Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: It is Eddie and Rocky Show. Eddie's out. I'm alongside
Speaker 2: Jason Williams. And Jason, you brought this to my attention
Speaker 2: yesterday and I thought it was interesting, and uh so
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about it. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: I've been a lot of folks that live in Cincinnati
Speaker 2: did not know this. But uh, there is uh you know,
Speaker 2: the new Convention Hotel, a big, big project right. Well
Speaker 2: apparently it's just I guess gone through a committee here.
Speaker 2: A proposal is going to add a one percent fee
Speaker 2: to bills at some downtown Cincinnati restaurants to help fund
Speaker 2: the new hotel. That's not just a dollar on you.
Speaker 3: It's a one percent if you're eating at a really
Speaker 3: nice restaurant, that's that's a chunk of change there. And
Speaker 3: why did I bring this to your attention, rock Because
Speaker 3: anytime there's an extra fee or a tax, it's raised. Man,
Speaker 3: and I learned the same things, especially on things like this.
Speaker 3: It's like and I know, like people will say, well,
Speaker 3: we did figure out how to pay for it. Uh
Speaker 3: you know, they'll say, this is a user fee. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know what they're thinking. I
Speaker 3: know they who are the folks who are you know,
Speaker 3: who are the leaders who are thinking this are like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: out of towners will pay this, you know, it's like
Speaker 3: the hotel tax, like, well, those are mostly out of town,
Speaker 3: those are convention goers. Those are people coming in from uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Columbus to go to a Bengals game. Like
Speaker 3: they won't even notice it on their bill. And most
Speaker 3: people don't really notice these things. Yeah, I can kind
Speaker 3: of see the argument on both sides on this. Just
Speaker 3: so it's not an extra, it's not another tax. Well
Speaker 3: it's on you, and well it could be though. He's
Speaker 3: coming up here right uh. And then yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 3: bring on our good friend Jim mooreing. Of course we
Speaker 3: love him.
Speaker 2: He's an owner of purveyor, dominator of the Holy Grail.
Speaker 2: He's a good down he's good to us, Santa You, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about it. And Jim, welcome on the program, buddy,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 4: We don't gents on this snowy Tuesday.
Speaker 2: We're good. We are good. So now I don't I
Speaker 2: don't believe that this is going to affect your businesses
Speaker 2: because it's just a certain area. So the district boundaries
Speaker 2: where they're gonna potentially add this one percent taxes Central
Speaker 2: Avenue to Main Street and Third Street to Seventh Street.
Speaker 2: So I believe you're out of that, but I mean
Speaker 2: you've seen things like this, you know, kind of come
Speaker 2: your way and include you what's your thoughts on this?
Speaker 4: So you know we are not in this district, we're
Speaker 4: outside of it.
Speaker 5: But you know what, we we essentially have the exact
Speaker 5: same program that we did down the banks, but we
Speaker 5: did it voluntarily, So we essentially have a one percent
Speaker 5: you know, you can call it tax, you can call
Speaker 5: it a up charge, whatever you want to say. We
Speaker 5: enacted this back six years ago now, so in nineteen
Speaker 5: I think it was as a marketing aspect of it,
Speaker 5: and we did it as hey, we want to capture
Speaker 5: some dollars to market our area, get the exposure going.
Speaker 4: And you know, once we started doing.
Speaker 5: It, we realized that we had, you know, a very
Speaker 5: good synergy amongst all the businesses down there to enact
Speaker 5: a bunch of different things. A couple of them are
Speaker 5: you know, we brought the Saint Patrick's Parade back to
Speaker 5: the banks. We philanthropically will give money away to you know,
Speaker 5: the full of air plunge. You know, we spread it
Speaker 5: out amongst the things that we want to do. But
Speaker 5: there's also a marketing aspect to it, in a marketing
Speaker 5: arm that all of us embraced and said, you know,
Speaker 5: as one as the saying goes, you know, tides raise
Speaker 5: all boats.
Speaker 4: And what we wanted to do was elevate the banks.
Speaker 4: And how we enacted it is I would assume what
Speaker 4: these guys are going to try to do up there.
Speaker 5: We voluntarily decided, okay, we can either put it on
Speaker 5: a check or we just eat it. Some of us us,
Speaker 5: you know, being the holy Grail, we just eat it.
Speaker 5: We understand it to cost doing business. We approved that,
Speaker 5: we understood it. Other places didn't have that same luxury.
Speaker 5: And if you're a publicly traded company, I found out
Speaker 5: through this process you can't just quote unquote eat it.
Speaker 5: You have to be fully full disclosure.
Speaker 4: So they put it on checks.
Speaker 5: So some of the places down to the banks have
Speaker 5: to put it on people's check.
Speaker 3: I've noticed, I think you what's the yard house? I
Speaker 3: think puts it on there?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so your house a part of garden. They have
Speaker 4: to has to a couple of other ones.
Speaker 5: We you know, we understood what it was, know what
Speaker 5: it was, so we stopped, never passed it along. We
Speaker 5: just understood it as one percent that we think expands
Speaker 5: all the businesses down there, you know, for the hotel.
Speaker 5: I understand it, and I understand people's trepidation with it,
Speaker 5: but the reality is these businesses will expand if this
Speaker 5: project moves forward. There's a funding gap here, and I
Speaker 5: think there's been a funny gap for it for a while.
Speaker 5: It's innovative, it's creative, and depending.
Speaker 4: On what side you want to fall on, you can say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 5: See it as another tax, or if you're a prospective business.
Speaker 4: Looking at it, saying, you know what, I think.
Speaker 5: The hotel, if it's two blocks away, three blocks away,
Speaker 5: associated with the convention center, is going to bring our
Speaker 5: business up another twenty twenty five, thirty forty percent or
Speaker 5: my businesses based on this, then it makes sense. So
Speaker 5: I think I think the voluntary side of this, to
Speaker 5: me makes all the sense.
Speaker 4: In the world. You know, on that standpoint, they're not
Speaker 4: they're not jamming it down.
Speaker 5: Anybody's broke the say hey you want to help out,
Speaker 5: help out. If you don't, don't we understand it and
Speaker 5: they already have some businesses committed.
Speaker 4: To doing that.
Speaker 3: Jim, that's good stuff, good perspective, and you know, not
Speaker 3: only I mean you've you you're you're one of the
Speaker 3: great business owners in downtown. With the holy Grail you've done.
Speaker 3: You've been working in downtown for a long time. You've seen, uh,
Speaker 3: with the work you've done over at the arena, you've
Speaker 3: seen anything and everything proposed. When it comes to these
Speaker 3: types of things, generally does you don't probably don't get
Speaker 3: a lot of pushback right from customers slash uh you know, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I guess taxpayers or in this case it's
Speaker 3: be more customers, but there's probably not a lot of
Speaker 3: pushback right.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 4: You know, I think as we've seen creep and things.
Speaker 5: Coming at our back door get more and more expensive, yep,
Speaker 5: people start to look at it more and more.
Speaker 4: And that's you know, unfortunately happened over the last couple
Speaker 4: of years.
Speaker 5: But you know, we try to keep ourselves affordable, so
Speaker 5: we we're kind of a different business model. I think
Speaker 5: the higher end place is the ones where you know,
Speaker 5: to your point, I don't think anybody's going to notice
Speaker 5: that our five dollars beer you know is have we
Speaker 5: raised it?
Speaker 4: We went to five oh five for a beer. It's
Speaker 4: not like the old days.
Speaker 5: You know, when I first started in its industry at paddies,
Speaker 5: everything was cash.
Speaker 4: And you know.
Speaker 5: When you're at two dollars a beer and somebody had
Speaker 5: twenty dollars bill and you're giving them back, you know, seventeen, sixteen,
Speaker 5: eighteen dollars, whatever it is. People noticed it, I personally
Speaker 5: and my family. I was actually with my brother Mike,
Speaker 5: consistant multeen a little bit ago, and I was trying
Speaker 5: to give this analogy the younger set. These days, it's
Speaker 5: almost like the casino theory. You're right, casinos used to
Speaker 5: be cash. They went to chips. They went to chips
Speaker 5: because it's an inanimate object and you're placing that in
Speaker 5: front of you and you don't equate it to what
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I certainly understand what you're saying. I think that
Speaker 2: I always make that argument for why I like to
Speaker 2: pay cash for certain things versus a car, because it
Speaker 2: does it doesn't feel real. It's like, well, sure, if
Speaker 2: it's ten dollars or twenty dollars, what's the difference. I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna be the same swipe that the pain, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the pain of actually pulling an extra ten bucks or
Speaker 2: twenty bucks out of my wallet, that'll actually hit you.
Speaker 2: So I guess my question for this instance, and we're
Speaker 2: talking about you know, there's some business is adding a
Speaker 2: one percent charge on their bill to pay for the
Speaker 2: convention Hotel if you live within this district's boundaries in
Speaker 2: some businesses. Again, according to this six downtown property owners
Speaker 2: in about twenty eight of their tenants have signed up
Speaker 2: and said, yes, we'll put that one percent charge on there.
Speaker 2: They'll have to disclose that, but if you live in
Speaker 2: that or your businesses within that area, you don't have
Speaker 2: to write. So technically you could enjoy the benefits of
Speaker 2: the hotel getting built faster and better without actually contributing
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 5: Right, that's correct, And I think one of the bigger
Speaker 5: drivers I saw that, you know, Steve Lofton over at
Speaker 5: the Aaronoff Center, agreed to put on a dollar per ticket.
Speaker 4: I think that's big, you know, I think that for
Speaker 4: the amount of people that they that they turned through there.
Speaker 5: But you have to, you know, from my perspective, if
Speaker 5: you want to see this hotel and the convention center,
Speaker 5: look the County and the amount of money that they
Speaker 5: spent on this is is mind boggling. But I think
Speaker 5: the driver to it is real. So if you have
Speaker 5: a business close by, specifically a restaurant, you know you're
Speaker 5: going to look at it and say, my business is
Speaker 5: going to grow. I want to do this right and
Speaker 5: you know, but it is voluntary. I get it, but
Speaker 5: it's not surprising to see the people who've already signed
Speaker 5: up for it are good stewards for.
Speaker 4: Our city to begin with.
Speaker 5: So you know, I literally when this came up, we
Speaker 5: were there's a text chain going on amongst us, so
Speaker 5: it's down the banks and my first thing was, Hey,
Speaker 5: you think we can do one of these for them?
Speaker 4: Re Ena and I got a bunch of thumbs ups,
Speaker 4: So you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's it's hey, if you're you want skin in
Speaker 5: the game and you want to be responsible and you
Speaker 5: want to drive something like this, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I'm gonna say it's the cost of business, but
Speaker 4: a lot of ways it's the cost of business. It's
Speaker 4: in the end. Do I think the's got the folks.
Speaker 5: Who are supporting are going to win without a doubt?
Speaker 8: Is it maybe a tack?
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe it is a tax.
Speaker 5: I don't see it that way because of the way
Speaker 5: we do things, but you know, you could, you could,
Speaker 5: you could definitely say that that's the case.
Speaker 2: Jim Moore is our guest, the owner of the Holy
Speaker 2: Grailed Downtown, and I guess just to play the other side, Jim,
Speaker 2: I mean, your industry, in my opinion, has it harder
Speaker 2: than any industry out there, especially since COVID. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it was you know, people can't you can't go
Speaker 2: and eat and rest your and then it was the
Speaker 2: price of food and the price of chicken wings, and
Speaker 2: then it was this. It was that. I mean, at
Speaker 2: some at what point or if you ever noticed at
Speaker 2: any point in your career a point where people are
Speaker 2: just like, you know what, that's it. I can't do
Speaker 2: this anymore. I can't do or you, as a business owner, say,
Speaker 2: got just every little add on you know that this fee,
Speaker 2: that fee. Is there ever a saturation point where people
Speaker 2: that you've seen us say, you know what, Nope, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing I'm not eating there, I'm not drinking there.
