Speaker 1: Lots of people out in the bount trying to fill
Speaker 1: their gift list for the people they love and care about.
Speaker 1: Saw a bunch of cars with trees on top on
Speaker 1: the way in. It's Sterling hanging out with Donnade again
Speaker 1: the Nation station seven HUNDREDULW. You look like you're basking
Speaker 1: in the glow of like some type of joy. Oh
Speaker 1: does this have anything to do at all with the
Speaker 1: Crosstown shootout last night? I'm just curious because I know
Speaker 1: you are a Musketeer.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am graduating from Xavier, so I was happy
Speaker 2: to see that they won, and I wasn't surprised by it.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people thought that you see
Speaker 2: might win, but I kind of thought Zavier was gonna win.
Speaker 2: They have a good record playing with Crosstown shoot shoot out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they haven't won back to back years since like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, no ninety six or ninety seven, so long ago.
Speaker 1: I think you were across the street at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was what is now kiss but doing afternoons then
Speaker 1: Channel Z of seven to one. That's been a mine.
Speaker 1: It that's been a while. I can't even remember. I
Speaker 1: may have had hair halfway down my back at that point.
Speaker 1: That's how long ago. So yeah, it is the season.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you I have not. I've done
Speaker 1: just the minimal amount of Christmas shopping so far. I
Speaker 1: haven't done. I always prepared for everything. You're like a
Speaker 1: perfect girls shout, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I I you fake it well, but I guess because
Speaker 2: I feel like I am, like you know, last minute
Speaker 2: Lucy sometimes and I you know this this year for sure,
Speaker 2: I've just been you know, burning the candle and I
Speaker 2: just haven't gotten it. But I am gonna. I'm going
Speaker 2: to do it all next week and get it all done.
Speaker 2: Getting it done, Yeah, good thing, It's go time. So
Speaker 2: I'm just curious when you do that and how you
Speaker 2: navigate the whole because I'm an only child. You have
Speaker 2: we've talked about this well as adults. Yeah yeah, not
Speaker 2: as a kid. But I mean I don't have a
Speaker 2: multitude of siblings, so I mean I may or may not.
Speaker 2: And this is not about us.
Speaker 1: In a pressure situation, I may give you a little
Speaker 1: something or whatever to say, hey, I've got I gotta
Speaker 1: get I gotta pat No, do'll forget it. We want
Speaker 1: to agree to Okay, Well, here's the topic. Do you
Speaker 1: get stuff for the people you work with.
Speaker 2: Yes, the answer is yes, I think that you do,
Speaker 2: and the people that are somewhat in your life. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously the big Christmas Eve and Christmas Day gift giving
Speaker 2: is kind of a big deal. But yes, when we
Speaker 2: see each other before the holiday, well probably we've always exchanged.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 1: I mean, you even gave me a bag full of
Speaker 1: like which the other day a week or two ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you come in here, go, I got this stuff for you.
Speaker 1: And it's lotions and sabs and like snacks and everything else.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I am hungry and need to moisturize.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know what is going on, And like
Speaker 1: I brought you some rosemary that smelled good. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I in the kitchen, I cut the thing. They'll put
Speaker 1: her on the stove for a while. Yeah, the dog
Speaker 1: would walk through it. Yeah, of course it was so good.
Speaker 1: Is their chicken too? I don't know, because there's usually
Speaker 1: something that goes together. Do you do like aside from us,
Speaker 1: like other co workers, because you have another gig and
Speaker 1: I do some other stuff. Do you do the elephant
Speaker 1: white elephant deal? Do you have a limit? How do
Speaker 1: you go about that. And with the house full of
Speaker 1: or you know, a family, a bunch of other siblings,
Speaker 1: how do you do because you could go broke just
Speaker 1: with your family. Yeah, I mean as adults, I don't.
Speaker 1: I stopped giving gifts sisters. Now, if they lived here
Speaker 1: and we were all together, that would be you know something.
Speaker 1: But my one of my sisters turned sixty and my
Speaker 1: sister and I got her an Apple watch, and that
Speaker 1: was I mean that that's that's always fun to do
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But on a general basis, no, we
Speaker 1: don't go give a bunch of Christmas gifts unless they're
Speaker 1: in town, and then we'll do it. Yeah, because they're there,
Speaker 1: Yeah you feel Yeah, we don't need.
Speaker 2: To ship it out. I have so many nieces and nephews.
Speaker 2: There's no way I could do that.
Speaker 1: If you listen, there maybe another one soon. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time I talk to you, like, there's a year,
Speaker 1: there's a ton it's hard to sort of, you know,
Speaker 1: navigate the dudes and dults of this. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: to a friend of mine the other night. It was
Speaker 1: after our holiday party here, and he's complaining to me
Speaker 1: because of this whole idea of tipping that goes into
Speaker 1: the holiday season as well, and he's like, man, do
Speaker 1: you do the trash guy? And I go, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I ever even.
Speaker 2: Sail man, I know, and then we I have three
Speaker 2: of them. So what do you do if you have
Speaker 2: three trash guys? Yeah, we have a recycling truck. There's
Speaker 2: a trash Yeah, and I don't know who's in the
Speaker 2: truck that used to get out. Now it's just there's
Speaker 2: an arm that comes. It could be autonomous. I don't
Speaker 2: even know. Maybe there's no real guy anymore. I reach
Speaker 2: out to runky on this and my neighbor goes, I
Speaker 2: think you should tape it to the trash can. I'm like,
Speaker 2: if they don't get out and it's just taped to
Speaker 2: the trash can and then they dump it in, it's
Speaker 2: like to fall off and then go in and it
Speaker 2: ends up at Mount Rumkey, and then I should go
Speaker 2: diving for cats. Listen, we as a society at this
Speaker 2: point tip for everything. It almost is. It almost is.
Speaker 2: There was a young girl. Did you hear this story.
Speaker 1: I don't know the story. Okay, well there's a young
Speaker 1: girl Server.
Speaker 2: She was away Server, right, and she ran after this
Speaker 2: couple that had one hundred and forty dollars bill and
Speaker 2: they didn't tip her anything, and she harassed them to
Speaker 2: the point where a police came over and arrested her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a tip is a bonus. Yes, you can't.
Speaker 2: If somebody doesn't leave a tip, you cannot. You have
Speaker 2: to just let them not leave a tip. And they said,
Speaker 2: we don't believe in tipping, and she said, then you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be going out to eat at a restaurant. It's
Speaker 2: a it's a bizarre thing now like anywhere you go,
Speaker 2: everything Starbucks now, everything has tips included.
Speaker 1: I think when the worm turned and it's been a
Speaker 1: while ago, I remember flying out of CVG in one
Speaker 1: of those little coffee stand deals or whatever else. It's
Speaker 1: been a while ago, and they had their jar and
Speaker 1: I was just moving down the line. I may have
Speaker 1: even mentioned this to you. And I'm pretty simple. Just
Speaker 1: give me a cup of black coffee or work out
Speaker 1: the rest.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'll put the cinnamon in by myself.
Speaker 1: I'm good. And what tips are appreciated? And I was like,
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? Yeah, I mean I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: but they're paying you. I'll tip you. I hadn't moved
Speaker 1: left yet Yeah, I'm just trying to get to the end.
Speaker 1: I might want a brownie. I don't know when you're
Speaker 1: asking for money. Yeah, that's a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Well, as someone who's been a bartender for years and
Speaker 2: you know a server too, you know, and before I
Speaker 2: even went to college, I did that job, and you know,
Speaker 2: we lived on tips because the the servers don't get
Speaker 2: paid very much.
Speaker 1: No, they live on tips.
Speaker 2: So I get it when you have one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty dollars bill and that's like, you know, a good
Speaker 2: tip would be fifteen twenty bucks. That's you know, for
Speaker 2: an they're probably there for an hour.
Speaker 1: Twenty about right, right? Yeah, what if they're crappy service deliverers?
Speaker 1: I still I still give tips.
Speaker 2: I tip, I really do tip above but I used
Speaker 2: to do it, but you can't as a I would
Speaker 2: never chase after anybody that didn't leave me a tip.
Speaker 2: I mean it'd be a bummer and I probably would
Speaker 2: recognize and even still, you know, just notice if they
Speaker 2: come back and that's not my table or whatever, but.
Speaker 1: And make sure everybody why tip? Just no they don't tip.
Speaker 2: I mean I haven't done that job in a long
Speaker 2: long time, but I think it's I think tipping has
Speaker 2: gotten at a hand at like Starbucks and you get
Speaker 2: you know, get offered a coffee.
Speaker 1: That's your job. You should be able to do it.
Speaker 2: But when you're bartending and you're serving and they don't
Speaker 2: make that much, then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know minimum wage is going up, but of
Speaker 1: servers and stuff, they have a lower wage because the
Speaker 1: idea is that their income is supplemented by the tipping.
Speaker 1: And I grab. I mean a lot of our friends
Speaker 1: have all been involved in that. A couple of them
Speaker 1: are involved in the industry now as manager's owners whatever,
Speaker 1: and they sort of do that, which leads me to
Speaker 1: another thought in that it was a friend in Vegas
Speaker 1: and then somebody here was telling me too that there
Speaker 1: are more restaurants that are starting to have an all
Speaker 1: inclusive deal, like you're going to buy your dinner whatever,
Speaker 1: they don't want you to tip. In fact, it's not
Speaker 1: even a line item on the receipt and they're just
Speaker 1: going to take it out of their end for what
Speaker 1: you're paying for the food product. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's on their side of the I think that's a
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 2: I think there's going to be I where was it
Speaker 2: we went somewhere and that was no tipping include Oh,
Speaker 2: it was like a whole resort and you didn't have
Speaker 2: to tip anyone, and the valet you didn't have to
Speaker 2: tip anybody. It was all inclusive. That is going to
Speaker 2: start being the new norm.
Speaker 1: I think. I think that's so nice.
Speaker 2: I would be willing to pay norm to not have
Speaker 2: to worry about tipping everybody, because I do worry about it,
Speaker 2: Like do I have cash?
Speaker 1: Who carries cash anymore? Nobody carries cash. It's all to
Speaker 1: you sometimes. I mean I have something, but I know
Speaker 1: I never know how much cash I have. No. The
Speaker 1: only thing I use cash for is to tip people.
Speaker 1: That's it. It's it's a it's an odd sort of scenario.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I remember the first time I was, you know,
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to be able to go to England, you
Speaker 1: know and take a sort of like a vacation deal.
Speaker 1: And I have some people tell me but you know,
Speaker 1: don't try to tip the you know, they don't take
Speaker 1: the tips. And I'm whatever, dude, he tried to get
Speaker 1: me in trouble over there. And you go into a
Speaker 1: pub and you know, get a pint maybe whatever, some
Speaker 1: bangers and mash whatever it is, and I threw down
Speaker 1: some change, which I have no idea because it's not
Speaker 1: US currency. I don't know what's going on. And when
Speaker 1: one guy looked at me and he was like, we
Speaker 1: don't do that here, and I'm like, I'm sorry what
Speaker 1: And I'm like no, it was just he says, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't America, And all of a sudden, I became
Speaker 1: the ugly American because I was trying to give the
Speaker 1: guy some love because he's you know, it was right.
Speaker 1: Even now, I'm like flashing back. I'm like, listen, it
Speaker 1: was a bad time. It was a bad time. So
Speaker 1: we're kind of curious. If you're a service industry type person,
Speaker 1: do people tip you more of the holidays? Are they
Speaker 1: getting sting here? Do you feel weird, you know, in
Speaker 1: that expectation of it. Do you treat people differently if
Speaker 1: in fact they don't tip. Of course, it's it's a
Speaker 1: human people. Of course, slow it down. Next time Terry
Speaker 1: Larry shows up, You're like, no, that bastard never paid.
Speaker 2: You should definitely not run after the people and tell
Speaker 2: them that they owe you a tip.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Poor girl, that young girl who was upset, and I
Speaker 2: get I feel her pain. Got arrested for that for harassment, disturbing.
Speaker 1: The peace because you could have been somebody else's grill. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess they put press charges and everything. She was listen.
Speaker 2: That's not an easy place to be.
Speaker 1: No, you got to pick your spots in life. Yes,
Speaker 1: chase somebody down. That's like pulling off of an exit,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get off seventy one or seventy five,
Speaker 1: depending on where you are in the country, and you're like,
Speaker 1: there's somebody right there at that light, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about helping them out. The light turn
Speaker 1: green and they start like hobbling up ports like, no, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to run over you anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four ninety seven thousand. You were
Speaker 1: juzzing me. I could tell you're like, eh, No, I
Speaker 1: used to I used to give out.
Speaker 2: I lived in LA for a long time and I
Speaker 2: used to get I used to give people money.
Speaker 1: I stopped doing that. I just did.
Speaker 2: I used to almost every homeless person I saw I
Speaker 2: gave money to, and I was like, you know.
Speaker 1: What, it broke that way. Yeah, And some of.
