WEBVTT - Saturday Morning with Gary Jeff Walker -- 12/27/25 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.120 Corner with Ian McDonald recruited lead singer Lou Graham, who 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.120 actually got them the record deal with that co when 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:11.799 they heard Lou Graham's vocals. Jones the only continuous member 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:19.040 of Foreigner throughout its history. He co produced almost all 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.840 of their album did co produce all their albums, and 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.280 co wrote most of their songs with Graham, and famously 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.480 claims single solo writing credits on I Want to Know 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:35.560 What Love is, the band's most successful single, but jammed 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.120 to a lot of Foreigner back in the day and 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.440 still did this morning. As a matter of fact, as 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.040 I mentioned, it's December twenty seventh. Before we look ahead 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.320 to look back at significant events and people tied to 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.480 this particular day in history, including but not limited to these. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.960 Eighteen thirty one naturalist Charles Darwin set out on the 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:01.560 h MS Beagle on Around the World voyage, Plymouth, England, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.000 nineteen o four. James Berry's play Peter Pan The Boy 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:13.720 Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which producer Liam has been cast 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:19.400 in a remake of this. The irony is not lost 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.199 on me. This opened at the Duke of York's Theater 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.920 in London. New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.320 open to the public this date in nineteen thirty two. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:37.240 The rockheads have been kicking ever since. Let's see as 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.400 we continued down the list. This was a date in 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.080 nineteen sixty eight the Apollo eight capsule splashed down safely 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.560 in the Pacific, completing the first Crewe mission to orbit 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:55.000 the Moon. Nineteen seventy nine, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.680 The president was overthrown and executed, replaced by a what 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:06.280 the Soviets thought was a fine puppet, and about eleven 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.400 years later, ten years later, the Russians left with their 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.200 tales between their legs. But we didn't learn a lesson 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.360 from this in this country, because in two thousand and one, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:24.679 the United States seized control of Afghanistan and stayed there 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:32.040 for twenty years and finally left, infamously under the watch 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.560 of President Joe Biden with our Tale between our legs 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:40.600 and thirteen marines dead. This is a date nineteen eighty 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:46.520 five that American naturalists and conservationist Diane Fossey, who had 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.320 studied mountain guerrillas in Africa for nearly twenty years, was 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.600 found murdered in her cabin in Rwanda. No one ever 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:02.480 was prosecuted for that murder. Hall of Fame basketball coach 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.720 Nolan Richardson, famously at once of the Arkansas Razorbacks, turns 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:07.360 eighty four. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:07.840 Today. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:14.040 Actor Gerard Depardieux is seventy seven. David Knopfler, who is 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:19.120 Mark Knopfler's less talented brother, is seventy three. Basketball Hall 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:24.760 of Fame coach Bill Self turned sixty three today, a reporter, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.920 and I don't know if you can call anybody in 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.600 TV these days a journalist. Savannah Guthrie is fifty four. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:37.320 Olympic sprint gold medalist. Shelley and Fraser Price turns thirty nine. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.920 Hailey Williams of the band Paramore is thirty seven. Shay 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.200 Mooney of Dan and Shay thirty four. Timothy Shallomey turns 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.880 thirty and mister Irrelevant proving very relevant once again. Brock 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.280 Perty of the San Francisco forty nine ers is celebrating 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.560 his twenty sixth birthday today. If it is your birthday, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.840 prayer for you it is the best birthday ever, and 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.680 you get to spend it with the people you love 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.720 doing the things you love to do, just like I 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.160 got to last Monday here on the air five point 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.240 forty two, Liam Tomlinson, the boy who wouldn't grow up 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.200 standing by with sports as we get you going this 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.440 morning on a Saturday morning adventure, and it is going 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.599 to be an adventure. I can hear my voice cracking 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.600 already on seven hundred you. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:31.520 It's the season for seven one hundred a WL Sports. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.839 Is the afore mentioned Liam Tomlinson. We got a coaching 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:38.320 change at Michigan. You know anything about this Kyle Winningham, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:39.400 guy from Utah. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.919 Kyle Whittingham was the replacement to Urban Meyer at Utah 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.960 has held it down there for twenty years or so. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.080 Ten win season this year, but it was time kind 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.680 of both sides side. It was mutually agreed the part ways. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.960 I wonder what scandal will hit Michigan next year. Kyle 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.920 Whittingham man, I think they went with the character higher. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.600 I think he is a really good coach, but they 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.560 kind of needed the right guy that could just steer 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.960 the ship. It kind of feels like a get them 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.520 in the right direction higher more than a long term higher. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.760 But we'll see if Kyle Whittingham can get it done 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.080 with way more resources than he had at Utah. So 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.760 it'll be interesting to see big time changes in the 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:16.200 Big Ten. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.040 And he will actually be on the sidelines for Michigan 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:19.800 the bowl game. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:21.320 That's interesting. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.720 A lot of coaches wait and let the former. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.880 Staff understand or whatever. Yeah, what else we got college football? 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.120 It's bowl season, not the same with all the opt 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.800 outsand transfers. But we had three games yesterday and the 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.200 game above Sports Bowl Northwestern defeated Central Michigan thirty four 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.640 to seven, the Rate Bowl, Minnesota defeated New Mexico twenty 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.560 to seventeen with the walk golf touchdown in overtime, and 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.000 in the First Responder Bowl, Utsa put it on FIU 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.320 fifty seven to twenty. Today won two three six to 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.159 seven bowl games. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.400 Today. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.640 Military Bowl Pittsburgh faces East Carolina starting at eleven, and 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.440 the Pinstripe Bowl Clemson and Penn State face off that 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.400 one in the Fenway Bowl, can you kind of army 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.159 kickoff at two fifteen. The Pop Tarts Bowl twelve ranks 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.840 BYU Charts faces twenty second rank Georgia Tech that kicks 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.440 off at three thirty. They spray painted the end zones 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.720 with the sprinkles. Arizona Bowl Miami Ohio Chuck Martin squad 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.880 faces off against Fresno State, battle it all, battle it 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.160 out at four point thirty. New Mexico Bowl twenty fifth 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.839 ranked North Texas faces San Diego State at five forty 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.760 five and the Gator Bowl nineteenth ranths Virginia and Missouri 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.039 battle it out at seven thirty, and then the Texas 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.760 Bowl LSU and Houston and the nightcap at nine to fifteen. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.920 Two NFL games today four pm. Texans Chargers face off 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.799 and the nightcap. Baltimore looks to keep their playoff hopes 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.760 alive in Green Bay against the Packers. Jordan Love is 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.960 out with the concussion and Lamar is doubtful with a 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.320 back injury. So Malik Willis versus Tyler Huntley in primetime 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:48.159 like we all ask. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.680 For it, did they lift Metcalfs suspension? 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:50.880 Two? 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.080 I believe they upheld the suspension and there was a 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.159 press conference held by the fan. He was wearing his 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.520 suit and his finest Lions backwards cap. Sunday, the Bengals 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.960 play football. Cincinnati hosts Arizona and some would say meaningless football, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.239 but every game we get is meaningful. Pregame coverage begins 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.600 at nine oh five. Kick is set for one pm 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.080 right here on the home of the best Bengals coverage, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.440 seven hundred WLW. You were tuned to news Radio seven 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.080 hundred WLW. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.800 Bunniest jokes but if your breath smells like the. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.960 F both thanks to our friend Dave Bagraf made it 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.280 to the studio this past Monday when I filled in 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.920 for Willie on my birthday December twenty second, and they 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:39.760 were part of the party. Let's get their reaction. Good morning, Lynette, go. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:50.560 Tellison the mound. Why don't you over to hear pvery 0:07:52.760 --> 0:08:07.400 go lion the mount to that cheez us christious jeeus 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:14.360 Christius Amen Amen. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:15.880 So it was great. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.400 It was onsa America. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.080 It was great to see you on Monday. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.520 Yeah, but I didn't get no fried chicken. I'm heart brought. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.520 Nobody had any fried chicken, Linnette. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.800 Well, somebody said, look at that spread of food over there. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.720 Yeah, but there was no fried chicken. Oh there was. