Speaker 1: Well, well, well, how you doing.
Speaker 2: It's Sterling and Donnade back together again a Saturday afternoon
Speaker 2: in the tri State, the whiplash weather in full effect.
Speaker 1: It was like.
Speaker 2: Fifties yesterday, forties today, tomorrow's sixties. Bengals and cards at
Speaker 2: pay corps and here on the big One and everybody
Speaker 2: is on the road, Donna.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people returning gifts. I guess, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Are getting back home from a holiday.
Speaker 2: Over the hills far away to Grima's house. We go
Speaker 2: right or back home after that?
Speaker 1: How are you? You were sick?
Speaker 3: I had a Christmas cold and it lasted for like
Speaker 3: four or five days. I kept it at Bay, and
Speaker 3: some of it I think was allergies. Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Really weird.
Speaker 3: You know how I know when I have allergies is
Speaker 3: that like when my eyes start itching. That's when I
Speaker 3: know that some of it is allergies. So I took
Speaker 3: like a zertech and it made me feel better and
Speaker 3: got me through the holidays. But man, I've never been
Speaker 3: sick for Christmas or anything.
Speaker 1: Had a good time. I still at a great Christmas
Speaker 1: spreading the sickness. It's a beautifulness. Should I be doing this. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: nobody is sick because of me. Yeah, yeah, that I
Speaker 1: know of right.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the thing I always go, I think
Speaker 2: it's just allergies, and I've had people go no, no,
Speaker 2: You've definitely got the sickness, and then I think in
Speaker 2: my answer goes that you have the group, which I oh,
Speaker 2: my god, it just sounds bad. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 2: I had bronchitis. I don't think it's a real legitimate
Speaker 2: medical term. I could be wrong. I didn't go to
Speaker 2: medical school, so I don't know for sure. Wait, have
Speaker 2: doctor Adonna Schley had coming on after four o'clock to
Speaker 2: talk about these US strikes and these ISIS sites as
Speaker 2: they are described in Nigeria and what that may need
Speaker 2: for us as we continue to I guess expand maybe
Speaker 2: some of our efforts to quash our enemies there rather
Speaker 2: than here.
Speaker 1: So that's coming up in about an hour. That'll be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk with.
Speaker 2: Her absolutely, is Have you done the returns or anything
Speaker 2: else like that at this point.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 3: I have been focused on healing my entire life, and
Speaker 3: you're just yes, I mean mentally physically, I've been.
Speaker 1: Because you're sick or because of the year end and
Speaker 1: new beginning.
Speaker 3: There's all kinds of stuff that is happening coming into
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: What should I know?
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing is that in twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: it was the year the Snake.
Speaker 1: We mentioned this. Oh wait a minute, I think I
Speaker 1: saw that on a menu or a play sheet that
Speaker 1: jo well it could be, yes, yes, the year of
Speaker 1: the Snake, which is shedding all kinds of relationships that
Speaker 1: were based out of fear and not something that's going
Speaker 1: to be supportive. Right, So then you know it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a really hard year for everybody, for
Speaker 1: all of us, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I know I broke up with somebody in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: but it's not just romantic relationships or partnerships and things
Speaker 3: like that. It was friendships, it was jobs. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a year to shed all that is not
Speaker 3: working well for you.
Speaker 2: Is that something that you do annually? Because I know
Speaker 2: we talk about resolutions and people sort of joke about
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna and I've been really hammered by people
Speaker 2: because I'm just trying to be a better person.
Speaker 1: I love that resolution. You make it every year and.
Speaker 2: It covers all the edges, but people are like, be
Speaker 2: more specific. But I kind of look at it the
Speaker 2: same way. I never thought of it as like a
Speaker 2: shedding snake or something like that, but I mean, why not.
Speaker 1: It is a new skin, new year in the beginning well,
Speaker 1: and it's in particular.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five was very hard for all of us
Speaker 3: in terms of that. I mean, like, you know, relationships
Speaker 3: were basically like, this isn't working.
Speaker 1: You need to go. I need to go.
Speaker 3: We need to go our own separate ways. It's not
Speaker 3: working for whatever reason. I don't know, but that's what
Speaker 3: was happening with jobs and things like that.
Speaker 1: Now twenty twenty six you're the horse, yes, the equine, and.
Speaker 3: It starts because you're supposed to jump on the horse
Speaker 3: and find all the things. Now, whether you believe it
Speaker 3: or not, I certainly do. I've done a lot of
Speaker 3: research on this, and I really do feel like twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six, it's going to be loved base relationships. It's
Speaker 3: going to be the jobs that you wanted and you
Speaker 3: feel good in. It's gonna be maybe starting your own
Speaker 3: business and making new friends. Things that things that are
Speaker 3: going to serve you in a in not a fear based,
Speaker 3: but a loved base.
Speaker 1: People are tired of fighting. They're tired of fighting, and
Speaker 1: relationships are tired of fighting. Yes, aren't you. I don't.
Speaker 1: I try not to fight. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know who's fighting. I mean politically speaking, I mean people
Speaker 1: are religiously So we're all gonna hold hands and sing
Speaker 1: kom by. Everything's gonna be great. When twenty six is
Speaker 1: going to be that? You mark that down. I wrote
Speaker 1: it down right here. I wrote it down. It's right there.
Speaker 1: It's a black and one best year ever for all
Speaker 1: of us, all right now. So this leads me to
Speaker 1: something else.
Speaker 2: And usually it's like a New Year's Eve thing or
Speaker 2: a New Year's Week thing, and this kind of counts.
Speaker 2: I mean, here we are, it's the twenty seventh of December.
Speaker 2: So what I'm wondering is this. This can be a
Speaker 2: very private thing, but do you have resolutions that you're
Speaker 2: wanting to kick to the curb? Lifestyle stuff? Maybe it's people,
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to ditch me. I don't know. You
Speaker 2: showed up here. You didn't have to, so I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's accurate. But I mean, what do you
Speaker 2: have a plan?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: Do you have something more. I will try not to
Speaker 2: be so vague when I say to be a better person.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking about that right now.
Speaker 3: Well, right now, for me, I would love to shed
Speaker 3: a few of the holiday pounds. So I am on
Speaker 3: a forty eight hour fast, which is it's even more.
Speaker 3: It's like cleansing, sterling. It's like your bad cells, you know,
Speaker 3: they eat your good cells, eat up your bad cells
Speaker 3: because they're hungry.
Speaker 1: It's a cleansing of you get the demons out. Yes,
Speaker 1: on all levels. Now it's not easy. I am very nervous.
Speaker 1: Demons The demons are who do we call?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, bad cells that sit there when you
Speaker 3: just keep putting food in your mouth like normally I do.
Speaker 3: But when I go on a fast, it is it
Speaker 3: is taking time. Now, I'm gonna go in forty eight hours,
Speaker 3: maybe longer.
Speaker 1: Longer do you drink though you have fluids? This is so.
Speaker 3: I've had tea and coffee all day, and I've done
Speaker 3: a lot. I've done yoga, taught yoga, I've walked my dog.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've gone almost ten thousand steps in and
Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
Speaker 1: Right now. I am gonna get hangry. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: be No, it'll be great.
Speaker 2: We can navigate this together because it's been a couple
Speaker 2: of months ago and you were traveling at the time,
Speaker 2: and a friend of mine she's like, you got to
Speaker 2: do a clean you got to do a cleanse. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I hear this at the show doing the show with Donna,
Speaker 2: and I hear it. Now, Yeah, do the cleans. Do
Speaker 2: the cleans. So I did not eat for like two
Speaker 2: days other than water and like coffee, which and all
Speaker 2: I know is I didn't feel any better at all
Speaker 2: whatsoever after it. I saw no benefit at all. She
Speaker 2: was like, oh, no, I can tell you're doing much better.
Speaker 2: I'm like, whatever you say, so maybe there is something
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 1: I have not eaten to day.
Speaker 2: I got up early, I did eat late last night
Speaker 2: after the show. So I will ride this out with you,
Speaker 2: and then we can get hungary together and you can
Speaker 2: see how it goes. I will not go two days though.
Speaker 2: There will be pizza later. I guarantee you there will
Speaker 2: be said you were hungry area. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 2: tough spot. So I want to give people a chance.
Speaker 2: We can have a little fun on the road doing
Speaker 2: returns whatever, going home, or maybe just trying to get
Speaker 2: a break five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred,
Speaker 2: the big one. You pick up the phone, you give
Speaker 2: it the finger, like my good buddy mister K used
Speaker 2: to say. The talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app click
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Speaker 2: is Sterling dot donad dot twenty twenty three. That's how
Speaker 2: long we've been doing the show, right, yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 2: the people I get this occasionally, was it twenty three
Speaker 2: twenty five, because it's when it started? When it started,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if they'll let you change it
Speaker 2: or not. And I'm at Sterling Radio on X and
Speaker 2: we can do it there as well. So do you
Speaker 2: have a resolution? What are you looking to get rid of,
Speaker 2: excess baggage, emotions, changing in your life to be better
Speaker 2: or do you think it's a bunch of hooey? I mean,
Speaker 2: because sometimes people get so much stress about trying to
Speaker 2: get fit, for instance, the gym for the first I
Speaker 2: wouldn't even go so far as to say the first
Speaker 2: quarter of the year, but my experience has been the
Speaker 2: first month. Maybe you'll see people really hitting it. And
Speaker 2: I'm not the most religious about going and doing it,
Speaker 2: but when I pop in there and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's way too busy, and there are people that look
Speaker 2: like they're more of an amateur than I am.
Speaker 1: In there. I'm like, I have other things I can
Speaker 1: be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean is that one of the things too,
Speaker 2: because I know you do the stretching and all the
Speaker 2: yoga stuff and all the other things.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I want to.
Speaker 3: It's the number one resolution always for people is to
Speaker 3: get in shape or lose weight. That's usually the number
Speaker 3: one and I'm no different. I want to always get
Speaker 3: a restart. I want to feel good in my clothes
Speaker 3: and in my body and stuff. And after the holidays
Speaker 3: it's a good time to say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 3: but my New Year's resolution is to drop these five
Speaker 3: pounds I picked up at Christmas time. And I mean
Speaker 3: because it's parties, it's everybody's house, it's it's stuff you
Speaker 3: don't normally eat, like pie and cake. I mean, you
Speaker 3: know you don't normally eat.
Speaker 1: All that stuff, stings and all kinds. Yeah, I mean, biscuits, ingrapy, yeah,
Speaker 1: you name it.
Speaker 3: I'm getting hungry, but shouldn't be doing this now. But
Speaker 3: it's one of the reasons why we all go into
Speaker 3: a new year. But this year, I really do think
Speaker 3: people are going to prioritize their health over even you know, exercising,
Speaker 3: getting way. I mean, I really feel like, yeah, health
Speaker 3: insurance is going up in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: You want to take care of yourself a big deal.
Speaker 2: So another way to look at it, it certainly is I
Speaker 2: know mine's going up, and so you're saying even the
Speaker 2: idea is you lose weight, you get fitter, you save
Speaker 2: some money on insurance. But it's already too late. You've
Speaker 2: got your annual deal. You got to just hope that
Speaker 2: you don't get sick during the year.
Speaker 3: Mabe right, save at least on the minimum balance you
Speaker 3: have to use for you know what I mean, Sure,
Speaker 3: try and take care of yourself. That's my goal is
Speaker 3: taking care of myself and putting myself one.
Speaker 2: First, I promised that I would not do this again
Speaker 2: this year. We have four days in of the year
Speaker 2: left in the month of December to twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: turning to twenty six, and this will be the I
Speaker 2: have five days then four days to get my glasses
Speaker 2: because my insurance deal you get up to a certain
Speaker 2: amount for glasses and by the way their limit whatever
Speaker 2: it is, a couple hundred bucks. I could get two pair, wow, right,
Speaker 2: but they won't let you. They want you give you
Speaker 2: one pair up to that limit. So I need to
Speaker 2: find a dirty glasses person. I'm just I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: It's just joking. I don't need anything.
Speaker 3: That's your sun glass. Get the shaded ones. Those are
Speaker 3: more expensive.
Speaker 2: So I got to get that taken care of and
Speaker 2: a few other things because I go to the eye
Speaker 2: doctor at the beginning of the year. But then I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get that prescription later. Well it's been
Speaker 2: a year and I've been swinting, so I got to
Speaker 2: get that taken care of.
Speaker 3: It's always nice to have an extra pair of glasses
Speaker 3: at our age.
Speaker 1: I mean you put in on your car. I have
Speaker 1: some of my purse. I leave them everywhere office. Yeah
Speaker 1: you need an extra pair of glasses. I have three
Speaker 1: pairs at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could use another pair in the car, one
Speaker 2: of the bag for work, whatever that goes with it.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, and this is what I don't understand.
Speaker 2: And I know we've been all over in this, but
Speaker 2: we'll get the resolutions and your chance to get interactive
Speaker 2: in just a minute. But I I regularly, if I
Speaker 2: have a good quality pair, like real glasses, I will
Speaker 2: lose those before I will the cheap pair of sunglasses.
Speaker 2: It's always the cheap stuff that I can hold on
Speaker 2: to that I do not lose the stuff.
Speaker 1: How much is that gone lost?
Speaker 2: Dropped out in the yard and hit by the mower,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're all understanding of that. That always happens. Weird.
Speaker 3: It is weird, or at least those are the ones
Speaker 3: you notice because you don't care about the five dollars
Speaker 3: ones you get at the gas station.
Speaker 1: That might be. Yeah, I kind of sit crooked. You're like,
Speaker 1: you don't even care. I just bend them back and
Speaker 1: make it work. No, look out, cool, my dog likes
Speaker 1: with these glasses. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you said something earlier, and I
Speaker 2: wanted to just call you out on it, okay, because
Speaker 2: you still have Gus, the rescue dog. Yes, and what
Speaker 2: you said in the mid well, you you didn't earlier
Speaker 2: say foster.
Speaker 3: You said my dog. Oh, well, he's still considered a foster.
Speaker 3: And I have not crossed that bridge yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just wanted to find. It was just one
Speaker 1: of these I know that that I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to make a decision here coming up soon.
Speaker 2: Gotcha resolutions? What are your plans the end of the
Speaker 2: year to the first of the year to shed your
Speaker 2: skin for the year of the horse and to make
Speaker 2: it better or otherwise. It's Sterling and Donna on a
Speaker 2: Saturday Afternoon five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight
Speaker 2: hundred the Big One. Let's get Cincinnati. Mike on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW with Sterling and Donna. D Mike, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Hey, I just I had a couple of comments. First
Speaker 5: on the fasting. It's it's incredible to do a forty
Speaker 5: eight hour fast. I've only done twenty four hours, and
Speaker 5: I actually have low blood sugar, so it's very difficult.