Speaker 2: Them were you know, expected it when I'd see him
Speaker 2: on my route to Trader Joe's and I'd be like,
Speaker 2: uh no, So you know, I just stopped doing it.
Speaker 2: And I think that there's a need for it, and
Speaker 2: I was happy to do it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just personally stopped doing it, like short Vine,
Speaker 1: you see, like you know, it's constant, sort of like
Speaker 1: up in your ground, like do you get away from me?
Speaker 1: Put that classical music up louder, you know, may move on? Yes,
Speaker 1: eight hundred, the Big One, your chance to get interactive.
Speaker 1: Do you tip? Do you tip more less aggressive? I
Speaker 1: guess solicitation for it, which just sounds dirty. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: rip through some calls here. Uh, it's all holding the longest.
Speaker 1: Let's get to Batavia.
Speaker 5: Ron.
Speaker 1: Then Chris and Tommy and Bill and Richard and others
Speaker 1: were Stirling and Donnadee on the Big One. What do
Speaker 1: you have? Ron?
Speaker 4: Hey, I love your show for sure, But I got
Speaker 4: a tip story. It's kind of the waitress run after
Speaker 4: the customer. But it was a different story. Uh, these
Speaker 4: two guys come in and ate, and uh when they left,
Speaker 4: they tipped two cents and the waitress picked up the
Speaker 4: two cents and run out in the parking lot and said,
Speaker 4: here you forgot this.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, if you're only eving two cents, you want
Speaker 1: to keep it. You need it more than a kind
Speaker 1: of yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know what they did it just to bother
Speaker 2: her that you don't leave two cents, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: That's tough, and I know it's a hard time. John.
Speaker 1: What else do you have run before we let you go?
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to prematurely hang up on you. I
Speaker 1: have a problem with a trigger finger on the mouse.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: That's all I've got.
Speaker 1: That's happy Christmas time. Let's get to Chris here quickly.
Speaker 1: Seven hundredu WLW with Sterling and Donna d Do you
Speaker 1: tip if you're in the service industry, are they showing
Speaker 1: you the love they should? Or do you feel disrespected
Speaker 1: and uncared for?
Speaker 6: I actually, because I've been in the industry, I tend
Speaker 6: to overtip.
Speaker 1: But well, here's there.
Speaker 6: I'll tip if I'm getting bad service and it's not
Speaker 6: the service fault. So food comes to at LA and
Speaker 6: it's not.
Speaker 1: The service fault.
Speaker 6: And I've worked in the restaurant, so.
Speaker 3: I can see what's going on.
Speaker 6: If she only has two tables in a section and
Speaker 6: I see her talking to her friends as a bad service.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna tip as much.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing.
Speaker 6: When I go on a cruiser like a resort, I
Speaker 6: actually still I tip on top of what I've already done,
Speaker 6: already given the tip, and I tip more, especially on
Speaker 6: the cruise because the bartender, I'll slip at my twenty
Speaker 6: And you know what, no matter how long that line is.
Speaker 2: Remember totally, Chriss, you got your own agenda.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've learned that over time as well. Chris is
Speaker 1: like a guru trying to figure out how to navigate
Speaker 1: the waters of trying to not stay. Two third, you.
Speaker 2: Tip a valet, You give a valet twenty bucks and
Speaker 2: say keep your car up front.
Speaker 1: They will remember you this second. Did you walk.
Speaker 7: Out as a server?
Speaker 6: I still remember my I still remember the people who
Speaker 6: tipped and who didn't tip, and I would I would
Speaker 6: never give bad service, but I wouldn't give my excellent
Speaker 6: service to.
Speaker 1: Just what you needed to do. Chris, appreciate to call
Speaker 1: me and have a great holiday season. Let's get another
Speaker 1: one here before the break. Let's Bill. Well, hold on, Bill,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry we only have thirty seconds. I was looking
Speaker 1: at that wrong quick break come back three third to
Speaker 1: report soon and then later Jack Crumley going to join
Speaker 1: us too, and we got Joe Daniman from Box nineteen
Speaker 1: going to talk Bengals and Bills and maybe a little
Speaker 1: Crosstown shootout. Things got weird taking calls last night after
Speaker 1: that game. A lot of hate and the sarcasm from
Speaker 1: you Musketeer people. We're Sterling and Donna d coming back
Speaker 1: with mister Western high to keeping us in line on
Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon. Seven hundredu W LW. Hey, it's Sterling
Speaker 1: and Donnade hanging out. Seven hundred WLW. You are too,
Speaker 1: or you wouldn't be like here with us now.
Speaker 8: Correct.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. Bill, it was getting interactive with us.
Speaker 1: We like a five point three seven four nine, eight hundred,
Speaker 1: the big one talking about to tipping coming off to
Speaker 1: the jack that show some love to those who serve
Speaker 1: us and our lives as holiday season are just in general. Bill,
Speaker 1: sorry to be brief early. You got about a minute.
Speaker 1: What do you have?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm a tax attorney CPA here in Cincinnati, and
Speaker 9: there is the nude tax ball that says tips are
Speaker 9: tax free. I bet there are special rules that you
Speaker 9: need to be aware of. The IRIS is issued a
Speaker 9: complete list of which services qualify for the tips being
Speaker 9: tax free, So not all services qualify. There's a comprehensive list,
Speaker 9: and the tip has to be voluntary, so those restaurants
Speaker 9: or businesses that require a tip and put it on
Speaker 9: the tab that will be taxable to the employee.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: So if I can change if I write all my
Speaker 2: if I get I can write all the tips off
Speaker 2: that I've given to servers or the servers it's tax free?
Speaker 1: Which one are you talking right? For the servers?
Speaker 3: This is the servers.
Speaker 4: These are the employees.
Speaker 1: If you have to do right off by tips, you
Speaker 1: can't write off this.
Speaker 9: This affects all the employees.
Speaker 1: Her eyes bill looked like it was like a spinning.
Speaker 1: She was like, oh my god, I'm getting paid. I'm
Speaker 1: a little I'm a little like silly today. But well,
Speaker 1: it's been a while and we've had you on the
Speaker 1: show actually as a guest before, so it's a weird,
Speaker 1: you know, having you on this way, so we'll have
Speaker 1: to do it again.
Speaker 2: Well, can you give our producer your number because I
Speaker 2: want to talk to you. We'll put you on hold
Speaker 2: and get on that. I'm sure I have it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Time for news three third report Sterling, Donna D
Speaker 1: coming Back, Tipping and Jack Crumley and so much more
Speaker 1: on a Saturday seven hundred WLW Sterling and Donna D
Speaker 1: hanging out. It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon, you know, I
Speaker 1: this is the first day Dona and I don't know
Speaker 1: how long. And I'm sorry for talking so loud. I
Speaker 1: get worked up and excited. You're leaned in. You know
Speaker 1: you were just bebopping you know what? You know what
Speaker 1: helped me? Yeah, the bumps, the music and the bumps.
Speaker 1: You say the wrong way, somebody think another slang or
Speaker 1: thinking again. You sound like you're a little hopped up
Speaker 1: coffee boy. It is a whole nother story. But yesterday,
Speaker 1: last night Crosstown shootout, which, by the way, Joe Daniman
Speaker 1: Fox nineteen then to join us. We'll talk on Bengals
Speaker 1: bills and last night's a Crosstown shootout. If you're a
Speaker 1: Bear Caast fan, you hated it, you're Musketeer fan and
Speaker 1: maybe an alum like Donnade over there, then she's got
Speaker 1: a glow about her and not rubbing it in at all. No,
Speaker 1: not at.
Speaker 2: All, No, No, it's just it's just nice to see
Speaker 2: a good match, a good game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great matchup. It was back and
Speaker 1: forth for a minute, and you see, the hate is real,
Speaker 1: like there's hell is reel for like you know, FC
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and the Crew in Columbus and MLS soccer or
Speaker 1: football action, and uh, that is real. And then of
Speaker 1: course the hate is real here. But sometimes there's good
Speaker 1: hate that like of all that that it's good hate, right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's fun to watch when there's such rivals. We
Speaker 2: talked about this yesterday. Literally when when it's it's more
Speaker 2: fun to even root against than it is to root for.
Speaker 1: Sometimes even doing a show like this, if a team's
Speaker 1: doing poorly, pick one, We've had our share. It seems
Speaker 1: that this is a more compelling people when they're angry
Speaker 1: or more entertaining. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a friend who's the biggest NFL football, big
Speaker 2: Vikings fan, and she loves NFL and she's a big
Speaker 2: OSU fan, batting later on exactly big sports weekend here
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati and around the area. But she will literally
Speaker 2: say the most harshest things, kill them go yeah. On
Speaker 2: a text of my take it easy, Take it easy, cat,
Speaker 2: it's crazy breath.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll tell you why. I'm excited because this is
Speaker 1: last night allowed me to focus and be able to
Speaker 1: figure out what the hell day it is for the
Speaker 1: first time, and seemingly weeks after in the midst of
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving thing, I knew last night was Friday. I
Speaker 1: know today is Saturday, and onward and forward until Christmas week.
Speaker 1: I will probably have it together pretty well. And for
Speaker 1: that I'm excited exactly. Yeah, we were talking tipping and
Speaker 1: inappropriate or appropriate. How much aggressive solicitation for tips, which
Speaker 1: is in itself in the description is enough for me
Speaker 1: to go, hell no, don't at that point, you're a beggar.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like, I don't forget to fill out
Speaker 2: the screen below and answer every single question on there.
Speaker 1: I've never thought about leaving change like a couple of pennies,
Speaker 1: like a guy earlier mentioned, and you know, because that
Speaker 1: is sort of like, well, you know you need that
Speaker 1: more than me if that type of situation. Let's get
Speaker 1: to a James with Stirling and Donna, d Brian and
Speaker 1: driver Dave and others coming up, and Joe Daniman from
Speaker 1: Buckshaking you know, joints. We'll talk Bengals and everything else
Speaker 1: here in a little bit. What's up, James, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how's it gone. Good?
Speaker 3: Love to hear both your voices.
Speaker 10: So this happened just you know, ten days ago was
Speaker 10: a Saturday after Thanksgiving and our friend was getting married
Speaker 10: for the third time. So we thought, hey, no, obviously
Speaker 10: no bachelor party, that's crazy. But we took them to
Speaker 10: Twin Peaks, which you know, I love Twin Peaks. I've
Speaker 10: got good salmon, good beer.
Speaker 1: Fine, you're not throwing them a third deathsolute party. Well,
Speaker 1: that's another pace we know, but that's not going to do.
Speaker 1: That's not going to get you the side eye when
Speaker 1: you say where you've gone compared to some other places
Speaker 1: where they may or may not wear a crillic heels.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'm sorry, I digress.
Speaker 10: Well, all right, so I got to continue my story.
Speaker 3: So we didn't go.
Speaker 10: Off to Vegas, right, We went to Twin Peaks, which
Speaker 10: is an awesome place. So then somewhat one of the
Speaker 10: guys there's like, let's go to the strip club. We're
Speaker 10: all like, you know, we're in our fifties, you know,
Speaker 10: like this, you know, probably doesn't make sense. But bottom
Speaker 10: line is the entourage went to a strip club. So
Speaker 10: you get the strip club, and you know, I mean,
Speaker 10: at this point in my life, I'm kind of uncomfortable
Speaker 10: as strip clubs. But whatever, so we all go and like,
Speaker 10: all right, the right thing to do. I guess this
Speaker 10: could be his third matchup party.
Speaker 3: Let's get them.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's called a private dance, a lap dance and a
Speaker 10: booth or whatever.
Speaker 1: I knows. We all know it's wholesome and innocent as
Speaker 1: I am. I know, I know, Jay, you go, we'll
Speaker 1: keep it. We won't say anything to anybody.
Speaker 10: So so we pony up the cash and I think
Speaker 10: Donna you had said, like who carries cash anymore? Like
Speaker 10: good point, So but we had some cash and and
Speaker 10: so so they take the guy in. The woman takes
Speaker 10: the guy into the booth and and it was, you know,
Speaker 10: again two days after Thanksgiving for approaching the Christmas season,
Speaker 10: and and so they get done, he gets done whatever,
Speaker 10: and she's like, hey, how about a tip. He's like,
Speaker 10: I thought my my friends paid for this. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 10: but they didn't leave me a tips. Like She's like,
Speaker 10: I don't have any cash and She's like, but it's
Speaker 10: a holiday season, come on, man, So it's like begging
Speaker 10: for money. And so like I think an assistant manager
Speaker 10: came out like, no, I mean, we paid what you
Speaker 10: asked for. We're not giving her a tip, you know,
Speaker 10: for for for the holidays. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So, James, that's a that's an interesting story. I love
Speaker 2: this story because he's right. You pay for a service
Speaker 2: and then you know, you think, you think that that's it.
Speaker 2: You know, she's negotiated the price, they paid it.
Speaker 1: And she didn't have like a swipe to pay. I
Speaker 1: think that's what's coming on our wrist.
Speaker 10: Actually take venmore.
Speaker 1: The phone's where I mean, there's so many questions.