Speaker 5: Yes, And I think I think everybody in our industry
Speaker 5: is frustrated by it. You've watched your margins continually get crushed.
Speaker 5: You know, the old adage of you're chasing dollars to
Speaker 5: make pennies in the restaurant industry is true where it's
Speaker 5: really frustrating. It's an independent restaurant when you see the
Speaker 5: chain to have the buying ability and the buying power
Speaker 5: to be able to do the things that they're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does get frustrating.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: You know, you're you're constantly combating.
Speaker 5: It on every level that you can, and you try
Speaker 5: to do everything you can and push every to every
Speaker 5: level that you can to make sure that.
Speaker 4: Your business is successful.
Speaker 5: And I would not I'd be lying to you if
Speaker 5: I didn't say, yeah, there's been more than a couple
Speaker 5: of times I'm like, what am I doing?
Speaker 2: Gimeral? Oh go ahead, go ahead?
Speaker 3: No good, No, sorry, real quick, I want to ask
Speaker 3: you just what it was the last week, couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago that there's an announcement of some an idea or
Speaker 3: a proposal to complete the banks and do other things.
Speaker 3: Not asking you to comment on that necessarily, but as
Speaker 3: a successful business that has withstood the test of time
Speaker 3: and all the challenges at the banks, what's the most
Speaker 3: important thing that needs to be built at the banks
Speaker 3: to then help sustain all everybody else, including Holy Grail.
Speaker 4: I would like there to be our priority number one,
Speaker 4: and I think the city understand that is security.
Speaker 5: Right now, hands down security, building wise, Anything that brings
Speaker 5: density to our area is fantastic, and it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: what that is. You know, there's different proposals. Unfortunately I
Speaker 5: wasn't in on any of those.
Speaker 4: I didn't get to see that or have input into that.
Speaker 5: I understand what everybody's trying to do, anything that they
Speaker 5: can do to bring density to the area.
Speaker 4: Sustainable density.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if that's apartments, I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's condominiums.
Speaker 4: I truly you know at once, you know, I.
Speaker 5: Had this happen prior to twenty twenty one to said
Speaker 5: off the buildings, we need more office buildings, We need
Speaker 5: the office tenants, get the density going. And obviously that
Speaker 5: is not the case these days, or at least you don't
Speaker 5: feel like it is unless you you know, you see
Speaker 5: a crower that's going back to work five days a week.
Speaker 5: Fifth third, you know that the companies in Cincinnati that
Speaker 5: are saying, hey, we understand we need a thriving downtown
Speaker 5: and to support that we're going to have our folks
Speaker 5: go back to work, you know, five days, four days
Speaker 5: a week.
Speaker 4: That's been great.
Speaker 5: To answer your question bluntly, anything that's sustainable that brings
Speaker 5: people down there, I think it's great.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And one of the biggest, uh, I think factors for
Speaker 2: a man and a woman has a family is we
Speaker 2: want to make sure wherever we go it's safe. So
Speaker 2: that makes uh, that makes it tough to live there
Speaker 2: or you're visiting there, right right? Great stuff? Well, Jim, yeah,
Speaker 2: listen here. We really appreciate Jim Mourning, owner of the
Speaker 2: Great Holy Grail, and we'll talk to you to my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thanks Jim, Thanks Jim. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like there is a saturation point
Speaker 2: where you're like, you know what, just it's like any
Speaker 2: any time you go every election here, there's always some renewal,
Speaker 2: some tax you know, and you're like, Okay, this is great,
Speaker 2: love this, love that. But at some point you go, oh,
Speaker 2: it gets to be too much. It gets to me
Speaker 2: you want to just get too easy? Does it get
Speaker 2: too easy for the convention center stuff? By a thousand taxes,
Speaker 2: isn't it? Really?
Speaker 3: What is life in Hamilton County is we've gone along
Speaker 3: and for those who've lived here forever, you've you've seen that,
Speaker 3: you've lived it, you've died for it, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: Hundreds of inches of snow, everyone's trapped in their house,
Speaker 2: accidents everywhere? Or maybe not. Maybe it was just kind of.
Speaker 3: Like a normal no bread and milk at Croker exactly,
Speaker 3: people are rationing water?
Speaker 2: Are such website and someone who I think feels the
Speaker 2: same way as we do, and she, of course is
Speaker 2: the queen of since then media, of course is the
Speaker 2: one you only Tanya or Tanya, me and Jason saw
Speaker 2: your your post on what was I either extra Instagram
Speaker 2: there about how you know, everything was actually okay and
Speaker 2: we're going to get through this with the snow, right?
Speaker 16: It was fine? Fun in the morning.
Speaker 17: Was it fine at six in the morning, seven in
Speaker 17: the morning, at eight in the morning, was it fine?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 16: Probably not ten am?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 17: Yeah, And so I hope all those kids enjoyed that
Speaker 17: fun day, because my goodness, it.
Speaker 16: Could have been to two or three hour delay.
Speaker 3: So whatever happened at the two hour delay, because schools
Speaker 3: have apparently unlimited amounts of those, but uh, we just
Speaker 3: we've just forgot about using those.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't think I think that that is not
Speaker 17: I like, I don't feel like they do that anymore.
Speaker 17: Like a one hour of delay at two or delay.
Speaker 17: I felt like that was such a thing. I would
Speaker 17: wait up and listen to the radio. Oh please, let's
Speaker 17: have an hour delay.
Speaker 16: I mean, while I'm staying up two hours later, just
Speaker 16: to hear if it's happening. And you know, but I
Speaker 16: don't feel like it happens how much anymore.
Speaker 17: I may be wrong, but I just don't hear about
Speaker 17: It's usually, well, we're just canceled, we're off. I don't
Speaker 17: even know are they even doing like online school when
Speaker 17: they're off now?
Speaker 3: Or my kids are sled riding sled and went to
Speaker 3: Chick fil a and now they're going back out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it's there's no school.
Speaker 16: It's a big doing. Okay, So you guys are kids
Speaker 16: school age kids. I don't anymore.
Speaker 17: Do you look forward to them? I mean, you're going
Speaker 17: to work. But is it like, oh great, this is
Speaker 17: so fun for them, or is it.
Speaker 2: Like, oh god, come on, I think look every every
Speaker 2: great one swan. I think it's cool from that, like
Speaker 2: today was cool, like you know, because it was actually
Speaker 2: a good snow where they could sled ride and it
Speaker 2: wasn't like just miserable.
Speaker 16: Out there snowball snow correct.
Speaker 2: Correct, I pelted my kids with multiple of them before
Speaker 2: I left the house. But yeah, so I'm fine with
Speaker 2: it as long as it isn't all the time. And
Speaker 2: to your point, yeah, I wonder if is it like
Speaker 2: a bus thing where like the one two hour delay thing,
Speaker 2: as it affects the bust scene and they just sound
Speaker 2: heck with it, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 17: Maybe it messes up parents who have to get to work.
Speaker 17: They'd rather just feel like just cancel the day. I
Speaker 17: don't I don't know, Yeah, I know, like my coaker
Speaker 17: Adrian said that his son was outside playing this all day,
Speaker 17: and I'm like, well, he's going to sleep well to
Speaker 17: night and that is sort of a benefit. Don't you
Speaker 17: think they get some good fresh air running around in snow.
Speaker 2: It's like it's good. No, they will eat to night
Speaker 2: at whatever seven o'clock or so and boom be out, Tanya.
Speaker 2: Are we right night, guys?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are go ahead? Are we weaker on the snow? Like
Speaker 3: growing up? And I grew up in southeast Ohio in
Speaker 3: the foothills like windy country roads, so like when it's
Speaker 3: snow because I had to ride a bus for forty
Speaker 3: five minutes to school, so when it's snows, right, yeah, backwards,
Speaker 3: so when it's snowed there you got it because they
Speaker 3: didn't get some of our back roads for a while.
Speaker 3: But you know, we live in civilization here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: And uh, I mean, are we is it just my imagination?
Speaker 3: I did live in Minnesota for three years, and or
Speaker 3: are we just bigger whimps about it nowadays?
Speaker 2: Is it just me? Or is this a real thing?
Speaker 16: I mean I went to freaking Town High School?
Speaker 17: Okay, Yeah, so there were no like if there were
Speaker 17: buses to any town. I'm sure some kids road buses,
Speaker 17: but we didn't. We had to either walk or get
Speaker 17: a ride.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 16: It was just it's like a bedroom community. Wasn't that big,
Speaker 16: you know? And wow, we did not get snow days.
Speaker 16: I challenge anyone listening to me who grew.
Speaker 17: Up in that like Finnytown, Green Hills, that type of thing,
Speaker 17: all that area. And you know, I'm talking like late eighties, nineties.
Speaker 16: I don't think we got days off like they get now. Well,
Speaker 16: it's such a it was such a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one that gets me now that we honestly
Speaker 2: never had is when it gets below a certain temperature
Speaker 2: they cancel school. That never happened. It could get down
Speaker 2: to zero. Yeah that I've seen that a couple of
Speaker 2: times in the last few years, where it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, it's like in the in the teens,
Speaker 2: So we got to cancel school? What on? In school's
Speaker 2: got heat?
Speaker 16: Going outside a lot? Well maybe they don't have heat.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 16: Oh no heat, get it. But I don't have heat.
Speaker 2: That would be weird. But the school is heat. Like,
Speaker 2: let him go to school and sit in a warm
Speaker 2: classroom and do their studies.
Speaker 16: Yeah, wouldn't that be a sutter thing? I don't know.
Speaker 16: I mean, look, I used to beg for snow days
Speaker 16: as a kid.
Speaker 17: I mean, you know the whole I was. I mean,
Speaker 17: we would just all we do is listen to the radio,
Speaker 17: hoping and praying, and it was so great. When you
Speaker 17: got a snow day, it was like just and you
Speaker 17: just watched reruns all day long and ate crummy food.
Speaker 16: It was crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Well, so I don't blame these kids are being excited
Speaker 17: because I was excited as a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, anymore yeah, those and there's you do
Speaker 2: miss the the de pensive joy of like okay, you
Speaker 2: know my you know whatever, say it was you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know Saint James or something right, and like
Speaker 2: you're waiting to the asses and you're like, okay, come on,
Speaker 2: here we go. Then you don't hear like no, no,
Speaker 2: and now you are right right, yeah.
Speaker 17: You missed it, like because we were finish town and
Speaker 17: they were all on the hes and you're like, Harrison,
Speaker 17: oh gosh, I missed. I gotta listen all so another
Speaker 17: twenty minutes goes by.
Speaker 14: That's how it was.
Speaker 16: You listen for it. Now it's just you get a text.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get Yeah, I got a text that like
Speaker 2: you know, five thirty am. And then a call and
Speaker 2: then another call and it's.
Speaker 16: Just like yeah, at some point, do you yell I know, I.
Speaker 2: Know I understand this, Tanya.
Speaker 3: Do you in the newsroom do you guys get blown
Speaker 3: up by still a lot of calls even though it
Speaker 3: is it's a lot of texts, and you do do
Speaker 3: you do the ticker and you are.
Speaker 2: There still people calling like hey is my school out?
Speaker 15: There?
Speaker 2: Is my kids school out tomorrow? Do people do that?
Speaker 16: You know? I don't know if that is the kind
Speaker 16: of call we get.
Speaker 15: It.
Speaker 17: Kind of call we get is like, oh, you don't
Speaker 17: have us exactly correct or something like that, you know,
Speaker 17: like can you.
Speaker 16: Make sure this?