Speaker 5: So I just wanted to commend you on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And twenty four hours is good, Mike.
Speaker 3: The longest I've done is seventy four hours delivered. Yes,
Speaker 3: I want to get you a second day. I want
Speaker 3: to get to a seven day fast. You start hallucinating
Speaker 3: and stuff I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never gotten. But maybe.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you think about this, Donna, but
Speaker 5: strowing I want to suggest if you try it again,
Speaker 5: I actually drink juices. I allow myself to have juices
Speaker 5: in addition to cough coffee and water, and it does
Speaker 5: make a big difference. I actually feel a lot better.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you.
Speaker 1: Do that, Donna, but I haven't. But I think that
Speaker 1: that's okay.
Speaker 3: I think you can build your fast in the way
Speaker 3: that you are able to maintain it when you're diabetic.
Speaker 1: So the juices are you all know, the idea is
Speaker 1: to not eat food.
Speaker 3: The liquid fast is very very good for you to
Speaker 3: do as well.
Speaker 5: Part of the reason I think is that it just
Speaker 5: helps with electrolytes. I feel this, I would feel dehydrated,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean if I didn't have like
Speaker 5: orange juice and you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could do the liquid IV too. That's helpful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. That's true.
Speaker 5: I never heard that.
Speaker 4: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, the other thing is I just want to mention
Speaker 5: I h you know, I tend to have continuously reset
Speaker 5: goals throughout the year, so I don't for me, it's
Speaker 5: and it's when they emerge.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So I don't really have this feeling of renewal of
Speaker 5: goals myself at the beginning of the new year.
Speaker 2: You know that is that's like pressure that way, that's
Speaker 2: probably healthier in some way maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just something I'm continuously refined goals and I
Speaker 5: just you know, trying to.
Speaker 1: Get better every day. I love that, Mike. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: call and I'll let you know how the I'm not
Speaker 1: doing through two three days of fasting. Now that's a
Speaker 1: good time. I mean maybe if there's some good hallucinations
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, I don't know they're strong. I'll
Speaker 1: let you know if I get past seventy four.
Speaker 2: Send me pictures. Do you see what I see? Five
Speaker 2: point three seven nine, eight hundred The Big One? Do
Speaker 2: you have resolutions? What are you looking to kick to
Speaker 2: the curb and do new for twenty six to make
Speaker 2: your life better those around you? So many questions, a
Speaker 2: lot to do. It's a Saturday afternoon. Wherever you are,
Speaker 2: We appreciate you listening, being part of the show. It's
Speaker 2: Sterling and Donnade on seven hundred WLW nine First Warning
Speaker 2: forecast on the Big One. It's sure it's great now,
Speaker 2: but it's relatively warm. Not as warm as yesterday, not
Speaker 2: as warm as tomorrow. Will be fifty five today, near
Speaker 2: seventy tomorrow with scattered storms, and now they're saying that
Speaker 2: rain may hold off until after. Bengals Cardinals are here
Speaker 2: here on the big one tailgating good times tomorrow down
Speaker 2: by the river at a Corps one o'clock kickoff. Bengals
Speaker 2: trying to obviously win out and show that the rest
Speaker 2: of the year and all the aberration of Joe's toe
Speaker 2: and Flacco coming in and Jake Browning not being as
Speaker 2: strong as he was before all, you know, to put
Speaker 2: the ugly behind us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's everything right about doing that. By the way,
Speaker 3: go out.
Speaker 2: And strong, yeah, right to do it and maybe earn
Speaker 2: a job next year. And then, by the way, it's
Speaker 2: close to seventy tomorrow, and then Monday whiplashes back to
Speaker 2: like thirty thirty five at most Monday, and.
Speaker 3: Pold right, everybody is sick. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: The fluctuation of the weather is crazy.
Speaker 1: I can hear my Grandma Betty right now. It's pneumonia.
Speaker 2: Where to put hap ye, that's right, yeah, And the
Speaker 2: hat is where it's at, is all I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: It's fifty right now.
Speaker 2: Your severe weather station seven hundred wl W was Sterling
Speaker 2: and Donna d another Donna, but doctor Schleheg Cincinnati Kid,
Speaker 2: former head of political science at Right State. It's going
Speaker 2: to join us after the four o'clock report, so basically
Speaker 2: about forty minutes from now, give or take, and talk
Speaker 2: about the US attacks in Nigeria and what that means
Speaker 2: for the war on terror. They say it was isis
Speaker 2: and some people are saying it's really disturbing. It brought
Speaker 2: up the term holy war, which does not have any
Speaker 2: real good connotations to me, but there are people sort
Speaker 2: of cheering that on for one reason or another. So
Speaker 2: we'll see what she has to say about it and
Speaker 2: the politics of that and so much more. Ways off
Speaker 2: five won three seven four nine, seven eight hundred, the
Speaker 2: big one. We were also talking a little bit about
Speaker 2: on the road and traveling, getting where you have to
Speaker 2: go or back home, perhaps resolutions and all the other stuff,
Speaker 2: which I know is sort of tough and almost that's
Speaker 2: the same way on the other side of it, maybe
Speaker 2: getting ready for the holidays, where there's so much pressure
Speaker 2: and so much stress. But if you don't put that,
Speaker 2: even if it's private, because for the longest time I
Speaker 2: wouldn't tell anybody. I just wanted it for myself in
Speaker 2: that idea, and I think maybe there are other people
Speaker 2: like that. But some people have told me that it's
Speaker 2: not real unless you put it out there for others
Speaker 2: to be able to be aware of what you're working on.
Speaker 2: But I have had a lot of private things that.
Speaker 1: Are very real that don't have to make nobody and
Speaker 1: they don't want to know about it. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of an odd thing. But I've heard that over and
Speaker 1: over from people. If you don't say it out loud,
Speaker 1: tell people it's not real, it's not right.
Speaker 3: That is that you put it out into the universe
Speaker 3: and don't be afraid to say it.
Speaker 1: You can say it loud and proud.
Speaker 3: And I mean, like, for one thing is I was
Speaker 3: happy that the holidays were coming, and I am very
Speaker 3: happy to see them going. I am always enjoying Christmas
Speaker 3: and that kind of stuff. But like, I am so
Speaker 3: ready to start a new year always by this time,
Speaker 3: So I am saying that loud and proud. I'm ready
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of people that are friends that
Speaker 2: are on like vacation right now. They've timed it out
Speaker 2: with their kids vacation with the New Year, where it's warm.
Speaker 2: I keep getting pictures of like iguanas climbing trees and
Speaker 2: all this other stuff. How's it going on? Like it'll
Speaker 2: be almost seventy tomorrow and they're like, ha, we're at
Speaker 2: the beach.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, great, I have some of those two by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: And that's an odd thing too, because another friend of
Speaker 2: mine was saying that it didn't seem real because they
Speaker 2: had gone to Hawaii Christmas time, right, and I think
Speaker 2: they're coming back next week, And he said that it
Speaker 2: didn't even feel right because he's from here in Cincinnati
Speaker 2: and saying that the whole idea of Christmas and New
Speaker 2: Year's at a beach situation with palm trees and all
Speaker 2: the nice weather.
Speaker 1: Ever done that? I think, Yeah, I have, I have to,
Speaker 1: and there's everything right about it. Let me just tell
Speaker 1: you next Christmas. I was thinking on the way in
Speaker 1: the car on the way to the studio here that
Speaker 1: next year I'm going to be on a beach somewhere.
Speaker 3: I may even be doing a yoga retreat. I don't
Speaker 3: even know, but next year I'm going to change it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, it is a different kind of vibe.
Speaker 2: But I could sort of see. I mean, I only
Speaker 2: have one use for cold and snow and that's Christmas
Speaker 2: to yea years and we got it before, and I
Speaker 2: know there's more coming. I would have preferred it to
Speaker 2: just be this last week and you know, into next week, right,
Speaker 2: and then call it a day.
Speaker 1: Right, Bring spring, bring the reds, get it done. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants the same idea, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things. But
Speaker 2: you know, we're in Ohio, We're in Kentucky, Indiana, the
Speaker 2: Tri State.
Speaker 1: It is. You know where we are. So you just
Speaker 1: got to embrace it.
Speaker 2: Your three thirty reports straight away and up they know
Speaker 2: what's going on around planet Earth and here in the
Speaker 2: Tri State and the update also you know a lot
Speaker 2: of weird stuff happening, like Walnut Hills and things. There's
Speaker 2: about three and a half four blocks from where I
Speaker 2: used to live. It's been a while ago when we
Speaker 2: were still in Mount Adams, and there have been three
Speaker 2: or four shootings in this apartment building that I used
Speaker 2: to ride my bike bike like all the time. There
Speaker 2: is a huge difference, by the way, from one side
Speaker 2: of McMillan to the other side of McMillan is what
Speaker 2: I was told by a whole bit. They're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: but you were on the other side. I'm like, it's
Speaker 2: still disturbing, Yes, it is. Just think about that type
Speaker 2: of thing. Imagine living in that building and knowing that
Speaker 2: there's been that type of violence in that little window
Speaker 2: of time. Just I mean, in general, that's stuff going
Speaker 2: on that's not good. The news straight away. I don't
Speaker 2: mean to be the profit of doom. We'll leave that
Speaker 2: to the news. More Sterling and Donade coming back here.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful day.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a little gray, but it's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not snowing, it's not freezing rain. Travel is easy
Speaker 2: than the minivans were out to get me earlier, Donna.
Speaker 2: I don't know the consortium. They were all distracted. They're
Speaker 2: weaving in and out of lanes and everything. I was
Speaker 2: starting to think they were after me, but I got here, okay.
Speaker 2: I just thought i'd share that because a lot.
Speaker 3: I love minivans and that's gonna be my next car.
Speaker 3: I have no kids, but I love mini vans like
Speaker 3: my Space. My nephew just got a cool new minivan
Speaker 3: I saw over Christmas.
Speaker 1: Well, but they've got he's got he getting a kid.
Speaker 5: Kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got three.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, it seems like the other day you're like,
Speaker 2: his first baby's coming in here, he's got three. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, they're getting it done. So things are
Speaker 2: going well with them, and that's good. So much so
Speaker 2: they needed a minivan, right and hopefully keep it in
Speaker 2: their lane maintain your lane, which is a good adage
Speaker 2: in general for all aspects of life. But of course
Speaker 2: doing a talk show, we go anywhere we want to go.
Speaker 2: Uh so, and that leads me the healthy relationship to
Speaker 2: your nephew and the minivan brigade. Here here's the other
Speaker 2: side of that. I have come as in the news
Speaker 2: passively because I don't I'm not really one who's always
Speaker 2: like looking at people online or whatever and celebrity stuff.
Speaker 2: But people do, and apparently it's in the water divorce
Speaker 2: and breakups, and it seems to be a seasonal thing.
Speaker 2: So I'm just kind of I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a year end thing because of taxes, or if it's
Speaker 2: like a new beginning thing.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the shedding of the skin in the Year
Speaker 1: the Snake.
Speaker 3: This was twenty twenty five, was the Year of the Snake,
Speaker 3: and we did see a lot of breakups. Now, I
Speaker 3: used to do a Hollywood Report Entertainment Report all the time,
Speaker 3: so I kind of for years and years and years,
Speaker 3: I just kind of follow this stuff. Not religiously, but
Speaker 3: I do follow it. But you know, Nicole Kidman and
Speaker 3: Keith Urban, they're the big ones that broke up this year,
Speaker 3: But there have been a lot of celebrity breakups. Katie
Speaker 3: Perry and Orlando Bloom and now she's dating do you know, No,
Speaker 3: it's the guy from Canada. Just intrudeaux, Yeah, how does
Speaker 3: that happen? By the way, no idea is she a Canadian?
Speaker 1: A Canuck think she is?
Speaker 2: So they just crossed I mean, because I mean I'm
Speaker 2: out and about. I don't cross paths with like people
Speaker 2: like that. Not that I would watch, but I'm just saying, well,
Speaker 2: it's very odd.
Speaker 3: Well, she's a celebrity, and I'm sure you know everybody
Speaker 3: I don't know one hundred percent get her music. But
Speaker 3: I'm not a twelve year old girl, so I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not exactly her demo Jessica Alba and her husband
Speaker 3: Cash Warren. They they are getting a divorced Denise Richard
Speaker 3: and Denise Richards and Aaron Phifersers are, however.
Speaker 2: Not a Kai Fifer. No, and she is the same
Speaker 2: one who was married to Charlie Sheen correctly. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: she's really the problem. Well, I mean, I mean he's
Speaker 2: had his problems, right.
Speaker 3: It's been pretty public, and he's talking about how she's
Speaker 3: kind of a hoarder, and he did even a video
Speaker 3: of her their house and where she just just a mess.
Speaker 3: And if I could never, ever ever live with somebody
Speaker 3: like that, ever, that would be a deal breaker immediately
Speaker 3: you have stuff everywhere. No, that would drive me. I'm
Speaker 3: a minimalist. I don't even like a bunch of stuff around.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been shedding stuff for quite a while, trying
Speaker 2: to lighten my low.
Speaker 1: But it feels good to do it. Really does want
Speaker 1: me to finish this, Yeah, I wish you would, Okay.
Speaker 1: Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fisher. And she shed
Speaker 1: a lot of pounds too, holy smokes. Well, Amy Schumer
Speaker 1: is now so skinny. If you've seen pictures on the
Speaker 1: skinny Madison, here's a good one for you.
Speaker 3: Sidney Sweeney getting broken up with her boyfriend Jonathan to.
Speaker 2: Just a temporary rebound, come visit, get out of town.
Speaker 3: Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson, her husband, they broke up
Speaker 3: this year, not the music player, a musician, Eric Johnson,
Speaker 3: no different, Eric Johnson, who knows they were Ri Laughlin
Speaker 3: and Massimo Gianewly. They broke up.
Speaker 1: And she's one of those that were trying to.
Speaker 3: K a lot of breakups this year. I told you
Speaker 3: I had one, my sister had one. A lot of
Speaker 3: people are just shedding those relationships that no longer work,
Speaker 3: and you know, when you're away from it, like now
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit more away from it, I can see, Wow,
Speaker 3: that really was not working at all. And it's so
Speaker 3: important to, yeah, take a moment, view what you just
Speaker 3: went through, or view the person that you're with, and
Speaker 3: at the very minimum, because it doesn't mean just because
Speaker 3: it's not working now doesn't mean it's not ever going
Speaker 3: to work. But at least say, hey, what's going on
Speaker 3: now is not working, so let's take some space for
Speaker 3: a minute and see if we can get back together
Speaker 3: and regroup.
