Speaker 1: Corner with Ian McDonald recruited lead singer Lou Graham, who
Speaker 1: actually got them the record deal with that co when
Speaker 1: they heard Lou Graham's vocals. Jones the only continuous member
Speaker 1: of Foreigner throughout its history. He co produced almost all
Speaker 1: of their album did co produce all their albums, and
Speaker 1: co wrote most of their songs with Graham, and famously
Speaker 1: claims single solo writing credits on I Want to Know
Speaker 1: What Love is, the band's most successful single, but jammed
Speaker 1: to a lot of Foreigner back in the day and
Speaker 1: still did this morning. As a matter of fact, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, it's December twenty seventh. Before we look ahead
Speaker 1: to look back at significant events and people tied to
Speaker 1: this particular day in history, including but not limited to these.
Speaker 1: Eighteen thirty one naturalist Charles Darwin set out on the
Speaker 1: h MS Beagle on Around the World voyage, Plymouth, England,
Speaker 1: nineteen o four. James Berry's play Peter Pan The Boy
Speaker 1: Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which producer Liam has been cast
Speaker 1: in a remake of this. The irony is not lost
Speaker 1: on me. This opened at the Duke of York's Theater
Speaker 1: in London. New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall
Speaker 1: open to the public this date in nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 1: The rockheads have been kicking ever since. Let's see as
Speaker 1: we continued down the list. This was a date in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight the Apollo eight capsule splashed down safely
Speaker 1: in the Pacific, completing the first Crewe mission to orbit
Speaker 1: the Moon. Nineteen seventy nine, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: The president was overthrown and executed, replaced by a what
Speaker 1: the Soviets thought was a fine puppet, and about eleven
Speaker 1: years later, ten years later, the Russians left with their
Speaker 1: tales between their legs. But we didn't learn a lesson
Speaker 1: from this in this country, because in two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: the United States seized control of Afghanistan and stayed there
Speaker 1: for twenty years and finally left, infamously under the watch
Speaker 1: of President Joe Biden with our Tale between our legs
Speaker 1: and thirteen marines dead. This is a date nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five that American naturalists and conservationist Diane Fossey, who had
Speaker 1: studied mountain guerrillas in Africa for nearly twenty years, was
Speaker 1: found murdered in her cabin in Rwanda. No one ever
Speaker 1: was prosecuted for that murder. Hall of Fame basketball coach
Speaker 1: Nolan Richardson, famously at once of the Arkansas Razorbacks, turns
Speaker 1: eighty four.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Actor Gerard Depardieux is seventy seven. David Knopfler, who is
Speaker 1: Mark Knopfler's less talented brother, is seventy three. Basketball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame coach Bill Self turned sixty three today, a reporter,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you can call anybody in
Speaker 1: TV these days a journalist. Savannah Guthrie is fifty four.
Speaker 1: Olympic sprint gold medalist. Shelley and Fraser Price turns thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Hailey Williams of the band Paramore is thirty seven. Shay
Speaker 1: Mooney of Dan and Shay thirty four. Timothy Shallomey turns
Speaker 1: thirty and mister Irrelevant proving very relevant once again. Brock
Speaker 1: Perty of the San Francisco forty nine ers is celebrating
Speaker 1: his twenty sixth birthday today. If it is your birthday,
Speaker 1: prayer for you it is the best birthday ever, and
Speaker 1: you get to spend it with the people you love
Speaker 1: doing the things you love to do, just like I
Speaker 1: got to last Monday here on the air five point
Speaker 1: forty two, Liam Tomlinson, the boy who wouldn't grow up
Speaker 1: standing by with sports as we get you going this
Speaker 1: morning on a Saturday morning adventure, and it is going
Speaker 1: to be an adventure. I can hear my voice cracking
Speaker 1: already on seven hundred you.
Speaker 2: It's the season for seven one hundred a WL Sports.
Speaker 1: Is the afore mentioned Liam Tomlinson. We got a coaching
Speaker 1: change at Michigan. You know anything about this Kyle Winningham,
Speaker 1: guy from Utah.
Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham was the replacement to Urban Meyer at Utah
Speaker 3: has held it down there for twenty years or so.
Speaker 3: Ten win season this year, but it was time kind
Speaker 3: of both sides side. It was mutually agreed the part ways.
Speaker 3: I wonder what scandal will hit Michigan next year. Kyle
Speaker 3: Whittingham man, I think they went with the character higher.
Speaker 3: I think he is a really good coach, but they
Speaker 3: kind of needed the right guy that could just steer
Speaker 3: the ship. It kind of feels like a get them
Speaker 3: in the right direction higher more than a long term higher.
Speaker 3: But we'll see if Kyle Whittingham can get it done
Speaker 3: with way more resources than he had at Utah. So
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see big time changes in the
Speaker 3: Big Ten.
Speaker 1: And he will actually be on the sidelines for Michigan
Speaker 1: the bowl game.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: A lot of coaches wait and let the former.
Speaker 2: Staff understand or whatever. Yeah, what else we got college football?
Speaker 3: It's bowl season, not the same with all the opt
Speaker 3: outsand transfers. But we had three games yesterday and the
Speaker 3: game above Sports Bowl Northwestern defeated Central Michigan thirty four
Speaker 3: to seven, the Rate Bowl, Minnesota defeated New Mexico twenty
Speaker 3: to seventeen with the walk golf touchdown in overtime, and
Speaker 3: in the First Responder Bowl, Utsa put it on FIU
Speaker 3: fifty seven to twenty. Today won two three six to
Speaker 3: seven bowl games.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: Military Bowl Pittsburgh faces East Carolina starting at eleven, and
Speaker 3: the Pinstripe Bowl Clemson and Penn State face off that
Speaker 3: one in the Fenway Bowl, can you kind of army
Speaker 3: kickoff at two fifteen. The Pop Tarts Bowl twelve ranks
Speaker 3: BYU Charts faces twenty second rank Georgia Tech that kicks
Speaker 3: off at three thirty. They spray painted the end zones
Speaker 3: with the sprinkles. Arizona Bowl Miami Ohio Chuck Martin squad
Speaker 3: faces off against Fresno State, battle it all, battle it
Speaker 3: out at four point thirty. New Mexico Bowl twenty fifth
Speaker 3: ranked North Texas faces San Diego State at five forty
Speaker 3: five and the Gator Bowl nineteenth ranths Virginia and Missouri
Speaker 3: battle it out at seven thirty, and then the Texas
Speaker 3: Bowl LSU and Houston and the nightcap at nine to fifteen.
Speaker 3: Two NFL games today four pm. Texans Chargers face off
Speaker 3: and the nightcap. Baltimore looks to keep their playoff hopes
Speaker 3: alive in Green Bay against the Packers. Jordan Love is
Speaker 3: out with the concussion and Lamar is doubtful with a
Speaker 3: back injury. So Malik Willis versus Tyler Huntley in primetime
Speaker 3: like we all ask.
Speaker 2: For it, did they lift Metcalfs suspension?
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 3: I believe they upheld the suspension and there was a
Speaker 3: press conference held by the fan. He was wearing his
Speaker 3: suit and his finest Lions backwards cap. Sunday, the Bengals
Speaker 3: play football. Cincinnati hosts Arizona and some would say meaningless football,
Speaker 3: but every game we get is meaningful. Pregame coverage begins
Speaker 3: at nine oh five. Kick is set for one pm
Speaker 3: right here on the home of the best Bengals coverage,
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW. You were tuned to news Radio seven
Speaker 3: hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Bunniest jokes but if your breath smells like the.
Speaker 1: F both thanks to our friend Dave Bagraf made it
Speaker 1: to the studio this past Monday when I filled in
Speaker 1: for Willie on my birthday December twenty second, and they
Speaker 1: were part of the party. Let's get their reaction. Good morning, Lynette, go.
Speaker 5: Tellison the mound. Why don't you over to hear pvery
Speaker 5: go lion the mount to that cheez us christious jeeus
Speaker 5: Christius Amen Amen.
Speaker 2: So it was great.
Speaker 6: It was onsa America.
Speaker 2: It was great to see you on Monday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I didn't get no fried chicken. I'm heart brought.
Speaker 2: Nobody had any fried chicken, Linnette.
Speaker 6: Well, somebody said, look at that spread of food over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there was no fried chicken. Oh there was.
Speaker 2: There was ham, and there were vegetables. Okay, no fried chick.
Speaker 6: At least stayed the guy as a ham sandwich. We
Speaker 6: rode two aur in ten miles just to be there.
Speaker 1: Well, you actually did ride. You didn't drive Dave did that.
Speaker 1: Dave did all the heavy lifting.