Speaker 17: Or we get a lot of calls from and I
Speaker 17: get it like small businesses saying can you list you know,
Speaker 17: the ABC School of Dance, I'm just making this up?
Speaker 17: Is canceling it and we're like, we can't put everything up.
Speaker 17: So we tried, you know what I mean, But we
Speaker 17: try to as many as we can, and then like
Speaker 17: on air, we'll say like, look, most everything shut down,
Speaker 17: so call.
Speaker 16: Before you'd get in the car and go to your
Speaker 16: dance class or whatever it is.
Speaker 17: So but it is you know, as you know from
Speaker 17: being in a newsroom, it used to be insane amount
Speaker 17: of phone calls and he'd say, well, we have it
Speaker 17: on area right now, just tune in you'll see it.
Speaker 17: Or we would check for people all the time. But
Speaker 17: it was it was kind of crazy. But I don't
Speaker 17: feel like we get those calls as much anymore because
Speaker 17: it's just too technologically, you know, advance.
Speaker 16: Now I think everything is and isn't that better?
Speaker 17: I mean, you know, I I'm waxing poetic about the
Speaker 17: days when we start to weight up and listen to
Speaker 17: the radio.
Speaker 16: But wouldn't it be better to just get your text.
Speaker 2: And be like it's easier. Yeah, I guess of course
Speaker 2: we are, all, you know, just reliving the glory days
Speaker 2: when we were kids.
Speaker 16: But well I had to go to school. It was
Speaker 16: just terrible, right, just terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess we're going to get a little more
Speaker 2: maybe Wednesday. But I don't think it's gonna be too bad,
Speaker 2: so hopefully. Uh No, I.
Speaker 16: Think i'd be okay, it's just might be cold. I
Speaker 16: get into the twenties and.
Speaker 2: Team canceled school temperature weather day.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting. All right, well Tan you listen. We appreciate your
Speaker 2: time as always on Tuesdays, and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 16: Okay, guys, have a good one.
Speaker 2: Bye, Well we'll see you. And now, dude loving to death.
Speaker 2: But seg didn't didn't come in. He did, he worked
Speaker 2: from home today, but he is.
Speaker 15: He is.
Speaker 2: Report he has earned the right right because he's been
Speaker 2: here a long long time. But if there is one
Speaker 2: morsels snow, he is not coming in. That's just take
Speaker 2: it or leave it. That's how it goes.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, dude, I became I lived in, like I said,
Speaker 3: in Minnesota for three years writing for the Saint Paul Paper.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget two things. I was in the news first,
Speaker 3: the first five I went there. I moved there in
Speaker 3: the spring of what five, I think four. So then
Speaker 3: I'm in the newsroom and at that point there's still
Speaker 3: a lot of old newspaper guys and there, crusty old
Speaker 3: like dude, the other stereotypical a.
Speaker 2: So whatever it was.
Speaker 3: It was maybe this October and like I look out
Speaker 3: the window and like it's just snowing like crazy, and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, well it h oh it will
Speaker 3: it stick? And this guy goes, it's everything sticks here, dude.
Speaker 3: And then like the next the next time, like there
Speaker 3: was this massive snow when I was at home. I
Speaker 3: walked out of my apartment. There were I'm not kidding you,
Speaker 3: there were more people out than there were when it
Speaker 3: was you know, seventy two and sunny a couple months earlier.
Speaker 3: It wasn't. I mean, they love it there. They know
Speaker 3: how to clean the streets there too. First and only
Speaker 3: time I've ever seen people wear actually literally snow shoes
Speaker 3: just walking around.
Speaker 2: Walking around Yeah, No, Minnesota. I I think for the
Speaker 2: most part people here know how to deal with that.
Speaker 2: And if you don't, you should, like we get enough
Speaker 2: snow where this isn't like some foreign subst It's like
Speaker 2: when I lived in Nashville, it would snow like every
Speaker 2: couple of years, and then people would freak out, and
Speaker 2: rightfully so. But yeah, Minnesota, buddy, it's cold and snows
Speaker 2: a lot up there. You better be ready. Yes, let's
Speaker 2: go in Jeck some traffordan weather.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: o'clock news, we have Ron Glasgal gonna join us. He's
Speaker 2: a financial strategist talking about how you know, younger people
Speaker 2: anymore aren't even you know, looking to try to buy
Speaker 2: a home. It's they're putting their money in the stock market.
Speaker 2: Is that a good thing? Is that? I think it's
Speaker 2: bit's interesting. So we're going to talk about it with him.
Speaker 2: But have a couple of minutes here, Jason, I wanted
Speaker 2: to give a shout out to my boy, my dog Elvis. Okay,
Speaker 2: and this is unbelievable. If you follow me on social
Speaker 2: at Rocky Boyman fifty and at Rocky Boyman in ESPN
Speaker 2: on Instagram. Sixteen years old. Wow, a Golden Retriever is
Speaker 2: sixteen years old. I mean, he just keeps going and
Speaker 2: he is I'd say he's close to the end. But
Speaker 2: I thought, me and my wife thought he's close to
Speaker 2: the end for three years. Yep, you know, and he
Speaker 2: he you know, he doesn't move around hardly at all,
Speaker 2: but you know he does enough. And he's he's mostly blind,
Speaker 2: mostly deaf, but he still hang out, hangs out and
Speaker 2: does okay, and you take him for a walk and
Speaker 2: walk around a little bit. So, uh, I mean, a
Speaker 2: true miracle dog, A true miracle dog. I I again,
Speaker 2: I posted a picture of him today on his sixteenth birthday.
Speaker 2: I look back through my pictures and it's like last
Speaker 2: year and the year before and the year before and
Speaker 2: the year before I have a picture with him. Think
Speaker 2: that the last. Yeah, I'm like, no, this might be
Speaker 2: the last picture I take with Elvis. And here we are,
Speaker 2: like four years later. I mean, a truly miracle dog
Speaker 2: heading down to the BMV to get his license. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah, that's it. Wow about birthday. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: just to put in perspective, I got him right after
Speaker 2: I retired I and so I played my last game
Speaker 2: January first of twenty ten, and I got him like
Speaker 2: two weeks later. So I always always backtrack his birth
Speaker 2: because usually pick up a puppy at like what six seven,
Speaker 2: between six and eight weeks, so I was that day.
Speaker 2: His birthdays around December first, right, so that's when we
Speaker 2: always celebrate it. So he is like my last connection
Speaker 2: to life before I knew my wife and kids yep,
Speaker 2: which is pretty cool. And he, I dud was there
Speaker 2: for me when you know you're making the transition and
Speaker 2: things ain't going that great and.
Speaker 3: Uh my boy, i'd kind of dog like a dog
Speaker 3: that got me through. And you know, I had him
Speaker 3: before wife, two kids, and yeah, we put him down
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. But Chocolate Lab who's twelve and so
Speaker 3: I can relate that, you know that was got you
Speaker 3: some times there.
Speaker 2: You know it's just you and him. It's no doubt. Well,
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Speaker 13: Talking money. The full rollback this year means just partial
Speaker 13: next year. With the four o'clock report, I'm Jack Crumley
Speaker 13: breaking now. Hamilton County commissioners met today finalizing the decision
Speaker 13: about how much of a property tax rollback or PTR
Speaker 13: homeowners are going to get next year in the deal
Speaker 13: that pays for the Stadium's County administrator, Jeffaludo, we would.
Speaker 21: Prefer to recommend a full PTR every single year. However,
Speaker 21: our primary concern has been ensuring that the county's general fine,
Speaker 21: which pays for sheriff's deputies, election workers and I'm one
Speaker 21: one operators, does not ultimately need to support the operations
Speaker 21: of Paper Stadium or Great American Baulpark, especially when the
Speaker 21: general fund is as strained as it is.
Speaker 13: He says, because the full rollback of thirty percent was
Speaker 13: given this past year, the reserves and the fund are
Speaker 13: now under fifty percent. To get them back up. Aludo
Speaker 13: says four and a half percent is all he can recommend.
Speaker 22: Commissioner Alisha resee, if you're fighting for the Bengals to
Speaker 22: keep their commitment, I'm fighting for the taxpayers to keep
Speaker 22: their commitment. It was irresponsible to give a commitment to
Speaker 22: the homeowners that it was an irresponsible commitment.
Speaker 2: To give to the stadium.
Speaker 13: She's now introduced a county wide petition for people to
Speaker 13: voice their support for the full rollback if that's what
Speaker 13: they support, though Reese hasn't said how both the stadium
Speaker 13: fund and the full rollback would be paid for. The
Speaker 13: other two commissioners voted in favor of giving back four
Speaker 13: and a half percent next year, with hopes of more
Speaker 13: in years to come. Reese will be Scott Sloan's guests
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Speaker 2: Jason Williams and Jason for the longest time in America.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the first things, especially a young couple,
Speaker 2: a young person would try to do as they were
Speaker 2: entering into adulthood was wanted to get a house. And
Speaker 2: that was kind of your next bag, you know, that
Speaker 2: was you put some equity into it, and you improved it,
Speaker 2: and then somewhere down the line you'd be able to
Speaker 2: sell that and make a little bit of more money
Speaker 2: and then they'd buy a bigger house or a different house.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't seem the case to be the case
Speaker 2: anymore for a lot of reasons. And uh, I'm reading
Speaker 2: a lot about how younger folks gen zers are foregoing
Speaker 2: home and ownership to invest in the stock market. On
Speaker 2: one hand, the stock market's been on fire for the
Speaker 2: most part, but it's also very volatile. So is this
Speaker 2: a good strategy or not? And join us right now.
Speaker 2: We're pleased to be joined by Ron Glass guy. He's
Speaker 2: a financial strategist. He knows all about such things. Ron,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. How are you?
Speaker 6: I do great? Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, so first question, navigate the big one here.
Speaker 2: Is this a trend that you would recommend to people
Speaker 2: put off home ownership and instead just throw your money
Speaker 2: in the stock market and see what happens.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 15: No, I mean the number one, everyone's different. Everyone has
Speaker 15: to write to do whatever they want with their money.
Speaker 15: So if someone wants to rent that invests, then then
Speaker 15: you know, I can make a case that that supruval
Speaker 15: are that makes sense for that particular person. But the
Speaker 15: thing that kind of concerns me about this is it
Speaker 15: looks like a lot of the gens years are getting
Speaker 15: going back to this sort.
Speaker 6: Of a day trading mentality.
Speaker 15: So I started my career at two thousand and one
Speaker 15: right at the very tail end of the tech wreck.
Speaker 15: If you remember that, and you know, it was devastating,
Speaker 15: and you know, people everyone thought that stocks just couldn't
Speaker 15: go down, particularly tech stocks, and everyone quit their jobs
Speaker 15: or day trading, and you know.
Speaker 6: Those things typically come to an end.
Speaker 15: So that concerned me a lot more is how they're investing.
Speaker 15: More than that they're investing versus buying home.
Speaker 3: And again, on the surface here I'm a novice on
Speaker 3: this stuff. But it's so you're gonna put money in
Speaker 3: the stock market as a gen zer, but you're not
Speaker 3: gonna buy a house, but you're gonna pour basically probably
Speaker 3: more money into rent. Right, it doesn't the math doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to at the end of the day, right work
Speaker 3: out long term for you.
Speaker 26: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Well, I mean how many twenty five year old kids
Speaker 15: plot out a self spreadsheet on.
Speaker 6: You know, the pros and cons of investing money? Right?
Speaker 6: You know I certainly didn't. So that's part of me.
Speaker 15: But another big piece of it, I think it's two fold.
Speaker 15: I think one, the cide MARKT has been on this
Speaker 15: terrific bowl run forever.
Speaker 6: It is led by the.
Speaker 15: Magnus at seven, and that generation really identified to those
Speaker 15: stocks in those companies. Also, it's very easy to invest.
