WEBVTT - 12-27-25 Sterling and Donna D 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:03.320 Well, well, well, how you doing. 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:07.360 It's Sterling and Donnade back together again a Saturday afternoon 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.719 in the tri State, the whiplash weather in full effect. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:11.240 It was like. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:16.000 Fifties yesterday, forties today, tomorrow's sixties. Bengals and cards at 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.599 pay corps and here on the big One and everybody 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:20.520 is on the road, Donna. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.439 Yeah, a lot of people returning gifts. I guess, I 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.720 don't know. Are getting back home from a holiday. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.120 Over the hills far away to Grima's house. We go 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:32.720 right or back home after that? 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:34.920 How are you? You were sick? 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.239 I had a Christmas cold and it lasted for like 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.800 four or five days. I kept it at Bay, and 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.440 some of it I think was allergies. Believe it or not. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:45.400 Really weird. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.360 You know how I know when I have allergies is 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.960 that like when my eyes start itching. That's when I 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.640 know that some of it is allergies. So I took 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.400 like a zertech and it made me feel better and 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.480 got me through the holidays. But man, I've never been 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.600 sick for Christmas or anything. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.160 Had a good time. I still at a great Christmas 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:08.640 spreading the sickness. It's a beautifulness. Should I be doing this. Thankfully, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.679 nobody is sick because of me. Yeah, yeah, that I 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:12.520 know of right. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.000 I mean that's the thing I always go, I think 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.880 it's just allergies, and I've had people go no, no, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.560 You've definitely got the sickness, and then I think in 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.320 my answer goes that you have the group, which I oh, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.399 my god, it just sounds bad. Yeah, but I think 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.320 I had bronchitis. I don't think it's a real legitimate 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.679 medical term. I could be wrong. I didn't go to 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.480 medical school, so I don't know for sure. Wait, have 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.080 doctor Adonna Schley had coming on after four o'clock to 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.640 talk about these US strikes and these ISIS sites as 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.960 they are described in Nigeria and what that may need 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.440 for us as we continue to I guess expand maybe 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.120 some of our efforts to quash our enemies there rather 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:49.600 than here. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.480 So that's coming up in about an hour. That'll be interesting. Yeah, 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:53.480 talk with. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.040 Her absolutely, is Have you done the returns or anything 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.280 else like that at this point. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:01:59.840 I have. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.720 I have been focused on healing my entire life, and 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.320 you're just yes, I mean mentally physically, I've been. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.040 Because you're sick or because of the year end and 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:10.680 new beginning. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.440 There's all kinds of stuff that is happening coming into 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:15.440 twenty twenty six. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:16.120 What should I know? 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.240 Well, the first thing is that in twenty twenty five 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.480 it was the year the Snake. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.560 We mentioned this. Oh wait a minute, I think I 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.679 saw that on a menu or a play sheet that 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.679 jo well it could be, yes, yes, the year of 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.440 the Snake, which is shedding all kinds of relationships that 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.720 were based out of fear and not something that's going 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:39.160 to be supportive. Right, So then you know it was 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.880 supposed to be a really hard year for everybody, for 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.280 all of us, twenty twenty five. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.280 I know I broke up with somebody in twenty twenty five, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.600 but it's not just romantic relationships or partnerships and things 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.680 like that. It was friendships, it was jobs. I mean, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.600 it was a year to shed all that is not 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.160 working well for you. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.120 Is that something that you do annually? Because I know 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.480 we talk about resolutions and people sort of joke about 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.440 that I'm gonna and I've been really hammered by people 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.360 because I'm just trying to be a better person. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.400 I love that resolution. You make it every year and. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.000 It covers all the edges, but people are like, be 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.200 more specific. But I kind of look at it the 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:20.720 same way. I never thought of it as like a 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.520 shedding snake or something like that, but I mean, why not. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.120 It is a new skin, new year in the beginning well, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.160 and it's in particular. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.280 Twenty twenty five was very hard for all of us 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.160 in terms of that. I mean, like, you know, relationships 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.520 were basically like, this isn't working. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.080 You need to go. I need to go. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.200 We need to go our own separate ways. It's not 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.520 working for whatever reason. I don't know, but that's what 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.280 was happening with jobs and things like that. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.880 Now twenty twenty six you're the horse, yes, the equine, and. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.200 It starts because you're supposed to jump on the horse 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.320 and find all the things. Now, whether you believe it 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.000 or not, I certainly do. I've done a lot of 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.680 research on this, and I really do feel like twenty 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.080 twenty six, it's going to be loved base relationships. It's 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.520 going to be the jobs that you wanted and you 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.240 feel good in. It's gonna be maybe starting your own 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:15.920 business and making new friends. Things that things that are 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.040 going to serve you in a in not a fear based, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.200 but a loved base. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.359 People are tired of fighting. They're tired of fighting, and 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.279 relationships are tired of fighting. Yes, aren't you. I don't. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.599 I try not to fight. I don't know. I don't 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.440 know who's fighting. I mean politically speaking, I mean people 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.680 are religiously So we're all gonna hold hands and sing 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.160 kom by. Everything's gonna be great. When twenty six is 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.560 going to be that? You mark that down. I wrote 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.599 it down right here. I wrote it down. It's right there. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.120 It's a black and one best year ever for all 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.080 of us, all right now. So this leads me to 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:49.599 something else. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.200 And usually it's like a New Year's Eve thing or 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.279 a New Year's Week thing, and this kind of counts. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.960 I mean, here we are, it's the twenty seventh of December. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.599 So what I'm wondering is this. This can be a 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.960 very private thing, but do you have resolutions that you're 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.280 wanting to kick to the curb? Lifestyle stuff? Maybe it's people, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:10.800 Maybe you want to ditch me. I don't know. You 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.640 showed up here. You didn't have to, so I don't 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.120 know if that's accurate. But I mean, what do you 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:16.839 have a plan? 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:17.200 Is? 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.000 Do you have something more. I will try not to 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.440 be so vague when I say to be a better person. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.279 But I'm thinking about that right now. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.479 Well, right now, for me, I would love to shed 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.640 a few of the holiday pounds. So I am on 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.360 a forty eight hour fast, which is it's even more. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.600 It's like cleansing, sterling. It's like your bad cells, you know, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.000 they eat your good cells, eat up your bad cells 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:41.680 because they're hungry. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.280 It's a cleansing of you get the demons out. Yes, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:51.839 on all levels. Now it's not easy. I am very nervous. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.320 Demons The demons are who do we call? 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.240 Oh my god, bad cells that sit there when you 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.880 just keep putting food in your mouth like normally I do. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.160 But when I go on a fast, it is it 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.640 is taking time. Now, I'm gonna go in forty eight hours, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:06.440 maybe longer. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.200 Longer do you drink though you have fluids? This is so. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.520 I've had tea and coffee all day, and I've done 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.239 a lot. I've done yoga, taught yoga, I've walked my dog. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.640 I mean, I've gone almost ten thousand steps in and 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:21.039 I'm hungry. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.040 Right now. I am gonna get hangry. So you're gonna 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:24.920 be No, it'll be great. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.640 We can navigate this together because it's been a couple 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.920 of months ago and you were traveling at the time, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.360 and a friend of mine she's like, you got to 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:32.839 do a clean you got to do a cleanse. I'm like, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.279 I hear this at the show doing the show with Donna, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.200 and I hear it. Now, Yeah, do the cleans. Do 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.400 the cleans. So I did not eat for like two 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.080 days other than water and like coffee, which and all 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.000 I know is I didn't feel any better at all 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.880 whatsoever after it. I saw no benefit at all. She 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.239 was like, oh, no, I can tell you're doing much better. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.360 I'm like, whatever you say, so maybe there is something 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:57.600 to it. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:58.640 I have not eaten to day. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.040 I got up early, I did eat late last night 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.039 after the show. So I will ride this out with you, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.680 and then we can get hungary together and you can 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.760 see how it goes. I will not go two days though. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.960 There will be pizza later. I guarantee you there will 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.000 be said you were hungry area. Yeah, this is a 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.880 tough spot. So I want to give people a chance. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.960 We can have a little fun on the road doing 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.440 returns whatever, going home, or maybe just trying to get 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.840 a break five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.320 the big one. You pick up the phone, you give 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.160 it the finger, like my good buddy mister K used 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.360 to say. The talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app click 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.480 on the microphone or on one of the socials Instagram 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.560 is Sterling dot donad dot twenty twenty three. That's how 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.800 long we've been doing the show, right, yeah, yeah, because 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.920 the people I get this occasionally, was it twenty three 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.320 twenty five, because it's when it started? When it started, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.840 and I don't know if they'll let you change it 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.800 or not. And I'm at Sterling Radio on X and 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.600 we can do it there as well. So do you 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.600 have a resolution? What are you looking to get rid of, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.160 excess baggage, emotions, changing in your life to be better 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.440 or do you think it's a bunch of hooey? I mean, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.640 because sometimes people get so much stress about trying to 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.000 get fit, for instance, the gym for the first I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.880 wouldn't even go so far as to say the first 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.720 quarter of the year, but my experience has been the 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.800 first month. Maybe you'll see people really hitting it. And 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.360 I'm not the most religious about going and doing it, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.640 but when I pop in there and I'm like, oh, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.600 it's way too busy, and there are people that look 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.240 like they're more of an amateur than I am. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.520 In there. I'm like, I have other things I can 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:34.960 be doing. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.200 Yeah, So I mean is that one of the things too, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.120 because I know you do the stretching and all the 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.760 yoga stuff and all the other things. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:41.880 Well, yeah, I want to. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.200 It's the number one resolution always for people is to 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.040 get in shape or lose weight. That's usually the number 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.439 one and I'm no different. I want to always get 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.520 a restart. I want to feel good in my clothes 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.640 and in my body and stuff. And after the holidays 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.880 it's a good time to say, hey, you know what, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.760 but my New Year's resolution is to drop these five 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.360 pounds I picked up at Christmas time. And I mean 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.480 because it's parties, it's everybody's house, it's it's stuff you 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.120 don't normally eat, like pie and cake. I mean, you 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.520 know you don't normally eat. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:22.000 All that stuff, stings and all kinds. Yeah, I mean, biscuits, ingrapy, yeah, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.760 you name it. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.400 I'm getting hungry, but shouldn't be doing this now. But 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.400 it's one of the reasons why we all go into 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.520 a new year. But this year, I really do think 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.960 people are going to prioritize their health over even you know, exercising, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.080 getting way. I mean, I really feel like, yeah, health 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.480 insurance is going up in twenty twenty six. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.679 You want to take care of yourself a big deal. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.680 So another way to look at it, it certainly is I 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.280 know mine's going up, and so you're saying even the 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.520 idea is you lose weight, you get fitter, you save 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.360 some money on insurance. But it's already too late. You've 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.920 got your annual deal. You got to just hope that 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.160 you don't get sick during the year. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.880 Mabe right, save at least on the minimum balance you 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.960 have to use for you know what I mean, Sure, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.160 try and take care of yourself. That's my goal is 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.240 taking care of myself and putting myself one. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.600 First, I promised that I would not do this again 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.280 this year. We have four days in of the year 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.640 left in the month of December to twenty twenty five 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.920 turning to twenty six, and this will be the I 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.960 have five days then four days to get my glasses 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.439 because my insurance deal you get up to a certain 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.360 amount for glasses and by the way their limit whatever 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.600 it is, a couple hundred bucks. I could get two pair, wow, right, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.480 but they won't let you. They want you give you 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.760 one pair up to that limit. So I need to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.440 find a dirty glasses person. I'm just I'm just kidding. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.800 It's just joking. I don't need anything. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.160 That's your sun glass. Get the shaded ones. Those are 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:48.840 more expensive. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.480 So I got to get that taken care of and 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.160 a few other things because I go to the eye 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.520 doctor at the beginning of the year. But then I'm like, well, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.760 I'm going to get that prescription later. Well it's been 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.719 a year and I've been swinting, so I got to 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:00.520 get that taken care of. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.720 It's always nice to have an extra pair of glasses 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:03.320 at our age. