tracking this in real time, started around eight thirty.
Speaker 2: Walk us through what your officers are dealing with, and
Speaker 2: when it became clear this is going to be a
Speaker 2: serious situation.
Speaker 5: Well, it actually started much much earlier than that. I
Speaker 5: mean as early as three three thirty in the afternoon,
Speaker 5: they had a bunch of kids fighting in Washington Park,
Speaker 5: able to get that kind of calm down, and then
Speaker 5: by a little bit after seven, there were five six
Speaker 5: hundred people at Vye and Liberty right and over the
Speaker 5: Rhine once again engaging in criminal behavior, fighting each other,
Speaker 5: just chaos. And then that just truckled on and they
Speaker 5: made their way south into Small Park and the banks
Speaker 5: and it was just up and we had, you know,
Speaker 5: bike officers that were in their riot year, you know,
Speaker 5: to make sure that they're they're protected. But it was
Speaker 5: something that they were able to eventually get a handle of.
Speaker 5: And I applaud the police for, you know, the work
Speaker 5: that they did to take what was an absolute chaotic
Speaker 5: scene and be able to do it with relatively you know,
Speaker 5: minor injuries of anybody involved.
Speaker 2: So the way you were ken, was it like the
Speaker 2: same large group of kids that were just going from
Speaker 2: area to area You mentioned Washington Park and then on
Speaker 2: the Smale and then the banks. Was it large of
Speaker 2: the same people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it just your groups of four or
Speaker 5: five hundred kids just out just trying to create chaos,
Speaker 5: trying to disrupt any bit of normalcy, you know, between
Speaker 5: over the Rye and downtown and the banks. And of
Speaker 5: course as we see or the banks you have closed
Speaker 5: at eight thirty and the amount of money that businesses
Speaker 5: are out of because parents don't want to be parents
Speaker 5: and you have a court system that just doesn't want
Speaker 5: to hold kids accountable.
Speaker 2: These are pretty much up under the age of eighteen,
Speaker 2: pretty much the entire group we're talking about here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, largely teenagers. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: The last April, the banks started their restrictions to anyone
Speaker 2: that are twenty one and you had to be accompanied
Speaker 2: by a parent. After ten o'clock on the weekend. A curfew, though,
Speaker 2: was lifted for opening day only, and the banks in
Speaker 2: the city announced i'd saying, yeah, it's a special one
Speaker 2: day kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Was that a mistake, you know?
Speaker 5: I mean, hindsight, it's always twenty twenty, you know, I
Speaker 5: mean you could argue that, you know, Metro being free
Speaker 5: yesterday was a mistake. I mean, the sentiment was absolutely there,
Speaker 5: give opportunity, Give people the opportunity to ride on a
Speaker 5: bus instead of parking and dealing all these things. It
Speaker 5: sounded great until you realize that your kids can come
Speaker 5: from all over this city downtown together together to act foolish.
Speaker 2: One of the things that happened following last summer was
Speaker 2: that Metro said, hey, we're going to restrict access here.
Speaker 2: Bring break, no no free rides the kid. You can't
Speaker 2: use your bus pass all over the place. You can
Speaker 2: only use it to to and from school. We saw
Speaker 2: what happened in Blue Ash with the fireworks up there,
Speaker 2: Red Right and Blue Ash in some other areas as well,
Speaker 2: that that seemed to stop all this. But it's you know,
Speaker 2: hindsight is twenty twenty for sure, and you want everyone
Speaker 2: to come down and have a good time. But I
Speaker 2: guess in retrospect they saw that opportunity of going, Hey,
Speaker 2: free buses and we can go downtown with no curfew.
Speaker 2: Let's do this all over again. The curfew is largely
Speaker 2: worked after last April, and we just undid it for
Speaker 2: opening day. That's I guess somebody's gonna look at this
Speaker 2: and go, wow, we really screwed this up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and it's a shame. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 5: shame that you know, this entire day, I mean, what
Speaker 5: a great day. The weather's beautiful, baseball's back in Cincinnati,
Speaker 5: and of course as soon as the game's over and
Speaker 5: you have all this nonsense occurring, and it's just there's
Speaker 5: there's no excuse for it. And until someone is held accountable,
Speaker 5: whether it's the parents, the kids, both, this is going
Speaker 5: to continue. And like you said, we're we're just in March.
Speaker 5: Just wait till June and July and August.
Speaker 2: Come Ken Coober, President of the FOP, on with Scott's
Speaker 2: loan this morning on seven hundred WLW. It's not like,
Speaker 2: you know, we didn't prepare at all for this thing.
Speaker 2: It was we had swat, we had extra patrols, bikes undercover,
Speaker 2: you had drones. I don't know if you could prepare
Speaker 2: any better than we did for yesterday, and yet look
Speaker 2: what happened. That's and I'm gonna sign with the summer months.
Speaker 5: Coming up, Oh, without a doubt. I mean, we were
Speaker 5: adequately staffed for the event. We had all the resources
Speaker 5: that we needed. It's just when you have five hundred kids,
Speaker 5: pockets of five hundred kids at a time, you running
Speaker 5: around creating chaos, it just becomes very difficult to manage it.
Speaker 4: I said.
Speaker 5: I applaud the officers for what they had to endure
Speaker 5: and how they endured it.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, it wasn't like we didn't have
Speaker 2: enough officers either, as I mentioned all those teams, but
Speaker 2: there are plenty of boots on the ground. From a
Speaker 2: perspective of the offenders in this case, they just simply
Speaker 2: not care. The police officers and in some cases officers
Speaker 2: with tactical gear around, like the SWAT team, they just
Speaker 2: simply don't care.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't care because there's five hundred of them,
Speaker 5: and I mean, how many how many can you grab
Speaker 5: at a time? You know only a couple are going
Speaker 5: to be arrested, So the rest of them are just
Speaker 5: going to take off run them, and then they just
Speaker 5: regroup and they just continue to do the same thing
Speaker 5: over and over.
Speaker 3: What kind of stuff were they doing?
Speaker 2: What were they were they were they pretty much attacking
Speaker 2: other youth people within their group. Was it just going
Speaker 2: after other individuals?
Speaker 5: Yeah, primarily just I mean fighting in groups. You know,
Speaker 5: of course they're opportunists, so you know, is they victims
Speaker 5: laying there or victims walking down the street and they
Speaker 5: can take advantage of them real quick. They certainly have,
Speaker 5: and there were some crimes that were actually reported, some weren't.
Speaker 5: It's just just chaos going on and it's absolute nonsense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they hit you from behind and then then
Speaker 2: run away. And reports also say that your officers can
Speaker 2: cob were sometimes unable to reach victims because the crowd
Speaker 2: was preventing them from getting and rendering aid to people
Speaker 2: who have been struck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean you have a victim in
Speaker 5: the middle of three or foreigner people, the police are
Speaker 5: trying to get to them, and in the meantime, you
Speaker 5: have these people trying to fight the police to get
Speaker 5: the victims. So it's just the entire thing just showed
Speaker 5: the lack of accountability that these kids have.
Speaker 3: All right, so kid gets hooked.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many off the top of your head,
Speaker 2: am I wrestler and acted last night?
Speaker 5: I think they're still counting them. I'm not sure. I
Speaker 5: know the radio traffic that I heard last night, they
Speaker 5: were asking for prisoner vans NonStop. But you know that'll
Speaker 5: all shake out here in the next coming couple of
Speaker 5: days and.
Speaker 3: Then they show up to juvenile court and then what.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they were released last night. There's there's absolutely
Speaker 5: no doubt. And you know a lot of these may
Speaker 5: end up on an unofficial docket and there's out of luck.
Speaker 4: That's how it is.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean the resistance and attacking, you know, armed
Speaker 2: police of uniform police officers and just random individuals out there.
Speaker 2: We also had reports of civilians using chemical irritants and
Speaker 2: maybe tasers on each other in those crowds as well.
Speaker 2: It sounded to me like they were coming there to disrupt, essentially,
Speaker 2: to cause violence. It wasn't like, you know, hey, we
Speaker 2: just got caught up in the moment. It sounded like
Speaker 2: this was planned.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it was. This is just like what two
Speaker 5: weekends ago we had it over at Glenway in Warsaw. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it doesn't surprise me. These things, unfortunately, are going to
Speaker 5: continue to happen.
Speaker 2: Juveniles are reportedly involved in fights. It's mal river Front Park,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned too, it's use violence in Cincinnati. Is
Speaker 2: it a problem that you feel that the leadership is
Speaker 2: not acknowledging, Oh.
Speaker 5: Without a doubt, without a doubt, there's no acknowledgement that
Speaker 5: it's going on. There's no acknowledgement that we have to
Speaker 5: do something to hold these kids accountable as well. Now
Speaker 5: they're just kids, they're just kids being kids or well,
Speaker 5: you know, they come from a bad background, so we're
Speaker 5: not going to punish them. And you know, the lack
Speaker 5: of accountability that continues to build up. And now you
Speaker 5: see here here's the end result, the culmination. And this
Speaker 5: really started in twenty twenty during COVID when they decided,
Speaker 5: how well we're shut down courts, we're gonna do this,
Speaker 5: we're gonna do that, and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 5: for the last six years you could just see that
Speaker 5: it's building and building and building and just certainly not
Speaker 5: getting any better.
Speaker 2: You know, we had the three takeovers recently. Of course,
Speaker 2: what happened last summer. The Robling Bridge had to be
Speaker 2: shut down last night because of this Fountain Square. Ohs
Speaker 2: you are the Banks, mel River Hunt Park pretty much
Speaker 2: city wide, and it's a steady drum beat that that
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is not safe on major event nights. And my
Speaker 2: heart breaks for uh, you know, people like Jim Marrying
Speaker 2: at the Holy Girl Banks and other entrepreneurs down there
Speaker 2: because it was a long cold winter. Don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of foot traffic down there. People didn't want to
Speaker 2: go out because it so damn cold. It was an ugly,
Speaker 2: ugly winter. And then this chance to maybe get in
Speaker 2: the red a little bit here too, and what winds
Speaker 2: up happened or out of the red, I guess I
Speaker 2: should say to the black, and what happens is this,
Speaker 2: and it shuts down while beer sales and everyone having
Speaker 2: a good time simply because of a pack of feral kids.
Speaker 2: And it scares me because the message continues to be
Speaker 2: sent to people like me in the suburbs is you
Speaker 2: don't want to go downtown because it's dangerous. At some
Speaker 2: point the business community is going to go enough of
Speaker 2: this nonsense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, that's that's the sad part. You know, these
Speaker 5: kids think this is all fun and game. The lack
Speaker 5: of accountability is all it's just is what it is,
Speaker 5: until it starts affecting Cincinnati economically, you know. And unfortunately
Speaker 5: it's going to get bad and they're not going to
Speaker 5: be able to recover from it, or it's going to
Speaker 5: take years and years to recover from And it's not
Speaker 5: fair to businesses that are down here. They're just trying
Speaker 5: to make a living. You're trying to have a safe
Speaker 5: place for people to go and enjoy themselves, you know,
Speaker 5: and then get caught up in this at the end
Speaker 5: of the night. Just it's a bad, bad thing for Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Is everything else can be done outside of the It
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like the judges are going to be accountable
Speaker 2: anytime soon. We had that report come out that said
Speaker 2: from city residents that worry about the dan potholes and
Speaker 2: worry about the crime as opposed to other things, that
Speaker 2: there's a disconnect between alleged leadership of the city and
Speaker 2: what the residents want, and now you have more and
Speaker 2: more violent crime happening. Things like this are going to
Speaker 2: disuade people from coming downtown, going to Reds games, eventually
Speaker 2: Bengals games. Young people still continue to do it, I think,
Speaker 2: but need you need those people from outside the city
Speaker 2: to spend money in Hamlin County because that's what really
Speaker 2: lifts a ship. If we're missing the boat on that one,
Speaker 2: You're right. I think we're going to see a decline
Speaker 2: in downtown, which is sad because of how much time
Speaker 2: and effort and money we've invested in its renaissance. And
Speaker 2: something's got to give here at this point. If you
Speaker 2: get to wave your magic wandcan Cobra president the FOP,
Speaker 2: what would that be?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm looking forward to see what city
Speaker 5: leadership has to say today, and today's the day that
Speaker 5: they have a great opportunity to put their foot down,
Speaker 5: take a stance and say publicly that we're not going
Speaker 5: to tolerate this. We want judges to hold these kids accountable.
Speaker 5: We want judges to hold any criminal in this city
Speaker 5: or this county accountable. That could be the first step
Speaker 5: to actually turning this around.
Speaker 2: Do you think that'll happen? Do you think sure Along
Speaker 2: or Mayor Ftad Puirreval does a press conference or at
Speaker 2: least issues a statement.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll see. I mean, I want to see if
Speaker 5: they put something out at all. That's going to be
Speaker 5: the first step. Well, Andy, who knows. I mean, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean it is Friday, so you know generally
Speaker 2: you don't want to make big news cycles. It's really
Speaker 2: something on Friday. It's a gesture, I suppose. But I
Speaker 2: just wonder how many you know, panels and how much
Speaker 2: money we're going to take and give to affected groups
Speaker 2: to try and curb this kind of behavior. And we've
Speaker 2: got to spend money, we need resources. Mind, what you
Speaker 2: need to do is start locking people up and setting
Speaker 2: an example and saying, listen, we're not going to tolerate
Speaker 2: this anymore. You know when I keep getting back to it.