Speaker 2: That's always really important to do well. I think it
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And the other thing that
Speaker 2: goes along with that, which I hadn't thought much of.
Speaker 2: And I had a couple of people who messaged in
Speaker 2: friends that are lawyers. Apparently it's a good business the year.
Speaker 1: At this this big business.
Speaker 2: The people wait, big business wait till the end of
Speaker 2: the holiday. I guess too, right, that's kind of people
Speaker 2: will wait for their kids to get out of school
Speaker 2: sometimes so it's not traumatic, which I don't know how
Speaker 2: healthy that is, but I've seen that time and time again.
Speaker 2: But the year end, is it about hey, new beginnings,
Speaker 2: or they've had enough. They got through another stressful holiday
Speaker 2: season and they're like, I've had enough of this crap.
Speaker 2: I know, even if it cost me half, I'm done
Speaker 2: or how I mean, that's an odd thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Because luckily, because I was married for a while with
Speaker 3: my ex husband for almost twenty years together young.
Speaker 1: We were young. I was twenty four, he was twenty two.
Speaker 3: But we never had kids, so our divorce was not
Speaker 3: messy at all, and we're still friends. Even that's good
Speaker 3: because yeah, we just decided that, hey, you go your way,
Speaker 3: I'll go mine.
Speaker 2: So I want to ask him, this is a weird thing.
Speaker 2: So some people I know and they were married, separated, divorced,
Speaker 2: still in the same place in the house, and each
Speaker 2: of them now are with someone new and they're sharing
Speaker 2: the space.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's hard. That's weird right. Well, my ex.
Speaker 3: Husband and I started dating other people.
Speaker 1: In the same house. No, no, no, but we would all
Speaker 1: four go have dinner together. We were all friends, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of okay.
Speaker 3: But sharing the same house, no, that would be that
Speaker 3: would be too hard for me. Some people can do it, though,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, however, however you can handle, I
Speaker 3: handle something.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's how much of it is. I
Speaker 2: wasn't going to get into their business when I was
Speaker 2: hearing about it, but I was interested immediately.
Speaker 1: I'm like, really, how does that work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm like, I can't imagine it if everybody
Speaker 2: it's amicable when you were like, hey, this isn't working
Speaker 2: and we're friends, better friends than maybe, But I mean,
Speaker 2: how much of that is? Hey, we we have a
Speaker 2: house we have to worry about, or release we have
Speaker 2: to worry about, and it's costly.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's part of it. I mean, it would
Speaker 1: have to be part of it otherwise why.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's some weird sisters kind of strange scenario, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know that that's a whole other
Speaker 2: layer of weirdness that sort of goes with that, which
Speaker 2: I think is kind of odd. Five point three seven
Speaker 2: four nine seven eight hundred, the big one. And if
Speaker 2: you've been through a year end kind of divorced separation thing,
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of that is an it's a difficult thing,
Speaker 2: and I'm wading through the holidays. If you have kids,
Speaker 2: is it better, well, well, at least they had a
Speaker 2: nice Christmas. The new year they can start and be
Speaker 2: messed up in the head, or I mean, if the
Speaker 2: kids are out of the house. I've seen this, so
Speaker 2: they're out of like out of high school, so you
Speaker 2: figure they're going to college or something else. They're grown enough.
Speaker 2: But I mean I've been surprised on more than one
Speaker 2: occasion where something like that's come up, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I had no idea. They seem like the perfect couple scenario.
Speaker 2: But I guess you can hide anything.
Speaker 3: Well, and you know, my advice would be to try
Speaker 3: everything that you possibly can do to fix the relationship
Speaker 3: all all the time. People always think not all the
Speaker 3: time I'm saying this, the grass is greener, and it's
Speaker 3: not always the case. So if you if it's just
Speaker 3: little tiny things that are bothering you, maybe you can
Speaker 3: figure it out.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 3: The therapy really helps for couples. That's a doctor Wess
Speaker 3: and I. That's what we do our Saturday night show
Speaker 3: on when he comes on with me is we talk
Speaker 3: about things that can support you and how to help you,
Speaker 3: and how to work on your marriage and how to
Speaker 3: work on your partnership.
Speaker 1: But it's not always easy, and it takes two to
Speaker 1: fix things as well as it does break things. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: and good at breaking stuff.
Speaker 2: They say that the divorce rates around the fifth, fifth,
Speaker 2: and the fifteenth and twentieth years.
Speaker 1: That's when they peak.
Speaker 2: They say conflict, negative interaction patterns, irreconcilable differences. That's I
Speaker 2: guess that excuse for everything or whatever. And you get
Speaker 2: when you get to the point that.
Speaker 1: Again the fifth around the fifth, fifth year, fifteenth and
Speaker 1: the twentieth years. Okay, wow, And what was that they
Speaker 1: made a movie about it? I remember it's an old
Speaker 1: movie with a seven year itch or something. That's what
Speaker 1: I was going to say.
Speaker 3: It's the seven year Rich and I know several people
Speaker 3: that got divorced on the seven year rich that's interesting
Speaker 3: five point fifteen and twenty.
Speaker 2: Right, if you can believe the internet, financial stress, that's
Speaker 2: usually the number one thing, right, other than like infidelity
Speaker 2: or incompatibility when it comes.
Speaker 3: To No, I don't think it is at all. I
Speaker 3: don't think it's money, Nope, I do not. I think
Speaker 3: it is lack of communication and lack of care. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So if somebody is coming in, this is the four
Speaker 3: horsemen stone walling, which is you know, if someone is
Speaker 3: basically trying to talk, If I'm trying to talk to
Speaker 3: you and you're just looking at your phone, how who
Speaker 3: would want to be with somebody like that. You have
Speaker 3: to really show that you care and that love is
Speaker 3: in action, So you have to choose love over anything
Speaker 3: else all the time. And if you only have one
Speaker 3: person that's doing that. That's what I think is the
Speaker 3: number one reason for divorce. Critic is defensiveness. I mean
Speaker 3: eye rolling is is a.
Speaker 2: Really I'm just acting these things exactly. We're out on
Speaker 2: camera at the moment, but in the future you never know.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things. All those things you say
Speaker 2: makes sense. They say also lack of a family support
Speaker 2: and backing when it comes to that will lead to
Speaker 2: a divorce, you know, increased percentages of that because I
Speaker 2: guess that you know each side of the families, like
Speaker 2: you know, I don't like him anyway, or I don't
Speaker 2: like her.
Speaker 1: I never liked that person from to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is kind of and people, it's weird. I've
Speaker 2: had friends, But why didn't you say anything? I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: it was fairly clear. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to interfere. When you're telling me that
Speaker 2: you're absolutely happy. I say, you're sure, this is what
Speaker 2: you want to do. Why you turn this on me?
Speaker 2: That's your marriage that we're just drinking beers.
Speaker 3: Now, I did say I did have somebody tell me that.
Speaker 3: If somebody, anybody would have said to him, don't do it,
Speaker 3: don't marry her, he would have walked on there on
Speaker 3: his wedding day.
Speaker 2: If you're so desperate, though, hoping that someone's going to
Speaker 2: tell you to validate your exactly you already know, but
Speaker 2: I've been guilty, not of that part. But you're kind
Speaker 2: of like, uh, you feel it in your gut and
Speaker 2: you kind of know, but you want to believe. You
Speaker 2: want to believe that it's going to get better, that
Speaker 2: you're wrong, that something's going to change, and it often doesn't.
Speaker 3: It's called outsourcing your safety. You're you're relying on this person.
Speaker 3: You'd rather feel safe with the wrong person than be
Speaker 3: alone and scared with you by yourself.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I am so good to be alone though,
Speaker 2: I mean there's an only child.
Speaker 1: I'm too good at it. I really am. That's your problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my issue. It really is. You get along with everybody. No,
Speaker 1: I can't even get along with me, but I can't
Speaker 1: get away from myself. It's terrible, and I have tried.
Speaker 1: Believe me. That's an odd one.
Speaker 3: It's not sharing is not your issue because you always
Speaker 3: give me your crackers and all kinds of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I share, I give a lot. I just.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: But this is something I'm learning on another level.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to talk about this in detail tonight
Speaker 3: from nine to midnight. The outsourcing of your safety. I
Speaker 3: mean there are people that I have done. You know,
Speaker 3: I have a twin sister who's real important to me,
Speaker 3: and she's like my best friend, and we're very, very close.
Speaker 1: But I have seen where I have. You know, she's
Speaker 1: been my security blank and my safety, my everything, and
Speaker 1: you know when when that changes, like for instance, she
Speaker 1: has a new boyfriend now that she absolutely loves. When
Speaker 1: that changes, I've had to change and look at and
Speaker 1: go inward and go deeper into figuring out that, hey,
Speaker 1: not every emotional need should come from one relationship. I
Speaker 1: really remely sister or not.
Speaker 3: Kids Kids are a big thing for parents, like I
Speaker 3: have my two kids and that's all I need. Well, No,
Speaker 3: you have to really give yourself. You have to be
Speaker 3: your own, your own father, your own sister, your own daughter.
Speaker 2: You have distress. You just made me nervous hearing that.
Speaker 2: Why my own sister, my own brother, my own you do?
Speaker 1: You have to have your own back.
Speaker 3: And that comes from digging deep, that's what that's where
Speaker 3: that comes from. And it doesn't mean that you should
Speaker 3: not have these relationships.
Speaker 1: You should. You can't do it alone. You just shouldn't
Speaker 1: rely on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we find ourselves sometimes in that where you
Speaker 2: do become dependent in some fashion with any type of
Speaker 2: partnership or relationship kind of scenario, whether it's a familiar
Speaker 2: thing or it's a it's a relationship, intimate partner kind
Speaker 2: of scenario, husband, white boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever.
Speaker 3: And that's why people take things that they wouldn't normally take,
Speaker 3: or say the things that they want to say but
Speaker 3: don't because they don't want to, you know, have any
Speaker 3: dust up and have to figure that out because that's
Speaker 3: kind of a mess. But it's important to make sure
Speaker 3: that you do the work and you have your own back.
Speaker 3: That's when you can stand strong in a relationship.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to end on your own. We're digging deep
Speaker 1: and digging deep. I didn't even know we were going
Speaker 1: into this doctor's orders.
Speaker 2: It's a Saturday afternoon Stirling and Donna d seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Sterling and Donna de hanging out, beautiful Saturday afternoon, seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Mister Waddell keeping us online.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like we're hanging around in France,
Speaker 2: maybe drinking some wine and baguettes or something like that,
Speaker 2: you know, hanging out. I did kind of have that vine.
Speaker 2: I kind of was taken away someplace else. Speaking of
Speaker 2: taking away. Conversation with doctor Donna schlike coming up after
Speaker 2: four o'clock about the US strikes in Nigeria, some people
Speaker 2: are saying that this is maybe feeding into some of
Speaker 2: what others are, like the people that are attacking Christians
Speaker 2: and elsewhere call it like a holy worse scenario, and
Speaker 2: us doing it on Christmas could have maybe taken it
Speaker 2: to another level. We would hope that that's not the case,
Speaker 2: but we'll take some time and talk to doctor Schleck
Speaker 2: about that. And also the Epstein files, which just won't
Speaker 2: go away as is. It seems like another bit of
Speaker 2: information in an accusation of Tyler Perry and another sexual
Speaker 2: assault lawsuit scenario two another actor accusing Tyler Perry, which
Speaker 2: is weird. It's like the me too things come back
Speaker 2: around or whatever. And then the Epstein files won't go
Speaker 2: away either.
Speaker 1: So that's he keeps hearing stuff about Tyler Perry.
Speaker 3: It's like once every four months something somebody's coming up
Speaker 3: with Tyler Perry.
Speaker 2: It's the first I've heard about it. I mean, maybe
Speaker 2: it happened and I just overlooked it or something. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what a new movie means.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the.
Speaker 3: Same guy I just saw that. There's accusations again, but
Speaker 3: would be a different person.
Speaker 1: I would think, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Would think multiple lawsuits would maybe be a bit of
Speaker 2: a stretch. It's kind of a kind of an odd thing,
Speaker 2: I think, just generally. But we'll see exactly what that
Speaker 2: means and what goes along with that. Bengals at home,
Speaker 2: two games left at pegor got Browns to close out
Speaker 2: the season. But tomorrow one o'clock kickoff the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 2: in town. And it would be almost better if it
Speaker 2: were holder for the Bengals to take on the kids
Speaker 2: from And I say the kids hear me from like
Speaker 2: they're coming from Arizona. They don't understand the Ohio cold.
Speaker 2: But it's going to be near seventy, so yeah, it's
Speaker 2: not going to.
Speaker 3: Be It'll be nice to go to the game, though,
Speaker 3: when it's six inches of snow sitting in the seats.
Speaker 1: That's correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a whole big thing for a lot
Speaker 2: of people trying to dig out of that a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. That was some ugliness or whatever. And
Speaker 2: I don't know how they pulled that off anyway, And
Speaker 2: there was some talk about it hadn't been handled or whatever.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for the call. I was ready with
Speaker 2: the shovel. I was here anyway.
Speaker 1: I was ready. We could have never gone down to
Speaker 1: pay corn. It was crazy eight inches and more. Snow
Speaker 1: very different right now.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's almost like spring or something. I don't know
Speaker 2: what this is. It's just whiplash and ugliness. It's it's
Speaker 2: kind of weird to go along with that. A lot
Speaker 2: of people heading home and you know, getting ready for
Speaker 2: I guess the New Year's celebration. Back from traveling and everything,
Speaker 2: So just be careful out there. Lot of traffic and apparently,
Speaker 2: which I find is somewhat surprising, but I guess you
Speaker 2: have to come home at some point. This is supposed
Speaker 2: to be the busiest flying day of the holiday season
Speaker 2: because I guess a lot of people come home today
Speaker 2: or tomorrow, and then of course you have a day
Speaker 2: to sort of get it together before you hit back
Speaker 2: to work for another short week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's only going to be like everyone's gonna be
Speaker 3: off Wednesday and Thursday, New Year's even New Year's Day,
Speaker 3: so yeah, short week.
Speaker 1: If you were smart, take that whole week off, right,
Speaker 1: learn that vacation. But I mean, you know, it's also
Speaker 1: nice to get back and do some things in your
Speaker 1: house and get caught up. Yeah, that's what everybody's doing.
Speaker 2: Clean it up, get rid of that dry tree. That's
Speaker 2: a fire hazard. That I still have a hard time
Speaker 2: believing that, back in the day before electricity was available
Speaker 2: to the masses, that they would take a live tree,
Speaker 2: cut it, bring it into the house and then put
Speaker 2: candles on. I mean, it's just right there in itself
Speaker 2: is a description of like bad outcomes. I'm like, did
Speaker 2: no one have an idea that this was a problem?
