Speaker 1: Boy, let's rock and roll. Let's see if we know
Speaker 1: how to do this. Still, man, how are you good?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: The happiest person in all the land my wife.
Speaker 1: Let me guess, because you are now out of the house. Correct,
Speaker 1: and you're not bouncing your ideas off of her and
Speaker 1: entertaining her and giving her jokes.
Speaker 4: And I'm you know, I'm watching TV. It doesn't have
Speaker 4: to be the news. It could be freaking let's make
Speaker 4: a deal. I'm sitting there going that persons stupid?
Speaker 3: Why that is like all I got to go talk
Speaker 3: to your big friend and uh and leave me alone.
Speaker 3: Look minute, you never believe this. Yeah, this is funny.
Speaker 4: Look at this this video I see on my iPad
Speaker 4: right now. She goes, you should It's fine, it's fine, honey.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I'm going over to my brother's house. You went there
Speaker 4: last night.
Speaker 3: I want to know this brother.
Speaker 4: But anyways, so rock, let's get down to the business
Speaker 4: at hand. Well, same as it ever was here in town. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to get your comments on that, because everybody
Speaker 4: was barking and now people are really barking about the
Speaker 4: same old, same old. It's Mike Brown's put out the
Speaker 4: same letter the last whatever, how many every years in
Speaker 4: a row.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a frustrating part.
Speaker 1: You and I are going to talk about the Bengals
Speaker 1: here for the next you know whatever, twelve fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and then later in the show, and we're gonna rant,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna rave, and we're gonna, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about all the problems. We're gonna lay it all out
Speaker 1: and people are gonna call in and agree and maybe disagree,
Speaker 1: but you and I and everybody knows nothing is going
Speaker 1: to change no matter what we do. And that's the
Speaker 1: same part. I guess, you know, you're a little bit
Speaker 1: you know, I guess hopeful because I mean, yesterday was
Speaker 1: actually a good thing because they lost and I would
Speaker 1: say embarrassing fashion a game that in some ways they
Speaker 1: totally dominated but still wanted to lose in twenty to.
Speaker 3: Eighteen And how many times have you seen it?
Speaker 1: And I thought about this as I was I was
Speaker 1: actually listening to the game. I came back and watched it,
Speaker 1: watched it back, and it's like, how many times do
Speaker 1: the Bengals do this? They have a season that's a
Speaker 1: very disappointing one, but then toward the end of the season.
Speaker 3: You know, they rattle off like.
Speaker 1: Two straight, three straight, And that's exactly what was happening
Speaker 1: right the Bengals. After I count of there was two
Speaker 1: stretches of four straight losses the Bengals had. At one
Speaker 1: point they'd lost eight of nine games. You know, but
Speaker 1: they play the Dolphins, they blow them out, blow their
Speaker 1: doors off forty five twenty one. They then drill Arizona
Speaker 1: the next week thirty seven fourteen. So you can start
Speaker 1: to get the feeling, and people talk and even convince yourself, well,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, man, this team actually isn't that bad.
Speaker 1: Well then yesterday happened, and it reminded us right that
Speaker 1: this is a team that has a long way to go.
Speaker 1: So in that regard, I think it's a blessing that,
Speaker 1: you know, as much I want the hometown team to win,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing that they did get blown out and
Speaker 1: embarrassing fashion, because it doesn't let us go in the
Speaker 1: off season where the front office can make the case
Speaker 1: as they've done many times that you've.
Speaker 3: You've heard it, you've seen it.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, we're real close. See we finished strong
Speaker 1: and we're not that far away. A couple of things.
Speaker 1: We had a piece and you know, the ball bounces
Speaker 1: away a couple of times, and we can win the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, and you know, and people, you know, when
Speaker 1: you feel when you finish on a high note, you
Speaker 1: you know things are positive and you can convince yourself that, well,
Speaker 1: yesterday kind of refocused everybody on. This is a team
Speaker 1: that is actually not close. It's really damn far away.
Speaker 1: And hopefully things will change. But like I said, that's
Speaker 1: the frustrating part is you wonder if they do. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be any changes to the front office,
Speaker 1: likely no changes to the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: So here we are.
Speaker 4: Well the what gets me And if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 4: it's it's all over the place online. The Mike Brown
Speaker 4: statement is like I said, the same statement. I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's just cutting paste from last year put in a
Speaker 4: new year. And it's like we're this close, Duke Tobin
Speaker 4: and uh, the whole coaching staff know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: They're building a fine you a core da da da
Speaker 4: da da da da and the results speak. This is
Speaker 4: the results driven business man.
Speaker 3: Look at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and it's just you get the feeling that.
Speaker 3: They're just laughing at us as a fan. Don't don't
Speaker 3: you feel that?
Speaker 1: Don't you get the feeling that they're sitting there like,
Speaker 1: ha is okay whatever they're gonna sut. There may be
Speaker 1: a handful of people that cancel their PSLs, but guess what,
Speaker 1: there's a waiting list, so they'll jump back on and
Speaker 1: we won't miss a beat.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have you know, we don't have
Speaker 3: to do wholesale changes.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I look at my former franchise, The Colts, you know,
Speaker 1: say that the daughter comes out and talks about, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hold people accountable, you know, and she's gonna
Speaker 1: be accountable to the media and answering to questions, and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing doesn't happen. Like you said, It's almost
Speaker 1: like a cut and paste, uh, from you know, last
Speaker 1: year to the year before, maybe eight years ago. And Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna make an effort, but yeah maybe
Speaker 1: if we feel like it.
Speaker 3: But we're we feel like we're pretty close. We don't
Speaker 3: need to rock the boat. We don't need to do
Speaker 3: this in that.
Speaker 1: And I guess is, you know, in a larger sense,
Speaker 1: when you think about you know, the economy and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Well, how things are gonna change?
Speaker 1: Well, things change when people all of a sudden, don't
Speaker 1: you know, stop buying things right when you say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying beef right, So then that that helps
Speaker 1: maybe drive the price down. Things aren't really gonna change
Speaker 1: here until wholesale people say, you know what, just not
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna buy this anymore. I'm not gonna sign
Speaker 1: up for first season tickets, I'm not gonna go to games,
Speaker 1: And then maybe things will change. But then in your
Speaker 1: head you go, will they because there's such a long
Speaker 1: period of history of the same thing over and over
Speaker 1: and over, and so what what what hope does that
Speaker 1: give you that all of a sudden, the light's gonna
Speaker 1: click on and things are gonna be done differently, and
Speaker 1: things are gonna be done in a way that models
Speaker 1: most successful businesses, where they look at their deficiencies they
Speaker 1: put the full force of everything behind them to address
Speaker 1: them and move forward.
Speaker 3: You don't get that feeling, so.
Speaker 4: Let me let me ask you you having played the game,
Speaker 4: I was this close, you know, I almost got the
Speaker 4: leak there, But don't even worry about it. You know,
Speaker 4: dreams don't don't come true sometime. But listen, I see
Speaker 4: this stuff on social media and you do too. Everybody
Speaker 4: does Zach Taylor, walord fire Zach Taylor, you having played?
Speaker 3: Is he up to this task?
Speaker 4: Because I've seen multiple writers say he obviously folds under
Speaker 4: the under the spotlight of a big job. And this
Speaker 4: is a big job because he's got really big talent.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't place the brunt of you know,
Speaker 1: my you know.
Speaker 3: My fervor towards towards him.
Speaker 1: I I just think it's it's the it's the top down,
Speaker 1: and those are things that are never gonna change. I mean, now,
Speaker 1: did Zach Taylor make some decisions and do some things
Speaker 1: that are not at an eight.
Speaker 3: Level elite level.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But you know, given what the circumstances in which
Speaker 1: he has to operate, you just wonder how how differently
Speaker 1: it would be if he was, you know, better supported
Speaker 1: by by management and better supported from the front office.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's I mean, certainly a season like this
Speaker 1: where you win, you know, you go six and eleven,
Speaker 1: and as I said earlier, you have multiple stretches where
Speaker 1: you lose a month's worth of games at times, everything
Speaker 1: should be called into question. To me, it's still just
Speaker 1: how things are run from the front office and the
Speaker 1: selection of the players. That that that has been the
Speaker 1: constant over head coaches, over Marvin Lewis, over Zach Taylor,
Speaker 1: over everybody you know that that's been before them as well.
Speaker 1: The constant has been the management and it's kind of
Speaker 1: been the same story over and over.
Speaker 4: Well, look at what happened in Cleveland with the Kevin Stefanski,
Speaker 4: that poor guy two times and fole coach of the Year.
Speaker 4: And because the the ownership again and talk about really
Speaker 4: ownership group, that is that poor guy didn't have a
Speaker 4: chance that whole Deshaun Watson think, come on, man, that
Speaker 4: was and it had screwed up that franchise for probably
Speaker 4: the better part of tensible years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but that that is exactly my point.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, fire Zach Taylor and bring in name
Speaker 1: a person Nick Saban, I don't care, name the greatest
Speaker 1: coach you could ever think of, and start to really
Speaker 1: think about is that going to make things drastically different?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And in the same way, Kevin Stefanski knows football, he
Speaker 1: never get how to coach football.
Speaker 3: But but they're gonna you know, some franchise franchises do that.
Speaker 1: They just keep you know, fire coaches every two years
Speaker 1: and expect things to change when they should be looking
Speaker 1: in the mirror.
Speaker 4: And that's the exact same thing the Bangles should be doing.
Speaker 4: Let's let's get a call in and talk to Matt
Speaker 4: right quick. Hey, Matt, what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 6: So I struggled for many, many years as a fan
Speaker 6: of the Chicago Blackhawks. I mean, through through twenty years
Speaker 6: of terrible seasons as a fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. Now,
Speaker 6: mind you, it's been thirty plus with the Brown ownership.
Speaker 6: But there was a poll years ago of the worst
Speaker 6: owner in professional sports and the only person who finished
Speaker 6: beneath Mike Brown was the guy William Wurtz. They called
Speaker 6: him dollar Bill Wirtz because of how cheap he was,
Speaker 6: and when he finally died, they boot him at his
Speaker 6: memorial service. And that the Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup
Speaker 6: two years later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that there's certainly a parallel there.
Speaker 4: And thanks Matt, boy. Yeah, that's you see that guy
Speaker 4: we're talking about Stefanski getting fired for they you know,
Speaker 4: trying to do the best of a job. He could
Speaker 4: under the circumstances. And but Mike Brown, God bless his heart. Yeah,
Speaker 4: is he kind of let me ask you this, is
Speaker 4: he kind of admitting, yeah, I'm the problem here. Don't
Speaker 4: blame that guy. Has has Lem in Cleveland saying well,
Speaker 4: I've given them all the opportunities of the world, all
Speaker 4: the tools, but Stefanski screwed it all up. Is Mike
Speaker 4: Brown just saying, Hey, I'm the problem. Don't blame that guy.
Speaker 3: He stays on.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if he believes that or not,
Speaker 1: but he certainly is not not changing. When things are
Speaker 1: are not done at a high level, you change. The
Speaker 1: thing I always keep bringing up how many times did
Speaker 1: I say it on Bengals Monday is when we talk
Speaker 1: about them after the game, Like what what most companies
Speaker 1: do is when they feel like, you know, they're in
Speaker 1: second place and their their their profits are are dwindling,
Speaker 1: and their their shareholder and all that sort, they look
Speaker 1: at what what are the top three companies in our
Speaker 1: field doing? How are they doing things? What what's you know,
Speaker 1: what's Google doing, What's Apple doing? What's Microsoft? How are
Speaker 1: they running their day to day operations in the same
Speaker 1: vein the Bengals should look to the Rams and the
Speaker 1: Eagles and you know, the Broncos and these these franchises
Speaker 1: that that have a history a track record of you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some down year. It's a competitive business. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have some down years. But but but over a vast
Speaker 1: stretch of time, seemed to be doing things the right way.
