Speaker 1: Well, well, well back from the weekend, a big win
Speaker 1: basketball cat sat home all Third Arena, all over Lipscombe
Speaker 1: eighty nine sixty two, which is the way you would
Speaker 1: expect it to have gone, and they were all tuned
Speaker 1: up and ready to go and welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Big twelfth schedule as they roll into starting Saturday, with
Speaker 1: Houston coming in to fifth third Arena Saturday afternoon, then
Speaker 1: a trip to West Virginia for a seven o'clock tip
Speaker 1: off on well a week from tomorrow on January sixth, though,
Speaker 1: with the new year brings on the Big twelveth schedule
Speaker 1: for the bear Cats, who are now seven and five,
Speaker 1: eight and five actually, and Lipscomb falls now to seven
Speaker 1: and six, I think is how that goes. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that's said. And of course, a Bengals doing
Speaker 1: exactly what we expected them to do yesterday. We expected
Speaker 1: it to be the whole season more or less like this,
Speaker 1: which was a developing, growing, improving defense and an offense
Speaker 1: that just basically destroys defenses in and around the NFL
Speaker 1: that they made easy work of. A Cardinals team that
Speaker 1: apparently most of the NFL's made easy work of too,
Speaker 1: That was yesterday and that it felt almost like spring
Speaker 1: or fall yesterday it was about what forty degrees warmer
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, then right now made tailgating easier.
Speaker 1: A lot of people getting stuff done outside, and a
Speaker 1: whole lot of people very happy at pacore thirty seven
Speaker 1: to fourteen Bengals over Cardinals. And they'll wrap it up
Speaker 1: on Sunday at the one o'clock kickoff when the Browns
Speaker 1: roll in, and that's always going to be a battle
Speaker 1: AFC nor showdown Browns Bengals, it's just what it is.
Speaker 1: So we'll see exactly how that goes. And it looks
Speaker 1: like Joe Burrows expected to start and looks healthy and
Speaker 1: as it should be. And it's just amazing to see
Speaker 1: all the offensive weapons that the Bengals have being available
Speaker 1: and with Joe Burrow behind center and healthy with the
Speaker 1: toe and comfortable and just going to work. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they did yesterday, which is scored early, often
Speaker 1: and seemingly at will handling their business, which is sort
Speaker 1: of how the basketball Bearcats handled Lipscomb, so sort of
Speaker 1: a tune up for both, but with a big twelve
Speaker 1: schedule in front of the Bearcats it's going to be
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of basketball in front of them and
Speaker 1: Bengals wrapping down. I'm still beweldered about this, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you.
Speaker 2: Heard about it.
Speaker 1: We probably have the offensive line being gifted is they
Speaker 1: often are from quarterbacks. Joe Burrow showing love to those
Speaker 1: who protect him on that offensive line for the Hoode
Speaker 1: and apparently decided to go fossil ways. And when they
Speaker 1: first talked about it, I'm like, oh, watch, it's cool.
Speaker 1: No fossils is in like dinosaur bones and stuff like
Speaker 1: that too, which is pretty wild, which we'll get into
Speaker 1: a little bit later. That's a different kind of gift,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty amazing when you think about it, just
Speaker 1: the history of it in the time and everything else,
Speaker 1: and you just think of what walked the earth and
Speaker 1: was here, and frankly, we drive and consume even a
Speaker 1: lot of our heat, it's thanks to dinosaur bones and
Speaker 1: what was left behind in the pudial ooze, if you will,
Speaker 1: of what was here before us. Unless all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the DNA starts working and they start bringing back dinosaurs,
Speaker 1: be it like Jurassic Park. Well, let's hope that's not
Speaker 1: necessarily the case. A lot of ground to cover tonight,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk to Sonya Azad had her on
Speaker 1: the show before. We'll talk on living better and healthier
Speaker 1: in twenty six, and she certainly has studied a lot
Speaker 1: of this and it's sort of at peace with herself.
Speaker 1: It's more than just yoga and eating better and a
Speaker 1: lot of other stuff. It's in our head. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to her about that. In Mighty Wall from space
Speaker 1: dot Com. Coming up after ten o'clock, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the biggest news from twenty twenty five and something you
Speaker 1: may have heard already to I'm sure you'll hear it
Speaker 1: during year nine thirty maybe ten o'clock report. Also pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Apparently Russia has sort of helped to launch some satellites
Speaker 1: into space for Iran. I don't know exactly what that means,
Speaker 1: but they are in the Space Game two. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to him about that and what to expect in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, whether it's more tourists in space, what
Speaker 1: it means for technology AI. There's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: layers to all those things that are out there, and
Speaker 1: we will get into a little of all of that
Speaker 1: as well tonight and a lot of other stuff too.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I think is wild and
Speaker 1: it's a weird couple of weeks here with Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year's falling in the middle of the weeks as
Speaker 1: it is. And I'll be back on New Year's even
Speaker 1: for a virtual New Year's celebration, if you will. After
Speaker 1: Ohio State football and the Cotton Bowl, is they look
Speaker 1: to go to work and finish off their season in
Speaker 1: a good way. A lot of people with what do
Speaker 1: you like the resolutions? I guess, and I have had
Speaker 1: had a fairly generic one for a while. But I
Speaker 1: think if you don't say it, if you don't put
Speaker 1: it out there, perhaps maybe it doesn't seem real. And
Speaker 1: a lot of people's psychologists and so forth maybe agree.
Speaker 1: Some of it's it's about, you know, making more money.
Speaker 1: Some of it's about being closer and doing more with family.
Speaker 1: Some of it's about getting healthier, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, drinking less, the sober January kind of say,
Speaker 1: or dry January deal, which a lot of people are into,
Speaker 1: whether it's a you know, backing off on drinking or
Speaker 1: or even if it's not even the whole month of
Speaker 1: being dry. What they have found and what they say
Speaker 1: is that effectively, even just a little bit of a
Speaker 1: break does a ton of good for our bodies and
Speaker 1: our minds. And I guess the chemistry with that, so
Speaker 1: that is not even all of it. And this is
Speaker 1: what I think is wild. And we'll get into this
Speaker 1: a little bit more so after the news. They have
Speaker 1: a new study that's come out, and I like research
Speaker 1: studies and so forth, and they have an new definition
Speaker 1: for what it's worth of what actually makes us obese
Speaker 1: or fat. In what they say now is that seventy
Speaker 1: five percent of us, actually more than seventy five percent
Speaker 1: of us could very well fall into what they're now
Speaker 1: calling obesity definition. In the parameters that they set for it,
Speaker 1: only forty percent of adults currently meeting what is considered
Speaker 1: to be the be on my obesity level in how
Speaker 1: we're looked at. So, I mean, you may not think
Speaker 1: that you're a big fat tabagou, I may not feel
Speaker 1: that you know that's necessarily the case, but apparently that
Speaker 1: is where more and more of us are going, which
Speaker 1: is kind of disturbing. Just the same researchers have bet
Speaker 1: the Israel Deaconess Medical Center, also Yale, Harvard, the New
Speaker 1: Haven Health as well, and they say that is not
Speaker 1: necessarily the only thing, and it underestimates exactly how unhealthy
Speaker 1: we are. And as a result of that, more of
Speaker 1: us probably need to eat less and move more, which
Speaker 1: may or may not be all that surprising to us.
Speaker 1: But right about now, in the midst of the wrap
Speaker 1: up of the holiday season, with cookies and a lot
Speaker 1: of meals and hopefully a lot of good times with
Speaker 1: friends and family, maybe not looking at the idea of
Speaker 1: being too heavy, but they say at this point even
Speaker 1: what they call normal BMI four and ten of us
Speaker 1: at this point would be considered carrying around excess body
Speaker 1: fat when they look at our waste measurement, not just
Speaker 1: the overall fat if you will, or mass index. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what a lot of that means, but apparently
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily good news for our overall well beings.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Sonya Zad about that after your
Speaker 1: nine thirty report. Straight Away, Jack Cromley knows what's going
Speaker 1: on around planet Earth. He knows what's happening here in
Speaker 1: the tri State. He will share that information, disseminating all
Speaker 1: kinds of it straight away here your nine thirty report
Speaker 1: after a winning basketball Bearcats night at Fifth Third Arena,
Speaker 1: and right here on the Big One, dominating Lipscomb in
Speaker 1: front of them, the Big twelve season is ahead. It's sterling.
Speaker 1: And for Gary Jeff on seven hundred doub welw how
Speaker 1: you doing, it's sterling haying out fine Monday night? For
Speaker 1: Gary Jeff, hope you're doing one fun New Year's around
Speaker 1: the corner. A lot of people with resolutions, plans to
Speaker 1: live better, get their mind right, their body right, whatever
Speaker 1: else goes along with it's someone who knows. I believe
Speaker 1: it's been a while, probably close to a year or so,
Speaker 1: maybe more, since we've actually had Sony on the show.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to seven hundred double you wellw sonya Zod?
Speaker 3: How are you? How's everything?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 5: Everything is fine. I know you guys like to chat
Speaker 5: with me ahead of the New Year.
Speaker 1: Apparently it just seemed that way we have because I
Speaker 1: think everybody sort of has a you know, it's an
Speaker 1: arbitrary thing because I know my uncle when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, would always tell me, you know, today's the
Speaker 1: first day of the rest of your life. I remember
Speaker 1: being a little goe whatever dude. But it's true you
Speaker 1: always have a chance to begin again. But the new
Speaker 1: year is sort of that arbitrary flip the calendar over
Speaker 1: new start, new beginning. And one of those things is
Speaker 1: our mind, our body, our soul, and the idea of
Speaker 1: living better and maybe healthier in twenty twenty six. Is
Speaker 1: it a problem for people to look at that and
Speaker 1: have so much pressure? Do you think at a new
Speaker 1: year's time rather than at another point? I mean, is
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter? It certainly gets more people interested.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I mean there's never a problem.
Speaker 5: I think your grandfather's advice is really sound and wise.
Speaker 5: Every day you could start and choose a different way,
Speaker 5: different paths.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of people have.
Speaker 5: Kind of jumped on this New year band wagon idea
Speaker 5: because it does feel for people in the US at
Speaker 5: least as a clean slate, right, and so they want
Speaker 5: to start fresh, start new. The problem with going into
Speaker 5: something like the New Year wanting to make a bunch
Speaker 5: of sweeping changes is that then you do run the
Speaker 5: risk of becoming overwhelmed. You're like, I'm gonna exercise every day,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna drink a gallon of water, and I'm
Speaker 5: gonna you know, make all of these changes, and then
Speaker 5: you burn out in the first two weeks. So I
Speaker 5: always say, look, you've got to start right now. Actually
Speaker 5: I'm glad we're talking now, a few days before the
Speaker 5: new year, and audit, audit your last year, so that
Speaker 5: you know your starting point. You've got to assess what
Speaker 5: worked for you in twenty twenty five, what didn't work
Speaker 5: for you in twenty twenty five, and then what changes
Speaker 5: do you really want to see in the next year.
Speaker 5: And you have to come up with a plan for yourself.
Speaker 5: And truthfully, I don't think that a plan just buy
Speaker 5: yourself for yourself is as effective as if you were
Speaker 5: to hire, let's say, a personal trainer or an accountability coach,
Speaker 5: or even create a vision board or write things down
Speaker 5: in a journal. Because if you think, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: do it on my own, I'll figure it out by myself,
Speaker 5: I'll ask Ai.
Speaker 6: You're gonna lose steam, You're going to lack support.
Speaker 5: But employing people, a community, a supportive you know, coach
Speaker 5: or an expert will help you to achieve the results
Speaker 5: that you desire.
Speaker 1: Talking to Sonya sad and she a yogurt expert, a
Speaker 1: yoga not yogurt.
Speaker 3: Excuse me my speech.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do know a lot about yoga to yogurt too,
Speaker 1: but as certainly yoga and just in general a better
Speaker 1: wellness in our lives and so forth, which is a
Speaker 1: lot what a lot of us are always sort of
Speaker 1: looking for. And there is something too that is it
Speaker 1: better not just to write it down in that journal,
Speaker 1: aside from maybe finding an expert, but to find a buddy.
Speaker 1: But there is something about writing it down because it
Speaker 1: makes it real. It's tangible, whether it's a journal or
Speaker 1: something along those lines or is that overthinking?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely it is a great idea to journal.
Speaker 5: It's also a great idea to do a vision board.
Speaker 5: And I know that people go, oh yeah, let me roll.
Speaker 3: My eyes right like he did. He just rolled his eyes,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 6: It sounds so woo woo.
Speaker 5: But a vision board there's actually science behind it because
Speaker 5: when you are visualizing things, you're calling things into your brain,
Speaker 5: something that you see, something that you remind yourself of
Speaker 5: every day. That means that it becomes intentional. It's a
Speaker 5: gentle nudge to your brain like oh, that's going to
Speaker 5: help me to set that goal, that's going to help
Speaker 5: me remember to achieve that goal. It bridges the gap
Speaker 5: between your imagination and action. So when goals only live
Speaker 5: in your head, they're really easy to forget or you
Speaker 5: can override them with those daily distractions that we all have.
Speaker 5: But when you've got something visual and emotionally charged, it
Speaker 5: becomes really hard to ignore. And I do want to
Speaker 5: make this distinction. There is a difference between setting a
Speaker 5: goal and setting an intention for the new year. So
Speaker 5: a lot of times when people are creating vision boards,
Speaker 5: and I lead vision boarding workshops and these are very popular.
Speaker 5: Setting a goal is like I want to run a marathon.
Speaker 5: There's an end point, you cross the finish line, you
Speaker 5: check it off, it's done.
