Speaker 1: Oh where is our Willie? He's absorbing much turkey and
Speaker 1: tripp to fans and start being in star SHOs like
Speaker 1: everybody else. Absolutely Stirling and Donnade hanging out beautiful Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: just after noon, eight after for Bill Conningham. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm happy. Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: You do have like a like a big glow of
Speaker 1: celebration and normally you're a little more mellow. You come in,
Speaker 1: You're like, I.
Speaker 2: Excited to see.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: You know, I love being on air on holidays.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 4: When you said you were on from twelve to four,
Speaker 4: I said, I can't do the full shift, but I
Speaker 4: will come on from twelve to two today because I
Speaker 4: always loved growing up the voices of the holiday season.
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving was a big one. Watch the Macy's Day Parade.
Speaker 4: Had it on this morning. Watch the Macy's Day Parade.
Speaker 4: So you get your favorite warning show hosts and radio
Speaker 4: personalities and everybody that like, it's just a special thing
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm happy to be here. I'm pretty geeked
Speaker 1: up too, glad to see you. Saw did Jack Crumley's here?
Speaker 1: Saw Dave Keaton? I think Liam's producing next, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot going on. Ricky Chino
Speaker 1: was then tagged out. Some people have shorter shows and
Speaker 1: others course Bengals on the road taking on the Ravens
Speaker 1: and charm City with Joe Burrow back under center. I'm
Speaker 1: thankful for the Bengals. Yes, I'm thankful for what was
Speaker 1: a very short playoff season for the Reds. I'm thankful
Speaker 1: for FC Cincinnati getting to the playoffs in the second
Speaker 1: round didn't quite work out for them. I'm thankful for you.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for many thanks. I'm very I am just
Speaker 1: I live in that space of just feeling good about
Speaker 1: what all is is around me, even when you.
Speaker 4: Look on social media on holidays like this, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Speaker 4: Easter is another heart you know, pull yeah heart strings
Speaker 4: and everybody is so like lovely and kind and nice
Speaker 4: for the most part. It's wonderful it is.
Speaker 1: And you travel a lot, and this is something We've
Speaker 1: talked about off the air a good bit and I'm
Speaker 1: sort of torn on it. When I was flying more
Speaker 1: and even now when it's just on occasion, it's usually
Speaker 1: get out of town and have a good time, maybe
Speaker 1: sometimes to see family and friends elsewhere. I inevitably find
Speaker 1: myself seating next to someone who is either it hasn't bathed.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they're nervous and it just oozes
Speaker 1: out of their pores in a stinky way. Sometimes there'll
Speaker 1: be the people who want to kick off their shoes
Speaker 1: or whatever else. I'm not saying that things. Civility may
Speaker 1: start with dress and respect for yourself and maybe respect
Speaker 1: for others. I'm about being comfortable. Believe me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily a suit and high type of guy
Speaker 1: unless I have to be. I wasn't around for the
Speaker 1: old days when flying was Fedora's and sue and cocktails
Speaker 1: and cigarettes in the sky in metal tubes filled with
Speaker 1: like smoke and hot like stewardesses, when it was more
Speaker 1: than just saving your life and everything else. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, different times, don at different times.
Speaker 4: Yes, I understand, and I do listen. I think I
Speaker 4: know what you're referring to, because we talked about it
Speaker 4: a second right before we got on air. US Transportation
Speaker 4: Secretary Sean Duffy says, basically.
Speaker 2: Americans should do better.
Speaker 4: They should dress better, because we're seeing a lot of
Speaker 4: videos of people fighting on planes, fighting this and that
Speaker 4: and everything else.
Speaker 2: But he has a point.
Speaker 4: I actually agree with him, because when you dress better,
Speaker 4: you look better, you feel better, you act better.
Speaker 2: That's just the bottom line. It's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you remember back in the days where
Speaker 4: traveling was like.
Speaker 2: It was like a reward. It was like, you know,
Speaker 2: it was like.
Speaker 4: Everyone would wear dresses and suits and get it was
Speaker 4: an occasion to get on a plane and go. And yeah,
Speaker 4: I think seeing people in their pajamas and slippers is
Speaker 4: a little it's a little bit of a bummer because yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, do better is what he's saying.
Speaker 2: And and I think we all.
Speaker 1: Can now, but see the required the thing is, though
Speaker 1: you got to then take off your shoes, You've got
Speaker 1: to take off your belt. Not everybody has that quick
Speaker 1: pre check scenario. Then it becomes even slower, it becomes
Speaker 1: a hassle. And who who was the I don't care
Speaker 1: if you have it.
Speaker 4: Does how convenient does your life have to be?
Speaker 2: Sterling?
Speaker 4: I mean, we we get door dat, we get food delivery,
Speaker 4: we get I mean, we don't have to go to
Speaker 4: the movies to see the biggest hits anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we get.
Speaker 4: Everything at our fingertips. Let's do a little bit better
Speaker 4: on the dress.
Speaker 1: Cod So you're saying that I am not dressed well
Speaker 1: enough to fly with Donna Dye? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1: I think you look appropriately.
Speaker 2: Stand up. Let me see. I did see you.
Speaker 1: I wear that I dressed for work. This is a workout,
Speaker 1: this is a work well looking at my butt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks good. Done it. I'm just kidding. It's a turkey.
Speaker 1: But you look perfectly fine. But not to fly the
Speaker 1: way you're describing it. No Fedora which would protect my ball?
Speaker 4: Do if you had a nice blazer on with that
Speaker 4: and some fun sneaks. What sneakers do you have on,
Speaker 4: eddiebo Okay? Yeah, if you put some fool cooler sneakers,
Speaker 4: those are good enough. Those look like hiking shoes, Sterling,
Speaker 4: They look like hiking shoes. Put some Adidas on with
Speaker 4: some stripes, and then put a cool jacket on, and
Speaker 4: you're good.
Speaker 2: You're good.
Speaker 4: You normally have a pretty good style. But you pick
Speaker 4: it up a little bit, that's all.
Speaker 1: Listen. I mean, I'm already spending money to fly. I'm
Speaker 1: already gonna have to wait through you know, maybe a layover,
Speaker 1: a delayed flight. The stinky guy next to me, And
Speaker 1: now you're telling me, even here, I'm not dressed appropriately.
Speaker 2: I was so there.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, so I got to wear a blazer,
Speaker 1: and I understand, but it's it's.
Speaker 4: Just cool to look a little bit more proper and
Speaker 4: then you can set the tone.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: They did a scientific experiment of some they actually it's
Speaker 4: been done so many times. This woman was dropping boxes
Speaker 4: all over and she was in this baggy sweatshirt and jacket.
Speaker 2: She almost looked like a homeless person.
Speaker 4: This really pretty young woman, right, and then nobody helped her.
Speaker 4: But then she had a dress on and heels and
Speaker 4: she was dropping these boxes and then everybody came over
Speaker 4: to help her. There's there's a certain level of respect
Speaker 4: that you have for yourself that people notice when you.
Speaker 4: You know, when you get it's not like you have to.
Speaker 1: Wear a suit, but you just so. What you're saying is, though,
Speaker 1: if you dress better, someone's more willing to help you
Speaker 1: because you figure, oh, you look homeless, like the guy
Speaker 1: who always sits next to me, I may have like
Speaker 1: a friend. On one side, I'm always unless I'm up front,
Speaker 1: which is occasional, rare, uh, And that I'm stuck with
Speaker 1: a stinky person. They if you dress better, you look better.
Speaker 1: We judge people instantly. We are esthetically judging people constantly,
Speaker 1: instant you know, assessment almost who they are, but almost
Speaker 1: in a.
Speaker 4: Good way, sterling because like if if you if you
Speaker 4: have somebody that walks in that looks like they've taken
Speaker 4: care of themselves, that looks like they've dressed well, they
Speaker 4: took you know, an hour to get ready.
Speaker 2: And you know what, yeah, not a pile of laundry.
Speaker 1: I mean you uge, like pull My clothes are not
Speaker 1: wrinkled other than the blazer, though I would be. I
Speaker 1: would fit into protocol to fly. And you think be
Speaker 1: respectable enough to not be a part.
Speaker 4: Of your cross Sneakers are fine there, you don't have slippers.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying you can hip it up a little right, right.
Speaker 1: All right, So here's the thing. Let's open the phones.
Speaker 1: It's Thanksgiving. We're thankful you're with us. Wherever you're going, mom's, dad's,
Speaker 1: grandma's grandpause. Maybe you're on the job like us, whether
Speaker 1: you're working first responders. I saw some stage troopers on
Speaker 1: the side of seventy five on the way down. They
Speaker 1: were working some people might have been in a hurry
Speaker 1: to go someplace, so they're just trying to slow people down.
Speaker 1: But we respect and appreciate you being out there. So
Speaker 1: I guess, how dressed up do you get to fly?
Speaker 1: And how much of a difference is it. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with relaxed and casual. I live business casual. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do too. I just suit and tie. If I'm
Speaker 1: getting cocktails in the air and it's more relaxed. And
Speaker 1: if I wasn't other than in business class or up
Speaker 1: front in a seat that made me feel like, even
Speaker 1: in my very s felt self might have had a
Speaker 1: problem sitting there. I add more layers and more dress.
Speaker 1: I'm more uncomfortable if you're making me more stress thinking
Speaker 1: about it, and then I gotta go, where's my blazer?
Speaker 1: I left my blazer on the plane? How do I
Speaker 1: get my blazer back? I mean, there's so many things,
Speaker 1: uh five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: The big one your chance to get interactive. How dressed
Speaker 1: up do you would that make flying easier on the
Speaker 1: way home from Thanksgiving? If people, I mean, there's no
Speaker 1: question you take yourself more seriously, arguably or at least
Speaker 1: dressed better than people do respect you better. Greg, You're
Speaker 1: with Stirling A. Donnade on the Big one, Richard after
Speaker 1: you and room for others here seven the Big One.
Speaker 1: Do you wear fedora? Do you wear a suit and high?
Speaker 1: How dressed up do you need to be to get
Speaker 1: on the goat? Hello there, Hey, Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. Hey.
Speaker 6: I'd like to expand this a little bit more too.
Speaker 6: I'm a I'm a retired registered nurse. And visitors in
Speaker 6: the hospital. I guess they think the hospital room now
Speaker 6: is like your hotel room. You know you you you
Speaker 6: rented the room, I guess. And it was nice during
Speaker 6: COVID because you know, they really restricted visitation and made
Speaker 6: life easy for all of us that were working the floor.
Speaker 1: But it was a pandemic a different times.
Speaker 2: Did they bring their bathrobes and put their sleep.
Speaker 6: They bring in picnic lunches. I'll tell you a story.
Speaker 6: I worked a night shift once and the lady was
Speaker 6: in there with her daughter and her stepson, and I
Speaker 6: guess that they had there's no visitors hours anymore. I
Speaker 6: guess you rent the hotel that you rent the room
Speaker 6: if you can stay, so you know they were staying
Speaker 6: in the room all night with the with the mom,
Speaker 6: I guess. And then I go in here at three
Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning and I go, where's your daughter
Speaker 6: and your step son? And she goes, oh, they're in
Speaker 6: the shower. I said, wait a minute, they're in the shower.
Speaker 6: This is three o'clock in the morning. And she said, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know they're in a relationship.
Speaker 1: So a relationship. I don't know what hospital you're talking of.
Speaker 1: There's some crazies. I've never been in a hospital situation
Speaker 1: like that. That's crazy. So that's a common place activity
Speaker 1: or your I mean, is that the irregular or very common.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: They I guess they figured it's you just can't greg.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the bod. Yeah, he basically was not paying directly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so why would they care? Yeah, so what do you do?
Speaker 4: I mean, he's right, he's taking it further. I do
Speaker 4: think that you don't need to be so comfortable. I
Speaker 4: went to a movie and saw the worst movie I
Speaker 4: told you, Long Legs with Nick Cage.
Speaker 1: Oh it was terrible, but that was a paycheck movie.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: These people down the aisle from me had pajamas, blankets,
Speaker 4: and I was like what in the world.
Speaker 1: People like to be comfort and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people feel like they're just in a bubble and
Speaker 1: they're kind of like, this is me in my life,
Speaker 1: in my world. But that's no different than people walking,
Speaker 1: whether they're on their device or otherwise. People seem to
Speaker 1: often be in a mode of oblivion when it comes
Speaker 1: to other people around them.
Speaker 4: Oblivious to be comfortable, But get out of your comfort
Speaker 4: zone when you're out and about and you're mingling with others.
Speaker 1: Some ties to fly. I mean showering in a the
Speaker 1: hospital room. It's not your own. It's just Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: just opportunistic, is what that is. Some weirdness. They had
Speaker 1: a weird fetish is what that was going on. And
Speaker 1: what we did at the hospital was like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to know what you did at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Did you get healthy? That's what you want to Owensville
Speaker 1: Richard was sterling and Donnadee on the Big One. How
Speaker 1: dressed up do you need to be to fly to
Speaker 1: travel or I guess to visit family and friends at
Speaker 1: the hospital.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll leave the hospital out. But when I was
Speaker 3: a young fellow, when you flew and I'm in my
Speaker 3: mid sixties, you potentially could die. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: so you you wanted to look good.
Speaker 1: I mean the queen underwear Mom always told me about exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, back in the days of prop planes
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. Good Lord man, you want to
Speaker 3: look good if you're potentially going to meet the Lord.
Speaker 4: You know, if nothing else, it's a good excuse to
Speaker 4: do a little, a little bit better exactly what we're talking.
Speaker 3: Reason, damn it. And people ought to people ought to
Speaker 3: take more advantage of looking good. I'm the one last thing.
Speaker 3: The stewardess back when you called them that, I looked
Speaker 3: at her and I looked at the overhead and I said,
Speaker 3: is that where you keep the parachutes? And she said, yes, honey,
Speaker 3: that's where they are, just in case.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they got to get out quick. I
Speaker 1: mean the rest of us behind. I don't know how
Speaker 1: often that happens. Rich appreciate the comment. Are you having
Speaker 1: a good Thanksgiving? You're on the road, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Actually I just committed the guest of honor to the oven. Ah,
Speaker 3: so uh you know, we'll be in good shape here.
Speaker 1: Very good. Richard appreciate that. Thank you. He might have
Speaker 1: been basting as we speak. That's multitasking.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, thank.
Speaker 4: You've never heard that way of putting it. The guest
Speaker 4: of honor goes in the oven.
Speaker 1: We didn't, and I failed there because I know if
Speaker 1: it was a turkey bird, if it was a dog.
Speaker 4: Well, it is called Turkey Day, so I'm guessing. I'm assuming,
Speaker 4: but it's turkey today. But you don't eat any turkey.
Speaker 2: Yes I do. I eat the faux turkey.
Speaker 4: But I mean we have tons of stuff, like you know,
Speaker 4: mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing. I made stuffing, and
Speaker 4: I made cornbread pudding which is gonna be amazing. And
Speaker 4: my sister makes the greatest sweet potatoes sou flet, and
Speaker 4: there's there's not a lack of.
Speaker 2: Food that I can eat on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: No guest of honor required, No, you are there will
Speaker 1: be at.
Speaker 4: My nephew's house because half he's gonna he also works
Speaker 4: with me, and he said, I'm gonna have three vegans,
Speaker 4: two vegetarians, and a bunch of meat eaters, so it
Speaker 4: will be an eclectic group of people for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: That's balance as it should be. Yes, exactly, people you
Speaker 1: care about five point three seven four nine eight hundred,
Speaker 1: the big One Sterling, Donna Dee along for your Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Chack Crumbley with news. In about seven and a half minutes,
Speaker 1: we got Liam producing and room for you. Want to
Speaker 1: know what you're doing this Thanksgiving? Traveling wise, wh you
Speaker 1: flew home or whatever it is. However you're here, maybe
Speaker 1: you're working too, because I know it's not just us.
Speaker 1: I saw people gassing up. Gas prices are low, so
Speaker 1: a lot of people hitting the road. They say record numbers.
Speaker 1: But traffic right now on the way in look great.