Speaker 1: Well look at that, Well what are they doing. Well, God, well,
Speaker 1: if they have you know, two or three times the
Speaker 1: amount of scouting staff we do, and they're pretty good
Speaker 1: at picking, well, maybe we should do that, Maybe we
Speaker 1: should change it shouldn't just be well, that's how my
Speaker 1: old man did it, So that's how we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to And I just feel like that's.
Speaker 3: What it goes down to it.
Speaker 1: You know, when I was young and in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the seventies, this is how we did it, and
Speaker 1: this is the amount of people we had on staff,
Speaker 1: and this is what we spent on this and that,
Speaker 1: and you know, and we've had some good years where
Speaker 1: that worked.
Speaker 3: But it's a consistency thing.
Speaker 1: It's not where the Bengals haven't been able to consistently
Speaker 1: stay at the top or knock on the door of
Speaker 1: getting in the big game and being a perennial just
Speaker 1: our house. They haven't done it, and you just wonder
Speaker 1: do they do?
Speaker 3: They lack the desire to want to change things. And
Speaker 3: I think the answer is they don't.
Speaker 4: Well look it as much as I it pains me
Speaker 4: to say, the Steelers, how long has that been a
Speaker 4: very successful operation? Have they won it all?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: But have they won how many rings?
Speaker 2: Six?
Speaker 4: But always in it, always in the mix. Always it
Speaker 4: seems like one of the most premier again painful for
Speaker 4: me to say, one of the most premier clubs in
Speaker 4: the NFL.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: Now, those people know what they're doing, man, And I
Speaker 4: don't know what the difference is. How you get to
Speaker 4: your point? How can you not look at that and go,
Speaker 4: let's copy some of that?
Speaker 3: At least let's do a deep dive here. I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to let's take all you ten people sit
Speaker 3: around this table, just you dive into that area.
Speaker 1: You dive into that area and figure out where what
Speaker 1: are the Steelers doing, What are the Eagles doing what?
Speaker 1: And then and then line that up with what we're
Speaker 1: doing and how we're doing it, and let's determine what
Speaker 1: should we change or maybe we don't need to change this,
Speaker 1: but look at this area here where they're doing this.
Speaker 1: Maybe something to do it differently, and it's it just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be Uh have the desire for that
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 4: Let's get another call in Rock. We got Ben in Miamisburg.
Speaker 4: Hey Ben, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Buddy?
Speaker 7: Hey hey, gentlemen, Just to quit. A couple of things
Speaker 7: I want to say. First, love the show, long time listener,
Speaker 7: first time caller, I can make it quit. Couple of points, Rocky,
Speaker 7: you you first said it. Consistency. There's no consistency with
Speaker 7: this team in and out each week. I've been a
Speaker 7: fan of the Bengals since I've been in the third grade.
Speaker 7: There's no consistency whatsoever. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 7: but it's from the top down, That's what I've seen.
Speaker 7: Because when you go out and beat Miami the week
Speaker 7: before and you beat the tar off of them, and
Speaker 7: then they can't do anything this week against Cleveland, there's
Speaker 7: an issue. Then when it comes to Duke and Zach,
Speaker 7: we finally got a playoff win.
Speaker 2: Whoope do twenty.
Speaker 7: Twenty three thirty years Unfortunately, in my opinion, I don't
Speaker 7: see Zach Taylor ever being replaced because we know we
Speaker 7: had Marvin for what sixteen fifteen years and absolutely no
Speaker 7: playoff wins because in my opinion, he was a yes
Speaker 7: man because anything we can do pretty much, I think
Speaker 7: Mike Brown will say I'm gonna tell you how to
Speaker 7: jump at.
Speaker 2: They're gonna say how high?
Speaker 7: And unfortunately, that's how it seems that this franchise is
Speaker 7: going and is always.
Speaker 3: Going to go.
Speaker 6: And I pray to the man upstairs.
Speaker 7: That we do not have an Andrew Lux situation with
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow saying I'm tired of getting beat up on
Speaker 7: and just not having fun like he's been saying.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: Of course he's got a couple hundred million dollar reasons
Speaker 7: to say that he can still say, but that's a
Speaker 7: that's just come from somebody that's just tired of it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: No, you makee a couple of good points.
Speaker 1: Number One that okay, yes and whatever. I just think
Speaker 1: it's made clear whoever the head coaches doesn't matter that Hey, okay,
Speaker 1: we you know we want you to be the coach
Speaker 1: and take this job. But here's how it's gonna go. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's no question about that. And the first good point
Speaker 1: made was. You talk about consistency, and consistency doesn't mean
Speaker 1: doing the same thing even you know, even if if
Speaker 1: it may have worked, you don't go, well, god, well
Speaker 1: we did the same thing we did and you know,
Speaker 1: and whatever it was two thousand and one we went
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. So we'll just no, things evolve,
Speaker 1: things change, The league changes. You know, what works on
Speaker 1: offense changes, what works on defense changes. How to build
Speaker 1: your roster that changes, how to manage the salary cap
Speaker 1: that change.
Speaker 3: It evolves.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's drastically different, but there's a flow
Speaker 1: to it, and you got to stay ahead of that flow.
Speaker 3: And they just don't.
Speaker 1: Consistency is not as consistency can in your head sometimes
Speaker 1: being well, that just means doing the same thing. No,
Speaker 1: it means it means keeping a standard a certain level.
Speaker 1: But if you have to adjust things as they evolve,
Speaker 1: you do that to maintain consistent excellence.
Speaker 3: And I just don't think that's happening.
Speaker 4: Well, Rock, we consistently bring you the traffic and weather together.
Speaker 3: Look at that. Look at that early in the year.
Speaker 2: You're already on Rick.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: It's going to be back in the saddle with your
Speaker 1: partner as we kick off. Wow, twenty twenty six. Huh,
Speaker 1: shake off the dust man.
Speaker 2: En, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I barely got used to it being twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I feel like late into the year I
Speaker 1: would mistakenly write twenty twenty four and go, oh no,
Speaker 1: it's twenty five, and now I got to go to
Speaker 1: twenty six.
Speaker 3: Well, see you.
Speaker 4: That's the thing with all the digital stuff that we're
Speaker 4: doing now, you pay you know, writing checks. Of course,
Speaker 4: when I was a single man, yeah, i'd be writing whatever,
Speaker 4: eight ten checks a month, paying bills and stuff. Well,
Speaker 4: we know, I never write a check anymore.
Speaker 3: I didn't know those places he went to took checks.
Speaker 4: Well, I went to the same place, Terry Spring.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Anyways, I'm good for it. But so it's easy to
Speaker 4: forget what year it is. You don't really need to
Speaker 4: know it anymore.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, because yeah, yeah, there's that's a great point.
Speaker 1: You're not writing checks and all that stuff the way
Speaker 1: you used to. It's all digitally automatic withdrawal just comes out.
Speaker 1: It comes round, which trust me, my wife knows that.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: It was all about anyways, on this Day in History,
Speaker 1: ed nineteen twenty. This is interesting because I think Willie
Speaker 1: kicked off his show in nineteen twenty talking about this
Speaker 1: because this was a big deal and he was doing
Speaker 1: the night Show, I believe at that point. But big news,
Speaker 1: big news in the sports world. New York Yankees announced
Speaker 1: the purchase of Babe Ruth. The New York Yankees major
Speaker 1: League club announces it's purchase of the heavy, heavy hitting
Speaker 1: outfielder George who Hermann Babe Ruth from the Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox for the sum of one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which for then was you know, it was
Speaker 1: probably pretty big. So in all, Ruth had played six
Speaker 1: seasons with the Red Sox, leading them to three World
Speaker 1: Series victories, and of course.
Speaker 3: You know he was on the mound.
Speaker 1: Pitched a total of twenty nine and two thirds scoreless
Speaker 1: World Series innings, sitting new league record that would staying
Speaker 1: for forty three years.
Speaker 3: His nineteen nineteen season, he broke.
Speaker 1: The home run record with twenty nine, led the American
Speaker 1: League with one hundred and fourteen RBIs hunting three runs.
Speaker 1: Guy was incredible, I mean, the most incredible player of
Speaker 1: his day. Despite Ruth's performance, the Red Sox stumbled to
Speaker 1: a sixty six and seventy one record in nineteen nineteen,
Speaker 1: finishing in sixth place.
Speaker 3: New ownership then ed took.
Speaker 1: Over the club, and around this time again of year
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty, the owner Harry Frazee Rasie for Zee whatever,
Speaker 1: made the decision to sell Ruth the Yankees for one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand in cash and some three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in loans. After the sale, the Yankees
Speaker 1: took over Ruth's contract, which called for a salary of
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars per year.
Speaker 3: Aware of his.
Speaker 1: Value, Ruth demanded a salary raise, which the Yankees of
Speaker 1: course agreed to, and that turned off to be a
Speaker 1: very great investment deal paid off. Ruth went on to
Speaker 1: smash his own home run record nineteen twenty. He hit
Speaker 1: fifty four home runs that year, fifty nine homers in
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one. You know, dominated the game for years
Speaker 1: and years and years. The house that Ruth built World
Speaker 1: Series titles, So you know, you get what you paid
Speaker 1: for in life, ed the Yankees paid one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five grand for maybe the greatest baseball player of
Speaker 1: all time, and it worked out.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 4: I always, of course, we'd all like to have seen
Speaker 4: him play, but I always wanted to see him pitch.
Speaker 4: Like you just said, you know, apparently he was an
Speaker 4: awesome pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: show hey Otani, you know where he was just unstoppable
Speaker 1: on the mound and then could walk up to the
Speaker 1: plate and jack home runs out. And I don't follow,
Speaker 1: you know. I try to follow the Reds as much
Speaker 1: as I can of their hometown team. Of course root
Speaker 1: for him, but I don't follow all of baseball the
Speaker 1: way I used to when I was a kid. I
Speaker 1: used to know all about everybody, right, but I so
Speaker 1: I feel like I missed the how dominant and amazing
Speaker 1: Otani is because I'm not living and breathing you know,
Speaker 1: Dodgers highlights or you know that that kind of thing
Speaker 1: all you but you hear these things, they're like, God,
Speaker 1: this guy's incredible.
Speaker 3: He's he's doing these things in.
Speaker 1: Today's baseball with these players and all the technology and
Speaker 1: the you know, the nutrition and all the modern things
Speaker 1: that are going on.
Speaker 3: This guy is still able to go out and do it.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's incredible.
Speaker 4: Well see to that point. Not to sound like an
Speaker 4: old guy, but I am. That's why I missed big
Speaker 4: Back when I was a kid, we had a newspaper
Speaker 4: every single day at my house. Yeah, and I remember
Speaker 4: I would sit down, I made a point of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it did it every day, but
Speaker 4: three or four days a week, I went through box
Speaker 4: scores and just checked, you know, you know, you had
Speaker 4: your favorite players from all over the league and stuff.
