Speaker 1: Little bit. Let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we uh, we have a couple of guests. I
Speaker 2: got us a guy from Green Bay tomorrow. And see
Speaker 2: how frightened they.
Speaker 1: Are up there. Oh, there's there's they're up scared. We
Speaker 1: got the beat reporter scared of that slow footed four
Speaker 1: year old man.
Speaker 2: I saw him scramble. And you're right, But Jason, let's
Speaker 2: talk about the matters at hand. And we're all hearing,
Speaker 2: we're all confused about what's going on in Gaza, Israel,
Speaker 2: that whole thing right there. What in the world is
Speaker 2: going on? And is two years after the after the
Speaker 2: two years that awful attack. But Trump's saying any day now,
Speaker 2: any day now, after promising it would be taken care
Speaker 2: of almost immediately, and of course it hasn't gone on
Speaker 2: a week now, right, But but now Trump is saying,
Speaker 2: we're really close. Well let's I'm wondering how close we are.
Speaker 2: So let's talk to an expert in the matters in
Speaker 2: this matter. He is from Tarleton State University. He is
Speaker 2: doctor Bocabala from the Legal Studies of Philosophy Department, Government
Speaker 2: department down there as well. And doctor Kabala, welcome to
Speaker 2: the program.
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Great to be here.
Speaker 2: So what are we looking at here? Obviously it's confusing
Speaker 2: to all of us in this part of the world.
Speaker 2: How is it really close? In your opinion?
Speaker 4: You know, and I think you're right to sound a
Speaker 4: note of skepticism. You've got some of that actors here
Speaker 4: before who obviously have a record of committing horrific acts.
Speaker 4: Hamas back no doubt by Iran. But I will say
Speaker 4: to me the fact that it's Donald Trump and Steve
Speaker 4: Wiitcuff is involved, very unconventionalotiating style. He's been willing to
Speaker 4: talk to the Israeli government in a very direct way.
Speaker 4: You've got the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez involved, You've
Speaker 4: got the moderate Islamic state of Cutter facilitating some of
Speaker 4: the conversations, getting the teams that Trump President Trump assembles.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stay cautiously optimistic here, maybe for a few
Speaker 4: more days.
Speaker 1: Doctor Kual. I just find the whole thing fascinating, even
Speaker 1: from the sense of being in a room negotiating, their
Speaker 1: negotiating at a resort in Egypt, and just the fact
Speaker 1: that there's the representatives from Israel are in a room
Speaker 1: with a militant group, a terrorist organization like that alone
Speaker 1: just kind of blows my mind in a sense that like, like,
Speaker 1: how are they even guarantees that, like things don't get
Speaker 1: violent even in that Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's really mind boggling. And it's not your
Speaker 4: typical negotiation scenario, I will say, And I go back
Speaker 4: to this uncanny ability that President Trump seems to have
Speaker 4: to attract people into a conversation, at least who you
Speaker 4: might think have diametrically upposite views. So I'm thinking about
Speaker 4: how strong he's been for Israel, moving the capital in
Speaker 4: line with you know, to Jerusalem, just being as strong
Speaker 4: as he has, and then at the same time, just
Speaker 4: in the US domestically, he's able to attract the support
Speaker 4: of the first Muslim mayor of a town in Michigan.
Speaker 4: So there's something about the way he speaks to different parties.
Speaker 4: He carried on diplomacy with North Korea. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: originally from Eastern Europe, and so when Ronald Reagan talked
Speaker 4: to you know, Gorbachev, many people were skeptical about that.
Speaker 4: I think this is even harder because, as you're saying,
Speaker 4: you've got a fanatical group, you know, Hamas going back
Speaker 4: to nineteen eighty seven, all kinds of links to the
Speaker 4: Islamic Brotherhood and they're a fanatical group.
Speaker 1: Rational choice does not apply.
Speaker 4: And yet if anybody can do it, I think maybe
Speaker 4: President Trump, Steve Witkoff and Prime Minister net Yahoo can
Speaker 4: can get us to some kind of lasting piece.
Speaker 2: We're talking to doctor Bocabala and Doc where where do
Speaker 2: you think the sticking point is right now? And they
Speaker 2: hasn't Hamas agreed to release the hostages. And I think
Speaker 2: that's been a big sticking point all along. I don't
Speaker 2: know the last on that, so.
Speaker 4: There's been that sticking point. I think, maybe even more
Speaker 4: acute at this point, the insistence, and I think the
Speaker 4: correct insistence on the American Israeli side, that Hamas have
Speaker 4: no part in any future governance in Gaza. You know,
Speaker 4: I think that's a sticking point right now. I think
Speaker 4: it's an interesting negotiating strategy to come to an agreement
Speaker 4: on general principles which appears to have taken place, and
Speaker 4: the hostages will be released tragically. It appears that there's
Speaker 4: twenty remaining live hostages, so gosh, yeah, we have to
Speaker 4: work out the details and there's all the reason in
Speaker 4: the world, all the historical reasons to suppose that might
Speaker 4: be the hardest lift. But in terms of the broad agreement,
Speaker 4: hostages are released, conflict comes to an end. At least
Speaker 4: that general framework is in place.
Speaker 1: Are any of the remaining twenty hostages living Americans? You know,
Speaker 1: I can't speak to that at the moment.
Speaker 4: I think it's forty five forty six total that COMOS
Speaker 4: is still holding in twenty or are lives out of
Speaker 4: the original two hundred and fifty? You know, I just
Speaker 4: can't imagine the terror that you know that days years ago.
Speaker 4: So but let me check on that and I'll get back.
Speaker 2: To you, a doctor in your in your opinion, eyeball
Speaker 2: on this from you know, obviously we're a long way away.
Speaker 2: But uh, do you see this thing getting settled any time?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know ask you to put a
Speaker 2: time frame on it, but in the next week, two weeks, month.
Speaker 1: Or so, you know. Uh.
Speaker 4: And not to keep pivoting back to the fact that
Speaker 4: it's President Trump, but you know, I forget which political
Speaker 4: philosopher says, and there's probably a few in the in
Speaker 4: the cannon, so to speak, who say you know, if
Speaker 4: you're threatening overwhelming force, be ready to use it. And
Speaker 4: so I think net Yahoo has applied that in Gaza.
Speaker 4: President Trump, I don't think there's any question that you know,
Speaker 4: he's he's not just willing to speak very directly, He's
Speaker 4: he's willing to back up what he says with direct actions.
Speaker 4: So my guess is, you know, there's been questions about
Speaker 4: the timetable of you know, Russia, Ukraine, and and he
Speaker 4: seems to have sort of distanced himself a little bit
Speaker 4: from what's going on in Eastern Europe. My sense here
Speaker 4: is two weeks, three weeks. He's pushing as hard as possible.
Speaker 4: Steve Wickcuff is pushing as as.
Speaker 1: Hard as possible.
Speaker 4: So I'm hearing two three weeks would would be a
Speaker 4: realistic time frame.
Speaker 2: All right, with that, doctor Kabbala, we will let you go.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1: So much, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate it, Doctor Bocabala, Tarlton State University, And dude,
Speaker 2: I you know all that international politics and stuff that
Speaker 2: has been going on from some of these groups for
Speaker 2: literally thousands of years, you know, the Palestinian, Israeli, all
Speaker 2: of that Middle East stuff that boggles my mind. I
Speaker 2: have no comprehension how it all goes. I'm sorry to
Speaker 2: be ignorant on it, but it's never affected my life.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, I'm not Jewish or any you know,
Speaker 2: I had no connection to either one of those cultures,
Speaker 2: so I haven't really paid a lot of attention. It's
Speaker 2: obviously awful. You don't want to see these people, you know,
Speaker 2: these ancient enemies going on it forever. But it's been
Speaker 2: going on forever, you know.
Speaker 1: And then you know you and you read about that
Speaker 1: Hamas wants a lasting ceasefire and for Israel to withdraw
Speaker 1: completely from Gaza, and it's like that. But then on
Speaker 1: the flipside, what did what did Hamas do two years ago?
