Speaker 1: It's the weekend. Sterling back seven hundred w WELW on
Speaker 1: the road headed to Green Bay Lambeau Field along with
Speaker 1: the football whude Bengals. James Rapine locked on Bengals the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals talk as I he's everywhere, Thanks for making time.
Speaker 1: This is a weird week, and it is always a
Speaker 1: challenging thing week after week in the NFL. But the
Speaker 1: Bengals did something. They went from Joe in a tow
Speaker 1: issue to Jake Browning to now a knew Joe who's
Speaker 1: not all that new really, former Raven. He's gotten around
Speaker 1: a little bit. Was with the Browns for eight and
Speaker 1: a half minutes, and he actually beat Green Bay a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago in a shocker. Now he's trying
Speaker 1: to figure out new play schemes and working with some
Speaker 1: elite receivers what he's not necessarily familiar with. How does
Speaker 1: this look on the outside, just a couple of days
Speaker 1: away from kickoff in Lambeau.
Speaker 2: Extremely challenging, I'll be honest with you, like extremely challenging.
Speaker 2: I think the Bengals they needed to make a change
Speaker 2: and to do this to give themselves a chance. I
Speaker 2: also think it's it's really hard to find the realistic
Speaker 2: path to them winning a game against the Green Bay
Speaker 2: team that's thinking Super Bowl, and I get it. The
Speaker 2: Bengals are too, and that's their mindset, but it's just
Speaker 2: a really tough spot to be in. Doesn't mean they
Speaker 2: won't it surprise me, but having him come in here
Speaker 2: basically get here Tuesday night and I've made that drive,
Speaker 2: as you know, down seventy one plenty and while he
Speaker 2: wasn't while he wasn't driving, it's a that's a tough
Speaker 2: ask to go from there to now. You're practicing in
Speaker 2: a with new players on Wednesday, and your meetings on
Speaker 2: Wednesday and in Thursday, same thing. Friday, you meet with
Speaker 2: the media the first time for the first time. Today
Speaker 2: you're flying to Green Bay and you gotta deal with
Speaker 2: the packers at Lamba on Sunday. Like there's just there's
Speaker 2: a lot to it. It's not impossible, but it's extremely challenging.
Speaker 1: And if he were to get that win with the Bengals,
Speaker 1: which would be a nice turnaround after going two and
Speaker 1: oh we complained about a slow start for weeks. Would
Speaker 1: we not have been happy to trade an Oh for
Speaker 1: three if we had kept Joe's toe healthy and Burrow
Speaker 1: under center, Yeah sure, sure, and then O and three
Speaker 1: for Jake Browning, who he's still the number two in
Speaker 1: this situation, So his head has got to be in
Speaker 1: a weird place. I mean, he knows how he performed
Speaker 1: or failed to perform in that circumstance, but he's got
Speaker 1: to be ready to go if in fact, something happens
Speaker 1: to Flacco.
Speaker 2: No doubt. And that's that's what's tough, is this juggling act.
Speaker 2: I will say this, I do respect that the Bengals
Speaker 2: went right to Flacco right away. I do think that's
Speaker 2: the right move because it's not like starting Jake would
Speaker 2: give you a better chance against Green Bay. Like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't feel any better about it. If anything, the unknown
Speaker 2: in that curveball may make it a little tougher on
Speaker 2: Green Bay. But you're right, like Jake has to stay
Speaker 2: dialed in because he's one play away from playing, and
Speaker 2: so it's it's tough. There's a lot of emotions that
Speaker 2: go into it. At the same time, did it feel
Speaker 2: like at any point over the past three weeks like
Speaker 2: this Bengals offense was close to figuring it out. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna let Yeah, even a few touchdowns against the
Speaker 2: Lions in garbage time, like that's.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: I don't Maybe you can build off that, maybe you can't.
Speaker 2: And what I will say is talking to the guys
Speaker 2: in the locker room this week, they are buying into
Speaker 2: Joe flacka.
Speaker 1: Well, they have to, don't they. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: some strong pedigree, he's got experience. They've seen him, they've
Speaker 1: competed against him, they know what that's like. So for
Speaker 1: him to step in that's pretty large. He also hasn't
Speaker 1: had some of the weaponry that he can work with Chase,
Speaker 1: who's questionable. I guess in Higgins, how is Chase and
Speaker 1: what are I mean it's hard for somebody to step
Speaker 1: in like that. How do they keep him comfortable and
Speaker 1: capable with plays that fit into what the Bengals are
Speaker 1: already comfortable and familiar with to be able to go
Speaker 1: in there and be functional because there's a lot to
Speaker 1: learn in just a short amount of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you go with the stuff that the
Speaker 2: Joe is most comfortable with. And that's what Friday was
Speaker 2: and that's what today is is figuring out what what
Speaker 2: is he comfortable with? What is he like from a
Speaker 2: literally from a play to play standpoint, and what is
Speaker 2: he kind of questioning now? And that's that's one of
Speaker 2: the many things from a rhythm standpoint that Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: and Zach Taylor they're going to have to get down
Speaker 2: and the rest of the coaching staff they're gonna have
Speaker 2: to continue to iron that out. But yeah, go with
Speaker 2: what you know and understand that your job is to
Speaker 2: get the ball in the hands of your playmakers. This
Speaker 2: offense should be good. And I know that people bring
Speaker 2: up the offensive line and they're going to talk about
Speaker 2: Micah Parsons and you might ask me about that.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: I don't care who the defense is. This offense should
Speaker 2: still score and it should score every week. And we
Speaker 2: shouldn't be talking about three points in a halftime and in
Speaker 2: the game over by the half. That should never be
Speaker 2: the case when you have Joe Burrow or when you
Speaker 2: have excuse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many times is that going to happen in
Speaker 1: the booth for those guys calling the game on TV too,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It should. It might be a lot, but there's a
Speaker 2: reason they paid Jamar and they paid Tea and they
Speaker 2: kept Mike GEESICKI and then they go get Noah Fant
Speaker 2: and they were so optimistic about Chase Brown, like there's
Speaker 2: there's a lot of talent on this offense Sterling. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and so can Joe Flatco do his best Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: There we go, I did it right impression and maximize
Speaker 2: the weapons. The Bengals are banking on that a better
Speaker 2: option than Jake. We will see. But that's the challenge,
Speaker 2: not just tomorrow, but moving forward for this Bengals offense.
Speaker 1: Good seeing him, good, talking to him, good reading him.
Speaker 1: Locked on Bengals Cincinnati Bengals talk James for Pene was
Speaker 1: Sterling seven hundred WLWL kick off four twenty five Sunday,
Speaker 1: lambeau Field in Green Bay. You got to go through
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee to get there, unless you're flying or having
Speaker 1: a bad flight, which I've had in the past. I
Speaker 1: have to ask James Rapine in the midst of this,
Speaker 1: aside from the weaponry, what do we know about Chase?
Speaker 1: Is he able to suit up, play and go? Because
Speaker 1: everything I've read, I don't know if it's gamesmanship or
Speaker 1: if he's really not well.
Speaker 2: I would expect him to play good luck. I mean,
Speaker 2: it would have to be to me, it would have
Speaker 2: to be one hell of an illness to sideline him.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that. That's just me looking at
Speaker 2: who Jamar Chase is, knowing that he talked to us
Speaker 2: on Thursday, and then yeah, Zach Taylor takes him out
Speaker 2: of or not takes him out of practice, but doesn't
Speaker 2: have him practice on Friday. But you want him to
Speaker 2: get rest and he's going to have to rest up
Speaker 2: because he needs about twelve catches tomorrow. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: would expect him to play. Maybe it's gamesmanship, maybe he's
Speaker 2: really really sick. I don't know, but I'm expecting to
Speaker 2: see Jamar out.
Speaker 1: There as far as the running game, and that when
Speaker 1: they can't go with the deep ball, that there's been
Speaker 1: an opportunity obviously, you know with Chase Brown to sort
Speaker 1: of you know, drop off that pass, get an extra
Speaker 1: five maybe ten, snuck in there without going far deep
Speaker 1: the south. How does he looking what about tandem with him?
Speaker 1: Tight end work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's it's a good it's a
Speaker 2: good point to bring up because if you look at
Speaker 2: what Joe Flacco did this year in Cleveland or his
Speaker 2: past the running back. He's going to throw to the
Speaker 2: running back and Chase Brown. That's something he's worked on
Speaker 2: a ton since he's gotten to the league. And I
Speaker 2: thought he was gonna have a huge year and this
Speaker 2: year has just been weird for this offense. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got to be a factor for this team and
Speaker 2: a playmaker. And so get him the ball in space
Speaker 2: and maybe maybe that is the run game a little bit,
Speaker 2: but if it's not, then maybe it's the checkdowns. But
Speaker 2: he can certainly help you and these tight ends. I
Speaker 2: really think Noah and MIKEASICKI compliment each other really well.
Speaker 2: And there are a bunch of guys that I think
Speaker 2: are going to get a boost with Joe Flacco at quarterback.
Speaker 2: But you look at Mike Kasiki and that might be
Speaker 2: the number one guy. He had David and Joku and
Speaker 2: Harold fannin in Cleveland, and both guys were targeted plenty
Speaker 2: from Joe Flacco and in Joker's case a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago when they went to the playoffs and Joku
Speaker 2: really took off because of his report with Flacco. Don't
Speaker 2: be shocked at all if you see more of Noah
Speaker 2: fense and Mike Kasiki and them making game changing plays,
Speaker 2: moving the color.
Speaker 1: Talking to James Rapeen, locked on Bengals, Cincinnati Bengals talk
Speaker 1: on the Big One about Bengals in action Sunday taken
Speaker 1: on the Packers in Green Bay at Lambeau Field for
Speaker 1: twenty five, Packers two to one and one Bengals two
Speaker 1: and three. You know about the zero for three with
Speaker 1: Jake Browning under center. Flacco now the man with tiger
Speaker 1: strikes from one Joe to another. As far as this
Speaker 1: defense is concerned, I mean, they've given up their share
Speaker 1: of points. I mean, let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've improved, but have they really How
Speaker 1: disturbing is it going into Green Bay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Uh, it's tough. I think I'm curious to
Speaker 2: see this defense in a normal game when they aren't
Speaker 2: down by you know, the bajillion points and put into
Speaker 2: a bunch of bad situations And maybe that happens tomorrow
Speaker 2: at Lambau or maybe not. Maybe they're putting a bunch
Speaker 2: of bad situations again. But it's it's been tough to
Speaker 2: judge them because I do think that they're they work hard.