Speaker 6: Us roll darling, I didn't date drive.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, didn't you enjoy your trip?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Okay, but I missed my Christmas party here. I
Speaker 6: got back at three forty and it ended at three thirty.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 6: I just now I had to take a COVID test yesterday.
Speaker 6: Ye get with COVID shot Monday, So that was pressing that.
Speaker 6: No COVID here, dear God, don't let it come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
Speaker 6: I just said COVID. What was it about three or
Speaker 6: four months ago? Now it's floating again.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean COVID.
Speaker 1: You know what, and don't act like COVID is the
Speaker 1: death sentence one. I mean, a flu could be just
Speaker 1: as bad. That's basically what that is, is a and
Speaker 1: cold COVID. Yeah, it's not the boogeyman that everybody makes
Speaker 1: it out to be. But you need to protect yourself
Speaker 1: and I understand in your condition.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got my mask on.
Speaker 2: You've cut your mask on right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, why I don't want to catch it?
Speaker 1: Well, no, okay, who are you going to catch it from?
Speaker 1: It's not just floating in the air, Dear.
Speaker 6: Yeah it does because the first year I was laying
Speaker 6: in bed and it felt like somebody put a pill
Speaker 6: over my face, and then the doctor put some kind
Speaker 6: of big glung pill down my throat and I kept
Speaker 6: trying to say, I can't take pen Ofcilly. It must
Speaker 6: have been in Mock's ciling. Anyway. He said he almost
Speaker 6: lost me, and he took care of me around the talk.
Speaker 6: Doctor t.
Speaker 2: Well, God bless him.
Speaker 6: That was my first bout with it. I think I
Speaker 6: had three or four times in seven years.
Speaker 1: No, it has to be transferred from another person, Lynette.
Speaker 1: It doesn't just float freely through the air.
Speaker 5: Yes it does.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 6: They say it can jump off of it though person hasn't.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: If you if you're exposed now, you don't get transferred
Speaker 1: from somebody's hair, Lynette.
Speaker 2: It's all it's rest.
Speaker 6: And then something about if you don't dig in your nose,
Speaker 6: you can't get it. But I'm thinking of seven years
Speaker 6: ago when it first started coming around.
Speaker 2: So you don't you don't dig in your nose?
Speaker 6: Do you never did?
Speaker 2: Well, if you do, make sure you pick a winner.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I got to meet music professor. You did
Speaker 6: because I saw him at fifty one years ago.
Speaker 2: At a bridal show.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, he.
Speaker 6: Was master seremon. He was Taul, handsome and cool looking,
Speaker 6: but he was way up on the stage. We were
Speaker 6: down on the floor of it a convention Sentner Cincinnati.
Speaker 7: And then the.
Speaker 6: Man I was going to marry. That's why I'm doing that.
Speaker 6: I was the widow. That isn't because my man died
Speaker 6: before we got married. Oh, it took me a year
Speaker 6: to find him. I did. It was in the cemetery
Speaker 6: at Richmond, Kentucky. So that's how Lynette got started.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you can imagine how it might
Speaker 1: have been. But if he's in the cemetery, at least
Speaker 1: you always know where to find him, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, baby, we love you.
Speaker 1: We got a roll any take care all right, you too, bye,
Speaker 1: lay Lynette. And Dick, who was also part of the
Speaker 1: party on Monday, is hanging and standing by.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to him.
Speaker 1: Into the first official hour of this Saturday morning edition
Speaker 1: for Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, closing out
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: I'm Gary Jeff Walker, and you can call me Gary,
Speaker 1: or you can call me Jeff, or you can call
Speaker 1: me Gary, Jeff, you can call me Walker, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to call me Johnson. Remember that the old
Speaker 1: piece of comedy nonsense from way back when. Anyway, it's
Speaker 1: five minutes or so past the hour and we're rocking
Speaker 1: and rolling and going again. And another great, great pleasure
Speaker 1: that I took in filling in for Willie on Monday
Speaker 1: past was getting to see Dave from Harrison in per
Speaker 1: and now here he is on the phone again.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Dave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doing fine if Liam ever turns the volume up
Speaker 1: on the phones. So were you disappointed that there wasn't
Speaker 1: any fried chicken like Lynette?
Speaker 7: I can't say it was. It was a very birthday
Speaker 7: worthy spread if you asked me.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what. Those folks from Dorothy Lane
Speaker 1: market man, they did it up right. The ham and
Speaker 1: the veggies.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I took the rest of the veggies home with me
Speaker 1: because nobody had taken them, and I decided, you know,
Speaker 1: these are too good to pass up. I waited till
Speaker 1: Tuesday when I was here for the night cap, and
Speaker 1: I still a big tray of veggies and that incredible
Speaker 1: dip that they had for that so I've been eating
Speaker 1: on that all week. It was great to see you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the birthday cake. It finally got eaten.
Speaker 1: I wanted you to know, and it was much much appreciated.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave. What do you call
Speaker 1: a snowman with a six pack? I don't know, an
Speaker 1: abdominal an abdominal snowman and dominal snowman? What do you
Speaker 1: what do you call the jolly old elf when he
Speaker 1: takes a break? Santa pause, Santa pause pause. You know
Speaker 1: why are mummies such big fans of Christmas? Because they're
Speaker 1: so well wrapped?
Speaker 8: There are you?
Speaker 7: How does the lifeguard get to work?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: He carpolls, Jeff, what kind of opera stars? Things in
Speaker 7: the shower?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'd be a so brano.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Dave. Did you say soap brano?
Speaker 2: So prano? Yes, sir, that's what I thought you said.
Speaker 2: Go on, please yep.
Speaker 7: So, here's the question. If we breathe. If we breathe
Speaker 7: oxygen during the day, what do we breathe at night?
Speaker 2: I'm afraid to ask.
Speaker 7: Well, I guess would be nitrogen.
Speaker 2: Dave, Yes, Dave, how was your wife.
Speaker 7: She's snoring up a storm even as we speak.
Speaker 1: Did you say she's smelling up a storm, snoring snoring
Speaker 1: up a storm? Well, living with you, I can understand this.
Speaker 9: Jokes told by Dave from Harrison are not necessarily considered
Speaker 9: funny by the staff, management, or advertisers of seven HUNDREDLW
Speaker 9: or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at humor
Speaker 9: have caused you to roll your eyes, made your stomach churn,
Speaker 9: or you have considered the entire exercise to be a
Speaker 9: colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now back to
Speaker 9: our irregular program.
Speaker 1: Told Liam I wanted to play this, I slid it
Speaker 1: into the log and he said, what do you know
Speaker 1: about Paramore? I said, I'm familiar with the group. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like they haven't been around for twenty years,
Speaker 1: which they have. It's not necessarily my first choice, but
Speaker 1: the girl rocks, and this guy always rocks. With a
Speaker 1: reception report on this early Saturday morning, our friend Rick
Speaker 1: Washburn Al radio, Rick, good morning, how are you receiving us?
Speaker 7: Good morning, Gary, Jeff.
Speaker 10: I'm receiving you with a little bit of guilt. I
Speaker 10: must haven't pretty plowed at your birthday. I'm glad that
Speaker 10: Dick from Dayton enjoyed our talk, but I don't remember
Speaker 10: his chatting with him or even being there.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I didn't want to break it to
Speaker 2: him that you.
Speaker 10: Weren't here, and I know he's not listening, so I say.
Speaker 1: No, no, he's calling someone else. He's calling Ron Wilson
Speaker 1: on in the garden right now. You know that The
Speaker 1: odd thing is he he doesn't have anything to even
Speaker 1: ask Ron about being in the garden. He doesn't really care.
Speaker 1: It's just his chance to shine again somewhere else.
Speaker 10: God last fifteen minutes of fame every three hours that
Speaker 10: you need it or not. Oh gosh, hey, you're coming
Speaker 10: in five y five. A shout out to Neil as
Speaker 10: I'm listening to on a Traveler nineteen thirty eight AM
Speaker 10: shorty radio model unknown. But this radio was also sold
Speaker 10: by Spiegel.
Speaker 2: Stories, model model unknown.
Speaker 10: It doesn't have a model number on it. But the
Speaker 10: weird thing is it took me a while to find it,
Speaker 10: but I discovered that the same exact model was sold
Speaker 10: by the Spiegel Catalog. And if you were a kid
Speaker 10: who watched game shows in the seventies, you'll remember the
Speaker 10: Spiegel catalog Chicago Chicago nine.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 10: For those playing at home, look for this Beegel Model
Speaker 10: sixty five to ten sat eb one. It's the same thing.
