WEBVTT - 1-30-26 Scott Sloan Show 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.400 It's a Scott's Loan show on seven hundred. Deputy all that, 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:07.560 we thanks you checking us out on air, online and 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.120 in your hand and your mobile VID the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:11.959 Take us wherever you go, switch over to headphones and 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.240 we portable like that, baby. I think we might be 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.360 missing the big picture when it comes to AI data centers, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.280 uh semiconductor industry. You know, then tell them all that, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.279 and I know that stalled a little bit. But big picture, though, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:29.200 is despite all the environmental and electricity worries, what about 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:35.280 restoring American greatness or relative to technology, relative to manufacturing, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.640 and in a different way than our previous generations did it. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.760 I'm talking of course about Ohio now the fifth largest 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.479 host of AI data centers, and that looks to be growing. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:51.479 Are we missing because of our fears and not unwarranted fears? 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.080 I think they're legitimate, But I missed the big picture 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.000 when it comes to expanding the job space here in Ohio, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.160 which is sorely needed. Joining the show this morning is 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.360 Doug Kelly from Columbus. He is CEO of something called 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.880 the American Edge Project that deals with us. Doug, welcome back, Howray. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:08.720 Thanks Scott, how are you. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.720 I'm doing fine. The reason why most of the civilized 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.440 world speaks English because it is the business of language 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.920 and a business that we created. American entrepreneurship industry created 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.120 that environment. Dollar is the standard currency, the reserve currency. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:23.360 Right. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.759 How important is it to continue to lean on tech 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.520 in order to continue that and put it into context 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.880 with the congressional plan now with TikTok where they're going 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.640 to make an American health company and kind of use 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:35.320 that as a front. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.120 Well, just a back one second, and let's look at 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.959 the importance of technology in our overall daily lives. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:42.200 Right. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.319 So tech isn't just another sector of the economy, right, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.840 it is a very backbone of our national security or 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.440 economy and the advancement of values that we really care about, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:58.040 free expression and letting your voice be heard. So the 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.840 challenge is when Congress talks about regulating technology, it can't 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.279 paint with a very broad brush. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:04.520 Right. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.480 There's things that it can do that can either help 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.639 our ability to innovate and compete against China, or there 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.079 things they can do that can fundamentally damage our ability 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.880 to remain the technological leader in the world. They've passed 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.639 that chips and Science Build, which is going to help 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.640 bring more manufacturing and semi conductor chips to the United States. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.920 It'll create technology hubs. It will also increase funding for 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.840 STEM education. So that's an example of a really good 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.960 thing that Congress is doing to help our ability to innovate. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.680 Yeah, and you know, I think that's important too, because 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:39.960 there is a lot of bad. There's a lot of 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.040 negative with this, and that is that our enemies have 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.959 learned to poison ups ourselves. You know, a lot of 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.160 us poison ourselves basically, which has always been the goal. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.240 That's you know, the fallow role. I'm destroyed from within. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.360 A lot of people predict that for the United States 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.799 of America. I think we always find a way to 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.840 write the ship though, right. We don't go away. We 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.560 figure out how to adapt and we move on. We're 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.440 really good at that, that's right. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.960 I mean, that's the heart of the American genius is 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.480 our ability to innovate and adjust as circumstances come. So 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.480 one of our concerns is that some of the bills 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.720 that Congress is talking about passing are things that would 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.600 undermine our ability as a country to innovate, and particularly 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:21.880 they would target America's most innovative technology companies. Now these companies, yeah, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.440 they run social media platforms, they make hardware and software. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.440 But what a lot of people don't know is that 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.480 the biggest technology companies in the US are also the 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.400 biggest investors and the most important strategic technologies that we're 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:41.520 battling with against kind of so artificial intelligence, robotics on them, computing, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.600 these are all the technologies that are going to determine 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.360 who leads in the future. And so as Congress wants 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.960 to clamp down on those companies, it's going to hurt 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.920 our ability to invest in those areas, to develop and 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.920 master those technologies, and it's going to hand over to 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.720 China an edge that we're not kind of get back, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.520 just like what happened with manufacturing. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.360 Well in another edge too, we get back to Afghanistan 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.120 or the fall there, and how middle will rich that 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.640 country is now that China ass control of that or 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.120 Russia as control or whatever. Now, now, where are we 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.880 going to get these Where are we going to get 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.400 the precious natural resources in order to make the chips 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.680 that you're talking about. That's that's you know, we talk 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.080 about how important that is, But I think that fits 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.480 into what you're discussing here, because the topic of rare 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.000 earth minerals is now front and center. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.400 Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, you know, at the 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.039 end of the day, we are in this competition in China, 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 and it's okay, who can build the most microchips, who 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:40.120 can have the most innovation. China knows that innovation is 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.640 its weak spot, right. They're good at copying and reverse 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.039 engineering things, but their challenge is innovation, and they've invested 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.760 a lot of money to boost their innovation. So at 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.760 the end of the day, the US has to do 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.159 things that accelerates our ability to innovate, and that includes 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.720 things like creeing up our biggest innovators, making smart and 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:05.000 better in building core critical technologies here. Now, there's certain 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.520 things that can be done to you know, where the 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.560 pressure and pain points come where technology hits politics and society. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.440 There's certainly regulations could be done there, right, Connors should 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.880 pass a privacy policy so people understand what their data 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.599 is being used for, what control they have over So 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.039 there's certainly smart things that can be done there. But 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.280 some of the things they're talking about in Washington right 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.400 now just undermine our ability to innovate, and they actually 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.520 don't solve the problems that people are feeling. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.479 You know, Trump for the well second time, now there's 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.160 a new sheriff in town. Wasn't long ago where we 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.800 had dignitaries in the United States go to places like 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.560 Taiwan and try and build relationships with US. Drank in 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.960 that connection to the United States and Twan because they're 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.240 responsible for all the stuff we're talking about right now. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.880 We make a very small percentage, like twelve percent of 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.200 those semiconductor products right now, so they're an important ally. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:56.599 We can't give that up. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.760 You are spot on what that's got. I mean in 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.400 the nineties when semiconduct were invented, right, American manufactured most 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.680 of them. Now we manufacture just twelve percent, with the 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.080 bulk of the most sophisticated chips being made in Taiwan, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.720 which is just one hundred miles away from China. And 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.320 if China made a move on Taiwan that were fundamentally 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.840 do you think the COVID supply chain attroction was big, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.919 So that would be enormous. Yeah, And so you know, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.400 we have to be able to make sure that we're 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.800 making in our own backyard as well. And at the 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.280 same time, we have to do actions that check China's ambitions, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.680 both from a technology sign but also from a little 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:38.240 boy ambition. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.919 In regards to Doug Kelly, CEO American Edge Project on 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.440 the show on seven hundred WLW, you right there in Columbus, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.080 You're going to see this huge Intel plant and essentially 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.120 town that is built to make semiconductors right here in Ohio. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.520 What's that mean for the state in America as well? 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.279 I mean, that seems to be a huge step forward. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.039 We talk about the lack of manufacturing in America, but 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.840 this is high tech manufacturing. Good for jobs and Hio 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.920 to be sure, but in top putting, having a big 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.880 footprint right here in Ohio let alone. The United States 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.400 also is kind of what you're talking about here, and 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.240 that is sounds like the United States, we're trying to 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:13.480 increase our share of that market. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.600 Yeah, you're right, it's going to be great news for 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.960 Ohio and all the Midwest. First of all, you know 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.240 when I talk about unintended consequences of bills that Congress 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.680 may pass, right, you know, twenty years ago Connors did 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.280 some things on manufacturing that kind of slowly led manufacturing 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.960 jobs over twenty years, many of them exported to China. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.840 And so one thing we don't want to have happen 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.880 with the bills that Congress is talking about is unintended 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.160 consequences that hurt our ability to manufacture and innovate on 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.200 the technology side. And so the passage of this chip 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.320 bill is going to bring new jobs, three thousand new 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.720 jobs into Ohio just that plant. But at the same time, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.080 when you have like they're building construction trades and the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.360 other people that have to build these facilities, those are 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.440 going to be even more jobs there. So it's a 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.760 huge multiplier effect in building our own technology. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.559 Here Doug Kelly and Columbus CEO of the American Edge Project, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.720 which is pushing more and more tech, and you know, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.119 we've got Intel at some point, I think third twenty 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.680 thirty one, as I saw when they opened the plant, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.720 your Columbus you're talking about. But you know, the AI 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.160 data centers and everything else in Ohio is fifth in 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.240 the country when it comes to those data centers, which 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.440 I think is awesome, and there's some concerns there too. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.560 You know, we talked about environmental we talked about electricity, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.120 the power and the grid. I talk about that a 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.720 lot too, and it's could put a bigger drain on 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.920 the system, but you build more infrastructures supposed to just 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.840 prevent people from doing this. We've got to continue to 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.840 innovate and lead the world for not only our economic future, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.199 but also for our survival too, because we we got 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.200 to stay on top ors of the Chinese and the Russians. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.480 That's had a lot of people listening are concerned about 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.320 social media, the impact it has on young kids. For example. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.960 Are you suggesting in some way, shape or form, maybe 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.640 an unregulated internet or it's hard to censor the First 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.880 Amendment because that is a given, inalienable right in this country. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.040 But there's got to be a balance there. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.640 How do you do that well, I would say that, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.120 you know, our coalition is you know, twenty four different 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.280 groups of you know, people who represent small businesses, minority business, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.640 Asian American businesses, as well as technology companies. And our 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.640 message is focused on the importance of innovation because sometimes, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.280 you know, people forget that innovation is America's secret sauce 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.640 that puts us ahead of other countries, and it's kept 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.319 us ahead of other countries to address your specific question. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.200 You know, at the end of the day, there are 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.440 certain regulations that can be done that will give people 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.839 clarity and insight on Okay, what could we be done 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.760 with our data? Right, so Congress could pass the privacy policy. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.439 But what we're against the things that fundamentally disrupt America's 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.120 ability to innovate. And that's the thing that we feel 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.120 Congress is Russian full with this legislation. And it's not 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.080 just on I mean, when you think of the biggest 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:07.319 company Google, Amazon, Microsoft, these are companies are making game 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.760 cheese and investments in the technology of the future. And 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.839 if you if you disrupt or break apart those companies, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.880 it's gonna have lasting consequences. So at the end of 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.760 the day, we're for innovation at the American Ed Project, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.840 and that's what gives us our edge. But we're four 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.440 smart type of regulation that actually solve the problem or 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:27.760 against reckless regulation. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.240 Right and generally when you start to break up companies, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.480 you know, we say that here Cincinnati Bell, for example, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.840 as no longer Cincinnati Bell for it. But but you 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.120 know when they broke up the baby bell and the 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.480 baby bells, you know, back in the back in the 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.040 day forty something years ago, fifty years ago, that was 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.000 to control a monopoly. I don't know if I see 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.840 that as much with big tech in that argument. And 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.800 certainly Facebook is massive, and there's a lot of big 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.680 alphabet right, a lot of big companies out there that 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.880 do this kind of stuff. But I just don't see 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.240 the tech the advantage in breaking them up. It's gonna 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.200 Does it make competition better or harder? 