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Speaker 4: Gonna cost you a little bit more to get downtown
Speaker 4: for the Fidling Market opening Day parade or the game itself,
Speaker 4: as gas today costs more than it has in nearly
Speaker 4: four years. Lowis Price for you is about three twenty
Speaker 4: six in Hamilton according to gas Buddy, but the average
Speaker 4: is now very close to four dollars a gallon, which
Speaker 4: is on par with the national average. So we have
Speaker 4: a Ran shutting down the Straight of hor Moves. That's
Speaker 4: the problem. We have an explosion yesterday at a major refinery
Speaker 4: in Texas just outside of Houston, and the switch to
Speaker 4: summer blended fuel all happening at the same time. The
Speaker 4: question is will we and could we see five dollars
Speaker 4: a gallon gasoline on? That is Dan Eberhard, Danzen Oil
Speaker 4: and gassingercy Inside with Canary and Everhard Capital.
Speaker 3: He's actually Landman. Landman is on the show Dan Good morning.
Speaker 5: How are you good.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well.
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm sure presumably you've seen the show
Speaker 4: uh Landman, which is one of the best TV shows
Speaker 4: Tyler Sheridan. You just could continue to hit it in
Speaker 4: the park. But how accurate is a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: that happens in there.
Speaker 5: I think it's I mean drama dramatized, but I mean
Speaker 5: I would say it's accurate, but it's more like, you know,
Speaker 5: there's weeks and weeks of normalcy and then an episode
Speaker 5: not back to.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean, I mean, if your life was
Speaker 4: actually like Tommy, your head would explode. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: no human It's just you can't have that much coming
Speaker 4: at you when one day it's impossible.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's it's you know, look, the
Speaker 5: oil business is a business like any other, but just
Speaker 5: it it gets chaotic at time. This is this is
Speaker 5: one of them.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great it's a great watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And and of course you know then there's the ex
Speaker 4: wife reality too, but that's that's probably true in life
Speaker 4: as well. So Dan, you know, I know that you've
Speaker 4: been doing this for a long time and been covering
Speaker 4: energy markets for decades. So put it on a scale
Speaker 4: of one to ten, How serious is this hor Mooz
Speaker 4: crisis compared to others disruptions you've seen in your career?
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean this is probably a twelve. I mean
Speaker 5: this is I think this is a bigger deal. You know,
Speaker 5: I've been kind of going back to these seventy foil shocks,
Speaker 5: and for the world, I think it's a bigger deal.
Speaker 5: For the US, I think it's not as big of
Speaker 5: a deal because of cracking and we are more self
Speaker 5: sufficient than we were. But look, the news stories are
Speaker 5: mostly about the straight of hor Moods, which is extremely important.
Speaker 5: But something that I feel like at least slightly being
Speaker 5: lost here is so they're taking an infrastructure there. You know, look,
Speaker 5: Middle Eastern production is down about ten million barrels a day,
Speaker 5: and I think that some of this infrastructure is going
Speaker 5: to take years to rebuild.
Speaker 4: Years to rebuild, which means four dollars gallon gasoline is
Speaker 4: here to stay.
Speaker 5: Is that you're saying, No, I think in the open
Speaker 5: for Moods, I think we'll see guys lean praise is
Speaker 5: fall a gallon again in the US within two weeks.
Speaker 5: But I think for Europe this is this is a
Speaker 5: bigger problem for European but it's a pretty big prompt
Speaker 5: the entire.
Speaker 4: If we actually de escalate, Dan, you're breaking up a
Speaker 4: lot right now. Let me I'll reset for a second here.
Speaker 4: Maybe you can get the higher ground, get a better sell.
Speaker 4: We saw Brent crude hit one hundred dollars a barrel
Speaker 4: early this month of the first time in four years.
Speaker 3: Uh one, twenty six is peak.
Speaker 4: The closure has been called the largest energy supplied to
Speaker 4: our disruptions, you said since the nineteen seventies. I don't
Speaker 4: think that's overhyped at all. But if we get to
Speaker 4: one fifty a barrel, we're talking five dollars gasoline. What's
Speaker 4: the reality this summer here in Cincinnati, in the tri
Speaker 4: State for that to happen.
Speaker 5: No, I think I think we're you know, four dollars
Speaker 5: a gallon. I think we hit a demand destruction at
Speaker 5: five dollars a gallon. I think we're looking at people
Speaker 5: trying to, you know, use eight to ten percent less gasoline,
Speaker 5: which is a lot of trips not happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the CEO of United said that. You
Speaker 4: CEO of United just said that our gas prices are
Speaker 4: probably going to go up twenty percent. Your ticket costs
Speaker 4: go up twenty percent basically, and they're going to spend
Speaker 4: eleven billion dollars on fuel this year. So if you
Speaker 4: have a trip plan, you better book it right now
Speaker 4: because you're if you wait till the last minute, the
Speaker 4: cost is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, I think that we're going to be seeing
Speaker 5: that all all over the economy. And like I said,
Speaker 5: you know, every everything is the fact that you know,
Speaker 5: the price of rubber, the price of your Amazon delivery,
Speaker 5: the price of your over, the price of your plane ticket.
Speaker 5: Oil factors into everything. So it's something we should all
Speaker 5: watch out for. And I think it if this doesn't
Speaker 5: end soon, we're going to see consumers tighten their belt
Speaker 5: a little.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Dan, you mentioned that, you know, the hormones closure doesn't
Speaker 4: really affect the US as much because we produce so
Speaker 4: much of our own oil, but experts kind of push
Speaker 4: back on that and saying that it's because it's it's
Speaker 4: a global oil market. Everything goes into the same kettle,
Speaker 4: so to speak. No matter where it comes from from
Speaker 4: the Earth, it all goes in the same supply. So
Speaker 4: if something goes wrong anywhere prices go up everywhere, and
Speaker 4: you mentioned also fracking and of course alternate fuel sources
Speaker 4: and the premium basin. When we're drilling baby drill, we
Speaker 4: have venezuela as well. How much is that I'll set this.
Speaker 5: Well, I you know, I do venezuela thing will help
Speaker 5: us in the long term. I don't think it's a
Speaker 5: fix for this because they need infrastructure to it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that takes time and money, but I do think Look,
Speaker 5: you know, I pushed back a little bit on what
Speaker 5: you just said, because there's two prices for world oil
Speaker 5: is thought of in WTI and bread, right, there are
Speaker 5: two different prices, and the US market is mostly self contained.
Speaker 5: We import about eight percent of our oil, A lot
Speaker 5: of that actually comes from Canada. The US is largely
Speaker 5: self contained. Otherwise this will be worse right now for US?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess if we're self contained,
Speaker 4: so it would be worse. It hits us less, but
Speaker 4: that that gives our economy a distinctive advantage then too,
Speaker 4: if we have a reliable supply of oil, and granted
Speaker 4: our prices will go up just just because it's going
Speaker 4: to but maybe not as the rest of the world.
Speaker 4: That gives us a pretty strategic advantage.
Speaker 5: Then, oh no, I think this is relative to Europe.
Speaker 5: This is good for us. And then one of the
Speaker 5: one of the things not being covered is the oil
Speaker 5: price really affects the price of fertilizer, which is actually
Speaker 5: a very big deal in the African economy, and they're
Speaker 5: going to be hit very negatively by by all of this.
Speaker 4: He's Dan Eberhart, oil gas industry insider on the show
Speaker 4: this morning. And the reality of five dollars a gallon gasoline,
Speaker 4: we could see it the summer is what a lot
Speaker 4: of experts are saying right now.
Speaker 3: And who knows.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, our supply is much better than the
Speaker 4: rest of the world ward and again we love drill
Speaker 4: Baby drill because of that too. Is they keep cutting
Speaker 4: the straight of her moose off every few years, and
Speaker 4: this is what winds up happening. And it's not just
Speaker 4: a physical ball play, but I think it's interesting too.
Speaker 4: The inside baseball thing here is insurance withdraw You know,
Speaker 4: there are risk premiums have gone up four or five times,
Speaker 4: meaning the outcome for cargo flow is largely the same
Speaker 4: as a physical blockage. Can you lay that out for
Speaker 4: our listeners who and maybe myself, we don't really understand
Speaker 4: the insurance angle here.
Speaker 5: Sure, typically the insurance is is maybe three or four
Speaker 5: percent of a shipment, and these oil tinkers very uh
Speaker 5: you know, I'll to one hundred million, one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty million barrels of oil. So these are these are
Speaker 5: giant investments for people that are very expensive to ensure.
Speaker 5: That insurance through the straight and pour moves is now
Speaker 5: on my understanding, costing fifteen to sixteen percent of cargo
Speaker 5: instead of three to four percent. And the insurance companies
Speaker 5: don't really they're they're trying to price the people so
Speaker 5: that they don't take the voyage, not so they take
Speaker 5: the voyage and take the money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously the risk goes up, the cost of insurance
Speaker 4: is going to go up as well. And that's just
Speaker 4: one of those unseen add fees that that that we
Speaker 4: all pay for when we go to the pump.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, look this this it reverb rates to the cost
Speaker 5: of everything and it's driving everything out. Another point I'll
Speaker 5: make is, you know, in the US, we spend three
Speaker 5: or four percent of our consumer spending is on energy,
Speaker 5: and a lot of third world country it's something like
Speaker 5: nine to eleven percent. So though you'll see for those folks,
Speaker 5: it's gonna it's gonna hit even even worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, Dan, I do a lot of my good thinking,
Speaker 4: if you can call it that, on the toilet. I
Speaker 4: know about you, but I had a kind of a said,
Speaker 4: you know, we have the Panama Canal and I'm looking
Speaker 4: in my head in my mind, and I'm picturing the
Speaker 4: strain of horor Moves, which is like a peninsula just
Speaker 4: kind of juts out there, and the problem is there's
Speaker 4: a choke point and Iran can easily shut it down
Speaker 4: by attacking any ships that go through there. So it's
Speaker 4: very pretty narrow through about thirty miles wide. If we're
Speaker 4: going to circumvent that. Now, the terrain from Google Earth
Speaker 4: looks pretty intimidating. There's those mountains and everything else, and
Speaker 4: it's certainly not the same situation as we did in Panama.
Speaker 4: But I'm trying to think of an alternative. It's like,
Speaker 4: is there a way that those Gulf states can can
Speaker 4: do a pipeline or something that prevents us from happening
Speaker 4: in the future that seems like be the best bad
Speaker 4: Is that a problem that's unsolvable.
Speaker 5: I mean, in the long term, you could have a pipeline,
Speaker 5: but the problem is that you know, pipeline is going
Speaker 5: to take within years to build. Yeah, it's not something
Speaker 5: that can be done in ninety days at all.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, that would be far more for future proofing.
Speaker 4: Right at some point the Gulf States, who are pretty
Speaker 4: much united against Iran right now, is the rest of
Speaker 4: the Middle East. It seems that that'd be a good thing.
Speaker 4: That was like, hey, listen, if we just start doing
Speaker 4: pipelines now and it's going to take thirty years to build, sure,
Speaker 4: but who knows what that nation's going to look like
Speaker 4: in thirty years. It could be worse than we have
Speaker 4: right now. It seems like that'd be a good hedge
Speaker 4: against the bet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the scary thought that it could be worse.
Speaker 5: I think it would be a good head But I
Speaker 5: think if somebody's got to be thinking five to ten
Speaker 5: years in the future, not about the next ninety days
Speaker 5: for that to happen, and it has happened.
Speaker 3: I forgot.
Speaker 4: We're living in the in the day and age of
Speaker 4: investing groups of course, and sharks and everything else, and yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't even think about the next quarter. We're thinking
Speaker 4: about the next day right now, let alone thirty years
Speaker 4: from now. There's no long term planning in any business.
Speaker 4: I forgot, I forgot what year I live in here
Speaker 4: for a second, there, Dan, So the it's about twenty
Speaker 4: million dollars, twenty million barrels a day, I believe is
Speaker 4: the number. It's about twenty percent of global petroleum consumption
Speaker 4: that goes through the Strait. And I mentioned there few
Speaker 4: pipeline alternatives there can bypass it. So are there any
Speaker 4: of the workarounds here? I mentioned you taking a kind
Speaker 4: of dig baby dig lay pipe.
Speaker 5: In the long term, US producers can produce more, in
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia can produce more, but again that's something that
Speaker 5: takes time. The way that I look at the problem
Speaker 5: is it's like a twenty percent of supply problem, and
Speaker 5: the buttons of the US government has are like one
Speaker 5: percent button. So I mean, we can do, you know,
Speaker 5: release the strategic particularly and reserve it coutentially the thing
Speaker 5: that I've been advocating for to spend the national gas
Speaker 5: tax for ninety days or six months. There's different levers
Speaker 5: the US government has that it can pull, but I
Speaker 5: think those are are just frankly not big enough to
Speaker 5: solve the problems in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, I know you're you're a pro Trump guy,
Speaker 4: yourself a Republican, And I read something or you said,
Speaker 4: you warned that steel chairs make the industry less competitive
Speaker 4: against opek.
Speaker 3: How does steel relate to what we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Here, Well, you know, he goes he goes into the
Speaker 5: drilling process, the wellheads that we sell, cantry and the
Speaker 5: drilling you know, drilling rigs and all this stuff are
Speaker 5: all you know, you have metal components, so to because
Speaker 5: the battle goes up and makes the.
Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, okay, I get I
Speaker 4: get the connection there. Yeah, because you've got to pay
Speaker 4: if you're you're you know, it's not like the uh,
Speaker 4: the equipment you use to drill and add infrastructure is
Speaker 4: going to last forever. You've got to replace it. And
Speaker 4: so steel goes in. Once the pipe's in the ground,
Speaker 4: it stays there. It's not like you pull it back
Speaker 4: out like a drill.
Speaker 9: Bit.