Speaker 10: It's a five to two radio with both am in
Speaker 10: a short a smell short wave band, but it still works,
Speaker 10: and a gorgeous wood cabinet. And I love this specific
Speaker 10: radio that Neil loans, not just because it's gorgeous and
Speaker 10: the braining issue makes it unique, but because while it
Speaker 10: has been worked on in the past, it still has
Speaker 10: all five original Raytheon tubes and the radio tubes Onlike
Speaker 10: television tubes, radio tubes were pretty resilient, but there were
Speaker 10: still servicemen that if it was the slightest bit week,
Speaker 10: oh you got to buy a new one, because that's
Speaker 10: how they made money. But they're still just functioning perfectly
Speaker 10: eighty seven years later. And also intriguing is that there
Speaker 10: the tubes. Instead of being silk screened or painted with
Speaker 10: the brand name, they're actually engraved. And that was something
Speaker 10: that I think stopped overall like five years before this
Speaker 10: radio was made. So I don't know if it was
Speaker 10: unique to Raytheon that they kept doing it. I don't
Speaker 10: think so, or if they had a whole lot overstock
Speaker 10: and so they designed the radio around that.
Speaker 1: But I knew somebody who had their tubes engraved and
Speaker 1: then they had them tied. But that's something else.
Speaker 10: I'm sure that's something very different. Yeah, well, let's go
Speaker 10: to the catalog, shall we?
Speaker 7: Sure alive?
Speaker 10: In performance? It says, over a cartoon picture of a
Speaker 10: fellow with a Vincent Price mustache holding a microphone that
Speaker 10: seems to be shooting lightning bolts into a young woman's face. Okay,
Speaker 10: got my attention.
Speaker 7: Now we go.
Speaker 10: Something new in home radio, A new design in cabinet
Speaker 10: and dial, smart pleasing sure to appeal. This set will
Speaker 10: sell itself an appearance, performance, and price. It goes on
Speaker 10: five tubes, five and a half inch dynamic speaker AM
Speaker 10: in shortwave reception. I don't think they have really mentioned
Speaker 10: what was new in home radio with this. I wonder
Speaker 10: what it was was It was the price because it
Speaker 10: was eighteen ninety five, which was about four hundred and
Speaker 10: twenty five bucks today, which wasn't bad back then.
Speaker 2: Honestly, no, probably not.
Speaker 1: But if it sells itself, then they just should show
Speaker 1: a picture of the radio. They don't even need They
Speaker 1: don't need all the verbiage to describe why I would
Speaker 1: sell itself. If it sells itself, you don't need to
Speaker 1: talk about it at all. Just put the radio out there,
Speaker 1: turn it on and it'll it'll fly off the shelves.
Speaker 10: I would I would like the classic, like the classic.
Speaker 10: This man needs no introduction. But here's his name, his bios,
Speaker 10: his resume, right exactly.
Speaker 1: I actually am guilty of that from time to time
Speaker 1: we all are. So, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 10: Overall?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 10: My good for Christmas? I got my good old friend
Speaker 10: aphib back. So oh short of breath, but I'm doing okay.
Speaker 10: It'll hopefully it passes. Otherwise they'll throw the paddles on
Speaker 10: me again and I'll be good to go for another
Speaker 10: couple of years.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope there's no.
Speaker 10: With all this equipment down here, could shock myself, I
Speaker 10: would say.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 10: I've got the big knife switch from one of the
Speaker 10: Frankenstein movies on the walls. Just for fun. Maybe I
Speaker 10: can put that up.
Speaker 1: And your hair would look like Madeline CON's in like
Speaker 1: five seconds.
Speaker 10: It wouldn't be an improvement, don't you think?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think you got a good mop on top of
Speaker 1: your head. Old radio Rick at gmail dot com if
Speaker 1: you'd like to get in touch with mister Washburn and
Speaker 1: discuss your antique radio that it'll take him at least
Speaker 1: five years to fix.
Speaker 2: It's six eighteen at seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 7: Seven hundred WLW Sports.
Speaker 1: Liam and I were just talking about the NBA and
Speaker 1: I never really we never really talk about it because well, frankly,
Speaker 1: you probably don't care. I know I generally don't either.
Speaker 1: But Liam, you know, he's a hoopster. He digs the league,
Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association. We're talking about. What's the guy
Speaker 1: from Denver, what's his name?
Speaker 2: Jokis Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Niccolo Jokic the other night had fifty six points
Speaker 1: and triple double and eighteen points in overtime, which tops
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's record of points in overtime. Which I mean,
Speaker 1: you beat Steph Curry when it comes to a scoring record,
Speaker 1: You're doing something right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Brook Lopez thirty seven years old, dropping thirty one
Speaker 3: points with nine threes last night for the Clippers the Center.
Speaker 2: How about that again. I really don't really.
Speaker 1: Watch NBA because it's pretty much just a continuous layup drill,
Speaker 1: especially during the regular season, but there are some special
Speaker 1: talents playing. I used to be my brothers and I
Speaker 1: at Christmas time living in Tennessee. The weather was generally warm,
Speaker 1: as it.
Speaker 2: Was here.
Speaker 1: Most years, not a lot of snow on the ground
Speaker 1: or anything like that, so we missed out on that.
Speaker 1: But we had a basketball court, a pad asphalt pad
Speaker 1: out back of the house, and a big, old tall
Speaker 1: hoop and we'd play one on one at halftime of
Speaker 1: the NBA games that we're always played on Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: and sooner or later we'd forget the game was on.
Speaker 1: We just play all afternoon. That was one of our
Speaker 1: things we like to do. But I don't think that
Speaker 1: I could even shoot a free throw anymore. You still
Speaker 1: play the Evil Empire. NFL is trying to take over
Speaker 1: the NBA on Christmas. It's kind of a budding rivalry
Speaker 1: going on the last two years that the NFL has
Speaker 1: kind of had some stinker games, but the NBA just
Speaker 1: keeps coming with classics. But it's just interesting to see
Speaker 1: how the household view of the NBA has shifted, probably
Speaker 1: in your lifetime, especially Oh yeah, absolutely, Like I said
Speaker 1: back in the eighties. We were still into it eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties. Not anymore, and give me NFL games any day.
Speaker 1: Even a bad NFL game is better than a great
Speaker 1: NBA game to me. Well, we got two NFL games.
Speaker 3: Speaking in the NFL today four pm, Texans Chargers facing
Speaker 3: off two playoff bound teams. In the nightcap, Baltimore and
Speaker 3: Green Bay face off. Jordan Love is out with the
Speaker 3: concussion and Lamar is doubtful with the back injury, so
Speaker 3: we'll get Malik Willis versus Tyler Huntley. You can catch
Speaker 3: both games on Fox Sports thirteen sixty's starting at four
Speaker 3: pm and then eight to fifteen. Tomorrow afternoon, the Bengals
Speaker 3: play Cincinnati hosts the Arizona Cardinals. Premium coverage begins at
Speaker 3: nine point five. Kick is sept for one pm here
Speaker 3: on the Home of the Best Bengals Coverage seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase talking about how he needs to get in
Speaker 3: the end zone in his press conference this week. It's
Speaker 3: been since the middle of October since he's scored six.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, especially since the Bengals really don't have
Speaker 1: anything to play for. It is time for individual accolades,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Jamar last season, I mean, he put up
Speaker 1: all those numbers. He's got to keep it up this year.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Last year was one of Joe Burrow's best years, I mean,
Speaker 1: not his best year of his career, and the Bengals
Speaker 1: still didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They're not going to make the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: Had to suffer through watching my Kansas City Chiefs just
Speaker 1: absolutely stink up the place and lose to Denver the
Speaker 1: other night. I don't know. I'm just I'm hoping for
Speaker 1: a good game. If I can see a good NFL,
Speaker 1: competitive NFL game, I don't care who's playing.
Speaker 2: I just want to see that.
Speaker 1: We won't see that more than likely with Arizona and
Speaker 1: the Bengals tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Arizona, we got the Arizona Snoop Dogg Bowl,
Speaker 3: and we're talking football. Miami Ohio Tuck Martin squad face
Speaker 3: off against Fresno State that is at four point thirty
Speaker 3: in the Texas Bowl. LSU Houston kicks off at nine
Speaker 3: to fifteen. Military Ball at eleven am. Pittsburgh faces East
Speaker 3: Carolina Pinstrike Bowl Clemson and Penn State. That game is
Speaker 3: at one pop Tards Bowl. Twelfth ranked BYU and twenty
Speaker 3: second ranked wards. They really spray sprinkles into the end zone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Pop Tards Bowl has gotten bigger every year. You know,
Speaker 3: the first year he came out of the toaster, he died.
