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Speaker 1: we portable like that, baby. I think we might be
Speaker 1: missing the big picture when it comes to AI data centers,
Speaker 1: uh semiconductor industry. You know, then tell them all that,
Speaker 1: and I know that stalled a little bit. But big picture, though,
Speaker 1: is despite all the environmental and electricity worries, what about
Speaker 1: restoring American greatness or relative to technology, relative to manufacturing,
Speaker 1: and in a different way than our previous generations did it.
Speaker 1: I'm talking of course about Ohio now the fifth largest
Speaker 1: host of AI data centers, and that looks to be growing.
Speaker 1: Are we missing because of our fears and not unwarranted fears?
Speaker 1: I think they're legitimate, But I missed the big picture
Speaker 1: when it comes to expanding the job space here in Ohio,
Speaker 1: which is sorely needed. Joining the show this morning is
Speaker 1: Doug Kelly from Columbus. He is CEO of something called
Speaker 1: the American Edge Project that deals with us. Doug, welcome back, Howray.
Speaker 2: Thanks Scott, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. The reason why most of the civilized
Speaker 1: world speaks English because it is the business of language
Speaker 1: and a business that we created. American entrepreneurship industry created
Speaker 1: that environment. Dollar is the standard currency, the reserve currency.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: How important is it to continue to lean on tech
Speaker 1: in order to continue that and put it into context
Speaker 1: with the congressional plan now with TikTok where they're going
Speaker 1: to make an American health company and kind of use
Speaker 1: that as a front.
Speaker 2: Well, just a back one second, and let's look at
Speaker 2: the importance of technology in our overall daily lives.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So tech isn't just another sector of the economy, right,
Speaker 2: it is a very backbone of our national security or
Speaker 2: economy and the advancement of values that we really care about,
Speaker 2: free expression and letting your voice be heard. So the
Speaker 2: challenge is when Congress talks about regulating technology, it can't
Speaker 2: paint with a very broad brush.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: There's things that it can do that can either help
Speaker 2: our ability to innovate and compete against China, or there
Speaker 2: things they can do that can fundamentally damage our ability
Speaker 2: to remain the technological leader in the world. They've passed
Speaker 2: that chips and Science Build, which is going to help
Speaker 2: bring more manufacturing and semi conductor chips to the United States.
Speaker 2: It'll create technology hubs. It will also increase funding for
Speaker 2: STEM education. So that's an example of a really good
Speaker 2: thing that Congress is doing to help our ability to innovate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I think that's important too, because
Speaker 1: there is a lot of bad. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: negative with this, and that is that our enemies have
Speaker 1: learned to poison ups ourselves. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: us poison ourselves basically, which has always been the goal.
Speaker 1: That's you know, the fallow role. I'm destroyed from within.
Speaker 1: A lot of people predict that for the United States
Speaker 1: of America. I think we always find a way to
Speaker 1: write the ship though, right. We don't go away. We
Speaker 1: figure out how to adapt and we move on. We're
Speaker 1: really good at that, that's right.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the heart of the American genius is
Speaker 2: our ability to innovate and adjust as circumstances come. So
Speaker 2: one of our concerns is that some of the bills
Speaker 2: that Congress is talking about passing are things that would
Speaker 2: undermine our ability as a country to innovate, and particularly
Speaker 2: they would target America's most innovative technology companies. Now these companies, yeah,
Speaker 2: they run social media platforms, they make hardware and software.
Speaker 2: But what a lot of people don't know is that
Speaker 2: the biggest technology companies in the US are also the
Speaker 2: biggest investors and the most important strategic technologies that we're
Speaker 2: battling with against kind of so artificial intelligence, robotics on them, computing,
Speaker 2: these are all the technologies that are going to determine
Speaker 2: who leads in the future. And so as Congress wants
Speaker 2: to clamp down on those companies, it's going to hurt
Speaker 2: our ability to invest in those areas, to develop and
Speaker 2: master those technologies, and it's going to hand over to
Speaker 2: China an edge that we're not kind of get back,
Speaker 2: just like what happened with manufacturing.
Speaker 1: Well in another edge too, we get back to Afghanistan
Speaker 1: or the fall there, and how middle will rich that
Speaker 1: country is now that China ass control of that or
Speaker 1: Russia as control or whatever. Now, now, where are we
Speaker 1: going to get these Where are we going to get
Speaker 1: the precious natural resources in order to make the chips
Speaker 1: that you're talking about. That's that's you know, we talk
Speaker 1: about how important that is, But I think that fits
Speaker 1: into what you're discussing here, because the topic of rare
Speaker 1: earth minerals is now front and center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, you know, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, we are in this competition in China,
Speaker 2: and it's okay, who can build the most microchips, who
Speaker 2: can have the most innovation. China knows that innovation is
Speaker 2: its weak spot, right. They're good at copying and reverse
Speaker 2: engineering things, but their challenge is innovation, and they've invested
Speaker 2: a lot of money to boost their innovation. So at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, the US has to do
Speaker 2: things that accelerates our ability to innovate, and that includes
Speaker 2: things like creeing up our biggest innovators, making smart and
Speaker 2: better in building core critical technologies here. Now, there's certain
Speaker 2: things that can be done to you know, where the
Speaker 2: pressure and pain points come where technology hits politics and society.
Speaker 2: There's certainly regulations could be done there, right, Connors should
Speaker 2: pass a privacy policy so people understand what their data
Speaker 2: is being used for, what control they have over So
Speaker 2: there's certainly smart things that can be done there. But
Speaker 2: some of the things they're talking about in Washington right
Speaker 2: now just undermine our ability to innovate, and they actually
Speaker 2: don't solve the problems that people are feeling.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump for the well second time, now there's
Speaker 1: a new sheriff in town. Wasn't long ago where we
Speaker 1: had dignitaries in the United States go to places like
Speaker 1: Taiwan and try and build relationships with US. Drank in
Speaker 1: that connection to the United States and Twan because they're
Speaker 1: responsible for all the stuff we're talking about right now.
Speaker 1: We make a very small percentage, like twelve percent of
Speaker 1: those semiconductor products right now, so they're an important ally.
Speaker 1: We can't give that up.
Speaker 2: You are spot on what that's got. I mean in
Speaker 2: the nineties when semiconduct were invented, right, American manufactured most
Speaker 2: of them. Now we manufacture just twelve percent, with the
Speaker 2: bulk of the most sophisticated chips being made in Taiwan,
Speaker 2: which is just one hundred miles away from China. And
Speaker 2: if China made a move on Taiwan that were fundamentally
Speaker 2: do you think the COVID supply chain attroction was big,
Speaker 2: So that would be enormous. Yeah, And so you know,
Speaker 2: we have to be able to make sure that we're
Speaker 2: making in our own backyard as well. And at the
Speaker 2: same time, we have to do actions that check China's ambitions,
Speaker 2: both from a technology sign but also from a little
Speaker 2: boy ambition.
Speaker 1: In regards to Doug Kelly, CEO American Edge Project on
Speaker 1: the show on seven hundred WLW, you right there in Columbus,
Speaker 1: You're going to see this huge Intel plant and essentially
Speaker 1: town that is built to make semiconductors right here in Ohio.
Speaker 1: What's that mean for the state in America as well?
Speaker 1: I mean, that seems to be a huge step forward.
Speaker 1: We talk about the lack of manufacturing in America, but
Speaker 1: this is high tech manufacturing. Good for jobs and Hio
Speaker 1: to be sure, but in top putting, having a big
Speaker 1: footprint right here in Ohio let alone. The United States
Speaker 1: also is kind of what you're talking about here, and
Speaker 1: that is sounds like the United States, we're trying to
Speaker 1: increase our share of that market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, it's going to be great news for
Speaker 2: Ohio and all the Midwest. First of all, you know
Speaker 2: when I talk about unintended consequences of bills that Congress
Speaker 2: may pass, right, you know, twenty years ago Connors did
Speaker 2: some things on manufacturing that kind of slowly led manufacturing
Speaker 2: jobs over twenty years, many of them exported to China.
Speaker 2: And so one thing we don't want to have happen
Speaker 2: with the bills that Congress is talking about is unintended
Speaker 2: consequences that hurt our ability to manufacture and innovate on
Speaker 2: the technology side. And so the passage of this chip
Speaker 2: bill is going to bring new jobs, three thousand new
Speaker 2: jobs into Ohio just that plant. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: when you have like they're building construction trades and the
Speaker 2: other people that have to build these facilities, those are
Speaker 2: going to be even more jobs there. So it's a
Speaker 2: huge multiplier effect in building our own technology.
Speaker 1: Here Doug Kelly and Columbus CEO of the American Edge Project,
Speaker 1: which is pushing more and more tech, and you know,
Speaker 1: we've got Intel at some point, I think third twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one, as I saw when they opened the plant,
Speaker 1: your Columbus you're talking about. But you know, the AI
Speaker 1: data centers and everything else in Ohio is fifth in
Speaker 1: the country when it comes to those data centers, which
Speaker 1: I think is awesome, and there's some concerns there too.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about environmental we talked about electricity,
Speaker 1: the power and the grid. I talk about that a
Speaker 1: lot too, and it's could put a bigger drain on
Speaker 1: the system, but you build more infrastructures supposed to just
Speaker 1: prevent people from doing this. We've got to continue to
Speaker 1: innovate and lead the world for not only our economic future,
Speaker 1: but also for our survival too, because we we got
Speaker 1: to stay on top ors of the Chinese and the Russians.
Speaker 1: That's had a lot of people listening are concerned about
Speaker 1: social media, the impact it has on young kids. For example.
Speaker 1: Are you suggesting in some way, shape or form, maybe
Speaker 1: an unregulated internet or it's hard to censor the First
Speaker 1: Amendment because that is a given, inalienable right in this country.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be a balance there.
Speaker 2: How do you do that well, I would say that,
Speaker 2: you know, our coalition is you know, twenty four different
Speaker 2: groups of you know, people who represent small businesses, minority business,
Speaker 2: Asian American businesses, as well as technology companies. And our
Speaker 2: message is focused on the importance of innovation because sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know, people forget that innovation is America's secret sauce
Speaker 2: that puts us ahead of other countries, and it's kept
Speaker 2: us ahead of other countries to address your specific question.
Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, there are
Speaker 2: certain regulations that can be done that will give people
Speaker 2: clarity and insight on Okay, what could we be done
Speaker 2: with our data? Right, so Congress could pass the privacy policy.
Speaker 2: But what we're against the things that fundamentally disrupt America's
Speaker 2: ability to innovate. And that's the thing that we feel
Speaker 2: Congress is Russian full with this legislation. And it's not
Speaker 2: just on I mean, when you think of the biggest
Speaker 2: company Google, Amazon, Microsoft, these are companies are making game
Speaker 2: cheese and investments in the technology of the future. And
Speaker 2: if you if you disrupt or break apart those companies,
Speaker 2: it's gonna have lasting consequences. So at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, we're for innovation at the American Ed Project,
Speaker 2: and that's what gives us our edge. But we're four
Speaker 2: smart type of regulation that actually solve the problem or
Speaker 2: against reckless regulation.
Speaker 1: Right and generally when you start to break up companies,
Speaker 1: you know, we say that here Cincinnati Bell, for example,
Speaker 1: as no longer Cincinnati Bell for it. But but you
Speaker 1: know when they broke up the baby bell and the
Speaker 1: baby bells, you know, back in the back in the
Speaker 1: day forty something years ago, fifty years ago, that was
Speaker 1: to control a monopoly. I don't know if I see
Speaker 1: that as much with big tech in that argument. And
Speaker 1: certainly Facebook is massive, and there's a lot of big
Speaker 1: alphabet right, a lot of big companies out there that
Speaker 1: do this kind of stuff. But I just don't see
Speaker 1: the tech the advantage in breaking them up. It's gonna
Speaker 1: Does it make competition better or harder?
Speaker 2: Well, there's fierce competition and right now, So for the
Speaker 2: opponents of the big tech companies, I just challenged their
Speaker 2: assumption and their assertion that there's not competition there. I mean,
Speaker 2: Facebook is battling out all the time when the other
Speaker 2: social media companies TikTok, and so there's really fierce competition
Speaker 2: among these and that forces innovation faster. And so right now,
Speaker 2: with the current regulatory scheme we have of how do
Speaker 2: we deal with monopolistic activity, it's done to the court.
Speaker 2: That's the right way to go. That system works. There's
Speaker 2: no need to fundamentally disrupt that because technology moves really
Speaker 2: really fast. And I'm old enough to remember my Space
Speaker 2: and AOL when they were the big behemoths, right, And
Speaker 2: you know what the market took care of that, So
Speaker 2: we believe the market takes care of a lot of
Speaker 2: problems in competition is the real accelerant on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the argument that would be, well, if you
Speaker 1: just made a case Kelly and said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty fierce competitive now, but if we broke everything
Speaker 1: up in the smaller companies, they are thinking, well, that
Speaker 1: creates even more competition, doesn't it. Or the other way
Speaker 1: to look at it as well, it's it's much tougher
Speaker 1: now to fund those companies because almost like a startup
Speaker 1: at the beginning, right, there's only so much you can
Speaker 1: do with the wealth of Facebook and other companies of
Speaker 1: a mask, it's probably easier at this point, right. So
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, if you're using your argument, if
Speaker 1: you broke everything in the smaller pieces of the pie,
Speaker 1: you create more competition? Is that not necessarily true?