Speaker 4: I get that fifteen million barrels a day though, or
Speaker 4: twenty million, it's not easy to offset everywhere. That's pretty
Speaker 4: much the total production of the United States, and we're
Speaker 4: the biggest producer in the world. That that's the squeeze
Speaker 4: right there. We're cranking out right now as much as
Speaker 4: we can. You run an oil field services company, land Man,
Speaker 4: when you hear there's no easy fix, is that this
Speaker 4: is that practical. There's got to be there's got to
Speaker 4: be something we can I mean, we.
Speaker 5: Can us production kIPS potentially go up, you know, five
Speaker 5: million barrels today, but again that would take a higher
Speaker 5: cost than you're seeing now in time. There's no easy
Speaker 5: There's there's no fix other than opening the straight There's
Speaker 5: no fix. And I think what we're going to find
Speaker 5: out is a lot of the infrastructure and the lease
Speaker 5: has been damaged and will take a while to come
Speaker 5: back online.
Speaker 4: Trump is going to release or talking about releasing, or
Speaker 4: has released I guess one hundred and seventy two million
Speaker 4: barrels from the strategic polt patron, you know, Biden at
Speaker 4: every president, I think feels like is they've done that,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't move the needle at all, because it's
Speaker 4: it's literally a spit in the ocean. I was told
Speaker 4: I was reading something from a gas buddy before you
Speaker 4: came on this morning, and there an analyst said, there's
Speaker 4: a warning a double headwind.
Speaker 3: I believe it is what they call it.
Speaker 4: You've got the supply shock with a RAN and the
Speaker 4: I mentioned the open normal seasonal transition to the more
Speaker 4: expensive summer blend glass line required by the clean air RAG.
Speaker 4: So what does that mean in real dollars for people
Speaker 4: listening this morning?
Speaker 5: And I think there's a lot of upward pressure on
Speaker 5: the gas price. And I was back to then into
Speaker 5: your summer plans and your family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no claw in that money back. And you
Speaker 4: know we're twenty percent from the CEO of United Airlines,
Speaker 4: So book now, I guess the is the mantra here.
Speaker 4: Goldman says that the eight stays closed for more than
Speaker 4: two months, oil could stay above one hundred and ten
Speaker 4: bucks a barrel through the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: And they've already pushed their uh first Federick cut call
Speaker 4: back to September because the oil are we is this
Speaker 4: gonna af factor in the stagflation in your opinion?
Speaker 5: I think I think potentially. So look look here here's
Speaker 5: the thing. If they if they say in an hour
Speaker 5: they're going to open the straight offour moves, I think
Speaker 5: to get I think it will take six months to
Speaker 5: get the closed back to.
Speaker 3: The law six months.
Speaker 5: The market, yes, the market. The market spoof the owners
Speaker 5: of the vessels are spoofed. The people on the vessels
Speaker 5: are spoofed. I mean, look, if they said they were
Speaker 5: opening it and now which you wanted to, would you
Speaker 5: win on the first ship going through this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because somebody doesn't get the memo.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah. So I mean if it's if it's your
Speaker 5: life and these things move incredibly slowly, and what they're
Speaker 5: doing to be so fast boats like the cigarette boats
Speaker 5: and basically comic cosy drones to plow into the side
Speaker 5: of these things. So really the cosi figurette.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know you can have the United States
Speaker 4: Navy the best fighting force in the world. Those small
Speaker 4: craft are gonna be very difficult to stop no matter
Speaker 4: how many drones or anything else you have activated. You know,
Speaker 4: could be subs, could be anything. They're gonna be really
Speaker 4: really hard to get because of the size and just
Speaker 4: how slow these targets move. He again on the show
Speaker 4: this morning is Dan Everhart. He's an oil gas industry insider,
Speaker 4: Canary and ever Heard Capital and actual landman. Dan all
Speaker 4: the best, thanks for jumping on the show this morning
Speaker 4: and and depressing us here the day before opening day.
Speaker 5: Thanks thanks uh thanks for thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you, buddy. Thanks again. I know you're a
Speaker 4: busy man. Not the news you wanted to hear, but
Speaker 4: that's the reality. So planning, planning, planning, Do not wait
Speaker 4: till the last minute to book your travel for the summer.
Speaker 4: The gas prices are gonna go up before they go down.
Speaker 4: Scott's Loan show with News on the way in just
Speaker 4: minutes on seven hundred WLW. Lu's go Sloani here, seven
Speaker 4: hundred WLW, and I mean, let's go as in baseball
Speaker 4: tomorrow today is the I don't care what it says
Speaker 4: in the calendar and the Farmer's almanac and what the
Speaker 4: what the planets are, here's what I care. I care
Speaker 4: about that it We'll just make it. Nine six am
Speaker 4: tomorrow is the first day of summer. How about that?
Speaker 4: We have baseball season and then we have the rest
Speaker 4: of the year. Tomorrow it all begins. And I say
Speaker 4: this tongue in cheek because traditionally it has always begun
Speaker 4: on opening day. Instancinnato, Ohio is the first professional major
Speaker 4: league team, but of course in modern times because there's
Speaker 4: lots of money involved, because there's expansion not just to
Speaker 4: different cities, but different continents. That the twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball season technically begins tonight with a matchup
Speaker 4: between the Yankees and the Giants that is going to
Speaker 4: be on Ready for It, Netflix, Netflix, and then of
Speaker 4: course eleven games tomorrow include our Red Legs and the
Speaker 4: Boston Red Sox at our Great American Ballpark. They tested
Speaker 4: in the minor leagues and during spring training the automatic
Speaker 4: Ball Strike Challenge system, the robot ups. If you go
Speaker 4: to the major leagues and there's a call in spring
Speaker 4: training where there was a bitch that was dead center
Speaker 4: across the plate, and you real life them called it
Speaker 4: a called it a ball, and they went to the
Speaker 4: automatic system and they said, no, it was right down
Speaker 4: the plate. I mean, if you really want to eliminate
Speaker 4: your job, there's a lot of jobs that AI is
Speaker 4: going to take, but I would think that in particular,
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball umpires no offense our dinosaurs, because if
Speaker 4: you're called questionable, if a ball is thrown right down
Speaker 4: the middle of the plate, the heart of the plate,
Speaker 4: and you call out a ball, you probably should be
Speaker 4: replaced by a computer. I'm sorry. So this is the
Speaker 4: first of AI coming in to replace them. So how
Speaker 4: it works is usually conducted using a bunch of different
Speaker 4: cameras around the field perimeter, which is actually really really
Speaker 4: cool technology. And when they use this last year in
Speaker 4: the miners, just about one percent of pitches were challenged,
Speaker 4: so and half of those calls were returned at least
Speaker 4: for the time being. Anyway, now I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: umpires hang around on not quite. It seems like you
Speaker 4: should have the human element though, too, because again you
Speaker 4: are dealing with technology. So again tonight that's on Netflix,
Speaker 4: Giants and Yankees kick off the regular Major League Baseball season.
Speaker 3: Here we go again, but on Netflix.
Speaker 4: That's another thing too, is how many different platforms do
Speaker 4: I need to watch my teams? That is going to
Speaker 4: be the I think the question for us consumers, and
Speaker 4: we're fans, but we're also consumers that we're going to
Speaker 4: have to face right now if you want to see
Speaker 4: a show or football, is that way too?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: We have games on CBS, we have you know, we
Speaker 4: have games on Fox, all right, but then some games
Speaker 4: are on Paramount, other games are Netflix. Then you got
Speaker 4: something that are I don't know, food TV. The thing
Speaker 4: was streaming is great because we have so many different channels.
Speaker 4: There's there's more platforms than entertainment. You know, you can
Speaker 4: turn on like for example, I get a new TV
Speaker 4: and they have the built in whatever network it is
Speaker 4: for that like LG for example, and they have fifty
Speaker 4: thousand show different movies and shows.
Speaker 8: And all this.
Speaker 4: There's stuff on there that you probably haven't seen for years.
Speaker 4: Amazon Prime is unbelievable. You go to the Amazon Prime
Speaker 4: shows in little they're like you could watch. You can
Speaker 4: watch old episodes of Cheers or all these old shows.
Speaker 4: Great if you were like vintage TV or off brand
Speaker 4: movies or movies that have been out longer than ten
Speaker 4: fifteen years. They're on the streaming platform. So you can
Speaker 4: see anything all the time. There's always something to watch
Speaker 4: and yet seemingly nothing out at the same time. But
Speaker 4: the problem, though is for all of us, is now
Speaker 4: how many subscriptions do we have. It's literally a subscription overload.
Speaker 4: And I bring this up too because knowing what's going
Speaker 4: on with the REDS and MLB, and we still have
Speaker 4: the big question is how am I gonna watch these games?
Speaker 4: How am I gonna see baseball? And now am I
Speaker 4: going to watch the Reds? It's a great question. It
Speaker 4: is a great question. But Netflix, that game is on
Speaker 4: tonight at eight o'clock. So now I got to get
Speaker 4: the Netflix subscription. I think I already have Netflix. I'm
Speaker 4: covered there. And that's one of those things I don't
Speaker 4: know about you is I've got some subscriptions. I got
Speaker 4: like a handful of but I really don't want to
Speaker 4: look at the credit card. But I just I pay
Speaker 4: the credit card, be like, I don't want to look
Speaker 4: at it. I don't want to know how much on
Speaker 4: streaming I'm paying a ready and then there's a rate
Speaker 4: change and you know, okay, hey, just letting you know, Scott, Okay,
Speaker 4: once you get the teaser inductory rate here and you
Speaker 4: can buddle this that. And you know, if I looked
Speaker 4: at it, I probably got two or three subscriptions and
Speaker 4: Netflix from different things. Because I'm old and stupid and
Speaker 4: I forget that I've already subscribed.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going.
Speaker 4: All I do is want to watch baseball because that
Speaker 4: means summers here speaking of technology, with Netflix and all this,
Speaker 4: did you know this nearly every router, and the router
Speaker 4: is the device that goes from your signal. Let's say
Speaker 4: you get spectrum or I don't know, you have fi optics,
Speaker 4: and that comes to your house and then the signal
Speaker 4: is put into the router and the router goes to
Speaker 4: your WiFi and that's like yourself or you just go
Speaker 4: right in the router. The FCC has now banned foreign
Speaker 4: made routers, so it's considered a foreign made router if
Speaker 4: any major stage of the process through which the devices
Speaker 4: made including manufacturing, assembly, design, and development, our curves outside
Speaker 4: of the United States. And the reason why the FCC
Speaker 4: is doing this is because particular company called tp Link,
Speaker 4: which is a huge Chinese made.
Speaker 3: Router.
Speaker 4: There's like that's like I figure the percentage doing only
Speaker 4: a huge set of share of the market. But the
Speaker 4: concern is that they are putting software in there, malware
Speaker 4: actually embedded into the chips to be able to see
Speaker 4: what it is you're doing. And we think it is
Speaker 4: a huge, huge defense issue, not just for the Pentagon,
Speaker 4: but for me and you as well. Were very vulnerable
Speaker 4: ast thing, and so the FCC crackdown and said, well,
Speaker 4: you know what the ones, the shells ones, you have
Speaker 4: now are fine. The ones on store shells are fine.
Speaker 4: But anything in the future, it's not gonna happen now.
Speaker 4: That's probably gonna drive the cost up too, because we're
Speaker 4: not getting that competition. But at the same time, the
Speaker 4: concern is over security. So just so you know, if
Speaker 4: you go looking for that bland or other blands and
Speaker 4: wonder what's what's going on with a router, that's a
Speaker 4: problem and is should you know again, routers do go
Speaker 4: out from time to time. If yours is older more
Speaker 4: than five or six years, there are better versions on
Speaker 4: the market, or if you know, you just lease yours,
Speaker 4: then you'll probably don't have to worry about that. But
Speaker 4: just that way, I thought that was an interesting thing,
Speaker 4: considering that Major League Baseball is gonna be a Netflix
Speaker 4: tonight kicking off the MLB season, and you're gonna have
Speaker 4: to spend more money all around, just cost us more
Speaker 4: money all over the place. On that regard, United CEO
Speaker 4: Scott Kirby uh in a press conference yesterday, said be
Speaker 4: aware ticket prices are rising and for airlines will need
Speaker 4: to increase about twenty percent to cover the cost of fuel.
Speaker 4: So United is bracing for oil increases as well, and
Speaker 4: we could be seeing one hundred and fifty hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy five dollars a barrel due to what's happening in Iran.
Speaker 4: But also we're switching to the summer blundze. I don't
Speaker 4: know if that concerns aviation fuel. I don't think it does.
Speaker 4: It's kerosene, But nonetheless, one hundred and seventy five dollars
Speaker 4: a barrel due to the conflict in Iran. And we
Speaker 4: just don know if you saw this. A major refinery
Speaker 4: outside of Houston caught fire yesterday, so that is down
Speaker 4: for the count and that just adds more to the
Speaker 4: cost of our gas prices right now. Coming up later
Speaker 4: in the show, we'll get more into this as well,
Speaker 4: kind of focus on I just had Dan eberhad in
Speaker 4: a little bitgo. We'll get more back into the topic
Speaker 4: of the oil and gas prices. Because the national average
Speaker 4: now is right at four dollars a gallon. Some are
Speaker 4: saying we could get high as five dollars a gallon,
Speaker 4: and airlines are feeling the squeeze as well. I think
Speaker 4: this is a great clapback for the airline industry because
Speaker 4: of what's going with the TSA work because I'm in Look,
Speaker 4: regardless of where you stand in the political aisle, personally,
Speaker 4: I think there's a couple of things I have issue with.
Speaker 4: First of all, when it comes to the Save America Act,
Speaker 4: you know, the number of people who are voting, ille
Speaker 4: illegals who are voting. It's it's not happening at all,
Speaker 4: and even close to a numbers to can affect any election.