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.760 I mean you put in on your car. I have 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.240 some of my purse. I leave them everywhere office. Yeah 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.560 you need an extra pair of glasses. I have three 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.520 pairs at this point. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.200 Yeah, I could use another pair in the car, one 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.560 of the bag for work, whatever that goes with it. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 And the thing is, and this is what I don't understand. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.000 And I know we've been all over in this, but 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.120 we'll get the resolutions and your chance to get interactive 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.680 in just a minute. But I I regularly, if I 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.520 have a good quality pair, like real glasses, I will 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.959 lose those before I will the cheap pair of sunglasses. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.440 It's always the cheap stuff that I can hold on 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.079 to that I do not lose the stuff. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.480 How much is that gone lost? 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.839 Dropped out in the yard and hit by the mower, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.800 whatever it is, it's just ridiculous. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.560 We're all understanding of that. That always happens. Weird. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.040 It is weird, or at least those are the ones 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.319 you notice because you don't care about the five dollars 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.520 ones you get at the gas station. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.800 That might be. Yeah, I kind of sit crooked. You're like, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.160 you don't even care. I just bend them back and 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.360 make it work. No, look out, cool, my dog likes 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.880 with these glasses. That's exactly right. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.880 And by the way, you said something earlier, and I 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.079 wanted to just call you out on it, okay, because 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.120 you still have Gus, the rescue dog. Yes, and what 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.760 you said in the mid well, you you didn't earlier 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:13.440 say foster. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:18.120 You said my dog. Oh, well, he's still considered a foster. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.560 And I have not crossed that bridge yet. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.960 Okay, I just wanted to find. It was just one 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.480 of these I know that that I'm going to have 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.320 to make a decision here coming up soon. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.520 Gotcha resolutions? What are your plans the end of the 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.520 year to the first of the year to shed your 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.079 skin for the year of the horse and to make 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.400 it better or otherwise. It's Sterling and Donna on a 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.640 Saturday Afternoon five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.640 hundred the Big One. Let's get Cincinnati. Mike on seven 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.920 hundred WLW with Sterling and Donna. D Mike, what's going on? 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.240 Hey, I just I had a couple of comments. First 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.319 on the fasting. It's it's incredible to do a forty 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.199 eight hour fast. I've only done twenty four hours, and 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.080 I actually have low blood sugar, so it's very difficult. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.520 So I just wanted to commend you on that. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.120 Thank you. And twenty four hours is good, Mike. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:13.240 The longest I've done is seventy four hours delivered. Yes, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.520 I want to get you a second day. I want 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.960 to get to a seven day fast. You start hallucinating 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:18.920 and stuff I don't know. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.280 I've never gotten. But maybe. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.079 I don't know what you think about this, Donna, but 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.520 strowing I want to suggest if you try it again, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.280 I actually drink juices. I allow myself to have juices 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.600 in addition to cough coffee and water, and it does 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.920 make a big difference. I actually feel a lot better. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:38.760 I don't know if you. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.200 Do that, Donna, but I haven't. But I think that 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:41.800 that's okay. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.240 I think you can build your fast in the way 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.160 that you are able to maintain it when you're diabetic. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.800 So the juices are you all know, the idea is 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.400 to not eat food. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.760 The liquid fast is very very good for you to 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.120 do as well. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.320 Part of the reason I think is that it just 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:05.760 helps with electrolytes. I feel this, I would feel dehydrated, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.880 you know what I mean if I didn't have like 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.199 orange juice and you know. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.560 Yeah, you could do the liquid IV too. That's helpful. Yeah, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:14.480 that's true. That's true. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:15.200 I never heard that. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:16.040 Wow. Okay. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.440 Well, the other thing is I just want to mention 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:23.680 I h you know, I tend to have continuously reset 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.920 goals throughout the year, so I don't for me, it's 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.680 and it's when they emerge. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:27.800 You know what I mean. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.720 So I don't really have this feeling of renewal of 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.000 goals myself at the beginning of the new year. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.080 You know that is that's like pressure that way, that's 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.400 probably healthier in some way maybe, Yeah. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.160 Yeah, it's just something I'm continuously refined goals and I 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.840 just you know, trying to. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.880 Get better every day. I love that, Mike. Yeah, the 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 call and I'll let you know how the I'm not 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.320 doing through two three days of fasting. Now that's a 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.920 good time. I mean maybe if there's some good hallucinations 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.960 or something. I mean, I don't know they're strong. I'll 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.080 let you know if I get past seventy four. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.760 Send me pictures. Do you see what I see? Five 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.720 point three seven nine, eight hundred The Big One? Do 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.800 you have resolutions? What are you looking to kick to 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.120 the curb and do new for twenty six to make 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.080 your life better those around you? So many questions, a 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.440 lot to do. It's a Saturday afternoon. Wherever you are, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.400 We appreciate you listening, being part of the show. It's 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.120 Sterling and Donnade on seven hundred WLW nine First Warning 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.200 forecast on the Big One. It's sure it's great now, 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.880 but it's relatively warm. Not as warm as yesterday, not 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.960 as warm as tomorrow. Will be fifty five today, near 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.440 seventy tomorrow with scattered storms, and now they're saying that 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.480 rain may hold off until after. Bengals Cardinals are here 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.040 here on the big one tailgating good times tomorrow down 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.960 by the river at a Corps one o'clock kickoff. Bengals 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.680 trying to obviously win out and show that the rest 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.160 of the year and all the aberration of Joe's toe 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.080 and Flacco coming in and Jake Browning not being as 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.280 strong as he was before all, you know, to put 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:53.320 the ugly behind us. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.640 Yeah, and there's everything right about doing that. By the way, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:57.400 go out. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.440 And strong, yeah, right to do it and maybe earn 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.400 a job next year. And then, by the way, it's 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.040 close to seventy tomorrow, and then Monday whiplashes back to 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.480 like thirty thirty five at most Monday, and. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.680 Pold right, everybody is sick. This is what I'm talking about. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.920 The fluctuation of the weather is crazy. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.000 I can hear my Grandma Betty right now. It's pneumonia. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.720 Where to put hap ye, that's right, yeah, And the 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.040 hat is where it's at, is all I'm trying to say. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.360 It's fifty right now. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.640 Your severe weather station seven hundred wl W was Sterling 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.680 and Donna d another Donna, but doctor Schleheg Cincinnati Kid, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.720 former head of political science at Right State. It's going 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.240 to join us after the four o'clock report, so basically 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.560 about forty minutes from now, give or take, and talk 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.240 about the US attacks in Nigeria and what that means 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.840 for the war on terror. They say it was isis 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.880 and some people are saying it's really disturbing. It brought 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.600 up the term holy war, which does not have any 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.680 real good connotations to me, but there are people sort 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.440 of cheering that on for one reason or another. So 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.320 we'll see what she has to say about it and 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.720 the politics of that and so much more. Ways off 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.280 five won three seven four nine, seven eight hundred, the 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.480 big one. We were also talking a little bit about 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.919 on the road and traveling, getting where you have to 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.520 go or back home, perhaps resolutions and all the other stuff, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.120 which I know is sort of tough and almost that's 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.120 the same way on the other side of it, maybe 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.680 getting ready for the holidays, where there's so much pressure 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.119 and so much stress. But if you don't put that, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.159 even if it's private, because for the longest time I 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.000 wouldn't tell anybody. I just wanted it for myself in 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.040 that idea, and I think maybe there are other people 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.800 like that. But some people have told me that it's 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.000 not real unless you put it out there for others 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.119 to be able to be aware of what you're working on. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.760 But I have had a lot of private things that. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.959 Are very real that don't have to make nobody and 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.080 they don't want to know about it. But it's kind 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.520 of an odd thing. But I've heard that over and 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.440 over from people. If you don't say it out loud, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.439 tell people it's not real, it's not right. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.200 That is that you put it out into the universe 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:57.760 and don't be afraid to say it. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.520 You can say it loud and proud. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.320 And I mean, like, for one thing is I was 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.880 happy that the holidays were coming, and I am very 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:10.640 happy to see them going. I am always enjoying Christmas 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.399 and that kind of stuff. But like, I am so 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.800 ready to start a new year always by this time, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.640 So I am saying that loud and proud. I'm ready 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:20.720 for twenty twenty six. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.919 I got a lot of people that are friends that 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.359 are on like vacation right now. They've timed it out 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.000 with their kids vacation with the New Year, where it's warm. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.879 I keep getting pictures of like iguanas climbing trees and 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.720 all this other stuff. How's it going on? Like it'll 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.760 be almost seventy tomorrow and they're like, ha, we're at 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:36.120 the beach. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:36.520 Yeah. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.080 I'm like, great, I have some of those two by 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:39.520 the way. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.440 And that's an odd thing too, because another friend of 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.399 mine was saying that it didn't seem real because they 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.800 had gone to Hawaii Christmas time, right, and I think 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.000 they're coming back next week, And he said that it 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.240 didn't even feel right because he's from here in Cincinnati 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.879 and saying that the whole idea of Christmas and New 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.800 Year's at a beach situation with palm trees and all 0:18:58.880 --> 0:18:59.600 the nice weather. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.359 Ever done that? I think, Yeah, I have, I have to, 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.040 and there's everything right about it. Let me just tell 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.080 you next Christmas. I was thinking on the way in 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.920 the car on the way to the studio here that 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.320 next year I'm going to be on a beach somewhere. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.760 I may even be doing a yoga retreat. I don't 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.360 even know, but next year I'm going to change it up. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.800 Yeah. Absolutely, it is a different kind of vibe. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.120 But I could sort of see. I mean, I only 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.400 have one use for cold and snow and that's Christmas 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.639 to yea years and we got it before, and I 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.280 know there's more coming. I would have preferred it to 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.080 just be this last week and you know, into next week, right, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.200 and then call it a day. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.840 Right, Bring spring, bring the reds, get it done. Everybody 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.640 wants the same idea, by the way. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.119 Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things. But 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.439 you know, we're in Ohio, We're in Kentucky, Indiana, the 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:53.080 Tri State. 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.199 It is. You know where we are. So you just 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:56.000 got to embrace it. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.200 Your three thirty reports straight away and up they know 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.480 what's going on around planet Earth and here in the 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.880 Tri State and the update also you know a lot 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.680 of weird stuff happening, like Walnut Hills and things. There's 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:08.720 about three and a half four blocks from where I 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.879 used to live. It's been a while ago when we 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.320 were still in Mount Adams, and there have been three 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.560 or four shootings in this apartment building that I used 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.480 to ride my bike bike like all the time. There 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.760 is a huge difference, by the way, from one side 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.960 of McMillan to the other side of McMillan is what 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.679 I was told by a whole bit. They're like, yeah, man, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.160 but you were on the other side. I'm like, it's 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.240 still disturbing, Yes, it is. Just think about that type 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.240 of thing. Imagine living in that building and knowing that 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.720 there's been that type of violence in that little window 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.520 of time. Just I mean, in general, that's stuff going 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.680 on that's not good. The news straight away. I don't 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.240 mean to be the profit of doom. We'll leave that 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.320 to the news. More Sterling and Donade coming back here. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:52.680 Seven hundred WLW Sterling and Dona d Saturday afternoon, seven 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:53.760 hundred WLW. 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:54.600 Beautiful day. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.000 I mean, it's a little gray, but it's I mean, 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.520 it's not snowing, it's not freezing rain. Travel is easy 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.320 than the minivans were out to get me earlier, Donna. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.840 I don't know the consortium. They were all distracted. They're 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.920 weaving in and out of lanes and everything. I was 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:13.320 starting to think they were after me, but I got here, okay. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.040 I just thought i'd share that because a lot. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.520 I love minivans and that's gonna be my next car. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.679 I have no kids, but I love mini vans like 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.400 my Space. My nephew just got a cool new minivan 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:24.440 I saw over Christmas. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.639 Well, but they've got he's got he getting a kid. 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:26.840 Kid. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:27.840 Yeah, he's got three. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:29.679 I mean literally, it seems like the other day you're like, 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.600 his first baby's coming in here, he's got three. Now, 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.239 I'm like, wow, they're getting it done. So things are 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.239 going well with them, and that's good. So much so 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.000 they needed a minivan, right and hopefully keep it in 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.880 their lane maintain your lane, which is a good adage 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.480 in general for all aspects of life. But of course 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:50.399 doing a talk show, we go anywhere we want to go. 