Speaker 2: Well, but there's some things that can only be done
Speaker 2: at large scale, right, So we're in the we're in
Speaker 2: the kind of the platform economy phase right of global development. Right,
Speaker 2: China as a big platform. We have our big platforms,
Speaker 2: and those platforms generate new ideas across a lot of
Speaker 2: different business lines and they also generate profits which are
Speaker 2: then invested into this cutting end research. And I'm just
Speaker 2: giving example. Right in those strategic Technologies of the Future
Speaker 2: that I talked about, are five bigest technology companies in
Speaker 2: America invest more each year in those than the Pentagon does.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: And these are dual use technologies, right, So they're both
Speaker 2: for military purpose but also for commercial purpose. And so
Speaker 2: we can either hand that as China militarily. But worse
Speaker 2: of all worse is that that would give them a
Speaker 2: competitive advantage. Do we want them to sell all the
Speaker 2: different AI solutions? Do we want them to sell the
Speaker 2: quantum computer solutions to the world and reap that economic benefit? Well,
Speaker 2: that's coin of what we want. Yeah, because it really
Speaker 2: matters which country and which set of values builds the future.
Speaker 2: Is it going to be US China? It's a simple question.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned that data privacy and things. It's
Speaker 1: certainly big tech, and you know people who use big
Speaker 1: tech can join hand in hand. Go, okay, that's something
Speaker 1: we should fight. The most contentious thing, of course, is
Speaker 1: section two thirty, which is wonky. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't know what that means, it's simple. It means
Speaker 1: that platform like Facebook, for example, are not legally responsible
Speaker 1: for what people post on them. So prior to this,
Speaker 1: if a website you modified content or whatever, they're legally
Speaker 1: responsible for anyone who posted on that website. I look
Speaker 1: at this, it's almost like me trying to control what
Speaker 1: a caller would say to a talk show. I can't
Speaker 1: control what you're thinking or saying. Now, there are certain
Speaker 1: dirty words I can bleep out and the like, but
Speaker 1: generally your message is as long as you don't swear,
Speaker 1: you can say pretty much whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 1: I kind of look at it that way. When it
Speaker 1: comes to section two thirty. It's bad and you have
Speaker 1: people can lie and spread mistruths, and you pretend to
Speaker 1: be a I don't know, a sixteen year old girl
Speaker 1: when they're actually a seventy five year old man. I
Speaker 1: get that, but by and large, I don't, you know.
Speaker 1: I kind of look at it the same way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, A whole point behind section two thirty
Speaker 2: was to help innovation go and grow, and it has
Speaker 2: served its purpose, specifically on the content moderation piece. Look,
Speaker 2: we believe in having more voices in the marketplace, right
Speaker 2: or at the end of the day, the best ideas
Speaker 2: are going to win. And yeah, exactly what you said, right.
Speaker 2: There's certain techniques and activities in as far as actors
Speaker 2: are going to do, but more voices in the marketplace
Speaker 2: being able to speak their truths and be able to
Speaker 2: say what their opinion is.
Speaker 3: That's better.
Speaker 2: That helps our country, that builds a stronger, more robust electric.
Speaker 1: Doug Kelly, CEO of American Edge Project up in Columbus,
Speaker 1: and it's all about American led innovation and keeping the
Speaker 1: Internet open, which I agree pretty well with most of
Speaker 1: this stuff. Anyway, Doug gott to go. Thanks for the tome.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks Scott Idate.
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Speaker 1: Will Haist things things are cold. Yeah, this is perfect
Speaker 1: for you. There are two things you're gonna do. One
Speaker 1: of them would be like eat soup. So if you
Speaker 1: have a soup place, this is you're just printing money
Speaker 1: right now. The other one would be streaming because you're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna go out to theaters. There's not a
Speaker 1: big blockbuster out now that people need to see. And
Speaker 1: so although if you you know, you don't mind going out,
Speaker 1: I would say, probably gonna get a good So in
Speaker 1: that regard, here we have all sorts of things that
Speaker 1: are coming out right now. I shouldn't say that, because
Speaker 1: I really I know the first tie you're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the Rachel McAdams movie Send Help. I've seen
Speaker 1: the trailer for this, and I think I want to
Speaker 1: see this.
Speaker 4: I had such a good time watching this in the
Speaker 4: theater believe it or not, Brave to the Cold, and
Speaker 4: for me, it was worth the trip.
Speaker 3: So the plot of.
Speaker 4: This movie is that she is an employee at you know,
Speaker 4: some sort of financial firm. She's been working there forever.
Speaker 4: She's a little bit of a of a mess, but
Speaker 4: you know, she thinks she's going to get this big promotion.
Speaker 4: And then a new CEO comes in and it's played
Speaker 4: by Dylan O'Brien, so he's like a younger guy and
Speaker 4: just sort of a jerk basically tells her, yeah.
Speaker 3: She's not going to get the promotion.
Speaker 4: She's just, you know, not the type of person he
Speaker 4: wants representing the company.
Speaker 1: Like making fun of her to her face and everything else.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly she's eaten tuna in the office and they're
Speaker 4: being yeah, they yeah, they're not, you know.
Speaker 3: So anyway, they go on a trip together.
Speaker 4: Plane crashes and it's now the two of them on
Speaker 4: a deserted island together and of course the power dynamic
Speaker 4: shifts right all of a sudden, they're on equal playing field.
Speaker 4: She's even you know, probably more equipped in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways than he is to survive there. And you know,
Speaker 4: pretty soon you realize that it doesn't look like.
Speaker 3: Both of them will make it out alive. So it is.
Speaker 3: It is gross and gory, but.
Speaker 4: You know, that's why it's fun to see it in
Speaker 4: the theater because when it does get a little bloody,
Speaker 4: you know, people are screaming, and then parts of it
Speaker 4: are also laugh out loud funny. So I had a
Speaker 4: really really good time watching it, and it's just like
Speaker 4: a reminder that she is so good. She can do
Speaker 4: any genre, any style, and you know, she's just she's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun to watch in a movie like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great actress, because you know, started making fun of
Speaker 1: how she looks and she's got tuna fish on her lip,
Speaker 1: and you know, the boss would just meeting her, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know that in the trailer,
Speaker 1: wheres I'm guessing that she is making him cry? Is fantastic,
Speaker 1: So you get the setup and sometimes you know, as
Speaker 1: you know, well the trailer much much better than movie,
Speaker 1: but doesn't sound like it in this case.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I mean the trailer is much less bloody than the
Speaker 4: movie ends up being. But you know whatever, if you
Speaker 4: can handle that kind of stuff, it's great fun in
Speaker 4: the classic horror type thriller, you know genre.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, don't spoil it. Don't tell me if they
Speaker 1: get off the island and he's able to deliver that
Speaker 1: FedEx package that I don't. I don't, that's not that's
Speaker 1: not really Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't want to ruin anything, but the volleyball doesn't
Speaker 3: make it.
Speaker 9: Damn it.
Speaker 1: I hate that segment. I hate that segment. All Right,
Speaker 1: what else do we have? Let's talk about streaming. If
Speaker 1: you're not going to brave the elements, if that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound good to you, or you're just gonna wait a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, like probably forty eight hours, or to
Speaker 1: come out on the small screen, what else is streaming
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So, if you have been watching Shrinking on Apple TV,
Speaker 4: this is Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel. Season three just
Speaker 4: dropped its first episode. It's an hour long premiere episode.
Speaker 3: Michael J.
Speaker 4: Fox makes a guest appearance, which is really really touching.
Speaker 4: And yeah, this show is just one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: So it's by the same team that does ted Lasso,
Speaker 4: and it's similar in style. It's it's funny, it's really
Speaker 4: really feel good and heartwarming, and you know, Harrison Ford
Speaker 4: is just amazing in it, and and.
Speaker 3: They all are really so.
Speaker 4: Season three picks up right where season two left off,
Speaker 4: and the episodes are short. So if for anyone who
Speaker 4: hasn't been watching, you know, you could you could if
Speaker 4: you wanted to binge the first two seasons this weekend
Speaker 4: and then join along for the season three ride as
Speaker 4: I've just started this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I mean I saw it because I have
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus, and when it came out, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: Harrison Ford's in it. It's probably okay, Jason seen, ok
Speaker 1: and I never could hit play on it. I don't
Speaker 1: know why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's it's like they
Speaker 4: it's about a psychiatry firm, and basically it starts with
Speaker 4: Jason Siegal's character, you know, saying to this one of
Speaker 4: his clients, like, you know what, you should leave your husband.
Speaker 4: I'm tired of hearing you talk about him. Just you know,
Speaker 4: go ahead and leave them, and you know, it's a
Speaker 4: psychologist who starts getting a little maybe too involved in
Speaker 4: some of his patients' lives, and Harrison Ford's his boss.
Speaker 4: So if you can stick with it, I definitely think
Speaker 4: it's worth it.
Speaker 1: It's it's I love it, Okay, all right?
Speaker 11: And what else?
Speaker 1: Do we have? One more thing?
Speaker 3: Wonder Man?
Speaker 4: So this is a new series on Disney Plus and
Speaker 4: it is an entry into the Marvel Cinematic universe.
Speaker 3: And while that.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you would expect big explosions and lots just
Speaker 4: lots of special effects, it's not really like that. So
Speaker 4: this is about a struggling actor in Hollywood who's really
Speaker 4: hoping that this big audition he has coming up will
Speaker 4: be his big break, and it is to play a
Speaker 4: superhero in a superhero movie. And you sort of start
Speaker 4: to realize that this guy might have powers himself, but
Speaker 4: that is really background to everything else. So he starts
Speaker 4: working with a more established actor who's play played by
Speaker 4: Ben Kingsley, who, of course, you know, won the Oscar
Speaker 4: for playing Gandhi back a couple.
Speaker 3: Of decades ago.
Speaker 4: So really really solid acting, and it's really more of
Speaker 4: like a character focused TV show as opposed to like
Speaker 4: a superpower focused TV show, but there is a little
Speaker 4: element of that, and all eight episodes are out now
Speaker 4: and they're only half an hour each.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the trailer around like, that's a really interesting, sir,
Speaker 1: and in kind of an offbeat kind of way. So yeah,
Speaker 1: wonder man. All right, good, can I throw a nugget
Speaker 1: out for you?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: My wife started watching this and I started watching it,
Speaker 1: and you can only watch a couple episodes of time
Speaker 1: because it's intense, but not in the way you're thinking.
Speaker 1: So Maddy Matheson, who is a trained chef, the only
Speaker 1: chef on the TV show Bear Bother with the Bear.
Speaker 1: He plays fat on the Bear, the guy with you know,
Speaker 1: heavy dude, a lot of tattoos, a lot of ink,
Speaker 1: mustache goo, really goofy dude. So he has a short
Speaker 1: the start on YouTube called just a Dash and it's
Speaker 1: like a twenty minute cooking show. It's not really a
Speaker 1: cooking show, it's a entertainment show disguises cooking and he
Speaker 1: basically into the camera and it's a cooking show with
Speaker 1: really no edit time because he mugs one of himself
Speaker 1: more and is so self aware and there's like Trent
Speaker 1: Eastcrew's recipes up, and it's just it's kind of funny
Speaker 1: and endearing and he's just like a lovable kind of
Speaker 1: you know, fat dude. And it's for what it is,
Speaker 1: like fifteen twenty. It's kind of like comedians and cars
Speaker 1: getting coffee kind of sense. You don't think pick it
Speaker 1: up anywhere, and it's just really really goofy. So if
Speaker 1: you're looking for some feel good, just weird cooking stuff,
Speaker 1: Maddy Matheson is a huge Huger than lifecare Bigger than
Speaker 1: Life characters so called just to Dash. It started his
Speaker 1: YouTube and that's on Netflix.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is a great recommendation. I will
Speaker 3: have to touch this.
Speaker 1: I want to try. I want to report next week.
Speaker 1: Watch a couple episodes and let me know. Get I
Speaker 1: think the first episode, not to spoil it, starts out
Speaker 1: with him he's cooking in his house and the crew
Speaker 1: is there and everything, and it pisses his wife off
Speaker 1: and she throws him out of the house. And so
Speaker 1: now he's cooked. He's cooking in an RV behind the house.
Speaker 3: Oh amazing.