Speaker 2: Well, I will say I will say this, that is
Speaker 2: a tricky situation and when that happens, it just makes
Speaker 2: everybody feel uncomfortable. So I think so because tipping is
Speaker 2: optional and like I, like I said, I have been
Speaker 2: a bartender for years and years and years and a
Speaker 2: server and I worked for tips for many, many years,
Speaker 2: and it's important to tip, and I am a huge tipper.
Speaker 2: But if somebody doesn't automatically give it to you or
Speaker 2: want you to have something, you don't need to go
Speaker 2: and ask for it. You really puts everybody in a
Speaker 2: real uncomfortable position.
Speaker 1: James appreciate the call, mank you. Yeah, that's so hard
Speaker 1: to show that shang. Let me just say this, that
Speaker 1: whole not that I know much about. I've had friends
Speaker 1: in that business right on the pole and in the
Speaker 1: DJ booth and running club or two here or there.
Speaker 1: I will say it is based on tips, and they
Speaker 1: will count out those singles and they tip out that DJ,
Speaker 1: and they tip out this one and that one. So
Speaker 1: was this specific?
Speaker 2: I don't know the rules either, to be honest, I
Speaker 2: really don't. But if she negotiated a price and he
Speaker 2: paid it and his friends paid it, it would have
Speaker 2: been up to the bachelor to say, here's another whatever
Speaker 2: fifty bucks or whatever the heck.
Speaker 1: This it all goes back to Chris Rock. And remember
Speaker 1: there is no love in the champagne room. And if
Speaker 1: you don't tip extra, there is definitely no love in
Speaker 1: the champagne room. Let's get to Wilmington. Driver Dave was
Speaker 1: Stirling and Donnade on the Big One talking tipping and
Speaker 1: holidays and what about the strip club? Do you not
Speaker 1: carry cash? I mean to pay and you can help
Speaker 1: us out on that before we get to the driving around.
Speaker 9: Hey Dave, Oh sorry, guys, clients back in the car,
Speaker 9: Can I call you back?
Speaker 1: Yeah? On hold, text me. Here's the thing. Is he
Speaker 1: listening in an earbud or is he driving someone around
Speaker 1: listening to us in the car, whichever service he's driving.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think you. I think you scared him away with
Speaker 2: the strip club talk. And not every guy, and not
Speaker 2: every guy is comfortable.
Speaker 1: Or maybe uncomfortable talking about the person in the vehicle,
Speaker 1: whether they tip or not to. This could be awkward
Speaker 1: for the rest of the ride. Now, absolutely uncomfortable in
Speaker 1: the back seat there, like is he being too chatty?
Speaker 1: Is he talking to us?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: How do you rate that? There's so many pathways.
Speaker 2: I love how our listeners just say hey you guys,
Speaker 2: I'll call you.
Speaker 1: I love that. It is a beautiful thing. Let's get
Speaker 1: to Brian seven hundred, WLW Sterling and Donna d what's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 11: Hey Sterling and Donna, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 12: Oh good?
Speaker 11: Wouldn't have it any other way?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Absolutely better that you're here. So what do you have?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 11: I have kind of boycotted this place. Myself. I just
Speaker 11: refuse to go there. But there is a liquor store,
Speaker 11: a decent size one. It's nice, it's clean, it's for
Speaker 11: on Beachmont Avenue that for the longest time they had
Speaker 11: a tip jar on their counter. It's a regular Ohio
Speaker 11: State liquor store. And it's oh gosh, it's been all
Speaker 11: about a year since I've been in there. But the
Speaker 11: last time I was in there, I wanted to pick
Speaker 11: up some bourbon. It was right there, pulled in real quick,
Speaker 11: got it and the guy says, do you want a receipt?
Speaker 11: I said yes, and he printed it out. Ain't it
Speaker 11: to me? Fine? Everything was that, people were nice and all,
Speaker 11: and there was an extra fee on here of a
Speaker 11: dollar thirty two.
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 11: And I said, well, what's this? I said, because I
Speaker 11: could see the price of the bourbon. Yeah, the sale
Speaker 11: sales text and then an extra dollar thirty two And
Speaker 11: he says that's for bringing it up here.
Speaker 3: What I said, what?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 11: You're charging me extra pay.
Speaker 1: Paid? You're not pouring it, you didn't bring it to
Speaker 1: the take some chips or something like. You're just asking
Speaker 1: to open the bottle or anything.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I said, you want to carry it out to
Speaker 11: my are.
Speaker 1: Wow. So it was for a tip for the guy
Speaker 1: behind the counter.
Speaker 9: This is this.
Speaker 11: This place is just a few feet from Greater's ice
Speaker 11: Cream on the same side of the.
Speaker 1: Streets, a lot of them. Greater I give my blackberrisberry
Speaker 1: chip and that like sugar like you know that the
Speaker 1: like there's a couple. I'm gonna pay for it either way.
Speaker 1: I just showed me some love. That's a tough spot.
Speaker 1: I haven't gone back because of that.
Speaker 11: I have exactly, I have no problem. Like you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 11: if you got an extra dime or a few pennies
Speaker 11: and nickel here there, you put it in that little
Speaker 11: jar right there, like everybody does. That's not a problem.
Speaker 11: That's not a problem. But to automatically, without your knowledge,
Speaker 11: charge you to bring up your products, set it on
Speaker 11: there and basically saying, hey, okay, so we take away
Speaker 11: the tip jar, we're still gonna get Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting on that story too, is.
Speaker 2: That Briantan, a lot of people would say, not, I
Speaker 2: don't need the receipt is on my credit card all
Speaker 2: the time. I mean, I oftentimes don't get a receipt.
Speaker 2: That is very interesting story.
Speaker 1: And they I just saw I was gonna I don't
Speaker 1: know if I printed it or not. It's probably in
Speaker 1: an email. There's a new thing. If they put too
Speaker 1: much of your credit card information, more than your five
Speaker 1: last four or five. If they have your name or
Speaker 1: expiration date on there, which is vital information. If someone
Speaker 1: wants to steal your identity or at least fraudulently put
Speaker 1: stuff on there that they can be fined and get
Speaker 1: you a thousand dollars as a result. So get your receipt.
Speaker 1: Aside from the snuck in tip, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1: I have not heard that yet. That's interesting. That's that's
Speaker 1: a whole other world. Let's get Brett here and Mason
Speaker 1: with Sterling and Donnade on the big one. Hey man,
Speaker 1: what about this tipping scenario. Are you someone who gets
Speaker 1: tipped or are you stingy with it? I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: give the love the people. Hold it's not my money,
Speaker 1: so give some more.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm a stand there twenty percent temper and then
Speaker 8: I just go up or down from there. I'm money
Speaker 8: on the service. But but it's funny that you guys
Speaker 8: bring this up. Is this just hit my feed this morning?
Speaker 8: I'll do this really quick. Waitress Megan Hollis in Cleveland, Ohio,
Speaker 8: was arrested after flipping a table when a party of
Speaker 8: ten left a five dollars tip on a three hundred
Speaker 8: and four dollars Twenty two year old Hollis was arrested
Speaker 8: after she flipped an entire four top table at lakeside
Speaker 8: grill and outrage over a five dollar tip left by
Speaker 8: a party of ten celebrating a birthday. According to the report,
Speaker 8: Megan had spent three hours reselling SODA's cutting cake, holding
Speaker 8: out plates, splitting the check five ways. When she picked
Speaker 8: up the receipt and saw the tip five crumpled one
Speaker 8: dollar bills, she reportedly said no, no, absolutely not, set
Speaker 8: the money down, and walked directly through to the group's table.
Speaker 8: Witness to say she steered them and asks is this
Speaker 8: a prank, before grabbing the edge of the table and
Speaker 8: flipping it onto its side. Plate shattered, drink spilled everywhere
Speaker 8: in the birthday girls. Screen management intervened, but Mega shouted
Speaker 8: you don't leave five dollars on a three hundred dollar bill,
Speaker 8: not a charity and.
Speaker 5: Where it was rested.
Speaker 2: If anything deserves flipping tables, that one does sorry.
Speaker 1: Great, Thank you, Brett. We appreciate that.
Speaker 2: That's actually holy smokes that that's two servers that have
Speaker 2: now gone to jail over customers. People got to take
Speaker 2: it to ten people. Come on, you know better than that.
Speaker 2: That family shake her job is what she did. She
Speaker 2: quit her job. She flipped over a table and scared
Speaker 2: the birth tape child. And you don't do that. That's terrible.
Speaker 2: You know, they work on tips.
Speaker 1: That's pretty weak. That's side. I'm pretty accustomed to seeing
Speaker 1: large groups in most restaurants unless you're going to like
Speaker 1: more of a you know, not a high end place
Speaker 1: and birthday maybe you are, you know, the parties of
Speaker 1: eight or more. They include a gratuity there are ready
Speaker 1: to avoid that type of circumstance. And of course, if
Speaker 1: you're chopping up everything, that's right.
Speaker 2: But like in like kids, birthday places and smaller you know,
Speaker 2: smaller venues maybe or you know, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: there should be there should be required tip five people
Speaker 2: five plus.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a terrible thing. Here's the story.
Speaker 10: He did.
Speaker 1: Hello jobs strument it's bewildering. But here's the other part
Speaker 1: of that is that you kind of figure she might
Speaker 1: not have been that good of her reaction. Was that
Speaker 1: volatile in the first place, or they were really not
Speaker 1: only just cheap but also probably a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: Well, he read the story saying, did she you know,
Speaker 2: was filling Jenson and cutting the Well, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, not everyone has to cut the birthday cake.
Speaker 2: But good, I mean, you know, I I am in agreement.
Speaker 2: I don't think you should flip tables, but I would
Speaker 2: have been very upset myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all just get along your four o'clock reports
Speaker 1: straight away. S and Donna d coming back a Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon with a who they play tomorrow one o'clock kickoff
Speaker 1: where they make snow when the wind blows across the
Speaker 1: lake in Buffalo against those bills. Fox nineteen's go Danaman
Speaker 1: joins us talk about that Crosstown shootout and a whole
Speaker 1: lot more on the nation station home of the best
Speaker 1: Bengals coverage, News Radio seven hundred w WELW, Cincinnati are
Speaker 1: a beautiful Saturday afternoon, lots of people out in about Well,
Speaker 1: it was a thick traffic coming in on seventy one
Speaker 1: here and getting off at Montgomery Road. Stirling back with
Speaker 1: Donna d seven hundred double You well, know you a
Speaker 1: lot of Christmas treeze a word, a lot of people
Speaker 1: going hunting every we're getting it done today.
Speaker 2: I mean Thanksgiving is way over and it's all about Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to know what day it is. I
Speaker 1: have that problem with that, even maybe in the even
Speaker 1: away from the holidays, they may or may not be
Speaker 1: confused from time to time on that confused a lot
Speaker 1: of people last night. Huge just I mean the city
Speaker 1: is electric leading up to the Crosstown shootout. It has
Speaker 1: changed over the years. Kind of give us some insight, perspective.
Speaker 1: Digging deep into his knowledge base from Fox nineteen, Joe
Speaker 1: Dana Man kind enough to give us us some time.
Speaker 1: And how are you? What are you doing? And thank
Speaker 1: you for joining me and Donnade on a Saturday afternoon
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: So you're very welcome.
Speaker 12: I'm doing well, and we are now less than three
Speaker 12: hours left on our drive to beautiful Buffalo, New York,
Speaker 12: where we have not seen the sun yet the drive.
Speaker 1: How much snow have you seen?
Speaker 12: Gray, Well, it's all on the side of the road,
Speaker 12: but we haven't seen any falling from the sky just yet.
Speaker 12: I think we're expecting a little bit of that tomorrow
Speaker 12: at the game, but as of now, the drive through
Speaker 12: Ohio has looked a lot like it does in Cincinnati,
Speaker 12: where there's a lot of snow in the median and
Speaker 12: on the side of the road. But it's smooth sailing
Speaker 12: right now on the way.
Speaker 1: Nice. It's difficult to do donuts when there's no snow
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 2: Just telling them this is an exciting game to be
Speaker 2: in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: How can I.
Speaker 2: Know most people don't like to do this, but prediction
Speaker 2: on who's gonna win the game tomorrow?
Speaker 12: Okay, starting right off, hire that gun right here, we go,
Speaker 12: make the prediction right at the start. Okay, let me
Speaker 12: say this. We all knew before the season started how
Speaker 12: big of a game this was going to be. We
Speaker 12: just didn't realize the circumstances would be what they are
Speaker 12: where it feels like every week now the Bengals are
Speaker 12: playing for their stay alive sells and meanwhile Buffalo. We
Speaker 12: all thought Buffalo would be in first place and cruising
Speaker 12: towards the playoffs. Right now they own the last playoff
Speaker 12: spot in the AFC, so it's just as big for
Speaker 12: them as it is for the Bengals. I think it's
Speaker 12: going to be a close game. I do like the
Speaker 12: Bills to win the game. And I know that sacrilege
Speaker 12: to say on radio in Cincinnati, considering the Bengals haven't
Speaker 12: lost Joe Burrow's last eight star dating back to last season.