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.399 Uh so, and that leads me the healthy relationship to 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:57.560 your nephew and the minivan brigade. Here here's the other 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.080 side of that. I have come as in the news 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.199 passively because I don't I'm not really one who's always 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.240 like looking at people online or whatever and celebrity stuff. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.560 But people do, and apparently it's in the water divorce 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.560 and breakups, and it seems to be a seasonal thing. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.359 So I'm just kind of I don't know if it's 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.600 a year end thing because of taxes, or if it's 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:21.439 like a new beginning thing. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.800 You mentioned the shedding of the skin in the Year 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:25.520 the Snake. 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:28.160 This was twenty twenty five, was the Year of the Snake, 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.000 and we did see a lot of breakups. Now, I 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.960 used to do a Hollywood Report Entertainment Report all the time, 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:35.320 so I kind of for years and years and years, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.960 I just kind of follow this stuff. Not religiously, but 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.240 I do follow it. But you know, Nicole Kidman and 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.960 Keith Urban, they're the big ones that broke up this year, 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.840 But there have been a lot of celebrity breakups. Katie 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:52.399 Perry and Orlando Bloom and now she's dating do you know, No, 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.320 it's the guy from Canada. Just intrudeaux, Yeah, how does 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:59.080 that happen? By the way, no idea is she a Canadian? 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:00.520 A Canuck think she is? 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:02.439 So they just crossed I mean, because I mean I'm 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.159 out and about. I don't cross paths with like people 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:07.560 like that. Not that I would watch, but I'm just saying, well, 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:08.480 it's very odd. 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.160 Well, she's a celebrity, and I'm sure you know everybody 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:14.480 I don't know one hundred percent get her music. But 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.040 I'm not a twelve year old girl, so I mean, 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:21.200 I'm not exactly her demo Jessica Alba and her husband 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:25.200 Cash Warren. They they are getting a divorced Denise Richard 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:30.840 and Denise Richards and Aaron Phifersers are, however. 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.200 Not a Kai Fifer. No, and she is the same 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:35.840 one who was married to Charlie Sheen correctly. Yeah, so 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.240 she's really the problem. Well, I mean, I mean he's 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:39.480 had his problems, right. 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.240 It's been pretty public, and he's talking about how she's 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.840 kind of a hoarder, and he did even a video 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.440 of her their house and where she just just a mess. 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:54.080 And if I could never, ever ever live with somebody 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:57.240 like that, ever, that would be a deal breaker immediately 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.680 you have stuff everywhere. No, that would drive me. I'm 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.560 a minimalist. I don't even like a bunch of stuff around. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.359 Well, I've been shedding stuff for quite a while, trying 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:08.120 to lighten my low. 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.439 But it feels good to do it. Really does want 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:14.280 me to finish this, Yeah, I wish you would, Okay. 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:19.640 Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fisher. And she shed 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:24.920 a lot of pounds too, holy smokes. Well, Amy Schumer 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:28.000 is now so skinny. If you've seen pictures on the 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.000 skinny Madison, here's a good one for you. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:34.480 Sidney Sweeney getting broken up with her boyfriend Jonathan to. 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:39.159 Just a temporary rebound, come visit, get out of town. 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.719 Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson, her husband, they broke up 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:47.200 this year, not the music player, a musician, Eric Johnson, 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.560 no different, Eric Johnson, who knows they were Ri Laughlin 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.200 and Massimo Gianewly. They broke up. 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.359 And she's one of those that were trying to. 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.840 K a lot of breakups this year. I told you 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:05.679 I had one, my sister had one. A lot of 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:09.679 people are just shedding those relationships that no longer work, 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:14.000 and you know, when you're away from it, like now 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:16.560 I'm a little bit more away from it, I can see, Wow, 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.080 that really was not working at all. And it's so 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:26.119 important to, yeah, take a moment, view what you just 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:29.639 went through, or view the person that you're with, and 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:33.600 at the very minimum, because it doesn't mean just because 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:36.520 it's not working now doesn't mean it's not ever going 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:39.040 to work. But at least say, hey, what's going on 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:43.240 now is not working, so let's take some space for 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.280 a minute and see if we can get back together 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:45.920 and regroup. 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.560 That's always really important to do well. I think it 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:50.040 makes a lot of sense. And the other thing that 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:52.119 goes along with that, which I hadn't thought much of. 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:54.000 And I had a couple of people who messaged in 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:58.760 friends that are lawyers. Apparently it's a good business the year. 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.399 At this this big business. 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:03.560 The people wait, big business wait till the end of 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.280 the holiday. I guess too, right, that's kind of people 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:09.159 will wait for their kids to get out of school 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:11.400 sometimes so it's not traumatic, which I don't know how 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:13.600 healthy that is, but I've seen that time and time again. 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:17.160 But the year end, is it about hey, new beginnings, 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:19.879 or they've had enough. They got through another stressful holiday 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:21.560 season and they're like, I've had enough of this crap. 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:23.760 I know, even if it cost me half, I'm done 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:25.840 or how I mean, that's an odd thing. 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:26.560 I don't know. 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:30.160 Because luckily, because I was married for a while with 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.560 my ex husband for almost twenty years together young. 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:36.200 We were young. I was twenty four, he was twenty two. 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:40.399 But we never had kids, so our divorce was not 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:43.720 messy at all, and we're still friends. Even that's good 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.680 because yeah, we just decided that, hey, you go your way, 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:47.720 I'll go mine. 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.760 So I want to ask him, this is a weird thing. 0:26:52.160 --> 0:27:00.000 So some people I know and they were married, separated, divorced, 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:05.160 still in the same place in the house, and each 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:07.159 of them now are with someone new and they're sharing 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:07.760 the space. 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.880 Wow, that's hard. That's weird right. Well, my ex. 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:14.720 Husband and I started dating other people. 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:17.800 In the same house. No, no, no, but we would all 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.680 four go have dinner together. We were all friends, so 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:21.760 that's kind of okay. 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:25.520 But sharing the same house, no, that would be that 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:29.040 would be too hard for me. Some people can do it, though, 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:32.720 I mean, you know, however, however you can handle, I 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:33.720 handle something. 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:35.520 I wonder if it's how much of it is. I 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:37.199 wasn't going to get into their business when I was 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:39.040 hearing about it, but I was interested immediately. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:40.800 I'm like, really, how does that work? 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:44.160 Yeah, because I'm like, I can't imagine it if everybody 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:45.880 it's amicable when you were like, hey, this isn't working 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.640 and we're friends, better friends than maybe, But I mean, 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:50.280 how much of that is? Hey, we we have a 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.080 house we have to worry about, or release we have 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:54.120 to worry about, and it's costly. 0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:56.440 I'm sure that's part of it. I mean, it would 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.639 have to be part of it otherwise why. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.560 I mean, that's some weird sisters kind of strange scenario, right, 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:04.000 I mean, I don't know that that's a whole other 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:06.280 layer of weirdness that sort of goes with that, which 0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:08.200 I think is kind of odd. Five point three seven 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:10.879 four nine seven eight hundred, the big one. And if 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:13.440 you've been through a year end kind of divorced separation thing, 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:16.600 I'm just kind of that is an it's a difficult thing, 0:28:17.280 --> 0:28:19.520 and I'm wading through the holidays. If you have kids, 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:20.800 is it better, well, well, at least they had a 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:23.000 nice Christmas. The new year they can start and be 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:25.919 messed up in the head, or I mean, if the 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:27.520 kids are out of the house. I've seen this, so 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:30.080 they're out of like out of high school, so you 0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:32.800 figure they're going to college or something else. They're grown enough. 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:35.440 But I mean I've been surprised on more than one 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:37.800 occasion where something like that's come up, and I'm like, 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:41.480 I had no idea. They seem like the perfect couple scenario. 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:43.880 But I guess you can hide anything. 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:47.840 Well, and you know, my advice would be to try 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:52.200 everything that you possibly can do to fix the relationship 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:55.920 all all the time. People always think not all the 0:28:55.960 --> 0:29:00.560 time I'm saying this, the grass is greener, and it's 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:04.840 not always the case. So if you if it's just 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:07.960 little tiny things that are bothering you, maybe you can 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:08.560 figure it out. 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:08.640 Go. 0:29:08.960 --> 0:29:12.600 The therapy really helps for couples. That's a doctor Wess 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:15.400 and I. That's what we do our Saturday night show 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:18.720 on when he comes on with me is we talk 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:21.560 about things that can support you and how to help you, 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:23.400 and how to work on your marriage and how to 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:24.600 work on your partnership. 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:28.160 But it's not always easy, and it takes two to 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:31.720 fix things as well as it does break things. Oh absolutely, 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:32.959 and good at breaking stuff. 0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:36.920 They say that the divorce rates around the fifth, fifth, 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:38.720 and the fifteenth and twentieth years. 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:40.840 That's when they peak. 0:29:40.960 --> 0:29:45.960 They say conflict, negative interaction patterns, irreconcilable differences. That's I 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:48.560 guess that excuse for everything or whatever. And you get 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:49.600 when you get to the point that. 0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:53.480 Again the fifth around the fifth, fifth year, fifteenth and 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:56.360 the twentieth years. Okay, wow, And what was that they 0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:58.840 made a movie about it? I remember it's an old 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:00.840 movie with a seven year itch or something. That's what 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:01.720 I was going to say. 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:05.640 It's the seven year Rich and I know several people 0:30:05.720 --> 0:30:09.560 that got divorced on the seven year rich that's interesting 0:30:09.680 --> 0:30:11.000 five point fifteen and twenty. 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:14.400 Right, if you can believe the internet, financial stress, that's 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:17.400 usually the number one thing, right, other than like infidelity 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:18.800 or incompatibility when it comes. 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:20.160 To No, I don't think it is at all. I 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:22.560 don't think it's money, Nope, I do not. I think 0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:26.640 it is lack of communication and lack of care. Yeah, 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:30.560 So if somebody is coming in, this is the four 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:34.800 horsemen stone walling, which is you know, if someone is 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.280 basically trying to talk, If I'm trying to talk to 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:41.040 you and you're just looking at your phone, how who 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.360 would want to be with somebody like that. You have 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:47.560 to really show that you care and that love is 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:51.440 in action, So you have to choose love over anything 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:53.480 else all the time. And if you only have one 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:56.880 person that's doing that. That's what I think is the 0:30:56.960 --> 0:31:02.240 number one reason for divorce. Critic is defensiveness. I mean 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:04.240 eye rolling is is a. 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:08.280 Really I'm just acting these things exactly. We're out on 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:10.400 camera at the moment, but in the future you never know. 0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:12.840 It's one of those things. All those things you say 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:16.000 makes sense. They say also lack of a family support 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:18.200 and backing when it comes to that will lead to 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:21.800 a divorce, you know, increased percentages of that because I 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:23.680 guess that you know each side of the families, like 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:25.400 you know, I don't like him anyway, or I don't 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:26.480 like her. 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:29.600 I never liked that person from to get. 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.600 Yeah, which is kind of and people, it's weird. I've 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:33.520 had friends, But why didn't you say anything? I was like, dude, 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:35.840 it was fairly clear. I don't know what to do. 0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:37.880 I'm not going to interfere. When you're telling me that 0:31:37.920 --> 0:31:39.920 you're absolutely happy. I say, you're sure, this is what 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:41.840 you want to do. Why you turn this on me? 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:45.120 That's your marriage that we're just drinking beers. 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:49.360 Now, I did say I did have somebody tell me that. 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:54.120 If somebody, anybody would have said to him, don't do it, 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:57.840 don't marry her, he would have walked on there on 0:31:57.960 --> 0:31:58.720 his wedding day. 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.320 If you're so desperate, though, hoping that someone's going to 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:04.320 tell you to validate your exactly you already know, but 0:32:04.400 --> 0:32:06.600 I've been guilty, not of that part. But you're kind 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:08.920 of like, uh, you feel it in your gut and 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:11.080 you kind of know, but you want to believe. You 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:12.960 want to believe that it's going to get better, that 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:15.280 you're wrong, that something's going to change, and it often doesn't. 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:20.160 It's called outsourcing your safety. You're you're relying on this person. 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:23.160 You'd rather feel safe with the wrong person than be 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:25.600 alone and scared with you by yourself. 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:26.680 That's what happens. 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:30.320 I'm sorry. I am so good to be alone though, 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:31.960 I mean there's an only child. 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:35.440 I'm too good at it. I really am. That's your problem. Yeah, 0:32:35.520 --> 0:32:39.480 that's my issue. It really is. You get along with everybody. No, 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:41.240 I can't even get along with me, but I can't 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.880 get away from myself. It's terrible, and I have tried. 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:46.400 Believe me. That's an odd one. 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:49.080 It's not sharing is not your issue because you always 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:51.480 give me your crackers and all kinds of. 0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:55.160 Yeah, I share, I give a lot. I just. 0:32:57.480 --> 0:32:57.560 No. 0:32:57.720 --> 0:32:59.960 But this is something I'm learning on another level. 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:02.920 And I'm going to talk about this in detail tonight 0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:08.640 from nine to midnight. The outsourcing of your safety. I 0:33:08.680 --> 0:33:11.640 mean there are people that I have done. You know, 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:14.040 I have a twin sister who's real important to me, 0:33:14.200 --> 0:33:16.959 and she's like my best friend, and we're very, very close. 