Speaker 4: It's just it's simply extremely, extremely rare. But the other
Speaker 4: side of this is, Look, I gotta show an ID
Speaker 4: for everything for me in you life is kind of
Speaker 4: pain to the but is it not. I mean, how
Speaker 4: many hoops you have to jump through on a daily
Speaker 4: basis just to get stuff done? Is the ask of
Speaker 4: showing an ID really that difficult? Now someone is proposing
Speaker 4: in Ohio that if you present a mail in ballot,
Speaker 4: which I'm a big fan of, that you also have
Speaker 4: to show an idea. You have to have a photocopy
Speaker 4: of your identification that you send along with your ballot
Speaker 4: to make sure you are who you say you are. Look, man,
Speaker 4: I get the political play here, but what an inconvenient
Speaker 4: That is just another level of pain in the ass.
Speaker 3: Look, I've got ideas, I'm good. You mailed to my house.
Speaker 3: You know where I live.
Speaker 4: You've got my taxi, You've got all these records. You
Speaker 4: could cross jack. You're verifying my signature. Okay, you're verifying
Speaker 4: my social Security and all these things. You know who
Speaker 4: I am and who I'm saying. We know that people
Speaker 4: who are voting by mail are not committing fraud. Yet
Speaker 4: now we've got to add a photo copy of your license. Well,
Speaker 4: you can't see me.
Speaker 3: On us.
Speaker 4: I don't know, like when you said it to they
Speaker 4: do you have to like FaceTime them to say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I just mailed this and it's me.
Speaker 3: It's just it's stupid.
Speaker 4: But it's just more politics getting the way of us
Speaker 4: enjoying our lives. It's easier than ever before to vote.
Speaker 4: I've said this many Democrats. I just had Greg Lansman
Speaker 4: on the other day. The idea every time that someone
Speaker 4: proposes something it's voter disenfranchisement. It's you're not disenfranchising anyone.
Speaker 4: You should have some form of identification on you if
Speaker 4: you're an American, Okay, you should have a government issued ID,
Speaker 4: a driver's license. It's really not that much to ask.
Speaker 4: I do pushback and go, well, why do we need this, Well,
Speaker 4: it's politics. It's not that people are fraudulently voting.
Speaker 3: It just makes it.
Speaker 4: You know, we're creating a problem that really isn't there
Speaker 4: because our you know, you talk to someone like Frank Larrose,
Speaker 4: who's caught in the middle of our Secretary of State,
Speaker 4: you'll tell you know, Ohio elections are extremely secure.
Speaker 3: We just don't have fraud.
Speaker 4: And yet he's got to top the company line about
Speaker 4: there being enough fraud to introduce new legislation.
Speaker 3: So it goes. But the idea that you know, well
Speaker 3: they're making.
Speaker 4: Now, no, all these people, hundreds of millions of there's
Speaker 4: ten hundred, two hundred thousand people are not gonna be
Speaker 4: able to vote.
Speaker 3: Now stop.
Speaker 4: Look, you know at some point you do have to
Speaker 4: be responsible and engaged in to a participate in the process,
Speaker 4: to particip be in life. If you're so clueless is
Speaker 4: the not know un ID or government ID and you
Speaker 4: really really want to vote, then get off your asking
Speaker 4: get an ID. I don't know how hard that is
Speaker 4: quite honestly. Now tomorrow they may come up with something else,
Speaker 4: and you know the whole I've got to include a
Speaker 4: photocopy of my driver's license.
Speaker 3: How many people don't have printers.
Speaker 4: It's just it's kind of silly, but the very basic essence,
Speaker 4: how do you live your life these days without having
Speaker 4: a formal ID presenting who you are if you need
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying suggesting the police and government agents
Speaker 4: stop and check your ID, check your papers, We're not
Speaker 4: talking about that. I'm talking about you want to participate
Speaker 4: in stuff. You need to show who you want to travel,
Speaker 4: you want to do all these things. You want to
Speaker 4: find an airplane, you need ID. You know we're going
Speaker 4: to we're disenfranchising with people aren't allowed to travel freely
Speaker 4: in America because they have to have an idea. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we need to know who the hell you are. It's
Speaker 4: really not that big And I ask, is it? But
Speaker 4: Delta Airlines because of this whole government shutdown now and
Speaker 4: the TSA workers going all to pay for what the
Speaker 4: third time three paychecks? Now, I mean these people are
Speaker 4: getting squeeze. There's no money coming in and so they're
Speaker 4: not showing up to work. They may be doing a
Speaker 4: side hustle or something like that. And plus how many
Speaker 4: people really want to become TSAG it's knowing that ye
Speaker 4: now every six months, you're not going to get paid,
Speaker 4: and this is why you have not everywhere.
Speaker 3: CBG is doing well.
Speaker 4: And I think it's also misrepresented a lot of cases, probably,
Speaker 4: And I don't watch a lot of you know, the
Speaker 4: media's Republicans like the shout out of like most people
Speaker 4: look at their phones and get information. I'm not watching,
Speaker 4: you know, sitting down and watching the nightly news. I
Speaker 4: don't even know who does the nightly news anymore. It's
Speaker 4: old school. But in that regard, yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 4: you're gonna show long lines at airports because you know
Speaker 4: that's that's good television or that's clickbait. But you know
Speaker 4: a lot of airports like CBG are doing just fine.
Speaker 4: So it's relative for sure. Now if you're stuck in
Speaker 4: those long lines, it's a different story when you see
Speaker 4: whereas in Houston, like a six hour line that's insane,
Speaker 4: New Orleans and other fields like that. Sure it's happening.
Speaker 4: Delta Airlines, I think this is a great masters stroke.
Speaker 4: Delta Airlines has suspended services for members of Congress because
Speaker 4: of the shutdown, so they have specially flights I guess,
Speaker 4: you know, when they're trying to get in out of town.
Speaker 4: When one week they're working next week, they're on spring break,
Speaker 4: and so who the hell knows when these guys are working.
Speaker 4: But nonetheless, Delta said, yeah, okay, well guess what now
Speaker 4: we're gonna hit you guys. Take a train, go walk
Speaker 4: uber home, uber back to your district. See how you
Speaker 4: like it. I think that's fantastic, And it made me
Speaker 4: think of something else. You know, all those people standing
Speaker 4: in line, and if you're one of those, if we're
Speaker 4: smart about this, we'd organize it instead of this stupid
Speaker 4: no King's protest or little kings. I'm a big fan
Speaker 4: of little kings. No King's not spot a little king's protest.
Speaker 4: I'd be there with you. I'll bring the bottle open
Speaker 4: or how's that? But instead the no kings protests? Again,
Speaker 4: here's when we could all participate. And if you're traveling,
Speaker 4: because what are you doing when you're waiting in these
Speaker 4: extremely long lines, because we're not paying tsa agents of
Speaker 4: all things to squeeze us out and give us some
Speaker 4: sort of attraction, some sort of reason to get this
Speaker 4: whole standoff done. You've got time in your hands, you've
Speaker 4: got a phone in your hands. I think maybe the
Speaker 4: thing is like, Okay, here's my lawmaker, these are the
Speaker 4: people responsible, these are my congress people, as my senator.
Speaker 4: As long as I stand in line for four or
Speaker 4: five six hours, I'm going to continually call our office
Speaker 4: and complain. And maybe if the switchboards are so overloaded
Speaker 4: with calls and blow it up and the system gets
Speaker 4: shut down. I don't know, does that cause them to act?
Speaker 4: Probably not, But you know, starting convenience to them, I
Speaker 4: think the Delta has it right. Turn this thing around.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, now we're gonna into convenience. You want
Speaker 4: a special flight home, you want a special trip or
Speaker 4: a special shovel because you're a lawmaker. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 4: doing your job. You get nothing. You're killing us. We
Speaker 4: have to increase fuel costs. We're we're trying to make money.
Speaker 4: Passengers are mad. It sounds like a campaign. The airline
Speaker 4: should start or TSA. The TSA starts like, hey, here's
Speaker 4: the number of your lawmakers. Start calling them, email them,
Speaker 4: blow them up, text them. I mean, you're standing the
Speaker 4: line anyway, What the hell now? In some areas of
Speaker 4: the airport you're in the bowels and you're not getting
Speaker 4: Wi Fi or I forgot I think it was Houston.
Speaker 4: These people are standing in a six hour line and
Speaker 4: they have to the lines are so long they have
Speaker 4: to reroute people. And some are in the bowels of
Speaker 4: the airport where there's no Wi Fi in no cell service.
Speaker 4: So you're standing there for six hours. In this modern age,
Speaker 4: it's not like you brought a hardcover book with you.
Speaker 4: Just standing there staring at the head of the person
Speaker 4: in front of you for six hours. I mean, shoot
Speaker 4: me now, right, running all my arm off at this point,
Speaker 4: at what point you just goes, guess what, this vacation,
Speaker 4: this trip, it just is not happening. Get my money back.
Speaker 4: I'll kick the can down the road. I just go
Speaker 4: back to work, you know what, I'm taking my vacation
Speaker 4: days back.
Speaker 3: We're good. Of course, you got a wedding or something
Speaker 3: like that, different story.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the thing is, I don't know, I wonder
Speaker 4: how busy their offices are, or even their local office
Speaker 4: and general they're not staffed, but you know, they have
Speaker 4: offices in their district that are just storefronts basically, and
Speaker 4: there might be somebody there, but you know, starting leaning
Speaker 4: on other people, starting inconvenience in them for crying out loud.
Speaker 3: I mean Delta. I think they I think they got
Speaker 3: it right here. Quite honestly.
Speaker 4: They can't go unscathe Allen and Springfield on the Scott's
Speaker 4: Loan show, Good Marrow, what's up?
Speaker 10: I just listening to you. I couldn't agree with you more,
Speaker 10: and I think, uh, you know, the government just needs
Speaker 10: to hear more and more from upstanding leaders in our
Speaker 10: community and from common Joe's like you and me, that
Speaker 10: they suck. They're terrible, you know, forcing people to work,
Speaker 10: and I know it's you know, people can call off
Speaker 10: the forcing people to work without pay. We tried back
Speaker 10: in this country years ago. That doesn't work. That's just
Speaker 10: stupid thinking. And it goes back to you know, Kings
Speaker 10: and Ponds that you know, Democrats couldn't organize an argument
Speaker 10: that no Kings thinks does and the Republicans can never
Speaker 10: organize ever rebuttal to the Democrats, and they're just as
Speaker 10: foolish we are Americans. We need Democrats and Republicans to
Speaker 10: get the heck out of our way. They're terrible at
Speaker 10: their job and they need to be told every day
Speaker 10: how terrible they are.
Speaker 9: Are.
Speaker 10: They busy in Washington, Yeah, they're busy at name calling.
Speaker 10: You know, uh, it doesn't matter the president Democrat, Republican.
Speaker 10: They put posers in place to do well.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing is, we elect these people, right, and
Speaker 4: I'm so tired of the same rhetoric, the same nonsense.
Speaker 4: As you know, you're voting for freedom and you're voting
Speaker 4: you're not. You just going to do the same thing
Speaker 4: the guy you're replacing does. So I don't feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, we tried this seismic change with Trump. I mean,
Speaker 4: legitimately the first term is like, Okay, here's a guy
Speaker 4: who has no experience in governance whatsoever, the successful business person.
Speaker 4: Let's let's try this guy. I mean, it was an
Speaker 4: active desperation by the American electorate to the point where
Speaker 4: when Trump was sworn in on election night, when he
Speaker 4: found out he won, dude looked like a deer in headlights.
Speaker 4: I've never seen that look at that guy's face ever,
Speaker 4: because it was so confident in himself. He like, did
Speaker 4: I just get elected president? How the hell did this happen?
Speaker 4: Because we're desperate for change, that's how he got elected.
Speaker 10: And now this many years later, he's part of the
Speaker 10: dumper as well. I mean, he is horrible. I can't
Speaker 10: believe how many people call into this radio and say
Speaker 10: they love him. I don't love nobody could love Joe
Speaker 10: Biden in this past four years and the way he performed.
Speaker 10: And I got to tell you people got smoke mirrors on.
Speaker 5: I mean, I trust me.
Speaker 10: I like what he did with the southern border. That
Speaker 10: was just upholding law. The Democrats start around and Republicans
Speaker 10: they try to tell people who can't be and who
Speaker 10: can't be patriot a patriot. I just don't understand foolish talk.
Speaker 4: Well what happened is it became it all became the
Speaker 4: free to the patriots, and it became a brand, is
Speaker 4: what it is.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love what he did with with oh you
Speaker 4: know dig Yeah, absolutely, we need to be energy independent.
Speaker 4: Example here is this, but you mentioned border security. I
Speaker 4: was not not a fan of on the first term
Speaker 4: of the border wall. That was a bad idea because
Speaker 4: they don't work. And now it's like, hey, we did
Speaker 4: it with policy, we did with enforcement. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 4: how you do it. And then you squeeze Mexico. But
Speaker 4: then you shoots himself on the foot on other things.
Speaker 4: So I just you know, doze right, Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 4: we're gonna blow everything. Didn't do a damn thing, and
Speaker 4: now we have more debt than we did under Biden.
Speaker 4: So what's really changing here? And I gotta go, man,
Speaker 4: Thanks for the time, appreciate you listening. Happy Opening Day, buddy,
Speaker 4: It's the home of the Red seven hundred w W.
Speaker 3: Since THENI I want to.
Speaker 1: Be an American, No God willing.
Speaker 4: I'll have a coul drink in my hand at the
Speaker 4: Holy Grail Banks for Opening Day twenty twenty six. And
Speaker 4: it begins anew The hope and prospects of a new
Speaker 4: season emerge tomorrow morning at nine am when we kick
Speaker 4: off the broadcast live. We're down there all day. We'll
Speaker 4: first pitch at four to ten with the Boston Red
Speaker 4: Sox in town. And so it begins, and it begins
Speaker 4: the way well we've begun in the past. What it
Speaker 4: looks like a glut of pitchers now because of injuries,
Speaker 4: and mister Blister looks maybe a little bit thinner on.