Speaker 4: It was no problem, even though Triple A says eighty
Speaker 4: one point eight million Americans are projected to travel at
Speaker 4: least fifty miles. I'm going to be one of them
Speaker 4: because my name, my nephew lives in Springboro.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's a little bit of a drive. Ye,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a drive, but I mean it's huge.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. That's like what fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the population A little bit more.
Speaker 2: Seventy three million drive in by.
Speaker 1: Car, and they said about a million two million maybe
Speaker 1: on train, but that doesn't affect most of us here.
Speaker 2: I guess six million flying.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's the long holiday weekend and
Speaker 4: when you you know, this is a time where you
Speaker 4: do get to be with your family and friends a.
Speaker 1: Little and hopefully you put the fun in the dysfunction
Speaker 1: in the family. After is any we'll talk on that,
Speaker 1: we'll talk on side items. Also, some issues with wagering
Speaker 1: in sports betting that the governor is wanting to adjust.
Speaker 1: I guess freedom is not always meaning that we're free.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. It's Sterling Donna d Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being along. Grateful that you're here on the
Speaker 1: Nation station with the Bengals and Ravens getting it on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Prime time Turkey Night, seven hundred WLW you
Speaker 1: got Have you ever seen a lot of turkey? Sterling
Speaker 1: Don and d by the way, Thanksgiving seven hundred w
Speaker 1: WELW you don't think so? No, I mean they have
Speaker 1: an odd neck and hence the turkey neck thing. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I nearly drove off Interstate seventy when I was coming
Speaker 1: back from Nevada this is years ago now, and a
Speaker 1: car behind me in the truck and I'm rolling and
Speaker 1: I had never seen this other than actually out in
Speaker 1: the woods someplace, but just a long seventy around Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: there was a whole family herd flock. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want to call it. It was a cluster
Speaker 1: a turkey just rolling or you know, doing. They don't fly,
Speaker 1: you know, real well, anyway, they were just sort of
Speaker 1: rolling along seventy next to it, and I'm staring at it,
Speaker 1: and I literally drove off the road because I was bewildered.
Speaker 1: It was like a whole family.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're not the cutest of animals, but they
Speaker 4: do have They're very smart.
Speaker 2: All birds are real real smart.
Speaker 1: Is the rumor that in anybody who knows the turkey
Speaker 1: would maybe be able to under share this. I remember
Speaker 1: as a kid my uncle told me the turkeys were
Speaker 1: not the smartest bird for certain things. That if it's
Speaker 1: raining and they don't have shelter, they would just like
Speaker 1: drown by looking up, which I think is crap, because
Speaker 1: otherwise there'd be no wild turkeys because it rains occasionally
Speaker 1: in the world and eventually they would just drown. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you think they were just messing with me or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think that that was like a wives tale.
Speaker 1: Oh there was slipe hunting or something.
Speaker 4: By the way, a group of turkeys can be called
Speaker 4: several things, a rafter, a flock, a gaggle, or.
Speaker 2: A posse aposse. Let's call them a posse as makes
Speaker 2: them sound.
Speaker 1: Like there wasn't East St. Louis, but it was just
Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: It was not.
Speaker 1: I guess it was a posse. I was just freaked out.
Speaker 1: Even now I can literally like it takes me right
Speaker 1: back there because I peripherally I saw him. What the
Speaker 1: hell's that? And they did not look like the white
Speaker 1: like bread to be food bird. They were just out
Speaker 1: there living their turkey lives, which was pretty wild and
Speaker 1: bread to be food well, because most of the lies
Speaker 1: that you see that are for production of food. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go to a scary, bad place, but
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, because people don't want to
Speaker 1: think about sometimes what we're eating. Although I know friends
Speaker 1: who will go and they'll go to the farm and
Speaker 1: they'll pick their bird and then they'll come back like
Speaker 1: there's there's whatever you want A number he is. I
Speaker 1: don't give them a name because that gets really awkward,
Speaker 1: and then they get them for you. Right. I've not
Speaker 1: done that, but I know people who have and most
Speaker 1: of those are not the birds that look wild. They're
Speaker 1: they're more white, just like chickens. Often for big production
Speaker 1: for a food product don't look quite like that. Certainly
Speaker 1: don't big over chest flipped over bread to be big yeah, basted, Yeah, grind.
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons why I don't indulge.
Speaker 1: Now stuffing or dressing, it's it's a different animals literally
Speaker 1: and figuratively. But if you're not dealing with the bird
Speaker 1: itself where it's stuffed in, then it's dressing. And you
Speaker 1: will have dressing at the house. Yeah, I call somefing,
Speaker 1: but you're right, I mean, you're right.
Speaker 4: There is a big difference between it because I'm not,
Speaker 4: you know, putting it in the cavity of a bird.
Speaker 4: But I make it and it tastes just as.
Speaker 1: You as every Yeah, favorite side item for Thanksgiving it's
Speaker 1: always going to be.
Speaker 4: For me mashed potatoes, but it's and gravy. You gotta
Speaker 4: have gravy with mashed potatoes. But also, you know, my
Speaker 4: sister's sweet potato soufle is like nothing, like nothing else.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 1: I do? I mean, I like the meat products some
Speaker 1: people are for the ham. I like the turkey, but
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've had the toefurky in the past
Speaker 1: or something like it. It was okay, I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize what it was until I was told. Then I
Speaker 1: was freaked out, and then I was bothered that I
Speaker 1: was freaked out.
Speaker 4: They make it much better now, it's evolved a little bit.
Speaker 4: The faam meats or whatever. Any unusual sides that you have,
Speaker 4: because I mean I don't I don't recall any kind
Speaker 4: of unusual side turnips.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's in any situation. I don't know about safe
Speaker 1: instance for things. I've never understood the rudebiger, Okay. I
Speaker 1: also don't understand rhubarb because it looks like celery, but
Speaker 1: it's sort of pinkish and red and people will make
Speaker 1: a pie out of it. Yet I don't know anyone
Speaker 1: who goes I would like a celery.
Speaker 2: You got to put strawberries.
Speaker 4: My mom used to make strawberry rhubarb pie and it
Speaker 4: was the best, was so good.
Speaker 1: You go for like a pie? Wise, do you like
Speaker 1: a con pie? Like a pecan is all time favorite,
Speaker 1: really all time favorite. If you have to choose, you
Speaker 1: go pumpkin pie? Do you go sweet potato pie, pumpkin
Speaker 1: pumpkin given a choice, but of course the pecan pie
Speaker 1: precedes everything. Yeah, that's the number one.
Speaker 2: That is Okay, who's cooking at your house?
Speaker 1: Nobody tonight because I'm doing this. I'm gonna pick some
Speaker 1: stuff up. This is all right, I'll tell you. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I have one aunt who is gonna
Speaker 1: go to her husband's or late husband's side of the family.
Speaker 1: But there was a health issue, so they're not doing that.
Speaker 1: They're postponing it. So I'm going on the way home.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know yet. I'm gonna call and then like
Speaker 1: bring her some food, if her food, and then tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I work tomorrow night, So tomorrow is a designated
Speaker 1: like Thanksgiving, okay for me?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean because otherwise what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: It's just like the whole day sort of take yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know that's all right, and then it gives
Speaker 1: people other chances to like do their thing or whatever.
Speaker 1: But there'll be turkey. I think I'm doing turkey stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be like it'll be like a
Speaker 1: turkey rest and a little bit of dressing, a little
Speaker 1: bit of mashed potato.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, I mean the whole kittens.
Speaker 2: That you do for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: By the way, Willie enjoying a nice day off. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you are too, although there's a lot of people working
Speaker 1: as well. So that's why Stirling A Donna are here.
Speaker 1: I said that in third person, which is very weird.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that. That's why Donna's here,
Speaker 1: That's why I'm here, That's why all of us are
Speaker 1: here doing what we do. Five point three seven four
Speaker 1: nine seven eight hundred. The big one your chance to
Speaker 1: get interact wondering about your favorite or least favorite side item.
Speaker 1: The thing I have a real problem with, and I
Speaker 1: would hope that you never had to navigate this.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: My family would try to sneak the giblets, the pieces
Speaker 1: and parts uh huh into like the gravy or the stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan. No, if you're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: give someone a heads up.
Speaker 2: It's pretty gross if you think about it.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people like it and they
Speaker 4: think it adds flavor.
Speaker 2: But you can just put some salt in there and
Speaker 2: you'll be good.
Speaker 1: I prefer that. Yeah, sure, I mean is hearts there's
Speaker 1: a gizzard. Then there's sometimes the kidneys and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then they'll be the neck and the next is really
Speaker 1: good if you cook up the next.
Speaker 4: Stuff you My mom used to do something with the
Speaker 4: giblets too, and we would all protest, please please do noting.
Speaker 1: It's not just me that makes me feel.
Speaker 2: No, none of my family members ever liked it.
Speaker 4: And she's French Canadians, so you know she was born
Speaker 4: she made beef Wellington and she would make all these.
Speaker 4: She was a great cook and an even better baker,
Speaker 4: and she would have just like the the little mini
Speaker 4: Cornish game hens for all of us. We'd all get
Speaker 4: our own on Thanksgiving. And that's like seven kids plus
Speaker 4: you know it's at birds. Those are pigmy birds. And
Speaker 4: I would be like, this is my own mind. I
Speaker 4: don't have to share it with anybody. It was so
Speaker 4: cool back then.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Hank real quick and then we'll circle
Speaker 1: back to the Cornish hen thing, because that nearly made
Speaker 1: me vegan some years ago. Hey, you're with Sterling and
Speaker 1: Donnade on seven hundred wlw inn for Willy on this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Glad you're along. How are you.
Speaker 9: Hanging there? I guess, but I hope you hear there,
Speaker 9: you hear there's a problem with.
Speaker 1: The turkeys, right, what's the problem with the turkeys?
Speaker 9: They got so much press meat they can't walk anymore.
Speaker 9: So these food engineers are studying videos of Baywatch and
Speaker 9: Dolly Parton, see what can be done about it.
Speaker 1: Very nice, that's good. I get a few years out
Speaker 1: of it, and then and then you move on and
Speaker 1: then try to redeem it.
Speaker 9: What what do you call a turkey after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Gone?
Speaker 2: That meat?
Speaker 1: Lucky lucky? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good one, Hank. Thank you real quick. Here
Speaker 1: side item of choice? And are you a fan of
Speaker 1: the giblet?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: Not particularly?
Speaker 1: No side item, No giblet. I wish you.
Speaker 9: Wish you good Thanksgiving if possible.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. It's better now that you're here.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. So happy Thanksgiving to you.
Speaker 1: I hope it's a good one.
Speaker 10: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being along. Hank. Just have that he
Speaker 1: had no sides, no.
Speaker 2: Wanted to give his jokes, and he had two good
Speaker 2: ones and that was his total intention.
Speaker 1: Got to pick your spots. I guess generally speaking, overall.
Speaker 4: You know what's good at the every time listen people
Speaker 4: one of their biggest pastimes during the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Speaker 4: going to see the movies. You know what's doing really
Speaker 4: well at the box office.
Speaker 1: What's that Wicked too?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were telling me off the air because I am.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to be like thinking this was something
Speaker 1: I wanted to see. My mother told me really a
Speaker 1: whole bit. She was like, oh, you'd love it, you
Speaker 1: love it, you love it. And she went to see
Speaker 1: the stage production downtown some years ago, and she said
Speaker 1: that it was so overwhelming. She has like vertigo problem
Speaker 1: that she was in that first balcony. She said she
Speaker 1: felt like she was going to fall over the balcony.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, that's exciting. I'm glad
Speaker 1: I'm not doing dealing with that. But you she made
Speaker 1: me think that the movie was going to be worth something,
Speaker 1: and you made it seem like I'd be interested in
Speaker 1: seeing the second half of this too.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 4: I was surprised how much I liked the first one.
Speaker 4: I was on a plane, so I didn't I wasn't,
Speaker 4: you know, dying to go. I was all dressed up
Speaker 4: on the plane. I wasn't dying to go see Wicked,
Speaker 4: because you know, I didn't know that much about it. Man.
Speaker 4: That story is you know, you've heard the Wizard of
Speaker 4: Oz and all that stuff. But they put a spin
Speaker 4: on it where animals were professors at these universities and
Speaker 4: goats and they all spoke and everything, and so.
Speaker 1: I did so that humans are going to the animal university,
Speaker 1: or is it the animal university?
Speaker 4: It's humans were It was humans and animals mixed. It
Speaker 4: was like a whole other universe where animals were able
Speaker 4: to speak and educate, and you saw that the demise
Speaker 4: was coming. They were you know, they were saying, you're
Speaker 4: an animal, you're this and that, and and so it
Speaker 4: was the protection of those.
Speaker 2: It was very, very good.
Speaker 4: And I'm hearing nothing but good things on Wicked, too,
Speaker 4: So that's cool.
Speaker 1: I hope it's good. I mean, if I'm going to
Speaker 1: go sit in a theater to watch something that's nearly
Speaker 1: three hours or whatever it is, it better be good
Speaker 1: or I'm going to sneak out and go across the hall.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done that?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, you hate a movie and you're like, no,
Speaker 2: this is not working.
Speaker 1: Got to go to the next one. So that's the other.
Speaker 1: That's the big one that. I mean, people love the
Speaker 1: holiday movies, any I'm just trying to figure out of
Speaker 1: all the holiday films that are related to Thanksgiving, I
Speaker 1: don't know that how how many are really like plane
Speaker 1: trains and automobiles. I think that was a Thanksgiving Conyes,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest Thanksgiving movies ever.
Speaker 1: Any other that are just Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: I mean they had that home for the holidays, and
Speaker 4: I think that was Thanksgiving. Robert Downey Junior was in it.
Speaker 4: But that was about dysfunctional family whose right and it
Speaker 4: was kind of a dark comedy. It wasn't like it
Speaker 4: wasn't given like all this fun family vibe, which everyone
Speaker 4: really wants. I mean, I think everybody really technically does
Speaker 4: want to get along with their family members. There's just
Speaker 4: sometimes it's not the easiest thing to do.
Speaker 1: It can be a challenge. So how do you navigate
Speaker 1: that in this situation, because I mean, can you just
Speaker 1: set it aside a side from the individual things, because
Speaker 1: your family and very close friends know what buttons and
Speaker 1: how to push those buttons exactly. But when you're getting
Speaker 1: together to have food and some fellowship and togetherness, and
Speaker 1: to be thankful for all these people in this life
Speaker 1: that we have. I mean, you would hope that you're
Speaker 1: not wanting to stir it up in a negative way.
Speaker 2: Of the year and put politics aside.
Speaker 4: Right That would be my number one piece of advice
Speaker 4: if somebody. Because I was at this friends giving thing
Speaker 4: downtown on Tuesday, which was lovely, and somebody started bringing
Speaker 4: up politics and I'm like, we're having fun.
Speaker 1: Why you have to go there?
Speaker 4: Because some people will do it deliberately to cause a riff.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, I would occasionally like to say
Speaker 1: something like a depth charge dropped off a navy vessel
Speaker 1: at sea, I say something, or right here, somebody else
Speaker 1: say something. Then I would sit.
Speaker 2: Back and watch the KOs.
Speaker 1: I kind of enjoyed that because you could say, oh,
Speaker 1: I know this is going to get that one. But
Speaker 1: I've grown now, I'm not really affect for.
Speaker 4: You because they don't want to be that way. And
Speaker 4: there's almost now there's a point where you can't stop
Speaker 4: yourself from putting your your A judgments on other people
Speaker 4: and be your opinions all over people, and if they
Speaker 4: don't agree, then there's an there's an argument there.
Speaker 2: That's what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, unfortunately, that's not a good recipe for the Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: dinner table.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing that you know, you think
Speaker 1: about this is like a lot of people may have
Speaker 1: started a day with Thanksgiving Day race here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: which has gone on for what one hundred and eighteen
Speaker 1: years I think since nineteen oh seven ones. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: my base.
Speaker 2: I've done it twice.
Speaker 1: You didn't do it today.
Speaker 2: I did not know.