Speaker 4: Of course I was a Giant Reds guy, but you know,
Speaker 4: and and you knew their status, you knew what they
Speaker 4: were doing. And then that's how you because well, for
Speaker 4: one thing, if you didn't watch, there was only a
Speaker 4: baseball game a week, right, so to see other teams play,
Speaker 4: and if you were lucky, there were whatever thirty five
Speaker 4: forty Reds games on TV a year. But yeah, so
Speaker 4: if you wanted to follow people like that, you really
Speaker 4: had to pay attention. And you know, look at the paper.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to go online and go, oh, what
Speaker 4: hell Tony did last night? Because if you did the
Speaker 4: reason you're doing it is because you had money on
Speaker 4: him to strike out in the third inning or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and sadly, I think that's driving a lot of
Speaker 1: the fandom, if you want to call it that in baseball.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's uh, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I remember doing the same thing checking box score because
Speaker 1: I was a huge Bo Jackson fan.
Speaker 3: All right, this is you know, eighty seven eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Of course there's no internet, and yeah you get to
Speaker 1: get the inquiry and rushing the bat.
Speaker 2: What did bow do?
Speaker 5: They?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he hit another home run and you know,
Speaker 1: and then you know Sports Center was coming out a
Speaker 1: little bit, but you know, we didn't have cable and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, so yeah, you got some highlights. Kind
Speaker 1: of very rare. I remember watching the show. I remember
Speaker 1: on the show This Week in Baseball or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that web notes, baby, come on web Notes man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had to watch that show because again, like if
Speaker 1: you had a you were just a baseball fan, or
Speaker 1: you had a fan of a of a certain player,
Speaker 1: like for me, Bo Jackson, watch that show just eyes glued, like, man,
Speaker 1: what did he do? The Royals played the Tigers yesterday whatever,
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 4: Know you wanted to see how I did now it
Speaker 4: was now it went well, same way with the NFL
Speaker 4: Films show every week this week in the NFL or
Speaker 4: whatever is it called. And man, I used to watch
Speaker 4: that show every I think I was out on I
Speaker 4: think came out on Saturdays. I don't remember to have
Speaker 4: highlights from the weeks. But that was what made the
Speaker 4: Monday Night football Howard Cosell doing the you know yesterday
Speaker 4: or you know, yeah Monday and footballould be yesterday's games,
Speaker 4: so he would do it. Oh well, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: You know I'm doing well anymore. I'm doing Willie h
Speaker 4: like a right Howard Cunningham. Right, But anyways, rock in
Speaker 4: sadder news now it Uh you're you're your dog Yelvis.
Speaker 1: Yes see he passed away yesterday and uh at the
Speaker 1: age of sixteen. If you recall I'd talked to December
Speaker 1: first about his birthday, he turned sixteen years old. Just
Speaker 1: absolutely miracle dog right to be a Golden Retriever and
Speaker 1: lived at sixteen. Well we knew at the time he
Speaker 1: was he was fading, but in a way he had
Speaker 1: been fading for like three years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like I've said it before, but I look back
Speaker 1: through my phone and you go back to like like
Speaker 1: twenty you know, twenty three, and you're like, and I
Speaker 1: have a picture of him on his birthday, and I
Speaker 1: remember always thinking like, well, this may be the last picture,
Speaker 1: so you know, let me get it for him on
Speaker 1: his birthday. And he'd live another year. I mean, do
Speaker 1: the same thing, live another year. And it so was
Speaker 1: increase credible how long you lived and how aware he
Speaker 1: was for a while, I'd say in the last honestly year,
Speaker 1: like he was not very you question, like his eyes.
Speaker 1: You looked into his eyes and there was like a
Speaker 1: hollowness to them, which was which was sad. But he
Speaker 1: was aware, and you know, and he's moved around. But
Speaker 1: it got tough.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: Anybody just had a dog that's passed away from old age, knows,
Speaker 1: you know, when they you know, they can't walk and
Speaker 1: they have accidents and you got to pick them up
Speaker 1: and help him out. And I was doing a lot
Speaker 1: of that for the last certainly the last six months,
Speaker 1: if not a year, I mean.
Speaker 2: A lot of it.
Speaker 3: He's a good dog be doing that too, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: But you know, I always tried to you know, keep
Speaker 1: him moving. I think you in life, whether it's a
Speaker 1: you're a dog or you're a human, if you don't
Speaker 1: use it, you lose it.
Speaker 3: So I try to in the morning.
Speaker 1: I kind of got my routine where I dropped drop
Speaker 1: my son off at school, and then I go and
Speaker 1: try to take the dogs for a walk, and I
Speaker 1: listen to all the you know, college football podcasts and
Speaker 1: all the things I got to do to get ready
Speaker 1: for the day. And so I think that kind of
Speaker 1: helped him keep going. But you know, this year again
Speaker 1: it felt like it was it.
Speaker 3: Was more pending.
Speaker 1: And then I was out of town doing the Liberty
Speaker 1: Bowl whatever day that was, and my wife sent me
Speaker 1: she said, hey, because I just want you to know.
Speaker 1: I tried to give Elvis up a pancake and he
Speaker 1: wouldn't eat it. I'm like, and that's always the sign,
Speaker 1: right when the dogs don't want to eat or drink.
Speaker 1: So then, I mean, yesterday was was hard because I
Speaker 1: had the I had to call the Stag Bowl, which
Speaker 1: was a great game by the way in Canton, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and I and at that point I knew he was going.
Speaker 1: I knew it, and he was. He was laid out
Speaker 1: all the way and I just I wanted him to
Speaker 1: go so I could be there to bury him. I
Speaker 1: wanted to bury my own dog, you know, and for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. First of all, my wife and
Speaker 1: my other you know, my kids and my brother in
Speaker 1: law didn't have to deal with it. But you know,
Speaker 1: I kept saying, buddy, it's okay, you can go, like
Speaker 1: you know it, it's fine, so I can.
Speaker 3: I can take care of it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it got to be like twelve thirty
Speaker 1: one o'clock and I hate to leave. I had to
Speaker 1: answer three and a half four hour drive to Canton,
Speaker 1: and I got a game, I got a call.
Speaker 3: I can't be messing around. So very sad.
Speaker 1: I just had to say, but buddy, cause I knew
Speaker 1: when I got back, you wouldn't he wouldn't be there,
Speaker 1: and you know, and during the halftime of the game,
Speaker 1: my wife's like, look, I don't want to bother you
Speaker 1: with this, but you know, he passed And so.
Speaker 3: That was sad.
Speaker 1: But again, I feel in a way silly because there's
Speaker 1: people going through.
Speaker 3: Much harder losses in life.
Speaker 1: I got a buddy whose mom just passed away, got
Speaker 1: a friend who died, you know, young in his thirties.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's real tragedy. This was not a tragedy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was sixteen years old and he's a dog.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to. I hope everyone understands what
Speaker 1: I'm saying here, but you know, it's sad when I
Speaker 1: guess for me, especially because you know, through.
Speaker 3: All the changes in my life.
Speaker 1: You know, I retired from the NFL in like January
Speaker 1: of two thousand and ten, and I had had and
Speaker 1: I got Elvis, and that was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, well, am I gonna do
Speaker 1: with the rest of my life?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And there's lots of hard time trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what that was going to be and find my next
Speaker 1: career and all that. And then through marriage and through
Speaker 1: one kid, then two kids and three kids and ups
Speaker 1: and downs, the one constant was Elvis buddy, and he
Speaker 1: and my buddy, and he was always there for me
Speaker 1: and great. So I'm very appreciative of the time I
Speaker 1: got to spend with him. And again, a one in
Speaker 1: a million dog to live that long, and I mean
Speaker 1: even at the very end, I mean, the guy's the
Speaker 1: kid that got Dog's heart. It must have been the
Speaker 1: strongest thing ever because his body is literally quitting, but
Speaker 1: he just keeps breathing, keeps breathing. And uh but anyway,
Speaker 1: and I'm just very appreciative of him, and thanks to
Speaker 1: all the folks that reached out.
Speaker 3: But he was a wonderful dog.
Speaker 1: And as I said on social media, long Live the
Speaker 1: King Baby.
Speaker 4: Salute Elvis. With that, we check in with traffic and
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Speaker 4: By the way, let's get a couple of calls in
Speaker 4: while we can rock. We got Greg in Michigan. Hey Greg,
Speaker 4: thanks for holding buddy.
Speaker 5: What do you have, Hey, Rocky, mister positive? Sorry about
Speaker 5: your dog, Elvis. That's my hero, Elvis, Aaron Presley, the King,
Speaker 5: You've got great taste? Yes, and again sorry, I got
Speaker 5: to ask you real quick. Do you know a guy
Speaker 5: named Pat Caputo and Detroit Radio sports?
Speaker 3: I've heard I heard the name.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer
Speaker 5: and he was a big personality here in Detroit. Very sad,
Speaker 5: very sad. Life is short, everybody. You got to go
Speaker 5: for your dreams. But real quick, Uh, Cincinnati Bengals and
Speaker 5: the Detroit Lions are in the same boat going forward.
Speaker 5: What do you what do both teams need to do?
Speaker 5: You got Joe Burrow, which is fantastic. We got golf,
Speaker 5: which is he's pretty good and all that good stuff.
Speaker 5: But what do you think was the demise for both? Uh,
Speaker 5: Cincinnati and Detroit? Are they both commensurate with just poor coaching?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I would.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel, but I feel like
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell was one hell of a coach, you know,
Speaker 1: and they were so close last year and you get
Speaker 1: that close and you don't win it, It's hard to
Speaker 1: get back there.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I ask Bengals fans, right, go to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and unfortunately lose the Rams and then okay, well we'll
Speaker 1: get back next year. We've got the same pieces coming back.
Speaker 1: And I just know from playing it, it's not that easy.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: My rookie year, we went to the AFC title game
Speaker 1: and then the next year made the playoffs. But then
Speaker 1: then the next year I think won you know, five games.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard, especially when there's factors that you're dealing with.
Speaker 1: And that's from an ownership standpoint, and I don't know
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of what the Lions are dealing with.
Speaker 1: I know they got great players. I know they got
Speaker 1: a great coach. I don't know is it there? Is
Speaker 1: it the front office holding them back? You would know
Speaker 1: that more than I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's I think that's the frustration on them.
Speaker 4: People see the level of talent on this the offensive
Speaker 4: side of the ball on this team. Let's face it,
Speaker 4: if you if you had the Bengals offense and the
Speaker 4: Browns defense, you would have one hell of a football team.
Speaker 3: Yes, can we do that? Is that the way we
Speaker 3: can them together. Yeah, you know, just create an all
Speaker 3: star team real quick.
Speaker 1: But no, that's that that that's But but again, with
Speaker 1: all that said, if you mix the Bengals and the Browns,
Speaker 1: but you still had the same leadership from the front
Speaker 1: office standpoint.
Speaker 3: Would anything change?
Speaker 1: I think that's the point we're making is in a
Speaker 1: lot of regards that you know, yeah, good players will
Speaker 1: come and some will go, and some will be around.
Speaker 1: But consistently, you know, nail in drafts and now in
Speaker 1: free agency year in and year out, everybody's gonna get
Speaker 1: get lucky and or not even lucky, but but now
Speaker 1: a pick and it's gonna work out great. And but
Speaker 1: it's the ones that do it consistently over the years,
Speaker 1: those are the franchises that that you seem to seem
Speaker 1: to eventually win it all.