Speaker 1: Like it is incredibly complex, sad deep deep, deep deep,
Speaker 1: you know deep hatred. Really, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Jason Williams from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot Com is with us,
Speaker 2: and Buddy, you and I are going to be down
Speaker 2: at this this River Roots thing tomorrow. We're going to
Speaker 2: live at the at the ovation, so I hear. I'm
Speaker 2: real curious and it's it's funny where deb and I
Speaker 2: live now. I have I can see the I have
Speaker 2: a view of the river and I saw one of
Speaker 2: those giant boats going up the river today. It looks
Speaker 2: pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, this is it's similar to the old Tall
Speaker 1: Stacks festival. Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're they're advertising as tall Stacks on steroids. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. If you have a
Speaker 2: hovercraft coming in from outer space that's going to glide
Speaker 2: up the river, I'm not sure about it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you my colleague at The Inquired, Jeff's Jeff Ceze,
Speaker 1: has done some nice, nice historical pieces on this stuff.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I was reading I was reading something. We're
Speaker 2: going to have it on the show tomorrow, believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: And yeah, this uh ovation on the River, I'm real
Speaker 2: curious to check this place out too. It's that whole
Speaker 2: new kind of condo complex and bars and restaurants and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So where they were talking at one point about building
Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati Stadium. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was kind of I remember that being
Speaker 2: kicked around that same area.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: That's the well they've been talking about. They talked about
Speaker 2: building a lot of stuff down there, didn't they They did?
Speaker 1: I think at one point probably someone through out all
Speaker 1: we could build a new arena here.
Speaker 2: See, that's that's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: it made a hell of a lot of sense, to
Speaker 2: be honest, with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a cool spot in the way
Speaker 1: that you can just sort of sits just slightly over
Speaker 1: the river bank, and you know, you can see that
Speaker 1: all of downtown Cincinnati now.
Speaker 2: In your mind, because I was reading about it today
Speaker 2: that I never thought this would happen up in Cleveland,
Speaker 2: but there it looks like that Brown Stadium is going
Speaker 2: to be moved north of town. Yes, they got there
Speaker 2: clear and they're clearing the deck on that Haslam's got
Speaker 2: way too much money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a snag where like the building was
Speaker 1: going to be too high for the airport. That's been
Speaker 1: cleared immediately. Yeah. Yeah, Like I know some people were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that may see, and that's the government's going to make
Speaker 1: a tweak for that, and and they did.
Speaker 2: That's the reason I think that the next football stadium
Speaker 2: should be built either. I'm going to go north of
Speaker 2: town simply because it can become more accessible to the
Speaker 2: folks from Dayton. I mean, being a Dayton guy growing
Speaker 2: up there, I know a ton of Bengals fans from Dayton. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: obviously there are a lot of Bengals fans in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: But you know where you're going to put it because
Speaker 2: there's kind of a no man's land once you get
Speaker 2: past Forest Florence Mall and so, but between here and Dayton,
Speaker 2: obviously that's just become a corridor.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've given us a lot of thought, and I've
Speaker 1: written about it and other places that I visited. And
Speaker 1: the NFL really is suited for a suburban, big old greenfield,
Speaker 1: big slab of conker flat concrete out in the suburbs
Speaker 1: where you can just have all of your tailgating right there.
Speaker 1: It's not crunched, it's easy in and out. You look
Speaker 1: at you know, look at Buffalo, look at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Kansas City is a great model. And that place has
Speaker 1: been around since the seventies.
Speaker 2: See, let me ask you about that, because I've always
Speaker 2: heard that what exactly is the lake it is it's
Speaker 2: just part flat out parking for a mileor two, all right,
Speaker 2: It's just this stadium and this mat surrounded by this
Speaker 2: just incredibly massive parking lot. And then I don't know
Speaker 2: fifty yards away is the Royal Stadium, and then another
Speaker 2: right beyond the Royal Stadium is I seventy. And that
Speaker 2: you're in and out, and you know there's some city
Speaker 2: streets kind of on the backsides of the of the
Speaker 2: of the of the big massive parking lot. But it's
Speaker 2: really it's easy access right off and on of I seventy.
Speaker 1: It's a big old flat, just slab of concrete and
Speaker 1: and look bait, you know it's Baseball was really good
Speaker 1: for downtown because you know, there's not the tailgating and
Speaker 1: it's the history or the history piece of it. But
Speaker 1: football is made for you gotta have space for tailgating,
Speaker 1: and you gotta have easy in and out because of
Speaker 1: the size of the crowds, and it's best suited to
Speaker 1: be in the suburbs in my opinion, I agree with that.
Speaker 2: Well, coming up next, speaking of messes, the airline industry
Speaker 2: right now is all kinds of wacka do with the
Speaker 2: government shutdown going on. If you're flying here in the
Speaker 2: next day or two, good luck.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, thank goodness, we got. I got. I flew
Speaker 1: back from LA last Thursday because I was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: this is coming, and I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to fly.
Speaker 2: Well that's the reason. Rocks and Night here today he's
Speaker 2: got a football game to I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: the night or tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Night in.
Speaker 2: Georgia Southern which I suppose to we didn't talk about,
Speaker 2: but I assume he flew into Atlanta, so I'll be
Speaker 2: real curious to see about his tales getting back here.
Speaker 2: But we're going to talk to our good friend Jay Ratliffe.
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Speaker 9: The government shut down now into its second week, and
Speaker 9: there's been no progress on Capitol Hill to pass a budget.
Speaker 9: Lawmakers at odds as Democrats want negotiations on extending tax
Speaker 9: credits for the Affordable Care Act and rolling back recent
Speaker 9: GOP Medicaid cuts, but Republicans refuse to negotiate until the
Speaker 9: shutdown ends. Staffing levels among air traffic controllers being impacted.
Speaker 12: It's not just the towers at the individual airports. It's
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Speaker 12: the skies from one facility but control planes over several
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Speaker 9: While many federal workers go without paychecks, members of Congress
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Speaker 2: I suspended my pay immediately. Yeah, I think lawmakers should
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Speaker 9: But there are some like Ohio Congressman Greg Landsman, who
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Speaker 2: All right, back with Eddie and Jason Williams in for
Speaker 2: Rocky Today. So, Jace, we've been hearing all this. You
Speaker 2: were just flying and you just got none just in time.
Speaker 2: None of this got you, eh No.
Speaker 1: I got back last Thursday from LA when the Reds
Speaker 1: were playing out there and mostly pretty smooth.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk to kind of break it down for
Speaker 2: us in case people haven't heard. The air traffic control
Speaker 2: situation right now, is I, shall we say, discombobulated to
Speaker 2: discuss as our good friend Jay rat left, our aviation
Speaker 2: expert here at the radio station. And Jay, is there
Speaker 2: any hope to pull all this together? Is it just
Speaker 2: a matter of this of the whole shutdown thing going away?
Speaker 17: Well, Eddiot, it's not really the shutdown that's doing. It's contributing.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, because and here's why I say that. First
Speaker 17: of all, yes, the Burbank Airport didn't have the staffing
Speaker 17: levels that needed, so they had to shut it down
Speaker 17: and a nearby air traffic control center took over, so
Speaker 17: it's handling the arrivals, departures, et cetera. That's how it's
Speaker 17: supposed to happen if you have an issue of staffing
Speaker 17: or if there's a technical issue. The other situation we
Speaker 17: had was in the Nashville where there were delays of
Speaker 17: a couple of hours due to staffing. And of course
Speaker 17: the headlines are screaming it's the shutdown, it's President Trump,
Speaker 17: blah blah blah blah blah, all the other stuff. But
Speaker 17: what you need to understand, and most people wouldn't because
Speaker 17: you don't follow it, is that in the last nine months,
Speaker 17: we've had one thousand occasions where air traffic control centers
Speaker 17: have been shut down. Oh so this is something that's ongoing,
Speaker 17: and it's pretty much being driven by the shortage of
Speaker 17: air traffic controllers that we have. So it's happened frequently,
Speaker 17: and I can say a lot more in number than
Speaker 17: what we've had here just up late. But it's being
Speaker 17: created now in more in the spotlight because you have
Speaker 17: these men and women that are the air traffic controllers
Speaker 17: that on Tuesday of next week they're going to get
Speaker 17: a partial paycheck. Then two weeks later on the twenty eighth,
Speaker 17: they're not gonna get any paycheck. As this continues, and
Speaker 17: many of them have secondary jobs. So if you've got
Speaker 17: a job of whatever it happens to be, that you
Speaker 17: can go to work and get paid, or show up
Speaker 17: somewhere where you can work and work and work and
Speaker 17: get paid at a later date, or take sick time
Speaker 17: where you know you might get paid later and work
Speaker 17: the other job. You've got to have money coming in.