Speaker 2: So LED lights are much better? Yes, yeah, so do that.
Speaker 2: I saw a neighbor ed and they have like all
Speaker 2: kinds of trees. They have like a pseudo Christmas trees
Speaker 2: in the yard which they decorate. And I know they
Speaker 2: have multiple trees in the house, some fake and some real.
Speaker 2: They had one dead when they already had at the curb.
Speaker 2: But he said, no, no, we've watered the others. We're
Speaker 2: in good shape. He says, you can come in and
Speaker 2: take a look around. I'm like, it's all right. I
Speaker 2: don't need to go to the Christmas Museum right now.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people doing that, And I was like,
Speaker 2: so what about the lights. He goes, Oh, they'll they'll
Speaker 2: stay at least until the week after New Year's Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: What most people in my neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 3: I mean you would think right after New Year's everybody
Speaker 3: takes everything down, But no, they'll keep those lights up
Speaker 3: in those inflatables and all that stuff. And I'm fine,
Speaker 3: I don't either. I don't mind it. Some of them
Speaker 3: have really pretty lights up in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there are a couple of people. I mean,
Speaker 1: they do some really crazy light shows and everything else,
Speaker 1: and I'd rather them do the work and then I
Speaker 1: can just ride through and go look at and then
Speaker 1: I can go home and not have to worry about
Speaker 1: Are you going out New Year's Eve this year? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be doing this, That's right, you are virtually.
Speaker 2: If not, yeah, we'll do a bigger a New Year's celebration.
Speaker 3: So I'll call in, But I'm having a New Year's
Speaker 3: Eve party at my house.
Speaker 2: We have to hydrate, got to hydrate, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: be late four o'clock. Report straight away, the latest on
Speaker 2: Nigeria attacks, and so much more. Sterling Donnade where the
Speaker 2: Bengals play, because it's the home of the best Bengals
Speaker 2: coverage seven hundred double l W Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2: It's beautiful Saturday afternoon, Sterling and donnade hanging out. I
Speaker 2: know it's overcast, like beautiful really well, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's not freezing cold. It's not the you know, precipitation
Speaker 2: piling up and drove, So yeah, I and tomorrow it's
Speaker 2: going to be in your seventy in the Bengals day,
Speaker 2: So I mean, enjoy it before Monday and then you
Speaker 2: get like a Necke thirty. Yeah, it's ridiculous. A lot
Speaker 2: of stuff in the news. Former head of political science
Speaker 2: at right State Cincinnati kid Now, Professor Meridith. She was
Speaker 2: the head of political science at right Now, doctor Donnas
Speaker 2: Schleck was Stirling and Donadee on the Big One.
Speaker 1: How are you? How's Christmas time? New Year's and all
Speaker 1: you're doing?
Speaker 7: Okay, the family food football fun fest continues.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, we appreciate you taking a break from that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that covers all the basis. I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 2: I wish I had a cocktail right about now. Is
Speaker 2: some odd stuff in the news, or maybe not odd,
Speaker 2: but some of the reports and comments people of Maine
Speaker 2: about it have taken it to another level where my
Speaker 2: mind started thinking a little bit differently. So we reached
Speaker 2: out to you in the news about US strikes in
Speaker 2: Nigeria against ISIS, as it's been reported, apparently going after
Speaker 2: Christians and other groups, not just really focusing on Christians.
Speaker 2: But the President said that he waited, he could have
Speaker 2: gone earlier, but decided to actually hit them on Christmas.
Speaker 2: I guess to make a point. What has been talked about,
Speaker 2: and what I've read is that people are saying that
Speaker 2: this is sort of feeding into that whole Zealot men
Speaker 2: and a holy war mindset of it being a god
Speaker 2: thing rather than just a violence thing. How legitimate is
Speaker 2: that concern? And what does that mean for us moving
Speaker 2: forward domestically?
Speaker 7: Wow's who thought we'd be talking about Africa and Venezuela
Speaker 7: and possible military strength around it IS And hello there, donnas.
Speaker 7: We're in the holiday spirit and and and of course
Speaker 7: you know, Americans have been hearing about these kidnappings going
Speaker 7: back probably ten years because of ISIS in Nigeria, Muslims
Speaker 7: are are kidnapped as well. A lot of it's for ransom,
Speaker 7: so a lot of it is just gangs. But there
Speaker 7: are a couple of things happening in Nigeria that you know,
Speaker 7: I'm interested in terrorism on a global basis, and in
Speaker 7: Nigeria we have cut our foreign aid and but now
Speaker 7: we've come to try to punish ISIS with the with
Speaker 7: the approval of the Nigerian head of state. So this
Speaker 7: was not over their objections. They do not have good
Speaker 7: control of the perimeter of their country. They're threatened by ISIS.
Speaker 7: You know, the gift that keeps on giving Maalia, Yemen
Speaker 7: and Boko Haram definitely homegrown, but very fundamentalists. Boko Haram
Speaker 7: means books are forbidden, so it tells you something about
Speaker 7: you know, just how violent they're going to be. And
Speaker 7: most of the abductions people have come home. The one
Speaker 7: a few years ago where they took two hundred girls
Speaker 7: took a long time to ransom them out. But we've
Speaker 7: cut our foreign aid to Nigeria and yet we've exerted
Speaker 7: ourselves in this way. We fired quite a few of ambassadors,
Speaker 7: foreign service officers who've been staffing up jobs in Africa
Speaker 7: and Asia. So from a foreign policy perspective, the signal
Speaker 7: seems to be terrorism will not go away, even if
Speaker 7: we're going to call it narco dotacantes. You know, in
Speaker 7: the Caribbean, ISIS continues and we've also been bombing a
Speaker 7: lot of sights in Syria to punish ISIS for the
Speaker 7: killing of the three Americans. We've taken our troops down
Speaker 7: to one thousand in Syria. So it's very complicated and
Speaker 7: extremely tricky for our military. These Tomahawk strikes have come,
Speaker 7: you know, if their standoff, they're from a great distance.
Speaker 7: We're not sending in you know, bombers from the air force.
Speaker 7: But terrorism simply will not go away. And I guess
Speaker 7: what worries me most about Nigeria, big country, great oil wealth,
Speaker 7: is the problem that they don't control a lot of
Speaker 7: their country. And ISIS has apparently been helping get people
Speaker 7: organized more effectively. Different gangs now working together, larger scale abductions,
Speaker 7: they find a way to insinuate themselves into, you know,
Speaker 7: the local conflicts, and it is both a Christian and
Speaker 7: a Muslim country, very complicated picture. We cannot take our
Speaker 7: eye off Africa. And perhaps it's the oil that has
Speaker 7: drawn President Trump's attention, and of course the attacks on
Speaker 7: the Christian community. But you were correct, it's not been
Speaker 7: an exclusively anti Christian campaign. I think it's important to
Speaker 7: point that out. And a lot of it is just
Speaker 7: gang related abductions for money. But that tells us something
Speaker 7: else where does isis do well in states that are failing,
Speaker 7: States that are weak, states that cannot police their territory
Speaker 7: and protect their people from violence. The more you know
Speaker 7: a state approaches failure, the less control and order you
Speaker 7: will find, which is what troubles me most about the
Speaker 7: path we're on with Venezuela right now. So that being said,
Speaker 7: I'm in the holiday spirit or analysis.
Speaker 3: So doctor Donna, there's a lot in there. What would
Speaker 3: you suggest we do in in terms of handling it
Speaker 3: instead of bombing? And you know, Sterling, I agree, it
Speaker 3: creates more zealots, It creates more people that might want
Speaker 3: to just harm anybody that has anything to do with
Speaker 3: the United States because we're bombing over there?
Speaker 1: What what? What? What should we be doing instead of
Speaker 1: creating this possible hold.
Speaker 7: Over Such a thoughtful way to appreciate it. I think
Speaker 7: it's important to remember we're dealing with an ideology here,
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, and real social and economic problems
Speaker 7: that these societies are facing. Under President John Kennedy, there
Speaker 7: was the idea of perhaps hearts and minds, perhaps Foreign
Speaker 7: aid and Peace Corps projects doing things like digging wells
Speaker 7: and you know, bringing vaccines for public health. So we've
Speaker 7: figured out what to do, but it's long, it's slow,
Speaker 7: and it takes sustained investments, and many Americans are increasingly
Speaker 7: hostile towards foreign aid, which they mistakenly think is some
Speaker 7: huge component of our national budget. Right it's about a
Speaker 7: quarter of one percent. That's how little it is, and
Speaker 7: yet how much good it can do. To speak to Donna,
Speaker 7: the conditions that people are experiencing and the way some
Speaker 7: political groups, religious groups can you recruit them into political violence.
Speaker 7: We designed alternatives. But the thing that happened, you know,
Speaker 7: six months ago, was we cut foreign aid, particularly in
Speaker 7: the public health, women's health, children's health categories, HIV meds,
Speaker 7: those sorts of things. Again, if it's hearts and minds
Speaker 7: that that that you know, you're you're concerned about. Food aid,
Speaker 7: of course, has been cut in terrible places like Sudan
Speaker 7: and dark For.
Speaker 2: Doctor donas Schlike, by the way, is with us. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to I want to reintroduce her. She's the former
Speaker 2: head of political science at right stage, she's not Professor
Speaker 2: Meretith Cincinnati kid with Sterling and donnade on the big one.
Speaker 2: American soft power is sort of what you're alluding to
Speaker 2: in a different way to going about winning friends and
Speaker 2: influencing people and hopefully avoiding the desperation and those cracks
Speaker 2: in a society that can turn people more violent and aggressive,
Speaker 2: whether to us or their neighbors much closer. I don't
Speaker 2: have a problem with US bombing from a distance rather
Speaker 2: than boots on the ground, as long as we know
Speaker 2: that we're getting the right enemy, uh, and not creating
Speaker 2: people who are going to be against us because of
Speaker 2: collateral damage for one of a better way to describe it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: By the way, doctor Donna Schlike published the first textbook
Speaker 2: on terrorism, so she knows a thing or two about this.
Speaker 2: I'm curious in relation to this and dealing with the
Speaker 2: footprint that Russia had been making inroads and certainly China
Speaker 2: in Africa as well. When there is chaos, when there
Speaker 2: is turmoil, when there is a vacuum, when we are
Speaker 2: not involved, does that not aside from the economic issue
Speaker 2: of this, is they have tried to expand their footprint
Speaker 2: there in other parts of the world. That makes us
Speaker 2: more vulnerable too. So there is a fine line to
Speaker 2: walk with budget as well as keeping us safe in
Speaker 2: our interest elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 7: The Russians, of course, sponsor a number of militias that
Speaker 7: are now reportedly committing the worst atrocities of atrocities in
Speaker 7: Sudan in the Darfur region. Chinese build, you know, their
Speaker 7: bridges and roads. It's a global project to build bridges
Speaker 7: and roads, get more trade coming to China, and build friends.
Speaker 7: So in very different ways, they are definitely playing to
Speaker 7: their strength and exerting their influence. But this part of
Speaker 7: the world, whether you're interested in energy, I know the
Speaker 7: White House policy on Syria hasn't mentioned that the strikes
Speaker 7: in Syria were done with the, if not informed, consent
Speaker 7: of the Syrian government. My guess is we're on better
Speaker 7: relations now with them in trying to combat ISIS. But
Speaker 7: as Americans, we know the lesson. When you have a
Speaker 7: deep political, social, economic grievance that's bubbling up, there's probably
Speaker 7: not a long term, good military solution to those problems.
Speaker 7: And that's the frustration. We have great military tools, but
Speaker 7: the tools we may need to speak to this ideological threat,
Speaker 7: whether it's Syria or Nigeria or even potentially in the Caribbean,
Speaker 7: it's long It takes time, it takes resources. It takes
Speaker 7: a lot of great people willing to volunteer two or
Speaker 7: three or five years. Uh, you know, after college to
Speaker 7: work in these developing countries and make a difference in
Speaker 7: their lives and what they think about the United States.
Speaker 7: We don't tell those stories often enough. You know, the
Speaker 7: Voice of America operated for so long and in our
Speaker 7: part of the country that outreach America first doesn't mean
Speaker 7: America alone. In fact, it can't. When you have, you know,
Speaker 7: a great economy and far flung interest you're going to
Speaker 7: have global interests and concerns national security, economic, public health.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, the list goes on, and it really struck
Speaker 7: me then as well, and in particularly Nigeria. We cannot
Speaker 7: divert resources away from the concern of the threat of terrorism.
Speaker 7: We cannot h and many resources right now in national
Speaker 7: security apparatus are being diverted because of the asis on immigration.
Speaker 7: This is not good and these should be red flags
Speaker 7: to the public. You know, we cannot take our eyes
Speaker 7: off that threat.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 7: I was just gonna say. The Christian community in particular, though,
Speaker 7: that must have struck quite a painful cord in in
Speaker 7: the White House because they responded much faster to that
Speaker 7: than they even did taking retribution for the three American servicemen,
Speaker 7: the National Guardsmen from Iowa who were on duty in
Speaker 7: Syria who were killed assassinated by a sniper. So this
Speaker 7: problem will not go away. But knowledge is power and
Speaker 7: knowing how to choose the correct path of response. Terrorism
Speaker 7: terrorists always want to provoke an overreaction every time, if possible,
Speaker 7: with as much publicity as they can possibly acquire. What
Speaker 7: we're not hearing this Christmas is another mass attack in
Speaker 7: a Christmas fair because most of them have been closed
Speaker 7: to vehicle traffic, particularly across Europe. So they pick the
Speaker 7: vulnerable targets. What will people pay attention to, what will
Speaker 7: they care about? And in this case it was that small.
Speaker 7: It's a minority population, but it's a significant population in
Speaker 7: Nigeria and President Trump has clearly ordered retaliation. Did they
Speaker 7: hit the right villages? How much of the isis vocalha
Speaker 7: RAM infrastructure is gone. I doubt we're going to hear
Speaker 7: much of an after action report in that regard.