Speaker 2: I think for the most part they're on the same page,
Speaker 2: which I couldn't say last year. And the pass rush
Speaker 2: came alout a little bit last week, like there were
Speaker 2: signs they didn't let that that Lion's rushing attack break
Speaker 2: them like I think some thought it would, and then
Speaker 2: it put them and gave them a chance to rush
Speaker 2: the passer and they got after Jared Goff a little
Speaker 2: dead so and they put it together. I wonder, and
Speaker 2: I think it stinks to Mar Stewart isn't gonna play
Speaker 2: for another game, and he hasn't played since Weet two,
Speaker 2: and it's just it's painful to not have Schamar because
Speaker 2: when I look at this defense, Sterling, obviously Trey Hendrickson
Speaker 2: is a game changer. I think Dax Hill is the
Speaker 2: second best player on this defense right now. But it
Speaker 2: would be really nice if Shamar Stewart would emerge as
Speaker 2: another game changer. I just I'm not sure they have
Speaker 2: anyone right now that isn't Trey Hendrickson that can affect
Speaker 2: the game in the ways that maybe Chamar could if
Speaker 2: he was getting experience and learning and playing, because I
Speaker 2: do think he has a really high ceiling. So that's
Speaker 2: what I wonder. Who else is going to step up,
Speaker 2: not named Trey.
Speaker 1: Hendrickson anything that we've not covered in this short amount
Speaker 1: of time. Thank you for making it and letting us
Speaker 1: know where your head is and what we should expect
Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Cincinnati Bengals talk Locked on Bengals,
Speaker 1: James Rapine, what else is there before we let you.
Speaker 2: Bounce over the next five days, Sterling, the Bengals are
Speaker 2: going to play two games, that's right. Tomorrow is a
Speaker 2: very important game. But if they're competitive tomorrow, and I
Speaker 2: told people this yesterday in the build, Yes, if they're
Speaker 2: competitive tomorrow at Lambeau and Lewis and then come home
Speaker 2: and deep Pittsburgh, regardless of what happens between Cleveland and
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh this week, they're going to be right back in.
Speaker 2: There'll be three and four, they'll have any tiebreaker over
Speaker 2: the Steelers, and they'll be in second place in the division.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, as important is tomorrow is the next
Speaker 2: five days are really really important and finding a way
Speaker 2: to beat the Steelers on Thursday night is going to
Speaker 2: be big. So there we go. I didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: tease this game as as much as I probably should have.
Speaker 2: It is a big game. They all are big games.
Speaker 2: But the next five days it's going to go a
Speaker 2: long way in determining if Joe Flacu and the Bengals
Speaker 2: are going to be able to rebound after this two
Speaker 2: and three start.
Speaker 1: Strange to the days in the whole Trice State, up to
Speaker 1: the Miami Valley and beyond wherever Bengals Nation is. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean, people have seemed deflated, they've seemed depressed. It's
Speaker 1: just a little hope as we start feeling fall and
Speaker 1: leaves falling and start thinking more football and cold weather
Speaker 1: ahead of us. Everybody just seems like they're happier when
Speaker 1: the Bengals are winning. So we'll see.
Speaker 3: How about.
Speaker 1: Thanks for making time. We'll look for it. Five days, Yeah,
Speaker 1: big five and it all starts Sunday. James Rapeen, Lockdown, Bengals,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, talk SI and all over the Benguin here
Speaker 1: on your weekend with Sterling on seven hundred WLW. Thank you, James,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself.
Speaker 2: Thanks to appreciate you.
Speaker 1: And from summer to full on fall, it's like eighty
Speaker 1: four and then into the sixties and fifties, which I
Speaker 1: mean it's October the way it's supposed to feel. Glad
Speaker 1: you're here, Leam, keeping me in line and on time,
Speaker 1: and a lot of ground to cover Later Kevin Carr,
Speaker 1: fat guys at the movies who join us. We'll talk
Speaker 1: on what's new as a theater, maybe some streaming stuff
Speaker 1: as well. That's after ten o'clock. Doctor Dona schleg former
Speaker 1: head of political science at Wright State, now known as
Speaker 1: Professor Emerida, gonna join us with the latest on the
Speaker 1: Israeli Hamas peace steel. Looks like they're another step closer
Speaker 1: to getting things closer to normal and peaceful and then
Speaker 1: rebuilding and everything that goes with that. So we'll pick
Speaker 1: her brain about that about ten to eleven minutes from
Speaker 1: right now. And also the government shutdown, which it continues,
Speaker 1: and now they're slashing jobs, not just furlowing people temporarily
Speaker 1: or expecting people to work for no pay and then
Speaker 1: get back pay later. Apparently now they're starting to like
Speaker 1: blow people out and to let them go in the
Speaker 1: midst of all this. So we'll get some nuts and
Speaker 1: bolts on that as well. A little bit later, something
Speaker 1: else to get into.
Speaker 3: I had.
Speaker 1: I had a flashback and it was not drug related.
Speaker 1: It was not because I had a blunt head trauma,
Speaker 1: you know, falling off a piece of so called modern
Speaker 1: art on the square when I was a little sterling,
Speaker 1: but it might have been a part of that. It's
Speaker 1: talking to my neighbor and with their kids and them
Speaker 1: complaining to their parents about going to their grandma and
Speaker 1: grandpa's house and having issues with they had new carpet
Speaker 1: apparently and furniture, which made me flash back to being
Speaker 1: a kid again going to friends' houses because apparently their
Speaker 1: grandparents have plastic runners now running through their house on
Speaker 1: their new carpet in playing flooring or whatever they had done,
Speaker 1: as well as covers on their furniture, plastic covers on
Speaker 1: the furniture. And the kids are not teeny tiny walking
Speaker 1: around germ monsters. Everything's a mess everywhere they go. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're I don't know, close to middle school age. I
Speaker 1: would think they'd be a little less destructive at that point.
Speaker 1: But it got me thinking about being little and going
Speaker 1: to some of my friend's houses and even relatives' houses
Speaker 1: where they did the same thing. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I didn't think anyone still did that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to cough up the cash
Speaker 1: to get something nice and new with the house. I
Speaker 1: totally understand wanting to keep it nice, but having plastic
Speaker 1: covers on your seating, on your sofas, in your chairs,
Speaker 1: and having to walk on a plastic runner just seems
Speaker 1: like over the top. I mean, there was a formal
Speaker 1: living room at the house of Sterling. I only saw
Speaker 1: coming in and out of the house. I was never
Speaker 1: supposed to sit there. I think occasionally when somebody came
Speaker 1: trying to sell stuff, they would sit there in a
Speaker 1: presentation scenario. Maybe at the holidays there would be something
Speaker 1: going on in that front and part of the house.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it was just my job to vacuument on occasion
Speaker 1: and walk through quickly without touching stuff. But it was
Speaker 1: not covered and plastic. There were not plastic runners on
Speaker 1: the floor, which why get the new floor, why get
Speaker 1: the new furniture if it's hermetically sealed. And I can
Speaker 1: just remember effectively either wearing shorts in the summertime sort
Speaker 1: of getting stuck and having to peel off my legs
Speaker 1: and stuff off the seats, and then you know, getting
Speaker 1: hollered at for not staying on the runners. While walking,
Speaker 1: which is sort of a strange thing. And it'd be
Speaker 1: like workers coming to the house to do something and
Speaker 1: having the foot covers their plastic temporarily roll on sticky
Speaker 1: stuff to protect your things. But living in that way
Speaker 1: all the time. I just my brain as I try
Speaker 1: to process it. I wonder, when the grandkids aren't around,
Speaker 1: if they unseal the furniture so they can at least
Speaker 1: enjoy the new stuff and roll up the mats, or
Speaker 1: they spent the money so that they have to. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's odd. It's basically furniture and carpet condoms. Why
Speaker 1: get involved in I mean it sort of ruins the fun.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're gonna make baby sofas and new rugs.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I mean, what, what the hell
Speaker 1: do I know? You're nine thirty report straight away? Jack
Speaker 1: Cromley's like really sterling, Yeah, really, He's got the latest
Speaker 1: on everything going on from that explosion at the munition's
Speaker 1: plant in Texas or in Tennessee rather as well as
Speaker 1: everything else that's going on. Doctor Doni Shchleck on the
Speaker 1: other side talking Israel, Hamas and the piece as well
Speaker 1: as government shut down movie stuff. Later on and maybe
Speaker 1: keeping your furniture and your floors saved from dirty kids
Speaker 1: and what have you. I just just flashed back to
Speaker 1: being little again, and the kids were complaining, their parents
Speaker 1: were laughing, and I just stood there in bewilderment, sort
Speaker 1: of flashing back as my crazy dog was like, let's
Speaker 1: get on with the walk. It's time for news. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you being here. It's a Friday night on the Nation
Speaker 1: station where those football bear Cats get it at it.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow at noon on seven hundred WLW, stay Sterling hanging
Speaker 1: out the peace seemingly inching towards it again in the
Speaker 1: Middle East with Israel and humas someone who knows about
Speaker 1: that type of thing published the first textbook on terrorism.
Speaker 1: Former head of political science Wright state she's a Cincinnati
Speaker 1: kid now Professor Meredith was Sterling on seven hundred w WELW,
Speaker 1: Doctor Donna Schleck, how are you tonight.
Speaker 4: Hi, Sterling. Good to talk to you about some good news.
Speaker 1: Huh, it'd be nice, yeah, a little bit. US troops
Speaker 1: are going to be a part of the piece in
Speaker 1: some fashion, apparently on the ground or en route to
Speaker 1: Israel now, but not going to be in Gaza, as
Speaker 1: I understand it. What a week it's been in this
Speaker 1: piece deal, which seems to be a little bit closer
Speaker 1: to reality.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it is a big, big step toward peace.
Speaker 4: It's just some baby steps at this point, but I
Speaker 4: think some things have already happened that you know, when
Speaker 4: we think about some of the true high points in
Speaker 4: President Trump's second term, we are probably experiencing them right now.
Speaker 4: Everything that Joe Biden had thought but was unable to accomplish, obviously,
Speaker 4: the hostage and the prisoner exchange, surging aid in and
Speaker 4: at least a temporary cease fire and a partial is
Speaker 4: rarely pullback. That's what this agreement currently will be in
Speaker 4: the process of accomplishing. It's a small step, and the
Speaker 4: really big and the really complicated work has you have
Speaker 4: to get seriously underway. But we can look forward to
Speaker 4: I expect not just President Trump addressing the Israeli Kanessant,
Speaker 4: but also probably signing this agreement in Egypt. It's been
Speaker 4: since nineteen ninety three when President Bill Clinton signed one
Speaker 4: of these with the Israeli Prime Minister and Yasir Arafat.
Speaker 4: It's been that long since there's been such a major
Speaker 4: agreement and once again, in this case, an American president
Speaker 4: is putting his name on that document. It's a big commitment.