Speaker 17: So a lot of these men and women are saying, look,
Speaker 17: I don't want to do it, but I'm gonna call
Speaker 17: in sick so I can go work another job that
Speaker 17: I can get the money to pay the rent, the
Speaker 17: groceries and those kinds of things. Guys, I can't say
Speaker 17: that I necessarily would blame them given the situation that
Speaker 17: so many people are in where you know how many
Speaker 17: people can go for two, three, four, five, six weeks
Speaker 17: without a paycheck. That causes a lot of problems. So
Speaker 17: we've seen this happen before, and the problem is, of course,
Speaker 17: with this being so short with regards to the air
Speaker 17: traffic controllers, who are worse still thousands of the positions
Speaker 17: behind as far as getting caught back up, and that's
Speaker 17: going to take a number of years. This situation just
Speaker 17: becomes a lot more critical right now because we have
Speaker 17: such a thin bench to pull from, and I tell you,
Speaker 17: we're six weeks away from the busiest travel week of
Speaker 17: the year. So yeah, we got to get this fixed
Speaker 17: and get it fixed soon. But again, when you're seeing
Speaker 17: these airport FAA shutdowns, it bothers me when I hear
Speaker 17: some of the media or the headline screaming as though
Speaker 17: this has never happened before and it's indicative of a
Speaker 17: catastrophe waiting to happen. No, we've had it happen, as
Speaker 17: I've indicated nearly a thousand times in just the last
Speaker 17: nine months.
Speaker 1: So, Jay, with the federal government, and maybe this is
Speaker 1: too simplistic of a question, but you're the expert on this.
Speaker 1: The federal government is shut down, So then why is
Speaker 1: anyone even why wouldn't just all airports be shut down
Speaker 1: right now? Like, is there a special carve out for
Speaker 1: a certain amount of air traffic?
Speaker 17: FAA employees are yeah, you've got about let's use round numbers, Jason,
Speaker 17: fifty thousand people that work for the FAA, and about
Speaker 17: eleven thousand of them would be considered non essential, although
Speaker 17: I would prefer to classify him as less essential, not
Speaker 17: non essential, but less essential. So those people have been furloughed.
Speaker 17: Everybody else is working as you would normally work. Because
Speaker 17: when you look at the aviation industry, it represents about
Speaker 17: five percent of the GDP of our country, so it's
Speaker 17: a huge economic engine.
Speaker 1: You want to keep going because you've.
Speaker 17: Got the movement of passengers, cargo, freight, mail, all that
Speaker 17: stuff that has to take place, and we really want
Speaker 17: to make sure that it doesn't shut down for any reason.
Speaker 17: So that's one of the reasons it's looked at as
Speaker 17: a necessary service because of the fact that you have it. Now,
Speaker 17: there's something called the Essential Air Service the EAES, where
Speaker 17: there's a number of airports around the country that are
Speaker 17: considered underutilized. They don't have an adequate number of commercial service,
Speaker 17: So the government actually subsidizes airlines to fly into these
Speaker 17: smaller areas, these airports around the country where they're just
Speaker 17: not served, and they wouldn't be served because airlines can't
Speaker 17: go in there and make any money. So what they
Speaker 17: do is they can receive a subsidy from the government
Speaker 17: to go in so that there's air service in and
Speaker 17: out of a lot of these airports. We see a
Speaker 17: lot of it in Alaska and other states across the country.
Speaker 17: But the problem is they're going to run out of
Speaker 17: money for that, I think on Sunday. So I'll be
Speaker 17: interested to see if all of those airports are then
Speaker 17: ceased as far as any air service, or if they'll
Speaker 17: find a way to keep that going, because yeah, as
Speaker 17: I understand, it's the funding on that would run out
Speaker 17: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So Jay, we're talking to Jay Ratlifan. Jay, what kind
Speaker 2: of markets are we talking there? Are you talking your
Speaker 2: I don't know, Missoula, Montana's your Fargos, that type of thing.
Speaker 17: Yeah, they're very small airports that are remotely located and
Speaker 17: eddy the way they've done it, and it's been it's
Speaker 17: been a number of years since I've been where I
Speaker 17: could quote chapter and verse on the Essential Air Service Program.
Speaker 17: But if it's not within a specific set of miles
Speaker 17: from another airport a larger city, but some other secondary
Speaker 17: site that could be pulled upon in the event of
Speaker 17: an emergency or something, then that's pretty much why it
Speaker 17: would be be covered under the subsidy. We used to
Speaker 17: have a lot of these sub steas in the eighties
Speaker 17: and they went away over the course of time, but
Speaker 17: we've got a number that are still there and they're
Speaker 17: needed because, look, airlines are not gonna fly in and
Speaker 17: out of these somebody smaller remote areas unless.
Speaker 1: They can make money.
Speaker 17: That makes perfect sense. So if the government can say, look,
Speaker 17: we will pay you, you know, not to get rich,
Speaker 17: but we will pay it to make it worth your
Speaker 17: while to operate commercial air service in and out of
Speaker 17: these remote areas. We need to do so because we're
Speaker 17: trying to accommodate the you know, the people that are
Speaker 17: in that part of the of the country, and it's
Speaker 17: a needed program. I'm not big on subsidies at all,
Speaker 17: but in a situation like this, where I know airlines
Speaker 17: would not be there without it, it's good to see
Speaker 17: because we've seen it happen before, where when the subsidies
Speaker 17: run out, the airlines say I'm sorry, but we can't
Speaker 17: stick around, and out they go, and you're left with
Speaker 17: an airport that is either no air service or maybe
Speaker 17: just one, and the fares are so high it makes
Speaker 17: it almost impossible for the average person to fly.
Speaker 1: Right here, right here at Home Jay, at CBG, the
Speaker 1: Dayton Airport, even you know some of the other airports
Speaker 1: around that, you know, Greater Cincinnati Dayton folks fly out
Speaker 1: of any concern about disaffecting flights in and out of
Speaker 1: those airports. At this point in.
Speaker 17: Time, though, from everything that I'm seeing, in fact, I
Speaker 17: think we're pretty pretty set here in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 17: and if I include Cincinnati and on that as far
Speaker 17: as in Kentucky, I think we're in good, good hands.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 17: That doesn't mean it can't change. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 17: on a given day there might be a shortage that
Speaker 17: would cause for some sort of a situation to occur
Speaker 17: to change where we might see flight activity impacted. We
Speaker 17: just don't know. But you know, the problem is, if
Speaker 17: all of this is in fact being generated by a
Speaker 17: lack of an inadequate number of air traffic controllers, it's
Speaker 17: going to take us a number of years to get
Speaker 17: everything back where it should be. In fact, the President
Speaker 17: Trump's made it one of his priorities to increase the
Speaker 17: number of people going through the program. That's good to see,
Speaker 17: but the problem is that we're running out of instructors.
Speaker 17: They can train these men and women, and from the
Speaker 17: time somebody steps in the door to become air traffic
Speaker 17: controller day one, it could be four to five years
Speaker 17: before they're in their post, working by themselves and ready
Speaker 17: to assume the full responsibilities of their position. So it's
Speaker 17: nothing you can speed up. There's no way to collapse
Speaker 17: those time frames to any significance where we're going to
Speaker 17: be able to see some immediate relief. Now, the President
Speaker 17: did talk about bringing in some air traffic controllers from
Speaker 17: other countries to help the trick, to try to build
Speaker 17: up the numbers. That would be good. I know in
Speaker 17: previous shutdowns we have gone towards military air traffic controllers
Speaker 17: that have come in at certain airports and assisted during
Speaker 17: the time to try to help keep things rolling. So
Speaker 17: there are some options, there are not many, and they're
Speaker 17: not anything really to get excited about, because you know,
Speaker 17: you're just patching things up and it's not like you
Speaker 17: can pull air traffic controllers from Dallas to put them
Speaker 17: in Burbank, or bring people out of Memphis and put
Speaker 17: them over in Nashville, because all you're doing is reducing
Speaker 17: the head count these airports, and you know, We had
Speaker 17: one airport in Europe that had one air traffic controller.
Speaker 17: Planes are coming into land and they can't because the
Speaker 17: air traffic controller fell asleep. He was asleep for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Jay to switch gears here just for a second.
Speaker 2: You send me a text right before we went on
Speaker 2: the air a little while ago.
Speaker 17: And you and I am what pressured medicine time?
