Speaker 1: Here we are. It's a fine Monday night, Sterling stepping
Speaker 1: in after a UC basketball bear Cat win ninety four
Speaker 1: sixty three over the Catamounts of Western Carolina. West Miller's
Speaker 1: a bear Casts with a win to start the regular season.
Speaker 1: Fifth third arena in here on seven hundred wl W
Speaker 1: Gary Jeff Walker, who's normally here at this time, going
Speaker 1: to join us later. He got the night off, but
Speaker 1: he's I want to talk about raised relationship issues if
Speaker 1: you've got time. So it's like, sure, we'll do that
Speaker 1: after eleven o'clock. We can fit you in. Of course.
Speaker 1: Also a good news for NKU fans. The Norse nearly
Speaker 1: doubled up. This is insane. I think it's the most
Speaker 1: they've ever scored in a game of hoops. One twenty
Speaker 1: six sixty nine winners over UC Claremont, and that was
Speaker 1: the truest arena. So the Cougars of Claremont U see
Speaker 1: going back there and not feeling good about their trip
Speaker 1: to Northern Kentucky. The marist Red Foxes were at Sintas
Speaker 1: taking on the Musketeers, Xavier handling them sixty six sixty
Speaker 1: two at Sintas. That's a win for the Bearcats, a
Speaker 1: win for the Musketeers, a win for the Norse and
Speaker 1: the Dayton Flyers all over Canisius's Golden Griffins you deer
Speaker 1: in earlier eighty eight forty eight, So those are all good,
Speaker 1: and then of course yesterday there was the devastating, heartbreaking
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be as emotionally engaged as it's
Speaker 1: just debilitating Otherwise, the Bengals with a tough loss, and
Speaker 1: a really tough loss for a lot of us who
Speaker 1: grew up listening to seven hundred WLW who were Bengals fans.
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy some would call him the godfather of sports
Speaker 1: talk radio. Announcement that he passed away over the weekend
Speaker 1: and apparently surrounded by family. We will talk to Lance
Speaker 1: McCallister just after ten o'clock about Bob, as well as
Speaker 1: George Vogel, former sports director at Channel five WLWT, going
Speaker 1: to join us about ten thirty five to talk about
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy, huge shoes and voice behind the microphone, just
Speaker 1: a good guy. I'll let these guys tell the story
Speaker 1: because they knew him, they worked around him, aside from
Speaker 1: me just growing up listening and then once I came
Speaker 1: into this building, or at least the building in Mount
Speaker 1: Adams when we were there years ago. He had already
Speaker 1: moved on to be doing NFL stuff full time on
Speaker 1: TV and radio, but occasionally would pop in the building.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's one of these things that you
Speaker 1: grew up listening to this radio station, you end up
Speaker 1: working in the building or working on the air here
Speaker 1: at the Big One, and I was doing FM stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure. I had probably started to do
Speaker 1: some stuff here fill ins and otherwise on seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW at that point, So Trumpy would be in the
Speaker 1: building on occasion, the way so many other people you see,
Speaker 1: like Johnny Bench, you know, you see anybody and everybody.
Speaker 1: Pete Rose randomly, you know, James Brown randomly. It's just
Speaker 1: sort of a crazy thing, especially growing up as a fan.
Speaker 1: Right In a couple of handful of times that we
Speaker 1: actually conversed, he was always very polite. I don't think
Speaker 1: he really knew who I was, because I was literally
Speaker 1: like a fly on the wall and the long haired
Speaker 1: FM music guy from upstairs at the time who would
Speaker 1: sort of like be bouncing around the building and sort
Speaker 1: of bumped into him and others. But he was always
Speaker 1: very polite, very friendly, and obviously fantastic to listen to.
Speaker 1: And I know Lance will have a lot to say
Speaker 1: about him, as will George Vogel. And my heart goes
Speaker 1: out to his Family's had just a brilliant life, a
Speaker 1: career and seemed to just be really everything you'd want
Speaker 1: to be as an individual and a family man and
Speaker 1: so forth. A little bit that I actually knew of him,
Speaker 1: So that'll be good coming up in just a little
Speaker 1: bit tomorrow's election day. Also, if you hadn't heard, they're
Speaker 1: expecting a whopping twenty five. In fact, maybe if they
Speaker 1: reached thirty percent of those eligible voters to actually go
Speaker 1: to the polling place is tomorrow, or to have already
Speaker 1: cast their ballot in early voting, if not mailing it
Speaker 1: in thirty percent would be like a massive turnout for
Speaker 1: this sort of in between election, even though it is
Speaker 1: for a lot of council seats in Cincinnati and a
Speaker 1: mayor's race as well, and a lot of stuff sort
Speaker 1: of on the ballot or randomly around the tri state,
Speaker 1: around the country for that matter, too. So we will
Speaker 1: talk on that just a little bit, you know. And
Speaker 1: I'm curious and I don't know, I'm just wondering because
Speaker 1: you talk to people and you listen to talk shows maybe,
Speaker 1: and you know on social media and so much is political,
Speaker 1: so much is all about it, all that, and you
Speaker 1: know how important the elections are, and you know the
Speaker 1: need for a better policing in Cincinnati, for instance, and
Speaker 1: what's gone on with the police chief and her on
Speaker 1: the sideline and then somebody else being brought you know, in,
Speaker 1: or at least bumped up in the organization to sort
Speaker 1: of handle things while the so called independent investigation is
Speaker 1: taking place, and the question of policing and the judiciary
Speaker 1: and how judges are handling things in the plan as
Speaker 1: far as you know, being tougher on crime or otherwise.
Speaker 1: So all of this is sort of you know, bubbling
Speaker 1: up is a part of what one would think would
Speaker 1: be something fairly serious to get people out to vote.
Speaker 1: We're can open up the phones, give you a chance
Speaker 1: to sound off five point three seven four nine, seven thousand,
Speaker 1: eight hundred, the big one, you can talk back the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. I'm just curious because of how important it
Speaker 1: is and statistically and historically speaking along those lines, this
Speaker 1: election one would think would be important. It is certainly
Speaker 1: talked about as important to you know, the talk of
Speaker 1: crime and businesses in downtown Cincinnati and across the region
Speaker 1: just in general, so many things of concern that maybe
Speaker 1: there would be more people coming out of the roadwork
Speaker 1: to have their voices heard. But it seems to me
Speaker 1: that twenty five percent is probably about what they're expect.
Speaker 1: If they were to get an extra five percent to
Speaker 1: thirty percent of those that are eligible to vote to
Speaker 1: actually show up and let their voice be heard, it
Speaker 1: would be shocking to those who count the votes and
Speaker 1: those who study these things. I'm wondering, how engaged and
Speaker 1: concerned are you. I mean, there are some things as
Speaker 1: far as renewals of taxes, there's you know, some judge
Speaker 1: ship situations that all these type of things are out there,
Speaker 1: and my guest, as much as there's been talk about it,
Speaker 1: it is still shocking and somewhat bewildering to me that
Speaker 1: so few people actually get out to vote and fairly
Speaker 1: important situation. So I'm just wondering, are you voting, Have
Speaker 1: you voted? How serious are you about it? How much
Speaker 1: do you care? I think there are some disenfranchised I've
Speaker 1: talked to people of a variety of age groups in
Speaker 1: the last week or so in and about the tri
Speaker 1: State up in the Miami Valley as well, and I
Speaker 1: talk to people, and people seem to be very soured
Speaker 1: and irritated and aggravated and dissatisfied in general with both
Speaker 1: parties and a lot of the individuals that are out
Speaker 1: there looking to try to either get rehired or to
Speaker 1: find themselves into new positions apparently to represent we the people,
Speaker 1: and to do the people's work, to make it safer,
Speaker 1: in a better environment for business, and all the other
Speaker 1: things that you would hope the government actually is going
Speaker 1: to be able to do or should be doing with
Speaker 1: your tax dollars and my tax dollars and Joe Waddell's
Speaker 1: tax dollars, who's producing, et cetera. To sort of go
Speaker 1: along with that, I mean, that's what one would think,
Speaker 1: But it does appear that perhaps as much people talk
Speaker 1: about it, that not a lot of people are. I
Speaker 1: think there's a dissatisfaction, and I think a disgruntled nature
Speaker 1: of a lot of talk and a lot of not
Speaker 1: being done that goes along with it. So we'll see
Speaker 1: exactly how how far it goes and what happens if
Speaker 1: there's a change in Cincinnati, if there's a change elsewhere around.
Speaker 1: We know that there were new lines drawn. As far
Speaker 1: as some call it jerrymandering, some people just call it redistricting.
Speaker 1: We know that it still does not fall in line
Speaker 1: with what the edict was from the Supreme Court, but
Speaker 1: apparently nobody pays attention to that. So going into twenty six,
Speaker 1: that's something that we will all have to live with
Speaker 1: and navigate one way or the other, whether it's fair
Speaker 1: representation or otherwise. We'll see exactly how it goes. This
Speaker 1: has been something that has been talked about for years
Speaker 1: and they've never gone beyond that. So we'll see exactly
Speaker 1: I guess what growth what goes along with that overall.
Speaker 1: So before we take the first break, five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: eight hundred, the Big One, talk back the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, are you going to vote? Have you voted?
Speaker 1: How concerned are you about it? One way or the other.
Speaker 1: Whether you're in Cincinnati or Dayton or Covington, Newport, doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: Hyde Park, you name it. It's an interesting thing where
Speaker 1: there's so much attention and you read the headlines. I've
Speaker 1: heard more in some fashion about a mayor's race in
Speaker 1: New York than I have about the mayor's race in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, what happens in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: I think is going to affect people in the Tri
Speaker 1: State more than what happens in New York. But that
Speaker 1: obviously is what is a sexy headline and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that goes along with it. So we'll see exactly
Speaker 1: how that plays out overall. I mean, it's a serious thing.
Speaker 1: And for those who don't know, and this is a
Speaker 1: fairly common thing. And I had this conversation with a
Speaker 1: neighbor of mine. They were like, they weren't sure if
Speaker 1: they were going to be able to vote. They didn't
Speaker 1: know if they had what they needed because they were
Speaker 1: afraid of being tighter when it comes to getting a
Speaker 1: chance to show up at the polls and do it.
Speaker 1: You can use your driver's license, You can use the
Speaker 1: State of Ohio ID. You can use an inuum I
Speaker 1: D if you have an interum ID from the Bureau
Speaker 1: of Motor Vehicles in Ohio. Anyway, if you have a passport,
Speaker 1: a passport of work, if you have a passport card
Speaker 1: or a US Military card, National Guard card for the
Speaker 1: for Ohio or a Veteran's Affairs ID card from the
Speaker 1: Department of Veteran Affairs. All photo IDs have to have
Speaker 1: an expiration date that is not expired. In other words,
Speaker 1: it has to be current. You have to have a
Speaker 1: photograph on that ID of the person doing the voting,
Speaker 1: so they know what you and not somebody else trying
Speaker 1: to hoist your voice. And the voter's name has to
Speaker 1: be apparently close as it possibly can be too entirely
Speaker 1: accurate looking at the voter role compared to what is
Speaker 1: on your ID, in other words, what's in the voting book.
Speaker 1: And if you're like me, they look at my signature
Speaker 1: and goes, we don't even believe that you have hands.
Speaker 1: It's almost like just a thumb print basically, So that's
Speaker 1: how they identify me generally speaking. So that's one of
Speaker 1: my neighbor was very concerned, like what about my cableville,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can use the cable bill and
Speaker 1: ongoing and the conversation and the argument that has been
Speaker 1: had over and over again is you know, oh, we
Speaker 1: need a better security around our polls and knowing that
Speaker 1: we know who's voting. Well, that's how that works, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too much to ask to have
Speaker 1: somebody have an ID with their picture on it or otherwise.