Speaker 4: Central Command has those two hundred troops, those American troops
Speaker 4: on their way nominally to be in charge of coordinating
Speaker 4: what will be a massive surge in food and fuel
Speaker 4: and obviously medical supplies to the region. Palestinians are already
Speaker 4: walking walking back to their hometowns and their homes if
Speaker 4: they're fortunate enough to still find them standing, So there
Speaker 4: will be a major surge happening. America will be providing
Speaker 4: some security for that. And the Trump administration is talking
Speaker 4: about convening some major summits of the Arab Muslim the
Speaker 4: wealthy Gulf states who will be part of the reconstruction process,
Speaker 4: which literally the moment the hostage release the prisoners are
Speaker 4: exchanged happens. Sterling. If the ceasefire can continue to hold,
Speaker 4: because it's just a twenty four hour ceasefire, then we
Speaker 4: get to talk about reconstruction and all the complicated arrangements.
Speaker 4: Does Hamas have to lay down their arms? Do they
Speaker 4: sign amnesty? Israel has already said they will be allowed
Speaker 4: to leave under safe escort to any country that they
Speaker 4: choose to go to, but still so many big questions.
Speaker 4: But we have ceasefire. People are walking home home. American
Speaker 4: leadership made this happen, and we will be signing on
Speaker 4: the bottom line and providing security guarantees. So we are
Speaker 4: involved in a major, major way.
Speaker 1: Former head of political science at Right State and now
Speaker 1: Professor merit to doctor Donna Schik was sterling on the
Speaker 1: Big one seven hundred WLW. This is a joyous occasion
Speaker 1: in the midst of what has been so much bloodshed,
Speaker 1: so many people homeless, you know, literally their lives just
Speaker 1: up heaved from what they had had previously, the loss
Speaker 1: of some twelve hundred lives plus those hostages taken on
Speaker 1: the seventh of October twenty three, so just a couple
Speaker 1: of days past that anniversary some two years ago when
Speaker 1: that took place. To now to some fragile piece, I guess,
Speaker 1: And fragile's the key word, doctor Schlahek, isn't it, Because
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been one of these things that
Speaker 1: every so often comes around. Nothing quite to this extent
Speaker 1: have we seen the destruction in the battle in the
Speaker 1: war trying to seek out homas as we've seen in
Speaker 1: these last this last period of time, but tenuous, I
Speaker 1: guess would be to say the least the piece, right.
Speaker 4: I think that is absolutely the right word. It's going
Speaker 4: to be fragile, and we have to now begin that
Speaker 4: process of making up the arrangements as we go along.
Speaker 4: And you know, the good news is we have current
Speaker 4: places that are rebuilding after civil wars and protracted conflicts Bosnia,
Speaker 4: certainly in Northern Ireland, there is a model for trying
Speaker 4: to put a you know, a hostile situation back into
Speaker 4: a functioning economy and even a local political system. But
Speaker 4: everything new will have to be invented. For GOSSA, the
Speaker 4: police forces, all of civil society will hopefully return and
Speaker 4: be participating, but so many of the function a decisions.
Speaker 4: Right now, Israel is pulling back to a line in
Speaker 4: which they'll occupy a little more than fifty percent of GASA.
Speaker 4: So we have a temporary ceasefire hostage exchange coming and
Speaker 4: then after that this is when the previous you know
Speaker 4: process has broken down. So we are at that very
Speaker 4: delicate moment for the what next steps. So keep an
Speaker 4: eye on on what is signed and promised in Egypt.
Speaker 4: It looks to me like it's going to be a
Speaker 4: long long process with an American involvement for security and
Speaker 4: aspects way bigger than the two hundred American troops who've
Speaker 4: just been mentioned. Amazing, i'd but that security guarantee that
Speaker 4: was demanded not just by Hamas, which was afraid that
Speaker 4: the shelling might resume, but also by Gutter, you know,
Speaker 4: the negotiating country who'd been leading the you know, being
Speaker 4: being the intermediary. Uh, they've demanded it too. So there's
Speaker 4: a lot of responsibility here for the United States to
Speaker 4: continue to police, to secure you know, go ahead and
Speaker 4: pick your verb of choice, but this is a big
Speaker 4: American commitment, and the vision for where we're actually going
Speaker 4: to end up it all has to be invented at
Speaker 4: this point, not from you know, not from absolutely you know, scratch,
Speaker 4: but nonetheless, everything will be negotiated from hereout. And the
Speaker 4: Israeli press has been talking about the fact that where
Speaker 4: things stand right now, they resume the right to do
Speaker 4: what's necessary to maintain security at that at the point
Speaker 4: where they're occupying. So there is no peace, there's not
Speaker 4: even a long term cease fire in place. So many wheels,
Speaker 4: so many you know, things in motion right now, literally
Speaker 4: twenty four to seven, but with the President flying there
Speaker 4: on Sunday, probably talked to the connestant on Monday signed something.
Speaker 4: In Egypt, things go on light speed, don't they. It
Speaker 4: reminds me of COVID. They had a light speed instruction
Speaker 4: and things are just hitting a pace right now that
Speaker 4: we've never really seen. So it's fragile. The American is
Speaker 4: the critical pivotal guarantee and President Trump will be personally
Speaker 4: signing the agreement, so we will know it as one
Speaker 4: of the most important moments in his second term in
Speaker 4: his presidency.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty amazing thing. And obviously I mean Trump
Speaker 1: leading the way there, his envoys working steadfast on all
Speaker 1: of that, a number of Americans in the midst of it,
Speaker 1: and also so many other countries in the region a
Speaker 1: party to this, which has not necessarily historically always been
Speaker 1: the case. So let's hope that the piece holds and
Speaker 1: a president can get there and get stuff done, and
Speaker 1: then we can talk start talking about the rebuilding and
Speaker 1: everything else in the days ahead. Former head of political
Speaker 1: science at Right State Cincinnati, kid doctor Dona Schlek from
Speaker 1: Right State now Professor Amerida. I want to shift this
Speaker 1: if we can to conversation and brief about the government shutdown,
Speaker 1: because this is into the second week, will be three soon.
Speaker 1: They are now not just people who are working for
Speaker 1: free and waiting for recoup dollars, you know, once the
Speaker 1: government gets their act together, but they're in the furloughs.
Speaker 1: But now there are apparently thousands of people being fired.
Speaker 1: I have a question in relation to all of this
Speaker 1: that I find interesting, and that what they've said is
Speaker 1: that it is going they're going to be firing people
Speaker 1: and going after agencies and things that are Democrat projects.
Speaker 1: What exactly does that mean when we talk about the
Speaker 1: federal government and what they're doing, if it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be for we all the people, I'm curious.
Speaker 4: I think that is a great question. I have wondered
Speaker 4: it no specifics at all that that would give us
Speaker 4: any clue who might be on that list. There's a
Speaker 4: question of its legality. This hasn't been done in previous shutdowns,
Speaker 4: so once again we're looking at another question of expansion
Speaker 4: of presidential authority. You and I know the lawsuits are
Speaker 4: being lined up right now as we speak. But Sterling,
Speaker 4: that's the question, are these you know, employees, are the
Speaker 4: people working on favorite you know, favorite programs, zero details
Speaker 4: from the administration.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a difficult thing. And because the government's
Speaker 1: here for everyone, it is not meant to be a
Speaker 1: one side or another isolated kind of thing. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to make all of our lives better and do the
Speaker 1: work the government has been you know, laid out to
Speaker 1: do for for we the people. So it'll be interesting,
Speaker 1: guess to see how it plays out as these talks continue.
Speaker 1: I mean, the politics of it is a big deal,
Speaker 1: and it's a he said, she said, or a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of he SAIDs going on at this point as
Speaker 1: far as pointing the finger of blame when that parties
Speaker 1: come together to find a way to get this done
Speaker 1: with opening the government again, Historically, what have we seen
Speaker 1: as that process gets done because they kick the can
Speaker 1: down the road. It seems, as long as I've been
Speaker 1: behind a microphone here going back to the late nineties.
Speaker 4: Kicking the can, I think that's as useful a metaphor
Speaker 4: as we're going to find. I imagine furloughed people will
Speaker 4: be paid. I think that has been the tradition. Your
Speaker 4: point was a very good one that you know, the
Speaker 4: civil service is meant to operate as administrations change. Right,
Speaker 4: So you may serve a Democrat, you may serve a Republican.
Speaker 4: You may have served both during your time in the
Speaker 4: civil service. And they don't write the policy. Their job
Speaker 4: is to implement it. That's what Congress does when agencies
Speaker 4: are created. But you want the continuity. You know, whether
Speaker 4: it is finding out if you're eligible or you have
Speaker 4: a social security question. Those things aren't being answered right
Speaker 4: now in anything within days, for example, when people might
Speaker 4: call in if you have a change of status. You're right,
Speaker 4: that's the heart of a civil service continuity across changes
Speaker 4: in administration. That that's why it is when you talk
Speaker 4: about terminating people under these conditions even more completely out
Speaker 4: of the ordinary. I keep reminding myself to get used
Speaker 4: to out of the ordinary. There is very quiet conversation
Speaker 4: going on, and some prominent Republicans have spoken up about,
Speaker 4: you know, the need to return the subsidies. So are
Speaker 4: we going to get a clean, ser reopened government. I
Speaker 4: think we'll call it a cr fluff because the Democrats
Speaker 4: have argued, and they're arguing somewhat persuasively to people that
Speaker 4: the support to people given the current cost of living
Speaker 4: remember that campaign in twenty four about the cost of living, housing, food,
Speaker 4: et cetera. To look at a potential doubling of your
Speaker 4: health insurance premiums is it's not bearable. That means people
Speaker 4: might be giving up insurance altogether. And when there are
Speaker 4: children involved, it's just it's the last outcome that you
Speaker 4: want to see when much of that healthcare is of
Speaker 4: the preventive nature. Anyway, to come back to your question, though,
Speaker 4: how will this one unfold? The market is not reacting happily.
Speaker 4: We have quiet conversations going on, more numbers, not massive,
Speaker 4: Republicans speaking out about the need to maybe take a
Speaker 4: look at that component the big bill and continue those
Speaker 4: subsidies in perpetuity. Probably not, but it says to me Sterling,
Speaker 4: what a complete loss of trust there must be in
Speaker 4: DC right now. Please reopen the government and then we'll
Speaker 4: have a serious conversation about healthcare. That's not sufficient. That's
Speaker 4: where we are.
Speaker 1: Well, it'd be nice to it'd be nice to see
Speaker 1: that the same focus and drive and what looks to
Speaker 1: be on the outside of this piece deal with Israel
Speaker 1: and Hamas, and that attention put to that which is
Speaker 1: obviously a topic a scenario globally could be turned to
Speaker 1: getting the government back to work so that our military
Speaker 1: families are veterans and all of us paying tariff taxes
Speaker 1: at this point don't have to worry about all of this.
Speaker 1: You know, where's the next meal coming from and healthcare
Speaker 1: and everything else, so we'll see that they get back
Speaker 1: to work. I hate to be brief, always insightful, great information,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you you're lending your insights in perspective
Speaker 1: and doing what you do. Doctor Slake. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the rest.