Speaker 12: I just don't think the Bengals defense will be able
Speaker 12: to get off the field and make the play they
Speaker 12: have to make in the fourth quarter to beat Josh
Speaker 12: Allen and James Cook when it comes down to it.
Speaker 12: But you can record it, you can play it back
Speaker 12: and tell me I'm wrong if Joe Burrow does it again.
Speaker 12: And who's who's smart enough to bet against Joe Burrow
Speaker 12: in December and January. The guy just doesn't lose games
Speaker 12: like this. And here I am going on the radio
Speaker 12: saying Joe's not gonna get it done tomorrow. I just
Speaker 12: don't believe enough in the Bengals defense to get it
Speaker 12: done tomorrow. But if there's anybody who can prove me wrong,
Speaker 12: certainly it's the quarterback in the event.
Speaker 2: Well, and Joe Burrow is undefeated against Josh Allen, So
Speaker 2: there's that to Ozero.
Speaker 1: I think I think.
Speaker 12: The only two quarterbacks, yeah, who are undefeated against Josh
Speaker 12: Allen with multiple wins are Joe Burrow and some guy
Speaker 12: with a bunch of Super Bowl rings name Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Is softballs. That was a whole nother whole deal there
Speaker 1: talking to Joe Danamon Fox nineteen on the road to
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bengals Bill So getting it on tomorrow afternoon, one o'clock,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. You know when you look at this matchup,
Speaker 1: I mean an eight and four Bills team and somehow
Speaker 1: they're you know, just on the cusp of getting and
Speaker 1: continuing onward for playoff action Bengals four and eight. How
Speaker 1: surprised were you at how quickly Burrows seemed to find
Speaker 1: his way and look so comfortable and in rhythm with
Speaker 1: that offense and all those weapons. Is he's just getting
Speaker 1: back into the group, and.
Speaker 12: How quickly Anybody who questioned whether Joe Burrow should come
Speaker 12: back and play or not was quickly reminded why he
Speaker 12: should come back and play.
Speaker 3: Yes, because the Bengals.
Speaker 12: Did a good job I think early and Dak Taylor
Speaker 12: mentioned this when I talked to him earlier this week,
Speaker 12: that they wanted to get Joe out of the pocket
Speaker 12: early to get him back comfortable playing football, and that
Speaker 12: was the biggest question to me was how would Joe
Speaker 12: look outside of the pocket doing all the things that
Speaker 12: he does so well playing the quarterback position. And they
Speaker 12: rolled him out, got him going early, He missed a
Speaker 12: couple of throws were used to seeing him make one
Speaker 12: to Jamar Chase down the sideline. There was another comeback
Speaker 12: stop rautph for Jamar Chase that they didn't connect on.
Speaker 12: But once they hit that long pass down the sideline
Speaker 12: to Jamar, it kind of felt like, Okay, Joe is back.
Speaker 12: And then Joe started making the kind of plays both
Speaker 12: with his arm and with his mind at the line
Speaker 12: of scrimmage that you could see this is what makes
Speaker 12: him different. This is what elevates the entire team. This
Speaker 12: is why even if the defense isn't necessarily good, even
Speaker 12: though they feel like they're playing more functional football the
Speaker 12: last few weeks, that he can elevate everybody around them
Speaker 12: and give them confidence they could win these kinds of games.
Speaker 12: And then you think back to games they lost right
Speaker 12: against the Jets, against the Bears, and you wonder if
Speaker 12: they had Burrow, then they likely win those kinds of games.
Speaker 12: And you wonder where the Bengals would be right now.
Speaker 11: But certainly.
Speaker 12: It surprised me that the Bengals had him so mobile
Speaker 12: so early, guys, I was surprised they went to a
Speaker 12: quarterback sneak. When they used a quarterback sneak with Joe Burrow,
Speaker 12: I thought that would be something they wouldn't do because
Speaker 12: you think about how much you have to push off
Speaker 12: with your feet and you're toes to make that kind
Speaker 12: of play. So they felt obviously very comfortable with where
Speaker 12: he was health wise with his foot to make that
Speaker 12: kind of call. But once he got his rhythm down,
Speaker 12: it looked like old Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. And
Speaker 12: now you've got T. Higgins back on Sunday and the
Speaker 12: big three are back together for the first time in September.
Speaker 12: And the more we talk, the more I want to
Speaker 12: change my pick from earlier on in the conversation about
Speaker 12: like about the Bills trying to guard Jamar Chase and T.
Speaker 12: Higgins and Joe Burrow. They haven't had a lot of
Speaker 12: success doing that during the Joe Burrow era.
Speaker 2: Do you think Joe that you know a leader like
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, He gets back on the feet old and
Speaker 2: the defense just wants to do the best job they
Speaker 2: can because in Thanksgiving they looked really good. I mean sure,
Speaker 2: and then Josh Allen, here's another reason. He has had
Speaker 2: quite a few turnovers. So I think that with the
Speaker 2: defense that has picked up and looking really good on
Speaker 2: the last game, and with you know everything you just
Speaker 2: mentioned on the offense, I think Bengals are gonna come
Speaker 2: out ahead.
Speaker 12: Well, I think that's the pass. And I think that's
Speaker 12: a really great point you make about the turnovers for
Speaker 12: the Bills, because if you look at the Bills raw numbers,
Speaker 12: you're gonna see an offense that's second in the NFL
Speaker 12: in total offense their top five and scoring offense. When
Speaker 12: they don't turn the ball over. They score touchdowns at
Speaker 12: a raid as high as anybody in the NFL. But
Speaker 12: they've turned the ball over a lot lately, I believe,
Speaker 12: eleven turnovers in their last four games. And if you're
Speaker 12: looking for a pass for a Bengals defense, that just
Speaker 12: probably isn't a quick to go out there and get
Speaker 12: three and outs and stops in forced punts. Maybe they
Speaker 12: can make some plays, Maybe they can give the Bengals
Speaker 12: offense a few short fields. Maybe they can make that
Speaker 12: one play in the fourth quarter of forcing a fuffle
Speaker 12: or getting an interception and maybe that's the path for
Speaker 12: them to win this game. And then you also talk
Speaker 12: about the defense having the inspiration of having a guy
Speaker 12: like Joe Burrow on the field. I talked to DJ
Speaker 12: Turner this week, and you talk to every different defensive
Speaker 12: player about what's the reason why the Bengals seem to
Speaker 12: be playing better defense? And you're going to get a
Speaker 12: different answer from everybody. But everybody we talked to, including
Speaker 12: DJ Turner, when you ask them what kind of a
Speaker 12: difference does Joe Burrow's presence make? DJ said, listen, when
Speaker 12: you see what that guy went through and overcame and
Speaker 12: how hard he worked to get back on the field,
Speaker 12: how do you not give it all as a teammate
Speaker 12: for a guy like that. And I don't think that
Speaker 12: kind of stuff is talked about enough. I don't think
Speaker 12: it can be measured. Did Joe Burrow and elevates not
Speaker 12: only everybody on offense? I think it elevates the entire team.
Speaker 12: And you sold that Thursday night, and think about it too, guys.
Speaker 12: The great image of the entire team around the Thanksgiving
Speaker 12: turkey table on the field. You know, typically that's just
Speaker 12: for the start of the game or maybe one or
Speaker 12: two players. It felt like half the Bengals roster was
Speaker 12: out there around Joe Burrow as he's pouring his heart
Speaker 12: out about his comeback and all the people that helped
Speaker 12: him get there, and guys just grabbing turkey legs and
Speaker 12: having a great time. That to me might be the
Speaker 12: image of the season, and that, to me is the
Speaker 12: difference that Joe Burrow makes when you get him back
Speaker 12: on the field.
Speaker 1: His emotion that was pouring out as you just made
Speaker 1: allusion to it, was really, i mean viscerally effect of
Speaker 1: watching it. The other thing talking to Joe Danaman Fox
Speaker 1: on the nineteen Bengals Bills tomorrow one o'clock, seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW and Joseph headed to the snow, which you know,
Speaker 1: well in the wins expected to blow across that lake,
Speaker 1: so you'll see a little of it. But the other awkward,
Speaker 1: funny part of that is the guy were trying to
Speaker 1: decide as they were like, yeah, feast, it's Madden Feast,
Speaker 1: Grab a turkey leg Everybody had that sort of not
Speaker 1: sure kind of how long has this food been out?
Speaker 1: Is it really hot? Or are we supposed to do this?
Speaker 1: And then they're asking questions and guys have like turkey
Speaker 1: crammed into their head and crabs in their mouths. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, it was fantastic. That's what
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 12: And the funny thing, too, was I was talking to
Speaker 12: Zach Taylor about this. I said, were you aware of
Speaker 12: what was happening out on the field? And he said, well,
Speaker 12: I went back to the locker room, and he said,
Speaker 12: I always go to the coach's locker room and try
Speaker 12: to gather myself with what I'm going to say, who's
Speaker 12: gonna get game balls? And he said when I walked
Speaker 12: back into the locker room, he said, there was nobody there,
Speaker 12: so he was wondering, where is everybody? And then he
Speaker 12: found them.
Speaker 11: All in the hallway.
Speaker 12: They were all gathered around a TV monitor watching the
Speaker 12: rest of the team out on the field, grabbing turkey
Speaker 12: legs and having a good time. And he said it
Speaker 12: turned into an impromptu team bonding kind of thing that
Speaker 12: this TV felt needed at that point because he talked
Speaker 12: for so many weeks about how much this team just
Speaker 12: needed a win right to calm the waters, to get
Speaker 12: some of the positive mojo back inside the locker room.
Speaker 12: And then they have that kind of moment. So yes,
Speaker 12: the food, as you asked, was still warm. They kept
Speaker 12: the food inside of a warm room, so it wasn't
Speaker 12: like they were eating cold turkey. I thought the funniest
Speaker 12: person out there, well two people, Joseph Osai not being
Speaker 12: able to talk because he had food in his mouth
Speaker 12: was hysterical. And then Bengals long snapper William Wagner, who's
Speaker 12: probably as anonymous as anybody on the team, he's the
Speaker 12: long snapper, all of a sudden became a main character
Speaker 12: in the middle of this celebration. He was doing fake
Speaker 12: interviews with a turkey leg. I'm like, William Wagner get
Speaker 12: the kind of personality to go out there and be
Speaker 12: right there on national TV. It was a really fun thing.
Speaker 12: And again, if I think at the end of the season,
Speaker 12: no matter if the Bengals make the run that they
Speaker 12: could make or if they don't make the run, at
Speaker 12: least they had that moment and there's an image to
Speaker 12: rally around and remember for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to ask this because we've burned
Speaker 1: it up. I feel good about this now too. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I was, I was in a car, I was headed
Speaker 1: a Buffalo. I feel good about this, but I'm wondering
Speaker 1: a lot of times, you go, man, being in the
Speaker 1: AFC North is sometimes a detriment. But right now, when
Speaker 1: you look at this record of these two teams and
Speaker 1: how the Bills are sort of iffy, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the AFC North in the schedule the Bengals have in
Speaker 1: front of them, if they can get it done up
Speaker 1: by that lake, arguably the other mistake on the lake.
Speaker 1: And I think Donna's sister lives in Buffalo, or at
Speaker 1: least as a Buffalo. He's a huge Bills fan.
Speaker 12: Huge.
Speaker 1: There's a path, there's a path for them somehow to
Speaker 1: find their way to the playoffs. If they can get
Speaker 1: on that run. How likely is that? I know, I
Speaker 1: mean not that you're like throwing odds down, but I
Speaker 1: mean I'm just kind of curious, because I mean I
Speaker 1: kind of see it as a possibility at least a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 12: Well, if you want odds, if you type it into
Speaker 12: Google right now, you're going to get somebody spitting back
Speaker 12: numbers that say the Bengals have less than a ten
Speaker 12: percent chance of making the playoffs. That's what all these
Speaker 12: playoff simulators are showing and that number doubles if they
Speaker 12: win in Buffalo next week. For me, it's let me
Speaker 12: see what happens the next two weeks before I believe,
Speaker 12: because yeah, you're right. And maybe that's the hardest part
Speaker 12: about the Bengals season at Joe Burrow's injury, is that
Speaker 12: the AFC North, which has been an absolute monster ever
Speaker 12: since Joe Burrow got into the league, all of a
Speaker 12: sudden is the most gettable division as it's ever been
Speaker 12: since Joe Burrow's been here. And it's just like, of
Speaker 12: all the years, right for the Bengals not to go
Speaker 12: out and have Joe Burrow for the full seventeen weeks
Speaker 12: is the one year where it feels so winnable. And
Speaker 12: the other thing I would remind people is if you
Speaker 12: look at Baltimore and Pittsburgh schedules, they've got difficult schedules
Speaker 12: the rest of the way. We know what the Bengals
Speaker 12: have this week, we know they have Baltimore next week.