Speaker 1: And hopefully there's been also a lot of talk, but
Speaker 1: I've really seen nothing more about it. I see all
Speaker 1: this stuff, this sort of pops into social media, pops
Speaker 1: in unsolicited to my email accounts, talking about be careful
Speaker 1: with the polls and danger at the polls. I have never,
Speaker 1: not once ever, other than the people out in front
Speaker 1: that have their little placards that are trying to tell
Speaker 1: me to vote one way or another way, or for
Speaker 1: a candidate within the certain minimal amount of feet distance,
Speaker 1: they're supposed to release you so you can freely walk
Speaker 1: into that elementary school or wherever it is that you're
Speaker 1: going to vote without them being annoying and up on you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't when I'm in Vegas, and I
Speaker 1: used to live there for a little while, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't spend a whole lot of time on the strip,
Speaker 1: but you have friends visit, and you'd walk along the strip,
Speaker 1: and you have all those people out in front with
Speaker 1: their little hooker like or a companion. Let's just call
Speaker 1: it escort trading cards, you know, they've flip the card
Speaker 1: at you or whatever. I don't need that type of
Speaker 1: interaction when I'm trying to walk to go get a
Speaker 1: drink or buy of food. I certainly don't need anybody
Speaker 1: up in my grill and in my face trying to
Speaker 1: intimidate or convince me that I need to vote one
Speaker 1: way or the other as I'm walking into a polling place.
Speaker 1: I've never understood that. But I do have one request
Speaker 1: beyond the ideas that you know, vote, let your voice
Speaker 1: be heard. However you're going to vote, you should do it.
Speaker 1: But I have an idea that's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you don't know what you're doing by the time
Speaker 1: you get there, I think there's a problem. And whether
Speaker 1: you go to the Hamilton County Board of Elections website,
Speaker 1: or Montgomery County or Boone County, or you know, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, wherever you happen to be, you can usually
Speaker 1: get a sample ballot so you can see exactly what's
Speaker 1: on the ballots, so you know exactly what you're voting for.
Speaker 1: You could fill it out beforehand on paper in front
Speaker 1: of you so you can go in and make it
Speaker 1: an EASYPAS process. And my guess is with twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty percent maximum hitting the polls in total tomorrow,
Speaker 1: not voting tomorrow, but voting for the entire election. Probably
Speaker 1: not going to be a whole lot of big, serious
Speaker 1: problems with lines or anything else along that, So we'll
Speaker 1: see exactly how it plays out. Your chance to get
Speaker 1: interactive straight away. Lancedo mccalis are going to join us
Speaker 1: after ten o'clock. We'll talk the legendary Bob Trumpy, who
Speaker 1: we lost over the weekend, plus George Vocal Vocal, a
Speaker 1: former a sports director Channel five WLWT, and my man
Speaker 1: Gary Jeff Walker wants to talk relationships, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what type of dysfunction he wants to share with all
Speaker 1: of us. Coming up, It's a Monday night, Sterling on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. What's going on, Sterling hanging out? A
Speaker 1: good night for basketball Bearcats as well as Musketeers and
Speaker 1: the Dayton Flyers and the Nkau norse A Bearcats ninety
Speaker 1: four sixty three of Western Carolina. The Catamounts going home
Speaker 1: after a bad night for them at fifth Third Arena.
Speaker 1: You heard Dan Hort Mowager with the call ninety four
Speaker 1: to sixty three bear Cats handled business West Miller's guys
Speaker 1: look on to the next one. Maris red Fox's visited
Speaker 1: Centas Center the campus Xavier University Musketeers sixty six sixty
Speaker 1: two winners. There. You see, Claremont took a trip to
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky Truist Arena and the NKA Norse schooled them.
Speaker 1: It was a whole new level of education for those
Speaker 1: Cougar So you see Claremont one six to sixty nine,
Speaker 1: the Norse all over them, and the Golden Griffins of
Speaker 1: Kenisias made a trip to downtown Dayton ud Arena and
Speaker 1: the Flyers handled them easily eighty eight forty eight. So
Speaker 1: there's some scores in and around the region when it
Speaker 1: comes to some college hoops getting underway, and there'll be
Speaker 1: more of that obviously in the season ahead. So that's
Speaker 1: a pretty exciting tough one yesterday for the Bengals. I
Speaker 1: don't even know defense problems, I guess, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much more offense do you need?
Speaker 1: But it was tough, that's all I know. Speaking of Bengals,
Speaker 1: we lost one of the original football Bengals and Bob
Speaker 1: Trumpy over the weekend, eighty years old we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Lance mccowister and George Vogel about Bob Trumpy, about those Bengals,
Speaker 1: about what he has meant to the tri State and
Speaker 1: sports talk across the country and certainly ended up calling
Speaker 1: a bunch of games in the NFL. He was like
Speaker 1: their a team for NBC when they were carrying AFC
Speaker 1: games and so forth as well. So just a big loss,
Speaker 1: just a legend on this radio station, in history, just
Speaker 1: in general as a Bengal, pretty pretty spectacular. Maris not
Speaker 1: to be confused with those Maris players who leave Cincinnati
Speaker 1: after losing to Xavier. But Maris and Fairborne said, how
Speaker 1: dare I, especially the fact that she knows I went
Speaker 1: to Wright State not mentioning the Raiders handling business. They
Speaker 1: beat Franklin Franklin eighty six thirty seven, the Right State
Speaker 1: Raiders at the Nutter Center eighty six thirty seven over
Speaker 1: Franklin's Grizzlies. So the Raiders with their first win under
Speaker 1: their belt for the twenty twenty five twenty sixth season
Speaker 1: as they and they'll spend a little time in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: They'll face the Norse there, and of course up seventy
Speaker 1: one and seventy five in the Dayton area later on
Speaker 1: as they do their home and away thing for the
Speaker 1: Horizon League. So right State one, you see when Xavier wins,
Speaker 1: NKU wins, Dayton Flyers win, that's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: w's in the region. So there you go. There's that
Speaker 1: to look forward to as well. And Gary Jeff Walker's
Speaker 1: coming up a bit later. I had something happened to
Speaker 1: me on the way in here. I was running some
Speaker 1: errands in two different occasions, not at a crosswalk. In
Speaker 1: the news as of the last week or so before
Speaker 1: the time change, and then after the time change, I've
Speaker 1: seen this, and the time change, of course, just happened,
Speaker 1: you hear. I don't know. I'm trying to think at
Speaker 1: least six different stories I've come across in the last
Speaker 1: week to ten days of people who have been hit
Speaker 1: by cars. The vast majority apparently have been in crosswalks,
Speaker 1: some have not. And one of the things every year
Speaker 1: that you have to concern yourself with is it gets
Speaker 1: dark earlier. It's often dark in the morning, kids going
Speaker 1: too from school and so forth, and it's a real
Speaker 1: basic thing. When you're driving and you're behind the wheel,
Speaker 1: you keep an eye out for any danger, let alone
Speaker 1: pedestrian and certainly in a crosswalk. And we've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of these stories about hit and runs as well,
Speaker 1: which is bewildering. You know, is there somebody's affected, been
Speaker 1: distracted or indifferent, I guess is what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: But the other thing on the way in two different
Speaker 1: people in areas on the road where on Montgomery Road
Speaker 1: in an other spot it was in between lit roadway areas,
Speaker 1: so it was a little bit darker, and not in
Speaker 1: crosswalks where people in dark clothes were choosing to walk
Speaker 1: across four or five lanes of traffic technically with two
Speaker 1: and two and then a turn lane in the middle
Speaker 1: in front of moving vehicles, which is unsettling to the
Speaker 1: driver of a car unnerving is all hell and dangerous.
Speaker 1: That's how you end up being a statistic or a
Speaker 1: news story. And if I've learned nothing else, it's better
Speaker 1: to talk and make fun of the news than it
Speaker 1: is to be the news. Go to a crosswalk and
Speaker 1: just pay attention to where you're going, you know, between
Speaker 1: distracted in drunken and just you know, affected drivers and
Speaker 1: then people not paying attention distracted while walking and not
Speaker 1: thinking about how vulnerable they are from the vehicles that
Speaker 1: are at least a ton to two tons sometimes more
Speaker 1: moving at thirty forty fifty sixty miles an hour. You
Speaker 1: might go to a crosswalk, you might want to look
Speaker 1: both ways. I'm just saying it's ridiculous, and we're all
Speaker 1: in this together. So you don't want to hit anybody,
Speaker 1: I would hope, and you don't want to be hit.
Speaker 1: Act accordingly your ten o'clock report straight away. More Sterling
Speaker 1: coming back, Gary Jeff Walker joins me after eleven, George
Speaker 1: Vogel at ten thirty five, and our man Lance McCallister,
Speaker 1: host of Sports Talk, talks about effectively the original, the
Speaker 1: godfather of sports talk and a former Bengal in his passing,
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy coming up with Sterling seven hundred WLW Cincinnati. Hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing. It's a Monday night. Sterling A good
Speaker 1: one in if you're of basketball. Bear Can Fan ninety
Speaker 1: eighty four sixty three over Western Carolina to start off
Speaker 1: at twenty twenty five, twenty six campaign bear Cats over
Speaker 1: to Canamounts, Xavier beat the Red Foxes of Maris at
Speaker 1: Sentas Nku Norse all over U C Claremont one twenty
Speaker 1: six sixty nine and Canisius as Golden Griffins went into
Speaker 1: ud Arena downtown Dayton and the flyer sent them home
Speaker 1: not so happy. The Griffins lose eighty eight forty eight
Speaker 1: and to the right state Raiders handled business also at
Speaker 1: the Nutter Center took care of business over Franklin's Grizzlies
Speaker 1: eighty six thirty seven. A whole lot of winning. A
Speaker 1: guy who knows from winning, and our sports talk host
Speaker 1: here at seven hundred wl W, Lance McAllister, kind enough
Speaker 1: to give us some time. The man who led the
Speaker 1: way for Lance and to Andy Furman and Paul Doherty,
Speaker 1: I think was here for about eight and a half minutes.
Speaker 1: There have been others who have done it, but Lance
Speaker 1: is the man right now, one of those on the
Speaker 1: mount Rushmore broadcasters, and we lost. I won't even use
Speaker 1: the term loosely say friend. In passing, I got to
Speaker 1: say hello and meet Bob Trumpy, but grew up listening
Speaker 1: to the guy and certainly the legend of him as
Speaker 1: being an original Bengal. Lance McAllister, I appreciate you making
Speaker 1: time on a busy Monday at seven hundred WLW how
Speaker 1: are you and what was your relationship like with Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure that you have crossed paths over the years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sterling, good to join you. It traces back to you.
Speaker 2: As a twelve year old, I was calling Bob Trumpy
Speaker 2: and sports talk as a kid. I'd call him once
Speaker 2: a week and we'd go round and round on things.
Speaker 2: I will never forget two phone calls to Bob Trumpey
Speaker 2: when I was growing up. One I got into an
Speaker 2: argument with him about Buddy Bell versus Wayne cren Chikey.
Speaker 2: The Reds had traded for Buddy Bell and gave him
Speaker 2: the third base job over Wayne crane Chickey and Wayne
Speaker 2: Crenchickey was having a career year and Buddy Bell struggled
Speaker 2: in his first couple of months with the Reds. And
Speaker 2: I called Trumpy one night and I guess I'm probably
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen years old at this time and going round
Speaker 2: and around and why are they playing Buddy Bell? It
Speaker 2: should be Wayne cren Hicky's job. He should have never
Speaker 2: lost it. We went round and round and around and
Speaker 2: he eventually hung up on me.
Speaker 1: Was awesome.