Speaker 4: Coming up next, we're gonna be talking this whole Maduro
Speaker 4: thing going on, uh in custody and going to stand
Speaker 4: try and to sort all that out for us and
Speaker 4: see what the what could all happen with this thing?
Speaker 4: He goes, I don't understand it. We got our good
Speaker 4: buddy at Jeremy Rosenthal or legal expert, but that's after
Speaker 4: the news right now.
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Speaker 11: Maduro and the Missus with a date in court. This
Speaker 11: is the four o'clock report. I'm Matt Reese breaking now.
Speaker 11: The President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro and his wife a
Speaker 11: Rain today in New York. They face drug trafficking charges.
Speaker 11: The acting president of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez, says she's now
Speaker 11: running the country. President Trump says the US is in charge.
Speaker 12: Conversation that the President is having with regards to that
Speaker 12: interim government and the leader there. The President has not
Speaker 12: spoken yet to Delsi Rodriguez. He said that he would
Speaker 12: have a conversation with her at the appropriate time, but
Speaker 12: so has issued somewhat of a threat about cooperating with
Speaker 12: the United States, and if that doesn't happen, he had
Speaker 12: suggested she would have a faint face of situation that
Speaker 12: could be worse than Maduro's. The President telling reporters Maduro
Speaker 12: gave up immediately, signaling she should also be working with
Speaker 12: the United States.
Speaker 11: And ABC's Karen Travers, Eddie and Roggy talking about the
Speaker 11: future of the Maduro case. Their guest a legal expert
Speaker 11: coming up after the news right here on the Big One.
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Speaker 16: Ohioblem back with Eddie and Rocky and Rocky you know,
Speaker 16: having not been here for what two and a half weeks,
Speaker 16: There's been a lot of water into the bridge there hosts.
Speaker 1: A lot has happened, and we even got into the
Speaker 1: things going on in Minnesota. But yeah, it was two
Speaker 1: three days ago, and I mean an incredible operation. America
Speaker 1: goes in under the cover of darkness, all right, soldiers
Speaker 1: go in, kill thirty of Maduro's bodyguards, take him into custody,
Speaker 1: take his wife into custody, no one is harmed on
Speaker 1: the American side, no equipment left behind, bringing back the
Speaker 1: United States, and he has been charged with I believe
Speaker 1: it's narco terrorism charges.
Speaker 3: The Trump administration puts.
Speaker 1: A lot of the blame of the drug related deaths
Speaker 1: that happened into the tune of millions in our country
Speaker 1: squarely on his shoulders. But now that the legal side
Speaker 1: takes over about you know, what's going to happen, you know, legally,
Speaker 1: what's the what's things?
Speaker 3: How they move forward?
Speaker 4: Here John Maduro and his wife and custody in New
Speaker 4: York City, obviously, and here to discuss the legal ramifications
Speaker 4: and all the possibilities. Is our legal expert always love
Speaker 4: talking to our good friend, Jeremy Rosenthal. Jeremy, Happy New Year,
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year. How are you guys, great, We're good,
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 4: All right, Jeremy, break this down for us. I'm is
Speaker 4: it an open and shutcase? Is it going to be
Speaker 4: a long involved case? What are we seeing here?
Speaker 2: Yes to both? Really? Yeah.
Speaker 17: Look so on the legal side of this, you're you're
Speaker 17: basically treating this like it's El chapo. Okay uh, And
Speaker 17: and that that's pretty complicated. Your your allegation here is
Speaker 17: that functionally the sovereign state of Venezuela is a big
Speaker 17: drug cartel. That that's essentially what the allegation is, and
Speaker 17: that Maduro was in league with the cartels, that he
Speaker 17: was actively engaging in this drug trade and distribution, that
Speaker 17: he was taking money from it, and that he was
Speaker 17: using that, you know, to to buy weaponry and and
Speaker 17: all that other stuff, and and and those are those
Speaker 17: take more than a couple of days in court to
Speaker 17: sort of prove. And not only that, you've got to
Speaker 17: compile all of this evidence, you've got to give it
Speaker 17: to the defense. It's not an open and shut or
Speaker 17: it's not going to be quick from that regard. The
Speaker 17: sentence here potentially is he's looking at a minimum mandatory
Speaker 17: minimum of twenty years or in as high as a
Speaker 17: life sentence. And if you're Maduro and or his lawyers,
Speaker 17: you're just not going to agree to that, right. Uh,
Speaker 17: you know you're gonna say, Okay, well we're gonna we're
Speaker 17: gonna fight you on it. So yeah, if you're looking
Speaker 17: at going toe to toe the distance of this thing,
Speaker 17: it's gonna take a minute.
Speaker 1: So it does seem similar to you KNOWL chop Bone
Speaker 1: even even Noriega, I I would think, and it's it's
Speaker 1: and it's yes, it's not. So it's yeah, the drugs
Speaker 1: coming in that you know, the America believes are are
Speaker 1: killing our people. But also, as you mentioned, it's the
Speaker 1: sale of drugs to purchase weapons to do terrorist type things.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of the more the bigger
Speaker 1: charging this. So I'll ask you whether it is uh
Speaker 1: Noriega back in the nineties or El Chapo. Is there
Speaker 1: is it similar to is there precedent with how those
Speaker 1: cases went that you think could go make this case
Speaker 1: go the same way?
Speaker 2: Right? And and so a couple of things.
Speaker 17: For a lot of I think everybody the bigger questions
Speaker 17: about sort of how this came about. And you know,
Speaker 17: we obviously went, We obviously paid this man a visit
Speaker 17: at his house and made a house call, which was
Speaker 17: not in the United States, so you know, there's.
Speaker 2: Some issues there.
Speaker 17: So legally speaking, our Congress passed the law that said
Speaker 17: we can go get you, okay, if you're in another country,
Speaker 17: it is not against American law to go into another
Speaker 17: sovereign country and to get you.
Speaker 2: Now there maybe there's an international law issues.
Speaker 17: Maybe there's not un licensed in Texas, not Caracas, Venezuela.
Speaker 17: So I couldn't tell you whether or not it violates
Speaker 17: international law. I think there's a lot of arguments that
Speaker 17: it does. You know, we wouldn't really love it if
Speaker 17: Kim Jong un went and kidnapped or arrested the president
Speaker 17: of South Korea. We'd probably have a problem with that.
Speaker 17: And they say, well, but it's legal here in North Korea. Okay, fine,
Speaker 17: I mean in America, the doctrine is called the Kerr
Speaker 17: Frisbee doctrine. This will be on your final Okay, the.
Speaker 2: Kerr Frisbee one R.
Speaker 17: And those are cases that go all the way back
Speaker 17: to the eighteen hundreds, and those cases say, if you're
Speaker 17: in an American court, we've got jurisdiction. It doesn't matter
Speaker 17: how you got here. So the Latin translation is literally
Speaker 17: bad capture.
Speaker 2: Good legal action.
Speaker 17: So in other words, the court's not gonna get he
Speaker 17: came into court today and said I got kidnapped.
Speaker 2: Nobody gives a you know what about that? In federal
Speaker 2: district court, none of that matters.
Speaker 4: Well, what about the wife? Just kind of the spur
Speaker 4: off of that, I don't know what. What would you
Speaker 4: charge her with. I have no clue on that, just
Speaker 4: accessory after the fact or what.
Speaker 2: We hadn't seen any evidence of it, and you.
Speaker 17: Would think that they have some These are these indictments
Speaker 17: stem back from twenty twenty, the first time Trump was
Speaker 17: in office. I believe they added additional counts to them
Speaker 17: just last week and added her as a co conspirator
Speaker 17: last week.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 17: I'm assuming we'll learn a lot of times it's not
Speaker 17: uncommon for spouses to sort of, you know, be involved
Speaker 17: in one another's shenanigans like this. So if she's got
Speaker 17: some complicit complicity here, well we'll see it may be
Speaker 17: much less you would think it probably would be.
Speaker 2: But but again we're guessing.
Speaker 1: So, Jeremy, if you were defending him, what would your
Speaker 1: case be that, Look, you can't just come into it.
Speaker 1: You're going to think we're I'm a bad guy all
Speaker 1: you want, but you can't just come into our sovereign
Speaker 1: country and and take me out and put me up
Speaker 1: in your court system. Is that going to be the
Speaker 1: main line of the defense here.
Speaker 17: You can try that, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 17: how successful you'll be with it. The first thing I
Speaker 17: would do if I'm defending this guy is I would
Speaker 17: have about seventy eight pages in my contract dedicated to
Speaker 17: I'm not being paid with drug money and the government
Speaker 17: can't seize it. So that's a thing in criminal defense.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 17: You know, if somebody shows up to your office with
Speaker 17: a bunch of briefcases.
Speaker 2: You know, you're a lawyer, and.
Speaker 17: You know you think, yes, right, you gotta hope the
Speaker 17: booger sugar is not just dripping off the stuff, you know,
Speaker 17: so you gotta, you know, you gotta, you gotta think
Speaker 17: about it because because the government can seize it, you know,
Speaker 17: it's drug money, and that that that that that really
Speaker 17: sucks for you. I mean, they're not going to throw
Speaker 17: the lawyer in jail, probably, but but it's still kind
Speaker 17: of sucks to.
Speaker 2: Have, you know, a couple of million taken out of.
Speaker 17: Your bank account. That that's a hard conversation with the wife.
Speaker 3: So right, yeah, so so.
Speaker 2: That that that's challenge there. But okay, so so.
Speaker 17: So putting my lawyer hat on here and just kind
Speaker 17: of thinking through some of the problems if I'm defending
Speaker 17: this case and my client lived in Cincinnati, kind of
Speaker 17: like where Brendan Soursby is going to let's say that,
Speaker 17: let's say that you know, my client lives in Cincinnati,
Speaker 17: and and in that instance, I'm looking at search and
Speaker 17: seizure issues.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 17: The government's got to get a warrant to listen to
Speaker 17: my conversations.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 17: So, but we're allowed to wire tap a foreign sovereign,
Speaker 17: aren't we.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of part of it.
Speaker 17: So the Fourth Amendment I don't think is going to
Speaker 17: protect Maduro. He was not on US soil, and he
Speaker 17: has no expectation of privacy. He's not a US citizen
Speaker 17: abroad or or anywhere controlled by America. So we're learning
Speaker 17: things because we're wire tapping and spying on him.
Speaker 2: That's going to be fair game. And and that makes
Speaker 2: a that's a.
Speaker 17: Huge, huge challenge in cases like this. In federal drug conspiracies,
Speaker 17: it is not uncommon for the DEA or the FBI
Speaker 17: to basically have four thousand recordings on audio and they
Speaker 17: come and tell the lawyer, look.
Speaker 2: Man, here's the here's what.
Speaker 17: We'll give you the top two hundred or three hundred,
Speaker 17: because if you really want them all, we'll let you
Speaker 17: have them all, or you can come up here and
Speaker 17: listen to them all, you know, but we're there. These
Speaker 17: are just the first top seventy that we're going to
Speaker 17: play in court.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 17: I was hearing Casey kasem on iHeart. I was hearing
Speaker 17: that commercial about the top forty.
Speaker 2: The lower the number, the bigger the hit, you know.
Speaker 17: So so right, you know, so most of the time,
Speaker 17: this evidence is going to be really overwhelming, and you're
Speaker 17: always looking.
Speaker 2: To attack how did they attain it?