Speaker 1: They go on the road and it turns into speed
Speaker 1: and everything out and they're trying to cook while they're driving,
Speaker 1: and it's just like it's just buck wild is what
Speaker 1: it is. So yeah, I highly recommend it just to
Speaker 1: dash on Netflix. There you go. I added some content today.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 3: Huh. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'm always looking
Speaker 3: for recommendations.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I mean no, all right, brother, appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Will We'll talk next week. Yeah, all right, have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, all you two. All the best. Will Gans
Speaker 1: in New York at Will Gants with two s's at
Speaker 1: ABC Entertainment. Dude, speaking of which, I'm gonna a quick
Speaker 1: time out. Want a return of the show. Something just
Speaker 1: happened in Merrimont that's extremely interesting. You know the Merrimount Theater,
Speaker 1: which is just iconic. If you had a I don't
Speaker 1: know a picture of a skyline of the village of Merrimont,
Speaker 1: it would be front and center that big old Tutor building.
Speaker 1: So News is involved in that. Coming up in just
Speaker 1: minutes here, quick time out back with that Sloaney. Friday
Speaker 1: Morning is here on seven hundred WAW just a few
Speaker 1: minutes away from News here on seven hundred WLW. As
Speaker 1: we continue the deep freeze and you're looking for stuff
Speaker 1: to do inside movies always coming to mind. Who's just
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Will Gans here a few minutes ago
Speaker 1: about the very latest. Here's some exciting news for those
Speaker 1: in and around Merriymont. Joining the show this morning is
Speaker 1: Alison West, a founder and executive director of the Independent
Speaker 1: Film Festival here in Cincinnati. Allison, welcome, How are you.
Speaker 10: Good morning, I'm great, Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: For having me on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I wanted to get the word out
Speaker 1: here because I think this is a cool thing. If
Speaker 1: you drive past Monk through Merrimont, and that was one
Speaker 1: of the earliest planned communities in America. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's Merrima's a really cool and unique kind of town.
Speaker 1: If you roll through the center of it, you will
Speaker 1: see this huge Tutor style Tudor Revival style building, and
Speaker 1: that is the Merrymont Theater. It's a I believe it's
Speaker 1: on the National the Register of National Stark Places and
Speaker 1: so it's been around since I think the nineteen thirties
Speaker 1: or something like that. And you know, it's tough for
Speaker 1: theaters these days, especially the small independent ones. You guys
Speaker 1: are now going to partner with them in order to
Speaker 1: maybe help save the theater, but get different program right.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, Well, so the theater was open on Deceummer twenty fifth,
Speaker 10: nineteen thirty eight, which is a really really fun.
Speaker 6: Kind of signature of their birth.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but we're going to be moving into stewardship of
Speaker 10: the space to keep it really vibrant, keep it really
Speaker 10: available for the community of Marriymont, and continue film programming
Speaker 10: for the communities that love going.
Speaker 1: There was the theater in danger of closing or is
Speaker 1: it just you know, a different chapter.
Speaker 10: There's a transition from the current operator, and so it's
Speaker 10: really just a new chapter forward. It's Independent is just
Speaker 10: honored to step forward to help steward the future of
Speaker 10: this cinema.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think if you live in Merrimount in the area,
Speaker 1: you know the theater. It's it's iconic. It's right there
Speaker 1: thront and center. Yeah, yeah, it's if you're to have
Speaker 1: a skyline of Merrimont, the Merrimont Theater be front and center.
Speaker 1: Because the building is so huge, it just pops the
Speaker 1: menu you're driving around downtown. And so preserving this for
Speaker 1: future generations is pretty cool. So what type of programming
Speaker 1: you're talking at? Independent movies, old movies, new movies first runs.
Speaker 10: What Well, I just want to say that I agree
Speaker 10: with you that this theater is beloved by so many people.
Speaker 10: The Esquire Theater group who's run it for so long,
Speaker 10: have done such a wonderful job of providing this as
Speaker 10: an asset for the community, and we're going to continue
Speaker 10: the work that they've laid in place. So the Marrymont
Speaker 10: Theater currently does play some commercially available titles, some things
Speaker 10: that you might see at other movie theaters across the city.
Speaker 10: We will continue that and then over time, as we
Speaker 10: learn what this community and the people who go to
Speaker 10: that theater like to see, will consider adding other programming
Speaker 10: that independent is known for, features from local filmmakers, features
Speaker 10: from independent national filmmakers. We are currently supporting and working
Speaker 10: with an Oscar nominated filmmaker who was at our festival
Speaker 10: last year. So we have some high quality We have
Speaker 10: some high quality programming that we can offer the community.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all courts of draw film fans, film afficionatis
Speaker 1: from all over the past time for that too, So
Speaker 1: it's not just Marrimont. But the money goes back and
Speaker 1: you know, there's wonderful rests toronts and bars and shops
Speaker 1: too that are going to benefit from this as well.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, I think it's just a win win across
Speaker 10: the board. It's going to be exciting to just kind
Speaker 10: of work with Marymont for the winter and then see
Speaker 10: what we can offer everybody in Cincinnati as time goes by.
Speaker 1: How's the Village of Merrymont with us? I'd imagine they're
Speaker 1: leading into the two with you.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Actually, Marymont Council reached out to us at the end
Speaker 10: of last year to work on this theater project, and
Speaker 10: so they've been incredibly supportive of Sindependent.
Speaker 2: They've been incredibly.
Speaker 10: Supportive of our work, and we've been working right alongside
Speaker 10: them to make sure that this is the best next
Speaker 10: thing for the theater.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you people don't know the organizations independent Filmfestter
Speaker 1: you have film Fest on the summer and filmmakers from
Speaker 1: all over the world come in for this. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, and it's so interesting too because when we started
Speaker 10: Sindependent in twenty seventeen, we are, of course our a
Speaker 10: five oh one c three nonprofit, but our work has
Speaker 10: just kind of actually spanned a year round program. We
Speaker 10: now run the film Festival in September. We do attract
Speaker 10: filmmakers from all over the world who come and screen
Speaker 10: their work here in Cincinnati with our communities. But we
Speaker 10: also run send a next a high school film camp.
Speaker 10: We have in person and virtual film education master classes.
Speaker 10: We go really fun events like Oscars watch party and
Speaker 10: a family movie Night, and we just are out here
Speaker 10: making sure that people are able to connect with each
Speaker 10: other through a shared love of movie watching. And there's
Speaker 10: no better place for us to continue that than at
Speaker 10: the Marymont Theater.
Speaker 1: What's the fundraising situation. I managed to take some funds
Speaker 1: to get this up and running taken over the Marymount Theater.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a We're launching a three part fundraising campaign.
Speaker 10: The two biggest elements of this are that people can
Speaker 10: sign up to steward one of the cinema auditoriums, where
Speaker 10: they could have their name for a certain amount above
Speaker 10: the theater within the actual physical space. And then for
Speaker 10: anybody who is passionate about seeing this theater grow and thrive,
Speaker 10: we've launched a membership called Friends of the Merrimont Theater.
Speaker 2: The membership, I'm sorry. The membership is.
Speaker 10: Live on our website at Merrimont Theater dot org, where
Speaker 10: you can sign up to become a steward of the
Speaker 10: theater and be a proud supporter of one of the
Speaker 10: most beautiful things in this area.
Speaker 1: It's really cool too, because so many small towns lose
Speaker 1: the theater. You know, think of that small towns and
Speaker 1: Marramout is a small village. You know, people often think Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: but it's part of the local landscape, especially building like
Speaker 1: that on the National Register. And so you know, you've
Speaker 1: got to preserve this thing and getting more program and
Speaker 1: their more bodies and their love it. So where can
Speaker 1: people go for more info?
Speaker 10: You should go to Merrimont Theater dot org to learn
Speaker 10: more about what's happening now.
Speaker 1: All right, Alison, good luck. I appreciate it. Thanks, thank you,
Speaker 1: take care good luck with it. You know, save and
Speaker 1: that's an important part of our architect You know, often
Speaker 1: talk about the big building Cincinnati, but you know plenty
Speaker 1: of villages and towns around the city that ring Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and Merrimot is just it's such a unique story of
Speaker 1: the background of how the village started. But that particular
Speaker 1: piece of landscape. Anyway, let me get a news update
Speaker 1: in full forecast. Don't have to tell you it's going
Speaker 1: to continue cold through the weekend. And we're going to
Speaker 1: get a break sometime maybe late in the week. Also
Speaker 1: the latest of Minnesota and elsewhere. Sloaney on the Home
Speaker 1: of the Red seven hundred w WTY Since then, all right,
Speaker 1: Sloaney here, this is seven hundred WLW another cold a
Speaker 1: weekend ahead, code code code code cold breaking news. This morning,
Speaker 1: former CNN acre Don Lemon arrested in connection with an
Speaker 1: anti immigration protest that disrupted that churchervis Minnesota. He said
Speaker 1: he was there as a journalist chronicling protesters, and the
Speaker 1: arrest came after a magistrate last week rejected the prosecutor's
Speaker 1: initial charge that he'd be arrested, and so this got
Speaker 1: kicked up to a more i suppose conservative leaning judge
Speaker 1: and that'll probably get overturned and then support it again
Speaker 1: and we'll kick this can down the road and see
Speaker 1: what the courts rule ultimately. But right now it's unclear
Speaker 1: what charge that he is facing. Although I remember when
Speaker 1: we talked about this, I think I want to say
Speaker 1: the Ku Klux Klan Act is probably the one that
Speaker 1: comes up and basically outlaws interfering within civil rights like
Speaker 1: civil warship for example. And then of course's defense was I
Speaker 1: wasn't there protesting. I was there documenting the protesters. The
Speaker 1: problem I have with that I see the connection that
Speaker 1: they have, and I think it's kind of weak in that, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to protest this person who's the head of
Speaker 1: ICE in Saint Paul, who also happens to be a
Speaker 1: minister at this church, and I don't believe, as I recalled,
Speaker 1: that he was there that day, but they're going to
Speaker 1: show up anyway in protest. Well, if you're there to
Speaker 1: protest that individual, there are probably better ways to do that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like when these clowns show up and protest at
Speaker 1: someone's house, you know, Judge Kavanaugh for example, someone like that.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone has their role in life, everyone has
Speaker 1: their job, and we live in the doxing culture right now,
Speaker 1: where in the extremes are that simply we're going to
Speaker 1: show up and do harm to someone on their own turf.
Speaker 1: And that's maybe it's nothing new, but it's more prevalent
Speaker 1: today in that if you're going to do that and
Speaker 1: you show up at someone's home, you also have to
Speaker 1: think about, well, okay, what about his neighbors? You know,
Speaker 1: if I live next door to this guy. That's a
Speaker 1: problem for me. You know, I get the notion of
Speaker 1: the first amount of protest. I think it just goes
Speaker 1: too firelight or you know, for those people who are
Speaker 1: showing up in front of Greg Lansman's house, you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a family, he's got kids, and it's just
Speaker 1: because it's your you know, just because it's someone you
Speaker 1: despise or support, doesn't mean you should be four against them.
Speaker 1: It should be I'm going for consistency here. And the
Speaker 1: problem is this though, that if you do this with
Speaker 1: Don Lemon, and there may be some valid arguments there too,
Speaker 1: because what constitutes a journalist in this day and age.
Speaker 1: Everyone is a journal We're all journalists. Look at the
Speaker 1: people who captured the shooting in soda on their cell phones.
Speaker 1: Technically even you are a journalist. There's another story out
Speaker 1: another journalist arrested during that church protest as well. Who's
Speaker 1: an independent journalist? Which are allowed to be? They got
Speaker 1: to clarify what a journalist means exactly. It could be
Speaker 1: anyone who has their cell phone out, Does that make
Speaker 1: you a journalist? I think that's the crux of the
Speaker 1: argument here. Now you have plenty of independent journalists with
Speaker 1: John Lemon, with his track record in history, certainly said hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I had a show on CNN for a while and
Speaker 1: certainly more a household than the other. I think some
Speaker 1: woman got arrested too, But nonetheless, we got to qualify
Speaker 1: what makes a journalist a journalists and who you know?
Speaker 1: The First Amendment? Right, does it apply to everyone in
Speaker 1: that role? And I think there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people that argue yes in that particular case. But you know,
Speaker 1: back to the point of showing up at someone's house
Speaker 1: or in this case, how's the worship that seems below
Speaker 1: the belt to me? That you are in this this
Speaker 1: this place of warship and then you have people coming
Speaker 1: into protests that is all? Is that kind of like
Speaker 1: burning the flag?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: I despise the flag burning thing, but as an American
Speaker 1: I get it, like we we're so self aware, we
Speaker 1: don't take ourselves serious enough to think that burning that
Speaker 1: symbol of America is not worthy of protected speech because
Speaker 1: it is now. It bothers a hell to me when
Speaker 1: people do it, especially during protests, or hanging it upside down.