Speaker 4: That is our buddy from Locked On Reds. He's Jeff Carr. Jeff,
Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. Good morning, Sony. The Reds always
Speaker 4: test their depths. It doesn't matter how much they've got
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 8: They use it all baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before the season even starts.
Speaker 4: So Nick Lidolo is pitching, everything's going good, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, it's not. Now We've got a
Speaker 4: second pitcher down with a blister, and it's nothing new.
Speaker 4: He's battlest his entire career. He said this spring he
Speaker 4: was taking some preventative measures. But you know, those measures
Speaker 4: don't hold the March game. What are they realistic options
Speaker 4: for the Reds to manage this through one hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty two games.
Speaker 8: Well, and I think that there is a special circumstance
Speaker 8: with this because Arizona was something close to Mercury as
Speaker 8: far as the temperature goes. This past week, they were
Speaker 8: moving games around, pushing untill later in the day, and
Speaker 8: so I think that there was just something to it
Speaker 8: that can pushing too hard, too fast, or something like that.
Speaker 8: But still, you're right, we're talking about a guy that
Speaker 8: there's been one problem in his career and he continues
Speaker 8: to face that one problem. It did not rip on
Speaker 8: its own. They were able to, you know, treat it
Speaker 8: and all that other stuff after the game was over.
Speaker 8: And so that's exactly what happened with Brady Singer, and
Speaker 8: all reports indicate that he is not going to miss
Speaker 8: any time he's supposed to make his first start. Brady
Speaker 8: Singer is for the third game of the season. We
Speaker 8: know that we're talking about two different pictures when it
Speaker 8: comes to Blusters. In this case, the body language of
Speaker 8: Nicolodola was key. Whenever he was coming off the mound,
Speaker 8: you could see that he was mad. He wasn't dejected
Speaker 8: or depressed or drained. It was that he was angry,
Speaker 8: almost as if it's like here we go again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so he misses a little time. Who steps
Speaker 4: in Louder?
Speaker 8: Burns Williamson, I think it probably just kind of crunch
Speaker 8: this rotation up. I think that you would be fine
Speaker 8: to move Brady Singer into the second game of the
Speaker 8: Boston Red Sox series, and then you would see Red
Speaker 8: Louder in the final game on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Tito said already that we'd be revisiting that
Speaker 4: situation within a couple of weeks, you know, And so
Speaker 4: trying to figure out who emerges as a clear number four.
Speaker 4: Was that made any more evident in this last week
Speaker 4: full week of play in Goodyear.
Speaker 8: I think that Brandon Williamson is really separating himself. He
Speaker 8: has had a nice spring, and while I've tried to
Speaker 8: take it with a grain of salt, it just seems
Speaker 8: like every time he goes out there he has a
Speaker 8: good outing, and his most recent outing he pitched five
Speaker 8: plus innings, so it kind of looks like he is
Speaker 8: ready to go and be relied on. And if you
Speaker 8: are going to see Nicolodella miss more than one start,
Speaker 8: I think you can work Chase Burns up in that
Speaker 8: first start, maybe even the second start. He goes five
Speaker 8: innings and then you're ready to turn him loose. But
Speaker 8: I think that the Reds are any better situation here
Speaker 8: than you know. We as Red fans, we love to
Speaker 8: take that pessimistic view, and whenever we heard six starting
Speaker 8: pitchers for five spots, we're like, well, you know that
Speaker 8: old adage when you say you got two quarterbacks, you
Speaker 8: don't really have a quarterbacks. Do you have six starting pitchers?
Speaker 8: I mean, you don't have any And I don't think
Speaker 8: that's the case here. And I was happy to hear
Speaker 8: that their plan for the whole piggyback starter situation was
Speaker 8: not going to be something that extended far into the season,
Speaker 8: because that would be the thing that I'd say, Okay,
Speaker 8: this is a bad idea because you are going to
Speaker 8: tax your bullpen. You are going to put some weird
Speaker 8: stress on these young starting pitchers. But the quick hook
Speaker 8: as that were on this plan is the key to me.
Speaker 4: He's Jeff Carr so the Car Show Baby and locked
Speaker 4: on reds is the podcast. So one hundred Green is
Speaker 4: out to at least July. Pretty huge hole there, obviously,
Speaker 4: with your ace going down and trying to hold it together.
Speaker 4: Andrew Abbott's getting the started opening day? Is he ready
Speaker 4: to go? Does he have any blisters, any headache? Is
Speaker 4: he like cramping? What's is he?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: All reports indicated he is ready to go, and his
Speaker 8: most recent start, he got his pitch count up really nicely.
Speaker 8: And I know that a lot of folks continue to
Speaker 8: belabor the statistics and I don't think they will have
Speaker 8: too many worries after his opening day start.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, that's fingers crossed hopefully on It's ago. We
Speaker 4: know you mentioned Brady singer Dodge day blister scare of
Speaker 4: his own. How important is it for him to stay
Speaker 4: healthy this year?
Speaker 8: He is the rock in the middle of the reservortation
Speaker 8: mate thirty two starts last year, first streads starting to
Speaker 8: make thirty two starts since the red said guy's name,
Speaker 8: Louis Castillo and Tyler Malley shown up for him every
Speaker 8: fifth day, So it's been a litle little bit there,
Speaker 8: and I continue to expect him to do that again,
Speaker 8: and it sort of earmarked the top four. And as
Speaker 8: much as we are seeing, you know, Hunter Green missing
Speaker 8: half the season or more and Nicolodolo is already dealing
Speaker 8: with blister issues, this whole top four thing is getting
Speaker 8: It's taken its locks early. But I'd love to see
Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty starts from the top four, which
Speaker 8: that just means each guy needs to average thirty. And
Speaker 8: if you take probably you know, fifteen away from Hunter Green,
Speaker 8: it's likely that they missed that one hundred and twenty mark.
Speaker 8: But Brady Singer is going to be that guy that
Speaker 8: you can rely on to kind of lift everybody else
Speaker 8: up in that.
Speaker 4: Group, gotcha. Caleb Ferguson is going to start on the al.
Speaker 4: He's got a MRI coming up this week, I think Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Back here in Cincinnati. Bullpen is supposed to be a
Speaker 4: big strength after the rebuild this offseason. How much losing
Speaker 4: him does that hurt the calculus here?
Speaker 8: It's not as bad as you would think in years
Speaker 8: past because the year the Reds saw their biggest weakness
Speaker 8: in the bullpen being their lefties, and when the you know,
Speaker 8: last year, for the much of the year, it was
Speaker 8: just Brent Suitor and he wasn't really even a lefty specialist.
Speaker 8: He was more of a long relief specialist. The Reds
Speaker 8: needed to upgrade that, and so that's why they signed him.
Speaker 8: They traded for brock Berth, and they kept sam Mall,
Speaker 8: where a lot of people wondered if they might cut him. Well,
Speaker 8: they're looking like geniuses for keeping him now because he's
Speaker 8: going to be able to backfill Caleb Ferguson's spot at
Speaker 8: least in the short term. And sam Mall's actually looked
Speaker 8: good this spring, where last year he was not good
Speaker 8: at all in the spring or in the regular season.
Speaker 8: He showed up the camp out of shape. This year
Speaker 8: he's completely different. It looks like he was super focused.
Speaker 8: All of his appearances have looked really well, albeit he's
Speaker 8: still had a little bit of control, but every pitcher
Speaker 8: kind of goes through that during the spring training and
Speaker 8: so I expect him to at least fill in in
Speaker 8: a way that the Reds won't necessarily miss Caleb Ferguson
Speaker 8: as much. But whenever Caleb Ferguson returns, then we will
Speaker 8: see the sailing of the bullet.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Sam Mall also made the team, and Tito talked about
Speaker 4: his stuff looking a lot better late in camp. Is
Speaker 4: he a legitimate back end weapon or is he is
Speaker 4: he a roster filler?
Speaker 8: While Ferguson recovers, Honestly, if he could pitch like he
Speaker 8: pitched in twenty twenty four, he could be a legitimate weapon.
Speaker 8: He was a guy that was super good at limiting
Speaker 8: opponents whenever he came in. I kind of had this
Speaker 8: stat that I never really came up with a good
Speaker 8: name for a relief pitcher that came in, didn't allow
Speaker 8: base or under and got at least one strikeout. And
Speaker 8: Sam Mall led the was second in the team to
Speaker 8: Alexis Diaz that year. But I mean, I think a
Speaker 8: lot of people would.
Speaker 5: Have been surprised by that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we need. We need, we need another
Speaker 4: statistic in baseball. We need a new every year.
Speaker 8: I looked at the long list and I'm like Plony,
Speaker 8: there's there's not enough.
Speaker 4: There's not enough data. More I demand, I demand more data.
Speaker 4: He is Jeff Carr with lockdown rights, all right. So
Speaker 4: that's a pitching situation which has been pretty frightening here
Speaker 4: in the last couple of weeks, with the injuries, the blisters,
Speaker 4: of course, losing your opening day Ace Caleb bar Ferguson
Speaker 4: on the bullpen. What can make up for that and
Speaker 4: cover a lot of problems there, if indeed we have problems,
Speaker 4: would be, of course the position player.
Speaker 3: So let's talk lineup.
Speaker 4: Matt McClain has had one of the best of spriensive
Speaker 4: offensive springs in all of baseball, I mean all the
Speaker 4: major leagues.
Speaker 3: Is it real this time?
Speaker 8: I think that there are elements to it that are real.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to expect him to hit over three
Speaker 8: hundred for the season, but there's a very key thing
Speaker 8: that he has done this spring that he just hasn't
Speaker 8: done so far in his two year career, and that
Speaker 8: is he has cut his chase rate almost I mean
Speaker 8: almost by ten percent. His career chase rate is at
Speaker 8: twenty seven percent and this year or sorry, twenty five percent.
Speaker 8: And this spring he only swung it pitches upside the
Speaker 8: strike zone at a rate of seventeen percent, So his
Speaker 8: plate discipline is up, his eye is better, he's seeing
Speaker 8: the ball really well. Now there's some other stats, like
Speaker 8: when it comes to his luck and things like that
Speaker 8: that would say that, well, a five twenty six batting
Speaker 8: average is a little high. It's a little lucky, and
Speaker 8: whenever you make more hits than outs, I think most
Speaker 8: people would agree with that. But at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, I am buying his plate discipline and I'm
Speaker 8: buying his approach the way that he is able to
Speaker 8: kind of stay back on his back foot and wait
Speaker 8: on that breaking ball that's low and away, put his
Speaker 8: bat on it and just poking in the right field
Speaker 8: for a single and move along. He has now covered
Speaker 8: the hole in his swing that pitchers knew about last year,
Speaker 8: and so they're going to have to regain plan for him.
Speaker 8: And while they do that, I think Matt McClain's going
Speaker 8: to be producing quite a bit for.
Speaker 4: The rest Okay, good, Yeah, and he's it sucked incredible
Speaker 4: so far as it has for Ellie. He just continues
Speaker 4: to do elle like things.
Speaker 3: He's healthy, he looks good.
Speaker 8: I mean, we saw a couple of different situations in
Speaker 8: the spring where he either walks or it's a single,
Speaker 8: and then you blink and he's on third. And that's
Speaker 8: exactly what we need from him in games where he
Speaker 8: might not have his best stuff with the bat, as
Speaker 8: long as his legs can carry him forward. He's a
Speaker 8: five tool guy. Yeah, you know, if all five of
Speaker 8: those tools are working like we've seen this spring, then
Speaker 8: we are going to see the superstar that we know
Speaker 8: that he can be.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, Noelvie Marti had had some shaky moments in right
Speaker 4: field defensively on Tito said he made the club for sure.
Speaker 4: So what's your honest assessment. Who's watched a lot of
Speaker 4: spring training? Honest asseeven of Noelvie Marti.
Speaker 8: You know, like the old cartoons or something where somebody's
Speaker 8: like trying to figure something out and so they hold
Speaker 8: up a big spyglass to something. I'm still holding up
Speaker 8: a big spy glass to Noelvie Marte when he's fielding
Speaker 8: right now. I got to figure out what that looks like.
Speaker 8: Because obviously he had the best play of the year
Speaker 8: last year for the Reds, but at the same time,
Speaker 8: we saw plenty of plays where he's kind of run
Speaker 8: around in the outfield like bugs Bunny, trying and find
Speaker 8: a baseball, And you don't want to see that on
Speaker 8: a regular basis. You want to I see guys taking
Speaker 8: good routes. You want to see him putting himself in
Speaker 8: an easy position to make a play. And I don't
Speaker 8: know that we really saw that this spring. So I
Speaker 8: hope that he acquires that rather quickly because this outfield
Speaker 8: it seems interesting, because there were some nice performances from
Speaker 8: guys this year, but I don't necessarily know that I
Speaker 8: buy how much this outfield or how good this outfield
Speaker 8: has looked in spring training. I've got to see that.
Speaker 8: That's the one thing that I've remarked for the season
Speaker 8: that I'm like, I got to see it to believe it,
Speaker 8: and I got to see his glove working to believe it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And then also the bench too, love the fact that
Speaker 4: they resigned to a Vino Platinum glove catcher send multi legit.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. Well Benson obviously, and Nathaniel Low who made
Speaker 4: the club despite a lot of personal trauma during spring training,
Speaker 4: but he still showed up.