Speaker 17: And you're always looking for Fourth Amendment issues or other
Speaker 17: search and seizure issues or other computer forensic issues. And
Speaker 17: if I'm his lawyer, man, I just don't I don't
Speaker 17: see a lot of.
Speaker 4: That in your opinion? Is there going to be is
Speaker 4: he Is there any basis for him to try to
Speaker 4: strike a deal to get out of this whole thing?
Speaker 4: I don't see it.
Speaker 17: Well, okay, So the Harnduran president got pardoned last month
Speaker 17: from a for ex president got pardoned last month from
Speaker 17: a forty year sentence, forty five year sentence.
Speaker 2: You know, Maduro.
Speaker 17: If I'm Maduro, I'm calling Trump and saying, guess what
Speaker 17: I get it now? And how about I go back
Speaker 17: to Venezuela and we open up a big gas airport
Speaker 17: for you, and and we'll detain what you can send
Speaker 17: your people. You can, we'll put a military base here
Speaker 17: for you. Will you know have about some oil?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: That was the one boom?
Speaker 17: You know, I know a place, I know, I know,
Speaker 17: I know, I know a way for you guys to
Speaker 17: do that. And then and then look at his split
Speaker 17: he gets pardoned maybe if that's that's what I'm doing,
Speaker 17: if I'm him.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, So at what point does that happen?
Speaker 1: Because I know, I guess you appeared in court today
Speaker 1: and he of course pled not guilty and and all that.
Speaker 3: So what gives us a little timeline here?
Speaker 17: Well, you never know that the speed of business, you know. Uh,
Speaker 17: if I'm Trump, I let him sit in and twist
Speaker 17: if any and I'll tell you what say and people say,
Speaker 17: and and I'm a lawyer, not a politician, but you
Speaker 17: know in my I'll tell you this, if if anybody
Speaker 17: can do a one eighty on this, uh and say okay,
Speaker 17: we got this guy's attention, and now we're going to
Speaker 17: put him to work for us.
Speaker 2: I think that could be Trump, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And and and maybe that takes a month. Maybe that
Speaker 2: never happens.
Speaker 17: Right, maybe maybe maybe we see that that what Maduro
Speaker 17: has done is ridiculously unforgivable, and and maybe we throw
Speaker 17: the book at him.
Speaker 2: But he certainly got a lot.
Speaker 17: I mean, look, he's he's you know, one day he's
Speaker 17: running a country and the next day he is, you know,
Speaker 17: in the Federal District of New York.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we we don't know what what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 17: Politically, the longer he's here in New York in prison,
Speaker 17: the longer and the more the more the leadership behind
Speaker 17: him grows roots, right, even though they're they're condemning us,
Speaker 17: and they're they're saying this and that and chicken fat
Speaker 17: and how.
Speaker 2: Terrible we are.
Speaker 17: You know, maybe the maybe whoever the vice president is
Speaker 17: kind of digging the new gig right, and uh and
Speaker 17: then and then Maduro Maduro doesn't have any power when
Speaker 17: he comes back. So yeah, I would say time's pretty important.
Speaker 4: All right with that, Jeremy, we will let you go.
Speaker 4: Do you want to apologize now to the people of
Speaker 4: Cincinnati for stealing the U Red Raiders?
Speaker 17: Indeed, okay, yes, on behalf of Red Raider Nation, I
Speaker 17: apologize to Cincinnati. However, this is for the good of
Speaker 17: the Big twelve. If our quarterback didn't completely stink in the.
Speaker 2: Orange Bowl, we wouldn't eat your guy.
Speaker 17: I'm sorry, okay, but looks Texas.
Speaker 2: I want to bring that about that Nike.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we found out that Nike money spends better than
Speaker 17: oil money at the Orange Bowl.
Speaker 3: So it's the American way by players buye oil. Whatever
Speaker 3: we gotta do, Erica USA.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see you, Joe Jammy the best. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1: Uh you got you got to tell him what he
Speaker 1: said to you when you asked him to come on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 4: He said, well, I sent him a text and I said, uh,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, just whatever you want to how you doing.
Speaker 3: I want to come on today?
Speaker 4: And he said, ordinarily I wouldn't, but I feel bad
Speaker 4: for you guys because my Red Raiders told UC's quarterback
Speaker 4: and I said, a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Five mil man. I heard that.
Speaker 1: Now, you don't know if that's the number, because I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of these and aisle numbers just
Speaker 1: from talking with people, especially over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: It's the agents.
Speaker 1: Are the ones putting out the number and they're going
Speaker 1: to inflate that number because they want more business. So
Speaker 1: sometimes the actual number isn't what's reported, but who knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is by all accounts deemed the he
Speaker 1: was the top quarterback in the portal.
Speaker 3: So good friend.
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Speaker 3: She'd dedicated her life to that.
Speaker 1: But even with that said, she had the last impact
Speaker 1: because of her beauty and talent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even I don't even remember her being
Speaker 4: a thing in the seventies. It seemed like that was,
Speaker 4: you know, early sixties, and all of a sudden she
Speaker 4: just switched to this whole animal thing and that was that.
Speaker 4: She didn't do anything anymore. But back to Billy Joel,
Speaker 4: you should watch that. There was a two part documentary.
Speaker 4: I think it was on HBO about Billy Joel. You know,
Speaker 4: you don't have to be a giant fan of his music,
Speaker 4: aren't because I'm not a giant Billy Joel fan. Obviously
Speaker 4: he's got some great songs. But man, what an interesting
Speaker 4: guy that he had a very interesting life.
Speaker 3: Really described.
Speaker 4: He kind and he was one of those guys that
Speaker 4: just kind of kept beating around and beaten around.
Speaker 3: And he the.
Speaker 4: Lady that he ended up marrying, they were the whole
Speaker 4: piano man, that is basically that's a true He wrote
Speaker 4: that about this this gig that he had at this bar,
Speaker 4: and that was true. It was you know, the guy
Speaker 4: knew he was lucky to have him laying there and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, and the waitresses practicing politics was his.
Speaker 4: Was the girl he ended up marrying, Oh wow. And she,
Speaker 4: you know, I guess she was always she'd get in
Speaker 4: arguments with customers and stuff, talking about politics and all
Speaker 4: that kind of crap and just every All the songs
Speaker 4: that he wrote are basically autobiographies. You know what I'm saying, Hey,
Speaker 4: look uh Lucy and the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles,
Speaker 4: great song. I don't think there was a guy on
Speaker 4: a you know, maybe if you were tripping, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: But but but almost all the songs that Billy Joel
Speaker 4: wrote were about something that happened in his.
Speaker 3: Life, and those are always the best songs, right.
Speaker 1: And that's the case I always make when we talk
Speaker 1: about AI and how AI songs are coming out and
Speaker 1: that some that sound really good.
Speaker 3: I often ask do we appreciate.
Speaker 1: Them and want to listen to them the same way,
Speaker 1: knowing that there's no real human story, real human thing
Speaker 1: that that happened in emotion that comes out. But but nevertheless, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's it. Yeah, I'm the same way with Billy Joe.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, he's fine. I don't you know
Speaker 1: love him.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things, right, And like I said,
Speaker 4: I gained a whole new appreciation for him because you go, yeah,
Speaker 4: knowing that that song, most of it is not made up.
Speaker 4: Let's put it that way for like a better way
Speaker 4: to put it, you know what I'm saying. So it's
Speaker 4: like writing a bunch of little books about your life.
Speaker 1: I had a country music writer, he's, you know, a
Speaker 1: songwriter down Nashville. Tell me it's he's like he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, thank god, there's hard times in
Speaker 1: life because use there would be no songs. He goes,
Speaker 1: that's where all the songs we write come from, right,
Speaker 1: or something that that happened, usually something bad, a breakup,
Speaker 1: you know, sometime in your life where you don't think
Speaker 1: you're nothing, you're never gonna make it. And it was
Speaker 1: always turn out to be the best ones.
Speaker 4: Well, when we did our Crazy Christmas Show with Willie,
Speaker 4: if you did hear it, you missed one. But one
Speaker 4: of the things Willy asked me and they're like, I
Speaker 4: want to die, ask you what's wrong with rock and
Speaker 4: roll music now?
Speaker 3: It's like, how much time have you said? I don't
Speaker 3: know what.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a pretty deep dive there. And but
Speaker 4: one of the things I thought of after the fact
Speaker 4: I wish I would have said, was, uh, well, because
Speaker 4: apparently life is too good now. We don't have enough
Speaker 4: heroin addicts who were beaten as a child kind of
Speaker 4: look at people like Kurt, Kurt Cobain and people like that.
Speaker 4: Guess what their lives, their young lives were screwed up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, like I said earlier, exactly, the best songs come
Speaker 1: from a lot of pain, and the best stories come
Speaker 1: from tragedy. So that's interesting. Yeah, I do guta say.
Speaker 1: Piano Man is one of those songs. I think I've
Speaker 1: heard so many times that I can't listen to it anymore.
Speaker 1: And I hate when people get that excited when it
Speaker 1: comes on, because my god, I've heard a song a
Speaker 1: million times in my life.
Speaker 4: I was probably a sophomore. You all right back with
Speaker 4: Eddie and Rocky coming up here after the top of
Speaker 4: the hour, after the news, we'll be talking to our
Speaker 4: good friend one more time.
Speaker 3: Dave lap him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wrap up the wrap up the year, and you
Speaker 4: know the whole thing with Miles Garrett and everybody make
Speaker 4: it a big deal out of that. I'll tell you
Speaker 4: the guy who I felt really good for, and yeah,
Speaker 4: obviously for the outcome not great for Bengals fans, but
Speaker 4: I felt good for the Browns kicker because that kid,
Speaker 4: yeah kid, that kid was completely responsible for losing the
Speaker 4: first game of the season with the Browns and the Bengals,
Speaker 4: and uh so I redemption for that kid. I mean,
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett, you kind of figure that was going to happen,
Speaker 4: but uh and did you hear what Michael Strahan said
Speaker 4: about it?
Speaker 3: Because he broke Straighthand's record, Uh yeah, straight hand and
Speaker 3: T J.
Speaker 4: Watt yes, and immediately said, well, you know how many games?
Speaker 4: How many games are in this season? See yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: to which would say to him yeah, but regardless, at
Speaker 4: the at the end of the day, he did say,
Speaker 4: look good for him, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pat on the back.
Speaker 1: Well, someone should obviously remind straight hand that the only
Speaker 1: reason he got is what twenty second sack was because
Speaker 1: Brett Favre took a dive.
Speaker 4: That's what I was telling I was telling deb that.
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't remember who who took the dive,
Speaker 4: but it was a big deal because it was like
Speaker 4: obviously he was like it just fell down to the
Speaker 4: ground and stray and touched him or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, I mean it was I remember when
Speaker 1: that happened to being like okay, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: in a way, it was like kind of cool that
Speaker 1: Brett Farre thought enough about him that he would do that,
Speaker 1: do that to it, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: but also like here's people that fight Scratch and Clauda,
Speaker 1: you know, the Kevin Greens and you know, of the world,
Speaker 1: and he gets a freebie.
Speaker 4: But whatever, well, and also let's while we're bringing up
Speaker 4: the football you were you were doing a game last night,
Speaker 4: so you didn't get to watch Did you see any
Speaker 4: of the raven Steelers game or did you lea see
Speaker 4: the replay of it or something.
Speaker 1: I saw the highlights when we got back to the hotel.