Speaker 6: Setting an intention like.
Speaker 5: Saying fearlessness is going to be my word of the year,
Speaker 5: or trust or flow or boundaries or rise. Whatever the
Speaker 5: intention is, is how you want to show up every day.
Speaker 5: So it sounds like it's a bit more broad, but
Speaker 5: that's kind of the point. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 5: My word for this year twenty twenty five was co create.
Speaker 5: I'm going to try to find opportunities to create workshops
Speaker 5: or retreats or whatever, partner with people who I want
Speaker 5: to work with, like because it's more fun than just
Speaker 5: working by yourself. So I've come up with a lot
Speaker 5: of different ways to infuse that word, my word for
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five co creation into the whole year. So
Speaker 5: it's less about doing one thing and finishing it and
Speaker 5: more about how do I want this year to feel
Speaker 5: for me? But visualization absolutely makes it real.
Speaker 1: Talking to Sonya A Zod the website Sonia Azod dot com,
Speaker 1: Stirling seven hundred WLW, so you mentioned the word or
Speaker 1: that term to sort of think about it, and you
Speaker 1: also mentioned that about the co create thing for twenty five,
Speaker 1: which is what you were using, Sonia. What I find
Speaker 1: interesting is it is almost like having seeking out and
Speaker 1: putting a plan together, in part for finding a partner,
Speaker 1: someone to you know, just help push you or you
Speaker 1: push them. The collaboration or other whether it's your you know,
Speaker 1: significant other, or whether it's a business endeavor, or it's
Speaker 1: as simple maybe even what is going to the gym
Speaker 1: and trying to get healthier or something along those lines.
Speaker 6: Sure it could be whatever you want.
Speaker 5: I mean, if someone feels like they want fearlessness in
Speaker 5: their lives this year because they've been scared to try
Speaker 5: new things or maybe they feel.
Speaker 6: Like they've failed or they.
Speaker 5: Didn't have that support, they lacked enthusiasm from a partner
Speaker 5: or spouse. Then you know, step into something new, right
Speaker 5: and this is it is a really good year for that.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty six, the numerologists say, is a year of
Speaker 5: new beginnings. Twenty twenty five was kind of a year
Speaker 5: of completion. And so even the people who are into
Speaker 5: the Chinese or lunar calendar, they're going to be celebrating
Speaker 5: Year of the Horse. And so we're closing out the
Speaker 5: Year of the Snake, which represents symbolically kind of a shedding,
Speaker 5: a culmination, and the Year of the Horse is really
Speaker 5: about empowerment and action and motivation. And so if that
Speaker 5: resonates with any of your listeners, you know, I encourage
Speaker 5: you to look into it a little bit more and
Speaker 5: to find support. I mean, I teach Zoom classes on
Speaker 5: and these are just three classes a week, thirty minutes
Speaker 5: each time, so you think thirty minutes, oh, like, what
Speaker 5: can I get done? But the first question I ask
Speaker 5: people in the mornings is what do you desire from
Speaker 5: this day? And that's a really really important question because
Speaker 5: usually we just what our alarms go on off, we
Speaker 5: scroll a little bit, we step out of bed, and
Speaker 5: we just move. We're like throwing our bodies through our
Speaker 5: day without really thinking what do I want out of
Speaker 5: this day? Not just what does this day require for me?
Speaker 5: And so these people carve out thirty minutes at the
Speaker 5: start of their day to really you use the right word,
Speaker 5: map out or create a blueprint. And that means that
Speaker 5: you are showing up throughout the day and for everybody
Speaker 5: who you're going to interact with differently by just setting
Speaker 5: aside some time at the very beginning for you.
Speaker 6: And that's what I call me mode.
Speaker 5: It's like you put your phone on airplane mode or
Speaker 5: you're turning yourself off of autopilot and you're coming into
Speaker 5: me mode for just a few minutes, gather yourself, consider
Speaker 5: what you need out of the day, and then move on.
Speaker 1: So effectively, you're basically just simply saying starting a plan.
Speaker 1: And what you're describing also is what I hear from
Speaker 1: tons of people is I interview them on the show
Speaker 1: or podcast or just in general in life that I
Speaker 1: interact with. Most people who are successful get up. They're
Speaker 1: up a few hours before they have to do what
Speaker 1: they need to do for their business during the day
Speaker 1: if they have it, they're taking care of themselves. They're exercising,
Speaker 1: and they're doing these different things that help wake them
Speaker 1: up and also motivate them as they plan and work
Speaker 1: out their day. It seems like mapping that out just
Speaker 1: in general is a successful thing for a business, a corporation,
Speaker 1: or all of us individually, because we all our own
Speaker 1: businesses as well, including our health.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. I mean, and you're hearing
Speaker 6: more and more.
Speaker 5: Of some of these super high achievers saying no phones
Speaker 5: for the first hour of the day, or no.
Speaker 6: Phones till noon. I mean.
Speaker 5: I do wake up every morning between about five point
Speaker 5: thirty and six to meditate myself and to kind of
Speaker 5: do my morning ritual. Morning is the sweetest time of
Speaker 5: the day because it's the least interrupted time of day,
Speaker 5: at least for most of us. We can get more
Speaker 5: done for ourselves first. And it is again like the
Speaker 5: old saying goes right, you put the oxygen mask on
Speaker 5: yourself and then you can tend to everyone else. The
Speaker 5: problem is that in America we have gotten into a
Speaker 5: bad habit of just waking up and our eyeballs are
Speaker 5: in those phones and we're responding to emails and just
Speaker 5: boom boom boom boom boom, putting out everybody else's fires.
Speaker 5: But this idea of me mode is really about aligning
Speaker 5: with you, yourself, your mind. But it takes self awareness to
Speaker 5: do that. And okay, so you might be like, well,
Speaker 5: why do we care about becoming more self aware? Or
Speaker 5: how do we become more self aware? That includes reflection, right,
Speaker 5: And that's also you giving yourself permission to pause, like
Speaker 5: I'm going to allow myself to start my day with
Speaker 5: me because the day is not possible for me without me, right,
Speaker 5: and I'm going to move on. What happens when we're
Speaker 5: more self aware, we have clarity and then we have
Speaker 5: a responsibility to practice like mindful decision making throughout the day.
Speaker 5: You're not going to be a jerk the more self
Speaker 5: aware you are, and this is also where you build
Speaker 5: self trust, and then that comes with redefining freedom and
Speaker 5: success and then finally a more aligned life rooted in
Speaker 5: choice rather than obligation or being.
Speaker 1: Performative interesting, and I am always with me. I'd like
Speaker 1: to get away from me sometimes, but maybe that's another
Speaker 1: part of meditation or something along those lines. Sonya dash
Speaker 1: is zod dot com the website talking to Sonya Zod
Speaker 1: living better and healthier in twenty six that's the goal
Speaker 1: with Stirling seven hundred WLW. Is it easier now because
Speaker 1: there are more tools You talk about putting the phone
Speaker 1: down to technology and we are immersed in it and
Speaker 1: at this point you've got a generation of those under
Speaker 1: us that were effectively born with a device in and
Speaker 1: so forth. But with all these bits of resources that
Speaker 1: are out there, in one hand, it's easier to maybe
Speaker 1: find that path to getting the information that we need
Speaker 1: to take better care of ourselves to get to the
Speaker 1: next level to help those around us. But I hear
Speaker 1: more and more people complaining that all these same elements
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned, as far as tools and opportunity
Speaker 1: to improve ourselves, our business, our lives are also a
Speaker 1: detriment in what that distraction is. So but that is
Speaker 1: also a choice that we make and how we go
Speaker 1: about utilizing these elements.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it is all about choice, right, Like so
Speaker 5: many people think they have no choice and they're like
Speaker 5: a prisoner to their minds and a prisoner to the
Speaker 5: habits and the patterns.
Speaker 6: Of their bodies.
Speaker 5: Like oh well, I have to sit here, Okay, Well
Speaker 5: when do you not have to sit there?
Speaker 6: Or I have to be on the phone? Okay, well
Speaker 6: when do you not have to be on the phone?
Speaker 6: And what choices are you making to not be on
Speaker 6: the phone.
Speaker 5: So I think what you're saying is absolutely true and
Speaker 5: it is also about balance, right, because yeah.
Speaker 6: I just mentioned I mean I teach zoom classes so
Speaker 6: that I'm all.
Speaker 5: Over the world teaching people remotely. For instance. We use
Speaker 5: screens for that, But it's how you use the screens
Speaker 5: and then how you balance it when you're not needing
Speaker 5: to use them that's really important to look at. And
Speaker 5: in your spare time, I'm using air quotes here, spare time,
Speaker 5: your free time, are you just binging out vegging out
Speaker 5: every day or are you using some of that time Wisely,
Speaker 5: one of my goals right now is to practice French
Speaker 5: every day.
Speaker 6: So I use an.
Speaker 5: App and I'm on my phone, but that's how I'm
Speaker 5: choosing to spend time as opposed to like doom scrolling.
Speaker 5: So I see it as a better use of time.
Speaker 5: Even though I'm using technology and I'm not I am
Speaker 5: not afraid of biohacking either, so I know there's some
Speaker 5: people who are really into it, some who are not.
Speaker 5: I think it's it's great if you can use tech
Speaker 5: anology to make your life better, go for it.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Sonya Azad. She's an Emmy winning health journalist.
Speaker 1: She's a wellness educator. I feel educator in and wellness already,
Speaker 1: and she helps the overwhelmed and over committed reclaim their time,
Speaker 1: in other words, take their lives back, which I think
Speaker 1: most of us need to do in some fashion. Some
Speaker 1: of this is related to resolutions in the New Year,
Speaker 1: which is why we had you on, Sonya. But I'm
Speaker 1: kind of curious because I've heard people go, oh, I
Speaker 1: think resolutions are dangerous.
Speaker 3: I don't like them.
Speaker 1: I feel bad after the first month of trying to
Speaker 1: go to the gym it's not working out, And then
Speaker 1: I have a lot of self hate issues. And I
Speaker 1: hear that said in a whole bunch of different ways
Speaker 1: by people all the time. So what do you say
Speaker 1: to someone who you know, maybe they don't want to
Speaker 1: use the term resolution or new beginning in the new year,
Speaker 1: But what can you say to someone who's in that
Speaker 1: window that I just described?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, Like look, I think anchoring through a word,
Speaker 5: which is what we talked about, that's going to resonate
Speaker 5: with you is more important than the word resolution. And
Speaker 5: if you don't want to go to the gym every day,
Speaker 5: then that should not be your resolution, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 6: So, like, do something that is going to not just.
Speaker 5: Performatively impact your life, like because you think you should
Speaker 5: do it. I usually say, like, stop shoulting all over yourself.
Speaker 6: But what is it.
Speaker 5: That What is it that the gym is going to
Speaker 5: do that you think will make your life better?
Speaker 6: Is it going to give you more energy?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 6: What else could give you more energy?
Speaker 5: Maybe it's actually plugging into nature outside a little nature hit,
Speaker 5: or what if speaking to an old friend who gives
Speaker 5: you energy it's going to energize you, right, So you
Speaker 5: have to think about the why behind the what.
Speaker 6: It is that you're doing.
Speaker 5: And then also I think one of the biggest mistakes
Speaker 5: or most common mistakes I see people make at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the year for resolutions is that they're trying
Speaker 5: to pile on so much new stuff. Instead, maybe you
Speaker 5: think about taking something away. If you're like, oh, I've
Speaker 5: already you know, taken away everything. I'm not drinking you know,
Speaker 5: dry January and I'm not eating red meat and I'm
Speaker 5: not doing this, and I'm not doing that. Then add something,
Speaker 5: add a meditation at right. So it's got to be customized.
Speaker 5: And this is why I go back to the idea
Speaker 5: of working with a professional or an expert, because it
Speaker 5: is overwhelming to try to do it yourself, and especially
Speaker 5: if you want it to last this time. It absolutely
Speaker 5: can because I've seen people, and I've worked with people
Speaker 5: who now have lost seventy pounds or forty pounds. They're
Speaker 5: journaling every day, they're meditating, their relationships are stronger with
Speaker 5: their children and with their spouses, they're out hiking in nature.
Speaker 5: They're like, oh my gosh, who am I? And these
Speaker 5: are not twenty or thirty year olds. These are people
Speaker 5: in their fifties sixties. Like you think your brain cannot
Speaker 5: change in older life, it absolutely can. What it takes
Speaker 5: is consistency, discipline, patience, and time. And now we're circling
Speaker 5: back to again that same idea of well, how does
Speaker 5: meditation help? Like, what does meditation have to do with
Speaker 5: all this? It's these little moments of nervous system resets
Speaker 5: that triggers the parasympathetic response. So you're in rest and
Speaker 5: digest Physiologically, your heart rate is lowered, your muscles unclench,
Speaker 5: your cortisol, that stress hormone decreases, oxygen increases, and we're
Speaker 5: shifting your brain wave state from beta to theta so
Speaker 5: that alertness that stress to Okay, I can relax, I'm safe.
Speaker 6: So doing that.
Speaker 5: Over and over and over and over again is what
Speaker 5: creates the patterns and the habits and the neuroplasticity, the
Speaker 5: changes in the brain to go, oh, you know what,
Speaker 5: I am going to pick up that apple and I'm
Speaker 5: not going to pick up the Twizzlers or whatever. If again,
Speaker 5: if that's where you're going with it, doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1: I like my twizzlers and the red vines, but that's
Speaker 1: a whole nother story, and they're not the same. There
Speaker 1: is a difference, no matter what anybody tells you. Sonia
Speaker 1: Azad is a great talking to you. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: bringing it, and I hope you have a fantastic new year.