Speaker 2: Right, you and I have talked about you had made
Speaker 2: You made the comment and the text actually that you
Speaker 2: and I had joked about it before. And it's true.
Speaker 2: If the airlines then they can figure out a way
Speaker 2: to charge them for something. They're going to now this
Speaker 2: latest one, do tell what's going to happen next.
Speaker 17: West Jet that's the low cost carrier in Canada, kind
Speaker 17: of their version of Southwest, but to a much smaller scale. Uh.
Speaker 17: They have found a way to charge customers more, and
Speaker 17: it's with reclining seats. You want a reclining seat, you
Speaker 17: can have one at an additional costs. Now here's the
Speaker 17: way the airlines are going to sell this. You know,
Speaker 17: you have all this battles of people putting their seat
Speaker 17: back and people getting arguments and all this customer service issues.
Speaker 17: So what airlines are doing. Many of them are saying, look,
Speaker 17: we're getting airplanes delivered from Boeing and Airbus that you
Speaker 17: can't reclimb. The seats are going to be reclined just slightly,
Speaker 17: and everybody's gonna have adequate room. We're no longer going
Speaker 17: to have this customer service issue.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 17: The kicker is that's how they sell it. But what
Speaker 17: they're doing is that also gives them additional room in
Speaker 17: the back to put like an extra row or two in.
Speaker 17: That's more revenue. Now they can come along and say,
Speaker 17: we've got twelve premium seats on this plane that actually recline,
Speaker 17: and they can be yours for an additional cost. So
Speaker 17: you see how all of this stuff is kind of
Speaker 17: coming around. And yes, you and I joke for ever
Speaker 17: Eddie about you know, we can charge for oxygen and
Speaker 17: all these other kinds of things, but reclining seats is
Speaker 17: now considered a premium product on commercial aviation. That's why, guys,
Speaker 17: you will never hear me the asinine words of I've
Speaker 17: seen it all or I've heard it all, because that's
Speaker 17: not the case. In fact, you can you can google
Speaker 17: this story. An airport in Lithuania was. I think thirty
Speaker 17: flights were impacted because smuggler balloons were in the air
Speaker 17: smuggling cigarettes, and it shut down a bunch and shut
Speaker 17: down the airport. Uh so, yeah, we had a delay
Speaker 17: due to cigarettes and Lithuania. So that's why I never
Speaker 17: run out of saying I've done this for thirty three years.
Speaker 17: You never run out of things to talk about.
Speaker 1: Uh no, you don't all right with that?
Speaker 2: Jay again, like you just said, every time I want
Speaker 2: to say, I think I've heard it all. Next next week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: hey buddy, it's always a pleasure of things anytime. Guys,
Speaker 2: thanks our good friend Jay radof our aviation guy here
Speaker 2: at the Big One. But yeah, I'll pay extra to
Speaker 2: have somebody not lean their seat.
Speaker 1: Back in my face. What's what in saying that? I
Speaker 1: was shocked? And I don't lie very much. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of times a year after that, but on
Speaker 1: Continent or Continental United was Continental, they were handing out
Speaker 1: like free headphones that you could watch the watch movies
Speaker 1: for free, and then they were they give you the
Speaker 1: full can of coke zero or sprite or whatever. I
Speaker 1: was like, were we back in time here? Like no
Speaker 1: extra charge? And I was like just something change or
Speaker 1: is that just united?
Speaker 2: But I know that everybody, they all they all, yeah,
Speaker 2: they give you headphones, I think, to just keep you
Speaker 2: just shut your hell up, all right. Then they don't
Speaker 2: charge it for movies anymore. They don't charge it for
Speaker 2: to call it you like four bucks or something on this.
Speaker 2: They just give it to you, okay, yeah, just they
Speaker 2: just they just play your headphones in watch Seinfeld for
Speaker 2: two hours, whatever the hell you want to do.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of worked into yours. You paid up front, sure,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 2: They charge that extra fifty dollars to give you the
Speaker 2: you know, seventy five cent they give you, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: we have this big theca's River Roots Festival in town
Speaker 2: this weekend. The boats are already here, I guess the
Speaker 2: I don't know the I think the official kickoff is tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but the boats have already started doing like breakfast, lunch
Speaker 2: and dinner cruises and stuff.
Speaker 1: Did you ever go to a Tall Stacks back in
Speaker 1: the day, I mean that was huge back in the day.
Speaker 1: I remember, like I've seeing posters around going down there.
Speaker 2: I don't think I never took a specials, but I
Speaker 2: went down there and walked around a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is supposed to be a very cool event,
Speaker 2: and we're going to be talking to Catherine Nero or
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Speaker 1: You got to ask her about the Graceland tour took
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Speaker 2: Oh, in case you didn't know that, I knew that
Speaker 2: she had spent time in Memphis, but Jason told me
Speaker 2: last week that she had been a tour guy at Graceland.
Speaker 1: I want to ask her. I believe she grew up
Speaker 1: in Memphis, That's.
Speaker 2: What I want to say, the same thing. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: what's going on with all these big boats? And I
Speaker 2: saw one of the big giant guys going up the
Speaker 2: river today. It's very very impressive. Those things are big, man.
Speaker 1: I remember when having grown up in Gallipolis on the river,
Speaker 1: and like one of those boats would come through and
Speaker 1: they'd stop and it was just it was just majestic.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a Delta queen, and like everybody would everybody
Speaker 1: in town would go. My grandparents lived in Middleport, which
Speaker 1: was right up the river, and it would stop there
Speaker 1: and the whole town would just come out and just
Speaker 1: stand there and look at it.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: It was a big deal. That's big river river history.
Speaker 2: And I believe she was on one of the boats today.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to her about it and how cool it is. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And big doings there has in town this weekend. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I turned my microphone there. Yeah, it's a cool event
Speaker 2: down on the river.
Speaker 1: River routes. You now be down there.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow Ovation on the River. Yeah, that's going to be
Speaker 2: cool and the whole event I was talking earlier. I
Speaker 2: live now where I can kind of see some of
Speaker 2: the traffic on the river and saw one of the
Speaker 2: giant guys going up the river. I think it was
Speaker 2: for a probably like a lunch cruise. I guess it
Speaker 2: was midday. And it looks really cool. It looks like
Speaker 2: it's going to be a big deal. You talked about
Speaker 2: tall Stacks earlier, and it's in tall Stacks was always huge.
Speaker 1: Celebrating our river is a huge, huge part of our
Speaker 1: lives here and you know what it's meant to the
Speaker 1: building of this city and you know, really the whole
Speaker 1: the whole region.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, here to discuss what exactly is going on
Speaker 2: all this weekend and it goes on through Sunday, is
Speaker 2: our good friend Katie Nero. Yeah, Kathy, Catherine heros vice president.
Speaker 18: Since my great aunt Maud called me Katie Bath back
Speaker 18: in the.
Speaker 2: Day, That's what I was wondering if anybody ever called
Speaker 2: you Katie, because I've always known you.
Speaker 18: As Catherine's yeah southern, so you have to go with
Speaker 18: two names. It was Katie bath yees, oh.
Speaker 2: Katie Bath, I kd Bath?
Speaker 17: Can you can you get my glasses over here?
Speaker 2: Would you get my specs?
Speaker 1: Katie, Beth? I gave you a shout out on the
Speaker 1: air last week with Eddie.
Speaker 18: You know what, Jason. I heard about it, my husband
Speaker 18: and father in law listening to you guys religiously, and
Speaker 18: you did and I appreciate it. I'll talk about Gracelynd
Speaker 18: any day.
Speaker 1: We talk about Gracelynd in a minute. But got a
Speaker 1: school Eddie on that here. He needs needs some school.
Speaker 2: Well, Jather and his vice president of media for game
Speaker 2: day communications, they're handling all this, you know, So Catherine,
Speaker 2: let's talk about what exactly is going on. It's kicked off.
Speaker 2: Today's the official or tomorrow actually tomorrow morning is the
Speaker 2: official kickoff?
Speaker 18: Right, Well, today the cruise is kicked off, so there's
Speaker 18: more than one hundred and sixty cruises over the next
Speaker 18: five days. The first one, I bet the one you
Speaker 18: saw that went off with the Tenian cruise on the Natchez.
Speaker 18: I spent all morning on the matches from like five
Speaker 18: o'clock on. Those guys are amazing. They're from the from
Speaker 18: New Orleans. I gave us ben Yet's. They have all
Speaker 18: this amazing like Dixie Land band playing, And that's kind
Speaker 18: of what the cool part about America's river roots.