Speaker 1: By the way, the game, I had unbelievable game. So
Speaker 1: I had the Stag Bowl, which is the Division III
Speaker 1: national title. And uh, first of all, it's cool Division
Speaker 1: three And I said this on the broadcast last night,
Speaker 1: maybe the last true you know, like I mean, just
Speaker 1: the purest form of football left. I mean, there's nil
Speaker 1: in high school anymore. Right, there's forty six of the
Speaker 1: fifty states allow nil. There's something that's starting to go
Speaker 1: on and creep into high school football. But Division three,
Speaker 1: no one's getting paid, right, the players aren't. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it was North Central had been the sixth straight Stag
Speaker 1: Bulls versus Wisconsin River Falls, who hadn't been in the
Speaker 1: playoffs since nineteen ninety six, right, so twenty nine years
Speaker 1: and River Falls went in and beat them. Man, it
Speaker 1: was an incredible game anyway, that was in a side.
Speaker 1: But after the game, I saw the highlights of the
Speaker 1: Ravens Steelers game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I bring up the Browns kicker. How about
Speaker 4: how about the Ravens kicker?
Speaker 2: That guy?
Speaker 1: Just I know, I felt my wife, god lover, she
Speaker 1: is one who I mean, if there's ever like a
Speaker 1: like a therapy animal for kickers, I think she would
Speaker 1: sign up for it because, like she just thinks that's
Speaker 1: just the cruelest, most awful, unfair thing in the world
Speaker 1: that the game comes down to the kicker, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, they don't do anything all day, would kick,
Speaker 1: They should be able.
Speaker 3: To kick the ball. She don't see it that way. Well,
Speaker 3: very tender heart.
Speaker 4: She's actually kicking on that field and in that notorious
Speaker 4: in the Steelers. The field there is that notorious for
Speaker 4: being just absolutely absolutely cruddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I played on It's yeah, it's kind of rough
Speaker 1: side for sure.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's yeah, tough one.
Speaker 1: But I know, uh, you know, Bengals fans were probably
Speaker 1: more sorry than anything that Bengals amas want to see
Speaker 1: the Ravens go before the Steelers, right, I.
Speaker 3: Would think so.
Speaker 4: Well, I see if I tell my wife, and my
Speaker 4: wife always tells me to shut up when I say
Speaker 4: a game like this, I'm just I'll love it for
Speaker 4: a lot of injuries.
Speaker 3: She's like, you're all bad.
Speaker 11: With that.
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Speaker 9: News Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred w l W, Cincinnati,
Speaker 9: a decision on Zach Taylor. This is the five o'clock report.
Speaker 9: I'm Matt Reeves breaking now. Bengals owner Mike Brown announcing
Speaker 9: today he supports coach Zach Taylor and the teams director
Speaker 9: of player personnel Duke Tobin. Mike Brown announcing Taylor, Tobin,
Speaker 9: we'll be back in twenty twenty six, saying he's confident
Speaker 9: they are the right leaders to guide the team forward
Speaker 9: as this Coach Taylor during his news conferences past hour.
Speaker 3: The owner come out and say search positive.
Speaker 19: I'm appreciative of that, you know, And again, I think
Speaker 19: when you're you're aligned and you get together like we
Speaker 19: get together and won the same page. I don't need
Speaker 19: those things said about me, but but it's certainly helpful
Speaker 19: as we move forward and provides clarity, and so again,
Speaker 19: appreciative that you need that.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't need that.
Speaker 6: I felt.
Speaker 2: I've had plenty with conversations.
Speaker 11: And reaction to Mike Brown's decision, saying.
Speaker 20: That he had confidence in Zach Taylor and Duke Tobin,
Speaker 20: which I think are probably two of the things that
Speaker 20: are holding the team back in general. It's just it's
Speaker 20: just not a good look moving forward.
Speaker 11: Sean Brand says Zach Taylor should have been fired after
Speaker 11: Sunday's loss with the Browns. He reacted to Mike Brown's
Speaker 11: statement today and.
Speaker 20: The end the season like that, after you know, playing
Speaker 20: well the couple previous weeks. It just it wasn't a
Speaker 20: good look to end the season. Doesn't really give me
Speaker 20: confidence for next season.
Speaker 11: Brand Patrick Sports Bar and Grill on Crook Shank Road
Speaker 11: on the West Side, says the fate of the team
Speaker 11: will once again be thrown on Joe Burrows's shoulders, and
Speaker 11: that's how Bengals fans will live and die. Tim Wilson
Speaker 11: also at Patrick's behind my Brown, I'm.
Speaker 21: Glad to see that Zach will be bad and hopefully
Speaker 21: you can get it done and we will be in
Speaker 21: the playoffs next year. But as far as what Mike
Speaker 21: Brown just released, I like everything you just said.
Speaker 3: A lot of people might disagree.
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Speaker 11: Temperature of springlight fifty three degrees and Cincinnati. And update
Speaker 11: on the case of all those dead vultures. Is found
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Speaker 11: Claremont County Public Health confirms bird flu was found in
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Speaker 11: at the Vice President's house at East Walnut Hills. Twenty
Speaker 11: six year old man from the East side of the
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Speaker 22: The charges include vandalism, criminal damaging and obstructing official business.
Speaker 22: Hyde Park man is behind bars for busting windows out
Speaker 22: at the East Wallet Hills Home.
Speaker 3: Vice president JD.
Speaker 22: Vance Vans had spent the holidays at the home before
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Speaker 22: Suspects identified as twenty six year old William de four
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Speaker 22: of behavior. Pleaded guilty last year to busting out the
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Speaker 11: So Wenever, w wel do Brody Hinton Junior is not
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Speaker 4: All right back with Eddian Rockey and Rock. How about
Speaker 4: we do it one more time?
Speaker 1: Yes, let's do it for old time's sake. Here in
Speaker 1: this season. It was a rough season ed, but you
Speaker 1: got to finish it off the way. We started by
Speaker 1: talking to our next guest, and he saw every last
Speaker 1: second of it. He is our good friend, Dave Lapham
Speaker 1: lap How are we.
Speaker 2: Looking, gentlemen, How the heck you doing today?
Speaker 3: You tell us?
Speaker 2: Lap?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 4: What a bitter, sweet, weird end of the season yesterday?
Speaker 24: Yuh yeah, it was, Uh, it was a roller coaster.
Speaker 24: It kind of a represented It was kind of a
Speaker 24: good representation what the season was like.
Speaker 2: I mean, they.
Speaker 24: Had really good moments, they had terrible moments, and they had,
Speaker 24: you know, moments that were just okay, And that's kind
Speaker 24: of how the season went. And ultimately as a result
Speaker 24: of that, you go six and eleven. But you know,
Speaker 24: yesterday it was it was the three t's. It was turnovers.
Speaker 24: Of course, they had the bumble that was returned for
Speaker 24: a touchdown. They had an interception that was a turn
Speaker 24: for a touchdown. You know, they went minus one in
Speaker 24: the turnover department, So that, uh, that was that was tough.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 24: When you have two taken back for scores, you're not
Speaker 24: gonna win at any level, you know, high school, college,
Speaker 24: national Football League. You just you're just not gonna win
Speaker 24: third down, you know. They they had their good moments
Speaker 24: with some third down conversions and bat and ugly ones
Speaker 24: and kind of in between as well. And it's it's
Speaker 24: kind of it's a pattern of the game. I mean,
Speaker 24: Zach said that basically this is loose translation, loose interpretation
Speaker 24: what he said, but he said, you know, literally, we
Speaker 24: deserve what we got.
Speaker 2: I mean, we.
Speaker 24: Played inconsistent football and lost the football game. Well, you
Speaker 24: can kind of project that to the whole season. I mean,
Speaker 24: they played inconsistent football. They had stretches where they played
Speaker 24: well and stretches where they certainly didn't. I mean, yep,
Speaker 24: you know yesterday, Shoot, if they won they won three
Speaker 24: in a row and gone five four and two in
Speaker 24: the division. But they didn't, and they finished three and
Speaker 24: three in the division. They lose the last game of
Speaker 24: the season, and would have been good to win three
Speaker 24: in a row and gone in a high note, you know,
Speaker 24: a little little bit of something to look forward to,
Speaker 24: a foundation for twenty twenty seven and get the fan
Speaker 24: base excited about it.
Speaker 3: Well, Love, I gotta tell you a funny story.
Speaker 1: I was actually listening to your broadcast and in great
Speaker 1: job as always, because I was driving up to Canton
Speaker 1: during the game, and you know when in the interception
Speaker 1: the pick six happened, and then I had to you know,
Speaker 1: I had to take a phone call real quick. And
Speaker 1: when I come back, you guys were talking about the
Speaker 1: Browns defensive score and I was like, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of you know, revisiting that. I didn't realize there was
Speaker 1: it has happened a second time the fumble return. I
Speaker 1: was like, man, these guys are really really calling this story.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was.
Speaker 1: Amazing, but no, it was it actually happened two times.
Speaker 1: That was that was funny. I laughed to myself.
Speaker 24: Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, two defensive scores in
Speaker 24: about a two minute time frame. Yeah, to be an
Speaker 24: NFL record. I mean I've never seen it before, never
Speaker 24: seen it at any level high school.
Speaker 3: I don't think you ever see it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 24: The only way I'd like to see it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, maybe that'll happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe so so Lap, what with this season being done,
Speaker 1: give us one thing you're hopeful for in this Bengals
Speaker 1: off season. Anything come to mind. I know it's early,
Speaker 1: but anything come to mind of what you know? Maybe
Speaker 1: you know priority number one needs to be for this
Speaker 1: team next year.
Speaker 24: Yeah, it's it's it's interesting. I think the priority number
Speaker 24: one has to be the development of the of the
Speaker 24: young base of players that they've got. You know, they
Speaker 24: do have some some young talent in the football team.
Speaker 2: This year's draft was pretty productive.
Speaker 24: They've they've they went out and they got some young
Speaker 24: free agents that they signed in free agency, and they
Speaker 24: have first and second year players that they drafted. But
Speaker 24: I think are going to be pretty good football players.
Speaker 24: So I think the onus is on the organization, the coaches,
Speaker 24: everybody to to develop these guys and let them help
Speaker 24: them reach their full potential.
Speaker 2: They're they're close. You know, there are some holes, you know.
Speaker 24: I think up the middle defensively is where holes might
Speaker 24: be in terms of numbers of players. You like to
Speaker 24: have a rotation of multiple defensive lineman. Then they do.
Speaker 24: I mean, they've got guys that can play, but they
Speaker 24: have the tenth pick of the draft. So with that
Speaker 24: tenth pick of the draft, if there's an edge player
Speaker 24: or a defensive tackle play available, that that's where I
Speaker 24: would focus.
Speaker 2: That's where I would I would look to go.
Speaker 24: You know, if if four edge guys are already gone
Speaker 24: and there's only one defensive tackle, the best defensive tackle
Speaker 24: and draft is gone, you get the second best one
Speaker 24: on the board.
Speaker 2: I jump on that.
Speaker 24: But you know, if in fact, you know, say a
Speaker 24: couple of edge guys and a couple of defensive tackles
Speaker 24: are gone, the third best edge rush guys are better
Speaker 24: than the third best defensive tackle, that's where you go obviously.
Speaker 24: But I would I would definitely look to beef up
Speaker 24: the defensive line. I think the offensive line is is.
Speaker 2: Is pretty solid.