Speaker 15: You know, when I opened my first investment town, I
Speaker 15: had to call make an appointment, go in see the
Speaker 15: guy open you know, thought the forums. Now you can
Speaker 15: literally do it on your phone in a few minutes
Speaker 15: and you're trading away. So I think that's one half
Speaker 15: of it. The other half is that real estate is
Speaker 15: getting out of control. You know, I moved from the
Speaker 15: Midwest originally very modest real estate, moved to Dallas.
Speaker 6: Area about eight years ago.
Speaker 15: And even here at that time, you know, Dallas was
Speaker 15: known as a moodus.
Speaker 6: Real estate market.
Speaker 15: Now it's it's gotten very expensive. So if you're twenty
Speaker 15: five thirty years old, you know, and your house is
Speaker 15: half a million dollars, that's part of about with one
Speaker 15: hundred grand for that twenty percent that payment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you nailed it right there. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, twenty years ago you could buy
Speaker 2: a very nice house in the Midwest one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty grand, brand new and had all kinds and I
Speaker 2: mean all kinds of features anything like that. And those
Speaker 2: days are are completely over on that point right there. Ron,
Speaker 2: Do you see housing prices going down at all or what?
Speaker 27: What?
Speaker 2: What's going to cause that to happen? Because I feel
Speaker 2: like it certainly needs to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you know it.
Speaker 15: Is sort of you're talking sort of longer term or
Speaker 15: shorter terms. So here in Texas we were in just
Speaker 15: the most booming of real estate markets. Tons of tons
Speaker 15: of people are moving down here as you know.
Speaker 6: The market was just crazy. Well that has called out
Speaker 6: quite a bit.
Speaker 15: It's it's pretty lean. I think it's a lot more
Speaker 15: lean than the media sort of let on kind of
Speaker 15: they want to protect it, and you know, everyone wants
Speaker 15: to beat their.
Speaker 6: Home prices up. But you know, I know a lot.
Speaker 15: Of realtors things have been extremely slow. Some people haven't
Speaker 15: even been getting a deal or maybe one deal a
Speaker 15: whole year. So houses are just sitting a lot longer.
Speaker 15: But that goes all on. Prices will come down. So
Speaker 15: but I think that's very much sort of a short
Speaker 15: term trend. And to find short term how you will
Speaker 15: one year, two year, or three years whatever. But over
Speaker 15: the long term, howsing is just going to continue to
Speaker 15: get more and more expensive. And a big reason for
Speaker 15: that is, you know, people in my industry and financial
Speaker 15: services have largely invested in commercial real estate historically, and.
Speaker 6: Now that's that's gone. Now they're going in and buying
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 15: Huge tracks and building residential homes and investment properties, and
Speaker 15: that sort of sets an artificial price that just is.
Speaker 6: It what it would be if it was the old
Speaker 6: way of the Bear Country.
Speaker 3: Well, and along those lines too, is you hear about
Speaker 3: a housing shortage?
Speaker 2: Number one? Is that? Is that really true?
Speaker 3: And number two, if it is, like, is that what's
Speaker 3: driving the cost of houses up higher? And is that
Speaker 3: what's keeping some of these gen zers away?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's all with real estate especially,
Speaker 15: it's always the location and the market. You know, for example,
Speaker 15: everybody said, you know, office was.
Speaker 6: Dead coming out of Covid.
Speaker 15: Well, if you look at Frisco, which is a suburb
Speaker 15: of north of Dallas, I think they're on pace in
Speaker 15: the next six or seven years. They have more office
Speaker 15: space than downtown Dallas has, which is insane to me.
Speaker 6: So location does matter.
Speaker 15: But you know it's the millennials, I think, you know,
Speaker 15: it's a combination of not having the down payment, it's
Speaker 15: you know, both of them sort of live in more
Speaker 15: major metros, you know, downtown versus the suburbs.
Speaker 6: They're younger, so you.
Speaker 15: Know it's kind of hard to buy to some of
Speaker 15: those hiring condos and maybe you don't want to be
Speaker 15: there forever. You just want to be there a couple
Speaker 15: of years. But then I think, you know, people read
Speaker 15: the headlines. You know, the interest rates just kicked up
Speaker 15: quite a bit. It was very unreasonable that I had
Speaker 15: a mortgage at three point one eight at one point.
Speaker 15: It's very normal that I have a mortgage at five
Speaker 15: of the quarter, although it's still stinks.
Speaker 6: I would much whether it be in my old grade.
Speaker 15: But you know, I remember, I want to say, my
Speaker 15: dad bought our house in eighty one for like eighteen
Speaker 15: percent interest. So these things do go up and down.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Ron Glasgow is our guest. He has a Glasgow
Speaker 2: Investment Solutions, He's a financial strategy and Ron, let me
Speaker 2: let me switch gears all this topic because I saw
Speaker 2: this and I thought it was amazing. I love your thoughts.
Speaker 2: So everything I hear, and frankly I believe is that
Speaker 2: you know, there's it's a tough economy right now. I mean,
Speaker 2: certainly go to the grocery store and things cost a
Speaker 2: lot more than they than they used to. But but
Speaker 2: then I see this Ron Black Friday, all right, Black
Speaker 2: Friday consumers spent eleven point eight billion dollars online, up
Speaker 2: nine percent from last year and then Cyber Monday, which
Speaker 2: would be this Monday or was that?
Speaker 6: Was that a couple of days?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, they spent fourteen point two billion
Speaker 2: dollars in one day. So what is it? Are we
Speaker 2: going to struggling economy ron or and and or do
Speaker 2: people have money to burn?
Speaker 15: What is it? Yeah, you know, it's something to figure out.
Speaker 15: I actually did a radio show last week and the
Speaker 15: study said that people are going to spend less money
Speaker 15: between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 15: There was a several.
Speaker 6: Articles about it. Yeah they were wrong.
Speaker 15: I think I think people feel the pain or see
Speaker 15: the pain that they haven't felt it yet.
Speaker 6: That's not everybody. Some people had.
Speaker 15: But you know, I notice it too when I when
Speaker 15: I it's just me and my wife, we don't have kids,
Speaker 15: and we go to the store. I've never noticed the
Speaker 15: price of groceries. Have to sound snobby, I just you know,
Speaker 15: the only two of us. Now, it's it's mind bigling
Speaker 15: to me how much things cost. And I always go
Speaker 15: back to sort of remember that that goody jingle, A
Speaker 15: five dollars five dollars foot long on the subway. Yeah,
Speaker 15: I mean I don't know how much that how long
Speaker 15: ago that was, but.
Speaker 6: I just had to have my oil change.
Speaker 15: So I stopped at the subway for the first time
Speaker 15: in a long time, and the cheapest sub on the
Speaker 15: menu was a Vengeance out of ten dollars and twenty cents.
Speaker 15: So I can't remember exactly when that jingle stopped, but
Speaker 15: I know nobody's incomes doubled at that.
Speaker 6: Time, and that's the problem.
Speaker 15: But credit is very loose right now too, and so
Speaker 15: that's that's the real problem that people are just barming.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, that's good. What is going to bring
Speaker 2: prices down?
Speaker 6: Ron?
Speaker 2: I hate to say it. Is it a recession? Does
Speaker 2: this thing have to kind of blow up a little
Speaker 2: bit in order for things to reset a little bit?
Speaker 2: I mean, no one once that, But is that the
Speaker 2: thing that's going to get prices back under control?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I don't think prices ever get under control.
Speaker 6: You know, I did one.
Speaker 15: I did a media spot and that day in place
Speaker 15: you came in, it's three percent.
Speaker 6: It's got a three.
Speaker 15: Point one and the mark is hit it all time
Speaker 15: of high. It's in ridiculous if we nobody cares about
Speaker 15: that except heads like me. Right, So three percent, three
Speaker 15: point one.
Speaker 6: That doesn't matter to anyone.
Speaker 15: It's because you've had this massive run up and now
Speaker 15: it's under control, but you've already heard tug control on
Speaker 15: top of that run up, so people are gonna hurt.
Speaker 15: I don't see prices coming down significantly, especially with some
Speaker 15: of the tariff news. I think that could be beneficial
Speaker 15: long term to pining on the strategy, but the short
Speaker 15: term that's that's gonna certainly pitch a little bit too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you alluded to it there, And this is kind
Speaker 3: of as we talk about this, like it makes me
Speaker 3: wonder if people just, hey, are they Are they just
Speaker 3: willing to go in debt more nowadays, or be they're
Speaker 3: just willing to not save as much moneys now like you're.
Speaker 2: Going in debt and now it's like everybody is so
Speaker 2: big deal god question.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I mean even in my career, you know, starting in
Speaker 15: two thousand and one, I've seen a massive shift.
Speaker 6: On the thoughts on debt.
Speaker 15: Feel a lot of people just.
Speaker 6: Have it, you know, they do. Another thing is sometimes.
Speaker 15: People are taking money out that they earned. Real estate
Speaker 15: has been a huge boom, you know for years and years,
Speaker 15: So if people have their own home or they take
Speaker 15: a whole equity line or if they have the rental properties,
Speaker 15: certainly there's money there that they can access. And the
Speaker 15: stock market as well. I mean, basically everything is at
Speaker 15: an all time high, which makes it very difficult for
Speaker 15: someone like me. It's hard to know what to put
Speaker 15: people in interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, Ron, listen, we appreciate your time. Ron Glasgow. He's
Speaker 2: the head of Glasgow Investment Solutions. If folks want to
Speaker 2: find out more about you, Ron, where can they go?
Speaker 15: Yeah, this to my website use placed Glasgow Investments dot com.
Speaker 15: That's Glasgow like the City of Scotland Investments dot com.
Speaker 2: Ron has been great, Thank you, I thank you, guys,
Speaker 2: appreciate thank you. Ye Mosiah all it was good stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I because I saw the same thing. All
Speaker 2: spendings going to be down this year and the amount
Speaker 2: of deals they're offering aren't as good as they've been
Speaker 2: in years past and break records.
Speaker 3: Oh and then last week, last wild week, Yeah you you,
Speaker 3: they were lined up on the highway right outside here
Speaker 3: to get into to go to Kenwood Town Center. I
Speaker 3: mean the traffic was backed up on seventy one at
Speaker 3: the exits. Yea to just go to ken like I
Speaker 3: heard there was a clip on like Jack Crumley had it.
Speaker 3: A guy who's saying, I've been coming this mall for
Speaker 3: years and never seen it this this busy ye wild.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Jack Crumley, he just passed me a note
Speaker 2: here a bit ago. I guess there's gonna be some
Speaker 2: intermittent closures of some highways here. So at approximately four
Speaker 2: thirty pm today, which is right now, Across County Highway
Speaker 2: will be closed in both directions between US forty two,
Speaker 2: which is Raiding Road and East Galberth Road for up
Speaker 2: to fifteen minutes while cruise supporting. And I guess an
Speaker 2: upright and existing pole that was there, So again rond
Speaker 2: Reagan Cross County Highway both direcon directions from US forty
Speaker 2: two Reign Road and East Galberth for up to fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 2: about a twenty minute slowdown right now. Seventy five southbound
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Speaker 2: Van Habrit of the tree tops of an Oak grove
Speaker 2: on campus to protest the university's plans to demolish over
Speaker 2: an acre of forest to build a new athletics center,
Speaker 2: kicking off an epic twenty one month standoff. One of
Speaker 2: the longest tree sit ins in history lasted six hundred
Speaker 2: and forty nine days. What year was that, two thousand
Speaker 2: and six? You know, of course, tree sit ins are
Speaker 2: a form of civil disobedience. At his peak, the Berkeley
Speaker 2: protests saw over a dozen people on limbs of the
Speaker 2: groves oak and redwood trees. Volunteers and others would bring
Speaker 2: them food, water, and supplies. In addition to the tree sitters,
Speaker 2: the university face pushback from the Sierra Club in the
Speaker 2: California Native Plant Society. That's the thing about California. There's
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Speaker 2: According to one conservation analyst, the grove provided sustenance for
Speaker 2: over three hundred animal species, what like squirrels and rabbits
Speaker 2: and birds. A two thousand and seven, injunction by the
Speaker 2: Almeada County Judge paused plans to cut down the grove,
Speaker 2: but in July two thousand and eight, the court ruled
Speaker 2: in the university's favor, using police to begin arresting protesters
Speaker 2: to clean out these encampments.