Speaker 2: There was a time we were on family vacation in
Speaker 2: Cape Cod and I called him from Cape Cod and
Speaker 2: I'll never forget asking why are you calling me from
Speaker 2: Cape Cod? And I was like, I'm on vacation. I
Speaker 2: wanted to talk Reds tonight. So that goes back, you know,
Speaker 2: if I'm twelve at that time, that goes back some
Speaker 2: forty I mean, think about that, forty seven years.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. And I don't know for you, it
Speaker 1: had to be the same way, because I mean I
Speaker 1: never had the stones to call him, but I would
Speaker 1: listen in the same way, listening to you and listen
Speaker 1: to Firm and et cetera, all the others. But it's
Speaker 1: an odd thing when you walk into the building and
Speaker 1: these are giants that you know, you grow up listening
Speaker 1: to in their opinions. You got to sort of shake
Speaker 1: the tree and engage him. But when you cross that line,
Speaker 1: you also become the same. You're doing the same work.
Speaker 1: You may not have played as a Bengal, you may
Speaker 1: not have gone on to do TV for NBC in
Speaker 1: the NFL, but you're also also doing sports talk. What
Speaker 1: is that like in your relationship with him and understanding
Speaker 1: where he was coming from and what he was doing
Speaker 1: to what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and Sterling to advance the story from
Speaker 2: the fourteen year old twelve thirteen. Fourteen year old is
Speaker 2: calling him later on. I did the Friday Bengals pep
Speaker 2: Rally show with him on ESPN fifteen thirty. I did
Speaker 2: the Roundtable Show for a year with Bob Trumpy, the
Speaker 2: one I now do with Rocky. I did that with
Speaker 2: Trumpy for a year on Thursday Night. So I mean,
Speaker 2: you're talking about that adjustment period of I mean, to me,
Speaker 2: I have no qualm saying I idolized Bob Trumpy. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was the godfather of sports talk. He's the reason
Speaker 2: sports talk was created in this town. And I've never
Speaker 2: heard somebody I don't think I ever will who had
Speaker 2: such a commanding presence on the radio, the voice and
Speaker 2: just the gravitas of he just commanded you listen. When
Speaker 2: you tuned it in and you heard it, it was captivating,
Speaker 2: you wanted to keep listening, whether you agreed or disagreed.
Speaker 1: He just made you listen.
Speaker 2: And I was joking today with Dave Lapham, and I've
Speaker 2: been asked so many stories about Trumpey, and I said,
Speaker 2: the beauty of Trump he was there was his opinion,
Speaker 2: and then there was your opinion, which was wrong.
Speaker 1: That's right, It's just the way it was.
Speaker 3: He was always right.
Speaker 2: He held firm to his beliefs and his convictions, and
Speaker 2: there was no changing his mind. And he just dug
Speaker 2: in and he was stubborn, and we went round and
Speaker 2: round at times. We wanted to strangle each other at times.
Speaker 2: But man, looking back on those shows, I mean sitting
Speaker 2: at a then a Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday
Speaker 2: afternoon doing a three hour Bengals pep rally with Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 2: I'm like, who would have thought, I mean, this is
Speaker 2: actually happening. I'm doing shows with the godfather of sports dog.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty amazing thing. Talking to Lance McCallister, if
Speaker 1: he hadn't already figured it out, to the sports talk
Speaker 1: host talking about the late great Bob Trump, He's godfather
Speaker 1: of sports talk of a word of his passing over
Speaker 1: the weekend, His career was amazing. I was too little
Speaker 1: and not even here when the Bengals started, and then
Speaker 1: you know, he spent a dec day as a Bengal
Speaker 1: and then he did sports talk and then he went
Speaker 1: on in the midst of all that ended up doing
Speaker 1: you know, football games for NBC called multiple Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: did Olympic games as well as golf like Ryder Cup stuff,
Speaker 1: and you do have done a variety of things. But
Speaker 1: what an amazing story of him coming out of Utah
Speaker 1: as a ute to Cincinnati as a Bengal to walk
Speaker 1: through the halls of seven hundred WLW and then advance
Speaker 1: to that other level as well to do so many
Speaker 1: other things. That's a spectacular credit to him, his capabilities
Speaker 1: in the ability just to convey a story and paint
Speaker 1: a picture because he did it on radio and TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the versatility, I mean, the number of different
Speaker 2: sports he did for NBC. He wasn't just your stereotypical
Speaker 2: job who was just going to do a football game.
Speaker 2: I mean they gave him plumb assignments as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: the Olympics and Ryder Cup and other things.
Speaker 3: And it's what you know.
Speaker 2: I always marveled and in that era of Bob Trumpy
Speaker 2: on NBC, it was Bob Costas in the studio and
Speaker 2: I always looked at those two from their versatility and said,
Speaker 2: I want to do what they do? How do they
Speaker 2: do so many different things? Well, yes, they weren't one
Speaker 2: trick ponies. It was the ability to do so many
Speaker 2: different things that I always marveled about, and and Sterling,
Speaker 2: I was always amazed by the fact. And I'll have
Speaker 2: a little bit of this out of order or maybe
Speaker 2: out of place, but you know, he told me when
Speaker 2: he first he first heard Bill Russell doing sports talk
Speaker 2: radio out in San Francisco, the former Celtic legend was
Speaker 2: doing a sports talk radio show, and Trump he heard
Speaker 2: him and thought, well, I could do that. What if
Speaker 2: I did it here? And when he first presented it,
Speaker 2: it was rejected here like, now we're we're not going
Speaker 2: to do a sports talk show every night. And Trump
Speaker 2: went out and then sold it and found people who
Speaker 2: would buy time on it. It initially started on what was
Speaker 2: w wcky, still w cky, and then on to seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. But it was he was like the pioneer
Speaker 2: from that standpoint. All Right, you don't think it could
Speaker 2: be done, I'll show you it can be done. And
Speaker 2: it's been done ever since.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty amazing thing. When you would talk to
Speaker 1: him off the air. I'm kind of curious because I
Speaker 1: would only pass in the hallway when we were in
Speaker 1: Mount Adams and you know at that point, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: an FM music I I've got my long hair. I
Speaker 1: maybe had done a talk show here at that point,
Speaker 1: maybe not even yet initially. And he was always very polite,
Speaker 1: very friendly, but he was always headed to the studio
Speaker 1: or in and out to do something client related, whatever,
Speaker 1: just popping in and people would gravitate towards him. And
Speaker 1: I was always, I want to say intimidated, but probably
Speaker 1: a little intimidated, and I didn't want to be annoying,
Speaker 1: but interacting with him and socializing with him and becoming
Speaker 1: someone who's working directly with him. What was that like?
Speaker 1: You touched on it a little bit, but it's an
Speaker 1: amazing thing to see someone who's that comfortable, that confident,
Speaker 1: that sperience to sort of do it just so well.
Speaker 2: And he would he would constantly ride me as someone
Speaker 2: who and this was part of his bit of someone
Speaker 2: who never played the game. And we would get into
Speaker 2: conversations topics for the show or off air, and it
Speaker 2: would always come back to whatever. When I really push
Speaker 2: his buttons to the point where he just lose all patients,
Speaker 2: he just look at me and I keep describing this story.
Speaker 2: He would peer over those glasses on his nose and
Speaker 2: through the smoke of his chain smoking, because boy did
Speaker 2: he smoke back then.
Speaker 1: And he would look at him.
Speaker 2: And just say, with that deep voice, you have clearly
Speaker 2: never played the game. It would just I get the
Speaker 2: biggest kick out of that because that was his go
Speaker 2: to line. And you know, I would always try to
Speaker 2: punch his button by saying something like especially on a
Speaker 2: daylight today, where I would I would be on with him.
Speaker 2: I would say, you know, the Bengals need to make
Speaker 2: a statement. They need to move on from saying they
Speaker 2: need to fire somebody, they need to make a trade,
Speaker 2: they need to make a statement. And trump you with
Speaker 2: that big booming voice just laugh and say statements. You
Speaker 2: and your statements. You always want to make statements. And
Speaker 2: that just got him so worked up. But I love
Speaker 2: doing that. That's tremendous, it really is.
Speaker 1: Lance. I appreciate you making time, and I know that
Speaker 1: you're up early, you do stuff all day. You got
Speaker 1: Bengal stuff on a Monday and everything. So I appreciate
Speaker 1: you sharing that. And it's got to be hard when
Speaker 1: you come across. I mean, I've lost people close, some
Speaker 1: that I've worked with and so forth, and it's happening
Speaker 1: more regularly for those people that were a generation maybe
Speaker 1: ahead of us, or maybe a little more than that.
Speaker 1: So it's sometimes difficult to talk about them. So I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, you being willing to do it. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to do it. Anything else that I have not
Speaker 1: asked that you think is relevant talking Bob Trumpy or
Speaker 1: even for instance, about these Bengals and what you think
Speaker 1: that conversation with him would be like with the Bengal today.
Speaker 2: Well, I would the thing I think is important to
Speaker 2: And I've told this story a lot, and I will
Speaker 2: always tell this story because I think it defines our
Speaker 2: relationship with it that I had with Trumpy, and he
Speaker 2: could be rough and gruff and that big, deep voice
Speaker 2: and all that, and yet I will always maintain the
Speaker 2: defining moment of our relationship came about twenty two years
Speaker 2: ago when our son Casey was diagnosed with leukemia and
Speaker 2: Bob Trumpy was the first person that called me and
Speaker 2: he offered me whatever we needed. He said, however, I
Speaker 2: can help and said if you need a bone marrow
Speaker 2: donor I want to be your guy, and I will.
Speaker 2: I I get chills when I tell that story every
Speaker 2: time because and eventually we had a donor through the
Speaker 2: National Bone Marrow Donor Program. But for all of our
Speaker 2: battles and a relationship ship that went back to when
Speaker 2: I was, you know, twelve, thirteen fourteen, calling him to
Speaker 2: an adult and a father and somebody who done shows
Speaker 2: with him, that was that will always be Bob Trumpy
Speaker 2: to me. He's one of a kind because of what
Speaker 2: he did as a pioneer in the industry. But he's
Speaker 2: one of a kind to me because he was the
Speaker 2: first person that called us and was willing to offer
Speaker 2: all of that to help our family and help our son.
Speaker 1: A great human being is what it boils down to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the most important thing there is. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty tremendous. I feel that too, Lance, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and I hope all is well with
Speaker 1: the family. Mcouister. I know it's late, and I just figured,
Speaker 1: of all the people I figure to reach out to you,
Speaker 1: I got George Vogel coming up because I know he
Speaker 1: had sort of crossed paths with him over the years
Speaker 1: as well. So I appreciate you making time.
Speaker 2: Happy to do it. He was, he was one of
Speaker 2: a kind. There will never be anybody ever again like
Speaker 2: Bob Trumpy, No way, no how.
Speaker 1: Most definitely the godfather Sports Talk here at seven hundred
Speaker 1: wl W the late great Bob Trumpy, Lance McCallister, thank you,
Speaker 1: and you're no slouch yourself, by the way, Thank you, Sterling. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon. He'll be on tomorrow night
Speaker 1: after Eddie and Roncky as always, quick break, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: You got something to say about Bob Trumpy, We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you. We got George Vogel also coming, former a
Speaker 1: WLWT Channel five sports director and a Greater Cincinnati Journalism
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame member. I'm not in any hall of
Speaker 1: fames Vogel is McAllister will be, and Trumpy has been.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Also Gary Jeff Walker a bit later too. He's normally
Speaker 1: on at this time. I don't know why he took
Speaker 1: the night off, and then he likes texting me earlier.
Speaker 1: He's like, if you got something i'd love to be on,
Speaker 1: I'd love to be on. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's having like I took the night off for remorse
Speaker 1: or what, but he wants to talk some relationship issues,
Speaker 1: he says, So that's coming up after eleven o'clock A
Speaker 1: good way to go between now and midnight when we
Speaker 1: start to rolling atn so hang out at Sterling on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW Glad you're a long fine Monday Night,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW Sterling hanging out nine first one forecast
Speaker 1: on the Big one thirty four tonight, middle sixties for
Speaker 1: election day tomorrow. Go vote if you haven't already close
Speaker 1: to seventy on Wednesday, then sixty again on Thursday. It's
Speaker 1: a bomby forty seven. Now your severe weather station seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW Gary. Jeff Walker is gonna join me. He's
Speaker 1: normally here now, but he's unavailable, but it says he's
Speaker 1: still awake in what's to talk relationships. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's his relationship with me, if that means at home,
Speaker 1: I don't know. If he's very concerned about people so
Speaker 1: well being. Apparently coming up after eleven o'clock, we'll get
Speaker 1: into his head about that. Monday night football going on
Speaker 1: right now, and it's the Cardinals twenty seven Cowboys ten
Speaker 1: in Arlington, not Dallas. They play in Arlington. Swayan Coff
Speaker 1: and what else. Oh, holy crap. You see Bearcats open
Speaker 1: up their twenty five twenty six season. You heard it
Speaker 1: here earlier, fifth third Arena, Mowagger Dan Horde with the
Speaker 1: call Bearcats ninety four Western Carolina's Canamount sixty three Xavier one.