Speaker 1: But you know what, again, to show you the lack
Speaker 1: of consistency in this world, that I would say that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you respect the flag enough to know
Speaker 1: the flag code, that you don't burn it and drag
Speaker 1: it on the ground and hang it upside and people
Speaker 1: are outrage about that stuff, I will say that then
Speaker 1: the same rules apply to those folks on the right
Speaker 1: who have the image of well Donald Trump on it
Speaker 1: or Charlie Kirk. I said, there's a house side drive
Speaker 1: by them my way home. Every day. He's got to
Speaker 1: get the Charlie Kirk flag outside. And it's an American
Speaker 1: flag with Charlie Kirk's face on it. That's also desecration
Speaker 1: of the flag. You don't you don't care have it
Speaker 1: both ways. It's if you're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: flag being desecrated and dragged and burned, and you also
Speaker 1: can't do that. Putting someone's image on a flag is
Speaker 1: no goat. But the Don Lemon thing's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it ultimately winds up getting thrown out. I
Speaker 1: really do not that, you know. Again, what bothers me
Speaker 1: more is people showing up inside a church to disrupt
Speaker 1: a service when the person who you are there to
Speaker 1: make a point about isn't there. I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you doing over here? Nonetheless, that just happened minutes ago here,
Speaker 1: so we'll continue to follow it. You know, as someone
Speaker 1: in the remodeling, home improvement DIY real estate business, I
Speaker 1: often talk about, maybe not often as strong word, but
Speaker 1: h O ways pissed me. Homeowners associations, Not all of them,
Speaker 1: I think buying large Probably most of them are a
Speaker 1: bunch of people who are on a board going, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure my neighborhood doesn't. We have
Speaker 1: certain standards in the neighborhood, and we've got to buy
Speaker 1: by the stand I get that. You know, we want
Speaker 1: to make sure that people's property values stay up, especially
Speaker 1: and you know, again, I don't think most areas have
Speaker 1: eight or most neighborhoods have hoays, especially older ones. But
Speaker 1: you know, you see that your houses falling into disrepair,
Speaker 1: people not caring about stuff, leaving trash on the lawn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you try to sell your house, and even so you
Speaker 1: look at it and go, oh, that's an eyesore. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll a live across the street from that.
Speaker 1: You know, someone with all their stud you just leaving
Speaker 1: Christmas atoa year or whatever. It is just state of
Speaker 1: disrepair and whatever reason that may maybe elderly people can't
Speaker 1: afford it. I get that. But then there's field it's
Speaker 1: just simply zero poops given. But then they're the hoays
Speaker 1: that are out there, and there are many around Cincinnati
Speaker 1: where they just feel like it is their job to
Speaker 1: police every little thing about the neighborhood. This just happened
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Now, Nashville was hit by a severe ice storm.
Speaker 1: As you know, we're more equipped than Nashville to deal
Speaker 1: with this, but then again, Columbus and Cleveland are more
Speaker 1: equipped than us to deal with it because the further
Speaker 1: north you get, the more chances to know, I get it.
Speaker 1: So in Nashville, they were absolutely pummeled by this last storm.
Speaker 1: As you know, I think what two or three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand places homes without power down there. It's frightening. I
Speaker 1: saw some video from where was it Old Miss? Yes,
Speaker 1: Old Miss and trees were falling. It looked like a
Speaker 1: hurricane struck there. So much ice did damage, knock a
Speaker 1: bunch of trees done. They're suffering a lot in the
Speaker 1: Deep South. They're just not used to this kind of
Speaker 1: cold and these kind of temperatures. So anyway, back to Nashville,
Speaker 1: family loses their power, and so what do you do, Well,
Speaker 1: we have a generator cool. They hook the generator up
Speaker 1: and they have power and they're heating their home. Here
Speaker 1: comes the HOA. HOA comes in and with hours of
Speaker 1: them putting the generator. You know, as you know hopefully
Speaker 1: you know, if you use a gas generator, you have
Speaker 1: to have it outside, right, you put that inside, you
Speaker 1: will die because of carbon monoxide. There's stickers all over
Speaker 1: those things. Do not operate this inside, do not do it.
Speaker 1: So they fired the motor up, the engine up, and
Speaker 1: run these cords inside, some extension cords, and literally hours
Speaker 1: after doing that, the family gets an email from their
Speaker 1: HOA management company, Metropolitan Properties, demanding they remove it immediately.
Speaker 1: The letter cited fire hazard concerns and said the generator
Speaker 1: didn't fit the communities aesthetic guidelines during a blizzard, during
Speaker 1: an ice storm. So how this happens usually, and I
Speaker 1: have first had experience with this myself, I'm going through
Speaker 1: a similar situation. Now I'll explain. A second is that
Speaker 1: you have neighbors who generally they're the agents of the HOA.
Speaker 1: So you know, they're elected or appointed wherever it might be,
Speaker 1: and they go around and they look for infractions, and
Speaker 1: most people do that. I was like, Okay, well the
Speaker 1: grass a little high over there, or hey, you know
Speaker 1: your fence has fallen over, or hey you got a
Speaker 1: broken down car in your front yard. Can't have that.
Speaker 1: Or somebody's out there putting a satellite diition in their
Speaker 1: front yard. Okay, can't have that. Yeah, we'll just kind
Speaker 1: of let you know. Then there are the people out
Speaker 1: there that just simply think that they are well I
Speaker 1: don't know the FBI or ICE they're out there looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they had their way, they would be
Speaker 1: able to go in your house and make sure that
Speaker 1: what's in your cupboard fits in with the guidelines of
Speaker 1: the HO under the guise of keeping our community aesthetically pleasing. Now,
Speaker 1: if you lose power and it's cold enough to well,
Speaker 1: have a concern for your health. I mean it's not
Speaker 1: even that. How about comfortable?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And every we have the show and I lost part
Speaker 1: at my house for whatever reason. I don't know why
Speaker 1: the rest of the neighboroo doesn't have it, or maybe
Speaker 1: they maybe I don't know. Generally, when power goes out,
Speaker 1: it's the whole block, right, or the whole neighborhood or
Speaker 1: the whole city, as the case may be. I think
Speaker 1: maybe they're lucky enough to have a generator. Is it
Speaker 1: one of those deals where they're looking for to going, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: no one else here? Is it they have a generator?
Speaker 1: Well we can't have that. I mean, that's like socialism, right,
Speaker 1: It's funny some people BELI examine to go, well what
Speaker 1: a bunch of nazis the other place, well what a
Speaker 1: bunch of socialists? Well you have a generator, and I don't.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be allowed to use this. But on the
Speaker 1: other hand, it's a storm and ice storm, and yet
Speaker 1: you're driving around looking for ways to enforce the aesthetics
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood whiskey tango foxtrot. What the hell is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? I mean, if you're that person that
Speaker 1: drive around looking for violations during an ice storm, you
Speaker 1: really need some mental health. You really should be institutionalized
Speaker 1: on that board looking at going away when he's doing
Speaker 1: what driving out looking for violations during an ice storm
Speaker 1: during a blizzard? I mean at you know, a once
Speaker 1: in a one hundred year storm, this is all you
Speaker 1: have to do with your time. You really need to
Speaker 1: be institutionalized. I mentioned, I see, I've seen this one place.
Speaker 1: We had got a rental, and I'm doing demo. I'm
Speaker 1: you know, demolishing the inside of the house and taking
Speaker 1: you know, showers out, stuff like that in the ring
Speaker 1: and I'm getting like bags of trash ands I'm staying,
Speaker 1: you know, putting stuff in the garage so the dumpster
Speaker 1: can come in every And I remember that, like bringing
Speaker 1: the garbage can out, and it was I think garbage
Speaker 1: comes came in that neighborhood, like on Friday. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: take it out because I want to. I need to
Speaker 1: trash contato for other stuff. And I'm bringing it out
Speaker 1: because I'm ready to. You know, it's a nice summer day.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I don't know, four o'clock, three, four
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm trotting the garbage can.
Speaker 1: A dude comes up and I've got my work here on.
Speaker 1: I'm all sweaty and nasty. And the guy comes up
Speaker 1: and he's got a you know, he's got a sweater on.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, all's two hundred degrees out. You got a
Speaker 1: sweater on? And he said, hey, I'm so and so,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, and I noticed you moving. Aha, well okay,
Speaker 1: god heh.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 1: You know in this neighborhood, we don't bring our garbage
Speaker 1: cans out till six o'clock at the earliest. Like, well,
Speaker 1: it's four o'clock, he said, yeah, we just we don't
Speaker 1: really bring them out here until then, because you know
Speaker 1: it's on sightly. I'm like, well, I'm getting ready to leave,
Speaker 1: so you know, I only be here, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple more, couple more weekends and get the stuff done
Speaker 1: and get somebody in here and get it fixed up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you leave it near your garage door, I
Speaker 1: can bring it out for I'm like, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring the garbage. It's two hours before your quote unquote deadline.
Speaker 1: Is it really matter? And that's not I'm doing it
Speaker 1: every week. I said, Well, I'll make sure the talents
Speaker 1: that move in that they're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1: But is it really bother you that much that the
Speaker 1: garbage can is out there two hours before everyone else
Speaker 1: brings their garbage can? Do you have anything else to worry?
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly you can see I'm doing work. I
Speaker 1: get it, but I'm not coming back in two hours
Speaker 1: to put the garbage can out. And furthermore, I don't
Speaker 1: trust you nor should you be bringing my garbage can
Speaker 1: out because if you don't do it, then we got
Speaker 1: other problems. And in the same people, I had a
Speaker 1: dumpster drop there because I went instead of having the
Speaker 1: dumpster for a week, I thought I'd be a good neighbor.
Speaker 1: And you know, I said, I put all the all
Speaker 1: the trash, all the debris in the garage and ordered
Speaker 1: the dumpster and said, well, I'll fill it up and
Speaker 1: you know, take everything to It'd be two trips. But
Speaker 1: take everything from the garage to the dumpster and it's
Speaker 1: only in the driveway for you know, a day or
Speaker 1: two until Runky can come and haul it off. Not
Speaker 1: good enough. Got yelled at for that that I need
Speaker 1: to permit, and I'm not allowed to, like just stop,
Speaker 1: just shut up, go away before you're in the I
Speaker 1: think I said something of the lines to like, listen,
Speaker 1: just it's going to be gone tomorrow. I'm doing I'm
Speaker 1: sure to explain what I was doing. I could be
Speaker 1: out here for a week or two, it's not going
Speaker 1: to it's out here for a day. Well, you didn't
Speaker 1: clear this with us, and now I'm like listen, the
Speaker 1: only day I could get it. I'm kind of busy,
Speaker 1: I understand, but you really don't have any grounds here
Speaker 1: by that time. You call him and then they like
Speaker 1: called rumky and yelled and they called me like, what's long?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I'm like, I told him. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, these people. And so it was just
Speaker 1: one of those deals where I think I said to
Speaker 1: the lady, I said, listen, you come back about me again.
Speaker 1: You're going to be in the dumpster. Well she didn't
Speaker 1: like that. She sent her husband over and I said,
Speaker 1: well it might happen again. So and then we moved
Speaker 1: forward from that. I got another one too, speaking of
Speaker 1: you know, punitive stuff. A tenant who has a park
Speaker 1: in a parking lot, but he has a car cover
Speaker 1: and the car cover was under his car, and they
Speaker 1: came and took the car cover from underneath his car
Speaker 1: because you like, you know, covered up is a nice
Speaker 1: car and it has covered up during the winter, or
Speaker 1: like you know, so snowfalls again on it. Yeah, finally
Speaker 1: one that's certainly not bothering anybody. It's under his car
Speaker 1: and they come, well, we thought it might blow away.
Speaker 1: We don't know whose it was like if you took
Speaker 1: it out and and said, oh, maybe something blow into
Speaker 1: this guy's car. And he took the car cover out
Speaker 1: and looked at it and said, oh, it's a car cover.
Speaker 1: It's probably for the car it was underneath, and they
Speaker 1: took it and kept it. And they're quoting some violations
Speaker 1: like do you just go out and look for stuff
Speaker 1: to occupy your Are you that enamored with the rules
Speaker 1: because they're gonna play that gay chances? Are you tea
Speaker 1: you know, the whole glasshouses thing like going and finding
Speaker 1: those people and going, okay, well, let's see what violations
Speaker 1: you have in your out? Well that's well you can't
Speaker 1: you know your trust bed. No, I'm not like I
Speaker 1: get it. If you know things are out there, they're
Speaker 1: laying around, it's a problem. And okay, yeah, we want
Speaker 1: a nice neighborhood to live in with hoa's, but h's
Speaker 1: are not always, not all of them. I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 1: But there are some really nightmare stories out there, including
Speaker 1: this one. Initial Now that's a new one. The power
Speaker 1: went out. It's some zero freezing temperatures. We put our
Speaker 1: generator on our on our porch with the extension courts,
Speaker 1: and within hours of doing that, you're driving around the
Speaker 1: neighborhood looking for people to site during a state of emergency.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not I don't like you know, brought
Speaker 1: Don Lemon and other people the whole doxing thing, right
Speaker 1: was showing up to people's houses finding out who they
Speaker 1: are and going online and ruining their lives and you know,
Speaker 1: finding their businesses and who they work for, and you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to you know, just being thoughtless and ruining
Speaker 1: people's lives because you don't like what they're doing, you
Speaker 1: disagree with them. And maybe there are some people who
Speaker 1: are legitimate scumbags that deserve that. However, most people are like, ah,
Speaker 1: I said or did something done, and now we're going
Speaker 1: to go and make sure they get fired and their
Speaker 1: kids get in trouble at school, and we just go
Speaker 1: and go and go and go and go, and it's
Speaker 1: we have too much time on our damn hands. It's
Speaker 1: the problem. But I think in some cases you've loved
Speaker 1: to nose on these hoas because those people, it's like
Speaker 1: they're doxy individuals in real life. Not one line to
Speaker 1: be spiteful, but just because they have nothing better going on.