Speaker 2: But I think it's part and parcel WL we're talking about.
Speaker 2: You know, when you have someone cut an ankle, monitor
Speaker 2: off and go commit crimes, you have an opportunity the
Speaker 2: minute that's cut off to determine who that is. And
Speaker 2: we don't even look at the data because we're so overwhelmed,
Speaker 2: maybe understaffed, but it's not a priority. If that sends
Speaker 2: a message, I think that trickles down to young people going, well,
Speaker 2: they don't care about us. I'm a juvenile. I'm going
Speaker 2: to get a slap on the wrist, oh, or might
Speaker 2: have to write a book report. But I can go
Speaker 2: and run rampant and be fairal all over the city
Speaker 2: and disrupt things because I get some sort of perverse thrill.
Speaker 3: Out of that.
Speaker 2: You know, I get being young and you know, being disruptive,
Speaker 2: and you know we tp stuff. We weren't going randomly
Speaker 2: punching and pepper sprang people downtown are there for a
Speaker 2: Reds game and if a cop came along, you'd run.
Speaker 3: Now they run at the cops. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: I mean, these kids are out of control, and you know,
Speaker 5: like I said, I can guarantee you it's going to
Speaker 5: get worse before it gets better.
Speaker 4: And that's that's the sad part.
Speaker 2: What do you expect this summer? When you talk to officers,
Speaker 2: what's your greatest fear.
Speaker 5: The greatest fear is that they're going to encounter one
Speaker 5: of these kids with a gun that's going to point
Speaker 5: it at a policeman and they're gonna end up killing
Speaker 5: a kid. That is by far the biggest fear. Without
Speaker 5: a doubt. You know, they'll deal with these kids out acting,
Speaker 5: you know, unruly and just committing criminal behaviors, what this is,
Speaker 5: disorderly conduct, all of these things, but the biggest fear
Speaker 5: is that one's going to be armed.
Speaker 2: I think the other thing is our culture can and
Speaker 2: you've noticed his shift as well as it's become a
Speaker 2: society of zero accountabile. I've always kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2: But a case in point of Hinton family. We know
Speaker 2: what the Hinton family is about, and yet they are
Speaker 2: suing the city for wrongful death and death of Ryan Hinton,
Speaker 2: who pointed a gun at police officers last year. You
Speaker 2: can't get any more ballsy than that. And now we
Speaker 2: have young people, kids that are attacking police officers and
Speaker 2: expecting that somehow that's okay. It is a bizarre world
Speaker 2: in which you lived, and we kind of fell off
Speaker 2: a cliff societally speaking, I think, and that's really what
Speaker 2: we're fighting here. You know, we could talk about judges
Speaker 2: and rules and laws and law enforcement all that, but
Speaker 2: I guess the model for a lot of these young
Speaker 2: people is like, if it feels good, do it, and
Speaker 2: if someone tells you to stop, that should be offensive
Speaker 2: to you and you should take up arms with them.
Speaker 2: Or whether it's a police officer or a judge an older
Speaker 2: person whomever they're standing in your way of a good time.
Speaker 4: No, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's become a societal problem and
Speaker 5: I don't know how you fix it.
Speaker 4: I don't either, but.
Speaker 5: It certainly it needs to be fixed pretty darn soon
Speaker 5: before you know, we start seeing they said the negative
Speaker 5: effects of Cincinnati people not coming down here.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't blame them.
Speaker 5: Yep, wouldn't blame It's got to be fixed and six quickly.
Speaker 2: No question. All right, Ken, I know you got to
Speaker 2: get going. I'm sure we'll hear it back on later
Speaker 2: today as well with an update on this whole situation.
Speaker 2: Hopefully someone down at city Hall is paying attention and
Speaker 2: addresses this issue. But Ken Kober, president of the FFP,
Speaker 2: thanks as always for jumping.
Speaker 3: On this morning.
Speaker 4: Sure, thanks thanks for having me care Yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, be well. Update coming up in just minutes. Full
Speaker 2: news update. Sadly Red's lose and even more sad is
Speaker 2: what just happened last night at the banks because we
Speaker 2: were down there broadcasting. The line was great, absolutely packed,
Speaker 2: beautiful day and marred by this nonsense. Welcome to Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and I feel so badly for the businesses too, because
Speaker 2: they've invested so much, lost so much over the cold
Speaker 2: winter months, and for everything to get shut down at
Speaker 2: eight thirty on opening opening evening. I guess I should
Speaker 2: say it's just it's terrible, and we'll see what happens
Speaker 2: with crowds and everything else this summer.
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Speaker 2: cocaine in their blood, potentially impacting their health and behavior.
Speaker 2: I don't care about shark behavior. I want a movie
Speaker 2: called Cocaine Shark. What about that?
Speaker 1: It writes itself. I think that you're onto something genius.
Speaker 2: Here, Snake's on a plane? What was the attack beavers?
Speaker 2: Beaver's on a plane. We've had all that before now,
Speaker 2: and we had Shark Nato. Of course back in the day.
Speaker 2: This would be the next day. What was the other
Speaker 2: one with the bear? Cocaine Bear. It's like a cross
Speaker 2: between Shark Nato and Cocaine Bear.
Speaker 1: I think out too.
Speaker 3: Let me think here, who's playing the shark? That's the quest.
Speaker 3: I wonder if they could dig that jaws thing out
Speaker 3: of mothballs. I don't know. We probably could do cgi.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel it's like a Bob olden Kirk kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe I kind of like his vibe.
Speaker 4: Right, I think he would be great.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't Bob Odenkirk be really good in this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, once he's done polishing all
Speaker 6: of his Emmy awards and stuff like that, we can
Speaker 6: just approach it with this idea.
Speaker 1: For cocaine sharks.
Speaker 4: How could he resist?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, And this is actually happening.
Speaker 2: And so what happened in what seventy seven or seventy five,
Speaker 2: whenever it was with Jaws, people were afraid to go
Speaker 2: in the ocean because the Great White sharks started this
Speaker 2: whole Shark Week and everything else.
Speaker 3: It started a cottage industry.
Speaker 2: Sure, this would put it over the top because we're
Speaker 2: scared of sharks already. You got a shark that's coked up,
Speaker 2: that's just been doing blow and hanging out with hookers
Speaker 2: and strippers all night. You got real problems just putting
Speaker 2: your toe in the ocean at that point, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, and probably not safe on the sand either.
Speaker 6: If a shark has done right.
Speaker 1: He's not worried about staying in the water.
Speaker 2: Because coke, you know, I mean, Sharknade. It was just absurd.
Speaker 2: The sharks in the tornado and it's land on land.
Speaker 2: And this is more believable because it's actually ripped from
Speaker 2: today's headlines, and that you know, you got the.
Speaker 3: Cocaine shark did did did it?
Speaker 5: Did it?
Speaker 3: Cocaine Shark got a theme song? We gotta actually be
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Speaker 3: We'll get that typed out.
Speaker 2: This we should really, I mean a I could write
Speaker 2: this thing probably about the time we're done with this segment.
Speaker 2: I know Ryan Gosling has Project tail Mary. I've spoken
Speaker 2: to two people who have seen this already and said
Speaker 2: it is one of the best films they've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And you know what I hate about that. The expectation
Speaker 2: is so high. There's no way it can be that good.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, well, I would say it's certainly
Speaker 6: worth seeing anyway, it's you know, yeah, it's it's they're
Speaker 6: saying it might be the best science.
Speaker 1: Fiction movie in it for this generation. Things like that.
Speaker 6: What I love about this movie is a lot of
Speaker 6: times a science fiction movie or a space movie in particular,
Speaker 6: like you're getting you know, it's it gets existential and
Speaker 6: you're like, oh man, our planet is so fragile and.
Speaker 1: What's the point of it all? This has a nice, hopeful.
Speaker 6: Uh, sometimes funny tone to it, you know, and I
Speaker 6: guess that's what you would expect maybe with with e
Speaker 6: lead like Ryan Gosling. But yeah, it's just it is
Speaker 6: like a feel good science fiction movie. He plays a
Speaker 6: middle school science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship,
Speaker 6: you know, like light years away from Earth, and he's
Speaker 6: not entirely sure why he's there. He needs to figure
Speaker 6: out how he can, you know, save himself and in
Speaker 6: the process maybe save humanity too. But you know, it's
Speaker 6: it's hopeful, and it's yeah, it's really really great and
Speaker 6: worth seeing if you want to take a trip to
Speaker 6: the movie theaters this weekend.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the trailer in a while. I remember
Speaker 2: seeing the trailer. But does he like befriend an alien
Speaker 2: or something? Yeah, okay, yeah sort of.
Speaker 6: Then it's less about the like et is obviously like
Speaker 6: about the alien and and all that, but this, yeah, this.
Speaker 1: Is like a little bit less like that.
Speaker 3: More like else.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ryan Goslings, are you doing alf basically no, it
Speaker 2: just seems like a fascinating premise.
Speaker 3: But it feels like it's really upling as you.
Speaker 6: Said, right, and it's it's based on a novel too,
Speaker 6: that a lot of people loved, and you know, they're
Speaker 6: already of course talking about how they might extend the
Speaker 6: story beyond just this one movie, So we'll see about that.
Speaker 6: But in the meantime, yeah, this is this is uh
Speaker 6: definitely worth checking out.
Speaker 3: Is the what's the name of the alien character? Does
Speaker 3: it have a name?
Speaker 4: Rocky?
Speaker 2: It's Rocky, of course it is, which you can hear
Speaker 2: this afternoon at three o'clock here on seven hundred w
Speaker 2: o O of any fingers, And so Rocky is an
Speaker 2: alien which we kind of knew, and it is a
Speaker 2: Is it gonna be all those things where it's the
Speaker 2: new toy of twenty twenty six, like this is going
Speaker 2: to be the must have?
Speaker 3: Is it spinning? Often?
Speaker 4: To merch man?
Speaker 6: You are all about these profitable ideas this morning? I
Speaker 6: probably probably, I mean probably. The big difference though, is
Speaker 6: that this is not really a kid's movie, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: so I don't you know, I but but maybe you
Speaker 6: know where things have happened.
Speaker 2: Well, I thought the talking raccoon and group were pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, this seems like it's cut from the same cloth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you know for sign fiction, people who you
Speaker 6: know do like these sort of collectible things. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: could see Rocky becoming a collectible.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm just full of the money ideas,
Speaker 2: probably because it's it's not the first of the month yet.
Speaker 2: I haven't gotten you know, we haven't gotten our check
Speaker 2: from the government.
Speaker 3: All right. So that's Ryan Gosling project. Hail Mary.
Speaker 2: So you're saying that's totally worth going to the theater
Speaker 2: to see it? It is it better to Is it
Speaker 2: one of those deals where it's better in the big screen?
Speaker 3: Does it matter?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 6: I think often these base movies, you know, it's the
Speaker 6: scale is cooler when you're watching it, you know, on
Speaker 6: a huge screen.
Speaker 3: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: There's another show on and we started watching it the
Speaker 2: other night, and I'm not sure because it's what three
Speaker 2: or four seasons. It's called The Comeback. Lisa Kudreau, of
Speaker 2: course from Friends, is in this thing and it's about
Speaker 2: her comeback as a B level actress. And started watching
Speaker 2: like the first couple episodes. I don't know what to
Speaker 2: make of it yet, but it's been on for how
Speaker 2: many seasons now, so it must be okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's it's only in a third season, but
Speaker 6: it's thirty years. So like the first season came out
Speaker 6: twenty years ago, the second season came out ten years ago,
Speaker 6: and now she's back.
Speaker 1: I understand your hesitance. It's a weird it's a weird tone,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, she's.
Speaker 6: Just like crazy sort of in it, Like you're like,
Speaker 6: what is the deal with this woman? But if you
Speaker 6: stick with it, it's like the way it sort of
Speaker 6: skewers the entertainment industry, you know. And and this third
Speaker 6: season she's back and she's offered a role in a
Speaker 6: new sitcom. But the kicker is that it's written by AI,
Speaker 6: so you can tell that, like that's going to be
Speaker 6: the thesis statement probably of the season is you know
Speaker 6: what happens when that becomes the norm and you put
Speaker 6: someone like her character at the helm of that. But
Speaker 6: she's I think, you know, just one of the great
Speaker 6: sitcom actresses and you know, and and the way that
Speaker 6: they just pokes on a different parts of the industry
Speaker 6: and different people within the industry, it reminds me of
Speaker 6: the studio in that sense a little Milko. Yeah, So's
Speaker 6: three just premiered this past weekend and that was episode one,
Speaker 6: and episode two will come out on Sunday interesting.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because you're watching like she and by the
Speaker 2: way you tell she's such the subtleties with her absolutely fantastic,
Speaker 2: the subtle references and the way she carries herself because
Speaker 2: it's it's shot in that documentary kind of style. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and a lot of cases and she just plays it
Speaker 2: off so well. But I'm like, I don't know where
Speaker 2: this is going. I'm not sure i'll invest the time,
Speaker 2: but maybe I'll get back into it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I also think you could if you wanted
Speaker 6: to just start on season three.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know it's not Yeah, you could.
Speaker 2: Does it get Is it one of those deals where
Speaker 2: each it gets better each season.