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:42.079 There was ham, and there were vegetables. Okay, no fried chick. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.360 At least stayed the guy as a ham sandwich. We 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.040 rode two aur in ten miles just to be there. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.599 Well, you actually did ride. You didn't drive Dave did that. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.560 Dave did all the heavy lifting. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.720 Us roll darling, I didn't date drive. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.000 Well, I mean, didn't you enjoy your trip? 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:10.640 Yeah? Okay, but I missed my Christmas party here. I 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.760 got back at three forty and it ended at three thirty. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.920 Well, I'm sorry, that's okay. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.319 I just now I had to take a COVID test yesterday. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.520 Ye get with COVID shot Monday, So that was pressing that. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.160 No COVID here, dear God, don't let it come. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.720 Yeah, that wouldn't be good. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.200 I just said COVID. What was it about three or 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.240 four months ago? Now it's floating again. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.600 Well, I mean COVID. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.719 You know what, and don't act like COVID is the 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.760 death sentence one. I mean, a flu could be just 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.320 as bad. That's basically what that is, is a and 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.320 cold COVID. Yeah, it's not the boogeyman that everybody makes 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.559 it out to be. But you need to protect yourself 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.040 and I understand in your condition. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:10.760 Yeah, I got my mask on. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.439 You've cut your mask on right now? 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.839 Yeah, why I don't want to catch it? 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.680 Well, no, okay, who are you going to catch it from? 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.640 It's not just floating in the air, Dear. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.679 Yeah it does because the first year I was laying 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.720 in bed and it felt like somebody put a pill 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.480 over my face, and then the doctor put some kind 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.839 of big glung pill down my throat and I kept 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.240 trying to say, I can't take pen Ofcilly. It must 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.120 have been in Mock's ciling. Anyway. He said he almost 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.400 lost me, and he took care of me around the talk. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:49.360 Doctor t. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.040 Well, God bless him. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.280 That was my first bout with it. I think I 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.040 had three or four times in seven years. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.360 No, it has to be transferred from another person, Lynette. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.000 It doesn't just float freely through the air. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.040 Yes it does. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:08.560 No, it doesn't. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.840 They say it can jump off of it though person hasn't. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.040 Well, that's what I mean. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.160 If you if you're exposed now, you don't get transferred 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.000 from somebody's hair, Lynette. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:23.280 It's all it's rest. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.040 And then something about if you don't dig in your nose, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.959 you can't get it. But I'm thinking of seven years 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.320 ago when it first started coming around. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.360 So you don't you don't dig in your nose? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.520 Do you never did? 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.120 Well, if you do, make sure you pick a winner. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:52.080 Yeah, And I got to meet music professor. You did 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.840 because I saw him at fifty one years ago. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:57.760 At a bridal show. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.640 Right, Yeah, he. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:08.000 Was master seremon. He was Taul, handsome and cool looking, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.520 but he was way up on the stage. We were 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.880 down on the floor of it a convention Sentner Cincinnati. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:18.760 And then the. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.520 Man I was going to marry. That's why I'm doing that. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:27.520 I was the widow. That isn't because my man died 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.960 before we got married. Oh, it took me a year 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.800 to find him. I did. It was in the cemetery 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.239 at Richmond, Kentucky. So that's how Lynette got started. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.840 Well, you know what, you can imagine how it might 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.760 have been. But if he's in the cemetery, at least 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.480 you always know where to find him, right. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.920 Yeah, all right, baby, we love you. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.680 We got a roll any take care all right, you too, bye, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.080 lay Lynette. And Dick, who was also part of the 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.400 party on Monday, is hanging and standing by. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:09.480 We'll talk to him. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:16.040 Into the first official hour of this Saturday morning edition 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.920 for Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, closing out 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:21.320 the year. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:22.040 How about that. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.680 I'm Gary Jeff Walker, and you can call me Gary, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.880 or you can call me Jeff, or you can call 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.160 me Gary, Jeff, you can call me Walker, but it 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.520 doesn't have to call me Johnson. Remember that the old 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.320 piece of comedy nonsense from way back when. Anyway, it's 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.439 five minutes or so past the hour and we're rocking 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:50.760 and rolling and going again. And another great, great pleasure 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.640 that I took in filling in for Willie on Monday 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.920 past was getting to see Dave from Harrison in per 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.240 and now here he is on the phone again. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:03.400 Good morning, Dave. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.640 Yeah, doing fine if Liam ever turns the volume up 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.760 on the phones. So were you disappointed that there wasn't 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.640 any fried chicken like Lynette? 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.080 I can't say it was. It was a very birthday 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.120 worthy spread if you asked me. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.520 Well, I tell you what. Those folks from Dorothy Lane 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.200 market man, they did it up right. The ham and 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.040 the veggies. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:33.000 You know what. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.080 I took the rest of the veggies home with me 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.000 because nobody had taken them, and I decided, you know, 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.040 these are too good to pass up. I waited till 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.200 Tuesday when I was here for the night cap, and 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.000 I still a big tray of veggies and that incredible 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.240 dip that they had for that so I've been eating 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.560 on that all week. It was great to see you. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.440 Thank you for the birthday cake. It finally got eaten. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.600 I wanted you to know, and it was much much appreciated. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.040 Good. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.960 Hey, Hey, Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave. What do you call 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:15.040 a snowman with a six pack? I don't know, an 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:22.400 abdominal an abdominal snowman and dominal snowman? What do you 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.280 what do you call the jolly old elf when he 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:34.120 takes a break? Santa pause, Santa pause pause. You know 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.120 why are mummies such big fans of Christmas? Because they're 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.200 so well wrapped? 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:43.080 There are you? 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.280 How does the lifeguard get to work? 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:47.480 I don't know. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:55.120 He carpolls, Jeff, what kind of opera stars? Things in 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:55.920 the shower? 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:57.200 I don't know. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.800 I'd be a so brano. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.560 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Dave. Did you say soap brano? 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.360 So prano? Yes, sir, that's what I thought you said. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.400 Go on, please yep. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.120 So, here's the question. If we breathe. If we breathe 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:20.160 oxygen during the day, what do we breathe at night? 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.000 I'm afraid to ask. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.800 Well, I guess would be nitrogen. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:39.560 Dave, Yes, Dave, how was your wife. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.920 She's snoring up a storm even as we speak. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.600 Did you say she's smelling up a storm, snoring snoring 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.720 up a storm? Well, living with you, I can understand this. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.320 Jokes told by Dave from Harrison are not necessarily considered 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.800 funny by the staff, management, or advertisers of seven HUNDREDLW 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.639 or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at humor 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.400 have caused you to roll your eyes, made your stomach churn, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.879 or you have considered the entire exercise to be a 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.080 colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now back to 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.520 our irregular program. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.800 Told Liam I wanted to play this, I slid it 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.240 into the log and he said, what do you know 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.479 about Paramore? I said, I'm familiar with the group. I mean, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.159 it's not like they haven't been around for twenty years, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:31.919 which they have. It's not necessarily my first choice, but 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.439 the girl rocks, and this guy always rocks. With a 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.680 reception report on this early Saturday morning, our friend Rick 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:44.960 Washburn Al radio, Rick, good morning, how are you receiving us? 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.600 Good morning, Gary, Jeff. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.280 I'm receiving you with a little bit of guilt. I 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.600 must haven't pretty plowed at your birthday. I'm glad that 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.480 Dick from Dayton enjoyed our talk, but I don't remember 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.400 his chatting with him or even being there. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.560 Well, you know, I didn't want to break it to 0:17:59.640 --> 0:17:59.960 him that you. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.879 Weren't here, and I know he's not listening, so I say. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.080 No, no, he's calling someone else. He's calling Ron Wilson 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.560 on in the garden right now. You know that The 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.000 odd thing is he he doesn't have anything to even 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.560 ask Ron about being in the garden. He doesn't really care. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.600 It's just his chance to shine again somewhere else. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.320 God last fifteen minutes of fame every three hours that 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:31.040 you need it or not. Oh gosh, hey, you're coming 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.480 in five y five. A shout out to Neil as 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.800 I'm listening to on a Traveler nineteen thirty eight AM 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.880 shorty radio model unknown. But this radio was also sold 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:41.840 by Spiegel. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.720 Stories, model model unknown. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.560 It doesn't have a model number on it. But the 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.440 weird thing is it took me a while to find it, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.960 but I discovered that the same exact model was sold 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.920 by the Spiegel Catalog. And if you were a kid 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.199 who watched game shows in the seventies, you'll remember the 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.119 Spiegel catalog Chicago Chicago nine. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:02.560 That's right. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.560 For those playing at home, look for this Beegel Model 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.760 sixty five to ten sat eb one. It's the same thing. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.159 It's a five to two radio with both am in 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.960 a short a smell short wave band, but it still works, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.160 and a gorgeous wood cabinet. And I love this specific 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.080 radio that Neil loans, not just because it's gorgeous and 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.800 the braining issue makes it unique, but because while it 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.560 has been worked on in the past, it still has 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:30.560 all five original Raytheon tubes and the radio tubes Onlike 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.760 television tubes, radio tubes were pretty resilient, but there were 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.760 still servicemen that if it was the slightest bit week, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.480 oh you got to buy a new one, because that's 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.360 how they made money. But they're still just functioning perfectly 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.360 eighty seven years later. And also intriguing is that there 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.600 the tubes. Instead of being silk screened or painted with 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.320 the brand name, they're actually engraved. And that was something 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.760 that I think stopped overall like five years before this 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.639 radio was made. So I don't know if it was 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.240 unique to Raytheon that they kept doing it. I don't 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.919 think so, or if they had a whole lot overstock 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:04.520 and so they designed the radio around that. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.720 But I knew somebody who had their tubes engraved and 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.720 then they had them tied. But that's something else. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.320 I'm sure that's something very different. Yeah, well, let's go 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:14.399 to the catalog, shall we? 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:16.600 Sure alive? 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.080 In performance? It says, over a cartoon picture of a 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.520 fellow with a Vincent Price mustache holding a microphone that 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.800 seems to be shooting lightning bolts into a young woman's face. Okay, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:28.880 got my attention. 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:30.719 Now we go. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.680 Something new in home radio, A new design in cabinet 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.640 and dial, smart pleasing sure to appeal. This set will 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.159 sell itself an appearance, performance, and price. It goes on 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.480 five tubes, five and a half inch dynamic speaker AM 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.120 in shortwave reception. I don't think they have really mentioned 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.600 what was new in home radio with this. I wonder 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.199 what it was was It was the price because it 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.960 was eighteen ninety five, which was about four hundred and 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.960 twenty five bucks today, which wasn't bad back then. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:01.879 Honestly, no, probably not. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.520 But if it sells itself, then they just should show 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:09.159 a picture of the radio. They don't even need They 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.639 don't need all the verbiage to describe why I would 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.800 sell itself. If it sells itself, you don't need to 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.400 talk about it at all. Just put the radio out there, 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.760 turn it on and it'll it'll fly off the shelves. 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.560 I would I would like the classic, like the classic. 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.760 This man needs no introduction. But here's his name, his bios, 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.280 his resume, right exactly. 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.720 I actually am guilty of that from time to time 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.800 we all are. So, how are you doing today? 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:40.600 All right. 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:42.480 Overall? 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:44.000 Yeah? 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.240 My good for Christmas? I got my good old friend 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.080 aphib back. So oh short of breath, but I'm doing okay. 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.000 It'll hopefully it passes. Otherwise they'll throw the paddles on 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:55.560 me again and I'll be good to go for another 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:56.800 couple of years. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:58.560 Well, I hope there's no. 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.439 With all this equipment down here, could shock myself, I 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:01.960 would say. 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:02.199 So. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.840 I've got the big knife switch from one of the 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.760 Frankenstein movies on the walls. Just for fun. Maybe I 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:10.680 can put that up. 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.399 And your hair would look like Madeline CON's in like 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:16.439 five seconds. 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:18.840 It wouldn't be an improvement, don't you think? 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:20.320 I don't know. 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:22.240 I think you got a good mop on top of 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.560 your head. Old radio Rick at gmail dot com if 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:27.760 you'd like to get in touch with mister Washburn and 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.400 discuss your antique radio that it'll take him at least 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:33.320 five years to fix. 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:38.119 It's six eighteen at seven hundred WLW. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.919 Seven hundred WLW Sports. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.760 Liam and I were just talking about the NBA and 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.080 I never really we never really talk about it because well, frankly, 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.560 you probably don't care. I know I generally don't either. 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:57.639 But Liam, you know, he's a hoopster. He digs the league, 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.920 the National Basketball Association. We're talking about. What's the guy 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.080 from Denver, what's his name? 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:05.960 Jokis Nicola Jokic. 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:11.440 Yeah, Niccolo Jokic the other night had fifty six points 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:17.680 and triple double and eighteen points in overtime, which tops 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.480 Steph Curry's record of points in overtime. Which I mean, 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.280 you beat Steph Curry when it comes to a scoring record, 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:25.360 You're doing something right. 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:26.320 Yeah. 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:30.120 And Brook Lopez thirty seven years old, dropping thirty one 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.080 points with nine threes last night for the Clippers the Center. 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:39.600 How about that again. I really don't really. 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.240 Watch NBA because it's pretty much just a continuous layup drill, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.840 especially during the regular season, but there are some special 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:51.040 talents playing. I used to be my brothers and I 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:57.480 at Christmas time living in Tennessee. The weather was generally warm, 0:23:57.680 --> 0:23:58.120 as it. 0:23:58.080 --> 0:23:58.680 Was here. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.720 Most years, not a lot of snow on the ground 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:04.919 or anything like that, so we missed out on that. 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:11.800 But we had a basketball court, a pad asphalt pad 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.160 out back of the house, and a big, old tall 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:18.119 hoop and we'd play one on one at halftime of 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:21.200 the NBA games that we're always played on Christmas Day, 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:24.560 and sooner or later we'd forget the game was on. 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.160 We just play all afternoon. That was one of our 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.840 things we like to do. But I don't think that 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.840 I could even shoot a free throw anymore. You still 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.120 play the Evil Empire. NFL is trying to take over 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:39.600 the NBA on Christmas. It's kind of a budding rivalry 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:41.679 going on the last two years that the NFL has 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:44.280 kind of had some stinker games, but the NBA just 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:46.680 keeps coming with classics. But it's just interesting to see 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.320 how the household view of the NBA has shifted, probably 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:52.359 in your lifetime, especially Oh yeah, absolutely, Like I said 0:24:52.560 --> 0:24:56.359 back in the eighties. We were still into it eighties 0:24:56.400 --> 0:25:00.440 and nineties. Not anymore, and give me NFL games any day. 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.640 Even a bad NFL game is better than a great 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.560 NBA game to me. Well, we got two NFL games. 