Speaker 3: They ate the pop Tart the live mascot. Okay, very
Speaker 3: kind of sacrilegious. It was really insane, it's according to
Speaker 3: some people. But it's very interesting, the growth of the
Speaker 3: Pop Tarts Bowl.
Speaker 2: I think it's all. Uh, it's something to watch.
Speaker 1: Well, we wait for the main entree on New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve and New Year's Day, and I'm excited about next
Speaker 1: week and the college football playoff six twenty six. Now
Speaker 1: a better class of losers. I think they're all winners.
Speaker 1: And they're right now sitting back in the bar on
Speaker 1: Main Street and Ripley at Brookies. How now Brown County
Speaker 1: waiting to uh, well, do what we do on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 2: The gang, Good morning gang, good morning. Wow. We got
Speaker 2: two today?
Speaker 8: Three?
Speaker 1: Yeah there, how about that? How about that? So the
Speaker 1: cooks still out, the cook still.
Speaker 11: Out of jail, seet out of jail probation.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 11: I am so glad you got pizza and stuff.
Speaker 10: Now it's good.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you've got a Brookies rehab program. So, uh,
Speaker 1: any who had any big plans for the New.
Speaker 7: Year, Well, yeah, you're part of them. That'll be Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, we're not inviting everybody to your house, are we.
Speaker 1: No, I'll tell anybody I was gonna say, I can
Speaker 1: give out the address if you like.
Speaker 11: Well, there's no Queen of Hearts, there's no band scheduled,
Speaker 11: there's no not a whole lot.
Speaker 2: But well good.
Speaker 1: But if you're if you're you know, going out on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and you're in Ripley, why not go
Speaker 1: to Brookies. I mean, it's it's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: bar nights of the year, isn't it here? So you're
Speaker 1: saying to bring it in people travel out of Brown
Speaker 1: County to celebrate, right.
Speaker 10: Because No, it's really not that busy down here.
Speaker 1: Well, and and the wonderful thing is, and the thing
Speaker 1: that's surprising about that is that you can pretty much
Speaker 1: drink and drive you have no police force.
Speaker 2: I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying that anyone should ever anywhere, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, probably harder.
Speaker 2: To get your car, harder.
Speaker 12: To get home pretty much.
Speaker 10: Get the local st walking anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 1: Oh had a fantastic time Monday. That was great to
Speaker 1: see you up here the oil bear in a Brown County.
Speaker 7: That's horful about it. I always wanted to see the studio.
Speaker 1: Well you, Darren, you're You're invited anytime you want to
Speaker 1: make it up. Okay, Well, just you text me and
Speaker 1: let me know and I'll let you in. I know,
Speaker 1: I know people. Uh, have we got a weather fore
Speaker 1: cash Harry real quick?
Speaker 7: Oh we do.
Speaker 12: It's going to be really warm tomorrow, maybe break a record,
Speaker 12: maybe seventy, but it's going to be gluey, I think, rainy,
Speaker 12: but then it goes down. Hell on Monday, I heard that,
Speaker 12: I heard that you could. I want to wish all
Speaker 12: the guys I didn't get to see in gowns and
Speaker 12: Miss Lynette and all that. I wish I could have
Speaker 12: been there for the party, But I won't wish them
Speaker 12: all a happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: God, love you guys, and we'll see you on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, all right. The gang at Brookies in Ripley
Speaker 1: this morning. It's six forty one. It's seven utter wlw
Speaker 1: at six forty four on this Saturday morning. By the way,
Speaker 1: Alan and Norwood, we just called an inquired of the
Speaker 1: people in Ripley at Brookies at the bar are drunk?
Speaker 1: I would say no, unless you're referring to Buzz or
Speaker 1: Matt Miller, then quite possibly, and neither one were there
Speaker 1: this morning, so not to worry allan, it is rather early.
Speaker 1: My grandparents had a little clock in their basement on
Speaker 1: the little bar top they had, and it said no
Speaker 1: drinks till after five, and there were nothing but fives
Speaker 1: all the way around the clock. Anyway, that's you didn't
Speaker 1: need predictions. They're huge this time of year. As we
Speaker 1: embark on a brand new calendar, predictions for twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: could they nearer predictions that have been made famously before.
Speaker 1: To discuss our friend Steve from met In, Ohio with
Speaker 1: predictions for the future of the United States of America.
Speaker 2: What there is?
Speaker 13: Good morning, Good morning, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 13: You know, here's a quote.
Speaker 7: I would call.
Speaker 13: This a very interesting prediction. A democracy cannot exist as
Speaker 13: a permanent form of government. Okay, it can only exist
Speaker 13: until the majority discovers that can vote its largess out.
Speaker 2: Of the public treasury.
Speaker 13: After that the majority always votes for the candidate promising
Speaker 13: the most benefits, with the result the democracy collapses because
Speaker 13: of the loose fiscal policy, ensuing always to be followed
Speaker 13: by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. And I thought about
Speaker 13: this this week. We talked about this a couple of
Speaker 13: years ago. He ends with then a monarchy, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 13: that's really interesting. Now we're talking about kings, aren't we
Speaker 13: in our protests. The earliest known attribution of that quote
Speaker 13: was October the twentieth, nineteen forty eight, and what appears
Speaker 13: to be an op ed piece in the Daily Oklahoman
Speaker 13: under the byline Elmer T.
Speaker 10: Peterson.
Speaker 13: It was called this is the hardcore of freedom. Let's
Speaker 13: talk about Elmer for a second. Elmer Theodore Peterson was
Speaker 13: born in eighteen eighty four in Algona, Iowa. Oh Good
Speaker 13: people seemed to come from Iowa. He died in nineteen
Speaker 13: sixty nine in Mendocino, California. Prominent author, newspaperman in Kansas
Speaker 13: and Oklahoma, editor of Better Homes and Gardens for ten
Speaker 13: years from twenty seven to thirty seven. Associate editor of
Speaker 13: The Daily Oklahoma in Oklahoma City circa twenty years until
Speaker 13: nineteen sixty two. In his retirement, he graduated from Bethany
Speaker 13: College in West Virginia. Now some say he may have
Speaker 13: lifted this idea from this quote in nineteen forty three.
Speaker 13: The historical cycle seems to be from bondage to spiritual faith,
Speaker 13: from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from
Speaker 13: liberty to abundance, and abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to apathy,
Speaker 13: from apathy to dependency, and from discent to dependency back
Speaker 13: to bondage once more. So I got to thinking about that,
Speaker 13: and you said something right at the top of the show,
Speaker 13: and you always come on board with some fascinating stuff.
Speaker 13: The ten years that the Soviets spent in Afghanistan, and
Speaker 13: of course they walked out with their tail between their legs,
Speaker 13: so we decided why not twenty and of course we
Speaker 13: came home without a victory. I was thinking about that
Speaker 13: compared to Vietnam and talking about, you know, predictions. Bernard
Speaker 13: Fall was a French journalist who was in Vietnam for
Speaker 13: a long time. He served with the French forces as
Speaker 13: a newspaperman. The French were driven out of Vietnam in
Speaker 13: nineteen fifty four at the Envan Foo. The Americans within
Speaker 13: two years decided let's try this. I don't think the
Speaker 13: French did it right. If you read Bernard falls book
Speaker 13: Street Without Joy, you'll really really understand how questionable it
Speaker 13: probably was that we just marched right in afterwards. So
Speaker 13: predictions are kind of interesting. Listen to some of them,
Speaker 13: we don't listen to others. Some of them are de
Speaker 13: course ridiculous. Others have a tinge of truth that turns
Speaker 13: into a mighty truth later.
Speaker 10: Well, I hope.
Speaker 13: That twenty twenty six, and I've heard a lot of
Speaker 13: predictions so far, turns out well for all of us. Gary, Jeffyu,
Speaker 13: your family love this show on Monday, and the United
Speaker 13: States of America my country. Take care of yourself and
Speaker 13: enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 2: God blessed.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Steve, thank you very much. Odds that
Speaker 1: Steve mentions Vietnam. I had an author on my Nightcap
Speaker 1: show this past Tuesday named James Bradley is a New
Speaker 1: York Times bestselling author, and his new book is called
Speaker 1: Precious Freedom about Vietnam. He lived in Vietnam for ten
Speaker 1: years to interview Vietnamese and to the Vietnamese it wasn't
Speaker 1: North versus South.
Speaker 2: It was a.
Speaker 1: Vietnamese against Us. And that's why he says it mostly
Speaker 1: was a failed exercise. And I would say Afghanistan clearly
Speaker 1: goes in that category as well, no matter the reason.