Speaker 1: And it's brisk so you don't get overheated, which is
Speaker 1: kind of nice. It's kind of perfect in that type
Speaker 1: of situation. But then you build up a little hunger,
Speaker 1: then you go stuff yourself with all those starches I
Speaker 1: just talked about. I mean it's really a made for
Speaker 1: the day kind of scenario where there was that the
Speaker 1: trot for like what five K ten K. I have
Speaker 1: a car, so I tend to not do these things.
Speaker 1: I do the short ones. One day.
Speaker 4: You walk your dog at least sometimes three five miles.
Speaker 1: Easy a day. Yeah right, not bad for a little
Speaker 1: fifteen pound guy with four short legs. But you know,
Speaker 1: a good dog is a tired dog. That's what I
Speaker 1: can tell you, that is for sure. Later James were
Speaker 1: going to talk Bengals Ravens. They're playing tonight. If you
Speaker 1: hadn't heard, they're in Baltimore and they had speaking of travel,
Speaker 1: they were stuck and they had to switch planes. They
Speaker 1: were supposed to leave like five hours earlier than what
Speaker 1: they ended up leaving while they were in Wait, what
Speaker 1: a nightmare. I mean, what do you do when you're
Speaker 1: delayed that much? If you're not I mean, because if
Speaker 1: you're at the airport, my experience would be to go
Speaker 1: get a drink and maybe some bad food. But if
Speaker 1: they're probably living a different life on their chartered aircraft.
Speaker 1: But you would also think a chartered aircraft wouldn't have
Speaker 1: that type of situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. I mean they also have issues with
Speaker 4: delayed planes and things like that. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: the only thing you can do is just try and
Speaker 4: be patient.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. And the good news is it's not an
Speaker 1: early game. It's a late game, prime time kind of scenario.
Speaker 1: So they can still sleep, get adjusted, and you know, however,
Speaker 1: they eat and then they come home maybe and have
Speaker 1: their family Thanksgiving tomorrow or over the weekend. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: not a bad scenario. So hopefully they're all Okay.
Speaker 4: Lots of people work in, lots of sports people working today,
Speaker 4: lots of broadcasters today.
Speaker 1: First responders, first responders. There's some restaurants that are open
Speaker 1: and doing some food for people picking it up or whatever.
Speaker 1: I know some people got some stuff from Bob Evans
Speaker 1: just across the street, so I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: nice too, right. And there's other workers. There's hospit urgent cares.
Speaker 1: I don't know about those, but certainly emergency rooms. And
Speaker 1: speaking of first responders, I have a cousin up in
Speaker 1: the Columbus area who's working today, doing his thing. Hopefully
Speaker 1: not busy. Hopefully it's just it like the firehouse, eating
Speaker 1: food and kicking back and having a good time, one
Speaker 1: would hope. So yeah, I think that's fairly clearest to
Speaker 1: what a lot of us are doing. Straight Away, you're
Speaker 1: one o'clock reporting nothing and what's going on from Jack Cromley.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll hear from him a little bit later talk
Speaker 1: about their special showing of some holiday features and the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Film Fest and all the other stuff that goes
Speaker 1: with that. Straight away news more Sterling, Donna d Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: Glad you're along for our Bill Cunningham enjoying a nice
Speaker 1: day off. It's Willy's time with Sterling and Donna De
Speaker 1: on the home of the best Bengals coverage, news Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW, Cincinnatair. Willie enjoying a day off. A
Speaker 1: lot of other people are hopefully with family and friends,
Speaker 1: enjoying some good grubbing stuff at Sterling Donna De over there,
Speaker 1: how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be on air with you today. I'm
Speaker 4: getting off it too, so forty.
Speaker 1: Five minutes, Yeah, I appreciate you coming in for a
Speaker 1: little while. Then I rolled to All four and the
Speaker 1: Moe comes up after us Bengals on the roads after
Speaker 1: spending it in a really ridiculous amount of time for
Speaker 1: an aircraft to have to be switched out before they
Speaker 1: got to Baltimore. Got in late, but thankfully it's a
Speaker 1: primetime Thanksgiving game with Joe Burrow back behind time.
Speaker 2: The Bengals played on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Dude, I have no one, it was a long I
Speaker 1: have to look that up. I mean that's a Lance
Speaker 1: thing like right now, it's just in his role of
Speaker 1: decks of knowledge right now. Yeah, you take a look
Speaker 1: at that and see it's been a minute Burrow hasn't.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that you'll hear him talk
Speaker 1: about a little bit later in the news and so forth,
Speaker 1: is the fact that he was pretty geeked up and
Speaker 1: excited to be able to play on Thanksgiving because a
Speaker 1: lot of us, I mean growing up player or not
Speaker 1: a player, watching all those turkey legs being given away
Speaker 1: in the Love from Madden back in the day, and
Speaker 1: then of course all those games, but it was always
Speaker 1: like the Lions, the Packers, it seemed like Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: then some rainomother a lot of Bears games too, I
Speaker 1: think if I remember correctly, overall for Thanksgiving. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's excited and hopefully well rested and ready to go.
Speaker 1: A lot of other people today getting ready for Black
Speaker 1: Friday shopping and everything to go along with that, and
Speaker 1: some people throwing some money around because it's America. And
Speaker 1: finally freedom and liberty to decide if you want to
Speaker 1: bet on the Bengals or you want to bet on
Speaker 1: the I mean a pick a team, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and a lot of parlays. The governor in the last
Speaker 1: day or so has gotten a lot of attention here
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Mike the Wine, of course, who actually put
Speaker 1: pen to paper after the people of this state voted
Speaker 1: to allow sports betting, and now is saying he's apparently
Speaker 1: not a fan of the sports betting, in particular the
Speaker 1: parlays that apparently make it more interesting, so that he
Speaker 1: wants to somehow get with lawmakers and put the kaibash
Speaker 1: at least on part of it. I guess the fear
Speaker 1: is that people can control themselves, so he has to
Speaker 1: be you know, everybody wants to protect everybody from themselves.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I kind of agree, because that's why
Speaker 4: we you know, that's why drinking and driving, their laws
Speaker 4: against that and and that kind of stuff. Imagine if
Speaker 4: you know you, let's say you and I were married, Sterling,
Speaker 4: and we had two kids.
Speaker 2: And you had a betting.
Speaker 4: Problem, right, Yeah, a gambling issue, and yeah you were
Speaker 4: taking the money and from our family, and you weren't
Speaker 4: being one hundred percent honest about it. If there are
Speaker 4: laws of that type of nature, it's for the family.
Speaker 2: So I kind of understand that.
Speaker 1: But this is America, and it's unfortunate that this fake
Speaker 1: family that the two of us would have at this point,
Speaker 1: with little Sterling and don Ch in fact that somehow
Speaker 1: and I like how you it wasn't you who had
Speaker 1: the problem. It would be me and this spectitious make
Speaker 1: belief situation, and to protect you and the kids from me,
Speaker 1: the horrible bad choice addicted, I'm chasing that action that
Speaker 1: I would be the problem.
Speaker 4: Uh you could see the writing on the walls. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's true, honest about it, Jones. Sometimes you need that
Speaker 4: action sometimes. But who is the governor or the government
Speaker 4: to say as long? I mean, why can't I do
Speaker 4: what I want? Well, that may be up to you,
Speaker 4: the significant other in the family, who may suffer for
Speaker 4: the of this, you know, addiction or just a losing
Speaker 4: streak or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's up to you. If I sat
Speaker 1: around and just bought video games or books out the wazoo,
Speaker 1: if you will, to the point of blowing all kinds
Speaker 1: of money.
Speaker 4: Oh, there are shopaholics for sure. I mean, we just
Speaker 4: talked about Black Friday. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 4: people that drop a lot of coin on that and
Speaker 4: maybe not even tell the spouse and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: which is why you need to have your own banks, separate,
Speaker 4: separate bank accounts exactly for month for bills and stuff,
Speaker 4: so that you don't get yourself in that kind of situation.
Speaker 4: I mean, many people can disagree, but a lot of
Speaker 4: financial advisors will say, have your own money, and that's
Speaker 4: that's super important, so that one person is not in
Speaker 4: charge and knows everything. But I do understand secrets. There
Speaker 4: are some people can't get out of their own way.
Speaker 4: You would agree with that. Some people have problems with
Speaker 4: free will, but it's free will. But sometimes people need
Speaker 4: a pat on the back and said, hey, you're doing
Speaker 4: too much.
Speaker 1: And the government needs to do that. Why is the
Speaker 1: government in the place to tell us? I mean, it
Speaker 1: just seems we need people to step in it. It
Speaker 1: just seems like such an overreach. And I understand people
Speaker 1: are scared of it and it's a vice and it's
Speaker 1: an easy thing because there are people who you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go well. But that's again about freedom and
Speaker 1: choice and liberty and not about a nanny state trying
Speaker 1: to tell us how to live our lives.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, I agree, but there's needs to be some
Speaker 4: some some laws that we have to abide by in
Speaker 4: this country. I mean, you know, if somebody keeps getting
Speaker 4: four or five duys and they haven't.
Speaker 1: Learned right, But that's the general public because they're on
Speaker 1: the road taking a chance on I mean every day,
Speaker 1: just earlier in the news you hear about somebody else
Speaker 1: who crashed a car, escaped and ran away, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of these runs over like, I mean that
Speaker 1: that is a serious ongoing for every day in the news,
Speaker 1: there's it has been yeah, of a pedestrian or a
Speaker 1: vehicle issue or something. I love the way they're written
Speaker 1: by the way vehicle, human strike or a person strike.
Speaker 1: You mean you got hit by a car, just say it.
Speaker 1: But but I mean there's a scheme of things though.
Speaker 1: The drunken drug driving thing is because it's a general
Speaker 1: public threat. If you want to drink yourself or drug
Speaker 1: yourself to death and your privacy of your own home
Speaker 1: and in your life, then go about it. Blow through
Speaker 1: your cash and ruin your life, smoke your cracks so
Speaker 1: your teeth fall out of your head. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't really want you to do that, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean it's America. You should be free to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful that most people don't have those problems. But
Speaker 1: Mike de Wine or any other governor, or the president
Speaker 1: or anybody else, or even me, if I decide I
Speaker 1: don't like how you're living and you're making bad choices. Donna,
Speaker 1: Who am I to tell you, even if we're in
Speaker 1: a relationship, I may tell you. But if you want
Speaker 1: to do your thing, then and do your thing, and
Speaker 1: I'll take our kids and go away.
Speaker 4: Because there's a ripple effect. Okay, you take our kids and.
Speaker 1: Is out of control.
Speaker 2: I'm the one boozing on the couch.
Speaker 1: Try we're gonna go play the pony.
Speaker 2: But there is exactly.
Speaker 1: But I used to know with my uncle, it was
Speaker 1: a great time. Go to the window. I'd reach up
Speaker 1: my uncle want to put three on five?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 1: We used to go.
Speaker 4: We used to go bet highlight in Florida, which was
Speaker 4: so super fun.
Speaker 2: But you know, I would do it once a month
Speaker 2: or once every six month.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 4: You know, it's the same thing when I go to Vegas,
Speaker 4: I'll bet so I luckily do not have a problem
Speaker 4: with that. But it is a ripple effect in society
Speaker 4: because guess what that person that's on crack or what
Speaker 4: you suggested, go and kill yourself in your own house
Speaker 4: if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 1: The buy over indulgence, I don't just mean sounded so bad.
Speaker 1: By the way, call the hotline about.
Speaker 2: That buy over indulgence.
Speaker 4: Guess what, he's gonna need money somewhere, and he's gonna
Speaker 4: go down to the neighbors and the and the people.
Speaker 4: And it's a ripple effect when you're out of control somebody.
Speaker 4: If that means that the government can help in terms
Speaker 4: of like this check ins or you know with your kids,
Speaker 4: you do you do in home check ins and visits
Speaker 4: and things like that, there needs to be somebody that
Speaker 4: can help someone otherwise that person is just going to
Speaker 4: be wild in the streets.
Speaker 1: So you should out. We will people to deal with
Speaker 1: that themselves, even if it's not somebody else. I understand.
Speaker 1: Five point three seven four nine, eight hundred The big one. Listen,
Speaker 1: I know it's Thanksgiving and you want to RELI.
Speaker 2: And I are fighting like, no, we're really not.
Speaker 1: But it is that we just need food now in
Speaker 1: the space and a couple of drinks and then we'd
Speaker 1: really get the way.
Speaker 2: That's Thanksgiving absolutely.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred The Big when you can talk back the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. I got the exta feed running at Sterling Radio.
Speaker 1: You can catch us there Sterling dot donnad dot twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three on the Instagram, which I think had us
Speaker 1: with the Christmas tree photos and some other stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did one today too.
Speaker 4: Can I just quick tell you remember I googled the
Speaker 4: iChat ept'd and when the last time the Bengals played.
Speaker 4: Last time the Bengals played, and that was on the
Speaker 4: one Giving on Thanksgiving was November twenty fifth, twenty ten,
Speaker 4: and they played the Jets and lost twenty six to ten.
Speaker 4: But that was the only Thanksgiving Day they've ever played
Speaker 4: until today.
Speaker 1: It's a monumental experience.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal. And we got Joe burrowback, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how it goes. He's geeked up to play.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that toad will do him right, that line will
Speaker 1: protect him and they'll go at it and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people betting on the games, yeah, will exactly.
Speaker 1: So what about this? Should the government then say, you what,
Speaker 1: no parlays or any other particular method or manner in
Speaker 1: which to put money on the line in wager. Should
Speaker 1: it be up to the state. I thought we voted though,
Speaker 1: but you know what, they did the same thing with
Speaker 1: the legal weed there you like, you know what, Yes,
Speaker 1: we don't really think you the public are capable of
Speaker 1: making decisions for yourself. We're thankful that you're taking part
Speaker 1: in the process. Know better.
Speaker 2: There today.
Speaker 1: I just I that's that's the thing, you know. And
Speaker 1: I like to throw some money around here or there
Speaker 1: on occasion. I don't think I have a problem with it, uh,
Speaker 1: but I try to keep it in check. And if
Speaker 1: I were to get out of control and you know,
Speaker 1: give away all my money in that situation, then then
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. But that's my choice. Whether if I wanted
Speaker 1: to go buy frozen pizzas and fill the you know,
Speaker 1: the freezer in the garage and in the house, and
Speaker 1: I just wanted to sit there and be a glutton
Speaker 1: and just pound pizzas.
Speaker 4: And so what do we do with someone like you?
Speaker 4: As in society? What do we do?
Speaker 1: People have been trying to figure that out for years?
Speaker 1: What do they? Then I become a cautionarytail and a
Speaker 1: statistic and then you go, don't be like that guy.
Speaker 4: But then you're gonna be on government services, and you're
Speaker 4: gonna not have a family, and you're gonna still be
Speaker 4: addicted to gambling, and you won't have a job because
Speaker 4: you won't.
Speaker 1: Have America it's your choice. Then you get it together.
Speaker 1: You see, Tony, our.
Speaker 2: Problem, that's what I'm saying. Eventually it will be all
Speaker 2: of our problem.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: Uh so government's going to be in it no matter what. Wow,
Speaker 4: that's what I what you're saying. You did go to
Speaker 4: that place, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Let's get Mike and then ed was Sterling and Donnade
Speaker 1: on this Thanksgiving Glad you're listening to being a part
Speaker 1: of the show. We're grateful for you being here. Mike,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the government responsible for protecting
Speaker 1: us from ourselves with our wagers that they find to
Speaker 1: be maybe a little bit too much, or is done
Speaker 1: all right that somebody has to save us?
Speaker 8: No, I don't think the government should any say so.
Speaker 8: It's micromanagement and that's uh, that's you know, they there's ridiculous,
Speaker 8: there's they don't they may step there and have recovery
Speaker 8: programs like it. You know, like you said, you know
Speaker 8: you care how many pizza's gut in the fridge?
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So so you're saying it's much you agree with Sterling.
Speaker 8: That's I'm all the way, King Sterling.
Speaker 2: There one of them.
Speaker 4: There, there's gonna be there's gonna be a point where
Speaker 4: If that's the case, eventually someone will step in anyway, don't.