Speaker 4: Of your weekend and you take care.
Speaker 1: Take care. She's doctor Donna Schlake, former head of political
Speaker 1: science at Wright State and Dayton professor Meridan Now she
Speaker 1: has a Cincinnati kid with Sterling on seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: working tonight. I better step up my game, trying not
Speaker 1: to suck. You know what I'm saying, it's living better
Speaker 1: through lower expectations. Things got to stop. Liam producing telling
Speaker 1: me crazy stuff at home as he was coming up,
Speaker 1: because we're talking about the furniture being covered and everything else.
Speaker 1: Before we talked to Donna slag on that and a
Speaker 1: couple of people reach out, which is interesting. They message
Speaker 1: me to ask about the Detroit game, because see, the
Speaker 1: Reds aren't in. They're done. They're waiting for a tune
Speaker 1: up in a hot stove league action in the you know, goodyear,
Speaker 1: come spring and winter ball because they got to well,
Speaker 1: they went to the wildcard playoff and then they dropped
Speaker 1: a quick two in La and LA's played on. But
Speaker 1: apparently the time it took to reach out to me,
Speaker 1: they could have found out the score. But I'm here
Speaker 1: to help Tigers on the road in Seattle. After six
Speaker 1: they've doubled up on the Mariners two to one. They
Speaker 1: lead in this series that's tied two games to two.
Speaker 1: The division series looking to get to the league Championship series,
Speaker 1: which will continue on in the days ahead. Tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: it's Cubs and Brewers, their series also tied to to
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend a lot of time talking
Speaker 1: about it, but I try to service it because I
Speaker 1: know what's going on. It's happening, so is Bengals in
Speaker 1: Green Bay with Joe Flacco. We went from Joe's Tow
Speaker 1: to Joe Flacco with Jake Browning in between a horrible,
Speaker 1: ugly bat oh for three stretch there after a two
Speaker 1: and oh start again. Starting for the season has been
Speaker 1: one of those things over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Everybody's been like please, no, not again. But you know,
Speaker 1: given a choice dinged up Joe Tow or you know
Speaker 1: for three, I think people would have taken an oh
Speaker 1: for three or something and said, Okay, get out of
Speaker 1: the hole. But we'll see how it goes. Maybe Flacco
Speaker 1: will surprise some people with a couple of days to
Speaker 1: work with Chase if he's feeling healthy, and Higgins and
Speaker 1: company and to maybe find themselves a win at Lambeau
Speaker 1: in Green Bay comes Sunday afternoon. It's a late kickoff
Speaker 1: four to twenty five.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: Full Uncovered starts with Ken Bruce Sunday at nine, and
Speaker 1: then of course tomorrow Bearcats look to get at a
Speaker 1: Central Florida at Nippert. It should be a good one
Speaker 1: and then we'll see if they can't keep the o
Speaker 1: their winning ways going and some big twelve actions. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there is that coming up. Kevin Carr, fat guys at
Speaker 1: the movies. You may know him as Silver Gecko on
Speaker 1: the Substack. We used to do the Chubby and Stick
Speaker 1: podcast together. That's still out there. I still get people
Speaker 1: messaging about the things we said there for wherever ago
Speaker 1: we'll get into his head about what's worth our time.
Speaker 1: Probably not so much at the drive in, though I
Speaker 1: know some drive ins are still open. But it's a
Speaker 1: little chili to do that. But maybe head of the
Speaker 1: theater do some streaming that's coming up after the news,
Speaker 1: the latest on a Tennessee explosion there at that factory
Speaker 1: munitions plant in the Middle East.
Speaker 4: Piece.
Speaker 1: There's so much other stuff going on in those big
Speaker 1: boats down on the river, like a flashback to the
Speaker 1: old days. I'd love to do a thing where we
Speaker 1: could do like a riverboat gambling and just go down
Speaker 1: the Ohio to New Orleans that way, but I think
Speaker 1: I'd probably get beaten and be broke before we got
Speaker 1: to Saint Louis, which that's maybe sharing too much information.
Speaker 1: Bengals play here, bear Cats play here, Musketeers play here,
Speaker 1: and those Reds too. It's news Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Sterling hanging out lean, keeping me in line. Kevin Carr,
Speaker 1: fat guys at the movie Silver Get go on substack.
Speaker 1: You can find there. He even shows up neatly in
Speaker 1: your mailbox virtually with comics and random other things. Kevin,
Speaker 1: how are you? How is everything in your world?
Speaker 3: Things are going okay? You know, we're sort of you know.
Speaker 5: How you hit the steady state where you're like, okay,
Speaker 5: it's like spitting plates and none of them are copl
Speaker 5: at this point. So I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. That's impressive. I cannot do that. I
Speaker 1: can barely just put them out of the dishwasher to
Speaker 1: the cabinet without throwing them onto the ground occasionally. So
Speaker 1: ah yeah, yeah, So listen, this is a strange time.
Speaker 1: The fall is full on.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 1: We went from the eighties to now, like you know,
Speaker 1: sixty or whatever, fifties, thirties, forties at night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we we really turned a corner, didn't we did.
Speaker 1: I mean it is officially long pants season for me,
Speaker 1: which is it's bittersweet because I try not to put
Speaker 1: the long pants on unless I have to.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: That means occasional business meetings, and I can even weasel
Speaker 1: away to shorts on those, but weddings and funerals people
Speaker 1: tend to appreciate the long pants. So here we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want to you don't want to show
Speaker 5: up at somebody's I mean, unless they're having like a
Speaker 5: beach wedding. I guess you could show up in like
Speaker 5: Bermuda shorts. Yeah, but you don't want to like walk
Speaker 5: in and like like short short you know, remember the
Speaker 5: remember how short shorts used to be, like like in
Speaker 5: the seventies. Like even if you watch like old basketball.
Speaker 1: Games, yeah, old NBA games or CD, I mean.
Speaker 5: It was like you you know, the wrong camera angles
Speaker 5: and you get a flash of things you didn't necessarily
Speaker 5: want to see, or maybe you did. Yeah, maybe that's
Speaker 5: why you're watching the game.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what percentage of the population would
Speaker 1: be tuning in just for a random peak, but you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, I suppose, you know, I guess that's
Speaker 1: the case.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There are still drive ins open. I've driven deliberately and
Speaker 1: checked online for a couple. Uh, so that's still happening,
Speaker 1: many of which have already turned to the horror genre
Speaker 1: to sort of like fill the needs and the once
Speaker 1: of the population and wants to show up and and
Speaker 1: check out a movie on the outside, going to the
Speaker 1: concession stand and everything. Uh, as far as that goes,
Speaker 1: when's the last time you went to a drive in?
Speaker 3: It's it's been a while.
Speaker 5: I would there was a there's a drive in up
Speaker 5: here in Columbus, and only I think only on in
Speaker 5: Columbus itself. I think there's a couple out in Lancaster
Speaker 5: or something like that. But I would take the kids
Speaker 5: now and then. It was just always fun. You can
Speaker 5: bring whatever, you know, snacks or stuff you wanted. It
Speaker 5: was kind of neat to just sort of sit there
Speaker 5: and watch the movie. It was I think the movie
Speaker 5: as it was one of the Planet of the Apes
Speaker 5: movies and a Transformers movie, so you know, that's the
Speaker 5: kind of stuff you watch. But no, you're right like
Speaker 5: the drive in during a horror time, watching spooky movies,
Speaker 5: and some of these will do like late night, you know,
Speaker 5: three four movies at a time. And then you can
Speaker 5: also back in the day, they'd have movies that only
Speaker 5: really went to drive in because they were so terrible.
Speaker 5: But those are they were like cheesy horror movies. There's
Speaker 5: one that's really famous. You can find the trailer on YouTube.
Speaker 5: It's called were Wolves on Wheels and it's about a
Speaker 5: biker gang that turns into werewolves and the trailer is amazing.
Speaker 3: The movie's terrible.
Speaker 1: All in the trailer. I mean that it was one
Speaker 1: of those things. I guess it sounds so werewolves driving
Speaker 1: around Now after they turned on the full moon to
Speaker 1: the wolf, did they still drive or did they leave
Speaker 1: their rides behind and then have to find them.
Speaker 5: No, no, there's there's literally a werewolf riding a motorcycle
Speaker 5: at one point. In films, it's you get to that
Speaker 5: point and you're like, Okay, there you are. There's the
Speaker 5: name of the movie. Rest of the movies terrible and
Speaker 5: it's funny. I met a guy from Germany who knew
Speaker 5: about the movie, had never seen it because he only
Speaker 5: wanted to see it projected on film at a theater,
Speaker 5: but get that print sent to Germany was cost prohibitive,
Speaker 5: and he was very jealous of me that I had
Speaker 5: actually seen it at some stupid movie marathon.
Speaker 1: You had no idea how good you had it. Globally,
Speaker 1: the people pain and suffering and wishing they could live
Speaker 1: the life of car which we were talking to Kevin Carr,
Speaker 1: by the way, so forget go on Substack. I know
Speaker 1: Adam's family in Scream, the original movie with David Rcatt
Speaker 1: and Nev Campbell, who's great. Courtney clar Cox is showing
Speaker 1: it at Starlight. I had friends telling me they were
Speaker 1: taking the kids tonight or I think or tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Well, which which which Adams family is it? Is it
Speaker 5: the just the first the big screen movie or or
Speaker 5: the cartoon?
Speaker 1: It's the No, it's the movie that has uh Ral Julia, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Angelica Houston, Christopher Lloyd Yeah. Yeah. So I guess they're
Speaker 1: going to do the double. Then they got like little kids,
Speaker 1: So this is going to be one of those memories.
Speaker 1: I would imagine those kids take with them the way
Speaker 1: we do from like forever ago. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Uh as far as regular film stuff goes, what's worth
Speaker 1: our time actually venturing to a theater where you can
Speaker 1: sit down by a thirty eight dollars thing of like
Speaker 1: popcorn and in a beverage Doctor Pepper in my case
Speaker 1: with a Cather.
Speaker 5: Well, you know cause the only movie the movie I
Speaker 5: saw this week because I get one big movie a week,
Speaker 5: and the one I saw this week is pron Aries,
Speaker 5: which is the latest Tron movie. And like the other
Speaker 5: Tron movies, they're they're great conceptually and visually, stories aren't fantastic,
Speaker 5: and the characters are kind of you know, two dimensional,
Speaker 5: even though it has three D graphics, they don't have
Speaker 5: three D characters, but it is a feast for your eyes.
Speaker 5: This New Tron movie, just like Tron Legacy was. If
Speaker 5: you're gonna go see it, go see it and see
Speaker 5: it in that Imax, see it in a big theater
Speaker 5: because it has it is the most impressive two hour
Speaker 5: nine inch nails video you're gonna see music video.
Speaker 1: And then they kind of.