Speaker 6: Like the tent and like you get more invested in
Speaker 6: her personal life and stuff.
Speaker 4: Like that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, Okay, So that's over on HBO Plus, I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you have something on Disney Plus.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: Yes, this is Daredevil Born Again.
Speaker 6: Season two just started this week and it's Charlie Cox
Speaker 6: plays Daredevil, who is Marvel's like blind superhero Vincent Andafrio
Speaker 6: the bad guy in this and he's so good at
Speaker 6: being a bad guy. And what's great about season two
Speaker 6: is that it sort of starts to build out and
Speaker 6: invite more characters in from the different Marble properties. So
Speaker 6: that's exciting for anyone who's into sort of the superhero things,
Speaker 6: but it's it's a good show for anyone who likes
Speaker 6: sort of like a corrupt government type of drama.
Speaker 4: So that's what's.
Speaker 3: Going on in this So don't we have enough of
Speaker 3: that in real life?
Speaker 6: Well yeah, but if you prefer to have your villains
Speaker 6: named Vincent Andafrio and at a safe distance of all
Speaker 6: the way in Hollywood, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, see, it could be worse.
Speaker 2: That's a way I like, it could be worse.
Speaker 3: I don't know. All right, you've got stuff to.
Speaker 2: Do this week, and I know you got to get
Speaker 2: busy on that cocaine shark.
Speaker 3: The idea we have what do you call that? A concept?
Speaker 3: They called it what what do you what do you
Speaker 3: call that? In Hollywood?
Speaker 6: It's a I mean, we can start with the outline,
Speaker 6: we could start with the you know, yeah, and we'll
Speaker 6: we'll I'll have a draft for you by.
Speaker 2: Before we get to pitch, because you got to ride it,
Speaker 2: you drive it in, and then then you pitch it.
Speaker 3: You give it to agents. How's that work?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, I have a couple of connections.
Speaker 6: We might just start with with, like you know, our
Speaker 6: internal guys and then we go from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's coming out and it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a wide release on Viewmaster back in the day. All right,
Speaker 2: So Will Gans our entertainment guy in the Scotsland Show
Speaker 2: every Friday morning. That's two s's and Gans Gas. That's
Speaker 2: at Will Gans and I appreciate the time, brother. Have
Speaker 2: a great week Oh obviously a great weekend. You're gonna
Speaker 2: be busy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, ud take care of the man.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you. There you go.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it sounds like it writes itself. If you're
Speaker 2: a fan of the snakes. It started with snakes on
Speaker 2: a plane. Really, I mean you probably could go back
Speaker 2: into the seventies and fifties crazy, but you know, and
Speaker 2: for the modern era and with well called the modern
Speaker 2: era started with snakes on a plane, which was just
Speaker 2: hysterically bad. And then you had you know, the bee
Speaker 2: I forget what the beaver one was. We got to
Speaker 2: look that up. There's a beaver on a plane. And
Speaker 2: then of course Sharknado, and now you have actually and
Speaker 2: then cocaine bear. And now you actually have cocaine shark,
Speaker 2: which sounds like it's a rip off a cocaine bear.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but it's an actual news story, Like
Speaker 2: I'm looking at I have it right here. Sharks in
Speaker 2: the Bahamas have been found to have detectable levels of
Speaker 2: substances like caffeine, pain killers, and cocaine in their blood.
Speaker 2: Cocaine in their blood detectable levels. So you put the
Speaker 2: shark on, well, hell, caffeine, painkillers, and coke. Why not
Speaker 2: do all three? What could possibly go wrong inside your body?
Speaker 2: And now you've got stories. I mean, there's one thing
Speaker 2: that sharks is eating people, eating kids, eating you know,
Speaker 2: swimmers are out there, they're getting bitten there. Now the
Speaker 2: cocaine shark is it's superhuman. Now it's pissed off, it's
Speaker 2: all coked up. It thinks it's the most important shark
Speaker 2: in the world. Like it's talking to other sharks and
Speaker 2: we should do this, and we're best friends and we're
Speaker 2: gonna go we're gonna conquer the world and I'm going
Speaker 2: to grow feet. And that's what the cocaine does to you.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking there's something there. Watch for it. You'll, you know,
Speaker 2: a year or two from now, you'll be sitting there
Speaker 2: going what happened to Sloan? What happened that they finally
Speaker 2: fired him? And then you'll see my name and the
Speaker 2: credits going, oh, he did the da brilliant sob, he
Speaker 2: did Cocaine Shark, Cocaine shark. I'm telling you I'd watch it.
Speaker 2: Sloany seven hundred ww AND's goin to be an American,
Speaker 2: got going on seven hundred w welw.
Speaker 3: You know I'm sick for the trades.
Speaker 2: I love the trades, and anytime I can pound my
Speaker 2: chest and support the cause, I will, whether it's electrical,
Speaker 2: wh there's plumbing or in this cage HVAC. Because we
Speaker 2: are about to embark here in the summer months. You know,
Speaker 2: we have baseball season here, and of course we have
Speaker 2: two seasons in Cincinnati. We have winter and we have baseball.
Speaker 2: Those are the two seasons that the Lord gave us.
Speaker 2: And we are now in baseball season, which means, before
Speaker 2: you know it, it's gonna be like living inside of
Speaker 2: a dog's mouth. It's gonna be hot, it's gonna be sticky,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be humid. I know that's hard to believe
Speaker 2: what the weather we've had over the last few weeks
Speaker 2: and certainly this winter, but that's a fact. It's gonna
Speaker 2: get sticky. And when you do that, you need your HVAC.
Speaker 2: And we need people. We need bodies, We need young
Speaker 2: men and women to get in these particular trades. One
Speaker 2: of the people who are doing God's work here is
Speaker 2: the Southern Ohio Technical Institute, soot I Sody and Mike
Speaker 2: Tripple is the director and head instructor there.
Speaker 3: Mike I I Ben.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty good. How you been, Scott, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Mike, you're there? Yeah, okay, gotcha, all right, I got you.
Speaker 2: I dropped out there for a second. First of all, welcome.
Speaker 2: I know you're working on a new ten thousand square
Speaker 2: foot building because you're not like a three thousand square
Speaker 2: foot facility now, But I think that just goes to
Speaker 2: show you just how in demand these trades are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. You know, we've grown. We've been around
Speaker 4: since twenty nineteen and we've graduated over five hundred students
Speaker 4: in the demand is just going up and up.
Speaker 3: Scott, Well, that's good.
Speaker 2: So if people will know what you guys do at
Speaker 2: Southern Ohio Technical Institute give us the elevator pitcher.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, basically what Southern Ohio Tech does it's different
Speaker 4: than some of the other HVAC schools. We have what's
Speaker 4: called an accelerated course, which is a ten week course
Speaker 4: and most of the other ones are a six hundred
Speaker 4: hour or eleven month course. And basically, our course is
Speaker 4: designed to get the people out on the ground, give
Speaker 4: them their boots on the ground instruction that they need,
Speaker 4: and then also give them their certifications they need to work,
Speaker 4: and in ten weeks we go from clayassroom to a job.
Speaker 2: Somebody may go push back and go, well, okay, you've
Speaker 2: got a ten week program versus a traditional eleventh month program.
Speaker 2: How do you convince a skeptic this isn't just a
Speaker 2: you know, a rubber stamp certificate. It's the offset, the
Speaker 2: fact that you're now on the job and you're learning
Speaker 2: in real space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well exactly, that's it, exactly, and it all has
Speaker 4: to do with the curriculum that's being used by all
Speaker 4: the other schools. Ours is a little bit different and
Speaker 4: we believe a lot more in doing a regular a
Speaker 4: regular classroom scenario and then immediately taking that person into
Speaker 4: a state of the art lab and showing them on
Speaker 4: hands on equipment that they're going to be working with
Speaker 4: every day out in the field.
Speaker 2: And I think that's interesting too, is that that you
Speaker 2: know you are going to be in a field, you're
Speaker 2: going to be paired with someone else for while, a trainer,
Speaker 2: a supervisor, and you're going to learn as you watch
Speaker 2: them enhance. The most important part is that you're now
Speaker 2: making money because you're gonna get paid to learn on
Speaker 2: the job.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, that's true. And see here's here's the thing.
Speaker 4: We give these students the boots on the ground knowledge
Speaker 4: and the certifications that need to go in and work.
Speaker 4: But every HVAC company, Scott, they all want to train
Speaker 4: their people differently. Not everyone trains their people all the same.
Speaker 4: So we go ahead and we work on getting them
Speaker 4: jobs okay, and getting them the training they need with
Speaker 4: that company okay to further their career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're talking to you, you're dealing with an
Speaker 2: HVAC systems two very deadly things. Your you know, electricity
Speaker 2: that you're talking tens of amps here and also natural gas.
Speaker 2: And that's a big thing is getting ocehous certified and
Speaker 2: making sure you know your way around that stuff so
Speaker 2: you're safe on the job and for those around you,
Speaker 2: and of course the homeowners of the commercial building as
Speaker 2: that might be. We know, the trades are having a
Speaker 2: moment right now, and everyone's talking about the skilled labor shortage.
Speaker 2: And I've been talking about that for years, as you know, Mike.
Speaker 2: How bad is it though on the heating, ventilating, air
Speaker 2: conditioning side of things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Well, here's your thing. Just this came out, this article
Speaker 4: just came out from one of the largest manufacturers, one
Speaker 4: of the big three, Carrier. They said that we are
Speaker 4: going to need four hundred thousand in this industry within
Speaker 4: the next ten years. Okay, a big hole to fill.
Speaker 3: Four hundred thousand bodies and ten years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, four hundred thousand we're gonna need. Yeah, because you know,
Speaker 4: of course, the new construction is growing, everything's growing. Uh.
Speaker 4: And this is uh, this is what came out from
Speaker 4: Carrier about two weeks ago. Scott.
Speaker 2: Well, you add to that AI and datail centers, right,
Speaker 2: I mean that that's going to eat a lot of
Speaker 2: not only power, but all those buildings need to be
Speaker 2: heated and cold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, and Scott, you know, I'm glad that you
Speaker 4: brought up AI. You know, the AI has taking over
Speaker 4: a lot of jobs for people. But guess what if
Speaker 4: you get into the HVAC field. Uh, this is one
Speaker 4: of the jobs. I don't think you ever have to
Speaker 4: worry about AI because that's what You're always going to
Speaker 4: need a Coca cola or you need right be kept
Speaker 4: warm one it's five degrees outside. I hear you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some people do this and I'll work the job
Speaker 2: and it's great, and other people will be more entrepreneur
Speaker 2: I know, Mike, you were that guy who worked for
Speaker 2: the family company and retire came back to do this
Speaker 2: at Southern Ohio Technical Institute, and so there's room there
Speaker 2: for growth for everybody. I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: who started out in the field and that said, you
Speaker 2: know what, I watched how the business worked. I watched
Speaker 2: how billing works, accounts receivable, how you're getting a product
Speaker 2: in and dealing with vendors, and they rose to run
Speaker 2: their own companies and to the man and woman, as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, it might start with a family
Speaker 2: business like you did, but so many people out there
Speaker 2: have done this and said, you know, what I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try and hang my own shingle. They've done and one
Speaker 2: of my best friends did that and was very successful,
Speaker 2: retired in hvacy, so I see it firsthand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Scott. You know that's the carit it's out there. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know, within five years if you'd like to go
Speaker 4: into business for yourself, get yourself properly licensed and go
Speaker 4: out and run an ethical business. Listen, there's no reason
Speaker 4: in the world why you can't be successful and reach
Speaker 4: that drain. That's a fact.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the other thing too, is you're still competing as
Speaker 2: for your colleges. That has been decades, and these school
Speaker 2: systems have been decades, convincing mom and dad that degrees
Speaker 2: equal success. That has fallen apart in recent years, but
Speaker 2: I think that sigma still there. How do you make
Speaker 2: that case of the trades to a nineteen year old
Speaker 2: in their mom and dad?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, here's the thing. I just show them
Speaker 4: basically statistics. You know, you can do a four year job,
Speaker 4: a four year career college, or a four year excuse me,
Speaker 4: just a four year business college. Got in Guess what
Speaker 4: at the end of that four years, what are you
Speaker 4: going to do? You're going to get a job at
Speaker 4: a coffee company maybe making thirty thousand a year, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, And you got an eighty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars student right, Okay, so it's a little bit different
Speaker 4: with the HVAC. You know, you can go in and
Speaker 4: when you get to the end of this thing, most
Speaker 4: of our guys are going in at about at around
Speaker 4: a fifty thousand dollars a year forty to fifty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a year start. That's including their overtime and stuff
Speaker 4: while they're being trained. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, if you're going to the staff, we
Speaker 2: need smart, we need educated, We need college educated people.
Speaker 2: We need doctors, we need all that. We don't need
Speaker 2: more lawyers, but we need more doctors and nurses like
Speaker 2: in that regard. We need people to design the equipment
Speaker 2: you're installing. So it's not like your college isn't but man,
Speaker 2: today you better make sure that that degree you're getting
Speaker 2: is going to service at least your loan, if not
Speaker 2: your lifestyle for years to come. And unfortunately we're still
Speaker 2: cranking out college degree programs that don't mean squat. If
Speaker 2: you're walking away with that and nothing else, and maybe
Speaker 2: you are a hands on person like me and you're
Speaker 2: hearing this and going, you know what, there's no stigma here.