Speaker 1: We were as a seventeen year old in Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight and a candy apple red Grand
Speaker 1: Prix with tea tops that belonged to my father. I
Speaker 1: got to go pick up my girlfriend in Goodletsville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and that was playing on the radios. I pulled into
Speaker 1: her driveway and there she is sitting on the front
Speaker 1: porch waiting for me in these pink terry cloth baby
Speaker 1: soft tank top and shorts. And it's about one hundred
Speaker 1: and three outside in the summer in Middle Tennessee. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure our friend here, Ray Scott, remember those days
Speaker 1: in Middle Tennessee. Uh, if not in the late seventies,
Speaker 1: in the early eighties. How you doing, brother, Ray? How
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 7: Good morning?
Speaker 14: Good morning Gary, Jeff my friend or as that nice
Speaker 14: lady referred to you last Saturday morning, the sugar lips, Yeah, Pat, Pat,
Speaker 14: Bless her heart. My grandmother used to always say to us,
Speaker 14: we were a kids, she'd say, come over here, honey,
Speaker 14: child and give me some sugar. Yeah, have to remind
Speaker 14: me of that. So, yes, sir, the uh the old
Speaker 14: vinyl seat days, you know, going to Florida to relatives
Speaker 14: homes in the vehicle with no air in vinyl seats
Speaker 14: and you'd fall asleep and you'd have this big crease
Speaker 14: in your face from the vinyl seats.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So what's on your mind
Speaker 2: this morning? Brother?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 14: Listen, I uh, you know, I'm going to first off,
Speaker 14: put a disclaimer out out here because this is uh
Speaker 14: information that I uh, I think it's worth regifting and
Speaker 14: uh and I heard it at a Christmas service. Uh
Speaker 14: that was in Washington, d C. It was televised at
Speaker 14: a Catholic Mass, and I thought he was worthy of
Speaker 14: a repeat. And that is this, you know, the topic
Speaker 14: of regifting, of which I think we've all done it
Speaker 14: on occasion, and we've done it with love and and
Speaker 14: that the one gift and that the really the greatest
Speaker 14: could be the greatest gift given to us, that the
Speaker 14: giver that gives it to us almost definitely calls us
Speaker 14: to regift, and that give is love and God came
Speaker 14: in the flesh, and he is love. So I think
Speaker 14: it's early to make uh result's dog on it, but
Speaker 14: it's really not. It's the twenty seventh. So I'll be
Speaker 14: the first one in line to do my very best
Speaker 14: in twenty twenty six to be a regifter. And I
Speaker 14: invite all of our friends and listeners, let's do our
Speaker 14: best to be regifters. I can new year to you, brother,
Speaker 14: God bless you.
Speaker 2: I'd bless you.
Speaker 1: No greater gift than the gift that God gave us
Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ, both his birth, his death, and his resurrection.
Speaker 1: And that is ultimately what love truly is all about.
Speaker 1: And as Ray said, if we can attempt, in our
Speaker 1: feeble human way to regive that gift to the people
Speaker 1: around us, then maybe we're accomplishing something. Into another hour
Speaker 1: of this Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, December twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, how you doing, Gary, Jeff by your
Speaker 1: side on your radio on a Saturday morning, just like
Speaker 1: the Good Lord intended?
Speaker 2: Apparently, because I mean, if not, why is it happening
Speaker 2: at all? That's the question really.
Speaker 1: About six minutes past the hour seven oh six Eastern
Speaker 1: that is on this last Saturday of the year, and
Speaker 1: look forward to these conversations every Saturday morning. I find
Speaker 1: them informative. I hope you do too when it comes
Speaker 1: to the environment. After all, he is an environmental engineer,
Speaker 1: even in retirement. You know, you can take the man
Speaker 1: out of environmental engineering, but you can't take the environmental
Speaker 1: engineering out of the man. Steve Shulte, who just had
Speaker 1: a birthday on Wednesday, Happy birthday, my friend, belated.
Speaker 11: Happy birthday, Gary Jeff. A happy and blessed new year
Speaker 11: for you and all your kins.
Speaker 1: And you as well, sir, this morning, as you said
Speaker 1: when you text me, one of our favorite topics the
Speaker 1: early shutdown of another boone doggles solar project. And by
Speaker 1: the way, thanks to President Trump, these ridiculous wind farms
Speaker 1: are at least at a pause right now in the
Speaker 1: ocean right the burden whale killers. But tell me about
Speaker 1: this boondoggle solar project as three Mile Island just fired
Speaker 1: up again in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: What do you got for Steve?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 11: Just comes from a Newslayer I get the Access to
Speaker 11: Energy for September of twenty twenty five, Although the article
Speaker 11: actually comes from the Institute for Energy Research in October
Speaker 11: of this year. Next year, the identhaul solar power facility
Speaker 11: will be shutting down for good. This is the article
Speaker 11: is called California shuts down at solar thermal plant thirteen
Speaker 11: years early. This boondoggle was built between twenty ten and
Speaker 11: twenty fourteen at a cost of two point two billion,
Speaker 11: that's billion with a B of this one point six
Speaker 11: billion was paid with taxpayer of taxpayer government grant approved
Speaker 11: by the Obama regime, advertised as the latest technology that
Speaker 11: would help us from quote unquote global warming and built
Speaker 11: near the California Nevada border. The facility uses one hundred
Speaker 11: seventy three thousand, five hundred computer controlled mirrors to focus
Speaker 11: sunlight onto three four hundred and sixty foot towers. This
Speaker 11: covered five square miles of desert, so think the five
Speaker 11: square miles just roughly two and a quarter mile by
Speaker 11: two and a quarter miles square. It also required the
Speaker 11: relocation of the endangered desert tortoise. Amazing to concentray the energy,
Speaker 11: heats up water to produce steam and that to generate electricity.
Speaker 11: And this is the steam technology. There is just very
Speaker 11: you know, very well grunted science, so fantastic to make electricity,
Speaker 11: but when you're using solar power to do it, it
Speaker 11: just didn't work. In fact, the plant resorted to heating
Speaker 11: to supplement heating of the water with natural gas in
Speaker 11: order to generate enough decent amount of energy. It was
Speaker 11: also well known for frying birds. When you concentrate sunlight
Speaker 11: and beam it toward a power result in a nice beam,
Speaker 11: and it cooked anything in its path. It's rather like
Speaker 11: leaving Star Wars laser weapon on all the time. Awarding
Speaker 11: the Association of Avian Veterinarians, at least six thousand birds
Speaker 11: per year were pried. Of course, the company made plenty
Speaker 11: of money slices of the one point six billion dollars
Speaker 11: and tax Their subsidies were distributed to everybody involve. And
Speaker 11: now it's a decade later, and it's time to shut down,
Speaker 11: to move on to other ways to grab our tax money.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, now, now that they've stolen the money, it's
Speaker 1: time to shut it down.
Speaker 7: Gosh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: It goes on to say, essentially rational clinic critics at
Speaker 11: the time the plant was built were actually wrong. They
Speaker 11: were right the design was impractical, but they missed the point.
Speaker 11: The purpose of the project was to distribute tax money
Speaker 11: and score political points for the Obama regime, not generate electricity,
Speaker 11: and pretty much that can be said for pretty much
Speaker 11: every quote unquote green energy project we have today. It's
Speaker 11: not about generating electricity, it's about distributing our tax money
Speaker 11: to everybody. Yeah, so historically the state has not fared
Speaker 11: well picking winners and losers. The same to be said
Speaker 11: said about green energy projects relying on taxpayer subsidies.
Speaker 1: So hold on, let me, let me get this straight.
Speaker 1: Steve Yep, they had to relocate the desert tortoise for this,
Speaker 1: this solar boondoggle.
Speaker 11: But you got to realize, you put these mirrors up
Speaker 11: of five square miles, you basically make it all shape.
Speaker 11: But but but.
Speaker 1: They also wouldn't they wouldn't let the water flow into
Speaker 1: the reservoirs because they were worried about some fish in
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 2: And so so.
Speaker 1: They weren't worried about the desert tortoise. Well, we can
Speaker 1: just move that, but but they were worried about the
Speaker 1: little fish. And that's why all those people's houses burned
Speaker 1: in the Palisade fires. Yeah, there are no water in
Speaker 1: the hydrants, but.
Speaker 11: Come on, California, remember you gotta remember that there this
Speaker 11: project was fighting man made catastrophic climate change. Of course
Speaker 11: we can, we can move the tortoises Gee.
Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like the BLM riots where they weren't
Speaker 1: they weren't required to wear masks during COVID because that
Speaker 1: was a great cause. It's I mean, the hypocrisy never ends.