Speaker 5: Just throw in some characters at a certain point, you know,
Speaker 5: but it's it's it's it's okay for a movie, but
Speaker 5: it still is worth seeing because it's it's it's just
Speaker 5: really super cool. It was the best way to describe it.
Speaker 1: So Jillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges in this version or this edition,
Speaker 1: I guess of the Tron series.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, the basic story is Jared Leto plays
Speaker 5: an AI soldier program that they can three D print
Speaker 5: into real life, but he can only the only last
Speaker 5: these three prince only lasts for like twenty nine minutes,
Speaker 5: and they're trying to find the code that allows them
Speaker 5: to be permanent, so you can go into the real
Speaker 5: world and basically just become Jared Leto, which I don't
Speaker 5: know if that's a goal that anyone or any program
Speaker 5: should have. But that's the basic justst of the movie.
Speaker 4: And it's, uh yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 5: It has a really good cast too. I mean you
Speaker 5: got uh Greta Greta I think it's what Greta Lee
Speaker 5: who plays She she's sort of the hero in this one.
Speaker 5: And you you mentioned Gillian Anderson is a relatively small part.
Speaker 5: Uh same. Jeff Bridge just pops in there because he
Speaker 5: has to. It's a Tron movie. He's got to show.
Speaker 5: Bruce Boxlaer does not show up, which is sort of
Speaker 5: on how is it disappointed in that? But I mean
Speaker 5: it's it's honestly, it's it's got some of the coolest
Speaker 5: video visual effects that you're gonna see probably until Avatar.
Speaker 1: Comes out at least how much a nine inch Nails
Speaker 1: is in it? And I just had two people paying
Speaker 1: me at Stirling Radio on ex or Twitter, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell people want to call it, and they're saying, what
Speaker 1: about what about the nine inch Nails like ego, Well.
Speaker 3: No, they do the soundtrack. The music is there now.
Speaker 5: I mean it's sort of like if you remember Tron Legacy,
Speaker 5: they had Daft punk to the soundtrack and so there
Speaker 5: was a there's a big part. We actually saw Daft
Speaker 5: Punk in one of the scenes.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: So Nine Inchails and they have some some songs if
Speaker 5: you want to hear them singing. They have a full
Speaker 5: soundtrack available. You can find it on Spotify and Amazon Music,
Speaker 5: Unlimited and stuff or wherever you listen to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, l right, heart, you don't.
Speaker 1: Be fired don't get me fired out, thank you, thank you. Yah.
Speaker 3: Yeah that works as well.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, no, it's but but it's a techno thing,
Speaker 5: but it has that Nine Inch Nails edge to it.
Speaker 1: Sure because.
Speaker 5: Because Resnor and Ross, they they are like executive producers.
Speaker 3: Of this, okay movie?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, yeah, got a hand in everything,
Speaker 1: I suppose. Yeah, that may kind of makes sense. Why
Speaker 1: not you know anything else? Like what are you watching
Speaker 1: streaming wise? Because we usually talk theater stuff in movies,
Speaker 1: But I mean there's so much streaming and we I've
Speaker 1: joked about it for a long time. Kevin Carr by
Speaker 1: the way, so sober Gecko on Substack, Fat Guys of
Speaker 1: the movies with Sterling on the big one. But I
Speaker 1: mean there are so many one places to stream new
Speaker 1: product or content. What what's caught your attention. What are
Speaker 1: you into because I mean it's endless.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, no, I've I like you said, I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm not at a point where I'm watching as much
Speaker 5: stuff as I used to, and I'm I'm a little
Speaker 5: behind on things like I'm I'm a couple episodes behind
Speaker 5: on Peacemaker, and I really like Peacemakers fun. It's a
Speaker 5: cool show because it plays around with comic book stuff
Speaker 5: that you don't normally see, and it's got a lot
Speaker 5: of adult content in there. Now I know, I think
Speaker 5: they just dropped the season finale, but I think two
Speaker 5: episodes behind, so I got kind of like the one
Speaker 5: of the big reveals. But it's it's it's it's a
Speaker 5: great show. I really like Peacemaker. I've been watching The Paper.
Speaker 5: Have you watched The Paper yet?
Speaker 1: I've seen the first episode and I will get to
Speaker 1: the rest of those. It's nice one. It's Ohio, right
Speaker 1: and too, it keeps caring. It's still Ohio. I think
Speaker 1: our Willie went to college there at least for a minute.
Speaker 1: And so the Glass City, as they say, but it's
Speaker 1: interesting how they show that the transition the way they
Speaker 1: were selling the paper products in this case, this paper
Speaker 1: trying to time so you cannot hear me. Hello, we
Speaker 1: lost Kevin somehow or he lost us. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the deal is there, are you there? Someone changed
Speaker 1: around who knows. Let's see if we can't get him
Speaker 1: back or whatever else. That's very weird that that would
Speaker 1: happen in that circumstance. But either way, Yeah, the paper
Speaker 1: I think is really good. I mean there's so much
Speaker 1: stuff that sort of goes along with it at this point, conjuring.
Speaker 1: There's all the the new conjuring last rites, which I
Speaker 1: think is really good. I like all the conjuring stuff
Speaker 1: just in general. I think it's kind of cool. You
Speaker 1: got Amiga and it's you know, American and Ukraine all
Speaker 1: the other stuff. And there's some other things too. Okay, Kevin,
Speaker 1: let's you got your back there?
Speaker 3: Mate? I am here still, yes, now, I am okay.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to think of what we you.
Speaker 3: Last we're talking about the paper, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I mean it's showing that transitional period that media
Speaker 1: is in in so many ways now and then trying
Speaker 1: to find a way to make it viable and something
Speaker 1: that people want to like see field touch read bystream
Speaker 1: or whatever, click on right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and a lot of it.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's not just about the death of newspapers
Speaker 5: because there is a financial you know, it's it's a
Speaker 5: lot cheaper to run a website. But it's showing kind
Speaker 5: of the behind the scenes that that even though when
Speaker 5: you go to a digital version it can get very clickbaity,
Speaker 5: it can get very and you start to blur that
Speaker 5: line of what real journalism is versus influencing, and that's
Speaker 5: that's a theme in there. But it's done in a
Speaker 5: very whimsical way, and it of course does remind me
Speaker 5: of The Office in a lot of ways. It is
Speaker 5: it's very derivative of the Office, but that's okay, it's
Speaker 5: the same creators. I'm not a big fan of Esmeralda.
Speaker 5: I think she's a little bit too much. But Tim
Speaker 5: Keye's fun in it because he's sort of on the
Speaker 5: same side as her, but he's a little more subtle.
Speaker 5: But it's warming up a bit to me. And I
Speaker 5: mean Donald Lison is great in it, and the rest
Speaker 5: of the cast is good. But again, yeah, you are
Speaker 5: kind of getting that Office spinoff, which is essentially what
Speaker 5: it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Very cool now one of the other things, the Toxic
Speaker 1: Avenger thing that came out and then was sort of
Speaker 1: re released that streaming now along with twenty eight weeks
Speaker 1: or twenty eight years later. I get confused. And then
Speaker 1: the most gleeful I've heard you about a movie in
Speaker 1: a long time was the Superman movie that's also streaming now.
Speaker 3: So that's HBO Max now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's a whole bunch of those that we
Speaker 1: may have not getting gotten a chance to go see
Speaker 1: in a theater that people can enjoy it at their
Speaker 1: own leisure on their device a choice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I speaking of James Gunn and Peacemaker. I mean
Speaker 5: that's he did Superman and there's some connective tissue between
Speaker 5: that and Peacemaker. So yeah, no, I mean it's it's
Speaker 5: a you know, you feel like you're in a bad
Speaker 5: position because on one hand, you're like, oh, this is
Speaker 5: really cool, this is all coming to watch it home,
Speaker 5: but then you didn't go see it in the theater, right,
Speaker 5: you know, So I feel bad when that happens. But no,
Speaker 5: it is nice when you're at home alone late at
Speaker 5: night and you're like, hey, want to watch something.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I can catch this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and catch up, which it seems like I'm constantly
Speaker 1: in ketch up mode. Always good to talk to you, man,
Speaker 1: Thank you for making time. I know you don't have
Speaker 1: to do this, and I know that you're busy. He's
Speaker 1: Kevin Carr, He's silver Gecko on the substack. You show
Speaker 1: up in the mailbox. Or do the comics? I had
Speaker 1: somebody ask me, without being too technical, how is it
Speaker 1: that you do the comic? Answered?
Speaker 5: I just write the comment. I write the jokes, and
Speaker 5: I sketch them out and the sketch looks kind of
Speaker 5: like you've written it with your own waste material in
Speaker 5: a padded room on the walls. But then my son
Speaker 5: then does the commy. He draws it. But it is
Speaker 5: a collaborative process because I usually land the jokes and
Speaker 5: have to You have to pace. You get four frames,
Speaker 5: you get four snapshots in time to do it. And
Speaker 5: it's evolved, and we're just getting ready to publish our
Speaker 5: first compilation book and a background of it on which
Speaker 5: which I'll let you know when that happens. It should
Speaker 5: be happening in the next week. And then you can
Speaker 5: look into the twisted minds of me and my son
Speaker 5: as we put these things together.
Speaker 1: That's very cool. It's a good to check him out
Speaker 1: and you can find him and to get him sent
Speaker 1: to your box too. Silver Gecko on substat Kevin Carr,
Speaker 1: thank you man. Enjoy the rest of your weekend with
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Speaker 3: Car all right, thank you. You have a good weekend too.
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Speaker 1: endure and then somehow, at some point maybe you've become
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Speaker 1: double oh had weird thing. I touched on this briefly earlier.
Speaker 1: Neighbors kids complaining about the grandparents house and plastic covers
Speaker 1: on furniture and runners on the floor because they got
Speaker 1: new furnishings and new flooring and they want to keep
Speaker 1: it as nice as possible for as long as possible.
Speaker 1: And I was talking the neighbor well the kids where
Speaker 1: they're whinding about going to grandparents' house, and I flashed
Speaker 1: back to being one of my aunt and uncle's houses.