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Speaker 2: of two thousand and eight refused to block construction that
Speaker 2: allowed the university to cut down the entire grove in
Speaker 2: the following three days. Within a week, the remaining four
Speaker 2: tree sitters were coached into climbing down and they were
Speaker 2: subsequently arrested. Finally, they gave it hell. You know what
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Speaker 2: a what an effort tree. I like the wild Man's
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Speaker 31: Emergency Utility working pacting rush hour traffic on Reagan. But
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Speaker 31: Oh NOD says to expect short term intermittent full closures
Speaker 31: along Ronald Breaking Cross County Highway this afternoon and evening
Speaker 31: while DOUK Energy performs the emergency repairs to a utility
Speaker 31: poll in lines. Right now, Ronald Reagan is closed both
Speaker 31: ways between Reading Road and East Galbert for fifteen minutes
Speaker 31: as they fix the existing poll. Then at seven o'clock
Speaker 31: this evening, there will be three short term closures about
Speaker 31: the fifteen minutes in both directions for CRUIS to transfer
Speaker 31: power lines over the highway. Motorists are encouraged to take
Speaker 31: alternate routes during these short term closures. Earlier today, Hamilton
Speaker 31: County Commissioners are proving up four and a half percent
Speaker 31: property tax rollback for twenty twenty six. Commission President Dinis Treehouse.
Speaker 32: We did thirty percent last year, and so now we're
Speaker 32: in a position to do less this year because we
Speaker 32: simply can't afford to bankrupt this fund, and so this
Speaker 32: four point five is very conservative. I would admit I
Speaker 32: am hopeful that if we were to pass that this year,
Speaker 32: we put ourselves in a position where we can once
Speaker 32: again gradually in reese the PTR.
Speaker 31: The fund that is used for maintenance on Great American
Speaker 31: Ballpark and pay Course. City was said to be now
Speaker 31: under fifty percent at least. J reesed the loane no
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Speaker 31: We will see a mostly cloudy sky tonight to low
Speaker 31: down to twenty mostly sunny Wednesday highs in the mid thirties,
Speaker 31: partly sunny Thursday high of thirty one, cloudy and currently
Speaker 31: twenty nine degrees. News Service Upplot Center. The tri State
Speaker 31: seen a new daily record snowfall CVG, reporting four point
Speaker 31: two inches of snow fell overnight, which passes the previous
Speaker 31: record of two point two inches set on this day
Speaker 31: in nineteen twenty nine. The City of Cincinnati scene its
Speaker 31: new snow removal plan put into action. Mark Bridley, who
Speaker 31: was hired to head up the city's public services department,
Speaker 31: said weather stations have been established in every neighborhood to
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Speaker 31: when he was eighteen years old. Ohio U S Senator
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Speaker 2: We love a good weather story. Yes, we're get your
Speaker 2: thoughts on your stories on the worst weather you ever seen,
Speaker 2: but that'll be five o'clock. I did see this during
Speaker 2: the break here, Jason. President Trump has just announced quarany
Speaker 2: ud quote no more Somalions in the United States. He's done.
Speaker 2: Their country stinks, they contribute nothing quote unquote. I don't
Speaker 2: want them. Some say it's not politically correct. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't want them in our country. Their country is
Speaker 2: no good for a reason. Understanding Simulions ripped off Minnesota
Speaker 2: for billions of dollars. The welfare is like eighty eight percent,
Speaker 2: and you have some stats on that as well. How's
Speaker 2: how you really feel, President Trump.
Speaker 3: I think this is probably in the wake of the
Speaker 3: cabinet meeting today which Homeland Security Secretary Homeland Security Secretary
Speaker 3: of Christy Nome revealed in that cabinet meeting with President
Speaker 3: Trump that half of all Minnesotans have submitted fraudulent visa applications.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a typo or in the
Speaker 3: New York Post story or half of all folks who
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's half of all Somali of it,
Speaker 3: because it seems like that's a lot like half of
Speaker 3: everyone who lives in Minnesota. Anyway, that's what the story says,
Speaker 3: quote from Nome, quote, you told me to look into
Speaker 3: Minnesota and they're fraud on visas in their programs. Fifty
Speaker 3: percent of them are fraudulent, which means that wacko governor
Speaker 3: Walls either as an idiot or he did it on purpose,
Speaker 3: and I think he's both. Sir Nooam told the President
Speaker 3: and other cabinet members, he brought people in there illegally
Speaker 3: that never should have been in this country. Said they
Speaker 3: were somebody that they're not. They said they were married
Speaker 3: to somebody who was their brother or somebody else, Nome said.
Speaker 3: And then the story said that was a possible reference
Speaker 3: to accusations against the representative elon Omar squad member as
Speaker 3: we as well, well, who's a representative there in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's a big what they call it,
Speaker 2: little mogadishue there in Minnesota. And this is all statistics
Speaker 2: and fact based, and you can't deny it. I mean
Speaker 2: enormously high unemployment rates there, okay, and it's long been
Speaker 2: a hot spot for like terroristic recruitment and things like that.
Speaker 2: And it's a community that has zero desire to assimilate
Speaker 2: into American culture, zero none. They don't want to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, learn the American way and learn the American
Speaker 2: And that's always been my biggest problem. Has nothing to
Speaker 2: new with skin color or anything like that, but if
Speaker 2: you come to this country, you should assimilate what it
Speaker 2: is to be American in the American tradition and the
Speaker 2: things that we do here and holidays we celebrate and
Speaker 2: things we find important and and all that. I always think, Uh,
Speaker 2: former Governor Honors Horzenegger says the best he goes, you
Speaker 2: got to realize because he's I think, does it the
Speaker 2: right way. He is not obviously a natural American citizen,
Speaker 2: but he says, look, if you were coming here, you're
Speaker 2: an immigrant. You are a guest. You're a guest in
Speaker 2: someone's house. So if I invite you into my home,
Speaker 2: or if someone comes in your home, they're expected to
Speaker 2: kind of go with the flow. Yep, Right, you don't
Speaker 2: walk in that into my house or your house or
Speaker 2: anybody's house and started saying, well, I don't like the
Speaker 2: couch over there, And I understand why you have that
Speaker 2: picture on the wall, and I understand why you guys
Speaker 2: are eating dinner at steven whoa, whoa, whoa. You're a
Speaker 2: guest here, you kind of just go along with the
Speaker 2: flow and you assimilate into how we're doing things here.
Speaker 2: That's always been been my thing. And I don't want
Speaker 2: any immigrant in here that doesn't want to assimilate into
Speaker 2: American culture.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the beauty of America is that we are.
Speaker 3: We are a country of immigrants in our generations of
Speaker 3: your family, my family, most people's family, you know, us
Speaker 3: from another country that can't be a taker.
Speaker 2: My grandparents weren't.
Speaker 15: Correct.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of these folks, you know, they're they're takers.
Speaker 2: They take and they don't want to assimilate in.
Speaker 3: And that problem that that right, And then if you
Speaker 3: throw on top of that that it's you know, you've
Speaker 3: and again this is the accusation against Walls, who I
Speaker 3: tend to think is not a good politician, and and
Speaker 3: who knows that you know, certainly some of this is
Speaker 3: political bluster and hyperbole.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 3: Like right where where is the I think the challenge
Speaker 3: with this is that you know you're you're abroad here.
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't you didn't come here illegally necessary
Speaker 3: obviously through the you know you you jut you went
Speaker 3: through the border. You came here as part of a
Speaker 3: program of that some politicians set up to eventually, you know,
Speaker 3: have have a community of folks from some country, uh,
Speaker 3: whatever country that is. And but then you wonder like
Speaker 3: where where where's the then process of becoming uh you
Speaker 3: know the way you said assimilating into America, like American culture,
Speaker 3: you know, just learning you know, civic I guess basic
Speaker 3: one on one civics, which is an individual to America.
Speaker 3: You go through all those those courses that and again
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know, I'm not I don't know
Speaker 3: this well enough to know, like in terms of like
Speaker 3: when you bring is it refuge, Like I don't even
Speaker 3: know the whole story of this, Like the Somalians that
Speaker 3: went to Minnesota, like where you did were there then
Speaker 3: a whole was there a whole citizenship process when folks
Speaker 3: and again that there are other countries, when pockets around
Speaker 3: the country where people are from a certain country, whether
Speaker 3: you know they'll come to an area or neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Are they are there programs there's Italian parts of town
Speaker 2: and general ruts down and you can still celebrate your country.
Speaker 2: Are their programs?
Speaker 3: But are their programs in terms of American citizenship programs?
Speaker 2: Like there may be programs where they have no desire
Speaker 2: to to actually you know, partaken the like for real,
Speaker 2: and maybe you go through it, Okay, you read the paper. Sure, fine, right,
Speaker 2: there's no effort at all whatsoever, no effort to do
Speaker 2: assimilate and and then there's no desire to be a
Speaker 2: productive member of society. I mean, the welfare rates there
Speaker 2: and the amount of you know, the money that is
Speaker 2: spent and spent and spent and spent is crazy. And
Speaker 2: that's money that could be spent on people and hard
Speaker 2: times that are here in America that want to be
Speaker 2: a part of the you know, but a neat little
Speaker 2: hand up. I don't think anybody has any problem with that.
Speaker 3: And you think about I don't know, again, I don't
Speaker 3: know the statistics or whatever, but I assume there are
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of people probably throughout the course of
Speaker 3: a year, if not a week or whatever, they were
Speaker 3: looking to come to this country legally and you know,
Speaker 3: either via a legal visa or become a legal citizen,
Speaker 3: you know, And so how's that fair to those folks
Speaker 3: and again from all over the world trying to come
Speaker 3: here and want to go through the process of trying
Speaker 3: to be just like you know whatever. You know, folks
Speaker 3: that came to Ellis Island and became you know, went
Speaker 3: through all the processes of doing that.
Speaker 2: There there's but it's also I mean we're talking you know,
Speaker 2: many many.
Speaker 3: Many years we are. But I mean, I think there's
Speaker 3: a different world. But the principle of coming to the
Speaker 3: country a.
Speaker 2: Welfare system when people came over from Ellis Island, you you.
Speaker 3: Had to had to produce or But that's the point.
Speaker 3: That's the point I'm making. Sorry I wasn't clear about it.
Speaker 3: Are those folks who are currently trying to come into
Speaker 3: the country, they're not coming here. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: out on a limb and assume they're not coming here
Speaker 3: to try to live on welfare. They're coming here because
Speaker 3: they they are looking, they know this is a country
Speaker 3: that has jobs or there's a specific I think there's
Speaker 3: I think there's some that that look at it like
Speaker 3: that you talk, the stats would tell you the Simonian population.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about people wanting to come to this country legally.