Speaker 1: My friend, Happy New Year. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: I hope you had a great birthday and Christmas. It's
Speaker 1: twelve minutes past the hour now, seven hundred WLW late tonight,
Speaker 1: still warm. Tomorrow times. Square ball that drops for New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve to celebrate to bring in twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: will be red, white and blue to celebrate America's two
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth birthday, of course, coming up in July
Speaker 1: of this year. We're just about there, two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: How many more do we have left? That's the real question.
Speaker 1: Don't have the answer, But I do have some Tom
Speaker 1: Davis diaries to share with you, wild wacky stories.
Speaker 2: I call these the.
Speaker 1: And our corresponding all your long Tom Davis, who calls
Speaker 1: these together and reports them to you as standing with
Speaker 1: the last.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Gary, Jeff, this week no more on camera
Speaker 15: nose picking. But first to Thailand we go, where an
Speaker 15: American man is accused of cheating on a curry eating contest.
Speaker 15: He was allegedly caught on camera stuffing rice in his
Speaker 15: pants pockets with five minutes to go that night, he
Speaker 15: was declared the winner after eating seventeen and a half
Speaker 15: pounds of curry for a grand prize of seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 15: Bangkok's Gold Curry eatery, where the treachery allegedly took place,
Speaker 15: is apparently calling the man out on social media, demanding
Speaker 15: their money back. Closer to home, in Trumbull County, Ohio,
Speaker 15: cops are pulling over Amish drunk drivers. Two Amish men
Speaker 15: were spotted with a twelve pack while on a horse
Speaker 15: power buggy. They jumped off ran into the woods, leaving
Speaker 15: the horse and the buggy behind. They were apparently pretty
Speaker 15: fast guys too, because they got away. No one in
Speaker 15: the Amish community is talking either. Police are still looking
Speaker 15: for them. In Georgia, a fight broke out at a
Speaker 15: Dollar General between a married couple and the cashier. The
Speaker 15: couple was inquiring about the price of aluminum foil. They
Speaker 15: then got angry started yelling at the clerk and then
Speaker 15: decided to trash the store. They ran for it, they
Speaker 15: too got away and finally, the NFL is picking sides
Speaker 15: on the nose picking controversy. The NFL has warned Detroit
Speaker 15: Lions players to stop their nose picking celebrations after touchdowns.
Speaker 15: Their wide receiver was told to cease the mimicking gesture.
Speaker 15: Reps have crackdown on Lions player celebrations before. In fact,
Speaker 15: they've been issued fines for previous gestures. Next year, the
Speaker 15: Maryland doctor who says he can regrow your ears, have
Speaker 15: a good weekend and a happy new Year.
Speaker 1: So you get another hour of this Saturday Morning edition
Speaker 1: for Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Gary Jeff
Speaker 1: Walker with you the uh the aftermath, the after glow
Speaker 1: of Christmas, on the way to New Year's Day, and
Speaker 1: a wonderful chance to be with you again.
Speaker 2: In between, time for a science minute our friends Science
Speaker 2: Mike standing up.
Speaker 9: Yes as a nightly scientist, he was surprising it no
Speaker 9: blinding me with inde.
Speaker 2: Uh. So Michael, tell me a little bit about your Christmas.
Speaker 2: What'd you do?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 8: Family came over around six o'clock that night and we had.
Speaker 8: Uh we had Italian tying through Uh we have we
Speaker 8: have had chige revol and meet balls and I car
Speaker 8: remember there's a there was an older family that made
Speaker 8: raviolis in Newport and they finally went back started making
Speaker 8: them again and uh we went over to a market
Speaker 8: where they distributed them to a local distributor. Now and
Speaker 8: we had My wife remembered him when they she was
Speaker 8: growing up and uh, so that's what we had for dinner.
Speaker 8: One grandson, so he opened up. He was the focus
Speaker 8: of the of the night so.
Speaker 1: Well on Christmas night because we went to Tennessee to
Speaker 1: see mom and dad on Christmas Eve morning. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: spent the afternoon and the night with him and woke
Speaker 1: up the next morning, went over to my brother's house,
Speaker 1: also in the middle Tennessee area, and we left before dinner.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get back before dark. But we
Speaker 1: did stop at BUCkies on the way and so Christmas night,
Speaker 1: Christ and I had had BUCkies brisket sandwiches, which were
Speaker 1: absolutely delicious.
Speaker 8: Did you did you fill out that pop number two
Speaker 8: and forty three.
Speaker 1: Didn't need gas, No, but we got some brisket sandwiches.
Speaker 1: One of these huge cobb salads that they make which
Speaker 1: are delicious, a thing of bouta, which is a Louisiana
Speaker 1: kind of sausage rice treat that I love, and uh
Speaker 1: got a couple of gifts from for people who watched
Speaker 1: Frankie while we were gone. But it was it was
Speaker 1: a very nice Christmas on the way. Great to be
Speaker 1: with family, you know, and that that's what it's really
Speaker 1: all about to me, seeing the family members. And I
Speaker 1: feel bad for people who are, you know, either because
Speaker 1: of whatever reason, maybe everybody's just gone, they don't have
Speaker 1: family around, because to me, that's what makes Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, what do you got this morning?
Speaker 8: I listened to your your birthday show and yeah, congratulations
Speaker 8: of all that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I.
Speaker 8: Couldn't make it. Uh, but that's the doctor Somarco with
Speaker 8: the with the rod Nathan. I know we don't have
Speaker 8: much time, Gary, Jeff, that's right.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very I.
Speaker 8: Just want On wl w T, it does read that
Speaker 8: they actually looked at missus Nathan's autopsy report and the
Speaker 8: liver sample on and says she did not have hepatized
Speaker 8: pace from the from liver sample. But you go to
Speaker 8: the w CPO site, and Jones's attorney says multiple BORE
Speaker 8: certified physicians reviewed the comments lack of information Nthan's liver
Speaker 8: support she did not have hepatize B, and they said
Speaker 8: that shows a shocky misunderstanding of how hepty and how
Speaker 8: it manifests h And I look at the the I said,
Speaker 8: would hepatize be show up in the liver culture quickly?
Speaker 8: And the information is no, it does not show up
Speaker 8: show offensively in liver cultures, but it does show up
Speaker 8: and what they call the macrophages of the liver immediately
Speaker 8: in the liver, so you can actually biopsy the liver
Speaker 8: and look at the microphages for hept B right away.
Speaker 8: And it takes almost nine weeks worth to enter the
Speaker 8: blood to be to be visible in the in a
Speaker 8: blood sample. And then I figured, well, you know, there's
Speaker 8: so much confusion.
Speaker 2: Going on in this.
Speaker 8: I don't think anybody knows exactly what what the heck
Speaker 8: of reading.
Speaker 2: Well, there was only a one in three chance. Uh, yeah, Jones.
Speaker 1: Would would have had hepatitis be even if Rodonathan had
Speaker 1: hepatitis be.
Speaker 8: Right, But they're all focusing on the fact that she
Speaker 8: did have it right, Yeah, and he and he didn't. So,
Speaker 8: but I said, can help have be can be confirmed
Speaker 8: in an exune body? Absolutely they can. If I was,
Speaker 8: if I was the family of that that that lady,
Speaker 8: especially you know, the sun still around, you can I
Speaker 8: know this is gett a little little, but you can
Speaker 8: exumee the body and actually find that the HEP surface
Speaker 8: antigen still in the liver and and the virus DNA
Speaker 8: still in the body. And they actually do this in
Speaker 8: mummies there were thousands of years old. But I just
Speaker 8: I just don't. I just well, I just find it.
Speaker 8: I just find it hard to believe that actually had
Speaker 8: somebody look at a liver sample, and you know, so
Speaker 8: much conflicting.
Speaker 1: The whole discussion Michael, about hepatitis BE and whether she
Speaker 1: did or didn't have it, and whether Elwood Jones would
Speaker 1: have had it if he had murdered her, and all
Speaker 1: of this is is that is moot because there was
Speaker 1: plenty of evidence to suggest that yes, he should have
Speaker 1: very convicted, agreed, and and and you noticed that Elwood
Speaker 1: didn't waste any time being in trouble with the law
Speaker 1: once he was free.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I saw that. But I just think that they're
Speaker 8: going to focus on this I just think I just
Speaker 8: think that they just somebody needs needs to, you know,
Speaker 8: do the correct science, and something something screwed up in
Speaker 8: the paperwork, and I just think I needed to look
Speaker 8: at it closer. But that's my opinion on this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, uh there you go. My my feeling, my
Speaker 1: feeling is. My feeling is mister Jones will find his
Speaker 1: way back to prison sooner or later anyway. Eight twelve
Speaker 1: and I hope not. Eight twelve, seven hundred WLW, Good
Speaker 1: morning kids, time will give strawally true love never dies.
