WEBVTT - Sterling Saturday -- 10/11/25 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.160 Hey, how you doing. Beautiful Saturday afternoon in the Tri 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:08.280 State Big Football bear Cats win Scott Sadersfield's guys rolling 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.360 to five in a row over a UCF football team. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.560 Going back to Florida Losers twenty eleven over a bear Cats. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.079 What a nice tribute, by the way, to Jim Kelly 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.520 on the big screen there at Nippert. If you didn't 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.640 get a chance to watch, I was listening and watching 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.680 at the same time, and it's popped up all over 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.120 X as well at Sterling Radios where I am. You 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.519 can get interactive. I'm Sterling shawm ac Man keep me 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.600 in line. A lot of ground to cover this afternoon. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.840 You may have heard in the news closer to peace 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.240 and returning of hostages and those who did not survive 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.240 after the October seventh attack that left us some twelve 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.920 hundred dead, and this thing that has gone on in 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.120 Guysa for an extended period of time over this window. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.480 President Trump making his way there will be speaking to 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.840 Knesset on I believe Monday, and then going to Egypt 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.119 to sort of hammer out final details or at least 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.240 the next step in it. It's a very fragile piece, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.720 to say the least, but hopefully a little closer to 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.480 some normalcy, because it does look like a moonscape in 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.920 and around Gaza. Other stuff to get to James Rapine 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.320 locked on Bengals, Gonna have a conversation with him. I 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.040 already had it. Actually you'll hear it a little bit later, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:29.440 talking Bengals Packers, Joe Flacco trading Joe's tow obviously, and 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.960 then you got a Flacco trade, which is a kind 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.200 of a weird scenario, talk about Joe Flacco being in 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.800 Bengals stripes, but he made the trip from Cleveland. He 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.160 beat the Packers a couple of weeks ago. That is 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.160 very rarefied air to have someone playing for different teams 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.920 beat the same team twice, same season, just a couple 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.080 of weeks apart. But that's the hope. With a late 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.760 four to twenty five kickoff tomorrow in full all coverage 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.840 here on seven hundred double ULW a number of things 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.360 to you have to also, Diane Keaton passed away a 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.160 movie leg and we'll touch on that a little bit later. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.000 From the sounds, you heard Matt Reese's news from the Godfather, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.640 or at least Godfather Part two. I was hoping to 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.839 hear Pacino in part of that. So maybe we'll pull 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.920 that up too, because that whole scene there was bizarre 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.040 and troubling on a whole lot of levels. So best 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.000 of her family. She just is seventy nine years old, which, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.760 on one hand, when you're younger, seems old. On the 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.040 other hand, as time ticks by you, that doesn't seem 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.400 that old. And I just saw her, I think, on 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.400 Graham Norton Show not long ago, sneaking kisses from a 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.680 whole lot of people, which was kind of wild. So 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.200 and she did a bunch of Woody Allen movies as well. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.840 All Right, I want to ask this is a very 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.240 strange question, and this is where I want to start, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:45.639 because I'm feeling a little I've not eaten. And it's 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.440 not because I don't have access to food. It's not 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.079 because I've run out of food. It's not because I 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.960 don't have cash in my pocket. I can get some 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 food if I want to. But here's the question, what 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.639 is the dumbest thing you have done for a woman 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.760 or a man in your life, a significant other under 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:04.880 there pressure? Normally my co host Donnade is here and 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.000 she's often talking about fasting and cleanses and all these 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:13.120 other healthy things. And I am a frequent flyer of 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.880 certain drive throughs. They know when I'm getting my three 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.639 way in my Greek salad and sometimes two or three 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.360 chili cheese with onions and mustard Coney's. They know me 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.280 when I'm getting the square burgers and I'm getting the 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.200 combo with the fries and the biggie sized iced tea. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.679 So I'm in a weird place. Woman, I know a 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.240 friend of mine. Let's just say, she's like, you need 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.600 to fast and be good for you and get cleansed, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.120 and we'll do this together. So I had pancakes last 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.440 night because I figured that was a good meal, a 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.560 good way to sort of get prepared for this. And 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.160 all I can tell you is before I got on 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.080 seventy five to come in here, I'm down wind from 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.520 a drive through that I am familiar with, and I 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.600 was getting wafts of air of good grubbing stuff. But 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.320 by held strong and then driving in, I'm starting to 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.240 I've gone through a time and a place where I've 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.800 I seem like I've been starving. I saw the dog 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.640 eat this morning, the turtle late I have not eaten 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.920 and now I'm in an odd place where I'm not 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.640 necessarily hungry, but I know that I need to be eating. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.160 So we're gonna wait and see. She wants to wait 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.200 till tomorrow, but I'm thinking what I'm done out of here. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.360 After six, I'll be hitting a drive through, and I'm 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.799 sure we'll see how that goes. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.160 eight hundred, the big one. Pick up the phone, give 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.960 it the finger, talk back iHeartRadio app you can click 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.400 on the microphone. I want to know how long you've 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.520 gone without eating, in addition to the dumbest thing you've 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.400 done for the person that you care about in your 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.080 life that supposedly cares for you as well. Telling me 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.480 the thing that I need to go without food seems insane. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.520 Maybe for religious purposes high holy days and fasting from 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.560 sundown sun up, sun up to sun down, depending that 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.479 that's a fair common thing, but just randomly for this 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.640 or even before the colonoscopy, the endoscopy deal where they 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.479 take the camera and take a look in your insights 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.440 from the rear end, which just saying that makes me 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.359 unnerved and uncomfortable, which I think annually is one of 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.200 those things if you get to be a certain age, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.200 you know in your family history, they start wanting to 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.040 check that or at least a shmear of some of 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.640 your other stuff in that way. So that's a different 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.479 thing for health purposes. And then you get stuff that 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.320 you consume that's supposed to help get stuff moving or 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.359 empty you out, which sorry I went there, I just 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.440 but that's what I feel like I should be preparing 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.920 for right now is I'm frankly starving. I have had coffee, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.719 which is also dangerous, and I will shift to iced 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.160 ta post haste. But I want to know what is 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.560 the dumbest thing you've done for significant under in your life, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.120 and also the longest you've gone without eating? Now, I 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.560 mean I randomly will see people as I get on 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.000 seventy one here Montgomery Road once in a while other 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.360 places around town. You'll be at a red light, an 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.680 on ramp or an off ramp of seventy one or 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.480 seventy five, and you'll see a sign I'm hungry, please 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.760 help me. And I'm not making light of it. Food 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:20.240 insecurity is a serious issue, but not eating by choice 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 is kind of a strange thing. What is the longest 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.920 you've gone and that's a problem, I guess, And depending 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.840 on how you're living and how your life is going, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.839 I f I've won three seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.320 the big one. Your chance to get interactive later. Also 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.520 some conversation about the Delta eight hemp sale moratorium. These 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.960 stores that have been selling it with that carve out 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.600 of the farm bill from a couple of years ago. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.440 I think it was twenty eighteen, if I'm not mistaken. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.720 Just going off the top of my head, limited a 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.400 space where it could be sold, and has been in 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.040 many cases gas stations, the smoke shops, et cetera. I 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.160 know some people who are in that business. They tell 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:03.960 me they're going to lose a whole lot of money 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.240 not being able to sell these and these have been 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.039 good actors in that business. What I mean by that 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.720 is they don't sell the kids. They keep behind the 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.400 counter and not selling it with the look of candy 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.520 or something else. But there's been a problem with people 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.720 not handling that correctly, and Governor de Wine has stepped 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.000 in with a moratorium on it. So by Tuesday they 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.720 got to get it off the shelf, whether by liquidation, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.400 sale or otherwise, or face some stepp penalties which could 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.040 put them out of business depending or hurt their pocket 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.120 in a major way. So we'll touch on that as well. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.640 Big win you see football bear Cats twenty eleven over 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.720 UCF Sadderfields, guys looking to find their way as they 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.160 roll to their fifth win in a row. Could very 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.040 well be if the things go right, one would think 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.200 in top twenty five rankings. We'll see how it goes. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.080 Quick break, come back. James Rapeen later also joining me 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.960 conversation we had talking Bengals as they hit the road 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.840 to face off a Green Bay on Sunday afternoon. WHI 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.440 Joe Flacco under center, appreciate you being here. It's a 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.960 beautiful day in the Tri State. I'm stirling in this 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.480 a seven hundred double welw tikes seventies. Next couple of 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.040 days close to eighty actually Monday and Tuesday. I'm holding 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.480 onto the warrant, but I busted out the long pants again, 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.640 which I try to avoid unless it's like a meeting 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.160 where it's required for, you know, appropriate a tire, weddings 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.760 or funerals basically, but showing up here, I mean, who cares. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.640 I'm on the radio and streaming on I heard an 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.280 app podcast not on TV because I got a face 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.160 for radio. It's a seventy two now your severe weather 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.760 station seven hundred WLW wanted to know one the most 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.400 unusual thing you've done or dumbest thing for the person 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.120 that you care about in your life. I'm fasting now. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.400 I'm into my second day. I'm not hallucinating yet, but 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.439 I'm thinking I'm stupid for doing this. I don't know 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.160 what good comes from not eating for an extended period 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.240 of time. So no, how long you've gone without eating, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.240 a fasting for whatever reason, and maybe the dumbest thing 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.000 you've done after you see football win twenty eleven or 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.320 UCF and Nancy actually on the way home from Nippert, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.199 Now was Stirling on the Big One than Marty? In 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.360 room for you? Five three, seven, four, nine hundred the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.920 big One? Nancy? How are you when you're well. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.960 We're celebrating the six win, which is terrific. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.160 You good time? What was it? What was the energy 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.720 really like? By the way at Knippert, I mean good feeling, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.600 good vibes as they say, it was just like last week. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.960 Last week the energy was just phenomenal. It was a 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.040 little bit more low. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.679 Key today, but still a win. So you got to 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.520 like that a win to win, and. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.360 We can't wait to go ahead and get to a. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.679 Bowl game this year, one game away from guaranteeing that. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.160 Sean McMahon was concerned. He's like, I gotta get one more. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.640 I'm like, they'd have to really like fail, like just 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.240 drop off the face of the earth, uh, to not 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.440 get their six win. I think they're in fine shape. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.840 What else do you have, Nancy to Well, I have 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.319 one of the dumbest things that ever did for my huts. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:08.319 And he's sitting right next to me were we were 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.760 on vacation and we were going to head to Puerto Rico. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.920 He wanted to do a zipline tour and I said, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.960 I'm gonna pray to hikes. I don't think I could 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.959 do it. He goes, look, this is a tree top 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:28.000 zip line, little kids, grandparents to do it. You can 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.960 do it too. And I said, fine, So we go 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.240 on the zipline tour. If they drive us to the 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:34.760 top of. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.800 A mountain and said, you will go off of this mountain, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.000 you will go, well, stop across the this is and 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.800 ravine and across tree. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.440 Tops and you'll finally get to the bottom. I said, please, please, please, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.560 don't don't make me go. I'm on my knee, I'm crying, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.240 I'm in tears, and they said, we're sorry. Once you're here, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.240 can't tear around. They wouldn't let me go with my 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.559 husband no, so they made me go first and him 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:11.319 follow well. Two and a half hours later. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.360 I finally make it down the hill. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.440 I'm on my knees, I'm kissing the ground, and I'm 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.600 begging him, please don't ever make me do this again 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:24.440 a third. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.599 Now, is that something you look back on fondly? You 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.439 don't sound like that, like sometimes you do something you're 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.319 scared of and you go, You know, that was great, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.520 it was invigorating. I'm so glad I did it. You 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.240 sound like you still have remorse. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.880 I still have remorse. I got back to the ship, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.679 I laid down for an hour, took a nap, went 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.800 to dinner, and our server came out and said, hey, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.360 I heard you was siplining today. I started crying again 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.640 and left. Oh yeah, will horrible, horrible. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.240 You're pretty strong and hopefully he had fun at least, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.400 and I'm sure that in the future you got one 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.160 in your pocket. To play back and say I did 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.120 this for you, so now it's your turn, Nancy. I 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.679 appreciate you listening, being a part of the show. Up 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.120 you do it again sometime soon. Be safe getting home 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.880 quickly to Monroe. Then we got Marty and Mike. Marty, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.960 what's up. What do you have the longest you've gone 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:14.720 without eating? 