Speaker 1: Did boats.
Speaker 18: For sure, There's lots of other stuff going on, and
Speaker 18: we'll get to that, I'm sure, but the boats are
Speaker 18: really cool because they bring their culture from whatever city
Speaker 18: there were. For example, the Belle of Memphis is here, guys.
Speaker 18: And if you're wondering, Catherine, did you go take your
Speaker 18: picture in front of the bell of Memphis? Yes, the
Speaker 18: Belle of Memphis. In front of the Belle of Memphis.
Speaker 17: Of course I did.
Speaker 18: But yeah, so there's so that boat's got barbecue and
Speaker 18: fun stuff on it. You've got, you know, some of
Speaker 18: the cruises they're gonna have like Perogi's on the Three Rivers,
Speaker 18: Queen from Pittsburgh. So it's just a whole line of
Speaker 18: just amazing experiences on the river and you get to
Speaker 18: learn a little bit about the boats and their home
Speaker 18: ports as well.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you when you're talking about the
Speaker 2: food on do you have to take a cruise on
Speaker 2: these boats to get that food or can when they're
Speaker 2: docked and you do they have like a bar, say
Speaker 2: that you can walk up to and fetch that food.
Speaker 18: No, you've got to be on those boats to get
Speaker 18: those that food. However, there are more than forty food
Speaker 18: offerings down at the river of all different kinds of
Speaker 18: like backgrounds and nationalities on both sides of the river,
Speaker 18: and you guys will see that when you're at Ovation
Speaker 18: coming up tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Catherine, I know, you know this is part of America,
Speaker 1: is really a part of the grand Er two hundred
Speaker 1: and fiftieth you know celebration. Is this is this a
Speaker 1: one time event? I know we had tall Stacks forever.
Speaker 1: I know there's been comparisons of this to tall stacks.
Speaker 1: It's not tall stacks. It's really more than that. Is
Speaker 1: this a one time event or do you think this
Speaker 1: will be? Is this something that could you know, become
Speaker 1: an annual?
Speaker 18: I think the next four days will tell us that okay,
Speaker 18: and I think, you know, the original plan was America's
Speaker 18: two fifty, like we're going to celebrate the two hundred
Speaker 18: and fiftieth anniversary. We're gonna, you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 18: a whole big birthday party. And this, by the way,
Speaker 18: America's River. It's the very first event that is officially
Speaker 18: an America two fifty event. So America once they starts
Speaker 18: here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: That's what you got to think about.
Speaker 18: The party starts here. Yeah, and so yeah, I don't
Speaker 18: think there's no like finite you know, concrete plans coming up.
Speaker 18: But you know, again, the next four days, we'll tell
Speaker 18: you and I'll tell you what's interesting. And yes, not
Speaker 18: many people are in a boat at four forty five
Speaker 18: in the morning, but I was. And you could tell
Speaker 18: by like ten am the festival, like the cruises haven't
Speaker 18: even started yet, and there's so many people coming down
Speaker 18: to look at these boats. And that's all those going
Speaker 18: on today, it's just cruises. And so yeah, you know,
Speaker 18: it's it's amazing. You cross the river. I live in
Speaker 18: northern Kentucky, said, I cross the river, and I've seen
Speaker 18: these amazing boats just like lit up overnight and it's
Speaker 18: I mean, it's something you don't get this, you literally
Speaker 18: don't get to see but once in a generation. It
Speaker 18: hasn't happened since in twenty years, and so yeah, we're
Speaker 18: just glad that that it's here, that Cincinnati is the
Speaker 18: place to do it. And what I love is Captain
Speaker 18: Allen Bernstein from Bbe river Boats. Everyone is giving him
Speaker 18: the credit. He is getting the credit for this. He
Speaker 18: was like, he picked up the phone and told seven
Speaker 18: Boats Institute that he owns, come to Cincinnati in your
Speaker 18: busiest time of the year, and we're going to make
Speaker 18: it worth your while.
Speaker 1: And they are.
Speaker 18: Their tickets are going great, and it's just it's exciting
Speaker 18: to be around these guys. They're all it's a it's
Speaker 18: not only a family within the boats, but like each
Speaker 18: boat is sometimes three and four generational. It's really interesting
Speaker 18: the way it all works out.
Speaker 2: Kather Nero is our guest and Ketherin Let's also we
Speaker 2: were talking about the entertainment. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people got confused when some of the when the when
Speaker 2: these name acts got canceled as far as is doing
Speaker 2: the concerts go, but there's going to be plenty of
Speaker 2: I think people started thinking well, there's not going to
Speaker 2: be any music or anything. There's going to be plenty
Speaker 2: of entertainment.
Speaker 18: Correct, Yes, starting tomorrow, Starting tomorrow at eleven am, there's music.
Speaker 18: There's four free stages. The headliners were canceled and those
Speaker 18: were like the paid ticketed ones. Now all music is
Speaker 18: going to be free. And you name a style of
Speaker 18: river music and it's there, from Americana, foll Country, Dixie
Speaker 18: Land Rock.
Speaker 1: You name it.
Speaker 18: Four stages on both sides of the river, Yateman's Cove,
Speaker 18: Public Landing, schmid Lap, and then across the river in Newport.
Speaker 18: You're going to hear music the entire time during the
Speaker 18: you know, as you're boarding the cruises, or as you're
Speaker 18: eating food at you know, from the vendors in Yateman's Cove,
Speaker 18: or as you're learning. What's also really cool is they
Speaker 18: have a lot of educational pieces to it, so the
Speaker 18: ecology of the river. The Freedom Center has some amazing
Speaker 18: activations happening there where you can learn about the history
Speaker 18: and the journey of what the river represents. And that's
Speaker 18: what this is all about. The river connects us and
Speaker 18: I know in Cincinnati we love to say that river divides.
Speaker 18: This and every rubber chicken dinner we go to, people
Speaker 18: are like, well, did you get your passport to come
Speaker 18: across the river? You know, it's always always like that,
Speaker 18: but it is, it is really it connects us. And
Speaker 18: Chillie Kirkpatrick from meeting k Y says this so often,
Speaker 18: and she's right, there's the river connects us more than
Speaker 18: it divides us. There's more like with us than there
Speaker 18: is different. And so we're celebrating all of that as
Speaker 18: everybody comes, all these nine boats coming to town and
Speaker 18: these hundreds of thousands of folks and we're excited to
Speaker 18: host them here.
Speaker 1: Catherine with from a logistics you know, want to come down.
Speaker 1: I want to see everything. It's on both sides of
Speaker 1: the river, on the Cincinnati Riverfront the Newport Riverfront. Any
Speaker 1: suggestions on if you want to see everything and you
Speaker 1: want to get to both sides of the river, should
Speaker 1: you do it in two days? Come down to one
Speaker 1: side of the river one day, the other side the
Speaker 1: next or can you go is there an easy way
Speaker 1: to go between? Just park your car and you know,
Speaker 1: can you shuttle over or is there even a ferry
Speaker 1: or something?
Speaker 18: Or what you what I would say? I would say
Speaker 18: two days is probably your best bet. So I'm going
Speaker 18: to give you two options. One let's say you're like, nope,
Speaker 18: I only have one day. I would pick a weekday.
Speaker 18: I would say Thursday or Friday, because I think the
Speaker 18: crowds are going to be a little bit less. I
Speaker 18: would park in northern Kentucky because you've got the whole
Speaker 18: situation in New where there's a bourbon experience. There's a
Speaker 18: beer garden over there, there's a bottle shop that've got
Speaker 18: a candy and bourbon like pairing experience. Airheads has a
Speaker 18: giant hot air balloon and they're given out candy over there,
Speaker 18: and then you know, then you can walk across the
Speaker 18: Purple People Bridge where there is an artisan market where
Speaker 18: fifty makers will be on that bridge give you know,
Speaker 18: selling everything from clothing to you know, jewelry, you know,
Speaker 18: soaps and foods and anything like that, all across the river.
Speaker 18: So it's part of you're literally connecting one side to
Speaker 18: the other. And then as you get to the other side,
Speaker 18: you're there near the public land. It gets a little
Speaker 18: bit of a walk there, but you could get it
Speaker 18: all done right and you know, and hop on a
Speaker 18: cruise enjoy it. And in Citaspell. Now, if you had
Speaker 18: two days, I think I'd do a little of both.