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:08.959 Speaking in the NFL today four pm, Texans Chargers facing 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:13.200 off two playoff bound teams. In the nightcap, Baltimore and 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:15.280 Green Bay face off. Jordan Love is out with the 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:18.240 concussion and Lamar is doubtful with the back injury, so 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.960 we'll get Malik Willis versus Tyler Huntley. You can catch 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:24.200 both games on Fox Sports thirteen sixty's starting at four 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:27.600 pm and then eight to fifteen. Tomorrow afternoon, the Bengals 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:31.080 play Cincinnati hosts the Arizona Cardinals. Premium coverage begins at 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.480 nine point five. Kick is sept for one pm here 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:36.760 on the Home of the Best Bengals Coverage seven hundred WLW. 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:39.320 Jamar Chase talking about how he needs to get in 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:41.320 the end zone in his press conference this week. It's 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:44.800 been since the middle of October since he's scored six. 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:47.840 Well, I mean, especially since the Bengals really don't have 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:51.760 anything to play for. It is time for individual accolades, 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.639 isn't it. Jamar last season, I mean, he put up 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.600 all those numbers. He's got to keep it up this year. 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:56.840 Again. 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:59.760 Last year was one of Joe Burrow's best years, I mean, 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:02.119 not his best year of his career, and the Bengals 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:03.200 still didn't make the playoffs. 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:04.680 They're not going to make the playoffs this year. 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:09.399 Had to suffer through watching my Kansas City Chiefs just 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:13.040 absolutely stink up the place and lose to Denver the 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:17.280 other night. I don't know. I'm just I'm hoping for 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:20.480 a good game. If I can see a good NFL, 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.160 competitive NFL game, I don't care who's playing. 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:24.600 I just want to see that. 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.679 We won't see that more than likely with Arizona and 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:28.800 the Bengals tomorrow. 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.600 Speaking of Arizona, we got the Arizona Snoop Dogg Bowl, 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:37.160 and we're talking football. Miami Ohio Tuck Martin squad face 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:40.280 off against Fresno State that is at four point thirty 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:43.160 in the Texas Bowl. LSU Houston kicks off at nine 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:47.200 to fifteen. Military Ball at eleven am. Pittsburgh faces East 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:51.080 Carolina Pinstrike Bowl Clemson and Penn State. That game is 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.679 at one pop Tards Bowl. Twelfth ranked BYU and twenty 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:58.400 second ranked wards. They really spray sprinkles into the end zone. Yeah, 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:00.359 the Pop Tards Bowl has gotten bigger every year. You know, 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:02.240 the first year he came out of the toaster, he died. 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:05.840 They ate the pop Tart the live mascot. Okay, very 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:08.159 kind of sacrilegious. It was really insane, it's according to 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:09.919 some people. But it's very interesting, the growth of the 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:10.720 Pop Tarts Bowl. 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.439 I think it's all. Uh, it's something to watch. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:19.920 Well, we wait for the main entree on New Year's 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:23.200 Eve and New Year's Day, and I'm excited about next 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.960 week and the college football playoff six twenty six. Now 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:31.080 a better class of losers. I think they're all winners. 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.479 And they're right now sitting back in the bar on 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:38.240 Main Street and Ripley at Brookies. How now Brown County 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:42.880 waiting to uh, well, do what we do on Saturday mornings. 0:27:42.880 --> 0:27:49.160 The gang, Good morning gang, good morning. Wow. We got 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.200 two today? 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:52.280 Three? 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:58.840 Yeah there, how about that? How about that? So the 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:01.880 cooks still out, the cook still. 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.960 Out of jail, seet out of jail probation. 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:07.800 That's wonderful. 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:12.359 I am so glad you got pizza and stuff. 0:28:12.400 --> 0:28:13.160 Now it's good. 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:24.600 I'm so glad you've got a Brookies rehab program. So, uh, 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:27.359 any who had any big plans for the New. 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:32.680 Year, Well, yeah, you're part of them. That'll be Wednesday night. 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:39.120 Well yeah, we're not inviting everybody to your house, are we. 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:42.000 No, I'll tell anybody I was gonna say, I can 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:43.800 give out the address if you like. 0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:54.600 Well, there's no Queen of Hearts, there's no band scheduled, 0:28:54.600 --> 0:28:57.360 there's no not a whole lot. 0:28:57.880 --> 0:28:58.560 But well good. 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:01.840 But if you're if you're you know, going out on 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:05.520 New Year's Eve and you're in Ripley, why not go 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.000 to Brookies. I mean, it's it's one of the biggest 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:18.040 bar nights of the year, isn't it here? So you're 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:21.040 saying to bring it in people travel out of Brown 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:22.840 County to celebrate, right. 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:29.120 Because No, it's really not that busy down here. 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:32.960 Well, and and the wonderful thing is, and the thing 0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:36.560 that's surprising about that is that you can pretty much 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:38.680 drink and drive you have no police force. 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:44.320 I don't recommend it. 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:48.720 No, I'm not saying that anyone should ever anywhere, but 0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:51.920 I'm just saying, you know, probably harder. 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:53.880 To get your car, harder. 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:58.960 To get home pretty much. 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:01.000 Get the local st walking anyway. 0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:04.640 So yeah, okay, so. 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.120 Oh had a fantastic time Monday. That was great to 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:13.240 see you up here the oil bear in a Brown County. 0:30:13.720 --> 0:30:17.520 That's horful about it. I always wanted to see the studio. 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:23.240 Well you, Darren, you're You're invited anytime you want to 0:30:23.240 --> 0:30:29.080 make it up. Okay, Well, just you text me and 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:33.520 let me know and I'll let you in. I know, 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:37.600 I know people. Uh, have we got a weather fore 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:38.760 cash Harry real quick? 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:40.000 Oh we do. 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:43.320 It's going to be really warm tomorrow, maybe break a record, 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:46.880 maybe seventy, but it's going to be gluey, I think, rainy, 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:50.080 but then it goes down. Hell on Monday, I heard that, 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:53.240 I heard that you could. I want to wish all 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:55.680 the guys I didn't get to see in gowns and 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:58.000 Miss Lynette and all that. I wish I could have 0:30:58.040 --> 0:30:59.600 been there for the party, But I won't wish them 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:01.080 all a happy New Year. 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:04.600 Thank you. 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:12.560 God, love you guys, and we'll see you on New 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:15.840 Year's Eve, all right. The gang at Brookies in Ripley 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.680 this morning. It's six forty one. It's seven utter wlw 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:23.480 at six forty four on this Saturday morning. By the way, 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:27.040 Alan and Norwood, we just called an inquired of the 0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:30.520 people in Ripley at Brookies at the bar are drunk? 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:35.560 I would say no, unless you're referring to Buzz or 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:38.680 Matt Miller, then quite possibly, and neither one were there 0:31:38.720 --> 0:31:42.680 this morning, so not to worry allan, it is rather early. 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:50.400 My grandparents had a little clock in their basement on 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:53.240 the little bar top they had, and it said no 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:56.600 drinks till after five, and there were nothing but fives 0:31:56.880 --> 0:32:01.080 all the way around the clock. Anyway, that's you didn't 0:32:01.080 --> 0:32:06.480 need predictions. They're huge this time of year. As we 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:11.120 embark on a brand new calendar, predictions for twenty twenty six, 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:17.080 could they nearer predictions that have been made famously before. 0:32:17.960 --> 0:32:21.920 To discuss our friend Steve from met In, Ohio with 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:25.600 predictions for the future of the United States of America. 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:27.320 What there is? 0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:31.400 Good morning, Good morning, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. 0:32:32.600 --> 0:32:34.920 You know, here's a quote. 0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:37.280 I would call. 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:45.680 This a very interesting prediction. A democracy cannot exist as 0:32:45.760 --> 0:32:50.960 a permanent form of government. Okay, it can only exist 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:57.800 until the majority discovers that can vote its largess out. 0:32:57.560 --> 0:32:58.960 Of the public treasury. 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:06.680 After that the majority always votes for the candidate promising 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:13.760 the most benefits, with the result the democracy collapses because 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:19.080 of the loose fiscal policy, ensuing always to be followed 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:27.520 by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. And I thought about 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:29.720 this this week. We talked about this a couple of 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:35.360 years ago. He ends with then a monarchy, and I thought, wow, 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:41.120 that's really interesting. Now we're talking about kings, aren't we 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:47.560 in our protests. The earliest known attribution of that quote 0:33:48.040 --> 0:33:51.640 was October the twentieth, nineteen forty eight, and what appears 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:54.480 to be an op ed piece in the Daily Oklahoman 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:58.000 under the byline Elmer T. 0:33:58.720 --> 0:33:59.320 Peterson. 