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.680 Well, there's fierce competition and right now, So for the 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.640 opponents of the big tech companies, I just challenged their 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.480 assumption and their assertion that there's not competition there. I mean, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.160 Facebook is battling out all the time when the other 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.720 social media companies TikTok, and so there's really fierce competition 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:25.320 among these and that forces innovation faster. And so right now, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.040 with the current regulatory scheme we have of how do 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.640 we deal with monopolistic activity, it's done to the court. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.280 That's the right way to go. That system works. There's 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:39.079 no need to fundamentally disrupt that because technology moves really 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.720 really fast. And I'm old enough to remember my Space 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.840 and AOL when they were the big behemoths, right, And 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.679 you know what the market took care of that, So 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.680 we believe the market takes care of a lot of 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.360 problems in competition is the real accelerant on that. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.880 Yeah, But the argument that would be, well, if you 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.200 just made a case Kelly and said, hey, you know, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.120 it's pretty fierce competitive now, but if we broke everything 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:02.920 up in the smaller companies, they are thinking, well, that 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.560 creates even more competition, doesn't it. Or the other way 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.680 to look at it as well, it's it's much tougher 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.720 now to fund those companies because almost like a startup 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.360 at the beginning, right, there's only so much you can 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.959 do with the wealth of Facebook and other companies of 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.840 a mask, it's probably easier at this point, right. So 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.400 what I'm saying is, if you're using your argument, if 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.040 you broke everything in the smaller pieces of the pie, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.600 you create more competition? Is that not necessarily true? 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.440 Well, but there's some things that can only be done 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.200 at large scale, right, So we're in the we're in 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:39.040 the kind of the platform economy phase right of global development. Right, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.920 China as a big platform. We have our big platforms, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.200 and those platforms generate new ideas across a lot of 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.920 different business lines and they also generate profits which are 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.040 then invested into this cutting end research. And I'm just 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.800 giving example. Right in those strategic Technologies of the Future 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.320 that I talked about, are five bigest technology companies in 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.680 America invest more each year in those than the Pentagon does. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:06.040 Right. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.960 And these are dual use technologies, right, So they're both 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.240 for military purpose but also for commercial purpose. And so 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.880 we can either hand that as China militarily. But worse 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.640 of all worse is that that would give them a 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.240 competitive advantage. Do we want them to sell all the 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.720 different AI solutions? Do we want them to sell the 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.679 quantum computer solutions to the world and reap that economic benefit? Well, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.800 that's coin of what we want. Yeah, because it really 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.280 matters which country and which set of values builds the future. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.120 Is it going to be US China? It's a simple question. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.360 You know, you mentioned that data privacy and things. It's 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.480 certainly big tech, and you know people who use big 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.839 tech can join hand in hand. Go, okay, that's something 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.000 we should fight. The most contentious thing, of course, is 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.440 section two thirty, which is wonky. But you know, if 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.559 you don't know what that means, it's simple. It means 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.599 that platform like Facebook, for example, are not legally responsible 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.280 for what people post on them. So prior to this, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.080 if a website you modified content or whatever, they're legally 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.719 responsible for anyone who posted on that website. I look 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.320 at this, it's almost like me trying to control what 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.120 a caller would say to a talk show. I can't 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.800 control what you're thinking or saying. Now, there are certain 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.720 dirty words I can bleep out and the like, but 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.080 generally your message is as long as you don't swear, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.920 you can say pretty much whatever the hell you want. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.520 I kind of look at it that way. When it 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.400 comes to section two thirty. It's bad and you have 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.520 people can lie and spread mistruths, and you pretend to 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.280 be a I don't know, a sixteen year old girl 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.160 when they're actually a seventy five year old man. I 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.600 get that, but by and large, I don't, you know. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.400 I kind of look at it the same way. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.320 Yeah, you know, A whole point behind section two thirty 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.840 was to help innovation go and grow, and it has 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:53.360 served its purpose, specifically on the content moderation piece. Look, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.120 we believe in having more voices in the marketplace, right 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.760 or at the end of the day, the best ideas 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.120 are going to win. And yeah, exactly what you said, right. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.600 There's certain techniques and activities in as far as actors 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.720 are going to do, but more voices in the marketplace 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.200 being able to speak their truths and be able to 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.440 say what their opinion is. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:14.360 That's better. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.760 That helps our country, that builds a stronger, more robust electric. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.000 Doug Kelly, CEO of American Edge Project up in Columbus, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.720 and it's all about American led innovation and keeping the 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.600 Internet open, which I agree pretty well with most of 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.280 this stuff. Anyway, Doug gott to go. Thanks for the tome. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:30.880 I appreciate it. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.760 Hey, thanks Scott Idate. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.960 You too as well. We're about to five minutes away 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.280 for news on seven hundred WW traffic weather all that. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.120 Don't have to tell you. The Deep Freeze continues into 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.280 our second week. We love the first one so much. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.320 It is back for command performance. The frozen tundra of Cincinnati, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.320 northern Kentucky and Indiana. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:49.320 UH. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.280 Probably going to stay in this weekend a little lull 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.800 because there's no NFL football this weekend and big stuff 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.800 is pretty much out. Really college basketball, as you had 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.040 X and a UC playing this weekend at home and 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.200 some other stuff as well, but now largely maybe it's 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.000 time to catch up on some streaming stuff. I got 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.360 some stuff for you to do, some streaming related things. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.160 Will Gans is here from Maybe See in New York. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.520 Three things for your relative to the small screen if 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.080 you're gonna stay in, which is a good idea. He'll 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.000 get to that next Scott Sloan show back after News. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.920 I'm Home of the Red seven hundred WLWD. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.720 Now a man who has entertainment reporting of coursing through 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.600 his veins, which makes him a medical opity. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.040 He is ABC's Will Gans from New York Corner. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:41.720 Will Haist things things are cold. Yeah, this is perfect 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.400 for you. There are two things you're gonna do. One 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.240 of them would be like eat soup. So if you 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.960 have a soup place, this is you're just printing money 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.120 right now. The other one would be streaming because you're 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.200 probably not gonna go out to theaters. There's not a 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.400 big blockbuster out now that people need to see. And 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.560 so although if you you know, you don't mind going out, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.920 I would say, probably gonna get a good So in 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.920 that regard, here we have all sorts of things that 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.359 are coming out right now. I shouldn't say that, because 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:07.960 I really I know the first tie you're going to 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.240 talk about the Rachel McAdams movie Send Help. I've seen 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.480 the trailer for this, and I think I want to 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:12.800 see this. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.359 I had such a good time watching this in the 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.919 theater believe it or not, Brave to the Cold, and 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.520 for me, it was worth the trip. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.360 So the plot of. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.280 This movie is that she is an employee at you know, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.439 some sort of financial firm. She's been working there forever. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.639 She's a little bit of a of a mess, but 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.720 you know, she thinks she's going to get this big promotion. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.000 And then a new CEO comes in and it's played 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.639 by Dylan O'Brien, so he's like a younger guy and 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.080 just sort of a jerk basically tells her, yeah. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.040 She's not going to get the promotion. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.679 She's just, you know, not the type of person he 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.480 wants representing the company. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.160 Like making fun of her to her face and everything else. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.360 Exactly exactly she's eaten tuna in the office and they're 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.119 being yeah, they yeah, they're not, you know. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.879 So anyway, they go on a trip together. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.919 Plane crashes and it's now the two of them on 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.840 a deserted island together and of course the power dynamic 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 shifts right all of a sudden, they're on equal playing field. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.439 She's even you know, probably more equipped in a lot 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.560 of ways than he is to survive there. And you know, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.840 pretty soon you realize that it doesn't look like. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.880 Both of them will make it out alive. So it is. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.440 It is gross and gory, but. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.199 You know, that's why it's fun to see it in 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.800 the theater because when it does get a little bloody, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.800 you know, people are screaming, and then parts of it 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.760 are also laugh out loud funny. So I had a 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.080 really really good time watching it, and it's just like 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.080 a reminder that she is so good. She can do 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.120 any genre, any style, and you know, she's just she's 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.720 a lot of fun to watch in a movie like this. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.919 Yeah, great actress, because you know, started making fun of 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:47.920 how she looks and she's got tuna fish on her lip, 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:49.719 and you know, the boss would just meeting her, and 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.240 then all of a sudden, you know that in the trailer, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.080 wheres I'm guessing that she is making him cry? Is fantastic, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.040 So you get the setup and sometimes you know, as 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.160 you know, well the trailer much much better than movie, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:02.440 but doesn't sound like it in this case. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:03.640 No. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.520 I mean the trailer is much less bloody than the 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.359 movie ends up being. But you know whatever, if you 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.480 can handle that kind of stuff, it's great fun in 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.959 the classic horror type thriller, you know genre. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.840 Yeah, yeah, don't spoil it. Don't tell me if they 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.639 get off the island and he's able to deliver that 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.280 FedEx package that I don't. I don't, that's not that's 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:26.840 not really Yeah. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.960 I don't want to ruin anything, but the volleyball doesn't 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:29.400 make it. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:30.400 Damn it. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.200 I hate that segment. I hate that segment. All Right, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.119 what else do we have? Let's talk about streaming. If 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.879 you're not going to brave the elements, if that doesn't 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.439 sound good to you, or you're just gonna wait a 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.800 couple of weeks, like probably forty eight hours, or to 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.520 come out on the small screen, what else is streaming 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.080 this weekend? 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:46.920 Yeah? 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.600 So, if you have been watching Shrinking on Apple TV, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.359 this is Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel. Season three just 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.000 dropped its first episode. It's an hour long premiere episode. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:00.520 Michael J. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.680 Fox makes a guest appearance, which is really really touching. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.080 And yeah, this show is just one of my favorites. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.800 So it's by the same team that does ted Lasso, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.240 and it's similar in style. It's it's funny, it's really 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.480 really feel good and heartwarming, and you know, Harrison Ford 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.480 is just amazing in it, and and. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:20.359 They all are really so. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.160 Season three picks up right where season two left off, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.000 and the episodes are short. So if for anyone who 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.640 hasn't been watching, you know, you could you could if 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.439 you wanted to binge the first two seasons this weekend 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.200 and then join along for the season three ride as 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:37.360 I've just started this week. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.080 Yeah, okay, I mean I saw it because I have 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.720 Apple TV Plus, and when it came out, I'm like, oh, 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.400 Harrison Ford's in it. It's probably okay, Jason seen, ok 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.840 and I never could hit play on it. I don't 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:47.160 know why. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.880 Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's it's like they 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.520 it's about a psychiatry firm, and basically it starts with 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.679 Jason Siegal's character, you know, saying to this one of 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.440 his clients, like, you know what, you should leave your husband. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.679 I'm tired of hearing you talk about him. Just you know, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.040 go ahead and leave them, and you know, it's a 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.000 psychologist who starts getting a little maybe too involved in 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.200 some of his patients' lives, and Harrison Ford's his boss. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.600 So if you can stick with it, I definitely think 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:16.440 it's worth it. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.680 It's it's I love it, Okay, all right? 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:20.359 And what else? 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:21.200 Do we have? One more thing? 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:22.600 Wonder Man? 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.479 So this is a new series on Disney Plus and 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.520 it is an entry into the Marvel Cinematic universe. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.280 And while that. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.960 Sounds like you would expect big explosions and lots just 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.800 lots of special effects, it's not really like that. So 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.160 this is about a struggling actor in Hollywood who's really 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:43.920 hoping that this big audition he has coming up will 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.480 be his big break, and it is to play a 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.280 superhero in a superhero movie. And you sort of start 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.159 to realize that this guy might have powers himself, but 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.200 that is really background to everything else. So he starts 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.560 working with a more established actor who's play played by 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:02.560 Ben Kingsley, who, of course, you know, won the Oscar 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.680 for playing Gandhi back a couple. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:06.200 Of decades ago. 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.199 So really really solid acting, and it's really more of 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.520 like a character focused TV show as opposed to like 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.440 a superpower focused TV show, but there is a little 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.160 element of that, and all eight episodes are out now 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:19.320 and they're only half an hour each. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.640 Yeah, I saw the trailer around like, that's a really interesting, sir, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.200 and in kind of an offbeat kind of way. So yeah, 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.679 wonder man. All right, good, can I throw a nugget 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:28.040 out for you? 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:28.439 Please? 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:28.960 All right? 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.080 My wife started watching this and I started watching it, 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:33.639 and you can only watch a couple episodes of time 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.000 because it's intense, but not in the way you're thinking. 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.880 So Maddy Matheson, who is a trained chef, the only 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:41.800 chef on the TV show Bear Bother with the Bear. 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.000 He plays fat on the Bear, the guy with you know, 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:47.040 heavy dude, a lot of tattoos, a lot of ink, 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:51.200 mustache goo, really goofy dude. So he has a short 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.080 the start on YouTube called just a Dash and it's 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.159 like a twenty minute cooking show. It's not really a 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.919 cooking show, it's a entertainment show disguises cooking and he 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.760 basically into the camera and it's a cooking show with 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.920 really no edit time because he mugs one of himself 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.840 more and is so self aware and there's like Trent 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:12.880 Eastcrew's recipes up, and it's just it's kind of funny 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:16.080 and endearing and he's just like a lovable kind of 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:20.000 you know, fat dude. And it's for what it is, 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.160 like fifteen twenty. It's kind of like comedians and cars 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:24.119 getting coffee kind of sense. You don't think pick it 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.040 up anywhere, and it's just really really goofy. So if 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.720 you're looking for some feel good, just weird cooking stuff, 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.080 Maddy Matheson is a huge Huger than lifecare Bigger than 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.399 Life characters so called just to Dash. It started his 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:36.600 YouTube and that's on Netflix. 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.240 Oh my gosh, this is a great recommendation. I will 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:40.840 have to touch this. 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:42.480 I want to try. I want to report next week. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.480 Watch a couple episodes and let me know. Get I 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.440 think the first episode, not to spoil it, starts out 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.240 with him he's cooking in his house and the crew 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:52.320 is there and everything, and it pisses his wife off 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.119 and she throws him out of the house. And so 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.680 now he's cooked. He's cooking in an RV behind the house. 0:23:58.840 --> 0:23:59.479 Oh amazing. 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.720 They go on the road and it turns into speed 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.760 and everything out and they're trying to cook while they're driving, 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.959 and it's just like it's just buck wild is what 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.080 it is. So yeah, I highly recommend it just to 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.120 dash on Netflix. There you go. I added some content today. 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:12.600 How about that? 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.960 Huh. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'm always looking 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:17.000 for recommendations. 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:18.919 Thank you, I mean no, all right, brother, appreciate you. 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.440 Will We'll talk next week. Yeah, all right, have a 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:23.280 great weekend, all you two. All the best. Will Gans 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:25.320 in New York at Will Gants with two s's at 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.960 ABC Entertainment. Dude, speaking of which, I'm gonna a quick 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.159 time out. Want a return of the show. Something just 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.840 happened in Merrimont that's extremely interesting. You know the Merrimount Theater, 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:37.440 which is just iconic. If you had a I don't 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.000 know a picture of a skyline of the village of Merrimont, 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.840 it would be front and center that big old Tutor building. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:44.600 So News is involved in that. Coming up in just 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.080 minutes here, quick time out back with that Sloaney. Friday 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.280 Morning is here on seven hundred WAW just a few 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:53.160 minutes away from News here on seven hundred WLW. As 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:55.520 we continue the deep freeze and you're looking for stuff 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.159 to do inside movies always coming to mind. Who's just 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:00.520 I'm talking to Will Gans here a few minutes ago 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.240 about the very latest. Here's some exciting news for those 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:06.520 in and around Merriymont. Joining the show this morning is 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.640 Alison West, a founder and executive director of the Independent 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:12.680 Film Festival here in Cincinnati. Allison, welcome, How are you. 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.520 Good morning, I'm great, Thanks so much. 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:16.240 For having me on the show. 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:18.080 Yeah, of course, I wanted to get the word out 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:20.359 here because I think this is a cool thing. If 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:23.760 you drive past Monk through Merrimont, and that was one 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:25.760 of the earliest planned communities in America. By the way, 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:29.320 it's Merrima's a really cool and unique kind of town. 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:31.440 If you roll through the center of it, you will 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.840 see this huge Tutor style Tudor Revival style building, and 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:37.440 that is the Merrymont Theater. It's a I believe it's 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.879 on the National the Register of National Stark Places and 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:43.159 so it's been around since I think the nineteen thirties 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:45.520 or something like that. And you know, it's tough for 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.000 theaters these days, especially the small independent ones. You guys 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.359 are now going to partner with them in order to 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:54.040 maybe help save the theater, but get different program right. 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:58.320 Right, Yeah, Well, so the theater was open on Deceummer twenty fifth, 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:01.080 nineteen thirty eight, which is a really really fun. 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:03.439 Kind of signature of their birth. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.520 Yeah, but we're going to be moving into stewardship of 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:11.520 the space to keep it really vibrant, keep it really 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:15.800 available for the community of Marriymont, and continue film programming 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:17.600 for the communities that love going. 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.960 There was the theater in danger of closing or is 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:21.600 it just you know, a different chapter. 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:25.880 There's a transition from the current operator, and so it's 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:30.119 really just a new chapter forward. It's Independent is just 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.840 honored to step forward to help steward the future of 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:34.639 this cinema. 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:34.960 Yeah. 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:36.360 I think if you live in Merrimount in the area, 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:38.880 you know the theater. It's it's iconic. It's right there 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.919 thront and center. Yeah, yeah, it's if you're to have 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:45.680 a skyline of Merrimont, the Merrimont Theater be front and center. 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:47.879 Because the building is so huge, it just pops the 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.240 menu you're driving around downtown. And so preserving this for 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.520 future generations is pretty cool. So what type of programming 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:58.560 you're talking at? Independent movies, old movies, new movies first runs. 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:01.240 What Well, I just want to say that I agree 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:04.159 with you that this theater is beloved by so many people. 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:06.680 The Esquire Theater group who's run it for so long, 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.600 have done such a wonderful job of providing this as 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.359 an asset for the community, and we're going to continue 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:16.280 the work that they've laid in place. So the Marrymont 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:20.440 Theater currently does play some commercially available titles, some things 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:22.960 that you might see at other movie theaters across the city. 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:26.199 We will continue that and then over time, as we 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:28.679 learn what this community and the people who go to 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:32.040 that theater like to see, will consider adding other programming 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:36.600 that independent is known for, features from local filmmakers, features 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:41.280 from independent national filmmakers. We are currently supporting and working 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:44.200 with an Oscar nominated filmmaker who was at our festival 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:47.200 last year. So we have some high quality We have 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:51.119 some high quality programming that we can offer the community. 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:54.919 Yeah, and all courts of draw film fans, film afficionatis 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:56.439 from all over the past time for that too, So 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.760 it's not just Marrimont. But the money goes back and 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:01.520 you know, there's wonderful rests toronts and bars and shops 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:05.320 too that are going to benefit from this as well. 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.879 Right, Yeah, I think it's just a win win across 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:09.840 the board. It's going to be exciting to just kind 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:13.320 of work with Marymont for the winter and then see 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:17.040 what we can offer everybody in Cincinnati as time goes by. 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.440 How's the Village of Merrymont with us? I'd imagine they're 0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:21.639 leading into the two with you. 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:22.720 Yeah. 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:25.280 Actually, Marymont Council reached out to us at the end 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:28.560 of last year to work on this theater project, and 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:32.040 so they've been incredibly supportive of Sindependent. 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:33.920 They've been incredibly. 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:37.080 Supportive of our work, and we've been working right alongside 0:28:37.160 --> 0:28:39.360 them to make sure that this is the best next 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:40.360 thing for the theater. 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:40.640 Yeah. 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:43.000 And if you people don't know the organizations independent Filmfestter 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:45.360 you have film Fest on the summer and filmmakers from 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:48.360 all over the world come in for this. Yeah. 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:50.840 Well, and it's so interesting too because when we started 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:54.120 Sindependent in twenty seventeen, we are, of course our a 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:57.400 five oh one c three nonprofit, but our work has 0:28:57.520 --> 0:29:00.440 just kind of actually spanned a year round program. We 0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:04.200 now run the film Festival in September. We do attract 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.600 filmmakers from all over the world who come and screen 0:29:06.640 --> 0:29:09.680 their work here in Cincinnati with our communities. But we 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:12.840 also run send a next a high school film camp. 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:17.320 We have in person and virtual film education master classes. 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:20.760 We go really fun events like Oscars watch party and 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:24.000 a family movie Night, and we just are out here 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:26.720 making sure that people are able to connect with each 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:30.080 other through a shared love of movie watching. And there's 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:32.560 no better place for us to continue that than at 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:33.360 the Marymont Theater. 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:36.400 What's the fundraising situation. I managed to take some funds 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.320 to get this up and running taken over the Marymount Theater. 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:42.480 Yeah, there's a We're launching a three part fundraising campaign. 0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.840 The two biggest elements of this are that people can 0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:50.040 sign up to steward one of the cinema auditoriums, where 0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:54.360 they could have their name for a certain amount above 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:57.960 the theater within the actual physical space. And then for 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:03.400 anybody who is passionate about seeing this theater grow and thrive, 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:08.160 we've launched a membership called Friends of the Merrimont Theater. 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:11.640 The membership, I'm sorry. The membership is. 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:14.560 Live on our website at Merrimont Theater dot org, where 0:30:14.600 --> 0:30:17.000 you can sign up to become a steward of the 0:30:17.160 --> 0:30:19.400 theater and be a proud supporter of one of the 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:21.600 most beautiful things in this area. 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:24.040 It's really cool too, because so many small towns lose 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:25.720 the theater. You know, think of that small towns and 0:30:26.520 --> 0:30:29.520 Marramout is a small village. You know, people often think Cincinnati, 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:31.880 but it's part of the local landscape, especially building like 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.040 that on the National Register. And so you know, you've 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:36.360 got to preserve this thing and getting more program and 0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:38.440 their more bodies and their love it. So where can 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:39.400 people go for more info? 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:43.400 You should go to Merrimont Theater dot org to learn 0:30:43.400 --> 0:30:44.760 more about what's happening now. 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:47.880 All right, Alison, good luck. I appreciate it. Thanks, thank you, 0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:50.200 take care good luck with it. You know, save and 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:52.720 that's an important part of our architect You know, often 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:55.120 talk about the big building Cincinnati, but you know plenty 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.680 of villages and towns around the city that ring Cincinnati 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:01.120 and Merrimot is just it's such a unique story of 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:04.640 the background of how the village started. But that particular 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:06.840 piece of landscape. Anyway, let me get a news update 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:08.840 in full forecast. Don't have to tell you it's going 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:11.040 to continue cold through the weekend. And we're going to 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.040 get a break sometime maybe late in the week. Also 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:15.520 the latest of Minnesota and elsewhere. Sloaney on the Home 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:27.600 of the Red seven hundred w WTY Since then, all right, 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:31.080 Sloaney here, this is seven hundred WLW another cold a 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:36.160 weekend ahead, code code code code cold breaking news. This morning, 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.760 former CNN acre Don Lemon arrested in connection with an 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:44.360 anti immigration protest that disrupted that churchervis Minnesota. He said 0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:48.400 he was there as a journalist chronicling protesters, and the 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.800 arrest came after a magistrate last week rejected the prosecutor's 0:31:52.040 --> 0:31:56.400 initial charge that he'd be arrested, and so this got 0:31:56.480 --> 0:32:01.560 kicked up to a more i suppose conservative leaning judge 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:04.000 and that'll probably get overturned and then support it again 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:06.000 and we'll kick this can down the road and see 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:09.360 what the courts rule ultimately. But right now it's unclear 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:12.760 what charge that he is facing. Although I remember when 0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:14.440 we talked about this, I think I want to say 0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:17.520 the Ku Klux Klan Act is probably the one that 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.800 comes up and basically outlaws interfering within civil rights like 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:23.760 civil warship for example. And then of course's defense was I 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:28.120 wasn't there protesting. I was there documenting the protesters. The 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.120 problem I have with that I see the connection that 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:34.080 they have, and I think it's kind of weak in that, Okay, 0:32:34.120 --> 0:32:37.040 we're going to protest this person who's the head of 0:32:37.080 --> 0:32:39.840 ICE in Saint Paul, who also happens to be a 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:44.080 minister at this church, and I don't believe, as I recalled, 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:45.920 that he was there that day, but they're going to 0:32:45.920 --> 0:32:48.360 show up anyway in protest. Well, if you're there to 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:52.000 protest that individual, there are probably better ways to do that. 