Speaker 1: They beat Maris sixty six sixty two with centas a blowout.
Speaker 1: The Norse easily handled U C. Claremont. They're cougar is
Speaker 1: the truest arena one twenty six sixty nine. That's massive.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight forty eight Dayton Flyers got by Canisius's Griffins
Speaker 1: at U D Arena and Wright State Raiders eighty six
Speaker 1: over Franklin's Grizzlies eighty six thirty six at the Nutter Center.
Speaker 1: That had to make a horrible drive home for Franklin's Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: is my guess from Fairborn. All right. On the other side,
Speaker 1: we've already talked to Lance McAllister kind enough to give
Speaker 1: us some time after your ten thirty report. Lee Mawin
Speaker 1: has the news. We'll talk to George Vogel, former sports
Speaker 1: director WLWT Channel five. He's a greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. You went in with the likes of Ken
Speaker 1: Brew and John Fay, Danny Jansen, Wayne Box, Miller, Popovich Popo.
Speaker 1: I like to call him aout John Popovic and who else,
Speaker 1: Betsy Ross and some others. I think I let somebody
Speaker 1: out Kevin Barnett as well, old KRC executive sports producer.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to George Vogel about the late great Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 1: godfather of sports talk radio. Lance joined us earlier with
Speaker 1: his take he worked with him, he grew up listening
Speaker 1: to him like I did. I still have said this before,
Speaker 1: and just you come into this building if you're somebody
Speaker 1: who is in and around the Tri State are now
Speaker 1: with the iHeartRadio app from basically anywhere, and you listen
Speaker 1: to so many people and you hear them, and you
Speaker 1: know you live with them everywhere you go there there
Speaker 1: I am too, I guess now at this point. But
Speaker 1: and then you run into them as I did with Trumpy,
Speaker 1: as I have so many others, and just sort of
Speaker 1: in awe of and then knowing his history as an
Speaker 1: original Cincinnati football Bengal and going on to do what
Speaker 1: he did just a really genuinely decent human being too.
Speaker 1: Away from that, George Vogel's take on the loss of
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy and his experience with him, and a whole
Speaker 1: lot more, including conversation with Gary Jeff but Walker as well.
Speaker 1: After eleven o'clock So hang out news straight away more
Speaker 1: Sterling on a winning night for basically the Musketeers, the
Speaker 1: bear Cats, the Norse, the Flyers, the Raiders, and to
Speaker 1: others and right now Cardinals looking to add on taking
Speaker 1: on those Cowboys right about now on somebody night football
Speaker 1: time for New seven hundred wlw oh later on get
Speaker 1: your sleep, Get ready, get to voting Tomorrow Election Day,
Speaker 1: about twenty five percent of eligible voters expected to hit
Speaker 1: the polls. If it hits thirty percent, the earth may shake,
Speaker 1: it could spin off its axis. Who knows what might
Speaker 1: happen for mayor and council in Cincinnati and elsewhere. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to be heard, you gotta vote.
Speaker 1: That's just how it goes, sort of like this. If
Speaker 1: I want to be heard, I have to turn the
Speaker 1: microphone off that you can't hear me off. Like that's
Speaker 1: sort of like this. If you don't you're not heard.
Speaker 1: If you don't vote, it's how it goes. It's just
Speaker 1: like if it's hurt right in front of me like that,
Speaker 1: that's how that works. But I digress. Maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to get in the sandbox and play, you know,
Speaker 1: it's up to you. Someone who knows about being in
Speaker 1: the big sandbox of life, someone who knows about bowling
Speaker 1: three hundred, someone who knows about the late great Bob Trumpy,
Speaker 1: the godfather of sports talking. For some reason, still takes
Speaker 1: my call on occasion. It's unbelievable. Former sports director WLWT
Speaker 1: Channel five. He's a Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame member,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because I know him and he takes
Speaker 1: my call. It's unbelievable. So does Cam Brew. He came
Speaker 1: in the same class. So did Wayne box Miller, John Popovich,
Speaker 1: and Denny Jansen as well. George Vogel, how are you
Speaker 1: on this fine Monday night?
Speaker 3: Early?
Speaker 5: I'm great, and I don't think I owe you money,
Speaker 5: but I still take the call, So that's fine.
Speaker 3: You're a good man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that because there are people whose calls I
Speaker 1: don't take myself because they may want money too. It's all.
Speaker 3: I think we're all in that boat.
Speaker 1: That's tremendous. Uh, you know, I I crossed paths with
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy in their building when we were in Mount Adams.
Speaker 1: But I was just a kid coming up up and
Speaker 1: known he was a Bengal. I had seen him play
Speaker 1: a little bit as a Bengal. I'd grown up listening
Speaker 1: to the guy on the radio now known as the
Speaker 1: godfather of sports talk here at seven hundred WLW certainly
Speaker 1: hurting calling NFL games and doing Olympic stuff and everything else.
Speaker 1: But you bumped shoulders with it and ran around with
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy at one time or another. We lost him
Speaker 1: over the weekend. My heart goes out to his family,
Speaker 1: But I thought i'd reach out to you to see
Speaker 1: what your take is on Bob Trumpy, his legacy, in
Speaker 1: what your relationship may have been like, if any.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Trump was a great guy to me, and I met
Speaker 5: him back in the early eighties when WLW was still
Speaker 5: downtown there on Fourth Street. Oh yeah, and he had
Speaker 5: started out at one of the other stations, I want
Speaker 5: to say, fifteen thirty, when he was still playing for
Speaker 5: the Bengals.
Speaker 3: And I remember Trump getting drafted. I remember him catching.
Speaker 5: A pass on a crazy play late in a game
Speaker 5: a rainy afternoon at Riverfront to win a game again
Speaker 5: the Dolphins, I believe, which was ironic that the Bengals
Speaker 5: beat the Dolphins in very wet conditions.
Speaker 3: The fish might might take to that a little better there.
Speaker 3: And then, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: And Trump was on I believe fifteen thirty and was
Speaker 5: still on the team, and I think he did it
Speaker 5: some in the off season. He did go to WLWT
Speaker 5: and do some weekend anchoring sometimes. And I didn't know
Speaker 5: him from that first time I met him early eighties WLW,
Speaker 5: and he was in there.
Speaker 3: I believe he was.
Speaker 5: I think Seg was there at the time as an
Speaker 5: intern or something. And that's when I met Seg. I
Speaker 5: met Trump. We were going down there to get some
Speaker 5: audio from an interview he had done, because back then,
Speaker 5: you know, that's only you had to go get stuff.
Speaker 1: You can try it through.
Speaker 5: The internet and audio file and all that stuff. I
Speaker 5: think I had to go down there and pick up
Speaker 5: one of those old carts if you remember.
Speaker 1: That, I do for those who don't know, that's what
Speaker 1: it was, basically, yeah.
Speaker 5: Exactly, yeah, And and he was always you know, he
Speaker 5: was good then and said hello, and met this you know,
Speaker 5: crazy intern from WLWT, and he's you know, always been
Speaker 5: good since he would come on our Bengals shows after
Speaker 5: he had retired. You know, I you know, loved the
Speaker 5: guy and loved what he did. And he was one
Speaker 5: of the first people to call out the Bengals and
Speaker 5: say there was going to be big time problems when
Speaker 5: things switched hands down there with family members, and you
Speaker 5: know it, he was pretty much proven right on that.
Speaker 5: At the time, I thought, oh man, this guy's grumpy
Speaker 5: and has an axe to grind and and I'll be
Speaker 5: darned he called that shot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he was something else.
Speaker 5: And then goes on you know after sports talk, which
Speaker 5: he kind of you know, made sports talk what it
Speaker 5: was in this town. And WLW did a sports talk
Speaker 5: show before him, but you know, Phil samp was on there,
Speaker 5: I think Andy Mack sometimes. And then Trump made such
Speaker 5: an impact at fifteen thirty and then they brought him
Speaker 5: over and you know, the rest is history.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing. And you've done a lot of
Speaker 1: different things for those on the outside looking in, how
Speaker 1: difficult is it for someone because it may not have
Speaker 1: been seamless, but from the outside looking in, it seemed
Speaker 1: like from him going from a player for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: to being on the radio even at the same time,
Speaker 1: which was wild, then doing sports talk for the better
Speaker 1: part of a decade, then going off and in the
Speaker 1: midst of that was still doing some NBC stuff, then
Speaker 1: doing TV and radio for them, and Olympics and Ryder
Speaker 1: Cup and NFL stuff and seemingly comfortable and did it well.
Speaker 1: How hard is it for someone to be able to
Speaker 1: do those different types of things and make it seem effortless,
Speaker 1: because it did seem like it just was who he was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, Trump very intelligent guy. He was an intelligent guy.
Speaker 5: You know, he could size up a situation in a
Speaker 5: hurry if you asked me.
Speaker 3: You know, he may mistakes like.
Speaker 5: We all do, but man to juggle all those things
Speaker 5: that you just mentioned and.
Speaker 3: Do it so well.
Speaker 5: I mean he went when he goes you know, he's
Speaker 5: doing football games and doing the other stuff, and then
Speaker 5: goes to PGA golf. Oh yeah, and I'm like, how's
Speaker 5: this going to work?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: It worked out well. And he loved that gig. He
Speaker 5: loved that gig, and it worked out very very well.
Speaker 5: And then as you said, he does some Olympics stuff,
Speaker 5: and boy, he had a heck of a career. I
Speaker 5: mean you forget half of what he did.
Speaker 3: Because he did so much and so many different things.
Speaker 1: It really is. Talking to George Vogel, former sports director WLWT,
Speaker 1: also Hall of Famer and greater Cincinnati journalism Hall, was
Speaker 1: stirling on the being one talking about Bob Trump. He
Speaker 1: got Fathers Sports Talk and we lost over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and I should clarify he passed away. When I say lost,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to joke around, but I've had people
Speaker 1: reach out where they have been messing with me. What
Speaker 1: do you mean we lost him? He died? Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I just want to claric right. And it's a hard thing,
Speaker 1: and I don't know because I'm not experienced it. It
Speaker 1: has to be an odd thing for family members and
Speaker 1: very close friends. On one hand, hearing about the one
Speaker 1: that you love who's no longer with you, to be
Speaker 1: talked about so glowingly and lovingly by so many as
Speaker 1: a fan, as a co worker, as a friend. But
Speaker 1: on the other side, it's got to be odd to
Speaker 1: have that same level of sharing publicly, just something that
Speaker 1: for most of us is a very very private kind
Speaker 1: of thing. As you tried it to go through this
Speaker 1: process of grieving and everything else. I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's much of a question there, but just think.
Speaker 5: No, but there's you know, everyone feels for the family
Speaker 5: and you just everything you have goes out to them
Speaker 5: as they deal with this. And you know, he was
Speaker 5: I'll tell you trump he ruffled some feathers. But that
Speaker 5: was the thing about him. He would he would tell
Speaker 5: it like he saw it. And he wasn't sugarcoating. He
Speaker 5: was I think I heard someone say today, very direct.
Speaker 5: That's a great way to it. He was very direct.
Speaker 5: There wasn't you know, great area. You knew what he thought,
Speaker 5: where he stood, and uh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 3: I mean I just actually before I met.