Speaker 2: Well, it tends to just sort of bubble up like fungus,
Speaker 2: you know, when the lights are out and the conditions
Speaker 2: are correct, it just pops up for a multitude of reasons,
Speaker 2: and then you know, it becomes that lone wol for
Speaker 2: someone who's been activated in some way because they, you know,
Speaker 2: feel that they have been drawn into this in some
Speaker 2: fashion too. And we've seen that lunatics of American persuasion
Speaker 2: here too over the years and in recent months for
Speaker 2: that matter as well. It's startling and Donna de with
Speaker 2: doctor Donashchleg former head of political science at Right State,
Speaker 2: if we can shift gears in a short amount of
Speaker 2: time here something else that has been in the news
Speaker 2: that has been drip drip, drip, drip drip, with tons
Speaker 2: of information that has been redacted in pictures and some
Speaker 2: videos that were posted then pulled back. And then the
Speaker 2: talk of targeting, say Democrats because it's embarrassing to them
Speaker 2: or maybe maybe eve embarrassing to President Trump in some
Speaker 2: fashion with this, What is going on with the Epstein files,
Speaker 2: and what really is the endgame with this that you
Speaker 2: think will come of it, if anything, because it really
Speaker 2: is less of a legal thing in some ways and
Speaker 2: more of a political thing that it is being dealt
Speaker 2: with by the White House, and for those victims at
Speaker 2: this point too, sadly.
Speaker 7: Sadly, and I'm grateful that you mentioned the victims because
Speaker 7: they are so deeply frustrated by this process, and many
Speaker 7: of them are still, you know, unable to speak specifically
Speaker 7: about their accusers, well their abusers. So again, who's been protected?
Speaker 7: You know why the slow walk this will not go away.
Speaker 7: It will probably be the one thing that the Trump
Speaker 7: second presidency, the administration will look at is they have
Speaker 7: not managed the messaging on Epstein. They are always behind
Speaker 7: the curve, and I we can call it a democratic hoax,
Speaker 7: which is what he's now calling it. But obviously this
Speaker 7: goes this has been going on for years. The reaction
Speaker 7: right now, I don't know if some of the victims,
Speaker 7: some of the survivors will be speaking out out of frustration.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: They might be given a protected venue in which to
Speaker 7: do that with Congress. But public interest is not going away.
Speaker 7: The FBI clearly has an all hands on deck situation
Speaker 7: to try to redact these documents. But I'm dumbfounded by
Speaker 7: the scale of a million more documents, And like you
Speaker 7: and Donna, I wonder and what else after that? I mean,
Speaker 7: how will we know? So the process has completely broken down?
Speaker 7: Congress put no penalty in the law that they passed requiring,
Speaker 7: you know, the distribution of the documents by the nineteenth.
Speaker 7: That deadline has already passed. Some of the representatives are
Speaker 7: talking about, you know, a motion of impeachment of the
Speaker 7: Attorney General. I'm not sure what that will accomplish. Frustration
Speaker 7: is not it's simply not going away. And I don't
Speaker 7: know what else the administration can do besides to publish.
Speaker 7: It's going to be a massive set of documents, and
Speaker 7: we're going to miss more names. You know, while people
Speaker 7: who've been ye survived and privacy has been perfected, a
Speaker 7: couple of those have already been revealed as well.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, that's that's what I was going to say,
Speaker 3: doctor donnad. The victims have really moved this along. The
Speaker 3: survivors is what I would call them, survivors, and they've
Speaker 3: literally said, we don't care. We don't care if our
Speaker 3: names are out, we don't care. We want this public.
Speaker 3: We want everyone to know who these people are. And
Speaker 3: so do you think the only thing that can happen
Speaker 3: is that they start naming names?
Speaker 1: And how would that play out?
Speaker 7: Then we have the overwhelming news story of the new year.
Speaker 7: I think there are an ample number of members in
Speaker 7: Congress once they come back into session, and of course
Speaker 7: calling them back into session will be another interesting exercise
Speaker 7: at the start of the year. Then we immediately go
Speaker 7: into another budget crisis too. So on top of the
Speaker 7: thing document.
Speaker 1: File, doctor Schleck, say six, Donna just said. Donna d
Speaker 1: said that it was everything was going to get better
Speaker 1: in twenty six and what you've laid out there is
Speaker 1: another year of just what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, wow.
Speaker 7: Say exactly when in twenty six?
Speaker 1: Right, it could be the second.
Speaker 2: Well, I am feeling so much better about nothing now,
Speaker 2: So that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Donna gives it to a straight That's why we here.
Speaker 1: We can respect it sometimes I don't mind being lied to.
Speaker 2: Actually, doctor Donna schleg former head of political science at
Speaker 2: right State, now Professor Meredith.
Speaker 1: She is a Cincinnati kid.
Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing your knowledge base and your insights
Speaker 2: and perspectives to the air.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it as always. Have a great new year.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Happy new year, view and Donna.
Speaker 1: Thank you, doctor Donna. You feel better?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean she always you know, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 3: always lovely to talk to her, but it's tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, your four third reports coming up, fast and furious.
Speaker 2: It's a Saturday afternoon, Sterling Donna d together again here
Speaker 2: the Nation station seven hundred wulw man. The road's busy,
Speaker 2: airport's busy. Warm is here warmer still tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: the cold returns. Bengals, Cardinals, one o'clock pay Corps and
Speaker 2: here on seven hundred w welw on your Sunday. In
Speaker 2: the meantime at Sterling and Donna d hanging out, a
Speaker 2: lot of people returning home from over the hills and
Speaker 2: far away to grandma's house or the in laws thing.
Speaker 2: We talked about this too, and yeah, anybody who's been
Speaker 2: in a relationship situation or you know, you're tagging along
Speaker 2: as kids in the car with mom and dad, depending,
Speaker 2: how do you decide where you're going? Because usually somebody
Speaker 2: wants you to be there more than someone else. And
Speaker 2: I don't know who is it a dominant thing and
Speaker 2: who has hand in the relationship? Donna, how does one
Speaker 2: decide where you're going so you're not going to five
Speaker 2: places every you know holiday, Well.
Speaker 3: It's one of the most common and quietly stressful challenges
Speaker 3: that couples face during the holidays is you know, when
Speaker 3: are we going here?
Speaker 1: Do we have to stop there? How are we going
Speaker 1: to do this?
Speaker 3: I want to have Christmas at my house with the
Speaker 3: kids and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it it.
Speaker 3: Can be less stressful, but a lot of people. The
Speaker 3: number one thing that it's really hard on the kids
Speaker 3: that are doing this, Like, you know, the in laws
Speaker 3: are a priority, and then her parents are a priority.
Speaker 3: But the keeping score, you were there for four hours.
Speaker 3: You've only spent two hours here. You were there at
Speaker 3: their house Christmas Day, and we want to see christ
Speaker 3: It's tough. It is tough no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 3: But you really have to set boundaries.
Speaker 2: It's a nightmare when you're talking about, you know, doing
Speaker 2: it by the billable hour four.
Speaker 1: Eating loyalties.
Speaker 3: But people take that personally parents or laws and everything else.
Speaker 3: Usually you would say the wife really picks like in
Speaker 3: many of my nieces and things like that, that's true.
Speaker 3: The wife do decide that, hey, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: to my mom's house first, that's what we're doing, and
Speaker 3: then we'll go to your your parents' house.
Speaker 1: Is that okay?
Speaker 3: But I just watched this whole thing on. This guy
Speaker 3: basically said, I don't even like Christmas anymore. I absolutely
Speaker 3: hate it. My wife will only go to her place,
Speaker 3: and if she's at mine, she's on her phone. She's
Speaker 3: not she's not, you know, contributing to games, and it's
Speaker 3: just not fun. And when it gets like that, I
Speaker 3: don't know what couples should do or what works well.
Speaker 2: I would hope you don't end up in a situation
Speaker 2: where you're sitting there and being, you know, crap on
Speaker 2: a stump while everybody else is hopefully having a good time.
Speaker 2: And I have seen a little of that, but it
Speaker 2: is sort of a weird scenario. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the big one. If you're on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: streaming there or just checking us out, you can certainly
Speaker 2: click on the microphone and a message there. How do
Speaker 2: you decide though, And it is often the woman because
Speaker 2: they tend to because you guys have power in the relationship.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I don't mean that.
Speaker 2: In a derogatory way, but I mean that is sort
Speaker 2: of how it plays out. I've never been in a
Speaker 2: situation where I counted the time, but I mean, as
Speaker 2: the day goes on. You go to one place and
Speaker 2: then another place. I may be less active and engaged,
Speaker 2: but it's not personal. It's because I'm tired and I
Speaker 2: need a second wind, and I need a nap, and
Speaker 2: can I get some more food and and maybe some
Speaker 2: more loud obnoxious toys. Post holiday, there's maybe still a
Speaker 2: little of that in a lot of people's minds as
Speaker 2: we're heading home.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, you can hear them say, her parents
Speaker 3: get more time. We're always second. I mean even with
Speaker 3: my in laws, and they were great. We always invited
Speaker 3: them to come with us. So it was kind of
Speaker 3: a joint family thing where it was my sister and
Speaker 3: her son and cousins and his parents and everybody always
Speaker 3: got along.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a huge deal.
Speaker 3: But I know that my brother got married and we
Speaker 3: were all there were five sisters and two boys. My
Speaker 3: brother got married and he always went to his wife's
Speaker 3: house and we never got to see my brother and
Speaker 3: they would cancel last minute. Oh we're just they started
Speaker 3: this game and we stayed late, and we would be like,
Speaker 3: forget it. And so I we even as you know,
Speaker 3: young adults. When we were married, and my husband loved
Speaker 3: my brother and always wanted him around. He was always
Speaker 3: bombed that he My brother Derek never made it because
Speaker 3: his wife, you know, came first, and a lot of
Speaker 3: guys are like that.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta live with that. You got to
Speaker 2: wake up with that. You don't want her hacked off
Speaker 2: of you or all of a sudden your life. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's miserable on a whole lot of other levels. I know,
Speaker 2: but really you have to you have read it out. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's you have to be fair about it.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants to see their family members on Christmas and
Speaker 3: Mists and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: It's exhausting, yeah, I mean, and you want it to
Speaker 2: be fun. You shouldn't be in a situation where it's dread.
Speaker 2: But oftentimes it becomes more for the people you're visiting
Speaker 2: than even yourself after like the second or third place
Speaker 2: that you've gone to or whatever. And for the kids.
Speaker 2: Always it's always for the children. You know, my buddy Corby,
Speaker 2: you taught me that years ago. But I mean, it's
Speaker 2: one of those scenarios that I think we all struggle with.
Speaker 2: Here's the other side. You may not what about the
Speaker 2: in laws or other people who just don't want I'd
Speaker 2: rather go visit and then go back home and not
Speaker 2: have everything at your house. That was one of those
Speaker 2: things when I was a kid. It was nice when
Speaker 2: they came, but then when everybody would leave, I was
Speaker 2: then stuck. Moms putting me to work doing the cleanup.
Speaker 1: I hate that. I was like, I don't need to
Speaker 1: see these people. I'll go to their house and eat
Speaker 1: and come back home here and then play with my stuff.
Speaker 3: But it is, there should be plenty of different options
Speaker 3: unless you're you know, somebody's in Cincinnati and then somebody's
Speaker 3: down in you know, Kentucky somewhere or whatever.
Speaker 1: Maybe you drive in, stop in Kentucky and then head
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: But maybe in between maybe a little meat and Greek
Speaker 2: kind of scenario or whatever. Yeah, trading off with the
Speaker 2: kids and you're doing and exchange with the in laws
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 3: It becomes so stressful for couples and their kids that
Speaker 3: it's not even fun for everybody.
Speaker 2: And the whole point is for it to be fun, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and all the stuff that goes along with that. The
Speaker 2: other thing that's tough too is I mean, you could
Speaker 2: rotate them yearly and then what's hard also when they say, oh,
Speaker 2: it's no big deal. We understand, but you know that
Speaker 2: they do. They're like, argue them all the stuff. If
Speaker 2: I raised them for note much I carried them inside
Speaker 2: me got But I mean, if you have a choice
Speaker 2: of hey, here in the tri State or go visit
Speaker 2: the in laws at their place in Florida. While Florida
Speaker 2: seems really good right about now. In that's a good
Speaker 2: way to do it. We got a beach house. Everybody,
Speaker 2: come on down. That's the way to go. Five point
Speaker 2: three seven four nine, seven, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: The big one.
Speaker 2: How do you decide where you go? Do you rotate it?
Speaker 2: How do you play that out? Is it an all
Speaker 2: day thing or like a weekly? This week has been
Speaker 2: good because a lot of people had kids, have the
Speaker 2: weeks off, and then you know, people maybe the way
Speaker 2: their vacation time whatever's unspent, and the way the weekend's
Speaker 2: have falling, you'd burn up three days of vacation. You've
Speaker 2: go all of a sudden, you've got a whole week, right,
Speaker 2: so you could maybe spread it out right.
Speaker 3: One of the things I would do if I had kids,
Speaker 3: which I don't, if I saw that there was so
Speaker 3: much stress going on, I would say, go to your
Speaker 3: in laws and go have fun, and your dad and
Speaker 3: I are going to go on it and take a
Speaker 3: vacation together and just be by ourselves, and then when
Speaker 3: we come back, we'll spend the New Year with you.
Speaker 3: That's such a cool way maybe to look at it. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: I think that makes good sense. Let's get to springfield
Speaker 3: Ed with Sterling and Donnade on the big one. How
Speaker 3: is the celebration of Christmas and the holidays for you? You know,
Speaker 3: where do you go?
Speaker 2: How do you decide where you're going and who's happy
Speaker 2: and who's said?
Speaker 8: Actually, we spent.
Speaker 4: My kids are twenty six and twenty one now, and
Speaker 4: we spent twenty five years running around to everybody's house,
Speaker 4: my wife's family, mom and dad or divorced, so there's
Speaker 4: an extra set of people help that we need to
Speaker 4: go see. And it was absolutely free. Miserable. Yeah, I hated.
Speaker 4: I didn't even want to have I hated the day
Speaker 4: it came. I hated all of it. And now it
Speaker 4: went the other way though, where I upset my family
Speaker 4: so much to where they don't even invite us anymore.
Speaker 1: But you is that better or worse?
Speaker 2: Because you don't have to have that weight on your
Speaker 2: shoulders or do you feel like you've been kicked out
Speaker 2: and ostracized and no longer part of the group.
Speaker 4: The second half there because even though I couldn't always
Speaker 4: get there when the party started, we always try to
Speaker 4: make an appearance. But now I don't even get the invitations.
Speaker 4: So in the end, they kind of backfired in our face,
Speaker 4: and my wife was all down with it too. Families
Speaker 4: from Tennessee, a couple of them live up here. But
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, we used to go to
Speaker 4: Tennessee for Christmas, and then my dad was from up here,
Speaker 4: and we used to come back and you know what
Speaker 4: they did. This was so smart. We did Christmas down there,
Speaker 4: and then when we came back up here, we met
Speaker 4: his family on New Year's New Year's Eve. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4: That's wrong with you people?
Speaker 1: What did you do for Christmas this year? Was it
Speaker 1: just you and your wife?