Speaker 18: You know, go down there, don't do a cruise the
Speaker 18: first day, get the lay of the land. And by
Speaker 18: the way, you can walk up and buy tickets for cruises.
Speaker 18: You can get them online, of course, but there's also
Speaker 18: an availability down there. If you're like moved in the
Speaker 18: moment and you're like I got to get on the
Speaker 18: anson and Betsy North a boat, you can do it
Speaker 18: right then and there. So yeah, if that's the case,
Speaker 18: I would check it out that way and maybe spend
Speaker 18: two days enjoying just about everything. And there's different activities
Speaker 18: every day too. The best way to figure all that
Speaker 18: out is the festival app, which you can just search
Speaker 18: River Roots in your app store and download.
Speaker 2: All right, and it shall be done. And again we're
Speaker 2: going to Jason and I are going to be doing
Speaker 2: the show live from ovation on the River. That'll be fun.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing down there. They've got set up.
Speaker 2: We're going to be at the market bar. Now, let's
Speaker 2: switch gears here at Katherine Neiro and talk about you
Speaker 2: being I. I was pretty sure I've known you for
Speaker 2: for a minute girl, and uh, a little bit, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit. And uh, I knew you were from
Speaker 2: down that way. I don't remember ever hearing that you
Speaker 2: were a tour guide at Graceland.
Speaker 18: You must not have been listening.
Speaker 1: Lead with that information as well. But I mean you
Speaker 1: when Earl Love and I had you on our podcast
Speaker 1: at the Inquiry, you you led with that information it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great.
Speaker 18: Because, like listen, there's not a lot of people who
Speaker 18: can lead with the job they had when they were
Speaker 18: seventeen and people go, really, oh my goodness, don't do that. Yeah. Now, yeah,
Speaker 18: I was a tour out at Graceland for US several years.
Speaker 18: I absolutely loved it. I credit that job with being
Speaker 18: able to talk to any human being, whether they speak
Speaker 18: English or not, because we had tons of people from
Speaker 18: overseas who came in to you know, celebrate Elvis during
Speaker 18: Elvis Week and all that good stuff. I've met so
Speaker 18: many wonderful people and learned a lot about the King.
Speaker 18: I'm a big fan. I have an Elvis room in
Speaker 18: fact in my house.
Speaker 2: Now, did you ever meet any of the family, Did
Speaker 2: you meet Silla or any of those people along the way.
Speaker 18: Well, okay, I got a good story about Lisa Marie.
Speaker 18: Not Vernon was long gone before before I got there,
Speaker 18: but I didn't Lisa Marie one time, so she I
Speaker 18: was working in the Jungle room as the tour guide there.
Speaker 18: And at the time that I worked at Graceland, Elvis's
Speaker 18: aunt Delsa lived in the house, like in the house
Speaker 18: that is the second busiest house, second most visited house
Speaker 18: in America behind the White House at the time, that
Speaker 18: woman lived in there, and I don't know how she
Speaker 18: did it, but she did. And so Lisa Marie comes.
Speaker 18: I see this woman and these two children walking through
Speaker 18: like the private area that only miss Delta can go through,
Speaker 18: and I'm like, ma'am, man, mam'am, this is not for
Speaker 18: the guest. Guests must go outside. And she's like, oh, no,
Speaker 18: it's okay. I'm Lisa. And I was like, I don't Grace,
Speaker 18: that's your name. And then I looked at her face
Speaker 18: and you know how much she looked like Elvit And
Speaker 18: I was like, oh, oh that Lisa. Oh yes, please
Speaker 18: come on through, so the house that is yours. Please
Speaker 18: come into the house that I tried to prevent you
Speaker 18: from coming in Superborian. She was so nice. Yes, exactly
Speaker 18: she was so nice, but she was going to see
Speaker 18: her great aunt and yeah, so that, you know, was
Speaker 18: an experience I'll never forget. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: I learned so.
Speaker 18: Much about Elvis, about his not just about him, but
Speaker 18: like the impact he had on people. And this is
Speaker 18: my favorite fact that I always like to say, Elvis
Speaker 18: never toured outside the United States, with the exception of
Speaker 18: three stops in Canada in nineteen fifty seven, and yet
Speaker 18: every single tour group that came through would have people
Speaker 18: international visitors. They would have people from Japan and from
Speaker 18: Germany and from Australia and you name it, you name it,
Speaker 18: and it's like, how did they like And there would
Speaker 18: be people that weren't even born when he died in
Speaker 18: nineteen seventy seven. So it's like that means it's a
Speaker 18: generational thing. Your your mom or your grandma or your
Speaker 18: grandpa introduced you to this, and now it's going. It
Speaker 18: has created an entire business. And this is the craziest part.
Speaker 18: My sister met her husband who was from Australia because
Speaker 18: he was in town to visit Graceland. That's how they met.
Speaker 18: And now they live in Australia happily ever after.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Graysland needs to hire you and game day because I
Speaker 1: want to go to river and.
Speaker 2: I want to take I actually wanted to take a
Speaker 2: boat down two months and.
Speaker 18: Had it down there. Eddie, we can do it. It
Speaker 18: only takes like six days.
Speaker 2: It'll be fine, all right, Thanks Bud, We'll see you
Speaker 2: down there. Are our good friend Catherine Nera.
Speaker 1: You feel a little you feel a little extra energized
Speaker 1: after you talk to Catherine. Oh it's like remember when
Speaker 1: she was in the morning show and You're like, oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 2: Like I said, and I've know her forever, and my
Speaker 2: wife used to used to work with her a long
Speaker 2: time ago, and so I got to know her a
Speaker 2: little bit, and i'd remember being from I'm sure somewhere
Speaker 2: along the way that the Graceland thing came out, but hell,
Speaker 2: that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: The great John Popovich brought hired her. She was originally
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Speaker 2: So the big news yesterday Jase in the sports world
Speaker 2: was the Blacko moved to Cincinnati from Cleveland and apparently
Speaker 2: he had a hitchhike down here. I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 2: He kindly trucker picked him up on seventy one and
Speaker 2: brought him down here short drive. Here to discuss with
Speaker 2: us is Mike Petrelia from cl NS Media, the Jungle
Speaker 2: Roar podcast and on and on tracks. So let's let's
Speaker 2: talk about it. It's been broken down into the national
Speaker 2: media and nobody's impressed so far. Your thoughts.
Speaker 3: Well, here's what I think. If Joe Flaco has time
Speaker 3: to throw the ball down field, I think he's going
Speaker 3: to be able to push the ball further downfield to
Speaker 3: the targets that you paid two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 3: million dollars YEP or invested two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 3: million dollars in back in March. And that's obviously Jamar
Speaker 3: Chase and T Higgins. That wasn't the case with Jake
Speaker 3: brown and I think the optics in the Bengals front
Speaker 3: office after watching the game against the Lions, it was
Speaker 3: clear to them not only was Shake Browning not taking
Speaker 3: care of the football, which he phoned up to today
Speaker 3: in the locker room, and we can get to that
Speaker 3: in just a moment, but he wasn't able to push
Speaker 3: the ball down the field make the strong throats. Joe
Speaker 3: Flacco is forty years of age, going to be forty
Speaker 3: one very shortly, but he still has a rock and
Speaker 3: arm and he showed that off today a little bit
Speaker 3: from what we saw in practice, and the Bengals are
Speaker 3: hopefully going to are hopeful to provide him the time
Speaker 3: to throw the ball down field to the targets that
Speaker 3: they invested so much money in.
Speaker 1: Well tracks just kind of backing up on them. Did
Speaker 1: you generally like, you like this move?
Speaker 3: I guess it was the best move that the Bengals
Speaker 3: could make. The Bengals had to make a move, and
Speaker 3: when people ask me that I like and it was
Speaker 3: the best. It was the most realistic move they could make.
Speaker 3: They weren't going to get Russell Wilson because Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: doesn't have the knowledge of the Bengals offense, and I
Speaker 3: don't think the Bengals felt that he could pick up
Speaker 3: the offense the way he would have to playing for
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor. Whereas Zach Taylor looks at Joe Flacco and says,
Speaker 3: you know, he's not the most mobile, He's not a
Speaker 3: mobile quarterback, but he understands what I'm calling in terms
Speaker 3: of plays, and he can make that part of the
Speaker 3: offense at least function with Jamar or with the Russell Wilson,
Speaker 3: Jamis Winston, maybe even Andy Dalton. I thought was a possibility.