Speaker 5: Him, I when I was in college, I actually called
Speaker 5: him a couple of times on the show, bantering back
Speaker 5: and forth with yeah it was it was a lot
Speaker 5: of fun and uh uh he he. I don't think
Speaker 5: he ever really hung up on me, but he did
Speaker 5: probably cut me off a couple of times.
Speaker 3: But he should have, because you know, I tend to
Speaker 3: blow the eight.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't sometimes they hire you when I think that's
Speaker 1: how I ended up here too. I think he did
Speaker 1: hang up on Lance. Lance said he did hung up
Speaker 1: on him. So that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the problem was he and Lance were doing the
Speaker 5: show together, right.
Speaker 1: Hard to get rid of the co host, right, It's
Speaker 1: difficult when you're sitting across from him on a table.
Speaker 1: It's a challenge that it really is, exactly. It's an
Speaker 1: odd thing because you were coming up and like you said,
Speaker 1: he took your calls and you were around as an intern,
Speaker 1: and then you see him in that type of situation.
Speaker 1: It's wild to see someone grow and develop. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's a guy that as a football player and is
Speaker 1: enough that most of us here you said, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: a decade as a Bengal forty six hundred yards I think,
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns receiving averaged over fourteen yards of reception,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest in the game when it comes
Speaker 1: to being a tight end. Going to the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: a number of times, like four times, I think, is
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at here on this list all Pro
Speaker 1: Team sixty nine as well. And then to make the transition,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys try to make the transition to
Speaker 1: broadcasting to media to TV. Now there's podcasting and everything else.
Speaker 1: And you've encountered a lot of these guys as they
Speaker 1: move through that. It's not an easy thing for someone
Speaker 1: to be able to go through it. And you got
Speaker 1: to have people around you to sort of help you
Speaker 1: when you see someone who sort of comes from that background,
Speaker 1: who makes it through like that, To be opinionated, to
Speaker 1: have voice, to get what this is because it's not
Speaker 1: always I mean, this is a show. And to be
Speaker 1: able to understand as you just just you know, mentioned
Speaker 1: as he may shut you down and shut you up
Speaker 1: as he was trying to get his point across, because
Speaker 1: it was entertainment. That's it. That's it, that's it. There's
Speaker 1: something very special about that entertainment element.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's something that you know, not everyone
Speaker 3: can do. And and that whole Carrie.
Speaker 5: As you know, carrying a three hour show talking and
Speaker 5: talking to people and all that and keeping it entertaining
Speaker 5: and and loose and light and something people want to
Speaker 5: listen to unless you know, the occasion calls for it.
Speaker 5: But uh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's something about Cincinnati too, Like Trump.
Speaker 5: Was the first former Bengal to do all that stuff
Speaker 5: and get into broadcasting. But then you start thinking of
Speaker 5: these other guys and you know, Chris collins Worth, Boomer,
Speaker 5: you know, Solomon Wilcott, Anthony Munhoz, you go, now, Whitworth
Speaker 5: and Fitzpatrick on the on the prime video thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's a whole list of it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: What do you think that I don't know what it is?
Speaker 5: I don't know I quite honestly, as we're sitting here
Speaker 5: talking and I've thought about it before, but never really
Speaker 5: in depth, and then it just popped in my head
Speaker 5: and it's like, yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: The first of those guys. But for some.
Speaker 5: Reason with Bengals and Cincinnati media, there's and and all
Speaker 5: those guys I mentioned work their tailoff on this stuff,
Speaker 5: and that that that's one part of it, because as
Speaker 5: you know, some people might not work hard at it
Speaker 5: and they're probably not going to make it because you
Speaker 5: kind of have to really work your tail off in this.
Speaker 5: All those guys did, and you can still work your
Speaker 5: tail off and not make it.
Speaker 3: You know, we all have. I mean I could name.
Speaker 5: Hundreds of people that have done it just you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes it's right place, right time, just right personality that hits.
Speaker 5: But for some reason, those guys all were able to
Speaker 5: do it as former Bengals. But I do think, you know,
Speaker 5: the work factor is first and four for almost in.
Speaker 1: That absolutely and whatever that intangible is aside from the
Speaker 1: work ethic is certainly a part of it is maybe
Speaker 1: something in the water, and it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. It could be NF.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to make jokes and kick the
Speaker 5: Bengals leather down, but maybe it's like, well, they don't
Speaker 5: pay squat and I got to find something to make
Speaker 5: money because I'm not making.
Speaker 3: It here, I got to grind.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, in a couple of decades ago, that's
Speaker 1: really what it was. I mean, there were guys who
Speaker 1: had to get jobs in the off season, back in
Speaker 1: the early part of the game.
Speaker 5: It's amazing you look at some of those guys, you know,
Speaker 5: like Anthony who was the best of all time, and
Speaker 5: some kid who hasn't played it down is getting a
Speaker 5: contract bigger than you know, his whole career earnings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, insane, it really is.
Speaker 3: And that's where we're at. I mean, they are, let's
Speaker 3: face that the NFL is generating money.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can hear it being printed right now.
Speaker 1: Even on a Monday night with the Cardinals twenty seven
Speaker 1: to seventeen over the Cowboys, as we speak talking to
Speaker 1: George former sports director Channel five WLWT, and Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer and greater Cincinnati journalism, all talking about the late
Speaker 1: great Bob Trumpy. What have I not asked about Trumpy
Speaker 1: and the endeavors that we know of aside from him
Speaker 1: as a human being away from that which we've heard
Speaker 1: good things and about him in that regard, Because as
Speaker 1: much as I'd like to be able to say I knew,
Speaker 1: the guy was literally just a nod, a quick handshake
Speaker 1: and moving through as I was honestly a little bit
Speaker 1: in awe and slightly intimidated just because I had just
Speaker 1: come into the building. Was like, oh, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be in the way because I just didn't
Speaker 1: want to, you know what I mean. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be a problem, which is challenging for me on
Speaker 1: a good day.
Speaker 5: You know, he came to us, and this has been
Speaker 5: a while back when we did one of our Bengals
Speaker 5: shows and we had a lot of the you know,
Speaker 5: ex players and a lot of the older players come in
Speaker 5: and talk about different earrows and things like that with
Speaker 5: the Bengals, and he came in and it was funny
Speaker 5: talking to him about all that stuff.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 5: He really really appreciated everything that happened along his journey
Speaker 5: with with media and and you know, the call and
Speaker 5: the golf and the Olympics and just all those different things.
Speaker 5: And and you I was talking to him about it.
Speaker 5: It's like, man, he's telling me this stuff and I'm asking,
Speaker 5: and it's like he really appreciated. He loved it. He
Speaker 5: loved it. You know, he knew when it was time
Speaker 5: to hang it up and move on. But uh, but
Speaker 5: he really appreciated everything he was able to do because
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 1: And it's, you know, the thing he was good at it,
Speaker 1: he enjoyed it. He appreciated it too. I Mean, these
Speaker 1: are all the things I think that probably people who
Speaker 1: are in that situation that's maybe that special thing that
Speaker 1: they have in that that way too, because.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and when when you're in the middle
Speaker 5: of it, you don't really stop and think about it
Speaker 5: or all.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like, since I retired, I'll sit here and think, oh, wow,
Speaker 5: yeah I went there, I was at that field, or
Speaker 5: I was here for that, and it's like, damn, you know,
Speaker 5: I was pretty lucky.
Speaker 3: Yeah I looked at it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've watched you. It's the same type
Speaker 1: of thing. I was like, hey, and then I get
Speaker 1: like across pass with you and talk like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd say it lightheartedly. When you know you
Speaker 1: actually take a call. I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call them call Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Though you have lived these things, you've done these things,
Speaker 1: You've been these places also, and when you're in it,
Speaker 1: it is difficult to really appreciate it because you're working
Speaker 1: in your Yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 5: You're you're you're you're complaining about something because there's a
Speaker 5: deadline coming up, and there's a piece of equipment not working,
Speaker 5: or someone not answering the phone, or you got writer's block.
Speaker 3: You know, you're complaining.
Speaker 5: But at the same time you've got to appreciate and
Speaker 5: and that's hard to do. But certainly once you're out.
Speaker 3: Of it, it's it's easy to do.
Speaker 5: You look back, and you know, I remember my mistakes,
Speaker 5: but I don't remember anybody else's. I just remember having
Speaker 5: a good time and all the great places we went.
Speaker 1: And that's really the thing. I mean, it's living the dream.
Speaker 1: It's it's almost like free money and you're able to
Speaker 1: do something that you enjoy that your passion, and not
Speaker 1: a lot of people get to enjoy that. And I
Speaker 1: feel pretty lucky about that too. I'm glad you do
Speaker 1: as well. That's that's that's excellent, uh, Georgie.
Speaker 5: And I think Bob did with the football and the
Speaker 5: uh and the broadcast end of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was just so good. Uh. And everybody that
Speaker 1: I've talked to has so has shared so much as
Speaker 1: far as him just being a good person aside from
Speaker 1: the work and that. I think that's what we had.
Speaker 5: That voice too, and it was like that voice, you know,
Speaker 5: it's all it was Darth Vader before Darth Vader.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's well stated. Man.
Speaker 3: He spoke and you lessened man.
Speaker 5: That voice commanded respect and and by guy that he
Speaker 5: deserved it.
Speaker 1: I can remember being in my bedroom with the hand
Speaker 1: me down Reader's digest radio with an earbud when I
Speaker 1: listening to him as a kid. UH tell you, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: George Vogel, thank you take it. Thank you for taking
Speaker 1: my call and sharing a little bit of your experience
Speaker 1: and your and your understanding about Bob Trump and the
Speaker 1: man and the professional that he was and just bringing
Speaker 1: what you bring to the table. So thank you.
Speaker 3: Yep, anytime, Sterling give me a call.
Speaker 1: Take care of yourself before I let you bounce. You're
Speaker 1: doing much bowling because I know you. We always talk
Speaker 1: like I got bowling in the morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a back surgery about a year ago
Speaker 5: and I haven't gotten back in the bowling. But I
Speaker 5: got a tea time tomorrow at ten fifty seven, so
Speaker 5: I got that going on.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to try and get back in the
Speaker 3: bowling this winter.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope you hit it good tomorrow and enjoy
Speaker 1: it before it gets too cold and the frozen tundra
Speaker 1: of a Cincinnati winner and those gray skies get upon us.
Speaker 1: Go hit it well tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, those days are coming fast.
Speaker 1: Thanks Sterling, take care of yourself. He's Georgia Bulg, the
Speaker 1: former sports director WLWT Channel five, talking about the late
Speaker 1: great Bob Trumpy Godfather's sports radio here on the Big One.
Speaker 1: Coming up. We'll talk to Gary Jeff Walker after eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: A lot of other ground to cover your chance to
Speaker 1: get interacted. Beautiful Monday night here the Nation station basketball
Speaker 1: bear Cats win ninety four sixty three over Western Carolina.
Speaker 1: Earlier Musketeers handled Maris sixty six sixty two at Sentas
Speaker 1: Nku Norris at their place in Northern Kentucky Truist Arena
Speaker 1: one twenty six to sixty nine, they handled U. C.
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Speaker 1: forty eight and the Wright State Raiders pounded Franklin's Grizzlies
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Speaker 1: Comeback News. A little bit later, Gary Jeff Walker, Final
Speaker 1: Hour ahead on a Monday night, Sterling, where the Hoode
Speaker 1: play even though it was not a good outcome yesterday
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Election Day tomorrow, Go vote if you haven't already voted.
Speaker 1: He heard my recommendation. So I'm trying to say here
Speaker 1: to hew final Hour together Monday night, Gary Jeff Walker's
Speaker 1: normally here at this time. Instead he took the night off.