Speaker 4: Then, well, my my daughter has a boyfriend who has children.
Speaker 4: We went over there. My wife had to work Christmas Day,
Speaker 4: so we didn't stay real long, and we went back
Speaker 4: over Christmas Day to have like breakfast with them, and
Speaker 4: then that was it.
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good to me, though, No, no.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, No, I swear I'm not complaining. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, then all of a sudden that's never
Speaker 4: happened to us until like five years ago, saiding, I'm
Speaker 4: going back home and I'm sitting on the couch, like,
Speaker 4: what are we going to do now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you can always say, listen, we we understand.
Speaker 3: We we want to be invited again, and we're going
Speaker 3: to take whatever we can get.
Speaker 1: You can do that too well, and you can do that.
Speaker 4: What's my problem is is, uh, I go the other way.
Speaker 4: If you upset me, then I'm just gonna try to
Speaker 4: upset you.
Speaker 1: More back and.
Speaker 4: Forth and not not not not like getting in fight.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying I'm not gonna I was always
Speaker 4: a black sheep of the family and I always see
Speaker 4: the black sheep, and so I'm not bowing down then nobody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I've been that guy too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But then you're alone, sitting on your couch by yourself
Speaker 3: on Christmas.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 4: I've got my wife, I got my wife and my
Speaker 4: two dogs.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, Yeah, you're you're not hurting in that way.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your sharing that it seems like you found
Speaker 1: a balance too. We appreciate you listening to being a
Speaker 1: part of the show so much. Yeah, five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 1: eight hundred the Big One. You can talk back the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app or at Stirling Radio one X as well.
Speaker 1: It is a tough thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want it to be so stressful
Speaker 2: that you're going here, there and everywhere else. But I
Speaker 2: would imagine there's a lot of people, like Ed talked
Speaker 2: about that, whether you've done Christmas in one place and
Speaker 2: then the other half New Year's, you're getting a little
Speaker 2: taste of that.
Speaker 1: Flip it on the following year.
Speaker 3: The following year, we get to do Christmas with my
Speaker 3: parents and then we'll go to your New Year's and
Speaker 3: because New Year is really fun too. I mean I
Speaker 3: know that it's fun with the kids and they get
Speaker 3: to open the presence and it's a blast, and we
Speaker 3: did have fun with that. But if they wanted to
Speaker 3: do something, then yeah, we'll do it all.
Speaker 1: Stuff it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you stick out who has the better food, They
Speaker 2: do better dinner, they do better breakfast, Go to the
Speaker 2: brunch and do the breakfast, whatever else it happens to be,
Speaker 2: and play it that way. I mean that that's I
Speaker 2: don't know, is that bad like you know, well, I
Speaker 2: don't know. They do some weird stuff with like the
Speaker 2: giblets and stuff. I will, right, we'll go to dinner
Speaker 2: there and we'll do lunch with the other place or
Speaker 2: something along those lines. That's the way my mind works.
Speaker 2: You know, well your food or I am I totally.
Speaker 2: No one would believe it looking at me, but I
Speaker 2: totally am.
Speaker 1: I really. It's just it's a tough spot.
Speaker 2: You don't want to make anybody unhappy and disappoint them.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that has been more and more
Speaker 2: that has weighed on me over time. I want to
Speaker 2: see these people also because I know my elders, you know,
Speaker 2: the parents, you know, aunts, uncles and stuff.
Speaker 1: We're not here forever.
Speaker 2: So you know, when I was a teenager, it was
Speaker 2: all right, great and my friends had come by, and
Speaker 2: then we go from one house to another house to
Speaker 2: another house, and everybody would try to feed us. But
Speaker 2: we were tired of the parents. We wanted to, you know,
Speaker 2: because we were trying to stretch out and be our
Speaker 2: own people. Now I embrace the other side of that
Speaker 2: more because I know the time is short, right.
Speaker 1: And that is something to take in consideration.
Speaker 3: You know how old the parents are and how many
Speaker 3: you know, Christmases you have left to be with them,
Speaker 3: that that should being something in consideration for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we got a couple here, five, one, three, seven,
Speaker 2: eight hundred of the big one. Let's get Luke and
Speaker 2: then John's what's all of a sudden, we're doing biblical speak,
Speaker 2: Uh big players in the Bible? Uh Luke chapter ten
Speaker 2: twenty two. I think it's one of my favorites. What's
Speaker 2: going on Luke or with Sterling on the big one?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 8: Yeah, he just you know, I have three children. One
Speaker 8: is just becoming a young adult. I have one at the time,
Speaker 8: but I have one in the middle of that. And
Speaker 8: my middle child, I have a baby mother. He's in
Speaker 8: her house right, not for Christmas, but I had it
Speaker 8: for christ Steve long story, short days thought always got
Speaker 8: perfect or you know Palmark or Disney type of blow
Speaker 8: to enjoy your family. But we have a very great family.
Speaker 8: Everyone is very fortunate.
Speaker 9: And I just called it.
Speaker 8: No matter what it looks like, what your dynamic is,
Speaker 8: there's no reason not to be happy, to be thankful
Speaker 8: and realize how bleased we are in this country. If
Speaker 8: your kids are healthy, you're not wanting to point there's
Speaker 8: no reason not to be able to just.
Speaker 7: Back and run.
Speaker 8: And how thanks, how great it to be alive to
Speaker 8: be in this country. Happy holidays everybody, and take a
Speaker 8: deep breath and just enjoy what's right in front of you.
Speaker 2: Well stated, Yeah, Luke, thank you man. Yeah, And it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, look around and how blessed we are.
Speaker 3: You know, it's important to have a view of gratitude
Speaker 3: for what you have now and the more that you're
Speaker 3: grateful for. Like you said, having healthy kids that that's
Speaker 3: a big deal. Putting stress on them does not work
Speaker 3: at all. And and you know it makes everybody feel
Speaker 3: like instead of yay.
Speaker 1: We get to go to Grandma's or yeay we get
Speaker 1: to go to Auntie's or yeah we get to go
Speaker 1: to you know, Uncle Sterlings such right, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: give loud toys batteries extra batteries, right Levin and John
Speaker 1: with Sterling and Donna Dee on the big one the
Speaker 1: John thanks for holding What do you have?
Speaker 2: How do you decide where to go? Or are they
Speaker 2: coming to you? Or what do you do?
Speaker 9: I tell you that for me is a realistic expectations.
Speaker 9: I've been divorce eighteen years. I'm remarried, so you've got
Speaker 9: a lot of exes and hills, and it was really
Speaker 9: easy to just make a decision that if my ex
Speaker 9: wanted the kids on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve, to just
Speaker 9: go with that and then say Christmas Day is our day,
Speaker 9: or we do Thanksgiving on Saturday. And once you set
Speaker 9: that and you know it's going to happen, then everybody's
Speaker 9: really pretty happy with those things. And as far as
Speaker 9: extended family, my side of the family, we just get
Speaker 9: together a few weeks before Christmas and then nobody has
Speaker 9: to run around to different houses on Christmas Day. We
Speaker 9: just plan a day and have open a single gift
Speaker 9: and everybody has a good time.
Speaker 3: That's great, and I think a lot of people are
Speaker 3: doing that, John. They're they're either doing way before or
Speaker 3: way after, and that seems to work like a dream.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good to appreciate the call up, John, Thank
Speaker 2: you man, appreciate you listening to be a part of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: I hope you have a great new year. A set
Speaker 1: some expectations, set some boundaries. You go there, they go here,
Speaker 1: and you know it should work out, but it does
Speaker 1: get stressful for a lot of people because their feelings
Speaker 1: get hurt. People do very much, they get they get
Speaker 1: cases of the goo, and you don't want that.
Speaker 2: You know the other thing my mother made and you're
Speaker 2: a vegan, so but just roll with this. So she
Speaker 2: made this big beef frost, right, and uh, it was
Speaker 2: gonna make beef stew and stuff, and that she had
Speaker 2: plates out, but it seemed more of a bowl thing.
Speaker 2: And I caught the side eye and flashed back to
Speaker 2: feeling like I was the eight year old sterling, like
Speaker 2: I had crossed the line of impropriety.
Speaker 1: And I said, what's the problem.
Speaker 2: I said, you know, it's like me when I'm using
Speaker 2: tortillas for everything, right, I wrap everything in a tortilla, right, bread,
Speaker 2: I'm in good shape. And she's like, well, that's a
Speaker 2: plate meal. That's not a bowl meal. I said, real,
Speaker 2: are you serious? I said, what is the difference? I said,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not she goes, it's not cereal. It's
Speaker 2: not soup, I said, but it is saucy. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do. And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I can't. I forgot your house, your rules,
Speaker 2: my business.
Speaker 1: It's tough. So then you got that too.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, you're gonna really cap on me because
Speaker 2: I'm using a bowl instead of a plate. Happy Christmas mom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there you go, So no pressure, no worries.
Speaker 1: It goes along with funny how little things like that
Speaker 1: come up during the holidays. Absolutely, I mean the other
Speaker 1: big way, why did you make coconut cake? I don't
Speaker 1: like coconut cake? Well, we didn't.
Speaker 3: That's the only dessert I wanted to make. Well we
Speaker 3: should have had pumpkin pie or bacon pie or something.
Speaker 1: Oh hi, I mean seriously, I made.
Speaker 3: The best coconut cake. And I don't bake at all.
Speaker 3: I do not, and I decided I was gonna make it,
Speaker 3: and it came out so good.
Speaker 1: About that? Look at your face, that's like the happiest,
Speaker 1: like brightest I've seen it a lot. Near like starving.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fight that might be. When does the hallucination start? So?
Speaker 1: How many hours are you into your friends? Twenty four
Speaker 1: hours in? See, I started about one more day.
Speaker 2: I ate about three thirty in the morning, had a
Speaker 2: big thing of pancakes I made because I was hungry.
Speaker 2: After the show, now, but so I haven't eaten since
Speaker 2: then and I'm starting.
Speaker 1: To Okay, so it's three the year getting on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tough. This is why the show probably better eighteen
Speaker 1: hours into it. Better if i'd eating, Probably the show
Speaker 1: and well you got some crackers over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm trying to stay strong and stick to it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those things.
Speaker 2: You're five o'clock reports straight away, more on how you
Speaker 2: decide to go fasting hallucinating. Yeah, there's a whole lot
Speaker 2: before Chick led Ludwig steps in On a Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 2: Stirling and Donna d here, home of the best Bengals
Speaker 2: coverage seven hundredu W well W Cincinnati. Here we are
Speaker 2: final hour together Saturday. It's getting dark, I'll call it evening,
Speaker 2: and everything's topsy turvy. Kick Chris stops in says, hello,
Speaker 2: Chick was in here. Chick's gonna follow us. He's before you.
Speaker 2: The chick is like the Oreo filling and together we
Speaker 2: are the chocolate cooking, and then you are the chocolate
Speaker 2: cooking on the other side.
Speaker 1: He's the goodness in between. With sports talk.
Speaker 3: He's got Sean McMahon sitting in tonight too, and he's
Speaker 3: he's Sean is great.
Speaker 1: Is glad to hear that? Absolutely? For sure.
Speaker 2: We got a lot going on. We were talking about
Speaker 2: New Year's and resolutions and living better and relationships in
Speaker 2: the end of the year and divorce because boy, that's uplifting, uh,
Speaker 2: But also with the holidays, because so many people are
Speaker 2: on the road coming home now from wherever they've been
Speaker 2: for Christmas time on one side of the family or
Speaker 2: the other, or maybe a vacation. Hopefully that would be good, right, uh,
Speaker 2: In trying to figure out as you were saying earlier, Donna,
Speaker 2: and like you know, you go to the wife's side,
Speaker 2: husband's side, you know, extended relatives or whatever else, and
Speaker 2: it gets complicated and occasionally ugly.
Speaker 3: And it gets stressful for the for the kiddos that
Speaker 3: have to, you know, go to the moms and we're
Speaker 3: going to moms.
Speaker 1: We're going to my hat mom's house.
Speaker 3: Then we'll go to yours and then we'll do this
Speaker 3: and it becomes pretty stressful.
Speaker 1: But you know the bottom line is if you.
Speaker 3: If you you know, want to visit everybody, set some boundaries,
Speaker 3: set some expectations. We're going to be here we're going
Speaker 3: to be there, no scorekeeping, don't worry about that. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be three hours here and then I'm only
Speaker 3: two hours at your house.
Speaker 1: So speed me and give me a drink. That's all
Speaker 1: I want. I'll come to your house.
Speaker 3: The point is to have fun, Like what kind of
Speaker 3: a Christmas was it for you? For me, it was
Speaker 3: a real fun Christmas Eve, Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: Well you were sick or you mean in general? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I was callack.
Speaker 3: In general, it was a very fun, heart filled Christmas
Speaker 3: for me, and it will be for New Year's as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to see some and so forth, never
Speaker 2: enough and now I crave that so much. And you
Speaker 2: know what, and I mentioned that we can have a
Speaker 2: little fun with this too, is maybe the ups gift
Speaker 2: the bad gift, either the bad choice that you've made
Speaker 2: or the bad gift that someone made for you the
Speaker 2: choice and you're like, really you thought of me with this?
Speaker 2: And I always try to have something for someone. And
Speaker 2: miani Leen used to give me and she hates it
Speaker 2: when I bring it up, but it's too late. I'm
Speaker 2: going to do it again. For years from one a
Speaker 2: time I was a tiny sterling. She would give me
Speaker 2: British Sterling Clone because she thought it was, you.
Speaker 1: Know, clever, because it's your name, and I was like
Speaker 1: really again.
Speaker 2: But at some point I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: I was here, or if it was on Channel Z
Speaker 2: when it before it became kiss, whatever it was, I
Speaker 2: mentioned it and it got back to her or she
Speaker 2: heard it because she listens and family and friends do
Speaker 2: and they and all of a sudden she put the
Speaker 2: full on stop on the British Sterling Clone. And I
Speaker 2: have been devastated ever since. I mean I did have
Speaker 2: like a lot. I was donating it. I was you
Speaker 2: need something to sprint? Yeah, But that's I will if
Speaker 2: I live to one hundred and ten, which I won't
Speaker 2: because no matter how much yogurt did I do, or
Speaker 2: yogurt or fasting that I do to the point of hallucination,
Speaker 2: I'm not making about fifteen or ten or one. I'm
Speaker 2: lucky to make seventy at this point. But I will
Speaker 2: embrace in fond memories of thinking of Iley and giving
Speaker 2: me the British Stirling term. So if you got something
Speaker 2: like that or where you put your foot in it,
Speaker 2: by the way, you could do that too. Five three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: seven eight hundred, the big one, Stirling and Donnade hanging out.