Speaker 8: You agree, Well, you know then that's going to be
Speaker 8: the people that need to step That could be family,
Speaker 8: it could be somebody that he knows, some money import
Speaker 8: to him, somebody that you know, some type of intervention
Speaker 8: type thing. Not not the government saying that, you know, hey,
Speaker 8: what are you doing. You're spending your money the way
Speaker 8: We don't want you to spend your money like, you
Speaker 8: know what, just this is my money. I'm spending how
Speaker 8: I want to spend it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and keep the giblets out of the stuff. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. You got you got a favorite side
Speaker 1: item mind, or maybe you're a fan of the giblet.
Speaker 1: I don't get the giblet.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm kind of a fan of the pizza.
Speaker 8: There's a little one dollar thirty minute pizza.
Speaker 1: Those are great, they are, they really are. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you just made me smile. I was so excited about that, Mike.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Man. Thank you all. R Let's
Speaker 1: get to ed talking about freedom and liberty and a
Speaker 1: government overreach on this Thanksgiving unthankful day care. But who
Speaker 1: was the government to tell you you or me Ed
Speaker 1: or Donna de for that matter, or are Willie who
Speaker 1: we're filling in for this Thanksgiving Day, And we certainly
Speaker 1: appreciate his guidance, but you know, just say you can't
Speaker 1: bet on this or you can't bet on that because
Speaker 1: it's just too volatile. When you're you're a loser, who
Speaker 1: is the government to tell you?
Speaker 13: I agree, the government needs to get out of the way. However,
Speaker 13: the wine was specifically talking about prop bets, right, and
Speaker 13: the two Guardian pitchers come to mind, because they were
Speaker 13: making money. Somebody was making money off them throwing bad pitches.
Speaker 13: But yeah, the government just needs to just check out.
Speaker 13: I get where the wine coming from.
Speaker 3: But is that an overreachion?
Speaker 1: I think it's too intrusive. I mean, I understand they
Speaker 1: may think the parlay doesn't do well for you, but
Speaker 1: if somebody want to bet, wants to bet on the
Speaker 1: most you know, weird things put together in a parlay scenario,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the smartest bed for them. But again
Speaker 1: it's choice.
Speaker 4: I do agree with Ed because the prop bets are
Speaker 4: the ones where they're seeing the illegal weirdness. Yes, and
Speaker 4: and and and and get betting on you know, those
Speaker 4: types of things illegal betting and things like that.
Speaker 2: So I get that as much.
Speaker 1: So do you think there should be any limit on that?
Speaker 1: I mean, just you're okay with maybe them pulling out
Speaker 1: the parlay is an option or I just wonder where
Speaker 1: it stops. I mean, it's not like we're betting on like,
Speaker 1: you know, homeless people fighting like bum fights. That would
Speaker 1: be abusive of the homeless. It's not like we're you know,
Speaker 1: trying you throwing food out to the home the homeless
Speaker 1: and the hungary and seeing them battle for some stuffing
Speaker 1: in turkey legs. That that would be abusive and morally
Speaker 1: bankrupt and wrong. But if I want to give my
Speaker 1: money away by wagering, it's America. Let me just do
Speaker 1: what I wanted.
Speaker 13: Well, the thing is is, you know, with the MLB,
Speaker 13: it's it's you know, they've already proven to be losers.
Speaker 13: Go back to the black socks and be has already
Speaker 13: been busted before with the bad reps.
Speaker 3: And what have you.
Speaker 13: Guy you know saying I'm coming up lame. I got
Speaker 13: my ten points in or less, and somebody's gonna make
Speaker 13: money off me. But the NFL, I think, is a
Speaker 13: little different because those guys, they go out there to
Speaker 13: want to win the Super Bowl. They go out there
Speaker 13: put their bodies on the line every week to do
Speaker 13: what they love to do, and I just I think
Speaker 13: NFL is a little different.
Speaker 1: It might be, you know, I think all those guys
Speaker 1: maybe want to win and appreciate to call me a
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. But I mean, whether it's the app on
Speaker 1: my phone that's legal, or it's the guy in the
Speaker 1: neighborhood or somebody else that you have like an account
Speaker 1: with who may not be above board but will take
Speaker 1: that parlay bet, it's going to be happening anyway. It's
Speaker 1: just not as easy in quick turnaround as it is
Speaker 1: in your hand or on your wrist or in your
Speaker 1: tablet or something like that. I get that part of it,
Speaker 1: But what do you do.
Speaker 4: You don't make it so easy to bet on those bets.
Speaker 4: That's why you don't make it that. Don't make it
Speaker 4: a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about gambling, gambling and
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of weird manipulation and everything that goes
Speaker 1: with that, and you start talking about bitcoin and the
Speaker 1: evaluations with that and currency just in general, it's just
Speaker 1: a different type of gambling. Yeah, hanging on, Josh, we'll
Speaker 1: get you in just a minute to come. We got
Speaker 1: time with it, four or five, No, we got we
Speaker 1: gotta stop, Yeah, we gotta stop. We gotta take care
Speaker 1: of some things. It's sterling a Donna d and for
Speaker 1: our Willie on a Thanksgiving. We appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're enjoying your day in a safe travel situation.
Speaker 1: A lot more conversation including James or Peen talking Bengals
Speaker 1: Ravens later Josh as first, we'll come back. Should they
Speaker 1: outlaw the betting of the parlay or otherwise, who is
Speaker 1: Governor DeWine or any other government type person to tell
Speaker 1: you me, Donna, Willie Lance or even Sloany not to
Speaker 1: throw their money around. It's seven hundred WLW fir glad
Speaker 1: you're a long, beautiful Thanksgiving Turkey day in the Tri State.
Speaker 1: For Willie, it's sterling and Donna Dee are Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: and joying a nice day off as there are a
Speaker 1: lot of other people leam working with us. Jack Crumley
Speaker 1: with news. You know what's hard is we've been breaking
Speaker 1: right before the news and then he's doing news. So
Speaker 1: we can't really have ask him, you know, hey, do
Speaker 1: you want to come talk about the movies and stuff
Speaker 1: with us? So we have to figure out how to
Speaker 1: do that before you go. It's short order or next time.
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted Jack to come on.
Speaker 4: They've got like this really cool event they're doing Jacket, And.
Speaker 1: Then what happens if he doesn't come? You want me
Speaker 1: to do it, I'm gonna do it. I could call
Speaker 1: and we could do it on the air. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's listening and the other he's gathering news.
Speaker 4: He is working just like we are today, just like
Speaker 4: many people are today, from flight attendance to airport people,
Speaker 4: a lot of transportation, bus.
Speaker 1: Drivers, ubers and lifts and convenience stores, gas stations, first responders,
Speaker 1: a cousin who's doing that right now. Hopefully he's bored.
Speaker 1: That's the good thing. You don't want the first responders
Speaker 1: to be like so busy that they can't relax. You
Speaker 1: want him at the firehouse or wherever they are, getting
Speaker 1: fat and sassy with good food, and then when you
Speaker 1: need them, they'll be there, not hopped up on the
Speaker 1: or doped up on the trip to fan. That's the
Speaker 1: thing that people get with the turkey, is that they
Speaker 1: get like the sleepies? Yeah, or I don't know, I've
Speaker 1: never said that. You never heard of anyone say the
Speaker 1: sleepiest's weird? It really was, I clearly am not right.
Speaker 1: Let's get to Fairfield. Josh has been holding for a while.
Speaker 1: Joshua was sterling in DNA DA on this Thanksgiving. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you being here. What were you calling about it? Because
Speaker 1: you've been you stretched through two different things, whether we're
Speaker 1: talking about the gambling and the governor wanting to keep
Speaker 1: us from being able to make bets on our own
Speaker 1: choice or maybe side items or what what do you
Speaker 1: got going?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 14: First off, happy banksgiving guyssgiving nice dumb, fat and happy
Speaker 14: on turkeys.
Speaker 5: And I don't know.
Speaker 14: I don't think that the government should be in our
Speaker 14: business as far as who's gambling, who's doing what? But
Speaker 14: I see the issue as more of an accessibility issue
Speaker 14: because if you really think about it, back in the
Speaker 14: like I'm forty three, but back in the eight these,
Speaker 14: the nineties, even the two thousands, up until two thousand
Speaker 14: and eight, two thousand and nine, if you really think
Speaker 14: about it, online gambling wasn't an accessible thing. You had
Speaker 14: to go to a casino, you had to go to
Speaker 14: a horse racing track, You had to physically.
Speaker 1: Go to these things.
Speaker 14: But now with smartphones and technology, you can literally just
Speaker 14: gamble from your house and never have to leave and never.
Speaker 1: Have to do anything.
Speaker 12: So I think, yeah, I mean, it can be a miracle,
Speaker 12: but it's a double edged sword. I think of how
Speaker 12: many parents have gotten so angry at a kids or
Speaker 12: have lost so much money because they get on their
Speaker 12: phone and download a game and then start clicking and
Speaker 12: game buys that they have to take, and.
Speaker 14: Then the mom's out six seven hundred dollars. So I mean,
Speaker 14: the system is set up, the algorithms are set up
Speaker 14: to maybe I want more, I want more, I want more.
Speaker 14: But when you have that so accessible, that's the only
Speaker 14: regulatory thing that I think would need to happen is
Speaker 14: how is it accessible and how that will affect someone
Speaker 14: having the ability to waste their money on it, Because
Speaker 14: if you have to go to a track, if you
Speaker 14: have to go to a casino, you have to physically
Speaker 14: put the effort in to do it, and I think
Speaker 14: a lot of people, unless you're seriously addicted, won't go
Speaker 14: down that road because it's not accessible. So I can
Speaker 14: see where the state government is trying to do that.
Speaker 4: Well, Josh, I agree with you, and I think that's
Speaker 4: where dwine is kind of trying to step in. You
Speaker 4: know that show six hundred My six hundred pound Life.
Speaker 4: Have you ever watched that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right, so, yes, the reason why they're getting bigger and
Speaker 4: bigger people like that are because they can get food delivery.
Speaker 1: I mean if.
Speaker 4: They had to get out and get in the car
Speaker 4: and shop or you.
Speaker 1: Know that is that's a great analogy.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was a great analogy you were saying.
Speaker 14: If you think about it, like, it's the same thing.
Speaker 14: You're getting the food delivered, you're getting the gambling delivered
Speaker 14: through your phone.
Speaker 4: It's an addicting behavior and people cannot stop themselves.
Speaker 1: You can be addicted to a lot of things. Listen,
Speaker 1: if I'm hungry and they will deliver pizza, are you
Speaker 1: going to say that because I'm above X amount of
Speaker 1: weight that the delivery in the neighborhood shouldn't bring.
Speaker 13: Me my poes?
Speaker 2: Ridiculous?
Speaker 1: You should cut off my phone or maybe my metabolism
Speaker 1: is slow. I mean, who are you to judge?
Speaker 2: Judge?
Speaker 1: Appreciate the coming, thank you? So I mean it's Josh
Speaker 1: right in that sense. I mean, I you're asked you,
Speaker 1: we're both agreeing. But again, listen, regulation is important survival
Speaker 1: of the fittest, okay, right, I mean to a certain extent.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what free markets are? Right? I mean, where
Speaker 1: are the limits on everything else that you shouldn't? We
Speaker 1: can only invest in certain things, so you have to
Speaker 1: have a balanced portfolio because things might go in the tank. No,
Speaker 1: you're allowed to do that. Nobody gets involved with that, right,
Speaker 1: So why is it okay for the gambling of that
Speaker 1: kind but not the other? Because you can I can
Speaker 1: do all that stuff with any pick an investment house
Speaker 1: and trade any stock at any time that I want effectively,
Speaker 1: is long as you've got the funds.
Speaker 2: Right, you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, I can't argue with that point because it's
Speaker 4: legal gambling. The sock market is for sure, a lot
Speaker 4: of people are very smart and know how to do
Speaker 4: it and take longer investments. I mean, you know, so
Speaker 4: it's not just so immediate in the you know, in
Speaker 4: the game of today and they all the twenty other
Speaker 4: parlay you know bets that you can do. Sure, So
Speaker 4: I mean you can bet on anything now and you
Speaker 4: can do it today, tomorrow, and sock markets most often
Speaker 4: longer term and investments hopefully.
Speaker 1: But I have a number of friends that's that's what
Speaker 1: they I know, even when they're on their other job,
Speaker 1: they're they're making moves during the day. Donna and Sterling
Speaker 1: hanging out for our Willie this Thanksgiving. Appreciate you being along.
Speaker 1: Here's where listen. I don't want to sound cold, callous,
Speaker 1: indifferent or uncaring for those who have an addiction problem
Speaker 1: or have someone in their lives that have an addiction problem,
Speaker 1: whether it's gambling or alcohol or drugs or any other
Speaker 1: type of thing. But and I'll give you a story
Speaker 1: that's anecdotal, but I experienced it visiting Vegas before I
Speaker 1: moved there, which puts it before I moved back here.
Speaker 1: For those that needing a timeline, I can remember, with
Speaker 1: a couple of bodies in mind, we had left the
Speaker 1: hotel that we were staying in and one of us
Speaker 1: needed to get something. I think it was me, probably
Speaker 1: unprepared and scattered. I had to run in to get
Speaker 1: whatever because we were going to go to like the
Speaker 1: Dam or Red Rock or something to take a break
Speaker 1: from the wagering and to just enjoy the day. So
Speaker 1: as we park at the side, I'm going to come
Speaker 1: into the entrance. There was a beat up station wagon
Speaker 1: and there was and it was blazing hot, and there's
Speaker 1: kids in the car. And there was a guy who
Speaker 1: I held the door open for to go into the casino,
Speaker 1: and he left it kids behind and went immediately to
Speaker 1: some of those machines.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So he left his kids in the car parked on
Speaker 1: the just on the edge there to go wager while
Speaker 1: I went to grab something out and he was still
Speaker 1: there when I left pumping money in. One would assume
Speaker 1: I don't know if he you know, maybe he should
Speaker 1: have been buying milk or a babysitter for the kids
Speaker 1: he left outside. And I felt even just thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I remember it like it was yesterday, and I feel
Speaker 1: felt sick to my stomach. Then I feel sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach now thinking about that kid's situation. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a guy showing up to get his check, to get
Speaker 1: his money. It wasn't somebody who I left something in
Speaker 1: the rooms. Even if I was visiting, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: left my kids in the car. No, of course, right,
Speaker 1: just to go grab a ku. Yeah, That is exactly
Speaker 1: my point.
Speaker 4: He cannot feel good about himself about doing that. There
Speaker 4: is an overriding addiction that happens in a scenario like that,
Speaker 4: boiling hot, leaving your kids in the car to go
Speaker 4: make a bet on you know whatever, table, whatever, slot machine,
Speaker 4: whatever it is. So sometimes people need help, right, and
Speaker 4: they appreciate the help when somebody steps in, whether it's
Speaker 4: the government or a friend or a family member or
Speaker 4: things like that, because how bad must you be down
Speaker 4: to leave your kids in the car to go back?
Speaker 1: Still, see, in as much as I am empathetic and
Speaker 1: sympathized with the situation and was heartbroken about those kids
Speaker 1: in the scenario that their dad or whoever was providing
Speaker 1: them care was in that circumstance, I will say the
Speaker 1: other side of that is it's an unfirst fortunate thing
Speaker 1: for them. But who am I or who is the
Speaker 1: governor or other lawmakers to step in to say that
Speaker 1: that guy who's had bad judgment. Now, maybe they get
Speaker 1: him for abandoning the kids outside in the heat. Maybe
Speaker 1: they get him for, you know whatever, not providing proper
Speaker 1: care in that situation, because that desperation was clearly palpable,
Speaker 1: you should be doing something else in that place, but
Speaker 1: freedom of choice. Kids didn't have a choice, But they'll
Speaker 1: learn hopefully that that's not the way to roll as
Speaker 1: a grown up. And it's a it's a tough learning situation.