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:05.800 It was called this is the hardcore of freedom. Let's 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:10.840 talk about Elmer for a second. Elmer Theodore Peterson was 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:15.359 born in eighteen eighty four in Algona, Iowa. Oh Good 0:34:15.480 --> 0:34:20.240 people seemed to come from Iowa. He died in nineteen 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:26.520 sixty nine in Mendocino, California. Prominent author, newspaperman in Kansas 0:34:26.560 --> 0:34:32.279 and Oklahoma, editor of Better Homes and Gardens for ten 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:36.680 years from twenty seven to thirty seven. Associate editor of 0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:43.560 The Daily Oklahoma in Oklahoma City circa twenty years until 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:47.760 nineteen sixty two. In his retirement, he graduated from Bethany 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:53.799 College in West Virginia. Now some say he may have 0:34:53.920 --> 0:35:00.759 lifted this idea from this quote in nineteen forty three. 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:07.440 The historical cycle seems to be from bondage to spiritual faith, 0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:13.879 from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:22.280 liberty to abundance, and abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to apathy, 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:29.359 from apathy to dependency, and from discent to dependency back 0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:33.839 to bondage once more. So I got to thinking about that, 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:38.080 and you said something right at the top of the show, 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:42.200 and you always come on board with some fascinating stuff. 0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:48.440 The ten years that the Soviets spent in Afghanistan, and 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:51.600 of course they walked out with their tail between their legs, 0:35:52.520 --> 0:35:56.879 so we decided why not twenty and of course we 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:02.120 came home without a victory. I was thinking about that 0:36:02.239 --> 0:36:11.120 compared to Vietnam and talking about, you know, predictions. Bernard 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:16.719 Fall was a French journalist who was in Vietnam for 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:22.000 a long time. He served with the French forces as 0:36:22.040 --> 0:36:26.160 a newspaperman. The French were driven out of Vietnam in 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:30.520 nineteen fifty four at the Envan Foo. The Americans within 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:35.640 two years decided let's try this. I don't think the 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:40.200 French did it right. If you read Bernard falls book 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:51.359 Street Without Joy, you'll really really understand how questionable it 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:56.960 probably was that we just marched right in afterwards. So 0:36:57.160 --> 0:37:00.960 predictions are kind of interesting. Listen to some of them, 0:37:01.840 --> 0:37:03.799 we don't listen to others. Some of them are de 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:09.760 course ridiculous. Others have a tinge of truth that turns 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:11.319 into a mighty truth later. 0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:13.920 Well, I hope. 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:15.759 That twenty twenty six, and I've heard a lot of 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:20.960 predictions so far, turns out well for all of us. Gary, Jeffyu, 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:24.960 your family love this show on Monday, and the United 0:37:25.000 --> 0:37:31.080 States of America my country. Take care of yourself and 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:32.280 enjoy the weekend. 0:37:32.480 --> 0:37:33.080 God blessed. 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:35.960 Happy New Year, Steve, thank you very much. Odds that 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:39.719 Steve mentions Vietnam. I had an author on my Nightcap 0:37:39.800 --> 0:37:42.480 show this past Tuesday named James Bradley is a New 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:47.279 York Times bestselling author, and his new book is called 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:52.399 Precious Freedom about Vietnam. He lived in Vietnam for ten 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:58.960 years to interview Vietnamese and to the Vietnamese it wasn't 0:37:58.960 --> 0:37:59.960 North versus South. 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:01.239 It was a. 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:08.440 Vietnamese against Us. And that's why he says it mostly 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:13.640 was a failed exercise. And I would say Afghanistan clearly 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:17.920 goes in that category as well, no matter the reason. 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:23.960 We were as a seventeen year old in Middle Tennessee 0:38:24.000 --> 0:38:29.360 in nineteen seventy eight and a candy apple red Grand 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:33.000 Prix with tea tops that belonged to my father. I 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:36.480 got to go pick up my girlfriend in Goodletsville, Tennessee, 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:40.239 and that was playing on the radios. I pulled into 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.400 her driveway and there she is sitting on the front 0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:47.720 porch waiting for me in these pink terry cloth baby 0:38:47.880 --> 0:38:52.800 soft tank top and shorts. And it's about one hundred 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:56.759 and three outside in the summer in Middle Tennessee. And 0:38:56.800 --> 0:39:01.200 I'm sure our friend here, Ray Scott, remember those days 0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:06.560 in Middle Tennessee. Uh, if not in the late seventies, 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:09.279 in the early eighties. How you doing, brother, Ray? How 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:09.560 are you? 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:11.120 Good morning? 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:14.200 Good morning Gary, Jeff my friend or as that nice 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:21.839 lady referred to you last Saturday morning, the sugar lips, Yeah, Pat, Pat, 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:27.840 Bless her heart. My grandmother used to always say to us, 0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:30.479 we were a kids, she'd say, come over here, honey, 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:33.640 child and give me some sugar. Yeah, have to remind 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:37.120 me of that. So, yes, sir, the uh the old 0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:41.160 vinyl seat days, you know, going to Florida to relatives 0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:44.280 homes in the vehicle with no air in vinyl seats 0:39:44.280 --> 0:39:47.680 and you'd fall asleep and you'd have this big crease 0:39:47.760 --> 0:39:49.520 in your face from the vinyl seats. 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:53.640 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So what's on your mind 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:54.480 this morning? Brother? 0:39:55.360 --> 0:39:55.600 Hey? 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:58.919 Listen, I uh, you know, I'm going to first off, 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.400 put a disclaimer out out here because this is uh 0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:08.360 information that I uh, I think it's worth regifting and 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:12.840 uh and I heard it at a Christmas service. Uh 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:16.000 that was in Washington, d C. It was televised at 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:18.880 a Catholic Mass, and I thought he was worthy of 0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:23.080 a repeat. And that is this, you know, the topic 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:26.239 of regifting, of which I think we've all done it 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:30.520 on occasion, and we've done it with love and and 0:40:30.680 --> 0:40:34.960 that the one gift and that the really the greatest 0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:38.960 could be the greatest gift given to us, that the 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:44.800 giver that gives it to us almost definitely calls us 0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:51.480 to regift, and that give is love and God came 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:58.040 in the flesh, and he is love. So I think 0:40:58.040 --> 0:41:01.040 it's early to make uh result's dog on it, but 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:04.759 it's really not. It's the twenty seventh. So I'll be 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:07.360 the first one in line to do my very best 0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:12.200 in twenty twenty six to be a regifter. And I 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:16.279 invite all of our friends and listeners, let's do our 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:20.359 best to be regifters. I can new year to you, brother, 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:21.040 God bless you. 0:41:21.640 --> 0:41:22.480 I'd bless you. 0:41:23.840 --> 0:41:27.239 No greater gift than the gift that God gave us 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:32.279 in Jesus Christ, both his birth, his death, and his resurrection. 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:37.160 And that is ultimately what love truly is all about. 0:41:37.920 --> 0:41:41.399 And as Ray said, if we can attempt, in our 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:46.440 feeble human way to regive that gift to the people 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:53.439 around us, then maybe we're accomplishing something. Into another hour 0:41:53.520 --> 0:41:57.600 of this Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, December twenty seventh, 0:41:57.600 --> 0:42:00.920 twenty twenty five, how you doing, Gary, Jeff by your 0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:05.560 side on your radio on a Saturday morning, just like 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:07.320 the Good Lord intended? 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:11.040 Apparently, because I mean, if not, why is it happening 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:13.959 at all? That's the question really. 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:16.960 About six minutes past the hour seven oh six Eastern 0:42:17.160 --> 0:42:22.239 that is on this last Saturday of the year, and 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:26.200 look forward to these conversations every Saturday morning. I find 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:29.160 them informative. I hope you do too when it comes 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:33.920 to the environment. After all, he is an environmental engineer, 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:39.279 even in retirement. You know, you can take the man 0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:44.000 out of environmental engineering, but you can't take the environmental 0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:47.520 engineering out of the man. Steve Shulte, who just had 0:42:47.560 --> 0:42:53.080 a birthday on Wednesday, Happy birthday, my friend, belated. 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.600 Happy birthday, Gary Jeff. A happy and blessed new year 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:58.360 for you and all your kins. 0:42:58.239 --> 0:43:04.560 And you as well, sir, this morning, as you said 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:07.680 when you text me, one of our favorite topics the 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:11.960 early shutdown of another boone doggles solar project. And by 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:17.960 the way, thanks to President Trump, these ridiculous wind farms 0:43:18.080 --> 0:43:20.279 are at least at a pause right now in the 0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:24.560 ocean right the burden whale killers. But tell me about 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:29.440 this boondoggle solar project as three Mile Island just fired 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:31.320 up again in Pennsylvania. 0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:34.280 What do you got for Steve? 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:35.319 All right? 0:43:35.440 --> 0:43:38.320 Just comes from a Newslayer I get the Access to 0:43:38.440 --> 0:43:42.480 Energy for September of twenty twenty five, Although the article 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:46.640 actually comes from the Institute for Energy Research in October 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:51.600 of this year. Next year, the identhaul solar power facility 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:54.720 will be shutting down for good. This is the article 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:59.280 is called California shuts down at solar thermal plant thirteen 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:04.239 years early. This boondoggle was built between twenty ten and 0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:07.920 twenty fourteen at a cost of two point two billion, 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:11.399 that's billion with a B of this one point six 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:16.960 billion was paid with taxpayer of taxpayer government grant approved 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:21.080 by the Obama regime, advertised as the latest technology that 0:44:21.080 --> 0:44:25.000 would help us from quote unquote global warming and built 0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:29.240 near the California Nevada border. The facility uses one hundred 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:33.960 seventy three thousand, five hundred computer controlled mirrors to focus 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:37.719 sunlight onto three four hundred and sixty foot towers. This 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:42.000 covered five square miles of desert, so think the five 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:45.239 square miles just roughly two and a quarter mile by 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:48.680 two and a quarter miles square. It also required the 0:44:48.719 --> 0:44:56.880 relocation of the endangered desert tortoise. Amazing to concentray the energy, 0:44:56.960 --> 0:45:01.480 heats up water to produce steam and that to generate electricity. 