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:21.440 But I have seen where I have. You know, she's 0:33:21.520 --> 0:33:25.480 been my security blank and my safety, my everything, and 0:33:25.760 --> 0:33:29.320 you know when when that changes, like for instance, she 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:32.000 has a new boyfriend now that she absolutely loves. When 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:35.840 that changes, I've had to change and look at and 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:40.120 go inward and go deeper into figuring out that, hey, 0:33:41.880 --> 0:33:47.280 not every emotional need should come from one relationship. I 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:49.520 really remely sister or not. 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.840 Kids Kids are a big thing for parents, like I 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:55.680 have my two kids and that's all I need. Well, No, 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:58.960 you have to really give yourself. You have to be 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:02.680 your own, your own father, your own sister, your own daughter. 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:05.200 You have distress. You just made me nervous hearing that. 0:34:05.680 --> 0:34:08.719 Why my own sister, my own brother, my own you do? 0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:10.040 You have to have your own back. 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:13.399 And that comes from digging deep, that's what that's where 0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:15.920 that comes from. And it doesn't mean that you should 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:17.239 not have these relationships. 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:19.719 You should. You can't do it alone. You just shouldn't 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:20.480 rely on. 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:23.680 Yeah, And we find ourselves sometimes in that where you 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:26.440 do become dependent in some fashion with any type of 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:30.080 partnership or relationship kind of scenario, whether it's a familiar 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:33.239 thing or it's a it's a relationship, intimate partner kind 0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:35.319 of scenario, husband, white boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:38.600 And that's why people take things that they wouldn't normally take, 0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:41.440 or say the things that they want to say but 0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:44.040 don't because they don't want to, you know, have any 0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:46.319 dust up and have to figure that out because that's 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:49.959 kind of a mess. But it's important to make sure 0:34:50.040 --> 0:34:52.719 that you do the work and you have your own back. 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:55.520 That's when you can stand strong in a relationship. 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:57.919 I'm trying to end on your own. We're digging deep 0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:01.000 and digging deep. I didn't even know we were going 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:02.680 into this doctor's orders. 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:06.520 It's a Saturday afternoon Stirling and Donna d seven hundred WLW. 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:12.319 Sterling and Donna de hanging out, beautiful Saturday afternoon, seven 0:35:12.400 --> 0:35:17.480 hundred WLW. Mister Waddell keeping us online. 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:17.799 I do. 0:35:18.080 --> 0:35:20.400 I mean, it feels like we're hanging around in France, 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:24.320 maybe drinking some wine and baguettes or something like that, 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:26.799 you know, hanging out. I did kind of have that vine. 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:31.279 I kind of was taken away someplace else. Speaking of 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:34.960 taking away. Conversation with doctor Donna schlike coming up after 0:35:34.960 --> 0:35:38.240 four o'clock about the US strikes in Nigeria, some people 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:43.320 are saying that this is maybe feeding into some of 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:46.240 what others are, like the people that are attacking Christians 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.360 and elsewhere call it like a holy worse scenario, and 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:50.640 us doing it on Christmas could have maybe taken it 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:52.799 to another level. We would hope that that's not the case, 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:55.720 but we'll take some time and talk to doctor Schleck 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.280 about that. And also the Epstein files, which just won't 0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:02.680 go away as is. It seems like another bit of 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:06.720 information in an accusation of Tyler Perry and another sexual 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:12.080 assault lawsuit scenario two another actor accusing Tyler Perry, which 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.279 is weird. It's like the me too things come back 0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:17.120 around or whatever. And then the Epstein files won't go 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:17.840 away either. 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:20.960 So that's he keeps hearing stuff about Tyler Perry. 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:25.480 It's like once every four months something somebody's coming up 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:26.360 with Tyler Perry. 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.239 It's the first I've heard about it. I mean, maybe 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:30.239 it happened and I just overlooked it or something. I'm like, 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:30.960 what a new movie means. 0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:31.560 Maybe it's the. 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:35.680 Same guy I just saw that. There's accusations again, but 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:37.480 would be a different person. 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:38.759 I would think, yeah, I. 0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:40.840 Would think multiple lawsuits would maybe be a bit of 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:42.759 a stretch. It's kind of a kind of an odd thing, 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:46.200 I think, just generally. But we'll see exactly what that 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:49.040 means and what goes along with that. Bengals at home, 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:53.960 two games left at pegor got Browns to close out 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:57.440 the season. But tomorrow one o'clock kickoff the Arizona Cardinals 0:36:57.440 --> 0:36:59.759 in town. And it would be almost better if it 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:02.920 were holder for the Bengals to take on the kids 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:06.319 from And I say the kids hear me from like 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:10.080 they're coming from Arizona. They don't understand the Ohio cold. 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.440 But it's going to be near seventy, so yeah, it's 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:12.840 not going to. 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:15.120 Be It'll be nice to go to the game, though, 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:19.279 when it's six inches of snow sitting in the seats. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:19.680 That's correct. 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:22.279 Yeah, that was a whole big thing for a lot 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:23.879 of people trying to dig out of that a couple 0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:26.279 of weeks ago. That was some ugliness or whatever. And 0:37:26.640 --> 0:37:28.520 I don't know how they pulled that off anyway, And 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:30.719 there was some talk about it hadn't been handled or whatever. 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:32.400 I was waiting for the call. I was ready with 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:33.800 the shovel. I was here anyway. 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:36.560 I was ready. We could have never gone down to 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:41.439 pay corn. It was crazy eight inches and more. Snow 0:37:42.040 --> 0:37:43.040 very different right now. 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:46.400 Absolutely, it's almost like spring or something. I don't know 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:50.040 what this is. It's just whiplash and ugliness. It's it's 0:37:50.120 --> 0:37:51.759 kind of weird to go along with that. A lot 0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:55.400 of people heading home and you know, getting ready for 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:58.800 I guess the New Year's celebration. Back from traveling and everything, 0:37:58.840 --> 0:38:01.840 So just be careful out there. Lot of traffic and apparently, 0:38:01.920 --> 0:38:04.200 which I find is somewhat surprising, but I guess you 0:38:04.239 --> 0:38:07.120 have to come home at some point. This is supposed 0:38:07.160 --> 0:38:10.000 to be the busiest flying day of the holiday season 0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:12.440 because I guess a lot of people come home today 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:14.480 or tomorrow, and then of course you have a day 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:16.759 to sort of get it together before you hit back 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:18.480 to work for another short week. 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:20.719 Yeah, it's only going to be like everyone's gonna be 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:24.279 off Wednesday and Thursday, New Year's even New Year's Day, 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:26.279 so yeah, short week. 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:29.520 If you were smart, take that whole week off, right, 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:32.880 learn that vacation. But I mean, you know, it's also 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.799 nice to get back and do some things in your 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:38.560 house and get caught up. Yeah, that's what everybody's doing. 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:40.960 Clean it up, get rid of that dry tree. That's 0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:44.040 a fire hazard. That I still have a hard time 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:47.759 believing that, back in the day before electricity was available 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:50.760 to the masses, that they would take a live tree, 0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:53.719 cut it, bring it into the house and then put 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:57.280 candles on. I mean, it's just right there in itself 0:38:57.400 --> 0:39:01.120 is a description of like bad outcomes. I'm like, did 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:03.400 no one have an idea that this was a problem? 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:06.799 So LED lights are much better? Yes, yeah, so do that. 0:39:07.000 --> 0:39:09.799 I saw a neighbor ed and they have like all 0:39:09.880 --> 0:39:12.239 kinds of trees. They have like a pseudo Christmas trees 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:14.640 in the yard which they decorate. And I know they 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.080 have multiple trees in the house, some fake and some real. 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:19.640 They had one dead when they already had at the curb. 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:21.879 But he said, no, no, we've watered the others. We're 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:23.560 in good shape. He says, you can come in and 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:25.360 take a look around. I'm like, it's all right. I 0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:27.600 don't need to go to the Christmas Museum right now. 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:31.440 So a lot of people doing that, And I was like, 0:39:31.480 --> 0:39:33.239 so what about the lights. He goes, Oh, they'll they'll 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:36.800 stay at least until the week after New Year's Yeah, that's. 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:38.200 What most people in my neighborhood. 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:38.239 Do. 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:41.239 I mean you would think right after New Year's everybody 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:44.160 takes everything down, But no, they'll keep those lights up 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:47.320 in those inflatables and all that stuff. And I'm fine, 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:49.719 I don't either. I don't mind it. Some of them 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:52.200 have really pretty lights up in my neighborhood. 0:39:52.280 --> 0:39:53.759 Yeah, I mean, there are a couple of people. I mean, 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:56.439 they do some really crazy light shows and everything else, 0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:58.160 and I'd rather them do the work and then I 0:39:58.160 --> 0:40:00.839 can just ride through and go look at and then 0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:02.399 I can go home and not have to worry about 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:04.560 Are you going out New Year's Eve this year? I'm 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:08.040 gonna be doing this, That's right, you are virtually. 0:40:08.440 --> 0:40:12.160 If not, yeah, we'll do a bigger a New Year's celebration. 0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:14.520 So I'll call in, But I'm having a New Year's 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:15.520 Eve party at my house. 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:18.640 We have to hydrate, got to hydrate, and we're gonna 0:40:18.640 --> 0:40:20.440 be late four o'clock. Report straight away, the latest on 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:23.200 Nigeria attacks, and so much more. Sterling Donnade where the 0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:25.160 Bengals play, because it's the home of the best Bengals 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:27.400 coverage seven hundred double l W Cincinnati. 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:29.200 Hey, how you doing? 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:32.759 It's beautiful Saturday afternoon, Sterling and donnade hanging out. I 0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:36.319 know it's overcast, like beautiful really well, yeah, I mean 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:40.200 it's not freezing cold. It's not the you know, precipitation 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:44.200 piling up and drove, So yeah, I and tomorrow it's 0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:45.839 going to be in your seventy in the Bengals day, 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.840 So I mean, enjoy it before Monday and then you 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:53.560 get like a Necke thirty. Yeah, it's ridiculous. A lot 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:55.720 of stuff in the news. Former head of political science 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:58.759 at right State Cincinnati kid Now, Professor Meridith. She was 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:00.800 the head of political science at right Now, doctor Donnas 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:02.680 Schleck was Stirling and Donadee on the Big One. 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:05.080 How are you? How's Christmas time? New Year's and all 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:05.480 you're doing? 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:12.560 Okay, the family food football fun fest continues. 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:17.279 Yes, indeed, we appreciate you taking a break from that. Yeah. 0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:19.680 I think that covers all the basis. I'm kind of excited. 0:41:19.840 --> 0:41:23.080 I wish I had a cocktail right about now. Is 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.560 some odd stuff in the news, or maybe not odd, 0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:29.000 but some of the reports and comments people of Maine 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.360 about it have taken it to another level where my 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:34.040 mind started thinking a little bit differently. So we reached 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:37.480 out to you in the news about US strikes in 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:42.960 Nigeria against ISIS, as it's been reported, apparently going after 0:41:43.040 --> 0:41:46.360 Christians and other groups, not just really focusing on Christians. 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.520 But the President said that he waited, he could have 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:52.440 gone earlier, but decided to actually hit them on Christmas. 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.320 I guess to make a point. What has been talked about, 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.200 and what I've read is that people are saying that 0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:00.120 this is sort of feeding into that whole Zealot men 0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:03.520 and a holy war mindset of it being a god 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:07.480 thing rather than just a violence thing. How legitimate is 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:09.840 that concern? And what does that mean for us moving 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:11.000 forward domestically? 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:16.640 Wow's who thought we'd be talking about Africa and Venezuela 0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:22.440 and possible military strength around it IS And hello there, donnas. 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:28.360 We're in the holiday spirit and and and of course 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:31.399 you know, Americans have been hearing about these kidnappings going 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:36.160 back probably ten years because of ISIS in Nigeria, Muslims 0:42:36.200 --> 0:42:38.719 are are kidnapped as well. A lot of it's for ransom, 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:41.640 so a lot of it is just gangs. But there 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:44.680 are a couple of things happening in Nigeria that you know, 0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:49.000 I'm interested in terrorism on a global basis, and in 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:55.080 Nigeria we have cut our foreign aid and but now 0:42:55.120 --> 0:42:58.319 we've come to try to punish ISIS with the with 0:42:58.440 --> 0:43:01.880 the approval of the Nigerian head of state. So this 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:04.959 was not over their objections. They do not have good 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:09.520 control of the perimeter of their country. They're threatened by ISIS. 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:13.240 You know, the gift that keeps on giving Maalia, Yemen 0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:20.120 and Boko Haram definitely homegrown, but very fundamentalists. Boko Haram 0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:24.640 means books are forbidden, so it tells you something about 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:27.480 you know, just how violent they're going to be. And 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:30.960 most of the abductions people have come home. The one 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:33.560 a few years ago where they took two hundred girls 0:43:33.600 --> 0:43:37.160 took a long time to ransom them out. But we've 0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:41.560 cut our foreign aid to Nigeria and yet we've exerted 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:47.240 ourselves in this way. We fired quite a few of ambassadors, 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:51.240 foreign service officers who've been staffing up jobs in Africa 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:56.880 and Asia. So from a foreign policy perspective, the signal 0:43:56.960 --> 0:44:00.880 seems to be terrorism will not go away, even if 0:44:00.920 --> 0:44:03.360 we're going to call it narco dotacantes. You know, in 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:09.120 the Caribbean, ISIS continues and we've also been bombing a 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:13.520 lot of sights in Syria to punish ISIS for the 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:17.160 killing of the three Americans. We've taken our troops down 0:44:17.160 --> 0:44:22.400 to one thousand in Syria. So it's very complicated and 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:26.560 extremely tricky for our military. These Tomahawk strikes have come, 0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:29.240 you know, if their standoff, they're from a great distance. 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:33.760 We're not sending in you know, bombers from the air force. 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:39.160 But terrorism simply will not go away. And I guess 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:44.640 what worries me most about Nigeria, big country, great oil wealth, 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:48.080 is the problem that they don't control a lot of 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:52.240 their country. And ISIS has apparently been helping get people 0:44:52.400 --> 0:44:59.240 organized more effectively. Different gangs now working together, larger scale abductions, 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:02.239 they find a way to insinuate themselves into, you know, 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:07.560 the local conflicts, and it is both a Christian and 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:11.680 a Muslim country, very complicated picture. We cannot take our 0:45:11.760 --> 0:45:15.359 eye off Africa. And perhaps it's the oil that has 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:19.239 drawn President Trump's attention, and of course the attacks on 0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:22.719 the Christian community. But you were correct, it's not been 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:27.360 an exclusively anti Christian campaign. I think it's important to 0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:29.160 point that out. And a lot of it is just 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:33.840 gang related abductions for money. But that tells us something 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:37.520 else where does isis do well in states that are failing, 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:41.480 States that are weak, states that cannot police their territory 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:45.440 and protect their people from violence. The more you know 0:45:45.560 --> 0:45:50.360 a state approaches failure, the less control and order you 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:52.759 will find, which is what troubles me most about the 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:57.040 path we're on with Venezuela right now. So that being said, 0:45:57.160 --> 0:45:59.840 I'm in the holiday spirit or analysis. 