Speaker 2: I can make good money from the jump, and the
Speaker 2: sky's the limit, depending on how smart I am and
Speaker 2: how hard I want to work. For sure, I know
Speaker 2: you offer both day and night class classes. What does
Speaker 2: that look like for a typical student?
Speaker 4: By the way, okay, well, our students come in our classes,
Speaker 4: for an example, in the morning, they run from nine
Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning till soo in the afternoon. Are
Speaker 4: evening classes run from five until ten at night, So
Speaker 4: it's five hours a day. It's four days a week,
Speaker 4: ten weeks, two hundred hours. Okay, and listen, it's an
Speaker 4: accelerated course, just like any other accelerated course of you
Speaker 4: go to nursing school takes you three years, do an
Speaker 4: accelerated course in eighteen months. Ours is kind of the
Speaker 4: same thing. It's not hard. It's a lot of information
Speaker 4: if you hit the process in ten weeks. But we're trained,
Speaker 4: and all my other instructors are trained to get these
Speaker 4: guys through that ten weeks and get their certifications, and
Speaker 4: we get them their boots on the ground. They need
Speaker 4: to get out there and start working.
Speaker 2: And then you make money from day one. That's the
Speaker 2: best part. And you do day and night classes. Obviously.
Speaker 2: I know you're also introducing a high school program too,
Speaker 2: that's going to work with all local high school guidance counselors,
Speaker 2: the fast track pads in the program.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I'm in the middle of
Speaker 4: my first class. That's a grant program from the Charles Foundation.
Speaker 4: Mister Shore was so generously gave these high school seniors
Speaker 4: at a great, great opportunity. They can come to our school,
Speaker 4: and they are coming to our school from all the
Speaker 4: area public schools. I mean we have them from we
Speaker 4: have them from Ake and High School, we got them
Speaker 4: from Bethel, we got them from all over right now
Speaker 4: in the class that we're running, and they can come
Speaker 4: here and apply through their counselor through their school and
Speaker 4: it is a full ride, ten week program that mister
Speaker 4: Shore is provided for them.
Speaker 3: Does that also apply to veterans?
Speaker 5: Will we have we have some programs available for veterans
Speaker 5: at the school as well, that there is money available
Speaker 5: for the veterans to come to our school.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, what about job placement, what's your success right?
Speaker 3: There ten weeks and on what happens.
Speaker 4: Well, we're ten weeks right now, and realistically we're probably
Speaker 4: have been over the past year and a half somewhere around.
Speaker 4: We worried about eighty five percent and worried about right
Speaker 4: around the eighty seventy five to eighty percent job placement. Okay,
Speaker 4: and listen, that all has to do with the we
Speaker 4: we do a resume class, we go through this with
Speaker 4: all the students, and actually some of these students Okay,
Speaker 4: we don't job place because they don't need it. They're
Speaker 4: coming there just to better where they're at. They're already
Speaker 4: at a maintenance program that they're that they're working at
Speaker 4: and they need to better their job, or they're they're
Speaker 4: wanting for because they own a string of homes and
Speaker 4: they want to service their own homes. So it just
Speaker 4: all depends Scott.
Speaker 3: No, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you own a property, you know, one
Speaker 2: of the things I pay a lot of my fors
Speaker 2: hac service, and you know, you look at that going well,
Speaker 2: you know, if I being able to certify to be
Speaker 2: able to do it yourself, that's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2: What is like the biggest misconception you think that people
Speaker 2: have about a career in HVAC going working on furnaces
Speaker 2: and air conditioners.
Speaker 4: Well, I think one misconception that they have is basically
Speaker 4: that they're going to be able to go into this
Speaker 4: and go into business for themselves right away, and that's
Speaker 4: not the case. The AVAC industry requires you be into
Speaker 4: business or be associated with the business for at least
Speaker 4: five years before you can be properly licensed to do that.
Speaker 4: So you have to work and actually accumulate the experience
Speaker 4: for five years before you can go into business for yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I mean, if you want to do that,
Speaker 2: go be a franchise, you know, flip burgers or make
Speaker 2: tacos or sandwiches or something like that. But you need
Speaker 2: training because there's a lot of safety, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of technical knowledge that you need in skills you need
Speaker 2: to develop before you can wind up. You got to
Speaker 2: walk before you can run, I guess is the case.
Speaker 2: We're also seeing more women enter in the field as well.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, And listen, you know, I can tell you
Speaker 4: first in women are very good at this. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a couple women that I know first tend to
Speaker 4: do extremely well in this business. Okay and have and
Speaker 4: one in particular used to work for my brother Jim
Speaker 4: and went into business for herself and it is doing
Speaker 4: quite well.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. We need more women in the trades, we
Speaker 2: really do. So that's good. That's been really encouraging. Mike Trible.
Speaker 2: So let's say somebody starts the program on today. You're
Speaker 2: working by what first of July? Pretty much?
Speaker 4: Right? Yes, you start today and you can go through
Speaker 4: your ten weeks. Absolutely. Yeah. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: I wanted to mention and do a shout out to
Speaker 4: all the companies that participated in our job there that
Speaker 4: the school had. A week before last we hit about
Speaker 4: twelve companies there and it was a huge success.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: They just they loved our students, We loved them and
Speaker 4: buy the I just want everybody to know that these
Speaker 4: companies that were partnered with, they're great people and really
Speaker 4: great companies and they do a good job and they
Speaker 4: they do good for the community. All these these companies do.
Speaker 2: Mike Tripple is the director and head instructor essentially at
Speaker 2: the Southern Ohio Technical Institute. Sody and I know you're
Speaker 2: out on Ohio Pike building a new building and that
Speaker 2: should be online shortly, but if you're interested, reach out
Speaker 2: to them, Southern Ohio Technical Institute online. It's so OTI,
Speaker 2: by the way, And if you're interested on what's the
Speaker 2: next class start?
Speaker 4: I believe our next class is coming up here in April. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, the next class starts?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, get a hold of get ahold of
Speaker 2: Mic and his team out there. And you know what,
Speaker 2: it's a great paying job and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: upside to it for sure, and you're going to be
Speaker 2: in demand. You're not going to be outsourced, You're not
Speaker 2: gonna be replaced by AI computer and a robot not
Speaker 2: going to take your job, and you're going to be
Speaker 2: making real money and in about ten weeks.
Speaker 3: Time, Mike call the best. Thanks for jumping on the
Speaker 3: show this morning.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you for your time, Scott.
Speaker 2: Take care. Yeah, yes, sir, thanks again. I've got to
Speaker 2: get a news update in just minutes. Here it's a
Speaker 2: Scott's Loan show Friday morning, seven hundred w world.
Speaker 3: If there's two words you need to know today, two words.
Speaker 2: In the English language here with Austin Elmore from ESPN
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. In sports, those tours would be fire Dusty.
Speaker 2: Clearly the Clearly the Reds are outmatched by the Boston
Speaker 2: Red Sox. I love how Tito called it overreaction Friday
Speaker 2: because it's so true. We lose our minds the Friday
Speaker 2: after opening Day. Either we're going to win the series
Speaker 2: or the team should be sold and moved to Portland
Speaker 2: or something like that. Three nothing lost yesterday the Bosox.
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet was pretty good and Rabbit was pretty good.
Speaker 2: Salth Stewart was great except for getting hit in the hand.
Speaker 2: Status he continued to play. But yeah, Mady got worried
Speaker 2: about that. You got a couple of hits after he
Speaker 2: got hit. I think they got lucky that it was
Speaker 2: more in the hand as opposed to the wrist or
Speaker 2: above the wrist. I'm sure it feels horrible this morning.
Speaker 8: He's probably struggling to pick up a cup of coffee exactly.
Speaker 8: I'm sure they'll use some stuff on it, and I
Speaker 8: expect him to try to play through it. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's a dude that's really excited about this season. We
Speaker 8: obviously has a boatloaded talent.
Speaker 3: We need him.
Speaker 8: He might not play the field, might be a d
Speaker 8: H or something like that. But Sal Stewart. I think
Speaker 8: the Reds avoided disaster. Will find out more tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: We really need that luck on our side considering blisters
Speaker 2: and elbow chips and other things. But you look at
Speaker 2: salth Stewart and he produced almost entirely all of the
Speaker 2: Reds offense.
Speaker 3: Yester, Yeah, I mean, he pretty much was all of it.
Speaker 8: And also thinking back like opening Day, there's been some
Speaker 8: nasty injuries in the past. You think of Ken Griffy Junior,
Speaker 8: Ryan Ludwick and others that have gotten hurt on Opening Day.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean he was awesome yesterday. Three hits,
Speaker 8: and the strategy of Terry Francona putting South Stuart behind
Speaker 8: Ellie de la Cruz and in front of au Haaneo Suarez.
Speaker 8: You saw multiple times where Suarez would come to the
Speaker 8: plate and Stuart was on base, or the bases were
Speaker 8: filled or whatever it might have been, and it made sense.
Speaker 8: You started to see the vision for Terry Francona get
Speaker 8: au Haaneo Suarez to the plate with runners in scoring position,
Speaker 8: but unfortunately Soarez couldn't come through yesterday. I hope it's
Speaker 8: it feels like a little bit of last season, but uh,
Speaker 8: you hope with runners in scoring position the Reds can
Speaker 8: actually produce that.
Speaker 3: That's been a huge proble for this team for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I have a feeling, uh au Haneo Srez won't strike
Speaker 8: out every single time there's runners in scoring positions for
Speaker 8: the rest of the season. But I do think a
Speaker 8: lot of Reds fans who are diehard Reds fans were
Speaker 8: walking out of that stadium yesterday thinking, golly, is it
Speaker 8: going to be like this again all summer?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. That's how I was feeling.
Speaker 8: I was thinking of it, and you want to talk
Speaker 8: about overreaction in the moment, I'm thinking And I said
Speaker 8: to my dad as I'm walking out, you know, as
Speaker 8: someone who talks about this team every day for a living,
Speaker 8: I can't do that for one hundred and sixty one
Speaker 8: more games.
Speaker 3: I just did it last season.
Speaker 8: Let's hope it's just a tough first matchup and that
Speaker 8: they'll get better over the weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean your facing their ace, it's like okay, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's what it is.
Speaker 3: And they have a good bullpen too.
Speaker 8: I mean Eraldus Chapman had the best season of his
Speaker 8: career last year at thirty seven. Once it got to
Speaker 8: the ninth that game was pretty much over. They also
Speaker 8: have Garrett Whitlock, who pitched really well over the course
Speaker 8: of the last season as one of the top believers
Speaker 8: in baseball. So yeah, And what I thought was interesting
Speaker 8: is is the abs challenges and how to talk about
Speaker 8: that kind of flipped the game and the ninth inning
Speaker 8: to an extent.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that. I'm your impression first game in.
Speaker 8: I love it. I've always loved it. I've loved the
Speaker 8: idea of doing it. And it's so quick, it's so fast.
Speaker 8: There were some times during spring training I'm thinking, Gosh,
Speaker 8: this is taking longer than it should, like, what's the
Speaker 8: hold up? But I think it's just the facilities in
Speaker 8: spring But you know, umpire walks from out behind home
Speaker 8: plates as the batter is challenging boom. Within seconds, it's
Speaker 8: on the scoreboard and you find out as a ball
Speaker 8: or is it strikes, it overturned, whatever it is. And
Speaker 8: you know there was a sequence where the Red Sox
Speaker 8: challenge a pitch and they were right, and the Reds
Speaker 8: challenge a pitch and they were right.
Speaker 3: And that was on back to back pitches.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, And then going into the ninth inning, going
Speaker 8: to the bottom of the ninth inning, Connor Phillips thought
Speaker 8: he had Roman Anthony struck out Anthony challenges. It turns
Speaker 8: out it's a walk. The Red Sox end up getting
Speaker 8: an insurance run after that. So it can flip a game.
Speaker 8: It can be very powerful.
Speaker 2: How we got to get to a point and we
Speaker 2: saw an indicator for this about a week or two
Speaker 2: ago in spring training where the pitch was dead, I
Speaker 2: mean dead across the middle of the plate. Um called
Speaker 2: at a ball and it was overturned. Is this it
Speaker 2: for a home plate umpire essentially calling balls and strikes?
Speaker 8: No, I think it can only help them, honestly, like
Speaker 8: it should be about getting it right and.
Speaker 2: Then put it on the screen and go, oh was
Speaker 2: a ball strike in automatic count? Now you still I
Speaker 2: think need real umps out there. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 2: still need real umps out there. I don't think that
Speaker 2: they're at that point now. I don't know that we
Speaker 2: should be at this point. But you know, I had
Speaker 2: seen something in the Chicago Tribune the other day where
Speaker 2: an umpire was complaining. A former umpire was complaining and
Speaker 2: saying that you know this is all this is going
Speaker 2: to do is embarrassed umpires. Nobody likes to be humiliated,
Speaker 2: and that that, to me, Scott is the problem.
Speaker 3: That's the problem.
Speaker 8: It's not about you being humiliated, it's about getting it right.
Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 8: Exactly everybody. It's not about you. It's not about you
Speaker 8: getting humiliated. It's not about you getting lauded. It's about
Speaker 8: you getting it right. This only helps them.