Speaker 3: They want to go through the process of legally. Okay, yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2: Think they desire to do that and that, and that
Speaker 2: the system gets wrecked by the ones that just want
Speaker 2: to take and have no desire to are those flks
Speaker 2: who want to come here legally. Here here's the thing, Like,
Speaker 2: if you're not from this country, you don't you don't
Speaker 2: value some of the things that that have been a
Speaker 2: part of our like like take the Second Amendment. Whatever
Speaker 2: you feel about the Second Amendment, Like, there's a history
Speaker 2: there of why hey, because you know, a couple hundred
Speaker 2: years ago we had to pick up arms and and
Speaker 2: and and overthrow a tyrannical government. But if you're from
Speaker 2: a country or you never had that where your country
Speaker 2: lived under a king or something forever, you have, no,
Speaker 2: you don't understand what it's like to why that's something
Speaker 2: that people value here.
Speaker 3: But that's what you see if you seek if you
Speaker 3: seek legal citizenship, that's all part of the civics process
Speaker 3: that you go through that you are those are all
Speaker 3: there are courses that you take legal citizens dam but
Speaker 3: then I mean, and then that's when it's determined whether you.
Speaker 2: Show me that you actually crosses are are are actually
Speaker 2: you're considering them and want to do with them and
Speaker 2: follow through with them. I don't I don't think you
Speaker 2: see that with especially in in like these some all
Speaker 2: your communities.
Speaker 3: Well, and then well that's I mean, I think we're
Speaker 3: talking about two separate things because and then what what
Speaker 3: Gnome is saying here is that her claim is that
Speaker 3: a big chunk of half of them, half of the
Speaker 3: visa applications are fraudulent, and so she's now accusing Walls basically,
Speaker 3: you know, faking the whole thing to.
Speaker 2: Just bring people here illegally. Essentially is the vote and
Speaker 2: you know, throw the American system, which is that that's
Speaker 2: a that's a game plan.
Speaker 3: But see, so there's the difference there, and like I feel,
Speaker 3: whether yeah, right or whether you're literally trying to seek
Speaker 3: coming into this country the right way, and you know,
Speaker 3: what are your motives for wanting to come into this
Speaker 3: country the right way?
Speaker 2: Your motives should be when you come to this country
Speaker 2: is I want to be a productive sism. I not
Speaker 2: only want to let my life in my family's life,
Speaker 2: but I also want to lift up this country. That's
Speaker 2: that should be the requirement period.
Speaker 3: I completely agree with you, and I think probably people
Speaker 3: that do seek to come to this country legally, I
Speaker 3: think probably have that motive in my sorry.
Speaker 2: But they get pushed aside for you know, the millions
Speaker 2: and millions of illegal immigrants. I fear up to me like,
Speaker 2: there will just be a total pause on the whole
Speaker 2: deal for a year, and let let's let let's let
Speaker 2: our society absorb and let's let's figure it out and
Speaker 2: we're allocate resources and all that instead of just bringing
Speaker 2: millions and millions a year. And that's what Trump is doing.
Speaker 2: And I applaud yep I apploid. All right, let's go
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Speaker 10: and again Ronald Reagan Highway is going to be effective
Speaker 10: between Writing and gold Breadth as a cruise will upright
Speaker 10: and support the damage utility pole. We'll have some closures
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Speaker 10: have three to fifteen minute approximate fifteen minute closures as
Speaker 10: they transfer the crew the cruise transfer the power lines
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Speaker 2: In the forecast tonight mostly cloudy with a low of
Speaker 2: twenty and then tomorrow mostly sunny with a higher thirty five,
Speaker 2: and then Wednesday night a slight chance of some more
Speaker 2: snow overnight partly cloudy, a low of twenty five. Right
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Speaker 2: Twenty for rower. Let's keep going. I saw this and
Speaker 2: this kind of relates to the topic we discussed to
Speaker 2: open the show at three o'clock, and that was that
Speaker 2: to build a new convention hotel downtown YEP. There's a
Speaker 2: certain district down there that's going to that's being asked
Speaker 2: and going to put on a one percent tax that's
Speaker 2: going to help just going to go directly to help
Speaker 2: pay for this bill seven hundred room Marion. And look,
Speaker 2: I applaud the fact that it's not being forced on them.
Speaker 2: They're they're asking these businesses and I guess they do
Speaker 2: the They think it out and go, well, you know,
Speaker 2: if this thing gets built, this means more foot traffic,
Speaker 2: more people going to come to our our restaurant or
Speaker 2: bar or whatever. It's so fine, yea, I will say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I find that really it's interesting dynamic there. And what
Speaker 2: I would wonder is when that hotel was built, does
Speaker 2: that tax come off those bills or is it any
Speaker 2: they hang on for a little bit longer? You know
Speaker 2: the answer that right exactly. That's I guess my issue.
Speaker 2: But uh, here's I talk about this one though. This
Speaker 2: is in Chicago, which is dead broke, right they uh,
Speaker 2: Chicago facing roughly one point one five billion dollar projected
Speaker 2: shortfall for this upcoming yearash, so you're a billion dollars
Speaker 2: shortfall for their city in twenty twenty six. How do
Speaker 2: you keep electing the same folks if you're in the
Speaker 2: hole that big.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 2: I mean again, that's where polical question it. Apparently there
Speaker 2: hasn't been enough paid. Apparently there needs to be more
Speaker 2: because people just works it the same way.
Speaker 15: Um.
Speaker 2: So you know, Governor Johnson ther he proposed a sixteen
Speaker 2: point six billion dollar budget to close the shortfall by
Speaker 2: a significant aspect of his plan and proposed twenty one
Speaker 2: dollars monthly tax per employees for companies with one hundred
Speaker 2: or more workers. That was, thank god, struck down by
Speaker 2: the Finance Committee over concerns that would you know, drive
Speaker 2: corporations out of the city.
Speaker 3: So they won the So there there, you worked in
Speaker 3: a in a company in Chicago. You were, you were?
Speaker 3: He wanted to tax an extra twenty one dollars one
Speaker 3: hundred more workers. Then that's an extra twenty one bucks
Speaker 3: a month per employee.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah. So but that again that got
Speaker 2: shot down. So but again they're trying to trying to
Speaker 2: bridge a gap of one point one five billion. Okay,
Speaker 2: so it's a pretty tall order and fifty two dollars
Speaker 2: a year right there, or for one employee. Here's with
Speaker 2: somebody a council member Alderman Gilbert Vilagas proposed an initiative
Speaker 2: that would potentially charge residents a dollar twenty five for
Speaker 2: every package delivered. So Amazon pulls up your door and
Speaker 2: delivers a package that you bought a dollar and twenty
Speaker 2: five cent tax on it? What? Yeah?
Speaker 4: For Like.
Speaker 3: Where does that even come? Like where would you even
Speaker 3: come up with that idea? Like what would be the
Speaker 3: extra charge for animal? Because they need it and they
Speaker 3: don't have it? But it makes no sense, Like it
Speaker 3: doesn't right of course it doesn't. Like what what does
Speaker 3: it cost for the Amazon which pulls up to my
Speaker 3: house way too often?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For the Amazon on tin bucks a day? Yeah,
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 3: Amazon to literally pull up in front of your house
Speaker 3: in there most of the time at they're an electric van.
Speaker 3: I don't think that even matters. And lady or the
Speaker 3: guy get out come up to my porch either. If
Speaker 3: I'm there, they hand it to me. If not, they
Speaker 3: just set it on the front of the door. Like
Speaker 3: what what's the expense in that? They're not They just
Speaker 3: need the money and they don't have any other ways.
Speaker 3: And they know that everybody orders packages, everybody gets things
Speaker 3: delivered to their house anymore.
Speaker 2: So this is the way that I get it brutal.
Speaker 2: It got shot down or got rejected, as you say,
Speaker 2: and folks are claiming it would need state approval to implement,
Speaker 2: but the guy who introduced it says that it does
Speaker 2: not need state approval. Other things that they've put in
Speaker 2: place along with they have a grocery delivery fee, another
Speaker 2: fee on top of the grocery fee, okay, that goes
Speaker 2: directly to the city. A group of suggested nearly doubling
Speaker 2: the city's garbage collection fee, which has been nine to
Speaker 2: fifty per month since it was implemented in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: So they would take that thing up to nineteen bucks
Speaker 2: to get your garbage collected. Okay. So now again all
Speaker 2: this so you got that, you got that, You got
Speaker 2: the proposal of a dollar and twenty five cent uh
Speaker 2: charge for every package delivered. This is just months after
Speaker 2: the city dropped nearly six hundred and forty million dollars
Speaker 2: on illegal immigrants. I mean, if you live there, you
Speaker 2: can go huh what right? The pushback on this is
Speaker 2: you would think would be incredible, But again, these same
Speaker 2: people get elected. I just crime there. I mean, where
Speaker 2: is the benefit, Where's the benefit of living in Chicago
Speaker 2: and no. Look, if you're wealthy and you got a
Speaker 2: two million dollar penhouse you know somewhere there, you know,
Speaker 2: in Lincoln Parkers, Okay, whatever, fine, perfect, that's great. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna none of this affects you, right, and even
Speaker 2: a package fee wouldnt affect you. But for the normal
Speaker 2: person living around there, there's no way you could This
Speaker 2: is sustainable.
Speaker 3: And you can you can get bringing it back to
Speaker 3: the you know, the fee. You know, like you get
Speaker 3: the restaurant fee. Well, ultimately a lot of a big
Speaker 3: chunk of the folks are going to eat in the
Speaker 3: restaurants or you know, there's a calculation there are going
Speaker 3: to be staying in that hotel. So it's almost like
Speaker 3: a user fee, right, so you get that.
Speaker 2: You get that this one. There's no collection connection out
Speaker 2: all right, we're way late for the break. When we
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Speaker 13: Trying to balance obligations to the stadiums and homeowners with
Speaker 13: the five o'clock report. I'm Jack Crumley breaking now Hamilton
Speaker 13: County commissioners this morning deciding how much of a property
Speaker 13: tax rollback or PTR will be granted to homeowners in
Speaker 13: twenty twenty six. When the stadium deal was passed back
Speaker 13: in the nineties, the promise was thirty percent as the
Speaker 13: full pace.
Speaker 21: The board has in fact provided full PTRs on several
Speaker 21: occasions going back to twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: You can further see that it's.
Speaker 21: Not abnormal that following a full PTR year to follow
Speaker 21: that with a couple of years of rebuilding reserve, which
Speaker 21: is what I'm recommending for a twenty twenty six.
Speaker 13: County Administrator Jeffaludo recommending four and a half percent to
Speaker 13: build up those reserves after the full amount was sent
Speaker 13: back this past year.
Speaker 2: Commissioner at lish Reiz, I truly believe and I want
Speaker 2: to say, it was.
Speaker 22: Not fiscally irresponsible to keep the promise of thirty percent,
Speaker 22: because you jumped up and said it wasn't fiscally irresponsible
Speaker 22: to do an eight hundred plus million dollar plus deal
Speaker 22: with debt on taba debt on taba debt.
Speaker 2: You said we got to keep our commitment. Well, why
Speaker 2: don't we have to keep the commitment to the people.
Speaker 13: She was the lone no vote today commissioners agreeing to
Speaker 13: four and a half percent. Now the latest traffic and
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Speaker 10: seventy five is sewing after seventy four. Now we have
Speaker 10: the accident here with the semi on its side and
Speaker 10: the clean up under window delays. Go back to Blue
Speaker 10: Rock and it's about a half hour slow down in
Speaker 10: Kentucky seventy five northbound after Dixie Highway crash on the shoulder,
Speaker 10: and we have bridgetown at Fiddler's Green with an accident.
Speaker 10: And again ronnal Wing and Highway between Riding and gold Breadth.
Speaker 10: The crews are going to have closures here as they
Speaker 10: support a damaged utility poll and then later tied around
Speaker 10: seven the roadway will be shut down for three fifteen
Speaker 10: minute durations as the cruise will now transfer the power
Speaker 10: lines on Ronald Reagan Highway. My Rick Shrump News Radio
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Speaker 13: I got a report of a crash now westbound on
Speaker 13: Ronald Reagan just before Ridge Avenue. Have another crash reported
Speaker 13: just with minor slowdowns northbound seventy one just north of
Speaker 13: Ronald Reagan.