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:53.120 You know. 0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:55.360 It's like when these clowns show up and protest at 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:59.680 someone's house, you know, Judge Kavanaugh for example, someone like that. 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:03.280 You know, everyone has their role in life, everyone has 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:06.600 their job, and we live in the doxing culture right now, 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:09.000 where in the extremes are that simply we're going to 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:10.960 show up and do harm to someone on their own turf. 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.600 And that's maybe it's nothing new, but it's more prevalent 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:16.160 today in that if you're going to do that and 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:18.360 you show up at someone's home, you also have to 0:33:18.360 --> 0:33:21.840 think about, well, okay, what about his neighbors? You know, 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:23.880 if I live next door to this guy. That's a 0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:27.200 problem for me. You know, I get the notion of 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:29.080 the first amount of protest. I think it just goes 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:31.280 too firelight or you know, for those people who are 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:34.920 showing up in front of Greg Lansman's house, you know, 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:38.200 he's got a family, he's got kids, and it's just 0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:41.120 because it's your you know, just because it's someone you 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:43.960 despise or support, doesn't mean you should be four against them. 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:47.720 It should be I'm going for consistency here. And the 0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:49.960 problem is this though, that if you do this with 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:53.120 Don Lemon, and there may be some valid arguments there too, 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:55.520 because what constitutes a journalist in this day and age. 0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:57.600 Everyone is a journal We're all journalists. Look at the 0:33:57.640 --> 0:34:02.360 people who captured the shooting in soda on their cell phones. 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:08.319 Technically even you are a journalist. There's another story out 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:13.360 another journalist arrested during that church protest as well. Who's 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:15.799 an independent journalist? Which are allowed to be? They got 0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:17.840 to clarify what a journalist means exactly. It could be 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:19.560 anyone who has their cell phone out, Does that make 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:22.239 you a journalist? I think that's the crux of the 0:34:22.320 --> 0:34:25.040 argument here. Now you have plenty of independent journalists with 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.840 John Lemon, with his track record in history, certainly said hey, listen, 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.799 I had a show on CNN for a while and 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:34.759 certainly more a household than the other. I think some 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:37.800 woman got arrested too, But nonetheless, we got to qualify 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:39.480 what makes a journalist a journalists and who you know? 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.880 The First Amendment? Right, does it apply to everyone in 0:34:41.960 --> 0:34:43.400 that role? And I think there are a lot of 0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:47.000 people that argue yes in that particular case. But you know, 0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:49.040 back to the point of showing up at someone's house 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:52.439 or in this case, how's the worship that seems below 0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:56.440 the belt to me? That you are in this this 0:34:56.440 --> 0:34:59.719 this place of warship and then you have people coming 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:02.080 into protests that is all? Is that kind of like 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:02.920 burning the flag? 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:03.160 Right? 0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:06.280 I despise the flag burning thing, but as an American 0:35:06.360 --> 0:35:08.480 I get it, like we we're so self aware, we 0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:10.440 don't take ourselves serious enough to think that burning that 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:14.719 symbol of America is not worthy of protected speech because 0:35:14.760 --> 0:35:17.799 it is now. It bothers a hell to me when 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.200 people do it, especially during protests, or hanging it upside down. 0:35:20.239 --> 0:35:23.279 But you know what, again, to show you the lack 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:26.040 of consistency in this world, that I would say that, 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:28.040 you know, if you respect the flag enough to know 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:30.040 the flag code, that you don't burn it and drag 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:31.759 it on the ground and hang it upside and people 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:34.560 are outrage about that stuff, I will say that then 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:37.120 the same rules apply to those folks on the right 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:40.480 who have the image of well Donald Trump on it 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:44.160 or Charlie Kirk. I said, there's a house side drive 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:45.400 by them my way home. Every day. He's got to 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:47.520 get the Charlie Kirk flag outside. And it's an American 0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:51.080 flag with Charlie Kirk's face on it. That's also desecration 0:35:51.120 --> 0:35:54.080 of the flag. You don't you don't care have it 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:57.360 both ways. It's if you're going to talk about the 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:00.359 flag being desecrated and dragged and burned, and you also 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:02.960 can't do that. Putting someone's image on a flag is 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:06.359 no goat. But the Don Lemon thing's gonna be interesting. 0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:08.239 I think it ultimately winds up getting thrown out. I 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:10.960 really do not that, you know. Again, what bothers me 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:13.720 more is people showing up inside a church to disrupt 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:16.319 a service when the person who you are there to 0:36:16.480 --> 0:36:19.960 make a point about isn't there. I mean, what are 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:24.879 you doing over here? Nonetheless, that just happened minutes ago here, 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:30.120 so we'll continue to follow it. You know, as someone 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:35.200 in the remodeling, home improvement DIY real estate business, I 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:38.640 often talk about, maybe not often as strong word, but 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:42.399 h O ways pissed me. Homeowners associations, Not all of them, 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:44.920 I think buying large Probably most of them are a 0:36:44.960 --> 0:36:47.480 bunch of people who are on a board going, hey, listen, 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:49.640 I want to make sure my neighborhood doesn't. We have 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:52.440 certain standards in the neighborhood, and we've got to buy 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.120 by the stand I get that. You know, we want 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:56.720 to make sure that people's property values stay up, especially 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.080 and you know, again, I don't think most areas have 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:04.160 eight or most neighborhoods have hoays, especially older ones. But 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:06.880 you know, you see that your houses falling into disrepair, 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.480 people not caring about stuff, leaving trash on the lawn. Yeah, 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.200 you try to sell your house, and even so you 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:13.520 look at it and go, oh, that's an eyesore. I 0:37:13.560 --> 0:37:15.040 don't know if I'll a live across the street from that. 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:18.600 You know, someone with all their stud you just leaving 0:37:18.680 --> 0:37:20.400 Christmas atoa year or whatever. It is just state of 0:37:20.440 --> 0:37:22.759 disrepair and whatever reason that may maybe elderly people can't 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:24.799 afford it. I get that. But then there's field it's 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:28.480 just simply zero poops given. But then they're the hoays 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:30.759 that are out there, and there are many around Cincinnati 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:33.200 where they just feel like it is their job to 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:38.000 police every little thing about the neighborhood. This just happened 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:42.440 in Nashville. Now, Nashville was hit by a severe ice storm. 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.040 As you know, we're more equipped than Nashville to deal 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:47.000 with this, but then again, Columbus and Cleveland are more 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:48.560 equipped than us to deal with it because the further 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.359 north you get, the more chances to know, I get it. 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:54.359 So in Nashville, they were absolutely pummeled by this last storm. 0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:56.920 As you know, I think what two or three hundred 0:37:56.960 --> 0:38:01.719 thousand places homes without power down there. It's frightening. I 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:04.520 saw some video from where was it Old Miss? Yes, 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:07.600 Old Miss and trees were falling. It looked like a 0:38:07.800 --> 0:38:10.040 hurricane struck there. So much ice did damage, knock a 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:12.000 bunch of trees done. They're suffering a lot in the 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:13.920 Deep South. They're just not used to this kind of 0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:17.040 cold and these kind of temperatures. So anyway, back to Nashville, 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:21.040 family loses their power, and so what do you do, Well, 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:23.839 we have a generator cool. They hook the generator up 0:38:24.360 --> 0:38:28.759 and they have power and they're heating their home. Here 0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:33.560 comes the HOA. HOA comes in and with hours of 0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:36.960 them putting the generator. You know, as you know hopefully 0:38:37.040 --> 0:38:41.319 you know, if you use a gas generator, you have 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:44.440 to have it outside, right, you put that inside, you 0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:47.160 will die because of carbon monoxide. There's stickers all over 0:38:47.200 --> 0:38:50.440 those things. Do not operate this inside, do not do it. 0:38:51.520 --> 0:38:53.640 So they fired the motor up, the engine up, and 0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:57.160 run these cords inside, some extension cords, and literally hours 0:38:57.160 --> 0:39:00.359 after doing that, the family gets an email from their 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:04.880 HOA management company, Metropolitan Properties, demanding they remove it immediately. 0:39:05.160 --> 0:39:08.920 The letter cited fire hazard concerns and said the generator 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:13.480 didn't fit the communities aesthetic guidelines during a blizzard, during 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:17.960 an ice storm. So how this happens usually, and I 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:21.000 have first had experience with this myself, I'm going through 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:23.759 a similar situation. Now I'll explain. A second is that 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:27.800 you have neighbors who generally they're the agents of the HOA. 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:30.319 So you know, they're elected or appointed wherever it might be, 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:32.960 and they go around and they look for infractions, and 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:34.800 most people do that. I was like, Okay, well the 0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:36.680 grass a little high over there, or hey, you know 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:39.440 your fence has fallen over, or hey you got a 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:41.719 broken down car in your front yard. Can't have that. 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:44.400 Or somebody's out there putting a satellite diition in their 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:47.600 front yard. Okay, can't have that. Yeah, we'll just kind 0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:49.319 of let you know. Then there are the people out 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:54.320 there that just simply think that they are well I 0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:58.640 don't know the FBI or ICE they're out there looking. 0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:01.120 I mean, if they had their way, they would be 0:40:01.120 --> 0:40:03.520 able to go in your house and make sure that 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:05.800 what's in your cupboard fits in with the guidelines of 0:40:05.840 --> 0:40:11.960 the HO under the guise of keeping our community aesthetically pleasing. Now, 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:17.399 if you lose power and it's cold enough to well, 0:40:18.400 --> 0:40:20.279 have a concern for your health. I mean it's not 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:21.400 even that. How about comfortable? 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:21.600 Right? 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:24.279 And every we have the show and I lost part 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:25.839 at my house for whatever reason. I don't know why 0:40:25.880 --> 0:40:27.760 the rest of the neighboroo doesn't have it, or maybe 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:30.560 they maybe I don't know. Generally, when power goes out, 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:32.600 it's the whole block, right, or the whole neighborhood or 0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:36.000 the whole city, as the case may be. I think 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:37.600 maybe they're lucky enough to have a generator. Is it 0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:39.600 one of those deals where they're looking for to going, hey, listen, 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:41.320 no one else here? Is it they have a generator? 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:45.080 Well we can't have that. I mean, that's like socialism, right, 0:40:46.560 --> 0:40:48.120 It's funny some people BELI examine to go, well what 0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:49.520 a bunch of nazis the other place, well what a 0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:51.879 bunch of socialists? Well you have a generator, and I don't. 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:53.920 You shouldn't be allowed to use this. But on the 0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:56.279 other hand, it's a storm and ice storm, and yet 0:40:56.320 --> 0:41:00.680 you're driving around looking for ways to enforce the aesthetics 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:07.359 of the neighborhood whiskey tango foxtrot. What the hell is 0:41:07.400 --> 0:41:10.120 wrong with you? I mean, if you're that person that 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:17.839 drive around looking for violations during an ice storm, you 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:22.120 really need some mental health. You really should be institutionalized 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:24.920 on that board looking at going away when he's doing 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:27.800 what driving out looking for violations during an ice storm 0:41:27.840 --> 0:41:30.640 during a blizzard? I mean at you know, a once 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:33.719 in a one hundred year storm, this is all you 0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:36.640 have to do with your time. You really need to 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:43.000 be institutionalized. I mentioned, I see, I've seen this one place. 0:41:43.640 --> 0:41:48.000 We had got a rental, and I'm doing demo. I'm 0:41:48.360 --> 0:41:50.880 you know, demolishing the inside of the house and taking 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:52.799 you know, showers out, stuff like that in the ring 0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:57.680 and I'm getting like bags of trash ands I'm staying, 0:41:57.680 --> 0:41:59.360 you know, putting stuff in the garage so the dumpster 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:03.239 can come in every And I remember that, like bringing 0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:06.840 the garbage can out, and it was I think garbage 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:09.240 comes came in that neighborhood, like on Friday. I wouldn't 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:10.279 take it out because I want to. I need to 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.520 trash contato for other stuff. And I'm bringing it out 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:14.560 because I'm ready to. You know, it's a nice summer day. 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:17.399 And it's like, I don't know, four o'clock, three, four 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:19.680 o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm trotting the garbage can. 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:21.759 A dude comes up and I've got my work here on. 0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:23.560 I'm all sweaty and nasty. And the guy comes up 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:25.000 and he's got a you know, he's got a sweater on. 0:42:25.040 --> 0:42:26.640 I'm thinking, all's two hundred degrees out. You got a 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:29.000 sweater on? And he said, hey, I'm so and so, 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.760 and uh yeah, and I noticed you moving. Aha, well okay, 0:42:32.760 --> 0:42:33.160 god heh. 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:33.520 Hey. 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:36.000 You know in this neighborhood, we don't bring our garbage 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:39.680 cans out till six o'clock at the earliest. Like, well, 0:42:39.680 --> 0:42:42.520 it's four o'clock, he said, yeah, we just we don't 0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:44.520 really bring them out here until then, because you know 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.839 it's on sightly. I'm like, well, I'm getting ready to leave, 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:49.239 so you know, I only be here, you know, a 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.120 couple more, couple more weekends and get the stuff done 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:54.319 and get somebody in here and get it fixed up. Yeah, 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:56.440 but if you leave it near your garage door, I 0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:59.439 can bring it out for I'm like, look, I'm gonna 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:03.800 bring the garbage. It's two hours before your quote unquote deadline. 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:07.120 Is it really matter? And that's not I'm doing it 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:08.800 every week. I said, Well, I'll make sure the talents 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:10.400 that move in that they're not allowed to do that. 0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:12.319 But is it really bother you that much that the 0:43:12.320 --> 0:43:16.759 garbage can is out there two hours before everyone else 0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:19.319 brings their garbage can? Do you have anything else to worry? 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:21.279 I mean, clearly you can see I'm doing work. I 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:24.000 get it, but I'm not coming back in two hours 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:25.799 to put the garbage can out. And furthermore, I don't 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:28.080 trust you nor should you be bringing my garbage can 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:30.399 out because if you don't do it, then we got 0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:34.000 other problems. And in the same people, I had a 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:36.080 dumpster drop there because I went instead of having the 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:38.040 dumpster for a week, I thought I'd be a good neighbor. 