Speaker 2: I don't get I never understood that while you you
Speaker 2: offend the umpire, you're offending it.
Speaker 8: It's like, who cares? I'm offended if you get it
Speaker 8: wrong right? So and again, in this day and age,
Speaker 8: you got to be perfect. There's replays, there's sure and
Speaker 8: umpires have really, really tough jobs and many of them
Speaker 8: are really good.
Speaker 3: Point is the ego gets in the way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Austin Elmoher from ESPN fifteen thirty, chopping up yesterday's opening day,
Speaker 2: l they got a game tomorrow on all weekend, so
Speaker 2: off today, which is good because the weather's terrible. Yesterday
Speaker 2: was absolutely perfect. I knew you were down there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was one of the best opening days. I think
Speaker 2: you remember as far as crowd goes for the weather
Speaker 2: goes on field, do you think yesterday's street fights and
Speaker 2: the like and the takeover as a result of the
Speaker 2: loss for people that upset that they were angry and
Speaker 2: wanted to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know how there would be any other explanation. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it was that, and the presence of Bill Cunningham probably
Speaker 8: got the youth. Oh love Cunningham, what exactly can you
Speaker 8: tell me what exactly happened down there?
Speaker 3: Because now I walked out on.
Speaker 8: The east side of the stadium towards the arena, so
Speaker 8: I didn't see any of that. I didn't experience my
Speaker 8: friends did. I just want to know, like, what exactly happened?
Speaker 3: I was I see.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you with all like the
Speaker 2: hair pulling and you know there's videos all over weaves
Speaker 2: laying on the ground because hair's getting ripped out.
Speaker 8: If you let that's what happened to you yesterday. I
Speaker 8: saw Willis, I saw Willie's tweet. Now, so here's what happened.
Speaker 8: I had Can coberan head of the FOP, at nine
Speaker 8: oh six this morning. He said this, It started in
Speaker 8: like areas like Washington Park and elsewhere, and there was
Speaker 8: a group of several hundred young people and the reason
Speaker 8: being and say how earlier I heard it was that
Speaker 8: spring break wasn't until next week, but I heard CPS
Speaker 8: is this week. But regardless, you have young people. They
Speaker 8: lifted the curfew for the banks in other areas but
Speaker 8: not downtown for some reason, and it would have been early,
Speaker 8: so it applied anyway. Also Metro said, hey, free ridership
Speaker 8: for anybody want to come out of the game. Well,
Speaker 8: kids took advantage of this, as we've seen in the past,
Speaker 8: and now started to cause trouble. They came down with
Speaker 8: the express purpose of causing trouble. Some had pepper spray,
Speaker 8: others had tasers. Oh, and they were going at it
Speaker 8: Washington Park. Then they ran down the Smale and then
Speaker 8: eventually the banks at eight thirty, and that's when people
Speaker 8: were getting assaulted. Were they fighting each other or some
Speaker 8: of us was hacking random a little bit?
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was like knockout game or anything
Speaker 2: like that level. I don't think that's what it would.
Speaker 8: You describe it as riots, not riots, But okay, because
Speaker 8: Bill Cunningham here says after the game, riots break out.
Speaker 8: Downtown bars locked their patrons inside, police shut down the
Speaker 8: banks and patio dining swat teams and special teams dispatched.
Speaker 3: The SWAT teams and stuff were there.
Speaker 8: Kind of weird, but it seems a little bit misleading
Speaker 8: at maybe a little bit of exaggeration.
Speaker 2: We think again, will he thinks Willie thinks that Red
Speaker 2: Bank Road is the Mexican border?
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Can I just you know, I think sometimes some of
Speaker 8: that stuff so a little bit over the top, a
Speaker 8: little bit over the.
Speaker 2: Top, but I mean not rioting, because I would think
Speaker 2: then that involves property damage.
Speaker 8: And but it was just like I'm sure the people
Speaker 8: have in fights. I mean, what the hell absolutely should not.
Speaker 8: And I'm not saying that it's I'm not trying to
Speaker 8: downplay it at all. I'm just saying it's maybe not
Speaker 8: as bad as he's portraying it to be. But I'm
Speaker 8: sure that the business owners down there are not happy.
Speaker 8: I mean, that game ends at six forty five, and
Speaker 8: the weather is perfect, and you have a chance for
Speaker 8: all those people to spill right back into the banks
Speaker 8: and watch the Sweet sixteen games. Yes, and that's an
Speaker 8: opportunity for those guys to make a lot of money.
Speaker 8: And I don't blame them for being upset with that.
Speaker 8: And I don't know what the solution is, and I'm
Speaker 8: not here to talk about it.
Speaker 2: A top the fact that it was a brutally cold
Speaker 2: winner and no one was out and so this is
Speaker 2: a chance I'm going to make money for a change
Speaker 2: as supposed to lose money. And it's just it's horrible
Speaker 2: and you can't have this. And the mayor issued a statement.
Speaker 2: Now whether or not he said, you know, we're not
Speaker 2: going to tolerate this. So I've heard that a million times.
Speaker 2: Starts splitting wigs man, do something. Yeah, I agree to
Speaker 2: do something, all right, Austin Elmore. When I was talking
Speaker 2: about the.
Speaker 8: Thing, if we win baseball games, people don't.
Speaker 3: Fight each other. That's it. You win games.
Speaker 8: I remember, this is a funny. Sorry, my first Opening Day,
Speaker 8: this is twenty eleven. I come down with my dad
Speaker 8: and we're going through all the different downtown and going.
Speaker 3: Through the parade and all this. How old were you?
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 8: Fifteen or sixteen years old, and my dad says to
Speaker 8: me Opening Day is a ceasefire in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 8: And and all these years later, it's true. They just
Speaker 8: had tasers and pepper stray right right, the hopefully wrong
Speaker 8: about that?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: So wait, I just got a tack hold on. I
Speaker 2: got a here we go correction here from Catherine Nero,
Speaker 2: because everybody's listening like that, hey slowly, I'm she's the best.
Speaker 2: I'm listening to your show, and I just want to
Speaker 2: make one distinction. The Banks did not lift any city
Speaker 2: wide curfew. They didn't suit their twenty one plus initiative
Speaker 2: make sense. I'm sorry, I thought it was clear on that,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I so citywide the curfew didn't. At the Banks,
Speaker 2: they lifted it going out, We'll have a good time.
Speaker 2: And that's a problem, right And and there are people going, oh,
Speaker 2: let's go exploit this and be jerks and mowing it forever.
Speaker 2: That's the problem. That's exact right there. So I grew
Speaker 2: with Catherine Nero. Thank you, my dear. Let's get into basketball.
Speaker 2: Last night we had, as you mentioned, sweets sixteen action
Speaker 2: action boiler Makers escaped with a two point nail bier
Speaker 2: over Texas. Iowa downs Nebraska. That Cinderella story is done.
Speaker 2: Hawkeys advance the A line, I upset the Cougars, and
Speaker 2: the Wildcats put in a clinic and blew out Arkansas
Speaker 2: by twenty one last night as well. Tonight We've got
Speaker 2: Duke and Saint John. It's seven to ten, Michigan Bama
Speaker 2: seven thirty five, Yukon, Michigan State nine forty five A,
Speaker 2: and Iowa stayed in Tennessee. Take it to ten, ten
Speaker 2: and so it does a full night of college basketball.
Speaker 2: Arizona drops one hundred and nine on Arkansas. They're still
Speaker 2: Is it the most dangerous team in the bracket?
Speaker 4: Stall?
Speaker 8: I think so. I think they're probably. I think them
Speaker 8: in Michigan are the two best teams remaining. Florida now eliminated,
Speaker 8: Houston now eliminated. I think Duke is going to have
Speaker 8: their hands full with Saint John's tonight. Obviously, Rick Patino
Speaker 8: has that team playing really well, and Duke hasn't necessarily
Speaker 8: played well through the first couple rounds of the tournament.
Speaker 8: So I think it's Michigan and Arizona and those teams
Speaker 8: will have to face off in the final four to
Speaker 8: get to the national championship game. But I think, you know,
Speaker 8: the big story continues to be how impressive the Big
Speaker 8: Ten has been Illinois with a ten point win over Houston,
Speaker 8: Texas and Iowa Nebraska. The fact that those two teams
Speaker 8: even met in the Sweet sixteen. To get to the
Speaker 8: Elite eight in Iowa with a ton of turnover from
Speaker 8: a year ago, to be right back into the Elite eight,
Speaker 8: I think is very impressive. And as I just mentioned,
Speaker 8: Michigan on the other side, Michigan State still in it.
Speaker 8: The Big Ten is showing up really well in this tournament.
Speaker 8: It kills you to talk about how good Michigan teams
Speaker 8: are right now, just kills you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I don't root for the Big Ten.
Speaker 8: I'm I'm an Ohio State fan, and I do not
Speaker 8: subscribe to the idea of rooting for your conference. I've
Speaker 8: always thought that was stupid. But I can't acknowledge that
Speaker 8: the teams are playing really good. Unfortunately, Michigan's really good.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, SPARTI. Michigan State to night against Yukon. Hoskis
Speaker 8: have owned March last few years. Is this it for them?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 8: I think what's interesting is Luke Murray, who's basically their
Speaker 8: offensive coordinator at Yukon and the son of Bill Murray
Speaker 8: formerly at Xavier. He's gonna leave and be the head
Speaker 8: coach to Boston College next year, so he's only got
Speaker 8: a few games left with Yukon. I wouldn't say that
Speaker 8: that it's over for them.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 8: You know, they very much have a chance up against
Speaker 8: tom Izzo, and I think that's gonna be a great matchup.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 8: And if they get into this next round, like they
Speaker 8: certainly can can do some damage. They they are tried
Speaker 8: and true and and Danny Hurley is their coach.
Speaker 3: Dude, the winner.
Speaker 2: Michigan roll tonight. Probably, Okay, Bro, that's a good answer. Probably,
Speaker 2: that's all I got. I mean, Alabama has played better
Speaker 2: than I thought. They were trending a different direction.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna sit here and just blow smoke up here,
Speaker 8: but yeah, Michigan's probably gonna play well.
Speaker 3: I just want to save that as a cut. I
Speaker 3: was just trying. You can say I'm gonna a Michigan.
Speaker 3: I could save that.
Speaker 1: Said.
Speaker 3: Probably that's editing. Oh here, I'll give you this one
Speaker 3: roll all right.
Speaker 8: The other match up Duke Saint John's, Yes, most interesting
Speaker 8: matchup I think so far. I mean, Rick Patito just
Speaker 8: continues to show that he is maybe the best basketball
Speaker 8: coach of all time, all these different programs.
Speaker 3: He did it at the NBA level.
Speaker 8: He's taken Saint John's right back now to the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 8: and as I said, Duke has not necessarily played well
Speaker 8: over the first few rounds of the tournament. Remember they
Speaker 8: were trailing to Siena for most of the first game
Speaker 8: that they played up until the very end. And meanwhile,
Speaker 8: Saint John's feels like they're catching that momentum and kind
Speaker 8: of keeping going up into the right. And so I
Speaker 8: think Saint John's is a trendy pick here. America hates
Speaker 8: Duke and they should. I hope they continue to do that,
Speaker 8: even though coach K isn't there. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 8: that place that's to me, the pre eminent game of
Speaker 8: this tournament.
Speaker 2: Right, you think of all sports, thinking the NFL, MLB,
Speaker 2: certainly NCAA, and it's like in all of the sports,
Speaker 2: there's a handful of coaches that can just dominate and
Speaker 2: change the trajectory of games or dynastas for that matter. Right,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it Bill Belichick in the NFL,
Speaker 2: you just mentioned coach K at Duke, and that's why
Speaker 2: everyone hates do Duke is because well, coach K just
Speaker 2: ran the table there and now you got Patino Saint John's.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's you know, there's just a the
Speaker 2: irony there to me is fascinating. There's such a great
Speaker 2: backstory that how many coaches can you name and in
Speaker 2: each league where it's like, yeah, it doesn't matter who
Speaker 2: they have or theout, they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, not that any of them.
Speaker 8: And I think what that's what makes Patino so much
Speaker 8: more impressive is that he's done it at at different
Speaker 8: levels and different stops and different programs. Whereas you know,
Speaker 8: one guy standing for a long time, and and now
Speaker 8: if Belichick turns the North Carolina tar Hill program into
Speaker 8: a powerhouse, and that will be even more impressive for
Speaker 8: his legacy. I just think that's the difference between Patino
Speaker 8: and all these other guys is his ability to jump
Speaker 8: to different places and still have the same results.
Speaker 3: All Right, what's the biggest storyline heading into the lead
Speaker 3: eight here?
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 8: Uh? Outside of Saint John's and Duke, I think it
Speaker 8: is can one of these teams kind of be a Cinderella?
Speaker 9: Can?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess Iowa is the Cinderella. They're not.
Speaker 8: They're a nine seed, They're from a power conference. The
Speaker 8: crello is really remaining. Tennessee is six seed out of
Speaker 8: out of the SEC. I guess it's I don't know
Speaker 8: that there's really anything all that.
Speaker 3: Like, it's just.