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:23.920 Yeah, I've gone ten days a couple of times days. Yeah, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.360 and I usually, you know, the first time I ever 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.760 did it, I think I went three days and just 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:33.280 using water. And then I read a book called The 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.960 Master Cleanser, and I found in the health food store 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.760 and it had a recipe for making a drink and 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.880 I extrapolated it out to make a gallon. So it 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:54.040 came to like six lemons, medium sized lemons, eight ounces 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:58.640 of pure maple syrup, and a teaspoon of cayenne pepper 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.920 and mix that with in a gallon jug with purified water. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.880 In fact, I'm doing another cleansing fast right now. But uh, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.080 it cleans out and uh after after a while, after 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.160 a day or two, you're not hungry anymore because you're 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.760 drinking this stuff. The cayenne pepper is giving you energy. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.640 The the maple syrup is burning slowly rather than like 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.000 sugar or honey would be burning faster. And uh it's 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:34.400 it cleans out and it gives you mental, physical, and 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.880 spiritual rejuvenation. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.480 Well, I could use some rejuvenation, but I'm not feeling 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.280 very rejuvenated right now. It might be the Cayenn pepper, Marty. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.920 I appreciate the call. Ten days seems monumental and extreme. Mike, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.800 can you get this internet less than a minute? As 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.920 your turn was sterling on the big one? 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:50.640 Sure? 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:50.880 Can? 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.079 What are you fast for? 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.320 Starling? A woman? 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:01.120 A woman tell you? Yeah, three days is probably the first. Well, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.560 what you want to do? U after the first day 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.160 in the day in the day two, you're not hunger anymore. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.240 Your body is eating the fat that you got your 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.040 stored U in your body there, I'll all probably a 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.480 little fatter than you are, so I can usually go 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.360 a little further without you know, too much going on. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.840 I usually do seven days now, just a to you 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.080 don't you're not hunger anymore? 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:21.800 Who knows? 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:22.280 Do water? 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:23.080 Coffee and tea? 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:23.320 What? 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.480 Why? Though? I mean, what does the motivation to do? 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.240 Just to reset my reset my body? I go to 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.720 go out to using fat as a source of energy 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.800 as opposed to sugar. Okay, that's why I do it, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.480 just kind of reset the body to use fat storage 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.800 is suppose of sugar for my energy. So I do 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.280 that probably once every two months. I'll do like a 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.320 seven day fast, just water, coffee and team Wow. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.560 All right, well maybe we're on the right path. I'm 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.680 not feeling it right now, but you guys seem very 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.080 confident you're still alive. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.120 And take the day three buddy, try to get to 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:52.520 day three. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.160 We'll see, we'll see. I don't know. Tomorrow, during that 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.360 Bengals game, I feel like I might be stuffing a 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.720 lot of food and beverages of one kind or another 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.600 in my But we'll see how it goes. Mike, have 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.480 a great afternoon, and I appreciate you listening. In a part 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.080 of the show four thirty fourth Straightaway, Matt Reeves has 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.360 the latest We'll come back, James Rapeaine, a conversation about 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.600 Bengals and packers, and a whole lot more to get to. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:17.880 On a Saturday afternoon, a seven hundred WLW. It's the weekend, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.240 sterling back seven hundred w WELW on the road headed 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.880 to Green Bay, Lambeau Field along with the football Who 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.200 da Bengals? James Rapine locked on Bengals the Cincinnati Bengals 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.520 talk SI, He's everywhere, Thanks for making time. This is 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.120 a weird week, and it is always a challenging thing 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.000 week after week in the NFL. But the Bengals did something. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.240 They went from Joe in a toe issue to Jake 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.800 Browning to now a new Joe who's not all that 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.520 new really, former Raven. He's gotten around a little bit. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.320 Was with the Browns for eight and a half minutes, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.760 and he actually beat Green Bay a couple of weeks 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.960 ago in a shocker. Now he's trying to figure out 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.680 new play schemes and working with some elite receivers what 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.360 he's not necessarily familiar with. How does this look on 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.200 the outside, just a couple of days away from a 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:09.920 kickoff in Lambeau. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.480 Extremely challenging, I'll be honest with you, like extremely challenging. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:19.360 I think the Bengals they needed to make a change 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.200 and to do this to give themselves a chance. I 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.120 also think it's it's really hard to find the realistic 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.880 path to them winning a game against the Green Bay 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.680 team that's thinking Super Bowl and I get it. The 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.440 Bengals are too, and that's their mindset. But it's just 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.360 a really tough spot to be in. Doesn't mean they 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:44.240 won't it surprise me, but having him come in here 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.600 basically get here Tuesday night and I've made that drive, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.000 as you know, down seventy one plenty and while he 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.480 wasn't while he wasn't driving, it's a that's a tough 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.160 ask to go from there to now. You're practicing and 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.080 with new players on Wednesday, and your meetings on Wednesday 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.359 and in Thursday, same thing. Friday, you meet with the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.159 media the first for the first time. Today you're flying 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.680 to Green Bay, and you gotta deal with the packers 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.320 at Lambeau on Sunday. Like there's just there's a lot 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.920 to it. It's not impossible, but it's extremely challenging. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.439 And if he were to get that win with the Bengals, 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.600 which would be a nice turnaround after going two and 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.080 oh we complained about a slow start for weeks, would 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.000 we not have been happy to trade an oh for 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.639 three if we had kept Joe's toe healthy and Burrow 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:38.040 under center, Yeah, sure, sure, And then OH and three 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.560 for Jake Browning, who he's still the number two in 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.639 this situation, so his head has got to be in 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.680 a weird place. I mean, he knows how he performed 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.800 or failed to perform in that circumstance, but he's got 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.840 to be ready to go if in fact something happens 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.080 to Flacco, no doubt. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.840 And that's that's what's tough, is this juggling act. I 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:00.159 will say this, I do respect that the Bengals went 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.399 right to Flacco right away. I do think that's the 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:09.920 right move because it's not like starting Jake would give 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.520 you a better chance against Green Bay, Like I wouldn't 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.880 feel any better about it. And if anything, the unknown 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.440 in that curve ball may make it a little tougher 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.320 on Green Bay. But you're right, like Jake has to 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.879 stay dialed in because he's one play away from playing, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.520 and so it's it's tough. There's a lot of emotions 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.280 that go into it. At the same time, did it 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.679 feel like at any point over the past three weeks 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.000 like this Bengals offense was close to figuring it out. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.080 I'm not gonna let a yeah, even a few touchdowns 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:45.160 against the Lions in garbage time like that's I don't 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:45.800 know what that is. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:46.120 I don't. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.600 Maybe you can build off that, maybe you can't. And 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.960 what I will say is talking to the guys in 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.560 the lockeroom this week, they are buying into Joe Flacco. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.320 Well they have to, don't they. I mean, he has 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.720 some strong pedigree, he's got the experience. They have seen 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.600 him competed against him, they know what that's like. So 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:04.840 for him to step in that's pretty large. He also 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.440 hasn't had some of the weaponry that he can work 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.199 with Chase, who's questionable. I guess in Higgins, how is 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.840 Chase and what what are I mean? It's hard for 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.240 somebody to step in like that. How do they keep 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.200 him comfortable and capable with plays that fit into what 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.879 the Bengals are already comfortable and familiar with to be 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.080 able to go in there and be functional because there's 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.320 a lot to learn in just a short amount of time. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.760 Yeah, I think you go with the stuff that the 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:36.159 Joe is most comfortable with. And that's what Friday was 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:41.960 and that's what today is is figuring out. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.320 What what is he comfortable with? 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.480 What is he like from a literally from a play 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.600 to play standpoint, and what is he kind of questioning now? 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.399 And that's that's one of the many things from a 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.919 rhythm standpoint that Joe Flaco and Zach Taylor they're going 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:56.280 to have to get down and the rest of the 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.120 coaching staff they're gonna have to continue to iron that out. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:01.000 Yeah, go with what you. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.199 Know and understand that your job is to get the 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.240 ball in the hands of your playmakers. This offense should 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.840 be good. And I know that people bring up the 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.520 offensive line and they're gonna talk about Micah Parsons and 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.119 you might ask me about that. I get it, but 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.240 I really don't care who the defense is. This offense 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.760 should still score, and it should score every week. And 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.800 we shouldn't be talking about three points a halftime and 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.040 in the game over by the half. That should never 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.800 be the case when you have Joe Burrow or when 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:31.760 you have excuse Joe. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:33.919 Yeah, how many times is that going to happen in 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.200 the booth? For those guys calling the game on TV too, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:37.120 you know it's gonna happen. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.359