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:40.799 And you know, I said, I put all the all 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:44.640 the trash, all the debris in the garage and ordered 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:46.160 the dumpster and said, well, I'll fill it up and 0:43:46.200 --> 0:43:48.200 you know, take everything to It'd be two trips. But 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:50.600 take everything from the garage to the dumpster and it's 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:52.279 only in the driveway for you know, a day or 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:55.040 two until Runky can come and haul it off. Not 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:58.239 good enough. Got yelled at for that that I need 0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:01.320 to permit, and I'm not allowed to, like just stop, 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:04.120 just shut up, go away before you're in the I 0:44:04.120 --> 0:44:05.760 think I said something of the lines to like, listen, 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:09.680 just it's going to be gone tomorrow. I'm doing I'm 0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:10.840 sure to explain what I was doing. I could be 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:12.160 out here for a week or two, it's not going 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:13.919 to it's out here for a day. Well, you didn't 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:16.640 clear this with us, and now I'm like listen, the 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:18.480 only day I could get it. I'm kind of busy, 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:21.279 I understand, but you really don't have any grounds here 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:22.520 by that time. You call him and then they like 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:24.480 called rumky and yelled and they called me like, what's long? 0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:26.400 What are you doing? I'm like, I told him. They're like, 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:28.839 oh my god, these people. And so it was just 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:32.440 one of those deals where I think I said to 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:35.160 the lady, I said, listen, you come back about me again. 0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:36.919 You're going to be in the dumpster. Well she didn't 0:44:36.960 --> 0:44:38.640 like that. She sent her husband over and I said, 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:42.680 well it might happen again. So and then we moved 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:44.880 forward from that. I got another one too, speaking of 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:49.600 you know, punitive stuff. A tenant who has a park 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:51.040 in a parking lot, but he has a car cover 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:56.520 and the car cover was under his car, and they 0:44:56.560 --> 0:44:58.680 came and took the car cover from underneath his car 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:00.440 because you like, you know, covered up is a nice 0:45:00.480 --> 0:45:02.839 car and it has covered up during the winter, or 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:06.080 like you know, so snowfalls again on it. Yeah, finally 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:08.520 one that's certainly not bothering anybody. It's under his car 0:45:08.560 --> 0:45:10.200 and they come, well, we thought it might blow away. 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:12.160 We don't know whose it was like if you took 0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:13.839 it out and and said, oh, maybe something blow into 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:15.920 this guy's car. And he took the car cover out 0:45:15.960 --> 0:45:17.319 and looked at it and said, oh, it's a car cover. 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:19.879 It's probably for the car it was underneath, and they 0:45:19.880 --> 0:45:23.040 took it and kept it. And they're quoting some violations 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:25.400 like do you just go out and look for stuff 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:29.399 to occupy your Are you that enamored with the rules 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:31.839 because they're gonna play that gay chances? Are you tea 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.880 you know, the whole glasshouses thing like going and finding 0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:37.080 those people and going, okay, well, let's see what violations 0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:39.120 you have in your out? Well that's well you can't 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.239 you know your trust bed. No, I'm not like I 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:44.160 get it. If you know things are out there, they're 0:45:44.200 --> 0:45:47.040 laying around, it's a problem. And okay, yeah, we want 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.240 a nice neighborhood to live in with hoa's, but h's 0:45:49.280 --> 0:45:52.239 are not always, not all of them. I shouldn't say that. 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:54.600 But there are some really nightmare stories out there, including 0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:58.400 this one. Initial Now that's a new one. The power 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:02.200 went out. It's some zero freezing temperatures. We put our 0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:07.720 generator on our on our porch with the extension courts, 0:46:08.360 --> 0:46:10.800 and within hours of doing that, you're driving around the 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:15.799 neighborhood looking for people to site during a state of emergency. 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:20.279 You know, I'm not I don't like you know, brought 0:46:20.400 --> 0:46:22.799 Don Lemon and other people the whole doxing thing, right 0:46:23.000 --> 0:46:24.880 was showing up to people's houses finding out who they 0:46:24.880 --> 0:46:27.719 are and going online and ruining their lives and you know, 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:30.239 finding their businesses and who they work for, and you know, 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:33.200 just trying to you know, just being thoughtless and ruining 0:46:33.239 --> 0:46:34.840 people's lives because you don't like what they're doing, you 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:37.799 disagree with them. And maybe there are some people who 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:42.080 are legitimate scumbags that deserve that. However, most people are like, ah, 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:43.680 I said or did something done, and now we're going 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:45.359 to go and make sure they get fired and their 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:47.160 kids get in trouble at school, and we just go 0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:48.719 and go and go and go and go, and it's 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:50.480 we have too much time on our damn hands. It's 0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:54.279 the problem. But I think in some cases you've loved 0:46:54.320 --> 0:46:57.160 to nose on these hoas because those people, it's like 0:46:57.200 --> 0:47:00.880 they're doxy individuals in real life. Not one line to 0:47:00.960 --> 0:47:04.200 be spiteful, but just because they have nothing better going on. 0:47:04.280 --> 0:47:06.480 In their lives and you really need you need a 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:09.799 different hobby. I would think, you know, hoa's can be good, 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:12.759 and I think they're They're certainly useful. And if you 0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:14.680 live in a nice neighborhood, keeping the value of your 0:47:14.719 --> 0:47:17.680 home up is wonderful. But there are always people that 0:47:17.880 --> 0:47:19.960 find the extreme of that and take it way too 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:22.719 damn far and have zero common sense. This would be 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:24.760 one of them. This would be one of them. Sloani 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:26.200 here on seven hundred, w O up it in this 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:28.759 Friday morning, coming up at ninth I'm sorry, nine thirty, 0:47:28.800 --> 0:47:30.640 how about ten thirty six? We don't want to make 0:47:30.640 --> 0:47:31.440 this day longer, do we? 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:31.759 No? 0:47:31.920 --> 0:47:32.120 Sure? 0:47:32.560 --> 0:47:34.920 Austin's here. We'll tuckle of weekend sports. Kind of lightlyekend 0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:37.600 in sports at that. I did see that the Bill 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:40.359 Belichick and his longtime girlfriend, you know that one they 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:43.840 broke up. They split up apparently. I think what happened 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:46.160 was that she just got too old for his tastes. 0:47:46.280 --> 0:47:48.160 We'll find out with Austin. That and more coming up 0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:52.680 in minutes. Another bizarre story. Minnesota, by the way, I 0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:57.680 think it's become the new Florida, or is Minnesota? That 0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:01.160 is Minnesota just the liberal version of floor. I don't know, 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:04.520 I don't, but anyway, guy's name is Mark Anderson. He 0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:07.560 is charged with impersonating an FBI agent. Shows up at 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:10.920 a federal prison in New York City to try and 0:48:11.000 --> 0:48:15.359 get Luigi Mangioni, the United Healthcare CEO murderer, off the hook. 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:20.239 He's show prison workers as he says, I'm FBI after's credentials. 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:23.839 He pulls out a Minnesota driver's license and has all 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:26.120 this paperwork that's quote unquote signed by judge, but just 0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:31.040 stuff he printed off the internet. And anyway, like, uh okay, 0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:35.840 this guy's not FBI. In his backpack, here's how he 0:48:36.000 --> 0:48:39.480 is going to spring Luigia and Luigi Mangoni out of prison. 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:45.640 He had on him a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter. 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:54.719 I'm not quite sure exactly. The barbecue fork maybe would 0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:57.600 scare I used as a weapon and hurt someone, kill 0:48:57.680 --> 0:49:00.719 someone for sure, barbecue fork. But the pizza what are 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:02.800 you gonna do? You're gonna cut through the bars with 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:04.960 the pizza wheel? I don't. I don't understand. Guy worked 0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:08.200 in a pizza place and took a barbecue fork in 0:49:08.280 --> 0:49:11.480 a pizza cutting wheel and thought he was somehow going 0:49:11.520 --> 0:49:14.359 to free Luigiman Jean. The whole love for Luigiman Jean. 0:49:14.400 --> 0:49:16.960 I mean he murdered someone. He shot them in cold blood, 0:49:17.280 --> 0:49:19.960 shot him in the back, and just to show you 0:49:20.160 --> 0:49:22.360 and this puts in context, I guess maybe the you know, 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:24.759 the Don Lemon protests everything else. It's like just how 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:29.839 unhinged everybody is these days that this guy goes out 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:32.320 and murders someone. And granted, you know, we have a 0:49:32.360 --> 0:49:35.319 local story here. The reason God's a guy, a young 0:49:35.400 --> 0:49:38.600 man with brain cancer who is insurance companies is gonna 0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:40.399 cover him, and I miked Wine got involved, We want 0:49:40.440 --> 0:49:42.439 to do that next week sometime. Governor de to Wine 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:44.640 got involved. All of a suddenly the insurance company backs down. 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:47.000 And that happens probably more than you think once we start, 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:49.520 you know, the media or in case, the governor calls 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:51.920 and like, oh yeah, we're just getting around the overtire. 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:53.919 You were one hundred percent with you, Gov. Yeah, sure 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:55.880 you were. You're trying to secure everybody. I get the 0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:58.719 outrage Cheurge Health Companies and you know, maybe CEO is 0:49:58.760 --> 0:50:00.560 the villain. You know, Villa find in the bad guy here, 0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:02.759 but you know, murdering someone shooting them to death in 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:05.279 the street and cold blood. The fact that this guy 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:08.279 is still he's held up like some sort of anti hero, 0:50:08.360 --> 0:50:11.759 I suppose the new Robin hood. And of course you 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:13.600 know the other element of that too. He's a good 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:16.800 looking young man and that always attracts some sort of 0:50:16.840 --> 0:50:19.120 element like we should have more sympathy for someone who's better. 0:50:19.160 --> 0:50:21.759 Look who's you know, who's good looking, Like I don't 0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:24.000 know how you do that. You hate someone who's good looking, 0:50:24.040 --> 0:50:26.719 who's privileged, and yet this guy's somehow fighting for the 0:50:26.760 --> 0:50:29.960 little guy, which he's really not. You hold him up 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:32.800 on some sort of pedestal. It's weird, but yeah, I 0:50:32.840 --> 0:50:34.360 don't know. I've never tried to break someone out of 0:50:34.360 --> 0:50:37.960 prison before, but pizza, pizza cutter and barbecue fork would 0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:39.560 not be And if I was having a i don't know, 0:50:39.680 --> 0:50:42.920 some sort of some sort of picnic in a cell perhaps, 0:50:43.040 --> 0:50:44.760 but not to break them out of prison with anyway. 0:50:44.920 --> 0:50:46.839 Got a news update coming up in just minutes. We'll 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:49.600 talk sports with Audie right after this on seven hundred WWD. 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:55.360 I will say this that Austin above all else and 0:50:55.600 --> 0:51:00.239 Roo Kuchina for the man are always wrap Fengles when 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:02.800 they're on the plass. I'm the guy that, like, I 0:51:02.920 --> 0:51:06.360 retire my gear when my team's out of it. So 0:51:06.560 --> 0:51:08.400 Vegls saw where Benelson the bills are not I'd be 0:51:08.440 --> 0:51:10.239 warring bills, but when they're out of it, I just 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:12.279 I go neutral. I'm a neutral site kind of guy. 0:51:12.320 --> 0:51:15.640 Austin Olmos here from ESPN fifteen thirty today at noon 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:18.320 with Tony Pike. Lots of sports going on this weekend, 0:51:18.360 --> 0:51:22.440 and is a it's actually, I mean, it's bad for 0:51:22.520 --> 0:51:24.000 you because the LA line of work, but it's kind 0:51:24.000 --> 0:51:26.240 of nice just to take a breather for a second. 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:30.120 Oh yeah, right, sure for you. Maybe maybe I got 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:32.760 for you. Maybe, I mean, why do you talk about Trump? 0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:34.680 I'll be should talk about more about Trump. 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:37.440 I'll be on from three to six on Sunday on 0:51:37.560 --> 0:51:41.960 seven hundred WLW in addition to producing another show every 0:51:42.040 --> 0:51:44.600 day for three hours and also trying to produce my 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.239 own for this weekend and come up with stuff to 0:51:47.280 --> 0:51:47.760 talk about. 0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:50.000 But you know why he's on this weekend. It's called 0:51:50.080 --> 0:51:54.279 garbage time. Garbage off the back. I know exactly, I 0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:57.239 know exactly where I stay. Seven hundred WLW is up 0:51:57.239 --> 0:52:00.479 by twenty five ratings points in four minutes left Austin. 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:05.000 Yeah, it's also a little three and D baby, Come on, shoot, 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:06.120 shoot a couple of free throws. 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:08.680 Get your name in the box score. Garbage time, Almo, 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:14.200 that's the show. Fives ago, five years in garbage to 0:52:14.280 --> 0:52:15.799 sign a D League contract. You're fine. 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:17.560 You know I've been a role player, maybe you know, 0:52:19.000 --> 0:52:23.080 long enough to get my uh pension or whatever eligibility 0:52:23.160 --> 0:52:25.640 or whatever it is too. I know you were in 0:52:25.719 --> 0:52:28.319 tears this morning because you you're dumb and you watch 0:52:28.440 --> 0:52:30.759 something you shouldn't have watched. I'm not This was like 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:33.479 ten minutes ago. I was crying ten minutes ago. Cheers 0:52:33.520 --> 0:52:37.440 of joy sort of, Yeah, what were you watching? I 0:52:37.560 --> 0:52:41.400 watched the video. It was four years ago today, Scott, 0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:44.279 that the Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs to go 0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:47.360 to the Super Bowl. And if you remember, it was 0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:51.359 Meg Vogel from Cincinnati dot Com and The Inquirer put 0:52:51.400 --> 0:52:54.399 together a video it's a little over three minutes long 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:59.479 of all the different reactions, filmed reactions of Bengals fans 0:52:59.520 --> 0:53:03.040 across the world seeing Evan McPherson's field goal go in 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:07.279 sending them to the Super Bowl. And I avoid this 0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:10.359 video like the plague every year because I know how 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:11.440 I'm going to react. 0:53:12.120 --> 0:53:14.960 But for some reason, I watched it today. I was 0:53:15.080 --> 0:53:20.480 crying ten minutes ago because Number I get it. Number One, 0:53:20.520 --> 0:53:23.239 I'm laughing. I'm laughing at the You're an absurdity in 0:53:23.280 --> 0:53:25.720 the situation. You're laughing at me, and that's okay. 0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:26.440 No, no, no, no. 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:28.920 I'm that biggest sports fan too. I'll cry like a 0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:32.239 baby if if, I mean, if the Bengals or the 0:53:32.280 --> 0:53:34.120 Bills went a Super Bowl, I'll be that guy. 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:37.640 Yeah, I'll be a nice I love football with every 0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:41.000 fiber of my being, like more than just about anything 0:53:41.080 --> 0:53:44.440 in my life, more than some people in my life. 0:53:44.640 --> 0:53:48.360 I see that, and I care deeply about the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:53:48.680 --> 0:53:54.320 and it is difficult to see and wonder is that 0:53:54.560 --> 0:54:01.200 gonna be my only shot? And having given to think 0:54:01.239 --> 0:54:06.279 about that, you know, is it's difficult to reflectching all 0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:09.239 the people who are excited and fired up and right all. 0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:10.680 I mean, I get it, I get it. 0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:13.280 You know just how much it means to so many people, 0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:17.120 and how the discourse has changed over the last few years. 0:54:17.880 --> 0:54:20.399 And I think part of the frustration with so many 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:23.319 Bengals fans is because everybody wants to feel that way. 0:54:24.040 --> 0:54:25.920 And also, you know, I've been kind of split on 0:54:26.000 --> 0:54:29.200 who to root for in Super Bowl sixty And as 0:54:29.280 --> 0:54:32.520 I'm watching this video, I'm thinking, you know, Patriots fans, 0:54:32.680 --> 0:54:36.040 this is kind of their expectation over the last twenty years. Correct, 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:38.400 this would mean a lot more to Seattle than it 0:54:38.400 --> 0:54:41.160 would to New England. So for that reason, I'm starting 0:54:41.160 --> 0:54:43.239 to lean back towards Seattle, even though I think I 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:45.320 like the people on New England. I want the you know, 0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:49.200 Mike Rabel typing Trayveon Henderson and Ohio state guys to win, 0:54:49.360 --> 0:54:50.520 but I don't know. 0:54:51.160 --> 0:54:52.960 And it was like a quarter of a second. A 0:54:53.120 --> 0:54:56.359 quarter of a second is all he'd borrow needed to yeah, 0:54:56.440 --> 0:55:00.920 throw that. It's also like I've lived in believe me, 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.080 because you know, as a Bills fan, wide right, Yeah, 0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:05.320 this was wide right. And it wasn't even that. It 0:55:05.440 --> 0:55:08.120 was just like, yo, yeah, Berl got sacked. 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:08.320 You know. 0:55:08.440 --> 0:55:10.560 I also saw the video yesterday. 