Speaker 24: I think they're they're you know, they're not like a
Speaker 24: bunch of Pro bowlers, But I think they played pretty
Speaker 24: effectively together. I think that you know, they they play
Speaker 24: as a as as a unity. They have a good
Speaker 24: feel for each other what to expect from a guy
Speaker 24: right next to you when stunts and twists and blitzes
Speaker 24: and all that's going on. But if again, at the
Speaker 24: tenth pick if the defensive line for whatever reason, if
Speaker 24: say in the first ten picks, three defensive tackles, three
Speaker 24: defensive ends are off the board and the number one
Speaker 24: offensive tackle is still out there in the draft, shoot
Speaker 24: and he slides to number ten, you get to jump
Speaker 24: on that bad boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's the issue to me, lap is there's so many holes.
Speaker 1: It's not like there's one hole of field D line
Speaker 1: and there. I will say this and the Bengals have
Speaker 1: the tenth pick this and from my view, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be got a ton of like great players. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think last year, if you compared to
Speaker 1: other drafts of talent perspective, maybe a little bit light.
Speaker 1: But I think this year is going to be something else.
Speaker 1: They would do worse getting that defensive end from Miami.
Speaker 1: Ruben Bain that he is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I doubt it was the first person that came to
Speaker 4: my mind after watching him play.
Speaker 25: Man.
Speaker 1: I know they don't have the prototypical size Bengals like
Speaker 1: at the end, but the production is there.
Speaker 3: Man, geez, that guy is unblockable.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you have a.
Speaker 24: Guy like that, you know, it makes it makes it
Speaker 24: an eager decision. And you know, the factor is that
Speaker 24: they've got a bunch of cat money too. They're in
Speaker 24: the top ten in cat money that they're going to
Speaker 24: be rolling over. And then the salary cap for the
Speaker 24: following year, twenty twenty seven is going to come out,
Speaker 24: and you know, now they're I mean, I should say
Speaker 24: for twenty twenty six is going to come out. Now
Speaker 24: the money they have left over from twenty twenty five
Speaker 24: and what they add to it in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 24: they're going to be able to go out and get
Speaker 24: themselves some pretty significant free agents as well, you know
Speaker 24: from other teams, veteran free agents, and they can beef
Speaker 24: up the defensive and offensive minest by going that avenue
Speaker 24: as well and gets yourself some good talent.
Speaker 4: Let me ask both of you guys. Back in the day,
Speaker 4: I think that there were and there was no secret
Speaker 4: that there were a lot of the big the big
Speaker 4: guy free agents were kind of, uh, I don't know,
Speaker 4: hesitant to come here. What it seems like to me
Speaker 4: that's all changed and uh, it would seem to be
Speaker 4: there's been people just they would die to play here.
Speaker 1: Is that that's not the worst thing?
Speaker 24: Yeah, yeah, I agree, you know, Joe Burrow is Uh,
Speaker 24: is is the man. Uh, he's the He's the guy.
Speaker 24: He's he's the kingpin. He's carrying that franchise on his shoulders.
Speaker 24: He's it's not the best quarterback in the NFL, and
Speaker 24: I think he is.
Speaker 2: He's in the top two or three. It doesn't take.
Speaker 24: Long, no doubt, call roll and uh, you know he's
Speaker 24: got all the talents that you want, arm, talent, size,
Speaker 24: Uh you know he can he can.
Speaker 2: Create an extend plays.
Speaker 24: He's got pretty good feet, good foot speed, good foot quickness.
Speaker 24: Uh like to have him have a healthy season, man,
Speaker 24: I'd like to I'd like to say, see what football
Speaker 24: guy say this year in twenty twenty six, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 24: you are not going to suffer any significant injury whatsoever,
Speaker 24: any injury whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Talking about talking about burrow foot speed though that that
Speaker 4: was kind of It was comical yesterday to see him
Speaker 4: look over his shoulder and see Miles Garrett about five
Speaker 4: feet behind him and going like yeah and putting his
Speaker 4: putting his he put his foot his pedal to the
Speaker 4: metal right then son, he did, and then he.
Speaker 2: Then he slid.
Speaker 24: You know, I better take it, I better take go
Speaker 24: to the ground to where it's safe and sound, you know,
Speaker 24: and not take a take the hit.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Miles Garrett, how about him?
Speaker 24: The national story was, well, he get the sack, and
Speaker 24: he got it, you know, he did it, and uh
Speaker 24: you got gotta give him credit.
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, he's a lot.
Speaker 1: During during your broadcast, Dan Horden mentioned a guy for
Speaker 1: the Bengals who you played with that had would have
Speaker 1: been a sack record, but it was before the NFL
Speaker 1: kept sacked.
Speaker 3: Remind me of his name, right, Coy Bacon, Koy Bacon,
Speaker 3: and talk about him. What kind of player was he?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, unbelievable.
Speaker 24: He was a genetic Creek guy before there were genetic creaks.
Speaker 24: And the thing about Coy is it was it was
Speaker 24: all natural. I mean he he never I never saw
Speaker 24: the guy in the weight room and I was in
Speaker 24: there a lot times and he never lifted weights.
Speaker 2: Man, But he was just naturally strong as a knox man.
Speaker 24: He could plow a field without a horse, you know,
Speaker 24: that type of just natural body strength. And uh man,
Speaker 24: he just he was thick, broad wide strong, and he
Speaker 24: had quickness. I mean, you know, his first step quickness
Speaker 24: was amazing. He'd get on your edge, get on your shoulder,
Speaker 24: you know, really quick. He had excellent hands. Man, he
Speaker 24: would swim, you know, swim, move over the top of you.
Speaker 24: He'd ripped with the uppercut and uh and then if
Speaker 24: he wanted the bull rusher because he played about two
Speaker 24: seventy five to two. I mean he was a big
Speaker 24: boy and uh you know he heat stick his helmet
Speaker 24: right in the middle of your chest and knock you back.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was a load coy bacon. He
Speaker 2: hit some.
Speaker 24: He had some great stories. He and Big Bob Brown.
Speaker 24: Remember we traded for Big Bob Brown at the end
Speaker 24: of his career for the Green Bay Packers. And those
Speaker 24: two guys, Man, nobody best with those two guys in
Speaker 24: the locker room.
Speaker 2: Man, they owned that bad boy.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at his his measurable as here lobby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to your point, he was six four, two seventy five
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six when there wasn't.
Speaker 3: As many men that big running around.
Speaker 1: On the field, right, that's you know, still a big
Speaker 1: boy from nineteen seventy six who didn't lift weights.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 24: Yeah, he was like he was like, who is this guy?
Speaker 24: You know, He's like he's bigger, faster, you know, quicker,
Speaker 24: stronger than everybody. The Good Lord blessed him, boy, and
Speaker 24: he had a he had. He had a great career.
Speaker 24: There's there's no doubt about it. He played well for
Speaker 24: the Chargers and uh and the Cincinnati Bengals, and yeah,
Speaker 24: I mean he had hit it over a twenty sax
Speaker 24: season in you know, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: I mean that what fourteen games then right lap twelve
Speaker 1: fourteen fourteen games by.
Speaker 3: The fourteen Yeah, fourteen fourteen games and uh only.
Speaker 24: Through it like twenty twenty five times a game. It
Speaker 24: wasn't these wide as offensive. You know, they're throwing forty
Speaker 24: forty five fifty times in a game. So you know,
Speaker 24: he had a twenty sax season with you know, less
Speaker 24: than half of the opportunities because they were throwing the
Speaker 24: ball as much.
Speaker 2: And he was something they they.
Speaker 24: Opposing teams double teamed him every single pass play, every
Speaker 24: single snap basically, and uh sometimes triple team him. I
Speaker 24: mean they'd have a guard and attack on him and
Speaker 24: then the back to chip him. And they wanted to
Speaker 24: make sure that Coy was not going to you know,
Speaker 24: wreck the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at pictures online here lap, And he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that, like, at you know, age
Speaker 1: twenty six, looked like he was forty eight years old.
Speaker 3: I mean just I mean.
Speaker 1: Receding hairline, big old handlebar mustache has looked like he
Speaker 1: was fifty years old.
Speaker 3: He's twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he was. He was something else.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: He enjoyed, Uh he enjoyed an adult beverage and uh
Speaker 2: oh that a little yeah, a little bit of uh
Speaker 2: bourbon and whiskey to go with that beer. That adult beverage.
Speaker 2: So wow, uh that may have that may have aged
Speaker 2: him a little bit too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 24: I was more older than he was gat player, I
Speaker 24: mean not good.
Speaker 4: He was great with with that lap. We will let
Speaker 4: you go. What's on the big show tonight?
Speaker 24: Yeah, We've got uh, we've got all the all the
Speaker 24: post games. Sound a little bit from everybody, but Chase
Speaker 24: Brown was really good with me. Went get into I
Speaker 24: heard yeah yeah, the season that he had, you know,
Speaker 24: running the football, catching the football out of the backfield.
Speaker 24: Joe Burrow I had a lot of trust and faith
Speaker 24: in him and respected him as a as a receiver.
Speaker 24: And the biggest thing was the Blitz pick up and
Speaker 24: he'd stick his nose in there in the chest of
Speaker 24: linebackers and safeties and and do a big time job.
Speaker 24: So also we got you know a lot of comments.
Speaker 24: Uh it was that tail. We've broken it down into
Speaker 24: a couple of segments.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: His his postgame press conference, Joe Burrow. There's a there's
Speaker 2: a good Lindry list. It's uh, it's it's worth to listen.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know, be on tonight from from six to night.
Speaker 4: All right, buddy, awesome lap Thanks so much, buddy, Always
Speaker 4: our pleasure having you on with us. We really appreciate buddy.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 24: Guys appreciate the opportunity to visit with a couple of
Speaker 24: not only football savants but good men.
Speaker 3: Oh five, you're the absolute best brother. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thanks you doing the great work.
Speaker 2: Take care of guys.
Speaker 4: Our good friend Dave Lapham And uh, it's I always
Speaker 4: love hearing him tell the stories of all that some
Speaker 4: of those old guys he used to play with. Man,
Speaker 4: that's that's when men were men back then, like you said,
Speaker 4: and who didn't lift weights and beers and just could
Speaker 4: beat everybody up, just beat everyone's ass.
Speaker 1: When I played, there was you know, there was less
Speaker 1: and less people that didn't lift weights. But by that time,
Speaker 1: you know, two thousands people were lifting, but there was
Speaker 1: a cup nex steeping there.
Speaker 3: They never lifted a weight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was and he was older at that point,
Speaker 1: and he was kind of from that era where I thought, I,
Speaker 1: you lift weights, made you bulky.
Speaker 3: And why like that's not fun? Why should I do that?
Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 4: Right back with Eddie and Rocky and rock we were
Speaker 4: we talked earlier about the Maduro situation and the arrest
Speaker 4: and all that stuff, and well we haven't talked about
Speaker 4: the ramifications as far as travel went, because I will
Speaker 4: tell you this, my son was coming back from he
Speaker 4: was down in Tampa, and I guess the whole Florida
Speaker 4: air traffic control system was kind of in a shambles
Speaker 4: all weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that whole operation was going on and shut
Speaker 1: down a lot of flights yep, yeah, especially international stuff.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about that with our good friend Alex Stone
Speaker 4: from ABC.