Speaker 1: Yet he reached out to me earless, sause I really
Speaker 1: want to be on to talk about gen Z and
Speaker 1: their relationship problems. I'm like, what are you talking about,
Speaker 1: Gary Jeff Walker, how are you? What are you doing
Speaker 1: with Sterling? Hanging out on a Monday night? Bearcats win,
Speaker 1: Musketeers win, Norse win, Dayton Flyers win, Right State Raiders win,
Speaker 1: and there's two losing teams playing Monday night football cards
Speaker 1: and Cowboys and now you on the line, Gary Jeff,
Speaker 1: You've made my night complete.
Speaker 4: Well, Sterling, I would think that there are probably some
Speaker 4: people who think there's an enormous amount of hubris for
Speaker 4: me topear in this timeslot when I'm actually.
Speaker 3: Not on the air.
Speaker 4: But it's not a matter of It's not a matter
Speaker 4: of narcissism at all. But there are several things percolating.
Speaker 4: I'm still getting over the passing of the Great Bob Trumpy. Yes,
Speaker 4: and you among many people I know who have suffered
Speaker 4: from TDS. Trumpy huh, Trumpy syndrome?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You have Trumpy derangement syndrome. You've actually said that everything
Speaker 4: about Trumpy ever did or said must be bad because
Speaker 4: it was Bob Trumpy. We're going to get past that.
Speaker 1: Have you had a blunt trauma?
Speaker 4: Well, not recently, I did crack some ribs about.
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not good.
Speaker 4: No, I just wanted to mention Bob Trumpy. We'll be
Speaker 4: having in depth discussions on the memory of Bob Trumpy
Speaker 4: tomorrow night on the Election Night Show. We'll deliver that
Speaker 4: in between election results tomorrow from nine to midnight. But
Speaker 4: I saw something today and it just thought I thought
Speaker 4: this was a great sterling topic. And it was that
Speaker 4: gen Z men for some reason are afraid to go
Speaker 4: out on dates because of possible failures that could become viral.
Speaker 1: Is apparently they're afraid they're going to be filmed right
Speaker 1: in some fashion doing something stupid.
Speaker 4: And doing something stupid, saying something stupid.
Speaker 1: It's never stopped either one of us. But we're older
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 4: Thing, and I wanted to relate that current day news
Speaker 4: story to what many people like me faced when we
Speaker 4: were very young. I was in eighth grade at knox
Speaker 4: Stone Junior High School. I was a burgeoning star on
Speaker 4: the junior high basketball team. And in those days, in
Speaker 4: the late seventies, mid to late seventies, the boys team
Speaker 4: would play after the girls team in basketball. And so
Speaker 4: I'm in eighth grade, probably about fourteen years old, and
Speaker 4: I'm in the stands with my one of my first girlfriends.
Speaker 4: We were holding hands and there was some kissing, but yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing heavy.
Speaker 3: Nothing. I mean we didn't.
Speaker 4: Get past well, we wouldn't get past a World Series
Speaker 4: third base without being thrown out at home plate. Let's
Speaker 4: say that that happened many times in Game.
Speaker 1: Seven, somebody had to shut down, right.
Speaker 4: But I'm sitting in the stands with my girlfriend, Laurel Varney,
Speaker 4: and I can say her name now because I mean
Speaker 4: it's been many years and the statue de limitations is
Speaker 4: long worn off. But I'm in there until the third quarter,
Speaker 4: the end of the the third quarter of the girls games,
Speaker 4: and then it's time for the boys to go and
Speaker 4: get dressed out for the boys game, which immediately follows. Yes, well,
Speaker 4: after half an hour or an hour of holding hands
Speaker 4: with Laurel Barney in the stands before our game, I
Speaker 4: am first in the locker room to change out for
Speaker 4: the boys game. Well, I apparently, unbeknownst to me, I
Speaker 4: felt something funny, but it had been become physically aroused
Speaker 4: by my holding hands in the stands of Laurel Barney.
Speaker 4: And I'm the first one in the boys locker room. Well,
Speaker 4: a teammate of mine came in as I was getting dressed.
Speaker 4: I was already stripped down to my underwear, and apparently
Speaker 4: it was obvious that I'd become physically aroused sitting in
Speaker 4: the stands holding hands and kissing with Laurel Varney before
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: Because so you're describing this repeatedly for I don't know
Speaker 1: what reason. You even after you've left the stands and
Speaker 1: you're getting dressed up to go play, you're still in
Speaker 1: this stay.
Speaker 4: There are tell there are telltale signs that I was
Speaker 4: physically aroused.
Speaker 1: Yes, I hear it.
Speaker 4: And so a teammate comes in, not knowing any of this,
Speaker 4: but sees that notices for some reason, right before I
Speaker 4: put on my uniform. And so for the entire rest
Speaker 4: of the year, and my entire ninth grade year, also
Speaker 4: on the basketball team and the student body at Naxtas
Speaker 4: Junior High School in Pedersonville, Tennessee, when I'm fifteen, sixteen
Speaker 4: years old and known as sperm worm. Oh my, now,
Speaker 4: this is the nickname that I had to live through
Speaker 4: even the sophomore year of high school and went to
Speaker 4: another high school, and I had to be known pointed out.
Speaker 4: I cannot imagine if that had gone viral, if we
Speaker 4: had had cell phones, if this had been caught on
Speaker 4: a video. For some reason, no person would wanted to
Speaker 4: have recorded this, me being physically aroused as I was
Speaker 4: putting on my uniform to go play basketball. It was
Speaker 4: bad enough with is the word of mouth it went
Speaker 4: viral in the way that it would go viral in
Speaker 4: the late nineteen seventies. Sure, the way it goes viral
Speaker 4: tonight now is all around the world.
Speaker 1: So here's what I want to own first. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: the girls catch on to this and make fun of you?
Speaker 1: Were you traumatized and somehow paralyzed? Is that why you
Speaker 1: left that school to go to another because you were shamed?
Speaker 4: No, I went I left that school to go to
Speaker 4: another because that's what we did. We went from Junior
Speaker 4: High to the Okaye.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just a different high school.
Speaker 6: I got you, Okay, This this lengthy legacy followed me
Speaker 6: right next still, because apparently it was noticeable enough for
Speaker 6: someone to see.
Speaker 3: At the end of the hallway.
Speaker 4: So I'm thinking that the initial reaction by that teammate
Speaker 4: and by other teammates were that possibly I was more
Speaker 4: equipped for adulthood than they were.
Speaker 1: I see. So do you think that if you had
Speaker 1: been alive and this had happened today, in the fear
Speaker 1: of being exposed publicly, would.
Speaker 4: You could you imagine sperm worm going worldwide on social
Speaker 4: media on x or Twitter or anything, and and what
Speaker 4: you would have to live down as being the real
Speaker 4: luct and stud of eighth grade basketball. This could have
Speaker 4: been a library, and it was. It was absolutely embarrassing
Speaker 4: enough for me.
Speaker 1: But you're still telling the story because you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: enough to do that now. So what is the lesson
Speaker 1: learned here for kids today? Is to not worry about it,
Speaker 1: to not worry about the social media so much, and
Speaker 1: just focus on living their lives.
Speaker 4: Don't you think the lesson is? The lesson is you
Speaker 4: are if you are noticeable enough to be known as
Speaker 4: sperm worm, you should live in that moment as a teenager.
Speaker 4: And I understand that while the girls may laugh at first,
Speaker 4: you'll be laughing last in the ultimate because they'll understand
Speaker 4: that you're a man with plan and ultimately you can
Speaker 4: help them in ways that they're they're mocking. Boyfriends could
Speaker 4: never help them. But one probing further, what I'm saying
Speaker 4: further is that embarrassment in dating and coming of age
Speaker 4: is a right of passage, and that boys today, regardless
Speaker 4: of there are cameras and phones everywhere, don't be embarrassed
Speaker 4: to go through that and understand that everybody goes through that,
Speaker 4: and while you may be singled out, it's just a
Speaker 4: right of passage, and that we are so measured and
Speaker 4: we are so judged in an age of viral videos everywhere.
Speaker 4: It's simply part of growing up and you just need
Speaker 4: to experience it. And I'm just telling you, well, I'm
Speaker 4: not proud that I was that physically excited. It was
Speaker 4: something that I couldn't help right.
Speaker 1: Well, the bottom line is I think that really what
Speaker 1: it boils down to is if you're so fixated on
Speaker 1: what everybody else is saying. I mean, things can be amplified,
Speaker 1: but it really is not relevant to everyday life. It's
Speaker 1: not going to keep you from getting a job.
Speaker 3: I did not become.
Speaker 4: A true adult person in this life, Sterling, and neither
Speaker 4: did you. Until the age we realize that what other
Speaker 4: people say and what other people do.
Speaker 3: Is not a.
Speaker 4: Measure of who we are. It's a measure of who
Speaker 4: they are. That's right, and that we need to be
Speaker 4: ourselves and not worry about what other people think of us,
Speaker 4: and to not let that be our judge.
Speaker 1: Well, that's hard, though, when you're a kid coming up though,
Speaker 1: your whole world is you know, those hallways at school,
Speaker 1: and it's that neighborhood. And it used to be the
Speaker 1: phone that was unplugged into the wall, and now of
Speaker 1: course it's your wrist or your tablet or your laptop
Speaker 1: to school or or whatever else that goes into it. Sure,
Speaker 1: but you know how you get kids beyond the idea
Speaker 1: of thinking that that screen is everything when what's in
Speaker 1: front of you and the communication that you have with
Speaker 1: other human beings face to face and everyday life is
Speaker 1: more important than something that you can turn off or
Speaker 1: restart and unplug or whatever else. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you get beyond that. I think that's the trick if
Speaker 1: somebody is so fixated on it. And there are a
Speaker 1: whole lot of kids who are, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: adults who are.
Speaker 4: I spent years of my life in this business, as
Speaker 4: you probably did too, and we all have egos and
Speaker 4: we're always worried about what people.
Speaker 3: Think of us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to a point, and I always I always tell people,
Speaker 4: if Willie is talking about me, it means that I matter.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what he is saying. It doesn't matter
Speaker 4: what anyone else says about you. If someone finds you
Speaker 4: deems you worthy enough to talk about it means you matter.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: The moment, the moment that they're not talking about you,
Speaker 4: that is the time to worry. That is the time
Speaker 4: to draw within yourself or realize that you need to
Speaker 4: make some changes if you really care about such things.
Speaker 4: And I'm just telling you that I don't care what
Speaker 4: anyone thinks of me for my opinions or anything else,
Speaker 4: because I own those, I'm true to those, and I'm
Speaker 4: not going to change those because of any kind of
Speaker 4: cancel culture, and because any kind of viral video campaign
Speaker 4: against me.
Speaker 1: Have you had that happen to you? Have you had
Speaker 1: a viral campaign against you? At this point? I mean,
Speaker 1: are people apt out to get you?
Speaker 3: Gary?
Speaker 1: Jeff Walker?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I think that people universally loved me, Stern.
Speaker 1: Well, I think your love too, But you sound like
Speaker 1: you have a complex, like people are maybe out to
Speaker 1: get you. I'm very concerned now.
Speaker 4: I'm worried about that I'm trying to preach a message here, yes,
Speaker 4: and you're trying and you're trying to verbally piss on
Speaker 4: my sermony.
Speaker 1: No, I am not. I am not. I find that
Speaker 1: I am going to the Church of Gary Jeff Walker,
Speaker 1: But I am. We've known each other for the better
Speaker 1: part of thirty years now, maybe more than that, actually,
Speaker 1: which is disturbed.
Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety three, it's been thirty two years since we
Speaker 4: first met. Holy crap, and at the Brady Bunch House
Speaker 4: in Dayton, Ohio, Kettering, Ohio.
Speaker 1: That's right, and they've changed that dot.
Speaker 4: Worry owned by a man named Alex Williams who had
Speaker 4: an r D in the back parking lot where he
Speaker 4: would meet his mistresses.
Speaker 3: Allegedly.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about any of that, No, te
Speaker 1: I just heard these stories, Yeah I heard allegedly.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so, yes, we've known each other a long time.