Speaker 1: In their lives and you really need you need a
Speaker 1: different hobby. I would think, you know, hoa's can be good,
Speaker 1: and I think they're They're certainly useful. And if you
Speaker 1: live in a nice neighborhood, keeping the value of your
Speaker 1: home up is wonderful. But there are always people that
Speaker 1: find the extreme of that and take it way too
Speaker 1: damn far and have zero common sense. This would be
Speaker 1: one of them. This would be one of them. Sloani
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred, w O up it in this
Speaker 1: Friday morning, coming up at ninth I'm sorry, nine thirty,
Speaker 1: how about ten thirty six? We don't want to make
Speaker 1: this day longer, do we?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Austin's here. We'll tuckle of weekend sports. Kind of lightlyekend
Speaker 1: in sports at that. I did see that the Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick and his longtime girlfriend, you know that one they
Speaker 1: broke up. They split up apparently. I think what happened
Speaker 1: was that she just got too old for his tastes.
Speaker 1: We'll find out with Austin. That and more coming up
Speaker 1: in minutes. Another bizarre story. Minnesota, by the way, I
Speaker 1: think it's become the new Florida, or is Minnesota? That
Speaker 1: is Minnesota just the liberal version of floor. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't, but anyway, guy's name is Mark Anderson. He
Speaker 1: is charged with impersonating an FBI agent. Shows up at
Speaker 1: a federal prison in New York City to try and
Speaker 1: get Luigi Mangioni, the United Healthcare CEO murderer, off the hook.
Speaker 1: He's show prison workers as he says, I'm FBI after's credentials.
Speaker 1: He pulls out a Minnesota driver's license and has all
Speaker 1: this paperwork that's quote unquote signed by judge, but just
Speaker 1: stuff he printed off the internet. And anyway, like, uh okay,
Speaker 1: this guy's not FBI. In his backpack, here's how he
Speaker 1: is going to spring Luigia and Luigi Mangoni out of prison.
Speaker 1: He had on him a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure exactly. The barbecue fork maybe would
Speaker 1: scare I used as a weapon and hurt someone, kill
Speaker 1: someone for sure, barbecue fork. But the pizza what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You're gonna cut through the bars with
Speaker 1: the pizza wheel? I don't. I don't understand. Guy worked
Speaker 1: in a pizza place and took a barbecue fork in
Speaker 1: a pizza cutting wheel and thought he was somehow going
Speaker 1: to free Luigiman Jean. The whole love for Luigiman Jean.
Speaker 1: I mean he murdered someone. He shot them in cold blood,
Speaker 1: shot him in the back, and just to show you
Speaker 1: and this puts in context, I guess maybe the you know,
Speaker 1: the Don Lemon protests everything else. It's like just how
Speaker 1: unhinged everybody is these days that this guy goes out
Speaker 1: and murders someone. And granted, you know, we have a
Speaker 1: local story here. The reason God's a guy, a young
Speaker 1: man with brain cancer who is insurance companies is gonna
Speaker 1: cover him, and I miked Wine got involved, We want
Speaker 1: to do that next week sometime. Governor de to Wine
Speaker 1: got involved. All of a suddenly the insurance company backs down.
Speaker 1: And that happens probably more than you think once we start,
Speaker 1: you know, the media or in case, the governor calls
Speaker 1: and like, oh yeah, we're just getting around the overtire.
Speaker 1: You were one hundred percent with you, Gov. Yeah, sure
Speaker 1: you were. You're trying to secure everybody. I get the
Speaker 1: outrage Cheurge Health Companies and you know, maybe CEO is
Speaker 1: the villain. You know, Villa find in the bad guy here,
Speaker 1: but you know, murdering someone shooting them to death in
Speaker 1: the street and cold blood. The fact that this guy
Speaker 1: is still he's held up like some sort of anti hero,
Speaker 1: I suppose the new Robin hood. And of course you
Speaker 1: know the other element of that too. He's a good
Speaker 1: looking young man and that always attracts some sort of
Speaker 1: element like we should have more sympathy for someone who's better.
Speaker 1: Look who's you know, who's good looking, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know how you do that. You hate someone who's good looking,
Speaker 1: who's privileged, and yet this guy's somehow fighting for the
Speaker 1: little guy, which he's really not. You hold him up
Speaker 1: on some sort of pedestal. It's weird, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've never tried to break someone out of
Speaker 1: prison before, but pizza, pizza cutter and barbecue fork would
Speaker 1: not be And if I was having a i don't know,
Speaker 1: some sort of some sort of picnic in a cell perhaps,
Speaker 1: but not to break them out of prison with anyway.
Speaker 1: Got a news update coming up in just minutes. We'll
Speaker 1: talk sports with Audie right after this on seven hundred WWD.
Speaker 1: I will say this that Austin above all else and
Speaker 1: Roo Kuchina for the man are always wrap Fengles when
Speaker 1: they're on the plass. I'm the guy that, like, I
Speaker 1: retire my gear when my team's out of it. So
Speaker 1: Vegls saw where Benelson the bills are not I'd be
Speaker 1: warring bills, but when they're out of it, I just
Speaker 1: I go neutral. I'm a neutral site kind of guy.
Speaker 1: Austin Olmos here from ESPN fifteen thirty today at noon
Speaker 1: with Tony Pike. Lots of sports going on this weekend,
Speaker 1: and is a it's actually, I mean, it's bad for
Speaker 1: you because the LA line of work, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of nice just to take a breather for a second.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, sure for you. Maybe maybe I got
Speaker 1: for you. Maybe, I mean, why do you talk about Trump?
Speaker 1: I'll be should talk about more about Trump.
Speaker 12: I'll be on from three to six on Sunday on
Speaker 12: seven hundred WLW in addition to producing another show every
Speaker 12: day for three hours and also trying to produce my
Speaker 12: own for this weekend and come up with stuff to
Speaker 12: talk about.
Speaker 1: But you know why he's on this weekend. It's called
Speaker 1: garbage time. Garbage off the back. I know exactly, I
Speaker 1: know exactly where I stay. Seven hundred WLW is up
Speaker 1: by twenty five ratings points in four minutes left Austin.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's also a little three and D baby, Come on, shoot,
Speaker 12: shoot a couple of free throws.
Speaker 1: Get your name in the box score. Garbage time, Almo,
Speaker 1: that's the show. Fives ago, five years in garbage to
Speaker 1: sign a D League contract. You're fine.
Speaker 12: You know I've been a role player, maybe you know,
Speaker 12: long enough to get my uh pension or whatever eligibility
Speaker 12: or whatever it is too. I know you were in
Speaker 12: tears this morning because you you're dumb and you watch
Speaker 12: something you shouldn't have watched. I'm not This was like
Speaker 12: ten minutes ago. I was crying ten minutes ago. Cheers
Speaker 12: of joy sort of, Yeah, what were you watching? I
Speaker 12: watched the video. It was four years ago today, Scott,
Speaker 12: that the Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs to go
Speaker 12: to the Super Bowl. And if you remember, it was
Speaker 12: Meg Vogel from Cincinnati dot Com and The Inquirer put
Speaker 12: together a video it's a little over three minutes long
Speaker 12: of all the different reactions, filmed reactions of Bengals fans
Speaker 12: across the world seeing Evan McPherson's field goal go in
Speaker 12: sending them to the Super Bowl. And I avoid this
Speaker 12: video like the plague every year because I know how
Speaker 12: I'm going to react.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, I watched it today. I was
Speaker 1: crying ten minutes ago because Number I get it. Number One,
Speaker 1: I'm laughing. I'm laughing at the You're an absurdity in
Speaker 1: the situation. You're laughing at me, and that's okay.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I'm that biggest sports fan too. I'll cry like a
Speaker 1: baby if if, I mean, if the Bengals or the
Speaker 1: Bills went a Super Bowl, I'll be that guy.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'll be a nice I love football with every
Speaker 12: fiber of my being, like more than just about anything
Speaker 12: in my life, more than some people in my life.
Speaker 12: I see that, and I care deeply about the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 12: and it is difficult to see and wonder is that
Speaker 12: gonna be my only shot? And having given to think
Speaker 12: about that, you know, is it's difficult to reflectching all
Speaker 12: the people who are excited and fired up and right all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 12: You know just how much it means to so many people,
Speaker 12: and how the discourse has changed over the last few years.
Speaker 12: And I think part of the frustration with so many
Speaker 12: Bengals fans is because everybody wants to feel that way.
Speaker 12: And also, you know, I've been kind of split on
Speaker 12: who to root for in Super Bowl sixty And as
Speaker 12: I'm watching this video, I'm thinking, you know, Patriots fans,
Speaker 12: this is kind of their expectation over the last twenty years. Correct,
Speaker 12: this would mean a lot more to Seattle than it
Speaker 12: would to New England. So for that reason, I'm starting
Speaker 12: to lean back towards Seattle, even though I think I
Speaker 12: like the people on New England. I want the you know,
Speaker 12: Mike Rabel typing Trayveon Henderson and Ohio state guys to win,
Speaker 12: but I don't know.
Speaker 1: And it was like a quarter of a second. A
Speaker 1: quarter of a second is all he'd borrow needed to yeah,
Speaker 1: throw that. It's also like I've lived in believe me,
Speaker 1: because you know, as a Bills fan, wide right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was wide right. And it wasn't even that. It
Speaker 1: was just like, yo, yeah, Berl got sacked.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I also saw the video yesterday.
Speaker 12: It was the rally that the Bills had after they
Speaker 12: lost that Super Bowl, right, and Scott Norwood comes up
Speaker 12: to the podium and instead of a chorus of booze,
Speaker 12: the Buffalo fans cheered for him and uplifted him. And
Speaker 12: you think of that, what was that thirty forty years ago,
Speaker 12: and that that would never happen today now because I
Speaker 12: think sports batting and all that something to do with it.
Speaker 12: That's part of it.
Speaker 1: People just in general are meaner. Like if that were
Speaker 1: to happen today, if Evan McPherson would have missed a
Speaker 1: kick in the Super Bowl and they come out, you know,
Speaker 1: and have this rally like they did, and they bring
Speaker 1: Evan McPherson up there, he would be booed. I'm going
Speaker 1: to disagree with you. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: that everybody. I think because we're similar communities in that
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, you know the guy guy, he was there,
Speaker 1: he made some solid kicks. The other thing is you
Speaker 1: got it. You know, if Jake Elliot missus a field
Speaker 1: goal in Philadelphia, he'd be shot. Yeah. Yeah, different story
Speaker 1: in talking. But I think it's Cincinnata, Buffalo. I think
Speaker 1: we're cities at like might that might be you couldn't
Speaker 1: have got that. You can add Super Bowl without that
Speaker 1: guy's like, and he just missed it at a critical time.
Speaker 1: But he's been money for us all season, get it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a different thing.
Speaker 12: Anyways, I just wish it was four years ago, simpler times, simpler,
Speaker 12: back in the old days.
Speaker 1: What was that four years ago?
Speaker 12: It's like from the office where h Andy says, I
Speaker 12: wish there was a way to know you're in the
Speaker 12: good old days before you've actually left them.
Speaker 1: That's really true. Yeah, yeah, talking about I I saw this,
Speaker 1: uh and I just because yeah, you know yesterday's show.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it Bengals real quick.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: I had council Member Mark jeffries On on favor day
Speaker 1: of this stuff too, and he was talking about he
Speaker 1: is he he was calling out the Bengals hard yesterday.
Speaker 1: Because so here in Cincinnati we've got youth football teams,
Speaker 1: urban youthful play. The problem is this is crime is
Speaker 1: a big deal obviously, So the youth football teams unli
Speaker 1: like we have in the suburbs, Unlike Sydney where you
Speaker 1: grew up. Did you even play yes football? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about security because people shooting
Speaker 1: each other, non people betting on games and getting in
Speaker 1: fights and shooting each other. Uh So the youth football
Speaker 1: teams have to raise money and the cost for them
Speaker 1: to rent a field from CPS because the security and
Speaker 1: everything else is just you can't do it. So Jefferson
Speaker 1: Wilder's been going, hey, listen, maybe like the Reds do
Speaker 1: the community fund building fields. Maybe like FC with youth soccer,
Speaker 1: Maybe the Bengals, we get the Bengals ball. He has
Speaker 1: been negotiating with them for a year and a half
Speaker 1: to get them to do like a split the pot
Speaker 1: or something and give the proceeds. It doesn't cause them
Speaker 1: anything and it's good will. He pointed out in his
Speaker 1: feet on X that the Dallas Cowboys give almost nine
Speaker 1: million dollars to the community. Okay, that's Dallas, Dallas money.