Speaker 1: But I think there are limits, and then there are
Speaker 1: limits that should be in place, and this is not
Speaker 1: I just it's just a shady gray area and I
Speaker 1: don't know where it stops. They already want to control
Speaker 1: a whole lot of other stuff. And for you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy who's a conservative, and I understand, you know,
Speaker 1: I may not approve of how somebody else lives, but again,
Speaker 1: that's their life, that's their world. Unless they're making a
Speaker 1: dangerous circumstance for the general population. I just or they're
Speaker 1: crossing a line and abuse in another. I just don't
Speaker 1: think anybody has the right to get involved. Family, friends, clergy, whatever.
Speaker 1: Somebody can come in and say, look, we're going to
Speaker 1: have an intervention. But I don't think I need Daddy
Speaker 1: to whine, or you know, the President Trump or anyone
Speaker 1: else in that office to tell you me or anybody else.
Speaker 1: It's no different as far as I'm concerned, whether it's
Speaker 1: legal weed or otherwise. Handle your business until you're a
Speaker 1: problem for the general population. It's not ours, that's just me.
Speaker 1: I mean is that?
Speaker 4: I mean I just because it becomes a very slippery slope. No,
Speaker 4: I understand the argument I do. I mean, if listen,
Speaker 4: I don't. I mind my own business most often. But
Speaker 4: if I walk past someone who's beating an animal or
Speaker 4: a child, I'm gonna step in.
Speaker 2: When you see something, say something, so you know, I feel.
Speaker 4: Like it's it's somewhat of our societal obligation to help
Speaker 4: people that are that down.
Speaker 1: Where do you draw the line is that then you
Speaker 1: go to the heavy The person who has a weight problem,
Speaker 1: could be glandular, could be depression, could be whatever else
Speaker 1: they need help clearly, right, so then the government should
Speaker 1: limit what food they buy or how often they get
Speaker 1: into the refrigerator to get that food.
Speaker 4: I don't think having restrictions on, you know, what what
Speaker 4: people buy. If you're getting free food from the government, right, well, yeah,
Speaker 4: you got to have.
Speaker 2: A certain amount of fruitilities they think that would.
Speaker 1: Be a really good So if you're getting help in
Speaker 1: assistance from we the people, then there should be some
Speaker 1: limits obviously into what you can purchase or not purchase.
Speaker 1: In that situation, you get that, right, yeah, right, And
Speaker 1: then some people go, well, how are they going to
Speaker 1: learn to live if they're not getting, you know, the
Speaker 1: option to make those choices.
Speaker 4: I hear what you're saying, but you can't buy alcohol
Speaker 4: and smokes and all that stuff. You have to buy food,
Speaker 4: and hopefully they'll make good choices for that and their
Speaker 4: family and stuff.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4: I think it's important to, you know, help people when
Speaker 4: they need it. Yeah, but it's also good to give
Speaker 4: some tough love too and say hey, you shouldn't be
Speaker 4: you shouldn't be spending all this money. I mean, they flag,
Speaker 4: that's what's really good. We had the interview with the
Speaker 4: guy from sportsbook. I can't it was a while ago,
Speaker 4: but they flag when stuff goes over it, when stuff
Speaker 4: goes over the top. And I thought that was really
Speaker 4: really important thing to discuss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you want to keep a customer for
Speaker 1: a long time, right, I mean it's like a drug
Speaker 1: dealer in another way. And I'm not mixing metaphors, but
Speaker 1: I am in that situation. I've never understood why you
Speaker 1: would put a poison in a drug that you're trying
Speaker 1: to sell. You want to keep that customer for a
Speaker 1: long time, not kill the customer, right, You want that
Speaker 1: customer to keep coming back, putting money on the line.
Speaker 1: And that's they build those big casinos, those big facilities
Speaker 1: and everything else. Not because people are winning all the time,
Speaker 1: but because you're making a donation and it's an entertainment expense.
Speaker 2: That's right. Most people consider it that way. I do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'll take five hundred bucks and whatever
Speaker 4: I lose, it's gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're betting for your rent, if you're
Speaker 1: wagering for your the food or shoes or you know,
Speaker 1: in lieu of time.
Speaker 4: For a job, and that's how you make your money,
Speaker 4: that's going to be very stressful.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I mean again, that was the dream when
Speaker 1: all that that hold them stuff was all over the
Speaker 1: TV some ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, when that first
Speaker 1: stuff started. I mean me and my friends, a whole
Speaker 1: lot of us started playing a whole lot of cards,
Speaker 1: and you started getting illusional, thinking, ah, this is my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then then in my case, I went out there
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know enough.
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna make a million dollars.
Speaker 1: On this there might be easier just to hit pole.
Speaker 2: Exactly what put a dollar in take your chances.
Speaker 1: It's tough. Five one, three, seven, four nine, seven, eight hundred,
Speaker 1: the big one. Look, we're glad you're along. We're thankful
Speaker 1: that you're here, and we know there's it can be
Speaker 1: a whole lot of stress. So hopefully you're enjoying the meal,
Speaker 1: maybe some fellowship. If you're working, we appreciate you being
Speaker 1: out there doing it just like us. We're on the job.
Speaker 1: As much as this isn't work, really, I mean this
Speaker 1: is fun hanging out. No, and I think I'm how
Speaker 1: long do we have one minute? Well, wait and take
Speaker 1: a break and we'll come back here before news.
Speaker 2: Well I'll be.
Speaker 4: Out because I got a head anyway, Yes, I'll come
Speaker 4: back then.
Speaker 1: If we're doing it, well, do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1: You're the boss, so we can hang out anyway. It
Speaker 1: was take a break, we'll come back more Sterling down
Speaker 1: a D seven hundred wl Oh. Yes here we are
Speaker 1: just after two two oh seven and fifty six seconds
Speaker 1: right now for our Willie Bill Cyningham enjoying a nice
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving day. To be grateful, to be thankful, as Sterling
Speaker 1: Keeving the seat. Donnade has checked out. I rolled till
Speaker 1: four moegar after that conversation with James Rapine talking who
Speaker 1: day Bengals Ravens Primetime Game three of this huge platter
Speaker 1: filled chicken turkey ham. It's mostly turkey for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Time in a feast with friends and family.
Speaker 1: Is They're playing in Detroit Green Bay leading ten to
Speaker 1: seven over those Lions, Dallas of playing a bit later
Speaker 1: Bengals Ravens in Charms City or Baltimore, Land of crabcakes,
Speaker 1: soft shell crabs and duck pin bowling. Though we have
Speaker 1: that here, that's the first time I'd ever seen it
Speaker 1: or done that was in Baltimore years ago. Hopefully you're
Speaker 1: having a safe time whatever. You're doing a good time
Speaker 1: with very little family dysfunction, getting along, driving safely from
Speaker 1: place to place, or maybe staying there or whatever. I
Speaker 1: had somebody message me earlier said, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I can't determine if it's legit or if it's somebody
Speaker 1: just playing or whatever. They said that they have two
Speaker 1: separate kind of like Thanksgiving things. I'm paraphrasing because one
Speaker 1: of their kids is afraid of the bird, afraid of
Speaker 1: the turkey, which apparently is a legit disorder, which I'll
Speaker 1: get into in a little bit. I had a problem
Speaker 1: about that circumstance when I was probably about five or six,
Speaker 1: But it was not because I was wanting to be
Speaker 1: necessarily vegan or vegetarian, or I was a fan and
Speaker 1: friend with the bird. But I look back on it,
Speaker 1: and as I try to make sense of it, and
Speaker 1: as it was explained to me, I had not put
Speaker 1: together what a lot of people try to deliberately separate,
Speaker 1: which is that the bird is what ends up on
Speaker 1: the plate that tastes so good. Right, So my mother
Speaker 1: had people over at the house and had cornish game
Speaker 1: hens and not for Thanksgiving, but like leading up to it,
Speaker 1: which is basically like a pigmy chicken, just a smaller bird.
Speaker 1: And I freaked out. I was disturbed and the twisted
Speaker 1: not quite fully functional thinking it through sterling brain at
Speaker 1: the time. Why and the third person, I say it,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I was traumatized by the idea
Speaker 1: that they took those little baby cornish game hens down
Speaker 1: before they had a chance to grow up to be
Speaker 1: a healthy, fat, plumped up turkey. And that shook me
Speaker 1: because I thought it was a baby bird rather than
Speaker 1: a full grown bird, when really it was just a
Speaker 1: bird that didn't grow as big as the other birds do,
Speaker 1: and it was slow the day that it ended up
Speaker 1: on the plate at my house and prepared by my mom.
Speaker 1: So what I'm wondering is what is it that you
Speaker 1: have an aversion to or stay away from, because it's
Speaker 1: not just me, though it may be a different mindset
Speaker 1: to sort of go along with that. I'm wondering, are
Speaker 1: you a turkey person, a hand person? What other ends
Speaker 1: we could talk side items? There's certainly the leftover scenario
Speaker 1: that goes along with it, and getting around. I'm all
Speaker 1: about visiting other people's houses. I remember it was a
Speaker 1: big deal. My mother would get all nervous and concerned
Speaker 1: my aunt about making everything perfect for everyone coming over.
Speaker 1: This is really it should be, in some ways, maybe
Speaker 1: the most relaxed and laid back holiday in that we're
Speaker 1: all thankful. We're all grateful for the life that we have,
Speaker 1: the friends that we have, the family that we have,
Speaker 1: the life that we share. And hopefully you know you're
Speaker 1: doing it with the people that you care about right
Speaker 1: now and enjoying it. But I just don't see the
Speaker 1: need even as a kid. Why there was such a
Speaker 1: stress factor involved in it. If it's not exactly perfect,
Speaker 1: made to order for TV, you know, or movie realm,
Speaker 1: that's okay. You're hanging out with people you care about,
Speaker 1: friends giving or otherwise, it's the way it goes. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand. I'm wondering a bird person not a bird person?
Speaker 1: How do you separate? Do you keep the kids separate?
Speaker 1: We had a kid's table for a while, which I
Speaker 1: was put at seemingly way longer than I thought before
Speaker 1: I moved to the grown up table. The conversation at
Speaker 1: times was better at the kids table, by the way.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: The Big One. You can talk back, the iHeartRadio apps,
Speaker 1: get the Mason and Rob was sterling on the Big One.
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving, appreciate you being here, man, how are you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: And to you also and all the listeners obviously, but
Speaker 7: I just thought she'd be amused. You know, there's a
Speaker 7: lot of knuckleheads out there. There is a holiday, and
Speaker 7: the dummies really come out in my neighbor who's.
Speaker 10: Not born an American.
Speaker 5: But I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 7: You know, I saw earlier today he had his friar
Speaker 7: out there is turkey fryar and a nice fresh cocaine.
Speaker 7: Take problem was it was way back in his garage
Speaker 7: because you know, it's cold and Wendy, he doesn't want
Speaker 7: to pay outside.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: See, I don't know what. I don't know about the
Speaker 1: issue of somebody being from another country, but certainly maybe
Speaker 1: having that where it's not ventilated. Well, or when I
Speaker 1: lived in Tennessee and take the back it was New Orleans.
Speaker 1: The first time I'd ever seen someone deep fry a turkey.
Speaker 1: I was amazed. However, in the news in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: where it may or may not have originated, I got
Speaker 1: to tell you, Rob, there was a guy that is
Speaker 1: you just described, but did it like in an enclosed
Speaker 1: porch and caught their house on fire. And I will
Speaker 1: never forget the lesson learned there, which is, don't do
Speaker 1: it inside, even if it's got a roof of cover
Speaker 1: over it.
Speaker 7: Only well, and this knucklehead, yeah, I don't really care
Speaker 7: where he's from. That's fine as long as he's paying
Speaker 7: his taxes. But anyway, yeah, I just Cashley mentioned to him.
Speaker 7: I said, you know, I do have a fire stinguisher
Speaker 7: and if you happen to want to sit that down
Speaker 7: near you, I said, but you've got two young boys,
Speaker 7: and you're probably gonna let them watch because that's so
Speaker 7: unique that dad's gonna deep fry of turkey for the
Speaker 7: first time. I said, Oh, by the way, is it
Speaker 7: a whole turkey? Oh yeah, we just got it this morning.
Speaker 10: All frozen.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, that's all bad. Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 1: You get those ice crystals and it hits that that
Speaker 1: hot grease, bad things happen. Yeah, that's a public service.
Speaker 1: You're helping people.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to save his two little boys. I don't
Speaker 7: really care about him all that much.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is a Thanksgiving holiday. You're supposed to care
Speaker 1: about everybody. You're like, I don't care about the guy,
Speaker 1: just the kids. It's always about the children. I understand.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm just I'm just kind of a redneck, I guess.
Speaker 7: I Finally I called the local fire department and I said,
Speaker 7: you know, there's not a fire yet. However, could you
Speaker 7: have somebody come and struckt this neighbor of mine that
Speaker 7: he lives in a condominium. Now you're not allowed to
Speaker 7: have open fires on your deck. We don't recommend you
Speaker 7: cook inside your girls, and could you please consider doing
Speaker 7: something else, And he basically starts arguing with the fire chief.
Speaker 1: Oh they came by. Oh okay, well that's nice that
Speaker 1: they swung by, because I don't want to come back
Speaker 1: later and have it be a cautionary tail in a headline.
Speaker 1: It's nice that they can.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought we could kind of cut this one
Speaker 7: off at the beginning, you know, And he finally even
Speaker 7: fire the fire assistant chief. I don't think the fire
Speaker 7: chief's working today, hey, he said, Sir, he said, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna either need to have the police come by and
Speaker 7: write your citation or you're gonna get what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7: So finally, you know, now my better hat's all picked
Speaker 7: off with me because I've upset the neighbors.
Speaker 1: You were trying to help. What I have found is
Speaker 1: that often my best intentions, every time I try to
Speaker 1: be nice, it usually turns around and I've screwed something up.
Speaker 1: So Rob, you're in good company at So there you go.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm an old guy that humanity is not
Speaker 7: getting any smarter by my observations.
Speaker 1: I tell you sometimes you too, I appreciate it. Rob,
Speaker 1: thank you, And I'm sure your neighbor and time will
Speaker 1: think about that and go, hey, I appreciate it. And
Speaker 1: you got to learn. You got to have a plan
Speaker 1: and get it together. That's why it's good to visit
Speaker 1: other people's house and they can deal with it and
Speaker 1: you can leave before the problems start. To Georgetown, enjoy
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. It's good to talk to you on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW as we sit in here for Willie.
Speaker 11: It was us good to talk to you when you
Speaker 11: was talking about chickens and turkeys. I do not like
Speaker 11: anything that has feathers on it. I'm eighty seven years
Speaker 11: old and when I was three, I had a pet
Speaker 11: chicken and I would run around in the backyard and
Speaker 11: play with that chicken. And one Sunday afternoon we all
Speaker 11: I had an older brother and an older sister and
Speaker 11: we said it dinner table, and my sister said, oh,
Speaker 11: is that chicken? And my mother said, yes, she had
Speaker 11: killed my chicken.
Speaker 1: Oh no, wanted me to have it for dinner.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's a hard lesson, isn't it. That's child so ever,
Speaker 1: since then you're against the bird. You don't want to
Speaker 1: eat the bird. Because you fell in love and care
Speaker 1: and you have an understanding that it was eating. So
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the bird. Yes, so you never
Speaker 1: eat any chicken. No tenders, no nuggets, no breasts, no legs,
Speaker 1: no thighs, nothing, no.
Speaker 2: Bird nothing, no birds.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's so. Do you have ham? Are you
Speaker 1: okay with the hog?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yes, we like ham. But we're having roast beef, mashed
Speaker 11: potatoes and gravy, nice noodles, coleslaw, punkin pie, and cherry cheesecake.
Speaker 1: Man, it sounds like you're living right, Joy, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 1: I was concerned that you had a phobia, which is
Speaker 1: or a phobia ornithhobophobia, I believe is how it's pronounced,
Speaker 1: is in fact a fear of birds, worrying about them attacking.
Speaker 1: My buddy Brad used to have that, but birds would
Speaker 1: seek him out. I understand it. You actually care and
Speaker 1: love the bird you were. You want the birds to
Speaker 1: live long and prosper.