Speaker 12: If they're able to get through these two weeks and
Speaker 12: win both games, then you've got the runway to the
Speaker 12: playoffs and where the Bengals will likely be favored over
Speaker 12: the Cardinals over the Dolphins over the Browns and have
Speaker 12: a great chance to do this. But if you're asking
Speaker 12: me what are the Bengals chances of going to the
Speaker 12: playoffs and making this run, I say, ask me after
Speaker 12: next Sunday and what it looks like after they play Baltimore.
Speaker 12: Because even before the seedon started and we didn't know
Speaker 12: Joe was going to get hurt, everybody circled this three
Speaker 12: game stretch right of going to Baltimore, then going to Buffalo,
Speaker 12: and then playing Baltimore at home, that three week schedule
Speaker 12: of what would the Bengals have in late November, and
Speaker 12: you're early in December, and here we are, and even
Speaker 12: though the Bengals are four and eight and it feels
Speaker 12: like it's on life support as far as the playoff
Speaker 12: chances goes, if they can win this one and if
Speaker 12: they can win next week, all of a sudden, all
Speaker 12: the national talking heads who are pointing at the Bengals
Speaker 12: right now and saying, oh, that's the it team, that's
Speaker 12: the dangerous team. They might be the team to watch
Speaker 12: out for in the AFC North, all of a sudden
Speaker 12: that gets really loud, and the BEng let's have a
Speaker 12: chance to do something really special in the final few weeks.
Speaker 2: Joe, I think I'm gonna let you change your prediction
Speaker 2: because I think you want to for this.
Speaker 12: Game change the prediction. Okay, so here we go. I'm
Speaker 12: gonna give you a score now then, okay, okay now
Speaker 12: twenty seven twenty seven, twenty six Joe Burrow and the
Speaker 12: Bengals Evan McPherson wins it with a field goal in
Speaker 12: the final minute.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that feel better? That just feels better for it
Speaker 1: really does. And if that numbers right, I think then
Speaker 1: you go for the under. But I'm I'm not like
Speaker 1: a betting guy. I mean, I'm not here to like
Speaker 1: get anybody odds or information. I'm not involved in any
Speaker 1: of that type of thing. And it is unusual scheduling,
Speaker 1: isn't it too, You know, matchups against the Ravens in
Speaker 1: three weeks time. It's very unusual. Listen, thank you for
Speaker 1: making unusual too. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 12: It's also unusual too, guys that the Steelers and Ravens
Speaker 12: haven't played each other until this weekend, so they still face.
Speaker 7: Each other twice.
Speaker 12: And that's the other fly in the ointment here. When
Speaker 12: you talk about the Bengals and tried to make this run,
Speaker 12: and I'll leave you with this the reason I went
Speaker 12: with twenty seven for the Bengals. That's the number they
Speaker 12: scored in the playoffs at Buffalo in January twenty twenty
Speaker 12: three in the snow. Twenty seven love.
Speaker 1: It's all right. I hope that your flip flopping actually
Speaker 1: is in the right direction this time for a whole
Speaker 1: lot of reasons. Safe travels, and thanks for giving us
Speaker 1: some time. And you're great at what you do and
Speaker 1: we appreciate you you making time for us on our
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon anytime.
Speaker 12: Guys, thanks for having me that sir.
Speaker 1: It's Joe Dan and Fox nineteen starling Donnade coming back
Speaker 1: for thirty report. Jack Crumley out of the newsroom, going
Speaker 1: to join us. We'll talk about some good, cool fun
Speaker 1: stuff for you, the family, the kids, Santa Holidays, and
Speaker 1: all kinds of other stuff and a little movie things
Speaker 1: as well. Here on the Nation station seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: on a DNA. Charlie Gros Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love on Christmas like and I that little sickly looking,
Speaker 5: beautiful wispy tree looked like something that someone would removed
Speaker 5: from the yard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of my favorites and Hey, look, our phone
Speaker 1: was ringing. It's Jack Krumley, who lived Large and the
Speaker 1: Winter Wonderland that is the tri State. Hey, Jack Crumley,
Speaker 1: we got Matt Reese to a news today and you're
Speaker 1: out and about doing other things and making time to
Speaker 1: join us. How are you? What's going on? You were
Speaker 1: Stirling and donnad.
Speaker 3: I'm good. It's nice to be on with you. Was
Speaker 3: Matt Reese doing a good job?
Speaker 1: Always?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought he sounded really good.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just like a check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I understood who you see that? That was
Speaker 1: the executive.
Speaker 2: It's like, wow, yeah, Jack. I was totally prepared to
Speaker 2: do your bit because I think what you guys are
Speaker 2: doing with the Cincinnati Film Festival in this one night
Speaker 2: film event that you want to have be kind of
Speaker 2: a tradition thing. I have everything pulled up and I'm
Speaker 2: super excited about it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk.
Speaker 2: Let's start with that, and then I want your opinion
Speaker 2: on Netflix buying Warner Brothers and how that's going to
Speaker 2: affect theaters and stuff. But let's start with the one
Speaker 2: night film event tonight.
Speaker 3: Sure, So tonight is a Cindependent Film Festival's snow Time Cinema.
Speaker 3: I am standing right now in beautiful Memorial Hall and
Speaker 3: over the Rhine, just across the street from Washington Park
Speaker 3: where we are going to be doing a screening of
Speaker 3: Elf this evening. But before that, we got a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of stuff for families to do. We've got pictures
Speaker 3: with Santa, We've got a free decorating station for ornaments.
Speaker 3: There's also a big silent auction we've got. I was
Speaker 3: helping put together some of these baskets that we're going
Speaker 3: to be auctioning off. Where you know, silent auctions, you
Speaker 3: can usually get all the stuff that's in the basket
Speaker 3: for way less than what it's actually worth. That's a
Speaker 3: nice little plug. This is our last big fundraiser of
Speaker 3: the year. Sindependent Film Festival is a nonprofit and this
Speaker 3: is our last big push for a fundraiser for the
Speaker 3: end of the year. And here we are. We're at
Speaker 3: a Memorial Hall getting started very soon.
Speaker 1: It's a fun kind of thing. First of all, Memorial
Speaker 1: Hall is just a great venue in general. I mean,
Speaker 1: is this a good energy in there, good vibe, old,
Speaker 1: nice beautiful building and Sanna's hanging around. They'll be like
Speaker 1: kids dressed up and living their life in the best
Speaker 1: way possible. Right about now, are people really showing up
Speaker 1: in pajamas and you know, like all their stuff taking
Speaker 1: these holiday pictures, because I mean, Donna and I were
Speaker 1: thinking about it, but I am ill prepared. We don't
Speaker 1: have matching job.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not mandatory certainly, but yeah, we are
Speaker 3: encouraging folks just to either you know, do the family
Speaker 3: matching ugly sweater kind of thing or you know, holiday
Speaker 3: theme pajamas. I just saw a couple of kids running
Speaker 3: around that are that are indeed wearing footy pajamas. And
Speaker 3: we will have more folks showing up on that once
Speaker 3: we get going here. But yeah, we are expecting people
Speaker 3: to come dressed to the nines. And and as an
Speaker 3: added bonus, kiss one oh seven's very own John. John
Speaker 3: is going to be here doing his elf and around routine.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's great. That guy is out of control. This
Speaker 1: is like his favorite time a year. We had our
Speaker 1: big Christmas time bash or whatever a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and he's in the elf outfit and I mean dancing around,
Speaker 1: jumping on table. Yeah, people doing weird like other movements.
Speaker 1: It was interesting, but I was also waiting and trying
Speaker 1: to decide if I had been too bad to get
Speaker 1: like any of the cool stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we left till I can't imagine a world where
Speaker 3: you were bad to receive anything.
Speaker 1: Oh well, well that's nice. Yeah it was a compliment.
Speaker 2: So if people are coming late, like they haven't gotten
Speaker 2: their tickets or anything, can they just buy them at
Speaker 2: the door?
Speaker 1: Can they still get them online? Jack? How do they
Speaker 1: get their tickets in? How much?
Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure, definitely can get them at the door
Speaker 3: if you're in front of a computer or on a
Speaker 3: phone where you can use the internet on it. In
Speaker 3: independentfilmfest dot org is the website. I think Snowtime Cinema
Speaker 3: is like right there on the main page. Tickets are
Speaker 3: twelve dollars and that gets you a whole evening family fun.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. I mean, you can't even get a
Speaker 1: regular movie ticket hardly for much less than that, or
Speaker 1: less than that at all. And you've got Santa and
Speaker 1: elves and trees and all kinds of other cool stuff
Speaker 1: and John John bouncing around. He needs to back off
Speaker 1: the I mean, seriously, people's taken roll a little seriously.
Speaker 1: I hear on how hopped up on the coffee and
Speaker 1: iced t are you, But nobody mentions that guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is out of control.
Speaker 3: This is his time of year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he enjoys it, have fun with it.
Speaker 2: So, speaking of movie tickets, Hollywood is on edge because
Speaker 2: of this merger or Netflix acquisition of Warner Brothers, and
Speaker 2: you know, it looks like it's gonna be a done deal.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying it's the end of theaters,
Speaker 2: like how it was with Blockbuster when digital came on
Speaker 2: and streaming came on. What are your thoughts, jack on
Speaker 2: is this gonna be a problem, Like are we going
Speaker 2: to just stop going to the theaters because Netflix is
Speaker 2: gonna own DC. They're gonna own you know, every Guardians
Speaker 2: of the Galaxy, you know everything basically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and movie theaters have been having
Speaker 3: a really tough time since COVID hit. Obviously, when when
Speaker 3: COVID hit and the idea of you know, a few
Speaker 3: dozen people a couple hundred people all cramming into a
Speaker 3: room to look at the same direction that was not
Speaker 3: very popular, and you know, streaming really took off during
Speaker 3: that time, and movie theaters have had a really hard
Speaker 3: time bouncing back since then. And the idea that you know,
Speaker 3: a multi billion dollar subscription service is buying one of
Speaker 3: the biggest American movie studios and all that that entails
Speaker 3: when the whole idea for them is too they want
Speaker 3: you to stay at home. You know, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people are concerned about the future of movies
Speaker 3: in general, but movie theaters specifically. You know, a lot
Speaker 3: of it's going to be a wait and see kind
Speaker 3: of thing. There's a lot of things that are going
Speaker 3: to have to happen by government regulators before this thing
Speaker 3: gets to go ahead. It's probably not even going to
Speaker 3: happen until close to the end of next year if
Speaker 3: it gets the green light. I have no reason to
Speaker 3: think it won't, but you know, just there's a lot
Speaker 3: of regulations that are going to have to have boxes
Speaker 3: checked before this gets the green light. The one thing
Speaker 3: I would say as someone who does represent these independent
Speaker 3: film festival, you know, we are an independent film festival
Speaker 3: and we find people that have, you know, stories that
Speaker 3: they're passionate about telling and you know, sharing something that
Speaker 3: that matters to them and getting it out in front
Speaker 3: of people. We're not dealing with big studios here. We
Speaker 3: do independent films, and I think, you know, to a
Speaker 3: certain extent. This big acquisition is going to make the
Speaker 3: work of any sort of independent film festival that much
Speaker 3: more important in terms of people being able to make
Speaker 3: movies and tell the stories that they want to tell.
Speaker 1: You enter he's talking to Jack Crumley, by the way,
Speaker 1: he's our news director. But the Cincinnati is Independent Film
Speaker 1: Fest is one of his things. He does all sort
Speaker 1: of like a side project. I guess it right, personal passions.
Speaker 1: There you go, don't. I can't imagine that all theaters
Speaker 1: are going to go away. What's interesting about this whole
Speaker 1: deal though, with Netflix, Warner Brothers and all the you know,
Speaker 1: accruit forments that come with that, is that you have
Speaker 1: a lot of directors, some actors, and some other production
Speaker 1: companies that do business with them that have contracts that
Speaker 1: say that they have to have stuff that go into
Speaker 1: theaters and for a certain period of time in a
Speaker 1: run before they can go to streaming. So the question
Speaker 1: would be that they nullify those contracts, do they honor
Speaker 1: those and continue it and sort of keep the diversified
Speaker 1: way of moving I hate to use the term just
Speaker 1: generically content, but moving that content from the creation mode
Speaker 1: to the theater and streaming and having maybe more of
Speaker 1: a mingling of all those things, possibly, don't you think,
Speaker 1: or no, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, nothing's going to happen right away, and the
Speaker 3: idea that movie theaters are going to just instantly disappear,
Speaker 3: that's probably not going to be the case. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, if this acquisition goes through in Netflix own's
Speaker 3: warners now and they've got multiple streaming services that are
Speaker 3: all tying together, things are going to maybe you know,
Speaker 3: it's like turning the faucet down a little bit. And
Speaker 3: you know, for Warner Brothers to release a big movie
Speaker 3: like Superman that made a ton of dough, I would
Speaker 3: think that the big, the big blockbuster kind of releases
Speaker 3: for summertime might still have a home in theaters. However,
Speaker 3: many theaters still exist. But you know, you're also seeing
Speaker 3: on the business side of things. This is very similar
Speaker 3: to what happened in Hollywood back before the I think
Speaker 3: it's called the Paramount Accords. It was like the forties,
Speaker 3: and the Supreme Court got involved because every studio also
Speaker 3: owned its own movie theaters and it was this vertical
Speaker 3: integration that the government said, hey, you can't do that,
Speaker 3: and then that led to, you know, the creation of
Speaker 3: a bunch of independent theaters, and now we've sort of
Speaker 3: gone back. The accords aren't really being enforced anymore, and
Speaker 3: you have these big filmmaking TV making streaming studios that
Speaker 3: also control their own distribution, and that's not the way
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be. Whether or not that's going to
Speaker 3: matter to anybody in charge, we will just have to see.