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Speaker 13: No Fear Dentist dot Com. Staying cloudy tonight, a low
Speaker 13: down to twenty degrees. We are expecting the sun to
Speaker 13: come out tomorrow with a high of thirty five, hopefully
Speaker 13: melting a little bit of that snow that fell today.
Speaker 13: There is a slight chance of snow tomorrow night, but
Speaker 13: no real accumulations expected. Then for Thursday, cloudy, gradually turning sunny,
Speaker 13: but a high right around the freezing mark. Great art
Speaker 13: right now shows just clouds in the tri State. It's
Speaker 13: twenty eight degrees.
Speaker 7: Sending a supervisor to Denver, I wanted them to see
Speaker 7: something outside of Cincinnati. I wanted them get an opportunity
Speaker 7: to see how other cities do winter operations.
Speaker 13: Cincinnati's new Director of Public Safety, Mark Riley, giving a
Speaker 13: report to council this morning on all the improvements that
Speaker 13: the city has made in snow response versus last season,
Speaker 13: when hundreds of streets went untouched following a big blizzard.
Speaker 13: Those changes worked, the city response considered much better for
Speaker 13: the snow that fell overnight. Four point three inches of
Speaker 13: snow recorded at CVG north of there. In Hamilton and
Speaker 13: Middletown came in around four and a half more than
Speaker 13: five inches of snow reported in much of Warren County,
Speaker 13: and one of Ohio's Republican senators is looking to have
Speaker 13: certain Americans make a tough choice.
Speaker 29: US Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced a bill that would
Speaker 29: end dual citizenship. When he was eighteen, the Republican from
Speaker 29: Ohio renounced his citizenship in Columbia. He says in a
Speaker 29: statement that if you want to be an American, it's
Speaker 29: all or nothing. Senator Moreno's bill would provide a year
Speaker 29: before people with dual citizenship.
Speaker 2: Can renounce one or the other.
Speaker 29: But now the current policy, he says, may create conflicts
Speaker 29: of interest and divided loyalties. Senator Moreno's bill could affect
Speaker 29: the press president's family. The first lady and their son
Speaker 29: are reportedly citizens of both the US and Slovenia. I'm
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Speaker 2: A decade ago, I was on the trip Hire we Go,
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Speaker 2: calls on worst weather, and I mean I want it bad.
Speaker 2: I want the worst weather you've ever experienced. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand. Now, of course today was not that bad,
Speaker 2: although there were some people that treated it like it
Speaker 2: was that bad. But what about you? And I know
Speaker 2: you lived on a farm, you lived in Minnesota. What's
Speaker 2: the worst weather you've been a part of our scene? Well,
Speaker 2: the worst weather, hands down. When you said this was.
Speaker 3: I drove so when remember the Bengals played the last
Speaker 3: time they were in the playoffs, they played in Kansas City. Yes,
Speaker 3: and I drove to Kansas City, run into a big,
Speaker 3: big SUV Nissan Armada, and drove to Kansas City and
Speaker 3: on the way back hit.
Speaker 2: About Greensburg, Indiana that maybe an hour out and just no, no,
Speaker 2: nothing normal normal. I mean it's cold, it's obviously January,
Speaker 2: and I just start, I like, people are sliding everywhere
Speaker 2: and it just comes out of nowhere and I fortunately
Speaker 2: I had seen it up ahead enough, but it was
Speaker 2: black ice from there all the way in through Harrison
Speaker 2: and it would.
Speaker 6: I mean it, I was.
Speaker 3: That was the most scared I've ever been in terms
Speaker 3: of like a weather, because I'm like, and I wasn't
Speaker 3: like number number one, like, am I going to fall
Speaker 3: off the road here?
Speaker 6: And I you know.
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen?
Speaker 6: I number two?
Speaker 3: I was worried about someone else coming through here in
Speaker 3: all these semis and you're like, holy and it was
Speaker 3: you barely touch that gas and boom you start to spend.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you can have an R model, you can
Speaker 2: have the biggest car, you can have a tank and
Speaker 2: black ice. You going to sleep, buddy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Man, that was scary.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That is usually the worst when you get that that
Speaker 2: cold rain and it's cold enough to where it can freeze,
Speaker 2: so it looks like it's bad, but it's bad. That
Speaker 2: was late January, mid late January of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 4: You go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a couple of calls rolling in. Let's
Speaker 2: go to gym and a million jim fire away please.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks seventy nine. I got up to Walkegan,
Speaker 1: Illinois in the Navy with a couple of days before Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which is right about now. Got off the bus first
Speaker 1: day and anyway, the grass is on the ground, and
Speaker 1: then it snowed and I did. We didn't see the
Speaker 1: ground for twelve weeks. And this is in Walkegan, Illinois, Okay,
Speaker 1: and it maybe people were remember that that time of
Speaker 1: the of the history, but it was accumulated by the
Speaker 1: time of twelve weeks, it was like eighty over eighty
Speaker 1: inches of accumulated snow.
Speaker 26: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that does ungodly am that of snow.
Speaker 1: And here's the kicker. You had to we had to
Speaker 1: have snow duty. And they'd wake up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night and and shovel the grinder off between
Speaker 1: the divisional buildings. And it was like the other wear
Speaker 1: a towel over your face. We're not talking like thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: We're talking minus twenty degrees with the wind.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing and the thing was when you woke
Speaker 1: up up in the morning, there was ice on the
Speaker 1: inside of our divisional barracks from people. The it was
Speaker 1: so called that our transparration throws on the inside of
Speaker 1: the windows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you would breathe out and that would that
Speaker 2: would would freeze the windows. Yeah, and it.
Speaker 1: Was like it was like the most unbelievable and like
Speaker 1: it was really cool. But thanks guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, that's that's brutal.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 2: Let's go to go to mic and a Million Mike
Speaker 2: farre Away.
Speaker 34: Yeah, my wife got me tickets to see the Bulls
Speaker 34: the last year of Michael Jordan's run there. It was
Speaker 34: early March and we were heading up there. Lazy day
Speaker 34: to get started to dig. Game wasn't until the next day.
Speaker 8: Uh, but we got off.
Speaker 34: We got up to Lafayette and the cops got us
Speaker 34: off the road and they said there was a bad
Speaker 34: snowstorm or like whatever.
Speaker 8: I don't even see anything. So we got on a
Speaker 8: parallel highway back in the map stays you know, no
Speaker 8: no GPS or anything like that. We started heading north
Speaker 8: and I had heard of a white out before. I
Speaker 8: had never.
Speaker 34: Experienced a white out. It just was snowing so hard.
Speaker 34: I couldn't see the front of my hood. I we
Speaker 34: were I finally came up on a semi and we
Speaker 34: were begging for tree lines and stuff like that just
Speaker 34: to let up, uh, just so I can see.
Speaker 8: And I just rode this semi. Well.
Speaker 34: Where it's funny is we had subway earlier and uh,
Speaker 34: I down a big old big gold or whatever, and uh,
Speaker 34: driving in this white out, there was no stopping, you know,
Speaker 34: there was no pulling off, there was no nothing. And
Speaker 34: I said, I need that cup over there. Well, but
Speaker 34: let's just say the cup wasn't enough and uh.
Speaker 8: Uh uh, I said, You're gonna have to dump this
Speaker 8: out because I'm filling this up. And instead of going
Speaker 8: with the way, she went against the winning went.
Speaker 2: All up for arm Yeah man white out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, the game was great.
Speaker 2: Much please you got to see Jordan his last year.
Speaker 6: But you made it alive. I mean, I mean I
Speaker 6: was made it to the game.
Speaker 2: Did anybody make the joke? Got a dumb and dumber
Speaker 2: who he fills up like eight bottles?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, tick officer, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: And you're still married, right.
Speaker 8: Uh thirty years next year?
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thanks, I appreciate that's a great call. That's good.
Speaker 2: Let's go to west Chester and talk to David. David
Speaker 2: fire away. Please, Hey, guys, how you doing? Good Bye?
Speaker 4: This came to mind.
Speaker 15: This is probably I don't know.
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety. We were in Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 28: We were driving back from actually a funeral from Colorado Springs,
Speaker 28: and we hit a white out and like the guy
Speaker 28: before was saying, I could barely see my headlights and
Speaker 28: it was just staring a foot in front of my
Speaker 28: car or the car. And we had four with Chevy Blazer,
Speaker 28: and still couldn't tell. I just kept following what looked
Speaker 28: like tracks. All of a sudden, a car coming the
Speaker 28: wrong way past my driver's door, close enough that I
Speaker 28: could see the look of the face of the guy
Speaker 28: going south on the northbound lanes beside me, and I
Speaker 28: was shaking.
Speaker 1: I squeezed so hard on that steering wheel I got home.
Speaker 28: My hands were tramping. It took us hours to get
Speaker 28: back up to where we were. That's the worst scariest
Speaker 28: driving I've ever done.
Speaker 4: Well, that was bad.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's the thing in a white out.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't know what's ahead of you, and
Speaker 2: there could be a you know, ten wrexed cars in
Speaker 2: front of you, and you don't see him in boom.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 28: We could see headlights once in a while go off
Speaker 28: in some while direction. We'd just say shoot to go
Speaker 28: somebody else off the road, and we just kept looking.
Speaker 28: I couldn't see the headlights, but I thought I could
Speaker 28: see tracks in front of me.
Speaker 4: And that's all I did was just try to follow those.
Speaker 28: My wife just sat there, wide eyed and just kept
Speaker 28: her mouth shut, just held on and.
Speaker 2: Just wait to get old. Well, and you don't know
Speaker 2: what to do because you don't want to pull over
Speaker 2: because people are all over the road and they could
Speaker 2: reckon to you, so you keep going. But that's not safe.
Speaker 2: You're just kind of stuck, man.
Speaker 28: You know, we had no idea how long we if
Speaker 28: we had stuck for anything or got stuck, how long
Speaker 28: were we going to be there?
Speaker 15: How long until.
Speaker 2: Somebody got there for us?
Speaker 4: So we didn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was wicked.
Speaker 28: That's that's way up there on the Holy Cow list.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, no, And glad you you made it that okay, David,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for the story. Yeah. See, I
Speaker 2: mean in Colorado and some some places out well, you
Speaker 2: get some real snows and when you were in Minnesota
Speaker 2: you have seen some crazy stuff. Yeah, but I never.
Speaker 2: I never did a white out, man, Yeah, that's I mean,
Speaker 2: I've been into I don't know if I would consider
Speaker 2: a white out, but there's been some snows i've been
Speaker 2: in were I mean, yeah, same deal. You can't really
Speaker 2: see that far in front, and that's a that's a
Speaker 2: scary problem. That's scary. Let's go to Let's go to
Speaker 2: Mainville and talk to Brian. Brian fire Away.
Speaker 9: Hey, I don't know if you guys ever been to Erie,
Speaker 9: Pennsylvania before, but there's a stretch of an eye ninety
Speaker 9: that runs between Cleveland and area and it's like the
Speaker 9: Bermuda Triangle in the winter. And we were in a
Speaker 9: hotel lobby. We had checked out of our hotel and
Speaker 9: this they were predicting all this white out snow. And
Speaker 9: met another guy in the lobby. He said, man, I'll
Speaker 9: make a run for it if you want to make
Speaker 9: a run for it.
Speaker 4: He had two little kids. We had two little kids.