Speaker 4: But what I'm telling you, and what I would love
Speaker 4: to tell gen Z, is yes, you know what, the
Speaker 4: technology may have changed, but things are the way they
Speaker 4: always have been. And don't let your growth or your
Speaker 4: self identity be dictated by what other people say or
Speaker 4: do you know what not? Everybody needs to be famous
Speaker 4: for five seconds, and not everybody needs to be judged
Speaker 4: by what other people document about them at any given
Speaker 4: moment in time.
Speaker 1: Well stated that was good. That maybe the best thing
Speaker 1: I think I've ever heard you say.
Speaker 4: Well, you just haven't listened enough.
Speaker 1: That's probably true. I need to listen more. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to even listen to the voices in my
Speaker 1: head more. But I keep hearing you there now, so
Speaker 1: I don't know yes, yes.
Speaker 4: Yes quickly, I know you're you're running short.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: God gave us two ears and one mouth for the reason. Yes, listen, yes,
Speaker 4: and be confident within yourself no matter what others say.
Speaker 1: I feel good, I feel good. You feel good. This
Speaker 1: has been good.
Speaker 3: I feel great.
Speaker 4: In fact, I think i'm I'm visibly excited right now.
Speaker 1: And with that, I'll leave you because I'm not going
Speaker 1: to wait until you dress out for the next game. Jerry,
Speaker 1: Jeff Walker, he'll be back tomorrow. I get to talk
Speaker 1: to you, brother, good to talk to you. We'll see
Speaker 1: you later more Sterling coming back. I hope he's okay.
Speaker 1: It's seven hundred WL night, first wenty forecast on the
Speaker 1: Big One out A thirty four tonight middle sixties for
Speaker 1: your Tuesday election day. Go vote if you care or don't.
Speaker 1: About twenty five percent of people expected to actually hit
Speaker 1: the polls in total from early voting, mail in and
Speaker 1: tomorrow at the ballot box on election day Tuesday, November
Speaker 1: the fourth, and we'll see exactly how many people make
Speaker 1: a decision about the mayor or council and a host
Speaker 1: of other things that are on the ballot, depending on
Speaker 1: what districts you happen to reresiding him. It's a forty
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Speaker 1: Next couple days warmer Wednesday, close to seventy sixty again Thursday,
Speaker 1: low sixty tomorrow. Go talking to Gary Jeff earlier. It
Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow night talking about his care and
Speaker 1: concern about relationship issues for the people. And that's great
Speaker 1: Lance McAllister earlier too. You can check out the podcast.
Speaker 1: He and George Vogel both joined me separately. Of course,
Speaker 1: our sports talk host here in the evenings does a
Speaker 1: roundtable show at Rocky and everybody else and Lapham what
Speaker 1: he does on the Bengals Roundtable and everything else at
Speaker 1: Lance McCallister. George Vogel, former sports director at WLWT Channel
Speaker 1: five talking about Bob Trumpy, godfather of sports talk here
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW, who passed away over the weekend at
Speaker 1: the age of eighty. Just fantastic stories and experience with him,
Speaker 1: working with him, knowing him. Certainly the numbers stand for themselves.
Speaker 1: As a player ten years or so as a Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengal and original football Bengal coming out of Utah and
Speaker 1: going on to do what he did as a broadcaster
Speaker 1: covering NFL and the Olympics and Ryder Cup stuff, and
Speaker 1: just a story career in what everyone has talked about
Speaker 1: him is just being just a decent, wonderful human being.
Speaker 1: So it's quite a loss. I grew up listening to
Speaker 1: the guy, and it's had a lot of these lately, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but it is the way life works. So my heart
Speaker 1: goes out to his family. And we come back after
Speaker 1: your eleven third of report, we'll talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about I don't know if you can remember this either friends,
Speaker 1: maybe at a party, maybe when you were in college
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's been some weeks ago. Story was in
Speaker 1: the news. Now there's going to be a lawsuit. There
Speaker 1: were ten people that were on that balcony. The second
Speaker 1: or third week in October that collapsed. A couple of them,
Speaker 1: at least one I think, had life life altering injuries
Speaker 1: that go along with that. With this balcony collapse, now
Speaker 1: there's some litigation associated with it. Generally, I think they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be set in, designed and structure supported for
Speaker 1: something in the neighborhood of about ten people on one
Speaker 1: of those balconies more than that, otherwise it becomes a danger.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many parties over the years that
Speaker 1: when I was in school, either visiting friends at their
Speaker 1: apartments where there were parties, or elsewhere where there were
Speaker 1: some type of balcony on a higher level floor, second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth floor, whatever where. Regularly there would be so many
Speaker 1: people on those balconies that I just outside looking in
Speaker 1: walking into a building or a house like that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that is not a good place to be, very unsettling.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things that it's sort of
Speaker 1: a person at the party needs to be aware, and
Speaker 1: obviously the struct structure needs to be built a design
Speaker 1: and made sure that it's inspected and as it should be.
Speaker 1: And this litigation is going to play out because it's
Speaker 1: just a horrible situation, but I mean countless times, countless
Speaker 1: parties where I would see tons and tons of people
Speaker 1: piled on balconies. They were not designed to have that
Speaker 1: many people on them. It is disturbing. Lee Mawin's got
Speaker 1: your eleven thirty report. We'll talk on that and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more coming up here, all before the ATM starts.
Speaker 1: Ready to roll on seven hundred WLW. Hey, how you doing, Sterling?
Speaker 1: Just about done, not quite rolling till midnight. Then Kevin
Speaker 1: Gordon fits behind the wheel. Joe Waddell will get it
Speaker 1: started and warmed up in America's truck and network will
Speaker 1: roll after the midnight report. Lee Mawin has news. He
Speaker 1: just stopped in to tell me, giving me more details
Speaker 1: about that litigation and the issue in that horrible situation
Speaker 1: going back a couple of weeks where those u STE
Speaker 1: students or are at a party or get together of
Speaker 1: some sort out on the balcony. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: able to hold ten people, and apparently that's how many
Speaker 1: actually were injured as a part of the collapsing of
Speaker 1: that balcony, which was on the I think the second
Speaker 1: floor or third technically above like garage area or parking area,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty unnerving scenario. And I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many parties I've been to when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, as a student, subsequently even as a young adult,
Speaker 1: which I'm not a young one anymore, and are accused
Speaker 1: of acting like a child more than once. But the
Speaker 1: just scene I remember walking into parties and having to
Speaker 1: get together. You grab one of those nice red cups
Speaker 1: and you hit the keg or whatever, cocktails or flowing,
Speaker 1: and people are out and about and then you see
Speaker 1: on the patio and it's like filled with tons of people,
Speaker 1: and I just I can tell you on more than
Speaker 1: one occasion, I was like, oh, hell no, I'm not
Speaker 1: getting out there to visit and see people on that
Speaker 1: balcony because it's just the fear of them collapsing. And
Speaker 1: then your story like this too, and they have to
Speaker 1: go through the litigation process and everything as a part
Speaker 1: of it. But they are supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: hold up to ten people and be supported with that,
Speaker 1: and those structures are supposed to be inspected however so often,
Speaker 1: and you got to wonder, and these are things that'll
Speaker 1: come out and discovery and argument in this case is
Speaker 1: that you know when was it inspected or did they
Speaker 1: have more than ten people on it? Was it already
Speaker 1: one of those things that they were made aware of
Speaker 1: that they should not over tax the balcony. Was that
Speaker 1: not something that had been discussed with the tenants or
Speaker 1: their guests, etc. And so forth. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to it, and we're talking about the severe trauma physically,
Speaker 1: emotionally and everything else. I'm not going to litigate it here.
Speaker 1: I'm not an attorney. I'm not going to try to
Speaker 1: play one on the radio, that's for sure. But just
Speaker 1: an unnerving nightmare scenario. And a good friend of mine
Speaker 1: who was in a band called the Oxymorons when I
Speaker 1: was coming up, Ben Schulker was his name. He was
Speaker 1: on a balcony. It was not overcrowded, but as I understand,
Speaker 1: it was like leaning back up as a lot of
Speaker 1: people will do, put up your feet or whatever else,
Speaker 1: and apparently lost his this is years ago now, and
Speaker 1: then fell off of this balcony and lost his life.
Speaker 1: And that still shakes me thinking about it. It was
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine, and it just resonates even more
Speaker 1: you see a story like this, or you know, even
Speaker 1: at that time, going around to parties, and I just
Speaker 1: sort of just like you, I don't need to be
Speaker 1: on that backhony. I just do not need to be
Speaker 1: on that patio or that type of situation. Five point
Speaker 1: three seven four nine seven eight hundred the big one,
Speaker 1: Glad you're along. Earlier basketball bear Cats at home fifth
Speaker 1: third Arena kicked off the new season ninety four sixty three.
Speaker 1: They sent to Western Carolina's Catamounts back home losers. A
Speaker 1: big win for West Miller's bear Cats to start off
Speaker 1: the season. Musketeers at home at sentas sixty six sixty two,
Speaker 1: they send U Marist Red Fox's home losers. You see,
Speaker 1: Claremont visited Northern Kentucky University's Norse at Truest Arena and
Speaker 1: got pounded and sent home back up seventy one, shaking
Speaker 1: their heads, probably wondering what happened to us, Not quite
Speaker 1: doubled up, but close one twenty six to sixty nine.
Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, that is the most scoring
Speaker 1: that the Norse have ever done, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six to sixty nine. That's a big win there up
Speaker 1: at ud Arena Downtown Dayton, just off seventy five eighty
Speaker 1: eight forty eight. The Flyers handle Canisius's Golden Griffins so
Speaker 1: fairly easily. Right State Raiders at the Nutter Center just
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes from there, and Fairborn off of six
Speaker 1: seventy five where I went to school at Right State
Speaker 1: as well as Lee Mallen and Santa Collins too. I
Speaker 1: think Wright State eighty six, Franklin's Grizzlies thirty six, So
Speaker 1: a win for all those teams. You see Xavier Nku
Speaker 1: the Flyers at Dayton and Wright State all getting wus tonight.
Speaker 1: So there is that I'm curious, and I figure, why
Speaker 1: not ask this question here and driving around or whatever else?
Speaker 1: You know, we got a government shutdown that's happening. We
Speaker 1: got people with their snap benefits, food, a lot of seniors,
Speaker 1: some veterans, kids, their moms, single parents sometimes with a
Speaker 1: lot of working families that are food and secure, that
Speaker 1: spend time working and trying to handle their business. This
Speaker 1: is It's been some years ago, and I regularly have
Speaker 1: on Kurt Riber from the Free Store Food Bank because
Speaker 1: I desperately believe in trying to help out our neighbors.