0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:04.200 And this is the steam technology. There is just very 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:10.279 you know, very well grunted science, so fantastic to make electricity, 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:14.040 but when you're using solar power to do it, it 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:17.760 just didn't work. In fact, the plant resorted to heating 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:22.080 to supplement heating of the water with natural gas in 0:45:22.200 --> 0:45:26.040 order to generate enough decent amount of energy. It was 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:30.240 also well known for frying birds. When you concentrate sunlight 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:33.640 and beam it toward a power result in a nice beam, 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:36.400 and it cooked anything in its path. It's rather like 0:45:36.600 --> 0:45:40.160 leaving Star Wars laser weapon on all the time. Awarding 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:45.040 the Association of Avian Veterinarians, at least six thousand birds 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:49.600 per year were pried. Of course, the company made plenty 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.560 of money slices of the one point six billion dollars 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:56.760 and tax Their subsidies were distributed to everybody involve. And 0:45:56.840 --> 0:45:59.919 now it's a decade later, and it's time to shut down, 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:03.640 to move on to other ways to grab our tax money. 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:06.839 Now yeah, now, now that they've stolen the money, it's 0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:08.160 time to shut it down. 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:11.160 Gosh yeah, yeah. 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:14.560 It goes on to say, essentially rational clinic critics at 0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:17.560 the time the plant was built were actually wrong. They 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.799 were right the design was impractical, but they missed the point. 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:24.040 The purpose of the project was to distribute tax money 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:28.160 and score political points for the Obama regime, not generate electricity, 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:31.080 and pretty much that can be said for pretty much 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:35.160 every quote unquote green energy project we have today. It's 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:39.640 not about generating electricity, it's about distributing our tax money 0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:45.600 to everybody. Yeah, so historically the state has not fared 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:48.000 well picking winners and losers. The same to be said 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:52.920 said about green energy projects relying on taxpayer subsidies. 0:46:53.480 --> 0:46:56.880 So hold on, let me, let me get this straight. 0:46:56.960 --> 0:47:02.640 Steve Yep, they had to relocate the desert tortoise for this, 0:47:02.640 --> 0:47:03.879 this solar boondoggle. 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:07.359 But you got to realize, you put these mirrors up 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:10.640 of five square miles, you basically make it all shape. 0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:13.040 But but but. 0:47:13.080 --> 0:47:18.239 They also wouldn't they wouldn't let the water flow into 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:22.840 the reservoirs because they were worried about some fish in 0:47:23.200 --> 0:47:25.320 the Pacific Ocean. 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:27.399 And so so. 0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:31.000 They weren't worried about the desert tortoise. Well, we can 0:47:31.120 --> 0:47:33.319 just move that, but but they were worried about the 0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:36.120 little fish. And that's why all those people's houses burned 0:47:36.120 --> 0:47:40.040 in the Palisade fires. Yeah, there are no water in 0:47:40.040 --> 0:47:40.960 the hydrants, but. 0:47:41.280 --> 0:47:45.480 Come on, California, remember you gotta remember that there this 0:47:45.600 --> 0:47:49.360 project was fighting man made catastrophic climate change. Of course 0:47:49.440 --> 0:47:52.200 we can, we can move the tortoises Gee. 0:47:52.480 --> 0:47:55.240 Kind of sounds like the BLM riots where they weren't 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:59.480 they weren't required to wear masks during COVID because that 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:05.879 was a great cause. It's I mean, the hypocrisy never ends. 0:48:05.920 --> 0:48:08.640 My friend, Happy New Year. We'll talk to you soon. 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:11.600 I hope you had a great birthday and Christmas. It's 0:48:11.800 --> 0:48:16.680 twelve minutes past the hour now, seven hundred WLW late tonight, 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:22.200 still warm. Tomorrow times. Square ball that drops for New 0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:25.439 Year's Eve to celebrate to bring in twenty twenty six 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:29.399 will be red, white and blue to celebrate America's two 0:48:29.480 --> 0:48:33.640 hundred and fiftieth birthday, of course, coming up in July 0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:37.240 of this year. We're just about there, two hundred and fifty. 0:48:38.160 --> 0:48:41.080 How many more do we have left? That's the real question. 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:45.279 Don't have the answer, But I do have some Tom 0:48:45.360 --> 0:48:48.880 Davis diaries to share with you, wild wacky stories. 0:48:49.239 --> 0:48:55.560 I call these the. 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:57.440 And our corresponding all your long Tom Davis, who calls 0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:00.480 these together and reports them to you as standing with 0:49:00.560 --> 0:49:01.319 the last. 0:49:01.920 --> 0:49:06.320 Good morning, Gary, Jeff, this week no more on camera 0:49:06.480 --> 0:49:09.719 nose picking. But first to Thailand we go, where an 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:13.160 American man is accused of cheating on a curry eating contest. 0:49:13.800 --> 0:49:16.480 He was allegedly caught on camera stuffing rice in his 0:49:16.520 --> 0:49:20.520 pants pockets with five minutes to go that night, he 0:49:20.680 --> 0:49:23.600 was declared the winner after eating seventeen and a half 0:49:23.640 --> 0:49:26.960 pounds of curry for a grand prize of seven hundred dollars. 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:31.000 Bangkok's Gold Curry eatery, where the treachery allegedly took place, 0:49:31.320 --> 0:49:34.560 is apparently calling the man out on social media, demanding 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:38.320 their money back. Closer to home, in Trumbull County, Ohio, 0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:42.080 cops are pulling over Amish drunk drivers. Two Amish men 0:49:42.120 --> 0:49:44.160 were spotted with a twelve pack while on a horse 0:49:44.160 --> 0:49:48.080 power buggy. They jumped off ran into the woods, leaving 0:49:48.120 --> 0:49:51.479 the horse and the buggy behind. They were apparently pretty 0:49:51.520 --> 0:49:53.960 fast guys too, because they got away. No one in 0:49:54.000 --> 0:49:57.800 the Amish community is talking either. Police are still looking 0:49:57.840 --> 0:50:01.120 for them. In Georgia, a fight broke out at a 0:50:01.120 --> 0:50:05.040 Dollar General between a married couple and the cashier. The 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:08.279 couple was inquiring about the price of aluminum foil. They 0:50:08.360 --> 0:50:11.319 then got angry started yelling at the clerk and then 0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:14.520 decided to trash the store. They ran for it, they 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:19.400 too got away and finally, the NFL is picking sides 0:50:19.480 --> 0:50:23.280 on the nose picking controversy. The NFL has warned Detroit 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:27.640 Lions players to stop their nose picking celebrations after touchdowns. 0:50:27.800 --> 0:50:30.760 Their wide receiver was told to cease the mimicking gesture. 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.640 Reps have crackdown on Lions player celebrations before. In fact, 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:39.160 they've been issued fines for previous gestures. Next year, the 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:43.840 Maryland doctor who says he can regrow your ears, have 0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:45.480 a good weekend and a happy new Year. 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:48.319 So you get another hour of this Saturday Morning edition 0:50:48.400 --> 0:50:52.319 for Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Gary Jeff 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:57.640 Walker with you the uh the aftermath, the after glow 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:00.839 of Christmas, on the way to New Year's Day, and 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:04.000 a wonderful chance to be with you again. 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:08.320 In between, time for a science minute our friends Science 0:51:08.360 --> 0:51:09.120 Mike standing up. 0:51:17.360 --> 0:51:20.279 Yes as a nightly scientist, he was surprising it no 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.479 blinding me with inde. 0:51:23.080 --> 0:51:26.160 Uh. So Michael, tell me a little bit about your Christmas. 0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:26.759 What'd you do? 0:51:27.520 --> 0:51:28.640 Uh? 0:51:28.800 --> 0:51:32.040 Family came over around six o'clock that night and we had. 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:37.759 Uh we had Italian tying through Uh we have we 0:51:37.800 --> 0:51:42.120 have had chige revol and meet balls and I car 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:44.359 remember there's a there was an older family that made 0:51:44.400 --> 0:51:47.640 raviolis in Newport and they finally went back started making 0:51:47.880 --> 0:51:50.479 them again and uh we went over to a market 0:51:50.520 --> 0:51:53.560 where they distributed them to a local distributor. Now and 0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:56.120 we had My wife remembered him when they she was 0:51:56.160 --> 0:51:59.920 growing up and uh, so that's what we had for dinner. 0:52:00.840 --> 0:52:03.760 One grandson, so he opened up. He was the focus 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:05.759 of the of the night so. 0:52:06.080 --> 0:52:10.759 Well on Christmas night because we went to Tennessee to 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.960 see mom and dad on Christmas Eve morning. Yeah, and 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.799 spent the afternoon and the night with him and woke 0:52:17.920 --> 0:52:20.600 up the next morning, went over to my brother's house, 0:52:20.640 --> 0:52:24.080 also in the middle Tennessee area, and we left before dinner. 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:26.200 I just wanted to get back before dark. But we 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:31.680 did stop at BUCkies on the way and so Christmas night, 0:52:31.760 --> 0:52:36.200 Christ and I had had BUCkies brisket sandwiches, which were 0:52:36.239 --> 0:52:37.960 absolutely delicious. 0:52:38.719 --> 0:52:40.680 Did you did you fill out that pop number two 0:52:41.000 --> 0:52:41.760 and forty three. 0:52:43.120 --> 0:52:49.040 Didn't need gas, No, but we got some brisket sandwiches. 0:52:49.080 --> 0:52:52.000 One of these huge cobb salads that they make which 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:57.120 are delicious, a thing of bouta, which is a Louisiana 0:52:58.080 --> 0:53:01.360 kind of sausage rice treat that I love, and uh 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:04.280 got a couple of gifts from for people who watched 0:53:04.320 --> 0:53:07.920 Frankie while we were gone. But it was it was 0:53:07.960 --> 0:53:11.600 a very nice Christmas on the way. Great to be 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:13.600 with family, you know, and that that's what it's really 0:53:13.640 --> 0:53:16.759 all about to me, seeing the family members. And I 0:53:16.800 --> 0:53:20.840 feel bad for people who are, you know, either because 0:53:20.920 --> 0:53:24.799 of whatever reason, maybe everybody's just gone, they don't have 0:53:24.880 --> 0:53:28.920 family around, because to me, that's what makes Christmas Christmas. 0:53:30.640 --> 0:53:33.000 Yeah, you're right, what do you got this morning? 0:53:34.160 --> 0:53:39.440 I listened to your your birthday show and yeah, congratulations 0:53:39.440 --> 0:53:39.759 of all that. 0:53:40.000 --> 0:53:40.560 I'm sorry I. 0:53:40.480 --> 0:53:46.400 Couldn't make it. Uh, but that's the doctor Somarco with 0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:51.279 the with the rod Nathan. I know we don't have 0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:52.640 much time, Gary, Jeff, that's right. 0:53:52.880 --> 0:53:54.879 I'm I'm very I. 