Speaker 8: You know, Nick Krawl must be living right, because for
Speaker 8: NATHANIELO to be available for nothing, and that's what the
Speaker 8: Reds got him for was nothing. And he's going to
Speaker 8: be a key part of this team for this year
Speaker 8: because I think that he's going to bounce back in
Speaker 8: a big way. He's a guy that his career has
Speaker 8: been good. Last year was not and so if he
Speaker 8: can just get back to what the back of his
Speaker 8: baseball card says, then he is going to be an
Speaker 8: asset for the Reds. And how many times have we
Speaker 8: been able to say that for the Reds in these
Speaker 8: pastca leears so many young guys trying to make their
Speaker 8: way in the major League and they don't have a
Speaker 8: back of the baseball card. NATHANIELO does, and we know
Speaker 8: what he can bring to the deal. Good on bass guy,
Speaker 8: solid line drive power. He's everything that Nick Kral says
Speaker 8: he wants in a hitter. Is Nick Krawl loves to
Speaker 8: tell us how much he loves alive a line drive hitter.
Speaker 8: That's who Nathaniel is. And so he's going to play
Speaker 8: first base BDH but also be pinch hit extraordinai for
Speaker 8: the Reds from the left side of the plate. And
Speaker 8: I think He's going.
Speaker 5: To be a weapon that the Reds can use in
Speaker 5: multiple spots.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, should be interesting. Ready to play some ball Sunday.
Speaker 4: We got a little taste of what summer like for
Speaker 4: like twenty I felt like you're in Florida for twenty
Speaker 4: four hours and then back to reality. But the forecast
Speaker 4: looks good so far. To get this one in. And
Speaker 4: he is Jeff Carr with Lockdown Reds this morning on
Speaker 4: seven hundred WLW All the best, buddy, Thanks for coming
Speaker 4: in this morning, and I'm ready for some baseball for sure.
Speaker 8: It's funny. Same here, man, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Go yep, you got it. Thanks again, Jeff Carr.
Speaker 4: And we are at the Holy Grailed Banks Live tomorrow
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Speaker 4: We've got players coming in and so much more so.
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Speaker 4: up in just minutes on the show, here is Julie Bouki,
Speaker 4: our career Sirpa. We will talk job related stuff, including
Speaker 4: a local case here of it's a terrible story. Involves
Speaker 4: a woman who lost her baby who was delivered prematurely,
Speaker 4: but it was because her employers said, now you've got
Speaker 4: to work or you can work from home, and probably
Speaker 4: should have been off in the first place. But there's
Speaker 4: a whole new area, not really new area, but it's
Speaker 4: a growing area of litigation and involves pregnancy litigation in
Speaker 4: the workplace. So we got that coming up also as folks,
Speaker 4: and maybe you get ready to head down town tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Do you know there's a weird part of the law
Speaker 4: Ohio law that says, if you're a driver and you
Speaker 4: strike a pedestrian in the crosswalk, and let's say you
Speaker 4: are not under the influence of anything, but you just
Speaker 4: mistakenly it's an accent. You strike a pedestrian and a
Speaker 4: mark crosswalk. There's no penalty for that. That can change
Speaker 4: under a new law being proposed by Ohio representative of
Speaker 4: Mike Odioso out of Green Township. He will join the
Speaker 4: show at eleven oh six to talk about that. Here
Speaker 4: on the home of those reads seven hundred ww Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: Giving you a vocational leg up on everyone else. Here's
Speaker 11: our career. Julie Balch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every Wednesday, Julie jumps into discuss here on seven
Speaker 4: hundred WA. Tav no exception in the big story. Hamlin
Speaker 4: County jury handed down a twenty two and a half
Speaker 4: million dollar verdict yesterday in the wrongful death lawsuit against
Speaker 4: TQL Totally Quality Logistics, and the lawsuit said that TQL
Speaker 4: dinighted a pregnant employe's request to work from home, leading
Speaker 4: to the death of her prematurely born daughter. It's a
Speaker 4: horrible story, but there is a lesson here because this
Speaker 4: area of law Higher's pregnancy law is really starting to
Speaker 4: work its way into the workplace as it should.
Speaker 3: Julie, welcome. How are you? What I said, Julie, Julie welcome?
Speaker 3: How are you sorry?
Speaker 9: Next week?
Speaker 4: Do you did you swap your here? You got your
Speaker 4: new batteries and the hearing it today? Or do you
Speaker 4: recharge them?
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I'm fine, thank.
Speaker 4: You god it okay, all right, all right, all right,
Speaker 4: before we begin, though, you spent years and years as
Speaker 4: the hr lady, the lady that would crack down on
Speaker 4: wayward employees. You'd fired people, you threw the book at him,
Speaker 4: you punished, you penalized that you went on with glee, right,
Speaker 4: glee just sitting behind the desk. She struck fear in
Speaker 4: the hearts of workers at a large and small and
Speaker 4: medium sized companies city wide.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you a big question. You're ready,
Speaker 3: I'm ready.
Speaker 4: What is the best lie you can use to get
Speaker 4: out of working tomorrow for row to get out opening
Speaker 4: day so you can go to opening day.
Speaker 9: What's a good one?
Speaker 3: What works? What doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 12: That's tough because you your photo can show up anywhere,
Speaker 12: Remember the Cincinnatians can viral sen say in line to
Speaker 12: buy dealer swift merch with a sheet over her head
Speaker 12: with eyeholes cut out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that can be you couple. I forget that.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, so's.
Speaker 3: But that's not a fun topic. Tell me, tell me
Speaker 3: a good lie?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 13: What?
Speaker 3: What's a lie that HR people would believe?
Speaker 9: It's not the HR people. You got to deal with
Speaker 9: the person you're reporting to. It's not up to HR.
Speaker 9: It's up to the person you're reporting to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you probably know some pretty good scams.
Speaker 9: You could get caught. Well, I think take one of
Speaker 9: your PTO days and one of your vacations. It is
Speaker 9: that important to have one.
Speaker 3: There was a danger in that. That's stupid, honest. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you should.
Speaker 4: All the pain and suffering you've caused in your career,
Speaker 4: is HR lady, you should do?
Speaker 3: You owe it to us. You all this to us.
Speaker 9: I would think, like, are you excited for opening day?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 9: Is it going to be good weather?
Speaker 3: I think I have irritable bowel? Sinder? Should I come
Speaker 3: to work?
Speaker 10: That's okay?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 10: Well yeah, because they.
Speaker 9: Have they have bodies at work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I man, I'm okay, that's fine, But you
Speaker 4: know what I just ruined a new couch, my new uh,
Speaker 4: my new sofa is completely ruined. If you want me
Speaker 4: to come to work, I'll come to work. You know
Speaker 4: what you should do here, I got it. So you
Speaker 4: do that because no one likes it. You go like,
Speaker 4: I'm coming in, I'm sick, I'm finding and then you
Speaker 4: bring some of that fart spray with you. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: that would definitely get away.
Speaker 9: You're giving away your whole plan.
Speaker 4: They send you home, I do They just send you
Speaker 4: home and go yeah, you need to go home. This
Speaker 4: is not okay, good, I'll go home and then you
Speaker 4: go right opening to how about that?
Speaker 3: All right? Do that the farts? That's fine?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know what, they've got lots of bathrooms
Speaker 4: at JBP. Let's talk about a much more serious case,
Speaker 4: and this involves the verdict against TQL yesterday. And you know,
Speaker 4: I think it's fair just to pick TQL up because
Speaker 4: it's probably happening all over the place. But take it
Speaker 4: through the story of what happened to a twenty two
Speaker 4: and a half million dollar verdict for this woman the
Speaker 4: estate of Magnolia. Walsh was the infant daughter of an
Speaker 4: employee by the name of Chelsea Walsh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so the mistake TQL made, at least according to.
Speaker 12: What we're reading. There's always more than what you're reading.
Speaker 9: She had a high.
Speaker 12: Risk pregnancy and her doctor suggested or ordered, or whatever
Speaker 12: authority a doctor has to say, you need to be
Speaker 12: working from home. It's too stressful to go in the
Speaker 12: office on your pregnancy. TQL refused, according to the story,
Speaker 12: and then she lost the baby, and so she sued.
Speaker 12: She and her family sued, and one the jury agreed
Speaker 12: that her request was reasonable. And I know we all
Speaker 12: have a different interpretation of what's reasonable, and I don't.
Speaker 9: Know what her job was.
Speaker 12: I think the lesson here is we are we are
Speaker 12: so far away from the old work force makeup it's
Speaker 12: men and then the women are at home giving birth
Speaker 12: and raising the children, that employers have to be hyper
Speaker 12: aware and err on the side of caution when it comes.
Speaker 9: To what they require from people.
Speaker 12: Who aren't just pregnant, but also who have other disabilities,
Speaker 12: who have issues they have to take care of. There
Speaker 12: needs to be a reasonable policy.
Speaker 9: And the jury found that saying.
Speaker 12: No to her request to work from home based on
Speaker 12: doctor's orders was unreasonable. And I think you've got a
Speaker 12: jury of people who've had kids, who have grandkids, who
Speaker 12: put themselves in her shoes and say, yeah, that was
Speaker 12: big bad company here they kicking on this young pregnanty. Yeah,
Speaker 12: no it doesn't. And so as we say about everything,
Speaker 12: think about think about the always think about what precedent
Speaker 12: have you already set?
Speaker 9: You want to be consistent, but you want to make
Speaker 9: sure you don't want your name in the headlines.
Speaker 12: Is having to pay out twenty two million dollars? Yeah,
Speaker 12: And now you look at this and you say okay.
Speaker 9: So then one of the things that I wanted to
Speaker 9: bring up to with this is when.
Speaker 12: You look at the stats at the workplace stacks moving forward,
Speaker 12: in terms of just pure men and women, women are
Speaker 12: graduating from college at a higher pace they are. Their
Speaker 12: labor force participation rate is fifty eight percent and growing,
Speaker 12: while for men it's sixty eight percent, which is a
Speaker 12: significant decline over the past decades. And the proportion of
Speaker 12: women in the workforce with at least a college degree
Speaker 12: is seventy percent. And so when you look at what
Speaker 12: is it that what is it that we have to do.
Speaker 9: To make sure that we are making.
Speaker 12: It possible for women to start families have children come
Speaker 12: back and still have their job, which FEMLA requires. The
Speaker 12: Family Medical Leave Act requires that, but the requirement is
Speaker 12: SEMLA is also unpaid leave, and many many people cannot
Speaker 12: afford that, and that may have been her situation, but
Speaker 12: she couldn't afford.
Speaker 9: To take on paid leave.
Speaker 4: I don't know, that's a great question, because that to
Speaker 4: me was I don't know if I missed it or not,
Speaker 4: but it was like, so she requested work from home
Speaker 4: for the doctor's orders. Tikebel denied it, but they placed
Speaker 4: her on leave against her wishes, and I thought, okay, well,
Speaker 4: if it's unpaid leave, I guess and that caused enough
Speaker 4: stress to because maybe the way to look at it
Speaker 4: two things. I mean, we're presuming that I know there's
Speaker 4: an imbalance in the workplace right now, there's a lot
Speaker 4: more women in the workforce, but not represented as much
Speaker 4: in the upper echelons of business. I think that takes
Speaker 4: some time. It's a lagging indicator. But you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know if you're presuming or not that there's no
Speaker 4: women involved in this decision. I would be hard persson
Speaker 4: believe there is someone along lines of female going Hey, listen,
Speaker 4: just so you know, and you know, you can be
Speaker 4: a man and understand pregnancy law. There are plenty of
Speaker 4: lawyers that are fighting for her in the estate that
Speaker 4: won this thing. But I guess the whole leave against
Speaker 4: her wishes thing, and I'd never consider that. It's like, okay,
Speaker 4: if unforced unpaid leave, well, I got bills to pay,
Speaker 4: so I have to work.
Speaker 3: I guess she shows up at the office. So that's
Speaker 3: a huge problem.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think she was.
Speaker 12: She lost the baby at twenty weeks, I believe, and
Speaker 12: so she would have had to have several months or
Speaker 12: you know, a handful of months anyway of unpaid leave.
Speaker 9: And who can afford that, very very few people. And
Speaker 9: so when when these cases.
Speaker 12: Are looked at, I mean, no attorney, but reasonable, what's reasonable?
Speaker 9: What's a reasonable accommodation? And it's just for a few.
Speaker 12: Months period, And what can you do as an employer
Speaker 12: with many resources at your disposal to make this make
Speaker 12: this work for everyone involved? Presumably she was a valued employee,
Speaker 12: So what can you do to make this work versus
Speaker 12: having to train somebody else if you force her out?
Speaker 12: And so there's when we look at the way that
Speaker 12: this is something that all employers should be taking a
Speaker 12: look at how do we And there's a lot of
Speaker 12: great information online about what the Family Medical Leave Act
Speaker 12: actually requires of you.
Speaker 9: So it's not just.
Speaker 12: Pregnancy, it's to take care of an elderly parent, deal
Speaker 12: with your own personal situation when you adopt a child.
Speaker 12: And there's a lot of requirements around this. But it's
Speaker 12: unpaid and that's yeah, got it.
Speaker 9: A lot of.
Speaker 12: Companies will have short term disability. So maybe you get
Speaker 12: paid some percent of your salary.
Speaker 9: But what can you do to be reasonable because.
Speaker 12: Your workforce is going to be if it's not already
Speaker 12: predominantly women.
Speaker 9: Depending on the industry you're.
Speaker 12: In, you will have more women in the workforce who
Speaker 12: will be of child bearing age, and so what can
Speaker 12: you do to get ahead of these things before you're
Speaker 12: a headline?
Speaker 4: How cow many think this mistake is. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just tique you on the headlines. But I'm sure this
Speaker 4: happens a lot in trying to navigate pregnant work or fairness.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it does too.
Speaker 12: And when you look at there are certain there are
Speaker 12: for companies with under fifty employees.
Speaker 9: I think the number fifty.
Speaker 12: You're not required to provide any unpaid time, because the
Speaker 12: thought there is that that you have a small workforce
Speaker 12: that that can have an undue impact or a signific
Speaker 12: an outsized impact.