Speaker 1: And it's a very giving and loving community here in
Speaker 1: the tri State, and they do incredible work, like ninety
Speaker 1: three ninety four percent of all proceeds that are given
Speaker 1: to the Free Store Food Bank go right through them
Speaker 1: and go directly to the people with food in hand,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty amazing thing. And they get a
Speaker 1: lot of corporate support as well. But the number of
Speaker 1: people that are dealing with food issues in this government shutdown,
Speaker 1: not including but the food bank's getting an uptick in
Speaker 1: military families as well because of their pay situation. Don't
Speaker 1: know about the air traffic controllers and what they're navigating
Speaker 1: literally and figuratively as they're supposed to be going back
Speaker 1: to work on a regular basis without getting paid. But
Speaker 1: the statistics of those that are food insecure and regularly
Speaker 1: getting food aid in these United States is just about
Speaker 1: twelve percent of the US population, which is just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: Like forty one million Americans regularly not in extraordinary situations
Speaker 1: because of the shutdown, but regularly getting food assistance SNAP
Speaker 1: or food card, food stamps, whatever. It is forty one
Speaker 1: million out of some three if in fact you believe
Speaker 1: the numbers of about three hundred and thirty million Americans,
Speaker 1: that puts US just about a twelve percent of Americans
Speaker 1: needing help to get food on their table regularly, to
Speaker 1: make sure their kids have a full belly so they
Speaker 1: can go to school ready to learn and not have
Speaker 1: to worry about if they're going to have lunch or
Speaker 1: dinner or breakfast the next day or whatever else. That
Speaker 1: is just absolutely sad, miserable at a time, And I
Speaker 1: know this will piss a lot of people off, and
Speaker 1: I frankly don't care. But at a time, so many
Speaker 1: people we talk about making America great again and the
Speaker 1: effort to make America healthy again, with people looking at
Speaker 1: buying into the healthcare exchanges, working people sometimes with two
Speaker 1: and three jobs, part time jobs, or low income jobs,
Speaker 1: whatever else, trying to take care of kids and everything else,
Speaker 1: and still buying through the exchange, getting some type of
Speaker 1: help with supplementing the actual cost a tax credit or
Speaker 1: otherwise paid towards those insurance payments. Doesn't seem to me
Speaker 1: that there's a whole lot of healthy or great stuff
Speaker 1: going on with hungry and people that can't get insurance
Speaker 1: with the prices going up right now. Meanwhile, lawmakers are
Speaker 1: sitting on their ass doing much of what nothing, not
Speaker 1: wanting to vote on it or not really seriously debating it,
Speaker 1: and to talk about somebody not wanting to lose this
Speaker 1: debate or argument or whatever else. Their job in Washington
Speaker 1: is one thing is working for we the people. And
Speaker 1: I'm all about lower taxes. I'm all about avoiding wasting
Speaker 1: expenses and government dollars and all the other stuff that
Speaker 1: goes with it. Forty one million Americans on a regular
Speaker 1: basis need help getting food, and it's getting shut down
Speaker 1: or at least in part while they figure out something
Speaker 1: for how long this government has been shut down. And
Speaker 1: the shutdown wouldn't even be shut down if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for the fact that they were already yanking away healthcare
Speaker 1: and already yanking away money for medical care stuff. And
Speaker 1: here's the other thing that I find that it is
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing with all the talk about our cities and
Speaker 1: how unsafe they are and a mayor's race in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: where you got a question, is the police policy and
Speaker 1: the way they go about their business doing it the
Speaker 1: right way with the unfound across the street where there
Speaker 1: was a shooting this weekend, and that is it the police,
Speaker 1: is it the government and how the city is handling it,
Speaker 1: whether it's the city manager or the mayor, and whatever
Speaker 1: policy is it, the judges, the judiciary, and how they
Speaker 1: penalize those handful of people that are regular repeat offenders
Speaker 1: out there on these streets, whether it's young kids, minor
Speaker 1: children with guns or grown adult people who should sure
Speaker 1: as hell know better to not be quick with the
Speaker 1: gun to decide to solve their problems, like it's somehow
Speaker 1: the Old West or some other crap like that. In
Speaker 1: this situation, the federal government in city after city has
Speaker 1: polled federal dollars that were supposed to go to policing
Speaker 1: to help hire more cops, to help give them more
Speaker 1: tools to do the job, and the federal government talks
Speaker 1: about needing more police and bringing in National Guard or
Speaker 1: whatever else. I'm just gonna say, when you're pulling money
Speaker 1: away from city and state governments that handles policing issues
Speaker 1: and monies that were given to them grants for you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's a supplies and more cruisers or more deputies
Speaker 1: or city police officers or whatever else, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of double talk and a lot of jive
Speaker 1: that's been going on in the midst of all the
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening, or maybe I'm wrong five point three
Speaker 1: seven four nine seven eight hundred, the big one. You
Speaker 1: can talk back the iHeartRadio app. But it is bewildering.
Speaker 1: Forty one million Americans in the best of times needing
Speaker 1: help with food, with a government shutdown, and workers in
Speaker 1: the federal government who work hard for us. They're citizens,
Speaker 1: they're neighbors of ours, not getting paid in some cases,
Speaker 1: expected still to show up to work, and wondering if
Speaker 1: they're going to have the ability to put food on
Speaker 1: the table for their kids to go to school. And
Speaker 1: they're worried about winning or losing. Do the work in
Speaker 1: DC and stop talking so much crap. It's it is
Speaker 1: amazing to me. And clearly stuff in downtown Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I love Cincinnati, Uh I do. I love the
Speaker 1: tri State in the Miami Valley and uh I just
Speaker 1: the police need to do better.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Clearly city government needs to do better, and the citizen
Speaker 1: really needs to also do better in all of this.
Speaker 1: You know, new mayor, old mayor, same mayor. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, however many council members need to be replaced.
Speaker 1: You tell me. I hear from police who tell me
Speaker 1: that they don't think the courts are doing their job
Speaker 1: and then turning people back on the street. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of finger pointing, but the cops need to do
Speaker 1: their part, the courts and prosecutors need to do theirs,
Speaker 1: and parents need to do a better job making sure
Speaker 1: they don't make a default, a faulty piece of crap
Speaker 1: product that's not ready to go to school and learn
Speaker 1: and not out on the streets after hours somehow with
Speaker 1: firearms in their hand, thinking it's easier to boost cars,
Speaker 1: steal stuff, sell weed or whatever else that's at there?
Speaker 1: Am I crazy? Let's get Will Will's first here before
Speaker 1: the break was Stirling on seven hundredule lw Will. What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 7: I just want to say that my wife works are
Speaker 7: so security at downtown office and she's working every day
Speaker 7: not getting paid, and it sucks thirty five days not
Speaker 7: getting paid.
Speaker 1: So what do they tell them when they're on the
Speaker 1: job about that? I mean that they still have to
Speaker 1: show up, because I've talked to a few people in
Speaker 1: different types of jobs and they basically say, we're sorry,
Speaker 1: but you either show up or you may not have
Speaker 1: a job. Is that what she's heard?
Speaker 7: Yes, she has to go in, she has to go in.
Speaker 7: She has to work, do the office, not from home.
Speaker 7: There's no telework anymore. She has to give a report
Speaker 7: to the office, work regular work load, do all the
Speaker 7: normal things that she does day to day. And we
Speaker 7: just haven't gotten a page. She got a half a
Speaker 7: paycheck three weeks ago, no paycheck last week, and no
Speaker 7: paycheck coming up. This crateic.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm guessing you must work or it's gonna I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a really tough situation to be in when you're
Speaker 1: not getting money or knowing how much you're gonna get of.
Speaker 7: Any Yes, I do work. We have a emergency fund.
Speaker 7: It's about a six month emergency fund. We're a little
Speaker 7: over a month in.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Most people don't even have a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in an emergency fund, let alone six months.
Speaker 1: You guys were thinking ahead like squirrels, putting those nuts
Speaker 1: away before winter gets here. That's a smart way to
Speaker 1: do it, man, And going to be in a position
Speaker 1: to do that. What's the morale that she's talked about
Speaker 1: with her co workers there. I'm curious.
Speaker 7: It's brutal. They don't want to I mean, they're there
Speaker 7: to help everybody that haunts a scaredy, So I mean
Speaker 7: they're not. They don't want to leave the people that
Speaker 7: they have appointments with high and dry. But at the
Speaker 7: same time, they're working every day, all day long, doing
Speaker 7: the same thing and not getting paid.
Speaker 3: So it's it's rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd say it is. I'm sorry you're having to
Speaker 1: go through that and so many other people. It's probably
Speaker 1: the nicest way to put it. I've tried to keep
Speaker 1: it clean in the frustration that I have, and I'm
Speaker 1: still getting paid when I show up, So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's a whole other story. We'll see if
Speaker 1: my card key were the next time.
Speaker 3: I try. I try not to make a sound bad
Speaker 3: or mean.
Speaker 7: But they just passed the SNAP stuff paying partially. They've
Speaker 7: just approved the partially pay all the SNAP benefits. Why
Speaker 7: can't we approve the least pay is a federal workers at.
Speaker 4: Least yeah, for their salary.
Speaker 1: No kedding, because I mean, here's the thing. I've talked
Speaker 1: to a few people. There's an older couple across the
Speaker 1: street from me. They were wondering about their social security
Speaker 1: issues aside from that, which I don't know much about.
Speaker 1: But you know, there are people that are working that
Speaker 1: are now having to figure out how they're going to
Speaker 1: get food because they may not have that emergency fund
Speaker 1: like you have. They got to show up to work.
Speaker 1: But then what do they have to do go to
Speaker 1: the food I mean, that's that's that's or the church
Speaker 1: or something like that. I mean, that's a really brutal
Speaker 1: place to be right now. And the lawmakers have been
Speaker 1: ware doing what's awesome.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, my wife's actually losing.
Speaker 7: Money because she has to go downtown and pay the
Speaker 7: part because they don't they don't offer parking plans down there.
Speaker 7: She has put pay the park and gas and wear
Speaker 7: and tear on the vehicle and not get paid.
Speaker 1: All the other expense.
Speaker 3: Everybody I talked.
Speaker 7: To, they're like, you know, she'll get back pay. That's fine,
Speaker 7: and great bay comes in if it.
Speaker 3: Comes in right.
Speaker 1: And tell your creditors that if you've got a bill
Speaker 1: that's getting ten days past to thirty days past to
Speaker 1: or whatever else, that's brutal. Really well, I'm sorry you're
Speaker 1: navigating that. I'm glad that your wife is there doing
Speaker 1: the job and those others and hats off to them,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you picking up the phone to share.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll get their jobs done and figure a way
Speaker 1: to solve this here in the center than later.
Speaker 3: Brother, hopefully.
Speaker 1: Certainly, Thanks Charlie, curiously, thank you, appreciate you listening. Quick
Speaker 1: Break will come back. I'm not done yet, although Kevin
Speaker 1: Gordon warming it up and gunning it, he's ready to
Speaker 1: roll with atn after midnight here on the Big One
Speaker 1: on a night where the basketball bear Cats handle Western Carolina.
Speaker 1: They got their first win of the season was Miller's
Speaker 1: guys at ninety four to sixty three, A Xavier wins
Speaker 1: and Nku wins and the Dayton Flyers winning Right State wins.
Speaker 1: And over the weekend the Bengals scored what forty two
Speaker 1: and still wasn't good enough, and the week ago thirty
Speaker 1: eight not good enough. I'm not saying it's the defense's problem,
Speaker 1: but unbelievable. It's sterling just about done. Leading up to,
Speaker 1: of course, Kevin Gordon in America's Trucking Network rolling after midnight,
Speaker 1: Joe Waddell producing, He's telling me about his fantasy team
Speaker 1: and he got to win barely, and he's like the Bengals.
Speaker 1: They score all the points in the world, but the
Speaker 1: defense giving it up like nobody's business too. I shouldn't lap,
Speaker 1: but it's sort of the way. It is a great
Speaker 1: conversation and great memory shared. I got to thank Lance McCallister,
Speaker 1: making time sports talk host here at the Big One,
Speaker 1: and George Vogel, former sports director WLWT Channel five Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Greater Cincinnat a Hall of journalism, giving us some
Speaker 1: insights perspective in the late great Bob Trumpy, the godfather
Speaker 1: sports talk, eighty years old, passed away over the weekend
Speaker 1: started all right here at seven hundred WLW. We lost him.
Speaker 1: It was just a really incredible talent on the field
Speaker 1: as an original football Bengal, as a broadcaster, and just
Speaker 1: very kind just in general. So I appreciate those guys
Speaker 1: making an opportunity to join us and share their perspective
Speaker 1: and some good words about Bob Trumpy. Hart goes out
Speaker 1: to his family. Thank you to Joe Waddell, Gary Jeff
Speaker 1: Walker also joined us. He'll be back again tomorrow night
Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you on Friday.
Speaker 3: Right here.
Speaker 1: Have yourself a good one. Go vote if you want
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Speaker 1: possible voters out there that are eligible hit the ballot
Speaker 1: box tomorrow, which they won't. That's thirty They expect twenty
Speaker 1: five percent including early voting and mail in, so it
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