0:55:11.120 --> 0:55:13.360 It was the rally that the Bills had after they 0:55:13.440 --> 0:55:17.200 lost that Super Bowl, right, and Scott Norwood comes up 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:21.040 to the podium and instead of a chorus of booze, 0:55:21.719 --> 0:55:24.960 the Buffalo fans cheered for him and uplifted him. And 0:55:26.120 --> 0:55:29.080 you think of that, what was that thirty forty years ago, 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:33.800 and that that would never happen today now because I 0:55:33.880 --> 0:55:36.840 think sports batting and all that something to do with it. 0:55:37.120 --> 0:55:37.680 That's part of it. 0:55:38.160 --> 0:55:42.239 People just in general are meaner. Like if that were 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:44.560 to happen today, if Evan McPherson would have missed a 0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:48.560 kick in the Super Bowl and they come out, you know, 0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:51.520 and have this rally like they did, and they bring 0:55:51.600 --> 0:55:55.520 Evan McPherson up there, he would be booed. I'm going 0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:57.440 to disagree with you. I don't think so. I think 0:55:57.520 --> 0:56:02.440 that everybody. I think because we're similar communities in that 0:56:02.600 --> 0:56:05.080 it's like, hey, you know the guy guy, he was there, 0:56:05.160 --> 0:56:06.840 he made some solid kicks. The other thing is you 0:56:06.880 --> 0:56:09.200 got it. You know, if Jake Elliot missus a field 0:56:09.239 --> 0:56:11.799 goal in Philadelphia, he'd be shot. Yeah. Yeah, different story 0:56:11.840 --> 0:56:13.319 in talking. But I think it's Cincinnata, Buffalo. I think 0:56:13.320 --> 0:56:15.560 we're cities at like might that might be you couldn't 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:16.840 have got that. You can add Super Bowl without that 0:56:16.880 --> 0:56:19.200 guy's like, and he just missed it at a critical time. 0:56:19.400 --> 0:56:21.800 But he's been money for us all season, get it. 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:22.680 I think it's a different thing. 0:56:22.840 --> 0:56:26.480 Anyways, I just wish it was four years ago, simpler times, simpler, 0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:28.160 back in the old days. 0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:30.200 What was that four years ago? 0:56:30.600 --> 0:56:35.279 It's like from the office where h Andy says, I 0:56:35.360 --> 0:56:36.880 wish there was a way to know you're in the 0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:38.839 good old days before you've actually left them. 0:56:38.880 --> 0:56:46.480 That's really true. Yeah, yeah, talking about I I saw this, 0:56:46.760 --> 0:56:48.879 uh and I just because yeah, you know yesterday's show. 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:50.560 I'll leave it Bengals real quick. 0:56:50.600 --> 0:56:50.719 Here. 0:56:51.520 --> 0:56:53.640 I had council Member Mark jeffries On on favor day 0:56:53.680 --> 0:56:55.400 of this stuff too, and he was talking about he 0:56:55.560 --> 0:56:57.720 is he he was calling out the Bengals hard yesterday. 0:56:57.800 --> 0:57:00.680 Because so here in Cincinnati we've got youth football teams, 0:57:00.760 --> 0:57:03.200 urban youthful play. The problem is this is crime is 0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:06.080 a big deal obviously, So the youth football teams unli 0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:08.080 like we have in the suburbs, Unlike Sydney where you 0:57:08.160 --> 0:57:11.399 grew up. Did you even play yes football? Okay, okay, 0:57:12.040 --> 0:57:14.880 you don't have to worry about security because people shooting 0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:17.120 each other, non people betting on games and getting in 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:19.840 fights and shooting each other. Uh So the youth football 0:57:19.880 --> 0:57:22.400 teams have to raise money and the cost for them 0:57:22.440 --> 0:57:24.480 to rent a field from CPS because the security and 0:57:24.480 --> 0:57:27.120 everything else is just you can't do it. So Jefferson 0:57:27.160 --> 0:57:29.360 Wilder's been going, hey, listen, maybe like the Reds do 0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:33.680 the community fund building fields. Maybe like FC with youth soccer, 0:57:34.040 --> 0:57:35.960 Maybe the Bengals, we get the Bengals ball. He has 0:57:36.040 --> 0:57:38.640 been negotiating with them for a year and a half 0:57:39.680 --> 0:57:41.720 to get them to do like a split the pot 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:44.080 or something and give the proceeds. It doesn't cause them 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:46.880 anything and it's good will. He pointed out in his 0:57:46.960 --> 0:57:51.120 feet on X that the Dallas Cowboys give almost nine 0:57:51.160 --> 0:57:54.919 million dollars to the community. Okay, that's Dallas, Dallas money. 0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:58.440 Philly's like eight million, Green Bay a million and a half, 0:57:58.520 --> 0:58:01.960 Buffalo one point one million, Seattle six hundred thousand, Cincinnadi 0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:04.040 Bengals last year, you know how much money they gave? 0:58:04.240 --> 0:58:08.320 How much? Thirty thousand dollars thirty thousand. And that was 0:58:09.120 --> 0:58:12.640 humane because specifically for or just for the it said 0:58:12.680 --> 0:58:16.480 donated to the community. Okay that they were Bengals gave 0:58:16.560 --> 0:58:20.840 thirty thousand dollars in zero the previous year. Now, I 0:58:20.920 --> 0:58:23.600 will say in defense of the team that I know 0:58:23.680 --> 0:58:25.400 that they do a lot of charitable works and they 0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:28.600 don't want the publicity. They do it without wanting recognition, 0:58:28.640 --> 0:58:31.280 which is extremely noble. However, when you're endeared with the 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:34.320 city with a public private partnership and you get taxpayers 0:58:34.360 --> 0:58:37.160 to pay for seventy five percent of your stadium, you 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:38.920 need to do something to make it look like you 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:40.640 give a damn. And I will say this, I will 0:58:40.680 --> 0:58:42.520 go on record as saying two things. Bengals are great 0:58:42.520 --> 0:58:45.720 at litigation. They're they're they are the New England Patriots 0:58:46.000 --> 0:58:48.320 of litigation, the New York Yankees. This is the big 0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:52.120 red machine of litigation. But you also have to do 0:58:52.240 --> 0:58:55.040 something that the community can see and be tangible. I mean, 0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:58.480 anonymous acts of kindness are wonderful, they are, but you 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:01.200 also have to do something the like you give a damn. 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:03.600 And if you open up the dictionary and literally look 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:07.120 for the definition of zero bleeps, given Mike Brown's picture 0:59:07.240 --> 0:59:08.840 is there because they just don't care. 0:59:09.360 --> 0:59:09.560 Yeah. 0:59:09.640 --> 0:59:12.320 So I heard about this yesterday and I went through 0:59:12.440 --> 0:59:15.080 my email inbox all the stuff that I get from 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:19.480 Bengals Communications, okay, and I found that they last year 0:59:19.600 --> 0:59:23.080 donated and paid for a bunch of youth football equipment 0:59:23.240 --> 0:59:25.480 for a team in the West End the others, and 0:59:25.920 --> 0:59:28.919 they build a ramp for a veteran nice they put 0:59:29.040 --> 0:59:32.160 food and lockers and all the month of October for 0:59:32.440 --> 0:59:34.160 young kids who are struggling with food. 0:59:35.160 --> 0:59:36.160 They do do stuff. 0:59:36.280 --> 0:59:37.920 Yeah, but I think don't do anything. 0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:41.640 I think you're right that when it comes to specifically 0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:47.200 investing in physical areas for kids to play football, they 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:48.000 could be better at. 0:59:48.200 --> 0:59:48.400 Yeah. 0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:48.720 I know. 0:59:48.840 --> 0:59:50.800 There was a thing that they did with the NFL 0:59:51.040 --> 0:59:54.280 years ago called the Hometown Huddle, where they worked together 0:59:54.360 --> 0:59:56.320 to build like local parks. I used to live right 0:59:56.400 --> 0:59:58.040 next to one, and there was this big plaque with 0:59:58.040 --> 1:00:00.800 the Bengals logo in the NFL logo and and all 1:00:00.840 --> 1:00:04.080 of it. And it does feel like a very simple 1:00:04.160 --> 1:00:07.640 solution would be, Hey, here's a split the pot. Here's 1:00:07.640 --> 1:00:09.240 a fifty to fifty whatever you want to call it. 1:00:09.560 --> 1:00:13.200 Proceeds go to the Cincinnati Youth Football whatever, and we're 1:00:13.200 --> 1:00:16.040 gonna build a field here. We're gonna build a field there. 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:16.840 Whatever it might be. 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:19.600 It's a layup. 1:00:20.280 --> 1:00:22.160 I don't know what they cost you any money, because 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:23.600 you do like a split the pot the community pace 1:00:23.680 --> 1:00:25.080 where we're already paying for the stadium. 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:28.600 But all you're paying for basically are the physical tickets 1:00:28.760 --> 1:00:30.960 or the digital space to be able to do it, 1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:33.840 and the ads and the signage and all that stuff 1:00:34.440 --> 1:00:35.720 that's incredibly cheap. 1:00:35.760 --> 1:00:37.040 You need to promote your cost. They already to go 1:00:37.120 --> 1:00:39.040 with the team. They advertise they spend money. Come to 1:00:39.120 --> 1:00:42.600 Bengal season tickets. Okay, it's the same thing, and it's 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:45.200 it's it's And the question is, well, why why do 1:00:45.240 --> 1:00:46.960 the Bengals. Why do the Bengals get such a hard 1:00:47.000 --> 1:00:48.680 time and the Reds get a pass. It's because the 1:00:48.720 --> 1:00:49.520 Reds do that stuff. 1:00:49.560 --> 1:00:49.880 Correct. 1:00:50.160 --> 1:00:53.880 The Reds presence in the community is incredible, huge. Uh 1:00:54.080 --> 1:00:56.600 even there, I'm blanking on the name of it, but 1:00:56.720 --> 1:01:02.920 they're they It's the Youth Academy, the Register Regie, unbelievable, 1:01:02.960 --> 1:01:04.600 the Academy. The urmunition of what they do with the 1:01:04.640 --> 1:01:08.360 knuts Off facility in and of itself is ridiculous. Charlie 1:01:08.400 --> 1:01:11.000 Frank travels the country advising other Major League teams on 1:01:11.040 --> 1:01:11.400 how to do that. 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:13.320 Correct, that's how good we are. And it makes the 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.680 Bengals look worse in comparison, because yeah, that's m MLB 1:01:16.760 --> 1:01:20.320 Money's big FC is doing this and MLS money is nothing. 1:01:20.640 --> 1:01:22.400 NFL money is ridiculous. 1:01:22.480 --> 1:01:22.680 Yeah. 1:01:22.680 --> 1:01:24.720 I mean I also used to live right next to 1:01:25.560 --> 1:01:28.040 one of those what they caught the mini pitches that 1:01:28.240 --> 1:01:30.560 f C Cincinnati would build, and there would be kids 1:01:30.600 --> 1:01:32.160 out there playing all the time, and it was just 1:01:32.280 --> 1:01:35.360 somewhere else for kids to go. That's not you know, 1:01:35.520 --> 1:01:37.920 doing something that they're not supposed to do, right, It's 1:01:38.000 --> 1:01:40.760 the very basic stuff that they seem to struggle with 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:43.360 that I wish, and I know there are smart people 1:01:43.440 --> 1:01:45.280 in that building. I wish they would just say, hey, 1:01:45.840 --> 1:01:49.400 this would be good for us, for just in a 1:01:49.560 --> 1:01:52.800 pr sense, to say, hey, the Bengals are helping people 1:01:52.840 --> 1:01:56.080 in the community beyond just here's some food, here's some 1:01:56.160 --> 1:01:59.040 football equipment, doing more. I wish they were better. 1:01:59.240 --> 1:02:00.720 I will also say that some of those things you 1:02:00.760 --> 1:02:03.840 mentioned that you emailed in all fairness though, how many 1:02:03.880 --> 1:02:07.520 of those were NFL initiated or mandated programs? Like you know, 1:02:07.600 --> 1:02:10.040 when NFL leans into something, all the teams do it right, 1:02:10.160 --> 1:02:11.920 So how many of those I'm sure I'm sure there 1:02:12.040 --> 1:02:13.840 was some of that up sure where they don't have 1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:15.840 a choice that they'll have to service and stuff you 1:02:15.920 --> 1:02:18.320 have to I'm sure I'm sure, but still right, it's like, 1:02:18.400 --> 1:02:21.240 come on, man, yeah, I just already make sure you 1:02:21.320 --> 1:02:24.280 know thirty grand is it's it's not enough. I know 1:02:24.400 --> 1:02:28.280 that they've also, I'm about ninety nine percent sure. You 1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.000 know they've paid for some football fields in the past, Yes, 1:02:31.160 --> 1:02:33.440 like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars grants and stuff 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:35.080 for like high schools and stuff like that. You know, 1:02:35.160 --> 1:02:37.280 they make donations to like the Paul Brown Coach of 1:02:37.280 --> 1:02:40.640 the Year and stuff like that. It's just there are 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:44.560 easy pr points to be scored that they don't score. Yeah, 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:47.720 and act like you care, like put your arms again. 1:02:47.800 --> 1:02:49.240 Back to that whole thing where we would in Boo 1:02:49.280 --> 1:02:51.000 McPherson if he lost the food, but we would lift 1:02:51.040 --> 1:02:53.560 them up. If if, even if you were to build 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:56.040 a facility, it can be very simple. It can be 1:02:56.080 --> 1:02:58.000 a turf field. There can be a track around it, 1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:01.360 there can be some small stands, and every year Jamar 1:03:01.480 --> 1:03:05.000 Chase hosts a camp there, or every year you know, 1:03:05.360 --> 1:03:07.760 any player, pick a player hosts the camp there, or 1:03:07.800 --> 1:03:09.480 Sam Hubber will come back and do an event there 1:03:10.000 --> 1:03:12.240 or whatever. It's easy and then know in the meantime 1:03:12.320 --> 1:03:14.959 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. You've got youth football games 1:03:14.960 --> 1:03:17.360 happening here. Yeah, no doubt about it. And each player, 1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:19.439 does you know this charitable thing? I mean Joe Burrow 1:03:19.480 --> 1:03:21.959 Foundation and to Marvel Lusan, it shouldn't been the face 1:03:22.040 --> 1:03:24.560 of charity for sin today football. Those are individuals. Yeah, 1:03:24.600 --> 1:03:26.760 the team should be leading that charge. And back to 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:28.880 my point, if you know McPherson, we'd lift him up 1:03:28.920 --> 1:03:31.360 if he missed a game winning kick in the Super Bowl. 1:03:32.560 --> 1:03:35.160 It goes to show you just talk community, if you've 1:03:35.160 --> 1:03:36.960 got to reflect back to the community and put your 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:38.840 arms around and if you want to be other than 1:03:38.880 --> 1:03:40.480 you just look at as a business and then pretend 1:03:40.480 --> 1:03:42.680 it's not so agreed. I know I had enough hammer 1:03:42.680 --> 1:03:44.560 in the Bengals. If you missed that with Mark Jefferys yesterday, 1:03:44.600 --> 1:03:47.360 it's on the podcast from yesterday's show via the iHeart Radio. 1:03:47.480 --> 1:03:48.720 But what do you make a Belichick not get in 1:03:48.760 --> 1:03:55.240 the Hall of Fame? So I'm not surprised. The reason 1:03:55.320 --> 1:03:58.560 I'm not surprised is I know that Bill Belichick is 1:03:58.680 --> 1:04:02.760 not liked. I know that he had a cheating scandal 1:04:03.080 --> 1:04:06.800 multiple that people don't appreciate, and I know that the 1:04:06.920 --> 1:04:10.200 voting system the way it's currently constructed is going to 1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:13.720 hurt him, and it all did. And you know, there 1:04:13.800 --> 1:04:16.160 is no world in which Ken Anderson should be going 1:04:16.280 --> 1:04:19.640 up against Bill Belichick for the same vote. It just 1:04:19.720 --> 1:04:22.680 doesn't make sense. And they've moved the rules around, and 1:04:22.720 --> 1:04:24.840 they've changed the rules and panel members and voters here 1:04:24.880 --> 1:04:26.919 and voters. It just doesn't make sense. 1:04:27.080 --> 1:04:29.840 And so for all those reasons, and so far, the 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.840 ten or eleven people that have voted four others and 1:04:32.920 --> 1:04:35.840 not necessarily against Bill Belichick have said, hey, we did 1:04:35.880 --> 1:04:39.560 this because Elsie Greenwood, Roger Craig, Ken Anderson, this is 1:04:39.600 --> 1:04:41.800 their last chance, and we think they should be in. 1:04:42.240 --> 1:04:44.680 And we think Bill Belichick's going to get in, whether 1:04:44.720 --> 1:04:46.920 it's this year or next year. We're putting our votes 1:04:46.960 --> 1:04:49.800 to these guys. And so when you combine that he 1:04:50.000 --> 1:04:53.040 was just in general not liked and he did have 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:57.200 multiple cheating scandals, and these other guys are on their 1:04:57.320 --> 1:05:00.680 last shot, you find ten or eleven guys who don't 1:05:00.720 --> 1:05:02.960 vote for him, and so he doesn't make the Pro 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:06.480 Football Hall of Fame. The issue is not with Belichick 1:05:06.600 --> 1:05:09.600 himself or his resume, or even if people don't like him. 1:05:09.640 --> 1:05:13.520 The issue is the vote. The voting system just wasn't tenable, 1:05:13.920 --> 1:05:16.040 and it's led to him getting embarrassed. 1:05:16.240 --> 1:05:16.400 Yeah. 1:05:16.760 --> 1:05:18.320 I looked at that and said, well, and I think 1:05:18.320 --> 1:05:20.160 he's actually kind of turned into a martyr. Since when 1:05:20.200 --> 1:05:23.240 were the baseball writers responsible for, you know, getting Bill Belichick? 1:05:23.480 --> 1:05:25.400 And it feels like that baseball does it too. And 1:05:25.760 --> 1:05:26.960 you know, back to your point, I get it, there's 1:05:27.000 --> 1:05:30.000 other guys eligible, and like, he probably get in the 1:05:30.080 --> 1:05:33.720 next ballot, but you know, again, you don't change the times. 1:05:33.800 --> 1:05:35.320 It's like, there have been plenty of people who have 1:05:35.400 --> 1:05:37.480 not gotten the Hall of Fame or had opportunity because 1:05:37.480 --> 1:05:39.880 there's been better players, are better individuals out there who 1:05:39.880 --> 1:05:42.320 have qualified. I mean, but I think the point stands. 1:05:42.320 --> 1:05:44.800 It's like, then does that mean Tom Brady doesn't get in? 1:05:44.880 --> 1:05:47.120 And yeah, okay, there's scandals and stuff, but what did 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:47.600 the league do? 1:05:47.760 --> 1:05:48.040 Did they? 1:05:48.520 --> 1:05:50.880 I think they didn't Pete Rosehen for this, right, I mean, 1:05:50.920 --> 1:05:53.400 they investigated. There are fines and penalties and all that stuff. 1:05:53.440 --> 1:05:57.120 And it's also it's a popularity concert, but it's not. 1:05:57.360 --> 1:05:59.400 It's it's what you do. It's your body of work. 1:05:59.480 --> 1:06:01.360 He may not be liked at all, but hell, ty 1:06:01.440 --> 1:06:03.400 Cobb was a real jerk and he's an Hall of Fame. Yeah, 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:05.800 It's the question should be is he a fall Hall 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:06.120 of Famer? 1:06:06.240 --> 1:06:06.600 Yes or no? 1:06:06.640 --> 1:06:09.439 And the answer is yes. But unfortunately it's yeah. 1:06:09.680 --> 1:06:12.720 But these guys need to get into and so this 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:14.720 is their last shots where I'm going to vote for them. 1:06:15.280 --> 1:06:17.720 The other thing with Belichick too, that whether or not 1:06:17.840 --> 1:06:19.760 it played a role, and from all the discourse, it 1:06:19.800 --> 1:06:24.400 seems like it hasn't. He has stunk without Tom Brady 1:06:25.200 --> 1:06:28.600 and he wasn't good prior to tom Brady, and Tom 1:06:28.640 --> 1:06:30.680 Brady went to Tampa and won a Super Bowl, and 1:06:31.200 --> 1:06:33.280 Robert Kraft and the Patriots they got to a super 1:06:33.320 --> 1:06:35.800 Bowl before Belichick. Right now they've gotten to a super 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:38.680 Bowl after Belichick's So all of that just kind of, 1:06:39.040 --> 1:06:40.920 you know, peel back a couple of other layers, and 1:06:40.960 --> 1:06:42.720 then you've got all the nonsense that he's going on, 1:06:43.080 --> 1:06:46.040 you know in North Carolina right now. That shouldn't play 1:06:46.040 --> 1:06:49.720 a role, but it does. It's it's it. I don't 1:06:49.840 --> 1:06:54.280 like it because it's unnecessary criticism towards the Hall of 1:06:54.320 --> 1:06:58.080 Fame and a glaring omission, but I'm not surprised. 1:06:58.200 --> 1:07:01.000 Yeah, And but NFL is like they never make mistakes. 1:07:02.440 --> 1:07:05.920 This isn't This isn't the NFL. I know, look, I 1:07:06.120 --> 1:07:09.439 told I get that distinction. Yeah, tough week for Bill Baltic, 1:07:09.520 --> 1:07:11.240 no Hall of Fame and breaks up with his uh, 1:07:11.320 --> 1:07:13.560 his girlfriend. They broke up. Yeah, did you hear that? 1:07:13.800 --> 1:07:13.840 No? 1:07:14.280 --> 1:07:15.280 Huh? Yeah? 1:07:16.040 --> 1:07:18.880 Is it a fake account? I don't know they've saying 1:07:18.920 --> 1:07:20.920 it's a fake account. Okay, Well I knew Willie had 1:07:20.960 --> 1:07:24.479 been in her DMS, so he broke it off because 1:07:24.480 --> 1:07:28.960 she's got too old for him. It's like, exactly, all right, 1:07:29.320 --> 1:07:32.800 you got UC tomorrow West Miller, oh for nine against Houston. 1:07:32.840 --> 1:07:34.720 Houston and Town tomorrow are new and then exen to 1:07:34.840 --> 1:07:37.080 Paul X trying to get off the schnide of the 1:07:37.080 --> 1:07:39.200 three games skin there, and of course Miami just keeps winning, 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:42.200 so they do. The RedHawks could be the national champions. 1:07:42.280 --> 1:07:44.920 The Bearcats are very much due for a win over Houston. 1:07:45.120 --> 1:07:47.640 It's been like ten years. I feel like here Tony Pike, 1:07:47.680 --> 1:07:50.520 bitch about this and Mark, but twelve fifty third of 1:07:50.560 --> 1:07:52.360 aust now, my thanks, Budd, appreciate it. Have a great weekend. 1:07:52.440 --> 1:07:56.720 Sloane continues, coming up. Uh this ups postal worker who 1:07:56.760 --> 1:07:59.200 got suspended for whistle blowing. Well, he's a whistle blower. 1:07:59.240 --> 1:08:01.560 How do you suspend the It's interesting story. It involves 1:08:02.040 --> 1:08:04.120 just how far you can go on social media involving 1:08:04.160 --> 1:08:10.200 your employer. That's next sloony seven hundred WWT Cincinnati plony 1:08:10.240 --> 1:08:13.360 here on seven hundred WLW. We know that your employer 1:08:13.440 --> 1:08:16.240 can punish you for things you post on social media. 1:08:17.200 --> 1:08:19.559 Play stupid games when stupid prizes happens all the time, 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:22.519 But what about when it's a work related safety issue. 