Speaker 9: When you have you know, one or two people out And.
Speaker 12: So it's it's I think it's when you look at
Speaker 12: what's the makeup of our workforce, what is required of us?
Speaker 9: And then what do we want to do?
Speaker 12: And part of this, when you look at it all,
Speaker 12: it goes back to what kind of message are you sending.
Speaker 12: So I'm a young woman looking at TQL as a
Speaker 12: potential employer, going yeah, maybe not because I want to.
Speaker 9: Have babies someday and maybe, and so it becomes again.
Speaker 12: A retention, a recruiting issue, a hiring issue, a retention
Speaker 12: and engagement issue.
Speaker 9: And this is the kind of press you don't want.
Speaker 12: So yeah, there could be a ton of these happening,
Speaker 12: but they get settled before they get to a big.
Speaker 9: Outcome like this, a big splashy upcome like this. And yeah,
Speaker 9: I think there's a.
Speaker 12: Lot of lack of awareness not only on the side
Speaker 12: of employers, but but also in the employees themselves, and
Speaker 12: so they may really not even know what benefits they
Speaker 12: have available.
Speaker 9: So I think both sides need to avail themselves and
Speaker 9: get super.
Speaker 12: Familiar with with you know, with what with what is
Speaker 12: available and plan accordingly.
Speaker 4: Well as a career counselor yourself as a coach. And
Speaker 4: that's a key, right, I mean, employees need to know.
Speaker 4: Here's an example, what do you need to know about
Speaker 4: documenting accommodation request or protect yourself Because you've got to
Speaker 4: build a case. You always got to think, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: doing this, are my t's crossed, my eyes dotted?
Speaker 3: What do you need?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, And that's and and and that's where the doctor
Speaker 12: in this case it was actually it wasn't just I
Speaker 12: don't feel.
Speaker 9: Good, I want to work from home.
Speaker 12: Know, it was the doctor who presumably knows more about
Speaker 12: this situation than anyone from a medical perspective and a
Speaker 12: risk perspective.
Speaker 9: When you bring in those.
Speaker 12: Authorities who are saying, yes, again, this is you continuing
Speaker 12: to go into the office.
Speaker 9: Is against my is against my best judgment. And she
Speaker 9: continued to go in.
Speaker 12: From what I understand, But when you look at the fact,
Speaker 12: like you said, I'm not getting paid and so I'm
Speaker 12: going to drag myself through this and hope for the best.
Speaker 9: And so what is the employer's role? And I think
Speaker 9: that's that's a question.
Speaker 12: There's what's legal, and then there's what how what kind
Speaker 12: of workplace do you want to build as as an employer,
Speaker 12: because she's not gonna be up forever.
Speaker 9: It's just a few months. Certainly you can cover that.
Speaker 9: If there was an auto accident, you'd have to cover that.
Speaker 12: So what do you want to do to err on
Speaker 12: the side of building the type of environment where people
Speaker 12: want to come and stay.
Speaker 3: Which they probably do.
Speaker 4: But you know, in this case, you look at it
Speaker 4: go wow, you knew the Sometimes you get so focused
Speaker 4: on the details that you lose sight of the big picture,
Speaker 4: and that is if this goes before a jury, we're
Speaker 4: going to lose because no one is going to work
Speaker 4: against a young woman who just lost her child. And
Speaker 4: you know, I guess the story said they had a
Speaker 4: chance to settle for far far less was the quote.
Speaker 4: But I don't know was that more of a legal
Speaker 4: culture or as a role to the dice thinking that
Speaker 4: that that this would be sound legally like.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not a lawyer, but I look at it go damn, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're going a hard time getting a jury to consider
Speaker 4: that and go, oh, I'm on the company side here,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I have seen those types of cases to the situations
Speaker 12: of employment law where the ego of the employer is
Speaker 12: I'd rather take this to court. And I'm not saying
Speaker 12: that's what happened here, but I'd rather take this to
Speaker 12: court and settle for millions and millions.
Speaker 9: Than to than to settle this for five hundred thousand
Speaker 9: and admit we were wrong. And I've seen Yeah.
Speaker 12: It's okay, but you're taking a pretty big chance here.
Speaker 12: And I mean I've had those conversations when I was
Speaker 12: in HR and had those conversations with leaders with people
Speaker 12: making those decisions, and it just it just made no sense.
Speaker 9: But you could tell it was just ego and I'm
Speaker 9: going to win.
Speaker 12: And yeah, so you win, quote unquote because you take
Speaker 12: it to the jury.
Speaker 9: But now you're the big loser.
Speaker 12: So gets to culture, gets to leadership, gets to employee relations,
Speaker 12: policies and strategies. And you know, again, we only know
Speaker 12: it's been reported.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's fair, you know, because yeah,
Speaker 4: from those I know work at it's a great company.
Speaker 4: And but you know, you hear that and go, well,
Speaker 4: they could have settled earlier and save a whole bun
Speaker 4: of money. Maybe they don't want to lose, and maybe
Speaker 4: it's a culture there, but it could also be the
Speaker 4: fact that there are some elements of the story that
Speaker 4: we're not hearing. Of course, this is a clean, sanitized
Speaker 4: news version, and maybe they had reason for not allowing
Speaker 4: what they did. And again the emotion wore out over
Speaker 4: the fact that couldn't be entirely possible as well.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but like you said, once you get twelve or whatever,
Speaker 12: never is in a jury box of average citizens looking
Speaker 12: at a mother who lost your child.
Speaker 9: You're just going to in a court of public opinion.
Speaker 9: You've lost.
Speaker 12: And there is a cost to that as well.
Speaker 9: And if you decide you're willing to.
Speaker 12: Bear that and have you that headline be out there,
Speaker 12: you know, is certainly your choice is an organization.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Pregnant Workers Fairness active twenty twenty three went to
Speaker 4: effect back then three years ago, and so that's something
Speaker 4: if you're an employer, you've got to familiarize yourself because
Speaker 4: you learn lost things from things like this. Julie Bouki
Speaker 4: our cruise shipa every Wednesday morning, the Balkigroup dot COM's website.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it and we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 9: Yes, we will, and.
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Speaker 4: Drivers. You may not know it, but right now the
Speaker 4: law has a bit of a gap. And so let's
Speaker 4: say there's a drive somebody's driving all crazy. They're not drunk,
Speaker 4: just reckless, just negligent, and they hit someone in a crosswalk.
Speaker 4: That may not be a crime under current law, believe
Speaker 4: it or not. And as the summer season begins, as
Speaker 4: we have literally tens of thousands of people downtown Cincinnati
Speaker 4: tomorrow for opening Day twenty twenty six, this leaves one
Speaker 4: asking is why is the law drunk in this regard?
Speaker 4: Representative on Mike Audioso is here. He's from Green Township
Speaker 4: and he joins the show to discuss because he's got
Speaker 4: a bipartisan bill. Bipartisan, I said, which means two parties
Speaker 4: working together, which is odd these days. I know, Mike,
Speaker 4: how are you.
Speaker 6: Hey, Scott, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate it. Yeah, it's a bipartisanville. And yeah
Speaker 6: you're timing with opening day right around the corner, I
Speaker 6: mean tomorrow and other times when you know, the streets
Speaker 6: get busy with traffic and also pedestrian traffic. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati's weird though, because obviously it's a major metro, large
Speaker 4: metro area, but the bulk of population, of course is
Speaker 4: a donut.
Speaker 3: It lives around.
Speaker 4: So if you live in the suburbs and the communities
Speaker 4: around Cincinnati, and also I would say Butler, Warren, Claremont Counties.
Speaker 4: I throw Kentucky in there as well. You're like, well,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm not downtown. I have to worry about
Speaker 4: that stuff as much.
Speaker 11: How much?
Speaker 4: Also is that a factor because typically you talk about
Speaker 4: pedestrian cor accents, you think of the big cities, But
Speaker 4: it happens all over. It happens in Green Township, doesn't it.
Speaker 6: Yes, it happens in Green Township. I think I just
Speaker 6: asked people to picture Glenway Avenue. You can picture Corane Avenue.
Speaker 6: Those are just two that pop in the in my head. Sure,
Speaker 6: and having since that's uh, you know in my district
Speaker 6: or right next to my district, I mean, and I
Speaker 6: travel there all the time. I mean, it's I think
Speaker 6: people that do that understand it. It also affects the suburbs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's pretty much everywhere. If you cross a
Speaker 4: road that that's you. Was there a moment or an
Speaker 4: incident that made you say, hey, we need.
Speaker 6: To fix this, Well, it was. It was multifaceted. There
Speaker 6: are moments on the streets of downtown and elsewhere where.
Speaker 6: I'm both a pedestrian and I'm both a driver, so
Speaker 6: I you know, in pushing this legislation, I'm just reminding
Speaker 6: folks that we were both and so this applies to
Speaker 6: us both in different situations. The Rep. Secrets is the
Speaker 6: joint sponsor of the bill, and in his district, there
Speaker 6: was someone who was in a wheelchair who got hit
Speaker 6: negligently by a driver, seriously injured, going from being in
Speaker 6: a wheelchair to being a quadriplegic and nonverbal, and when
Speaker 6: it came time to the charging section, there wasn't anything there.
Speaker 6: So that Rep. Secrets brought that to my attention and
Speaker 6: I thought about that, and I thought, well, that doesn't
Speaker 6: make any sense at all. And so in the bill,
Speaker 6: and he was the leader of this part of the bill,
Speaker 6: which I totally concur with. It creates a second degree misdemeanor,
Speaker 6: and it also enhances to a first degree misdemeanor if
Speaker 6: you negligently with your vehicle hit somebody and a cross
Speaker 6: flock that is you know legally there, uh it. It
Speaker 6: creates a now a second degree misdemeanor and a first
Speaker 6: degree misdemeanor with enhancements. And that makes complete sense to me. Now,
Speaker 6: my part of the bill, which he's also joining me with,
Speaker 6: has to do with that. Also that moment in that crosswalk,
Speaker 6: which again you know, doing this all the time, and
Speaker 6: since I've been writing and sponsored the bill, I've been
Speaker 6: you know, as I drive, I think about this bill
Speaker 6: when i'm you know, going through downtown or along the
Speaker 6: Thaoro affairs of the verbs. So what this bill does,
Speaker 6: in my part, and this is essentially under forty five
Speaker 6: eleven one and forty five eleven four to six, it
Speaker 6: simplifies and provides clarity to that moment for the driver
Speaker 6: when they approach a crosswalk. There was a lot of
Speaker 6: gobbly group. And I don't know if that's a legal term.
Speaker 3: I believe that is a legal term.
Speaker 6: Yeah, which I'm not going to read right now. That
Speaker 6: was taken out. And now the basic premise is that
Speaker 6: the driver of a vehicle shall stop and yield the
Speaker 6: right of way. Before it said shall yield the right
Speaker 6: of way slowing down or stopping.
Speaker 8: If need be.
Speaker 6: Uh to so yield, or if required by section four
Speaker 6: five one blah blah blah, and then and and again
Speaker 6: it says the pedestrian crossing lawfully within the crosswalk. What
Speaker 6: we took out was upon the half of the roadway
Speaker 6: upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrians
Speaker 6: approaching so closely from the office, you get the idea.
Speaker 6: So we took those things out, and now it's just
Speaker 6: reads that the driver shall stop and yield the right
Speaker 6: of way, uh to the pedestrian crossing lawfully within the crosswalk.
Speaker 3: Got to be in the crosswalk and in the line
Speaker 3: cross speakers. We're getting because because their current.
Speaker 4: Law, Mike, if you're if you're a sober, distracted driver
Speaker 4: or just driver, you hit a pedest in a crosswalk
Speaker 4: and you cause serious injury, what level of crime.
Speaker 3: Is it is it a crime in Ohio?
Speaker 6: It's not a crime. That's crazy and so, uh, this
Speaker 6: isn't as it relates to negligence. So you're talking about
Speaker 6: the negligence. Yeah, yeah, there you can. If you negligently
Speaker 6: kill someone in a crosswalk, that is a crime. But
Speaker 6: if you negligently seriously injure, and that's the key here,
Speaker 6: is seriously injured, this bill would create a second degree
Speaker 6: and then a first degree.
Speaker 4: It is even hard to believe. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we often talk on my end of the business here, Mike.
Speaker 4: You got you're a lawmaker about duplicitous laws. Right, we
Speaker 4: just keep making more law, law, law, law on top
Speaker 4: of law, on top of law. We have a law
Speaker 4: that like, when it comes to second Amendment of guns,
Speaker 4: we need more gun laws.
Speaker 3: Well, we've got plenty of gun laws and force the
Speaker 3: gun laws.
Speaker 4: We've got people running around our streets who cut off
Speaker 4: ankle monitors for crying out loud, and we don't pick
Speaker 4: them up until after they've killed someone. But yeah, in
Speaker 4: this case, it's hard to believe that this day and age, like,
Speaker 4: isn't the whole point of a crosswalk, meaning that's an
Speaker 4: area that's protected for a pedestrian versus a car. And
Speaker 4: you're telling me like, if it's you're not paying attention,
Speaker 4: you're not drunk or under the influence, like you're fine,
Speaker 4: don't it's you just don't let it happen. Again, that's
Speaker 4: kind of crazy to think that this loopholes existed, this law.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I agree one hundred percent, and that's
Speaker 6: why we're feeling it. But you know, being up here
Speaker 6: for just my my first year after teaching at Saying
Speaker 6: That High School for thirty years, I am also a lawyer,
Speaker 6: it takes you a lot of effort and time to
Speaker 6: get a law passed. Yeah, and maybe someone thought of
Speaker 6: this in the past and then something intervened with a
Speaker 6: maybe a you know, a drunk driving law or something
Speaker 6: like that that's intervened. I don't know why this happened.