Speaker 8: Good matchups, good teams, good coaches. Like, it's a lot
Speaker 8: of chalk. It's not that Cinderella run that we've used
Speaker 8: to seeing over the last however many years. And I
Speaker 8: think some people blame that on an I l and
Speaker 8: I undershare that. But yeah, I don't know that there's
Speaker 8: anything overwhelmingly interesting outside of what we talked about with
Speaker 8: Saint John's.
Speaker 3: How's your brackets? It's gotten hot lately.
Speaker 8: I picked Illinois to beat Houston, okay, and so I
Speaker 8: think I'm right now third in our iHeart bracket pool.
Speaker 8: You're nowhere near the top. But yeah, it's fun. Oh
Speaker 8: I'm not John John bad. No, nobody is. John John
Speaker 8: was terrible, and I I'm tent. I don't want to
Speaker 8: say this person's game on the air. But we have
Speaker 8: someone who is in single digits in percentage, correct, is
Speaker 8: at nine percent?
Speaker 3: You're talking about Russ Jackson.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Russ comes back after all these years, comes home
Speaker 8: to the family, and he's terrible.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been watching college basket nine percent.
Speaker 8: Well, John John is at eighteen percent. John John is
Speaker 8: historically at the bottom of this competition.
Speaker 3: Terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just stick to dressing like an elf.
Speaker 2: And Dave Keaton, our producer today, not much better. No, horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just got eleven brackets.
Speaker 3: So anyway, anyway, Austin Elmore, fred Y Yeah, I'm yuy yeah,
Speaker 3: look at me. I yet my delly, I bigs they
Speaker 3: give me.
Speaker 2: I'm a clown crying on the inside. Audie today at
Speaker 2: noon with Tea Pike.
Speaker 8: Yes, Uh, We're gonna have Charlie Goldsmith in studio for
Speaker 8: an hour from twelve thirty to one thirty.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be Tony and Austin and friends.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 8: Also Tommy g Bob Man, Gene will recap opening Day
Speaker 8: and get you set for the Elite eight and all that.
Speaker 2: Love it all right, appreciate you have a great we
Speaker 2: think excuse me, Sloony, you're home of the red seven
Speaker 2: hundred w Do you.
Speaker 1: Want to be an American? Welone?
Speaker 3: You back on seven hundred WLWSL.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're getting a little bit older, maybe.
Speaker 2: Not wiser, but older. Maybe second, third, fourth, twentieth marriage.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to judge him. Maybe in a new relationship.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're married and you don't want four bedrooms or
Speaker 2: need four bedrooms anymore. You don't need that basketball court
Speaker 2: in the backyard or in the front driveway, or I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe you've got arthritis and going up those
Speaker 2: stairs is not as appealing to you anymore. Maybe you
Speaker 2: suffer from a disability, or maybe just want a damn
Speaker 2: change of scenery. I'm talking about downsizing your house. Downsizing
Speaker 2: and that is a tough decision because of what it entails,
Speaker 2: and that means getting rid of the old and rolling in.
Speaker 3: With the new.
Speaker 2: Joining the show is Marne Jamison, who's an expert in
Speaker 2: these things, and Marnie. Welcome to the show. Good morning,
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 9: I'm very well, Scott, Good morning.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about right sizing. Right sizing versus downsizing.
Speaker 2: Is are those the same thing? Is it two sides
Speaker 2: the same coin.
Speaker 9: Well, after writing three books about downsizing, I thought it
Speaker 9: was getting a little depressing, So then I wrote one
Speaker 9: about right sizing, which doesn't sound so like an emotion,
Speaker 9: but it's actually what we all should be aiming to
Speaker 9: do is live in the house that is the best
Speaker 9: fit for us, wherever we are socially, financially and emotionally
Speaker 9: and physically. So I think right sizing is the word
Speaker 9: of the day.
Speaker 3: Okay, right sizing, not downsizing, but right sizing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think you look at it and go, yeah, we
Speaker 2: had kids and raise our kids here, and you look
Speaker 2: around this house, going it's big, it's empty. We can
Speaker 2: each live in our own different floor if we want to.
Speaker 2: Not everyone has that as fortunate off or even wants
Speaker 2: a big house like that. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: you look at it, going, yeah, I just you know,
Speaker 2: we're heating this whole house. My wife's parents are still
Speaker 2: with us, same thing. They he built himself by hand.
Speaker 2: This huge house. I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous. If you
Speaker 2: took it in Cincinnati and dropped it in Indian hal
Speaker 2: it'd be like a three million dollar house. But he
Speaker 2: lives in the middle of nowhere, so it's more like,
Speaker 2: you know, a four hundred thousand dollars house. Nonetheless, they've
Speaker 2: lived there since the late nineteen eighties, and now it's
Speaker 2: just they're they're obviously moving around a lot slower, baby steps,
Speaker 2: not big steps, they're not bounding, and they live on
Speaker 2: one floor, and it's like we're trying to convince them, yeah,
Speaker 2: you need to get in a place that's less maintenance
Speaker 2: and less work. Do they live on five acres and
Speaker 2: they're cutting grass and they're eighty It's like it's not
Speaker 2: going to end well, right, that doesn't bode well.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 9: I think people have to be honest with where they
Speaker 9: are in their stage of life. And it is hard
Speaker 9: to accept the fact that you're not as capable as
Speaker 9: you were twenty years ago. But it's also very freeing
Speaker 9: to accept that and move into a place that's kind
Speaker 9: of just want to travel and not take care of
Speaker 9: a big yard, you know, place that's lock and go
Speaker 9: if your kids have gone and you don't. You know,
Speaker 9: some people are just stay in the same house because
Speaker 9: that's the house they bought, those close to their work
Speaker 9: and to their kids' schools, and they're not going to
Speaker 9: that job and the kids aren't going to those schools,
Speaker 9: and they have a full attic. And what really bothers
Speaker 9: me more than the size of the house, God, is
Speaker 9: the stuff they think, Oh, yes, trouble, Oh we'd have
Speaker 9: to clean up the garage. Oh they got it. Oh,
Speaker 9: then there's that back bedroom. And I get very disascouraged
Speaker 9: by people who let stuff bend between themselves and their
Speaker 9: best life. And that's just no way to live your life.
Speaker 2: Why it is so hard to throw crap out. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty good about throwing crap out. You know, if it's
Speaker 2: workshop stuff, it's a different story because you know, repairing
Speaker 2: things I might need this sad and that's different than
Speaker 2: just clutter. Like my wife will love to save stuff
Speaker 2: from twenty thirty years ago. She has no intention of
Speaker 2: ever using, has no plan for it. But if I
Speaker 2: throw it out, it's the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 2: How do you break that cycle?
Speaker 9: Well, I like to edit things through a filter of need,
Speaker 9: use love, And you can't answer yes to one of
Speaker 9: those questions, it really should go. I mean, if you
Speaker 9: haven't used it in twenty years, you obviously don't need it.
Speaker 4: You probably don't love it, right.
Speaker 9: And so really think about, you know how much my
Speaker 9: shirt would be to have a closet that there's actually
Speaker 9: rumens or people that you're not not embarrassed, have turns
Speaker 9: over because your house isn't still cluttered, or you can
Speaker 9: park both cars in the garage. You know, all the
Speaker 9: visualized that opening a drawer and going, oh, it is
Speaker 9: this nice, spacious and I just think there's so much
Speaker 9: to be said for living in uncluttered, streamline, well edited life.
Speaker 9: But once you get there, that's the motivation. So find
Speaker 9: that motivation and go for it, and start in a
Speaker 9: place that's not emotional, and like the linen closet. You know,
Speaker 9: you start to get emotional about sheets and you know,
Speaker 9: and sometimes there's stuff and you're you know, you're pushing
Speaker 9: on the door to close it and open up. You know,
Speaker 9: this is a discussing's ruled on pillow. We don't need this.
Speaker 9: This is a ratty blanket with a hole in it.
Speaker 9: We don't need this. This sheep's never work, they don't fit,
Speaker 9: they pop off at.
Speaker 10: Night, they're hot, get it like the rid of So
Speaker 10: so really, you know, start there and then you're going
Speaker 10: to go, oh, this poses that's really nice and everything
Speaker 10: in it I love and use, and then you go,
Speaker 10: let's do that everywhere.
Speaker 2: Is it difficult for people in a new relationship, maybe
Speaker 2: second or third or fiftieth marriage, whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: I'm not judging to do this where it's it's not necessarily
Speaker 2: blended families, which I guess we could talk about when
Speaker 2: there's kids involved, but maybe mentioned both of those. Okay,
Speaker 2: blended families with young ones. Maybe someone has a child
Speaker 2: or children, and maybe the party doesn't, or they both do,
Speaker 2: and it's the Brady bunch, or it's just simply like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm divorced. I can found someone and
Speaker 2: we want to move into a place. How do you
Speaker 2: navigate that?
Speaker 9: Well, my hand is up. My husband and I both
Speaker 9: got remarried in our early fifties to each other. And
Speaker 9: how's that working on for you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Good, Okay, it was.
Speaker 9: It was a little rocky there at first, when I'm like,
Speaker 9: I love you, honey, but your stuff not so much.
Speaker 9: And I was divorced, so I'd already given up a
Speaker 9: lot of stuff, I thought, And he was a widower,
Speaker 9: and so it didn't have, you know, anything to get
Speaker 9: everything that she had and he had and then some
Speaker 9: and so and I'm a home design columnist, right so,
Speaker 9: and my honey, I got this. I was also living
Speaker 9: home stage or I had moved six times in four
Speaker 9: years into beautiful homes and stage and to help themselves.
Speaker 9: So I only had left what I considered the crown
Speaker 9: to the crown.
Speaker 4: Of my stuff.
Speaker 9: And you know, he is like, why aren't you trying
Speaker 9: any of yourself? And here's the deal, folks, if you're
Speaker 9: moving in with someone and you have you're sharing a
Speaker 9: new place together, one house plus one house has to
Speaker 9: equal one house. So you each need to give up
Speaker 9: half a house and honestly, Scott a little bit more
Speaker 9: because you should be buying something together, like we bought
Speaker 9: a new bed. You know, I don't need to discuss
Speaker 9: why that's important. So just like owning stuff that they
Speaker 9: yours mind in hours and it is bumpy, like we
Speaker 9: went round over the dining room table like room table
Speaker 9: and it is hard. So and we also have five
Speaker 9: kids together, not unfortunately they were on their way out
Speaker 9: and more pretty well lunched. But here's the other thing,
Speaker 9: back from the beginning of our conversation, is we undershot it.
Speaker 9: At first, I'm like a few empty mesters. Let's get
Speaker 9: a great house cloth to tow and watch the restaurants.
Speaker 9: And then you know, our five kids, guess what, they
Speaker 9: go out and they find other people and they make
Speaker 9: more people and five becomes ten becomes fifteen. So we
Speaker 9: had to get a little bigger house if we wanted
Speaker 9: to have them. And I did want to be the
Speaker 9: matriarch of my family, so we wanted to be able
Speaker 9: to have, you know, a place for the kids. And
Speaker 9: now there are six grand kids and you know people
Speaker 9: we do go out and multiply, so you got to
Speaker 9: think it through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you want to think about moving into a
Speaker 3: convention center.
Speaker 9: Marnie, I'll tell you I'm gonna take over.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How do you negotiate giving your stuff up? Because there's
Speaker 2: things like I love this armchair I'm attached to, or
Speaker 2: this table or they you know, this big dining room
Speaker 2: table even though we don't have room for it and
Speaker 2: we don't host a lot of state dinners, but I
Speaker 2: need this dining room table that will never use for example,
Speaker 2: how do you navigate that stuff with your partner?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, if you can get them to rest away,
Speaker 9: you know, leave it. You think about what you if
Speaker 9: you can sell it and you won't get a lot
Speaker 9: for it, you know, manage your expectations right there. But
Speaker 9: maybe sell it and you and you buy something together
Speaker 9: that you love, a piece of art or a carving
Speaker 9: at an art festival, or you take a little trip together,
Speaker 9: or you do something to repurpose it. So the value
Speaker 9: of it, she says, into something memorable. And I think
Speaker 9: that really helps there's you know, a woman you know,
Speaker 9: had a bunch of her dad's neckties and there was
Speaker 9: no reason she had to have one hundred neckties. But
Speaker 9: he loved his neckties and he was a, you know,
Speaker 9: a very well dressed man, and they reminded her of him,
Speaker 9: and so she made them into had them made into
Speaker 9: a leaving like a quilt that she hangs in her
Speaker 9: office and it's beautiful and it conveyed beautifully now like
Speaker 9: she looks at it and admirers me every day. So
Speaker 9: there's a way you can convey something into something you
Speaker 9: would like and enjoy. That would be kind of a
Speaker 9: win win.
Speaker 2: Marty Jamison is a lifestyle expert Right size today to
Speaker 2: create your best life tomorrow. And of course, you know,
Speaker 2: with people who are in different stages of their lives.