0:46:01.360 --> 0:46:04.920 So doctor Donna, there's a lot in there. What would 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:08.839 you suggest we do in in terms of handling it 0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:13.120 instead of bombing? And you know, Sterling, I agree, it 0:46:13.200 --> 0:46:18.479 creates more zealots, It creates more people that might want 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:21.960 to just harm anybody that has anything to do with 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:25.560 the United States because we're bombing over there? 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:29.400 What what? What? What should we be doing instead of 0:46:30.600 --> 0:46:33.719 creating this possible hold. 0:46:33.560 --> 0:46:37.439 Over Such a thoughtful way to appreciate it. I think 0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:40.600 it's important to remember we're dealing with an ideology here, 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.040 and uh, you know, and real social and economic problems 0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:50.960 that these societies are facing. Under President John Kennedy, there 0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:54.200 was the idea of perhaps hearts and minds, perhaps Foreign 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:58.400 aid and Peace Corps projects doing things like digging wells 0:46:58.480 --> 0:47:03.799 and you know, bringing vaccines for public health. So we've 0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:07.120 figured out what to do, but it's long, it's slow, 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:14.279 and it takes sustained investments, and many Americans are increasingly 0:47:14.680 --> 0:47:20.560 hostile towards foreign aid, which they mistakenly think is some 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:24.880 huge component of our national budget. Right it's about a 0:47:25.040 --> 0:47:30.520 quarter of one percent. That's how little it is, and 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:32.960 yet how much good it can do. To speak to Donna, 0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:38.799 the conditions that people are experiencing and the way some 0:47:38.960 --> 0:47:44.440 political groups, religious groups can you recruit them into political violence. 0:47:44.760 --> 0:47:49.600 We designed alternatives. But the thing that happened, you know, 0:47:49.760 --> 0:47:54.160 six months ago, was we cut foreign aid, particularly in 0:47:54.200 --> 0:47:59.120 the public health, women's health, children's health categories, HIV meds, 0:47:59.239 --> 0:48:03.240 those sorts of things. Again, if it's hearts and minds 0:48:03.239 --> 0:48:06.759 that that that you know, you're you're concerned about. Food aid, 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:10.160 of course, has been cut in terrible places like Sudan 0:48:10.680 --> 0:48:11.279 and dark For. 0:48:14.440 --> 0:48:16.160 Doctor donas Schlike, by the way, is with us. I'm 0:48:16.160 --> 0:48:18.000 sorry to I want to reintroduce her. She's the former 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:20.480 head of political science at right stage, she's not Professor 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:23.840 Meretith Cincinnati kid with Sterling and donnade on the big one. 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:26.719 American soft power is sort of what you're alluding to 0:48:26.760 --> 0:48:29.680 in a different way to going about winning friends and 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:33.760 influencing people and hopefully avoiding the desperation and those cracks 0:48:34.080 --> 0:48:37.120 in a society that can turn people more violent and aggressive, 0:48:37.560 --> 0:48:40.600 whether to us or their neighbors much closer. I don't 0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:42.960 have a problem with US bombing from a distance rather 0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:44.560 than boots on the ground, as long as we know 0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:47.920 that we're getting the right enemy, uh, and not creating 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:50.680 people who are going to be against us because of 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:53.759 collateral damage for one of a better way to describe it. 0:48:54.120 --> 0:48:54.279 Uh. 0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:57.600 By the way, doctor Donna Schlike published the first textbook 0:48:57.640 --> 0:49:00.680 on terrorism, so she knows a thing or two about this. 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:05.600 I'm curious in relation to this and dealing with the 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:09.240 footprint that Russia had been making inroads and certainly China 0:49:09.400 --> 0:49:12.839 in Africa as well. When there is chaos, when there 0:49:12.920 --> 0:49:15.560 is turmoil, when there is a vacuum, when we are 0:49:15.600 --> 0:49:18.600 not involved, does that not aside from the economic issue 0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:22.400 of this, is they have tried to expand their footprint 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:24.759 there in other parts of the world. That makes us 0:49:24.760 --> 0:49:27.120 more vulnerable too. So there is a fine line to 0:49:27.200 --> 0:49:30.120 walk with budget as well as keeping us safe in 0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:31.160 our interest elsewhere. 0:49:31.239 --> 0:49:33.719 Yes, absolutely. 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:38.480 The Russians, of course, sponsor a number of militias that 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:44.440 are now reportedly committing the worst atrocities of atrocities in 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:48.440 Sudan in the Darfur region. Chinese build, you know, their 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:51.880 bridges and roads. It's a global project to build bridges 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:56.680 and roads, get more trade coming to China, and build friends. 0:49:57.239 --> 0:50:01.400 So in very different ways, they are definitely playing to 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:05.480 their strength and exerting their influence. But this part of 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:09.160 the world, whether you're interested in energy, I know the 0:50:09.200 --> 0:50:13.520 White House policy on Syria hasn't mentioned that the strikes 0:50:13.560 --> 0:50:17.040 in Syria were done with the, if not informed, consent 0:50:17.239 --> 0:50:20.479 of the Syrian government. My guess is we're on better 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:26.040 relations now with them in trying to combat ISIS. But 0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:30.279 as Americans, we know the lesson. When you have a 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:36.120 deep political, social, economic grievance that's bubbling up, there's probably 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:40.719 not a long term, good military solution to those problems. 0:50:41.920 --> 0:50:46.319 And that's the frustration. We have great military tools, but 0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:50.040 the tools we may need to speak to this ideological threat, 0:50:50.440 --> 0:50:56.080 whether it's Syria or Nigeria or even potentially in the Caribbean, 0:50:56.680 --> 0:51:01.840 it's long It takes time, it takes resources. It takes 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:05.120 a lot of great people willing to volunteer two or 0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:09.200 three or five years. Uh, you know, after college to 0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:12.200 work in these developing countries and make a difference in 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:15.680 their lives and what they think about the United States. 0:51:16.360 --> 0:51:19.080 We don't tell those stories often enough. You know, the 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:22.440 Voice of America operated for so long and in our 0:51:22.520 --> 0:51:27.040 part of the country that outreach America first doesn't mean 0:51:27.080 --> 0:51:29.960 America alone. In fact, it can't. When you have, you know, 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:33.560 a great economy and far flung interest you're going to 0:51:33.600 --> 0:51:37.799 have global interests and concerns national security, economic, public health. 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:38.640 Uh. 0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:42.120 You know, the list goes on, and it really struck 0:51:42.160 --> 0:51:45.759 me then as well, and in particularly Nigeria. We cannot 0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:51.200 divert resources away from the concern of the threat of terrorism. 0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:56.080 We cannot h and many resources right now in national 0:51:56.120 --> 0:52:01.960 security apparatus are being diverted because of the asis on immigration. 0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:06.800 This is not good and these should be red flags 0:52:06.880 --> 0:52:09.880 to the public. You know, we cannot take our eyes 0:52:10.400 --> 0:52:11.640 off that threat. 0:52:15.400 --> 0:52:15.560 Oh. 0:52:15.600 --> 0:52:18.839 I was just gonna say. The Christian community in particular, though, 0:52:19.280 --> 0:52:22.480 that must have struck quite a painful cord in in 0:52:23.040 --> 0:52:27.000 the White House because they responded much faster to that 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:32.440 than they even did taking retribution for the three American servicemen, 0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:35.799 the National Guardsmen from Iowa who were on duty in 0:52:35.840 --> 0:52:41.440 Syria who were killed assassinated by a sniper. So this 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:45.879 problem will not go away. But knowledge is power and 0:52:46.400 --> 0:52:51.880 knowing how to choose the correct path of response. Terrorism 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:58.040 terrorists always want to provoke an overreaction every time, if possible, 0:52:58.440 --> 0:53:02.360 with as much publicity as they can possibly acquire. What 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:05.880 we're not hearing this Christmas is another mass attack in 0:53:05.920 --> 0:53:09.960 a Christmas fair because most of them have been closed 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:15.080 to vehicle traffic, particularly across Europe. So they pick the 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:18.600 vulnerable targets. What will people pay attention to, what will 0:53:18.640 --> 0:53:21.840 they care about? And in this case it was that small. 0:53:22.200 --> 0:53:25.400 It's a minority population, but it's a significant population in 0:53:25.480 --> 0:53:31.200 Nigeria and President Trump has clearly ordered retaliation. Did they 0:53:31.280 --> 0:53:35.160 hit the right villages? How much of the isis vocalha 0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:40.440 RAM infrastructure is gone. I doubt we're going to hear 0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:42.760 much of an after action report in that regard. 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:45.640 Well, it tends to just sort of bubble up like fungus, 0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:49.120 you know, when the lights are out and the conditions 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:51.960 are correct, it just pops up for a multitude of reasons, 0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:54.160 and then you know, it becomes that lone wol for 0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:56.600 someone who's been activated in some way because they, you know, 0:53:56.680 --> 0:53:58.680 feel that they have been drawn into this in some 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:02.360 fashion too. And we've seen that lunatics of American persuasion 0:54:02.400 --> 0:54:05.360 here too over the years and in recent months for 0:54:05.400 --> 0:54:07.279 that matter as well. It's startling and Donna de with 0:54:07.280 --> 0:54:09.719 doctor Donashchleg former head of political science at Right State, 0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:12.040 if we can shift gears in a short amount of 0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:14.080 time here something else that has been in the news 0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:17.359 that has been drip drip, drip, drip drip, with tons 0:54:17.400 --> 0:54:20.880 of information that has been redacted in pictures and some 0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:23.400 videos that were posted then pulled back. And then the 0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:26.319 talk of targeting, say Democrats because it's embarrassing to them 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:29.480 or maybe maybe eve embarrassing to President Trump in some 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:33.360 fashion with this, What is going on with the Epstein files, 0:54:33.680 --> 0:54:35.960 and what really is the endgame with this that you 0:54:36.040 --> 0:54:38.120 think will come of it, if anything, because it really 0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:40.400 is less of a legal thing in some ways and 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:43.359 more of a political thing that it is being dealt 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:45.520 with by the White House, and for those victims at 0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:46.919 this point too, sadly. 0:54:48.280 --> 0:54:52.560 Sadly, and I'm grateful that you mentioned the victims because 0:54:52.920 --> 0:54:57.320 they are so deeply frustrated by this process, and many 0:54:57.320 --> 0:54:59.920 of them are still, you know, unable to speak specifically 0:55:00.160 --> 0:55:06.080 about their accusers, well their abusers. So again, who's been protected? 0:55:06.680 --> 0:55:10.840 You know why the slow walk this will not go away. 0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:14.280 It will probably be the one thing that the Trump 0:55:14.840 --> 0:55:18.120 second presidency, the administration will look at is they have 0:55:18.360 --> 0:55:24.239 not managed the messaging on Epstein. They are always behind 0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:29.160 the curve, and I we can call it a democratic hoax, 0:55:29.280 --> 0:55:32.840 which is what he's now calling it. But obviously this 0:55:33.440 --> 0:55:36.920 goes this has been going on for years. The reaction 0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:41.200 right now, I don't know if some of the victims, 0:55:41.239 --> 0:55:45.480 some of the survivors will be speaking out out of frustration. 0:55:45.880 --> 0:55:46.440 I don't know. 0:55:46.800 --> 0:55:49.000 They might be given a protected venue in which to 0:55:49.040 --> 0:55:54.960 do that with Congress. But public interest is not going away. 0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:59.000 The FBI clearly has an all hands on deck situation 0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:06.080 to try to redact these documents. But I'm dumbfounded by 0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:10.200 the scale of a million more documents, And like you 0:56:10.280 --> 0:56:13.879 and Donna, I wonder and what else after that? I mean, 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:18.879 how will we know? So the process has completely broken down? 0:56:19.360 --> 0:56:22.480 Congress put no penalty in the law that they passed requiring, 0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:25.520 you know, the distribution of the documents by the nineteenth. 0:56:26.000 --> 0:56:30.879 That deadline has already passed. Some of the representatives are 0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:35.120 talking about, you know, a motion of impeachment of the 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:41.480 Attorney General. I'm not sure what that will accomplish. Frustration 0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:48.280 is not it's simply not going away. And I don't 0:56:48.320 --> 0:56:51.960 know what else the administration can do besides to publish. 0:56:52.560 --> 0:56:55.840 It's going to be a massive set of documents, and 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:58.120 we're going to miss more names. You know, while people 0:56:58.160 --> 0:57:03.040 who've been ye survived and privacy has been perfected, a 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:05.200 couple of those have already been revealed as well. 0:57:05.320 --> 0:57:07.640 No, I mean, that's that's what I was going to say, 0:57:08.239 --> 0:57:11.759 doctor donnad. The victims have really moved this along. The 0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:16.000 survivors is what I would call them, survivors, and they've 0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:19.040 literally said, we don't care. We don't care if our 0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:21.680 names are out, we don't care. We want this public. 0:57:22.040 --> 0:57:24.880 We want everyone to know who these people are. And 0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:27.800 so do you think the only thing that can happen 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:29.760 is that they start naming names? 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:33.400 And how would that play out? 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.400 Then we have the overwhelming news story of the new year. 0:57:40.800 --> 0:57:44.160 I think there are an ample number of members in 0:57:44.200 --> 0:57:47.280 Congress once they come back into session, and of course 0:57:47.320 --> 0:57:51.120 calling them back into session will be another interesting exercise 0:57:51.120 --> 0:57:53.400 at the start of the year. Then we immediately go 0:57:53.480 --> 0:57:57.600 into another budget crisis too. So on top of the 0:57:57.960 --> 0:57:59.120 thing document. 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:06.000 File, doctor Schleck, say six, Donna just said. Donna d 0:58:06.280 --> 0:58:08.640 said that it was everything was going to get better 0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:12.160 in twenty six and what you've laid out there is 0:58:12.200 --> 0:58:14.919 another year of just what the hell is going on? 0:58:15.280 --> 0:58:17.760 I mean, seriously, wow. 0:58:18.080 --> 0:58:20.000 Say exactly when in twenty six? 0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:22.880 Right, it could be the second. 0:58:24.080 --> 0:58:27.080 Well, I am feeling so much better about nothing now, 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:28.440 So that's fantastic. 0:58:28.560 --> 0:58:31.000 Donna gives it to a straight That's why we here. 0:58:31.120 --> 0:58:33.640 We can respect it sometimes I don't mind being lied to. 0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:37.200 Actually, doctor Donna schleg former head of political science at 0:58:37.240 --> 0:58:38.960 right State, now Professor Meredith. 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:40.000 She is a Cincinnati kid. 0:58:40.120 --> 0:58:42.760 Thank you for bringing your knowledge base and your insights 0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:43.840 and perspectives to the air. 0:58:43.880 --> 0:58:45.760 We appreciate it as always. Have a great new year. 0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:49.160 Thank you, Happy new year, view and Donna. 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:51.479 Thank you, doctor Donna. You feel better? 0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:51.840 Oh? 0:58:51.960 --> 0:58:54.760 I mean she always you know, it's it's it's it's 0:58:54.800 --> 0:58:56.760 always lovely to talk to her, but it's tough. 0:58:57.520 --> 0:59:01.040 Yeah, okay, your four third reports coming up, fast and furious. 0:59:01.040 --> 0:59:04.320 It's a Saturday afternoon, Sterling Donna d together again here 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:09.160 the Nation station seven hundred wulw man. The road's busy, 0:59:10.200 --> 0:59:15.720 airport's busy. Warm is here warmer still tomorrow and then 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:19.000 the cold returns. Bengals, Cardinals, one o'clock pay Corps and 0:59:19.000 --> 0:59:21.920 here on seven hundred w welw on your Sunday. In 0:59:21.960 --> 0:59:24.360 the meantime at Sterling and Donna d hanging out, a 0:59:24.360 --> 0:59:26.920 lot of people returning home from over the hills and 0:59:26.960 --> 0:59:30.160 far away to grandma's house or the in laws thing. 0:59:30.200 --> 0:59:32.600 We talked about this too, and yeah, anybody who's been 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:35.720 in a relationship situation or you know, you're tagging along 0:59:35.760 --> 0:59:38.160 as kids in the car with mom and dad, depending, 0:59:38.720 --> 0:59:43.160 how do you decide where you're going? Because usually somebody 0:59:43.200 --> 0:59:46.720 wants you to be there more than someone else. And 0:59:46.800 --> 0:59:48.320 I don't know who is it a dominant thing and 0:59:48.360 --> 0:59:51.000 who has hand in the relationship? Donna, how does one 0:59:51.040 --> 0:59:52.880 decide where you're going so you're not going to five 0:59:52.920 --> 0:59:54.720 places every you know holiday, Well. 0:59:54.640 --> 0:59:58.760 It's one of the most common and quietly stressful challenges 0:59:58.880 --> 1:00:02.800 that couples face during the holidays is you know, when 1:00:02.800 --> 1:00:03.760 are we going here? 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:06.280 Do we have to stop there? How are we going 1:00:06.360 --> 1:00:06.840 to do this? 1:00:07.080 --> 1:00:09.080 I want to have Christmas at my house with the 1:00:09.160 --> 1:00:10.920 kids and that kind of stuff. 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:12.479 But it it. 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:16.440 Can be less stressful, but a lot of people. The 1:00:17.160 --> 1:00:22.120 number one thing that it's really hard on the kids 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:25.040 that are doing this, Like, you know, the in laws 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:28.640 are a priority, and then her parents are a priority. 1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:32.680 But the keeping score, you were there for four hours. 1:00:32.720 --> 1:00:35.600 You've only spent two hours here. You were there at 1:00:35.640 --> 1:00:38.880 their house Christmas Day, and we want to see christ 1:00:39.240 --> 1:00:42.480 It's tough. It is tough no matter how you slice it. 1:00:42.520 --> 1:00:44.560 But you really have to set boundaries. 1:00:44.800 --> 1:00:46.800 It's a nightmare when you're talking about, you know, doing 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:49.080 it by the billable hour four. 1:00:52.040 --> 1:00:53.280 Eating loyalties. 1:00:53.520 --> 1:00:57.760 But people take that personally parents or laws and everything else. 1:00:58.320 --> 1:01:03.120 Usually you would say the wife really picks like in 1:01:03.320 --> 1:01:05.880 many of my nieces and things like that, that's true. 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:10.080 The wife do decide that, hey, I'm going to go 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:12.720 to my mom's house first, that's what we're doing, and 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:14.959 then we'll go to your your parents' house. 1:01:15.040 --> 1:01:15.560 Is that okay? 1:01:15.800 --> 1:01:18.480 But I just watched this whole thing on. This guy 1:01:19.640 --> 1:01:23.480 basically said, I don't even like Christmas anymore. I absolutely 1:01:23.560 --> 1:01:26.920 hate it. My wife will only go to her place, 1:01:26.920 --> 1:01:29.080 and if she's at mine, she's on her phone. She's 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:33.120 not she's not, you know, contributing to games, and it's 1:01:33.280 --> 1:01:36.640 just not fun. And when it gets like that, I 1:01:36.640 --> 1:01:40.040 don't know what couples should do or what works well. 1:01:40.040 --> 1:01:41.760 I would hope you don't end up in a situation 1:01:41.840 --> 1:01:44.600 where you're sitting there and being, you know, crap on 1:01:44.640 --> 1:01:47.400 a stump while everybody else is hopefully having a good time. 1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:49.400 And I have seen a little of that, but it 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:52.560 is sort of a weird scenario. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, 1:01:52.960 --> 1:01:55.400 eight hundred, the big one. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, 1:01:55.600 --> 1:01:58.720 streaming there or just checking us out, you can certainly 1:01:58.800 --> 1:02:01.560 click on the microphone and a message there. How do 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:04.160 you decide though, And it is often the woman because 1:02:04.160 --> 1:02:07.600 they tend to because you guys have power in the relationship. 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:09.040 Well, I mean, I don't mean that. 1:02:09.160 --> 1:02:11.280 In a derogatory way, but I mean that is sort 1:02:11.320 --> 1:02:13.240 of how it plays out. I've never been in a 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:15.960 situation where I counted the time, but I mean, as 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:17.800 the day goes on. You go to one place and 1:02:17.840 --> 1:02:20.600 then another place. I may be less active and engaged, 1:02:20.640 --> 1:02:23.800 but it's not personal. It's because I'm tired and I 1:02:23.840 --> 1:02:25.600 need a second wind, and I need a nap, and 1:02:25.640 --> 1:02:28.280 can I get some more food and and maybe some 1:02:28.320 --> 1:02:31.720 more loud obnoxious toys. Post holiday, there's maybe still a 1:02:31.760 --> 1:02:33.720 little of that in a lot of people's minds as 1:02:33.760 --> 1:02:34.480 we're heading home. 1:02:34.800 --> 1:02:38.240 Well, you know, you can hear them say, her parents 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:41.760 get more time. We're always second. I mean even with 1:02:42.080 --> 1:02:45.080 my in laws, and they were great. We always invited 1:02:45.120 --> 1:02:46.800 them to come with us. So it was kind of 1:02:46.840 --> 1:02:49.640 a joint family thing where it was my sister and 1:02:50.640 --> 1:02:55.240 her son and cousins and his parents and everybody always 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:55.760 got along. 1:02:55.840 --> 1:02:57.680 It wasn't a huge deal. 1:02:58.080 --> 1:03:00.760 But I know that my brother got married and we 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:02.880 were all there were five sisters and two boys. My 1:03:02.960 --> 1:03:06.600 brother got married and he always went to his wife's 1:03:06.760 --> 1:03:11.360 house and we never got to see my brother and 1:03:11.400 --> 1:03:14.720 they would cancel last minute. Oh we're just they started 1:03:14.760 --> 1:03:17.440 this game and we stayed late, and we would be like, 1:03:17.720 --> 1:03:21.000 forget it. And so I we even as you know, 1:03:21.240 --> 1:03:24.920 young adults. When we were married, and my husband loved 1:03:25.000 --> 1:03:27.800 my brother and always wanted him around. He was always 1:03:27.880 --> 1:03:30.920 bombed that he My brother Derek never made it because 1:03:31.320 --> 1:03:35.160 his wife, you know, came first, and a lot of 1:03:35.440 --> 1:03:36.280 guys are like that. 1:03:37.080 --> 1:03:39.800 You know, you gotta live with that. You got to 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:41.760 wake up with that. You don't want her hacked off 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:43.480 of you or all of a sudden your life. Yes, 1:03:43.600 --> 1:03:46.200 it's miserable on a whole lot of other levels. I know, 1:03:46.480 --> 1:03:49.800 but really you have to you have read it out. Yes, 1:03:50.120 --> 1:03:51.960 it's you have to be fair about it. 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:56.400 Everybody wants to see their family members on Christmas and 1:03:56.720 --> 1:03:58.760 Mists and Thanksgiving. 1:03:59.080 --> 1:04:01.000 It's exhausting, yeah, I mean, and you want it to 1:04:01.040 --> 1:04:03.600 be fun. You shouldn't be in a situation where it's dread. 1:04:03.680 --> 1:04:06.720 But oftentimes it becomes more for the people you're visiting 1:04:06.720 --> 1:04:09.120 than even yourself after like the second or third place 1:04:09.480 --> 1:04:11.880 that you've gone to or whatever. And for the kids. 1:04:11.920 --> 1:04:14.479 Always it's always for the children. You know, my buddy Corby, 1:04:14.560 --> 1:04:16.880 you taught me that years ago. But I mean, it's 1:04:16.960 --> 1:04:19.720 one of those scenarios that I think we all struggle with. 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:22.360 Here's the other side. You may not what about the 1:04:22.360 --> 1:04:24.520 in laws or other people who just don't want I'd 1:04:24.600 --> 1:04:26.800 rather go visit and then go back home and not 1:04:26.920 --> 1:04:29.040 have everything at your house. That was one of those 1:04:29.080 --> 1:04:30.960 things when I was a kid. It was nice when 1:04:31.000 --> 1:04:33.640 they came, but then when everybody would leave, I was 1:04:34.080 --> 1:04:36.680 then stuck. Moms putting me to work doing the cleanup. 1:04:36.920 --> 1:04:38.800 I hate that. I was like, I don't need to 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:40.880 see these people. I'll go to their house and eat 1:04:40.880 --> 1:04:43.160 and come back home here and then play with my stuff. 1:04:43.360 --> 1:04:47.600 But it is, there should be plenty of different options 1:04:47.680 --> 1:04:52.000 unless you're you know, somebody's in Cincinnati and then somebody's 1:04:52.400 --> 1:04:54.960 down in you know, Kentucky somewhere or whatever. 1:04:55.920 --> 1:04:59.360 Maybe you drive in, stop in Kentucky and then head 1:04:59.360 --> 1:05:00.520 to Cincinnati. 1:05:00.240 --> 1:05:02.240 But maybe in between maybe a little meat and Greek 1:05:02.320 --> 1:05:04.880 kind of scenario or whatever. Yeah, trading off with the 1:05:04.960 --> 1:05:07.440 kids and you're doing and exchange with the in laws 1:05:07.480 --> 1:05:07.800 or whatever. 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:10.960 It becomes so stressful for couples and their kids that 1:05:11.080 --> 1:05:13.120 it's not even fun for everybody. 1:05:13.200 --> 1:05:15.080 And the whole point is for it to be fun, Yeah, 1:05:15.400 --> 1:05:17.040 and all the stuff that goes along with that. The 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:19.480 other thing that's tough too is I mean, you could 1:05:19.560 --> 1:05:23.080 rotate them yearly and then what's hard also when they say, oh, 1:05:23.080 --> 1:05:25.080 it's no big deal. We understand, but you know that 1:05:25.120 --> 1:05:27.440 they do. They're like, argue them all the stuff. If 1:05:27.440 --> 1:05:29.560 I raised them for note much I carried them inside 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:33.640 me got But I mean, if you have a choice 1:05:33.680 --> 1:05:36.240 of hey, here in the tri State or go visit 1:05:36.280 --> 1:05:40.360 the in laws at their place in Florida. While Florida 1:05:40.400 --> 1:05:43.439 seems really good right about now. In that's a good 1:05:43.440 --> 1:05:45.880 way to do it. We got a beach house. Everybody, 1:05:45.880 --> 1:05:48.320 come on down. That's the way to go. Five point 1:05:48.400 --> 1:05:50.440 three seven four nine, seven, eight hundred. 1:05:50.440 --> 1:05:50.800 The big one. 1:05:50.840 --> 1:05:53.680 How do you decide where you go? Do you rotate it? 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:55.480 How do you play that out? Is it an all 1:05:55.600 --> 1:05:58.040 day thing or like a weekly? This week has been 1:05:58.120 --> 1:06:00.600 good because a lot of people had kids, have the 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:03.720 weeks off, and then you know, people maybe the way 1:06:03.720 --> 1:06:07.160 their vacation time whatever's unspent, and the way the weekend's 1:06:07.200 --> 1:06:09.200 have falling, you'd burn up three days of vacation. You've 1:06:09.200 --> 1:06:11.080 go all of a sudden, you've got a whole week, right, 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:12.880 so you could maybe spread it out right. 1:06:13.240 --> 1:06:14.919 One of the things I would do if I had kids, 1:06:14.920 --> 1:06:18.120 which I don't, if I saw that there was so 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:20.400 much stress going on, I would say, go to your 1:06:20.440 --> 1:06:23.360 in laws and go have fun, and your dad and 1:06:23.400 --> 1:06:26.040 I are going to go on it and take a 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:29.760 vacation together and just be by ourselves, and then when 1:06:29.800 --> 1:06:32.920 we come back, we'll spend the New Year with you. 1:06:33.200 --> 1:06:37.160 That's such a cool way maybe to look at it. Yeah, absolutely, 1:06:37.240 --> 1:06:39.320 I think that makes good sense. Let's get to springfield 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:41.520 Ed with Sterling and Donnade on the big one. How 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:44.760 is the celebration of Christmas and the holidays for you? You know, 1:06:44.920 --> 1:06:45.720 where do you go? 1:06:45.840 --> 1:06:48.360 How do you decide where you're going and who's happy 1:06:48.360 --> 1:06:49.040 and who's said? 1:06:51.040 --> 1:06:53.800 Actually, we spent. 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:57.440 My kids are twenty six and twenty one now, and 1:06:57.480 --> 1:07:02.160 we spent twenty five years running around to everybody's house, 1:07:02.280 --> 1:07:05.280 my wife's family, mom and dad or divorced, so there's 1:07:05.320 --> 1:07:08.360 an extra set of people help that we need to 1:07:08.360 --> 1:07:15.000 go see. And it was absolutely free. Miserable. Yeah, I hated. 1:07:16.160 --> 1:07:18.160 I didn't even want to have I hated the day 1:07:18.200 --> 1:07:22.160 it came. I hated all of it. And now it 1:07:22.240 --> 1:07:26.240 went the other way though, where I upset my family 1:07:26.280 --> 1:07:28.640 so much to where they don't even invite us anymore. 1:07:31.280 --> 1:07:33.640 But you is that better or worse? 1:07:33.680 --> 1:07:35.280 Because you don't have to have that weight on your 1:07:35.280 --> 1:07:37.200 shoulders or do you feel like you've been kicked out 1:07:37.240 --> 1:07:39.880 and ostracized and no longer part of the group. 1:07:41.320 --> 1:07:44.880 The second half there because even though I couldn't always 1:07:44.920 --> 1:07:47.400 get there when the party started, we always try to 1:07:47.400 --> 1:07:52.160 make an appearance. But now I don't even get the invitations. 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:57.280 So in the end, they kind of backfired in our face, 1:07:57.560 --> 1:08:00.560 and my wife was all down with it too. Families 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:03.280 from Tennessee, a couple of them live up here. But 1:08:03.680 --> 1:08:05.960 when I was a kid, we used to go to 1:08:06.000 --> 1:08:10.760 Tennessee for Christmas, and then my dad was from up here, 1:08:11.080 --> 1:08:12.600 and we used to come back and you know what 1:08:12.640 --> 1:08:17.760 they did. This was so smart. We did Christmas down there, 1:08:18.240 --> 1:08:20.479 and then when we came back up here, we met 1:08:20.520 --> 1:08:27.320 his family on New Year's New Year's Eve. Yeah, that's great. 1:08:27.680 --> 1:08:29.040 That's wrong with you people? 1:08:29.320 --> 1:08:31.519 What did you do for Christmas this year? Was it 1:08:31.640 --> 1:08:32.519 just you and your wife? 1:08:32.520 --> 1:08:38.040 Then, well, my my daughter has a boyfriend who has children. 1:08:38.560 --> 1:08:41.960 We went over there. My wife had to work Christmas Day, 1:08:42.040 --> 1:08:44.599 so we didn't stay real long, and we went back 1:08:44.600 --> 1:08:46.920 over Christmas Day to have like breakfast with them, and 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:47.599 then that was it. 1:08:48.240 --> 1:08:51.400 That sounds pretty good to me, though, No, no. 1:08:51.720 --> 1:08:55.040 No, no, no, no, No, I swear I'm not complaining. Yeah, 1:08:55.200 --> 1:08:58.080 I'm just saying, then all of a sudden that's never 1:08:58.160 --> 1:09:01.120 happened to us until like five years ago, saiding, I'm 1:09:01.160 --> 1:09:04.400 going back home and I'm sitting on the couch, like, 1:09:04.920 --> 1:09:06.040 what are we going to do now? 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:07.240 Yeah? 1:09:07.320 --> 1:09:11.720 Yeah, well you can always say, listen, we we understand. 1:09:12.040 --> 1:09:14.400 We we want to be invited again, and we're going 1:09:14.479 --> 1:09:15.880 to take whatever we can get. 1:09:16.000 --> 1:09:18.880 You can do that too well, and you can do that. 1:09:19.000 --> 1:09:22.320 What's my problem is is, uh, I go the other way. 1:09:22.720 --> 1:09:26.000 If you upset me, then I'm just gonna try to 1:09:26.080 --> 1:09:26.879 upset you. 1:09:26.720 --> 1:09:28.880 More back and. 1:09:28.800 --> 1:09:32.400 Forth and not not not not like getting in fight. 1:09:32.479 --> 1:09:35.439 But I'm just saying I'm not gonna I was always 1:09:35.479 --> 1:09:37.400 a black sheep of the family and I always see 1:09:37.439 --> 1:09:40.040 the black sheep, and so I'm not bowing down then nobody. 1:09:40.400 --> 1:09:46.559 Yeah, yeah, I get it. I've been that guy too. Yeah. 1:09:47.040 --> 1:09:49.759 But then you're alone, sitting on your couch by yourself 1:09:49.800 --> 1:09:50.479 on Christmas. 1:09:50.600 --> 1:09:51.519 That's what happens. 1:09:51.680 --> 1:09:53.600 I've got my wife, I got my wife and my 1:09:53.680 --> 1:09:54.400 two dogs. 1:09:54.479 --> 1:09:57.400 I'm okay, Yeah, you're you're not hurting in that way. 1:09:57.880 --> 1:10:00.439 I appreciate your sharing that it seems like you found 1:10:00.479 --> 1:10:02.120 a balance too. We appreciate you listening to being a 1:10:02.160 --> 1:10:05.000 part of the show so much. Yeah, five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, 1:10:05.400 --> 1:10:06.760 eight hundred the Big One. You can talk back the 1:10:06.840 --> 1:10:10.080 iHeartRadio app or at Stirling Radio one X as well. 1:10:10.560 --> 1:10:11.479 It is a tough thing. 1:10:11.720 --> 1:10:13.560 I mean, you don't want it to be so stressful 1:10:13.560 --> 1:10:15.439 that you're going here, there and everywhere else. But I 1:10:15.479 --> 1:10:17.439 would imagine there's a lot of people, like Ed talked 1:10:17.479 --> 1:10:19.559 about that, whether you've done Christmas in one place and 1:10:19.560 --> 1:10:21.559 then the other half New Year's, you're getting a little 1:10:21.640 --> 1:10:22.080 taste of that. 1:10:22.360 --> 1:10:23.599 Flip it on the following year. 1:10:23.880 --> 1:10:26.559 The following year, we get to do Christmas with my 1:10:26.720 --> 1:10:29.800 parents and then we'll go to your New Year's and 1:10:30.120 --> 1:10:32.880 because New Year is really fun too. I mean I 1:10:32.960 --> 1:10:34.880 know that it's fun with the kids and they get 1:10:34.920 --> 1:10:37.439 to open the presence and it's a blast, and we 1:10:37.479 --> 1:10:39.920 did have fun with that. But if they wanted to 1:10:39.960 --> 1:10:42.200 do something, then yeah, we'll do it all. 1:10:42.320 --> 1:10:42.920 Stuff it. 1:10:43.120 --> 1:10:45.719 Maybe you stick out who has the better food, They 1:10:45.800 --> 1:10:48.720 do better dinner, they do better breakfast, Go to the 1:10:48.720 --> 1:10:51.479 brunch and do the breakfast, whatever else it happens to be, 1:10:51.600 --> 1:10:53.760 and play it that way. I mean that that's I 1:10:53.760 --> 1:10:55.880 don't know, is that bad like you know, well, I 1:10:55.920 --> 1:10:57.840 don't know. They do some weird stuff with like the 1:10:57.840 --> 1:11:01.280 giblets and stuff. I will, right, we'll go to dinner 1:11:01.320 --> 1:11:03.200 there and we'll do lunch with the other place or 1:11:03.200 --> 1:11:05.759 something along those lines. That's the way my mind works. 1:11:06.200 --> 1:11:09.200 You know, well your food or I am I totally. 1:11:09.320 --> 1:11:10.960 No one would believe it looking at me, but I 1:11:10.960 --> 1:11:11.639 totally am. 1:11:12.000 --> 1:11:14.920 I really. It's just it's a tough spot. 1:11:14.960 --> 1:11:18.800 You don't want to make anybody unhappy and disappoint them. 1:11:18.880 --> 1:11:20.760 And that's the thing that has been more and more 1:11:20.840 --> 1:11:22.600 that has weighed on me over time. I want to 1:11:22.640 --> 1:11:25.600 see these people also because I know my elders, you know, 1:11:25.800 --> 1:11:28.160 the parents, you know, aunts, uncles and stuff. 1:11:28.320 --> 1:11:29.320 We're not here forever. 1:11:30.080 --> 1:11:32.080 So you know, when I was a teenager, it was 1:11:32.160 --> 1:11:34.479 all right, great and my friends had come by, and 1:11:34.479 --> 1:11:36.439 then we go from one house to another house to 1:11:36.479 --> 1:11:39.160 another house, and everybody would try to feed us. But 1:11:39.200 --> 1:11:41.320 we were tired of the parents. We wanted to, you know, 1:11:41.400 --> 1:11:43.640 because we were trying to stretch out and be our 1:11:43.640 --> 1:11:46.439 own people. Now I embrace the other side of that 1:11:46.520 --> 1:11:49.400 more because I know the time is short, right. 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:52.160 And that is something to take in consideration. 1:11:52.800 --> 1:11:55.719 You know how old the parents are and how many 1:11:55.880 --> 1:11:59.200 you know, Christmases you have left to be with them, 1:11:59.280 --> 1:12:02.840 that that should being something in consideration for sure. 1:12:02.920 --> 1:12:05.240 Let's see, we got a couple here, five, one, three, seven, 1:12:05.640 --> 1:12:07.439 eight hundred of the big one. Let's get Luke and 1:12:07.479 --> 1:12:09.920 then John's what's all of a sudden, we're doing biblical speak, 1:12:10.280 --> 1:12:14.280 Uh big players in the Bible? Uh Luke chapter ten 1:12:14.360 --> 1:12:16.000 twenty two. I think it's one of my favorites. What's 1:12:16.040 --> 1:12:17.720 going on Luke or with Sterling on the big one? 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:17.920 Hey? 1:12:19.439 --> 1:12:22.880 Yeah, he just you know, I have three children. One 1:12:22.960 --> 1:12:25.639 is just becoming a young adult. I have one at the time, 1:12:26.080 --> 1:12:27.760 but I have one in the middle of that. And 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:30.320 my middle child, I have a baby mother. He's in 1:12:30.400 --> 1:12:32.120 her house right, not for Christmas, but I had it 1:12:32.160 --> 1:12:35.519 for christ Steve long story, short days thought always got 1:12:35.880 --> 1:12:39.880 perfect or you know Palmark or Disney type of blow 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:42.920 to enjoy your family. But we have a very great family. 1:12:42.920 --> 1:12:44.040 Everyone is very fortunate. 1:12:44.280 --> 1:12:44.920 And I just called it. 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:48.640 No matter what it looks like, what your dynamic is, 1:12:48.840 --> 1:12:51.040 there's no reason not to be happy, to be thankful 1:12:51.080 --> 1:12:53.120 and realize how bleased we are in this country. If 1:12:53.120 --> 1:12:56.559 your kids are healthy, you're not wanting to point there's 1:12:56.600 --> 1:12:58.000 no reason not to be able to just. 1:12:58.120 --> 1:12:58.599 Back and run. 1:12:58.680 --> 1:13:00.960 And how thanks, how great it to be alive to 1:13:01.000 --> 1:13:04.120 be in this country. Happy holidays everybody, and take a 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:06.280 deep breath and just enjoy what's right in front of you. 1:13:06.800 --> 1:13:09.519 Well stated, Yeah, Luke, thank you man. Yeah, And it's true. 1:13:09.600 --> 1:13:12.599 I mean, look around and how blessed we are. 1:13:13.080 --> 1:13:16.400 You know, it's important to have a view of gratitude 1:13:16.479 --> 1:13:19.720 for what you have now and the more that you're 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:23.920 grateful for. Like you said, having healthy kids that that's 1:13:23.920 --> 1:13:27.639 a big deal. Putting stress on them does not work 1:13:27.800 --> 1:13:32.439 at all. And and you know it makes everybody feel 1:13:32.479 --> 1:13:35.000 like instead of yay. 1:13:34.800 --> 1:13:37.120 We get to go to Grandma's or yeay we get 1:13:37.120 --> 1:13:39.120 to go to Auntie's or yeah we get to go 1:13:39.200 --> 1:13:43.040 to you know, Uncle Sterlings such right, Yeah, and I 1:13:43.080 --> 1:13:47.040 give loud toys batteries extra batteries, right Levin and John 1:13:47.120 --> 1:13:48.840 with Sterling and Donna Dee on the big one the 1:13:48.920 --> 1:13:50.559 John thanks for holding What do you have? 1:13:50.640 --> 1:13:52.559 How do you decide where to go? Or are they 1:13:52.560 --> 1:13:53.880 coming to you? Or what do you do? 1:13:55.200 --> 1:13:59.200 I tell you that for me is a realistic expectations. 1:13:59.479 --> 1:14:03.360 I've been divorce eighteen years. I'm remarried, so you've got 1:14:03.400 --> 1:14:07.439 a lot of exes and hills, and it was really 1:14:07.479 --> 1:14:11.200 easy to just make a decision that if my ex 1:14:11.479 --> 1:14:16.080 wanted the kids on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve, to just 1:14:16.160 --> 1:14:19.680 go with that and then say Christmas Day is our day, 1:14:19.760 --> 1:14:23.880 or we do Thanksgiving on Saturday. And once you set 1:14:23.960 --> 1:14:26.040 that and you know it's going to happen, then everybody's 1:14:26.080 --> 1:14:29.720 really pretty happy with those things. And as far as 1:14:30.000 --> 1:14:34.160 extended family, my side of the family, we just get 1:14:34.240 --> 1:14:38.120 together a few weeks before Christmas and then nobody has 1:14:38.200 --> 1:14:41.040 to run around to different houses on Christmas Day. We 1:14:41.160 --> 1:14:44.840 just plan a day and have open a single gift 1:14:44.960 --> 1:14:46.400 and everybody has a good time. 1:14:46.560 --> 1:14:49.760 That's great, and I think a lot of people are 1:14:49.760 --> 1:14:52.600 doing that, John. They're they're either doing way before or 1:14:52.680 --> 1:14:55.799 way after, and that seems to work like a dream. 1:14:56.240 --> 1:14:58.400 That's pretty good to appreciate the call up, John, Thank 1:14:58.439 --> 1:14:59.840 you man, appreciate you listening to be a part of 1:14:59.840 --> 1:15:00.280 the show. 1:15:00.320 --> 1:15:02.360 I hope you have a great new year. A set 1:15:02.439 --> 1:15:05.920 some expectations, set some boundaries. You go there, they go here, 1:15:06.160 --> 1:15:08.400 and you know it should work out, but it does 1:15:08.439 --> 1:15:10.679 get stressful for a lot of people because their feelings 1:15:10.680 --> 1:15:14.320 get hurt. People do very much, they get they get 1:15:14.680 --> 1:15:16.479 cases of the goo, and you don't want that. 1:15:16.760 --> 1:15:19.040 You know the other thing my mother made and you're 1:15:19.040 --> 1:15:22.000 a vegan, so but just roll with this. So she 1:15:22.200 --> 1:15:25.840 made this big beef frost, right, and uh, it was 1:15:25.880 --> 1:15:28.559 gonna make beef stew and stuff, and that she had 1:15:28.600 --> 1:15:31.360 plates out, but it seemed more of a bowl thing. 1:15:31.479 --> 1:15:34.200 And I caught the side eye and flashed back to 1:15:34.240 --> 1:15:36.360 feeling like I was the eight year old sterling, like 1:15:36.400 --> 1:15:38.480 I had crossed the line of impropriety. 1:15:38.880 --> 1:15:40.080 And I said, what's the problem. 1:15:40.120 --> 1:15:41.960 I said, you know, it's like me when I'm using 1:15:42.000 --> 1:15:45.400 tortillas for everything, right, I wrap everything in a tortilla, right, bread, 1:15:45.600 --> 1:15:47.519 I'm in good shape. And she's like, well, that's a 1:15:47.520 --> 1:15:49.920 plate meal. That's not a bowl meal. I said, real, 1:15:50.000 --> 1:15:52.120 are you serious? I said, what is the difference? I said, 1:15:52.120 --> 1:15:54.800 it's not it's not she goes, it's not cereal. It's 1:15:54.800 --> 1:15:57.720 not soup, I said, but it is saucy. I mean, 1:15:57.760 --> 1:15:59.760 I don't know what you do. And that's the thing. 1:15:59.760 --> 1:16:03.040 I'm like, man, I can't. I forgot your house, your rules, 1:16:03.160 --> 1:16:03.759 my business. 1:16:03.800 --> 1:16:06.360 It's tough. So then you got that too. 1:16:06.479 --> 1:16:09.000 I'm like, wow, you're gonna really cap on me because 1:16:09.040 --> 1:16:12.200 I'm using a bowl instead of a plate. Happy Christmas mom. Yeah, 1:16:12.240 --> 1:16:15.479 there you go, So no pressure, no worries. 1:16:15.840 --> 1:16:18.759 It goes along with funny how little things like that 1:16:19.080 --> 1:16:22.920 come up during the holidays. Absolutely, I mean the other 1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:24.960 big way, why did you make coconut cake? I don't 1:16:25.000 --> 1:16:26.719 like coconut cake? Well, we didn't. 1:16:26.920 --> 1:16:29.120 That's the only dessert I wanted to make. Well we 1:16:29.120 --> 1:16:31.519 should have had pumpkin pie or bacon pie or something. 