Speaker 11: Oh yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Well I appreciate that, and the birds love you too. Joy.
Speaker 1: We love you have yourself a great thanksgiving. I appreciate
Speaker 1: your reaching out and enjoy that roast beef.
Speaker 11: You too, But don't you eat too much turkey now.
Speaker 1: I'll try not to. I'll wait till I get home,
Speaker 1: otherwise I'll uh. I know the trip to fan will
Speaker 1: get you. So that's what you get. You get the sleepies,
Speaker 1: as some people say, sometimes it's just after you you know,
Speaker 1: you have a couple of cocktails. This is a big
Speaker 1: cocktail day. Last night, biggest night out, big bar night,
Speaker 1: big restroom night leading into Thanksgiving, and of course Black
Speaker 1: Friday sales seemingly been going on forever. How times have changed,
Speaker 1: you know, about five ten, probably closer to ten years ago.
Speaker 1: I remember that people. In fact, Kevin Carr, who Abaha
Speaker 1: on the show Tomorrow Night talking movies, fat guys at
Speaker 1: the movies and the silver gecko there on the sub stack.
Speaker 1: He and I used to talk about it and he
Speaker 1: would regularly be in line out and about looking to
Speaker 1: get Black Friday deals as well, the Guida deal. Dev Shapiro,
Speaker 1: who I have on the show on talking about it.
Speaker 1: He used to do the same thing at camp out,
Speaker 1: like outside of like trying stores or whatever else. Times
Speaker 1: have changed. He'd wait for the circulars and get those
Speaker 1: and all the other stuff that sort of goes along
Speaker 1: with that, But yeah, not necessarily quite the same world
Speaker 1: it was before I knew people that would be waiting
Speaker 1: in line already through Thanksgiving and have the feast outside
Speaker 1: with the tent and maybe a portable heater and all
Speaker 1: the other stuff that goes along with it. Let's get
Speaker 1: one more in here before the break to Batavian Rocky.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's our Rocky. It is our
Speaker 1: Rocky because he's listening and being a part of the show.
Speaker 1: But not mister boyman, what's up, rock How are you?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I want to talk to you about the last call
Speaker 10: or wuldn't anything was said? Yes, I was four years old,
Speaker 10: grew up with a farm. I had two pet geese.
Speaker 10: Oh they were big ones, and one year Dad cut
Speaker 10: them up and served them up for dinner. And ever
Speaker 10: since then, I have not been able to eat dark meat,
Speaker 10: but I love anything with white meat on it. Turkey, breast, chicken, breast.
Speaker 10: I mean this, I just eat the crap hour. But so,
Speaker 10: I don't know how. I guess anybody can have a
Speaker 10: phobia for something, but killing a duck or a chicken
Speaker 10: is not my phobia.
Speaker 1: I totally understand it, right, I will I will tell
Speaker 1: you years ago, and this probably lets a little of
Speaker 1: the country out in me. Some of my family friend
Speaker 1: type then growing up, they had what they have, chickens
Speaker 1: they'd raise, and then they'd have what they called a
Speaker 1: chicken plucking party, and people would come over and it
Speaker 1: was a mass extinction situation for their birds. And I
Speaker 1: remember being a tiny sterling, and I was somewhat traumatized
Speaker 1: by it, but I had grown beyond the Cornish hen trauma,
Speaker 1: and and I chased one of these poor chickens. It
Speaker 1: was running literally for its life through like a thistle bush,
Speaker 1: at which point it became a personal vendetta for me
Speaker 1: because I went, I was young and dumb. I went
Speaker 1: into the thistle bush, I chased that chicken down, I
Speaker 1: killed that chicken. I plucked that chicken. I cleaned that chicken,
Speaker 1: and I ate a whole bunch of that chicken that night.
Speaker 1: And it really, as I say it, I think that
Speaker 1: probably sounds pretty barbaric and harsh to somebody, but that's
Speaker 1: about as pure as anything other than getting it, you know,
Speaker 1: already vacuum packed in a bag with the giblets outside.
Speaker 10: So all my dad raised around two hundred chickens and
Speaker 10: every Sunday it was my job to go out and
Speaker 10: kill a couple yep. And it was just good eating
Speaker 10: it is it really is.
Speaker 1: I love chicken, but uh, I'd never had a personal
Speaker 1: and even as I just told that story, I kind
Speaker 1: of went and I feel bad, like, I mean, it
Speaker 1: should never be a personal like thing, although it's quite
Speaker 1: personal for the bird obviously.
Speaker 10: Quite possibly. Yeah, I would say, did you cut it
Speaker 10: snack off? Or did you ring it snack?
Speaker 1: I think I started to try to cut it and
Speaker 1: cutn't And then they showed me what I needed to
Speaker 1: do to ring it, and yeah it's And I know
Speaker 1: there are kids maybe in the car now, and that
Speaker 1: I hope we haven't caused more trauma. I want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the solution, not the problem. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hurt our Willie and his ratings, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt the people. I'm here to help,
Speaker 1: you know, Rocky, That's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 10: Well. I remember when I would used to kill a chicken.
Speaker 10: I would just pick it up, blatten down on a stump, yep,
Speaker 10: and I cut its head off. And as soon as
Speaker 10: you cut their heads off, you get gone real quick, yep,
Speaker 10: because they start flopping and you'll get blood all over you.
Speaker 1: And they do run, they do run. This has gotten
Speaker 1: too graphic. I'm sure I'm going to get a call.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get an email. I'll get a text
Speaker 1: that we don't want to This is supposed to be
Speaker 1: good times, wholesome times. We love the chickens, we love
Speaker 1: the birds alive and cook it up real nicely. Rocket.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call me and I hope you have
Speaker 1: a good Thanksgiving. What's your favorite side item before we
Speaker 1: let you.
Speaker 5: Bounce or sure gress?
Speaker 1: Oh my grandma used to make oyster dressing. I love
Speaker 1: that scalloped oysters. Rocky, take care of yourself, man. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to me a part of.
Speaker 10: The show, your program, And I hope I find somebody
Speaker 10: else out there that have some comments on chickens.
Speaker 1: There you go, chickens good or a swine? This is great. Frank,
Speaker 1: you got about two and a half minutes. What do
Speaker 1: you have? Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 8: Frank?
Speaker 3: Thanks you, Hey, happy Thanksgiving. He might's gonna slide off
Speaker 3: to a little different farm an a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've done everything on the chicken ring A neck, all
Speaker 3: that let it.
Speaker 1: Run around the yard and all that chase him down.
Speaker 1: You gotta get them and you cook them up absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now the screen says, pig story, you have a swine story.
Speaker 9: No, but we grew up a pig that was kicked
Speaker 9: out from a large letter of big sala.
Speaker 3: We named it George.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Once he got up to three hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 3: it kept jumping on a car because it slept with
Speaker 3: the dogs.
Speaker 8: Yep, and it thought it was a dog.
Speaker 1: That they are amazing and smart. But that that is
Speaker 1: a big, big hog. And yeah, that's a whole nother thing.
Speaker 1: I gotta let you bounce on that. I'll just tell
Speaker 1: you this. My friends have a pig named Larry. He
Speaker 1: has a hog door. He comes in and out as
Speaker 1: he wants, I kid you not. And he has like
Speaker 1: a litter box, I guess a swine box. But he
Speaker 1: likes to go out and he goes out at will.
Speaker 1: But he likes he has a We had chops. They
Speaker 1: invited me over. I thought this was in poor taste.
Speaker 1: They invited me over had pork chops. And that hog
Speaker 1: would lean against your stool and on you to rub
Speaker 1: the scratch and he would just look up at you
Speaker 1: and he acted like he wanted what you were eating,
Speaker 1: which I thought was barbaric. I don't think that Larry
Speaker 1: the Hog really wanted to eat pork chops, but I'm
Speaker 1: still conflicted about that. You're two or two thirty report
Speaker 1: coming straight away the news and then conversation with James
Speaker 1: Rapeen about Bengals Ravens. They play tonight Thanksgiving prime time
Speaker 1: Nation Station where the Hoode play seven hundred WLW. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a Turkey day, Lots to be grateful for, lots
Speaker 1: to be thankful for. There is no question Sterling hanging
Speaker 1: out Bengals on the road, Charms City, some call it Baltimore.
Speaker 1: There's a tea, it's Baltimore. Who knew Land of crabcake,
Speaker 1: soft shell, crab, Ravens and well used to used to
Speaker 1: be the Colts. But let's not go there. James Rapine
Speaker 1: hanging out on a fine Turkey day. Are you a
Speaker 1: starcheres guy or are you more of a protein man?
Speaker 1: Or are you all about like the cranberries.
Speaker 5: Everything but the cranberries. I don't go out of my
Speaker 5: way for the cranberries. Cranberry and vodka. You could twist
Speaker 5: my arm. But yeah, I think anything pies anything starts
Speaker 5: in anything protein.
Speaker 1: For Yeah, it's a good thing. I'm feeling quite bloated already.
Speaker 1: The preparation has already been tough. I've gone through two
Speaker 1: pies in the last two weeks, and mostly by myself.
Speaker 1: But I digress, and I know that's not why you're here,
Speaker 1: and I'll have more later. And do you use like
Speaker 1: the cool whip? Do you use the whipped cream on
Speaker 1: your pies? Are you a sweet potato or a pumpkin
Speaker 1: pie guy? Before we get to Bengals.
Speaker 5: Talk, Oh pumpkin pie, come on, come.
Speaker 1: On, all right. See I like both. They're they're both
Speaker 1: very good. But there is a distinct love hate thing.
Speaker 1: People are all one or the other. I'm like an anomaly,
Speaker 1: which is maybe not surprising.
Speaker 5: I don't hate sweet potato pie, but if it's like
Speaker 5: a good version of this versus a good version of
Speaker 5: that pumpkin pie clears it for me. Maybe it's just me,
Speaker 5: you know, the underrated one.
Speaker 1: No pecan pie. Pecan Yeah, now see, I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the there's the pecan pie, then there's
Speaker 1: the mince pan pie. Then there's a rhubarb pie, which
Speaker 1: I don't even it kind of looks like celery at
Speaker 1: least by shape, but it's not and I don't know
Speaker 1: what I don't know what that is. And as a kid,
Speaker 1: I was scared to mince meat because I I was like,
Speaker 1: there's already meat on the table, Why do I want more
Speaker 1: in a pie form?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair, I didn't say, I said. For college.
Speaker 1: I like your response, You're like, that's fair. You're like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say to that. You've
Speaker 1: not grown out of a problem.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not eating it. Put it that way, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't foresee that being something that
Speaker 5: I'm going to consume today.
Speaker 1: No, here's the question. Here are the Bengals swollen bloated?
Speaker 1: Do they eat a feast before or eat after? How
Speaker 1: does that work? When they I mean, is a kid
Speaker 1: growing up, it was always the Lions. It seemed like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Packers were always playing these Thanksgiving Day games.
Speaker 1: Bengals getting some love and Joe Burrow back, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest gift to be thankful for of all. Of course,
Speaker 1: if they win, yeah, huge.
Speaker 5: Huge, huge addition, getting Joe Burrow back, and it's going
Speaker 5: to matter for sure. To your point, I definitely think
Speaker 5: it's a a Friday thing and you celebrate with your
Speaker 5: family if you're really sore from your football game on
Speaker 5: Thursday night and so Friday afternoon, I think that's when
Speaker 5: the Bengals will celebrate their Thanksgiving. Look, I uh, it
Speaker 5: doesn't get much bigger than bringing Joe Burrow back. And
Speaker 5: we talked about this exact scenario a few days ago
Speaker 5: and Boil BOYD and I think this is what they
Speaker 5: were gonna do. I wish they would have done it
Speaker 5: a few days ago, but he's active. We get to
Speaker 5: see Joe Burrow play football tonight, and what's better than that.
Speaker 5: There's not many things in the NFL better than watching
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow play.
Speaker 1: Football, except maybe not just him playing, but connecting with
Speaker 1: his number one Jamar Chase, who's also back. And so
Speaker 1: how is that vibe? Has much been said about all
Speaker 1: of that. I know there was an apology which came
Speaker 1: after the whole like a blow up for the week. Right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think this is my opinion. No one's told me this,
Speaker 5: but I think the Bengals are like, yeah, this this situation,
Speaker 5: we know who Jamar Chase is and Jalen Ramsey is
Speaker 5: the world's best agitator and well past his prime. And
Speaker 5: so we're not gonna let well we're not gonna let
Speaker 5: one action dictate how we feel about Jamar Chase. And
Speaker 5: by the way, I don't think the Bengals should and
Speaker 5: I don't think he should either, And so what tonight is, honestly,
Speaker 5: it is a chance for Jamar to remind everyone who
Speaker 5: he is. And that's the best wide receiver in football.
Speaker 5: And so all those images a couple of weeks back
Speaker 5: and all that stuff that goes out the window if
Speaker 5: you go into M and T Bank Stadium and do
Speaker 5: what he did last year, three touchdowns, two hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty plus yards. He doesn't even need to do that.
Speaker 5: But if he has a good game tonight, I think
Speaker 5: he'll goble to remind everybody who he is.
Speaker 1: Talking to. James Rapine, the book entered the Jungle. It's
Speaker 1: still available, Yeah, I mean, Black Friday's around the corner.
Speaker 1: You can feel it, right, I mean, are you printing
Speaker 1: those in the basement? How does that work?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're ready to go at Cincinnati Bengals book dot Com.
Speaker 5: The three also Joe Burrow is back and the book
Speaker 5: is still here.
Speaker 1: Baby, It's a beautiful thing. James Keene with Sterling seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW also Cincinnati Bengals talk Lockdown Bengals. He's everywhere
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated. So on t Higgins and Trey Henderson, both
Speaker 1: of those guys not playing, did they make Are they
Speaker 1: making the trip or is that one of those stay
Speaker 1: home kind of scenarios on different physical issues for both.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think for Tea, I would be sort of
Speaker 5: surprised if he made the trip. Maybe he did, I
Speaker 5: don't know for sure. And part of it is just
Speaker 5: because it's a concussion, it's a short week and staying
Speaker 5: back rehabbing it would make sense. And the same thing
Speaker 5: goes for Trey Hendrickson's Look, they need those guys if
Speaker 5: they win Thursday there you know, are tonight excuse me,
Speaker 5: there'll be I'm so used to Thursday versus Sunday. I
Speaker 5: said Sunday all week.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been a weird week, the whole week and
Speaker 1: then the short one just a couple of days. Then
Speaker 1: you got to go from one to Joe to another.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff to keep track of. James
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hate on you for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is. And well, the thing is is last
Speaker 5: week I was like, well, Joe play Sunday or Thursday,
Speaker 5: and so I've just kind of categorized him, and now's Thursday,
Speaker 5: which is tonight. Anyways, I think that it's the stuff.
Speaker 5: It is. It is Trey Hendrickson. You need it. Like
Speaker 5: if they handle business tonight, there are going to be
Speaker 5: people that say, all right, well there's five games left.
Speaker 5: You go to Buffalo, you go to you welcome Baltimore back,
Speaker 5: and then it's hell from there, like you could get
Speaker 5: the nine and eight and that sounds great, but it's
Speaker 5: going to be really hard to do if you don't
Speaker 5: have ninety one out there. So t Higgins, obviously, I
Speaker 5: think things are going to trend, hopefully in the right direction,
Speaker 5: and maybe he can be back out there for Buffalo.
Speaker 5: But Trey Hendrickson, we haven't seen him in a month
Speaker 5: and so they certainly need him back on the.
Speaker 1: Field, no question. Sterling talking to James Ravine Bengals Ravens
Speaker 1: tonight Thanksgiving, big Turkey legs and a lot of our
Speaker 1: heads or maybe the oversize the flapper wings. I don't
Speaker 1: know either, way, a lot of people are going to
Speaker 1: be paying attention. Kickoff a little bit later six and five.