1:08:22.600 --> 1:08:27.000 So this guy, Jason Thompson, he's a twenty year plus 1:08:27.360 --> 1:08:31.760 USPS mail carrier and Fairfield suspend without pay because he 1:08:31.840 --> 1:08:36.320 posted safety concerns on social about winter storm conditions on Facebook. 1:08:36.320 --> 1:08:38.760 They made me show up. And the narrative of the 1:08:38.800 --> 1:08:41.720 story is really quick. Is that he shows up to 1:08:41.840 --> 1:08:46.519 work and notice that the lots are poor ploy I 1:08:46.560 --> 1:08:48.920 don't want to say that they're not plowed really well, 1:08:49.960 --> 1:08:53.080 and the postal trucks are barren in snow. They said, hey, 1:08:53.080 --> 1:08:55.080 there's no packages here to the lever because of the storm. 1:08:55.439 --> 1:08:57.160 But you've got to dig your cars out by hand. 1:08:57.200 --> 1:08:59.240 We don't have shovels or anything for you, but yeah, 1:08:59.320 --> 1:09:01.680 get in there. And sart. You lean into it, get 1:09:01.720 --> 1:09:03.400 onto your hands and knees and shovel off these trucks 1:09:03.400 --> 1:09:05.240 that aren't gonna run anyway, and there's nowhere to put 1:09:05.280 --> 1:09:07.120 the snow, and it's a mess. And you know, he's 1:09:07.120 --> 1:09:09.680 sixty years old. And the end result is, well, we 1:09:09.760 --> 1:09:11.640 hear people having heart attacks all the time because of this. 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:13.120 Is that in the scope of his job? And he 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:15.599 would say, no, it's uh. They made cuts and can't 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:18.200 have anyone coming properly clean off the vehicle so we 1:09:18.280 --> 1:09:21.160 can do our jobs. And he bitched about it on Facebook, 1:09:21.240 --> 1:09:23.880 the age old American sport of complaining about your boss. Well, 1:09:24.120 --> 1:09:26.519 it led him to an unpaid suspension. The question is 1:09:27.160 --> 1:09:29.240 is he a whistle blower and is he protected? And 1:09:29.320 --> 1:09:31.280 what are your rights if you run into something like this? 1:09:31.360 --> 1:09:33.880 George Rule is here. He is the first and foremost 1:09:34.000 --> 1:09:37.960 the employment law attorney in Cincinnati with freaking Myers and rule. George, 1:09:38.000 --> 1:09:39.439 welcome back. How are you? How's life son? 1:09:40.560 --> 1:09:41.960 Hey funny, thanks for having me on. 1:09:42.080 --> 1:09:45.120 I'm well, yeah, I don't think you guys are involved. 1:09:45.160 --> 1:09:46.960 Maybe you guys are involved with this case, I don't know, 1:09:47.080 --> 1:09:50.760 But does this fall into the guys of whistleblower complaints. 1:09:50.840 --> 1:09:52.920 And you know, he puts it up on social media 1:09:52.920 --> 1:09:56.120 about safety conditions? Is that qualified? The safety issues? Complying 1:09:56.200 --> 1:09:59.719 is whistleblower activity? And keep in mind this is federal 1:09:59.800 --> 1:10:01.200 law and he works for a federal agency. 1:10:03.120 --> 1:10:03.760 Yeah. Uh. 1:10:04.520 --> 1:10:09.840 Generally speaking, Uh, whistle blowing activity usually involves an employee 1:10:10.520 --> 1:10:18.520 disclosing information that they reasonably believe is evidence of illegal, unethical, 1:10:18.840 --> 1:10:24.479 or unsafe activity. Uh. And and so obviously his complaints 1:10:24.520 --> 1:10:29.560 here uh do have some relationship to unsafe activities. 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:30.360 Uh. 1:10:30.600 --> 1:10:33.360 You know, I think there is a question in terms of. 1:10:33.560 --> 1:10:37.479 The manner in which he disclosed, you know, generally speaking, 1:10:38.680 --> 1:10:43.080 a complaint to your employer, uh, or an. 1:10:42.960 --> 1:10:45.320 Agency such as OSHA. OSHA is a. 1:10:45.400 --> 1:10:53.160 Federal agency that enforces workplace safety laws, so certainly could 1:10:53.200 --> 1:10:58.959 be protected activity. Also, Uh, it might be protected concerted 1:10:59.040 --> 1:11:03.240 activity under the National Labor Relations Act because he is 1:11:03.520 --> 1:11:09.799 talking about his terms and conditions of employment, So there 1:11:09.880 --> 1:11:11.360 might be some additional protection there. 1:11:11.439 --> 1:11:11.599 Yeah. 1:11:11.600 --> 1:11:13.760 As a postal work he's protected by union. Although he 1:11:13.880 --> 1:11:16.679 has been suspended without play they called an emergency placement 1:11:16.760 --> 1:11:20.519 without pay pending an internal investigation, and of course the 1:11:20.560 --> 1:11:23.080 Postal services, well, no employee safety is our top priority. 1:11:23.120 --> 1:11:25.559 That's hard to argue though, if you've got your sixty 1:11:25.640 --> 1:11:28.760 year old postal workers who normally sit in a truck 1:11:28.800 --> 1:11:32.200 and deliver mail out with their hands and I don't know, 1:11:32.360 --> 1:11:36.439 using dust pans and probably coffee can lids to drag 1:11:36.520 --> 1:11:39.120 and clear snow out from around your vehicle. And keep 1:11:39.120 --> 1:11:41.240 in mind the snow was plowed in a fashion that 1:11:41.360 --> 1:11:43.160 all the snow from the lot is now pushed up 1:11:43.160 --> 1:11:45.479 against where the vehicles are, so it's several feet of 1:11:45.520 --> 1:11:46.400 snow he got to dig out. 1:11:48.479 --> 1:11:52.439 Yeah, that certainly, and I believe he was sixty years old. 1:11:52.640 --> 1:11:53.280 Not really an. 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:59.360 Age thing, but you know, physical work certainly could be 1:11:59.760 --> 1:12:01.040 an employee safety issues. 1:12:01.080 --> 1:12:04.320 Yeah, not sure if that covers. Are there specific whistleblower 1:12:04.360 --> 1:12:07.120 protections that apply to USPS employees. I know this is 1:12:07.160 --> 1:12:08.720 kind of getting granular here, and you may not know 1:12:08.800 --> 1:12:11.360 the answer to that, but if you're a federal employee 1:12:11.400 --> 1:12:13.040 with a union, are you covered in there is or 1:12:13.120 --> 1:12:13.559 something else? 1:12:15.200 --> 1:12:15.360 Well? 1:12:15.520 --> 1:12:22.000 Interestingly, OSHA or the Postal Service is one of the 1:12:22.080 --> 1:12:26.080 few federal agencies that's covered by OSHA as far as 1:12:26.160 --> 1:12:31.679 workplace safety. Their most federal employees are covered under something 1:12:31.760 --> 1:12:36.920 called the whistle Blower Protection Act, so you know, there 1:12:37.120 --> 1:12:40.320 there are a ton of different whistle blower laws. OSHA 1:12:40.439 --> 1:12:46.000 actually has a whistle blower protection program that covers twenty 1:12:46.120 --> 1:12:51.400 different statutes. So you know, in order to have protection 1:12:51.720 --> 1:12:55.840 as an employee, what you are complaining about has to 1:12:55.880 --> 1:12:59.800 be legally protected activity, and often you need an underlying 1:13:00.120 --> 1:13:04.160 statute to provide that protection. So you know, it is 1:13:04.280 --> 1:13:07.720 kind of a patchwork of laws and it's confusing. So 1:13:08.160 --> 1:13:11.120 you know, it's it's something where you probably need some 1:13:11.280 --> 1:13:14.040 legal advice to know whether you're protected. 1:13:15.320 --> 1:13:17.439 What your lawyers at George Rul did, do you see 1:13:17.479 --> 1:13:21.520 this as undue retaliation for protected activity? 1:13:24.000 --> 1:13:28.080 It certainly, it certainly could be. You know, he got 1:13:28.600 --> 1:13:32.640 he got suspended off of work. It's interesting, as I 1:13:32.800 --> 1:13:36.599 understand it from from looking at some of the articles 1:13:36.600 --> 1:13:39.720 about it. The Postal Service asked him to come back 1:13:40.680 --> 1:13:44.120 several hours after he was suspended, which you know, sort. 1:13:43.880 --> 1:13:47.040 Of suggests they knew it was potentially. 1:13:46.600 --> 1:13:50.040 A problem to put him, you know, put him off work. 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:54.200 Uh So I certainly think, uh, this is one where 1:13:54.280 --> 1:13:58.439 he does have some legal protection. It didn't seem to 1:13:58.520 --> 1:14:01.160 be just an individual gright. You know, he was he 1:14:01.320 --> 1:14:04.640 was when he made his post. As I understand it, 1:14:04.720 --> 1:14:06.519 he said, you know, I know I'm not the only 1:14:06.640 --> 1:14:10.519 one who has this concern, So you know, generally it 1:14:10.800 --> 1:14:13.919 does seem like he was not only speaking for himself 1:14:14.000 --> 1:14:17.800 but his coworkers and the working conditions. So you know, 1:14:17.840 --> 1:14:20.640 if it's not if it's not whistle blowing, uh, it 1:14:20.760 --> 1:14:23.360 certainly might be uh conservative protected actip. 1:14:23.439 --> 1:14:25.439 Well, it's interesting because I know Fox nineteen broke the 1:14:25.520 --> 1:14:28.040 story and a couple of the media outlets had obviously 1:14:28.080 --> 1:14:30.200 we're talking about this morning with George Rule, employment law 1:14:30.200 --> 1:14:33.639 attorney from freaking Myerson Rule here in Cincinnati, and uh, 1:14:33.960 --> 1:14:35.720 as soon as that happens, it's like, well, you know, 1:14:36.000 --> 1:14:38.040 well why don't you come back to work? I mean, 1:14:38.080 --> 1:14:40.479 it's interesting how that plays out. Does that indicate though, 1:14:40.520 --> 1:14:43.360 from a legal perspective, that maybe they got this wrong 1:14:43.600 --> 1:14:45.800 at first blush, that they're backing off so quickly. 1:14:46.680 --> 1:14:49.360 Well, it certainly appears like that. 1:14:50.000 --> 1:14:54.360 Now obviously bringing him back after a few hours, that 1:14:54.439 --> 1:14:58.240 would that would limit the adverse impact of a of 1:14:58.360 --> 1:15:02.360 a suspension, Uh, you know, only only losing uh you know, 1:15:02.479 --> 1:15:06.040 maybe two three hours hours of pay. But you know, 1:15:06.360 --> 1:15:10.840 I certainly think most employees who speak out. Uh, you know, 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:13.240 do have a concern, Hey if I put a target 1:15:13.320 --> 1:15:18.439 on my back by you know, disclosing thiss. So you know, 1:15:18.520 --> 1:15:21.400 it's not only the immediate suspension, but kind of how 1:15:21.479 --> 1:15:23.280 he's treated in the future. 1:15:24.120 --> 1:15:25.719 So yeah, that's see. 1:15:25.880 --> 1:15:29.720 Uh so this guy is postal worker, Jason Thompson is 1:15:29.800 --> 1:15:32.640 told to take down the post or there's gonna be repercussions. 1:15:32.680 --> 1:15:35.160 He didn't, and the repercussions where we suspend you without pay. 1:15:36.120 --> 1:15:41.040 Talk about a wonky constitutional First Amendment called prior restraint? 1:15:41.360 --> 1:15:42.720 Was prior restrainted play here? 1:15:45.520 --> 1:15:46.920 You know, I don't know that One's funny. 1:15:48.800 --> 1:15:50.560 That's a good question, right, I was like, well, I 1:15:50.640 --> 1:15:53.599 mean it's it's a constential rite in many maning says, 1:15:53.920 --> 1:15:56.120 we prevent you from doing something we don't like in 1:15:56.160 --> 1:15:59.479 the first place. And so the legal standard about his 1:15:59.520 --> 1:16:02.400 speech was they said it was a matter of public concern, 1:16:02.479 --> 1:16:04.200 the public somehawser I don't know if I buy the 1:16:04.520 --> 1:16:06.160 this is an issue of public intern this is a 1:16:06.200 --> 1:16:07.160 workplace safety issue. 1:16:09.120 --> 1:16:12.000 Yeah, I mean whether or not it's protected on the 1:16:12.040 --> 1:16:12.799 First Amendment. 1:16:13.040 --> 1:16:14.200 Uh, you know, that's. 1:16:16.200 --> 1:16:19.560 You know, that's maybe a complicated legal question. You know, 1:16:20.240 --> 1:16:22.720 is he is he talking as a public employee or 1:16:22.760 --> 1:16:24.040 a private citizen. 1:16:25.000 --> 1:16:27.440 You know, I certainly think there's an angle. 1:16:27.240 --> 1:16:30.200 That would be a matter of public concern. Uh, you 1:16:30.280 --> 1:16:34.280 know if certainly during a level two SNOW emergency. I 1:16:34.360 --> 1:16:36.880 think there's a question of whether or not, you know, 1:16:37.040 --> 1:16:39.439 postal workers need to be on on the road. 1:16:40.120 --> 1:16:40.200 Uh. 1:16:40.320 --> 1:16:48.519 It's interesting the the Postal Services statement in response kind 1:16:48.560 --> 1:16:51.920 of touched on that in terms of saying, hey, you know, 1:16:52.000 --> 1:16:58.479 people need their medications. Uh, you know government correspondence. So 1:16:59.120 --> 1:17:02.519 you know, there's an argument from the employer there. You 1:17:02.600 --> 1:17:05.439 know that there's a there's a need for for the 1:17:05.520 --> 1:17:07.640 postal workers to be on the on the road and 1:17:07.880 --> 1:17:09.160 right delivering our right. 1:17:09.320 --> 1:17:11.639 But at the same time they said that, I guess 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:13.559 the trucks that were bringing the mail in where there 1:17:13.560 --> 1:17:16.200 were no packages to deliver that day, So why we 1:17:16.280 --> 1:17:18.639 digging our trucks out if we can't move. It's like, okay, 1:17:18.720 --> 1:17:20.320 well we're going to show up and make you dig 1:17:20.360 --> 1:17:22.920 our trucks out because maybe that'll save money. I don't 1:17:22.960 --> 1:17:26.160 know about that. On the other side of this charge rule, 1:17:26.600 --> 1:17:28.479 talk about the burden of proof that the Postal Service 1:17:28.520 --> 1:17:31.120 had had they suspend him and what evens they have 1:17:31.280 --> 1:17:33.720 that that backs their claim up. We've talked about this 1:17:33.880 --> 1:17:36.400 case Jason Thompson and has a pretty good claim here. 1:17:36.479 --> 1:17:38.840 This is a whistleblower type of issue. But how does 1:17:39.000 --> 1:17:41.479 the United States Postal Service affirmatively defend themselves? 1:17:43.080 --> 1:17:46.200 Well, I think you know, again, they would look at hey, 1:17:46.400 --> 1:17:51.840 is this just an individual employee ripe, you know, looking 1:17:51.880 --> 1:17:56.920 at the manner in terms of you know, how he communicated. 1:17:56.640 --> 1:18:01.360 This, did he talked the management to press? Is concern. 1:18:02.800 --> 1:18:07.280 Initially at the outset. You know, I think the Postal 1:18:07.360 --> 1:18:10.120 Service would say, hey, look, this is a you know, 1:18:10.680 --> 1:18:15.080 a couple hours suspension, so is it is it really 1:18:15.120 --> 1:18:21.000 an adverse employment action? So you know, there would be 1:18:21.160 --> 1:18:26.240 some legal defenses there, but but certainly I'm not sure 1:18:26.320 --> 1:18:30.680 how the Postal Service could argue that the suspension had 1:18:30.720 --> 1:18:33.639 anything to do other than than the post itself. 1:18:33.760 --> 1:18:34.000 Yeah. 1:18:34.320 --> 1:18:37.160 Uh, and you know the content and the post being 1:18:37.240 --> 1:18:42.479 about potentially unsafe working conditions. So that seems to be 1:18:42.560 --> 1:18:43.680 a tough argument. 1:18:43.680 --> 1:18:47.439 Right, And it also feels like both sides, at least 1:18:47.439 --> 1:18:49.160 the post Service wants us to go away because they 1:18:49.200 --> 1:18:51.360 brought brought them back in hours later, and it's like, well, 1:18:51.400 --> 1:18:53.439 it was maybe it was a misstep on our part here, 1:18:53.479 --> 1:18:55.200 We're going to have to clarify our policies and like, 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:57.479 but what does the takeaway for someone listening to going, well, 1:18:57.520 --> 1:18:59.040 I'm not a postal worker. I don't have to dig 1:18:59.080 --> 1:19:01.080 trucks out or maybe I do, but I'm not in 1:19:01.120 --> 1:19:04.800 a union. When you should you think twice and what what? 1:19:05.520 --> 1:19:07.479 And I guess what are the boundaries you're posting stuff 1:19:07.520 --> 1:19:09.679 on social We see people fired all the time, right, George, 1:19:09.760 --> 1:19:12.720 because they do something on social or say say and 1:19:12.760 --> 1:19:14.080 they want to be getting fired because it makes their 1:19:14.080 --> 1:19:16.040 company look bad, which is perfectly when they're right to 1:19:16.080 --> 1:19:17.519 do so. But what are the limits of that? 1:19:19.160 --> 1:19:19.400 Yeah? 1:19:19.520 --> 1:19:25.880 So certainly if you are publicly disparaging your employer, if 1:19:25.960 --> 1:19:31.640 you're you know, posting your individual rights online, that can 1:19:31.720 --> 1:19:33.120 be ground. 1:19:32.920 --> 1:19:34.120 To get you discharged. 1:19:34.680 --> 1:19:34.800 Uh. 1:19:34.960 --> 1:19:38.680 You know what you are speaking out about, what you're communicating, 1:19:39.320 --> 1:19:44.000 uh is important? You know, are you exposing something unsafe? 1:19:44.640 --> 1:19:44.760 Uh? 1:19:45.280 --> 1:19:46.960 You know, unethical? Illegal? 1:19:47.560 --> 1:19:47.640 Uh? 1:19:47.760 --> 1:19:51.200 That type of speech tends to be protected. Is it 1:19:51.280 --> 1:19:52.519 a matter of public interest? 1:19:52.680 --> 1:19:52.800 You know? 1:19:53.040 --> 1:19:56.800 Is there is their First Amendment issue? And you know 1:19:57.320 --> 1:19:59.640 then are you are you talking about the terms and 1:19:59.720 --> 1:20:01.599 cantions of your work. 1:20:01.920 --> 1:20:06.280 Is it you know, is it a collective discussion that 1:20:06.439 --> 1:20:09.800 might be protected again under the national wave relationship. 1:20:09.479 --> 1:20:11.160 Right, and the other element of this too. I use 1:20:11.160 --> 1:20:13.400 another example we've seen this happen before, where somebody is 1:20:13.439 --> 1:20:15.960 a fast food worker and they're doing something in the 1:20:16.040 --> 1:20:19.080 kitchen that you know, could wind up getting a customer sick, 1:20:19.160 --> 1:20:20.920 doing something stupid, and they post it and they wind 1:20:21.000 --> 1:20:22.920 up getting fired. They could turn around and say, well, 1:20:22.960 --> 1:20:25.680 I was just exposing this because you know as a whistleblower. Well, 1:20:25.680 --> 1:20:28.880 it's different if you're participating in it. Is the crux 1:20:28.960 --> 1:20:31.040 of the their argument or their defense going, hey, I 1:20:31.120 --> 1:20:33.400 presented this to management, showed them the video and they 1:20:33.439 --> 1:20:36.719 didn't do anything. If you post it on social after 1:20:36.760 --> 1:20:39.920 they refused to act on the complaint, does that then 1:20:39.960 --> 1:20:41.200 make it a whistleblower complaint? 1:20:42.840 --> 1:20:43.200 It could? 1:20:43.840 --> 1:20:44.040 Yeah. 1:20:44.200 --> 1:20:48.040 I mean going to your employer first and raising the 1:20:48.160 --> 1:20:51.840 concern I think would would would heighten the protection. 1:20:52.760 --> 1:20:56.120 Because you're, you know, it shows you have an interest 1:20:56.920 --> 1:20:57.960 in you. 1:20:58.000 --> 1:21:02.760 Know, protecting folks I guess from getting sick in that case. 1:21:02.920 --> 1:21:04.840 Right at the very least, it sounds like, you know, 1:21:04.920 --> 1:21:06.719 the common sense thing to do outside of the legal 1:21:06.760 --> 1:21:10.080 wranglings of this is to simply give the employer, give 1:21:10.080 --> 1:21:11.879 your employer a chance to remedy the situation. 1:21:13.439 --> 1:21:16.479 Yeah, I think that that certainly establishes an element of 1:21:16.560 --> 1:21:20.919 good faith rather than just you know, trying to cause problems, 1:21:21.040 --> 1:21:23.920 right if if you're trying to address the problem, uh, 1:21:24.160 --> 1:21:24.719 you know, make. 1:21:24.680 --> 1:21:25.400 Somebody aware of it. 1:21:25.680 --> 1:21:28.040 Yeah, that's and that's just common sense and has something 1:21:28.080 --> 1:21:29.960 to do with the law. The first step is going 1:21:30.000 --> 1:21:31.800 to your boss or your employers saying, hey, here's this 1:21:31.960 --> 1:21:34.760 is a problem. Why why are we doing this? Why 1:21:34.800 --> 1:21:36.679 am I shoveling snow art? Or why is this person 1:21:36.920 --> 1:21:38.560 I don't know, doing something in a kitchen at a 1:21:38.760 --> 1:21:41.040 at a fast food restaurant they shouldn't be doing. If 1:21:41.080 --> 1:21:44.840 they ignore that at workplace safety issues, then okay, then 1:21:44.960 --> 1:21:46.640 then you know you post it on social it's a 1:21:46.640 --> 1:21:50.200 different story entirely. All right, Well, it's an interesting interesting 1:21:50.280 --> 1:21:53.160 case for sure. George Rule at freaking Myers and Rule 1:21:53.200 --> 1:21:55.360 employment lawyers here in Cincinnati. All the best, George, thanks 1:21:55.400 --> 1:21:56.240 for jumping in this morning. 1:21:57.200 --> 1:21:58.560 Hey, thanks, good to talk to you. 1:21:58.720 --> 1:22:00.160 Yes, sir, be well, I hope you're well well. Chat 1:22:00.200 --> 1:22:02.280 again soon, because there's really something popping up in the workplace, 1:22:02.360 --> 1:22:04.720 that's for sure. There's news on the way in just 1:22:04.760 --> 1:22:07.840 a few minutes here on seven hundred WLW. And when 1:22:07.880 --> 1:22:10.840 we return now it's rather cold, but you may have 1:22:10.880 --> 1:22:11.720 a little cabin fever. 1:22:11.800 --> 1:22:12.280 I know I do. 1:22:12.400 --> 1:22:15.439 We actually with my wife having her knee done and 1:22:15.600 --> 1:22:17.800 finally ventured out and actually eat a meal out of 1:22:17.880 --> 1:22:20.640 the saloon castle last night. We're like, we got to 1:22:20.640 --> 1:22:22.679 get that out of here. A little bit of cabin fever. 1:22:22.840 --> 1:22:24.559 So if you want to venture out, dip that toe 1:22:24.600 --> 1:22:27.280 in the cold, what to do, where to go, what 1:22:27.439 --> 1:22:30.160 to see, what to eat, what to drink? Ali Martin 1:22:30.160 --> 1:22:32.360 and the Local Loop is coming up in just minutes 1:22:32.400 --> 1:22:34.200 here on the Scott's Loan Show on seven hundred W 1:22:34.400 --> 1:22:34.720 All day. 1:22:37.640 --> 1:22:40.160 The weekend's coming up and you need to make the 1:22:40.240 --> 1:22:40.800 most event. 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:42.560 Where to go and what to do? 1:22:43.080 --> 1:22:45.400 She has the tips and inside to help you make 1:22:45.439 --> 1:22:48.360 it a super weekend. So listen up. This is the 1:22:48.560 --> 1:22:52.520 Local Loop with Ali Martin on seven hundred WLW. 1:22:53.040 --> 1:22:58.200 Good morning, How are you be honest? I was contemplating 1:22:58.680 --> 1:23:00.439 why what the purpose of the segment is. No one 1:23:00.479 --> 1:23:01.599 wants to live their house right now? 1:23:01.760 --> 1:23:03.400 I know, I was thinking about that on my way 1:23:03.439 --> 1:23:05.920 and I'm like, okay, we really we need to support local. 1:23:06.200 --> 1:23:08.600 This is the tongue's ridiculous where you need to at 1:23:08.720 --> 1:23:11.160 least get out once once this week. 1:23:11.320 --> 1:23:13.040 Last night, you know, me and my wife, Tiny Tim, 1:23:13.400 --> 1:23:18.680 she goes, that's a new one, Tiny Tina with her 1:23:18.720 --> 1:23:20.920 bad and she's like, let's go out to eat it? 1:23:21.000 --> 1:23:21.639 Like what are you sure? 1:23:21.880 --> 1:23:22.960 Yeah, Like. 1:23:24.520 --> 1:23:25.000 She's like, I. 1:23:25.040 --> 1:23:26.400 Can't, I can't stay in anymore. 1:23:26.840 --> 1:23:29.080 She's she hit the point. But you're also like your 1:23:29.160 --> 1:23:31.880 liability because you you just had surgery. I know if 1:23:31.880 --> 1:23:33.680 you slip and fall, we don't have time to go 1:23:33.800 --> 1:23:36.439 back down cabin fever one and it was it was 1:23:36.520 --> 1:23:37.160 wonderful eating. 1:23:37.200 --> 1:23:39.040 I was like, COVID. It's like we haven't round so lungs, 1:23:39.080 --> 1:23:39.880 Like this is like COVID. 1:23:39.880 --> 1:23:40.360 Where'd you go? 1:23:41.160 --> 1:23:43.880 Just a corner of the bar and had a burger 1:23:43.960 --> 1:23:45.040 and a beer. I was happy. 1:23:45.200 --> 1:23:47.360 I feel like and the winter and Nicold has to 1:23:47.400 --> 1:23:49.080 be getting to you because as soon as I walk 1:23:49.120 --> 1:23:51.360 and I look at you wearing this matching jumpsuit, I 1:23:51.400 --> 1:23:53.880 thought you were about to use this is a music 1:23:54.000 --> 1:23:54.759 video recording? 1:23:55.320 --> 1:23:56.559 Is it in a jumpsuit? 1:23:56.720 --> 1:23:57.360 Is that what you call it. 1:23:57.600 --> 1:24:01.200 You're my idea. Yeah, I got my I didas I 1:24:01.280 --> 1:24:01.479 love it. 1:24:01.560 --> 1:24:04.320 It's magic, it says black and just playing side. 1:24:04.439 --> 1:24:05.680 I was going to work out after the show, so 1:24:05.720 --> 1:24:07.599 I'm like, I don't want to bring change of clothes 1:24:07.640 --> 1:24:09.160 because I put them in my bag, live in the 1:24:09.200 --> 1:24:11.360 car and nothing put a little better than putting frozen 1:24:11.439 --> 1:24:11.880 clothes up. 1:24:12.000 --> 1:24:14.680 Yeah, you're very trendy. Do you use the gym in 1:24:14.720 --> 1:24:15.080 the building. 