1:16:31.640 --> 1:16:34.479 Oh hi, I mean seriously, I made. 1:16:34.280 --> 1:16:37.679 The best coconut cake. And I don't bake at all. 1:16:38.080 --> 1:16:40.800 I do not, and I decided I was gonna make it, 1:16:40.920 --> 1:16:42.360 and it came out so good. 1:16:42.680 --> 1:16:45.320 About that? Look at your face, that's like the happiest, 1:16:45.560 --> 1:16:47.839 like brightest I've seen it a lot. Near like starving. 1:16:47.920 --> 1:16:51.559 I'm gonna fight that might be. When does the hallucination start? So? 1:16:51.600 --> 1:16:53.639 How many hours are you into your friends? Twenty four 1:16:53.640 --> 1:16:56.200 hours in? See, I started about one more day. 1:16:56.280 --> 1:16:58.400 I ate about three thirty in the morning, had a 1:16:58.400 --> 1:17:01.040 big thing of pancakes I made because I was hungry. 1:17:01.040 --> 1:17:04.639 After the show, now, but so I haven't eaten since 1:17:04.720 --> 1:17:06.320 then and I'm starting. 1:17:06.040 --> 1:17:09.720 To Okay, so it's three the year getting on. Yeah, 1:17:09.720 --> 1:17:13.400 it's tough. This is why the show probably better eighteen 1:17:13.439 --> 1:17:16.800 hours into it. Better if i'd eating, Probably the show 1:17:16.880 --> 1:17:18.800 and well you got some crackers over there. 1:17:19.000 --> 1:17:21.760 Yeah, but I'm trying to stay strong and stick to it, 1:17:21.800 --> 1:17:22.240 you know what I mean. 1:17:22.280 --> 1:17:23.320 It's just one of those things. 1:17:23.640 --> 1:17:25.960 You're five o'clock reports straight away, more on how you 1:17:26.000 --> 1:17:29.320 decide to go fasting hallucinating. Yeah, there's a whole lot 1:17:29.360 --> 1:17:32.880 before Chick led Ludwig steps in On a Saturday afternoon, 1:17:32.920 --> 1:17:35.519 Stirling and Donna d here, home of the best Bengals 1:17:35.520 --> 1:17:39.519 coverage seven hundredu W well W Cincinnati. Here we are 1:17:39.640 --> 1:17:43.280 final hour together Saturday. It's getting dark, I'll call it evening, 1:17:43.479 --> 1:17:47.200 and everything's topsy turvy. Kick Chris stops in says, hello, 1:17:47.920 --> 1:17:51.000 Chick was in here. Chick's gonna follow us. He's before you. 1:17:51.080 --> 1:17:55.320 The chick is like the Oreo filling and together we 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:57.200 are the chocolate cooking, and then you are the chocolate 1:17:57.240 --> 1:17:58.080 cooking on the other side. 1:17:58.120 --> 1:18:00.000 He's the goodness in between. With sports talk. 1:18:00.160 --> 1:18:02.920 He's got Sean McMahon sitting in tonight too, and he's 1:18:03.160 --> 1:18:04.320 he's Sean is great. 1:18:04.840 --> 1:18:07.559 Is glad to hear that? Absolutely? For sure. 1:18:07.680 --> 1:18:10.040 We got a lot going on. We were talking about 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:15.160 New Year's and resolutions and living better and relationships in 1:18:15.240 --> 1:18:19.480 the end of the year and divorce because boy, that's uplifting, uh, 1:18:19.880 --> 1:18:22.200 But also with the holidays, because so many people are 1:18:22.200 --> 1:18:25.439 on the road coming home now from wherever they've been 1:18:25.520 --> 1:18:28.120 for Christmas time on one side of the family or 1:18:28.200 --> 1:18:31.559 the other, or maybe a vacation. Hopefully that would be good, right, uh, 1:18:31.760 --> 1:18:34.040 In trying to figure out as you were saying earlier, Donna, 1:18:34.240 --> 1:18:36.439 and like you know, you go to the wife's side, 1:18:36.560 --> 1:18:40.200 husband's side, you know, extended relatives or whatever else, and 1:18:40.240 --> 1:18:42.880 it gets complicated and occasionally ugly. 1:18:42.960 --> 1:18:45.760 And it gets stressful for the for the kiddos that 1:18:45.880 --> 1:18:47.840 have to, you know, go to the moms and we're 1:18:47.880 --> 1:18:48.599 going to moms. 1:18:48.720 --> 1:18:50.200 We're going to my hat mom's house. 1:18:50.240 --> 1:18:52.000 Then we'll go to yours and then we'll do this 1:18:52.560 --> 1:18:54.080 and it becomes pretty stressful. 1:18:54.080 --> 1:18:57.360 But you know the bottom line is if you. 1:18:58.960 --> 1:19:03.800 If you you know, want to visit everybody, set some boundaries, 1:19:04.080 --> 1:19:06.280 set some expectations. We're going to be here we're going 1:19:06.320 --> 1:19:09.160 to be there, no scorekeeping, don't worry about that. I'm 1:19:09.160 --> 1:19:11.160 going to be three hours here and then I'm only 1:19:11.200 --> 1:19:12.280 two hours at your house. 1:19:12.280 --> 1:19:14.000 So speed me and give me a drink. That's all 1:19:14.040 --> 1:19:15.519 I want. I'll come to your house. 1:19:15.960 --> 1:19:18.200 The point is to have fun, Like what kind of 1:19:18.240 --> 1:19:20.320 a Christmas was it for you? For me, it was 1:19:20.360 --> 1:19:22.800 a real fun Christmas Eve, Christmas Day? 1:19:22.960 --> 1:19:24.880 Well you were sick or you mean in general? I'm 1:19:24.920 --> 1:19:26.320 sorry I was callack. 1:19:26.800 --> 1:19:32.240 In general, it was a very fun, heart filled Christmas 1:19:32.240 --> 1:19:34.240 for me, and it will be for New Year's as well. 1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:36.920 Yeah, I got to see some and so forth, never 1:19:37.080 --> 1:19:39.280 enough and now I crave that so much. And you 1:19:39.280 --> 1:19:41.120 know what, and I mentioned that we can have a 1:19:41.120 --> 1:19:44.320 little fun with this too, is maybe the ups gift 1:19:44.320 --> 1:19:46.679 the bad gift, either the bad choice that you've made 1:19:46.840 --> 1:19:49.000 or the bad gift that someone made for you the 1:19:49.120 --> 1:19:51.200 choice and you're like, really you thought of me with this? 1:19:51.560 --> 1:19:54.160 And I always try to have something for someone. And 1:19:54.280 --> 1:19:56.320 miani Leen used to give me and she hates it 1:19:56.360 --> 1:19:57.960 when I bring it up, but it's too late. I'm 1:19:57.960 --> 1:20:01.040 going to do it again. For years from one a 1:20:01.080 --> 1:20:03.000 time I was a tiny sterling. She would give me 1:20:03.040 --> 1:20:06.519 British Sterling Clone because she thought it was, you. 1:20:06.400 --> 1:20:09.680 Know, clever, because it's your name, and I was like 1:20:09.800 --> 1:20:10.559 really again. 1:20:10.920 --> 1:20:13.680 But at some point I don't know if it was 1:20:13.920 --> 1:20:15.760 I was here, or if it was on Channel Z 1:20:15.920 --> 1:20:18.040 when it before it became kiss, whatever it was, I 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:20.200 mentioned it and it got back to her or she 1:20:20.240 --> 1:20:22.439 heard it because she listens and family and friends do 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:24.800 and they and all of a sudden she put the 1:20:24.840 --> 1:20:28.400 full on stop on the British Sterling Clone. And I 1:20:28.479 --> 1:20:32.280 have been devastated ever since. I mean I did have 1:20:32.400 --> 1:20:34.160 like a lot. I was donating it. I was you 1:20:34.200 --> 1:20:39.000 need something to sprint? Yeah, But that's I will if 1:20:39.040 --> 1:20:40.920 I live to one hundred and ten, which I won't 1:20:41.520 --> 1:20:43.880 because no matter how much yogurt did I do, or 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:47.480 yogurt or fasting that I do to the point of hallucination, 1:20:47.640 --> 1:20:49.880 I'm not making about fifteen or ten or one. I'm 1:20:50.160 --> 1:20:54.000 lucky to make seventy at this point. But I will 1:20:54.320 --> 1:20:57.760 embrace in fond memories of thinking of Iley and giving 1:20:57.800 --> 1:21:00.479 me the British Stirling term. So if you got something 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:02.200 like that or where you put your foot in it, 1:21:02.280 --> 1:21:05.519 by the way, you could do that too. Five three, seven, four, nine, 1:21:05.600 --> 1:21:08.840 seven eight hundred, the big one, Stirling and Donnade hanging out. 1:21:09.360 --> 1:21:10.960 Let's get some people been holding on this and we 1:21:11.040 --> 1:21:13.439 get some others lined up. We'll get to Xenia and 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:17.400 Paul and then Sue and mRNA on seven hundred WLW. 1:21:17.560 --> 1:21:19.000 What's going on, Paul, what do you have? 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:25.840 Well, earlier today I didn't get in, but you were 1:21:25.880 --> 1:21:34.439 talking about New Year's resolutions. Yes, well, my New Year's resolutions. 1:21:34.200 --> 1:21:39.519 It disjustes me greatly that I hear so many of 1:21:39.640 --> 1:21:45.920 the young folks are taking God's name in vain. I 1:21:46.000 --> 1:21:52.559 think that anybody that is capable should bite your tongue 1:21:52.640 --> 1:21:56.160 before they come out with a cuss word and take 1:21:56.920 --> 1:22:02.880 our Savior's name in vain. And it really distresses me, 1:22:02.960 --> 1:22:08.160 and I think the parents should distress it. I don't 1:22:08.200 --> 1:22:10.080 know if it's going on in school. I've been out 1:22:10.080 --> 1:22:11.040 of school a long time. 1:22:11.120 --> 1:22:12.839 I don't know what goes on in school. 1:22:14.000 --> 1:22:16.720 Well, I totally get what you're saying, Paul, and I 1:22:16.800 --> 1:22:18.800 understand that. And yeah, I mean I bite my tongue 1:22:18.840 --> 1:22:21.599 all the time, and usually it has nothing to do 1:22:21.680 --> 1:22:23.120 with the Lord's name in vain. 1:22:23.240 --> 1:22:26.080 So I totally get what you're saying. No, Yeah. 1:22:26.120 --> 1:22:29.479 My mom used to hate that. She would say, never 1:22:29.600 --> 1:22:32.439 take the Lord's name in vain. We weren't even to say, 1:22:33.000 --> 1:22:35.040 you know, Jesus Christ. We were never even allowed to 1:22:35.080 --> 1:22:35.479 say that. 1:22:35.560 --> 1:22:38.400 She's and Rice. I think it means the same thing anyway. 1:22:38.479 --> 1:22:40.439 That's the Paul. We appreciate the call man. We totally 1:22:40.439 --> 1:22:43.840 get it, and we appreciate it. That's tough. And see, 1:22:43.840 --> 1:22:46.240 that's the thing my mom would always say. She goes, well, 1:22:46.600 --> 1:22:48.760 you still are thinking and her meaning it even though 1:22:48.800 --> 1:22:50.599 you said something else. And I'm like, and then she'd 1:22:50.600 --> 1:22:52.640 put that in my head. Yeah, I'm like, thanks for 1:22:52.680 --> 1:22:54.200 that depth charge. 1:22:54.320 --> 1:22:57.080 It was never it doesn't ever feel good when you 1:22:57.160 --> 1:22:59.840 say g damn it, you know, or anything like that. 1:23:00.960 --> 1:23:05.040 I can't believe. Yeah, No, you're absolutely right. Let's to No. 1:23:05.160 --> 1:23:09.240 I absolutely agree. I'm wholesome and innocent. I'd like to drive. 1:23:10.280 --> 1:23:12.679 I am pure as the driven snow, not yellow snow. 1:23:12.720 --> 1:23:15.000 But I mean I do what I can to Covington 1:23:15.040 --> 1:23:17.240 and Sue. Then Murna was Stirling in Donnade on the 1:23:17.240 --> 1:23:21.040 Big One. Sue, how's everything? Holiday traditions? Your house, their house, 1:23:21.040 --> 1:23:22.719 across the you know, the planet Earth. 1:23:22.840 --> 1:23:25.600 I don't know iowall, what do you do? Where do 1:23:25.640 --> 1:23:27.360 you go? How do you decide? 1:23:28.840 --> 1:23:32.720 Well, now most my parents are gone, but when we 1:23:32.720 --> 1:23:36.360 were growing up, when Daddy came back from nore we 1:23:36.520 --> 1:23:40.240 ended up in Eastern Kentucky and where my brother was 1:23:40.280 --> 1:23:44.799 born the next year, and my father's from Northern Ohio. 1:23:44.920 --> 1:23:49.800 My mother's from Center Kentucky. So they started they would alternate. 1:23:50.080 --> 1:23:53.680 One year we would go to Northern Ohio for Thanksgiving 1:23:53.840 --> 1:23:57.040 and Center Kentucky for Christmas. The next year we would 1:23:57.080 --> 1:24:00.360 flip it and go to Center Kentucky for Thanksgiving in 1:24:00.439 --> 1:24:03.840 Northern Ohio. But we were always at home on New 1:24:03.920 --> 1:24:07.280 Year's so much to the point that when my parents 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:09.840 would go out to parties for New Year's they would 1:24:09.880 --> 1:24:13.400 be home before midnight, which my brother and I carried 1:24:13.479 --> 1:24:16.679 on even when we grew up and were away from 1:24:16.680 --> 1:24:19.519 home and came home. If we went to parties, we 1:24:19.520 --> 1:24:21.880 would break our nets to be sure we were home 1:24:21.920 --> 1:24:22.599 by midnight. 1:24:22.920 --> 1:24:26.800 Well that's a smart one, Yeah, yeah, it was all 1:24:26.840 --> 1:24:28.639 the way around. It sounds like you had a good plan. 1:24:28.680 --> 1:24:30.719 But the other thing that I think is interesting about 1:24:30.720 --> 1:24:32.519 that too, is that you were ahead of the curve 1:24:32.520 --> 1:24:34.400 on the idea of that being amateur night, and you 1:24:34.400 --> 1:24:36.400 didn't want to be out there on the roads with 1:24:36.479 --> 1:24:37.920 everybody else getting tanked up. 1:24:37.960 --> 1:24:40.400 They normally don't drink. They're hitting the bottle. 1:24:40.160 --> 1:24:44.960 Hard and making bad choices instead of getting a ride, 1:24:44.960 --> 1:24:45.920 getting behind the wheels. 1:24:45.960 --> 1:24:49.800 So you're smart. You were way ahead of the curve. That'sous. 1:24:50.000 --> 1:24:52.800 That was the way we were raised, and that was 1:24:52.840 --> 1:24:56.360 our family tradition. And everybody thought it was so weird 1:24:56.479 --> 1:24:58.800 that my brother and I would leave a party. It'd 1:24:58.800 --> 1:25:01.600 be home with our parents for New Years. So we 1:25:01.640 --> 1:25:03.479 would go out on the porch and we're in cow 1:25:03.600 --> 1:25:05.400 bells and yell like all the rest. 1:25:06.720 --> 1:25:10.639 There's something so sweet about that, it really is it fantastic, Sue, 1:25:10.720 --> 1:25:13.280 have a fantastic new You really appreciate you listening and 1:25:13.320 --> 1:25:14.120 being part of the show. 1:25:15.000 --> 1:25:18.280 Well, I really enjoyed listening to you two light. 1:25:18.640 --> 1:25:21.760 Oh, thank you so much. You take care. 1:25:21.960 --> 1:25:23.920 Thank you, Sue. That was great. That was really nice. 1:25:23.960 --> 1:25:26.519 Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred The 1:25:26.520 --> 1:25:29.479 big one. I remember pots and pans when I was 1:25:29.520 --> 1:25:31.120 a kid. That that's what they would sit in front 1:25:31.160 --> 1:25:33.680 of me, beat some pots and pans and then you 1:25:33.720 --> 1:25:36.799 get jiffy pop. They still selfie pop was the best, 1:25:37.040 --> 1:25:39.880 and I could stand on a stool careful. She was like, 1:25:39.920 --> 1:25:43.760 you gotta be careful of the flame. Natural and you 1:25:43.880 --> 1:25:47.719 watch that thing swell up like an infected oil gland, 1:25:47.920 --> 1:25:50.320 and then it would burst and the popcorn. 1:25:49.840 --> 1:25:51.320 Would come out. That's good times. 1:25:52.200 --> 1:25:56.679 The best New Year's absolutely to college Hell and Murna 1:25:56.840 --> 1:25:58.400 was stirling in Donnade on the Big One. 1:25:58.439 --> 1:26:00.120 Murna, what do you have? What's going on? 1:26:00.280 --> 1:26:09.000 I'm still around, I'm old, but I'm still here. I'm 1:26:09.160 --> 1:26:15.080 most miserable. Christmas is when my daughter, when our daughter 1:26:15.240 --> 1:26:19.719 was married, she was our only child, and the first 1:26:20.320 --> 1:26:25.280 year they spent Christmas Eve with his family, Christmas Morning 1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:28.599 with his family, and he wouldn't they wouldn't come here 1:26:28.640 --> 1:26:33.320 till like two o'clock in the afternoon, and so my 1:26:33.439 --> 1:26:36.840 dad's My husband said, well, that's the first year. Daughter 1:26:36.920 --> 1:26:39.960 probably does want to make waves go with his Well, 1:26:40.000 --> 1:26:43.679 the next year, the same thing happened, and he blew 1:26:43.880 --> 1:26:46.760 my husband. He said, your mother got up at six 1:26:46.800 --> 1:26:49.400 o'clock in the morning, put on the turkey, she baked 1:26:49.600 --> 1:26:54.280 pies yesterday. You come in here half asleep. You're not 1:26:54.400 --> 1:26:58.880 hungry because you ate snacks over there, he said, this 1:26:59.080 --> 1:27:00.000 is not going to happen. 1:27:00.080 --> 1:27:00.479 They can't. 1:27:01.720 --> 1:27:04.559 Wow, and did what happened from there? 1:27:05.400 --> 1:27:08.240 They went there on Christmas Eve and came here on Christmas. 1:27:08.560 --> 1:27:12.160 Well, I mean sometimes your kids need to know that 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:15.400 this is really important to you. If it's important to you, 1:27:15.400 --> 1:27:17.960 you can talk to them and and and reason with them. 1:27:17.960 --> 1:27:18.920 I think that was good. 1:27:19.080 --> 1:27:22.240 Absolutely, you just stood up after dinner and just told them. 1:27:22.200 --> 1:27:24.559 What was Sometimes you got to put your foot down, 1:27:24.600 --> 1:27:26.719 tell people what you want or what you need. 1:27:27.040 --> 1:27:29.800 And if they don't listen, then you then you have 1:27:29.880 --> 1:27:32.000 to let them do what they can always make more so, 1:27:32.080 --> 1:27:34.040 I mean, you know that's how that is, how young 1:27:34.040 --> 1:27:36.400 they are. Have a great new year. It was good 1:27:36.439 --> 1:27:37.879 to talk to you. Take care of yourself. 1:27:38.479 --> 1:27:41.920 I'm here to celebrate another new year, the eighty nine 1:27:41.920 --> 1:27:42.280 in March. 1:27:42.400 --> 1:27:47.000 Wow, good for you. That's excellent. Pushing it won't be 1:27:47.040 --> 1:27:48.040 long if you hit the hundle. 1:27:48.160 --> 1:27:50.599 You can hear the emotion though in her voice, because 1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:53.920 that is it's hard when because she said it was 1:27:54.000 --> 1:27:58.400 horrible Christmases having to having to do that, and it 1:27:58.560 --> 1:28:02.280 does hit you hard when you know your kids aren't 1:28:02.320 --> 1:28:03.439 thinking about it like that. 1:28:03.760 --> 1:28:06.400 I like to put the fun in dysfunction. Yea. Personally, 1:28:06.520 --> 1:28:10.080 I was trying to embrace that overall. I mean, I 1:28:10.160 --> 1:28:14.360 just it's true, it's chaos, but it's all good. 1:28:15.120 --> 1:28:16.760 But the other thing that goes along with that, I 1:28:16.760 --> 1:28:19.760 can remember I always felt like if someone put it 1:28:20.080 --> 1:28:22.960 and was directed by my mom, I was raised this way. 1:28:23.120 --> 1:28:26.479 If they're going to offer food, you gotta eat. So 1:28:26.600 --> 1:28:29.599 everywhere I went, all my buddies' houses, you know, and 1:28:29.320 --> 1:28:32.080 their parents, and then my house and then on away 1:28:32.080 --> 1:28:34.000 it went. We ate like a ton of meals. And 1:28:34.040 --> 1:28:35.800 they always want to send you home with food. Like 1:28:35.880 --> 1:28:39.320 right now, I guarantee you people driving up seventy one, 1:28:39.479 --> 1:28:42.920 seventy five, seventy four that they're in the trunk in 1:28:43.000 --> 1:28:45.479 the cooler, or they just took it to be polite 1:28:45.520 --> 1:28:47.479 and then they dumped it when they gassed up the car, 1:28:47.600 --> 1:28:50.120 Like I'm not eating that stuff again. If you're on 1:28:50.160 --> 1:28:52.040 that out there, there's a whole lot of leftovers in 1:28:52.080 --> 1:28:56.559 transit right now on this twenty seventh December, you know, 1:28:56.640 --> 1:28:58.400 after Christmas and leading into the new year. 1:28:58.439 --> 1:29:01.040 I guarantee it. I cannot be the only one pull light. 1:29:01.160 --> 1:29:03.320 When you go to somebody and you can snack, you 1:29:03.360 --> 1:29:06.040 can snack. You don't have to have full meals unless 1:29:06.080 --> 1:29:09.200 it's a sit down dinner that you're planning to stay 1:29:09.400 --> 1:29:12.280 to stay there for a while, like the beef froze to. 1:29:12.600 --> 1:29:15.320 Yeah, don't put it in a bowl. I'm telling you. 1:29:15.360 --> 1:29:17.320 I flashed back to balone. Don't ask for a ball. 1:29:17.520 --> 1:29:19.720 I didn't even ask. I just I reached up into 1:29:19.760 --> 1:29:22.040 the cabin and she just shot me the look. That's 1:29:22.080 --> 1:29:24.280 all I needed. I was like, oh man, I'm eight again. 1:29:24.320 --> 1:29:24.680 This is it. 1:29:24.800 --> 1:29:27.280 It just never grow out of that type of situation. 1:29:28.320 --> 1:29:30.439 Lots of other stuff to get to before we're done. 1:29:30.479 --> 1:29:33.520 There's New Year's around the corner, Bengals in action, tomorrow, 1:29:33.880 --> 1:29:37.960 Cardinals in town, and my guess is with the it's 1:29:37.960 --> 1:29:40.960 going to be like sixty something degrees. Yeah, I mean, 1:29:41.560 --> 1:29:44.320 I'm telling you I would not normally think about going 1:29:44.320 --> 1:29:47.479 out in the end of December to go play, uh 1:29:48.040 --> 1:29:50.240 and maybe check out some tailgating. 1:29:50.280 --> 1:29:51.559 But if not tomorrow win. 1:29:52.400 --> 1:29:55.920 Well, because yeah, it's a people can just wear their 1:29:56.320 --> 1:29:58.360 Bengals jerseys and not have to put on. 1:29:58.439 --> 1:30:02.080 Jackets and mittens and and stuff. Yeah, it's kind it's 1:30:02.200 --> 1:30:04.559 kind of a nice surprise. It absolutely is. 1:30:04.600 --> 1:30:07.360 Five one, three, seven four nine seven eight hundred the 1:30:07.360 --> 1:30:10.760 Big One about ten minutes away from Brady Hopkins. Another 1:30:10.840 --> 1:30:13.040 update on news and what's going on around planet Earth 1:30:13.040 --> 1:30:14.840 and what matters to us here in the Tri State 1:30:14.920 --> 1:30:17.160 Quick break though, your chance to get an interactive straight 1:30:17.200 --> 1:30:21.840 away seven hundred double ULW sterling a. Donnade hanging out 1:30:21.880 --> 1:30:26.879 seven hundred double LW. Joe Waddell producing, and Brady Hopkins 1:30:26.920 --> 1:30:29.320 with news in four minutes from right this very second. 1:30:29.680 --> 1:30:31.080 So hang out, that is if we're on time, and 1:30:31.120 --> 1:30:35.519 I will be on time. Donnakayod you disturbed me, And 1:30:35.560 --> 1:30:38.120 I mean that the nicest a way, of course. Uh, 1:30:38.520 --> 1:30:41.840 you said something right we were going into the break. 1:30:43.040 --> 1:30:45.479 I think it may be an opportunity for some of us. 1:30:46.280 --> 1:30:49.240 And you mentioned some statistic about women of a certain 1:30:49.280 --> 1:30:53.120 age being single by choice. Help me understand. 1:30:53.240 --> 1:30:56.599 Well, it's kind of a crazy statistic that they've come 1:30:56.880 --> 1:31:02.680 up with. Apparently, by twenty thirty, nearly fifty percent of 1:31:02.720 --> 1:31:08.120 women twenty five to forty five will be single by choice. 1:31:08.280 --> 1:31:12.479 I don't know if that's good for society or if 1:31:12.520 --> 1:31:13.240 it's bad. 1:31:13.200 --> 1:31:15.439 But how many are single now? I want to know, 1:31:15.560 --> 1:31:18.519 by choice or not. That's one bit of data I 1:31:18.520 --> 1:31:19.200 would like to know. 1:31:19.400 --> 1:31:23.599 Well, it's it's not. Let me see if I can 1:31:23.600 --> 1:31:25.960 find that. So I think one is you guys, you can, 1:31:26.240 --> 1:31:29.160 I shouldn't. It's a mixed metaphor. You guys, I wasn't single. 1:31:29.240 --> 1:31:31.400 I was married at twenty No, I understand. 1:31:31.439 --> 1:31:34.519 But you have a Women can be with anybody anytime 1:31:34.560 --> 1:31:37.559 that they want to, because you're women. I mean seriously, 1:31:37.600 --> 1:31:38.840 and I mean because it's just the. 1:31:38.800 --> 1:31:39.360 Way it is. 1:31:39.520 --> 1:31:39.720 Right. 1:31:40.680 --> 1:31:42.840 Well, all right, it may not be who you want 1:31:42.840 --> 1:31:44.519 to be with, but you can you can be with 1:31:44.560 --> 1:31:45.880 anybody anytime that you want. 1:31:46.240 --> 1:31:51.839 Well, I mean, dudes do not live that way. Well, okay, 1:31:53.080 --> 1:31:56.200 there's a lot in there, sterling. What what is what? 1:31:56.200 --> 1:32:01.520 What they're seeing? The trend is that women can now. 1:32:02.640 --> 1:32:06.200 Equal rights, So they're getting paid more and they're finding 1:32:06.200 --> 1:32:10.040 out that they're making even more money than some guys. 1:32:10.120 --> 1:32:16.160 So you have economic freedom of women now and twenty 1:32:16.200 --> 1:32:21.880 five to forty five and beyond, and they're prioritizing self 1:32:21.920 --> 1:32:26.799 discovery and career ascension above above marriage and children. 1:32:27.160 --> 1:32:32.360 So, in other words, women's needs versus once the needs 1:32:32.400 --> 1:32:36.519 they can handle, and we in relationship circumstance, it's a 1:32:36.560 --> 1:32:39.360 matter of wanting to be with someone when you want 1:32:39.400 --> 1:32:41.840 to and who you want to, rather than in desperation. 1:32:41.920 --> 1:32:43.759 I need a roof, I need food on the table 1:32:44.000 --> 1:32:45.240 and a man to take care of you. 1:32:45.280 --> 1:32:45.599 Correct. 1:32:45.600 --> 1:32:49.400 Well, there's a definite shift that's going on where there's 1:32:49.479 --> 1:32:51.960 more women in the workforce ever before. 1:32:52.040 --> 1:32:54.000 They're everywhere and I love it. 1:32:54.040 --> 1:32:58.280 And they're making just as much money, if not more. 1:32:58.360 --> 1:33:01.040 So does that mean I could be a man? You 1:33:01.200 --> 1:33:03.720 could be if you wanted to. Is that a bad thing? 