Speaker 1: And then also one of my friends the neighbors. As
Speaker 1: a kid, growing up as a tiny sterling of a
Speaker 1: very similar circumstance which I never understood. I mean, you
Speaker 1: want to keep it nice and kids are inherently messy
Speaker 1: just by nature. Because I haven't really grown out of
Speaker 1: the sloppy part. I'm trying though, maybe a little late
Speaker 1: for me. But if you're going to buy new furniture,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been you know, lucky enough to have
Speaker 1: new furnishings or whatever, you want to come home from work, whatever,
Speaker 1: you enjoy your new sofa, you walk on your new floors,
Speaker 1: how quiet, how nice and warm heated floors. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: covering it up seems to ruin it. It's a weird thing,
Speaker 1: but apparently fairly common. Five point three seven four nine
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Speaker 1: up the phone, give it the finger. If you're checking
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Speaker 1: it's not the nineties party drug. It really isn't. It
Speaker 1: used to be Twitter at Stirling Radio. You can get
Speaker 1: involved that way as well. One of the other things
Speaker 1: that I came across that is pretty weird. And I
Speaker 1: can remember this. There was a girl I was probably
Speaker 1: it had to have been seventh or eighth grade, so
Speaker 1: at that point we're like, what fifteen, thirteen, fourteen somewhere
Speaker 1: in there, and a girl I would sort of hang
Speaker 1: out with through homework with it and so on. She
Speaker 1: wanted to get her haircut and do it a different way,
Speaker 1: sort of like a punk rock kind of haircut or
Speaker 1: whatever else, but they would not let her get her
Speaker 1: hair trim, change it or anything. I think her older
Speaker 1: sister had done something and jacked up her hair, and
Speaker 1: I mean they they were like insane about it. She'd
Speaker 1: talk about it and it would become like a big
Speaker 1: preaching moment of you're not touching your hair, you're not
Speaker 1: ruining your hair, you know, And I'm like, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: kind of not the life I grew up in, but
Speaker 1: that's what she was doing. So I'm wondering what strange
Speaker 1: house rule did you have as a kid growing up
Speaker 1: at your place or your grandparents' house, and maybe rules
Speaker 1: that you have that your kids would scratch their head
Speaker 1: about and ask you, you know, to not do something
Speaker 1: or whatever or think would be strange or weird the
Speaker 1: other thing that jumps out at one of my relatives' houses.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say which, aunt uh, if it was
Speaker 1: raining like a thunderstorm or whatever. She didn't want anyone
Speaker 1: on the telephone. I don't know if she thought we
Speaker 1: were gonna get electrocuted or whatever. And I filled with questions.
Speaker 1: I still am. It's sort of probably how I wind
Speaker 1: it up on the big one. So I'd ask, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with house gets hit by lightning? Are we
Speaker 1: gonna get shocked? What's gonna happens? Going to ruin the phone?
Speaker 1: And she never really gave me an answer. And I've
Speaker 1: talked to other people about that, and I think a
Speaker 1: generation or two ago that was a fairly common thing.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've ever dealt with that
Speaker 1: or not. I mentioned it to my mom some years
Speaker 1: ago and she goes, oh, yeah, people did that, but
Speaker 1: it was never that way in my house five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 1: eight hundred. The big one strange house rules as a
Speaker 1: kid that you had to endure, live through or and
Speaker 1: you never understood or maybe made great sense. Subsequently to
Speaker 1: Anderson and Earl was sterling on the big one. Hey earl.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you what. I had probably the strictest
Speaker 7: grandparents growing up. They lived in Norwood. In Norwood, and
Speaker 7: they go in her house. They had a she had
Speaker 7: a doll collection that was all enclosed to this glass
Speaker 7: cabin and I, you know, I looked at it and
Speaker 7: couldn't touch him. If you did, she'd have behold it.
Speaker 7: She had plastic cover, plastic cover on her couch if
Speaker 7: you sat on a couch in the summertime, they didn't,
Speaker 7: We didn't have then. It was so damn hot. The
Speaker 7: chairs at the dining room would be covered in plastic.
Speaker 7: I mean, I you know, that was the old sixties stuff,
Speaker 7: you know, the older people in the fifties and sixties,
Speaker 7: and you couldn't touch anything. You had to take your
Speaker 7: shoes off when you come in and walk around. And
Speaker 7: I went over there three times. That was it to
Speaker 7: see my grandparents. I stayed away.
Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding. You never you didn't go back. Now
Speaker 1: when they would come to your house, did they act
Speaker 1: weird because you weren't living the same hermetically sealed, plastic
Speaker 1: covered life.
Speaker 7: Not really, And they'd just come over once in a while,
Speaker 7: you know, we never seen them because they would be
Speaker 7: working too. But man, the plastic all over the place,
Speaker 7: and I'm going, you know, you never have to clean it.
Speaker 3: All is to do is the white throf for the
Speaker 3: damp cloths.
Speaker 7: But holy cow, I mean the cushions were covered in plastic,
Speaker 7: the armrests, the whole couch is the back.
Speaker 3: Do you know weird?
Speaker 1: I always, yeah, it is common. I guess there was
Speaker 1: of a certain time. I'm wondering, and no one can
Speaker 1: never give me an answer on this that when the
Speaker 1: kids weren't around, when we weren't there, did they uncover
Speaker 1: stuff so they could at least enjoy their hard work
Speaker 1: and what they paid for the nice stuff they wanted
Speaker 1: to keep nice? Or did they not get to enjoy
Speaker 1: it too?
Speaker 7: This was permanent plastic on the couch and on the chairs,
Speaker 7: on the back of the chairs chairs.
Speaker 1: Wow, so they you know, that's that's weird. They didn't
Speaker 1: get to enjoy either. No, I mean that's sort of
Speaker 1: defeats the whole purpose. I mean, you may as well
Speaker 1: just cover the dirty stuff and forget about it. That's weird. Ray,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call of your old Thank you man,
Speaker 1: I thank you, earl. I appreciate it. Rain Mainville was
Speaker 1: Sterling on the Big One. What strange house rules did
Speaker 1: you have coming up or maybe that you had for
Speaker 1: your kids.
Speaker 6: Well, this was when I was growing up. I had
Speaker 6: I was the baby of the family. I had two
Speaker 6: older brothers, and uh, my dad had a policy that
Speaker 6: we just thought was normal. It was just, you know,
Speaker 6: what was held in most households, but I think it
Speaker 6: was somewhat unique. Now, whenever there was a disagreement between
Speaker 6: any of the U, any of me and my brothers,
Speaker 6: we would put on boxing gloves and we would, uh,
Speaker 6: we would duke it out until there was a U
Speaker 6: you know, someoney lost and then it was done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that dealt with it. That's not a bad way
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 5: Ray.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. That's pretty good some times, you know,
Speaker 1: you come to blows, you just get it done, knock
Speaker 1: it out and carry on. Ali and Hyde Park message
Speaker 1: here on ex at Stirling Radio says that she grew up, uh,
Speaker 1: and they weren't allowed to have their cat or dog
Speaker 1: in their bedrooms for some reason, to sleep with them.
Speaker 1: I don't and that's all she says. So I don't
Speaker 1: know the rationale behind that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The only, and she says she's grown now and she
Speaker 1: doesn't care what her kids do does with with the pets.
Speaker 1: I guess in that regard, So Ali, thank you for
Speaker 1: getting online and interacting that way too. I remember, and
Speaker 1: uh I my one aunt would come over and I
Speaker 1: found out subsequently she was fearful of the wives tale
Speaker 1: that cats would take your breath away, like in your
Speaker 1: sleep or whatever. So I can remember when she stayed
Speaker 1: at the house when I was a kid, when we
Speaker 1: had cats and dogs and menagerie. I mean, I've had
Speaker 1: a box turtle since I was eight that will likely
Speaker 1: outlive me, so I mean there was always, you know,
Speaker 1: some broken, battered animal that we had rescued, and you know,
Speaker 1: in a litter of dogs or cats trying to find homes.
Speaker 1: It was chaos. And she'd be like, please can get
Speaker 1: the cat out from under the bed or whatever. And
Speaker 1: as a kid, I'm like, why, what's the cat gonna do?
Speaker 1: Leave when she's ready? It's like, no, you gotta get
Speaker 1: her out of there. So my mom then tells me,
Speaker 1: and then my aunt finally sort of begrudgingly admitted that
Speaker 1: she was afraid that the cat in your sleep would
Speaker 1: take your breath away, even as a grown woman. And
Speaker 1: then I started badgering her about that, which I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done, but I just thought it was the
Speaker 1: funniest thing I had ever heard, and apparently there are
Speaker 1: still people who have that kind of mindset to go
Speaker 1: along with it. Somebody else here sent me I think
Speaker 1: this this came from another story, said that apparently they
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to use lights after ten o'clock, lamps, TV,
Speaker 1: nothing electronic or electric late, other than to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I don't know what that means. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a conserving thing, if maybe it was
Speaker 1: grandparents or something right growing up in hard times, or
Speaker 1: maybe the post depression here a kind of scenario or
Speaker 1: what I mean. I don't think it was blackout like
Speaker 1: we were at war and you know back in World
Speaker 1: War two, where you know, you put stuff over your
Speaker 1: windows and things so that you know, if they were
Speaker 1: coming over bombing or something, you wouldn't see where the
Speaker 1: targets were or something like that. So I'd love to
Speaker 1: know if that's actually what that was. So hit me
Speaker 1: back and let me know that that's kind of odd.
Speaker 1: What is a stranger unusual house rule? As a kid
Speaker 1: coming up that you could couldn't have maybe pay attention
Speaker 1: to one thing or another, couldn't you know, do have
Speaker 1: access to or whatever. It's kind of odd. I did
Speaker 1: a search here also and looking to see and there
Speaker 1: are no shortage of lists that sort of go along
Speaker 1: with this topic, so which is kind of odd. One
Speaker 1: of these here says they had to drink a huge
Speaker 1: glass of milk every morning as a kid because the
Speaker 1: parents believe that they would help them grow tall. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that kind of makes sense. I mean, you know, dairy,
Speaker 1: you want to drink milk. Mom was a fan of
Speaker 1: milk too, But it says being lactose intolerant, it was
Speaker 1: not a good circumstance. It was almost child abuse. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you got to draw the line on how you get
Speaker 1: like your vitamins and stuff. I guess in relation to that,
Speaker 1: that could be pretty tough circumstance too, that you have
Speaker 1: to deal with.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Other one that goes along with this is they always
Speaker 1: had to it says here. Alex says they always had
Speaker 1: to open the curtains in the morning so that everybody could,
Speaker 1: like you know, be up and about and the house
Speaker 1: was wide open. And then they have to close them
Speaker 1: after dark. Okay, I mean that that's I guess that
Speaker 1: could be a strange house rule. I don't what light
Speaker 1: you let them in and not so much more aptor
Speaker 1: Jim at your turn was Stirling on the big one.
Speaker 1: Do you have strange house rules growing up as a.
Speaker 3: Kid, I have three of them.
Speaker 8: I allowed to give three.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 8: Number one is we weren't allowed to go swimming unless
Speaker 8: it was eighty four degrees, So we used to sit
Speaker 8: there and watch the weather report and if it wasn't
Speaker 8: eighty four degrees, we could not go swimming.
Speaker 1: How did they come up with eighty four not eighty five?
Speaker 3: Round?
Speaker 8: I had no idea. It was my mom's rule. Second thing,
Speaker 8: and this is going to be strange. We weren't allowed
Speaker 8: to flush the toilet. My mother would always want to see.
Speaker 8: You know, I don't know, this is gonna sound weird,
Speaker 8: but what was in there? And we used to have
Speaker 8: to take a laxative like every day too?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 8: And that was that was kind of strange.