Speaker 1: I don't understand half of what you're saying, but I
Speaker 1: feel good about it. I know the website's a great resource.
Speaker 1: Will lean on you in the future, at least I'm honest.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you Beta Alf for the theta, I
Speaker 1: don't even know, but either way, I feel good. Sonia
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Speaker 1: doing what you do. I hope you have a great
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Speaker 6: You're welcome, Happy new year.
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Speaker 1: It's a fine Monday night Sterling, seven hundred WLW. Mike Wall,
Speaker 1: Ohio guy space dot Com out west in the bar area.
Speaker 1: Spaceflight Tech Channel editor, Welcome back to seven hundred WLW. Michael,
Speaker 1: How are you? How's everything? How are the holidays for
Speaker 1: the family?
Speaker 7: Wall good Man.
Speaker 8: I just went to Alabama to visit my sister and
Speaker 8: her kids, and like, my folks are here too, and
Speaker 8: so yeah, just just doing doing a family style for
Speaker 8: the holidays, like a lot.
Speaker 9: Of people are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, family style is the good way to do it.
Speaker 1: I've done it solo. I know, I've been isolated with
Speaker 1: work and unable to go anywhere, and I like it
Speaker 1: better with family and friends, for sure. So I'm glad
Speaker 1: you got to enjoy that. I appreciate you making time
Speaker 1: if we can before we look fully back at twenty
Speaker 1: five and start looking at twenty six with the new
Speaker 1: year just a couple of days away. Mike, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of curious because I heard this earlier in the news
Speaker 1: and I was somewhat I don't know why I was surprised.
Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense, but apparently Iran had three
Speaker 1: different satellites that were jettisoned or sent up to space
Speaker 1: with the help of Russia on a rocket of theirs.
Speaker 1: What do we know about that? How often does that
Speaker 1: type of thing happen? I'm guessing since they don't use
Speaker 1: the International Space Station or SpaceX, they got to get
Speaker 1: their gear up there somehow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not sure about particular launch, but it isn't
Speaker 8: that uncommon for a country that doesn't have like great
Speaker 8: kind of homegrown launch scrupability. Like actually Iran does have
Speaker 8: orbital rockets, but they're not like all that great they
Speaker 8: They're success rate is not that great compared to like
Speaker 8: the US or China, Russia. So when you have a
Speaker 8: situation like that and you can can sign up to
Speaker 8: put your satellites on in other country's rocket, and you
Speaker 8: know it's part of the space kind of the space
Speaker 8: industry ecosystem, you know, where you pay somebody to send
Speaker 8: your satellites up, and you know they're a pria state.
Speaker 8: But Russia is kind of a pria state too, so
Speaker 8: they can do business with each other.
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of odd because as much as
Speaker 1: Russia on one hand has talked about as our enemy,
Speaker 1: we certainly with the International Space Station a lot of
Speaker 1: other ways we are engaged with them in some fashion.
Speaker 1: I guess that's healthy. Maybe there's a reason for that,
Speaker 1: it's maybe safer. I'm not really sure how that plays
Speaker 1: out or why do you know the psychology behind that
Speaker 1: or the business of that, because China is not a
Speaker 1: part of the stuff that we do, and they are
Speaker 1: certainly a big power of their own and they're in
Speaker 1: the space game too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I would guess that.
Speaker 8: Russia, I mean, ever since the invasion of Ukraine in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty two, I think that they've been hurting for money.
Speaker 7: Coming into their space sector.
Speaker 8: You know, they've had to use so many resources for
Speaker 8: the world or and they've lost a lot of partnerships
Speaker 8: in this space world because of the invasion, the ongoing war,
Speaker 8: so they just haven't had as many contracts. Their contracts
Speaker 8: have been severed and pulled. So I guess they want
Speaker 8: to keep their rockets flying and keep money coming into
Speaker 8: their their space business. They're kind of they're kind of
Speaker 8: having to look farther afield. You know, they aren't working
Speaker 8: with the European Space Agency on some big, big certain
Speaker 8: projects that they that they were like before the invasion.
Speaker 8: You know, a lot of those those contracts got pulled
Speaker 8: because of the invasion, so they're trying to make that
Speaker 8: money up.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm just speculating.
Speaker 8: You know, I don't have any inside information about that.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean hanging out with the Russians and the Iranians.
Speaker 1: I totally I understand. It's the holiday. You've been in
Speaker 1: Alabama with family. I totally get it. Stirly talking to
Speaker 1: mikey Wall from space dot com something that I was
Speaker 1: amazed about, and we didn't talk last week. Uh, but
Speaker 1: the pictures were spectacular and there you know, there were
Speaker 1: all these talks about the litigation. Aircraft were apparently directed
Speaker 1: away from certain types of airspace or certain spots when
Speaker 1: there was some debris coming down from lower Earth orbit stuff.
Speaker 1: I guess SpaceX related. But then I see a story
Speaker 1: that you published talking about twelve different times in the
Speaker 1: last year, effectively where rockets and space craft have actually
Speaker 1: crashed and burned up, whether by accident, delivered in tent
Speaker 1: or natural. I guess attrition by the nature of orbit
Speaker 1: and how it works.
Speaker 3: Is that a lot? Twelve times helped me understand?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think it's a lot. It's just because
Speaker 8: there's a lot more activity now than there used to be.
Speaker 8: There's a lot more stuff going up, and more and
Speaker 8: more countries and more companies are getting bolder and trying
Speaker 8: to do stuff, you know, and space is hard, and
Speaker 8: sometimes we try something hard it doesn't work, you know,
Speaker 8: some of the like we yeah, I think what you're
Speaker 8: talking about as our sort of failures of twenty twenty
Speaker 8: five story. But sure, I mean some of those, you know,
Speaker 8: we like, we saw some private companies tribe but fail
Speaker 8: to land on the Moon, and that's sort of yes,
Speaker 8: it's a failure as a private company gets it it's
Speaker 8: moonlander to lunar orbit and doesn't kind of finish it
Speaker 8: off at the soft landing a successful soft landing, But
Speaker 8: it's pretty cool that they made it to lunar orbit
Speaker 8: and that they built the thing in the first place,
Speaker 8: and that they got it that far, you know, where
Speaker 8: it failed at the very last possible moment. So I
Speaker 8: think part of it is, Yeah, there's just a lot
Speaker 8: more happening and there's a lot more players in the
Speaker 8: space business than there used to be, so we're going
Speaker 8: to see more stuff going up and you'll see more
Speaker 8: stuff failing as a result. But yeah, they're like there's
Speaker 8: always like the sort of standard you know, like you know,
Speaker 8: there are a few rockets that blow up, that fail
Speaker 8: on the way up to orbit, and that's just part
Speaker 8: of the space business.
Speaker 7: You know, it's just hard.
Speaker 8: There's like thousands of different parts to rocket, millions of
Speaker 8: parts basically, and thousands of things that can go wrong,
Speaker 8: and like most of the time everything goes right, but
Speaker 8: if one thing goes wrong, the thing's done.
Speaker 7: And that's what we see every year.
Speaker 1: We kind of I mean as a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this before. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle, you know, in the eighties and into
Speaker 1: the nineties, and I mean it was seemingly going up
Speaker 1: almost weekly, which is maybe an exaggeration. It kind of
Speaker 1: seems that way now with SpaceX and everything else. But
Speaker 1: there are private endeavors now that are a part of
Speaker 1: it too that you just mentioned that we've talked about. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, are the nation states who
Speaker 1: were involved, Like I know, we talked about Russia. We
Speaker 1: know that we're the United States. We've been in it
Speaker 1: for the long haul. China's in it, India is in it.
Speaker 1: Japan has some stuff. I don't know if they go
Speaker 1: up on their own or if it's just related to
Speaker 1: space station stuff South Korea, and I did not know this,
Speaker 1: and I did a little research before I was prepared
Speaker 1: to talk to you, believe it or not. I know,
Speaker 1: you're like shocking, but the UAE, the United Arab Emirates
Speaker 1: as well. Are there any other countries that are actually
Speaker 1: out there involved in it as a nation itself? Because
Speaker 1: I know there are a whole lot of different businesses
Speaker 1: that may be under different flags, but the private business
Speaker 1: is huge too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there are a lot of there are a lot of
Speaker 10: countries that are are that have kind of orbital launch capability,
Speaker 10: but so they're even more that are that are trying
Speaker 10: to get there, you know, like and they're they're they're
Speaker 10: increasingly private companies that are trying to do that.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: One of the crash and burn stories just happened like like.
Speaker 7: A week or so ago.
Speaker 8: This yeah, yeah, this, like South Green Company into Space
Speaker 8: tried to launch their first orbital rocket and it failed
Speaker 8: about a minute after liftoff. And that's not at all surprising.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: Most of the time, like the first flight of a
Speaker 8: rocket doesn't go well because it takes time to work
Speaker 8: the kinks out and like really figure out what you're
Speaker 8: doing so, and yeah, that's really what we've seen a lot,
Speaker 8: I think in the last ten years. I think the
Speaker 8: two main kind of kind of takeaways of the last
Speaker 8: ten years the rise of China getting more ambitious and
Speaker 8: more more accomplished in space, and the rise of sort
Speaker 8: of private companies. And it's it's like not just space
Speaker 8: like you know, space like is the most obvious example.
Speaker 8: They launched like one hundred and sixty six orbital missions
Speaker 8: this year or something like that. It's just out of control.
Speaker 8: It's almost one every other day. But there are other
Speaker 8: companies too that are trying to do it, and like
Speaker 8: not just in the US, they're around the world. So yeah,
Speaker 8: it's it's it is changing. We've seen a lot of
Speaker 8: stuff happening, and that's on't make an next cleerate going forward.
Speaker 3: Talking to Mike D.
Speaker 1: Wall from space dot Com at Stirling seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: in twenty six, if we look ahead and maybe there's
Speaker 1: something in twenty five that I didn't give you a
Speaker 1: chance to sort of sound off on, but looking ahead
Speaker 1: and anything else you want to bring, what should we
Speaker 1: expect Because we talked about the militarization of space more
Speaker 1: so we know obviously Space Force does their stuff. We've
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, these orbiters or these ships that
Speaker 1: have been up there unmanned, that we're up there for
Speaker 1: an extended period of time previously that we don't know
Speaker 1: a lot about. We know it was sort of military related,
Speaker 1: and we really don't necessarily know. Maybe our CIA does,
Speaker 1: maybe Space Force whatever about what the Russians or other
Speaker 1: nation states are doing too. But there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on on a regular basis. What in the next six
Speaker 1: months or a year should we be aware of, aside
Speaker 1: from maybe the Aliens saying hello.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no that that's that's that's always something to keep
Speaker 8: thinking about. And maybe a y Is will contact us
Speaker 8: this year. I mean, it hasn't happened yet, but there's
Speaker 8: the first time for everything. But like, I think that
Speaker 8: the the the kind of two biggest things about twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six, and there's a lot obviously people have different opinions,
Speaker 8: but you know, like one is going to be Artemis two,
Speaker 8: which is the first crude mission around the Moon or
Speaker 8: to the area of the Moon since the Apollo days.
Speaker 8: So that's a NASA mission. It's the first kind of
Speaker 8: astronaut mission of the Artemist program, which aims to take
Speaker 8: astnauts back to the Moon and to set up the
Speaker 8: moon base near the South Pole. And so that's that
Speaker 8: could lift off as as early as February fifth, I believe,
Speaker 8: And it's it's like it's not going to put asnats on.
Speaker 7: The Moon or even in the lunar orbit.
Speaker 8: They're going to loop around the Moon and come back,
Speaker 8: but it's sort of like a shakeout cruise of the
Speaker 8: hardware that we that we need to like go and
Speaker 8: build like a lunar base and stuff like that, which
Speaker 8: the Artemist, which the Utemous program wants to do. So
Speaker 8: that's that's a big deal, and it's it's coming up,
Speaker 8: I don't know theoretically in the like in the next
Speaker 8: kind of month or so.
Speaker 7: Which is crazy.
Speaker 8: And the other thing I think is the kind of
Speaker 8: continued development of SpaceX, the Starship Mega rocket, the Giant
Speaker 8: Mars rocket that they've been working on for a while
Speaker 8: now and have flown like eleven test flights of including
Speaker 8: five test flights this past year, So there's an outside
Speaker 8: Chancey and Muscus said that they might even try to
Speaker 8: launch like the first kind kind of robotic missions to
Speaker 8: Mars with Starship this come in the fall of twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six. I think that's probably too ambitious, but it's
Speaker 8: a possibility if everything goes well with test flights and
Speaker 8: they have a lot of work left to do. They
Speaker 8: still need to get the thing to Earth orbit. It
Speaker 8: hasn't been to orbit yet. They need to do things
Speaker 8: like they've got to do kind of fuel transfer in space,
Speaker 8: because when you get these things up to Earth orbit,
Speaker 8: you have to refuel them the giant Starship spacecraft part
Speaker 8: of the Starship rocket then and send it on to
Speaker 8: the Moon or Tomorrow's you have to do that with
Speaker 8: with orbital refueling, and they need to do that, so
Speaker 8: that there's a lot of things they have to do.
Speaker 8: But we're going to see them try to do a
Speaker 8: lot of that stuff this coming year. So that'll be
Speaker 8: really interesting too to see how far they can get
Speaker 8: Starship development in the next.
Speaker 7: Twelve months or so.