1:24:15.520 --> 1:24:17.720 No, I'm going to go. Actually I'm doing because I'm old, 1:24:17.720 --> 1:24:20.919 I'm doing pilates. I'm trying to get you because. 1:24:20.720 --> 1:24:23.240 I thought you gave up on the plates game. I just. 1:24:25.240 --> 1:24:26.840 I know it's just like a bunch of old women 1:24:26.920 --> 1:24:28.840 and like it's I'd rather be more. 1:24:29.600 --> 1:24:32.040 There is a business idea if someone wants to do 1:24:32.720 --> 1:24:34.599 pilates more geared towards men. 1:24:35.560 --> 1:24:37.400 That could be I don't know what that would look 1:24:37.840 --> 1:24:39.920 in boxing to plates. 1:24:42.080 --> 1:24:44.200 I know the stretching. You're going to be journaling. 1:24:44.520 --> 1:24:49.360 I know I'm ready going to do it to buy 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:52.400 some organic kale. Hate my life right there. 1:24:52.439 --> 1:24:54.479 It's good for you, this is healthy? 1:24:55.200 --> 1:24:55.400 Yeah? 1:24:55.520 --> 1:24:59.639 Great anyway, Well because having hurt, so it's helping, it's helping. 1:24:59.680 --> 1:25:01.679 I can't you could just drink whiskey instead. 1:25:01.800 --> 1:25:05.320 Ooh, got ideas where whiskey weather it's always whisky is 1:25:05.400 --> 1:25:08.840 always especially bourbon weather is definitely this is bourbon west Yoh. 1:25:09.160 --> 1:25:11.360 Okay, so we need to talk about this if you're 1:25:11.400 --> 1:25:13.240 going to get out anywhere and you're a whiskey fan. 1:25:14.240 --> 1:25:17.800 I can actually thank boyfriend Brandon whiskey Weather for this 1:25:18.080 --> 1:25:20.640 tip off because he's been spending some time over at 1:25:21.000 --> 1:25:25.439 the Incline public House. Right so, Price Hill area, this 1:25:25.720 --> 1:25:29.000 might be the Inclined public House might be the best 1:25:29.120 --> 1:25:33.160 place for rare bourbon and whiskey poors when it comes 1:25:33.240 --> 1:25:37.400 to your price point. And do we need do we 1:25:37.439 --> 1:25:39.040 want to go over a little bit about you know 1:25:39.160 --> 1:25:39.639 in Clin. 1:25:39.640 --> 1:25:42.120 Podcast, what it's all about public house? 1:25:42.120 --> 1:25:44.640 All right, so over in Price Hill right back in 1:25:44.720 --> 1:25:49.679 the day. Price Hill started Incline in eighteen seventy four 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:53.240 and at the top of the hill there was an establishment, 1:25:54.000 --> 1:25:56.240 a bar and a restaurant and that closed in nineteen 1:25:56.320 --> 1:26:00.240 forty three and then this Price Hill Incline public House 1:26:00.360 --> 1:26:02.680 came to be. But the best part about this being 1:26:02.720 --> 1:26:04.719 on the west side, you have you have all the views. 1:26:04.800 --> 1:26:07.960 It's the panorama of the city. It's fourteen hundred square 1:26:08.000 --> 1:26:10.719 feet of the outdoors the indoors. The food is incredible, 1:26:10.800 --> 1:26:16.920 it's really scratch kitchen housemate smoker. Uh, incredible pizzas we have, yes, 1:26:17.000 --> 1:26:18.800 or I had a salad with the steak and their 1:26:18.840 --> 1:26:20.280 trouble fries are so good. 1:26:20.560 --> 1:26:21.360 The view is amazing. 1:26:21.400 --> 1:26:24.040 The view is amazing. It's a vibe. You know, if 1:26:24.040 --> 1:26:25.640 you don't have four wheel drive right now, it might 1:26:25.680 --> 1:26:27.720 be a little tough to get in and out of. 1:26:27.720 --> 1:26:30.200 Their hard Roger, just a little icy mane getting up 1:26:30.200 --> 1:26:30.479 that hill. 1:26:30.680 --> 1:26:33.800 Yes, but when you need to find parking on the 1:26:33.880 --> 1:26:34.360 side all. 1:26:34.280 --> 1:26:37.439 The summer, yeah, so barking is an issue right there. 1:26:37.479 --> 1:26:40.120 Parking is an issue anyway. Where we're going with this 1:26:40.360 --> 1:26:43.519 is the fact that their price point on their pores 1:26:44.040 --> 1:26:49.200 are incredible. So we'll take, for example, George T. Stag 1:26:50.000 --> 1:26:52.960 for a one ounce poor people. Could you know you 1:26:53.040 --> 1:26:54.760 could be like, oh, walking out with the one out 1:26:54.880 --> 1:26:58.120 poor potentially seventy five thirty dollars for one ounce poor 1:26:58.200 --> 1:27:02.240 for George T. Stag eagle rare seventeen fifty bucks. King 1:27:02.320 --> 1:27:05.519 of Kentucky. There have been places where we have seen 1:27:05.640 --> 1:27:08.840 King of Kentucky price at one hundred dollars or more 1:27:09.479 --> 1:27:14.880 forty eight bucks year sixteen years. King of Kentucky Old 1:27:14.960 --> 1:27:19.760 fits seventeen year, forty bucks. Okay, where were we the 1:27:19.800 --> 1:27:22.519 other day and they asked for ninety dollars for a poor? 1:27:22.800 --> 1:27:24.760 And we've also done some research and I'm not going 1:27:24.840 --> 1:27:27.840 to throw anybody under the bus, right, doing some comparison 1:27:28.360 --> 1:27:33.320 of other places around town, and it is crazy. Yeah, 1:27:33.520 --> 1:27:39.200 Thomas h Handy SAZARAQ. This one is incredibly priced fifteen dollars. 1:27:39.800 --> 1:27:42.439 Normally you're spending fifty to sixty bucks for an ounce 1:27:42.960 --> 1:27:43.400 poor there. 1:27:43.720 --> 1:27:45.720 Yeah, I hear that and go, I don't know if 1:27:45.760 --> 1:27:48.400 I like one hundred bucks or a one ounce poor. 1:27:48.840 --> 1:27:53.320 That's insane. But that's why this because we have experienced 1:27:53.360 --> 1:27:58.439 it ourselves where we're like, okay, you know, I want 1:27:58.479 --> 1:28:01.360 to be able to try some of these rare bourbons 1:28:01.400 --> 1:28:03.439 and whiskeys that I might not always get my hands on, 1:28:03.840 --> 1:28:07.800 but I also can't justify spending sixty seventy one hundred 1:28:07.800 --> 1:28:12.120 dollars for a poor. I could see between fifteen sometimes thirty, 1:28:12.200 --> 1:28:15.439 depending on what it is, and that's typically what the 1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:17.439 inclined public houses is pricing around. 1:28:17.720 --> 1:28:19.479 For me, It's like I don't know. I love I 1:28:19.640 --> 1:28:22.360 like bourbon a lot I do. It's my drink of choice, 1:28:22.520 --> 1:28:24.240 But I don't I'm not in the laying out that 1:28:24.360 --> 1:28:26.000 kind of money for one ounce, Like I don't know 1:28:26.000 --> 1:28:29.000 if my palette's good enough to go or something. I remember, Yeah, 1:28:29.040 --> 1:28:29.800 know what I mean or not? 1:28:29.880 --> 1:28:30.360 You know what I mean? 1:28:30.400 --> 1:28:32.120 I mean if I'll try it. But like I I 1:28:32.240 --> 1:28:33.280 fine drop that kind of money. 1:28:33.960 --> 1:28:34.760 I understand it. 1:28:35.200 --> 1:28:35.560 I get it. 1:28:35.680 --> 1:28:37.479 But at the same time there's people of people who 1:28:37.520 --> 1:28:40.800 are and who are on the hunt for it. Yeah, yeah, 1:28:42.240 --> 1:28:44.680 jam your spot, what was it? Jim Gaffickin had a 1:28:44.720 --> 1:28:46.400 whole bit in his last You've. 1:28:46.280 --> 1:28:48.040 Got gafficking money though, so it doesn't matter. 1:28:48.600 --> 1:28:52.080 Well, he talks about how he was using Jerry Seinfeld 1:28:52.200 --> 1:28:55.880 one night because Jerry's like, well, whatever you want, it's 1:28:55.960 --> 1:28:59.160 on me, all right, And he orders King of Kentucky 1:28:59.320 --> 1:29:02.080 and wherever he wherever they were at, it was like 1:29:02.160 --> 1:29:08.479 one hundred four hundred bucksupport. So that's in his bit. 1:29:08.680 --> 1:29:12.799 But there you go. For anybody who enjoys whiskey and enjoys, 1:29:13.000 --> 1:29:14.759 you know, maybe you don't want to commit to buying 1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:18.040 a three hundred dollars bottle of King of Kentucky. This 1:29:18.240 --> 1:29:20.680 is your chance to give it a give it a 1:29:20.800 --> 1:29:22.360 taste without breaking the bank. 1:29:22.920 --> 1:29:24.080 If you want it, and then you know it's for you. 1:29:24.320 --> 1:29:27.080 And it's exactly exactly well, and then good luck finding it. 1:29:27.200 --> 1:29:29.439 It's just it's such a great bar. It's just it's lovely. 1:29:29.640 --> 1:29:32.800 The vibes are right yep, yep, you could and if 1:29:32.800 --> 1:29:34.880 you want't to like drink there and the prima Vista 1:29:34.960 --> 1:29:37.960 is right there too. Yeah, it has not been to 1:29:38.000 --> 1:29:41.639 prem beautiful love the view. Food was good where they're 1:29:42.000 --> 1:29:45.400 a year ago. Nice, nice joints love, Prace sal I've 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:46.639 been Pryce So girls good. 1:29:46.560 --> 1:29:50.160 All right, praysal gurlies goes. Know the way you're dressed, though, 1:29:50.200 --> 1:29:54.519 I feel like you are ready for a cloff coffee 1:29:54.560 --> 1:29:57.479 club DJ session. Have you heard about the fact that 1:29:57.600 --> 1:30:02.080 these so coffee clubs are doing DJ sessions and raves 1:30:02.200 --> 1:30:04.920 during the day on Saturdays and Sundays. It's becoming a 1:30:05.000 --> 1:30:05.479 thing because it. 1:30:05.479 --> 1:30:07.720 Goes with the caffeine. I suppose you're caffeated up your 1:30:07.920 --> 1:30:08.559 raging anyway. 1:30:08.800 --> 1:30:11.719 Yeah, I really honestly think this is our millennial stamp 1:30:11.800 --> 1:30:15.000 in the world, because, as someone who has spent many 1:30:15.080 --> 1:30:17.200 two am nights out and about dancing on the dance 1:30:17.200 --> 1:30:20.479 floor jabs. Sometimes our bodies just can't do this anymore. 1:30:20.840 --> 1:30:22.800 So we're like, Okay, how do we drink coffee, listen 1:30:22.800 --> 1:30:23.160 to DJ? 1:30:23.360 --> 1:30:25.400 Yeah, and how do we maximize our day and not 1:30:25.520 --> 1:30:28.719 feel like total crap? And it's it's happened. 1:30:28.760 --> 1:30:31.360 I trying to figure this out because what two years 1:30:31.400 --> 1:30:33.800 ago we wanted that cruise and we're in Greece and 1:30:33.960 --> 1:30:35.600 like on the ship it was a great ship and 1:30:36.000 --> 1:30:38.640 loved it. Like we had this Mexican restaurant that was 1:30:38.680 --> 1:30:41.320 on board the ship. Yeah, and they had DJ and 1:30:41.400 --> 1:30:44.720 you couldn't have conversation with it because so loud. That's 1:30:44.720 --> 1:30:46.720 the most millennial thing ever, is like I'm just trying 1:30:46.720 --> 1:30:48.560 to eat a Really the food was fantastic. 1:30:48.760 --> 1:30:50.120 Is that a millennial thing or is it just like 1:30:50.200 --> 1:30:51.960 a bad No? 1:30:52.240 --> 1:30:53.439 Well, I don't know if it was because it was 1:30:53.479 --> 1:30:55.280 on a virgin cruise, so I don't know if that's 1:30:55.320 --> 1:30:58.920 more Richard Branson with the music maybe, Like I don't know, 1:30:58.960 --> 1:31:00.960 if you want to DJ, I mean allowed it was 1:31:01.040 --> 1:31:03.280 like a club, yeah, and I'm trying to eat and 1:31:03.320 --> 1:31:06.360 we're having a conversation like the day No, it's night. 1:31:07.040 --> 1:31:10.479 Okay it was night, but yeah, you guys love. There's 1:31:10.479 --> 1:31:14.920 two things malons. You you want craft beer everywhere, that's 1:31:15.120 --> 1:31:19.439 that's no. Yeah, and you bring your kids and you. 1:31:19.520 --> 1:31:22.400 Gotta keep yourselves safe and drinking. And problem is because 1:31:22.400 --> 1:31:24.439 you have a two parent working home and I. 1:31:24.520 --> 1:31:26.439 Guess, but I mean we had a two parent work 1:31:26.479 --> 1:31:28.200 at home and we never go out. It's like, I'm 1:31:28.280 --> 1:31:30.280 kind of jealous. Actually that's changed. 1:31:30.360 --> 1:31:30.800 I miss that. 1:31:34.240 --> 1:31:35.280 I breweries were created. 1:31:35.360 --> 1:31:37.519 Yeah, it's like, damn it. I couldn't before. You look like, well, 1:31:37.560 --> 1:31:38.840 you're not allowed to bring a kid in a bar. 1:31:38.960 --> 1:31:42.519 Now it's like it's called hard. You got play school 1:31:42.560 --> 1:31:44.320 stuff ling all over the place on top of the bar. 1:31:44.400 --> 1:31:45.479 I'm like, what what are we doing here? 1:31:45.600 --> 1:31:47.320 Legos are your accent. 1:31:47.479 --> 1:31:49.760 I'm here to drink to get away from kids, not 1:31:49.880 --> 1:31:52.280 be around more kids. That's the whole thing. 1:31:52.400 --> 1:31:54.160 I don't mind it as long as your kids aren't 1:31:54.360 --> 1:31:55.280 all up in my viz. 1:31:55.840 --> 1:31:57.439 They usually are running around screen. 1:31:57.479 --> 1:31:59.519 Maybe that's why the music is so loud, so you 1:31:59.560 --> 1:32:00.439 could buff for the sound. 1:32:01.200 --> 1:32:03.320 There's a couple, you know, birds in our house. I 1:32:03.360 --> 1:32:06.400 won't go to because all the time it's kids running 1:32:06.400 --> 1:32:08.880 around all over the place like I'm I'm trying to 1:32:08.920 --> 1:32:10.559 get half of the bag here, and you guys are 1:32:10.640 --> 1:32:11.280 ruining the vibe. 1:32:11.400 --> 1:32:13.439 So but here's the thing. On the cruise, right, was 1:32:13.479 --> 1:32:15.519 it late? Was it a late late dinner or was it? 1:32:15.680 --> 1:32:19.400 Don't remember? No, it was I don't know, maybe been 1:32:19.479 --> 1:32:20.120 like eight or nine. 1:32:21.680 --> 1:32:23.760 You know, I like to give the benefits of your 1:32:24.200 --> 1:32:24.719 time zone. 1:32:24.720 --> 1:32:26.880 I don't know times I'm going to cruise the middle 1:32:26.880 --> 1:32:28.400 of the ocean near Greece, I didn't know, I know 1:32:28.479 --> 1:32:28.960 what day it is. 1:32:29.120 --> 1:32:30.720 That's the point. They want to make you feel like 1:32:30.840 --> 1:32:32.240 you have absolutely no control. 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:34.920 It's nice, but it's like it seems like we got 1:32:35.000 --> 1:32:38.160 the DJ DJ at a coffee shop. Just seems if 1:32:38.160 --> 1:32:41.360 you're there. The most coffee shops, people are working or relaxing. Right, 1:32:41.439 --> 1:32:44.479 But this is this is the point, though, So what 1:32:44.720 --> 1:32:47.160 is the point. We didn't even get to the point. 1:32:47.240 --> 1:32:49.840 So this coffee club Cincinnati, first of all, it's happening 1:32:50.000 --> 1:32:52.519 this Saturday at eleven am to one thirty, and they, 1:32:53.000 --> 1:32:55.120 of course they're gonna be starting to espresso Martiniz and 1:32:55.160 --> 1:32:59.160 stuff like that. It's at Aces Pickleball so at Factory 1:32:59.280 --> 1:33:01.360 fifty two in North Would But you are also seeing 1:33:01.400 --> 1:33:04.479 it pop up in coffee shops as well. But what 1:33:04.720 --> 1:33:07.200 makes us really great is, you know, this isn't a 1:33:07.439 --> 1:33:10.639 dedicated coffee shop, so if you are a local coffee 1:33:10.800 --> 1:33:12.640 shop dweller and trying to get work done, you're not 1:33:12.840 --> 1:33:16.719 randomly stepping into a rave. But it's this point of like, Okay, 1:33:16.840 --> 1:33:18.960 you want to go out and grab coffee and maybe 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:22.519 socialize with some people, have a DJ dance. The space 1:33:22.600 --> 1:33:24.160 is big enough where you don't need to press your 1:33:24.200 --> 1:33:26.840 face right up against the speaker and feel the beats, 1:33:27.280 --> 1:33:29.800 you know, pump it through your body. That's what the 1:33:29.840 --> 1:33:33.760 caffeine is for. And they're bringing in local vendors, so 1:33:34.280 --> 1:33:36.439 this is your chaste to have, you know, espresso, Martini, 1:33:36.560 --> 1:33:39.400 Mimosa's cocktails, and it's a little bit of a mix 1:33:39.479 --> 1:33:42.519 and mingle. So this is a fun little twist where 1:33:43.000 --> 1:33:47.960 they are handing out optional green wristbands and this indicates 1:33:48.479 --> 1:33:51.960 that hey, you can't. Yeah, this is not a singles event, 1:33:52.040 --> 1:33:54.760 but potentially it could be that, Hey, I want to. 1:33:54.760 --> 1:33:59.160 Be hit on, so you if you choose to, I 1:33:59.200 --> 1:34:00.960 don't think it's a better Yeah, it's good because you 1:34:01.040 --> 1:34:02.600 know what you don't know the signals. 1:34:02.400 --> 1:34:06.120 Yeah, you don't know nowadays know. So Yeah, I'm like, 1:34:06.280 --> 1:34:08.760 I'm I'm a I'm a social butterfly and sometimes that 1:34:08.800 --> 1:34:09.479 could come across. 1:34:09.560 --> 1:34:13.280 Okay, you never know, got it? What's what's what's I'm 1:34:13.320 --> 1:34:13.960 attached red. 1:34:16.200 --> 1:34:24.280 That's a go away tattoo, don't to me. So there 1:34:24.320 --> 1:34:24.479 you go. 1:34:24.640 --> 1:34:24.880 Okay. 1:34:25.040 --> 1:34:26.320 I think you would fit in perfectly with. 1:34:26.360 --> 1:34:30.600 What we have each other when we come together and 1:34:30.680 --> 1:34:31.439 go read the. 1:34:31.520 --> 1:34:34.599 More power we have against our greatest health reread. 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Earlier this week? 1:36:31.120 --> 1:36:32.439 What happened? 1:36:33.360 --> 1:36:37.639 Yeah, the you know, the revenue missed forecasts a bit, 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:40.800 The guidance wasn't great but then you also had the 1:36:41.520 --> 1:36:46.640 news from the the you know, from Washington about you know, 1:36:46.720 --> 1:36:51.760 President Trump proposing that the reimbursement rates for Medicare advantage 1:36:51.760 --> 1:36:55.519 aren't going to go up all that much and at 1:36:55.600 --> 1:36:57.639 least the proposts for twenty twenty seven. And I think 1:36:57.840 --> 1:37:01.640 that really spooked a lot lot of investors. And we 1:37:01.760 --> 1:37:05.639 saw not just United Help Shares tumble on that news, 1:37:05.800 --> 1:37:11.120 but CBS, which owns Etna. You saw Humana get hit, 1:37:11.240 --> 1:37:14.679 a couple of the other smaller, you know, Medicare focused 1:37:14.760 --> 1:37:19.320 insurers like Sentien and Alena, also you know, getting hit 1:37:19.400 --> 1:37:23.200 Anthem owner Elevents as well. So it was just a 1:37:23.560 --> 1:37:27.560 very difficult time for the the insurers, you know, in 1:37:27.640 --> 1:37:31.320 light of that. And now you know, it went from 1:37:31.360 --> 1:37:34.000 being the darling of the Dow, the company that at 1:37:34.080 --> 1:37:38.000 the highest price by far, to you know, kind of 1:37:38.040 --> 1:37:39.559 middle of the pack, but it still has a high 1:37:39.640 --> 1:37:41.800 enough price that it impacts the Dow. Because what was 1:37:41.880 --> 1:37:44.600 interesting on you know, the news was the rest of 1:37:44.680 --> 1:37:46.160 the market held up relatively well. 1:37:47.560 --> 1:37:50.760 Paul helped me reconcile these two ideas then that are 1:37:50.800 --> 1:37:54.519 in my head for pretty much the last thirty five years. 1:37:54.600 --> 1:37:58.840 One of the most consistent investments in terms of performance 1:37:59.280 --> 1:38:03.160 has been healthy insurance, specifically United Health, like they just 1:38:03.439 --> 1:38:07.840 cranked from basically nineteen ninety onward. How do I reconcile 1:38:07.960 --> 1:38:10.880 that with the fact that now this is a pretty 1:38:11.040 --> 1:38:14.800 hostile environment for insurers across the board, not just doing 1:38:14.840 --> 1:38:18.240 at health insurance. Like everyone's talking about insurance costs and 1:38:18.320 --> 1:38:21.280 we're talking about you know, capping them and figuring out 1:38:21.400 --> 1:38:25.120 you know, reimbursement rates and this and that. Is this 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.800 a fundamentally different environment than just a year or two ago, 1:38:29.680 --> 1:38:33.280 Or is this just a little not little blip, but 1:38:33.360 --> 1:38:35.720 you know, some kind of speed bump and then these 1:38:35.760 --> 1:38:38.120 guys resume they're regularly scheduled programming. 1:38:38.800 --> 1:38:39.040 Yeah. 1:38:39.120 --> 1:38:43.400 I don't know if this is going to be you know, 1:38:44.479 --> 1:38:47.800 the industry getting back to the way it used to be. 1:38:48.120 --> 1:38:54.360 I mean, you have a pretty vocal, you know, anti 1:38:54.840 --> 1:38:58.639 insurer sentiment I think in DC. And this is by parison, 1:38:58.760 --> 1:39:01.840 this is by no means just President Trump and the 1:39:01.920 --> 1:39:04.760 Republican Party. I think a lot of Democrats, you know, 1:39:05.000 --> 1:39:12.000 clearly are a very hostile towards this industry as well. 1:39:12.360 --> 1:39:17.320 And you know, is something that is you know, a 1:39:17.560 --> 1:39:20.880 very easy political win because you know, you're not going 1:39:20.960 --> 1:39:25.280 to find too many people who you know look at 1:39:25.320 --> 1:39:28.920 their you know, doctors bills and say, yeah, I love 1:39:29.120 --> 1:39:30.160 my health insurance. 1:39:30.200 --> 1:39:31.240 Wish I could pay more? 1:39:32.280 --> 1:39:36.400 Yes, yes, definitely they deserve a lot more. Uh, this 1:39:36.600 --> 1:39:38.639 is not something that I think is going to change. 1:39:38.960 --> 1:39:40.400 Any time you. 1:39:40.520 --> 1:39:43.840 Take the bread becomes the vessel to put the super 1:39:44.000 --> 1:39:47.280 Think a toddler eating for the first time. You thought 1:39:47.280 --> 1:39:48.920 I was like trying to explain a car trick to 1:39:48.960 --> 1:39:50.720 a dog. You think that man has ever cooked a 1:39:50.760 --> 1:39:51.400 meal in his legs. 1:39:51.439 --> 1:39:51.760 I don't know. 1:39:52.000 --> 1:39:53.599 I don't know, but it was funny, Like you love 1:39:54.000 --> 1:39:56.840 he loves soup. He's a soup guy. Oh yeah, this 1:39:56.960 --> 1:39:58.680 kind of weather soup. I'm with him. 1:39:58.960 --> 1:40:00.599 What how about the French onions. 1:40:01.160 --> 1:40:03.160 I'm good with a good French extra cheese. 1:40:03.680 --> 1:40:05.559 It's really hard to find a good friend get a good. 1:40:05.479 --> 1:40:09.240 Koton or whether that slice of bread on top, that's good, a. 1:40:09.240 --> 1:40:11.880 Good French onion soup. So if anybody has some recos. 1:40:11.560 --> 1:40:15.880 Your girl tip said, the solid, solid French onion, that's 1:40:15.920 --> 1:40:18.519 about it. That's you get a really good French onion, 1:40:18.720 --> 1:40:20.960 That's what I'm talking about, or a good I love 1:40:21.000 --> 1:40:25.560 a good lobster bisk too creamy. Really yeah, I'm not 1:40:25.600 --> 1:40:26.400 a creamy soup guy. 1:40:26.520 --> 1:40:26.800 You're not. 1:40:27.200 --> 1:40:29.800 It's got to be a I am a creamy soup cow. 1:40:29.960 --> 1:40:30.120 Yeah. 1:40:30.120 --> 1:40:31.719 I don't like clam chowder. 1:40:32.240 --> 1:40:34.400 Gotta I get it, you get it. Did a chicken 1:40:34.479 --> 1:40:37.960 yoki the other day. Did a tuskin kale soup the 1:40:38.040 --> 1:40:39.400 other day with beans. Was great. 1:40:39.560 --> 1:40:40.519 A chicken yoki soup. 1:40:40.600 --> 1:40:42.479 Oh yeah, solid old pick. 1:40:42.560 --> 1:40:43.280 I'm here to support you. 1:40:43.360 --> 1:40:46.760 Soup days, baby soup days. And speaking of my real 1:40:46.880 --> 1:40:49.360 quick Dorothy Land Market and Mason I stopped the other 1:40:49.439 --> 1:40:52.560 day and they had ramen broth. They sold there on 1:40:52.680 --> 1:40:54.840 ramen broth. Okay, so it was really good, you know 1:40:54.920 --> 1:40:57.519 I was, but it was fantastic. 1:40:57.600 --> 1:40:59.800 If you want one of the best ramens in this 1:41:00.040 --> 1:41:04.040 any zoon, do downtown. They are incredible. And then there's 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:06.240 also a joint over in East Walmut my neck of 1:41:06.280 --> 1:41:10.000 the woods, and they did a scott that for I 1:41:10.040 --> 1:41:11.200 don't know if they still have it on the menu, 1:41:11.280 --> 1:41:12.760 but they did a skyline. 1:41:13.200 --> 1:41:17.479 Ramap oh skram we're talking about that's yeah, I don't 1:41:17.479 --> 1:41:19.960 know what it is. Unquiva soup weather. So the soup 1:41:20.000 --> 1:41:22.200 places are they're making their hey, right now, Ali Martin, 1:41:22.240 --> 1:41:25.000 Local Loop, Ali Martin eight YouTube channel of course, as 1:41:25.040 --> 1:41:26.760 well the good drama with Alie Martin, she Pops and 1:41:26.800 --> 1:41:28.920 Fridays with the Local Loop. All the best, Stay warm, 1:41:29.520 --> 1:41:30.840 good luck. I got to go meet up with the 1:41:30.880 --> 1:41:33.559 Beastie Boys. We got to show tonight. Seven hundred ww