Speaker 1: Well, that is an interesting point talking to Jack Crumley.
Speaker 1: And to make it all, here's the other thing of this.
Speaker 1: I love going to the Esquire, the Marimond ken Wood,
Speaker 1: all these other things. And some of them are smaller movies.
Speaker 1: They still have some screens and you know, and show
Speaker 1: some bigger movies too, but there's nothing like I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember being as a little kid with my cousins
Speaker 1: and you know, friends or whatever else we'd pile in
Speaker 1: the van or whatever it was. That parents were probably
Speaker 1: very happy to like get us all into a theater
Speaker 1: hopped up on like caffeinated beverages and sugar products and
Speaker 1: mass watching a big screen and trying to keep us
Speaker 1: quiet in there. But what great members and experiences, I
Speaker 1: guess the differences that we have, you know, a TV
Speaker 1: the size of your wall and a chance to do
Speaker 1: maybe a little of that at home well, and I
Speaker 1: feel like.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's making us stay at home so much
Speaker 2: more too. I mean, there's a great thing about having
Speaker 2: the streaming.
Speaker 1: I mean I have.
Speaker 2: Netflix, I have Hulu, I have all the other ones too.
Speaker 2: But getting out and socializing and going to a movie
Speaker 2: with your friends has always been such a fun experience.
Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't go away. I really do. I
Speaker 2: hope that the theaters stay around.
Speaker 3: It's probably yeah, me too, And that's going to take
Speaker 3: people having to go out and spend money on tickets
Speaker 3: and go out. You know, the way you were talking
Speaker 3: done it was just like those the AMC theaters that
Speaker 3: run that little segment of Nicole Kidman talking about the
Speaker 3: magic of being in a theater and how heartbreak feels
Speaker 3: good here, and you know that all feels I don't know,
Speaker 3: for me, that's a little more mediocre when I am
Speaker 3: at home. I'd rather be in a room full of
Speaker 3: people and we all start laughing at the same thing.
Speaker 3: And you know that really specific flavor of popcorn that
Speaker 3: you can only get at the se with a big
Speaker 3: cherry coke. I'm all about.
Speaker 2: That, yes, exactly. It's an event like yours tonight. It
Speaker 2: is an event and people are going to be so
Speaker 2: happy to get there because you have so much fun
Speaker 2: stuff for the kiddos, and you know, I hope it
Speaker 2: is a blast. If I wasn't on nine to midnight tonight,
Speaker 2: I would be down there with you.
Speaker 1: So well.
Speaker 3: For those of you who are listening, who aren't on
Speaker 3: from nine to midnight tonight, come on down Memorial Hall.
Speaker 3: We're doing a screening of ELF. It starts at seven o'clock,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of activities beforehand, along with snacks
Speaker 3: and drinks. Again, there's a free ornament decorating station, we've
Speaker 3: got a merch area, and we've got a silent auction.
Speaker 3: You can get some Christmas shopping done right now. So
Speaker 3: Memorial Hall, right across the street from Wah Park in.
Speaker 1: Over the Running, great place to be tonight, for sure.
Speaker 1: And it's ELF. I mean I've seen that twice already.
Speaker 1: This scene it does, it's a tremendous thing. Jack Krumley,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing what you do and giving us
Speaker 1: some time. Hopefully see a whole bunch of people down there,
Speaker 1: a lot of kids having a good time soaking up
Speaker 1: this season and having fun with an oversized elf and
Speaker 1: the late great Bob Newhart as well. Thank you, Jack Crumley,
Speaker 1: take care of that. Absolutely. We'll catch up with you
Speaker 1: sooner than later. All right, Uh, let's stop now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be on time. Oh good for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Matt Reeswood News in about four minutes. Uh, Donna, you're
Speaker 1: on again later tonight. You're like doing both. You're out
Speaker 1: of control. I know I am.
Speaker 2: I am going to be doing my relationship radio show
Speaker 2: nine to midnight tonight. I have a psychic medium. Oh
Speaker 2: she's great. Her name is Vicky Fairchild. So she's actually
Speaker 2: going to be doing some readings.
Speaker 1: You people are doomed. Oh you're going to be together forever.
Speaker 2: Well, she's going to talk about the collective energy as humans.
Speaker 2: That's going on and into twenty twenty six and.
Speaker 1: You had to look at your phone to decide what
Speaker 1: year was next. No, you did, my phone came out.
Speaker 2: Because we're going to be talking about one of the
Speaker 2: issues that because I love to talk about relationships, I
Speaker 2: think it's the number one thing people need to pay
Speaker 2: attention to, is the relationships in their life and the
Speaker 2: relationship within themselves. So we'll have specific questions you can answer.
Speaker 2: You can ask one specific question if you're having trouble
Speaker 2: figuring something out, what direction you want to go in,
Speaker 2: whether it's your love life, or your job, or your
Speaker 2: where you live, or anything like that, you can call
Speaker 2: in tonight and we're going to take some calls. You're
Speaker 2: going to be back in the eleven o'clock hour though,
Speaker 2: because we're going to talk about tipping again. James really
Speaker 2: struck a nerve with this with the uh, you know,
Speaker 2: the strip club call, and we're going to go into that.
Speaker 1: In the eleven.
Speaker 2: We had so many calls we couldn't take it. So
Speaker 2: in the eleven o'clock hour you're going to come back
Speaker 2: and we're going to go a little bit deeper into it.
Speaker 2: But one thing I wanted to talk about was there's
Speaker 2: a new study about women that need one thing from
Speaker 2: their husband's one thing money more money. No, it's not
Speaker 2: more money, one thing they need to make them happy.
Speaker 2: Touch and squeezing sort of. Yeah, it's it's it's more money. Well,
Speaker 2: it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1: Some of us have had to deal with that. No,
Speaker 1: the word is adore.
Speaker 2: If you're a guy that adores his wife, she will
Speaker 2: be super happy. And I looked up the meaning like
Speaker 2: the definition of a door, and it means to love deeply, cherish,
Speaker 2: or feel great admiration.
Speaker 1: You know, you can see those couples right.
Speaker 2: That that when the woman, the wife talks and the
Speaker 2: husband looks at her, there's a respect, there's a love
Speaker 2: there and and and if and if a man can
Speaker 2: show that to his woman, she's she'll do anything.
Speaker 1: So in other words, not the stareover where you're like
Speaker 1: really what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Or talk over or just not listen and watch, you know,
Speaker 2: be on your phone.
Speaker 1: Was sorry exactly, that's not good, right, No, that is
Speaker 1: not good. That's a bad place to be. But people
Speaker 1: do get to the point where you know, the breathing
Speaker 1: or the twenty fifth time you've heard the same story
Speaker 1: and you're like, have you had a blunt head trauma?
Speaker 1: Or are you dealing with some type of Dementia's like, no,
Speaker 1: get new stories.
Speaker 10: I mean these are serious.
Speaker 1: I've heard it before ten times already. I adore you.
Speaker 2: But you know that's where communication comes in. And say, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: you that story a thousand times. If you want me
Speaker 2: to listen, I do adore you. If you want me
Speaker 2: to listen, let's come up, Come.
Speaker 1: Up, effort. Yeah, find something. There's always something there that's sure.
Speaker 1: When we come back after your five o'clock report, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's later on tonight, nine to midnight. Yes,
Speaker 1: you'll be doing it, and then I'll join after eleven,
Speaker 1: and I'll try to not be to uh lubricate at
Speaker 1: that point because you know, it's been a long week.
Speaker 1: Laura Gabayan, I hope I pronounce her name correct incorrectly,
Speaker 1: all right, I hope I said it correctly, not incorrectly.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Uh, she's a doctor, researcher, she's got she's
Speaker 1: a best selling author. But there's this odd situation where
Speaker 1: apparently a third of whatever gen Z people are. I
Speaker 1: hate breaking people down into little categories, but I'm gen
Speaker 1: X and there's some millennials and there's all the other.
Speaker 1: Apparently about a third of gen Z workers have admitted
Speaker 1: to yelling at their employer or their bosses, which seems
Speaker 1: odd to me because usually it's the boss that might
Speaker 1: yell at the employee. However poorly, you know, design that
Speaker 1: communicate might be. That's usually the way it goes to.
Speaker 1: People giving you the money tend to use that over
Speaker 1: you for you, not the other way around. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to her about how that's changing, and a whole
Speaker 1: lot of other odds.
Speaker 2: I do want to talk to her about that, because
Speaker 2: it doesn't go well in either situation. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: anybody yelling at somebody.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't generally respond well. The news straightaway,
Speaker 1: Matt Reeves has it more Sterling and Donna Dye coming
Speaker 1: back home of the best Bengals coverage they'll be getting
Speaker 1: on in Buffalo one o'clock tomorrow, seven hundred WLW. Gather
Speaker 1: this fine Saturday afternoon, Sterling and don A d hanging out.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, as much fun as we're having,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you being along for the ride with us.
Speaker 1: This is actually work. It's a four letter word. But
Speaker 1: we're we have entirely too much fun doing it, And
Speaker 1: some people apparently don't have that much fun doing the
Speaker 1: work that they do. And this is odd. Some studies
Speaker 1: have come out saying that and this is this is odd.
Speaker 1: A survey of twelve hundred full time gen Z workers
Speaker 1: by professional resume Template Theme Resume templates dot com said
Speaker 1: that thirty two percent just shy of one of three
Speaker 1: of these people said that they have yelled at their boss.
Speaker 1: Half say they regularly talk negative about their manager to
Speaker 1: co workers, if not directly to the actual boss. And
Speaker 1: I am taken back by the I mean usually if
Speaker 1: usually the person giving you the money, that's what the
Speaker 1: money's for, for them to tell you, arguably what they do,
Speaker 1: hopefully in a nice way. Right, Yes, So I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's an odd scenario. So I I had a
Speaker 1: hard time making sense of this. I mentioned to you, Donna,
Speaker 1: you were like, that doesn't seem quite right to me.
Speaker 1: So I dig deep into our treasure trove of experts
Speaker 1: and people with a greater insight than ourselves in a
Speaker 1: whole lot of ways, and kind enough to give us
Speaker 1: some time. The woman behind Common Wisdom, which best selling book.
Speaker 1: She's a doctor, she's a researcher. Doctor Laura Gabayan, Welcome
Speaker 1: to seven hundred w welw you're we Stirling and Donnade.
Speaker 1: How are you and how your regular Is it for
Speaker 1: people to be yelling at their bosses, let alone younger
Speaker 1: people that are probably new to the game of work
Speaker 1: in the first place.
Speaker 13: Thank you for having me and I agree. I think
Speaker 13: yelling is not appropriate at all, and it's also a
Speaker 13: sign that you know, first of all, remember we're all
Speaker 13: different than gen Z because gen Z is the first
Speaker 13: generation to only have to be completely involved with social
Speaker 13: media iPhone from birth on, and no.
Speaker 1: One else has that.
Speaker 13: So they've had they really have not had that personal
Speaker 13: interaction everyone else has. So the way we have to
Speaker 13: see it is the world is different, We're all a
Speaker 13: different world, and we have to out of the passion
Speaker 13: and we have that respect. And I think I think
Speaker 13: you have to treat your head on and you have
Speaker 13: to be able to tell them, whoever it is, if
Speaker 13: you're a boss, a very coworker, whoever it is, you
Speaker 13: have to tell them, you know what, what you're doing
Speaker 13: is not appropriate. It's not what happened online. It's a
Speaker 13: personal relationship that you have not learned and just approach
Speaker 13: it with that. And I think by by incorporating the
Speaker 13: fact that you have more in common than you don't,
Speaker 13: than you will be able to overcome this.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good point that you said, this
Speaker 2: is the gen z ors are really the only only
Speaker 2: generation that grew up pretty much with the iPhone, social media,
Speaker 2: and there's there's somewhat of a lack of connection, lack
Speaker 2: of communication, lack of perhaps respect that needs needs to
Speaker 2: be given to your boss. I mean, it absolutely requires
Speaker 2: you to say, all right, I'm going to look at
Speaker 2: it this way. But there's also people that are not
Speaker 2: working in the office too. I'm wondering if that you're
Speaker 2: not face to face, you don't get to see, you know,
Speaker 2: the character of people anymore. You're on zoom calls all
Speaker 2: the time, and everything seems a little impersonal.