Speaker 6: But what it's great is is that we take out
Speaker 6: lines from the existing law and we make it simple
Speaker 6: and as it relates to the actual moment of pedestrian crossing.
Speaker 6: So again, and I think it makes complete sense that
Speaker 6: if someone's in a crosswalk legally that they should stop.
Speaker 5: You as a driver should.
Speaker 6: Stop and yield. And that's a nice bright line. So
Speaker 6: again with negligent, you know, causing physical injury to a
Speaker 6: pedestrian a crosswalk. And as to clarifying that these pedestrian
Speaker 6: rules as it relates to drivers, you know, there are
Speaker 6: already other rules that are there that apply to the pedestrians.
Speaker 6: Pedestrians just can't walk out into a crosswalk if it's unmarked,
Speaker 6: you know, they can't they you know, by the way,
Speaker 6: this bill does reduce the opportunity for misconstruing, malfunctioning, and
Speaker 6: other types of situations crossing, but a pedestrian just can't
Speaker 6: walk out even frankly, under the administrative Code.
Speaker 8: There is a.
Speaker 6: Duty of care. I believe it comes from common law
Speaker 6: that pedestrian, even entering a crosswalk, has to yield to
Speaker 6: a driver who's completing there if they're legally in the crosswalk.
Speaker 6: So there are checks there. And again behind all of this,
Speaker 6: there's common law that both drivers and pedestrians we have
Speaker 6: to always exercise that duty of care, which is being reasonable.
Speaker 6: So again we'll be listening to proponent and opponent testimony.
Speaker 6: Where this exactly goes I will in large part be
Speaker 6: dictated by the Public Safety Committee and Chair Abrams, who
Speaker 6: chairs a committee and what we learned from the testimony.
Speaker 6: But it's a good time I think for really re
Speaker 6: examined what goes on when we're both a driver and
Speaker 6: we're a pedestrian approaching a crosswalk.
Speaker 4: And Mike Cody also in the summer, we see a
Speaker 4: lot of car pedestrian acts, especially in Cincinnati. I mean,
Speaker 4: people drive crazy downtown, but they drive crazy all over
Speaker 4: the place. I just wonder, Okay, we'll pass this law.
Speaker 4: It could be an M two two, an M one
Speaker 4: first degree misdemeanor's pretty serious. It's the level just below
Speaker 4: a fellamy. And and how many people just disregard that
Speaker 4: because they're bad drivers or simply don't care. I mean,
Speaker 4: we have a lot of sociopaths on the on the
Speaker 4: roads and on the streets these days.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 4: If you just look at crime in and around the city,
Speaker 4: it is a problem, not just in the city but
Speaker 4: everywhere because you're in your little bubble in your car,
Speaker 4: and I think people just don't simply they just they
Speaker 4: don't care if you're a crosswalk or not. They think
Speaker 4: it's their street. I mean we see people, Hell, we've
Speaker 4: got Bengals players speeding up and down crashing their car
Speaker 4: all over the place or crying out loud its And
Speaker 4: it's good that the law has some teeth here. What
Speaker 4: about the repeat offender provision, there's something, as I said,
Speaker 4: people who just don't care.
Speaker 3: What about those folks?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the enhancement. So and the in my part
Speaker 6: of the bill about uh, you know, pedestrians, pedestrians crossing
Speaker 6: and the situations that have arrived there, Uh, prior offenses
Speaker 6: enhances the misdemeanor, and so that's that's carried there. And
Speaker 6: the same with the legion causing serious harm provision. Again,
Speaker 6: a prior offense increases the penalty and the level of
Speaker 6: the crime. So that's covered there.
Speaker 3: Good. Good, I guess you said.
Speaker 4: There's going to be some opposition here to speaking as
Speaker 4: always opposition everything, of course, and critics may come out
Speaker 4: during testimony and say this criminalized accidents. How would you
Speaker 4: respond to that.
Speaker 6: Well, criminalizes Well, if there are other accidents that are criminalized,
Speaker 6: you know, right, you know, driving recklessly, causing an accident,
Speaker 6: you know, you have vehicular homicide, you have other you know,
Speaker 6: levels of crime that involve your car, and so that
Speaker 6: that would be one way that I would respond. But
Speaker 6: you know, if if you kill somebody driving negligently in
Speaker 6: a crosswalk, and that's a crime, uh you know, uh,
Speaker 6: and they're killed, that's a crime. Now we're just saying
Speaker 6: if they're seriously injured. I mean, that makes complete sense.
Speaker 6: And I don't know if there's going to be a
Speaker 6: level of opposition. You know, I go into these things
Speaker 6: with an open mind, and I always listen. I listened
Speaker 6: to proponents and I listened to opponents, and we've made
Speaker 6: adjustments to bills based on that. And again, this is
Speaker 6: really going to come down to the Public Safety Committee
Speaker 6: what they want to do with this, and also to
Speaker 6: the chair. So we'll see if they want to broaden it,
Speaker 6: narrow it, whatever they want to do. But I think
Speaker 6: both parts of this build make complete common sense, which
Speaker 6: is something I strongly believe in. Now, you know, what
Speaker 6: we also need in all of this is we need
Speaker 6: to vote for law and order judges.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, kid, no.
Speaker 6: That you know. That's that's also a key part of
Speaker 6: this and all of our crime enforcement. It's very key
Speaker 6: and essential that we vote for law and order judges.
Speaker 6: So that's something that I just would wanted to add briefly.
Speaker 4: I agree with you the reformists have taken over, and
Speaker 4: that the outcome is not pretty, you know, and that
Speaker 4: and after reaction of course of years ago, when we
Speaker 4: had a lot of pro ordered, pro law judges that
Speaker 4: would throw the book it, you know, minor offenses in
Speaker 4: some cases. And then then that way you have the extreme,
Speaker 4: which is, hey, let them all go. And look how
Speaker 4: that's working for us. It's terrible. Hopefully we can find
Speaker 4: some middle ground here. Yeah, I mentioned that critics will criminalize,
Speaker 4: say this is criminalized accidents. But you know, if you
Speaker 4: go through a stop sign, that's a solvable offense. You know,
Speaker 4: a marked crosswalk is a traffic safety device, much like
Speaker 4: a stop sign or a stop light.
Speaker 6: Right, that's correct. I totally agree with you, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just don't pay it sometimes, and you know
Speaker 4: I've been guilty of it. Maybe you have too, Mike,
Speaker 4: I'll admit it. Where I'm driving, I'm like, oh, hey,
Speaker 4: there's a crosswalk there. Because you're distracted by everything around you,
Speaker 4: there's signs all over, you don't really see it. And
Speaker 4: then you come up to it, you're like, slow down
Speaker 4: and there's somebody waiting to cross, and you know, for me,
Speaker 4: I'm like oh, I'm my bad. I I you know,
Speaker 4: I didn't see you wanting to cross there because there's
Speaker 4: so much going on. So I don't know what if
Speaker 4: I do that I should be cited.
Speaker 6: Though, right well, this is I find it's hilarious in
Speaker 6: my personal life after drafting and putting, introducing this bill,
Speaker 6: and having sponsored testimony yesterday, I am the best driver
Speaker 6: right now anywhere near pedestrians. I am, you know, but
Speaker 6: it's a good thing, you know. I agree there have
Speaker 6: been times I've made mistakes as a driver and as
Speaker 6: a pedestrian. But again, maybe maybe the key to all
Speaker 6: this is tight and awareness of just you know, chill
Speaker 6: out when you come up to pedestrian crossways. You know,
Speaker 6: drivers and then pedestrians, be aware of your surroundings. You know,
Speaker 6: you know, look around, you know, don't just you know,
Speaker 6: jump into a crosswalk without you know, at least looking.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's there's others, you know, But really, I
Speaker 6: really believe that, you know, this is common sense. It's
Speaker 6: a it's a stopping yield. It's you know, you've negligently
Speaker 6: cause someone to have serious bodily harm in a crosswalk. Uh.
Speaker 6: It does not create any felony. The stays in misdemeanor land.
Speaker 6: I think it's I think it's a it's measured. I
Speaker 6: think it's flexible, and I think and this is the
Speaker 6: one reason I brought We brought this. It is enforceable.
Speaker 6: This will make it easier for the police and for
Speaker 6: the prosecutors to enforce these laws.
Speaker 8: Got it.
Speaker 6: That's one of the main reasons we're doing this.
Speaker 3: All right, So what's the timeline for this, Well, we'll.
Speaker 6: See what happens. We're gonna go on spring break. I
Speaker 6: think we had a good response from the committee yesterday.
Speaker 6: I would hope that we would pursue, you know, having
Speaker 6: a proponent and opponents test money and you know, the
Speaker 6: rest of May in June and then see what happens.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, so I'll circle back with it. And how's
Speaker 3: that sound.
Speaker 5: That's my pleasure. That's great.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Hi, thanks for coming on the show this Mark. It's
Speaker 4: great to catch up and talk to brother. Thanks man
Speaker 4: all the best. That is some good law right there.
Speaker 4: How about that in this day and age. Mike Odiosa
Speaker 4: represented from Green Township that you can hit someone on
Speaker 4: a crosswalk as a driver and they're in the middle
Speaker 4: of the crosswalk legally and there's no penalty for that.
Speaker 3: That's that seems to be insane to me.
Speaker 4: That's taking a twenty twenty six for this to occur,
Speaker 4: especially with all the foot traffic we're going to have
Speaker 4: downtown tomorrow for opening day. Hopefully knock Wood, there's no
Speaker 4: serious accidents. That everyone is cool, calm and collected as
Speaker 4: the Findlay Market opening today for kicks off, and then
Speaker 4: of course we're live the Holy Grail Banks at nine
Speaker 4: o'clock as the campaign begins a new here on the
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Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 13: I'm feeling giggly and giddy.
Speaker 3: Good I love that the opening take. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: so exciting.
Speaker 13: I'm so excited. We're not good weather for tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You're walking out in the red carpet. Who are you wearing?
Speaker 13: Yes, I'm ducked out on some snotty roads today.
Speaker 8: Baby.
Speaker 13: Wait, do you want the good news first? That's trending
Speaker 13: on social or the bad.
Speaker 3: No, we start with the bed. I always lead with
Speaker 3: thats well, our.
Speaker 13: Guy Dolo is dead. What he's not?
Speaker 7: Remember how excited, Remember how excited we were about this rotation.
Speaker 7: We're talking about Hunter Green and Nick Lidolo and Brady Singer.
Speaker 3: Pictures. We may start, we may start six guys. We
Speaker 3: got to look at like all these guys that are.
Speaker 13: Ready to forget it.
Speaker 7: Nicolodolo starting on the il alongside Hunter Green. We got elbows,
Speaker 7: we've got blisters, we got all sorts of problems.
Speaker 13: Nickolodolo said, yeah, this sucks, but it's going to work
Speaker 13: out in the long run. So I don't know, I
Speaker 13: don't know.
Speaker 7: The last time that he went down with this blister thing,
Speaker 7: he was out for twenty three days.
Speaker 3: Good lord.
Speaker 7: Brady Singer, on the other hand, he had a blister
Speaker 7: and he was and he was back after a couple
Speaker 7: of days. He didn't miss a start in spring ball.
Speaker 7: So probably to start here, I would imagine, so, yes,
Speaker 7: because the other day he threw about fifteen to twenty
Speaker 7: ball and he goes that that's it. That's enough. You
Speaker 7: don't want that thing to open up any further and
Speaker 7: make it well who else?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 13: So this is going to be our rotation now.
Speaker 7: So obviously Andrew Rabbit on opening Day very.
Speaker 13: Excited for that.
Speaker 7: There we go then, and Rabbitt told media, I know
Speaker 7: it's going to be exciting. He's like, Cincinnati does so
Speaker 7: well with the parade and all of the fans support
Speaker 7: and the turnout. So good to see our all star
Speaker 7: getting some recognition for this one tomorrow and then after
Speaker 7: Brady or after and Robbert. We're gonna see Brady Singer
Speaker 7: on Saturday, Rhett Louder on Sunday, and then when the
Speaker 7: Pirates come to town, it's going to be Chase Burns
Speaker 7: then Brendan Williamson.
Speaker 6: OK.
Speaker 7: Not the rotation that we were expecting, but this is
Speaker 7: what we've gotten now. The second game, Singer is going
Speaker 7: to be ready. He pitched the other day with the
Speaker 7: with the blister thing. He goes, look, I get paid
Speaker 7: to pitch, so I'm going to go out there and
Speaker 7: get a done.
Speaker 13: It seem like a little bit of a shots.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 13: He's like, they'd pay me to do it. But here's
Speaker 13: the thing.
Speaker 7: If that blister opens up and more, he could be
Speaker 7: out for a lot longer of a period of time
Speaker 7: and everybody heals different, So I don't know the difference
Speaker 7: between singers blister and Lodolo's blister.
Speaker 13: But it's we got problems.
Speaker 7: Are the only teams problems? Yes, it seems that way
Speaker 7: I got blisters. We can't have nice things.
Speaker 4: It seems like pictures should be allowed to like could
Speaker 4: you put some super glue on that or speak right?
Speaker 7: You can't, And you can't put a bandage over it.
Speaker 7: You can't do anything. You just have to let it
Speaker 7: heal on its own. And I don't know if Dolo's
Speaker 7: skin just sucks.
Speaker 3: But can I can I introduce a new product here?
Speaker 13: Please?
Speaker 9: Do?
Speaker 13: Like a gorilla?
Speaker 4: Is no no no for all the Major League baseballs.
Speaker 4: The pitching glove. Okay, you got batting gloves, What about
Speaker 4: a pitching glove?
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 7: That could affect everything. Yeah, but if you can't have
Speaker 7: any sort of glove on the hair, I know.
Speaker 3: This, but you've got to change the rules. If this
Speaker 3: is a huge problem, should should there back?
Speaker 7: Is this a huge problem? Like across the whole UK,
Speaker 7: just for Cincinnati?