Speaker 1: Mikedywallfromspace dot Com was stirling on seven hundred WLW. Now,
Speaker 1: when they do the refueling, I mean we're not talking
Speaker 1: about people actually doing it, say like when the Air
Speaker 1: Force refuels you know fighter jets or you know bombers,
Speaker 1: is they're going, you know, on the other side of
Speaker 1: the Earth or something, are we and those are man flights,
Speaker 1: But I know that there's autonomous landing of regular aircraft.
Speaker 1: One just happened, you know here on Tara Firma the
Speaker 1: last week or so, which I thought was pretty wild
Speaker 1: and it was a pretty important life saving kind of
Speaker 1: endeavor there. But with space stuff, how much of this
Speaker 1: is going to be at the hand of someone in
Speaker 1: a joystick or a steering wheel or whatever it is
Speaker 1: that a pilot uses compared to just sort of autonomously
Speaker 1: coordinate and the computer doing the work is somebody is
Speaker 1: you know, buckled up and hoping that everything goes right
Speaker 1: to get where they're going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all the refueling stuff will be that'll be like autonomous.
Speaker 8: You know, they're not going to need somebody directing things.
Speaker 8: It's going to be well, like I don't know they're
Speaker 8: they're like, well'll like need to be people on board
Speaker 8: the starship to do that. You know, it might be
Speaker 8: by people directing it from the ground, but it's an
Speaker 8: uncrewed spacecraft and all of that stuff will be done
Speaker 8: without people on board.
Speaker 7: It doesn't need to have people on board.
Speaker 8: Because the Yeah, the overall vision for SpaceX eventually is
Speaker 8: to have starship take people to Mars. But yeah, you
Speaker 8: don't need people on board to do refueling, and it's
Speaker 8: the like refueling thing. It's it's it's a pretty big
Speaker 8: deal because you're probably going to.
Speaker 7: Need like like.
Speaker 8: Like they've never said exactly how many refueling trips to that,
Speaker 8: like you're going to need to go to deep space
Speaker 8: of these things, but it could be around ten. So
Speaker 8: for every mission that you launched through the Moon or
Speaker 8: to Mars, you might need to launch like eleven starship
Speaker 8: to do the refueling to fuel up like the one
Speaker 8: that's going far Afield. So that's why when SpaceX talks
Speaker 8: about needing to launch lots of these things and to
Speaker 8: have them just flying off the pad all the time,
Speaker 8: part of that's because you're going to need to launch
Speaker 8: a bunch just to fuel up, like the ones that
Speaker 8: are going to Mars or to the Moon. So it
Speaker 8: is it's really something that we haven't seen before that
Speaker 8: that strategy and that ambition, just like how many kind
Speaker 8: of starships are going to need to be to be
Speaker 8: going to orbit to make this vision come true.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing undertaking. I mean, it's effectively what you're
Speaker 1: describing as a relay race, except as these monster sized
Speaker 1: rockets that will be going a little bit further each
Speaker 1: time on that journey so that they can refuel that
Speaker 1: thing and let it get where it's going. That I
Speaker 1: mean that there are a lot of different areas for
Speaker 1: somebody to effectively drop the proverbial baton that. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of science and a lot of luck,
Speaker 1: or maybe just by the design, right, I mean, I
Speaker 1: just see a whole lot of possibilities of things going south.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like it is. It is a complicated design.
Speaker 8: You know, they'll they'll be like, so yeah, you'll like
Speaker 8: launch the moon bound starship.
Speaker 7: Say that it's a two stage vehicle.
Speaker 8: You know, each starship has a giant first stage booster
Speaker 8: called super heavy and an upper stage spacecraft which they.
Speaker 7: Call starship or just ship.
Speaker 8: So how it'll work is, you know, like you'll launch,
Speaker 8: You'll launch ship like like a board super heavy. The
Speaker 8: super Heavy will come back down to the grounds and
Speaker 8: land and be reused whatever that. The ship will say
Speaker 8: stay in Earth orbit and it will meet up up there.
Speaker 8: There'll be like say they launched ten missions to Earth
Speaker 8: orbit kind of sequentially with with other ships and other
Speaker 8: super heavies. And so you'll send these tanker craft to
Speaker 8: meet up with this one moon bound ship.
Speaker 7: It's not going to be like going to the Moon yet.
Speaker 7: It won't do that.
Speaker 8: Till it's already been refueled by these like ten tanker missions,
Speaker 8: until its tank is totally full, which it will be
Speaker 8: in our orbit. It's not going to start that trip
Speaker 8: to the moon yet until it's been like until its
Speaker 8: tanks have been topped up with these tanker missions, and
Speaker 8: then it'll go. So, yeah, they're necessarily going to be
Speaker 8: going farther and then have to meet up with another
Speaker 8: one that they get farther along.
Speaker 7: They're they're going to have to kind of sit.
Speaker 8: Tight in our orbit until they get enough fuel from
Speaker 8: all these tankermissions.
Speaker 7: It is yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 8: We I mean a crazy meaning kind of wild and
Speaker 8: something we haven't seen before.
Speaker 7: It's not actually crazy. The space is very good at
Speaker 7: these things.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's amazing the work, but it's just
Speaker 1: just a major undertaking in the plane and that goes
Speaker 1: into it. And that makes more sense what you described
Speaker 1: than what I was envisioning at first, so that you know,
Speaker 1: it's just because I'm not real bright.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's all right, No, it.
Speaker 8: Is something that we haven't seen before, this kind of strategy,
Speaker 8: So it's it isn't weird to not have a full
Speaker 8: picture of it in your head yet.
Speaker 1: Well, anything else in twenty six you expect, or maybe
Speaker 1: that wild card thing that we might be surprised by
Speaker 1: to expect in twenty six.
Speaker 2: Or what, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think that stuff with the Starship, if
Speaker 8: they do manage to do orbital flights with Starship and refuel,
Speaker 8: if they demonstrate that. The kind of most ambitious, most
Speaker 8: exciting outcome is maybe when the like when the window
Speaker 8: to launch a Mars mission opens up in like October November,
Speaker 8: because Earth and Mars are the only line up for
Speaker 8: Mars launches for our spacecraft like every twenty six months,
Speaker 8: and next time that'll happen is the fall of twenty six.
Speaker 8: There's an outside chance that we could see like Starship
Speaker 8: missions to Mars this year, which would be really crazy.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's that's that's possible.
Speaker 1: That's the amazing And then maybe then the you know,
Speaker 1: the Martians go, hey, wait a minute, we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for you, and that could really get weird.
Speaker 3: But you know it'll be a one.
Speaker 8: Well, I could get weird in lots of ways too.
Speaker 8: I mean a lot of scientists are not happy about
Speaker 8: this because we're going to send it. I mean, if
Speaker 8: we send starships there, like a fleet of them, maybe
Speaker 8: six or eight of them, and they're so big that
Speaker 8: they like they can't be kind of sterilized and the
Speaker 8: like the way that like Mars Rover gets sterilized by
Speaker 8: NASA before it launches.
Speaker 7: So anything we sent there.
Speaker 8: From spacelex is probably going to be carrying a bunch
Speaker 8: of microbes and they'll get down on Mars and it'll
Speaker 8: make it harder for scientists to determine if if there
Speaker 8: is life on Mars, whether it's indigenous life that evolved
Speaker 8: on Mars or whether we took it with us on
Speaker 8: our spaceships. It's going to be there are a lot
Speaker 8: of people who are upset about this, about how kind
Speaker 8: of private missions to Mars, colonization, all this stuff that's
Speaker 8: going to make it really hard to figure out what's
Speaker 8: going on with the search family in life.
Speaker 7: If if like if life did evolve more than once.
Speaker 8: If yeah, I mean if we find microbes on Mars,
Speaker 8: like are they Martian microbes?
Speaker 7: Did or did we bring them?
Speaker 11: See?
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are huge questions to ponder. And then the
Speaker 1: question is maybe there's something there that we don't even
Speaker 1: understand yet. And then it gets mad because we brought
Speaker 1: our you know, it didn't wipe our shoes that they
Speaker 1: on the mat at the door. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just effectively what you're talking about it and then who
Speaker 1: knows what they send back?
Speaker 3: I mean, who knows.
Speaker 1: It's always great to talk to you, and it makes
Speaker 1: my head hurt often, you know, thinking about the possibilities ahead.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate what you do and it's a great
Speaker 1: resource and good reading, all always videos and all kinds
Speaker 1: of other stuff there too.
Speaker 3: Space dot Com.
Speaker 1: Michael Wall, thank you so much for doing what you do,
Speaker 1: and I hope you have a fantastic in new year.
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Speaker 1: It's who we expected and what we expected of the
Speaker 1: Bengals all season, but Joe's toe injuries and a lot
Speaker 1: of other stuff sort of plays into what has been
Speaker 1: almost a It hasn't been a lost season, I guess,
Speaker 1: but it is definitely a frustrating kind of situation. But
Speaker 1: we have seen some development of guys, hopefully who will
Speaker 1: even be better next year.
Speaker 12: Yes, it's me Helpstow, and I think that's the positive
Speaker 12: so far, if you want to take a positive out
Speaker 12: of the past few games. I'm not sure I've learned
Speaker 12: anything on the offensive side, right, And I get it
Speaker 12: meaningless and all of those things, but these nuts do
Speaker 12: matter to Miles Murphy.
Speaker 4: You know, he's in his third.
Speaker 12: Season and former first round pick, and he continues to
Speaker 12: play the best football of his NFL career. These snuts
Speaker 12: do matter to Dax Hill, who, like Murphy, is showing
Speaker 12: that he probably should have been utilized much sooner in
Speaker 12: his tenure. And they're utilized in a different way. And
Speaker 12: DJ Turner has come on, and so those are three
Speaker 12: building blocks. And I'm tough in saying that that those
Speaker 12: are blocks because they flash mid year and you're like, okay,
Speaker 12: well will that continue. Well, Dax has been one of
Speaker 12: the best corners in football over the past five to
Speaker 12: six weeks. DJ Turner has been really steady in a
Speaker 12: high level foreigner guarding the best receiver on the other
Speaker 12: team for more than two months.
Speaker 2: And then you have a.
Speaker 12: Guy Miles Murphy who just seems to make two to
Speaker 12: three splash plays a game, tackles for lost sacks, big plays,
Speaker 12: big disruptions. And so all three of those guys I
Speaker 12: think have developed this season, but really over the past
Speaker 12: few months to be key pieces of a defense that's
Speaker 12: taken plenty of criticism.
Speaker 1: Talking to James Rapeenie's the guy behind the book and
Speaker 1: entered the jungle, and it's not, by the way, an
Speaker 1: audible book as of yet. And let me before we continue,
Speaker 1: because I agree with everything you said, and even if
Speaker 1: I didn't, I would tell you I'm not here to
Speaker 1: suck up. But I feel bad about this, and let
Speaker 1: me just say for a week it has weighed on
Speaker 1: me heavily. And I heard you, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was Christmas Eve or whatever, you ruin sports talking
Speaker 1: for Lance and I was going to reach out and
Speaker 1: you were like, you could voice some for me if
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, And I was like no,
Speaker 1: and I glossed over it, and then I felt like
Speaker 1: a jerk because it made it was it was like
Speaker 1: a pressure and maybe uncomfortable. And you have been here
Speaker 1: for me in every way and I have seen you
Speaker 1: develop and grow, which sounds weird, but it's true and
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. And let me just tell you I
Speaker 1: would do anything I can do to help you in
Speaker 1: any way possible if you ever need me.
Speaker 3: And you asked me, but and I did.
Speaker 1: And like the back of my mind, I'm with family
Speaker 1: and like eating like tons of food and hanging out
Speaker 1: and I'm like thinking, man, I hope you didn't take
Speaker 1: me seriously when I was like somehow not being like
Speaker 1: decent and nice. And so let me just take a
Speaker 1: deep breath and recalibrate and just let you know. I
Speaker 1: felt bad.
Speaker 12: I totally had forgot about that. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 12: was when I was doing laughs at Miami Airport.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: You may or may not have been drinking for the
Speaker 1: flight home, because I mentioned that to you as well,
Speaker 1: and you were like, oh, I didn't realize that was
Speaker 1: a bad idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I did not drink on the way home, not because
Speaker 12: of you doing that.
Speaker 2: I just on the way to a trip. It feels
Speaker 2: much different than going home.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 12: You almost have to be dialed in going home, right, Yeah,
Speaker 12: you're like dialed in.
Speaker 2: Like all right, what do I need to do?
Speaker 9: Where?
Speaker 12: So all of those things all right, I got to
Speaker 12: get this shuttle and yeah, so much much different.
Speaker 2: Than the than the going there.
Speaker 4: But no, I actually didn't think about it at all.
Speaker 2: I didn't take anything of it because I was joking.
Speaker 1: And then immediately I had had I recoiled and I
Speaker 1: was ashamed and I felt bad and I was I
Speaker 1: was self loathing and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's going to take me serious, Like I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be there.
Speaker 3: But I'm always here for you if you ever need anything.
Speaker 2: So well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 12: The second edition of the End of the Jungle comes
Speaker 12: out when the Bengals win the Super Bowl. Yes, and
Speaker 12: so they better figure it out so I can get
Speaker 12: the writing, because right, I don't want to do too
Speaker 12: many more seasons. I chronicled from nineteen sixty eight to
Speaker 12: twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: I don't want to keep I have eight more seasons
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 12: I was hoping it would be one or two more
Speaker 12: seasons with the Super Bowl in there, and that obviously
Speaker 12: hasn't been the case.
Speaker 3: Well, let's hope that that's the case.