Speaker 1: Philly's like eight million, Green Bay a million and a half,
Speaker 1: Buffalo one point one million, Seattle six hundred thousand, Cincinnadi
Speaker 1: Bengals last year, you know how much money they gave?
Speaker 1: How much? Thirty thousand dollars thirty thousand. And that was
Speaker 1: humane because specifically for or just for the it said
Speaker 1: donated to the community. Okay that they were Bengals gave
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars in zero the previous year. Now, I
Speaker 1: will say in defense of the team that I know
Speaker 1: that they do a lot of charitable works and they
Speaker 1: don't want the publicity. They do it without wanting recognition,
Speaker 1: which is extremely noble. However, when you're endeared with the
Speaker 1: city with a public private partnership and you get taxpayers
Speaker 1: to pay for seventy five percent of your stadium, you
Speaker 1: need to do something to make it look like you
Speaker 1: give a damn. And I will say this, I will
Speaker 1: go on record as saying two things. Bengals are great
Speaker 1: at litigation. They're they're they are the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: of litigation, the New York Yankees. This is the big
Speaker 1: red machine of litigation. But you also have to do
Speaker 1: something that the community can see and be tangible. I mean,
Speaker 1: anonymous acts of kindness are wonderful, they are, but you
Speaker 1: also have to do something the like you give a damn.
Speaker 1: And if you open up the dictionary and literally look
Speaker 1: for the definition of zero bleeps, given Mike Brown's picture
Speaker 1: is there because they just don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So I heard about this yesterday and I went through
Speaker 12: my email inbox all the stuff that I get from
Speaker 12: Bengals Communications, okay, and I found that they last year
Speaker 12: donated and paid for a bunch of youth football equipment
Speaker 12: for a team in the West End the others, and
Speaker 12: they build a ramp for a veteran nice they put
Speaker 12: food and lockers and all the month of October for
Speaker 12: young kids who are struggling with food.
Speaker 3: They do do stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think don't do anything.
Speaker 12: I think you're right that when it comes to specifically
Speaker 12: investing in physical areas for kids to play football, they
Speaker 12: could be better at.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 12: There was a thing that they did with the NFL
Speaker 12: years ago called the Hometown Huddle, where they worked together
Speaker 12: to build like local parks. I used to live right
Speaker 12: next to one, and there was this big plaque with
Speaker 12: the Bengals logo in the NFL logo and and all
Speaker 12: of it. And it does feel like a very simple
Speaker 12: solution would be, Hey, here's a split the pot. Here's
Speaker 12: a fifty to fifty whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 12: Proceeds go to the Cincinnati Youth Football whatever, and we're
Speaker 12: gonna build a field here. We're gonna build a field there.
Speaker 12: Whatever it might be.
Speaker 7: It's a layup.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they cost you any money, because
Speaker 1: you do like a split the pot the community pace
Speaker 1: where we're already paying for the stadium.
Speaker 12: But all you're paying for basically are the physical tickets
Speaker 12: or the digital space to be able to do it,
Speaker 12: and the ads and the signage and all that stuff
Speaker 12: that's incredibly cheap.
Speaker 1: You need to promote your cost. They already to go
Speaker 1: with the team. They advertise they spend money. Come to
Speaker 1: Bengal season tickets. Okay, it's the same thing, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's And the question is, well, why why do
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Why do the Bengals get such a hard
Speaker 1: time and the Reds get a pass. It's because the
Speaker 1: Reds do that stuff.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 12: The Reds presence in the community is incredible, huge. Uh
Speaker 12: even there, I'm blanking on the name of it, but
Speaker 12: they're they It's the Youth Academy, the Register Regie, unbelievable,
Speaker 12: the Academy. The urmunition of what they do with the
Speaker 12: knuts Off facility in and of itself is ridiculous. Charlie
Speaker 12: Frank travels the country advising other Major League teams on
Speaker 12: how to do that.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's how good we are. And it makes the
Speaker 1: Bengals look worse in comparison, because yeah, that's m MLB
Speaker 1: Money's big FC is doing this and MLS money is nothing.
Speaker 1: NFL money is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean I also used to live right next to
Speaker 12: one of those what they caught the mini pitches that
Speaker 12: f C Cincinnati would build, and there would be kids
Speaker 12: out there playing all the time, and it was just
Speaker 12: somewhere else for kids to go. That's not you know,
Speaker 12: doing something that they're not supposed to do, right, It's
Speaker 12: the very basic stuff that they seem to struggle with
Speaker 12: that I wish, and I know there are smart people
Speaker 12: in that building. I wish they would just say, hey,
Speaker 12: this would be good for us, for just in a
Speaker 12: pr sense, to say, hey, the Bengals are helping people
Speaker 12: in the community beyond just here's some food, here's some
Speaker 12: football equipment, doing more. I wish they were better.
Speaker 1: I will also say that some of those things you
Speaker 1: mentioned that you emailed in all fairness though, how many
Speaker 1: of those were NFL initiated or mandated programs? Like you know,
Speaker 1: when NFL leans into something, all the teams do it right,
Speaker 1: So how many of those I'm sure I'm sure there
Speaker 1: was some of that up sure where they don't have
Speaker 1: a choice that they'll have to service and stuff you
Speaker 1: have to I'm sure I'm sure, but still right, it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, yeah, I just already make sure you
Speaker 1: know thirty grand is it's it's not enough. I know
Speaker 1: that they've also, I'm about ninety nine percent sure. You
Speaker 1: know they've paid for some football fields in the past, Yes,
Speaker 1: like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars grants and stuff
Speaker 1: for like high schools and stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: they make donations to like the Paul Brown Coach of
Speaker 1: the Year and stuff like that. It's just there are
Speaker 1: easy pr points to be scored that they don't score. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and act like you care, like put your arms again.
Speaker 1: Back to that whole thing where we would in Boo
Speaker 1: McPherson if he lost the food, but we would lift
Speaker 1: them up. If if, even if you were to build
Speaker 1: a facility, it can be very simple. It can be
Speaker 1: a turf field. There can be a track around it,
Speaker 1: there can be some small stands, and every year Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase hosts a camp there, or every year you know,
Speaker 1: any player, pick a player hosts the camp there, or
Speaker 1: Sam Hubber will come back and do an event there
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's easy and then know in the meantime
Speaker 1: on Saturday and Sunday mornings. You've got youth football games
Speaker 1: happening here. Yeah, no doubt about it. And each player,
Speaker 1: does you know this charitable thing? I mean Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: Foundation and to Marvel Lusan, it shouldn't been the face
Speaker 1: of charity for sin today football. Those are individuals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the team should be leading that charge. And back to
Speaker 1: my point, if you know McPherson, we'd lift him up
Speaker 1: if he missed a game winning kick in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It goes to show you just talk community, if you've
Speaker 1: got to reflect back to the community and put your
Speaker 1: arms around and if you want to be other than
Speaker 1: you just look at as a business and then pretend
Speaker 1: it's not so agreed. I know I had enough hammer
Speaker 1: in the Bengals. If you missed that with Mark Jefferys yesterday,
Speaker 1: it's on the podcast from yesterday's show via the iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: But what do you make a Belichick not get in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame? So I'm not surprised. The reason
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised is I know that Bill Belichick is
Speaker 1: not liked. I know that he had a cheating scandal
Speaker 1: multiple that people don't appreciate, and I know that the
Speaker 1: voting system the way it's currently constructed is going to
Speaker 1: hurt him, and it all did. And you know, there
Speaker 1: is no world in which Ken Anderson should be going
Speaker 1: up against Bill Belichick for the same vote. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. And they've moved the rules around, and
Speaker 1: they've changed the rules and panel members and voters here
Speaker 1: and voters. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 12: And so for all those reasons, and so far, the
Speaker 12: ten or eleven people that have voted four others and
Speaker 12: not necessarily against Bill Belichick have said, hey, we did
Speaker 12: this because Elsie Greenwood, Roger Craig, Ken Anderson, this is
Speaker 12: their last chance, and we think they should be in.
Speaker 12: And we think Bill Belichick's going to get in, whether
Speaker 12: it's this year or next year. We're putting our votes
Speaker 12: to these guys. And so when you combine that he
Speaker 12: was just in general not liked and he did have
Speaker 12: multiple cheating scandals, and these other guys are on their
Speaker 12: last shot, you find ten or eleven guys who don't
Speaker 12: vote for him, and so he doesn't make the Pro
Speaker 12: Football Hall of Fame. The issue is not with Belichick
Speaker 12: himself or his resume, or even if people don't like him.
Speaker 12: The issue is the vote. The voting system just wasn't tenable,
Speaker 12: and it's led to him getting embarrassed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I looked at that and said, well, and I think
Speaker 1: he's actually kind of turned into a martyr. Since when
Speaker 1: were the baseball writers responsible for, you know, getting Bill Belichick?
Speaker 1: And it feels like that baseball does it too. And
Speaker 1: you know, back to your point, I get it, there's
Speaker 1: other guys eligible, and like, he probably get in the
Speaker 1: next ballot, but you know, again, you don't change the times.
Speaker 1: It's like, there have been plenty of people who have
Speaker 1: not gotten the Hall of Fame or had opportunity because
Speaker 1: there's been better players, are better individuals out there who
Speaker 1: have qualified. I mean, but I think the point stands.
Speaker 1: It's like, then does that mean Tom Brady doesn't get in?
Speaker 1: And yeah, okay, there's scandals and stuff, but what did
Speaker 1: the league do?
Speaker 3: Did they?
Speaker 1: I think they didn't Pete Rosehen for this, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they investigated. There are fines and penalties and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's also it's a popularity concert, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's it's what you do. It's your body of work.
Speaker 1: He may not be liked at all, but hell, ty
Speaker 1: Cobb was a real jerk and he's an Hall of Fame. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's the question should be is he a fall Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer?
Speaker 3: Yes or no?
Speaker 1: And the answer is yes. But unfortunately it's yeah.
Speaker 12: But these guys need to get into and so this
Speaker 12: is their last shots where I'm going to vote for them.
Speaker 12: The other thing with Belichick too, that whether or not
Speaker 12: it played a role, and from all the discourse, it
Speaker 12: seems like it hasn't. He has stunk without Tom Brady
Speaker 12: and he wasn't good prior to tom Brady, and Tom
Speaker 12: Brady went to Tampa and won a Super Bowl, and
Speaker 12: Robert Kraft and the Patriots they got to a super
Speaker 12: Bowl before Belichick. Right now they've gotten to a super
Speaker 12: Bowl after Belichick's So all of that just kind of,
Speaker 12: you know, peel back a couple of other layers, and
Speaker 12: then you've got all the nonsense that he's going on,
Speaker 12: you know in North Carolina right now. That shouldn't play
Speaker 12: a role, but it does. It's it's it. I don't
Speaker 12: like it because it's unnecessary criticism towards the Hall of
Speaker 12: Fame and a glaring omission, but I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And but NFL is like they never make mistakes.
Speaker 1: This isn't This isn't the NFL. I know, look, I
Speaker 1: told I get that distinction. Yeah, tough week for Bill Baltic,
Speaker 1: no Hall of Fame and breaks up with his uh,
Speaker 1: his girlfriend. They broke up. Yeah, did you hear that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it a fake account? I don't know they've saying
Speaker 1: it's a fake account. Okay, Well I knew Willie had
Speaker 1: been in her DMS, so he broke it off because
Speaker 1: she's got too old for him. It's like, exactly, all right,
Speaker 1: you got UC tomorrow West Miller, oh for nine against Houston.
Speaker 1: Houston and Town tomorrow are new and then exen to
Speaker 1: Paul X trying to get off the schnide of the
Speaker 1: three games skin there, and of course Miami just keeps winning,
Speaker 1: so they do. The RedHawks could be the national champions.
Speaker 1: The Bearcats are very much due for a win over Houston.
Speaker 1: It's been like ten years. I feel like here Tony Pike,
Speaker 1: bitch about this and Mark, but twelve fifty third of
Speaker 1: aust now, my thanks, Budd, appreciate it. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Sloane continues, coming up. Uh this ups postal worker who
Speaker 1: got suspended for whistle blowing. Well, he's a whistle blower.
Speaker 1: How do you suspend the It's interesting story. It involves
Speaker 1: just how far you can go on social media involving
Speaker 1: your employer. That's next sloony seven hundred WWT Cincinnati plony
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred WLW. We know that your employer
Speaker 1: can punish you for things you post on social media.
Speaker 1: Play stupid games when stupid prizes happens all the time,
Speaker 1: But what about when it's a work related safety issue.
Speaker 1: So this guy, Jason Thompson, he's a twenty year plus
Speaker 1: USPS mail carrier and Fairfield suspend without pay because he
Speaker 1: posted safety concerns on social about winter storm conditions on Facebook.
Speaker 1: They made me show up. And the narrative of the
Speaker 1: story is really quick. Is that he shows up to
Speaker 1: work and notice that the lots are poor ploy I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that they're not plowed really well,
Speaker 1: and the postal trucks are barren in snow. They said, hey,
Speaker 1: there's no packages here to the lever because of the storm.