Speaker 3: They didn't. Yeah, and I thought so too. And we
Speaker 3: really didn't get into that this afternoon with Zach Taylor,
Speaker 3: nor would I expect him to answer that Forthrightly, I
Speaker 3: don't blame him, but there were many options. Oh and
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousin that contract was prohibited that they were never
Speaker 3: going to take on the one hundred million dollars or
Speaker 3: whatever it is left on that field that they would
Speaker 3: have to eat. They're not going to do that. So
Speaker 3: with all of those options available, Joe Blacco was the
Speaker 3: best remaining And do I think a movement needed to
Speaker 3: be made, Yes, after watching what we've watched the last
Speaker 3: three games, after Joe Burrow went on insured they had
Speaker 3: to do something. They couldn't just sit back and go, well, well,
Speaker 3: take our you know, take our shot with Jake Browning
Speaker 3: and hope that things get better. And this is a
Speaker 3: bottom line industry, and the Bengals knew that. The Bengals
Speaker 3: knew that they had to do something to keep themselves afloat,
Speaker 3: especially in a season where the Ravens and Browns are
Speaker 3: one and four, the Steelers or whatever four and one.
Speaker 3: But nobody believes that that's going to last. So the
Speaker 3: Bengals have an opportunity if they can get their ship righted,
Speaker 3: if they can win five or six games without Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow and well by the time he comes back, they
Speaker 3: can fight for a division title, get to the playoffs
Speaker 3: and see what happens.
Speaker 1: How much I mean was a part of this trags?
Speaker 1: I know it. You know, there's a list of things,
Speaker 1: but is one of the fact that the Bengals are
Speaker 1: desperate for a win. They're playing Green Bay this week,
Speaker 1: and that Flacco beat green and he wasn't exactly spectacular,
Speaker 1: but he does know their scheme and everything, and that
Speaker 1: he did beat them a few weeks ago with the Browns,
Speaker 1: did that play and knowing how big of a game
Speaker 1: this is and it's did any of that play into this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great point. And Zach Taylor made reference
Speaker 3: to that that yes, he's already prepared for green Bay
Speaker 3: once this season, so that game plan has certainly freshened
Speaker 3: his mind. That gives him a running start this week,
Speaker 3: There's no question about that. But you know, in that
Speaker 3: Green Bay game, the Packers were a had ten nothing
Speaker 3: with about four and a half minutes to go. Every
Speaker 3: that was and then the Packers felt destructed. And the
Speaker 3: give credit to the Browns for their only win over
Speaker 3: a very quality team. But you know, let's not make
Speaker 3: too much of the Packer of Browns feeding the Packers
Speaker 3: with Flaco, because Baco this year has not been He
Speaker 3: actually has worse numbers overall than Jake Browning if we're
Speaker 3: being honest, if we're being brutally honest, this move was
Speaker 3: made one because of the strength of his throwing arm,
Speaker 3: his ability to push the ball down the field, his
Speaker 3: veteran experience. He has eighteen years of NFL experience, and
Speaker 3: maybe most of all, there's a different energy in the
Speaker 3: locker room today when you walk in and say, hey,
Speaker 3: we've got a guy that has a Super Bowl ring
Speaker 3: in his cachet on his resume. So there is that.
Speaker 3: So the Bengals at least give him credit for bringing
Speaker 3: in somebody with a resume that has a lot of
Speaker 3: respect to command the room well.
Speaker 2: And also, guys, let's talk about the fact that the
Speaker 2: natives here in town, and by that I'm talking about
Speaker 2: the fans were getting restless real quick.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's no question about that, and they're going to
Speaker 3: continue to get wrestless if the offensive line doesn't improve
Speaker 3: its performance. It was a bit better last week, believe
Speaker 3: it or not. And Orlando Brown and Ten Carris made
Speaker 3: reference to this this afternoon that they can you know,
Speaker 3: slowly feel the offensive line getting better road this week.
Speaker 3: It can't slowly get better. It has to be significantly better.
Speaker 3: And for the love of Pete, it's got to run
Speaker 3: the football. If you're going to protect and give Joe
Speaker 3: Placo any chance of play action, which he's very, very
Speaker 3: good at, if you're going to give him any chance
Speaker 3: of running that part of the Bengal offense, you've got
Speaker 3: to run the ball. And you know, I was talking
Speaker 3: with one offensive lineman today who said that, you know,
Speaker 3: we ran the ball ten times for whatever it was,
Speaker 3: seventy yards. We're starting to pick things up at the
Speaker 3: run game. We just have to give our selves a
Speaker 3: chance to run the ball more. And obviously, when you
Speaker 3: fall down twenty eight to three, how many chances we're
Speaker 3: going to get to run the ball. Not many. But
Speaker 3: if you play a competitive game with Green Bay, ideally, guys,
Speaker 3: what should happen Sunday is they keep it close. They
Speaker 3: slow the game down, much like the Browns didn't with
Speaker 3: the Packers a couple of weeks ago. Slow the game down,
Speaker 3: run the ball effectively, give Joe Placo a chance to
Speaker 3: make a couple of play action passes downfield at Jamar
Speaker 3: and t and not turn the ball over. You check
Speaker 3: all those boxes, and it's a lot to check, but
Speaker 3: you check all those boxes, you've got a chance to win.
Speaker 2: Sunday, we're talking to Mike Montrelia Trags. You mentioned earlier
Speaker 2: Jig Browning in the locker room. What did he have
Speaker 2: to say, Well.
Speaker 3: He said he was pissed off, There's no question about it.
Speaker 3: He's up that he's had a not a good week
Speaker 3: and he understands, but he understands the business of the NFL.
Speaker 3: Read between the lines. He realizes that a lot of
Speaker 3: this falls on his shoulders, but not all of it
Speaker 3: because the quote, I'll i'll paraphrase the quote here. I
Speaker 3: was told before some games that we've got to do
Speaker 3: more to help you out, and then I go out
Speaker 3: and have two and a half bad quarters and they
Speaker 3: decided they had to make a move that I just
Speaker 3: tweeted out the video of that from the locker room.
Speaker 3: He can go check it out on my X speed
Speaker 3: t R A G S Trag and yeah, it's right,
Speaker 3: and it's up there. And I found those comments pretty telling.
Speaker 3: That's where Jake Browning's mindset is at. He knows he
Speaker 3: did not play well He knows he he threw six
Speaker 3: touchdowns but eight interceptions. He knows he didn't take care
Speaker 3: of the football, but he also realizes the offensive line
Speaker 3: was not good and the run game was non existent.
Speaker 1: Along those lines to tracks, you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at do you think if the AFC weren't so wide
Speaker 1: open that the Bengals front office would have said, non,
Speaker 1: We're just gonna stick with Jake or the fact that
Speaker 1: I mean, look at Kansas City two and three, look
Speaker 1: at Baltimore and look at their own division. Really it's
Speaker 1: wide open. Still as bad as the Bengals have been
Speaker 1: losing by twenty five points a game on average the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, they're two and three, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Steeler or the Ravens are one and four. The
Speaker 1: Steelers are three and one. They're beatable. You look around
Speaker 1: the AFC. It is really wide open.
Speaker 3: It is. And if you make an effort to stay
Speaker 3: competitive in these weeks without Burrow, then you've got a
Speaker 3: chance to win the division. You win the division, you
Speaker 3: get one home game, and then you build someone And look,
Speaker 3: we all know how the Bengals played last year with
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow in the final five weeks in.
Speaker 5: The end.
Speaker 3: We all talked about how they rued those losses that
Speaker 3: one and four start or one in three start last
Speaker 3: year before they finally got the engine going. They don't
Speaker 3: want to go through that again. But again, if you
Speaker 3: want Joe Burrow to play a whole season, you've got
Speaker 3: to have a better offensive line. And you know, we
Speaker 3: talked about the slow start all of our last offseason.
Speaker 3: This offseason we're going to be talking about the offensive
Speaker 3: line again and how they need to rebuild it. I
Speaker 3: guarantee you that is going to happen because the poor
Speaker 3: offensive line, directly or indirectly a little bit of both
Speaker 3: led to Joe Burrow getting hurt.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 2: Well, we're talking to a world where the NFL right now,
Speaker 2: one of the teams, the big team right now seems
Speaker 2: to be the Jack and Ville Jaggs guys. And that
Speaker 2: that game the other night against the Chiefs Man, that
Speaker 2: ending thing. H if you haven't seen it, do yourself
Speaker 2: a favor, because that was like the Keystone Cops with
Speaker 2: the three stooges make stand youth football. It really did.