Speaker 2: If you're younger and maybe it's a second marriage and
Speaker 2: maybe there's blended families and kids. Maybe you're older and
Speaker 2: empty nesters and you don't need the four or five
Speaker 2: bedrooms anymore in the pool and the basketball court, and
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe you're older and you have health issues, arthritis, disability,
Speaker 2: or maybe just want to change the scenery. A lot
Speaker 2: of people are downsizing or what Marty's calling right sizing,
Speaker 2: which is really difficult though, because you are parting literally
Speaker 2: with years of your life. I mean, for example, our
Speaker 2: house which we've been in for over twenty years, Marnie,
Speaker 2: that's where we raised our kids. My daughter knew no
Speaker 2: other home than this one, and my son we had
Speaker 2: moved when he was I think in second or third grade.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, it's like you have memories here, you have
Speaker 2: the good times. Hopefully a few bad times. It's a
Speaker 2: very few bad times, but mostly good times, which you
Speaker 2: do and then you realize like, wow, we don't need
Speaker 2: this space, We don't need this anymore. Someone else could
Speaker 2: better use it. But coming to that conclusion and pulling
Speaker 2: the band aid off, can you go to pass the
Speaker 2: point where it's too late though, and you're like, man,
Speaker 2: we should have sold, we should have moved, we should
Speaker 2: have downsized. I'm sure there are people that also missed
Speaker 2: that window and that opportunity and they have regret.
Speaker 9: Look, I have a couple who had a big house
Speaker 9: who had raised three children there. It was on a lake,
Speaker 9: they had a boat, they had a pool. Everybody loved
Speaker 9: the house. The kids wanted them to keep it. Forever
Speaker 9: because it was so fun to come home, and they
Speaker 9: realized the kids have moved away, they're starting to have families.
Speaker 9: They weren't able to come for long trips or long
Speaker 9: stays because they have life and jobs. And they sold
Speaker 9: that house and bought two houses, one smaller one in Florida,
Speaker 9: which is where the big house was, and one in Wisconsin,
Speaker 9: which is near their family and the new grand baby.
Speaker 9: And it worked out beautifully for them. And I think
Speaker 9: they explained to me that it took one of them.
Speaker 9: The life took longer to detach them. The husband he.
Speaker 4: Was all for.
Speaker 9: He would pick them all on that line and making
Speaker 9: THEO and you know, he was so over it, and
Speaker 9: she was, you know, attached to the memories. But now
Speaker 9: they are living their best life and you know, just
Speaker 9: try try to visualize what your life could be and
Speaker 9: and you know, stop was holding you back. But those
Speaker 9: memories are important, and I wouldn't I wouldn't take them away.
Speaker 9: But I think when you're getting rid of things, that
Speaker 9: it is facing your time and your life and your
Speaker 9: memories and your mortality and your success is and your
Speaker 9: failures and all of that. It's all there, and you
Speaker 9: know you can't just wipe that away like talk on
Speaker 9: a talkboard. But it's also important to move on. And
Speaker 9: if you're stuck in the past, you miss out on
Speaker 9: the present and certainly on your.
Speaker 3: No question, I look at it in life's about stages
Speaker 3: of Arnie.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like when I, Okay, you're born in a family,
Speaker 2: you're raised in your household, good or bed, you live there,
Speaker 2: and then at some point, when you're a young adult,
Speaker 2: you move out, and then you move around and you
Speaker 2: find your place and maybe it's an apartment or maybe
Speaker 2: it's the roommates or school, whatever it might be. And
Speaker 2: then hey, I say it, if I get my maybe
Speaker 2: I want a house, So I put a down payment
Speaker 2: on a house. Not only a lot of young people
Speaker 2: are doing that right now. Or maybe it's a nicer condo,
Speaker 2: or you just keep me on making more money. In life,
Speaker 2: you can get a little nicer place in a little
Speaker 2: nicer neighborhood, and you move up like George and Weezy,
Speaker 2: I get that whole thing, and then maybe at some
Speaker 2: point you find that special someone. It's like, okay, well
Speaker 2: do we want to live in the city, sure, or
Speaker 2: do we want to live in suburbia. Okay, we want
Speaker 2: a backyard and better schools. Let's do that. You buy
Speaker 2: a house. Okay, you're raised your kids there, so that's
Speaker 2: a different that. You know, the next stage a lot.
Speaker 2: You got different phases. It's you know, your kid in
Speaker 2: the house, and then it's your your adolescence. You're wild,
Speaker 2: you're young, and you're free, and then you're in the
Speaker 2: settle down phase. And then you're in the family phase.
Speaker 2: And then your next thing, you know, you're in the
Speaker 2: grandkid phase maybe or you're like, Okay, I'm nearing retirement.
Speaker 2: I'm on the back, you know, twenty years of my life,
Speaker 2: and I want to enjoy things. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be cutting five acres of grass. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be shoveling snow. I don't have to be worried about
Speaker 2: all of those things. I want a little bit more
Speaker 2: convenience in my life. I want to travel or golf,
Speaker 2: or just read books or sit around and eat cheetos,
Speaker 2: whatever the hell it might be. Whatever your jam is
Speaker 2: and when you retire, but we're just talking about this
Speaker 2: next phase. And maybe it's because it is I don't
Speaker 2: want to say the last phase of your life, but
Speaker 2: you know, the working, the raise in the family that
Speaker 2: work is over, I think is that the sticking point here,
Speaker 2: the fact that you're looking now at your ownmortality.
Speaker 9: A little bit. I think that definitely plays into it.
Speaker 9: But as finding out, well, first of all, the statistic
Speaker 9: in the book that people over fifty eight, half of
Speaker 9: them either get a house the same size, you can
Speaker 9: move and sell their homes and buy a new place,
Speaker 9: happen to stay in the house the same size, or
Speaker 9: a biker house. So it's not all about me, you know,
Speaker 9: But I will say you want to have my book.
Speaker 9: My book divides right saving into three parts. It's where
Speaker 9: and where in the world should you live in what?
Speaker 9: Like you said, an apartment, account on a cabin, a mansion, whatever,
Speaker 9: in what and with what? And we talk about the
Speaker 9: best things to bring along and what not to bring
Speaker 9: to surround yourself to the quality and not clutter. But
Speaker 9: the book actually has a question there because it's so multifactoral,
Speaker 9: as you point out, and you can you can ask
Speaker 9: yourself questions and leave yourself scores about the best city
Speaker 9: to live in. So you have three cities, including the
Speaker 9: one you're currently in, and you decide where in this world.
Speaker 9: Would I be the happiest? What has more? Most of
Speaker 9: what I'm looking for is a sunshine?
Speaker 4: Is it golf?
Speaker 9: Is it close to kids? Is its close to the church? Whatever?
Speaker 9: And you can actually score each place and you you'll
Speaker 9: get of the number. But I'll tell you where you
Speaker 9: should you should live in your looking for a place
Speaker 9: that's the best social, emotional, financial, and physical fits.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 9: Those four things click and then and then you go
Speaker 9: to the inn. What like whoa would it'd be better
Speaker 9: be in a town room an apartment of cottage? Is
Speaker 9: a one story you know if you figure it out?
Speaker 9: Four bitter two bitters? What do I mean? And And
Speaker 9: there's actually a little seamy bit of math involved, which
Speaker 9: is you know, basic masses all and that I can
Speaker 9: do me too, a little bit of an addition there,
Speaker 9: and and you'll you'll actually find you know, the numbers
Speaker 9: will tell you where you should go. It's kind of
Speaker 9: like a weeed board with the risk actual fact.
Speaker 2: Martie Jamison Wright size today, create your best life tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for the time and really insightful stuff.
Speaker 2: A lot of folks are facing this, so I appreciate
Speaker 2: coming on.
Speaker 9: Marnie fun conversation.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Scott runs off today after the opening day,
Speaker 2: ll try again tomorrow. And speaking of Big L's, we
Speaker 2: had the brawl downtown last night in the banks and
Speaker 2: elsewhere as a group of four to five hundred people.
Speaker 2: Ken Kober told us about this that simply went from
Speaker 2: area to area causing disruptions and as soon as.
Speaker 3: The place you show up, they'd or attack the cops.
Speaker 2: As we were told, Mayor I have to have pureval
Speaker 2: issuing a statement calling this an outrage, and then his
Speaker 2: expectation is full accountability for those involved last night. Hopefully
Speaker 2: it's more than an O R bond and a slap
Speaker 2: on the risk because they're juveniles, misunderstood kids, you know
Speaker 2: him saying that we need to implement more severe crowd
Speaker 2: control restrictions downtown. Maybe a little too late. Anyway, more
Speaker 2: on this with news coming up and will we'll pick
Speaker 2: this up after twelve o'clock here on the home of
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Speaker 1: The weekends coming up, and you need to make the
Speaker 1: most event.
Speaker 4: Where to go and what to do.
Speaker 1: She has the tips and inside to help you make
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Speaker 3: This is the Local Loop with Ali mart on seven
Speaker 3: hundred wl W.
Speaker 2: Well, it kind of feels like this is like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, being a Times Square on the second day
Speaker 2: of New Year's you know what I'm saying. On January
Speaker 2: twod I'm a Times Square. We got plenty of her play.
Speaker 2: Ali Martins here at the Local Oop, and it feels
Speaker 2: like it's kind of late because yesterday we kind of
Speaker 2: blew our wad with the big party Holy Girl Banks.
Speaker 2: Of course, Mo and I and Tom Brenneman are out
Speaker 2: there live and then Willie took over and that was great.
Speaker 2: The of course, the Finley Market opening day parade in
Speaker 2: the ball game itself of the Boston Red Sox, and
Speaker 2: it just feels like yesterday was I don't know, Saturday
Speaker 2: night in the city, and I wonder for things going
Speaker 2: on anyway. Ali Martin is here on this and she
Speaker 2: can't be here in studio she often is because she's
Speaker 2: been stuck in an airport line now for the better
Speaker 2: part of four days, because she said the TSA line
Speaker 2: now is like I think it's I think you maybe
Speaker 2: by Easter the over under you actually get the board
Speaker 2: in your flight.
Speaker 3: Allison.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 7: You know I actually finally landed Seattle, thank goodness. But
Speaker 7: truthfully those sentiments are not wrong because prior to leadings
Speaker 7: I had thrown out on social media. Hey, everybody tell
Speaker 7: me what tamo is in regards to.
Speaker 11: What the web time is. Some people are like, yeah,
Speaker 11: walked right through. Other people like I've been here for
Speaker 11: six hours so it was a happy media.
Speaker 7: But good goodness, I'm just having Tomo from everything I know.
Speaker 4: This is that way I know that I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and weather hauled.
Speaker 2: I was great, so it couldn't have couldn't well, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but failed good voice a little uh, just a little
Speaker 2: short today, just a little short today. But it feels
Speaker 2: it does feel like January second because all the good
Speaker 2: stuff happened yesterday.
Speaker 3: Is there anything left to do this weekend?
Speaker 11: There is?
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness. Okay, first of all, this is a
Speaker 7: weekend of comedy. I don't you know, I feel like
Speaker 7: stand Up Committee. Either you love it or you don't.
Speaker 7: You're kind of feeling it, but we have coming in
Speaker 7: this weekend. Hand Burner, she's one of my favorites, the
Speaker 7: gal the Giggly Squad. Probably know who I'm talking about,
Speaker 7: but she has a podcast called Giggly Giggly Squad with
Speaker 7: a gal a partner.
Speaker 11: Cost named Pages. She all the stand up and she's.
Speaker 7: Coming into town this Saturday, March eighth, at seven o'clock
Speaker 7: at the Andrews Jay Brady Center. And then also Matt Rice,
Speaker 7: who is an Ohio boy.
Speaker 11: A lot of people know him.
Speaker 7: He's a stand up comedian. Uh, he is on a
Speaker 7: Stay Golden World tour. He's coming a Heritage Bank this
Speaker 7: weekend on Sunday. And there's another list of other comedians
Speaker 7: that are coming. But those are the two big names
Speaker 7: that really stuck out to me that I felt like
Speaker 7: we're worth talking about, and that would hits two very
Speaker 7: different audiences. So it's it's interesting.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of comedians coming into the.
Speaker 2: Well and he's coming to town. I heard he absolutely kills.
Speaker 2: It's a great set.
Speaker 11: He's coming. Yeah, I tickets for him in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Okay here I think today.
Speaker 11: Because you would have been.
Speaker 3: The April or something like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, rick Us, So it's fantastic, So I might
Speaker 2: I might have to get tickets for that.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: So who doesn't have you watch stand up comedies fans?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many good specially see Millenie's thing
Speaker 2: on you know, HBO, Netflix, All the platforms have some
Speaker 2: summer to sort of comedy should be just Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: You get the reruns, but now hell, they're doing first
Speaker 2: runs Chapel Doda stuff all the time. He still got
Speaker 2: that Netflix contract, So there's also where it's that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Netflix has completely crushed these stand up comedy
Speaker 7: games and John Malay. Have you watched any of you
Speaker 7: give John mullaney, Have you watched any of his stand
Speaker 7: up bits?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: God, yeah, yeah, it's fantastic And.
Speaker 7: His story is wild, right because he he went through
Speaker 7: his drug escapade and then he went through recovery, and
Speaker 7: then listening to his story and watching his narrative and
Speaker 7: even how he presents on stage through all of that
Speaker 7: time is absolutely fascinating. So I'm excited to see his
Speaker 7: transformation for this next round. And I hope Netflix also
Speaker 7: records whatever to he's on net.
Speaker 2: I got some I got some rabbit Hole with John Mullaney,
Speaker 2: and the people were like literally stun because of his
Speaker 2: He grew up in a privile from a privileged background.