Speaker 9: So we're like, yeah, let's just stick together till we,
Speaker 9: you know, get to Cleveland. So going down ninety, going
Speaker 9: about maybe thirty miles an hour, can hardly see and
Speaker 9: all of a sudden I heard a thud, Like I mean,
Speaker 9: I thought my car blew up and it was a
Speaker 9: chunk of ice from an overpass, a snowplow, and my
Speaker 9: windshield just shattered.
Speaker 15: I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 9: I had a one eye all the way down to
Speaker 9: get off the highway.
Speaker 4: He didn't get my wind children place it was.
Speaker 8: It was hairly.
Speaker 2: Wow, man, you're so like blew off a truck or
Speaker 2: an overpass or something right into your windshow Huh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess them gathered. It was a snowplow coming
Speaker 9: across an overpaths and he knocked off a huge chunk
Speaker 9: of ice.
Speaker 6: And I mean it hit.
Speaker 9: The odds that hit and square on the driver's side
Speaker 9: in front of me and me not swerving off the road.
Speaker 9: I don't know what the odds of that are, but
Speaker 9: you know we survived.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and Brian, thank you. Yeah. The best
Speaker 2: place to be in a white out like that is
Speaker 2: in your home, you know. And Withers, I gotta say
Speaker 2: this because you want. My dad plowed streets for thirty
Speaker 2: years working for Green Township. So I got a soft
Speaker 2: spot spot in my heart for those guys. You're ever
Speaker 2: out there, you know, let those guys do their job.
Speaker 2: They're doing it it's a hard job. My dad U
Speaker 2: saw say. People don't understand the snowplows. All they do
Speaker 2: is push. No, you you can't scoop it up right,
Speaker 2: So it's gotta go somewhere. It's natchally gonna you know,
Speaker 2: it's gonna unfortunately shove some onto your driveway and people
Speaker 2: shove it right back out the middle and they get
Speaker 2: shoved right back there. And but anyway, yea be kind
Speaker 2: to those guys all do you and all you guys
Speaker 2: out there that are plowing. And it might be some
Speaker 2: more weather here on Wednesday. From what they're saying, Uh,
Speaker 2: make sure you be safe out there and uh in
Speaker 2: God's speed. So but yeah, it's uh that there's yeah,
Speaker 2: some of those uh you know, even those big truck
Speaker 2: you're talking with, black ices, big trucks like that. Those
Speaker 2: things will spin around and go right out it go
Speaker 2: out of the way. Matter we'll drive, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: You got it all.
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Speaker 10: twenty two sixty three. We're watching Delans on two seventy five.
Speaker 10: He spotsor to calog Now with a crash on the
Speaker 10: left shoulder axcellent and telling me the rang up too
Speaker 10: with seventy five northbound. It's the all ramp to westbound
Speaker 10: seventy four. Police are on the scene and good news
Speaker 10: on two seventy five now westbound before seventy four a
Speaker 10: semi trailer has been removed and lane restrictions lifted. Here
Speaker 10: just before seventy four that semi trailer was on its side.
Speaker 10: Seventy five southbound as their Charles of the bren Spence
Speaker 10: Bond A five minute drive and we have the sow
Speaker 10: down through the boatwork on seventy five south from Moonal
Speaker 10: Reggae Highway down to Norwood Lateral a couple of minute delay.
Speaker 10: I'm ricks Schren produced Radio seven hundred w W ALLW.
Speaker 2: In the forecast Tonight mostly cloudy with a low of
Speaker 2: twenty and then tomorrow mostly sunny with a higher thirty five,
Speaker 2: and then Wednesday night a slight chance of some more snow. Overnight,
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Speaker 2: Less is what we do We know back with Rocky
Speaker 2: alongside Jason Williams for just a little bit longer here,
Speaker 2: and there's a big push within the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: Jason for the awareness of what's in our food right
Speaker 2: A lot the dies and the ultra process stuff that's
Speaker 2: out there. A lot of people are asking questions, which
Speaker 2: I think is a good thing is in wondering how
Speaker 2: these things have been affecting our health over the last
Speaker 2: to hover many years. But right now, I guess San
Speaker 2: Francisco is going to sue ultra processed food companies. I
Speaker 2: feel like San Francisco has a lot of other issues,
Speaker 2: but nevertheless, Alex Stone from ABC is joining us Alex,
Speaker 2: What is the latest with San Francisco gonna sue these
Speaker 2: ultra processed food companies.
Speaker 35: Yeah, and this is a rare moment when liberal San
Speaker 35: Francisco and the Trump administration agree on something. And what
Speaker 35: Robert Kennedy has been doing on ultra process foods and
Speaker 35: all of these efforts, but on this they do. And
Speaker 35: I got to say that the fun police came out
Speaker 35: today during this announcement that there is a big table
Speaker 35: of things that a lot of us have eaten, you know,
Speaker 35: growing up, and a lot of people eat on the
Speaker 35: regular like wheat thins and neutral grain bars and special
Speaker 35: k bars and Cheerios and lean cuisine, along with other
Speaker 35: things like Oreos and craft Mayo and Chef Boyard and
Speaker 35: Launchables and Cheetos and hot pockets and fun set of
Speaker 35: yelf on the shelf, Billsbury cake frosting. But all of
Speaker 35: these items and a lot more. San Francisco's to the
Speaker 35: attorney David Chu, saying today they are making us fat,
Speaker 35: disease prone, and making us overall unhealthy. He put it
Speaker 35: like this, Our.
Speaker 27: Case is about companies who design food to be harmful
Speaker 27: and addictive and marketed their products to maximize profits like
Speaker 27: the tobacco industry, They knew their products make people very sick,
Speaker 27: but hid the truth from the public, profited from untold billions,
Speaker 27: and left Americans to deal with the consequences.
Speaker 35: So the allegation in the San Francisco lawsuit is that
Speaker 35: this started with tobacco companies back in the sixties and
Speaker 35: seventies buying food companies, and that the food companies today
Speaker 35: use tobacco industry tactics and now use chemicals to get Americans,
Speaker 35: especially children, especially low income Americans, addicted to these high
Speaker 35: processed foods, and that it is those chemicals that make
Speaker 35: you unknowingly. The allegation is addicted to them like it
Speaker 35: was to tobacco or anything else that's been addictive, where
Speaker 35: you don't know that you need more of it. And
Speaker 35: they're claiming that what's being produced is sold as food
Speaker 35: but is not really food because it's got the chemicals
Speaker 35: in it.
Speaker 26: They added this, the industry has created thousands of new
Speaker 26: chemicals which the body metabolizes and craves differently, and they
Speaker 26: are designed to be addictive.
Speaker 15: Addiction.
Speaker 26: This is a feature, not a bug.
Speaker 35: So they're naming a bunch of companies, including Craft and
Speaker 35: posts and Coca Cola and others, And the allegation is
Speaker 35: that these companies have taken part in unfair and deceptive
Speaker 35: practices lying about the foods being healthy in some cases
Speaker 35: like wheat thins and nutri grain bars, and have not
Speaker 35: disclosed chemicals that they put in them to make them addictive.
Speaker 35: And we heard from one doctor today she says seventy
Speaker 35: percent of what the calories the kids eat now are
Speaker 35: coming from these foods, and fifty percent of what adults
Speaker 35: eat or more, leading to type two diabetes and cancer
Speaker 35: and depression and a bunch of other diseases. And they
Speaker 35: say this is decades in the making, that we don't
Speaker 35: even really realize that some of the foods that we
Speaker 35: are eating are these highly produced foods because we grew
Speaker 35: up with them. You think you're making a healthier choice
Speaker 35: and that these foods are in there. We reached out
Speaker 35: guys to the companies that are named in this, and
Speaker 35: their industry trade group responded on their behalf saying that
Speaker 35: they support making healthier choices, that they have worked increased
Speaker 35: protein and fiber, sugar and sodium, takeout synthetic color addatives.
Speaker 35: But they argue there is no agreed upon definition of
Speaker 35: what is ultra processed food. And they say that their
Speaker 35: food is being demonized by ignoring the nutrient content, just
Speaker 35: saying that it's highly processed and not looking at at
Speaker 35: what the nutrients.
Speaker 4: Are in there.
Speaker 35: But San Francisco this lawsuit, they're letting these companies know
Speaker 35: their food is making us sick, but have sold it
Speaker 35: anyway and continue like tobacco did, to make money off
Speaker 35: of it. And so we'll see where the lawsuit goes
Speaker 35: and if it has any legs.
Speaker 3: This is pretty wild, Nick, You mentioned all the company
Speaker 3: I mean it's a who's who of a food food
Speaker 3: processing companies. I mean you throw in Pepsi and Coke
Speaker 3: and General Mills and Hines and craft And is the
Speaker 3: is the end goal here, Alex? That these companies will
Speaker 3: then put almost like a cigarette type of related thing,
Speaker 3: you know, warning on their front of their package.
Speaker 6: You know what is it?
Speaker 3: You know for cigarettes? It's this this product may cause cancer?
Speaker 3: Is this the thing where hey, this this product has
Speaker 3: processed foods that may cause you know whatever whatever, you know,
Speaker 3: cancer and heart disease and blah blah blah.
Speaker 15: Is that the end?
Speaker 2: Is that the end goal here?
Speaker 35: Well, I think their end goal is that this stuff
Speaker 35: isn't sold, that the food companies find other ways to
Speaker 35: make it, or that they don't make it an America,
Speaker 35: especially in low income areas, where that is the food
Speaker 35: that is available and can be affordable to Phillip bellies
Speaker 35: at home, that that that is not what is there.
Speaker 35: But the reality is that that would take a big shift.
Speaker 35: They said this, this has been going on since the
Speaker 35: sixties and growing to where we are today, that it
Speaker 35: would take a lifetime to to make it wind back
Speaker 35: down if they were able to do it. But otherwise, yeah,
Speaker 35: warning labels or changing the ingredients or taking out these
Speaker 35: alleged chemicals that they say are in there just to
Speaker 35: make you addicted to it without you knowing they're even
Speaker 35: in there. That all of that, So it's kind of
Speaker 35: all of the above. Their ultimate goal, though, would be
Speaker 35: that we're eating greens out of the garden and lean
Speaker 35: proteins and and that sort of thing. But the reality
Speaker 35: of it is in the mass that these companies have
Speaker 35: to make it that that's not really possible and getting
Speaker 35: into every grocery store across really around the world, but
Speaker 35: across the country to be able to feed that there
Speaker 35: are still going to be foods that you get it
Speaker 35: at seven eleven or you at the grocery store that
Speaker 35: are in boxes and they've got to be shelf stable.
Speaker 35: So that's not something that that's really realistic. But ultimately
Speaker 35: they want us to stop eating them.
Speaker 2: All right With that, Alex, we appreciate your time on this.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: You got it.
Speaker 35: Thanks guys, thanks saw it.
Speaker 2: I applaud this, And I mean just take a go
Speaker 2: to your cupboard and take out a box of cereal,
Speaker 2: some brand flakes. You're like, oh, okay, it's got to
Speaker 2: be wheat and you know flour and you know some
Speaker 2: sugar is not like forty different ingredients things you don't
Speaker 2: even want?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 2: What's about basic food? And yeah, most of the names
Speaker 2: are are four syllables and you have no idea what
Speaker 2: they are. It's it's it's really as amazing. So I
Speaker 2: hope something happens that the change, because it was what
Speaker 2: we are eating right now is killing it. And I
Speaker 2: saw this thing too where it's like everyone says, oh,
Speaker 2: I eat that as a kid. It's to say no,
Speaker 2: they're different, like oreos, Now, what's in those things and
Speaker 2: what they make? Oreos? Out of now is different than
Speaker 2: than when you and I were kids. It's a lot
Speaker 2: more chemicals and this and that and that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: so things that ultimately they can make them, to make
Speaker 2: them on the cheap, right exactly, Keep on, all Right's
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