Speaker 4: I mean, look at this way quarterbacks in the NFL
Speaker 4: they hurt their hands wear glove. Look at Ben Roethlisberger's
Speaker 4: whole career war gloves.
Speaker 13: I get it, but that's different versus baseball.
Speaker 4: I know they're different sports. Thanks for explaining different balls.
Speaker 4: It's a whole different game. They're the same game. No,
Speaker 4: they're not, so you can do that. Why why can't
Speaker 4: you wear what Major leage Baseball should lok at this
Speaker 4: and go maybe with lawa glove that.
Speaker 7: I'm not a professional pitcher, but I just feel like
Speaker 7: that's really gonna mess things up.
Speaker 13: Slowly leave it alone. We don't need to add gloves.
Speaker 4: I want a professional pitcher to call me. One of
Speaker 4: the Reds called me right now. Let me know if
Speaker 4: that's doable.
Speaker 7: I want to make the hunter Green can't call you
Speaker 7: because he's got a messed up elbow. Andre Rabbit is
Speaker 7: getting ready to day and the other guys are too
Speaker 7: young to listen to these airwaves.
Speaker 4: Pitching gloves and somebody like you you can dazzle it.
Speaker 13: No, I'm anti pitcher glove. This is done.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 13: Ellie's got his own thing going on. You can't mess
Speaker 13: with that.
Speaker 7: He's got the chains, he's got like the cool sliding glove.
Speaker 13: What else does he wear?
Speaker 3: He's got the protectors.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've admit the Govment thing.
Speaker 4: It's it looks like it looks like I'm always.
Speaker 13: Hit the ball. That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 7: Let the ball stay healthy, get the elbows back in order,
Speaker 7: and the blisters out of the way.
Speaker 13: Like, let's just get it out of the way.
Speaker 3: Here looks like an ice agent.
Speaker 7: We gotta move on, because with bad news comes good news.
Speaker 7: We have clock outside of Great American Ballpark. I went
Speaker 7: this morning to visit this new gift from our guy.
Speaker 3: Wait, I stopped by.
Speaker 13: I was there at Local twelve this morning, five am.
Speaker 3: The stair at Jo's clock.
Speaker 13: I wanted to see the auto clock. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 13: this thing is huge. It's sixteen feet eight inches in.
Speaker 3: Height, massive clock.
Speaker 7: Four thirty six inch dials. Of course, right there at
Speaker 7: the entrance of GABP. You can't miss it. It sticks
Speaker 7: out like a sore blisslock. No, but this is really cool,
Speaker 7: and this was something very unexpected. It's been in the
Speaker 7: works now for two years. But I guess Joey Vodo
Speaker 7: teamed up with that family owned business and it's Vernon, Yeah,
Speaker 7: who operates here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 13: It's really cool.
Speaker 7: They're headquartered here and they've been in business since eighteen
Speaker 7: forty two, so they've got their roots here. And now
Speaker 7: Joey Vado does.
Speaker 3: Forever clocks are world round.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah. If you see a cool clock,
Speaker 7: it's likely going back to Verdin.
Speaker 3: I think this is super cool thing it is.
Speaker 13: But this is like, it's random.
Speaker 3: This is so on script for so on Brandford, Joey vital.
Speaker 4: It is it really, it's like an odd thing, like
Speaker 4: this is what he wanted to do. You're like, you
Speaker 4: gave a clock. Okay, it's cool. I mean I'm not
Speaker 4: knocking it. I think it's awesome, but it's so joy vital,
Speaker 4: like it's just a weird thing, right, Like, well, he just.
Speaker 13: Doesn't want us to forget him. It's like the perfect
Speaker 13: gift that you give to an ex.
Speaker 7: It's like, you'll never forget me every time you come
Speaker 7: to this ballpark.
Speaker 13: It's just a gentle reminder that I am here.
Speaker 4: Joey comes to town an opening day and just whips
Speaker 4: out his giant clock. It's right there for everyone to see.
Speaker 4: How big is it?
Speaker 7: It is sixteen feet in height and eight inches. I
Speaker 7: stood next to it this morning. I've got my video
Speaker 7: up on my social media of a clock. I need
Speaker 7: to buy time alone at the clock.
Speaker 13: Here's the thing.
Speaker 7: I did not want to wait until opening day to
Speaker 7: see this clock, because there's gonna be forty five thousand
Speaker 7: people surrounding this.
Speaker 3: Clock taking their picture.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, I need my alone time with a Yeah,
Speaker 7: the selfies and the family photos and all the people
Speaker 7: coming in from out of town looking at this clock.
Speaker 13: And it's also really cool too.
Speaker 7: It's got speakers in a place, take me out to
Speaker 7: the ball game, It's got chimes, and yeah, it's pretty special.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's gonna be a line to get your
Speaker 3: picture taken.
Speaker 7: There's too many people around. Gone, there's gonna be.
Speaker 13: Too many people around.
Speaker 7: And again it's kind of smack dab in the middle
Speaker 7: of you know, when you're walking into the front entrance
Speaker 7: and it's just you know, you can't again, you can't
Speaker 7: miss it.
Speaker 4: We're at the other night, we're having dinner, a birthday
Speaker 4: dinner for a friend and a nice restaurant. We're sitting
Speaker 4: there and watching in front of it, and these these
Speaker 4: people are out there taking their selves having pictures taken,
Speaker 4: like with the phone. For at least I'm not exaggerating here.
Speaker 4: A good twenty five to thirty minutes. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 7: At that point, it's like, this is not the photographer's fault.
Speaker 7: This is just on show.
Speaker 4: You're taking a picture of the camera and it's like
Speaker 4: how many shots do you need to the entrance of
Speaker 4: the steakhouse? And not only that, it's like the only
Speaker 4: thing that's going to make it look better for you.
Speaker 4: And I'm not you know, believe me, I'm not the
Speaker 4: best looking personal world is to take the picture when
Speaker 4: the sun's now You're awful.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's twenty five minutes for a photo.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's not the like, maybe.
Speaker 13: You shouldn't be taking them.
Speaker 3: Oh no, all right anyway.
Speaker 7: So this is a thank you to the fans of
Speaker 7: the Reds in the city of Cincinnati from Joey Vado
Speaker 7: for his twenty two years with the organization and on
Speaker 7: Instagram and again this is trending all over social media.
Speaker 7: Joey said, being the oldest professional team, I wanted this
Speaker 7: clock to add the charm and mistique of the Cincinnati
Speaker 7: Ruds experience. So just all around classy move from our
Speaker 7: guide Joeyvato. And just when I stopped missing him, I'm like,
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, I missed this guy.
Speaker 13: All over again.
Speaker 3: Just it's a great thing for him.
Speaker 7: It is a great thing, and hopefully we'll see a
Speaker 7: lot of him in the broadcast some sort of way
Speaker 7: with the Cincinnati Rids, you know what I mean.
Speaker 13: We know he's getting back into the key B side
Speaker 13: of things, my little broadcast a red game.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to watch him. Yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 13: And he also introduced us to his new dog, Morgan.
Speaker 13: She's very very cool.
Speaker 3: Girl. I'm a penis.
Speaker 13: You're so messed up.
Speaker 7: Speaking of things happening outside of the ballpark. I know
Speaker 7: you're excited about this. The Marty statue is back right.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, young man. That young man
Speaker 3: who ripped that down is a cloud.
Speaker 7: Absolutely was an eleven year old that ripped off the mic.
Speaker 7: Kids are dumb ash So Marty and his mic and
Speaker 7: the banana, the whole thing is back in front of
Speaker 7: the ballpark. I saw this morning and they did promise
Speaker 7: it would be ready in time for opening days.
Speaker 3: Clock or Marty's microphone, definitely the clock.
Speaker 7: But you got Pete Rose sliding, you got Marty sitting
Speaker 7: there with his mic, you got the clock. There's a
Speaker 7: lot going on outside the ballpark.
Speaker 4: Are we going to have a whole new rooting cutting
Speaker 4: ceremony for the newly the Marty two point zero so
Speaker 4: people can come and I would.
Speaker 7: Imagine time around something like that will be taking short.
Speaker 3: A celebration of Marty second time.
Speaker 7: And you know what, I did not get to see
Speaker 7: this thing when they first set it up, but I
Speaker 7: think they did kind of lower it too, because I
Speaker 7: did hear that it was like too high.
Speaker 13: It seems pretty low to me, like Marty level, you know.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, they need to get it down because
Speaker 4: I mean, it's kind of dumb that Marty can't even
Speaker 4: see his own standard.
Speaker 13: The other thing is way too high.
Speaker 7: Speaking of Marty Brennan, our friends at Holy Grail announced
Speaker 7: this morning that a part of the opening day broadcast,
Speaker 7: Marty will be joining you guys, along with Bronson Arroyo
Speaker 7: and of course Jeff Brandt. Marty's coming down, He'll be
Speaker 7: there him.
Speaker 13: They did not.
Speaker 7: Specify that, They did not specify the times, but we
Speaker 7: know that our friend Marty likes to ride in the
Speaker 7: opening day parade. Take that, and of course Jeff Branley
Speaker 7: and Bronson are both going to be in the parade too.
Speaker 7: So I would imagine that this would be kind of
Speaker 7: like later into the broadcast, around at one o'clock hour
Speaker 7: when we're rolling in from.
Speaker 4: The bill and Seg will probably be out there. Okay,
Speaker 4: we'll handle that business.
Speaker 7: So I'm sure Seg is very excited. Pronounce he checked totally.
Speaker 7: Grelly goes, Hey, make sure you got me on that list.
Speaker 7: I will be there for the broadcast.
Speaker 3: You'll be all right.
Speaker 7: So, and then shout out to our friends Pella. They
Speaker 7: are the official ride for the Findly Market Opening Day
Speaker 7: parade tomorrow, taking care of our whole iHeart crew. And
Speaker 7: I think they're bringing out like thirty to forty employees
Speaker 7: taking care of all of their people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're to the kids. We're going to be
Speaker 3: thrown out. Free windows.
Speaker 13: Yeah, everyone gets a window. You did not hear that
Speaker 13: here though, there's a casement window here and it's from Reds.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know it's opening day eve, but just
Speaker 7: real quick, our guy Joe Flacco is all that and
Speaker 7: in town this morning the sin Stetti Bengals had a
Speaker 7: press conference with him at nine a m. And they said,
Speaker 7: Flacco is Bacco. We got him for one year, six million.
Speaker 3: Should we be happy about that.
Speaker 13: I'm excited about it. It's way better than Jake Browning.
Speaker 4: Hold on, you're excited about it, which means if Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco plays, it means Joe Burrow I mean, is you
Speaker 4: don't see that as huld Some mean he's really shouldn't
Speaker 4: sell her. Hey, we got the great quarterback up quarterback
Speaker 4: because we know our guy's going to go down again
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 7: Well, and I was a little nervous watching him play
Speaker 7: flag football with Tom Brady over the weekend.
Speaker 13: I'm like, maybe you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah and so, and he's rolling around, they're taking his
Speaker 7: pants down, and he's just like, come on, it's enough.
Speaker 7: I don't need to see my quarterback out there rolling
Speaker 7: around for flag football.
Speaker 13: It's stupid. Don't do it again.
Speaker 4: You think Burrow will put a clock out in seventeen
Speaker 4: years in front of peg car No, I.
Speaker 7: Think he's gonna leave this place in the dustin go
Speaker 7: to LA because that's the only place he's been hanging.
Speaker 4: Out the for the franchise. A countdown clocks the other.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Joe's got his own clock down, his own clock down, countdown.
Speaker 3: Clock clocks like New Year's.
Speaker 13: Until the twenty twenty nine season is over.
Speaker 3: When the ball drops, that's it.
Speaker 13: That's it. That's it right there, O, Happy opening Day?
Speaker 3: Happy? What are you doing?
Speaker 8: Ebm?
Speaker 3: We are you going to be?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll be in the parade with a pella.
Speaker 7: Then I'm going to come see you guys at the
Speaker 7: broadcast at rail Okay, great, Yeah, I'm gonna go see
Speaker 7: John John at Mora Line. He's doing a broadcast there
Speaker 7: for Kissing No. Seven dj in he's DJing, and then
Speaker 7: hit up the street party a little bit, see my
Speaker 7: friends at the banks, then head on over to the
Speaker 7: ballpark and cover the pregame ceremonies.
Speaker 13: Gotcha for the game, ball delivery, the.
Speaker 3: Whole that stuff she's got, and she'll be on our
Speaker 3: social feed. She'll be a busy, busy woman.
Speaker 7: And my makeup artist is coming here to iHeart tomorrow
Speaker 7: at four thirty am. So shout out to Rain Studio
Speaker 7: for taking care of me. What it's true?
Speaker 3: You love this.
Speaker 13: We gotta be ready. Yes, this is a whole day
Speaker 13: to celebrate.
Speaker 3: Seven hours.
Speaker 7: I get myself a spray tan last night, like look
Speaker 7: called dark. I feel like I'm preparing for a wedding.
Speaker 7: My nails have baseballs on them. We are ready to go.
Speaker 4: Sloani, your spray tand is so dark it looks like
Speaker 4: you'd be even a press conference at the White House
Speaker 4: right now, missus President. It's insane. I mean make up
Speaker 4: seven hours a mega. The best part is she spends
Speaker 4: all this time and then like she goes over all
Speaker 4: this makeup, just washing. We're going to be thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Why do you do that?
Speaker 13: Because you got to put in one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Effort, all right.
Speaker 4: The insanity that is Sarah Lease every Wednesday morning, that especially,
Speaker 4: you know, once a week, not every day, because you guys,
Speaker 4: Opening Day.
Speaker 13: I will see you at the girls tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We start at nine a m.
Speaker 4: Me and Mogger with me as always tomorrow home in
Speaker 4: the Red seven hundred w W since then,