Speaker 2: He came in privilege. It's like, okay, so he had
Speaker 2: a drug pumb but what the hell was that have
Speaker 2: to do with him being funny? Like why the people
Speaker 2: who look at stuff and go, well, you know, he's privileged.
Speaker 2: He's a white privileged guy, Like okay, but he's hysterical. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but the privilege, like if that's your whole life, you
Speaker 2: know what?
Speaker 3: I take the poison pillar.
Speaker 11: Ready, amen?
Speaker 7: And you know what, the fact that that guy was
Speaker 7: able to do what he was while also on drugs,
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'm more impressive. He was writing for SNL
Speaker 7: and then the entire he was saying in New York
Speaker 7: when they sold that segment for Netflix, he was on
Speaker 7: drugs pretty much the entire.
Speaker 3: Te Absolutely, that must be No drugs make you funnier.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but you got to be really tallenged to remember
Speaker 11: and true out.
Speaker 9: The jabber.
Speaker 2: I mean, hell yeah, I mean And you know, comedy
Speaker 2: when they had when I was much younger, obviously in
Speaker 2: the eighties, like you had Kinnison and Dice and all
Speaker 2: these big name performers, and they were all they're all
Speaker 2: cooked up the whole time. The shows are actually aren't
Speaker 2: that good. So that's a good point that it could
Speaker 2: be that funny when they're when when he's on something.
Speaker 2: We also have this weekend is the Cincinnati Auto Expo.
Speaker 3: Are you're familiar?
Speaker 7: We co am I familiar?
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 11: I'm a car girley.
Speaker 3: No you're a motorcycle girly.
Speaker 11: Well not now because I gotta get my license again.
Speaker 3: Thank you to the bagger at Kroger US so much.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that club medicine is really working.
Speaker 2: Well that's fine. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 7: Well though, Yeah, they don't have many motorcycles there have.
Speaker 7: When was the last time you've been to an auto expo?
Speaker 2: I went to the Cinciato Expert I think, I want
Speaker 2: to say, right before right after COVID.
Speaker 7: So what is your plan of attack when you walk
Speaker 7: through the convention center doors? Because it can be overwhelming
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, I think that I need
Speaker 7: to be driving home every Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Know, I know, well, you know what, you know what
Speaker 2: the best part is, Like the entirety is going to
Speaker 2: be mind blowing because it's the Duke Energy Convention Center,
Speaker 2: right or what the artist formerly knows the Duke Energy
Speaker 2: Convention Center. I guess, but I don't know what's gonna
Speaker 2: So you have the new convention center smell with the
Speaker 2: new car smell.
Speaker 3: What do you think that's going to be like.
Speaker 2: It's like a bad candle, all the off gassing from
Speaker 2: the from the plastics of all that. But that smell
Speaker 2: of like you walk in a dealership marker car and
Speaker 2: that smell it's a tire smells what it is, a
Speaker 2: new tire smell and maybe a little bit of you know, polish.
Speaker 2: And also the models smell a little bit like glitter.
Speaker 2: So you've got all those things going on, you know.
Speaker 7: I'm are you a fan of the new car smell?
Speaker 7: Because some people if people tell me that they're not,
Speaker 7: I'm like, I love it, and I would be curious
Speaker 7: if somebody has fun a test on what brand has
Speaker 7: the longest lasting new cars.
Speaker 11: I'm sure part of it is.
Speaker 7: Like life, So how do you take care of your car,
Speaker 7: you know after throwing a bunch of chicken tenders and
Speaker 7: chicken nuggets and your car for McDonald's. It's not gonna
Speaker 7: do it, but just curious and that.
Speaker 2: It's a good smell when you that's as clean as
Speaker 2: it gets too, it smells absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 7: Having I don't know, and maybe if you're having an
Speaker 7: identity crisis, this is what you need to do, is
Speaker 7: we can look at some convertibles, because it actually started yesterday,
Speaker 7: so Thursday through Sunday at runs pretty.
Speaker 11: Much all day.
Speaker 7: It stops at sixt on Sunday, but runs until nine
Speaker 7: o'clock today and tomorrow, and you're gonna see from all
Speaker 7: four days crossovers, eed, hybrids, SUV trucks, like twenty three
Speaker 7: different brands, a little bit of everything. And what's been
Speaker 7: interesting is, I don't know if you have been following
Speaker 7: these trends of what is being researched in the car
Speaker 7: world these days, but because everything's going on in the world,
Speaker 7: there's been a third looking.
Speaker 11: At evs more all right, all right.
Speaker 7: So who knows if you're looking at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and it's cool to see.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, but I love this carla or I
Speaker 2: don't like that, and it's just and kids love cars
Speaker 2: to running around and they're swagged, they give you and
Speaker 2: all that stuff, and so yeah, it starts. I actually
Speaker 2: started yesterday, as a matter of fact, today till nine
Speaker 2: and rest of the weekend for that matter, at the
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Auto X But tickets are pretty cheap. Half price
Speaker 2: admission today as a matter of fact, So yeah, not
Speaker 2: bad at all, although I will you know, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'll stream shows and for some reason, yesterday I was
Speaker 2: watching something and every commercial was for a de Or cologne, Like,
Speaker 2: I watch those Colonne ads are stupid.
Speaker 3: I like people swim into.
Speaker 2: Flowers that are on a fire, and guy weird at
Speaker 2: French accents, like who's this appeal to?
Speaker 3: You know, if you made a cologne that smell like
Speaker 3: a new car, I'd be in.
Speaker 7: It's also always the sexiest person that you could ever possibly,
Speaker 7: like nobody's.
Speaker 11: Walked around with a four.
Speaker 7: Packs somehow, Like is that a I know, I have
Speaker 7: absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2: Only only time you use French there it's colomb What
Speaker 2: else we got going on?
Speaker 4: Girl?
Speaker 7: Oh we have going I feel like you would appreciate
Speaker 7: this one. So this is a very kid friendly thing
Speaker 7: in an event, but it's called Big dig n Ky.
Speaker 7: This is a chance for kids to kind of go
Speaker 7: and operate and be hands on new machinery.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's this Saturday tomorrow. That's a Boone County Fairground
Speaker 7: in Burlington. It's only ten dollars to go. It's ten
Speaker 7: am to four pm. So if you have a little
Speaker 7: one that just you know has one of those those
Speaker 7: you know, little construction, you know, tractor tailors or whatever.
Speaker 7: This could be something fun to take it. Yeah, like
Speaker 7: we'll bob the builder and it's your chance to go
Speaker 7: and climb and dig and explore on all of these
Speaker 7: really big machines. And I feel like if you're a
Speaker 7: little one and you love that, it would be a
Speaker 7: dream come true.
Speaker 2: So hell, I know people, you know, people my age
Speaker 2: love to do that. What are you talking about?
Speaker 11: Are you going to go?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not.
Speaker 2: There were like I got a bump a kid that
Speaker 2: that would be a bad It's like stealing a home
Speaker 2: run ball away from a kid at JBP yesterday. So
Speaker 2: it's just not a good look. But I'll tell you what,
Speaker 2: I think, it's wonderful. And in some of the trades
Speaker 2: organizations involved with is we really need to push that more.
Speaker 2: Is like the hands on your touch a truck today.
Speaker 2: Touch a truck is a big thing. You let kids
Speaker 2: do that firsthand. It's like they say, Wow, this is cool.
Speaker 2: I've loved this job. And that's how you, you know,
Speaker 2: break down that barrier because you know, have you equipment
Speaker 2: opertors still in demand and they make really really good
Speaker 2: money and you get to you get to play with
Speaker 2: big toys. It's it's pretty cool. So I just want
Speaker 2: to write what kind of it? Because you know, you
Speaker 2: get a pile of rocks and you just you know, here,
Speaker 2: here's the controls, and help the kid move it from
Speaker 2: point A to point B. And next kid, you move
Speaker 2: from B to A. And I mean, you're doing stuff
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. How the some of the things that
Speaker 2: they have, I'd love to play with. You ever see
Speaker 2: on the side of the highway where Odak comes through
Speaker 2: and there's like, I don't honeysuckle or whatever grown along
Speaker 2: the side of seventy one or seventy five, and it
Speaker 2: is like it's like a giant circular saw blade on
Speaker 2: an R And it's just I would love to do
Speaker 2: that to some people.
Speaker 7: I know, I want to see like all of the
Speaker 7: fleet of machinery that our city uses like that even
Speaker 7: a snowfall. Every time it snows. I'm like, it's like
Speaker 7: to just be rolling around and have the power to
Speaker 7: clear the streets, salt the streets, and you're like you're
Speaker 7: creating that path, Like that's gotta be kind of cool.
Speaker 2: You yep, you know what, you know what this this
Speaker 2: it costs way too How about a heavy equipment fantasy camp.
Speaker 2: That's what you go for a week and you just
Speaker 2: play with all this stuff.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sure, Hey, maybe you should propose it
Speaker 7: to THEE.
Speaker 11: Yeah, this sounds like this is your next career.
Speaker 3: My god, I love this stuff? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I've got a project that I can do at my
Speaker 2: house and I can't wait to run a backo. I
Speaker 2: can't wait.
Speaker 11: Yeah, what type of of you?
Speaker 7: I mean, you're so hay right putting houses and doing
Speaker 7: all the things and pulling weeds and bushes. What type
Speaker 7: of excavation tools?
Speaker 3: And I have used?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've used the loaders, I've used back hoos, I've
Speaker 2: used bulldozers, I have used obviously, stump grinders, chainsaws, But
Speaker 2: as far as drivable I haven't. I haven't really needed
Speaker 2: a dump truck yet. And that's more like I'll dump stuff.
Speaker 2: Somebody else will do that. But yeah, when it comes
Speaker 2: to loaders and bobcats and things.
Speaker 4: Like that, I'm on in man junior license.
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean not driving on the street. It's
Speaker 2: in your yard. Commercially you do, yeah, but you gotta
Speaker 2: you know, there's safety precautions. You just got to be,
Speaker 2: can't be too stupid with But man, they are fun.
Speaker 2: They are fun.
Speaker 7: They look like now that I have actual lections together,
Speaker 7: I'm down. I'm not a lia ability anymore.
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta run.
Speaker 2: Actually, in the next few weeks, I actually run a something
Speaker 2: to excavate with, so not too big but big enough anyway.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. I may even take days
Speaker 2: off to do it. That's how much of a freak
Speaker 2: I am with this stuff. Anything else in do you
Speaker 2: have anything that's not alcohol related, because I think we're
Speaker 2: good after yesterday?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Actually you probably need a little bit
Speaker 7: of caffeine. And here's a little insight. This is kind
Speaker 7: of just a side unting if you are shopping specifically
Speaker 7: around Kroger, but one of the crowd favorite local coffee shops.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you've heard of Mominam Coffee and Waingma's.
Speaker 2: That's a Gary Burbank thing. Gary Burbank they, I guess
Speaker 2: maybe we talked about this one time. The owners of
Speaker 2: the say, what do we call it? They call it
Speaker 2: Mominum because yeah, that was a Gary Burbank sketch from
Speaker 2: way back in the day when he was on here
Speaker 2: on seven hundred ww and they turned it into a
Speaker 2: coffee brand.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, that was that was us, Yeah, because the
Speaker 7: Ferrari brothers also named it after their mom and then
Speaker 7: that also segment of the hundred.
Speaker 11: But they have two spots in.
Speaker 7: Madisonville and one in Camp Washington. But it's been success
Speaker 7: and it really is become a staple spot in these communities.
Speaker 7: And he're in Cincinnati, but they decided to start to
Speaker 7: can't some of their cold brew and they have a
Speaker 7: Franklin Coconut cold brew which they have just they're currently
Speaker 7: testing at two of the local Kroger. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 7: a pretty big deal. And I feel like there's this
Speaker 7: huge trend of getting energy drinks and you know, pre
Speaker 7: made coffee caffeine items was one of those things that
Speaker 7: just really spotted spotted me and said, hey, you know,
Speaker 7: let's talk about it because if you could.
Speaker 11: Support local, you might as well.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 7: One days like today where you might need a little
Speaker 7: extra caffeine.
Speaker 2: Okay, good so Hyde Park and Oakley Kroger's, I think
Speaker 2: is where I thought I saw yeah available, So stop
Speaker 2: on by anyway, all right, I know you got to
Speaker 2: get on a flight here I appreciate you coming in
Speaker 2: and you know, doing this remotely from where you Seattle, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm here for the a VP spernament I
Speaker 7: actually played today.
Speaker 3: Oh oh are you going to playing?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 7: I actually don't know the broadcasters. You're very jazzed because
Speaker 7: I worked Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 3: I gotcha.
Speaker 11: We'll see where we want.
Speaker 2: All right, well, maybe she'll be on the tour. Who
Speaker 2: knows our good friend Ali Martin this Friday morning. It's
Speaker 2: the local loop at Ali Martin eight. And of course
Speaker 2: the good drama. The license videos are fantastic and she
Speaker 2: is going back to get her driver's license because it
Speaker 2: expired and the bagger I love that. So that's all
Speaker 2: there in motorcycle endorsement. Now she's got to work on anyway,
Speaker 2: that's on YouTube, but the good drama. Thanks, have a
Speaker 2: great trip, Love you to talk to you next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: There you go, Ali Martin means the weekend is here
Speaker 2: and we've got baseball back right here in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 2: It's the home of the Red seven hundred WLWD sincenat