Speaker 1: Grandpa and Grandma sitting on their front porch rockers, watching
Speaker 1: a beautiful sunset and reminiscing about the good old days.
Speaker 1: When Grandma turns to Grandpa and says, honey, do you
Speaker 1: remember when we first started dating and you used to
Speaker 1: just casually reach over and take my hand. Grandpa looks
Speaker 1: at her, smiles and took her age at hand in
Speaker 1: his with a wry little smile. Grandma pressed a little
Speaker 1: bit farther, honey, do you remember how after we were
Speaker 1: engaged sometimes you'd lean over and suddenly just kiss me
Speaker 1: on the cheek. Grandpa leaned slowly towards Grandma and gave
Speaker 1: her a lingering kiss on her wrinkled cheek, growing bolder.
Speaker 1: Grandma's is, Honey, do you remember how after we were
Speaker 1: first married and you'd kind of nibble on my ear?
Speaker 1: Grandpa nodded and slowly got up from his rocker and
Speaker 1: headed into the house. Grandma said, Honey, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Grandpa said, to get my teeth Eastern that is. And
Speaker 1: a Saturday morning again together here on seven utter WLW
Speaker 1: Garry Jeff Walker, the last Saturday of the year, heading
Speaker 1: into a new year in a busy, busy college football
Speaker 1: bowl weekend, and looking ahead to New Year's Eve and
Speaker 1: New Year's Day to talk about all that and more.
Speaker 2: Our friend Moegger joins us again. Hey, mo, how are
Speaker 2: you doing. We're doing okay.
Speaker 1: These EHL hockey players not so much apparently. The thing
Speaker 1: I know some people who work for the Cyclones and
Speaker 1: work is kind of like that's an operative term because
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't get paid very much, but they
Speaker 1: love hockey, so that's why they work Cyclones games when
Speaker 1: the Clones are home. They were planning on working today
Speaker 1: until the strike came about with the Hockey Players Union
Speaker 1: against the EHL over working conditions and salary, all of
Speaker 1: the usual things. But they made a good point. The
Speaker 1: game may get played tonight at Heritage Bank Arena because
Speaker 1: they may have replacements. And the thing they told me
Speaker 1: yesterday is that what these players may or may not understand,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of players in the wings who waiting
Speaker 1: to go ahead and lace up the skates and play.
Speaker 1: It's not exactly one of those situations where it's going
Speaker 1: to be hard for scabs to walk across the picket
Speaker 1: lines of minor league hockey players.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I just.
Speaker 1: One of the gripes, apparently, is that in the NHL
Speaker 1: they never have to play more than two nights in
Speaker 1: a row, and these guys, you know, they're barnstorming for
Speaker 1: very little money with very little prospect of really making
Speaker 1: it to the bigs, and they sometimes they're having to
Speaker 1: go three games in a row on the road, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty grueling. I guess you have to really love hockey,
Speaker 1: I guess if you want to play in the minors.
Speaker 2: In any thoughts on any of.
Speaker 4: That, well, you mentioned the prospect of replacement players, and
Speaker 4: what I think is interesting about that is, you know,
Speaker 4: if we were talking about the upper reaches of the sport,
Speaker 4: right the NHL, which the NHL has gone through lockouts
Speaker 4: missed an entire season about twenty years ago. Fans aren't
Speaker 4: going to accept replacement players at the highest level of sport.
Speaker 4: I think that would have been the case with Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball when they briefly attempted it in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4: It was clearly the case with the National Football League
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty seven, and I think would be the
Speaker 4: case in the NHL. But the ECCHL is not the
Speaker 4: upper reaches of the sport. It's it's actually the one
Speaker 4: of the lowest levels of professional hockey there is. That's
Speaker 4: not to say that those players aren't supremely talented. That's
Speaker 4: not to say that some of those guys you know
Speaker 4: aren't going to have a chance to one day make
Speaker 4: the NHL. But I would wonder this, your average Cincinnati
Speaker 4: Cyclones ticket buyer, how much do they really care about
Speaker 4: the quality of the play and would they accept a
Speaker 4: level of play that was maybe a wrung or two
Speaker 4: below what they're ordinarily getting at the ECCHL. Look, the
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Cyclones are a really cool local sports entity.
Speaker 2: They do a great job.
Speaker 4: With promotions, and on the ice they have been more
Speaker 4: than competitive for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that.
Speaker 4: Many people who go to Cincinnati Cyclones games who know
Speaker 4: who any of the players are. And that's no not
Speaker 4: going to any of the players. I think it's just
Speaker 4: a reality of the market. You know, Cyclones games are
Speaker 4: not on television, they're not on local radio. The coverage
Speaker 4: they get, frankly pales in comparison to some of the
Speaker 4: larger entities in town. That doesn't mean they don't have
Speaker 4: very good players, it doesn't mean the on ice product
Speaker 4: can't be compelling. But I would wonder how many fans
Speaker 4: would go, you know what, on a Saturday night, I
Speaker 4: go to have a beer, I go for whatever the
Speaker 4: promotion is, and I go to see some hockey, and
Speaker 4: if the hockey isn't nearly as good, that's okay. I
Speaker 4: would wonder that in terms of what the EHL players
Speaker 4: are looking for, Like I certainly understand, you know, you
Speaker 4: only get so many opportunities to bargain in professional sports.
Speaker 4: You only get so many opportunities to use your leverage.
Speaker 4: Players are doing that. I would wonder how much is
Speaker 4: this going to hurt the wallets of EHL owners, but
Speaker 4: some of the things they're looking for. You know, the
Speaker 4: Cyclones will have weekends where they will play a game
Speaker 4: on Friday night, They'll play a game on Saturday night,
Speaker 4: They'll play a game on Sunday afternoon. That's three games
Speaker 4: in less than forty eight hours, often in multiple cities.
Speaker 4: I can understand that not necessarily being something that players
Speaker 4: want to continue. I think they're fighting for better equipment.
Speaker 4: I can certainly understand that. I think they're fighting for
Speaker 4: more days off, better travel conditions, obviously better pay. I'd
Speaker 4: beligned you if I told you I've dove I've gone
Speaker 4: deep into what the average ECHL player makes.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 4: But I think you make a really interesting point because
Speaker 4: I don't know, like I'll go to like two Cyclones
Speaker 4: games a year, and they're a blast, and they do
Speaker 4: a great job, and I like hockey. I think if
Speaker 4: I had tickets for a game and I was going
Speaker 4: to be told you get replacement EHL players, I think
Speaker 4: I'd probably shrug my shoulders and go, let's go. Whereas
Speaker 4: I don't think I would do that if I had
Speaker 4: tickets to an NHL game, or an NBA game, or
Speaker 4: an NFL game, or a Major League Baseball game, and
Speaker 4: they were going to put out replacement players because of
Speaker 4: a labor stoppage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean helmets that actually protect them and fit.
Speaker 1: I can understand how that might be an issue. But
Speaker 1: part of EHL contracts right now, and they were telling
Speaker 1: you this these guys at work clones games, is that
Speaker 1: they do get a free apartment and they get health benefits.
Speaker 1: They've all been evicted from their apartments as of the
Speaker 1: moment that the strike occurred. So that's what I've been told. So,
Speaker 1: you know, to be homeless and to be out of
Speaker 1: a hockey gig, I don't know if that's the best
Speaker 1: move possible.
Speaker 2: But like I said, and what I would wonder is
Speaker 2: what I would.
Speaker 4: Wonder is, like, you know, in Major League Baseball, there's
Speaker 4: a strike fund right where if the if the Players
Speaker 4: Association says, look, we think there's going to be a
Speaker 4: work stoppage, they will have their players stash money aside
Speaker 4: for a stoppage fund. Now it's major League Baseball, very
Speaker 4: few players are worried about their housing. But I think
Speaker 4: that raises another good question because this this just landed
Speaker 4: on my radar last week. I happened to see a
Speaker 4: social media post by the EHL Players Association.
Speaker 7: I had no.
Speaker 4: Idea that we were talking about a potential strike, but
Speaker 4: I am curious, and I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Look into this.
Speaker 4: I am curious as to, you know, what, what what
Speaker 4: what plans were made to account for the players not
Speaker 4: being able to live in the organization or team subsidized
Speaker 4: housing that they receive. I think it's a good question.
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily know that the answer is going to
Speaker 4: be all that hard to find, but I am curious.
Speaker 1: I'm actually a little disappointed that the Snoop Dog Bowl
Speaker 1: is being played in Arizona and not in Mile High Stadium.