Speaker 13: I agree, And this is so I wrote my book
Speaker 13: Interviewing People fifty to seventy a seventy and I think
Speaker 13: it was really because we're seeing such a change. And
Speaker 13: I feel like as you grow older, you have more
Speaker 13: relationships and you have more experiences and you learn. And
Speaker 13: that's why I defined wisdom because I noticed that individuals
Speaker 13: who are younger and the internet does not really allow
Speaker 13: you to develop those relationships.
Speaker 1: Kind of an odd scenario talking to a doctor. Laura
Speaker 1: Gobaian was staring and done adee on the big one.
Speaker 1: So do you think that the in person, I should say,
Speaker 1: the less than personal relation to social media platforms and
Speaker 1: everything in many of these cases in distant learning or
Speaker 1: whatever else. And maybe that isolation in a remote setting
Speaker 1: has allowed people to sort of have that troll mentality
Speaker 1: where they're used to being able to bark, yell and
Speaker 1: say who knows what to anyone that they want at
Speaker 1: any time, that even though somebody's paying you to do
Speaker 1: a job, that they figured there's no I mean, I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're yelling at their parents the same way
Speaker 1: or other authority figures aside from their employer.
Speaker 13: It may be, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 13: it's the humans and they're not acting appropriately.
Speaker 1: So I think I think.
Speaker 13: You have the first look at it as what do
Speaker 13: we have in common and have a passion for people
Speaker 13: who may not have had.
Speaker 9: The experience you do.
Speaker 13: And and let's say you have someone working in their
Speaker 13: office said, does this the media, the thing you do
Speaker 13: when you talk to them is is having a passion
Speaker 13: and re set and tell them this is not how
Speaker 13: you behave Yeah, this is not okay.
Speaker 1: I think that makes sense. How can people find out more?
Speaker 1: Is it just your website Lauragobayan dot com or they
Speaker 1: can and I'll put it out there on x as well,
Speaker 1: so people can reach out to you and see exactly
Speaker 1: what else you do.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and now on Amazon. That's all I wrote conruism.
Speaker 13: I interviewed sixty people that again more older, because I've
Speaker 13: seen this disconnect between the older population the younger population,
Speaker 13: and and and we have to we have to have
Speaker 13: a passion. Gotcha remember that?
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate and we certainly have that for everyone,
Speaker 1: or at least we try to. Well, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: making time. We hope you have a great holidays. While
Speaker 1: absolutely you take care of yourself, doctor Lauragabay and it's
Speaker 1: lauragabayon dot com. Stirling and Donnadale on the nerve of
Speaker 1: some people to your body.
Speaker 2: I mean usually it is the other way around. But
Speaker 2: I do think she's a point. Social media can have
Speaker 2: some effect, numbing effects. It's a numbing effect exactly being
Speaker 2: on your phone.
Speaker 1: There's a study. There's just a brand new study.
Speaker 2: That's come out that I think it was thirty five
Speaker 2: hundred people that they said, stop scrolling. Like, you can
Speaker 2: be on your phone, you can text, you can email,
Speaker 2: you can watch movies and YouTube videos and stuff. Just
Speaker 2: get off social media. And the results were astonishing for
Speaker 2: six weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, and that takes me astonishingly. I mentioned this
Speaker 1: last night and I had some good conversation for a bit.
Speaker 1: But I think this relates to in some fashion of
Speaker 1: this too in Australia down Under, our neighbors going into summer,
Speaker 1: whereas we're now getting into the cold, snowy season and
Speaker 1: the frozen tundra of the tri State. You look at this,
Speaker 1: and they've talked about it in Ohio and across the
Speaker 1: United States, being in a situation where young people minor
Speaker 1: children for instance, under sixteen or under eighteen, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: where you might not allow them either without a parent's okay,
Speaker 1: or just in general, have access to multitudes of social
Speaker 1: media platforms or limited even with gaming platforms, to be
Speaker 1: able to be out there. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: enforce this or otherwise, but what Australia is doing is
Speaker 1: starting on the tenth of December, just the beginning of
Speaker 1: the week. Sixteen and under or under sixteen aren't supposed
Speaker 1: to be on any many of these gaming platforms and
Speaker 1: social media platforms from Facebook to Twitch, to x to
Speaker 1: I mean, you name it, to apparently avoid some of
Speaker 1: the vulnerability that they have either patrols, predators or maybe
Speaker 1: that weird way of developing or failing to develop and
Speaker 1: how to communicate normally. No, and listen.
Speaker 2: The study was done by Stanford and thirty five thousand
Speaker 2: people were paid to get off me social media for
Speaker 2: six weeks. Listen to the stats, and this happiness went up,
Speaker 2: stress went down, improved health so much as if you
Speaker 2: were seeing therapists. The participants, you know, like I said,
Speaker 2: they still use their their their their phone for many things.
Speaker 2: The problem wasn't screen time, it was scroll time, right,
Speaker 2: and so scrolling many times. Yeah, and so they they
Speaker 2: stopped scrolling. They came alive, They started thinking again, dreaming again,
Speaker 2: feeling again. And I think, you know, I as people
Speaker 2: start these experiments of like let's get off social media.
Speaker 1: For a little bit, like a sober November.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, taking mental breaks at least at the very
Speaker 2: minimum of putting your phone away for at least twenty
Speaker 2: five thirty minutes and taking those those breaks from social media.
Speaker 1: That's really important. I have done the unplugged thing in
Speaker 1: that fashion and then so long off off a couple
Speaker 1: of the platforms that I couldn't remember how to get
Speaker 1: back in. Then I couldn't prove that I was actually me,
Speaker 1: so then they wouldn't let me back in. Yeah, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess that's all right. I could create a new
Speaker 1: account or whatever else. But how much did they pay them?
Speaker 1: By the way, it does not say I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to know that, But because I'm curious, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people. And let's open up the phones
Speaker 1: with this five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred,
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Speaker 1: It's at Sterling Radio one x and Sterling Dot donad
Speaker 1: Dot twenty twenty three on Instagram. So we're on some
Speaker 1: of those platforms and are giving you a chance to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, get on there. Tell us about getting
Speaker 1: off social making on. Do you think you could keep
Speaker 1: your kids off of these platforms. I mean, could you
Speaker 1: control them in some fashion? I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: kids almost seem like they come out of the womb
Speaker 1: with a phone in their hand or some other type
Speaker 1: of device already engaged. Let alone the idea of AI
Speaker 1: and all the different things in this holiday gifts season.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of adults. Shoot, I don't
Speaker 1: know that there's enough money to keep some people off
Speaker 1: of some of these platforms.
Speaker 2: You know, it is also promotion. People make a ton
Speaker 2: of money. I mean the influencer. You heard the story
Speaker 2: of the Australian influencer who raised one point seven million
Speaker 2: dollars for the eighty eight year old grocery store worker
Speaker 2: because he couldn't get his pension from ge raised one
Speaker 2: point seven million. There are some good things that happen
Speaker 2: on social media, but if you're just it's the doom
Speaker 2: scrolling is what is the real issue here? It is
Speaker 2: it's a dopamine hit. If you don't like something, there's
Speaker 2: there's there's zero boredom that takes place.
Speaker 1: And when kids don't have time to be.
Speaker 2: Bored they they because boredom is the birthplace for creativity
Speaker 2: and focus. And if these kids don't have any boredom,
Speaker 2: then their vote. They lack a ton of focus and
Speaker 2: they lack creativity.
Speaker 1: They're not thinking, they don't.
Speaker 2: Think, they don't dream, they don't they don't feel. It
Speaker 2: is just NonStop dopamine. It's a wild thing. Five point
Speaker 2: three seven four nine seven eight hundred The Big One.
Speaker 2: Let's get Ed and Cole ring then Brian, your chance
Speaker 2: to get interactive on a Saturday afternoon, Stirling and Donnade.
Speaker 1: On the Big One, Ed, how are you? Have you
Speaker 1: yelled at your boss? Been yelled at? Or the social
Speaker 1: media unplugged? How are you.
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I can't answer them both in the order you asked me. Yes,
Speaker 7: I yelled at my boss. But I'm in the union,
Speaker 7: and it's hard to yell at the boss when he
Speaker 7: is when he's he's the one that doesn't know how
Speaker 7: to do what you're doing, so he's trying to help.
Speaker 3: You how to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Now, is it safer for you to yell
Speaker 1: at your boss because you're in the union.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, they can't just fire you.
Speaker 1: That's where I thought he was going.
Speaker 3: For sure, that's true.
Speaker 7: But then the other thing, I have two kids, and
Speaker 7: the other thing about keeping those people off social media
Speaker 7: and stuff like that. Man, my daughter's r on it.
Speaker 11: When they were young.
Speaker 7: They lied about their age. Me and me and the
Speaker 7: mom didn't know what the hell was going on with
Speaker 7: there to get Facebook pages, and you can't. There's no
Speaker 7: way they would be able to ever stop that unless
Speaker 7: they got rid of all those tablets, computers and clothes.
Speaker 1: How I'm sorry to interrupted. I'm just curious because you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. I can't imagine. I mean, my mom, I
Speaker 1: mean I I was in Donna makes fun of me
Speaker 1: because a free range kid, I had adventures. I was
Speaker 1: taking the bus downtown, hanging out with friends, going fishing
Speaker 1: in the river, you know, and then taking the bus
Speaker 1: back home. Whatever. Uh is a parent now dealing with
Speaker 1: what you just described? How how hard is that?
Speaker 7: It's almost impossible. I had the same childhood as you did,
Speaker 7: But I didn't go downtown. Been a place where we
Speaker 7: disappeared in the wood. Yeah, we were gone. We were
Speaker 7: gone till it was dark, and then we got yelled
Speaker 7: to come home.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was the same thing.
Speaker 7: But but kids nowadays, you can't. They set up one
Speaker 7: thing and show you, but then they set up another
Speaker 7: thing that you don't know about.
Speaker 12: By all means my kids aren't.
Speaker 7: But it is absolutely hard because you almost have to
Speaker 7: beat a a computer analyst or whatever to keep track
Speaker 7: of them.
Speaker 8: And I'm not.
Speaker 1: My mother still asks me how to do her device.
Speaker 12: Is that?
Speaker 1: I imagine that's just a fairly typical thing generationally, from the
Speaker 1: blinking twelve on the VCR to whatever else I do.
Speaker 7: I have to ask you if your mother does the
Speaker 7: same thing my kids do. My kids grab my phone,
Speaker 7: taking out my hands, do a bunch of crap on
Speaker 7: a real quick and that an affect to me. That's great,
Speaker 7: but I don't know how to do it.
Speaker 12: But again she didn't show me.
Speaker 1: And since you don't know how to do that, you
Speaker 1: know very well that they can have different aliases or
Speaker 1: whatever else.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yeah, that's hard. Believe me, Believe you me.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 7: What's gonna be like a watchount it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You take care of yourself, Appreciate you listening, being part
Speaker 1: of the show. I can't imagine that circumstance.
Speaker 2: No, I I was, I was saying Jennifer Garner, who
Speaker 2: has been afflex x wyfe.
Speaker 1: They have three kids together.
Speaker 2: She said, show me the scientific proof that shows that
Speaker 2: social media is good for you and I will let
Speaker 2: you have a social media account. And because she said
Speaker 2: everything she's read it's terrible for kids, it's it's horrible,
Speaker 2: and and they couldn't show her one piece of and.
Speaker 1: Nothing to prove. That's tough. Let's get one more here
Speaker 1: before the break Tony, here was Stirling and Donnade on
Speaker 1: the big one social media, the detox yelling at your employer,
Speaker 1: how crazy times we're living in? No right on? Okay,
Speaker 1: what you got?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm gonna go, just yelled constantly.
Speaker 4: I guess he couldn't calling.
Speaker 12: Okay, I guess he couldn't talk at home, and he
Speaker 12: took it out on all the employs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough one, Tony. We appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: It time for a breakthrough, saying stop, we're stopping, we'll
Speaker 1: come back. There's more to do. Five thirty report straight
Speaker 1: away more Sterling and Donna D seven hundred double ULW
Speaker 1: five going on right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's like getting their last minute decorations and putting
Speaker 2: them up and Christmas shopping and dinners.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the decoration stuff goes sideways. I mean it does.
Speaker 1: And my dog, he we walk a lot. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: talked about the crazy dog for a long time now,
Speaker 1: and he I have to watch him depending on how
Speaker 1: my neighbors and anywhere else we happen to go to
Speaker 1: walk have put up all their inflatables and all the
Speaker 1: big yard displayed because some people go full all oh yeah,
Speaker 1: And I got a guy a couple of blocks away
Speaker 1: who's had his up. I'm telling you he may have
Speaker 1: been out before Thanksgiving with his stuff. But another guy today,
Speaker 1: I was out with the dog and he had his
Speaker 1: dog loose. It's a pit and people panic. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you've got like a little dog and they're fine their buddies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he comes running to see my dog. The guy's
Speaker 1: in the yard doing up the finishing of his lights.