Speaker 1: So I guess you kept your movements working. That's pretty
Speaker 1: what I remember as a kid hearing a thing. This
Speaker 1: is like in the seventies and eighties. If it's brown
Speaker 1: flushing down at the yellow, let it mellow. I guess
Speaker 1: which was to conserve water because nobody wants like it.
Speaker 1: You know, a toilet filled with stuff.
Speaker 8: I keep saying that to my wife now and she
Speaker 8: gets mad at me about that.
Speaker 1: I think you could have born a flush right, get
Speaker 1: rid of it.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know. When you get older, you go
Speaker 8: about fifteen twenty times. That's a lot of flush, and
Speaker 8: that's a big water bill.
Speaker 1: That's true. What's your third one? You got two so
Speaker 1: far there's no flushing and then there's no swimming unless
Speaker 1: it's eighty four.
Speaker 3: What was the third well?
Speaker 8: And the last it is that I would just sit
Speaker 8: there and throw it away. Yeah, she would give it
Speaker 8: to me, and you know, I just thought it was
Speaker 8: kind of weird and crazy. So I you know, I
Speaker 8: guess you're supposed to have a thing, you know.
Speaker 1: Just eat more fiber, I would think, rather than the
Speaker 1: lax of that's pretty wild, Jim. I appreciate you sharing,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you being comfortable enough to share, because
Speaker 1: that is a little different, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Nothing I know, I.
Speaker 8: Know that probably the weirdest thing you'll hear tonight.
Speaker 1: That's all right, that's we'll see how it goes. Jim,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, Thanks for listening, man being a
Speaker 1: part of the show quick Break, we'll come back. What
Speaker 1: is the strangest rule growing up at the house that
Speaker 1: you had to endure with your parents or grandparents? And
Speaker 1: what about your kids and maybe while they look at
Speaker 1: you and whatever rules you've composed on them. It's a
Speaker 1: weekend Friday night, Sterling seven hundred wlw EX coming up
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Speaker 1: to the rest of that process, and a whole lot
Speaker 1: more to get to on a Friday night Sterling. Glad
Speaker 1: you're along. I was talking a little bit about the
Speaker 1: strange rules at the house growing up as a kid
Speaker 1: and what you've had to navigate or endure. Five point
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Speaker 1: Tommy and George. We'll try to get everybody in here
Speaker 1: before the eleven o'clock report. Judy, how are you hi?
Speaker 9: I have two of them. My mother would always wait
Speaker 9: until my father got home to give me a spanking,
Speaker 9: and I would go in the bathroom and lock the
Speaker 9: door and they would get the key and unlock it.
Speaker 9: And then the other one was I had twin beds,
Speaker 9: and my mother would would take the covers off of
Speaker 9: both beds at the same time.
Speaker 4: She wouldn't just.
Speaker 9: Leave one with a different setter sheets on the beds.
Speaker 9: They had to be washed together.
Speaker 1: I had to match all the time too. So but
Speaker 1: you never missed sleep because of that, right, She just
Speaker 1: do it like before you went to bed. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like bedtime. She'd yank them off and then make you
Speaker 1: just like sleep on the floor or anything, right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's good. That would be bad, Judy. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call. I don't understand the whole thing there with
Speaker 1: the start of that, But what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: to Avondale? Jordan was starling seven hundred WLW Strange house
Speaker 1: rules you had to deal with as a kid coming up.
Speaker 10: Man, what's going on?
Speaker 8: Stela?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 10: We had two rules, man, when the thunderstorm was going on,
Speaker 10: we had to turn everything off and be quiet because
Speaker 10: God was doing his work. And then the other one
Speaker 10: was when I went to the bathroom like that, Like
Speaker 10: you said, your mother always want to see what your
Speaker 10: movements was, so that's something we had in common.
Speaker 1: That's the second time. Yeah, I've never heard that.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: She wasn't trying to like force Fijia like black satives though.
Speaker 10: Right, no no no no no no no no no
Speaker 10: no no. That was different.
Speaker 3: That was different.
Speaker 1: That was different too, Jordan. I appreciate the call and
Speaker 1: you're listening and to being a part of the show. Man,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope you call back. Take care of herself,
Speaker 1: that's good. That's why the whole thing with the electricity,
Speaker 1: I've heard that before, and that's like an older generation thing.
Speaker 1: Like now, I don't know anyone who shuts everything off
Speaker 1: stays off the phone one because we have everything so
Speaker 1: you know, so like wireless as cellular and everything else.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I clearly can remember like being at friends' houses,
Speaker 1: in my one ant's house, Man, a thunderstorm, don't get
Speaker 1: on the phone, get away for the phone, phone off,
Speaker 1: don't touch the phone like okay, And I guess the
Speaker 1: thought was that the if there was lightning, it would
Speaker 1: somehow reach through the phone line and then get you,
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild and it's never come to fruition.
Speaker 1: But there was a time when I think there was
Speaker 1: a power surge at the house and it ate up
Speaker 1: what was supposed to to be the search protector and
Speaker 1: then killed like a cordless phone back in the day,
Speaker 1: So maybe there was some validity to it in the
Speaker 1: old school like wired phone days, which is not so.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's still some wired phones out there, but
Speaker 1: they don't want you to have They try to price
Speaker 1: you out of it so you can get to the
Speaker 1: hands free kind of scenario two coming up on the
Speaker 1: other side of your ten or eleven o'clock report, Travis
Speaker 1: Laird has News. We'll get into this AI thing. I
Speaker 1: want to know. One, has AI changed your life for
Speaker 1: the good or for the bad? Has it helped your
Speaker 1: work major life easier? Is it coming for your job?
Speaker 1: And then one that's being discussed now the levels of
Speaker 1: power and authority at the Pentagon and beyond is with
Speaker 1: our military and the idea of a kill switch in
Speaker 1: an engagement situation to finish the job, either letting AI
Speaker 1: determine whether or not to pull the trigger or to
Speaker 1: go ahead and move ahead with that violent act of
Speaker 1: whatever it is that the military is called to do,
Speaker 1: or leaving it on the back of the human soldier
Speaker 1: to make the decision in the end. My take on
Speaker 1: that simply is it depends on how the AI is
Speaker 1: programmed right. The human I would think in that situation,
Speaker 1: more often than not would be able to assess the
Speaker 1: situation and make a choice on their own. But we'll
Speaker 1: get into it on the other side of eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: report here Home of those football Bearcats in action tomorrow
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Speaker 1: about twenty two minutes or so. Conversation from earlier doctor
Speaker 1: Donald Schlak, a former head of political science at Wright
Speaker 1: State now professor Meredith All had a breakdown. This Israeli
Speaker 1: Homas Deal for peace. President Trump making his way to
Speaker 1: that part of the world over the weekend to start
Speaker 1: the week there and hopefully a inch, a little bit
Speaker 1: closer to turning the corner on this more substantively. It's
Speaker 1: a fragile piece. Government shutdown happening as well. You know
Speaker 1: the talk of AI, and I guess the question is
Speaker 1: this real? Simple? Is your job? Say? From AI? That's
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Speaker 1: You're limited the past. But I'm curious because AI is
Speaker 1: effectively I have friends that have kids that are in
Speaker 1: school and they are apparently battling them and when it
Speaker 1: comes to getting their work done and doing original work,
Speaker 1: not just using AI to do the writing for them,
Speaker 1: using it the same way you would be maybe going
Speaker 1: to the library or you know, the encycle ofpedia or dictionaries,
Speaker 1: whatever else that you happen to have. That's probably a
Speaker 1: bit of a struggle. I have friends and that are
Speaker 1: educators at the university college level, some that are in
Speaker 1: elementary like high school age two, and they tell me
Speaker 1: that it is a very challenging time trying to make
Speaker 1: sure that their kids, either they're literally their own children
Speaker 1: or their students grown or otherwise are in fact doing
Speaker 1: work or just basically regurgitating work that AI has done
Speaker 1: or gathered from out there in the ethos somewhere, and
Speaker 1: then provided to them on some type of screen, whatever
Speaker 1: device of choice that they happen to be using. But
Speaker 1: for most of us, AI has already probably helped in
Speaker 1: some fashion make our lives easier, more productive on the job,
Speaker 1: because it's doing things that was maybe previously were thought
Speaker 1: to be busy work, tasks that you didn't really want
Speaker 1: to deal with, that were sort of a headache, can
Speaker 1: make your writing easier, flow more effectively, etc. To communicate,
Speaker 1: and that's a positive. I would think overall, and research
Speaker 1: has come out. Experts who were supposed to know have
Speaker 1: talked about this and they say somewhere between forty to
Speaker 1: seventy percent give or take of our task will be
Speaker 1: changed and made different by artificial intelligence. And we already
Speaker 1: know from autonomous cars they'll park for us, they'll drive
Speaker 1: on their own taxis, etc. Deliveries with drones of food
Speaker 1: from a pick a service of choice, to even the
Speaker 1: drones and military use and technology we see right now
Speaker 1: in the midst of the conflict ongoing with Ukraine and Russia,
Speaker 1: and how those drones are being used so effectively. The
Speaker 1: battlefield of the future is now and what our men
Speaker 1: and women in uniform are training for, whether they are
Speaker 1: sitting in the desert outside Las Vegas in a cargo container,
Speaker 1: in a gaming chair, basically controlling what happening on the
Speaker 1: other side of planet Earth thanks to technology and satellite communicate,
Speaker 1: putting an end to threats elsewhere with a couple of
Speaker 1: clicks and a tap almost with the game remote, and
Speaker 1: that has been going on for the better part of
Speaker 1: a decade. It's just gotten better and more efficient at it.
Speaker 1: So the question along with this is when it comes
Speaker 1: to making decisions on the battlefield or going you know,
Speaker 1: in some fashion in wartime. And there's been numerous conversations
Speaker 1: had on this from Real Clear Politics, which is a
Speaker 1: great website by the way, open to debate a bunch
Speaker 1: of others. The idea of the human or AI kill switch,
Speaker 1: in other words, making the decision of yea or nay
Speaker 1: to eliminate a threat, to neutralize a threat. Let's call
Speaker 1: it what it is in that regard, which is killing
Speaker 1: the enemy, killing the danger, or what have you in
Speaker 1: that circumstance, and it's no longer a situation of is
Speaker 1: if you or I are in that environment of us
Speaker 1: assessing quickly what we're navigating to try to complete the
Speaker 1: objective in the task at hand, whether it's an engagement
Speaker 1: in a battle hand to hand or to the next
Speaker 1: step of trying to accomplish whatever goal has been set
Speaker 1: in for us that we have to do down the
Speaker 1: line is to you know, allowing us to have a
Speaker 1: brief moment to reflect and assess the situation or AI
Speaker 1: to make that choice for us. It's different if it's
Speaker 1: a drone. It's different if it's some other type of
Speaker 1: mechanized type of armament or what have you. Rather than
Speaker 1: in the hand of a human on the ground someplace
Speaker 1: or in the air someplace making a decision as to
Speaker 1: whether or not to hit that button that's going to
Speaker 1: effectively wipe off the face of the earth, that danger,
Speaker 1: that threat, that target, And so not quite as life
Speaker 1: and death generally when it comes to the shop floor
Speaker 1: or pulling merchandise, merchandise off to shelf someplace and fulfillment
Speaker 1: or making food. You know, not too long ago, and
Speaker 1: I've seen recently they've gone and backed away from it.