Speaker 1: I would like to help with that, but at my size,
Speaker 1: even if I were a younger man in my twenties,
Speaker 1: I would not be able to help. Though I could
Speaker 1: be maybe a kicker or a wide receiver if no one,
Speaker 1: if everyone promised not to hit me.
Speaker 3: But that's that's not.
Speaker 2: Maybe the coach that the Bengals need to start with.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, maybe not. I'd rather just be be a fact.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't just throw more deep passes and either get
Speaker 1: the reception or get the flag. That's all they need
Speaker 1: to do. There, you go, Yeah, all right, So let's
Speaker 1: get back to Bengals, because that's what matters. There's one
Speaker 1: more week to go. We have seen this defense seemingly
Speaker 1: get better over this last few weeks. Now how much
Speaker 1: of that is the competition being what it has been
Speaker 1: and how much of it has been the duration of
Speaker 1: this defense and them finding themselves as we looked to
Speaker 1: a Browns team coming down seventy one to pay corpse
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think, man, this this matchup to me is
Speaker 12: so interesting because on one hand, a big part of me
Speaker 12: Sterling says, you know what you've showcased, what your offense is.
Speaker 12: You can still play those defensive players that need to
Speaker 12: develop and those offensive players that need to develop. But
Speaker 12: Joe jamar Key, you know what those guys are. You
Speaker 12: know what Mike is sick, he is. All of these
Speaker 12: guys have dealt with different injuries this year to just
Speaker 12: get out of town. Don't deal with this physical AFC
Speaker 12: North battle, because they did that last year and obviously
Speaker 12: they were in it last year down to the wire
Speaker 12: and they had to play that game in Pittsburgh like
Speaker 12: it was a win and get in type of game
Speaker 12: even though they needed help. But they were beat up
Speaker 12: after that game.
Speaker 4: Like I know for a fact, like it goes and
Speaker 4: got lost in the.
Speaker 12: Shuffle with Lou and a rumo and the coaching changes
Speaker 12: and all of those things. But like there were guys
Speaker 12: limping around after that game, like prominent guys. I'm not
Speaker 12: going to name names, but you could probably guess.
Speaker 2: I don't want that.
Speaker 12: After this game against the Browns, here's the butt, and
Speaker 12: there's a big butt coming. How nice would it be
Speaker 12: if this offense sliced and diced a Cleveland defense that
Speaker 12: has had their number, had the Bengals number for a
Speaker 12: significant part, I would say, of the Joe Burrow era,
Speaker 12: and really made life hard on this Bengals offense. So
Speaker 12: it's a delicate balance. Obviously, they've already made the decision.
Speaker 12: They're going to line up and play and treat it
Speaker 12: like a must win game to get the seven and
Speaker 12: ten and go out on the right note, which historically
Speaker 12: the Bengals have done a lot long before that. Taylor,
Speaker 12: Joe Burrow or Jamar Chase. We're in the building, yep,
Speaker 12: and they're going to try to do it again on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. James Rapine, Bengals talk dot Com.
Speaker 1: You got a Cincinnati Bengals talk on the YouTube, you
Speaker 1: got the Inner Jungle Book. He's locked on Bengals, is
Speaker 1: all over the place. You're hear him here doing shows.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And occasionally he just like flies around the
Speaker 1: country and does whatever else. We talked about Chase Brown
Speaker 1: in the in between and over the last half of
Speaker 1: the season. How geeked up I have been to see
Speaker 1: him seemingly go to the next level and what a
Speaker 1: tandem between p Ryan and Brown, whether it's those in
Speaker 1: between receptions or those running yards, it is astounding. For
Speaker 1: the size of Chase Brown, Am I crazy to say?
Speaker 1: For his size, it is shocking that he's able to
Speaker 1: get the yardage he is on the ground.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think he's he's a very unique player because
Speaker 12: he's he's shorter than me. I'm five nine, so he's
Speaker 12: shorter than me. I would say, maybe he would disagree,
Speaker 12: but I would leave that way. And I don't lie
Speaker 12: about my height, right, you know, I don't round up
Speaker 12: like I'm a solid five notch.
Speaker 3: A lot do guys do that? Why do guys do that?
Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, seriously, it's not the only
Speaker 1: thing go, yeah, I'm six two.
Speaker 3: No, you're not, you're five ten whoever it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know, you know, it's uh yeah,
Speaker 2: why would you last?
Speaker 9: You are?
Speaker 2: You are?
Speaker 3: Your record? That is what it is.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, you're six and ten. All right, you're not
Speaker 12: making the playoffs, right, you know you're not six ten,
Speaker 12: you're six and ten. So I uh, I think Chase
Speaker 12: is he's had that that stature and that strength and
Speaker 12: the ability to run between the tackles dating back to college,
Speaker 12: and it's something that that he.
Speaker 2: Did at Illinois.
Speaker 12: He had three hundred and twenty eight carries in his
Speaker 12: final year at Illinois. And the thing that he's done
Speaker 12: really well is one learn to navigate that and still
Speaker 12: be that guy and he can run between the tackles.
Speaker 12: But the thing that he's really developed and from year
Speaker 12: one to year three has taken the biggest leap. And
Speaker 12: you saw it yesterday he had three catches for forty yards.
Speaker 12: He can line up in the slot, he can line
Speaker 12: up in the backfield with Samaj p Ryan and he
Speaker 12: is a threat to catch and run and be explosive
Speaker 12: and be that guy with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 12: And that's really hard to find. Like right now, Monday
Speaker 12: Night Football is on. Jon Robinson is such a freak
Speaker 12: and he's putting on a show for the Falcons. Well,
Speaker 12: Chase Brown isn't that, But the Bengals got him in
Speaker 12: the fifth round like he's a steal.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best picks they've had in a
Speaker 2: long long time.
Speaker 12: In Jamar Chase and t Higgins they get a ton
Speaker 12: of run, but Chase Brown literally to get plenty of
Speaker 12: run as well because he is a really high end
Speaker 12: player and one of the.
Speaker 2: Better backs in the NFL.
Speaker 12: Which if you would have said that when they drafted
Speaker 12: him in the fifth round, I'm not sure anyone would
Speaker 12: have would have believed it, But that is the reality.
Speaker 1: Talking to James Rapine locked on Bengals Sterling seven hundred WLW. Now,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be interesting if the Bengals could find a
Speaker 1: way to get some defensive picks that developed the way
Speaker 1: we have seen Chase Brown because they have had top
Speaker 1: pick after top pick after top pick. Even though we've
Speaker 1: seen the defense gel a little bit, they have not
Speaker 1: had the same type of development that we have seen.
Speaker 1: And the thing about Brown that in the running game, right,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this over this year more than once.
Speaker 3: James is that.
Speaker 1: They don't need and because the off offense has built
Speaker 1: the way it is the fact that he has carved
Speaker 1: out a niche to be able to do that with
Speaker 1: p Ryan also in a tandem in some situations. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty neat balance to what this offense can do.
Speaker 1: Is it just looks to surgically decimate defenses around the
Speaker 1: NFL when they're healthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the beauty of this offense right now.
Speaker 12: If they have an elite quarterback and they can do
Speaker 12: the Joe Burrow makes the reads and places and dice
Speaker 12: is his way. But if they need to run the ball,
Speaker 12: they can't. And they've shown that with some a JP
Speaker 12: Ry and Chase Brown and they were able to. They've
Speaker 12: done the quarterback sneak thing, and they've gone with the
Speaker 12: big the big bodies, and they did that on the
Speaker 12: goal line yesterday and we.
Speaker 4: Haven't seen that consistently. And the other thing is is.
Speaker 2: How versatile their tight ends are.
Speaker 12: No a fan really compliments what Mike get Sicki does
Speaker 12: well and what Tanner Hudson does well. And I'm hoping
Speaker 12: Eric all local kid, I'm hoping he continues to recover
Speaker 12: because part of me is wondering, like, oh man, how
Speaker 12: would Eric Hall and no a fan fare together if
Speaker 12: the Bengals were to resign no offense this offseason. I'm
Speaker 12: not sure they will, but if they did. But but yeah,
Speaker 12: they're really multiple on offense. I mean, I said all
Speaker 12: this stuff, and I think andre Yoseabash has been pretty
Speaker 12: steady overall.
Speaker 7: Get it.
Speaker 12: He's had a few drops, but when called upon, he
Speaker 12: had a big catch yesterday. Mike GASICKI had a couple
Speaker 12: of big catches yep, right, yeah, in their their big plays,
Speaker 12: corny yard plays that go for first downs like those
Speaker 12: are huge plays in the difference between like a lot
Speaker 12: of teams have star players, the difference between getting that
Speaker 12: first down and then ended up scoring on three straight
Speaker 12: drives and taking control of the game is having those
Speaker 12: type of.
Speaker 2: Players, those role players. So manj p.
Speaker 12: Ryan is stepping up and making a huge block in
Speaker 12: pass protection, which gives Joe Burrow enough time to make
Speaker 12: a big play a big throwdown field like those are
Speaker 12: the type of plays that that they have on offense.
Speaker 12: And you see it coming together a little bit on defense,
Speaker 12: but it certainly isn't.
Speaker 1: There yet now we're short on time, and you've been
Speaker 1: generous with it today and I know you were up
Speaker 1: early doing what you got to do. And that was
Speaker 1: after a long Sunday cover in Bengals as well talking
Speaker 1: to James Rapine Cincinnati Bengals talk on you Tube look
Speaker 1: for him there and moving picture form and speaking as well,
Speaker 1: Lockdown Bengals and Enter the Jungle, the Book, and so forth.
Speaker 1: In short order, what does this team look like in
Speaker 1: twenty six and what do they need to do, aside
Speaker 1: from health to be where we expect them to be
Speaker 1: and what they hope to be. Is this window of
Speaker 1: hopefully postseason opportunities and playoff stuff is still with the
Speaker 1: talent that they have, the way they.
Speaker 12: Are, yeah, they they're not going to make coaching changes, right,
Speaker 12: So that's the first thing.
Speaker 2: Like Zach isn't getting fired.
Speaker 12: I know people are wondering mass they're not moving on
Speaker 12: from Duke tob and I know people are wondering that,
Speaker 12: and so let's just throw that away. So people aren't like, oh, well,
Speaker 12: why wouldn't.
Speaker 2: They do that?
Speaker 12: They need to open up that pocket book and they've
Speaker 12: spent I'm not going.
Speaker 4: To say they haven't.
Speaker 12: They have Joe Burrow, highest paid quarterback in the league
Speaker 12: at the time, Jamar Shay's highest paid receiver, T Higgins
Speaker 12: huge contract.
Speaker 2: Like, I get it. I know they've spent. There's the
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow era. You're going to have to push.
Speaker 12: The limits and modernize. You're thinking of how you structure contracts,
Speaker 12: and here's why you need to be able to fit
Speaker 12: more under the cap. And the winning teams do it.
Speaker 12: And if they do that and are willing to do
Speaker 12: that and show that desire and I'm not spent, I'm
Speaker 12: not saying go go willing really crazy, but do enough
Speaker 12: to where you have quality starting safeties, another quality linebacker,
Speaker 12: a couple pass rushers that aren't draft picks that you
Speaker 12: have to develop. So it takes some pressure off of
Speaker 12: these young guys that you do draft where they can
Speaker 12: be pieces and ease into their role like Chase Brown
Speaker 12: did instead of thrown to the wolves like Demitrious Knight
Speaker 12: was in a really tough situation. I've been critical of
Speaker 12: Demetrius Night throughout his rookie year a little bit, but
Speaker 12: it's been a a tough position to be in as well,
Speaker 12: and I'm very much aware of that.
Speaker 2: So I think.
Speaker 12: That's it is, give yourself a chancechampionship level roster and
Speaker 12: a playoff level roster, even without Joe Burrow. And that
Speaker 12: probably means trying to trick Jill Flacco to resigning here,
Speaker 12: even though there's no chance he starts. I know he
Speaker 12: wants to start, but it would be nice if he
Speaker 12: was Joe Burrow's backup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is one hundred and eighty six
Speaker 1: in football years and he's still mobile and getting a
Speaker 1: dead and even that little bit he was in yesterday
Speaker 1: it was fun and I can't remember that the defender
Speaker 1: who was coming at him, it was about eighteen feet
Speaker 1: paul and Flacco did the most awesome thing ever. He
Speaker 1: just looked at him. He's like, oh, hell no, and
Speaker 1: he's just grounded that ball. He's like, I'm good, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking that hit. I'm eighty eight years old, So
Speaker 1: that's right. You know, you don't blame him. So you
Speaker 1: think that's likely that they're gonna be able to pull
Speaker 1: that off. I mean, where else could he go? Although
Speaker 1: this has been the season of you know, the senior
Speaker 1: citizen quarterbacks popping up all over the place, even up
Speaker 1: seventy four in Indianapolis.
Speaker 12: I know it has and heck, if he wants to
Speaker 12: come be the backup, fine with that too. Like you
Speaker 12: well talking about Philip Rivers as vice.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 12: In reality here you just need someone that can operate
Speaker 12: your offense and get the ball to your playmakers and
Speaker 12: do it in a hostile environment and read a defense
Speaker 12: and do those things. And Joe Flacco can do that,
Speaker 12: and it's it's harder to find. And so if I'm
Speaker 12: the Bengals, I would, Heck I would. I would try
Speaker 12: to sign him right now if they if they could.
Speaker 12: I'm not sure if he'd want to entertain agent. I'm
Speaker 12: sure he wants to see what options are out there,
Speaker 12: but that's certainly a guy that I would try to
Speaker 12: bring back.
Speaker 2: And I do think it's possible. How likely it depends
Speaker 2: what else is out there.