Speaker 2: Let's get some people been holding on this and we
Speaker 2: get some others lined up. We'll get to Xenia and
Speaker 2: Paul and then Sue and mRNA on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Paul, what do you have?
Speaker 6: Well, earlier today I didn't get in, but you were
Speaker 6: talking about New Year's resolutions. Yes, well, my New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 6: It disjustes me greatly that I hear so many of
Speaker 6: the young folks are taking God's name in vain. I
Speaker 6: think that anybody that is capable should bite your tongue
Speaker 6: before they come out with a cuss word and take
Speaker 6: our Savior's name in vain. And it really distresses me,
Speaker 6: and I think the parents should distress it. I don't
Speaker 6: know if it's going on in school. I've been out
Speaker 6: of school a long time.
Speaker 7: I don't know what goes on in school.
Speaker 2: Well, I totally get what you're saying, Paul, and I
Speaker 2: understand that. And yeah, I mean I bite my tongue
Speaker 2: all the time, and usually it has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with the Lord's name in vain.
Speaker 1: So I totally get what you're saying. No, Yeah.
Speaker 3: My mom used to hate that. She would say, never
Speaker 3: take the Lord's name in vain. We weren't even to say,
Speaker 3: you know, Jesus Christ. We were never even allowed to
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 2: She's and Rice. I think it means the same thing anyway.
Speaker 2: That's the Paul. We appreciate the call man. We totally
Speaker 2: get it, and we appreciate it. That's tough. And see,
Speaker 2: that's the thing my mom would always say. She goes, well,
Speaker 2: you still are thinking and her meaning it even though
Speaker 2: you said something else. And I'm like, and then she'd
Speaker 2: put that in my head. Yeah, I'm like, thanks for
Speaker 2: that depth charge.
Speaker 3: It was never it doesn't ever feel good when you
Speaker 3: say g damn it, you know, or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I can't believe. Yeah, No, you're absolutely right. Let's to No.
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. I'm wholesome and innocent. I'd like to drive.
Speaker 2: I am pure as the driven snow, not yellow snow.
Speaker 2: But I mean I do what I can to Covington
Speaker 2: and Sue. Then Murna was Stirling in Donnade on the
Speaker 2: Big One. Sue, how's everything? Holiday traditions? Your house, their house,
Speaker 2: across the you know, the planet Earth.
Speaker 1: I don't know iowall, what do you do? Where do
Speaker 1: you go? How do you decide?
Speaker 10: Well, now most my parents are gone, but when we
Speaker 10: were growing up, when Daddy came back from nore we
Speaker 10: ended up in Eastern Kentucky and where my brother was
Speaker 10: born the next year, and my father's from Northern Ohio.
Speaker 10: My mother's from Center Kentucky. So they started they would alternate.
Speaker 10: One year we would go to Northern Ohio for Thanksgiving
Speaker 10: and Center Kentucky for Christmas. The next year we would
Speaker 10: flip it and go to Center Kentucky for Thanksgiving in
Speaker 10: Northern Ohio. But we were always at home on New
Speaker 10: Year's so much to the point that when my parents
Speaker 10: would go out to parties for New Year's they would
Speaker 10: be home before midnight, which my brother and I carried
Speaker 10: on even when we grew up and were away from
Speaker 10: home and came home. If we went to parties, we
Speaker 10: would break our nets to be sure we were home
Speaker 10: by midnight.
Speaker 2: Well that's a smart one, Yeah, yeah, it was all
Speaker 2: the way around. It sounds like you had a good plan.
Speaker 2: But the other thing that I think is interesting about
Speaker 2: that too, is that you were ahead of the curve
Speaker 2: on the idea of that being amateur night, and you
Speaker 2: didn't want to be out there on the roads with
Speaker 2: everybody else getting tanked up.
Speaker 1: They normally don't drink. They're hitting the bottle.
Speaker 2: Hard and making bad choices instead of getting a ride,
Speaker 2: getting behind the wheels.
Speaker 1: So you're smart. You were way ahead of the curve. That'sous.
Speaker 10: That was the way we were raised, and that was
Speaker 10: our family tradition. And everybody thought it was so weird
Speaker 10: that my brother and I would leave a party. It'd
Speaker 10: be home with our parents for New Years. So we
Speaker 10: would go out on the porch and we're in cow
Speaker 10: bells and yell like all the rest.
Speaker 1: There's something so sweet about that, it really is it fantastic, Sue,
Speaker 1: have a fantastic new You really appreciate you listening and
Speaker 1: being part of the show.
Speaker 10: Well, I really enjoyed listening to you two light.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. You take care.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sue. That was great. That was really nice.
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred The
Speaker 2: big one. I remember pots and pans when I was
Speaker 2: a kid. That that's what they would sit in front
Speaker 2: of me, beat some pots and pans and then you
Speaker 2: get jiffy pop. They still selfie pop was the best,
Speaker 2: and I could stand on a stool careful. She was like,
Speaker 2: you gotta be careful of the flame. Natural and you
Speaker 2: watch that thing swell up like an infected oil gland,
Speaker 2: and then it would burst and the popcorn.
Speaker 1: Would come out. That's good times.
Speaker 2: The best New Year's absolutely to college Hell and Murna
Speaker 2: was stirling in Donnade on the Big One.
Speaker 1: Murna, what do you have? What's going on?
Speaker 11: I'm still around, I'm old, but I'm still here. I'm
Speaker 11: most miserable. Christmas is when my daughter, when our daughter
Speaker 11: was married, she was our only child, and the first
Speaker 11: year they spent Christmas Eve with his family, Christmas Morning
Speaker 11: with his family, and he wouldn't they wouldn't come here
Speaker 11: till like two o'clock in the afternoon, and so my
Speaker 11: dad's My husband said, well, that's the first year. Daughter
Speaker 11: probably does want to make waves go with his Well,
Speaker 11: the next year, the same thing happened, and he blew
Speaker 11: my husband. He said, your mother got up at six
Speaker 11: o'clock in the morning, put on the turkey, she baked
Speaker 11: pies yesterday. You come in here half asleep. You're not
Speaker 11: hungry because you ate snacks over there, he said, this
Speaker 11: is not going to happen.
Speaker 4: They can't.
Speaker 1: Wow, and did what happened from there?
Speaker 11: They went there on Christmas Eve and came here on Christmas.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean sometimes your kids need to know that
Speaker 3: this is really important to you. If it's important to you,
Speaker 3: you can talk to them and and and reason with them.
Speaker 1: I think that was good.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, you just stood up after dinner and just told them.
Speaker 2: What was Sometimes you got to put your foot down,
Speaker 2: tell people what you want or what you need.
Speaker 1: And if they don't listen, then you then you have
Speaker 1: to let them do what they can always make more so,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's how that is, how young
Speaker 1: they are. Have a great new year. It was good
Speaker 1: to talk to you. Take care of yourself.
Speaker 11: I'm here to celebrate another new year, the eighty nine
Speaker 11: in March.
Speaker 1: Wow, good for you. That's excellent. Pushing it won't be
Speaker 1: long if you hit the hundle.
Speaker 3: You can hear the emotion though in her voice, because
Speaker 3: that is it's hard when because she said it was
Speaker 3: horrible Christmases having to having to do that, and it
Speaker 3: does hit you hard when you know your kids aren't
Speaker 3: thinking about it like that.
Speaker 1: I like to put the fun in dysfunction. Yea. Personally,
Speaker 1: I was trying to embrace that overall. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just it's true, it's chaos, but it's all good.
Speaker 2: But the other thing that goes along with that, I
Speaker 2: can remember I always felt like if someone put it
Speaker 2: and was directed by my mom, I was raised this way.
Speaker 2: If they're going to offer food, you gotta eat. So
Speaker 2: everywhere I went, all my buddies' houses, you know, and
Speaker 2: their parents, and then my house and then on away
Speaker 2: it went. We ate like a ton of meals. And
Speaker 2: they always want to send you home with food. Like
Speaker 2: right now, I guarantee you people driving up seventy one,
Speaker 2: seventy five, seventy four that they're in the trunk in
Speaker 2: the cooler, or they just took it to be polite
Speaker 2: and then they dumped it when they gassed up the car,
Speaker 2: Like I'm not eating that stuff again. If you're on
Speaker 2: that out there, there's a whole lot of leftovers in
Speaker 2: transit right now on this twenty seventh December, you know,
Speaker 2: after Christmas and leading into the new year.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it. I cannot be the only one pull light.
Speaker 3: When you go to somebody and you can snack, you
Speaker 3: can snack. You don't have to have full meals unless
Speaker 3: it's a sit down dinner that you're planning to stay
Speaker 3: to stay there for a while, like the beef froze to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't put it in a bowl. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: I flashed back to balone. Don't ask for a ball.
Speaker 2: I didn't even ask. I just I reached up into
Speaker 2: the cabin and she just shot me the look. That's
Speaker 2: all I needed. I was like, oh man, I'm eight again.
Speaker 9: This is it.
Speaker 2: It just never grow out of that type of situation.
Speaker 2: Lots of other stuff to get to before we're done.
Speaker 2: There's New Year's around the corner, Bengals in action, tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Cardinals in town, and my guess is with the it's
Speaker 2: going to be like sixty something degrees. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you I would not normally think about going
Speaker 2: out in the end of December to go play, uh
Speaker 2: and maybe check out some tailgating.
Speaker 1: But if not tomorrow win.
Speaker 3: Well, because yeah, it's a people can just wear their
Speaker 3: Bengals jerseys and not have to put on.
Speaker 1: Jackets and mittens and and stuff. Yeah, it's kind it's
Speaker 1: kind of a nice surprise. It absolutely is.
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven four nine seven eight hundred the
Speaker 2: Big One about ten minutes away from Brady Hopkins. Another
Speaker 2: update on news and what's going on around planet Earth
Speaker 2: and what matters to us here in the Tri State
Speaker 2: Quick break though, your chance to get an interactive straight
Speaker 2: away seven hundred double ULW sterling a. Donnade hanging out
Speaker 2: seven hundred double LW. Joe Waddell producing, and Brady Hopkins
Speaker 2: with news in four minutes from right this very second.
Speaker 2: So hang out, that is if we're on time, and
Speaker 2: I will be on time. Donnakayod you disturbed me, And
Speaker 2: I mean that the nicest a way, of course. Uh,
Speaker 2: you said something right we were going into the break.
Speaker 2: I think it may be an opportunity for some of us.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned some statistic about women of a certain
Speaker 2: age being single by choice. Help me understand.
Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of a crazy statistic that they've come
Speaker 3: up with. Apparently, by twenty thirty, nearly fifty percent of
Speaker 3: women twenty five to forty five will be single by choice.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's good for society or if
Speaker 3: it's bad.
Speaker 2: But how many are single now? I want to know,
Speaker 2: by choice or not. That's one bit of data I
Speaker 2: would like to know.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's not. Let me see if I can
Speaker 1: find that. So I think one is you guys, you can,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't. It's a mixed metaphor. You guys, I wasn't single.
Speaker 1: I was married at twenty No, I understand.
Speaker 2: But you have a Women can be with anybody anytime
Speaker 2: that they want to, because you're women. I mean seriously,
Speaker 2: and I mean because it's just the.
Speaker 1: Way it is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, it may not be who you want
Speaker 2: to be with, but you can you can be with
Speaker 2: anybody anytime that you want.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, dudes do not live that way. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot in there, sterling. What what is what?
Speaker 1: What they're seeing? The trend is that women can now.
Speaker 3: Equal rights, So they're getting paid more and they're finding
Speaker 3: out that they're making even more money than some guys.
Speaker 3: So you have economic freedom of women now and twenty
Speaker 3: five to forty five and beyond, and they're prioritizing self
Speaker 3: discovery and career ascension above above marriage and children.
Speaker 2: So, in other words, women's needs versus once the needs
Speaker 2: they can handle, and we in relationship circumstance, it's a
Speaker 2: matter of wanting to be with someone when you want
Speaker 2: to and who you want to, rather than in desperation.
Speaker 2: I need a roof, I need food on the table
Speaker 2: and a man to take care of you.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a definite shift that's going on where there's
Speaker 3: more women in the workforce ever before.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere and I love it.
Speaker 3: And they're making just as much money, if not more.
Speaker 1: So does that mean I could be a man? You
Speaker 1: could be if you wanted to. Is that a bad thing?
Speaker 1: It's kind of I don't want to be kept in
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to be independent as a dude too.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of stay at home dads that
Speaker 3: do wonderful work and take care of the house and
Speaker 3: the kids, and then you know, it's.
Speaker 1: A thankless job. It is a thankless job.
Speaker 2: Not enough love and respect. They downplay you, act like
Speaker 2: it's nothing. You stress around all day long in the house.
Speaker 2: Women come home from work, they just want to drink
Speaker 2: and be left alone, and we want to yap the
Speaker 2: app y app about the day.
Speaker 1: And put and put the football game on. They're good,
Speaker 1: that's right. It's everything's just upside down.
Speaker 3: It is an interesting dynamic and it's not changing. It's
Speaker 3: only getting and growing for women those ages. Now, I'm sure,
Speaker 3: I mean fifty that's one in two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can do basically math that right. Statement, that's
Speaker 1: not Lance's Butler math, that's right. State hell, that's E. J.
Speaker 1: Brown Elementary remat. Everyone can do it. Fifty one outed two,
Speaker 1: that's a big number, you know, And I'm curious how
Speaker 1: many like is it? If that's choice, then about us
Speaker 1: guys in that situation too. I mean, that's more about equality, right,
Speaker 1: and women can do You guys are a beauty. You
Speaker 1: are so far beyond us in every way anyway. I'm
Speaker 1: enamored and overwhelmed, and I'm not sucking up and hoping
Speaker 1: that this is going to benefit me after the show.
Speaker 2: I'm just simply saying, we'll come back after your five
Speaker 2: point thirty report. Brady has an idea as to what's
Speaker 2: going on. Mister Hopkins disseminates mess quantity of news. Stirling
Speaker 2: and Donna d come back. We want to know are
Speaker 2: you going to be one of those half of the
Speaker 2: women choosing to be single?
Speaker 1: And why?
Speaker 3: Or if you had a choice back then and you
Speaker 3: could go to work and didn't want to get would
Speaker 3: you have gotten married and had kids, right, and stay
Speaker 3: at home or maybe a big deal. That's a big
Speaker 3: question to ask.