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:57.840 Just want On wl w T, it does read that 0:53:58.640 --> 0:54:02.880 they actually looked at missus Nathan's autopsy report and the 0:54:02.960 --> 0:54:08.160 liver sample on and says she did not have hepatized 0:54:08.280 --> 0:54:11.560 pace from the from liver sample. But you go to 0:54:11.680 --> 0:54:17.440 the w CPO site, and Jones's attorney says multiple BORE 0:54:17.560 --> 0:54:21.839 certified physicians reviewed the comments lack of information Nthan's liver 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:24.640 support she did not have hepatize B, and they said 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:27.560 that shows a shocky misunderstanding of how hepty and how 0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:35.359 it manifests h And I look at the the I said, 0:54:35.560 --> 0:54:37.880 would hepatize be show up in the liver culture quickly? 0:54:38.760 --> 0:54:41.319 And the information is no, it does not show up 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:44.960 show offensively in liver cultures, but it does show up 0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:49.239 and what they call the macrophages of the liver immediately 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:54.040 in the liver, so you can actually biopsy the liver 0:54:54.200 --> 0:54:57.600 and look at the microphages for hept B right away. 0:54:57.680 --> 0:54:59.680 And it takes almost nine weeks worth to enter the 0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:02.480 blood to be to be visible in the in a 0:55:02.480 --> 0:55:06.359 blood sample. And then I figured, well, you know, there's 0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:07.880 so much confusion. 0:55:07.320 --> 0:55:07.920 Going on in this. 0:55:08.880 --> 0:55:11.439 I don't think anybody knows exactly what what the heck 0:55:11.480 --> 0:55:12.200 of reading. 0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:17.600 Well, there was only a one in three chance. Uh, yeah, Jones. 0:55:17.320 --> 0:55:21.120 Would would have had hepatitis be even if Rodonathan had 0:55:21.160 --> 0:55:21.920 hepatitis be. 0:55:23.120 --> 0:55:25.000 Right, But they're all focusing on the fact that she 0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:28.920 did have it right, Yeah, and he and he didn't. So, 0:55:29.320 --> 0:55:32.640 but I said, can help have be can be confirmed 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:36.719 in an exune body? Absolutely they can. If I was, 0:55:36.920 --> 0:55:39.280 if I was the family of that that that lady, 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:43.480 especially you know, the sun still around, you can I 0:55:43.719 --> 0:55:45.799 know this is gett a little little, but you can 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:49.520 exumee the body and actually find that the HEP surface 0:55:49.560 --> 0:55:55.160 antigen still in the liver and and the virus DNA 0:55:55.400 --> 0:55:57.040 still in the body. And they actually do this in 0:55:57.160 --> 0:56:02.560 mummies there were thousands of years old. But I just 0:56:02.680 --> 0:56:05.239 I just don't. I just well, I just find it. 0:56:05.280 --> 0:56:07.000 I just find it hard to believe that actually had 0:56:07.080 --> 0:56:10.360 somebody look at a liver sample, and you know, so 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:11.320 much conflicting. 0:56:12.200 --> 0:56:15.920 The whole discussion Michael, about hepatitis BE and whether she 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:19.000 did or didn't have it, and whether Elwood Jones would 0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:20.960 have had it if he had murdered her, and all 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:24.680 of this is is that is moot because there was 0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:28.640 plenty of evidence to suggest that yes, he should have 0:56:28.680 --> 0:56:31.440 very convicted, agreed, and and and you noticed that Elwood 0:56:31.480 --> 0:56:33.719 didn't waste any time being in trouble with the law 0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:34.880 once he was free. 0:56:35.560 --> 0:56:38.279 Yeah, I saw that. But I just think that they're 0:56:38.280 --> 0:56:40.920 going to focus on this I just think I just 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:43.920 think that they just somebody needs needs to, you know, 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:47.560 do the correct science, and something something screwed up in 0:56:47.600 --> 0:56:50.359 the paperwork, and I just think I needed to look 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:53.160 at it closer. But that's my opinion on this whole thing. 0:56:53.640 --> 0:56:58.040 Yeah, well, uh there you go. My my feeling, my 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:01.400 feeling is. My feeling is mister Jones will find his 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:05.360 way back to prison sooner or later anyway. Eight twelve 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:10.200 and I hope not. Eight twelve, seven hundred WLW, Good 0:57:10.360 --> 0:57:16.200 morning kids, time will give strawally true love never dies. 0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:20.640 Grandpa and Grandma sitting on their front porch rockers, watching 0:57:20.680 --> 0:57:23.520 a beautiful sunset and reminiscing about the good old days. 0:57:23.560 --> 0:57:26.800 When Grandma turns to Grandpa and says, honey, do you 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:29.680 remember when we first started dating and you used to 0:57:29.840 --> 0:57:34.480 just casually reach over and take my hand. Grandpa looks 0:57:34.480 --> 0:57:37.880 at her, smiles and took her age at hand in 0:57:38.000 --> 0:57:41.560 his with a wry little smile. Grandma pressed a little 0:57:41.600 --> 0:57:45.040 bit farther, honey, do you remember how after we were 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:49.680 engaged sometimes you'd lean over and suddenly just kiss me 0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:54.680 on the cheek. Grandpa leaned slowly towards Grandma and gave 0:57:54.680 --> 0:57:59.360 her a lingering kiss on her wrinkled cheek, growing bolder. 0:57:59.400 --> 0:58:03.040 Grandma's is, Honey, do you remember how after we were 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:06.240 first married and you'd kind of nibble on my ear? 0:58:07.800 --> 0:58:10.480 Grandpa nodded and slowly got up from his rocker and 0:58:10.520 --> 0:58:13.960 headed into the house. Grandma said, Honey, where are you going? 0:58:14.520 --> 0:58:19.440 Grandpa said, to get my teeth Eastern that is. And 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:23.120 a Saturday morning again together here on seven utter WLW 0:58:23.120 --> 0:58:27.800 Garry Jeff Walker, the last Saturday of the year, heading 0:58:27.840 --> 0:58:31.240 into a new year in a busy, busy college football 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:34.880 bowl weekend, and looking ahead to New Year's Eve and 0:58:34.920 --> 0:58:37.120 New Year's Day to talk about all that and more. 0:58:37.600 --> 0:58:41.640 Our friend Moegger joins us again. Hey, mo, how are 0:58:41.640 --> 0:58:44.520 you doing. We're doing okay. 0:58:45.240 --> 0:58:51.160 These EHL hockey players not so much apparently. The thing 0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:55.360 I know some people who work for the Cyclones and 0:58:55.440 --> 0:58:59.800 work is kind of like that's an operative term because 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:01.960 I mean, they don't get paid very much, but they 0:59:02.000 --> 0:59:04.840 love hockey, so that's why they work Cyclones games when 0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:08.760 the Clones are home. They were planning on working today 0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:12.960 until the strike came about with the Hockey Players Union 0:59:13.480 --> 0:59:17.160 against the EHL over working conditions and salary, all of 0:59:17.200 --> 0:59:22.480 the usual things. But they made a good point. The 0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:28.320 game may get played tonight at Heritage Bank Arena because 0:59:29.360 --> 0:59:32.840 they may have replacements. And the thing they told me 0:59:32.960 --> 0:59:38.640 yesterday is that what these players may or may not understand, 0:59:39.120 --> 0:59:41.880 there are plenty of players in the wings who waiting 0:59:41.920 --> 0:59:44.480 to go ahead and lace up the skates and play. 0:59:45.040 --> 0:59:49.800 It's not exactly one of those situations where it's going 0:59:49.880 --> 0:59:52.680 to be hard for scabs to walk across the picket 0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:54.720 lines of minor league hockey players. 0:59:54.720 --> 0:59:56.760 But I don't know. I just. 0:59:58.800 --> 1:00:02.320 One of the gripes, apparently, is that in the NHL 1:00:02.400 --> 1:00:04.360 they never have to play more than two nights in 1:00:04.400 --> 1:00:07.920 a row, and these guys, you know, they're barnstorming for 1:00:08.040 --> 1:00:11.000 very little money with very little prospect of really making 1:00:11.040 --> 1:00:14.200 it to the bigs, and they sometimes they're having to 1:00:14.240 --> 1:00:16.400 go three games in a row on the road, and 1:00:16.640 --> 1:00:20.520 it's pretty grueling. I guess you have to really love hockey, 1:00:20.600 --> 1:00:23.040 I guess if you want to play in the minors. 1:00:24.080 --> 1:00:25.560 In any thoughts on any of. 1:00:25.520 --> 1:00:30.640 That, well, you mentioned the prospect of replacement players, and 1:00:30.680 --> 1:00:33.200 what I think is interesting about that is, you know, 1:00:33.280 --> 1:00:37.360 if we were talking about the upper reaches of the sport, 1:00:37.600 --> 1:00:40.800 right the NHL, which the NHL has gone through lockouts 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:46.840 missed an entire season about twenty years ago. Fans aren't 1:00:46.880 --> 1:00:50.720 going to accept replacement players at the highest level of sport. 1:00:50.800 --> 1:00:52.320 I think that would have been the case with Major 1:00:52.400 --> 1:00:56.160 League Baseball when they briefly attempted it in nineteen ninety five. 1:00:56.760 --> 1:00:59.200 It was clearly the case with the National Football League 1:00:59.200 --> 1:01:01.720 in nineteen eighty seven, and I think would be the 1:01:01.800 --> 1:01:04.760 case in the NHL. But the ECCHL is not the 1:01:04.840 --> 1:01:08.000 upper reaches of the sport. It's it's actually the one 1:01:08.000 --> 1:01:11.040 of the lowest levels of professional hockey there is. That's 1:01:11.040 --> 1:01:13.880 not to say that those players aren't supremely talented. That's 1:01:13.920 --> 1:01:15.720 not to say that some of those guys you know 1:01:15.800 --> 1:01:17.600 aren't going to have a chance to one day make 1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:22.120 the NHL. But I would wonder this, your average Cincinnati 1:01:22.240 --> 1:01:27.560 Cyclones ticket buyer, how much do they really care about 1:01:27.600 --> 1:01:31.400 the quality of the play and would they accept a 1:01:31.520 --> 1:01:34.440 level of play that was maybe a wrung or two 1:01:34.560 --> 1:01:39.240 below what they're ordinarily getting at the ECCHL. Look, the 1:01:39.280 --> 1:01:42.480 Cincinnati Cyclones are a really cool local sports entity. 1:01:42.560 --> 1:01:43.640 They do a great job. 1:01:43.480 --> 1:01:46.439 With promotions, and on the ice they have been more 1:01:46.480 --> 1:01:49.000 than competitive for a very very long time. 1:01:49.720 --> 1:01:51.080 But I don't know that. 1:01:51.080 --> 1:01:53.440 Many people who go to Cincinnati Cyclones games who know 1:01:53.440 --> 1:01:55.560 who any of the players are. And that's no not 1:01:55.680 --> 1:01:56.960 going to any of the players. I think it's just 1:01:57.360 --> 1:01:59.720 a reality of the market. You know, Cyclones games are 1:01:59.720 --> 1:02:02.720 not on television, they're not on local radio. The coverage 1:02:02.760 --> 1:02:05.720 they get, frankly pales in comparison to some of the 1:02:05.800 --> 1:02:08.400 larger entities in town. That doesn't mean they don't have 1:02:08.600 --> 1:02:11.280 very good players, it doesn't mean the on ice product 1:02:11.320 --> 1:02:14.800 can't be compelling. But I would wonder how many fans 1:02:14.840 --> 1:02:17.720 would go, you know what, on a Saturday night, I 1:02:17.840 --> 1:02:19.600 go to have a beer, I go for whatever the 1:02:19.640 --> 1:02:21.760 promotion is, and I go to see some hockey, and 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:24.880 if the hockey isn't nearly as good, that's okay. I 1:02:25.200 --> 1:02:28.600 would wonder that in terms of what the EHL players 1:02:28.600 --> 1:02:33.600 are looking for, Like I certainly understand, you know, you 1:02:33.720 --> 1:02:38.000 only get so many opportunities to bargain in professional sports. 1:02:38.000 --> 1:02:40.400 You only get so many opportunities to use your leverage. 1:02:40.560 --> 1:02:43.480 Players are doing that. I would wonder how much is 1:02:43.520 --> 1:02:46.520 this going to hurt the wallets of EHL owners, but 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:48.600 some of the things they're looking for. You know, the 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:51.360 Cyclones will have weekends where they will play a game 1:02:51.400 --> 1:02:54.160 on Friday night, They'll play a game on Saturday night, 1:02:54.360 --> 1:02:56.840 They'll play a game on Sunday afternoon. That's three games 1:02:57.280 --> 1:03:00.840 in less than forty eight hours, often in multiple cities. 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:05.160 I can understand that not necessarily being something that players 1:03:05.200 --> 1:03:08.320 want to continue. I think they're fighting for better equipment. 1:03:08.400 --> 1:03:10.680 I can certainly understand that. I think they're fighting for 1:03:10.760 --> 1:03:16.320 more days off, better travel conditions, obviously better pay. I'd 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:19.880 beligned you if I told you I've dove I've gone 1:03:19.920 --> 1:03:22.600 deep into what the average ECHL player makes. 1:03:22.760 --> 1:03:23.360 But we'll see. 1:03:23.360 --> 1:03:26.120 But I think you make a really interesting point because 1:03:26.200 --> 1:03:29.280 I don't know, like I'll go to like two Cyclones 1:03:29.320 --> 1:03:31.440 games a year, and they're a blast, and they do 1:03:31.480 --> 1:03:34.440 a great job, and I like hockey. I think if 1:03:34.480 --> 1:03:37.160 I had tickets for a game and I was going 1:03:37.200 --> 1:03:40.680 to be told you get replacement EHL players, I think 1:03:40.720 --> 1:03:44.360 I'd probably shrug my shoulders and go, let's go. Whereas 1:03:44.480 --> 1:03:46.000 I don't think I would do that if I had 1:03:46.000 --> 1:03:49.200 tickets to an NHL game, or an NBA game, or 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:52.040 an NFL game, or a Major League Baseball game, and 1:03:52.080 --> 1:03:54.120 they were going to put out replacement players because of 1:03:54.120 --> 1:03:55.080 a labor stoppage. 