Speaker 1: There is a regional chicken chain that I loved very
Speaker 1: much that when you would go to the drive through,
Speaker 1: it's been probably a year or so ago. Part of
Speaker 1: it was I think accuracy in ordering. It was also
Speaker 1: about the fact that it was hard time for them
Speaker 1: to be able to get the people in the store
Speaker 1: to do the work. For one reason or another, the
Speaker 1: labor force was somewhat thinned, which made it a challenge
Speaker 1: to find the people to do the work. So when
Speaker 1: you'd go to the drive through, it was a technology
Speaker 1: that was asking what you wanted and also suggesting, you know,
Speaker 1: upgrades to whatever meal that you were getting, which a
Speaker 1: lot of us as soon as stuff has suggested about
Speaker 1: sixty seventy percent of the time, depending we say yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: we'll up upgrade for the larger fry, or for the
Speaker 1: extra chicken tender or the extra breast or whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you happen to be shopping for. That's common,
Speaker 1: and if I'm working the drive through, I may not
Speaker 1: think to ask that every time when I'm flustered, but
Speaker 1: that AI, that synthetic voice, that computer generated order taker
Speaker 1: is always going to ask because that's its purpose, and
Speaker 1: it will also correctly, hopefully take and hear what you
Speaker 1: or I ask at the drive through and taking that
Speaker 1: order and make it accurately on the screen, so that
Speaker 1: whoever is making that food and putting it in that
Speaker 1: to go container gets it right rather than having, you know,
Speaker 1: some more chaos and so forth. So there is a
Speaker 1: benefit that's changed the way they were doing their work. Recently.
Speaker 1: Last couple of trips, I've noticed they haven't been using
Speaker 1: it at the drive through, but they tell me that
Speaker 1: it's still being used back of house where they're doing
Speaker 1: fulfillment of orders, which is pretty interesting when you think
Speaker 1: about it. And I know a lot of chains have
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out exactly how to have that mechanization,
Speaker 1: that automation go into preparing some of the food as well,
Speaker 1: which could go sideways depending if things get kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It's still pretty important, I think, to have a human there.
Speaker 1: So what I'm curious about is whatever work that you do,
Speaker 1: wherever you are in the food chain of doing business,
Speaker 1: how AI has changed your job? Is it safe? Because
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, depending on what the AI is fed.
Speaker 1: And I had a futurist on maybe three months ago
Speaker 1: or so, a fairly known guy, and I said, if
Speaker 1: it's crap in, and it's going to be crap out
Speaker 1: in other words, as the AI is learning, and they say,
Speaker 1: we're going to cross that line sooner than later where
Speaker 1: it ends up taking in more and goes beyond what
Speaker 1: we have going on, and then can make a decision
Speaker 1: sort of like two thousand and one or twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one or whatever. My fear, of course, however irrational, is
Speaker 1: that eventually may decide that we are no longer necessary,
Speaker 1: that we the human is the problem in some fashion,
Speaker 1: which could be an issue since it's supposed to work
Speaker 1: for us. But then depending on what information the AI
Speaker 1: has big decisions and maybe government shutdowns and negotiations. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's really I could see applications of this making a
Speaker 1: whole lot of the stuff that we have to navigate
Speaker 1: where humans screw stuff up to where maybe the AI
Speaker 1: can make it smoother and easier and actually do better
Speaker 1: work for us. So is your forecast on the big
Speaker 1: one Cleitar night down to forty five? Well cans whether.
Speaker 1: I mean it had to come eventually right seventy So
Speaker 1: for your Saturday, Sunday and Monday closer to eighty, it's
Speaker 1: fifty six right now. It's your severe weather station seven
Speaker 1: hundred double well w great weekend weather for the River
Speaker 1: Roots Festival down along the Ohio and the Great American Ballpark,
Speaker 1: and it's just all those big boats. It was just
Speaker 1: just crazy, a lot of incredible food and a lot
Speaker 1: of great artists as well. I think Diggable Planets was
Speaker 1: in town the other day too. I think it was
Speaker 1: Thursday down there Yateman's Cove getting that done and playing there,
Speaker 1: which a whole bunch of others, which is kind of nice.
Speaker 1: And I just thinking back like the old times. You
Speaker 1: think about the history in Cincinnati and Porkopolis in the
Speaker 1: days when that was the way to travel was up
Speaker 1: and down the river, those river boats and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that sort of went along with it, And we're
Speaker 1: talking about AI and everything, and there may be be
Speaker 1: a benefit in a way for AI to be embraced,
Speaker 1: whether it's for weather and checking currents and whatever goes
Speaker 1: into navigating the Big River or the Ohio and on
Speaker 1: down to the Mississippi, et cetera. That those boats and
Speaker 1: those captains and those crews have to navigate the way
Speaker 1: the BnB river boats does on a regular basis and
Speaker 1: so on. It could change it, but you kind of
Speaker 1: get the vibe you're stepping back in time with that.
Speaker 1: You kind of think of like, you know, all those
Speaker 1: so traveling you know, sort of like poker games and
Speaker 1: Breton Maverick and and and just the history of it
Speaker 1: and really back in the day too, when you think
Speaker 1: about the just people trying to make their way north,
Speaker 1: the freedom and the underground railroad and all the history
Speaker 1: that Cincinnati brings from downtown to the way the city
Speaker 1: has grown on both sides of the river. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty interesting thing and an interesting time to be able
Speaker 1: to check that out. And I just wanted to mention
Speaker 1: that too. So if you get a chance, and even
Speaker 1: if you're just driving through and you happen to like
Speaker 1: notice during the day or even lit up in and
Speaker 1: around the city down by the river, all those boats.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's something that you don't see. In fact,
Speaker 1: many of us may not in our lifetime see any
Speaker 1: collection of those. Again, they had the tall boats. It's
Speaker 1: been I mean, I think it was like the late
Speaker 1: nineties one of the first times I had a chance
Speaker 1: to see it, and I mean it's spectacular and just
Speaker 1: pretty and they are much bigger they I mean, it
Speaker 1: just seems massive when you're up close and personal on
Speaker 1: them and everything that sort of goes along with it,
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild. So anyway, if you get a
Speaker 1: chance and you're on there, I think they're still scheduling
Speaker 1: some cruises and things to go along with that, along
Speaker 1: with all the great music that's a part of it
Speaker 1: and everything else too, So there is that to go through.
Speaker 1: I had Max, who messages fairly regularly at Sterling Radio
Speaker 1: on X was talking about the AIS. He's a plumber.
Speaker 1: He says, the AI is not coming for his job,
Speaker 1: although they do have cameras and stuff on a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that technology has helped to identify problems
Speaker 1: and sewer lines and different things like that. That has
Speaker 1: made their job more efficient and goes along with that too.
Speaker 1: So there is some benefit with technology, even though he's
Speaker 1: still hands and you know, dirty kind of job, but
Speaker 1: it's a pretty important one. Sanitation is important. And anybody
Speaker 1: who was listening earlier with people talking about the flushing
Speaker 1: and if it's brown, let let her flush it down,
Speaker 1: and if a yello, let it mellow and everything else
Speaker 1: can certainly relate to it. Yeah, the whole plumbing thing
Speaker 1: is Without plumbing, we're in dire straits. It's like going
Speaker 1: back to the dark ages and a whole lot of
Speaker 1: sickness and everything else. It's pretty gnarly to go along
Speaker 1: with that. So thanks for reaching out to appreciate it.
Speaker 1: The other thing too, there's a lot going on if
Speaker 1: you hadn't already heard in the news. Conversation with doctor
Speaker 1: Donna Schleck, former head of political science at right Stage.
Speaker 1: She's a Cincinnati kid now professor Mereda and she wrote
Speaker 1: the first textbook on terrorism and knows a little bit
Speaker 1: about peace process. Was there for the date and accords
Speaker 1: and everything going on with Israel hamas President Trump making
Speaker 1: the trip back to the Middle East to end the
Speaker 1: weekend endo the first of the week to sort of
Speaker 1: inch that forward and a little closer to a more
Speaker 1: permanent place of normalcy and hopefully opportunity for people to
Speaker 1: get back to their lives again and rebuild as hostages
Speaker 1: look to be returned and the remains of those who
Speaker 1: didn't make it after what happened October seventh to twenty three,
Speaker 1: and as I'm twelve hundred people killed, it's been very trying.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to her about that. The government shutdown
Speaker 1: on the other side of your eleven thirty report in
Speaker 1: this weekend filled with a whole lot of other stuff
Speaker 1: happening too. Got to Central Florida coming in Big twelve
Speaker 1: matchup for the football Bearcats at Nippert There's a noon
Speaker 1: kickoff here. I will follow it to get you through,
Speaker 1: and then I think chick Ledwiko follows me after Tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: and then of course Sunday, Joe Flacco. We went from
Speaker 1: Joe's tow to Jake Browning under center, and we went
Speaker 1: from two to o to an oh and three stretch
Speaker 1: to two and three and now Joe Flacco former Raven
Speaker 1: beat the Packers as a Cleveland Brown a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago now in Tiger stripes in a whirlwind week
Speaker 1: will be in Green Bay with the Bengals and under
Speaker 1: center to get the start to hopefully do something that
Speaker 1: very few have done, which has beat the same team
Speaker 1: in the same season more than once in a different uniform.
Speaker 1: That's some irregularity and the Bengals not messing around and
Speaker 1: wanting to write the ship as they can to hopefully
Speaker 1: get to a place where the postseason is a reality
Speaker 1: because it was looking pretty ugly bad for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks there. Hopefully they'll find their way. Conversation on
Speaker 1: the podcast that you can find James Rapine that I
Speaker 1: had with from Lockdown Bengals about that very issue to
Speaker 1: start the show, and that'll be up later on tonight,
Speaker 1: so you can check it out at your leisure. So straightaway,
Speaker 1: doctor Donishlake joins me, we'll talk on that and maybe
Speaker 1: have a chance to get into some emails and some
Speaker 1: messages to talking about the AI thing and also some
Speaker 1: unusual house rules. Seemingly a lot of people reaching out
Speaker 1: by way of a message at Sterling Radio on X
Speaker 1: two straight away the News, Travis Laird has it your
Speaker 1: eleven thirty report, right here on the home of your
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