Speaker 2: And these are player women, right, I mean, these are
Speaker 2: women that are out there playing the field. So they'll
Speaker 2: hurt me, but they don't want to. They just want
Speaker 2: to visit and then lead, which actually sounds pretty damn
Speaker 2: good to me too. News time now Sterling and Donna
Speaker 2: d coming back seven hundred w welw Hey, how you
Speaker 2: doing this? Sterling and Donna d rolling till six. We've
Speaker 2: seen Chick Ludwig. You will hear from Chick Ludwig after
Speaker 2: the news at the top of the hour, and he
Speaker 2: will have some sports talk. My guess is JJ Bledet.
Speaker 2: He'll talk about the Red signing. That guy was an
Speaker 2: A or yeah, it was an Oakland A, then he
Speaker 2: was a Vegas A and then soon or it will
Speaker 2: be a Vegas A. But he it was in a
Speaker 2: Sacramento a's uniform. I think, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know how that goes. I've always liked the As since
Speaker 2: the Reds swept them, but then they were horrible and
Speaker 2: I feel good, you know, love for underdog teams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now you've got a guy who comes from that and
Speaker 2: hopefully will bring something to the through the Reds.
Speaker 1: They need help. Well, Chick is very excited to talk
Speaker 1: about that tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got that. Bengals and Cardinals tomorrow. It will
Speaker 2: almost feel like summertime. Yeah, I may be exaggerating a
Speaker 2: little bit. It'll be short weather, and I mean in
Speaker 2: the sixties almost seventy, right, pneumonia weather is what my
Speaker 2: grandmother would call.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about it. I'm ready, all ready for warm weather.
Speaker 3: It's been chilli this year.
Speaker 1: Already, absolutely has.
Speaker 2: Now I want to backtrack just a little bit right
Speaker 2: before the break, will give you a chance to sound off.
Speaker 2: He'd like there were some ladies and guys on this too.
Speaker 2: This is a really wild thing. You were talking about
Speaker 2: a statistic from a basically retirement and financial company, so
Speaker 2: they are on top of this in a different ways.
Speaker 2: People plan for their future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Morgan Stanley.
Speaker 3: They did a US census based on demographic trends and
Speaker 3: they project by twenty thirty about forty five to fifty
Speaker 3: percent of women in the ages of twenty five to
Speaker 3: forty four will be single and childless my choice.
Speaker 2: And that's obviously here in the States. In industrialized countries,
Speaker 2: richer countries, the birth rates have been declining significantly, and
Speaker 2: you know, the idea from immigration and so forth was
Speaker 2: a benefit to bring workers in and then obviously to
Speaker 2: propagate and keep paying into social Security and all the
Speaker 2: other stuff. That has certainly slowed down here domestically. So
Speaker 2: the question is with AI and the pealing of jobs,
Speaker 2: is this including that concept that they'll be less beneficial
Speaker 2: or I guess appealing candidates for them, or they just
Speaker 2: want to be fancy.
Speaker 1: Free and that is a good question. They're fat with cash.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the there's four reasons for this trend, according
Speaker 3: to Morgan Stanley, changing norms about marriage, so marriage is
Speaker 3: no longer seen as required life like a required life milestone.
Speaker 1: Sin, I've done that. Well, nothing about that.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm still going to say marriage isn't essential to
Speaker 3: a fulfilling life. That's what they're seeing, a greater economic independence.
Speaker 3: We know there's more women in the workforce than ever before,
Speaker 3: and they're getting equal.
Speaker 1: Pay now like a strong.
Speaker 3: Well, of course, it's nice, you know, they're they're they're
Speaker 3: priority careers early on and they're getting you know, married
Speaker 3: later on. It doesn't mean that they're never going to
Speaker 3: get married. They're just they want their careers first and
Speaker 3: then marriage.
Speaker 1: May come later.
Speaker 3: So they're marrying later on in life, just focusing on
Speaker 3: their education and their careers and then complex relationship market,
Speaker 3: it says. Some research and cultural commentary notes that people
Speaker 3: of all genders face mismatches in dating expectations priorities. Everybody's
Speaker 3: on dating apps, so I mean nobody meets up like that,
Speaker 3: like we used to go to a concert and meet
Speaker 3: somebody or true at a bar. Used to be nightclubs, bars, concerts.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure people are still doing that.
Speaker 1: But at our age, at our age, that's how I
Speaker 1: met My husband was playing in a band. You've seen
Speaker 1: him or talk to him in yours, But I know
Speaker 1: the guys certainly. Of course, everybody knew him in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: A lot of bar gigs, different times, different times, That's right,
Speaker 2: It's for sure. So how you know what's interesting about this?
Speaker 2: Does what does that mean that we as guys won't
Speaker 2: be able to find the women that we want in
Speaker 2: that twenty five to forty four year old range, or
Speaker 2: is it that the guys are making the same choice,
Speaker 2: Because I've heard this from woman after woman after woman. Yeah,
Speaker 2: including younger women, some that I may have dated. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying I try to stay within my I don't
Speaker 2: want to be involved in an inappropriately aged, a separated relationship.
Speaker 1: I mean it's good sometimes.
Speaker 3: But well, twenty five to forty five is interesting because
Speaker 3: those are kind of the child bearing Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: that's the age.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know when I was twenty four and my
Speaker 3: husband was twenty two, that's when we met. We dated
Speaker 3: for a year, just like everybody else, engaged for a
Speaker 3: year and then got married in a year. So it
Speaker 3: was it was during that timeframe. I don't regret anything
Speaker 3: during that time. I fell in love with someone. I
Speaker 3: got married. My sister was married a year prior to me,
Speaker 3: so it was great. But and I always worked throughout
Speaker 3: my marriage too. So I had a career in radio,
Speaker 3: I was graduating Xavier, and you know, I went to
Speaker 3: school later in life. And so I think women are
Speaker 3: just going to say, listen, let's date instead of getting
Speaker 3: let's figure out, you know, let me need.
Speaker 1: For a commitment. I kind of find this very appealing.
Speaker 1: There's something appealing about it.
Speaker 3: But you know, twenty five forty five, at the forty
Speaker 3: five range, if you still haven't had kids and you're
Speaker 3: still contemplating that's.
Speaker 1: A little tough.
Speaker 2: Well maybe they can adopt, or maybe you just don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about the.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't want kids, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have any. I don't have anything.
Speaker 1: I don't have any, and you don't.
Speaker 3: Put all my sisters do, and they all have kids
Speaker 3: and grandkids and stuff now, and it's it's cute.
Speaker 1: It's not me, and it's not cute. I like that.
Speaker 1: It's cute that they have kids.
Speaker 3: No, it's cute when all the kids get they all
Speaker 3: chair pictures there. Yeah, we all have these group text
Speaker 3: and all the grandkids are super cute and everybody. And
Speaker 3: sometimes I feel a little left out because I don't
Speaker 3: have any.
Speaker 1: But it was a choice I made, and I'm I
Speaker 1: love being the uncle, yeah, I mean I really do.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of time.
Speaker 2: I mean I grew up, you know, with a single
Speaker 2: mom in hers and she had a big family like yours,
Speaker 2: a lot of siblings and my uncles and my aunts,
Speaker 2: I mean they I was always around them and my cousins,
Speaker 2: so I still had, you know a little bit of
Speaker 2: that mentoring and that sort of role modeling that was
Speaker 2: being done, but I didn't necessarily have all the other
Speaker 2: stuff in that end of it. But it's interesting when
Speaker 2: you start looking at that. And I've been told why
Speaker 2: you have a fear commitment or whatever, But I've been
Speaker 2: committed in long term monogamous relationships with a couple of
Speaker 2: different women at different times for years, but it just
Speaker 2: didn't work out timing with them and what they were
Speaker 2: doing and where I was, and you know, I left
Speaker 2: here for work and came back here for work.
Speaker 3: Well that's exactly the point of this where where the
Speaker 3: study is, like women have they don't necessarily need to
Speaker 3: be married. They don't need to be married, and they
Speaker 3: don't want to have kids early on. They want to
Speaker 3: focus on their education and career and making money so
Speaker 3: they don't have to rely on men to do it.
Speaker 1: What happens later though, when there's so few people having
Speaker 1: kids and then there's a shortage of population to do
Speaker 1: whatever work is left to be done after AI comes through,
Speaker 1: because it's not going to do all the work.
Speaker 3: Well, this is Elon Musk's nightmare of scenario, right. This
Speaker 3: is the thing that he fears most is that we
Speaker 3: are going to be out of the human race. I
Speaker 3: don't think that's ever going to happen. How many there's
Speaker 3: eight billion people on the planet.
Speaker 1: Is that accurate?
Speaker 2: Somewhere somebody just got pregnant just now, somebody just that
Speaker 2: a kid, right, maybe listening to us.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd rather not know that necessarily.
Speaker 3: But there's eight billion people humans on the planet. I
Speaker 3: don't see us going away unless there's a big asteroid.
Speaker 1: That hits us. Yeah, and then that's a whole that's
Speaker 1: a whole other problem. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean the other concept that has been talked about
Speaker 2: is paying people to have kids, right, And I don't
Speaker 2: know who pays for that. Why should my tax dollar
Speaker 2: dollars go for somebody else to pay them to have
Speaker 2: their babies. That's not my problem. I've made my choice,
Speaker 2: not my issue, though. We do have tax credits to
Speaker 2: help benefit people to help sort of navigate life in
Speaker 2: the added expenses. But the other thing I would imagine
Speaker 2: is part of this is think of the cost of
Speaker 2: childcare and all those hoops that you have to go through.
Speaker 2: Somebody either deciding that they're not going to pay to
Speaker 2: get the healthcare or I should say, the childcare, and
Speaker 2: maybe they stay home. Who makes that sacrifice if that
Speaker 2: is one, Even though maybe one would argue once you
Speaker 2: have kids, the way I was raised is that your
Speaker 2: only purpose is to try to set them up to
Speaker 2: have a better life for themselves. Then you kick them
Speaker 2: out of the house and then you can party. He
Speaker 2: had eighteen years.
Speaker 1: It's it. The free ride is over.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and there's tons of tax breaks for married
Speaker 3: couples and with children.
Speaker 1: What about all the single people. We don't have anythings, Terling.
Speaker 1: It's just we get jobbed constantly. Really, you know that
Speaker 1: that's the that's the thing. But if all these single
Speaker 1: women want like just to use and abuse somebody, I
Speaker 1: mean it's a single guy in that window. I mean
Speaker 1: that's a good place. Is that too young for you?
Speaker 3: Twenty five to forty five? Because you're we're both the
Speaker 3: same age.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the rules are. Somebody told
Speaker 1: me five is not no, forty five is not for them. Uh.
Speaker 2: I had someone on the show who was in Men's
Speaker 2: Health magazine a few years ago. I should do a
Speaker 2: search now and have them back along because I know
Speaker 2: I saved the info and they said half your age
Speaker 2: plus seven years is as low as you should go. Okay, right,
Speaker 2: so you figure thirty five thirty is thirty, yes, and
Speaker 2: that seems really young.
Speaker 1: Yes, But I will own this. I have.
Speaker 2: I have gone out with women in their their younger
Speaker 2: thirties and not that long ago, mid thirties, and and uh,
Speaker 2: it's a blast. But they're wanting to go and run
Speaker 2: around and party and do stuff. I've been there and
Speaker 2: done that, and part of it is not my age.
Speaker 2: But I mean, for how many years was I out
Speaker 2: doing bar gig after bar gig and show after show
Speaker 2: and introducing bands and hanging out and having drinks. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's exhausting. You go do that. I'll be at the house.
Speaker 2: Come see me after. You know what I mean, what
Speaker 2: are you doing at the house? You got the Bengals on,
Speaker 2: you got you got sports. I'll make some drinks, we'll
Speaker 2: hang out. I'll make some food, I'll cook dinner. It
Speaker 2: works out, there's nothing wrong with the flicks, hill whatever.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they just want to leave and that's fine,
Speaker 2: visit me and then go on your way. That's where
Speaker 2: it is. I can be a more mature, like middle aged.
Speaker 2: Uh boy, toy?
Speaker 1: Is that? I mean, that's a possibility. I don't mean
Speaker 1: like to play with What did you just saying about
Speaker 1: commitments earlier? There might be something to that. No, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm very good at being committed.
Speaker 3: Are you happy being single right now? Are you happy
Speaker 3: doing that?
Speaker 1: Here's here's why it's great.
Speaker 2: Okay, And if you find the right person, I think
Speaker 2: you can still make it work this way. But I
Speaker 2: don't have to answer to anybody. There is no woman
Speaker 2: going where were you? What were you doing? Who were
Speaker 2: you talking to? It's just hey, do you want to
Speaker 2: get together later? You want to meet up tomorrow night
Speaker 2: and grab some grub whatever else it happens to be
Speaker 2: and have a drink.
Speaker 1: That's perfect, okay. So I love the time me. I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting on that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I love that you said that, because
Speaker 3: that's what twenty twenty six relationships are going to be like.
Speaker 3: They're instead of fear based, where were you? Why didn't
Speaker 3: you called? All those things are like excuse me what?
Speaker 3: I was busy doing my stuff? You big, get busy
Speaker 3: doing yours. They're going to be like, hey, I know
Speaker 3: you're busy, call me when you get a second. That
Speaker 3: is is the self love that you give yourself, so
Speaker 3: you're not dependent. You're not outsourcing the safety stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's what we talked that's a callback. That's what
Speaker 3: we talked about earlier, and that's what's coming in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six because people are doing their work.
Speaker 2: I mean in a big picture of things. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to live my life down, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I'm just trying to find my way
Speaker 2: in the world, like everybody else. And I think, like
Speaker 2: everyone else, I would like to find a woman to
Speaker 2: complete me. It will happen at some point, or you know,
Speaker 2: they're out there on the they're available on the internet
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: I've heard all my friends you're all on dating apps.
Speaker 1: Well a lot of them are.
Speaker 2: And I don't do that, but at a lot of
Speaker 2: my friends, I mean, they found these female friends and
Speaker 2: male friends. They have found their perfect partners, and most
Speaker 2: of them have been together for a ridiculous amount of
Speaker 2: time and make it work. What's interesting is when they
Speaker 2: try to fix you up, you kind of go, oh,
Speaker 2: this she's great for you, she's perfect, she's like your
Speaker 2: other half, and then you go, really, I don't know
Speaker 2: me at all, And then the woman's are like the
Speaker 2: same thing, Like, well, I mean we have drinking is
Speaker 2: all right, but I mean I don't know what they're
Speaker 2: both obviously high or whatever else. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: the sort of the way I go. Yeah, speaking of
Speaker 2: a relationship stuff. Because you came into play and to
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Speaker 2: likes to say, that I caused more than I solved,
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Speaker 1: Well, I try.
Speaker 3: I do my best too, but we also keep it
Speaker 3: lighthearted and fun. And doctor West will be with me.
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