1:03:55.640 --> 1:03:59.360 Yeah, well, I mean helmets that actually protect them and fit. 1:03:59.640 --> 1:04:04.800 I can understand how that might be an issue. But 1:04:06.480 --> 1:04:09.480 part of EHL contracts right now, and they were telling 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:13.440 you this these guys at work clones games, is that 1:04:13.960 --> 1:04:18.080 they do get a free apartment and they get health benefits. 1:04:19.200 --> 1:04:24.440 They've all been evicted from their apartments as of the 1:04:24.560 --> 1:04:28.800 moment that the strike occurred. So that's what I've been told. So, 1:04:29.080 --> 1:04:33.160 you know, to be homeless and to be out of 1:04:33.160 --> 1:04:35.640 a hockey gig, I don't know if that's the best 1:04:35.680 --> 1:04:36.640 move possible. 1:04:36.720 --> 1:04:39.200 But like I said, and what I would wonder is 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:39.960 what I would. 1:04:39.760 --> 1:04:42.640 Wonder is, like, you know, in Major League Baseball, there's 1:04:42.960 --> 1:04:46.880 a strike fund right where if the if the Players 1:04:46.920 --> 1:04:49.360 Association says, look, we think there's going to be a 1:04:49.400 --> 1:04:53.800 work stoppage, they will have their players stash money aside 1:04:53.920 --> 1:04:58.360 for a stoppage fund. Now it's major League Baseball, very 1:04:58.360 --> 1:05:02.000 few players are worried about their housing. But I think 1:05:02.000 --> 1:05:05.320 that raises another good question because this this just landed 1:05:05.320 --> 1:05:07.600 on my radar last week. I happened to see a 1:05:07.640 --> 1:05:10.440 social media post by the EHL Players Association. 1:05:10.720 --> 1:05:11.280 I had no. 1:05:11.240 --> 1:05:13.800 Idea that we were talking about a potential strike, but 1:05:13.840 --> 1:05:15.960 I am curious, and I'm going to. 1:05:15.960 --> 1:05:16.520 Look into this. 1:05:16.560 --> 1:05:21.560 I am curious as to, you know, what, what what 1:05:21.560 --> 1:05:25.400 what plans were made to account for the players not 1:05:25.480 --> 1:05:30.040 being able to live in the organization or team subsidized 1:05:30.360 --> 1:05:32.800 housing that they receive. I think it's a good question. 1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:35.560 I don't necessarily know that the answer is going to 1:05:35.600 --> 1:05:37.440 be all that hard to find, but I am curious. 1:05:37.760 --> 1:05:40.960 I'm actually a little disappointed that the Snoop Dog Bowl 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:44.000 is being played in Arizona and not in Mile High Stadium. 1:05:46.520 --> 1:05:50.360 Well done done, I remind your red Ox and the 1:05:50.680 --> 1:05:52.600 frant Noo State Bulldogs. 1:05:52.040 --> 1:05:53.040 In the Snoop Dog Bowl. 1:05:53.520 --> 1:06:02.320 Exactly are you surprised? I mean anymore, it's become commonplace 1:06:02.360 --> 1:06:04.720 that we have all these bowl games. But I mean, 1:06:04.760 --> 1:06:07.920 there are bowl games just to have bowl games, it seems, 1:06:08.200 --> 1:06:12.040 and you know, we're all waiting. At least I am 1:06:12.120 --> 1:06:14.520 chomping at the bit for the main entree on New 1:06:14.640 --> 1:06:17.320 Year's Eve and New Year's Day with the football playoff? 1:06:18.480 --> 1:06:22.560 How much do you think people care about these various 1:06:22.600 --> 1:06:26.200 and sundry other Bowl games unless they're fans of that 1:06:26.560 --> 1:06:29.760 the schools that are in them. 1:06:29.960 --> 1:06:33.280 Well, I think it's hard to I think it's hard 1:06:33.280 --> 1:06:36.160 to ask fans to care about them when oftentimes the 1:06:36.160 --> 1:06:38.760 players and coaches don't share enough to either play or 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:39.320 coaching them. 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:39.600 Right. 1:06:39.840 --> 1:06:42.960 I mean, at the end of the day, when you 1:06:43.000 --> 1:06:45.200 have some of these games where the players or the 1:06:45.240 --> 1:06:48.320 coaches involved will say I'm opting out, well, then you 1:06:48.360 --> 1:06:51.200 know fans inevitably are going to follow the line. 1:06:52.280 --> 1:06:53.000 Yeah. 1:06:53.040 --> 1:06:58.480 I think the one thing keeping these ball games afloat 1:06:59.240 --> 1:07:02.240 is gambling, right, because there are still a lot of 1:07:02.280 --> 1:07:05.960 folks who loved the wage were on college football and 1:07:06.080 --> 1:07:09.560 love to find an edge. And it doesn't necessarily matter 1:07:09.760 --> 1:07:12.400 who's playing, and I'm talking about in terms of the 1:07:12.400 --> 1:07:15.760 best players who's playing in the games. They'll see a 1:07:15.800 --> 1:07:18.120 point spread they like and they'll make a wager. The 1:07:18.240 --> 1:07:22.360 reality is those ball games. ESPN loves the inventory. They 1:07:22.400 --> 1:07:26.080 eat a lot of innings this time of year, especially 1:07:26.120 --> 1:07:29.040 playing in times where maybe the NBA isn't playing and 1:07:29.040 --> 1:07:32.960 there's no college basketball, and the games actually do pretty well. 1:07:33.000 --> 1:07:36.400 It's funny. Christmas Eve night we had the Hawaii Ball on. 1:07:36.520 --> 1:07:39.320 It was California and Hawaii. It was actually a fight 1:07:39.360 --> 1:07:41.520 in the game. It's a pretty good football game, and 1:07:41.560 --> 1:07:44.080 you just kind of have it on because it's football. 1:07:44.120 --> 1:07:49.080 I think if yes with with a ball that was 1:07:49.120 --> 1:07:51.520 being played early in the day, Central Michigan was one 1:07:51.520 --> 1:07:53.200 of the teams, and it goes to show you how 1:07:53.200 --> 1:07:55.840 little the game actually registered because I couldn't remember who 1:07:55.840 --> 1:07:57.120 the other team was, but. 1:07:57.120 --> 1:07:58.320 It was football and it was on. 1:07:59.000 --> 1:08:02.200 And so I think those bowls, you know, sort of 1:08:02.680 --> 1:08:06.000 hang in the background just enough because there's people who 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:08.080 do that. But yeah, look, I mean there was a 1:08:08.120 --> 1:08:11.320 time where New Year's even New Year's Day, you would 1:08:11.360 --> 1:08:13.360 line up all these ball games and they felt like 1:08:13.400 --> 1:08:14.720 they had some gravitas. 1:08:15.000 --> 1:08:18.000 That is not the case anymore, right. 1:08:18.640 --> 1:08:21.840 I am looking for other than the playoff games. I 1:08:21.880 --> 1:08:24.639 am looking forward to the noon game on New Year's 1:08:24.680 --> 1:08:29.600 Eve because it's my Vanderbilt Commodores against my dad's Iowa Hawkeyes. 1:08:30.000 --> 1:08:34.439 And if we could only be back in Tennessee for that. 1:08:36.200 --> 1:08:40.360 I love that NFL down to the last two weeks 1:08:40.720 --> 1:08:43.880 and very little drama left about who is going to 1:08:43.920 --> 1:08:46.880 be in the playoffs, at least in the NFC. I mean, 1:08:46.880 --> 1:08:50.080 I think that they're what the question between what the 1:08:50.120 --> 1:08:53.280 Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's the only 1:08:54.360 --> 1:08:58.479 possible slot that will change depending on the games. But 1:08:58.560 --> 1:09:03.439 in the AFC, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I really 1:09:03.520 --> 1:09:07.240 didn't expect the Steelers to be there at the end. 1:09:07.320 --> 1:09:10.200 I expected it would be Baltimore's year, or maybe the 1:09:10.200 --> 1:09:15.720 Bengals early before the season started. Are you surprised that 1:09:15.760 --> 1:09:18.320 the Steelers are once again knocking on the door of 1:09:19.240 --> 1:09:20.920 being in the playoffs, and not only being in the 1:09:20.920 --> 1:09:22.919 playoffs but winning the AFC? 1:09:22.960 --> 1:09:29.520 Nor surprise, not shocked. I thought when Baltimore dug themselves 1:09:29.520 --> 1:09:31.839 out of that one in five hole to even themselves 1:09:31.880 --> 1:09:33.720 up at five and five, it kind of felt like 1:09:34.520 --> 1:09:37.840 they were set to take off and run and it didn't. 1:09:37.880 --> 1:09:40.519 Never really happen. Pittsburgh won the head to head matchup. 1:09:40.640 --> 1:09:43.600 Lord Jackson has not been himself. I don't know that 1:09:43.640 --> 1:09:46.080 he's gonna play tonight because he's got a back. Obviously, 1:09:46.120 --> 1:09:49.280 the Bengals issues have been well documented. But you know, 1:09:49.320 --> 1:09:52.200 there was a time at mid November where Aaron Rodgers 1:09:52.320 --> 1:09:54.559 was playing like a guy his age, where you say 1:09:54.560 --> 1:09:58.240 that that Pittsburgh defense was a little bit of an 1:09:58.439 --> 1:10:02.000 underachiever collectively, and I do give them credit. They did 1:10:02.040 --> 1:10:04.439 beat the Ravens in their building. They came back and 1:10:04.479 --> 1:10:08.599 beat the Bengals after losing to them in Cincinnati in October. 1:10:08.680 --> 1:10:11.080 They went to Detroit last week and beat a desperate 1:10:11.120 --> 1:10:13.639 Lions team. I think they got some help from the officials, 1:10:13.680 --> 1:10:15.880 but still beat a death Lions team. And Aaron Rodgers 1:10:15.920 --> 1:10:19.480 has played capably. They've recommitted themselves. 1:10:19.040 --> 1:10:19.960 To running the football. 1:10:20.000 --> 1:10:22.679 They've gotten by defensively despite not having TJ. 1:10:22.880 --> 1:10:23.200 Watt. 1:10:23.360 --> 1:10:24.280 I don't know. 1:10:24.960 --> 1:10:28.320 That I take Pittsburgh that seriously as a bona fide 1:10:28.400 --> 1:10:32.519 Super Bowl contender, but somebody had to win the AFC North. 1:10:32.840 --> 1:10:35.519 The Bengals couldn't rise to the challenge. The Ravens haven't 1:10:35.520 --> 1:10:38.880 been able to rise to the challenge. Pittsburgh just needs 1:10:38.920 --> 1:10:41.240 one win in their last two games or a Baltimore 1:10:41.280 --> 1:10:43.160 loss in one of their last two games, and they'll 1:10:43.160 --> 1:10:47.519 be division champs. And champions deserve credit. I'll begrudgingly get it. 1:10:47.720 --> 1:10:49.120 Give it to the Pittsburgh Steelers. 1:10:49.360 --> 1:10:53.000 I'm really disappointed that the Lions got drummed out, but 1:10:53.479 --> 1:10:57.320 they're so decimated by injuries, especially in that defense that 1:10:57.400 --> 1:11:00.760 they really couldn't compete as the season wound down. 1:11:01.000 --> 1:11:05.880 You agree, I agree, and you know it highlights I 1:11:05.880 --> 1:11:09.120 think two things. Number One, coaching matters in this league, 1:11:09.120 --> 1:11:11.360 and I've always believed if you go back more than 1:11:11.400 --> 1:11:14.160 a decade, Marvin Lewis when he was the coach of 1:11:14.160 --> 1:11:17.760 the Bengals, I think his finest single season coaching job 1:11:17.800 --> 1:11:21.639 took place in twenty fourteen because that season they had 1:11:21.680 --> 1:11:24.760 a ton of injuries, but he had two new coordinators 1:11:24.800 --> 1:11:28.080 offensively and defensively. They won ten games, tied one, went 1:11:28.120 --> 1:11:29.800 into their last game of the season with a chance 1:11:29.800 --> 1:11:31.760 to win the division, made the playoffs, didn't win a 1:11:31.760 --> 1:11:35.479 playoff game, obviously, but I think that season, if you 1:11:35.479 --> 1:11:38.240 watch closely, it illustrated how hard it is to replace 1:11:38.280 --> 1:11:41.200 both coordinators. The Detroit Lions had to do that this year, 1:11:41.240 --> 1:11:43.519 and I think they felt that impact. The other thing is, 1:11:44.360 --> 1:11:46.120 you know, this was a team to two years ago 1:11:46.240 --> 1:11:49.760 had a two touchdown lead in the NFC Championship game 1:11:50.080 --> 1:11:53.120 and lost. Had the best record in the sport last year, 1:11:53.520 --> 1:11:58.479 had home field throughout, lost at home, win closed very quickly. 1:11:58.520 --> 1:12:00.400 In the NFL, I think we've seen that to a 1:12:00.439 --> 1:12:03.400 degree here in Cincinnati, and Dan Campbell, the coach at Alliance, 1:12:03.439 --> 1:12:06.360 after that NFC Championship game in San Francisco two years 1:12:06.400 --> 1:12:09.400 ago when they had a big lead and lost, said 1:12:09.960 --> 1:12:12.840 this might have been our best chance. You know, you 1:12:12.840 --> 1:12:14.840 don't want to really believe that in real time. It's 1:12:14.880 --> 1:12:17.000 kind of like the Bengals Afterday lost the Super Bowl. 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:19.000 It was great that they got there, but you wondered 1:12:19.000 --> 1:12:20.960 after that game, you know, is this going to be 1:12:21.000 --> 1:12:23.200 their best chance? Turns out, at least to this point, 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:25.920 it has been. I think in Detroit, it's not so 1:12:26.000 --> 1:12:28.080 much about what they haven't been able to do this year. 1:12:28.240 --> 1:12:30.840 They have had a ton of injuries. It's the missed 1:12:30.840 --> 1:12:33.840 opportunities of the last couple of seasons sort of echoing 1:12:33.880 --> 1:12:36.040 through this season of change and disappointment. 1:12:36.600 --> 1:12:41.000 Moeger, have a happy new year and we look forward 1:12:41.040 --> 1:12:42.559 to talking to you in twenty twenty six. 1:12:43.120 --> 1:12:45.519 Counselor, how are you hey? I'm good, Gary, Jeff? How 1:12:45.520 --> 1:12:47.479 about you tell me what's on the show today. Oh, 1:12:47.520 --> 1:12:50.120 I'll tell you what. More craziness in Minnesota. You are 1:12:50.520 --> 1:12:53.920 not gonna believe this. One four million bucks was giving 1:12:54.000 --> 1:12:58.639 to a learning center with no students and the sign 1:12:58.920 --> 1:13:04.320 in front of the player. They misspelled learning I'm hot kidding. 1:13:04.760 --> 1:13:08.519 You can't make this stuff up. You can't make it up. 1:13:09.080 --> 1:13:12.800 The confirmed fraud now is about eleven billion. By the way, 1:13:12.800 --> 1:13:15.040 we are going to be talking to Janis Heisel at 1:13:15.400 --> 1:13:18.920 believe ten o'clock or ten thirty. She's on it like 1:13:19.040 --> 1:13:22.920 White on Rice. Jimmy Kimmel back in the news he 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:27.080 takes shots at Trump while in the UK. You know 1:13:27.240 --> 1:13:30.040 so much for the unwritten rule that you don't criticize 1:13:30.040 --> 1:13:33.799 your president or your country when you're out of the country. 1:13:34.200 --> 1:13:36.919 We're gonna wrap it up by talking to FOP President 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:40.519 Ken Kober, Gonna get his thoughts on the Elwood Jones 1:13:40.640 --> 1:13:44.600 O VII, Fiesco and some other things going on with CPD. 1:13:44.400 --> 1:13:46.760 Lots of college football bowl games. Come join us at 1:13:46.760 --> 1:13:49.840 the after the show show at Huddles if you dare 1:13:50.439 --> 1:13:53.240 weather it's gonna be nice today, good driving, and we'll 1:13:53.240 --> 1:13:55.559 see you then slinging drinks for Hillbillies and others. As 1:13:55.560 --> 1:13:59.800 I'd like to say, the Saturday midday Show with Mike 1:14:00.320 --> 1:14:01.160 come it up next.