Speaker 1: Ravens leading the way in the AFC North, Bengals trying
Speaker 1: to get a little bit closer somehow to five hundred
Speaker 1: or whatever. Injuratory situation for Ravens, I mean the Ravens,
Speaker 1: I mean they're just a game over five hundred, but
Speaker 1: they're still leading the way. And it's the AFC North.
Speaker 1: These are always ugly, nasty kind of battles.
Speaker 10: They are.
Speaker 5: And the guy that really hasn't been himself in recent weeks,
Speaker 5: and I hesitate to mention him because he always crushes
Speaker 5: the Bengals is Lamar Jackson. You know, he's been listed
Speaker 5: with a knee, a toe, an ankle, just different injuries,
Speaker 5: and the national media has certainly mentioned the fact that
Speaker 5: he just hasn't been the same guy recently, which naturally
Speaker 5: sterling you look at it and you're like, well, let
Speaker 5: me show you this Bengals defense. And so that's what
Speaker 5: I think that the biggest storyline here is when it
Speaker 5: comes to the Ravens in their health, is where it
Speaker 5: is Lamar Jackson healthwise, if he's close to one hundred
Speaker 5: percent and they've just been ineffective on offense. Well, it's
Speaker 5: going to be a tall task for the Bengals. If
Speaker 5: Lamar is a bit compromised, well then maybe the Bengals
Speaker 5: defense can follow up what they did on Sunday with
Speaker 5: another nice showing. And I was pleased with what they
Speaker 5: did defensively against the Patriots. They gave the Bengals a
Speaker 5: chance to win. If they play like that and give
Speaker 5: the Bengals a chance to win tonight, I will take
Speaker 5: that all day long. And I think Joe Burrow will too.
Speaker 1: It's a long weekend. James Rapeene enter the Jungle of
Speaker 1: the book, Cincinnati Bengals talk, YouTube, everywhere else locked on Bengals, Sterling,
Speaker 1: Big One, Bengals, Ravens, Tonight, injuries. I mean, everybody's dinged
Speaker 1: up at this point, aside from the ones we've already
Speaker 1: talked about. With this battle, what do you see? I mean,
Speaker 1: if they can have a good showing tonight, if Burrow
Speaker 1: can stay healthy. And I got some hate because I
Speaker 1: mentioned that whole Christmas story for Glay Lamp thing talking
Speaker 1: about Burrow, But you know the truth is the truth
Speaker 1: is we look at this. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: way to give hope to help the fan base. But
Speaker 1: again I don't mean to be the profit of doom.
Speaker 1: But unless there's something catastrophic that happens with everybody in
Speaker 1: front of the Bengals, this is still sort of a
Speaker 1: pride circumstance more than we're going to get to the
Speaker 1: playoffs this season. Yes, well, you.
Speaker 5: Got to win six straight, and so if you do that,
Speaker 5: I think they're going to be in pretty good position
Speaker 5: where you know, if you look at some of these
Speaker 5: playoff trackers, if you go six and now, you probably
Speaker 5: three fourths of the time seventy five percent of the
Speaker 5: time you get into the playoffs. And so considering they're
Speaker 5: three and eight, you take those chances all day long.
Speaker 5: And I will point out that they control some of
Speaker 5: their own destiny from a they can beat up on
Speaker 5: the Ravens. They blew the chance a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: ago to sweep the Steelers. But if you sweep the Ravens,
Speaker 5: the Ravens probably aren't winning the division. You could cost
Speaker 5: them the AFC North and either hind it to Pittsburgh
Speaker 5: get yourself right back in it. And so the Bengals
Speaker 5: still they don't control their own destiny. But it's still
Speaker 5: close enough. Now most people listening are gonna say, well,
Speaker 5: there's no way in hell, James, that they're gonna win
Speaker 5: six straight, and that's fine. They probably won't, but if
Speaker 5: they did, they would be in a pretty good spot
Speaker 5: and could be playing for more than pride come to January.
Speaker 5: But again, it does feel far fetched fairly, and they've
Speaker 5: lost eight of nine games without Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Listen, I have lived better through lowered expectations for most
Speaker 1: of my career as a human, James Rapine. So you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at as a Bengals fan, it just
Speaker 1: fits in tuck as being a born and bred Bengals fan.
Speaker 1: So I just try to look through it. I'm always
Speaker 1: hopeful it's a nicety idea of maybe ruining a raven season,
Speaker 1: maybe a surprise the world, maybe strength and wins along.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. Anything else before we let
Speaker 1: you go to handle a stuffed turkey day Thanksgiving James
Speaker 1: Raupine family, good Time, Thursday night Thanksgiving, Bengals Ravens Football Thursday, Idly,
Speaker 1: anything out, I don't think no.
Speaker 5: Well, I think the last thing is is the one
Speaker 5: reason why this Bengals offense has been so good over
Speaker 5: the past six games, five and a half games, but
Speaker 5: close to six games. When they've been good, they've been
Speaker 5: able to run the ball. Yeah, and Chase Brown has
Speaker 5: had one hundred plus yards from scrimmage in five straight games.
Speaker 5: And so him doing that again, him being involved off
Speaker 5: taking pressure off of Joe Burrow and running. He averaged
Speaker 5: five point six yards of carry last week. Doing that
Speaker 5: would be big for this offense. And so that's not
Speaker 5: key number one. Protect Burrow is always key number one,
Speaker 5: but key number two on offense is making sure Chase
Speaker 5: Brown has an effective bag.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's been nice to sort of have him
Speaker 1: shut people up a little bit about his productivity and
Speaker 1: not being there. We've seen him grow a good bit
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons. It's been pretty fun. So
Speaker 1: hopefully they can gel and get it going tonight. Thank
Speaker 1: you for making time. I am thankful and grateful to
Speaker 1: know you to loosely use the term friend, and you
Speaker 1: certainly are a friend of the show as well, So
Speaker 1: thank you for making time. And hopefully Bengals win tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes later on.
Speaker 5: Likewise, Sterling, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Happy Thanks, Yeah you too, man, just stay away from
Speaker 1: the canned cranberries, you know what I mean, the ones
Speaker 1: that come out with it. It's true. It reminds me
Speaker 1: as a little kid and flop out onto the table
Speaker 1: that jiggle a little bit and not in a good way,
Speaker 1: and then you slice it off a little bit and
Speaker 1: you get a spoon. It's just I want it real cranberries,
Speaker 1: cook down and arguably a little booze in it, which
Speaker 1: I may or may not have already had.
Speaker 5: There you go, I'm down for the booze. I'll get
Speaker 5: some after the game.
Speaker 1: That'll be a clip. That's a cut for you. James
Speaker 1: Rapene is down with the booze. Cincinnati's Bengals talk certainly,
Speaker 1: Bengals Ravens tonight, James re Peen, Thank you more. Sterling,
Speaker 1: coming back here Home of the Hood, Day seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW basted right, Brian deep Fried. Maybe put in the broiler.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure how you do it. Maybe you
Speaker 1: have a turkey roll, maybe you had the toe furky.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how you're living. Hopefully you're living well,
Speaker 1: living right, Sterling, hanging out our man Bill Cunningham with
Speaker 1: the day off the Spine. Turkey Day hopefully of Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day a goodwin for you wherever you ar and whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing. I decided because you know, AI is our future,
Speaker 1: because AI is supposed to be our friend.
Speaker 11: AI.
Speaker 1: They say in ten to twenty years Elon Musk, a
Speaker 1: guy who knows just a little bit about technology, he says,
Speaker 1: work will become most likely for most of us optional
Speaker 1: we'll have a choice because the AI will do so much.
Speaker 1: So I thought i would take a look here because
Speaker 1: a friend of mine just recently was like having a party.
Speaker 1: They're like, I want to have some conversation topics in
Speaker 1: preparation for the get together, and I'm like, okay, what
Speaker 1: do you want me to do for you? And they
Speaker 1: were floating ideas asking me and what they had done
Speaker 1: is they'd us AI by asking about questions to ask
Speaker 1: so and some of them were in, some of them
Speaker 1: were not. But I mean, you know, you try to
Speaker 1: keep it light hearted, you try to keep it fun.
Speaker 1: So with the help of AI, and some of these
Speaker 1: may work, some of these may not. I'm going to
Speaker 1: open up the phones, give you a chance to sound
Speaker 1: off well, hopefully have some fun. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to solve all the world's problems.
Speaker 1: They might cause a few, hopefully have a good time
Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four ninety seven, eight hundred the
Speaker 1: big one. First, if you're working, I appreciate you out
Speaker 1: there doing what you do, first responders or emergency room,
Speaker 1: gas stations, whatever restaurants, you name it, whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you on how the day's going.
Speaker 1: Hopefully people are treating you right that you're encountering. There's
Speaker 1: certainly a lot of nurses and doctors, a lot of
Speaker 1: people doing lots of different things, a lot of hotels
Speaker 1: and hospitality also a part of that. So here's one
Speaker 1: question that pops up first on the list here, which
Speaker 1: I think is interesting. It says, if you could invite
Speaker 1: any historical figure to Thanksgiving, who would it be? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't mind having a Thanksgiving with, say,
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, anyone, whether it's President Trump,
Speaker 1: any of the past. I think Lincoln would be great.
Speaker 1: I would like to have a and this isn't a side.
Speaker 1: I think it would be interesting to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: And this has it on there and I never mentioned it,
Speaker 1: but apparently the AI thinks like I do. Sometimes or
Speaker 1: maybe I do. Like the AI it says, if a
Speaker 1: turkey could talk, what would it say to us right now?
Speaker 1: If a turkey could talk to us right now, you think, God,
Speaker 1: I miss this holiday. They got my friends, but I
Speaker 1: might not escape till next year or maybe Christmas time possibly.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. I'm not sure what a
Speaker 1: turkey would say. But if they're still here and not
Speaker 1: on a plate in pieces and parts, or in an
Speaker 1: oven or in a friar at this point and it's speaking,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably going to say, what a good
Speaker 1: day of this is. I'm thankful to still be around
Speaker 1: my guess, my observation or hallucination, what do you think
Speaker 1: a turkey would say? I mean, if it's on the
Speaker 1: table in speaking, it's not done yet. I think that's
Speaker 1: a dead giveaway. And it's a totally different type of
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving that you might actually be dealing with that particular
Speaker 1: situation in time. I mentioned the traveling aspect of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: So what I'm wondering is this because I mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: having Christmas time and other holidays at the beach, you know,
Speaker 1: sort of destination thing. I've had it when I was
Speaker 1: living in other places, and it was always odd because
Speaker 1: I want what I'm just doing this job innately. You
Speaker 1: often work a lot of holidays, and when you know,
Speaker 1: I had to leave here to go to other places
Speaker 1: for gainful employment, like I went to work in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: I was in Las Vegas and so on. So when
Speaker 1: you're away like that, your your circle of friends and
Speaker 1: your support. I mean, it is a friends giving kind
Speaker 1: of scenario, whether you're working or not, because that becomes
Speaker 1: sort of like your satellite family situation. And a lot
Speaker 1: of jobs, not necessarily all of them, but at least
Speaker 1: the ones I've been lucky enough to take part in,
Speaker 1: and even sometimes where I've worked. It didn't happen here
Speaker 1: this year, but working other holidays, they have made sure
Speaker 1: that people would you know, taken care of with like
Speaker 1: some type of throwdown meal, a situation or whatever, which
Speaker 1: has been pretty nice as well. If I could be
Speaker 1: anywhere to spend a Thanksgiving somewhere someday, I think it'd
Speaker 1: be nice, probably just generally closer to the equator, someplace warmer,
Speaker 1: but I think anywhere where there's family and friends where
Speaker 1: you can spend some time and have some togetherness and
Speaker 1: enjoy a meal together. I think every day probably is
Speaker 1: kind of like a Thanksgiving or could be, or maybe
Speaker 1: arguably should be five point three seven four nine seven
Speaker 1: eight hundred. The Big one your chance to get interactive.
Speaker 1: If you're streaming and talk back, click that microphone on
Speaker 1: mic deal on the iHeartRadio app and you can leave
Speaker 1: a message that way as well. I realize that holidays
Speaker 1: can be contentious in conversation situations. There are some movies
Speaker 1: that have sort of shown the oddities and the rarities
Speaker 1: or weirdness that can in fact take place in relation
Speaker 1: to I guess family get togethers in general. It's not
Speaker 1: just Thanksgiving. It could be a birthday party. It could
Speaker 1: be Christmas, it could be whatever. Some things maybe are
Speaker 1: off the table. What I'm wondering is is how do
Speaker 1: you navigate the conversation? Do you stay away from politics?
Speaker 1: These are contentious times. I was hoping that things would
Speaker 1: be better, but in some cases I think they may
Speaker 1: have been more a hostile In some cases, as time
Speaker 1: has gone on, maybe healthy conversation is good. But those
Speaker 1: are some of those things. Sometimes you just poke away
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, maybe next time or another time.
Speaker 1: This is one I would hope would be a good
Speaker 1: time just to get together and not have anything where
Speaker 1: stuff's going to be divisive or aggravating, frustrating or somehow
Speaker 1: angering at others. As we have different viewpoints on some
Speaker 1: basic things, but hopefully all wanting the same thing, which
Speaker 1: is for us to all, you know, get to the
Speaker 1: next level, live better, happier, freer, you know, have more
Speaker 1: options in our lives just in general, and just be
Speaker 1: thankful and grateful to be here with those around us,
Speaker 1: and to have the opportunities that we have in this
Speaker 1: nation compared to others. And certainly a lot of people
Speaker 1: out and about just hopefully you know, not drinking and driving.
Speaker 1: Get yourself a ride, get a designated driver. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different to places that are offering
Speaker 1: rides aside from the usual ride share things. Some cases
Speaker 1: they'll be free. You certainly don't want to be in
Speaker 1: a situation where the State Patrol, Cincinnati Police, or Erlang
Speaker 1: or wherever else you happen to be, Mason Montgomery, whatever.
Speaker 1: In a situation where you know, law enforcement ends up
Speaker 1: actually being your ride, that usually means that something has
Speaker 1: gone awrye earlier in your day. Generally the other thing,
Speaker 1: of course, is a lot of people. They find themselves
Speaker 1: maybe over consuming in the emergency rooms, and those that
Speaker 1: are in a first responder mode may also find themselves
Speaker 1: in situations where the they're having to go take care
Speaker 1: of some people, and we're glad that they're there. But
Speaker 1: a lot of times people will over indulge, they may
Speaker 1: get a little too stressed, and they may need a
Speaker 1: little help. So a lot of heart attacks, sometimes some strokes,
Speaker 1: those type of things, and let's hope in a couple
Speaker 1: of days it's not tomain or food poisoning or whatever
Speaker 1: else you want to call it. As people have leftovers
Speaker 1: that may have been left over a little bit too long,
Speaker 1: or something along those lines that sort of go that way.
Speaker 1: Somebody sent me this. It says the first president of
Speaker 1: Partner of Turkey was JFK. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: as I understand it. They decided, as every president has
Speaker 1: done since it said, we will pardon these two turkeys.
Speaker 1: Then they usually go to like a petting zoo or
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't Usually they're not like wild turkeys,
Speaker 1: be it the beverage or like I saw along Interstate
Speaker 1: seventy years ago driving back from out west enter around
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. I literally nearly drove off the road. I
Speaker 1: had only seen wild turkeys, which look different and have
Speaker 1: a little better ability to fly and roost than the
Speaker 1: commercial turkeys made for consumption outwardly. But it was a
Speaker 1: whole gaggle or a flock, or a herd or a
Speaker 1: I don't know what you call them in mass just
Speaker 1: off to the side of Interstate seventy. I had never
Speaker 1: seen it. It was like a whole group, a cluster.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where they were going. I would have
Speaker 1: hitched allowed them to hitch a ride, but I was
Speaker 1: already preoccupied and I had to focus on where I
Speaker 1: was going and what else I had to do. If
Speaker 1: you are in fact having a feast today, whether you're alone,
Speaker 1: which we hope that you're not, but if you are,
Speaker 1: I understand it could be just another day for you working.