Speaker 12: But does he want to be a bridge quarterback for
Speaker 12: a few games and then get benched again like he
Speaker 12: was in Cleveland, or does he want to know his
Speaker 12: role here in Cincinnati with a chance, in my mind
Speaker 12: to make a Super Bowl run.
Speaker 1: Man, I think a lot of us have that feeling
Speaker 1: in our lives in general. But I totally get it.
Speaker 1: The Flacco or not, it's always great talking to you.
Speaker 1: I hope you have an incredible New Year twenty six
Speaker 1: and thank you for doing what you do. And you
Speaker 1: can see James Rapine on the Cincinnati Bengals Talk on YouTube.
Speaker 1: You can read him everywhere. I mean really Cincinnati is
Speaker 1: a Bengals Talk dot com locked on Bengals Enter the Jungle, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then of course the Enter the Jungle too may
Speaker 1: be coming and hopefully with the Super Bowl behind it,
Speaker 1: and I'll voice what I'll do anything that you want
Speaker 1: me to do. I'm here for you.
Speaker 2: You're the man, Sterling. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you to take care of yourself. Man, Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's James Rapine more Sterling coming back. Seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: fineal hour together find Monday night, Sterling. How you doing,
Speaker 1: scary Jeff the night off? Well it was on earlier.
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Speaker 1: with news coming up at about twenty four minutes at
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Speaker 1: to cover between then and now and then until midnight
Speaker 1: when ATN rolls with Kevin Gordon behind the wheel. That's
Speaker 1: America's trucking network. A number of things in the news
Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of curious about this here first
Speaker 1: of all headline. Then it's been all over on Columbus paper,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati News, all over the state Ohio cannabis advocates. There
Speaker 1: are people advocating for the cannabis because apparently the cannabis
Speaker 1: needs someone to advocate for it, which I did not know.
Speaker 1: It grows wildly. People smoke it, they drink it, they
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. It's been legal in
Speaker 1: Ohio as a recreational activity or a consumable product for
Speaker 1: the better part of two years since its implementation and
Speaker 1: the public's vote those eighteen and older. In the state
Speaker 1: of Ohio, lawmakers just recently signed into law with Mike
Speaker 1: DeWine behind it, have altered that was initially carved out
Speaker 1: and voters decided how it would be implemented. Lawmakers have
Speaker 1: said that they weren't real hahih with it. They said
Speaker 1: that the voters didn't really understand what it was all about,
Speaker 1: and they've tweaked it a little bit. So now there's
Speaker 1: an organization that's out there and they're looking to collect
Speaker 1: a whole lot of signatures and wanting to challenge the
Speaker 1: new hemp and marijuana law. So what I'm wondering is this,
Speaker 1: and give you a chance to sound off, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to rip through a whole bunch of these other things.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if you, whether you're a cannabis user or
Speaker 1: not a cannabis user, whether it's for recreation, whether it's
Speaker 1: medicinal by way of a prescription from your doctor for whatever,
Speaker 1: a number of other things. Whether you're consuming THHC beverages
Speaker 1: which are more and more available around the country, whether
Speaker 1: it's water infused with it, or soda or pop whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, te seltzers of some type
Speaker 1: or another. What they've talked about, whether it's here in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They're breweries that are doing this, and they are expecting
Speaker 1: to take a pretty big hit once this stuff is
Speaker 1: supposed to go go by, and they are obviously looking
Speaker 1: to maintain their revenue stream, and people want to know,
Speaker 1: you know, keep the ability to live their lives the
Speaker 1: way they want. I'm just curious, is this something that
Speaker 1: you would sign to be able to then have that
Speaker 1: submitted so that people, this cannabis advocacy group, if you will,
Speaker 1: could then try to roll back the changes that are
Speaker 1: in place, or do you think the changes are good
Speaker 1: when it comes to the way that they're trying to
Speaker 1: regulate it, and that means taking away some of the
Speaker 1: intoxicating hemp products available other places other than the one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven licensed dispensaries, including those breweries or
Speaker 1: you know companies that are handling the infusion of that
Speaker 1: for beverages of some type or another, canning it or
Speaker 1: bottling it or whatever else sort of goes into it.
Speaker 1: And there are a number of those out there five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 1: eight hundred the big one. And also you can talk
Speaker 1: back on the iHeartRadio app at Sterling Radio on x
Speaker 1: on the talk just click the microphone on the app
Speaker 1: for iHeart and you can certainly leave a message there
Speaker 1: as well. Tons and tons of money is at stake,
Speaker 1: jobs are at stake as well, and the idea of
Speaker 1: freedom and liberty that goes along with it and the
Speaker 1: regulation with it. Some people are the belief that it
Speaker 1: could have been tweaked and adjusted more reasonable and rationally.
Speaker 1: I've had people who are in the business of running
Speaker 1: smoke shops and others who have called the show, reached
Speaker 1: out to me and so forth and say that they
Speaker 1: feel that they're unfairly targeted by a handful of those
Speaker 1: that are bad actors who have not handled their business
Speaker 1: responsibly for the vast majority of retailers, not selling it
Speaker 1: to kids, and not doing anything that they shouldn't be,
Speaker 1: and they feel that they've been targeted unfairly five three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine, seven, eight hundred the big one. I say,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is that you like to do
Speaker 1: to get yourself high, as long as you're responsible not
Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel of a vehicle putting others at risk,
Speaker 1: and as long as you handle your business where you're
Speaker 1: not a problem for the general population and the big
Speaker 1: sandbox of life. I say, do whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you want to do. That's just me and a libertarian
Speaker 1: conservative mindset. But not everybody has that same type of
Speaker 1: view or understanding of the way things go. But they
Speaker 1: are looking now to gather signatures and sooner than later
Speaker 1: wherever it is that you're out and about. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they can do that just online or if
Speaker 1: it has to be done in person hard copy signature.
Speaker 1: I can remember coming in and out of like grocery
Speaker 1: stores and parking lots in other places too, whether it
Speaker 1: was Kenwood Town Center or otherwise where people initially when
Speaker 1: they were trying to get the referendum on the ballot
Speaker 1: to legalize it in the first place for recreation that
Speaker 1: we're looking for signatures and stuff going back a couple
Speaker 1: of years, so I would imagine we'll see a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that as well. To New Miami. And
Speaker 1: Bill was sterling on the Big One in room for
Speaker 1: you seven four nine, eight hundred, the Big One. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you holding Bill.
Speaker 3: What's up? How you doing?
Speaker 9: Sirling?
Speaker 3: I think I'm all right?
Speaker 11: You Oh good?
Speaker 13: I think I'm all right as well. I think it's
Speaker 13: kind of ridiculous, though. Where do I sign?
Speaker 11: I just I don't.
Speaker 13: Under I don't understand where our governor is coming from.
Speaker 13: When I when I first heard he was doing this several.
Speaker 11: Months ago, it was like, this is what we voted for.
Speaker 1: Well, people did fifty seven fifty eight percent. Somewhere in
Speaker 1: between there of Ohio voters said ya to it. You know,
Speaker 1: some were of the opinion I guess there were unintended
Speaker 1: consequences and things that they didn't really think of or
Speaker 1: what have you. And this is one of those things
Speaker 1: that the General Assembly and lawmakers in Columbus sent to
Speaker 1: the governor's desk and he had to sign it.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 1: I think they had carved out the THHC part and
Speaker 1: then he line item vetoed that if I'm not mistaken, okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know all the ins and outs of
Speaker 1: that at this moment. So you say, go ahead, get
Speaker 1: you the position, and you will sign it. Do you
Speaker 1: see any problem with the way it was being marketed
Speaker 1: or promoted or sold any place you've been, assuming you're
Speaker 1: either a consumer or just someone who's in the idea
Speaker 1: of freedom for people, which or both.
Speaker 13: Well, I've had my card for several years. I've never
Speaker 13: bought any beverages or anything.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know.
Speaker 11: I think that.
Speaker 13: I just feel like the way this the sole thing
Speaker 13: has been presented by what the governor has done and everything,
Speaker 13: this seems like he's overstepping his his bounds. But apparently
Speaker 13: he's not right. So I just want to know where
Speaker 13: to sign because I just think that we need to
Speaker 13: have the you know, th seed beverages. They're no worse
Speaker 13: than alcoholic.
Speaker 11: Beverages from what I understand.
Speaker 3: So here here's a question I have.
Speaker 1: So in relation to this, do you think that it
Speaker 1: would be better if they had rules for other retailers?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want the intoxicating hemp available or
Speaker 1: is it just about the beverage that you feel should
Speaker 1: be available. You know, the question is about packaging and
Speaker 1: targeting of kids. I don't think anyone responsible wants anyone
Speaker 1: made twenty one to be able to buy it over
Speaker 1: the counter.
Speaker 13: Right, well, right, absolutely not, yeah, be twenty one. Perhaps
Speaker 13: the th sed beverages should be sold in dispensaries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that might be something rather than in other words,
Speaker 1: rather than going to the brewery or going to the
Speaker 1: distillery or something else.
Speaker 11: To a store or whatever. Perhaps if you want to
Speaker 11: get a th seed beverage, you go to suspense, just
Speaker 11: like you got to get your legalized marijuana.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: You almost make too much sense in a time when
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of sense being made in a
Speaker 1: lot of places. So Bill, I appreciate you being a
Speaker 1: part of the show and maybe we'll get somebody beyond this.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening, and if we can maybe track
Speaker 1: down some people who are behind the idea of this
Speaker 1: petition and we maybe have them on the show as well.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty interesting how much attention is this has gotten.
Speaker 1: My gut tells me that I think the vast majority
Speaker 1: of Ohioan's voters or not, whether they were forward or
Speaker 1: against it or kind of the I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a black market product for a long time, for decades,
Speaker 1: there was no difficulty in getting it from the black market.
Speaker 1: They brought it above board and effectively made it safer,
Speaker 1: more consistent and understanding what it is a product that
Speaker 1: people were going to be able to get their hands
Speaker 1: on to ingest by whatever means they choose, whether it's
Speaker 1: for a prescription or whether it's for recreational entertainment purposes,
Speaker 1: no different and I don't look at it any different
Speaker 1: than alcohol in any fashion. And the bottom line is
Speaker 1: that you just need to be responsible in the way
Speaker 1: that you maintain you know your function in what you
Speaker 1: do whether you're drinking, or whether you're smoking, or whether
Speaker 1: you're eating, or whatever it is, there's something that's going
Speaker 1: to intoxicate you or alter your ability to function and
Speaker 1: get behind the wheel of an automobile or other heavy machinery.
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty basic scenario, but you know,
Speaker 1: keeping it out of kid's hands, I think is fairly important.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, the
Speaker 1: big one. Speaking of something else that's fairly important. And
Speaker 1: every New Year's this is an issue, and it's not
Speaker 1: an issue everywhere, but it is an issue that presents
Speaker 1: itself and depending on the neighborhood in which you live
Speaker 1: or if you live out in the country. And I've
Speaker 1: lived in the city of Cincinnati, I've lived in suburbia.
Speaker 1: I've lived in rural Ohio as well well. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you that New Year's Christmas both certainly the
Speaker 1: forth the fourth of July.
Speaker 3: It's not just fireworks.
Speaker 1: People like to target practice or pop off some rounds
Speaker 1: into the sky to celebrate the new year, which I
Speaker 1: have never quite understood. One, you're wasting Ammo. Two those
Speaker 1: rounds fall. Bad things can happen when they fall, whether
Speaker 1: it's on your on top of your roof, into your house,
Speaker 1: into your attic, or you know. Even when I before
Speaker 1: I came back to Ohio in the middle nineties, I
Speaker 1: was working in New Orleans and we were celebrating our
Speaker 1: unemployment because we were all going to be let go
Speaker 1: in the first of January. So a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: us went out to eat in the French Quarter. And
Speaker 1: New Year's in the French Quarter is a busy time.
Speaker 1: Not Maudi Gras busy, but busy, big celebration, big party.
Speaker 1: And we were leaving a restaurant. It was called K
Speaker 1: Paul's at the time, and Paul Prudona, I think, is
Speaker 1: the guy who owned it at that point. And we're
Speaker 1: leaving and we noticed the crowd and there's some weird
Speaker 1: stuff going on. This is like nineteen ninety five, I believe.
Speaker 1: And so it's been a minute, and what had happened
Speaker 1: is there was a woman and I want to say
Speaker 1: she was either from Boston or the Cleveland area, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. And it's really irrelevant, but it is devastating
Speaker 1: just the same. There was a woman who took around
Speaker 1: from the top of her to the top of her
Speaker 1: head after someone had discharged a firearm and it dropped
Speaker 1: her dead on the spot and no explanation, no call.
Speaker 1: I mean, they couldn't figure out exactly what it was
Speaker 1: that it had caused her harm. And then it leads
Speaker 1: me to this story because idiots do idiotic things, and
Speaker 1: I try not to be an idiot, at least not
Speaker 1: in that way, and others shouldn't either. And I flashed
Speaker 1: back to this because I've had numerous people send me
Speaker 1: this and wanted me to make comment on it. Headlined
Speaker 1: a man in Oklahoma doing target practice in his backyard
Speaker 1: after Christmas with this new gun. Right, so, he gets
Speaker 1: a new handgun. He has nothing backstopping those rounds that
Speaker 1: he's firing. A woman a couple of blocks away on
Speaker 1: her porch holding a baby says, ow and under her
Speaker 1: arm or threw her arm and into her chest cavity.