1:33:03.760 --> 1:33:05.200 It's kind of I don't want to be kept in 1:33:05.240 --> 1:33:07.240 I mean, you want to be independent as a dude too. 1:33:07.400 --> 1:33:10.040 Well, there's a lot of stay at home dads that 1:33:10.400 --> 1:33:14.120 do wonderful work and take care of the house and 1:33:14.160 --> 1:33:16.040 the kids, and then you know, it's. 1:33:15.840 --> 1:33:18.439 A thankless job. It is a thankless job. 1:33:18.600 --> 1:33:21.120 Not enough love and respect. They downplay you, act like 1:33:21.120 --> 1:33:24.240 it's nothing. You stress around all day long in the house. 1:33:24.600 --> 1:33:27.160 Women come home from work, they just want to drink 1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:29.920 and be left alone, and we want to yap the 1:33:29.960 --> 1:33:31.439 app y app about the day. 1:33:31.320 --> 1:33:34.519 And put and put the football game on. They're good, 1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:37.880 that's right. It's everything's just upside down. 1:33:39.520 --> 1:33:44.320 It is an interesting dynamic and it's not changing. It's 1:33:44.360 --> 1:33:49.400 only getting and growing for women those ages. Now, I'm sure, 1:33:49.479 --> 1:33:51.559 I mean fifty that's one in two. 1:33:52.600 --> 1:33:55.680 Yeah, I can do basically math that right. Statement, that's 1:33:55.720 --> 1:33:58.800 not Lance's Butler math, that's right. State hell, that's E. J. 1:33:58.960 --> 1:34:03.720 Brown Elementary remat. Everyone can do it. Fifty one outed two, 1:34:04.200 --> 1:34:06.479 that's a big number, you know, And I'm curious how 1:34:06.520 --> 1:34:10.559 many like is it? If that's choice, then about us 1:34:10.640 --> 1:34:13.880 guys in that situation too. I mean, that's more about equality, right, 1:34:13.960 --> 1:34:16.880 and women can do You guys are a beauty. You 1:34:16.960 --> 1:34:19.639 are so far beyond us in every way anyway. I'm 1:34:19.760 --> 1:34:22.200 enamored and overwhelmed, and I'm not sucking up and hoping 1:34:22.200 --> 1:34:24.599 that this is going to benefit me after the show. 1:34:25.520 --> 1:34:28.920 I'm just simply saying, we'll come back after your five 1:34:28.920 --> 1:34:31.920 point thirty report. Brady has an idea as to what's 1:34:31.960 --> 1:34:35.240 going on. Mister Hopkins disseminates mess quantity of news. Stirling 1:34:35.280 --> 1:34:37.120 and Donna d come back. We want to know are 1:34:37.160 --> 1:34:38.640 you going to be one of those half of the 1:34:38.680 --> 1:34:40.320 women choosing to be single? 1:34:41.479 --> 1:34:42.400 And why? 1:34:42.520 --> 1:34:45.439 Or if you had a choice back then and you 1:34:45.479 --> 1:34:47.519 could go to work and didn't want to get would 1:34:47.600 --> 1:34:50.800 you have gotten married and had kids, right, and stay 1:34:50.800 --> 1:34:53.479 at home or maybe a big deal. That's a big 1:34:53.600 --> 1:34:54.400 question to ask. 1:34:54.479 --> 1:34:56.400 And these are player women, right, I mean, these are 1:34:56.439 --> 1:34:58.519 women that are out there playing the field. So they'll 1:34:58.600 --> 1:35:01.040 hurt me, but they don't want to. They just want 1:35:01.040 --> 1:35:04.439 to visit and then lead, which actually sounds pretty damn 1:35:04.439 --> 1:35:06.840 good to me too. News time now Sterling and Donna 1:35:06.880 --> 1:35:10.160 d coming back seven hundred w welw Hey, how you 1:35:10.200 --> 1:35:14.200 doing this? Sterling and Donna d rolling till six. We've 1:35:14.240 --> 1:35:17.080 seen Chick Ludwig. You will hear from Chick Ludwig after 1:35:17.120 --> 1:35:19.840 the news at the top of the hour, and he 1:35:19.960 --> 1:35:22.919 will have some sports talk. My guess is JJ Bledet. 1:35:23.120 --> 1:35:25.960 He'll talk about the Red signing. That guy was an 1:35:25.960 --> 1:35:27.920 A or yeah, it was an Oakland A, then he 1:35:28.000 --> 1:35:30.519 was a Vegas A and then soon or it will 1:35:30.520 --> 1:35:32.960 be a Vegas A. But he it was in a 1:35:33.000 --> 1:35:35.679 Sacramento a's uniform. I think, I don't know. I don't 1:35:35.680 --> 1:35:38.200 know how that goes. I've always liked the As since 1:35:38.240 --> 1:35:40.600 the Reds swept them, but then they were horrible and 1:35:40.640 --> 1:35:44.679 I feel good, you know, love for underdog teams. Yeah, 1:35:44.720 --> 1:35:46.240 now you've got a guy who comes from that and 1:35:46.280 --> 1:35:48.760 hopefully will bring something to the through the Reds. 1:35:48.840 --> 1:35:51.400 They need help. Well, Chick is very excited to talk 1:35:51.439 --> 1:35:52.160 about that tonight. 1:35:52.280 --> 1:35:55.280 Yeah, he's got that. Bengals and Cardinals tomorrow. It will 1:35:55.320 --> 1:35:58.519 almost feel like summertime. Yeah, I may be exaggerating a 1:35:58.520 --> 1:36:01.680 little bit. It'll be short weather, and I mean in 1:36:01.720 --> 1:36:04.800 the sixties almost seventy, right, pneumonia weather is what my 1:36:04.800 --> 1:36:05.559 grandmother would call. 1:36:05.600 --> 1:36:08.519 I'm excited about it. I'm ready, all ready for warm weather. 1:36:08.560 --> 1:36:09.879 It's been chilli this year. 1:36:09.680 --> 1:36:11.120 Already, absolutely has. 1:36:11.160 --> 1:36:13.240 Now I want to backtrack just a little bit right 1:36:13.280 --> 1:36:14.840 before the break, will give you a chance to sound off. 1:36:14.840 --> 1:36:16.800 He'd like there were some ladies and guys on this too. 1:36:17.040 --> 1:36:21.120 This is a really wild thing. You were talking about 1:36:21.120 --> 1:36:25.479 a statistic from a basically retirement and financial company, so 1:36:25.720 --> 1:36:27.439 they are on top of this in a different ways. 1:36:27.479 --> 1:36:29.080 People plan for their future. 1:36:29.360 --> 1:36:30.639 Yeah, Morgan Stanley. 1:36:31.120 --> 1:36:35.439 They did a US census based on demographic trends and 1:36:35.479 --> 1:36:39.719 they project by twenty thirty about forty five to fifty 1:36:39.800 --> 1:36:43.360 percent of women in the ages of twenty five to 1:36:43.439 --> 1:36:48.120 forty four will be single and childless my choice. 1:36:47.960 --> 1:36:51.639 And that's obviously here in the States. In industrialized countries, 1:36:51.800 --> 1:36:55.880 richer countries, the birth rates have been declining significantly, and 1:36:56.000 --> 1:36:58.360 you know, the idea from immigration and so forth was 1:36:58.360 --> 1:37:00.800 a benefit to bring workers in and then obviously to 1:37:00.840 --> 1:37:03.559 propagate and keep paying into social Security and all the 1:37:03.600 --> 1:37:07.720 other stuff. That has certainly slowed down here domestically. So 1:37:08.040 --> 1:37:11.639 the question is with AI and the pealing of jobs, 1:37:12.640 --> 1:37:16.520 is this including that concept that they'll be less beneficial 1:37:16.680 --> 1:37:19.640 or I guess appealing candidates for them, or they just 1:37:19.880 --> 1:37:21.439 want to be fancy. 1:37:20.960 --> 1:37:23.720 Free and that is a good question. They're fat with cash. 1:37:23.760 --> 1:37:27.240 Well, here's the there's four reasons for this trend, according 1:37:27.320 --> 1:37:31.280 to Morgan Stanley, changing norms about marriage, so marriage is 1:37:31.400 --> 1:37:36.320 no longer seen as required life like a required life milestone. 1:37:37.280 --> 1:37:41.360 Sin, I've done that. Well, nothing about that. 1:37:41.680 --> 1:37:44.680 Okay, I'm still going to say marriage isn't essential to 1:37:44.720 --> 1:37:48.880 a fulfilling life. That's what they're seeing, a greater economic independence. 1:37:48.880 --> 1:37:51.439 We know there's more women in the workforce than ever before, 1:37:51.479 --> 1:37:52.840 and they're getting equal. 1:37:52.600 --> 1:37:54.000 Pay now like a strong. 1:37:55.439 --> 1:37:58.920 Well, of course, it's nice, you know, they're they're they're 1:37:59.080 --> 1:38:04.519 priority careers early on and they're getting you know, married 1:38:04.640 --> 1:38:06.920 later on. It doesn't mean that they're never going to 1:38:07.000 --> 1:38:10.040 get married. They're just they want their careers first and 1:38:10.080 --> 1:38:11.360 then marriage. 1:38:10.960 --> 1:38:12.400 May come later. 1:38:12.560 --> 1:38:15.559 So they're marrying later on in life, just focusing on 1:38:15.600 --> 1:38:20.160 their education and their careers and then complex relationship market, 1:38:20.200 --> 1:38:23.599 it says. Some research and cultural commentary notes that people 1:38:23.920 --> 1:38:28.920 of all genders face mismatches in dating expectations priorities. Everybody's 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:32.519 on dating apps, so I mean nobody meets up like that, 1:38:32.800 --> 1:38:34.479 like we used to go to a concert and meet 1:38:34.560 --> 1:38:39.000 somebody or true at a bar. Used to be nightclubs, bars, concerts. 1:38:39.040 --> 1:38:41.800 I mean, I'm sure people are still doing that. 1:38:41.960 --> 1:38:46.680 But at our age, at our age, that's how I 1:38:46.760 --> 1:38:52.320 met My husband was playing in a band. You've seen 1:38:52.400 --> 1:38:53.760 him or talk to him in yours, But I know 1:38:53.800 --> 1:38:57.639 the guys certainly. Of course, everybody knew him in Cincinnati. 1:38:57.080 --> 1:39:02.040 A lot of bar gigs, different times, different times, That's right, 1:39:02.400 --> 1:39:05.040 It's for sure. So how you know what's interesting about this? 1:39:05.800 --> 1:39:08.200 Does what does that mean that we as guys won't 1:39:08.240 --> 1:39:11.360 be able to find the women that we want in 1:39:11.760 --> 1:39:14.800 that twenty five to forty four year old range, or 1:39:15.400 --> 1:39:17.479 is it that the guys are making the same choice, 1:39:17.479 --> 1:39:21.760 Because I've heard this from woman after woman after woman. Yeah, 1:39:21.800 --> 1:39:24.360 including younger women, some that I may have dated. I'm 1:39:24.400 --> 1:39:27.080 not saying I try to stay within my I don't 1:39:27.120 --> 1:39:31.800 want to be involved in an inappropriately aged, a separated relationship. 1:39:32.320 --> 1:39:34.280 I mean it's good sometimes. 1:39:33.800 --> 1:39:38.599 But well, twenty five to forty five is interesting because 1:39:38.640 --> 1:39:42.160 those are kind of the child bearing Oh yeah, you know, 1:39:42.280 --> 1:39:43.800 that's the age. 1:39:44.000 --> 1:39:44.360 Yeah. 1:39:44.439 --> 1:39:48.439 So you know when I was twenty four and my 1:39:48.600 --> 1:39:51.960 husband was twenty two, that's when we met. We dated 1:39:52.040 --> 1:39:54.680 for a year, just like everybody else, engaged for a 1:39:54.800 --> 1:39:57.400 year and then got married in a year. So it 1:39:57.640 --> 1:40:01.080 was it was during that timeframe. I don't regret anything 1:40:01.320 --> 1:40:03.960 during that time. I fell in love with someone. I 1:40:04.000 --> 1:40:07.000 got married. My sister was married a year prior to me, 1:40:07.200 --> 1:40:11.679 so it was great. But and I always worked throughout 1:40:11.720 --> 1:40:14.960 my marriage too. So I had a career in radio, 1:40:15.080 --> 1:40:17.880 I was graduating Xavier, and you know, I went to 1:40:17.880 --> 1:40:22.479 school later in life. And so I think women are 1:40:22.560 --> 1:40:25.719 just going to say, listen, let's date instead of getting 1:40:26.000 --> 1:40:29.080 let's figure out, you know, let me need. 1:40:29.000 --> 1:40:31.559 For a commitment. I kind of find this very appealing. 1:40:32.120 --> 1:40:34.080 There's something appealing about it. 1:40:34.479 --> 1:40:37.880 But you know, twenty five forty five, at the forty 1:40:37.960 --> 1:40:40.519 five range, if you still haven't had kids and you're 1:40:40.600 --> 1:40:42.040 still contemplating that's. 1:40:41.880 --> 1:40:42.559 A little tough. 1:40:42.640 --> 1:40:45.040 Well maybe they can adopt, or maybe you just don't 1:40:45.040 --> 1:40:48.600 have to worry about the. 1:40:47.760 --> 1:40:50.080 A lot of people don't want kids, that's what they're saying. 1:40:50.120 --> 1:40:51.559 I mean, you don't have any. I don't have anything. 1:40:51.600 --> 1:40:53.320 I don't have any, and you don't. 1:40:53.320 --> 1:40:56.280 Put all my sisters do, and they all have kids 1:40:56.320 --> 1:40:59.320 and grandkids and stuff now, and it's it's cute. 1:40:59.400 --> 1:41:03.519 It's not me, and it's not cute. I like that. 1:41:03.720 --> 1:41:05.280 It's cute that they have kids. 1:41:05.520 --> 1:41:07.960 No, it's cute when all the kids get they all 1:41:08.040 --> 1:41:10.920 chair pictures there. Yeah, we all have these group text 1:41:10.960 --> 1:41:14.479 and all the grandkids are super cute and everybody. And 1:41:14.560 --> 1:41:16.639 sometimes I feel a little left out because I don't 1:41:16.640 --> 1:41:17.120 have any. 1:41:17.320 --> 1:41:20.120 But it was a choice I made, and I'm I 1:41:20.160 --> 1:41:22.679 love being the uncle, yeah, I mean I really do. 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:23.519 It's a lot of time. 1:41:24.320 --> 1:41:26.040 I mean I grew up, you know, with a single 1:41:26.080 --> 1:41:28.639 mom in hers and she had a big family like yours, 1:41:28.680 --> 1:41:31.080 a lot of siblings and my uncles and my aunts, 1:41:31.120 --> 1:41:33.479 I mean they I was always around them and my cousins, 1:41:33.840 --> 1:41:36.160 so I still had, you know a little bit of 1:41:36.200 --> 1:41:38.960 that mentoring and that sort of role modeling that was 1:41:39.000 --> 1:41:41.880 being done, but I didn't necessarily have all the other 1:41:41.920 --> 1:41:46.439 stuff in that end of it. But it's interesting when 1:41:46.640 --> 1:41:48.360 you start looking at that. And I've been told why 1:41:48.360 --> 1:41:51.000 you have a fear commitment or whatever, But I've been 1:41:51.040 --> 1:41:55.080 committed in long term monogamous relationships with a couple of 1:41:55.080 --> 1:41:58.479 different women at different times for years, but it just 1:41:58.520 --> 1:42:00.960 didn't work out timing with them and what they were 1:42:01.000 --> 1:42:03.519 doing and where I was, and you know, I left 1:42:03.520 --> 1:42:05.639 here for work and came back here for work. 1:42:05.760 --> 1:42:09.720 Well that's exactly the point of this where where the 1:42:09.760 --> 1:42:14.519 study is, like women have they don't necessarily need to 1:42:14.640 --> 1:42:17.680 be married. They don't need to be married, and they 1:42:17.720 --> 1:42:20.240 don't want to have kids early on. They want to 1:42:20.240 --> 1:42:23.040 focus on their education and career and making money so 1:42:23.080 --> 1:42:26.160 they don't have to rely on men to do it. 1:42:26.320 --> 1:42:29.280 What happens later though, when there's so few people having 1:42:29.400 --> 1:42:32.679 kids and then there's a shortage of population to do 1:42:32.760 --> 1:42:35.639 whatever work is left to be done after AI comes through, 1:42:35.680 --> 1:42:37.400 because it's not going to do all the work. 1:42:37.560 --> 1:42:41.720 Well, this is Elon Musk's nightmare of scenario, right. This 1:42:41.880 --> 1:42:44.800 is the thing that he fears most is that we 1:42:45.120 --> 1:42:48.720 are going to be out of the human race. I 1:42:48.760 --> 1:42:50.800 don't think that's ever going to happen. How many there's 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:52.559 eight billion people on the planet. 1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:53.400 Is that accurate? 1:42:53.439 --> 1:42:56.479 Somewhere somebody just got pregnant just now, somebody just that 1:42:56.560 --> 1:42:58.200 a kid, right, maybe listening to us. 1:42:58.240 --> 1:43:00.520 I don't know. I'd rather not know that necessarily. 1:43:00.800 --> 1:43:04.880 But there's eight billion people humans on the planet. I 1:43:04.960 --> 1:43:08.160 don't see us going away unless there's a big asteroid. 1:43:07.720 --> 1:43:09.800 That hits us. Yeah, and then that's a whole that's 1:43:09.800 --> 1:43:11.080 a whole other problem. Yeah. 1:43:11.200 --> 1:43:13.320 I mean the other concept that has been talked about 1:43:13.400 --> 1:43:16.479 is paying people to have kids, right, And I don't 1:43:16.520 --> 1:43:18.439 know who pays for that. Why should my tax dollar 1:43:18.479 --> 1:43:21.280 dollars go for somebody else to pay them to have 1:43:21.360 --> 1:43:25.000 their babies. That's not my problem. I've made my choice, 1:43:25.600 --> 1:43:28.000 not my issue, though. We do have tax credits to 1:43:28.040 --> 1:43:30.800 help benefit people to help sort of navigate life in 1:43:30.840 --> 1:43:33.439 the added expenses. But the other thing I would imagine 1:43:33.520 --> 1:43:35.280 is part of this is think of the cost of 1:43:35.360 --> 1:43:38.479 childcare and all those hoops that you have to go through. 1:43:38.520 --> 1:43:41.200 Somebody either deciding that they're not going to pay to 1:43:41.200 --> 1:43:44.360 get the healthcare or I should say, the childcare, and 1:43:44.560 --> 1:43:48.120 maybe they stay home. Who makes that sacrifice if that 1:43:48.240 --> 1:43:50.400 is one, Even though maybe one would argue once you 1:43:50.439 --> 1:43:52.559 have kids, the way I was raised is that your 1:43:52.600 --> 1:43:55.080 only purpose is to try to set them up to 1:43:55.160 --> 1:43:57.960 have a better life for themselves. Then you kick them 1:43:57.960 --> 1:44:01.160 out of the house and then you can party. He 1:44:01.240 --> 1:44:02.240 had eighteen years. 1:44:02.280 --> 1:44:04.479 It's it. The free ride is over. 1:44:06.120 --> 1:44:09.759 Well, yeah, and there's tons of tax breaks for married 1:44:09.800 --> 1:44:11.160 couples and with children. 1:44:11.280 --> 1:44:14.400 What about all the single people. We don't have anythings, Terling. 1:44:14.600 --> 1:44:18.280 It's just we get jobbed constantly. Really, you know that 1:44:18.400 --> 1:44:20.559 that's the that's the thing. But if all these single 1:44:20.600 --> 1:44:23.400 women want like just to use and abuse somebody, I 1:44:23.400 --> 1:44:26.120 mean it's a single guy in that window. I mean 1:44:26.120 --> 1:44:28.240 that's a good place. Is that too young for you? 1:44:28.360 --> 1:44:32.519 Twenty five to forty five? Because you're we're both the 1:44:32.520 --> 1:44:33.360 same age. 1:44:33.960 --> 1:44:36.360 And I don't know what the rules are. Somebody told 1:44:36.360 --> 1:44:39.880 me five is not no, forty five is not for them. Uh. 1:44:40.040 --> 1:44:42.799 I had someone on the show who was in Men's 1:44:42.840 --> 1:44:44.840 Health magazine a few years ago. I should do a 1:44:44.840 --> 1:44:46.519 search now and have them back along because I know 1:44:46.560 --> 1:44:49.479 I saved the info and they said half your age 1:44:49.520 --> 1:44:53.320 plus seven years is as low as you should go. Okay, right, 1:44:53.560 --> 1:44:56.800 so you figure thirty five thirty is thirty, yes, and 1:44:56.880 --> 1:44:58.040 that seems really young. 1:44:58.120 --> 1:45:01.880 Yes, But I will own this. I have. 1:45:02.280 --> 1:45:04.479 I have gone out with women in their their younger 1:45:04.520 --> 1:45:08.000 thirties and not that long ago, mid thirties, and and uh, 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:11.960 it's a blast. But they're wanting to go and run 1:45:12.000 --> 1:45:14.360 around and party and do stuff. I've been there and 1:45:14.400 --> 1:45:17.040 done that, and part of it is not my age. 1:45:17.200 --> 1:45:18.880 But I mean, for how many years was I out 1:45:18.920 --> 1:45:21.800 doing bar gig after bar gig and show after show 1:45:21.840 --> 1:45:24.720 and introducing bands and hanging out and having drinks. I'm like, 1:45:25.080 --> 1:45:28.280 that's exhausting. You go do that. I'll be at the house. 1:45:28.320 --> 1:45:30.880 Come see me after. You know what I mean, what 1:45:30.920 --> 1:45:33.600 are you doing at the house? You got the Bengals on, 1:45:33.800 --> 1:45:36.240 you got you got sports. I'll make some drinks, we'll 1:45:36.280 --> 1:45:38.800 hang out. I'll make some food, I'll cook dinner. It 1:45:38.840 --> 1:45:43.240 works out, there's nothing wrong with the flicks, hill whatever. 1:45:43.479 --> 1:45:46.200 Or maybe they just want to leave and that's fine, 1:45:46.400 --> 1:45:49.040 visit me and then go on your way. That's where 1:45:49.040 --> 1:45:52.599 it is. I can be a more mature, like middle aged. 1:45:52.720 --> 1:45:53.960 Uh boy, toy? 1:45:54.160 --> 1:45:57.400 Is that? I mean, that's a possibility. I don't mean 1:45:57.479 --> 1:46:00.880 like to play with What did you just saying about 1:46:00.920 --> 1:46:04.879 commitments earlier? There might be something to that. No, I'm 1:46:05.320 --> 1:46:06.719 I'm very good at being committed. 1:46:06.800 --> 1:46:09.599 Are you happy being single right now? Are you happy 1:46:09.680 --> 1:46:10.000 doing that? 1:46:10.360 --> 1:46:12.160 Here's here's why it's great. 1:46:12.280 --> 1:46:14.840 Okay, And if you find the right person, I think 1:46:14.840 --> 1:46:17.120 you can still make it work this way. But I 1:46:17.160 --> 1:46:20.599 don't have to answer to anybody. There is no woman 1:46:20.720 --> 1:46:23.360 going where were you? What were you doing? Who were 1:46:23.400 --> 1:46:26.360 you talking to? It's just hey, do you want to 1:46:26.360 --> 1:46:28.760 get together later? You want to meet up tomorrow night 1:46:28.760 --> 1:46:31.080 and grab some grub whatever else it happens to be 1:46:31.200 --> 1:46:31.920 and have a drink. 1:46:32.160 --> 1:46:36.880 That's perfect, okay. So I love the time me. I'm 1:46:36.960 --> 1:46:37.600 just waiting on that. 1:46:38.040 --> 1:46:40.400 No, no, no, I love that you said that, because 1:46:40.439 --> 1:46:43.720 that's what twenty twenty six relationships are going to be like. 1:46:43.920 --> 1:46:46.920 They're instead of fear based, where were you? Why didn't 1:46:47.000 --> 1:46:51.000 you called? All those things are like excuse me what? 1:46:51.680 --> 1:46:54.639 I was busy doing my stuff? You big, get busy 1:46:54.680 --> 1:46:57.120 doing yours. They're going to be like, hey, I know 1:46:57.160 --> 1:46:59.720 you're busy, call me when you get a second. That 1:46:59.880 --> 1:47:02.439 is is the self love that you give yourself, so 1:47:02.479 --> 1:47:07.200 you're not dependent. You're not outsourcing the safety stuff. Yeah, 1:47:07.360 --> 1:47:09.760 and that's what we talked that's a callback. That's what 1:47:09.800 --> 1:47:12.759 we talked about earlier, and that's what's coming in twenty 1:47:12.800 --> 1:47:14.599 twenty six because people are doing their work. 1:47:14.960 --> 1:47:17.040 I mean in a big picture of things. I mean, 1:47:17.120 --> 1:47:19.200 I'm just trying to live my life down, you know 1:47:19.240 --> 1:47:21.120 what I mean. I'm just trying to find my way 1:47:21.160 --> 1:47:23.240 in the world, like everybody else. And I think, like 1:47:23.320 --> 1:47:25.640 everyone else, I would like to find a woman to 1:47:25.720 --> 1:47:29.680 complete me. It will happen at some point, or you know, 1:47:30.920 --> 1:47:33.400 they're out there on the they're available on the internet 1:47:33.520 --> 1:47:33.880 or something. 1:47:33.880 --> 1:47:38.280 I've heard all my friends you're all on dating apps. 1:47:38.320 --> 1:47:39.479 Well a lot of them are. 1:47:40.240 --> 1:47:41.880 And I don't do that, but at a lot of 1:47:41.880 --> 1:47:45.160 my friends, I mean, they found these female friends and 1:47:45.280 --> 1:47:47.719 male friends. They have found their perfect partners, and most 1:47:47.720 --> 1:47:50.320 of them have been together for a ridiculous amount of 1:47:50.320 --> 1:47:52.320 time and make it work. What's interesting is when they 1:47:52.320 --> 1:47:54.880 try to fix you up, you kind of go, oh, 1:47:54.920 --> 1:47:57.439 this she's great for you, she's perfect, she's like your 1:47:57.479 --> 1:48:00.360 other half, and then you go, really, I don't know 1:48:00.439 --> 1:48:02.120 me at all, And then the woman's are like the 1:48:02.120 --> 1:48:04.000 same thing, Like, well, I mean we have drinking is 1:48:04.040 --> 1:48:05.400 all right, but I mean I don't know what they're 1:48:05.439 --> 1:48:08.200 both obviously high or whatever else. I mean, it's just 1:48:08.200 --> 1:48:10.200 the sort of the way I go. Yeah, speaking of 1:48:10.240 --> 1:48:12.840 a relationship stuff. Because you came into play and to 1:48:12.880 --> 1:48:15.240 help us solve the world's problems. As ken Brew always 1:48:15.280 --> 1:48:17.599 likes to say, that I caused more than I solved, 1:48:17.640 --> 1:48:20.640 But I want to believe I'm a problem solver, not 1:48:20.680 --> 1:48:23.280 a creator of problems. You will be back for your 1:48:23.320 --> 1:48:28.000 Relationship Radio after nine o'clock, another full three hours minight 1:48:28.080 --> 1:48:30.799 of making people healthy and living better. 1:48:31.360 --> 1:48:32.360 Well, I try. 1:48:32.560 --> 1:48:34.880 I do my best too, but we also keep it 1:48:34.960 --> 1:48:37.519 lighthearted and fun. And doctor West will be with me. 1:48:37.960 --> 1:48:40.519 That's nine to midnight, right after chick. There you go, 1:48:40.600 --> 1:48:42.920 and he's straight away. He'll talk Reds, he'll talk Bengals, 1:48:42.920 --> 1:48:46.000 he'll talk Bowl season. Who knows what else. He's prepared. 1:48:46.040 --> 1:48:49.000 He's been roaming the halls with his laptop in his arm, 1:48:49.320 --> 1:48:52.320 his coffee in the other hand, and he's pacings D 1:48:52.360 --> 1:48:54.960 so you know that he is ready to roll. 1:48:55.400 --> 1:48:58.519 After your six o'clock report, it's Sterling and Donna d 1:48:58.760 --> 1:49:02.040 talking Hooday today here on seven hundred WLW