Speaker 1: I know I have at least one ant that I
Speaker 1: am hoping to swing by and see after because some
Speaker 1: plans had changed because there's some sickness in the family,
Speaker 1: so it's been moved to like a Friday or a Saturday,
Speaker 1: as I understand it, into some of us working sort
Speaker 1: of have to, you know, move the day as a
Speaker 1: result of that. Depending but an average meal, they say,
Speaker 1: a typical Thanksgiving dinner pack thirty four hundred and eighty calories.
Speaker 1: That's before my second or third or fourth piece of pie.
Speaker 1: That's before I'm grazing at the table with the chips
Speaker 1: and the you know, maybe some pretzels. I do try
Speaker 1: to be healthy. I try to, you know, like growing up,
Speaker 1: my mother always had like the fruit and vegetable tray, right,
Speaker 1: She'd have celery and carrots, and sometimes there be some
Speaker 1: dip which may or may not be the most healthy,
Speaker 1: and some random mother items like that, radishes and so forth,
Speaker 1: and she'd try to you know, make them look all
Speaker 1: pretty and everything else like that. I would fill up
Speaker 1: on all those things. But it's just around. If the
Speaker 1: food is there, I will consume it. And I have
Speaker 1: been told they're like, well, you're not like a big kid.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I was a little bigger
Speaker 1: than I am. Now I've gotten smaller over the years.
Speaker 1: Some of my friends have gotten gone the other way.
Speaker 1: They get bigger overtime, and then we get we get
Speaker 1: that big, oversized guide head too as we mature. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep it together. But people will pack
Speaker 1: on some pounds seriously over these holidays. So the trick
Speaker 1: is to probably use that thing that most of us
Speaker 1: are talk growing up, which is most things are pretty
Speaker 1: good in moderation, right, So moderation is key. I have
Speaker 1: a problem with that because I like the turkey when
Speaker 1: it's fresh. I like a turkey sandwich. I like a
Speaker 1: turkey pop pie, I like a turkey hot shot. I
Speaker 1: will often I will just grab the turkey with a
Speaker 1: piece of cheese and on a sandwich. You can do
Speaker 1: it super deluxe. This is really what I enjoy the most.
Speaker 1: You take a good piece of rye bread and you
Speaker 1: get that and maybe a tiny bit of male and
Speaker 1: a little bit of turkey and maybe some pepper jack cheese,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side you get a little
Speaker 1: bit of the stuffing, maybe even put a little cranberry
Speaker 1: sauce on there, and then you can heat it up
Speaker 1: in the pan maybe a little bit, and brown it
Speaker 1: up a little bit and let that cheese melt. And
Speaker 1: then you're you're living large. And I'm in a room
Speaker 1: now with water and coffee and a whole lot of
Speaker 1: monitors and no food, and now I put myself in
Speaker 1: a situation where I'm killing myself with the hunger, other
Speaker 1: stuff to do. Oh, this is nice, Alice in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: That's all, she says. Alice, thank you for reaching out.
Speaker 1: At Stirling Radio on X says she watched the parade
Speaker 1: the day the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. She says, family
Speaker 1: had done. They do it every Thanksgiving. I promised to
Speaker 1: do it and have not done it in this point yet.
Speaker 1: I have given stuff away to help in years past.
Speaker 1: But the Thanksgiving Day race, a whole lot of people
Speaker 1: doing that, Western and southern ten k or the Chick
Speaker 1: fil a five K, a lot of kids and all
Speaker 1: the other stuff. That's a good way to start. And
Speaker 1: you burn those calories early, then you can eat and
Speaker 1: have it not be a problem later. I wonder how's
Speaker 1: your Thanking Thanksgiving? And if you're working, where are you
Speaker 1: what you're doing and hopefully you're having a going We
Speaker 1: appreciate you being along, hopefully a soundtrack to a beautiful
Speaker 1: afternoon getting where you have to go in for our
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham on a Thanksgiving Thursday afternoon Sterling five one
Speaker 1: three seven four nine seven thousand, eight hundred The Big
Speaker 1: One seven hundred WLW. The soul of our team is back.
Speaker 15: The remarkable Joe Bow.
Speaker 16: With Joe's toe Finally intact, can Burrow bring the Bengals
Speaker 16: back to their winning ways touchdown the Dolls?
Speaker 5: He's not a heel?
Speaker 14: Or will this Joe share the same fate as the
Speaker 14: other Joe.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for the latest on seven hundred WLW, Home
Speaker 1: of the Best Bengals Coupys Indeed sponsored jobs gives your
Speaker 1: job posting the Ravens in Baltimore tonight. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that's the second time they've ever played on a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Thursday night, so we'll see how that goes. Right now,
Speaker 1: what helped bring me to chase my dream of being
Speaker 1: on the radio for good or bad? Here is a
Speaker 1: little taste of WKRP in Cincinnati and one of the
Speaker 1: most memorable things that you could ever imagine in Supposedly,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is true, loosely based
Speaker 1: on another Ohio radio station in a promotion gone horribly wrong. Liam,
Speaker 1: Let's check this out. This is now.
Speaker 17: It's not time to go to our live remote Man
Speaker 17: on the scene at the Pinedale Shopping Mall for the
Speaker 17: big WKRP Turkey giveaway. So take it away, less nest Man.
Speaker 5: This is less Nessman.
Speaker 15: You're mad on the scene here at the Pinedale Shopping
Speaker 15: Center where the excitement is mounting. We've here the witness
Speaker 15: the big w on ne or Rickey Thanksgiving giveaway.
Speaker 5: You got permission to be out here?
Speaker 15: What you're blocking my store here?
Speaker 10: Buddy?
Speaker 5: Don't you know who I am?
Speaker 10: Huh?
Speaker 5: I'm less Nessman.
Speaker 15: I won the Buckeye newsbuck Award last year.
Speaker 5: Good for you, buck Eye.
Speaker 2: Now get out of my doorway.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Creek. So far, so good.
Speaker 16: I'm here one hundreds of people who have gat it
Speaker 16: to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest
Speaker 16: Turkey event in Thanksgiving data. All we know for sure
Speaker 16: that in a very few moments they're going to be
Speaker 16: a lot of happy people out here.
Speaker 5: Now the crowd is.
Speaker 15: The crowd is uh, curious, but well behaved. And I
Speaker 15: think I hear something now, Uh the crowd is moving
Speaker 15: out into the parking area and oh yes, I can
Speaker 15: see it now. It's a it's a helicopter and it's
Speaker 15: coming this way. It's flying something behind it. I can't
Speaker 15: quite make it out. It's a large banner and it.
Speaker 5: Says, uh, heavy things.
Speaker 15: Killing from wy.
Speaker 2: Hey what a site?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 5: One water site.
Speaker 15: A culter seems to be circling the parking area now,
Speaker 15: I guess it's looking for a place to land. No,
Speaker 15: something just came out of the mind of the helicopter.
Speaker 15: It's a dark object or him's a skydiver, humming tot
Speaker 15: to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air.
Speaker 15: The second to the third no hairshutes yet, can't be skydivers.
Speaker 5: I can't judge yet.
Speaker 1: What they are.
Speaker 5: But oh my god, they're talking. I'm going get this.
Speaker 15: Oh they're punching for the earth running.
Speaker 5: I just want you to win. Junial part are.
Speaker 15: Turn's running around pushing each other.
Speaker 5: Oh my jams.
Speaker 15: Oh the humanity people are rumming of bombs of the
Speaker 15: turkeys are hitting the ground like sets of web samans site.
Speaker 15: I don't know how much longer the patron is running
Speaker 15: for their lives. I think I'm going to stem in side.
Speaker 15: I can't stand here and watch this any moments, you know,
Speaker 15: I can't go in there preaching for their mothers and
Speaker 15: they hasn't been anything like that.
Speaker 5: Part a heart.
Speaker 15: I can holdlin division here Johnny.
Speaker 17: Last lastly, you're there lasses from there, Thanks for that
Speaker 17: on the spot.
Speaker 3: Report last.
Speaker 17: Just tuned in the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been
Speaker 17: bombed with not Turkey tell Them at eleven.
Speaker 1: W KRP in Cincinnati and the Great Turkey Drop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all learned something is a tiny sterling at the
Speaker 1: time watching that for the first time, I learned that
Speaker 1: the not all turkeys fly, or at least don't fly
Speaker 1: that well. And there's a difference between those wild turkeys.
Speaker 1: Besides the beverage, the consumer bird made to eat one
Speaker 1: of the best things ever. I find it hard to
Speaker 1: believe that it would be actually based on something real,
Speaker 1: but this is a weird real world and who knows.
Speaker 1: But that's one of those things that every year I
Speaker 1: wanna watch and give you an earful of and just
Speaker 1: imagine that circumstance. And here's the best part. Les nessmand
Speaker 1: there on the scene with his play by play reporting,
Speaker 1: sounding much like the Hindenburg broadcast, talking about the horrible
Speaker 1: nature of what happened there, giving you, you know, a
Speaker 1: bit by bit information as it was occurring. When things
Speaker 1: were going off the rails and quite sideways. The birds
Speaker 1: ended up the same way. I suppose that the flight
Speaker 1: would have been something and no animals, by the way,
Speaker 1: were hurt in the filming of the or the replaying
Speaker 1: of that segment of that classic w k RP broadcast
Speaker 1: in the Turkey drop there just unbelievable. And by the way,
Speaker 1: everybody went crazy when I was a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: they loved Lonnie Anderson and her character there, but I
Speaker 1: was all about Bailey. There was there was something more.
Speaker 1: I was a Bailey guy. It's sort of like if
Speaker 1: you look at Gilligan's Island, you were a Merryan guy
Speaker 1: or you were a Ginger guy, and I was more
Speaker 1: of a Marianne guy. I don't know why that is,
Speaker 1: but it's just the you know, the way we were
Speaker 1: put together, I suppose, just the same. But what a
Speaker 1: great show. Venus fly Trap, Donnie Fever, Andy Travis, of course,
Speaker 1: all those just just tremendous, and it really did. And
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one there. There is a whole
Speaker 1: generation or more of people who as a result of
Speaker 1: that show, or news radio or a number of others,
Speaker 1: not just by listening also, but see that's the thing
Speaker 1: listening to our Willie or Jim Scott and you know
Speaker 1: a bird bank in the day, and our man Trumpy
Speaker 1: who just passed recently, and Lance and all these guys
Speaker 1: growing up, you know, it gets you. We were with
Speaker 1: you everywhere you go and whatever you're doing, and we
Speaker 1: were thankful to have you as a part of this.
Speaker 1: There needs to be somebody else on the other side
Speaker 1: of this microphone, out of those earbuds or that speaker
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, you know, even on the podcast
Speaker 1: at the iHeartRadio app listening, because we all work in
Speaker 1: concert and it is a team kind of anaro. So
Speaker 1: I just want to say that listening to this radio
Speaker 1: station then ended up working here. I was driven to
Speaker 1: it because I was inspired by the magic that was
Speaker 1: happening McConnell, all those guys, and then to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it. And as a really little kid
Speaker 1: also watching that WKRP thing. It just resonates today like
Speaker 1: nobody's business. Just all kinds of crazy, weird fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred The
Speaker 1: big one. I'm kind of curious what is your Thanksgiving situation?
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the stuffing in the bird
Speaker 1: or the dressing outside of the bird? Are you like me?
Speaker 1: Are you an anti giblet person, and I don't think
Speaker 1: a lot of birds. Now, turkeys may be different than chickens,
Speaker 1: but depending on where you get them. And some people
Speaker 1: like to go to like the turkey farm, and then
Speaker 1: you find yourself a bird and then they process the bird,
Speaker 1: which you know what that really means. But processing something
Speaker 1: is a cleaner, more sanitized version of taking care of it.
Speaker 1: So they butcher it up and then you bring it
Speaker 1: home and you either brind it or whatever you have
Speaker 1: to do is just sort of get through it. But
Speaker 1: I like the bird stuffing in dressing out. The giblets
Speaker 1: don't come in them all the time. In the cavity,
Speaker 1: it's usually in a bag. That's what the heart, the liver,
Speaker 1: the gizzard. Sometimes you get the turkey or chicken neck
Speaker 1: in there too. But and I mentioned this earlier because
Speaker 1: it's vivid to me. As a kid, I can recall
Speaker 1: having like the most anticipation ever to be able to
Speaker 1: have that big plate made with the mashed potatoes and
Speaker 1: the dressing or stuffing and the gravy and you know,
Speaker 1: the pumpkin pie or sweet potatoes or whatever else it
Speaker 1: is that you're into, and that big pile of turkey
Speaker 1: and everything on there. But I can recall digging into
Speaker 1: that and I'm like, what is that. That's a little
Speaker 1: weird chewy thing in that gravy, or that's a little
Speaker 1: odd flavor, and you know, it's sort of I don't
Speaker 1: know when and say gaming. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: word would have been as a child that I would
Speaker 1: have come up with. But it can be a little
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and when you're not expecting it. And my aunt
Speaker 1: and my mom both would sneak the giblets into that stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do a little separate on the side. I
Speaker 1: don't need to eat the inners. I don't need to
Speaker 1: eat the organ meat, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: just one of those things. Some people are all about it.
Speaker 1: Good for you have some do a little butter, a
Speaker 1: little garlic, whatever makes you happy. I do like the
Speaker 1: neck cooked upright, It's good. It's like oxtail in a
Speaker 1: different way. But but it's uh, it's traumatizing though, So
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm not alone. Since you don't see as
Speaker 1: much of the giblets as you might once used to
Speaker 1: have done. My guess is that I am probably in
Speaker 1: the majority who are not exactly A big fan of
Speaker 1: the pieces in parts stuffed into the bird. You want
Speaker 1: that out of there, then get the dressing in to
Speaker 1: sort of go along with it, so you know, just
Speaker 1: one of those things. I really do hope that your
Speaker 1: day has been good and we could keep you a
Speaker 1: little bit of company. It's a short week obviously for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Black Friday tomorrow, a lot of
Speaker 1: shopping already going on. So whatever you're doing, I hope
Speaker 1: you find what you're looking for. I hope you get
Speaker 1: a great deal on it. I hope you can treat
Speaker 1: people like you'd hope to be treated, so people are
Speaker 1: nice to one another. I'm trying to be nicer. I
Speaker 1: mean that's my New Year's resolution probably the last five
Speaker 1: or six years, and it continues to be trying to
Speaker 1: be a better person, nicer, kinder, friendly, or more relaxed.
Speaker 1: I have sort of turned into I think the scene
Speaker 1: in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where the dad is driving
Speaker 1: through the neighborhood and people are driving wild and he's
Speaker 1: just making his way home and the kids are running
Speaker 1: through the neighborhood trying to get back to where they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be, and he's just motoring, minding his own business,
Speaker 1: taking his time, having a good time, relaxed and no
Speaker 1: rush and no anger, no irritation or whatever else. I've
Speaker 1: turned more into that guy than anything else as far
Speaker 1: as not being in a hurry to go nowhere fast
Speaker 1: and just allow people a little extra space and a
Speaker 1: little time, because I don't want to be angry. There's
Speaker 1: enough going on, at least today, at least maybe hopefully
Speaker 1: through the holidays. You take a deep breath, you relax
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, just live a little bit better.
Speaker 1: There's no need to be all tense and freaked out
Speaker 1: and everything else. I mean, there's enough going on in
Speaker 1: the world and it's a little unnerving to say the least.
Speaker 1: There'll be an update in news obviously about those guardsmen
Speaker 1: in d C who were a gunned down or shot anyway,
Speaker 1: they weren't gone down. They're still alive dealing with that,
Speaker 1: so details on that. More on a Bengals Burrow Chase
Speaker 1: and Company are man. Moe Egger is coming up next
Speaker 1: with the pregame sport talk and then a whole lot
Speaker 1: of hooday. I hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving back
Speaker 1: again tomorrow night. Talking Black Friday deals, weekend movies, eating better,
Speaker 1: living better, healthy through the New Year, holidays and all
Speaker 1: as well. That's tomorrow night here, and thanks to Willie
Speaker 1: for let me sit in and try to and have
Speaker 1: a good Thanksgiving with you here. Time to stop sterling.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred WLL Double, Cincinnati,