Speaker 1: He had done the lights on the front of the
Speaker 1: house and around. They've got stuff around their trees. But
Speaker 1: he has one of these inflatables, like a big like
Speaker 1: a I guess there's this like a snowman. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: he was trying to get it tethered down with steaks
Speaker 1: and like the blower to keep it inflating. His dog
Speaker 1: finished playing with my dog and was troubled by the
Speaker 1: sound of the inflatable thing and went and attacked the
Speaker 1: brand new snowman and the guy is freaking out. And
Speaker 1: the way he was freaking out is how someone would
Speaker 1: freak out if like the dog had gone after another dog.
Speaker 1: But it was his big inflatable Sannah or whatever. He
Speaker 1: was like a snow thing, and he pulls the steaks
Speaker 1: out of the ground. He's pulling it through the yard.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any coming back for the big
Speaker 1: snowman inflatable. And we just walked on because I mean,
Speaker 1: it was what am I gonna do things?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: I don't want to get between the dog in the
Speaker 1: inflatable because that could go bad. And it's his dog anyway,
Speaker 1: and you've got your dog RC and he's crazy, so
Speaker 1: who knows where this might go? So I'm thinking in
Speaker 1: our Willy number of years ago, and it turned into
Speaker 1: a nice ad campaign and a commercial, Willie got stuck,
Speaker 1: you know, legendarily on his roof. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was holiday lights or checking the gutters, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: So I'm just thinking, we don't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of time here before a wo day today talking to
Speaker 1: Bengals and Bills and so forth. Coming up? Where have
Speaker 1: you had issues? One have you had your lights up?
Speaker 1: Are you doing it? You get in your tree? But
Speaker 1: where has the decorating endeavor gone wrong? Where something has happened.
Speaker 1: I've seen friends who've had their stuff blow away in
Speaker 1: big wind and storms. Have you had any problems?
Speaker 2: I don't decorate because I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 2: like the I don't do the inflatables. I don't you know.
Speaker 2: I'm not creative like that. And I don't have an
Speaker 2: outside electrical outlet.
Speaker 1: I love lights. I love lights, but I'd.
Speaker 2: Have to run extension cords and leave windows open.
Speaker 1: At night on two that that's tough. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see if he's like has duct tape or some type
Speaker 1: of like flex seal to like put on this thing,
Speaker 1: or if it's he just is done with it. Overall.
Speaker 1: It's a kind of another deal. I do minimal decorations.
Speaker 1: There was a Christmas tree at the house when I
Speaker 1: was a tiny stirling about six maybe five. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: mother was helping or I was helping her decorate, and
Speaker 1: then she was doing like the star on top years ago,
Speaker 1: and she passed out. Oh gosh right, she had like
Speaker 1: flu or whatever, and then toppled down. It was like
Speaker 1: the tree attacked her and I was just like a
Speaker 1: little kid, so like and the dog we had at
Speaker 1: the time went crazy and bulbs were breaking all over
Speaker 1: in the front room on the arm was floor. And
Speaker 1: then and I'm thinking, oh my god, my mom's gone,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, yeah, in a bad way, like
Speaker 1: forever gone. And then she finally comes to and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, like, you know, do I call
Speaker 1: nine to one one? What exactly I do? And that's
Speaker 1: when we switched to the smaller, much more uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a non volatilenic bush because we like all the holiday
Speaker 1: in my mixed family, of course, so that's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest you know, off the rails team, the.
Speaker 2: Little one of the lights, the candelabras and all that
Speaker 2: in the window.
Speaker 1: Do you do all that? Yeah, yeah, my mom used
Speaker 1: to do that. A little of that, Yeah you like
Speaker 1: them and noora, you know some people do that, right,
Speaker 1: And so fourth thing goes along with it. But I
Speaker 1: just see people, I tell you what I don't like
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't do this, and more power to you
Speaker 1: if you have it. I'm almost laryous saying this because
Speaker 1: people get very upset, you know. The h it's like
Speaker 1: a not laser lights, but the things that sort of move,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, in the snow. And for some reason that
Speaker 1: just drives me insane. I don't love it either. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it hurts my eyes or
Speaker 1: if there's something about it that seems disoriented. And I
Speaker 1: see them everywhere. I don't like them.
Speaker 2: I don't love them because there it likes a it's
Speaker 2: a projection. And I love twinkly white lights. I mean
Speaker 2: that's my favorite. So but I mean everybody does it differently,
Speaker 2: and people like new things, and that was new. How
Speaker 2: many years ago did that start? Like just a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ago, I think as well. Yeah, now it's like
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big deal now. It certainly is. Five
Speaker 1: point three seven four nine seven, eight hundred. The big
Speaker 1: ones is Saturday, Stirling and Dunnity. Have you had a
Speaker 1: light problem? A decoration issue? Uh is some people pay people.
Speaker 1: There's that's a whole cottage industry of people who will
Speaker 1: show up. They'll put up your tree. Oh yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: deck out the halls, as they say, uh, and they'll
Speaker 1: do the outside, which saves someone getting stuck like our
Speaker 1: Willie did or but I don't know about the inflatable
Speaker 1: dog attack. That's a whole nother sh and my dog
Speaker 1: would like to do it, but I don't think he
Speaker 1: would cause the same type of damage going along with that.
Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of tough. But do you decorate
Speaker 1: the inside?
Speaker 2: I do decorate the inside. I have like little trees.
Speaker 2: I don't I put a tree, a five foot tree
Speaker 2: in my house. My house has smaller rooms. It's an
Speaker 2: old house. It's cool, yeah, And so I don't really
Speaker 2: have room for a Christmas tree, which I can't.
Speaker 1: I love Christmas trees.
Speaker 2: I love live trees, but I just don't even have
Speaker 2: the space for it. So I have like little already
Speaker 2: lit trees in my house. I put that up before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: And the lights, the little fairy lights everywhere the game,
Speaker 2: I mean. And I have a beautiful wreath that lights up,
Speaker 2: so you know, I I absolutely love this time of year.
Speaker 2: So I decorate it. But it's kind of minimal because
Speaker 2: my house is pretty small. You keep it nice though,
Speaker 2: it's cool, thank you. It's it's just it's me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's festive, it's holl me and it's and it's all
Speaker 2: as long as you and your family, love what you're
Speaker 2: doing with decorations.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter, but it happy.
Speaker 2: Even if you don't want to put decorations up, or
Speaker 2: you're late this year too, that's also okay, whatever actually
Speaker 2: works for you. But this is the weekend where everyone's like,
Speaker 2: all right, we're late, it's time to get our tree.
Speaker 1: It seems like it just has come fast and furious,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden in that kind of time, I guess.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's maybe always the way it plays
Speaker 1: out generally, right, I mean, from Thanksgiving to that, But
Speaker 1: it just seems like there's a shorter window of time
Speaker 1: to be prepared to be in that situation.
Speaker 2: I have two Christmas parties this year. This week we
Speaker 2: had our Christmas party.
Speaker 1: I mean on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Wednesday, that's right here at iHeart, and then I have
Speaker 2: one at Harper where I teach yoga, So that's going
Speaker 2: to be tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a season to give and receive, have
Speaker 1: a good time, and enjoy your friends and your family
Speaker 1: and do those things that go along with that, you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of the trees, and a lot of people doing that,
Speaker 1: I kid you not. I bet driving in I saw
Speaker 1: five six trees on top of cars, so they were
Speaker 1: finding a home. You got to keep them hydrated, you know,
Speaker 1: from the dry out. That's never a good thing. And
Speaker 1: I'm still there, family tree. I find it really difficult
Speaker 1: to leave this. And I had someone who was so
Speaker 1: way old, like decrepit aged, like, you know, close to
Speaker 1: one hundred years ago when I was a kid telling me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't and I still don't necessarily buy it.
Speaker 1: But the Internet says it's true, so it must be.
Speaker 1: They said when they were telling me this, that people
Speaker 1: put real candles on Christmas trees in the day, yes,
Speaker 1: which seems to me to be an immediate call to
Speaker 1: the fire department, Like, I mean, how busy must they
Speaker 1: have been going to burnt down houses and people having
Speaker 1: horrible things happen. Yeah, that's what they used to do.
Speaker 2: And I think somebody just did that and lit the
Speaker 2: tree on fire. I mean, it does happen and back
Speaker 2: and then we didn't before electricity.
Speaker 1: What did we do?
Speaker 2: We use those little things, those little candle holders exactly,
Speaker 2: and so they lit up the tree that way.
Speaker 1: But I mean, luckily we.
Speaker 2: Have advanced in many things, and illumination is one of them.
Speaker 1: That's true. Just got a message here. Alex in Westchester says,
Speaker 1: do you tip? Going called back to earlier in the
Speaker 1: tipping conversation, do you tip the tree person?
Speaker 2: I think at this point you tip everybody. Just assumed
Speaker 2: to tip everybody.
Speaker 1: When I worked at the grocery bar and as a
Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen year old and a part of my
Speaker 1: gig was getting carts and working in produce and you know,
Speaker 1: clean up on Aisle six, you know that type of scenario.
Speaker 1: I would also they had like a I don't know
Speaker 1: who came in and did it, but they had trees
Speaker 1: in the lot seasonally, and they'd be like, any you
Speaker 1: want to go out there and do that, you make
Speaker 1: some extra money. I'm like extra money? How oh tips?
Speaker 1: Which never occurred to me. Yeah, And I felt awkward
Speaker 1: and uncomfortable because people were trying to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: hand me a couple of bucks for you know, helping
Speaker 1: them tie down the tree to the top of the vehicle.
Speaker 2: Well, that does take work. I would tip absolutely, I would.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is it awkward to ever? I mean, you've worked
Speaker 1: in a service industry situation. I worked in the automotive
Speaker 1: business for a bit too, and have friends who do that.
Speaker 1: Now and around the holiday time. I can vividly remember
Speaker 1: two different times people were like trying to slide. I
Speaker 1: sold them a car, and then they wanted to give
Speaker 1: me money because it was a good experience. Oh I've
Speaker 1: never tipped a car guy. Yeah, see exactly. And uh
Speaker 1: and I I remember asking my boss, I go, dude,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Said take that money. I'm like what,
Speaker 1: he goes, take that money. Never say no money. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I felt dirty, just like, this is not
Speaker 1: a tipping job. I already got paid. I sold them
Speaker 1: the car. Everything's good. Take that money or I'll take
Speaker 1: the money, or maybe you need to find another job.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's an odd thing because I never
Speaker 1: would have.
Speaker 2: You know, where you do tip and and and and
Speaker 2: like in La when I used to live there, it
Speaker 2: was a big deal. I mean, if you ever got
Speaker 2: your car washed, and oh my gosh, I mean just
Speaker 2: even like a little car wash, you go in, you
Speaker 2: see them cleaning it, they pull out, you get out.
Speaker 1: They you have to tip them or things get things.
Speaker 2: Go miserd Yeah, I mean no, you like I remember
Speaker 2: I said, I I only have five dollars in the
Speaker 2: The thing was I had a four Runner. So it
Speaker 2: was a pretty big car, and you know, it was
Speaker 2: like a forty dollars detail thing and only have five dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry they were mad. Well what waits? What's reasonable?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: Ten bucks usually even for that? Yeah, yeah, especially those
Speaker 2: guys work hard at the car dealership. Well, I mean
Speaker 2: at the car detail anywhere exactly, but like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so where do you draw the line?
Speaker 1: Who doesn't do you tip your doctor? I do not
Speaker 1: tip my doctor. Now do you tip the person who
Speaker 1: bags your groceries? If they do? I always bag my grocery.
Speaker 1: I always helped that. I always still like the self
Speaker 1: check out, Man, I want to get in and out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the problem is I have double wrung stuff up and
Speaker 1: then you get home and I did not get two
Speaker 1: of those, and then who the hell's going to believe
Speaker 1: you when you're trying to come back. It's a odd scenario. See,
Speaker 1: my thing at this point is not trained on those. No,
Speaker 1: there's no schooling on that. So I'm trying to process these.
Speaker 1: So if everyone's expecting a tip, as you say, and
Speaker 1: what seemingly was a lot of what the responses were earlier,
Speaker 1: then who doesn't expect one?
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't say everybody expected a tip. I just
Speaker 2: said maybe at this point, just assume that you're going
Speaker 2: to tip. And if you don't have to, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I do think it's a little out of
Speaker 2: control assal workers too.
Speaker 1: I've been told to expect it.
Speaker 2: I've always gift card like the Christmas Christmas thing. Absolutely
Speaker 2: I do that. It's confusing, it is, and I mean.
Speaker 1: I need help in every way. I need guidance is
Speaker 1: really what I need.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 1: No, we're done here. Who day to day is coming up?
Speaker 1: And uh, I think it's a chick who's coming in
Speaker 1: and next if I'm not mistaken, and then you're back
Speaker 1: at nine. Yes, I'm back at nine.
Speaker 10: I know.
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