Speaker 1: She is hit by around that that guy just discharged
Speaker 1: from his firearm because he was irresponsible and it killed
Speaker 1: her and it could have killed that baby. So the
Speaker 1: bottom line is whether it's New Year's popping rounds off
Speaker 1: into the sky or somebody who has decided that they
Speaker 1: want to target practice or shoot their guns in the backyard,
Speaker 1: don't be an idiot. Don't be a moron. Think a
Speaker 1: little bit beforehand. Those rounds go somewhere. They don't just disappear,
Speaker 1: aside from the fact that they ain't cheap. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to talk about New Year's Eve
Speaker 1: and bad things have with people discharging their firearms. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to help. Okay, five one, three, seven hundred,
Speaker 1: the big one to Middletown and Penny, I think you're
Speaker 1: calling on the weed issue. Penny, how are you? How's
Speaker 1: everything on this Monday night, Sterling?
Speaker 9: I'm good and I love listening to you whenever you're on.
Speaker 9: You always have great subjects, and I want to just
Speaker 9: just wanted to mention that I'm thinking the governor and
Speaker 9: maybe me and others we didn't think about them putting
Speaker 9: the THC in alcoholic beverages where you go to the
Speaker 9: go down to the bar and you sit there for
Speaker 9: you know, however long people want to say, some people
Speaker 9: for short terms. Some people make an evening of it
Speaker 9: and you're drinking this and you're going to get behind
Speaker 9: your car and drive, and you know, we can say
Speaker 9: we need you know, people need to be held responsible.
Speaker 9: But I just think it's just another thing that you know,
Speaker 9: police can't mind. And I hate to see people lose
Speaker 9: their lives because someone wanted to sit at the evening
Speaker 9: and the bar and have this in their beer.
Speaker 1: Isn't there is there a drastic difference between that and
Speaker 1: any other intoxicating substance, whether it's you know, beer, beer,
Speaker 1: or wine or other spirits, you know, drinking a bourbon
Speaker 1: or two after dinner.
Speaker 9: No, I don't. But I think it's the fact that
Speaker 9: it's just another thing where some people, I don't know,
Speaker 9: maybe more people might people that would go that normally
Speaker 9: wouldn't to get this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I just worry about drunk drivers in general.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So my question is this, So, do you want to
Speaker 1: then keep people from being able to go get any
Speaker 1: alcoholic beverage because there are people who are irresponsible, or
Speaker 1: you just draw the line at the intoxicating hamp or
Speaker 1: THHC and fuse beverages because it's an easy target right now.
Speaker 9: No, I think that it's if one's available, they should
Speaker 9: all be available. But I think people really when they
Speaker 9: voted for this, really did not know the full picture
Speaker 9: of it, right, That's what.
Speaker 1: They think were you confused by the language, because that's
Speaker 1: some of the things that lawmakers have said. Well, people
Speaker 1: didn't understand what they were reading. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: fairly common speak. It was a lot easier to understand
Speaker 1: that than the redistricting issue or the question about you know,
Speaker 1: the legislative districts and how they decided who was going
Speaker 1: to vote for whom where?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 9: But I will say I have to be honest and
Speaker 9: say I voted no for it, okay, because I felt
Speaker 9: like it was going to be another another thing, another problem.
Speaker 3: Sure, people, you know.
Speaker 9: We can we can all say let's all be responsible,
Speaker 9: but let's make a list of the people that are
Speaker 9: responsible and that people aren't. And you know, the people
Speaker 9: that are responsible are also you know, suffering the consequences
Speaker 9: of the people that aren't responsible. So no real way
Speaker 9: to handle it.
Speaker 1: It's tough, right, I mean, because I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't have nice things because some people
Speaker 1: ruin it for us, whether it's alcohol boos or people
Speaker 1: who aren't handling their firearms the way they should, which
Speaker 1: is responsible to.
Speaker 9: The firearms another thing. Yeah, yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 3: That's a tough deal.
Speaker 1: Well, Penny, I appreciate the call, But I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't want anybody losing their right to bear arms or
Speaker 1: losing their right to have an alcoholic beverage because a
Speaker 1: small percentage of people out there are idiots and morons.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I believe that, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we could be on a panel and
Speaker 1: they would never allow this. But I mean, I will
Speaker 1: go so far as to say some people shouldn't have kids, right.
Speaker 7: Too.
Speaker 1: But it's not really for me to decide who else.
Speaker 1: The only person I can decide about is me whether
Speaker 1: or not I want to make Little Sterling or Sterling's
Speaker 1: or you with Penny and Penny yet right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know it's tough.
Speaker 9: Penny, and it's not right for us to make the
Speaker 9: decisions for all. But you know, like I said, I
Speaker 9: don't like to see the people who are responsible stuffer
Speaker 9: at the answer the people aren't.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it certainly does a lot of ways. Penny, great
Speaker 1: talking to you. I appreciate you listening and being a
Speaker 1: part of the show. I hope you have a great
Speaker 1: night and a good New year. Quick break come back Monday,
Speaker 1: Sterling for Gary Jeff seven hundred WLW Sterling back to
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW, the nation station a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: away from your eleven thirty of.
Speaker 3: Your report in for Gary, Jeff, how you doing? Joe?
Speaker 3: What dell? Keep me on time? On online or in line?
Speaker 1: Just something like some close to that anyway, the Lee
Speaker 1: Malwin's got news in a little bit quick nine first
Speaker 1: Warning forecast down to eighteen tonight.
Speaker 3: That's cold, how ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I hung out and walked the dog with shorts on,
Speaker 1: and it was in the sixties. And right now it's
Speaker 1: a twenty two Tomorrow will be a high at thirty
Speaker 1: thirty six Wednesday.
Speaker 3: It's you know what it is. It's December. It is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: It feels all of a sudden like December again with
Speaker 1: New Year's straight in front of us.
Speaker 3: So you know it is where it is.
Speaker 1: It's your severe Weather News Radio seven hundred WLW forecast
Speaker 1: from nine first winning Weather. There you go, Yeah, got that.
Speaker 1: I want to mention this too here because it's something
Speaker 1: and somewhat shocking. Falcons beat the La Rams twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty four in Atlanta Monday night football. That happened
Speaker 1: just a bit ago, and the Rams, of course playoff bound.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that takes them from fourth, I think,
Speaker 1: or fifth if I'm not mistaken in the playoff picture
Speaker 1: as far as that goes, they're six now, I think
Speaker 1: if I refresh that as far as seeding goes in
Speaker 1: the NFC for a playoffs, so I'm pretty sure that's it.
Speaker 1: Eleven and five third the NFC West. So yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Bengals, of course, have the Browns on Sunday
Speaker 1: to wrap up this season. Basketball Bearcats handle business quite
Speaker 1: easily earlier here hosting Lipscomb at the fifth Third Arena
Speaker 1: and on seven hundred WLW to wrap up their non
Speaker 1: conference schedule eighty nine sixty two to the final, bear
Speaker 1: Cats all over them. Now eight and five, they have
Speaker 1: Houston coming in the Rockets at fifth Third Arena on
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon with the two o'clock tip off, then to
Speaker 1: West Virginia. They will make the trip there for another
Speaker 1: Big twelve matchup a week from tomorrow, so they're in
Speaker 1: the thick of it pretty quickly. We'll see how that progresses,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you gotta look forward to it. And I
Speaker 1: want to mention this because this has had a number
Speaker 1: of people mentioned this and I touched on it earlier
Speaker 1: about the dry January. Sonya zato I had on talking
Speaker 1: about living better and healthier in twenty six and that's
Speaker 1: one of the things a lot of people do is
Speaker 1: they try to dry out from whatever substances, whether it's alcohol,
Speaker 1: booze or whatever. Take a month and clean yourself out
Speaker 1: just a little bit and maybe get ready for spring
Speaker 1: or something. They say, even if you can't get through
Speaker 1: a whole month going alcohol free or weed free or
Speaker 1: whatever else, the bottom line is that they are seeing
Speaker 1: huge physical improvements also huge behavioral changes lasting in excess
Speaker 1: of six months or so after taking a month off
Speaker 1: or close to that to sober up. Not to say
Speaker 1: that somebody's drunk, but just to clear their system out,
Speaker 1: flush it a little bit, you know, depending on holidays,
Speaker 1: maybe hit the bottom a little bit, celebrate, have a
Speaker 1: good time. So even if you don't go a full
Speaker 1: whole January dry, even just making a little bit of
Speaker 1: an effort can clean you up and help us off
Speaker 1: live a little bit better in the new year. So
Speaker 1: don't think if you can't go through the whole month
Speaker 1: that it's a no bueno. There's still, you know, time
Speaker 1: and still a chance to better yourself with that on
Speaker 1: the other side of your eleven thirty report of all
Speaker 1: the disorders, of all the dysfunction, I do like to
Speaker 1: put the fun in dysfunction. There is something that is
Speaker 1: over the top and over you can go too far
Speaker 1: in eating healthy. I will explain they've even given this
Speaker 1: disorder a name. Will make sense of it. After Lee
Speaker 1: Mallin and your eleven thirty report here on the Home
Speaker 1: of the Hooday the bear Cats, the Musketeers, and sooner
Speaker 1: than later Reds fest downtown in the redone Convention Center,
Speaker 1: and they'll be in the desert before you know it too.
Speaker 1: Getting ready on the Home of the Reds too, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. Glad you're a long fine Monday night, Sterling,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. And for Gary Jeff straight away after
Speaker 1: your midnight report America's Trucking Network. That's atm I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of the acronym Kevin Gordon behind the wheel as
Speaker 1: always with that good night for basketball bear Cats now
Speaker 1: eating five eighty nine sixty two all over Lipscomb. They
Speaker 1: got an education at fifth Third Arena. You heard that
Speaker 1: game here on seven hundred WLW. It was also a
Speaker 1: good day for the hooda yesterday pounding the Phoenix Cardinals,
Speaker 1: sending them back to the desert. It was actually as
Speaker 1: warm here yesterday as it was, if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 1: in their land of a Phoenix area as well, which
Speaker 1: is where the Reds will be tuning up shortly, just
Speaker 1: within a stone's throw of that area. And Goodyear just
Speaker 1: what about a month and a half two months away,
Speaker 1: give or take. So yeah, and New Year's Eve five
Speaker 1: o'clock tip off, Big East Action, Xavier's x Men hosting
Speaker 1: Yukon getting it on on the final day of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 3: And that leads me to you.
Speaker 1: The year end is upon us, and I know people
Speaker 1: talk about the idea of resolutions, and I'm all about
Speaker 1: trying to be a better person and on the edges,
Speaker 1: just a little bit better here, a little bit better
Speaker 1: there in some fashion or another. In earlier Sonya's o
Speaker 1: id you can hear the podcast, it'll be available. Joe
Speaker 1: Waddell all over it like a two ton heavy thing
Speaker 1: because he's a madman, and she gave us some insight
Speaker 1: into living better and healthier in twenty six. I'm curious
Speaker 1: what your plan is. Do you have a plan for
Speaker 1: twenty six? Do you believe and buy into the idea
Speaker 1: of resolutions or is it just another day, another night,
Speaker 1: or otherwise? Five three, seven, four ninety seven thousand, eight
Speaker 1: hundred The big one. I've been chastised, scolded, mocked, ridiculed
Speaker 1: for a host of reasons in all honesty, most of
Speaker 1: which I couldn't care less about. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the resolution thing, people said, well, you got to
Speaker 1: be more specific. But when I say better in general,
Speaker 1: the better person I mean. I want to be fitter,
Speaker 1: I want to learn more. I want to be able
Speaker 1: to help my community, my friends, my family, those in need,
Speaker 1: whether it's a you know, animal causes where like Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Animal Care rescues, whether it's lighthouse to use services and
Speaker 1: trying to help at risk teams and those that could
Speaker 1: be on the street hopefully have a roof over their
Speaker 1: head and an opportunity to learn and improve their situation
Speaker 1: moving forward. Those are the things I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: and just trying to be nicer, you know, just in
Speaker 1: general in a sometimes contentious times. Five one three I've
Speaker 1: been four nine seven eight hundred The big one. You
Speaker 1: can pick up the phone, give it the finger. I'm
Speaker 1: also on X or Twitter. If you still call it
Speaker 1: that at Sterling Radio and the iHeartRadio app talkback button
Speaker 1: there just on the microphone. You can leave a message
Speaker 1: there as well. Now I want to Normally I don't
Speaker 1: really pay that much attention to reality TV because it's
Speaker 1: not very real. Sometimes it can certainly be very entertaining.
Speaker 1: In the news, Lee Allen mentioned this earlier, and all
Speaker 1: I can tell you before I get into it deeply,
Speaker 1: this all goes back to a movie which you may
Speaker 1: or may not have seen, called The Truth About Cats
Speaker 1: and Dogs. Jennine Garoffalo was in it. She played a
Speaker 1: talk show host talking about pets and animals, and someone
Speaker 1: had called the show on the movie talking about stuff
Speaker 1: and it got a little uncomfortable, It got a little unnerving,
Speaker 1: it got a little bit weird, and she said something
Speaker 1: that I think resonates as well then and now as
Speaker 1: it will ever and certainly into the future. That includes
Speaker 1: the guy in the news who was a part of
Speaker 1: that A and E show, Neighbors with Benefits I think
Speaker 1: is what it was called. Yeah, he's now in the
Speaker 1: warning Warren County jail, quarter of a million dollar cash
Speaker 1: only bond, expected to be in court tomorrow, and the
Speaker 1: line and the directive hits for this guy who's in
Speaker 1: the news, as it does for anyone in general. You
Speaker 1: can love your pets, just don't love your pets too much,
Speaker 1: because that's the allegation. Aside for many issues of other
Speaker 1: salacious material or behavior, the allegation is that he was
Speaker 1: having and this is a quote from multiple sources, that
Speaker 1: he was engaging in sexual conduct with his two dogs
Speaker 1: at his house. First of all, dogs have no thumb.