Speaker 1: But you've got to dig your cars out by hand.
Speaker 1: We don't have shovels or anything for you, but yeah,
Speaker 1: get in there. And sart. You lean into it, get
Speaker 1: onto your hands and knees and shovel off these trucks
Speaker 1: that aren't gonna run anyway, and there's nowhere to put
Speaker 1: the snow, and it's a mess. And you know, he's
Speaker 1: sixty years old. And the end result is, well, we
Speaker 1: hear people having heart attacks all the time because of this.
Speaker 1: Is that in the scope of his job? And he
Speaker 1: would say, no, it's uh. They made cuts and can't
Speaker 1: have anyone coming properly clean off the vehicle so we
Speaker 1: can do our jobs. And he bitched about it on Facebook,
Speaker 1: the age old American sport of complaining about your boss. Well,
Speaker 1: it led him to an unpaid suspension. The question is
Speaker 1: is he a whistle blower and is he protected? And
Speaker 1: what are your rights if you run into something like this?
Speaker 1: George Rule is here. He is the first and foremost
Speaker 1: the employment law attorney in Cincinnati with freaking Myers and rule. George,
Speaker 1: welcome back. How are you? How's life son?
Speaker 6: Hey funny, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: I'm well, yeah, I don't think you guys are involved.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys are involved with this case, I don't know,
Speaker 1: But does this fall into the guys of whistleblower complaints.
Speaker 1: And you know, he puts it up on social media
Speaker 1: about safety conditions? Is that qualified? The safety issues? Complying
Speaker 1: is whistleblower activity? And keep in mind this is federal
Speaker 1: law and he works for a federal agency.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 5: Generally speaking, Uh, whistle blowing activity usually involves an employee
Speaker 5: disclosing information that they reasonably believe is evidence of illegal, unethical,
Speaker 5: or unsafe activity. Uh. And and so obviously his complaints
Speaker 5: here uh do have some relationship to unsafe activities.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, I think there is a question in terms of.
Speaker 5: The manner in which he disclosed, you know, generally speaking,
Speaker 5: a complaint to your employer, uh, or an.
Speaker 6: Agency such as OSHA. OSHA is a.
Speaker 5: Federal agency that enforces workplace safety laws, so certainly could
Speaker 5: be protected activity. Also, Uh, it might be protected concerted
Speaker 5: activity under the National Labor Relations Act because he is
Speaker 5: talking about his terms and conditions of employment, So there
Speaker 5: might be some additional protection there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As a postal work he's protected by union. Although he
Speaker 1: has been suspended without play they called an emergency placement
Speaker 1: without pay pending an internal investigation, and of course the
Speaker 1: Postal services, well, no employee safety is our top priority.
Speaker 1: That's hard to argue though, if you've got your sixty
Speaker 1: year old postal workers who normally sit in a truck
Speaker 1: and deliver mail out with their hands and I don't know,
Speaker 1: using dust pans and probably coffee can lids to drag
Speaker 1: and clear snow out from around your vehicle. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind the snow was plowed in a fashion that
Speaker 1: all the snow from the lot is now pushed up
Speaker 1: against where the vehicles are, so it's several feet of
Speaker 1: snow he got to dig out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that certainly, and I believe he was sixty years old.
Speaker 2: Not really an.
Speaker 6: Age thing, but you know, physical work certainly could be
Speaker 6: an employee safety issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not sure if that covers. Are there specific whistleblower
Speaker 1: protections that apply to USPS employees. I know this is
Speaker 1: kind of getting granular here, and you may not know
Speaker 1: the answer to that, but if you're a federal employee
Speaker 1: with a union, are you covered in there is or
Speaker 1: something else?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: Interestingly, OSHA or the Postal Service is one of the
Speaker 5: few federal agencies that's covered by OSHA as far as
Speaker 5: workplace safety. Their most federal employees are covered under something
Speaker 5: called the whistle Blower Protection Act, so you know, there
Speaker 5: there are a ton of different whistle blower laws. OSHA
Speaker 5: actually has a whistle blower protection program that covers twenty
Speaker 5: different statutes. So you know, in order to have protection
Speaker 5: as an employee, what you are complaining about has to
Speaker 5: be legally protected activity, and often you need an underlying
Speaker 5: statute to provide that protection. So you know, it is
Speaker 5: kind of a patchwork of laws and it's confusing. So
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's something where you probably need some
Speaker 5: legal advice to know whether you're protected.
Speaker 1: What your lawyers at George Rul did, do you see
Speaker 1: this as undue retaliation for protected activity?
Speaker 5: It certainly, it certainly could be. You know, he got
Speaker 5: he got suspended off of work. It's interesting, as I
Speaker 5: understand it from from looking at some of the articles
Speaker 5: about it. The Postal Service asked him to come back
Speaker 5: several hours after he was suspended, which you know, sort.
Speaker 6: Of suggests they knew it was potentially.
Speaker 5: A problem to put him, you know, put him off work.
Speaker 5: Uh So I certainly think, uh, this is one where
Speaker 5: he does have some legal protection. It didn't seem to
Speaker 5: be just an individual gright. You know, he was he
Speaker 5: was when he made his post. As I understand it,
Speaker 5: he said, you know, I know I'm not the only
Speaker 5: one who has this concern, So you know, generally it
Speaker 5: does seem like he was not only speaking for himself
Speaker 5: but his coworkers and the working conditions. So you know,
Speaker 5: if it's not if it's not whistle blowing, uh, it
Speaker 5: certainly might be uh conservative protected actip.
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because I know Fox nineteen broke the
Speaker 1: story and a couple of the media outlets had obviously
Speaker 1: we're talking about this morning with George Rule, employment law
Speaker 1: attorney from freaking Myerson Rule here in Cincinnati, and uh,
Speaker 1: as soon as that happens, it's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: well why don't you come back to work? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's interesting how that plays out. Does that indicate though,
Speaker 1: from a legal perspective, that maybe they got this wrong
Speaker 1: at first blush, that they're backing off so quickly.
Speaker 2: Well, it certainly appears like that.
Speaker 5: Now obviously bringing him back after a few hours, that
Speaker 5: would that would limit the adverse impact of a of
Speaker 5: a suspension, Uh, you know, only only losing uh you know,
Speaker 5: maybe two three hours hours of pay. But you know,
Speaker 5: I certainly think most employees who speak out. Uh, you know,
Speaker 5: do have a concern, Hey if I put a target
Speaker 5: on my back by you know, disclosing thiss. So you know,
Speaker 5: it's not only the immediate suspension, but kind of how
Speaker 5: he's treated in the future.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's see.
Speaker 1: Uh so this guy is postal worker, Jason Thompson is
Speaker 1: told to take down the post or there's gonna be repercussions.
Speaker 1: He didn't, and the repercussions where we suspend you without pay.
Speaker 1: Talk about a wonky constitutional First Amendment called prior restraint?
Speaker 1: Was prior restrainted play here?
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know that One's funny.
Speaker 1: That's a good question, right, I was like, well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's a constential rite in many maning says,
Speaker 1: we prevent you from doing something we don't like in
Speaker 1: the first place. And so the legal standard about his
Speaker 1: speech was they said it was a matter of public concern,
Speaker 1: the public somehawser I don't know if I buy the
Speaker 1: this is an issue of public intern this is a
Speaker 1: workplace safety issue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean whether or not it's protected on the
Speaker 5: First Amendment.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, that's.
Speaker 5: You know, that's maybe a complicated legal question. You know,
Speaker 5: is he is he talking as a public employee or
Speaker 5: a private citizen.
Speaker 6: You know, I certainly think there's an angle.
Speaker 5: That would be a matter of public concern. Uh, you
Speaker 5: know if certainly during a level two SNOW emergency. I
Speaker 5: think there's a question of whether or not, you know,
Speaker 5: postal workers need to be on on the road.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: It's interesting the the Postal Services statement in response kind
Speaker 5: of touched on that in terms of saying, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: people need their medications. Uh, you know government correspondence. So
Speaker 5: you know, there's an argument from the employer there. You
Speaker 5: know that there's a there's a need for for the
Speaker 5: postal workers to be on the on the road and
Speaker 5: right delivering our right.
Speaker 1: But at the same time they said that, I guess
Speaker 1: the trucks that were bringing the mail in where there
Speaker 1: were no packages to deliver that day, So why we
Speaker 1: digging our trucks out if we can't move. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we're going to show up and make you dig
Speaker 1: our trucks out because maybe that'll save money. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. On the other side of this charge rule,
Speaker 1: talk about the burden of proof that the Postal Service
Speaker 1: had had they suspend him and what evens they have
Speaker 1: that that backs their claim up. We've talked about this
Speaker 1: case Jason Thompson and has a pretty good claim here.
Speaker 1: This is a whistleblower type of issue. But how does
Speaker 1: the United States Postal Service affirmatively defend themselves?
Speaker 5: Well, I think you know, again, they would look at hey,
Speaker 5: is this just an individual employee ripe, you know, looking
Speaker 5: at the manner in terms of you know, how he communicated.
Speaker 6: This, did he talked the management to press? Is concern.
Speaker 5: Initially at the outset. You know, I think the Postal
Speaker 5: Service would say, hey, look, this is a you know,
Speaker 5: a couple hours suspension, so is it is it really
Speaker 5: an adverse employment action? So you know, there would be
Speaker 5: some legal defenses there, but but certainly I'm not sure
Speaker 5: how the Postal Service could argue that the suspension had
Speaker 5: anything to do other than than the post itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, and you know the content and the post being
Speaker 5: about potentially unsafe working conditions. So that seems to be
Speaker 5: a tough argument.
Speaker 1: Right, And it also feels like both sides, at least
Speaker 1: the post Service wants us to go away because they
Speaker 1: brought brought them back in hours later, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: it was maybe it was a misstep on our part here,
Speaker 1: We're going to have to clarify our policies and like,
Speaker 1: but what does the takeaway for someone listening to going, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not a postal worker. I don't have to dig
Speaker 1: trucks out or maybe I do, but I'm not in
Speaker 1: a union. When you should you think twice and what what?
Speaker 1: And I guess what are the boundaries you're posting stuff
Speaker 1: on social We see people fired all the time, right, George,
Speaker 1: because they do something on social or say say and
Speaker 1: they want to be getting fired because it makes their
Speaker 1: company look bad, which is perfectly when they're right to
Speaker 1: do so. But what are the limits of that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So certainly if you are publicly disparaging your employer, if
Speaker 5: you're you know, posting your individual rights online, that can
Speaker 5: be ground.
Speaker 2: To get you discharged.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know what you are speaking out about, what you're communicating,
Speaker 5: uh is important? You know, are you exposing something unsafe?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: You know, unethical? Illegal?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: That type of speech tends to be protected. Is it
Speaker 5: a matter of public interest?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Is there is their First Amendment issue? And you know
Speaker 6: then are you are you talking about the terms and
Speaker 6: cantions of your work.
Speaker 5: Is it you know, is it a collective discussion that
Speaker 5: might be protected again under the national wave relationship.
Speaker 1: Right, and the other element of this too. I use
Speaker 1: another example we've seen this happen before, where somebody is
Speaker 1: a fast food worker and they're doing something in the
Speaker 1: kitchen that you know, could wind up getting a customer sick,
Speaker 1: doing something stupid, and they post it and they wind
Speaker 1: up getting fired. They could turn around and say, well,
Speaker 1: I was just exposing this because you know as a whistleblower. Well,
Speaker 1: it's different if you're participating in it. Is the crux
Speaker 1: of the their argument or their defense going, hey, I
Speaker 1: presented this to management, showed them the video and they
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. If you post it on social after
Speaker 1: they refused to act on the complaint, does that then
Speaker 1: make it a whistleblower complaint?
Speaker 6: It could?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean going to your employer first and raising the
Speaker 5: concern I think would would would heighten the protection.
Speaker 6: Because you're, you know, it shows you have an interest
Speaker 6: in you.
Speaker 5: Know, protecting folks I guess from getting sick in that case.
Speaker 1: Right at the very least, it sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: the common sense thing to do outside of the legal
Speaker 1: wranglings of this is to simply give the employer, give
Speaker 1: your employer a chance to remedy the situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that that certainly establishes an element of
Speaker 5: good faith rather than just you know, trying to cause problems,
Speaker 5: right if if you're trying to address the problem, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, make.