Speaker 3: Alex, what about it? Are we have? Has it all
Speaker 3: recovered from there yet?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 25: Unfortunately, so the airline said they're doing pretty well, but
Speaker 25: there are people who are stuck. So Friday night into
Speaker 25: Saturday morning, is that the operation was going down and
Speaker 25: then for hours after it all the airspace around the
Speaker 25: Caribbean was shut down by the FAA, so flights couldn't
Speaker 25: head two or from numerous Caribbean destinations on one of
Speaker 25: the busiest travel weekends of the year as everybody was
Speaker 25: heading home from their holidays. And yeah, a lot of
Speaker 25: people going on Saturday to try to have a day
Speaker 25: at home on Sunday before they went back to work
Speaker 25: today and they couldn't get out. So on Saturday, over
Speaker 25: eleven hundred flights were canceled. There were one hundreds yesterday.
Speaker 25: That has meant that people who were on a Caribbean
Speaker 25: vacation are stuck now onable to get a flight out.
Speaker 25: There just aren't available seats because the planes are full
Speaker 25: going out, they got to wait until there is a
Speaker 25: flight with an open seat. Nathan and Aaron, they live
Speaker 25: in Denver, and they say this is really bad. They're
Speaker 25: stuck for quite a while and they got to pay
Speaker 25: for their own hotel rooms everything. They can't get out.
Speaker 26: Well, we're happy to take whatever's available. This is unfortunately
Speaker 26: what we found. You know, we're not asked for anything,
Speaker 26: just a place to sleep, right, like to stay safe
Speaker 26: until we can get back to the airport to fly home.
Speaker 26: I don't think it's an unreasonable ask.
Speaker 25: So they were there celebrating her fortieth birthday in Saint
Speaker 25: Martin and United told them they can't get on another
Speaker 25: flight until maybe Wednesday, maybe Friday. And because this was
Speaker 25: not the airlines doing, carriers aren't paying for hotels or
Speaker 25: food or anything, so everyone's on their own. And hotels
Speaker 25: are already totally full and super expensive this time of
Speaker 25: the year. So they're shelling out about four thousand extra
Speaker 25: dollars for a hotel waiting to get a flight out,
Speaker 25: and they're angry. They say United wanted them to sleep
Speaker 25: at the airport and said that the airline's not going
Speaker 25: to pay for hotel, just sleep at the airport.
Speaker 26: It plays to be stuck in, but I mean, we're
Speaker 26: just trying to get home, and to expect us to
Speaker 26: just sleep in the airport for five days seems kind
Speaker 26: of absurd, but you know, yeah, seems to be the
Speaker 26: case with airline companies later that I don't know.
Speaker 25: So they're not alone. This guy is in Saint Lucia
Speaker 25: with his new wife. They just got married. They're from Ohio,
Speaker 25: and they have spent an extra five thousand dollars on
Speaker 25: hotels now and Saturday night their hotel made room for them,
Speaker 25: but on Sunday they were told you got to go
Speaker 25: now and find something else. They're already full. And they
Speaker 25: say that people are now chartering boats to go to
Speaker 25: other islands and to try to get to places where
Speaker 25: there are more flights. They are now finding it. They
Speaker 25: got to get home and maybe it's cheaper than paying
Speaker 25: for the hotels. Kind of hard to understand this guy on
Speaker 25: his connection, But this guy's from Ohio.
Speaker 7: I've heard that Dominican Republic has more life going.
Speaker 6: To the US than what we have here.
Speaker 24: There's only a handful of flights that stamp of the.
Speaker 26: Show with it being that's a fall light.
Speaker 25: So the airlines say they are flying, but they are
Speaker 25: so full. American he is the one that is really
Speaker 25: ramping up through the dominant carrier in Latin America. They've
Speaker 25: been flying in bigger bowing triple sevens to get more
Speaker 25: lyft so that they can get more people out of
Speaker 25: their more seats and get them to where they're trying
Speaker 25: to go. But people on other airlines that are not
Speaker 25: as dominant in Latin America, of United and Delta and Frontier,
Speaker 25: they say that they're waiting until maybe as late as
Speaker 25: Friday or even Saturday of next week, being told, hey,
Speaker 25: you pay for your own hotel and pay for your
Speaker 25: own food, and just wait, we'll get you on a
Speaker 25: flight when there's an open seat.
Speaker 4: That would suck amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow.
Speaker 4: And Alex with a few earlier in December, my wife
Speaker 4: and I were in Aruba, and I'm thinking, man, if
Speaker 4: the deal goes down, because there were already rumblings about it,
Speaker 4: if the deal goes down, because literally Aruba is you
Speaker 4: could almost Seevenzuela.
Speaker 3: From there right off the right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I'm like, if the deal goes down,
Speaker 4: we're going to be here a while because so I
Speaker 4: can understand exactly why these people must be going through.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I mean it's crazy now that they're going to
Speaker 25: people with boats and being like, hey, what would you
Speaker 25: charge me to bring me to Puerto Rico or somewhere else?
Speaker 25: Because Puerto Rico has most lights. That's where American is
Speaker 25: lying in the triple sevens, and the people are now
Speaker 25: going that route. But it is a mess. Yeah, it's
Speaker 25: not like it would have been if Chicago or Denver
Speaker 25: were shut down and then the airline is all messed
Speaker 25: up for days. The airline was able just to start
Speaker 25: up the flights again, but all of those flights were
Speaker 25: already full. So you know, if you've got a seven
Speaker 25: thirty seven going, well, let's say one hundred and sixty
Speaker 25: passengers on it, but every one of those seats are full,
Speaker 25: what do you do unless you bring in bigger planes,
Speaker 25: You wait until some flight over the next couple of
Speaker 25: weeks has a seat on it to put you on.
Speaker 4: All right, with the with that, God bless those people, well,
Speaker 4: you know that must be. It might suck to be
Speaker 4: trapped in the Caribbean this time of year if you
Speaker 4: live in Ohio like the one guy was. But still, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll go whatever, just sleep on the floor. You're fine, Alex.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it, man, you got it. Thanks gave our
Speaker 4: good friend Alex Stone.
Speaker 2: All right ed?
Speaker 3: And in other news, what do you got well rock?
Speaker 4: This This happened in India, of all places. This this
Speaker 4: happened last month. We're just catching up on a lot
Speaker 4: of this stuff.
Speaker 24: Now.
Speaker 3: I know you're you're not much on the heights, fair enough,
Speaker 3: the heights, we mean all the show.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, the oh I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go off.
Speaker 4: I have the vertigo thing, but heights don't bother me.
Speaker 4: But you know, if I it's a motion thing with
Speaker 4: me kind of right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Got the vertigo thing.
Speaker 20: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm not like super scared and
Speaker 1: hate them, but I don't love them, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll get on a roller coaster, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's not my eyes set.
Speaker 4: See, here's one of those things that I don't get
Speaker 4: the point at all. But this happened, like I said,
Speaker 4: it happened in India. This Uh, it's a it's a
Speaker 4: dining experience they call it. And what happened here is basically,
Speaker 4: you know, you have a big crane or something. It's
Speaker 4: the best way I can think that this imagined that
Speaker 4: this is happening. Big crane and it's got a platform
Speaker 4: on it and you and they haul you up with
Speaker 4: a full dining you know, you got the fancy dining
Speaker 4: thing there, so it must be a giant platform and
Speaker 4: they have like you know, hot boxes to call your
Speaker 4: food up in and they serve you this fancy meal
Speaker 4: while you're like one hundred and fifty feet in the air.
Speaker 4: Why oh, because you have too much money and you
Speaker 4: think I'd be cool to do.
Speaker 3: That's what it comes down.
Speaker 1: If you have so much money, they need to entertain
Speaker 1: themselves in peculiar ways.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm not going to sign up for it,
Speaker 3: but tell me about it.
Speaker 4: So anyways, so they do. They haul them up in
Speaker 4: the air like that. Two adults, two children, and a
Speaker 4: staff member obviously the waiter. The dining experience involves the
Speaker 4: Ukraine lifting a platform one hundred and fifty feet in
Speaker 4: the air, allowing diners blah blah blah the view. However,
Speaker 4: the hydraulic system powering the lift field, leaving the writers
Speaker 4: with no way to get down.
Speaker 3: Wow, so you're up there. There's no elevator there's no escalator.
Speaker 1: You got to wait till this crane lowers you.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: And so what they had to do was get firefighters there.
Speaker 4: But the giant well, you know, obviously the giant ladders
Speaker 4: put a harness on each person and lower them down.
Speaker 4: They didn't even climb down the they didn't climb down
Speaker 4: the ladder. They just tied them to ropes and lowered
Speaker 4: them down.
Speaker 3: Geez man, that's wild, dude. You said, one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty feet in the air. That's not that. That's not
Speaker 3: low man, that's that's up there a little bit.
Speaker 4: What hey, you ain't going to somebody falling, not at all.
Speaker 3: No, no, real real quick.
Speaker 1: You said you you ate it that there's like a
Speaker 1: fancy restaurant on the Eiffel Tower, right coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, you got the bill and you're like,
Speaker 3: gold well.
Speaker 4: That was on that was on our honeymoon, and so
Speaker 4: it was like our first night in Paris and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take you to the Eiffel Tower baby.
Speaker 1: It's right baby, and I'm gonna take you the Eiffel
Speaker 1: Tower again later.
Speaker 4: So it's uh yeah yeah. And uh so for one thing,
Speaker 4: where were late getting there? It's a long story. But
Speaker 4: we go in there and the guy who was waiting
Speaker 4: you go in and he's like a guy from Beauty
Speaker 4: and the Beast the ju And I'm like, okay, here,
Speaker 4: let it go. And uh so we go in there,
Speaker 4: and obviously it ain't going to be cheap. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 4: it's our honeymoon. Let's go. And so we get the
Speaker 4: whatever da la la la la, and get some wine
Speaker 4: and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 4: At the end, instead of a dessert when they come
Speaker 4: around with the dessert cart, but they have a cognac cart.
Speaker 4: So here and this is like two o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 4: and here's what I'm like, We're hey, let's be Parisians. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we we see see And uh so that's how they
Speaker 4: do it. So I'm getting Kangnac and those old nine
Speaker 4: yards and the bill comes and I looked at an
Speaker 4: All I did was laugh, pretty much all you can
Speaker 4: do at that stage of the game. You know, you're
Speaker 4: kind of you know, your butt cheeked deep in this thing.
Speaker 3: So what are you going to do? I ain't no
Speaker 3: giving it back? Yeah, And we.
Speaker 4: So we left there and had quite a buzz going on,
Speaker 4: and and that was that durry are drunk in Paris
Speaker 4: at three o'clock in the afternoon, trying to figure out
Speaker 4: what you're going to do next?
Speaker 1: Can can you share with us what what the actual
Speaker 1: bill was or give us a ballpark as I reckon
Speaker 1: for you and debt right, that's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I want to say it was in the neighborhood. I
Speaker 4: don't remember the exact figure, but I want to say
Speaker 4: it was in the neighborhood. Three fifty to four hundred
Speaker 4: dollars and that's in what year, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: So that's a foreign Bucks for dinner is a pretty
Speaker 1: big bill in ninety seven.
Speaker 3: For two people, for two people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's lunch, dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the thing. Yeah, it wasn't even like
Speaker 3: a fancy dinner's lunch.
Speaker 4: No, that was lunch.
Speaker 3: No, that's funny. You know what, But you got a
Speaker 3: good story out of it all these years later. It
Speaker 3: was worth it.
Speaker 4: No, that was it was my honeymoon. I was so happy.
Speaker 4: Times have changed. With that, we check and don't make
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