Speaker 2: It looked like you, well.
Speaker 1: They can't get back up and run off the ground, but.
Speaker 2: Just tew you designed it, uh with the with that trags,
Speaker 2: We'll let you go, buddy.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, guys, have a good one and thanks
Speaker 3: for having.
Speaker 2: Me take tracks. Thanks good stuff, Mike Petrolia. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: that do yourself a favor. I just happened. I'm with
Speaker 2: the bed and I'm just gonna sit here and watch
Speaker 2: the end of this game. And I thought, well, of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got this thing in the bag, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden the Jags catch fire and get
Speaker 2: down there. And then that last that last play, I
Speaker 2: was like, I literally was laughing sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1: Well, and then right and I was against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: the fact they couldn't get to them. And then you're
Speaker 1: sewing like the fact that the Jacksonville Jaguars are four
Speaker 1: and one. They have tied for the best record, yeah
Speaker 1: in the AFC or really in the NFL with several teams,
Speaker 1: but that that alone, because that's not a very good team.
Speaker 1: Well their defense anyway, their offense is pretty good. And
Speaker 1: you're like, if that's the first place team in the AFC, like, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean if you're the Bengals, and credit to them,
Speaker 1: Like we're not throwing the talon just yet.
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Speaker 2: All right back with Eddie and Jason just a little
Speaker 2: while longer, Son, We got to get ready and head
Speaker 2: to tomorrow. We're gonna be We're going to be down
Speaker 2: on the on the river front at Ovation there in Newport.
Speaker 1: I've driven, I've driven through Ovation, but I've never stopped
Speaker 1: and taken in any of the places there. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. It's the River Roots.
Speaker 2: Festival and that'll be neat Market Bar area is where
Speaker 2: we're going to be, and we're gonna be talking obviously
Speaker 2: to some of the people. And we got one of
Speaker 2: your Inquirer compadre. Yeah, we're gonna be talking about and
Speaker 2: that was cool. I saw some of the articles Thatevid
Speaker 2: written about Cincinnati's connection to the river, and obviously we
Speaker 2: all pretty much know that, but just some of the
Speaker 2: ins and outs of how important Cincinnati was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff Ceese, he writes a lot of history pieces
Speaker 1: for the inquire Cincinna dot com and you know, this
Speaker 1: is right up his alley and just just done great
Speaker 1: job with that. Check those stories out on Cincinna dot
Speaker 1: com and he you know, we we love our history here,
Speaker 1: whether it's sports, uh, the river history, and he always
Speaker 1: has great insightful pieces on when things are coming up
Speaker 1: to look back in a retrospective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we uh, well, of course, since it's Thursday too,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a bit with your one of your
Speaker 2: other compadres, our good friend Jason Hoffman.
Speaker 1: It's the Cincinnati dot Com Show, Yeah, sponsored by w
Speaker 1: l W correct.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna be doing our usual Thursday betting the
Speaker 2: Pickham Yeah, the Pickham Show.
Speaker 1: Jay knows the stuff. Man.
Speaker 2: Now you hang out with well you obviously you guys
Speaker 2: work together, but you you do hang out out with
Speaker 2: him a bit.
Speaker 1: We don't mean we don't hang out.
Speaker 2: But going out to the bars and onenot. You know,
Speaker 2: we don't go to the casino with him. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: talked regularly, and uh, we were talking shop. He and
Speaker 2: I were on the phone last night late breaking down
Speaker 2: the are each sharing our thoughts with each other on
Speaker 2: the whole Joe Flacco trade and yeah, kind of just
Speaker 2: spitballing story ideas and what that's going to mean or
Speaker 2: not mean or yeah. Well, uh, I'll be curious to
Speaker 2: uh to talk to him tomorrow and get and I
Speaker 2: want to hear what his thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I am too. I'm curious to hear. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to hear his pick on this, like, you know
Speaker 1: what what he he and I didn't talk about that.
Speaker 1: What you know, Flacco could do just specifically Sunday, but uh,
Speaker 1: or you know, in terms.
Speaker 2: Of how it affects the line and what I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I'm curious myself because I don't know if you if
Speaker 2: you read the story or not, but some apparently some
Speaker 2: of the ESPN guys, yeah right, totally flaying it.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, on the surface as it is, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: is it gonna move the need? I mean, I'm probably not,
Speaker 1: but I like that the Bengals are trying something. This
Speaker 1: is not this is like they're not you know, they're
Speaker 1: not just sitting on their hands and thinking like you know,
Speaker 1: Jake Browning is somehow going to just magically, you know,
Speaker 1: get them out of this mess. So at least they're
Speaker 1: trying something new and you can you consider and critique
Speaker 1: it or whatever, but the fact that they rarely do.
Speaker 2: This can go Yeah, all right with that, Well, we
Speaker 2: were trying to talk football right now. Let's talk some
Speaker 2: football all right, back with Eddie and Jason just a
Speaker 2: little while longer. So we got to get ready and
Speaker 2: head to tomorrow. We're going to be We're going to
Speaker 2: be down on the on the riverfront at Ovation there
Speaker 2: in Newport.
Speaker 1: I've driven, I've driven through Ovation, but I've never stopped
Speaker 1: and taken in any of the places there. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. It's the River the River Roots Festival,
Speaker 1: and that'll be neat.
Speaker 2: Market Bar area is where we're going to be and
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking obviously to some of the people.
Speaker 2: And we got one of your inquirer uh compadre. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about and that was cool. I
Speaker 2: saw some of the articles Thatevid written about Cincinnati's connection
Speaker 2: to the river and obviously we all pretty much know that,
Speaker 2: but just some of the ins and outs of how
Speaker 2: important Cincinnati was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff Cees, he writes a lot of history pieces
Speaker 1: for the inquire Cincinna dot com and you know this
Speaker 1: is right up his alley and just just done great
Speaker 1: job with that. Check those stories out on Cincinna dot com.
Speaker 1: And he you know, we we love our history here,
Speaker 1: whether it's sports, uh, the river history. And he always
Speaker 1: has great insightful p on when things are coming up
Speaker 1: to look back in a retrospective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we uh. Well, of course, since it's Thursday too,
Speaker 2: we're going to do a bit with your one of
Speaker 2: your other compadres, our good friend Jason Hoffman.
Speaker 1: It's a Cincinnati dot com show sponsored by.
Speaker 2: W l W Correct but we're going to be doing
Speaker 2: our usual Thursday betting the pick Yeah, the Pickham Show.
Speaker 1: Jay knows the stuff. Man.
Speaker 2: Now you hang out with well you obviously you guys
Speaker 2: work together, but you you do hang out with them
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: We don't mean we don't hang out on.
Speaker 2: Going out to the bars and onnot. You know, we
Speaker 2: don't go to the casino with him. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 2: regularly and uh, we were talking shop. We He and
Speaker 2: I were on the phone last night late breaking down
Speaker 2: the are each sharing our thoughts with each other on
Speaker 2: the whole Joe Flacco trade and yeah, kind of just
Speaker 2: spitballing story ideas and what that's going to mean or
Speaker 2: not mean or yeah. Well, I'll be curious to talk
Speaker 2: to him tomorrow and get and I want to hear
Speaker 2: what his thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I am too. I'm curious to hear I'm
Speaker 1: curious to hear his pick on this, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: what what he and I didn't talk about that what
Speaker 1: you know Flacco could do just specifically Sunday, but or
Speaker 1: you know, in terms.
Speaker 2: Of how it affects the line and what I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I'm curious myself because I don't know if you if
Speaker 2: you read the story or not. But some apparently some
Speaker 2: of the ESPN guys totally flaying it.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, on the surface as it is, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: is it gonna move the need? I mean, I'm probably not.
Speaker 1: But I liked that the Bengals are trying something. This
Speaker 1: is not this is like they're not you know, they're
Speaker 1: not just sitting on their hands and thinking like, you know,
Speaker 1: Jake Browning is somehow going to just magically, you know,
Speaker 1: get them out of this mess. So at least they're
Speaker 1: trying something new and you can you consider and critique
Speaker 1: it or whatever, but the fact that they rarely do this.
Speaker 2: Can go Yeah, all right with that, Well, we were
Speaker 2: trying to talk football right now. Let's talk some football.