Speaker 2: Somebody aware of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's just common sense and has something
Speaker 1: to do with the law. The first step is going
Speaker 1: to your boss or your employers saying, hey, here's this
Speaker 1: is a problem. Why why are we doing this? Why
Speaker 1: am I shoveling snow art? Or why is this person
Speaker 1: I don't know, doing something in a kitchen at a
Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant they shouldn't be doing. If
Speaker 1: they ignore that at workplace safety issues, then okay, then
Speaker 1: then you know you post it on social it's a
Speaker 1: different story entirely. All right, Well, it's an interesting interesting
Speaker 1: case for sure. George Rule at freaking Myers and Rule
Speaker 1: employment lawyers here in Cincinnati. All the best, George, thanks
Speaker 1: for jumping in this morning.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks, good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, be well, I hope you're well well. Chat
Speaker 1: again soon, because there's really something popping up in the workplace,
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Speaker 1: For me, It's like I don't know. I love I
Speaker 1: like bourbon a lot I do. It's my drink of choice,
Speaker 1: But I don't I'm not in the laying out that
Speaker 1: kind of money for one ounce, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: if my palette's good enough to go or something. I remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: know what I mean or not?
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean if I'll try it. But like I I
Speaker 1: fine drop that kind of money.
Speaker 7: I understand it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 7: But at the same time there's people of people who
Speaker 7: are and who are on the hunt for it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: jam your spot, what was it? Jim Gaffickin had a
Speaker 7: whole bit in his last You've.
Speaker 1: Got gafficking money though, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: Well, he talks about how he was using Jerry Seinfeld
Speaker 7: one night because Jerry's like, well, whatever you want, it's
Speaker 7: on me, all right, And he orders King of Kentucky
Speaker 7: and wherever he wherever they were at, it was like
Speaker 7: one hundred four hundred bucksupport. So that's in his bit.
Speaker 7: But there you go. For anybody who enjoys whiskey and enjoys,
Speaker 7: you know, maybe you don't want to commit to buying
Speaker 7: a three hundred dollars bottle of King of Kentucky. This
Speaker 7: is your chance to give it a give it a
Speaker 7: taste without breaking the bank.
Speaker 1: If you want it, and then you know it's for you.
Speaker 7: And it's exactly exactly well, and then good luck finding it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's such a great bar. It's just it's lovely.
Speaker 1: The vibes are right yep, yep, you could and if
Speaker 1: you want't to like drink there and the prima Vista
Speaker 1: is right there too. Yeah, it has not been to
Speaker 1: prem beautiful love the view. Food was good where they're
Speaker 1: a year ago. Nice, nice joints love, Prace sal I've
Speaker 1: been Pryce So girls good.
Speaker 7: All right, praysal gurlies goes. Know the way you're dressed, though,
Speaker 7: I feel like you are ready for a cloff coffee
Speaker 7: club DJ session. Have you heard about the fact that
Speaker 7: these so coffee clubs are doing DJ sessions and raves
Speaker 7: during the day on Saturdays and Sundays. It's becoming a
Speaker 7: thing because it.
Speaker 1: Goes with the caffeine. I suppose you're caffeated up your
Speaker 1: raging anyway.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I really honestly think this is our millennial stamp
Speaker 7: in the world, because, as someone who has spent many
Speaker 7: two am nights out and about dancing on the dance
Speaker 7: floor jabs. Sometimes our bodies just can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: So we're like, Okay, how do we drink coffee, listen
Speaker 1: to DJ?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and how do we maximize our day and not
Speaker 7: feel like total crap? And it's it's happened.
Speaker 1: I trying to figure this out because what two years
Speaker 1: ago we wanted that cruise and we're in Greece and
Speaker 1: like on the ship it was a great ship and
Speaker 1: loved it. Like we had this Mexican restaurant that was
Speaker 1: on board the ship. Yeah, and they had DJ and
Speaker 1: you couldn't have conversation with it because so loud. That's
Speaker 1: the most millennial thing ever, is like I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to eat a Really the food was fantastic.
Speaker 7: Is that a millennial thing or is it just like
Speaker 7: a bad No?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it was because it was
Speaker 1: on a virgin cruise, so I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: more Richard Branson with the music maybe, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you want to DJ, I mean allowed it was
Speaker 1: like a club, yeah, and I'm trying to eat and
Speaker 1: we're having a conversation like the day No, it's night.
Speaker 1: Okay it was night, but yeah, you guys love. There's
Speaker 1: two things malons. You you want craft beer everywhere, that's
Speaker 1: that's no. Yeah, and you bring your kids and you.
Speaker 7: Gotta keep yourselves safe and drinking. And problem is because
Speaker 7: you have a two parent working home and I.
Speaker 1: Guess, but I mean we had a two parent work
Speaker 1: at home and we never go out. It's like, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of jealous. Actually that's changed.
Speaker 11: I miss that.
Speaker 7: I breweries were created.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, damn it. I couldn't before. You look like, well,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to bring a kid in a bar.
Speaker 1: Now it's like it's called hard. You got play school
Speaker 1: stuff ling all over the place on top of the bar.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what what are we doing here?
Speaker 7: Legos are your accent.
Speaker 1: I'm here to drink to get away from kids, not
Speaker 1: be around more kids. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 7: I don't mind it as long as your kids aren't
Speaker 7: all up in my viz.
Speaker 1: They usually are running around screen.
Speaker 7: Maybe that's why the music is so loud, so you
Speaker 7: could buff for the sound.
Speaker 1: There's a couple, you know, birds in our house. I
Speaker 1: won't go to because all the time it's kids running
Speaker 1: around all over the place like I'm I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get half of the bag here, and you guys are
Speaker 1: ruining the vibe.
Speaker 7: So but here's the thing. On the cruise, right, was
Speaker 7: it late? Was it a late late dinner or was it?
Speaker 1: Don't remember? No, it was I don't know, maybe been
Speaker 1: like eight or nine.
Speaker 7: You know, I like to give the benefits of your
Speaker 7: time zone.
Speaker 1: I don't know times I'm going to cruise the middle
Speaker 1: of the ocean near Greece, I didn't know, I know
Speaker 1: what day it is.
Speaker 7: That's the point. They want to make you feel like
Speaker 7: you have absolutely no control.
Speaker 8: It's nice, but it's like it seems like we got
Speaker 8: the DJ DJ at a coffee shop. Just seems if
Speaker 8: you're there. The most coffee shops, people are working or relaxing. Right,
Speaker 8: But this is this is the point, though, So what
Speaker 8: is the point. We didn't even get to the point.
Speaker 7: So this coffee club Cincinnati, first of all, it's happening
Speaker 7: this Saturday at eleven am to one thirty, and they,
Speaker 7: of course they're gonna be starting to espresso Martiniz and
Speaker 7: stuff like that. It's at Aces Pickleball so at Factory
Speaker 7: fifty two in North Would But you are also seeing
Speaker 7: it pop up in coffee shops as well. But what
Speaker 7: makes us really great is, you know, this isn't a
Speaker 7: dedicated coffee shop, so if you are a local coffee
Speaker 7: shop dweller and trying to get work done, you're not
Speaker 7: randomly stepping into a rave. But it's this point of like, Okay,
Speaker 7: you want to go out and grab coffee and maybe
Speaker 7: socialize with some people, have a DJ dance. The space
Speaker 7: is big enough where you don't need to press your
Speaker 7: face right up against the speaker and feel the beats,
Speaker 7: you know, pump it through your body. That's what the
Speaker 7: caffeine is for. And they're bringing in local vendors, so
Speaker 7: this is your chaste to have, you know, espresso, Martini,
Speaker 7: Mimosa's cocktails, and it's a little bit of a mix
Speaker 7: and mingle. So this is a fun little twist where
Speaker 7: they are handing out optional green wristbands and this indicates
Speaker 7: that hey, you can't. Yeah, this is not a singles event,
Speaker 7: but potentially it could be that, Hey, I want to.
Speaker 8: Be hit on, so you if you choose to, I
Speaker 8: don't think it's a better Yeah, it's good because you
Speaker 8: know what you don't know the signals.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't know nowadays know. So Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm a I'm a social butterfly and sometimes that
Speaker 7: could come across.
Speaker 1: Okay, you never know, got it? What's what's what's I'm
Speaker 1: attached red.
Speaker 7: That's a go away tattoo, don't to me. So there
Speaker 7: you go.
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Speaker 15: As promised, We're now joined by Paul Amonica from Barons.
Speaker 15: We're gonna be talking a little bit about United Health. Paul,
Speaker 15: how you doing today?
Speaker 9: Goodiks? How you guys don't better.
Speaker 1: Than United healthstock? Earlier this week?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 9: Yeah, the you know, the revenue missed forecasts a bit,
Speaker 9: The guidance wasn't great but then you also had the
Speaker 9: news from the the you know, from Washington about you know,
Speaker 9: President Trump proposing that the reimbursement rates for Medicare advantage
Speaker 9: aren't going to go up all that much and at
Speaker 9: least the proposts for twenty twenty seven. And I think
Speaker 9: that really spooked a lot lot of investors. And we
Speaker 9: saw not just United Help Shares tumble on that news,
Speaker 9: but CBS, which owns Etna. You saw Humana get hit,
Speaker 9: a couple of the other smaller, you know, Medicare focused
Speaker 9: insurers like Sentien and Alena, also you know, getting hit
Speaker 9: Anthem owner Elevents as well. So it was just a
Speaker 9: very difficult time for the the insurers, you know, in
Speaker 9: light of that. And now you know, it went from
Speaker 9: being the darling of the Dow, the company that at
Speaker 9: the highest price by far, to you know, kind of
Speaker 9: middle of the pack, but it still has a high
Speaker 9: enough price that it impacts the Dow. Because what was
Speaker 9: interesting on you know, the news was the rest of
Speaker 9: the market held up relatively well.
Speaker 15: Paul helped me reconcile these two ideas then that are
Speaker 15: in my head for pretty much the last thirty five years.
Speaker 15: One of the most consistent investments in terms of performance
Speaker 15: has been healthy insurance, specifically United Health, like they just
Speaker 15: cranked from basically nineteen ninety onward. How do I reconcile
Speaker 15: that with the fact that now this is a pretty
Speaker 15: hostile environment for insurers across the board, not just doing
Speaker 15: at health insurance. Like everyone's talking about insurance costs and
Speaker 15: we're talking about you know, capping them and figuring out
Speaker 15: you know, reimbursement rates and this and that. Is this
Speaker 15: a fundamentally different environment than just a year or two ago,
Speaker 15: Or is this just a little not little blip, but
Speaker 15: you know, some kind of speed bump and then these
Speaker 15: guys resume they're regularly scheduled programming.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I don't know if this is going to be you know,
Speaker 9: the industry getting back to the way it used to be.
Speaker 9: I mean, you have a pretty vocal, you know, anti
Speaker 9: insurer sentiment I think in DC. And this is by parison,
Speaker 9: this is by no means just President Trump and the
Speaker 9: Republican Party. I think a lot of Democrats, you know,
Speaker 9: clearly are a very hostile towards this industry as well.
Speaker 9: And you know, is something that is you know, a
Speaker 9: very easy political win because you know, you're not going
Speaker 9: to find too many people who you know look at
Speaker 9: their you know, doctors bills and say, yeah, I love
Speaker 9: my health insurance.
Speaker 7: Wish I could pay more?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, definitely they deserve a lot more. Uh, this
Speaker 9: is not something that I think is going to change.
Speaker 9: Any time you.
Speaker 1: Take the bread becomes the vessel to put the super
Speaker 1: Think a toddler eating for the first time. You thought
Speaker 1: I was like trying to explain a car trick to
Speaker 1: a dog. You think that man has ever cooked a
Speaker 1: meal in his legs.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was funny, Like you love
Speaker 1: he loves soup. He's a soup guy. Oh yeah, this
Speaker 1: kind of weather soup. I'm with him.
Speaker 7: What how about the French onions.
Speaker 1: I'm good with a good French extra cheese.
Speaker 7: It's really hard to find a good friend get a good.
Speaker 1: Koton or whether that slice of bread on top, that's good, a.
Speaker 7: Good French onion soup. So if anybody has some recos.
Speaker 1: Your girl tip said, the solid, solid French onion, that's
Speaker 1: about it. That's you get a really good French onion,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, or a good I love
Speaker 1: a good lobster bisk too creamy. Really yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: a creamy soup guy.
Speaker 3: You're not.
Speaker 7: It's got to be a I am a creamy soup cow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't like clam chowder.
Speaker 1: Gotta I get it, you get it. Did a chicken
Speaker 1: yoki the other day. Did a tuskin kale soup the
Speaker 1: other day with beans. Was great.
Speaker 7: A chicken yoki soup.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, solid old pick.
Speaker 7: I'm here to support you.
Speaker 1: Soup days, baby soup days. And speaking of my real
Speaker 1: quick Dorothy Land Market and Mason I stopped the other
Speaker 1: day and they had ramen broth. They sold there on
Speaker 1: ramen broth. Okay, so it was really good, you know
Speaker 1: I was, but it was fantastic.
Speaker 7: If you want one of the best ramens in this
Speaker 7: any zoon, do downtown. They are incredible. And then there's
Speaker 7: also a joint over in East Walmut my neck of
Speaker 7: the woods, and they did a scott that for I
Speaker 7: don't know if they still have it on the menu,
Speaker 7: but they did a skyline.
Speaker 1: Ramap oh skram we're talking about that's yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. Unquiva soup weather. So the soup
Speaker 1: places are they're making their hey, right now, Ali Martin,
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