Speaker 1: They cannot make a choice for themselves, such as that
Speaker 1: they have a duke claw, but they can't do a
Speaker 1: whole hell of a lot with the duke claw. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't know at what point how
Speaker 1: sick in the head you have to be. If the
Speaker 1: allegation is true, that someone would somehow look to be
Speaker 1: loving their pet that way, it's unacceptable, it's inappropriate, it's wrong,
Speaker 1: and I'm on the pet side for this. And if
Speaker 1: this is true, aside from the allegations also that are
Speaker 1: about explicit materials apparently on an account online someplace in
Speaker 1: the cloud or elsewhere, he's going to have to answer
Speaker 1: for himself and deal with that in the court. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's just not good to be loving your
Speaker 1: animals like that, aside from all the other stuff that
Speaker 1: goes with it. That's pretty inexcusable too, But again, innocent
Speaker 1: until proven guilty, the allegations until improven guilty beyond a
Speaker 1: reasonable doubt.
Speaker 3: But it is very troubling.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you've got neighbors with benefits, as
Speaker 1: the show was titled, I don't know why you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be with the neighbor and have a benefit rather than
Speaker 1: a defenseless animal or the other stuff that's also a
Speaker 1: part of these allegations and these the corpse which are
Speaker 1: expected to take place tomorrow. It's pretty bewildering. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, I love my animals at
Speaker 1: the house, but I'm not loving them, if you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's just it's just it's just wrong,
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's creepy, weird and a bad
Speaker 1: something else in the news. Because time is short, I
Speaker 1: want to mention this and I teased it earlier because
Speaker 1: all the talk about living better and how you know,
Speaker 1: we need to eat better, we need to take care
Speaker 1: of ourselves. And people can be obsessive, they can be compulsive,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of people with addiction problems,
Speaker 1: and most of the addiction problems that we hear about
Speaker 1: in the news, they get a lot of attention, are
Speaker 1: the ones that get headlines, whether it's somebody who's hitting
Speaker 1: the booze too much or they're taking in popping pills,
Speaker 1: or you know, because they were on pain medicine of
Speaker 1: one type or another.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the the opium opiate issue that was in
Speaker 1: the news for such a long period of time, and
Speaker 1: the oxycontins and all the fentanyl, the car fentanyl that
Speaker 1: continues to a scourge on our population just in general.
Speaker 1: It just absolutely brutalized and continues to be a problem,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be felt for another generation too,
Speaker 1: like the crack epidemic was and continues to be for
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are grown now that live
Speaker 1: through that with their parents and a generation before. So
Speaker 1: just you know, know that those things are dangerous inherently too.
Speaker 1: And people can eat too much, people can have addictions
Speaker 1: to sex, they can be addicted to TV, they can
Speaker 1: be addicted to a lot of things. But apparently previously
Speaker 1: not so called formal recognition from the DSM five, the
Speaker 1: diagnostic and Statistical manual that are used by you know,
Speaker 1: mental health professionals and so forth. But there is something
Speaker 1: else that apparently is growing in the population now that
Speaker 1: is a problem, and that's people that apparently are addicted
Speaker 1: to trying to be too healthy. And you know, you
Speaker 1: hear about like antarexia, or you know, people binge and purge,
Speaker 1: and they don't see themselves right. Their body image and
Speaker 1: how they see themselves in a mirror is not quite
Speaker 1: how all of us see them, and that's a problem.
Speaker 1: But there's now something called orthorexia, and it's been around forever,
Speaker 1: but I've not seen or have been aware of it.
Speaker 1: Apparently it was first started being used in the mid
Speaker 1: to late nineties, And what it is is an obsession
Speaker 1: or fixation with being healthier and eating more healthily, and
Speaker 1: apparently being aware of their circumstance. Interne itself, of course
Speaker 1: is not the major issue or a problem, but it's
Speaker 1: going over the top, in other words, being so overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by it, so addicted to this concept, fixated on it,
Speaker 1: on the healthy eating thing, they end up hurting themselves
Speaker 1: their physical wellbeing, their mental wellbeing and going along with that.
Speaker 1: And if you know someone who is constantly looking at
Speaker 1: ingredients and nutrition labels, if you see someone with an
Speaker 1: increase of concern about healthy ingredients in their food, which
Speaker 1: could be anybody at the beginning of the year trying
Speaker 1: to lose weight or live better.
Speaker 3: So this gets sort of dicey.
Speaker 1: They say cutting out an increased number of food groups,
Speaker 1: maybe no sugars, maybe eating all meat or dairy, or
Speaker 1: cutting all those things out, or animal products.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the vegans could be a part
Speaker 3: of this or otherwise.
Speaker 1: They say, an inability to eat anything but a small
Speaker 1: group of foods. This could be orthorexia. They also have
Speaker 1: apparently a feeling of superior or a superiority or overall
Speaker 1: about their nutrition and their intolerance to the rest of
Speaker 1: us and our poor eating habits and our poor beliefs
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. So they are super perfectionists.
Speaker 1: They are obsessive, compulsive, and they have high levels of
Speaker 1: stress or distress when it comes to finding safe and
Speaker 1: healthy foods when they're not on the shelf or in
Speaker 1: the refrigerator or in the cupboard, or if you're traveling
Speaker 1: and everything's late and you're at the airport and it's
Speaker 1: hard to maybe find something good, it can be a
Speaker 1: major problem. And then of course then it leads, they say,
Speaker 1: in this situation going on social media and blogs and
Speaker 1: following other food and healthy lifestyle stuff, posting that stuff
Speaker 1: on their own as well, and it leads in the
Speaker 1: downward spiral like a domino effect, apparently of body image
Speaker 1: concerns that may or may not be here now but
Speaker 1: could come later. And then also what they call psycho
Speaker 1: social impairments in different areas of their life. So just
Speaker 1: when you think that you had heard about every possible
Speaker 1: disorder and dysfunction, and I'm sure there will be more
Speaker 1: sooner than later. With the whole host of things. Is
Speaker 1: more implementation of AI comes in making our lives easier,
Speaker 1: better workflows, more successful, money saving for business and individuals.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be some other terms and use
Speaker 1: when it comes to obsessive behaviors with that or addiction issues.
Speaker 1: I suppose for some maybe having relationships as we already
Speaker 1: know with AI or chat group chat type thing or
Speaker 1: whatever else. But this is a new one, and I
Speaker 1: do have some people around me that are very very
Speaker 1: much fixated on the healthy thing, to the point where
Speaker 1: I've thought it was a little sick, but then they go, well,
Speaker 1: you're not the most healthy so who are you to
Speaker 1: tell me? And I'm like, yeah, you're absolutely right. I
Speaker 1: am not a very healthy person sometimes with the way
Speaker 1: I eat and so forth. But orthorexia is real. So
Speaker 1: when you think somebody seems to be over the top,
Speaker 1: you may have seen them over the holidays obsessing and stressing.
Speaker 1: You may be absolutely right with it. It could be orthorexia.
Speaker 1: So yeah, think about that for a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: Sterling seven hundred WLW Sterling hanging out a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes away from your midnight report if you listen closely,
Speaker 1: warming up, maybe in the sleeper, I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon, America's truck and network ready to roll after
Speaker 1: the news. Lee Malwen will have that about five and
Speaker 1: a half minutes. I don't know how many people actually
Speaker 1: paid attention to that Jake Paul fight that he got
Speaker 1: beat down and he lost. Jake Paul did on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I guess it's just over a week ago, right, And
Speaker 1: the guy who beat him, Anthony Joshua, was in Nigeria, Lagos.
Speaker 1: I think I pronounced that correctly. He's a Nigerian British guy,
Speaker 1: former heavyweight champion. He was in a car crash that
Speaker 1: left two other people dead that were passengers in the car.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say I can't see here if it says
Speaker 1: he was driving or a passenger in the car, but
Speaker 1: two other people in this vehicle. Apparently there was some
Speaker 1: speeding involved. It happens occasionally speed kills literally and figureatively.
Speaker 1: It's not just on the Billiard's table. This is a
Speaker 1: pretty serious issue. It really made it to social media
Speaker 1: before it was reported anywhere else. He apparently is recovering
Speaker 1: in an undisclosed hospital, hopefully getting better sooner than later.
Speaker 1: At a horrible, tragic loss of life in that crash.
Speaker 1: It just shows you, I mean, life is fragile no
Speaker 1: matter where you are, what you're doing, and you know,
Speaker 1: you just hope that he gets through that. Okay. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. And I people that were mad at me.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I enjoyed Anthony Joshua beating Jake
Speaker 1: Paul so much, But I really thoroughly enjoyed him beating
Speaker 1: him down. I really did. And I don't know why.
Speaker 1: There's no real good reason for me to do that.
Speaker 1: I had a real dog and that fight, if you will,
Speaker 1: but I just enjoyed seeing Jake Paul lose on the
Speaker 1: replay there because I was here when the fight was
Speaker 1: actually going on, or at least as it was starting
Speaker 1: in Miami a couple of weeks and a week ago,
Speaker 1: seven eight days ago, whatever it was. So hopefully he
Speaker 1: gets better fast. And it's a horrible story. But I
Speaker 1: just had to mention that a couple people say that guy,
Speaker 1: that guy, he was in that fight. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: same guy. It's a pretty disturbing scenario. And anytime you
Speaker 1: get behind the wheel, you just don't know which you know,
Speaker 1: Penny you called earlier sort of made that illusion, you
Speaker 1: just hope between people being distracted on their devices, let
Speaker 1: alone may be inebriated in some fashion with some type
Speaker 1: of intoxicant, you just don't know. And earlier tonight driving
Speaker 1: in as it was all night last night and most
Speaker 1: of the day today, of course, is that super really
Speaker 1: high wind kind of high profile vehicle frustration of trying
Speaker 1: to drive up and down seventy one and seventy five
Speaker 1: or anywhere else you happen to be is brutal on
Speaker 1: a high profile vehicle, tractor trailers, suv, whatever else. I
Speaker 1: saw a whole bunch of people, you know, all over
Speaker 1: the road, you know, being blown around because they weren't
Speaker 1: really able to handle it. So hopefully it's a little
Speaker 1: bit better when I get back out here after I'm
Speaker 1: done with this and speaking of something else danger on
Speaker 1: the road, since I'm being the profit of doom all
Speaker 1: this sudden, I just want to mention this because this
Speaker 1: I've seen it before when I've driven out west. I
Speaker 1: saw it in and around the mountains in Utah a
Speaker 1: few years ago, and I've seen it in Kentucky and
Speaker 1: Tennessee on the road driving here and there, and you
Speaker 1: occasionally we'll see where they've shut down an interstate, or
Speaker 1: you've seen where there's been a rock slide or something
Speaker 1: along those lines. A boulder has you know, rolled down
Speaker 1: from up above across the interstate. And I've always thought, well,
Speaker 1: what are the odds that if I'm driving that I'm
Speaker 1: going to come across that either in the dark and
Speaker 1: it's happened and no one's seen it, that hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to be moved yet, or you know, cordoned off
Speaker 1: blocked off in some fashion. I mean, you know, you're
Speaker 1: at a high rate of speed and an immovable object
Speaker 1: that weighs tons. Nothing good comes from that headlined five
Speaker 1: injured after a massive boulder crashed onto a California highway.
Speaker 1: They're Highway eighteen, which I've driven around this area around
Speaker 1: San Bernardino County, California. Was the twenty sixth. They responded
Speaker 1: apparently to a call there and there were a couple
Speaker 1: of cars that it crashed on the freeway, either trying
Speaker 1: to avoid it or actually in and around it, because
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of other debris as well. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I like watching like these ice road trucker
Speaker 1: shows and you know, all these like soisseuito reality based
Speaker 1: things where these wreckers are out there trying to get
Speaker 1: you know, people from bad, precarious circumstances. And I've always
Speaker 1: wondered about how frequently it happens where one of these
Speaker 1: boulders or a rock slide and course and places where
Speaker 1: there's heavy rain, flash flooding, settling of the earth, and
Speaker 1: you think about, or at least I do, about, you know,
Speaker 1: different fault lines and so forth that we have around
Speaker 1: the country, and certainly California has a few that go
Speaker 1: up and down that state, which is a you know,
Speaker 1: it's a long north to south stretch for the state
Speaker 1: of California. I just wondered how often it happens, and
Speaker 1: here's proof that occasionally. It's not just in the dark.
Speaker 1: Did the rock fall if you weren't there to see it, Well,
Speaker 1: yeah it did. And thankfully it talks about no fidelities,
Speaker 1: but that is some pretty serious stuff, and they believe
Speaker 1: a lot of that heavy rain that they dealt with
Speaker 1: may have actually contributed to that with the saturation. We
Speaker 1: had big rain and we had big wind, but not
Speaker 1: like them. And I am very thankful that all the
Speaker 1: rain we had in the last twenty four hours or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, it wasn't snow, because you know, you
Speaker 1: get about eight to ten inches of snow for every
Speaker 1: inch of rain. And it's already past Christmas. I'm done
Speaker 1: with cold, I'm done with the snow, and I'm basically
Speaker 1: done with the show. Gary Jeff's back tomorrow, I'll be
Speaker 1: back New Year's Eve and then Friday, the weekend my
Speaker 1: normal place in time. Lee Mawin has your Midnight Report
Speaker 1: and Kevin Gordon rolls with atn After that, that's America's
Speaker 1: Truck and Network.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Joe Waddell. Straight away, it's new seven hundred
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