Speaker 4: Well done done, I remind your red Ox and the
Speaker 4: frant Noo State Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: In the Snoop Dog Bowl.
Speaker 1: Exactly are you surprised? I mean anymore, it's become commonplace
Speaker 1: that we have all these bowl games. But I mean,
Speaker 1: there are bowl games just to have bowl games, it seems,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're all waiting. At least I am
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit for the main entree on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve and New Year's Day with the football playoff?
Speaker 1: How much do you think people care about these various
Speaker 1: and sundry other Bowl games unless they're fans of that
Speaker 1: the schools that are in them.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's hard to I think it's hard
Speaker 4: to ask fans to care about them when oftentimes the
Speaker 4: players and coaches don't share enough to either play or
Speaker 4: coaching them.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, when you
Speaker 4: have some of these games where the players or the
Speaker 4: coaches involved will say I'm opting out, well, then you
Speaker 4: know fans inevitably are going to follow the line.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the one thing keeping these ball games afloat
Speaker 4: is gambling, right, because there are still a lot of
Speaker 4: folks who loved the wage were on college football and
Speaker 4: love to find an edge. And it doesn't necessarily matter
Speaker 4: who's playing, and I'm talking about in terms of the
Speaker 4: best players who's playing in the games. They'll see a
Speaker 4: point spread they like and they'll make a wager. The
Speaker 4: reality is those ball games. ESPN loves the inventory. They
Speaker 4: eat a lot of innings this time of year, especially
Speaker 4: playing in times where maybe the NBA isn't playing and
Speaker 4: there's no college basketball, and the games actually do pretty well.
Speaker 4: It's funny. Christmas Eve night we had the Hawaii Ball on.
Speaker 4: It was California and Hawaii. It was actually a fight
Speaker 4: in the game. It's a pretty good football game, and
Speaker 4: you just kind of have it on because it's football.
Speaker 4: I think if yes with with a ball that was
Speaker 4: being played early in the day, Central Michigan was one
Speaker 4: of the teams, and it goes to show you how
Speaker 4: little the game actually registered because I couldn't remember who
Speaker 4: the other team was, but.
Speaker 2: It was football and it was on.
Speaker 4: And so I think those bowls, you know, sort of
Speaker 4: hang in the background just enough because there's people who
Speaker 4: do that. But yeah, look, I mean there was a
Speaker 4: time where New Year's even New Year's Day, you would
Speaker 4: line up all these ball games and they felt like
Speaker 4: they had some gravitas.
Speaker 2: That is not the case anymore, right.
Speaker 1: I am looking for other than the playoff games. I
Speaker 1: am looking forward to the noon game on New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve because it's my Vanderbilt Commodores against my dad's Iowa Hawkeyes.
Speaker 1: And if we could only be back in Tennessee for that.
Speaker 1: I love that NFL down to the last two weeks
Speaker 1: and very little drama left about who is going to
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs, at least in the NFC. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that they're what the question between what the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's the only
Speaker 1: possible slot that will change depending on the games. But
Speaker 1: in the AFC, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I really
Speaker 1: didn't expect the Steelers to be there at the end.
Speaker 1: I expected it would be Baltimore's year, or maybe the
Speaker 1: Bengals early before the season started. Are you surprised that
Speaker 1: the Steelers are once again knocking on the door of
Speaker 1: being in the playoffs, and not only being in the
Speaker 1: playoffs but winning the AFC?
Speaker 4: Nor surprise, not shocked. I thought when Baltimore dug themselves
Speaker 4: out of that one in five hole to even themselves
Speaker 4: up at five and five, it kind of felt like
Speaker 4: they were set to take off and run and it didn't.
Speaker 4: Never really happen. Pittsburgh won the head to head matchup.
Speaker 4: Lord Jackson has not been himself. I don't know that
Speaker 4: he's gonna play tonight because he's got a back. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the Bengals issues have been well documented. But you know,
Speaker 4: there was a time at mid November where Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: was playing like a guy his age, where you say
Speaker 4: that that Pittsburgh defense was a little bit of an
Speaker 4: underachiever collectively, and I do give them credit. They did
Speaker 4: beat the Ravens in their building. They came back and
Speaker 4: beat the Bengals after losing to them in Cincinnati in October.
Speaker 4: They went to Detroit last week and beat a desperate
Speaker 4: Lions team. I think they got some help from the officials,
Speaker 4: but still beat a death Lions team. And Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: has played capably. They've recommitted themselves.
Speaker 2: To running the football.
Speaker 4: They've gotten by defensively despite not having TJ.
Speaker 8: Watt.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 4: That I take Pittsburgh that seriously as a bona fide
Speaker 4: Super Bowl contender, but somebody had to win the AFC North.
Speaker 4: The Bengals couldn't rise to the challenge. The Ravens haven't
Speaker 4: been able to rise to the challenge. Pittsburgh just needs
Speaker 4: one win in their last two games or a Baltimore
Speaker 4: loss in one of their last two games, and they'll
Speaker 4: be division champs. And champions deserve credit. I'll begrudgingly get it.
Speaker 4: Give it to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: I'm really disappointed that the Lions got drummed out, but
Speaker 1: they're so decimated by injuries, especially in that defense that
Speaker 1: they really couldn't compete as the season wound down.
Speaker 4: You agree, I agree, and you know it highlights I
Speaker 4: think two things. Number One, coaching matters in this league,
Speaker 4: and I've always believed if you go back more than
Speaker 4: a decade, Marvin Lewis when he was the coach of
Speaker 4: the Bengals, I think his finest single season coaching job
Speaker 4: took place in twenty fourteen because that season they had
Speaker 4: a ton of injuries, but he had two new coordinators
Speaker 4: offensively and defensively. They won ten games, tied one, went
Speaker 4: into their last game of the season with a chance
Speaker 4: to win the division, made the playoffs, didn't win a
Speaker 4: playoff game, obviously, but I think that season, if you
Speaker 4: watch closely, it illustrated how hard it is to replace
Speaker 4: both coordinators. The Detroit Lions had to do that this year,
Speaker 4: and I think they felt that impact. The other thing is,
Speaker 4: you know, this was a team to two years ago
Speaker 4: had a two touchdown lead in the NFC Championship game
Speaker 4: and lost. Had the best record in the sport last year,
Speaker 4: had home field throughout, lost at home, win closed very quickly.
Speaker 4: In the NFL, I think we've seen that to a
Speaker 4: degree here in Cincinnati, and Dan Campbell, the coach at Alliance,
Speaker 4: after that NFC Championship game in San Francisco two years
Speaker 4: ago when they had a big lead and lost, said
Speaker 4: this might have been our best chance. You know, you
Speaker 4: don't want to really believe that in real time. It's
Speaker 4: kind of like the Bengals Afterday lost the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: It was great that they got there, but you wondered
Speaker 4: after that game, you know, is this going to be
Speaker 4: their best chance? Turns out, at least to this point,
Speaker 4: it has been. I think in Detroit, it's not so
Speaker 4: much about what they haven't been able to do this year.
Speaker 4: They have had a ton of injuries. It's the missed
Speaker 4: opportunities of the last couple of seasons sort of echoing
Speaker 4: through this season of change and disappointment.
Speaker 1: Moeger, have a happy new year and we look forward
Speaker 1: to talking to you in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 16: Counselor, how are you hey? I'm good, Gary, Jeff? How
Speaker 16: about you tell me what's on the show today. Oh,
Speaker 16: I'll tell you what. More craziness in Minnesota. You are
Speaker 16: not gonna believe this. One four million bucks was giving
Speaker 16: to a learning center with no students and the sign
Speaker 16: in front of the player. They misspelled learning I'm hot kidding.
Speaker 16: You can't make this stuff up. You can't make it up.
Speaker 16: The confirmed fraud now is about eleven billion. By the way,
Speaker 16: we are going to be talking to Janis Heisel at
Speaker 16: believe ten o'clock or ten thirty. She's on it like
Speaker 16: White on Rice. Jimmy Kimmel back in the news he
Speaker 16: takes shots at Trump while in the UK. You know
Speaker 16: so much for the unwritten rule that you don't criticize
Speaker 16: your president or your country when you're out of the country.
Speaker 16: We're gonna wrap it up by talking to FOP President
Speaker 16: Ken Kober, Gonna get his thoughts on the Elwood Jones
Speaker 16: O VII, Fiesco and some other things going on with CPD.
Speaker 1: Lots of college football bowl games. Come join us at
Speaker 1: the after the show show at Huddles if you dare
Speaker 1: weather it's gonna be nice today, good driving, and we'll
Speaker 1: see you then slinging drinks for Hillbillies and others. As
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, the Saturday midday Show with Mike
Speaker 1: come it up next.